[GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara County Greens Meeting, Thursday July 24th

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


	  Below please find a draft agenda for the next meeting, Thursday, 
August 28.


	  Warner agreed to prepare the agenda.  Unfortunately, he is
having trouble with emailing to sosfbay-discuss, so I'm transmitting 
this report from the last meeting.  Only 3 regular members attended. 
They declared the lack of a quorum and pushed time sensitive issues to 
the County Council and pushed the rest of the agenda to August.


	  Spencer

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	  Earlier this evening, we had a only 3 regular members for our monthly 
meeting (Warner, Sandy and me) plus 3 guests (Patrick McKercher of the 
Santa Clara County Move to Amend group, plus "Nicci" Elaine Claremont 
and Marco Garcia, who plan to attend the Occupy National Gathering in 
Sacramento, July 31 - August 3).


	  Patrick talked about Prop 49 on this November's ballot, which I've 
mentioned before.  He noted that the SCC-MTA had created BDECR (Build 
Democracy, End Corporate Rule), which had tried to collect the required 
number of signatures (~53,000) to place an advisory initiative on the 
Santa Clara County ballot and had collected only between 4,000 and 5,000 
by the deadline.  This experience actually is placing them in a 
leadership position to help the state-wide Prop 49 campaign, currently 
being formed by MOVI (Money Out, Voters In).  While many other 
organizations helped, MOVI seems to have been the acknowledged leader in 
getting Prop 49 on the ballot. They managed to get SB 1272 introduced 
into the California state Senate, and they worked with other 
organizations like the California Clean Money Campaign (caclean.org) to 
get it passed;  SB 1272 is the "Overturn Citizens United Act," which 
mandated an advisory measure, which is Prop 49.


	  Below please find a draft agenda for that next meeting.


	  As always, please send any corrections, additions or questions to the 
entire list.


SANDY HAD TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS:


	  * Tomorrow evening, Friday, July 25, 7 - 9 PM, San José Peace & 
Justice Center:  Film: "Beware the Emergency Financial Manager" about 
Rev. Edward Pinkney, who is currently being prosecuted on vote fraud 
charges under laws that could send him to prison for 25 years.  He 
claims the Right wingers are after him, because he has tried to 
challenge the legality of some of the actions surrounding the bankruptcy 
of Detroit, MI 
(http://www.sanjosepeace.org/calendar_event.php?eid=201407091124192).


	  * July 30, noon, there will be a rally to celebrate the birthday of 
Medicare.  See the separate email from Sandy.


	  Spencer


GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General 
Meeting August 28, 2014 San  Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th 
Street, San Jose, CA  (Between Santa Clara and San Fernando  Streets)

7:00 pm:  pre-meeting


7:30 pm:  Begin meeting -- Select Facilitator, Note taker, Time keeper, 
and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting;


Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes)


Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes)


Treasurer's Reportm, Jim Doyle (5 minutes):
Bank balance:  $1,109.42.
Annual contribution to SJPJC now due:  $150


Report  on status of obtain updated registered voters data and discuss 
plans for use:  Updated list has been requested and should be received 
in a few days.  (Spencer)


Report regarding GPCA reappointment of County Council:  To the best of 
my knowledge, the California State Green party has decided to accept 
whatever we have.  (Spencer)


Continue Discussions regarding GPSCC web page(s) and email list(s):  If 
you have problems with the web site, please report such to Spencer 
Graves (spencer.graves at prodsyse.com).  If you are not allowed to send to 
sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org, please try to sign up again for the list. 
  If you can send an email to the list that others on the list receive 
but you don't, please call tech support at your Internet Service 
Provider (ISP).  They should be able to watch to see if the email 
reaches a server belonging to cagreens.org.  If it doesn't, it's a 
problem they can fix.  If it does, they should then be able to watch to 
see if it comes back to them from cagreens.org.  If it doesn't, please 
report it to me (spencer.graves at prodsyse.com).  I don't know how to fix 
it, but I'll use that information to try to obtain a solution.  If it 
comes back from cagreens.org, then again it's a problem your ISP should 
be able to fix.


Warner and Drew (15  minutes) Proposal:  The GPSCC requests that the 
GPCA Coordinating Committee and its Internet Technology Committee 
remove, delete and terminate a second duplicative and out-of-date GPSCC 
web page that  was previously established by the GPCA's former 
executive manager, Marnie Glickman without prior consultation with the 
GPSCC County  Council.


Proposal:  The GPSCC requests that the GPCA Coordinating Committee and 
its Internet Technology Committee also remove, delete and  terminate a 
GPSCC Facebook page or pages that was / were previously established by 
the  GPCA's executive manager, Marnie Glickman without prior 
consultation  with the GPSCC County Council. (20 Minutes)


Report on Single Payer Work;  Caroline and Sandy (15 Minutes)


Report on Climate Change Work -- Caroline  (15 Minutes)


Discussion of status of tabling supplies (10 Minutes)


Plans  for Tabling  Need to identify events coordinators -- (10 Minutes)


Continued  Strategy Discussions;  Warner and Sandy (20 Minutes)


Sandy:  Report on compiling summary of past  year's events and activities.


Warner:  Visioning  exercise:  Write and read statements  for one GPSCC 
accomplishment for 2015   (2.1 Hours Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: 
Adjourn by 9:30 pm)


Proposition  49, recently placed on the ballot for the November General 
Election, will ask  the voters the following:


"Shall  the Congress of the United States propose, and the California 
Legislature  ratify,  an  amendment or amendments to the United States 
Constitution to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 
(2010) 558 U.S. 310, and other applicable  judicial precedents, to allow 
the full regulation or limitation of campaign  contributions and 
spending, to ensure that all citizens, regardless of wealth,  may 
express their views to one another, and to make clear that the rights 
protected by the United States Constitution are the rights of natural 
persons  only?"