[GPSCC-chat] speaker for January meeting

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Sandy, et al.:


       What about organizing other events, e.g., panel discussions of 
things like Jeff Rosen's proposal to repeal at least part of the refusal 
of Santa Clara County to cooperate with ICE in "[in]Secure Communities"?


       Merriam and John organized monthly Movie Nights for a year or 
so.  Then Merriam got tired, because she was not getting enough help to 
organize them.  We can broaden the focus from just movies to other 
topics in local politics, like the recent report in the Mercury News 
about the VTA light rail being one of the worst performing in the nation 
financially, effectively because it was planned that way!  I want to 
know what we can do in the following areas:


             1.  Understand better how the current light rail system was 
planned -- including the role of money in making the many decisions that.


              2.  What we can do differently to obtain more citizen 
interest and input to reduce the role of money in making so many 
decisions like this in the city, county, school board, water district, etc.


       Spencer


On 1/1/2013 10:56 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>   
> Thanks for your detailed response to my inquiry about the Veronica. In fact, 9 to 5 is one of those organizations of CalWorks allies I was referring to. Others include CHAM, Low-Income Self-Help Center, SIREN, Silicon Valley Independent Living Center, California Partnership, Community Health Partnership, AACI, and others.
>
> I still believe that speakers we invite to our meetings should be proposing specific campaigns that we will (as far as we can project) have some capacity and willingness to take up. I believe the presentation by David Merritt was in this category; it involved the foreclosure summit that many Greens participated in last September. I do not think we should invite speakers OR decide our involvement in campaigns on an ad hoc basis. As much as possible, our speakers should address campaigns we are already considering, based on the interests, abilities, and connections of our membership.
>
>
> Sandy
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
> To: perrysandy <perrysandy at aol.com>
> Cc: sosfbay-discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 4:16 pm
> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] speaker for January meeting
>
>
> perrysandy at aol.com wrote:
>
>> I would not agree to this proposal without knowing who the person is,
> Her name is Veronica.
>
>> what groups he or she is a member of,
> Working Women 9 to 5
>
>> what proposals he or she is advocating,
> amending the California Welfare and Institutions Code to eliminate
> withdrawal of either the parental allotment when a dependant under16
> old is truant or the dependant's allotment when the dependant is under 16
> and truant.  There are other penalties in the Education Code.
>
>> whether he or she is a member of the Green Party,
> welfare is non partisan
>
>> . What is our criteria for inviting speakers?
> to my knowledge we do not have any formal criteria for speaker selection
>
>> There are about 25,000 people on CalWorks in our County, why this person?
> availability, personal experience, articulate
>
>>   
>> As I said earlier, I believe our meetings should be short and energetic.
> amen brother.  Is this going to be an agenda item?
>
>> That means the speakers we invite should be part of a plan to get
>> involved in a particular campaign.
> I am not aware of any plans to get involved in any campaign.
> We operate in an ad hoc basis endorsing actions, movements, events.
>
>
>>   
>>   
>> Sandy
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: sosfbay discussion group <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>> Sent: Sat, Dec 29, 2012 9:19 pm
>> Subject: [GPSCC-chat] speaker for January meeting
>>
>> First question
>> would the group like to have a person who is or has been
>> on welfare - CalWorks- as a speaker at our January meeting?
>>
>> I know one and the person is willing to speak to us.
>>
>> Jim Doyle
>>
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