From pagesincolor at yahoo.com  Thu Mar  1 09:59:02 2012
From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:59:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: PIPA, SOPA, ACTA ... Now C-30
In-Reply-To: <6f22f515ebb7df5356c60682a189a2c0@bounce.bluestatedigital.com>
References: <6f22f515ebb7df5356c60682a189a2c0@bounce.bluestatedigital.com>
Message-ID: <1330624742.48102.YahooMailNeo@web111103.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>




----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Access Now <access at accessnow.org>
To: John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 7:58 AM
Subject: PIPA, SOPA, ACTA ... Now C-30

 
Tell the Canadian government to respect the right to privacy online! John, 
First, PIPA and SOPA went down after the online community flexed its muscle. Then the world rallied against ACTA, and now it's being reviewed by Europe's highest court. Now our Canadian neighbors need our help, whose citizens are facing an even more immediate threat.
Put yourself in their shoes: What if your government was considering a policy that would?force ISPs to provide unrestricted access to your data?to law enforcement at any time, for any reason, and?without a warrant??What would you do if your country's leaders were trying to?rewire the Internet to support systems of constant digital surveillance? Canadians are facing these dangers in the form of Bill C-30, and Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews (right) is bent on getting it passed despite strong opposition from the public.
When we asked you last week to identify the largest threats facing the internet today, the response was unequivocal:?Stop online censorship, invasions of privacy, and digital surveillance?(See the P.S.).?C-30 is the embodiment of these fears, as it would create a closed and monitored internet. Stand up for the rights of Canadian citizens and call on the Canadian government to abandon C-30:
https://www.accessnow.org/a-license-to-snoop
Democratic governments such as Canada's should be setting an example of openness and respect for civil liberties for the world -- not taking queues from repressive regimes like Syria and Iran.?The good news is that support for C-30 is starting to waver, and we can deliver the knock-out punch.
Invasion of privacy. Perpetual online surveillance.?You told us that these are your greatest concerns.?Now is your chance to stop them:
https://www.accessnow.org/a-license-to-snoop
With determination,
The Access Team
P.S. We asked, and you responded!?Almost 15,000?of you from around the world participated in our online poll, and the results were fascinating.?Go here to find out what the world is talking about when it comes to digital freedom.
SOURCES:
Toews surprised by content of online surveillance bill
Bill provokes privacy fears
Michael Geist?s FAQ on C-30
Online surveillance bill to get early committee review
Toews? gaffes aside, Bill C-30 has real dangers 
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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Thu Mar  1 10:40:18 2012
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:40:18 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: [action_condi] [ethics-and-war] 3/6 screening of
 "Human Terrain" and conversation with the filmmaker, Joseph Felter,
 and Norman Naimark
In-Reply-To: <4F4FB52A.5080902@stanford.edu>
References: <4F4FAD69.9090805@stanford.edu>,<4F4FB52A.5080902@stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <BAY165-W258D2C4E8849372C6353E79E6C0@phx.gbl>



It's not just journalists embedded in the military, not just psychologists and MD's assisting
the torture programs--it's social scientists aiding counter-insurgency.




  


    
  
  
      -- This event is open and free to the public. Please feel free to
    invite guests. --

    

    

    
    
    
    
      
        
          
            
              
               Film
                        Screening
              Cosponsored by the
                        Anthropology Department, the Center for
                        International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
                        and the History Department
               
              ?Human






                        Terrain?
              &
              Post-Film
                        Discussion
               
              Featuring:
              James Der
                        Derian
              Co-Director and Executive Producer, ?Human
                      Terrain?
              Professor (Research), Watson Institute for
                      International Studies, Brown University
               
              Joseph






                        Felter
               Senior






                      Research Scholar, CISAC 
               
              Norman






                        Naimark (moderator)
               Professor






                      of Eastern European Studies; Professor of History;
                      CISAC Affiliated Faculty; Europe Center Research
                      Affiliate and FSI Senior Fellow by courtesy
               
              When: Tuesday,
                      March 6, 2012 
              3:30-5:30PM
              Where: Encina Hall
                      (2nd Floor), Central Conference Room
              Free and open to the public.
                        Refreshments will be served. 
              No RSVP is required.
               
              Information is located at: http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/humanterrain_2012
              

                
              From the film?s website: ?Human Terrain? is two
                      stories in one.  The






                      first exposes a new Pentagon effort to enlist the
                      best and the brightest in a struggle for hearts
                      and minds.  Facing






                      long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.
                      military initiates ?Human Terrain Systems?, a
                      controversial program that seeks to make cultural
                      awareness the centerpiece of the new
                      counterinsurgency strategy.  Designed to
                      embed social scientists with combat troops, the
                      program swiftly comes under attack as a misguided
                      and unethical effort to gather intelligence and
                      target enemies.  Gaining






                      rare access to wargames in the Mojave Desert and
                      training exercises at Quantico and Fort
                      Leavenworth, ?Human Terrain? takes the viewer into
                      the heart of the war machine and a shadowy
                      collaboration between American academics and the
                      military.
               
              The other story is about a
                      brilliant young scholar who leaves the university
                      to join a Human Terrain team.  After working
                      as a humanitarian activist in the Western Sahara,
                      Balkans, East Timor and elsewhere, and winning a
                      Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael
                      Bhatia returns to Brown University to take up a
                      visiting fellowship.  In the course of conducting
                      research on military cultural awareness, he is
                      recruited by the Human Terrain program and
                      eventually embeds with the 82nd Airborne in
                      eastern Afghanistan.  On the way to mediate an
                      intertribal dispute, Bhatia is killed when his
                      humvee hits a roadside bomb.
               
              War becomes academic,
                      academics go to war, and the personal tragically
                      merges with the political, raising new questions
                      about the ethics, effectiveness, and high costs of
                      counterinsurgency.
               
               
            
          
        
      
    
     
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    -- 

      Zhila Emadi
       Assistant to Elizabeth Gardner, Associate Director &

        Public Affairs Associate

        Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC),
        Stanford University

        616 Serra Street, Encina Hall, Second Floor

          Stanford, CA 94305-6165

          Tel: (650) 736-0414

          Fax: (650) 724-5683

        
       http://cisac.stanford.edu
        
         

      
    
    

  


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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Mar  1 17:38:02 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:38:02 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] gpca cc election process
Message-ID: <4F50247A.8040708@sbcglobal.net>

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE

This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List. 
For more information, or questions related to the topic of the posting,
please do not hit reply.  Follow the contact directions
stated in the email.





~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Coordinating Committee At-Large Election Process, Spring 2012
(For more information, see
http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2012-05/coordinating-committee-large-election-process) 


The Coordinating Committee is responsible for coordinating state party
meetings, facilitating internal communications and performing other
administrative tasks. Fourteen at-large members are elected to
staggered two year terms, seven each year, by the party's active
counties through County Polling.

Applications/Eligibility for at-large members - Deadline to apply is
March 13, 2012

To be eligible, candidates must submit an application to the
Coordinating Committee at gpca-cc at cagreens.org at least 60 days prior
to the first day of the General Assembly at which the GPCA's annual
budget is approved. Applications must include a biography and what
they wish to accomplish on the Coordinating Committee.  (GPCA Bylaws
7-1.7 Selection of At-Large Members)

For a list of current Coordinating Committee members, see
http://www.cagreens.org/committees/coordinating

Appearance of candidates at the General Assembly

At the General Assembly, the Election Committee shall present a full
and detailed explanation of the voting procedure to the General
Assembly and at-large candidates will be given an opportunity to
present themselves and receive and respond to questions.  (GPCA Bylaws
7-1.7 Selection of At-Large Members)

Candidate Bios

will appear at
http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2012-05/coordinating-committee-large-election-process 


The explanation of the voting process will also be available on that page.

Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, co-coordinators
GPCA Coordinating Committee



From WB4D23 at aol.com  Thu Mar  1 20:40:39 2012
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:40:39 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] meeting
Message-ID: <deff.6a5ad06a.3c81a947@aol.com>

>From my hazy memory:
5 GPers with 6 SJSU student observers.
Discussed movie night selections.
Deferred filling County Council vacancies (too few  attending).
Discussing tabling supplies deferred.
Warner agreed to prepare next agenda.
Discussions with guests after closing meeting.
 
Warner
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/27/2012 7:09:53 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
carolineyacoub at att.net writes:

 
Hey out there, did anybody take minutes at the February meeting? Was  
anybody AT the February meeting? I was in Phoenix, and I didn't see anything  
that looked like an agenda or minutes.
Caroline



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From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Sat Mar  3 11:53:00 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:53:00 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Re: [gpsmc-d] How Did Another Assault on Our
	Rights Slip Through?
In-Reply-To: <4F527637.3040202@earthlink.net>
References: <4F527637.3040202@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <4F52769C.5080606@earthlink.net>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [gpsmc-d] How Did Another Assault on Our Rights Slip Through?
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:51:19 -0800
From: Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>
To: Arlen Comfort <acomfort at rocketmail.com>
CC: GPSMC Discussion Board <gpsmc-d at cagreens.org>


I did a little searching of the internet.

NOTE: Abbreviations - R = Republican, D = Democrat

In the Sanate, (S. 1794) the sponsor and the cosponsor
are Ds.  It passed by unanimous consent.  I wonder what
Bernie Sanders thinks of this?

In the House, the sponsor is R, there is one cosponsor
who is D.  There are only 3 No votes, 2 R and 1 D,
none from California.  There are 42 "Not Voting",
including Grijalva, Jackson, Kucinich, Lee, Paul,
Speier, Woolsey.

Gerry


Arlen Comfort wrote:
> Thought you would be interested in this. We may have to re-think how to
> do protests in this country.
>
>
> http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/03/01/hr-347-how-did-another-assault-on-our-rights-slip-through-without-anybody-noticing/
>
> Congress passes bill severely curtailing civil liberties
> by Alison Weir <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/alisonweir.html>
> H.R.347, the 'Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act
> of 2011' has just been passed.
> <http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-347>
>
> This makes it a federal offense, with imprisonment of *at least* up to
> one year, for any "unauthorized" person to enter or remain in a building
> -- or the grounds -- where the Secret Service is present or where there
> is an "an event designated as a special event of national significance."
>
> In other words, it is now a felony to have a demonstration near
> presidential candidates or a visiting head of state such as Benjamin
> Netanyahu. In fact, it is a felony to even be on the grounds where they
> are temporarily visiting, say at a campaign stop -- even if you don't
> yet know that this has now become an off-limits area.
>
> By the way among events that have been "designated as a special event of
> national significance" are the Super Bowl and the Democratic and
> Republican National Conventions.
>
> The bill passed 388-to-3. Now it awaits Obama's no doubt willing
> signature --just in time for the AIPAC convention, which starts this
> weekend. *<snip> *
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> How did you expect our Govt. to react to too much feedback from their
> supposed constituents, the 99%?
> What is next to silence the 99% . . . The internet and social media
> comes to mind.
>
> - Arlen
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gpsmc-d mailing list
> gpsmc-d at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpsmc-d
> http://cagreens.org/sanmateo/


From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Sat Mar  3 18:34:07 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:34:07 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [occupy-san-jose] The end of California's
 mortgage nightmare starts now. Here's how
In-Reply-To: <CALMrxTez4w+pi5W-Gau1Hq2TXODMP94GsKHh21KKXDfnNGrr-Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CALMrxTez4w+pi5W-Gau1Hq2TXODMP94GsKHh21KKXDfnNGrr-Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4F52D49F.1070808@prodsyse.com>

Hello, All:


       California Attorney General Kamala Harris is asking for our help 
in getting a "Homeowners Bill of Rights" through the California 
legislature.  Harris has been one of the leaders in the nation in the 
fight against the predatory banks.


       This "Homeowners Bill of Rights" is actually a collection of six 
bills, with bill numbers and a summary given in 
"http://oag.ca.gov/news/press_release?id=2641".


       I have read the summary but not the complete bills.  I believe 
that Atty Gen. Harris deserves our support, and I encourage you to go to 
"http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7vkFFtWP5iA763%2FeSAfPm3dwpaNFje4r" 
and become a citizen "co-sponsor", as requested below.


       Spencer


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[occupy-san-jose] The end of California's mortgage nightmare 
starts now. Here's how
Date: 	Sat, 3 Mar 2012 15:19:23 -0800
From: 	Susie Barton <tsubaka360 at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	occupy-san-jose at googlegroups.com
To: 	Occupy San Jose <occupy-san-jose at googlegroups.com>



Will this help Gloria?


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| Follow @calorganize 
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Dear Susie,
This week, I stood with Assembly Speaker John P?rez and Senate President 
pro Tem Darrell Steinberg to introduce the*California Homeowners Bill of 
Rights*, which will bring fairness and transparency to mortgages in our 
state.
*Today, I?m writing to ask your help with this work.*Powerful special 
interests will oppose closing the mortgage loopholes that hurt 
homeowners. We need your help to get this bill to the governor's desk.
*Pledge to join myself and the ReFund California Coalition as a 
Co-Sponsor to pass the California Homeowners Bill of Rights. We?ll keep 
you informed and updated as the legislation advances.* 
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yHfGFpQQvSdOQo3cexaTtXdwpaNFje4r>
We have all seen the results of a mortgage process that is stacked 
against the homeowner. From Stockton to Boyle Heights, from San 
Bernardino to Sacramento, our families and communities are suffering 
from a foreclosure crisis.*We need a mass movement to make calls, write 
letters, and mobilize Californians on their behalf.*
Last month, we extracted an $18 billion commitment from the banks for 
California. That was a life preserver for underwater homeowners.*Now we 
must fundamentally reform our broken mortgage system.*
*Join our movement for mortgage reform. Then, ask 5 friends to do so, 
too.* 
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7vkFFtWP5iA763%2FeSAfPm3dwpaNFje4r>
*The Homeowners Bill of Rights restricts the insidious practice of "dual 
tracking," under which homeowners are seeking a loan modification from 
their bank -- and get foreclosed upon anyway. *It requires lenders to 
offer homeowners a single point of contact for questions about their 
mortgage, and imposes fines of up to $10,000 for ?robo-signing.?
This work won?t be easy, but it will benefit families across the state. 
  Please raise your voice on their behalf.
*Sign on as a Co-Sponsor of the Homeowners Bill of Rights.* 
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rmW40TM9EEHkUgnNxhcoBcYrREkBaT32>
Standing with you,
Kamala D. Harris,
32nd Attorney General of California
/ACCE is proud to join groups such as People Improving Communities 
through Organizing (PICO), Courage Campaign and California Reinvestment 
Coalition (CRC) as part of the ReFund California Coalition, a state-wide 
coalition of homeowners, community members, faith leaders and students 
working to make Wall Street banks pay for destroying jobs and 
neighborhoods with their greedy, irresponsible and predatory business 
practices.//
/

Back to top <#135dad0a5f26cd74_top>

Grassroots community support allows us to keep organizing!
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federal income tax purposes. Click here to make a contribution. 
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-- 
/Watashi tachi wa onaji kama no meshi o taberu/
"We all eat from the same bowl"

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From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Sun Mar  4 14:09:26 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:09:26 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The Crisis in US Politics & Economics
Message-ID: <4F53E816.5070503@prodsyse.com>

Hello, All:


       I've just added an essay to "occupy.pbworks.com" that reflects my 
perspective on the current "The Crisis in US Politics & Economics" 
(http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51535688/Systemic%20Corruption).  It 
is based primarily on Lessig (2012) Republic, Lost:  How Money Corrupts 
Congress -- and a Plan to Stop It (Twelve; 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic,_Lost), combined with some of my 
other research (e.g., 
http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51429142/Media%20and%20Politics 
<http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51429142/Media%20and%20Politics#view=edit>). 



       I'd be please to get comments, criticism, etc., from anyone.  
People who already have "Editor" status there are free to modify it if 
they see fit.  I believe that people with "Writer" status can leave 
comments.  If you do not currently have an account there or would like 
"Editor" status, please let Henry or me know.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer Graves


-- 
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

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From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Sun Mar  4 14:12:29 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:12:29 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The Crisis in US Politics & Economics
Message-ID: <4F53E8CD.2040809@prodsyse.com>

p.s.  This essay seems to be short enough that it could easily be turned 
into a z-fold with the Green Party 10 key values, etc., if people liked 
that.


#########################
Hello, All:


       I've just added an essay to "occupy.pbworks.com" that reflects my 
perspective on the current "The Crisis in US Politics & Economics" 
(http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51535688/Systemic%20Corruption).  It 
is based primarily on Lessig (2012) Republic, Lost:  How Money Corrupts 
Congress -- and a Plan to Stop It (Twelve; 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic,_Lost), combined with some of my 
other research (e.g., 
http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51429142/Media%20and%20Politics 
<http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51429142/Media%20and%20Politics#view=edit>). 



       I'd be please to get comments, criticism, etc., from anyone.  
People who already have "Editor" status there are free to modify it if 
they see fit.  I believe that people with "Writer" status can leave 
comments.  If you do not currently have an account there or would like 
"Editor" status, please let Henry or me know.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer Graves


-- 
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

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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Mon Mar  5 16:17:31 2012
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:17:31 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [Fwd: [GPCA Official Notice] County Polling on Ballot
	Propositions]
Message-ID: <4F55579B.9020706@aceweb.com>

Anybody have strong feelings about either of these initiatives?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [GPCA Official Notice] County Polling on Ballot Propositions
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:40:45 -0800
From: County Contacts <contacts2006 at cagreens.org>
Reply-To: contacts2006 at cagreens.org
To: County Contacts <Contacts2006 at cagreens.org>
References: <ACC22E6B-2396-4544-AB5A-DE428F0C7A56 at mindspring.com>

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE

This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  For more 
information, or questions related to the topic of the posting, please do 
not hit reply. Follow the contact directions
stated in the email.




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hi Greens --

We are writing to you because our records show that you serve on a Green 
Party
County Council. (If you no longer serve on your county council, quickly 
reply.
We will remove you from this list.)

We are beginning our county polling to determine our positions on the 2
statewide ballot measures for the June 5th election.

*Why county polling now?*

With your help we can complete our county polling by April 28^th so that we
can take positions on the statewide ballot measures before our next General
Assembly in San Francisco on May 12-13. If we do not reach quorum in our
county polling, we will place the decision-making items on the General
Assembly agenda.

County polling has an 80% threshold and requires at least 50% or active
California County Green Parties to participate. The default where the
threshold or quorum is not met is ?No Position?.

*What are the two statewide ballot measures?*

/Prop. 28 ? Legislative Term Limits/

This measure reduces the total amount of time a person may serve in the 
state
legislature from 14 years to 12 years. It allows a person to serve a 
total of
12 years either in the Assembly, the Senate, or a combination of both.

/Prop. 29 ? Tobacco Tax/

Imposes additional five (5) cent tax on each cigarette distributed 
($1.00 per
pack), and the equivalent tax increase on other tobacco products, to fund
cancer research and other specified purposes.

To see complete wording of Propositions go see the CA Secretary of State 
website:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures.htm
<http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sos.ca.gov%2Felections%2Fballot-measures%2Fqualified-ballot-measures.htm&utm_campaign=county_feb_12&n=1&e=289eed4b5fdd69748bea7419ffa53f73fdbea5a4&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email>

*County Polling Timeline*

/Questions and comments on the county polling process/

Sunday, March 25th, 2012 (12:01 AM PST) and ends on Saturday, March 
31st, 2012
(12:00 midnight PST)

/County Voting/

Sunday, April 1^st , 2012, (12:01am PST) and ends on
Saturday, April 28th, 2012 (11:59 PM PST).

Votes received after the closing date and time will not be counted.

*How to Cast Your County?s Votes*

Please provide both County Polling Coordinators (Richard Gomez at
nate136_66 at yahoo.com <mailto:nate136_66 at yahoo.com> and Marnie Glickman at
marnie at cagreens.org <mailto:marnie at cagreens.org>) with vote results from 
your
county in the following form for each ballot measure:

"Yes" for the GPCA to support the measure

"No" for the GPCA to oppose the measure

"No Position" for the GPCA to deliberately remain neutral on the measure

Votes may also be cast as "Abstain" if they do not wish to participate 
in the
poll.
**Abstentions will *ONLY* be counted toward quorum.**

PLEASE SUBMIT VOTES IN THE AMOUNT ALLOTED TO YOUR COUNTY FOR THE MAY 2012
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

If you have any questions about the total number of votes that can be 
cast for
any measure, contact the County Polling Coordinators or the GPCA 
Coordinating
Committee member(s) who represent your region.

Your county should rely on its own internal processes to arrive at its 
positions.

VOTES MUST BE REPORTED BY A COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER.

*Questions? Comments?*

Richard Gomez, nate136_66 at yahoo.com <mailto:nate136_66 at yahoo.com>,
(559)408-3320 <tel:%28559%29408-3320>

Marnie Glickman at marnie.glickman at gmail.com
<mailto:marnie.glickman at gmail.com>, (415)259-7121 <tel:%28415%29259-7121>**

_______________________________________________
Contacts2006 mailing list
Contacts2006 at cagreens.org
http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/contacts2006


-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest idea: Remember Warren Hellman. Get Carol Brouillet on the ballot!
The 5 actions 1 world pin is on a 1992 quarter.


From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Mon Mar  5 18:55:07 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:55:07 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [Fwd: [GPCA Official Notice] County Polling on
 Ballot Propositions]
In-Reply-To: <4F55579B.9020706@aceweb.com>
References: <4F55579B.9020706@aceweb.com>
Message-ID: <4F557C8B.2090100@prodsyse.com>

Hi, Tian, et al.:


TERM LIMITS


       I'm vehemently opposed to term limits.  In my judgment, term 
limits are a right wing ploy that have successfully deprived 
legislatures of institutional memory, thereby making it easier for 
lobbyists to enact legislation they write for their clients.


       We could use 100% funding of political campaigns -- to the point 
that many elective offices are won by politicians without substantive 
support from big money.  I got this in part from Lawrence Lessig (2011) 
Republic, Lost (Twelve), which was the primary inspiration for "The 
Crisis in US Politics & Economics", a link to which was provided in an 
email I sent to this list yesterday.  Lessig is a Harvard Law School 
Prof (formerly at Stanford) and the author of two of the best analyses 
I've read on the US political economy.


TOBACCO


        A 5 cent increase in the tobacco tax is probably appropriate.  
If the tax is too high, it encourages a black market in cigarettes and a 
general disrespect for the law.  If it's too low, the externalities 
associated with, e.g., second hand smoking, are not properly reflected 
in the purchase price of cigarettes.  I have not heard of a substantive 
black market in California for cigarettes.  If there is, I could easily 
be persuaded to oppose this measure.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


On 3/5/2012 4:17 PM, Tian Harter wrote:
> Anybody have strong feelings about either of these initiatives?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [GPCA Official Notice] County Polling on Ballot Propositions
> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:40:45 -0800
> From: County Contacts <contacts2006 at cagreens.org>
> Reply-To: contacts2006 at cagreens.org
> To: County Contacts <Contacts2006 at cagreens.org>
> References: <ACC22E6B-2396-4544-AB5A-DE428F0C7A56 at mindspring.com>
>
> GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE
>
> This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  For more 
> information, or questions related to the topic of the posting, please 
> do not hit reply. Follow the contact directions
> stated in the email.
>
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
>
>
> Hi Greens --
>
> We are writing to you because our records show that you serve on a 
> Green Party
> County Council. (If you no longer serve on your county council, 
> quickly reply.
> We will remove you from this list.)
>
> We are beginning our county polling to determine our positions on the 2
> statewide ballot measures for the June 5th election.
>
> *Why county polling now?*
>
> With your help we can complete our county polling by April 28^th so 
> that we
> can take positions on the statewide ballot measures before our next 
> General
> Assembly in San Francisco on May 12-13. If we do not reach quorum in our
> county polling, we will place the decision-making items on the General
> Assembly agenda.
>
> County polling has an 80% threshold and requires at least 50% or active
> California County Green Parties to participate. The default where the
> threshold or quorum is not met is ?No Position?.
>
> *What are the two statewide ballot measures?*
>
> /Prop. 28 ? Legislative Term Limits/
>
> This measure reduces the total amount of time a person may serve in 
> the state
> legislature from 14 years to 12 years. It allows a person to serve a 
> total of
> 12 years either in the Assembly, the Senate, or a combination of both.
>
> /Prop. 29 ? Tobacco Tax/
>
> Imposes additional five (5) cent tax on each cigarette distributed 
> ($1.00 per
> pack), and the equivalent tax increase on other tobacco products, to fund
> cancer research and other specified purposes.
>
> To see complete wording of Propositions go see the CA Secretary of 
> State website:
> http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures.htm 
>
> <http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sos.ca.gov%2Felections%2Fballot-measures%2Fqualified-ballot-measures.htm&utm_campaign=county_feb_12&n=1&e=289eed4b5fdd69748bea7419ffa53f73fdbea5a4&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email> 
>
>
> *County Polling Timeline*
>
> /Questions and comments on the county polling process/
>
> Sunday, March 25th, 2012 (12:01 AM PST) and ends on Saturday, March 
> 31st, 2012
> (12:00 midnight PST)
>
> /County Voting/
>
> Sunday, April 1^st , 2012, (12:01am PST) and ends on
> Saturday, April 28th, 2012 (11:59 PM PST).
>
> Votes received after the closing date and time will not be counted.
>
> *How to Cast Your County?s Votes*
>
> Please provide both County Polling Coordinators (Richard Gomez at
> nate136_66 at yahoo.com <mailto:nate136_66 at yahoo.com> and Marnie Glickman at
> marnie at cagreens.org <mailto:marnie at cagreens.org>) with vote results 
> from your
> county in the following form for each ballot measure:
>
> "Yes" for the GPCA to support the measure
>
> "No" for the GPCA to oppose the measure
>
> "No Position" for the GPCA to deliberately remain neutral on the measure
>
> Votes may also be cast as "Abstain" if they do not wish to participate 
> in the
> poll.
> **Abstentions will *ONLY* be counted toward quorum.**
>
> PLEASE SUBMIT VOTES IN THE AMOUNT ALLOTED TO YOUR COUNTY FOR THE MAY 2012
> GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
>
> If you have any questions about the total number of votes that can be 
> cast for
> any measure, contact the County Polling Coordinators or the GPCA 
> Coordinating
> Committee member(s) who represent your region.
>
> Your county should rely on its own internal processes to arrive at its 
> positions.
>
> VOTES MUST BE REPORTED BY A COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER.
>
> *Questions? Comments?*
>
> Richard Gomez, nate136_66 at yahoo.com <mailto:nate136_66 at yahoo.com>,
> (559)408-3320 <tel:%28559%29408-3320>
>
> Marnie Glickman at marnie.glickman at gmail.com
> <mailto:marnie.glickman at gmail.com>, (415)259-7121 
> <tel:%28415%29259-7121>**
>
> _______________________________________________
> Contacts2006 mailing list
> Contacts2006 at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/contacts2006
>
>


-- 
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 wrolley at charter.net  Tue Mar  6 07:56:42 2012
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:56:42 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [Fwd: [GPCA Official Notice] County Polling on
 Ballot Propositions]
In-Reply-To: <4F557C8B.2090100@prodsyse.com>
References: <4F55579B.9020706@aceweb.com> <4F557C8B.2090100@prodsyse.com>
Message-ID: <4F5633BA.4030903@charter.net>

On 3/5/2012 6:55 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hi, Tian, et al.:
>
>
> TERM LIMITS
>
>
>       I'm vehemently opposed to term limits.  In my judgment, term 
> limits are a right wing ploy that have successfully deprived 
> legislatures of institutional memory, thereby making it easier for 
> lobbyists to enact legislation they write for their clients.

The issue of institutional memory is a real one.  We see what happens 
when it is lost in Sacramento.  We also see what it has cost when MSM 
lays off all of their older, more expensive reporters.

<snip>
>
>
> TOBACCO
>
>
>        A 5 cent increase in the tobacco tax is probably appropriate.  
> If the tax is too high, it encourages a black market in cigarettes and 
> a general disrespect for the law.  If it's too low, the externalities 
> associated with, e.g., second hand smoking, are not properly reflected 
> in the purchase price of cigarettes.  I have not heard of a 
> substantive black market in California for cigarettes.  If there is, I 
> could easily be persuaded to oppose this measure.
>
I agree with Spencer here also.


From wrolley at charter.net  Tue Mar  6 08:14:08 2012
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:14:08 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Political Passion
Message-ID: <4F5637D0.7020003@charter.net>

The Morgan Hill times runs a series of online polls: sports, news, 
politics.  The results are carried online until printed in the local 
edition.  This weeks political poll was a bit silly, but there is a 
point to be learned.

Question:  Which political party has the most enthusiastic supporters.
Rep.   17%
Dem   42%
Ind.     17%
Lib.      25%
Grn.       0%
Other    0&

Since I write a column for the paper with political content, I generally 
don't participate in the political polls.  I look at the results to 
measure my influence.... and in this case obviously not much.

However, the most interesting fact was that there were only 12 total 
votes.  In the same issue, the News Poll had 190 responses.  Perhaps, 
the real point to be gained is that most people just don't care about 
politics and might consider politicians as a lower life form.   A more 
positive view is that there is a place for political activism that can 
offer a view of how much better we can be and show us all how to get 
there.  Republicans like to reference the "shining city on the hill" but 
never give a road map.

However, concentrating on the negatives will only strengthen negative 
perceptions.




From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Tue Mar  6 09:19:49 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:19:49 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Media antitrust (was "Political Passion")
In-Reply-To: <4F5637D0.7020003@charter.net>
References: <4F5637D0.7020003@charter.net>
Message-ID: <4F564735.6040405@prodsyse.com>

a minor quibble <in line>


On 3/6/2012 8:14 AM, Wes Rolley wrote:
<snip>

>
> However, the most interesting fact was that there were only 12 total 
> votes.  In the same issue, the News Poll had 190 responses.  Perhaps, 
> the real point to be gained is that most people just don't care about 
> politics and might consider politicians as a lower life form.   A more 
> positive view is that there is a place for political activism that can 
> offer a view of how much better we can be and show us all how to get 
> there.  Republicans like to reference the "shining city on the hill" 
> but never give a road map.


       I would say that both Republicans and Democrats offer roadmaps, 
but they carefully avoid following them, because if they did, they would 
not get the money to run another political campaign -- and they could be 
assured of NOT getting a reasonable job with any major company after 
leaving office.  Both of these points are covered in detail in Lessig 
(2010) Republic, Lost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic,_Lost), 
which served as the primary source of inspiration for my latest essays 
on "The Crisis in US Politics & Economics" and "Media antitrust" (both 
available from "occupy.pbworks.com" -> "Pages & Files" -> Issues 
(http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51535688/Systemic%20Corruption and 
http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51550749/Media%20antitrust).


       Lessig says, "So damn much money" is THE GATEWAY problem in the 
sense that we will not be able to make any substantive progress against 
any of the other problems facing the nation without first fixing that 
one.  He offers several possible ways this problem might be fixed, 
including public funding of political campaigns.


       I think he's wrong:  I believe the problem is the tendency of the 
major media conglomerates to largely avoid reporting on how this works.  
To fix that, I believe we need to make politics the national pastime, 
fueled by a massive increase in serious investigative journalism and 
honest trust busting of the major media conglomerates.


       This web site, "occupy.pbworks.com" is a WYSIWYG wiki.  "Wiki" 
means that anyone can make edits.  For this wiki, you need to be a 
registered "User" to add anything, but I'm an "Administrator", so I can 
add you if you want.  Unlike Wikipedia, this wiki is WYSIWYG (what you 
see is what you get), and for most things, it's virtually as easy as 
editing in an email or an MS Word document.

>
> However, concentrating on the negatives will only strengthen negative 
> perceptions.


       A friend said he and others got great response wearing stickers 
or buttons saying, "Ask me about Occupy San Jos?":  People would ask 
them.  We could make stickers or buttons saying, "Ask me about" our 
favorite issue of the day and wear them everywhere, e.g., while 
shopping, etc.


       Spencer
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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  Tue Mar  6 17:23:03 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:23:03 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Pine Ridge & Tar Sands
In-Reply-To: <4F56B82B.5090007@earthlink.net>
References: <4F56B82B.5090007@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <4F56B877.1050806@earthlink.net>


FYI,

"'This Is Our Land:' Lakota Form Human Blockade to Stop Tar Sands Trucks"

     http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/06-3

Gerry


From carolineyacoub at att.net  Wed Mar  7 08:17:57 2012
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:17:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Movie Night
Message-ID: <1331137077.59401.YahooMailRC@web181001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Hi there. This Friday is Movie Night. Good eats, good talk, y'all come!
Movies start at 7:00. Food is previous. Talk is before, during, and after. Place 
is San Jose Peace and Justice Center on South 7th. Bring something, even if it's 
only an open mind.
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From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Wed Mar  7 12:08:17 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:08:17 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: The big vote on Keystone XL
In-Reply-To: <20c4-676-4f57a8b3@list.350.org>
References: <20c4-676-4f57a8b3@list.350.org>
Message-ID: <4F57C031.7090501@earthlink.net>


FYI,

Gerry

P.S. More at:
     http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/07-9


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	The big vote on Keystone XL
Date: 	Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:28:03 +0000
From: 	Duncan Meisel - 350.org <organizers at 350.org>
Reply-To: 	organizers at 350.org
To: 	Mr. Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>



Friends -

By now I'm sure you have some idea what I'm writing about: the Senate is
still up to no good with the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and we need
to remind them that this pipeline must be stopped. *It looks like the
big vote that we thought would come a week or two ago is happening today
or tomorrow.*

You've gotten a few emails from me about this over the past few weeks,
so I'll keep it as short as possible. We?re in a good position overall:
there?'s a lot of money on the other side of this fight, but a lot of
energy and resolve on ours.

This is the first time that the pipeline has had an up or down vote in
the Senate.*If we can block Keystone on this vote, we will be in a much
stronger position to keep it bottled up in the future.*

I was hoping you could send a strong message to your Senators to put a
nail in the coffin of this project. *There are two ways you can send a
message:*

*One, you can make a call - just click here to get your Senators' phone
numbers. <http://act.350.org/go/1185?akid=1654.8388.ECHVOn&t=1>*

*Two*: *You can use Facebook and Twitter so that everyone knows they?re
getting the message.* Senate staff monitor these accounts closely, and
they show the public how a Senator's constituents feel about the
pipeline. We set up a tool that connects you with your Senators'
Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, where you can leave a note about
stopping the pipeline: *Click here to send them a message on Facebook
and Twitter. <http://act.350.org/go/1186?akid=1654.8388.ECHVOn&t=2>*

Also, this won't be just a virtual effort either. *350.org
<http://act.350.org/go/19?akid=1654.8388.ECHVOn&t=3> activists will be
all over Capitol Hill today with our big pipeline in tow*, and in the
Halls of Congress as well, putting the pressure on wavering Senators by
getting them on record before the vote.

We?ve been hammering away at the Senate over Keystone XL for a few
months now, and while it?s incredibly important that we do everything we
can to win this fight, that?s not all that?s in store for the climate
movement in the USA this spring. Please keep an eye out for an email
from 350.org <http://act.350.org/go/19?akid=1654.8388.ECHVOn&t=4> about
a few big projects that we?re almost ready to unveil.

To wrap this email up quickly: Thank you.

--Duncan

PS - One of the big lessons from the fight against Keystone XL is that
direct action and civil disobedience can have a huge impact. Earlier
this week a group of Lakotas were arrested blocking tar sands pipeline
trucks from entering their territory. Read more about their action here
<http://act.350.org/go/1187?akid=1654.8388.ECHVOn&t=5> and get ready
some more exciting actions coming up over the coming months.

Articles and more resources:

?Reid Says He?d Allow Keystone Pipeline Vote? The Hill, 03/06/12.
thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/214471-reid-says-hed-allow-keystone-pipeline-vote 

<http://act.350.org/go/1188?akid=1654.8388.ECHVOn&t=6>

For lobbying and political spending figures, visit OpenSecrets.org
<http://act.350.org/go/1189?akid=1654.8388.ECHVOn&t=7> and
DirtyEnergyMoney.org <http://act.350.org/go/1190?akid=1654.8388.ECHVOn&t=8>

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From cbrouillet at igc.org  Wed Mar  7 15:47:23 2012
From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:47:23 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara Green Party Council Endorsement
Message-ID: <E1S5QZo-0003db-QW@elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Dear County Council & Greens...

I just finished the paperwork at the Santa Clara County Voter 
Registrar's office today, to be on the ballot in the upcoming 
primary, running for the 18th Congressional District seat (currently 
held by Anna Eshoo).  Our campaign slogan is "Occupy Congress" and 
with my son helping this time as campaign manager- I actually will be 
doing a campaign this year, although we will have to defeat the 
Republican in the primary to get on the ballot in November.

Mike Feinstein just called and I could be endorsed on the sample 
ballot by the Santa Clara County Green Council, if the Council votes 
in favor and gets that info to Sanda Everette before Wednesday- so 
she can pass it on to the Secretary of State.

We did gather over 600 signatures to offset the filing fee. I am most 
grateful to Tian Harter for not only serving as Treasurer, but 
helping to gather the most signatures (besides me) during that 
effort. We did find a great talented, experienced Green Party 
organizer from the East Coast, Jonathan Fluck (who organizes a Peace 
Film Festival every March in New York - a nice complement to our 
annual Truth Film Festival each September) to join our campaign 
staff, we are looking for office space, as well as more volunteers to 
help with a multitude of tasks.  We are planning a campaign kick-off 
party and other events.  The website still needs work, but is much 
better than before- see http://www.carol4congress.org .  I do hope 
our campaign will help activate and organize many people who haven't 
figured out yet how to participate in systemic change.  We are 
working on a new Perception Dollar, and another especially for the 
Green Party and Green Party candidates.

FYI... A story I wrote "Listening for a Change" was one of the 
winners of a story contest and published in a new book- People 
Building Peace 
2.0 
<http://www.peaceportal.org/people-building-peace-2.0;jsessionid=F74A0AF7604D41C0531E0120B67804BA>http://www.peaceportal.org/people-building-peace-2.0;jsessionid=F74A0AF7604D41C0531E0120B67804BA 

  The book marks the third in 
<http://www.peoplebuildingpeace.org/>GPPAC's People Building Peace 
series, a collection of case studies and stories on civil society-led 
peacebuilding initiatives.  The book represents a unique insight into 
the peacebuilding world and contains not only the 25 winning Stories 
of Peace, but also offers an interesting overview on the evolving 
role of social media in the field of conflict prevention. In the 
first section of People Building Peace 2.0, GPPAC's Programme Manager 
of Preventive Action and Human Security William Tsuma reflects on the 
role of information in crowd sourcing for conflict prevention, while 
Vladimir Bratic (Assistant Professor in Media and Communication at 
Hollins University) provides an overview of the evolving role of 
media (from traditional, to 'new' media) in peacebuilding. The book 
closes with a reflection from the jury and from GPPAC Executive 
Director, Peter van Tuijl. The author of the best story, Francois 
Lenfant, received the first copy of the book at the Peace Portal 
Launch, which took place in The Hague (NL) on January 26th 2012.

I will also be honored at an upcoming Project Censored - Dispatches 
from the Media Revolution event in Santa Rosa next week- 
<http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/dispatches-from-the-media-revolution/>http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/dispatches-from-the-media-revolution/ 
and miraculously, my whole family will be here and able to join me at 
the event!

Carol Brouillet

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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Mar  7 16:15:16 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:15:16 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] UC dems dems sponsor Nader in Merced
Message-ID: <4F57FA14.80304@sbcglobal.net>

I received the following [edited for brevity] email announcing an 
appearance
of Ralph Nader on Monday March 12-th in Merced.

To whom it may concern,
 
My name is Jaron Brandon and I'm the Public Relations officer for the
Democrats of UC Merced, a club dedicated to volunteer work,
local advocacy, and voter-registration. _I'd like to formally invite you to
attend the Ralph Nader speech on "Grass Roots Activism in the 21st Century"
 this Monday, March 12th from 6 to 9pm in our Gym._

Tickets are free for students and the public due to the generous support of
the Associated Students of UC Merced, and donations will be accepted to
help with the cost. The itinerary is:
 
6:00-7:00pm, Open House and Seating period
7:00-8:00pm, Speech
8:15-9:15pm, Book Signing
 
We feel that his speech will be great for organizations and clubs of all 
kinds
as a way to inspire members and modernize volunteer efforts. He will 
also be
doing a book signing for his new book "Only the Super Rich Can Save Us!"
and "Getting Steamed to Over-come Corporatism" which will be on sale at
the event. Media will be present for a press conference before and after 
the
speech as well, and sponsorship opportunities are available.
 
We humbly request that you forward this email,
or send an invite to your membership to attend. *

As you probably realize, we are teetering on the eve of the event
and urgently need help. Please help us make this event a success.*
 
Sincerely,
 Jaron Brandon
1 (209) 694-5153
Public Relations Officer
Democrats of UC Merced



From wrolley at charter.net  Thu Mar  8 07:56:53 2012
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:56:53 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Rental?
Message-ID: <4F58D6C5.8030202@charter.net>

Bob Morris is a good progressive friend of Greens.  He just posted the 
following on his twitter account.
@polizeros
> Looking for apartment / condo in San Jose; downtown, north, or west. 
> 2+ bdr, 2 ba. Cats. Let me know if you have a rental.
Bob has a blog called Politics in the Zeros (polizeros).  
http://polizeros.com/.


From carolineyacoub at att.net  Thu Mar  8 13:48:30 2012
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:48:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Andrea
Message-ID: <1331243310.99376.YahooMailRC@web181019.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

I know a lot is going on that prople want to involve Andrea in. It is best to 
try to contact her at andi at wrytor.com , as her green address isn't working.
Caroline
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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Mar  8 16:38:31 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:38:31 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green Party tote bags- agenda
Message-ID: <4F595107.7080508@sbcglobal.net>

Warner, et al
I propose purchasing 3 green party tote bags from
http://www.cagreens.org/content/green-gear
for our use at tabling.

Please make this an agenda item for our next meting.

Thanks,
Jim Doyle



From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com  Thu Mar  8 19:57:25 2012
From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:57:25 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fight Bank of America
Message-ID: <4F597FA5.6050301@structuremonitoring.com>

Hello, All:


       A group of people with Occupy Wall Street is attempting to "Fight 
Bank of Americ" (Fight BAC;  BAC = stock symbol for Bank of America); 
see "http://www.facebook.com/fightbankofamerica" and 
"http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/can-ows-bring-down-bank-of-america/".


       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 gerrygras at earthlink.net  Sat Mar 10 12:33:09 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:33:09 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [hoi] -- How the Iran debate has flushed out real
	characters
In-Reply-To: <1331400450.23898.YahooMailNeo@web43140.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <1331400450.23898.YahooMailNeo@web43140.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4F5BBA85.2090804@earthlink.net>


FYI,

Three articles interesting (to me) about Iran.

Gerry


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[hoi] -- How the Iran debate has flushed out real characters
Date: 	Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:27:30 -0800 (PST)
From: 	Hamid Karimi <hamidrkarimi at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: 	handsoff at googlegroups.com
To: 	handsoff at googlegroups.com <handsoff at googlegroups.com>



The fake liberal
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/us-senator-says-naval-blockade-of-iran-should-be-considered/
The reasonable militray brass
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/03/05/retired-generals-to-obama-no-war-of-choice-with-iran/
The old school distractors who just do not get the memo that it is about
Iran not Syria:
http://original.antiwar.com/lobe/2012/03/09/bomb-iran-week-turns-syrious/
T


From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Sun Mar 11 22:47:16 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:47:16 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] May 1 - General Strike
In-Reply-To: <4F5D8D33.9000409@earthlink.net>
References: <4F5D8D33.9000409@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <4F5D8DE4.9030006@earthlink.net>


FYI,

Occupy Wall Street is calling for a general strike,
on May 1 (a Tuesday):

     http://occupywallst.org/

Gerry


From WB4D23 at aol.com  Mon Mar 12 20:43:38 2012
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:43:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Request for Agenda Items for March 22nd (4th Thursday)
	General Meeting
Message-ID: <70.31d40545.3c901c6a@aol.com>

At the February GPSCC monthly meeting I volunteered to prepare  a draft 
agenda for the March 22nd meeting.  Jim Doyle already has posted an  agenda 
request.  Please submit your requests and describe it in enough  detail so we 
will know if it is a report, discussion item, or an action  proposal.
 
Otherwise:  Will the County Council be meeting before the  general meeting?
 
Warner

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From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Mon Mar 12 21:09:36 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:09:36 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Request for Agenda Items for March 22nd (4th
 Thursday) General Meeting
In-Reply-To: <70.31d40545.3c901c6a@aol.com>
References: <70.31d40545.3c901c6a@aol.com>
Message-ID: <4F5EC880.7020903@prodsyse.com>

Hi, Warner:


       1.  I want a few minutes to discuss "rootstriker.org", which is a 
grass roots initiative built around Lawrence Lessig (2011) Republic, 
Lost (Twelve;  see the Wikipedia article on it).  This book says that 
the "gateway" problem facing the US today is corruption in Washington.  
Lessig proposes several solutions, one of which is "democracy vouchers", 
which gives each taxpayer the first $50 they pay in taxes in a form that 
they can spend only on political campaigns, and that only for candidates 
who commit to accepting only money from "democracy vouchers" plus 
individual contributions limited to $100.  I received 2 emails from 
Lessig in the past 48 hours, and I anticipate working more with 
"rootstriker.org".


       2.  Joseph Rosas, one of the Occupy San Jos? group, is running as 
an independent for (I think) a state assembly district.  He asked me for 
support.  I'm not in his district, but I said I could probably get him a 
few minutes on the agenda for March 22, but he would need to send me an 
email requesting such.  I have yet to receive that email.  Bottom line:  
Could you please tentatively help a few minutes, preferably at the 
beginning of the meeting, if I learn that he does want to come?


       3.  I'll be meeting Wednesday with the "Refund CA Coalition", 
which is trying to take more effective action against the predatory 
banks.  I should have a report on that.


       Thanks,
       Spencer


On 3/12/2012 8:43 PM, WB4D23 at aol.com wrote:
> At the February GPSCC monthly meeting I volunteered to prepare a draft 
> agenda for the March 22nd meeting.  Jim Doyle already has posted an 
> agenda request.  Please submit your requests and describe it in enough 
> detail so we will know if it is a report, discussion item, or an 
> action proposal.
> Otherwise:  Will the County Council be meeting before the general meeting?
> Warner
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss


-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San Jos?, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567
web:  www.structuremonitoring.com

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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Tue Mar 13 15:18:32 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:18:32 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] a cute phrase
Message-ID: <4F5FC7B8.4070206@sbcglobal.net>

*/Ari Berman is the author of /
Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape 
American Politics 
<http://www.amazon.com/Herding-Donkeys-Democratic-American-Politics/dp/0312610629/ref=tmm_pap_title_0>/,
 now out in paperback./*



From wrolley at charter.net  Wed Mar 14 08:40:03 2012
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:40:03 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Stop the delta water grab
Message-ID: <4F60BBD3.3040205@charter.net>

This oped in the SF Chronicle is a very good summary of the water 
situation in the CA Delta.  I might also remind you that the very first 
meeting of Restore the Delta came with financial (venue rental) support 
from the GPCA.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/13/EDCE1NJOE4.DTL


From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Wed Mar 14 09:59:02 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:59:02 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpsmc-d] speaker at March 27 meeting!
In-Reply-To: <08559D0E-23FD-498F-8374-BF2CE155D7B2@extragalactic.net>
References: <08559D0E-23FD-498F-8374-BF2CE155D7B2@extragalactic.net>
Message-ID: <4F60CE56.6010909@earthlink.net>


The GPSMC is having the founder of the Green Party
of Israel to speak in 2 weeks.

The GPSMC web page (with info about their Green Talks):
     http://www.cagreens.org/sanmateo/

Info and map and directions for the Talk:
     http://www.reachandteach.com/s/visit

I will probably go.

Gerry

P.S. The website says you can walk from the Hayward train station
in less than 3 minutes.  Google says it is .4 miles and 9 minute
walk.  I think Google is closer to the truth.



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [gpsmc-d] speaker at March 27 meeting!
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:06:39 -0700
From: Gloria Purcell <gloria at extragalactic.net>
To: GPSMC-D <gpsmc-d at cagreens.org>

Please welcome Alon Tal to San Mateo Co. Greens!!!  (The absolute
worst nightmare of having a wonderful, important speaker is to have
only a few people there!  PLEASE come and bring at least one friend!
Craig and Derrick provide delicious snacks, too!)  AND, spread the
word!!
An RSVP might prevent us having a heart attack....
Gloria
Here is the announcement I am bringing to tonight's Peace Action event:

PEACE, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY

IN THE MIDDLE EAST:

THE VISION OF ISRAEL?S GREEN PARTY

ALON TAL, SPEAKER


ALON TAL, FOUNDER OF THE GREEN MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL, AND A VISITING
PROFESSOR AT STANFORD, WILL BE OUR SPEAKER AT THE GREEN PARTY OF SAN
MATEO COUNTY MEETING OF MARCH 27, 2012.

A PROLIFIC AUTHOR, WATER POLICY EXPERT, FOUNDER OF SEVERAL SUCCESSFUL
ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND HOLDER OF ISRAEL?S MINISTRY OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION?S LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, HE IS NOW A GREEN
PARTY CANDIDATE FOR THE KNESSET! SINCE ISRAEL HAS PROPORTIONAL
REPRESENTATION, HE EXPECTS TO WIN, AND PREDICTS THAT TWO MORE SEATS
WILL GO GREEN AS WELL.

COME AND HEAR THIS DYNAMIC SPEAKER!
MARCH 27, 2012, 7:30 P.M.
REACH AND TEACH/DOVE AND OLIVE
178 SOUTH BLVD., SAN MATEO







_______________________________________________
gpsmc-d mailing list
gpsmc-d at cagreens.org
http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpsmc-d
http://cagreens.org/sanmateo/



From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Wed Mar 14 16:28:50 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:28:50 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Inside look at Goldman Sachs
Message-ID: <4F6129B2.6080305@earthlink.net>


FYI,

An inside critical look at Goldman Sachs:

"Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs"
     http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/14-5

Gerry


From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Thu Mar 15 10:42:03 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:42:03 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Inside look at Goldman Sachs
In-Reply-To: <4F6129B2.6080305@earthlink.net>
References: <4F6129B2.6080305@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <4F6229EB.8050906@earthlink.net>


FYI,

A response from Truthdig:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/at_last_some_decency_on_wall_street_20120314/

Gerry


Gerry Gras wrote:
>
> FYI,
>
> An inside critical look at Goldman Sachs:
>
> "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs"
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/14-5
>
> Gerry


From wrolley at charter.net  Thu Mar 15 10:57:42 2012
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:57:42 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Inside look at Goldman Sachs
In-Reply-To: <4F6229EB.8050906@earthlink.net>
References: <4F6129B2.6080305@earthlink.net> <4F6229EB.8050906@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <4F622D96.7070207@charter.net>

Gerry and all,
I left Gerry's links on this because it would be easy to compare 
viewpoints.  There is no doubt that this resignation letter OpEd in the 
NY Times merely confirms all that most progressives believe about 
Goldman Sachs.

  http://www.nbr.com/leaders-influencers/goldman-sachs-takes-a-hit-after-an-executives-exit-20120314

I was surprised at the manner in which this was treated on PBS's Nightly 
Business Report last night.  Key points:  much blame goes to current 
(since 2006) executive leadership; in the long run, it will hot hurt GS 
very much unless more top people leave.

The fault, per guest Peter Cohen, lies in having a trader as CEO who 
puts emphasis on short term results with little attention going to the 
development of long term relationships with the major customers that 
they serve.  This was a major change in GS culture.

This is not an apology for GS, nor an attempt to just lay the blame on 
CEO Blankenship, but rather an attempt to call attention to the fact 
that the evil is well entrenched in our culture and much harder to deal 
with than a single CEO or single company.

Wes
On 3/15/2012 10:42 AM, Gerry Gras wrote:
>
> FYI,
>
> A response from Truthdig:
>
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/at_last_some_decency_on_wall_street_20120314/ 
>
>
> Gerry
>
>
> Gerry Gras wrote:
>>
>> FYI,
>>
>> An inside critical look at Goldman Sachs:
>>
>> "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs"
>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/14-5
>>
>> Gerry
> _______________________________________________



From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Thu Mar 15 11:14:43 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:14:43 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Inside look at Goldman Sachs
In-Reply-To: <4F622D96.7070207@charter.net>
References: <4F6129B2.6080305@earthlink.net> <4F6229EB.8050906@earthlink.net>
	<4F622D96.7070207@charter.net>
Message-ID: <4F623193.6000001@earthlink.net>



Wes Rolley wrote:
> Gerry and all,
> I left Gerry's links on this because it would be easy to compare
> viewpoints. There is no doubt that this resignation letter OpEd in the
> NY Times merely confirms all that most progressives believe about
> Goldman Sachs.

I agree.

I felt this article was important for 2 reasons:
1) it is an insider's perspective, i.e. a whistleblower,
    with more to lose from telling the truth
2) I think it was a stronger statement than any I had
    seen before, except for "Inside Job" (which is now
    available at the Palo Alto library, and it may be
    at other public libraries too).

>
> http://www.nbr.com/leaders-influencers/goldman-sachs-takes-a-hit-after-an-executives-exit-20120314
>
>
> I was surprised at the manner in which this was treated on PBS's Nightly
> Business Report last night. Key points: much blame goes to current
> (since 2006) executive leadership; in the long run, it will hot hurt GS
> very much unless more top people leave.

I wonder if that's true about not hurting GS.  As the author
said, trust is important, and this article should reduce trust...

>
> The fault, per guest Peter Cohen, lies in having a trader as CEO who
> puts emphasis on short term results with little attention going to the
> development of long term relationships with the major customers that
> they serve. This was a major change in GS culture.
>
> This is not an apology for GS, nor an attempt to just lay the blame on
> CEO Blankenship, but rather an attempt to call attention to the fact
> that the evil is well entrenched in our culture and much harder to deal
> with than a single CEO or single company.

I agree.

Gerry

>
> Wes
> On 3/15/2012 10:42 AM, Gerry Gras wrote:
>>
>> FYI,
>>
>> A response from Truthdig:
>>
>> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/at_last_some_decency_on_wall_street_20120314/
>>
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>>
>> Gerry Gras wrote:
>>>
>>> FYI,
>>>
>>> An inside critical look at Goldman Sachs:
>>>
>>> "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs"
>>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/14-5
>>>
>>> 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  Thu Mar 15 11:33:57 2012
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:33:57 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Inside look at Goldman Sachs
In-Reply-To: <4F623193.6000001@earthlink.net>
References: <4F6129B2.6080305@earthlink.net>
	<4F6229EB.8050906@earthlink.net>, <4F622D96.7070207@charter.net>,
	<4F623193.6000001@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <BAY165-W17FA207BBE2CBB8BE2B79B9E5E0@phx.gbl>



If "Inside Job" is not available at your puiblic library, please contact them and ask
them to buy it.  Offer to buy it for them.  Even "Move On" can get behind this.
I've seen it six times at least.  It's devastating. 






> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:14:43 -0700
> From: gerrygras at earthlink.net
> To: wrolley at charter.net
> CC: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Inside look at Goldman Sachs
> 
> 
> 
> Wes Rolley wrote:
> > Gerry and all,
> > I left Gerry's links on this because it would be easy to compare
> > viewpoints. There is no doubt that this resignation letter OpEd in the
> > NY Times merely confirms all that most progressives believe about
> > Goldman Sachs.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> I felt this article was important for 2 reasons:
> 1) it is an insider's perspective, i.e. a whistleblower,
>     with more to lose from telling the truth
> 2) I think it was a stronger statement than any I had
>     seen before, except for "Inside Job" (which is now
>     available at the Palo Alto library, and it may be
>     at other public libraries too).
> 
> >
> > http://www.nbr.com/leaders-influencers/goldman-sachs-takes-a-hit-after-an-executives-exit-20120314
> >
> >
> > I was surprised at the manner in which this was treated on PBS's Nightly
> > Business Report last night. Key points: much blame goes to current
> > (since 2006) executive leadership; in the long run, it will hot hurt GS
> > very much unless more top people leave.
> 
> I wonder if that's true about not hurting GS.  As the author
> said, trust is important, and this article should reduce trust...
> 
> >
> > The fault, per guest Peter Cohen, lies in having a trader as CEO who
> > puts emphasis on short term results with little attention going to the
> > development of long term relationships with the major customers that
> > they serve. This was a major change in GS culture.
> >
> > This is not an apology for GS, nor an attempt to just lay the blame on
> > CEO Blankenship, but rather an attempt to call attention to the fact
> > that the evil is well entrenched in our culture and much harder to deal
> > with than a single CEO or single company.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Gerry
> 
> >
> > Wes
> > On 3/15/2012 10:42 AM, Gerry Gras wrote:
> >>
> >> FYI,
> >>
> >> A response from Truthdig:
> >>
> >> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/at_last_some_decency_on_wall_street_20120314/
> >>
> >>
> >> Gerry
> >>
> >>
> >> Gerry Gras wrote:
> >>>
> >>> FYI,
> >>>
> >>> An inside critical look at Goldman Sachs:
> >>>
> >>> "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs"
> >>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/14-5
> >>>
> >>> 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
 		 	   		  
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Thu Mar 15 14:46:06 2012
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:46:06 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Inside look at Goldman Sachs
In-Reply-To: <4F6229EB.8050906@earthlink.net>
References: <4F6129B2.6080305@earthlink.net> <4F6229EB.8050906@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <4F62631E.6040507@aceweb.com>

In that article I found this paragraph:

 > At the heart of the rot were those derivatives, the collateralized
 > debt obligations (CDO) and credit default swaps (CDS) that were made
 > legal by the legislation Clinton signed and Siewert defended. In his
 > piece, Smith referred to the selling of those designed-to-be-toxic
 > products as the essential avenue of Goldman?s greed, saying you ?find
 > yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any illiquid,
 > opaque product with a three-letter acronym.?

Ummm... Toxic levels of TLA stuff are also part of the Washington DC
thing. I think they can be traced back to IBM or maybe WW II. For sure
in the mid '80s I worked for an IBM alum that told me something like
"using TLAs well, we can make our private conversations sound like a
foreign language to the uninitiated."

My theory is that somewhere in the Pentagon there are people trying to
figure out how to pay for weapons programs, and at some point juggling
the TLAs turned into a game of hot potato, so to speak. Yeah the bond
traders are taking the fall, but they are only part of the problem.

Also there was this:

 > In addition to heading Goldman?s equity derivatives trading in Europe,
 > the Middle East and Africa, Smith was involved in recruiting new
 > talent for the company. It was his supervision over recruits being
 > exposed to the increasingly corrupt Goldman culture?amid routine
 > reference to clients as ?muppets? and chortling about ?ripping
 > eyeballs out??that finally turned him off.

I'd disagree with Scheer's reading of that part of it to some extent,
because I found this paragraph in the source letter about quitting GS:

 > I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look
 > students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

There is a bit of difference in emphasis on the role of eyes in the
two quotes that matters to me. I say this because I was introduced
to the concept of customers as "eyeballs" at AOL, where the management
was all about "selling eyeballs" to advertisers. I'm not at all sure
what the phrase "ripping eyeballs out" meant at Goldman Sachs. Not sure
I want to know (shudder).

It was interesting to me that somewhere in all that it said South Africa
was where Smith was from.

Tian

Gerry Gras wrote:
> 
> FYI,
> 
> A response from Truthdig:
> 
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/at_last_some_decency_on_wall_street_20120314/ 
> 
> 
> Gerry
> 
> 
> Gerry Gras wrote:
>>
>> FYI,
>>
>> An inside critical look at Goldman Sachs:
>>
>> "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs"
>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/14-5
>>
>> Gerry
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-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: planted garlic. Carol Brouillet is now on the ballot!
The 5 actions 1 world pin is on a 1976 quarter.


From WB4D23 at aol.com  Thu Mar 15 17:21:15 2012
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:21:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Draft General Meeting Agenda for next Thursday March
	22nd
Message-ID: <1459e.44b17d4d.3c93e17b@aol.com>

Folks:  Below is a draft agenda for next Thursday's GPSCC  general meeting. 
 Please post comments on this list.   Warner
 
 
GREEN  PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY 
Draft  Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting March 22,  2012 
San  Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose,  CA 
(Near  7th and San Fernando) 
7:00  pm ? Eat and chat 
7:30  pm ? Begin meeting  
Select  Facilitator, Notetaker, Timekeeper, and Vibeswatcher(s), Select 
Agenda Preparer  for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes)   
Introductions  and Announcements (10 Minutes  
Guest  Speaker ? Sponsor:  Spencer Graves  (5 Minutes) Per Spencer:  Joseph 
 Rosas, one of the Occupy San Jos? group, is running as an independent for 
(I  think) a state assembly district.   
Treasurer?s  Report ? Jim Doyle (5 minutes)  
Report  on status of candidates for County Council election on June 5,  
2012; 
Discussion  re filling vacancies ? County Council (10 Minutes) 
Reports  from February 4, 2012 voter registration training event;  General 
discussion of goals for voter  registration efforts; Confirm County Council 
has designated data resources  contact ? Warner Bloomberg (20 minutes)  
Discussion  of status of tabling supplies --          (10 Minutes) 
Jim  Doyle proposes we buy 3 totebags 
Regional  Rep report ? Warner Bloomberg (15 minutes)  Including:  
Committees  participation; CC At-Large delegates election(s); Gatherings planning; 
GPUS Prez  Nominating Convention (July14-15 Baltimore, MD) delegates General  
Assembly (May 11-12 in San Francisco) Preparation ? Warner Bloomberg   
(15  Minutes)     Initial  designation of Delegates/Alternates; Schedule 
Plenary agenda review  group 
Plan  for Spring Tabling --              (15 MinutesApril  Earth Days 
Next  Jr. Statesman Event? 
Berryessa  Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th 
Others??? 
Endorse  Carol Brouillet for Congress and designate County Council member 
to inform CCWG  so she can qualify for GPCA funding application --  Warner 
Bloomberg (10  minutes)  
Report  on Refund CA Coalition ? Spencer Graves (5 Minutes) 
Presentation  re "rootstriker.org" ? Spencer Graves (5 minutes) This is a 
grass roots  initiative built around Lawrence Lessig (2011) Republic, Lost 
(Twelve;  see the Wikipedia article on it).  This book says that the "gateway" 
 problem facing the US today is corruption in Washington.  Lessig proposes 
several solutions, one  of which is "democracy vouchers", which gives each 
taxpayer the first $50 they  pay in taxes in a form that they can spend only 
on political campaigns, and that  only for candidates who commit to 
accepting only money from "democracy vouchers"  plus individual contributions 
limited to $100.  
(2  Hours Estimated Cumulative Times.  Goal:  Adjourn by 9:30  pm) 
Tabling Events  Addenda ? Needed for each item (not necessarily all at this 
 meeting): 
Confirm date and  location; Approval of fee payment (as applicable); 
Designation of coordinator(s)  and other volunteers 

No Tabling Events Reported As Of Preparation of This  Agenda 
###   
[From  GPSCC Bylaws] ARTICLE 2 COUNTY COUNCIL  
2.1  Purposes  
2.1.1  The County Council will fulfill the legal requirement for a liaison 
between the  California Green Party and Santa Clara County officials. As 
used in these  Bylaws, the term "County Council" shall have the same meaning as 
the term  "Central Committee" as that term is used by the Office of the 
Registrar of  Voters for Santa Clara County, California.  
2.1.2  The Council shall select a secretary and a treasurer from among its 
members, or  may ratify the selection of these officers made at a General 
County Meeting. The  Council and/or its officers will be responsible for 
complying with the financial  reporting requirements of the Fair Political  
Practices  Commission (FPPC). The Council or its officers shall be 
responsible for  obtaining an FPPC number for financial reporting. The Council may 
create such  committees or initiate such inquiries as it considers necessary 
and appropriate  to perform its collective  
responsibilities  as described in these Bylaws.  
2.1.3  Internal to the Green Party, the Council's primary duties include 
serving as a  coordinating or steering committee to:  
a) Facilitate  communications between Green Party members within the  
county, at  county meetings, and between locals within the county.  
b) Facilitate  communications between the county Green Party and the State 
Green Party.   
c) Assist Green  Party involvement in elections in the county (including  
recruiting,  advising and assisting Green Party candidates, co-ordinating   
voter  registration efforts and tabling, and supporting ballot issues   
effecting issues  of concern to the state or county Green Party).  
d) Enhance  communications between the county Green Party and other Green 
Parties  and/or other local organizations which support the principals and   
objectives set  forth in the Green Party Platform.  
e) Oversee and  assist the work of committees formed by the Council, or  
outside the  Council by the Party's members, to help carry out the above   
duties, or other  duties considered necessary that are not in conflict with 
 
these ByLaws;  such as an electoral reform committee, an environmental  
issues  committee, etc.  
2.1.4  The County Council shall act as the designated contact persons for 
the Green  Party of Santa Clara County, and refer interested people to 
persons who may be  designated as spokespeople for the Party at a General County 
Meeting.   
2.1.5  The County Council, by agreement of eighty percent (80%) of its 
members, may  authorize the use of the name of the Green Party of Santa Clara 
County as an  endorser or co-sponsor of an event or public statement 
consistent with the  principals and objectives set forth in the Green Party Platform 
if time issues  make the decision necessary before it can be brought before 
the next general  meeting.  Any such County Council  authorization shall be 
reported to those present at the next monthly  meeting.  [Adopted July 1,  
2003] 
2.2 Membership in  the Council  
2.2.1 All County  Council members must be residents of Santa Clara County 
and registered to vote  with the Green Party.  
2.2.2 The County  Council is designated by the State Green Party bylaws to 
consist of seven  members elected at large from the county's Green Party 
constituency. Additional  members may be appointed by the Council. Vacancies on 
the Council that reduce  the membership to less than seven will be filled 
by appointment by the remaining  County Council member(s) within 30 days of 
the vacancy. The State Green Party  Coordinating Committee and the Santa 
Clara Registrar of Voters shall be informed  of all appointed members within two 
working days of the appointment. It shall be  an objective of the Green 
Party of Santa Clara County that its County Council  reflect the diversity of 
the general population in the county and likewise  reflect Green Party 
values. 

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From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Thu Mar 15 17:33:46 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:33:46 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Draft General Meeting Agenda for next Thursday
 March 22nd
In-Reply-To: <1459e.44b17d4d.3c93e17b@aol.com>
References: <1459e.44b17d4d.3c93e17b@aol.com>
Message-ID: <4F628A6A.70605@prodsyse.com>

Warner:  Thanks.


       FYI:  I spoke with Joseph yesterday.  He said he that later is 
better for him.  Therefore, I suggest we plan to give him 5 minutes more 
or less whenever he arrives -- and expect that it might be closer to the 
end of the meeting than the beginning.


JOSEPH:  Can you give me a cell phone number so I can contact you in 
case we want to adjourn the meeting before you get there?  I wouldn't 
want everyone to leave just before you get there, but I also would not 
want to keep people for a half hour or more if you are running late.


       Thanks,
       Spencer


On 3/15/2012 5:21 PM, WB4D23 at aol.com wrote:
> Folks:  Below is a draft agenda for next Thursday's GPSCC general 
> meeting.  Please post comments on this list.  Warner
>
> *GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY*
>
> Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting March 22, 2012
>
> San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA
>
> (Near 7th and San Fernando)
>
> 7:00 pm -- Eat and chat
>
> 7:30 pm -- Begin meeting
>
> Select Facilitator, Notetaker, Timekeeper, and Vibeswatcher(s), Select 
> Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 
> Minutes)
>
> Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes
>
> Guest Speaker -- Sponsor:Spencer Graves (5 Minutes) Per Spencer:Joseph 
> Rosas, one of the Occupy San Jos? group, is running as an independent 
> for (I think) a state assembly district.
>
> Treasurer's Report -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes)
>
> Report on status of candidates for County Council election on June 5, 
> 2012;
>
> Discussion re filling vacancies -- County Council (10 Minutes)
>
> Reports from February 4, 2012 voter registration training 
> event;General discussion of goals for voter registration efforts; 
> Confirm County Council has designated data resources contact -- Warner 
> Bloomberg (20 minutes)
>
> Discussion of status of tabling supplies --(10 Minutes)
>
> Jim Doyle proposes we buy 3 totebags
>
> Regional Rep report -- Warner Bloomberg (15 
> minutes)Including:Committees participation; CC At-Large delegates 
> election(s); Gatherings planning; GPUS Prez Nominating Convention 
> (July14-15 Baltimore, MD) delegates General Assembly (May 11-12 in San 
> Francisco) Preparation -- Warner Bloomberg
>
> (15 Minutes) Initial designation of Delegates/Alternates; Schedule 
> Plenary agenda review group
>
> Plan for Spring Tabling --(15 MinutesApril Earth Days
>
> Next Jr. Statesman Event?
>
> Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11^th
>
> Others???
>
> Endorse Carol Brouillet for Congress and designate County Council 
> member to inform CCWG so she can qualify for GPCA funding application 
> --Warner Bloomberg (10 minutes)
>
> Report on Refund CA Coalition -- Spencer Graves (5 Minutes)
>
> Presentation re "rootstriker.org" -- Spencer Graves (5 minutes) This 
> is a grass roots initiative built around Lawrence Lessig (2011) 
> Republic, Lost (Twelve;see the Wikipedia article on it).This book says 
> that the "gateway" problem facing the US today is corruption in 
> Washington.Lessig proposes several solutions, one of which is 
> "democracy vouchers", which gives each taxpayer the first $50 they pay 
> in taxes in a form that they can spend only on political campaigns, 
> and that only for candidates who commit to accepting only money from 
> "democracy vouchers" plus individual contributions limited to $100.
>
> (2 Hours Estimated Cumulative Times.Goal:Adjourn by 9:30 pm)
>
> Tabling Events Addenda -- Needed for each item (not necessarily all at 
> this meeting):
>
> Confirm date and location; Approval of fee payment (as applicable); 
> Designation of coordinator(s) and other volunteers
>
>
> No Tabling Events Reported As Of Preparation of This Agenda
>
> ###
>
> [From GPSCC Bylaws] ARTICLE 2 COUNTY COUNCIL
>
> 2.1 Purposes
>
> 2.1.1 The County Council will fulfill the legal requirement for a 
> liaison between the California Green Party and Santa Clara County 
> officials. As used in these Bylaws, the term "County Council" shall 
> have the same meaning as the term "Central Committee" as that term is 
> used by the Office of the Registrar of Voters for Santa Clara County, 
> California.
>
> 2.1.2 The Council shall select a secretary and a treasurer from among 
> its members, or may ratify the selection of these officers made at a 
> General County Meeting. The Council and/or its officers will be 
> responsible for complying with the financial reporting requirements of 
> the Fair Political
>
> Practices Commission (FPPC). The Council or its officers shall be 
> responsible for obtaining an FPPC number for financial reporting. The 
> Council may create such committees or initiate such inquiries as it 
> considers necessary and appropriate to perform its collective
>
> responsibilities as described in these Bylaws.
>
> 2.1.3 Internal to the Green Party, the Council's primary duties 
> include serving as a coordinating or steering committee to:
>
> a) Facilitate communications between Green Party members within the
>
> county, at county meetings, and between locals within the county.
>
> b) Facilitate communications between the county Green Party and the 
> State Green Party.
>
> c) Assist Green Party involvement in elections in the county (including
>
> recruiting, advising and assisting Green Party candidates, co-ordinating
>
> voter registration efforts and tabling, and supporting ballot issues
>
> effecting issues of concern to the state or county Green Party).
>
> d) Enhance communications between the county Green Party and other 
> Green Parties and/or other local organizations which support the 
> principals and
>
> objectives set forth in the Green Party Platform.
>
> e) Oversee and assist the work of committees formed by the Council, or
>
> outside the Council by the Party's members, to help carry out the above
>
> duties, or other duties considered necessary that are not in conflict 
> with
>
> these ByLaws; such as an electoral reform committee, an environmental
>
> issues committee, etc.
>
> 2.1.4 The County Council shall act as the designated contact persons 
> for the Green Party of Santa Clara County, and refer interested people 
> to persons who may be designated as spokespeople for the Party at a 
> General County Meeting.
>
> 2.1.5 The County Council, by agreement of eighty percent (80%) of its 
> members, may authorize the use of the name of the Green Party of Santa 
> Clara County as an endorser or co-sponsor of an event or public 
> statement consistent with the principals and objectives set forth in 
> the Green Party Platform if time issues make the decision necessary 
> before it can be brought before the next general meeting.Any such 
> County Council authorization shall be reported to those present at the 
> next monthly meeting./[Adopted July 1, 2003]/
>
> 2.2 Membership in the Council
>
> 2.2.1 All County Council members must be residents of Santa Clara 
> County and registered to vote with the Green Party.
>
> 2.2.2 The County Council is designated by the State Green Party bylaws 
> to consist of seven members elected at large from the county's Green 
> Party constituency. Additional members may be appointed by the 
> Council. Vacancies on the Council that reduce the membership to less 
> than seven will be filled by appointment by the remaining County 
> Council member(s) within 30 days of the vacancy. The State Green Party 
> Coordinating Committee and the Santa Clara Registrar of Voters shall 
> be informed of all appointed members within two working days of the 
> appointment. It shall be an objective of the Green Party of Santa 
> Clara County that its County Council reflect the diversity of the 
> general population in the county and likewise reflect Green Party values.
>
>
>
>
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-- 
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

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From pagesincolor at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 15 21:15:08 2012
From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:15:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Drop The Charges Against The Santa Cruz 11!
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?
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:12 PM
Subject: Drop The Charges Against The Santa Cruz 11!


This is an approved e-mail campaign on behalf of the Santa Cruz 11.




?
Drop the charges against the Santa Cruz 11!
?
It is high time that people started speaking out?against?the?false charges leveled against a number of alternative media reporters and?community activists,?most of whom briefly entered the space & worked in their capacity- filming, photographing and recording interviews?at a long-vacant bank building at 75 River Street in downtown Santa Cruz last November 2011 when a?number of people Occupied the empty building for 3 days.?The Santa Cruz Police Department apparently selected a small group out of the several hundred people who came and went from the building. The "Santa Cruz Eleven" are charged with felony vandalism, felony conspiracy to commit vandalism and misdemeanor trespass. District Attorney Bob Lee has presented no evidence yet that any of the 11 actually committed any vandalism, nor explained why a City Council member and the City Manager who both spent time inside were not being similarly charged if being there was "trespass" as charged
 against the SC-11.
?
Below you will find a link to an?editorial written by Robert Norse about the Santa Cruz 11 and a sample letter to send by e-mail or snail mail or to be read over the phone if you call the 3 people in charge of prosecuting the Santa Cruz 11. Thank you for your support.
??
Sincerely,
?
John Thielking
pagesincolor at yahoo.com
?
?
?The Sentinel has restored the original editorial by Robert Norse. It's now at http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_19998753?Iand the Sentinel titles it "Robert Norse: Occupy Santa Cruz Trials May Turn Into A Costly Circus".

??
This link takes you to the Santa Cruz Sentinel article that details the charges leveled against the Santa Cruz 11:? http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_19931484?source=pkg
?
The charges are that each person allegedly involved with the takeover of 75 River St is being charged with felony vandalism (more than $400), felony conspiracy to commit vandalism, and misdemeanor trespassing.
?
There is also a twitter account that has been set up to support the SC-11 it is @supportsc11. You can view the tweets by going to http://www.twitter.com/supportsc11 .

Recommendation: Call and e-mail the following people every day until they move to drop the charges.
?
District Attorney Bob Lee
Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office
701 Ocean St, Rm 200, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
dao at co.santa-cruz.ca.us
phone: 831-454-2400
??
?
Martin Bernal
Santa Cruz City Manager
mbernal at cityofsantacruz.com
809 Center St, Room 10
phone: 831-420-5010
?
?
Santa Cruz Police Chief
Kevin Vogel
Police Dept
155 Center St.
phone: 831-420-5810
lobby hours: Monday-Thursday 9AM-4PM, closed Friday-Sunday
askthechief at cityofsantacruz.com
Selected questions may be posted on the Police Blog located at:
http://santacruzpolice.blogspot.com
?
?
Sample letter to mail or e-mail
?
To Santa Cruz County District Attorney Bob Lee
dao at co.santa-cruz.ca.us
?
CC: Martin Bernal
Santa Cruz City Manager
mbernal at cityofsantacruz.com
?
CC: Santa Cruz Police Chief
Kevin Vogel
askthechief at cityofsantacruz.com

Dear Mr. Bob Lee:
?
Please work as diligently as possible to drop all charges against the Santa Cruz 11 defendants who are accused of felony vandalism, felony conspiracy to commit vandalism and misdemeanor trespass at 75 River st in Santa Cruz. The charges and the people charged were reported in the Santa Cruz Sentinel article located here: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_19931484?source=pkg

These people are upstanding members of the community and may currently be singled out for prosecution simply because they are easy to identify and not because they were directly involved with any specific crime that they are charged with.
?
Also, please be sure to not bring additional charges against any other defendants who were innocent bystanders, but who may not yet be named in this case.
?
Thank you.
?
Sincerely,
?
Your Name


Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
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From wrolley at charter.net  Fri Mar 16 09:16:10 2012
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:16:10 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Morgan Hill Times Green Talk.
Message-ID: <4F63674A.4030104@charter.net>

If you read the following, you might also want to pay attention to the 
interview of Sen. Inhofe by Rachel Maddow that aired last night on 
MSNBC.  Link to the interview plus additional comments by Joe Romm can 
be seen here:
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/16/446008/inhofe-maddow-global-warming/

My column:

Most remember the late Isaac Asimov as a writer of science fiction: I 
Robot, Caves of Steel, the Foundation Series, etc. He was also earned a 
PhD in Chemistry from Columbia and was a Professor of BioChemistry at 
Boston University.

I mention Asimov because I want to base this column on a single quote 
from a column he wrote for Newsweek back in 1980. It is so fitting to 
the present time.

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has 
been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread 
winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the 
false notio?n that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as 
your knowledge.'"

No one person so personifies this attitude as does Oklahoma's Senior 
Senator, James Inhofe. He deserves mention now for two reasons. One is 
the fact that should the Republican Party gain control of the Senate in 
2012, Inhofe would be come Chair of the Committee on Public Works and 
the Environment. The second is that he will use his position to 
perpetuate a hoax on the American public... one that is ironically the 
centerpiece of his new book: The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming 
Conspiracy Threatens Your Future. The irony here is that the real hoax 
is the being perpetrated by Sen. Inhofe.

You can read the book, should you really want to make up your own mind. 
It did get some rave reviews on Amazon within a few hours of being 
available. However, if you do, I would ask that you also read The Hockey 
Stick and the Climate Wars by Dr. Michael Mann. From the first book, you 
get reassurance that the Bible says God won't allow this to happen. In 
the second, you have the evidence that it really is happening along with 
a narrative of the extraordinary efforts that have been made to 
discredit Dr. Mann and a number of his fellow climatologists.

It is easy to check just how far Sen. Inhofe will go to perpetuate his 
hoax hoax. If you go to his US Senate web page, there is a link labeled 
"Hundreds of Scientists Dispute Global Warming Alarmism". It links to a 
list of names compiled by then Inhofe staffer Marc Morano and published 
in 2008. The only trouble with this is the fact that the entire list is 
itself a fake. Some of the people on the list are not scientists. Some 
that have credentials are not climatologists. But more importantly, a 
number of been misquoted, misinterpreted, misrepresented to the point 
that they have asked to have their names taken off the list... but of 
course that did not happen.

When rigid belief is threatened, some will lie, even to themselves. A 
few will publish the lie at tax payers expense.

Where does this all take us now? The news today was filled with 
discussion of a new study released by Dr. Ben Strauss at Climate 
Central. That study shows that we have been underestimating the rate of 
sea level rise associated with our warming climate and that significant 
areas will be exposed to increasingly high, and therefore damaging, 
storm surges even though the mean sea level does not itself yet threaten 
flooding.

Even though we sit comfortably high here in Morgan Hill, it will affect 
us. Two way are obvious. As tax payers, we will be asked to help in the 
recovery for more and more sites. Consider that Balboa Island begins to 
flood now. What happens to that with another 8 -- 12 inches, as is 
forecast by 2030. If the government does not pay, will we have to pay 
through increased insurance premiums? It is not going to be cheap, 
either way. According to a story in the LA Times, new sea walls for 
Balboa Island would cost $60 M. It would be $500 M to rebuild the sea 
walls for all of Newport Beach. And that is starting now for only one 
community. Imagine how much help you would get from a Senate where James 
Inhofe controlled Public Works funding.

As we move forward which of Asimov's figures will we follow, the one of 
ignorance of the one of knowledge. For myself, I have just gotten a 
sticker to put on my car. "Got Science?"





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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Sat Mar 17 14:20:32 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:20:32 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item - project vote smart
Message-ID: <4F650020.40707@sbcglobal.net>

I request 5 min to present the "Vote Easy" portionof the web site
http://www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/

which shows how well candidates match up with your answers
to questions about issues.  Including images of the candidates that are
proportional in size to the degree of their agreement with the
answers you provided to the issue questions

Project vote smart also brands athose who have not ressponded to
a questionaire with a necklace that says lacks courage.  Jill Stein's
necklace reads "shows courage" whereby political courage is meant.
She is the only one who shows political courage in the eyes of
project vote smart.




From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Sun Mar 18 15:57:14 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:57:14 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Executives from Chevron, Transocean Held in Brazil"
Message-ID: <4F66684A.6050404@earthlink.net>


FYI,

"Executives from Chevron, Transocean Held in Brazil"
     http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/18-1

"Brazil has barred 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean from 
leaving the country while an investigation over charges for an oil spill 
is underway."

Gerry


From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Mon Mar 19 21:48:06 2012
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:48:06 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Move to Amend Resolution at Mountain View City Council
 Tuesday 3/20 7:30
Message-ID: <BAY165-W1863C552924F3D0484DC2B9E430@phx.gbl>


City Hall is at 500 Castro Street about halfway between El Camino and Central Expressway.

http://peaceandjustice.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20120312135916253

http://www.occupymv.org/

7:30pm
to
9:00pm          
           
          
Mountain View City Council Meeting: Move To Amend Resolution
 
(Actions)



A resolution supporting a constitutional amendment "to firmly 
establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not 
corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights." will be 
proposed to the City Council.  Be there to urge the Council to vote yes 
on the resolution.  Small signs (12" x 12") are acceptable.


 		 	   		  
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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Tue Mar 20 19:21:50 2012
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:21:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Updated Draft Agenda for GPSCC Monthly Meeting
	Thursday March 22nd
Message-ID: <5d94b.41c8132e.3c9a953e@aol.com>

 
GREEN  PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY 
Draft  Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting March 22,  2012 
San  Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose,  CA 
(Near  7th and San Fernando) 
7:00  pm ? Eat and chat 
7:30  pm ? Begin meeting 
Select  Facilitator, Notetaker, Timekeeper, and Vibeswatcher(s), Select 
Agenda Preparer  for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes)   
Introductions  and Announcements (10 Minutes) 
Guest  Speaker ? Sponsor:  Spencer Graves  (5 Minutes) Per Spencer:  Joseph 
 Rosas, one of the Occupy San Jos? group, is running as an independent for 
(I  think) a state assembly district.   
Treasurer?s  Report ? Jim Doyle (5 minutes)  
Report  on status of candidates for County Council election on June 5,  
2012; 
Discussion  re filling vacancies ? County Council (10 Minutes) 
Reports  from February 4, 2012 voter registration training event;  General 
discussion of goals for voter  registration efforts; Confirm County Council 
has designated data resources  contact ? Warner Bloomberg (20 minutes) 
Discussion  of status of tabling supplies --          (10 Minutes) 
Jim  Doyle proposes we buy 3 totebags 
Regional  Rep report ? Warner Bloomberg (15 minutes)  Including:  
Committees  participation; CC At-Large delegates election(s); Gatherings planning; 
GPUS Prez  Nominating Convention (July14-15 Baltimore, MD) delegates 
Report  on _www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/_ 
(http://www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/)   -- Jim Doyle (5 Minutes) 
General  Assembly (May 11-12 in San Francisco) Preparation ? Warner 
Bloomberg   
(15  Minutes)     Initial  designation of Delegates/Alternates; Schedule 
Plenary agenda review  group 
Plan  for Spring Tabling --              (15 Minutes) 
April  Earth Days 
Next  Jr. Statesman Event? 
Berryessa  Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th 
Others??? 
Endorse  Carol Brouillet for Congress and designate County Council member 
to inform CCWG  so she can qualify for GPCA funding application --  Warner 
Bloomberg (10  minutes) 
Report  on Refund CA Coalition ? Spencer Graves (5 Minutes) 
Presentation  re "rootstriker.org" ? Spencer Graves (5 minutes) This is a 
grass roots  initiative built around Lawrence Lessig (2011) Republic, Lost 
(Twelve;  see the Wikipedia article on it).  This book says that the "gateway" 
 problem facing the US today is corruption in Washington.  Lessig proposes 
several solutions, one  of which is "democracy vouchers", which gives each 
taxpayer the first $50 they  pay in taxes in a form that they can spend only 
on political campaigns, and that  only for candidates who commit to 
accepting only money from "democracy vouchers"  plus individual contributions 
limited to $100.  
(2  Hours Estimated Cumulative Times.  Goal:  Adjourn by 9:30  pm) 
Tabling Events  Addenda ? Needed for each item (not necessarily all at this 
 meeting): 
Confirm date and  location; Approval of fee payment (as applicable); 
Designation of coordinator(s)  and other volunteers 

No  Tabling Events Reported As Of Preparation of This Agenda 
###   
[From  GPSCC Bylaws] ARTICLE 2 COUNTY COUNCIL  
2.1  Purposes  
2.1.1  The County Council will fulfill the legal requirement for a liaison 
between the  California Green Party and Santa Clara County officials. As 
used in these  Bylaws, the term "County Council" shall have the same meaning as 
the term  "Central Committee" as that term is used by the Office of the 
Registrar of  Voters for Santa Clara County, California.  
2.1.2  The Council shall select a secretary and a treasurer from among its 
members, or  may ratify the selection of these officers made at a General 
County Meeting. The  Council and/or its officers will be responsible for 
complying with the financial  reporting requirements of the Fair Political  
Practices  Commission (FPPC). The Council or its officers shall be 
responsible for  obtaining an FPPC number for financial reporting. The Council may 
create such  committees or initiate such inquiries as it considers necessary 
and appropriate  to perform its collective  
responsibilities  as described in these Bylaws.  
2.1.3  Internal to the Green Party, the Council's primary duties include 
serving as a  coordinating or steering committee to:  
a) Facilitate  communications between Green Party members within the  
county, at  county meetings, and between locals within the county.  
b) Facilitate  communications between the county Green Party and the State 
Green Party.   
c) Assist Green  Party involvement in elections in the county (including  
recruiting,  advising and assisting Green Party candidates, co-ordinating   
voter  registration efforts and tabling, and supporting ballot issues   
effecting issues  of concern to the state or county Green Party).  
d) Enhance  communications between the county Green Party and other Green   
Parties and/or  other local organizations which support the principals and  
 
objectives set  forth in the Green Party Platform.  
e) Oversee and  assist the work of committees formed by the Council, or  
outside the  Council by the Party's members, to help carry out the above   
duties, or other  duties considered necessary that are not in conflict with 
 
these ByLaws;  such as an electoral reform committee, an environmental  
issues  committee, etc.  
2.1.4  The County Council shall act as the designated contact persons for 
the Green  Party of Santa Clara County, and refer interested people to 
persons who may be  designated as spokespeople for the Party at a General County 
Meeting.   
2.1.5  The County Council, by agreement of eighty percent (80%) of its 
members, may  authorize the use of the name of the Green Party of Santa Clara 
County as an  endorser or co-sponsor of an event or public statement 
consistent with the  principals and objectives set forth in the Green Party Platform 
if time issues  make the decision necessary before it can be brought before 
the next general  meeting.  Any such County Council  authorization shall be 
reported to those present at the next monthly  meeting.  [Adopted July 1,  
2003] 
2.2 Membership in  the Council  
2.2.1 All County  Council members must be residents of Santa Clara County 
and registered to vote  with the Green Party.  
2.2.2 The County  Council is designated by the State Green Party bylaws to 
consist of seven  members elected at large from the county's Green Party 
constituency. Additional  members may be appointed by the Council. Vacancies on 
the Council that reduce  the membership to less than seven will be filled 
by appointment by the remaining  County Council member(s) within 30 days of 
the vacancy. The State Green Party  Coordinating Committee and the Santa 
Clara Registrar of Voters shall be informed  of all appointed members within two 
working days of the appointment. It shall be  an objective of the Green 
Party of Santa Clara County that its County Council  reflect the diversity of 
the general population in the county and likewise  reflect Green Party 
values.  
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From pagesincolor at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 20 20:33:40 2012
From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:33:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Updated Draft Agenda for GPSCC Monthly Meeting
	Thursday March 22nd
In-Reply-To: <5d94b.41c8132e.3c9a953e@aol.com>
References: <5d94b.41c8132e.3c9a953e@aol.com>
Message-ID: <1332300820.32897.YahooMailNeo@web111105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

We need to add two items to this agenda:
?
1) Movie night.? We still need to decide what movie we are going to show next time.
?
2) Merriam and Caroline are interested in distributing copies of the Peacemovies.com newsletter in front of movie theaters.? As I explained to them in an e-mail, a realistic time frame for this to start happening (at zero $ cost to the Green Party) is June or July 2012, but you are welcome to start talking about this now.?
?
Thanks.
?
Sincerely,
?
John Thielking
?
From: "WB4D23 at aol.com" <WB4D23 at aol.com>
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org 
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:21 PM
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Updated Draft Agenda for GPSCC Monthly Meeting Thursday March 22nd


GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting March 22, 2012
San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA
(Near 7th and San Fernando)
?
7:00 pm ? Eat and chat
7:30 pm ? Begin meeting
?
Select Facilitator, Notetaker, Timekeeper, and Vibeswatcher(s), Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) 
?
Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes)
?
Guest Speaker ? Sponsor:? Spencer Graves (5 Minutes) Per Spencer:? Joseph Rosas, one of the Occupy San Jos? group, is running as an independent for (I think) a state assembly district.? 
?
Treasurer?s Report ? Jim Doyle (5 minutes) 
?
Report on status of candidates for County Council election on June 5, 2012;
Discussion re filling vacancies ? County Council (10 Minutes)
?
Reports from February 4, 2012 voter registration training event;? General discussion of goals for voter registration efforts; Confirm County Council has designated data resources contact ? Warner Bloomberg (20 minutes)
?
Discussion of status of tabling supplies --????????? (10 Minutes)
Jim Doyle proposes we buy 3 totebags
?
Regional Rep report ? Warner Bloomberg (15 minutes)? Including:? Committees participation; CC At-Large delegates election(s); Gatherings planning; GPUS Prez Nominating Convention (July14-15 Baltimore, MD) delegates
?
Report on www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/-- Jim Doyle (5 Minutes)
?
General Assembly (May 11-12 in San Francisco) Preparation ? Warner Bloomberg 
(15 Minutes)???? Initial designation of Delegates/Alternates; Schedule Plenary agenda review group
?
Plan for Spring Tabling --????????????? (15 Minutes)
April Earth Days
Next Jr. Statesman Event?
Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th
Others???
?
Endorse Carol Brouillet for Congress and designate County Council member to inform CCWG so she can qualify for GPCA funding application --? Warner Bloomberg (10 minutes)
?
Report on Refund CA Coalition ? Spencer Graves (5 Minutes)
?
Presentation re "rootstriker.org" ? Spencer Graves (5 minutes) This is a grass roots initiative built around Lawrence Lessig (2011) Republic, Lost (Twelve;? see the Wikipedia article on it).? This book says that the "gateway" problem facing the US today is corruption in Washington.? Lessig proposes several solutions, one of which is "democracy vouchers", which gives each taxpayer the first $50 they pay in taxes in a form that they can spend only on political campaigns, and that only for candidates who commit to accepting only money from "democracy vouchers" plus individual contributions limited to $100. 
?
?
(2 Hours Estimated Cumulative Times.? Goal:? Adjourn by 9:30 pm)
?
Tabling Events Addenda ? Needed for each item (not necessarily all at this meeting):
Confirm date and location; Approval of fee payment (as applicable); Designation of coordinator(s) and other volunteers

No Tabling Events Reported As Of Preparation of This Agenda
### 
?
[From GPSCC Bylaws] ARTICLE 2 COUNTY COUNCIL 
?
2.1 Purposes 
?
2.1.1 The County Council will fulfill the legal requirement for a liaison between the California Green Party and Santa Clara County officials. As used in these Bylaws, the term "County Council" shall have the same meaning as the term "Central Committee" as that term is used by the Office of the Registrar of Voters for Santa Clara County, California. 
?
2.1.2 The Council shall select a secretary and a treasurer from among its members, or may ratify the selection of these officers made at a General County Meeting. The Council and/or its officers will be responsible for complying with the financial reporting requirements of the Fair Political 
Practices Commission (FPPC). The Council or its officers shall be responsible for obtaining an FPPC number for financial reporting. The Council may create such committees or initiate such inquiries as it considers necessary and appropriate to perform its collective 
responsibilities as described in these Bylaws. 
?
2.1.3 Internal to the Green Party, the Council's primary duties include serving as a coordinating or steering committee to: 
????? a) Facilitate communications between Green Party members within the 
????? county, at county meetings, and between locals within the county. 
????? b) Facilitate communications between the county Green Party and the State Green Party. 
????? c) Assist Green Party involvement in elections in the county (including 
????? recruiting, advising and assisting Green Party candidates, co-ordinating 
????? voter registration efforts and tabling, and supporting ballot issues 
????? effecting issues of concern to the state or county Green Party). 
????? d) Enhance communications between the county Green Party and other Green 
????? Parties and/or other local organizations which support the principals and 
????? objectives set forth in the Green Party Platform. 
????? e) Oversee and assist the work of committees formed by the Council, or 
????? outside the Council by the Party's members, to help carry out the above 
????? duties, or other duties considered necessary that are not in conflict with 
????? these ByLaws; such as an electoral reform committee, an environmental 
????? issues committee, etc. 
?
2.1.4 The County Council shall act as the designated contact persons for the Green Party of Santa Clara County, and refer interested people to persons who may be designated as spokespeople for the Party at a General County Meeting. 
?
2.1.5 The County Council, by agreement of eighty percent (80%) of its members, may authorize the use of the name of the Green Party of Santa Clara County as an endorser or co-sponsor of an event or public statement consistent with the principals and objectives set forth in the Green Party Platform if time issues make the decision necessary before it can be brought before the next general meeting.? Any such County Council authorization shall be reported to those present at the next monthly meeting.? [Adopted July 1, 2003]
?
2.2 Membership in the Council 
2.2.1 All County Council members must be residents of Santa Clara County and registered to vote with the Green Party. 
2.2.2 The County Council is designated by the State Green Party bylaws to consist of seven members elected at large from the county's Green Party constituency. Additional members may be appointed by the Council. Vacancies on the Council that reduce the membership to less than seven will be filled by appointment by the remaining County Council member(s) within 30 days of the vacancy. The State Green Party Coordinating Committee and the Santa Clara Registrar of Voters shall be informed of all appointed members within two working days of the appointment. It shall be an objective of the Green Party of Santa Clara County that its County Council reflect the diversity of the general population in the county and likewise reflect Green Party values. 
?
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Wed Mar 21 00:49:49 2012
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:49:49 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [Fwd: [TASC Notes:] Solar Powered Personal Rapid
	Transit (PRT)]
Message-ID: <4F69881D.7050809@aceweb.com>


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[TASC Notes:] Solar Powered Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
Date: 	Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:11:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	TNHarter at aol.com


Ron Swenson gave a great talk last Tuesday to TASC. There were lots
of graphics, and he was kind enough to share them with me. Because
I'm opposed to bulky email I've put the whole thing on the web.
To see it, please visit:

http://tian.greens.org/TASC/SolarSkyways/SolarPoweredPRT.html


BTW: In other news, bike party had a very wet ride last Friday:

http://tian.greens.org/SanJose/BikeParty/IrishRide/index.html
-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: planted garlic. Carol Brouillet is now on the ballot!
The 5 actions 1 world pin is on a 1976 quarter.


From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 21 06:30:30 2012
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:30:30 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Sierra Club sues Lehigh Cement for Water Pollution
In-Reply-To: <BAY165-W11B3E8A6195B0042DAE8AF9E400@phx.gbl>
References: <1330379629.51752.YahooMailNeo@web83007.mail.mud.yahoo.com>,
	<BAY165-W11B3E8A6195B0042DAE8AF9E400@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <BAY165-W56C59DC969A01D38E67C4C9E400@phx.gbl>










At the Republican California convention I met somebody from the Sierra Club 
who is interested in GMO food labeling and Lehigh.

I have a press release from the Sierra Club about the lawsuit against Lehigh.
If anybody wants to see it, ask me for a copy.  It's an 80 kb pdf.
 		 	   		   		 	   		  
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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Mar 21 16:30:28 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:30:28 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda items
Message-ID: <4F6A6494.7080408@sbcglobal.net>

project vote-smart   Jim Doyle  5 min
tabling
    Junior State  Saturday April 21
    Earth Day      Sunday April 22   at full circle farm

resending the following

I request 5 min to present the "Vote Easy" portionof the web site
http://www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/

which shows how well candidates match up with your answers
to questions about issues.  Including images of the candidates that are
proportional in size to the degree of their agreement with the
answers you provided to the issue questions

Project vote smart also brands athose who have not ressponded to
a questionaire with a necklace that says lacks courage.  Jill Stein's
necklace reads "shows courage" whereby political courage is meant.
She is the only one who shows political courage in the eyes of
project vote smart.





From WB4D23 at aol.com  Thu Mar 22 15:07:50 2012
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:07:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [GPCA-CC] [GPCA Official Notice] Delegate
	Selection Procedure for the ...
Message-ID: <2110a.6f03057c.3c9cfcb6@aol.com>

March 22, 2012
 
I have not seen the following message posted to this email  list.
It is about being a delegate or alternate to the GPUS  Presidential 
Nominating Convention in Baltimore, Maryland the weekend of July  14-15, 2012.  
County GPs are supposed to supply backup delegates/alternates  for candidates 
who do not have a complete slate.  The deadline to apply is  April 5, 2012.  
County Council members are supposed to pass on these kinds  of messages.  
Warner
 
 
 
  
____________________________________
 From: contacts2006 at cagreens.org
To: Contacts2006 at cagreens.org
Sent:  3/5/2012 2:45:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: [GPCA-CC] [GPCA  Official Notice] Delegate Selection Procedure for 
the Presidential  Nominating Convention


GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE

This is an  announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  For more information, 
or  questions related to the topic of the posting, please do not hit  
reply.  Follow the contact directions
stated in the  email.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The  complete Delegate Selection Procedure for the Presidential
Nominating  Convention for CA is on our website   at
http://www.cagreens.org/gpus#PNC  DEADLINE TO APPLY IS APRIL  5.

Every year there is an Annual National Meeting which is attended  by
National Committee (NC) Delegates.  In addition, once every four  years
there is a Presidential Nominating Convention.  For more  information
about the Baltimore convention, see  http://www.gpconvention2012.com/:

So in addition to the Annual  National Meeting which is attended by the
NC Delegates, state parties  also send Presidential Nominating
Convention (PNC) Delegates.  CA  has been alloted 65 delegates out of
about 150.  Every state has  their own procedure to select their
Nominating Convention Delegates and  the responsibility of those
delegates.  California is very specific:  Policies and Procedures for
Selection and Conduct of GPCA Delegates to  the GPUS Presidential
Nominating Convention

Basically, any GPCA  members can apply to be delegates to the GPUS
Presidential Nominating  Convention, while only NC delegates will
attend the Annual National  Meeting.  The convention itself will be on
July 14. Generally NC  delegates will also apply to be PNC delegates,
but we need many more. You  can either apply in support of a particular
candidate or through your  county with no designation.  Read through
the procedure to  understand that better. Applications must be
submitted 60 days before the  Presidential Primary, which would be
April 5.  If you want to apply  directly to the candidates send your
application with subject line CA  Delegate to PNC to:

For the Jill Stein delegation, write  "Erika  P Wolf"<wolf at jillstein.org>
For the Kent Mesplay delegation, write  "Kent Mesplay"<info at mesplay.org>
For the Roseanne Barr delegation,  write "Eric Weinrib" 
<ericweinrib at gmail.com>

If you are  applying through your county, send your application to your
County  Council.

On your application, include your name, address, phone, and  email.  If
you are selected, you will also need to submit your year  of birth.

The candidate delegate slates and the county delegate  slates will be
submitted to the Delegate Selection Committee. That  committee will
work with the lists as proscribed in the procedure.   After the
Presidential Primary on June 5, the committee will intensify  their
work, selecting delegations proportionally to the results of  the
Primary election votes.
Because of the date of the primary as  compared to the date of the PNC,
the committee will need to notify  delegates very quickly and you will
need to be prepared to make your  final decision to accept the positon
quickly as well.  If you are  selecting to go, you will need to
register immediately, though you can  register now if you so choose.
There are specific rules guiding how you  will represent California.

Another important note:  GPCA will  not fund your trip as a PNC
delegate.  You may see if your county  will help raise funds for you,
and in some instances, candidates have  been known to help with your
expenses.

If you have questions,  contact any member of the committee:
Sanda Everette, San Mateo,  sanda at greens.org
Peggy Koteen, San Luis Obispo,  pkoteen at aol.com
Richard Gomez, Fresno,  nate136_66 at yahoo.com

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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Thu Mar 22 15:50:51 2012
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:50:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Final Draft Agenda for Tonight March 22nd GPSCC
	General Meeting
Message-ID: <1690f.7e446c6f.3c9d06ca@aol.com>

 
GREEN  PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY 
Draft  Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting March 22,  2012 
San  Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose,  CA 
(Near  7th and San Fernando) 
7:00  pm ? Eat and chat 
7:30  pm ? Begin meeting 
Select  Facilitator, Notetaker, Timekeeper, and Vibeswatcher(s), Select 
Agenda Preparer  for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes)   
Introductions  and Announcements (10 Minutes) 
Guest  Speaker ? Sponsor:  Spencer Graves  (5 Minutes) Per Spencer:  Joseph 
 Rosas, one of the Occupy San Jos? group, is running as an independent for 
(I  think) a state assembly district.   
Treasurer?s  Report ? Jim Doyle (5 minutes)  
Report  on status of candidates for County Council election on June 5,  
2012; 
Discussion  re filling vacancies ? County Council (10 Minutes) 
Movies  Night ? Proposals -- Merriam and John Thielkin (5 Minutes) 
Reports  from February 4, 2012 voter registration training event;  General 
discussion of goals for voter  registration efforts; Confirm County Council 
has designated data resources  contact ? Warner Bloomberg (10 Minutes) 
Discussion  about going forward/what is relevant for GPSCC progress ? 
Merriam (10 Minutes)   
Discussion  of status of tabling supplies --          (10 Minutes) 
Jim  Doyle proposes we buy 3 totebags 
Regional  Rep report ? Warner Bloomberg (15 minutes)  Including:  
Committees  participation; CC At-Large delegates election(s); Gatherings planning; 
GPUS Prez  Nominating Convention (July14-15 Baltimore, MD) delegates 
Report  on _www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/_ 
(http://www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/)   -- Jim Doyle (5 Minutes) 
General  Assembly (May 11-12 in San Francisco) Preparation ? Warner 
Bloomberg   
(15  Minutes)     Initial designation of  Delegates/Alternates; Schedule 
Plenary agenda review group 
Plan  for Spring Tabling --              (15 Minutes) 
April  Earth Days  Next Jr. Statesman  Event? 
Berryessa  Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th 
Others??? 
Endorse  Carol Brouillet for Congress and designate County Council member 
to inform CCWG  so she can qualify for GPCA funding application --  Warner 
Bloomberg (10  minutes) 
Report  on Refund CA Coalition ? Spencer Graves (5 Minutes) 
Presentation  re "rootstriker.org" ? Spencer Graves (5 minutes) This is a 
grass roots  initiative built around Lawrence Lessig (2011) Republic, Lost 
(Twelve;  see the Wikipedia article on it).  This book says that the "gateway" 
 problem facing the US today is corruption in Washington.  Lessig proposes 
several solutions, one  of which is "democracy vouchers", which gives each 
taxpayer the first $50 they  pay in taxes in a form that they can spend only 
on political campaigns, and that  only for candidates who commit to 
accepting only money from "democracy vouchers"  plus individual contributions 
limited to $100.  
(2  Hours 20 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times.  Goal:  Adjourn by 9:30  
pm) 
Tabling Events  Addenda ? Needed for each item (not necessarily all at this 
 meeting): 
Confirm date and  location; Approval of fee payment (as applicable); 
Designation of coordinator(s)  and other volunteers 

April  21 Junior Statesman 
April  22 Earthday 
May 12  Barryessa Arts and Wine Festival 
###   
[From  GPSCC Bylaws] ARTICLE 2 COUNTY COUNCIL  
2.1  Purposes  
2.1.1  The County Council will fulfill the legal requirement for a liaison 
between the  California Green Party and Santa Clara County officials. As 
used in these  Bylaws, the term "County Council" shall have the same meaning as 
the term  "Central Committee" as that term is used by the Office of the 
Registrar of  Voters for Santa Clara County, California.  
2.1.2  The Council shall select a secretary and a treasurer from among its 
members, or  may ratify the selection of these officers made at a General 
County Meeting. The  Council and/or its officers will be responsible for 
complying with the financial  reporting requirements of the Fair Political  
Practices  Commission (FPPC). The Council or its officers shall be 
responsible for  obtaining an FPPC number for financial reporting. The Council may 
create such  committees or initiate such inquiries as it considers necessary 
and appropriate  to perform its collective  
responsibilities  as described in these Bylaws.  
2.1.3  Internal to the Green Party, the Council's primary duties include 
serving as a  coordinating or steering committee to:  
a) Facilitate  communications between Green Party members within the  
county, at  county meetings, and between locals within the county.  
b) Facilitate  communications between the county Green Party and the State 
Green Party.   
c) Assist Green  Party involvement in elections in the county (including  
recruiting,  advising and assisting Green Party candidates, co-ordinating   
voter registration efforts  and tabling, and supporting ballot issues  
effecting issues  of concern to the state or county Green Party).  
d) Enhance  communications between the county Green Party and other Green   
Parties and/or  other local organizations which support the principals and  
 
objectives set  forth in the Green Party Platform.  
e) Oversee and  assist the work of committees formed by the Council, or  
outside the  Council by the Party's members, to help carry out the above   
duties, or other  duties considered necessary that are not in conflict with 
 
these ByLaws;  such as an electoral reform committee, an environmental  
issues  committee, etc.  
2.1.4  The County Council shall act as the designated contact persons for 
the Green  Party of Santa Clara County, and refer interested people to 
persons who may be  designated as spokespeople for the Party at a General County 
Meeting.   
2.1.5  The County Council, by agreement of eighty percent (80%) of its 
members, may  authorize the use of the name of the Green Party of Santa Clara 
County as an  endorser or co-sponsor of an event or public statement 
consistent with the  principals and objectives set forth in the Green Party Platform 
if time issues  make the decision necessary before it can be brought before 
the next general  meeting.  Any such County Council  authorization shall be 
reported to those present at the next monthly  meeting.  [Adopted July 1,  
2003] 
2.2 Membership in  the Council  
2.2.1 All County  Council members must be residents of Santa Clara County 
and registered to vote  with the Green Party.  
2.2.2 The County  Council is designated by the State Green Party bylaws to 
consist of seven  members elected at large from the county's Green Party 
constituency. Additional  members may be appointed by the Council. Vacancies on 
the Council that reduce  the membership to less than seven will be filled 
by appointment by the remaining  County Council member(s) within 30 days of 
the vacancy. The State Green Party  Coordinating Committee and the Santa 
Clara Registrar of Voters shall be informed  of all appointed members within two 
working days of the appointment. It shall be  an objective of the Green 
Party of Santa Clara County that its County Council  reflect the diversity of 
the general population in the county and likewise  reflect Green Party 
values.  
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From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Thu Mar 22 17:38:30 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:38:30 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_Mar=2E_25_Humanist_Forum=3A_?=
 =?windows-1252?q?Counting_votes_=97_Which_Flawed_System_Do_You_Prefer=3F?=
In-Reply-To: <CANJjsCpptCDaq8dv8QSZznuDDH4siYG_1J24fSZUE=wPQL19Pg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANJjsCpptCDaq8dv8QSZznuDDH4siYG_1J24fSZUE=wPQL19Pg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4F6BC606.8070201@earthlink.net>


FYI,

Gerry


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Mar. 25 Humanist Forum: Counting votes ? Which Flawed System
Do You Prefer?
Date: 	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:07:56 -0700
From: 	Alex Havasy <ahavasy at gmail.com>
To: 	undisclosed-recipients:;



The elections in San Francisco last fall highlighted once again the
thorny issue of how votes are counted, with the poll results being
counted on that occasion using the ranked-choice system. Is that the
best method? On the face of it, you?d expect mathematics to provide the
answer, as it does on so many occasions. Unfortunately, when it comes to
the democratic process, the one thing mathematicians are sure of is
there is no perfect method. Dr. Keith Devlin, Executive Director, H-STAR
Institute, Stanford University, and "the Math Guy" on National Public
Radio, will explain some of the flaws of all the systems.
-----------
The following Sunday Tim Lee, Dianne Jacobsen, Sena Havasy, Alex Havasy
and Bob Gauntt  will talk about: "World Peace Education Project."
-----------
The Humanist Community Forum meets at 11am at Palo Alto High School at
the corner of El Camino and Embarcadero Rd. (50 Embarcadero Rd) in Palo
Alto. The forum will be in the Student Center and the family program in
rm 1732 in the Science Bldg. Construction is now going on at the high
school so parking is restricted. Directions are at
http://www.humanists.org/mapsdirns.htm.
-----------
Past Humanist Community Forums (from December of 2009) are now viewable
on the Internet.  To view them on the web, go to
http://vimeo.com/user2798508/videos/sort:newest.  You can also get to
that website from the Forums page on the Humanist Community website
(http://www.humanists.org).
-----------
If you don't want to receive a Forum Topic Announcement every week, just
email me, havasy at live.com <mailto:havasy at live.com>, and put "Remove Me
from Sunday Forum Announcement" in the topic line. If you have a new
email address be sure to let me know the old one so I know what I?m
changing/removing.

Alex Havasy


From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Thu Mar 22 18:27:25 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:27:25 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Invite-OSJ Principles Definition Assembly-3/24
In-Reply-To: <19EF962A-73D0-4532-8078-61774DE98880@bill-ferguson.org>
References: <19EF962A-73D0-4532-8078-61774DE98880@bill-ferguson.org>
Message-ID: <4F6BD17D.1070206@prodsyse.com>

Occupy San Jos? is having sessions this Saturday and next to develop 
"Principles" (i.e., political platform by another name).  See below and 
"http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/52113712/Invite%20to%20Principles%20Convention".  
Spencer


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Invite-OSJ Principles Definition Assembly-3/24
Date: 	Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:41:26 -0700
From: 	Bill Ferguson <bill at bill-ferguson.org>
To: 	David Ledesma <svtriathlete at hotmail.com>, Victor Conyers 
<victorconyers at rocketmail.com>, Chris Van Breen <cvanbreen at gmail.com>, 
Derek Tennant <derek at derekjoetennant.net>, Susie Barton 
<tsubaka360 at gmail.com>, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>, 
"Henry Gage Jr." <henry at tradeaccountant.com>, freda.mike at gmail.com



Good news; We now have a date and location: Saturday, March 24 and March 31


*OSJ Principles Definition Assembly*

Friends and supporters of the Occupy movement are invited to participate 
in this special assembly to discuss, select and define the core 
principles that will guide the focus of OSJ.

Our local occupy has decided we want to identify a set of principles 
that express what we stand for. We will then select specific issues that 
align with each of the principles, in order to be able to plan future 
actions related to each issue.

At this meeting, we will brainstorm and discuss proposed principles and 
issues. We will then, as a group, decide upon our principles.

We are asking eveyone to submit their ideas / suggstions for principles 
and issues that should define the focus of OSJ. Your suggestions for 
principles and issues will be considered at this special meeting.

Everyone is invited. Supporters of the Occupy movement are welcome to 
help shape the future of our movement.

This will take place on 2 Saturdays; March 24 and March 31; from 2pm to 
6pm.

March 24 location: North Valley Christian Church
919 Hansen Ct, Milpitas   (carpools from downtown San Jose)

March 31 location: Joyce Ellington Library, 491E. Empire St (at 11th St) 
San Jose
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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Fri Mar 23 19:19:36 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:19:36 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] junior state sat april 21
Message-ID: <4F6D2F38.9080009@sbcglobal.net>

We have been inviteda to participate again!

Dear Caroline,

We very much appreciated the Green Party of Santa Clara County's
attendance at our Fall 2011 Political Activism Fair. On behalf of the 
Junior
State of America, we would like to invite you to the Political Activism 
Fair
at our Spring 2012 convention.
<snip>

Saturday, April 21, 2012
The Santa Clara Marriott
2700 Mission College Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95054
1:30-4:30 in the Seattle/Portland Room

Setup will begin as early as 12 PM. We encourage you to bring literature
and visual aids. Please let us know if you would like to attend so that we
can reserve a table for your organization.




From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Fri Mar 23 19:24:48 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:24:48 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green Party at spring junior state
Message-ID: <4F6D3070.9080005@sbcglobal.net>

Lydia Ho and Amy Blackburn
Political Fair Directors

Thank you for the invitation to this year's spring convention
at the Santa Clara Marriott on April 21-st.

Yes, the Green Party will definitely be there.

Jim Doyle
Treasurer
Green Party of Santa Clara County



From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Fri Mar 23 19:27:18 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:27:18 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] wi fi at the Santa Clara Marriott
Message-ID: <4F6D3106.5010105@sbcglobal.net>

The Santa Clara Marriott has free wi fi in the main lobby.
Wi fi in the conference rooms depends upon the contract
that the organisation has with the hotel so we need to
check with the folks at Junior State.



From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Fri Mar 23 23:01:34 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:01:34 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Federal Reserve of Dallas critical of some large banks
Message-ID: <4F6D633E.4080902@earthlink.net>


"Breaking Up the Banks - The Dallas Fed Weighs In"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/23-11

"The most dramatic part of the report and the covering letter by Dallas 
Fed President Richard W. Fisher is that they call for a ?downsizing? of 
these megabanks. Their primary argument is that financial institutions 
remain ?too-big-to-fail,? risking another painful and damaging bailout 
if a large financial crisis is threatened.   In their view, the 
continuing cloud of too-big-to-fail hanging over the economy is simply 
intolerable and costly."

"When competition declines, incentives often turn perverse and 
self-interest turns malevolent."

Gerry


From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Sat Mar 24 08:18:05 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:18:05 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] OJS Principles Convention today and next Saturday,
	March 24 + 31
Message-ID: <4F6DE5AD.8040604@prodsyse.com>



http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/52113712/Invite%20to%20Principles%20Convention



Below please find a summary of my thoughts on the work of the OSJ 
Principles Convention:


Summary:


	  1.  Identify issues (including the gateway problems of campaign 
finance and the media;  see below)


	  2.  Prepare issue papers (including a discussion of how each is 
impacted by the two gateway problems, and migrating as much of the 
evidence as can be presented from a "neutral point of view" to Wikipedia).


	  3.  Turn each into a terse video (target 1 minute, 3 minutes max?) 
with the aid of the Video Collective.  [Pablo's idea.]


	  4.  Hype the video and issue paper via Twitter, Facebook, personal 
emails to friends and relatives, etc.


	  Spencer 		


##################################

       Gateway Problems in US Politics and Economics


       I sincerely hope that any issue identified as important during 
OSJ's Principles Convention, March 24 and 31, will lead to development 
of "issue statements" or "issue papers" on some place like 
"occupy.pbworks.com".  I mention "occupy.pbworks.com", because it is 
essentially a WYSIWYG Wiki, allowing collaborative development of text 
describing the nature of the problem, alternative perspectives, the 
available evidence, and the resolution the participants feel is 
appropriate.  As part of this, I believe there are two major "Gateway" 
problems preventing substantive progress on virtually all other problems 
facing the US today:  (1) Runaway inflation in the cost of getting 
elected to national office (and to many state and local offices).  (2) 
The fact that the major media conglomerates would likely lose money if 
any substantive progress were made in solving any of the major.  I 
believe the analysis of any issue worthy of discussion at the Principles 
Convention should ultimately include some analyses of how campaign 
finance and the structure of the media impact them.  This is discussed 
further in various things I've posted on "occupy.pbworks.com" -> "Pages 
& Files" -> "OSJ-San Jose" -> Issues, especially "Systemic Corruption" 
-> "Gateway Problems" and "Systemic Corruption" 
("http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/52167684/Gateway%20Problems" and 
"http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51535688/Systemic%20Corruption").


       I'm sorry I will not be able to make the Convention on March 24. 
  I hope the above will provide a useful contribution to the discussion.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San Jos?, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567
web:  www.structuremonitoring.com



From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com  Sat Mar 24 08:18:50 2012
From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:18:50 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] OJS Principles Convention today and next Saturday,
	March 24 + 31
Message-ID: <4F6DE5DA.5010007@structuremonitoring.com>



http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/52113712/Invite%20to%20Principles%20Convention



Below please find a summary of my thoughts on the work of the OSJ 
Principles Convention:


Summary:


	  1.  Identify issues (including the gateway problems of campaign 
finance and the media;  see below)


	  2.  Prepare issue papers (including a discussion of how each is 
impacted by the two gateway problems, and migrating as much of the 
evidence as can be presented from a "neutral point of view" to Wikipedia).


	  3.  Turn each into a terse video (target 1 minute, 3 minutes max?) 
with the aid of the Video Collective.  [Pablo's idea.]


	  4.  Hype the video and issue paper via Twitter, Facebook, personal 
emails to friends and relatives, etc.


	  Spencer 		


##################################

       Gateway Problems in US Politics and Economics


       I sincerely hope that any issue identified as important during 
OSJ's Principles Convention, March 24 and 31, will lead to development 
of "issue statements" or "issue papers" on some place like 
"occupy.pbworks.com".  I mention "occupy.pbworks.com", because it is 
essentially a WYSIWYG Wiki, allowing collaborative development of text 
describing the nature of the problem, alternative perspectives, the 
available evidence, and the resolution the participants feel is 
appropriate.  As part of this, I believe there are two major "Gateway" 
problems preventing substantive progress on virtually all other problems 
facing the US today:  (1) Runaway inflation in the cost of getting 
elected to national office (and to many state and local offices).  (2) 
The fact that the major media conglomerates would likely lose money if 
any substantive progress were made in solving any of the major.  I 
believe the analysis of any issue worthy of discussion at the Principles 
Convention should ultimately include some analyses of how campaign 
finance and the structure of the media impact them.  This is discussed 
further in various things I've posted on "occupy.pbworks.com" -> "Pages 
& Files" -> "OSJ-San Jose" -> Issues, especially "Systemic Corruption" 
-> "Gateway Problems" and "Systemic Corruption" 
("http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/52167684/Gateway%20Problems" and 
"http://occupy.pbworks.com/w/page/51535688/Systemic%20Corruption").


       I'm sorry I will not be able to make the Convention on March 24. 
  I hope the above will provide a useful contribution to the discussion.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San Jos?, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567
web:  www.structuremonitoring.com


From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sat Mar 24 18:09:02 2012
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:09:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Minutes of March Meeting
Message-ID: <1332637742.86558.YahooMailRC@web181001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

We had an enormous agenda, but, due in part to Spencer's wife, Betsy, being 
injured, and Spencer being absent,?we managed to get through everything with a 
few minutes to spare.

Facilitator--Warner
Note Taker--Caroline
Vibes Watcher--Tian
Time Keeper--Jim Doyle
Agenda preparer for next meeting--Tian

Introductions and announcements:
Merriam--Betsy has a cracked neck
Tian--Carol B. is on the ballot; the City of Mt View passed Move to Amend
Warner--Jim Stauffer is moving out of state. He will keep the same email.
Jim Doyle, John Thielking, Caroline Yacoub, and David Navarro, a visitor, also 
present

Treasurer's Report: $2,560.89

Report on Status of County Council: 
Merriam and Tian only members present. John will be appointed. Fred said he 
would run. Spencer said he would, also, but that was before Betsy got hurt. Tian 
nominated John to be on the council now, but Warner and John both objected, so 
we will put it on the agenda for the next meeting.

Movie Night:
Merriam said no people are coming but our regular little group. Caroline said 
because of John's excellent movies and speaker, that all people on our contact 
lists had been contacted, but no one had come or replied. David suggested 
"Whistle Blower" a movie about human trafficking. Jim suggested posting flyers 
at SJSU.? [After the meeting Sharat said he had a movie and speaker for us. More 
details later]

Report from Voter Reg. Training, Warner:
Nobody here went to the training. What are we in SC County going to do? We need 
to maintain 1% of voters to have ballot status. Marni Glickman has said GPCA 
needs 100,000 new registered voters. SC county's share of that would be 4,500. 
We should be getting a new resource--Marni Glickman has a list of donors and 
contacts. Tian will be the contact for our county.? He said we need a compelling 
reason for people to join the Green Party. Merriam said we are down to very few 
people. Who will do this registering? If everyone at this meeting went to work 
on this, we would have to get over 700 new registrants apiece.

Discussion about GP:
Merriam said we are not attracting people because we have no issue. Tian said we 
should be the voice of the silent people. Caroline asked David why he had come 
to the meeting. He said he used to be Green, but thought he couldn't get 
anything done, so he joined the Democrats, and then the Republicans. He has 
looked at our literature and is interested. We agreed Spencer's bank materials 
and John's movie lists were relevant

Tabling Supplies:
Jim Doyle proposed we buy 3 GP tote bags, under the condition that they cost us 
less than $10. Caroline asked that Jim order another box of button supplies. We 
need more copies of Spencer's bank materials and John's movie list--with Green 
Party logo and contact information on them. GROW will be producing a newspaper. 
There will be no new Green Focus for at least a year.

GUEST SPEAKER--JOSEPH ROSAS
Joseph Rosas? is an independent candidate for Assembly District 24. This is a 
new district. He is running against Richard Gordon.?He lives in Sunnyvale. He is 
pro gun control. He worked to stop Cargill. He has been with Occupy since the 
beginning. He is working with the Rent Control Board in East Palo Alto. He is 
with California Common Cause, and he is working to get California to sign on to 
the Disclose Act.He has done lobbying. He has worked with Anna Eshoo. He has 
stared down Nancy Pelosi. His platform is clean money and gun control.

votesmart.org--Jim Doyle
Votesmart gathers information on all candidates. It is based in Colorado. They 
check on financing and interests (e.g. environment). In the vote-easy section, 
they can follow an issue, and it shows where all the candidates stand in 
relation to what you think. Jim said when he did it Jill Stein came out closest 
to him on everything. If we had a laptop at Junior State, we could let students 
go through it. It would be terrific. Warner will call Cameron to see if he will 
come to Junior State for this. Jim will check with Jr. State to see if we have 
wi-fi in the ballroom.

Regional Rep. Report--Warner:
You can apply to be on state committees. You must then be appointed to a 
committee. This is different from Working Groups. In addition to Regional Reps, 
there are also at large CC members. Michael Feinstein wants to do away with 
Regional Reps. We need a delegate for the national nominating convention. Tian 
will be our delegate. Warner proposed GPCA not use hierarchic titles (like 
General Manager). This was voted down. There will be two gatherings as well as 
the plenary. Warner would like us to do one of the gatherings. This would be in 
August or September.
The General Assembly (plenary) will be May 11-12? in San Francisco. Saturday 
night will be a forum of candidates. Jill Stein will be there. We qualify for 
four members. So far we have three--Warner, Merriam, and Tian--ANYBODY WANT TO 
VOLUNTEER?

Tabling:
Sunday April 22 will be a fair at Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale. Jim will 
reserve us a table for $25. Merriam and Caroline will table. San Jose State and 
Santa Clara University both usually have Earth Day celebrations that we 
participate in. Junior State is April 21. Berryessa Art and Wine is on May 11. 
Anyone who wants to go to a library or farmers' market and register voters, 
Caroline has several hundred registration forms and clipboards you can use.

We endorsed Carol Brouillet, who is running for Congress. Tian will let the GPCA 
know that.
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From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Sat Mar 24 18:20:47 2012
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:20:47 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Minutes of March Meeting
In-Reply-To: <1332637742.86558.YahooMailRC@web181001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <1332637742.86558.YahooMailRC@web181001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4F6E72EF.1000406@prodsyse.com>

On 3/24/2012 6:09 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> We had an enormous agenda, but, due in part to Spencer's wife, Betsy, 
> being injured, and Spencer being absent, we managed to get through 
> everything with a few minutes to spare.


       Fortunately, Spencer didn't come.  If he had, you could not have 
completed the agenda ;-)

> Facilitator--Warner
> Note Taker--Caroline
> Vibes Watcher--Tian
> Time Keeper--Jim Doyle
> Agenda preparer for next meeting--Tian
> Introductions and announcements:
> Merriam--Betsy has a cracked neck
> Tian--Carol B. is on the ballot; the City of Mt View passed Move to Amend
> Warner--Jim Stauffer is moving out of state. He will keep the same email.
> Jim Doyle, John Thielking, Caroline Yacoub, and David Navarro, a 
> visitor, also present
> Treasurer's Report: $2,560.89
> Report on Status of County Council:
> Merriam and Tian only members present. John will be appointed. Fred 
> said he would run. Spencer said he would, also, but that was before 
> Betsy got hurt. Tian nominated John to be on the council now, but 
> Warner and John both objected, so we will put it on the agenda for the 
> next meeting.
> Movie Night:
> Merriam said no people are coming but our regular little group. 
> Caroline said because of John's excellent movies and speaker, that all 
> people on our contact lists had been contacted, but no one had come or 
> replied. David suggested "Whistle Blower" a movie about human 
> trafficking. Jim suggested posting flyers at SJSU.  [After the meeting 
> Sharat said he had a movie and speaker for us. More details later]
> Report from Voter Reg. Training, Warner:
> Nobody here went to the training. What are we in SC County going to 
> do? We need to maintain 1% of voters to have ballot status. Marni 
> Glickman has said GPCA needs 100,000 new registered voters. SC 
> county's share of that would be 4,500. We should be getting a new 
> resource--Marni Glickman has a list of donors and contacts. Tian will 
> be the contact for our county.  He said we need a compelling reason 
> for people to join the Green Party. Merriam said we are down to very 
> few people. Who will do this registering? If everyone at this meeting 
> went to work on this, we would have to get over 700 new registrants 
> apiece.
> Discussion about GP:
> Merriam said we are not attracting people because we have no issue. 
> Tian said we should be the voice of the silent people. Caroline asked 
> David why he had come to the meeting. He said he used to be Green, but 
> thought he couldn't get anything done, so he joined the Democrats, and 
> then the Republicans. He has looked at our literature and is 
> interested. We agreed Spencer's bank materials and John's movie lists 
> were relevant
> Tabling Supplies:
> Jim Doyle proposed we buy 3 GP tote bags, under the condition that 
> they cost us less than $10. Caroline asked that Jim order another box 
> of button supplies. We need more copies of Spencer's bank materials 
> and John's movie list--with Green Party logo and contact information 
> on them. GROW will be producing a newspaper. There will be no new 
> Green Focus for at least a year.
> GUEST SPEAKER--JOSEPH ROSAS
> Joseph Rosas  is an independent candidate for Assembly District 24. 
> This is a new district. He is running against Richard Gordon. He lives 
> in Sunnyvale. He is pro gun control. He worked to stop Cargill. He has 
> been with Occupy since the beginning. He is working with the Rent 
> Control Board in East Palo Alto. He is with California Common Cause, 
> and he is working to get California to sign on to the Disclose Act.He 
> has done lobbying. He has worked with Anna Eshoo. He has stared down 
> Nancy Pelosi. His platform is clean money and gun control.
> votesmart.org--Jim Doyle
> Votesmart gathers information on all candidates. It is based in 
> Colorado. They check on financing and interests (e.g. environment). In 
> the vote-easy section, they can follow an issue, and it shows where 
> all the candidates stand in relation to what you think. Jim said when 
> he did it Jill Stein came out closest to him on everything. If we had 
> a laptop at Junior State, we could let students go through it. It 
> would be terrific. Warner will call Cameron to see if he will come to 
> Junior State for this. Jim will check with Jr. State to see if we have 
> wi-fi in the ballroom.
> Regional Rep. Report--Warner:
> You can apply to be on state committees. You must then be appointed to 
> a committee. This is different from Working Groups. In addition to 
> Regional Reps, there are also at large CC members. Michael Feinstein 
> wants to do away with Regional Reps. We need a delegate for the 
> national nominating convention. Tian will be our delegate. Warner 
> proposed GPCA not use hierarchic titles (like General Manager). This 
> was voted down. There will be two gatherings as well as the plenary. 
> Warner would like us to do one of the gatherings. This would be in 
> August or September.
> The General Assembly (plenary) will be May 11-12  in San Francisco. 
> Saturday night will be a forum of candidates. Jill Stein will be 
> there. We qualify for four members. So far we have three--Warner, 
> Merriam, and Tian--ANYBODY WANT TO VOLUNTEER?
> Tabling:
> Sunday April 22 will be a fair at Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale. Jim 
> will reserve us a table for $25. Merriam and Caroline will table. San 
> Jose State and Santa Clara University both usually have Earth Day 
> celebrations that we participate in. Junior State is April 21. 
> Berryessa Art and Wine is on May 11. Anyone who wants to go to a 
> library or farmers' market and register voters, Caroline has several 
> hundred registration forms and clipboards you can use.
> We endorsed Carol Brouillet, who is running for Congress. Tian will 
> let the GPCA know that.
>
>
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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Mar 25 13:24:46 2012
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:24:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight
Message-ID: <1332707086.65600.YahooMailRC@web181017.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>








Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:03:35 -0700
>Subject: Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight
>From: Thomas Scott Tucker <scott at tstucker.com>
>
>
>Audit: Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight
>By GARANCE BURKE | Associated Press ? Fri, Mar 23, 2012
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/audit-gas-lines-tied-fracking-lack-oversight-210134470.html
> 
>
>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Government auditors say federal officials know nothing 
>about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through 
>the drilling method known as fracking, and need to step up oversight to make 
>sure they are running safely.
>
>Amid the gas-drilling boom, private companies have put in hundreds of small 
>gathering pipelines in? recent years to collect new fuel supplies released 
>through the high-pressure drilling technique.
>
>Nationwide, about 240,000 miles of gathering pipelines ferry the gas and oil to 
>processing facilities and larger pipelines in the major energy-producing states. 
>Many of these pipelines course through densely populated areas, including 
>neighborhoods in Fort Worth, Texas.
>
>The Government Accountability Office said in its report issued Thursday that 
>most of those miles are not regulated by the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous 
>Materials Safety Administration, which means they are not regularly inspected 
>for leaks or corrosion.
>
>In some states, officials don't know where the lines are.
>
>Emily Krafjack, who lives in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation in 
>Pennsylvania, said many local residents have no idea that the pipelines near 
>their homes are not overseen by federal regulators. Gathering lines that run in 
>the rural northeastern corner of the state receive no federal oversight if there 
>are fewer than 10 homes within 220 yards of the pipeline.
>
>"Who would ever think that they could run something like this next to your home 
>and it wouldn't have any regulations attached to it?," said Krafjack, a former 
>community liaison for Wyoming County, Pa., on gas issues.
>
>Nationwide, there are about 200,000 miles of gas gathering lines and up to 
>40,000 miles of hazardous liquid gathering lines in rural and urban areas alike, 
>ranging in diameter from about 2 to 12 inches. But only about 24,000 of those 
>miles are regulated, according to the report.
>
>The industry is not required to report pipeline-related fatality, injury or 
>property damage information about the unregulated lines. PHMSA only collects 
>information about accidents on the small subset of gathering lines that the 
>agency regulates, but that data was not immediately available Thursday.
>
>The pipeline agency is considering collecting more data on the unregulated gas 
>gathering lines, but the plans are still preliminary and have met with some 
>resistance from the natural gas industry. Agency officials are reviewing more 
>than 100 public comments received about their proposal for gas lines, and also 
>plan to propose a rule that will cover hazardous liquid gathering pipelines by 
>the fall, said Jeannie Layson, a spokeswoman for the Pipeline and Hazardous 
>Materials Safety Administration.
>
>PHMSA delegates some enforcement of its rules to state-level pipeline safety 
>authorities, who the Government Accountability Office surveyed to understand the 
>array of risks associated with gathering lines.
>
>Those state-level agencies told the auditors that construction quality, 
>maintenance practices, unknown locations, and limited or no information on 
>current pipeline integrity all posed safety risks for federally unregulated 
>gathering pipelines.
>
>The expansion of hydraulic fracturing, which involves shattering rock thousands 
>of feet underground with a combination of water, sand and chemicals, promises 
>staggering yields, and drilling also comes with promises of job creation and 
>economic opportunities.
>
>But in Fort Worth, where dozens of new gathering lines have been laid in recent 
>years to capture supplies from hundreds of new wells, some residents say there 
>aren't enough protections from leaks and ruptures due to corrosion.
>
>"It's ridiculous," said Jerry Lobdill, a retired chemical engineer who lives in 
>a Fort Worth neighborhood near several new gas wells and has several lines 
>running near his home. "The gathering lines are unregulated, the city doesn't 
>know where they are, and they're buried so you can't see them."
>
>The recent surge in drilling also has led California lawmakers to write new laws 
>to increase oversight of the industry.
>
>Assemblyman Bill Wieckowski, D-Fremont, is sponsoring a bill now pending before 
>a state Senate committee that would require gas and oil producers to disclose 
>what chemicals they are using when they engage in hydraulic fracturing.
>
>"If we're on this cusp of a boom then maybe we at the very least need to know 
>where these lines are," Wieckowski said.
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From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Sun Mar 25 18:34:11 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:34:11 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Minutes of March Meeting
In-Reply-To: <1332637742.86558.YahooMailRC@web181001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <1332637742.86558.YahooMailRC@web181001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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I thought Vote Smart was in Montana.  Checking the website,
I see references to Philipsburg, MT.

Gerry


Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> We had an enormous agenda, but, due in part to Spencer's wife, Betsy,
> being injured, and Spencer being absent, we managed to get through
> everything with a few minutes to spare.
> Facilitator--Warner
> Note Taker--Caroline
> Vibes Watcher--Tian
> Time Keeper--Jim Doyle
> Agenda preparer for next meeting--Tian
> Introductions and announcements:
> Merriam--Betsy has a cracked neck
> Tian--Carol B. is on the ballot; the City of Mt View passed Move to Amend
> Warner--Jim Stauffer is moving out of state. He will keep the same email.
> Jim Doyle, John Thielking, Caroline Yacoub, and David Navarro, a
> visitor, also present
> Treasurer's Report: $2,560.89
> Report on Status of County Council:
> Merriam and Tian only members present. John will be appointed. Fred said
> he would run. Spencer said he would, also, but that was before Betsy got
> hurt. Tian nominated John to be on the council now, but Warner and John
> both objected, so we will put it on the agenda for the next meeting.
> Movie Night:
> Merriam said no people are coming but our regular little group. Caroline
> said because of John's excellent movies and speaker, that all people on
> our contact lists had been contacted, but no one had come or replied.
> David suggested "Whistle Blower" a movie about human trafficking. Jim
> suggested posting flyers at SJSU. [After the meeting Sharat said he had
> a movie and speaker for us. More details later]
> Report from Voter Reg. Training, Warner:
> Nobody here went to the training. What are we in SC County going to do?
> We need to maintain 1% of voters to have ballot status. Marni Glickman
> has said GPCA needs 100,000 new registered voters. SC county's share of
> that would be 4,500. We should be getting a new resource--Marni Glickman
> has a list of donors and contacts. Tian will be the contact for our
> county. He said we need a compelling reason for people to join the Green
> Party. Merriam said we are down to very few people. Who will do this
> registering? If everyone at this meeting went to work on this, we would
> have to get over 700 new registrants apiece.
> Discussion about GP:
> Merriam said we are not attracting people because we have no issue. Tian
> said we should be the voice of the silent people. Caroline asked David
> why he had come to the meeting. He said he used to be Green, but thought
> he couldn't get anything done, so he joined the Democrats, and then the
> Republicans. He has looked at our literature and is interested. We
> agreed Spencer's bank materials and John's movie lists were relevant
> Tabling Supplies:
> Jim Doyle proposed we buy 3 GP tote bags, under the condition that they
> cost us less than $10. Caroline asked that Jim order another box of
> button supplies. We need more copies of Spencer's bank materials and
> John's movie list--with Green Party logo and contact information on
> them. GROW will be producing a newspaper. There will be no new Green
> Focus for at least a year.
> GUEST SPEAKER--JOSEPH ROSAS
> Joseph Rosas is an independent candidate for Assembly District 24. This
> is a new district. He is running against Richard Gordon. He lives in
> Sunnyvale. He is pro gun control. He worked to stop Cargill. He has been
> with Occupy since the beginning. He is working with the Rent Control
> Board in East Palo Alto. He is with California Common Cause, and he is
> working to get California to sign on to the Disclose Act.He has done
> lobbying. He has worked with Anna Eshoo. He has stared down Nancy
> Pelosi. His platform is clean money and gun control.
> votesmart.org--Jim Doyle
> Votesmart gathers information on all candidates. It is based in
> Colorado. They check on financing and interests (e.g. environment). In
> the vote-easy section, they can follow an issue, and it shows where all
> the candidates stand in relation to what you think. Jim said when he did
> it Jill Stein came out closest to him on everything. If we had a laptop
> at Junior State, we could let students go through it. It would be
> terrific. Warner will call Cameron to see if he will come to Junior
> State for this. Jim will check with Jr. State to see if we have wi-fi in
> the ballroom.
> Regional Rep. Report--Warner:
> You can apply to be on state committees. You must then be appointed to a
> committee. This is different from Working Groups. In addition to
> Regional Reps, there are also at large CC members. Michael Feinstein
> wants to do away with Regional Reps. We need a delegate for the national
> nominating convention. Tian will be our delegate. Warner proposed GPCA
> not use hierarchic titles (like General Manager). This was voted down.
> There will be two gatherings as well as the plenary. Warner would like
> us to do one of the gatherings. This would be in August or September.
> The General Assembly (plenary) will be May 11-12 in San Francisco.
> Saturday night will be a forum of candidates. Jill Stein will be there.
> We qualify for four members. So far we have three--Warner, Merriam, and
> Tian--ANYBODY WANT TO VOLUNTEER?
> Tabling:
> Sunday April 22 will be a fair at Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale. Jim
> will reserve us a table for $25. Merriam and Caroline will table. San
> Jose State and Santa Clara University both usually have Earth Day
> celebrations that we participate in. Junior State is April 21. Berryessa
> Art and Wine is on May 11. Anyone who wants to go to a library or
> farmers' market and register voters, Caroline has several hundred
> registration forms and clipboards you can use.
> We endorsed Carol Brouillet, who is running for Congress. Tian will let
> the GPCA know that.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss


From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Tue Mar 27 14:23:52 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:23:52 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Another Fossil Fuel Spill
Message-ID: <4F722FE8.6080307@earthlink.net>


I hope this is not as bad as the story seems to
indicate.

"Growing Gas Cloud Forces Evacuation of Oil Rig in North Sea"
"French-owned platform is abandoned with no answers yet on how to avert 
further calamity"

     http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/27

Gerry


From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 28 12:36:59 2012
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:36:59 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Two days left to sign up to get "Revenge of the
	Electric Car"
In-Reply-To: <2A12639E5E64E9438D082B7255502EF42617E37B@SN2PRD0410MB383.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
References: <CAG4+VpdhpGd1nv0i9-X=Apy7dm8o8WASJkncWvO5gHNK6LbzdA@mail.gmail.com>,
	<CAG4+Vpexq9LmdJDtU0-wdPcoPTFkqQVqOU5M43-zchJ+Fe_mZA@mail.gmail.com>,
	<2A12639E5E64E9438D082B7255502EF42617E37B@SN2PRD0410MB383.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
Message-ID: <BAY165-W25BFD4B65C25E46C3C853E9E4B0@phx.gbl>



Sign up to host a house party, get a free DVD for "Revenge of the Electric Car"From: Gina Coplon-Newfield [gina.coplon-newfield at sierraclub.org]

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 1:07 PM

To: Gina Coplon-Newfield

Subject: Four days left to sign up to get "Revenge"







Dear EV supporter:
There are four days left to 
sign up to host a
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If you've already signed up, thank you! If not, will you consider hosting a watch party? 

Sierra Club will be organizing "Revenge" watch parties nationwide between April 12 and 18. In the week leading up to Earth Day, we think it will be a great way to educate the public about the exciting benefits of EVs. We'll send you a free DVD, a link
 to a brief thank you video from filmmaker Chris Paine, and some information about electric vehicles that you can provide to your guests.We even may be able to help get an EV at the event for guests to check out. You
 can make your event private (just your own friends/family) or public (open to your determined number of Sierra Club supporters in your area).



If you haven't yet seen "Revenge," the fantastic trailer can be seen here, and you can also read one of my blog
 posts about the film.



If you can host, please fill out the form today at:http://action.sierraclub.org/site/GetTogether?gettogether=activity_splash&cal_activity_id=1540&autologin=true&s_src=212CGTPN01



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All the best,
Gina


-- 

 
Gina Coplon-Newfield
Senior Campaign Representative for Electric Vehicles
Sierra Club
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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Mar 29 10:49:22 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:49:22 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] delegates to national convention
Message-ID: <4F74A0A2.7010105@sbcglobal.net>

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE

This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  
For more information, or questions related to the topic 
of the posting, please do not hit reply.  
Follow the contact directions
stated in the email.


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REMINDER: Deadline is April 5 to apply to be a delegate to the
Presidential Nominating Convention


The complete Delegate Selection Procedure for the Presidential
Nominating Convention for CA is on our website  at
http://www.cagreens.org/gpus#PNC  DEADLINE 
<http://www.cagreens.org/gpus#PNC%C2%A0%C2%A0DEADLINE> TO APPLY IS APRIL 5.

Every year there is an Annual National Meeting which is attended by
National Committee (NC) Delegates.  In addition, once every four years
there is a Presidential Nominating Convention.  For more information
about the Baltimore convention, see http://www.gpconvention2012.com/:

So in addition to the Annual National Meeting which is attended by the
NC Delegates, state parties also send Presidential Nominating
Convention (PNC) Delegates.  CA has been alloted 65 delegates out of
about 400.  Every state has their own procedure to select their
Nominating Convention Delegates and the responsibility of those
delegates.  California is very specific: Policies and Procedures for
Selection and Conduct of GPCA Delegates to the GPUS Presidential
Nominating Convention

Basically, any GPCA members can apply to be delegates to the GPUS
Presidential Nominating Convention, while only NC delegates will
attend the Annual National Meeting.  The convention itself will be on
July 14. Generally NC delegates will also apply to be PNC delegates,
but we need many more. You can either apply in support of a particular
candidate or through your county with no designation.  Read through
the procedure to understand that better. Applications must be
submitted 60 days before the Presidential Primary, which would be
April 5.  If you want to apply directly to the candidates send your
application with subject line CA Delegate to PNC to:

For the Jill Stein delegation, write  "Erika P Wolf"<wolf at jillstein.org 
<mailto:wolf at jillstein.org>>
For the Kent Mesplay delegation, write "Kent Mesplay"<info at mesplay.org 
<mailto:info at mesplay.org>>
For the Roseanne Barr delegation, write "Farheen Hakeem "
<farheen at gp.org <mailto:farheen at gp.org>> \(note that this is a change 
from the first email)

If you are applying through your county, send your application to your
County Council.....AND MAKE SURE YOUR COUNTY COUNCIL KNOWS TO SUBMIT
IT TO THE DELEGATE SELECTION COMMITTEE BY APRIL 5.

On your application, include your name, address, phone, and email.  If
you are selected, you will also need to submit your year of birth.

The candidate delegate slates and the county delegate slates will be
submitted to the Delegate Selection Committee. That committee will
work with the lists as proscribed in the procedure.  After the
Presidential Primary on June 5, the committee will intensify their
work, selecting delegations proportionally to the results of the
Primary election votes.

Because of the date of the primary as compared to the date of the PNC,
the committee will need to notify delegates very quickly and you will
need to be prepared to make your final decision to accept the positon
quickly as well.  If you are selecting to go, you will need to
register immediately, though you can register now if you so choose.
There are specific rules guiding how you will represent California.

Another important note:  GPCA will not fund your trip as a PNC
delegate.  You may see if your county will help raise funds for you,
and in some instances, candidates have been known to help with your
expenses.

If you have questions, contact any member of the Delegate Selection 
Committee:
Sanda Everette, San Mateo, sanda at greens.org <mailto:sanda at greens.org>
Peggy Koteen, San Luis Obispo, pkoteen at aol.com <mailto:pkoteen at aol.com>
Richard Gomez, Fresno, nate136_66 at yahoo.com <mailto:nate136_66 at yahoo.com>

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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Mar 29 10:50:58 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:50:58 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] job announcement - press secretary
Message-ID: <4F74A102.9050009@sbcglobal.net>

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE

This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  
For more information, or questions related to the 
topic of the posting, please do not hit reply.  
Follow the contact directions stated in the email.

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Job Announcement for Press Secretary

Part Time Independent Contractor for the Green Party of CA, $300 Per
Month, flexible location (work from home)

The Green Party of California currently is seeking to fill a part-time
independent contractor position for Press Secretary. The GPCA is a
progressive alternate political party based on principles described as
its Ten Key Values. See
http://www.cagreens.org/job-announcement-press-secretary and related
web pages for more information. The GPCA mainly operates as a
volunteer organization using independent contractors in support staff
positions.

The Press Secretary will work under the general supervision of the
Coordinators of the GPCA Media Committee and in collaboration with
GPCA Media Committee members and designated spokespersons but will be
expected to perform her/his responsibilities in an independent manner
and use independent judgment.

Those activities include:

Coordinate and collaborate in researching, writing and distributing
GPCA press releases and advisories in a time appropriate manner
Develop and maintain positive press relationships on behalf of the GPCA
Serve as a GPCA press contact, along with GPCA Spokespersons and
others designated by the GPCA Media Committee.
Organize GPCA press conferences

An applicant should have a demonstrable background and prior
experience in a similar position or positions ? including dealing with
print, radio and television media ? and experience and ability using
current internet media. Present or past activity in the GPCA or
similarly purposed organizations or community groups is preferred.

Applications should be submitted to Sanda Everette, GPCA Media
Committee Coordinator at sanda at greens.org <mailto:sanda at greens.org>, and 
should include a
summary of experience and other qualifications, samples of previous
work product, and three references.

The GPCA is an equal opportunity employer and includes Diversity among
its Ten Key Values.

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From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Fri Mar 30 13:12:30 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:12:30 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Federal Reserve of Dallas critical of some large
	banks
In-Reply-To: <4F6D633E.4080902@earthlink.net>
References: <4F6D633E.4080902@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <4F7613AE.4020901@earthlink.net>


Another article on the same subject,

"Push to End Too-Big-To-Fail Goes Mainstream"
     http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/30-11

Gerry


Gerry Gras wrote:
>
> "Breaking Up the Banks - The Dallas Fed Weighs In"
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/23-11
>
> "The most dramatic part of the report and the covering letter by Dallas
> Fed President Richard W. Fisher is that they call for a ?downsizing? of
> these megabanks. Their primary argument is that financial institutions
> remain ?too-big-to-fail,? risking another painful and damaging bailout
> if a large financial crisis is threatened. In their view, the continuing
> cloud of too-big-to-fail hanging over the economy is simply intolerable
> and costly."
>
> "When competition declines, incentives often turn perverse and
> self-interest turns malevolent."
>
> Gerry


From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Sat Mar 31 19:06:43 2012
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:06:43 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] May 12-13 general assembly in SF
Message-ID: <4F77B833.7050300@sbcglobal.net>

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE

This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  
For more information, or questions related to the 
topic of the posting, please do not hit reply.  
Follow the contact directions stated in the email.


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Getting ready for the May 12-13 General Assembly in San Francisco

The approved draft agenda is online at
http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2012-05 .  You can read it online, and a
complete agenda packet and logistics packet is planned for you to
download in a couple of weeks.  Registration should be open in
mid-April as well.  The budget committee is still putting finishing
touches on the draft budget and it will be posted with a link from
that on-line draft agenda when ready.

Note that invitations have been sent to the three Presidential
candidates to join us for an in-person candidate forum Saturday night
after the General Assembly.

Sanda Everette, GPCA Coordinating Committee, for the General Assembly
Planning Team

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From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Sat Mar 31 23:30:51 2012
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:30:51 -0700
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Jay's Candidacy Orientation Q&A... Sunday 9pm PST
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FYI,

Jay Cabrera is part of Occupy Stanford and Occupy Palo
Alto and is running (non partisan) for Congress against
Lofgren.

Gerry


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Jay's Candidacy Orientation Q&A... Sunday 9pm PST
Date: 	Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:40:11 -0700
From: 	Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera <jay at jaycan.us>
To: 	jay at jaycan.us



Hey Everybody,

My Campaign for Congress is official. I just received my official
listing of candidacy from the Secretary of State, and it says I will
officially be running with the incumbent Democrat, and two Republican
Challengers. Here's a link to the document:
http://jaycan.us/pcc/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JayCanofficalSOS.pdf

Coordination and communications for the campaign will primarily happen
over Conference Calls, and you are invited to participate.

This Sunday at 9pm PST, we will have our first Campaign Meeting
Conference Call.
Call in #: (805) 399-1200 Access Code: 163941
Info Pad Link: http://titanpad.com/JayCanHeeoQAorganizing

The first part of the meeting (20-30min) will be a Candidacy Question
and Answer Session for you and anyone in the public. In this segment I
will answer any questions that people have about my candidacy and the
Campaign itself. Anyone who just has questions and wants more
information doesn't have to stay for the rest of the call.

The second part of the conference call will be the Campaign Organizing
Meeting. This is for volunteers who want to actively participate in
helping me get elected to Congress and support seeing a new vision and
new direction for Washington DC. This will typically be 30-45min.

The third and final part of the call will be the 'Heeo' and Movement
Organizing Meeting. My candidacy connects to a much larger plan of
collaborating and working with local and global movements including
Occupy, Real Democracy, Sustainability and more... This will last
between 30-45min as well, and people do not need to participate in this
part of the meeting if they just want to help with the campaign.

The total time for the call will be between 1.5-2 hours long. We will
not get everything done that needs to get done by any means, but it will
be just the first of many calls and meetings to come.

For More information visit the Call Info Pad:
http://titanpad.com/JayCanHeeoQAorganizing

The primary component of the meeting is the Candidacy Orientation with
the Question and Answer Session. The entire public is invited to this,
and you are welcome to invite anyone you would like as well. This will
be applicable to anyone who wants to see a new direction for our
governance systems and my candidacy is on-going and applies to future
elections as well, so everyone can be invited. If you have any people in
mind please send them the email bellow.

Thanks so much and I'll here and talk to you all soon,

Jay


*_Email to Invite the Public to the Candidate Q&A Session:_*

Subject: Candidate Q&A Session with Sunday April 1st at 9pm PST Jay Blas
Jacob Cabrera

Need Hope and Ideas for a Better World, where our Government is of and
for the People again?

Join Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera for a Candidate Q&A session on Sunday April
1st at 9pm.
Call in #: (805) 399-1200 Access Code: 163941

The Q&A Session will last 20-30 minutes and you, or anyone from the
public can ask any question you'd like.

The Q&A session will immediately be followed by a Campaign Organizing
meeting that you do not need to stay for.

For update and more information please visit http://JayCan.us/Congress
and sign up for updates.

If you would like text message reminders about the call so you don't
forget the time, please just reply back with your phone # and we will
put you on the Text Message Updates List, or fill out the following
form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5qSllxbkxJZm1mQXNjbDJuclJuWkE6MQ

I look forward to hearing your questions and ideas.

Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera

(408) 459-VOTE
PO Box 715
San Jose, CA, 95106
http://JayCan.us/Congress
http://JaysLIFE.net
http://Heeo.in

Donation Link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=XQF2P5lvY8K4A 

<https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=XQF2P5lvY8K4A>


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