From perrysandy at aol.com Tue Dec 2 22:34:28 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 01:34:28 -0500 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Homeless Lives Matter - Eviction is not the Solution to Homelessness Message-ID: <8D1DCDA52FBC0A8-148C-7E59@webmail-va103.sysops.aol.com> HOMELESS LIVES MATTER -EVICTION IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS We call on all allies and people of conscience to come tothe so-called ?Jungle? encampment at 6:30 am on this Thursday morning, December4, to stand in solidarity with the homeless who are threatened with arrest forthe ?crime? of having nowhere to go. The City?s planned eviction of homelessresidents is not the answer to San Jose?s homelessness problem. Simplyarresting or dispersing people will not make them go away. We applaud the City?s efforts that have so far housed some144 encampment residents in the past 18 months. However, many more than that numberBECAME homeless during the same time period, due to the City?s misguidedjobs-housing imbalance and its lax rent control laws. Residents who have movedout of the ?Jungle? into housing have been replaced by new homeless peoplemoving in. The City should concentrate on housing the homeless, notmoving them around from place to place. Moving them from one creek to anotherdoes not protect the environment. According to its own survey, 96% of encampmentresidents would move into affordable housing immediately if it becameavailable. To say that one of the richest cities in America does nothave the resources to house its people is immoral and deceitful. The CityCouncil has the opportunity to show the courage and vision to claim theresources that are there. Silicon Valley corporations have over $500 billion incash reserves. To continue saying there is nothing we can do while our peopleare dying is a disservice to the fine and compassionate people of San Jose. 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One has the same name as another registered Green in that district. The other is "No Party Preference", was unaware that the Registrar of Voters said, "Green", and did NOT want to be portrayed as Green. There are over 4,000 registered Greens in Santa Clara County. A paper listing of the names with phone numbers might contain 50 names per page. If so, that would run 80 pages. That makes a manual search laborious. I now have software that should make the search easier the next time. Part of the problem is writing code that knows that "Ra?l" and "Raul" are probably the same name, as are "Mike" and "Michael". Unfortunately, the software automates a reasonable portion of the task but still requires some programming effort with 251 candidates in the general election and perhaps double that in the primary. Fortunately, enough of the task is now automated, I should be able to do it relatively easily early enough to be useful for the 2016 primary. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Contact Us: Are you Green? Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 19:14:11 -0800 From: Heather Bass To: Spencer Graves Good Evening, Spencer Graves, Yes, I am a Green Party member and I would be interested in attending a meeting. As a new board member, much of December is filled. I will look at my schedule for January and get back to you. Thank you for the information. *Heather Bass* *Gilroy Unified School Board Trustee* *Gilroy Unified School District* *7810 Arroyo Circle, Gilroy CA 95020* *Phone: (408) 489-5559 * heather.bass at g ilroyunified.org On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Spencer Graves < spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org> wrote: > 1. Congratulations on winning a seat on the Gilroy Unified School Board. > > 2. Are you registered Green? A Heather Ruth Bass from Gilroy was > registered Green, at least according to a list of the registered voters in > Santa Clara County from July 29, 2014. If yes, might you be interested in > talking with the local Green party some time? We are meeting Th., Dec. 18, > and Fr., Dec. 26 at 7 PM. January through October, we meet the fourth > Thursdays of each month at 7 PM. Please let me know. > > > Thanks -- and Congratulations, again. Spencer Graves, County Council, > Green Party of Santa Clara County. > Sent from IP Address: 162.228.222.255 > This message was submitted from your website contact form: > http://www.heatherbass4schoolboard.com/contact-us.html > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jamboi at riseup.net Sat Dec 6 11:02:06 2014 From: jamboi at riseup.net (Drew) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:02:06 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: GPCA General Assembly Agenda & Registration, Monterey, January 24-25 In-Reply-To: <5483180a2832_7d0c99dac3410017@app2.mail> References: <5483180a2832_7d0c99dac3410017@app2.mail> Message-ID: <13CD7A15-84C2-49F9-BE54-8BFF304F7458@riseup.net> I urge us to send a delegation and participate. (I am out of state at that time, so cannot be a part of it). Greenvolution is NOW! Drew -------- Original Message -------- From: Green Party of California Inform List Sent: December 6, 2014 6:51:54 AM PST To: gpca-forum at cagreens.org Subject: [gpca-forum] GPCA General Assembly Agenda & Registration, Monterey, January 24-25 Dear Friend -? p. This is to announce the? draft agenda ,? registration ?and? logistics ?for?the? next General Assembly ?of the Green Party of California - Saturday and Sunday, January 24-25 at the? Monterey College of Law ?in Seaside (4 miles from Marina,?home of Green Party mayor Bruce Delgado .) Registration is now open ,?will be $40 through January 1 and $50 afterwards. All registrations include lunch and a light breakfast each day. All meals will be vegetarian or vegan. The General Assembly is the primary decision-making body of the GPCA and?consists of delegates from each active county organization.?A list of how many delegates alloted per county can be found? here .?The Monterey General Assembly agenda will include briefings on our legal challenge to the Top Two, a GPCA Strategic Planning brainstorming session, a session on the GPUS 2016 presidential nomination process and a Saturday night panel discussion with elected Greens.? Hope to see you in Monterey County.p. Sanda Everette, Alex Shantz Co-Coordinators, GPCA? Coordinating Committee Saturday, January 24 ? ? 8:00am Breakfast, registration ? ? 9:00am?Opening, new delegate orientation, quorum count, announcement of Standing Committee vacancies ? ? 9:25am?Welcome from Monterey County Green elected officials:? Bruce Delgado , Mayor, Marina;? Jan Shriner , Board of Directors, Marina Water District ? ? 9:30am?Agenda approval ? ? 9:45am ?Decision:? Bylaws interpretation Regarding 2014-2016 County Council roster ?(Coordinating Committee) ? 10:00am ?Presentation:? Update on? Rubin v. Bowen ?and the GPCA's? amicus brief , other legal challenges to Top Two, the passage of AB2351 and potential other efforts to amend the state elections code to address negative effects of Proposition 14 on the state's smaller, ballot qualified parties ?(Coordinating Committee) ?? ? 10:30am?Discussion:?Brainstorming session on 2015-2016 electoral strategy for preparation of 2015-2017 The Two-Year Strategic Plan?(CCWG, Green Officeholders Network),?including ? ? ?(1) Identifying uncontested races (Alex Shantz, Board of Education, St. Helena School District, Napa County) ? ? ?(2) How/where to run for office, identifying races in which to run ? ? ?(3) Lessons from June 2014 primary (Luis Rodriguez, GPCA endorsed candidate for governor, 2014) ? ? ?(4) Reactivation of Green Officeholders Network ? ? ?(5) Report from GPCA Campaign Fund Support Committee on support of Green candidates ? 11:55am Announcements? ? 12:00pm?Lunch, Womens Caucus meeting during lunch? ? ? 1:05pm?Quorum count ? ? 1:10pm?Discussion: Brainstorming session on party organizing for preparation of 2015-2017 The Two-Year Strategic Plan.?Presentation: Demonstration of Nationbuider and its application for GPCA County Parties and organizing GPCA volunteers?(GROW, Clearinghouse Committee, IT Committee, Finance Committee) ? ? 2:55pm?Announcement?of? Standing Committee ?vacancies ? ? 3:00pm?Breakout sessions for committees and working groups?(Media, Platform, Finance, GROW) ? ??4:30pm?Discussion:?Brainstorming session on GPCA platform updates for preparation of 2015-2017 The Two-Year Strategic Plan (Platform Commitee, Coordinating Committee) ? ? 5:55pm?Announcements ? ? 6:00pm?Dinner?on your own (host committee providing recommendations), GPUS Delegation meeting during dinner ? ? 7:30pm Evening Program with statewide candidates and local Green officeholders ? Sunday, January 25 ? ? 8:00am?Breakfast, registration ? ? 9:00am?Breakout sessions for committees and working groups?(CCWG, Green Issues, Bylaws) ? 10:35pm?Quorum count ? 10:40am?Confirmation:? Standing Committee and Working Group Co-Coordinators? ? 10:45am?Proposal:? Approval Next General Assembly Meeting Date and Place ?(Coordinating Committee) ? 10:55am?Proposal: Platform planks:? International Trade ,? Native Americans ?(Platform Committee) ? 12:30pm?Lunch,?Optional caucus meetings? ? ? 1:35pm?Announcements, including?announcement of? Standing Committee ?vacancies, Quorum Count ? ? 1:40pm?Decision/Discussion:? The GPCA and the 2016 Green presidential process ?(GPUS Delegation) ? ? 2:45pm?Breakout sessions for committees and working groups?(Finance, ERWG, Clearinghouse) ? ? 4:15pm?Confirmation:? Standing Committee and Working Group Co-Coordinators ?(for any committees or working groups not confirmed in morning session) ? ? 4:20pm?Closing session ??p. 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Maybe we could carpool and share a motel room in Marina or Seaside; otherwise I'll just sleep in my car. It would be well to clarify our agenda. Brian From: jamboi at riseup.net Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 11:02:06 -0800 To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: GPCA General Assembly Agenda & Registration, Monterey, January 24-25 I urge us to send a delegation and participate. (I am out of state at that time, so cannot be a part of it). Greenvolution is NOW! Drew From: Green Party of California Inform List Sent: December 6, 2014 6:51:54 AM PST To: gpca-forum at cagreens.org Subject: [gpca-forum] GPCA General Assembly Agenda & Registration, Monterey, January 24-25 Dear Friend -- This is to announce the draft agenda, registration and logistics for the next General Assembly of the Green Party of California - Saturday and Sunday, January 24-25 at the Monterey College of Law in Seaside (4 miles from Marina, home of Green Party mayor Bruce Delgado.) Registration is now open, will be $40 through January 1 and $50 afterwards. All registrations include lunch and a light breakfast each day. All meals will be vegetarian or vegan. The General Assembly is the primary decision-making body of the GPCA and consists of delegates from each active county organization. A list of how many delegates alloted per county can be found here. The Monterey General Assembly agenda will include briefings on our legal challenge to the Top Two, a GPCA Strategic Planning brainstorming session, a session on the GPUS 2016 presidential nomination process and a Saturday night panel discussion with elected Greens. Hope to see you in Monterey County. Sanda Everette, Alex Shantz Co-Coordinators, GPCA Coordinating Committee Saturday, January 24 8:00am Breakfast, registration 9:00am Opening, new delegate orientation, quorum count, announcement of Standing Committee vacancies 9:25am Welcome from Monterey County Green elected officials: Bruce Delgado, Mayor, Marina; Jan Shriner, Board of Directors, Marina Water District 9:30am Agenda approval 9:45am Decision: Bylaws interpretation Regarding 2014-2016 County Council roster (Coordinating Committee) 10:00am Presentation: Update on Rubin v. Bowen and the GPCA's amicus brief, other legal challenges to Top Two, the passage of AB2351 and potential other efforts to amend the state elections code to address negative effects of Proposition 14 on the state's smaller, ballot qualified parties (Coordinating Committee) 10:30am Discussion: Brainstorming session on 2015-2016 electoral strategy for preparation of 2015-2017 The Two-Year Strategic Plan (CCWG, Green Officeholders Network), including (1) Identifying uncontested races (Alex Shantz, Board of Education, St. Helena School District, Napa County) (2) How/where to run for office, identifying races in which to run (3) Lessons from June 2014 primary (Luis Rodriguez, GPCA endorsed candidate for governor, 2014) (4) Reactivation of Green Officeholders Network (5) Report from GPCA Campaign Fund Support Committee on support of Green candidates 11:55am Announcements 12:00pm Lunch, Womens Caucus meeting during lunch 1:05pm Quorum count 1:10pm Discussion: Brainstorming session on party organizing for preparation of 2015-2017 The Two-Year Strategic Plan. Presentation: Demonstration of Nationbuider and its application for GPCA County Parties and organizing GPCA volunteers (GROW, Clearinghouse Committee, IT Committee, Finance Committee) 2:55pm Announcement of Standing Committee vacancies 3:00pm Breakout sessions for committees and working groups (Media, Platform, Finance, GROW) 4:30pm Discussion: Brainstorming session on GPCA platform updates for preparation of 2015-2017 The Two-Year Strategic Plan (Platform Commitee, Coordinating Committee) 5:55pm Announcements 6:00pm Dinner on your own (host committee providing recommendations), GPUS Delegation meeting during dinner 7:30pm Evening Program with statewide candidates and local Green officeholders Sunday, January 25 8:00am Breakfast, registration 9:00am Breakout sessions for committees and working groups (CCWG, Green Issues, Bylaws) 10:35pm Quorum count 10:40am Confirmation: Standing Committee and Working Group Co-Coordinators 10:45am Proposal: Approval Next General Assembly Meeting Date and Place (Coordinating Committee) 10:55am Proposal: Platform planks: International Trade, Native Americans (Platform Committee) 12:30pm Lunch, Optional caucus meetings 1:35pm Announcements, including announcement of Standing Committee vacancies, Quorum Count 1:40pm Decision/Discussion: The GPCA and the 2016 Green presidential process (GPUS Delegation) 2:45pm Breakout sessions for committees and working groups (Finance, ERWG, Clearinghouse) 4:15pm Confirmation: Standing Committee and Working Group Co-Coordinators (for any committees or working groups not confirmed in morning session) 4:20pm Closing session Stay connected with the Green Party of California (and spread the message via social media) On Twitter: www.twitter.com/gpca On Facebook: www.facebook.com/cagreens and www.facebook.com/groups/8071416222 State Party email forum: lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-forum Donate to the GPCA (we don't take corporate donations and are funded by people like you) cagreens.nationbuilder.com/donate Register Green on-line (share this with your friends and interested others) rtv.sos.ca.gov/elections/register-to-vote -=-=- Green Party of California ? 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URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sun Dec 7 13:35:04 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 13:35:04 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] American Anti-Corruption Act Message-ID: <5484C808.1080405@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: I just posted a new article on the "American Anti-Corruption Act" (AACA) to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Anti-Corruption_Act). The AACA includes 11 provisions that constitutional law experts believe are constitutional and would have a substantial impact on reducing corruption in the US government. The first provision would prohibit politicians from raising funds from interests they regulate and from taking actions to benefit interests that spend heavily to influence their elections. Supportive resolutions have been passed in Princeton, NJ, Genoa, IL, and portions of Massachusetts and an "anti-corruption referendum" passed Nov. 4 in Tallahassee, FL. The Tallahassee measure got 67 percent of the votes cast; the measures in IL and MA got between 72 and 89 percent. I'm working with a group called Dream Menders, which is exploring what we might do of that nature here in Santa Clara County. I would expect that the Green Party of Santa Clara County would want to support this when it gets closer to being something concrete. Comments on the Wikipedia article would be welcomed. Best Wishes, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PhD Executive Director Effective Defense 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.effectivedefense.org From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Dec 9 07:59:57 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:59:57 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Climate Change Not Responsible for California Drought?" In-Reply-To: <54871C14.1050907@earthlink.net> References: <54871C14.1050907@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <54871C7D.9000304@earthlink.net> FYI, KQED Forum, 9:00AM-9:30AM is about a federal report that says "Climate Change Not Responsible for California Drought": http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201412090900 Gerry P.S. According to the web page, this is the worst drought in 1200 years. But climate change is not responsible? It's just a coincidence that this extreme drought happens during climate change? Hmm... From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Dec 9 12:26:49 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:26:49 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Ben Manski & the anti-war movement Message-ID: <54875B09.4050306@earthlink.net> "Why Washington should fear the silence of the anti-war movement" "US cities are not filled with anti-war demonstrations, yet the apparent quiet does not signify consent." http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/12/us-anti-war-movement-quiet-but-n-20141278124188800.html Gerry From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Dec 11 09:32:21 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:32:21 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] US Social Forum, Monterey GA Jan. 23-25, and SCCGP mtg Dec. 18 Message-ID: <5489D525.8040807@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: QUESTIONS: 1. Who is working on the CA Green General Assemblies for Monterey Jan. 23-25 or San Jos? June 27-28 or the US Social Forum, San Jos?, June 24-27? Especially the latter seems like a great opportunity to help advance all kinds of social agendas. 2. Could we extend a special invitation to all who might be interested in helping plan these events to come to the next meeting of the Green Party of Santa Clara County, Dec. 18? I plan to try to recruit non-Greens who are working on the US Social Forum to come and speak with us at 7 PM. AGENDA FOR THE NEXT MEETING OF THE GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, DEC. 18: Please send this list your requests for agenda time for our meeting next Thursday, Dec. 18. The notes from Nov. 20 say that Sandy Perry agreed to prepare the agenda. The two agenda items mentioned above could take the entire meeting, I think: (1) The next CA Green General Assembly in Monterey, Jan. 23-25. We need to select delegates. Brian Good and Caroline Yacoub have already indicated plans to go. (2) The US Social Forum, next June 24-27, and the companion CA Green Party General Assembly June 27-28(?): The state has asked the Santa Clara Greens to host this event. We've officially agreed to help organize it, but have stated that we don't have enough committed volunteers to do all the work; we'll need help from people in other counties. See you next Thursday, Dec. 18, at 7 PM. Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PhD Executive Director Effective Defense 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.effectivedefense.org From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Fri Dec 12 09:05:11 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:05:11 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Stop the next big oil spill In-Reply-To: <6aebde-3092-548afc17@list.credoaction.com> References: <6aebde-3092-548afc17@list.credoaction.com> Message-ID: <548B2047.5000502@effectivedefense.org> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Stop the next big oil spill Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:30:47 +0000 From: Josh Nelson, CREDO Action Reply-To: Josh Nelson, CREDO Action To: Spencer Graves Stop Shell?s reckless Arctic drilling plan The Interior Department is considering a disastrous plan to allow Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean in 2015. Submit a public comment before the December 22 deadline. [1]Take action now ? Dear Spencer, [2][IMG] The last time Shell tried to drill for oil in the Arctic, its Kulluk drilling rig drifted out of control and slammed into Alaska?s Kodiak Islands with 150,000 gallons of toxic diesel fuel on board. Shell?s next Arctic drilling mishap could be much worse ? and it could happen as soon as next year.^1 The Interior Department is considering a plan to allow Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic in 2015 despite the Obama administration?s own analysis showing a 75% chance of a disastrous oil spill if the plan moves forward. The Interior Department?s crucial public comment period ends on December 22, so we need to act fast to keep Shell out of the Arctic. [3]Tell the Interior Department: No Arctic drilling! Click here to submit a public comment now. CREDO activists have been fighting to stop Shell?s Arctic drilling plans for years. Twice now ? once during the Bush administration and once during the Obama administration ? federal courts have invalidated the Interior Department?s sales of leases for Arctic drilling due to poor science and faulty economic assumptions. But Shell has continued pushing for drilling rights ? and the Obama administration is now poised to give Shell the green light for drilling once again. Just this month, the contractor that operated Shell?s Kulluk drilling rig agreed to plead guilty to eight felonies for environmental and maritime crimes and pay more than $12 million in fines. Worse, a U.S. Coast Guard report on the incident released in April found that Shell made the decision to tow its rig away from Alaska through icy waters in December 2012 ? which led to the rig running aground ? in order to avoid millions of dollars in tax liabilities.^2 Arctic drilling is an environmental nightmare. According to the Interior Department?s analysis, an oil spill in the Arctic could kill countless endangered beluga whales and polar bears, and thousands of seals. But even without a massive oil spill, allowing Shell to drill in the Arctic would be disastrous for the climate. The Arctic Ocean is estimated to hold 13 percent of the globe?s undiscovered oil and 30 percent of all undiscovered natural gas, so there is simply no way to keep climate change from spiraling out of control without putting a stop to Arctic drilling. [4]Click here to submit a public comment now: Stop Shell from drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean. Thanks for fighting to stop Arctic drilling. Josh Nelson, Campaign Manager [5]CREDO Action from Working Assets Add your name: [6]Take action now ? [7]Learn more about this campaign 1. "[8]Shell Oil renews plan to drill Arctic waters after 2012 debacle," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 28, 2014. 2. 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For many years, we had a practice that whoever was preparing the agenda for the next monthly meeting would send a request for agenda items at least a week before the meeting, would post a draft agenda at least two days before the meeting, and post a final agenda the afternoon of the meeting. We used to use a regular format (what I have been using when I have prepared agendas). That included regular agenda items, identified the presenters, the estimated time, and whether the item was a report, a discussion, or something that needed a decision at the meeting (or all of these). If a proposal was to be made, the text of the proposal would be included in the draft agenda to give people advance notice of what was being discussed. Obviously, any agenda can be changed at the start of the meeting (i.e., approving or changing the agenda is one of the first things we do in our "regular agenda"). Having a clear agenda helps people attending the meeting know beforehand what they need to do to prepare for the meeting and helps them decide if they are interested in attending. Having a consistent format for an agenda helps us remember what is our regular business, what are continuing items of concern, and what events we need to be anticipating. I can go ahead and make a formal proposal to reinstate what we did for years out of simple smartness; but is that really necessary and do we want to take time in our meeting dealing with it instead of just taking individual and collective responsibility to get back to previous good habits? In Struggle! Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But the expensive tunnels > would merely delay the inevitable: The more Westlands is irrigated, > the more its land will be ruined. > http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-westlands-20141021-story.html#page=1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Sun Dec 14 20:57:20 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer B Graves) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:57:20 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Meeting Agenda this Th., Dec. 18, 7 PM: Steve Chessin, Californians for Electoral Reform References: <851B2DD0-1E48-4F10-A49C-ACE1012E5412@effectivedefense.org> Message-ID: <5087C030-A747-49A8-A325-4E1DB7DB7D08@effectivedefense.org> > Hello, All: > > > Steve Chessin, president of Californians for Electoral Reform (CfER), will speak 7 - 7:30 PM this Thursday, Dec 18, before our regular meeting begins at 7:30. CfER is the leading organization in California pushing for instant runoff voting (also called rank choice voting). > > > The notes from last month?s meeting say that Sandy Perry agreed to prepare the agenda. Please send your agenda suggestions to him and sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org. (I?ve already sent him some, especially regarding the California Greens plenaries in January and June plus the US Social Forum.) > > > See you Thursday, > Spencer > From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Dec 15 22:31:32 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:31:32 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPSCC mtg Dec. 18 In-Reply-To: References: <5489D525.8040807@prodsyse.com> <5489D986.1070504@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <2B670AB4-0F70-4AC6-BDF1-6F6A148CFED6@prodsyse.com> Hi, Sanda and Sandy: SANDA: I?m glad you?ll be able to make it Thursday. Earlier today, I invited Steve Chessin, President of Californians for Electoral Reform (CfER) to talk with us 7 - 7:30 PM about planning to advance instant runoff voting (IRV) in Santa Clara County next year. The regular business meeting is scheduled to start at 7:30. Sandy Perry volunteered last month to produce a draft agenda. With this email, he should know that you are planning to attend and should give that appropriate consideration in the agenda. SANDY: In preparing the agenda for Thursday, you may wish to review Sanda?s comments below. Thanks, Spencer > On Dec 15, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Sanda Everette wrote: > > I just got back today after two weeks in Peru. I will plan on coming to your Thursday meeting. > > Sanda Everette, co-chair > GPCA Delegation > GPCA Coordinating Committee > > On Dec 11, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Spencer Graves > wrote: > >> Hi, Sanda: >> >> >> Might you be available to come to the next meeting of the Green Party of Santa Clara County, Th., Dec. 18, 7-9:30 PM, at the San Jos? Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jos?, CA? A reminder of that meeting with a partial agenda appears below. >> >> >> Whether or not you can come, might you have time to help produce a draft list of tasks that are necessary and / or desirable to plan for the June 27-28 plenary in San Jos?, so it can be discussed next Thursday? Sandy Perry provided the following during our last meeting: >> >> >> >> 1. Find a venue; Sandy will look for this. > My understanding is our venue will just be another room or two in the venue of the social forum. >> >> >> 2. Check the availability and cost of motel space. > Possibly, but in the days of places like hotels.com , that can supplement. More importantly will be finding home stays. >> >> >> 3. The State Coordinating Committee has a dinner the night before that must be arranged. > Since many of us will want to attend the social forum, it would be nice to have suggestions of places nearby...as in walking distance, but you don't have to plan it. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Spencer >> >> >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> Subject: US Social Forum, Monterey GA Jan. 23-25, and SCCGP mtg Dec. 18 >> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:32:21 -0800 >> From: Spencer Graves >> To: GPSCC , Sandy Perry >> >> Hello, All: >> >> >> QUESTIONS: >> >> >> 1. Who is working on the CA Green General Assemblies for >> Monterey Jan. 23-25 or San Jos? June 27-28 or the US Social Forum, San >> Jos?, June 24-27? Especially the latter seems like a great opportunity >> to help advance all kinds of social agendas. >> >> >> 2. Could we extend a special invitation to all who might be >> interested in helping plan these events to come to the next meeting of >> the Green Party of Santa Clara County, Dec. 18? I plan to try to >> recruit non-Greens who are working on the US Social Forum to come and >> speak with us at 7 PM. >> >> >> AGENDA FOR THE NEXT MEETING OF THE GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, >> DEC. 18: >> >> >> Please send this list your requests for agenda time for our >> meeting next Thursday, Dec. 18. The notes from Nov. 20 say that Sandy >> Perry agreed to prepare the agenda. >> >> >> The two agenda items mentioned above could take the entire >> meeting, I think: >> >> >> (1) The next CA Green General Assembly in Monterey, Jan. >> 23-25. We need to select delegates. Brian Good and Caroline Yacoub >> have already indicated plans to go. >> >> >> (2) The US Social Forum, next June 24-27, and the companion >> CA Green Party General Assembly June 27-28(?): The state has asked the >> Santa Clara Greens to host this event. We've officially agreed to help >> organize it, but have stated that we don't have enough committed >> volunteers to do all the work; we'll need help from people in other >> counties. >> >> >> See you next Thursday, Dec. 18, at 7 PM. >> >> >> Spencer >> >> >> -- >> Spencer Graves, PhD >> Executive Director >> Effective Defense >> 751 Emerson Ct. >> San Jos?, CA 95126 >> ph: 408-655-4567 >> web: www.effectivedefense.org >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Dec 16 11:18:32 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:18:32 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 3 House members restart cold war? Message-ID: <54908588.70507@earthlink.net> This is a bizarre story. It's hard to believe it's true, even coming from Dennis Kucinich. "Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking" http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/three_congressmen_just_reignited_the_cold_war_while_no_one_was_looking_2014 I know some bizarre stuff happens in Congress, but the idea that a bill can pass with only three members present is a bit much. And according to this page, the Senate passed it 2 days later, but the President has not signed it yet. Anyone have additional info? Gerry From WB4D23 at aol.com Tue Dec 16 17:00:39 2014 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:00:39 -0500 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPSCC mtg Dec. 18 Message-ID: <35c58.73aa3e36.41c22fb7@aol.com> December 16, 2014 Hello All -- I posted some comments before about the need to regularize our GPSCC monthly agenda; both in terms of a time line and content. I did not see it in my own email box, so I have no idea if it got published or not. It is now Tuesday evening, and there is still no agenda posted for Thursday evening's meeting. Again, posting the agenda is a means of reminding people there is a meeting and letting them now why they should attend. As Spencer has noted, plenary delegates for January and trying to decide whether to host a June plenary are the two big issues we started discussing at November's meeting. Note that there has been no general announcement from the County Council explaining why people need to volunteer now to be delegates and alternates for the GPCA meeting in Monterey County in January. Que? Warner In a message dated 12/15/2014 10:32:05 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, spencer.graves at prodsyse.com writes: Hi, Sanda and Sandy: SANDA: I?m glad you?ll be able to make it Thursday. Earlier today, I invited Steve Chessin, President of Californians for Electoral Reform (CfER) to talk with us 7 - 7:30 PM about planning to advance instant runoff voting (IRV) in Santa Clara County next year. The regular business meeting is scheduled to start at 7:30. Sandy Perry volunteered last month to produce a draft agenda. With this email, he should know that you are planning to attend and should give that appropriate consideration in the agenda. SANDY: In preparing the agenda for Thursday, you may wish to review Sanda? s comments below. Thanks, Spencer On Dec 15, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Sanda Everette <_sanda.greensolutions at gmail.com_ (mailto:sanda.greensolutions at gmail.com) > wrote: I just got back today after two weeks in Peru. I will plan on coming to your Thursday meeting. Sanda Everette, co-chair GPCA Delegation GPCA Coordinating Committee On Dec 11, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Spencer Graves <_spencer.graves at prodsyse.com_ (mailto:spencer.graves at prodsyse.com) > wrote: Hi, Sanda: Might you be available to come to the next meeting of the Green Party of Santa Clara County, Th., Dec. 18, 7-9:30 PM, at the San Jos? Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jos?, CA? A reminder of that meeting with a partial agenda appears below. Whether or not you can come, might you have time to help produce a draft list of tasks that are necessary and / or desirable to plan for the June 27-28 plenary in San Jos?, so it can be discussed next Thursday? Sandy Perry provided the following during our last meeting: 1. Find a venue; Sandy will look for this. My understanding is our venue will just be another room or two in the venue of the social forum. 2. Check the availability and cost of motel space. Possibly, but in the days of places like _hotels.com_ (http://hotels.com/) , that can supplement. More importantly will be finding home stays. 3. The State Coordinating Committee has a dinner the night before that must be arranged. Since many of us will want to attend the social forum, it would be nice to have suggestions of places nearby...as in walking distance, but you don't have to plan it. Thanks, Spencer -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: US Social Forum, Monterey GA Jan. 23-25, and SCCGP mtg Dec. 18 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:32:21 -0800 From: Spencer Graves __ (mailto:spencer.graves at prodsyse.com) To: GPSCC __ (mailto:sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org) , Sandy Perry __ (mailto:PerrySandy at aol.com) Hello, All: QUESTIONS: 1. Who is working on the CA Green General Assemblies for Monterey Jan. 23-25 or San Jos? June 27-28 or the US Social Forum, San Jos?, June 24-27? Especially the latter seems like a great opportunity to help advance all kinds of social agendas. 2. Could we extend a special invitation to all who might be interested in helping plan these events to come to the next meeting of the Green Party of Santa Clara County, Dec. 18? I plan to try to recruit non-Greens who are working on the US Social Forum to come and speak with us at 7 PM. AGENDA FOR THE NEXT MEETING OF THE GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, DEC. 18: Please send this list your requests for agenda time for our meeting next Thursday, Dec. 18. The notes from Nov. 20 say that Sandy Perry agreed to prepare the agenda. The two agenda items mentioned above could take the entire meeting, I think: (1) The next CA Green General Assembly in Monterey, Jan. 23-25. We need to select delegates. Brian Good and Caroline Yacoub have already indicated plans to go. (2) The US Social Forum, next June 24-27, and the companion CA Green Party General Assembly June 27-28(?): The state has asked the Santa Clara Greens to host this event. We've officially agreed to help organize it, but have stated that we don't have enough committed volunteers to do all the work; we'll need help from people in other counties. See you next Thursday, Dec. 18, at 7 PM. Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PhD Executive Director Effective Defense 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: _www.effectivedefense.org_ (http://www.effectivedefense.org/) = _______________________________________________ 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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Jim Doyle (5 minutes) 7:50 pm - Report on Single Payer Work ? Caroline and Sandy (15 Minutes) 8:05 pm - Report on Climate Change Work -- Caroline (15 Minutes) 8:20 pm ? Select delegates for the MonterreyGPCA Plenary Jan. 23-25, 2015 (15 Minutes) 8:35 pm ? Discuss whether or not to host theJune GPCA Plenary in San Jose to take advantage of the fact that the US SocialForum is taking place here from June 24 ? 27, 2015. List the tasks involved inhosting and discuss with Sanda the possibility of assistance from other BayArea Greens. Some of the key tasks include: venue, accommodations, arrangementsfor the state coordinating committee dinner on Friday night. (25 Minutes) 9:00 pm ? Discuss GPCA & GPSCC participationin the USSF (15 minutes) 9:15 pm ? Report on tabling at the Dec. 6 SJPeace Fair ? Caroline (5 Minutes) 9:20 pm ? Report on the De Anza GP ? Sandy (5Minutes) 9:25 pm ? 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It's an attack on every singleperson that lives in Benton Harbor, in the state and around the country." - Rev. EdwardPinkney On December 15, Rev. Edward Pinkney, a leaderin the struggle for social and economic justice for the residents of BentonHarbor, Michigan, was sentenced to serve up to 10 years in prison, on the basisof thin circumstantial evidence that a few dates had been altered on a recallpetition against the city's mayor, James Hightower. The recall was prompted bythe mayor's continued support for tax evasion by the Whirlpool Corporation, theFortune 500 company and $19 billion global appliance manufacturer,headquartered in Benton Harbor. As we wrote last week in depth, the politicallymotivated prosecution against Pinkney killed the petition to recall Hightower,who many believe would have been ousted due to his ongoing protection ofWhirlpool's interests at the expense of impoverished Benton Harbor, which isover 90 percent African-American. There was absolutely no evidence to convictPinkney, and, legally, the altering of a petition document should have been a misdemeanor offense. Instead, theycharged him with felony forgery - though no signatures were forged and allsignatories testified that they signed willingly on the correct day. Aforensics expert for the prosecution testified that there was no way todetermine who changed the handful of dates. Incredibly, the all-white jury wasurged by the prosecutor to believe that direct evidence was not required; theyonly had to "believe" that Pinkney was motivated to cheat and that he"could" have changed the dates while circulating the petitions. Mary Alice Adams, a Benton Harborcommissioner stated, "Rev.Pinkney was accused of writing and changing my date on a petition when, infact, I wrote my own date and changed it after realizing I had put the wrongdate down." The jury at Pinkney's trial rejected Adams' testimony. Witness after witness stood up to theprosecutor who put not only Pinkney on trial, but also his communityorganization, BANCO. The prosecutor hounded the witnesses to"confess" that somehow the dates were altered, and questioned if theywere card-holding members of the BANCO organization. The scene held shadows ofa McCarthy-era House Un-American Activities Committee witch-hunt. Pinkney had helpedorganize the petition to unseat Benton Harbor Mayor James Hightower, whoresidents consider a "yes-man" for Whirlpool. Instead of supporting atax that would make Whirlpool pay its fair share for city services andemployees, the mayor signed a $3.2 million loan that the residents of BentonHarbor, one of the poorest cities per capita in the United States, would nowhave to pay. Meanwhile, Whirlpool pays absolutely no income taxes to thefederal government or to Michigan. Pinkney was also a leader in the fightagainst what he called an "illegal" ceding of a Benton Harbor publicpark to Whirlpool and a development firm which privatized the park andgentrified that prime real estate into a golf course and wealthy gatedcommunity on Lake Michigan - excluding the people that the property was deededto serve. Pinkney led a protest against the PGA Senior golf tournament at theprivate new golf course, sponsored by Kitchen-Aid, a division of Whirlpool. And so, with the complicity of a white,"highly political" right-wing prosecutor, Whirlpool reached into thecourt system and publicly "lynched" the town's most prominent andoutspoken black community activist who dared to stand up to the powerfulcompany and the state's elite. Pinkney's sentencing is as blatant a kangaroocourt as seen since Hurricane Carter, a black power advocate, was framed by NewJersey prosecutors decades ago - a typical case of the white power structureicing an "uppity Negro" with trumped up charges. In Carter's case,the witnesses were two men facing charges for burglary, who were enticed toprovide false testimony with reduced charges. Pinkney says he was similarly set up to takea fall for a paltry smattering of election fraud charges in 2006 during anattempt to recall a city commissioner. He was finally convicted of possessingfour absentee ballots, but pointed out that the women who fingered him - allmembers of a family - mysteriously avoided jail time for the multiple criminalcharges they were facing, including a drive-by shooting and kidnapping. "I'm not angry with them for doingthat," Pinkney said. "It's a deal that's hard to pass up." Pinkney was put on probation at the time,until he had the audacity to quote a particularly scathing section ofDeuteronomy to the judge, who then sentenced him to three to 10 years inprison. During his seven months in the county jail and four months in prison,Pinkney ran for a seat in the US House and received nearly 5,000 votes. TheAmerican Civil Liberties Union finally got him released on an appeal bond, andhe was allowed to return home under house arrest. But if Pinkney is a man who's hard to keep down,his enemies are just as determined to put him away for good. "It's a modern day lynching," saidAdams, the Benton Harbor commissioner, of Pinkney's latest conviction."After hearing the 'evidence' it would seem that the decision was madebefore the trial began. They are looking at Michigan as a glove fordictatorship. And the predominantly black communities are the test tubes. Whenyou stand up against the largest manufacturer of appliances in the world, ofcourse there will be a backlash." Pinkney was straightforward in hisdescription of his conviction: Here,Whirlpool controls not only Benton Harbor and the residents, but also the courtsystem itself. They will do anything to crush you if you stand up to them.That's why it's so important to fight this. I'm going to fight them until theend. This is not just an attack on Rev. Pinkney. It's an attack on every singleperson that lives in Benton Harbor, in the state and around the country. We gotto fix this jury system. There was not one person from Benton Harbor, not oneperson from Benton Township on the jury. Anytime a Black man is sitting insidethat courtroom and the jury is all white, that is a major problem. Michigan is a state where virulent racismfollowed the Great Migration of southern blacks into northern industrial statesin the 20th century. With more than two dozen racist hate groups still activein the state, Michigan has essentially turned into the Mississippi of theNorth. In fact, Pinkney organized his community against the KKK when they beganto hold rallies in Benton Harbor in the 1990s. Pinkney points out how class intersects withrace, when it comes to the oppression of the people of Benton Harbor."It's a class war," he said. "It's us against them. Rich againstpoor. That's what it adds up to. The point is we have to take a stand. It'sabout you, your children, and your grandchildren. I never thought for a minutethat the system could be this broken and would go to this extreme. They couldcare less about you, me or anybody else. They only have one thing in mind. Thatis to make sure they protect the rich." Judge Schrock denied Pinkney's lawyer'srequest for release pending his appeal. Pinkney was handcuffed and hauled offto jail from the county courthouse as his wife, Dorothy, and supporters stoodaghast, having witnessed US justice for an African-American minister at itsracist best. Concerned activists and clergy associatedwith People Demanding Action, a national social justice organization, arecirculating a petition to ministers and various organizations. The petition isto be forwarded to the US Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder,asking for an investigation into the circumstances of Pinkney's trial andsentencing. Support for Rev. Edward Pinkney'sappeal should be sent to his organization: BANCO, 1940 Union Street BentonHarbor MI 49022 Copyright,Truthout. May not be reprinted without permission. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Wed Dec 17 14:24:11 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:24:11 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Book the Americans" In-Reply-To: <5492021D.7060302@earthlink.net> References: <5492021D.7060302@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <5492028B.4050205@earthlink.net> [Time to prosecute some Americans for torture] http://commondreams.org/views/2014/12/17/book-americans Gerry From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Dec 18 09:15:30 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:15:30 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Meeting tonight 2014-12-18 draft agenda Message-ID: Green Party Meeting Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:00-7:30 PM: Steve Chessin, President, Californians for Electoral Reform: To discuss plans for 2015 to implement Instant Runoff Voting (IRV, also known as Rank Choice Voting) in Santa Clara County. He may also discuss proportional representation (PR). Careens.org has web pages on both PR and IRV. The PR page was last updated in 2013; the IRV page was last updated shortly after IRV passed in San Francisco. Chosen says, ?IRV helps third parties run, PR helps third parties win?. (He gave me a citation that should be worked into appropriate Wikipedia articles. I don?t have time this month to do that this month, though I could help someone else.) 7:30 Meeting starts. Identify Facilitator, Note Taker, Vibes Watcher, Time Keeper, and Agenda Preparer for February. 7:40 Introductions, announcements, additions or corrections to agenda 7:55 Treasurer's report and hat passing 8:05 Green Party Plenary, January 23-25, 2015, Monterey: Selection of delegates? (10 minutes) Brian Good and Caroline Yacoub have already indicated plans to go. 8:15 Green Party Plenary in San Jose, June 27-28, 2015, San Jose: What should and must happen, and who can do each task (local vs. help from other counties; Sanda Everette; 30 minutes) 8:45 US Social Forum in San Jose, CA, Jackson, MI, and Philadelphia, PA, June 24-27, 2015. (Sandy and Spencer; 15 minutes) NOTE: There will be a planning meeting for the US Social Forum beginning at 6:30 PM at the Low Income Self Help Center, 525 West Alma Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125, Phone:(408) 977-1275. I believe this is something that many of us will want to become more involved with, and I encourage those interested to attend that meeting and then (hopefully) come late to the Green Party meeting. Anyone who does is encouraged to learn more about that they are planning regarding climate change and health care (our two key foci) as well as electoral reform including issues like instant runoff voting, the American Anti-Corruption Act, and overturning Citizens United. I?m pretty sure the latter is already on their agenda, because I?ve heard about the US Social Forum from Richard Hobbs, and I believe that Move to Amend is involved. 9:00 FMD = Free Media Defense (Freedom & abundance, Media & corruption plus Effective Defense; 10 minutes): New research and television / YouTube project Spencer is organizing and would like endorsement from the Green Party of Santa Clara County. This project will focus trying to crowdsource research summaries on specific issues on Wikiversity and recording interviews with leading figures about the available research as summarized on Wikiversity. The interviews will be recorded, broadcasted CreaTVsj.org (local public access television), and made available via YouTube and (probably) 48South7th.org (associated with the San Jose Peace & Justice Center). 9:10 PM: what else? 9:30 PM: adjourn. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Thu Dec 18 16:24:18 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer B Graves) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:24:18 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Proposed Agenda In-Reply-To: <8D1E92278BE03F8-1B48-669C6@webmail-va100.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D1E92278BE03F8-1B48-669C6@webmail-va100.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <095C5B15-C0EE-4EF6-8337-07BCDC173534@effectivedefense.org> Please excuse the conflicting agendas. I did not see the proposed Agenda Sandy sent out a couple of days ago, so I produced one, which you all should ignore. We?ll use Sandy?s. Hope to see you at 7 PM for the discussion with Steve Chessin or later for the meeting. Best Wishes, Spencer > On Dec 18, 2014, at 1:41 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: > > GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY > > Proposed Agenda Thurs. Dec. 18, 2014 > > > 7:00 pm ? Speaker: Steve Chessin, President of Californians for Electoral Reform will speak about planning to advance instant runoff voting (IRV) in Santa Clara County in 2015. > > 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) > > 7:35 pm - Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) > > 7:45 pm - Treasurer?s Report ? Jim Doyle (5 minutes) > > 7:50 pm - Report on Single Payer Work ? Caroline and Sandy (15 Minutes) > > 8:05 pm - Report on Climate Change Work -- Caroline (15 Minutes) > > ? EPA clean power plants--they received 8,000,000 comments--more than any other issue. > ? What happened about the Palo Alto resolution to ban fracking? > ? Nebraska Supreme Court doing ruling on route for KXL in next few days > ? Oil train Jan 24 at City Hall > ? East Bay Fracking Rally Feb. 7 > > 8:20 pm ? Select delegates for the Monterrey GPCA Plenary Jan. 23-25, 2015 (15 Minutes) > > 8:35 pm ? Discuss whether or not to host the June GPCA Plenary in San Jose to take advantage of the fact that the US Social Forum is taking place here from June 24 ? 27, 2015. List the tasks involved in hosting and discuss with Sanda the possibility of assistance from other Bay Area Greens. Some of the key tasks include: venue, accommodations, arrangements for the state coordinating committee dinner on Friday night. (25 Minutes) > > 9:00 pm ? Discuss GPCA & GPSCC participation in the USSF (15 minutes) > > 9:15 pm ? Report on tabling at the Dec. 6 SJ Peace Fair ? Caroline (5 Minutes) > > 9:20 pm ? Report on the De Anza GP ? Sandy (5 Minutes) > > 9:25 pm ? Any other tabling plans Jan. 2015 (5 Minutes). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Thu Dec 18 21:07:51 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer B Graves) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:07:51 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 2014-12-18 meeting of the Green Party of Santa Clara County In-Reply-To: <8D1E92278BE03F8-1B48-669C6@webmail-va100.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D1E92278BE03F8-1B48-669C6@webmail-va100.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Please send additions, corrections to the list. Steve Chosen, President of Californians for Electoral Reform (cafe.org): ~1997 attended meetings of a Charter Review Committee in Santa Clara County. They decided to buy equipment to support ranked choice voting, confirmed in 1998. (ref: The International IDEA Handbook of Electoral System Design ? now online ? shows what electoral systems are in use where. This book is available online now.) 1. We should ask City Council members how they feel about IRV, especially pointing out that IRV for special elections would eliminate the need for a second runoff election. 2. We need to talk with the Board of Supervisors regarding savings from eliminating the need for a second runoff election. 3. Steve would not recommend at-large systems to go to IRV. Instead they should go to Proportional Representation. ** Santa Clara County is upgrading their election equipment. We should write letters, etc., when the > On Dec 18, 2014, at 1:41 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: > > GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY > > Proposed Agenda Thurs. Dec. 18, 2014 > > > 7:00 pm ? Speaker: Steve Chessin, President of Californians for Electoral Reform will speak about planning to advance instant runoff voting (IRV) in Santa Clara County in 2015. > > 7:30 pm ? Begin meeting -- Select Facilitator & Note taker: Spencer > , Time keeper: Caroline > , and Vibes watcher(s): Sandy > ; Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting: Warner > ; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) > 7:35 pm - Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Warner Bloomberg Caroline Sandy Tian Jim Doyle, Treasurer Spencer Sanda Everette, national since 2003; Brian Treasurer?s $868.39 balance. Telephone = $40 per month. If we get one phone call per month? Jim recommends we drop the phone. Warner will put it on the agenda for next month. > > Discuss whether or not to host the June GPCA Plenary in San Jose to take advantage of the fact that the US Social Forum is taking place here from June 24 ? 27, 2015. List the tasks involved in hosting and discuss with Sanda the possibility of assistance from other Bay Area Greens. Some of the key tasks include: venue, accommodations, arrangements for the state coordinating committee dinner on Friday night. (25 Minutes) 30 min SANDA: 1. Since the San Francisco meeting, all the subsequent state meetings have been primarily organized by the state wide coordinating committee. Therefore, the counties do not have to be responsible for the entire event. 2. Our primary business at the June meeting is the budget. In this case we?d do workshops on Saturday inviting people from the US Social Forum. The budget meeting would be Sunday. 3. Four people on San Mateo County Council. 4. Need a place with vegan options within walking distance of the US Social Forum for the dinner Friday evening. 5. Proposed: The Green Party of Santa Clara County will host the June 27-28 state meeting with help from the Coordinating Committee. We have consensus on the proposal. UNRESOLVED CONCERNS: Many feel that the Saturday meeting should be open. ** NOTE: Sanda says the state meetings are only open to Greens. We might try to organize workshops for Friday to draw others from the Social Forum. ** Social Forum will rent space Wednesday through Saturday. ** Would there be Green workshops within the Social Forum open to all. ** Do we need two days for a meeting or only one? ** Do we need a separate location for Sunday? (Could the State Greens coattail on the Social Forum space contract?) ** Would the United Way building be available for Sunday? SANDA questions for the Coordinating Council: 1. 1 day meeting vs. 2 ? or admitting strangers for the first day. (closed meeting for Sunday budget meeting only) 2. Use the same space as the Social Forum? (Ask Sandy.) 3. What about food? Sandy: This is a great opportunity to recruit members. People coming to the Social Forum do not have a party ? other than the Greens. Warner: Concern: To the extent that the host committee would have to do a lot of running around. ** We could use emails and phone calls to invite Santa Clara registered Greens to the Social Forum ? and invite them also to help organize (but without pressure). We need to clarify the tabling issue with the organizing committee. Three issues: Facilities, food, local housing (home stays) Q: What will be the charge for attending the Social Forum? ** Delegates: Caroline, Tian, Alternates: Brian Good, Jim Doyle *** Seaside, Marina: Reserve a motel ASAP. ** County Council can appoint other delegates. > 9:00 pm ? Discuss GPCA & GPSCC participation in the USSF (15 minutes) Friday, Dec. 26: Tian is having a party. > > 7:45 pm - Treasurer?s Report ? Jim Doyle (5 minutes) > > 7:50 pm - Report on Single Payer Work ? Caroline and Sandy (15 Minutes) (skip for now) > > 8:05 pm - Report on Climate Change Work -- Caroline (15 Minutes) > > ? EPA clean power plants--they received 8,000,000 comments--more than any other issue. > ? What happened about the Palo Alto resolution to ban fracking? ** Tian will ask Dana and / or Gerry to forward our resolution to the Palo Alto City Council. > ? Nebraska Supreme Court doing ruling on route for KXL in next few days > ? Oil train meeting Jan 24 at San Jose City Hall: Ash Kalra (sp.) > ? East Bay Fracking Rally Feb. 7 ** Caroline to provide more info later. > > 8:20 pm ? Select delegates for the Monterrey GPCA Plenary Jan. 23-25, 2015 (15 Minutes) > > 8:35 pm ? > > 9:15 pm ? Report on tabling at the Dec. 6 SJ Peace Fair ? Caroline (5 Minutes) Sad: 8 foot table. made $32. less than the table fee. Jim: Overall, hardly any of our tabling events bring in enough to cover the fee. > > 9:20 pm ? Report on the De Anza GP ? Sandy (5 Minutes) ** getting 8 - 10 people every week. Co-sponsoring MLK Freedom Games, Sat., Jan. 17, 10 AM - 4 PM, Onetta Harris Community Center, East Menlo Park, 100 Terminal Ave (Willow, Hamilton, Chilco, Terminal Ave.): MLKfreedomgames.jottit.com Tried to give a donation to Rev. Pinkney?s defense. DeAnza college tried to block. *** put on the agenda for our January meeting. > > 9:25 pm ? Any other tabling plans Jan. 2015 (5 Minutes). MLKing Train: Jan. 19(?). We usually have someone handing out literature but no tables. ** Can we get Santa Clara U. Greens going in time to table for Earth Day. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Dec 23 17:59:43 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:59:43 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Americans Are Sick to Death of Both Parties" Message-ID: <549A1E0F.5000501@earthlink.net> "Americans Are Sick to Death of Both Parties: Why Our Politics Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought" http://www.alternet.org/americans-are-sick-death-both-parties-why-our-politics-worse-shape-we-thought?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark Gerry From snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed Dec 24 18:58:35 2014 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:58:35 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Walked past Apple Palo Alto this afternoon Message-ID: They installed tank-traps in the parking places outside their store, which seems to reflect a fair deal of paranoia about a terrorist attack from a truck or car bomb. It seemed there were many more red-shirted clerks there than customers, which pleased me greatly, since Apple has been developing a whole lot of karma issues for a long, long time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sat Dec 6 12:29:41 2014 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:29:41 -0000 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tomorrow, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014 In-Reply-To: <45b03.621745fe.41b49678@aol.com> References: <45b03.621745fe.41b49678@aol.com> Message-ID: I was at The Jungle for the final eviction on Thursday. When I got there it was still dark and a lot of people had already moved out to the sidewalk, and the police had placed crowd-control barricades and closed a lane on the road with orange cones. The severe rains the two days before the eviction had surely inhibited an orderly withdrawal. I was shocked that residents left many hundreds of dollars worth of blue tarps for the bulldozers. When the cleanup workers piled up the abandoned bedding, all of the mattresses were impressively dry and unstained. I was dismayed by the waste in the cleanup--all those tarps, all those clean mattresses, all the bicycle parts trashed. There was a lot of stinky garbage. It was not a healthy environment. I'm troubled that a community of 150 to 300 people could not arrange for a truck to haul their garbage away. Normally homeless people try to keep their sleeping quarters out of sight. Last fall I walked past the camp on the sidewalk and could see only a very few tarp shelters in the trees. This fall there were huge garbage fields and conspicuous structures visible from the sidewalk. There was a substantial hippie-aesthetic shack resembling a church, painted in bright colors and exhibiting many hours of craftsmanship, and there was a tree house visible to passing cars. My experience of the last 45 years did not make me surprised that these provocations existed, but I was surprised that the Jungle community did not have the good sense to abate them. I have video of the eviction and many other events pertaining to the "two cities" phenomenon in Silicon Valley, so if you know of anyone doing a documentary on this you should let them know about my video. Somebody should do a documentary about Buena Vista. From: STB_Discussion at googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 12:27:20 -0500 Subject: Tomorrow, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014 To: stb_discussion at googlegroups.com Hello All, I most prob. will not be attending tomorrow's STB meeting due to a conflict with ACLU. I haven't seen an Agenda go out; did see Chuck's informative e-mail regarding the events at the Jungle eviction. Also saw the Xmas Carols that Lois sent out, great stuff to sing in this season. Thanks to Chuck and Lois. Two or Three Questions: 1. How many STB'rs will be attending the meeting tomorrow? 2. Did you all receive the e-mail by Lynn and or me regarding Tuesday's Santa Clara County Board of Supervisor's meeting which was supposed to have the situation of the unhoused on the Agenda according to Kristina Loquist, Joe Simitian's Policy Aid. 3. Can I get an up-date from someone about the Second Reading of rescinding the VHO that City Council was supposed to have on it's calendar at the last CC meeting? Should we have a meeting some day/evening this week to bring everyone up to date and keep our momentum going? Best regards, Cybele -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Stop the Ban Discussion" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to STB_Discussion+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sat Dec 27 10:00:52 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:00:52 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Plan Jan. 8, 6:30 PM, for US Social Forum, June 24-27, 2015, San Jose Message-ID: Hello, All: One of the biggest political events of 2015 is scheduled for June 24-27 in San Jose and almost concurrently (June 25-28) in Jackson, MI, and Philadelphia, PA: The US Social Forum. This will be followed, June 27-28 by a plenary of the Green Party of California. You can help plan for these events and use this platform to increase the prospects for positive action on your most serious concerns. The next planning meeting in San Jose for the US Social Forum is scheduled for January 8, 2015, 6:30 PM, at SEIU 521 office, 2302 Zanker Road. I can forward minutes from their last meeting to anyone interested. The US Social Forum is descendant from the Seattle protests that disrupted the World Trade Organization meeting there in 1999. Organizing work for these meetings and for related actions occurs around People?s Movement Assemblies, which are held before, during and after Social Fora. For more information, see ?http://www.peoplesmovementassembly.org? or contact Sandy Perry, who will kindly correct any misstatements in this and add anything he feels moved to add. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves M: 408-655-4567 From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Tue Dec 30 19:33:51 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer B Graves) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:33:51 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Jan. 21, 2015: March for Democracy in SF commemorating the 5th anniversary of Citizens United Message-ID: Hello, All: There will be a ?March for Democracy? in San Francisco, Jan. 21, 2015, 4-6 PM at Market and Powell. On Jan. 21, 2010, the US Supreme Court issued its ruling in Citizens United. For more info, see ?http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Tim-Molina-March-For-Democracy-in-SAN-FRANCISCO?. People interested in carpooling should contact Gerald Hunt or come to the California Clean ?Disclose Act? meeting on January 15th, 7:30 PM, at the Democratic headquarters, 2901 Moorpark, where last minute transportation arrangements can be finalized. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Tue Dec 30 21:16:46 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer B Graves) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:16:46 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Jan. 21, 2015: March for Democracy in SF commemorating the 5th anniversary of Citizens United In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <64E9815B-7689-456D-B5E0-AF88D3CE693B@effectivedefense.org> > On Dec 30, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Spencer B Graves wrote: > > Hello, All: > > > There will be a ?March for Democracy? in San Francisco, Jan. 21, 2015, 4-6 PM at Market and Powell. On Jan. 21, 2010, the US Supreme Court issued its ruling in Citizens United. For more info, see ?http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Tim-Molina-March-For-Democracy-in-SAN-FRANCISCO?. > > > People interested in carpooling should contact Gerald Hunt or come to the California Clean ?Disclose Act? meeting on January 15th, 7:00 PM, at the Democratic headquarters, 2901 Moorpark, where last minute transportation arrangements can be finalized. CORRECTION: The CA Clean Money meeting starts at 7 PM (I previously said 7:30; thanks to Craig for the correction). Spencer > > > Best Wishes, > Spencer Graves >