[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Re: Fw: Tuesday in San Jose:Fight corporate influence in...
spencerg
spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
Tue May 4 03:48:31 PDT 2010
Dear Merriam:
Thanks. I concur with your plan.
I plan to attend. I think I need to see and hear what occurs at
this event to help guess what might happen at ours.
Might it be feasible for us to have a phone conversation before
this event?
Thanks,
Spencer Graves
M: 408-655-4567
On 5/4/2010 12:16 AM, MKmusic03 at aol.com wrote:
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> Hi There,
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> My suggestion is to wait on this. I am a member of MoveOn and although
> they sure do get people out for these discussions most everyone is a Democrat
> and I'm not so sure the local Council would be pleased to have the Green
> Party handing out information about an event that is not a MoveOn event. I
> know the co-chair of the local MoveOn Council and I think it is better to
> contact her, get her interested in what we are presenting at our Town Hall
> and ask her to contact her list of people and spread the word that way.
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> Also, someone from our Green Party could go to this MoveOn discussion and
> talk to the individual people who are there. I have found this kind of
> networking to be very successful. Unfortunately, I am involved with a San
> Jose Peace Center event and can't go to the MoveOn discussion.
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> Merriam
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> In a message dated 5/3/2010 11:20:11 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> carolineyacoub at att.net writes:
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> --- On Sun, 5/2/10, spencerg<spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:
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> From: spencerg<spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Tuesday in San Jose:Fight corporate
> influence in democracy
> To: "Caroline Yacoub"<carolineyacoub at att.net>
> Cc: "sosfbay-discuss"<sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>, "merriam"
> <MKmusic03 at aol.com>
> Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 12:50 PM
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> Can we prepare some kind of announcement of our May 22 Food For Thought
> event ready to hand to this group by Tuesday evening?
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> Could we first try to contact the organizers for this event to see if the
> would permit us to distribute, e.g., half page fliers with a preliminary
> announcement plus bookmarks with minimal detail?
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> Below please find draft text for an announcement. We need to add to this
> a link to "_www.cagreens.org/santaclara_
> (http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara) ". I can draft a bookmark
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> DRAFT ANNOUNCEMENT
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> Food for Thought
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> Saturday, 22 May 2010
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> Public Discussion of Three Issues
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> 1)Abusive Banks: The nature of the current global economic crisis, and
> how we can protect ourselves individually and collectively. Discussion
> leader: Spencer Graves, PhD
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> 2)1)Proposition 14: Official title: "Elections. Increases Right to
> Participate in Primary Elections." Effect: In Louisiana and Washington state,
> it virtually ensured reelection of incumbents while eliminating third
> parties from the general election and even from political life. Discussion
> leader:
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> 3)Proposition 15: Official title: "California Fair Elections Act."
> Effect: Public funding for candidates for California Secretary of State in 2014
> and 2018. Demonstration project for wider public funding. Discussion
> leader:
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> On 5/2/2010 10:05 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> --- On Sun, 5/2/10, Steve M. _<moveon-help at list.moveon.org>_
> (http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=moveon-help@list.moveon.org) wrote:
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> From: Steve M. _<moveon-help at list.moveon.org>_
> (http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=moveon-help@list.moveon.org)
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> Subject: Tuesday in San Jose: Fight corporate influence in democracy
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> To: "Caroline Yacoub" _<carolineyacoub at att.net>_
> (http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=carolineyacoub@att.net)
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> Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 9:14 AM
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> San Jose Community Forum: Make Democracy Work for the Rest of Us!
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> Big corporations have stood in the way of the changes we need on Wall
> Street reform, health care, clean energy, and more. We're meeting up to discuss
> how we make Washington work for the 98% of us who don't have big-time
> lobbyists representing us in DC. Here are the event details:
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> Host: Steve M. and your local MoveOn Council
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> Where: Cambrian Branch Library (in San Jose)
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> When: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at 7:00 PM
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> What: MoveOn members are meeting up at a community forum in San Jose
> Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at 7:00 PM to talk about how our democracy is being overrun
> by lobbyists and big corporations—and what we can do about it.
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> Can you make it to this community forum?
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> Click here for more details and to RSVP:
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> I can come.
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> Sorry, I can't make it this time.
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> For more info and to find other events in your area, click here.
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