[GPSCC-chat] agenda items

[John Thielking]

Is our goal to learn how to run a better government or to try to have a Party?  If you have been to any city council meetings, they tend to be long and tedious with agendas prepared 72 hours in advance. If you want a MLM program that attracts lots of people, talk to Donna or Darlene Wallach about Legal Shield.  They have two Parties a week in their program and the room is usually packed.  Caroline did meet some Libertarians at Jr State who wanted to go have beer and pizza with us and presumably talk politics.  We declined at the time, but there is no reason why we couldn't do this later.  I would suggest that there isn't really a practical way to get out of doing the nuts and bolts grunt work needed to hold a monthly meeting. However, there is no reason why we can't go down the path of the Legal Shield people and have more general interest events, even once per week or more. The main problems would be finding a venue and getting a critical mass
 of interest and funding.  We could start with pizza and beer with the Libertarians and see if it grows at all. We could invite Peace and Freedom too. Ideally it should evolve from going to a pizza place to having a GMO free potluck at someone's clubhouse. (I've decided to go on a strict GMO free diet --- still lots of organic and corn syrup free and GMO-soy free junk food, but no GMOs---so I won't be eating out much anymore.) I'll put that item on the agenda for our meeting. 
 
John Thielking

--- On Mon, 11/26/12, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:


From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] agenda items
To: "Jim Doyle" <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "sosfbay discussion group" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Date: Monday, November 26, 2012, 7:33 PM


On 11/26/2012 4:37 PM, Jim Doyle wrote:
> As a part of the treasurer's report:   5 min
> paypal donation & $50 annual fee to SOS
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> possible speaker - a welfare recipient   5 min
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> AACSA fundraising fish fry December 8   announcement
> African American Community Services Agency
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> 4 year electoral plan   10 - 15 min
>    infrastructure, candidate(s), fundraising, gotv, social media, etc.


      Drew suggested we might attract more people if our regular monthly meetings are replaced by events that could potentially draw more people, e.g, presentations by representatives of organizations with Green missions and / or discussions of events from a Green perspective.  Just brainstorming:  Could we invite representatives of the Libertarian Tea Parties, with their task being to try to areas where they might share a common agenda with the Greens?  I'm sure they are upset about "crony capitalism".  We would agree on that.  We might differ on acceptable remedies and the extent to which our military budget qualifies as crony capitalism.  However, I think it's important that we all learn to agree to disagree agreeably -- to make politics and political discussion the national sport in the US.  If we can do that, we can have the best functioning democracy in the world.


      To achieve this, we need to transfer most of the current business of our monthly meetings to committees and our County Council.  For example, I nominate Caroline to be chair of our Tabling Committee with the authority to do whatever she wants as long as it doesn't cost money and ask approval of the County Council for anything that requires money.


      Comments?
      Spencer

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