[GPSCC-chat] SJ Moving Planet Day Bike Party for Greens website and Announcements

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


       Our web site was just updated to mention the Moving Planet Bike 
Party, Saturday, Sept. 24, which we agreed to endorse at the last Santa 
Clara Greens Monthly Meeting.  Thanks to Diane Solomon for organizing 
this and providing the information that is now available on our web 
site, "www.cagreens.org/sclara <http://www.cagreens.org/sclara/>".


       Spencer
p.s.  For questions about this event, please check the links on the web 
site (copied below).  For comments or questions about the web site, 
please contact me.


On 8/9/2011 8:44 AM, Diane Solomon wrote:
>
>> Hello, Spencer,
>> Would you kindly confirm that you received this?
>> Many thanks to you and the Green Party of Santa Clara County for your 
>> encouragement and endorsement of the September 24th Moving Planet Day 
>> bike party.
>> You kindly offered to put an announcement about this on the website, 
>> with a link to our Facebook events page, and to send this out in your 
>> upcoming e-newsletters and other communications.
>> I hope I'll see you and many Greens there!
>> Spencer, would you ask Greens to come and register voters? There will 
>> be opportunities to do this at the beginning of the ride at Discovery 
>> Meadow Park and at the Bakesto Chalk Festival.
>> I'm really good at registering voters and my secret is to go places 
>> where there are already lots of people. This would be a great 
>> opportunity because alot of the young bike partiers aren't registered.
>> Feel free to give Greens my contact info if they want info about how 
>> they can use this event to get the word out about the Green Party and 
>> to register voters.
>> Again, many thanks for the Greens consideration and support!
>> D
>> 408-646-6193
>> ps: Please say "Hi" to Betsy for me.
>> Here is the announcement:
>> **
>> *!San Jose’s Moving Planet Bike Party!*
>> World-wide, Saturday September 24th is the day to take positive 
>> peaceful action to reduce climate change by moving without fossil 
>> fuels. We’re doing it in San Jose with an all ages
>> kid-friendly bike party from 11 am to 2:30 pm. Please come and wear 
>> your Green Party buttons and T's and register voters as we expect 
>> over three hundred people to participate!
>> A grassroots movement started by www.350.org <http://www.350.org/>, 
>> Green Peace, Global Exchange and Friends of the Earth is calling it 
>> Moving Planet Day. So far, groups in 188 countries are up for this 
>> and while we bike party in San Jo, a big blow out event is scheduled 
>> in San Francisco . See www.moving-planet.org 
>> <http://www.moving-planet.org/> and www.350.org <http://www.350.org/> 
>> for more info.
>> This ride has been endorsed by the Green Party of Santa Clara County, 
>> Sierra Club's Loma Prieta Chapter, San Jose Bike Party, San Jose Bike 
>> Soiree, the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, the City of San Jose's 
>> Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee, SJSU’s Transportations 
>> Solutions group, TransForm, Silicon Valley De-Bug, San Jose's Kidical 
>> Mass (of Willow Glen), and San Jose City Councilman Oliverio's Office.
>> San Jose Bike Party Birds will help facilitate this ride. Let’s meet 
>> at 11am at Discovery Meadow Park, at the corner of Woz Way and San 
>> Carlos Street. We’ll ride together to the Luna Park Chalk Festival at 
>> Bakesto Park and enjoy the Festival and lunch together. Bring your 
>> own or buy from the vendors. From Bakesto Park we’ll ride to through 
>> Downtown San Jose and SJSU to Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, then back to 
>> Discovery Meadow Park by 2:30 pm or so.
>> Happy Hollow has joined this party by offering a special admission 
>> discount to folks with bike helmets and two special animal shows--at 
>> 1 pm and 3 PM. Check out http://www.hhpz.org/ for more info.
>> Please visit our Facebook Event’s page for more info and to sign up!
>> https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=225058397524436 
>> <https://www.facebook.com/#%21/event.php?eid=225058397524436>
>> See you there!!!!
>
>


-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San José, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567
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