From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Mon Jul 1 06:23:48 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 06:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Obama and the War of Terror against US In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1372685028.57539.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I say we avoid using their terminology altogether, instead of advancing their propaganda.? Its not a "War on Terror", its a War OF Terror (against us by the 1% and their Military Industrial Complex).? Its not a Global War of Terror (GWoT), its a Terror War on the Globe (TWoG).? Its not 9/11, its Cheney Bush's attack on the Twin Towers.? Its the Invasion of? (or illegal war of aggression on) Iraq and Afghanistan. Put the onus right back on them. ? Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala leading the 100 member Green Shadow Cabinet to A Green New Deal for America http://greenshadowcabinet.us Dr. Stein's Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: Brian Good >To: "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" >Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 5:19 PM >Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Obama and the War on Terror > > > > >Paul George is a very well-organized speaker and he's had a month to reflect on Obama's talk.??Last time I saw Paul speak it was to about 75 people in Mountain View about the economic crash.? The mayor was there.? Within a few weeks the City Council of Mountain View had passed a resolution in favor of amending the Constitution to end corporate personhood.? > >This should be a very informative and thoughtful talk. > > >Did the President's National Security Speech Really Change Anything? >A talk by >Paul George >Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center >On May 23, President Barack Obama gave a major policy speech on the so-called war on terror. It was, on the surface at least, a clear and welcome call for a change. It was also clear that Obama was responding to tremendous public pressure to end the policies of his reviled predecessor, something he has failed to do thus far. But how far does his new policy outline go toward actually ending the perpetual war that has gripped our nation since 9/11? And what might the actual new national security program look like? In this talk, our speaker will dig deep into the President's address, keeping the historic context in mind, to find out if our country's endless war might actually be ending. > > >Paul George has been a grassroots human rights activist and organizer for over 40 years. He is the director of Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, the Peninsula's leading activist organization. Paul is a frequent public speaker on a range of topics. Audiences have been enthusiastic about his sharp analyses and clear explanations of complex national policies. >Sponsored by the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley >Sunday, June 30, 11:00 am >Palo Alto High School. Student Center >50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto >Free and open to all. Wheelchair accessible. >? > >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Jul 1 09:47:28 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:47:28 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Obama and the War of Terror against US In-Reply-To: <1372685028.57539.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1372685028.57539.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51D1B2A0.4090105@earthlink.net> I 100% agree that we should be more careful in our usage of terminology. We should think twice before using any terms from the government. But I probably would not agree with all your suggestions. Gerry Drew wrote: > I say we avoid using their terminology altogether, instead of advancing > their propaganda. Its not a "War on Terror", its a War OF Terror > (against us by the 1% and their Military Industrial Complex). Its not a > Global War of Terror (GWoT), its a Terror War on the Globe (TWoG). Its > not 9/11, its Cheney Bush's attack on the Twin Towers. Its the Invasion > of (or illegal war of aggression on) Iraq and Afghanistan. Put the onus > right back on them. > > Green is GO! > > Drew > > ~*~*~*~ > Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala leading the 100 member Green Shadow > Cabinet to A Green New Deal for America > http://greenshadowcabinet.us > > Dr. Stein's Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Brian Good > *To:* "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" > *Sent:* Saturday, June 29, 2013 5:19 PM > *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Obama and the War on Terror > > Paul George is a very well-organized speaker and he's had a month to > reflect on Obama's talk. Last time I saw Paul speak it was to about > 75 people in Mountain View about the economic crash. The mayor was > there. Within a few weeks the City Council of Mountain View had > passed a resolution in favor of amending the Constitution to end > corporate personhood. > > This should be a very informative and thoughtful talk. > > > Did the President's National Security Speech Really Change Anything? > A talk by > Paul George > Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center > On May 23, President Barack Obama gave a major policy speech on the > so-called war on terror. It was, on the surface at least, a clear > and welcome call for a change. It was also clear that Obama was > responding to tremendous public pressure to end the policies of his > reviled predecessor, something he has failed to do thus far. But how > far does his new policy outline go toward actually ending the > perpetual war that has gripped our nation since 9/11? And what might > the actual new national security program look like? In this talk, > our speaker will dig deep into the President's address, keeping the > historic context in mind, to find out if our country's endless war > might actually be ending. > > Paul George has been a grassroots human rights activist and > organizer for over 40 years. He is the director of Peninsula Peace > and Justice Center, the Peninsula's leading activist organization. > Paul is a frequent public speaker on a range of topics. Audiences > have been enthusiastic about his sharp analyses and clear > explanations of complex national policies. > Sponsored by the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley > Sunday, June 30, 11:00 am > Palo Alto High School. Student Center > 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto > Free and open to all. Wheelchair accessible. > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Jul 1 09:50:15 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:50:15 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Petition by Daniel Ellsberg against NSA Spying Message-ID: <51D1B347.3000300@earthlink.net> Daniel Ellsberg has written a petition against NSA spying: http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/tell-congress-investigate-nsa-abuses-and-protect-our-constitutional-rights Gerry From snug.bug at hotmail.com Mon Jul 1 10:15:47 2013 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 10:15:47 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Obama and the War of Terror against US In-Reply-To: <51D1B2A0.4090105@earthlink.net> References: , <1372685028.57539.YahooMailNeo@web125402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, <51D1B2A0.4090105@earthlink.net> Message-ID: When we allow the other side to frame the definitions and frame the issues we have ceded half the advantage in any debate, as George Lakoff famously points out in "Don't Think of an Elephant". You can read that book in two hours (read it at your local air-conditioned library) and its perceptions can stay with you your whole life. http://georgelakoff.com/ > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:47:28 -0700 > From: gerrygras at earthlink.net > To: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Obama and the War of Terror against US > > > I 100% agree that we should be more careful in our > usage of terminology. We should think twice before > using any terms from the government. But I probably > would not agree with all your suggestions. > > Gerry > > > Drew wrote: > > I say we avoid using their terminology altogether, instead of advancing > > their propaganda. Its not a "War on Terror", its a War OF Terror > > (against us by the 1% and their Military Industrial Complex). Its not a > > Global War of Terror (GWoT), its a Terror War on the Globe (TWoG). Its > > not 9/11, its Cheney Bush's attack on the Twin Towers. Its the Invasion > > of (or illegal war of aggression on) Iraq and Afghanistan. Put the onus > > right back on them. > > > > Green is GO! > > > > Drew > > > > ~*~*~*~ > > Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala leading the 100 member Green Shadow > > Cabinet to A Green New Deal for America > > http://greenshadowcabinet.us > > > > Dr. Stein's Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > > Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests > > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Brian Good > > *To:* "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" > > *Sent:* Saturday, June 29, 2013 5:19 PM > > *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Obama and the War on Terror > > > > Paul George is a very well-organized speaker and he's had a month to > > reflect on Obama's talk. Last time I saw Paul speak it was to about > > 75 people in Mountain View about the economic crash. The mayor was > > there. Within a few weeks the City Council of Mountain View had > > passed a resolution in favor of amending the Constitution to end > > corporate personhood. > > > > This should be a very informative and thoughtful talk. > > > > > > Did the President's National Security Speech Really Change Anything? > > A talk by > > Paul George > > Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center > > On May 23, President Barack Obama gave a major policy speech on the > > so-called war on terror. It was, on the surface at least, a clear > > and welcome call for a change. It was also clear that Obama was > > responding to tremendous public pressure to end the policies of his > > reviled predecessor, something he has failed to do thus far. But how > > far does his new policy outline go toward actually ending the > > perpetual war that has gripped our nation since 9/11? And what might > > the actual new national security program look like? In this talk, > > our speaker will dig deep into the President's address, keeping the > > historic context in mind, to find out if our country's endless war > > might actually be ending. > > > > Paul George has been a grassroots human rights activist and > > organizer for over 40 years. He is the director of Peninsula Peace > > and Justice Center, the Peninsula's leading activist organization. > > Paul is a frequent public speaker on a range of topics. Audiences > > have been enthusiastic about his sharp analyses and clear > > explanations of complex national policies. > > Sponsored by the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley > > Sunday, June 30, 11:00 am > > Palo Alto High School. Student Center > > 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto > > Free and open to all. 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Nominating papers for the following candidates were presented: * James Doyle , 408-269-3299, 1668 Nora Way, San Jose CA 95124 * Spencer Graves , M: 408-655-4567, H: 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San Jos?, CA 95126 * Mark "Drew" Johnson , 408-520-1652, 174 Carroll St. #335, Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 * John Thielking , 408-914-2751, 592 Mountain Home Dr, San Jose, CA 95136 * Betsy Wolf-Graves , 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San Jos?, CA 95126 Announcements for these elections were made by email to standard Santa Clara County Greens email list 24 May 2013, over a month in advance. The elections have also been advertised on the web site of the Green Party of Santa Clara County since that date. Nominating papers containing 21 signatures were collected. The 21 signatures were checked against the list of registered voters in Santa Clara County. All 21 were found to be registered Green. All five of these were elected by consensus. Our county bylaws says we should have seven on our county council. We hope to recruit two others to fill the two vacancies. Please confirm that we have met the requirements for having a duly constituted County Council consisting of these individuals or explain what else we need to do. Sincerely, Spencer Graves On 4/26/2013 6:35 PM, Sanda Everette wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Spencer Graves > > wrote: > > To: The GPCA Coordinating Committee > > > c/o Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, Co-Coordinators > > > This letter responds to the request by Sanda Everette that the > Green Party of Santa Clara County officially re-appoint its > 2012-2014 County Council members as there were no GPSCC CC > candidates on the June 2012 Primary Election ballot. As > previously, communicated, at its regularly scheduled and announced > May 2012 general membership meeting -- consistent with > long-standing GPSCC Bylaws -- the sitting GPSCC CC members > appointed new members beginning June 2012 and those appointments > were approved by the members present. > > > Again to clarify, a sitting County Council can not appoint the next, > incoming County Council. Rather, any appointment of a new County > Council can only occur after a vacancy has occurred - i.e. after the > outgoing Council's term has ended - and then only by the process > specified in the county's bylaws. > > Thus any appointment for 2012-2014 made before July 2012 could not be > valid. > > > > Also, at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 28, 2013 > (fourth Thursday of the month), GPSCC members present unanimously > consensed to reappoint existing County Council members; one prior > CC member had left California. A notice that such would be > occurring was placed on the GPSCC general discussion email list -- > the main communication vehicle to GPSCC members -- more than two > weeks before that meeting. This item also was published in the > draft agenda two weeks before the meeting and on additional days > before the meeting. > > > At the March 28, 2013, GPSCC general membership meeting, the item > was presented. The volunteers alll affirmed that they all live in > Santa Clara County and are willing to continue serving as members > of the County Council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County. > Their reappointment was reaffirmed by unanimous consensus. Note: > Pursuant to GPCA and GPSCC Bylaws, the GPSCC makes decisions, > whenever possible, by consensus. You may consider the appointments > made on March 28, 2013, as "unanimously elected" if your sense and > sensibilities about such matters require use of that language. > > > Also at the March 28, 2013, meeting, I was tasked and agreed to > write this communication to the GPCA Coordinating Committee > Co-Coordinators to identify the current GPSCC County Council > members. The current GPSCC County Council members and their email > contact information are: > > > Names / emails / phone numbers: > > > * Jim Doyle >, 408-269-3299 > > > * Spencer Graves >, M: 408-655-4567 > , H: 408-294-5779 > > > * John Thielking >, 408-561-1390 > > > * Drew Johnson >, 408-520-1652 > > > * Betsy Wolf-Graves >, 408-294-5779 > > > *** Please let me know if this meets your requirements. If it > doesn't, please explain why it doesn't, what else we need to do, > and point me to the specific rules. > > > The bylaws for such an appointment where the county is already > considered active by the state party are as follows (note: Santa Clara > County is considered active because if its attendance at prior General > Assemblies, even if it doesn't have an active county council) > > http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Vacancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_the_primary_election > > 6-6.4 For decisions to be valid at this General Meeting, *in counties > in which where there is a recognized County Organization, either the > number shall be equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign > nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in that > county; or at a meeting with less than that number, but with at least > three, only those candidates would be eligible who present a > nomination petition with a number of signatures from registered Greens > in the county, equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign > nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in that > county*. > > Its not clear from the minutes of your meeting > http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss/2013-March/014399.html that > there were either 20 individuals present, or that those seeking > appointment had 20 nomination signatures. Without either criteria > being satisfied, no appointments can be made. > > As we sent you before, there is supposed to be a 21 day notice, aided > by the state Coordinating Committee, notifying Greens in your county > of the date of appointment. But then in addition as per above, anyone > seeking appointment needs to satisfy the criteria of either having > enough nominations signatures to be eligible (that number is likely 20 > registered Greens in Santa Clara County) OR the number of people at > the meeting making the appointment needs to be at least 20. > > > > Thanks, > > > Spencer Graves, GPSCC County Council member, on behalf of the > Green Party of Santa Clara County > > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Technology Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San Jos?, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > web: www.structuremonitoring.com > > Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, co-coordinators > GPCA Coordinating Committee > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Sanda Everette, co-chair GPCA Delegation GPCA Coordinating Committee On Jul 1, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, Sanda: > > > This is to confirm that we held an election for the County Council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County last Thursday, 27 June 2013. Nominating papers for the following candidates were presented: > > > * James Doyle , 408-269-3299, 1668 Nora Way, San Jose CA 95124 > * Spencer Graves , M: 408-655-4567, H: 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San Jos?, CA 95126 > * Mark "Drew" Johnson , 408-520-1652, 174 Carroll St. #335, Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 > * John Thielking , 408-914-2751, 592 Mountain Home Dr, San Jose, CA 95136 > * Betsy Wolf-Graves , 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San Jos?, CA 95126 > > > Announcements for these elections were made by email to standard Santa Clara County Greens email list 24 May 2013, over a month in advance. The elections have also been advertised on the web site of the Green Party of Santa Clara County since that date. Nominating papers containing 21 signatures were collected. The 21 signatures were checked against the list of registered voters in Santa Clara County. All 21 were found to be registered Green. > > > All five of these were elected by consensus. Our county bylaws says we should have seven on our county council. We hope to recruit two others to fill the two vacancies. > > > Please confirm that we have met the requirements for having a duly constituted County Council consisting of these individuals or explain what else we need to do. > > > Sincerely, > Spencer Graves > > > On 4/26/2013 6:35 PM, Sanda Everette wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: >>> To: The GPCA Coordinating Committee >>> >>> >>> c/o Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, Co-Coordinators >>> >>> >>> This letter responds to the request by Sanda Everette that the Green Party of Santa Clara County officially re-appoint its 2012-2014 County Council members as there were no GPSCC CC candidates on the June 2012 Primary Election ballot. As previously, communicated, at its regularly scheduled and announced May 2012 general membership meeting ? consistent with long-standing GPSCC Bylaws -- the sitting GPSCC CC members appointed new members beginning June 2012 and those appointments were approved by the members present. >> >> Again to clarify, a sitting County Council can not appoint the next, incoming County Council. Rather, any appointment of a new County Council can only occur after a vacancy has occurred - i.e. after the outgoing Council's term has ended - and then only by the process specified in the county's bylaws. >> >> Thus any appointment for 2012-2014 made before July 2012 could not be valid. >> >>> >>> >>> Also, at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 28, 2013 (fourth Thursday of the month), GPSCC members present unanimously consensed to reappoint existing County Council members; one prior CC member had left California. A notice that such would be occurring was placed on the GPSCC general discussion email list ? the main communication vehicle to GPSCC members ? more than two weeks before that meeting. This item also was published in the draft agenda two weeks before the meeting and on additional days before the meeting. >>> >>> >>> At the March 28, 2013, GPSCC general membership meeting, the item was presented. The volunteers alll affirmed that they all live in Santa Clara County and are willing to continue serving as members of the County Council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County. Their reappointment was reaffirmed by unanimous consensus. Note: Pursuant to GPCA and GPSCC Bylaws, the GPSCC makes decisions, whenever possible, by consensus. You may consider the appointments made on March 28, 2013, as ?unanimously elected? if your sense and sensibilities about such matters require use of that language. >>> >>> >>> Also at the March 28, 2013, meeting, I was tasked and agreed to write this communication to the GPCA Coordinating Committee Co-Coordinators to identify the current GPSCC County Council members. The current GPSCC County Council members and their email contact information are: >>> >>> >>> Names / emails / phone numbers: >>> >>> >>> * Jim Doyle , 408-269-3299 >>> >>> >>> * Spencer Graves , M: 408-655-4567, H: 408-294-5779 >>> >>> >>> * John Thielking , 408-561-1390 >>> >>> >>> * Drew Johnson , 408-520-1652 >>> >>> >>> * Betsy Wolf-Graves , 408-294-5779 >>> >>> >>> *** Please let me know if this meets your requirements. If it doesn't, please explain why it doesn't, what else we need to do, and point me to the specific rules. >> >> The bylaws for such an appointment where the county is already considered active by the state party are as follows (note: Santa Clara County is considered active because if its attendance at prior General Assemblies, even if it doesn't have an active county council) >> >> http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Vacancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_the_primary_election >> >> 6-6.4 For decisions to be valid at this General Meeting, in counties in which where there is a recognized County Organization, either the number shall be equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in that county; or at a meeting with less than that number, but with at least three, only those candidates would be eligible who present a nomination petition with a number of signatures from registered Greens in the county, equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in that county. >> >> Its not clear from the minutes of your meeting http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss/2013-March/014399.html that there were either 20 individuals present, or that those seeking appointment had 20 nomination signatures. Without either criteria being satisfied, no appointments can be made. >> >> As we sent you before, there is supposed to be a 21 day notice, aided by the state Coordinating Committee, notifying Greens in your county of the date of appointment. But then in addition as per above, anyone seeking appointment needs to satisfy the criteria of either having enough nominations signatures to be eligible (that number is likely 20 registered Greens in Santa Clara County) OR the number of people at the meeting making the appointment needs to be at least 20. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Spencer Graves, GPSCC County Council member, on behalf of the Green Party of Santa Clara County >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Spencer Graves, PE, PhD >>> President and Chief Technology Officer >>> Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. >>> 751 Emerson Ct. >>> San Jos?, CA 95126 >>> ph: 408-655-4567 >>> web: www.structuremonitoring.com >> Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, co-coordinators >> GPCA Coordinating Committee >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sosfbay-discuss mailing list >> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Technology Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San Jos?, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Jul 1 22:05:39 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 22:05:39 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Re: County Council of Green Party of Santa Clara County In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51D25FA3.1070906@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: We now have an officially recognized County Council again; see the note from Sanda Everette below. Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] County Council of Green Party of Santa Clara County Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:37:57 -0700 From: Sanda Everette To: Spencer Graves CC: Alex Shantz , Jim Doyle , Betsy Wolf-Graves , warner bloomberg , Drew , John Thielking I was able to get it on the agenda, and in the last minute of the call, we did certify your county council. Go forth and prosper. Sanda Everette, GPCA delegation to GPUS, GPCA Coordinating Committee "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi, describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Sanda Everette > wrote: Thank you for your diligence. I will bring this to the CC. Maybe we can even take it as an emergency agenda item for our teleconference tonight, though I know we have a pretty full agenda. Sanda Everette, co-chair GPCA Delegation GPCA Coordinating Committee On Jul 1, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Spencer Graves > wrote: > Hello, Sanda: > > > This is to confirm that we held an election for the County > Council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County last Thursday, 27 > June 2013. Nominating papers for the following candidates were > presented: > > > * James Doyle > , 408-269-3299, 1668 Nora Way, San > Jose CA 95124 > * Spencer Graves > , M: 408-655-4567, H: > 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San Jos?, CA 95126 > * Mark "Drew" Johnson > , 408-520-1652, 174 Carroll St. > #335, Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 > * John Thielking > , 408-914-2751, 592 Mountain Home > Dr, San Jose, CA 95136 > * Betsy Wolf-Graves > , 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San > Jos?, CA 95126 > > > Announcements for these elections were made by email to > standard Santa Clara County Greens email list 24 May 2013, over a > month in advance. The elections have also been advertised on the > web site of the Green Party of Santa Clara County since that > date. Nominating papers containing 21 signatures were collected. > The 21 signatures were checked against the list of registered > voters in Santa Clara County. All 21 were found to be registered > Green. > > > All five of these were elected by consensus. Our county > bylaws says we should have seven on our county council. We hope > to recruit two others to fill the two vacancies. > > > Please confirm that we have met the requirements for having > a duly constituted County Council consisting of these individuals > or explain what else we need to do. > > > Sincerely, > Spencer Graves > > > On 4/26/2013 6:35 PM, Sanda Everette wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Spencer Graves >> > > wrote: >> >> To: The GPCA Coordinating Committee >> >> >> c/o Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, Co-Coordinators >> >> >> This letter responds to the request by Sanda Everette that >> the Green Party of Santa Clara County officially re-appoint >> its 2012-2014 County Council members as there were no GPSCC >> CC candidates on the June 2012 Primary Election ballot. As >> previously, communicated, at its regularly scheduled and >> announced May 2012 general membership meeting ? consistent >> with long-standing GPSCC Bylaws -- the sitting GPSCC CC >> members appointed new members beginning June 2012 and those >> appointments were approved by the members present. >> >> >> Again to clarify, a sitting County Council can not appoint the >> next, incoming County Council. Rather, any appointment of a new >> County Council can only occur after a vacancy has occurred - i.e. >> after the outgoing Council's term has ended - and then only by >> the process specified in the county's bylaws. >> >> Thus any appointment for 2012-2014 made before July 2012 could >> not be valid. >> >> >> >> Also, at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 28, 2013 >> (fourth Thursday of the month), GPSCC members present >> unanimously consensed to reappoint existing County Council >> members; one prior CC member had left California. A notice >> that such would be occurring was placed on the GPSCC general >> discussion email list ? the main communication vehicle to >> GPSCC members ? more than two weeks before that meeting. This >> item also was published in the draft agenda two weeks before >> the meeting and on additional days before the meeting. >> >> >> At the March 28, 2013, GPSCC general membership meeting, the >> item was presented. The volunteers alll affirmed that they >> all live in Santa Clara County and are willing to continue >> serving as members of the County Council of the Green Party >> of Santa Clara County. Their reappointment was reaffirmed by >> unanimous consensus. Note: Pursuant to GPCA and GPSCC Bylaws, >> the GPSCC makes decisions, whenever possible, by consensus. >> You may consider the appointments made on March 28, 2013, as >> ?unanimously elected? if your sense and sensibilities about >> such matters require use of that language. >> >> >> Also at the March 28, 2013, meeting, I was tasked and agreed >> to write this communication to the GPCA Coordinating >> Committee Co-Coordinators to identify the current GPSCC >> County Council members. The current GPSCC County Council >> members and their email contact information are: >> >> >> Names / emails / phone numbers: >> >> >> * Jim Doyle > >, 408-269-3299 >> >> >> >> * Spencer Graves > >, M: >> 408-655-4567 , H: 408-294-5779 >> >> >> >> * John Thielking > >, 408-561-1390 >> >> >> * Drew Johnson > >, 408-520-1652 >> >> >> >> * Betsy Wolf-Graves > >, 408-294-5779 >> >> >> *** Please let me know if this meets your requirements. If it >> doesn't, please explain why it doesn't, what else we need to >> do, and point me to the specific rules. >> >> >> The bylaws for such an appointment where the county is already >> considered active by the state party are as follows (note: Santa >> Clara County is considered active because if its attendance at >> prior General Assemblies, even if it doesn't have an active >> county council) >> >> http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Vacancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_the_primary_election >> >> 6-6.4 For decisions to be valid at this General Meeting, *in >> counties in which where there is a recognized County >> Organization, either the number shall be equal to the amount that >> would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to appear on the >> County Council ballot in that county; or at a meeting with less >> than that number, but with at least three, only those candidates >> would be eligible who present a nomination petition with a number >> of signatures from registered Greens in the county, equal to the >> amount that would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to >> appear on the County Council ballot in that county*. >> >> Its not clear from the minutes of your meeting >> http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss/2013-March/014399.html that >> there were either 20 individuals present, or that those seeking >> appointment had 20 nomination signatures. Without either >> criteria being satisfied, no appointments can be made. >> >> As we sent you before, there is supposed to be a 21 day notice, >> aided by the state Coordinating Committee, notifying Greens in >> your county of the date of appointment. But then in addition as >> per above, anyone seeking appointment needs to satisfy the >> criteria of either having enough nominations signatures to be >> eligible (that number is likely 20 registered Greens in Santa >> Clara County) OR the number of people at the meeting making the >> appointment needs to be at least 20. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Spencer Graves, GPSCC County Council member, on behalf of the >> Green Party of Santa Clara County >> >> >> -- >> Spencer Graves, PE, PhD >> President and Chief Technology Officer >> Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. >> 751 Emerson Ct. >> San Jos?, CA 95126 >> ph: 408-655-4567 >> web: www.structuremonitoring.com >> >> >> Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, co-coordinators >> GPCA Coordinating Committee >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Jul 1 23:21:27 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 23:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Re: County Council of Green Party of Santa Clara County In-Reply-To: <51D25FA3.1070906@prodsyse.com> References: <51D25FA3.1070906@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1372746087.55869.YahooMailNeo@web185305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Yay! ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves To: GPSCC Sent: Monday, July 1, 2013 10:05 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Re: County Council of Green Party of Santa Clara County Hello, All:? ????? We now have an officially recognized County Council again;? see the note from Sanda Everette below.? ????? Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] County Council of Green Party of Santa Clara County Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:37:57 -0700 From: Sanda Everette mailto:sanda.greensolutions at gmail.com To: Spencer Graves mailto:spencer.graves at prodsyse.com CC: Alex Shantz mailto:alexshantz at gmail.com, Jim Doyle mailto:j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net, Betsy Wolf-Graves mailto:betsy237 at prodsyse.com, warner bloomberg mailto:WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com, Drew mailto:Rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com, John Thielking mailto:pagesincolor at yahoo.com I was able to get it on the agenda, and in the last minute of the call, we did certify your county council. Go forth and prosper. Sanda Everette, GPCA delegation to GPUS, GPCA Coordinating Committee "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi, describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Sanda Everette wrote: Thank you for your diligence. I will bring this to the CC. Maybe we can even take it as an emergency agenda item for our teleconference tonight, though I know we have a pretty full agenda.? Sanda Everette, co-chair >GPCA Delegation >GPCA Coordinating Committee? > On Jul 1, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: >Hello, Sanda:? ????? This is to confirm that we held an election for the County Council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County last Thursday, 27 June 2013.? Nominating papers for the following candidates were presented:? * James Doyle mailto:j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net, 408-269-3299, 1668 Nora Way, San Jose CA 95124 * Spencer Graves mailto:spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org, M: 408-655-4567, H: 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San Jos?, CA 95126 * Mark "Drew" Johnson mailto:Rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com, 408-520-1652, 174 Carroll St. #335, Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 * John Thielking mailto:pagesincolor at yahoo.com, 408-914-2751, 592 Mountain Home Dr, San Jose, CA 95136 * Betsy Wolf-Graves mailto:betsy237 at prodsyse.com, 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San Jos?, CA 95126 ????? Announcements for these elections were made by email to standard Santa Clara County Greens email list 24 May 2013, over a month in advance.? The elections have also been advertised on the web site of the Green Party of Santa Clara County since that date.? Nominating papers containing 21 signatures were collected.? The 21 signatures were checked against the list of registered voters in Santa Clara County.? All 21 were found to be registered Green.? ????? All five of these were elected by consensus.? Our county bylaws says we should have seven on our county council.? We hope to recruit two others to fill the two vacancies.? ????? Please confirm that we have met the requirements for having a duly constituted County Council consisting of these individuals or explain what else we need to do.? ????? Sincerely, ????? Spencer Graves On 4/26/2013 6:35 PM, Sanda Everette wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: >>>To: The GPCA Coordinating Committee >>>> >>>> >>>>c/o Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, Co-Coordinators >>>> >>>> >>>>This letter responds to the request by Sanda Everette that the Green Party of Santa Clara County officially re-appoint its 2012-2014 County Council members as there were no GPSCC CC candidates on the June 2012 Primary Election ballot. As previously, communicated, at its regularly scheduled and announced May 2012 general membership meeting ? consistent with long-standing GPSCC Bylaws -- the sitting GPSCC CC members appointed new members beginning June 2012 and those appointments were approved by the members present. >>>> >>>Again to clarify, a sitting County Council can not appoint the next, incoming County Council. ?Rather, any appointment of a new County Council can only occur after a vacancy has occurred - i.e. after the outgoing Council's term has ended - and then only by the process specified in the county's bylaws. >>>Thus any appointment for 2012-2014 made before July 2012 could not be valid. >>> >>> >>>> >>>>Also, at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 28, 2013 (fourth Thursday of the month), GPSCC members present unanimously consensed to reappoint existing County Council members; one prior CC member had left California. A notice that such would be occurring was placed on the GPSCC general discussion email list ? the main communication vehicle to GPSCC members ? more than two weeks before that meeting. This item also was published in the draft agenda two weeks before the meeting and on additional days before the meeting. >>>> >>>> >>>>At the March 28, 2013, GPSCC general membership meeting, the item was presented. The volunteers alll affirmed that they all live in Santa Clara County and are willing to continue serving as members of the County Council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County. Their reappointment was reaffirmed by unanimous consensus. Note: Pursuant to GPCA and GPSCC Bylaws, the GPSCC makes decisions, whenever possible, by consensus. You may consider the appointments made on March 28, 2013, as ?unanimously elected? if your sense and sensibilities about such matters require use of that language. >>>> >>>> >>>>Also at the March 28, 2013, meeting, I was tasked and agreed to write this communication to the GPCA Coordinating Committee Co-Coordinators to identify the current GPSCC County Council members. The current GPSCC County Council members and their email contact information are: >>>> >>>> >>>>Names / emails / phone numbers: >>>> >>>> >>>>* Jim Doyle , 408-269-3299 >>>> >>>> >>>>* Spencer Graves , M: 408-655-4567, H: 408-294-5779 >>>> >>>> >>>>* John Thielking , 408-561-1390 >>>> >>>> >>>>* Drew Johnson , 408-520-1652 >>>> >>>> >>>>* Betsy Wolf-Graves , 408-294-5779 >>>> >>>> >>>>*** Please let me know if this meets your requirements. If it doesn't, please explain why it doesn't, what else we need to do, and point me to the specific rules. >>>> >>>The bylaws for such an appointment where the county is already considered active by the state party are as follows (note: Santa Clara County is considered active because if its attendance at prior General Assemblies, even if it doesn't have an active county council) ? >>>http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Vacancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_the_primary_election >>>6-6.4?For decisions to be valid at this General Meeting,?in counties in which where there is a recognized County Organization, either the number shall be equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in that county; or at a meeting with less than that number, but with at least three, only those candidates would be eligible who present a nomination petition with a number of signatures from registered Greens in the county, equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in that county. >>>Its not clear from the minutes of your meeting?http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss/2013-March/014399.html?that there were either 20 individuals present, or that those seeking appointment had 20 nomination signatures. ?Without either criteria being satisfied, no appointments can be made. >>> >>> >>>As we sent you before, there is supposed to be a 21 day notice, aided by the state Coordinating Committee, notifying Greens in ?your county of the date of appointment. But then in addition as per above, anyone seeking appointment needs to satisfy the criteria of either having enough nominations signatures to be eligible (that number is likely 20 registered Greens in Santa Clara County) OR the number of people at the meeting making the appointment needs to be at least 20.? >>> >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>> >>>> >>>>Spencer Graves, GPSCC County Council member, on behalf of the Green Party of Santa Clara County >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Spencer Graves, PE, PhD >>>>President and Chief Technology Officer >>>>Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. >>>>751 Emerson Ct. >>>>San Jos?, CA 95126 >>>>ph: ?408-655-4567 >>>>web: ?http://www.structuremonitoring.com/ >>>> >>>> Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz,?co-coordinators >>>GPCA Coordinating Committee >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ 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: http://www.structuremonitoring.com/ _______________________________________________sosfbay-discuss mailing listsosfbay-discuss at cagreens.orghttp://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Tue Jul 2 02:37:01 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 02:37:01 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Re: County Council of Green Party of Santa Clara County In-Reply-To: <1372746087.55869.YahooMailNeo@web185305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <51D25FA3.1070906@prodsyse.com> <1372746087.55869.YahooMailNeo@web185305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51D29F3D.4040004@prodsyse.com> On 7/1/2013 11:21 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Yay! Thanks to all who signed (and especially circulated) nominating papers. There was a little drama in this, because we didn't know if the state Coordinating Committee would demand to see our nominating papers and check them with some list of registered voters. Therefore, we made sure we had at least the minimum number of signatures, eliminated duplicates, and checked all with the lists of voters from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. We needed 20 signatures from people registered Green in Santa Clara County. We had collected 22 signatures, but one was a duplicate. That left us with 21. I found only 18 of those in the roster Jim Doyle got from the Registrar of Voters around May 30, 2012. Since we were 3 shy, I went to the Registrar of Voters office. A computer terminal there allowed me to search their database by name but not by address. The latter was a problem, because I had trouble reading some of the printed names, and I found some of the 18 in the old list from their address. I found the first of the 3 but not the second. Then I learned that specifying only the first few letters of the last name gave me all people in the list matching that, so "Roc" matched both "Rocka" (of which there were none) and "Rocha". Thanks again, Spencer > > *From:* Spencer Graves > *To:* GPSCC > *Sent:* Monday, July 1, 2013 10:05 PM > *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Re: County Council of Green Party of > Santa Clara County > Hello, All: We now have an officially recognized County Council > again; see the note from Sanda Everette below. Spencer > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] County Council of Green Party of Santa > Clara County > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:37:57 -0700 > From: Sanda Everette mailto:sanda.greensolutions at gmail.com > To: Spencer Graves mailto:spencer.graves at prodsyse.com > CC: Alex Shantz mailto:alexshantz at gmail.com, Jim Doyle > mailto:j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net, Betsy Wolf-Graves > mailto:betsy237 at prodsyse.com, warner bloomberg > mailto:WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com, Drew mailto:Rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com, John > Thielking mailto:pagesincolor at yahoo.com > > I was able to get it on the agenda, and in the last minute of the > call, we did certify your county council. > Go forth and prosper. > Sanda Everette, GPCA delegation to GPUS, GPCA Coordinating Committee > "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, > then you win." - Gandhi, describing the stages of a winning strategy > of nonviolent activism. > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Sanda Everette > > wrote: > > Thank you for your diligence. I will bring this to the CC. Maybe > we can even take it as an emergency agenda item for our > teleconference tonight, though I know we have a pretty full > agenda. Sanda Everette, co-chair > GPCA Delegation > GPCA Coordinating Committee > On Jul 1, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Spencer Graves > > > wrote: >> Hello, Sanda: This is to confirm that we held an election >> for the County Council of the Green Party of Santa Clara County >> last Thursday, 27 June 2013. Nominating papers for the following >> candidates were presented: * James Doyle >> mailto:j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net, 408-269-3299, 1668 Nora Way, San >> Jose CA 95124 * Spencer Graves >> mailto:spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org, M: 408-655-4567, H: >> 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San Jos?, CA 95126 * Mark "Drew" >> Johnson mailto:Rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com, 408-520-1652, 174 >> Carroll St. #335, Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 * John Thielking >> mailto:pagesincolor at yahoo.com, 408-914-2751, 592 Mountain Home >> Dr, San Jose, CA 95136 * Betsy Wolf-Graves >> mailto:betsy237 at prodsyse.com, 408-294-5779, 751 Emerson Ct., San >> Jos?, CA 95126 Announcements for these elections were made >> by email to standard Santa Clara County Greens email list 24 May >> 2013, over a month in advance. The elections have also been >> advertised on the web site of the Green Party of Santa Clara >> County since that date. Nominating papers containing 21 >> signatures were collected. The 21 signatures were checked >> against the list of registered voters in Santa Clara County. All >> 21 were found to be registered Green. All five of these >> were elected by consensus. Our county bylaws says we should have >> seven on our county council. We hope to recruit two others to >> fill the two vacancies. Please confirm that we have met the >> requirements for having a duly constituted County Council >> consisting of these individuals or explain what else we need to >> do. Sincerely, Spencer Graves On 4/26/2013 6:35 PM, >> Sanda Everette wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Spencer Graves >>> >> > wrote: >>> >>> To: The GPCA Coordinating Committee >>> >>> >>> c/o Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, Co-Coordinators >>> >>> >>> This letter responds to the request by Sanda Everette that >>> the Green Party of Santa Clara County officially re-appoint >>> its 2012-2014 County Council members as there were no GPSCC >>> CC candidates on the June 2012 Primary Election ballot. As >>> previously, communicated, at its regularly scheduled and >>> announced May 2012 general membership meeting -- consistent >>> with long-standing GPSCC Bylaws -- the sitting GPSCC CC >>> members appointed new members beginning June 2012 and those >>> appointments were approved by the members present. >>> >>> Again to clarify, a sitting County Council can not appoint the >>> next, incoming County Council. Rather, any appointment of a new >>> County Council can only occur after a vacancy has occurred - >>> i.e. after the outgoing Council's term has ended - and then only >>> by the process specified in the county's bylaws. >>> Thus any appointment for 2012-2014 made before July 2012 could >>> not be valid. >>> >>> >>> >>> Also, at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 28, >>> 2013 (fourth Thursday of the month), GPSCC members present >>> unanimously consensed to reappoint existing County Council >>> members; one prior CC member had left California. A notice >>> that such would be occurring was placed on the GPSCC general >>> discussion email list -- the main communication vehicle to >>> GPSCC members -- more than two weeks before that meeting. >>> This item also was published in the draft agenda two weeks >>> before the meeting and on additional days before the meeting. >>> >>> >>> At the March 28, 2013, GPSCC general membership meeting, the >>> item was presented. The volunteers alll affirmed that they >>> all live in Santa Clara County and are willing to continue >>> serving as members of the County Council of the Green Party >>> of Santa Clara County. Their reappointment was reaffirmed by >>> unanimous consensus. Note: Pursuant to GPCA and GPSCC >>> Bylaws, the GPSCC makes decisions, whenever possible, by >>> consensus. You may consider the appointments made on March >>> 28, 2013, as "unanimously elected" if your sense and >>> sensibilities about such matters require use of that language. >>> >>> >>> Also at the March 28, 2013, meeting, I was tasked and agreed >>> to write this communication to the GPCA Coordinating >>> Committee Co-Coordinators to identify the current GPSCC >>> County Council members. The current GPSCC County Council >>> members and their email contact information are: >>> >>> >>> Names / emails / phone numbers: >>> >>> >>> * Jim Doyle >> >, 408-269-3299 >>> >>> >>> * Spencer Graves >> >, M: >>> 408-655-4567, H: 408-294-5779 >>> >>> >>> * John Thielking >> >, 408-561-1390 >>> >>> >>> * Drew Johnson >> >, 408-520-1652 >>> >>> >>> * Betsy Wolf-Graves >> >, 408-294-5779 >>> >>> >>> *** Please let me know if this meets your requirements. If >>> it doesn't, please explain why it doesn't, what else we need >>> to do, and point me to the specific rules. >>> >>> The bylaws for such an appointment where the county is already >>> considered active by the state party are as follows (note: Santa >>> Clara County is considered active because if its attendance at >>> prior General Assemblies, even if it doesn't have an active >>> county council) >>> http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Vacancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_the_primary_election >>> 6-6.4 For decisions to be valid at this General Meeting, *in >>> counties in which where there is a recognized County >>> Organization, either the number shall be equal to the amount >>> that would be necessary to sign nomination signatures to appear >>> on the County Council ballot in that county; or at a meeting >>> with less than that number, but with at least three, only those >>> candidates would be eligible who present a nomination petition >>> with a number of signatures from registered Greens in the >>> county, equal to the amount that would be necessary to sign >>> nomination signatures to appear on the County Council ballot in >>> that county*. >>> Its not clear from the minutes of your meeting >>> http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss/2013-March/014399.html that >>> there were either 20 individuals present, or that those seeking >>> appointment had 20 nomination signatures. Without either >>> criteria being satisfied, no appointments can be made. >>> >>> As we sent you before, there is supposed to be a 21 day notice, >>> aided by the state Coordinating Committee, notifying Greens in >>> your county of the date of appointment. But then in addition as >>> per above, anyone seeking appointment needs to satisfy the >>> criteria of either having enough nominations signatures to be >>> eligible (that number is likely 20 registered Greens in Santa >>> Clara County) OR the number of people at the meeting making the >>> appointment needs to be at least 20. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Spencer Graves, GPSCC County Council member, on behalf of >>> the Green Party of Santa Clara County >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Spencer Graves, PE, PhD >>> President and Chief Technology Officer >>> Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. >>> 751 Emerson Ct. >>> San Jos?, CA 95126 >>> ph: 408-655-4567 >>> web: http://www.structuremonitoring.com/ >>> >>> Sanda Everette and Alex Shantz, co-coordinators >>> GPCA Coordinating Committee >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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... 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The Oil part is about global warming. Info at: http://www.sfmt.org/schedule/ http://sfmt.org/ http://www.sfmt.org/company/archives/oilandwater/2013.php Performances are free, donations requested at the END of the show. There are many other performances elsewhere, but none closer to here than San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Gerry From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sat Jul 6 15:28:20 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:28:20 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] SF mime troupe in Palo Alto In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51D89A04.6010102@sbcglobal.net> Why not have a Green Party table there? Jim Doyle sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org wrote: >Send sosfbay-discuss mailing list submissions to > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > sosfbay-discuss-owner at cagreens.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of sosfbay-discuss digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Reminder, SF Mime Troupe in Palo Alto Tuesday (Gerry Gras) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 10:10:01 -0700 >From: Gerry Gras >To: GPSCC >Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Reminder, SF Mime Troupe in Palo Alto Tuesday >Message-ID: <51D84F69.7070908 at earthlink.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > >FYI, > >Reminder, > >The San Francisco Mime Troupe will be performing >"Oil and Water" at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto at >7PM on July 9th, (just 3 days away). The Oil >part is about global warming. > >Info at: >http://www.sfmt.org/schedule/ >http://sfmt.org/ >http://www.sfmt.org/company/archives/oilandwater/2013.php > >Performances are free, donations requested at the >END of the show. > >There are many other performances elsewhere, but none >closer to here than San Francisco and Santa Cruz. > >Gerry > > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > >End of sosfbay-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 7 >********************************************** > > > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sat Jul 6 23:09:35 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 23:09:35 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why so little resistance to global warming? In-Reply-To: <51D905A4.8060202@earthlink.net> References: <51D905A4.8060202@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51D9061F.9030708@earthlink.net> FYI, Here's an interesting perspective. "Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet" By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/node/4035 Gerry From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Sun Jul 7 18:02:26 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:02:26 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] semi annual FPPC filing Message-ID: <51DA0FA2.4090905@sbcglobal.net> I have completed the semi-annual Jan to Jun 2013 FPPC filing and sent it in. Jim Doyle From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sun Jul 7 20:22:44 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:22:44 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] semi annual FPPC filing In-Reply-To: <51DA0FA2.4090905@sbcglobal.net> References: <51DA0FA2.4090905@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <51DA3084.8060809@prodsyse.com> Thanks very much. Spencer On 7/7/2013 6:02 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > I have completed the semi-annual Jan to Jun 2013 > FPPC filing and sent it in. > > Jim Doyle > > _______________________________________________ > 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 carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Jul 8 15:39:33 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:39:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Protest Obama's Approval Of Keystone XL Message-ID: <1373323173.82168.YahooMailNeo@web185305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: The Pen To: carolineyacoub at att.net Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 2:45 AM Subject: Protest Obama's Approval Of Keystone XL Last week President Obama made a speech that tried to suggest that a decision about whether or not to build the climate and aquifer killing Keystone XL pipeline had not been made yet. That is categorically not true. And the proof of that is that construction on the ALREADY Obama approved southern leg of Keystone XL continues without even a slowdown. There is no reason to have a southern leg if they were not determined to approve the rest of it, on whatever pretext we may hear later. Stop Keystone XL South Now Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1122.php We demanding an immediate moratorium on construction of the Keystone XL southern leg. Any other action is conclusive proof that the President of the United States has absolutely no intention of rejecting the full implementation of Keystone XL, regardless of the mounting and dire evidence against its approval. Any other action would just represent throwing good money after the worst of the worst. And after you submit the action page above, go ahead and request one of our beautiful Stop Global Warming bumper stickers. There is no charge, not even shipping, unless you choose to make a contribution, which is what makes it possible for us to send free stickers to anyone who cannot make a donation right now. Stop Global Warming bumper stickers: http://www.peaceteam.net/all_bumper_stickers.php By the way, we got in the first printing of the beautiful, new "Don't Spy on US" bumper stickers, and we worked straight through the July 4th holiday getting those and all other pending requests out the door, and they are all on the way by first class mail right now. We've been doing this long enough to remember how in 2002 George Bush tried to lull people into thinking that he had not yet made a decision to invade Iraq. That was a lie too. That decision was made and final no later that September 12, 2001. It just took them a while to torture enough people to get the false intelligence to try to justify the most devastating U.S. military and strategic disaster ever. That's why we were compelled to produce The Last War Crime movie, to make a historical record of all the stuff they want us to forget all about so they can do exactly the same thing and worse again in the future. And we did it in the form of a narrative film that is very entertaining as well. The film is now complete and you can see it anytime enough people speak out for that to happen. Check out a clip of part of the dramatic closing argument to the grand jury on this page. Last War Crime ticket requests: http://www.peaceteam.net/tickets.php And we also remember how President Obama himself gave a speech in the fall of 2009, suggesting that a thing called "the public option" was still on the table, and that he had not yet made a decision about that either. The truth is that he had already committed day one to the special interest hospital and insurance corporations that no such thing would be permitted to happen. We tried to tell everyone that truth right after that speech, to anyone who would listen. If more had believed us then we surely would have gotten something better. Because within a year now, we are all going to saddled with expensive corporate medical insurance, whether we like it or not. Let history record that we did every valiant, democratic thing to stop Keystone XL. And the first step in that direction MUST be to stop pretending that that decision too has not already been made, and to protest and demand a reversal of that foolish and reckless decision. You may forward this message to any friends who would find it important. Contributions to The People's Email Network are not tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes. If you would like to be added to our distribution list, go to http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm Or if don't want to receive our messages, just go to http://www.peaceteam.net/out.htm usalone504b:3828 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Jul 8 20:25:50 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 20:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [350SiliconValley] Richmond 8/3 mobilization: phone banking and flyer distribution volunteers needed! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1373340350.77668.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> For anyone not going to the SF Mime Troup tomorrow---please give me a call and let me know you're coming, so I can have enough materials for everyone. Caroline ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Pierre Delforge To: 350siliconvalley at googlegroups.com Cc: Amy Allen Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 6:26 PM Subject: [350SiliconValley] Richmond 8/3 mobilization: phone banking and flyer distribution volunteers needed! 350 Silicon Valley climate warriors, This is a reminder of our phone bank and flyer distribution planning meeting tomorrow at Caroline's house: Where: 323 N. Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale (3 blocks from Caltrain) >When: 6:30 - 8:30pm Tuesday 7/9 and every Tuesday in July >Why: to make the next big climate rally in the Bay Area a huge success like the February SF rally! > >If you can't make it in person, you can call from home, contact Amy at?amyallen at stanford.edu?to arrange. If you want to help but don't like to call, you can distribute flyers at local farmers markets and art&wine festivals. Just sign up and pick up some flyers at Caroline's tomorrow during the phone bank. But note that we are calling 350SV supporters and Green Party members, so these are easy, friendly and fun calls! No persuasion needed, just make them aware of the event and invite them to participate and come and help with mobilization efforts! Let's mobilize as many SV residents as possible for Richmond, and send another strong message to politicians and industry: no KXL, no tar sands! Thanks! 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After thinking that we had made early arrangements for having the 2013 Holiday Peace Fair at the Campbell United Methodist Church, with the Church and Society Committee sponsoring it, we were not able to get confirmation from the church office staff for the first Saturday in December (12/7). Now there has been a change of plans, The church staff and many members are making plans for celebrating the 125th anniversary of the CUMC founding, with quite a bit of activity focused on children on that first December Saturday -- more than is usually done on that Sunday. The result is that we have just heard that if we want to have the HPF at CUMC, it will need to be on Saturday, December 14.? It is likely that the church would prefer that we switch to the second Saturday in the future as well, because of preparation for activities on the first Sunday of the Advent season.? The second Saturday of December 2014 is 12/13. Checking other possible dates, I found that Thanksgiving 2013 is as late in November as it can be, so November 30 is during Thanksgiving weekend.? In 2014, Saturday, November 29th is also during Thanksgiving weekend. In case you wonder, as I did -- Hanukkah 2013 is unusually early -- it begins in the evening of Wednesday, November 27 and ends in the evening of Thursday, December 5.? ? ? ? ? 2014:? December 16-24 So at least for those two years, the second Saturday of December will not be during Hanukkah. I have checked on the Willow Glen United Methodist Church because we had the HPF there in 2011, although we have preferred the CUMC because there is more indoor space, parking, etc. As of now, there is nothing on the calendar at WGUMC for December 7, 2013 -- and the Office and Facilities Manager does not know of anything being considered. The church does not seem to use the hall on Saturdays, according to the next six months of their website calendar of church activities. PLEASE respond quickly re whether the second Saturday of December will be OK with your group so that we can have the HPF at the Campbell UMC. If people strongly want to stay with the traditional first Saturday, I will start making arrangements with Willow Glen UMC unless someone has a better suggestion SOON.? (It requires a larger hall than many otherwise good locations have to offer.)? Please send a message or call me ASAP if you will help with finding a place! Joan Goddard 408-396-8039 joan at rujo.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Jul 9 18:28:13 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:28:13 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Holiday Peace Fair 2013 Message-ID: <51DCB8AD.3020805@sbcglobal.net> After thinking that we had made early arrangements for having the 2013 Holiday Peace Fair at the Campbell United Methodist Church, with the Church and Society Committee sponsoring it, we were not able to get confirmation from the church office staff for the first Saturday in December (12/7). Now there has been a change of plans, The church staff and many members are making plans for celebrating the 125th anniversary of the CUMC founding, with quite a bit of activity focused on children on that first December Saturday -- more than is usually done on that Sunday. The result is that we have just heard that if we want to have the HPF at CUMC, it will need to be on Saturday, December 14. It is likely that the church would prefer that we switch to the second Saturday in the future as well, because of preparation for activities on the first Sunday of the Advent season. The second Saturday of December 2014 is 12/13. Checking other possible dates, I found that Thanksgiving 2013 is as late in November as it can be, so November 30 is during Thanksgiving weekend. In 2014, Saturday, November 29th is also during Thanksgiving weekend. In case you wonder, as I did -- Hanukkah 2013 is unusually early -- it begins in the evening of Wednesday, November 27 and ends in the evening of Thursday, December 5. 2014: December 16-24 So at least for those two years, the second Saturday of December will not be during Hanukkah. I have checked on the Willow Glen United Methodist Church because we had the HPF there in 2011, although we have preferred the CUMC because there is more indoor space, parking, etc. As of now, there is nothing on the calendar at WGUMC for December 7, 2013 -- and the Office and Facilities Manager does not know of anything being considered. The church does not seem to use the hall on Saturdays, according to the next six months of their website calendar of church activities. PLEASE respond quickly re whether the second Saturday of December will be OK with your group so that we can have the HPF at the Campbell UMC. If people strongly want to stay with the traditional first Saturday, I will start making arrangements with Willow Glen UMC unless someone has a better suggestion SOON. (It requires a larger hall than many otherwise good locations have to offer.) Please send a message or call me ASAP if you will help with finding a place! Joan Goddard 408-396-8039 joan at rujo.org From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Jul 9 19:58:49 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:58:49 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday Message-ID: <51DCCDE9.1070603@sbcglobal.net> Should we cosponsor? Does anyone have the time to table there? *Saturday July 13th, 2pm* * * *Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto* *505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto CA* *For more info contact: Lois Salo??? **Lsa1o at aol.com ** **HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS * * * *Community Discussion hosted by: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Peninsula branch), Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Action Council & The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. * *California Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (AB 5)* Paul Boden of the Western Regional Advocacy Project will talk with us about their Without Housing Report and update us on the Homeless Bill of Rights pending in the California Assembly. *Update on Local Homeless Issues * * STRATEGY SESSION*: How Can We *STOP *a Ban on Vehicle Dwelling in Palo Alto From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Tue Jul 9 22:05:45 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:05:45 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <51DCCDE9.1070603@sbcglobal.net> References: <51DCCDE9.1070603@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <51DCEBA9.50101@structuremonitoring.com> On 7/9/2013 7:58 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > Should we cosponsor? I would support cosponsoring if that's still an option. However, I can't volunteer to table. Spencer > Does anyone have the time to table there? > > *Saturday July 13th, 2pm* > * > * > *Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto* > *505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto CA* > *For more info contact: Lois Salo??? **Lsa1o at aol.com > ** > > **HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS * > * > * > *Community Discussion hosted by: Women's International League for > Peace and Freedom (Peninsula branch), Unitarian Universalist Church of > Palo Alto Action Council & The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. * > > *California Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (AB 5)* > Paul Boden of the Western Regional Advocacy Project will talk with us > about their Without > Housing Report and update us on the Homeless Bill of Rights pending in > the California Assembly. > > *Update on Local Homeless Issues * > * STRATEGY SESSION*: How Can We *STOP *a Ban on Vehicle Dwelling in > Palo Alto > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 vdf at juno.com Tue Jul 9 23:46:26 2013 From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:46:26 GMT Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday Message-ID: <20130709.234626.2120.0@webmail08.vgs.untd.com> I support cosponsoring,too. I also cannot table, unfortunately. Best regards, Valerie ---------- Original Message ---------- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:05:45 -0700 From: Spencer Graves To: Jim Doyle Cc: sosfbay discussion group Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday On 7/9/2013 7:58 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > Should we cosponsor? I would support cosponsoring if that's still an option. However, I can't volunteer to table. Spencer > Does anyone have the time to table there? > > *Saturday July 13th, 2pm* > * > * > *Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto* > *505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto CA* > *For more info contact: Lois Salo??? **Lsa1o at aol.com > ** > > **HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS * > * > * > *Community Discussion hosted by: Women's International League for > Peace and Freedom (Peninsula branch), Unitarian Universalist Church of > Palo Alto Action Council & The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. * > > *California Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (AB 5)* > Paul Boden of the Western Regional Advocacy Project will talk with us > about their Without > Housing Report and update us on the Homeless Bill of Rights pending in > the California Assembly. > > *Update on Local Homeless Issues * > * STRATEGY SESSION*: How Can We *STOP *a Ban on Vehicle Dwelling in > Palo Alto > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ____________________________________________________________ 30-second trick for a flat belly This daily 30-second trick BOOSTS your body's #1 fat-burning hormone http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/51dd036fb18df36f1356st04vuc From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Wed Jul 10 01:34:53 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 01:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <20130709.234626.2120.0@webmail08.vgs.untd.com> Message-ID: <1373445293.30510.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> i support cosponsoring. i too am unable to table. Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I could be there, but I have no way of transporting anything of significance.? I could hand out fliers I suppose.? Do they provide the table? Also, when does the event end? The info here just says it starts at 2PM.? I need to be sure the bus going back is still running by the time I have to leave. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Caroline Yacoub To: Gerry Gras ; Tian Harter ; Carol Brouillet ; fred Duperrault ; Drew Johnson ; John Thielking Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:18 AM Subject: Fw: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday If anyone wants to just pass out flyers for our two upcoming events, let me know and I'll get some printed and get them to you. Caroline ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Valerie D. Face To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday I support cosponsoring,too.? I also cannot table, unfortunately. Best regards, Valerie ---------- Original Message ---------- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:05:45 -0700 From: Spencer Graves To: Jim Doyle Cc: sosfbay discussion group Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday On 7/9/2013 7:58 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > Should we cosponsor? ? ? ? I would support cosponsoring if that's still an option. However, I can't volunteer to table. ? ? ? Spencer > Does anyone have the time to table there? > > *Saturday July 13th, 2pm* > * > * > *Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto* > *505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto CA* > *For more info contact: Lois Salo??? **Lsa1o at aol.com > ** > > **HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS * > * > * > *Community Discussion hosted by: Women's International League for > Peace and Freedom (Peninsula branch), Unitarian Universalist Church of > Palo Alto Action Council & The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. * > > *California Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (AB 5)* > Paul Boden of the Western Regional Advocacy Project will talk with us > about their Without > Housing Report and update us on the Homeless Bill of Rights pending in > the California Assembly. > > *Update on Local Homeless Issues * > * STRATEGY SESSION*: How Can We *STOP *a Ban on Vehicle Dwelling in > Palo Alto > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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:? http://www.structuremonitoring.com/ _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss ____________________________________________________________ 30-second trick for a flat belly This daily 30-second trick BOOSTS your body's #1 fat-burning hormone http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/51dd036fb18df36f1356st04vuc _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"We're attempting to scale the Shard to send a message to the headquarters of oil giant Shell." by Sabine Huyghe, Sandra Lamborn, Victoria Henry, Ali Garrigan, Wiola Smul & Liesbeth Deddens http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/11-2 Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Jul 11 13:14:12 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:14:12 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Google and Inhofe In-Reply-To: <51DF11A0.10102@earthlink.net> References: <51DF11A0.10102@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51DF1214.6030703@earthlink.net> FYI, "Google hosts fundraiser for climate change denying US senator" "Proceeds of the lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, will benefit the Republican Jim Inhofe, who calls climate change a 'hoax'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/09/google-climate-denier-jim-inhofe Gerry From rob.means at electric-bikes.com Fri Jul 12 09:53:41 2013 From: rob.means at electric-bikes.com (Rob Means - SCCDC) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:53:41 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] getting the word out Message-ID: <51E03495.1020006@electric-bikes.com> Hi Folks, This was just published in the Milpitas Post: http://www.mercurynews.com/milpitas/ci_23635537/other-voices-corporate-criminals-think-they-are-above OTHER VOICES: Corporate criminals think they are above the law Whether you call yourself an independent, Democrat, Republican, Green or Tea Party, join the effort of your fellow citizens to restore democracy to America. Learn more about local efforts at scc-mta.org -- Rob Means, Vice-President Santa Clara County Democratic Club 408-262-0420 rob.means at electric-bikes.com 1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913 www.democraticclub-scc.org a progressive organization ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Gerry John Thielking wrote: > I support cosponsoring this. > I could be there, but I have no way of transporting anything of > significance. I could hand out fliers I suppose. Do they provide the > table? Also, when does the event end? The info here just says it starts > at 2PM. I need to be sure the bus going back is still running by the > time I have to leave. > > John Thielking > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Caroline Yacoub > *To:* Gerry Gras ; Tian Harter > ; Carol Brouillet ; fred > Duperrault ; Drew Johnson ; John > Thielking > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:18 AM > *Subject:* Fw: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > If anyone wants to just pass out flyers for our two upcoming events, let > me know and I'll get some printed and get them to you. > Caroline > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Valerie D. Face > *To:* sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:46 PM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > I support cosponsoring,too. I also cannot table, unfortunately. > > Best regards, > Valerie > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:05:45 -0700 > From: Spencer Graves > > To: Jim Doyle > > Cc: sosfbay discussion group > > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > > On 7/9/2013 7:58 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > > Should we cosponsor? > > > I would support cosponsoring if that's still an option. However, > I can't volunteer to table. > > > Spencer > > > > Does anyone have the time to table there? > > > > *Saturday July 13th, 2pm* > > * > > * > > *Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto* > > *505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto CA* > > *For more info contact: Lois Salo??? **Lsa1o at aol.com > > > >** > > > > **HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS * > > * > > * > > *Community Discussion hosted by: Women's International League for > > Peace and Freedom (Peninsula branch), Unitarian Universalist Church of > > Palo Alto Action Council & The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. * > > > > *California Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (AB 5)* > > Paul Boden of the Western Regional Advocacy Project will talk with us > > about their Without > > Housing Report and update us on the Homeless Bill of Rights pending in > > the California Assembly. > > > > *Update on Local Homeless Issues * > > * STRATEGY SESSION*: How Can We *STOP *a Ban on Vehicle Dwelling in > > Palo Alto > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: http://www.structuremonitoring.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > ____________________________________________________________ > 30-second trick for a flat belly > This daily 30-second trick BOOSTS your body's #1 fat-burning hormone > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/51dd036fb18df36f1356st04vuc > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Jul 12 17:36:38 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <51E09CEE.8000406@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1373675798.73988.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> the other relevant bus line is the 35 which runs on Charleston. Green is GO! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Jul 12 17:38:00 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <51E09CEE.8000406@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1373675880.13336.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> the other relevant bus line is the 35 which runs on Charleston. Green is GO! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri Jul 12 17:48:24 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:48:24 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <1373675798.73988.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1373675798.73988.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51E0A3D8.1050300@earthlink.net> But it only goes to Mt. View. Here's the schedule for it: http://vta.org/schedules/SC_35SO_SA.html Here's the schedule for the #22: http://vta.org/schedules/SC_22EA_SA.html Gerry Drew wrote: > the other relevant bus line is the 35 which runs on Charleston. > > Green is GO! > > Drew > > Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: * Gerry Gras ; > *To: * John Thielking ; > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org ; > *Subject: * Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > *Sent: * Sat, Jul 13, 2013 12:18:54 AM > > > This page says it is over at 4PM: > http://www.peaceandjustice.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20130705125102933 > > And, FWIW, the church is almost exactly one mile from the > nearest #22 bus stop. > > Gerry > > > John Thielking wrote: > > I support cosponsoring this. > > I could be there, but I have no way of transporting anything of > > significance. I could hand out fliers I suppose. Do they provide the > > table? Also, when does the event end? The info here just says it starts > > at 2PM. I need to be sure the bus going back is still running by the > > time I have to leave. > > > > John Thielking > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Caroline Yacoub > > > *To:* Gerry Gras >; Tian > Harter > > >; Carol Brouillet > >; fred > > Duperrault >; Drew Johnson > >; John > > Thielking > > > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:18 AM > > *Subject:* Fw: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > > > If anyone wants to just pass out flyers for our two upcoming events, let > > me know and I'll get some printed and get them to you. > > Caroline > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > > *From:* Valerie D. Face > > > *To:* sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:46 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > > > I support cosponsoring,too. I also cannot table, unfortunately. > > > > Best regards, > > Valerie > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > > Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:05:45 -0700 > > From: Spencer Graves > > >> > > To: Jim Doyle > >> > > Cc: sosfbay discussion group > > >> > > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > > > > > On 7/9/2013 7:58 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > > > Should we cosponsor? > > > > > > I would support cosponsoring if that's still an option. However, > > I can't volunteer to table. > > > > > > Spencer > > > > > > > Does anyone have the time to table there? > > > > > > *Saturday July 13th, 2pm* > > > * > > > * > > > *Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto* > > > *505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto CA* > > > *For more info contact: Lois Salo??? **Lsa1o at aol.com > > > > > > > >>** > > > > > > **HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS * > > > * > > > * > > > *Community Discussion hosted by: Women's International League for > > > Peace and Freedom (Peninsula branch), Unitarian Universalist Church of > > > Palo Alto Action Council & The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. * > > > > > > *California Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (AB 5)* > > > Paul Boden of the Western Regional Advocacy Project will talk with us > > > about their Without > > > Housing Report and update us on the Homeless Bill of Rights pending in > > > the California Assembly. > > > > > > *Update on Local Homeless Issues * > > > * STRATEGY SESSION*: How Can We *STOP *a Ban on Vehicle Dwelling in > > > Palo Alto > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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: http://www.structuremonitoring.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > > > > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > ____________________________________________________________ > > 30-second trick for a flat belly > > This daily 30-second trick BOOSTS your body's #1 fat-burning hormone > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/51dd036fb18df36f1356st04vuc > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Jul 12 17:49:44 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:49:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <51E09CEE.8000406@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1373676584.36436.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> the other relevant bus line is the 35 which runs on Charleston. Green is GO! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Jul 12 18:14:43 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <51E09CEE.8000406@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1373678083.21846.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> the other relevant bus line is the 35 which runs on Charleston. Green is GO! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perrysandy at aol.com Fri Jul 12 18:41:03 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:41:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <1373678083.21846.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1373678083.21846.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8D04D812B1FBF45-A48-D6E44@webmail-m286.sysops.aol.com> I will be there and will put out some literature (the same I take to De Anza), but I am going to be involved in the program so I may not be able to stay at the table. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Drew To: pagesincolor at yahoo com ; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens org ; gerrygras at earthlink net Sent: Fri, Jul 12, 2013 6:15 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday the other relevant bus line is the 35 which runs on Charleston. Green is GO! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android From: Gerry Gras ; To: John Thielking ; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org ; Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday Sent: Sat, Jul 13, 2013 12:18:54 AM This page says it is over at 4PM: http://www.peaceandjustice.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20130705125102933 And, FWIW, the church is almost exactly one mile from the nearest #22 bus stop. Gerry John Thielking wrote: > I support cosponsoring this. > I could be there, but I have no way of transporting anything of > significance. I could hand out fliers I suppose. Do they provide the > table? Also, when does the event end? The info here just says it starts > at 2PM. I need to be sure the bus going back is still running by the > time I have to leave. > > John Thielking > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Caroline Yacoub > *To:* Gerry Gras ; Tian Harter > ; Carol Brouillet ; fred > Duperrault ; Drew Johnson ; John > Thielking > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:18 AM > *Subject:* Fw: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > If anyone wants to just pass out flyers for our two upcoming events, let > me know and I'll get some printed and get them to you. > Caroline > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Valerie D. Face > *To:* sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:46 PM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > I support cosponsoring,too. I also cannot table, unfortunately. > > Best regards, > Valerie > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:05:45 -0700 > From: Spencer Graves > > To: Jim Doyle > > Cc: sosfbay discussion group > > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > > > On 7/9/2013 7:58 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > > Should we cosponsor? > > > I would support cosponsoring if that's still an option. However, > I can't volunteer to table. > > > Spencer > > > > Does anyone have the time to table there? > > > > *Saturday July 13th, 2pm* > > * > > * > > *Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto* > > *505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto CA* > > *For more info contact: Lois Salo??? **Lsa1o at aol.com > > > >** > > > > **HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS * > > * > > * > > *Community Discussion hosted by: Women's International League for > > Peace and Freedom (Peninsula branch), Unitarian Universalist Church of > > Palo Alto Action Council & The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. * > > > > *California Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act (AB 5)* > > Paul Boden of the Western Regional Advocacy Project will talk with us > > about their Without > > Housing Report and update us on the Homeless Bill of Rights pending in > > the California Assembly. > > > > *Update on Local Homeless Issues * > > * STRATEGY SESSION*: How Can We *STOP *a Ban on Vehicle Dwelling in > > Palo Alto > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: http://www.structuremonitoring.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > ____________________________________________________________ > 30-second trick for a flat belly > This daily 30-second trick BOOSTS your body's #1 fat-burning hormone > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/51dd036fb18df36f1356st04vuc > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Jul 12 19:04:46 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <51E0A3D8.1050300@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1373681086.2335.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> yes it's a combo deal. the 35 + light rail (or 22 / 522) could work for John, not the 22 by itself or 35 by itself. Green is GO! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Jul 12 21:14:45 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:14:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday In-Reply-To: <1373681086.2335.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <51E0A3D8.1050300@earthlink.net> <1373681086.2335.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1373688885.86807.YahooMailNeo@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I had gotten a message from Carolyn that said that someone else was going to hand out fliers (I guess that was Sandy) so I made plans to be somewhere else on Saturday. I suppose that since Sandy will be there with the fliering material, but will likely be preoccupied with other stuff, and since there will be a table there (please confirm this someone?) I will be sure to be there with some extra Peacemovies stuff to sell/hand out.? Yes I had confirmed that the 35 was going to the event, but since that is one of those oddball bus lines that likely stops running at 6:30PM or so I needed to know when the event was over with. Thanks for all the help. And Drew, for some reason your e-mail replies got sent to me five times for one message, spread over a period of about one hour.? I have no clue why. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Drew To: Drew ; "pagesincolor at yahoo com" ; "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens org" ; "gerrygras at earthlink net" Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday yes it's a combo deal. the 35 + light rail (or 22 / 522) could work for John, not the 22 by itself or 35 by itself. Green is GO! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ________________________________ From: Gerry Gras ; To: ; pagesincolor at yahoo com ; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens org ; Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday Sent: Sat, Jul 13, 2013 12:48:24 AM But it only goes to Mt. View.? Here's the schedule for it: http://vta.org/schedules/SC_35SO_SA.html Here's the schedule for the #22: http://vta.org/schedules/SC_22EA_SA.html Gerry Drew wrote: > the other relevant bus line is the 35 which runs on Charleston. > > Green is GO! > > Drew > > Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: * Gerry Gras ; > *To: * John Thielking ; > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org ; > *Subject: * Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday > *Sent: * Sat, Jul 13, 2013 12:18:54 AM > > > This page says it is over at 4PM: > http://www.peaceandjustice.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20130705125102933 > > And, FWIW, the church is almost exactly one mile from the > nearest #22 bus stop. > > Gerry > > > John Thielking wrote: >? > I support cosponsoring this. >? > I could be there, but I have no way of transporting anything of >? > significance.? I could hand out fliers I suppose.? Do they provide the >? > table? Also, when does the event end? The info here just says it starts >? > at 2PM.? I need to be sure the bus going back is still running by the >? > time I have to leave. >? > >? > John Thielking >? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >? > *From:* Caroline Yacoub > >? > *To:* Gerry Gras >; Tian > Harter >? > >; Carol Brouillet > >; fred >? > Duperrault >; Drew Johnson > >; John >? > Thielking > >? > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:18 AM >? > *Subject:* Fw: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday >? > >? > If anyone wants to just pass out flyers for our two upcoming events, let >? > me know and I'll get some printed and get them to you. >? > Caroline >? > >? > ----- Forwarded Message ----- >? > *From:* Valerie D. Face > >? > *To:* sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >? > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:46 PM >? > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday >? > >? > I support cosponsoring,too.? I also cannot table, unfortunately. >? > >? > Best regards, >? > Valerie >? > >? > ---------- Original Message ---------- >? > Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:05:45 -0700 >? > From: Spencer Graves >? > >> >? > To: Jim Doyle > >> >? > Cc: sosfbay discussion group >? > >> >? > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] homeless conference Saturday >? > >? > >? > On 7/9/2013 7:58 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: >? >? > Should we cosponsor? >? > >? > >? >? ? ? ? I would support cosponsoring if that's still an option. However, >? > I can't volunteer to table. >? > >? > >? >? ? 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The march went from San Jose City Hall at 4th and E Santa Clara Streets over to the Federal Building at 2nd and San Carlos and took to the center of the roadways on 2nd and 1st streets until the cops forced people to walk on the sidewalk. Another march and rally is planned for next Sunday, July 21st at 6PM starting at San Jose City Hall.? Charlotte Casey of the San Jose Peace and Justice Center has also suggested that people show up at San Jose City Hall EVERY DAY until the Obama Justice Dept files civil rights violation charges against George Zimmerman. This author can't go every day, but he will check back on Wednesday to see what is happening.? People on KPFA.org tonight suggested that everyone needs to to something in their own way to end violence and racism.? Working on Peacemovies.com is what this author is doing to end that, so this Monday and Tuesday will be spent watching movies as this weekend has been full of protest actions but not much movie watching. 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URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Jul 15 10:08:14 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:08:14 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] NSA: "Collect it All" Message-ID: <51E42C7E.1050408@earthlink.net> FYI, "The Crux of the NSA Story in One Phrase: 'Collect It All'" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/15-1 Gerry From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Tue Jul 16 10:59:16 2013 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:59:16 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: SJPJC-Board cosponsor Fukushima book talk Aug 16? In-Reply-To: <51E58538.30904@sbcglobal.net> References: <51E58538.30904@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <51E589F4.7070208@effectivedefense.org> Hello, All: Should the Green Party endorse "the Aug 16 book talk by Cecile Pineda on the Fukishima Daiichi disaster" (see below; I can send you the attachment if you want it)? Betsy and I support this. If two other members of the County Council vote to endorse (at no cost to our treasury), then we can be listed. Best Wishes, Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SJPJC-Board cosponsor Fukushima book talk Aug 16? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:39:04 -0700 From: Joan Bazar Reply-To: sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com To: Shelby Minister , Charlotte Casey , sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com Community Partners Please let me know asap if your organization would like to endorse/cosponsor the Aug 16 book talk by Cecile Pineda on the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Here's a link to a previous talk she gave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHXsjX5H1sM32 min video A leaflet is attached -- please share with your mailing lists in any case. Thanks Joan Bazar WILPF-San Jose Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 408 243-4359 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SJPJC-Board" group. 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Over troubled water. * San Jose Screening Thursday, July 25, 2013 CineArts Santana Row 3088 Olsen Drive, San Jose 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC * * Special Q & A Water Panel following the film Moderator: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta Adam Scow, Food & Water Watch Santa Clara Water District Official Authors of the Delta Protection Commission's Economic Sustainability Plan: * Dr. Jeff Michael, Director of the Business Forecasting Center at the University of the Pacific * Dr. Robert Pyke, Delta Geotechnical and Engineering Expert * -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Jul 16 16:14:03 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:14:03 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] homeless feeding and action(s) Message-ID: <51E5D3BB.5070607@sbcglobal.net> Mike Fischetti sent an email: hi an opportunity for the green party occupy to participate many groups are represented i am participating on behalf of "hope's corner" which is a Saturday feeding program for hungry and homeless at trinity methodist 1 block from mountain view city hall. we serve about 80-100 and many of our clients - individuals and families - sleep and shower at cubberly . the palo alto city council is wanting to pass and ordinance making sleeping in you car illegal see below on plans for 7/28 and 8/5 mike as you may know the palo alto city council is proceeding with consideration of an ordinance banning the homeless from sleeping in their cars! this is especially aimed at those at cubberly in palo alto where many sleep in their cars or in the open and use the early am showers (many to be presentable at work). where should they go? they plan to offer social services -- a sham -- the lists are already years out and the supply of housing is woefully inadequate. there are 7000 nitely homeless of which 700 are veterans. 26 of 28 speakers at a policy committee 2 weeks ago spoke articulately against the ordinance but the 3 council members on that committee blithely passed the ordinance on to the whole council for consideration. about 70 met last saturday at the Unitarian unilateralist church in palo alto, many homeless shared their stories. last nite a dozen of us met there and formulated a plan as outlined below it is likely that the palo alto council will consider the ordinance on august 5th - in the short interval we plan to demonstrate opposition and to garner publicity (notifying the press etc) with 2 actions 1. 7/28 an evening meal and a sleep in (cars or otherwise) at cubberly 2. 8/5 at 4 pm a rally at city hall plaza and a tent in overnight the next meeting of the group is this saturday at the Unitarian universalist church on Charleston in palo alto at 2 pm perhaps you would like to be at that meeting i will keep you posted mike From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Jul 16 18:40:18 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: SJPJC-Board cosponsor Fukushima book talk Aug 16? In-Reply-To: <1374014137.71364.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <51E589F4.7070208@effectivedefense.org> <1374014137.71364.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web125404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1374025218.88945.YahooMailNeo@web122901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I agree. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Drew To: "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens org" ; "j. m. doyle at sbcglobal. net" ; Drew ; "betsy237 at prodsyse com" ; "spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org" Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: SJPJC-Board cosponsor Fukushima book talk Aug 16? yes Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves ; To: GPSCC ; Jim Doyle ; Drew ; Betsy Wolf-Graves ; Subject: Fwd: SJPJC-Board cosponsor Fukushima book talk Aug 16? Sent: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 5:59:16 PM Hello, All:? ????? Should the Green Party endorse "the Aug 16 book talk by Cecile Pineda on the Fukishima Daiichi disaster" (see below;? I can send you the attachment if you want it)?? ????? Betsy and I support this.? If two other members of the County Council vote to endorse (at no cost to our treasury), then we can be listed.? ????? Best Wishes, ????? Spencer ????? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SJPJC-Board cosponsor Fukushima book talk Aug 16? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:39:04 -0700 From: Joan Bazar Reply-To: sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com To: Shelby Minister , Charlotte Casey , sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com Community Partners Please let me know asap if your organization would like to endorse/cosponsor the Aug 16 book talk by Cecile Pineda on the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Here's a link to a previous talk she gave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHXsjX5H1sM? 32 min video A leaflet is attached -- please share with your mailing lists in any case. Thanks Joan Bazar WILPF-San Jose?? 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URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed Jul 17 00:04:59 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:04:59 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Google and Inhofe In-Reply-To: <51DF1214.6030703@earthlink.net> References: <51DF11A0.10102@earthlink.net> <51DF1214.6030703@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51E6421B.7060505@earthlink.net> I was recently reminded about the "Google and Inhofe" email I sent out a few days ago (7/11). So I thought I would look to see what more I could find. Short version, the fundraiser did happen, Inhofe took advantage of it for more fundraising, and it seems likely that Google will keep on doing things like this. I used Google to search "Google Inhofe". I'll mention a couple of articles I found, but I recommend you do your own search. "Google Hosts Fundraiser for Climate Denier James Inhofe" http://www.thenation.com/blog/175249/google-hosts-fundraiser-climate-denier-james-inhofe "Why Green Google is Hosting a Fundraiser for Climate Change Denier Jim Inhofe" http://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2013/07/10/why-green-google-is-hosting-a-fundraiser-for-climate-change-denier-jim-inhofe/ I also searched to see 350.org's response and found in https://twitter.com/billmckibben "Hard to wrap my head around the idea that Google is raising $ for James Inhofe, the chief climate denier" and http://www.350resources.org.uk/2013/07/09/google-hosts-fund-raising-lunch-for-climate-denier-republican-inhofe/ What's the moral of the story? You tell me. Gerry Gerry Gras wrote: > > FYI, > > "Google hosts fundraiser for climate change denying US senator" > "Proceeds of the lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, will benefit the > Republican Jim Inhofe, who calls climate change a 'hoax'" > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/09/google-climate-denier-jim-inhofe > > > > Gerry > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From perrysandy at aol.com Wed Jul 17 09:05:17 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:05:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Google and Inhofe In-Reply-To: <51E6421B.7060505@earthlink.net> References: <51DF11A0.10102@earthlink.net> <51DF1214.6030703@earthlink.net> <51E6421B.7060505@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <8D0511E8FB0146B-1704-A7320@webmail-m168.sysops.aol.com> Hi Everyone, I am sorry, this is a little late for people who might want to attend the meeting tonight, but I wanted to get it out to the list so everyone knows that this is in the works. We will probably be meeting weekly to plan it over the rest of the summer and early fall. I will also announce this during our July 25 meeting. Anyone who wants to help and/or participate can contact me at perrysandy at aol.com or 408-691-6153. This will be an important opportunity to rally media attention against the evil practices of many of these corporations, including Google. The main issues will be economic justice and democracy, which are at the heart of Green Party concerns - and without which we cannot make progress on the other overarching issue of our time, saving the human race from planetary destruction. Sandy Perry MARCH TOHEAL THE VALLEY - OCTOBER 2013 CHAM Deliverance Ministry invitesyou to join us in planning and organizing a March to Heal the Valley this fall fromone side of Silicon Valley to the other. We plan a pilgrimage of several daysfrom the working class streets of East San Jose to the leafy corporate campusesof the North County. Our goal is to search along the way for the true soul ofSilicon Valley. Silicon Valley has long andrightly been heralded as a world-class center for innovation. More thananywhere in the country, however, it has also come to symbolize the glaringpolarization of wealth that is destroying America. We will crisscross thediverse neighborhoods and gather the unemployed, the people with little or nohealth care, the disenfranchised, the foreclosed, the underpaid, and all the wonderfulpeople of conscience that live among us right here in our communities. Togetherwe will march to the gates of the wealthiest corporations in the world to seewho will join our campaign for a compassionate economy. Today?s inequality of wealth is notan act of God. We have introduced technology into an antiquated economic systemwithout fully thinking through the consequences. We have wired ourselvestogether in a seamless digital network, but we continue to act as if we were independententities who can pursue self-interest without concern for the welfare of our sistersand brothers who live next door to us. But we can change this. Thinking different can mean morethan designing technological advances. This does not create value. We create valuewhen we build up love and dignity in our families and our communities. Wecreate real value when we bind up the wounds of our broken society, withhousing, employment, health care, and well-rounded education for all. We are not looking for charity. Weare looking to start a dialogue about what can be done to end this desperatepoverty amid a valley that has so much to give. All we want is justice, democracy,and freedom. True freedom is not a license for any of us to trample on therights of others. It is the opportunity to build a healthy, inclusive societywhere we can all lead joyful and meaningful lives. What good does it do us if wegain the whole world, but lose our soul? YOU ARE INVITED TO THE FIRST PLANNING MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY: TIME: 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY JULY 17 AT 7:00 PM PLACE: 525 W. ALMA AVENUE, SAN JOSE (ON ALMA ONE HALF BLOCK WEST OFTAMIEN STATION, PARK OFF BELMONT WAY RIGHT BEHIND THE ARCO STATION) -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Gras To: GPSCC Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 12:05 am Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Google and Inhofe I was recently reminded about the "Google and Inhofe" email I sent out a few days ago (7/11). So I thought I would look to see what more I could find. Short version, the fundraiser did happen, Inhofe took advantage of it for more fundraising, and it seems likely that Google will keep on doing things like this. I used Google to search "Google Inhofe". I'll mention a couple of articles I found, but I recommend you do your own search. "Google Hosts Fundraiser for Climate Denier James Inhofe" http://www.thenation.com/blog/175249/google-hosts-fundraiser-climate-denier-james-inhofe "Why Green Google is Hosting a Fundraiser for Climate Change Denier Jim Inhofe" http://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2013/07/10/why-green-google-is-hosting-a-fundraiser-for-climate-change-denier-jim-inhofe/ I also searched to see 350.org's response and found in https://twitter.com/billmckibben "Hard to wrap my head around the idea that Google is raising $ for James Inhofe, the chief climate denier" and http://www.350resources.org.uk/2013/07/09/google-hosts-fund-raising-lunch-for-climate-denier-republican-inhofe/ What's the moral of the story? You tell me. Gerry Gerry Gras wrote: > > FYI, > > "Google hosts fundraiser for climate change denying US senator" > "Proceeds of the lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, will benefit the > Republican Jim Inhofe, who calls climate change a 'hoax'" > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/09/google-climate-denier-jim-inhofe > > > > Gerry > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Wed Jul 17 21:19:04 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? Message-ID: <1374121144.98760.YahooMailNeo@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> All, Have we decided yet on a speaker for the July 2013 Green Party meeting yet? If not, Pete and I would like to suggest having John Caldera speak at 7PM-7:30PM. John Caldera is an activist from San Francisco active with the movement to restore Bradley Manning to Grand Marshal status at the June 30, 2013 Gay Pride Parade.? If invited, he would speak on the issue of Bradley Manning and the status of the Pride Board (who may get thrown out at the next election in Sept 2013).? Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perrysandy at aol.com Wed Jul 17 21:48:22 2013 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:48:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? In-Reply-To: <1374121144.98760.YahooMailNeo@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1374121144.98760.YahooMailNeo@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8D051892A8F91FA-1A60-100AAD@webmail-m299.sysops.aol.com> As I mentioned at the last meeting, I had invited Sister Ayya Santussika from the Karuna Buddhist Vihara to speak on the struggle against climate change. I called her last week and she confirmed for July 25. I suggest we discuss on the 25th whether to invite John Caldera to the August meeting. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: John Thielking To: Greens Discussion List Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 9:19 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? All, Have we decided yet on a speaker for the July 2013 Green Party meeting yet? If not, Pete and I would like to suggest having John Caldera speak at 7PM-7:30PM. John Caldera is an activist from San Francisco active with the movement to restore Bradley Manning to Grand Marshal status at the June 30, 2013 Gay Pride Parade. If invited, he would speak on the issue of Bradley Manning and the status of the Pride Board (who may get thrown out at the next election in Sept 2013). Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Thu Jul 18 11:44:03 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? In-Reply-To: <8D051892A8F91FA-1A60-100AAD@webmail-m299.sysops.aol.com> References: <1374121144.98760.YahooMailNeo@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <8D051892A8F91FA-1A60-100AAD@webmail-m299.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <1374173043.87807.YahooMailNeo@web125401.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Sounds good for July (though just noting its stepping away from our Climate Disruption / Health care focus - I think its fine to sometimes do other topics and Manning/Gay Pride would certainly be timely as well).? I had asked Chris Lepe to speak about Transform's (Climate Disruption-related) mass transit campaigns sometime soon.? He's a Green, a very experienced political organizer and he expressed enthusiasm.? Maybe we could ask him for August. ? Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala leading the 100 member Green Shadow Cabinet to A Green New Deal for America http://greenshadowcabinet.us Dr. Stein's Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: "perrysandy at aol.com" >To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:48 PM >Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? > > > >As I mentioned at the last meeting, I had invited Sister Ayya Santussika from the Karuna Buddhist Vihara to speak on the struggle against climate change. I called her last week and she confirmed for July 25. I suggest we discuss on the 25th whether to invite John Caldera to the August meeting. >? >? >Sandy >-----Original Message----- >From: John Thielking >To: Greens Discussion List >Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 9:19 pm >Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? > > >All, > > >Have we decided yet on a speaker for the July 2013 Green Party meeting yet? > > > >If not, Pete and I would like to suggest having John Caldera speak at 7PM-7:30PM. John Caldera is an activist from San Francisco active with the movement to restore Bradley Manning to Grand Marshal status at the June 30, 2013 Gay Pride Parade.? If invited, he would speak on the issue of Bradley Manning and the status of the Pride Board (who may get thrown out at the next election in Sept 2013).? 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In-Reply-To: <1374173043.87807.YahooMailNeo@web125401.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1374121144.98760.YahooMailNeo@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <8D051892A8F91FA-1A60-100AAD@webmail-m299.sysops.aol.com> <1374173043.87807.YahooMailNeo@web125401.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1374201861.87557.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Whoops. Do we have two confirmed speakers? ________________________________ From: Drew To: "perrysandy at aol.com" ; "pagesincolor at yahoo.com" ; "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? Sounds good for July (though just noting its stepping away from our Climate Disruption / Health care focus - I think its fine to sometimes do other topics and Manning/Gay Pride would certainly be timely as well).? I had asked Chris Lepe to speak about Transform's (Climate Disruption-related) mass transit campaigns sometime soon.? He's a Green, a very experienced political organizer and he expressed enthusiasm.? Maybe we could ask him for August. Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala leading the 100 member Green Shadow Cabinet to A Green New Deal for America http://greenshadowcabinet.us/about-green-shadow-cabinet-united-states Dr. Stein's Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd >________________________________ > From: "perrysandy at aol.com" >To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:48 PM >Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? > > > >As I mentioned at the last meeting, I had invited Sister Ayya Santussika from the Karuna Buddhist Vihara to speak on the struggle against climate change. I called her last week and she confirmed for July 25. I suggest we discuss on the 25th whether to invite John Caldera to the August meeting. > > >Sandy >-----Original Message----- >From: John Thielking >To: Greens Discussion List >Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 9:19 pm >Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? > > >All, > > >Have we decided yet on a speaker for the July 2013 Green Party meeting yet? > > > >If not, Pete and I would like to suggest having John Caldera speak at 7PM-7:30PM. John Caldera is an activist from San Francisco active with the movement to restore Bradley Manning to Grand Marshal status at the June 30, 2013 Gay Pride Parade.? If invited, he would speak on the issue of Bradley Manning and the status of the Pride Board (who may get thrown out at the next election in Sept 2013).? Thank you. > > >Sincerely, > > >John Thielking >_______________________________________________ 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 > > _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Jul 18 21:13:48 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:13:48 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? In-Reply-To: <1374201861.87557.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1374121144.98760.YahooMailNeo@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <8D051892A8F91FA-1A60-100AAD@webmail-m299.sysops.aol.com> <1374173043.87807.YahooMailNeo@web125401.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <1374201861.87557.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51E8BCFC.8020104@earthlink.net> Sandy Perry has invited a climate change speaker, Sister Santussika, and has received confirmation from her. As far as I know, that happened before any discussion of another speaker. As agenda preparer, I plan to include Sister Santussika. NOTE: I can't find anything about it in the minutes, but I think that Sandy received agreement at the last meeting about inviting this speaker. I don't understand the confusion here. Gerry Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Whoops. Do we have two confirmed speakers? > > *From:* Drew > *To:* "perrysandy at aol.com" ; > "pagesincolor at yahoo.com" ; > "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" > *Sent:* Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:44 AM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? > > Sounds good for July (though just noting its stepping away from our > Climate Disruption / Health care focus - I think its fine to sometimes > do other topics and Manning/Gay Pride would certainly be timely as well). > > I had asked Chris Lepe to speak about Transform's (Climate > Disruption-related) mass transit campaigns sometime soon. He's a Green, > a very experienced political organizer and he expressed enthusiasm. > Maybe we could ask him for August. > > Green is GO! > > Drew > > ~*~*~*~ > Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala leading the 100 member Green Shadow > Cabinet to A Green New Deal for America > http://greenshadowcabinet.us/about-green-shadow-cabinet-united-states > Dr. Stein's Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/ > Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests > First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd > > *From:* "perrysandy at aol.com" > *To:* pagesincolor at yahoo.com; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:48 PM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? > > As I mentioned at the last meeting, I had invited Sister Ayya > Santussika from the Karuna Buddhist Vihara to speak on the struggle > against climate change. I called her last week and she confirmed for > July 25. I suggest we discuss on the 25th whether to invite John > Caldera to the August meeting. > Sandy > -----Original Message----- > From: John Thielking > To: Greens Discussion List > Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 9:19 pm > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Speaker for July Green Party Meeting? > > All, > > Have we decided yet on a speaker for the July 2013 Green Party > meeting yet? > > If not, Pete and I would like to suggest having John Caldera speak > at 7PM-7:30PM. John Caldera is an activist from San Francisco active > with the movement to restore Bradley Manning to Grand Marshal status > at the June 30, 2013 Gay Pride Parade. If invited, he would speak > on the issue of Bradley Manning and the status of the Pride Board > (who may get thrown out at the next election in Sept 2013). Thank you. > > Sincerely, > > John Thielking > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Jul 18 21:38:38 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:38:38 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda GPSCC Meeting - Thursday July 25 - Draft #1 Message-ID: <51E8C2CE.20001@earthlink.net> Please send additions, changes, and/or corrections. Proposed Agenda for July 25, 2013 Green Party of Santa Clara County Meeting. 7:00 (30 min) - Sister Santussika will speak about local activities about climate change, and about new ways of activism. 7:30 (10 min) - Identify facilitator, note taker, vibes watcher, time keeper and agenda preparer. Intros and announcements. Additions or corrections to agenda. 7:40 (10 min) - Health Care Committee Report?? (who?) 7:50 (10 min) - Climate Change Report (Google and Inhofe, Richmond Action on August 3rd) (Gerry, who else?) 8:00 ( 5 min) - Treasurer's Report (who?) 8:05 (10 min) - Tabling (who?) 8:15 ( 5 min) - Discuss showing ?Over Troubled Waters? (who?) 8:20 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal (Spencer?) "?The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following initiatives for electoral reform: Overturning Citizens United, citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose Acts, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United States"). The Green Party of Santa Clara County will collaborate with all other organizations working to pass these issues including getting supporting resolutions passed at local and state levels as appropriate. This includes in particular Move to Amend and Rootstrikers.? ??? Appointment of new term Standing General Assembly GPSCC members ??? ??? Homelessness ??? From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Jul 19 08:57:28 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Sun. 7/21: Get on bus for statewide protest against police killing In-Reply-To: <30962938.1374242444174.JavaMail.www@app204> References: <30962938.1374242444174.JavaMail.www@app204> Message-ID: <1374249448.36920.YahooMailNeo@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Do we want to endorse this event and/or participate? John Thielking ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: ANSWER SF Alerts To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 7:00 AM Subject: Sun. 7/21: Get on bus for statewide protest against police killing PEP Subscribe Forward this email Donate ? Statewide Unity March Against Police Brutality Stop Racist Police Brutality! Justice for Trayvon Martin! Buy your bus ticket to Anaheim today or sponsor a student/low-income seat Unity March in Anaheim Sun. July 21, 1pm Anaheim City Hall 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. Anaheim, California? On July 21, 2012 Anaheim police murdered Manuel Diaz while he was surrendering and following police orders. On Sunday, July 21, 2013, there will be a statewide ?March Against Police Brutality? in Anaheim. Bus and other transportation are being organized from the Bay Area. Sign up today to reserve a seat on the bus or to help a student or low-income person attend. Manuel Diaz was shot in the head in front of his community, and the very next day another Anaheim resident, Joel Acevedo, was shot and killed by the Anaheim cops. In response to the murders, community members peacefully protested outside their homes. The Anaheim police responded with extreme violence, unleashing attack dogs and shooting life-threatening munitions on babies, small children, elderly and everybody in range. Last week, George Zimmerman was acquitted after murdering Trayvon Martin in cold blood. Since the bogus "not guilty" verdict, people have been in the streets every single day all over the country. We are witnessing the growth of a new movement against systemic racism. The murder of Trayvon Martin and the daily killing of Black and Brown people by law enforcement are inextricably linked. Now is the time to build a movement against this systemic racism and brutality. The families of nearly 30 people killed or brutalized by the police are leading a Mass March this Sunday, July 21 in Anaheim. The demonstration will gather at 1pm at Anaheim City Hall, 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. Get on the bus from Oakland to Anaheim! Seats are limited and the bus is filling up fast. Buy your ticket now! The bus leaves downtown Oakland at midnight Sat. July 20 and returns at midnight Sun. July 21.? Tickets cost 40-60 dollars, sliding scale. There is a student/low-income rate. For more info, please call 415-821-6545. Can't go to Anaheim, but want to help out? ? Buy a ticket for young person or someone living on reduced income! Make a donation that will ensure someone else can march against police brutality this Sunday. ? Get involved with the ANSWER Coalition! Volunteer today by emailing answer at answersf.org or calling 415-821-6545 or 510-355-4034.? Several Bay Area organizations and individuals have already endorsed the event, including:?ANSWER-SF Coalition, Decolonize Oakland, Denika Chatman-Mother of Kenneth Harding, the Ernest Duenez Family, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Justice for Alan Blueford (JAB) Coalition, ONYX Organizing Committee, Oscar Grant Foundation, Party for Socialism and Liberation, POOR Magazine/Prensa Pobre. WORD- Women Organized to Resist and Defend. ?Get involved! * ?Endorse as an individual or organization. * ?Volunteer! Get on the Bus!? * ?Read the personal appeal from the mothers of Manuel Diaz and Joel Acevedo, murdered by Anaheim PD last July. * ?Donate to help make this event a success. A.N.S.W.E.R. 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URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Jul 19 09:04:26 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:04:26 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Sun. 7/21: Get on bus for statewide protest against police killing In-Reply-To: <1374249448.36920.YahooMailNeo@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <30962938.1374242444174.JavaMail.www@app204> <1374249448.36920.YahooMailNeo@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51E9638A.3000406@structuremonitoring.com> Betsy and I vote to endorse. With John, this makes 3 of the required 4 County Council votes; I assume it will eventually be unanimous, but I think we need to respect the process just in case ... . Spencer On 7/19/2013 8:57 AM, John Thielking wrote: > Do we want to endorse this event and/or participate? > > John Thielking > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* ANSWER SF Alerts > *To:* pagesincolor at yahoo.com > *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 7:00 AM > *Subject:* Sun. 7/21: Get on bus for statewide protest against police > killing > > PEP > ANSWER San Francisco > > Subscribe > > Forward this email > > Donate > > Share on Facebook > > Share on Twitter > > Forward this Email > > > */Statewide Unity March Against Police Brutality/ > Stop Racist Police Brutality! Justice for Trayvon Martin! > > Buy your bus ticket to Anaheim today > or sponsor a student/low-income seat > * > AnaheimUpdated > > **Unity March in Anaheim* > *Sun. July 21, 1pm* > Anaheim City Hall > 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. > Anaheim, California * > On July 21, 2012 Anaheim police murdered Manuel Diaz while he was > surrendering and following police orders. On Sunday, July 21, 2013, > there will be a statewide "March Against Police Brutality" in Anaheim. > Bus and other transportation are being organized from the Bay Area. > *Sign up today > to > reserve a seat on the bus or to help a student or low-income person > attend.* > Manuel Diaz was shot in the head in front of his community, and the > very next day another Anaheim resident, Joel Acevedo, was shot and > killed by the Anaheim cops. > In response to the murders, community members peacefully protested > outside their homes. The Anaheim police responded with extreme > violence, unleashing attack dogs and shooting life-threatening > munitions on babies, small children, elderly and everybody in range. > Last week, George Zimmerman was acquitted after murdering Trayvon > Martin in cold blood. Since the bogus "not guilty" verdict, people > have been in the streets every single day all over the country. We are > witnessing the growth of a new movement against systemic racism. > The murder of Trayvon Martin and the daily killing of Black and Brown > people by law enforcement are inextricably linked. *Now is the time to > build a movement against this systemic racism and brutality. The > families of nearly 30 people killed or brutalized by the police are > leading a Mass March this Sunday, July 21 in Anaheim. *The > demonstration will gather at 1pm at Anaheim City Hall, 200 S. Anaheim > Blvd. > *Get on the bus from Oakland to Anaheim!* > Seats are limited and the bus is filling up fast. *Buy your ticket > now! > *The bus leaves downtown Oakland at midnight Sat. July 20 and returns > at midnight Sun. July 21. Tickets cost 40-60 dollars, sliding scale. > There is a student/low-income rate. For more info, please call > 415-821-6545. > *Can't go to Anaheim, but want to help out?* > . Bu*y a ticket for young person or someone living on reduced income!* > Make > a donation that will ensure someone else can march against police > brutality this Sunday. > . Get involved with the ANSWER Coalition! Volunteer today by emailing > answer at answersf.org or calling > 415-821-6545 or 510-355-4034. > /Several Bay Area organizations and individuals have already endorsed > the event, including: ANSWER-SF Coalition, Decolonize Oakland, Denika > Chatman-Mother of Kenneth Harding, the Ernest Duenez Family, Idriss > Stelley Foundation, Justice for Alan Blueford (JAB) Coalition, ONYX > Organizing Committee, Oscar Grant Foundation, Party for Socialism and > Liberation, POOR Magazine/Prensa Pobre. WORD- Women Organized to > Resist and Defend. / > *Get involved!* > > * Endorse > > as an individual or organization. > * Volunteer! > > Get on the Bus! > > * Read the personal appeal > from > the mothers of Manuel Diaz and Joel Acevedo, murdered by Anaheim > PD last July. > * Donate > > to help make this event a success. > > *A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition > *http://www.AnswerCoalition.org > > http://www.AnswerSF.org > > Answer at AnswerSF.org > 2969 Mission St. > 415-821-6545 > Make a tax-deductible donation to A.N.S.W.E.R. by credit card over a > secure server, > learn how to donate by check. > > Click here to unsubscribe from the ANSWER e-mail list. > > (if you experience a problem please email Answer at AnswerSF.org > ) > > If this message was forwarded to you and you'd like to receive future > ANSWER updates, > *click here to subscribe* > . > Having trouble viewing this message? 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Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA) by demanding Congress stop allowing big drug companies to price gouge Medicare beneficiaries! Thank you, Michael Phelan Social Security Works ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From:?The Alliance for Retired Americans Subject:?Stop Big Pharma Price Gouging! ________________________________ Did you know that Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? Did you know that since the creation of Medicare Part D, American taxpayers no longer pay the lowest government-negotiated prices for the drugs needed by low-income seniors and people with disabilities?? There is a common sense solution to reduce these high drug costs and eliminate the excessive profits of big drug companies. Click here to tell Congress to support it! Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) have introduced the Medicare Drug Savings Act, S. 740 in the U.S. Senate and H.R.? 1588 in the U.S. House of Representatives, that would eliminate this special deal for brand-name drug manufacturers. This legislation would prevent the big drug companies from charging the federal government higher drug prices for low-income Medicare beneficiaries than they charge for Medicaid.? The Medicare Drug Savings Act would save the federal government more than $141.2 billion over 10 years, money that helps all Medicare beneficiaries. Please click here to ask your Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor this critical legislation. Currently, the federal government negotiates lower prices both for veterans and Medicaid beneficiaries.? However, when low-income Medicaid beneficiaries were transferred to the Medicare program, price-gouging drug companies received a huge windfall, because they stopped offering the government the lowest, discounted rate. 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Thank you for that very valuable contribution. we'd been needing more if it. Green is Life! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com Fri Jul 19 11:54:00 2013 From: rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com (Drew) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [gpca-grow] Luis Rodriguez Announces Run for Governor of California In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1374260040.67492.YahooMailNeo@web125403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I believe Laura Wells is also planning to run but I'm not sure she has formally announced yet. See her web site at: http://www.laurawells.org/ ? Green is GO! Drew ~*~*~*~ Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala leading the 100 member Green Shadow Cabinet to A Green New Deal for America http://greenshadowcabinet.us Dr. Stein's Campaign website:? http://www.jillstein.org/ Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests ? ? First TV Ad?http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Edy Alvarez >To: "gpca-grow at cagreens.org" >Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:43 PM >Subject: [gpca-grow] Luis Rodriguez Announces Run for Governor of California > > > > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: > >Contact: Luis J. Rodriguez 818-898-0013 >? >Los Angeles author and activist vies for Governor?s office as Green Party candidate >? >LOS ANGELES, CA ? Nationally renowned author Luis J. Rodriguez has announced his intention in running for California Governor under the Green Party in 2014. The Green Party of California will nominate its June 2014 Gubernatorial candidate this November at its bi-annual statewide General Assembly.As a newly registered Green Party member of California and the 2012 Vice-Presidential Nominee for the Justice Party alongside running-mate and former mayor of Salt Lake City Rocky Anderson, Luis?s plan is for a campaign aimed at the wellbeing of all Californians ? for meaningful and livable jobs; education/training into the new digitally driven technology; green, clean and healthy neighborhoods for everyone; and peace and safety through restorative, transformative and healing urban peace models. >? >?I?m for a vision of a new California ? one that takes care of all it?s hard working residents, including those that now find themselves without work and even homes, and that strives for the long-range sustainability that is possible in the wealthiest and most resourceful state in the country,? says Mr. Rodriguez. ?I am inviting all progressives, labor leaders, community organizers, and, of course, regular folk ? across the political spectrum ? to unite around a broad movement for a California worthy of each of us. We need to make sure everyone is included in the immense possibilities inherent in people?s imaginations, in their labor, in the technology, and with respectful relationship to our bountiful earth.? >? >Luis J. Rodriguez is author of 15 books in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children?s literature. His most well known work, ?Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.,? has been called one of the most checked out books in libraries and schools ? and perhaps the most stolen. The book has also been named one of the 100 most censored books in the U.S. and was the center of controversy in some California school districts. Yet Luis has received hundreds of letters from youth over the past twenty years addressing how the book inspires and changes young peoples? lives. >? >For more than forty years Luis has also worked in gang peace, neighborhood arts, youth development, a labor organizer, a journalist, and in social justice. He has spent 33 years visiting prisons ? including Chino, Lancaster, San Quentin, Soledad, and Folsom ? and juvenile facilities throughout the state and across the U.S. He has also talked in public and private schools, colleges, universities, libraries, conferences, and urban and rural poor communities. He has 20 years as a Native Mexican/Native American healer working mostly with troubled youth, addicts, formerly incarcerated, battered women, and others. >? >Along with his wife Trini and others, Luis helped create the nonprofit Tia Chucha?s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. This unique space includes workshops and performances in the visual arts, music, dance, theater, writing, indigenous cosmology, Open Mics, author readings, film nights, community dialogues, a youth empowerment project, a mural collective, and more ? as well as the only annual outdoor literacy festival in the San Fernando Valley: ?Celebrating Words: Written, Performed & Sung.? And he?s founder/editor of the award-winning small press, Tia Chucha Press, which in 25 years has published more than 50 books of poetry, chapbooks, an art book, and a CD. >? >-30- >_______________________________________________ >gpca-grow mailing list >gpca-grow at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-grow > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To support that, the California Clean Money campaign is asking for help in collecting 10,000 signatures statewide -- 250 in San Jos?. They want real ink on physical pieces of paper, because that counts more with legislators than mouse clicks ;-) After the California DISCLOSE Act becomes law, they then plan to switch to something like citizen-funded elections and news, as described in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United States" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_the_United_States). I plan to bring copies of this petition to the meeting next week, so people who haven't already signed can do it then -- and people who have collected signatures can give the forms to me to save postage. Thanks, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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I just now submitted our endorsement information via the link in the e-mail. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Drew To: "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens org" ; "pagesincolor at yahoo com" Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Sun. 7/21: Get on bus for statewide protest against police killing i consens to endorse. Thank you John for alerting us to the opportunity. i really appreciate how you are continually watching the movement's goings on and find great matches for us to endorse and participate in. Thank you for that very valuable contribution. we'd been needing more if it. Green is Life! Drew Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ________________________________ From: John Thielking ; To: Greens Discussion List ; Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Sun. 7/21: Get on bus for statewide protest against police killing Sent: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 3:57:28 PM Do we want to endorse this event and/or participate? John Thielking ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: ANSWER SF Alerts To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 7:00 AM Subject: Sun. 7/21: Get on bus for statewide protest against police killing PEP Subscribe Forward this email Donate ? Statewide Unity March Against Police Brutality Stop Racist Police Brutality! Justice for Trayvon Martin! Buy your bus ticket to Anaheim today or sponsor a student/low-income seat Unity March in Anaheim Sun. July 21, 1pm Anaheim City Hall 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. Anaheim, California? On July 21, 2012 Anaheim police murdered Manuel Diaz while he was surrendering and following police orders. On Sunday, July 21, 2013, there will be a statewide ?March Against Police Brutality? in Anaheim. Bus and other transportation are being organized from the Bay Area. Sign up today to reserve a seat on the bus or to help a student or low-income person attend. Manuel Diaz was shot in the head in front of his community, and the very next day another Anaheim resident, Joel Acevedo, was shot and killed by the Anaheim cops. In response to the murders, community members peacefully protested outside their homes. The Anaheim police responded with extreme violence, unleashing attack dogs and shooting life-threatening munitions on babies, small children, elderly and everybody in range. Last week, George Zimmerman was acquitted after murdering Trayvon Martin in cold blood. Since the bogus "not guilty" verdict, people have been in the streets every single day all over the country. We are witnessing the growth of a new movement against systemic racism. The murder of Trayvon Martin and the daily killing of Black and Brown people by law enforcement are inextricably linked. Now is the time to build a movement against this systemic racism and brutality. The families of nearly 30 people killed or brutalized by the police are leading a Mass March this Sunday, July 21 in Anaheim. The demonstration will gather at 1pm at Anaheim City Hall, 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. Get on the bus from Oakland to Anaheim! Seats are limited and the bus is filling up fast. Buy your ticket now! The bus leaves downtown Oakland at midnight Sat. July 20 and returns at midnight Sun. July 21.? Tickets cost 40-60 dollars, sliding scale. There is a student/low-income rate. For more info, please call 415-821-6545. Can't go to Anaheim, but want to help out? ? Buy a ticket for young person or someone living on reduced income! Make a donation that will ensure someone else can march against police brutality this Sunday. ? Get involved with the ANSWER Coalition! Volunteer today by emailing answer at answersf.org or calling 415-821-6545 or 510-355-4034.? Several Bay Area organizations and individuals have already endorsed the event, including:?ANSWER-SF Coalition, Decolonize Oakland, Denika Chatman-Mother of Kenneth Harding, the Ernest Duenez Family, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Justice for Alan Blueford (JAB) Coalition, ONYX Organizing Committee, Oscar Grant Foundation, Party for Socialism and Liberation, POOR Magazine/Prensa Pobre. WORD- Women Organized to Resist and Defend. ?Get involved! * ?Endorse as an individual or organization. * ?Volunteer! Get on the Bus!? * ?Read the personal appeal from the mothers of Manuel Diaz and Joel Acevedo, murdered by Anaheim PD last July. * ?Donate to help make this event a success. A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition http://www.AnswerCoalition.org http://www.AnswerSF.org Answer at AnswerSF.org 2969 Mission St. 415-821-6545 Make a tax-deductible donation to A.N.S.W.E.R. by credit card over a secure server, learn how to donate by check. Click here to unsubscribe from the ANSWER e-mail list. 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In-Reply-To: <1531038202.-1385546401@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> References: <1531038202.-1385546401@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> Message-ID: <51EB3032.1090804@earthlink.net> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Green Party of the United States Subject: Save $10: Register For Our National Meeting Today! Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 20:15:05 -0400 (EDT) Size: 11798 URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Jul 20 20:54:02 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 20:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: WATCH LIVE: Calif. unity march against police brutality (Sunday, 1pm PT) In-Reply-To: <31251455.1374377600320.JavaMail.www@app218> References: <31251455.1374377600320.JavaMail.www@app218> Message-ID: <1374378842.67340.YahooMailNeo@web122903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> FYI ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: ANSWER SF Alerts To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 8:32 PM Subject: WATCH LIVE: Calif. unity march against police brutality (Sunday, 1pm PT) PEP Subscribe Forward this email Donate Live Stream: Statewide March Against Police Brutality Sunday, July 21, 1pm PT On July 21, on the one-year anniversary of the murder of Manuel Diaz, nearly 30 families of those murdered by police are leading a statewide march in Anaheim to demand justice for their loved ones and all victims of police violence. ANSWER SF is organizing a bus bringing activists and community members from Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento to participate in the demonstration. For those unable to attend, the ANSWER Coalition will be maintaining a live video feed of the demonstration that can be accessed on our website. Streaming will begin on Sunday, July 21 at around 1pm Pacific. One year ago this July 21, Anaheim police murdered Manuel Diaz while he was surrendering and following police orders. He was shot in the head in front of his community. In response to the outrageous (and common) murder, community members began peaceful gathering outside their homes. The Anaheim police responded with extreme violence, unleashing attack dogs and shooting life-threatening munitions on babies, small children, elderly and everybody in range. The video of the cowardly attack was quickly seen by millions worldwide, sparking emergency protests at the Anaheim Police Headquarters. The next day, the Anaheim police murdered Joel Acevedo, further stoking the anger in the community. In the following days, thousands of people rose up against the scourge of police violence. Historic protests shook Anaheim for days. Though ultimately the city heavily militarized the police to repress the movement with violence and intimidation, it brought the struggle against police brutality to a national stage and laid the foundations for future struggle. The recent acquittal of George Zimmerman, a vigilante who aspired to become a cop, by the racist court system is yet another tragic reminder of the importance of fighting back against the war on Black and Brown youth. On July 21, on the one-year anniversary of the murder of Manuel Diaz, nearly 30 families of those murdered by police are leading a statewide march in Anaheim to demand justice for their loved ones and all victims of police violence. For those unable to attend, the ANSWER Coalition will be maintaining a live video feed of the demonstration that can be accessed on our website. Streaming will begin on Sunday, July 21 at around 1pm Pacific. A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition http://www.AnswerCoalition.org http://www.AnswerSF.org Answer at AnswerSF.org 2969 Mission St. 415-821-6545 Make a tax-deductible donation to A.N.S.W.E.R. by credit card over a secure server, learn how to donate by check. Click here to unsubscribe from the ANSWER e-mail list. (if you experience a problem please email Answer at AnswerSF.org) If this message was forwarded to you and you'd like to receive future ANSWER updates, click here to subscribe. Having trouble viewing this message? Click here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also, again, I think that any presentation of such proposals should include at least a text summary of what is being requested to be endorsed and information about the current status (if any) of applicable GPUS and GPCA platform items. Warner In a message dated 7/18/2013 9:39:11 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, gerrygras at earthlink.net writes: 8:20 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal (Spencer?) "?The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following initiatives for electoral reform: Overturning Citizens United, citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose Acts, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United States"). 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City Council to pass a resolution saying that money is not speech, and Rootstrikers are working to raise the issue of citizen funding of elections (where each citizen would get a voucher worth roughly $50 that they could spend on candidates and issue campaigns that do not accept big money contributions. Also, Betsy and I recently attended a meeting of the California Clean Money campaign at the Santa Clara County Democratic Party Headquarters and got an invitation from Craig Dunkerley to join the Santa Clara County Democratic Club. I introduced myself as a member of the Santa Clara Green Party County Council, and I think he probably remembered that when he extended that invitation. He joined the Santa Clara County Chamber of Commerce and feels he is accepted there as a liberal Democrat expecting to find areas in which members of the Chamber and the Democratic Party can craft a joint approach to issues both see as problems. If I join that group, I think I'll find ways to raise this issue with them. I also plan to try to raise this issue with the local Libartarian and Republican Parties. The big money don't want that, but I think the rank and file in Republican, Democratic, and Libartarian parties would support IRV. What do I need to do to learn about the status of IRV in Santa Clara County? Thanks, Spencer On 7/21/2013 7:36 PM, WB4D23 at aol.com wrote: > I think any one of these issues could involve a 20 minute discussion > or longer... I suggest that Spencer choose one of these topics for > the next meeting and we go through them one at a time each month. I > do not see any special urgency for a GPSCC "supports" statement for > any of them, since there is no action provision involved. Also, > again, I think that any presentation of such proposals should include > at least a text summary of what is being requested to be endorsed and > information about the current status (if any) of applicable GPUS and > GPCA platform items. Warner > In a message dated 7/18/2013 9:39:11 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > gerrygras at earthlink.net writes: > > 8:20 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal (Spencer?) > ""The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following > initiatives for electoral reform: Overturning Citizens United, > citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose > Acts, > the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires > participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the > candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as > outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United > States"). The Green Party of Santa Clara County will collaborate > with > all other organizations working to pass these issues including > getting > supporting resolutions passed at local and state levels as > appropriate. > This includes in particular Move to Amend and Rootstrikers." > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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... 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Your support was crucial in getting SB 52 passed in the Senate. Now we need you more than ever for the Assembly! ? Attend California Clean Money Campaign's Palo Alto - San Mateo Working Group? ?meeting?to participate in moving SB 52 through the process of becoming law. ? Palo Alto - San Mateo Working Group Meeting Tuesday, July 23rd 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM? ? Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Fireside Room 505 E. Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94306 ? ? ? ? ?RSVPs not required but appreciated CLICK here to RSVP and view more details ? Please feel free to bring a friend or two! ? Thanks for all that you do! ? ??? The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision unleashed unlimited, anonymous corporate spending on campaigns.? Over $425 million was spent last year on ballot measures in California alone, with most of the money hiding behind misleading names.? That's why we need to pass SB 52 (Leno-Hill), the?California DISCLOSE Act, to make sure that people know who is really paying for political ads. ? SB 52,?the?California DISCLOSE Act,?would: * Replace current deceptive "Paid for by" disclosures with real disclosure, making the top funders of the ad boldly and explicitly clear ON THE AD ITSELF. * Require that ads have a link to a website showing the top ten funders. Tell voters who is really funding propositions and attack ads when it counts!? For more info on SB 52, the?California DISCLOSE Act, and how it will stop hidden influence of Big Money special interests, see our home page:??http://cadisclose.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45&id=85f4ffcc00&e=b96e3d589a. ________________________________ Join the California Clean Money Campaign The California Clean Money Campaign is a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose vision is to achieve an open and accountable government that is responsive to the needs of all Californians by building statewide support for full disclosure and public funding of election campaigns.? All our support comes from individuals and non-profit foundations, with no funding from corporations or unions. Copyright ? 2013 California Clean Money Campaign, All rights reserved. You're getting this due to your support for the DISCLOSE Act or Clean Money and Fair Elections. 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We'll be calling into the Assembly districts of on-the-fence Assembly members to ask registered Clean Money supporters to phone their legislator and ask for a yes vote. We need at least one Republican vote to get the 2/3 needed to pass the bill this year so it can be in effect for the 2014 election. (Otherwise it has to become a two-year bill for passage next year, probably too late to go in effect by November.) In the Senate vote a few weeks ago we actually got one of the Republicans, Sen. Cannella, to vote yes--so it can be done! Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:44:32 -0700 From: carolineyacoub at att.net To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: CA DISCLOSE Act - Palo Alto-San Mateo Working Group Meeting July 23rd ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: California Clean Money Campaign To: Caroline Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 8:01 PM Subject: CA DISCLOSE Act - Palo Alto-San Mateo Working Group Meeting July 23rd CA DISCLOSE Act - Palo Alto-San Mateo Working Group Meeting July 23rd Thanks for supporting SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act! View this email in your browser SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act passed on the full Senate floor 28-11. Now on to the Assembly - we need your help! Your support was crucial in getting SB 52 passed in the Senate. Now we need you more than ever for the Assembly! Attend California Clean Money Campaign's Palo Alto - San Mateo Working Group meeting to participate in moving SB 52 through the process of becoming law. Palo Alto - San Mateo Working Group Meeting Tuesday, July 23rd 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Fireside Room 505 E. Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94306 RSVPs not required but appreciated CLICK here to RSVP and view more details Please feel free to bring a friend or two! Thanks for all that you do! The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision unleashed unlimited, anonymous corporate spending on campaigns. Over $425 million was spent last year on ballot measures in California alone, with most of the money hiding behind misleading names. That's why we need to pass SB 52 (Leno-Hill), the California DISCLOSE Act, to make sure that people know who is really paying for political ads. SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, would: Replace current deceptive "Paid for by" disclosures with real disclosure, making the top funders of the ad boldly and explicitly clear ON THE AD ITSELF. Require that ads have a link to a website showing the top ten funders. Tell voters who is really funding propositions and attack ads when it counts! For more info on SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, and how it will stop hidden influence of Big Money special interests, see our home page: http://cadisclose.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45&id=85f4ffcc00&e=b96e3d589a. Join the California Clean Money Campaign The California Clean Money Campaign is a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose vision is to achieve an open and accountable government that is responsive to the needs of all Californians by building statewide support for full disclosure and public funding of election campaigns. All our support comes from individuals and non-profit foundations, with no funding from corporations or unions. Copyright ? 2013 California Clean Money Campaign, All rights reserved. You're getting this due to your support for the DISCLOSE Act or Clean Money and Fair Elections. 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URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Mon Jul 22 08:25:34 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:25:34 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: CA DISCLOSE Act - Palo Alto-San Mateo Working Group Meeting July 23rd In-Reply-To: References: <218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45b96e3d589a.20130722030101@mail10.atl11.rsgsv.net>, <1374475472.69152.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51ED4EEE.2050903@structuremonitoring.com> Might you have time to sign their new petition and mail it in to them (www.caclean.org/content/pdf/ccmc_sb52_petition.pdf )? Signatures collected last year were for AB-1648 in the 2011-2012 session. Legislators in the current session do not want to see those old signatures, because they are for a bill that is NOT in the current session. They want signatures that show the bill number, SB-52, in the current 2013-2014 session. I got this information from a meeting last Thursday at the Santa Clara County Democratic Party Headquarters. They want to collect 250 new signatures per county (10,000 for the state) each month until it passes. If you can print and sign the form and mail it to the address on the bottom of the form, that would be great. (Of course, it would even be better if you could collect other signatures. However, do what you conveniently can. One signature on a form mailed to them is better than none!) Thanks, Spencer On 7/21/2013 11:54 PM, Brian Good wrote: > The DISCLOSE Act effort is ramping up toward two events: 1) packing > the hearings > at the Assembly Elections Committee and the Appropriations Committee next > month, and 2) massive phonebanking before the Assembly floor vote. > We'll be > calling into the Assembly districts of on-the-fence Assembly members > to ask > registered Clean Money supporters to phone their legislator and ask > for a yes > vote. > > We need at least one Republican vote to get the 2/3 needed to pass the > bill > this year so it can be in effect for the 2014 election. (Otherwise it > has to > become a two-year bill for passage next year, probably too late to go > in effect > by November.) In the Senate vote a few weeks ago we actually got one > of the > Republicans, Sen. Cannella, to vote yes--so it can be done! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:44:32 -0700 > From: carolineyacoub at att.net > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: CA DISCLOSE Act - Palo Alto-San Mateo > Working Group Meeting July 23rd > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* California Clean Money Campaign > *To:* Caroline > *Sent:* Sunday, July 21, 2013 8:01 PM > *Subject:* CA DISCLOSE Act - Palo Alto-San Mateo Working Group Meeting > July 23rd > CA DISCLOSE Act - Palo Alto-San Mateo Working Group Meeting July 23rd > Thanks for supporting SB 52, the /California DISCLOSE Act/! > > View this email in your browser > > > > > > > *SB 52, the/California DISCLOSE Act/ passed on the full Senate floor > 28-11. Now on to the Assembly - we need your help! * > ** > *Your support was crucial in getting SB 52 passed in the Senate. Now > we need you more than ever for the Assembly!* > ** > *Attend California Clean Money Campaign's Palo Alto - San Mateo > **Working Group*** > * meeting **to participate in moving SB 52 through the process of > becoming law. * > *Palo Alto - San Mateo Working Group Meeting > Tuesday, July 23rd > 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM * > *Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto > Fireside Room* > *505 E. Charleston Road* > *Palo Alto, CA 94306* > RSVPs not required but appreciated > _CLICK here to RSVP and view more details_ > > Please feel free to bring a friend or two! > Thanks for all that you do! > /The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision unleashed unlimited, > anonymous corporate spending on campaigns. Over $425 million was spent > last year on ballot measures in California alone, with most of the > money hiding behind misleading names. That's why we need to pass SB > 52 (Leno-Hill), the California DISCLOSE Act, to make sure that people > know who is really paying for political ads./ > *SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, would:* > > * *Replace current deceptive "Paid for by" disclosures with real > disclosure, making the top funders of the ad boldly and explicitly > clear ON THE AD ITSELF.* > > * *Require that ads have a link to a website showing the top ten > funders.* > > *Tell voters who is really funding propositions and attack ads when it > counts! * > For more info on SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, and how it will > stop hidden influence of Big Money special interests, see our home > page: > http://cadisclose.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45&id=85f4ffcc00&e=b96e3d589a. > > *Join the California Clean Money Campaign* > > > > > > The California Clean Money Campaign is a non-partisan, non-profit > 501(c)(3) organization whose vision is to achieve an open and > accountable government that is responsive to the needs of all > Californians by building statewide support for full disclosure and > public funding of election campaigns. All our support comes from > individuals and non-profit foundations, with no funding from > corporations or unions. > > /Copyright ? 2013 California Clean Money Campaign, All rights reserved./ > You're getting this due to your support for the DISCLOSE Act or Clean > Money and Fair Elections. > > *Our mailing address is:* > California Clean Money Campaign > 8124 W. 3rd St, Suite 105 > Los Angeles, CA 90048 > Add us to your address book > > unsubscribe from this list > > update subscription preferences > > > > > _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss > mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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Contact Californians for Electoral Reform http://www.cfer.org/ and also, from that web site Chapter Contacts Michael Hunter Santa Clara County 510-909-3941 From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Mon Jul 22 13:06:30 2013 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:06:30 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] IRV in Santa Clara County In-Reply-To: <51ED8067.8060805@sbcglobal.net> References: <51ED8067.8060805@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <51ED90C6.80606@structuremonitoring.com> Dear Jim: Thanks. I do that and report Thursday. sg On 7/22/2013 11:56 AM, Jim Doyle wrote: > Spencer wrote > > What do I need to do to learn about the status of IRV in Santa Clara > County? > > > Contact Californians for Electoral Reform > http://www.cfer.org/ > > and also, from that web site > > > Chapter Contacts > > > Michael Hunter Santa Clara County 510-909-3941 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Jul 22 14:15:28 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:15:28 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Events Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday Message-ID: <51EDA0F0.1010508@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: I just updated our web site (www.cagreens.org/santaclara ) with info on 3 events: * A "Don't fund evil" protest against Google for raising funds for climate change denier Senator James Inhofe organized by 350SV for Wednesday, July 24, 8:30 AM, at Google Headquarters in Mt. View. * Monthly meeting Thursday, July 25, 7 PM, -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The song is available at: http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media_player/popup.php?name=phc/2013/07/20/phc_20130720_128&starttime=00:56:12.0&endtime=00:59:34.0 If that does not work, try going to: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/ and clicking on "Class Warfare". Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Jul 22 17:46:12 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:46:12 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Google / Inhofe Protest In-Reply-To: <51EA0116.3000906@earthlink.net> References: <51EA0116.3000906@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51EDD254.5060704@earthlink.net> Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is the worst global warming denier in Congress. Google recently had a fundraiser for Inhofe. So 350 Silicon Valley, Acterra, and others will be having a protest at Google this Wednesday, June 24th, 8:30 - 10:00 AM. Info about the event: http://www.350siliconvalley.org/google_don_t_fund_evil NOTE: RSVPs are requested, but not required, for planning purposes, and to allow email updates. Info about the fundraiser and Inhofe: http://www.thenation.com/blog/175249/google-hosts-fundraiser-climate-denier-james-inhofe An article about one of the more egregious (IMO) things Inhofe has done: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2010/02/24/sen-inhofe-inquisition-seeking-ways-to-criminalize-and-prosecute-17-leading-climate-scientists/ Gerry From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Tue Jul 23 13:38:12 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:38:12 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Volunteers needed to help homeowners threatened with foreclosure Message-ID: <51EEE9B4.30900@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: A "Housing Navigator" program is being developed that will recruit volunteers to work one-on-one with people facing a foreclosure sale. If you might be interested in volunteering or you know anyone who might be interested or who is dealing with a pending foreclosure, you or they may wish to attend the "Homeowner's Rights Fair" next Sunday, noon - 4 PM at Most Holy Trinity in southeast San Jos? (www.cagreens.org/santaclara/07-28-2013%20Fair%20VA.pdf ). If you might be interested but are not available Sunday, please let me know so I can get you involved in the future. A Housing Navigator will help foreclosure victims organize their records and decide whether seek free help with an organization like Neighborhood Housing Services Silicon Valley (nhssv.org), which would provide further advice and training in managing family finances and preparing a request for a loan modification. A Housing Navigator will also help the distressed homeowner file a Qualified Written Request (QWR) for copies of the critical documents the bank has on them (http://hofj.org/default.asp.pg-ForeclosureDefense) and decide whether it would be wise to pay an attorney for legal assistance, e.g., in examining the responses to a QWR for fraud, e.g., robo-signing, and other things that can be used to push the banks to offer a loan modification on more favorable terms. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This could be co-sponsored by the Green Party and held on one of their "free" event nights.? If it is co-sponsored by the Green Party, the Green Party gets $3.50 for every booklet sold for $7 at the event.? Please add a 10 minute slot on the agenda to discuss this. Thanks. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Gerry Gras To: GPSCC Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 9:38 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda GPSCC Meeting - Thursday July 25 - Draft #1 Please send additions, changes, and/or corrections. Proposed Agenda for July 25, 2013 Green Party of Santa Clara County Meeting. 7:00 (30 min) - Sister Santussika will speak about local ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? activities about climate change, and about ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? new ways of activism. 7:30 (10 min) - Identify facilitator, note taker, vibes watcher, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? time keeper and agenda preparer. Intros and ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? announcements. Additions or corrections to agenda. 7:40 (10 min) - Health Care Committee Report??? (who?) 7:50 (10 min) - Climate Change Report (Google and Inhofe, ??? ??? Richmond Action on August 3rd)? (Gerry, who else?) 8:00 ( 5 min) - Treasurer's Report? (who?) 8:05 (10 min) - Tabling? (who?) 8:15 ( 5 min) - Discuss showing ?Over Troubled Waters?? (who?) 8:20 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal? (Spencer?) "?The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following initiatives for electoral reform:? Overturning Citizens United, citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose Acts, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United States").? The Green Party of Santa Clara County will collaborate with all other organizations working to pass these issues including getting supporting resolutions passed at local and state levels as appropriate. ? 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URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Wed Jul 24 10:16:15 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Increasing Social Security Benefits In-Reply-To: <1532862253.-1627480254@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> References: <1532862253.-1627480254@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> Message-ID: <1374686175.32631.YahooMailNeo@web122906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> FYI ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Alex Lawson, Social Security Works" To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:47 AM Subject: Increasing Social Security Benefits ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Take Action Join Social Security Works and DFA in supporting Sen. Harkin and Sen. Begich's plan! Dear John, It?s time to go on the offensive. While many in Washington are talking about cutting Social Security benefits, there are two Senators who are taking steps to increase benefits for Seniors. Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mark Begich (D-AK) have proposed legislation that would: * Increase cost of living adjustments (COLAs), not decrease them. Instead of cutting benefits through a Chained CPI formula, Senators Harkin and Begich have proposed using a benefit formula designed specifically to take into account seniors? rising living expenses such as healthcare, food, and housing. * Ensure that the wealthy are paying their fair share into Social Security. Currently, Americans are only paying Social Security payroll taxes on their first $113,700. That means that Wall Street CEOs could be pay a far lower share of their earnings than most. By lifting the payroll tax cap on Social Security, we can extend the life of Social Security for at least the next 75 years. * Increase Social Security benefits for all recipients by approximately $70 per month, or $800 a year. Senator Harkin?s bill would reform the benefit formula for all beneficiaries, but target those most in need. This would result in an across the board benefit increase, with the most going to those in the lower and middle classes. Sign our petition today calling on the U.S. Senate to support the Harkin and Begich plans to strengthen Social Security! We know the right-wing?s game plan is to try to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare as concessions in upcoming budget fights. It is time for us to stop playing defense and go on offense, and the Harkin and Begich bills are our chance. Social Security is the most successful anti-poverty program in our country?s history and has never contributed a single penny to the deficit. Let?s strengthen, not cut Social Security! Please, join Social Security Works and our friends at Democracy for America in calling on the U.S. Senate to support the Harkin and Begich bills. Thank you for all that you do, Alex Lawson Social Security Works P.S. It is critical that we stop playing defense and go on the offense. 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(who?) 7:50 (20 min) - Climate Change Report (Gerry, who else?) - Google and Inhofe - Chevron Richmond Action - August 3rd - 350 SV buttons 8:10 ( 5 min) - Treasurer's Report (who?) 8:15 (10 min) - Tabling (who?) 8:25 ( 5 min) - Discuss showing ?Over Troubled Waters? (who?) 8:30 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal (Spencer) ?The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following initiatives for electoral reform: Overturning Citizens United, citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose Acts, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United States"). The Green Party of Santa Clara County will collaborate with all other organizations working to pass these issues including getting supporting resolutions passed at local and state levels as appropriate. This includes in particular Move to Amend and Rootstrikers.? 8:50 (10 min) - California Cleam Money Campaign (Spencer) 9:00 (10 min) - Peacemovies cosponsoring? (John T.) 9:10 (5 min) - Appointment of new term Standing General Assembly GPSCC members 9:15 (5 min) - GPCA bylaws issues 9:20 (10 min) - Reporting on North County activity (Gerry) - Homelessness Ban - Palo Alto - Raise Minimum Wage - Mountain View - San Mateo County City Council Elections From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Jul 25 12:19:34 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:19:34 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda GPSCC Meeting - Thursday July 25 In-Reply-To: <51F178A0.6020508@earthlink.net> References: <51F178A0.6020508@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51F17A46.8050805@earthlink.net> Oops, I forgot to update the Electoral Reform Proposal section to reflect that this month it would be specific to IRV. But I don't plan to correct it now, in case Spencer has more to say about this. Gerry Gerry Gras wrote: > > Proposed Agenda for July 25, 2013 Green Party of > Santa Clara County Meeting. > > 7:00 (30 min) - Sister Santussika will speak about local > activities about climate change, and about > new ways of activism. > > > 7:30 (10 min) - Identify facilitator, note taker, vibes watcher, > time keeper and agenda preparer. Intros and > announcements. Additions or corrections to agenda. > > 7:40 (10 min) - Health Care Committee Report?? (who?) > > 7:50 (20 min) - Climate Change Report (Gerry, who else?) > - Google and Inhofe > - Chevron Richmond Action - August 3rd > - 350 SV buttons > > 8:10 ( 5 min) - Treasurer's Report (who?) > > 8:15 (10 min) - Tabling (who?) > > 8:25 ( 5 min) - Discuss showing ?Over Troubled Waters? (who?) > > 8:30 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal (Spencer) > ?The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following > initiatives for electoral reform: Overturning Citizens United, > citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose Acts, > the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires > participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the > candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as > outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United > States"). The Green Party of Santa Clara County will collaborate with > all other organizations working to pass these issues including getting > supporting resolutions passed at local and state levels as appropriate. > This includes in particular Move to Amend and Rootstrikers.? > > 8:50 (10 min) - California Cleam Money Campaign (Spencer) > > 9:00 (10 min) - Peacemovies cosponsoring? (John T.) > > 9:10 (5 min) - Appointment of new term Standing General Assembly GPSCC > members > > 9:15 (5 min) - GPCA bylaws issues > > 9:20 (10 min) - Reporting on North County activity (Gerry) > - Homelessness Ban - Palo Alto > - Raise Minimum Wage - Mountain View > - San Mateo County City Council Elections > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Jul 25 15:21:35 2013 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:21:35 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] immigration forum Message-ID: <51F1A4EF.3040201@sbcglobal.net> I received this notice from Somos Mayfair: *Immigration Forum* Wed. 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(who?) 7:50 (20 min) - Climate Change Report (Gerry, who else?) - Google/Inhofe - Chevron Richmond Action 8/3 - 350 SV 8:10 ( 5 min) - Treasurer's Report (who?) 8:15 (10 min) - Tabling (who?) 8:25 ( 5 min) - Discuss showing "Over Troubled Waters" (who?) 8:30 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal (Spencer) The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following initiatives for electoral reform: Overturning Citizens United, citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose Acts, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United States"). The Green Party of Santa Clara County will collaborate with all other organizations working to pass these issues including getting supporting resolutions passed at local and state levels as appropriate. This includes in particular Move to Amend and Rootstrikers 8:50 (10 min) - California Clean Money Campaign (Spencer) 9:00 (10 min) - Peacemovies cosponsoring? (John T.) 9:10 (5 min) - Appointment of new term SGA GPSCC members 9:15 (5 min) - GPCA bylaws issues 9:20 (2 min) - Jill Stein in California 9/15-21 (SF->LA) 9:22 (8 min) - Reporting on North County activity (Gerry) - Homelessness Ban - Palo Alto - Raise Minimum Wage - Mountain View - San Mateo County City Council Elections From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Jul 25 21:39:40 2013 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:39:40 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPSCC Meeting Minutes - Thursday July 25 - FINAL In-Reply-To: <51F1BF14.2070306@earthlink.net> References: <51F1BF14.2070306@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51F1FD8C.2060304@prodsyse.com> Please sent corrections, etc., to this list. Thanks. Spencer On 7/25/2013 5:13 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > Here is the final draft agenda. I am bringing 12 paper copies. > > = = = = = = = = > > Proposed Agenda for July 25, 2013 Green Party of Santa Clara Cty Meeting. > > 7:00 (30 min) - Sister Santussika will speak about local activities about > climate change, and about new ways of activism. Lester Brown is very clear. Started Earth Policy Institute. Andrew Hardie's book "The Hope" to blend morality and spirituality with environmental concerns. Today, people are much more aware and concerned about the environment than a few years ago. 350.org seems to be providing the best leadership she knows in this area. We need to help everyone. Sister Santussika is with Theravadan Buddhism. Buddhist Global Relief tries to help the poorest of the poor. If we educate women and girls, we will stabilize population growth and ... . Suggestions: * 350.org has the clearest mission statement and list of activities: Tar sands resistance, * Divestment (need a petition for the City of San Jos?): campaigns.gofossilfree.org has a petition. Calpers has been big into divestment. * Stay focused on undermining the fossil fuel industry. Plastic bags, light bulbs, etc.: "Do the math": If we don't control the fossil fuel industry, nothing else will matter. Otherwise, we spend all our time spin our wheels off the track. > > 7:30 (10 min) - Identify facilitator: Warner. > note taker: Spencer > , vibes watcher: Dana > time keeper: Caroline > and agenda preparer: Sandy > . Intros and > announcements. Additions or corrections to agenda. Warner: Nova last month on the geological development of Australia (and the entire planet). We are not even an instant from a geological perspective. Gerry, Dana, Caroline: Spencer: Andrea: "Think City EV" Sandy: Mobile home rent control in San Jos?; sequester in housing authority; "March to heal the valley" from San Jos? to Google and Apple in the fall to stop funding evil and start paying taxes. > > 7:40 (10 min) - Health Care Committee Report?? (who?) Sandy: Caroline held a committee meeting to organize an event at Seven Trees Community Center. Working with SIREN. Friday, September 6, 6:30 - 9 PM. SIREN suggested have the community speak first. Last 2 weeks before the event, we want to do some phone banking. Caroline has been having phone banking at her house every Tuesday at least through the end of July. If anyone feels like phone banking for our health care event, please contact Caroline. > > 7:50 (20 min) - Climate Change Report (Gerry, who else?) > - Google/Inhofe: Google had a fundraiser for Sen. Inhofe is > the worst climate science deniers in congress. Gerry and others > organized a demonstration at Google against this action. Fundraiser > was in Washington, DC. Brad Johnson got 20,000 signatures on line. A > receptionist at Google said they didn't have anyone to give that to so > wouldn't accept it. If it were a business proposal, it could be > accepted. > Chevron Richmond Action 8/3 - 350 SV: Chevron HQ is in San Ramon. Bay > Area 350 is organizing an event in Richmond for Aug. 3. Peaceful > march & rally + speakers + an "action". The Mayor of Richmond will be > there. Caroline could use help with phone banking. Caroline has > sheets and scripts for others who might want to phone bank without > coming to Caroline's. The Richmond Bart station parking is closed; > that's where people were planning to meet. Caroline has fliers, which > people can take if they are going anywhere they can distribute them. Go to 350.org to get updates. > > 8:10 ( 5 min) - Treasurer's Report (who?) Caroline: $1,660.27 + $26 outlays: $30.20 phone bill + $58 for Jill Stein T-shirts and buttons + $225 for our share of hall rental at Seven Trees Community Center. Ending balance: $1,373.07 > > 8:15 (10 min) - Tabling (who?) Caroline is looking for a place to table. Gay Pride (August 17 & 18, noon to 7 PM; but in the past they've wanted too much $) July 27 Cumberly School in Palo Alto. > > 8:25 ( 5 min) - Discuss showing "Over Troubled Waters" (who?) Gerry: > > 8:30 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal (Spencer) > The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following > initiatives for electoral reform: Overturning Citizens United, > citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose Acts, > the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires > participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the > candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as > outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United > States"). The Green Party of Santa Clara County will collaborate with > all other organizations working to pass these issues including getting > supporting resolutions passed at local and state levels as > appropriate. This includes in particular Move to Amend and Rootstrikers IRV was authorized by a proposition passed in Santa Clara County in the late 1990s. The current Interim Registrar of Voters could be very supportive of IRV. > > 8:50 (10 min) - California Clean Money Campaign (Spencer) If it gets a 2/3 vote in the Assembly by ~Sept. 13 (and the Governor signed it), it can become law this year. If it passes by 50% but less than 2/3, it goes on an initiative. > > 9:00 (10 min) - Peacemovies cosponsoring? (John T.) > > 9:10 (5 min) - Appointment of new term SGA GPSCC members We already appointed Spencer, Drew and John at the last meeting. Betsy offered to serve on the SGA. There is a consensus on appointing Betsy to the SGA. We should put a call out on the Discuss list for another volunteer (female for gender balance). > > 9:15 (5 min) - GPCA bylaws issues Next plenary may be as early as November. If Santa Clara County wants to propose changes to the state party bylaws to be considered in the November plenary, such changes should be discussed in our August meeting. We need to find our list administrator and find out if there are strange subscribers, e.g., two Andrea Doreys. (Is Tian our list nanny?) This topic should be on the agenda for next month. > > 9:20 (2 min) - Jill Stein in California 9/15-21 (SF->LA) Jill Stein will be in SF on Sept. 15 and LA in Sept. 21 and may be available for an event in Santa Clara County on Sept. 16 or 17. Andrea, Caroline and the Health Care Committee. > > 9:22 (8 min) - Reporting on North County activity (Gerry) > - Homelessness Ban - Palo Alto: "Stop the Ban" group will > meet tomorrow night. They've invited the City Council and others to > this meeting. 70 people attended the first "Stop the Ban" meeting. > City Council is expected to vote on this on August 5. > - Raise Minimum Wage - Mountain View: Group met at Fred's club house > a few weeks ago. August 27: Another meeting of this group. > - San Mateo County City Council Elections: Green party of San Mateo > County member Gladwyn d'Souza running for Belmont City Council. (James Lee is currently registered Peace & Freedom.) > > _______________________________________________ > 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 gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Jul 25 23:07:04 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:07:04 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPSCC Meeting Minutes - Thursday July 25 - FINAL In-Reply-To: <51F1FD8C.2060304@prodsyse.com> References: <51F1BF14.2070306@earthlink.net> <51F1FD8C.2060304@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <51F21208.5060807@earthlink.net> Comments inline. Spencer Graves wrote: > Please sent corrections, etc., to this list. Thanks. Spencer > > > On 7/25/2013 5:13 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: >> >> Here is the final draft agenda. I am bringing 12 paper copies. >> >> = = = = = = = = >> >> Proposed Agenda for July 25, 2013 Green Party of Santa Clara Cty Meeting. >> >> 7:00 (30 min) - Sister Santussika will speak about local activities about >> climate change, and about new ways of activism. > > > Lester Brown is very clear. Started Earth Policy Institute. > Andrew Hardie's book "The Hope" to blend morality and spirituality with > environmental concerns. Today, people are much more aware and concerned > about the environment than a few years ago. 350.org seems to be > providing the best leadership she knows in this area. We need to help > everyone. Sister Santussika is with Theravadan Buddhism. Buddhist > Global Relief tries to help the poorest of the poor. If we educate > women and girls, we will stabilize population growth and ... . > > > Suggestions: > > > * 350.org has the clearest mission statement and list of > activities: Tar sands resistance, > > > * Divestment (need a petition for the City of San Jos?): > campaigns.gofossilfree.org has a petition. Calpers has been big into > divestment. > > > * Stay focused on undermining the fossil fuel industry. > Plastic bags, light bulbs, etc.: "Do the math": If we don't control > the fossil fuel industry, nothing else will matter. Otherwise, we spend > all our time spin our wheels off the track. > How about sending the above part to Sister Santussika for her review? More below. >> >> 7:30 (10 min) - Identify facilitator: Warner. > > >> note taker: Spencer > > >> , vibes watcher: Dana > > >> time keeper: Caroline > > >> and agenda preparer: Sandy > > >> . Intros and >> announcements. Additions or corrections to agenda. > > > Warner: Nova last month on the geological development of Australia (and > the entire planet). We are not even an instant from a geological > perspective. > > > Gerry, Dana, > > > Caroline: > > > Spencer: > > > Andrea: "Think City EV" > > > Sandy: Mobile home rent control in San Jos?; sequester in housing > authority; "March to heal the valley" from San Jos? to Google and Apple > in the fall to stop funding evil and start paying taxes. > >> >> 7:40 (10 min) - Health Care Committee Report?? (who?) > > > Sandy: Caroline held a committee meeting to organize an event at > Seven Trees Community Center. Working with SIREN. Friday, September 6, > 6:30 - 9 PM. SIREN suggested have the community speak first. Last 2 > weeks before the event, we want to do some phone banking. Caroline has > been having phone banking at her house every Tuesday at least through > the end of July. If anyone feels like phone banking for our health care > event, please contact Caroline. > >> >> 7:50 (20 min) - Climate Change Report (Gerry, who else?) >> - Google/Inhofe: Google had a fundraiser for Sen. Inhofe is >> the worst climate science deniers "deniers" -> "denier" More below. >> in congress. Gerry and others >> organized a demonstration at Google against this action. I did help a little bit, but my role was pretty minor. Probably better to just say there was a demonstration yesterday (7/24). More below. >> Fundraiser >> was in Washington, DC. Brad Johnson got 20,000 signatures on line. I looked back and it turns out that Brad Johnson got about 18,000, Credo got about 30,000, (yes, online). More below. >> A >> receptionist at Google said they didn't have anyone to give that to so >> wouldn't accept it. If it were a business proposal, it could be >> accepted. > > >> Chevron Richmond Action 8/3 - 350 SV: Chevron HQ is in San Ramon. Bay >> Area 350 is organizing an event in Richmond for Aug. 3. Peaceful >> march & rally + speakers + an "action". The Mayor of Richmond will be >> there. Caroline could use help with phone banking. Caroline has >> sheets and scripts for others who might want to phone bank without >> coming to Caroline's. The Richmond Bart station parking is closed; >> that's where people were planning to meet. Caroline has fliers, which >> people can take if they are going anywhere they can distribute them. > > > Go to 350.org to get updates. > >> >> 8:10 ( 5 min) - Treasurer's Report (who?) > > > Caroline: $1,660.27 + $26 > > outlays: $30.20 phone bill > + $58 for Jill Stein T-shirts and buttons > + $225 for our share of hall rental at Seven Trees Community Center. > > Ending balance: $1,373.07 > >> >> 8:15 (10 min) - Tabling (who?) > > > Caroline is looking for a place to table. Gay Pride (August 17 & > 18, noon to 7 PM; but in the past they've wanted too much $) > > > July 27 Cumberly School in Palo Alto. "Cumberly" -> "Cubberley" More below. > >> >> 8:25 ( 5 min) - Discuss showing "Over Troubled Waters" (who?) > > > Gerry: > > >> >> 8:30 (20 min) - Electoral Reform Proposal (Spencer) >> The Green Party of Santa Clara County supports the following >> initiatives for electoral reform: Overturning Citizens United, >> citizen-funded election and news, the US and California Disclose Acts, >> the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (that requires >> participating states to commit all their electoral votes to the >> candidate who wins the popular vote), and Instant-runoff voting (as >> outlined in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United >> States"). The Green Party of Santa Clara County will collaborate with >> all other organizations working to pass these issues including getting >> supporting resolutions passed at local and state levels as >> appropriate. This includes in particular Move to Amend and Rootstrikers > > > IRV was authorized by a proposition passed in Santa Clara County > in the late 1990s. The current Interim Registrar of Voters could be > very supportive of IRV. > >> >> 8:50 (10 min) - California Clean Money Campaign (Spencer) > > > If it gets a 2/3 vote in the Assembly by ~Sept. 13 (and the > Governor signed it), it can become law this year. If it passes by 50% > but less than 2/3, it goes on an initiative. > >> >> 9:00 (10 min) - Peacemovies cosponsoring? (John T.) >> >> 9:10 (5 min) - Appointment of new term SGA GPSCC members > > > We already appointed Spencer, Drew and John at the last meeting. > Betsy offered to serve on the SGA. There is a consensus on appointing > Betsy to the SGA. > > > We should put a call out on the Discuss list for another > volunteer (female for gender balance). > >> >> 9:15 (5 min) - GPCA bylaws issues > > > Next plenary may be as early as November. If Santa Clara County > wants to propose changes to the state party bylaws to be considered in > the November plenary, such changes should be discussed in our August > meeting. > > > We need to find our list administrator and find out if there are > strange subscribers, e.g., two Andrea Doreys. (Is Tian our list nanny?) > > > This topic should be on the agenda for next month. > >> >> 9:20 (2 min) - Jill Stein in California 9/15-21 (SF->LA) > > > Jill Stein will be in SF on Sept. 15 and LA in Sept. 21 and may > be available for an event in Santa Clara County on Sept. 16 or 17. > Andrea, Caroline and the Health Care Committee. > >> >> 9:22 (8 min) - Reporting on North County activity (Gerry) Dana did the homeless part. >> - Homelessness Ban - Palo Alto: "Stop the Ban" group will >> meet tomorrow night. "tomorrow night" -> "Saturday night" Gerry >> They've invited the City Council and others to >> this meeting. 70 people attended the first "Stop the Ban" meeting. >> City Council is expected to vote on this on August 5. > > >> - Raise Minimum Wage - Mountain View: Group met at Fred's club house >> a few weeks ago. August 27: Another meeting of this group. > > >> - San Mateo County City Council Elections: Green party of San Mateo >> County member Gladwyn d'Souza running for Belmont City Council. > > > (James Lee is currently registered Peace & Freedom.) > From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri Jul 26 01:33:51 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:33:51 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-forum] Jill Stein in California in September In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51F2346F.4090506@earthlink.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gpca-forum] Jill Stein in California in September Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:20:30 -0700 From: June Brashares Reply-To: GPCA member general discussion To: gpca-forum at cagreens.org Hi Greens, Jill Stein is going to be in California in mid-September. This could provide an opportunity for Greens around California to host events with her. Please help spread the word to Greens about this opportunity.If you or others you know might be interested in having her at an event you would organize, please let me know and we'll see what can be arranged. Jill is confirmed to be a speaker at the Petaluma Progressive Festival for Sunday September 15th, 2013. Following the event in Petaluma, she will likely stay in California for a week and do an event on Saturday Sept 21st.in the LA area (I think it is an Eco-Socialist conference). So between those events, for the dates of Sept 16th - 20th, she could potentially do other events around California going from the North Bay to Southern California. If you have ideas or proposals for events with Jill, please let me know as soon as possible so I can provide her options to consider. She is interested in helping CA Greens as much as she can. I'm not able to confirm any specific event on her behalf but can help deliver speaking invitations/ proposals to her so she can decide which she can include in her schedule. Thanks, June June Brashares Green Party of Sonoma County 415-425-3733 -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ gpca-forum mailing list gpca-forum at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-forum From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sat Jul 27 09:04:22 2013 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:04:22 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] N. County Rally Tonight against proposed Palo Alto Car-dwelling Ban In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 6 pm. Cubberly High School (Just up-peninsula from San Antonia Rd on Middlefield) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:42:45 -0700 Subject: [Occupy PA] MEDIA ADVISORY: Info for Stop the Ban Event in Palo Alto From: orwcmedia at gmail.com To: orwcmedia at gmail.com MEDIA ADVISORY Stop the Ban Coalition's Event Reminder Community Dinner for the Unhoused in Palo Alto Media Contacts Edie Keating, Stop the Ban Coalition: 650.630.3005 Cubberley Event E-mail: edie.keating100 at gmail.com Stop the Ban E-mail: StopTheBan13 at gmail.com ORWC Contact: JamesLeeRWC at gmail.com PALO ALTO - The Stop the Ban Coalition is issuing one last reminder before our community dinner event for the unhoused people of Palo Alto: EVENT INFO: Community dinner Saturday, July 27 at 6 PM. To be held at the Cubberley Community Center on 4000 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. Free pizza and salad will be served, and voluntary contributions will be accepted. NOTICE TO PRESS FOR THIS EVENT: While we have many unhoused people who are happy to be public with their stories, others do not want their names recorded or photos of them to be taken. Please respect the privacy of our unhoused neighbors and make sure to verify with any attendee if they are willing to let you use their name and/or photo, to respect the privacy of the unhoused. Name tags will have little "dot" stickers to indicate that the person is okay with media asking about their story. Background: Palo Alto is proposing a ban on car dwelling and the City Council will likely be considering the ban at their upcoming council meeting on August 5. The Stop the Ban Coalition is a diverse group of community members who believe Palo Alto should not enact a ban on car dwelling. We know this ban will hurt some of our most at-risk community members. We are inviting the community to join us for dinner in solidarity with unhoused community members and to discuss how to get involved before the impending council meeting. Those in the community who support the ban and have concerns about potential safety issues in their neighborhood are welcome as well. The coalition is looking forward to respectfully hearing those concerns and discussing possible alternative solutions that would benefit the entire city. ### -- Occupy Redwood City Media and Communications OccupyRedwoodCity.Org Facebook.Com/OccupyRedwoodCity @OccupyRWC -- -- This mailing list is for announcements of events and meetings. Please use OccupyPaloAltoGA at googlegroups.com for information and discussion. Please note that all messages are viewable by the whole world. Select "Reply to All" in your mail program if everyone should see your reply. 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I dropped off the local email list for a while primarily because I was too busy with other things. However, the closeness of two important issues has prompted me to return. They are water and energy. Specifically, I am very concerned that the entire effort by the Brown administration to build a pair of tunnels under the Delta to divert water from it's current use to something else is very troubling. For a while I thought that the rationale for such fervent effort was Brown's desire for legacy as great as his father's. Now, I am not so sure. I know that the South County Democratic Club is taking on the issues of Delta Water and Fracking as their key environmental efforts for 2014. I also know that our local state assemblyman, Luis Alejo (Salinas) has managed to refrain from voting on key fracking related bills. The Democrats are talking about the probability that the real need for all of the extra water is to support massive fracking operations in San Luis Obispo / Monterey counties or expansion of the steam recovery of oil sludge in Kern county. It makes sense to me that Santa Clara, Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Greens should mount an effort to show Green Party leadership on these issues and to do so in such a manner as to prevent Democrats from being able to claim this as their own. -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sat Jul 27 16:42:33 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:42:33 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] I'm back. In-Reply-To: <51F4504C.9090803@charter.net> References: <51F4504C.9090803@charter.net> Message-ID: <51F45AE9.40108@earthlink.net> Wes Rolley wrote: > Ahnuld does not have exclusive use of that phrase. > > I dropped off the local email list for a while primarily because I was > too busy with other things. However, the closeness of two important > issues has prompted me to return. They are water and energy. > Specifically, I am very concerned that the entire effort by the Brown > administration to build a pair of tunnels under the Delta to divert > water from it's current use to something else is very troubling. For a > while I thought that the rationale for such fervent effort was Brown's > desire for legacy as great as his father's. Now, I am not so sure. I > know that the South County Democratic Club is taking on the issues of > Delta Water and Fracking as their key environmental efforts for 2014. I > also know that our local state assemblyman, Luis Alejo (Salinas) has > managed to refrain from voting on key fracking related bills. > > The Democrats are talking about the probability that the real need for > all of the extra water is to support massive fracking operations in San > Luis Obispo / Monterey counties or expansion of the steam recovery of > oil sludge in Kern county. That's a disturbing thought. Can you say anything more about how likely / unlikely the fracking or steam recovery issues are? > > It makes sense to me that Santa Clara, Monterey and San Luis Obispo > County Greens should mount an effort to show Green Party leadership on > these issues and to do so in such a manner as to prevent Democrats from > being able to claim this as their own. Ok. Gerry > -- > "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, > then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/ > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From wrolley at charter.net Sat Jul 27 22:01:59 2013 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:01:59 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Water Esports Message-ID: <51F4A5C7.8090009@charter.net> I think that people should read this quotation very carefully. The writer, David Zeitland, is a well-known, respected expert on the economics of water. > Yesterday, I moderated a discussion over "Delta exports" (taking water > from the environment for farmers), and found people anchored in > unrealistic positions. The environmentalists, for example, want to > restore the ecosystem at the same time as exports continue. That > "cooperative" view is worthless to both sides. Exports need to end if > California is going to cope with climate change and move to > sustainable water use. A good share of farmers need to go out of > business (those without secure water rights already are), and urban > dwellers need to stop using 800 liters/capita/day. That can happen via > political fiat or *the process I described three years ago > .* There are jno easy answers. There is no easy way out. The politics places Big Green non-profits and the Democratic Party arguing for exactly all the things that DZ ways are "worthlesss". Shall we all meet at Raging Waters to discuss this? LOL. -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Sun Jul 28 10:21:15 2013 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:21:15 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] I'm back. In-Reply-To: <51F45AE9.40108@earthlink.net> References: <51F4504C.9090803@charter.net> <51F45AE9.40108@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51F5530B.2060107@charter.net> On 7/27/2013 4:42 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > That's a disturbing thought. Can you say anything more > about how likely / unlikely the fracking or steam recovery > issues are? Gerry and all, Those are good questions that are easily answered with 1 name: Stewart Resnick. Resnick has a history of making very targeted political contributions: Pete Wilson, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegget (get the picture... it is the office not the party) and most specifically Diane Feinstein whose husband is a poker playing, cigar smoking buddy of Resnick. The connection to Fracking is through the Kern County Water Bank. Resnick gained control over the water bank during the Davis Administration. It basically allows the accumulation of water at agricultural rates subsidized by tax payers and the resale of that water at commercial rates to the highest bidder. To show just how much profit there is to be made, the Santa Clara Valley Water District sets groundwater charges for agricultural use at $18.30 per acre ft and for residential / industrial use at > $305 per a/f. in S. County and $680 in the rest of it's area. Some good background on the relationship of Kern County Water Bank is available in this item by Burt Wilson on the web site of the California Water Impact Network:/Will Oil Companies Benefit Most From Delta Tunnels?/ http://www.c-win.org/content/burt-wilson-will-oil-companies-benefit-most-delta-tunnels.html If we really want to think about this or pursue it as an action area, it might be necessary to think about water as an economic issue, something that David Zetland does quite well. Zetland was quoted recently on a blog called WaterWired, owned by Michael Campana, Prof of Hydrology at Oregon State: > Yesterday, I moderated a discussion over "Delta exports" (taking water > from the environment for farmers), and found people anchored in > unrealistic positions. The environmentalists, for example, want to > restore the ecosystem at the same time as exports continue. That > "cooperative" view is worthless to both sides. Exports need to end if > California is going to cope with climate change and move to > sustainable water use. A good share of farmers need to go out of > business (those without secure water rights already are), and urban > dwellers need to stop using 800 liters/capita/day. That can happen via > political fiat or *the process I described three years ago > .* It is not going to be easy to resolve any of this, but all resolutions deserve to begin with the truth of the physical world. -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There is a toy raccoon on a North Carolina quarter in my home. From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Jul 30 11:38:19 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:38:19 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Silicon Valley Wealth and Power Message-ID: <51F8081B.9090501@earthlink.net> FYI, TomDispatch has an item, "Rebecca Solnit, How to Act Like a Billionaire", which is an intro by Tom Englehart plus a column by Rebecca Solnit, "Welcome to the (Don?t Be) Evil Empire ... Google Eats the World". This was published on June 25th, before the Inhofe fundraiser. First paragraph (of Solnit's column): ================================ Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the world?s third-largest company in market value. The new round of discussion began even before the revelations that the tech giants were routinely sharing our data with the National Security Agency, or maybe merging with it. Simultaneously another set of journalists, apparently unaware that the weather has changed, is still sneering at San Francisco, my hometown, for not lying down and loving Silicon Valley?s looming presence. ================================ Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Jul 30 11:41:59 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:41:59 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Silicon Valley Wealth and Power In-Reply-To: <51F808A6.1040004@earthlink.net> References: <51F808A6.1040004@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51F808F7.60802@earthlink.net> FYI, TomDispatch has an item, "Rebecca Solnit, How to Act Like a Billionaire", which is an intro by Tom Englehart plus a column by Rebecca Solnit, "Welcome to the (Don?t Be) Evil Empire ... Google Eats the World". This was published on June 25th, before the Inhofe fundraiser. First paragraph (of Solnit's column): ================================ Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the world?s third-largest company in market value. The new round of discussion began even before the revelations that the tech giants were routinely sharing our data with the National Security Agency, or maybe merging with it. Simultaneously another set of journalists, apparently unaware that the weather has changed, is still sneering at San Francisco, my hometown, for not lying down and loving Silicon Valley?s looming presence. ================================ http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175717/ Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Jul 30 13:01:31 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:01:31 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Bradley Manning Verdict Message-ID: <51F81B9B.9060805@earthlink.net> "Manning 'Guilty' on Most Counts, Faces 100 Years in Prison" "'Not Guilty' on 'aiding the enemy' charge, but verdict enough to put whistleblower in prison for a century or more" http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/30-6 Gerry From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Jul 30 15:13:50 2013 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:13:50 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Going to Chevron In-Reply-To: <51F83A3C.6040008@earthlink.net> References: <51F83A3C.6040008@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <51F83A9E.6000503@earthlink.net> "The Good News? We're Going to Chevron" by Rebecca Solnit" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/30-3 Gerry From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Jul 30 21:20:54 2013 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Our son Trayvon In-Reply-To: <51f87432432c8_506effa88410784@production-change-main-resque-00.mail> References: <51f87432432c8_506effa88410784@production-change-main-resque-00.mail> Message-ID: <1375244454.14669.YahooMailNeo@web122905.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> FYI ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Tracy Martin & Sybrina Fulton via Change.org To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:19 PM Subject: Our son Trayvon Change.org Responsive Template Baseline Justice for our son Trayvon: 'Stand Your Ground' laws must be reviewed. Sign Tracy and Sybrina's Petition Last year, our son Trayvon Martin was stalked, chased down and killed by George Zimmerman, and Zimmerman received no punishment whatsoever. That's in large part because Florida is one of at least 21 states with some form of 'Stand Your Ground' law which enables people like George Zimmerman to claim self-defense. 'Stand Your Ground' was never meant to give aggressors the opportunity to get away with murder, but that is what happened when our son Trayvon was killed. After Trayvon's death, law enforcement used the law as an excuse to refuse to arrest George Zimmerman. Even worse, the jury in the case was instructed to think of what Zimmerman did as self-defense, even though Zimmerman ignored instructions from the police and instigated conflict with our son, who was just trying to get home to his father. We are shocked and heartbroken by the jury?s decision to allow our son?s killer to go free. Despite our despair, we must honor Trayvon?s legacy by doing all that we can to protect other young people from being targeted, pursued, and senselessly murdered. We started a petition on Change.org calling on 21 governors whose states have some form of 'Stand Your Ground' laws to review those laws and amend them so that people who instigate conflicts -- people like George Zimmerman -- won't be able to use these laws to get away with murder. We are not the only ones calling for 'Stand Your Ground' laws to be reviewed. President Obama spoke out on the need for review, and prominent Republicans like Senator John McCain have joined him. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue, it?s not ?black? or ?white? issue, it?s a wrong and right issue.? This is a matter of making sure that no other family will ever have to go through what we have been through. No parents should ever have to know what it feels like to watch your child's killer walk free. Our hearts broke on the night of February 26, 2012 when George Zimmerman killed our son -- and we were stunned and devastated when the police refused to arrest Zimmerman. We petitioned for Zimmerman's arrest on Change.org, and after more than 2 million people joined our call, Zimmerman was charged with our son's murder. We felt so much closer to justice for Trayvon, and so grateful for the support of those who signed our petition. But on July 13, 2013, our hearts broke again when the jury set Zimmerman free. Our hearts broke because it is so hard to accept that we can't protect Trayvon anymore. But we can fight to make sure that this never happens again.? Please sign our petition calling for a thorough review of all 'Stand Your Ground' laws to prevent killers like George Zimmerman from going free. We want to say thank you to all of you who have stood up for our son. Because of all your efforts, Trayvon?s life is celebrated all over the world. Please continue to stand with us as we fight to ensure that his legacy is to leave behind a safer and more peaceful world for all our sons and daughters. Thank you, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton Sign Tracy and Sybrina's Petition This email was sent by Change.org to pagesincolor at yahoo.com. You can edit your email preferences or unsubscribe from Change.org emails. Start a petition on Change.org Mailing Address: Change.org ? 216 W 104th St., #130 ? New York, NY 10025 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Jul 30 23:30:08 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: AB5 Support Letters In-Reply-To: References: <202de.369aaa6c.3f29641d@aol.com>, Message-ID: <1375252208.65273.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Lynn Huidekoper To: Sandy Perry-HCA ; Jim Doyle-HCA ; Caroline Yacoub-Green Party ; Tian Harter-Green Party Cc: jeanpeer at sbcglobal.net; r.m.mckinney at sbcglobal.net; joan at rujo.org; shruthibhuma at gmail.com; swathibhuma at gmail.com; mcbeattie at jps.net; bobnroz at gmail.com; gwhunt97 at sbcglobal.net; asamelson at work4peace.net; kbock3 at sbcglobal.net; gmupandaway at gmail.com; marty1132 at aol.com; peacenut99 at yahoo.com; brogregm at sbcglobal.net Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:00 PM Subject: AB5 Support Letters Green Party folks and SCC Single Payer HCC, Here's an email with a sample support letter for AB5, Tom Ammiano's Homeless Rights bill, which will be a 2 year bill and will be re-introduced in January 2014. You can keep it in your files to send at a later date closer to the re-introduction. If you are affiliated with other org. which may be interested in this issue please spread the word! Thanks, Lynn Lynn Huidekoper, RN Legislative Liaison, Santa Clara County Single Payer Healthcare Coalition Health Care for All-CA, Santa Clara County Chapter https://www.facebook.com/CampaignForAHealthyCalifornia?fref=ts Menlo Park, CA. 650-322-9609 Health Care is a Human Right ________________________________ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:05:18 -0700 Subject: Re: Info. about wrap... From: edie.keating100 at gmail.com To: Bhushans at aol.com CC: mary.p.stuart at gmail.com; abjpd1 at gmail.com; lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com; katie at vcfp.org; hobredo at gmail.com; snug.bug at hotmail.com; robertaahlquist at yahoo.com; geoff.browning at stanford.edu; drpesto at hotmail.com; ngrench at aol.com; grchippendale at yahoo.com; marycklein at yahoo.com; georgehmills at sbcglobal.net; lsa1o at aol.com; selbytelecom at gmail.com; joy.sleizer142 at gmail.com; gailt1225 at earthlink.net; rachel.lindenberg at gmail.com; waynejdouglass at gmail.com; chuckjagoda1 at gmail.com; bkenny5678 at gmail.com; fred124c41 at yahoo.com; paloaltofreepress at gmail.com; lindamartinet at yahoo.com; homeless at americanbar.org; assemblymember.ammiano at assembly.ca.gov; peter.koelling at americanbar.org; ethicsearch at americanbar.org; arthur at huffingtonpost.com; minorities at americanbar.org; prgreg at stanford.edu; prgreg at stanford.ed; Amy.HortonNewell at americanbar.org; aschlosser at aclunc.org; andy_burnham at pbc.org; dminkler at dminkler.com; jfriedenbach at cohsf.org; mcarrera at cohsf.org; lmalatorre at cohsf.org; kdotson at cohsf.org; wdaley at chp-sf.org; maryayers at comcast.net; yvonnekenyon66 at yahoo.com Thanks, Cybele - I think even more important, which so many folks are doing with research or contacting others, is take initiative.? This week - letters to city council are needed.? city.council at cityofpaloalto.org? gets your letter to all of them.? Thanks, Edie On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM, wrote: >Hello Everyone,? > >You all may be way ahead of me on this, since I just started to get involved. But I have sent the link?below to the wrap site for AB5 Tom Amanino's Homeless Bill of Rights Act which will be taken up again in January 2014.? >I think it is important that we rev up our research and the intensity of our planning to support this bill. And locally keep following Edie's lead in organizing and strategizing. Hope this e-mail works for you. > >Sincerely, > >Cybele > >P.S. Edie,? I did not have the correct e-mail address for the following two supporters, can you forward this to them? Also, I'm forwarding this link to the Mid-Peninsula ACLU Chapter?via a separate e-mail. > >neighborshelpingneighbors2013, Roberta Alquist. > >http://www.wraphome.org/images/stories/ab5documents/AB5SupportLetter_Assembly_.pdf?? >?????????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Wed Jul 31 15:56:46 2013 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Hunger Strike - Day 24: Call Governor, Rally and 24-Hour Fast in Support of Strikers In-Reply-To: <201307312138.r6VLcp15016279@mail.ucla.edu> References: <201307312138.r6VLcp15016279@mail.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <1375311406.57799.YahooMailNeo@web185305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: shane que hee To: Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:38 PM Subject: Hunger Strike - Day 24: Call Governor, Rally and 24-Hour Fast in Support of Strikers Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:14:24 -0400 (EDT) >From: Youth Justice Coalition >Reply-To: freelanow at yahoo.com >Subject: Hunger Strike - Day 24: Call Governor, Rally and 24-Hour Fast in Support of Strikers > > > ? > >Today is Day 24 of the hunger strike, and CDCR continues to retaliate against people participating in this peaceful protest while refusing to negotiate. It is important that we continue to show our support & keep the pressure on Gov. Brown and the CDCR! > > >On July 22, Billy ?Guero? Sell, a prisoner held in solitary confinement at Corcoran? State Prison and a participant in the 3-week-long hunger strike that has? shaken the California prison system, passed > >away. Sell?s death is being ruled a? suicide by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). > >????????? > >Other people locked up on Sell's unit reported that Sell had been requesting medical? attention for several days prior to his death. Attorneys received? numerous reports of medical neglect of the health needs of the strikers,? and these reports have generated an outcry from the medical community.? Over 100 health care providers have signed onto a letter denouncing the? CDCR?s failure to provide appropriate medical care to the strikers. > >????????????? > >At least 600 strikers are still committed to continuing the action until California Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Corrections take decisive > >action to meet their demands. > >??????????? > >Over 5,000 people have signed the petition to Governor Brown. Now we need CALLS to push Governor Brown to act on the strikers' behalf. > > >JOIN US and USE YOUR POLITICAL POWER! > > >1) Call Governor Jerry Brown > >Phone: (916) 445-2841 > >Suggested? script: I?m calling in support of the prison hunger strikers. The? governor has the power to > >stop the torture of solitary confinement. I? urge the governor to compel the CDCR to enter into negotiations to end? the strike. > >??????????? > >2) Support the Day Long Hunger Strike - today (Wednesday, July 31st) > >"Hunger for Justice" will have convenings throughout California. Fast in solidarity? with the demands of the hunger strikers. And we fast? to get justice for? Trayvon and for people of every gender, race, > >and? religion who have been? killed by state and vigilante violence. > > >Wednesday, July 31st at 11am > >Oscar Grant Plaza :14th and > >Broadway, Oakland, CA > >??????????? > >Wednesday, July 31st at 12pm > >Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building, 300 N. Los Angeles St, LA 90012 > > >Wednesday, July 31st All Day > >Community Education > >Pick up Materials at SubRosa Community Space & Cafe: 703 Pacific Ave > >Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > >and Mobilization at 6:30pm > >Santa Cruz Downtown Clocktower on Ocean st. & Pacific St. > >HAVE YOU ENDORSED THE LA FOR YOUTH CAMPAIGN YET?? Click HERE - it'll take just a minute! > >Youth Justice Coalition >@ Chuco's Justice Center >On the border between South Central L.A. and Inglewood >one light west of Florence and Crenshaw >1137 E. Redondo Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90302 >323-235-4243 * Fax: 323-846-9472 >freelanow at yahoo.com >www.youth4justice.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rob.means at electric-bikes.com Wed Jul 31 23:00:36 2013 From: rob.means at electric-bikes.com (Rob Means - SCCDC) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:00:36 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Move To Amend strategic meeting on Monday, August 5 -- ballot measure, or not? In-Reply-To: <20130801051803.2B0FD91C6E5@utility.ontrk.com> References: <20130801051803.2B0FD91C6E5@utility.ontrk.com> Message-ID: <51F9F984.4020100@electric-bikes.com> *Build Democracy, End Corporate Rule* HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT CORPORATE RIGHTS *WE WILL EXPLAIN THE ADVANCES MADE IN PUTTING A BALLOT MEASURE* *ON THE NOV. 2014 COUNTY BALLOT AND HOW YOU CAN HELP* *AGENDA FOR MONDAY, AUG. 5, 2013* Location: Casa Vicky?s ?Casita? Dinner from 6-7, Meeting 7-9 PM 792 E Julian St. (17^th & Julian) San Jose, CA 95112-1807 (408) 995-5488 www.casavicky.com *SCC-MTA RECENT SUCCESSES (1 MIN) *Our achievements of the month *VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: **TIMEKEEPER & NOTETAKER FOR MEETING (1 MIN)* *APPROVE AGENDA & GROUND RULES (1 MIN)* *GROUND RULES* ? * Work on consensus basis * Step up / Step back * Try on the process * Don?t interrupt / raise hands / use a stack * Turn off cell phones * Talk to everyone (not facilitators) * Expect unfinished business * Leave your ego at the door * Lead by example *INTRODUCTIONS (2 MIN) * *NOV. 2014 SANTA CLARA COUNTY ORDINANCE:* *A Report from the Ballot Initiative Work Group (60 MIN) */Eitan, Steve, Tom, Veronica, Esthela, Anne, Spencer, Gerry, Randy, Rob, & Richard NEXT MEETING ON AUG. 12 AT 7 PM AT 2175 THE ALAMEDA/ /OUR ORDINANCE LANGUAGE, WITH A SURPRISE * OUR POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE * MESSAGING FOR THE CAMPAIGN * OUR 8-WEEK INTENSIVE PLEDGE EFFORT * PERSONAL PLEDGES * WHAT YOU CAN DO/ *WORK GROUP REPORTS (20 MIN)* (1) Resolutions (2) Action & Education (3) Communications & Outreach (4) Ballot Initiative (above) *ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED BY MTA OR COORDINATING COUNCIL (3 MIN) */All/ *EVALUATION (2 MIN) */All/ *STAY KIND!* *_DONATIONS:_** PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO SANTA CLARA COUNTY MOVE TO AMEND BY GIVING CASH TO RICHARD HOBBS OR A CHECK DONATION PAYABLE TO HUMAN AGENDA [& MAILED TO HUMAN AGENDA, 2175 The Alameda, Suite 103, SJ 95126, OR HANDED TO RICHARD]* Click below to Unsubscribe -- Rob Means,1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913 408-262-0420h, 408-262-8975w, rob.means at electric-bikes.com ---------------------------------------------------------- -- Rob Means, Vice-President Santa Clara County Democratic Club 408-262-0420 rob.means at electric-bikes.com 1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913 www.democraticclub-scc.org a progressive organization ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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