[GPSCC-chat] GPSCC Meeting minutes -- 7PM Thursday, Jan 24, 2013

Thu Jan 24 21:19:08 PST 2013

On 1/24/2013 9:10 AM, John Thielking wrote:
> This is now the final agenda.  I will print copies to bring to the meeting.
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> --- On Wed, 1/23/13, John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Draft Agenda For The GPSCC Meeting 7PM Thursday, Jan 24, 2013
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 6:24 PM
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> Draft Agenda for Thursday, January 24, 2013 Green Party of Santa Clara County
> GA meeting to be held at San Jose Peace Center 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA.
> Final Agenda will be published at 9AM Thursday.
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> 7:00PM -7:30PM Arrive, socialize. Guest speaker Brian Good on:
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> A. developing new technologies.
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> 1. Many years I have been unhappy that there has been no high-tech reinvention of a Commodore 64, Texas Instruments 99, Radio Shack TRS-80, or Atari 800 that could plug into our TVs.
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> 2. For many years I have wanted a belt-pack flash-drive video recorder so I can plug my flaky old mini-DV video cameras into a tapeless recorder.
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> 3. Smart phone tech is bringing us a computing reinvention without Windows, without Apple, without Intel or AMD. It runs Linux, it's thumb-drive or credit card sized, it's cheap, and it's here. Google A10, A31, Raspberry Pi.
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> B. third-generation California Disclose Act, SB52. Democrats hold 2/3 majorities in both Assembly and Senate so this year is likely to be the year we win. So join us!
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> 7:30 Meeting begins. Identify facilitator:  Jim Doyle

> note taker:  Spencer

> time keeper:  John Thielking

> vibes watcher:  self monitoring

>   and agenda preparer:  Caroline

>   for next meeting.
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> 7:35 Introductions and announcements. Changes to agenda.

Caroline,

Drew:  Working on

Brian Good, Jim Doyle, John Thielking,

Spencer Graves:

Paul Rea, Newark:  Works with Sharat on a film series:  How to contact 
Greens near Newark?  **** (Drew can help make contact with other Greens 
in Alameda County)  (tri city area:  Newark, Union City, Fremont).

Ed Campbell.  Lives in Willow Glen, retired chiropractor, coach basketball.

Feb. 9:  Bowling for Columbine in Newark.

> 7:50 treasurer's report.

       $1,686.38  + $55 from November minus $50 to Secretary of State

> Jim Doyle. Hat passing.

* Propose that we invite the Jill Stein team to put on a Green Campaign School in our area.  Jim Doyle, Caroline

         *** Caroline to contact Jill Stein's team to get info about 
cost, etc., and post to the discussion list.  After we get the cost, we 
need to make a decision on whether, when, where.

Wellstone Foundation:  Feb. 8-9 (Friday noon to Saturday
"Camp Wellstone" at Sequoia Retreat Center
$30 - $100 (sliding scale) plus DeAnza tuition (2 credit units at 
DeAnza?)  Drew will attend.
How to facilitate a group?  Strategy for approaching a community? See 
Drew's email on this on the discussion list
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> 7:55 Report back on events that happened since the last meeting. Anti SS cuts protest in front of Lofgren's office, etc.
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> 8:00 invited speakers, criteria for. Sandy Perry, Jim Doyle

       Currently, we have no criteria.

       Sandy:  Invite speakers related to on-going campaigns.

Campaigns:  Single Payer (Sandy, Caroline), DeAnza (Sandy, Drew),

How does CA Single Payer differ from "Health Care for All"? Campaign for 
a Healthy California is a coalition driven by nurses. Health Care for 
All is their own organization, initiated in the 1990s.  Their drawback 
is mostly all white, ... .

       Caroline:  We also need "climate" and 350.org.

       Caroline, Sandy, Brian Jim, Spencer to form a committee to select 
topics for major campaigns:  phone conference?  Sandy has free 
conference calling.  Sandy to send email with suggested times.

> 8:10 organised ongoing campaigns Jim Doyle, Sandy Perry
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> 8:20 udel - unincorporated district elections e.g., school, water, and fire districts Jim Doyle

       Jim will bring the list of elections to the next elections. 
Unincorporated districts come up in odd years.
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> 8:30 web site improvements Jim Doyle

       Drew has already studied CiviCRM by Campaign Foundations, built 
on Drupal:

Also need training on CMS (Content Management System) Drupal(?)
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> 8:35 making meetings interesting, efficient, and enjoyable Jim Doyle, Drew Johnson

       Starting to invite speakers.  Good.

       We operate too much as a committee as a whole.  We would be 
better, Drew believes, if we came together, broke into committees, and 
then came back together.

       Sponsorship of events should be delegated to the County Council.

       We could use Google Hangout to make our meetings virtual, so 
people can attend without traveling.

       The exercise should be fun, energizing and productive.

       Drew to propose more material and send to the email list and 
report a summary at the next meeting.

       For sponsorship, Drew suggests it gets posted and it passes if no 
one objects.
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> 8:50 establishing a social media committee Jim Doyle
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> 8:55 recruiting with emphasis on females Jim Doyle

       Betsy Wolf-Graves is now on the County Council.
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> 9:00 Obtaining other people for the County Council and to represent Santa Clara County on the statewide Standing General Assembly.
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> Santa Clara County is allowed 5 representatives on the statewide Standing General Assembly. We currently have only 3. John Thielking is currently not on that list; we should put him on. That
> would bring us to 4, consisting entirely of our current County Council.
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> Drew noted that our County Council is currently all male. Number 7 of the 10 key values of the Green Party is "Feminism and Gender Equity" (www.gp.org/tenkey.php). We could use some females.

John Thielking and Betsy Wolf-Graves will be added to the "sga".

* Endorse California Disclose Act (Brian), SB52.  Approved.  Brian to 
provide us with the info on what we have to do to get listed as an 
official endorser.

> 9:05 PROPOSED: The Green Party of Santa Clara County will endorse the presentation of the movie "Enemy Alien" at the Peace Center, Saturday evening, March 23. Spencer
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> DISCUSSION: "Enemy Alien" is a documentary describing the persecution of a Palestinian-American, Farouk Abdel-Muhti, essentially for being Palestinian and refusing to remain silent. The film was produced by a Japanese American, Konrad Aderer, whose parents had spent World War II in a concentration camp in the US (www.lifeorliberty.org/enemy-alien). The South Bay Committee Against Political Repression is organizing a presentation of this movie to be followed by a panel discussion
> featuring a Japanese-American and an Arab-American.
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> 9:10 Proposal to invite Peace and Freedom people to participate in our meetings and events. Caroline

       Add to discussion of "on-going campaigns".
> 9:15 There is also a Latino activity going on on Friday that I will send you details of so it can go on the agenda as well. Caroline
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> 9:20 propose a doing a cost benefit analysis of how we can make use of a new voters list.
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Endorse:  Dalit Baum presentation, Feb. 15.
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> 9:30 Meeting ends.
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