From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Wed Feb 1 11:23:24 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:23:24 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] test of wills Message-ID: <4F29912C.9050607@sbcglobal.net> The following is the closing paragraph of an article by Michael Klare posted at the tom dispatch site *http://tinyurl.com/6pmzxod * So oil, the prestige of global dominance, Iran's urge to be a regional power, and domestic political factors are all converging in a combustible mix to make the Strait of Hormuz the most dangerous place on the planet. For both Tehran and Washington, events seem to be moving inexorably toward a situation in which mistakes and miscalculations could become inevitable. Neither side can appear to give ground without losing prestige and possibly even their jobs. In other words, an existential test of wills is now under way over geopolitical dominance in a critical part of the globe, and on both sides there seem to be ever fewer doors marked ?EXIT.? From cbrouillet at igc.org Thu Feb 2 10:14:53 2012 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:14:53 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Voter Registration Training Saturday in Oakland Message-ID: If anyone would like to train to register voters (hopefully Green Party voters), please join me this Saturday. Pre-registration encouraged. It starts promptly at 10:30 am, you need water/lunch, an ironing board, if possible. I plan on leaving Palo Alto at 9:30 am, if you would like to carpool with me. (Call me- Carol 650-857-0927) I have been gathering signatures to get on the ballot in June, and could still use help, if anyone wants to help gather signatures in the 18th Congressional District (I'll be running against Anna Eshoo, again.) We need 3000 by February 23rd... and need to defeat the Republican in the open primary to get on the ballot in November... http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/voter_registration_training. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Feb 2 13:39:52 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:39:52 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] voter registration trsining Message-ID: <4F2B02A8.9010205@sbcglobal.net> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Marnie Glickman > wrote: Hi Green Party leaders. We are holding a big Green Party vote registration training and mobilization in Oakland this Saturday to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Green Party of CA. There will be at least 25 Greens from 8 counties in attendance. The trainer was the leader of the first and only other statewide voter registration for the Green Party of CA. In 1990-1991, we registered more than 100,000 Greens. With your help, we can do it again and preserve our ballot access. Can you attend? RSVP at http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/voter_registration_training. Here are the details: Saturday, February 4 10:30am - 2:30pm Niebyl-Proctor Library 6501 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland Here's what you need to bring: Lunch Water bottle An ironing board (If you don't have an ironing board, let me know as soon as possible. I will find one for you to use.) Contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Peace, Marnie Glickman Green Party of CA www.cagreens.org 415.259.7121 marnie at cagreens.org From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Feb 2 13:50:08 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:50:08 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] african american community center Message-ID: <4F2B0510.3090706@sbcglobal.net> There is a project in the works to build an african american community center in downtown / central San Jose. The project is described at http://www.svaacc.org/project.asp and the associated primary web site is http://www.svaacc.org/ From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Feb 2 16:49:58 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:49:58 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vacant foreclosure homes Message-ID: <4F2B2F36.2010609@sbcglobal.net> I asked this question Sandy, What news is there on the front of getting empty foreclosed homes made available to the homeless? I received this response *Hi Jim,* We are discussing this very topic at a meeting between CHAM, Santa Clara Univ. students, and a few concerned community members this Sat. from 10 am to 2. You are welcome to join us and participate. Lunch provided! It is at our ministry office, 949 E San Fernando St, San Jose (20th & San Fernando). Sandy Interested in securing housing for the homeless? This is an oportunity to participate in a strategising session on Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm with lunch provided.. From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Feb 3 08:25:48 2012 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:25:48 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Next Steps on ACTA: Take Action on Feb. 11 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4F2C0A8C.7080402@structuremonitoring.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Next Steps on ACTA: Take Action on Feb. 11 Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:08:26 +0000 From: AccessNow Reply-To: info at accessnow.org To: Spencer Graves *It's happening everywhere! RSVP to a protest against ACTA near you!* Dear Spencer, With an incredible showing of power and belief, *over 300,000 people in 72 hours* called on the European Parliament to reject the rights-threatening international copyright treaty, ACTA. We?ve shone a bright light on the countries that signed this secretly negotiated agreement ? *but the fight to save the internet is far from over.* ACTA still needs to be approved by the European Parliament, and if it goes down there, the agreement will effectively be dead in the water. *Now we invite you to join us by taking to the streets at a protest near you on Feb 11.* You signed the petition against ACTA, *now check out the amazing map below showing the global day of action, and grab a friend to join a protest and make your voice heard*: https://www.accessnow.org/acta-protest If you can?t make a protest, *you can still participate*. Go to our Tumblr page and *show your solidarity with the Feb. 11 protestors* by submitting a picture, words of support, or protest signs! Your pictures and words will be posted on our page, and the best signs will be printed out by us and given to protestors on Feb. 11. http://accessnow.tumblr.com/ As you know, *the internet is facing many threats* and in 2012 Access will ask for your help on those issues. This is the year to protect the internet, and* it starts with all of us!* We're right in the center of the fight for digital freedom in 2012 and we're happy to have you with us. The internet has been used for activism. *Now it?s time to use activism to save the internet.* Thanks for all your support, Brett Solomon Access Executive Director PS: For ACTA updates, make sure to* follow Access on Twitter at @accessnow *. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, go to: http://www.accessnow.org/unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Fri Feb 3 14:56:58 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:56:58 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] MoveOn wants "Inside Job" House Parties In-Reply-To: <689c34-8a44-4f2c42d9@web01.moveon.org> References: <689c34-8a44-4f2c42d9@web01.moveon.org> Message-ID: Of course their agenda is to try to make the Occupy Movement an Obama movement, but there's no reason we can't subvert the subversion. Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:26:01 -0800 From: moveon-help at list.moveon.org To: snug.bug at hotmail.com Subject: Who caused the economic collapse? Breaking news: Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that it is reversing its decision to ban grants to organizations under politically motivated investigation. The bad news is that it's not clear that it will continue funding Planned Parenthood.1 We'll keep up the pressure until it does. MoveOn members are organizing Inside Job movie parties on Feb. 11 and 12. Can you host a party in Palo Alto next weekend? Click Here! Dear MoveOn member, Have you ever been one fact away from getting your conservative uncle to agree that Wall Street has too much political influence? Or been oh-so-close to convincing your banker friend that Big Banks, in fact, cannot be trusted to regulate themselves? Conversations like these aren't about scoring political points?they're about getting our friends and family to wake up to a crisis that's costing millions of Americans their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. The 99% movement is gearing up for a big spring. To get a head start, MoveOn members around the country are throwing Inside Job movie parties on February 11 and 12. The Oscar-winning documentary shows exactly how Wall Street's risky behavior?and Washington's inaction?caused the global economic collapse.2 Movie parties are a fun way to connect socially with MoveOn members?and a smart way to learn about a key issue before upcoming local and national elections. We need a local MoveOn member to sign up to host a party in Palo Alto. Organizing a party is simple?and you'll have a step-by-step guide to help. Can you host a party in your community? Yes! I can host an Inside Job movie party. Understanding what Wall Street did to us doesn't require a degree in economics. In fact, millions of Americans can learn what happened in under two hours. Inside Job provides a straightforward explanation of what happened and who's responsible?and can bring more people into the 99% movement for economic change. Whether you want to throw a private party for friends or meet up with other MoveOn members, hosting a party is a great way to meet progressives in your community and talk about how we can create change together. Can you host an Inside Job movie party on February 11 or 12? Click here for more information and to sign up: http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/create.html?action_id=267&id=35396-6855732-AJjs27x&t=3 Thanks for all you do.?Lenore, Mark, Marika, Sarah, and the rest of the team P.S. Once you register for an event, you'll get access to a Host Guide and priority emails with tips and materials to help you throw a great party. Sources: 1. "Komen caved. Or did it?" The Washington Post, February 3, 2012 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=270201&id=35396-6855732-AJjs27x&t=4 2. "Inside Job (film)," Wikipedia, accessed February 1, 2012 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=269985&id=35396-6855732-AJjs27x&t=5 Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 5 million members?no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here. PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to Brian Good on February 3, 2012. To change your email address or update your contact info, click here. To remove yourself from this list, click here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Feb 4 09:32:03 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 09:32:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] MoveOn wants "Inside Job" House Parties In-Reply-To: References: <689c34-8a44-4f2c42d9@web01.moveon.org> Message-ID: <1328376723.14154.YahooMailNeo@web111109.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> There is something else that we should be organizing for Feb 11 (which is a Saturday).? There is a world wide call to demonstrate against ACTA (the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) that is set to be voted on by the EU sometime soon.? A lot of demonstrations are being planned in Europe, but I haven't seen much activity in the States.? If anyone wants to help me organize a rally against ACTA, please reply to this e-mail. Unless I hear otherwise, let's plan a rally at San Jose City Hall for Feb 11th at noon.?www.peacemovies.com will also have a protest page in place of the homepage that day too. ?Thanks. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking ? PS There is also a protest planned for today at noon in San Francisco at Powel and Market st to stop the possible bombing of Iran. ? ? From: Brian Good To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 2:56 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] MoveOn wants "Inside Job" House Parties Of course their agenda is to try to make the Occupy Movement an Obama movement,but there's no reason we can't subvert the subversion. Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:26:01 -0800From: moveon-help at list.moveon.orgTo: snug.bug at hotmail.comSubject: Who caused the economic collapse? Breaking news: Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that it is reversing its decision to ban grants to organizations under politically motivated investigation. The bad news is that it's not clear that it will continue funding Planned Parenthood.1 We'll keep up the pressure until it does. MoveOn members are organizing Inside Job movie parties on Feb. 11 and 12. Can you host a party in Palo Alto next weekend? Click Here! Dear MoveOn member, Have you ever been one fact away from getting your conservative uncle to agree that Wall Street has too much political influence? Or been oh-so-close to convincing your banker friend that Big Banks, in fact, cannot be trusted to regulate themselves? Conversations like these aren't about scoring political points?they're about getting our friends and family to wake up to a crisis that's costing millions of Americans their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. The 99% movement is gearing up for a big spring. To get a head start, MoveOn members around the country are throwing?Inside Job movie parties on February 11 and 12. The Oscar-winning documentary shows exactly how Wall Street's risky behavior?and Washington's inaction?caused the global economic collapse.2 Movie parties are a fun way to connect socially with MoveOn members?and a smart way to learn about a key issue before upcoming local and national elections.?We need a local MoveOn member to sign up to host a party in Palo Alto. Organizing a party is simple?and you'll have a step-by-step guide to help. Can you host a party in your community? Yes! I can host an Inside Job movie party. Understanding what Wall Street did to us doesn't require a degree in economics. In fact, millions of Americans can learn what happened in under two hours. Inside Job provides a straightforward explanation of what happened and who's responsible?and can bring more people into the 99% movement for economic change. Whether you want to throw a private party for friends or meet up with other MoveOn members, hosting a party is a great way to meet progressives in your community and talk about how we can create change together. Can you host an Inside Job movie party on February 11 or 12? Click here for more information and to sign up: http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/create.html?action_id=267&id=35396-6855732-AJjs27x&t=3 Thanks for all you do. ?Lenore, Mark, Marika, Sarah, and the rest of the team P.S. Once you register for an event, you'll get access to a Host Guide and priority emails with tips and materials to help you throw a great party. Sources: 1. "Komen caved. Or did it?" The Washington Post, February 3, 2012 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=270201&id=35396-6855732-AJjs27x&t=4 2. "Inside Job (film),"?Wikipedia, accessed February 1, 2012 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=269985&id=35396-6855732-AJjs27x&t=5 Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 5 million members?no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to Brian Good on February 3, 2012. To change your email address or update your contact info, click here. To remove yourself from this list, click here. _______________________________________________sosfbay-discuss mailing listsosfbay-discuss at cagreens.orghttp://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Feb 4 23:17:48 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:17:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Protest ACTA In Solidarity With Europe On Feb 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall 12-2PM Message-ID: <1328426268.12597.YahooMailNeo@web111107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Protest Against ACTA and Decolonize The Internet Protest 12PM-2PM, Saturday, February 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall Plaza at 4th and E. Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA ? Ever since the Internet was first formed, the high tech settlers have spread across the great plains of the Internet, scooping up domain names and putting up their signs saying ?open for business?. Initially, this didn't drive anyone off of their land or cost anyone their job. However, the proprietary rights associated with publishing material on a web site are fundamentally different from publishing the same material in a book. The material in a book may be reused for a commercial purpose if it is only paraphrased and is not even covered by copyright when such use is made. A step up from this use is the defense of ?fair use?, which allows news organizations to use brief quotations or even entire works (such as news feeds) in their broadcasts or in print for the benefit of their for profit institutions without having to pay royalties to the original copyright holders or enter into special contracts for each use they make of copyrighted material. Indeed, according to Wikipedia, 1/6 of the US economic output is based on such types of ?fair use?. Note that ?fair use? often does not extend to just any old commercial use. ? On the Internet, many web sites throw this community contract of copyright law out the window and substitute in its place draconian Terms Of Use contracts. The TOUs often state that no information contained on the web sites may be used to make derivative works or for commercial purposes. A prime example is a section from the TOU on Google.com: 1. You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to Google (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google or by the owners of that Content, in a separate agreement. It would seem that even the act of reproducing this quote from the Google terms on this flier violates those same terms. According to these terms, apparently Youtube videos and Google Books can not be used to make derivative works. Even just paraphrasing and thereby reusing the information contained in such works is ?using the Content? which is prohibited. Indeed, the Supreme Court just recently ruled that works that are in the public domain (such as the works on Google Books) can be copyrighted over again and taken out of free, public circulation. (Workers' World Feb 2, 2012 vol. 54 no 4.) ? This state of affairs marks the beginning of the problem that we now face with ACTA (the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) and similar initiatives such as SOPA and PIPA. ? See the reverse side of this flier for a discussion of ACTA and similar initiatives such as Lamar Smith's Internet snooping bill, HR 1981. ? ACTA includes the following, according to Spencer Graves of the Santa Clara County Green Party: 1. It empowers governments to take down Internet Service Providers (ISPs), not just web sites, it doesn't like. I don't know what recourse a targeted web site or ISP might have to the courts. 2. Security forces at airports and border crossings are authorized to search your cell phone, MP3 player or computer for pirate copies of anything and confiscate or destroy it if they find something they don't like. (No search warrant required.) 3. ACTA was negotiated in secret and signed by the US and several other countries. The Bush and Obama administrations successfully quashed Freedom of Information Act requests on the grounds that disclosure would cause "damage to the national security.? A separate initiative is Lamar Smith's Internet snooping bill, HR 1981. According to an e-mail from Demandprogress.org: The ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. Will you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today?... ...ISPs would collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime. Supporters shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but our staunchest allies in Congress are calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill. Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California -- a SOPA hero who also led Democratic opposition to this bill -- said, "It represents a data bank of every digital act by every American [that would] let us find out where every single American visited Web sites." ? The current status of ACTA, according to Wikipedia, is that the EU has signed it, but not completely ratified it as only 22 of 27 countries have ratified it. The treaty goes into full effect when 6 of the 9 countries (or groups in the case of the EU) that have signed it ratify it. The US has likely not ratified it. Forbes.com presents a slightly different account, saying that the treaty is an executive agreement that doesn't require ratification by the US Senate for example after it is signed. Many protests are planned across Europe for February 11, 2012 to protest the signing of ACTA. ? There are three petitions to sign to try to stop these two initiatives from going into effect. They are located here: https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_acta/? http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping/ Please take a moment and type in these URLs into your web browser and sign the petitions. Thank you. ? This protest action is sponsored by www.peacemovies.com, a web site that hopes to make its author a living through the ?fair use? or the not copyright protected use of copyrighted material available on the Internet. One of the sites that is used by Peacemovies.com is www.mercurynews.com, which has a very clear statement in its terms of use policy that the material on the site may be reused by viewers under the exception to copyright law defense known as ?fair use?, which ultimately means that the paraphrasing of information taken from the site and used for commercial purposes does not violate any copyright law or agreement. Please take a moment and subscribe to the Mercury News. Thank you. ? Peacemovies.com advocates overturning the laws that permit TOU contracts to be formed that deprive Internet users of their rights to ?fair use? of content that is provided for free on the Internet. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon Feb 6 12:39:52 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:39:52 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] fish to fry - fish fry Message-ID: <4F303A98.7040703@sbcglobal.net> Here is another way to reach out and to get some good food at the same time. *AACSA presents: The Cook Out- Fish Fry Fundasiser * On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Menu items: fried chicken, catfish, red snapper w/two sides to the mix. Fish Fry: One entree $8 (one meat +sides), Two entree $10 (two meats +sides), Three Entree $12 (three meats +sides) Prepared by Faye of Seymart Foods. 12:00 pm 304 N. 6th Street San Jose, CA 95112 Corner of 6-th and Julian From fredlois2 at gmail.com Mon Feb 6 13:26:04 2012 From: fredlois2 at gmail.com (fred Duperrault) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:26:04 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] fish to fry - fish fry In-Reply-To: <4F303A98.7040703@sbcglobal.net> References: <4F303A98.7040703@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <2AD43677-C6E1-46A9-A890-A4A20BEB5FE8@gmail.com> You've got me hooked, Jim. Is their a party room at Faye and Seymart Foods or is it a "carryout" process. Fred D. On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > Here is another way to reach out and to get some good > food at the same time. > > > *AACSA presents: The Cook Out- Fish Fry Fundasiser * > On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Menu items: fried chicken, > catfish, > red snapper w/two sides to the mix. > > Fish Fry: One entree $8 (one meat +sides), Two entree $10 (two meats > +sides), > Three Entree $12 (three meats +sides) Prepared by Faye of Seymart > Foods. > > 12:00 pm > > 304 N. 6th Street > San Jose, CA 95112 > Corner of 6-th and Julian > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon Feb 6 15:49:07 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:49:07 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] class and applications for county boards Message-ID: <4F3066F3.30301@sbcglobal.net> This message came to me via my county supervisor's (Yeager) newsletter. It is an opportunity to prepare to get an appointment to a county advisory board of some sort. ----------------- NEW CLASS TEACHES RESIDENTS ABOUT COUNTY GOVERNMENT Counties play a critical role in the lives of residents, yet they are the least known and understood level of government. Applications are now available for the newly established SCC GOV 101 ACADEMY, a 10-week program to provide a comprehensive overview of County government. The class looks at the County?s role and responsibilities, as well as the programs and services it offers. The Academy will hold its first session on February 28. Applications will be accepted until February 10. Seven seats for the class will be available in each of the five Supervisorial Districts. Most sessions will occur on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. One half-day session will take place on a Saturday. The graduation ceremony is planned for the Board of Supervisors meeting on May 1 at 11:30 a.m. The goals of the program are to: ? raise public awareness of County roles and services; ? promote engagement and understanding of the County; ? encourage participation in advisory commissions and volunteer opportunities; and ? contribute to creating a more informed public. The course will feature an interactive curriculum. Participants will also have a chance to visit several facilities and see first-hand how their tax dollars are spent. Applications are available on the County?s website at www.sccgov.org/sccgov101 . There is a $30 materials fee, which can be waived in cases of financial hardship. For more information or to obtain an application, contact the Office of Public Affairs at SCCPublicAffairs at ceo.sccgov.org or call (408) 299-5151. ----------------- From wrolley at charter.net Mon Feb 6 20:46:26 2012 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:46:26 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Game Over Message-ID: <4F30ACA2.5010100@charter.net> Tried to post a copy of the cartoon from today's Mercury News but it is too big for the list. Y'all just need to click on this link to see it. http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0204/20120204_025037_cart0206_500.jpg Good prep for upcoming Citizens United activities. From jgshurt69 at aol.com Thu Feb 2 11:26:33 2012 From: jgshurt69 at aol.com (jgshurt69 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:26:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] SFOccupy Forum on February 15th Message-ID: <8CEAFF7B4F74F2F-1790-10800@webmail-d166.sysops.aol.com> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: which way forward.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 71589 bytes Desc: not available URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Feb 7 08:48:08 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:48:08 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] SF Occupy forum Message-ID: <4F3155C8.6060307@sbcglobal.net> re the forum, I can't go but I would like to hear a report From fredlois2 at gmail.com Wed Feb 8 10:33:09 2012 From: fredlois2 at gmail.com (fred Duperrault) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:33:09 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] fish to fry - fish fry In-Reply-To: <4F303A98.7040703@sbcglobal.net> References: <4F303A98.7040703@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <5CEB08AF-B1DE-4696-939A-BF6CDCDD267E@gmail.com> Jim, What does the acronym, "AACSA," represent? ? Fred On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > Here is another way to reach out and to get some good > food at the same time. > > > *AACSA presents: The Cook Out- Fish Fry Fundasiser * > On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Menu items: fried chicken, > catfish, > red snapper w/two sides to the mix. > > Fish Fry: One entree $8 (one meat +sides), Two entree $10 (two meats > +sides), > Three Entree $12 (three meats +sides) Prepared by Faye of Seymart > Foods. > > 12:00 pm > > 304 N. 6th Street > San Jose, CA 95112 > Corner of 6-th and Julian > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Wed Feb 8 12:26:04 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:26:04 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] AACSA Message-ID: <4F32DA5C.4060800@sbcglobal.net> AACSA = African American Community Services Agency From snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed Feb 8 18:25:15 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:25:15 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 11% of American Homes Standf Empty--CNBC Message-ID: 18.4 million homes are standing empty. http://www.cnbc.com/id/41355854/Nearly_11_Percent_of_US_Houses_Empty That's America for ya! 750,000 homeless and 24 empty homes for every one of them. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Feb 9 04:38:24 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:38:24 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] TPP = Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement In-Reply-To: <4F336916.5080000@prodsyse.com> References: <4F336916.5080000@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <4F33BE40.70003@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: The Electronic Frontiers Foundation has uncovered yet another attempt by the companies that dominate the communications media today to extend their dominance: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. See the link below. I've been sending emails to congress, but we should also call our representatives and ask about this, noting that we are very concerned with these threats to democracy. If you find out more, please let us know. The current media oligopoly has major financial interests in maintaining their current hegemony on the public mind, as do nearly all of their major corporate advertisers, because much of their income -- and especially the social status of the key decision makers -- is derived from graft. Thanks, Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Folks in the Entertainment Industries | EFFector 25.03 Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:35:02 -0800 From: Betsy Wolf-Graves To: spencer graves -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Folks in the Entertainment Industries | EFFector 25.03 Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:29 -0800 From: EFFector List Reply-To: EFFector List To: Betsy Wolf-Graves View as a web page EFFector! Electronic Frontier Foundation In our 599th issue: * UPDATES<#Updates> * MINILINKS<#minilinks> * ANNOUNCEMENTS<#announcements> Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Folks in the Entertainment Industries The Internet can be great for creators and their community, but Hollywood's own leadership refuses to recognize and take advantage of its promise. It seems they?d rather spend membership dues on lawyers, lobbyists and astroturf than innovation. We humbly suggest that the men and women of the entertainment industries stand up and tell their bosses to either embrace the age of the Internet or get out of the way so that new, forward-thinking industry leaders can take their place. Don't Let TPP Become the New ACTA: Contact Your Lawmakers and Demand Transparency! The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a trade agreement currently being negotiated by the United States and eight other countries. Like ACTA, the TPP is being negotiated in secret, and on a fast timetable. Entertainment industry executives who are members of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee will likely get to see the agreement drafts -- again -- but the rest of us will be kept in the dark unless we speak up now. Time to Act on Companies Selling Mass Spy Gear to Authoritarian Regimes On Wednesday, EFF will give recommendations to the European Parliament for how to combat one of the most troubling problems facing democracy activists around the world: the fact that European and American companies are providing key surveillance technology to authoritarian governments that is then being used to aid repression. EFF Updates What Actually Changed in Google's Privacy Policy Google recently announced a new, simplified privacy policy. Unfortunately, while the policy might be easier to understand, Google did a less impressive job of publicly explaining what in the policy had actually been changed. EFF Requests Information from Innocent Megaupload Users In the media firestorm surrounding the recent Megaupload takedown, there has been little lacking in the way of drama. But Megaupload, of course, had many lawful customers who were given no notice that they might lose access to their data and no clear path to getting their property back. Setting aside the legal case against Megaupload, the government should try to avoid this kind of collateral damage, not create it. This Week in Censorship: Oman, South Korea, and China Crack Down on Dissent An Omani blogger was arrested for posts criticizing the government, a South Korean citizen was arrested for Twitter posts about North Korea, and China cracked down on Tibetan blogs amid heightened tensions between Tibetans and the government. Letters to the Copyright Office: Why I Jailbreak EFF has asked the U.S. Copyright Office to declare that jailbreaking smartphones, tablets, and game consoles does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and there are only two days left to submit comments to the Copyright Office, or to sign on to letters supporting our exemption requests. We've already heard from many device users who have spoken up to explain why installing the software they choose on the devices they own should stay legal. PlayStation 3 "Other OS" Saga Shows: Jailbreaking Is Not a Crime If you still aren't sure why jailbreaking is important, one prime example of the problem is the Sony PlayStation 3. That game system initially shipped with the ability to install Linux and other Unix derivatives, but in April 2010 Sony removed the feature and started suing security researchers publishing about it. miniLinks New surveillance industry database reveals who's browsing surveillance tech In collaboration with the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian, Privacy International published a database of all attendees at six ISS World surveillance trade shows, held in Washington, D.C., Dubai and Prague between 2006 and 2009. EDRI's ACTA fact sheet In response to "many rumours and half-truths about ACTA being circulated by campaigners on all sides," our friends at EDRI put together a fact sheet focusing on the real problems and most important issues in ACTA. FBI: Do you like online privacy? You may be a terrorist A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in Internet cafes lists the use of "anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address" as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. Administrivia ISSN 1062-9424 EFFector is a publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110-1914 USA +1 415 436 9333 +1 415 436 9993 (fax) *eff.org* Editor: Parker Higgins, Activist *editor at eff.org* Membership& donation queries: *membership at eff.org* General EFF, legal, policy, or online resources queries: *info at eff.org* *Reproduction* of this publication in electronic media is *encouraged*. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of EFF. To reproduce signed articles individually, please contact the authors for their express permission. Press releases and EFF announcements& articles may be reproduced individually at will. *Back issues of EFFector* *Change your email address * This newsletter is printed from 100% recycled electrons. EFF appreciates your support and respects your privacy. *Privacy Policy*. *Unsubscribe or change your email preferences* , or *opt out of all EFF email* 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110-1914 United States Donate to EFF! Announcements ACT NOW: Rip. Mix. Make. Kirby Ferguson, the filmmaker behind the "Everything is a Remix" series, has written a letter supporting EFF's DMCA exemption request for video production. Tell the Copyright Office you stand with Kirby and EFF by signing on to his letter. ACT NOW: Jailbreaking is Not a Crime bunnie Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox, is standing with EFF to defend users' right to jailbreak. Will you sign on to bunnie's letter to show the Copyright Office that users everywhere say that jailbreaking is not a crime? 100 Year Anniversary of San Diego Free Speech Fight Rainey Reitman, EFF Activism Director, will be speaking at an event to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight. The event is hosted by the San Diego ACLU and the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council. There will be music, speakers, and spoken word performances. *February 8, 2012* *San Diego, CA* Tools of Change: How the Internet Helped Shape the Arab Spring Jillian C. York, EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression, will discuss the powerful role and the drawbacks of social media tools in the Arab Spring, and will speak about their use in the Middle East and North Africa. *February 16, 2012* *Stanford, CA* Humble Bundle for Android The Humble Bundle is back for a limited time only! For this bundle, you can name your price and get four cross-platform and DRM-free games for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, and Android. EFF on twitter facebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Feb 9 04:38:42 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:38:42 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] TPP = Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement In-Reply-To: <4F336916.5080000@prodsyse.com> References: <4F336916.5080000@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <4F33BE52.7090304@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: The Electronic Frontiers Foundation has uncovered yet another attempt by the companies that dominate the communications media today to extend their dominance: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. See the link below. I've been sending emails to congress, but we should also call our representatives and ask about this, noting that we are very concerned with these threats to democracy. If you find out more, please let us know. The current media oligopoly has major financial interests in maintaining their current hegemony on the public mind, as do nearly all of their major corporate advertisers. Thanks, Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Folks in the Entertainment Industries | EFFector 25.03 Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:35:02 -0800 From: Betsy Wolf-Graves To: spencer graves -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Folks in the Entertainment Industries | EFFector 25.03 Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:29 -0800 From: EFFector List Reply-To: EFFector List To: Betsy Wolf-Graves View as a web page EFFector! Electronic Frontier Foundation In our 599th issue: * UPDATES<#Updates> * MINILINKS<#minilinks> * ANNOUNCEMENTS<#announcements> Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Folks in the Entertainment Industries The Internet can be great for creators and their community, but Hollywood's own leadership refuses to recognize and take advantage of its promise. It seems they?d rather spend membership dues on lawyers, lobbyists and astroturf than innovation. We humbly suggest that the men and women of the entertainment industries stand up and tell their bosses to either embrace the age of the Internet or get out of the way so that new, forward-thinking industry leaders can take their place. Don't Let TPP Become the New ACTA: Contact Your Lawmakers and Demand Transparency! The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a trade agreement currently being negotiated by the United States and eight other countries. Like ACTA, the TPP is being negotiated in secret, and on a fast timetable. Entertainment industry executives who are members of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee will likely get to see the agreement drafts -- again -- but the rest of us will be kept in the dark unless we speak up now. Time to Act on Companies Selling Mass Spy Gear to Authoritarian Regimes On Wednesday, EFF will give recommendations to the European Parliament for how to combat one of the most troubling problems facing democracy activists around the world: the fact that European and American companies are providing key surveillance technology to authoritarian governments that is then being used to aid repression. EFF Updates What Actually Changed in Google's Privacy Policy Google recently announced a new, simplified privacy policy. Unfortunately, while the policy might be easier to understand, Google did a less impressive job of publicly explaining what in the policy had actually been changed. EFF Requests Information from Innocent Megaupload Users In the media firestorm surrounding the recent Megaupload takedown, there has been little lacking in the way of drama. But Megaupload, of course, had many lawful customers who were given no notice that they might lose access to their data and no clear path to getting their property back. Setting aside the legal case against Megaupload, the government should try to avoid this kind of collateral damage, not create it. This Week in Censorship: Oman, South Korea, and China Crack Down on Dissent An Omani blogger was arrested for posts criticizing the government, a South Korean citizen was arrested for Twitter posts about North Korea, and China cracked down on Tibetan blogs amid heightened tensions between Tibetans and the government. Letters to the Copyright Office: Why I Jailbreak EFF has asked the U.S. Copyright Office to declare that jailbreaking smartphones, tablets, and game consoles does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and there are only two days left to submit comments to the Copyright Office, or to sign on to letters supporting our exemption requests. We've already heard from many device users who have spoken up to explain why installing the software they choose on the devices they own should stay legal. PlayStation 3 "Other OS" Saga Shows: Jailbreaking Is Not a Crime If you still aren't sure why jailbreaking is important, one prime example of the problem is the Sony PlayStation 3. That game system initially shipped with the ability to install Linux and other Unix derivatives, but in April 2010 Sony removed the feature and started suing security researchers publishing about it. miniLinks New surveillance industry database reveals who's browsing surveillance tech In collaboration with the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian, Privacy International published a database of all attendees at six ISS World surveillance trade shows, held in Washington, D.C., Dubai and Prague between 2006 and 2009. EDRI's ACTA fact sheet In response to "many rumours and half-truths about ACTA being circulated by campaigners on all sides," our friends at EDRI put together a fact sheet focusing on the real problems and most important issues in ACTA. FBI: Do you like online privacy? You may be a terrorist A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in Internet cafes lists the use of "anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address" as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. Administrivia ISSN 1062-9424 EFFector is a publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110-1914 USA +1 415 436 9333 +1 415 436 9993 (fax) *eff.org* Editor: Parker Higgins, Activist *editor at eff.org* Membership& donation queries: *membership at eff.org* General EFF, legal, policy, or online resources queries: *info at eff.org* *Reproduction* of this publication in electronic media is *encouraged*. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of EFF. To reproduce signed articles individually, please contact the authors for their express permission. Press releases and EFF announcements& articles may be reproduced individually at will. *Back issues of EFFector* *Change your email address * This newsletter is printed from 100% recycled electrons. EFF appreciates your support and respects your privacy. *Privacy Policy*. *Unsubscribe or change your email preferences* , or *opt out of all EFF email* 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110-1914 United States Donate to EFF! Announcements ACT NOW: Rip. Mix. Make. Kirby Ferguson, the filmmaker behind the "Everything is a Remix" series, has written a letter supporting EFF's DMCA exemption request for video production. Tell the Copyright Office you stand with Kirby and EFF by signing on to his letter. ACT NOW: Jailbreaking is Not a Crime bunnie Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox, is standing with EFF to defend users' right to jailbreak. Will you sign on to bunnie's letter to show the Copyright Office that users everywhere say that jailbreaking is not a crime? 100 Year Anniversary of San Diego Free Speech Fight Rainey Reitman, EFF Activism Director, will be speaking at an event to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight. The event is hosted by the San Diego ACLU and the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council. There will be music, speakers, and spoken word performances. *February 8, 2012* *San Diego, CA* Tools of Change: How the Internet Helped Shape the Arab Spring Jillian C. York, EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression, will discuss the powerful role and the drawbacks of social media tools in the Arab Spring, and will speak about their use in the Middle East and North Africa. *February 16, 2012* *Stanford, CA* Humble Bundle for Android The Humble Bundle is back for a limited time only! For this bundle, you can name your price and get four cross-platform and DRM-free games for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, and Android. EFF on twitter facebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Thu Feb 9 05:06:32 2012 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:06:32 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: ACTA blowing up! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4F33C4D8.6010408@structuremonitoring.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACTA blowing up! Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:44:37 +0000 From: Access Reply-To: access at accessnow.org To: Spencer Graves *Click through to join the protests online and offline against ACTA.* Spencer -- What started as a few scattered demonstrations against ACTA has *exploded into an international day of action this Saturday! *There are nearly 200 events across the world, with *hundreds of thousands of people expected to hit the streets* to protest this dangerous international agreement. Our feet have not yet hit the pavement, but our voices *are already being heard!* Facing a groundswell of opposition to ACTA, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia are already wavering on ratification and the European Parliament?s point person for ACTA resigned his post in protest. With ACTA?s supporters starting to wake up, *we're facing a critical moment*. ACTA can still be stopped in the European Parliament, and if it?s defeated there, the whole agreement will unravel. *Momentum is on our side* and we must not stop now. *Click through* to find out how to join hundreds of thousands of people protesting online and offline against ACTA: https://www.accessnow.org/acta-protest Here you?ll find information about ACTA, a listing of Saturday's protests, *fact sheets *in several languages to hand out, and steps to download the ACTA Protest USTREAM App so you can *livestream the event* using your mobile phone.*If there?s no protest near you, host one by starting a Facebook event and e-mail info at accessnow.org the link.* While we support the rights of creators, *protection of intellectual property should not come at the expense of freedom of speech and our privacy*. It is the duty of government to protect our rights, not put them in the hands of corporations and encourage ISPs to act as judge, jury, and executioner over our content and web activity. Once seen as a done deal, *ACTA?s fate is now hanging in the balance*. The world is watching. *Stand up for internet freedom this Saturday and protest ACTA!* https://www.accessnow.org/acta-protest See you out there, The Access Team P.S. Our petition has hit 350,000 and is still growing. To have the most impact in the European Parliament, it needs to get to 500,000. *Help us* by sending this link around to your family and friends: https://www.accessnow.org/acta ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To reply, please email info at accessnow.org . To unsubscribe, go to: http://www.accessnow.org/unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paulmaryengstrom at gmail.com Wed Feb 8 14:43:21 2012 From: paulmaryengstrom at gmail.com (Paul Engstrom) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:43:21 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [Occupy PA] General Assembly meeting: noon Thursday, UniLu In-Reply-To: <3C860A6359182C46A25BEAC3CBDB59A503AC9F6EEE@VA3DIAXVS421.RED001.local> References: <3C860A6359182C46A25BEAC3CBDB59A503AC9F6EEE@VA3DIAXVS421.RED001.local> Message-ID: Greens- I wonder if someone of local Green Party could attend tomorrow's Occupy Palo Alto General Assembly and contribute knowledge on how to create buttons, flyers, bumper stickers etc Would it be possible to borrow or rent the Green button machine? I hope for a Green rep to educate us! PaulforPeace ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Scott Weikart Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM Subject: [Occupy PA] General Assembly meeting: noon Thursday, UniLu To: Occupy Palo Alto The next General Assembly meeting for Occupy Palo Alto is:**** ** ** time : noon - 2 PM, Thursday (tomorrow)**** place: University Lutheran Church (UniLu): http://g.co/maps/36nga**** ** ** There was no draft agenda created/reported from the last**** meeting, but I appended the Wrap Up info.**** ** ** -scott**** ** ** ============================================================================= **** ** ** *WRAP UP***** ** ** *Next Steps:***** Outdoor meetings somewhere - when winter over**** How to keep the Movement going for years and years. (10m) (global assemblies context)**** Actions (to bring up new ideas and activities) (Make it at the end (5-10m)**** **** ** ** *Tasks:***** Find live Feed of Oakland from the balcony over the Weekend (Steffy...needs help)**** Meeting Presence:**** Signs**** Directions (Directs)**** Find out if palo Alto police where there. (Stephy)**** Ask Occupy Stanford Folks to come and describe more of what happened in oakland as a 1st account. (Jay & Stephy)**** Potentially find a group who want to work on how cities should deal with protestors, offical ; no one**** Study Circle**** ** ** *Logistics:***** Reminders**** ** ** Next Facilitator**** Stephy (Co-Facitory with Training and Backup from JAy)**** -- This mailing list is for announcements of events and meetings. Please use OccupyPaloAltoGA at googlegroups.com for information and discussion. Please note that all messages are viewable by the whole world. Select "Reply to All" in your mail program if everyone should see your reply. To send a new message to the list, send an email to: OccupyPaloAlto at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send an email to: OccupyPaloAlto+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For older messages, list members and personal configuration, visit this group at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/OccupyPaloAlto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rob.means at electric-bikes.com Thu Feb 9 08:32:17 2012 From: rob.means at electric-bikes.com (Rob Means) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:32:17 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Other Voices article for the Milpitas Post Message-ID: <1328805137.21173.18.camel@robs-laptop> Other Voices article for the Milpitas Post At the last City Council meeting, I returned to my e-bike and found a note: ?Rob, Quit stealing from the City!! Robin?. (Here I use my daughter's name to protect the judgmental.) That note caused me to think that others might view my use of City electricity as a theft. So, I offer the following explanation of my behavior. My use of electric-powered bicycles stems from my belief that Climate Change caused by CO2 emissions is a big problem that is rapidly getting worse. In 2011, the nation suffered 14 weather disasters each causing $1 billion or more in damage last year, a new record. The old record was nine. Riding an e-bike around town helps cut my personal carbon footprint, so I feel that I am making a personal contribution to a sustainable society. And, beside, riding an electric bike for errands is a lot more fun than driving. The ?stealing? in question is my use of City power to re-charge my batteries. Since long before the new City Hall was built, back when the old City Hall had an unlocked electrical outlet a few feet from the bicycle rack, I rode my e-bike there and plugged in. Cost to the City: one cent whenever I charge up. That one cent of electricity is good for about 2 miles on an e-bike, and my home is about 2 miles from City Hall. If our community agrees that the reduction of CO2 emissions is worth one cent to the public welfare, then we can call it fair exchange. What if I drove instead? There are costs, both financial and environmental, to the City when I drive to the Council meetings in my 1990 mini-van. The financial costs include far more wear and tear on City streets (which break down at a rate of $2M/year but are only repaired at a $1M/year level) along with tire and brake residue which are environmental costs. There is also the public health costs of the toxic exhaust that is not mitigated by a warm catalytic converter. When cold, as it is the first miles, the converter does little or nothing to reduce pollution. Then there is that parking place that my van will need. Surface parking spots go for about $10,000 each, not counting maintenance. If we pretend that ?my? parking spot will last for 100 years, my 2-hour ?free parking? subsidy from the City would be two cents. The City is still getting a bargain when I e-bike and re-charge instead. ?Robin? may not know that nearly 60% of the oil consumed in the United States is imported from other countries. We are importing over $300B ($300,000,000,000) of oil per year. As a fiscal conservative, I think it is nuts ? especially since multiple plans show that we can save a lot of money switching to renewables. As Al Gore put it, "We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change." As a patriot, I want to reduce our country's dependence on foreign regimes. As a citizen, I want to promote the general welfare and public health. As a responsible individual and member of my community, I am doing what I can to shift the culture away from today's ?fuelish? ways toward sustainable ways ? including riding an e-bike. And charging for ?free? at City Hall. Rob Means has promoted, sold and serviced light electric vehicles for 15 years. www.electric-bikes.com, his website, is top-ranked by Google for "electric bikes". -- Rob Means,1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913 408-262-0420h, 408-262-8975w, rob.means at electric-bikes.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Feb 9 12:21:58 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:21:58 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Bradley Manning / Nobel Peace Prize Message-ID: <4F342AE6.90707@earthlink.net> FYI, Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the "The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament": http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/icelandic-parliamentarians-nominate-bradley-manning-for-nobel-peace-prize Apparently this movement is a political movement in Iceland with 3 members in parliament: http://joyb.blogspot.com/2012/02/bradley-manning-nobel-peace-prize.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing The leader and/or spokesperson is Birgitta J?nsd?ttir: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitta_J%C3%B3nsd%C3%B3ttir NOTE, FWIW: According to the above page, the U.S. Justice [sic] Department has tried to obtain her twitter records. FireDogLake has picked up the call with a letter, and is asking for people to sign it: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/manning-nobel Gerry From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu Feb 9 12:29:35 2012 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:29:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Movie Night Message-ID: <1328819375.58510.YahooMailRC@web181011.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Caroline Yacoub From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Feb 9 12:32:57 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:32:57 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Feingold right, says Stein: Obama wrong to engage in "corrupt corporate politics" Message-ID: <4F342D79.2000900@earthlink.net> FYI, http://www.jillstein.org/feingold_right_about_super_pac_obama Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Feb 9 16:54:45 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:54:45 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Move to Amend speaker in Palo Alto on February 12 In-Reply-To: <1784425838.1424676188@salsa3.salsa3DB.mail.salsalabs.com> References: <1784425838.1424676188@salsa3.salsa3DB.mail.salsalabs.com> Message-ID: <4F346AD5.9060506@earthlink.net> Below is an announcement from Move to Amend about David Cobb speaking for Move to Amend in Palo Alto this Sunday. More info at: http://humanists.org/forums.htm Gerry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Move to Amend speaker in Palo Alto on February 12 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:41:41 -0500 (EST) From: Move to Amend Reply-To: barnstorming at MoveToAmend.org To: gerrygras at earthlink.net */The National Campaign to End Corporate Personhood and Demand Democracy!/* Move to Amend *About* *| **Donate* *| **Get Involved* *David Cobb *, a fiery speaker, and former Green Party presidential candidate, is touring California giving his talk "Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule." This presentation is part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action! Cobb is an organizer and national spokesman for MoveToAmend.org, a coalition of over 165,000 people and organizations whose goal is to amend the United States Constitution to end corporate rule and legalize democracy. This event is free and open to the general public, donations requested, no one turned away for lack of funds. Event Details February 12, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm Student Center at Palo Alto High School (corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero) 50 Embarcadero Rd Palo Alto, CA 94301 Contact: Brian Davis bjdpc at yahoo.com 650-856-225 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MOVE TO AMEND* PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 **| www.MoveToAmend.org ** * You are subscribed to this list as gerrygras at earthlink.net. Click here to unsubscribe . empowered by Salsa From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Feb 9 17:54:59 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:54:59 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] heads up for GPSCC CC candidates Message-ID: <4F3478F3.8070303@sbcglobal.net> You can pick up your nomination papers at the Registrar of Voters (ROV) office beginning Monday February 13-th. Your choice will be to have just one candidate name on the form, the nomination paper. Or a group can have all of their names on one form but in this case those who are grouuped together can only have this one version. In both cases several copies of the original may be made so that more than one person can gather signatures for the candidate(s). It is either 20 or 22 valid signatures that are needed. Valid means the person who signs the nomination paper for you must be registered Green and the address they specify must match what the ROV has on record. New registrants and anyone who has moved may turn in an updated voter registration form with the completed nomination petitions. Good Luck! Happy signature gathering! From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Feb 9 17:57:54 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:57:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Move to Amend speaker in Palo Alto on February 12 In-Reply-To: <4F346AD5.9060506@earthlink.net> References: <1784425838.1424676188@salsa3.salsa3DB.mail.salsalabs.com> <4F346AD5.9060506@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1328839074.12100.YahooMailNeo@web111102.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Are you serious?? One hour probably leaves no room for Q+A.? I'm not going. ? John Thielking From: Gerry Gras To: GPSCC Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 4:54 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Move to Amend speaker in Palo Alto on February 12 Below is an announcement from Move to Amend about David Cobb speaking for Move to Amend in Palo Alto this Sunday. More info at: ? ? http://humanists.org/forums.htm Gerry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ??? Move to Amend speaker in Palo Alto on February 12 Date: ??? Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:41:41 -0500 (EST) From: ??? Move to Amend Reply-To: ??? barnstorming at MoveToAmend.org To: ??? gerrygras at earthlink.net */The National Campaign to End Corporate Personhood and Demand Democracy!/* Move to Amend *About* *| **Donate* *| **Get Involved* *David Cobb *, a fiery speaker, and former Green Party presidential candidate, is touring California giving his talk "Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule." This presentation is part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action! Cobb is an organizer and national spokesman for MoveToAmend.org, a coalition of over 165,000 people and organizations whose goal is to amend the United States Constitution to end corporate rule and legalize democracy. This event is free and open to the general public, donations requested, no one turned away for lack of funds. Event Details February 12, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm Student Center at Palo Alto High School (corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero) 50 Embarcadero Rd Palo Alto, CA 94301 Contact: Brian Davis bjdpc at yahoo.com 650-856-225 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MOVE TO AMEND* PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 **| www.MoveToAmend.org ** * You are subscribed to this list as gerrygras at earthlink.net. Click here to unsubscribe . empowered by Salsa _______________________________________________ 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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Message-ID: <4F3635EE.8040500@aceweb.com> http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/01/world/americas/wikilane-mexico-city/index.html -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Proof the Babel Fish exists! Get Carol Brouillet on the ballot! The 5 actions 1 world pin is on a District of Columbia quarter. From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat Feb 11 09:22:40 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:22:40 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] county contact person Message-ID: <4F36A3E0.20209@sbcglobal.net> Here is an email that was sent to me yestereday, Friday the 10-th of February at 2/10/2012 10:55 AM titled Greens in Your County I will add it to our agenda for our February meeting. Hi James -- Thanks for serving on your Green Party County Council! Our state Green Party would like to share information with your County Council about contacts in our database who reside in your county. To receive your data, your County Council should appoint one or more individuals to whom I should send an export of the county database. Please send the contact information to me via email. Best wishes, Marnie Glickman Green Party of CA www.cagreens.org 415.259.7121 -=-=- From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat Feb 11 09:28:58 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:28:58 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] summer 2011 green pages Message-ID: <4F36A55A.9090302@sbcglobal.net> Do we want to order any of these? I will make it an agenda item. Jim Doyle Help Promote the Green Party We are selling remainder boxes (450 issues per box) of the Summer 2011 issue of Green Pages, the national newspaper of the Green Party, for the cost of shipping only. This may be $25-$75 depending on your distance from Washington, DC. That's as low as 6 cents per issue! E-mail office at gp.org or call 202-319-7191 to take advantage of this offer. Send us your shipping address so we can calculate the cost of your order. From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat Feb 11 09:33:10 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:33:10 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] National convention registration Message-ID: <4F36A656.4010703@sbcglobal.net> I am on the Green Party's mailing list so I receive announcements such as this. Dear Jim Doyle, On behalf of the Annual National Meeting Committee and the Green Parties of Baltimore and Maryland, I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2012 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention and Annual Meeting . Please share this announcement far and wide. We are planning a dynamic event for Greens at all levels - delegates, committee members, state and local party leaders, candidates and campaign staff, and elected officials. In other words - you! The convention will be July 12-15, 2012 at the University of Baltimore. Come for workshops on Thursday and Friday, Green Party National Committee business meetings on Friday and Sunday and the Presidential Nominating Convention on that Saturday, July 14. We are also planning special events and fundraisers for Friday and Saturday nights. Baltimore has plenty to do for the whole family! You can register now here! Registration is $90 per person through March 1st, after which the price will increase to $100 for April and May. Rates will go up again on June 1st, so register now to take advantage of savings! We have reserved a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn-Inner Harbor for a discounted rate. Click here to reserve your rooms online as part of our discounted block. Register for our 2012 National Meeting and Presidential Nominating Convention today, and please keep checking back on the convention website for updates and information. Thank you, Hillary Kane Annual National Meeting Committee Co-Chair From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sat Feb 11 09:42:25 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:42:25 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Protest ACTA today, Feb 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall 12-2PM In-Reply-To: <1328426268.12597.YahooMailNeo@web111107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1328426268.12597.YahooMailNeo@web111107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4F36A881.4000701@prodsyse.com> Just a reminder: Protest today noon - 2 PM, City Hall. A more descriptive name for the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" is the "Advancing Corruption and Tyranny Agreement", in my judgment, because the primary effect of this agreement is to provide the government with legal arguments for attacking almost any web site they don't like, shutting it down and persecuting the owners. Current law was used on 31 January 2012 to block a video of an American Sign Language interpretation of Gnarls Barkley song Crazy (http://questioncopyright.org ). I estimate that abuse of power by the mainstream commercial media in the US, ABC-Disney, CBS, NBC-GE, Fox, CNN, is costing the average American family $48,000 per year in lost income; that's the increase in the difference between average and median family income since 1970. One tiny portion of this is the $1.6 billion of US taxpayers' money used to support the Egyptian state terror system in 2010. Best Wishes, Spencer On 2/4/2012 11:17 PM, John Thielking wrote: > *Protest Against ACTA* > *and* > *Decolonize The Internet* > *Protest 12PM-2PM, Saturday, February 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall > Plaza at 4^th and E. Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA * > ** > Ever since the Internet was first formed, the high tech settlers have > spread across the great plains of the Internet, scooping up domain > names and putting up their signs saying "open for business". > Initially, this didn't drive anyone off of their land or cost anyone > their job. However, the proprietary rights associated with publishing > material on a web site are fundamentally different from publishing the > same material in a book. The material in a book may be reused for a > commercial purpose if it is only paraphrased and is not even covered > by copyright when such use is made. A step up from this use is the > defense of "fair use", which allows news organizations to use brief > quotations or even entire works (such as news feeds) in their > broadcasts or in print for the benefit of their for profit > institutions without having to pay royalties to the original copyright > holders or enter into special contracts for each use they make of > copyrighted material. Indeed, according to Wikipedia, 1/6 of the US > economic output is based on such types of "fair use". Note that "fair > use" often does not extend to just any old commercial use. > On the Internet, many web sites throw this community contract of > copyright law out the window and substitute in its place draconian > Terms Of Use contracts. The TOUs often state that no information > contained on the web sites may be used to make derivative works or for > commercial purposes. A prime example is a section from the TOU on > Google.com: > > 2. > You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of > the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in > the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be > protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by > the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to Google > (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may > not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create > derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in > part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do > so by Google or by the owners of that Content, in a separate > agreement. > > > It would seem that even the act of reproducing this quote from the > Google terms on this flier violates those same terms. According to > these terms, apparently Youtube videos and Google Books can not be > used to make derivative works. Even just paraphrasing and thereby > reusing the information contained in such works is "using the Content" > which is prohibited. Indeed, the Supreme Court just recently ruled > that works that are in the public domain (such as the works on Google > Books) can be copyrighted over again and taken out of free, public > circulation. (Workers' World Feb 2, 2012 vol. 54 no 4.) > This state of affairs marks the beginning of the problem that we now > face with ACTA (the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) and similar > initiatives such as SOPA and PIPA. > See the reverse side of this flier for a discussion of ACTA and > similar initiatives such as > Lamar Smith's Internet snooping bill, HR 1981. > *ACTA includes the following, according to Spencer Graves of the Santa > Clara County Green Party:* > > 1. > It empowers governments to take down Internet Service Providers > (ISPs), not just web sites, it doesn't like. I don't know what > recourse a targeted web site or ISP might have to the courts. > 2. > Security forces at airports and border crossings are authorized to > search your cell phone, MP3 player or computer for pirate copies > of anything and confiscate or destroy it if they find something > they don't like. (No search warrant required.) > 3. > ACTA was negotiated in secret and signed by the US and several > other countries. The Bush and Obama administrations successfully > quashed Freedom of Information Act requests on the grounds that > disclosure would cause "damage to the national security." > > A separate initiative is Lamar Smith's Internet snooping bill, HR > 1981. > > According to an e-mail from Demandprogress.org: > The ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and > privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. Will > you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today?... ...*ISPs would > collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime. > *Supporters shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From > Internet Pornographers Act," but our staunchest allies in Congress are > calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill. > Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California -- a SOPA hero who also led Democratic > opposition to this bill -- said, "It represents a data bank of every > digital act by every American [that would] let us find out where every > single American visited Web sites." > ** > *The current status of ACTA, according to Wikipedia, is that the EU > has signed it, but not completely ratified it as only 22 of 27 > countries have ratified it. The treaty goes into full effect when 6 of > the 9 countries (or groups in the case of the EU) that have signed it > ratify it. The US has likely not ratified it. Forbes.com presents a > slightly different account, saying that the treaty is an executive > agreement that doesn't require ratification by the US Senate for > example after it is signed. Many protests are planned across Europe > for February 11, 2012 to protest the signing of ACTA.* > ** > *There are three petitions to sign to try to stop these two > initiatives from going into effect. They are located here:* > *https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta* > *http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_acta/ > * > http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping/ > Please take a moment and type in these URLs into your web browser and > sign the petitions. Thank you. > This protest action is sponsored by www.peacemovies.com > , a web site that hopes to make its > author a living through the "fair use" or the not copyright protected > use of copyrighted material available on the Internet. One of the > sites that is used by Peacemovies.com is www.mercurynews.com > , which has a very clear statement in its > terms of use policy that the material on the site may be reused by > viewers under the exception to copyright law defense known as "fair > use", which ultimately means that the paraphrasing of information > taken from the site and used for commercial purposes does not violate > any copyright law or agreement. Please take a moment and subscribe to > the Mercury News. Thank you. > *Peacemovies.com advocates overturning the laws that permit TOU > contracts to be formed that deprive Internet users of their rights to > "fair use" of content that is provided for free on the Internet.* > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Sat Feb 11 09:44:44 2012 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:44:44 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Protest ACTA today, Feb 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall 12-2PM In-Reply-To: <1328426268.12597.YahooMailNeo@web111107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1328426268.12597.YahooMailNeo@web111107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4F36A90C.4060908@structuremonitoring.com> Just a reminder: Protest today noon - 2 PM, City Hall. A more descriptive name for the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" is the "Advancing Corruption and Tyranny Agreement", in my judgment, because the primary effect of this agreement is to provide the government with legal arguments for attacking almost any web site they don't like, shutting it down and persecuting the owners. Current law was used on 31 January 2012 to block a video of an American Sign Language interpretation of Gnarls Barkley song Crazy (http://questioncopyright.org ). I estimate that abuse of power by the mainstream commercial media in the US, ABC-Disney, CBS, NBC-GE, Fox, CNN, is costing the average American family $48,000 per year in lost income; that's the increase in the difference between average and median family income since 1970. One tiny portion of this is the $1.6 billion of US taxpayers' money used to support the Egyptian state terror system in 2010. Best Wishes, Spencer On 2/4/2012 11:17 PM, John Thielking wrote: > *Protest Against ACTA* > *and* > *Decolonize The Internet* > *Protest 12PM-2PM, Saturday, February 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall > Plaza at 4^th and E. Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA * > ** > Ever since the Internet was first formed, the high tech settlers have > spread across the great plains of the Internet, scooping up domain > names and putting up their signs saying "open for business". > Initially, this didn't drive anyone off of their land or cost anyone > their job. However, the proprietary rights associated with publishing > material on a web site are fundamentally different from publishing the > same material in a book. The material in a book may be reused for a > commercial purpose if it is only paraphrased and is not even covered > by copyright when such use is made. A step up from this use is the > defense of "fair use", which allows news organizations to use brief > quotations or even entire works (such as news feeds) in their > broadcasts or in print for the benefit of their for profit > institutions without having to pay royalties to the original copyright > holders or enter into special contracts for each use they make of > copyrighted material. Indeed, according to Wikipedia, 1/6 of the US > economic output is based on such types of "fair use". Note that "fair > use" often does not extend to just any old commercial use. > On the Internet, many web sites throw this community contract of > copyright law out the window and substitute in its place draconian > Terms Of Use contracts. The TOUs often state that no information > contained on the web sites may be used to make derivative works or for > commercial purposes. A prime example is a section from the TOU on > Google.com: > > 2. > You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of > the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in > the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be > protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by > the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to Google > (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may > not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create > derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in > part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do > so by Google or by the owners of that Content, in a separate > agreement. > > > It would seem that even the act of reproducing this quote from the > Google terms on this flier violates those same terms. According to > these terms, apparently Youtube videos and Google Books can not be > used to make derivative works. Even just paraphrasing and thereby > reusing the information contained in such works is "using the Content" > which is prohibited. Indeed, the Supreme Court just recently ruled > that works that are in the public domain (such as the works on Google > Books) can be copyrighted over again and taken out of free, public > circulation. (Workers' World Feb 2, 2012 vol. 54 no 4.) > This state of affairs marks the beginning of the problem that we now > face with ACTA (the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) and similar > initiatives such as SOPA and PIPA. > See the reverse side of this flier for a discussion of ACTA and > similar initiatives such as > Lamar Smith's Internet snooping bill, HR 1981. > *ACTA includes the following, according to Spencer Graves of the Santa > Clara County Green Party:* > > 1. > It empowers governments to take down Internet Service Providers > (ISPs), not just web sites, it doesn't like. I don't know what > recourse a targeted web site or ISP might have to the courts. > 2. > Security forces at airports and border crossings are authorized to > search your cell phone, MP3 player or computer for pirate copies > of anything and confiscate or destroy it if they find something > they don't like. (No search warrant required.) > 3. > ACTA was negotiated in secret and signed by the US and several > other countries. The Bush and Obama administrations successfully > quashed Freedom of Information Act requests on the grounds that > disclosure would cause "damage to the national security." > > A separate initiative is Lamar Smith's Internet snooping bill, HR > 1981. > > According to an e-mail from Demandprogress.org: > The ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and > privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. Will > you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today?... ...*ISPs would > collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime. > *Supporters shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From > Internet Pornographers Act," but our staunchest allies in Congress are > calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill. > Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California -- a SOPA hero who also led Democratic > opposition to this bill -- said, "It represents a data bank of every > digital act by every American [that would] let us find out where every > single American visited Web sites." > ** > *The current status of ACTA, according to Wikipedia, is that the EU > has signed it, but not completely ratified it as only 22 of 27 > countries have ratified it. The treaty goes into full effect when 6 of > the 9 countries (or groups in the case of the EU) that have signed it > ratify it. The US has likely not ratified it. Forbes.com presents a > slightly different account, saying that the treaty is an executive > agreement that doesn't require ratification by the US Senate for > example after it is signed. Many protests are planned across Europe > for February 11, 2012 to protest the signing of ACTA.* > ** > *There are three petitions to sign to try to stop these two > initiatives from going into effect. They are located here:* > *https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta* > *http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_acta/ > * > http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping/ > Please take a moment and type in these URLs into your web browser and > sign the petitions. Thank you. > This protest action is sponsored by www.peacemovies.com > , a web site that hopes to make its > author a living through the "fair use" or the not copyright protected > use of copyrighted material available on the Internet. One of the > sites that is used by Peacemovies.com is www.mercurynews.com > , which has a very clear statement in its > terms of use policy that the material on the site may be reused by > viewers under the exception to copyright law defense known as "fair > use", which ultimately means that the paraphrasing of information > taken from the site and used for commercial purposes does not violate > any copyright law or agreement. Please take a moment and subscribe to > the Mercury News. Thank you. > *Peacemovies.com advocates overturning the laws that permit TOU > contracts to be formed that deprive Internet users of their rights to > "fair use" of content that is provided for free on the Internet.* > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web:www.structuremonitoring.com -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat Feb 11 10:04:11 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:04:11 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] how to battle foreclosures Message-ID: <4F36AD9B.2000702@sbcglobal.net> Here a notice that came to me via Veterans for Peace. Actions that people threatened with foreclosure can take are in the comments to the notice posted at the link included here. >From "Rebuilding the Dream" http://rebuildthedream.com/blog/2012/02/08/save-arturos-home/ Freddie Mac and Chase of California are trying to foreclose on the family of Arturo de los Santos, a former Marine living in Riverside, CA. He has worked at a metal factory for 21 years to support his four children, who attend elementary school right next door to their three bedroom home. Freddie Mac and Chase repeatedly refused to make Arturo?s payments manageable, eventually evicting the family. Then, their former home stood vacant and deteriorating for months. Now Arturo is re-occupying his home with the help of ACCE and Occupy LA. Sign our petition to demand Chase and Freddie Mac negotiate with Arturo and his family: Once again the comments section in the article found at the above link give details on what one can do. __ From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Feb 11 16:03:21 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:03:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Protest ACTA today, Feb 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall 12-2PM In-Reply-To: <4F36A881.4000701@prodsyse.com> References: <1328426268.12597.YahooMailNeo@web111107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4F36A881.4000701@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1329005001.5529.YahooMailNeo@web111103.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I just got through with doing a phone interview for kpfa news about the ACTA protest we had today.? Tune in at 6PM tonight to hear it at 94.1 FM in the Bay Area, channel 967 on Comcast cable tv, or www.kpfa.org .? The news will be archived at kpfa.org in case you miss it. Thanks. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking From: Spencer Graves To: John Thielking Cc: sosfbay discussion group ; "scc-mta-general at yahoogroups.com" ; Donna Wallach Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Protest ACTA today, Feb 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall 12-2PM Just a reminder:? ????? Protest today noon - 2 PM, City Hall.? ????? A more descriptive name for the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" is the "Advancing Corruption and Tyranny Agreement", in my judgment, because the primary effect of this agreement is to provide the government with legal arguments for attacking almost any web site they don't like, shutting it down and persecuting the owners.? Current law was used on 31 January 2012 to block a video of an American Sign Language interpretation of Gnarls Barkley song Crazy (http://questioncopyright.org/).?? I estimate that abuse of power by the mainstream commercial media in the US, ABC-Disney, CBS, NBC-GE, Fox, CNN, is costing the average American family $48,000 per year in lost income;? that's the increase in the difference between average and median family income since 1970.? One tiny portion of this is the $1.6 billion of US taxpayers' money used to support the Egyptian state terror system in 2010.? ????? Best Wishes, ????? Spencer ????? On 2/4/2012 11:17 PM, John Thielking wrote: Protest Against ACTA >and >Decolonize The Internet >Protest 12PM-2PM, Saturday, February 11, 2012 at San Jose City Hall Plaza at 4th and E. Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA >? >Ever since the Internet was first formed, the high tech settlers have spread across the great plains of the Internet, scooping up domain names and putting up their signs saying ?open for business?. Initially, this didn't drive anyone off of their land or cost anyone their job. However, the proprietary rights associated with publishing material on a web site are fundamentally different from publishing the same material in a book. The material in a book may be reused for a commercial purpose if it is only paraphrased and is not even covered by copyright when such use is made. A step up from this use is the defense of ?fair use?, which allows news organizations to use brief quotations or even entire works (such as news feeds) in their broadcasts or in print for the benefit of their for profit institutions without having to pay royalties to the original copyright holders or enter into special contracts for each use they make of copyrighted material. Indeed, according to Wikipedia, 1/6 of the US economic output is based on such types of ?fair use?. Note that ?fair use? often does not extend to just any old commercial use. > >On the Internet, many web sites throw this community contract of copyright law out the window and substitute in its place draconian Terms Of Use contracts. The TOUs often state that no information contained on the web sites may be used to make derivative works or for commercial purposes. A prime example is a section from the TOU on Google.com: > 1. You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to Google (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google or by the owners of that Content, in a separate agreement. > > >It would seem that even the act of reproducing this quote from the Google terms on this flier violates those same terms. According to these terms, apparently Youtube videos and Google Books can not be used to make derivative works. Even just paraphrasing and thereby reusing the information contained in such works is ?using the Content? which is prohibited. Indeed, the Supreme Court just recently ruled that works that are in the public domain (such as the works on Google Books) can be copyrighted over again and taken out of free, public circulation. (Workers' World Feb 2, 2012 vol. 54 no 4.) > >This state of affairs marks the beginning of the problem that we now face with ACTA (the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) and similar initiatives such as SOPA and PIPA. >? >See the reverse side of this flier for a discussion of ACTA and similar initiatives such as >Lamar Smith's Internet snooping bill, HR 1981. > >ACTA includes the following, according to Spencer Graves of the Santa Clara County Green Party: > 1. It empowers governments to take down Internet Service Providers (ISPs), not just web sites, it doesn't like. I don't know what recourse a targeted web site or ISP might have to the courts. > 2. Security forces at airports and border crossings are authorized to search your cell phone, MP3 player or computer for pirate copies of anything and confiscate or destroy it if they find something they don't like. (No search warrant required.) > 3. ACTA was negotiated in secret and signed by the US and several other countries. The Bush and Obama administrations successfully quashed Freedom of Information Act requests on the grounds that disclosure would cause "damage to the national security.? > >A separate initiative is Lamar Smith's Internet snooping bill, HR 1981. >According to an e-mail from Demandprogress.org: >The ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. Will you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today?... ...ISPs would collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime. Supporters shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but our staunchest allies in Congress are calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill. Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California -- a SOPA hero who also led Democratic opposition to this bill -- said, "It represents a data bank of every digital act by every American [that would] let us find out where every single American visited Web sites." >? >The current status of ACTA, according to Wikipedia, is that the EU has signed it, but not completely ratified it as only 22 of 27 countries have ratified it. The treaty goes into full effect when 6 of the 9 countries (or groups in the case of the EU) that have signed it ratify it. The US has likely not ratified it. Forbes.com presents a slightly different account, saying that the treaty is an executive agreement that doesn't require ratification by the US Senate for example after it is signed. Many protests are planned across Europe for February 11, 2012 to protest the signing of ACTA. >? >There are three petitions to sign to try to stop these two initiatives from going into effect. They are located here: >https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta >http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_acta/? >http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping/ >Please take a moment and type in these URLs into your web browser and sign the petitions. Thank you. > >This protest action is sponsored by www.peacemovies.com, a web site that hopes to make its author a living through the ?fair use? or the not copyright protected use of copyrighted material available on the Internet. One of the sites that is used by Peacemovies.com is www.mercurynews.com, which has a very clear statement in its terms of use policy that the material on the site may be reused by viewers under the exception to copyright law defense known as ?fair use?, which ultimately means that the paraphrasing of information taken from the site and used for commercial purposes does not violate any copyright law or agreement. Please take a moment and subscribe to the Mercury News. Thank you. > >Peacemovies.com advocates overturning the laws that permit TOU contracts to be formed that deprive Internet users of their rights to ?fair use? of content that is provided for free on the Internet. > > >_______________________________________________ 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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PALO ALTO: Move to Amend California Barnstorming Tour Date: February 12, 2012 - 11:00am - 12:00pm Location: Student Center at Palo Alto High School (corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero) 50 Embarcadero Rd Palo Alto, CA 94301 See map: Google Maps David Cobb, a fiery speaker, and former Green Party presidential candidate, is touring California giving his talk "Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule." This presentation is part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action! Cobb is an organizer and national spokesman for MoveToAmend.org, a coalition of over 160,000 people and organizations whose goal is to amend the United States Constitution to end corporate rule and legalize democracy. This event is free and open to the general public, donations requested, no one turned away for lack of funds. Event Contact: Brian Davis Email: bjdpc at yahoo.com Phone: 650-856-2253 -- This mailing list is for announcements of events and meetings. 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URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sun Feb 12 16:35:42 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:35:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: [Occupy PA] PALO ALTO: Move to Amend California Barnstorming Tour Sunday 11:00 am In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <1329093342.50733.YahooMailNeo@web111113.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I did finally decide to go to this talk.? I agree with everything that David Cobb says about the US building an Empire by using corporations (starting with the 13 colonies that were themselves corporations). However, I did point out during Q+A that Move To Amend Section 1 is unacceptable.? David Cobb didn't want to debate the issue.? He merely said "I don't think I can convince you that my position is right, but I don't think that MTA Section 1 will take away the rights of [small businesses] as you suggest it will".? I told him that with a fundamental disagreement like that, it may be up to the courts to decide if the cops can invade a small business without a warrant if MTA Section 1 passes.?(Currently, the US Supreme Court has recently ruled that a warrant is required for an OSHA inspection, though the people petitioning for the warrant don't have to show probable cause that a violation of law is taking place, they merely?have to show that the inspection is authorized under some section of law or other.)?I think Cobb's basic message is right on. I just don't see that the way forward?includes MTA Section 1.? ? If it were popular for small investors to organize into voting blocks at stockholders' meetings, a way forward might include?using a nonprofit to?organize stockholders.? Unfortunately the market trend seems to be away from buying the type of stock that gives individual investors a say at stockholders' meetings and towards allowing a corporation to be run by an unaccountable board of directors.??You may see me working on this line of attack a bit more in the near future, even though it does go against the grain so to speak.? See the end of this e-mail for the proposal about this that I received recently. ? Section 2 of MTA is fine. I have no problem with saying that money is not speech only during an election.? I neglected to bring my "Small Businesses Are People Too" fliers, but that's the breaks I guess.? They do offer free food for first time participants, but I decided to make my weekly trek to the big bad coporation called Marie Callendars for their Sunday Brunch instead.? ? John Thielking ? The Shareholder Empowerment Project Mission Statement [The Shareholder Empowerment Directive]: Our purpose is to empower shareholders of publicly held corporations. We will enable shareholders to acknowledge the power of their corporate enfranchisement, facilitating the shareholders in communicating the principles they want to guide all future corporate ventures. We will coordinate these votes so that the shareholders can be heard in unity. Ultimately, shareholders will be left completely fulfilled in their responsibility as owners. What is currently the case: There are three things you get when you own stock: you get a stock that has a market price, you get a periodic dividend, and you get an annual vote for the board of directors. Currently, the vast majority of shareholders focus on the market price & dividends of the stock they own, and when the annual shareholder ballot comes in the mail, they simply throw it in the trash. If they are curious, they will look at the ballot; realize that they have only one option to cast their vote for, and then either throw out the ballot or vote for the pre-selected candidate. These are the most frequent actions of those people who OWN public corporations, and these actions send one message to their servants, the board of directors: keep doing what you are doing, whatever it happens to be. What a future without intervention looks like: This is the way it has been for decades, and is likely to continue. The effect of this pattern of shareholder behavior is simple: the board of directors will fulfill the most basic mandate of corporate existence ? pursue profit for profit?s own sake. When shareholders are silent about what they care about, and silent about where they want their company to head, what you are left with is the world we have today: * A world where corporations do cost-benefit analysis comparing the cost of fines for violating environmental laws with the costs of responsibly processing an industrial by-product so it is harmless; resulting in frequent illegal and dangerous disposal of toxic waste. * A world where corporations spend millions of dollars in profits on undermining democracies across the Earth. * A world where corporations don?t fact check before broadcasting news reports. * A world where cheap labor is seen as expendable ? resulting in lack of safety measures in factories across the Earth. * A world where corporations replace parts of our food with untested industrial byproducts. * A world where corporations won?t tell us if the food they are selling us has been genetically modified. * A world where corporations take millions of dollars in profits away from their shareholders and give it to their board of directors. * A world where corporations don?t invest in the future if it reduces profits in the present, a world where everything and everyone is merely a means to an end, and the end only profit. This is the world we live in now, and the world we are preparing to give to our children. But, this future DOES NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN! And we can stop it swiftly, without needing rely on the actions of politicians! What a future with universal Shareholder Empowerment looks like: Imagine for a moment, a world where shareholders could go online, and pull up their stock portfolio on a website, then select from a menu of preferences for each of their stocks what they most want the corporations they own to do. Then fill out a form to transfer their voting rights to an organization that will cast their votes on their behalf, as part of a block of hundreds of thousands of other shareholders voicing the same preferences. The list of possible preferences could be endless, though there are likely to be some preferences that would be more prevalent than others, for example: * If they own media stock, they could select that they want all news broadcasts to be fact checked before airing. * If they own food industry stock, they could select that they want all genetically modified ingredients in their products to be labeled. * If they own financial industry stock, they could select that no employee or director of the company make more than 500x the lowest paid full-time employee. * If they own energy company stock, they could select that they want 20% of the company?s expenses be dedicated to developing and implementing sustainable energy sources. * If they own manufacturing stock, they could select that the factory safety standards will be globally uniform, conforming to the highest standard. * If they own retail stock, they could select that they want the company to end all resistance to unionization of the employees. * If they own chemical company stock, they could select that company policy will be to obey environmental protection laws without cost-benefit analysis beforehand. And possibly the most significant preference any sharehold could take if they own stock in ANY corporation: they could select that they do not want the corporation to spend a dime on influencing government policy beyond mere reporting of the business? opinions on bills and laws. ? With their preferences known, these coordinated votes of the shareholders would be used to nominate an alternative candidate for the board of directors. Ultimately, these votes would be used to elect a board of directors that can serve the interests of the shareholders most completely, and in so doing leave the shareholders fulfilled as owners, for they are now responsible for the actions corporations take in their name. In a world of universal shareholder empowerment, anything the shareholders want for the world becomes possible. A world of conscientious capitalist cooperation & competition is now merely a matter of the shareholders choosing it to be so. ?2012 Andrew M. Crockett andrewmcrockett at gmail.com From: Brian Good To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:02 AM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: [Occupy PA] PALO ALTO: Move to Amend California Barnstorming Tour Sunday 11:00 am PALO ALTO: Move to Amend California Barnstorming Tour | Move to Amend movetoamend.org David Cobb, a fiery speaker, and former Green Party presidential candidate, is touring California giving his talk "Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule."? This presentation is part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action! ? PALO ALTO: Move to Amend California Barnstorming Tour Date:? February 12, 2012 -?11:00am?-?12:00pm Location: Student Center at Palo Alto High School (corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero) 50 Embarcadero Rd Palo Alto,?CA?94301 See map:?Google Maps David Cobb, a fiery speaker, and former Green Party presidential candidate, is touring California giving his talk "Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule."? This presentation is part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action! Cobb is an organizer and national spokesman for MoveToAmend.org, a coalition of over 160,000 people and organizations whose goal is to amend the United States Constitution to end corporate rule and legalize democracy. This event is free and open to the general public, donations requested, no one turned away for lack of funds. ? Event Contact: Brian Davis Email:??bjdpc at yahoo.com Phone:??650-856-2253 ? -- This mailing list is for announcements of events and meetings. Please use OccupyPaloAltoGA at googlegroups.com for information and discussion. ? Please note that all messages are viewable by the whole world. ? Select "Reply to All" in your mail program if everyone should see your reply. ? To send a new message to the list, send an email to: OccupyPaloAlto at googlegroups.com ? To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send an email to: OccupyPaloAlto+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com ? For older messages, list members and personal configuration, visit this group at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/OccupyPaloAlto _______________________________________________ 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 gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Feb 13 12:49:54 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:49:54 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 20 more hours to stop Keystone XL Pipeline Message-ID: <4F397772.7080904@earthlink.net> There is a possibly unprecedented action against the Keystone XL pipeline going on. Many groups are getting together to try to get 500,000 signature in 24 hours (20 hours remaining) to oppose the pipeline: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/13-2 http://350.org/ http://climaterealityproject.org/ http://www.nrdc.org/ http://sierraclub.org/ http://www.credoaction.com/ http://moveon.org/ Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Feb 13 15:03:40 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:03:40 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Move to Amend In-Reply-To: <4F399425.6070301@earthlink.net> References: <4F399425.6070301@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4F3996CC.2020300@earthlink.net> FYI, "New Mexico Legislature to Congress: Amend Against 'Citizens United'" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/13-10 Gerry From jgshurt69 at aol.com Mon Feb 13 20:48:42 2012 From: jgshurt69 at aol.com (jgshurt69 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:48:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Bradley Manning to be arraigned at Fort Meade on Feb. 23 In-Reply-To: <3e079dfd70fa578945a0ef75813c5d00@smtp.ymlp53.net> References: <3e079dfd70fa578945a0ef75813c5d00@smtp.ymlp53.net> Message-ID: <8CEB8EB0F691FF1-734-394@webmail-d142.sysops.aol.com> -----Original Message----- From: Bradley Manning Support Network To: jgshurt69 Sent: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 3:12 pm Subject: Bradley Manning to be arraigned at Fort Meade on Feb. 23 Bradley Manning to be arraigned at Fort Meade Feb. 23rd. Court martial expected in early May. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Bradley Manning to be arraigned at Fort Meade Feb. 23rd. Court martial expected in early May. By the Bradley Manning Support Network. February 13, 2012 The US Army last week scheduled a formal arraignment hearing for PFC Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower. The arraignment is scheduled for 1:00 PM EST, February 23, 2012 at Fort Meade, Maryland, just northeast of Washington DC. While the hearing itself is expected to be brief, PFC Manning is expected to be present, and the proceedings are open to the media and public. Washington DC area supporters of the Support Network are encouraged to attend the arraignment. Bradley?s show trial will begin in earnest with this arraignment. This proceeding will set the dates for a series of hearings on pre-trial motions likely to occur in March and April. Finally, the arraignment will set the date for the full court-martial?which we currently expect to begin in early May. If the Obama administration is the least bit concerned with providing even the appearance of a fair trial, they will allow Bradley?s legal defense team to explore the critical issues at the heart of this case, including: President Obama?s recorded unlawful command influence over the proceedings, the illegal and torturous conditions that Bradley was subjected to for nine months at the Quantico Marine Brig, the over-classification of all of the documents in question, and the lack of any harm to national security from the release of the documents. So far military officials have blocked nearly every request by Bradley?s defense team, led by Iraq War veteran David Coombs, for access to evidence and witnesses that could explore these core issues. During the Article 32 pre-trial hearing held in December, the defense was denied access to over three dozen critical witnesses (while the prosecution was allowed access to every one of two dozen witnesses requested). This allowed military officials to limit the hearing to little more than a discussion of mitigating factors related to Bradley?s emotional health. If Bradley had been a member of the US Marine squad that admitted to systematically murdering two dozen innocent Iraqi men, women, and children in Haditha, Iraq, he?d be walking free today. Instead, he faces the real prospect of life in prison for telling the truth. Next week?s arraignment comes just after Bradley was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament. A blog post by MP Birgitta J?nsd?ttir explained their rationale for the nomination: "According to journalists, his alleged actions helped motivate the democratic Arab Spring movements, shed light on secret corporate influence on our foreign policies, and most recently contributed to the Obama Administration agreeing to withdraw all U.S. troops from the occupation in Iraq." Join us at a mass rally for Bradley at Fort Meade to coincide with the beginning of his court martial! The date(s) of the rally will be announced after the trial date is set?we?re currently anticipating early May. If you can?t make the trip to the Washington DC area, organize or take part in one of over a hundred solidarity events worldwide. Individuals who can help organize events in your town/city: Sign our Trial Action Pledge to help organize support for Bradley! Organizations that wish to endorse these events and potentially help publicize and organize them: Check out our new Organizational Endorsement Pledge! We have about 100 days to save Bradley from over 100 years in prison?learn more at bradleymanning.org Donate at bradleymanning.org/donate follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend unsubscribe from this list| view email in browser Powered by YMLP.com Unsubscribe / Change Email Powered by YMLP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Mon Feb 13 23:14:59 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:14:59 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Impeach Obama for War Crimes: VfP Message-ID: Resolution 2011-7 was passed at the Veterans for Peace convention last August. Somehow I missed it. IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA FOR WAR CRIMES Whereas, Barack H. Obama is Commander In Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and the head of the Executive Branch of the United States government, and Whereas, President Obama, on 19 March 2011, committed a criminal act by ordering the U.S. military to war in Libya without first obtaining the consent of the U.S. Congress in a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution, and Whereas, the illegal U.S. invasion, bombing and occupation of Iraq initiated by the Bush administration continues under the Obama administration; and Whereas, the U.S. government is currently engaged in illegal wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya, and President Obama pledged to increase the number of military personnel and tax dollars spent on the these wars, and Whereas, the U.S. military used and continues to use depleted uranium munitions, cluster bombs and white phosphorous in densely populated areas in violation of U.S. laws and international laws and treaties prohibiting the indiscriminate killing of civilians; and, Whereas, the Geneva Conventions specifically prohibit the use of especially injurious weapons and materials causing unnecessary harm that remain active and lethal after battle, and over large areas of land, and Whereas, large numbers of babies born in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer life-long illness and deformity like severe disfigurements and brain damage, Down?s syndrome, and weak hearts doctors state are caused by the U.S. military?s massive and widespread use of toxic and radioactive materials, and Whereas, millions upon millions of Iraqi, Afghani, Pakistani, Yemeni, Somali, and Libyan civilians have been maimed, poisoned, displaced from their homes, and killed in a direct result of ongoing, illegal acts of war by the United States, and Whereas, illegal, immoral and counterproductive detainee torture and brutalization at the hands of the U.S. military?s Immediate Reaction Force continue at Guantanamo under the Obama administration and in particular, the torture of Pfc. Bradley Manning at Quantico, Virginia, and Whereas, President Obama is an accessory after the fact in obstructing justice by failingto order the Department of Justice to initiate investigations into numerous and blatant U.S. war crimes committed by the Bush administration, for which it is manifestly accountable under the law, and Whereas, millions of Americans, including Veterans For Peace and Prosecute Them Now, supported the impeachment of Bush/Cheney for the same war crimes that are being committed now by Obama in violation of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. federal laws, the United Nations Charter, the Hague Convention, the Geneva Conventions, The United Nations Convention Against Torture and the Nuremberg Tribunal Charter, and Whereas, Veterans For Peace and Prosecute Them Now are committed to the stated mission to restrain our government from intervening overtly and covertly in the internal affairs of other nations, to seek justice for veterans and victims of war, to increase public awareness of the exact costs of war, and to abolish war as an instrument of national policy; Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace call on the U.S. House of Representatives to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against President Barack H. Obama for failure to uphold his sworn oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic, and for his commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity, obstruction of justice and the violation of numerous national and international laws, treaties and conventions. Approved at the 2011 VFP National Convention -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Feb 14 14:30:27 2012 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:30:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: The Solution for a Broken Campaign Finance System Message-ID: <1329258627.87136.YahooMailRC@web181008.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Congresswoman Anna Eshoo To: carolineyacoub at att.net Sent: Tue, February 14, 2012 10:01:02 AM Subject: The Solution for a Broken Campaign Finance System RECENT NEWS???? |???? CONSTITUENT SERVICES???? |???? LEGISLATIVE WORK???? |???? CONTACT ANNA???? |???? NOT A SUBSCRIBER? Dear Friend, ?Two years ago, the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision cast aside a century of settled law and dealt a serious blow to our electoral process. In a shocking 5-4 decision, the court held that corporations and unions are entitled to the same First Amendment rights as people -- a ridiculous notion that Justice John Paul Stevens wisely called "a rejection of the common sense of the American people." I support legislation for Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment to override Citizens United, but this could take years. In the near term, there's one critical tool to fight back: full disclosure. Even the author of the Court?s decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy, described the importance of transparency in our political system, saying it "permits citizens and shareholders to react to the speech of corporate entities in a proper way." In response to the Court?s decision, and with my full support, Congress attempted to pass comprehensive legislation called the DISCLOSE Act. It prohibited foreign influence in federal elections, banned government contractors from political expenditures, and established requirements for election spending. The DISCLOSE Act passed the House in 2010, but unfortunately fell short in the Senate. I?m pleased to be an original cosponsor of the recently-reintroduced DISCLOSE 2012 Act. After the original?DISCLOSE Act failed, I led more than 60 of my House colleagues in calling on President Obama to issue an Executive Order to require every company that does business with the federal government to fully disclose its political contributions. With federal contract spending totaling more than $500 billion each year, and roughly one-quarter of all Americans employed by a firm doing business with the government, I think my proposal would be a major victory for reform, making transparency the norm rather than the exception. With public dollars comes public responsibility. I've taken to the floor of the House repeatedly over the last year offering amendments to secure this critical disclosure, only to have them blocked from consideration each time at the behest of powerful business and lobbying groups. The good news is the President can accomplish this on his own. The bad news is he hasn?t yet. The threat of undue corporate influence over America's political system is neither idle nor new. In 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt demanded campaign finance reform. He signed the Tillman Act banning corporate contributions in 1907, and the first disclosure rules in 1910. Since that time, Congress has repeatedly supported a ban on anonymous and unlimited campaign spending, culminating in the landmark McCain-Feingold law in 2002, which I was proud to support. Californians already know the power of disclosure. During the campaign on Proposition 23 (the ballot initiative to roll back greenhouse gas emissions rules), advertisements had to disclose the sponsors. When voters heard that major oil companies were funding the entire campaign, the proposition was overwhelmingly rejected. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and two years after Citizens United, disclosure remains the best available weapon to combat the corrosive effects of the Court's decision. Corporations are not people and shouldn't be treated like them. The President can and should use his authority and issue the long-awaited Executive Order straight away. Disclosure puts voters in the driver's seat, and it's time to hand over the keys. Let me know what you think. 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URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Feb 16 07:38:46 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:38:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Two events talking about Iran Feb 28th, 2012 Message-ID: <1329406726.90109.YahooMailNeo@web111108.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> >From the San Jose Peace and Justice Center Calendar (Too bad these are both at the exact same time in 2 different places): ? Iran and the Bomb - Talking Sense With Michael Veiluva of WSLF When: Tuesday, February 28 2012 @ 07:00 PM - - 09:00PM Where: Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo 300 E. Santa Inez San Mateo, CA 94401 Description: The sanctions and the threats on Iran ("everything is on the table") regarding its nuclear program are in the news every week. The International Atomic Energy Agency submits reports whose titles suggest a nuclear weapons program on the rise, but the evidence is about the same as before. Iran conducts various military-related tests that seem designed to shake up the region. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes another outlandish statement and the U.S. and Israel, perhaps together or separately, murmur about war. The Iran story is looking darkly familiar to the events of 10 years ago. Indeed, even back then someone in the George W. Bush Administration blithely declared "...real men want to go to Tehran." (We are confident that person had no intention whatsoever of picking up a gun, putting on a helmet and flack jacket and boarding a C-130 for Iran.) For its February meeting, Peace Action of San Mateo County is fortunate to have Michael Veiluva, general counsel to the Oakland-based peace and disarmament organization Western States Legal Foundation. Michael is also WSLF's expert on Iran and how it fits in with U.S. foreign policy and world events. He is the author of the book Burdens of Proof: Iran, the United States and Nuclear Weapons (2009), and contributed to Beyond Arms Control (2010), published by the Reaching Critical Will Project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. He has written extensively on the subject of Iran's nuclear program, most recently in the January 2012 Canadian Peace Magazine. On Tuesday, February 28, Michael will offer his insights into this fluid situation, even as they and it currently evolve. We will gather at 7PM in Beck Hall of the Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo. The UUSM is wheelchair accessible from the Ellsworth Street entrance. This is a chance to learn about preparations for the next war - and try to gather some knowledge on how to stop it. This event is sponsored by smpa at sanmateopeaceaction.org (See event web page) ? ? ? War on Iran? The Gathering Storm When: Tuesday, February 28 2012 @ 07:30 PM - - 09:30PM Where: Unitarian Universalist Church 505 E. Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94306 Description: War on Iran? The Gathering Storm Tuesday, February 28 2012 @ 07:30 PM - - 09:30PM Fireside Room, Unitarian Universalist Church 505 E. Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94306 A Panel Discussion STEPHEN ZUNES Professor of Politics and International Studies, Chair of the Program in Middle Eastern Studies, University of San Francisco LARRY EVEREST Author of "Oil, Power, & Empire" and Correspondent for Revolution The danger of a war on Iran ? initiated by Israel or the U.S. or both ? is escalating rapidly. The U.S. and its allies are intensifying their assault on Iran, including new crippling sanctions, assassinations, and sabotage. Some political leaders are openly threatening to attack. The ground is being laid daily in the headlines and statements by politicians of every stripe in mainstream U.S. politics calling for aggression against Iran, supposedly justified by unsubstantiated assertions that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. Free and open to all. Contributions will be requested. Wheelchair accessible. This event is sponsored by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (See event web page) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Fri Feb 17 06:17:43 2012 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:17:43 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars Message-ID: <4F3E6187.8000901@charter.net> Dr. Michael E. Mann (Penn State) is one of the leading climate scientists. He has long been the target of info-fascist attacks from well organized climate deniers... often orchestrated by the web site called Watts Up With That. In his new book, Dr. Mann lays out the story of both the history of the hockey stick metaphor and of the attacks that followed. I recommended purchase of this book for the Santa Clara County Library system and they have just ordered 4 copies. Look for it. Read it. From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Fri Feb 17 17:29:49 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:29:49 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Spencer Graves to run for something In-Reply-To: <4F3478F3.8070303@sbcglobal.net> References: <4F3478F3.8070303@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <4F3EFF0D.9060100@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: I decided today I should run for something, but I have not yet decided what. According to information I received today at the offices of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, the only offices on the June 5 ballot for which I would be eligible to run are against US Senator Feinstein, US Representative Lofgren and City Councilperson Olivario. There are four other offices I could potentially contest this year. All four will appear on the November ballot but not the June ballot (San Jos? Evergreen Community College District plus Open Space, Flood Control, and Water District). SANTA CLARA GREEN PARTY COUNTY COUNCIL: Who all said they would run for Green Party County Council? I picked up the form today at the office of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, and I will fax it to whomever else has agreed to run but has not yet filed the paperwork to do so. We need to all sign the form and deliver said form to one person, who will then go to the Registrar of Voters and get the necessary form for collecting signatures. That form can then be scanned and sent to anyone willing to collect signatures. Signed forms then need to be collected by someone who will file the forms with the Registrar of Voters by March 9. SCHOOL BOARDS, WATER DISTRICT, FLOOD CONTROL: These offices have candidates on the November ballot but NOT on the June 5 ballot. The filing period for these offices is July 16 - August 10. I think I want to run for something on the June ballot. If I do not get in the top 2, then I want to run for one of these offices, probably the San Jose / Evergreen Community College District board of trustees. OFFICES ON THE JUNE 5 BALLOT: * Anyone running against Sen. Feinstein needs to collect at least 40 signatures and pay a fee of $3,480 by Feb. 23. If we submit by that date 10,000 valid signatures, we do not have to pay the fee. This is probably out of the question. * My US representative is Zoe Lofgren. I don't have the minimum number of signatures, but it's probably at least 20. The fee is $1,740, and 3,000 valid signatures could be filed in lieu of the fee. The deadline is Feb. 23, as for the Senate. * I could run against Pierluigi Olivario for City Council. I don't know the fee or have the number of signatures and deadline required for this; I can get that Monday from the City Council's office. Comments? Spencer On 2/9/2012 5:54 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > You can pick up your nomination papers at the Registrar > of Voters (ROV) office beginning Monday February 13-th. > > Your choice will be to have just one candidate name on the > form, the nomination paper. Or a group can have all of their > names on one form but in this case those who are grouuped > together can only have this one version. > > In both cases several copies of the original may be made so that > more than one person can gather signatures for the candidate(s). > > It is either 20 or 22 valid signatures that are needed. > Valid means the person who signs the nomination paper for you > must be registered Green and the address they specify must match > what the ROV has on record. > > New registrants and anyone who has moved may turn in an updated > voter registration form with the completed nomination petitions. > > Good Luck! > Happy signature gathering! > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web:www.structuremonitoring.com From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Feb 17 20:39:00 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:39:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Spencer Graves to run for something In-Reply-To: <4F3EFF0D.9060100@prodsyse.com> References: <4F3478F3.8070303@sbcglobal.net> <4F3EFF0D.9060100@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1329539940.17305.YahooMailNeo@web111113.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I might run against Feinstein or Lofgren sometime in the future.? But do I read this right that you have only from Feb 13th to Feb 23rd to gather the needed number of signatures? That would only be realistic if I were to pay the $3500 or $1740 and gather only 20-40 signatures. Carol B is trying to gather 3000 signatures to run against Eschoo I think.? Good luck with that. ? John Thielking From: Spencer Graves To: Jim Doyle Cc: sosfbay discussion group Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 5:29 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Spencer Graves to run for something Hello, All: ? ? ? I decided today I should run for something, but I have not yet decided what.? According to information I received today at the offices of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, the only offices on the June 5 ballot for which I would be eligible to run are against US Senator Feinstein, US Representative Lofgren and City Councilperson Olivario.? There are four other offices I could potentially contest this year.? All four will appear on the November ballot but not the June ballot (San Jos? Evergreen Community College District plus Open Space, Flood Control, and Water District). SANTA CLARA GREEN PARTY COUNTY COUNCIL:? Who all said they would run for Green Party County Council?? I picked up the form today at the office of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, and I will fax it to whomever else has agreed to run but has not yet filed the paperwork to do so.? We need to all sign the form and deliver said form to one person, who will then go to the Registrar of Voters and get the necessary form for collecting signatures.? That form can then be scanned and sent to anyone willing to collect signatures.? Signed forms then need to be collected by someone who will file the forms with the Registrar of Voters by March 9. SCHOOL BOARDS, WATER DISTRICT, FLOOD CONTROL:? These offices have candidates on the November ballot but NOT on the June 5 ballot.? The filing period for these offices is July 16 - August 10.? I think I want to run for something on the June ballot.? If I do not get in the top 2, then I want to run for one of these offices, probably the San Jose / Evergreen Community College District board of trustees. OFFICES ON THE JUNE 5 BALLOT: ? ? ? * Anyone running against Sen. Feinstein needs to collect at least 40 signatures and pay a fee of $3,480 by Feb. 23.? If we submit by that date 10,000 valid signatures, we do not have to pay the fee.? This is probably out of the question. ? ? ? * My US representative is Zoe Lofgren.? I don't have the minimum number of signatures, but it's probably at least 20.? The fee is $1,740, and 3,000 valid signatures could be filed in lieu of the fee.? The deadline is Feb. 23, as for the Senate. ? ? ? * I could run against Pierluigi Olivario for City Council.? I don't know the fee or have the number of signatures and deadline required for this;? I can get that Monday from the City Council's office. ? ? ? Comments? ? ? ? Spencer On 2/9/2012 5:54 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > You can pick up your nomination papers at the Registrar > of Voters (ROV) office beginning Monday February 13-th. > > Your choice will be to have just one candidate name on the > form, the nomination paper.? Or a group can have all of their > names on one form but in this case those who are grouuped > together can only have this one version. > > In both cases several copies of the original may be made so that > more than one person can gather signatures for the candidate(s). > > It is either 20 or 22 valid signatures that are needed. > Valid means the person who signs the nomination paper for you > must be registered Green and the address they specify must match > what the ROV has on record. > > New registrants and anyone who has moved may turn in an updated > voter registration form with the completed nomination petitions. > > Good Luck! > Happy signature gathering! > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph:? 408-655-4567 web:www.structuremonitoring.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... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Fri Feb 17 23:13:13 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:13:13 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Spencer Graves to run for something In-Reply-To: <1329539940.17305.YahooMailNeo@web111113.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <4F3478F3.8070303@sbcglobal.net> <4F3EFF0D.9060100@prodsyse.com> <1329539940.17305.YahooMailNeo@web111113.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4F3F4F89.1030703@prodsyse.com> On 2/17/2012 8:39 PM, John Thielking wrote: > I might run against Feinstein or Lofgren sometime in the future. But > do I read this right that you have only from Feb 13th to Feb 23rd to > gather the needed number of signatures? The "Signatures-in-lieu" petitions to run against Feinstein or Lofgren were available Dec. 30 and are due Feb. 23. Petitions for Green Party County Council were available Feb. 13 and carry a deadline of March 9. > That would only be realistic if I were to pay the $3500 or $1740 and > gather only 20-40 signatures. Carol B is trying to gather 3000 > signatures to run against Eschoo I think. I believe Carol's deadline would be Feb. 23. If the incumbent decided not to run, then the deadline for others gets extended by a week or so. Spencer > Good luck with that. > John Thielking > > *From:* Spencer Graves > *To:* Jim Doyle > *Cc:* sosfbay discussion group > *Sent:* Friday, February 17, 2012 5:29 PM > *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Spencer Graves to run for something > > Hello, All: > > > I decided today I should run for something, but I have not yet > decided what. According to information I received today at the > offices of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, the only > offices on the June 5 ballot for which I would be eligible to run are > against US Senator Feinstein, US Representative Lofgren and City > Councilperson Olivario. There are four other offices I could > potentially contest this year. All four will appear on the November > ballot but not the June ballot (San Jos? Evergreen Community College > District plus Open Space, Flood Control, and Water District). > > > SANTA CLARA GREEN PARTY COUNTY COUNCIL: Who all said they would run > for Green Party County Council? I picked up the form today at the > office of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, and I will fax > it to whomever else has agreed to run but has not yet filed the > paperwork to do so. We need to all sign the form and deliver said > form to one person, who will then go to the Registrar of Voters and > get the necessary form for collecting signatures. That form can then > be scanned and sent to anyone willing to collect signatures. Signed > forms then need to be collected by someone who will file the forms > with the Registrar of Voters by March 9. > > > SCHOOL BOARDS, WATER DISTRICT, FLOOD CONTROL: These offices have > candidates on the November ballot but NOT on the June 5 ballot. The > filing period for these offices is July 16 - August 10. I think I > want to run for something on the June ballot. If I do not get in the > top 2, then I want to run for one of these offices, probably the San > Jose / Evergreen Community College District board of trustees. > > > OFFICES ON THE JUNE 5 BALLOT: > > > * Anyone running against Sen. Feinstein needs to collect at > least 40 signatures and pay a fee of $3,480 by Feb. 23. If we submit > by that date 10,000 valid signatures, we do not have to pay the fee. > This is probably out of the question. > > > * My US representative is Zoe Lofgren. I don't have the minimum > number of signatures, but it's probably at least 20. The fee is > $1,740, and 3,000 valid signatures could be filed in lieu of the fee. > The deadline is Feb. 23, as for the Senate. > > > * I could run against Pierluigi Olivario for City Council. I > don't know the fee or have the number of signatures and deadline > required for this; I can get that Monday from the City Council's office. > > > Comments? > Spencer > > > On 2/9/2012 5:54 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > > You can pick up your nomination papers at the Registrar > > of Voters (ROV) office beginning Monday February 13-th. > > > > Your choice will be to have just one candidate name on the > > form, the nomination paper. Or a group can have all of their > > names on one form but in this case those who are grouuped > > together can only have this one version. > > > > In both cases several copies of the original may be made so that > > more than one person can gather signatures for the candidate(s). > > > > It is either 20 or 22 valid signatures that are needed. > > Valid means the person who signs the nomination paper for you > > must be registered Green and the address they specify must match > > what the ROV has on record. > > > > New registrants and anyone who has moved may turn in an updated > > voter registration form with the completed nomination petitions. > > > > Good Luck! > > Happy signature gathering! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 Technology Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San Jos?, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > web:www.structuremonitoring.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sat Feb 18 09:12:35 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:12:35 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 3 events tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 19 Message-ID: <4F3FDC03.1020602@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Just a reminder of three events that scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 19: * 1-3 PM, There will be a presentation by and reception for Carlos Montes at the Peace Center sponsored by the South Bay Committee Against Political Repression (SBCAPR), the San Jos? Peace and Justice Center, and MA?Z (www.sanjosepeace.org/article.php/20120213143937136 ). Carlos Montes is a former Brown Beret and long-time anti-war and equal rights activist in Los Angeles, being targeted for his political activities by the FBI. In May of 2011, Montes' house was raided by armed FBI agents, who literally broke down his door, ransacked his house, and confiscated his computer and other private possessions. SBCAPR is a local affiliate of the national Committee to Stop FBI Repression (www.stopfbi.net ), which was launched on Sept. 27, 2010 in response to FBI raids on Sept. 24 of people who had participated in non-violent protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions that year. [NOTE: THE FBI DOES NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO BREAK DOWN ALL OUR DOORS AND CONFISCATE ALL OUR COMPUTERS, AS THEY DID TO MONTES. SUPPORTING MONTES MAKES IT HARDER FOR THE FBI TO DO THINGS LIKE THIS TO OTHERS.] * 5:30 - 7:30 PM: 32nd Annual San Jose Day of Remembrance, San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin, 640 N. Fifth Street, San Jose, CA. This event commemorates the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans. It ends with a candlelight vigil. I encourage all to attend and to speak with the organizers of this event, especially if Occupy San Jos? might want to organize other candlelight vigils. * 6:30 - 9:30 PM: Occupy Pot Luck at the Peace Center. Best Wishes, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web:www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sat Feb 18 13:19:29 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:19:29 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] someone to prepare agenda for Thursday? In-Reply-To: <1329598297.28416.YahooMailRC@web80803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <1329598297.28416.YahooMailRC@web80803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4F4015E1.9060708@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Could someone please prepare the agenda for the meeting next Thursday, Feb. 23? Jim Doyle had previously volunteered but is not available; see below. Thanks, Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: message from jim doyle Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:51:37 -0800 (PST) From: JAMES DOYLE To: Spencer Graves spencer, I am in the Seattle area dealing with a serious family emergency. I had volunteered to prepare the agenda for next Thursday's meeting but can not do that under the circumstances. Will you please post a notice to the discussion list asking for someone else to volunteer to prepare the meeting agenda. thank you jim doyle *From:* Spencer Graves *To:* Jim Doyle *Cc:* sosfbay discussion group *Sent:* Fri, February 17, 2012 5:29:49 PM *Subject:* Spencer Graves to run for something Hello, All: I decided today I should run for something, but I have not yet decided what. According to information I received today at the offices of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, the only offices on the June 5 ballot for which I would be eligible to run are against US Senator Feinstein, US Representative Lofgren and City Councilperson Olivario. There are four other offices I could potentially contest this year. All four will appear on the November ballot but not the June ballot (San Jos? Evergreen Community College District plus Open Space, Flood Control, and Water District). SANTA CLARA GREEN PARTY COUNTY COUNCIL: Who all said they would run for Green Party County Council? I picked up the form today at the office of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, and I will fax it to whomever else has agreed to run but has not yet filed the paperwork to do so. We need to all sign the form and deliver said form to one person, who will then go to the Registrar of Voters and get the necessary form for collecting signatures. That form can then be scanned and sent to anyone willing to collect signatures. Signed forms then need to be collected by someone who will file the forms with the Registrar of Voters by March 9. SCHOOL BOARDS, WATER DISTRICT, FLOOD CONTROL: These offices have candidates on the November ballot but NOT on the June 5 ballot. The filing period for these offices is July 16 - August 10. I think I want to run for something on the June ballot. If I do not get in the top 2, then I want to run for one of these offices, probably the San Jose / Evergreen Community College District board of trustees. OFFICES ON THE JUNE 5 BALLOT: * Anyone running against Sen. Feinstein needs to collect at least 40 signatures and pay a fee of $3,480 by Feb. 23. If we submit by that date 10,000 valid signatures, we do not have to pay the fee. This is probably out of the question. * My US representative is Zoe Lofgren. I don't have the minimum number of signatures, but it's probably at least 20. The fee is $1,740, and 3,000 valid signatures could be filed in lieu of the fee. The deadline is Feb. 23, as for the Senate. * I could run against Pierluigi Olivario for City Council. I don't know the fee or have the number of signatures and deadline required for this; I can get that Monday from the City Council's office. Comments? Spencer On 2/9/2012 5:54 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > You can pick up your nomination papers at the Registrar > of Voters (ROV) office beginning Monday February 13-th. > > Your choice will be to have just one candidate name on the > form, the nomination paper. Or a group can have all of their > names on one form but in this case those who are grouuped > together can only have this one version. > > In both cases several copies of the original may be made so that > more than one person can gather signatures for the candidate(s). > > It is either 20 or 22 valid signatures that are needed. > Valid means the person who signs the nomination paper for you > must be registered Green and the address they specify must match > what the ROV has on record. > > New registrants and anyone who has moved may turn in an updated > voter registration form with the completed nomination petitions. > > Good Luck! > Happy signature gathering! > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web:www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Sun Feb 19 02:18:25 2012 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:18:25 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] someone to prepare agenda for Thursday? In-Reply-To: <4F4015E1.9060708@prodsyse.com> References: <1329598297.28416.YahooMailRC@web80803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4F4015E1.9060708@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <4F40CC71.90002@aceweb.com> That would be me. Please post items for the agenda here. Tian Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > Could someone please prepare the agenda for the meeting next > Thursday, Feb. 23? > > > Jim Doyle had previously volunteered but is not available; see > below. > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: message from jim doyle > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:51:37 -0800 (PST) > From: JAMES DOYLE > To: Spencer Graves > > > > spencer, > > I am in the Seattle area dealing with a serious family emergency. > I had volunteered to prepare the agenda for next Thursday's meeting > but can not do that under the circumstances. > Will you please post a notice to the discussion list asking for > someone else to volunteer to prepare the meeting agenda. > > thank you > jim doyle > > *From:* Spencer Graves > *To:* Jim Doyle > *Cc:* sosfbay discussion group > *Sent:* Fri, February 17, 2012 5:29:49 PM > *Subject:* Spencer Graves to run for something > > Hello, All: > > > I decided today I should run for something, but I have not yet > decided what. According to information I received today at the offices > of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, the only offices on the > June 5 ballot for which I would be eligible to run are against US > Senator Feinstein, US Representative Lofgren and City Councilperson > Olivario. There are four other offices I could potentially contest this > year. All four will appear on the November ballot but not the June > ballot (San Jos? Evergreen Community College District plus Open Space, > Flood Control, and Water District). > > > SANTA CLARA GREEN PARTY COUNTY COUNCIL: Who all said they would run for > Green Party County Council? I picked up the form today at the office of > the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, and I will fax it to > whomever else has agreed to run but has not yet filed the paperwork to > do so. We need to all sign the form and deliver said form to one > person, who will then go to the Registrar of Voters and get the > necessary form for collecting signatures. That form can then be scanned > and sent to anyone willing to collect signatures. Signed forms then > need to be collected by someone who will file the forms with the > Registrar of Voters by March 9. > > > SCHOOL BOARDS, WATER DISTRICT, FLOOD CONTROL: These offices have > candidates on the November ballot but NOT on the June 5 ballot. The > filing period for these offices is July 16 - August 10. I think I want > to run for something on the June ballot. If I do not get in the top 2, > then I want to run for one of these offices, probably the San Jose / > Evergreen Community College District board of trustees. > > > OFFICES ON THE JUNE 5 BALLOT: > > > * Anyone running against Sen. Feinstein needs to collect at least > 40 signatures and pay a fee of $3,480 by Feb. 23. If we submit by that > date 10,000 valid signatures, we do not have to pay the fee. This is > probably out of the question. > > > * My US representative is Zoe Lofgren. I don't have the minimum > number of signatures, but it's probably at least 20. The fee is $1,740, > and 3,000 valid signatures could be filed in lieu of the fee. The > deadline is Feb. 23, as for the Senate. > > > * I could run against Pierluigi Olivario for City Council. I > don't know the fee or have the number of signatures and deadline > required for this; I can get that Monday from the City Council's office. > > > Comments? > Spencer > > > On 2/9/2012 5:54 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > > You can pick up your nomination papers at the Registrar > > of Voters (ROV) office beginning Monday February 13-th. > > > > Your choice will be to have just one candidate name on the > > form, the nomination paper. Or a group can have all of their > > names on one form but in this case those who are grouuped > > together can only have this one version. > > > > In both cases several copies of the original may be made so that > > more than one person can gather signatures for the candidate(s). > > > > It is either 20 or 22 valid signatures that are needed. > > Valid means the person who signs the nomination paper for you > > must be registered Green and the address they specify must match > > what the ROV has on record. > > > > New registrants and anyone who has moved may turn in an updated > > voter registration form with the completed nomination petitions. > > > > Good Luck! > > Happy signature gathering! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 Technology Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San Jos?, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > web:www.structuremonitoring.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Fava beans in garden. Get Carol Brouillet on the ballot! The 5 actions 1 world pin is on a Guam quarter. From alexcathy at aol.com Sun Feb 19 09:25:27 2012 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:25:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] New York Times: San Jose's Agony Message-ID: <8CEBD429ADD789E-1B40-2D03@webmail-d006.sysops.aol.com> Dear Green Friends, Cathy Deppe and I used to live in New York. And we used to live in San Jose. Here is an example of why reading the Sunday New York Times is a "bad habit" I cannot break. When NYT finally decides to run a story, they pour a lot into it. Today's frontpage story is a tale about the horrific budget woes of the City of San Jose -- so-called "Capital of Silicon Valley." It detailshow glitzy projects build by the San Jose Democratic Party Machine Bosses during "better times" are sitting empty because there is no money to operate them. What the New York Times does not say (of course) is that this is going on while thepain-in-the-ass Silicon Valley 1% is rolling in dough and that this messis a "bipartisan" crash. San Jose is crushed between the Scylla of suburbanand Central Valley Republican racism and no-nothingism and the Charybdis of big city Democratic Party Machines. All politics is local. The Santa Clara County Green Party and all others claiming to be independent political activists should be all over this. When the San Jose Democratic Party Machinewas sowing seeds of this mess during the go-go years of the Internet bubble, the Greens werethe only progressive force criticizing the Establishment's waste, recklessness, and sleaze. The Greens have earned the right to say "I told you so." That area is home to a lot of highly educated, highly skilled, cosmopolitan people who are open to new ideas (sigh -- If we could just stop prattling about Obama, Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and goings-on in exotic places around the world for five minutes). Alex Walker The New Your Times, Sunday, February 19, 2012 Budget Woes Prompt Erosion of Public Jobs, with a Heavy Toll in Silicon Valley By Michael Cooper A panoramic view of beautiful downtown San Jose SAN JOSE, Calif. ? The smell of new carpet still lingers in the children?s section of the gleaming new Bascom Library and Community Center here, where signs promise ?picture books? and ?story time.? But the low, easy-to-reach wooden bookshelves are empty, along with the rest of the shelves in the state-of-the-art, 40,000-square-foot building. The bookless library stands behind a locked chain-link fence with signs warning of 24-hour video surveillance, one of four libraries the City of San Jose has built but cannot afford to open. The city?s Fire Department laid off 49 firefighters two years ago, and the trucks that race to calls now carry only four firefighters instead of five. Streets are repaved less often. And the Police Department, which laid off 66 officers last summer and has shrunk by about a fifth in recent years, has grounded its helicopter, reassigned officers from special units to patrol and stopped responding to burglar alarms. The nation has lost 668,000 state and local government jobs since the recession hit ? more than in any modern downturn, according to a new analysis of labor statistics by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. On the national level, the steady loss of public sector jobs has reduced the effects of recent job gains in the private sector and has slowed economic growth. But in cities and states around the country, the loss of those jobs has made it harder to provide services and has upended the lives of thousands of workers who had thought their government jobs were safe. It is not just faded industrial cities that are struggling to retain their workers. San Jose, a growing city of nearly one million in the heart of Silicon Valley that is now the nation?s 10th biggest, has shed 1,592 jobs ? more than a fifth of its employees ? over the last four years as falling tax revenues, rising pension costs and dwindling state aid have all taken their tolls on the city and its workers. Christine Velasquez, 39, who lost her job at the city?s redevelopment agency last spring as the state prepared to shut it down to save money, now uses local coffee shops as virtual offices for networking and job hunting ? including Caffe Frascati, an Italian-style cafe she helped bring to the city when she worked at the agency. John Robertson, 28, who was recruited to the Police Department here from his old job as a New York City police officer with the promise of better pay and better benefits, was laid off last summer. Mr. Robertson, who is getting married this year, said he was lucky to find a job a couple of months later at another Bay Area police department. Teresa Gutierrez, 66, who in June lost her publicly financed job as a translator and an organizer at a center that helps the poor, has not been as lucky. She now takes home some food for herself from the food bank where she has helped out for years. ?I can?t find a job,? Ms. Gutierrez said at her old office at the Santee Neighborhood Action Center, where she still volunteers to help people avoid eviction, find help or learn about gang prevention. ?There are hardly any jobs anywhere. I even looked in a restaurant, to wash dishes, and they said no, with your application you?re overqualified.? It is hardly the image that comes to mind when many people think of a Silicon Valley city where the median household income is $76,794 a year and employers include Cisco Systems, eBay and Adobe. But the city?s tax collections this year are projected to remain below where they were five years ago ? and California law makes it hard for cities to raise taxes, since they must win voter approval first. Pension costs now consume more than a fifth of the city?s general fund budget, officials said, and have risen to $245 million this year from $73 million a decade ago. ?You?ve got this double whammy for local government of the retirement costs escalating and the crash of ?08, the recession, knocking revenues down at the same time,? Mayor Chuck Reed, a Democrat, said in an interview in his office in the city?s new 18-story Richard Meier-designed City Hall, which was built in better times by his predecessors. The city government?s employee head count has shrunk to 5,400 from 7,418 a decade ago, when it had fewer residents. Branch libraries are open only four days a week. And the city recently won agreements from its unions to cut compensation for all of its employees by at least 10 percent. Now Mr. Reed is taking aim at pension costs, which rose after the benefits were improved over the last decade, with police officers and firefighters able to retire after 30 years with pensions worth 90 percent of their salaries. He supports a ballot measure this June that would require workers to go into far less lucrative retirement plans, or to contribute up to 25 percent of their salaries to keep their current benefits. ?Every dollar the city pays for retirement costs is a dollar we can?t spend on services for our residents,? he said in his annual State of the City speech this month. Union members picketed the speech. They have accused the city of exaggerating the future costs of pensions to build support for the measure. Jim C. Unland, the president of the San Jose Police Officers? Association, said that the police were willing to negotiate on retirement costs, but that the mayor?s proposals went too far. Yolanda Cruz, a library network engineer and the president of the city?s Municipal Employees? Federation, pointed out that city workers would not get Social Security, and that the average pension for nonuniformed workers was $36,000 a year. She said a city-commissioned poll had found a growing willingness to raise taxes. For now, the city is trying to figure out how to make do with fewer workers. After the police unit in charge of gang violence was merged last year with a unit that focused on quality-of-life issues, street-level drug dealing and prostitution, a spate of gang-related murders occurred in the city, which remains one of the safest of its size in America. The smaller unit was ordered to focus on gangs. Then there was an increase in prostitution. ?It?s no longer ?Do more with less,? ? said Christopher M. Moore, the chief of police. ?It?s doing less with less, and what is it that we?re going to do that makes the most sense.? Link to Original Article on New York Times Web Site: www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/in-san-jose-budget-woes-take-a-toll.html"> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sun Feb 19 18:03:36 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:03:36 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Great Rant from Judge Napolitano Message-ID: The establishment never changes, and doesn't even want the consent of the governed. The 2 party mechanism is used to limit public opinion and the voters' choices. What if there are more than 2 sides to every issue? Policy remains the same no matter who's in the White House. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fOaCemmsnNk Reminds me of those heady days when the Tea Party actually stood for something (like ending the wars, and 9/11 Truth, and impeachment) before it got bought off, and when the notion of Transpartisanship seemed viable. I talked with Steve Bhaerman (the Swami Beyondananda) a week or so ago, and he still has hope for Transpartisanship. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sun Feb 19 22:55:19 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:55:19 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Lakoff Message-ID: If you've read "Don't Think of an Elephant" there's nothing new here. If you haven't, this is a good teaser. 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"They did not consider controlled demolition as a possible cause of the destruction of WTC 7 in spite of the fact that it imploded, fell at free fall acceleration for 100 feet and landed mostly in its own footprint, as only a highly skilled demolition company can accomplish. "NIST says that the failure of a single column caused a building with a footprint the size of a football field to collapse completely in the manner of a classic building implosion. "The fire they claim started the collapse had burned out over an hour before the collapse so that first column could not have failed as they posit. "We, the undersigned, respectfully request a truly independent investigation with subpoena power to investigate the implosion of WTC 7 and that all evidence be made public as it is presented." Will you sign this petition? Click here: http://signon.org/sign/do-you-remember-wtc-7?source=s.em.cp&r_by=1711867 Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Tue Feb 21 11:31:09 2012 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:31:09 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Restore the Delta Community Forum on Sustainability, , A Primer on Water and the Delta Message-ID: <4F43F0FD.1090407@charter.net> If you can make the trip to Stockton, this is the best single event to understand what some would do to many. Read it at the link below since it is too big to forward to this list. http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=xp76ilcab&v=001VJlu5GGZPDT7E5W901vYHljX7wtmX0LjwTmllWv6Ua_3SzOXQenVoulMD9DW6rLnIBQUfpeKVwbWDPfbJdb2LfIqCL5L-4ojclNHlTwLC7zBF9reu0WdOo-tLbWNt_rc From WB4D23 at aol.com Tue Feb 21 20:30:14 2012 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:30:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Advance Notice Scheduling Issue Message-ID: <2d6a.3456c5d6.3c75c956@aol.com> February 21, 2012 Folks! We usually have tabling at the Berryessa Arts and Wine Festival which is held the Saturday before Mother's Day (this year May 12th). I am not going to be able to table at that event this year because the next GPCA Plenary is scheduled for that weekend in San Francisco. If you are not planning to help with that tabling event and also do not have family commitments for that Sunday (aka Mother's Day), please consider being a GPSCC delegate or alternate for that meeting. Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Tue Feb 21 22:16:48 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:16:48 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Climate Change Slogan Contest--Win $1000! In-Reply-To: <67B5AF90-0973-4973-9328-A4CC849BBE49@gmail.com> References: <67B5AF90-0973-4973-9328-A4CC849BBE49@gmail.com> Message-ID: Subject: Slogan Contest! Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:25:19 -0800 Hello Everyone, Sorry I've been out of touch for so long. With Bush and Cheney finally gone I decided to take a break for a bit, but when the Occupy movement kicked in I felt it was time to dust off the overhead projector and hit the freeways again. Glad I did too - I'd forgotten how much fun it is. For my next tour I want to start posting signs about climate change and so I'm holding a contest to find the best slogans. Details (and some cool pictures) here: http://www.freewayblogger.com Slogans should be short, smart, look good in traffic and make people think. The winning entry gets a thousand dollars, 2nd and 3rd place get $500 and $250. All winning entries will have their work posted alongside freeways up and down the west coast (and possibly further.) I'm looking for the best slogans possible, so there's no limit to the number of submissions you can make, and please pass this along to your friends. Submissions can be made here or to freewayblogger at yahoo.com Deadline is March 15th. I'm still convinced that words can change people's behavior and maybe even save the world - we've just got to find the right ones. In the meantime, if you've got something you want to say to a lot of people, roadside signposting is the way to do it, and here's 100 reasons why: http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2011/12/100-reasons-why-you-should-start.html Yours Truly, Scarlet P. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Wed Feb 22 12:23:04 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:23:04 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPCA Plenary, May 12-13 In-Reply-To: <2d6a.3456c5d6.3c75c956@aol.com> References: <2d6a.3456c5d6.3c75c956@aol.com> Message-ID: <4F454EA8.2080103@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: I might be interested in going this year. Might it be feasible to get a couple of minutes on the agenda to discuss Wikipedia and wikis in general -- plus perhaps a break-out session devoted to wikis? The Wikipedia article on SOPA received a million views between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year. Clearly, any work to improve an article like that has high leverage. The California Greens have a wiki (http://wiki.cagreens.org ), but it has very little content and very little activity. I believe the minimal content and activity is due to the fact that you have to have permission from someone like Marnie Glickman or Mike Feinstein to even post a comment. I suspect they are afraid of sabotage. If they opened it to edits by anyone, I believe they will get some sabotage, but the sabotage they get will be vastly outweighed by new people coming in, seeing an opportunity to contribute. It could become a new recruiting tool for the Greens. Best Wishes, Spencer On 2/21/2012 8:30 PM, WB4D23 at aol.com wrote: > February 21, 2012 > Folks! We usually have tabling at the Berryessa Arts and Wine > Festival which is held the Saturday before Mother's Day (this year May > 12th). I am not going to be able to table at that event this year > because the next GPCA Plenary is scheduled for that weekend in San > Francisco. If you are not planning to help with that tabling event > and also do not have family commitments for that Sunday (aka Mother's > Day), please consider being a GPSCC delegate or alternate for that > meeting. Warner > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Thu Feb 23 05:32:32 2012 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:32:32 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] someone to prepare agenda for Thursday? In-Reply-To: <4F40CC71.90002@aceweb.com> References: <1329598297.28416.YahooMailRC@web80803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4F4015E1.9060708@prodsyse.com> <4F40CC71.90002@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <4F463FF0.9030706@charter.net> On 2/19/2012 2:18 AM, Tian Harter wrote: > That would be me. Please post items for the agenda here. > > Tian > Tien... and all, I think that at some point we need to have a discussion as to how we might better use local media to enhance to image, reach, membership of the Green Party here in Santa Clara County. Some thoughts: 1. in almost every case where I have seen effective use of MSM, someone has taken the time to cultivate a relationship with the editors, writers, etc. In 2006, it worked for me to get to know the editor of the Tracy Press, home town newspaper for then Representative Richard Pombo, and of Hank Shaw... then Sacramento Bureau Chief for Stockton Record. 2. staging events helps, as long as the media knows about them in advance. Refer to item 1 for the best way to accomplish that. 3. regarding point 2, you don't get as much attention by participating in someone else's event as you do when being the organizer. 4. do we really believe that young people utilize new media (social networking, smart phones, aps, etc.) more than before. If so, what do we do to participate? From vdf at juno.com Thu Feb 23 16:53:57 2012 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:53:57 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPCA Plenary, May 12-13 Message-ID: <20120223.165357.20227.1@webmail04.vgs.untd.com> Regarding access to the GPCA wiki, I have an account for it, and I haven't gotten the impression that anything I've tried to post was being censored. As far as I can tell, I got my account right away and I haven't had any problems posting since then. I haven't contributed much because I haven't had much to say and I've been much more busy doing other things lately. Valerie Please note: message attached ____________________________________________________________ New Slimming Fruit Found Strange African Fruit Sheds 8.9 Pounds, 2 Inches in 28 Days. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4f46dfd527b6013ff632st03vuc -------------- next part -------------- Hello, All: I might be interested in going this year. Might it be feasible to get a couple of minutes on the agenda to discuss Wikipedia and wikis in general -- plus perhaps a break-out session devoted to wikis? The Wikipedia article on SOPA received a million views between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year. Clearly, any work to improve an article like that has high leverage. The California Greens have a wiki (http://wiki.cagreens.org ), but it has very little content and very little activity. I believe the minimal content and activity is due to the fact that you have to have permission from someone like Marnie Glickman or Mike Feinstein to even post a comment. I suspect they are afraid of sabotage. If they opened it to edits by anyone, I believe they will get some sabotage, but the sabotage they get will be vastly outweighed by new people coming in, seeing an opportunity to contribute. It could become a new recruiting tool for the Greens. Best Wishes, Spencer On 2/21/2012 8:30 PM, WB4D23 at aol.com wrote: > February 21, 2012 > Folks! We usually have tabling at the Berryessa Arts and Wine > Festival which is held the Saturday before Mother's Day (this year May > 12th). I am not going to be able to table at that event this year > because the next GPCA Plenary is scheduled for that weekend in San > Francisco. If you are not planning to help with that tabling event > and also do not have family commitments for that Sunday (aka Mother's > Day), please consider being a GPSCC delegate or alternate for that > meeting. Warner > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The program will go as follows: ? 6:30PM-7PM food 7PM-8PM Billionaires' Tea Party 8PM-8:30PM Hidden Internment 8:30PM-10PM discussion and Q+A (I will also see if I can contact a person from Campaign For Justice to give a presentation after the showing of Hidden Internment.) ? Thank you. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Fri Feb 24 13:42:21 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:42:21 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara County Green Party Endorses ACTA Demonstrations In Europe For Feb 25, 2012 In-Reply-To: <1330065396.22926.YahooMailNeo@web111108.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1330065396.22926.YahooMailNeo@web111108.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4F48043D.3090007@prodsyse.com> Hello, John, et al.: I've updated the web site "www.cagreens.org/santaclara ". Please let me know if any further changes are needed. Spencer On 2/23/2012 10:36 PM, John Thielking wrote: > At our meeting tonight, the Santa Clara County Green > Party (California, USA) endorsed the Feb 25, 2012 actions listed on > the following web site: > https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/acta-protest-feb-11 > We stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Europe and > elsewhere in opposing ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. > Thank you. > Sincerely, > John Thielking > member of Santa Clara County Green Party, Santa Clara County, > California, USA. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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He blamed the lack of voter turnout among the young on the belief that the system was ?rigged? by the current campaign finance system. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/23/huntsman-calls-for-third-party-the-system-is-broken/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Sun Feb 26 09:23:45 2012 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:23:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Pennsylvania: Colonized by Big Oil Message-ID: <1330277025.7112.YahooMailRC@web181007.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: shane que hee Sent: Fri, February 24, 2012 4:53:57 PM Subject: Pennsylvania: Colonized by Big Oil Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:46:27 -0800 >Subject: Pennsylvania: Colonized by Big Oil >From: Thomas Scott Tucker > >Pennsylvania: The ?State of Independence? Becomes the ?Oil State? > >Posted on Feb 23, 2012 >???????? >Youtube / ClimateDesk > >http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/pennsylvania_the_state_of_independence_becomes_the_oil_state_20120223/?ln > > >http://tinyurl.com/6sovgur??? > >Susquehanna County has already been thoroughly fracked by gas mining operations. >One hour?s drive south, Dallas Township, where zoning laws that empowered locals >previously prevented the placement of gas drills near schools, homes and >watersheds, appears to be next.? ?ARK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Sun Feb 26 09:54:15 2012 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:54:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Fwd: "Follow the Money!" In-Reply-To: <1329977551.60624.YahooMailRC@web181616.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1329977551.60624.YahooMailRC@web181616.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1330278855.13666.YahooMailRC@web181013.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- Sent: Fri, February 24, 2012 4:14:53 PM Subject: Fwd: "Follow the Money!" The GOP's Big Investors >>Robert Reich >>Posted: 02/22/2012 8:36 am >>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/big-funders-gop_b_1293243.html?ref=politics >> >> >>Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, >>Peter Thiel, or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. They're >>running for the Republican nomination for president. >>I know, I know. You think Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Mitt >>Romney are running. They are -- but only because the people listed in the first >>paragraph have given them huge sums of money to do so. In a sense, Santorum, >>Gingrich, Paul, and Romney are the fronts. Dore et al. are the real investors. >>According to January's?Federal Election Commission?report, William Dore and >>Foster Friess supplied more than three-fourths of the $2.1 million raked in by >>Rick Santorum's super PAC in January. Dore, president of the Dore Energy >>Corporation in Lake Charles, Louisiana, gave $1 million; Freis, a fund manager >>based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, gave $669,000 (he had given the Santorum super >>PAC $331,000 last year, bringing Freis's total to $1 million). >>Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam provided $10 million of the $11 million that >>went into Gingrich's super PAC in January. Adelson is chairman of the Las Vegas >>Sands Corporation. Texas billionaire Harold Simmons donated $500,000. >>Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, provided $1.7 million of the $2.4 million >>raised by Ron Paul's super PAC in January. >>Mitt Romney's super PAC raised $6.6 million last month -- almost all from just >>forty donors. Bruce Kovner, co-founder of the New York-based hedge fund Caxton >>Associates, gave $500,000, as did two others. David Tepper of Appaloosa >>Management gave $375,000. J.W. Marriott and Richard Marriott gave a total of >>$500,000. Julian Robertson, co-founder of hedge fund Tiger Management, gave >>$250,0000. Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman gave $100,000. >>Bottom line: Whoever emerges as the GOP standard-bearer will be deeply indebted >>to a handful of people, each of whom will expect a good return on their >>investment. >>And this is just the beginning. We haven't even come to the general election. >>Non-profit political fronts like "Crossroads GPS," founded by Republican >>political guru Karl Rove, are already gathering hundreds of millions of dollars >>from big corporations and a few wealthy individuals like billionaire oil and >>petrochemical moguls David and Charles Koch. The public will never know who or >>what corporation gave what because, under IRS regulations, such non-profit >>"social welfare organizations" aren't required to disclose the names of those >>who contributed to them. >>Before 2010, federal campaign law and Federal Election Commission regulations >>limited to $5,000 per year the amount an individual could give to a PAC making >>independent expenditures in federal elections. This individual contribution >>limit that was declared unconstitutional by the District of Columbia Court of >>Appeals in a case based on the Supreme Court's grotesque decision at the start >>of 2010,?Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission. >>Now, the limits are gone. And this comes precisely at a time when an almost >>unprecedented share of the nation's income and wealth is accumulating at the >>top. >>Never before in the history of our Republic have so few spent so much to >>influence the votes of so many. >>Robert Reich is the author of?Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, >>now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at?RobertReich.org. > > Bonnie Klett bonnieklett at sbcglobal.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sun Feb 26 10:51:37 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:51:37 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] You can blog Message-ID: <4F4A7F39.7050004@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe anyone can become a blogger almost instantaneously FOR FREE. I haven't tried it, but if you are interested, I suggest you start by logging in to a gmail account from any web browser; if you don't currently have a gmail account, you can get one for free. Once logged in, look for "Blogger"; I just found it under "More" = the left-most option in the black bar at the top of my gmail landing page. (I also found it from "More" -> "Even more".) If you try it, please let me know how it works. I mention this, because I heard Merriam and perhaps others say they might like to blog. I'm currently starting to use "Google Sites". I just redirected "effectivedefense.org" (which I registered over a year ago but haven't used yet) to "https://sites.google.com/site/effectivedefenseorg ". I'm told there is a way to set this up so the URL that shows will still be "effectivedefense.org" rather than the redirect "https://sites.google.com/site/effectivedefenseorg ". However, I haven't figured that out yet, and that's not a top priority right now. Enjoy, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Sun Feb 26 19:25:38 2012 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:25:38 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] You can blog In-Reply-To: <4F4A7F39.7050004@prodsyse.com> References: <4F4A7F39.7050004@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <4F4AF7B2.7030100@charter.net> On 2/26/2012 10:51 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe anyone can become > a blogger almost instantaneously FOR FREE. > I have used blogger for years.... and before that I used Movable Type. You can access blogger by going to www.blogger.com and that will give you a choice of logging in or setting up a new blog. If you want to do it right, it is time consuming, since readership varies directly with the rate at which you blog something interesting. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cls at truffula.sj.ca.us Sun Feb 26 19:59:23 2012 From: cls at truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:59:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] You can blog In-Reply-To: <4F4A7F39.7050004@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <20120227035923.B53976A9B2@truffula.sj.ca.us> I had a blog on greencommons until that site went away. I've got two on Google, haven't posted to either in a while. It's an ongoing effort. You have to promote it to get any views. You might get some spam, but not much. http://spam-vs-freedom.blogspot.com/ http://notwindoze.blogspot.com/ From tnharter at aceweb.com Sun Feb 26 23:05:51 2012 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:05:51 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] You can blog In-Reply-To: <20120227035923.B53976A9B2@truffula.sj.ca.us> References: <20120227035923.B53976A9B2@truffula.sj.ca.us> Message-ID: <4F4B2B4F.9020109@aceweb.com> I'm still photoblogging at: http://tian.greens.org I get 50 hits a day a lot more often than I used to. Same old same old otherwise. Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > I had a blog on greencommons until that site went away. > I've got two on Google, haven't posted to either > in a while. It's an ongoing effort. You have to promote it > to get any views. You might get some spam, but not much. > > http://spam-vs-freedom.blogspot.com/ > http://notwindoze.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Mardi Gras Pictures. Get Carol Brouillet on the ballot! The 5 actions 1 world pin is on a Northern Mariana Islands quarter. From snug.bug at hotmail.com Mon Feb 27 10:45:25 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:45:25 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] TODAY -- Russ Feingold "Corporate Power & Citizens United" 5:30 pm Stanford In-Reply-To: <1109394617626.1103767629468.143.12.9133541@scheduler> References: <1109394617626.1103767629468.143.12.9133541@scheduler> Message-ID: Bring clipboards and meet at 5:00 pm to gather signatures for the new improved Calif. DISCLOSE Act, AB1648! Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:35:12 -0500 From: ethics.center at stanford.edu To: snug.bug at hotmail.com Subject: TODAY -- Russ Feingold "Corporate Power & Citizens United: How the Supreme Court Created a New System of Political Corruption" Having trouble viewing this email? Click here TODAY Russ Feingold (Former U.S. Senator, Wisconsin) Corporate Power & Citizens United: How the Supreme Court Created a New System of Political Corruption All open seats will be released at 5:20pm. Forward email This email was sent to snug.bug at hotmail.com by ethics.center at stanford.edu | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe? | Privacy Policy. Stanford Ethics Center | 559 Nathan Abbott Way | Stanford | CA | 94305 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Wed. 7:00 pm Mountain View Message-ID: An address by Paul George of PPJC, officially entitled "A Brief History of Economic & Political Inequality" Presented by Occupy Mountain View Wednesday, February 29, 7:00 PM Mountain View Civic Center Plaza Conference Room, 2nd floor 500 Castro Street, Mountain View Scott Weikart of Occupy Palo Alto, a very bright guy, says he's seen this presentation before and "it's _really_ good". -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Tue Feb 28 02:10:03 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:10:03 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Feingold Spoke at Stanford Message-ID: He said the apologists for Big Money are claiming "It's always been like this" and it's not true. He said the Citizens United decision was a cataclysm for the political system, a lawless decision that gives corporations free rein over our democracy. He said corporate power has been frightened by the power of the internet to facilitate democracy. He said we're heading for a new Gilded Age, a Gilded Age on steroids. The robber barons were moderated by the need to live in a fairly healthy society. Multinational corporations need not fear that their fortunes are tied to America's well-being. We've got two choices: start an era of boycotts, where we only buy Progressive toothpaste and detergent, or overturn Citizens United. Campaign Finance: There's no such thing as a free lunch, and no such thing as a free $10 million. Feingold is co-chair of the Obama campaign. He calls for Obama to make Citizens United a campaign issue. He fears the Democrats are operating under the influence of the corporate line, and the party is in danger of losing its identity. Feingold criticized the Obama campaign's embracing of the Super-PACs, saying this was "Dancing with the Devil". -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Tue Feb 28 07:03:52 2012 From: wrolley at charter.net (wrolley at charter.net) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:03:52 -0500 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?utf-8?q?NPR_Tries_to_Get_its_Pressthink_Right_?= =?utf-8?q?=C2=BB_Pressthink?= Message-ID: <1191544870.2889.1330441432778.JavaMail.brainiac@apb00.clearspring.local> Bravo for NPR. I might just start listening again. http://pressthink.org/2012/02/npr-tries-to-get-its-pressthink-right/ --- This message was sent by wrolley at charter.net via http://addthis.com. Please note that AddThis does not verify email addresses. Make sharing easier with the AddThis Toolbar: http://www.addthis.com/go/toolbar-em To stop receiving any emails from AddThis please visit: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/email-opt-out?e=YzYdLh0nDCAXbAooHSIbMh0BDSAJMwskADJALhwm in your web browser. From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Feb 28 09:28:19 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:28:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] meeting In-Reply-To: <1330398578.15607.YahooMailRC@web181011.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1330398578.15607.YahooMailRC@web181011.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1330450099.244.YahooMailNeo@web111105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I don't think we had an official note taker at the meeting.? Here is a copy of the agenda and what I remember from the meeting: ? Green Party of Santa Clara County Proposed Agenda for Thursday Feb 23, 2012 ? Selection of Facilitator, Note Taker, Timekeeper, Vibes Watcher 8 min ? Introductions, Announcements, Finalizing Agenda?? 12 min ? Selection of Agenda Preparer for next meeting (Warner)? 3 min ? Treasurer's report (treasurer not present)? 1 min ? Tabling Literature --inventory, event specific, contemporary?(tablers not present)?5 min ? Tabling Events?? 10 min ? Carol Brouillet for Congress campaign 5 min ? Candidates for County Council? 5 min ? Possible upcoming tabling or demonstrating opportunities ? Additional agenda items: Movie night Anti-ACTA European Demonstrations endorsement ? Unofficial Minutes: ? As I recall, there were only 3 official Green Party members present at the beginning of the meeting:? Tian Harter, John Thielking and Warner.? There were also two Santa Clara University students who were there as part of their class project/assignment.? Later on, Carol Brouillet and her son showed up, making a total of 5 Green Party members present.? Also, 4 or 5 more SCU students showed up. ? We did not do a treasurer's report as the treasurer was not present.? We also did not go over what lit was available as the tablers were not present.? Warner did point out that there are some tabling opportunities over the next few months.? What those were, I don't recall. ? Warner also gave a report back about a plenary that he went to a couple of weeks ago.? Nothing earth shattering came out of that. ? At the point where we had 5 Green Party people present, we passed a motion to endorse the Feb 25, 2012 anti-ACTA protests happening all across Europe, that are listed on the accessnow.org web site.? Warner stood asside with his concern that the endorsement was being rushed through at the last minute with only a small number of people present at the meeting. We also decided that Movie Night for March 9, 2012 would be a double feature, with both The Billionaires' Tea Party (1 hour long) and Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story (30 min long) being shown. ? [After the meeting I was able to contact Grace from Campaign For Justice (510-459-7288)and she said that she may be able to have someone loan her a car so she can drive down from Berkeley and give a presentation after the showing of Hidden Internment, possibly to include the presence of the real, live Mr. Art Shibayama.? I told her that I would give her $20 out of my own pocket for gas money.? It might be better if someone with a car would volunteer to drive her and Art to and from Berkeley, as her arangement strategy for someone loaning her a car seems a bit sketchy?] ? Carol Brouillet gave her campaign speech and asked for support gathering signatures for her to get on the ballot running against Anna Eschoo in Palo Alto. She will be submitting a few hundred signatures and paying a partial fee in leiu of gathering all 3000 signatures that would be required to get on the ballot for free.? She still has?a couple of weeks left to get on the ballot. ? Carol brought some food (apple crisp, cookies and bread rolls). ? End. From: Caroline Yacoub To: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 7:09 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] meeting Hey out there, did anybody take minutes at the February meeting? Was anybody AT the February meeting? I was in Phoenix, and I didn't see anything that looked like an agenda or minutes. Caroline _______________________________________________ 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 spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Tue Feb 28 22:10:23 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:10:23 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Peace Vigil, MLK Library, Friday, March 2, 5-6 pm: Support Carlos Montes In-Reply-To: <852DDAFA-AFE2-45C2-AB1E-5F7BDE4BEE6E@earthlink.net> References: <852DDAFA-AFE2-45C2-AB1E-5F7BDE4BEE6E@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4F4DC14F.4080403@prodsyse.com> The weekly Peace Vigil at the ML King Library this Friday, March 2, 5-6 PM will include expressions of support for Carlos Montes, organized by the South Bay Committee Against Political Repression (SBCAPR); see below. SBCAPR is part of the National Committee to Stop FBI Repression (www.stopfbi.net ), formed in response to FBI raids of prominent antiwar and international solidarity activists across the country beginning in 2010. One of those raided was Carlos Montes, who has been a Chicano activist since the 1960s and has misdemeanor convictions (reduced from felony charges) dating from that period. Carlos has been charged with purchasing firearms as a convicted felon. It appears that the case against him is entirely politically motivated, and he was singled out, because it seemed easier for the government to build a case against him given his record of activism and civil disobedience. (See also Wikipedia, "Carlos Montes".) We may know more after a pretrial hearing this Friday, March 2. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SBCAPR meeting Tuesday, February 28, 7:30 pm and Support Carlos Montes, Friday, March 2, 5-6 pm Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:52:42 -0800 From: Masao Suzuki To: Masao Suzuki Join the weekly Friday Peace Vigil at the MLK, Junior Library on the corner of 4th and San Fernando, this Friday, March 2 from 5 to 6 pm. *Solidarity protest on March 2 for Carlos Montes!* *Demand, ?Drop the Charges! No FBI Frame-up of Carlos Montes!?* *Please join the weekly Friday Peace Vigil, on Friday, March 2 from 5 to 6 pm.* *Martin Luther King, Junior Library* *Corner of 4th and San Fernando, San Jose* ************************ I also wanted to urge those who are able to to attend the Latin Film Night following the vigil, sponsored by the San Jose Peace and Justice Center: *Latin Film Night: "A Better Life"* *When: *Friday, March 02 2012 @ 06:30 PM - - 09:00PM *Where: *San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7 Street, San Jose, CA 95112 *Description: *This week's Latin film, "A Better Life", follows the story of Carlos Galindo, an immigrant from Mexico, and his son Luis. Carlos is a gardener and landscaper working his hardest to an effort to give his son a better life, a life that he never had. Through the movie you will also watch hardships that Luis also has to face including pressures of joining a gang. Actor Damian Bichir Nominated for Academy Award. Presentation by Michelle Cordova on the history of Mexican Immigration in the United States There will be Mexican food at the screening, $ 5 - 10 suggested donation for food ****************************** More information on the significance of March 2 from the National Committee to Stop FBI repression: *Friday, March 2, 2012: Montes Court Hearing to Uncover FBI Lies **Call to Organize Local Protests at Federal Buildings or FBI Offices* */Protest the FBI Frame-up of Carlos Montes! Drop the Charges Now!/* *Organize a solidarity protest on March 2!* *Demand, ?Drop the Charges! No FBI Frame-up of Carlos Montes!?* *Send your event announcement to info at StopFBI.net for posting.* The FBI is relentlessly persecuting Carlos Montes. *At his next court hearing on March 2 in Los Angeles, Carlos Montes? lawyer will make discovery motions on how FBI special agent Matt Weber worked with L.A. Sheriff Detective Don Lord and the Joint Terrorism Task Force in this frame-up attempt.*Last May, the Los Angeles Sheriffs smashed down Carlos? door at 5 a.m., waving automatic weapons, ransacking his home, and carting away his life?s work of notes and papers. A FBI agent attempted to question Carlos about the Freedom Road Socialist Organization while he was handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser. Chicano leader and long-time activist Carlos Montes is one of 24 anti-war and international solidarity activists hit by FBI and grand jury repression since Sept. 24, 2010. Like others caught up in this witch hunt, Montes of Los Angeles was one of the organizers of the massive protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul, Minnesota. When the FBI raided the Minnesota Anti-War Committee (AWC) office, Carlos Montes? name appeared on the warrant for investigation. An undercover law enforcement officer ?Karen Sullivan? lied about her identity and spied on the AWC, including Carlos Montes, for two years. *Repression of the ?60s Is Back* Carlos Montes is well known as a co-founder of the Brown Berets and for leading the immigrant rights mega-marches in L.A. The FBI is trying to railroad Carlos for his political organizing. Montes' defense is challenging the state?s claim that he has a felony record from his 1969 arrest for leading a student strike that demanded Chicano, Black and Women?s Studies at an East Los Angeles college. Also, the legal record does not support the claim of a past felony, thereby ruling out the District Attorney going ahead with this case. Nevertheless, the government is alleging it was a crime for Montes to buy several guns at a local sporting goods store over a ten-year period, because of the (nonexistent) felony record. The FBI are relentless in their frame-up. The prosecution is basing their evidence on this 42-year-old incident, where, during the 1969 student strike and rally, the L.A. County Sheriff?s Department invaded the East Los Angeles college campus, beating and arresting student protesters. In the aftermath of the turmoil, Montes was arrested while driving home with a fellow activist and family. He was charged with assaulting a Sheriff?s Deputy. Just like today, the Sheriffs targeted Montes because of his politics - he was a leader of the La Vida Nueva on campus and the Brown Berets in the community. *Support Grows! Solidarity Will Bring Victory!* Support for Montes and the other activists under attack by the FBI and U.S. Federal grand jury is growing. Recently, Montes received a letter of support from the 350,000-member California Teachers Association and the 40,000 members at LAUSD United Teachers of Los Angeles and the UAW local at UCLA. Facing up to 18 years of prison time, Carlos Montes is preparing to go on trial. Here is what you can do: 1. Organize a solidarity protest and demand, ?Drop the Charges! No FBI Frame-Up of Carlos Montes!? on March 2, 2012. Send your announcement to info at StopFBI.net for posting. 2. Pass a resolution in solidarity with Carlos Montes or write a letter. 3. Sign the petition at _http://www.stopfbi.net/petition/national_ 4. Sign the Pledge at _http://www.stopfbi.net/get-involved/pledge-of-resistance_ 5. Donate to the Legal Defense _http://www.stopfbi.net/donate_ /Copyright ? 2012 Committee to Stop FBI Repression, All rights reserved./ Thanks for your ongoing interest in the fight against FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists! *Our mailing address is:* Committee to Stop FBI Repression PO Box 14183 Minneapolis, MN 55414 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 1737 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wrolley at charter.net Wed Feb 29 09:11:03 2012 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:11:03 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [California Greening] Black Girls Code In-Reply-To: <047d7b10ce23b55b5d04ba13dcdc@google.com> References: <047d7b10ce23b55b5d04ba13dcdc@google.com> Message-ID: <4F4E5C27.5040103@charter.net> My contribution to black history month at cagreening. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [California Greening] Black Girls Code Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:46:16 +0000 From: Wes To: wrolley at charter.net I graduated from Flagstaff (AZ) High School in 1958. A recent story local San Francisco television about Kimberly Bryant and her organization, Black Girls Code , made me think about how much, and how little has changed since I was in High School. Flagstaff was always a place where multiple races lived in a state of tension where harmonious relaxation never really occurred. It was not just White / Black. There were always sizable populations of Hispanic and Native Americans in town, and in the school. But something was happening that introduced some change, but not enough. Most of the African American population lived in the SE part of town... south of Rt. 66 and the Santa Fe tracks, East of Agassiz St. Their children went to thePaul Lawrence Dunbar Elementary School where only they attended. The "Mexicans" and others went to South Beaver School. Only the latter still exists. Dunbar was shut as the result of Brown vs.Board of Education decision. It's last principal was Wilson Riles, later Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of CA. Those Dunbar students were my classmates at Flagstaff High School in the 1950's. One of them stood out to the extent that would occasionally check what happened to Joan Dorsey. When I knew Joan, she was a member of the National Honor Society and a leading singer in our school choir. Then we went our separate way, Joan to the University of Arizona and I to the University of Redlands. After graduating with a degree in education, Joan became the first black stewardess at American Airlines. There are always those who break down barriers. Joan was one of those. It seems that Kimberly Bryant is another, only society has changed to the extent that now Kimberley is getting girls, black girls, interested in computers and engineering. It is a long way from aspiring to be a well trained waitress as a career goal. But there is still a long way to go and leaders like Bryant need support. Now the old Dunbar School has been re-purposed and Joan and Wilson are getting a measure fo the credit that they deserve. Last August, the Arizona Daily Sun carried the story of a new mural on the old building... one with pictures of both Riles and Dorsey. -- Posted By Wes to California Greening at 2/26/2012 08:16:00 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: