[Sosfbay-discuss] How Did Party in Berkeley Go?
Brian Good
snug.bug at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 8 21:35:18 PST 2010
Tian, your account of your Sacramento campaigns was probably the funniest thing
that day, and definitely did not put me to sleep. I wish I had a picture to show you
of the eyes that Libertarian hottie was making at you.
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:11:59 -0800
> From: tnharter at aceweb.com
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] How Did Party in Berkeley Go?
>
>
>
> Ray Tobey wrote:
> > Brian Good wrote:
> >> Ray said that continuing to run campaigns where we get 5% of the
> >> vote was just guaranteeing that we'll continue to be ineffective. It
> >> seemed that few people wanted to hear that. It was nice to see a
> >> reunion amongst the old timers, people chattering excitedly. But it
> >> reminded me of 9/11 Truth conventions where people go to have their
> >> dissenting beliefs reinforced by like-minded people. I wonder if
> >> there's something cultish about continuing to convince each other that
> >> it's enough just to pull in a few thousand votes. If we are to
> >> convince the mainstream that we are a viable alternative instead of a
> >> perennial protest vote, we need to convince ourselves of that first.
> >
> > Thank you Brian. I thought that no one had heard me say that.
> >
> > I think it was a relatively pleasant social event and that everyone had
> > a good time. Our candidate for Lt. Governor is Jim Castillo, a Native
> > American. I enjoyed the blessing ceremony that he started the event
> > with. It was also very nice to hear his associate Bill play Native
> > American flutes. I enjoyed conversing with Bill and his wife Jane, both
> > of whom will be helping Jimmy.
>
> I was impressed by Jim Castillo. If somebody gave me a page to gather
> signatures for him on I would. Anybody want to mail me a couple?
> >
> > There was literature for a bunch of past candidates on several tables.
> > Quite a few founders and past candidates attended. The event was a
> > celebration of these accomplishments and how important the Party is and
> > how the world needs these candidates.
>
> I met at least one green incumbent I'd not met before, Silverdale or
> something like that. I also took a bunch of pictures of one of a kind
> people like the first guy to lose against none of the above.
> >
> > However, as Brian alluded to, I find all these Green events very
> > frustrating. We gather a couple times a year and do internal structure
> > admin. We have social functions like this one.
>
> I got two chances to stand up. The first time I talked about running,
> the second time I talked about change. Then I spent all the break time
> showing everybody I could that there is now a buck with "PEACE" on it.
> I'd tell them "now that there is peace in the change, for only a buck
> you can have peace in your change." Moved quite a few of the things.
> Now there is a more distributed sprinkling of PEACE in peoples change.
> >
> > However, it seems such a waste to gather all these activists together
> > without working to improve our effectiveness. Hardly a word was spoken
> > about how you actually run a campaign. We did not talk about how you
> > accomplish any tasks within a campaign, like a mailing. We did not talk
> > about how to plan and execute the different phases of a campaign, like
> > base building, fundraising, persuasion or GOTV. We did not talk about
> > how one campaign affects allied campaigns or subsequent campaigns.
> >
> > I counted 73 people at one point. (I'll bet 100 attended, but not all at
> > the same time). Everyone sat quietly while we listened to Charlene
> > Spretnak and someone else talk about the old days on the phone. She
> > mentioned that about 15 years ago, they determined that the Green Party
> > needed to teach people how to run campaigns.
> >
> > It strikes me that we all know of this need. We've known it for a long
> > time. I just do not see us doing very much about it.
> >
> I enjoyed what happened. I got lots of pictures for my website.
> I should be trimming those instead of yammering. Excuse me...
> --
> Tian
> http://tian.greens.org
> Latest change: added pictures from a peace center awards ceremony.
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