[GPSCC-chat] Minutes of November meeting Green Party of Santa Clara County

Thu Nov 29 22:36:10 PST 2012

Please post any additions, corrections, clarifications, etc. to this 
list.  Thanks.  Spencer

On- 11/29/2012 3:45 PM, John Thielking wrote:
> Seeing no objections to the draft agenda, this is now the final agenda 
> for tonight's meeting. The only addition to the agenda is that an 
> Iranian named Tanyer Vakili  (a friend of Leyla) has confirmed that he 
> will be speaking at the Dec 8th event on Iran, Syria and 
> Israel/Palestine.  Thanks.
> John Thielking
>
> --- On *Tue, 11/27/12, John Thielking /<pagesincolor at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com>
>     Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Draft Agenda For GPSCC GA Meeting On
>     November 29, 2012 7:30PM San Jose Peace Center
>     To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
>     Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 6:48 PM
>
>     Final  Agenda for November 29, 2012 Green Party of Santa Clara
>     County GA meeting
>
>     7:00-7:30
>
>     So far as I know, we don't have a speaker lined up for this time.
>     possible speaker - a welfare recipient 5 min?
>
>     7:30
>
>     Meeting begins. Identify facilitator, note taker, time keeper,
>     vibes watcher and agenda preparer for next meeting.
>

facilitator:  Tian

Note taker:  Spencer

time keeper:  John t

vibes:  Dana & Gerry

agenda preparer:  John Thielking

>
>     7:35
>
>     Introductions and announcements. Changes to agenda. Review minutes
>     from October's meeting and approve. Announcement:
>

Sat. Dec. 8, New Community of Faith, 6350 Rainbow Dr., San José, CA 
95129,  2-4 PM:  Dr. Sharat Lin speaking on "War and Peace with Iran, 
Syria, and Palestine / Israel"

>     AACSA fundraising fish fry December 8 African American Community
>     Services Agency -- What time?   11 - 6
>
304 N. 6th St., San Jose, CA 408-292-3157

Tian Harter

Dana St. George

Gerry Gras

Caroline

Drew Johnson

Spencer Graves

Pete O'Brien, Peace & Freedom Party

John Thielking

Fred Dupperault

David Merritt

Sandy Perry

>
>     7:50
>
>     Treasurer's report and hat passing. Jim Doyle As a part of the
>     treasurer's report: 5 min
>
>     paypal donation & $50 annual fee to SOS
>

collection:  $30 cash + $25 check

>
>     7:55 Holiday Peace Fair.
>
>     Who is tabling?
>

Dana & Gerry 11-noon

Betsy 12-2

John Thielking, all day

>     Who is doing our dessert?
>

Dana St. George

>     Any ideas for student helpers?
>
>     John and Caroline.
>

>     8:05 Human Rights Day march. Caroline.
>

Dec. 2 (first Sunday in Dec.) Story & King organized by Volutarios de la 
Comunidad -- 3 mile march to City Hall.

Dec. 7 - austerity crisis march -

Dec. 10 similar march in Sacramento(?)

>
>     8:10 Demonstration to support Medicare, Social Security, etc.
>     before they get thrown off the fiscal cliff.
>
>     Caroline
>
>

(1) Flash Mob in San Francisco, Dec. 7, someplace;  contact Sandy.

(2) tentative:  demonstration at Zoe Lofgren's office Monday, Dec. 10 
organized by Single Payer Coalition + ???  ... contact Sandy.

>     8:20 Sandy and Drew report on organizing at De Anza (10 min)
>

       Need to make announcements in the proper classes early in each 
term to get students to volunteer to do project(s) with the Green Party

>
>     8:30 Caroline and Sandy report about Gavilan organizing. (5 min)
>

>
>     8:35 Report back from Jr State.
>

Great event.  Do It Yourself button machine sold like crazy.

>
>     8:40 Should we start a series of pizza parties and/or other
>     general interest events to build third party support? Should
>     regular monthly meetings continue in current format or should the
>     work be delegated to micro-committees who only have to check in
>     with County Council to get approval for spending money? Contact
>     Libertarians, Peace and Freedom, etc about pizza parties. Find out
>     if we can get a regular venue for a GMO free potluck instead of a
>     questionable GMO content pizza place. And/or should we try to
>     spice up the monthly meetings by actually having speakers at
>     7PM-7:30PM?
>

Th. Dec. 27:  Tian will see if he can get his clubhouse for a holiday.  
Tian will notify us tomorrow.

** What about webinars?

** What about having meetings in different places?

>
>     8:55 youth connections - 5 - 10 min
>
>
>     9:00 4 year electoral plan 10 - 15 min
>
>     infrastructure, candidate(s), fundraising, gotv, social media, etc.
>

Next step:  Get CiviCRM software working for us.

Generate joint list of candidates with Peace & Freedom, etc.

>
>     9:10 Jazzing up our literature and translating it into Vietnamese.
>     Caroline
>

Jim Doyle has a volunteer who wants to do something.  We want something 
more eye catching.  Many places we go in San José, there are more 
Vietnamese than Hispanic.

>
>     9:15 Techie committee for web site(s) and discussion of issues
>     re:web sites and their accessibility. For example John Thielking
>     has put out a job on a tech web site that allows people to hire
>     web developers to hire someone to find a tech solution to the
>     Google mobile rendering problem (where Google displays an
>     inadequate "optimized" display of web pages on cell phones.) I am
>     requesting that anyone I hire for this job will license the html
>     code solution (if available) for Peacemovies.com and for free
>     distribution to the Green Party and other interested parties.
>     Caroline wants the web site to be updated with the correct contact
>     info and up to date issues and events.
>
>

>     9:25PM Last minute planning for Dec 8^th talk with Sharat Lin and
>     Pete O'Reilly and possibly one other speaker on the subject of War
>     and Peace with Iran, Syria and Israel/Palestine. Does the Green
>     Party want to co-sponsor this event? Do we need to pay money for
>     the venue? John is covering gas money for any out of town speakers
>     who want to speak (Peace and Freedom party invitations have been
>     sent out to people in SF). No more than 3 speakers are recommended
>     for this event.
>
>     An Iranian named Tanyer Vakili  (a friend of Leyla) has confirmed
>     that he will be speaking at the Dec 8th event on Iran, Syria and
>     Israel/Palestine.
>

       Drew knows a Tanyer.

Drew will try to organize a meeting between Sharat and Pete.

Spencer proposes the Green Party endorse a presentation by Sharat Lin at 
the New Community of Faith Dec. 8.  We have a consensus.

John is concerned that more than one point of view be presented. Drew 
has Tanyer in his class, and Tanyer talks all the time.  John

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>     9:35 Meeting ends
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