[GPSCC-chat] suggestions

[spencerg]

What time is the pot luck, Thursday, Dec. 2?  I've only seen a date and 
"Fred's Clubhouse", but not a street address, etc.


Spencer


On 11/26/2010 7:00 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> Sounds good to me. If we could get them printed by Thursday, we could maybe
> spend some time at the  potluck at Fred's folding them, and people who wanted to
> stand outside banks and pass them out could get some.
> Caroline
>
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>
>
> ________________________________
> From: spencerg<spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
> To: Jim Doyle<j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: sosfbay discussion group<sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>; Betsy Wolf-Graves
> <betsy237 at prodsyse.com>
> Sent: Thu, November 25, 2010 8:43:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] suggestions
>
> Happy Thanksgiving (Día de Acción de Gracias, in Spanish)
>
>
> What do you think about a tri-fold using the "No on 14" template, something like
> the following:
>
>
> *** NOTE:  If we are going to have an impact by Dec. 7, we need to move very
> fast with this.
>
>
> HEADLINE:  Dec. 7:  International "Move Your Bank" Day(1)
>
> (1) ->  footnote referencing something discussing bank protests in Europe and
> elsewhere planned for Dec. 7.
>
>
> INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE:  If you don't like your money being used to destabilize
> the international economy to make the rich richer and the rest of us poorer,
> consider moving your money to purely local credit unions, savings and loans or
> banks.
>
>
> *** Then follow this with a table of local institutions, names, addresses, web
> sites, phone numbers AND some symbols that summarize their investment policies
> and some assurance that they have NOT been involved in "liar's loans" and
> similar abusive practices.
>
>
> *** OR refer people to a web site that contains such a list.
>
>
> *** NEEDED:  I need help compiling this list and checking to make sure that the
> financial institutions listed are actually clean, i.e., have NOT been involved
> in the most egregious, abusive practices.
>
>
> ADDITIONAL CONTENT:  Then we could say something about the repeal of
> Glass-Stiegel and the Republican promise to make further gifts at taxpayer
> expense to the financial industry.  This should include, I think, the plot I
> previously distributed showing the profits in the financial sector as a percent
> of total US domestic corporate profits jumping from 15 percent historically to
> between 30 and 40 percent over the past decade since the repeal of
> Glass-Stiegel.  We should include, I think, a reference to bais in the media,
> e.g., stating that the popular perception of a liberal bias to the media is
> equivalent to saying that the media routinely bites the hand that feeds them. 
> Then note that commercial media is a business and lose money when advertisers
> decrease their advertising.  The only way the media can survive doing that is by
> getting a substantially larger audience, which rarely happens when the public
> believes the media have a liberal bias.  Then briefly describe the Herman and
> Chomsky worth and unworthy subjects model and reference Wikipedia articles on
> media bias.
>
>
>        Comments?
>        Best Wishes,
>        Spencer
>
>
> #######################################
>
> On 11/24/2010 8:38 PM, Jim Doyle wrote:
>> Spencer named the topic - abusive banks.
>> Caroline named the places: outside of banks.
>> And abusive banks triggered "state bank" in my mind.
>>
>> I have not received a response from the high school senior
>> from presentation high school as yet.  Her last email - on Monday -
>> was she would talk it over with her friends.
>>
>> And Andrea has reported that "the printer" is working - the one
>> that was given to us and is now in her garage.
>>
>> Are there any other ideas we could use in the future?
>>
>> Jim Doyle
>>
>>
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