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

Thu Aug 21 21:10:02 PDT 2014

Hi Everyone,

Here is the summary of local 2013-14 GP activities I was assigned to compile for the agenda point below.

Sandy

GREEN PARTY OF SANTACLARA COUNTY ACTIVITIES 2013-14
Weekly –             Tableat De Anza College
Feb 27, 2013 -    Speakat Oak Grove HS
Apr 7, 2013 -       Tableat David Cobb appearance at SBLC
Apr. 13, 2013 -   Helporganize and table at Andrew Hill Health Fair
Apr 27, 2013 -     Tableat Junior State
May 1, 2013-       SponsorMay Day A2K at De Anza College
May 8, 2013 -      Tableat Spring into Green, De Anza College
Jun 15, 2013 -     Tableat Juneteenth
Jun 22, 2013 -     Participatein Napa State Assembly
Aug 3, 2013 -      Participatein Richmond Summer Heat
Sept 6, 2013 -     Co-sponsor,table, and speak at Single Payer Health Care forum at Seventrees
Sept 16, 2013 -   Speakat Jill Stein event in SF
Oct 7 – 10, 2013 - Participate in March to Heal the Valley
Nov 16, 2013 -    Participatein Santa Rosa State Assembly
Nov 19, 2013 -    Tableat Move to Amend campaign event
Dec 14, 2013 -    Tableat Peace Fair
Dec 2013-Mar 2014 – Signature drive collected over 1200signatures for GP candidates
Jan 18, 2014 – Co-sponsor MLK Freedom Games in Menlo Park
Jan 23, 2014 -     Tableat Club Day at De Anza
Jan 30, 2014 -     SponsorSharat Lin talk on Syria & Iran at De Anza
Feb 7, 2014 -       Participatein Camp Wellstone De Anza College
Feb 27, 2014 -    Speakat Oak Grove
Mar 11, 2014 -    Sponsor3 workshops at LEAD Conference, De Anza
Apr 9, 2014 -       Tableat Gayle Mclaughlin San Jose appearance
Apr 5, 2014 -       Tableat Junior State
Apr 12, 2014 -     Co-sponsorAndrew Hill Health Fair
Apr 22, 2014 -     SponsorEarth Day action at De Anza (Global Climate Convergence)
Apr 22, 2014 -     Tableat Earth Day at SJSU
Apr 24, 2014 -     Tableat Club Day at De Anza (Global Climate Convergence)
Apr 28, 2014 -     SponsorLuis Rodriguez appearance at De Anza (Global Climate Convergence)
Apr 30, 2014 -     SponsorHip Hop performance at De Anza College (Global Climate Convergence)
May 1, 2014 -      Co-sponsorHefas appearance at De Anza (Global Climate Convergence)
May 15, 2014 -   Tableat De Anza Carnival
May 23, 2014 -   Sponsorcampaign appearance by Laura Wells & Ellen Brown at De Anza
May 27, 2014 -   Co-sponsorappearance by Father Michael Lapsley at de Anza
May 27, 2014 – Lucinda Gutierrez house meeting for LuisRodriguez 
May 28, 2014 – Table at Free Higher Education event at DeAnza
Jun 17, 2014 -     SponsorSharat Lin talk “On the Border” at De Anza

-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
To: sosfbay-discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Sent: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 4:00 am
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara County Greens Meeting, Thursday July 24th

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?"

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