From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat Feb 2 16:39:11 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:39:11 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Facing the Climate Crisis, Collaborating for Solutions Message-ID: <510DB1AF.5050409@sbcglobal.net> >From http://www.womensenergymatters.org/events/speaker.htm Saturday March 27th 2010, 1:00-6:30 Women's 2020 Leadership Caucus Facing the Climate Crisis, Collaborating for Solutions Bay Area Conference Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941 Speakers: * Robin Quarrier -- Women of Wind Energy , Green-e Analyst & Counsel** **Zenobia Barlow --Executive Director and Cofounder of the Center for Ecoliteracy Lisa Bennett --Communications Director, Center for Ecoliteracy Elizabeth Lindsey --National Geographic Explorer** ** Claire Greensfelder --International Forum on Globalization Kirstin Miller --Executive Director, Ecocity Builders ** **Belvie Rooks --Co-Founder Growing A Global Heart ** **Susan Griffin --Poet, Essayist, Playwright ** ** Gemma Givens --Delegate for Indigenous Environmental Network and Youth Activist Barbara George -- Executive Director, Women's Energy Matters **Osprey Orielle Lake --Director Women's 2020 Leadership Caucus, State of the World Forum, Conference Convener* From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sun Feb 3 12:28:15 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:28:15 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Documenting Crony Capitalism? Message-ID: <510EC85F.5030708@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: What would you say are the highest profile issues locally, statewide and nationally? I ask, because I just initiated a project for "Documenting crony capitalism" on Wikiversity (a sister project to Wikipedia; see "http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism"). I want to prioritize issues and start documenting the different parties involved in the issue(s) likely to receive the greatest public attention over the next several months. This would include whatever we can get about the money involved in several aspects of the story: 1. How much money does the parties stand to gain or lose in any likely governmental decision? 2. How much do they spend on advertising? (By shifting their advertising budgets, businesses have threatened the financial future of otherwise profitable commercial media.) 3. How much do they spend on campaign finance? 4. How much do they spend on lobbying? Is social security likely to be the biggest issue nationally? What about Santa Clara County? Public safety? After I've got something in this area, I want to start trying to arrange presentations at different groups to try to recruit volunteers to help increase both the utility of the information compiled there and its dissemination. Thanks, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun Feb 3 14:14:59 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:14:59 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Documenting Crony Capitalism? In-Reply-To: <510EC85F.5030708@prodsyse.com> References: <510EC85F.5030708@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <510EE163.9000106@earthlink.net> I know what my #1 priority is: global warming. I know that my #2, #3 priorities are those that affect global warming, for example the issues Move to Amend are working on, e.g. Corporations are NOT people, Money is NOT speech. I believe that currently the issues for the MSM are immigration reform and gun control, but that could change quickly. I don't what the priorities for the average American are. If you want your questions answered for global warming, I could look into it. Gerry Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > What would you say are the highest profile issues locally, > statewide and nationally? > > > I ask, because I just initiated a project for "Documenting crony > capitalism" on Wikiversity (a sister project to Wikipedia; see > "http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism"). I want > to prioritize issues and start documenting the different parties > involved in the issue(s) likely to receive the greatest public attention > over the next several months. This would include whatever we can get > about the money involved in several aspects of the story: > > > 1. How much money does the parties stand to gain or lose > in any likely governmental decision? > > > 2. How much do they spend on advertising? (By shifting > their advertising budgets, businesses have threatened the financial > future of otherwise profitable commercial media.) > > > 3. How much do they spend on campaign finance? > > > 4. How much do they spend on lobbying? > > > Is social security likely to be the biggest issue nationally? > What about Santa Clara County? Public safety? > > > After I've got something in this area, I want to start trying to > arrange presentations at different groups to try to recruit volunteers > to help increase both the utility of the information compiled there and > its dissemination. > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sun Feb 3 14:40:41 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:40:41 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Documenting Crony Capitalism? In-Reply-To: <510EE163.9000106@earthlink.net> References: <510EC85F.5030708@prodsyse.com> <510EE163.9000106@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <510EE769.1050305@prodsyse.com> Dear Gerry: On 2/3/2013 2:14 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > I know what my #1 priority is: global warming. > I know that my #2, #3 priorities are those > that affect global warming, for example > the issues Move to Amend are working on, > e.g. Corporations are NOT people, Money is > NOT speech. > > I believe that currently the issues for the > MSM are immigration reform and gun control, > but that could change quickly. > > I don't what the priorities for the average > American are. > > If you want your questions answered for global > warming, I could look into it. If you'd like to take the time to try to document these things in Wikiversity, I'd be happy to help. I think if we get adequate documentation of this, we could find excuses to cite this work in stories we submit to Wikinews, Indymedia, and elsewhere. That could ultimately help elevate the issue on the international stage to the point that the mainstream media would lose audience if the don't give it more coverage. What documentation can you find of how much money the Koch brothers and others have spent to convince the public that human activity is NOT necessarily a major contributor to global warming and therefore we should do nothing? That's not in the Wikipedia article on "Political activities of the Koch brothers" along with clear discussion of the conflict of interest issues. Also, a conservative I know claimed that the scientist who say that global warming is a problem have a conflict of interest. That needs to be documented as well at least in Wikiversity and also in Wikipedia; Wikipedia may reject some material like this claiming that it's original research. Wikiversity supports original research, which is one reason I recommend documenting this material there. I'm not eager to take the lead on this issue, but I would be thrilled to help you. Thanks for the reply. Spencer > > Gerry > > > Spencer Graves wrote: >> Hello, All: >> >> >> What would you say are the highest profile issues locally, >> statewide and nationally? >> >> >> I ask, because I just initiated a project for "Documenting crony >> capitalism" on Wikiversity (a sister project to Wikipedia; see >> "http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism"). I want >> to prioritize issues and start documenting the different parties >> involved in the issue(s) likely to receive the greatest public attention >> over the next several months. This would include whatever we can get >> about the money involved in several aspects of the story: >> >> >> 1. How much money does the parties stand to gain or lose >> in any likely governmental decision? >> >> >> 2. How much do they spend on advertising? (By shifting >> their advertising budgets, businesses have threatened the financial >> future of otherwise profitable commercial media.) >> >> >> 3. How much do they spend on campaign finance? >> >> >> 4. How much do they spend on lobbying? >> >> >> Is social security likely to be the biggest issue nationally? >> What about Santa Clara County? Public safety? >> >> >> After I've got something in this area, I want to start trying to >> arrange presentations at different groups to try to recruit volunteers >> to help increase both the utility of the information compiled there and >> its dissemination. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Spencer >> >> -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon Feb 4 00:50:17 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:50:17 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] cosponsor disclose act SB 52 event Message-ID: <510F7649.5040207@sbcglobal.net> I contacted Hi Jim, Thank you for contacting us about endorsing SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act. We are planning a Bay Area kickoff for the campaign for SB 52 in Palo Alto on March 9. I was planning to contact the Green Party of Santa Clara County this week to ask if you would endorse the bill and also cosponsor the kickoff. Cosponsoring entails advertising to your membership and having some people attend the kickoff. I have attached a temporary flyer with details. As soon as we have several cosponsors to list we will start sending out regular flyers for the event. I have attached a dual purpose form that can be signed and faxed or scanned or mailed back to the contact info at the bottom of the form. An additional event of interest is this Saturday, Feb. 9, at 4pm. Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will speak at Congregation Beth Am on "The Citizens United Decision and the Role of Corporate Money in the American Political Process." After his talk, Trent Lange, director of California Clean Money Campaign, and State Senator Jerry Hill will speak about the California DISCLOSE Act, and I will be there to enlist volunteers. I am going to send that flyer separately as it is a larger file. Best regards, Nancy Neff Regional Volunteer Coordinator California Clean Money Campaign www.CAclean.org 650-858-2436 From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon Feb 4 01:07:00 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:07:00 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] cosponsor disclose act kickoff March 9(?) Message-ID: <510F7A34.8090502@sbcglobal.net> Here are the essential parts of the texts of the flyers mentioned in the email from Nancy Neff. Our actions will be 1) send in the cosponsor form 2) consider a donation of $50 or $100 Join us at the Bay Area Campaign Kickoff SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act Saturday, March 9, 2-4 pm Unitarian Universalist Church, 505 E. Charleston Rd. Palo Alto CA 94306 Enjoy wine, cheese, and Fair Trade chocolate! Speakers Senators Mark Leno and Jerry Hill, Authors of SB 52 Trent Lange, President, California Clean Money Campaign Sponsor: California Clean Money Campaign Co-Sponsors: List in progress ? sign your organization up! =================== We endorse SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act. Our organization believes that voters deserve to know who is paying for political ads. We therefore endorse and publicly support SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act. ? We want to co-sponsor the SB 52 legislative campaign?s Bay Area kickoff on Saturday, March 9th from 2-4pm. Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 E. Charleston Rd. Palo Alto CA 94306 Co-sponsorship requirements: (1) Invite your members to the kickoff and (2) Try to make certain at least one or two members/officers can come to be recognized. That?s it! ? We?ll donate to support the kickoff and SB 52 (optional). Make checks out to the ?California Clean Money Campaign?. Typical donation $50-$100. Organization Name __________________ From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon Feb 4 11:21:55 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:21:55 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Russ Feingold apearance this Saturday Message-ID: <51100A53.9050901@sbcglobal.net> Here is an opportunity for members of the Green Party to make their presence felt, be it tabling, leafletting, wearing Green Party T-shirts, or just talking it up. This Saturday, Feb. 9, at 4pm, former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will speak at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills on "The Citizens United Decision and the Role of Corporate Money in the American Political Process." After his talk, Trent Lange, director of California Clean Money Campaign, and State Senator Jerry Hill will speak about the California DISCLOSE Act, and I [Nancy Neff] will be there to enlist volunteers. The event is free and open to the public and is not a fundraising event. Please advertise widely. ( map http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl ) From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Feb 4 11:50:22 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:50:22 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] cosponsor disclose act SB 52 event In-Reply-To: <510F7649.5040207@sbcglobal.net> References: <510F7649.5040207@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <511010FE.4060408@earthlink.net> I support the idea of the GPSCC endorsing the DISCLOSE act. I have attended a few CAclean meetings and I like what they are doing. Also, for the newer members, years ago the CA Clean group was working on legislation to provide public financing of elections. At first they had a proposal that the GPCA did not like because of its provisions for minor parties. But Jo Chamberlain and other Greens negotiated with them, and eventually the CA Clean folks proposal was deemed not ideal but acceptable to the GPCA. ... I'm not sure about the details but I think they dropped the public financing proposal (temporarily) due to their perception of political realities, and then picked up the DISCLOSE idea and have been working on that for awhile (2-4 years?). Gerry Jim Doyle wrote: > I contacted Hi Jim, > > Thank you for contacting us about endorsing SB 52, the California > DISCLOSE Act. > > We are planning a Bay Area kickoff for the campaign for SB 52 in Palo > Alto on March 9. > I was planning to contact the Green Party of Santa Clara County this > week to ask if you > would endorse the bill and also cosponsor the kickoff. Cosponsoring > entails advertising > to your membership and having some people attend the kickoff. I have > attached a temporary > flyer with details. > As soon as we have several cosponsors to list we will start sending out > regular flyers > for the event. I have attached a dual purpose form that can be signed > and faxed or > scanned or mailed back to the contact info at the bottom of the form. > > An additional event of interest is this Saturday, Feb. 9, at 4pm. Former > U.S. Senator Russ Feingold > will speak at Congregation Beth Am on "The Citizens United Decision and > the Role of Corporate > Money in the American Political Process." After his talk, Trent Lange, > director of California Clean > Money Campaign, and State Senator Jerry Hill will speak about the > California DISCLOSE Act, > and I will be there to enlist volunteers. I am going to send that flyer > separately as it is a larger file. > > Best regards, > > Nancy Neff > Regional Volunteer Coordinator > California Clean Money Campaign > www.CAclean.org > 650-858-2436 > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Mon Feb 4 15:06:32 2013 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:06:32 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: SJPJC-Board event at DeAnza College Wednesday In-Reply-To: <1360015521.85942.YahooMailClassic@web181605.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1360015521.85942.YahooMailClassic@web181605.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51103EF8.3030202@effectivedefense.org> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SJPJC-Board event at DeAnza College Wednesday Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:05:21 -0800 (PST) From: Phil Reply-To: sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com To: Google Group SJPJC Board group People?s Victory in HONDURAS The Popular Resistance Breaks the Two-Party Monopoly The Honduran Solidarity Network Delegation invites you to an evening of inspiration and discussion of the lessons of the Honduran Revolution, and what it means to them and to us! Free and open to all. Wednesday, February 6, 2013 ? 7:30 PM De Anza College?s Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies, Building: KC 218 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 Link to DeAnza map showing Kirsch Center location near south entrance at intersection of McCellan Road and Rose Blossom Drive: http://www.deanza.edu/map/sports_kirsch.html In the aftermath of the U.S.-backed coup of June 2009, a massive popular resistance has arisen in Honduras. The National Popular Resistance Front has successfully united farm worker, urban labors, including teachers, feminists, militant youth, LBGT, and environmentalists. Thousands mobilized daily in the streets. Most recently they organized an electoral wing, the Libre Party, which broke the two-party electoral monopoly in the national primary elections. Co-Sponsored by: Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Committee (BALASC) Honduran Solidarity Network (HSN), Human Agenda, Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies, Task Force on the Americas, San Jose Peace and Justice Center (SJPJC) and Santa Clara County Move to Amend (SCCMTA). For more?information contact Elizabeth Sarmiento (650) 704-3462 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SJPJC-Board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sjpjcboard+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sjpjcboard?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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February 9, 2013 drpesto at hotmail.com From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Tue Feb 5 18:53:20 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:53:20 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] A petition against targeted assassinations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5111C5A0.6060008@structuremonitoring.com> Hello, All: A friend of mine started a petition against targeted assassinations: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlawful-any-and-all-lethal-operations-directed-against-us-citizens/JQKH13W5 If you believe in the rule of law, I ask you to sign on this petition and ask all your friends and many of your enemies to consider doing likewise. Whitehouse.gov has a goal of 100,000 signatures in 30 days. I was #2. We how have 7. Please make it 8 and help make it 80, and then 800,000. The median American family has lost $100 per day to increases in income inequality due to political corruption like what is driving this (Wikipedia, "Income inequality in the United States", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States). Don't get angry: Get curious, and make talking politics the national sport. Thanks, Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: the political bug... Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 13:03:26 -0800 From: Mike Williamson To: Spencer Graves , Spencer Graves Hi Spencer, Apologies for sending this to both of your accounts... I couldn't remember which was better to use. Would you mind helping me out? I finally am trying to do something (albeit very minor) to prevent our Orwellian state from over-reaching beyond its current limits. There is a DoJ paper pushing even further the limits that the US gov't has to assassinate its own citizens. So I created a petition to the White House to ask them to prevent this. Since you're the most politically active guy I know, could you please sign this & send it on to others? (Assuming you agree with me, of course. No undue pressure against your morals.) https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlawful-any-and-all-lethal-operations-directed-against-us-citizens/JQKH13W5 Thanks! Mike --- "I resent the way you make me like myself" -- Mike Doughty -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Wed Feb 6 11:49:19 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:49:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 350.org Message-ID: <1360180159.61841.YahooMailRC@web181304.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I was very sorry there were none of the usual Greens at the 350.org meeting last night in Palo Alto. There were 30 people there. I hope some of you are going to SF for the climate rally. I'd be happy to carpool. Caroline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdf at juno.com Wed Feb 6 19:01:33 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 03:01:33 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 350.org Message-ID: <20130206.190133.9157.1@webmail03.vgs.untd.com> Hi Caroline, all, Gerry Gras and I were at the meeting in Los Gatos on Saturday the 2nd. I thought it was pretty good and I signed up to get involved in a couple of the sub-groups. I can't make it to the rally but I will pass out flyers beforehand. PROPOSAL: Has the GPSCC endorsed the Forward on Climate rally? If we haven't, I propose that we do. How do others feel about that? It happens Sunday, February 17, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, at One Market Plaza, 1 Market St, San Francisco. The plan is to encircle the State Department Office at One Market Plaza and demand that the State Department reject the Keystone XL permit. See http://www.350bayarea.org/ Since this comes before our next meeting the County Council would have to make the endorsement. According to the home page of 350 Bay Area we need to contact Jessica Dervin-Ackerman at jess at sfbaysc.org to add our organization as an endorser. Best regards, Valerie P.S.: My apologies if this has already been dealt with. I've fallen behind on email. ~*~*~*~ "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 ---------- Original Message ---------- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:49:19 -0800 (PST) From: Caroline Yacoub To: sosfbay-discuss Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 350.org I was very sorry there were none of the usual Greens at the 350.org meeting last night in Palo Alto. There were 30 people there. I hope some of you are going to SF for the climate rally. I'd be happy to carpool.Caroline ____________________________________________________________ Woman is 53 But Looks 25 53/YO Mom reveals 1 simple wrinkle trick that has angered doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/51131958e387d19583e81st02vuc From snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed Feb 6 21:35:24 2013 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 21:35:24 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Feingold pn Corporate Money in Politics Message-ID: Dear Clean Money/DISCLOSE Act supporter, I hope you can join us this Saturday, February 9, from 4-6pm, for a talk by former Senator Russ Feingold entitled "The Citizens United Decision and the Role of Corporate Money in the American Political Process." After Senator Feingold speaks, California Clean Money Campaign President Trent Lange will talk briefly about SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, and State Senator Jerry Hill, SB 52 author, will speak in support. (Then I will ask for volunteer and March 9 kickoff attendee signups on "I Support" forms.) Flyer attached. Congregation Beth Am is sponsoring this event which is free (not even a fundraising pitch!) and open to the public. Please join us to warmly welcome Senator Feingold, an engaging speaker who, in addition to authoring the McCain-Feingold Act to address the issue of money in politics, served on Senate Committees on Intelligence, Foreign Relations, Budget and Judiciary. Location: Congregation Beth Am 26790 Arastradero Rd, Los Altos Hills www.betham.org Warm regards, Regional Volunteer Coordinator California Clean Money Campaign 650-858-2436 P.S. Save the date: March 9, 2-4pm, Campaign Kickoff for SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act; Unitarian Universalist Church, 505 E. Charleston Rd, Palo Alto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Congress is right now getting ready toimplement a so-called ?sequestration? cut of 5.1% to the HUD housing budget onMarch 1. This would make even more hundreds of thousands of our brothers andsisters homeless, if we do not take action to stop it. Santa Clara County already experiences a desperate shortage of affordable housing.Thousands are forced to live outside in tents and boxes, where they faceunnecessary suffering and even death in this winter flu season weather. Americaand Silicon Valley obviously have more than sufficient abundance to provide forpeople?s basic human necessities. The only question is whether we have themoral clarity and spiritual courage to say this is wrong and demand that ourrepresentatives take action to house our people. ? No morecuts to housing, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other basicnecessities! ? Invest injobs to rebuild the economy! ? Raiserevenues by closing tax loopholes! Make corporations pay their fair share! ? Reducemilitary spending and redirect savings to domestic needs! Sponsored by Affordable Housing Network,Low-Income Self-Help Center, Silicon Valley Independent Living Center, andendorsed by Sacred Heart Community Service. For more details or for reasonableaccommodation, call Sandy Perry at 408-691-6153 or Katherine Bock at408-599-4590. 525 W. Alma Ave. is one-half block west on Alma from TamienStation, accessible by light rail or by bus 25, 82, or 67. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Feb 7 09:05:06 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:05:06 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Politics and Wall Street Crimes Message-ID: <5113DEC2.9060402@earthlink.net> William Greider has an article in The Nation about the 2008 Wall Street disaster. "... President Obama and his administration are stalked by a question of scandal that will not go away: Why isn?t anyone going to jail? The lawsuit?s accusation against S&P sounds like a crime. ..." "I have a hunch this scandal is not going away and it will gnaw at Obama during his second term. The outrage will expand as more bits of evidence keep surfacing in various lawsuits. It reminds me a little of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s ... " "Why Don't White-Collar Criminals Get Equal Time?" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/06 http://www.thenation.com/blog/172670/why-dont-white-collar-criminals-get-equal-time Gerry P.S. I sure hope Greider is right that the scandal will not go away and the outrage will expand. I have worried for some time that if little or nothing is done, we may have another economic mess as bad or worse as the mess in 2008. I'll be sending a letter to my reps about this. From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Thu Feb 7 09:32:22 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:32:22 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Politics and Wall Street Crimes In-Reply-To: <5113DEC2.9060402@earthlink.net> References: <5113DEC2.9060402@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <5113E526.106@structuremonitoring.com> Hello, All: You can help build the outrage about the lack of criminal charges against S&P and many who get massive favors from the US government at the expense of everyone else. The organization I know that is most effectively raising this kind of issue right now is Rootstrikers, founded by Lawrence Lessig, whose book "Republic, Lost" is the best reference I know on this subject.[1] Rootstrikers is currently organizing two types of activities, and I'm working with them to help develop a third: (1) Rootstrikers Meetup groups that attempt to get the Right and Left talking with one another: Both agree that crony capitalism is a major problem for the US, and there are group forming all over the nation trying to bring the Tea Party together with liberal democrats and others at all extremes of the political spectrum to build a consensus for action. Tonight, 7-9 PM, there will be a meeting of the local group at Cafe Campbell (www.meetup.com/Rootstrikers/Los-Gatos-CA). I have a conflict, but it would be great of someone else from this group could attend and report back to the rest of us. (2) Rootstrikers Street Teams are organization actions of various kinds. They are organizing a meeting next Tuesday evening at 7:30 in San Francisco to plan a campaign around the Disclose act and similar issues. (www.rootstrikers.org/calendar) It would be great if someone could attend this and make suggestions for things we could do. (3) I'm trying to recruit volunteers to help document the corrosive influence of money in politics. See "http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism". Best Wishes, Spencer [1] See "rootstrikers.org" plus the Wikipedia articles on Lawrence Lessig and "Republic, Lost" On 2/7/2013 9:05 AM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > William Greider has an article in The Nation about > the 2008 Wall Street disaster. > > "... President Obama and his administration are stalked by a question > of scandal that will not go away: Why isn?t anyone going to jail? The > lawsuit?s accusation against S&P sounds like a crime. ..." > > "I have a hunch this scandal is not going away and it will gnaw at > Obama during his second term. The outrage will expand as more bits of > evidence keep surfacing in various lawsuits. It reminds me a little of > the Watergate scandal in the 1970s ... " > > > "Why Don't White-Collar Criminals Get Equal Time?" > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/06 > http://www.thenation.com/blog/172670/why-dont-white-collar-criminals-get-equal-time > > > Gerry > > P.S. I sure hope Greider is right that the scandal will > not go away and the outrage will expand. I have worried > for some time that if little or nothing is done, we may > have another economic mess as bad or worse as the mess > in 2008. I'll be sending a letter to my reps about this. > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From WB4D23 at aol.com Thu Feb 7 11:26:10 2013 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:26:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Speaking at Oak Grove High (Next Week and Following Week!!!) Message-ID: <9280.280168d9.3e4559d2@aol.com> February 7, 2013 If someone can make one or more of these h.s. class speaking opportunities, please communicate directly with the teacher and let folks on this list know what dates have been covered. Warner ____________________________________ From: barnettg at esuhsd.org To: wb4d23 at aol.com Sent: 2/7/2013 11:12:41 A.M. Pacific Standard Time Subj: Speaking at Oak Grove High Hi to any interested Green Party member, My name is Greg Barnett and I teach AP Government and Politics at Oak Grove High School in south San Jose. I?m writing to see if you could speak to my classes about the Green Party, 3 AP Government sections. I?m looking at Tuesday ? Friday February 12th - 15th and 26th - 27th. Periods 1(35 students), 5 (35 students)and 6(36 students)...1st period 7:30 ? 8:30 am... 5th and 6th periods 12:25 - 2:25 pm Let me know if you can do it and what day(s) work(s) best for you. Because of the long gap between 1st and 5th periods, it is fine if you want to visit on different days. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdf at juno.com Fri Feb 8 18:17:22 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 02:17:22 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Forward on Climate Rally, Feb. 17th, 1 pm San Francisco Message-ID: <20130208.181722.14706.1@webmail13.vgs.untd.com> Hi folks, Here's the official announcement for the Forward on Climate rally. Please pass it on! Best regards, Valerie ~*~*~*~ Join us in San Francisco, Sunday February 17th for the largest ever climate rally in the Bay Area! Our goal is to show strong public support for strong climate action by President Obama. It's time to show the urgency of climate change and put climate change back in the public discourse and on the policy agenda! This rally is joining others across the country in support of the main rally in DC with over 20,000 attending. Join us in SF, bring your friends, your neighbors and help make a strong statement that we must move Forward on Climate! Here are the details: GOAL: Show President Obama broad public support for urgent action on climate change. WHERE: One Market Plaza in San Francisco. We will encircle the U.S. Department of State and demand that they reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. WHEN: 1 - 3 PM on Sunday, February 17, 2013 WHO: Everyone! The Forward on Climate Rally will be the largest climate rally in Bay Area history! To RSVP and for more information see www.350BayArea.org President Obama has the power to lead an effort on the scale and with the urgency necessary to phase out carbon-intensive fossil fuels and fire up energy efficiency and clean, renewable energy sources. The way Forward on Climate is clear: President Obama must start cutting carbon from today's biggest polluters -- power plants -- and stop the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline NOW to avoid adding more carbon pollution to our air and increasing global warming. Take Action. The President needs to hear from you that climate is an urgent priority! Join us in San Francisco and ask President Obama to Move Forward on Climate! Sponsors: 350 Bay Area, 350 Silicon Valley, Sierra Club, NRDC, Greenpeace, CREDO, Sustainable San Rafael, Bay Localize, Center for Biodiversity, Green for All, Gathering Tribes, Global Exchange, Earth Justice Associates of First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Transition Berkeley, Community Food & Justice Coalition, Sustainable Marin, Citizens Climate Lobby, Communities for a Better Environment ~*~*~*~ "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 ____________________________________________________________ Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 From vdf at juno.com Fri Feb 8 18:38:19 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 02:38:19 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] PROPOSAL: Endorse Forward on Climate Rally Message-ID: <20130208.183819.14706.2@webmail13.vgs.untd.com> Hi everyone, I mentioned this in an email a couple of days ago, but I haven't seen any comments on it, so here it is in its own email. PROPOSAL: I propose that we endorse the Forward on Climate rally scheduled to happen in San Francisco on Sunday, February 17 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. I sent the announcement for the rally to this list a little while ago and it is archived at http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss/2013-February/014267.html You can also read about the rally at http://www.350bayarea.org The Green Party of California and the Marin Green Party are listed as endorsers. To be listed as an endorser we need to contact Jessica Dervin-Ackerman at jess at sfbaysc.org. Since the rally comes before our next general meeting, the County Council would have to make the endorsement if that's what we want to do. What do YOU think? Best regards, 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/TGL3141/5115b6f07f47d36f005a0st03vuc From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Feb 8 19:22:56 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 19:22:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] PROPOSAL: Endorse Forward on Climate Rally Message-ID: <1360380176.57850.androidMobile@web125401.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Great idea! I affirmatively consens to this endorsement. Green is GO! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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( map http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl ) From perrysandy at aol.com Fri Feb 8 21:10:26 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 00:10:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaking for the Green Party at Oak Grove Message-ID: <8CFD49AE7D78E83-1700-17EF3@webmail-m127.sysops.aol.com> Although I am fairly new to the Green Party, I have been encouraged by some of the members and I am willing to speak for the local Green Party at your 5th and 6th periods on Wed. Feb. 27. I am an experienced activist and speaker. Please send details - address, room, format, etc. Thank you! Sandy Perry Green Party of Santa Clara County 408-691-6153 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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PROPOSAL: I propose that we endorse the Forward on Climate rally scheduled to happen in San Francisco on Sunday, February 17 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. I sent the announcement for the rally to this list a little while ago and it is archived at http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss/2013-February/014267.html You can also read about the rally at http://www.350bayarea.org The Green Party of California and the Marin Green Party are listed as endorsers. To be listed as an endorser we need to contact Jessica Dervin-Ackerman at jess at sfbaysc.org. Since the rally comes before our next general meeting, the County Council would have to make the endorsement if that's what we want to do. What do YOU think? Best regards, 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/TGL3141/5115b6f07f47d36f005a0st03vuc _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Feb 11 11:35:04 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:35:04 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Obama's Kill List and Partisan Loyalty Message-ID: <511947E8.8040306@earthlink.net> Very interesting articles about Obama's kill list, civil liberties, and partisan loyalty. "Progressive willingness to acquiesce to or even outright support Obama's radical policies - in the name of partisan loyalty - is precisely what ensures the continuation of those policies. Obama gets away with all of this because so many progressives venerate leader loyalty and partisan gain above all else." "Worse Than Obama's Kill List? American Support for It" "Survey shows Obama has done little to rescue civil liberties from predecessor's damage and much to deepen concern" http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/11-0 and it refers to a Glenn Greenwald column "DOJ kill list memo forces many Dems out of the closet as overtly unprincipled hacks" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/11/progressives-defend-obama-kill-list Gerry From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Feb 11 14:50:26 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:50:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [350SiliconValley] Letter to distribute to family-friendly outlets Message-ID: <1360623026.65125.YahooMailRC@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Deborah Levoy To: 350siliconvalley at googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, February 10, 2013 10:34:19 AM Subject: [350SiliconValley] Letter to distribute to family-friendly outlets Dear friends,? Are you on a family-friendly distribution list? If so, please consider sending the below message or your own such message to family-friendly groups. I'd love to get the word out to families. I've sent it to 2 downtown San Jose family yahoo groups. Feel free to take out/change the part re taking Caltrain (although it would be lovely to see families on Bart and Caltrain going to the event next Sunday!) Thank you! Deborah -- Dear neighbors and fellow parents, I'd like to share information with you about the?Forward on Climate Rally?on 2/17 in San Francisco. I am encouraging families to attend the rally because the extreme changes in climate are going to make it most difficult for our children. The sooner our kids start to feel empowered that?they can effect change about this urgent issue, the better their future will be.? This rally is a chance to be part of history. The San Francisco rally will be the 2nd largest rally on climate change in the history of our country (the main?rally in DC?on the same day will be the largest.) We in the Bay area have the chance to send a history-changing message to Obama and to the world: that we are taking a stand for our children's future and want action on this issue. There will be some brief speakers (short enough for kids' bandwidths!) and one of the speakers will be a high school student, exemplifying how kids can effect change, even before they become adults. I am guessing the major tv networks will be there.? I'm hoping you will join our family at the rally and tell all your friends/family as well. The larger the turnout, the better for our kids' futures. In fact, wouldn't it be fun to take the Caltrain together from Diridon station for a day of family adventure?? There's lots of information on the 350BayArea website about the issues: how climate change will directly affect the Bay area and what solutions are already available to prevent a disastrous change in climate.? We are working on organizing kid-friendly activities for the rally and if anyone would like to help, please email divamusic at comcast.net (Deborah). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "350 Silicon Valley" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 350SiliconValley+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/350SiliconValley?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbrouillet at igc.org Mon Feb 11 16:23:41 2013 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:23:41 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Half Moon Bay candidate needs help... Message-ID: I just got this email from Ray Tobey asking for help fundraising for a Green Party candidate in nearby Half Moon Bay. If anyone is willing to help- please contact Ray or me and I'll give you his contact info. I don't mind helping Greens, but I must admit that I've been sick and need to rest and get well. From Ray- I'm helping a Green Party candidate right now, Karen Anderson in Half Moon Bay. She's running in a special recall election and ballots go out on March 11. There's a very good chance that she'll win a seat on the local fire commission, but she desperately needs help fundraising. I'm hoping that we could get say 20 Greens to give $50 or so, each. Do you think that's possible? Is there any chance I could get someone else to make the phone calls? We're trying to call and visit 5,000 voter households, so I need to manage that instead of calling potential Green donors. Carol Brouillet 650-857-0927 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdf at juno.com Tue Feb 12 00:41:04 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:41:04 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Forward on Climate Solidarity Rallies: Monterey, 2/17, noon-2pm Message-ID: <20130212.004104.4522.1@webmail15.vgs.untd.com> Hi everyone, FYI, this list of Forward on Climate Solidarity Rallies includes one in Monterey on Sunday, February 17 from noon to 2:00 PM: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=forwardonclimate_solidarityrallies If the San Francisco rally isn't quite right for you, Monterey might be an alternative (at least, it fits in better with MY plans for that day, so I might head south...). 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 ____________________________________________________________ Amazing Sleep Secret If you have trouble falling or staying asleep, try this weird trick. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/511a006be6e906b16dbst03vuc From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Feb 12 18:20:38 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:20:38 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green Party speaker for AP Government and Politics Message-ID: <511AF876.9060107@sbcglobal.net> Greetings Mr. Barnett Thank you for the invitation to speak to your AP Government and Politics classes. I will be happy to speak to your students about the Green Party. I will be available for your 1-st period class at 7:30 am on Wednesday February 27-th. My name is Jim Doyle and I am currently the Treasurer of the Green Party of Santa Clara County. Would you please send details to me with respect to parking, signing in, room number, etc.. Thank You Jim Doyle ------- Hi to any interested Green Party member, My name is Greg Barnett and I teach AP Government and Politics at Oak Grove High School in south San Jose. I?m writing to see if you could speak to my classes about the Green Party, 3 AP Government sections. I?m looking at Tuesday ? Friday February 12th - 15th and 26th - 27th. Periods 1(35 students), 5 (35 students)and 6(36 students)...1st period 7:30 ? 8:30 am... 5th and 6th periods 12:25 - 2:25 pm Let me know if you can do it and what day(s) work(s) best for you. Because of the long gap between 1st and 5th periods, it is fine if you want to visit on different days. Thanks! From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Feb 12 18:39:25 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:39:25 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Climate Rally endorsement Message-ID: <511AFCDD.2070706@sbcglobal.net> Hello Jess, The county council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County has unanimously consensed to endorse the Forward on Climate Rally to be held Sunday February 17-th 2013 in San Francisco. We are happy to have our name included in the list of endorsers. Thank You, Jim Doyle Treasurer Green Party of Santa Clara County From jess at sfbaysc.org Tue Feb 12 23:30:53 2013 From: jess at sfbaysc.org (Jessica Dervin-Ackerman) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:30:53 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Climate Rally endorsement In-Reply-To: <511AFCDD.2070706@sbcglobal.net> References: <511AFCDD.2070706@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: Thanks Jim! Great to have you all on board. See you Sunday! Jess On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > Hello Jess, > The county council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County > has unanimously consensed to endorse the Forward on Climate Rally > to be held Sunday February 17-th 2013 in San Francisco. > > We are happy to have our name included in the list of endorsers. > > Thank You, > > Jim Doyle > Treasurer > Green Party of Santa Clara County > -- Jess Dervin-Ackerman Conservation Program Coordinator Sierra Club, San Francisco Bay Chapter 2530 San Pablo Ave, Suite 1 Berkeley, CA 94702 *Office: *(510) 848 - 0800 ext. 304 *Cell:* (510) 693-7677 jess at sfbaysc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Wed Feb 13 14:13:13 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:13:13 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] ROV ousted Message-ID: <511C0FF9.1040002@sbcglobal.net> I do not subscribe to the Mercury News so this was new to me. The ROV has been fired. Notices came out in a January 31-st article in the Mercury news. The article is at *http://tinyurl.com/axq4xjx * From carolineyacoub at att.net Wed Feb 13 16:53:43 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:53:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Sen. Sanders introduces bill to end huge corporate tax giveaway (ThinkProgress) Message-ID: <1360803223.84874.YahooMailRC@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Did anybody think about starting a petition to back this? ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: shane que hee Sent: Fri, February 8, 2013 3:12:24 PM Subject: Sen. Sanders introduces bill to end huge corporate tax giveaway (ThinkProgress) > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:03:51 -0800 (PST) > From: Scott McLarty > Reply-To: Scott McLarty > Subject: Sen. Sanders introduces bill to end huge corporate tax giveaway >(ThinkProgress) > > > Senator Introduces Bill To End Huge Corporate Tax Giveaway > By Pat Garofalo ThinkProgress, February 7, 2013 >http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/07/1554221/sanders-corporate-tax-bill/ > > > Corporations offshoring profits costs both the federal government and states >billions of dollars per year. One of the more egregious giveaways is known as >?deferral,? which allows U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes on overseas >profits until they bring that money back to the U.S., giving them every >incentive to leave it overseas permanently. According to the Congressional >Budget Office, ?The current tax system provides incentives for U.S. firms to >locate their production facilities in countries with low taxes as a way to >reduce their tax liability at home,? ultimately resulting in compensation for >U.S. workers being lower. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is introducing a bill today >that would end this practice and close several other corporate tax loopholes: >||| Under this legislation, corporations would pay U.S. taxes on their offshore >profits as they are earned. This legislation takes away the tax incentives for >corporations to move jobs offshore or to shift profits offshore because the U.S. >would tax their profits no matter where they are generated. Under the Corporate >Tax Fairness Act, U.S. corporations would continue to get a credit against their >U.S. taxes for foreign taxes they pay. That means that when an American >corporation has profits in a country with lower corporate taxes than the U.S., >they would pay the federal government the difference between the foreign rate >and the U.S. rate. When an American corporation has profits in a country with >higher corporate taxes than the U.S., they would pay nothing to the U.S. ||| >According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, ?the provisions in this bill will >raise more than $590 billion in revenue over the next decade.? Due to the >proliferation of loopholes, credits, and the use of tax havens, major >corporations haven?t paid the full statutory tax rate in 45 years. In 2011, the >12.1 percent effective rate that corporations paid was the lowest in 40 years. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdf at juno.com Wed Feb 13 20:46:08 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:46:08 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Let's get moving, Silicon Valley. Message-ID: <20130213.204608.27143.0@webmail13.vgs.untd.com> Two items from TransForm: 1) Register by this Friday, February 15 for the Let's Get Moving Silicon Valley Transportation Choices and Healthy Communities Summit Date/Time: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Location: Luther Burbank School 4 Wabash Ave, San Jose Cost: $10 More Info: http://transformca.org/SiliconValleySummit2013 2) TransForm has a new Santa Clara County Google Map highlighting important transportation and land use plans taking place this year, including upcoming meetings and key contact information. Go to https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=206872423120767265297.0004d40f86c7895fadd68&msa=0&ll=37.329219,-121.908417&spn=0.33251,0.617294 to visit the map and see what?s going on in your community. The attached email goes into much more detail on both of these items. Best regards, 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 Please note: forwarded message attached ____________________________________________________________ How to Sleep Like a Rock Obey this one natural trick to fall asleep and stay asleep all night. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/511c6c63ce9d36c637417st04vuc -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Chris Lepe, TransForm" Subject: Let's get moving, Silicon Valley. Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:26:08 +0000 Size: 29187 URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed Feb 13 22:58:26 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:58:26 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Climate Change Arrests Message-ID: <511C8B12.1020602@earthlink.net> Many activists were arrested today. Included were Bill McKibben, James Hansen, Julian Bond, Michael Brune (Sierra Club executive director), Robert Kennedy Jr., Daryl Hannah, .. ====================================== "48 Environmental, civil rights, and community leaders engage in historic act of civil disobedience to stop Keystone XL pipeline" http://350.org/en/about/blogs/48-environmental-civil-rights-and-community-leaders-engage-historic-act-civil ====================================== "Tons of Californians arrested at White House climate change protest" http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/02/13/tons-of-californians-arrested-at-white-house-climate-change-protest/ ====================================== "Celebs, enviros arrested at WH pipeline protest" http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jI7Hv0EOgYLfo60cy3LVj08OEobQ?docId=e0d8d3ab7de24e2da5268f5566b1b1bc ====================================== "Arrests in Keystone protest at White House" http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/02/13/Arrests-in-Keystone-protest-at-White-House/UPI-62301360788862/ ====================================== "Robert Kennedy, Julian Bond among those arrested at White House protest over oil pipeline" http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/sierra-club-leader-to-risk-arrest-in-protest-against-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline/2013/02/13/86d23d00-75ce-11e2-9889-60bfcbb02149_story.html ====================================== "Civil disobedience at the White House: standing up for the climate future Americans deserve" http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/sclefkowitz/civil_disobedience_at_the_whit.html ====================================== "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Arrested: Waterkeeper President Joins Others In Climate Change Rally Outside White House (PHOTOS)" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/robert-f-kennedy-jr-arrested_n_2679609.html ====================================== and many more ====================================== Gerry From perrysandy at aol.com Fri Feb 15 18:10:39 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:10:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] REPORT BACK - VALENTINE'S DAY SPEAK OUT Message-ID: <8CFDA01F38909FD-C64-3D5B8@webmail-d160.sysops.aol.com> REPORTBACK ? ?DON?T BREAK OUR HEART ? SAVE OUR HOMES!? Valentine?s Day Speak Out Tells Congress to ?Have a Heart, No MoreCuts, Save Our Homes?! Fifty tenants, homeless people, seniors,people with disabilities, and families gathered at the Low-Income Self-HelpCenter on February 14 to protest further cuts to housing and other safety netprograms that they depend on to survive. It was part of a national mobilizationby the National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT) all across the country. In particular they spoke out against theso-called ?sequestration? cuts of 5.1% to the HUD housing budget and othersafety net programs on March 1. They pointed out that these programs were basichuman rights that the government should be required to EXPAND, not reduce. Theyvowed to take action together against any agency or politician that tried carryout these cuts. Videoof the event can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/59742759 The Speak Out was sponsored byAffordable Housing Network, Low-Income Self-Help Center, Silicon ValleyIndependent Living Center, and endorsed by Sacred Heart Community Service. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Fri Feb 15 22:49:38 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:49:38 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item - election of county council Message-ID: <511F2C02.8080705@sbcglobal.net> Our next monthly meeting on Thursday February 28-th 2013 will include a bona fide election of county council members vis a vis the GPCA bylaws sections 4.1.4 and 4.1.5 namely, 4-1.4 Method of electing members: Members of County Councils shall be elected from one or more multi-member districts using Choice Voting, the Single Transferable Vote (STV) form of proportional representation, using the Droop threshold (one divided by one plus the number of seats) and fractional transfers as described in the International IDEA Handbook of Electoral System Design (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance(IDEA). First published 1997. Second edition. Stockholm, Sweden. pp.83-84). The multi-member districts shall conform to the county boundaries or the boundaries of Congressional, State Assembly, State Senate or Supervisorial districts in accordance with the county?s bylaws. 4-1.5 Optional county council selection process: Counties may choose to modify the method of selecting their county council or the size of their county council by notifying the State Coordinating Committee who shall in turn notify the Secretary of State no later than 135 days prior to the direct primary election. ------ Since noone from the Santa Clara County Green Party gathered signatures in 2012 nobody was elected to the county council according to the bylaws of the state party. They, per a conversation with Sanda Everette, they, the state coordinating committee wishes to rectify that. Once rectified, the state coordinating committee can certify the appointments of SGA representatives made by our operational county council after the procedurally correct county council has been put in place. To rectify that we will need to apply article 4.1.5 of the GPCA bylaws. From the GPSCC bylaws oops, see part 2 of this post to this list for the pertinent GPSCC bylaws. Jim Doyle From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Fri Feb 15 22:49:50 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:49:50 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] election of county council meeting part 2 Message-ID: <511F2C0E.1020809@sbcglobal.net> The pertinent sections of the GPCA bylaws read ARTICLE 2 COUNTY COUNCIL 2.2 Membership in the Council 2.2.2 The County Council is designated by the State Green Party bylaws to consist of seven members elected at large from the county's Green Party constituency. Additional members may be appointed by the Council. Vacancies on the Council that reduce the membership to less than seven will be filled by appointment by the remaining County Council member(s) within 30 days of the vacancy. The State Green Party Coordinating Committee and the Santa Clara Registrar of Voters shall be informed of all appointed members within two working days of the appointment. It shall be an objective of the Green Party of Santa Clara County that its County Council reflect the diversity of the general population in the county and likewise reflect Green Party values. -------- In paragraph 2.2.2 elected means being notified of being elected by the ROV - the registrar of voters. Which in turn means the person has gathered and submitted signatures to the ROV in the appropriate time frame. Since noone from the Santa Clara County Green Party gathered signatures in 2012 nobody was elected to the county council for the July 2012 to June 2014 term according to the bylaws of the state party. All told, one item on the agenda will be the election of county council members. Jim Doyle From carolineyacoub at att.net Sat Feb 16 09:10:00 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:10:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Reminder and Agenda for Coalition Meeting Tuesday Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. Message-ID: <1361034600.79748.YahooMailRC@web181301.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Katherine Bock To: Katherine Bock Sent: Fri, February 15, 2013 8:07:58 PM Subject: Reminder and Agenda for Coalition Meeting Tuesday Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. Hi,? All, You are invited to participate in the Santa Clara County Single Payer Healthcare Coalition Monthly Meeting Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at the Low-Income Self-Help Center 525 W. Alma,?? (parking behind the ARCO)?Join in the fight for Heathcare which is truly comprehensive, affordable and universal.? Everybody In!? Nobody Out! https://www.google.com/search?q=525+W.+Alma%2C+San+Jose%2C+Ca+95125&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Agenda As always, your contribution to the healthy snack table will be greatly appreciated! - Welcome and opening question go-around. -? Report from Shruthi and Swathi about the CaHPSA (California Health Professional Student Alliance) convention and the rally last Monday. including report on visits with legislators. (and share stories- others who participated in either) -? Discussion efforts finding author of bill?? (HAVE YOU CALLED Prospective Legislators which have been sent around?) -? Report Campaign from a Healthy CA - Greg -? Spanish leadership Training- evening of March 15!??? (planning group, Lucinda, Jose, Greg, Sandy, Katherine, Joni, Peg)? and report on ongoing outreach at Tacos al Carbon. -?BEGIN PLANNING OUR 4TH ANNUAL ANDREW HILL FAIR SLATED FOR? APRIL 13TH? -? we are the committee tonight?? Ongoing committee is Thursday mornings at 10 a.m. going forward.? You are all welcome to join. ? Less than 2 months to prepare.? - Reports on events and outreach we have conducted this month and plans for upcoming GOSH, WE ARE AN ACTIVE GROUP. -? Save Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Town Hall Meeting - March 15 2 to 4 -?????? California Alliance for Retired Americans- Greg - Other items? -? Other announcements We hope to see you there.??? Our work is cut out for us on so many fronts.?? Medicare, Social Security and all of safety net, healthcare, education, housing, are still under threat from fake budget crisis after crisis.? We must continue to fight back!?? Learn all we can, get involved, love and support one another and fight back!??? Katherine Bock The Low-Income Self-Help Center 525 W. 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Jim Doyle From jules.c.brouillet at gmail.com Sun Feb 17 14:43:08 2013 From: jules.c.brouillet at gmail.com (Jules Brouillet) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:43:08 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The Untold History of the United States this Friday at 6pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter Kuznick will show an episode of their series "The Untold History of the United States ," followed by discussion with them and cold war expert Daniel Ellsberg, moderated by Stanford University historian Barton Bernstein at Stanford University at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in Building 200, Room 2. A larger-than-life figure in American filmmaking, Stone is a director, producer and screenwriter who has won numerous Academy Awards for his work on such iconic films as Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers, Midnight Express, The People vs. Larry Flynt and W. He has also directed documentaries such as Looking for Fidel, Comandante and Persona Non Grata. Kuznick is a professor of history and director of the award-winning Nuclear Studies Institute at American University as well as serving his third term as distinguished lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. He has written extensively about science and politics, nuclear history and Cold War culture, including Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America. Stone and Kuznick created The Untold History of the United States, a documentary series on Showtime that has also been released as a book. With the series, the duo reject the notion of American Exceptionalism , and instead present U.S. history through the prism of imperial power, examining such events as the use of the atomic bomb. Ellsberg, a former U.S. nuclear analyst, served in the US State and Defense Departments and the RAND Corporation in the 1960s. The events surrounding his 1971 leak of a 7,000-page study known as the Pentagon Papers, is profiled in the documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America. He is a writer and critic of U.S. foreign and nuclear policies. Bernstein is Professor of History at Stanford University and Co-Chair of the International Relations Program and the International Policy Studies Program. His works include The Truman Administration: A Documentary History, Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History, and Twentieth-Century America: Recent Interpretations. The event is free and open to the public. Book-signing will follow the discussion. Sponsored by The Media Freedom Foundation & Project Censored Stanford International Relations Program -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Alma San Jos?, CA 95125 (408) 599-4590 cell phone (408) 977-1275 / fax (408) 977-1650 Co chair Santa Clara County Single Payer Health Care Coalition ? ? --- On Sun, 2/17/13, Chris Bowers, Daily Kos wrote: >From: Chris Bowers, Daily Kos >Subject: The groundbreaking proposal that could mean free public Wi-Fi >To: kbock3 at sbcglobal.net >Date: Sunday, February 17, 2013, 10:36 AM > > >Katherine, please join with Daily Kos and Free Press in urging the Federal >Communications Commission to follow through on their proposal to make more >high-quality wireless spectrum available for public use, which is a key first >step on the path towards better and more public Wi-Fi. Click here to sign the >petition?we'll deliver the signatures through official FCC channels. > >The Federal Communications Commission is considering a proposal to open up a >wider share of the high-quality wireless spectrum for public use. This would be >an important first step toward making fast, public Wi-Fi available to everyone >by potentially allowing local municipalities to invest in, and construct, their >own networks. > >Predictably, the wireless industry doesn't like this idea, and would rather the >FCC auction off even more high-quality wireless spectrum to private carriers. >These companies will spend big money on lobbyists to make sure this happens, and >so far they have received a pretty good return on their lobbyist investment. To >date, 19 states have passed laws that all but prevent cities and towns from >building public Wi-Fi networks. > >A lack of competition?from public or private sources?is one of the reasons why >broadband service in the United States has become too slow, too costly, and >entirely unavailable to many people. Freeing up more spectrum for public use can >help bring more competition and innovation into the field, something which would >improve quality of service, cost and availability. > >Please, sign the petition from Daily Kos and Free Press urging the FCC to follow >through on their proposal to make more high-quality wireless spectrum available >for public use. We have a long way to go to get public Wi-Fi for all, but making >sure that private carriers don't hog too much of the good spectrum is a key >first step. > >Keep fighting, >Chris Bowers >Campaign Director, Daily Kos >P.S. Please help keep Daily Kos strong by chipping in $3. >To unsubscribe from ALL Daily Kos emails, visit this link. To opt-out ONLY from >action emails, visit this link. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you to everyone who came out, helped to flyer and spread the word and volunteered at the event!? You all helped to make this happen!? This was the largest bay area climate action in history.? Over 65 national and local environmental groups came together to make this happen.? It is working together like this that will really allow us to start to make a significant difference on climate.? The organizing team are already talking about when we will be working together again, so there is more to come!? Thanks all! Lisa-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "350 Silicon Valley" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 350SiliconValley+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/350SiliconValley?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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That's why this documentary is so critically important for the generation following us to consume this and to understand how we were lied into this.? Rachel Maddow: ?The grounds on which [the troops] were asked to go were false, and that's the way we have to tell this story forever?so we don't do it again.? The documentary includes interviews with: Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, White House Counterterrorism Aide; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy; Valerie Plame Wilson, former CIA officer; Michael Leiter, President?s Commission on Intelligence Regarding WMD; Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.), Chief of Staff to Colin Powell; former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson; Sen. Tom Daschle (D), Senate Majority Leader 2001-03; Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC); and Gen. Anthony Zinni (Ret.), Commander US Central Command, among others. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Mon Feb 18 15:31:00 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:31:00 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda items Message-ID: <5122B9B4.8030005@sbcglobal.net> At thelast meeting Caroline volunteered to prepare the agenda for the next meeting February 28-th. She will be unable to do that. She asked me if I would take her place in preparing the agenda. I accepted. So this is a first call for agenda items for February 28-th. Send your items to this list and cc me. Jim Doyle From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Feb 18 17:00:27 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:00:27 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 2013 meeting schedule Message-ID: <5122CEAB.7050400@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: I've just requested the Peace Center meeting space for the 4th Thursday of each month between March and October. What do you think about meeting in November in the 3rd Thursday for November and December (November 21 and December 19)? Thanksgiving is November 28, and Christmas is December 25, seven and six days later, respectively? If I hear no better idea within the next 24 hours, I will request those dates. We can if desired change them later. However, a plan that may be modified usually produced more results than no plan at all! Best Wishes, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Feb 18 17:29:43 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:29:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: JOIN HER: Jill Stein launches Climate Voter Power Pledge at D.C. climate protests Message-ID: <1361237383.40417.YahooMailRC@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: shane que hee Sent: Mon, February 18, 2013 3:13:06 PM Subject: JOIN HER: Jill Stein launches Climate Voter Power Pledge at D.C. climate protests Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:48:35 +0000 >From: Jill Stein for President >Subject: JOIN HER: Jill Stein launches Climate Voter Power Pledge at D.C. >climate protests > > > Dear Shane, > >They were the largest climate protests in U.S. history, with over 50,000 >marching in Washington D.C. and tens of thousands more taking part in protests >across the country. Yesterday, Jill Stein joined a large Green Party contingent >from across the country, sending a clear message at the protests that ending >climate change requires political change and systems change. > >To drive that message home, Jill Stein has launched the? Climate Voter Power >Pledge,? a pledge to not to vote for any candidate who supports a >climate-killing "All of the Above" approach to energy production. Got that, >White House? > >Please sign the Climate Voter Power Pledge and tell everyone you know about it. >Marching and rallying is one way to show power. But the power of the vote, and >of denying the vote, is another way we can redirect our politics and our economy >away from the climate cliff.? > > >Read, sign, and share the Climate Voter Power Pledge by clicking here:? >http://www.jillstein.org/climate >Thank you. >________________________________ Please take an immediate step by making a donation: http://www.jillstein.org/donate >Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President >PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726 >http://www.jillstein.org > > > >-=-=- >Jill Stein for President ? United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Feb 19 22:17:13 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:17:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Immigration Rally Message-ID: <1361341033.11335.YahooMailRC@web181306.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Gathering at MLK Library and marching to Robert F Peckham Federal Building. February 21, 2013 from 3:30-6:00 pm. GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR OUTREACH! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Feb 19 22:18:26 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:18:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Saturday Feb 23 - Let's Get Moving Silicon Valley - A Transportation Summit to kick off 2013 Message-ID: <1361341106.27976.YahooMailRC@web181304.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Friends of Caltrain To: carolineyacoub at att.net Sent: Tue, February 19, 2013 9:42:42 PM Subject: Saturday Feb 23 - Let's Get Moving Silicon Valley - A Transportation Summit to kick off 2013 We can transform transportation in Silicon Valley - if we work together. ??This coming Saturday, February 23rd in San Jose, Transform is hosting the first-ever Let's Get Moving, Silicon Valley Transportation Choices and Healthy Communities Summit. Friends of Caltrain is one of the co-sponsors. At the event, you can learn more about how Caltrain electrification will affect Silicon Valley, and how you can get involved in planning improvements for Santa Clara County Caltrain station areas. Other sessions provide opportunities to learn more about active transportation and health, safe routes to school and transit, connections to high speed rail, and the big picture about transportation and land use in Santa Clara County. You will have opportunities to connect with other advocates from across the Bay Area. Speakers include Dwayne Marsh, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Susan Stuart, Health Planner, Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention, Santa Clara County Public Health Department; Councilmember Ash Kalra, City of San Jose, District 2; Rod Diridon, Executive Director, Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI); and many more. WHAT: Let?s Get Moving, Silicon Valley Transportation Summit WHEN: Saturday, February 23, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. WHERE: Luther Burbank School, 4 Wabash Ave, San Jose, CA 95128 WHY: To create greater awareness and foster deep community engagement in transportation and land use planning processes. Find out about plans and proposals taking place this year in your city, and how you can get involved and make an impact! For more information or to register, visit Transform?s websiteand Facebook page. It is more fun when you go with a friend - click here to invite a friend to join you. Adina Levin Friends of Caltrain If you want to unsubscribe, click?here Click here for more information and to register. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Tue Feb 19 23:37:05 2013 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:37:05 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FORWARD ON CLIMATE march in San Francisco last Sunday Message-ID: <51247D21.1030005@aceweb.com> I took lots of pictures. You can see them by clicking or pasting the URL below: http://tian.greens.org/SanFrancisco/ClimateJustice/February13/index.html -- Tian http://tian.greens.org New change: Added pictures from SJBP's Valentines Day Ride! There is a one world pin on a New Hampshire quarter in my home now. From eric at philosopherswheel.com Tue Feb 19 23:47:52 2013 From: eric at philosopherswheel.com (Eric Meece) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:47:52 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FORWARD ON CLIMATE march in San Francisco last Sunday In-Reply-To: <51247D21.1030005@aceweb.com> References: <51247D21.1030005@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <51247FA8.6010105@philosopherswheel.com> I didn't see you there. Maybe that's a good sign that there were lots of us there :) Eric the Green On 2/19/2013 11:37 PM, Tian Harter wrote: > I took lots of pictures. You can see them by clicking or pasting the > URL below: > > http://tian.greens.org/SanFrancisco/ClimateJustice/February13/index.html > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Feb 19 23:59:09 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:59:09 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FORWARD ON CLIMATE march in San Francisco last Sunday In-Reply-To: <51247FA8.6010105@philosopherswheel.com> References: <51247D21.1030005@aceweb.com> <51247FA8.6010105@philosopherswheel.com> Message-ID: <5124824D.4000408@earthlink.net> I know there were several people there that I know and did not see. But I did see several Greens there from: - SF County : 3 - Alameda Cty : 3 - San Mateo Cty: 2 - unknown : 1 Gerry Eric Meece wrote: > I didn't see you there. Maybe that's a good sign that there were lots of > us there :) > > Eric the Green > > On 2/19/2013 11:37 PM, Tian Harter wrote: >> I took lots of pictures. You can see them by clicking or pasting the >> URL below: >> >> http://tian.greens.org/SanFrancisco/ClimateJustice/February13/index.html >> > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From vdf at juno.com Wed Feb 20 18:15:40 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:15:40 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Silicon Valley Transportation Summit this Saturday Message-ID: <20130220.181540.22014.1@webmail14.vgs.untd.com> Hi folks, I got an email from TransForm earlier today, and they're still trying to boost their registration numbers for the Silicon Valley Transportation Summit this Saturday. If you're interested, more information and a link for registration can be found at: http://www.transformca.org/SiliconValleySummit2013 If the $10 registration fee is a problem, you can ask them about a scholarship. Best regards, 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 53/YO Mom reveals 1 simple wrinkle trick that has angered doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/512583791c72a3786492st03vuc From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Feb 21 08:11:41 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:11:41 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] KQED Forum - Climate Change Message-ID: <5126473D.40400@earthlink.net> At 9AM today, the KQED Forum will be on climate change: "'Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change'" http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/ Gerry From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Feb 21 12:49:41 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:49:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting Message-ID: <1361479781.85302.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking engagement of a well known author in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party (not limited to Pete O.)? 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I assume it's a reasonably accurate outline, because I think Sanders is pretty straightforward. The actual text is at: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/0121413-ClimateProtectionAct.pdf ... This has a video of Sanders and Boxer speaking about it (on the Senate floor?). http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/16-11 ... The bill number is S.332. Gerry From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Feb 21 13:10:57 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:10:57 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting In-Reply-To: <1361479781.85302.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1361479781.85302.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51268D61.6030903@prodsyse.com> On 2/21/2013 12:49 PM, John Thielking wrote: > I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking engagement of a > well known author > Who? > in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party (not limited to Pete > O.) 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URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu Feb 21 14:58:33 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:58:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?utf-8?q?Fw=3A_=5BHCA-SantaClara=5D_Congress_Respon?= =?utf-8?q?ds_to_Move_to_Amend_Grassroots_Organizing_with_=E2=80=9CWe_the_?= =?utf-8?q?People=E2=80=9D_Amendment?= In-Reply-To: <7C2783D6A25EBB49AF2933E0A0C29493014512FB167F@EXCHCMS.cna.pri>, <8CFDCF7EA15A69D-14F8-A09E@webmail-d168.sysops.aol.com> References: <7C2783D6A25EBB49AF2933E0A0C29493014512FB167F@EXCHCMS.cna.pri>, <8CFDCF7EA15A69D-14F8-A09E@webmail-d168.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <1361487513.99672.YahooMailRC@web181303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Lynn Huidekoper To: HCAC Activists ; One Care Now ; HCA Santa Clara Yahoo Group ; CDC Healthcare Group ; CDC Issues Sent: Thu, February 21, 2013 12:10:36 AM Subject: [HCA-SantaClara] Congress Responds to Move to Amend Grassroots Organizing with ?We the People? Amendment ? Another example of the 99% trying to reclaim our country from the Right Wing who want corporations to be people so they can continue to keep all the money. The Occupy movement has sparked renewed interest in grass roots organizing. That is what we need to do for Single Payer-educate, educate,educate. Lynn Lynn Huidekoper, RN Legislation Liaison, Santa Clara County Single Payer Healthcare Coalition HCA-Health Care for All-California SB810-California's Single Payer bill HR 676 -Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Health Care is a Human Right ? ? IN UNITY ? Kay McVay, R.N. President Emeritus California Nurses Association National Nurses Organizing Committee 2000 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94612 Tel: 510-273-2240 Cell:925-348-1545 kmcvay at calnurses.org Web: www.CalNurses.org SupportSinglePayer?Guaranteed Healthcare www.guaranteedhealthcare.org ? From:Portside moderator [mailto:moderator at PORTSIDE.ORG] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 7:22 PM To: PORTSIDE at LISTS.PORTSIDE.ORG Subject: Congress Responds to Move to Amend Grassroots Organizing with ?We the People? Amendment ? ? Congress Responds to Move to Amend Grassroots Organizing with ?We the People? Amendment? ? Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap February 17, 2013 Common Dreams ? The growing grassroots democracy movement took another huge step forward this week when Congressional Representatives Rick Nolan (DFL-Minnesota) and Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) joined Move To Amend coalition organizers Ben Manski and George ?Leesa? Friday at the National Press Club to announce that the ?We the People Amendment? was being introduced in Congress (H.J.Res. 29). ? ? , , ? ? The growing grassroots democracy movement took another huge step forward this week when Congressional Representatives Rick Nolan (DFL-Minnesota) and Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) joined Move To Amend coalition organizers Ben Manski and George ?Leesa? Friday at the National Press Club to announce that the ?We the People Amendment? was being introduced in Congress (H.J.Res. 29). This amendment clearly and unequivocally states that: Section 1. Only People Have Constitutional Rights The rights protected by the Constitution of the United States are the rights of natural persons only. Artificial entities established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign state shall have no rights under this Constitution and are subject to regulation by the People, through Federal, State, or local law. The privileges of artificial entities shall be determined by the People, through Federal, State, or local law, and shall not be construed to be inherent or inalienable. Section 2. Money is Not Free Speech Federal, State, and local government shall regulate, limit, or prohibit contributions and expenditures, including a candidate's own contributions and expenditures, to ensure that all citizens, regardless of their economic status, have access to the political process, and that no person gains, as a result of their money, substantially more access or ability to influence in any way the election of any candidate for public office or any ballot measure. The real problem is that a small group of wealthy individuals have hijacked our sacred right to self-government, and are using the political and legal systems to legitimize that theft. We must get money out of elections, to be sure. But we have to go deeper... Federal, State, and local government shall require that any permissible contributions and expenditures be publicly disclosed. The judiciary shall not construe the spending of money to influence elections to be speech under the First Amendment. Lead sponsor Rep. Rick Nolan (DFL-Minnesota), said: ?It?s time to take the shaping and molding of public policy out of corporate boardrooms, away from the corporate lobbyists, and put it back in city halls ? back with county boards and state legislatures ? and back in the Congress where it belongs.? Ben Manski, a spokesperson for the Move to Amend coalition agreed, saying: ?Today, members of Congress join a movement that insists on the fundamental equality of all Americans, and that rejects the idea that the corporate class should have special protections against We the People.? The Move to Amend Coalition was formed in preparation for the Supreme Court?s Citizens United v FEC ruling in 2010. Today, the coalition boasts over 260,000 supporters, thousands of endorsing organizations, and has organized over 150 local affiliate across the country. These are groups who have formed in their local communities to educate, agitate and organize in direct support of the Move To Amend position that only people have constitutional rights and that money is not free speech. In a few short years this grassroots movement has passed almost 500 resolutions in municipalities and local governments across the country calling on the state and federal governments to adopt an amendment. Deeper still, they have used the citizens initiative process to place the issue squarely before the voters in dozens of cities and counties, and have won every single election! Most of those elections have been super-majorities, often winning by more than 70%. These victories include areas traditionally considered liberal, and other areas traditionally considered conservative. ?The movement transcends typical political parties and labels,? said George Friday. ?The Move To Amend coalition is multi-racial, includes rural and city folk, all united in the belief that we need a social movement to create real democracy, and to make the promise of democracy a reality in the United States,? she said. The Move to Amend coalition makes a point of differentiating ourselves from the other proposals that have come forward in response to Citizens United. We recognize that the Citizens United decision is a problem, but it is not the problem. Citizens United is not the cause, it is a symptom. The real problem is that a small group of wealthy individuals have hijacked our sacred right to self-government, and are using the political and legal systems to legitimize that theft. We must get money out of elections, to be sure. But we have to go deeper than that to address the reality that corporate lawyers use the illegitimate doctrine of ?corporate constitutional rights? to overturn public health, environmental protection, and worker safety laws. And such laws are political questions, and should be decided with public debate, discourse, and the opportunity to vote and participate. When the decisions are made in the courts, ?We the People? are relegated to spectators. The path to a Constitutional Amendment is long, and it will take a sustained grassroots political education effort to succeed. The Move To Amend coalition is up to the task. We are getting larger, stronger and better organized every day. But we need you to succeed. And frankly, the American people ? and the world ? need us to succeed. Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap serves on the Executive Committee Move to Amend. She is Field Organizing Coordinator for the campaign. She can be reached at?kaitlin at MoveToAmend.org. ? ? 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We are working on it.?Nothing is definite yet. ?Details will be revealed at the meeting.? Various P & F Party people may be there in addition to Pete. ? John Thielking --- On Thu, 2/21/13, Spencer Graves wrote: From: Spencer Graves Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting To: "John Thielking" Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:10 PM On 2/21/2013 12:49 PM, John Thielking wrote: I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking engagement of a well known author Who?? in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party (not limited to Pete O.)? Thanks. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking _______________________________________________ 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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Jim Doyle From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Feb 21 15:48:53 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:48:53 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda items for February Message-ID: <5126B265.9020001@sbcglobal.net> Here is a tentative list of agenda items for Thursday the 28-th committee report re organised ongoing campaigns invited speaker criteria including planning for an author to speak held jointly with the Peace and "Freedom Party endorsing SB 52 udel web site (archive most of the front page, get the meeting date right) no brainers to county council (bylaws change?) Drew's status reports DeAnza podcasts web site camp Wellstone civi crm google hangout ballot access requirements post cards to P&F and or no party preference postage rates From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Feb 21 16:35:13 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:35:13 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting In-Reply-To: <1361489953.65990.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1361489953.65990.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5126BD41.2030907@prodsyse.com> On 2/21/2013 3:39 PM, John Thielking wrote: > Who? > We are working on it. Nothing is definite yet. Details will be > revealed at the meeting. Various P & F Party people may be there in > addition to Pete. > Great. I'm all for collaborating with P&F where we have common interests, which is most things, I think. Spencer > John Thielking > > --- On *Thu, 2/21/13, Spencer Graves //* > wrote: > > > From: Spencer Graves > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting > To: "John Thielking" > Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:10 PM > > On 2/21/2013 12:49 PM, John Thielking wrote: >> I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking engagement >> of a well known author >> > > > Who? > > >> in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party (not limited to >> Pete O.) Thanks. >> Sincerely, >> John Thielking >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 snug.bug at hotmail.com Fri Feb 22 09:21:31 2013 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:21:31 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: Question for Dr. Albright (10:00 am) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Madeleine Albright is on Krasny's program on KQED (88.5 FM) at 10:00 today. (Listen online here: http://www.kqed.org/radio/ ) I emailed in the following question for Monster Madge. From: snug.bug at hotmail.com To: forum at kqed.org Subject: Question for Dr. Albright (10:00 am) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:13:10 -0800 In 1996 you famously expressed approval of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children under the Clinton-imposed sanctions. A few months later the US Senate confirmed you without criticism as Secretary of State. Can you attribute this to anything other than institutionalized racism? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Feb 22 10:17:04 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:17:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting In-Reply-To: <5126BD41.2030907@prodsyse.com> References: <1361489953.65990.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <5126BD41.2030907@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1361557024.12912.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Please tell us who are you considering John. ? Since Greens support a very wide variety of thinkers and activists chances are you'd get support for the endeavor. The Green way is to be open and share with the group what they want all along the way, not springing surprises at the last minute.? That way we have a part in the consensus process and we all can help out.? ? Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: Spencer Graves >To: John Thielking >Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:35 PM >Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting > > >On 2/21/2013 3:39 PM, John Thielking wrote: > >Who? >>? >>We are working on it.?Nothing is definite yet. ?Details will be revealed at the meeting.? Various P & F Party people may be there in addition to Pete. > >????? Great.? I'm all for collaborating with P&F where we have common interests, which is most things, I think.? > > >????? Spencer > > >? >>John Thielking >> >>--- On Thu, 2/21/13, Spencer Graves wrote: >> >> >>>From: Spencer Graves >>>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting >>>To: "John Thielking" >>>Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >>>Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:10 PM >>> >>> >>>On 2/21/2013 12:49 PM, John Thielking wrote: >>> >>>I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking engagement of a well known author >>> >>>Who?? >>> >>> >>> >>>in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party (not limited to Pete O.)? Thanks. >>>>? >>>>Sincerely, >>>>? >>>>John Thielking >>>> >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ 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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For more information, see "www.mcabayarea.org/news-and-events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/02/22/1882/-/the-unending-fight-for-justice-a-panel-discussion". Spencer From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Feb 22 14:36:22 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:36:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting In-Reply-To: <1361557024.12912.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1361572582.39412.YahooMailClassic@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Drew, ? I guess in your family the Green Way to go is to not have any wrapping paper on any of the Xmas presents.? That way there are no last minute surprises.? Please be patient. I'm not?authorized to disclose any more details at this point. Thanks. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking --- On Fri, 2/22/13, Drew wrote: From: Drew Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting To: "sosfbay discussion group" Date: Friday, February 22, 2013, 10:17 AM Please tell us who are you considering John. ? Since Greens support a very wide variety of thinkers and activists chances are you'd get support for the endeavor. The Green way is to be open and share with the group what they want all along the way, not springing surprises at the last minute.? That way we have a part in the consensus process and we all can help out.? ? Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd From: Spencer Graves To: John Thielking Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting On 2/21/2013 3:39 PM, John Thielking wrote: Who? ? We are working on it.?Nothing is definite yet. ?Details will be revealed at the meeting.? Various P & F Party people may be there in addition to Pete. ????? Great.? I'm all for collaborating with P&F where we have common interests, which is most things, I think.? ????? Spencer ? John Thielking --- On Thu, 2/21/13, Spencer Graves wrote: From: Spencer Graves Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting To: "John Thielking" Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:10 PM On 2/21/2013 12:49 PM, John Thielking wrote: I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking engagement of a well known author Who?? in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party (not limited to Pete O.)? Thanks. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Feb 22 20:02:30 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:02:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting In-Reply-To: <1361572582.39412.YahooMailClassic@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1361557024.12912.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <1361572582.39412.YahooMailClassic@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1361592150.58764.YahooMailNeo@web125404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Yes, I don't see this as at all analogous to a holiday present where surprise is appropriate and expected -- No it's a group consensus process where surprising people with last minute announcement of decisions you've made by yourself. ? In December you and I were attempting to co-lead a talk?by the Middle East authority Dr. Sharat Lin?that?I had arranged for at my church (where I am accountable for the event in a special way because I was sticking my neck out to have the event). At the last minute and without discussing it with me you wanted to alter the nature of the ?presentation that. ?You wanted to turn it?into a debate with your room mate Pete (clearly a mismatch since no matter all his virtues Pete is a nonexpert on the topic) and have us go along with your concept since you'd printed out some handouts with references to a panel (something I'd never heard of let alone agreed to). You might be able to see why I'm not that keen on surprises from agenda items you're requesting. So no, I don't see why you're not willing to tell who you're interested in us sponsoring. ?Please be more open. Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: John Thielking >To: sosfbay discussion group ; Drew >Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:36 PM >Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting > > >Drew, >? >I guess in your family the Green Way to go is to not have any wrapping paper on any of the Xmas presents.? That way there are no last minute surprises.? Please be patient. I'm not?authorized to disclose any more details at this point. Thanks. >? >Sincerely, >? >John Thielking > >--- On Fri, 2/22/13, Drew wrote: > > >>From: Drew >>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting >>To: "sosfbay discussion group" >>Date: Friday, February 22, 2013, 10:17 AM >> >> >>Please tell us who are you considering John. ? Since Greens support a very wide variety of thinkers and activists chances are you'd get support for the endeavor. The Green way is to be open and share with the group what they want all along the way, not springing surprises at the last minute.? That way we have a part in the consensus process and we all can help out.? >> >>? >>Green is GO! >> >>Drew >> >> >>~*~*~*~ >>Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America >>Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ >>? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >> >> >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: Spencer Graves >>>To: John Thielking >>>Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >>>Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:35 PM >>>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting >>> >>> >>>On 2/21/2013 3:39 PM, John Thielking wrote: >>> >>>Who? >>>>? >>>>We are working on it.?Nothing is definite yet. ?Details will be revealed at the meeting.? Various P & F Party people may be there in addition to Pete. >>> >>>????? Great.? I'm all for collaborating with P&F where we have common interests, which is most things, I think.? >>> >>> >>>????? Spencer >>> >>> >>>? >>>>John Thielking >>>> >>>>--- On Thu, 2/21/13, Spencer Graves wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>From: Spencer Graves >>>>>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting >>>>>To: "John Thielking" >>>>>Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >>>>>Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:10 PM >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>On 2/21/2013 12:49 PM, John Thielking wrote: >>>>> >>>>>I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking engagement of a well known author >>>>> >>>>>Who?? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party (not limited to Pete O.)? Thanks. >>>>>>? >>>>>>Sincerely, >>>>>>? >>>>>>John Thielking >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss >>>>> >>> >>>-- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com >>>_______________________________________________ >>>sosfbay-discuss mailing list >>>sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >>>http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss >>> >>> >>-----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>sosfbay-discuss mailing list >>sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >>http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Feb 22 20:27:52 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:27:52 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting In-Reply-To: <1361592150.58764.YahooMailNeo@web125404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1361557024.12912.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <1361572582.39412.YahooMailClassic@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <1361592150.58764.YahooMailNeo@web125404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51284548.80501@structuremonitoring.com> Hi, John: I understand that you are working with a group of people who are not ready to open their current discussion to outsiders. I can respect that. Please convey to that group that the Santa Clara Green Party is not eager to be stampeded into endorsing a fait accompli. We are, however, eager to collaborate on issues of common concern. Best Wishes, Spencer On 2/22/2013 8:02 PM, Drew wrote: > Yes, I don't see this as at all analogous to a holiday present where > surprise is appropriate and expected -- No it's a group consensus > process where surprising people with last minute announcement of > decisions you've made by yourself. > > In December you and I were attempting to co-lead a talk by the Middle > East authority Dr. Sharat Lin thatI had arranged for at my church > (where I am accountable for the event in a special way because I was > sticking my neck out to have the event). At the last minute and > without discussing it with me you wanted to alter the nature of the > presentation that. You wanted to turn it into a debate with your > room mate Pete (clearly a mismatch since no matter all his virtues > Pete is a nonexpert on the topic) and have us go along with your > concept since you'd printed out some handouts with references to a > panel (something I'd never heard of let alone agreed to). You might be > able to see why I'm not that keen on surprises from agenda items > you're requesting. > > So no, I don't see why you're not willing to tell who you're > interested in us sponsoring. Please be more open. > > Green is GO! > > Drew > > ~*~*~*~ > Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America > Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* John Thielking > *To:* sosfbay discussion group ; > Drew > *Sent:* Friday, February 22, 2013 2:36 PM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting > > Drew, > I guess in your family the Green Way to go is to not have any > wrapping paper on any of the Xmas presents. That way there are no > last minute surprises. Please be patient. I'm not authorized to > disclose any more details at this point. Thanks. > Sincerely, > John Thielking > > --- On *Fri, 2/22/13, Drew //* wrote: > > > From: Drew > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting > To: "sosfbay discussion group" > Date: Friday, February 22, 2013, 10:17 AM > > Please tell us who are you considering John. Since Greens > support a very wide variety of thinkers and activists chances > are you'd get support for the endeavor. The Green way is to be > open and share with the group what they want all along the > way, not springing surprises at the last minute. That way we > have a part in the consensus process and we all can help out. > > Green is GO! > > Drew > > ~*~*~*~ > Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America > Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Spencer Graves > *To:* John Thielking > *Cc:* sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > *Sent:* Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:35 PM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC > GA Meeting > > On 2/21/2013 3:39 PM, John Thielking wrote: >> Who? >> We are working on it. Nothing is definite yet. Details >> will be revealed at the meeting. Various P & F Party >> people may be there in addition to Pete. >> > > > Great. I'm all for collaborating with P&F where we > have common interests, which is most things, I think. > > > Spencer > >> John Thielking >> >> --- On *Thu, 2/21/13, Spencer Graves >> / >> /* >> wrote: >> >> >> From: Spencer Graves >> >> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 >> GPSCC GA Meeting >> To: "John Thielking" >> >> Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> >> Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:10 PM >> >> On 2/21/2013 12:49 PM, John Thielking wrote: >>> I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking >>> engagement of a well known author >>> >> >> >> Who? >> >> >>> in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party >>> (not limited to Pete O.) Thanks. >>> Sincerely, >>> John Thielking >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list >>> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >>> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss >> > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Technology Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San Jos?, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > web:www.structuremonitoring.com > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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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John Thielking --- On Fri, 2/22/13, Spencer Graves wrote: From: Spencer Graves Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting To: "Drew" Cc: "John Thielking" , "sosfbay discussion group" Date: Friday, February 22, 2013, 8:27 PM Hi, John:? ????? I understand that you are working with a group of people who are not ready to open their current discussion to outsiders.? ????? I can respect that.? Please convey to that group that the Santa Clara Green Party is not eager to be stampeded into endorsing a fait accompli.? We are, however, eager to collaborate on issues of common concern.? ????? Best Wishes, ????? Spencer On 2/22/2013 8:02 PM, Drew wrote: Yes, I don't see this as at all analogous to a holiday present where surprise is appropriate and expected -- No it's a group consensus process where surprising people with last minute announcement of decisions you've made by yourself. ? In December you and I were attempting to co-lead a talk?by the Middle East authority Dr. Sharat Lin?that?I had arranged for at my church (where I am accountable for the event in a special way because I was sticking my neck out to have the event). At the last minute and without discussing it with me you wanted to alter the nature of the ?presentation that. ?You wanted to turn it?into a debate with your room mate Pete (clearly a mismatch since no matter all his virtues Pete is a nonexpert on the topic) and have us go along with your concept since you'd printed out some handouts with references to a panel (something I'd never heard of let alone agreed to). You might be able to see why I'm not that keen on surprises from agenda items you're requesting. So no, I don't see why you're not willing to tell who you're interested in us sponsoring. ?Please be more open. Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd From: John Thielking To: sosfbay discussion group ; Drew Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting Drew, ? I guess in your family the Green Way to go is to not have any wrapping paper on any of the Xmas presents.? That way there are no last minute surprises.? Please be patient. I'm not?authorized to disclose any more details at this point. Thanks. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking --- On Fri, 2/22/13, Drew wrote: From: Drew Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting To: "sosfbay discussion group" Date: Friday, February 22, 2013, 10:17 AM Please tell us who are you considering John. ? Since Greens support a very wide variety of thinkers and activists chances are you'd get support for the endeavor. The Green way is to be open and share with the group what they want all along the way, not springing surprises at the last minute.? That way we have a part in the consensus process and we all can help out.? ? Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd From: Spencer Graves To: John Thielking Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting On 2/21/2013 3:39 PM, John Thielking wrote: Who? ? We are working on it.?Nothing is definite yet. ?Details will be revealed at the meeting.? Various P & F Party people may be there in addition to Pete. ????? Great.? I'm all for collaborating with P&F where we have common interests, which is most things, I think.? ????? Spencer ? John Thielking --- On Thu, 2/21/13, Spencer Graves wrote: From: Spencer Graves Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting To: "John Thielking" Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:10 PM On 2/21/2013 12:49 PM, John Thielking wrote: I would like to discuss planning a possible speaking engagement of a well known author Who?? in collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Party (not limited to Pete O.)? Thanks. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking _______________________________________________ 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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The one page report Solar demand in Asia Pacific to skyrocket by 13.5 GW in 2013 - report can be found at *http://tinyurl.com/a886nx4* From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Sat Feb 23 11:38:13 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:38:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item For 2-28-13 GPSCC GA Meeting Message-ID: <1361648293.42457.androidMobile@web125401.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> "embargo"?!?? That's a word that PR people use when they want to maximize a surprise. Frankly that seems very inappropriate to me for consensus-based decision making. Green is GO ! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Feb 23 12:12:49 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:12:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] solar power report In-Reply-To: <51290FA9.8060708@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <1361650369.8084.YahooMailClassic@web122905.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ?A quick update on the staus of Citizenre, the Multilevel Marketing company that I was working with awhile ago that was trying to rent solar power to people for zero down and an amount equal to the regular electric bill for the electricity supplied by the panels on each person's roof: I just this week touched base with my former manager at the company and found out that they have not been paying their associates for the last several months and the manager who I am supposed to be under in my upline (who is still listed as being in my upline in my back office) is no longer with the company. Their web site still appears to be functional and accepting new customer signups and their Facebook page has pictures of installations that happened in the boondocks in Louisiana in November 2012.?The bulletin board comment system in the back office is offline, possibly due to a pending lawsuit against the company and the negative fallout that is likely given the negative report by my former manager. Given the negative report from my former manager, I would not reccommend doing business with Citizenre anymore.?This is not the first time that they failed to pay amounts due on their contracts with their associates, but missing the main goals of paying residuals and installation bonuses on their main offer is the final straw. Sorry about that. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking former Ecoprenuer with Citizenre --- On Sat, 2/23/13, Jim Doyle wrote: From: Jim Doyle Subject: [GPSCC-chat] solar power report To: "sosfbay discussion group" Date: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 10:51 AM India is planning to install 20 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity by 2022. The one page report Solar demand in Asia Pacific to skyrocket by 13.5 GW in 2013 - report can be found at???*http://tinyurl.com/a886nx4* _______________________________________________ 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 Sat Feb 23 13:06:00 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:06:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [350SiliconValley] meeting of divestment teram 3/16 In-Reply-To: <5126478B.1050105@earthlink.net>, <5126481C.5060008@earthlink.net>, References: <5126478B.1050105@earthlink.net>, <5126481C.5060008@earthlink.net>, Message-ID: <1361653560.34558.YahooMailRC@web181305.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Shirley Eglington To: 350siliconvalley at googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, February 23, 2013 11:35:59 AM Subject: [350SiliconValley] meeting of divestment teram 3/16 Next meeting of 350 SiliconValley's Divestment Team (aka Global Coolers): ? Saturday, March 16 1:00 ? 3:00 p.m. at Peninsula Conservation Center (PCC) 3921 East Bayshore Road (on the corner of Corporation Way), in Palo Alto east of Highway 101 ? It?s time to get together to exchange ideas and support each other?s efforts! Topics: * Progress on divestment campaigns within faith communities * What alumni, faculty, and staff can do to support college campaigns * What 350 Bay Area is doing on PERS divestment and ways we might coordinate with them * Plans for an April forumon divestment with representatives from two investment firms (Nelson Capital and Boston Commons) * Materials about divestment to be used at Earth Day events * Report on divestment launch at Stanford ? Spread the word.? New people are always welcome. ? See you on the 16th, Shirley Eglington ?? ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "350 Silicon Valley" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 350SiliconValley+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/350SiliconValley?hl=en. 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Here is a the list of agenda items that have been submitted for Thursday the 28-th committee report re organised ongoing campaigns SGA delegates and proper county council election or appointment procedures invited speaker criteria including planning for an author to speak held jointly with the Peace and "Freedom Party endorsing SB 52 udel web site (archive most of the front page, get the meeting date right) no brainers to county council (bylaws change?) Drew's status reports DeAnza podcasts web site camp Wellstone civi crm google hangout ballot access requirements post cards to P&F and or no party preference postage rates From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sun Feb 24 17:21:25 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:21:25 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] second call for agenda items Message-ID: <512ABC95.2090002@sbcglobal.net> Greetings, The last post of few minutes ago omitted two items that had already been requested. So this is an update to the tentative list of agenda items. They are not necessarily in the order they will be taken up at the meeting. Jim Doyle Here is a tentative list of agenda items for Thursday the 28-th committee report re organised ongoing campaigns SGA delegates and proper county council election or appointment procedures invited speaker criteria including planning for an author to speak held jointly with the Peace and "Freedom Party endorsing SB 52 udel web site (archive most of the front page, get the meeting date right) no brainers to county council (bylaws change?) Drew's status reports DeAnza podcasts web site camp Wellstone civi crm google hangout ballot access requirements post cards to P&F and or no party preference postage rates April 13 Andrew Hill Health Fair Caroline and Sandy April 27 Junior State From WB4D23 at aol.com Mon Feb 25 16:04:36 2013 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:04:36 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Getting re-engaged... maybe Message-ID: <1fe8f.2487261b.3e5d5613@aol.com> February 25, 2013 Folks! I have been preoccupied since October with trial preparations and trial that was completed at the end of last month (but still has ongoing paperwork and hearings) that took up my major attention during that time. I also have been taking some deompression time after finally resigning from the GPCA Coordinating Committee last October. Also, it's been winter... I will try to get to the meeting on Thursday just to try to get re-engaged at that level with the GPSCC. One of the things that needs considered is whether I should still be listed as a public contact on the GPSCC web page. I have received and responded to two contacts in the last month. 'Hope to see you at the meeting... Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Feb 26 20:49:59 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:49:59 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Third Party does well ... Message-ID: <512D9077.4040501@earthlink.net> ... in Italy. "Big Winner in Italian Election? The Five Star Movement" "The Big Loser? Austerity" [party goes from nowhere to 25% in one year] http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/26-15 Gerry From perrysandy at aol.com Tue Feb 26 21:36:00 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:36:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Third Party does well ... In-Reply-To: <512D9077.4040501@earthlink.net> References: <512D9077.4040501@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <8CFE2C375821982-1418-7938C@webmail-m139.sysops.aol.com> Great post, Gerry. More and more, this is what time it is. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Gras To: GPSCC Sent: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 8:50 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Third Party does well ... ... in Italy. "Big Winner in Italian Election? The Five Star Movement" "The Big Loser? Austerity" [party goes from nowhere to 25% in one year] http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/26-15 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 prodsyse.com Wed Feb 27 19:45:00 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:45:00 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns In-Reply-To: <1361991624.11530.YahooMailRC@web181301.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <8CFD575060036FD-1654-22EF3@webmail-m130.sysops.aol.com> <51175C44.3090507@sbcglobal.net> <511788EC.70204@prodsyse.com> <8CFDD1D32658814-14D8-E857@Webmail-m120.sysops.aol.com> <1361339513.69715.YahooMailRC@web181303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <5126A8B8.9030503@sbcglobal.net> <512DAB97.1070101@prodsyse.com> <8CFE321B9621C01-72C-85621@webmail-d211.sysops.aol.com> <1361991624.11530.YahooMailRC@web181301.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <512ED2BC.5030106@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: At last month's meeting, Sandy made a call for a special session to discuss trying to select a few primary foci for Green party activities going forward. We expect everyone to continue working on their primary concerns. However, if most of us can spend some time on the selected primary foci, it could raise the profile of the Green party and make us all more effective in our joint and individual efforts. Last night, Jim Doyle, Valerie, Caroline, Sandy, Andrea, Gerry, Dana, Brian, and I met and Warner joined us by phone. We all agreed to post a summary of this discussion to the general list, to discuss it further at the monthly meeting Thursday evening, and to carry over the discussion until the March 28 meeting. My summary appears below. Others, whether they attended or not, are hereby invited to contribute to this discussion. The issue on this list could serve as a focus for recruiting outside speakers and providing a focus for discussion in our our monthly meetings, in addition to other things we could do with this list. 1. CANDIDATES FOR LOCAL OFFICE: Someone suggested we weren't really a political party if we didn't field local candidates. There will be elections this November 5 for various offices in Santa Clara County marked UDEL on the "Local Jurisdiction Election Schedule" published by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Candidate%20-%20Measure%20Information/Documents/Local-Jurisdiction-Election-Schedule.pdf). There are a number of school boards, plus water, sanitation and other districts with elections this year. More will have elections in 2014. You are encouraged to review this list and volunteer to run for one of these offices if you are so eligible. Doing so would give the group a focus for fund raising and campaigning. I'm thinking of running for something like the Santa Clara County Unified School district in 2014. If I'm going to do that, I should select the office soon, start attending official meetings relating to that office, writing news stories and blogging about the issues they discuss and the ones I think they should discuss. Sandy suggested we should avoid running for school boards unless we "have children in the schools and have not been involved in local school issues. ... [W]e should still ask that any prospective Green candidate be knowlegeable and credible on the issues involved" for whatever office they choose to run. I agree. I don't have children in this district, but I've long been concerned about education. I've long wanted to prepare a budget combining education and criminal justice, because much of the prison population are school dropouts, and recidivism is lower among those with more education. That's why I think I should select the office, start attending the appropriate public meetings, and writing news stories and blogging about them very soon if I'm going to run. 2. VOTER REGISTRATION: I suggest we all consider starting carrying voter registration forms more or less everywhere we go and invite people who aren't registered to do so and invite people registered under other parties to reregister Green. 3. GLOBAL WARMING: A majority of the attendees last night identified this as a major issue deserving of attention by all sentient beings. I personally believe that one thing we can do that could have a very large impact on this issue (and others) is to identify the big money interests blocking progress on this issue following the format being developed under the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism; I'm biased: I'm the originator of this project). 4. UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE: Many other issues were mentioned, but there seemed to be more energy and concern about health care for all than other issues. As with global warming, it would help to prepare persuasive summaries of the vested interests that make huge amounts of money at public expense sustaining the current dysfunctions with something like the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative mentioned above. 5. OTHERS: the distribution of wealth in the US (including cooperatives, foreclosures and homelessness), our corrupt political system (including the California Disclose act, the need for full public funding of political campaigns and a constitution amendment to overturn "Citizens United", Move to Amend, ), defense (including the global arms trade), education (from prenatal through college at affordable rates), our criminal injustice system, the death penalty, immigration reform, marriage equality, native rights, GMO foods, gun violence, peace movies, wildlife conservation, transportation (incl bicycle & pedestrian, water quality and other traditional Green environmental issues, and outreach to local colleges and universities and the Peace and Freedom party. Each issue (other than outreach) involves a set of vested interests who make substantial amounts of money from the current dysfunctions. The money made by each of these groups at public expense should be documented along with their campaign contributions and lobbying expenses as part of the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative, as mentioned above. Please respond here or at the meeting Thursday evening to these comments. Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Wed Feb 27 21:40:57 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:40:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns In-Reply-To: <512ED2BC.5030106@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1362030057.4682.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Hopefully, by including Peace Movies in your laundry list of "complaints" at the end you didn't mean to imply that I'm a crony capitalist making money at public expense.? I make more money if the status quo changes to where there is a bigger demand for my information. As for running for office, I would rather focus my energies on writing movie reviews and if that takes off maybe expand into renting and/or selling nonviolent DVDs. Thanks. ? Sincerely, ? John Thielking --- On Wed, 2/27/13, Spencer Graves wrote: From: Spencer Graves Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns To: "GPSCC" Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 7:45 PM Hello, All: ? ? ? At last month's meeting, Sandy made a call for a special session to discuss trying to select a few primary foci for Green party activities going forward.? We expect everyone to continue working on their primary concerns.? However, if most of us can spend some time on the selected primary foci, it could raise the profile of the Green party and make us all more effective in our joint and individual efforts. Last night, Jim Doyle, Valerie, Caroline, Sandy, Andrea, Gerry, Dana, Brian, and I met and Warner joined us by phone. ? ? ? We all agreed to post a summary of this discussion to the general list, to discuss it further at the monthly meeting Thursday evening, and to carry over the discussion until the March 28 meeting.? My summary appears below.? Others, whether they attended or not, are hereby invited to contribute to this discussion.? The issue on this list could serve as a focus for recruiting outside speakers and providing a focus for discussion in our? our monthly meetings, in addition to other things we could do with this list. ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.? CANDIDATES FOR LOCAL OFFICE:? Someone suggested we weren't really a political party if we didn't field local candidates. There will be elections this November 5 for various offices in Santa Clara County marked UDEL on the "Local Jurisdiction Election Schedule" published by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Candidate%20-%20Measure%20Information/Documents/Local-Jurisdiction-Election-Schedule.pdf). There are a number of school boards, plus water, sanitation and other districts with elections this year.? More will have elections in 2014. You are encouraged to review this list and volunteer to run for one of these offices if you are so eligible. Doing so would give the group a focus for fund raising and campaigning.? I'm thinking of running for something like the Santa Clara County Unified School district in 2014. If I'm going to do that, I should select the office soon, start attending official meetings relating to that office, writing news stories and blogging about the issues they discuss and the ones I think they should discuss.? Sandy suggested we should avoid running for school boards unless we "have children in the schools and have not been involved in local school issues. ... [W]e should still ask that any prospective Green candidate be knowlegeable and credible on the issues involved" for whatever office they choose to run.? I agree.? I don't have children in this district, but I've long been concerned about education.? I've long wanted to prepare a budget combining education and criminal justice, because much of the prison population are school dropouts, and recidivism is lower among those with more education. That's why I think I should select the office, start attending the appropriate public meetings, and writing news stories and blogging about them very soon if I'm going to run. ? ? ? ? ? ? 2.? VOTER REGISTRATION:? I suggest we all consider starting carrying voter registration forms more or less everywhere we go and invite people who aren't registered to do so and invite people registered under other parties to reregister Green. ? ? ? ? ? ? 3.? GLOBAL WARMING:? A majority of the attendees last night identified this as a major issue deserving of attention by all sentient beings.? I personally believe that one thing we can do that could have a very large impact on this issue (and others) is to identify the big money interests blocking progress on this issue following the format being developed under the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism;? I'm biased:? I'm the originator of this project). ? ? ? ? ? ? 4.? UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE:? Many other issues were mentioned, but there seemed to be more energy and concern about health care for all than other issues.? As with global warming, it would help to prepare persuasive summaries of the vested interests that make huge amounts of money at public expense sustaining the current dysfunctions with something like the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative mentioned above. ? ? ? ? ? ? 5.? OTHERS:? the distribution of wealth in the US (including cooperatives, foreclosures and homelessness), our corrupt political system (including the California Disclose act, the need for full public funding of political campaigns and a constitution amendment to overturn "Citizens United", Move to Amend, ), defense (including the global arms trade), education (from prenatal through college at affordable rates), our criminal injustice system, the death penalty, immigration reform, marriage equality, native rights, GMO foods, gun violence, peace movies, wildlife conservation, transportation (incl bicycle & pedestrian, water quality and other traditional Green environmental issues, and outreach to local colleges and universities and the Peace and Freedom party.? Each issue (other than outreach) involves a set of vested interests who make substantial amounts of money from the current dysfunctions.? The money made by each of these groups at public expense should be documented along with their campaign contributions and lobbying expenses as part of the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative, as mentioned above. ? ? ? Please respond here or at the meeting Thursday evening to these comments. ? ? ? Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph:? 408-655-4567 web:? www.structuremonitoring.com _______________________________________________ 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 Wed Feb 27 23:00:13 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:00:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns In-Reply-To: <1362030057.4682.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1362030057.4682.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8CFE398641B7CE7-15D8-87A9C@webmail-m159.sysops.aol.com> Hi John, I think if you look closely at the list, it mixes together issues with many values or projects that are near and dear to our Green hearts, and peace movies were listed as part of that latter category. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: John Thielking To: GPSCC ; Spencer Graves Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 9:41 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns Hopefully, by including Peace Movies in your laundry list of "complaints" at the end you didn't mean to imply that I'm a crony capitalist making money at public expense. I make more money if the status quo changes to where there is a bigger demand for my information. As for running for office, I would rather focus my energies on writing movie reviews and if that takes off maybe expand into renting and/or selling nonviolent DVDs. Thanks. Sincerely, John Thielking --- On Wed, 2/27/13, Spencer Graves wrote: From: Spencer Graves Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns To: "GPSCC" Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 7:45 PM Hello, All: At last month's meeting, Sandy made a call for a special session to discuss trying to select a few primary foci for Green party activities going forward. We expect everyone to continue working on their primary concerns. However, if most of us can spend some time on the selected primary foci, it could raise the profile of the Green party and make us all more effective in our joint and individual efforts. Last night, Jim Doyle, Valerie, Caroline, Sandy, Andrea, Gerry, Dana, Brian, and I met and Warner joined us by phone. We all agreed to post a summary of this discussion to the general list, to discuss it further at the monthly meeting Thursday evening, and to carry over the discussion until the March 28 meeting. My summary appears below. Others, whether they attended or not, are hereby invited to contribute to this discussion. The issue on this list could serve as a focus for recruiting outside speakers and providing a focus for discussion in our our monthly meetings, in addition to other things we could do with this list. 1. CANDIDATES FOR LOCAL OFFICE: Someone suggested we weren't really a political party if we didn't field local candidates. There will be elections this November 5 for various offices in Santa Clara County marked UDEL on the "Local Jurisdiction Election Schedule" published by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Candidate%20-%20Measure%20Information/Documents/Local-Jurisdiction-Election-Schedule.pdf). There are a number of school boards, plus water, sanitation and other districts with elections this year. More will have elections in 2014. You are encouraged to review this list and volunteer to run for one of these offices if you are so eligible. Doing so would give the group a focus for fund raising and campaigning. I'm thinking of running for something like the Santa Clara County Unified School district in 2014. If I'm going to do that, I should select the office soon, start attending official meetings relating to that office, writing news stories and blogging about the issues they discuss and the ones I think they should discuss. Sandy suggested we should avoid running for school boards unless we "have children in the schools and have not been involved in local school issues. ... [W]e should still ask that any prospective Green candidate be knowlegeable and credible on the issues involved" for whatever office they choose to run. I agree. I don't have children in this district, but I've long been concerned about education. I've long wanted to prepare a budget combining education and criminal justice, because much of the prison population are school dropouts, and recidivism is lower among those with more education. That's why I think I should select the office, start attending the appropriate public meetings, and writing news stories and blogging about them very soon if I'm going to run. 2. VOTER REGISTRATION: I suggest we all consider starting carrying voter registration forms more or less everywhere we go and invite people who aren't registered to do so and invite people registered under other parties to reregister Green. 3. GLOBAL WARMING: A majority of the attendees last night identified this as a major issue deserving of attention by all sentient beings. I personally believe that one thing we can do that could have a very large impact on this issue (and others) is to identify the big money interests blocking progress on this issue following the format being developed under the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism; I'm biased: I'm the originator of this project). 4. UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE: Many other issues were mentioned, but there seemed to be more energy and concern about health care for all than other issues. As with global warming, it would help to prepare persuasive summaries of the vested interests that make huge amounts of money at public expense sustaining the current dysfunctions with something like the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative mentioned above. 5. OTHERS: the distribution of wealth in the US (including cooperatives, foreclosures and homelessness), our corrupt political system (including the California Disclose act, the need for full public funding of political campaigns and a constitution amendment to overturn "Citizens United", Move to Amend, ), defense (including the global arms trade), education (from prenatal through college at affordable rates), our criminal injustice system, the death penalty, immigration reform, marriage equality, native rights, GMO foods, gun violence, peace movies, wildlife conservation, transportation (incl bicycle & pedestrian, water quality and other traditional Green environmental issues, and outreach to local colleges and universities and the Peace and Freedom party. Each issue (other than outreach) involves a set of vested interests who make substantial amounts of money from the current dysfunctions. The money made by each of these groups at public expense should be documented along with their campaign contributions and lobbying expenses as part of the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative, as mentioned above. Please respond here or at the meeting Thursday evening to these comments. Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com _______________________________________________ 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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URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Feb 28 10:54:07 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:54:07 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Final Agenda for Thursday February28-th Message-ID: <512FA7CF.5090800@sbcglobal.net> It is attached as a word document and in case the attachment is scrubbed here it is GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Meeting agenda for February 28, 2013 Select Facilitator, Notetaker, Timekeeper, Vibes Watcher, Agenda Preparer for next meeting 5 min Introductions and Announcements 10 min 15 min if guests are present Agenda revisions 5 min Treasurer?s report Jim D 2 min Endorsing SB 52 Jim D 3 min Tabling April 13 Andrew Hill Health Fair Caroline and Sandy 5 min April 27 Junior State Jim D 1 min Reports on presentations at Oak Grove High School Sandy and Jim 5 min Drew's status reports part 1 Drew 5 min DeAnza podcasts web site committee report re organised ongoing campaigns Sandy et al 20 min criteria for selecting primary focus goals of primary focus invited speaker criteria group 5 min including planning for an author to speak held jointly with the Peace and "Freedom Party John T 5 min SGA delegates and proper county council election or appointment procedures and GPCA-votes offer to use Nationbuilder for blast email Jim D 10 min no brainers to county council (bylaws change?) group 5 min Drew's status reports part 2 Drew 5 min camp Wellstone civi crm google hangout post cards to P&F and or no party preference group 10 min postage rates Jim D 2 min web site (archive most of the front page, get the next meeting date right) Jim D 5 min GPCA merchandise Clearing House Jim D 2 min total time allotted 1 hour 55 minutes Next meeting March 28 From leedobell at aol.com Thu Feb 28 12:20:04 2013 From: leedobell at aol.com (Leedobell) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:20:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns In-Reply-To: <8CFE398641B7CE7-15D8-87A9C@webmail-m159.sysops.aol.com> References: <1362030057.4682.YahooMailClassic@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <8CFE398641B7CE7-15D8-87A9C@webmail-m159.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8CFE40820AC77DC-6CC-92FAC@webmail-d214.sysops.aol.com> Sorry guys, but I won't be at the meeting. I'm in the hospital. Caroline -----Original Message----- From: perrysandy To: pagesincolor ; sosfbay-discuss ; spencer.graves Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 11:00 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns Hi John, I think if you look closely at the list, it mixes together issues with many values or projects that are near and dear to our Green hearts, and peace movies were listed as part of that latter category. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: John Thielking To: GPSCC ; Spencer Graves Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 9:41 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns Hopefully, by including Peace Movies in your laundry list of "complaints" at the end you didn't mean to imply that I'm a crony capitalist making money at public expense. I make more money if the status quo changes to where there is a bigger demand for my information. As for running for office, I would rather focus my energies on writing movie reviews and if that takes off maybe expand into renting and/or selling nonviolent DVDs. Thanks. Sincerely, John Thielking --- On Wed, 2/27/13, Spencer Graves wrote: From: Spencer Graves Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ongoing Issues Campaigns To: "GPSCC" Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 7:45 PM Hello, All: At last month's meeting, Sandy made a call for a special session to discuss trying to select a few primary foci for Green party activities going forward. We expect everyone to continue working on their primary concerns. However, if most of us can spend some time on the selected primary foci, it could raise the profile of the Green party and make us all more effective in our joint and individual efforts. Last night, Jim Doyle, Valerie, Caroline, Sandy, Andrea, Gerry, Dana, Brian, and I met and Warner joined us by phone. We all agreed to post a summary of this discussion to the general list, to discuss it further at the monthly meeting Thursday evening, and to carry over the discussion until the March 28 meeting. My summary appears below. Others, whether they attended or not, are hereby invited to contribute to this discussion. The issue on this list could serve as a focus for recruiting outside speakers and providing a focus for discussion in our our monthly meetings, in addition to other things we could do with this list. 1. CANDIDATES FOR LOCAL OFFICE: Someone suggested we weren't really a political party if we didn't field local candidates. There will be elections this November 5 for various offices in Santa Clara County marked UDEL on the "Local Jurisdiction Election Schedule" published by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Candidate%20-%20Measure%20Information/Documents/Local-Jurisdiction-Election-Schedule.pdf). There are a number of school boards, plus water, sanitation and other districts with elections this year. More will have elections in 2014. You are encouraged to review this list and volunteer to run for one of these offices if you are so eligible. Doing so would give the group a focus for fund raising and campaigning. I'm thinking of running for something like the Santa Clara County Unified School district in 2014. If I'm going to do that, I should select the office soon, start attending official meetings relating to that office, writing news stories and blogging about the issues they discuss and the ones I think they should discuss. Sandy suggested we should avoid running for school boards unless we "have children in the schools and have not been involved in local school issues. ... [W]e should still ask that any prospective Green candidate be knowlegeable and credible on the issues involved" for whatever office they choose to run. I agree. I don't have children in this district, but I've long been concerned about education. I've long wanted to prepare a budget combining education and criminal justice, because much of the prison population are school dropouts, and recidivism is lower among those with more education. That's why I think I should select the office, start attending the appropriate public meetings, and writing news stories and blogging about them very soon if I'm going to run. 2. VOTER REGISTRATION: I suggest we all consider starting carrying voter registration forms more or less everywhere we go and invite people who aren't registered to do so and invite people registered under other parties to reregister Green. 3. GLOBAL WARMING: A majority of the attendees last night identified this as a major issue deserving of attention by all sentient beings. I personally believe that one thing we can do that could have a very large impact on this issue (and others) is to identify the big money interests blocking progress on this issue following the format being developed under the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism; I'm biased: I'm the originator of this project). 4. UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE: Many other issues were mentioned, but there seemed to be more energy and concern about health care for all than other issues. As with global warming, it would help to prepare persuasive summaries of the vested interests that make huge amounts of money at public expense sustaining the current dysfunctions with something like the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative mentioned above. 5. OTHERS: the distribution of wealth in the US (including cooperatives, foreclosures and homelessness), our corrupt political system (including the California Disclose act, the need for full public funding of political campaigns and a constitution amendment to overturn "Citizens United", Move to Amend, ), defense (including the global arms trade), education (from prenatal through college at affordable rates), our criminal injustice system, the death penalty, immigration reform, marriage equality, native rights, GMO foods, gun violence, peace movies, wildlife conservation, transportation (incl bicycle & pedestrian, water quality and other traditional Green environmental issues, and outreach to local colleges and universities and the Peace and Freedom party. Each issue (other than outreach) involves a set of vested interests who make substantial amounts of money from the current dysfunctions. The money made by each of these groups at public expense should be documented along with their campaign contributions and lobbying expenses as part of the "Documenting crony capitalism" initiative, as mentioned above. Please respond here or at the meeting Thursday evening to these comments. Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Feb 28 21:15:36 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:15:36 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Minutes; Thursday February28-th In-Reply-To: <512FA7CF.5090800@sbcglobal.net> References: <512FA7CF.5090800@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <51303978.90608@prodsyse.com> Please post any corrections to the entire list. Thanks. Spencer On 2/28/2013 10:54 AM, Jim Doyle wrote: > It is attached as a word document and in case the attachment > is scrubbed here it is > > GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY > Meeting agenda for February 28, 2013 > > Select Facilitator: Jim Doyle > Notetaker: Spencer > , Timekeeper: John T. > , Vibes Watcher: Tian > , Agenda Preparer for next meetin: Warner Josh, Lawrence, Rollin, Dave K., Peace & Freedom Party Pete O, Peace & Freedom Party: Protest tomorrow (Friday) in San Francisco at the Israeli embassy 4-6 PM. Peace vigil 5-6 in front of the King Library, San Jose John Thielking Frank, Kaitlin, Taylor, Jacob, Sandy Perry Spencer Graves Tian, Michael, Warner, Andrea Dorey Graham Jim Doyle Dana, Jimmie, ... > 5 min > > Introductions and Announcements 10 min 15 min if guests are present > > Agenda revisions 5 min > > Treasurer?s report Jim D 2 min $1,721.54 balance. The drop in the bank balance: Jill Stein event in Palo Alto. Paid $510 for rental. Proceeds went to Stein for President campaign. > > > Endorsing SB 52 Jim D 3 min Campaign kickoff Saturday March 9, 2-4 PM in Palo Alto. Sen. Mark Leno and Jerry Hill + Trent Lange, President of the CA Clean Money Campaign. Unitarian Universalist Church, 505 E. Charlston, Palo Alto. (www.caclean.org). Jim to send the annoucement to the Discuss list, Tian will forward to the Announce list. > > Tabling > April 13 Andrew Hill Health Fair Caroline and Sandy 5 min Fourth annual heath fair sponsored by the Single Payer Health Coalition at Andrew Hill. 10 - 2, Saturday, April 13. Capital & Senter Rd, Andrew Hill High School. > April 27 Junior State Jim D 1 min Marriott in Santa Clara. all day. Barryessa Arts & Wine Festival: Jim usually gets a notice and hasn't received one yet. Earth Day in April: Rawley will provide the list of when this is, and whom we should contact. Sandy will look into it for De Anza. > > Reports on presentations at Oak Grove High School Sandy and Jim 5 min Greg Barnett, instructor. Will invite us back. Invites Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, ... . List Jim Doyle for a Green Speakers' bureau on the web site. The question of what to put there? > > Drew's status reports part 1 Drew 5 min > DeAnza podcasts web site > > committee report re organised ongoing campaigns Sandy et al 20 min > criteria for selecting primary focus > goals of primary focus We have a problem with the Green party of Santa Clara County with lack of focus. It would be useful to have more direction and less general discussion. A list of ~ 20 issues was sent to the email list. Two primary issues: 1. Climate change. 2. Health care for all / single payer health care. * Other: anti-war, Iran, Syria, ... To grow as a party, we need to more closely connect with the issues that concern people. > > invited speaker criteria for the Green Party Monthly Meetings - 5 min The County Council should make arrangements and announce the speaker at least 2 weeks before the next meeting. Spencer will contact Gerry Gras to see if he can help arrange a speaker for the March meeting. Sandy will work to get a speaker for the April meeting. Spencer to notify Warner for the agenda. > including planning for an author to speak held jointly with the > Peace and "Freedom Party John T 5 min Peace & Freedom Party wants to organize an event. The wanted to find someone to speak about. Contact Jewish Voice for Peace, Middle East Children's Alliance, Code Pink. > > SGA delegates and proper county council election or appointment > procedures > and GPCA-votes offer to use Nationbuilder for blast email Jim D 10 min Jim Doyle to organize an agenda item on this for the next meeting. County Council on the SGA will will post something to the Discuss list about this. > > no brainers to county council (bylaws change?) group 5 min Check the bylaws: Procedure is something like to bring precise text to a meeting, discuss it at that meeting, then vote in the next meeting. > > Drew's status reports part 2 Drew 5 min A2K (access to knowledge) OER (open educational resources): effort at De Anza. > camp Wellstone civi crm google hangout > > post cards to P&F and or no party preference group 10 min > postage rates Jim D 2 min Andrea will research this and post to the discuss list. Money Mailer: 5.5 cents per household 2 sided of half a sheet of paper. > > web site (archive most of the front page, get the next meeting date > right) Jim D 5 min Tian will contact Valerie. They will decide what changes they want to see and contact Spencer. > > GPCA merchandise Clearing House Jim D 2 min Contact Starley Rankin in Sacramento and maybe Cindy: Jim to ask for the tote bags or a refund. FEEDBACK FROM THE STUDENTS: Californians for Electoral Reform: Instant runoff voting, etc. (cfer.org) Santa Clara U. Prof. Christopher Bacon, cbacon at scu.edu; 408-551-3082. > > total time allotted 1 hour 55 minutes > > Next meeting March 28 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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