[GPSCC-chat] Meeting tonight 2014-12-18 draft agenda

[Spencer Graves]

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 <http://creatvsj.org/> (local public access television), and made available via YouTube and (probably) 48South7th.org <http://48south7th.org/> (associated with the San Jose Peace & Justice Center).  

9:10 PM:  what else?  

9:30 PM:  adjourn.  

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