From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun May 1 00:51:25 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 00:51:25 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Blank Check for War?!? Message-ID: <4DBD10FD.5060604@earthlink.net> I am alarmed by this article: "Like the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars? You'll LOVE This!" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/28-12 It's about giving more power to the "Defense Department" and the President. I guess it's unconstitutional, FWIW. I ask that you please read this. And if you are also alarmed, please do something about it. But if you are not alarmed, please tell me why, I would appreciate good news. Remember, the author, Tom Andrews is a former Congressman, he should know what he is talking about. If you want to see the bills, Tom Andrews has provided the numbers, S. 551, and H.R. 968. I believe the relevant text is in sections 8 and 7 respectively. If you want to see who's on the House Armed Services Commmittee: http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/members Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun May 1 17:32:11 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 17:32:11 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Chris Hedges on KQED Forum Message-ID: <4DBDFB8B.5@earthlink.net> FYI, Chris Hedges will be on KQED Forum tomorrow (Monday) at 9AM. "Chris Hedges uses his moral compass to guide us through Iraq, Afghanistan, the West Bank and other hairy places in his collection of essays, "The World as It Is." The former New York Times war correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner joins us to discuss his latest book, as well as his views on the decline of the American empire and the death of the liberal class." http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201105020900 gerry From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sun May 1 20:54:34 2011 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 20:54:34 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Osama Assassinated Message-ID: Obama calls it (at least three times) "justice". Killing the suspect is a poor substitute for justice, and Obama as a lawyer should know this. He should be apologizing for a botched op, not crowing about a victory. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I am on an email list from the Rocky Mountain Institute that Lovins heads and get much of what they send out. For those who don't yet get the importance of climate change... I ask you to read the following very long post at Climate Progress. http://climateprogress.org/2011/05/02/grantham-must-read-time-to-wake-up-days-of-abundant-resources-and-falling-prices-are-over-forever/ The short summary is: > *The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and > this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to > adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did > it quickly.* That is a clear message coming from the manager of one of the biggest hedge funds, Jeremy Grantham. Grantham backs this up with the numbers, clearly delineating the path we are currently on, one leading to our demise, the poor and those outside the halls of power going first... of course. Some of the comments are also worth reading. e.g Californian Mike Roddy (#1) says: > > I don't really care about investment opportunities. There are dark > sides to commodity scarcity, in addition to increased poverty in > general. High prices will drive efforts to harvest heavy oil and deep > offshore deposits. We're already seeing disregard of water quality in > reckless and politically enabled fracking for both gas and oil. Rising > timber prices will drive piracy and degradation of forests wherever > they may be, further driving global warming and ruining rainfall and > erosion patterns for agriculture. > > Politically, the fossil fuel companies will be the only sector of any > kind with unlimited cash, which unfortunately has already led to an > effective coup d'etat of the American government. It could get worse, > with the Democrats becoming fully purchased. All to enrich people like > David Koch, the Rockefeller family, and coal industry investors and > executives. The people are going to have to stand up to them, since > the media and what passes for our political leadership have gone over > to the dark side. > On 5/2/2011 11:15 AM, Brian Good wrote: > > He will talk about four strategies for transitioning energy usage > away from oil, coal, and nuclear energy by 2050. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon May 2 12:12:58 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:12:58 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Amory Lovens at Stanford Monday May 2, 4:15 In-Reply-To: <4DBEFEDC.8040101@charter.net> References: <4DBEFEDC.8040101@charter.net> Message-ID: <4DBF023A.4080005@earthlink.net> I'm glad to hear that Grantham and Roddy are concerned. I wonder how many wealthy people are concerned. If I recall correctly ... In "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, it said that in all cases where societies were in trouble, whether they survived or not, the elite always thought they would survive. I expect to attend this event. Gerry Wes Rolley wrote: > This should be good. I am on an email list from the Rocky Mountain > Institute that Lovins heads and get much of what they send out. > > For those who don't yet get the importance of climate change... I ask > you to read the following very long post at Climate Progress. > > http://climateprogress.org/2011/05/02/grantham-must-read-time-to-wake-up-days-of-abundant-resources-and-falling-prices-are-over-forever/ > > The short summary is: >> *The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and >> this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to >> adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did >> it quickly.* > > That is a clear message coming from the manager of one of the biggest > hedge funds, Jeremy Grantham. Grantham backs this up with the numbers, > clearly delineating the path we are currently on, one leading to our > demise, the poor and those outside the halls of power going first... of > course. > > Some of the comments are also worth reading. e.g Californian Mike Roddy > (#1) says: >> >> I don?t really care about investment opportunities. There are dark >> sides to commodity scarcity, in addition to increased poverty in >> general. High prices will drive efforts to harvest heavy oil and deep >> offshore deposits. We?re already seeing disregard of water quality in >> reckless and politically enabled fracking for both gas and oil. Rising >> timber prices will drive piracy and degradation of forests wherever >> they may be, further driving global warming and ruining rainfall and >> erosion patterns for agriculture. >> >> Politically, the fossil fuel companies will be the only sector of any >> kind with unlimited cash, which unfortunately has already led to an >> effective coup d?etat of the American government. It could get worse, >> with the Democrats becoming fully purchased. All to enrich people like >> David Koch, the Rockefeller family, and coal industry investors and >> executives. The people are going to have to stand up to them, since >> the media and what passes for our political leadership have gone over >> to the dark side. >> > > > On 5/2/2011 11:15 AM, Brian Good wrote: >> >> He will talk about four strategies for transitioning energy usage >> away from oil, coal, and nuclear energy by 2050. > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue May 3 13:32:04 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 13:32:04 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green Party gets a seat in Canadian Parliament Message-ID: <4DC06644.5010503@earthlink.net> http://thesheaf.com/news/2011/05/03/elizabeth-may-makes-history-with-green-seat/ From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue May 3 13:59:39 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 13:59:39 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] More about Canadian Election Message-ID: <4DC06CBB.6040701@earthlink.net> Although the Conservatives won the Canadian parliament, it does not mean a rightward shift. "The Social Democrats Rise in Canada" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-1 "The other historic shift in Canadian politics is the poor showing of the Liberal Party. To grasp the significance of this imagine a socialist party with strong ties to unions replacing the Democrats as the alternative to the Republicans. That?s what has happened in Canada." Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue May 3 23:16:54 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 23:16:54 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Bernie's Speech at the CA Democratic Convention Message-ID: <4DC0EF56.4030408@earthlink.net> FYI, As usual, Bernie Sanders gives a good speech. This one is the keynote speech of the California Democratic Convention last weekend! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLsaldICH94 Gerry P.S. Yes, Sanders is still an Independent. From wrolley at charter.net Wed May 4 08:24:10 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 08:24:10 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] i-matter march Message-ID: <4DC16F9A.8090801@charter.net> Please join Alec Loorz the 16 year old youth environmental leader and founder of kids vs global warming and iMatter March, Ted Turner, Youth Speaks, rap artist AshEL Eldridge and other local youth leaders to march Market Street from Justin Herman Plaza to San Francisco Civic Center. DATE: May 8, 2011 TIME: 1 p.m. -4 p.m. START LOCATION: Justin Herman Plaza END LOCATION: Civic Center Plaza http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193709524003967 From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed May 4 11:57:20 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:57:20 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] i-matter march In-Reply-To: <4DC16F9A.8090801@charter.net> References: <4DC16F9A.8090801@charter.net> Message-ID: <4DC1A190.5030406@earthlink.net> For those who don't want to go to Facebook, (like me), there are other web pages. http://kids-vs-global-warming.com http://imattermarch.org/ (about marches around the world next week) http://imattermarch.org/march/location/san-francisco/ Unfortunately, the map is in the wrong part of S.F. Gerry Wes Rolley wrote: > Please join Alec Loorz the 16 year old youth environmental leader and > founder of kids vs global warming and iMatter March, Ted Turner, Youth > Speaks, rap artist AshEL Eldridge and other local youth leaders to march > Market Street from Justin Herman Plaza to San Francisco Civic Center. > > > > DATE: May 8, 2011 > TIME: 1 p.m. -4 p.m. > START LOCATION: Justin Herman Plaza > END LOCATION: Civic Center Plaza > http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193709524003967 > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed May 4 18:28:06 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 18:28:06 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE: US Greens congratulate Elizabeth May, first Green elected to Canadian Parliament Message-ID: <4DC1FD26.1070408@earthlink.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE: US Greens congratulate Elizabeth May, first Green elected to Canadian Parliament Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 18:00:16 -0700 From: Green Party of California Updates Reply-To: updates-owner at marla.cagreens.org, updates at cagreens.org To: updates at cagreens.org ** Green Party of California Update ** GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 US Greens congratulate Elizabeth May, first Green elected to Canadian Parliament ? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on foreign policy: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php WASHINGTON, DC -- US Greens enthusiastically congratulated Elizabeth May and the Green Party of Canada (http://greenparty.ca) on Ms. May's election victory on May 2, in which she made Canadian history by becoming her country's first Green member of Parliament. Ms. May's election comes a year after Caroline Lucas was elected as the first Green member of the British Parliament. She will represent the Saanich-Gulf Islands, British Columbia, in Canada's House of Commons. On May 4, the International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl) of the Green Party of the United States sent the following letter to Ms. May: Elizabeth May, Leader Green Party of Canada Dear Elizabeth, On behalf of the Green Party of the United States, we heartily congratulate you and Canadian Greens on your historic election to Parliament. We also recognize the enormous effort you and your party have made over many years, persevering to reach this victory. http://www.gp.org/index.php As we labor under a similar "winner-takes-all" system in the US, your win gives us hope for a future Green victory at the federal government level here. Also, we take this joyous occasion to recall the collaborative efforts the US and Canadian Greens have made in the past, such as our 2008 joint teach-in in Ottawa opposing the US/Canadian/Mexican "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP). We look forward to more of this cooperation and to our joint work in the Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas. (FPVA). Again, congratulations to you and all your Green colleagues. Justine McCabe Marian Douglas-Ungaro Co-Chairs, International Committee Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org/committees/intl/ MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN ? Green candidate database and campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus ? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus ? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php "May breaks through as first Green MP" The Montreal Gazette, May 3, 2011 http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/decision-canada/breaks+through+first+Green/4715011/story.html 'GreenStream Wednesday': News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the United States (Fall 2010 issue now online) http://gp.org/greenpages-blog ~ END ~ _______________________________________________ Green Party of California Updates mailing list Subscribe: http://www.cagreens.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/updates From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Wed May 4 18:55:22 2011 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 18:55:22 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] british referendum on "preference" voting Message-ID: <4DC2038A.3090003@sbcglobal.net> A new survey has revealed that almost 66 percent of the British people will reject a switch to Alternative Vote (AV) system in Thursday's referendum. The ComRes poll for /The Independent/ newspaper found that 66 percent of the British wanted to retain the first-past-the-post system, where the candidate with the most votes wins, while just 34 percent of respondents support a switch to the AV system, which is a system of preference votes. From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu May 5 08:24:22 2011 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 08:24:22 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Global Corporate Crime Rate - Jeff Message-ID: <4DC2C126.3040601@prodsyse.com> Jeff Sachs (leading economist at Columbia) has an article on "The global economy's corporate crime wave" on Al Jazeera (http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/201151114933102548.html). Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu May 5 11:33:44 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 11:33:44 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] i-matter march In-Reply-To: <4DC1A190.5030406@earthlink.net> References: <4DC16F9A.8090801@charter.net> <4DC1A190.5030406@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4DC2ED88.8000603@earthlink.net> Anyone want to join the march? Dana and I are planning on going to the march, but we have a logistics problem, hopefully not too bad. We will be attending the Humanist Forum from 11-12. It's at the Palo Alto High School, at El Camino and Embarcadero. We will be leaving at noon to go to the march. That leaves us one hour to drive up there, park the car, and get to Justin Hermann Plaza. I think that's enough time, there seem to be plenty of parking garages in the area. The question is, what's the cheapest garage that is close enough to Justin Hermann? Any idea? In case you are curious about why this march ... It is being organized by the young for the young who have the most to lose from global warming. I think we need to support them. Gerry Gerry Gras wrote: > > For those who don't want to go to Facebook, (like me), > there are other web pages. > > http://kids-vs-global-warming.com > > http://imattermarch.org/ (about marches around the world next week) > > http://imattermarch.org/march/location/san-francisco/ > Unfortunately, the map is in the wrong part of S.F. > > Gerry > > > > > Wes Rolley wrote: >> Please join Alec Loorz the 16 year old youth environmental leader and >> founder of kids vs global warming and iMatter March, Ted Turner, Youth >> Speaks, rap artist AshEL Eldridge and other local youth leaders to march >> Market Street from Justin Herman Plaza to San Francisco Civic Center. >> >> >> >> DATE: May 8, 2011 >> TIME: 1 p.m. -4 p.m. >> START LOCATION: Justin Herman Plaza >> END LOCATION: Civic Center Plaza >> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193709524003967 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sosfbay-discuss mailing list >> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From jamboi at greens.org Thu May 5 12:57:01 2011 From: jamboi at greens.org (jamboi) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 12:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [Fwd: What was outcome of Regional meeting at plenary] Message-ID: <53765.70.1.115.34.1304625421.squirrel@greens.org> Howdy delegates and alternates to the GPCA plenary in Berkeley, There was a Regional meeting @ Berkeley I understand. May we please have a report. Thanks, Green is Go! Drew From jamboi at greens.org Thu May 5 13:02:12 2011 From: jamboi at greens.org (jamboi) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 13:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Warner's presentation on bid for hosting GPUS ANM 2012 Message-ID: <39768.70.1.115.34.1304625732.squirrel@greens.org> Warner how did that go? Green is GO! Drew From original.patriot at yahoo.com Thu May 5 13:08:45 2011 From: original.patriot at yahoo.com (Mark Johnson) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 16:08:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Join me in telling the President: Time to reign in empire. Message-ID: <11836880.1304626125354.JavaMail.tomcat@web7.salsalabs.net> Hello friend, I just signed a letter to the President urging him to use the occasion of Osama bin Laden's death as a time to rein in empire. Time to end the wars and ask why we have troops stationed in 177 countries. Will you join me? 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Message-ID: <15978.198.94.221.66.1304647416.squirrel@greens.org> Howdy delegates and alternates to the GPCA plenary in Berkeley, There was a Regional meeting @ Berkeley I understand. May we please have a report. Thanks Tian for the other report that covered most everything else but not this. Thanks, Green is Go! Drew From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu May 5 20:14:53 2011 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 20:14:53 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Homeowner foreclosed on Wells Fargo Message-ID: <4DC367AD.9070507@prodsyse.com> Man bites dog story: Wells Fargo tried to force a Philadelphia homeowner to carry $1M in insurance to cover the replacement value of the home, not merely the balance remaining on his loan. He could make the basic loan payments, but didn't believe he should have to buy this extra insurance. After Wills Fargo failed to respond to numerous requests for a meeting, etc., a Philadelphia homeowner first collected $1,173 from a Small Claims Court judgment. When Wells Fargo failed to comply with other parts of the judgment, he got a Writ of Execution to foreclose on a local Wells Fargo branch office to cover what Wells Fargo had not paid him. (http://consumerist.com/2011/02/how-this-philly-homeowner-foreclosed-on-wells-fargo.html) Enjoy, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu May 5 22:47:31 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 22:47:31 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Homeowner foreclosed on Wells Fargo In-Reply-To: <4DC367AD.9070507@prodsyse.com> References: <4DC367AD.9070507@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <4DC38B73.80603@earthlink.net> That's a great story!!! I am going to forward it. Thanks, Gerry Spencer Graves wrote: > > > > Man bites dog story: Wells Fargo tried to force a Philadelphia homeowner > to carry $1M in insurance to cover the replacement value of the home, > not merely the balance remaining on his loan. He could make the basic > loan payments, but didn't believe he should have to buy this extra > insurance. After Wills Fargo failed to respond to numerous requests for > a meeting, etc., a Philadelphia homeowner first collected $1,173 from a > Small Claims Court judgment. When Wells Fargo failed to comply with > other parts of the judgment, he got a Writ of Execution to foreclose on > a local Wells Fargo branch office to cover what Wells Fargo had not paid > him. > (http://consumerist.com/2011/02/how-this-philly-homeowner-foreclosed-on-wells-fargo.html) > > > > Enjoy, > Spencer > > From tnharter at aceweb.com Fri May 6 01:45:46 2011 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 01:45:46 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Robert Newman's History of Oil (LIVE) Friday My 13th, Peace Center 7 PM Message-ID: <4DC3B53A.3090604@aceweb.com> Movie: Robert Newman's History of Oil (LIVE) When: Friday, May 13 2011 @ 07:00 PM - Where: San Jose Peace and Justice Center 48 South 7th St San Jose, CA 95112 More Details: This live comedy was recorded using bicycle power in a small London theater with and enthusiastic audience. It has much well thought out background on the oil issue that isn't usually covered. Answers to such questions as "what did the Nazi story look like to a normal German?" are part of the narrative flow. This movie was sent to me (Tian) by a New Zealand Green that said it's really good. I saw it. I think it's so great I've talked the Green Party movie committee into showing it Friday the 13th. Hope to see you there! -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: now I've a blue tooth in the right side of my lower jaw. The red security brick is on The All American Video Game Company. (4/29) From tnharter at aceweb.com Fri May 6 01:46:58 2011 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 01:46:58 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Robert Newman's History of Oil (LIVE) Friday My 13th, Peace Center 7 PM In-Reply-To: <4DC3B53A.3090604@aceweb.com> References: <4DC3B53A.3090604@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <4DC3B582.7050706@aceweb.com> I tried to update the peace center website with this information, but the thing won't let me edit the page for the event. Any ideas out there? Tian Harter wrote: > > Movie: Robert Newman's History of Oil (LIVE) > When: Friday, May 13 2011 @ 07:00 PM - > Where: San Jose Peace and Justice Center > 48 South 7th St > San Jose, CA 95112 > > More Details: This live comedy was recorded using bicycle power in a > small London theater with and enthusiastic audience. It has much well > thought out background on the oil issue that isn't usually covered. > Answers to such questions as "what did the Nazi story look like to a > normal German?" are part of the narrative flow. This movie was sent > to me (Tian) by a New Zealand Green that said it's really good. I saw > it. I think it's so great I've talked the Green Party movie committee > into showing it Friday the 13th. Hope to see you there! -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: now I've a blue tooth in the right side of my lower jaw. The red security brick is on The All American Video Game Company. (4/29) From snug.bug at hotmail.com Fri May 6 08:42:41 2011 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 08:42:41 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Robert Newman's History of Oil (LIVE) Friday My 13th, Peace Center 7 PM In-Reply-To: References: <4DC3B53A.3090604@aceweb.com>, Message-ID: The History of Oil is entertaining, humorous, and eye-opening. Newman's view of the origins of WWI in terms of geostrategical conflicts between the UK and Germany makes much more sense on its face than what we were taught in school. Was the Archduke Ferdinand such a Great Man, Newman asks, that his assassination could set the European powers at each others' throats? Newman points out that while railroads and battleships had been running on coal, emerging military technologies (trucks, tanks, aircraft) required oil. Oil also allowed naval blockades to be run much more efficiently because it could be transferred from tanker to ship on station, while coal-fired ships had to go home to refuel. The problem was that neither Britain nor Germany had domestic oil supplies. Britain was already exploiting oil deposits in Iran. Germany was busily constructing a railroad from Berlin to Baghdad to secure its own oil source, and the Brits not only wanted to deny them the oil, they also feared that German influence in the Persian Gulf could help destabilize India. It pisses me off that as kids we're all taught that the conflict came from the murder of some guy in a funny hat. > Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 01:45:46 -0700 > From: tnharter at aceweb.com > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Robert Newman's History of Oil (LIVE) Friday My 13th, Peace Center 7 PM > > > Movie: Robert Newman's History of Oil (LIVE) > When: Friday, May 13 2011 @ 07:00 PM - > Where: San Jose Peace and Justice Center > 48 South 7th St > San Jose, CA 95112 > > More Details: This live comedy was recorded using bicycle power in a > small London theater with and enthusiastic audience. It has much well > thought out background on the oil issue that isn't usually covered. > Answers to such questions as "what did the Nazi story look like to a > normal German?" are part of the narrative flow. This movie was sent > to me (Tian) by a New Zealand Green that said it's really good. I saw > it. I think it's so great I've talked the Green Party movie committee > into showing it Friday the 13th. Hope to see you there! > -- > Tian > http://tian.greens.org > Latest change: now I've a blue tooth in the right side of my lower jaw. > The red security brick is on The All American Video Game Company. (4/29) > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Fri May 6 09:01:30 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:01:30 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: The Case for Young People and Nature Message-ID: <4DC41B5A.3080307@charter.net> Once more, if the youth of America are the future of the Green Party, then what are we doing to win their support?]] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The Case for Young People and Nature Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 22:59:10 -0400 From: James Hansen Reply-To: James Hansen To: Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. The Case for Young People and Nature _The Case for Young People and Nature: A Path to a Healthy, Natural, Prosperous Future_ describes what governments need to do to stabilize climate, fulfilling their obligation to young people and future generations. This is the science basis attached to suits being filed this week and in the future in different states and countries. Thanks to magnificent co-authors for their help in putting this together quickly. Criticisms, suggestions welcome -- don't bother with typos and stuff that we will catch when we have a chance to read it carefully. However, if you are in the Washington area on Mother's Day, consider joining us at 10 AM for a march from Union Station to the White House . My grandchildren Sophie and Connor are busy preparing signs for President Obama's edification. Evelyn is bringing her brood too. Yes, it's just one step, but its in the right direction -- we have to generate broader understanding in a pretty big hurry. The DC march is just one of many organized by iMatter , an organization founded by 16-year-old Alec Loorz. You can check whether there is a march near you by going to the iMatter web site . They are not all on Mother's Day. ~Jim Unsubscribe wrolley at charter.net from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Dr. James E. 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Not a bad article overall, but the NY Times lead on Pete is laughable: _________________ Among the lawyers representing them is Pete McCloskey, a former Republican congressman from California who became a Democrat in 2006 *for* an unsuccessful bid to defeat former House Natural Resources Chairman Richard Pombo (R-Calif.). _________________ ** added by ****** - I think they meant to say *after*...notwithstanding this minor typo, this sentence is certainly good for a yuk or two!! Hope you're all doing well! May 5, 2011 Young Activists Sue U.S., States Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions By GABRIEL NELSON They might not be old enough to vote, but young climate activists are helping stage a legal campaign that seeks to force the federal government and all the states to curb greenhouse gas emissions because of their role in global warming. Attorneys representing the children and teenagers filed yesterday, or are preparing to file, 52 separate lawsuits and petitions based on a novel legal theory: that the government has failed in its duty to protect the atmosphere as a "public trust" for future generations. As a legal theory, the idea that the environment is a public trust has been around for centuries, and has often been used to protect water and wildlife. For instance, the Supreme Court ruled in 1892 that Illinois lawmakers couldn't hand over a large portion of the Chicago harbor to the Illinois Central Railroad because the government was responsible for safeguarding waterways. Similarly, that's the reason people usually need government licenses to shoot deer or catch fish. State and federal officials manage wildlife as a public trust to ensure that it remains plentiful. The idea has never before been applied to the atmosphere, said Julia Olson, an attorney who led the legal team as executive director of the Oregon-based nonprofit Our Children's Trust. But it captured the imagination of 16-year-old Alec Loorz of Ventura, Calif., who is helping run the legal campaign and has spent the past year finding teenagers across the country to sign onto the lawsuits. "The legislative and executive branches of our government have failed us," Loorz said in an interview yesterday. "People have been trying to push for real change at the legislative level for a long time, and nothing has worked. That's why we're going after it through the judicial branch of government." Among the cases is a federal *lawsuit* (pdf), filed late yesterday in district court in San Francisco, that names U.S. EPA and the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy and Interior as defendants. The lawsuit asks the government to stop greenhouse emissions in 2012 and reduce them by 6 percent per year after that. Loorz said he started focusing on climate change at age 12 after seeing former Vice President Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth." Now, he and four other teenagers are the main plaintiffs in the federal case, which was assigned to Donna Ryu, a U.S. magistrate judge in Oakland, Calif. Among the lawyers representing them is Pete McCloskey, a former Republican congressman from California who became a Democrat in 2006 for an unsuccessful bid to defeat former House Natural Resources Chairman Richard Pombo (R-Calif.). In a statement yesterday, McCloskey described the public trust theory as "the most common-sense, fundamental legal footing for the protection of our planet." Also participating in the lawsuit are Wildearth Guardians, a Colorado-based group that often sues the government to protect wildlife and wilderness areas, and Kids vs. Global Warming, a group that Loorz founded with support from the nonprofit Earth Island Institute. The first states that will face lawsuits are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington. Hawaii and New Jersey are going to be served with notices that lawsuits are coming, while the other 38 states and the District of Columbia will receive petitions that ask to put climate policies in place. "What courts can do is, they can take the politics out of atmospheric protection, and they can put the science back in," Olson said. "They can establish the threshold of what needs to be done, and tell the government, you need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 6 percent a year, so we can protect the atmosphere for future generations. We're not trying to tell government the ins and outs of how to do it." Climate and common law Legal experts say the new legal campaign parallels another common-law case brought by states and environmental groups that was heard by the Supreme Court earlier this year. That lawsuit, which was filed against the five largest coal-burning utilities in the country, claimed that greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants are a "public nuisance" because of their contribution to climate change. A federal appeals court had ruled that the case could proceed, ordering a district judge to decide whether specific power plants should cut their emissions. Most of the Supreme Court seemed skeptical during oral arguments last month. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is generally considered one of the more liberal judges on the nation's high court, asked why judges should weigh those concerns when EPA has the scientific expertise to do it (/Greenwire /, April 19). Under a 2007 decision by the Supreme Court, the agency has decided that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health and welfare and must therefore be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The Obama administration has argued that the new Clean Air Act rules should pre-empt legal challenges that ask judges to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Critics of the new lawsuits say climate change is a wide-reaching and complex "political question" that is best left to Congress and the executive branch. Even some proponents of policies to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions have doubts about the public trust strategy. "When you're suing the government for failure to regulate, good luck," said one environmental attorney who is not involved in the new round of lawsuits. "That plays into the political question doctrine, so they've got their hands full. I don't buy into this strategy." Hans von Spakovski, a senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the public trust doctrine doesn't make sense for climate change. While it might make some sense for public waters, where there is often a clear source of pollution, there are billions of sources of carbon dioxide, and most of them are in other countries. Even if the United States managed to cut its emissions, there's no guarantee it would make a difference, von Spakovski said. That's what makes it a policy question that the legislative branch must answer, he said. "If you think state government should be doing something about this, go lobby the state government," von Spakovski said. "Work on electing people to the state legislature who you think will have the right opinion on these kinds of issues. That's how you do it in a democratic system. It's a slow, complicated process, but it's the system that we have." State lawsuits The activists aren't sparing any states from their lawsuits -- not even California, which passed a climate change bill in 2006 and is now preparing a cap-and-trade program to limit carbon dioxide emissions in the state. Lawyers *filed suit* (pdf) against the state and Gov. Jerry Brown (D) yesterday in San Francisco Superior Court. California's A.B. 32, which established a target of 1990 emissions levels by 2020 and set up a host of regulations and a market-based system to achieve it, is not enough, Oakland-based lawyer Sharon Duggan said. Duggan said she spoke to Brown's staff about the case, but they couldn't reach an agreement. A spokesman for Brown declined to comment. "The state of California has told us unequivocally that they will not agree that the atmosphere is a public trust resource," Duggan said. "Everyone will agree that California is a leader in trying to deal with the climate crisis, but on this particular issue they would not concede that point." Though no one has argued in court that the atmosphere should be a public trust, the underlying concept isn't unheard of in California. One precedent could be the California Supreme Court's 1983 decision that the state should have considered the public trust before granting Los Angeles users the right to tap Mono Lake, northeast of Yosemite National Park. "California is doing a lot, but their failure to embrace the atmosphere as a public trust resource prevents them from exercising their duty to take all action necessary to prevent the escalation of the climate crisis," Duggan said. "Whether you're at the state or federal level, the government has failed and the political arena is not getting the job done." *Click here* (pdf) to read the federal lawsuit. *Click here* (pdf) to read the California lawsuit. /Reporter Debra Kahn contributed./ Copyright 2011 E&E Publishing. All Rights Reserved. For more news on energy and the environment, visit www.greenwire.com . 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There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80commandos facing virtually no opposition?except, they claim, from his wife, wholunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ?suspects.? In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it ?believed? that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany. What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn?t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence?which, as we soon learned, Washington didn?t have. Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that ?we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.? Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin Laden?s ?confession,? but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement. There is also much media discussion of Washington?s anger that Pakistan didn?t turn over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and security forces were aware of his presence in Abbottabad. Less is said about Pakistani anger that the U.S. invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American fervor is already very high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it. The decision to dump the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and skepticism in much of the Muslim world. We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush?s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden?s, and he is not a ?suspect? but uncontroversially the ?decider? who gave the orders to commit the ?supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole? (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region. There?s more to say about [Cuban airline bomber Orlando] Bosch, who just died peacefully in Florida, including reference to the ?Bush doctrine? that societies that harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves and should be treated accordingly. No one seemed to notice that Bush was calling for invasion and destruction of the U.S. and murder of its criminal president. Same with the name, Operation Geronimo. The imperial mentality is so profound, throughout western society, that no one can perceive that they are glorifying bin Laden by identifying him with courageous resistance against genocidal invaders. It?s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk? It?s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes ?Jew? and ?Gypsy.? There is much more to say, but even the most obvious and elementary facts should provide us with a good deal to think about. ----end of Chomsky statement--- Last fall Dr. Chomsky told Iranian TV that at the time of the attack on Afghanistan,the US had no evidence that al Qaeda had done 9/11. There's a good 5-minute video about that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mprzq1mA9Jk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sat May 7 11:09:22 2011 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 11:09:22 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Noam Chomsky on Osama In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DC58AD2.5010400@prodsyse.com> There is a Wikipedia entry for Guernica Magazine, which says it 'is a biweekly online site ... . Guernica 's stated mission is to publish works that explore "the crossroads between art and politics".' It was founded in 2004 and became a not-for-profit corporation in Delaware in 2009. It "is read in over 100 countries and overall, tens of thousands view the site every month." The narrative sounds like the clear, concise, observations we have come to expect from Chomsky, who is "the most cited living author." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky) Thanks, Brian. Spencer On 5/7/2011 10:50 AM, Brian Good wrote: > > I never heard of Guernica Magazine, so I suppose there's some slight > chance > it's a hoax. > > http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/ > > > It?s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned > assassination, multiply violating > elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no > attempt to > > apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 > commandos facing virtually no opposition?except, they claim, from his > wife, who > lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, > suspects > are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ?suspects.? In > April 2002, the > head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the > most intensive > > investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it > ?believed? that the > plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and > Germany. What > > they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn?t know 8 months > earlier, when > > Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we > do not know, > > because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they > were presented > > with evidence?which, as we soon learned, Washington didn?t have. Thus > Obama was > > simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that ?we > quickly learned that > > the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.? > > Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin > Laden?s ?confession,? > but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. > He boasted of > > what he regarded as a great achievement. > > There is also much media discussion of Washington?s anger that > Pakistan didn?t turn > over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and security > forces were aware > of his presence in Abbottabad. Less is said about Pakistani anger that > the U.S. invaded > > their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American > fervor is already very > > high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it. The > decision to dump > the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and > skepticism in much > of the Muslim world. > > > We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos > landed at > George W. Bush?s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in > the Atlantic. > Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden?s, and he is > not a ?suspect? but > uncontroversially the ?decider? who gave the orders to commit the > ?supreme > international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it > contains within itself > the accumulated evil of the whole? (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) > for which Nazi > criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions > of refugees, > destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict > that has now > spread to the rest of the region. > > There?s more to say about [Cuban airline bomber Orlando] Bosch, who > just died > peacefully in Florida, including reference to the ?Bush doctrine? that > societies that > harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves and > should be treated > accordingly. No one seemed to notice that Bush was calling for > invasion and > destruction of the U.S. and murder of its criminal president. > > Same with the name, Operation Geronimo. The imperial mentality is so > profound, > throughout western society, that no one can perceive that they are > glorifying bin > Laden by identifying him with courageous resistance against genocidal > invaders. > It?s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, > Tomahawk? It?s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes > ?Jew? and ?Gypsy.? There is much more to say, but even the most > obvious and elementary facts > > should provide us with a good deal to think about. > > > > > ----end of Chomsky statement--- > > > > > > Last fall Dr. Chomsky told Iranian TV that at the time of the attack > on Afghanistan, > the US had no evidence that al Qaeda had done 9/11. There's a good > 5-minute > > video about that here: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mprzq1mA9Jk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun May 8 18:44:04 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 18:44:04 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Re: [gpsmc-d] Documentary: "Lifting The Veil" Message-ID: <4DC746E4.3060009@earthlink.net> Arlen has provided a link to an interesting film. Partly about what's wrong with Democrats and Republicans, partly about what is wrong with Obama. I watched whole thing. WARNING: this is nearly two hours long. Some additional info (all from the last few minutes): - "A Film by Scott Noble" - "Metanoia-Films.org" - "Much of the text for this film derives from the website: whatinthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com (no affiliation)" Gerry Arlen Comfort wrote: > > This may be quite a video. I just watched the first 13 minutes. From > minute 7 to 12 it is video clips of Obama making campaign promises of > what he would do if elected. What a reminder . . . what a collection. > See if you can find any promises that he kept. Good luck! > > I think if every democrat saw this . . . Obama would not getting > re-elected. > But who then? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxLRDy0eOoU&feature=feedu From slee23 at gmail.com Sun May 8 20:59:34 2011 From: slee23 at gmail.com (slee23) Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 20:59:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Director, Sierra Club California In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Wallner Date: May 6, 8:58?am Subject: Director, Sierra Club California To: JobsthatareLEFT *Context:* Director of Sierra Club California develops and implements programs, policies, and initiatives for Sierra Club California, with primary emphasis on advocacy in the California Legislature and before state administrative agencies. Performs long range planning, makes appropriate recommendations to the Sierra Club California committees regarding short and long term priorities and strategies to develop and strengthen the effectiveness of the organization, which works with the thirteen Sierra Club chapters in California and with volunteers from the over 200,000 Sierra Club members in California. *Scope:* Evaluates and prepares recommendations for the Sierra Club California committees on Sierra Club California management and priorities, including fundraising and development strategies to meet financial and program goals, and positions on state legislation and issues before state administrative agencies. Manages all Sierra Club California staff and operations including fundraising, budgeting and reporting, lobbying and legislative programs, and media relations. Develops working relationships with external organizations, officials, and the media. *Job Activities:* 1. Designs and implements effective a legislative and administrative advocacy program that reflect the Sierra Club California?s goals and priorities. Works with the California Legislative Committee to determine Sierra Club positions on bills before the California Legislature and with the California/Nevada Regional Conservation Committee to determine strategies and positions involving advocacy before state agencies. 2. Works with the Chair and Executive Committee to develop the Sierra Club California?s short and long term strategic, programmatic and financial goals and objectives. 3. Advises the Sierra Club California Political Committee and California Legislative Committee about Sierra Club action with respect to candidates for state Legislature, state constitutional offices, and state ballot measures. 4. Recruits, hires, and manages paid staff to carry out the objectives of Sierra Club California. Writes and conducts performance appraisals and takes personnel actions as appropriate. Ensures compliance with Sierra Club's employment policies and practices. 5. Prepares and presents reports to ensure that the Executive Committee, Treasurer and other leaders are informed of major programmatic decisions, program and financial status. Designs and develops information systems to monitor the effectiveness of programs, as well as the status of the budget. 6. Plans and implements an effective public communications program, develops contacts with the media to establish and maintain positive relations to maximize Sierra Club California?s credibility and position of issues. 7. Communicates Sierra Club California priorities, policies objectives, and goals to Sierra Club California volunteers and staff and the staff and volunteer leadership of the thirteen Sierra Club chapters in California. 8. Works with volunteers and enables their role in the effectiveness of Sierra Club California. 9. Attends and facilitates meetings, task forces, and events. Builds strong relationships with other groups, elected officials, and governmental agencies. Represents Sierra Club California as appropriate. 10. Coordinates efforts with the national headquarters and regional staff and ensures that the Sierra Club California strategies are in compliance with national requirements. 11. Directs and guides the grant proposal process as an opportunity to generate operating funds for Sierra Club California. 12. Working with the Fundraising Chair, designs and implements Sierra Club California?s development strategy to meet the funding needs of Sierra Club California. Identifies new donor and membership markets. 13. Reviews staff time report and ensures the reporting of this information on iVantage is accurate and timely in accordance with Sierra Club policies. 14. Performs miscellaneous duties as assigned. Knowledge & Skills: -- 3-5 years of experience that includes substantial experience planning and managing grassroots conservation campaigns, lobbying, media relations, and working with political leaders. -- Expert lobbying ability, including experience lobbying on environmental issues. -- Substantial experience in the strategic planning and direction of campaigns and programs -- Prior experience in fundraising that includes donor relations and grant-funded project development/oversight. -- Substantial experience, demonstrated skill and ability in local and regional media relations. Includes effective television and radio presence, knowledge of media technologies including video, radio, and print production processes. -- Substantial experience and demonstrated ability and effectiveness working with volunteers. -- Demonstrated ability to supervise staff. -- Excellent demonstrated written and oral communication skills. Demonstrated public speaking and media presentation ability. -- Expert knowledge within the environmental field, which includes in- depth knowledge and background in specific issue areas of the environmental field applicable to the community, state, or ecoregion. Please send cover letter and resume to Amanda Wallner at Amanda.wall... at sierraclubcalifornia.org. The Sierra Club offers competitive salary package commensurate with skills and experience plus excellent benefits that include medical, dental, and vision coverage, and a retirement savings 401(k) plan. From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon May 9 11:11:16 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 11:11:16 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Was Rahm Right (about Progressives)?" Message-ID: <4DC82E44.3060609@earthlink.net> FYI, "Was Rahm Right (about Progressives)?" "If progressive don?t realize how much they?ve been had by President Obama, they are 'f?-ing retarded.'? by Steven Hill http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/08-0 From tnharter at aceweb.com Mon May 9 15:40:19 2011 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 15:40:19 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Robert Newman's History of Oil (live) Message-ID: <4DC86D53.2090801@aceweb.com> This coming Friday evening there will be a movie at the peace center. 7 PM, come earlier to socialize. I've made a flier. You can download it from: http://tian.greens.org/SantaClaraCounty/GreenParty/MovieNight/HistoryOfOil.pdf I tried to be as cheap with your paper as possible. If you spot anything on the flier you want me to change, please let me know. There is still a little time for that kind of thing. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: now I've a blue tooth in the right side of my lower jaw. The red security brick is on The All American Video Game Company. (4/29) From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon May 9 17:43:59 2011 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 17:43:59 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Robert Newman's History of Oil (live) In-Reply-To: <4DC86D53.2090801@aceweb.com> References: <4DC86D53.2090801@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <4DC88A4F.9010207@prodsyse.com> Now also on the Green Party Web Site "http://cagreens.org/sclara". Spencer On 5/9/2011 3:40 PM, Tian Harter wrote: > This coming Friday evening there will be a movie at the peace center. > 7 PM, come earlier to socialize. > > I've made a flier. You can download it from: > > http://tian.greens.org/SantaClaraCounty/GreenParty/MovieNight/HistoryOfOil.pdf > > > I tried to be as cheap with your paper as possible. If you spot anything > on the flier you want me to change, please let me know. There is still > a little time for that kind of thing. -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue May 10 14:57:20 2011 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:57:20 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda items for May meeting Message-ID: <4DC9B4C0.5010400@sbcglobal.net> Proposal re speaker development 10 min at the time of the announcements have each one make a one minute speech on a Green Party platform topic or Green Party position on a current event Proposal: have our name added to the list of supporters of SB 810 5 min From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed May 11 09:21:14 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:21:14 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] U.S. is ill prepared for future Message-ID: <4DCAB77A.3070603@earthlink.net> FYI ========== Two high level military advisors argue for a "liberal" strategy. http://www.grist.org/politics/2011-05-06-military-thinkers-american-future-sustainability-liberalism ========== U.S. government is unprepared for technological and economic threat of China. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_new_sputnik_20110510/ ========== U.S. is in poor position to respond to China. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/11-7 ========== From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu May 12 08:44:15 2011 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 08:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: Lobby visit with Bob Wieckowski for SB810 next Wed. Message-ID: <377715.56623.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> This sounds like a good thing to do. I can't do it. I'll be taking a 98 year old neighbor to the doctor then, but hopefully somebody else will be not busy then. Caroline --- On Thu, 5/12/11, Lynn Huidekoper wrote: From: Lynn Huidekoper Subject: FW: Lobby visit with Bob Wieckowski for SB810 next Wed. To: "Lynn Huidekoper" Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 5:54 AM #yiv127297826 .yiv127297826ExternalClass .yiv127297826ecxhmmessage P {padding:0px;} #yiv127297826 .yiv127297826ExternalClass body.yiv127297826ecxhmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;} I am looking for constituents in Assembly District 20?to join us on a lobby visit to with the newly elected Assenblyman Bob Wieckowski's? staffer, Andre?? The meeting is next Wed. May18 at 11AM ay his Fremont office. They can accommodate 6 people. ?I will send info later. Please RSVP ASAP! ? 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URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu May 12 13:57:36 2011 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Tell Congress: End Oil Subsidies Message-ID: <748223.60635.qm@web81204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- On Thu, 5/12/11, May Boeve - 350.org wrote: From: May Boeve - 350.org Subject: Tell Congress: End Oil Subsidies To: carolineyacoub at att.net Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 12:35 PM Dear friends, Let's not sugarcoat it: Big Oil is making a killing in America. The biggest oil companies are raking in record profits, funding the climate-denial machine, and heating up our planet--all the while collecting more than $4 billion dollars every year in tax credits and subsidies. Just hours ago, the executives of the top five oil companies testified in Congress to support this corporate welfare. One CEO called repealing these tax breaks "un-American." Not only are oil companies gouging us at the pump and treating the atmosphere like an open sewer, but they're digging into our pockets again by buying favors from Members of Congress. But it doesn't need to be this way--and we now have a unique chance to challenge Big Oil companies and call out the politicians that are defending them. Both President Obama and the Senate are looking at plans to end these giveaways, but Big Oil isn?t going down without a fight. Oil industry lobbyists are working behind the scenes to kill any proposed legislation. If we let this fight happen behind closed doors, the oil lobbyists will win. That's why next week, 350.org and our allies in DC will put this fight in the spotlight by delivering a huge VOIDED check for $4 Billion to Congress, signed by American Taxpayers. If we can get thousands of signatures on the check, it will help get the attention of Congress and the media, forcing this issue into the spotlight where it belongs. Will you take 10 seconds to add your name and call for an End to Oil Subsidies? www.350.org/oil We?ll take a giant version of the check and your signatures directly to Congress, and make sure your voice is heard.? From our global days of action and our campaign to get solar panels back on the White House, we know that the combination of online action and grassroots organizing can be an effective way to make a political impact. As 350.org expands our work here in the United States, we?ll be continuing to look for key moments like this when we can all work together to make change happen. Ending oil subsidies would be a big step forward in tackling the ?money pollution? that corrupts our political system and makes real climate progress impossible. Getting involved in this fight is an important addition to our work to take on corporate front groups like the US Chamber of Commerce and build momentum for this year?s big public mobilization, September 24?s ?Moving Planet? day of action.? (And besides, delivering a huge voided check made out to Big Oil is going to be a ton of fun.)? Sign on today and help us make sure our politicians stand with people, not polluters. Onwards, May Boeve, 350.org? P.S. We want to create a massive groundswell against this polluter pay-out--can you share this message on Facebook and Twitter today? You should join 350.org on Facebook by becoming a fan of our page at facebook.com/350org and follow us on twitter by visiting twitter.com/350 To join our list (maybe a friend forwarded you this e-mail) visit www.350.org/signup 350.org needs your help! To support our work, donate securely online at 350.org/donate You are subscribed to this list as carolineyacoub at att.net.?Click here to unsubscribe 350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. What is 350? 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Scientists measure carbon dioxide in "parts per million" (ppm), so 350ppm is the number humanity needs to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change. To get there, we need a different kind of PPM?a "people powered movement" that is made of people like you in every corner of the planet. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Thu May 12 16:38:08 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:38:08 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] U.S. is ill prepared for future In-Reply-To: <4DCAB77A.3070603@earthlink.net> References: <4DCAB77A.3070603@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4DCC6F60.7030902@charter.net> I basically agree with the main points of these opinions. My only sense is that the focus on China as an adversary masks the scope of the real problems... and that is a real challenge for the Green Party. There is a sense in which the term "future focus" keeps being used by Greens but do we really lead with a plan or a vision of what the future would be and how we should attain it? Rather do we not continue to fight yesterday's wars with yesterday's tactics and, like OBL, might we find that an Arab Spring could make us irrelevant? What are the next steps to build a better future for our communities? our state? our country? "What are we for?" is a harder question to answer than what we are against. On 5/11/2011 9:21 AM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > FYI > > ========== > > Two high level military advisors argue for a "liberal" strategy. > > http://www.grist.org/politics/2011-05-06-military-thinkers-american-future-sustainability-liberalism > > > ========== > > U.S. government is unprepared for technological > and economic threat of China. > > http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_new_sputnik_20110510/ > > ========== > > U.S. is in poor position to respond to China. > > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/11-7 > > ========== > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu May 12 17:51:01 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:51:01 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] War Powers Issue Message-ID: <4DCC8075.1060402@earthlink.net> There is an issue being discussed by some groups that you might be interested in. It's about some language in some current bills that transfers war powers from Congress to the Defense Department and the President. The first news about it came from Common Dreams: "Like the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars? You'll LOVE This!" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/28-12 And today I received 2 emails, one from PPJC, one from ACLU. The relevant info is available at: "House Republicans Shred Constitution With Backdoor Proposal of Permanent War" http://peaceandjustice.org/article.php?story=20110512081428426 "Unchecked Executive War Power Could Slip Through the House" http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/unchecked-executive-war-power-could-slip-through-house Gerry From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu May 12 20:42:44 2011 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 20:42:44 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green Events May 13 & 21 (tomorrow + a week from Saturday) Message-ID: <4DCCA8B4.2090007@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: The Santa Clara Greens Web Site has been updated to announce the movie tomorrow night plus the presentation by Sharat Lin a week from this Saturday. Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 From carolineyacoub at att.net Fri May 13 09:30:53 2011 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 09:30:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Stunning conflict of interest? Message-ID: <91587.60650.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- On Fri, 5/13/11, Glenn - Public Citizen wrote: From: Glenn - Public Citizen Subject: Stunning conflict of interest? To: carolineyacoub at att.net Date: Friday, May 13, 2011, 6:23 AM Caroline, Wonder why so many people are fed up with bureaucrats in Washington? Meredith Attwell Baker, a Federal Communications Commission official who just four months ago voted to approve a mega-merger between Comcast and NBC, is resigning from the FCC to become a lobbyist for ... wait for it ... Comcast. Our friends at the media reform organization Free Press are on the case. Add your name to Free Press?s petition calling on Congress to immediately launch an investigation of this seemingly stunning conflict of interest. This is the latest example of the ?revolving door? phenomenon, in which public officials go to work for Big Business, exploiting connections and information they gained as public servants to then push the corporate agenda in Congress and the White House. Baker?s jump to Comcast is particularly egregious. As recently as March, she was giving speeches complaining that the Comcast-NBC deal ?took too long.? Outside of Washington, people of every political persuasion feel frustrated and betrayed by policies and politicians that favor giant corporations over ordinary Americans. Sadly, the complete capture of government by industry barely raises an eyebrow inside the Beltway anymore. That?s why Congress needs to hear from you. Stop the revolving door! Demand that Congress investigate Baker?s actions. If we don't act now, business as usual in Washington will continue to undermine our democracy. Thank you for taking action! Glenn Simpson Public Citizen?s Online Action Team Go to http://action.citizen.org/unsubscribe.jsp if you do not want to receive future emails from Public Citizen. ? 2011 Public Citizen ? 1600 20th Street, NW / Washington, D.C. 20009 ? www.citizen.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leedobell at aol.com Fri May 13 10:21:32 2011 From: leedobell at aol.com (Leedobell) Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 13:21:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] trains Message-ID: <8CDDFA95698908F-1968-235B5@webmail-d126.sysops.aol.com> I have been concerned about the floods back east because I plan to be traveling across the country by train soon, and I'm pretty sure that, if the tracks are under water for a week, the roadbed will be destroyed. I have contacted Amtrak and been told that they do not comment on "what ifs". I have contacted the news media and been told that coverage of the flood comes from CNN or Fox, and what they don't cover isn't being covered. Disruption of the trains and roads on the scale that could happen from this flooding would be catastrophic. Why isn't anybody paying attention? Any suggestions on how I could get hard coverage of this situation? Caroline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdf at juno.com Fri May 13 17:07:56 2011 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 00:07:56 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] California Citizens Redistricting Commission hearing in San Jose, Mon. May 23 Message-ID: <20110513.170756.16546.1@webmail19.vgs.untd.com> The 14 member Independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission will hold a public input meeting in San Jose on May 23, 2011, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, at the Mayfair Community Center, 2039 Kammerer Ave, San Jose. The Commission was created by California voters to draw state Congressional, Assembly, Senate and Board of Equalization Districts. See the Commission?s website at http://www.wedrawthelines.ca.gov for complete information on the hearings and how to participate. Respectfully, Valerie Face ____________________________________________________________ Groupon™ Official Site 1 ridiculously huge coupon a day. Get 50-90% off your city's best! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4dcdc8172b6913f8dfdst03vuc From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri May 13 17:15:16 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 17:15:16 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "New Report Confirms that Switch to Renewables Is Feasible" Message-ID: <4DCDC994.6040705@earthlink.net> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/13-11 From carolineyacoub at att.net Sat May 14 08:57:19 2011 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 08:57:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Talk by Single Payer doctor who serves the uninsured, homeless- you don't want to miss this one!! Message-ID: <880444.87030.qm@web81207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- On Fri, 5/13/11, Lynn Huidekoper wrote: From: Lynn Huidekoper Subject: Talk by Single Payer doctor who serves the uninsured, homeless- you don't want to miss this one!! To: "Lynn Huidekoper" Date: Friday, May 13, 2011, 2:54 PM ? ????????????????????????????????????? This is a great opportunity to hear from a doctor on the front lines of the health care crisis in California ? ? ? Concerned about the Health Care Crisis? ? Come hear Dr. Wendy Ring explain how the State Budget Crisis Impacts Health Spending in California ? Dr Ring is a member of PNHP-Physicians for a National Health Program and Health Care for All, Humboldt Cty. She cares for Medi-Cal and uninsured patients in the Mobile Medical Office, which she founded, which goes to clinics serving the most vulnerable patients ? Thursday, May 19,2011 7PM Palo Alto Friends Meeting 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto ?????? One block East of intersection of Colorado and Louis ? Co-Sponsored by: Health Care for All-California, Santa Clara County and Midpeninsula-SF chapters Health Care is a Human Right? ? ? Lynn Huidekoper, RN Co-Director Health Care for All Californians-Silicon Valley Coalition Co-Chair , Santa Clara County Single Payer Coalition HCA Legislative Committee Senator Mark Leno's Single Payer bill, SB810 John Conyer's Single Payer bill, HR 676 Menlo Park CA. 650-322-9609 http://www.healthcareforall.org Health Care is a Human Right -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Concerned about the Health Care Crisis flyer.doc Type: application/msword Size: 27648 bytes Desc: not available URL: From the_alliance47 at yahoo.com Sat May 14 11:46:03 2011 From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com (Edward) Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 11:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] HR 676 still lacks companion Senate Bill In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <936102.9288.qm@web161401.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> http://99oh9.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-senate-equivalent.html ? There is misleading news this week that Senator Sanders (I-VT) has introduced single-payer legislation in the United States?Senate. S.915 (S.703 in the 111th Congress) should be more correctly described as 50-payer, because each state would have its own administrative organisation as well as an administrative organisation at the federal level. Also, this bill would only cover American citizens and documented immigrants, leaving millions of residents falling through the cracks. ? The most feasible way to get single-payer at the moment is still to push California Senate Bill 810 through Sacramento. It's passed both chambers in the past and with a more sympathetic governor to this issue (albeit not outright supportive), we may see the bill finally pass next summer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat May 14 15:52:53 2011 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 15:52:53 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] online gpca cc voting Message-ID: <4DCF07C5.2080303@sbcglobal.net> GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List. For more information, or questions related to the topic of the posting, please do not hit reply. Follow the contact directions stated in the email. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As announced at the Berkeley General Assembly, we will be conducting an online vote for the eight candidates for the new at-large seats on the Coordinating Committee. The target date to open the voting page is May 23. The page will remain open for one month. You will receive another announcement when the voting page opens. **** IMPORTANT **** The online system requires that each county has one designated ballot entry person. This person will collect your county's sample ballots and enter the vote(s) into the online ballot page. S/he will enter as many ballots as the number of delegates allocated to your county for the April-May 2011 General Assembly meeting in Berkeley (listed on sample ballot). The ballot entry person will be provided the password to the online ballot page. YOU MUST select a ballot entry person and send their name and email address to the elections committee at cc-election at cagreens.org. Please do this as soon as possible. ------------------------------- The candidates, and their submitted biographies, are currently available for viewing on the voting page: http://cagreens.org/cc/vote/ Also, there is a sample ballot on the voting page that you should downloaded. It contains instructions for using the online system. Use this ballot to prepare for your county's discussions, and as a guide for entering your vote(s) online. You may contact the elections committee (cc-election at cagreens.org) with any questions. _______________________________________________ From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon May 16 09:38:14 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:38:14 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Cornel West & Obama Message-ID: <4DD152F6.5040105@earthlink.net> FYI, "The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic" http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_obama_deception_why_cornel_west_went_ballistic_20110516/ Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon May 16 11:07:15 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:07:15 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] NSA Spying on Americans? Message-ID: <4DD167D3.1070900@earthlink.net> Here's an article on NSA activities that talks about how the NSA is capable of spying on Americans. What it means, you'll have to decide for yourselves. It is also about prosecution of a whistleblower. It is quite lengthy, but probably worth it. I have read half, the rest will have to wait until later. "The Secret Sharer" "Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/16-6 Gerry From wrolley at charter.net Tue May 17 09:35:40 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:35:40 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] HR 676 still lacks companion Senate Bill In-Reply-To: <936102.9288.qm@web161401.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <936102.9288.qm@web161401.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4DD2A3DC.7060404@charter.net> This is the right way to go for CA. > The most feasible way to get single-payer at the moment is still to > push California Senate Bill 810 through Sacramento. It's passed both > chambers in the past and with a more sympathetic governor to this > issue (albeit not outright supportive), we may see the bill finally > pass next summer. We have to keep in mind that many Democrats would like to seek health care remain an issue for 2012... that is to be able to punish the Republicans for their desire to "kill Medicare". They are better served to keep the issue unresolved than they are to have a working solution. The unfortunate aspect is that there is not penalty for such a cynical strategy until Greens become strong enough to be a viable alternative. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Tue May 17 09:46:06 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:46:06 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "New Report Confirms that Switch to Renewables Is Feasible" In-Reply-To: <4DCDC994.6040705@earthlink.net> References: <4DCDC994.6040705@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4DD2A64E.1000301@charter.net> On 5/13/2011 5:15 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/13-11 This news from the IPPC talks about what is feasible. The following post from Climate Progress talks about what is really happening in Germany. Fortunately, they seem to support each other. http://climateprogress.org/2011/05/16/nukes-germany-transition-renewable-energy/ Summary: > No nukes, No problem. Germany is proving a rapid transition to > renewable energy is possible > > May 16, 2011 > > *Within four decades, one of the world's leading economies will be > powered almost entirely by wind, solar, biomass, hydro, and > geothermal power*. > And that comes from a Conservative Party controlled national Government. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <4DD46628.5000106@aceweb.com> http://tian.greens.org/SanJose/BikeParty/BikeTheLimits/May14th2011.html -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: words and pictures from the GPCA meeting in Berkeley. The red security brick is on The All American Video Game Company. (4/29) From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Wed May 18 18:36:09 2011 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 18:36:09 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] food for thought Saturday Message-ID: <4DD47409.7090502@sbcglobal.net> Remember to be there at the Green Party sponsored talk and discussion on the egyptian revolution by Sharat Lin who was in Cairo for a week during the revolution. Saturday, this coming Saturday the 21-st at Cypress Point Clubhouse 505 Cypress Point Drive Mountain View, CA from noon until 3:30 pm lunch will be provided From alexcathy at aol.com Thu May 19 09:48:24 2011 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 12:48:24 -0400 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Scott McLarty on the need for "New Language" Message-ID: <8CDE45BB42C3B66-C24-16FB@webmail-m005.sysops.aol.com> Dear Green Friends, Scott McLarty, media coordinator for the Green Party of the United States, haswritten an important essay posted on Common Dreams about the need for newlanguage in political discourse in the U.S. Here McLartyargues that in 2011 the time has come"to replace the Republic/conservative/right vs. Democrat/liberal/left paradigm"in order to"bust open the narrow political debate offered daily in the mainstream media." As many of you know, I've said for years that it's high timeprincipled progressives (or for that matter, principled conservatives,if there are any), to abandon the tired clich?s of "liberal"Democrats and "conservative" Republicans (including "New Left" clich?s from the1960s) for rational discussion about the challenges of the 2010s. That is why I have reposted Scott's essay in it's entirety on the CaliforniaGreening Blog for comments by California activists. Posted on California Greening (reposted from Common Dreams), Thursday, May 19, 2011 Which Side Are You On? New Language for a New Political Reality by Scott McLarty "Everybody pulled his weight, Didn't need no welfare state... Those were the days!" Those are some of the lyrics from the theme song to the popular 1970sTV sitcom 'All in the Family', considered controversial in its day,about a working-class bigot named Archie Bunker, who sang it at the topof the show with his wife Edith. Archie's nostalgia for pre-1960s Americainformed much of the show, which satirized small-minded conservativism,paranoid patriotism, contempt for youth culture, and racism. One of the ironies of Archie Bunker's worldview is that the 1930s, 40s,and 50s weren't nearly as conservative as he remembered them.The same faulty nostalgia drives the so-called conservatives of today'sRepublican Party and the Tea Party movement, who imagine those decadesas a time when hard-working Americans pulled themselves up by theirown bootstraps. It's true that Americans worked hard during these years.But the bootstraps stuff is nonsense.The 30s through 50s were the time of the New Deal,low-cost loans from the Federal Housing Administration,the GI Bill, huge subsidies for defense contractors during the Cold Warand other industries that employed millions of people,massive transfer of funding from cities to the burgeoning suburbs,federal projects like interstate highway construction and the space program,generous investment in public schools, record union membership,high tax rates for corporations and the wealthy,good job benefits, and Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid,which ensured financial stability in old age and medical crises. These things softened the trauma of the Great Depression and gave us thegreatest period of prosperity in US history.Middle-aged Tea Partiers and Republicans, born in the 1940s through the 1970s,reaped the benefits of the kind of progressive 'big government' and'socialist' ideas they now condemn. By their own standards,Tea Partiers are practically red diaper babies. . . . Think of government as a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric,Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Monsanto, Wall Street,the insurance and pharmaceutical cartels, and other top industries.(China, which now provides cheap labor for corporations,has shown us that both communism and capitalism can be subsumedinto the state capitalist system.) Progressivism has nearly collapsed as a political force,even though progressives still exist and sometimes get elected.We can begin digging ourselves out of this hole by adopting a new model toreplace the Republic/conservative/right vs. Democrat/liberal/left paradigm.We can declare our independence from the bipartisan consensus.We can reject the "active propaganda machinery controlled by the world'slargest corporations [that] constantly reassures us that consumerismis the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excessis the cause of our distress, and economic globalization is both a historicalinevitability and a boon to the human species" (David C. Korten, 'When Corporations Rule the World') Doing so will bust open the narrow political debate offereddaily in the mainstream media. ... 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To: "Caroline Yacoub" Date: Sunday, October 25, 2009, 9:08 PM ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Wes Rolley To: Caroline Yacoub Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:56:51 PM Subject: Re: County Council Meeting Sunday 3 PM... Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Thanks Wes. > I just had a chance to read your articles in the recent Green Focus. They are terrific. Have you considered writing new tabling materials on Global Warming and Water? We really need them. > Caroline Here are a couple of additional PDF formatted documents developed by GPUS EcoAction Committee: Water Brochure - 2 pg.? could be front/back. http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/documents/ecoAction%20Brochure_2.pdf GPUS Water Resolution in graphic version.? Needs a color printer. Lots of photos. http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/documents/GraphicsResolution%20380.pdf -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente Wes Rolley 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu May 19 12:47:04 2011 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 12:47:04 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] KPFA 9/11-a-thon right now until 3:30 Message-ID: Hosts: Dennis Bernstein, Bonnie Faulkner, Mickey Huff, and Peter Phillips Guests: 12:45 Frank Morales, 1:00 PM Bob Bowman, 1:30 Newark Green Paul Rea, 2:00 Mike Gravel, 2:30 Green Carol Brouillet, 2:45 Richard Gage and Kathy McGrade. Program is on-line live at KPFA.org; here's the url for the stream http://www.kpfa.org/streams/kpfa_64k.m3u It will be archived at Noliesradio.org. 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The California DISCLOSE Act, AB 1148, which is currently being considered in the California Assembly, will require political ads to clearly and prominently disclose who is REALLY paying for them. Humanist Community member Brian Davis will discuss this latest effort to make our political system more fair. See http://www.caclean.org . ----------- The following Sunday Don Havis will discuss "Robert G Ingersoll: The 19th Century Man with the 21st Century Mind." ----------- The Humanist Community Forum meets at 11am at our new location, Palo Alto High School at the corner of El Camino and Embarcadero Rd. (50 Embarcadero Rd) in Palo Alto. The forum will be in the Student Center and the family program in rm 1732 in the Science Bldg. Construction is now going on at the high school so parking is restricted. 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Please confirm your interest in receiving email and add newsletter at caclean.org to your address book to keep getting occasional alerts. ? You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our emails. Stop Hidden Influence of Big Money with AB 1148, the California DISCLOSE ACT Join the California Clean Money Campaign's Santa Clara and San Mateo county working groups to help wage the campaign! San Jose: Thurs, May 19, 7pm.? 2102 Almaden Drive ? ? Palo Alto:? Tues, May 24, 7pm. 505 E Charleston Rd ??????????????????? Room 6 (UU Church) ? Redwood City:? Wed, May 25, 7pm.? 2124 Brewster Ave (UU Church)?? The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision unleashed unlimited, anonymous corporate spending on campaigns.? In California, nearly $200 million was spent on November 2010 ballot measures alone, most by corporations hiding behind misleading committees like "Stop Hidden Taxes".? That's why we need to pass AB 1148 (Brownley), the California DISCLOSE Act, to make sure that people know who is really paying for political ads. As proposed, the California DISCLOSE Act would: 1) Replace current deceptive "Paid for by" disclosures with real disclosure: ? "Stand By Your Ad":? Require top funder of television and radio ads (e.g. the CEO of an organization or a millionaire) to appear and say that they approve of the message.? E.g. Instead of saying "Paid for by Yes on 23, California Jobs Initiative" in fine print, Yes on 23 ads would have said:"I am Bill Klesse, the CEO of Valero Energy Corporation, located in Texas. Valero Energy helped paid for this message and approves it." ? Disclose other major funders in a clear and obvious fashion: 2) Serious new disclosure requirements for slate mailers ? E.g. Require slates to show when independent expenditure groups pay for candidate endorsements.? 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He is president of the San Jose Peace & Justice Center, and writes on the Middle East. Saturday, May 21, 2011 12 noon - 3:30 pm Cypress Point Clubhouse 505 Cypress Point Dr Mountain View, CA Open to the public Lunch will be served Donation appreciated RSVP or for more info, call 408-482-6032 Green Party of Santa Clara County http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara ____________________________________________________________ Groupon™ Official Site 1 ridiculously huge coupon a day. Get 50-90% off your city's best! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4dd5bb8a5ea52512399st03vuc _______________________________________________ sosfbay-news mailing list is moderated. Post to sosfbay-news at cagreens.org Reply to sender or sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-news -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: words and pictures from the 2nd Annual Bike The Limits. The red security brick is on The All American Video Game Company. (4/29) From carolineyacoub at att.net Sat May 21 08:08:55 2011 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 08:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] today Message-ID: <167903.16734.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I hope to see everybody over at Tian's clubhouse for Sharat's talk at noon. Caroline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat May 21 15:09:38 2011 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 15:09:38 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Senator Durbin (re)introduces dream act Message-ID: <4DD83822.9070006@sbcglobal.net> Senator Durbin (IL) offers the opportunity to send a notice of support for the dream act via his web site *http://tinyurl.com/3nrwha6 * He has (re-)introduced the dream act in the senate. From the_alliance47 at yahoo.com Sat May 21 23:58:57 2011 From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com (Edward) Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 23:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tiananmen Massacre 22nd Anniversary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <140080.94937.qm@web161402.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Does anybody know if there are any events in the Bay Area planned to commemorate the 6/4 Massacre? ? -edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun May 22 09:38:29 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 09:38:29 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Extending the Patriot Act Message-ID: <4DD93C05.8070600@earthlink.net> Apparently there will be an attempt to extend the Patriot Act tomorrow (Monday): "Protest Backroom Deal to Extend Un-Patriot Act til 2015" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/22-1 Gerry From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Sun May 22 16:48:21 2011 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 16:48:21 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Monthly scheduling Message-ID: <4DD9A0C5.7000204@structuremonitoring.com> Hello, All: 1. I just requested our usual meeting space for the 4th Thursdays of June - October. I assume we'll get those slots, but I probably won't know until some time tomorrow. For November and December, I suggest we either schedule the third Thursdays (Nov. 17 & Dec. 15) or cancel for those two months. 2. I removed the movie night, 9 days ago, and "Food for Thought" with Sharat yesterday, from the web site. Best Wishes, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon May 23 09:43:18 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:43:18 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Greens in Bremen, Germany Message-ID: <4DDA8EA6.7040601@earthlink.net> "Greens' rise muddies political landscape" http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20110523-35201.html (Greens did better than the CDU, Merkel's party) Gerry From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon May 23 15:23:01 2011 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:23:01 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] cc online balloting Message-ID: <4DDADE45.2000504@sbcglobal.net> GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List. For more information, or questions related to the topic of the posting, please do not hit reply. Follow the contact directions stated in the email. Dear County Green Parties - We have encountered a technical problem with the online ballot. It has to do with flaws in some internet browsers that prevent the ballot from displaying properly. Accordingly, we are anticipating a one week delay in opening the online ballot. The new date is May 30. PLEASE NOTE: As stated in the original announcement (copied below), each county must designate a ballot entry person to enter your county's vote into the online ballot. This person must send their name and email address to the elections committee to obtain the needed password. To date, only three counties have responded to this request. Please tend to this request at your earliest opportunity. See the original message for details. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GPCA Official Notice] CC Election Online Voting Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 13:52:20 -0700 To: County Contacts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As announced at the Berkeley General Assembly, we will be conducting an online vote for the eight candidates for the new at-large seats on the Coordinating Committee. The target date to open the voting page is May 23. The page will remain open for one month. You will receive another announcement when the voting page opens. **** IMPORTANT **** The online system requires that each county has one designated ballot entry person. This person will collect your county's sample ballots and enter the vote(s) into the online ballot page. S/he will enter as many ballots as the number of delegates allocated to your county for the April-May 2011 General Assembly meeting in Berkeley (listed on sample ballot). The ballot entry person will be provided the password to the online ballot page. YOU MUST select a ballot entry person and send their name and email address to the elections committee at cc-election at cagreens.org. Please do this as soon as possible. ------------------------------- The candidates, and their submitted biographies, are currently available for viewing on the voting page: http://cagreens.org/cc/vote/ Also, there is a sample ballot on the voting page that you should downloaded. It contains instructions for using the online system. Use this ballot to prepare for your county's discussions, and as a guide for entering your vote(s) online. You may contact the elections committee (cc-election at cagreens.org) with any questions. From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon May 23 15:24:39 2011 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:24:39 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item Message-ID: <4DDADEA7.2070605@sbcglobal.net> designating ballot entry person for Santa Clara County vis a vis on line balloting for cc reps election From tnharter at aceweb.com Mon May 23 23:01:37 2011 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:01:37 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Monthly scheduling In-Reply-To: <4DD9A0C5.7000204@structuremonitoring.com> References: <4DD9A0C5.7000204@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <4DDB49C1.8040601@aceweb.com> I think we should do a Christmas Party instead of a meeting in December. Maybe that instead of both meetings. How about we make this an agenda item for the meeting on Thursday? BTW: Who is doing the Agenda this time? Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > 1. I just requested our usual meeting space for the 4th Thursdays > of June - October. I assume we'll get those slots, but I probably won't > know until some time tomorrow. For November and December, I suggest we > either schedule the third Thursdays (Nov. 17 & Dec. 15) or cancel for > those two months. > > > 2. I removed the movie night, 9 days ago, and "Food for Thought" > with Sharat yesterday, from the web site. > -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: words and pictures from the 2nd Annual Bike The Limits. The screw I got mile 81 of bike the limits is now on a Delaware quarter. From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue May 24 07:38:04 2011 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 07:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [BASC Chat] Fwd: looking for apps engineers Message-ID: <699475.25716.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- On Mon, 5/23/11, Chantal van Schooten wrote: From: Chantal van Schooten Subject: [BASC Chat] Fwd: looking for apps engineers To: "BASCChat CHAT" Date: Monday, May 23, 2011, 4:16 PM Just in case somebody is looking for a job like this: > >>> >>> >>> (ISC) is looking to hire an apps engineer http://www.isc.org/about/jobs/application-engineer >>> >>> I >>> ISC is an independent not-for-profit steward of several key? >>> Internet technologies that enable the global Internet. ?Technology? >>> Leadership for the Common Good? has been our mission since 1994.??? >>> We are best known for developing and maintaining the core software? >>> for DNS, BIND. BIND runs 85% of the world?s Domain Name Servers? >>> today. 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From jgshurt69 at aol.com Tue May 24 11:46:15 2011 From: jgshurt69 at aol.com (jgshurt69 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:46:15 -0400 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Cynthia McKinney Message-ID: <8CDE859FEB8B073-13CC-CB2B@web-mmc-d08.sysops.aol.com> Does everyone reading this think she "no longer cares about democracy?" Is that democracy what we occasionally vote on, and do not get? jeffrey in san bruno From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue May 24 11:52:05 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:52:05 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] McKinney In-Reply-To: <4DDBEF2A.8080203@charter.net> References: <4DDBEF2A.8080203@charter.net> Message-ID: <4DDBFE55.4070701@earthlink.net> Wes Rolley wrote: > After appearing at a seminar in Iran, McKinney has now gone on to > appear on state television in Lybia. > > http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/former-rep-cynthia-mckinney-appears-on-libyan-state-tv-video.php?ref=fpblg > >> The regime of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya received a boost from a special >> guest over the weekend, in its television propaganda against the >> country's rebels and the NATO force opposing the government: Former >> Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. > > It is clear to some that she no longer cares about democracy. > I took a quick look at the website, and listened to a few minutes of the YouTube clip. The quality of the sound and video of the YouTube clip is not the best. But I did not see what indicates that she no longer cares about democracy. I suppose one might say it was unwise to appear on Libya state run TV, but I saw no anti democracy statement from her. What have I missed? Gerry From wrolley at charter.net Tue May 24 15:57:07 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:57:07 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] McKinney In-Reply-To: <4DDBFE55.4070701@earthlink.net> References: <4DDBEF2A.8080203@charter.net> <4DDBFE55.4070701@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4DDC37C3.8090106@charter.net> I took a quick look at the website, and listened to a few > minutes of the YouTube clip. The quality of the sound and > video of the YouTube clip is not the best. > > But I did not see what indicates that she no longer cares about > democracy. I suppose one might say it was unwise to appear on > Libya state run TV, but I saw no anti democracy statement from > her. What have I missed? > > Gerry Two issues: While there are questions about the scope of our own democracy... it is the best that any corporation can buy... anyone with McKinney's supposed political acumen would know that her appearances in Iran and Libya will go a log way to legitimize repressive dictatorial regimes at the expense of those who are seeking a path to some form of participation in government. California Green Party activist, Kamran Ghasri, put it very well in his response to Cynthia's participation in Iran: > Cynthia; > > When attending the "Peace Conference" in Tehran, > - Did you meet with and talked to any of the political dissidents? > - did you meet with and talked to any of the political prisoners, whom > thousands of them are kept and tortured in prisons all over the country? > - Did you meet with and talked to the families of those killed by the > regime? > - Did you meet with and talked to workers who are trying to organize in > independent unions? > - Did you meet with and talked to ordinary people? > > If your answers are no, let me express my deep disbelief, disgust and > disappointment with your attendance at this conference. By doing so, you > showed a total disregard for the ongoing struggle of the people of my > country, Iran for social justice and put an approval stamp on the crimes > committed by its regime. You gave your hand to an illegal regime which is > torturing and killing its citizens every minute. By doing so, you made > yourself a shameless partner in these crimes. > There is a thick red line between anti-American political activism and > legitimizing criminal regimes which claim to do so and you failed to see > that. From vdf at juno.com Tue May 24 17:50:30 2011 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 00:50:30 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Monthly scheduling Message-ID: <20110524.175030.897.0@webmail19.vgs.untd.com> I would like to see this on Thursday night's agenda, too. According to Spencer's notes from the last meeting, Drew is doing this month's agenda. I don't think we should cancel either meeting. I prefer the idea of moving both of them up a week. If there is not much business, we could just end the meetings relatively early. Or we could take the opportunity to do some planning for 2012! 2012 is a big election year. Because of Prop 14 Green Party candidates for U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives will have to campaign earlier than usual if they're serious about doing well in the open primary. Depending on how many declared candidates we have for those offices by November and December, we might want to start planning to host events or debates for them. Right now we also have one candidate for President that I've heard of -- Kent Mesplay. Presumably we will have more declared candidates by November and December, so by then we might want to be in the process of planning to host a debate. That is not too early -- event planning takes time, and presidential candidates are very busy, which makes picking a date difficult. Right now we don't even know if the presidential primary will be in February (like last time) or June (as suggested in AB 80 proposed by Paul Fong). We could also think about how to mesh campaign events we might do with our regular tabling schedule throughout the year. We might not know the exact dates of all of the festivals we want to table at, but since most festivals try to stick to the same weekend of the month, we could probably make some educated guesses at when they're happening. Thus we could agree that we'll avoid booking certain dates for candidate events, but start thinking about campaign events for other dates. I like the idea of a holiday party, too! I just don't think it should replace either business meeting. We could really use a month or two when we tend to have less "regular" business to make ourselves better prepared for the new year. Respectfully, Valerie Face ---------- Original Message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:01:37 -0700 From: Tian Harter To: Post South SF Bay discus Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Monthly scheduling I think we should do a Christmas Party instead of a meeting in December. Maybe that instead of both meetings. How about we make this an agenda item for the meeting on Thursday? BTW: Who is doing the Agenda this time? Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > 1. I just requested our usual meeting space for the 4th Thursdays > of June - October. I assume we'll get those slots, but I probably won't > know until some time tomorrow. For November and December, I suggest we > either schedule the third Thursdays (Nov. 17 & Dec. 15) or cancel for > those two months. > > > 2. I removed the movie night, 9 days ago, and "Food for Thought" > with Sharat yesterday, from the web site. > -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: words and pictures from the 2nd Annual Bike The Limits. The screw I got mile 81 of bike the limits is now on a Delaware quarter. _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss ____________________________________________________________ Groupon.com Official Site 1 huge daily deal on the best stuff to do in your city. Try it today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4ddc52ad8960f251cast05vuc From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed May 25 08:51:05 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 08:51:05 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpsmc-d] Fwd: HOUSE VOTE TODAY: Call Congress Now! Message-ID: <4DDD2569.2010503@earthlink.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gpsmc-d] Fwd: HOUSE VOTE TODAY: Call Congress Now! Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 07:07:35 -0700 From: Cynthia Marcopulos To: people-of-ca12 at googlegroups.com, GPSMC-D ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Tom Andrews* > Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:27 AM Subject: HOUSE VOTE TODAY: Call Congress Now! To: Cynthia Marcopulos > Win Without War Dear Cynthia, The President and the press will measure Congressional opposition to the war in Afghanistan and the ill-conceived "War on Terror" in two votes that could take place as early as this afternoon. Your Representative needs to hear from you. *Call the Capitol Switchboard at 1-888-231-9276 to be connected to your Member of Congress and tell them:* *?It?s time to end the war in Afghanistan and prevent the next one. Please support Amendment 55 by Representatives McGovern and Jones and Amendment 50 by Representatives Amash and Lee to the National Defense Authorization Act.?* Today the House of Representatives begins to debate and vote on H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA). When they do, they will have the opportunity to end the war in Afghanistan and prevent Congress from authorizing endless war. These votes will determine how the press reports on opposition to the war and how much pressure the President feels to start bringing our troops home now. *This is the best chance Congress has to send a strong message to the President and the press that its time to end the war in Afghanistan and prevent the next one. Tell your Member of Congress to support:* * *Amendment 55 ? Sponsored by Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC): *This bipartisan amendment calls for an end to the war in Afghanistan by requiring the President to provide a plan and timeframe for an accelerated drawdown of military operations in Afghanistan. * *Amendment 50 ? Sponsored by Representatives Justin Amash (R-MI) and Barbara Lee (D-CA):* This bipartisan amendment would remove a radical new authorization of endless war anywhere in the world. The media and the President will be using these amendments to gauge Congressional support for ending the war. Pass or fail, every vote counts in sending a strong message to the President and the media: bring the troops home, now. *Please tell your Member of Congress to vote YES on these two important amendments.* *Congress is already debating this legislation, so please call now at 1-888-231-9276 and ask them to vote yes on Amendments 55 and 50 to H.R. 1540.* Thank you for working for peace, Tom, Stephen, Ryan and the Win Without War Team -- *Designs by Cynthia Handmade Creations P.O. Box 5515 South San Francisco, CA 94083-5515 (650) 991-1491 (phone and fax) http://designsbycynthia106.etsy.com * -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Attached Message Part URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed May 25 09:07:47 2011 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:07:47 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpsmc-d] Fwd: HOUSE VOTE TODAY: Call Congress Now! In-Reply-To: <4DDD2569.2010503@earthlink.net> References: <4DDD2569.2010503@earthlink.net> Message-ID: I wouldn't ask Anna Eshoo for a glass of water if my eyebrows were on fire. Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 08:51:05 -0700 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpsmc-d] Fwd: HOUSE VOTE TODAY: Call Congress Now! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gpsmc-d] Fwd: HOUSE VOTE TODAY: Call Congress Now! Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 07:07:35 -0700 From: Cynthia Marcopulos To: people-of-ca12 at googlegroups.com, GPSMC-D ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Tom Andrews* > Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:27 AM Subject: HOUSE VOTE TODAY: Call Congress Now! To: Cynthia Marcopulos > Win Without War Dear Cynthia, The President and the press will measure Congressional opposition to the war in Afghanistan and the ill-conceived "War on Terror" in two votes that could take place as early as this afternoon. Your Representative needs to hear from you. *Call the Capitol Switchboard at 1-888-231-9276 to be connected to your Member of Congress and tell them:* *?It?s time to end the war in Afghanistan and prevent the next one. Please support Amendment 55 by Representatives McGovern and Jones and Amendment 50 by Representatives Amash and Lee to the National Defense Authorization Act.?* Today the House of Representatives begins to debate and vote on H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA). When they do, they will have the opportunity to end the war in Afghanistan and prevent Congress from authorizing endless war. These votes will determine how the press reports on opposition to the war and how much pressure the President feels to start bringing our troops home now. *This is the best chance Congress has to send a strong message to the President and the press that its time to end the war in Afghanistan and prevent the next one. Tell your Member of Congress to support:* * *Amendment 55 ? Sponsored by Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC): *This bipartisan amendment calls for an end to the war in Afghanistan by requiring the President to provide a plan and timeframe for an accelerated drawdown of military operations in Afghanistan. * *Amendment 50 ? Sponsored by Representatives Justin Amash (R-MI) and Barbara Lee (D-CA):* This bipartisan amendment would remove a radical new authorization of endless war anywhere in the world. The media and the President will be using these amendments to gauge Congressional support for ending the war. Pass or fail, every vote counts in sending a strong message to the President and the media: bring the troops home, now. *Please tell your Member of Congress to vote YES on these two important amendments.* *Congress is already debating this legislation, so please call now at 1-888-231-9276 and ask them to vote yes on Amendments 55 and 50 to H.R. 1540.* Thank you for working for peace, Tom, Stephen, Ryan and the Win Without War Team -- *Designs by Cynthia Handmade Creations P.O. Box 5515 South San Francisco, CA 94083-5515 (650) 991-1491 (phone and fax) http://designsbycynthia106.etsy.com * _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Drew From jamboi at greens.org Wed May 25 11:59:21 2011 From: jamboi at greens.org (jamboi) Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 11:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Draft Agenda for GPSCC General Meeting May 26 Message-ID: <60915.71.132.140.7.1306349961.squirrel@greens.org> Agenda GPSCC General Meeting for May 2011 Choose Facilitator, Note Taker, Time Keeper, Vibes Watcher Introductions & Announcements & Pass Donation Hat 10 min Review, amendments and approval of April GPSCC General Meeting minutes 5 min Treasurers Report 3 min Proposal re. Speaker Development 10 min During Announcements Time have each one make a one minute speech on a Green Party platform topic or Green Party position on a current event Report on Regional Meeting @ Plenary 10 min Regional Rep 15 min Confirm San Mateo?s vote for Regional Rep: Put off @ April Meeting for Regional Meeting, but there was no resolution at Regional Meeting Report from Berkeley GPCA General Assembly / Plenary 20 min Report from Warner re: Proposal San Jose 2012 USGP Annual National Meeting 10 min Online Balloting Designate ballot entry person for GPSCC for Coordinating Committee At-Large Reps election 5 min Movie Night (results of last one, and future) 5 min Food For Thought: Egypt Talk 5 min Scheduling November/December Meetings 5 min Proposal: Add GPSCC to supporters list SB 810: CA Universal Healthcare 5 min From snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed May 25 13:13:19 2011 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:13:19 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Pinkster Arrested at Hospital Message-ID: after heckling Netanyahu http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=5838 Rae Abileh has recently been conspicuous at demonstrations locally against Condi Rice and George Bush. 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Michael Feinstein (per normal) personalized his opposition and rationalized it as something that would distract energies statewide. Greg Jan claimed that his unsuccessful 2008 contemplated a hundred volunteers from San Francisco and Alameda Counties combined. Sanda Everette, who had initially supported the idea, withdrew her support. Others present, with the exception of Kent Mesplay were otherwise negative. I have consistently expressed a commitment to getting a sense of support not only from our local group but also from GPCA activists. Given the reception at the meeting, I would be disinclined to proceed with the personal time and energies involved in developing a proposal. While we could independently submit a proposal without formal Delegation approval (as Greg Jan and Alameda County did previously), that is not how I would want to proceed. Additionally, I received a delayed email from a GPSCC membeer questioning the current small number of local volunteers who had committed to the project so far. Critically, also, I have not received information and communication I was promised from the San Jose State University. So, all things considered, it seems the better course to not expend further energies on the project... Maybe look at this again in 2014... Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Wed May 25 21:53:03 2011 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 00:53:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Some Quick Notes From The Plenary Message-ID: <18316.74e85d7d.3b0f36af@aol.com> Again, writing this much later than originally intended (sigh!) Here a few comments about occurrences and announcements at the Berkeley Plenary April 30th-May 1st: Among the responses to the "Green 2012" manifesto, the Delegates affirmed a need to increase GP voter registration. As I recall, there was no specific budget line for this, so at the moment increasing our registration will be a measure of how well (or not) our method (madness?) of relying on decentralized volunteer energies actually works. As a County, we should discuss how we might amp up our party registration efforts. Additionally, the Delegates seemed to reject the concept of an "Executive Director" but affirmed to re-engage Marnie Glickman on a temporary basis as a contract fundraiser (notwithstanding her ultimatum from the floor demanding much more). The Plenary only approved a six month budget. That means there will need to be another General Assembly of Delegates by the end of October if only to deal with the budget for the remainder of the fiscal year. There are tentative plans to hold a one day (possibly day and a half) strategy meeting in Ventura, CA starting Saturday August 20th. Format and agenda to be developed. The Sunday morning reports on the status of Prop 14 litigation seems to point to the need for candidates for 2012 to be recruited immediately, since the June 2012 "Primary" needs to be treated like a General Election (as in Get Started Now!!!). I'm not aware of any potential State Assembly candidates from our County. Anybody know something different? Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jamboi at greens.org Thu May 26 08:41:02 2011 From: jamboi at greens.org (jamboi) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] NOT Giving Up on Planning for 2012 Prez Nominating Convention In-Reply-To: <890f4.370d6440.3b0f4126@aol.com> References: <890f4.370d6440.3b0f4126@aol.com> Message-ID: <55000.71.142.92.201.1306424462.squirrel@greens.org> I know a number of us are excited about doing this so I'm not planning on giving up on it. We can't let Mike Feinstein or any other factional leaders dictate what happens in the GPCA and especially not what we do in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. No sir, we'll keep right on and give you more help to make this happen. :-) Green is Go! Drew > 'Had meant to write more on this sooner... Oh well; SN... > > I participated in the GPUS Delegation meeting Saturday evening at the > Plenary in Berkeley on Saturday April 30th, in part to discuss developing > a > proposal to host a San Jose, CA 2012 combined Annual National Meeting and > Presidential Nominating Convention after obtaining consent at our > preceding > GPSCC meeting. The general reaction was negative. Michael Feinstein > (per > normal) personalized his opposition and rationalized it as something that > would distract energies statewide. Greg Jan claimed that his unsuccessful > 2008 > contemplated a hundred volunteers from San Francisco and Alameda Counties > combined. Sanda Everette, who had initially supported the idea, withdrew > her support. Others present, with the exception of Kent Mesplay were > otherwise negative. > > I have consistently expressed a commitment to getting a sense of support > not only from our local group but also from GPCA activists. Given the > reception at the meeting, I would be disinclined to proceed with the > personal > time and energies involved in developing a proposal. While we could > independently submit a proposal without formal Delegation approval (as > Greg Jan and > Alameda County did previously), that is not how I would want to proceed. > > Additionally, I received a delayed email from a GPSCC membeer questioning > the current small number of local volunteers who had committed to the > project so far. > > Critically, also, I have not received information and communication I was > promised from the San Jose State University. > > So, all things considered, it seems the better course to not expend > further energies on the project... Maybe look at this again in 2014... > > Warner > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From jamboi at greens.org Thu May 26 08:54:47 2011 From: jamboi at greens.org (jamboi) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Get involved in local government! I did! Appointed to S'vale Heritage Preservation Commission Message-ID: <55003.71.142.92.201.1306425287.squirrel@greens.org> The Sunnyvale City Council appointed me to the Heritage Preservation Commission for a term until 2015. This is a follow-on to the work I did as City Council appointee to the Sunnyvale Housing and Human Services Commission in 2007-2008. I highly recommend everyone reading this seriously consider applying to a city or county commission or board (in whichever city your in). In Sunnyvale (and other cities are similar) here are some very interesting subject areas including Pedestrian and Biking , Sustainability, Parks and Recreation, Planning, Library Trustees, Personnel, (and in some cities there is a police oversight commission) and others. Several of the cities have training programs to educate people about how to participate in civic affairs. Neighborhood associations and are also very worthwhile of your participation. All these are great for providing you with real world experience in local politics and offers you a chance to directly contribute to your community. It can be extremely enlightening as to just how the 'sausage is made' so to speak. Sometimes it can be a bit shocking how petty and possibly corrupt local politics can be, but there really is no substitute for the background and preparation for running for higher office or simply to be educated and effective in lobbying for Green change. Green is Go! Drew From wrolley at charter.net Thu May 26 10:00:02 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:00:02 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] CA Delta massive fish kill is a political problem. Message-ID: <4DDE8712.7000701@charter.net> I want to pass on information about CA Water and the current environmental catastrophe that is happening in the Delta. There are 3 things to read, and I hope that you take the time to follow each link and read them all. Together, they tell a story you are not likely to get on KNBC or any other local news... which is where the story should be told. If I patched them all together in one note, they would be too large to get through the list. First, pay attention to this post by Dan Bacher, progressive activist and the editor of the fishsniffer magazine. Dan lays out the story behind the massive fish kill that is now taking place. http://blogs.alternet.org/danbacher/2011/05/24 Delta pumps kill 4.4 million splittail, 3600 salmon in one week The second item to read is a column commenting on this situation written by Mike Fitzgerald, the metro columnist for the Stockton Record. He does not normally write about environmental issues, but when he does, he invariably hits the target. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110525/A_NEWS0803/105250310 Delta fish slaughter a tragedy The final item is a press release from Restore the Delta. It outline just how devious a Congress Critter can be... don't be surprised that Fitzgerald has already commented on Devin Nunez. http://restorethedelta.org/?p=952 RESTORE THE DELTA SAYS H.R. 1837 BENEFITS WESTSIDE VALLEY WATER USERS AT THE EXPENSE OF CALIFORNIA'S CITIZENS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Note: The Santa Clara Valley Water District receives a major input from CA Delta water. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He was and is considered the most famous unknown man of the 19th century because of his controversial, forward-thinking ideas. ----------- The following Sunday Dr Walter M. Bortz will discuss "The Mission of Medicine: The Assertion and Assurance of the Human Potential." ----------- The Humanist Community Forum meets at 11am at our new location, Palo Alto High School at the corner of El Camino and Embarcadero Rd. (50 Embarcadero Rd) in Palo Alto. The forum will be in the Student Center and the family program in rm 1732 in the Science Bldg. Construction is now going on at the high school so parking is restricted. A map of the campus is at http://www.humanists.org/PAHS1.htm . ----------- Past Humanist Community Forums (from December of 2009) are now viewable on the Internet, and on Comcast public access channel 30 in the Palo Alto area. To view them on the web, go to http://vimeo.com/user2798508/videos/sort:newest. You can also get to that website from the Forums page on the Humanist Community website (http://www.humanists.org), or from the Humanist Community Blog (http://humanistcommunity.org/wp). To see the schedule of their showings on Comcast public access channel 30, go to http://www.communitymediacenter.net/watch/#humanist. ----------- If you don't want to receive a Forum Topic Announcement every week, just email me, havasy at aol.com , and put "Remove Me from Sunday Forum Announcement" in the topic line. If you have a new email address be sure to let me know the old one so I know what I?m changing/removimg. ----------- The Humanist Community is also sending out an electronic version of our newsletter. If you would prefer this to the hard copy you are now receiving contact newsletter at humanists.org . Alex Havasy From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu May 26 22:37:10 2011 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:37:10 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Minutes: GPSCC General Meeting May 26 In-Reply-To: <60915.71.132.140.7.1306349961.squirrel@greens.org> References: <60915.71.132.140.7.1306349961.squirrel@greens.org> Message-ID: <4DDF3886.7000709@prodsyse.com> Please send me any corrections or clarifications. Thanks, Spencer On 5/25/2011 11:59 AM, jamboi wrote: > Agenda GPSCC General Meeting for May 2011 > > Choose > Facilitator: Jim Doyle > Note Taker: Spencer Graves > Time Keeper: Merriam. > Vibes Watcher: Tian agenda for next meeting: Valerie > Introductions& Announcements& Pass Donation Hat > 10 min: Jim Stauffer, Shirley Lee, Cameron, Green Party IT (Drew help with Green Party web site) (Gerry Gras) Perry Spencer. John T (Peace & Freedom Party: Preliminary meeting tomorrow noon, MK King library; Indybay @ Santa Cruz web site.) Merriam Kathleen: Next Friday: Spanish class for activists. Activities in Bolivia Valerie Face: This Week's Metro = Summer Guide Drew Johnson: Organizing Lavender Greens w. Billy De Frank Center Tian Harter: Next bike party 3rd Friday of June "1970s ride" Werner Bloomberg Jim Doyle, Caroline Gerr Gras Fred D. Sherry Lee > Review, amendments and approval of April GPSCC General Meeting minutes > 5 min Recommend people reply to the minutes with any corrections. > Treasurers Report > 3 min $2981.42 balance as of this afternoon according to the bank > Proposal re. Speaker Development > 10 min Proposed: During Announcements Time have each one make a one minute speech on a Green Party platform topic or Green Party position on a current event: Each person give a 1 minute speech about some Green party something platform or issue or some item that relates to those. Idea: Develop people for a speaker's bureau. Support for it as a pre-meeting activity. However, we need to manage the time. Also, feedback is required for this to actually serve any training purpose. Maybe give people a week's notice, so they can plan for it. It seems we have a consensus that ~3 people know a week in advance that they will have 1-2 minutes each for the 7 - 7:30 time frame that they speak on issues relative to the Green party. And we need formal critiques focused on presentation style. Jim Doyle will work on getting speakers for the next time. > Report on Regional Meeting @ Plenary > 10 min > Regional Rep > 15 min > Confirm San Mateo?s vote for Regional Rep: Put off @ April Meeting for > Regional Meeting, but there was no resolution at Regional Meeting Last Sunday Noon in Berkeley, there was an impasse at the regional meeting. Proposed: Werner as regional rep, Cindy as Alternate Effective when Jim Stauffer no longer resides locally. The last elections took place ~Dec. 2009. Jim was elected to serve 2 years. Various people wondered if Cindy would actually have time for this. It was suggested that she had previously accepted a similar responsibility, then failed to find time for it. Drew has an outstanding concern that there be no fixed limit. Jim currently plans to leave before the end of June, but he may not. Vote: 10 for; 1 no, 1 abstain. Werner will communication this to San Mateo. Report from Berkeley GPCA General Assembly / Plenary 20 min **** Marnie Glueckman (sp) controversy: Was working on fundraising for 3 months. Raised $7K in the past 3 months, paid $40/hour. Marnie wanted a paid position. The group supported Marnie for fund raising and voter registration ... but NOT with her in charge of other things, which she had requested. The CC is negotiating a contract with her. There is some concern that the contract might include provisions that may not have been approved by the group. On June 6, there will be a further discussion of the revised contract. Another meeting scheduled for early June. There were concerns that polarization and controversy follow Marnie, and her view of the Green party may not conform to the 10 key values, etc. Apart from this, we need to increase our registration as a fall-out from Prop. 14. Also, do we have any possibility of fielding a congressional candidate for this year? Also, Aug. 20 = whole day meeting. Werner will report more to the group in the future. > Report from Warner re: Proposal San Jose 2012 USGP Annual National Meeting > 10 min > Werner attended the GPUS ____ meeting. The reception of the idea of having the GPUS national meeting in San Jose was negatively received. Moreover Werner had not received a reply from SJSU. Next year's national meeting will likely be on the east coast. Let's not try to bring the GPUS national meeting here for next year. Maybe for 2012. Let's spend that energy on other things. Report from Berryessa: Werner, Caroline, Jim Stauffer, Cameron & Susan: Problem holding down the canopy in a 30 mph wind. Werner and Caroline raised the canopy with the help of ~5 ~high schoolers. & they all got a free button. Werner proposes we buy a pop-up canopy from the county funds that can be assembled by one person. Tian can shop for one but can't buy it. 8' x 8' or 10' x 10' that scissors out and telescopes up EZup. Sherry will look. Canopy should be green. Should be sturdy. Treasurer authorized to pay for one up to $200. > Distribution of the stuff Drew will go to Caroline and help her pack the stuff up and take it to Werner's house. > & tabling for Juneteenth Juneteenth = Sa, Su, June 18 & 19. Merriam & Tian + Drew + Werner. Need more. Tapestry Arts: Saturday & Sunday of labor day weekend at History Park. > Pride Festival in August There will be Gay Pride parade in SF in June. Drew will coordinate if someone else wants to go there with him. Drew will participate in Aug. 20 & 21 Pride Festival in San Jose. > Designate ballot entry person for GPSCC for Coordinating Committee > At-Large Reps election > 5 min Stauffer said the candidates will be on line. Was scheduled to open this coming Monday, stays open for a month, We cast 4 ballots. Two elections for 1 year and for 2-year election. This must be on the agenda for next month's meeting. > Movie Night (results of last one, and future) > 5 min John: Last month: Tian's Newman's History of Oil. Thanks to the volunteers. The movie drew 2 new people beyond the regulars. John: Report back on a recent Diablo Canyon. Movie: "A Question of Power" (1 hour) on the construction of the Diablo Canyon power plant. Friday, June 10. Drew would like to speak of his visit to Belarus witnessing the fallout from Chernobyl. "Battle of Chernobyl" film = propaganda but apparently good. > Food For Thought: Egypt Talk > 5 min > > Scheduling November/December Meetings > 5 min > > Proposal: Add GPSCC to supporters list SB 810: CA Universal Healthcare > 5 min Our county rep can send an email confirming that this is consistent with our platform and key values. Jim Stauffer will contact the state to try to get them to write a letter in support of this. Jim Doyle will do something similar for the local. Local Heath Care for All group. Campaign for outreach (Merriam), Michael Parenti results (Merriam) -> not enough time. > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 From cbrouillet at igc.org Fri May 27 11:26:42 2011 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:26:42 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Into Eternity - Nuclear Past, Present and Future Message-ID: Here's a tabling opportunity.... http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/27/18680563.php Into Eternity - Nuclear Past, Present and Future by Carol Brouillet ( cbrouillet [at] igc.org ) Friday May 27th, 2011 11:13 AM An award winning Danish film, Into Eternity will be screening this weekend in San Francisco. The film peers into the daunting question of containing the nuclear waste produced by the nuclear industry. With the situation in Fukushima out of control, concerned citizens are forced to confront the reality of the radioactive contamination of air, water, soil, food, ocean and the possibility of the nuclear disasters continuing and worsening, promoted by pro-nuclear governments. Citizens are mobilizing to monitor radioactivity and to shut down the nuclear industry. intoeternity.jpg intoeternity.jpg Despite all of our differences, the future of humanity is bound to a technology born in the last century, the Pandora?s Box that tantalized scientists into attempting to harnessing nuclear power. Unleashed, the nuclear industry has terrified populations, invisibly threatening them with premature aging, cancers, a host of ailments, and birth defects, not sparing other species and life forms in the process. Shrouded in secrecy, heralded by the most powerful government, sanitized and promoted by the press, nuclear weaponry and nuclear power demand enormous government subsidies to exist while the costs and risks are born by the public. The scientists who witnessed and researched the harmful effects of radiation and began to voice their concerns were vilified and silenced. Those who championed the nuclear industry and developed the technologies were richly rewarded. Nagasaki, Hiroshima, nuclear tests, nuclear weapons, the threat of nuclear war have hovered over the consciousness of current generations, only gradually being replaced by the phantom threat of nuclear terrorism by rogue states and crazed religious extremists. In the wake of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the greater threat seems to be human error, hubris, the inability of the entire industry to contain the deadly, deforming radioactive particles from threatening humanity, our air, our water, our food, our ocean. Eighteen years ago, I was invited to a meeting at the home of Joanna Macy and the Nuclear Guardianship Project. At the time I had two small children and became pregnant which meant I was psychically, spiritually, physically concerned about my own children and their future. What I learned moved me deeply and during that pregnancy I edited a book entitled The Invisible Nuclear War - The Effects of Low-Level Radiation, the Massive Government Cover-Up, and the Continuing Battle Waged by the Nuclear Powers against All Life on Earth. We worked with Plutonium Free Future, an international grassroots organization working hard to halt shipments of plutonium and high level nuclear waste from France to Japan, as well as the development of plutonium fueled facilities in Japan. The disaster in Fukushima was a stark reminder that even if the anti-nuclear movement in the U.S. succeeded in halting the construction of new nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons testing in the desert of Nevada, the nuclear industry has spread to thirty countries and boasts over 400 plants with an additional sixty under construction. People rarely want to know that they have a fatal cancer, even when they are in pain, and there is a possibility for remission or a cure. Most people do not desire to probe into our species embrace of a suicidal technology, unless compelled to by painful necessity, such as the realization that they or their family, friends, or offspring might lose their life, health, or future. Government assurances that they are protecting the public and in control of the situation ring false. The reactors in Fukushima are obviously out of control, as radiation pours into the ocean, the air, contaminating larger and larger areas which are being monitored by independent, concerned citizens. Dr. Rosalie Bertell, author of No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth wrote- ?An individual death process, such as cancer, does not always end in a swift death. Sometimes there is a partial recovery and some or many years of fruitful living. This usually reflects a whole-hearted ?conversion? on the part of the patient: positive thinking; wholesome daily habits of rest, play and work; consciousness of the nourishing qualities of food, air and water; carefulness in avoiding physical and mental stress; development of wholesome interpersonal relationships; professional assistance in minimizing the strength of the cancer and maximizing the healing capacity of the body?s defense mechanisms. ?First the illness is correctly diagnosed as militarism Species death is seen as flowing from the violent control of the earth or peoples of the earth. Passive cooperation with the death process is no longer possible for those who choose life. There is personal and national dignity and freedom, whereby people neither accept oppression nor oppress others. There are moves to dismantle power, spread wealth, decentralize authority and restore harmony between people and earth. There is a unique potential to ?blossom? and to find solutions. Whether or not it is possible to halt the nuclear death process, it is possible to slow it down and mitigate its effects. People can replace death dealing behavior with behavior appropriate to humans who share a fragile earth.? Revealing histories of the origins of the nuclear age have been written, the stories told through radio and film, chronicling the scientists, as well as the victims, including workers, their families, the survivors of the first bombs, the tests, the accidents that followed and continue to this day. Citizens are also mobilizing, creating new organizations, forming broader coalitions, organizing rallies, protests, petition drives, aid to the victims, setting up growing monitoring networks to track the radiation which is carried by wind and waves, deposited by rain, absorbed by the food chain, packaged and sold to the unwary. An award winning Danish film entitled Into Eternity , playing this weekend at San Francisco?s Roxie Theater) is about ?Onkalo ? the world?s first permanent nuclear waste repository. Onkalo is a Finnish word for hiding place. It is situated at Olkiluoto in Finland - approx. 300 km northwest of Helsinki and it's the world's first attempt at a permanent repository. It is a huge system of underground tunnels hewn out of solid bedrock. Work on the concept behind the facility commenced in 1970s and the repository is expected to be backfilled and decommissioned in the 2100s ? more than a century from now. No person working on the facility today will live to see it completed. The Finnish and Swedish Nuclear Authorities are collaborating on the project, and Sweden is planning a similar facility, but has not begun the actual construction of it. The film screened in New York in February, as well as at the San Francisco Green Festival, in the first week of March. The Roxie Theater has brought it back. Hopefully Into Eternity will draw more attention to the deeper issues over the current generation?s responsibilities to past, present and future generations. We need to ask ourselves about our individual and collective capacity to overcome denial, anger, move beyond coping, and find the strength and energy to live fully, overcome militarism, and revive the earth?s immune system. Recommended Resources- Nuclear History- T.U.C. Radio Iain Boal: THE BEGINNING OF THE NUCLEAR AGE - Enrico Fermi and Henry Moore TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL: April 26, 1986 ? 2011 Online Books- (Available at www.ratical.org) KILLING OUR OWN- The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation by Harvey Wasserman & Norman Solomon SECRET FALLOUT-LOW-LEVEL RADIATION FROM HIROSHIMA TO THREE-MILE ISLAND by ERNEST STERNGLASS No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, 1985, by Dr. Rosalie Bertell, "Part One, The Problem" Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment by Alexey V. Yablokov (Center for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow, Russia), Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko (Institute of Radiation Safety, Minsk, Belarus). (Available at www.tucradio.org/Yablokov_Chernobylbook.pdf) In print- Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievic Online Films- Children of Chernobyl Interview - Dr. Alexey Yablokov - Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe A is for Atom- a film by Adam Curtis The True Battle of Chernobyl Uncensored Nuclear Ginza Articles- From Hiroshima to Fukushima, 1945-2011 by Dr. Anthony J. Hall Welcome to the Atomic Village by Stoneleigh Anti-Nuclear Ballot Measure Starts Circulating by Josh Richman Get Involved- Organizations- Green Action Japan Tri-Valley Cares - Communities Against a Radioactive Environment Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Western States Legal Foundation Ecological Options Network Women?s Energy Matters The Energy Net (Abalone Alliance) No Nuclear Action Committee A Rally in Solidarity with the People of Japan will be held in San Francisco June 10th 3:30-5:30 pm at the Japanese Consulate (See - www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218843821468487) Center for Safe Energy California Green Party Citizen Monitoring Radiation Sites- Geiger Counter Blog SafeCast.org Nuclear Information and Resource Service Educational Websites- The Health Costs of Low-Level Ionizing Radiation Fairewinds Associates Community Currency Next week?s June 2, 2011 Community Currency Radio Show is with Ed Ellsworth on Empowering Citizens, Monitoring and Halting the Nuclear Industry. 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URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Fri May 27 14:39:15 2011 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:39:15 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] From the Margin: Bringing New Ideas to the Mainstream Message-ID: <4DE01A03.6040408@aceweb.com> > > * Bart Anderson* > > * From the Margin: Bringing New Ideas to the Mainstream* > * (using peak oil as an example)* > * * > > Bart Anderson is an editor of the Energy Bulletin website > (http://energybulletin.net), a news aggregator supported by the Post > Carbon Institute whose co-editors collect current articles in the > mainstream press, peak oil & sustainability blogs and sites, and other > news media which provide insight into the implications of peak oil > across broad areas including geopolitics, climate change, ecology, > population, finance, urban design, health, and even religious and > gender issues. > > Bart is also one of several people who have started a transition town > movement in Palo Alto (http://transitionpaloalto.org). Transition > Palo Alto is a network of individuals and groups committed to building > local resilience to cope with peak oil and reducing carbon emissions > to cope with climate change. The group takes a different approach to > climate change and resource depletion - seeking to develop community > and encouraging people to do things directly for themselves, rather > than preaching doom or lobbying legislators. > > Bart will discuss his involvement with the Energy Bulletin > clearinghouse and the transition grassroots movement, and the idea > that social networking is at the heart of it. > Bart began by explaining that he had been an editor and reporter in the alternate press for many years at the beginning of his career. Then he had realized there wasn't any money in that. He'd been a technical writer at HP for many years after that. After retiring around the turn of the millennium he'd looked for a way to make a difference and had settled on being an editor for The Energy Bulletin, which at the time was very much of a startup website. Then he talked a bit about peak oil, an idea that was originally developed by Colin Campbell, an oil industry analyst. Campbell realized that the yield curve for an oil field was the sum of the yield curves for the oil wells pumping it. He decided to extend that work to figure out the yield curve for the entire USA. At the time it was still the 1950s. Based on this work he predicted that the USA would reach peak oil somewhere around 1970. Looking back from the present, his estimate was quite close. Building on that work, others have concluded that the world would reach peak oil somewhere in the period between five years ago and five years hence. While talking about resources, Bart mentioned that peak oil is just one of the resource issues we will have to deal with. It turns out there are similar yield curves in coal, natural gas, uranium, and many other resources. One that particularly concerns Bart is peak phosphorus. One of the key ingredients for fertilizer is phosphorous, which is mined from the ground. Our crops need it, and there is no substitute. It could be that peak phosphorus is also happening about now. Bart sees hope for the future in the transitions movement. This is based on the work of Rob Hopkins, an English social scientist who has been working on ways to make the transition to a low energy future more socially acceptable. There are Transition groups starting up locally in Palo Alto and Mountain View. Highly recommended is taking part in a book group reading "The Transition Handbook" that lasts about 6 weeks. Films, garden shares and other groups are open to all: http://transitionpaloalto.org/ -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: words and pictures from the Revolution in Egypt at home. The screw I got mile 81 of bike the limits is on a Georgia quarter. From vdf at juno.com Fri May 27 17:10:10 2011 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 00:10:10 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Items for June 23 Meeting Message-ID: <20110527.171010.6499.0@webmail15.vgs.untd.com> Hi everyone, At last night's meeting I volunteered to prepare the agenda for our June meeting. Please send your agenda items to this list and include an estimate of the amount of time you need. Remember that if you have a detailed proposal it's better to submit it sooner rather than later so everyone has time to read and consider it. I'm asking that items be sent to the list for two reasons: 1) Transparency -- everyone can see what items are coming up and how full the agenda is getting. 2) Like many of us, I get a lot of email. I never have enough time to read all of it. For the next month I'll prioritize looking at this list (or its archives) for agenda items. If they're not on this list and I'm swamped I might miss them. Right now I have two items we didn't get to last night: * Food For Thought: Egypt Talk 5 min, need presenter * Scheduling November/December Meetings 5 min, need presenter Would anyone like to volunteer to present either of those? I also have the following item that's mandatory for the June meeting: * Coordinating Committee At-Large Reps election need time, need presenter Would anyone like to volunteer to present that and give a time estimate? Thanks, Valerie Face ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 From carolineyacoub at att.net Fri May 27 19:02:45 2011 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 19:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: YOU'RE INVITED to 350.org's Bay Area Moving Planet KICK-OFF MEET-UP! Message-ID: <431102.92221.qm@web81204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- On Thu, 5/26/11, Rachel Shiozaki wrote: From: Rachel Shiozaki Subject: YOU'RE INVITED to 350.org's Bay Area Moving Planet KICK-OFF MEET-UP! To: rachel at 350.org Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 4:44 PM Hey 350.org Friends, Thank you for showing interest in this year?s global day of action, Moving Planet: A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels, on September 24th, 2011. Our primary goal this year is to combine our efforts to produce consolidated, larger demonstrations of people power and pedal power! If we're going to create the most MEGA-MASSIVE MOVING PLANET MOBILIZATION ever, we're going to need you and your organizations to help out as much as you can. Right now, the best way for you to get involved is to come to one of our Bay Area Moving Planet Brainstorming Meet-Ups, happening in the East Bay and in San Francisco, on: TUESDAY, MAY 31st - 6:00-7:30pm - 350.org's Office (405 14th St., Suite 1120, Oakland, CA 94612) THURSDAY, JUNE 2nd - 6:00-7:30pm - Global Exchange's Office (2017 Mission St., 2nd Fl, San Francisco, CA 94110) *Note: NOT Global Exchange Store on 24th St. We are hosting two Kick-Off Meet-Ups in two different parts of the Bay so as to maximize the number of attending organizers. (See details below) Remember, if you can't make it to either of these events don?t worry, because there will be plenty of opportunities for you to get involved. Thanks so much. Looking forward to meeting you, Rachel WHO: You! (Bring your friends, roommates, coworkers, etc.) ??? WHAT: Kick-Off Bay Area Moving Planet Brainstorming Meet-Up ??? WHERE: (2 Locations - pick one, or come to both) -- EAST BAY: 350.org Office (405 14th St., Ste. 1120, Oakland, CA 94612) -- SF: Global Exchange Office (2017 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110)* *Note: NOT Global Exchange Store on 24th St.??? WHEN: (2 Dates - pick one, or come to both) -- EAST BAY: Tuesday, May 31st, 6:00-7:30pm -- SF: Thursday, June 2nd, 6:00-7:30pm??? WHY: ?Because, last year, on 10/10/10, California led the nation, hosting 425 Global Work Parties. Here in the Bay Area we organized 227 actions alone. *Imagine if all of the 10 to 20-some people who attended each of those individual events last year, combined into a massive 2,000-10,000 person march this year. * P.S. If you haven't already, sign up to attend our SF Moving Planet event here -> -- Rachel Shiozaki | CA / West Coast Regional Organizer | 350.org | W: (510) 689-1350 | Skype: rachelshiozaki | rachel at 350.org | Office address: 405 14th St., Ste. 1120, Oakland, CA 94612 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Screen Type: image/png Size: 12044 bytes Desc: not available URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri May 27 21:27:49 2011 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 21:27:49 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] June 10th movie night In-Reply-To: <435243.51012.qm@web111110.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <435243.51012.qm@web111110.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4DE079C5.9090203@structuremonitoring.com> An announcement and flier for the June 10 movie night are now available at "www.cagreens.org/santaclara". Thanks to John for providing the information. Spencer On 5/27/2011 5:00 PM, John Thielking wrote: > Spencer, > Here is the pdf for the flyers for movie night. See attachment. > John Thielking > > --- On *Fri, 5/27/11, John Thielking //* wrote: > > > From: John Thielking > Subject: June 10th movie night > To: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com > Date: Friday, May 27, 2011, 12:02 AM > > Spencer, > Here are the details for the June 10th Movie Night: > Come see the movie "A Question Of Power", a movie about the > protests surrounding the initial construction and licensing of the > Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant located in San Luis Obispo, CA. > The movie will be shown at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, > 48 S. 7th Street, San Jose, CA on Friday, June 10, 2011. > Refreshments will be served at 6:30PM-7PM. The movie will be > shown from 7PM-8PM. A report back from the Avila Beach protest > against Diablo Canyon that occurred on April 16, 2011 will be > presented along with other anti-nuclear speakers from 8PM-8:45PM. > Then from 8:45PM to 10PM there will be a discussion circle where > everyone gets a chance to speak. > As for your list of questions to submit to lawmakers, I can think > of one that will rock their world when they find out the real answer: > Question: One of the new Westinghouse nuclear reactor designs > uses passive cooling in case of a power failure so that it doesn't > need electricity to cool it. What is this exactly? > Answer: They put a large tank of water on the roof and in case of > a power failure to the cooling system this tank drains water > through the reactor and cools it for a few hours. > In the case of a long term complete systems failure such as what > happened at Fukushima this cooling scheme would fair no better > than the battery backup power supply that powered the cooling > systems at Fukushima for only 8 hours before the cooling system > completely shut down. > The reference for the answer to this question is located here: > http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/nrc-rejects-westinghouses-new-nuclear-reactor-design > That is all for now. Thanks. > Sincerely, > John Thielking > 408-914-2751 > -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat May 28 18:42:08 2011 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 18:42:08 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] number of protesters arrested Message-ID: <4DE1A470.80407@sbcglobal.net> There is an article at http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24 titled Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrested in US Protests by Bill Quigley Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009. The full list is included in the article starting with January 1, 2011. Nine women, ages 40 to 91, who brought solar panels to the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor were arrested for blocking the driveway at Entergy Corporation. Shut It Down. From tnharter at aceweb.com Sat May 28 23:52:14 2011 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 23:52:14 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Canopy Update Message-ID: <4DE1ED1E.2030107@aceweb.com> Shirley and I went and shopped around for a canopy this afternoon. We settled on the tan one from Target. OSH had a slightly better price, but the only color they had was blue. I refuse to put the Green Party in a blue tent. Hopefully tan is okay. I won't even unpack it to make sure it's all here if somebody objects to the color by Tuesday sometime. The total price we paid including tax and everything else: $99.57 -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: words and pictures from the Revolution in Egypt at home. The screw I got mile 81 of bike the limits is on a South Carolina 25c. From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sun May 29 01:24:42 2011 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 01:24:42 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Canopy Update In-Reply-To: <4DE1ED1E.2030107@aceweb.com> References: <4DE1ED1E.2030107@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <4DE202CA.2000703@prodsyse.com> Hi, Tian: 1. It's great that you and Shirley took the initiative on this. 2. I probably should not say anything since I have not volunteered to help you search for a tent nor have I been tabling. However, from a Marketing perspective, I think it would be worth more money to have the Green party in a Green tent. (caveat: I'm not a Marketing specialist!) Please feel free to ignore this comment. Best Wishes, Spencer On 5/28/2011 11:52 PM, Tian Harter wrote: > Shirley and I went and shopped around for a canopy this afternoon. > We settled on the tan one from Target. OSH had a slightly better price, > but the only color they had was blue. I refuse to put the Green Party > in a blue tent. Hopefully tan is okay. I won't even unpack it to make > sure it's all here if somebody objects to the color by Tuesday sometime. > The total price we paid including tax and everything else: $99.57 -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 From tnharter at aceweb.com Sun May 29 01:44:36 2011 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 01:44:36 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Canopy Update In-Reply-To: <4DE202CA.2000703@prodsyse.com> References: <4DE1ED1E.2030107@aceweb.com> <4DE202CA.2000703@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <4DE20774.2080400@aceweb.com> I agree that a green tent would be great. However, we didn't have that much time to work on it. There were no green canopies at any of the four stores we checked. If someone wants to drive to take this one back and hunt for a better one I'll go along. Then we can have a green canopy. Tian Spencer Graves wrote: > Hi, Tian: > > > 1. It's great that you and Shirley took the initiative on this. > > > 2. I probably should not say anything since I have not > volunteered to help you search for a tent nor have I been tabling. > However, from a Marketing perspective, I think it would be worth more > money to have the Green party in a Green tent. (caveat: I'm not a > Marketing specialist!) Please feel free to ignore this comment. > > > Best Wishes, > Spencer > > > On 5/28/2011 11:52 PM, Tian Harter wrote: >> Shirley and I went and shopped around for a canopy this afternoon. >> We settled on the tan one from Target. OSH had a slightly better price, >> but the only color they had was blue. I refuse to put the Green Party >> in a blue tent. Hopefully tan is okay. I won't even unpack it to make >> sure it's all here if somebody objects to the color by Tuesday sometime. >> The total price we paid including tax and everything else: $99.57 > > -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: words and pictures from the Revolution in Egypt at home. The screw I got mile 81 of bike the limits is on a South Carolina 25c. From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun May 29 10:29:43 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 10:29:43 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] number of protesters arrested In-Reply-To: <4DE1A470.80407@sbcglobal.net> References: <4DE1A470.80407@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <4DE28287.10402@earthlink.net> Interesting. Does this mean that - the government is cracking down on protestors OR - there are more protests OR - something else ???? The article implies that there are more protests. I hope it's right. Gerry Jim Doyle wrote: > There is an article at http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24 > titled > Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrested in US Protests > by Bill Quigley > > Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand > six hundred > arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 > people have been > arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were > arrested in 2010, > and 665 arrested in 2009. > > The full list is included in the article starting with > > January 1, 2011. Nine women, ages 40 to 91, who brought solar panels to the > Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor were arrested for blocking the driveway at > Entergy Corporation. Shut It Down. > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun May 29 10:32:57 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 10:32:57 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Egypt opens Gaza border Message-ID: <4DE28349.20900@earthlink.net> FYI, "Egypt Opens Rafah Crossing: This Is What Democracy Looks Like" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/29 Gerry From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sun May 29 10:44:23 2011 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 10:44:23 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] number of protesters arrested In-Reply-To: <4DE28287.10402@earthlink.net> References: <4DE1A470.80407@sbcglobal.net> <4DE28287.10402@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4DE285F7.4060209@prodsyse.com> Masao Suzuki, who teaches economics at Skyline College, was visited by the FBI wanting information pursuant to subpoenas for a grand jury investigation in Chicago regarding peaceful assemblies at the Republican National Convention in 2008 (http://apexexpress.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/2102011-yukimi-nagano-of-little-dragon-protest-to-free-human-rights-activist-binayak-sen-and-professor-masao-suzuki). Masao is helping organize "The Committee to Stop FBI Repression" to fight this (www.stopfbi.net). Part of the legal justification of this uses the Patriot Act and the Effective Death Penalty and Antiterrorism Act, both of which have been interpreted as overriding the bill of rights. I don't understand how a mere act of congress, passed by simple majorities in the house and senate and signed by the President can override constitutional amendments passed by at least 3/4 of the original 12 states and endorsed by every state that joined since. However, we don't really believe in the rights of the minority unless they limit themselves to activities the majority thinks is OK for them. In brief, I'm concerned that we are in a new McCarthy era, driven by fear of mice. (Al Qaeda and other non-state terrorist organizations are not major powers capable of threatening the internal security of the US. They are mice.) Best Wishes, Spencer On 5/29/2011 10:29 AM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > Interesting. > > Does this mean that > - the government is cracking down on protestors > OR > - there are more protests > OR > - something else > ???? > > The article implies that there are more protests. > I hope it's right. > > Gerry > > > Jim Doyle wrote: >> There is an article at http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24 >> titled >> Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrested in US Protests >> by Bill Quigley >> >> Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand >> six hundred >> arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 >> people have been >> arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were >> arrested in 2010, >> and 665 arrested in 2009. >> >> The full list is included in the article starting with >> >> January 1, 2011. Nine women, ages 40 to 91, who brought solar panels >> to the >> Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor were arrested for blocking the >> driveway at >> Entergy Corporation. Shut It Down. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sosfbay-discuss mailing list >> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Operating Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 From wrolley at charter.net Mon May 30 08:52:49 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 08:52:49 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Memorial Day speech by Pete McCloskey Message-ID: <4DE3BD51.8070805@charter.net> The following it the final draft of the Memorial Day speech that Pete McCloskey is to give at the Golden Gate National Cemetery today. McCloskey was a company commander and silver star winner from the Korean War. He was also the first (and possibly only) major Republican to challenge Nixon on the conduct of the war. _____ Memorial Day, 2011 For over 145 years, we have set aside a day at the end of May to honor our nation's war dead. It is a sacred day. We pause for a brief moment to look out over the white crosses, and honor those young men who lie beneath them. War is the work of young men, not old. It has been thus since the greatest and most tragic of our wars, the Civil War. Most of those buried here served when one of the nation's values was that it was a duty to serve the country. 150 years ago this spring, our nation broke apart. Eleven states seceded from the Union, believing that the Constitution, as they read it, entitled them to do so. Young men died on both sides, one believing that it was right to preserve the Union, the other believing with equal sincerity that the North had no right to change the way of life and values of those in the South. Of a new nation of some 32 million people, over 700,000 died in combat, or in prison camps. No war since has matched that sacrifice. By World War II , our population had quadrupled to over 130 million, but we suffered only slightly over 400,000 deaths. In Korea, some 36,000 died, and in Viet Nam, with our population now over 160 million, 56,000 died. Most of those buried here died in those three wars. But since, in a series of small conflicts, in Grenada, Panama, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, less than 12,000 have died. Since 1971, we have had an entirely volunteer Army. In nation of over 300,000 million people, less than one per cent of our families have sons or daughters at risk. Significantly, during the eight years of the Viet Nam War authorized by our Congress in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, no sons of Members of Congress or Presidents fought there. And while we honor the dead, perhaps this Memorial Day, we should stop and consider the hope expressed by Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg battlefield that "these "honored dead shall not have died in vain." We might well stop and consider the disconnect mentioned by Secretary of Defense Gates the other day about the world's most powerful and prosperous nation fighting its wars with only a fraction of its citizenry bearing the burden. Perhaps we should reconsider that ethic of a national duty to serve shared by the young men who lie underneath these crosses.......perhaps some sort of national service where the children of the privileged and wealthy also serve, where the perils of combat are shared by young men and women of means and education. And today, we should perhaps honor the most the few young soldiers, largely from rural or impoverished areas, who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, or been maimed for life by the most terrible of modern guerrilla weapons, the improvised explosive device or I.E.D. For we ourselves make war with terror-inducing weapons. No longer do we fight with rifles, grenades and bayonets, as did most of the young men lying here in these beautiful rolling hills. We now fight with weapons of "shock and awe," the blockbuster bomb, or guided missile delivered by an unmanned drone directed by people in air-conditioned buildings here in the United States. The so-called "collateral damage" when these weapons suddenly land without warning in a village in the Muslim World virtually guarantees the continuing hostility of their inhabitants and sympathizers around the world. I can recall only one instance where this war by massive air power had a favorable result, that being the overwhelming bombardment in Serbia which effectively halted a cruel genocide, and led to the trial of the murderous generals before the World Court at The Hague. Of late, we have turned away from the concept of world peace through world law for which we fought in World War II. We have abandoned the principles of Nuremberg and Geneva which we led the world to adopt. There could be no better time than Memorial Day to spend a few moments in quiet consideration of where and when we loose the dogs of war. The time draws near when our enemies will possess that most terrible of weapons we introduced to end World War II. Last week, our Congress gave thunderous approval to the idea of going to war against Iran to prevent their acquisition of atomic weapons. At the same time the Congress gave similar applause to the Prime Minister of a country which has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but is known to possess over l00 nuclear warheads. A famous Marine General and former National Security Advisor has suggested that the evolving aspirations of people in North Africa and the Mideast gives us the opportunity to reach out to those people and presumably aid in overthrowing their leaders. In the past we have overthrown the elected leaders of countries with whom we disagreed, Mossadeq in Iran and Allende in Chile, example. The end results have not been fortuitous. When and how will this all end? I wonder if the dead we honor today were alive, might they not echo of one of this continent's most famous warriors, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, who, with his young men having mostly died in battle, and with Canada in sight, surrendered his forces, saying "I will fight no more, forever." We will of course fight, but I think it well also to consider the advice Abraham Lincoln gave us at Gettysburg: "It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." 150 years ago, that cause was the preservation of the Union. Today, it may be the preservation of the concept of World Peace Through World Law, as it was in 1945. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon May 30 12:24:56 2011 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 12:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Re: Summer Growth: Making Our Activism Sustainable In-Reply-To: <12017.76a8dcab.3b14816c@aol.com> Message-ID: <996715.95445.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I have no idea. I frequently get things out of the blue from people and groups I never heard of. He just appeared in my in-box, and I thought maybe the "Grow the Green Party" Fairy had sent him to me. As to starting my conversation with him--I just thought, "This is a coalition waiting to happen." I'm glad you will work with him. I had fears of people saying, "He's from southern California. What do we want to do anything with him for?" My answer would be, "Do we want to grow the Green Party or do we just want to grow the Green Party in Santa Clara County?" We have U.C.'s in this area. Hopefully, we have people who have connections there. Let's all get together. --- On Sun, 5/29/11, MKmusic03 at aol.com wrote: From: MKmusic03 at aol.com Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Summer Growth: Making Our Activism Sustainable To: carolineyacoub at att.net, j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net, slee23 at gmail.com, tnharter at aceweb.com, andi at wrytor.com, gerrygras at earthlink.net, fredlois2 at gmail.com, spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Cc: MKmusic03 at aol.com Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 10:13 PM Hi Caroline and All, ? I am very interested in us keeping an ongoing dialogue with Ankur.? I volunteer to take Carolines's place while she is on her great adventure.? I will gladly take over communication with him.? Just one question. Caroline, how did you meet him and how did you come to start an email?communication with him? ? Merriam ? In a message dated 5/29/2011 8:51:55 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, carolineyacoub at att.net writes: Okay folks, somebody is going to have to take over communication with this guy. We don't want to lose him just because I'm out of touch for a month. --- On Sat, 5/28/11, Ankur Patel wrote: From: Ankur Patel Subject: Re: Summer Growth: Making Our Activism Sustainable To: "Caroline Yacoub" Date: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 11:00 AM Caroline, ?Most definitely. I am totally on board with everything you said. ?We are in close contact with the San Fernando Valley Green Party (Kit Crittenden, Eugene Hernandez, Edy Alvarez, Robin Gilbert, Michael McCue, Marlon Stern, and even Jack Lindblad). We have a California State University Northridge math professor that is going to be seeking the Green endorsement for Congress in the 2012 election. ?Glad to hear from you, and if you have any ideas on how to connect campuses in Santa Clara to CSUN that would be great. I really think we need to start identifying candidates (or at least potential candidates).? ?The San Fernando Valley Green Party will be going through that process in its next few meetings. If we could coordinate with the Santa Clara Greens, there would be massive synergy. Each candidate having a specific issue that they became the go to expert on (Community Gardens/Agriculture, Energy, Transportation, War, etc.)?with real solutions?while acknowledging other candidates on our slate that have real solutions to other issues seems like a logical way to structure a cohesive campaign, as opposed to everyone out for themselves.? ?We also feel that we need to connect with other parties in order to gain legitimacy in the eyes of a broader public that is stuck in a two party binary. Libertarians, Peace and Freedom (Socialists) and American Independents can be valuable allies, and even democrats and republicans if used strategically in certain districts. ?Have you thought about any propositions or ballot measures for the 2012 elections? We have been discussing a reform of proposition ?13, what are your thoughts on that front? ?Looking forward to developing a working relationship with you and the Santa Clara Greens. peace -Ankur On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: Have you thought about creating a coalition with an actual political party that already has ballot status--like, for example, the Green Party? Every one of the projects you mentioned is in harmony with Green goals. There are already channels of communication between all the communities in the state where there are UC campuses. The Green Party is very interested in electing state representatives and senators. You folks are at your universities for a few years at a time. If you joined up with the Greens, you could establish some long-term goals and be around to see them accomplished. The Green Party would be very motivated to work with you. Because of Prop. 14, we need to increase our numbers. We need new ideas and energy. I think this coalition would be beneficial for all of us. The democrats and republicans have done nothing for you. Give Green a chance. ? Caroline Yacoub Santa Clara County Green Party --- On Fri, 5/27/11, Ankur Patel wrote: From: Ankur Patel Subject: Summer Growth: Making Our Activism Sustainable To: actvist.student.coalition at gmail.com Date: Friday, May 27, 2011, 10:40 AM We can not unlearn what our mistakes have taught us. As we see our friends graduate and the semester coming to an end at California State University Northridge, we will not allow summer to set us back to square one. ? We had some protests. People showed up. We made noise. We got some media coverage. Did anything happen? ? We know that?we need?actionable solutions beyond asking for?money. ? We also know that awareness and education are always part of the problem, but do we still blame Chancellor Reed for budget cuts? ? Have we realized that it is the state legislature made up of 40 state senators and 80 state assemblymen that decide on California's budget? [Protests Require Political Action, Not Just Noise]. ? Direct political action (voting) is a given, but we need more. ? We can't be working 8 hours/day at the mall or flipping burgers for $8/hour, be taking 15 units, and still be expected to devote the amount of energy needed to make our activism effective. ? Our activism should be putting [organic] food on the table, getting us from A to B [by bicycle], paying our electricity bills [with renewable energy]... Our activism should be the work that sustains us. ? Activism can't be something that we sometimes have time for. ? The way we can make this fundamental shift is to make our activism profitable.?We have a faith based economy, whatever we decide is profitable, is. ? It is as simple as?asking our elected officials to put money towards a certain project --?and them doing it: Lets say?it takes 10 hours to do the research, 10 hours to write the proposal, and 10 hours to convince an elected official?that CSUN's community garden is worth an investment of $3,000 because it will produce locally grown celery, potatoes, tomatoes, etc. while?teaching people how to?eat healthy. That equates to $100/hour. Of course it isn't that simple... we still need to maintain and grow the garden.? That 30 hours of initial research, writing, and lobbying got the investment of $3,000 -- but it will be the work done after that allows us to go back to that source of funding to say "look at what we did with that small amount of money, give us a job and?a secure revenue stream so we can do more." CSUN's Community Garden has hired a Student Garden Assistant who is getting paid $9/hour for the summer. Here are two specific?projects that can lead to employment right here on CSUN's campus (or any campus for that matter)?if we decide to put in the effort: Safe Routes to School -- $500,000 grants are available for developing a better way to get kids from home to school (K-12). This is an opportunity for almost any discipline, we already have a few Urban Planners and Geographers on board. We are putting together a team to go after these grants (Every elementary, middle, and high school can apply individually, so there is no shortage of opportunity. The more people we get working on this, the more likely we get funded). We already have partnerships with Neighborhood Councils.?Local schools are interested, but might not have the ability to put together a proper application, which opens the door for us.? Resource?Collaborative -- As a campus we spend millions of dollars every year on energy and water. Many campus entities recognize this, but haven't done enough. Specifically, the Oviatt Library would be a great testing grounds... How much energy does it take to run those escalators, light bulbs, computers, etc.?all day? How much does it cost? Are there alternatives?? These sorts of analyses aren't complicated, but?are definitely?valuable, and can turn into?paid positions. [UCLA is currently doing this sort of analysis for their Ackerman Union] There are?many?clubs and organizations that are?providing real?benefit to?the community, but are regularly limited by currency and/or labor --?we can address that?by Making Our Activism Sustainable. ? The reason we have creationism taught in schools [and the Earth is 6,000 years old] is because academia is politically irrelevant. We don't have?academics -- lawyers, businessmen, and medical doctors aren't academics --?defending science or even basic factual statements at?any political level. ? ? Our plan also includes running candidates for the 2012 elections. We need to create a broad platform of candidates?from different universities, political affiliations,?and?demographics. We currently have 2 CSUN professors (Math and?History) who?are running for Congress (House of Representatives).?I personally feel we should focus on the state assembly as that is the legislative body that decides?how much money the?state spends on education, but we start?wherever we can.??? ? We will be meeting June 6th,?Monday at 9am in the Santa Susana Room (3rd floor above the Freudian Sip in the USU Area on the CSUN campus). We have that same space at that same time reserved through December (a total of 25 gatherings). ? A tentative title is Underground University. I know we are using campus facilities, but we are?working on issues that are not taught by the status-quo. Workshops, films, phonebanking, art projects, gardening, planning... just?getting together and talking?is not what this intends?to be. ? ? Any other suggestions are welcome. ? 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"The First Grader" deals with colonialism, literacy, sticking to your guns, and the value of old revolutionaries in a tale about an 84-year-old Kenyan who won't take no for an answer in his quest for an education. Inspiring. That's at Palo Alto Square, probably not for long. "Even the Rain" is about water, European attitudes, and revolution in Bolivia. It ain't art--the arc of character is clumsily contrived--but its heart is in the right place and it's well done aside from the script. Friday, June 3, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 6:30. Includes Bolivian food, $5--$10 requested. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Tue May 31 00:27:48 2011 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 00:27:48 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: CC Election page Message-ID: <4DE49874.4030506@aceweb.com> The candidates, and their submitted biographies, are currently available for viewing on the voting page: http://cagreens.org/cc/vote/ Also, there is a sample ballot on the voting page that you should downloaded. It contains instructions for using the online system. Use this ballot to prepare for your county's discussions, and as a guide for entering your vote(s) online. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: words and pictures from the Revolution in Egypt at home. The screw I got mile 81 of bike the limits is on a South Carolina 25c. From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue May 31 01:58:24 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 01:58:24 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Movies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DE4ADB0.9060303@earthlink.net> Brian Good wrote: > > "Inside Job", Charles Ferguson's documentary about the financial > meltdown, plays > Tuesday May 31 at 7:30 at the Unitarian church. in Palo Alto. http://peaceandjustice.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20110506113020984 > Free, but donations > requested. > The interviews with academics who can't perceive their own corruption > are shocking. > A panel discussion at Stanford featuring Ferguson drew a couple hundred > people. He > said some of these guys earn 25X as much from their consulting work as > they do from > their professorial salaries. > > "The First Grader" deals with colonialism, literacy, sticking to your > guns, and the > value of old revolutionaries in a tale about an 84-year-old Kenyan who > won't take > no for an answer in his quest for an education. Inspiring. That's at > Palo Alto Square, > probably not for long. > > "Even the Rain" is about water, European attitudes, and revolution in > Bolivia. It > ain't art--the arc of character is clumsily contrived--but its heart is > in the right place > and it's well done aside from the script. Friday, June 3, San Jose Peace and > Justice Center, 6:30. Includes Bolivian food, $5--$10 requested. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue May 31 09:12:35 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:12:35 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] KQED Forum NOW - new internet bubble Message-ID: <4DE51373.2080902@earthlink.net> From wrolley at charter.net Tue May 31 09:27:44 2011 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:27:44 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara County Sustainable Communities Message-ID: <4DE51700.5000401@charter.net> Received this weekend.. Just getting a chance to clean up my inbox and we should all know what is in the works. Sorry for the short notice. ____ There is an upcoming event being put on for community leaders in Santa Clara County to dive into the Sustainable Community Strategies/Plan Bay Areathat I wanted to make sure you knew about. The details of the event are below. We're hoping that the event attracts about 30 people who represent broader groups of people who will in some way be impacted by the SCS. For instance, we're hoping to attract people ranging all the way from leaders in Service Employees International Union to leaders amongst Gilroy and Morgan Hill's farmers. To date, most of our registrants are residents of San Jose, and we'd like to see more geographical and place-type variety amongst attendees. _Santa Clara__County Community Leaders' Roundtable_ *What*: Engage your community in our region's future A significant amount of housing and job growth and transportation investments are expected for Santa Clara County and the rest of the Bay Area. How and where we grow and invest will have major implications for community health, environmental sustainability, economic vibrancy, and social equity. Make sure the constituencies you represent and work with have a voice. Attend the following meeting to: ?Learn more about the Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS)/Plan Bay Area ?Take part in a conversation about what it means for your community ?Brainstorm ideas about how you and your networks can get involved *When*: Wednesday, June 1, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. *Where*: Portable classroom, Peter Pan Avenue, Capitol Park, San Jose *RSVP*: http://act.greenbelt.org/site/Calendar?id=100641&view=Detail *For more information*: email or call Ellie Casson at ecasson at greenbelt.org or 408-983-0539. Hosted by: Greenbelt Alliance, Public Advocates, Sierra Club, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, TransForm, Urban Habitat, Working Partnerships Food and refreshments provided Cheers, Erin Erin McDaniel South Santa Clara County Campaign Coordinator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: