[GPSCC-chat] Proposed Agenda for GPSCC Thursday Meeting 6-26-14

[Spencer Graves]

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       Spencer


On 6/25/2014 2:54 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> This looks like a short meeting. Please send any additions or changes.
> Sandy
> **
> *GPSCC PROPOSED AGENDA 6-26-14*
> **
> 7:00 PM Thursday June 26 at San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 
> Seventh St., San Jose CA 95112
> 7:00  Speaker: none scheduled.
> 7:30 Meeting begins. Introductions, announcements, changes or 
> additions to
>    agenda, hat passing.
>
>
> 7:45 Identify Facilitator, Note Taker, Vibes Watcher, Time Keeper, Agenda
>   Preparer for July. Meeting.
>
>
> 7:55  Report on Single Payer Health Care work.
> 8:10Report on Climate Change work.
> 8:25  Report on De Anza work
> 8:35  Request for a letter in support of Green Party Rev. Edward 
> Pinkney (see story
> below) (Sandy)
>
> 8:45Report back from the State Plenary if anyone has any information.
> 8:55Adjourn
>
>
> *Facing Twenty-Five Years in Prison for Circulating a Petition*
> Green Party member and 2008 Congressional candidate Rev. Edward 
> Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan is once again battling political 
> persecution. On July 21, he will stand trial for circulating recall 
> petitions against Benton Harbor's pro-corporate Mayor James Hightower. 
> The state is charging him with five felony counts and threatening him 
> with up to twenty-five years in prison.
> Benton Harbor has 70% unemployment and 90% of its people living below 
> the poverty line, and is also home to one of the richest companies in 
> the world, the $19 billion Whirlpool Corporation.
> Rev. Pinkney has led residents in a relentless battle against racism 
> in the criminal justice system, for jobs, for education, for a better 
> life, and against the state-appointed "Emergency Financial Manager" 
> (EFM) that took over Benton Harbor in 2011. EFMs are a threat to 
> democracy everywhere, as proven when an EFM declared the bankruptcy of 
> Detroit in 2013. A federal judge subsequently ruled that its workers 
> had no right to keep their pensions despite explicit protection in the 
> Michigan State Constitution, a decision that impacts the fate of 
> workers as far away as California.
> The specific charges against Rev. Pinkney in the recall of Mayor 
> Hightower are that he altered some of the dates on the petitions. 
> However, the evidence against him introduced at his preliminary 
> hearing was flimsy and contradictory, as pointed out in a June 3 
> article in /Voice of Detroit/:
> ·Another Benton Harbor resident turned in the recall petitions on 
> January 8, not Rev. Pinkney.
> ·Rev. Pinkney was formally charged and a warrant issued for his arrest 
> on that same day, January 8, but the petitions were not turned over to 
> the Michigan State Police Forensics Lab for examination until February 26.
> ·In March, Berrien County Sheriff Deputies conducted a massive 
> campaign to interrogate and intimidate petition signers throughout 
> Benton Harbor.
> ·Sgt. James Goff, who examined the petitions, is not a certified 
> Forensics Document Examiner.
> ·Sgt. Goff testified that, "I can't say who altered them or when."
> ·No original petitions were admitted into evidence, only copies, and 
> the Berrien County Sheriff's Department, Elections Commission, and 
> Michigan State Police disagree on where the originals are located.
> ·Three witnesses who had circulated petitions testified that they saw 
> petition signers themselves change the dates on their signatures due 
> to errors, and one circulator testified that she changed a date she 
> herself entered due to an error.
> ·County Sheriff Sgt. David Zizkovsky stated that he himself asked the 
> Forensics Lab to change five dates on the petitions.
> ·There was no confession, no certified handwriting expert testimony, 
> no eye witnesses, no evidence that Rev. Pinkney had exclusive access 
> to the petitions, and lots of evidence that lots of other people had 
> access to them.
> The charges against Rev. Pinkney are an attack on our right to 
> petition for redress of grievances and our right to take political 
> action independently of the corporate agenda and the two-party system. 
> The fight to defend Rev. Pinkney is the fight for democracy and for 
> the future of America.
> Publicize this case. Write letters of support for Rev. Pinkney to 
> BANCO (Black Autonomous Network of Community Organizations) at 
> banco9342 at sbcglobal.net <mailto:banco9342 at sbcglobal.net>Donations for 
> legal defense may be sent to BANCO, 1940 Union Street, Benton Harbor, 
> MI 49022.
>
>
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