From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Apr 1 08:57:44 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] contacts Message-ID: <1364831864.74361.YahooMailRC@web181304.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> There are lots of things going on in the Bay Area. I seem to be on lists to receive notice of many of them. I have been passing some of them on to the list of contacts we have gathered at various events. I FINALLY GOT A RESPONSE! One of the people who were at our Jill Stein event emailed me for more information. Caroline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Mon Apr 1 16:19:50 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Vigorous Climate Activism Message-ID: <1364858390.82786.YahooMailNeo@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Since we have decided to focus in our county on activism on the Climate Heating (and Medicare for All / SinglePayer) issue(s) here's an interesting resource I think we might want to connect with: Peaceful Uprising Empowering a Livable Future Through Nonviolent Action http://www.peacefuluprising.org/about How I heard about them:? KALW's program Your Call did a segment today called "What Happens When People Challenge U.S. Government's Power Structure" (they also highlighted how the U.S. Gov. is being manipulated/controlled by big corporations -- in this case Big Energy. You can listen to it at: http://www.kalw.org/post/today-your-call-what-happens-when-people-challenge-us-government-s-power-structure On Your Call, we?ll speak with filmmakers Beth and George Gage about the documentary film Bidder 70, which tells the story of Tim DeChristopher. In 2008, he derailed the Bush administration's Oil and Gas lease auction. After bidding $1.7 M, he won 22,000 acres of land with no intention to pay or drill. He will be released from jail soon after serving 18 months. How should power be challenged? It?s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you. ? ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Apr 1 18:11:05 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:11:05 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Vigorous Climate Activism In-Reply-To: <1364858390.82786.YahooMailNeo@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1364858390.82786.YahooMailNeo@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <515A3029.4090206@earthlink.net> If you want to know more about Tim DeChristopher: http://www.bidder70.org/ http://www.bidder70film.com/ Gerry Drew wrote: > Since we have decided to focus in our county on activism on the Climate > Heating (and Medicare for All / SinglePayer) issue(s) here's an > interesting resource I think we might want to connect with: > > Peaceful Uprising > Empowering a Livable Future Through Nonviolent Action > > http://www.peacefuluprising.org/about > > How I heard about them: KALW's program Your Call did a segment today > called > "What Happens When People Challenge U.S. Government's Power Structure" > (they also highlighted how the U.S. Gov. is being manipulated/controlled > by big corporations -- in this case Big Energy. > > You can listen to it at: > > http://www.kalw.org/post/today-your-call-what-happens-when-people-challenge-us-government-s-power-structure > > > On Your Call, we?ll speak with filmmakers Beth and George Gage about the > documentary film Bidder 70, which tells the story of Tim DeChristopher. > In 2008, he derailed the Bush administration's Oil and Gas lease > auction. After bidding $1.7 M, he won 22,000 acres of land with no > intention to pay or drill. He will be released from jail soon after > serving 18 months. How should power be challenged? It?s Your Call, with > Rose Aguilar and you. > ~*~*~*~ > Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America > Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Apr 2 00:38:54 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Reminder: RALLY Tomorrow at Obama Fundraiser in SF Message-ID: <1364888334.4560.YahooMailRC@web181304.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: 350 Bay Area.org To: caroline yacoub Sent: Tue, April 2, 2013 12:35:45 AM Subject: Reminder: RALLY Tomorrow at Obama Fundraiser in SF ? We are building a grassroots climate movement,? working for deep CO2 emission reductions in the San Francisco Bay Area & beyond. More Action ? Less Hot Air ? RALLY At President Obama's Fundraiser?in San Francisco Tell Obama to take Climate Action Now: Reject the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday, April 3 ? 5:30pm ? Getty Mansion 2870 Broadway St at Baker St, San Francisco? Sponsored by: CREDO,?350.org, 350 Bay Area, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Rainforest Action Network, Alliance for Climate Education and others. (RSVP) Oct. 25, 2011 - San Francisco Remember This? Over a thousand Protest at Obama?s Fundraiser April 1st, 2013 ? Arkansas A reminder: Keystone XL will carry 10 times the bitumen of this tar sands pipeline spill ??? Just as Bay Area residents made a statement a year and a half ago, surprising Mr. Obama and his staff, so this year, let our voices be heard. Mr. Obama: you cannot simultaneously protect the climate and protect fossil fuel profits. Reject the Pipeline To Thermal Hell.? Come join the party and add your voice! BREAKING: We just found out about another fundraiser in Atherton: Click here to RSVP for the action in Atherton:?act.350.org/signup/Atherton_KXL_Birddog/ What: Atherton action to stop Keystone XL Where:?Corner of?Alameda de las Pulgas and Walsh Road in Atherton When:?Wednesday,?April 4rd at 8:15am In coordination with local residents of the South Bay, 350 Silicon Valley, CREDO, and?350.org. ? ? Next Major Bay Area Climate Event: ? Earth Day RALLY for Climate and Environmental Justice Call for Justice for Communities disproportionately affected by climate change and pollution and for Future Generations Monday, April 22, 12PM ? San Francisco Join 350 Bay Area and over 60 environmental and climate groups to demand justice by the EPA. 350 Bay Area? -?? 350bayarea.org? -? ?info at 350bayarea.org? -? ?Donate http://www.350bayarea.org/ -=-=- 350 Bay Area ? 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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:38:54 -0700 From: carolineyacoub at att.net To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Reminder: RALLY Tomorrow at Obama Fundraiser in SF ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: 350 Bay Area.org To: caroline yacoub Sent: Tue, April 2, 2013 12:35:45 AM Subject: Reminder: RALLY Tomorrow at Obama Fundraiser in SF We are building a grassroots climate movement, working for deep CO2 emission reductions in the San Francisco Bay Area & beyond. More Action ? Less Hot Air RALLY At President Obama's Fundraiser in San Francisco Tell Obama to take Climate Action Now: Reject the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday, April 3 ? 5:30pm ? Getty Mansion 2870 Broadway St at Baker St, San Francisco Sponsored by: CREDO, 350.org, 350 Bay Area, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Rainforest Action Network, Alliance for Climate Education and others. (RSVP) Oct. 25, 2011 - San Francisco Remember This? Over a thousand Protest at Obama?s Fundraiser April 1st, 2013 ? Arkansas A reminder: Keystone XL will carry 10 times the bitumen of this tar sands pipeline spill Just as Bay Area residents made a statement a year and a half ago, surprising Mr. Obama and his staff, so this year, let our voices be heard. Mr. Obama: you cannot simultaneously protect the climate and protect fossil fuel profits. Reject the Pipeline To Thermal Hell. Come join the party and add your voice! BREAKING: We just found out about another fundraiser in Atherton: Click here to RSVP for the action in Atherton: act.350.org/signup/Atherton_KXL_Birddog/ What: Atherton action to stop Keystone XL Where: Corner of Alameda de las Pulgas and Walsh Road in Atherton When: Wednesday, April 4rd at 8:15am In coordination with local residents of the South Bay, 350 Silicon Valley, CREDO, and 350.org. Next Major Bay Area Climate Event: Earth Day RALLY for Climate and Environmental Justice Call for Justice for Communities disproportionately affected by climate change and pollution and for Future Generations Monday, April 22, 12PM ? San Francisco Join 350 Bay Area and over 60 environmental and climate groups to demand justice by the EPA. 350 Bay Area - 350bayarea.org - info at 350bayarea.org - Donate http://www.350bayarea.org/ -=-=- 350 Bay Area ? San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States This email was sent to carolineyacoub at att.net. To stop receiving emails, click here. You can also keep up with 350 Bay Area.org on Twitter. -=-=- Created with NationBuilder, the essential toolkit for leaders. _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Apr 2 09:18:02 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Fw: GP RELEASE Green Party challenges US State Dept. on Keystone XL pipeline, citing ethics & spill dangers In-Reply-To: <1364888934.68399.YahooMailRC@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1364888934.68399.YahooMailRC@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1364919482.10850.YahooMailRC@web181306.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Please send a copy of the letter--or your own strongly worded letter--to your representative, senator, and president. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Spencer Graves To: Caroline Yacoub Cc: Jim Doyle ; Drew ; Betsy Wolf-Graves ; John Thielking Sent: Tue, April 2, 2013 2:01:28 AM Subject: Re: Fw: GP RELEASE Green Party challenges US State Dept. on Keystone XL pipeline, citing ethics & spill dangers On 4/2/2013 12:48 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: While this is a strongly worded letter from THE Green Party, it is only addressed to one official, and it is only one letter. Wouldn't it have more impact if every Green group in the country sent it to, oh, say, the president or appropriate members of Congress? > ????? Would you mind forwarding this to GPSCC -- plus all your relatives and friends not on this list -- asking all to contact their US Representative and 2 US Senators (Boxer and Feinstein for your California contacts)?? ?????? Spencer Caroline Yacoub > > >----- Forwarded Message ---- >From: shane que hee >Sent: Tue, April 2, 2013 12:29:26 AM >Subject: GP RELEASE Green Party challenges US State Dept. on Keystone XL >pipeline, citing ethics & spill dangers > > >Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 22:37:23 -0700 >>Subject: GP RELEASE Green Party challenges US State Dept. on Keystone XL >>pipeline, citing ethics & spill dangers >>From: dcsgpnews10 >> >> >>GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES >>http://www.gp.org >> >>For Immediate Release: >>Tuesday, April 2, 2013 >> >>Contacts: >>Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org >>Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org >> >> >>Green Party challenges US State Dept. on conflict of interest in consultant's >>environmental impact statement for Keystone XL pipeline >> >>? Greens note recent pipeline ruptures, including Friday's Canadian crude-oil >>spill in Arkansas >> >>? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on environmental >>issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-ecological.php >> >> >>WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States has sent the U.S. State >>Department a strongly worded objection to TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL >>pipeline. >> >>The letter, appended below, cites environmental concerns as well as the conflict >>of interest that compromises the draft environmental impact statement on which >>the Obama Adminstration may base its decision on the pipeline. >> >>The statement, prepared by fossil fuel consultant Environmental Resources >>Management, was paid for by TransCanada, a probable violation of legal and >>ethical standards. >> >>The letter to the State Department, which mentions a July 2011 ExxonMobil >>pipeline rupture that dumped 63,000 gallons of Canadian crude oil into the >>Yellowstone River in Montana, was sent just as news was breaking on Friday's >>ExxonMobil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying Canadian >>crude oil ruptured >>(http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57577164/homes-evacuated-after-exxonmobil-oil-pipeline-spill-in-arkansas/ >> ). >> >>The Green Party has taken a strong stand against the tar-sands oil pipelines: >>see "Green Party urges national protest against the proposed Keystone XL and >>Trailbreaker pipelines" (January 31, 2013, >>http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=583) and "Greens to participate in >>the Feb. 17 protest in DC against the Keystone XL Pipeline, after the Green >>Party endorses the event" (February 13, 2013, >>http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=588). >> >>U.S. Department of State >>Attn: Genevieve Walker, NEPA Coordinator >>2201 C Street NW, Room 2726 >>Washington, D.C. 20520 >>http://www.keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/ >>keystonecomments at state.gov >> >>Dear Ms. Walker: >>? >>The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) registers its opposition to the >>draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) released by the U.S. >>State Department (DOS) for TransCanada?s proposed Keystone XL Pipeline project >>on both ethical and environmental grounds. >> >>? >>First, GPUS understands that DOS, which was responsible for reviewing the >>project on behalf of the federal government and lacking the in-house expertise >>to do so, recruited fossil fuel consultant Environmental Resources Management >>(ERM) to draft the required environmental impact statement. GPUS is concerned >>about the conflict of interest presented by the fact that TransCanada paid ERM >>an undisclosed sum to produce the SEIS. While it may be commonplace for >>industries to pay consultants to review projects subject to U.S. government >>approval, the scale of this project and its potential adverse environmental >>impact required DOS to hire a consultant with no financial ties to the project >>sponsor. In other words, the consultant hired to draft the SEIS should have been >>paid by DOS, not TransCanada. >> >>? >>GPUS also deplores the fact that DOS omitted the amount TransCanada paid ERM >>from documents published on its website, as indicated by a Grist article >>published on March 6, 2013: >>? >>http://grist.org/article/state-department-keystone-xl-report-actually-written-by-transcanada-contractor/ >> >>? >>The failure of DOS to report what TransCanada paid ERM shows more than the >>appearance of a conflict of interest. DOS' deliberate withholding of information >>relevant to the SEIS is contrary even to the de minimis legal standards >>governing conflict of interest in the U.S.today and constitutes a betrayal of >>public trust. >>? >>Second, ERM's conclusion that the project has no significant environmental >>impact, because tar sands crude will be transported one way or the other or that >>other alternatives may produce even more impacts, turns the National >>Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on its head. NEPA requires an assessment of the >>project's benefits in light of its own costs, not just the costs of some other >>proposed project, such as transporting diluted bitumin (dilbit) by rail car >>instead of pipe. >> >>? >>Furthermore the costs of pipeline spills from crude oil consisting of benzene >>laced dilbit have already been documented. "Tar Sands Pipelines Safety Risks" >>issued by NRDC, NWF, Pipeline Safety Trust and the Sierra Club in February, >>2011, reported that a? July, 2010 pipeline rupture dumped? 840,000 gallons of >>dilbit into Michigan's Kalamazoo River, causing 60 percent of the people in the >>vicinity to experience "respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms >>consistent with acute exposure to benzene and other petroleum related >>chemicals." The spill required? "over 150,000 feet of boom, 175 heavy spill >>response trucks, 43 boats, and 48 oil skimmers" to clean up. The dollar cost of >>the cleanup has been estimated by the Canadian pipeline owner Enbridge at $550 >>million, and the crisis is not over. In fact on March 14, 2013 the U.S. >>Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered Enbridge to dredge the Kalamazoo >>River of the the gooey, toxic sludge that sunk to the bottom of the river and >>has yet to be removed. >>? >>It also bears mentioning that Exxon Mobil spent $135 million to clean up a July, >>2011 pipeline rupture that dumped 63,000 gallons of crude oil along 70 miles of >>the once pristine Yellowstone River in Montana. >>? >>In light of the obvious financial conflict of interest in TransCanada?s payment >>of an undisclosed sum to ERM to produce an SEIS on its behalf and in light of >>the massive costs associated with remediation of dilbit spills, GPUS believes >>that the finding of no significant impact is unwarranted and urges DOS to employ >>a consultant directly with no ties past or present to TransCanada to produce a >>final SEIS for the Keystone XL Pipeline project. >>? >>Sincerely yours, >>? >>Budd Dickinson >>Secretary, Green Party of the United States >>? >> >>MORE INFORMATION >> >>Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org >>202-319-7191 >>? Green candidate database and campaign information: >>http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml >>? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml >>? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers >>? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/2012/ballot-access.html >>? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php >>? Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net/ >>? Discussion Forum https://secure.gpus.org/secure/GreenPartyForum >>? Google+ http://www.gp.org/google >>? Twitter http://twitter.com/gpus >>? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus >>? GP-TV Twitter page http://www.gp.org/twitter >>? Facebook page http://www.gp.org/facebook >> >>Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the United >>States >>http://gp.org/greenpages-blog >> >> >>~ END >> -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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Less Hot Air* > > ** > > > *RALLY At President Obama's Fundraiser > > **in San Francisco * > > > Tell Obama to take Climate Action Now: > Reject the Keystone XL pipeline > > > Wednesday, April 3 ? 5:30pm ? Getty Mansion > 2870 Broadway St at Baker St, San Francisco > > > Sponsored by: /CREDO, //350.org/ > /, > //350 Bay Area//, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Rainforest > Action Network, Alliance for Climate Education/ and others. (RSVP > ) > > Obama2011Rally.png > > *Oct. 25, 2011 - San Francisco* > Remember This? Over a thousand > Protest at Obama?s Fundraiser > > > > ArkansasOilSPill2013.png > > *April 1^st , 2013 ? Arkansas* > A reminder: Keystone XL will carry 10 times the bitumen of this tar > sands pipeline spill > > > Just as Bay Area residents made a statement a year and a half ago, > surprising Mr. Obama and his staff, so this year, let our voices be > heard. Mr. Obama: you cannot simultaneously protect the climate and > protect fossil fuel profits. Reject the Pipeline To Thermal Hell. *Come > join the party and add your voice! > > > BREAKING: We just found out about another fundraiser in Atherton:* > *Click here to RSVP for the action in Atherton: > act.350.org/signup/Atherton_KXL_Birddog/ > *** > *What*: Atherton action to stop Keystone XL > *Where: *Corner of Alameda de las Pulgas and Walsh Road in Atherton > *When: *Wednesday, April 4rd at 8:15am > In coordination with local residents of the South Bay, 350 Silicon > Valley > , > CREDO, and 350.org > . > ** > > > Next Major Bay Area Climate Event: > > > > > Earth Day RALLY for Climate and Environmental Justice > > > Call for Justice for Communities disproportionately affected by climate > change and pollution and for Future Generations > > Monday, April 22, 12PM ? San Francisco > Join 350 Bay Area and over 60 environmental and climate groups to demand > justice by the EPA. > > 350 Bay Area - 350bayarea.org > > - info at 350bayarea.org - Donate > > > http://www.350bayarea.org/ > > > > -=-=- > 350 Bay Area ? San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States > This email was sent to carolineyacoub at att.net. To stop receiving emails, > click here > . > > You can also keep up with 350 Bay Area.org on Twitter > . > > -=-=- > > Created with NationBuilder > , > the essential toolkit for leaders. > > _______________________________________________ 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 > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Apr 2 12:22:23 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:22:23 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] James Hansen In-Reply-To: <515B2F86.9020201@earthlink.net> References: <515B2F86.9020201@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <515B2FEF.80805@earthlink.net> "NASA's James Hansen, Leaving Post to Fight Climate Change Full Time" "'As a government employee, you can?t testify against the government.'" http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/02 Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Apr 2 12:58:17 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:58:17 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Give A Little Green This Spring! In-Reply-To: <1425708915.-2019375292@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> References: <1425708915.-2019375292@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> Message-ID: <515B3859.2090209@earthlink.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Green Party of the United States Subject: Give A Little Green This Spring! Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:25:03 -0400 (EDT) Size: 10961 URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Wed Apr 3 10:12:24 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 10:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [350SiliconValley] **NEW Location for Atherton rally April 4 Message-ID: <1365009144.75255.YahooMailRC@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Lisa Altieri To: 350siliconvalley at googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, April 2, 2013 8:58:07 PM Subject: [350SiliconValley] **NEW Location for Atherton rally April 4 NOTE NEW LOCATION FOR RALLY, DUE TO CHANGE IN PRESIDENT OBAMA?S ROUTE TO ATHERTON.? MEMBERS OF THE RAGING GRANNIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AT THE RALLY. Please tell everyone you know who may be intending to be at the rally. ? Obama Visit to Atherton Sparks Rally against Keystone XL pipeline ? ? Local Peninsula residents concerned about climate change will hold a rally opposing the Keystone XL pipeline on Thursday, April 4, at 8:15 a.m. at the at the intersection of corner of Alameda de las Pulgas and Valparaiso in Atherton. The location is on the uphill side of Valparaiso, near the fire station.? ? ? Valparaiso will be closed on the Bay (north, lower) side of Alameda.? Reach the upper section of Alameda by going uphill (south) on Sharon or Avy and turning right on Altshul.? Valparaiso intersects with Altshul. ? The purpose of the rally is to influence President Obama to refuse to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring crude oil from tar sands in Canada down to oil refineries on the Gulf coast.? The President is expected to be at a fundraiser in a private residence in Atherton near the Alameda that morning. ?-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mid Peninsula Global Coolers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mid-peninsula-global-coolers+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ? ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "350 Silicon Valley" group. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/350SiliconValley?hl=en. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From: "Lisa Altieri" Subject: [350SiliconValley] **NEW Location for Atherton rally April 4 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 20:58:03 -0700 Size: 10721 URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed Apr 3 17:14:10 2013 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:14:10 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: Dark money in California In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dark money in California To: snug.bug at hotmail.com Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:30:23 -0700 From: noreply at list.signon.org Brian, The grassroots momentum to expose secret money in California elections has been outstanding -- more than 5,000 of your fellow Californians have stepped up and signed our petition to state senators. Now we have to keep it going. Advocates are beginning to meet with key legislators later this week to ask them to support the California DISCLOSE Act, and the issue will be taken up in Senate committees in the next few weeks. Every name added to this petition puts more pressure on state senators to do the right thing and bring dark money in California elections out of the shadows. If you haven't already, will you add your voice to the more than 5,000 Californians who have already spoken out, and help our petition reach 10,000 names this week? Join the California Clean Money Campaign and Progressives United, and sign the petition telling your senator to support the California DISCLOSE Act today. The California DISCLOSE Act (Senate Bill 52) is our best chance in a long time to root out the influence that anonymous, massive contributions from wealthy individual and corporate interests wield in state politics. The bill would force greater transparency in elections by ensuring that groups running ads display their top donors on the ads themselves. The legislation came within just one vote of passage last year. We can push it all the way in 2013, but we must be organized better, and earlier. You've already shown a commitment to this fundamental reform. If you haven't signed onto the fight this year, now is the time to act. Sign the petition from reform groups Progressives United and the California Clean Money Campaign. Thank you for stepping up again in this important fight. And thank you for uniting as a progressive, Russ Feingold Founder Progressives United P.S. - If you've already signed this petition, forward this email to your contacts, and share the petition on Facebook with your friends and family. This message was sent to Brian Good by Russ Feingold from the SignOn.org system. MoveOn.org Civic Action sponsors SignOn.org, but does not endorse specific campaigns or the contents of this message. To unsubscribe or report this email as inappropriate, click here: http://www.signon.org/unsub.html?i=11007-2615048-7O98VJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Stop Complaining and Join :) > > >? > > ? > > >Dear Edy -- > >This is to announce the opening of the applications period for election to the >GPCA Coordinating Committee? and GPUS Delegation, for two year terms running >from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015.? > > >Ranked choice vote elections will be held separately for six female seats and >six male seats on the Coordinating Committee, and 13 delegate seats and 13 >alternate seats on the GPUS Delegation. >Applications will be taken through Monday evening, April 29 and should be sent >here; and must include a biography, along with what you wish to accomplish on >the Coordinating Committee or GPUS Delegation. As per GPCA Bylaws, elections >will be by the Standing General Assembly (SGA), with a six-week discussion >period from Monday, May 6 to Sunday, June 16, followed by a one-week vote, from >Monday, June 17 to Sunday, June 23. > >Candidates shall be given time to present themselves and respond to questions on >an SGA teleconference during the discussion period, and to the Napa General >Assembly on the morning of June 22. > > >The Duties and Responsibilities of the Coordinating Committee are described here >and for the GPUS Delegation here. > > >Even before the SGA discussion period begins, candidates' applications will be >posted on these pages, in the interest of transparency and equal access to >information: > >Election: Coordinating Committee, six female seats, July 2013 - June 2015 >Election: Coordinating Committee, six male seats, July 2013 - June 2015 >Election: GPUS Delegation, 13 delegates, July 2013 - June 2015 >Election: GPUS Delegation, 13 alternates, July 2013 - June 2015 > >Please let us know if you have any questions. > >Sanda Everette, Alex Shantz >Co-coordinators, GPCA Coordinating Committee > >www.cagreens.org >www.twitter.com/gpca >www.facebook.com/cagreens >www.facebook.com/groups/8071416222 >lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-forum >cagreens.nationbuilder.com/donate > > >-=-=- >Green Party of California ? 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For Every Social Security Judas, a Primary Challenge" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/05-8 Gerry From jules.c.brouillet at gmail.com Tue Apr 9 01:03:54 2013 From: jules.c.brouillet at gmail.com (Jules Brouillet) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 01:03:54 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_Obamacare_and_America=92s_Yo?= =?windows-1252?q?uth=2C_Saturday=2C_April_20th?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear friends, You're invited to join the Peninsula Young Democrats for a forum on the implications of the Affordable Care Act for youth as it continues to be implemented. Pass the word on! Sincerely, Jules * * *Saturday, April 20, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. * *?Obamacare and America?s Youth?* * * *Everything you want?and need? to know about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) affects YOU and your children. Join our distinguished panel for an eye-opening discussion on the components of this act, how it affects medical professional training programs and community health centers, what legal and medical researchers are presently saying about it, what policymakers were trying to achieve through it, and your interests on this subject!* * *Do not miss this timely discussion about how Obamacare affects YOU as a young American, parent, or grandparent! * **Where: Redwood City Public Library, Redwood Shores Branch, **399 Marine Parkway Redwood City, CA 94065* Moderator: Shelly Masur, Redwood City School District Trustee, community activist and advocate for youth. Panelists: Michael Fischetti, MPH, MD, Oncologist, Kaiser Permante, healthcare activist Morgan Muir, JD, Legal Fellow, UCF/UCH Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy Vanessa Raditz, BA, Health Navigator, Petaluma Health Center, Occupy Wall Street organizer Sponsored by Peninsula Young Democrats, Cory Wolbach, President, and the Peninsula Democratic Coalition. Questions? Email peninsulayoungdemocrats at gmail.com Event Webpage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexcathy at aol.com Wed Apr 10 12:33:09 2013 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:33:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] BREAKING NEWS: Los Angeles Times Endorses GP Candidate Nancy Pearlman Message-ID: <8D004395E003D0C-16D4-25BD5@webmail-vd016.sysops.aol.com> Dear Green Friends, Good News. The Los Angeles Times endorsed Nancy Pearlman for reelectionto the community colleges board of trustees. In the editorial they admittedsupporting the Establishment "reform" candidate in the primary, but that Nancy is superiorto the Democratic Party Machine Hack in the general election. She speaks with deep knowledge about the district's foibles and needs, and correctly identifies its most urgent challenge: providing students with better and more efficient remedial education. She has been more apt than most of her colleagues on the board to challenge the status quo, including some of the bond expenditures. Yes! That is exactly what we want people to think about the GP inOne-Party-Democratic Los Angeles (and One-Party Democratic San Jose and One-Party Democratic Oakland and ... ). Has the L.A. Times ever endorsed a GP candidate before?This is good and it also shows how, sometimes, the "Top Two" primary can work for us. Alex Walker Los Angeles Greens = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Published by The Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2013 Nancy Pearlman for college seat By The Times editorial board The Los Angeles Community College District's Seat 6 was the only one with an incumbent candidate running in the March elections. It was also the most vigorously contested of the three races. Perhaps in the wake of The Times' 2011 series exposing waste and ethical lapses in the district's expenditure of billions of dollars of bond money on new construction, opponents sensed that longtime board member Nancy Pearlman, one of the building program's main advocates, was vulnerable. That was especially true after David Vela, an aide to Assemblyman Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina), won the support of the major labor groups. Bolstered by that support, Vela received more votes than Pearlman, but neither came close to the majority needed to avoid a runoff. The Times had endorsed Tom Oliver, the articulate and hard-charging former president of Pierce College, in the first round. But with Oliver out of the running, Pearlman is the better choice of the two remaining candidates. She speaks with deep knowledge about the district's foibles and needs, and correctly identifies its most urgent challenge: providing students with better and more efficient remedial education. She has been more apt than most of her colleagues on the board to challenge the status quo, including some of the bond expenditures. She should continue to voice her concerns. Too few of the district's 141,000 students reach their goals, and there are nearly perpetual accreditation problems at one college or another; this board can't afford complacency. Vela is an affable candidate but one with too little understanding of the task ahead. He speaks with justifiable pride about initiatives in the Montebello school district -- such as a small, successful academy that guides students toward careers, and an anti-bullying program -- but these minor accomplishments are dwarfed by the systemic reforms required at the colleges, such as state-mandated counseling to help more students complete their academic or career training. One of Vela's key campaign issues has been a vow to cut administrative costs, a common mantra of teachers unions. It might be possible to make more cuts, but that's not the district's top priority right now. Indeed, some of the reforms required by a recently passed state law -- such as better tracking of students' progress -- might well justify increased administrative costs. It's worth noting that the campaign for Seat 6 -- candidates run for particular seats though the elections are at-large -- demonstrates why a new law governing community college elections was a mistake. The law allows districts to skip runoffs, so that the top vote-getter wins the seat even if his or her victory falls dramatically short of a majority. The Los Angeles district has not adopted the law as policy yet, and it shouldn't. Voters tend to pay scant attention to these elections and, faced with a crowded field for a single seat, have too little opportunity to make an informed choice. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Apr 11 12:12:05 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:12:05 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Obama budget throws American people under the bus, gives the rich a free ride In-Reply-To: <5166f749b0155_633d118de30106252@worker3.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> References: <5166f749b0155_633d118de30106252@worker3.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> Message-ID: <51670B05.8020608@earthlink.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Jill Stein Subject: Obama budget throws American people under the bus, gives the rich a free ride Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:47:53 +0000 Size: 21906 URL: From alexcathy at aol.com Fri Apr 12 07:51:04 2013 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:51:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Violence and Rape ... In California Message-ID: <8D005A44A8B9DA5-1314-4C592@webmail-m242.sysops.aol.com> "We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."-- Martin Luther King Dear Old Santa Clara Green Friends, Saratoga is a very affluent upscale suburb in California's so-called Silicon Valley. Just goes to show thesick cult of mindless violence and rape is not just "over there" in India, Palestine, or Africa and not just the "inner city" of "those people." Needless to say, these monstrous goings-on in the context of "Silicon Valley" are a violation of just aboutall of our 10 Key values, even though, for reasons I do not understand, these kinds of stories never see tomove what 'ole Alex Cockburn used to call the "pwogwessive" activist class. Well,I have 4 grandchildren growing up in California -- 2 down here in L.A. and 2 up in Silicon Valley.At this stage of my life, I am not ashamed to say that making a better community for them IS my first priority. Alex Walker Los Angeles Greens = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Published by The San Jose Mercury News, Friday, April 12, 2013 Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide By Eric Kurhi SARATOGA -- Three 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday in the sexual battery of an intoxicated and unconscious 15-year-old Saratoga High School student, who killed herself last fall after photos of the assault went viral.s Angeles Community College District's Seat 6 was the only one with an incumbent candidate running in the March elections. It was also the most vigorously contested of the three races. Perhaps in the wake of The Times' 2011 series exposing waste and ethical lapses in the district's expenditure of billions of dollars of bond money on new construction, opponents sensed that longtime board member Nancy Pearlman, one of the building program's main advocates, was vulnerable. When digital photos showing what had happened "spread like wildfire," the aftermath was so humiliating and torturous the gifted and well-loved Audrie Pott could no longer take it, said Robert Allard, the attorney for her family. "Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyberbullying," Allard said. She posted on Facebook, calling it the "worst day in her life," a life she now wanted to end -- which she did Sept. 10, eight days after the assault... Link to Original Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In California In-Reply-To: <8D005A44A8B9DA5-1314-4C592@webmail-m242.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D005A44A8B9DA5-1314-4C592@webmail-m242.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <5169DCD1.7050709@earthlink.net> alexcathy at aol.com wrote: > > > /"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to > a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit > motives and property rights are considered more important than > people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism > are incapable of being conquered." -- Martin Luther King / Sounds right to me. Might even be an understatement. > > Dear Old Santa Clara Green Friends, > > Saratoga is a very affluent upscale suburb in California's so-called > Silicon Valley. Just goes to show the sick cult of mindless violence and > rape is not just "over there" in India, Palestine, or Africa and not > just the "inner city" of "those people." > > Needless to say, these monstrous goings-on in the context of "Silicon > Valley" are a violation of just about all of our 10 Key values, even > though, for reasons I do not understand, these kinds of stories never > see to move what 'ole Alex Cockburn used to call the "pwogwessive" > activist class. Well, I have 4 grandchildren growing up in California -- > 2 down here in L.A. and 2 up in Silicon Valley. At this stage of my > life, I am not ashamed to say that making a better community for them > *IS* my first priority.// Ok. I have not seen a response to your email yet. Did you want one? The sentence with "pwogwessive" in it seems to hint at wanting a request. I don't really know what to say. I was a little bothered by the story, but not a lot because, though it was an awful crime, it is not so extreme in our society, unfortunately. (I read about it yesterday in the SJMN at the library yesterday.) I hope I am wrong, but I suspect that many of us on this list are suffering from "Activist Fatigue". I don't know what to do about that. Maybe some kind of mutual support would help, but IMHO the GP has not been good about that. Anyways, I agree that what happened in Saratoga was terrible, and I don't understand the boys who did it. And I especially don't understand them photographing it because it indicates a cluelessness on their part. And I think something should be done about it. And other kinds of violence too. Got some suggestions? Gerry > > Alex Walker > Los Angeles Greens > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > *Published by The San Jose Mercury News, Friday, April 12, 2013* > *Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide* > > Audrie Potts > *By Eric Kurhi * > > SARATOGA -- Three 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday in the sexual > battery of an intoxicated and unconscious 15-year-old Saratoga High > School student, who killed herself last fall after photos of the assault > went viral. s Angeles Community College District's Seat 6 was the only > one with an incumbent candidate running in the March elections. It was > also the most vigorously contested of the three races. Perhaps in the > wake of The Times' 2011 series exposing waste and ethical lapses in the > district's expenditure of billions of dollars of bond money on new > construction, opponents sensed that longtime board member Nancy > Pearlman, one of the building program's main advocates, was vulnerable. > > When digital photos showing what had happened "spread like wildfire," > the aftermath was so humiliating and torturous the gifted and well-loved > Audrie Pott could no longer take it, said Robert Allard, the attorney > for her family. > > "Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyberbullying," Allard said. > > She posted on Facebook, calling it the "worst day in her life," a life > she now wanted to end -- which she did Sept. 10, eight days after the > assault... > > > > /Link to Original Story: > http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls > / > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Apr 13 18:09:46 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Violence and Rape ... In California In-Reply-To: <5169DCD1.7050709@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1365901786.29947.YahooMailClassic@web122903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I will just keep on doing what I'm doing already.? Promote nonviolent movies via www.peacemovies.com. The direct mail campaign for my Peacemovies 2011 and 2012 booklets is scheduled to launch on or about May 14th. Wish me luck. Thanks. ? John Thielking ? PS I?should be able to?find space in next month's newsletter for a bit of a discussion about this issue. That way it also ends up being published in the Peacemovies 2013 booklet.? A preview should be available on the web site in a few days from now. --- On Sat, 4/13/13, Gerry Gras wrote: From: Gerry Gras Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Violence and Rape ... In California To: alexcathy at aol.com, sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 3:31 PM alexcathy at aol.com wrote: > > >? ???/"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to >? ???a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit >? ???motives and property rights are considered more important than >? ???people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism >? ???are incapable of being conquered." -- Martin Luther King / Sounds right to me.? Might even be an understatement. > > Dear Old Santa Clara Green Friends, > > Saratoga is a very affluent upscale suburb in California's so-called > Silicon Valley. Just goes to show the sick cult of mindless violence and > rape is not just "over there" in India, Palestine, or Africa and not > just the "inner city" of "those people." > > Needless to say, these monstrous goings-on in the context of "Silicon > Valley" are a violation of just about all of our 10 Key values, even > though, for reasons I do not understand, these kinds of stories never > see to move what 'ole Alex Cockburn used to call the "pwogwessive" > activist class. Well, I have 4 grandchildren growing up in California -- > 2 down here in L.A. and 2 up in Silicon Valley. At this stage of my > life, I am not ashamed to say that making a better community for them > *IS* my first priority.// Ok. I have not seen a response to your email yet.? Did you want one? The sentence with "pwogwessive" in it seems to hint at wanting a request. I don't really know what to say.? I was a little bothered by the story, but not a lot because, though it was an awful crime, it is not so extreme in our society, unfortunately.? (I read about it yesterday in the SJMN at the library yesterday.) I hope I am wrong, but I suspect that many of us on this list are suffering from "Activist Fatigue".? I don't know what to do about that.? Maybe some kind of mutual support would help, but IMHO the GP has not been good about that. Anyways, I agree that what happened in Saratoga was terrible, and I don't understand the boys who did it.? And I especially don't understand them photographing it because it indicates a cluelessness on their part.? And I think something should be done about it.? And other kinds of violence too. Got some suggestions? Gerry > > Alex Walker > Los Angeles Greens > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > *Published by The San Jose Mercury News, Friday, April 12, 2013* > *Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide* > > Audrie Potts > *By Eric Kurhi * > > SARATOGA -- Three 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday in the sexual > battery of an intoxicated and unconscious 15-year-old Saratoga High > School student, who killed herself last fall after photos of the assault > went viral. s Angeles Community College District's Seat 6 was the only > one with an incumbent candidate running in the March elections. It was > also the most vigorously contested of the three races. Perhaps in the > wake of The Times' 2011 series exposing waste and ethical lapses in the > district's expenditure of billions of dollars of bond money on new > construction, opponents sensed that longtime board member Nancy > Pearlman, one of the building program's main advocates, was vulnerable. > > When digital photos showing what had happened "spread like wildfire," > the aftermath was so humiliating and torturous the gifted and well-loved > Audrie Pott could no longer take it, said Robert Allard, the attorney > for her family. > > "Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyberbullying," Allard said. > > She posted on Facebook, calling it the "worst day in her life," a life > she now wanted to end -- which she did Sept. 10, eight days after the > assault... > > > > /Link to Original Story: > http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls > / > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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John Thielking --- On Sat, 4/13/13, Sam Adler-Bell, DemandProgress.org wrote: From: Sam Adler-Bell, DemandProgress.org Subject: Clout To: "John Thielking" Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 4:36 PM #yiv1406009631 body, #yiv1406009631 td, #yiv1406009631 font {font-size:10pt;} #yiv1406009631 #yiv1406009631 td p {margin:0em;} #yiv1406009631 p {margin:1em 0em;} #yiv1406009631 td div p {margin:1em 0em;} #yiv1406009631 #yiv1406009631 .yiv1406009631X0uMP p {margin:1em 0;} John, Alright. ?This email should serve as a pick-me-up. We told you about that frightening new proposal that actually would have?expanded and harshened?the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- the law that makes it a potential federal crime to violate a website's fine-print terms of service agreement. We asked you to help us stop it in its tracks. Well, here's the big headline: HUFFINGTON POST: Internet Activists Win First-Round Victory In Fight Over Anti-Hacking Law It required a mad (exhausting) fury of activism and lobbying, but it looks like we've won this battle. Please click here if you're able to donate 5, 10, or 20 dollars so we can keep on fighting. And we're fresh off of our rally in Boston this afternoon -- we went offline and took to the streets. And as you can see from this photo, it was a great success. We rallied downtown and marched to the court house where Aaron's trial would've been coming to a close this week, and demanded?criminal justice reform?and?accountability for the prosecutors. This rally capped off a couple of weeks of activism in opposition to that expansion proposal and in support of CFAA reform -- which included 150,000 or so emails to Congress, thousands of tweets and phone calls, and a dozen meetings on Capitol Hill with key Congressional offices. As the Huffington Post reported: Internet activists won a major victory this week when House Republicans put the brakes on an effort to vote on reforms to federal anti-hacking laws. The reforms had become a legislative flashpoint in the wake of the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who was facing a bevy of charges under the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) before committing suicide in January. Please click here if you're able to donate 5, 10, or 20 dollars so we can keep on fighting. So as you can see, our work together is having a concrete impact. ?The ground has shifted in our favor, on the CFAA and on Internet freedom in general. ? We shocked the political establishment by responding to the new CFAA proposal so quickly, and we have ever-growing credibility and clout with policymakers and the media as we make our case about these issues that we all hold so dear. But we'll of course need to keep pressing forward. ?In addition to the CFAA, we need to return our focus fighting the privacy-obliterating cyber-snooping CISPA bill this week, and there's much more on the horizon. Please click here if you're able to donate 5, 10, or 20 dollars so we can keep on fighting. Thanks. ? Demand Progress Paid for by Demand Progress (DemandProgress.org) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Sun Apr 14 19:44:48 2013 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:44:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Locals [was agenda items for april meeting;] Message-ID: <159181.5a65a09f.3e9cc3a0@aol.com> April 14, 2013 Our GPSCC Bylaws provide for locals. Initially (1992) the GPSCC had locals, but after the initial excitement of the initial petition drive, participation shrunk so that locals could not be sustained. When I joined the GPSCC in Fall 1994, meetings were hardly attended (3-4 people; you know who you were). If find the suggestion to organize locals lacking a realistic assessment of where the GPSCC is organizationally. Beyond that (as agenda preparer for the April meeting) I find the lack of a clear and detailed proposal an indication of our collective amateurism and a symptom of the limitations of our all-volunteer mode of operation. Additionally, I find the idea of "cultivating" from other organizations something that those groups probablyu would not want doen to them and that we wouild not want done to us. Warner In a message dated 3/29/2013 3:40:51 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net writes: Following Drew's suggestions, let's make these two items agenda items for April 1) institute Locals 2) the following can be used as a part of forming locals or it can be locations where the Greens make themselves noticeable and they also seem to fit Sandy's notion of going where the need is again, Drew is the source: tenant associations, block clubs, food-buying clubs, baby-sitting pools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Sun Apr 14 20:09:11 2013 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:09:11 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Draft Agenda for GPSCC April 25th Meeting -- Additions/Comments Requested Message-ID: <140f0d.3a85a6eb.3e9cc957@aol.com> GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting April 25, 2013 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, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Treasurer?s Report ? including update on failure of GPCA Clearinghouse to deliver three tote bags or GPCA to return payment -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes) Additional Proposal for criteria for guest speakers at meetings / continued from March meeting ? Jim Doyle (15 Minutes) Jim Doyle Proposal: THE SPEAKER SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION, DATA, OR TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR VOTER REGISTRATION, FUNDRAISING, AND GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS. For example, a union organizer, a community leader or activist, a community leader from an ethnic group. The topic should reflect the ten key values. Presentation of proposed GPSCC Bylaws amendment to expand County Council authority between monthly general membership meetings / continued from March meeting ? Text of proposal needed -- Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Discussion about locals ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Update report on Middle East speaker program being organized by local Peace and Freedom Party members (continued from February 28th meeting) ? John Thielkind (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? Presenter? ? (10 Minutes) Reports from April tabling events ? Participants (10) Plans for May/June Tabling ? 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And rather than restate my whole long earlier post about why I think our centrally organized county violates several of our ten key including Decentralization, Future Focus/Sustainability, Respect for Diversity and Grassroots Democracy... not to mention that school and other board, city state assembly, senate and even congressional campaigns can not be effectively organized by a an organization with a county-wide span of control as is testified to by our inability to do so in all these years (note that the Dems don't even try to do that despite all the resources they have to draw upon!!!)... I'll just say that I'm going to be putting my main energy into Locals and clubs (specifically spinning up the De Anza College Green Party Club and the county web site), rather than other worthy projects at the county level. ?Other people can do whatever they feel called to do and if others are called to work with me on Locals and Clubs I'll welcome it, but if not it won't deter me and I'll cheer on whatever the group decides it should do. I think people picking their focus based on their own calling is as it should be. In time I also will look to share what I've been picking up about community organizing as I've been taking the Leadership in Social Change and Camp Wellstone community organizing classes at De Anza College this year. ?That will have to wait till some time later for me. ?Sandy has partaken of some of these experiences as well (not to mention all the years of organizing he has under his belt), so he may be able to share these things more rapidly and effectively than I can for now. Green is GO! Drew ? ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: "WB4D23 at aol.com" >To: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 7:44 PM >Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Locals [was agenda items for april meeting;] > > > >April 14, 2013 >? >Our GPSCC Bylaws provide for locals.? Initially (1992) the GPSCC had locals, but after the initial excitement of the initial petition drive, participation shrunk so that locals could not be sustained.? When I joined the GPSCC in Fall 1994, meetings were hardly attended (3-4 people; you know who you were).? If find the suggestion to organize locals lacking a realistic assessment of where the GPSCC is organizationally.? Beyond that (as agenda preparer for the April meeting) I find the lack of a clear and detailed proposal an indication of our collective amateurism and a symptom of the limitations of our all-volunteer mode of operation.? Additionally, I find the idea of "cultivating" from other organizations something that those groups probablyu would not want doen to them and that we wouild not want done to us.? Warner >? >In a message dated 3/29/2013 3:40:51 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net writes: >Following? Drew's suggestions, let's make these two items >>agenda items for April >> >>1) institute Locals >> >>2)? ?? the following can be used as? a part of forming locals >>? ? ? ? or it can be locations where the Greens make themselves noticeable >>? ? ? ? and they also seem to fit Sandy's notion of going where the need is >>? ? again, Drew is the source: >> >>? ? tenant associations, block clubs, food-buying clubs, >>? ? baby-sitting pools >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When machines and computers, profit > motives and property rights are considered more important than > people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism > are incapable of being conquered." -- Martin Luther King / > > Dear Old Santa Clara Green Friends, > > Saratoga is a very affluent upscale suburb in California's so-called > Silicon Valley. Just goes to show the sick cult of mindless violence and > rape is not just "over there" in India, Palestine, or Africa and not > just the "inner city" of "those people." > > Needless to say, these monstrous goings-on in the context of "Silicon > Valley" are a violation of just about all of our 10 Key values, even > though, for reasons I do not understand, these kinds of stories never > see to move what 'ole Alex Cockburn used to call the "pwogwessive" > activist class. Well, I have 4 grandchildren growing up in California -- > 2 down here in L.A. and 2 up in Silicon Valley. At this stage of my > life, I am not ashamed to say that making a better community for them > *IS* my first priority.// > > Alex Walker > Los Angeles Greens > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > *Published by The San Jose Mercury News, Friday, April 12, 2013* > *Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide* > > Audrie Potts > *By Eric Kurhi * > > SARATOGA -- Three 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday in the sexual > battery of an intoxicated and unconscious 15-year-old Saratoga High > School student, who killed herself last fall after photos of the assault > went viral. s Angeles Community College District's Seat 6 was the only > one with an incumbent candidate running in the March elections. It was > also the most vigorously contested of the three races. Perhaps in the > wake of The Times' 2011 series exposing waste and ethical lapses in the > district's expenditure of billions of dollars of bond money on new > construction, opponents sensed that longtime board member Nancy > Pearlman, one of the building program's main advocates, was vulnerable. > > When digital photos showing what had happened "spread like wildfire," > the aftermath was so humiliating and torturous the gifted and well-loved > Audrie Pott could no longer take it, said Robert Allard, the attorney > for her family. > > "Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyberbullying," Allard said. > > She posted on Facebook, calling it the "worst day in her life," a life > she now wanted to end -- which she did Sept. 10, eight days after the > assault... > > > > /Link to Original Story: > http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls > / > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Apr 15 15:01:27 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:01:27 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Last Day for Early Registration for our National Meeting is Today! In-Reply-To: <1437240221.-26784288@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> References: <1437240221.-26784288@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> Message-ID: <516C78B7.9020506@earthlink.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Green Party Subject: Last Day for Early Registration for our National Meeting is Today! Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:26:39 -0400 (EDT) Size: 12190 URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Apr 15 15:04:54 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:04:54 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: I'm on board. Let's change the game. In-Reply-To: <516c53ce1f4e5_5dde13c3e3422915@worker3.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> References: <516c53ce1f4e5_5dde13c3e3422915@worker3.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> Message-ID: <516C7986.7020800@earthlink.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Dr. Jill Stein" Subject: I'm on board. Let's change the game. Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:23:58 +0000 Size: 12772 URL: From vdf at juno.com Mon Apr 15 18:45:54 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:45:54 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tabling possibility: June 1-2, Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival Message-ID: <20130415.184554.15322.2@webmail03.vgs.untd.com> Hi folks, This year's Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival happens in downtown Sunnyvale Saturday-Sunday, June 1-2, 10 AM to 6 PM each day. They will have a Free Speech area for political and other non-profit organizations. I requested information and got a PDF of the agreement that must be filled out by groups that want to have a table there. It's too big for this list, but I can email it to anyone who wants it, or you can request one yourself by sending an email to communications at svcoc.org. At this point I don't know if I'll be available to table that weekend, so I'm not volunteering to be the lead person. If it turns out that I can make it, I might be able to do an early Sunday shift. FYI, a few of the terms and conditions, edited for brevity, are: * You're allowed one easily movable table, no larger than 4' x 4', one umbrella (no gazebos) and no more than two chairs (all provided by you). * One sign is allowed, placed in front of the table hanging from the table top. Signs shall be no larger than 3.5' x 3.5' square and shall not be placed on posts above the level of the tabletop. * Set-up must be complete no later than 9:30 a.m. both days, and cleaned-up no later than 7 p.m. both days. Vehicles are not permitted within Festival boundaries. * No Public Address Systems and/or bullhorns. No calling out to, shouting at or otherwise raising voices at festival attendees. * No solicitations of any kind. No type of monetary exchange. There's more in the form, which I'd be happy to email to anyone who's interested, or you can request one yourself by sending an email to communications at svcoc.org. Best wishes, Valerie ~*~*~*~ "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - from "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html ____________________________________________________________ Woman is 53 But Looks 25 Mom reveals 1 simple wrinkle trick that has angered doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/516cad67d85562d676a91st02vuc From snug.bug at hotmail.com Mon Apr 15 22:52:52 2013 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:52:52 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Saturday, SFSU: CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC Message-ID: Speakers include Lessig, Cobb, Uyger. Free lunch. http://www.rootstrikers.org/conference THE CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC Saturday, April 20, 2013 San Francisco State University 9:30-4:30 Free admission Register to attend plus detailed information at rootstrikers.org/conference AGENDA 9:00 ? Registration 9:30 ? Opening Remarks 9:45-11:15 ? Public funding: Classic v. Matching v. Vouchers 11:15-11:30 ? Break 11:30-1:00 ? Voting rights; Is campaign finance reform a voting rights issue? 1:00-1:45 ? Lunch break 1:45-3:15 ? Corporate Personhood: Is its repeal a necessity? 3:15-3:30 ? Break 3:30-4:30 ? Keynote by Lawrence Lessig 4:30 -5:00 book signing and mixing SPEAKERS (More detail on registration link) Lawrence Lessig ? Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard U. and founder of Rootstrikers Marge Baker ? oversees People for the American Way?s policies and campaigns David Cobb ? National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited and spokesman for Move to Amend. Loni Hancock ? State Senator and former member of the State Assembly Jakada Imani ? Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Trent Lange ? Director of the California Clean Money Campaign Adam Lioz ? Lawyer with Demos focusing on political equality and democratic fairness. Mark Meckler ? Co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots. Daniel G. Newman ? President and Co-Founder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit, revealing money?s influence on politics. Richard W. Painter ? Professor at U. of Minnesota and from 2005-2007 he was Associate Counsel to the President. Trevor Potter ? Former commissioner and chairman of the FEC. He is Stephen Colbert?s attorney. Ann Ravel ? Chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission. Buddy Roemer ? Governor of Louisiana from 1988-1992 and member of the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988. Cenk Uygur ? 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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. *Hello, Earth Day Vendors! * Thank you for your patience as we gathered all of our ideas over the past few weeks and confirmed within our Earth Day committee on all the details of the event! We want this to be an extremely productive, sustainable, and enjoyable event for everyone! Again, this years Earth Day event is being held on _April 23^rd from 11-3 pm_. We are asking all of our vendors to arrive on the San Jose State University campus at _9:30 am on April 23^rd _. I have attached a San Jose State University Campus Map with this email that has information on where to load/unload your vehicle, location for the check in table, information table, and parking structures. Upon arriving at the unloading/loading zone on Tenth Street, you will be greeted by an Earth Day volunteer that will assist you with any questions you may have, distribute parking passes, and help you unload your vehicle. Once you have unloaded your vehicle and have been given your parking pass, take a right onto San Salvador Street and continue until you come upon the South Parking Garage on the right. The street to turn right on will be Seventh Street (These directions will be clear when you view the SJSU Campus Map that is attached). _Parking Passes:_ We will provide necessary parking passes and or pass codes for you to park your vehicle all day for FREE. Do not worry about bringing money to pay for parking, we will provide it FOR YOU! You will receive the parking passes and or pass codes when you visit the check in table near the loading/unloading area on Tenth Street. _Food:_ We will be providing all of our vendors with food coupons worth $5, which will be redeemable at the Earth Day event. You are welcome to bring your own food and water. As this is a sustainable, green-friendly event, we ask that you limit any plastics and non-reusables that you may want to bring to the event- we want to set a good example for our San Jose State University students and fellow environmentalists! _Tables:_ We will be providing tables and chairs, however, if you want to have shade protection, you are more than welcome to bring your own umbrella or tent! Last year, the weather during our Earth Day event was hot, so be prepared! If you want to bring your own chairs, you can bring those too. _Things to bring_*:*Just some friendly advice, you may want to bring water, sunscreen, and hats! Please see attached files that contain an SJSU Campus Map and the SJSU Earth Day poster! Also, please respond to this email so I can confirm that you received this information. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Tian Harter > wrote: Thank you! Time is short, so I'm hoping something comes of that. - Tian On 04/15/2013 09:09 AM, Bradyn Blower wrote: > Hi Tian, > > I'm referring you to Magen Shaw and Hillary Richardson. They are > CCed on this email. > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Tian Harter > wrote: > > Hello Bradyn, > > I'm a Green Party of Santa Clara County activist. Usually we > table at your earth day event, > but I hadn't heard anything yet so I'm asking. I got your > number via the SJSU information desk. > If you have an earth day event where the Green Party can > table, please let us know about it. > > Tian Harter (650) 964-6481 > P.O. Box 391854 > Mountain View CA 94039-1854 > > -- > Tian > http://tian.greens.org > New change: Added pictures from my garden using my new old camera! > There is a one world pin on a glass shelf in my home now. > > > > > -- > *Bradyn Blower* > *Events Coordinator* > Associated Students, SJSU > tel: 408-924-6297 > cell: 408-726-2881 > bradyn.blower at sjsu.edu > > San Jose State University > Student Union Room 151 > 1 Washington > San Jose, CA. 95192-0132 -- Tian http://tian.greens.org "Technology solutions to environmental problems are routinely far more expensive than the prevetative measures to avoid creating the problem in the first place", Jared Diamond in Collapse, pg 505 There is a one world pin on a Kansas quarter in my home now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Tue Apr 16 10:12:01 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Saturday, SFSU: CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1366132321.77381.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I can highly recommend Lawrence Lessig.? He's a hero in the A2K (Access To Knowledge) and Digital Rights movements and co-founder of Creative Commons.? He was a mentor to digital rights activist Aaron Swartz (matyred by our government in January this year). I just read his book Republic, Lost and was intrigued by some of the very practical ideas he's come up with to make progress on the severe corruption of our present political system.? He is not a Green per se. He's a recovering Reagan Republican and now is I'd say kind of in the proximity of the Dems in political terms but as I say he's all over the corruption aspect of the present system. I may go. Green is GO! Drew ? ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: Brian Good >To: "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" >Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 10:52 PM >Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Saturday, SFSU: CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC > > > > >Speakers include Lessig, Cobb, Uyger. Free lunch. >http://www.rootstrikers.org/conference > > >THE CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC > >Saturday, April 20, 2013 >San Francisco State University >9:30-4:30 > >Free admission >Register to attend plus detailed information at rootstrikers.org/conference > >AGENDA > >9:00 ? Registration >9:30 ? Opening Remarks >9:45-11:15 ? Public funding: Classic v. Matching v. Vouchers >11:15-11:30 ? Break >11:30-1:00 ? Voting rights; Is campaign finance reform a voting rights issue? >1:00-1:45 ? Lunch break >1:45-3:15 ? Corporate Personhood: Is its repeal a necessity? >3:15-3:30 ? Break >3:30-4:30 ? Keynote by Lawrence Lessig >4:30 -5:00 book signing and mixing > >SPEAKERS >(More detail on registration link) > >Lawrence Lessig ? Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard U. and founder of Rootstrikers >Marge Baker ? oversees People for the American Way?s policies and campaigns >David Cobb ? National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited and spokesman for Move to Amend. >Loni Hancock ? State Senator and former member of the State Assembly >Jakada Imani ? Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights >Trent Lange ? Director of the California Clean Money Campaign >Adam Lioz ? Lawyer with Demos focusing on political equality and democratic fairness. >Mark Meckler ? Co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots. >Daniel G. Newman ? President and Co-Founder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit, revealing money?s influence on politics. >Richard W. Painter ? Professor at U. of Minnesota and from 2005-2007 he was Associate Counsel to the President. >Trevor Potter ? Former commissioner and chairman of the FEC. He is Stephen Colbert?s attorney. >Ann Ravel ? Chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission. >Buddy Roemer ? Governor of Louisiana from 1988-1992 and member of the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988. >Cenk Uygur ? Host of the internet and talk radio show, the Young Turks. > >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We look forward to seeing you there! If you have any > questions, please feel free to contact me. > > *Hello, Earth Day Vendors! * > > Thank you for your patience as we gathered all of our ideas over the > past few weeks and confirmed within our Earth Day committee on all the > details of the event! We want this to be an extremely productive, > sustainable, and enjoyable event for everyone! Again, this years Earth > Day event is being held on _April 23^rd from 11-3 pm_. > > We are asking all of our vendors to arrive on the San Jose State > University campus at _9:30 am on April 23^rd _. I have attached a San > Jose State University Campus Map with this email that has information > on where to load/unload your vehicle, location for the check in table, > information table, and parking structures. > > Upon arriving at the unloading/loading zone on Tenth Street, you will > be greeted by an Earth Day volunteer that will assist you with any > questions you may have, distribute parking passes, and help you unload > your vehicle. Once you have unloaded your vehicle and have been given > your parking pass, take a right onto San Salvador Street and continue > until you come upon the South Parking Garage on the right. The street > to turn right on will be Seventh Street (These directions will be > clear when you view the SJSU Campus Map that is attached). > > _Parking Passes:_ We will provide necessary parking passes and or pass > codes for you to park your vehicle all day for FREE. Do not worry > about bringing money to pay for parking, we will provide it FOR YOU! > You will receive the parking passes and or pass codes when you visit > the check in table near the loading/unloading area on Tenth Street. > > _Food:_ We will be providing all of our vendors with food coupons > worth $5, which will be redeemable at the Earth Day event. You are > welcome to bring your own food and water. As this is a sustainable, > green-friendly event, we ask that you limit any plastics and > non-reusables that you may want to bring to the event- we want to set > a good example for our San Jose State University students and fellow > environmentalists! > > _Tables:_ We will be providing tables and chairs, however, if you want > to have shade protection, you are more than welcome to bring your own > umbrella or tent! Last year, the weather during our Earth Day event > was hot, so be prepared! If you want to bring your own chairs, you can > bring those too. > > _Things to bring_*:*Just some friendly advice, you may want to bring > water, sunscreen, and hats! > > Please see attached files that contain an SJSU Campus Map and the SJSU > Earth Day poster! Also, please respond to this email so I can confirm > that you received this information. > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Tian Harter > wrote: > > Thank you! Time is short, so I'm hoping something comes of that. - > Tian > > > On 04/15/2013 09:09 AM, Bradyn Blower wrote: >> Hi Tian, >> >> I'm referring you to Magen Shaw and Hillary Richardson. They are >> CCed on this email. >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Tian Harter > > wrote: >> >> Hello Bradyn, >> >> I'm a Green Party of Santa Clara County activist. Usually we >> table at your earth day event, >> but I hadn't heard anything yet so I'm asking. I got your >> number via the SJSU information desk. >> If you have an earth day event where the Green Party can >> table, please let us know about it. >> >> Tian Harter (650) 964-6481 >> P.O. Box 391854 >> Mountain View CA 94039-1854 >> >> -- >> Tian >> http://tian.greens.org >> New change: Added pictures from my garden using my new old >> camera! >> There is a one world pin on a glass shelf in my home now. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Bradyn Blower* >> *Events Coordinator* >> Associated Students, SJSU >> tel: 408-924-6297 >> cell: 408-726-2881 >> bradyn.blower at sjsu.edu >> >> San Jose State University >> Student Union Room 151 >> 1 Washington >> San Jose, CA. 95192-0132 > > > -- > Tian > http://tian.greens.org > "Technology solutions to environmental problems are routinely far > more expensive than the prevetative measures to avoid creating > the problem in the first place", Jared Diamond in Collapse, pg 505 > There is a one world pin on a Kansas quarter in my home now. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have secured a speaker, Katherine Bock of the coalition that recently organized the successful Andrew Hill Health Fair. 2) 7:45 pm: after selection of facilitator etc and introductions, a discussion of the next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party. TIME: 30 MINUTES. Then I propose we do the same thing in May around the anti-climate change movement. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: WB4D23 To: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 8:09 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Draft Agenda for GPSCC April 25th Meeting -- Additions/Comments Requested GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting April 25, 2013 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, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Treasurer?s Report ? including update on failure of GPCA Clearinghouse to deliver three tote bags or GPCA to return payment -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes) Additional Proposal for criteria for guest speakers at meetings / continued from March meeting ? Jim Doyle (15 Minutes) Jim Doyle Proposal: THE SPEAKER SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION, DATA, OR TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR VOTER REGISTRATION, FUNDRAISING, AND GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS. For example, a union organizer, a community leader or activist, a community leader from an ethnic group. The topic should reflect the ten key values. Presentation of proposed GPSCC Bylaws amendment to expand County Council authority between monthly general membership meetings / continued from March meeting ? Text of proposal needed -- Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Discussion about locals ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Update report on Middle East speaker program being organized by local Peace and Freedom Party members (continued from February 28th meeting) ? John Thielkind (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? Presenter? ? (10 Minutes) Reports from April tabling events ? Participants (10) Plans for May/June Tabling ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th Others??? (1 Hour 40 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Apr 16 10:50:47 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:50:47 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Recession is so bad Message-ID: <516D8F77.4020709@earthlink.net> Here is an article by Robert Reich that, IMO, is a good statement about why the economy is still doing poorly. It boils down to: - the rich have nearly all the money so - the rest have little to spend so - there is less consumption demand so - business sales are down so - businesses have no motivation to hire so - the rest have little to spend so ... Unfortunately, there is nothing here about WHY there is such large inequality. He may have done so elsewhere, I don't know. I think it's about the "legalized bribery" of Congress. And maybe that needs to be dealt with before real recovery. On the other hand, an improved economy would also increase fossil fuel consumption and CO2 production ... So what are you going to do? "Why This is the Worst Recovery on Record" http://robertreich.org/post/48047982332 Gerry From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Tue Apr 16 11:05:16 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:05:16 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Saturday, SFSU: CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC In-Reply-To: <1366132321.77381.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1366132321.77381.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <516D92DC.2040603@structuremonitoring.com> Whether or not you attend the (free) conference Saturday, I encourage you to join Lessig's "rootstrikers.org" organization. The "Los Gatos Rootstrikers" Meetup group usually meets the second Thursday of the month at Cafe Campbell, 360 East Campbell Avenue Campbell, CA. Szelena Gray, Campaign Coordinator for Rootstrikers, invited me to write a blog for them regarding using some kind of tax rebate or subsidy to support both political campaigns and investigative journalism. A draft is available at "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dZdlcsaArsaX-LKwfk7UezjbOnL5ejHVclPr7Un-uFg/edit?usp=sharing"; comments welcomed. I came to this, because Lessig is pushing "Citizen-funded elections", and I believe that could be easier to achieve and improve our democracy more than constitutional amendment(s) overturning Citizens United. Best Wishes, Spencer p.s. I also highly recommend Lessig. I wrote much of the Wikipedia article on Lessig's "Free Culture" and made substantive contributions to the article on "Republic, Lost". Based partly on an email exchange with him, I attended the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, April 5-7. On 4/16/2013 10:12 AM, Drew wrote: > I can highly recommend Lawrence Lessig. He's a hero in the A2K > (Access To Knowledge) and Digital Rights movements and co-founder of > Creative Commons. He was a mentor to digital rights activist Aaron > Swartz (matyred by our government in January this year). I just read > his book Republic, Lost and was intrigued by some of the very > practical ideas he's come up with to make progress on the severe > corruption of our present political system. He is not a Green per se. > He's a recovering Reagan Republican and now is I'd say kind of in the > proximity of the Dems in political terms but as I say he's all over > the corruption aspect of the present system. > I may go. > > Green is GO! > > Drew > ~*~*~*~ > Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America > Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Brian Good > *To:* "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" > *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2013 10:52 PM > *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Saturday, SFSU: CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE > REPUBLIC > > Speakers include Lessig, Cobb, Uyger. Free lunch. > http://www.rootstrikers.org/conference > > > THE CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC > > Saturday, April 20, 2013 > San Francisco State University > 9:30-4:30 > > Free admission > Register to attend plus detailed information at rootstrikers.org/conference > > AGENDA > > 9:00 -- Registration > 9:30 -- Opening Remarks > 9:45-11:15 -- Public funding: Classic v. Matching v. Vouchers > 11:15-11:30 -- Break > 11:30-1:00 -- Voting rights; Is campaign finance reform a voting rights issue? > 1:00-1:45 -- Lunch break > 1:45-3:15 -- Corporate Personhood: Is its repeal a necessity? > 3:15-3:30 -- Break > 3:30-4:30 -- Keynote by Lawrence Lessig > 4:30 -5:00 book signing and mixing > > SPEAKERS > (More detail on registration link) > > Lawrence Lessig -- > Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard U. and founder of Rootstrikers > Marge Baker -- oversees People for the American Way's policies and campaigns > David Cobb -- National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited and spokesman for Move to Amend. > Loni Hancock -- State Senator and former member of the State Assembly > Jakada Imani -- Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights > Trent Lange -- Director of the California Clean Money Campaign > Adam Lioz -- Lawyer with Demos focusing on political equality and democratic fairness. > Mark Meckler -- Co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots. > Daniel G. Newman -- President and Co-Founder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit, revealing money's influence on politics. > Richard W. Painter -- Professor at U. of Minnesota and from 2005-2007 he was Associate Counsel to the President. > Trevor Potter -- Former commissioner and chairman of the FEC. > He is Stephen Colbert's attorney. > Ann Ravel -- Chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission. > Buddy Roemer -- Governor of Louisiana from 1988-1992 and member of the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988. > Cenk Uygur -- Host of the internet and talk radio show, the Young Turks. > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: Gerry Gras >To: GPSCC >Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:50 AM >Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Recession is so bad > > > >Here is an article by Robert Reich that, IMO, is a >good statement about why the economy is still doing >poorly.? It boils down to: >- the rich have nearly all the money >so >- the rest have little to spend >so >- there is less consumption demand >so >- business sales are down >so >- businesses have no motivation to hire >so >- the rest have little to spend >so >... > >Unfortunately, there is nothing here about >WHY there is such large inequality.? He >may have done so elsewhere, I don't know. >I think it's about the "legalized bribery" >of Congress.? And maybe that needs to be >dealt with before real recovery. > >On the other hand, an improved economy >would also increase fossil fuel consumption >and CO2 production ... So what are you going >to do? > > >"Why This is the Worst Recovery on Record" >http://robertreich.org/post/48047982332 > >Gerry >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Tue Apr 16 16:33:05 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:33:05 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Recession is so bad In-Reply-To: <1366152237.67486.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <516D8F77.4020709@earthlink.net> <1366152237.67486.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <516DDFB1.2000709@structuremonitoring.com> 1. Lessig is featured on TED (www.ted.com/speakers/larry_lessig.html ). His "TED book: Lesterland" is an excellent presentation of his views on this (running time just over 28 minutes). 2. The "Documenting crony capitalism" on Wikiversity (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:Documenting_crony_capitalism) is my attempt to combat this. I've estimated it costs the median American family $100 per day -- conservatively. Spencer On 4/16/2013 3:43 PM, Drew wrote: > Gerry, you bring up the "legalized bribery of congress". Lawrence > Lessig is all over that aspect of the corruption in our present > system. You might really enjoy what he has to say and Brian posted > info about his upcoming talk. > > Green is GO! > > Drew > > ~*~*~*~ > Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America > Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Gerry Gras > *To:* GPSCC > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:50 AM > *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Why Recession is so bad > > > Here is an article by Robert Reich that, IMO, is a > good statement about why the economy is still doing > poorly. It boils down to: > - the rich have nearly all the money > so > - the rest have little to spend > so > - there is less consumption demand > so > - business sales are down > so > - businesses have no motivation to hire > so > - the rest have little to spend > so > ... > > Unfortunately, there is nothing here about > WHY there is such large inequality. He > may have done so elsewhere, I don't know. > I think it's about the "legalized bribery" > of Congress. And maybe that needs to be > dealt with before real recovery. > > On the other hand, an improved economy > would also increase fossil fuel consumption > and CO2 production ... So what are you going > to do? > > > "Why This is the Worst Recovery on Record" > http://robertreich.org/post/48047982332 > > 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 -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed Apr 17 00:38:07 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:38:07 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Economic snafu? Message-ID: <516E515F.8060902@earthlink.net> FYI, A few articles about how US and world economic policy discussions include some basic errors. "Economists: Sorry About That Mass Unemployment" http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/economists-sorry-about-that-mass-unemployment.html "How an Excel error fueled panic over the federal debt" http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-debt-excel-error-20130416,0,4073638.story "UPDATE 1-Influential economic study on austerity may be flawed" http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/16/global-economy-debt-idUSL2N0D32AU20130416 If you want to know more, try a search for "debt 90 gdp". Offhand, it seems that this should cause a reevaluation of economic policy. Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed Apr 17 09:35:19 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:35:19 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: We won six awards: Find out how and why. In-Reply-To: <516ecebd72111_628293be304752@worker2.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> References: <516ecebd72111_628293be304752@worker2.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail> Message-ID: <516ECF47.20005@earthlink.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Jill Stein for President Subject: We won six awards: Find out how and why. Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:33:01 +0000 Size: 12463 URL: From vdf at juno.com Wed Apr 17 17:08:12 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:08:12 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tabling possibility: May 4-5, A la Carte & Art Festival, Mountain View Message-ID: <20130417.170812.29130.2@webmail05.vgs.untd.com> Hi folks, This year's A la Carte & Art Festival will happen in downtown Mountain View on Saturday-Sunday, May 4-5, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM both days. The Free Speech Area Guidelines are attached in the original Word format and in PDF format. 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If we were to table there, we would be considered a promotional vendor, and those spaces are $445 ($395 basic fee plus $50 after April 1). I'm assuming we won't want to table there because of the expense, but if you'd like to learn more, the festival website is http://www.mhmmg.org/ and the vendor applications are at http://www.mhmmg.org/applications/. I was there last year tabling for Town Cats on Sunday and there was a very good crowd. You might want to check it out if you're in the area that weekend. Best wishes, Valerie ~*~*~*~ "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - from "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html ____________________________________________________________ Unusual Sleep Trick Scientists in Boston have revealed a natural sleep formula that would have everyone talking. Try it tonight. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/516f402f70a9b402e733cst01vuc From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu Apr 18 17:29:54 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Come to a Do the Math movie screening near Sunnyvale! Message-ID: <1366331394.26850.YahooMailClassic@web181306.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> --- On Thu, 4/18/13, Anna Goldstein - 350.org wrote: From: Anna Goldstein - 350.org Subject: Come to a Do the Math movie screening near Sunnyvale! To: "Caroline Yacoub" Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 5:03 PM #yiv2042072160 p {margin-bottom:1em;} Dear friends, This weekend, we're trying something we've never done before: a nationwide movie premier. In just 42 minutes, "Do The Math: The Movie" tells the story of the growing climate movement, from the new fossil fuel divestment campaign to the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline.?Check out the preview here?to get a sneak peek. Like everything we do at 350.org, we need people power to make this work. We want this to be the springboard for the big plans we're making for the summer and beyond, which is why we hope to fill hundreds of living rooms and libraries accross the country for this film.?You don't need to go far to see the movie, since there's at least one screening near you. Check it out: ? ? Event Title:?Do The Math Movie Watch and Potluck Party? Venue:?Pierre and Jane's home Location: Saratoga, CA Start Time:?Sunday, April 21, 6:45 PM ? You can RSVP here: http://act.350.org/event/do_the_math_movie_attend/3886/signup/?t=3&akid=3023.313989.mDn8K4? ? Event Title:?Do the Math - the Movie!? Venue:?World Centric Location: Palo Alto, CA Start Time:?Sunday, April 21, 7:00 PM ? You can RSVP here: http://act.350.org/event/do_the_math_movie_attend/4356/signup/?t=3&akid=3023.313989.mDn8K4? ? Event Title:?Do the Math House Pary? Venue:?Lisa's House Location: Palo Alto, CA Start Time:?Sunday, April 21, 7:00 PM ? You can RSVP here: http://act.350.org/event/do_the_math_movie_attend/4378/signup/?t=3&akid=3023.313989.mDn8K4? Most of the screenings will be happening on Sunday, April 21st -- ?it's the night before Earth Day, so we're calling this "Earth Night". After the movie, many local events will tune into a live-streamed panel discussion online to hear inspiring stories from leaders in the climate movement.? It should be fantastic event -- a chance to see an inspiring film, link up with local climate activists, and get fired up for the road ahead. Hope you can join us, Anna Goldstein for the team at 350.org P.S. You can also check out the full map of Do the Math screenings by clicking here, and you can learn more at 350.org/math ? 350.org is building a global movement to solve the climate crisis. Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, and sign up for email alerts. You can help power our work by getting involved locally, sharing your story, and donating here.? 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However you choose to view the archives, look for recent messages by Starlene. She has been making corrections based on feedback she receives, so flyers first sent out earlier this month may have been cleaned up later. Thus you might want to start with her most recent messages and work your way back. A typical message from Starlene with a flyer will have some brief message text followed by two additional parts, each conveniently called "next part". The first of these has a link to an HTML attachment (her original message in HTML), and the second has a link to a non-text attachment -- the flyer. Hope this helps anyone who might be interested. Best wishes, Valerie ~*~*~*~ "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - from "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html ____________________________________________________________ How to Sleep Like a Rock Obey this one natural trick to fall asleep and stay asleep all night. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5170b19342ad131925539st02vuc From vdf at juno.com Thu Apr 18 20:12:07 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:12:07 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPCA flyers posted to GROW list by Starlene Rankin Message-ID: <20130418.201207.29024.1@webmail02.vgs.untd.com> P.S.: Or you could just email Starlene (greenstarlene at gmail.com) and ask her to send you copies. :-) According to an email she sent to gpca-forum earlier today, she has the following: * GPCA 3 fold Brochure front & back (pdf) can inser local info green/white/black * Earth Day Flyer (not wordy-box for local info) (word doc) with color or just B&W * Volunteer Form - one page, can fill in your local contact info (word doc) * Clear Air Platform Flyer - one page, very wordy, expands on simple Earth Day flyer above OK, so I'm a bit behind on reading some of my email -- nothing new there. But now you know someplace you can look, as a backup. Starlene would also like to hear how many new Green Party registrations folks get. Best wishes, Valerie ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Valerie D. Face" Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:52:42 GMT To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPCA flyers posted to GROW list by Starlene Rankin Hi folks, FYI, this month Starlene Rankin has been creating and editing some GPCA flyers that could be used for Earth Day tabling and other outreach. She has been posting them to the gpca-grow email list. If you're not on that list and don't want to commit to joining it, you can still view the archives and download the flyers. The list info page is: http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-grow Click the first link on that page to see options for viewing the archives. All of the flyers that I'm aware of have been sent this month -- April 2013. However you choose to view the archives, look for recent messages by Starlene. She has been making corrections based on feedback she receives, so flyers first sent out earlier this month may have been cleaned up later. Thus you might want to start with her most recent messages and work your way back. A typical message from Starlene with a flyer will have some brief message text followed by two additional parts, each conveniently called "next part". The first of these has a link to an HTML attachment (her original message in HTML), and the second has a link to a non-text attachment -- the flyer. Hope this helps anyone who might be interested. Best wishes, Valerie ~*~*~*~ "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - from "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html ____________________________________________________________ How to Sleep Like a Rock Obey this one natural trick to fall asleep and stay asleep all night. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5170b19342ad131925539st02vuc _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Fri Apr 19 12:10:12 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:10:12 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] junior state Message-ID: <51719694.5090007@sbcglobal.net> Is anyone tabling tomorrow, Saturday the 20-th, at Junior State at the Marriott hotel in Santa Clara? From carolineyacoub at att.net Sat Apr 20 18:54:40 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Military Uses of Outer Space and of the Weather Platform Plank for Comment/Changes by April 22 Message-ID: <1366509280.2248.YahooMailClassic@web181303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> This is certainly something I can get behind. Can we put this on the agenda for next week's meeting? Caroline --- On Sat, 4/20/13, shane que hee wrote: From: shane que hee Subject: Military Uses of Outer Space and of the Weather Platform Plank for Comment/Changes by April 22 To: Date: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 2:58 AM MILITARY USES OF OUTER SPACE AND OF WEATHER PROPOSAL 1. April 10,2013; 2. April 12, 2013; 3. April 17, 2013; 4. April 20 2013 ? SPONSOR:? Platform Standing Group PRESENTERS/CONTACTS:? Shane Que Hee, squehee at ucla.edu ; SUBJECT:??? Military Uses of Outer Space and of Weather in the Peace and Non-Violence Section.? The 10 key values involved are non-violence and personal and global responsibility ? Background and Purpose: Science is progressing so fast that often tools are developed that both help or hinder person kind (See the Green Science platform plank).? ? History has shown us that all inventions and techniques can be used for good or ill, for example, a knife can help cut food and kill a person; a plane can be used to transport people or kill people remotely as by drones; and genetic manipulation of DNA may produce better or worse crop yields.? With the current moves to engineer climate? (for example, fertilizing oceans with iron to generate carbon credits; deploying a sulfate aerosol shield to prevent the heating of the planet; liming the oceans to modulate acidity) and the connection of the oceans with the weather, some patents have already been taken out to engineer the weather.? Amongst these include ideas to erect a solar shield to direct rain precipitation (the questions of divergent effects on rich or poor nations and who decides where the rain should fall are not addressed) ? The Green Party believes that prevention is better than cure, and that its key values of Non-violence and? Personal and Global responsibility mandate that Outer Space and weather must not be used for military purposes.? Decisions related to weather or climate manipulation must not be left to corporations or single countries.? The Green Party will lead the movement to ensure that. ? The Green Party proposes: ? 1.? That Outer Space and the weather be not used for military purposes ? 2.? That this be ratified by neighborhood associations, associations, organizations, city councils, county councils, state governments, parliaments, legislative bodies, countries, international organizations and bodies,? the United Nations, and in international treaties. ? 3.? That the International Monetary Fund and all multicountry organizations like the European Community, the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and all individual governments of the world will not fund such purposes. ? 4.? That the United Nations police the use of ways to control outer space and the weather as military weapons. ? COMMITTEE DECISION .? The platform plank was suggested by input at the Platform Committee meeting at the San Francisco GPCA General Assembly on May 12/13 2012.? The 1st draft was posted on the GPCA Platform list serve on April? 10 2013 with revisions on April 12, April 17, April 20. The platform plank was also posted on Cal-forum and the GROW listserves on April 20 2013. ? RESOURCES:? This platform plank is new. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Lessig says that whatever your primary concern is, liberal, conservative, environmental, economic, business climate, unemployment, government deficit, schools, law enforcement, etc., we must fix the problem of campaign finance before we begin to honestly deal with any of these other problems. He says that campaign finance is not the most important problem, but it must be the first problem we solve -- because it prevents us as a nation from addressing any of the other, more important problems. If you haven't already seen Lessig's TED talk on "We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim", I encourage you to vew it at "http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html". It's 18:19 (mm:ss), which is longer than I like to devote to watching videos, but it includes some quite useful information, in addition to being highly motivational (which it must be for TED) and informative. 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See: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/201342210282323407.html http://www.teebforbusiness.org/js/plugins/filemanager/files/TEEB_Final_Report_v5.pdf As I noted in my last post, campaign finance may not be "the most important" issue, but is is the "first issue" we must solve, because failure to solve it prevents us from solving any of the other "more important" issues facing humanity today. sg -- 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 rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Mon Apr 22 11:39:29 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Military Uses of Outer Space and of the Weather Platform Plank for Comment/Changes by April 22 In-Reply-To: <1366509280.2248.YahooMailClassic@web181303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1366509280.2248.YahooMailClassic@web181303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1366655969.59575.YahooMailNeo@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I really enjoy that as a body we love to speak up about our points of view on policy issues. ?I have no desire to rain on this or anyone else's policy parade, buy what I don't love is that we spend the "general business meeting" to kick around social policy points that I think would be better handled by a small group of us that really wants to focus on policy statements and resolutions. ?Just like the state and national parties have groups devoted to considering policy statements, we could do the same. ?Otherwise I'd be happy to rubber stamp all the good resolutions (provided there's no significant controvery about them of course) that people come up with, but I really have to say I don't think we should bog down our "general business meeting" with anything more than the bare functional minimum of business and leave the rest to committees. ?Centralization is antithetical to our 10 Key Values. Green is GO! Drew ? ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: Caroline Yacoub >To: sosfbay-discuss >Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 6:54 PM >Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Military Uses of Outer Space and of the Weather Platform Plank for Comment/Changes by April 22 > > > >This is certainly something I can get behind. Can we put this on the agenda for next week's meeting? >Caroline > >--- On Sat, 4/20/13, shane que hee wrote: > > >>From: shane que hee >>Subject: Military Uses of Outer Space and of the Weather Platform Plank for Comment/Changes by April 22 >>To: >>Date: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 2:58 AM >> >> >>MILITARY USES OF OUTER SPACE AND OF WEATHER PROPOSAL >>>>1. April 10,2013; 2. April 12, 2013; 3. April 17, 2013; 4. April 20 2013 >>>>? >>>>SPONSOR:? Platform Standing Group >>>>PRESENTERS/CONTACTS:? Shane Que Hee, squehee at ucla.edu ; >>>>SUBJECT:??? Military Uses of Outer Space and of Weather in the Peace and Non-Violence Section.? The 10 key values involved are non-violence and personal and global responsibility >>>>? >>>>Background and Purpose: >>>>Science is progressing so fast that often tools are developed that both help or hinder person kind (See the Green Science platform plank).? >>>>? >>>>History has shown us that all inventions and techniques can be used for good or ill, for example, a knife can help cut food and kill a person; a plane can be used to transport people or kill people remotely as by drones; and genetic manipulation of DNA may produce better or worse crop yields.? With the current moves to engineer climate? (for example, fertilizing oceans with iron to generate carbon credits; deploying a sulfate aerosol shield to prevent the heating of the planet; liming the oceans to modulate acidity) and the connection of the oceans with the weather, some patents have already been taken out to engineer the weather.? Amongst these include ideas to erect a solar shield to direct rain precipitation (the questions of divergent effects on rich or poor nations and who decides where the rain should fall are not addressed) >>>>? >>>>The Green Party believes that prevention is better than cure, and that its key values of Non-violence and? Personal and Global responsibility mandate that Outer Space and weather must not be used for military purposes.? Decisions related to weather or climate manipulation must not be left to corporations or single countries.? The Green Party will lead the movement to ensure that. >>>>? >>>>The Green Party proposes: >>>>? >>>>1.? That Outer Space and the weather be not used for military purposes >>>>? >>>>2.? That this be ratified by neighborhood associations, associations, organizations, city councils, county councils, state governments, parliaments, legislative bodies, countries, international organizations and bodies,? the United Nations, and in international treaties. >>>>? >>>>3.? That the International Monetary Fund and all multicountry organizations like the European Community, the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and all individual governments of the world will not fund such purposes. >>>>? >>>>4.? That the United Nations police the use of ways to control outer space and the weather as military weapons. >>>>? >>>>COMMITTEE DECISION .? The platform plank was suggested by input at the Platform Committee meeting at the San Francisco GPCA General Assembly on May 12/13 2012.? The 1st draft was posted on the GPCA Platform list serve on April? 10 2013 with revisions on April 12, April 17, April 20. The platform plank was also posted on Cal-forum and the GROW listserves on April 20 2013. >>>>? >>>>RESOURCES:? This platform plank is new. >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Green Shadow Cabinet: http://www.greenshadowcabinet.us Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party presidential and vice-presidential nominees, marked the beginning of Earth Week by announcing a new Green Shadow Cabinet that will serve as an independent voice in U.S. politics, putting the needs of people and protection of the planet ahead of profits for big corporations. The Cabinet will operate in the tradition of shadow cabinets in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and France, responding to actions of the government in office, and demonstrating that another government is possible. The Green Shadow Cabinet, which is viewable at www.GreenShadowCabinet.US, includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and more ( http://greenshadowcabinet.us/members), and will provide an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C.. It is organized into six federal branches: Democracy, Economy, Ecology, Foreign Affairs, General Welfare, and Justice. Topics include the economy, environment and climate change, health and general welfare, democratization, rights of workers, wages and labor, community power, closing military bases, ending wars for resources and restoring the rule of law. Among the top priorities will be advocating for full employment through a Green New Deal ( http://www.jillstein.org/green_new_deal) and confronting climate change and the ecological crisis through a program of creating a carbon-free and nuclear free energy economy. In honor of the launch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, members have issued public statements for Earth Week. These are available for republication at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements Jill Stein ( http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/8580) said, ?We are announcing this alternative government on Earth Day to emphasize the importance of confronting the climate crisis and also to show how it is interrelated with the economy, energy and the quality of life for all people. We will be urging policies that have the support of the American people. We?ve brought together leading analysts, experts and spokespeople on all the critical issues faced by the country and will provide a place where concerned citizens and journalists can come for independent and popular perspectives on the issues of the day.? Cheri Honkala ( http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/8581) added, ?It is time for the people to have a voice. We plan to listen to and empower people who are confronting the crisis of homelessness, poverty, lack of health care and poor education. It is time to give the voiceless a voice in the direction of the country.? The Green Shadow Cabinet will represent the views of super majorities of the American people that are ignored by the corporate duopoly. A 2013 Demos Poll ( http://www.alternet.org/economy/new-study-finds-wealthy-are-different-us ) found that 68% of Americans believe that the government should provide jobs to all who want them and 78% believe that wages should be high enough so no family is in poverty. According to a 2013 Yale report ( http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/americans-want-to-curb-carbon-pollution-121115.htm ), 88% of Americans say the U.S. should make an effort to reduce global warming, even if it has economic costs. And, for more than a decade ( http://abcnews.go.com/images/pdf/935a3HealthCare.pdf) polls have not only shown majority support for single payer ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/04/06/a-dose-of-socialism-could-save-our-states-state-sponsored-single-payer-healthcare-would-bring-in-business-jobs/ ), Medicare for all but when Massachusetts voted in 2008 and 2010 on the issue, 67% voted for single payer ( http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/Chart_of_Americans_Support#confirmation ). Margaret Flowers ( http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/4), a physician who serves as Secretary of Health, states ?We will advocate for health coverage from birth to death through a national improved Medicare for all. This will not only empower people but will be the best path for business and reduction of government deficits. In addition, we will push for public policy in all areas that affect our health such as education, food and water, the environment and more. Richard Monje ( http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/8593), a labor leader from Chicago who is serving as Secretary of Labor said ?Full employment with a living wage would provide a foundation for the American economy and dignity for working Americans. The Green Shadow Cabinet will make this issue a top priority.? Exit polls from November 2012 ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/2012-exit-polls/table.html ) found that while 59% rated the economy as their top concern only 15% pointed to the deficit. The top economic issue for voters was unemployment ( http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/06/politics/exit-polls). Richard Wolff ( http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/7544), Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, said that ?when it comes to the economy, it is time for the United States to be investing in the economy to create good paying jobs and not to be pushing austerity with a mistaken focus on the deficit.? In the longer run, we need to re make the economy to put in place worker self-directed enterprises that allow workers to build wealth and have greater control over their economic lives.? ?The top priority for the Department of Justice will be to restore the rule of law; that means prosecuting the widespread security fraud of the big banks and the environmental crimes of big business. We will also hold those responsible for torture and war crimes accountable and immediately release and provide compensation to the 86 people in Guantanamo Bay who have been cleared for release and not charged with any crime as a first step in closing what is becoming a death camp,? said Kevin Zeese who will be serving as Attorney General ( http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/7533). ? For more information, contact Green Shadow Cabinet White House Chief of Staff Ben Manski at Info at GreenShadowCabinet.US ~ END ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter is hosting ?Andrew Guzman, author of ?"Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change," at?Patagonia in Palo Alto tonight as part of their ongoing "Healthy Communities" series. ?Description below. http://www.meetup.com/lomaprieta/events/114824522/ JOIN US?and explore how the various facets of the health of our cities ? economic, environmental, and social ? intersect. Our visionary speaker is Andrew Guzman, University of California, Berkeley. Guzman will present his new book, "Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change," which takes climate change out of the realm of scientific abstraction, shifting the discussion toward its devastating impact on human societies. Guzman will take his book one step further and present on our region?s role in solving the climate crisis. Afterward, we will discuss strategies for how we can use the information presented in our own communities to make our region economically, environmentally, and socially healthier and more resilient. No charge, open to the public, refreshments provided.?Overheated?will be on sale. GOAL To build a stronger community of people working toward the solutions to the structural changes to come in our region and strategies for our cities to become healthier places- socially, environmentally, and economically WHO SHOULD COME Decision makers, community leaders, labor, developers, affordable housing advocates, business leaders, environmentalists AGENDA 6:00pm ? Refreshments & Networking 6:30pm ? Welcome from Palo Alto Mayor Gregory Scharff Presentation from Andrew Guzman 7:30pm ? Discussion 8:30pm ? Close ? RSVP www.HealthyCommunitiesBayArea.org?? On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Lisa Altieri wrote: Hi all, ? ?? The Lawrence Berkeley Labs is hosting an Earth Day lecture on the latest climate science tonight, 7 pm.? I was planning to go in person, but they are at capacity and have decided to stream the talk (much better than traveling!).? I will be showing it at my home on a TV if anyone wants to join, just give me a call and let me know you're coming (650) 274-5171. ? ?? Here's the link: ? friendsofberkeleylab.lbl.gov ? ?? Looks like it will be a great update on the science. ? Happy Earth Day! ? Lisa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "350 Silicon Valley Chat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 350-silicon-valley-chat+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to 350-silicon-valley-chat at googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/350-silicon-valley-chat?hl=en. 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If it only gets a majority, then it will go on the ballot next year as a proposition, and then the Clean Money campaign will have to waste its energies campaigning for an issue 80% of the voters already support, and we'll have to battle lying propaganda attack ads when we do it. Please help us get it passed this spring, and then we can move on to bigger and better campaign finance reform work next year! Brian > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:20:03 -0700 > To: everyone-4810-752397 at ml.moveon.org > From: Cilla.MoveOnRO at gmail.com > CC: councilsupport at moveon.org; CillaR at mac.com; 2Q2BwUYMJWxF1 at moveon.example.com; organizing4marin at gmail.com > Subject: [council] Help Us Pass the CA DISCLOSE Act > > (Your are receiving this note because you are a member of the MidPeninsula American Dream Council, representing MoveOn members from Milbrae to Mountain View.) > > Dear Friends, > > I have no doubt that everyone reading this message fully understands the importance of getting Big Money out of politics, if we are to have any hope of restoring Democracy to its rightful owners, We the People. > > Passing SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act would be a firm step in the right direction, and WE CAN GET THIS DONE if we just work together on it. Even better, once this is passed in California, we know it will spread across the country. > > Here is a link to the latest version of the petition. I hope you will sign this, EVEN IF you have signed it before. > > http://signon.org/sign/pass-the-california-disclose-5?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=2238415 > > It is addressed to Lou Correa, California State Senate Elections Committee Chair, Joel Anderson, California State Senate Elections Committee Vice Chair, and 3 others, and it says: > > "We urge the California Senate Elections Committee to move forward SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, to the State Senate. Voters have a right to know who is really behind campaign ads." > > Please sign this petition. It will only take a minute. > > http://signon.org/sign/pass-the-california-disclose-5?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=2238415 > > As always, please do NOT respond to this email. Questions, comments, ideas, feedback, and chocolate may be sent to CillaR at mac.com . > > Stay in touch, > Cilla > MoveOn Regional Organizer > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent from the MoveOn Council system. 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Pacific Daylight Time Subj: Revised Invitation to Participate March On Monsanto May 25 Hello, Warner, Many thanks for speaking with me today about the March on Monsanto being organized world-wide. Thank you for kindly offering to speak to your Board about this at your upcoming meeting. I'm writing to respectfully request that the Green Party of Santa Clara County endorse and participate at the San Jose march and rally. Folks from SJSU and the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club have been meeting by phone weekly to organize our San Jose march and rally. SJP&JC and Code Pink have been invited to particpate. We'd appreciate a member of the Green Party to join our organizing committee. Please let me know about the following at your earliest convenience: 1) The Green Party of Santa Clara County endorses our local march 2) the name of a Green Party board or other member to particpate on our organizing committee If I don't hear from you, I'll call you next Friday, April 26th. Thank you for your consideration and best regards, Diane Solomon, 408-646-6193 Background: Occupy Monsanto has invited people world-wide to organize local marches on May 25th in order to peacefully demonstrate against the adverse consequences of Monsanto corporation's products. Using Facebook to get the word out, almost 200,000 have been invited. So far folks in 235 cities have organized a March on Monsanto using this FB page. We are working to organize a march from SJSU to either Cesar Chavez Park or St. James Park on Saturday May 25th. We'll have a short rally at the park with speakers. Total time will be 90 minutes. Slated for some time between 11am and 2pm. We're still working out permitting and other details. More Information - Per Facebook's "March Against Monsanto" Page: On May 25, activists around the world will unite to March Against Monsanto. Why do we march? * Research studies have shown that Monsanto?s genetically-modified foods can lead to serious health conditions such as the development of cancer tumors, infertility and birth defects. * In the United States, the FDA, the agency tasked with ensuring food safety for the population, is steered by ex-Monsanto executives, and we feel that?s a questionable conflict of interests and explains the lack of government-lead research on the long-term effects of GMO products. * Recently, the U.S. Congress and president collectively passed the nicknamed ?Monsanto Protection Act? that, among other things, bans courts from halting the sale of Monsanto?s genetically-modified seeds. * For too long, Monsanto has been the benefactor of corporate subsidies and political favoritism. Organic and small farmers suffer losses while Monsanto continues to forge its monopoly over the world?s food supply, including exclusive patenting rights over seeds and genetic makeup. * Monsanto's GMO seeds are harmful to the environment; for example, scientists have indicated they have caused colony collapse among the world's bee population. What are solutions we advocate? * Voting with your dollar by buying organic and boycotting Monsanto-owned companies that use GMOs in their products. * Labeling of GMOs so that consumers can make those informed decisions easier. * Repealing relevant provisions of the US's "Monsanto Protection Act." * Calling for further scientific research on the health effects of GMOs. * Holding Monsanto executives and Monsanto-supporting politicians accountable through direct communication, grassroots journalism, social media, etc. * Continuing to inform the public about Monsanto's secrets. * Taking to the streets to show the world and Monsanto that we won't take these injustices quietly. We will not stand for cronyism. We will not stand for poison. That?s why we March Against Monsanto. Join us! _http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fon.fb.me%2FZUxe3o&h=vAQHwhMCx&s=1_ (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://on.fb.me/ZUxe3o&h=vAQHwhMCx&s=1) Find cities already participating: _http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZTDsk8&h=HAQFf7ipG&s=1_ (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://bit.ly/ZTDsk8&h=HAQFf7ipG&s=1) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Wed Apr 24 11:46:09 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. Message-ID: <1366829169.80073.YahooMailClassic@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> It's nice to see that our own Sandy Perry is a member. ? --- On Tue, 4/23/13, shane que hee wrote: From: shane que hee Subject: Another Government is Possible: Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet To: Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8:11 PM Subject: Another Government is Possible: Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet Reply-To: "Green Shadow Cabinet" From: "Green Shadow Cabinet" Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:48:46 -0500 This Earth Week, another government is possible . . . Meet the new Green Shadow Cabinet Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party presidential and vice-presidential nominees, have marked the beginning of Earth Week by announcing a new Green Shadow Cabinet that will serve as an independent voice in U.S. politics, putting the needs of people and protection of the planet ahead of profits for big corporations. The Cabinet will operate in the tradition of shadow cabinets in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Mexico, responding to actions of the government in office, and demonstrating that another government is possible. The Green Shadow Cabinet, which is viewable at www.GreenShadowCabinet.US, includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and more, and will provide an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C.. The Cabinet is organized into six federal branches: Democracy, Economy, Ecology, Foreign Affairs, General Welfare, and Justice. Topics include the economy, environment and climate change, health and general welfare, democratization, rights of workers, wages and labor, community power, closing military bases, ending wars for resources and restoring the rule of law. Among the top priorities will be advocating for full employment through a Green New Deal and confronting climate change and the ecological crisis through a program of creating a carbon-free and nuclear free energy economy. Public statements from Cabinet members . . . In honor of the launch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, twenty members of the Cabinet have issued public statements for Earth Week. These are available for republication at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements The Green Shadow Cabinet includes not only scientists and leaders of social change organizations, but also artists and writers. The talented comedian Lee Camp offers this video "statement" on the need for the Cabinet: http://youtu.be/m3zNyEIR-Ww What you can do . . . Tell everyone you know about the Green Shadow Cabinet, and get them to sign up for news at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/subscribe-our-newsletter Make a donation toward getting this Cabinet moving - send a donation made out to Green Shadow Cabinet, Attention: Ben Manski, PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217 Urge blogs, newspapers, and others in the media to contact the Green Shadow Cabinet to schedule interviews and to publish articles. There will be more in the weeks and months to come. Thank you. Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet: Green and growing . . . Photo Name Title Branch ? Patch Adams Assistant Secretary of Health for Holistic Health General Welfare ? Marsha Coleman Adebayo Government Transparency and Accountability, Director Democracy ? Kris Alman Assistant Secretary of Health for Data Privacy General Welfare ? Gar Alperovitz New Economy Advisor to the President Economy ? Marc Armstrong Secretary of Commerce Economy ? Ajamu Baraka Public Intervenor for Human Rights Democracy ? Roshan Bliss Assistant Secretary of Education for Higher Education Democracy ? Leah Bolger Secretary of Defense Foreign Affairs ? Steve Breyman Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Ecology ? Mary Bricker-Jenkins Aid to Families and Youth, Director General Welfare ? Ellen Brown Secretary of the Treasury Economy ? Richard Bruno Assistant Secretary of Health for Medical Education and Training General Welfare ? Shahid Buttar Civil Rights Enforcement, Director of Justice ? Lee Camp Commissioner for the Comedic Arts General Welfare ? Olveen Carrasquillo Assistant Secretary of Health for Health Equity General Welfare ? Claudia Chaufan Assistant Secretary of Health for System Design General Welfare ? Steven Chrismer Secretary of Transportation General Welfare ? David Cobb Commission on Corporations and Democracy, Chair Democracy ? Khalilah Collins Public Intervenor for Social Justice General Welfare ? Christopher Cox Political Ecology Advisor to the President Ecology ? Michael Crenshaw People's Culture Bureau, Work Progress Administration General Welfare ? Maureen Cruise Assistant Secretary of Health for Community Wellbeing General Welfare ? Ronnie Cummins Administrator, Food and Drug Administration General Welfare ? Tim DeChristopher Emergency Climate Action Coordinator Ecology ? King Downing President's Commission on Corrections Reform, Chair Justice ? Mark Dunlea Secretary of Agriculture Ecology ? Steve Early Workers Power Administration, Administrator Economy ? Mike Ferner National Guard Bureau, Chief Democracy ? Robert Fitrakis Federal Elections Commission, Chair Democracy ? Margaret Flowers Secretary of Health General Welfare ? George Friday Commission on Community Power, Chair Democracy ? Bruce Gagnon Secretary of Space Ecology ? Jack Gerson Assistant Secretary of Education for K-12 Democracy ? Philip Harvey Full Employment Council, Chair Economy ? Howie Hawkins Full Employment Council, Vice Chair Economy ? Cheri Honkala Vice-President General Welfare ? Kimberly King Secretary of Education Democracy ? Charles Komanoff Assistant Secretary for Sustainable Urban Transportation General Welfare ? Bruce Levine Assistant Secretary of Health for Clinical Mental Health General Welfare ? Vance "Head-Roc" Levy Poet Laureate General Welfare ? Ethel Long-Scott Commission on Women's Power, Co-Chair Democracy ? Sarah Manski Small Business Administration, Administrator Economy ? Ben Manski White House Chief of Staff Democracy ? George Paz Martin Peace Ambassador Foreign Affairs ? Gloria Mattera Assistant Secretary of Health for Public Health Education General Welfare ? Richard McIntyre U.S. Trade Representative Economy ? David McReynolds Peace Advisor to the President Foreign Affairs ? Gloria Meneses-Sandoval Secretary of Immigration Justice ? Richard Monje Secretary of Labor Economy ? Suren Moodliar Global Democracy Programs, Director Democracy ? Jim Moran Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Administrator Justice ? Carol Paris Assistant Secretary of Health for Mental Health Systems General Welfare ? Sandy Perry Secretary of Housing Economy ? Todd Price Assistant Secretary of Education for Education Technology Democracy ? Jesselyn Radack National Security and Human Rights Advisor to the President Justice ? Jack Rasmus Federal Reserve System, Chairman Economy ? Michael Ratner Division of Civil, Social & Economic Rights, Director Justice ? Ray Rogers International Labor Rights, Advisor Economy ? Anna Rondon Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs General Welfare ? Lewis Rosenbaum Public Media Administration, Administrator Democracy ? Daniel Shea Veteran's Affairs: Chemical Exposure General Welfare ? Diljeet Singh Assistant Secretary of Health for Women's Health and Cancer General Welfare ? Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap Bureau of Water Preservation, Director Ecology ? Jill Stein President Ecology ? Robert Stone Assistant Secretary of Health for Emergency and Palliative Care General Welfare ? David Swanson Secretary of Peace Foreign Affairs ? Sean Sweeney Climate Change Advisor to the President Ecology ? Clifford Thornton Drug Policy Agency, Administrator Justice ? Brian Tokar Director of the Office of Technology Assessment Ecology ? Bruce Trigg Assistant Secretary of Health for Drug Policy General Welfare ? Walter Tsou Surgeon General General Welfare ? Kabzuag Vaj Commission on Women's Power, Co-Chair Democracy ? Harvey Wasserman Secretary of Energy Ecology ? Rich Whitney Office of Management and Budget, Director Economy ? Richard D. Wolff Council of Economic Advisors, Chair Economy ? Ann Wright Secretary of State Foreign Affairs ? Stephen Zarlenga Monetary Authority Board, Chair Economy ? Kevin Zeese Attorney General Justice ? For website: Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States of America To unsubscribe: Click here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Wed Apr 24 12:00:56 2013 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:00:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Updated Draft Agenda for GPSCC Meeting Thursday April 25th -- Comments? Message-ID: <127003.5dc35bb4.3ea985e8@aol.com> GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting April 25, 2013 San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA (Near 7th and San Fernando) 7:00 pm ? Eat and chat (No speaker scheduled) 7:30 pm ? Begin meeting Select Facilitator, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Treasurer?s Report ? including update on failure of GPCA Clearinghouse to deliver three tote bags or GPCA to return payment -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes) Request for Endorsement ? March on Monsanto May 25th ? Warner (and anyone else who wants to present) (10 minutes) Additional Proposal for criteria for guest speakers at meetings / continued from March meeting ? Jim Doyle (15 Minutes) Jim Doyle Proposal: THE SPEAKER SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION, DATA, OR TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR VOTER REGISTRATION, FUNDRAISING, AND GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS. For example, a union organizer, a community leader or activist, a community leader from an ethnic group. The topic should reflect the ten key values. Presentation of proposed GPSCC Bylaws amendment to expand County Council authority between monthly general membership meetings / continued from March meeting ? Text of proposal needed -- Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Discussion about locals ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Update report on Middle East speaker program being organized by local Peace and Freedom Party members (continued from February 28th meeting) ? John Thielkind (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? Presenter? ? (10 Minutes) Reports from April tabling events ? Participants (10) Plans for May/June Tabling ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Mountain View Ala Carte & Arts Festival May 4th-5th? Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th Morgan Hill Mushroomn Mardi Gras May 24th-25th (fees expensive) Sunnyvale Arts & Wine Festival June 1st-2nd (restrictive rules) Others??? (1 Hour 50 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Wed Apr 24 12:17:02 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:17:02 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. In-Reply-To: <1366829169.80073.YahooMailClassic@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1366829169.80073.YahooMailClassic@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51782FAE.9030401@structuremonitoring.com> That's great. Congratulations, Sandy! I could volunteer to help this group and others improve Wikipedia and write for Wikinews. Last week, I passed 1,000 edits in Wikimedia projects. This included 2 stories in Wikinews plus a third that I abandoned, because I could not find the time to respond to all the reviewers' comments while the story was still news. Activities like these could increase substantially the impact of Green Party ideas. When we do this without mentioning the Green Party, we pull the mainstream closer to our positions. Some people get paid full time to try to modify Wikipedia to conform to the propaganda of the ultra-right. We need more people like us demanding that these ideologues write from a neutral point of view citing serious sources or be banned from further edits. Spencer On 4/24/2013 11:46 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > > It's nice to see that our own Sandy Perry is a member. > > --- On *Tue, 4/23/13, shane que hee //* wrote: > > > From: shane que hee > Subject: Another Government is Possible: Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet > To: > Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8:11 PM > >> Subject: Another Government is Possible: Meet the Green Shadow >> Cabinet >> Reply-To: "Green Shadow Cabinet" >> From: "Green Shadow Cabinet" >> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:48:46 -0500 >> >> *This Earth Week, another government is possible . . . >> * >> *Meet the new Green Shadow Cabinet >> * >> Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party >> presidential and vice-presidential nominees, have marked the >> beginning of Earth Week by announcing a new Green Shadow Cabinet >> >> that will serve as an independent voice in U.S. politics, putting >> the needs of people and protection of the planet ahead of profits >> for big corporations. The Cabinet will operate in the tradition >> of shadow cabinets in other countries, such as the United Kingdom >> and Mexico, responding to actions of the government in office, >> and demonstrating that another government is possible. >> >> The Green Shadow Cabinet, which is viewable at >> www.GreenShadowCabinet.US >> , >> includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor >> leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and more, >> >> and will provide an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to >> the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C.. >> >> The Cabinet is organized into six federal branches: Democracy, >> Economy, Ecology, Foreign Affairs, General Welfare, and Justice. >> Topics include the economy, environment and climate change, >> health and general welfare, democratization, rights of workers, >> wages and labor, community power, closing military bases, ending >> wars for resources and restoring the rule of law. Among the top >> priorities will be advocating for full employment through aGreen >> New Deal >> >> and confronting climate change and the ecological crisis through >> a program of creating a carbon-free and nuclear free energy economy. >> >> *Public statements from Cabinet members . . . >> * >> In honor of the launch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, twenty >> members of the Cabinet have issued public statements for Earth >> Week. These are available for republication at >> http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements >> >> >> The Green Shadow Cabinet includes not only scientists and leaders >> of social change organizations, but also artists and writers. The >> talented comedian Lee Camp offers this video "statement" on the >> need for the Cabinet: http://youtu.be/m3zNyEIR-Ww >> >> >> *What you can do . . . >> * >> Tell everyone you know about the Green Shadow Cabinet, and get >> them to sign up for news at >> http://greenshadowcabinet.us/subscribe-our-newsletter >> >> >> Make a donation toward getting this Cabinet moving - send a >> donation made out to Green Shadow Cabinet, Attention: Ben Manski, >> PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217 >> >> Urge blogs, newspapers, and others in the media to contact the >> Green Shadow Cabinet >> >> to schedule interviews and to publish articles. >> >> There will be more in the weeks and months to come. Thank you. >> >> For website:Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States of America >> >> To unsubscribe: Click here >> > > > -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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Sandy -----Original Message----- From: perrysandy To: WB4D23 ; sosfbay-discuss Sent: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:36 am Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Draft Agenda for GPSCC April 25th Meeting -- Additions/Comments Requested Hi Warner, In line with the proposal adopted at the March meeting, I propose the following agenda points: 1) 7 pm: Speaker from the Single Payer Health Care Coalition of Santa Clara County. I believe I proposed this at the last meeting and it was accepted. I have secured a speaker, Katherine Bock of the coalition that recently organized the successful Andrew Hill Health Fair. 2) 7:45 pm: after selection of facilitator etc and introductions, a discussion of the next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party. TIME: 30 MINUTES. Then I propose we do the same thing in May around the anti-climate change movement. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: WB4D23 To: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 12:01 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Updated Draft Agenda for GPSCC Meeting Thursday April 25th -- Comments? GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting April 25, 2013 San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA (Near 7th and San Fernando) 7:00 pm ? Eat and chat (No speaker scheduled) 7:30 pm ? Begin meeting Select Facilitator, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Treasurer?s Report ? including update on failure of GPCA Clearinghouse to deliver three tote bags or GPCA to return payment -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes) Request for Endorsement ? March on Monsanto May 25th ? Warner (and anyone else who wants to present) (10 minutes) Additional Proposal for criteria for guest speakers at meetings / continued from March meeting ? Jim Doyle (15 Minutes) Jim Doyle Proposal: THE SPEAKER SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION, DATA, OR TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR VOTER REGISTRATION, FUNDRAISING, AND GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS. For example, a union organizer, a community leader or activist, a community leader from an ethnic group. The topic should reflect the ten key values. Presentation of proposed GPSCC Bylaws amendment to expand County Council authority between monthly general membership meetings / continued from March meeting ? Text of proposal needed -- Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Discussion about locals ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Update report on Middle East speaker program being organized by local Peace and Freedom Party members (continued from February 28th meeting) ? John Thielkind (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? Presenter? ? (10 Minutes) Reports from April tabling events ? Participants (10) Plans for May/June Tabling ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Mountain View Ala Carte & Arts Festival May 4th-5th? Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th Morgan Hill Mushroomn Mardi Gras May 24th-25th (fees expensive) Sunnyvale Arts & Wine Festival June 1st-2nd (restrictive rules) Others??? (1 Hour 50 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Wed Apr 24 16:37:55 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Is Facebook Blocking Posts And Deleting Profiles Of Anti-GMO Activists? Message-ID: <1366846675.77030.YahooMailClassic@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> From: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/24/18735755.php ? Is Facebook Blocking Posts And Deleting Profiles Of Anti-GMO Activists? by John Thielking Wednesday Apr 24th, 2013 2:18 PM Author's Note: This information, including the articles on GMO corn, is preliminary information only. The report that the articles are based on has not been published so there is no way to verify it's authenticity. Still, Facebook appears to have deleted the account of Magistar Networks and is blocking the viewing of this article by at least one of my FB friends. Something very odd just happened. I just now posted a comment to a thread hosted by Magistar Networks [on Facebook]. I got a reply to that comment from MSNW, but when I tried to access the link from the notifications menu, Facebook gave me an error message saying the link was broken or the post removed. Then I checked my friends list and found that MSNW was no longer in my friends list and I did a search on FB to try to find MSNW and found nothing. Is this what happens when someone blocks you? I was agreeing with MSNW in her latest post, backing her up essentially with my latest post, so I don't know why she would block me. This is very odd. The articles I was using to make my comments were the following: http://www.naturalnews.com/039864_GMO_corn_nutrients_minerals.html http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/stunning_corn_comparison_gmo_versus_non_gmo http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/51-2012/14164-glyphosate-and-gmos-impact-on-crops-soils-animals-and-man-dr-don-huber and finally, the article that started the discussion is located here: http://www.nationofchange.org/analysis-finds-monsanto-s-gm-corn-nutritionally-dead-highly-toxic-1366122955. My point was that it seems silly to compare combustion rates between gmo and non-gmo corn and in fact the last article in the list seemed to be talking about auras instead of combustion so seemed incredible/noncredible on its face. My attitude has since changed, grudgingly admitting that in fact the combustion rates were measured and people who wrote the articles were not being confused about "auras". Additional comments from FB: John Thielking: Ok, I just completed some troubleshooting of why I lost contact with MSNW. I created a fake FB profile and logged in but still I am not able to find Magistar Networks on FB. Can anyone else find this profile on FB? Thanks. John Thielking: I now have word from one of my friends on FB that he can't see this posting on my wall. I guess I will just have to post my stuff somewhere other than FB to be sure that it gets seen by SOMEONE other than just myself. ************************************************************************* Additional comments on Indybay: The controversy started with MSNW because the one article that she referred to seemed to be saying that the energy was "emitted" from the corn as if they were measuring some kind of aura or they were totally confused about what was really being measured. I also pointed out that since I had been burned once before by a health practitioner and a health food store publishing unreferenced "data" from a Rutgers Univ study that allegedly showed that organic food was more nutritious than conventionally grown food, while the actual study was conducted in the 1940's well before any attention was being paid to organic food and in fact the study only documents variations in nutritional content of food based on the type of soil the food was grown in, NOT weather pesticides were used or not; because of that whole process I was highly skeptical of any relative nutrition claims of organic vs conventional food coming from a source that on its face appeared to not know what they were talking about. Despite my misgivings, I ended up essentially agreeing with MSNW in my last post to her wall, saying that the comment thread in one of the articles had backed up the assertion that the test results were not in fact test results from a soil sample but were likely in fact the same type of test as done for soil, but actually performed on the corn itself. So again it is a complete mystery to me why MSNW would have blocked me if that is indeed what happened. http://www.nationofchange.org/analysis-fin... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdf at juno.com Wed Apr 24 20:12:40 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:12:40 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tabling possibility: May 4-5, A la Carte & Art Festiv al, Mountain View Message-ID: <20130424.201240.15132.0@webmail15.vgs.untd.com> Hi everyone, I got clarification on this. It is first come, first served each day. Best wishes, Valerie ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Valerie D. Face" Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:08:12 GMT To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tabling possibility: May 4-5, A la Carte & Art Festival, Mountain View Hi folks, This year's A la Carte & Art Festival will happen in downtown Mountain View on Saturday-Sunday, May 4-5, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM both days. The Free Speech Area Guidelines are attached in the original Word format and in PDF format. This one is tricky because there are only six spots available, and you just show up to claim one starting at 9:00 AM (but not earlier), first come, first served. I assume that means that each individual day is first come, first served, but I have asked for clarification. I'll let this list know when I get an answer. Best wishes, Valerie ~*~*~*~ "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - from "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html ____________________________________________________________ Unusual Sleep Trick Scientists in Boston have revealed a natural sleep formula that would have everyone talking. Try it tonight. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/516f39bfb74df39bf668est02vuc From WB4D23 at aol.com Wed Apr 24 20:59:46 2013 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:59:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Wed Evening Draft Agenda Update for Tomorrow Night's Meeting (4/25) Message-ID: GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting April 25, 2013 San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA (Near 7th and San Fernando) 7:00 pm ? Speaker: Katherine Bock from the Single Payer Health Care Coalition of Santa Clara County 7:30 pm ? Begin meeting Select Facilitator, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Treasurer?s Report ? including update on failure of GPCA Clearinghouse to deliver three tote bags or GPCA to return payment -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes) Request for Endorsement ? March on Monsanto May 25th ? Warner (and anyone else who wants to present) (10 minutes) Additional Proposal for criteria for guest speakers at meetings / continued from March meeting ? Jim Doyle (15 Minutes) Jim Doyle Proposal: THE SPEAKER SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION, DATA, OR TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR VOTER REGISTRATION, FUNDRAISING, AND GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS. For example, a union organizer, a community leader or activist, a community leader from an ethnic group. The topic should reflect the ten key values. Presentation of proposed GPSCC Bylaws amendment to expand County Council authority between monthly general membership meetings / continued from March meeting ? Text of proposal needed -- Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Discussion about locals ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Update report on Middle East speaker program being organized by local Peace and Freedom Party members (continued from February 28th meeting) ? John Thielkind (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? Presenter? ? (10 Minutes) Reports from April tabling events ? Participants (10) Plans for May/June Tabling ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Mountain View Ala Carte & Arts Festival May 4th-5th? Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th Morgan Hill Mushroomn Mardi Gras May 24th-25th (fees expensive) Sunnyvale Arts & Wine Festival June 1st-2nd (restrictive rules) Others??? Discussion: ?Next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party? -- Sandy Perry (30 Minutes) (2 Hour 20 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Wed Apr 24 21:17:15 2013 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Critique of an agenda item Message-ID: The following are just my opinions -- FWIW -- Warner In a message dated 4/24/2013 1:53:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, perrysandy at aol.com writes: a discussion of the next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party. TIME: 30 MINUTES. To my thinking this is an excessively broadly framed discussion. I don't believe that the GPSCC has agreed to take on or other wise be responsible for the entire "single payer health care movement". To do so would seem to be hugely arrogant and cosmically beyond the relatively meager GPSCC participants' time/energies -- notwithstanding members who are already involved in the local county health care for all chapter. The term "Green Party" likewise is overly broad. Is a member of the California Delegation to the GPUS or some other GPUS officer or committee member expected to attend our meeting to represent and discuss the activities of the national Green Party? Is there someone from the GPCA Coordinating Committee or Green Issues Working Group expected to attend? Isn't our self-acknowledged role as a progressive political party to be supportive rather than directive? Again, use of the word "movement" without qualification seems overly broad and poorly framed. How are we expecting ourselves to have responsibility for the whole "movement" -- whatever that means. 30 MINUTES... 30 MINUTES!!!!???? There is no concrete proposal; just an invitation for more meandering undirected conversation. Isn't this something a committee can be created for people who want to have an extended conversation to develop a clear proposal for action(s) that GPSCC participants could practically accomplish and bring to a meeting as a clear and doable proposal?. -- Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdf at juno.com Wed Apr 24 21:46:00 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:46:00 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tabling possibility: May 18-19, Boogie on the Bayou, Campbell Message-ID: <20130424.214600.15132.3@webmail15.vgs.untd.com> Hi folks, Campbell's Boogie on the Bayou happens Saturday-Sunday, May 18-19, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday / 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday. They will have a Free Speech Area. The short document with the regulations for using it was *just* too big for this list, so I've pasted the regulations below (email me if you want the document itself): Designated Free Speech Area Regulations * All announcements must be made within this designated area * All materials must be distributed within this designated area * No soliciting outside of Free Speech Area will be allowed * This area is to be shared equally among all groups * Please be courteous and share time and space with other groups * Please keep your announcements to a two (2) hour time limit * You may get back into rotation after your initial 2 hour limit Thank you for your cooperation. Campbell Chamber of Commerce I have sent them a couple of clarifying questions: 1) Is it just a place to stand, or can someone bring a small table and/or chair? 2) If someone from one organization is speaking for two hours, can the other organizations still be in the area handing out flyers quietly or having quiet conversations with people who stop by (but not interrupting the speaker)? They have not settled on the location of the Free Speech Area yet, but they will send me a map when it's finalized. They have Business Row booths available, but they're $700 for Chamber of Commerce members / $1300 for non-members. That gets you a 10' x 10' space, but it's just for passing out info -- no selling. Let me know if you'd like a copy of that application. I might be available for an early Sunday shift for this event, but if we want to have someone speaking on our behalf for a couple of hours I'm not a good choice (simple one-on-one conversations are more my style). When I get more information (answers to my questions and/or the map) I'll let this list know. Best wishes, Valerie ~*~*~*~ "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - from "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html ____________________________________________________________ How to Sleep Like a Rock Obey this one natural trick to fall asleep and stay asleep all night. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5178b5256f19235256017st04vuc From perrysandy at aol.com Wed Apr 24 23:12:56 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:12:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Critique of an agenda item In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D00F930FE115DF-1890-E914@webmail-m177.sysops.aol.com> Hi Warner, At our March 28 meeting we agreed to the following proposal, which directs us to organize our agendas around the movement for single payer health care and the movement against climate change. It did not direct us to form committees, although that might be a good idea that might arise out of the discussion. Since this proposal was adopted by the meeting, I believe we should do what it says. Sandy PROPOSAL ADOPTED: I propose that our local GPSCC adopt two issue campaigns inorder to concentrate our local work, increase our impact, and grow: climatechange and single payer heath care. This does not mean we would drop other issues or refrainfrom endorsing other causes. Above all, it does not mean any member has to stopdoing work he or she as an individual feels called to do. It means we would devote more collective thought,discussion, planning, and meeting time to two campaigns with the idea of makinga breakthrough in expanding our ranks and influence. We would build our monthlymeeting agenda around planning how to advance our work around these issues.This would help to keep us grounded in life and death questions facing ourpeople, and make us more accessible for new members who want to get involved inconcrete activity. -----Original Message----- From: WB4D23 To: perrysandy ; sosfbay-discuss Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 9:17 pm Subject: Critique of an agenda item The following are just my opinions -- FWIW -- Warner In a message dated 4/24/2013 1:53:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, perrysandy at aol.com writes: a discussion of the next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party. TIME: 30 MINUTES. To my thinking this is an excessively broadly framed discussion. I don't believe that the GPSCC has agreed to take on or other wise be responsible for the entire "single payer health care movement". To do so would seem to be hugely arrogant and cosmically beyond the relatively meager GPSCC participants' time/energies -- notwithstanding members who are already involved in the local county health care for all chapter. The term "Green Party" likewise is overly broad. Is a member of the California Delegation to the GPUS or some other GPUS officer or committee member expected to attend our meeting to represent and discuss the activities of the national Green Party? Is there someone from the GPCA Coordinating Committee or Green Issues Working Group expected to attend? Isn't our self-acknowledged role as a progressive political party to be supportive rather than directive? Again, use of the word "movement" without qualification seems overly broad and poorly framed. How are we expecting ourselves to have responsibility for the whole "movement" -- whatever that means. 30 MINUTES... 30 MINUTES!!!!???? There is no concrete proposal; just an invitation for more meandering undirected conversation. Isn't this something a committee can be created for people who want to have an extended conversation to develop a clear proposal for action(s) that GPSCC participants could practically accomplish and bring to a meeting as a clear and doable proposal?. -- Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Thu Apr 25 10:38:04 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:38:04 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] County Council of Green Party of Santa Clara County Message-ID: <517969FC.9040703@structuremonitoring.com> To: The GPCA Coordinating Committee c/o Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, Co-Coordinators This letter responds to the request by Sanda Everette that the Green Party of Santa Clara County officially re-appoint its 2012-2014 County Council members as there were no GPSCC CC candidates on the June 2012 Primary Election ballot. As previously, communicated, at its regularly scheduled and announced May 2012 general membership meeting ? consistent with long-standing GPSCC Bylaws -- the sitting GPSCC CC members appointed new members beginning June 2012 and those appointments were approved by the members present. Also, at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 28, 2013 (fourth Thursday of the month), GPSCC members present unanimously consensed to reappoint existing County Council members; one prior CC member had left California. A notice that such would be occurring was placed on the GPSCC general discussion email list ? the main communication vehicle to GPSCC members ? more than two weeks before that meeting. This item also was published in the draft agenda two weeks before the meeting and on additional days before the meeting. At the March 28, 2013, GPSCC general membership meeting, the item was presented. The volunteers alll affirmed that they all live in Santa Clara County and are willing to continue serving as members of the County Council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County. Their reappointment was reaffirmed by unanimous consensus. Note: Pursuant to GPCA and GPSCC Bylaws, the GPSCC makes decisions, whenever possible, by consensus. You may consider the appointments made on March 28, 2013, as ?unanimously elected? if your sense and sensibilities about such matters require use of that language. Also at the March 28, 2013, meeting, I was tasked and agreed to write this communication to the GPCA Coordinating Committee Co-Coordinators to identify the current GPSCC County Council members. The current GPSCC County Council members and their email contact information are: Names / emails / phone numbers: * Jim Doyle , 408-269-3299 * Spencer Graves , M: 408-655-4567, H: 408-294-5779 * John Thielking , 408-561-1390 * Drew Johnson , 408-520-1652 * Betsy Wolf-Graves , 408-294-5779 *** Please let me know if this meets your requirements. If it doesn't, please explain why it doesn't, what else we need to do, and point me to the specific rules. Thanks, Spencer Graves, GPSCC County Council member, on behalf of the Green Party of Santa Clara County -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Thu Apr 25 11:51:51 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Critique of an agenda item In-Reply-To: <8D00F930FE115DF-1890-E914@webmail-m177.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D00F930FE115DF-1890-E914@webmail-m177.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <1366915911.83061.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> My understanding from previous discussion was that these two local campaign issues were going to primarily be how we chose our speakers.? If we are talking about using significant amounts of General Business Meeting time, then I would have similar concerns as Warner.? I don't wish to spend my time working on either of those issues, though I know that they are extremely valuable and that many in our group want and I would say need to have that opportunity to do practical local activism.? I had thought a group that was specifically interested in running these campaigns were going to get together to talk about them not in the General Business Meeting.? However I have suggested a number of times that we provide time during our meetings to break out into such focus groups and THAT I would support.? Thinking further on this discussion, I'm thinking that at the bottom Warner and Sandy have similar aims -- that is for our party to focus on local issues, be effective and spend our time effectively.? Warner I see that Sandy's initiative that we approved really provides a channeling of our efforts down to only two global issues that we will focus on locally.? Without this limitation we have a tendency to try to cover all the bases and end up being effective at none.? I understood that the As to theuse of the term "Green Party" I took it as obviously meaning the GPSCC.? We only have direct steering ability over ourselves and since we promote the 10 Key Value of "Decentralization" and local control, even if Sandy didn't specify that in his proposal, I believe we all understood it that way and I'm confident he would be willing to stipulate that and update the already-consented upon text accordingly. Several times in the GPSCC I have heard objections when I or others use the term of art "The Movement".? Within The Movement (ie. the progressive movement in the U.S.) this term is widely accepted, used and understood, so I stand pat on the use of that term and assert it is meaningful.? The point is that the Green Party (as an international phenomenon) has always functioned as a bridge between the broader social justice movement (The Movement) and electoral politics.? There is and always will be a tension between whether we put our energies more towards electoral politics per se, or connecting back to our base (The Movement).? If we do not connect to our base, who are we representing?? And if we are only representing ourselves (Green Party members per se) and not The Movement, what good are we doing?? After all its not as if we have had wild success (yet) so if all we are doing is representing ourselves I say that has no inspirational value and we are therefore wasting our time.? If however we are about representing The Movement which, after all has next to zero real representation in the Democratic Party then we are fullfilling a valuable function despite our lack of outward success (so far).? Green is GO! Drew ? ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: "perrysandy at aol.com" >To: WB4D23 at aol.com; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:12 PM >Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Critique of an agenda item > > > >Hi Warner, >? >At our March 28 meeting we agreed to the following proposal, which directs us to organize our agendas around the movement for single payer health care and the movement against climate change. It did not direct us to form committees, although that might be a good idea that might arise out of the discussion. Since this proposal was adopted by the meeting, I believe we should do what it says. >? >Sandy >? >? >? >PROPOSAL ADOPTED: >I propose that our local GPSCC adopt two issue campaigns in order to concentrate our local work, increase our impact, and grow: climate change and single payer heath care. >This does not mean we would drop other issues or refrain from endorsing other causes. Above all, it does not mean any member has to stop doing work he or she as an individual feels called to do. >It means we would devote more collective thought, discussion, planning, and meeting time to two campaigns with the idea of making a breakthrough in expanding our ranks and influence. We would build our monthly meeting agenda around planning how to advance our work around these issues. This would help to keep us grounded in life and death questions facing our people, and make us more accessible for new members who want to get involved in concrete activity. >-----Original Message----- >From: WB4D23 >To: perrysandy ; sosfbay-discuss >Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 9:17 pm >Subject: Critique of an agenda item > > >The following are just my opinions -- FWIW -- Warner >? >In a message dated 4/24/2013 1:53:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, perrysandy at aol.com writes: >a discussion of the next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party. >>TIME: 30 MINUTES. >To my thinking this is an excessively broadly framed discussion.? I don't believe that the GPSCC has agreed to take on or other wise be responsible for the entire "single payer health care movement".? To do so would seem to be hugely arrogant and cosmically beyond the relatively meager GPSCC participants' time/energies -- notwithstanding members who are already involved in the local county health care for all chapter.? >? >The term "Green Party" likewise is overly broad.? Is a member of the California Delegation to the GPUS or some other GPUS officer or committee member?expected to attend our meeting to represent and discuss the activities of the national Green Party?? Is there someone from the GPCA Coordinating Committee or Green Issues Working Group expected to attend?? Isn't our?self-acknowledged role as a progressive political party to be supportive rather than directive? >? >Again, use of the word "movement" without qualification seems overly broad and poorly framed.? How are we expecting ourselves to have responsibility for the whole "movement" -- whatever that means. >? >30 MINUTES...? 30?MINUTES!!!!??????There is no concrete proposal; just an invitation for more meandering undirected conversation.? Isn't this something a committee can be created?for people who want to have an extended conversation to develop a clear proposal for action(s) that?GPSCC?participants could practically accomplish and bring to a meeting as a clear and doable proposal?.?? >? >-- Warner >? >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Thu Apr 25 11:54:36 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. In-Reply-To: <51786D8A.70902@structuremonitoring.com> References: <1366829169.80073.YahooMailClassic@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <51782FAE.9030401@structuremonitoring.com> <1366840510.3869.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <51786D8A.70902@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <1366916076.85013.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> More power to all the individual Greens that work behind the scenes to accomplish so much of value!? Please also though let's be more forthcoming about our Green affiliation.? Loud, Proud and Green! Green is GO! Drew? ? ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: Spencer Graves >To: Drew >Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:40 PM >Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. > > > >Hi, Drew et al.:? > > >On 4/24/2013 2:55 PM, Drew wrote: > >Just a note: we shouldn't avoid mentioning the Green Party. ?We do that way too much and as a result many prominent Greens limit their impact because no one knows they are Greens. ?Obviously there are times and places that works and some where it doesn't so discretion is required. > >????? I agree that we should not be shy about identifying ourselves as Green.? > > >????? However, we can accomplish a lot writing for Wkimedia projects such as Wikepedia and Wikinews.? To do that we must comply with their "neutral point of view" standards.? I believe that writing for Wikipedia and Wikinews is one of the highest leverage activities I can engage in.? (My Wikipedia name is DavidMCEddy.? This gives me a certain anonymity, which I breach by mentioning that name in places like this.)? > > >????? I spent maybe half my work hours last week improving Wikipedia articles relating to the Consumer Price Index because it's a current political football, and a friend (Pablo Ghenis) suggested that better information about the "chained CPI" and the "CPI for the elderly" could help move the debate in a direction I believe is more sensible.? > > >????? Last Saturday, Lawrence Lessig noted that Aaron Schwartz spent a year contacting all the individuals and groups he could find who might be willing to oppose SOPA and PIPA.? Part of that work led to the creation of Wikipedia articles on SOPA and PIPA that got a million views between Thanksgiving and Christmas, 2011.? Without Aaron's incredible effort and the Wikipedia articles, the other things that happened that swung the debate might not have occurred, and those bills might have become law.? Sometimes one person can make a major difference.? > > >????? Spencer >??? > > >> >>Loud, Proud and Green! >>? >>Drew >> >> >>~*~*~*~ >>Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America >>Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ >>Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests >>? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >> >> >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: Spencer Graves >>>To: >>>Cc: sosfbay-discuss >>>Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:17 PM >>>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. >>> >>> >>> >>>????? That's great.? >>> >>> >>>????? Congratulations, Sandy!? >>> >>> >>>????? I could volunteer to help this group and others improve Wikipedia and write for Wikinews.? Last week, I passed 1,000 edits in Wikimedia projects.? This included 2 stories in Wikinews plus a third that I abandoned, because I could not find the time to respond to all the reviewers' comments while the story was still news.? Activities like these could increase substantially the impact of Green Party ideas.? When we do this without mentioning the Green Party, we pull the mainstream closer to our positions.? >>> >>> >>>????? Some people get paid full time to try to modify Wikipedia to conform to the propaganda of the ultra-right.? We need more people like us demanding that these ideologues write from a neutral point of view citing serious sources or be banned from further edits.? >>> >>> >>>????? Spencer >>> >>> >>>On 4/24/2013 11:46 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: >>> >>> >>>>It's nice to see that our own Sandy Perry is a member. >>>>? >>>> >>>>--- On Tue, 4/23/13, shane que hee wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>From: shane que hee >>>>>Subject: Another Government is Possible: Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet >>>>>To: >>>>>Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8:11 PM >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Subject: Another Government is Possible: Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet >>>>>>Reply-To: "Green Shadow Cabinet" >>>>>>From: "Green Shadow Cabinet" >>>>>>Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:48:46 -0500 >>>>>> >>>>>>This Earth Week, another government is possible . . . >>>>>> >>>>>>Meet the new Green Shadow Cabinet >>>>>> >>>>>>Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party presidential and vice-presidential nominees, have marked the beginning of Earth Week by announcing a new Green Shadow Cabinet that will serve as an independent voice in U.S. politics, putting the needs of people and protection of the planet ahead of profits for big corporations. The Cabinet will operate in the tradition of shadow cabinets in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Mexico, responding to actions of the government in office, and demonstrating that another government is possible. >>>>>> >>>>>>The Green Shadow Cabinet, which is viewable at www.GreenShadowCabinet.US, includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and more, and will provide an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C.. >>>>>> >>>>>>The Cabinet is organized into six federal branches: Democracy, Economy, Ecology, Foreign Affairs, General Welfare, and Justice. Topics include the economy, environment and climate change, health and general welfare, democratization, rights of workers, wages and labor, community power, closing military bases, ending wars for resources and restoring the rule of law. Among the top priorities will be advocating for full employment through aGreen New Deal and confronting climate change and the ecological crisis through a program of creating a carbon-free and nuclear free energy economy. >>>>>> >>>>>>Public statements from Cabinet members . . . >>>>>> >>>>>>In honor of the launch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, twenty members of the Cabinet have issued public statements for Earth Week. These are available for republication at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements >>>>>> >>>>>>The Green Shadow Cabinet includes not only scientists and leaders of social change organizations, but also artists and writers. The talented comedian Lee Camp offers this video "statement" on the need for the Cabinet: http://youtu.be/m3zNyEIR-Ww >>>>>> >>>>>>What you can do . . . >>>>>> >>>>>>Tell everyone you know about the Green Shadow Cabinet, and get them to sign up for news at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/subscribe-our-newsletter >>>>>> >>>>>>Make a donation toward getting this Cabinet moving - send a donation made out to Green Shadow Cabinet, Attention: Ben Manski, PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217 >>>>>> >>>>>>Urge blogs, newspapers, and others in the media to contact the Green Shadow Cabinet to schedule interviews and to publish articles. >>>>>> >>>>>>There will be more in the weeks and months to come. Thank you. >>>>>>? >>>>>>For website:Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States of America To unsubscribe: Click here > > >-- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu Apr 25 12:42:11 2013 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:42:11 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. In-Reply-To: <1366916076.85013.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1366829169.80073.YahooMailClassic@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, <51782FAE.9030401@structuremonitoring.com>, <1366840510.3869.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, <51786D8A.70902@structuremonitoring.com>, <1366916076.85013.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I am glad that the Shadow Cabinet addresses issues beyond those addressed in the Stein/Honkala presidential campaign. Stein's and Honkala's choice to wage a mostly positive campaign--"We're even better than the Democrats!" when so many former Obama supporters and reluctant Obama supporters are so alienated, as I am, from the Democrats, I'm sure was chosen for sound political reasons. But for me personally it was disappointing because I want strong national leadership that is willing to call for war criminals to be put in jail, and for me the Green New Deal and the healthcare initiatives did not inspire in the absence of condemnation of Obama's criminal policies. I'm glad to see the Shadow Cabinet addressing issues election integrity by appointing Bob Fitrakis as FEC chair. I'm glad to see Ellen Brown and Jack Rasmus and Stephen Zarlenga as economic advisors--and Sandy Perry as Sec'y of Housing. I'm glad to see Michael Ratner for Civil, Social & Economic Rights; David Swanson as Sec't of Peace, and Ann Wright as Sec'y of State. I'm also glad to see a post for Commissioner for the Comedic Arts. The Fool plays an essential role, as many Shakespeare plays demonstrate. This seems to be a very shrewd strategy for organizing around the various issues. I think I'm about ready to pledge that I will never vote for any Democrat anywhere, any time, for any reason until Barack Obama is jailed for his crimes. Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:54:36 -0700 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. More power to all the individual Greens that work behind the scenes to accomplish so much of value! Please also though let's be more forthcoming about our Green affiliation. Loud, Proud and Green! Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd From: Spencer Graves To: Drew Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. Hi, Drew et al.: On 4/24/2013 2:55 PM, Drew wrote: Just a note: we shouldn't avoid mentioning the Green Party. We do that way too much and as a result many prominent Greens limit their impact because no one knows they are Greens. Obviously there are times and places that works and some where it doesn't so discretion is required. I agree that we should not be shy about identifying ourselves as Green. However, we can accomplish a lot writing for Wkimedia projects such as Wikepedia and Wikinews. To do that we must comply with their "neutral point of view" standards. I believe that writing for Wikipedia and Wikinews is one of the highest leverage activities I can engage in. (My Wikipedia name is DavidMCEddy. This gives me a certain anonymity, which I breach by mentioning that name in places like this.) I spent maybe half my work hours last week improving Wikipedia articles relating to the Consumer Price Index because it's a current political football, and a friend (Pablo Ghenis) suggested that better information about the "chained CPI" and the "CPI for the elderly" could help move the debate in a direction I believe is more sensible. Last Saturday, Lawrence Lessig noted that Aaron Schwartz spent a year contacting all the individuals and groups he could find who might be willing to oppose SOPA and PIPA. Part of that work led to the creation of Wikipedia articles on SOPA and PIPA that got a million views between Thanksgiving and Christmas, 2011. Without Aaron's incredible effort and the Wikipedia articles, the other things that happened that swung the debate might not have occurred, and those bills might have become law. Sometimes one person can make a major difference. Spencer Loud, Proud and Green! Drew ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd From: Spencer Graves To: Cc: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet--including one of our own. That's great. Congratulations, Sandy! I could volunteer to help this group and others improve Wikipedia and write for Wikinews. Last week, I passed 1,000 edits in Wikimedia projects. This included 2 stories in Wikinews plus a third that I abandoned, because I could not find the time to respond to all the reviewers' comments while the story was still news. Activities like these could increase substantially the impact of Green Party ideas. When we do this without mentioning the Green Party, we pull the mainstream closer to our positions. Some people get paid full time to try to modify Wikipedia to conform to the propaganda of the ultra-right. We need more people like us demanding that these ideologues write from a neutral point of view citing serious sources or be banned from further edits. Spencer On 4/24/2013 11:46 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: It's nice to see that our own Sandy Perry is a member. --- On Tue, 4/23/13, shane que hee wrote: From: shane que hee Subject: Another Government is Possible: Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet To: Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8:11 PM Subject: Another Government is Possible: Meet the Green Shadow Cabinet Reply-To: "Green Shadow Cabinet" From: "Green Shadow Cabinet" Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:48:46 -0500 This Earth Week, another government is possible . . . Meet the new Green Shadow Cabinet Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party presidential and vice-presidential nominees, have marked the beginning of Earth Week by announcing a new Green Shadow Cabinet that will serve as an independent voice in U.S. politics, putting the needs of people and protection of the planet ahead of profits for big corporations. The Cabinet will operate in the tradition of shadow cabinets in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Mexico, responding to actions of the government in office, and demonstrating that another government is possible. The Green Shadow Cabinet, which is viewable at www.GreenShadowCabinet.US, includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and more, and will provide an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C.. The Cabinet is organized into six federal branches: Democracy, Economy, Ecology, Foreign Affairs, General Welfare, and Justice. Topics include the economy, environment and climate change, health and general welfare, democratization, rights of workers, wages and labor, community power, closing military bases, ending wars for resources and restoring the rule of law. Among the top priorities will be advocating for full employment through a Green New Deal and confronting climate change and the ecological crisis through a program of creating a carbon-free and nuclear free energy economy. Public statements from Cabinet members . . . In honor of the launch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, twenty members of the Cabinet have issued public statements for Earth Week. These are available for republication at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements The Green Shadow Cabinet includes not only scientists and leaders of social change organizations, but also artists and writers. The talented comedian Lee Camp offers this video "statement" on the need for the Cabinet: http://youtu.be/m3zNyEIR-Ww What you can do . . . Tell everyone you know about the Green Shadow Cabinet, and get them to sign up for news at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/subscribe-our-newsletter Make a donation toward getting this Cabinet moving - send a donation made out to Green Shadow Cabinet, Attention: Ben Manski, PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217 Urge blogs, newspapers, and others in the media to contact the Green Shadow Cabinet to schedule interviews and to publish articles. There will be more in the weeks and months to come. Thank you. For website: Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States of America To unsubscribe: Click here -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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Begin meeting Select Facilitator, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Request for Endorsement ? March on Monsanto May 25th ? Warner (and anyone else who wants to present) (10 minutes) Treasurer?s Report ? Note: 3 tote bags ordered about a year ago finally received -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes) Additional Proposal for criteria for guest speakers at meetings / continued from March meeting ? Jim Doyle (15 Minutes) Jim Doyle Proposal: THE SPEAKER SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION, DATA, OR TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR VOTER REGISTRATION, FUNDRAISING, AND GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS. For example, a union organizer, a community leader or activist, a community leader from an ethnic group. The topic should reflect the ten key values. Presentation of proposed GPSCC Bylaws amendment to expand County Council authority between monthly general membership meetings / continued from March meeting ? Text of proposal needed -- Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Discussion about locals ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Update report on Middle East speaker program being organized by local Peace and Freedom Party members (continued from February 28th meeting) ? John Thielkind (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? Order Platform summaries? How many? Presenter? ? (10 Minutes) Reports from April tabling events ? Participants (10) Plans for May/June Tabling (with thanx to Valerie for research and suggestions) ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Mountain View Ala Carte & Arts Festival May 4th-5th? Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th Campbell Boogie on the Bayou May 18th-19th (2 Hour restriction?) Morgan Hill Mushroomn Mardi Gras May 24th-25th (fees expensive) Sunnyvale Arts & Wine Festival June 1st-2nd (restrictive rules) Juneteenth in San Jose??? Others??? Discussion: ?Next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party? -- Sandy Perry (30 Minutes) (2 Hour 20 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Thu Apr 25 13:30:30 2013 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:30:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Old Webpage Info -- This must have been a tough month for everybody Message-ID: April 25, 2013 So... looking at _www.cagreens.org/sclara_ (http://www.cagreens.org/sclara) , the current event shown at the top of the page is last months general meeting... 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And on top of it, I think we should talk about having a single payer national health care plan. The reason is quite simple. In my view, we already have one; we just don?t take advantage of it. Firstly, Medicare and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are de facto setting all of the rules now. They are a single payer system.? When we go to lobby the Hill, we lobby Congress and CMS.? Talking to Blue Cross, Aetna, Cigna and United Health care is essentially a waste of time. All the third party payers do is play off the Medicare rules to their advantage and profit. They have higher premiums, pay a somewhat higher benefit and have a significantly higher level of regulation which impedes the care of their customers.? This is no longer consumer choice but effectively extortion, a less than hidden shake down in which the ?choice? for a family of four is company A at $900 per month or company B at $1100 per month.? The payers are simply taking advantage of the system, playing both ends against the middle. Secondly, in order to move forward with true health care finance we need complete transparency in cost and expense? and we need it now. As was noted in a recent Time magazine piece on the hidden cost of health care, our current system is a vulgar, less than honorable construct more akin to used car sales than medical care, cloaked under the guise of generally accepted accounting principles and hospital cost shifting. Thirdly, with a single payer system would potentially come real utilization data, real quality metrics and real accountability. The promise of ICD-10 with all of its difficulties is that of a much more granular claims-made data. We could use some granularity in health care data and we will never achieve it in big data quantities without a single payer system. Lastly, I think that the physicians should be in charge of health care and not the insurance companies and hospital systems. With a single price structure, it becomes all about medical decision making, efficiency, the provision of care to our patients, and shared decision making, all of which we do well. How, you might say, could a Republican come to such a position? The simple answer is I really think it is quite Republican.? Oh, I know there will be many raised eyebrows and many critics. I accept that.? I understand the fact that no single payer system is perfect, that it is ?socialist,? that it is ?un-American.? I would submit to you, however, that it is un-American to allow many of our citizens to be uninsured, that it is un-American to shunt money away from a strong military in order to support a bloated, inefficient and fraud-laden health care system, that it is un-American not to be open and above board with the cost of what we do, the expense of that service and the profit that we make. Mostly, it is un-American to let this outrageous health care injustice continue. 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Here is a link to an article about our recent Andrew Hill Health Fair http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/articles/2013/04/21/health-wealth-when-community-organizes-it -----Original Message----- From: WB4D23 To: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 1:25 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Final Draft Agenda for Tonight's GPSCC Meeting -- Print Your Own Copies GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting April 25, 2013 San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA (Near 7th and San Fernando) 7:00 pm ? Speaker: Katherine Bock from the Single Payer Health Care Coalition of Santa Clara County 7:30 pm ? Begin meeting Select Facilitator, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Request for Endorsement ? March on Monsanto May 25th ? Warner (and anyone else who wants to present) (10 minutes) Treasurer?s Report ? Note: 3 tote bags ordered about a year ago finally received -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes) Additional Proposal for criteria for guest speakers at meetings / continued from March meeting ? Jim Doyle (15 Minutes) Jim Doyle Proposal: THE SPEAKER SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION, DATA, OR TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR VOTER REGISTRATION, FUNDRAISING, AND GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS. For example, a union organizer, a community leader or activist, a community leader from an ethnic group. The topic should reflect the ten key values. Presentation of proposed GPSCC Bylaws amendment to expand County Council authority between monthly general membership meetings / continued from March meeting ? Text of proposal needed -- Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Discussion about locals ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Update report on Middle East speaker program being organized by local Peace and Freedom Party members (continued from February 28th meeting) ? John Thielkind (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? Order Platform summaries? How many? Presenter? ? (10 Minutes) Reports from April tabling events ? Participants (10) Plans for May/June Tabling (with thanx to Valerie for research and suggestions) ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Mountain View Ala Carte & Arts Festival May 4th-5th? Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th Campbell Boogie on the Bayou May 18th-19th (2 Hour restriction?) Morgan Hill Mushroomn Mardi Gras May 24th-25th (fees expensive) Sunnyvale Arts & Wine Festival June 1st-2nd (restrictive rules) Juneteenth in San Jose??? Others??? Discussion: ?Next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party? -- Sandy Perry (30 Minutes) (2 Hour 20 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perrysandy at aol.com Thu Apr 25 15:55:59 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:55:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Critique of an agenda item In-Reply-To: <1366915911.83061.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <8D00F930FE115DF-1890-E914@webmail-m177.sysops.aol.com> <1366915911.83061.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8D0101F2F955B62-148C-1866E@webmail-m297.sysops.aol.com> Thank you for your clarifications, Drew. You are right that I was referring to GPSCC. You are also right about what I meant by the term "movement". My intention was not to ask the GPSCC to take on the movement, run the movement, or in any way be responsible for the movement. My intention was for us to BETTER UNDERSTAND the movement, its next steps, strategy, etc. so we could plan OUR activity within it. Our activity within the single payer movement should consist of participating in it to make it stronger, and on that basis to step by step urge it to break from the Democratic Party and embrace independent politics like that of the Greens. If we have a good discussion with the three guests during the 7:00 to 7:30 time period, I believe we could then wrap up the agenda point on what we (GPSCC) should do in our single payer work in about 15 minutes. I will try to have a proposal ready. Thank you for your work on this, Warner. I am not trying to be a complainer, I am just fighting to make the meetings better to the best of my understanding. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Drew To: sosfbay discussion group Sent: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 11:52 am Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Critique of an agenda item My understanding from previous discussion was that these two local campaign issues were going to primarily be how we chose our speakers. If we are talking about using significant amounts of General Business Meeting time, then I would have similar concerns as Warner. I don't wish to spend my time working on either of those issues, though I know that they are extremely valuable and that many in our group want and I would say need to have that opportunity to do practical local activism. I had thought a group that was specifically interested in running these campaigns were going to get together to talk about them not in the General Business Meeting. However I have suggested a number of times that we provide time during our meetings to break out into such focus groups and THAT I would support. Thinking further on this discussion, I'm thinking that at the bottom Warner and Sandy have similar aims -- that is for our party to focus on local issues, be effective and spend our time effectively. Warner I see that Sandy's initiative that we approved really provides a channeling of our efforts down to only two global issues that we will focus on locally. Without this limitation we have a tendency to try to cover all the bases and end up being effective at none. I understood that the As to theuse of the term "Green Party" I took it as obviously meaning the GPSCC. We only have direct steering ability over ourselves and since we promote the 10 Key Value of "Decentralization" and local control, even if Sandy didn't specify that in his proposal, I believe we all understood it that way and I'm confident he would be willing to stipulate that and update the already-consented upon text accordingly. Several times in the GPSCC I have heard objections when I or others use the term of art "The Movement". Within The Movement (ie. the progressive movement in the U.S.) this term is widely accepted, used and understood, so I stand pat on the use of that term and assert it is meaningful. The point is that the Green Party (as an international phenomenon) has always functioned as a bridge between the broader social justice movement (The Movement) and electoral politics. There is and always will be a tension between whether we put our energies more towards electoral politics per se, or connecting back to our base (The Movement). If we do not connect to our base, who are we representing? And if we are only representing ourselves (Green Party members per se) and not The Movement, what good are we doing? After all its not as if we have had wild success (yet) so if all we are doing is representing ourselves I say that has no inspirational value and we are therefore wasting our time. If however we are about representing The Movement which, after all has next to zero real representation in the Democratic Party then we are fullfilling a valuable function despite our lack of outward success (so far). Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd From: "perrysandy at aol.com" To: WB4D23 at aol.com; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Critique of an agenda item Hi Warner, At our March 28 meeting we agreed to the following proposal, which directs us to organize our agendas around the movement for single payer health care and the movement against climate change. It did not direct us to form committees, although that might be a good idea that might arise out of the discussion. Since this proposal was adopted by the meeting, I believe we should do what it says. Sandy PROPOSAL ADOPTED: I propose that our local GPSCC adopt two issue campaigns inorder to concentrate our local work, increase our impact, and grow: climatechange and single payer heath care. This does not mean we would drop other issues or refrainfrom endorsing other causes. Above all, it does not mean any member has to stopdoing work he or she as an individual feels called to do. It means we would devote more collective thought,discussion, planning, and meeting time to two campaigns with the idea of makinga breakthrough in expanding our ranks and influence. We would build our monthlymeeting agenda around planning how to advance our work around these issues.This would help to keep us grounded in life and death questions facing ourpeople, and make us more accessible for new members who want to get involved inconcrete activity. -----Original Message----- From: WB4D23 To: perrysandy ; sosfbay-discuss Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 9:17 pm Subject: Critique of an agenda item The following are just my opinions -- FWIW -- Warner In a message dated 4/24/2013 1:53:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, perrysandy at aol.com writes: a discussion of the next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party. TIME: 30 MINUTES. To my thinking this is an excessively broadly framed discussion. I don't believe that the GPSCC has agreed to take on or other wise be responsible for the entire "single payer health care movement". To do so would seem to be hugely arrogant and cosmically beyond the relatively meager GPSCC participants' time/energies -- notwithstanding members who are already involved in the local county health care for all chapter. The term "Green Party" likewise is overly broad. Is a member of the California Delegation to the GPUS or some other GPUS officer or committee member expected to attend our meeting to represent and discuss the activities of the national Green Party? Is there someone from the GPCA Coordinating Committee or Green Issues Working Group expected to attend? Isn't our self-acknowledged role as a progressive political party to be supportive rather than directive? Again, use of the word "movement" without qualification seems overly broad and poorly framed. How are we expecting ourselves to have responsibility for the whole "movement" -- whatever that means. 30 MINUTES... 30 MINUTES!!!!???? There is no concrete proposal; just an invitation for more meandering undirected conversation. Isn't this something a committee can be created for people who want to have an extended conversation to develop a clear proposal for action(s) that GPSCC participants could practically accomplish and bring to a meeting as a clear and doable proposal?. -- Warner _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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How we build relationships that build a movement. ELI (extremely-low income). Get help from other organizations including CWA (Communications Workers of America). CAHPSA began in 2004. American Medical Students Assocation (AMSA). Cindy Delacruz. 2 students in 2004 to over 5,000 today. SG: From an economic perspective, the best response to infectious diseases is to ensure that anyone who might have have an infectious disease get competent medical heal ASAP. > > -----Original Message----- > From: WB4D23 > To: sosfbay-discuss > Sent: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 1:25 pm > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Final Draft Agenda for Tonight's GPSCC Meeting -- Print Your Own Copies > > GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY > Draft Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting April 25, 2013 > San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA (Near 7th and San Fernando) > > 7:00 pm ? Speaker: Katherine Bock from the Single Payer Health Care Coalition of Santa Clara County > 7:30 pm ? Begin meeting > > Select Facilitator: Warner. > Note taker: Spencer > , Time keeper: John T. > , and Vibes watcher(s); Tian. > Select Agenda Preparer: Caroline > for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) > Warner Bloomberg with the Green Party since 1974: Please contact Warner to review the agenda packet for the state Green Party meeting in June. Drew Johnson, Katherine Bock, Spencer Graves, Swathi Bhuma, Sandy Perry, Alice Cabral, Marshal Quackenbush (Santa Clara U.) John Thielking, Tian Harter, Fred D. > Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) > > > > Treasurer?s Report ? Note: 3 tote bags ordered about a year ago finally received -- Jim Doyle (5 minutes) $1,700.68 + $12 raised from button sales at San Jose State on Tuesday. (plus $20 selling 2 shirts). + $1.50 health fair + collection = $1,780.18. Request for Endorsement ? March on Monsanto May 25th -- Local event: at St. James Park. Tian to ask Diane Solomon on the location Jim Doyle: We'd like to have someone attending the planning meeting. Sandy: That creates an obstacle to wider participation in more events. No unresolved concerns. No unresolved concerns. Warner will communicate back ? Warner (and anyone else who wants to present) (10 minutes) ** info was posted on the email list: SJ Peace & Justice Center asked for the Green Party to endorse. > > Additional Proposal for criteria for guest speakers at meetings / continued from March meeting ? Jim Doyle (15 Minutes) > > Jim Doyle Proposal: > > THE SPEAKER SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION, DATA, OR TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR VOTER REGISTRATION, FUNDRAISING, AND GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS. For example, a union organizer, a community leader or activist, a community leader from an ethnic group. The topic should reflect the ten key values. Concern: This seems to exclude health care and climate change. Jim will present a revision at a future meeting. > > Presentation of proposed GPSCC Bylaws amendment to expand County Council authority between monthly general membership meetings / continued from March meeting ? Text of proposal needed -- Jim Doyle > (10 Minutes) County Council should take care of endorsements and report back on the next meeting: If the County Council can't consense, it will be brought to the next meeting. Specific text will be proposed for the next meeting. > > Discussion about locals ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) > > Update report on Middle East speaker program being organized by local Peace and Freedom Party members (continued from February 28th meeting) ? John Thielking (10 Minutes) > > Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? Order Platform summaries? How many? Presenter? ? (10 Minutes) We violently need tabling supplies in non-English languages. Caroline will make a list of documents to translate into other languages and non-English languages. "trans121.com" can produce a crude first draft, but it would need to be polished by someone fluent in the language. > > Reports from April tabling events ? Participants (10) > > Plans for May/June Tabling (with thanx to Valerie for research and suggestions) ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) May 1: DeAnza Green Party "Club" will have an event. Drew will speak. Sandy will have a table. He has literature. He could use buttons. Caroline will put some on the chair on her front porch. Drew will pick them up. > Mountain View Ala Carte & Arts Festival May 4th-5th? Tian to coordinate with Valerie about this. 6 spots, first come, first served, starting at 9 AM. > Berryessa Arts & Wine Festiveal Saturday May 11th: Maybe not. > Campbell Boogie on the Bayou May 18th-19th (2 Hour restriction?): Business booths $700. > Morgan Hill Mushroomn Mardi Gras May 24th-25th (fees expensive) > Sunnyvale Arts & Wine Festival June 1st-2nd (restrictive rules) 10 AM - 6 PM 2 days: Caroline and Drew will coordinate. Tian and John will assist. > Juneteenth in San Jose??? > Others??? > > Discussion: ?Next steps for the single payer health care movement, upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party? -- Sandy Perry (30 Minutes) *** Campaign for a Healthy California has a 5 year plan: building a grass roots movement, collecting funds, and have it ready by 2017 -- to apply for state innovation waiver in Obamacare in 2017. Proposed: We form a Universal Health Care Action committee with Sandy and Carolie as co-coordinators plus Jim Doyle as a member. We have universal consensus. > (2 Hour 20 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) -- 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 vdf at juno.com Thu Apr 25 21:18:17 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:18:17 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tabling possibility: May 18-19, Boogie on the Bayou, Campbell Message-ID: <20130425.211817.14302.0@webmail01.vgs.untd.com> Hi everyone, Here's the reply to my questions from Dave Perry, CEO of the Campbell Chamber of Commerce: "As far as the area goes, it is just an area to stand... and yes you can hand out flyers while others are talking... they just must be handed out within the free speech area... if any of your groups are planning on attending you can refer them to me - I will get them signed up and put into an orderly fashion for speaking time. Let me know if you have any other questions." So my impression is that we can stand in the Free Speech Area and hand out flyers all day, but if we want speaking time we need to take turns with any other groups that are there and limit ourselves to two hours at a time. Dave's phone number is 408-378-6252, or you can send him an email at info at campbellchamber.net. Best wishes, Valerie ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Valerie D. Face" Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:46:00 GMT To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tabling possibility: May 18-19, Boogie on the Bayou, Campbell Hi folks, Campbell's Boogie on the Bayou happens Saturday-Sunday, May 18-19, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday / 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday. They will have a Free Speech Area. The short document with the regulations for using it was *just* too big for this list, so I've pasted the regulations below (email me if you want the document itself): Designated Free Speech Area Regulations * All announcements must be made within this designated area * All materials must be distributed within this designated area * No soliciting outside of Free Speech Area will be allowed * This area is to be shared equally among all groups * Please be courteous and share time and space with other groups * Please keep your announcements to a two (2) hour time limit * You may get back into rotation after your initial 2 hour limit Thank you for your cooperation. Campbell Chamber of Commerce I have sent them a couple of clarifying questions: 1) Is it just a place to stand, or can someone bring a small table and/or chair? 2) If someone from one organization is speaking for two hours, can the other organizations still be in the area handing out flyers quietly or having quiet conversations with people who stop by (but not interrupting the speaker)? They have not settled on the location of the Free Speech Area yet, but they will send me a map when it's finalized. They have Business Row booths available, but they're $700 for Chamber of Commerce members / $1300 for non-members. That gets you a 10' x 10' space, but it's just for passing out info -- no selling. Let me know if you'd like a copy of that application. I might be available for an early Sunday shift for this event, but if we want to have someone speaking on our behalf for a couple of hours I'm not a good choice (simple one-on-one conversations are more my style). When I get more information (answers to my questions and/or the map) I'll let this list know. Best wishes, Valerie ~*~*~*~ "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - from "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html ____________________________________________________________ How to Sleep Like a Rock Obey this one natural trick to fall asleep and stay asleep all night. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5178b5256f19235256017st04vuc _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From perrysandy at aol.com Thu Apr 25 22:51:21 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:51:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] DA GREEN PARTY CLUB - A2K IS A HUMAN RIGHT - FORUM AT 1:30 PM WED MAY 1 Message-ID: <8D0105936CFE070-2214-149E7@webmail-m167.sysops.aol.com> frE uR tXbk$! A2K: Access to Knowledge ?Information is power. But like all power, there are thosewho want to keep it for themselves. The world?s cultural heritage ? locked upby a handful of private corporations ? The OpenAccess Movement has fought valiantly to allow anyone to access it.? ? AaronSwartz 1986 ? 2013, A2K hero & martyr. May Day A2K! A2K = a human right On May Day the traditional celebration day for liberationjoin DR. CRYSTALLEE CRAIN, and DA StudentTrustee VINCE MENDOZA, to learnabout De Anza Student Advocacy Group?s work on OER (Open Educational Resources) TIME: Wed. May 1 from 1:30 ? 3:30 pm PLACE: Student Center Conference RoomA Sponsors: DA GREEN PARTY CLUB Institute ofCommunity and Civic Engagement Office of Equity,Social Justice and Multicultural Education -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Fri Apr 26 04:31:05 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:31:05 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] DA GREEN PARTY CLUB - A2K IS A HUMAN RIGHT - FORUM AT 1:30 PM WED MAY 1 In-Reply-To: <8D0105936CFE070-2214-149E7@webmail-m167.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D0105936CFE070-2214-149E7@webmail-m167.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <517A6579.8000805@prodsyse.com> I wish to share a perspective on this as the author of 2 books, 30 published technical papers, 3 patents and software used all over the world: 1. The copyright clause in the US constitution says, that "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Virtually all the changes in copyright law over the past 40 years have violated this purpose, extending the copyright period from a max of 28 years to 99 and essentially infinite, and broadening the range of application to "derivative works" with such vague language as to give the major media conglomerates legal grounds for SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation) suits against potential competitors. My primary reference on copyright law is the Wikipedia article on "Free Culture (book)". The industry successfully sued lawyers who represented MP3 and venture capitalists supporting Napster on questionable grounds with the sole purpose reducing competition to the major media conglomerates. The industry won, because the lawyers and venture capitalists knew that they could not afford the legal fees to fight the cases because the copyright laws were too vague; they settled out of court. This and other actions have a chilling effect on creativity. Lessig in "Free Culture" claims the first commercially successful Mickey Mouse cartoon movie, "Steamboat Willie", might not have been produced under current copyright law, because that cartoon might have been considered a "derivative work" of a Buster Keaton film, "Steamboat Bill, Jr.", produced earlier that year. The most dynamic comics industry in the world is in Japan, because the Japanese simply refuse to use the existing copyright law (written to comply with international norms established essentially be US law). 2. Virtually 100% of the application of current US copyright law to technical articles violates the provisions of the US constitution "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". I'm an author on 30 published technical papers. I was required to transfer the copyright to the publisher for the vast majority of those in exchange only for the privilege of seeing the work published. That made sense prior to the Internet. It no longer makes sense, even for archives of journals published prior to the Internet. These could be digitized at a relatively low one-time cost and made available to the world for free. They aren't, because US copyright law is outdated and maintained by the legalized bribery of our current system of private financing political campaigns in the US. 3. I've received small royalty payments for one of the 2 books. The royalty is nice, but it's so small, it was NOT even considered in my decision on whether to write that book. The only reason I agreed to have the book published by Springer was because they have established distribution processes. I would have preferred web publishing, but my lead co-author had a relationship with Springer, so I didn't fight that. However, again, the my motivation in producing that work was unrelated to what the publishers tell congress about that, and the copyright violates the constitutional purpose of copyright law. 4. Popular textbooks may be different: I don't know for sure, but I believe that the royalties from popular textbooks for established technical authors can be substantial and can encourage the production of such textbooks. However, Wikiversity provides a platform for collaborative production of training materials under the Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. Wikimedia projects include a feature to "Create a book": Any prof can create the book they want from established content in Wikimedia projects tailored to what they think should be taught. Profs all over the world collaborate to create that content. This is a mechanism for providing access to the best available knowledge selected by local profs that does not rely on established book publishers, which justify huge royalties based on the relatively low production volumes. Once again, we don't need to pay individual authors to write popular textbooks: We can get better textbooks from committees of profs teaching similar material all over the world, kept as current as profs can keep themselves current. And again, the constitutional purpose for copyright law is violated but too a lesser extent than for published technical papers and research monographs. Thanks for organizing this event. Feel free to quote me if you think it could be useful. Spencer On 4/25/2013 10:51 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: > *frE uR tXbk$!* > *A2K: **Access**to Knowledge*** > "Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to > keep it for themselves. The world's cultural heritage ... locked up by > a handful of private corporations ... The *Open Access Movement *has > fought valiantly to allow anyone to access it." > -- *Aaron Swartz 1986 -- 2013, A2K hero & martyr.* > *May Day A2K!* > *A2K = a human right* > On May Day the traditional celebration day for liberation join *DR. > CRYSTALLEE CRAIN*, and DA Student Trustee *VINCE MENDOZA, *to learn > about De Anza Student Advocacy Group's work on > *OER (Open Educational Resources)* > *TIME: Wed. May 1 from 1:30 -- 3:30 pm* > *PLACE: Student Center Conference Room A* > Sponsors:*DA GREEN PARTY CLUB*** > Institute of Community and Civic Engagement > Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Apr 29 09:29:29 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: ACA on Wikipedia Message-ID: <1367252969.64538.YahooMailClassic@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Carol Dalrymple To: Bob Applebaum ; Gerry Hunt ; Jean Embree ; Joan Simon ; Lynn Huidekoper ; Lynne Penek-Holden Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:03 PM Subject: ACA on Wikipedia Dedicated students of the Affordable Care Act might be interested to know that Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive article covering the Act at:? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#Provisions.? (Jean Embree may take exception to this approach).? ? Have not even begun to read the article, but did notice under 'Effective by January 1st, 2017'? that Montana(!) is planning to apply for a waiver in order to institute a single payer plan.? ? 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As previously, communicated, at its regularly scheduled > and announced May 2012 general membership meeting ? consistent with > long-standing GPSCC Bylaws -- the sitting GPSCC CC members appointed new > members beginning June 2012 and those appointments were approved by the > members present. > Again to clarify, a sitting County Council can not appoint the next, incoming County Council. Rather, any appointment of a new County Council can only occur after a vacancy has occurred - i.e. after the outgoing Council's term has ended - and then only by the process specified in the county's bylaws. Thus any appointment for 2012-2014 made before July 2012 could not be valid. > > > Also, at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 28, 2013 (fourth > Thursday of the month), GPSCC members present unanimously consensed to > reappoint existing County Council members; one prior CC member had left > California. A notice that such would be occurring was placed on the GPSCC > general discussion email list ? the main communication vehicle to GPSCC > members ? more than two weeks before that meeting. This item also was > published in the draft agenda two weeks before the meeting and on > additional days before the meeting. > > > At the March 28, 2013, GPSCC general membership meeting, the item was > presented. The volunteers alll affirmed that they all live in Santa Clara > County and are willing to continue serving as members of the County Council > of the Green Party of Santa Clara County. Their reappointment was > reaffirmed by unanimous consensus. Note: Pursuant to GPCA and GPSCC Bylaws, > the GPSCC makes decisions, whenever possible, by consensus. You may > consider the appointments made on March 28, 2013, as ?unanimously elected? > if your sense and sensibilities about such matters require use of that > language. > > > Also at the March 28, 2013, meeting, I was tasked and agreed to write this > communication to the GPCA Coordinating Committee Co-Coordinators to > identify the current GPSCC County Council members. The current GPSCC County > Council members and their email contact information are: > > > Names / emails / phone numbers: > > > * Jim Doyle , 408-269-3299 > > > * Spencer Graves >, > M: 408-655-4567, H: 408-294-5779 > > > * John Thielking , 408-561-1390 > > > * Drew Johnson , 408-520-1652 > > > * Betsy Wolf-Graves , 408-294-5779 > > > *** Please let me know if this meets your requirements. If it doesn't, > please explain why it doesn't, what else we need to do, and point me to the > specific rules. > The bylaws for such an appointment where the county is already considered active by the state party are as follows (note: Santa Clara County is considered active because if its attendance at prior General Assemblies, even if it doesn't have an active county council) http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Vacancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_the_primary_election 6-6.4 For decisions to be valid at this General Meeting, *in counties in which where there is a recognized County Organization, either the number shall be equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in that county; or at a meeting with less than that number, but with at least three, only those candidates would be eligible who present a nomination petition with a number of signatures from registered Greens in the county, equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in that county*. Its not clear from the minutes of your meeting http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss/2013-March/014399.html that there were either 20 individuals present, or that those seeking appointment had 20 nomination signatures. Without either criteria being satisfied, no appointments can be made. As we sent you before, there is supposed to be a 21 day notice, aided by the state Coordinating Committee, notifying Greens in your county of the date of appointment. But then in addition as per above, anyone seeking appointment needs to satisfy the criteria of either having enough nominations signatures to be eligible (that number is likely 20 registered Greens in Santa Clara County) OR the number of people at the meeting making the appointment needs to be at least 20. > > > Thanks, > > > Spencer Graves, GPSCC County Council member, on behalf of the Green Party > of Santa Clara County > > > -- > 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 > > Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, co-coordinators GPCA Coordinating Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Apr 29 14:35:52 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:35:52 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Comment Period NOW for draft of Bay Area Plan In-Reply-To: <517EE75A.9070903@earthlink.net> References: <517EE75A.9070903@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <517EE7B8.1090907@earthlink.net> FYI, (NOTE: Although this is about planning for the Bay Area, apparently there must be similar efforts in the rest of the state.) The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has recently released a "Draft Plan Bay Area" and an EIR. They are now accepting comments. For info about public hearings: http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area/meetings-events/Public-Workshops-Public-Hearings.html San Mateo County : TODAY, 6-9PM in Foster City Marin County: TODAY, 6-9PM in the Marin Center, San Rafael Alameda County: May 1, 6-9PM in Fremont Santa Clara County: May 1, 6-9PM in San Jose For more general info, including seeing the drafts and commenting online: http://www.abag.ca.gov/cgi-bin/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1365457467,35008, "The effort grew out of the California Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 (California Senate Bill 375, Steinberg), which requires each of the state?s 18 metropolitan areas ? including the Bay Area ? to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks." Sorry about the late notice, I just learned about it today from KQED. Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Apr 29 16:08:52 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:08:52 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "CO2 Levels About to Hit 400 PPM" In-Reply-To: <517EFCFE.70400@earthlink.net> References: <517EFCFE.70400@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <517EFD84.7030803@earthlink.net> http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/29-2 Gerry From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Mon Apr 29 19:49:04 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] [350SiliconValley] ACTION ALERT: Protest at Facebook headquarters this Wednesday in Menlo Park at noon to tell Mark Zuckerberg to stop supporting Keystone XL! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1367290144.49955.YahooMailClassic@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> If I go to the Facebook protest this Wednesday (see below Green Party people for details) I will likely bring my own sign denouncing Facebook's recent decision to disable the account of Magistar Networks.? Magistar Networks' real name is Ava and she is a probably 60 something disabled woman who is working really hard to get the word out about how bad GMOs are among other things and to publicize the recent launch of her seedling business partnership that is being featured at a farmers' market in Kentucky.? It is unfortunate that Facebook decided to likely enforce it's policy of people having to use their real names for screen names just when things were beginning to turn around for Ava and just after she told us of some injuries that she sustained on opening day of the farmers' market stall (she is suffering form fainting spells apparently).? Please take a moment to hold Ava in your thoughts and send some kind images and prayers her way. Also, her landlord is ruthlessly exploiting her as a sub minimum wage slave even though she is disabled and her goal is to buy a plot of land with a shack built on it and live there instead of in her current situation. Please pray that she succeeds. Thank you. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking ? PS I have done my homework on this and at least one person who is not currently one of my friends on Facebook was unable to find the profile of Magistar Networks on FB, so I'm sure that she didn't block me. --- On Mon, 4/29/13, Pierre Delforge wrote: From: Pierre Delforge Subject: [350SiliconValley] ACTION ALERT: Protest at Facebook headquarters this Wednesday in Menlo Park at noon to tell Mark Zuckerberg to stop supporting Keystone XL! To: 350-silicon-valley-chat at googlegroups.com, 350siliconvalley at googlegroups.com Cc: "amyhutto" Date: Monday, April 29, 2013, 9:54 AM If you're on CREDO's mailing list, you may have seen this email about Mark Zuckerberg and other internet company CEOs funding a political organization which is meant to support immigration reform, but is also running ads in support of Keystone XL and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. See this ThinkProgress article for details. Our friends at 350.org national are organizing a protest at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park this Wednesday and would like local 350 supporters to show up. The plan is to meet at the Starbucks parking lot at 1401 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, just down the road from the Willow Rd Facebook entrance. Protesters will gather at 11:45 and walk over at noon. It is about 500 ft down the road. Amy from 350.org will bring a pipe and a sign. She suggests wearing bright colored safety work vests and hard hats or other work clothing, and bring shovels, to pose as a spill clean-up crew. The Caltrain station is 3.3 miles away, so we may want to organize pickups. Btw, I won't be able to make it myself, but if some folks are interested in helping organize logistics, media and Facebook (the social network, not the company!) outreach to help make this event more effective, let me know and I will put you in touch with Amy at 350.org. Thanks! Pierre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "350 Silicon Valley" group. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/350SiliconValley?hl=en. ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Apr 30 09:09:39 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?iso-8859-1?q?Fw=3A_San_Jos=E9=27s_Active_Adult_Hea?= =?iso-8859-1?q?lth_=26_Wellness_Fair_-__Wed=2E_May_15?= Message-ID: <1367338179.68292.YahooMailClassic@web185306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> --- On Mon, 4/29/13, Joan Goddard wrote: From: Joan Goddard Subject: San Jos?'s Active Adult Health & Wellness Fair - Wed. May 15 To: kbock3 at sbcglobal.net, brogregm at sbcglobal.net, swathibhuma at gmail.com, shruthibhuma at gmail.com, peacenut99 at yahoo.com, marty1132 at aol.com, bobnroz at gmail.com, gwhunt97 at sbcglobal.net, carolineyacoub at att.net, mcbeattie at jps.net Date: Monday, April 29, 2013, 5:49 PM from Madison Nguyen's new newsletter -- maybe check with her office about having an information table?? This is mostly for seniors, but they vote and have friends and relatives (and are seniors who did not work here and pay into Medicare not covered by Medicare??)???? I can probably help but am not feeling up to carving out time and focus to make arrangements. Joan G?? 408-396-8039 Adult Health and Wellness Fair Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services (PRNS) would like to invite you to join us in an exciting event on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 from 9:30am to 1:00pm - the City of San Jos?'s Active Adult Health & Wellness Fair, "Unleash the Power of Age". This event will be held at the San Jos? History Park and will feature some of the following activities: senior fitness activities, a one mile fun walk around the park, a free lunch for the first 500 people registered, door prizes, and many community agencies representing a variety of health and wellness services or programs throughout San Jos?. Pre-registration is required. 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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:19:00 -0700 Size: 7510 URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Tue Apr 30 20:02:18 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] DA GREEN PARTY CLUB - A2K IS A HUMAN RIGHT - FORUM AT 1:30 PM WED MAY 1 In-Reply-To: <517A6579.8000805@prodsyse.com> References: <8D0105936CFE070-2214-149E7@webmail-m167.sysops.aol.com> <517A6579.8000805@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1367377338.89097.YahooMailNeo@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Hey Spencer, your summary why copyright reform is needed for A2K human rights is very helpful and I'll look for a way to include it in the material. ?:-) Green is GO! Drew ? ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: Spencer Graves >To: perrysandy at aol.com >Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org; Drew >Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:31 AM >Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] DA GREEN PARTY CLUB - A2K IS A HUMAN RIGHT - FORUM AT 1:30 PM WED MAY 1 > > > >????? I wish to share a perspective on this as the author of 2 books, 30 published technical papers, 3 patents and software used all over the world:? > > >??? ??????? 1.? The copyright clause in the US constitution says, that "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."? Virtually all the changes in copyright law over the past 40 years have violated this purpose, extending the copyright period from a max of 28 years to 99 and essentially infinite, and broadening the range of application to "derivative works" with such vague language as to give the major media conglomerates legal grounds for SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation) suits against potential competitors.? My primary reference on copyright law is the Wikipedia article on "Free Culture (book)".? The industry successfully sued lawyers who represented MP3 and venture capitalists supporting Napster on questionable grounds with the sole purpose reducing competition to the major media conglomerates.? The industry won, because the lawyers and venture capitalists knew that they could not afford the legal fees to fight the cases because the copyright laws were too vague;? they settled out of court.? This and other actions have a chilling effect on creativity.? Lessig in "Free Culture" claims the first commercially successful Mickey Mouse cartoon movie, "Steamboat Willie", might not have been produced under current copyright law, because that cartoon might have been considered a "derivative work" of a Buster Keaton film, "Steamboat Bill, Jr.", produced earlier that year.? The most dynamic comics industry in the world is in Japan, because the Japanese simply refuse to use the existing copyright law (written to comply with international norms established essentially be US law).? > > >??? ??????? 2.? Virtually 100% of the application of current US copyright law to technical articles violates the provisions of the US constitution "to promote the progress of science and useful arts".? I'm an author on 30 published technical papers.? I was required to transfer the copyright to the publisher for the vast majority of those in exchange only for the privilege of seeing the work published.? That made sense prior to the Internet.? It no longer makes sense, even for archives of journals published prior to the Internet.? These could be digitized at a relatively low one-time cost and made available to the world for free.? They aren't, because US copyright law is outdated and maintained by the legalized bribery of our current system of private financing political campaigns in the US.? > > >??? ??????? 3.? I've received small royalty payments for one of the 2 books.? The royalty is nice, but it's so small, it was NOT even considered in my decision on whether to write that book.? The only reason I agreed to have the book published by Springer was because they have established distribution processes.? I would have preferred web publishing, but my lead co-author had a relationship with Springer, so I didn't fight that.? However, again, the my motivation in producing that work was unrelated to what the publishers tell congress about that, and the copyright violates the constitutional purpose of copyright law.? > > >??? ??????? 4.? Popular textbooks may be different:? I don't know for sure, but I believe that the royalties from popular textbooks for established technical authors can be substantial and can encourage the production of such textbooks.? However, Wikiversity provides a platform for collaborative production of training materials under the Creative Commons attribution share-alike license.? Wikimedia projects include a feature to "Create a book":? Any prof can create the book they want from established content in Wikimedia projects tailored to what they think should be taught.? Profs all over the world collaborate to create that content.? This is a mechanism for providing access to the best available knowledge selected by local profs that does not rely on established book publishers, which justify huge royalties based on the relatively low production volumes.? Once again, we don't need to pay individual authors to write popular textbooks:? We can get better textbooks from committees of profs teaching similar material all over the world, kept as current as profs can keep themselves current.? And again, the constitutional purpose for copyright law is violated but too a lesser extent than for published technical papers and research monographs.? > > >????? Thanks for organizing this event.? Feel free to quote me if you think it could be useful.? > > >????? Spencer > > >On 4/25/2013 10:51 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: > > >>frE uR tXbk$! >>A2K: Accessto Knowledge >>?Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world?s cultural heritage ? locked up by a handful of private corporations ? The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to allow anyone to access it.? >>?? Aaron Swartz 1986 ? 2013, A2K hero & martyr. >>May Day A2K! >>A2K = a human right >>On May Day the traditional celebration day for liberation join DR. CRYSTALLEE CRAIN, and DA Student Trustee VINCE MENDOZA, to learn about De Anza Student Advocacy Group?s work on >>OER (Open Educational Resources) >>TIME: Wed. May 1 from 1:30 ? 3:30 pm >>PLACE: Student Center Conference Room A >>Sponsors:DA GREEN PARTY CLUB >>Institute of Community and Civic Engagement >>Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education >> >> >>_______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > >-- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Tue Apr 30 21:35:21 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:35:21 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] DA GREEN PARTY CLUB - A2K IS A HUMAN RIGHT - FORUM AT 1:30 PM WED MAY 1 In-Reply-To: <1367377338.89097.YahooMailNeo@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <8D0105936CFE070-2214-149E7@webmail-m167.sysops.aol.com> <517A6579.8000805@prodsyse.com> <1367377338.89097.YahooMailNeo@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51809B89.8070401@structuremonitoring.com> Hi, Drew: On 4/30/2013 8:02 PM, Drew wrote: > Hey Spencer, your summary why copyright reform is needed for A2K human > rights is very helpful and I'll look for a way to include it in the > material. > :-) Thanks. I'd be willing to help more. That industry is due for a haircut. Their excesses started Lessig on the road to "Republic, Lost". Some of my perspective is beyond what Lessig mentioned in "Free Culture". sg > > > Green is GO! > > Drew > > > > > > > > > > ~*~*~*~ > Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America > Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Spencer Graves > *To:* perrysandy at aol.com > *Cc:* sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org; Drew > *Sent:* Friday, April 26, 2013 4:31 AM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] DA GREEN PARTY CLUB - A2K IS A HUMAN > RIGHT - FORUM AT 1:30 PM WED MAY 1 > > I wish to share a perspective on this as the author of 2 > books, 30 published technical papers, 3 patents and software used > all over the world: > > > 1. The copyright clause in the US constitution says, > that "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by > securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive > Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Virtually > all the changes in copyright law over the past 40 years have > violated this purpose, extending the copyright period from a max > of 28 years to 99 and essentially infinite, and broadening the > range of application to "derivative works" with such vague > language as to give the major media conglomerates legal grounds > for SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation) suits > against potential competitors. My primary reference on copyright > law is the Wikipedia article on "Free Culture (book)". The > industry successfully sued lawyers who represented MP3 and venture > capitalists supporting Napster on questionable grounds with the > sole purpose reducing competition to the major media > conglomerates. The industry won, because the lawyers and venture > capitalists knew that they could not afford the legal fees to > fight the cases because the copyright laws were too vague; they > settled out of court. This and other actions have a chilling > effect on creativity. Lessig in "Free Culture" claims the first > commercially successful Mickey Mouse cartoon movie, "Steamboat > Willie", might not have been produced under current copyright law, > because that cartoon might have been considered a "derivative > work" of a Buster Keaton film, "Steamboat Bill, Jr.", produced > earlier that year. The most dynamic comics industry in the world > is in Japan, because the Japanese simply refuse to use the > existing copyright law (written to comply with international norms > established essentially be US law). > > > 2. Virtually 100% of the application of current US > copyright law to technical articles violates the provisions of the > US constitution "to promote the progress of science and useful > arts". I'm an author on 30 published technical papers. I was > required to transfer the copyright to the publisher for the vast > majority of those in exchange only for the privilege of seeing the > work published. That made sense prior to the Internet. It no > longer makes sense, even for archives of journals published prior > to the Internet. These could be digitized at a relatively low > one-time cost and made available to the world for free. They > aren't, because US copyright law is outdated and maintained by the > legalized bribery of our current system of private financing > political campaigns in the US. > > > 3. I've received small royalty payments for one of > the 2 books. The royalty is nice, but it's so small, it was NOT > even considered in my decision on whether to write that book. The > only reason I agreed to have the book published by Springer was > because they have established distribution processes. I would > have preferred web publishing, but my lead co-author had a > relationship with Springer, so I didn't fight that. However, > again, the my motivation in producing that work was unrelated to > what the publishers tell congress about that, and the copyright > violates the constitutional purpose of copyright law. > > > 4. Popular textbooks may be different: I don't know > for sure, but I believe that the royalties from popular textbooks > for established technical authors can be substantial and can > encourage the production of such textbooks. However, Wikiversity > provides a platform for collaborative production of training > materials under the Creative Commons attribution share-alike > license. Wikimedia projects include a feature to "Create a book": > Any prof can create the book they want from established content in > Wikimedia projects tailored to what they think should be taught. > Profs all over the world collaborate to create that content. This > is a mechanism for providing access to the best available > knowledge selected by local profs that does not rely on > established book publishers, which justify huge royalties based on > the relatively low production volumes. Once again, we don't need > to pay individual authors to write popular textbooks: We can get > better textbooks from committees of profs teaching similar > material all over the world, kept as current as profs can keep > themselves current. And again, the constitutional purpose for > copyright law is violated but too a lesser extent than for > published technical papers and research monographs. > > > Thanks for organizing this event. Feel free to quote me if > you think it could be useful. > > > Spencer > > > On 4/25/2013 10:51 PM, perrysandy at aol.com > wrote: >> *frE uR tXbk$!* >> *A2K: **Access**to Knowledge*** >> "Information is power. But like all power, there are those who >> want to keep it for themselves. The world's cultural heritage ... >> locked up by a handful of private corporations ... The *Open >> Access Movement *has fought valiantly to allow anyone to access it." >> -- *Aaron Swartz 1986 -- 2013, A2K hero & martyr.* >> *May Day A2K!* >> *A2K = a human right* >> On May Day the traditional celebration day for liberation join >> *DR. CRYSTALLEE CRAIN*, and DA Student Trustee *VINCE MENDOZA, >> *to learn about De Anza Student Advocacy Group's work on >> *OER (Open Educational Resources)* >> *TIME: Wed. May 1 from 1:30 -- 3:30 pm* >> *PLACE: Student Center Conference Room A* >> Sponsors:*DA GREEN PARTY CLUB*** >> Institute of Community and Civic Engagement >> Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sosfbay-discuss mailing list >> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: