From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Fri Jun 1 04:20:13 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:20:13 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Supreme Court Nominations--Romney v. Obama In-Reply-To: <4FC86018.50804@earthlink.net> References: <4FC85D89.9030005@prodsyse.com> <4FC86018.50804@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4FC8A56D.10803@prodsyse.com> What information sources exist right now that report routinely on the activities of public officials federal, state and local and how that relates to money spent on lobbying and campaign contributions? Lawrence Lessig's 2011 book "Republic, Lost" says that the massive amounts of money required to get (re)elected is the "Gateway" problem facing the US body politic today. ( summarized this in "Gateway Problems in US Politics & Economics", http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/52167684/Gateway%20Problems.) To succeed in destroying the power of ABC (Disney), CBS (Westinghouse), NBC (General Electric), CNN (TimeWarner) and Fox, we will need a critical mass of the US electorate making intelligent decisions in elections independent of the money spent on advertising, especially television. CommonDreams is good, but I don't think they originate any news stories; they only republish reports that originate elsewhere. Betsy listens to KPFA a lot, and I've been following Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com ), ProPublica (www.propublica.org ), and other members of the Investigative News Network (INN, www.investigativenewsnetwork.org ). The members of INN all originate their own stories. ProPublica asks readers to contribute information in various ways. For example, their lead story right now asks: Help Us Track How Politicians Target You by Jeff Larson and Al Shaw ProPublica, May 30, 12:51 p.m. Political campaigns are using increasingly sophisticated methods to target messages to voters, methods that are not at all transparent. We need your help to uncover and understand them. ProPulica is also requesting information on foreclosures -- so far (I think) without getting much. Part of what I think we should do with organizing a Foreclosure Summit is to ask people with foreclosure experience to help build the ProPublica database. Best Wishes, Spencer On 5/31/2012 11:24 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > FWIW, I think if we could get MANY more people to read CommonDreams > (or listen to KPFA?) every day, we'd see big changes. > > Gerry > > > Spencer Graves wrote: >> Lawrence Lessig's 2011 book "Republic, Lost" explains how the US >> political system is so corrupt that few if any can survive in office >> without playing their part in this corrupt system. Lessig says the >> corrosive influence of money in government is "the gateway problem" >> facing the US today in the sense that we must solve this problem before >> we can make progress against any of the other problems facing the >> nation. >> >> >> My reaction is summarized in my essay on "Gateway Problems in US >> Politics & Economics" >> (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/52167684/Gateway%20Problems): To raise >> the massive amounts of money required to get reelected, congress extorts >> (Lessig's term) money from big business by passing legislation with >> special privileges for a few years at a time. As each one expires, it >> provides another excuse to shake down the big businesses for more money. >> Since the 1990s, the masters of this game are the bankers, which is why >> the world economy is in such terrible shape. For me, the gateway problem >> is the failure of the US public to seek out and support substantive >> investigative journalism, especially about how this corrupt system >> works: In the 1980s and 1990s, a massive wave of media consolidation >> produced a media oligopoly with more power than at any time in US >> history. In the 1990s, the media companies all but eliminated their >> previously anemic investigative journalism function, because no matter >> how it's managed, it's a losing proposition. If they find anything, they >> don't dare run a story for very long or they'll lose advertising. >> Similarly, if they publish any serious information about politics, it >> would increase the chances that someone could win an election without so >> much advertising -- in addition to the money they'd lose from offended >> advertisers taking their business elsewhere. >> >> >> My bottom line, in a phrase similar to yours but I think with a little >> broader appeal is that voting for any candidate or initiative that can >> afford television advertising is voting for bribery. I refuse to vote >> for bribery. >> >> >> I agree with your position, but I think it's harder to convince people >> that Obama is a war criminal. Besides, if Obama actually abided by the >> law, the media would work hard to find something to cripple his >> presidency. I think Obama knows this, which is why he does what he does. >> >> >> Spencer >> >> >> On 5/31/2012 10:32 PM, Brian Good wrote: >>> http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/6571/scotusromneyobama260dpi.jpg >>> >>> I first heard this argument from a Occupy Redwood City guy--that if >>> Romney >>> wins, he'll pack the Supreme Court with neocons, My own position is >>> that as >>> a matter of principle I refuse to vote for the war criminal Obama, >>> lest I be >>> seen as complicit in his crimes. >>> >>> We need a counterargument with wider appeal than mine. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 Fri Jun 1 11:44:18 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:44:18 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Election Night Party at Tians! In-Reply-To: <4FC73F94.7050407@aceweb.com> References: <4FC73F94.7050407@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <4FC90D82.209@prodsyse.com> A link to your announcement is now on the Santa Clara Greens web site, and I just announced it to the Occupy San Jos? email list. We may not get any from this latter group, but OSJ has already agreed to co-sponsor a "Foreclosure Summit" with the Green Party, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 8. More later. Spencer On 5/31/2012 2:53 AM, Tian Harter wrote: > Here are the details: > > http://tian.greens.org/MountainView/My/Clubhouse/Primary12/PartyAnoucement.shtml > > > Ummm... I'm still figuring out how to find my address book on this > freshly updated computer. > Please help by forwarding this announcement to any mutual friends not > on this list. > > Thanks, > > Tian > > _______________________________________________ > 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 alexcathy at aol.com Fri Jun 1 12:53:57 2012 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:53:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Killing the competition" In-Reply-To: <4FC1994F.9010801@earthlink.net> References: <4FC18600.2040007@earthlink.net> <4FC18661.50006@earthlink.net> <4FC1994F.9010801@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <8CF0E476ABCEFAC-620-164A2@webmail-m022.sysops.aol.com> Dear Green Friends, This post is a follow-up on a thread begun last week when Gerry Gras posted a link to a "Harper's" article on "Killing the Competion." It is a damning commentary by Adam Hartung at (of all places) Forbes Magazine about Meg Whitman and 10 years of screw-ups at Hewlett-Package. I am old enough to remember when HP was the queen of Silicon Valley. Now, does anybody remember when Ms. Whitman, the clueless 1% hack, was running for governor of California as a "Job Creator?" And how come our know-it-all mainstream media was not reporting this stuff when both Whitman and Fiorina were campaigning for high office promising to, as they like to say, "run California like a business" and Laura Wells was being dismissed as a weirdo? As I have said many times, the Green Party up in Santa Clara and down here in Los Angeles have a special responsibility to go beyond cliches and slogans of so-called liberal Democrats in One-Party Democratic Santa Clara and One-Party Democratic Los Angeles. One of the things we must do is "blow the whistle" on all the lies of the "job creators" who, in fact, are systematically destroying California. Alex Walker Los Angeles Greens = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Posted on Forbes Magazine, May 25, 2012 HP Is Broken, And Meg Whitman's Not The CEO To Fix It By Adam Hartung Things are bad at HP these days. CEO and Board changes have confused customers, the management team and investors alike. Despite a heritage based on innovation, the company is now mired in low-growth PC markets with little differentiation. Investors have dumped the stock, dropping company value some 60% over two years, from $52/share to $22 ? a loss of about $60billion. Reacting to the lousy revenue growth prospects as customers shift from PCs to tablets and smartphones, CEO Meg Whitman announced plans to eliminate 27,000 jobs; about 8% of the workforce. This is supposedly the first step in a turnaround of the company that has flailed ever since spending $26billion to buy Compaq and changing the company course into head-to-head PC competition a decade ago. But, will it work? Not a chance. Fixing HP requires understanding what went wrong at HP. Simply, Carly Fiorina took a company long on innovation and new product development and turned it into the most outdated industrial-era sort of company. Rather than having HP pursue new technologies and products in the development of new markets, like the company had done since its founding creating the market for electronic testing equipment, she plunged HP into a generic manufacturing war. Oops! Five CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired Adam Hartung Adam Hartung Contributor America's Highest Paid CEOs Scott DeCarlo Scott DeCarlo Forbes Staff How Industrial, MBA-Style Leadership Killed The Once Great Sony Adam Hartung Adam Hartung Contributor Meg Whitman: Leading With A "Bias For Action" Moira Forbes Moira Forbes Forbes Staff Pursuing the PC business Ms. Fiorina gave up R&D in favor of adopting the R&D of Microsoft, Intel and others while spending management resources, and money, on cost management. PCs offered no differentiation, and HP was plunged into a gladiator war with Dell, Lenovo and others to make ever cheaper, undifferentiated machines. The strategy was entirely based upon obtaining volume to make money, at a time when anyone could buy manufacturing scale with a phone call to a plethora of Asian suppliers. Quickly the Board realized this was a cutthroat business primarily requiring supply chain skills, so they dumped Ms. Fiorina in favor of Mr. Hurd. He was relentless in his ability to apply industrial-era tactics at HP, drastically cutting R&D, new product development, marketing and sales as well as fixating on matching the supply chain savings of companies like Dell in manufacturing, and WalMart in retail distribution ... READ MORE AT: http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2012/05/25/can-meg-whitman-and-layoffs-turn-around-hp-nope/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Jun 1 14:07:09 2012 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] A 0 $ way to buy and sell services here now! Message-ID: <1338584829.53376.YahooMailNeo@web124502.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> So many of us are un or underemployed, I think this should come as really great news: Please check out http://sfbace.org . Its a way for us to get work for ourselves and pay for many services that is imminently green - a Time Bank! 3 items from their FAQ below. This morning I decided I had a job I needed help with - it could have been just about anything, but in this case its something many of us could use help with - decluttering my storage space.? Within 3 hours I have a bid from a very qualified provider!!!? And for only the cost of covering gas and supplies!!!? This is a service that can be quite expensive in $ dollars.? I've paid $50/hour and I know others who've paid more. And BTW its fine (within reason) with BACE that I haven't participated in offering services yet and so am starting off with a "debt". Not only is this utterly practical, its quite revolutionary in overturning the old order.? Carol Brouillet? has been advocating for this type of thing for years!? Here it is in an established and functional form! Green is NOW! Drew What is a Timebank? A timebank is like a local community bank that keeps track of time instead of US dollars. For every hour you spend doing something for someone in your community, you earn one hour to use to have someone do something for you. It is an alternative way to give and receive resources. How does an exchange work? Let's say you need someone to help out in the garden for two hours. You can post a request to the timebank or search the timebank directory and contact another member to set up an exchange. A timebank member then comes by and helps out in the garden. Once the service is completed, you transfer hours on the timebank from your account to the service provider. You've spent two time dollars and another member has earned two time dollars that s/he can spend elsewhere in the timebank. You can also post service offers to earn more hours and help out your community. Posting specific offers and requests help generate more exchanges and invigorates the timebank. What's in it for me? For every hour of help you give, you also receive an hour of help. You may get credit for things you may not normally be rewarded for but do anyways or things that you love to do but don't often make time for. You can save your scarce cash for things like rent, food, and medicine and use time dollars for the rest. You are also making a difference in someone's life, whether it's giving a ride to a person who doesn't have a car, tutoring a student, translating, sewing, or helping with computer problems, things that they might not be able to afford but need. 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Lori ???????????????? ________________________________ From: "sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org" To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 12:00 PM Subject: sosfbay-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 2 Send sosfbay-discuss mailing list submissions to ??? sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ??? http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ??? sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org You can reach the person managing the list at ??? sosfbay-discuss-owner at cagreens.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of sosfbay-discuss digest..." Today's Topics: ? 1. Re: Election Night Party at Tians! (Spencer Graves) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:44:18 -0700 From: Spencer Graves To: Tian Harter Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Election Night Party at Tians! Message-ID: <4FC90D82.209 at prodsyse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed A link to your announcement is now on the Santa Clara Greens web site, and I just announced it to the Occupy San Jos? email list.? We may not get any from this latter group, but OSJ has already agreed to co-sponsor a "Foreclosure Summit" with the Green Party, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 8.? More later.? Spencer On 5/31/2012 2:53 AM, Tian Harter wrote: > Here are the details: > > http://tian.greens.org/MountainView/My/Clubhouse/Primary12/PartyAnoucement.shtml > > > Ummm... I'm still figuring out how to find my address book on this > freshly updated computer. > Please help by forwarding this announcement to any mutual friends not > on this list. > > Thanks, > > Tian > > _______________________________________________ > 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 End of sosfbay-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 2 ********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jules.c.brouillet at gmail.com Mon Jun 4 13:56:20 2012 From: jules.c.brouillet at gmail.com (Jules Brouillet) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:56:20 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Join Carol Brouillet this Tuesday for her Election Night Party! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear friends, It has been a wonderful time to be campaigning with Carol Brouillet. Although Green Party candidates have been dismissed as unelectable political pariahs by the press this year, they completely missed the mark. From the first day of the campaign, scores of people, including you, have stood unwavering with Carol. You and others like you have been with us at every step of the way- collecting ballot petition signatures, writing the platform and preparing the materials, filming the issue and event videos, building the website, raising funds, calling fellow voters, canvassing neighborhoods, and throwing parties. It wouldn't have been possible without everybody's incredible work. Carol?s campaign began with less than a hundred people, and has grown to include thousands. We are a movement of incorruptible, honest, intelligent, compassionate people, united in our common interest to replace the corporate money in politics with citizen and community empowerment. And the 18th Congressional District is hardly the only place this has happened. This year, throughout America and the world, poorly-funded, defiant populist candidates, have stepped forward to challenge the powers that be. Their backgrounds reflect the enormous diversity of the American people: they hail from the Occupy Together to the Tea Party, from the Libertarian Party to the Green Party, from populist Democrats to disgusted Republicans to hard-working Independents. We are united in a movement to draw the political power down back from the corporate overseers and their corporate political cronies, to we the people. The only question that remains: have we figured out how to grow our numbers, to control enough votes to take back our government, today or tomorrow? That question will be answered at the polls on Tuesday. If we succeed, then we must sustain and increase our momentum to prevail in November. If we lose the election, we will continue grow Carol's campaign for citizen?s democracy, redoubling our efforts to organize what is today a mostly unorganized community. Remember to vote this Tuesday, preferably for Carol! We'd love you to join us, to continue this discussion and enjoy Carol's wonderful cooking at our election night party! (Details at http://bit.ly/KP2uvl) Read Independent 19th Congressional District Candidate Jay Cabrara's primary election announcement! (http://bit.ly/Lf8ubo) Jules Brouillet Son Carol Brouillet for Congress 2012 www.carol4congress.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Mon Jun 4 18:08:44 2012 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 18:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Merc: CA Minor Parties Facing Extinction Under New Voting System Message-ID: <1338858524.77262.YahooMailNeo@web124504.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_20764086/californias-minor-parties-facing-extinction-under-new-voting California's minor parties facing extinction under new voting system By Josh Richman jrichman at bayareanewsgroup.com Posted: ? 06/01/2012 06:32:21 PM PDT Updated: ? 06/02/2012 10:27:22 PM PDT They've been a colorful part of California's political landscape for decades -- Greens, Libertarians, American Independents and members of the Peace and Freedom Party. But after Tuesday's election, most of them will be all but invisible -- and perhaps on their way to extinction. In past years, minor parties held their own primary elections to choose nominees who would go on to compete with Democratic and Republican nominees in general elections. But that's no longer the case under California's new "top two" primary system, in which all voters choose from among all candidates of all parties -- and only the two candidates who get the most votes advance to November, regardless of party. Because minor party candidates rarely finish in the top two, and it's now harder for their candidates to get on the primary ballot in the first place, the parties will have little or no presence on the general-election ballot. And in politics, invisibility means oblivion. "It could spell the end of the Peace and Freedom Party," said party chairman C.T. Weber, 71, of Sacramento. "It's a shame that democracy is being undermined by this, but that's the reality if we're not able to overturn the law." The law was set in place with Proposition 14 in June 2010, approved by 54 percent of voters after then-state Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, forced the Legislature's Democratic majority to put it on the ballot in exchange for his budget vote. Though minor parties complained from the get-go that they would be marginalized if not obliterated by the measure, voters liked the measure's stated purpose: increasing primary voters' choices in an effort to moderate the harsh political partisanship plaguing Sacramento and Washington, D.C. Maldonado argued recently that minor parties will get more exposure in the new top-two primary and "if they represent the views of a significant number of voters in a district, they'll be in the top two. ... I don't care what party you're from, if you have a message that resonates with the people, they're going to vote for you." But minor-party officials contend that giving voters only two choices in November -- with no write-in votes allowed -- denies parties an opportunity to spread their messages and hobbles their ability to field candidates in the future. "It's not a good situation," in part because it's a lot harder to recruit candidates, said Kevin Takenaga, chairman of the Libertarian Party of California. "The final outcome is going to be the opposite of what people expect because it's going to force people to these established candidates -- the ones who have more money and more major-party support," he predicted. "This is the United States of America, where we have more choices in what type of soft drink you want to drink or restaurant you want to go to than political parties and candidates," added Takenaga, 39, of Sunnyvale. "Why do we insist on having fewer choices?" Minor parties have had three ways of staying qualified for the ballot. First, they can poll 2 percent of the vote for any statewide race in a nonpresidential general election. With little or no presence on general-election ballots anymore, though, this will be almost impossible. The second way is to have at least as many registered members as 1 percent of the previous total gubernatorial vote. About 10.3 million people voted in the November 2010 gubernatorial matchup, so a party would need about 103,000 registered voters to qualify this way. The American Independent and Green parties meet this threshold now, but the Libertarian and Peace and Freedom parties don't. And the less visible all of them become, the harder the threshold will be to reach. The third route -- gathering petition signatures from 10 percent of the state's 17 million registered voters -- always has been impossible for the cash-strapped parties. American Independent Party chairman Mark Seidenberg, 65, of Aliso Viejo, said his party's registration is robust enough that he's not worried about staying on the ballot, but he agreed it would be "a shame" for voters to be denied the choices afforded by other parties. Richard Winger, who edits the Ballot Access News blog, is still optimistic courts will overturn Proposition 14's obstacles to third-party access. But California already is seeing the effects, said Winger, 68, of San Francisco: About a quarter as many minor-party candidates filed for state legislative and congressional offices this year than in 2010. That's because the Secretary of State's Office interpreted Proposition 14 to void the old system by which minor-party candidates could gather 150 signatures in lieu of paying the primary-election filing fee. Now, he said, they must gather the same number of signatures as a major-party candidate: 1,500 for an Assembly seat, 3,000 for a state Senate or House of Representatives seat. Washington state's voters OK'd a top-two system in 2004, but it was declared unconstitutional by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005 before being reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. Unlike in California, Washington voters don't declare party affiliation when they register, so maintaining party strength that way isn't an issue. But Jody Grage, chairwoman of that state's Green Party, said it has been a tough row to hoe nonetheless. "Because the primary gets a lot less publicity and fewer voters, that makes a big difference in our visibility," she said, adding that no third-party candidate has advanced to a November election if two major-party candidates already were on the primary ballot. Election-reform advocate Steven Hill, co-founder of the nonprofit FairVote, said losing minor parties would result in an ever-narrowing political discourse. "Minor parties tend to be the laboratories for new ideas. They bring issues and ideas into the political discussion that the major parties often ignore," he said. "That's the first thing you're going to lose, and it's a fairly big loss." He said most Democrat-vs.-Republican races end up with candidates battling for a relatively small population in the middle. So with no minor parties to widen the debate, he said, "they're going to be talking only to that narrow group of swing voters." Laura Wells, a 64-year-old Oakland resident who was the California Green Party's 2010 gubernatorial nominee, hopes the new primary system leads to a backlash that wrecks the two-party system once and for all. "I think we're due," Wells said. 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I've included the county page (where available) AND the SoS page, as the county may have some results before the SoS. Where there are multi- county races, I've included the SoS page, as it will have the cumulative results. If you know of any other Greens running on June 5th (perhaps in a small municipal or special district race in your area), please let us know so we can include those results in our Wednesday election report and press release Mike Barry Hermanson (Congressional District 12) - http://www.sfelections.org/results/20120605/#a17 or http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-congress/district/12 Carol Brouillet (Congressional District 18) - in two counties, so use either these two https://www.shapethefuture.org/elections/results/2012/june/results.asp #c-1012 and http://www.sccgov.org/elections/results/jun2012/#27 or http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-congress/district/18/county/all/ Eric Peterson (Congressional District 20) - in five counties, so use this http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-congress/district/20/county/all/ Michael Powelson (Congressional District 30) - http://rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect/ or http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-congress/district/30/ David Steinman (Congressional District 33) - http://rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect/ or http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-congress/district/33/ Anthony Vierya (Congressional District 35) - http://rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect/ (for LA County only, this i or http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-congress/district/35/ David Edwards (State Assembly district 1) - in nine counties, so use this http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/1/county/all/ Pamela Elizondo (State Assembly district 2) - in five counties, so use this http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/2/county/all/ Jack Lindblad (State Assembly district 39) - http://rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect/ or http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/39/ Gary Blenner (Sacramento County Supervisor, district 4) - http://www.elections.saccounty.net/ElectionInformation/SAC_VRE_DF_Live_Election_Resul Jane Rands (Fullerton City Council) - http://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/live/pri2012/results.htm#c-1309 _______________________________________________ gpca-ccwg mailing list gpca-ccwg at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpca-ccwg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbrouillet at igc.org Tue Jun 5 10:57:14 2012 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:57:14 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Congressional candidate Carol Brouillet arrested Palo Altan failed to attend court hearing after April civil disobedience arrest Message-ID: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=25624 Congressional candidate Carol Brouillet arrested Palo Altan failed to attend court hearing after April civil disobedience arrest by Sue Dremann Palo Alto Weekly Staff Photo [] Congressional candidate Carol Brouillet was arrested Saturday, June 2, after failing to show up for a court appearance, which stemmed from a civil-disobedience action outside Lockheed Martin, according to Palo Alto police. Brouillet, who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 14th District, was taken into custody outside her Palo Alto home on June 2 at about 8:47 p.m., she confirmed. The Green Party candidate, who has run on a freedom-of-speech and corporate-accountability platform, said City of Sunnyvale police first arrested her and four other people on April 6. The group was arrested for blocking the street in front of defense-systems corporation Lockheed Martin, located at 1111 Lockheed Martin Way in Sunnyvale. They were protesting nuclear weapons production, she said. Brouillet has taken part in civil disobedience since the 1990s, and has been arrested during passive protests numerous times in Berkeley and Livermore, including with anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg, she said. But in most other instances, she and others were given citations and sent on their way. "I have never been through what I went through before," she said of her experience in Santa Clara County's correctional facility. She hadn't intended to miss her court date, she said. On the day of her Sunnyvale arrest, Brouillet said she had been precinct walking for her campaign when she learned that an old friend was taking part in the protest at Lockheed. "I just couldn't resist doing civil disobedience," she said. After their arrest, Brouillet and friends were given a May 18 court-appearance date, but she sought to have the date changed. She was supposed to appear in court on May 30, but when she didn't show up the judge issued a bench warrant. "I was so busy campaigning that I forgot and missed the court date," she said. Brouillet said she went to the court after receiving the bench warrant, and a clerk gave her another date to appear on June 15. But when she came home on Saturday night, the police drove past her home. The officer made a U-turn and then arrested her, she said. "We had the most delightful conversation on the way to jail," she said, adding the officer said she was the nicest person he had ever arrested. "I think he might vote for me." This was the first time Brouillet has sat in a cell at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, she said. The experience was also an eye opener. "It was really awful," she said, adding that it took 14 hours to process her. She posted $10,000 bail. "I didn't realize that Sunnyvale was so harsh on exercising First Amendment rights," she said. Her personal experience was an example of why she is running for office, she said of the importance of exercising free speech. She now has three court dates in Santa Clara County Superior Court in Palo Alto. But there is a bright side. "The nice thing about doing this in Palo Alto is I can bicycle there," she said. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Jun 5 11:45:49 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:45:49 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] good news from Libya Message-ID: <4FCE53DD.1030009@sbcglobal.net> Juan Cole spent last week in Libya. Here is his upbeat report including photos: http://www.juancole.com/ Here is an excerpt So imagine my surprise on visits to Benghazi, Misrata and Tripoli, to find that there were no militiamen to be seen, that most things were functioning normally, that there were police at traffic intersections, that there were children?s carnivals open till late, families out, that jewelry shops were open till 8 pm, that Arabs and Africans were working side by side, and that people were proud in Benghazi of having demonstrated against calls for decentralizing the country. As someone who has lived in conflict situations, I take as a very serious gauge of security whether shops are open and how late they stay open. Jewelry shops in particular are easily looted, and the loot is light and easy to fence. From tnharter at aceweb.com Tue Jun 5 13:26:45 2012 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:26:45 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Carol Brouillet busted Message-ID: <4FCE6B85.3090309@aceweb.com> http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=25624 -- -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Please come to Carol Brouillet's primary party on Tuesday evening! The Bitterroot Valley Montana pin is on an Arkansas quarter. From tnharter at aceweb.com Tue Jun 5 16:49:17 2012 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:49:17 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Hey Santa Clara Greens Fwd: Greens Unite: Money for Jobs & Education, not for War and Deportation! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4FCE9AFD.9090002@aceweb.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Hey Santa Clara Greens Fwd: Greens Unite: Money for Jobs & Education,not for War and Deportation! Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:41:04 -0700 From: June Brashares To: Tian Harter , jamboi at greens.org, danasg at greens.org Could you please forward out the special election day message from Jill (copied below) to Greens to remind them to vote and ask Greens you know to forward it on as well? Jill's campaign doesn't have emails for most Greens in Santa Clara, so we need people to forward this out Green to Green and post to their Green lists and networks. Thanks, June ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Jill Stein for President* > Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:42 AM Subject: Greens Unite: Money for Jobs & Education, not for War and Deportation! /Please take an immediate step by making a donation: http://www.jillstein.org/donate /Jill-Stein-email-blast-masthead.jpg Good morning -- Today is the big day. It's the day of the California Green Party presidential primary. Greens all over the country have been wondering for months what will happen, and you, are one of the 113,000 people who will decide. This primary has an important impact, and Dr. Jill Stein is asking for your support. WATCH THIS SPECIAL ELECTION DAY VIDEO MESSAGE TO CALIFORNIA GREENS FROM JILL STEIN! Jill_Stein_headshot.jpgIf you haven't yet voted, you have the opportunity to make a serious political statement today. Dr. Jill Stein, front-running Green Party presidential candidate, has a lot of momentum going into today, with the first 24 consecutive state primaries under her belt. She has travelled coast-to-coast many times, talking to all stripes of people and communities about what they need this year. What she has learned is that people in this country are clamoring for the common sense solutions to what ails them: unemployment, debt, access to housing and food, declining public education, the wars for oil, attacks on our civil liberties and neglect for basic human dignity; in short, corporate domination of the United States by Wall Street and the 1%. Jill Stein for President is answering this call, put forth by the democracy and justice movement in this country and all over the world, with an emergency plan she calls the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal provides for 25 million family-supporting, community-sustaining jobs by cutting the U.S. defense budget in half and investing that money back at home. We can provide for tuition-free public higher education and Medicare for all. We can end the war on drugs by legalizing cannabis and end the wars for oil by jumpstarting the green economy. Not only that, but Jill Stein wants keep people in their homes by establishing a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. She opposes the prison industrial complex which is criminalizing immigrants and the black and brown men in our communities. She wants to see student loan debt erased. If we can bail out the crooks who got us into this economic crisis to the tune of $16 trillion, then we can be sure to force the Feds to put their money where their mouth is by investing in our young people and in our infrastructure instead of giving tax breaks to the 1% and corporations. Sound too good to be true? It isn't. The Green New Deal doesn't just sound nice or seem like it could work--there are real numbers to back it up. For less than the cost of Obama's first stimulus package in 2009, we can end unemployment in this country. Find out more about the Green New Deal here. So today you have a choice. Jill Stein for President is offering clear, straight-forward solutions supported by mathematics and common sense to address the crisis which has half of the people in this country at or below the poverty line. Jill Stein for President has momentum going into this primary, with more than 75% of all Greens so far casting ballots for Jill Stein. Today, in the Green Party presidential primary, cast your vote for Dr. Jill Stein. She's not a token or symbolic candidate--she is running this race by driving real discussion into the public debate. She's got real substance--she has a track record of successful electoral reform and issue advocacy campaigns. Let's show the rest of the country that the Green Party is strong and united--and we want Jill Stein for President. Jill Stein is the candidate that Greens have been waiting a long time for. She's a loyal, dedicated activist in her community who has stepped up to the challenge of being the megaphone for the Green Party of the United States and an ally to the democracy and justice uprising in this country. Jill Stein is not just calling for economic reform, but also for democratic reforms to protect our rights and civil liberties and to ensure that all people are treated with dignity and respect. From Occupy Wall Street in New York City, to Denver's 4/20 legalization rally to the CODEPINK Mother's Day march on the Golden Gate bridge to the NATO/G8 protests in Chicago and May Day in the streets of Florida, Dr. Jill Stein has been an honored guest and feature in the independent media circuit since the announcement of her candidacy in October. Join Greens everywhere in showing America that Jill Stein is here to lead, with a substantive plan that provides for the real solutions that we need in this country. Join Noam Chomsky, Benton Harbor, Michigan's own Reverend Edward Pinckney, Nader's Vice Presidential candidate in 2008 Matt Gonzales, retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis, the Socialist Alternative and tens of thousands of people standing strong and courageous with Jill Stein for President. Support Jill Stein for President in today's Green Party presidential primary--the rest of us in this country are on board. Let's move forward together! Solidarity from campaign headquarters in Wisconsin, where today we're taking on the austerity agenda first hand in our historic election to Recall Scott Walker! Erika Wolf Associate Campaign Manager Jill Stein for President P.S. To check out how great Jill Stein is on camera, see her on CNN and KRON ! And for more information about Jill Stein for President and to sign-up to get involved in this party building campaign for the peaceful, just, Green future we all deserve, visit www.jillstein.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /Please take an immediate step by making a donation: http://www.jillstein.org/donate / Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217 http://www.JillStein.org * * -=-=- Jill Stein for President ? To stop receiving emails, click here . You can also keep up with Jill Stein for President on Twitter or Facebook . -=-=- Created with NationBuilder , the essential toolkit leaders. -- Erika P Wolf Associate Campaign Manager Jill Stein for President 715.781.9635 @noJUSTICIAnoPAZ --- jillstein.org @jillstein2012 "The politics of fear have brought us everything we were afraid of." -Dr. Jill Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Wed Jun 6 01:31:05 2012 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:31:05 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Carol's race results Message-ID: <4FCF1549.8010709@aceweb.com> Candidate Votes Percent * Anna G. Eshoo (Party Preference: Dem) 52,181 60.5% William Parks (Party Preference: Dem) 4,197 4.9% Dave Chapman (Party Preference: Rep) 26,406 30.6% Carol Brouillet (Party Preference: Grn) 3,450 4.0% * Incumbent The above is district wide. These numbers are from the Secretary of State's website, effective midnightish. Look below and you will see that Carol is in third place in two Counties. San Mateo 100.0% ( 108 of 108 ) precincts partially or fully reporting as of June 6, 2012, 12:04 a.m. Click here for additional information on how precincts reporting information is determined. Candidate Votes Percent * Anna G. Eshoo (Party Preference: Dem) 12,081 66.8% William Parks (Party Preference: Dem) 510 2.8% Dave Chapman (Party Preference: Rep) 4,972 27.5% Carol Brouillet (Party Preference: Grn) 516 2.9% * Incumbent Santa Clara 83.3% ( 255 of 306 ) precincts partially or fully reporting as of June 6, 2012, 12:00 a.m. Click here for additional information on how precincts reporting information is determined. Candidate Votes Percent * Anna G. Eshoo (Party Preference: Dem) 36,585 58.4% William Parks (Party Preference: Dem) 3,497 5.6% Dave Chapman (Party Preference: Rep) 19,841 31.7% Carol Brouillet (Party Preference: Grn) 2,670 4.3% * Incumbent Santa Cruz 44.6% ( 25 of 56 ) precincts partially or fully reporting as of June 5, 2012, 11:57 p.m. Click here for additional information on how precincts reporting information is determined. Candidate Votes Percent * Anna G. Eshoo (Party Preference: Dem) 3,515 63.2% William Parks (Party Preference: Dem) 190 3.4% Dave Chapman (Party Preference: Rep) 1,593 28.6% Carol Brouillet (Party Preference: Grn) 264 4.7% * Incumbent -- -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Please come to Carol Brouillet's primary party on Tuesday evening! The Bitterroot Valley Montana pin is on an Arkansas quarter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: help-icon.png Type: image/png Size: 369 bytes Desc: not available URL: From leedobell at aol.com Wed Jun 6 07:09:12 2012 From: leedobell at aol.com (Leedobell) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:09:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Remember this lady? WWII hero In-Reply-To: <1338913176.86444.YahooMailRC@web181518.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1338913176.86444.YahooMailRC@web181518.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8CF1205152DF465-1834-58FF@web-mmc-m02.sysops.aol.com> -----Original Message----- Sent: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 11:25 am Subject: Fw: Remember this lady? WWII hero There is an old saying>>>> slowly say "veeerrrry INteresting!!!! when you have read this. Patti ----- Forwarded Message ---- Remember this lady? Irena Sendler Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98) Warsaw, Poland During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive. Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids. Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi's broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out, in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted. In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming. Later another politician, Barack Hussein Obama, won for his work as a community organizer for ACORN. In MEMORIAM - 65 YEARS LATER I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message. I hope you'll consider doing the same. It is now more than 65 years since the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated! Now, more than ever, with Iran , and others, claiming the HOLOCAUST to be 'a myth'. It's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again. This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide! Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world. Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain. Please don't just delete it. It will only take you a minute to pass this along! -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It is tied up in committees in the EU Parliament and although it has three negative committee recommendations attached to it, this is not the last word on the subject in the EU Parliament. Stay tuned for more details. ???? This is the first issue of Peacemovies.com that is distributed in a newsrack. So let me give you a synopsis of the reasons why Peacemovies.com exists and what its purpose is. ????? Currently, the US is involved in many undeclared wars around the world. This war fighting has been getting easier to do since the introduction of drone warfare. Drones make it possible to engage the enemy without ever setting boots on the ground or sending actual persons into a foreign country's airspace. It is a misguided myth that drones kill enemy combatants without ever harming civilians. The human involvement with war fighting is potentially much reduced with drones, particularly with the possibility of developing autonomous drones that are programmed to carry out missions with little if any human input. This is Skynet from the movie Terminator come to life in the real world. For more information on this check out the book Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control by Medea Benjamin. ???? The user interface for controlling drones currently resembles the joy stick and computer screen of a playstation video game. The political popularity of drone warfare is also similar to that of video games, with 75-85% of the public supporting the concept of drone warfare, particularly in regards to using drones to take out terrorist suspects. Most disappointing was a former Human Rights Watch board member named Maureen White who seems to think drone warfare is just fine. The main problem according to her seems to be marketing. From page 146 of Drone Warfare by Medea Benjamin, Maureen White said: ?We have failed to control the debate,? she said. ?The Taliban have a home-grown movement in the tribal areas of Pakistan that is vicious. They are terrorizing civilians and creating thousands of refugees. Taking out the leaders with drones is critical. It's a pinpointed, targeted, precise and successful mechanism. From a military standpoint, drones are a dream come true.? With regards to the crisis in Syria, the San Jose Mercury News had an article on Syria. From page A-11 of the Thursday May 31, 2012 issue: ? ?You may come to the point where you have Srebrenica syndrome,? said Edward Djerejian, a former ambassador to Syria, referring to the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims that galvanized more aggressive international action in 1995. ?Once a humanitarian disaster looms so large, the international community becomes forced to act despite the national security considerations and the more levelheaded thinking on the consequences of military action.? The White House has made clear that, however horrific, the killings in Houla last week, and another massacre discovered Wednesday, do not rise to that level. ? ???? It is this type of video game mentality about warfare that Peacemovies.com attempts to combat by telling people about the relatively nonviolent movies that are available in theaters and on DVD. According to the marketing survey that was done when I started this project back in 2009, ? of the people specifically want to watch a nonviolent movie, the other ? don't care one way or the other and less than 10% specifically want to watch a violent movie or list a violent theme, such as horror movies, as their favorite. By increasing the market share of nonviolent movies I hope to send a message that violence, of the video game and movie variety at least, is not as popular as some might think. ???? The Peacemovies.com newsletter comes out once per month, while the Peacemovies.com web site is updated at least once per week. I decided to charge $1 per copy for the newsletter rather than distribute it for free because this way I can potentially have a larger circulation with no fussy advertisers to please and the project will also consume about 1/4 to 1/2 the amount of paper per copy that an ad supported newsletter would need to use to generate enough income to support myself. ???? Medea Benjamin will be visiting San Jose to talk about her book Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control on Monday, June 25, 2012 from 7PM-9PM at St. Paul's Methodist Church, 405 S 10th St, San Jose, CA (corner of 10th and San Salvador). ???? A side note is that in her book Medea Benjamin points out that drones are very unreliable. In addition to having cameras that broadcast blurry images that make it hard to identify the people targeted, the drones have a high probability of crashing. This should make everyone uncomfortable with the prospect of the FAA being forced to allow drones to fly in US domestic airspace by 2015. ???? Below you will find movies released to DVD and in theaters categorized into 4 categories: Little or No Violence, Nonviolent, Iffy and Too Violent. The movies in the first three categories are given reviews later on in the newsletter, while the movies that are Too Violent are listed but not reviewed. While the reviews for movies in theaters only cover the movies currently in theaters as of the date of publication, an additional list of movies due to be released to theaters that are too violent are listed for the entire month of June, 2012. The DVD's of nonviolent movies released for the entire month of June 2012 are also reviewed. Violence Ratings Of Movies Released To DVD from June 5, 2012 to June 26, 2012. General release dates are in (parenthesis) while release dates for Netflix are in [brackets]. Nonviolent (10 or less violent scenes per 90 minutes with few if any dead bodies.) Tyler Perry's Good Deeds PG-13 Drama (6-12-12) [6-12-12] Thin Ice R Dark Comedy/Drama (6-12-12) Big Miracle PG Drama/Adventure (6-19-12) Jeff Who Lives At Home R Comedy/Drama (6-19-12) [6-19-12] A Thousand Words PG-13 Comedy (6-26-12) [6-26-12] Too Violent (Way more than 10 violent scenes and/or many dead bodies and/or an orgy of violence at any point.) Safe House R Thriller (6-5-12) Journey 2: Mysterious Island PG Adventure (6-5-12) John Carter PG-13 Action/Adventure (6-5-12) [6-5-12] Act Of Valor R Action (6-5-12) Machine Gun Preacher R Drama (6-5-12) Bad Ass R Drama (6-5-12) [6-5-12] Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows R Drama (6-12-12) Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance PG-13 Horror (6-12-12) [6-13-12] In Darkness R Drama (6-12-12) [6-12-12] Kill Speed R Drama (6-12-12) Monster Brawl NR Horror (6-12-12) Project X R Comedy/Drama (6-19-12) Wanderlust R Comedy (6-19-12) Seeking Justice R Drama (6-19-12) [6-19-12] Too Violent DVDs (Continued) The FP R Drama (6-19-12) [6-19-12] Cat Run R Drama (6-19-12) The Legend Of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy Drama (6-19-12) [6-19-12] 21 Jump Street R Comedy (6-26-12) Wrath Of The Titans PG-13 Action/Adventure (6-26-12)[6-26-12] Mirror Mirror PG Comedy/Action/Adventure (6-26-12) The Artist PG-13 Drama (6-26-12) Violence Ratings Of Movies In Theaters As Of June 5, 2012. Little Or No Violence (2 or less violent scenes or a few off screen violent stories and few deaths if any) I Wish PG Comedy/Drama Otter 501 NR Documentary First Position NR Documentary The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel PG-13 Romantic Comedy Roving Mars G Documentary Hubble G Documentary To The Arctic G Documentary Think Like A Man PG-13 Romantic Comedy Nonviolent (10 or less violent scenes per 90 minutes with few if any dead bodies.) Hardflip NR Drama/Action Hysteria R Comedy What To Expect When You're Expecting PG-13 Comedy Bernie PG-13 Comedy Darling Companion PG-13 Drama Chimpanzee G Documentary American Reunion R Comedy Tornado Alley NR Documentary The Secret World Of Arrietty G Animation/Fantasy Iffy (11-20 scenes of mild violence) Where Do We Go Now? PG-13 Drama Bully PG-13 Documentary Salmon Fishing In The Yemen PG-13 Romantic Comedy/Drama Comedy Sportz NR Live Improv Comedy Too Violent (Way more than 10 violent scenes and/or many dead bodies and/or an orgy of violence at any point.) Crooked Arrows PG-13 Drama Thrill Ride: The Science Of Fun G Documentary Rowdy Rathore NR Comedy/Action Piranha 3DD R Horror Snow White And The Huntsman PG-13 Drama For Greater Glory R Drama Polisse NR Drama Men In Black 3 PG-13 Comedy/Sci-Fi Chernobyl Diaries R Horror The Dictator R Comedy Battleship PG-13 Sci-Fi Dark Shadows PG-13 Comedy/Horror Marvel's The Avengers PG-13 Sci-Fi/Action The Lucky One PG-13 Drama/Romance Safe R Thriller/Action The Pirates! Band Of Misfits PG Adventure/Animated The Three Stooges PG Comedy The Cabin In The Woods R Horror Mirror Mirror PG Comedy/Action/Adventure The Hunger Games PG-13 Action/Family 21 Jump Street R Comedy John Carter PG-13 Sci-Fi Dr Suess' The Lorax PG Animated Other movies to be released to theaters from June 1, 2012 to June 29, 2012 that are too violent. A Cat In Paris PG Comedy Like Water NR Documentary The Loved Ones R Horror Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted PG Animation Prometheus R Sci-Fi/Horror Brave PG Animation/Family Jack The Giant Killer Adventure/Fantasy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Horror Beasts Of The Southern Wild PG-13 Drama Killer Joe NC-17 Crime Drama Flier produced by Peacemovies.com 5669 Snell Avenue #173 San Jose, CA 95123 USA 1-408-914-2751 pagesincolor at yahoo.com The complete Peacemovies.com newsletter is currently being sold for $1 per copy in front of Camera 3 at 2nd and San Carlos in downtown San Jose, CA. 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(http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_oc.htm) * * * * *President (Green primary)* Jill Stein - 6,561 votes, 48.6% Roseanne Barr - 5,395 votes (40.0%) Kent Mesplay - 1,534 votes (11.4%) http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/president/party/green/ *US House of Representatives* *Barry Hermanson (Congressional District 12 in San Francisco County) * 3rd/6; 4,677 votes, 5.19% (vs. four Democrats, one Republican) http://www.sfelections.org/results/20120605/#a17 *Carol Brouillet (Congressional District 18 in two counties)* 4th/4, 3,890 votes, 4.1% (vs two Democrats, one Republican) http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-congress/district/18/county/all/ *Eric Peterson (Congressional District 20 in five counties)* 5th/7, 1,449 votes, 2% (vs. two Democrats, two Republicans, two No Party Preference) http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-congress/district/20/county/all/ * * *Michael Powelson (Congressional District 30 in Los Angeles County) * 6th/7, 1,518 votes, 2.04% (vs. three Democrats, three Republicans) http://rrccmain.co.la.ca.us/charts/0602/0602CD30.htm *David Steinman (Congressional District 33** in Los Angeles County) *** 6th/8, 3,030 votes, 3.44% (vs. four Democrats, one Republican, one Libertarian, one No Party Preference) http://rrccmain.co.la.ca.us/charts/0602/0602CD33.htm *Anthony Vierya (Congressional District 35** in Los Angeles County) *** 3rd/3, 1,070 votes, 17.54% (vs two Democrats) http://rrccmain.co.la.ca.us/charts/0602/0602CD35.htm * * *State Assembly* *David Edwards (State Assembly District 1- in nine counties)* 4th/5, 5,050 votes, 5.8% (vs. one Democrat, two Republicans, one Libertarian) http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/1/county/all/ *Pamela Elizondo (State Assembly District 2* *in five counties)* 3rd/4, 6,031 votes, 8.6% (vs. three Democrats) http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/2/county/all/ * * *Jack Lindblad (State Assembly District 39 in Los Angeles County) * 5th/6; 1,886 votes 7.5% (vs two Democrats and three Republicans) http://rrccmain.co.la.ca.us/0602_StateContest_Frame.htm *Municipal/County* *Gary Blenner (Sacramento County Supervisor, district 4) * 3rd/3 candidates for 1 seat 6,466 votes, 23.32% http://sacresults.e-cers.com/resultsSW.aspx?type=SUP&map=MPRC *Jane Rands (Fullerton City Council) * 2nd/4 candidates for 1 seat (to fill a vacancy created by the recall of an incumbent) 3,340 votes, 26.3% http://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/live/pri2012/results.htm#c-1309 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Meece) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:15:42 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Merc: CA Minor Parties Facing Extinction Under NewVoting System In-Reply-To: <1338858524.77262.YahooMailNeo@web124504.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1338858524.77262.YahooMailNeo@web124504.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20082A9BB40841A69828BF67CD8572E0@eameecePC> I hope they can at least overturn the rules that make ballot access harder. They should qualify Green and other candidates if they get that amount of support in the primary, that they used to require for the general. ----- Original Message ----- From: Drew To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 6:08 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Merc: CA Minor Parties Facing Extinction Under NewVoting System http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_20764086/californias-minor-parties-facing-extinction-under-new-voting California's minor parties facing extinction under new voting system By Josh Richman jrichman at bayareanewsgroup.com Posted: 06/01/2012 06:32:21 PM PDT Updated: 06/02/2012 10:27:22 PM PDT They've been a colorful part of California's political landscape for decades -- Greens, Libertarians, American Independents and members of the Peace and Freedom Party. But after Tuesday's election, most of them will be all but invisible -- and perhaps on their way to extinction. In past years, minor parties held their own primary elections to choose nominees who would go on to compete with Democratic and Republican nominees in general elections. But that's no longer the case under California's new "top two" primary system, in which all voters choose from among all candidates of all parties -- and only the two candidates who get the most votes advance to November, regardless of party. Because minor party candidates rarely finish in the top two, and it's now harder for their candidates to get on the primary ballot in the first place, the parties will have little or no presence on the general-election ballot. And in politics, invisibility means oblivion. "It could spell the end of the Peace and Freedom Party," said party chairman C.T. Weber, 71, of Sacramento. "It's a shame that democracy is being undermined by this, but that's the reality if we're not able to overturn the law." The law was set in place with Proposition 14 in June 2010, approved by 54 percent of voters after then-state Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, forced the Legislature's Democratic majority to put it on the ballot in exchange for his budget vote. Though minor parties complained from the get-go that they would be marginalized if not obliterated by the measure, voters liked the measure's stated purpose: increasing primary voters' choices in an effort to moderate the harsh political partisanship plaguing Sacramento and Washington, D.C. Maldonado argued recently that minor parties will get more exposure in the new top-two primary and "if they represent the views of a significant number of voters in a district, they'll be in the top two. ... I don't care what party you're from, if you have a message that resonates with the people, they're going to vote for you." But minor-party officials contend that giving voters only two choices in November -- with no write-in votes allowed -- denies parties an opportunity to spread their messages and hobbles their ability to field candidates in the future. "It's not a good situation," in part because it's a lot harder to recruit candidates, said Kevin Takenaga, chairman of the Libertarian Party of California. "The final outcome is going to be the opposite of what people expect because it's going to force people to these established candidates -- the ones who have more money and more major-party support," he predicted. "This is the United States of America, where we have more choices in what type of soft drink you want to drink or restaurant you want to go to than political parties and candidates," added Takenaga, 39, of Sunnyvale. "Why do we insist on having fewer choices?" Minor parties have had three ways of staying qualified for the ballot. First, they can poll 2 percent of the vote for any statewide race in a nonpresidential general election. With little or no presence on general-election ballots anymore, though, this will be almost impossible. The second way is to have at least as many registered members as 1 percent of the previous total gubernatorial vote. About 10.3 million people voted in the November 2010 gubernatorial matchup, so a party would need about 103,000 registered voters to qualify this way. The American Independent and Green parties meet this threshold now, but the Libertarian and Peace and Freedom parties don't. And the less visible all of them become, the harder the threshold will be to reach. The third route -- gathering petition signatures from 10 percent of the state's 17 million registered voters -- always has been impossible for the cash-strapped parties. American Independent Party chairman Mark Seidenberg, 65, of Aliso Viejo, said his party's registration is robust enough that he's not worried about staying on the ballot, but he agreed it would be "a shame" for voters to be denied the choices afforded by other parties. Richard Winger, who edits the Ballot Access News blog, is still optimistic courts will overturn Proposition 14's obstacles to third-party access. But California already is seeing the effects, said Winger, 68, of San Francisco: About a quarter as many minor-party candidates filed for state legislative and congressional offices this year than in 2010. That's because the Secretary of State's Office interpreted Proposition 14 to void the old system by which minor-party candidates could gather 150 signatures in lieu of paying the primary-election filing fee. Now, he said, they must gather the same number of signatures as a major-party candidate: 1,500 for an Assembly seat, 3,000 for a state Senate or House of Representatives seat. Washington state's voters OK'd a top-two system in 2004, but it was declared unconstitutional by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005 before being reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. Unlike in California, Washington voters don't declare party affiliation when they register, so maintaining party strength that way isn't an issue. But Jody Grage, chairwoman of that state's Green Party, said it has been a tough row to hoe nonetheless. "Because the primary gets a lot less publicity and fewer voters, that makes a big difference in our visibility," she said, adding that no third-party candidate has advanced to a November election if two major-party candidates already were on the primary ballot. Election-reform advocate Steven Hill, co-founder of the nonprofit FairVote, said losing minor parties would result in an ever-narrowing political discourse. "Minor parties tend to be the laboratories for new ideas. They bring issues and ideas into the political discussion that the major parties often ignore," he said. "That's the first thing you're going to lose, and it's a fairly big loss." He said most Democrat-vs.-Republican races end up with candidates battling for a relatively small population in the middle. So with no minor parties to widen the debate, he said, "they're going to be talking only to that narrow group of swing voters." Laura Wells, a 64-year-old Oakland resident who was the California Green Party's 2010 gubernatorial nominee, hopes the new primary system leads to a backlash that wrecks the two-party system once and for all. "I think we're due," Wells said. "Goodness, how bad does it have to get?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 Thu Jun 7 19:08:44 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:08:44 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green Pirates? Message-ID: <4FD15EAC.9080300@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: What do you think about changing the name of the Santa Clara Greens to something like "Green Pirates", loudly declaring an affiliation with the European Pirate parties (Wikipedia, Pirate Party)? The name refers to an aggressive response to the attacks of the commercial media and governments on "on-line piracy", taking copyrighted material without compensation -- and the use of same as an excuse by governments to increase censorship of the Internet. I believe we need strong, effective copyright laws limited to the purposes outlined in the US Constitution, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Current copyright law is a complete travesty, as documented in Lawrence Lessig's 2004 book on "Free Culture": This book documents how copyright power has expanded substantially since 1974 in five critical dimensions: * duration (from 32 to 95 years), * scope (from publishers to virtually everyone), * reach (to every view on a computer), * control (including "derivative works" defined so broadly that virtually any new content could be sued by some copyright holder as a "derivative work" of something), and * concentration and integration of the media industry. Lessig's 2011 book on "Republic, Lost" describes how the political system in the US corrupts virtually everyone, driven by the requirement of huge budgets for television advertising to get elected to high public office. Lessig calls this the "gateway problem", which must be solved before we can solve any of the other major problems facing the US and the world today. I propose we combine the name change with a major campaign to roll back government secrecy and abuse of copyright law, as outlined in Wikipedia "Free Culture (book)". Comments? 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 From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Fri Jun 8 16:53:58 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:53:58 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] spencer's suggestions Message-ID: <4FD29096.8080808@sbcglobal.net> First off, a name change would be discarding whatever name recognition the Gren Party currently.has. Secondly, where Spencer wrote I propose we combine the name change with a major campaign o roll back government secrecy and abuse of copyright law, as outlined in Wikipedia "Free Culture (book)". The proposed project is huge and the we is much too wee. From cbrouillet at igc.org Sun Jun 10 10:13:53 2012 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:13:53 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Post-Election Summer Activities... Message-ID: Dear friends, colleagues, supporters, activists, Many thanks to all who pitched in and helped with my Congressional Campaign, we learned a lot and I'm glad we did it. I hope what we did will make it easier to mobilize people into a stronger political force in the future. There are plenty of campaigns, efforts that need support. I generally want to do "everything," but the Congressional Campaign forced me to be more focused and let go of trying to do "way more than I could..." Now I'm obliged to choose again where to put my time, energy, resources and that is not an easy task. I do have certain responsibilities (like fetching the signs in from where they were deployed in transit corridors) and showing up in court (to avoid additional jail time and hefty fines) and I did sign up to be a delegate to the Continental Congress 2.0 (http://www.the99declaration.org/ ) taking place in Philadelphia, alongside another national gathering for the Occupy Movement (http://www.occupynationalgathering.com/ ) during the first week of July. I'm also committed to helping with the premiere of the new 9/11 Explosive Evidence- Experts Speak Out (See http://www.ae911truth.org ) in July, as well as a June 23rd premiere of a documentary, A Noble Lie, Oklahmoa City 1995, about the Oklahoma City Bombing on in Berkeley (http://www.bfuu.org/events ). Of course, with my three sons at home now, there are other demands upon me, such as making blueberry waffles this Sunday, giving them time and attention this summer. (Now that the youngest is in college, it is rare to have them all home at the same time. I also want to visit my mom, who is getting on in years. There are also events coming up to push for Single Payer Healthcare, a local resolution to support a 28th Amendment to abolish corporate personhood, the annual monetary reform conference, efforts to rein in the growing police state, efforts to shut down nuclear power in California, efforts to prevent an impending war with Syria and Iran. Today, though, I will just work on waffles, collecting yard signs (I'm going to clean off the ones that I find and store them for possible reuse in 2014), writing thank-you letters, catching up with the unending pile of tasks at hand. If you have one or more yard signs that you would like me to pick up- please let me know (and give me your address). If you would like to accompany me on the yard sign hunt, let me know (I'll be passing by Castle Rock, so an opportunity for a hike is also a tempting possibility. (If you want waffles & to help with yard signs/hike - aim to be at my home at 11:30 am...) Carol Brouillet, cbrouillet at igc.org 650-857-0927 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rob.means at electric-bikes.com Mon Jun 11 14:37:34 2012 From: rob.means at electric-bikes.com (Rob Means) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:37:34 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] IRV vs. Approval Voting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1339450654.5183.105.camel@robs-laptop> Hi Folks, I picked up the IRV flag and started touting it about a decade ago. Today, I learned a bit about Approval Voting which purports to be simpler and more effective than IRV. Does anyone have other knowledge? Learn more here: http://www.electology.org/approval-voting -- Rob Means ATRA Legislative Advisor www.advancedtransit.org rob.means at electric-bikes.com 408-262-8975 work, 408-230-2585 cell 1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035 On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 12:00 -0700, sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org wrote: > Send sosfbay-discuss mailing list submissions to > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sosfbay-discuss-owner at cagreens.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of sosfbay-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Post-Election Summer Activities... (Carol Brouillet) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:13:53 -0700 > From: Carol Brouillet > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Post-Election Summer Activities... > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" > > Dear friends, colleagues, supporters, activists, > > Many thanks to all who pitched in and helped with my Congressional > Campaign, we learned a lot and I'm glad we did it. I hope what we did > will make it easier to mobilize people into a stronger political > force in the future. There are plenty of campaigns, efforts that > need support. I generally want to do "everything," but the > Congressional Campaign forced me to be more focused and let go of > trying to do "way more than I could..." Now I'm obliged to choose > again where to put my time, energy, resources and that is not an easy > task. I do have certain responsibilities (like fetching the signs in > from where they were deployed in transit corridors) and showing up in > court (to avoid additional jail time and hefty fines) and I did sign > up to be a delegate to the Continental Congress 2.0 > (http://www.the99declaration.org/ ) > taking place in Philadelphia, alongside another national gathering > for the Occupy Movement > (http://www.occupynationalgathering.com/ > ) during the first week of July. I'm also committed to helping with > the premiere of the new 9/11 Explosive Evidence- Experts Speak Out > (See http://www.ae911truth.org ) in July, as well as a June 23rd > premiere of a documentary, A Noble Lie, Oklahmoa City 1995, about the > Oklahoma City Bombing on in Berkeley > (http://www.bfuu.org/events ). > > Of course, with my three sons at home now, there are other demands > upon me, such as making blueberry waffles this Sunday, giving them > time and attention this summer. (Now that the youngest is in college, > it is rare to > have them all home at the same time. I also want to visit my mom, > who is getting on in years. > > There are also events coming up to push for Single Payer Healthcare, > a local resolution to support a 28th Amendment to abolish corporate > personhood, the annual monetary reform conference, efforts to rein in > the growing police state, efforts to shut down nuclear power in > California, efforts to prevent an impending war with Syria and Iran. > > Today, though, I will just work on waffles, collecting yard signs > (I'm going to clean off the ones that I find and store them for > possible reuse in 2014), writing thank-you letters, catching up with > the unending pile of tasks at hand. If you have one or more yard > signs that you would like me to pick up- please let me know (and give > me your address). 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URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Mon Jun 11 17:38:53 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: URGENT ACTION ALERT FROM MOTHERS FOR PEACE AND NIRS Message-ID: <1339461533.55567.YahooMailClassic@web111104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Check this out. --- On Mon, 6/11/12, Elaine Holder wrote: From: Elaine Holder Subject: URGENT ACTION ALERT FROM MOTHERS FOR PEACE AND NIRS To: Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 5:18 PM URGENT -- PLEASE SIGN THIS NIRS PETITION TO JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER NODA URGING HIM NOT TO RESTART THE OHI REACTORS. WE JUST RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE FROM MOTHERS FOR PEACE MEMBER, CAROLE HISASUE, FROM JAPAN WHERE SHE IS VISITING FAMILY MEMBERS. I am in Japan now and Prime Minister Noda is about to OK the restart of the Ohi reactors "no matter what." There are still many unresolved safety issues, but he is ignoring them and scheduling the restart to get the plants up and running in time for the summer's peak demand. He wants Japan to believe that without the reactors, there will be blackouts that will affect hospitals, etc. and keeps saying that he has come to this decision to "save lives." Japan is a seismically active country which has become even more so after last year's massive earthquake. The Ohi reactors, like many others here, are built on top of fault lines. Necessary safety measures will take months to implement so his rush to restart the reactors is nothing short of insanity. It is horrifying even the supporters of nuclear energy. In a speech last week he said he "will take full responsibility" in the case of another accident. The Fukushima accident is not even close to being resolved and there is no way anyone can take "full responsibility." Radiation is spreading through the disposal of radioactive debris. Victims have not been compensated, even though their lives are ruined forever. He needs to act responsibly NOW. Tell him the whole world is watching. Thank you, dear Mothers!! Carole Hisasue Begin forwarded message: 6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912; 301-270-6477; nirsnet at nirs.org; www.nirs.org ACTIONS, ACTIONS, AND MORE ACTIONS.... JAPAN, VOGTLE LOANS, EMERGENCY PLANNING....AND MORE June 11, 2012, We're just back from the inspiring Netroots Nation conference in Providence, Rhode Island--which your actions and support enabled us to attend. Thank you! We made some great new contacts and took the nuclear-free, carbon-free message to a whole new constituency. Now that we're back, there's a lot going on: Japan Our colleagues in Japan--at Green Action, FoE Japan and others, have issued an urgent international plea for help from across the world. As you probably know, Japan is currently nuclear-free--all of its 50+ reactors have been shutdown since the Fukushima disaster of March 2011. But Prime Minister Noda is now seeking restart of the two nuclear reactors at Ohi as soon as possible. And this could be a prelude to more restarts. Our friends in Japan are asking for us all to raise our voices in protest. Please act right now and sign a new petition here, which will be delivered to the Japanese embassy in the United States on Monday, June 18. If you're in the DC area and want to help deliver the petition on Monday, please contact us at nirsnet at nirs.org. Vogtle loans Last week, the Department of Energy announced that it is extending the deadline for the completion of the taxpayer loan package for construction of the Southern Company's Vogtle reactors in Georgia until the end of the year (it was supposed to be completed by the end of May). This is the latest sign that this loan is in real trouble. Stopping this loan would not only be a blow to Vogtle, it almost certainly would end the entire nuclear loan guarantee program. More than 9300 people already have sent e-mails to DOE Secretary Chu and President Obama in opposition to this loan. It's time to really step it up and flood them with e-mails. Please join us and take action here, and then make sure to share this action with everyone you can think of. We can win this battle! Emergency planning NIRS' Petition for Rulemaking to expand emergency evacuation zone and strengthen emergency regulations is now in the middle of its official public comment period--it ends July 16. If it were up to NIRS, we wouldn't need emergency planning because all reactors would be closed; but that's not the current reality. With hundreds of millions of Americans living within 50 miles of dangerous reactors, it is essential that the strongest possible emergency regulations are in place. Unfortunately, our current rules are not even as good as those that were in place in Japan. We can and must do better. Please send your comments in here. NIRS Action Page Our Action Page now includes all ongoing NIRS actions. Check it regularly to see if there is something new or that you missed! New York City Rally, June 12 There will be a march to end nuclear energy tomorrow, June 12. Assemble at Tompkins Square Park at 7:30 pm. This is the anniversary of the June 12, 1982 anti-nuclear march that brought more than a million people to Manhattan. Sponsored by WBAI, Occupy Wall Street, Shut Indian Point Now, and more. More info here. Berkeley California rally, June 19 There will be a rally at Berkeley City Hall at 6 pm on June 19 for a Nuclear Free California, in advance of a vote in the Berkeley City Council on this issue. If you can't make the rally, you can help anyway. More info here. As always, thanks so much for what you do. Keep it up! Michael Mariotte Executive Director Nuclear Information and Resource Service nirsnet at nirs.org www.nirs.org P.S. your activism and financial support are what keeps us going. Seriously. Please make a tax-deductible contribution here or after you take action(s) and help us keep doing this essential work. Stay Informed: NIRS on the web (stay up-to-date with the Nuclear Newsreel section on the front page, featuring the day's most interesting news on nuclear power and other energy issues): http://www.nirs.org NIRS on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nuclear-Information-and-Resource-Service/26490791479?sk=wall&filter=12 http://www.facebook.com/nonukesnirs http://www.causes.com/causes/49098-no-nukes-nuclear-information-and-resource-service NIRS on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/nirsnet Please note: NIRS never sells, rents, trades, or otherwise makes our e-mail lists available to other organizations or individuals for any reason. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Contacts2006 mailing list Contacts2006 at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/contacts2006 From snug.bug at hotmail.com Tue Jun 12 09:03:09 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:03:09 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: [Occupy PA] "We Are the 99%" Rush Hour Picket, today at 4 PM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Occupy Palo Alto will do rush-hour blogging 4-6 at El Camino at Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, today. > From: Scott.W at Benetech.org > To: OccupyPaloAlto at googlegroups.com; OccupyStanford at googlegroups.com > Subject: [Occupy PA] "We Are the 99%" Rush Hour Picket, tomorrow at 4 PM > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:04:26 +0000 > > This picket, sponsored by Occupy Palo Alto, will be held > tomorrow (Tuesday) from 4-6 PM at the corner of > El Camino Real and Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. > > Here's the details: > > http://peaceandjustice.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20120601123004582 > > There will be a brief Occupy Palo Alto General Assembly to > brainstorm future actions. 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URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Jun 12 17:33:22 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:33:22 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Hemp CEO protest Message-ID: <4FD7DFD2.6010601@earthlink.net> "Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps CEO Arrested in White House Hemp Protest" http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/11-5 Gerry From jims at greens.org Tue Jun 12 18:35:59 2012 From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:59 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] IRV vs. Approval Voting In-Reply-To: <1339450654.5183.105.camel@robs-laptop> References: <1339450654.5183.105.camel@robs-laptop> Message-ID: <4FD7EE7F.9050600@greens.org> Hi, Rob - Approval Voting and IRV are similar, but IRV gives a finer granulation of voter preference. With AV, you check all candidates of whom you approve. You do the same with IRV but also get to specify your preferences among the candidates of whom you approve. If you had a set of election that you could run with both AV and IRV, you'd probably get the same results most of the time. But in an election where the votes between candidates are really close, IRV will do a better job of making a fine distinction in voters' choices. I would agree that AV is simpler, but I wouldn't agree that it's more effective. That's my 2 cents. Jim On 6/11/2012 2:37 PM, Rob Means wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I picked up the IRV flag and started touting it about a decade ago. Today, I > learned a bit about Approval Voting which purports to be simpler and more > effective than IRV. Does anyone have other knowledge? > > Learn more here: http://www.electology.org/approval-voting > > -- > Rob Means > ATRA Legislative Advisor > www.advancedtransit.org > rob.means at electric-bikes.com > 408-262-8975 work, 408-230-2585 cell > 1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035 > > > > > On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 12:00 -0700, sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org wrote: >> Send sosfbay-discuss mailing list submissions to >> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> sosfbay-discuss-owner at cagreens.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than"Re: Contents of sosfbay-discuss digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Post-Election Summer Activities... (Carol Brouillet) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:13:53 -0700 >> From: Carol Brouillet> >> To:sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Post-Election Summer Activities... >> Message-ID:> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" >> >> Dear friends, colleagues, supporters, activists, >> >> Many thanks to all who pitched in and helped with my Congressional >> Campaign, we learned a lot and I'm glad we did it. I hope what we did >> will make it easier to mobilize people into a stronger political >> force in the future. There are plenty of campaigns, efforts that >> need support. I generally want to do"everything," but the >> Congressional Campaign forced me to be more focused and let go of >> trying to do"way more than I could..." Now I'm obliged to choose >> again where to put my time, energy, resources and that is not an easy >> task. I do have certain responsibilities (like fetching the signs in >> from where they were deployed in transit corridors) and showing up in >> court (to avoid additional jail time and hefty fines) and I did sign >> up to be a delegate to the Continental Congress 2.0 >> (http://www.the99declaration.org/ ) >> taking place in Philadelphia, alongside another national gathering >> for the Occupy Movement >> (http://www.occupynationalgathering.com/ >> ) during the first week of July. I'm also committed to helping with >> the premiere of the new 9/11 Explosive Evidence- Experts Speak Out >> (Seehttp://www.ae911truth.org ) in July, as well as a June 23rd >> premiere of a documentary, A Noble Lie, Oklahmoa City 1995, about the >> Oklahoma City Bombing on in Berkeley >> (http://www.bfuu.org/events ). >> >> Of course, with my three sons at home now, there are other demands >> upon me, such as making blueberry waffles this Sunday, giving them >> time and attention this summer. (Now that the youngest is in college, >> it is rare to >> have them all home at the same time. I also want to visit my mom, >> who is getting on in years. >> >> There are also events coming up to push for Single Payer Healthcare, >> a local resolution to support a 28th Amendment to abolish corporate >> personhood, the annual monetary reform conference, efforts to rein in >> the growing police state, efforts to shut down nuclear power in >> California, efforts to prevent an impending war with Syria and Iran. >> >> Today, though, I will just work on waffles, collecting yard signs >> (I'm going to clean off the ones that I find and store them for >> possible reuse in 2014), writing thank-you letters, catching up with >> the unending pile of tasks at hand. If you have one or more yard >> signs that you would like me to pick up- please let me know (and give >> me your address). If you would like to accompany me on the yard sign >> hunt, let me know (I'll be passing by Castle Rock, so an opportunity >> for a hike is also a tempting possibility. (If you want waffles& to >> help with yard signs/hike - aim to be at my home at 11:30 am...) >> >> Carol Brouillet,cbrouillet at igc.org >> 650-857-0927 >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sosfbay-discuss mailing list >> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss >> >> End of sosfbay-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 12 >> *********************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Jun 12 21:00:57 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Who owns this computer? Message-ID: <1339560057.19110.YahooMailClassic@web111108.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> For some detailed background on the impending demise of the "first sale doctrine" go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine --- On Tue, 6/12/12, Wade Mollison wrote: From: Wade Mollison Subject: Who owns this computer? To: "John Thielking" Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 3:57 PM #yiv337748656 body, #yiv337748656 td, #yiv337748656 font {font-size:10pt;} #yiv337748656 #yiv337748656 td p {margin:0em;} #yiv337748656 p {margin:1em 0em;} #yiv337748656 td div p {margin:1em 0em;} #yiv337748656 #yiv337748656 .yiv337748656X0uMP p {margin:1em 0;} John, Do you really own the smartphone you?re using to read this email? If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be. It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back by sending emails to Obama and Congress and telling them to protect our resale rights. If we don't speak out now, we won?t be able to sell almost anything we own -- and if we do, we'll face charges for violating intellectual property law! First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court?s decision,?we won't really ?own? anything?if it's been made in a different country. ?We expect them to issue a ruling later this year. If we want to sell products that were made abroad, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks -- even our homes -- we'll have to ask copyright holders for permission first. ?And they'll have the right to deny it! This is bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to make things and move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. 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For a pithier take, check out some of the cartoons here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101632123 > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:09:52 -0700 > From: gerrygras at earthlink.net > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Embarrassing" Senate Hearing > > > FYI, > > Here's a report from Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone > on a Banking Hearing: > > "Senators Grovel, Embarrass Themselves at Dimon Hearing" > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/16-5 > > for reference, here is s list of committee members: > > http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=CommitteeInformation.Membership > > Gerry > _______________________________________________ > 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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"Books to Burn: Adventures In Reverse Psychology" http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/06/16-3 Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Jun 18 16:04:47 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:04:47 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Fwd: Jill Stein Social Media pushout- Federal Matching funds-SPREAD WIDELY In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4FDFB40F.2090700@earthlink.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gpca-forum] Fwd: Jill Stein Social Media pushout- Federal Matching funds-SPREAD WIDELY Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:08:06 -0700 From: Sanda Everette To: gpca-forum Choosing this hat, Sanda Everette, GPSMC County Council ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Stein Social Media* > Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:02 AM Subject: Jill Stein Social Media pushout- Federal Matching funds-SPREAD WIDELY To: Hello All! So this is first ask from the campaign to have people like, spread, share and retweet WIDELY something coming out of the campaign, this regarding our crucial push for federal matching funds. These are the messages we as the campaign are sending out. You may change them as you see fit if needed. On Facebook: U.S. Green Party nominee for President Dr. Jill Stein needs your help! Dr. Stein's campaign is making a serious push to qualify for federal matching funds, a feat no U.S. Green Party nominee has every achieved. Help Dr. Stein make history and continue to build momentum for her campaign. We only have 11 Days left to qualify, so the time is now to help Jill! Learn how you can help the campaign's matching fund effort here: http://www.jillstein.org/funding On Twitter: Help me make history for the #GreenParty by helping my campaign qualify for federal matching funds! http://tinyurl.com/6tjjam5 @gpus #p2 #Occupy Thanks for advance for help the campaign with this! and Good Luck! 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At no other time in our history have we been able to posess the things that we do now: television, cell phones, ample food for most. Or to know what we can know about the world we live in as cable news keeps us more fully informed than any of our ancestors. I recently came across the wedding photo of my grandparents. They were married in 1891. It is hard to imagine what they would think of the world we now live in and all that we can do. Even the idea that I could sit at a desk in Morgan Hill and search the 1900 census records for the first mention of my father would have seemed crazy. For all that we have accomplished, the world that we know is going to change and how we deal with those changes will determine whether or not these are the worst of times. It should be clear to all that our climate is changing, and it won't be for the better. For those who believe it is just a matter of natural cycles, the fact is that we are just now coming out of an 11 year cooling cycle so that such "normal" cyclic variation will only continue to warm the planet. Every study that comes out provides increasing credence for the warming of our planet and its root cause in our continued use of fossil fuels. The question we all have to answer is no longer what is happening, but rather what are we going to do about it. Doing nothing is no longer an option. The ecological changes that are happening will force changes in the way we are able to live. Those who see an unlimited technological future as the way forward need only consider that our current path will have a world of 9 billion people by 2050. This surge in population will put increasing pressure on the limited resources that we have. Feeding an extra 2 billion people will be a major challenge. It might be that our fossil fuels would be put to better use as fuel for crops rather than fuel for transportation. Most of the nitrogen used in commercial fertilizers comes from natural gas. Even the materials we are told that are required for the trappings of daily life... televisions, tablets, cell phones.... are called rare earths for a reason. If the future is to be held in lithum batteries you can count the mining sources of lithium without taking off your shoes. The late Steve Jobs challenged a graduating class at Stanford to "Create the future you imagine." I don't think that most of us would want to future that we are now creating. It is time to imagine something different. Some are already doing that. They understand that unlimited growth is a Ponzi scheme where a few get rich at the expense of the many. They understand also that our politicians are not going to deliver a sustainable future as long as the premise of government is that growth is necessary to finance they way we live today. Listen to what they promise and ask yourselves how that can be. Those every present television ads promise us a great future of energy use, at lest another century. But what does that leave our children and grandchildren? Only the problems that we were not strong enough to solve today. I think that we are better than that. At least I hope so. But if we are to avoid the worst future, we need a new manner of organizing our society including a new politics. Transition California offers a new premise for society, locally organized to transition California to sustainable models, systems and structures. The Green Party offers the companion political solution, organized by grassroots action and with politicians who will not be bought by corporate donations. You might consider both as being unrealistic. 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Carol 650-857-0927 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/20/18715882.php Film Review - A Noble Lie Oklahoma City 1995 by Carol Brouillet ( cbrouillet [at] igc.org ) Wednesday Jun 20th, 2012 4:55 PM Review of a new, comprehensive documentary about the Oklahoma City bombing which will be screened Saturday, May 23, 2012 at 7pm at the BFUU Fellowship Hall (Cedar and Bonita) by the BFUU Social Justice Committee, co-sponsored by the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. anoblelie.jpg anoblelie.jpg Director James Lane, Free Mind Films, December 2011, 2 hours The title of the film comes from Plato?s Republic ? ?A myth or untruth knowingly told by the elite to maintain social harmony, or the social position of the elite.? There was a huge disparity between the national story of the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, and what the local news and local people witnessed on the day it happened. The orchestrated cover-up failed to discourage all those who had lost friends and family or realized that something was seriously amiss with the official story. For years people have devoted countless hours, time and resources to interview witnesses, track down evidence, and discover the truth about this tragedy. An Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Committee was formed that included Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key, who was a driving force behind empowering a citizen grand jury to investigate the bombing, to look into areas that the government had ignored. While the official narrative focused on Timothy McVeigh, it neglected the testimony of witnesses who saw McVeigh in the company of Middle Eastern men and Andy Strassmeier, a German citizen and ?former? intelligence officer who lived in Elohim City. Many adults as well as children were killed in the bombing, which made it the largest terrorist attack on American civilians up until 9/11/2001. Subsequent to the bombing there were two brutal murders carried out, one of a policeman who was a first responder to the crime scene and another of a man who bore a strong resemblance to one of the suspects in the bombing. The film reveals more mysteries than it solves. For example, it demonstrates that it would be impossible for a truck bomb alone to cause all the structural damage and the partial collapse of the building that caused most of the casualties. The suppressed evidence of foreknowledge by the authorities is also exposed. Precisely what role the various suspects, actors, and prosecutors played, however, is not clear. On the contrary, the bombing as a whole is shown to be complex, messy and tied into past events, such as Waco and Ruby Ridge, as well as into subsequent events such as the World Trade Center attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, just weeks after Charles Key published his book Final Report on the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The documentary includes Alex Jones, warning that if we don?t learn the truth about what happened at Oklahoma City, then history is likely to repeat itself until people realize who is responsible for these crimes and how the events are being used to construct an increasingly oppressive police/surveillance state. I vaguely remember feeling uncomfortable and wary of the accounts I heard about Waco and Oklahoma City when they happened, and how I was concerned about the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 that granted the federal government greater powers in jurisdiction over ?acts of international terrorism.? However, I was too busy to spend much time investigating those events. In the wake of 9/11, however, I received some videos about Oklahoma City and recognized disturbing parallels between both attacks. I spent years questioning the ?War on Terrorism? and in particular the official narrative of 9/11, often without any interest by the media in the issue. When I finally got the attention of an editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian who decided to do a cover story on the topic, I gave him the best research I could find, including numerous books, articles, and documentaries. As I was discussing with him the historic parallels to 9/11, however, I noticed his eyes clouding over in horror when I mentioned Oklahoma City as one of my examples. I suddenly realized that he had never heard a word challenging the official account of the Oklahoma City bombing, having only been exposed to the oft-repeated national myth. I had to drop the historical context aspect of my presentation to avoid overwhelming him with more information than he could process. My heart goes out to the victims who were killed and maimed in Texas, Oklahoma City, New York, Washington DC, and those killed subsequently in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bali, Spain, and London Many have died, including truth seekers, including some of my friends. These are perilous times, when we are called upon to stand up for what we believe. Many of us feel that if we can learn the truth, and expose the truth, we will be able to prevent future acts of terrorism, future wars, and redirect humanity from the path of endless war towards a more peaceful, life-honoring future. Clearly that is the intent of the documentary ?A Noble Lie ? Oklahoma City 1995.? This excellent film is a gift to all of us to help us better understand how we have been deceived, and to prod us into continuing to educate ourselves and to join together to take action to prevent history from repeating itself, yet again. http://www.anoblelie.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The front cover has in smaller print in the lower right hand area PLUS Green Party presidential cnadidate Jill Stein debates strategy. I sent the following message to the web master at In These Times: I was not able to find the article The Season of Electoral Angst on the website. I wanted to provide a link to the article to friends and colleagues of mine. Request: post the article to the web site and let me know when it si ready so that I may send a link to the article to friends and colleagues. Thank You, Jim Doyle From vdf at juno.com Thu Jun 21 19:59:57 2012 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:59:57 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Event to Benefit the SAFE California Campaign, Fri 6/29, 7 PM, San Jos e Message-ID: <20120621.195957.25217.0@webmail03.vgs.untd.com> Hi everyone, Following is the text of an email invitation I received from California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty. Best wishes, Valerie ~*~*~*~ YOU'RE INVITED To an Event to Benefit the SAFE California Campaign The SAFE California Act is an initiative that will replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole, saving our state billions of dollars and making our communities safer and stronger. Read more about the initiative at http://www.safecalifornia.org. Hosted by Fr. Michael Carson Friday, June 29, 2012 Refreshments 7:00 PM Program at 7:30 PM At the Auditorium, Queen of Apostles Church 4911 Moorpark Ave., San Jose, CA 95129 Guest Speaker: Reginald (Reggie) Reese Reginald (Reggie) Reese is a Law Enforcement Justice Advocate at Death Penalty Focus. Reggie worked for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for 28 years, serving both in the Youth Authority and Adult Corrections. Prior to his retirement, he served as Associate Warden and as Program Administrator in the Condemned and Administrative Segregation Units at San Quentin State Prison. During his tenure, supervising those units, two inmates were executed at San Quentin. For more information contact: Fr. Michael Carson at mcarson at dsj.org or 408-646-2772 Suggested donation: $25.00 ~*~*~*~ ____________________________________________________________ 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick Has Botox Doctors Worried http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4fe3e0292a5ba8e34ffst05vuc From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu Jun 21 21:55:44 2012 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee In-Reply-To: <4FDA707B.1080507@greens.org> References: <4FCFA9A3.20409@earthlink.net> <4FDA707B.1080507@greens.org> Message-ID: <1340340944.16566.YahooMailRC@web181005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Ever since the coup, I have thought about whether or not the Green Party of California is my party anymore. The conclusion I have reached is that there is no other party that represents my beliefs better than the Green Party. I am here in Santa Clara County. I can do things that I believe further the interests of the Green Party, America, and the planet without having to have anything to do with "those people." I am very sorry if we lose our Regional Rep, because I think he does, truly represent us. But I am going to keep using the energy I have to try to reach my goals, not to wage internecine warfare. Caroline ________________________________ From: Jim Stauffer To: sc-sm at cagreens.org Sent: Thu, June 14, 2012 4:15:10 PM Subject: Re: [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee I've already expressed my opinion on whether or not the GP is worth supporting anymore. The nullification of bylaws started in earnest last year after the Berkeley GA. That's when the new CC members were elected. That's the group that was hand-selected by Marnie, and took their places on the CC with no experience with the GPCA. Several members of this group openly stated their purpose on the CC was implement Marnie's Green2012 plan, even though that plan had never been submitted to a GA for decision. I wrote a detailed report demonstrating that the CC implemented Marnie's contract and Green2012 plan while ignoring most of the GA decisions. This all came about when the CC abrogated its authority to a controlling group consisting of Barry, Mike F, Sanda and Marnie. This small group has literally been running the party, with the Marnie's CC reps rubber stamping most everything the controlling group wants. Have you noticed that our long-time press secretary, Cres Velucci, is no longer here? He didn't resign. The controlling group's implementation of Marnie's contract simply eliminated Cres by turning over all his jobs to Marnie. After his years of dedicated professional service he was just booted out without so much as a "thank you." The same thing happened to the IT Group. Mike/Sanda/Marnie just took us over and told us to leave. Not only was there no recognition of all we had done for the party, we were called every name in the book and told we were nothing but a problem. Examples of bylaw violations and usurpation of power would fill a page. My only surprise is that more people haven't left by now. Jim P.S. Someone really needs to volunteer to take over as admin of this list. I can't do it anymore. On 6/6/2012 12:04 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > I suppose some may consider this an inappropriate question, > but here it is anyways. > > FWIW. > > Is it appropriate to find a replacement to send to a group > in violation of its own bylaws? Wouldn't that just enable > further violations of the bylaws? > > I don't have an answer for the question. But somehow I > think that just sending a replacement means ignoring the > basic problem. I don't know what bylaws were broken, > and how serious the violations are, but I can easily > believe that there are chronic nontrivial problems with > the CC. And I would not be at all surprised if MANY > Greens have similar concerns to Warner's. > > Gerry > > > WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com wrote: >> June 5, 2012 >> To GP of San Mateo County and GP of Santa Clara County >> County Council members: >> This email is to notify you that I intend to resign from the GPCA >> Coordinating Committee effective not later than September 15, 2012, or >> upon the earlier designation of a replacement Silicon Valley Regional >> Representative by the County Councils / members of the respective County >> GPs. >> I will send a longer message about this after first writing a year end >> status report, but basically after last night's CC teleconference I am >> unwilling to remain a member of that group which, in my view, acted in >> violation of GPCA Bylaws. I did not anticipate this circumstance when I >> volunteered to take the position, and I regret that events have resulted >> in the need for me to leave the CC before completing the full term. >> It is important that the two County Councils begin recruiting >> a replacement immediately. >> Yours truly, >> Warner S. Bloomberg III >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sc-sm mailing list >> sc-sm at cagreens.org >> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm > _______________________________________________ > sc-sm mailing list > sc-sm at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm > _______________________________________________ sc-sm mailing list sc-sm at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu Jun 21 22:08:23 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:08:23 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee In-Reply-To: <1340340944.16566.YahooMailRC@web181005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <4FCFA9A3.20409@earthlink.net>, <4FDA707B.1080507@greens.org>, <1340340944.16566.YahooMailRC@web181005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Wow! Recent email volume has been more than I could handle and I had just glossed over all this. My condolences to all. I had been inclined to think well of Marnie because she seems to be a go-getter, but this looks bad. Several months ago when I was doing research in considering an outreach campaign for the Calif. DISCLOSE Act to rural Green Party cells I noticed that Marnie was the email address for many or even most of the rural county organizations. I only noted how unfortunate this was without noting how creepy. Am I correct to suppose that Laura Wells is close to the Marnie/Alameda/Sanda cabal? Brian Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:55:44 -0700 From: carolineyacoub at att.net To: jims at greens.org CC: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee Ever since the coup, I have thought about whether or not the Green Party of California is my party anymore. The conclusion I have reached is that there is no other party that represents my beliefs better than the Green Party. I am here in Santa Clara County. I can do things that I believe further the interests of the Green Party, America, and the planet without having to have anything to do with "those people." I am very sorry if we lose our Regional Rep, because I think he does, truly represent us. But I am going to keep using the energy I have to try to reach my goals, not to wage internecine warfare. Caroline From: Jim Stauffer To: sc-sm at cagreens.org Sent: Thu, June 14, 2012 4:15:10 PM Subject: Re: [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee I've already expressed my opinion on whether or not the GP is worth supporting anymore. The nullification of bylaws started in earnest last year after the Berkeley GA. That's when the new CC members were elected. That's the group that was hand-selected by Marnie, and took their places on the CC with no experience with the GPCA. Several members of this group openly stated their purpose on the CC was implement Marnie's Green2012 plan, even though that plan had never been submitted to a GA for decision. I wrote a detailed report demonstrating that the CC implemented Marnie's contract and Green2012 plan while ignoring most of the GA decisions. This all came about when the CC abrogated its authority to a controlling group consisting of Barry, Mike F, Sanda and Marnie. This small group has literally been running the party, with the Marnie's CC reps rubber stamping most everything the controlling group wants. Have you noticed that our long-time press secretary, Cres Velucci, is no longer here? He didn't resign. The controlling group's implementation of Marnie's contract simply eliminated Cres by turning over all his jobs to Marnie. After his years of dedicated professional service he was just booted out without so much as a "thank you." The same thing happened to the IT Group. Mike/Sanda/Marnie just took us over and told us to leave. Not only was there no recognition of all we had done for the party, we were called every name in the book and told we were nothing but a problem. Examples of bylaw violations and usurpation of power would fill a page. My only surprise is that more people haven't left by now. Jim P.S. Someone really needs to volunteer to take over as admin of this list. I can't do it anymore. On 6/6/2012 12:04 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > I suppose some may consider this an inappropriate question, > but here it is anyways. > > FWIW. > > Is it appropriate to find a replacement to send to a group > in violation of its own bylaws? Wouldn't that just enable > further violations of the bylaws? > > I don't have an answer for the question. But somehow I > think that just sending a replacement means ignoring the > basic problem. I don't know what bylaws were broken, > and how serious the violations are, but I can easily > believe that there are chronic nontrivial problems with > the CC. And I would not be at all surprised if MANY > Greens have similar concerns to Warner's. > > Gerry > > > WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com wrote: >> June 5, 2012 >> To GP of San Mateo County and GP of Santa Clara County >> County Council members: >> This email is to notify you that I intend to resign from the GPCA >> Coordinating Committee effective not later than September 15, 2012, or >> upon the earlier designation of a replacement Silicon Valley Regional >> Representative by the County Councils / members of the respective County >> GPs. >> I will send a longer message about this after first writing a year end >> status report, but basically after last night's CC teleconference I am >> unwilling to remain a member of that group which, in my view, acted in >> violation of GPCA Bylaws. I did not anticipate this circumstance when I >> volunteered to take the position, and I regret that events have resulted >> in the need for me to leave the CC before completing the full term. >> It is important that the two County Councils begin recruiting >> a replacement immediately. >> Yours truly, >> Warner S. Bloomberg III >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sc-sm mailing list >> sc-sm at cagreens.org >> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm > _______________________________________________ > sc-sm mailing list > sc-sm at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm > _______________________________________________ sc-sm mailing list sc-sm at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm _______________________________________________ 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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The GPCA contact in rural counties being Marnie thing reflects the fact that A) they are essentially nonexistent as actual parties at this point? and B) Marnie was attempting to create new county parties and C) for some reason I've never been able to understand she has a very centralized (antithetical to Green Party principles) way of operating and seems to be quite unaware of the unGreeness of this and insensitive to this unGreen methodological approach she takes over and over again. Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu Jun 21 23:26:48 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:26:48 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items In-Reply-To: <4FE38D61.7040808@sbcglobal.net> References: <4FE38D61.7040808@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: California DICSLOSE Act. Move to Amend (corporate personhood) Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:08:49 -0700 > From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items > > This is the first call for agenda items for Thursday June 28-th. > > To date two requests have been sent or called in to me: > > Tian: discuss regional rep situation (?) > > Caroline: report on Health Care for All Californians > > _______________________________________________ > 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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On 6/21/2012 11:26 PM, Brian Good wrote: > > > California DICSLOSE Act. > > Move to Amend (corporate personhood) > > Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. > > > > > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:08:49 -0700 > > From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net > > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items > > > > This is the first call for agenda items for Thursday June 28-th. > > > > To date two requests have been sent or called in to me: > > > > Tian: discuss regional rep situation (?) > > > > Caroline: report on Health Care for All Californians > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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Caroline knew she would at least report on Health Care for All Californians and might have more after attending one of their metings Brian Good: California DICSLOSE Act. Move to Amend (corporate personhood) Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. Spencer: Foreclosures (time permitting). So I ask for a resubmittal that include the three items general purpose, desiredd outcome, and time needed From cbrouillet at igc.org Fri Jun 22 13:56:50 2012 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:56:50 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Continental Congress 2.0 Message-ID: Dear activists, This July 4th, there will be a gathering (http://www.the99declaration.org/ Continental Congress 2.0) in Philadelphia to come up with a list of grievances to present to Congress, the President, the Supreme Court. I'll be going as part of the California Delegation. We are supposed to come up with our top ten grievances. Any input from you would be helpful. An abbreviated list of proposed grievances is posted at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fde0K2G5XbYRj3FPR8QwP9z0w7APGXoyPRBVOtvc1Nw/edit?pli=1 The gathering is not formally endorsed by the Occupy Movement, who is holding a national gathering, coincidentally in Philadelphia at the same time (See http://www.occupynationalgathering.com/ ). If you would like to just choose ten of these that you feel are the best for this occasion, and email them to me, that would be helpful. (Send your choices to cbrouillet at igc.org). They can be tweaked/added to/altered, as well in Philadelphia.) 100 Consolidated Proposed Grievances For Consideration to be Included in a Petition For Redress of Grievances by The Delegates to Continental Congress 2.0 Convening in Philadelphia From July 2, 2012 to July 4, 2012 1. Corporations, unions, political organizations and all entities created by operation of law are not naturally born human beings and any law, rule, regulation or court decision so holding must be overruled, abrogated, repealed or overturned even if it requires amendment to the United States Constitution. 2. Money is not speech it is property and any law, rule, regulation or court decision so holding must be overruled, abrogated, repealed or overturned even if it requires amendment to the United States Constitution. If money is deemed speech then only wealthy individuals and concentrated sources of wealth such as corporations and unions have a voice in our society. 3. New legislation immediately enacted to impose a 100% public campaign finance system in all federal elections requiring an immediate ban on all direct and indirect private contributions of money, or anything of value (except unpaid time from volunteers), from all sources including individuals and the candidates themselves, to all politicians or political parties in all primaries and general elections. As in other modern democracies, the new system shall utilize a "blind" public trust whereby the taxpayers will fund all federal election campaigns. The funds in the public trust shall be allocated by the Federal Elections Commission in non-partisan equal apportionments to candidates on the ballot based on the level of office sought and the geographic location of the candidates running for office and the cost to by advertising time in specific media markets. 4. Adopting Professor Lawrence Lessig's $50 voucher system with $100 private contribution limits in federal political campaigns. 5. New legislation to impose a $2500 aggregate campaign contributions limit per human being per election cycle including primaries. Legal entities such as corporations, PACS, Super-PACS and unions to be barred from making any direct or indirect contributions to politicians. 6. A total ban on corporate and union political expenditures, directly or indirectly to or in favor of political candidates or political parties. 7. Retaining the current campaign finance system but enacting new laws making all direct and indirect political contributions to politicians and political parties completely transparent and published online and elsewhere. There must be total transparency for any person, corporation, union or other entity including PACS, Super-PACS or not-for-profit organizations that make political contributions or buy advertising time to advocate for any politician, political party or political view because money is property and not speech. If money is deemed speech then only the wealthy have a voice. 8. New laws banning all private expenditures on advertisements endorsing a particular candidate or political party or attacking a candidate or political party. 9. New laws banning foreign money and the use of cash in all federal political campaigns. 10. Public broadcasting licenses granted by the FCC and other regulators must mandate calendar specific dates and specific time slots which are available to candidates for elected federal office at a 90% discounted market rate for the purpose of campaigning whether funded by taxpayers or by private sources. 11. Repeal of prior healthcare laws and immediate enactment of "Medicare for all" or a new single-payer healthcare system. 12. New laws permitting the federal government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies to set prices for medications. 13. Reintroduction of compulsory exercise programs in all public schools to combat the epidemic of obesity. 14. Passage of a comprehensive jobs and job-training act like the "American Jobs Act" to employ our citizens in jobs that are available with free relocation services, specialized re-training through partnerships between companies seeking employees and community colleges and other educational institutions. 15. Immediate passage of a law, similar to the "Lilly Ledbetter" bill, requiring equal pay for women with stiff financial penalties imposed on employers for violating the law. 16. Re-institution of the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps and similar emergency governmental agencies tasked with creating new projects to provide jobs for the families of the 151 million people living in poverty and on low incomes. 17. Tax incentives granted to companies who partner with educational institutions to re-train workers to work in green energy and new sources of American manufacturing to reduce reliance on imported goods, services and natural resources. 18. Tax incentives should also be offered to U.S. companies that invest in reconstructing the manufacturing capacity of the United States and hiring our citizens to produce and innovate. 19. Tax incentives to entice businesses to hire our citizens rather than outsource jobs and a new "outsourcing tax" should be introduced to discourage businesses from sending jobs overseas and companies that continue to outsource will be barred from earning income in U.S. markets. 20. The rights to clean air, water, safe food, and conservation of the planet for future generations shall no longer be infringed by greed-driven corporations and selfish individuals who care for nothing except money and instant gratification. 21. A new federal charter to establish a "Green Bank" to fund "Demand Driven Clean Energy" including electric and low emission vehicles, solar, wind, fusion, hydroelectric, geothermal. 22. Tax incentives to rapidly transition away from poisonous fossil fuels and nuclear energy {those government subsidies should be eliminated immediately} to safe, non-toxic, reusable or carbon neutral sources of energy such as wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric. 23. New comprehensive treaties, laws and regulations must be immediately enacted to give the Environmental Protection Agency, and other environmental protection regulators around the world, expanded cross-border powers and resources to shut down corporations, businesses or entities that intentionally or recklessly damage the environment. 24. New federal laws enforcing mandatory recycling programs now in effect in some US cities and many countries must be uniformly adopted in the US in addition to controlling the unchecked dumping of waste into our oceans, air and ground by imposing meaningful fines on violators. 25. A new treaty to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its current level of 392 parts per million to below 350 parts per million. 26. No "corporate veil" protection for any employee, officer or director of a corporation that is directly or indirectly engaged in the intentional or reckless decimation of the planet for profit. 27. A Progressive tax on gross income, from a minimum tax rate of X% to a maximum tax rate of 3X%. 28. Any corporation or entity that does business in the United States and generates income from that business in the United States shall be fully taxed on that income by removing deductions, subsidies and loopholes regardless of corporate domicile or they will be barred from earning their profits in the United States. 29. The $4 billion per year "hedge fund loophole" which permits certain individuals engaged in financial transactions to evade graduated income tax rates by treating their income as capital gains shall be immediately abolished. 30. Elimination of all tax deductions except: (1) interest paid on mortgages for one's primary residence; (2) Contributions to charitable institutions, up to a total of one-tenth of annual gross income; (3) Interest earned on bonds issued by the governments of any state, municipality or other sub-division of the federal and U.S. domestic government. 31. No household with an income at or below the poverty line (responsibility for making this calculation having been shifted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) shall be subject to federal income tax action. 32. Abolish the death penalty in all states or lose federal funding for law enforcement. 33. Curtailing the "Private Prison Industrial Complex" by removing all incentives in the legal system set-up to imprison non-violent drug offenders and the mentally ill rather than treat or provide alternatives to incarceration. Non-violent drug offenders who do not engage in drug sales, and those with mental health issues must be treated rather than imprisoned and adjudicated through specialized drug and mental health courts. 34. The federal government and all states must provide a free attorney to every criminal defendants at all stages of every criminal case beginning at arrest and arraignment or lose all federal funding for law enforcement. 35. Legalization of marihuana for recreational and medicinal use in all US Jurisdictions or loss of federal funding for law enforcement to states and municipalities. 36. Require that all prisoners be granted a DNA test at taxpayer expense in their cases if a genetic sample is available in the particular case. 37. Abolishing the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote in presidential elections. 38. Election day shall becomes a federal holiday requiring employees to provide sufficient time for employees to vote on that day. 39. Compulsory voting with fines imposed on voters for failing to vote. 40. New election laws and rules, and amendment of the constitution if necessary, to provide for a gender balance in Congress so that 50% of the seats are reserved for people who identify as women and 50% reserved for people who identify as men. 41. New election laws banning all rules in all states that hinder the right to vote whether it is called a test or requiring the presentation of identification; the federal government shall issue free photo identification cards to all voters. 42. New election laws banning all rules in all states that prevent equal access to the ballot by giving advantages to certain political parties or penalizing independent candidates for office. 43. New federal laws passed authorizing the FEC to impose uniform rules in all states and districts setting forth the criteria for excluding a person from voting and the use of the same verifiable voting systems in all voting precincts; all elections are to be run by employees of the Federal Election Commission only; municipalities will no longer run elections when federal candidates are running for office; the federal government shall pay for this uniform, secure, cost-effective and verifiable voting system. 44. The practice of "gerrymandering" shall be ended and replaced with a non-partisan commission to redraw all voting district lines using a and equal distribution system calculated with an objective mathematical formula or algorithm that does not take into consideration the wealth, party affiliation, race, religion or other demographics of voters. 45. New federal laws requiring that no political party shall be privileged or receive special advantage in any state for their candidates running for Congress or the Presidency. 46. New election laws to ban all publically reported polling two weeks before election day and completely ending the practice of so-called "exit polling" and early return reporting by the media which contaminates the democratic process. 47. Open primaries in all states for all parties in all races for federal office so that all voters may vote in any primary. 48. Reinstatement of the "equal time" rules so that each candidate for office is given equal free air time on television, radio, cable, or any other medium licensed and regulated by the federal government. 49. Passage of a law to reduce the $15 trillion national debt to a sustainable percentage of GDP by 2020 by re-implementing the Clinton era income tax rates, increasing the capital gains tax rate, ending the hedge fund loophole, no oil and gas subsidies, and mandatory cuts in defense and entitlement spending. 50. Congress must pass immediate legislation (see e.g. H.R. 639) to encourage China (which undervalues its currency by up to 40%) to end currency manipulation and take additional steps to reduce our massive trade deficit. 51. Passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. 52. The immediate formation of a non-partisan commission to audit and investigate the short-term and long-term economic risks and benefits in eliminating the Federal Reserve Bank and transferring all its functions to the United States Treasury Department 53. Passage of the line item veto amendment to the Constitution. 54. The United States government shall begin to measure economic growth by the GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator) rather than GDP (Gross Domestic Product) 55. To reduce the principal on all outstanding student loans, a financial transaction surcharge, similar to those fees charged by banks on consumers, will be introduced to banks and securities firms. 56. After leaving government service, no federal elected or unelected official shall receive anything of value, for a period of five years, or work in any capacity to influence the actions of the federal government, with the sole exception of exercising their own personal First Amendment right to speak and publish. 57. All federal employees, politicians and officials are entitled to their salary, benefits, pension and nothing else. Any gift or thing of value given or promised to a politician or federal employee or immediate family valued at more than $5 will be deemed a bribe and punished under the criminal laws. 58. The revolving door between the federal government and the private lobbying sector must be closed and no federal employee, official or politicians may ever work as a lobbyist upon leaving office. 59. It shall be a crime, punishable by at least two years in prison, for any member of congress or the president, to provide preferential treatment to any lobbyist or representative of any industry or union. All natural born persons shall have equal access to their elected representatives. 60. No person employed in the private sector, shall accept or pursue employment in the federal government or run for public office in the federal government, in exchange for anything of value, including bonuses, gifts or promises of future employment. The quid pro quos between the private sectors and those who enter government service will end and all public servants must represent the best overall interests of the country not particular special interest groups. It shall be a crime, punishable by at least two years in prison, for engaging in this corrupt practice. 61. New laws to fund and immediately establish a 23 member Citizen's Ethics Panel comprised of ordinary citizens and experts on ethics to investigate and hear cases of alleged ethics violations by members and employees of Congress, Supreme Court and the Executive Branch. This panel shall operate like a grand jury and have subpoena power enforced by the contempt power of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Upon making a finding, the Panel shall refer any evidence of criminality to the Justice Department and/or relevant States Attorney General and further make specific recommendations for sanction to the House, Senate or President. In cases of ethics violations by the Supreme Court, the panel may file an ethics complaint with the appropriate disciplinary authority or bar association where the judge is admitted or recommendation for impeachment to be served upon Congress. 62. Amend the constitution to establish an elected "General Public Assembly" as a fourth branch of government to oversee the two houses of Congress in all matters particularly ethics. 63. Immediate passage of laws stating that the trading of inside information shall be a crime for all elected and unelected officials and government employees just as it is a crime for all other Americans. No politician or government employee is above the law. 64. New laws to require mandatory minimum prison sentences for anyone convicted, upon plea or after trial, of public corruption or bribery involving any public official or employee. 65. New laws enacted to end the so-called "filibuster rule" in the Senate, which requires a supermajority of votes to pass virtually any legislation. 66. No elected or unelected official or their immediate family members may hold stocks of any public company while in office or five years after leaving office unless said stocks are held in a blind investment trust. 67. No member of the military shall own or hold any stock or share in any corporation or other entity that the official specifically regulates while in service and shall last five years after the term of military service ends. 68. Recognition of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as full states of the union entitled to all rights and responsibilities of states. 69. Tax reforms to treat the citizens of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as if they were citizens of any other state. 70. All Veterans and their dependents must have access to the consolidated military health care system just as active duty dependents have access. 71. Funding must be increased to assist veterans returning to civilian life to pursue their education goals and become gainfully employed. 72. An immediate freeze on all primary residential home foreclosures. 73. All lending institutions shall be barred from the mortgage origination in favor of direct federal home loans at the discount window interest rate (currently 0-.25%). 74. Creation and proper funding of a non-partisan task force specifically designed to work with existing regulators who are supposed to be regulating mortgage-backed securities and other speculative financial instruments but are failing to adequately do so. 75. Immediate reenactment of the Glass-Steagall Act; immediate implementation of the regulations required under the Dodd-Franks Act; immediate and vigorous enforcement of the "Volcker Rule" and new funding to allow enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in all industries, especially the corporate media, airlines, oil and gas, healthcare, drug and medical device manufacturers, insurance, and many others to enhance competition, protect our democracy from the undue influence of money, and to protect the free speech of human beings. 76. Increased funding for the SEC, FINRA, CFTC, CFPB, and to the Justice Department and State Attorneys General to investigate potential criminal practices of the Securities and Banking industries especially in the areas of mortgage backed securities, hedge funds and speculation 77. Because education is the only way to secure our future success as a nation, interest on student debts must be immediately reduced to 2% or less (plus the discount window rate currently 0.0 to 0.25%) and repayments deferred for periods of unemployment or illness or disability. Employers will receive a student loan repayment tax deduction for paying off the student loans of their employees. 78. Outright federal grants to forgive loans provided to those students who pursue and obtain degrees in the physical sciences of physics, chemistry, green energy, environmental sustainability, mathematics, or advanced technology and engineering. 79. Public and private universities and colleges that do not reduce tuition to affordable levels so that middle class-families (defined here as $100,000 in annual family income or less) can again afford to send their children to obtain a higher education shall lose all federal funding including grants and loans. 80. Broadcast television, cable television, radio and print communications are controlled by too few corporations and individuals. New laws and regulations must be passed to fund, authorize and mandate the Anti-Trust Division of the U.S. Justice Department to break-up the 6-10 massive media conglomerates that control virtually all media content. This highly concentrated control of speech is an existential threat to the security of the United States. 81. The immediate passage of "The Dream Act" by Congress. 82. New legislation to secure our borders while streamlining the path to US citizenship especially for those qualified to work in high demand industries or skills required in the United States. 83. Non-citizens who obtain their education in the United States in highly demand fields should be provided an accelerated path to citizenship so the investments made in these students remain in the United States. 84. New treaties, laws and regulations must be passed to ensure that the Internet will remain free for all people in the world to use and express themselves without government or corporate interference. 85. The immediate ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. 86. Repeal those portions of the Patriot Act that limit civil rights and repeal of those sections of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that permit indefinite detention of US Citizens. 87. The so-called Defense Of Marriage Act must be repealed for the reasons recently stated by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. 88. Immediately recalling all combat troops from Afghanistan and the allocation of no less than $25 billion to assist these veterans to re-acclimate to civilian life, job placement assistance and specialized psychiatric treatment for those veterans and their family members suffering from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorders and other mental illnesses. 89. Reinstitution of the draft or mandatory public service for males and females without any deferments or exceptions so that the wealthy and privileged who profit from war will be required to send their children to die with the children of the poor and middle class should that grave decision be made again. 90. New laws to counter the Military Industrial Complex's mission of perpetual war for profit, particularly in the Middle East, which dramatically benefits the Oil and Gas Industrial Complex due to fluctuations and speculation in the price of oil caused by incessant and unwarranted military intervention motivated by profit rather than policy. 91. A new treaty with Russia, China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Israel and the other countries with nuclear weapons or plans to make nuclear weapons, to reduce the number of nuclear weapons so complete nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation may be achieved by 2020 or sooner. 92. Arrest and extradition to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, of any person properly charged upon probable cause as defined by U.S. legal standards, with intentionally and knowingly engaging in warfare based upon a false premise or pretext or engaging in conduct that violates the Geneva convention. 93. New laws to reinvigorate the War Powers Resolution to limit the deployment of military forces to only those instances where Congressional approval has been granted. 94. No new term limits should be imposed but new laws should be enacted so that Senators will not serve consecutive (six-year) terms and Representatives shall not serve more than two (two-year) terms consecutively. 95. Term limits: 4 years for house; 6 years for senate 96. Term limits: 8 years for house; 12 years for senate 97. Term limits: 12 years for house; 18 years for senate 98. Term limits: 16 years for house; 24 years for senate 99. 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Following a conference on Deep Politics in Santa Cruz in 2010, we did come up with another Declaration and list of grievances which I believe are still quite valid today, although the group that came up with them was "international" and so they are not specific to the United States, but obviously inspired by our own Declaration of Independence and entitled a Declaration of Accountability... (It is posted at http://declarationofaccountability.com/ and you can sign it, if you find it useful/inspiring.... I will be taking a copy of it with me to Philadelphia...) Declaration of Accountability When governments cease to serve the will of the people and instead serve the interests of powerful elites, unaccountable to the rule of law, it is incumbent upon citizens of the world to withdraw support from these institutions and replace them with legitimate governments of, by, and for the people. Presented in this Declaration of Accountability is a Bill of Grievances detailing the unlawful acts of some of the most powerful governments in the world. This is a call to the people of these countries and citizens of the world to hold accountable those responsible for their criminal acts. It is also a call for the restoration of the rule of law through all legal means and, if necessary, for an independent internationally comprised tribunal. As so eloquently expressed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials following World War II: If certain acts and violations of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them. We are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us. In short, all nations, vanquished or victors, and all persons, powerful or humble, are subject to the rule of law without exception. Bill of Grievances Governments have perpetrated the following willful and unconscionable acts on behalf of the special interests of the few at the expense of the people they are beholden to represent: ?They have turned over control of sovereign monetary systems to private banks that critically imperil the people?s welfare and the world economy; ?They have used the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements to impose their economic and political agendas on nations worldwide, effectively subjecting them to economic warfare and relegating them to the status of modern-day colonies; ?They have engaged in resource wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere under false pretenses (?weapons of mass destruction,? etc.), resulting in massive loss of life and the wholesale destruction of lands and local economies; ?They have caused the displacement of millions of individuals and families from their native lands due to imperial wars, exploitation, and trade agreements (such as NAFTA), which has resulted in the continuation of victimization of these political, economic, and environmental refugees in the countries to which they fled; ?They have eliminated job opportunities, social services, and labor protections for the people while enhancing the fortunes of banks and corporations; ?They have purposefully undermined free and fair elections through voter registration irregularities, rigged voting machines, and in the U.S., high-court decisions that overrule the electorate and endorse unlimited corporate campaign financing and electoral control; ?They have passed laws inimical to the health and welfare of the planet, subjecting all living beings to oil spills, chemical poisoning and pollution, deadly radiation, genetic manipulation and other threats, as well as promoting wars for profit, the single greatest cause of environmental degradation and human illness; ?They have put the planet and its people at further risk by permitting strip-mining of the land, gouging of the ocean floor, emission of greenhouse gases, privatization of drinking water resources for profit, and the destruction of indigenous lands; ?They have perpetrated ?false flag events??acts of violence and criminal negligence (including many connected with 9/11), which are then blamed on targeted groups or countries?to mobilize support for wars (e.g., Iraq, Afghanistan) and restrict liberties (e.g., the U.S. Patriot Act); ?They have routinely used torture?a criminal act under the Geneva Convention, UN Convention against Torture, and the U.S. War Crimes Act?to extract false confessions from prisoners for the purpose of linking them to alleged terrorist plans and to create further pretexts for war; ?They have engaged in extraordinary renditions (kidnapping) of citizens from various sovereign countries and delivered them to CIA ?black sites? for torture?all in the name of the so-called ?War on Terror?; ?They have enacted laws in secrecy that later have been revealed to concentrate power in the hands of a few, abridging constitutional checks and balances; ?They have engaged in secret, illegal spying on innocent people, domestic and foreign, using private telecommunication companies later shielded from complicity in warrantless wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping; and ?They have collaborated with corporate media to mislead and misinform the people and to suppress informed debate, thereby crippling democracy. To redress the grievances in this Bill, we the undersigned world citizens affirm the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted unanimously in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly, which declares that ?it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse as a last resort to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law.? Therefore, we call upon organizations and peoples of all nations to join us in signing this declaration and in taking all possible legal actions to resolve the crimes described herein, including an international tribunal and initiatives suitable to each country. (An elaboration of these grievances, their documentation, and suggested remedies can be found at Problems and Proposed Solutions.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Jun 23 07:13:38 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Continental Congress 2.0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1340460818.58052.YahooMailClassic@web111112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Some of the campaign finance reform suggestions are off base (I'm neglecting to form a nonprofit for Peacemovies.com precisely so that I may do political advocacy without limits), but also #21 needs revision: ? 21. A new federal charter to establish a "Green Bank" to fund "Demand Driven Clean Energy" including electric and low emission vehicles, solar, wind, fusion, hydroelectric, geothermal. Fusion and geothermal should be struck from this list as they are dirtier than advertised. ? John Thielking --- On Fri, 6/22/12, Carol Brouillet wrote: From: Carol Brouillet Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Continental Congress 2.0 To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Date: Friday, June 22, 2012, 1:56 PM Dear activists, This July 4th, there will be a gathering ( http://www.the99declaration.org/ Continental Congress 2.0) in Philadelphia to come up with a list of grievances to present to Congress, the President, the Supreme Court.? I'll be going as part of the California Delegation.? We are supposed to come up with our top ten grievances.? Any input from you would be helpful. An abbreviated list of proposed grievances is posted at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fde0K2G5XbYRj3FPR8QwP9z0w7APGXoyPRBVOtvc1Nw/edit?pli=1 The gathering is not formally endorsed by the Occupy Movement, who is holding a national gathering, coincidentally in Philadelphia at the same time (See http://www.occupynationalgathering.com/ ). If you would like to just choose ten of these that you feel are the best for this occasion, and email them to me, that would be helpful. (Send your choices to cbrouillet at igc.org).? They can be tweaked/added to/altered, as well in Philadelphia.) 100 Consolidated Proposed Grievances For Consideration to be Included in a Petition For Redress of Grievances ?by The Delegates to Continental Congress 2.0 Convening in Philadelphia From July 2, 2012 to July 4, 2012 1. Corporations, unions, political organizations and all entities created by operation of law are not naturally born human beings and any law, rule, regulation or court decision so holding must be overruled, abrogated, repealed or overturned even if it requires amendment to the United States Constitution. 2. Money is not speech it is property and any law, rule, regulation or court decision so holding must be overruled, abrogated, repealed or overturned even if it requires amendment to the United States Constitution. If money is deemed speech then only wealthy individuals and concentrated sources of wealth such as corporations and unions have a voice in our society. 3. New legislation immediately enacted to impose a 100% public campaign finance system in all federal elections requiring an immediate ban on all direct and indirect private contributions of money, or anything of value (except unpaid time from volunteers), from all sources including individuals and the candidates themselves, to all politicians or political parties in all primaries and general elections. As in other modern democracies, the new system shall utilize a "blind" public trust whereby the taxpayers will fund all federal election campaigns. The funds in the public trust shall be allocated by the Federal Elections Commission in non-partisan equal apportionments to candidates on the ballot based on the level of office sought and the geographic location of the candidates running for office and the cost to by advertising time in specific media markets. 4. Adopting Professor Lawrence Lessig's $50 voucher system with $100 private contribution limits in federal political campaigns. 5. New legislation to impose a $2500 aggregate campaign contributions limit per human being per election cycle including primaries.? Legal entities such as corporations, PACS, Super-PACS and unions to be barred from making any direct or indirect contributions to politicians. 6. A total ban on corporate and union political expenditures, directly or indirectly to or in favor of political candidates or political parties. 7. Retaining the current campaign finance system but enacting new laws making all direct and indirect political contributions to politicians and political parties completely transparent and published online and elsewhere. There must be total transparency for any person, corporation, union or other entity including PACS, Super-PACS or not-for-profit organizations that make political contributions or buy advertising time to advocate for any politician, political party or political view because money is property and not speech.? If money is deemed speech then only the wealthy have a voice. 8. New laws banning all private expenditures on advertisements endorsing a particular candidate or political party or attacking a candidate or political party. 9. New laws banning foreign money and the use of cash in all federal political campaigns. 10. Public broadcasting licenses granted by the FCC and other regulators must mandate calendar specific dates and specific time slots which are available to candidates for elected federal office at a 90% discounted market rate for the purpose of campaigning whether funded by taxpayers or by private sources. 11. Repeal of prior healthcare laws and immediate enactment of "Medicare for all" or a new single-payer healthcare system. 12. New laws permitting the federal government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies to set prices for medications. 13. Reintroduction of compulsory exercise programs in all public schools to combat the epidemic of obesity. 14. Passage of a comprehensive jobs and job-training act like the "American Jobs Act" to employ our citizens in jobs that are available with free relocation services, specialized re-training through partnerships between companies seeking employees and community colleges and other educational institutions. 15. Immediate passage of a law, similar to the ?Lilly Ledbetter? bill, requiring equal pay for women with stiff financial penalties imposed on employers for violating the law. 16. Re-institution of the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps and similar emergency governmental agencies tasked with creating new projects to provide jobs for the families of the 151 million people living in poverty and on low incomes. ?17. Tax incentives granted to companies who partner with educational institutions to re-train workers to work in green energy and new sources of American manufacturing to reduce reliance on imported goods, services and natural resources. 18. Tax incentives should also be offered to U.S. companies that invest in reconstructing the manufacturing capacity of the United States and hiring our citizens to produce and innovate. 19. Tax incentives to entice businesses to hire our citizens rather than outsource jobs and a new ?outsourcing tax? should be introduced to discourage businesses from sending jobs overseas and companies that continue to outsource will be barred from earning income in U.S. markets. 20. The rights to clean air, water, safe food, and conservation of the planet for future generations shall no longer be infringed by greed-driven corporations and selfish individuals who care for nothing except money and instant gratification. 21. A new federal charter to establish a "Green Bank" to fund "Demand Driven Clean Energy" including electric and low emission vehicles, solar, wind, fusion, hydroelectric, geothermal. 22. Tax incentives to rapidly transition away from poisonous fossil fuels and nuclear energy {those government subsidies should be eliminated immediately} to safe, non-toxic, reusable or carbon neutral sources of energy such as wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric. 23. New comprehensive treaties, laws and regulations must be immediately enacted to give the Environmental Protection Agency, and other environmental protection regulators around the world, expanded cross-border powers and resources to shut down corporations, businesses or entities that intentionally or recklessly damage the environment. 24. New federal laws enforcing mandatory recycling programs now in effect in some US cities and many countries must be uniformly adopted in the US in addition to controlling the unchecked dumping of waste into our oceans, air and ground by imposing meaningful fines on violators. 25. A new treaty to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its current level of 392 parts per million to below 350 parts per million. 26. No ?corporate veil? protection for any employee, officer or director of a corporation that is directly or indirectly engaged in the intentional or reckless decimation of the planet for profit. 27. A Progressive tax on gross income, from a minimum tax rate of X% to a maximum tax rate of 3X%. 28. Any corporation or entity that does business in the United States and generates income from that business in the United States shall be fully taxed on that income by removing deductions, subsidies and loopholes regardless of corporate domicile or they will be barred from earning their profits in the United States. 29. The $4 billion per year ?hedge fund loophole? which permits certain individuals engaged in financial transactions to evade graduated income tax rates by treating their income as capital gains shall be immediately abolished. 30. Elimination of all tax deductions except: (1) interest paid on mortgages for one's primary residence; (2) Contributions to charitable institutions, up to a total of one-tenth of annual gross income; (3) Interest earned on bonds issued by the governments of any state, municipality or other sub-division of the federal and U.S. domestic government. 31. No household with an income at or below the poverty line (responsibility for making this calculation having been shifted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) shall be subject to federal income tax action. 32. Abolish the death penalty in all states or lose federal funding for law enforcement. 33. Curtailing the ?Private Prison Industrial Complex? by removing all incentives in the legal system set-up to imprison non-violent drug offenders and the mentally ill rather than treat or provide alternatives to incarceration. Non-violent drug offenders who do not engage in drug sales, and those with mental health issues must be treated rather than imprisoned and adjudicated through specialized drug and mental health courts. 34. The federal government and all states must provide a free attorney to every criminal defendants at all stages of every criminal case beginning at arrest and arraignment or lose all federal funding for law enforcement. 35. Legalization of marihuana for recreational and medicinal use in all US Jurisdictions or loss of federal funding for law enforcement to states and municipalities. 36. Require that all prisoners be granted a DNA test at taxpayer expense in their cases if a genetic sample is available in the particular case. 37. Abolishing the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote in presidential elections. 38. Election day shall becomes a federal holiday requiring employees to provide sufficient time for employees to vote on that day. 39. Compulsory voting with fines imposed on voters for failing to vote. 40. New election laws and rules, and amendment of the constitution if necessary, to provide for a gender balance in Congress so that 50% of the seats are reserved for people who identify as women and 50% reserved for people who identify as men. 41. New election laws banning all rules in all states that hinder the right to vote whether it is called a test or requiring the presentation of identification; the federal government shall issue free photo identification cards to all voters. 42. New election laws banning all rules in all states that prevent equal access to the ballot by giving advantages to certain political parties or penalizing independent candidates for office. 43. New federal laws passed authorizing the FEC to impose uniform rules in all states and districts setting forth the criteria for excluding a person from voting and the use of the same verifiable voting systems in all voting precincts; all elections are to be run by employees of the Federal Election Commission only; municipalities will no longer run elections when federal candidates are running for office; the federal government shall pay for this uniform, secure, cost-effective and verifiable voting system. 44. The practice of "gerrymandering" shall be ended and replaced with a non-partisan commission to redraw all voting district lines using a and equal distribution system calculated with an objective mathematical formula or algorithm that does not take into consideration the wealth, party affiliation, race, religion or other demographics of voters. 45. New federal laws requiring that no political party shall be privileged or receive special advantage in any state for their candidates running for Congress or the Presidency. 46. New election laws to ban all publically reported polling two weeks before election day and completely ending the practice of so-called "exit polling" and early return reporting by the media which contaminates the democratic process. 47. Open primaries in all states for all parties in all races for federal office so that all voters may vote in any primary. 48. Reinstatement of the "equal time" rules so that each candidate for office is given equal free air time on television, radio, cable, or any other medium licensed and regulated by the federal government. 49. Passage of a law to reduce the $15 trillion national debt to a sustainable percentage of GDP by 2020 by re-implementing the Clinton era income tax rates, increasing the capital gains tax rate, ending the hedge fund loophole, no oil and gas subsidies, and mandatory cuts in defense and entitlement spending. 50. Congress must pass immediate legislation (see e.g. H.R. 639) to encourage China (which undervalues its currency by up to 40%) to end currency manipulation and take additional steps to reduce our massive trade deficit. 51. Passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. 52. The immediate formation of a non-partisan commission to audit and investigate the short-term and long-term economic risks and benefits in eliminating the Federal Reserve Bank and transferring all its functions to the United States Treasury Department 53. Passage of the line item veto amendment to the Constitution. 54. The United States government shall begin to measure economic growth by the GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator) rather than GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ?? 55. To reduce the principal on all outstanding student loans, a financial transaction surcharge, similar to those fees charged by banks on consumers, will be introduced to banks and securities firms. 56. After leaving government service, no federal elected or unelected official shall receive anything of value, for a period of five years, or work in any capacity to influence the actions of the federal government, with the sole exception of exercising their own personal First Amendment right to speak and publish. 57. All federal employees, politicians and officials are entitled to their salary, benefits, pension and nothing else. Any gift or thing of value given or promised to a politician or federal employee or immediate family valued at more than $5 will be deemed a bribe and punished under the criminal laws. 58. The revolving door between the federal government and the private lobbying sector must be closed and no federal employee, official or politicians may ever work as a lobbyist upon leaving office. ?59. It shall be a crime, punishable by at least two years in prison, for any member of congress or the president, to provide preferential treatment to any lobbyist or representative of any industry or union. All natural born persons shall have equal access to their elected representatives. ?60. No person employed in the private sector, shall accept or pursue employment in the federal government or run for public office in the federal government, in exchange for anything of value, including bonuses, gifts or promises of future employment. The quid pro quos between the private sectors and those who enter government service will end and all public servants must represent the best overall interests of the country not particular special interest groups. It shall be a crime, punishable by at least two years in prison, for engaging in this corrupt practice. ?61. New laws to fund and immediately establish a 23 member Citizen?s Ethics Panel comprised of ordinary citizens and experts on ethics to investigate and hear cases of alleged ethics violations by members and employees of Congress, Supreme Court and the Executive Branch. This panel shall operate like a grand jury and have subpoena power enforced by the contempt power of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Upon making a finding, the Panel shall refer any evidence of criminality to the Justice Department and/or relevant States Attorney General and further make specific recommendations for sanction to the House, Senate or President. In cases of ethics violations by the Supreme Court, the panel may file an ethics complaint with the appropriate disciplinary authority or bar association where the judge is admitted or recommendation for impeachment to be served upon Congress. 62. Amend the constitution to establish an elected "General Public Assembly" as a fourth branch of government to oversee the two houses of Congress in all matters particularly ethics. 63. Immediate passage of laws stating that the trading of inside information shall be a crime for all elected and unelected officials and government employees just as it is a crime for all other Americans. No politician or government employee is above the law. 64. New laws to require mandatory minimum prison sentences for anyone convicted, upon plea or after trial, of public corruption or bribery involving any public official or employee. 65. New laws enacted to end the so-called ?filibuster rule? in the Senate, which requires a supermajority of votes to pass virtually any legislation. 66. No elected or unelected official or their immediate family members may hold stocks of any public company while in office or five years after leaving office unless said stocks are held in a blind investment trust. 67. No member of the military shall own or hold any stock or share in any corporation or other entity that the official specifically regulates while in service and shall last five years after the term of military service ends. 68. Recognition of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as full states of the union entitled to all rights and responsibilities of states. 69. Tax reforms to treat the citizens of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as if they were citizens of any other state. 70. All Veterans and their dependents must have access to the consolidated military health care system just as active duty dependents have access. 71. Funding must be increased to assist veterans returning to civilian life to pursue their education goals and become gainfully employed.? 72. An immediate freeze on all primary residential home foreclosures. 73. All lending institutions shall be barred from the mortgage origination in favor of direct federal home loans at the discount window interest rate (currently 0-.25%). 74. Creation and proper funding of a non-partisan task force specifically designed to work with existing regulators who are supposed to be regulating mortgage-backed securities and other speculative financial instruments but are failing to adequately do so. 75. Immediate reenactment of the Glass-Steagall Act; immediate implementation of the regulations required under the Dodd-Franks Act; immediate and vigorous enforcement of the ?Volcker Rule? and new funding to allow enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in all industries, especially the corporate media, airlines, oil and gas, healthcare, drug and medical device manufacturers, insurance, and many others to enhance competition, protect our democracy from the undue influence of money, and to protect the free speech of human beings. 76. Increased funding for the SEC, FINRA, CFTC, CFPB, and to the Justice Department and State Attorneys General to investigate potential criminal practices of the Securities and Banking industries especially in the areas of mortgage backed securities, hedge funds and speculation 77. Because education is the only way to secure our future success as a nation, interest on student debts must be immediately reduced to 2% or less (plus the discount window rate currently 0.0 to 0.25%) and repayments deferred for periods of unemployment or illness or disability. Employers will receive a student loan repayment tax deduction for paying off the student loans of their employees. 78. Outright federal grants to forgive loans provided to those students who pursue and obtain degrees in the physical sciences of physics, chemistry, green energy, environmental sustainability, mathematics, or advanced technology and engineering. 79. Public and private universities and colleges that do not reduce tuition to affordable levels so that middle class-families (defined here as $100,000 in annual family income or less) can again afford to send their children to obtain a higher education shall lose all federal funding including grants and loans. 80. Broadcast television, cable television, radio and print communications are controlled by too few corporations and individuals. New laws and regulations must be passed to fund, authorize and mandate the Anti-Trust Division of the U.S. Justice Department to break-up the 6-10 massive media conglomerates that control virtually all media content. This highly concentrated control of speech is an existential threat to the security of the United States. 81. The immediate passage of ?The Dream Act? by Congress. 82. New legislation to secure our borders while streamlining the path to US citizenship especially for those qualified to work in high demand industries or skills required in the United States. 83. Non-citizens who obtain their education in the United States in highly demand fields should be provided an accelerated path to citizenship so the investments made in these students remain in the United States. 84. New treaties, laws and regulations must be passed to ensure that the Internet will remain free for all people in the world to use and express themselves without government or corporate interference. 85. The immediate ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. 86. Repeal those portions of the Patriot Act that limit civil rights and repeal of those sections of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that permit indefinite detention of US Citizens. 87. The so-called Defense Of Marriage Act must be repealed for the reasons recently stated by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. 88. Immediately recalling all combat troops from Afghanistan and the allocation of no less than $25 billion to assist these veterans to re-acclimate to civilian life, job placement assistance and specialized psychiatric treatment for those veterans and their family members suffering from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorders and other mental illnesses. 89. Reinstitution of the draft or mandatory public service for males and females without any deferments or exceptions so that the wealthy and privileged who profit from war will be required to send their children to die with the children of the poor and middle class should that grave decision be made again. 90. New laws to counter the Military Industrial Complex?s mission of perpetual war for profit, particularly in the Middle East, which dramatically benefits the Oil and Gas Industrial Complex due to fluctuations and speculation in the price of oil caused by incessant and unwarranted military intervention motivated by profit rather than policy. 91. A new treaty with Russia, China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Israel and the other countries with nuclear weapons or plans to make nuclear weapons, to reduce the number of nuclear weapons so complete nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation may be achieved by 2020 or sooner. 92. Arrest and extradition to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, of any person properly charged upon probable cause as defined by U.S. legal standards, with intentionally and knowingly engaging in warfare based upon a false premise or pretext or engaging in conduct that violates the Geneva convention. 93. New laws to reinvigorate the War Powers Resolution to limit the deployment of military forces to only those instances where Congressional approval has been granted. 94. No new term limits should be imposed but new laws should be enacted so that Senators will not serve consecutive (six-year) terms and Representatives shall not serve more than two (two-year) terms consecutively. 95. Term limits: 4 years for house; 6 years for senate 96. Term limits: 8 years for house; 12 years for senate 97. Term limits: 12 years for house; 18 years for senate 98. Term limits: 16 years for house; 24 years for senate 99. Term limits: 10 years for the Supreme Court of the United States 100. Term limits: 20 years for the Supreme Court of the United States -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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 pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Jun 23 09:04:08 2012 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [SCC-MTA-General] Citizen's United kills GMO Labeling in Connecticut In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1340467448.47397.YahooMailClassic@web111104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Note that MTA Section 1 (or is it Section 3) specifically preserves 1st amendment rights for artificial entities. If you go to my Facebook community page "Small Businesses Are People Too" you can find a proposal for amendment language that requires businesses to disclose despite their 1st amendment rights, and without giving up their 4th amendment rights and other vital rights. ? John Thielking --- On Fri, 6/22/12, bartonsusie wrote: From: bartonsusie Subject: [SCC-MTA-General] Citizen's United kills GMO Labeling in Connecticut To: SCC-MTA-General at yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, June 22, 2012, 11:35 PM ? Sorry if this is old news but I found this blog radio spot where they discuss how the initiative failed by a last minute claim by the commercial merchants right to free speech. They bring this up fairly early in the interview so you don't have to listen to the entire show. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theorganicview/2012/05/05/why-did-connecticut-cave-with-the-gmo-right-to-know __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest ? Unsubscribe ? Terms of Use . __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat Jun 23 16:35:13 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:35:13 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda items Message-ID: <4FE652B1.5090802@sbcglobal.net> treasurer's report to include review of operating expenses information only, 2 min introduction to FPPC filing forms, information only, 5 min proposal: supplemental donation of $100 to the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, approval, 3 min proposal: provide a $100 subsidy for travel to the national convention, approval, 3 min pass the hat - 1 min fundraising for candidates -vis-a-vis the top two primary requirements frefer to committee, 5 min outreach plans: survey availability of activists, refer to committee, 7 min presidential campaign: flyers, funds, outreach - refer to committee, 7 min involving young voters: community service programs, refer to committee, 7 min From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat Jun 23 16:36:33 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:36:33 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item Message-ID: <4FE65301.8050001@sbcglobal.net> Here is an email I received from Carol Brouillet Jim, I'll be coming to the meeting and I will also be going to the Continental Congress 2.0 gathering in Philadelphia, at the same time as the national Occupy Gathering, to come up with a list of grievances to present to the government. The California Delegation is supposed to come up with our ten top grievances and I'd like some feedback from the Green Party, if anyone has inclination or time for their feedback on those. A list could be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fde0K2G5XbYRj3FPR8QwP9z0w7APGXoyPRBVOtvc1Nw/edit?pli=1 . I'll post something to the Green Party List, but if I could have five minutes to get a sense of what people think should be the high priority grievances, I'd appreciate it. (If Congress takes no action to respond to the grievances, supposedly those who want to replace them in 2014 would take them up- or perhaps those who champion them in the upcoming 2012 election, might get elected... Carol Brouillet From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun Jun 24 09:17:22 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:17:22 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win? Message-ID: <4FE73D92.60804@earthlink.net> Food for thought? "The REAL Reason Conservatives Always Win" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-12 Gerry From cdnbirch at aol.com Sat Jun 23 10:57:40 2012 From: cdnbirch at aol.com (cdnbirch at aol.com) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:57:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [SCC-MTA-General] Citizen's United kills GMO Labeling in Connecticut In-Reply-To: <1340467448.47397.YahooMailClassic@web111104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1340467448.47397.YahooMailClassic@web111104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8CF1F80D13B46DB-1E68-1DC2B@webmail-m026.sysops.aol.com> The Supreme Court, by ignoring our founding fathers wishes, have given artificial entities, including business free speech rights. It is those rights that enable corporations to overturn our democratically enacted laws to protect real people's health and welfare. In Vermont the people passed a law requiring labeling for businesses using bovine growth hormones, It was overturned based on the basis of corporate free speech rights. 90% of the Americans favor labeling for GMOs. The court will overturn any law passed based on the the corporations free speech rights, which include the right not to speak. All constitutional rights for artficial entities must go if we want to return to a democracy. Elaine -----Original Message----- From: John Thielking To: SCC-MTA-General Cc: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Sat, Jun 23, 2012 9:04 am Subject: Re: [SCC-MTA-General] Citizen's United kills GMO Labeling in Connecticut Note that MTA Section 1 (or is it Section 3) specifically preserves 1st amendment rights for artificial entities. If you go to my Facebook community page "Small Businesses Are People Too" you can find a proposal for amendment language that requires businesses to disclose despite their 1st amendment rights, and without giving up their 4th amendment rights and other vital rights. John Thielking --- On Fri, 6/22/12, bartonsusie wrote: From: bartonsusie Subject: [SCC-MTA-General] Citizen's United kills GMO Labeling in Connecticut To: SCC-MTA-General at yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, June 22, 2012, 11:35 PM Sorry if this is old news but I found this blog radio spot where they discuss how the initiative failed by a last minute claim by the commercial merchants right to free speech. They bring this up fairly early in the interview so you don't have to listen to the entire show. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theorganicview/2012/05/05/why-did-connecticut-cave-with-the-gmo-right-to-know __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (2) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest ? Unsubscribe ? Terms of Use . __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cls at truffula.us Sun Jun 24 15:19:26 2012 From: cls at truffula.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:19:26 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win? In-Reply-To: <4FE73D92.60804@earthlink.net> References: <4FE73D92.60804@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4FE7926E.2070304@truffula.us> Describing research with George Lakoff: "It was a telling experience that we were unable to break through the professional divisions of pollsters, bloggers, public intellectuals, elected officials, and all of the other categories that routinely divide us. We also repeatedly found that each issue group clung to its own ground, unwilling to share power with those progressives who were motivated by something other than their pet cause. And worst of all, we observed how a small cohort of elite players would sabotage up-and-coming progressive talent in order to preserve the fiefdoms they had built." We should listen to scientists. On 06/24/2012 09:17 AM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > Food for thought? > > "The REAL Reason Conservatives Always Win" > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-12 > > Gerry > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sun Jun 24 15:50:39 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:50:39 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win? In-Reply-To: <4FE73D92.60804@earthlink.net> References: <4FE73D92.60804@earthlink.net> Message-ID: They win for a lot of reasons. 1. They have money to fund think tanks and buy TV networks and newspapers, and we don't. 2. Their goals are very practical, tangible, and immediate--to maximize their ability to accumulate and maintain wealth--while ours tend to be abstract and far off. 3. They feel philosophically justified in lying and cheating to win, while we stick to the principles of fair play. 4. They're better than we are at maintaining discipline and avoiding infighting. (The unseemly fracas in the Republican primary was so unusual for them that it inspired me to theorize that they actually want Obama for another four years.) 5. They have no need for any actual learning or research, since their ideological precepts are few and simple and they'll just make up the data to support their opinions--while we can easily be disrupted by conflicts about facts and their significance. 6. They work on behalf of the successful, so their glass is always more than half full. We work for the failures, there's never enough, and we get burned out. > Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:17:22 -0700 > From: gerrygras at earthlink.net > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win? > > > Food for thought? > > "The REAL Reason Conservatives Always Win" > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-12 > > Gerry > _______________________________________________ > 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 snug.bug at hotmail.com Sun Jun 24 16:09:56 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:09:56 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win? In-Reply-To: References: <4FE73D92.60804@earthlink.net>, Message-ID: 7. They control the national mythos. Almost universally, the heroes in movies and TV are warrior heroes--male or female, soldiers or detectives or explorers--all in alignment with the rugged individualist and the defense of the establishment. Progressive heroes are all women: Mother Theresas and Aung San Suu Kyis, nurturing through self-sacrifice and self-abnegation, and that feminine energy makes for lousy drama. There's no place in the national mythos for a male progressive hero. From: snug.bug at hotmail.com To: gerrygras at earthlink.net; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:50:39 -0700 Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win? They win for a lot of reasons. 1. They have money to fund think tanks and buy TV networks and newspapers, and we don't. 2. Their goals are very practical, tangible, and immediate--to maximize their ability to accumulate and maintain wealth--while ours tend to be abstract and far off. 3. They feel philosophically justified in lying and cheating to win, while we stick to the principles of fair play. 4. They're better than we are at maintaining discipline and avoiding infighting. (The unseemly fracas in the Republican primary was so unusual for them that it inspired me to theorize that they actually want Obama for another four years.) 5. They have no need for any actual learning or research, since their ideological precepts are few and simple and they'll just make up the data to support their opinions--while we can easily be disrupted by conflicts about facts and their significance. 6. They work on behalf of the successful, so their glass is always more than half full. We work for the failures, there's never enough, and we get burned out. > Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:17:22 -0700 > From: gerrygras at earthlink.net > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win? > > > Food for thought? > > "The REAL Reason Conservatives Always Win" > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-12 > > Gerry > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here's the story from Politico: http://movetoamend.org/supreme-court-doubles-down-rejects-montana-campaign-finance-limits Common Cause has a few things to say about it: http://www.commoncause.org Here's a video from Montana's governor (D) and lieutenant governor (R): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ditFMj2EhUQ From Public Citizen: http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=3639 Gerry From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon Jun 25 16:42:10 2012 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:42:10 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items for Thursday Message-ID: <4FE8F752.7020902@sbcglobal.net> This is the next to last call for agenda items for Thursday. However, I do request that when submitting an agenda item that you 1) include which direction is intended (e.g., basic information, status report, action to take) 2) the outcome you wish to see. 3) the time needed for the topic Thus, for each of the items submitted to date those three points still need to be addressed Tian: discuss regional rep situation (?) discuss for the sake of discussion? Caroline knew she would at least report on Health Care for All Californians and might have more after attending one of their metings Brian Good: California DICSLOSE Act. Move to Amend (corporate personhood) Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. Spencer: Foreclosures (time permitting). So I ask for a resubmittal of those items that include the three elements general purpose, desiredd outcome, and time needed Here are other items that were submitted and follow those guidlines Carol would like 5 minnutes to get some feedback on our major grievances to take to the constitutional convention 2.0 The current list (of 100) is at *http://tinyurl.com/8xav7t9* treasurer's report to include review of operating expenses information only, 2 min introduction to FPPC filing forms, information only, 5 min proposal: supplemental donation of $100 to the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, approval, 3 min proposal: provide a $100 subsidy for travel to the national convention, approval, 3 min pass the hat - 1 min fundraising for candidates -vis-a-vis the top two primary requirements frefer to committee, 5 min outreach plans: survey availability of activists, refer to committee, 7 min presidential campaign: flyers, funds, outreach - refer to committee, 7 min involving young voters: community service programs, refer to committee, 7 min and these "just in" invited speaker "Rita" BANK ACTION hand out move your money flyersrequest volunteers (5 min) time date and place tbd From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Mon Jun 25 16:50:29 2012 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items for Thursday Message-ID: <1340668229.8117.androidMobile@web124503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> We should hear from Warner regarding his resignation as Regional Representative from the CC (he objected to violations of the bylaws by the CC re a proposal for a Standing General Assembly by Michael Feinstein without authorization by a General Assembly) . 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Mail on Android > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: * Jim Doyle ; > *To: * sosfbay discussion group ; > *Subject: * [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items for Thursday > *Sent: * Mon, Jun 25, 2012 11:42:10 PM > > This is the next to last call for agenda items for Thursday. > > However, I do request that when submitting an agenda item that you > 1) include which direction is intended (e.g., basic information, > status report, action to take) > 2) the outcome you wish to see. > 3) the time needed for the topic > > Thus, for each of the items submitted to date > those three points still need to be addressed > > Tian: discuss regional rep situation (?) discuss for the sake of > discussion? > > Caroline knew she would at least report on Health Care for All > Californians > and might have more after attending one of their metings > > Brian Good: California DICSLOSE Act. > Move to Amend (corporate personhood) > Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. > > Spencer: Foreclosures (time permitting): Desired Outcomes: (1) I'd > like to ask people to call their elected representatives and ask for > their support for the Homeowner Bill of Rights with s a script to be > provided separately. (2) I'd also like help working this issue. > > Status report: Foreclosure summit tentatively scheduled for Sept. 9. > 2 speakers recruited; want others consistent with "Fighting > Foreclosures 3 Ways" at occupy.pbworks.com > (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54013671/Fighting%20Foreclosures%203%20Ways). > Also, information compiled on the status of pending legislation > regarding the "Homeowner Bill of Rights" also at occupy.pbworks.com > (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54691519/Homeowner%20Bill%20of%20Rights). > 5 minutes > > > So I ask for a resubmittal of those items that include the three elements > general purpose, desiredd outcome, and time needed > > Here are other items that were submitted and follow those guidlines > > Carol would like 5 minnutes to get some feedback on our major grievances > to take to the constitutional convention 2.0 The current list (of > 100) is at > *http://tinyurl.com/8xav7t9* > > treasurer's report to include review of operating expenses > information only, 2 min > > introduction to FPPC filing forms, information only, 5 min > > proposal: supplemental donation of $100 to the San Jose Peace > and Justice Center, approval, 3 min > > proposal: provide a $100 subsidy for travel to the national convention, > approval, 3 min > > pass the hat - 1 min > > fundraising for candidates -vis-a-vis the top two primary requirements > frefer to committee, 5 min > > outreach plans: survey availability of activists, refer to committee, > 7 min > > presidential campaign: flyers, funds, outreach - refer to committee, 7 min > > involving young voters: community service programs, refer to > committee, 7 min > > and these "just in" > > invited speaker "Rita" > BANK ACTION hand out move your money flyersrequest volunteers (5 min) > time date and place tbd > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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Mail on Android > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: * Jim Doyle ; > *To: * sosfbay discussion group ; > *Subject: * [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items for Thursday > *Sent: * Mon, Jun 25, 2012 11:42:10 PM > > This is the next to last call for agenda items for Thursday. > > However, I do request that when submitting an agenda item that you > 1) include which direction is intended (e.g., basic information, > status report, action to take) > 2) the outcome you wish to see. > 3) the time needed for the topic > > Thus, for each of the items submitted to date > those three points still need to be addressed > > Tian: discuss regional rep situation (?) discuss for the sake of > discussion? > > Caroline knew she would at least report on Health Care for All > Californians > and might have more after attending one of their metings > > Brian Good: California DICSLOSE Act. > Move to Amend (corporate personhood) > Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. > > Spencer: Foreclosures: Desired Outcomes: (1) Discussion and approval if possible of a tri-fold asking people to contact their representatives in the California Assembly and Senate asking for their support for the Homeowner Bill of Rights with s a script to be provided separately. (2) I'd also like help working this issue. > Status report: Foreclosure Summit tentatively scheduled for Sept. 9. 2 speakers recruited; want others consistent with "Fighting Foreclosures 3 Ways" at occupy.pbworks.com (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54013671/Fighting%20Foreclosures%203%20Ways). Also, information compiled on the status of pending legislation regarding the "Homeowner Bill of Rights" also at occupy.pbworks.com (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54691519/Homeowner%20Bill%20of%20Rights). 5-10 minutes > > So I ask for a resubmittal of those items that include the three elements > general purpose, desiredd outcome, and time needed > > Here are other items that were submitted and follow those guidlines > > Carol would like 5 minnutes to get some feedback on our major grievances > to take to the constitutional convention 2.0 The current list (of > 100) is at > *http://tinyurl.com/8xav7t9* > > treasurer's report to include review of operating expenses > information only, 2 min > > introduction to FPPC filing forms, information only, 5 min > > proposal: supplemental donation of $100 to the San Jose Peace > and Justice Center, approval, 3 min > > proposal: provide a $100 subsidy for travel to the national convention, > approval, 3 min > > pass the hat - 1 min > > fundraising for candidates -vis-a-vis the top two primary requirements > frefer to committee, 5 min > > outreach plans: survey availability of activists, refer to committee, > 7 min > > presidential campaign: flyers, funds, outreach - refer to committee, 7 min > > involving young voters: community service programs, refer to > committee, 7 min > > and these "just in" > > invited speaker "Rita" > BANK ACTION hand out move your money flyersrequest volunteers (5 min) > time date and place tbd > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- 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 Mon Jun 25 23:03:47 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:03:47 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items for Thursday In-Reply-To: <1340668229.8117.androidMobile@web124503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1340668229.8117.androidMobile@web124503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4FE950C3.8080509@prodsyse.com> another revision On 6/25/2012 4:50 PM, Drew wrote: > > We should hear from Warner regarding his resignation as Regional > Representative from the CC (he objected to violations of the bylaws by > the CC re a proposal for a Standing General Assembly by Michael > Feinstein without authorization by a General Assembly) . > > Drew > > Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: * Jim Doyle ; > *To: * sosfbay discussion group ; > *Subject: * [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items for Thursday > *Sent: * Mon, Jun 25, 2012 11:42:10 PM > > This is the next to last call for agenda items for Thursday. > > However, I do request that when submitting an agenda item that you > 1) include which direction is intended (e.g., basic information, > status report, action to take) > 2) the outcome you wish to see. > 3) the time needed for the topic > > Thus, for each of the items submitted to date > those three points still need to be addressed > > Tian: discuss regional rep situation (?) discuss for the sake of > discussion? > > Caroline knew she would at least report on Health Care for All > Californians > and might have more after attending one of their metings > > Brian Good: California DICSLOSE Act. > Move to Amend (corporate personhood) > Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. > > Spencer: Foreclosures: Desired Outcomes: (1) Discussion and approval if possible of a tri-fold asking people to contact their representatives in the California Assembly and Senate asking for their support for the Homeowner Bill of Rights with s a script to be provided separately. (2) I'd also like help working this issue. > Status report: Foreclosure Summit tentatively scheduled for Sept. 9. 2 speakers recruited; want others consistent with "Fighting Foreclosures 3 Ways" at occupy.pbworks.com (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54013671/Fighting%20Foreclosures%203%20Ways). Also, information compiled on the status of pending legislation regarding the "Homeowner Bill of Rights" also at occupy.pbworks.com (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54691519/Homeowner%20Bill%20of%20Rights). 5-10 minutes Spencer: Training in "Computers and the Internet". Desired outcome: Get feedback on the level of demand among all the organizations that use the Peace Center for relatively informal training sessions on computers and the Internet -- including Wikipedia and "occupy.pbworks.com", a WYSIWYG Wiki. General Purpose: If there is sufficient demand, I would be willing to help organize one session per month on this topic. We could establish an email list for this to which people could contribute questions that could be answered in future sessions. (5 minutes) > > So I ask for a resubmittal of those items that include the three elements > general purpose, desiredd outcome, and time needed > > Here are other items that were submitted and follow those guidlines > > Carol would like 5 minnutes to get some feedback on our major grievances > to take to the constitutional convention 2.0 The current list (of > 100) is at > *http://tinyurl.com/8xav7t9* > > treasurer's report to include review of operating expenses > information only, 2 min > > introduction to FPPC filing forms, information only, 5 min > > proposal: supplemental donation of $100 to the San Jose Peace > and Justice Center, approval, 3 min > > proposal: provide a $100 subsidy for travel to the national convention, > approval, 3 min > > pass the hat - 1 min > > fundraising for candidates -vis-a-vis the top two primary requirements > frefer to committee, 5 min > > outreach plans: survey availability of activists, refer to committee, > 7 min > > presidential campaign: flyers, funds, outreach - refer to committee, 7 min > > involving young voters: community service programs, refer to > committee, 7 min > > and these "just in" > > invited speaker "Rita" > BANK ACTION hand out move your money flyersrequest volunteers (5 min) > time date and place tbd > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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I will likely be able to make it available in hard copy form for a wholesale cost of $2.50 to $3.00 with a cover price of $5-$7.?I'm waiting for the results of my survey questions that I have posted on my web site www.peacemovies.com concerning what price people are willing to pay for the booklet. I also need to double check with Maple Press (the local printer who is giving me such a great deal on booklet printing) to see if they can (or already do) print on recycled content paper, and exactly what the extra cost might be, if any, for recycled content paper. The booklet should also be made available as a shareware pdf, with a request for a $5 donation from each user accessing the file, to be split 50/50 between John Thielking and the Green Party (of Santa Clara County? or State?). The 6-8 page newsletters could be made available for free as?pdfs on the web site or printed out in a staple-less format (which gets picked up more often than a stapled version) for a wholesale cost of 50 cents each.? The cover price for those is currently $1. The flier version (1 sheet double sided) of the newsletter that three of us handed out in front of movie theaters last weekend could also be made available for free as a pdf on the web site.? Or I can get them printed for 8 cents each, plus tax?(at cost).? I would need 10 minutes for this item.? No final decision is needed at the meeting as the details are not finalized yet, but I would like to discuss the proceedures if any required for statewide distribution of my work. (We could also discuss wider distribution of Spencer's fliers too as far as that goes.) ? Thanks. ? John Thielking --- On Mon, 6/25/12, Spencer Graves wrote: From: Spencer Graves Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items for Thursday To: "Drew" Cc: "Jim Doyle" , "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens org" , "Warner Bloomberg" Date: Monday, June 25, 2012, 11:03 PM another revision On 6/25/2012 4:50 PM, Drew wrote: We should hear from Warner regarding his resignation as Regional Representative from the CC (he objected to violations of the bylaws by the CC re a proposal for a Standing General Assembly by Michael Feinstein without authorization by a General Assembly) . Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android From: Jim Doyle ; To: sosfbay discussion group ; Subject: [GPSCC-chat] call for agenda items for Thursday Sent: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 11:42:10 PM This is the next to last call for agenda items for Thursday. However, I do request that when submitting an agenda item that you 1)? include which direction is intended? (e.g., basic information, status report, action to take) 2)? the outcome you wish to see. 3)? the time needed for the topic Thus, for each of the items submitted to date those three points still need to be addressed Tian:? discuss regional rep situation (?)? ? discuss for the sake of discussion? Caroline knew she would at least report on Health Care for All Californians and might have more after attending one of their metings Brian Good:? California DICSLOSE Act. Move to Amend (corporate personhood) Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. > Spencer:? Foreclosures: Desired Outcomes:? (1) Discussion and approval if possible of a tri-fold asking people to contact their representatives in the California Assembly and Senate asking for their support for the Homeowner Bill of Rights with s a script to be provided separately.? (2) I'd also like help working this issue. > Status report:? Foreclosure Summit tentatively scheduled for Sept. 9.? 2 speakers recruited;? want others consistent with "Fighting Foreclosures 3 Ways" at occupy.pbworks.com (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54013671/Fighting%20Foreclosures%203%20Ways).? Also, information compiled on the status of pending legislation regarding the "Homeowner Bill of Rights" also at occupy.pbworks.com (http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54691519/Homeowner%20Bill%20of%20Rights).? 5-10 minutes Spencer:? Training in "Computers and the Internet".? Desired outcome:? Get feedback on the level of demand among all the organizations that use the Peace Center for relatively informal training sessions on computers and the Internet -- including Wikipedia and "occupy.pbworks.com", a WYSIWYG Wiki.? General Purpose: ? If there is sufficient demand, I would be willing to help organize one session per month on this topic.? We could establish an email list for this to which people could contribute questions that could be answered in future sessions.?? (5 minutes)? So I ask for a resubmittal of those items that include the three elements general purpose, desiredd outcome, and time needed Here are other items that were submitted and follow those guidlines Carol would like 5 minnutes to get some feedback on our major grievances to take to the constitutional convention 2.0? The current list (of 100) is at *http://tinyurl.com/8xav7t9* treasurer's report to include review of operating expenses information only, 2 min introduction to FPPC filing forms, information only, 5 min proposal: supplemental donation of $100 to the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, approval, 3 min proposal: provide a $100 subsidy for travel to the national convention, approval, 3 min pass the hat - 1 min fundraising for candidates -vis-a-vis the top two primary requirements frefer to committee, 5 min outreach plans: survey availability of activists, refer to committee, 7 min presidential campaign: flyers, funds, outreach - refer to committee, 7 min involving young voters:? community service programs, refer to committee, 7 min and these "just in" invited speaker "Rita" BANK ACTION? hand out move your money flyersrequest volunteers? 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By taking action over the next five days the peace community has a chance to inject a compelling and courageous peace advocate into the 2012 presidential campaign, to have a voice in the national debate over war, militarism, and military spending. You know what is going to happen if we leave this election up to the two major party candidates. President Obama will defend his troop surges, his excessive Pentagon budgets, his preparations for war with Iran, his escalation of the drone wars, his crackdowns on whistleblowers, his indefinite detention policy, and his new role as manager of the White House assassination list. Mitt Romney will not question these policies, but will promise to pursue them with even more enthusiasm. In debates and interviews, *the American people will have the Big Lie drilled into their consciousness:* that our nation must accept escalating military engagement and must visit worldwide violence against all who defy the U.S. government. Peace PartyJill Stein stands ready to challenge the Big Lie. Jill Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, who has been a national board member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, has just won 29 state primaries to secure the presidential nomination of the Green Party. *She is putting some badly needed fundamentals for peace on the table:* Cut the Pentagon budget by 50%. Halt the drone wars. Pardon the whistleblowers. Restore our civil liberties. Make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone. She is driving home the point that the Obama/Romney fascination with war and violence is dangerous for our nation and the world. We need to make sure she is heard. Jill Stein is closing in on federal matching funds that would *double the value of donations* to her campaign. Because she doesn't receive big checks from Pentagon contractors and their lobbyists, public funding is essential to her campaign. She needs to raise about $24,000 by midnight on June 30th so that she can apply for matching funds. That's not much money to ask of a national peace movement. We can do it.* And the payoff for peace will be tremendous.* *So we urge you do two things.* First, go to Jill Stein's website: http://www.jillstein.org/donate , and make a generous donation to her campaign. Second, please forward this email to your friends and networks. Forwarding this message is critically important. Thank you for helping us open up a dialogue for peace. */Sincerely,/* David Swanson, author of/ War is a Crime/ and also of /Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial President and Forming a More Perfect Union/ Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and senior fellow at the Nation Institute Leah Bolger, retired naval commander and current president of Veterans for Peace George Martin, three term national co-chair of United for Peace & Justice Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Kevin Zeese, executive director of Voters for Peace * organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only /*PS. While all donations are valuable, Jill Stein especially needs donations from the following key states* to help her reach the required $5000 per state threshold. 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From jims at greens.org Tue Jun 26 13:14:52 2012 From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:14:52 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee In-Reply-To: <1340340944.16566.YahooMailRC@web181005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <4FCFA9A3.20409@earthlink.net> <4FDA707B.1080507@greens.org> <1340340944.16566.YahooMailRC@web181005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4FEA183C.6050804@greens.org> I don't mean to belabor the point, but... The "internecine warfare" is not limited to internal conflicts, it also affects the external parts of the party, such as the positions we officially support or oppose. Accordingly, I've had to ask myself if the GP really represents my values anymore. If the bylaws have become a just relative reference document, do you think the platform is still the authoritative statement of our policies? Here's a couple examples from my last days on the CC that make me ask this question. Mike F submitted a proposal to the CC to oppose a bill in Sacramento. Mike's proposal described the bill, rather vaguely, as prohibiting paid signature gathering. In fact, the bill sought to prohibit pay-per-signature schemes, not paid signature gathering in general. This reform has already been enacted in several states, who now use pay-per-hour. Pay-per-signature has a long history of fraud, coercion and abuse. My two messages explaining this to the CC were ignored and the proposal was to declared to be passed by consensus. The GPCA is now officially on the side of scammers and frauds who make a living with pay-per-signature. Now that Marnie is "Managing Director of the GPCA," she uses that position to represent the GPCA at various meetings she attends. Most of these meetings appear to be with her old allies in the liberal Democrat camp. I don't have a big problem with the GPCA working with that crowd occasionally, but the relationship can be tricky. Is there adequate oversite and feedback for these meetings? From what I saw, Marnie seems to be acting on her own at these affairs. Have you read Marnie's contract with the GPCA? It does give her authority to represent the GPCA to external organizations. But, that contradicts the bylaws, which give that responsibility to the Liaison. The contract also requires all committees and working groups to report to Marnie for coordination/unification of all party work. But the bylaws say that's the job of the CC. With all policy decisions now under Marnie, does the GPCA really stand for the issues the rest of us care about? Sorry for all the negativity, but I devoted 20 years to building this organization and it feels like half that time was spent trying to keep Mike and his friends from taking it over. It was obviously a futile battle. Now I join the ranks of so many others whom I admired and worked with, but who gave up on the GP because of the never-ending conflicts with the Feinstein crowd. Jim On 6/21/2012 9:55 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Ever since the coup, I have thought about whether or not the Green Party of > California is my party anymore. The conclusion I have reached is that there is > no other party that represents my beliefs better than the Green Party. I am > here in Santa Clara County. I can do things that I believe further the > interests of the Green Party, America, and the planet without having to have > anything to do with "those people." I am very sorry if we lose our Regional > Rep, because I think he does, truly represent us. But I am going to keep using > the energy I have to try to reach my goals, not to wage internecine warfare. > Caroline > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Jim Stauffer > *To:* sc-sm at cagreens.org > *Sent:* Thu, June 14, 2012 4:15:10 PM > *Subject:* Re: [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA > Coordinating Committee > > I've already expressed my opinion on whether or not the GP is worth supporting > anymore. > > The nullification of bylaws started in earnest last year after the Berkeley > GA. That's when the new CC members were elected. That's the group that was > hand-selected by Marnie, and took their places on the CC with no experience > with the GPCA. > > Several members of this group openly stated their purpose on the CC was > implement Marnie's Green2012 plan, even though that plan had never been > submitted to a GA for decision. I wrote a detailed report demonstrating that > the CC implemented Marnie's contract and Green2012 plan while ignoring most of > the GA decisions. > > This all came about when the CC abrogated its authority to a controlling group > consisting of Barry, Mike F, Sanda and Marnie. This small group has literally > been running the party, with the Marnie's CC reps rubber stamping most > everything the controlling group wants. > > Have you noticed that our long-time press secretary, Cres Velucci, is no > longer here? He didn't resign. The controlling group's implementation of > Marnie's contract simply eliminated Cres by turning over all his jobs to > Marnie. After his years of dedicated professional service he was just booted > out without so much as a "thank you." The same thing happened to the IT Group. > Mike/Sanda/Marnie just took us over and told us to leave. Not only was there > no recognition of all we had done for the party, we were called every name in > the book and told we were nothing but a problem. > > Examples of bylaw violations and usurpation of power would fill a page. My > only surprise is that more people haven't left by now. > > > Jim > > P.S. Someone really needs to volunteer to take over as admin of this list. I > can't do it anymore. > > > > On 6/6/2012 12:04 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > > > I suppose some may consider this an inappropriate question, > > but here it is anyways. > > > > FWIW. > > > > Is it appropriate to find a replacement to send to a group > > in violation of its own bylaws? Wouldn't that just enable > > further violations of the bylaws? > > > > I don't have an answer for the question. But somehow I > > think that just sending a replacement means ignoring the > > basic problem. I don't know what bylaws were broken, > > and how serious the violations are, but I can easily > > believe that there are chronic nontrivial problems with > > the CC. And I would not be at all surprised if MANY > > Greens have similar concerns to Warner's. > > > > Gerry > > > > > > WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com wrote: > >> June 5, 2012 > >> To GP of San Mateo County and GP of Santa Clara County > >> County Council members: > >> This email is to notify you that I intend to resign from the GPCA > >> Coordinating Committee effective not later than September 15, 2012, or > >> upon the earlier designation of a replacement Silicon Valley Regional > >> Representative by the County Councils / members of the respective County > >> GPs. > >> I will send a longer message about this after first writing a year end > >> status report, but basically after last night's CC teleconference I am > >> unwilling to remain a member of that group which, in my view, acted in > >> violation of GPCA Bylaws. I did not anticipate this circumstance when I > >> volunteered to take the position, and I regret that events have resulted > >> in the need for me to leave the CC before completing the full term. > >> It is important that the two County Councils begin recruiting > >> a replacement immediately. > >> Yours truly, > >> Warner S. Bloomberg III > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> sc-sm mailing list > >> sc-sm at cagreens.org > >> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm > > _______________________________________________ > > sc-sm mailing list > > sc-sm at cagreens.org > > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm > > > _______________________________________________ > sc-sm mailing list > sc-sm at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Jun 26 18:40:48 2012 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee In-Reply-To: <4FEA183C.6050804@greens.org> References: <4FCFA9A3.20409@earthlink.net> <4FDA707B.1080507@greens.org> <1340340944.16566.YahooMailRC@web181005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <4FEA183C.6050804@greens.org> Message-ID: <1340761248.9143.YahooMailRC@web181019.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Since I now appear to be the official representative of the Green Party in the Single Payer Coalition, I frequently find myself? the only non-democrat in the room--what I call the "lonely little petunia" syndrome. Everybody there is working toward the same goal. But I am not one of "them". When I identify myself as a member of the Green Party during the intros, I get some "I didn't know we allowed aliens in here" looks. But I don't care. Single Payer is a Green thing, and these are hundreds of people working to bring it about. They are also going out to minority communities, and I can go along, and I can be Green. We don't seem to be doing much of that, although we should be. If I can work with democrats, I can work with weird Greens, if necessary, to help accomplish Green things. I don't have to be like them to work with them. Caroline ________________________________ From: Jim Stauffer To: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Tue, June 26, 2012 1:14:59 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee I don't mean to belabor the point, but... The "internecine warfare" is not limited to internal conflicts, it also affects the external parts of the party, such as the positions we officially support or oppose. Accordingly, I've had to ask myself if the GP really represents my values anymore. If the bylaws have become a just relative reference document, do you think the platform is still the authoritative statement of our policies? Here's a couple examples from my last days on the CC that make me ask this question. Mike F submitted a proposal to the CC to oppose a bill in Sacramento. Mike's proposal described the bill, rather vaguely, as prohibiting paid signature gathering. In fact, the bill sought to prohibit pay-per-signature schemes, not paid signature gathering in general. This reform has already been enacted in several states, who now use pay-per-hour. Pay-per-signature has a long history of fraud, coercion and abuse. My two messages explaining this to the CC were ignored and the proposal was to declared to be passed by consensus. The GPCA is now officially on the side of scammers and frauds who make a living with pay-per-signature. Now that Marnie is "Managing Director of the GPCA," she uses that position to represent the GPCA at various meetings she attends. Most of these meetings appear to be with her old allies in the liberal Democrat camp. I don't have a big problem with the GPCA working with that crowd occasionally, but the relationship can be tricky. Is there adequate oversite and feedback for these meetings? From what I saw, Marnie seems to be acting on her own at these affairs. Have you read Marnie's contract with the GPCA? It does give her authority to represent the GPCA to external organizations. But, that contradicts the bylaws, which give that responsibility to the Liaison. The contract also requires all committees and working groups to report to Marnie for coordination/unification of all party work. But the bylaws say that's the job of the CC. With all policy decisions now under Marnie, does the GPCA really stand for the issues the rest of us care about? Sorry for all the negativity, but I devoted 20 years to building this organization and it feels like half that time was spent trying to keep Mike and his friends from taking it over. It was obviously a futile battle. Now I join the ranks of so many others whom I admired and worked with, but who gave up on the GP because of the never-ending conflicts with the Feinstein crowd. Jim On 6/21/2012 9:55 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Ever since the coup, I have thought about whether or not the Green Party of > California is my party anymore. The conclusion I have reached is that there is > no other party that represents my beliefs better than the Green Party. I am > here in Santa Clara County. I can do things that I believe further the > interests of the Green Party, America, and the planet without having to have > anything to do with "those people." I am very sorry if we lose our Regional > Rep, because I think he does, truly represent us. But I am going to keep using > the energy I have to try to reach my goals, not to wage internecine warfare. > Caroline > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Jim Stauffer > *To:* sc-sm at cagreens.org > *Sent:* Thu, June 14, 2012 4:15:10 PM > *Subject:* Re: [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA > Coordinating Committee > > I've already expressed my opinion on whether or not the GP is worth supporting > anymore. > > The nullification of bylaws started in earnest last year after the Berkeley > GA. That's when the new CC members were elected. That's the group that was > hand-selected by Marnie, and took their places on the CC with no experience > with the GPCA. > > Several members of this group openly stated their purpose on the CC was > implement Marnie's Green2012 plan, even though that plan had never been > submitted to a GA for decision. I wrote a detailed report demonstrating that > the CC implemented Marnie's contract and Green2012 plan while ignoring most of > the GA decisions. > > This all came about when the CC abrogated its authority to a controlling group > consisting of Barry, Mike F, Sanda and Marnie. This small group has literally > been running the party, with the Marnie's CC reps rubber stamping most > everything the controlling group wants. > > Have you noticed that our long-time press secretary, Cres Velucci, is no > longer here? He didn't resign. The controlling group's implementation of > Marnie's contract simply eliminated Cres by turning over all his jobs to > Marnie. After his years of dedicated professional service he was just booted > out without so much as a "thank you." The same thing happened to the IT Group. > Mike/Sanda/Marnie just took us over and told us to leave. Not only was there > no recognition of all we had done for the party, we were called every name in > the book and told we were nothing but a problem. > > Examples of bylaw violations and usurpation of power would fill a page. My > only surprise is that more people haven't left by now. > > > Jim > > P.S. Someone really needs to volunteer to take over as admin of this list. I > can't do it anymore. > > > > On 6/6/2012 12:04 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: >? > >? > I suppose some may consider this an inappropriate question, >? > but here it is anyways. >? > >? > FWIW. >? > >? > Is it appropriate to find a replacement to send to a group >? > in violation of its own bylaws? Wouldn't that just enable >? > further violations of the bylaws? >? > >? > I don't have an answer for the question. But somehow I >? > think that just sending a replacement means ignoring the >? > basic problem. I don't know what bylaws were broken, >? > and how serious the violations are, but I can easily >? > believe that there are chronic nontrivial problems with >? > the CC. And I would not be at all surprised if MANY >? > Greens have similar concerns to Warner's. >? > >? > Gerry >? > >? > >? > WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com wrote: >? >> June 5, 2012 >? >> To GP of San Mateo County and GP of Santa Clara County >? >> County Council members: >? >> This email is to notify you that I intend to resign from the GPCA >? >> Coordinating Committee effective not later than September 15, 2012, or >? >> upon the earlier designation of a replacement Silicon Valley Regional >? >> Representative by the County Councils / members of the respective County >? >> GPs. >? >> I will send a longer message about this after first writing a year end >? >> status report, but basically after last night's CC teleconference I am >? >> unwilling to remain a member of that group which, in my view, acted in >? >> violation of GPCA Bylaws. I did not anticipate this circumstance when I >? >> volunteered to take the position, and I regret that events have resulted >? >> in the need for me to leave the CC before completing the full term. >? >> It is important that the two County Councils begin recruiting >? >> a replacement immediately. >? >> Yours truly, >? >> Warner S. Bloomberg III >? >> >? >> >? >> _______________________________________________ >? >> sc-sm mailing list >? >> sc-sm at cagreens.org >? >> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm >? > _______________________________________________ >? > sc-sm mailing list >? > sc-sm at cagreens.org >? > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm >? > > _______________________________________________ > sc-sm mailing list > sc-sm at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-sm _______________________________________________ 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 cls at truffula.us Tue Jun 26 21:24:27 2012 From: cls at truffula.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:24:27 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA Coordinating Committee In-Reply-To: <1340761248.9143.YahooMailRC@web181019.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <4FCFA9A3.20409@earthlink.net> <4FDA707B.1080507@greens.org> <1340340944.16566.YahooMailRC@web181005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <4FEA183C.6050804@greens.org> <1340761248.9143.YahooMailRC@web181019.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4FEA8AFB.8050308@truffula.us> I'm glad Caroline found a way to do Green work in the name of the Green Party. That's the right thing to do. I'm sad that the Green Party of California has become just another "liberal" junk mail operation, but it doesn't bother me too much. As a junk mail operation they are motivated to hold onto the brand name against truly evil people who would misuse it much worse than Mike and Marnie do. It's a place holder, like the greens.org domain. Greens get elected where people are really desperate after their habitat has been destroyed. Madagascar elected a Green head of state in the '80s. If you look at satellite pictures of the place you can see why. Haiti would elect a Green if they didn't have the Lavalas machine there. Likewise Richmond, CA. California's just not desperate enough yet. Our time will come again, it's just not now. I'd like to clarify something Jim alluded to. I have no idea what communications went on between Jim and the new controlling group, regarding the IT group we were part of. I am on good terms with Tim Laidman, who is now the admin for the virtual machine where cagreens.org runs. I'm still backing the thing up, because I still haven't got around to moving that function off the incredibly obsolete PC in my garage. It's automatic, and it's been remarkably reliable. (cron, ssh, and rsync.) I resigned from that group at the same time Jim did, but I suspect not for the same reasons. I came to the Green Party in the early '90s because I wanted the movement for software freedom and personal information security ("Free Software" as a proper name) to be part of the Green transformation of society. But that didn't happen. Most Greens were so anti-technology that they'd thrown away their Whole Earth Catalogs ("access to tools") and embraced proprietary commercial software, digital "rights" (restrictions) management, and service bureaus. (Strange but true.) The rest were too busy to learn anything about the Internet or computer software. I stuck around to do the work for them, instead, but that didn't scale. Marnie made it clear that they simply had no use for anything I do. Jim may have quit, but I was laid off! So now they're dependent on service bureaus whose main customers are Dem Party electoral campaigns and Dem satellite enviro junk mail operations like Sierra Club. Of course there are profound security and social engineering problems there, but that's Marnie's problem now. I'm looking forward to hearing from Warner about his decision. -/Cameron in San Jos?/ On 06/26/2012 06:40 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Since I now appear to be the official representative of the Green > Party in the Single Payer Coalition, I frequently find myself the > only non-democrat in the room--what I call the "lonely little petunia" > syndrome. Everybody there is working toward the same goal. But I am > not one of "them". When I identify myself as a member of the Green > Party during the intros, I get some "I didn't know we allowed aliens > in here" looks. But I don't care. Single Payer is a Green thing, and > these are hundreds of people working to bring it about. They are also > going out to minority communities, and I can go along, and I can be > Green. We don't seem to be doing much of that, although we should be. > If I can work with democrats, I can work with weird Greens, if > necessary, to help accomplish Green things. I don't have to be like > them to work with them. > Caroline > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Jim Stauffer > *To:* sosfbay-discuss > *Sent:* Tue, June 26, 2012 1:14:59 PM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from > the GPCA Coordinating Committee > > I don't mean to belabor the point, but... > > The "internecine warfare" is not limited to internal conflicts, it > also affects the external parts of the party, such as the positions we > officially support or oppose. Accordingly, I've had to ask myself if > the GP really represents my values anymore. > > If the bylaws have become a just relative reference document, do you > think the platform is still the authoritative statement of our > policies? Here's a couple examples from my last days on the CC that > make me ask this question. > > Mike F submitted a proposal to the CC to oppose a bill in Sacramento. > Mike's proposal described the bill, rather vaguely, as prohibiting > paid signature gathering. In fact, the bill sought to prohibit > pay-per-signature schemes, not paid signature gathering in general. > This reform has already been enacted in several states, who now use > pay-per-hour. Pay-per-signature has a long history of fraud, coercion > and abuse. My two messages explaining this to the CC were ignored and > the proposal was to declared to be passed by consensus. The GPCA is > now officially on the side of scammers and frauds who make a living > with pay-per-signature. > > Now that Marnie is "Managing Director of the GPCA," she uses that > position to represent the GPCA at various meetings she attends. Most > of these meetings appear to be with her old allies in the liberal > Democrat camp. I don't have a big problem with the GPCA working with > that crowd occasionally, but the relationship can be tricky. Is there > adequate oversite and feedback for these meetings? From what I saw, > Marnie seems to be acting on her own at these affairs. > > Have you read Marnie's contract with the GPCA? It does give her > authority to represent the GPCA to external organizations. But, that > contradicts the bylaws, which give that responsibility to the Liaison. > The contract also requires all committees and working groups to report > to Marnie for coordination/unification of all party work. But the > bylaws say that's the job of the CC. > > With all policy decisions now under Marnie, does the GPCA really stand > for the issues the rest of us care about? > > Sorry for all the negativity, but I devoted 20 years to building this > organization and it feels like half that time was spent trying to keep > Mike and his friends from taking it over. It was obviously a futile > battle. Now I join the ranks of so many others whom I admired and > worked with, but who gave up on the GP because of the never-ending > conflicts with the Feinstein crowd. > > Jim > > > > On 6/21/2012 9:55 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > > Ever since the coup, I have thought about whether or not the Green > Party of > > California is my party anymore. The conclusion I have reached is > that there is > > no other party that represents my beliefs better than the Green > Party. I am > > here in Santa Clara County. I can do things that I believe further the > > interests of the Green Party, America, and the planet without having > to have > > anything to do with "those people." I am very sorry if we lose our > Regional > > Rep, because I think he does, truly represent us. But I am going to > keep using > > the energy I have to try to reach my goals, not to wage internecine > warfare. > > Caroline > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Jim Stauffer > > > *To:* sc-sm at cagreens.org > > *Sent:* Thu, June 14, 2012 4:15:10 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [SC-SM] Notice of Intention to Resign from the GPCA > > Coordinating Committee > > > > I've already expressed my opinion on whether or not the GP is worth > supporting > > anymore. > > > > The nullification of bylaws started in earnest last year after the > Berkeley > > GA. That's when the new CC members were elected. That's the group > that was > > hand-selected by Marnie, and took their places on the CC with no > experience > > with the GPCA. > > > > Several members of this group openly stated their purpose on the CC was > > implement Marnie's Green2012 plan, even though that plan had never been > > submitted to a GA for decision. I wrote a detailed report > demonstrating that > > the CC implemented Marnie's contract and Green2012 plan while > ignoring most of > > the GA decisions. > > > > This all came about when the CC abrogated its authority to a > controlling group > > consisting of Barry, Mike F, Sanda and Marnie. This small group has > literally > > been running the party, with the Marnie's CC reps rubber stamping most > > everything the controlling group wants. > > > > Have you noticed that our long-time press secretary, Cres Velucci, is no > > longer here? He didn't resign. The controlling group's implementation of > > Marnie's contract simply eliminated Cres by turning over all his jobs to > > Marnie. After his years of dedicated professional service he was > just booted > > out without so much as a "thank you." The same thing happened to the > IT Group. > > Mike/Sanda/Marnie just took us over and told us to leave. Not only > was there > > no recognition of all we had done for the party, we were called > every name in > > the book and told we were nothing but a problem. > > > > Examples of bylaw violations and usurpation of power would fill a > page. My > > only surprise is that more people haven't left by now. > > > > > > Jim > > > > P.S. Someone really needs to volunteer to take over as admin of this > list. I > > can't do it anymore. > > > > > > > > On 6/6/2012 12:04 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > > > > > I suppose some may consider this an inappropriate question, > > > but here it is anyways. > > > > > > FWIW. > > > > > > Is it appropriate to find a replacement to send to a group > > > in violation of its own bylaws? Wouldn't that just enable > > > further violations of the bylaws? > > > > > > I don't have an answer for the question. But somehow I > > > think that just sending a replacement means ignoring the > > > basic problem. I don't know what bylaws were broken, > > > and how serious the violations are, but I can easily > > > believe that there are chronic nontrivial problems with > > > the CC. And I would not be at all surprised if MANY > > > Greens have similar concerns to Warner's. > > > > > > Gerry > > > > > > > > > WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com > > wrote: > > >> June 5, 2012 > > >> To GP of San Mateo County and GP of Santa Clara County > > >> County Council members: > > >> This email is to notify you that I intend to resign from the GPCA > > >> Coordinating Committee effective not later than September 15, > 2012, or > > >> upon the earlier designation of a replacement Silicon Valley Regional > > >> Representative by the County Councils / members of the respective > County > > >> GPs. > > >> I will send a longer message about this after first writing a > year end > > >> status report, but basically after last night's CC teleconference > I am > > >> unwilling to remain a member of that group which, in my view, > acted in > > >> violation of GPCA Bylaws. I did not anticipate this circumstance > when I > > >> volunteered to take the position, and I regret that events have > resulted > > >> in the need for me to leave the CC before completing the full term. > > >> It is important that the two County Councils begin recruiting > > >> a replacement immediately. > > >> Yours truly, > > >> Warner S. Bloomberg III -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed Jun 27 11:16:47 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:16:47 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] HBO Tirade from "The Newsroom" Mini-Series Message-ID: Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YI7Oq8y-jXA Jeff Daniels plays the ranting news anchor in this ten-episode HBO series. In a panel discussion a college sophomore asks him to say "why America is the greatest country in the world," he snaps: There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. None of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about?! Yosemite?!!! We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed and struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. And we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. 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Move to Amend (corporate personhood) Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Jun 28 10:29:22 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:29:22 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: We have just 60 hours to win 5 more states. In-Reply-To: <4fec8d6aa1cbd_7b692e9382944c@app5.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> References: <4fec8d6aa1cbd_7b692e9382944c@app5.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> Message-ID: <4FEC9472.3060703@earthlink.net> The Jill Stein campaign has done a good job trying to get enough donations to qualify for matching funds. They are almost there with about 60 hours to go. According to my calculations, they could theoretically do it with only 17 more donations ($250 each from the right states). That seems pretty close to me. I notice that the total dollar amount they have received is more than enough, it's just the geographical distribution is not yet enough. Anyone know when and why this system was created? Gerry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: We have just 60 hours to win 5 more states. Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:59:22 +0000 From: Ben Manski To: Gerald Grass Jill-Stein-email-blast-masthead.jpg /(please forward widely ~ thank you)* Dear Gerald,*/ In just a day, three more states have qualified -- */Colorado, New Mexico, and Ohio/* -- and this leap forward puts us at 17 states that have qualified for federal matching funds . We are very, very close to doubling your contributions in our Double Your Green campaign . *We now have 60 hours to secure 5 more states.* We need 5 states, not just 3, for 22 total (not just 20) because we need a good margin of safety before we apply to the Federal Election Commission for matching funds. We have until midnight on Saturday, June 30th. This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States reminded us why we must lift our voices in this election campaign. *In a debate limited to Romney and Obama, Romneycare will become Obamacare, and the pressing need for single-payer Medicare for All will not be allowed on the table.* Read Dr. Stein's statement about the health care decision by clicking here. When we succeed in securing federal matching funds this Saturday, just 60 hours from now, we will have the money to put the Green Party on the ballot, and to amp up our media campaign, and to force the demand for Medicare for All into the 2012 presidential election. *Please donate now. * *These are our remaining target states: Arizona, Connecticut, DC, Florida, Maine, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.* If you know anyone in those states (you do, don't you?) please send them a note asking them to donate to Jill Stein for President). You might includethis letter (click here) regarding health care , or this one (click here) regarding peace issues to help convince them. Hundreds of people have been working hard to bring us this close to winning matching funds. Some have been making phone calls (contact us if you would like to help). Some have been sending emails. Our media team is working overtime. And Dr. Stein has been on the phones constantly raising money . Thank you for your spirit. We are making history right now. */~ Ben Manski/* Campaign Manager Jill Stein for President ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /Please take an immediate step by making a donation: http://www.jillstein.org/donate / Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217 http://www.JillStein.org * * -=-=- Jill Stein for President ? This email was sent to gerrygras at earthlink.net. To stop receiving emails, click here . You can also keep up with Jill Stein for President on Twitter or Facebook . -=-=- Created with NationBuilder , the essential toolkit leaders. From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Jun 28 14:59:44 2012 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:59:44 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] URGENT ACTION: Homeowner Bill of Rights Floor Vote on July 2: Call Legislators to Pass SB900 In-Reply-To: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D0195F6EDF9@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com> References: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D0195F6EDF9@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com> Message-ID: <4FECD3D0.3030801@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: You all are kindly requested to call your representatives in the California Assembly and Senate to ask them to support SB900, which may come to a vote as early as July 1. SB900 merely says, "It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement." Courage California and Homeowners for Justice are asking people to contact their representatives to secure passage of this bill. For more information including instructions on how to identify your representatives and contact the, please see "Homeowner Bill of Rights" at "occupy.pbworks.com" (under Pages & Files: Public: Issues: Banks, "http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/54691519/Homeowner%20Bill%20of%20Rights"). Thanks, Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CA Floor Vote on July 2: Call Legislators to Pass Home Owner Bill of Rights - SB900 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:14:27 -0500 From: CJ Holmes To: CJ Holmes [VIDEO : CJ's 5 minutes at the State Capitol, Foreclosure Moratorium Rally, June 25th] SB900, Home Owner Bill of Rights addressing foreclosure regulation, *passed out of conference committee this morning (June 27th)* with most provisions intact despite last minute effort by a committee member to delay and kill it. This measure, the best Californian home owners can hope for at this time, will be voted on the floor this coming Monday, July 2. Please call your legislators urging their positive support. After that, please call as many of these legislators as you can. Now is the time to step up our efforts. Charles Calderon, dist 58, 562-692-5858 Ron Calderon, district 13, 323-890-2790 Lou Correa, dist 34, 714-558-4400 Mike Gatto, dist 43, 818-558-3043 Ed Hernandez, dist 24, 626-430-2499 Roger Hernandez, dist 57, 626-960-4457 Ricardo Lara, dist 50, 562-529-3250 Kevin Leon, dist 22, 213-612-9566 Negrete McLeod, dist 32, 909-621-2783 Juan Vargas, dist 40, 619-409-7690, 760-398-6442 Rod Wright, dist 25, 310-412-0393 Here are complete lists of California State Senators & Representatives: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/sen-addresses.html_ _http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/asm-addresses.html Thanks, cj CJ Holmes Housing Policy Director Real Estate Analyst DRE 01234197 /(707) 235-1381 c/ /cjholmes at cjholmes.com / Home Owners For Justice www.HOFJ.org /(707) 578-5727/// /(707) 578-5873 f/ 818 Mendocino Ave Santa Rosa, CA 95401 hofj168x168 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On 6/27/2012 1:30 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY > > AGENDA FOR THURSDAY JUNE 28, 2012 > > Special starting time to accommodate a speaker: 7 pm > Rita from a neighborhood association (7-th and Keyes area) Rita Torres, Spartan Keyes neighborhood (readerita at hotmail.com) > > Selection of Facilitator: Warner > Notetaker, Spencer > Timekeeper, John Theilking > Vibeswatcher, Carol Brouillet > Agenda Preparer for next time: Drew > > > Introductions and announcements 10 min Warner Bloomberg Jim Doyle: Project Votesmart Drew Johnson: SFBACE.org Bay area community exchange -- barter Merriam Kathleen. Brian Good: Move to Amend & CA Disclose Act Gerry Gras: Jill Stein is close to getting on ballots in many states. Also with MTA Fred Duperrault Caroline Yacoub Spencer Graves John Thielking Jules Brouillet Carol Brouillet: Going to Philadelphia Tian Harter: Going to the Green Party National Convention. Bela Gallo: Concerned about the past election. What is the Green party going to do about the top 2 system? Cameron Spitzer. > > Treasurer?s report including Balance: $2,469.78. Operating expenses: $26/mo = ~$300. Donate $150 annually to Peace & Justice Center, $40 post office + ... = $540 annually. > review of operating expenses information only, 2 min > introduction to FPPC filing forms, information only, 5 min If nothing else: Call the FPPC and ask. Or go to the Registrar of Voters, get a copy of the most recent submission, and update it. Need to report anyone who donates $100 or more in any given year, e.g., someone who donates $10 per month. > pass the hat - 1 min > proposal: supplemental donation of $100 to the Peace and Justice > Center, approval, 3 min Accepted. > proposal: provide a $100 subsidy for travel to the national > convention, approval, 3 min Accepted for Tian. > > outreach plans: survey availability of activists, refer to committee, > 7 min (Jim Doyle) Caroline with the Single Payer Coalition provides outreach opportunities. Carol B. will be tabling at many events. Tian: Has copies of the latest Green party newspaper. He needs to deliver it to someone before he leaves town. Can donate at least one day / month. Merriam, Carol, Warner, and Fred volunteer for a committee on outreach plans. > > presidential campaign: flyers, funds, outreach - refer to committee, 7 > min -- Drew > > involving young voters: community service programs, refer to > committee, 7 min -- > (hire a student web site designer as suggested by one of the Santa > Clara University students): Need to have a clear proposal, the > charge, the project description, schedule, with a County Council > member to supervise, plus maintainability. Proposed: The county council is authorized to contract up to $250 for a web improvement project subject to all the items mentioned above, especially if we have a proposal that can't wait until the next meeting. Approved. > > report on Health Care for All Californians, information, 7 min Caroline: Tour in San Jos? next Monday, July 2. Mi Pueblo market: A chance for outreach. Every first Saturday (July 7, etc.): march 3 miles from Mi Pueblo to City Hall. Who would like to make signs, etc.? > > feedback on our major grievances to take to the constitutional > convention 2.0 7 minnutes > The current list (of 100) is at http://tinyurl.com/8xav7t9 > > fundraising for candidates -vis-a-vis the top two primary requirements > refer to committee, 5 min > > BANK ACTION hand out move your money flyers request volunteers 7 min > time date and place tbd Free concert Saturday evening organized by Move to Amend??? ~6-8, Sat. 30 June: MId-peninsula ...?/ Tian + maybe Fred; Occupy Redwood City is working Foreclosures. > > Status report on Foreclosure Summit 3 min > > Approval of a proposed foreclosure trifold 7 min Drew's church holds ~100 people. Drew will volunteer. > > Request for help with said trifold 3 min > > Regional rep situation: nominations for a replacement 3 min + 5 minutes. Duties: monthly telephone conference + many emails + active on the state coordinating committee. > > Regional rep situation: pros and cons and alternatives 14 min The restructuring experiment seems to have worked in getting more people active. However, some members of the coordinating committee want to do away with all of the regional reps. At this point, Marnie's contract will likely not be renewed. A "standing general assembly" has been a proposal for many years. Michael Feinstein is pushing this and other changes. The Coordinating Committee by a vote of 10 to 1 with 1 abstention created a "standing general assembly" in violation of the Green Party bylaws. 8 people were missing. Sanda Everett proposed we establish a structure for this. Feinstein considered this NOT a friendly amendment. Then Sanda voted for Michael's proposal. Warner will write more on this, which people will be free to distribute as they see fit. > > Peacemovies.com newsletter profit sharing info / approval 7 min This should go through the Clearinghouse at the state Green party web site to get it listed by the state party. Could be downloaded with a recommended contribution. Proposal referred to the County Council. * What does the Green party plan to do about Prop 14 and the Top 2 system? This will be a lead item on the agenda for the next meeting (10 minutes); Bela. Iran & Syria: What should we do about it? (John Thielking) -- 2 minutes now, then a lead item on the next agenda. Sarah Amir (sp) in Los Angeles is from Iran: Can we form a committee to plan actions including contingency plans? There are may Iranian-Americans who are Greens. > > One hour and 51 minutes to here > > > California DICSLOSE Act. > Move to Amend (corporate personhood) > Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Jun 28 23:41:11 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:41:11 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Meeting Minutes June 2012 In-Reply-To: <4FED4517.5050906@earthlink.net> References: <4FED4517.5050906@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4FED4E07.6070309@earthlink.net> One comment below on my announcements. Spencer Graves wrote: > Please post additions or corrections to this list. Thanks. > > > On 6/27/2012 1:30 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: >> GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY >> >> AGENDA FOR THURSDAY JUNE 28, 2012 >> >> Special starting time to accommodate a speaker: 7 pm >> Rita from a neighborhood association (7-th and Keyes area) > > > Rita Torres, Spartan Keyes neighborhood (readerita at hotmail.com) > >> >> Selection of Facilitator: Warner > > >> Notetaker, Spencer > > >> Timekeeper, John Theilking > >> Vibeswatcher, Carol Brouillet > > >> Agenda Preparer for next time: Drew >> >> Introductions and announcements 10 min > > > Warner Bloomberg > > > Jim Doyle: Project Votesmart > > > Drew Johnson: SFBACE.org Bay area community exchange -- barter > > > Merriam Kathleen. > > > Brian Good: Move to Amend & CA Disclose Act > > > Gerry Gras: Jill Stein is close to getting on ballots in many states. That may be true, but that's not what I was talking about. I was saying that she is close to getting matching funds, but has only until the end of the month to fill the gap. Now 45 to 48 hours, depending on where the midnight deadline is. (I posted an email on this at 10:46 AM today.) As to Move to Amend, I feel they are making good progress in their current efforts. Gerry > Also with MTA > > > Fred Duperrault > > > Caroline Yacoub > > > Spencer Graves > > > John Thielking > > > Jules Brouillet > > > Carol Brouillet: Going to Philadelphia > > > Tian Harter: Going to the Green Party National Convention. > > > Bela Gallo: Concerned about the past election. What is the Green party > going to do about the top 2 system? > > > Cameron Spitzer. > >> >> Treasurer?s report including > > > Balance: $2,469.78. Operating expenses: $26/mo = ~$300. Donate > $150 annually to Peace & Justice Center, $40 post office + ... = $540 > annually. > > >> review of operating expenses information only, 2 min >> introduction to FPPC filing forms, information only, 5 min > > > If nothing else: Call the FPPC and ask. Or go to the Registrar > of Voters, get a copy of the most recent submission, and update it. > > > Need to report anyone who donates $100 or more in any given year, > e.g., someone who donates $10 per month. > > >> pass the hat - 1 min >> proposal: supplemental donation of $100 to the Peace and Justice >> Center, approval, 3 min Accepted. >> proposal: provide a $100 subsidy for travel to the national >> convention, approval, 3 min Accepted for Tian. >> >> outreach plans: survey availability of activists, refer to committee, >> 7 min (Jim Doyle) > > > Caroline with the Single Payer Coalition provides outreach > opportunities. > > > Carol B. will be tabling at many events. > > > Tian: Has copies of the latest Green party newspaper. He needs > to deliver it to someone before he leaves town. Can donate at least one > day / month. > > > Merriam, Carol, Warner, and Fred volunteer for a committee on > outreach plans. > >> >> presidential campaign: flyers, funds, outreach - refer to committee, 7 >> min -- Drew > >> >> involving young voters: community service programs, refer to >> committee, 7 min -- > > >> (hire a student web site designer as suggested by one of the Santa >> Clara University students): Need to have a clear proposal, the >> charge, the project description, schedule, with a County Council >> member to supervise, plus maintainability. > > > Proposed: The county council is authorized to contract up to $250 for a > web improvement project subject to all the items mentioned above, > especially if we have a proposal that can't wait until the next > meeting. Approved. > >> >> report on Health Care for All Californians, information, 7 min > > > Caroline: Tour in San Jos? next Monday, July 2. > > > Mi Pueblo market: A chance for outreach. > > > Every first Saturday (July 7, etc.): march 3 miles from Mi Pueblo to > City Hall. > > > Who would like to make signs, etc.? > >> >> feedback on our major grievances to take to the constitutional >> convention 2.0 7 minnutes > > > >> The current list (of 100) is at http://tinyurl.com/8xav7t9 >> >> fundraising for candidates -vis-a-vis the top two primary requirements >> refer to committee, 5 min > > > >> >> BANK ACTION hand out move your money flyers request volunteers 7 min >> time date and place tbd > > > Free concert Saturday evening organized by Move to Amend??? ~6-8, > Sat. 30 June: MId-peninsula ...?/ > > > Tian + maybe Fred; Occupy Redwood City is working Foreclosures. > >> >> Status report on Foreclosure Summit 3 min >> >> Approval of a proposed foreclosure trifold 7 min > > > Drew's church holds ~100 people. Drew will volunteer. > >> >> Request for help with said trifold 3 min >> >> Regional rep situation: nominations for a replacement 3 min + 5 minutes. > > > Duties: monthly telephone conference + many emails + active on > the state coordinating committee. > >> >> Regional rep situation: pros and cons and alternatives 14 min > > > The restructuring experiment seems to have worked in getting more > people active. However, some members of the coordinating committee want > to do away with all of the regional reps. At this point, Marnie's > contract will likely not be renewed. > > > A "standing general assembly" has been a proposal for many > years. Michael Feinstein is pushing this and other changes. The > Coordinating Committee by a vote of 10 to 1 with 1 abstention created a > "standing general assembly" in violation of the Green Party bylaws. 8 > people were missing. > > > Sanda Everett proposed we establish a structure for this. > Feinstein considered this NOT a friendly amendment. Then Sanda voted > for Michael's proposal. > > > Warner will write more on this, which people will be free to > distribute as they see fit. > >> >> Peacemovies.com newsletter profit sharing info / approval 7 min > > > This should go through the Clearinghouse at the state Green party > web site to get it listed by the state party. Could be downloaded with > a recommended contribution. > > > Proposal referred to the County Council. > > > * What does the Green party plan to do about Prop 14 and the Top 2 system? > > > This will be a lead item on the agenda for the next meeting (10 > minutes); Bela. > > > Iran & Syria: What should we do about it? (John Thielking) -- 2 > minutes now, then a lead item on the next agenda. > > > Sarah Amir (sp) in Los Angeles is from Iran: > > > Can we form a committee to plan actions including contingency > plans? There are may Iranian-Americans who are Greens. > >> >> One hour and 51 minutes to here >> >> >> California DICSLOSE Act. >> Move to Amend (corporate personhood) >> Rural revitalization based on above campaigns. >> From tnharter at aceweb.com Fri Jun 29 00:04:58 2012 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:04:58 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Meeting Minutes June 2012 In-Reply-To: <4FED4E07.6070309@earthlink.net> References: <4FED4517.5050906@earthlink.net> <4FED4E07.6070309@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4FED539A.8040205@aceweb.com> On 06/28/2012 11:41 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > One comment below on my announcements. > > Spencer Graves wrote: >> Please post additions or corrections to this list. Thanks. >> (snip) >> >> >> >> Tian: Has copies of the latest Green party newspaper. He needs >> to deliver it to someone before he leaves town. Can donate at least one >> day / month. >> >> I just left them on Fred's porch. He has them now. (snip) >> >> >>> >>> BANK ACTION hand out move your money flyers request volunteers 7 min >>> time date and place tbd >> >> >> Free concert Saturday evening organized by Move to Amend??? ~6-8, >> Sat. 30 June: MId-peninsula ...?/ >> >> >> Tian + maybe Fred; Occupy Redwood City is working Foreclosures. Leafleting is organized by MTA. The concert organized by the City of Palo Alto. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: added pictures from PBP's Bridge&Tunnel ride! The Bitterroot Valley Montana pin is on a 1998 quarter. From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri Jun 29 10:22:32 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:22:32 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Make sure we're heard In-Reply-To: <1837829969.-1982852850@salsa3.salsa3DB.mail.salsalabs.com> References: <1837829969.-1982852850@salsa3.salsa3DB.mail.salsalabs.com> Message-ID: <4FEDE458.9000300@earthlink.net> FYI, Gerry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Make sure we're heard Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:14:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Move to Amend Reply-To: info at MoveToAmend.org To: gerrygras at earthlink.net */The National Campaign to End Corporate Personhood and Demand Real Democracy!/* Move to Amend Reminder, today is the National Call-in Day to Senator Dick Durbin's office. Please take 5 minutes to make a quick call. Details are included again below: *National Call-in Day for Move To Amend on June 29 ~ TODAY! * The Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, chaired by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), will be holding hearings on July 17, 2012, to examine the three proposed constitutional amendments currently introduced in the Senate, which address /Citizens United v. FEC/. Invitations will be issued to the senators who have introduced amendments and to a panel of advocates/experts, who will testify to: * The impact of Citizen's United v. FEC * The rise of SUPER PACs * The impact of unlimited corporate spending on individual candidates Move To Amend (MTA) has not been invited to participate yet. We have been in touch with Senator Durbin, who has complete discretion over who to invite, and MTA members in the eleven states of the individual committee members have already been in contact with their senators in pursuit of an invitation. /* We are now calling on all of our members to contact Senator Durbin -- please make a quick call tomorrow: *//*(202) 224-2152. */ Click here for call in details and a script. */Question:/*//Why should we care about being invited to this hearing, despite the fact that our amendment has no Senate sponsor yet? */Answer: /*We don?t expect that the Senate will actually pass an amendment any time soon, but it is important that our viewpoint be heard inside the beltway. Our movement is growing, our demands are clear. When and if Congress begins to move, it is imperative they know what the real solution is and that there is a broad movement supporting it. We must make clear to them that the issue goes beyond Citizens United. The amendment must address corporate personhood and money as speech -- nothing short of that will do. *Tomorrow, June 29, is National Call-in Day for MTA! *Please call Senator Durbin?s office and express your desire that Move To Amend be invited to the July 17 hearing. Find a short script, talking points, and the phone number here. We?re hoping to raise a polite and non-violent ruckus by generating thousands of calls, and we?re counting on you to raise your voice tomorrow. It will take no more than five minutes of your time, so please add this event to your schedule. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MOVE TO AMEND* PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 **| www.MoveToAmend.org ** * /We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. / Donate Facebook Twitter You are subscribed to this list as gerrygras at earthlink.net. Click here to unsubscribe . empowered by Salsa From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri Jun 29 13:26:28 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:26:28 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: 24 HOURS: All eyes on AZ, CT, DC In-Reply-To: <4fee063837532_10d952193080122@app3.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> References: <4fee063837532_10d952193080122@app3.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> Message-ID: <4FEE0F74.50807@earthlink.net> Wow, they got three more states to qualify yesterday! Today's the last day. Theoretically, they could do it with 5 more donations of $250 each in Connecticut. But they are trying to get 3 more states to qualify, not just one, as insurance in case of a challenge. Gerry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 24 HOURS: All eyes on AZ, CT, DC Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:47:04 +0000 From: Dr. Jill Stein To: Gerald Grass Jill-Stein-email-blast-masthead.jpg **YOU BROUGHT US TO THE BRINK OF SUCCESS. VICTORY IS 24 HOURS AWAY! All eyes on Arizona, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia* / Dear Gerald,/* I am very grateful for your response over the past few days. You have pushed our Green Party presidential campaign to the brink of success in our quest for federal matching funds . Eight states have qualified for matching funds in the past 5 days. *Now, with only 24 hours to go, everything is hinging upon finishing the job in Arizona, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia. *If we can succeed in these three states (for Greens, DC will /always/ be a state), then you will be assured of having a voice in the 2012 presidential race. We challenge the pro-war, pro-Wall Street, anti-democratic rhetoric of the establishment candidates and present a vision of a peaceful, just, secure green future that creates a livable world for all people. For the past four years, we've been pushing forward for affordable health care, an end to the wars, immigrant rights, solving the student debt problem, sensible drug policies, and protection of our civil liberties. Now, with just one final push, we can bring all those issues into the presidential arena. *But it all hinges on what happens in three critical states in the next 24 hours.* Here is what remains to be raised from those states: * District of Columbia: $2,291 * Arizona: $1,465 * Connecticut: $1,249 Raising these small amounts will result in a grant from the federal government that will almost DOUBLE the contributions that everyone across the country has already made. And the doubling will continue for months to come. This will be a watershed event for independent politics in America. * There are two things we hope you will do RIGHT NOW to ensure our success:* *First,* if you've donated to my campaign before, please consider making an additional donation of *at least half* what you gave before. Any amount up to $250 per person will count toward our qualifying goals - http://www.jillstein.org/donate - (If you've already given $250, consider asking your friends or family members to make a donation). *Second, send the appeal below to 10 of your friends in the critical three states*. Or mail it to any suitable email lists to which you subscribe. Post it on your Facebook page. This forwarding of the message is extremely important. On Sunday, we will announce the results of our effort. Today, all eyes are on Arizona, Connecticut, and DC. Let's make it happen! *Forward!* Jill Stein ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *PLEASE FORWARD THE EMAIL BELOW TO YOUR FRIENDS* *ADD YOUR OWN COVER NOTE IF YOU WISH* (E.G. "Hi. I don't usually pass on appeals like this, but this looks like an extraordinary opportunity to change the political dialogue for the better. " = = = = = *TITLE:* In 24 hours we can change the presidential campaign Urgent alert to Arizona, Connecticut, District of Columbia Finally, a chance to put a voice for peace and planet into the presidential race. */Dear Friend,/* In the next 24 hours I have an opportunity to qualify for federal matching funds that will allow me to mount a groundbreaking challenge to politics as usual. As the Green Party presidential candidate, I will be able to counter the spin and misdirection that has been coming from the big party candidates, and speak up for peace, people, and the planet. If you've longed to hear someone challenge the big guys who are pushing war, bailouts, insider politics, and Wall Street rule, then you'll love what we're going to bring to this race. *But it all hinges on what happens in three critical states in the next 24 hours.* Here is what remains to be raised from those states: * District of Columbia: $2,291 * Arizona: $1,465 * Connecticut: $1,249 They say that big money donors are taking over our electoral system. But they won't take over my campaign. I refuse to accept money from corporate lobbyists and CEOs of corporations that lobby to influence Washington. That's why I'm free to say what has to be said and to question the conventional politics of Washington. If you live in one of the three above states (and DC statehood is just a matter of time), I really need you to step forward RIGHT NOW and make a small donation (anything up to $250) to help me qualify before our drive ends at midnight, June 30. We are in the final hours. Please go now to my website http://www.jillstein.org/donate and donate. Then get ready to really enjoy the rest of a spirited presidential campaign. /*Forward!*/ Jill Stein, M.D. Green Party candidate for President http://www.jillstein.org P.S. Please help ensure success by forwarding this appeal to 10 friends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /Please take an immediate step by making a donation: http://www.jillstein.org/donate / Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217 http://www.JillStein.org * * -=-=- Jill Stein for President ? This email was sent to gerrygras at earthlink.net. To stop receiving emails, click here . You can also keep up with Jill Stein for President on Twitter or Facebook . -=-=- Created with NationBuilder , the essential toolkit leaders. From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri Jun 29 13:49:29 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:49:29 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: 24 HOURS: All eyes on AZ, CT, DC In-Reply-To: <4FEE0F74.50807@earthlink.net> References: <4fee063837532_10d952193080122@app3.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> <4FEE0F74.50807@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4FEE14D9.7030006@earthlink.net> Oops, I misspoke. I was confused by the "24 HOURS" part. Tomorrow's the last day. Gerry Gerry Gras wrote: > > Wow, they got three more states to qualify yesterday! > Today's the last day. Theoretically, they could do it > with 5 more donations of $250 each in Connecticut. > But they are trying to get 3 more states to qualify, > not just one, as insurance in case of a challenge. > > Gerry > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: 24 HOURS: All eyes on AZ, CT, DC > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:47:04 +0000 > From: Dr. Jill Stein > To: Gerald Grass > > > > Jill-Stein-email-blast-masthead.jpg > > **YOU BROUGHT US TO THE BRINK OF SUCCESS. VICTORY IS 24 HOURS AWAY! > > All eyes on Arizona, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia* > / > > > Dear > > Gerald,/* > > I am very grateful for your response over the past few days. You have > pushed our Green Party presidential campaign to the brink of success in > our quest for federal matching funds > . > > Eight states have qualified for matching funds in the past 5 days. *Now, > with only 24 hours to go, everything is hinging upon finishing the job > in Arizona, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia. > > *If we can succeed in these three states (for Greens, DC will > /always/ be a state), then you will be assured of having a voice in the > 2012 presidential race. We challenge the pro-war, pro-Wall Street, > anti-democratic rhetoric of the establishment candidates and present a > vision of a peaceful, just, secure green future that creates a livable > world for all people. For the past four years, we've been pushing > forward for affordable health care, an end to the wars, immigrant > rights, solving the student debt problem, sensible drug policies, and > protection of our civil liberties. Now, with just one final push, we can > bring all those issues into the presidential arena. > > *But it all hinges on what happens in three critical states in the next > 24 hours.* Here is what remains to be raised from those states: > > * District of Columbia: $2,291 > * Arizona: $1,465 > * Connecticut: $1,249 > > Raising these small amounts will result in a grant from the federal > government that will almost DOUBLE the contributions > > that > everyone across the country has already made. And the doubling will > continue for months to come. This will be a watershed event for > independent politics in America. > * > There are two things we hope you will do RIGHT NOW to ensure our success:* > > *First,* if you've donated to my campaign before, please consider making > an additional donation of *at least half* what you gave before. Any > amount up to $250 per person will count toward our qualifying goals - > http://www.jillstein.org/donate > > - (If > you've already given $250, consider asking your friends or family > members to make a donation). > > *Second, send the appeal below > > to > 10 of your friends in the critical three states*. Or mail it to any > suitable email lists to which you subscribe. Post it on your Facebook > page. This forwarding of the message is extremely important. > > On Sunday, we will announce the results of our effort. Today, all eyes > are on Arizona, Connecticut, and DC. Let's make it happen! > > *Forward!* > > Jill Stein > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *PLEASE FORWARD THE EMAIL BELOW TO YOUR FRIENDS* > > *ADD YOUR OWN COVER NOTE IF YOU WISH* (E.G. "Hi. I don't usually pass > on appeals like this, but this looks like an extraordinary opportunity > to change the political dialogue for the better. " > = = = = = > > *TITLE:* In 24 hours we can change the presidential campaign > > Urgent alert to Arizona, Connecticut, District of Columbia > > Finally, a chance to put a voice for peace and planet into the > presidential race. > > */Dear Friend,/* > > In the next 24 hours I have an opportunity to qualify for federal > matching funds > > that > will allow me to mount a groundbreaking challenge to politics as usual. > As the Green Party presidential candidate, I will be able to counter > the spin and misdirection that has been coming from the big party > candidates, and speak up for peace, people, and the planet. If you've > longed to hear someone challenge the big guys who are pushing war, > bailouts, insider politics, and Wall Street rule, then you'll love what > we're going to bring to this race. > > *But it all hinges on what happens in three critical states in the next > 24 hours.* Here is what remains to be raised from those states: > > * District of Columbia: $2,291 > * Arizona: $1,465 > * Connecticut: $1,249 > > They say that big money donors are taking over our electoral system. But > they won't take over my campaign. I refuse to accept money from > corporate lobbyists and CEOs of corporations that lobby to influence > Washington. That's why I'm free to say what has to be said and to > question the conventional politics of Washington. > > If you live in one of the three above states (and DC statehood is just a > matter of time), I really need you to step forward RIGHT NOW and make a > small donation > > (anything > up to $250) to help me qualify before our drive ends at midnight, June 30. > > We are in the final hours. Please go now to my website > http://www.jillstein.org/donate > > and > donate. > > Then get ready to really enjoy the rest of a spirited presidential > campaign. > > /*Forward!*/ > > Jill Stein, M.D. > Green Party candidate for President > http://www.jillstein.org > > > > P.S. Please help ensure success by forwarding this appeal to 10 friends. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > /Please take an immediate step by making a donation: > http://www.jillstein.org/donate > / > > > Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President > PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217 > http://www.JillStein.org > * > * > > -=-=- > Jill Stein for President ? > This email was sent to gerrygras at earthlink.net. To stop receiving > emails, click here > . > > > You can also keep up with Jill Stein for President on Twitter > > > or Facebook > . > > > -=-=- > > Created with NationBuilder > , > > the essential toolkit leaders. From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri Jun 29 20:08:02 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:08:02 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow Message-ID: <4FEE6D92.4010508@earthlink.net> FYI, Gerry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:31:07 -0700 From: Marnie Glickman To: GPCA Forum Dear Greens, Who will volunteer to dial for dollars for Jill Stein tomorrow? We're organizing the best phonebank ever in Green Party history. Tomorrow you can help the Green Party earn presidential campaign matching funds. Please email off-list if you can volunteer to make 25 or more fundraising calls tomorrow. Peace, Marnie From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri Jun 29 20:23:29 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:23:29 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ralph's Letters from Barack Message-ID: <4FEE7131.5050900@earthlink.net> I definitely recommend this! "Touching Letters from Barack Obama" by Ralph Nader http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/29-7 Gerry From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sat Jun 30 07:05:23 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:05:23 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Jimmy Carter Gets It Message-ID: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/opinion/americas-shameful-human-rights-record.html THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. . . . Our nation?s violation of human rights . . . . has been sanctioned and escalated by bipartisan executive and legislative actions, without dissent from the general public. As a result, our country can no longer speak with moral authority on these critical issues. . . . With leadership from the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948 as ?the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world?. . . .Our government?s counterterrorism policies are now clearly violating at least 10 of the declaration?s 30 articles, including the prohibition against ?cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment?. . . . Despite an arbitrary rule that any man killed by drones is declared an enemy terrorist, the death of nearby innocent women and children is accepted as inevitable. After more than 30 airstrikes on civilian homes this year in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai has demanded that such attacks end, but the practice continues in areas of Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen that are not in any war zone. We don?t know how many hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed in these attacks, each one approved by the highest authorities in Washington. This would have been unthinkable in previous times. . . . The United States should be strengthening, not weakening, basic rules of law and principles of justice enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But instead of making the world safer, America?s violation of international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends. As concerned citizens, we must persuade Washington to reverse course and regain moral leadership according to international human rights norms that we had officially adopted as our own and cherished throughout the years. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Sat Jun 30 07:44:02 2012 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Medicare for All Bus Tour - San Jose! Message-ID: <1341067442.42230.androidMobile@web124505.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sat Jun 30 10:00:01 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:00:01 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow In-Reply-To: <4FEE6D92.4010508@earthlink.net> References: <4FEE6D92.4010508@earthlink.net> Message-ID: Just as a point of truth: the map on Jill Stein's campaign website shows 20 states qualified already. http://www.jillstein.org/funding I hope the confusion in the appeals in the matching funds campaign comes from poor communications or management skills. I'm sure I'm not the only cynic who found their lack of clarity distressing. > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:08:02 -0700 > From: gerrygras at earthlink.net > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow > > > FYI, > > Gerry > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:31:07 -0700 > From: Marnie Glickman > To: GPCA Forum > > > > Dear Greens, > > Who will volunteer to dial for dollars for Jill Stein > tomorrow? > > We're organizing the best phonebank ever in Green Party history. > > Tomorrow you can help the Green Party earn presidential campaign > matching funds. > > Please email off-list if you can volunteer to make 25 or more > fundraising calls tomorrow. > > Peace, > Marnie > _______________________________________________ > 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 snug.bug at hotmail.com Sat Jun 30 10:14:23 2012 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:14:23 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow In-Reply-To: <1341075973.14840.androidMobile@web124506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1341075973.14840.androidMobile@web124506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: My mistake. I counted Maryland as 2 states, and I should know better. Cynicism has turned me into Mr. Magoo. Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:06:13 -0700 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow To: snug.bug at hotmail.com I think its 19. But the goal is 23 so as to go over the top and not take any chances on being disqualified. And every dollar up to $250 from any state will be doubled if we make it so its all important. Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android From: Brian Good ; To: ; Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow Sent: Sat, Jun 30, 2012 5:00:01 PM Just as a point of truth: the map on Jill Stein's campaign website shows 20 states qualified already. http://www.jillstein.org/funding I hope the confusion in the appeals in the matching funds campaign comes from poor communications or management skills. I'm sure I'm not the only cynic who found their lack of clarity distressing. > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:08:02 -0700 > From: gerrygras at earthlink.net > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow > > > FYI, > > Gerry > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:31:07 -0700 > From: Marnie Glickman > To: GPCA Forum > > > > Dear Greens, > > Who will volunteer to dial for dollars for Jill Stein > tomorrow? > > We're organizing the best phonebank ever in Green Party history. > > Tomorrow you can help the Green Party earn presidential campaign > matching funds. > > Please email off-list if you can volunteer to make 25 or more > fundraising calls tomorrow. > > Peace, > Marnie > _______________________________________________ > 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 rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Sat Jun 30 10:21:58 2012 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Volunteer Action Tomorrow Message-ID: <1341076918.33513.androidMobile@web124502.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I count 19. But the goal is to get more states than than the absolute bare minimum like about 23 so as to lessen the risk of being disqualified.? Also though every $ up to $250 will be matched from whatever state, so it's all valuable. President Obama is sending out similar last minute appeals before the deadline and I doubt his campaign is stopping at 20 states.? ;-) Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sat Jun 30 23:37:14 2012 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:37:14 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Philadelphia City Council Says Stop Funding the War Machine" Message-ID: <4FEFF01A.2010704@earthlink.net> Three cheers for Philadelphia City Council! "Philadelphia City Council Says Stop Funding the War Machine" http://uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=26054 It also said spend the money on education, enviornment, infrastructure ... Gerry