[GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item & comments solicited re. recent MoveOn meetings?

[Gerry Gras]

I was at a meeting in Palo Alto on Sunday.  There were
10 of us including the host.  I mentioned that I was
Green during the intros.  One person said she was interested
in knowing more.  A couple said they were disappointed
to not see instant runoff voting as one of the options.

I have avoided all previous Moveon meetings.  I was
willing to try this because Van Jones seems to be
leading it.  I did like most of the 40 issue choices
we were voting for.

The list was pretty much what a New Deal Democrat would
like.  There were only 2 items that were relevant to
climate change, and both were indirect.
- Move Toward a Clean, Green, Independent Energy Future
- No Subsidies for Dirty Energy

Gerry


Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> I had a MoveOn phone calling at my house last year. Most of the women
> were  very surprised to find out I was a Green, but I pointed out that
> MoveOn was supposed to be a non-partisan, progressive group, and that I
> was happy to work with other progressive people. I was at a gathering
> last Saturday where we filled out the four pages of the questionnaire.
> Not much was said. The gathering was for another purpose. I have no idea
> what party anybody else belonged to. MoveOn does some great
> communicating. This can work to our advantage. We can pick and choose
> which of their projects we get involved with. Being stand-offish is not
> going to help us build the coalitions we need to become a national force.
> Caroline
>
> --- On *Fri, 7/22/11, Spencer Graves /<spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
>     Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item & comments solicited re.
>     recent MoveOn meetings?
>     To: "Valerie D. Face" <vdf at juno.com>
>     Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
>     Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 9:34 AM
>
>     Feedback from Greens who attended the most recent MoveOn meetings (July
>     15-17?; 10 minutes)
>
>
>     Discussion of what we as a group might want to do as a result (e.g.,
>     ask
>     MoveOn if they want to make this honestly nonpartisan with roles for
>     minor parties or they continue to be a not-so-clandestine effort to
>     sell
>     the Democratic party, whose candidates will continue their previous
>     practices in servicing the bribes from the ultra-wealthy; 10 minutes)
>
>
>     ***NOTE: Do any of you have comments on this? Merriam suggested we
>     could discuss this in this email list.
>
>
>     Spencer
>
>
>     On 7/21/2011 3:56 PM, Valerie D. Face wrote:
>      > Hi Gerry,
>      >
>      > Could you let us (the list) know how much time you'd like for
>     this item?
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      > Valerie
>      >
>      >
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>      > ---------- Original Message ----------
>      >
>      > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:09:52 -0700
>      > From: Gerry Gras<gerrygras at earthlink.net
>     <http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gerrygras@earthlink.net>>
>      > To: Post South SF Bay discuss<sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
>     <http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org>>
>      > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item? - CFPA
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > There is an effort to have all of Palo Alto's
>      > electricity be "carbon free". I would like to
>      > submit a proposal for the GPSCC to be a
>      > "supporter" of this effort.
>      >
>      > Info available at:
>      >
>      > http://carbonfreepaloalto.org/
>      >
>      > http://carbonfreepaloalto.org/?page_id=187
>      >
>      > Gerry
>      >
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