From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Wed Jan 1 19:52:10 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 19:52:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Fwd: Lynne Stewart after she arrived in NYC. In-Reply-To: References: <3ACBFB87-05FE-499A-B9EC-C6BB717AD71E@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <1388634730.48723.YahooMailNeo@web122901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Donna Wallach To: SBM ; South_Bay_Activists Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 6:42 PM Subject: Fwd: Lynne Stewart after she arrived in NYC. Greetings all, This is a great way to start the new year. A real people's victory. The judge did what he said he would do. Watch the video, even though it is sideways and please read the quote below. Lynne is a true shero and role model. Donna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kiilu Nyasha Date: Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:18 PM Subject: Lynne Stewart after she arrived in NYC. Subject:?The pictures we have been waiting to see....Lynne Stewart after she arrived in NYC. > > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmK35tD9F74 >(sorry I don't know why it is sideways). >"The hardest part is to leave (my sisters) behind in that parallel universe. I will work for women prisoners and political prisoners...." >Fight, fight, fight on, don't ever give in, resist, resist, resist. It's the only thing that makes life worth living" > >--? "It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism." People of the world, unite! www.kiilunyasha.blogspot.com -- End the Blockade/Siege on Gaza! Tear down the Apartheid Walls in West Bank & Gaza! End the Israeli collective punishment on the Palestinian people! End the illegal Israeli Occupation of all of Palestine! Right to Return to their homes and homeland for all Palestinians! End all U.S. aid to Israel Free Palestine! 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URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Jan 2 08:54:00 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:54:00 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Instant Runoff Voting (Jan. 7 meeting of SCC Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections to discuss this) In-Reply-To: <52B33FBE.6070706@prodsyse.com> References: <52B33FBE.6070706@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <52C599A8.6000904@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: A recent blog by Californians for Electoral Reform (cfer.org) mentions that Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is on the agenda for the meeting next Tuesday, January 7, of the 6 PM meeting of the Santa Clara County Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections, County Government Center, Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium (1st Floor), 70 W. Hedding Street, San Jose, CA. The meeting starts at 6 PM; this will likely be one of the early items on that agenda. The discussion will include an open comment period where people are invited to make brief comments. If many people want to comment, they are limited to 1 minute (roughly 150 words); if only a few wish to comment, the limit is usually 2 minutes (roughly 300 words). Hope to see you all there. I plan to bring a prepared statement of roughly 150 words (and maybe one of 300 words in case I get 2 minutes) with a paper copy to hand to the clerk. Best Wishes, Spencer ##################### Below please find a detailed description of the current status of Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) for Santa Clara County, preceded by a summary of my understanding of this issue. We will discuss this further at the Green Party meeting at the Peace Center, scheduled to start at 7:30 (informal discussions starting at 7; I plan to arrive by 6:45 PM to make sure the Peace Center is open). In brief: 1. We can have IRV in Santa Clara County probably starting with special elections in 2015. 2. However, to get this, we need to push for it. The next opportunity for this will be Tuesday, January 7, 6 PM, at the next meeting of the Santa Clara County Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections in the Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium, County of Santa Clara Government Center (First Floor), 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose, CA, 95110. I think we should try to get as many people as feasible to attend this meeting, and encourage all inclined to prepare a 1-2 minute speech on why they want IRV. This should include trying to identify and contact all the groups that have endorsed IRV in the past. (NOTE: The League of Women Voters nationally has endorsed IRV, though the current president of the local League may oppose it.) Y'all come. Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: For Philip Chantri, who is scheduled to talk about federal testing of voting machines in the next couple of days Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:49:34 -0800 From: Spencer Graves To: Chantri, Philip CC: mhunter at lusars.net , fsweeney at infionline.net , steve.chessin at cfer.org , Moreles, Matt , bushey, shannon Hi, Philip: Thanks for details. If I read this correctly, the current situation can be summarized as follows: 1. Similar to "Catch 22", Santa Clara County can't approve IRV without authorization by the Feds and the California Secretary of State, who won't provide authorization without prior approval by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. 2. Fortunately, unlike "Catch 22", the Board of Supervisors could vote to use it as soon as possible, preferably to begin with a special election in 2015. That vote would then allow the California Secretary of State to approve it and the other steps planned in time to make it actually happen. Is this correct? If no, please help me understand what I missed. Thanks again for the information and all your work in support of democracy in Santa Clara County. Best Wishes, Spencer On 12/18/2013 1:22 PM, Chantri, Philip wrote: > > Good Afternoon! > > I've attempted to provide some background, answer the questions asked > and provided links to additional information. > > Background > > On November 3, 1998, voters in Santa Clara County approved Measure F, > amending the County Charter, Section 208, to allow consideration of an > instant run-off voting system. The Impartial Analysis by County > Counsel stated: > > ?The current Poll Star voting system used in the County cannot > accommodate IRV since it is unable to distinguish between voter first > and second choices. However, in the future, this system may be > replaced by a voting system that can accommodate IRV. This charter > measure would enable, but not require, the Board of Supervisors to > consider the use of IRV for County elections consolidated with the > November general election once suitable technology is available in the > County. Procedural issues regarding the implementation of IRV will > need to be considered by the Board of Supervisors at the time IRV > becomes a feasible option.? > > On April 29, 2003, the County entered into an agreement with Sequoia > Voting Systems, now owned by Dominion Voting Systems, for a DRE voting > system. The new voting system was implemented without the capability > to accommodate IRV. The County's contract with Sequoia includes a > requirement that if IRV is authorized in the State of California and > required by the County, Sequoia must develop and certify an upgrade > within a reasonable time as agreed upon by both parties. > > The version currently in use in Santa Clara County is the last > software version submitted for certification in California and > approved on March 20, 2006 and revised reapproval with conditions on > December 31, 2009 for Sequoia Optech 400-C/WinETP v. 1.12.4 (our > central count system), Sequoia AVC Edge Model II v. 5.0.24 (our DREs) > along with Sequoia WinEDS 3.1.012. No later versions have been > certified for general use in California. > > A later version of the software that would have included IRV > capability was submitted for federal testing and certification over > five years ago. The latest information received by the County > indicates that the version submitted for use with our system to the > EAC is no longer in testing, will not receive an EAC Certification # > and will not be submitted for approval in California. I?ve provided > links below to correspondence between the EAC and Dominion Voting Systems. > > https://eac926.americaneagle.com/assets/1/Documents/Sequoia.Report.Delay.letter.8.30.12.FINAL.pdf > > https://eac926.americaneagle.com/assets/1/Documents/ltr_Hancock_WinEDS_27Feb2013.pdf > > At the FGOC meeting on April 6, 2006, the ROV presented the FY 2007 > recommended budget proposal, included in this proposal was a request > for augmentation for Instant Runoff Voting. The succeeding Board of > Supervisors meeting of April 25, 2006 minutes show (Item 12) "Received > comment from the County Executive that the board will have a policy > discussion related to Instant Run-off Voting (IRV) if and when the > Secretary of State approves IRV and if and when the County's > technology is capable of providing IRV, the board will discuss to > determine its next steps." > > We have been involved in requesting information, studying Alameda and > San Francisco implementation, attending Training during implementation > and keeping abreast of federal and state certification status and > requirements. > > I?ve provided a link to the Secretary of State?s website > http://www.sos.ca.gov/voting-systems/oversight/directives/irv-guidelines.pdf > the guidelines state, ?the county board of supervisors, must first > approve the use of instant runoff voting.? Should one of our > jurisdictions decide to become an ?investing? jurisdiction and our > Board have a policy discussion and decide to seek ?administrative > approval? outside of federal certification the next steps to be > determined would be development of a certification package, > development of use procedures, development of a voter education and > outreach package and creation of a budget for the ?investing? > jurisdiction. > > 1. The original contract with Sequoia required them to provide > the software for IRV once the County made a decision to implement it. > Does that provision still hold? If not, why not? > > Please find a link to the Sequoia contract below. However a brief > excerpt from the contract states, "Following direction and > certification from the California Secretary of State, Sequoia > must provide the necessary computer software for instant runoff > election capability within a reasonable time to be agreed by the > parties. If instant runoff voting is authorized in the State of > California and required by the County, Sequoia must develop and > certify an upgrade within a reasonable time to be agreed by the parties." > > http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=4&ID=33356 > > > > 2. The original contract with Sequoia included software upgrades as > part of the maintenance agreement, implying no additional cost for the > IRV software. Does that provision still hold? If not, why not? > > The contract does state, ?The annual license and maintenance fee > includes upgrades to the software furnished by Sequoia under this > Agreement at no additional cost, but County has discretion whether to > implement upgrades. Sequoia must ensure that software upgrades are in > compliance with federal certifying authority and California Secretary > of State certification.? > > > 3. Do our central scanners and DREs differ from San Francisco's > central scanners and DREs, and if so, how? > > Alameda County and the City and County of San Francisco use Sequoia > Optech 400-C/WinETP v. 1.16.6 (Santa Clara County uses a differing > version 1.12.4) Sequoia Optech Insight Plus APX K2.16, HPX K1.44 > (Santa Clara County does not use precinct scanners) Sequoia AVC Edge > Model II v. 5.0.24 ( Santa Clara County uses the same hardware but > differing software). More simply stated, San Francisco uses Sequoia > Optech 400-C/WinETP v. 1.16.6 for Vote by Mail, Sequoia Optech Insight > Plus APX K2.16, HPX K1.44 to tabulate optical scan ballots in precinct > and Sequoia AVC Edge Model II v. 5.0.24 for polling place > accessibility requirements. > > Please find more information on the "administrative approval" granted > to The City and County of San Francisco on the Secretary of State's > voting system approval page at > http://www.sos.ca.gov/voting-systems/vendors/sequoia.htm Their > administrative approval is granted for their ?blended? system of > Central Count/Precinct Scanner/DRE. > > > 4. Do our central scanners and DREs differ from Alameda County's > central scanners and DREs, and if so, how? > > Alameda County and the City and County of San Francisco use Sequoia > Optech 400-C/WinETP v. 1.16.6 (Santa Clara County uses a differing > version 1.12.4) Sequoia Optech Insight Plus APX K2.16, HPX K1.44 > (Santa Clara County does not use in precinct scanners) Sequoia AVC > Edge Model II v. 5.0.24 ( Santa Clara County uses the same hardware > but differing software). More simply stated, Alameda uses Sequoia > Optech 400-C/WinETP v. 1.16.6 for Vote by Mail, Sequoia Optech Insight > Plus APX K2.16, HPX K1.44 to tabulate optical scan ballots in precinct > and Sequoia AVC Edge Model II v. 5.0.24 for polling place > accessibility requirements. > > > Please find more information on the "administrative approval" granted > to Alameda County on the Secretary of State's voting system approval > page at http://www.sos.ca.gov/voting-systems/vendors/sequoia.htm Their > administrative approval is granted for their ?blended? system of > Central Count/Precinct Scanner/DRE. > > > > 5. Does the recent enactment of SB 360 render irrelevant the > federal testing requirement? > > Three members of our Staff, myself included, were included in > presentations provided on this topic from the Secretary of State's > Office last week.Additionally, last Friday I was able to attend a > hearing on the proposed regulations in Sacramento. Please find below a > link to the proposed regulations, voting system performance standards, > and notices on the hearing from the Secretary of State. While the > provisions of SB 360 have not been fully implemented yet, the vision > and operational understanding is that a voting system vendor could pay > and submit a system for testing to the State of California who would > then contract with a federal testing lab for system review and > certification testing bypassing the EAC. In essence following slightly > tougher standards, requirements and testing the EAC would have > followed but not requiring the EAC #. However, if a system had > previously received the EAC #, the State would not require a > duplication of the fees and testing already completed. The vendors are > free to choose which path to follow. > > http://www.sos.ca.gov/admin/regulations/proposed/elections/voting-systems/ > > Please let me know should you have further questions, seek > clarification and/or would like to have a more in depth discussion. > > Happy Holidays! > > Philip Chantri > > Election Division Coordinator > > Precinct Operations, Outreach, > > Training, & The CBO Program > > 1553 Berger Drive, Building 1 > > San Jose, CA 95112 > > (408) 282-3066 > > philip.chantri at rov.sccgov.org > > */Download the free SCCVOTE mobile app for iPhone/iPad & Android: > bit.ly/sccvote /* > > *From:*Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves at prodsyse.com] > *Sent:* Sunday, December 15, 2013 9:09 AM > *To:* registrar > *Cc:* Steve Chessin; Sharon/Frank Sweeney; Michael Hunter > *Subject:* For Philip Chandri, who is scheduled to talk about federal > testing of voting machines in the next couple of days > > Hi, Philip: > > > What can you tell me about the original contract between Santa > Clara County and Sequoia, how our equipment differs from that of San > Francisco and Oakland, and the impact of SB 360 on federal testing > requirements? > > > Also, could you please provide me with a copy of that contract > and documentation relevant to these questions (or -- better -- > appropriate web links where those documents are publicly available)? > > > Below please find my understanding from our conversation Dec. > 9. I'd like answers to Steve Chessin's five questions (below, > summarized in the first line to this email). In addition, if I > misrepresented anything you said to me, please correct same. > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > *Subject: * > > > > Re: IRV in Santa Clara County > > *Date: * > > > > Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:57:21 -0800 > > *From: * > > > > Steve Chessin > > *Organization: * > > > > Californians for Electoral Reform > > *To: * > > > > Spencer Graves > , Sharon/Frank Sweeney > , Michael > Hunter > > Hi, Spencer. I suggest you ask Philip these questions: > > 1. The original contract with Sequoia required them to provide the > software for IRV once the County made a decision to implement it. Does > that provision still hold? If not, why not? > > 2. The original contract with Sequoia included software upgrades as part > of the maintenance agreement, implying no additional cost for the IRV > software. Does that provision still hold? If not, why not? > > 3. Do our central scanners and DREs differ from San Francisco's central > scanners and DREs, and if so, how? > > 4. Do our central scanners and DREs differ from Alameda County's central > scanners and DREs, and if so, how? > > 5. Does the recent enactment of SB 360 render irrelevant the federal > testing requirement? > > The answers to these questions will set the stage for appropriate > follow-up questions. > > --Steve > > On 12/14/13 12:34 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > > Hi, Steve: > > > > > > What do you suggest we do to respond to Philip's claims? > > > > > > For example, might it be wise to ask Philip about the situation, > > citing to the extent feasible irrefutable sources describing the > > situation as you did? He may not be aware of some of the things you > > cited. Or you may misunderstand something. Or there may be people over > > Philip in the office of the Registrar of Voters who do not share your > > perception of situation. In any of these situations, it would be > > helpful to provide detailed documentation of your sources of information. > > > > > > Philip might then say you are correct. Or he might explain some > > other obstacle of which we are currently unaware. In either case, we > > would be closer to our goal. > > > > > > As I mentioned, he is scheduled to talk with someone with the > > feds next week and get back with me before the Santa Clara Green Party > > meets next Thursday evening. > > > > > > Best Wishes, > > Spencer > > > > > > On 12/13/2013 8:59 PM, Steve Chessin wrote: > >> Hi, all. While Philip may be technically correct, as far as I can tell > >> the hardware we have is identical to the hardware in Alameda County and > >> in San Francisco, and all we lack is the software that they use. > >> (Election equipment is certified as a complete package, hardware and > >> software together.) > >> > >> Our original contract with Sequoia specified that they would provide the > >> IRV software upon request by the County, and the maintenance contract > >> included software upgrades; no additional charges necessary. I believe > >> Dominion is bound by those terms. > >> > >> The equipment (hardware and software) in San Francisco and Alameda > >> counties has been given conditional (or provisional, I forget the exact > >> term) certification by the Secretary of State absent the results of > >> federal testing; there is no reason the same could not be done for Santa > >> Clara County. Also, SB 360, recently enacted into law, removes the > >> requirement that election equipment be federally qualified before it can > >> be given state certification. > >> > >> So once the County asks for and receives the IRV software upgrade, our > >> equipment can receive certification for IRV. > >> > >> --Steve > >> > >> On 12/9/13 11:52 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > >>> Hi, Sharon, Steve, Michael: > >>> > >>> > >>> I just received a call regarding Instant Runoff Voting from > >>> Philip Chandri, the contact person for IRV in the Santa Clara County > >>> Registrar of Voters. He said that the equipment Santa Clara County has > >>> is NOT certified for IRV. It was submitted for "federal testing" three > >>> years ago, and they're still waiting for the results. He said that many > >>> people have expressed interest in IRV; I heard him mention at least one > >>> Democratic group, the League of Women Voters, and the Cities of San Jos? > >>> and Santa Clara. > >>> > >>> > >>> He is scheduled to meet with someone involved with that "federal > >>> testing" in the next few days and will get back to me before the Santa > >>> Clara Greens meet 10 days from now, Dec. 19. I'll let you know what I > >>> hear. > >>> > >>> > >>> 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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I forwarded my Green Apple concept to David Shapton, Managing Editor of RedShark News, after he wrote " I'd love to have a smartphone made from wood, with only the electronic parts replaceable. I think we will see an increase in modularisation, and this could be a big thing in years to come. The Apertus Axiom is a good example of this. Our electrical and data interfaces are now so fast, and easy to configure, that it makes much more sense just to buy the bits we want to upgrade." http://niepodam.pl/message.php?id=12309744 He invited me to write an article for RedShark News as long as it did not bash Apple. Is anyone willing to step up and help me write an article (you can put your name on it) about the benefits of modularization? (The Apertus Axiom, by the way, is a modular open-source video camera: https://www.apertus.org/axiom) ----------------------------------------------------------- Here's what I wrote: Announcing the Green Apple! Sustainable, upgradable, and backward software compatible, the Green Apple will also be non-toxic, recyclable, and biodegradable. Unit Sustainability: * Modular construction allows users to trade in old CPU, I/0, and video modules and upgrade to the latest and greatest * backward compatibility of software and hardware upgrades means users' expensive applications are never orphaned * Modular construction allows repair by substitution of used parts Bio-Friendliness and Recyclability: * Minimal use of toxic elements * Bio-degradable plastic * Trade-in modules can be re-used instead of trashed * Components have standard interfaces so dead Apples can donate screens, keypads, and I/O modules to Raspberry hacks When can you get one? NEVER--not as long as you keep buying Toxic Apples designed for disposability and obsolescence. From: snug.bug at hotmail.com To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:45:38 -0800 Announcing the Green Apple! Sustainable, upgradable, and backward software compatible, the Green Apple will also be non-toxic, recyclable, and biodegradable. Unit Sustainability: * Modular construction allows users to trade in old CPU, I/0, and video modules and upgrade to the latest and greatest * backward compatibility of software and hardware upgrades means users' expensive applications are never orphaned * Modular construction allows repair by substitution of used parts Bio-Friendliness and Recyclability: * Minimal use of toxic elements * Bio-degradable plastic * Trade-in modules can be re-used instead of trashed * Components have standard interfaces so dead Apples can donate screens, keypads, and I/O modules to Raspberry hacks When can you get one? NEVER--not as long as you keep buying Toxic Apples designed for disposability and obsolescence. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Jan 4 18:16:15 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 18:16:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1388888175.97670.YahooMailNeo@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ...as long as it doesn't bash Apple? WTF, is he on the take from Apple or something? John Thielking ________________________________ From: Brian To: "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" Sent: Saturday, January 4, 2014 5:37 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple More on the concept of modularization. I forwarded my Green Apple concept to David Shapton, Managing Editor of RedShark News, after he wrote " I'd love to have a smartphone made from wood, with only the electronic parts replaceable. I think we will see an increase in modularisation, and this could be a big thing in years to come. The Apertus Axiom is a good example of this. Our electrical and data interfaces are now so fast, and easy to configure, that it makes much more sense just to buy the bits we want to upgrade." http://niepodam.pl/message.php?id=12309744 He invited me to write an article for RedShark News as long as it did not bash Apple.? Is anyone willing to step up and help me write an article (you can put your name on it)? about the benefits of modularization?? (The Apertus Axiom, by the way, is a modular open-source video camera:? https://www.apertus.org/axiom) ----------------------------------------------------------- Here's what I wrote: Announcing the Green Apple!? Sustainable, upgradable, and backward software compatible, the Green Apple will also be non-toxic, recyclable, and biodegradable. Unit Sustainability:? *?? Modular construction allows users to trade in old CPU, I/0, and video modules and upgrade to the latest and greatest *? backward compatibility of software and hardware upgrades means users' expensive applications are never orphaned *? Modular construction allows repair by substitution of used parts? Bio-Friendliness and Recyclability: *? Minimal use of toxic elements *? Bio-degradable plastic *? Trade-in modules can be re-used instead of trashed *? Components have standard interfaces so dead Apples can donate screens, keypads, and I/O modules to Raspberry hacks When can you get one?? NEVER--not as long as you keep buying Toxic Apples designed for disposability and obsolescence. ________________________________ From: snug.bug at hotmail.com To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:45:38 -0800 Announcing the Green Apple!? Sustainable, upgradable, and backward software compatible, the Green Apple will also be non-toxic, recyclable, and biodegradable. Unit Sustainability:? *?? Modular construction allows users to trade in old CPU, I/0, and video modules and upgrade to the latest and greatest *? backward compatibility of software and hardware upgrades means users' expensive applications are never orphaned *? Modular construction allows repair by substitution of used parts? Bio-Friendliness and Recyclability: *? Minimal use of toxic elements *? Bio-degradable plastic *? Trade-in modules can be re-used instead of trashed *? Components have standard interfaces so dead Apples can donate screens, keypads, and I/O modules to Raspberry hacks When can you get one?? NEVER--not as long as you keep buying Toxic Apples designed for disposability and obsolescence. _______________________________________________ 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 spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sat Jan 4 20:58:51 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:58:51 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple In-Reply-To: <1388888175.97670.YahooMailNeo@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1388888175.97670.YahooMailNeo@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <52C8E68B.3090706@prodsyse.com> If it were called, the "Green Apple", Apple, in., might sue. If they did, it would hardly matter whether they could ultimately win in a fair judicial system, because ours is not fair. Apple, Inc., has a market capitalization close to half a trillion dollars. The budget for their legal department could be hundreds of billions of dollars. They could tie you up in so many legal technicalities that no start-up or volunteer project could afford the legal fees to fight it. This is called a "Strategic lawsuit against public participation". In "Free Culture", Lawrence Lessig described how the media conglomerates smashed MP3.com and Napster including severely punishing lawyers and venture capitalists who had supported those ventures. [See the Wikipedia article on "Free Culture (book)".] Any standard desktop computer [with a standard case] today can be upgraded as Brian described using components readily available at Fry's or from Amazon. A cell phone or tablet like that could probably be produced using a 3-d printer to produce the case with off-the-shelf components available from various sources, though some of that could take design skills beyond what I could easily do. Best Wishes, Spencer On 1/4/2014 6:16 PM, John Thielking wrote: > ...as long as it doesn't bash Apple? WTF, is he on the take from Apple > or something? > > John Thielking > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Brian > *To:* "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" > *Sent:* Saturday, January 4, 2014 5:37 PM > *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] FW: I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple > > More on the concept of modularization. > > I forwarded my Green Apple concept to David Shapton, Managing Editor > of RedShark News, > after he wrote > > " I'd love to have a smartphone made from wood, with only the > electronic parts replaceable. > I think we will see an increase in modularisation, and this could be a > big thing in years to come. > The Apertus Axiom > > is a good example of this. Our electrical and data interfaces are now > so fast, > and easy to configure, that it makes much more sense just to buy the > bits we want to upgrade." > > http://niepodam.pl/message.php?id=12309744 > > He invited me to write an article for RedShark News as long as it did > not bash Apple. > > Is anyone willing to step up and help me write an article (you can put > your name on it) about > the benefits of modularization? > > (The Apertus Axiom, by the way, is a modular open-source video camera: > https://www.apertus.org/axiom) > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Here's what I wrote: > > Announcing the Green Apple! Sustainable, upgradable, and backward > software > compatible, the Green Apple will also be non-toxic, recyclable, and > biodegradable. > > Unit Sustainability: > * Modular construction allows users to trade in old CPU, I/0, and > video modules > and upgrade to the latest and greatest > * backward compatibility of software and hardware upgrades means > users' expensive > applications are never orphaned > * Modular construction allows repair by substitution of used parts > > Bio-Friendliness and Recyclability: > * Minimal use of toxic elements > * Bio-degradable plastic > * Trade-in modules can be re-used instead of trashed > * Components have standard interfaces so dead Apples can donate > screens, keypads, > and I/O modules to Raspberry hacks > > When can you get one? NEVER--not as long as you keep buying Toxic > Apples designed > for disposability and obsolescence. > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: snug.bug at hotmail.com > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:45:38 -0800 > > > Announcing the Green Apple! Sustainable, upgradable, and backward > software > compatible, the Green Apple will also be non-toxic, recyclable, and > biodegradable. > > Unit Sustainability: > * Modular construction allows users to trade in old CPU, I/0, and > video modules > and upgrade to the latest and greatest > * backward compatibility of software and hardware upgrades means > users' expensive > applications are never orphaned > * Modular construction allows repair by substitution of used parts > > Bio-Friendliness and Recyclability: > * Minimal use of toxic elements > * Bio-degradable plastic > * Trade-in modules can be re-used instead of trashed > * Components have standard interfaces so dead Apples can donate > screens, keypads, > and I/O modules to Raspberry hacks > > When can you get one? NEVER--not as long as you keep buying Toxic > Apples designed > for disposability and obsolescence. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 wrolley at charter.net Sat Jan 4 21:33:35 2014 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 21:33:35 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Bay Delta Conservation Plan Message-ID: <52C8EEAF.4050200@charter.net> The State of California has created a massive (40K+ pages) plan for meeting the "co-equal" goals of protecting the Delta and providing for future water deliveries. There will be a review meeting in San Jose to further explain the BDCP and to gather public input. Meetinginfo: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm San Jose Marriott 301 S Market St, San Jose, CA 95113 I have been reading through segments of this and it makes absolutely no sense unless you consider that it is a huge lie that will cost the public (by some estimates that include interest costs of a bond issue) some $65 Billion. It will provide for 2 tunnels to deliver Sacramento River Water from intakes near Courtland to an area near Tracy where it can be carried further S. to San Joaquin Valley irrigation systems,. the S. California Metropolitan Water District, and the Kern County Water Bank that is interested in selling the water for fracking the Monterey Shale. All through the "plan" are references to contingencies for sea level rise. However, the S. terminus of the tunnels is the Clifton Court Forebay N. of Tracy and that will be flooded with less than 1 meter of sea level rise. You can check it on this map: http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/san-francisco.shtml which starts with a 7 meter SLR. However, change the rate to 1 meter and the Clifton Forebay is still flooded... just N. W of the T in Tracy in the initial map. Why would they want to build these tunnels, since there is going to be no additional water? It only makes sense if the real plan is to abandon the Delta to sea level rise and now the tunnels will carry water under the flooded areas. However, they dare not say that out loud. All i want is to hear someone from DWR to tell the truth. Chris Austin is doing a great job in weeding through all of this at her blog: Maven's Notebook. http://mavensnotebook.com/ -- "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 Sun Jan 5 16:36:39 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:36:39 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 4 Cs - Climate Change, Capitalism, and Cartoons In-Reply-To: <52C9FA4A.4060601@earthlink.net> References: <52C9FA4A.4060601@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <52C9FA97.3060008@earthlink.net> An important question I sometimes hear on the edges of discussions about climate change is ... "Can we address climate change adequately while keeping capitalism?" I don't know the answer. In the following article, the author argues that we can't. I'm not convinced, but I think he makes some good points worth thinking about: "Good News, Bad News for Addressing Climate Change" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/05-3 He also provides a link to a relevant cartoon at: http://www.climateactionreserve.org/blog/2012/08/31/environmental-cartoons-by-joel-pett/ Gerry From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sun Jan 5 18:22:19 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:22:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Must see documentary about Orca's in captivity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1388974939.37743.YahooMailNeo@web122903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Donna Wallach To: SBM ; South_Bay_Activists Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 6:09 PM Subject: Must see documentary about Orca's in captivity Greetings all, This is a very difficult documentary to watch, however very important to watch. I have never been to Seaworld, I have never liked zoos, could not stand seeing animals locked up in cages, even big cages. I learned information about Orcas that I didn't know which makes Seaworld and even more evil place. It really reminds me of the slave trade, treating living beings as if they are just property. Since so many humans think that human being life is more valued than any other form of life, yet human beings are treated so horrendously, it is no surprise that Seaworld is so successful. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37286.htm Donna -- "Nobody in the world, nobody in history,has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." Assata Shakur Free Palestine! Right of Return for all Palestinians to Palestine! Free all political prisoners! End United $tates of Amerikkka invasions and occupations -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perrysandy at aol.com Mon Jan 6 10:06:46 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:06:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 4 Cs - Climate Change, Capitalism, and Cartoons In-Reply-To: <52C9FA97.3060008@earthlink.net> References: <52C9FA4A.4060601@earthlink.net> <52C9FA97.3060008@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <8D0D9213245DDA7-1B34-23F9E@webmail-d269.sysops.aol.com> Hi Gerry, This is a good article, and I agree that climate change cannot be addressed while keeping capitalism for the following reasons: 1) Capitalism by definition is based on the unlimited accumulation of wealth. That is its entire method of operation. The owners of wealth only invest it when they can maximize profit. Unlimited accumulation and sustainability on a finite planet are mathematically impossible and physically absolutely irreconcilable. 2) Capitalism defines wealth as exchange value, namely the creation of value by human labor that can be exchanged for money. Air, water, natural beauty, and living creatures have no value in the capitalist system, so there is no economic incentive to protect them. 3) Finally, as the article you sent accurately points out, the major economic decisions in a capitalist system are made by private actors, and issues of public good can only be effectively addressed by a democratically accountable public planning process. Below is an article that I helped to edit (not write - it was written by an activist from the Midwest) that also touches on this issue. It will be appearing in the January issue of Rally Comrades, which I believe should be out soon. Sandy PROTECTING PLANET EARTH MEANS BREAKINGWITH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS Capitalism is a dying system. But likea fatally wounded beast, it is attacking the hands that once fed it. As newelectronic means of production throw more workers out of the system and intodestitution, capitalists are forced to invent new ways to further exploit bothhuman and natural resources for profit. Corporations are using the state as abattering ram. Most laws passed today by state or federal legislators areactually written by corporate lobbyists for the benefit of corporateshareholders and Wall Street. Elected officials today no longer passregulations to protect the health of workers, their communities, or our land,water, air, and other precious natural resources for the benefit of the public.Instead, politicians from both major parties serve capital by sacrificing everylast remnant of ?the commons? upon the altar of corporate profit and WallStreet speculation. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the fossil fuels corporate-industrial-financialcomplex. Since the first Earth Day in 1971, anygains made to protect the environment and restrict corporate polluters have nowbeen reversed or are under serious attack. From the 1989 Exxon-Valdez spill tothe 2010 BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, heavily subsidized oil and gasindustries have spent a fortune attempting to preserve their profitability.They fund studies to influence scientists and they buy Democratic andRepublican legislators alike. The Republican-dominated American LegislativeExchange Council (ALEC) and the bipartisan Council of State Governments (CSG)are equally active, corporate-funded bill mills. CSG?s budget is roughly $30million a year while ALEC?s is around $6 million a year. Both draft model billsand present them to state legislatures to vote on. As a result, many bills that claim toregulate industry are actually written by the very companies they are supposedto govern. ALEC for example promoted a bill to address the issue of publicdisclosure of chemicals in the drilling fluids used in fracking (extractingnatural gas through unconventional hydraulic fracturing). Sponsored within ALECby ExxonMobil, it was based on a Texas law that allowed energy companies towithhold the names of chemicals to ?protect trade secrets?. This bill became a model for states allaround the country. Democrats as well as Republicanscollude in this process. CSG modeled this bill before ALEC picked it up, andthe disclosure standards found in both the CSG and ALEC bills were developed bythe Obama administration?s DOE ?Fracking Safety Panel? formed in May 2011. Thepanel was stacked with oil and gas industry insiders. The sole ?environmental?representative was Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund, an NGO basedin New York. EDF?s senior energy policyadvisor and spokesman on hydraulic fracturing is a member of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, whichopposes applying the federal Safe Drinking Water Act to fracking. He also is aformer executive VP and general counsel for the Texas Independent Producers andRoyalty Owners Association. With friends of the environment such as EDF, whoneeds enemies? Increasing fossil fuel extraction hasled to well-water contamination in fracked areas as well as a rise in cancer,asthma, and other illnesses. As a resultthere has been an upsurge in grassroots opposition across the United States aswell as the entire world. This is not coming from NGO?s, but from workingpeople who have never been activists before. Josh Fox?s documentary, ?GasLand,? originally filmed to share with neighbors in Pennsylvania, contributedto the groundswell as the destruction spread to Wyoming, Texas, and elsewhere. People in Illinois made a last-ditcheffort to lobby Democratic Governor Pat Quinn and members of the regulatorycommittee against passage of Illinois? fracking bill. Basically a tweakedversion of the Texas law, it was touted for the toughest regulations onfracking to date, but opposition groups were not satisfied. They occupied thegovernor?s office and fought for a moratorium until impact studies could beconducted. The bill passed easily, supported by national ?green? organizations,in particular the national Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council(NRDC). In California, a coalition of farmers,nurses and labor (Californians Against Fracking) attempted to presentDemocratic Governor Brown with a petition for a moratorium with over 100,000signatures. They were ignored. Themoratorium bill was voted down, a fracking bill was passed, and a subsequentpoll indicated that most Californians believe the legislature is run by a fewlooking out for themselves. Coalition leaders have used this legislativeprocess as a first step to build awareness. In Pennsylvania, two-thirds of votersoppose fracking, causing the Democratic State Committee to support a call for amoratorium. Josh Fox indicates the movement is stronger than ever inPennsylvania, and stresses the imperative that we present a vision of anotherway. Actor Mark Ruffalo, member of the Green Shadow Cabinet, is working ongreen energy banks as part of a ?Solutions Project? campaigning for renewableenergy. Other motions such as the anti-Keystone XL pipeline have drawn indigenous communities into the fight to protectthe land and water, including the Idle No More movement in Canada and theLakota and others in the U.S. In the Four Corners area of the Southwest,indigenous members of the Dine and Hopi have organized to stop wholesaledestruction of water and land in the Big Mountain and Black Mesa areas byPeabody Coal. Members of the Black Mesa organization have traveled to St. Louisto receive training and present Peabody?s CEO with a list of grievances. Theydemanded an end to the impact of coal and uranium mining on the nativepopulation and the miners? health, and requested that profits be used todevelop solar energy in their area. They also voiced support and solidaritywith UMW miners facing loss of pension and health benefits from the bankruptcydecision favoring Patriot Coal Co., a subsidiary of Peabody. Many of these indigenous groups haveinvolved the youth in particular who have become quite effective in organizing.Protection of water and the public?s right to water are at the heart of thesestruggles. Water privatization is central to corporate profit plans in thefuture, especially the use of water for shale oil, natural gas, and coalproduction which is increasing exponentially. Governors of several states,including Texas and Illinois, have signed bills to essentially privatize watersupplies to ensure industries have first use. In Texas alone, during a seriousdrought, 30 towns are running out of water as farmers sell their supplies tooil and gas companies. More and more, these environmentalbattles against corporate power are gravitating toward alliances with the basiceconomic struggles of people for survival. In North Dakota resisters to theBakken Shale drilling are reaching out to homeless people pushed out of theirhomes by rising rents. In North Carolina, defenders of the environment havejoined the Moral Monday protests against austerity programs imposed by theright-wing legislature. Protection of the environment is seen as a crucialprotection of the rights of the poor. Rev. Barber, one of the movement?sleaders, points out that he is not wedded to the Democratic Party but rather tocoalitions that are willing to fight for just causes. ?Narrow-minded, isolatedagendas aren?t going to hold themselves up as meaningful in the changing demographicsof our country,? he said. ?A regressive agenda doesn?t fit.? The people arerising and moving to put their class interests out front. As the grassroots members are organizingagainst environmental devastation in their backyards, and fighting ?eminentdomain for private gain? which is destroying or taking their land and homes,many of the major ?green? NGOs continue to emphasize an incremental?push back? strategy with Democratic politicians. This tactic is questionable,in light of the fact that the gas industry gave $3.5 million to the DemocraticGovernors? Association! As some leaders pursue the legislativepath, there is a growing urgency pushing the movement toward direct action,only increasing when demands for moratoriums and bans are not met. While thirdparty motion is barely beginning within the grassroots environmental movement,there is Green Party involvement. In Richmond, California,for example, the fight forworking class demands such as housing and jobs are inseparable from the fightfor the environment. Recent polls indicate the public?sconcern for climate change and global warming has declined over the years, however,when posed with the question ?What do you think the most important problem willbe in the future if nothing is done to stop it,? 25% said the environment orglobal warming as opposed to only 10% naming the economy. (May 2010 study, WoodsInstitute, Stanford Univ.). Clearly, we dare not underestimate concern aboutthe economy and its interconnection to environmental degradation. As new leaders emerge from thegrassroots movements, some are questioning the system of capitalism itself. Theylook for solutions in sustainable agriculture and renewable energy forms suchas wind and solar. Recycling, conservation, and anti-consumerism are theirmantras. But as Richard Smith notes in his paperGreen Capitalism: the god that failed, ??the problems we face cannot besolved by individual choices in the marketplace. Most of the ecologicalproblems ?from global warming? to species extinction, are way beyond the scopeof companies, industries, even countries. They require concerted, large-scalenational and international action. And they require direct economic planning atglobal, national and local levels. The world?s climate scientists tell us we?redoomed unless we sharply reduce our consumption of all fossil fuels. But eventhe world?s largest corporations, such as Exxon Mobil, can?t afford to takesuch losses?Corporations can?t make the socially and ecologically rationaldecisions that need to be made to save the humans because they represent onlyprivate particular interests, not the social and universal interests ofhumanity, the environment, and future generations.? Only by abolishing capitalist privateproperty and making it public property will we be able to democratically createthe kind of society that produces for the needs of the people while protectingthe environment for future generations. A step towards that goal is to fightfor nationalization of the corporations and demanding a government that runsthem in the interests of we, the people. -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Gras To: GPSCC Sent: Sun, Jan 5, 2014 4:37 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 4 Cs - Climate Change, Capitalism, and Cartoons An important question I sometimes hear on the edges of discussions about climate change is ... "Can we address climate change adequately while keeping capitalism?" I don't know the answer. In the following article, the author argues that we can't. I'm not convinced, but I think he makes some good points worth thinking about: "Good News, Bad News for Addressing Climate Change" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/05-3 He also provides a link to a relevant cartoon at: http://www.climateactionreserve.org/blog/2012/08/31/environmental-cartoons-by-joel-pett/ Gerry _______________________________________________ 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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Please consider joining your local committee or contacting your respective county point-person in charge of signature gathering. If there isn't yet a local committee to elect Rodriguez in your area, contact us at info at rodriguezforgovernor.org and we will assist you in creating a local committee and pairing you up with other volunteers. For all other general questions about signature gathering, contact us at info at rodriguezforgovernor.org Rodriguez for Governor Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Luis-Rodriguez-for-California/488092261213336 Edy Alvarez ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gpca-grow mailing list gpca-grow at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-grow -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Jan 6 15:47:51 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:47:51 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Facebook Group To Elect Rodriguez In-Reply-To: <2032bd31-88f8-4c3f-8b1c-6e48693794d0@email.android.com> References: <2032bd31-88f8-4c3f-8b1c-6e48693794d0@email.android.com> Message-ID: <52CB40A7.1030007@prodsyse.com> The Peace & Freedom Party is collecting signatures for Cindy Sheehan for Governor and someone else for Insurance Commissioner. I wish we could have worked a deal with P&F so Sheehan and Rodriguez would be running for different offices and not competing; I need to get a copy of the nominating petition for their Insurance Commissioner and bring it to our meeting, January Dave Kadlacek and I were signing each other's non-competing nominating petitions in front of a Democrat, who declined to sign (not wanting to offend other Democrats). Kadlacek explained that a signature was only worth about 30 cents, whereupon our Democrat gave us each $5. Such a small amount can be given anonymously and is equivalent to over 15 signatures. Best Wishes, Spencer On 1/6/2014 2:34 PM, Drew wrote: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Edy Alvarez > *Sent:* Mon Jan 06 13:59:12 PST 2014 > *To:* "gpca-grow at cagreens.org" > *Subject:* [gpca-grow] LA Facebook Group To Elect Rodriguez > > If you live in the Los Angeles area, please join the "committee to > elect Luis Rodriguez" LA Facebook Group! > https://www.facebook.com/groups/249684915191434/edit/?topics > > Right now it's important that we make sure all hands are on deck and > that we remain laser-focused on getting 20,000 signatures statewide in > order to qualify the campaign to be on the ballot -- We have until > February 20th. > > If you have created your own local Facebook group committee, let us > know and we will repost it on our page. Please consider joining your > local committee or contacting your respective county point-person in > charge of signature gathering. If there isn't yet a local committee to > elect Rodriguez in your area, contact us at > info at rodriguezforgovernor.org > and we will assist you in creating a local committee and pairing you > up with other volunteers. For all other general questions about > signature gathering, contact us at info at rodriguezforgovernor.org > > Rodriguez for Governor Facebook Page: > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Luis-Rodriguez-for-California/488092261213336 > > Edy Alvarez > > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > gpca-grow mailing list > gpca-grow at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-grow > -- 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 pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Jan 7 07:26:31 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 07:26:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Peacemovies.com taking an extended vacation Message-ID: <1389108391.67558.YahooMailNeo@web122905.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> >From www.peacemovies.com 1-7-14 Update: Notice Of Impending Shutdown Of Peacemovies.com: I have decided that it would be better for me to no longer publish Peacemovies.com reviews every week, but instead to produce the yearly booklets of reviews and sell them from the web site instead. The material for the 2013 booklet is already available on the web site so it won't be too much of a chore to produce the 2013 booklet and have it be available for sale early in 2014. The movies for the 2014 booklet will be all watched on Netflix DVDs in early 2015. This will compress my movie watching into 2-3 months of marathon watching every year. If my various passive income investments produce enough income to allow me to buy DVD kiosks, I will branch out into DVD rentals as a strategy for promoting the Peacemovies business. If there are any objections to this new strategy, please e-mail John Thielking at pagesincolor at yahoo.com. Thank you for your support. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Jan 7 14:01:58 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:01:58 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] 1971 Burglary of Media, PA In-Reply-To: <52CC76BD.5090808@earthlink.net> References: <52CC76BD.5090808@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <52CC7956.70206@earthlink.net> A book is coming out about a burglary of an FBI office in Media, PA. Here are some relevant articles, from the present. It's quite pertinent to the NSA / Snowden story. This is the headline article, with the NYT video: "'Burglars' Revealed: Sixties Activists Who Stole FBI COINTELPRO Files" http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/07-0 "Democracy Needs Whistleblowers. That's Why I Broke into the FBI in 1971" "Like Snowden, we broke laws to reveal something that was more dangerous. We wanted to hold J Edgar Hoover accountable" by Bonnie Raines http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/07-11 "Four Points about the 1971 FBI Break-In" by Glenn Greenwald http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/07-9 "Enhance the Paranoia: Our Overreaching Government Has Long Been There, Done That" http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/01/07 Gerry From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Tue Jan 7 14:22:39 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:22:39 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vacancy on the Santa Clara County Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections in Cindy Chavez' district Message-ID: <52CC7E2F.1050808@effectivedefense.org> Hello, All: Might anyone living in Cindy Chavez' supervisorial district be interested in serving on the Santa Clara County Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections (CACE)? It's a volunteer position with one public meeting each month and occasional emails and committee work in between. They meet the first Tuesday of every month starting at 6 PM in the Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium in the County building at 70 West Hedding. They are supposed to have one member for each Supervisor plus one at large. They currently have a vacancy in Cindy Chavez' district. I was asked if I was interested. However, I'm not eligible for that vacancy, because I live in Yaeger's district. This could be an important venue for promoting instant-runoff voting and improving the quality of information made available to the voters. I've attended some recent meetings to promote IRV, which is also on the agenda for tonight's meeting. If you get this email soon enough and have time to attend tonight's meeting, it would be great to see you in the audience, possibly offering a comment supporting IRV, etc. 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 spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Tue Jan 7 14:33:49 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:33:49 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vacancy on the Santa Clara County Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections in Cindy Chavez' district Message-ID: <52CC80CD.8010804@effectivedefense.org> p.s. If you don't know your supervisorial district, go to the web site for the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters and click on "Look up your districts" (http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.aspx). Then input your street address and zip code and click "Go". It will return your address, precinct, supervisorial district, and other districts. I have to check occasionally, because districts change, and I forget. ############################ Hello, All: Might anyone living in Cindy Chavez' supervisorial district be interested in serving on the Santa Clara County Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections (CACE)? It's a volunteer position with one public meeting each month and occasional emails and committee work in between. They meet the first Tuesday of every month starting at 6 PM in the Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium in the County building at 70 West Hedding. They are supposed to have one member for each Supervisor plus one at large. They currently have a vacancy in Cindy Chavez' district. I was asked if I was interested. However, I'm not eligible for that vacancy, because I live in Yaeger's district. This could be an important venue for promoting instant-runoff voting and improving the quality of information made available to the voters. I've attended some recent meetings to promote IRV, which is also on the agenda for tonight's meeting. If you get this email soon enough and have time to attend tonight's meeting, it would be great to see you in the audience, possibly offering a comment supporting IRV, etc. 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 carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Jan 7 17:30:51 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:30:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Urgent: Call Congress now - No TPP Fast Track In-Reply-To: <201401070049.s070neQA006455@mail.ucla.edu> References: <201401070049.s070neQA006455@mail.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <1389144651.92597.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: shane que hee To: Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 4:49 PM Subject: Urgent: Call Congress now - No TPP Fast Track From: rick at kissell.org >Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:15:40 -0800 >Subject: Urgent: Call Congress now - No TPP Fast Track > >? Please forward this message to your email lists today.? And please call Congress Monday. > >Urgent!? Tell Congress Not to Fast Track the TPP >Call your Congressperson and Senators this Monday or Tuesday - >National Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 >This week the Obama Administration will introduce Fast Track Authority for the Trans Pacific Partnership in Congress. The administration will try to push this through as quickly as possible.? WE MUST STOP FAST TRACK! >Fast Track Authority takes away the constitutional duty of Congress to negotiate trade agreements and hands it to the president.? The president can then negotiate, and sign the trade agreement and present it to Congress for an up or down vote, no amendments allowed. >The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens jobs, workers rights, the environment, public health, food safety, internet freedom, financial regulation and more. It allows transnational corporations to sue sovereign governments through international "Trade Tribunals" if that country's laws or regulations might potentially limit their profits.? >The TPP will be the model for all future global trade agreements.? Rather than limit their right to review, amend and debate the TPP, our elected officials should be scrutinizing every one of its provisions. >For more information on the TPP see http://www.citizentrade.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Growth will continue, it will just have a different justification, and we will continue to use up the finite resources in a massive ponzi scheme. On 1/6/2014 10:06 AM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: > Hi Gerry, > This is a good article, and I agree that climate change cannot be > addressed while keeping capitalism for the following reasons: > 1) Capitalism by definition is based on the unlimited accumulation of > wealth. That is its entire method of operation. The owners of wealth > only invest it when they can maximize profit. Unlimited accumulation > and sustainability on a finite planet are mathematically impossible > and physically absolutely irreconcilable. > 2) Capitalism defines wealth as exchange value, namely the creation of > value by human labor that can be exchanged for money. Air, water, > natural beauty, and living creatures have no value in the capitalist > system, so there is no economic incentive to protect them. > 3) Finally, as the article you sent accurately points out, the major > economic decisions in a capitalist system are made by private actors, > and issues of public good can only be effectively addressed by a > democratically accountable public planning process. > Below is an article that I helped to edit (not write - it was written > by an activist from the Midwest) that also touches on this issue. It > will be appearing in the January issue of Rally Comrades, which I > believe should be out soon. > Sandy > -- "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 carolineyacoub at att.net Thu Jan 9 09:05:00 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:05:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [350SiliconValley] Fwd: San Jose KXL Pledge of Resistance Sit In In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1389287100.18812.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Pierre Delforge To: Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 9:19 PM Subject: [350SiliconValley] Fwd: San Jose KXL Pledge of Resistance Sit In All, Happy new year! Let 2014 be a landmark year for climate protection! One of the main climate fights of 2014 will be the expected culmination of our two-year struggle to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline: Several signs point to the State Department releasing its final environmental report on the pipeline by March. The climate movement is gearing up for a fight, should the State Department continue to downplay the climate impact of the pipeline. We are partnering with CREDO and Rainforest Action Network to organize a mass civil disobedience action shortly after the State Department publishes its report. Over 75,000 people nationwide have pledged to resist in over 100 US cities, including a local one right here in San Jose. What action? There will be two simultaneous actions: 1. A Sit In at the Federal Building in San Jose. The Sit In will be a civil disobedience action where participants will be risking arrest, to show that if the government won't protect the climate, we the people?must break the law to do what's right, like the civil rights movement and Gandhi did before us. Watch this YouTube video of a model Sit In event in Chicago last year. * A support rally, separate and completely legal for those who would like to participate but do not want to risk arrest. The support rally will take place across the street from the sit in. When: the exact date is not set yet, it will depend on when the State Department's releases its final environmental impact report on KXL, but we expect the event to take place in February or March. Why civil disobedience??Faced with the failure of our Federal government to control climate change, the climate movement is turning to mass civil disobedience to assert our right and responsibility to protect the "public trust" of a stable climate. Civil disobedience challenges the legitimacy of corporate control over our government which perpetuates climate destruction under the color of the law. This is argued forcefully?by Jeremy Brecher in a recent Op-Ed in Foreign Policy in Focus:?Climate Protection: The New Insurgency. How to participate? * Join our No Tar Sands meeting on Sunday 1/19, to plan for the event. Details and sign-up here. 1. If you are willing to risk arrest, join the Sit In training on February 2.?Training is mandatory to participate in the Sit In. 2. If you wish to participate without risking arrest, stay tuned for more info on the support rally. Thank you for your commitment to climate protection! Best, Pierre http://www.350siliconvalley.org/www.facebook.com/350SiliconValley http://www.meetup.com/350SiliconValley/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "350 Silicon Valley" group. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/350SiliconValley. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Jan 9 13:21:26 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 13:21:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: breaking: Monsanto strikes back In-Reply-To: <75028-464-52cef4e0@list.fooddemocracynow.org> References: <75028-464-52cef4e0@list.fooddemocracynow.org> Message-ID: <1389302486.26577.YahooMailNeo@web122901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Food Democracy Now! Team To: John Thielking Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:13 AM Subject: breaking: Monsanto strikes back Tell Congress and the FDA to stop any efforts to undermine states' rights to label GMOs Don't let Monsanto and the GMA ?corrupt our democracy and kill GMO labeling! Don't let Monsanto and the Big Food kill GMO labeling - Take Action Now! Dear John, This is one of the most important emails that we will ever send.?We?ve been hearing rumors about this for months, but Monsanto and the GMA have made their move. Two days ago, Food Democracy Now! received an unpublished copy of Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association's (GMA) secret plan to try to sneak in a toothless piece of legislation that would eliminate federal mandatory GMO labeling, give the illusion of serious regulation, usurp states' rights to pass similar bills and call for ?voluntary? labeling of GMOs based on fraudulent criteria. The 5-page document details the 7 main provisions of the proposed bill and contains 3 pages of Monsanto and GMA talking points that outline their secret plan to undermine states' rights, subverting both democracy and the will of the people, 90% of whom support GMO labeling. This plan is so devious that it radically speeds up the approval process for new GMO crops, limits the FDA and USDA?s ability to extend premarket safety reviews, declares GMO foods ?safe? and redefines genetically engineered foods as ?bioengineered? in order to sanitize this deeply flawed technology to the American public. Make no mistake about it, this is an outrageous powergrab to deny Americans their basic right to GMO labeling and protect flawed GMO products - and we can?t allow them to get away with it. Tell Congress and FDA: Don't betray the American public on GMO labeling. Demand mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods and don?t let Congress destroy our only hope of protecting our families, our farms and our food from untested and unlabeled GMO food! Every voice counts. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1185?t=7&akid=1124.479272.F2h79l This proposal is much more dangerous to our basic rights to know what?s in our food than the Monsanto Protection Act and will enshrine the false idea that GMOs are proven safe in federal legislation. This past fall, Food Democracy Now! warned that Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) planned to sneak in a bill to preempt states' rights to label GMOs, but this proposed bill is much worse than we imaged. After 20,000 phone calls from Food Democracy Now! members like you, his office caved, but now they're back! Will Congress and the FDA Succeed in Killing GMO Labeling? Only if we let them! If allowed to pass, the current proposal ?would create a uniform, national program? to outlaw any state labeling bill and render federal legislation on GMO labeling meaningless. According to an outline of the proposal, published in Politico earlier this week, this proposed bill only requires a federal GMO ?label on any products? from GMO plants ?if those ingredients present a health or safety risk.? Something the U.S. government has refused to admit for more than 20 years! Think they?re going to start telling the truth about GMOs now? At the same time, the proposal calls for the creation of a ?national standard for voluntary labels? and would allow the FDA to define ?natural? as containing genetically engineered ingredients (GMOs).? Monsanto?s and the GMA?s new secret plan would also create a federalvoluntary label to say ?GMO-Free?, something no individuals are asking for, but some companies want to be able to use it to deceive the American public. Tell Congress it?s time for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods! We can?t allow Monsanto and Big Food companies to continue to hide GMO ingredients from the American public. Take action now! The real lynchpin of Monsanto?s Secret Federal Preemption Proposal is buried in Section 103, which states: ?The provision would also authorize the FDA to develop regulations for the voluntary labeling of the presence of bioengineered ingredients in food products...Under the mandatory program, FDA would have the authority to mandate special labeling to address any material difference that could affect health and safety or cause consumer deception.? Has the FDA ever admitted potential health risks from GMOs publicly? Not once!Think they'll start now? Monsanto and Giant Food Companies in a Panic as GMO Labeling Spreads The fact is that Monsanto and the GMA are reeling from having spent more than $70 million in the past 2 years to kill GMO labeling in ballot initiatives in California and Washington only to narrowly defeat us by 49 to 51% after running some of the most deceptive political ad campaigns in modern history. In reality, the GMO labeling movement has already succeeded in passing GMO labeling bills in Connecticut and Maine last year and with more than 25 GMO labeling bills in state legislatures across the country, Monsanto and giant food companies are in a panic. Right now we have Monsanto and friends on the run, but the past several months have seen a major ramping up of their propaganda in the mainstream press. You are now on the frontline to defend against the massive abusive of corporate power and collusion with our elected officials. We can?t allow this outrageus plan to preempt states' rights and kill GMO labeling to succeed. Please stand with us today! Right now is the critical window where we need to stand together to stop Monsanto and these corrupt corporations from trying to betray our basic democratic rights once again. Please stand with us to help stop Monsanto and Big Food companies from corrupting our laws and democratic process. Every voice counts! http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1185?t=11&akid=1124.479272.F2h79l Remember, democracy is like a muscle, either you use it or you lose it! Thanks for participating in food democracy, Dave, Lisa and the Food Democracy Now! team Sources: 1. ?Food industry to fire preemptive GMO strike?, Politico, January 4, 2013 http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1183?t=13&akid=1124.479272.F2h79l 2. ?Monsanto and GMA?s Secret Plan to Preempt State?s Rights and Kill GMO Labeling? http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1181?t=15&akid=1124.479272.F2h79l 3. ?Industry?s Secret Plan to Get the Feds to Kill GMO Labeling in Every State?, November 7, 2013 http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1184?t=17&akid=1124.479272.F2h79l 4. ?Will a Federal Compromise on GMO Labeling Trump State Law, Forever??, Huffington Post, February 6, 2013 http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1182?t=19&akid=1124.479272.F2h79l You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Legislation may be introduced today to FAST TRACK TPP!!!! Two Democratic Representatives are considered likely sponsors - it is critical tocall them right now and urge them to NOT sponsor Fast Track!!! Here's what you need to know:? Gregory Meeks, NY DC office: 202-225-3461 Mike Quigley, IL? DC office: 202-225-4061 Here's what you can say: "Please don't betray your fellow House Democrats and your constituents; do not sponsor or co-sponsor a Fast Track bill!"? If you live in their districts tell them that you will remember if they sponsor this bill at election time! Find out who represents you?here.?? Why it matters:? * Fast Track cuts Congress out of the process, especially now - at the end of the TPP negotiations, just like the last Fast Track bill that expired. This bill is no different. * Because of the extreme secrecy surrounding TPP negotiations, Congress does not know what is in the TPP and can't offer realistic guidelines. They are voting blind. * There already IS a system for "negotiating trade with foreign nations", it's called the Constitution. It works - let's trust it. Please swamp their offices with calls today!!! Thank you,? TradeJustice New York Metro? DISCUSS THE UPDATE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Causes, 548 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94107 United States | Privacy Policy Don't want to receive emails like this? Block messages about Flush the TPP: Stop the Global Corporate Coup! ??? Manage my email settings -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Click here for web or print version. *www.restorethedelta.org | Join our mailing list | Donate | Contact us * Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter *January 9, 2014 * Help us Save the Delta STOP THE TUNNELS! *We need you, our supporters, to attend BDCP Public Open House Meetings! * Click here to see the full schedule of public meetings! Goal and Immediate Needs! According to the BDCP Website, members of the public will be allowed to make 3 minute public comments regarding the Environmental Impact Report and the Plan itself. Of course, releasing a 40,000 document on one of the the largest and most costly public works projects in the history of California, expecting the public to have already digested the document, and then allowing only 3 minutes for comments per person is a farce, but let's not let them off the hook for creating a charade. We need our Fresno and Bakersfield area supports to attend the January 15th and 16th meetings! And we look forward to seeing a strong turn out on January 21st, 2014 in Stockton, and January 22nd in San Jose. These meetings run from 3 pm to 7 pm. We recommend showing up as early as possible and turning in your card to speak as early as possible. If you need help preparing your public comments, feel free to contact Restore the Delta staff, and we'll give you a hand. Check the link above for all the upcoming dates. *And don't forget to write your letters to Governor Brown expressing your opposition to the peripheral tunnels plan! * /*Click here for ideas . */ ** *Letters should be addressed to:* Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 *The salutation should read: The Honorable Edmund G. Brown* Restore the Delta is a grassroots campaign committed to making the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fishable, swimmable, drinkable, and farmable to benefit all of California. Restore the Delta - a coalition of Delta residents, business leaders, civic organizations, community groups, faith-based communities, union locals, farmers, fishermen, and environmentalists - seeks to strengthen the health of the estuary and the well-being of Delta communities. Restore the Delta works to improve water quality so that fisheries and farming can thrive together again in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Sincerely, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Restore the Delta Email: barbara at restorethedelta.org Web: http://www.restorethedelta.org *Donate Now* Restore the Delta is working everyday through public education and citizen activism to ensure the restoration and future sustainability of the California Delta. Your general contribution can help us sponsor outreach events, enable us to educate Californians on what makes the Delta so special, and assist us in building a coalition that will be recognized by government water agencies as they make water management decisions. Restore the Delta is a charitable 501(c)3 organization. Donations are tax deductible. Click on the button below to go to our secure PayPal account. Donate now Forward this email This email was sent to wrolley at charter.net by barbara at restorethedelta.org | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe ^(TM) | Privacy Policy . Restore the Delta| 10100 Trinity Parkway Suite 120| Stockton| CA| 95219 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Jan 10 05:00:31 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 05:00:31 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Hawaii's solar energy boom Message-ID: <52CFEEEF.9000209@structuremonitoring.com> Energy collected by homeowners' panels taxed the state's power grid and the local utility has stopped connecting them. The utility claims they can't do that safely, because the system wasn't designed for that. Solar panel costs were 60 percent lower in the second quarter of 2013 than they were in early 2011 (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/9/hawaii-s-solar-boomistoomuchofagoodthing.html). Diamandis and Kotler (2012) Abundance (Free Press, esp. pp. 158ff and 268) claim that (a) solar today is already cheaper than coal -- or will be by 2016, and (b) continues to drop by 20 percent each time the installed base doubles. They've also observed that solar today provides 1 percent of the world's energy needs. If we double that seven times, then solar will produce 128 percent of the world's energy needs. ACTION PLAN: We can help make this happen by checking the facts, understanding the counterarguments, and helping make these facts better known so the political process reduces subsidies for fossil fuels and uses this to help fight human contributions to global warming. This includes checking relevant Wikipedia articles and making sure they mention these research results appropriately, that relevant news in this area get appropriately covered in the media, and the progress in these areas is appropriately converted into political action. 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 From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Jan 10 11:20:42 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:20:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Breaking: TPP on the move In-Reply-To: <40.26.05892.E0040D25@outbound.moveon.org> References: <40.26.05892.E0040D25@outbound.moveon.org> Message-ID: <1389381642.57791.YahooMailNeo@web122902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Sarah Alexander To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 10:44 AM Subject: Breaking: TPP on the move Dear John, Today, a bill to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was introduced in Congress. The deal, which is being negotiated with over 600 corporations behind closed doors, is a threat to clean air, clean water, safe food and our democracy. We have to stop fast track for the TPP. Email your Congress members now. If passed, corporations could sue the U.S. government to overturn democratically created laws and regulations if they threaten the corporation's profits. Things like sourcing local food for schools, banning fracking in your community and labeling genetically engineered foods are at the top of the corporate hit list. President Obama is trying to fast track this deal to give himself sole authority to negotiate it, leaving Congress and the American public with absolutely no input. Thankfully we still have time to stop this. Fast Track votes have been defeated in Congress in the past and we can do it again. In recent weeks, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have showed opposition to Fast Track for the TPP. But corporations around the world will stop at nothing to pass this bill. Every single member of Congress needs to hear from their constituents on this. Take action now. It's the most important thing you can do. https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=623&s_src=so Thank you, Sarah Alexander Deputy Organizing Director Food & Water Watch act(at)fwwatch(dot)org ? ________________________________ This message was sent to John Thielking by Sarah Alexander through MoveOn's public petition website. MoveOn Civic Action does not endorse the contents of this message. To unsubscribe or report this email as inappropriate, click here: http://petitions.moveon.org/unsub.html?i=18325-913001-YEi4dS Want to make a donation? MoveOn is entirely funded by our 8 million members?no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Fri Jan 10 22:58:53 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:58:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] hopefully the final petitioning update. In-Reply-To: References: <1389328091.88026.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1389423533.58940.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Okay Santa Clara petition gatherers. We can just get our signatures, take them to the ROV office, and, when we get our verifying phone call, email our numbers to Kamran. Anybody who has a tough time getting to the ROV office, let me know. I'll get you there. My phone number is 408-530-0118. Caroline Oh yes, and let me know if you have any agenda items. Spencer, when is the meeting, officially? ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Kamran Ghasri To: Caroline Yacoub Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 10:26 PM Subject: Re: Petitioning update OK, fine with me. Thanks. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: If you want to keep count, why not just have us notify you when we get our phone calls. You can keep count. I have 10 valid signatures turned in for each candidate. Okay? >Caroline > > From: Kamran Ghasri >To: Spencer Graves >Cc: Gerry Gras ; rainbeaufriend at riseup.net; pagesincolor at yahoo.com; Jim Doyle ; Caroline Yacoub ; wb4d23 at aol.com; Tian Harter ; Andrea Dorey >Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 5:53 PM >Subject: Re: Petitioning update > > > >Hi Spencer; > >? 1- I don't mean to be a pain, but please send me how many signatures you submitted and how many were approved. I think it's wise for us to get a formal verification from now on. > >2 - I agree with your assumption about what the signers expect to happen and not happen with your signatures, but we need to have a valid way of keeping the count. > >3 - Agree. I just relayed the opinion of Luis Rodriguez' campaign. > >Kamran Ghasri >310-248-0414 > > > > > > >On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: > >Hi, Kamran:? >> >> >>????? 1.? I did not get a receipt.? I got a call from someone in the Registrar of Voters office after she had finished checking the names.? In that phone call, she told me how many of the signatures she had gotten were actually valid.? >> >> >>????? 2.? Per your suggestion, I think it would be wise to make scanned images of the completed forms.? I didn't do that before I turned in the forms.? However, I'm conflicted regarding how important it is to make copies:? People signed the forms to support getting the candidate's name on the ballot.? Many who signed may not have done so if they thought that might put them on a junk mail list ;-)? >> >> >>????? 3.? I don't think we should wait and turn them all in shortly before the deadline.? If we do that, we won't know until the end how many valid signatures we actually got -- and we run the risk that the person who would have taken the forms to the ROV's office might encounter a problem that prevents them from turning them in on time.? If we turn them in more or less as we get them, we get a more accurate running total of the number of valid signatures we actually have as we go along -- and it's likely less stressful for the ROV employees, because they can do them at their leisure;? forms they get right at the deadline create stress on them to get them processed as quickly as possible so the candidates know how much they need to pay if they don't have enough.? >> >> >>????? Comments?? >> >> >>????? Thanks for your efforts on this.? >> >> >>????? Best Wishes, >>????? Spencer >> >> >> >>On 1/8/2014 9:18 PM, Kamran Ghasri wrote: >> >>Spencer; >>> >>> Please forward me the receipt you and Caroline got from your ROV's office. From now on, please make sure to count all signatures and copy all completed forms and hold on to them, till one person from your county turns them in shortly before the deadline. Thanks you. >>> >>> Kamran >>> >>> >>>? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: >>> >>>Hi, Kamran:? >>>> >>>> >>>>????? I'm not sure how many signature have been collected so far.? I believe Caroline turned in 10 for each candidate;? I don't know how many of those were verified.?? >>>> >>>> >>>>????? I turned in 9, 7, 7, 8 for Brown, Curtis, Rodriguez and Wells of which 7, 6, 6, 7 were verified.? [I believe I sent this information to you last Thursday.]? >>>> >>>> >>>>????? Earlier this evening, I spoke with Shannon Bushey, the Interim Registrar of Voters here.? She said that anyone could collect the forms and manually deliver them to the ROV's office.? We did not need authorization from the candidate.? We only needed to ensure that the forms were properly completed and signed by the Circulator.? She said that we could mail the forms as long as they were properly completed and signed.? However, she did not recommend that, because they couldn't fix any errors, and the signatures wouldn't count if they arrived after February 20 (even if they were mailed before).? >>>> >>>> >>>>????? Best Wishes, >>>>????? Spencer >>>> >>>>? >>>> >>>>On 1/7/2014 6:37 PM, Kamran Ghasri wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Santa Clara Friends; >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ? Just a quick follow up to see if >>>>> >>>>>- your county has already started circulating the petitions. >>>>> >>>>>- How many have you collected so far? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>-Please make sure to keep all completed forms in a safe place and make copy of all, before turning them in. >>>>> >>>>> - If you've already submitted any completed forms to your county's registrar office,please forward me any verification you've received. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Luis Rodriguez' campaign does not want any completed forms submitted, until the last days before the deadline.Please hold on to your completed forms. I was personally in favor of submitting them gradually, but this is letting you know of the campaign's tactic. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>- Please make sure there is one coordinator in your county, responsible for counting and copying completed forms and hand delivering signatures to your county's registrar office. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>- I know this might not be easy or doable, but please try tohave a list of the circulators in your county and forward it to me. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Looking forward to hearing back from you. Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> Kamran Ghasri >>>>>310-248-0414 >>>>> >>>>> >> >>-- 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/ > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <1389423533.58940.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1389328091.88026.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1389423533.58940.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <52D178CF.9050603@structuremonitoring.com> Hello, All: 1. Our next meeting is officially scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 23, 7-10, San Jos? Peace & Justice Center, according to their calendar (http://sanjosepeace.org/calendar.php). 2. You can also give your completed petitions to someone else to turn in. You can also mail them in, but the Registrar of Voters (ROV) recommends we NOT do that, especially close to the deadline, February 20, because any that arrive after that date may not be counted. If you mail your forms or give them to someone else to deliver, you must first complete them. This includes filling in the blank for "County" on the front, and printing your name, address, the range of dates for signatures collected, and your signature with date of signing. If you mail a form or give it to someone else, please manually add to the David Scott Curtis form, "I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct." This statement is on the other three forms but not on the David Scott Curtis form. It is officially required for any forms completed since January 1, 2014. Thanks, Spencer On 1/10/2014 10:58 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Okay Santa Clara petition gatherers. We can just get our signatures, > take them to the ROV office, and, when we get our verifying phone > call, email our numbers to Kamran. Anybody who has a tough time > getting to the ROV office, let me know. I'll get you there. My phone > number is 408-530-0118. > Caroline > > Oh yes, and let me know if you have any agenda items. Spencer, when is > the meeting, officially? > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Kamran Ghasri > *To:* Caroline Yacoub > *Sent:* Friday, January 10, 2014 10:26 PM > *Subject:* Re: Petitioning update > > OK, fine with me. Thanks. > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Caroline Yacoub > > wrote: > > If you want to keep count, why not just have us notify you when we > get our phone calls. You can keep count. I have 10 valid > signatures turned in for each candidate. Okay? > Caroline > *From:* Kamran Ghasri > > *To:* Spencer Graves > > *Cc:* Gerry Gras >; rainbeaufriend at riseup.net > ; pagesincolor at yahoo.com > ; Jim Doyle > >; > Caroline Yacoub >; wb4d23 at aol.com > ; Tian Harter >; Andrea Dorey > > *Sent:* Thursday, January 9, 2014 5:53 PM > *Subject:* Re: Petitioning update > > Hi Spencer; > > 1- I don't mean to be a pain, but please send me how many > signatures you submitted and how many were approved. I think it's > wise for us to get a formal verification from now on. > > 2 - I agree with your assumption about what the signers expect to > happen and not happen with your signatures, but we need to have a > valid way of keeping the count. > > 3 - Agree. I just relayed the opinion of Luis Rodriguez' campaign. > > Kamran Ghasri > 310-248-0414 > > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Spencer Graves > > wrote: > > Hi, Kamran: > > > 1. I did not get a receipt. I got a call from someone > in the Registrar of Voters office after she had finished > checking the names. In that phone call, she told me how many > of the signatures she had gotten were actually valid. > > > 2. Per your suggestion, I think it would be wise to > make scanned images of the completed forms. I didn't do that > before I turned in the forms. However, I'm conflicted > regarding how important it is to make copies: People signed > the forms to support getting the candidate's name on the > ballot. Many who signed may not have done so if they thought > that might put them on a junk mail list ;-) > > > 3. I don't think we should wait and turn them all in > shortly before the deadline. If we do that, we won't know > until the end how many valid signatures we actually got -- and > we run the risk that the person who would have taken the forms > to the ROV's office might encounter a problem that prevents > them from turning them in on time. If we turn them in more or > less as we get them, we get a more accurate running total of > the number of valid signatures we actually have as we go along > -- and it's likely less stressful for the ROV employees, > because they can do them at their leisure; forms they get > right at the deadline create stress on them to get them > processed as quickly as possible so the candidates know how > much they need to pay if they don't have enough. > > > Comments? > > > Thanks for your efforts on this. > > > Best Wishes, > Spencer > > > On 1/8/2014 9:18 PM, Kamran Ghasri wrote: >> Spencer; >> >> Please forward me the receipt you and Caroline got from your >> ROV's office. From now on, please make sure to count all >> signatures and copy all completed forms and hold on to them, >> till one person from your county turns them in shortly before >> the deadline. Thanks you. >> >> Kamran >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Spencer Graves >> > > wrote: >> >> Hi, Kamran: >> >> >> I'm not sure how many signature have been collected >> so far. I believe Caroline turned in 10 for each >> candidate; I don't know how many of those were verified. >> >> >> I turned in 9, 7, 7, 8 for Brown, Curtis, Rodriguez >> and Wells of which 7, 6, 6, 7 were verified. [I believe >> I sent this information to you last Thursday.] >> >> >> Earlier this evening, I spoke with Shannon Bushey, >> the Interim Registrar of Voters here. She said that >> anyone could collect the forms and manually deliver them >> to the ROV's office. We did not need authorization from >> the candidate. We only needed to ensure that the forms >> were properly completed and signed by the Circulator. She >> said that we could mail the forms as long as they were >> properly completed and signed. However, she did not >> recommend that, because they couldn't fix any errors, and >> the signatures wouldn't count if they arrived after >> February 20 (even if they were mailed before). >> >> >> Best Wishes, >> Spencer >> >> >> On 1/7/2014 6:37 PM, Kamran Ghasri wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Santa Clara Friends; >>> >>> Just a quick follow up to see if >>> * >>> *- your county has *already started* circulating the >>> petitions.* >>> >>> *- *How many* have you collected so far?* >>> >>> * >>> -*Please make sure to keep all completed forms in a safe >>> place and make copy of all, before turning them in. >>> >>> * >>> - If you've already submitted any completed forms to >>> your county's registrar office,*please forward me any >>> verification you've received*. >>> >>> Luis Rodriguez' campaign does not want any completed >>> forms submitted, until the last days before the >>> deadline.*Please hold on to your completed forms.* I was >>> personally in favor of submitting them gradually, but >>> this is letting you know of the campaign's tactic. >>> * >>> * >>> *- Please make sure there is one coordinator *in your >>> county, *responsible for counting and copying completed >>> forms and hand delivering signatures to your county's >>> registrar office. >>> >>> * >>> - I know this might not be easy or doable, but please >>> try to*have a list of the circulators in your county and >>> forward it to me.* >>> >>> Looking forward to hearing back from you. Thanks. >>> >>> Kamran Ghasri >>> 310-248-0414 >>> > _______________________________________________ > 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 pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Jan 11 14:29:28 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:29:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tell Kellogg's to stop using GMOs Message-ID: <1389479368.98413.YahooMailNeo@web122903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Hey I heard some great news to start the new year - Cheerios won't use risky GMO ingredients anymore! I think Kellogg's should do the same thing. I signed a petition demanding they take GMOs out of Frosted Flakes, Fruit Loops, Eggos, and their other products. Will you sign with me? https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=12597&s_src=914ASRSP01&sp_ref=25558871.5.1929.e.8366.2 Thanks! Share on Facebook Click the button below to post a link to Facebook:Post To Y -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Sat Jan 11 20:12:44 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:12:44 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] hopefully the final petitioning update (revised) In-Reply-To: <1389423533.58940.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1389328091.88026.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1389423533.58940.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <52D2163C.7030508@structuremonitoring.com> Hello, All: 1. Our next meeting is officially scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 23, 7-10, San Jos? Peace & Justice Center, according to their calendar (http://sanjosepeace.org/calendar.php). 2. You can also give your completed petitions to someone else to turn in. You can also mail them in, but the Registrar of Voters (ROV) recommends we NOT do that, especially close to the deadline, February 20, because any that arrive after that date may not be counted. If you mail your forms or give them to someone else to deliver, you must first complete them. This includes filling in the blank for "County" on the front, and printing your name, address, the range of dates for signatures collected, and your signature with date of signing. If you mail a form or give it to someone else, please manually add to the David Scott Curtis form, "I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct." This statement is on the other three forms but not on the David Scott Curtis form. It is officially required for any forms completed since January 1, 2014. 3. Anyone who delivers petitions to the ROV will be asked for a phone number they can call when they've validated the totals. If and when you get such numbers, please report them to Kamran Ghasri , Caroline Yacoub , and me . Would you also mind asking if they can give you a cumulative total for the county and the state, not just the numbers validated from the petitions you turn in? They may not give you totals, but they will give you numbers from the petitions you turn in -- or at least they did for Caroline and me. [Thanks to Caroline for reminding me to add this.] Thanks, Spencer On 1/10/2014 10:58 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Okay Santa Clara petition gatherers. We can just get our signatures, > take them to the ROV office, and, when we get our verifying phone > call, email our numbers to Kamran. Anybody who has a tough time > getting to the ROV office, let me know. I'll get you there. My phone > number is 408-530-0118. > Caroline > > Oh yes, and let me know if you have any agenda items. Spencer, when is > the meeting, officially? > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Kamran Ghasri > *To:* Caroline Yacoub > *Sent:* Friday, January 10, 2014 10:26 PM > *Subject:* Re: Petitioning update > > OK, fine with me. Thanks. > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Caroline Yacoub > > wrote: > > If you want to keep count, why not just have us notify you when we > get our phone calls. You can keep count. I have 10 valid > signatures turned in for each candidate. Okay? > Caroline > *From:* Kamran Ghasri > > *To:* Spencer Graves > > *Cc:* Gerry Gras >; rainbeaufriend at riseup.net > ; pagesincolor at yahoo.com > ; Jim Doyle > >; > Caroline Yacoub >; wb4d23 at aol.com > ; Tian Harter >; Andrea Dorey > > *Sent:* Thursday, January 9, 2014 5:53 PM > *Subject:* Re: Petitioning update > > Hi Spencer; > > 1- I don't mean to be a pain, but please send me how many > signatures you submitted and how many were approved. I think it's > wise for us to get a formal verification from now on. > > 2 - I agree with your assumption about what the signers expect to > happen and not happen with your signatures, but we need to have a > valid way of keeping the count. > > 3 - Agree. I just relayed the opinion of Luis Rodriguez' campaign. > > Kamran Ghasri > 310-248-0414 > > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Spencer Graves > > wrote: > > Hi, Kamran: > > > 1. I did not get a receipt. I got a call from someone > in the Registrar of Voters office after she had finished > checking the names. In that phone call, she told me how many > of the signatures she had gotten were actually valid. > > > 2. Per your suggestion, I think it would be wise to > make scanned images of the completed forms. I didn't do that > before I turned in the forms. However, I'm conflicted > regarding how important it is to make copies: People signed > the forms to support getting the candidate's name on the > ballot. Many who signed may not have done so if they thought > that might put them on a junk mail list ;-) > > > 3. I don't think we should wait and turn them all in > shortly before the deadline. If we do that, we won't know > until the end how many valid signatures we actually got -- and > we run the risk that the person who would have taken the forms > to the ROV's office might encounter a problem that prevents > them from turning them in on time. If we turn them in more or > less as we get them, we get a more accurate running total of > the number of valid signatures we actually have as we go along > -- and it's likely less stressful for the ROV employees, > because they can do them at their leisure; forms they get > right at the deadline create stress on them to get them > processed as quickly as possible so the candidates know how > much they need to pay if they don't have enough. > > > Comments? > > > Thanks for your efforts on this. > > > Best Wishes, > Spencer > > > On 1/8/2014 9:18 PM, Kamran Ghasri wrote: >> Spencer; >> >> Please forward me the receipt you and Caroline got from your >> ROV's office. From now on, please make sure to count all >> signatures and copy all completed forms and hold on to them, >> till one person from your county turns them in shortly before >> the deadline. Thanks you. >> >> Kamran >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Spencer Graves >> > > wrote: >> >> Hi, Kamran: >> >> >> I'm not sure how many signature have been collected >> so far. I believe Caroline turned in 10 for each >> candidate; I don't know how many of those were verified. >> >> >> I turned in 9, 7, 7, 8 for Brown, Curtis, Rodriguez >> and Wells of which 7, 6, 6, 7 were verified. [I believe >> I sent this information to you last Thursday.] >> >> >> Earlier this evening, I spoke with Shannon Bushey, >> the Interim Registrar of Voters here. She said that >> anyone could collect the forms and manually deliver them >> to the ROV's office. We did not need authorization from >> the candidate. We only needed to ensure that the forms >> were properly completed and signed by the Circulator. She >> said that we could mail the forms as long as they were >> properly completed and signed. However, she did not >> recommend that, because they couldn't fix any errors, and >> the signatures wouldn't count if they arrived after >> February 20 (even if they were mailed before). >> >> >> Best Wishes, >> Spencer >> >> >> On 1/7/2014 6:37 PM, Kamran Ghasri wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Santa Clara Friends; >>> >>> Just a quick follow up to see if >>> * >>> *- your county has *already started* circulating the >>> petitions.* >>> >>> *- *How many* have you collected so far?* >>> >>> * >>> -*Please make sure to keep all completed forms in a safe >>> place and make copy of all, before turning them in. >>> >>> * >>> - If you've already submitted any completed forms to >>> your county's registrar office,*please forward me any >>> verification you've received*. >>> >>> Luis Rodriguez' campaign does not want any completed >>> forms submitted, until the last days before the >>> deadline.*Please hold on to your completed forms.* I was >>> personally in favor of submitting them gradually, but >>> this is letting you know of the campaign's tactic. >>> * >>> * >>> *- Please make sure there is one coordinator *in your >>> county, *responsible for counting and copying completed >>> forms and hand delivering signatures to your county's >>> registrar office. >>> >>> * >>> - I know this might not be easy or doable, but please >>> try to*have a list of the circulators in your county and >>> forward it to me.* >>> >>> Looking forward to hearing back from you. Thanks. >>> >>> Kamran Ghasri >>> 310-248-0414 >>> > _______________________________________________ > 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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Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that he would vigorously defend the constitutionality of Washington?s campaign finance disclosure?laws?and the enforcement of these laws?against a challenge filed by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). On Jan. 3 in Thurston County Superior Court, the GMA answered the Attorney General?s campaign disclosure lawsuit against the GMA with a counterclaim. The organization also filed a separate civil rights complaint against Ferguson. The GMA claims Ferguson is unconstitutionally enforcing Washington?s laws and challenges the constitutionality of requiring the GMA to register a political committee before requesting and receiving contributions to oppose Initiative 522. ?After breaking our state?s campaign finance disclosure laws, the GMA now seeks to have them declared unconstitutional,? Ferguson said. ?I look forward to defending transparency in Washington elections.? Ferguson filed a lawsuitagainst the GMA in October 2013. The state alleges the GMA violated Washington?s campaign finance disclosure laws when it solicited and collected roughly $10.6 million from its members, placed those funds in a special ?Defense of Brand? account and used them to oppose Initiative 522. I-522 was a measure rejected by Washington voters in November. It would have required mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods, seeds and seed products in this state. In memos obtained by the Attorney General?s Office, the GMA described efforts to develop ?a funding mechanism to address the GMO (genetically modified organisms) issue? while ?better shielding companies from attack for providing funding.? ? The $10.6 million originally concealed by the GMA makes this the largest campaign finance disclosure case in state history. Under Washington law, the state alleges the GMA should have first formed a political committee, registered it in Washington and followed Washington campaign finance disclosure requirements before contributing the money to the No on 522 campaign. In its counterclaim and civil rights suit, the GMA claims the following are unconstitutional as they have been applied in this case:?? * Washington?s law requiring the GMA to file a political committee before collecting funds from its members for specific political activity in Washington; * Washington?s law requiring the GMA to disclose the organizations who contributed to its special political fund and how much they donated; and? * Washington?s law requiring the GMA to secure $10 in donations from 10 separate registered Washington voters as part of its political committee before donating to another political committee. The GMA also claims the requirement to secure $10 from 10 registered Washington voters before making political committee to political committee transfers is unconstitutional in all settings. ? The GMA is a trade association, based in Washington DC, representing more than 300 food, beverage and consumer product companies.?It was the largest single donor to the No on 522 campaign. Additional background on the case ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 30 ? The Office of the Attorney General is the chief legal office for the state of Washington with attorneys and staff in 27 divisions across the state providing legal services to roughly 200 state agencies, boards and commissions. Attorney General Bob Ferguson is working hard to protect consumers and seniors against fraud, keep our communities safe, protect our environment and stand up for our veterans. Visit www.atg.wa.gov to learn more. CONTACTS: Janelle Guthrie, Director of Communications, (360) 586-0725, janelleg at atg.wa.gov Alison Dempsey-Hall, Deputy Comm. Director, (206) 442-4482, alisond at atg.wa.gov STAY CONNECTED: SUBSCRIBER SERVICES: Manage Preferences??|??Delete Profile??|??Help ________________________________ This email was sent to pagesincolor at yahoo.com using GovDelivery, on behalf of: Washington State Attorney General ? 1125 Washington St. SE, PO Box 40100 ? Olympia, WA 98504?? 360-753-6200 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Mon Jan 13 19:57:07 2014 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:57:07 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Valley Water situation bleak. Message-ID: <52D4B593.3030901@charter.net> The following link is to a page that shows the capacity of the various reservoirs controlled by the Santa Clara Valley Water District. http://alert.valleywater.org/rgi.php The news is bleak. The three largest reservoirs, Anderson, Coyote and Lexington are all under 40% of capacity. Stevens Creek, Almaden and Uvas are all under 5% of capacity. Several things should be obvious, especially the fact that the driest year on record looks like it will be followed by one that is it's equal. Yet, the State of CA is unwilling to call a drought... even though the U. S. Drought Monitor charts puts most of California in the Severe Drought status and N. Nevada in the extreme range. So, what will the political appointee board of the Santa Clara Valley Water District do? Probably like the governor, announce another task force to study the subject. You see, they don't want to make Silicon Valley look like it might have to shut down chip production... or food production... to save water. They also don't want people to stop using water suddenly, since that means they won't get the revenue needed to pay their salaries. We need to save water, but the funding of the Water District creates an incentive for them to sell us MORE water. I hope a few of you will go to water district's site , find your Commissioner, and tell them that they need to start conservation measures NOW. -- "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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Jan 14 7:30, Kepler's books, John Rizzo--former Acting General Counsel of the CIA and the one who approved the torture policies--speaks. http://www.keplers.com/event/john-rizzo If you know anyone who might want to give Kepler's a piece of moral advice, the contact is pam at keplers.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Gerry From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Jan 14 18:10:13 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:10:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] (no subject) Message-ID: <1389751813.23836.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> 1-14-2014 Update Justice Coalition For Andy Lopez Under Attack According to the 1-14-2014 Flashpoints program archived on www.kpfa.org the young people (13-17 years old along with some older organizers) who are organizing trying to get justice for Andy Lopez who was murdered in cold blood by Sheriff's deputy Gelhaus on October 22, 2013 are all under attack in a low level war launched by the Sonoma County Sheriff's department in Santa Rosa. On the program we hear testimony that 13 and 17 year old kids were handcuffed and held face down for 3 hours in the middle of the night after they showed up in force to put up posters on telephone poles calling for the community to join them for a rummage sale to provide funding for their ongoing legal costs. Visit www.justiccoalitionforandylopez.com for more information on how you can get involved. Also check out their awesome youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqgeoNdXdzKP_1MnPYb60Q Thank you. John Thielking www.peacemovies.com PS Peacemovies.com will continue to offer online only editorials and online only reviews of movies on DVD. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The TPP would make it easier for corporations to sue our government, prevent regulation of GMOs, and keep people in impoverished countries from accessing life-saving medicines. And worst of all, the full text of the deal has been kept secret from the public, and even Congress doesn?t have full access -- even though hundreds of corporate lobbyists who have helped write the agreement do! Now President Obama is trying to ram this deal through by seeking ?fast-track? authority, which would prevent Congress from making any changes to the deal and stifle any debate. Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have spoken out against fast track authority, and if we can get more representatives to join them, we?ll have a real chance to stop this corporate power grab. Can you call your representative, Zoe Lofgren, at (202) 225-3072 today and tell her to vote NO on fast track?? Click here for more instructions on calling?Rep. Lofgren and to report your call. Late last week, a bill to grant the administration fast track authority was introduced to Congress, but the fight is just beginning. Our pressure is already working -- no Democrats were willing to co-sponsor the bill, even though the TPP is a major priority for the Obama administration.But Democrats and Republicans could still vote for this corporate power grab. Now, we need to raise the stakes and show every single member of Congress that they can?t afford to vote for fast track by flooding their phones with calls. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is called a trade deal, but it's really a corporate wish-list aimed at attacking everything from environmental protections to affordable medicines to internet freedoms. If the deal is signed, future laws designed to protect consumers, our health or our environment could be challenged by corporations that claim that the law reduces their profit -- and there is nothing we or our governments could do to stop them. Corporate lobbyists and government insiders are keeping the text of the deal secret because they know that if the full details got out into public view, we wouldn't like what we saw. Even Congress can?t see the bill, but the Obama administration wants authority to negotiate without any oversight. But we already know enough through leaks to know it's really bad. We can't let this sail through without public scrutiny, and the only way we can give the public time to review the bill is by stopping fast track now! Click here to call?Rep. Lofgren and stop this deal before it's too late! Thanks for all you do, Kaytee, Paul, Rob, and the team at SumOfUs SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3. 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For more information visit http://www.answercoalition.org/la/events/solidarity-with-kelly-thomas.html ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: Greens Discussion List ; Donna Wallach Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 6:10 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] (no subject) 1-14-2014 Update Justice Coalition For Andy Lopez Under Attack According to the 1-14-2014 Flashpoints program archived on www.kpfa.org the young people (13-17 years old along with some older organizers) who are organizing trying to get justice for Andy Lopez who was murdered in cold blood by Sheriff's deputy Gelhaus on October 22, 2013 are all under attack in a low level war launched by the Sonoma County Sheriff's department in Santa Rosa. On the program we hear testimony that 13 and 17 year old kids were handcuffed and held face down for 3 hours in the middle of the night after they showed up in force to put up posters on telephone poles calling for the community to join them for a rummage sale to provide funding for their ongoing legal costs. Visit www.justiccoalitionforandylopez.com for more information on how you can get involved. Also check out their awesome youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqgeoNdXdzKP_1MnPYb60Q Thank you. John Thielking www.peacemovies.com PS Peacemovies.com will continue to offer online only editorials and online only reviews of movies on DVD. _______________________________________________ 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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Please join us for the 2014 Lobby Day Rally sponsored by the California Health Profession Student Alliance (CaHPSA). All members of the AllCare Alliance organizations are urged to come and help show the community that there is strong support for single payer health care in California. ? The theme this year for Lobby Day is Completely Covering California. ? Here is the plan for the Rally. ? Saturday, January 25, 2014 ? 1:40 pm: Gather at Anna Head Alumnae Hall, 2537 Haste Street, Berkeley ? 2:00 pm: March to MLK Civic Center Park, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr Way (between Allston Way and Center St.) ? 2:10 pm: Rally at MLK Civic Center Park ? Wear your T-shirts and bring banners and signs if you have them. If you don?t wish to march, please come to Rally in MLK Civic Center Park. ? The Rally is part of a full day of activities for CaHPSA, including advocacy training in both Berkeley and Los Angeles. Flyer with Lobby Day Schedule of Events. ? On Monday, CaHPSA students will lobby the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to secure a resolution urging our Legislature to request a state innovation waiver for California under the ACA so we can establish a single payer system. ? Many of us have participated in the Sacramento events in past years. We hope you will help us continue the tradition this year by joining us in Berkeley! ??Many thanks for your support and all that you do for Single Payer! ? Forwarded by Nancy M. Friedman???? ? ??????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????? ? ? ? __._,_.___ Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group Please. REMEMBER TO DELETE UNNECESSARY TEXT AND ADS when you reply. To respond to the entire listeserv, hit "REPLY ALL".? If you click on "REPLY" your response will go only to the sender. Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest ? Unsubscribe ? Terms of Use ? 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Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 332 bytes Desc: not available URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Wed Jan 15 07:13:14 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:13:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Justice Coalition For Andy Lopez Under Attack In-Reply-To: <1389760109.27976.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1389751813.23836.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1389754140.86823.YahooMailNeo@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1389760109.27976.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1389798794.66631.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Caroline, According to eyewitnesses who saw Andy Lopez right before the shooting, it was obvious to them that there was a CHILD with a TOY BB gun. Also, Gelhaus was familiar with the area he was patrolling and knew that it was perfectly normal for KIDS playing with TOY BB guns to be playing in the dirt lot where Andy was killed. The cops have yet to show the media the actual BB gun.? The pictures you may have seen on the news showing a realistic looking BB gun are not pictures of the actual evidence. Also, Gelhaus had a blog where he talked about how to get out of charges of excessive force and/or murder if he were to shoot someone carrying a toy gun. Right after the shooting, he tried to take down his prose, but keen eyes of activists recorded his words for all to see. I hope that clarifies things for you. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Caroline Yacoub To: John Thielking Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Justice Coalition For Andy Lopez Under Attack Hi there. Don't you think therotten greed-driven pigs who made the bb gun that looked like an assault rifle and the IDIOTS who bought the gun and gave it to the boy are at all guilty? From: John Thielking To: John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List ; Donna Wallach Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Justice Coalition For Andy Lopez Under Attack Further updates from the web site: Also check out their awesome youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqgeoNdXdzKP_1MnPYb60Q Emergency Rally For Kelly Thomas In Los Angeles after acquittal of killer cops! For more information visit http://www.answercoalition.org/la/events/solidarity-with-kelly-thomas.html From: John Thielking To: Greens Discussion List ; Donna Wallach Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 6:10 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] (no subject) 1-14-2014 Update Justice Coalition For Andy Lopez Under Attack According to the 1-14-2014 Flashpoints program archived on http://www.kpfa.org/ the young people (13-17 years old along with some older organizers) who are organizing trying to get justice for Andy Lopez who was murdered in cold blood by Sheriff's deputy Gelhaus on October 22, 2013 are all under attack in a low level war launched by the Sonoma County Sheriff's department in Santa Rosa. On the program we hear testimony that 13 and 17 year old kids were handcuffed and held face down for 3 hours in the middle of the night after they showed up in force to put up posters on telephone poles calling for the community to join them for a rummage sale to provide funding for their ongoing legal costs. Visit http://www.justicecoalitionforandylopez.com/ for more information on how you can get involved. Also check out their awesome youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqgeoNdXdzKP_1MnPYb60Q Thank you. John Thielking http://www.peacemovies.com/ PS Peacemovies.com will continue to offer online only editorials and online only reviews of movies on DVD. _______________________________________________ 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 carolineyacoub at att.net Wed Jan 15 17:06:42 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:06:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Don't Miss the Fracking Talk! 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From: "Brian, Firedoglake.com" Subject: Kiriakou running out of time Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:28:24 -0500 Size: 10814 URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Jan 16 15:24:59 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:24:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Starbucks is not above the law in San Jose In-Reply-To: <255cfc-10fd-52d824ed@list.democracyforamerica.com> References: <255cfc-10fd-52d824ed@list.democracyforamerica.com> Message-ID: <1389914699.90496.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Jordan Eldridge via Democracy for America To: John Thielking Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:29 AM Subject: Starbucks is not above the law in San Jose DFA member Jordan Eldridge started a?campaign on YouPower -- DFA's petition platform --?to urge the San Jose City Council to?reject?Starbucks' request to pay employees below?a living?wage.?If you agree, check out?Jordan's petition below and sign on to support it.?-- Max Stahl, Democracy for America ________________________________ John -- From 2009 to 2011 over 30% of Americans spent at least 3 months living below the federal poverty line. This reality is symptomatic of an economy where corporate profits and stock prices have recovered while the American people struggle to achieve economic security. ? Fourtunately for workers in San Jose, our city has some of the most progressive living wage laws in the country. With so many Americans struggling with economic security, these living wage laws lead to good jobs that create the conditions necessary for the American dream of advancement through hard work to be true. Starbucks however feels that it, unlike every other business in the city, is above the law. Recently, they have filed a request asking the San Jose City Council for the right to pay their employees less than the current law permits. The city council is actually considering the proposal, despite the absurdity of the largest coffee company in the world arguing that they cannot afford the pay their employees a living wage. Sign my YouPower petition urging the San Jose City Council to reject Starbucks' request to pay employees below a?living wage. This law was passed for a reason by representatives elected by the people of San Jose. If we stand together now we can put a stop to Starbucks, a multinational multi-billion dollar corporation, being allowed to trample over our laws to pad their profits. Thank you for all that you do - Jordan Jordan Eldridge, DFA Member San Jose Paid for by Democracy for America, http://www.democracyforamerica.com/?t=2&akid=4349.2448636.0v4DbT and not authorized by any candidate. Contributions to Democracy for America are not deductible for federal income tax purposes. This message was sent to pagesincolor at yahoo.com Click here to unsubscribe from further communications. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Jan 17 12:52:48 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:52:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Action item for CC: Citizens' health survey exposes radiation, Tokyo election referendum on nukes In-Reply-To: <1928753020.-234523506@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org> References: <1928753020.-234523506@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org> Message-ID: <1389991968.82191.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Does the GP CC want to endorse the letter in the 3rd item below? I vote yes.? I will e-mail the organizers the results. John Thielking ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Cindy Folkers To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:42 PM Subject: Citizens' health survey exposes radiation, Tokyo election referendum on nukes January 17, 2014 Citizens' survey could point to radiation as cause of health problems Astounded at the amount of rare cancers and other diseases found in their community, and feeling ignored by officials, members of Coldwater Creek--Just the Facts, Please started a Facebook page to collect health data from populations near Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County, Missouri. After World War II, Mallinckrodt Company generated nuclear waste which was dumped in the creek contaminating the surrounding area. The health survey conducted by this group found many types of cancers and auto-immune disorders (which can be caused by exposure to radiation) often in people younger than expected. Among the cancers were 39 cases of appendix cancer. This community would expect fewer than eight. See three wonderful videos and learn about the inspiring - and inspired - actions of the group that uncovered these alarming data.?More Back to top Tokyo?s governor election becoming a referendum to end nuclear power Opposition to atomic power is growing stronger throughout Japan despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe?s plan to restart the country?s 48 remaining reactors shuttered for post-Fukushima safety re-evaluations. In fact, nuclear power is now the major campaign issue in the February 9th election for Governor of Tokyo. More Back to top Opposition grows: unprecedented liquid high-level radioactive waste shipments Solid irradiated nuclear fuel shipments in North America are very rare, and quite risky. Liquid high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) shipments, however, are unprecedented, and even more risky. Yet, Canadian nuclear authorities and the U.S. Department of Energy are proposing numerous liquid HLRW truck shipments from Chalk River, Ontario to Savannah River Site, South Carolina. The most likely routes would cross the border at New York State, although other states could also be used, for security reasons. The trucks would then pass through numerous eastern U.S. states on their way southward. A severe accident, or a terrorist attack, could cause a disastrous release of hazardous radioactivity. Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility has prepared a backgrounder on these proposed liquid HLRW truck shipments, a resolution in opposition, and list of resolution endorsers. As of July 2, 2013, 91 groups had endorsed the resolution. If your group would like to endorse the resolution, please email Dr. Edwards at Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility: ccnr at web.ca. In addition, please contact your U.S. Senators, your U.S. Representative, and President Obama. (You can phone your Members of Congress via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.) Urge them to block these unprecedented, high-risk shipments. More Back to top stay in touch * join list * facebook * twitter Please share the Bulletin with friends! Click here to unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Jan 17 13:49:20 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:49:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Action item for CC: Citizens' health survey exposes radiation, Tokyo election referendum on nukes In-Reply-To: <52D9A307.7080900@structuremonitoring.com> References: <1928753020.-234523506@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org> <1389991968.82191.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <52D9A307.7080900@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <1389995360.57211.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> http://www.ccnr.org/resolution_CRL_SRS_2013.pdf The above link has the text of the resolution. We need to endorse it yea or nea. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves To: John Thielking Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Action item for CC: Citizens' health survey exposes radiation, Tokyo election referendum on nukes Hi, John:? ????? Could you please repost this to the group and especially the County Council with a clear statement of a resolution you'd like passed with a link to the statement you'd like us to endorse?? Something like the following:? ??? ??????? RESOLVED:? The Greeen Party of Santa Clara County, CA, endorses the _________________________ by _____________________.? ????? I spent a few minutes trying to understand what you were requesting, and I failed.? ????? Thanks, ????? Spencer ????? On 1/17/2014 12:52 PM, John Thielking wrote: Does the GP CC want to endorse the letter in the 3rd item below? I vote yes.? I will e-mail the organizers the results. > > > >John Thielking > > > >----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Cindy Folkers >To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com >Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:42 PM >Subject: Citizens' health survey exposes radiation, Tokyo election referendum on nukes > > > > >January 17, 2014 >Citizens' survey could point to radiation as cause of health problems >Astounded at the amount of rare cancers and other diseases found in their community, and feeling ignored by officials, members of Coldwater Creek--Just the Facts, Please started a Facebook page to collect health data from populations near Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County, Missouri. After World War II, Mallinckrodt Company generated nuclear waste which was dumped in the creek contaminating the surrounding area. >The health survey conducted by this group found many types of cancers and auto-immune disorders (which can be caused by exposure to radiation) often in people younger than expected. Among the cancers were 39 cases of appendix cancer. This community would expect fewer than eight. See three wonderful videos and learn about the inspiring - and inspired - actions of the group that uncovered these alarming data.?More >Back to top >Tokyo?s governor election becoming a referendum to end nuclear power >Opposition to atomic power is growing stronger throughout Japan despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe?s plan to restart the country?s 48 remaining reactors shuttered for post-Fukushima safety re-evaluations. In fact, nuclear power is now the major campaign issue in the February 9th election for Governor of Tokyo. More >Back to top >Opposition grows: unprecedented liquid high-level radioactive waste shipments >Solid irradiated nuclear fuel shipments in North America are very rare, and quite risky. Liquid high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) shipments, however, are unprecedented, and even more risky. Yet, Canadian nuclear authorities and the U.S. Department of Energy are proposing numerous liquid HLRW truck shipments from Chalk River, Ontario to Savannah River Site, South Carolina. The most likely routes would cross the border at New York State, although other states could also be used, for security reasons. The trucks would then pass through numerous eastern U.S. states on their way southward. A severe accident, or a terrorist attack, could cause a disastrous release of hazardous radioactivity. Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility has prepared a backgrounder on these proposed liquid HLRW truck shipments, a resolution in opposition, and list of resolution endorsers. As of July 2, 2013, 91 groups had endorsed the resolution. If your group would like to endorse the resolution, please email Dr. Edwards at Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility: ccnr at web.ca. In addition, please contact your U.S. Senators, your U.S. Representative, and President Obama. (You can phone your Members of Congress via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.) Urge them to block these unprecedented, high-risk shipments. More >Back to top stay in touch > * join list > * facebook > * twitter > > > > > > >Please share the Bulletin with friends! >Click here to unsubscribe > > > > >_______________________________________________ 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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Ask Warner Bros. to Ensure Harry Potter Chocolates are Slavery-Free please share it helps! ? ? Dear John, When Warner Bros. announced it was bringing Harry Potter's favorite chocolate treat to life, we rejoiced! Now, in honor of the young wizard who always championed justice, let's make sure these chocolates aren't products of modern slavery. Ask Warner Bros. to ensure Harry Potter Chocolates are slavery-free! In an independent investigation, Behr's Chocolates, the supplier of Harry Potter Chocolate Frogs, scored a 1 out of 48 possible measures to ensure its operations are slavery-free. Many other chocolate brands have made public commitments to find a solution to child slavery in the chocolate industry. Warner Bros. is lagging behind, so it's time we give them a push! Sign the petition asking Warner Bros. to make sure no kids were harmed in the making of Harry Potter Chocolate Frogs! 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URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Jan 17 19:45:34 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:45:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Getting Medical Insurance Co's To Fight Against TPP In-Reply-To: <1390016549.14890.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1390016549.14890.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1390016734.40642.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John Thielking To: "us at sumofus.org" ; "info at democracyforamerica.com" ; "katy at fwwatch.org" ; CREDO Action Matt Lockshin ; "info at greenshadowcabinet.us" ; "ronniecummins at organicconsumers.org" Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:42 PM Subject: Getting Medical Insurance Co's To Fight Against TPP Hello, I've done a little digging to find out how much it might cost me to have to get brand name medication instead of generic medication if the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement is adopted and the news is not good. It is POSSIBLE that my current Medicare Advantage plan insurer (Care 1st) will step up to the plate and allow me to get the name brand medication that is not in their formulary (subject to their approval) for $50 per month instead of $5 per month. That would be workable for me. HOWEVER, it is also possible that Care 1st would deny me the coverage, as they are not required to cover medication that is not in their formulary (list of approved medications). In that case, the out of pocket cost for me would be $700 per month. IN ANY EVENT, if the cash price is deducted from the drug cost limits that put me in the doughnut hole, then after 6 months of having $50 copays for medication, I would again have to put out $700 per month until the drug costs went? to the other side of the doughnut hole for the last 6 months of the year. (Or I could cut my pills from the first 6 months of the year in 1/2 and not pay anything for the last 6 months of the year. I can function on half doses of this medicine just fine, except if my mother found out I was doing this she would not allow me to come visit her at Christmas --- we have had issues in the past with me not taking my meds.) My question to you all is this: Do the interests of the medical insurance companies align with my interests on this issue do you think? Would the insurance companies have anything to say against the implementation of the TPP?? If so, could we please help organize some way of getting them on board with our cause to stop the TPP?? Any feedback you have would be much appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking pagesincolor at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Fri Jan 17 19:52:02 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:52:02 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Move to Amend signature gathering In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52D9FA62.8050103@prodsyse.com> Comments on the Move to Amend campaign & the problem with the Green Party postal address (see below)? Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Wrong Address of Green Party SCC Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:55:33 -0800 From: Richard Hobbs To: Spencer Graves CC: Sandy Perry *Gather signatures in San Jose, Morgan Hill or Palo Alto to qualify a Santa Clara County ballot initiative for November 2014* *HI SPENCER,* MTA / BDECR SENT A PACKET ASKING FOR THE GREEN PARTY TO COMMIT A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SIGNATURES GATHERED AND/OR MONEY COMMITTED TO THIS CAMPAIGN, BUT THE PACKET CAME BACK TODAY. IT WAS ADDRESSED TO YOU / GREEN PARTY PO BOX 390372, MTN VIEW, CA 94039. A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS: 1. WHAT IS THE CORRECT ADDRESS TO GET IT TO THE GREEN PARTY? 2. WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE GREEN PARTY ENDORSEMENT OF THE CAMPAIGN. CAN THE GREEN PARTY ALSO COMMIT SIGNATURE GATHERING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT? (A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SIGNATURES GATHERED OR MONEY COMMITTED BY MARCH 1 AND MAY 15?) 3. DO YOU WANT ME TO COME TO YOUR NEXT MEETING TO EXPLAIN THE CAMPAIGN AND REQUEST? *THANK YOU,* RICHARD PS IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO PLEASE FORWARD THE KICKOFF INFO TO GREEN PARTY ACTIVISTS. WE REALLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT! ** * H**uman Agenda supports Move To Amend (MTA), a national movement to pass a 28th Constitutional Amendment*so that only human beings, not corporations, have constitutional rights and so that money is not considered equivalent to free speech. * On MLK weekend join us for food, training, & signature gathering for three strategic initiatives:*** * End corporate personhood, thus restoring human rights in many fundamental areas. * Overturn */Citizens United/* and its decision granting corporations unlimited influence in our elections. * Start a community dialogue about the role of large multinational corporations in our society.** * Palo Alto: *Saturday, January 18, 2014, 9am -- 1pm First Baptist Church 305 N California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301 * Morgan Hill: *Saturday, January 18, 2014, Noon -- 4p Mama Mia's Italian Restaurant, 275 E. Dunne Avenue (at Butterfield Blvd.) * San Jose: *Monday, January 20, 2014, 9am -- 1pm Laborers Union Local 270 Hall, 509 Emory Street (corner of Coleman) ** *Observe the 4th anniversary of /Citizens United/ by helping gather 75,000 signatures.* **For more information contact Richard Hobbs at richhobbs at msn.com or 408-460-2999 ** To RSVP and more details, please contact: Melodi Masaniai missmelodius at gmail.com 408-394-8705 or Leila McCabe leila4democracy at gmail.com 408-893-4775 with Build Democracy, End Corporate Rule FPPC# 1360075 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Jan 18 07:31:02 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:31:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Move to Amend signature gathering In-Reply-To: <52D9FA62.8050103@prodsyse.com> References: <52D9FA62.8050103@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1390059062.14777.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> This is the number one reason why we should have a valid PO Box address.? Is Tian working on getting the PO Box renewed? John Thielking ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves To: GPSCC Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:52 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Move to Amend signature gathering Comments on the Move to Amend campaign & the problem with the Green Party postal address (see below)?? Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Wrong Address of Green Party SCC Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:55:33 -0800 From: Richard Hobbs To: Spencer Graves CC: Sandy Perry Gather signatures in San Jose, Morgan Hill or Palo Alto to qualify a Santa Clara County ballot initiative for November 2014HI SPENCER, MTA / BDECR SENT A PACKET ASKING FOR THE GREEN PARTY TO COMMIT A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SIGNATURES GATHERED AND/OR MONEY COMMITTED TO THIS CAMPAIGN, BUT THE PACKET CAME BACK TODAY.? IT WAS ADDRESSED TO YOU / GREEN PARTY PO BOX 390372, MTN VIEW, CA 94039.? A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS:? 1.? WHAT IS THE CORRECT ADDRESS TO GET IT TO THE GREEN PARTY?? 2.? WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE GREEN PARTY ENDORSEMENT OF THE CAMPAIGN.? CAN THE GREEN PARTY ALSO COMMIT SIGNATURE GATHERING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT? (A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SIGNATURES GATHERED OR MONEY COMMITTED BY MARCH 1 AND MAY 15?)? 3.? DO YOU WANT ME TO COME TO YOUR NEXT MEETING TO EXPLAIN THE CAMPAIGN AND REQUEST?? THANK YOU, RICHARD ? PS? IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO PLEASE FORWARD THE KICKOFF INFO TO GREEN PARTY ACTIVISTS.? WE REALLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT!? ? ? ?Human Agenda supports Move To Amend (MTA), a national movement to pass a 28th Constitutional Amendmentso that only human beings, not corporations, have constitutional rights and so that money is not considered equivalent to free speech. ? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? On MLK weekend join us for food, training, & signature gathering for three strategic initiatives: * End corporate personhood, thus restoring human rights in many fundamental areas.?? * Overturn Citizens United and its decision granting corporations unlimited influence in our elections. * Start a community dialogue about the role of large multinational corporations in our society.? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Palo Alto: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 9am ? 1pm ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? First Baptist Church 305 N California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301 ? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Morgan Hill: Saturday, January 18, 2014, Noon ? 4p ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Mama Mia?s Italian Restaurant, 275 E. Dunne Avenue (at Butterfield Blvd.) ? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? San Jose: Monday, January 20, 2014, 9am ? 1pm ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Laborers Union Local 270 Hall, 509 Emory Street (corner of Coleman) ? Observe the 4th anniversary of Citizens United by helping gather 75,000 signatures.? For more information contact Richard Hobbs at richhobbs at msn.comor 408-460-2999 ? To RSVP and more details, please contact: Melodi Masaniaimissmelodius at gmail.com 408-394-8705 or Leila McCabeleila4democracy at gmail.com 408-893-4775 with Build Democracy, End Corporate Rule FPPC# 1360075 _______________________________________________ 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 Sat Jan 18 09:48:08 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:48:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] You gotta sign this! Message-ID: <1390067288.60834.YahooMailNeo@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Subject: You gotta sign this! Hey, I just found out that Google, Facebook, and Yelp have all joined the extreme right-wing group ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council)! ALEC -- the same group behind the controversial "Stand Your Ground" gun laws and the harsh anti-immigration laws in Arizona -- currently has plans to undermine the Affordable Care Act! I've joined the movement with Courage Campaign to demand that these companies drop their ties with ALEC -- just as many other business leaders like Pepsi and McDonalds have already done -- because of ALEC's extremist agenda. You should sign the petition with me and pass it on as well. Here's the link: http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/Google_ALEC_SP/?sp_ref=26284926.114.2094.e.0.2&source=HealthcareEmail_SP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sat Jan 18 10:18:47 2014 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:18:47 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW: [LaborTech] What "Google bus" really means In-Reply-To: <7024568D-E6D4-4493-84B6-D10446EFDFCE@igc.org> References: <7024568D-E6D4-4493-84B6-D10446EFDFCE@igc.org> Message-ID: > From: > Subject: [LaborTech] What "Google bus" really means > Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:38:10 -0800 > To: labortech at googlegroups.com > > What "Google bus" really means > http://www.sfbg.com/2014/01/14/what-google-bus-really-means > 01.14.14 - 3:50 pm | Guardian Editorial | (47) > > EDITORIAL In recent years, "Google bus" has become a term that encompasses more than just the shuttles that one corporation uses to transport its workers from San Francisco down to the Silicon Valley. It has taken on a symbolic meaning representing the technology sector's desire to shield itself from the infrastructure, values, and responsibilities that most citizens choose to share. > > These are the very things that motivate many of us to live here, finding that community spirit in such a beautiful, world-class city. More than just the great restaurants and bars, its vistas and artistic offerings, San Francisco represents an experiment in modern urbanism and cultural development. > > It is this collision and collusion of disparate yet public-spirited cultures that gave birth to the region's great economic and social movements, from gay rights and environmentalism to groundbreaking academic research and the creation of the Internet economy. > > The antithesis of this idea of creative collaboration is to consider San Francisco just 49 square miles of valuable real estate, to be used and developed as the highest bidder sees fit, as some tech titans seem to believe. It's ironic that an industry based on creating online communities would place so little value on engaging with its physical community. > > The proposed $1 per bus stop use, and $50 per docking that new exclusive Google ferry is paying, is a privatization of public space that barely covers the city's costs. The tech industry should be doing much more just to counteract its negative impacts on the city's economy, let alone actually being good corporate citizens of this region. > > A new report called for by the Mayor's Office says Muni needs a $10 billion investment over the next 15 years just to maintain current service levels. A big chunk of that should come from the wealthy corporations in our community through a downtown transit assessment district and higher fees on Silicon Valley companies that are using us as a bedroom community. > > San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit has been developing a critique of the Google bus since her initial shot last February in the London Review of Books, answering a subsequent techie/enviro criticism published in Grist with a Jan. 7 article in Guernica called "Resisting Monoculture." > > "And thus come the well-paid engineers to San Francisco, and thus go the longtime activists, idealists, artists, teachers, plumbers, all the less-well-paid people," she writes, citing surveys that the buses allow Silicon Valley workers to live in San Francisco when they otherwise wouldn't. > > That's the issue. The only thing green about Google buses are the piles of money their riders and their bosses are keeping from the city we all share. Segregated buses have never been a good idea, but if these companies insist on them, that should come with a higher price tag. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "LaborTech" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to labortech+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to labortech at googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/labortech. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Jan 18 13:41:37 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:41:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Thanks for signing! In-Reply-To: <8aae03846a1a31d5e3cdc80ce0b8492c@queue.queue.bluestatedigital.com> References: <8aae03846a1a31d5e3cdc80ce0b8492c@queue.queue.bluestatedigital.com> Message-ID: <1390081297.79776.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Democratic Headquarters To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 1:40 PM Subject: Thanks for signing! Thanks for signing! We want to get as many signatures as we can denouncing Republicans for supporting a bill that could allow the IRS to audit survivors of rape or incest for using their contraceptive health care coverage. Forward this email to three friends right now and ask them to sign this petition calling on Republicans to denounce this extremist anti-woman bill.SIGN YOUR NAME HERE --> http://dccc.org/Audit You can also share this petition with your friends on Facebook. ? ? Thank you for your support! Democratic Headquarters ? ? 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But one percent is an easy to remember number, and small enough to make it clear that we?re not talking about the upper middle class." Gerry From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Sat Jan 18 20:13:41 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:13:41 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "The Myth of the Deserving Rich" In-Reply-To: <52DB4B16.5000608@earthlink.net> References: <52DB4AE5.3030903@earthlink.net> <52DB4B16.5000608@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <52DB50F5.3000203@structuremonitoring.com> I agree with Krugman's claim that "the one percent ... number should be even smaller." In the 40 years from 1970 to 2010, the average annual income in the US doubled -- increased by 101.2 percent. However, the 99th percentile of family income increased only 72.6 percent. In other words, the top 1 percentile point fell behind by 28.6 percent (101.2 - 72.6). The 99th percentile performed better than the median, which increased only 22.7 percent (and therefore fell behind by 78.5 percent). The difference was captured most by the top one hundreth of one percentile, whose incomes increased by 293.2 percent. These are according to analyses of tax returns by Piketty and Saez (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Documenting_crony_capitalism). Saez was interviewed about this by Robert Reich in "Inequality for All". The champions of the Right note that the people who are in the top 0.01% are not the same year after year. That's true, but social mobility in the US today is much lower than it has been in the past and much lower than the other advanced industrialized countries. In other words, the American Dream is dead. It's up to us to agitate to try to resurrect it. Spencer On 1/18/2014 7:48 PM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > from Krugman's blog: > http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/ > > (Jan. 18 12:11PM) > > It's currently at the top, but over time it will > drift down, and move to other pages. > > "This is, by the way, why the Occupy slogan about the one percent is so > brilliant. I would actually argue that the number should be even > smaller. But one percent is an easy to remember number, and small enough > to make it clear that we?re not talking about the upper middle class." > > Gerry > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Look forward to talking to you all then. ~Alex~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Green Issues Working Group Work Plan and Budget Proposals for the 2014-2015 GPCA Fiscal Year 1.? Summarize, paraphrase or quote the GPCA Bylaws describing your group and its responsibilities.? If the Bylaws do not describe your group, or do not describe it adequately, provide your additional description. The Green Issues Working Group is charged with identifying and facilitating GPCA action on external Green issues not already delegated to another Committee or Working Group. This includes working to: 10-7.1(a) Identify, facilitate discussion, and prepare proposals on issues and events that should be addressed by the GPCA; 10-7.1(b) Advise the Platform Committee on the development of platform proposals on issues identified by the Working Group; 10-7.1(c) Promote and provide support for Green issues to candidates running for office; 10-7.1(d) Build coalitions with other organizations working on Green issues. 2.? Summarize your work plan and budget for the 2013-2014 Fiscal Year and what parts of your work plan were accomplished or expect to be accomplished and budget items that were used or are expected to be used by the end of the Fiscal Year.? For current FY work plan and budget items that will not be accomplished and spent by the end of the FY, provide a brief explanation for each. A work plan for Green Issues was not available for the 2013 to 2014 Fiscal Year. However, Green Issues submit the following budget requests for that Fiscal Year: A. $200 for Literature budget to produce fliers on Green Issues? B. $100 for reimbursement of travel expenses for coalition building on a needs basis by a mileage rate or public transportation cost. None of these funds were used by Green Issues during the 2013 to 2014 Fiscal Year. ? 3.? Work Plan:? Describe the activities and events that are expected to be accomplished in the upcoming Fiscal Year -- July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015.? For each item requiring GPCA funding, provide the funding request and explain how the funding request was calculated. Green Issues will provide a forum for Greens with experience or expertise to discuss these issues with party members. Through these discussions Green Issues will advise the Platform Committee on the development of platform planks, provide support for Green issues to candidates running for office, and build coalitions with other organizations working on common Green issues.??? ?4.? Budget Proposals:? Provide a summary of budget proposals by separate line items including a summary name for the budget line from the standardized list (below) and the amount being requested.? Each proposed budget line item should be explained in the Work Plan so that the Budget Committee and Finance Committee members can understand how the activity or event relates to the responsibilities of the SC/WG/Delegation and how the budget request was calculated. Green issues is not proposing any budget requests. 5.? When paid staff are part of a work plan and budget proposals, for each position also submit (a) a detailed project description; (b) a proposed job description (including activities, preferred qualifications and compensation description); and (c) a description of the job application process.? No paid staff. ?6.? A calender for at least one year -- including the Fiscal Year -- that summarizes the activities and events described in the work plan and deadlines involved in the planning and organization process for those activities and events (dates may be approximate, as applicable). Green Issues will carry out the work in its work plan through its monthly conference calls which occur at 7:30PM on the second Monday of the month. _______________________________________________ green-issues-wg mailing list green-issues-wg at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/green-issues-wg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Maybe you could give an estimate of how long you think we might spend on something. Also, if you have been collecting signatures, I'm planning to go to the Registrar's office this week. I'll happily provide transport. Caroline _______________________________________________ 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 carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Jan 20 08:26:55 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:26:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Cry for help from Syria In-Reply-To: <0.0.0.4D.1CF15F9ECA70A4A.2AA980@mta209.avaaz.org> References: <0.0.0.4D.1CF15F9ECA70A4A.2AA980@mta209.avaaz.org> Message-ID: <1390235215.66859.YahooMailNeo@web185306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Mais A. - Avaaz.org To: "carolineyacoub at att.net" Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 8:08 AM Subject: Cry for help from Syria Avaaz.org - The World in Action Dear Avaazers, I am Syrian and right now I need everyone's help.?In?48 hours,?major powers meet and they could start to stop the suffering if they are confronted by an in-your-face Syrian call for a ceasefire, backed by a million people across the world.?Click to join the ceasefire call now -- Avaaz will set up a?livestream from Syrian victims?straight into the talks: I am from Homs, Syria -- a city under siege, where?children?and babies have been tortured and?bombed.?It is hell on earth, and it is hard to have hope, but right now I see a chance and I am urgently calling on everyone to help.In 48 hours,?for the first time ever,?all?the major powers behind this war are going to meet.?All parties say they want to hear the Syrian people's demands, and they want to show their own public they are doing something. So here is how we get 'a seat at the table' -- we commission a Syrian opinion poll, set up a live feed?from Syrians to get clear demands presented to negotiators at the talks, and a million of us from across the world back the call for a ceasefire.It has taken a three year bloodbath to get this conference, now we only have?hours?to be heard.?If we come together?and build a ceasefire call?and then show up boldly on screen and in global numbers at the meeting, we could?help bring an end to the carnage.?The more of us that join the cry, the more attention we will get, and the more pressure on the parties to respond -- click for a ceasefire in Syria, now:http://www.avaaz.org/en/syria_ray_of_hope_loc/?bYeDzbb&v=34493For too long, the world has dithered while children were slaughtered, tens of thousands disappeared, entire cities bombed to rubble, and 10 million were driven from their homes -- that is the entire population of Greece! Now, finally, the parties are sitting down to talk, but unless we show up with a call for humanity, they could focus on geo-political wrangling, not on real ways to stop the terror.Let's be clear: this is a war on civilians.?The Assad regime has not only dropped chemical weapons on whole communities, it has laid siege to entire regions, like my own, shelling day in and day out and denying the entrance of food. Families in my city are being starved to death while two regional powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia, pump weapons and cash to fighters on both sides. These countries have converted a peaceful, popular revolution into a nightmare proxy war hijacked by radicals. My home is now their battlefield and my people the victims.?And they will both be at the table?on Wednesday.It is a bitter pill for me to swallow to support negotiations with a regime of war criminals, but if we don't support talks and get them to agree to a ceasefire now, this fighting could go on for a decades.?This summit is the only hope on the horizon, and with the right pressure, there is a chance to curb the misery. We urgently need to get started --?click below for a ceasefire now?http://www.avaaz.org/en/syria_ray_of_hope_loc/?bYeDzbb&v=34493I joined the Avaaz team over a year ago, when this community raised funds to send communication equipment to brave Syrian democracy activists. I remember the incredible gratitude I felt for this community of people that made it possible for the world to hear our cry for help. Now I?m asking you to urgently help my fellow Syrians once more to ensure the world understands that the majority of Syrians just want food, and a night without snipers and a plan that could help lead us to peace and democracy.With hope,Mais with the Avaaz teamSOURCESSyrians May Allow the Delivery of Some Aid (New York Times)http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/world/middleeast/syria.html?hp&_r=2U.S. and Russia say Syria aid access and local ceasefire possible (Reuters)http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/13/us-syria-kerry-idUSBREA0C0KK20140113Syria crisis: US and Russia discuss possible ceasefires (BBC)http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25711382US and Russia call for Syria truce (Al Jazeera)http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/01/us-russia-propose-syria-truce-201411311533944404.htmlSyria peace talks: Russia and US lay groundwork for Syria (The Guardian)http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/13/syria-peace-talks-russia-us-ceasefireSyria: dozens die of starvation in Damascus after being ?denied food? (The Telegraph)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10569648/Syria-dozens-die-of-starvation-in-Damascus-after-being-denied-food.html?11,420 Children Dead in Syria?s Civil War, So Far (NPR)http://www.npr.org/2013/12/19/255406234/more-children-become-victims-of-syrias-civil-war? Support the Avaaz Community! We're entirely funded by donations and receive no money from governments or corporations. Our dedicated team ensures even the smallest contributions go a long way. Donate Now ________________________________ Avaaz.org is a 32-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter. 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The check has not been cashed as of 1-20-2014. Our available funds are $1,176.23. From WB4D23 at aol.com Mon Jan 20 20:00:15 2014 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:00:15 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] hopefully the final petitioning update. Message-ID: <4c94e.50d3a803.400f4acf@aol.com> January 20, 2014 Kalmran called me this afternoon and I agreed to receive completed candidate petitions and get them to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. My address is: Warner Bloomberg 867 North Fifth Street San Jose, CA 95112 In a message dated 1/11/2014 9:01:46 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com writes: You can also give your completed petitions to someone else to turn in. You can also mail them in, but the Registrar of Voters (ROV) recommends we NOT do that, especially close to the deadline, February 20, because any that arrive after that date may not be counted. If you mail your forms or give them to someone else to deliver, you must first complete them. This includes filling in the blank for "County" on the front, and printing your name, address, the range of dates for signatures collected, and your signature with date of signing. If you mail a form or give it to someone else, please manually add to the David Scott Curtis form, "I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct." This statement is on the other three forms but not on the David Scott Curtis form. It is officially required for any forms completed since January 1, 2014. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Join Us for a Virtual Teach-In Watching Party & Plans for Further Action* Sponsored by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center and Peninsulans for Corporate Regulation ? Tuesday, January 21 Doors Open @ 4:30 pm Online Teach-In Begins @ 5:00 pm Parlor, First Baptist Church, 305 N. California Avenue, Palo Alto Free and open to all. Contributions requested. Wheelchair accessible. ? * Rapid Response Demonstration - When the Supreme Court announces its decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, there will be nationwide Rapid Response demonstrations, including in Palo Alto by PPJC and P4CR. McCutcheon would wipe out almost all significant limits on individual wealthy campaign donors -- "a perfect" companion to Citizens United. ? Tuesday, January 21, is the fourth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court debacle known as Citizens United. To mark this inauspicious anniversary, a broad coalition of groups - who are working to amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United and other corporate powers - are producing a virtual teach-in about the state of our democracy movement and what you can do to help. PPJC will hold a Watch Party, projecting the online teach-in onto a large screen so we can watch and learn together. Four years in, our movement for an amendment is going strong. With 16 states, more than 500 municipalities, 143 members of Congress and President Barack Obama calling for an amendment, we have many reasons to be proud of the progress we've made already. Let's get together on the anniversary of the disastrous ruling and talk about what's next, including the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, which could compound the anti-democratic effects of Citizens United. PPJC will organize an emergency response demonstration when the Supreme Court hands down its McCutcheon decision. Get in early on the planning and mobilization. We'll all need to be pulling together to reclaim our democracy from the corporations and influential wealthy.? The online teach-in is a joint project of Free Speech for People, Common Cause, Demos, People for the American Way and MoveOn.? ? Visit and share the web page for this event Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend More . . . Palo Alto for a 28th Amendment has the support of hundreds of Palo Alto residents along with: * Santa Clara County Move to Amend -- http://www.scc-mta.org/ * Move to Amend (national) -- http://www.movetoamend.org/ * Peninsula Peace and Justice Center -- http://www.peaceandjustice.org/ forward to a friend? Copyright ? 2014 Mary Colleen Klein, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because listed yourself as supporting a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would clarify, "Corporations are not people, and money is not speech." Our mailing address is: Mary Colleen Klein c/o Peninsula Peace and Justice Center 305 N. California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94301Add us to your address book ?unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences? This email was sent to carolineyacoub at att.net why did I get this?????unsubscribe from this list????update subscription preferences Mary Colleen Klein ? c/o Peninsula Peace and Justice Center ? 305 N. California Avenue ? Palo Alto, CA 94301 ? USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The film features Robert Reich, who has made substantial individual contributions to our understanding of these issues. Reich was formerly Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and is currently a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. 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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Please send a notice of your organization?s endorsement of this resolution to Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) e-mail: ccnr at web.ca ________________________________ From: "WB4D23 at aol.com" To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Meeting Thursday--agenda items Anything that deserves the time of other peoples' attention deserves being copied and posted as text in the email.? I have too much to do with my time to spend extra time running down others' url flavor of the week.? Warner ? In a message dated 1/20/2014 8:10:52 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, pagesincolor at yahoo.com writes: http://www.ccnr.org/resolution_CRL_SRS_2013.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To even get close to our goal we will have to get more active and > organized, and identify more tabling opportunities to get the > signatures. The more signatures we get, the more name recognition we > get for our party. > Sandy > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Spencer On 1/21/2014 9:24 AM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: > Hi Caroline and All, > I believe the signature campaign should be at the top of our agenda > Thursday (even above health care and climate change). The best way we > can impact these and other issues in the next 3-4 weeks is to reach > our goal of collecting 1000 signatures for our four candidates. I > believe now we are still somewhere below 100 (at De Anza we have about > 30). To even get close to our goal we will have to get more active and > organized, and identify more tabling opportunities to get the > signatures. The more signatures we get, the more name recognition we > get for our party. > Sandy > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Jan 21 10:08:54 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:08:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Signature Campaign In-Reply-To: <52DEB551.4070308@prodsyse.com> References: <8D0E4E4D5D3C6C0-34B4-2A2A@webmail-vm040.sysops.aol.com> <52DEB551.4070308@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1390327734.23333.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Ahem, uh Tian? It would be oh so nice if we had a functional PO Box! John Thielking PS A good place to gather signatures is at the Whole Foods near Almaden Expwy in South San Jose. I have yet to get my lazy butt over there, but there seems to be no competition from other solicitors in front of that store, PLUS there is shade there all day so you won't get sunburned. Be sure to ask EVERYONE who passes by if they want to help get Green Party candidates on the ballot. It is a numbers game and if you don't ask everyone, virtually no one will sign. Good luck. ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves To: perrysandy at aol.com; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Signature Campaign ??? ? Also, there is a single page flier with photos and brief bios of the 4 candidates.? How many of those should I bring?? ??? ? There is space at the bottom of this single page flier for 2 lines of identifying information like a local contact.? We can discuss what if anything I should put there.? If we can get consensus by email before Thursday noon, I could bring copies with that info.? We can then discuss and revise at the meeting.? ????? Spencer ################### ??? ? How many copies of the blank forms should I bring?? I have 14 sets printed.? ????? Spencer On 1/21/2014 9:24 AM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: Hi Caroline and All, >? >I believe the signature campaign should be at the top of our agenda Thursday (even above health care and climate change). The best way we can impact these and other issues in the next 3-4 weeks is to reach our goal of collecting 1000 signatures for our four candidates. I believe now we are still somewhere below 100 (at De Anza we have about 30). To even get close to our goal we will have to get more active and organized, and identify more tabling opportunities to get the signatures. The more signatures we get, the more name recognition we get for our party. >? >? >Sandy > > >_______________________________________________ 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Jan 21 13:46:15 2014 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:46:15 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item Message-ID: <52DEEAA7.8050803@sbcglobal.net> P.O. Box How much is it? Who gets the check and who gets to bring it to the post office? Who fills out the paper work? From snug.bug at hotmail.com Tue Jan 21 17:07:02 2014 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:07:02 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Microsoft extending XP support another year Message-ID: If you've been preparing to abandon your aging XP ship (as I have) because the end of support will leave it with security vulnerabilities, you now have another year to hang on to it while you wait to see what the options are. http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-extends-xp-anti-malware-support-until-july-2015-234374 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Jan 21 23:27:55 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:27:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [350 SV Chat] Live Media Coverage during Gov. Brown's Wednesday 8 am State of the State Address tomorrow Jan. 22nd In-Reply-To: <096c01cf172b$782f1da0$688d58e0$@gmail.com> References: <096c01cf172b$782f1da0$688d58e0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1390375675.49481.YahooMailNeo@web185304.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Brian Haberly To: 350-silicon-valley-chat at googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 8:36 PM Subject: [350 SV Chat] Live Media Coverage during Gov. Brown's Wednesday 8 am State of the State Address tomorrow Jan. 22nd Hello!? - Several environmental groups including 350.org, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Californians Against Fracking and more will be rallying outside of Governor Brown?s x 2014 ?State of the State? (SOTS) address tomorrow morning, Wednesday, Jan. 22nd 8 am, in Sacramento, reminding the Governor that Climate Leaders don?t Frack! ? If you can?t be there in person but want to follow either Governor Brown?s speech, or the stop fracking protest rally outside, you can follow on Facebook or Twitter.? See information below for more info. ? Californians Against Fracking Facebookpage from the protest:?https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniansAgainstFracking ? Food and Water Watch Twitter feed:https://twitter.com/foodandwater?(hashtags: #UnFrackCal ?#CASOTS ?#BanFrackingNow) ? Gov. Brown?s State of the State Address in Sacramento. Watch the Address here:?http://www.calchannel.com/live-webcast/ ? ? Big Oil Brown campaign ? Oil Change International http://www.bigoilbrown.org/ ? ? Brian Haberly brianhaberly at gmail.com??????????????????? ? http://www.350siliconvalley.org/ ? www.facebook.com/350SiliconValley http://www.meetup.com/350SiliconValley/ ? ? From:CAF_Members at googlegroups.com [mailto:CAF_Members at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tia Lebherz Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:02 PM To: CAF_Members at googlegroups.com Subject: [CAF_Members] Social Media at SOTS Rally Tomorrow! ? Hi there CAF members,? ? We're excited for tomorrow's protest at the State of the State Address in Sacramento. If you can't join us, you can watch the Address here:?http://www.calchannel.com/live-webcast/ ? If you're on Twitter, keep at eye out for?@foodandwater?who will be "live Tweeting" pics from the protest and comments for Brown's address. Some other active CAF Tweeters to follow:? @ZackMalitz @David_Turnbull @TiaLebherz (if you'll be tweeting tomorrow, send your handle around to add to this list) ? We'll be using the hashtags: #UnFrackCal #CASOTS #BanFrackingNow ? We will also be posting pictures to the Californians Against Fracking Facebook page from the protest:?https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniansAgainstFracking ? If you take any pictures and would like them to be added to the?Californians Against Fracking Flickr Feed, please email them to Anna at?aghosh at fwwatch.org ? Thanks everyone!? ? Tia ? ---------------------------------- Tia Lebherz Northern California Organizer Food & Water Watch 1814 Franklin St. Suite 1100 Oakland, CA?94612 Office: 510.922.0416 Cell: 310.963.0789 tlebherz at fwwatch.org http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/ Follow us on Facebook:?https://www.facebook.com/FoodWaterWatchCalifornia ? ? ? ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "350 Silicon Valley Chat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 350-silicon-valley-chat+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to 350-silicon-valley-chat at googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/350-silicon-valley-chat. 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I took this last year (may take it again this year) and I completely recommend this short course for all Green activists. It gives real nuts and bolts how-to on campaigning to turn our Valley Green. Here's a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=campus%20camp%20wellstone%2C%20de%20anza Details below and contact Cecilia NG... Green is GO! Drew *Campus Camp Wellstone 2014!* *Community and student organizing skills are a vital part of building a socially just society. At this training you?ll learn how to...* ? *Cultivate and appreciate different styles of leadership* ? *Tell a compelling story and develop effective media messaging* ? *Use power strategically to get the maximum effect for your effort* ? *Build stronger relationships as a tool for organizing* ? *Recruit and grow your volunteer base* ? *Effectively combine different approaches to political change -? electoral, policy development, grassroots organizing* *What: *Campus Camp Wellstone Training *Who: *De Anza College Student Leaders, Organizers & Emerging Activists *When: *Fri Feb 7 (11 am) to Sat Feb 8 (until 5 PM) & Fri March 14 (1-?8 PM) *Where: *The Sequoia Retreat Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains *Cost: *$30-$100 to help cover food, lodging, and material fees. If you cannot afford it, scholarships are available. (Fee must be paid in advance) *Note: *The first two days are led by the trainers at Wellstone Action, a nationally renowned training institute for students and working people. The follow-up day is for participants to continue building their skills and community bonds. It will be led by Nicky Gonzalez Yuen and a special guest team of trainers. *If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact:* Cecilia Ng, 510-396-0420 <408-%C2%AD%E2%80%90887-%C2%AD%E2%80%907368>, ceciliangmeow at gmail.com From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Wed Jan 22 09:36:48 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:36:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Get Whole Foods To Stop Wasting Food! Message-ID: <1390412208.70003.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Hi, I was at Whole Foods just before closing one night and the meat counter was almost full. I asked the employee behind the counter what they do with the meat at the end of the day. After me asking "Is it donated? Is it cooked for the salad bar? Is it given to the employees? Is it put out another day?" he acknowledged that, indeed, the expensive meat is thrown away at the end of everyday. The management refused to answer questions about what is wasted. That's why I signed a petition to John Mackey, Ceo of Whole Foods, which says: "Whole Foods deliberately wastes food in order to keep it's profits high. Everyday it throws away expensive meat and fish that have been on display only a day, not to mention other foods that are perfectly edible. Leftover food should be given to the employees to start with. Food waste is the third highest contributor of greenhouse gases with 3.3 billion tons expelled per year. Not to mention that most Whole Foods employees are unable to afford the food there." Will you sign the petition too? Click here to add your name: http://petitions.moveon.org/couragecampaign/sign/stop-whole-foods-from?source=s.fwd&r_by=913001 Thanks! 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Without a disclosure rule from the SEC, corporations can spend entirely behind closed doors. That?s why a record breaking 660,000 comments have called for the SEC to act to require disclosure of corporate political spending, from investors, public officials, securities experts, and citizens like you. Americans overwhelmingly oppose the rise of secret corporate political spending and understand that the SEC must act now to stop this new threat before even more dark corporate money floods our elections. However, SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White rejected these appeals and removed the rule from the SEC?s 2014 agenda. She?s getting pressure from powerful business groups who prefer to use shareholder money to exert political power without any accountability. Stand with Senator Warren and tell the SEC to act on the corporate political disclosure rule now! It is up to us to let the SEC know we need the corporate political disclosure rule back on their agenda to stop secret corporate political spending. That's why I signed a petition to the SEC, which says: "The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) must not condone secret corporate political spending. The SEC has the power to do what so many Americans demand: require public corporations to disclose all political spending. Put the public disclosure rule back on the SEC 2014 agenda now! " Will you sign the petition too? Click here to add your name: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/bring-secret-corporate?source=s.fwd&r_by=913001 Thanks! Sincerely, John Thielking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dear John, Almost two years ago, President Obama stood in TransCanada's pipe yard in Cushing, Oklahoma, to boast about expanding U.S. oil production, and proudly announce that he would fast-track approval of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, to transport tar sands crude from Cushing to the Gulf Coast.1 Today, KXL south is scheduled to begin operation. Now, this is President Obama's tar sands pipeline. He owns its approval, and all its future spills. The approval of the northern section of Keystone XL, which crosses the Canadian border, still hangs in the balance. And today is a powerful reminder that we can't count on the president to stand up to big oil and reject the pipeline unless we pressure him to do so. Please share the graphic below today to hold the president accountable for his approval of the southern leg of Keystone XL, and urge him to reject the northern "game over for the climate" portion of Keystone XL. This is a simply a sad day. The president who launched his campaign with a call to "end the tyranny of oil" has now allowed - and even publicly encouraged - TransCanada to run the dirtiest tar sands crude straight through American farmlands, waterways and even front yards. But without the northern section of Keystone XL, TransCanada remains unable to increase production and transportation from the Alberta tar sands across the border into the U.S., which would help lead to what's been called "essentially game over for the climate." That's why it's so important we keep fighting Keystone XL. Unfortunately, there was little we could do at the national level to stop the president from approving KXL south. But we are extremely grateful to the landowners who carry on legal challenges against this pipeline, the brave blockaders in Texas and Oklahoma who literally withstood police brutality and intimidation to do everything in their power to stop construction for days or weeks at a time, and the citizens of the Texas Pipeline Watch who will now monitor this new pipeline for leaks. Unlike the southern leg, the cross-border section of Keystone XL must go through Secretary Kerry at the State Department, and the final decision belongs to President Obama and no one else. This is the moment to call out President Obama's mistake of fast-tracking Keystone XL south. We simply cannot afford another misstep on climate by this White House. Thanks for fighting Keystone XL. Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. Obama?s Worst Speech Ever: ?We?ve Added Enough New Oil And Gas Pipeline To Encircle The Earth?," ThinkProgress, 3/22/12 ? 2013 CREDO. All rights reserved. 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I just contacted Congress in support of the bill - and you should, too: https://secure.ppaction.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=16971&autologin=true&s_src=WHPA_1113_c3&sp_ref=26733582.10.1198.e.0.2&s_src=WHPA_1113_c3_taf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Wed Jan 22 16:25:01 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:25:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Sit-In date In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1390436701.40484.YahooMailNeo@web185305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Deb To: Pierre Delforge Cc: Andrew Bear <1andrewbear at gmail.com>; Brian Haberly ; Caroline Yacoub ; tonya parnak ; Thomas Atwood Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:20 AM Subject: Re: Sit-In date yet another sign up for the nvcd training this morning! Deborah and the 350 Silicon Valley Teamhttp://www.350siliconvalley.org/www.facebook.com/350SiliconValleyhttp://www.meetup.com/350SiliconValley/ On Jan 21, 2014, at 9:56 PM, Pierre Delforge wrote: Andrew, thanks for the update. > > >We have added the?http://www.nokxl.org/?link to our event page, and will ask everyone we talk to to take the pledge if they haven't done so already. > > >Pierre > > > > > >On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Andrew Bear <1andrewbear at gmail.com> wrote: > >Hi, >>I have sent out another email for all who took the Pledge of Resistance asking people to RSVP me if they plan on attending.? So far Deb is the only person who has indicated she will attend.? The training is on for now, but obviously one person is not enough to have an effective training. I will give it a little more time, likely the end of the week to gauge attendance. >> >> >>I am assuming that there are folks?with 350 Silicon Valley?who are interested but have not taken the Pledge of Resistance.? I would like to encourage folks to go the http://www.nokxl.org/ website, click on the "Take the Pledge of Resistance" banner, and sign the petition.? They will then be sent an email to find the action nearest to them, where they can click on and register for the San Jose Federal Building action. Then they will be in the communication loop for all communications and trainings.? Having all interested people taking the Pledge of Resistance is a critical part for organizing this action. >> >> >>I am really impressed with what you all are doing--very happy to connect with you. >> >> >>Andrew Bear >> >> >> >>On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Pierre Delforge wrote: >> >>All, >>> >>> >>>A quick update regarding the Sit-in: Andrew connected me with Sarah who's with the national?NoKXL campaign. She confirmed that the Sit-In would not take place right after the SEIS, but after the Draft NID has been published, however she wasn't sure when the draft NID would be published, whether it would be 90 days after the SEIS or earlier, she's checking and will get back to us.? >>> >>> >>>But she does not expect the Sit-In to take place before April-May at the earliest, possibly later depending on the NID process. >>> >>> >>> >>>So...? >>> >>> >>>Andrew, I assume we're keeping the Feb. 2 training, even though there is less urgency, it is a good opportunity to keep building our group of volunteers, please confirm. >>> >>> >>> >>>Brian and Caroline: do you want to keep the sign-painting party this Saturday or wait till closer to the event? >>> >>> >>>Deb, Brian, Tonya and Thomas:?when calling NTS people to recruit for the Feb. 2 training, I think callers just need to be aware of the schedule and not give a false sense of urgency. However it would still be worthwhile identifying people interested in the support rally. Thoughts? >>> >>> >>>Pierre >>> >>> >>>http://www.350siliconvalley.org/ www.facebook.com/350SiliconValley http://www.meetup.com/350SiliconValley/ >>> >>> >> >> >>-- >> >>Andrew Bear > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Wed Jan 22 20:21:27 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:21:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Rough draft of agenda--feel free to jump in Message-ID: <1390450887.81626.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Green Party Meeting? Thursday, January 23, 2014 7:00-7:30? Rev. Jethroe Moore II, President of Santa Clara/Silicon Valley NAACP ?????????????????? School Board 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--Caroline ?????????? PO Box ??????????? CHC--to join or not to join? 8:15? Signature collection--Spencer et al 8:40? Lobby Day Rally--in Berkeley this year, not Sacramento--Caroline or Sandy Gather at Anna Head Alumnae Hall at 1:40 this Saturday March to MLK Civic Center Park, Rally at 2:10 8:45 Report on HCA meeting--Sandy or Caroline 8:55? Report on 350.org meeting--Tian or Caroline 9:05? Resolution Against Transportation of Radioactive Waste--John 9:15? Other things we're doing -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Jan 23 06:52:23 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:52:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: The plot to kill the Internet In-Reply-To: <977523218.-1366658823@qb.qbDB.mail.salsalabs.com> References: <977523218.-1366658823@qb.qbDB.mail.salsalabs.com> Message-ID: <1390488743.82913.YahooMailNeo@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Steve Anderson To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:00 AM Subject: The plot to kill the Internet Big Telecom giants want to raise your sky-high Internet bills even higher now that they have the power to block your access to your favorite websites. Tell decision-makers at the FCC to stop Big Telecom and protect your access to the open Internet. Big telecom companies want to take control of the Internet and now they have the power to do it. Three D.C. judges just made a game-changing legal decision,?that for the first time allows giant telecom conglomerates to block or slow to a crawl any online content they want.1 But we can stop this. Your OpenMedia.org team is partnering with FreePress to provide a powerful tool for you to fight back. We each need to speak up now and tell decision-makers at the FCC to stand firm on Internet openness rules called ?net neutrality?.2 The court?s decision means your Internet provider can now block you from browsing your favorite websites - or charge you extra for using Facebook or Twitter. They could slow Netflix to the point where it?s unwatchable, demanding you pay more to access it. The ruling also ensures that Big Telecom giants have the right to squeeze every possible cent out of you and your family ? it?s like a license for price-gouging. Enough is enough - FCC decision-makers need to hear from you. Join with OpenMedia and Free Press and send a clear message right now. America is built on connectivity - that?s why we need to make sure the Internet is open, accessible, and affordable to everyone. The Internet plays a crucial role in the lives of families, small businesses, and citizens each and every day. That?s why the FCC needs to do its job and protect affordable, open Internet access for all of us. Together we can fight back against price-gouging telecom giants - and save the open Internet for everyone. Can we count on your support, John? There?s a lot going on with Internet governance these days and you can count on your OpenMedia.org team to consistently alert you to the most pressing issues and provide online tools to amplify your voice. Thank you for being a part of this, Steve, David, and Josh on behalf of your OpenMedia.org team P.S. We don?t deserve this. Big Telecom giants want to make you pay even more - while locking down your right to access your favorite websites and services. 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Gerry From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu Jan 23 15:31:21 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:31:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Rough draft of agenda--feel free to jump in In-Reply-To: <1390450887.81626.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1390450887.81626.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1390519881.35408.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ? Green Party Meeting? Thursday, January 23, 2014 7:00-7:30? Rev. Jethroe Moore II, President of Santa Clara/Silicon Valley NAACP ?????????????????? School Board 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--Caroline ?????????? PO Box ??????????? CHC--to join or not to join? 8:15? Signature collection--Spencer et al 8:40? Lobby Day Rally--in Berkeley this year, not Sacramento--Caroline or Sandy Gather at Anna Head Alumnae Hall at 1:40 this Saturday March to MLK Civic Center Park, Rally at 2:10 8:45 Report on HCA meeting--Sandy or Caroline 8:55? Report on 350.org meeting--Tian or Caroline 9:05? Resolution Against Transportation of Radioactive Waste--John 9:15? Other things we're doing _______________________________________________ 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 spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Jan 23 22:53:50 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:53:50 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green Party Meeting, January 23, 2014, minutes In-Reply-To: <1390519881.35408.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1390450887.81626.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1390519881.35408.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <52E20DFE.4090405@prodsyse.com> On 1/23/2014 3:31 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > > > Green Party Meeting Thursday, January 23, 2014 > > 7:00-7:30 Rev. Jethroe Moore II, President of Santa Clara/Silicon > Valley NAACP > Jeff Moore, President of the local NAACP talking about the expulsion of youths from schools. "Willful defiance" law says a child can be expelled for any reason, e.g., failure to bring a pencil. New laws restrict this, but many schools are not following the new laws. AB 1729 provides alternatives (http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1729). AB 2537 gives additional discretion not to expel students, even under "zero tolerance" policies, e.g., bring knifes, explosive devices, sexual assaults. AB 2616 discusses truancy. SB 1088 facilitates the speedy re-enrollment of students with law enforcement problems. Start with AB 1729. We need to understand why kids are acting up. > > 7:30 Meeting starts. Identify > Facilitator: Spencer > Note Taker: Spencer > , Vibes Watcher: Drew > , Time Keeper: John > , and Agenda Preparer: Sandy > for February. > > 7:40 Introductions, announcements, additions or corrections to agenda Andrea: Took part in the leafleting for the Freedom Train -- esp. federal minimum wage should be at minimum $15 per hour and should be indexed to the cost of living. Feb. 6-7: Read Drew's emails re. organizing. Brian: Has Luis Rodriguez tri-folds. Plus copies of Dr. King's > > 7:55 Treasurer's report and hat passing--Caroline annual fees have been sent but the check has not yet delivered. Available: $1,176.23. > PO Box: Jim Doyle said that a form needed to be filled > out, and we need to find out how much it is. Andrea Dorey volunteered to get a PO box for the Santa Clara Green party and then have the old number forwarded to the new and provide info to Spencer to fix the web site. Caroline will notify Tian and Jim of this decision. > CHC--to join or not to join? Campaign for Healthy California: Sandy: It would be fine for the State party to affiliate with both health groups but not for our county party. > > > 8:15 Signature collection--Spencer et al > Add phone number & email to the 4-candidate flier. We could use volunteers to take over the number, etc. Ask Jim. Caroline will talk with Jim about the the mail box and a phone number. Put the web site and phone number on the 4-candidate flier. change warner at warnerbloomberg.org to wb4d23 at aol.com John Thielking your phone number & email pagesincolor at yahoo.com "Go green in 2014" Spencer to send Andrea Dorey addresses of all the Greens in 95035 (Milpitis). > 8:40 Lobby Day Rally--in Berkeley this year, not Sacramento--Caroline > or Sandy California Alliance of Health Professional Students hold a Lobby Day in Sacramento. However, this year, there is no bill, so they are meeting in Berkeley: > Gather at Anna Head Alumnae Hall at 1:40 this Saturday > March to MLK Civic Center Park, Rally at 2:10 > > 8:45 Report on HCA meeting--Sandy or Caroline Single Payer Coalition (related to Health Care for All): getting new affiliations. Raised $900 from several hundred people to watch "Mercy Killers" one-man play. April 12: Health Care at Andrew Hill HS = medical magnet school. Include screening & tabling. Health care movie has Spanish subtitles and ____________ for hearing impaired. Al Jazeera is doing a documentary on poverty in Silicon Valley. > > 8:55 Report on 350.org meeting--Tian or Caroline Civil disobedience but date not yet decided -- after Obama decides whether to approve the Keystone XL. Training in civil disobedience training. There are a lot of groups standing up. Caroline will try to send a thank you letter to some via USPS. There will be sign painting for 350 at Caroline's in March. > > 9:05 Resolution Against Transportation of Radioactive Waste--John There is a consensus to endorse this resolution. > > 9:15 Other things we're doing Report from the Sunnyvale Homeless Action Group (Brian Good): Started today. Jim Davis, Vice Mayor of Sunnyvale, started this. This was a positive event / program: They will buy a warm winter shelter for the homeless to replace the Armory, which is closing. Several other leading people are in this, suggesting there now is the political will to make this happen. Brian will send an email to the group. Drew wants to leave the County Council for the time being. TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership): The Fast track was introduced into Congress. Close to a majority of congress has signed letters against Fast Track. If Obama makes a heavy push for it, then we need to lobby against it. If they don't get Fast Track, Sandy feels it's dead. Vietnamese Tet festival Feb. 1-2 (Caroline & Drew): at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. We don't have the literature translated into Vietnamese. John can attend, try to collect signatures. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Moore mentioned several recent changes in California law that should help with these issues. However, we need people willing to stand up and get involved to raise these issues to the school administrators and school board members, because otherwise, students of color will continue to be mistreated as they have been in the recent past. To the extent that there is interest, I can help do some research, but I'm not eager to do too much on this by myself without collaborators. 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 From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Fri Jan 24 04:29:23 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:29:23 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Notice of SCVWD Board Discussion - Reducing Illegal Encampments and Homelessness - An Update In-Reply-To: <1390565389.60578.YahooMailNeo@web185001.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1390565389.60578.YahooMailNeo@web185001.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <52E25CA3.50006@prodsyse.com> Hello: Might someone be interested in attending this meeting next Tuesday and reporting back to the rest of us? Thanks, Spencer Graves -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: Notice of SCVWD Board Discussion - Reducing Illegal Encampments and Homelessness - An Update Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:09:49 -0800 (PST) From: Jethroe Moore Reply-To: Jethroe Moore To: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org , raj jayadev , Asian Law Alliance Please forward to others in community that might be concern ----- Forwarded Message ----- *From:* Linda Horenstein *To:* "'anna.bettisworth at bos.sccgov.org'" ; "'eordonez at losgatos.ca.gov'" ; "'moore2j at att.net'" ; "'maxschad at wildlife.ca.gov'" ; "'district2 at sanjoseca.gov'" ; "'district10 at sanjoseca.gov'" ; "'kristiabrams at cityofgilroy.org'" *Cc:* Michelle Meredith *Sent:* Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:47 PM *Subject:* Notice of SCVWD Board Discussion - Reducing Illegal Encampments and Homelessness - An Update *NOTICE OF SCVWD BOARD DISCUSSION* *REDUCING ILLEGAL ENCAMPMENTS AND HOMELESSNESS -* *AN UPDATE* Discussion on /Reducing Illegal Encampments and Homelessness - an Update/, will be held in public meeting forum, by the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) Board of Directors at *6:00 p.m., on January 28, 2014*, at the District Headquarters Boardroom, 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, California. The agenda for this meeting can be viewed here: http://cf.valleywater.org/About_Us/Board_of_directors/Board_meetings/_2014_Published_Meetings/PublishedMeetings.htm The Board Agenda Memorandum/Staff Report discussing this item specifically, can be viewed here: http://cf.valleywater.org/About_Us/Board_of_directors/Board_meetings/_2014_Published_Meetings/MG53046/AS53052/AS53055/AI53081/DO53289/DO_53289.PDF For your convenience, information on attending public meetings, submitting comments, and addressing the SCVWD Board, can be viewed here: http://www.valleywater.org/uploadedFiles/About/BoardOfDirectors/Board%20Conduct%20of%20Meetings%20FC_97_(07-01-13)%20(2).pdf?n=1411 Thank you, Michelle Meredith-Jennings Deputy Clerk of the Board Santa Clara Valley Water District - Clerk of the Board 5750 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118 Ph: 408-630-2557 Fax: 408-266-2897 _mmeredith at valleywater.org _ -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Jan 24 10:51:24 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:51:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara County Green Party Endorses CCNR Resolution Message-ID: <1390589484.77346.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Dear CCNR: By unanimous consensus at our January 23rd, 2014 GA meeting, the Green Party of Santa Clara County (San Jose, CA, USA) endorses the following resolution: Sincerely, John Thielking County Councilor Santa Clara County Green Party RESOLUTION AGAINST THE TRANSPORT OF LIQUID RADIOACTIVE WASTE Backgrounder on Liquid Radioactive Waste: http://ccnr.org/backgrounder_CRL_SRS_2013.pdf May 15, 2013 WHEREAS the U.S. Department of Energy plans to truck 23,000 litres of high-level radioactive liquid waste from Chalk River Laboratories (CRL), Ontario, to the Savannah River Site (SRS), South Carolina, in a series of weekly shipments over a period of a year or more; WHEREAS these shipments could begin as early as August 2013; WHEREAS high-level radioactive liquid waste has never previously been transported over public roads and bridges in North America; WHEREAS the high-level radioactive liquid waste contained in just one of the planned shipments is more than enough to ruin an entire city?s water supply; WHEREAS there have been no public environmental assessment hearings in Canada or the U.S., nor any other kind of public forum on either side of the border, to address the hazards of such shipments of liquid radioactive wastes over public roads and bridges; WHEREAS there has been no public process to discuss alternatives to the proposed shipments of liquid radioactive waste over public roads and bridges, such as on-site solidification of the wastes prior to shipment ? given that such solidification has been carried out routinely for all the high-level liquid waste that has been produced at Chalk River since 2003; WHEREAS high-level radioactive waste is the most radioactive material on the planet, created by the irradiation of uranium and/or plutonium in a nuclear reactor; WHEREAS high-level radioactive waste gives off such intense penetrating radiation that it remains unapproachable for centuries; WHEREAS high-level radioactive waste remains extraordinarily radiotoxic for millennia; WHEREAS high-level radioactive liquid waste is created when the solid high-level waste from a nuclear reactor is dissolved in nitric acid, resulting in a highly corrosive solution containing dozens of radiotoxic materials such as cesium - 137, iodine - 129, strontium 90; WHEREAS the high-level radioactive liquid waste from Chalk River contains a significant amount of weapons-grade uranium (HEU = highly enriched uranium) ? the same material that was used as a nuclear explosive in the first atomic bomb dropped in 1945; WHEREAS the principal justification for transporting the Chalk River liquid waste to the Savannah River Site is to rid Canada of the potential proliferation risk associated with the weapons-grade uranium that is still left in the liquid solution; WHEREAS the Savannah River Site is one of the most radioactively contaminated sites in the entire DOE complex of nuclear weapons related facilities; WHEREAS the continued operation of the aging H-Canyon reprocessing plant at the Savannah River Site to process the Chalk River liquid waste, as planned, will pose unnecessary safety risks, will add additional volumes of high-level radioactive waste into the already over-burdened SRS waste management system and will place unsustainable demands on the DOE budget; WHEREAS all the non-proliferation objectives associated with the Chalk River liquid waste can be met by ?denaturing? the weapons grade uranium on site at the Chalk River Laboratories so that it is no longer weapons-usable material and hence poses no further proliferation risk; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the organizations listed on the following pages: [for list see http://ccnr.org/Endorsing_Groups.pdf] (1) are opposed in principle to any shipment of radioactive liquid waste over public roads and bridges, or on any navigable waterways, or by air, recognizing that such waste can be, has been and should be solidified so that it is far less accessible to the environment of living things; (2) urge the governments of Canada and the United States to halt the shipment of high-level radioactive liquid waste from Chalk River Laboratories to the Savannah River Site pending the outcome of full public consultations on the advisability and the potential adverse impacts of the proposed shipments, as well as alternative procedures to achieve the stated objectives for such shipments; (3) urge the governments of Canada and the United States, and the governments of all states, provinces, and municipalities, as well as the indigenous and sovereign governments of Native American Indian tribal peoples of the USA, and the several nations of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, to do everything in their power to disallow and prevent the shipment of liquid radioactive waste over public roads and bridges, or on any navigable waterways, or by air. 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URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Jan 24 11:16:28 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:16:28 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? In-Reply-To: <1390589805.75094.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1390589805.75094.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <52E2BC0C.3070806@structuremonitoring.com> 1. Read the bylaws at "http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara/bylaws.shtml" -- then tell us. This may also require consulting the state Green party bylaws and asking the Registrar of Voters -- and maybe try to get Warner to comment on this. 2. A year ago I went through this fairly carefully. I don't remember the details now, but I think that we do not need to file anything with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters unless we have a competitive election for County Council. Since we are authorized something like 7 seats on the County Council and since we currently have only 4 (Jim Doyle, Spencer Graves, John Thielking, Betsy Wolf-Graves), we will not have a competitive election for County Council. However, it would be wise to check that. I'm sorry, but I don't have time to research this further at the moment. Spencer On 1/24/2014 10:56 AM, John Thielking wrote: > Dear CC and all: > > When do we have to file to get County Council positions on the ballot > for 2014? I thought that my term was up in 2014. Does anyone have a > line on what we are supposed to do to keep our CC valid and active > after June 2014? Thanks. > > Sincerely, > > John Thielking > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Peace & Justice Center; see below. Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SJPJC-Board Invitation to Attend KPFA 94.1 Community meeting at San Jose Peace & Justice Center Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:11:55 -0800 (PST) From: Shelby Minister Reply-To: sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com To: South Bay Mobilization , "sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com" , SJPJC Partners , San Jose Community Members Hi All, On Tuesday, February 18th at 7pm the San Jose Peace and Justice Center will be hosing KPFA's community outreach meeting with the purpose of outreaching to local organizations here. Learn how to get your events posted and your voice heard on the only non-commercial radio station that reaches all over the Bay Area, 94.1 KPFA. The San Jose Peace and Justice Center is located at 48 S. 7th Street, San Jose If you or one of your organization's members are interested in attending please RSVP to coordinator at sanjosepeace.org or call 408-297-2299 Here is a letter from Andrea Prichett, Board Member at KPFA *Dear community groups, activists, and all other San Jose area residents:* Have you ever wished for a way to listen to news and information about San Jose that was not coming from a corporate perspective? Have you ever presented an exciting local event and wished thatit had been publicized on the radio?Please, if you don?t already know about it, let me introduce you to 94.1 KPFA. KPFA is a station with studios in Berkeley that broadcasts throughout many parts ofNorthern and Central California (not to mention, all over the world via the internet). From Sacramento to Santa Cruz and many places in between, listeners can tune in to hear alternative, non-corporate, listener sponsored radio that gives voice to those who are not necessarily part of the mainstream. Since its inception in 1949 as a free speech, pacifist forum for unique perspectives, KPFA and Pacifica Foundation Radio have been working to make sure that those who are not heard on commercial outlets can add their perspectives to the mix. KPFA has been serving communities for almost 65 years and we want to remind folks in San Jose that this is their radio station, too. We have a number of ways that KPFA can be of use to the grassroots groups and communities of the South Bay: lCommunity Calendar/Public Service Announcement: You can list an upcoming event by contacting us three weeks in advance at 510-848-6767Ext.617.(For complete details, just go to www.kpfa.org/psa) lYou can record an announcement via the First Voice Apprenticeship Program (510-848-6767, Ext. 235). lFirst Voice Apprenticeship Program: You and/or members of your community/organization can learn the art of radio production and all aspects of broadcasting via KPFA's F.V.A.P. lReporting San Jose issues: Contact our news desk (510-848-6767, Ext. 699 or www.news at kpfa.org) with breaking stories in San Jose. Listen to our news and public affairs programs and go to our website (http://www.kpfa.org/programs/publicaffairs) to see which shows might be right for the type of stories about San Jose which you would like to hear or that you think people should be hearing. We would love to visit with you and your organization to discuss in detail ways that we can work together to increase the value of KPFA to the entire San Jose area.We could talk about the big stories in your community and work on ideas about how to get them out to the listening public. Please call 510-848-6767 or email from http://www.kpfa.org/contact. Sincerely, Andrea Prichett KPFA Local Station Board Development Task Force prichett at locrian.com *Shelby Minister Coordinator San Jose Peace and Justice Center 48 S. 7th Street, San Jose* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SJPJC-Board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sjpjcboard+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sjpjcboard. 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In-Reply-To: <52E2BC0C.3070806@structuremonitoring.com> References: <1390589805.75094.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <52E2BC0C.3070806@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <1390614801.78161.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I think if we have less than 7 candidates we can't be on the ballot. And what about prop 14? Can Teaparty people run for our County Council? ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves To: John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? ????? 1.? Read the bylaws at "http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara/bylaws.shtml" -- then tell us.? This may also require consulting the state Green party bylaws and asking the Registrar of Voters -- and maybe try to get Warner to comment on this.? ????? 2.? A year ago I went through this fairly carefully.? I don't remember the details now, but I think that we do not need to file anything with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters unless we have a competitive election for County Council.? Since we are authorized something like 7 seats on the County Council and since we currently have only 4 (Jim Doyle, Spencer Graves, John Thielking, Betsy Wolf-Graves), we will not have a competitive election for County Council.? However, it would be wise to check that.? ????? I'm sorry, but I don't have time to research this further at the moment.? ????? Spencer On 1/24/2014 10:56 AM, John Thielking wrote: Dear CC and all: > > >When do we have to file to get County Council positions on the ballot for 2014?? I thought that my term was up in 2014. Does anyone have a line on what we are supposed to do to keep our CC valid and active after June 2014? Thanks. > > >Sincerely, > > >John Thielking > > >_______________________________________________ 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Jan 24 18:10:37 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:10:37 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? In-Reply-To: <1390614801.78161.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1390589805.75094.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <52E2BC0C.3070806@structuremonitoring.com> <1390614801.78161.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <52E31D1D.2040809@structuremonitoring.com> From skimming our bylaws, I think that if a Tea Party person won election to our County Council, we might be able to remove him / her at a regular monthly meeting. However, it might not be easy -- rather like the time when Mary Frances Berry was Chair of Pacifica (Wikipedia, "Mary Frances Berry", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frances_Berry). Spencer On 1/24/2014 5:53 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: > I think if we have less than 7 candidates we can't be on the ballot. > And what about prop 14? Can Teaparty people run for our County Council? > *From:* Spencer Graves > *To:* John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List > > *Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2014 11:16 AM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? > > 1. Read the bylaws at > "http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara/bylaws.shtml" > -- then tell us. > This may also require consulting the state Green party bylaws and > asking the Registrar of Voters -- and maybe try to get Warner to > comment on this. > > > 2. A year ago I went through this fairly carefully. I don't > remember the details now, but I think that we do not need to file > anything with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters unless we > have a competitive election for County Council. Since we are > authorized something like 7 seats on the County Council and since we > currently have only 4 (Jim Doyle, Spencer Graves, John Thielking, > Betsy Wolf-Graves), we will not have a competitive election for County > Council. However, it would be wise to check that. > > > I'm sorry, but I don't have time to research this further at the > moment. > Spencer > > > On 1/24/2014 10:56 AM, John Thielking wrote: >> Dear CC and all: >> >> When do we have to file to get County Council positions on the ballot >> for 2014? I thought that my term was up in 2014. Does anyone have a >> line on what we are supposed to do to keep our CC valid and active >> after June 2014? Thanks. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> John Thielking >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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However, it might not be easy -- rather like > the time when Mary Frances Berry was Chair of Pacifica (Wikipedia, "Mary > Frances Berry", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frances_Berry). > > > Spencer > > > On 1/24/2014 5:53 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: >> I think if we have less than 7 candidates we can't be on the ballot. >> And what about prop 14? Can Teaparty people run for our County Council? >> *From:* Spencer Graves >> *To:* John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List >> >> *Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2014 11:16 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? >> >> 1. Read the bylaws at >> "http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara/bylaws.shtml" >> -- then tell us. >> This may also require consulting the state Green party bylaws and >> asking the Registrar of Voters -- and maybe try to get Warner to >> comment on this. >> >> >> 2. A year ago I went through this fairly carefully. I don't >> remember the details now, but I think that we do not need to file >> anything with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters unless we >> have a competitive election for County Council. Since we are >> authorized something like 7 seats on the County Council and since we >> currently have only 4 (Jim Doyle, Spencer Graves, John Thielking, >> Betsy Wolf-Graves), we will not have a competitive election for County >> Council. However, it would be wise to check that. >> >> >> I'm sorry, but I don't have time to research this further at the >> moment. >> Spencer >> >> >> On 1/24/2014 10:56 AM, John Thielking wrote: >>> Dear CC and all: >>> >>> When do we have to file to get County Council positions on the ballot >>> for 2014? I thought that my term was up in 2014. Does anyone have a >>> line on what we are supposed to do to keep our CC valid and active >>> after June 2014? Thanks. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> John Thielking >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Jan 24 18:38:07 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:38:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? In-Reply-To: <52E32241.5080905@earthlink.net> References: <1390589805.75094.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <52E2BC0C.3070806@structuremonitoring.com> <1390614801.78161.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <52E31D1D.2040809@structuremonitoring.com> <52E32241.5080905@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1390617487.53820.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> For sure you have to be a registered Green for at least one year. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Gerry Gras To: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? I think that because the GPSCC County Council is for the Green Party, you do have to be a Green to run for it, and only Greens can sign the petition and vote. But I could be wrong. Gerry Spencer Graves wrote: >? ? ? ? From skimming our bylaws, I think that if a Tea Party person won > election to our County Council, we might be able to remove him / her at > a regular monthly meeting. However, it might not be easy -- rather like > the time when Mary Frances Berry was Chair of Pacifica (Wikipedia, "Mary > Frances Berry", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frances_Berry). > > >? ? ? ? Spencer > > > On 1/24/2014 5:53 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: >> I think if we have less than 7 candidates we can't be on the ballot. >> And what about prop 14? Can Teaparty people run for our County Council? >> *From:* Spencer Graves >> *To:* John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List >> >> *Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2014 11:16 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? >> >>? ? ? 1. Read the bylaws at >> "http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara/bylaws.shtml" >> -- then tell us. >> This may also require consulting the state Green party bylaws and >> asking the Registrar of Voters -- and maybe try to get Warner to >> comment on this. >> >> >>? ? ? 2.? A year ago I went through this fairly carefully.? I don't >> remember the details now, but I think that we do not need to file >> anything with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters unless we >> have a competitive election for County Council. Since we are >> authorized something like 7 seats on the County Council and since we >> currently have only 4 (Jim Doyle, Spencer Graves, John Thielking, >> Betsy Wolf-Graves), we will not have a competitive election for County >> Council.? However, it would be wise to check that. >> >> >>? ? ? I'm sorry, but I don't have time to research this further at the >> moment. >>? ? ? Spencer >> >> >> On 1/24/2014 10:56 AM, John Thielking wrote: >>> Dear CC and all: >>> >>> When do we have to file to get County Council positions on the ballot >>> for 2014?? I thought that my term was up in 2014. Does anyone have a >>> line on what we are supposed to do to keep our CC valid and active >>> after June 2014? Thanks. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> John Thielking >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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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Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves To: Caroline Yacoub ; sosfbay-discuss Sent: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 6:11 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? From skimming our bylaws, I think that if a Tea Party person won election to our County Council, we might be able to remove him / her at a regular monthly meeting. However, it might not be easy -- rather like the time when Mary Frances Berry was Chair of Pacifica (Wikipedia, "Mary Frances Berry", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frances_Berry). Spencer On 1/24/2014 5:53 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote: I think if we have less than 7 candidates we can't be on the ballot. And what about prop 14? Can Teaparty people run for our County Council? From: Spencer Graves To: John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? 1. Read the bylaws at "http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara/bylaws.shtml" -- then tell us. This may also require consulting the state Green party bylaws and asking the Registrar of Voters -- and maybe try to get Warner to comment on this. 2. A year ago I went through this fairly carefully. I don't remember the details now, but I think that we do not need to file anything with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters unless we have a competitive election for County Council. Since we are authorized something like 7 seats on the County Council and since we currently have only 4 (Jim Doyle, Spencer Graves, John Thielking, Betsy Wolf-Graves), we will not have a competitive election for County Council. However, it would be wise to check that. I'm sorry, but I don't have time to research this further at the moment. Spencer On 1/24/2014 10:56 AM, John Thielking wrote: Dear CC and all: When do we have to file to get County Council positions on the ballot for 2014? I thought that my term was up in 2014. 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San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From carolineyacoub at att.net Sat Jan 25 17:00:54 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:00:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Tell Monsanto to study the risks of GMOs In-Reply-To: <15AFF3F3-A0E4-483F-8095-00736E3E00E1@gmail.com> References: <15AFF3F3-A0E4-483F-8095-00736E3E00E1@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1390698054.11984.YahooMailNeo@web185302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: irenejeff To: Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:28 PM Subject: Tell Monsanto to study the risks of GMOs Friends, Monsanto is refusing the request of its own shareholders to come clean on the risks of GMOs. With all of our support, SumOfUs organizers are heading to St Louis to support the crucial shareholder vote. Now, we need to show other big shareholders and the Monsanto board of directors that we?re watching. Please sign the petition now to demand Monsanto stop hiding the costs and risks of GMOs from its own shareholders. Tell Monsanto to study the risks of GMOs: http://action.sumofus.org/a/monsanto-shareholder-resolution/sub=mtl Thank you. IreneJeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sat Jan 25 21:44:59 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:44:59 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [tpa_chat] Ellen Brown on Public Banking In-Reply-To: <52E44D34.5060702@cwo.com> References: <52E44D34.5060702@cwo.com> Message-ID: <52E4A0DB.4040002@earthlink.net> FYI, An email from a Transition Palo Alto list about our candidate for Treasurer. Gerry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tpa_chat] Ellen Brown on Public Banking Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:48:04 -0800 From TPAer Terry Koch: Hi; A very interesting video speech by Ellen Brown regarding the issue of Public Banking. She is an attorney who will be mounting a campaign for California Treasurer in 2014. She deserves the support of the Transitions Group. Please enjoy this short video and the others on this Youtube page. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5soFCyjNByk From WB4D23 at aol.com Sun Jan 26 17:52:04 2014 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:52:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Filing for 2014 CC Elections? Message-ID: <4e2b6.6a4c85b3.401715c4@aol.com> Only voters registered as GPCA members can be on the GPSCC County Council (just as anyone elected in any county central committee has to be registered in that political party). One of the things that was discussed at the Santa Rosa Plenary was that it appears that the State of California will not be administering central committee elections in 2014 because the law is being changed to require that County governments only deal with those elections in presidential primary years. "Someone" can contact the GPCA Coordinating Committee for clarification on this issue since they presumably discussed it at their annual retreat last weekend. Warner In a message dated 1/24/2014 5:53:53 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, carolineyacoub at att.net writes: I think if we have less than 7 candidates we can't be on the ballot. And what about prop 14? Can Teaparty people run for our County Council? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/578870145523836/ Livestream: http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gpca-grow mailing list gpca-grow at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-grow -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at riseup.net Sun Jan 26 22:24:27 2014 From: rainbeaufriend at riseup.net (Drew) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:24:27 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Thu: Syria, Iran, and the U.S. - Thursday, Jan 30 @ 1:30pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1be3ef2d-43fa-493a-8180-ac21dfc36507@email.android.com> This Thursday 1:30 @ De Anza College's Multicultural Center. Details follow... -------- Original Message -------- From: "G. Sharat Lin" Sent: Sun Jan 26 22:16:50 PST 2014 To: "rainbeaufriend at riseup.net" Subject: Syria, Iran, and the U.S. - Thursday, Jan 30 @ 1:30pm Syria, Iran, and the U.S.: WMDs or fightback against hegemony? Thursday, January 30 at 1:30 pm Multi-Cultural Center De Anza College 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 Bus routes: 23, 323, 25, 51, 53, 54, 55 U.S. sabre rattling towards Syria and Iran has been blunted for now by Russian and U.N. initiatives to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria and by political initiatives by Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani. What are the real origins of hostility between the U.S. and these two countries, the war in Syria, and the prospects for peace? Dr. Sharat G. Lin writes on global political economy, the Middle East, and labor migration. He lived through the beginning of the Lebanese civil war and witnessed historic transitions in Tahrir Square during 2009-2012. He has written extensively on policy towards WMDs. He is a research fellow at the San Jos? Peace and Justice Center. Free and open to the Public For more information: http://dagreenparty.jottit.com Sponsored by the DeAnza Green Party Club and the Institute of Community & Civic Engagement Endorsed by the San Jos? Peace and Justice Center - -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andi at wrytor.com Mon Jan 27 06:43:01 2014 From: andi at wrytor.com (Andrea Dorey) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:43:01 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Test Mail Attempt by Andrea Message-ID: <17FAC610-BCBC-42CF-AB28-15445A5CCD76@wrytor.com> Am I able to access this with my longtime email address, andi at wrytor.com? From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon Jan 27 20:53:18 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:53:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?utf-8?q?Fw=3A_Fwd=3A_=5Bgpsmc-d=5D_Jill_Stein_the_?= =?utf-8?q?rap=E2=80=94Did_you_guys_see_this_one=3F__I_just_caught_up_w/_i?= =?utf-8?q?t!!?= In-Reply-To: References: <11F7EF46-05B0-4526-9919-C09D05F6E477@catsincharge.com> Message-ID: <1390884798.93753.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Andrea Dorey To: Caroline Yacoub ; Spencer Graves ; Gerry Gras Cc: Cathy Deppe Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 4:37 PM Subject: Fwd: [gpsmc-d] Jill Stein the rap?Did you guys see this one? I just caught up w/ it!! Begin forwarded message: From: Karen Rosenstein > >Date: September 28, 2012 3:28:32 PM PDT > >Cc: Karen Rosenstein > >Subject: Fwd: [gpsmc-d] Jill Stein the rap > > >Here's a quick sum-up of why I am voting for Jill Stein in November. ?Karen > > > >Begin forwarded message: > >>http://youtu.be/mWPvx-DAUgI >>A quick and easy explanation of the political agenda of the Jill Stein campaign in a little rap video created by some students. >>I enjoyed it and think it would be good to share with young people in your life......but then I am only an old Euroamerican woman, so what do I know about what kids will enjoy. >> >>Sanda Everette, GPCA delegation to GPUS, GPCA Coordinating Committee >>How can what's already rotten be spoiled? (Nader 2000, Frank Young, WV, 2012) >>"The politics of fear have brought us everything we were afraid of." (Dr. Jill Stein, 2012) >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The answer is complex, but three reasons stand out. "First, the working class is paralyzed with fear it will lose the jobs and wages it already has. . . . Fewer than 7 percent belong to a union. "Second, students don't dare rock the boat. . . . They're laden with debt. . . . Reformers and revolutionaries don't look forward to living with mom and dad or worrying about credit ratings and job recommendations. "Third and finally, the American public has become so cynical about government that many no longer think reform is possible. . . . At some point, working people, students, and the broad public will have had enough. They will reclaim our economy and our democracy. This has been the central \ lesson of American history." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Tue Jan 28 09:17:35 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:17:35 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Inequality for All" Screening Thurs. 70 W. Hedding In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52E7E62F.5000000@structuremonitoring.com> This is a free showing, sponsored by the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission, the Office of Congressman Mike Honda and Working Partnerships USA. You may need a ticket. Sign up at "http://www.eventbrite.com/e/inequality-for-all-film-screening-tickets-10176428973". I expect them to run out of tickets tomorrow, 24 hours before the event. (There were 34 tickets remaining at 9 AM today; 24 tickets have been taken each day on average since January 20. I'm also working with Dream Menders and Common Cause to organize a separate showing. However, the license fees quoted us were completely unreasonable for an event at the Peace Center.) I think Reich is correct with the 3 reasons cited below from Reich's HuffPost article. In the next few years, some event will trigger a peasant revolt bigger than Occupy, more like the revolution that brought Franklin Roosevelt to power in 1933 with roughly a 2/3 majority in both the US House and Senate. However, this revolt will of necessity be built in part on a massive defection from ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Fox, towards some system for "citizen funding of news", as mentioned in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United States" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_the_United_States). Spencer On 1/27/2014 10:35 PM, Brian wrote: > http://www.sanjosepeace.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20140117161645892 > > *When:* Thursday, January 30 2014 @ 06:30 PM - - 09:00PM > *Where:* Isaac Newton Auditorium- County Building > 70 West Hedding Street > San Jose > > > If you haven't seen Robert Reich's film about income inequality and > economics, > you need to. It shows quite persuasively that the current inequality > is aberrant > and toxic, that economic health depends on a strong middle class. > > Also check out Reich's recent blog, "Why There's no Outcry" > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-theres-no-outcry_b_4666330.html > > Why not? > > "Middle incomes are sinking, the ranks of the poor are swelling, > almost all the economic > gains are going to the top, and big money is corrupting our democracy. > So why isn't there > more of a ruckus? The answer is complex, but three reasons stand out. > > "First, the working class is paralyzed with fear it will lose the jobs > and wages it already has. . . . > Fewer than 7 percent belong to a union. > > > "Second, students don't dare rock the boat. . . . They're laden with > debt. . . . Reformers and > > revolutionaries don't look forward to living with mom and dad or > worrying about credit ratings > > and job recommendations. > > > "Third and finally, the American public has become so cynical about > government that many no > longer think reform is possible. . . . At some point, working > people, students, and the broad public > will have had enough. They will reclaim our economy and our democracy. > This has been the central \ > lesson of American history." > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Jan 28 10:16:15 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:16:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Sign the petition: Stop the attack on solar power in California In-Reply-To: <3f5131-22ed-52e7f22a@list.credoaction.com> References: <3f5131-22ed-52e7f22a@list.credoaction.com> Message-ID: <1390932975.33333.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Susannah Churchill via CREDO Mobilize To: John Thielking Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:08 AM Subject: Sign the petition: Stop the attack on solar power in California The email below is from Susannah Churchill, a CREDO activist in San Francisco, California. Susannah started a petition on CREDO Mobilize, where activists can launch their own campaigns for progressive change. Will you help Susannah encourage the California Public Utilities Commission to continue supporting rooftop solar power in California by signing her petition and sharing it with your friends and family? ________________________________ Stop the attack on rooftop solar in California. Dear John, The California Public Utilities Commission will soon decide how long solar customers can expect to receive fair compensation under California?s popular and highly successful net metering program, which compensates solar panel owners for excess electricity they sell back to the grid. But big utilities are up to their old tricks, lobbying the Public Utilities Commission to change the rules on Californians and make investing in solar a bad financial deal. That's why I started my own campaign on CREDOMobilize.com, which allows activists to start their own petitions. My petition, which is to the California Public Utilities Commission, says the following: I believe in protecting Californians? right to go solar and receive full credit for the clean energy they deliver to the grid. Net metering has been crucial to solar growth, and soon the Commission must decide how long solar customers may continue under the program?s current rules. Rooftop solar systems reliably produce power for 30 years or more, and solar customers expect long-term bill savings over the life of the system. I urge you to allow customers who install solar under the current net metering program to keep today?s rules for at least 30 years. Sign the petition: Tell the California Public Utilities Commission to reject the attack on rooftop solar. Under current law, California residents who install rooftop solar panels on their homes are able to receive fair credit for any excess electricity they provide to the power grid ? helping pay off their investment by providing a clean source of energy to their neighbors. But if dirty-energy utility companies get their way, this arrangement will be dismantled. Rooftop solar installations produce reliable power for 30 years or more, and solar customers should expect stable rules and predictable credit on their power bills to match. Changing the rules on solar customers after they've already made an investment would drastically slow our state?s solar momentum and leave Californians who invest in rooftop solar paying higher utility bills. What kind of message would that send to all those families, schools and businesses who invested their own time and money to turn their roofs into clean power sources for all of us - and to others who are thinking about going solar now? We can?t let utility companies rewrite the rules for solar customers to protect their outdated, dirty-energy-intensive business models. Will you join me and add your name to my petition telling the California Public Utilities Commission to stand strong in support of solar power? Thank you for your support. Susannah Churchill ________________________________ CREDO Mobilize helps activists like you make progressive change and fight regressive policies by creating online petitions. Click here to start a petition today. Share on Facebook Post to your wall Tweet this Post to Twitter ? 2013 CREDO. All rights reserved. To change your email or mailing address, please click here: https://act.credoaction.com/me/update/?t=13&akid=8941.4149553.GKQqrV To remove yourself from this list, please visit our subscription management page at: http://act.credoaction.com/cms/unsubscribe/unsubscribe/?t=15&akid=8941.4149553.GKQqrV -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rainbeaufriend at riseup.net Thu Jan 30 16:23:23 2014 From: rainbeaufriend at riseup.net (rainbeaufriend at riseup.net) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:23:23 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Organizing Training: Campus Camp Wellstone (registration details included Message-ID: I and several others from the De Anza Green Party club (including Sandy Perry) will be going to this. I can't say enough good things about this training (which I went to last year as well). This is the real thing and people are coming all the way from Nevada to partake because its a proven, established, effective training. Please come join us! Green is GO! Drew *Campus Camp Wellstone 2014!* *Community and student organizing skills are a vital part of building a socially just society. At this training you?ll learn how to...* ? *Cultivate and appreciate different styles of leadership* ? *Tell a compelling story and develop effective media messaging* ? *Use power strategically to get the maximum effect for your effort* ? *Build stronger relationships as a tool for organizing* ? *Recruit and grow your volunteer base* ? *Effectively combine different approaches to political change -? electoral, policy development, grassroots organizing* *What: *Campus Camp Wellstone Training *Who: *De Anza College Student Leaders, Organizers & Emerging Activists *When: *Fri Feb 7 (11 am) to Sat Feb 8 (until 5 PM) & Fri March 14 (1-?8 PM) *Where: *The Sequoia Retreat Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains *Cost: *$30-$100 to help cover food, lodging, and material fees. If you cannot afford it, scholarships are available. (Fee must be paid in advance) *Note: *The first two days are led by the trainers at Wellstone Action, a nationally renowned training institute for students and working people. The follow-up day is for participants to continue building their skills and community bonds. It will be led by Nicky Gonzalez Yuen and a special guest team of trainers. ---------------- Here are the registration details for Camp Wellstone. To sign up and secure your spot at the retreat, I'll need three things: you to register on the Google survey (which can be found right here), a completed field trip form (attached in this email), and the student fee (sliding scale $30-100.) You can drop off the field trip form and fee at Nicky Yuen's office (which is in the F2 building.) If you are in Cynthia Kaufman's POLI 17/ICS 27 class, I can come by and pick up your fee/form at the beginning of class on Thursday. I'll be doing the same in Edmundo Norte's class tomorrow as well. I've included a more detailed description of the registration process at the bottom of this email as well. Spots are filling up, so it would be awesome if you could get registered ASAP. Let me know if you have any questions! Be well, Cecilia 510-396-0420 ceciliangmeow at gmail.com Hi there! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi there, Thank you for RSVPing to your invitation to Camp Wellstone! I'm excited to see you there. If you haven't already seen it, check out this cool video we have highlighting past students' experiences at Wellstone. *So, here's what you need to do to secure your spot at Camp Wellstone this year:* *1. Complete the registration survey .* *2. Turn in the De Anza student field trip agreement.* The forms are attached in this email. **IF YOU ARE UNDER 18, please print out and complete the MINOR AUTHORIZATION form (you'll need the signature of your parent or legal guardian). *You can drop off the completed form in the mailbox next to Nicky Gonzalez Yuen's office, which is located in the F2 building.* *3. Turn in the student fee.* This course is partially funded by DASB and the President?s Office; they help pay for food and lodging, materials, your class book, etc. In order to cover the full cost of class materials, food, and lodging, we are asking you to pitch in on a sliding scale between $30-$100 depending on what you can afford. This is a voluntary fee, but please know that we cannot fund this retreat without this fee. Keep in mind you'll be getting all meals, lodging, and materials for the retreat so really think about what you can chip in. If you cannot afford even the bottom end of the sliding scale, please let us know ASAP what you CAN afford to pay and then ask us for a scholarship to cover the balance. *How do you pay the voluntary fee?* 1. Put the money or a check made out to ?De Anza College/DLTP" in an envelope. 2. WRITE YOUR NAME AND STUDENT ID NUMBER on the envelope. 3. Place the envelope in the mailbox next to Nicky Gonzalez Yuen?s office in the F2 building, Room L. Please make sure that you take care of these retreat fees before the training. If we do not hear from you before the end of the third week of winter quarter, we will drop you from the program and add someone new. Again, there are scholarships available if you absolutely cannot afford to pay the fees. Alright, that's it for now. I've included the general information/student invitation at the top of the email (in case you need a refresher) or if you would like to tell a friend about it. Expect some emails from me in the future with updates and reminders about the retreat. Feel free to reach out to me if the need arises. Warmly, Cecilia Ng 510-396-0420 *If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact:* Cecilia Ng, 510-396-0420 ceciliangmeow at gmail.com Hi there!