[GPSCC-chat] Holiday Pot Luck -- we need to announce to San Mateo!

[jamboi]

Yes, and as a matter of fact, we talked to a San Mateo Green at Junior
States who hadn't heard of the event yet, so we need to post the info and
get it out to San Mateo and everyone else.

Green is Connection!

Drew

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> 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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