From rainbeaufriend at riseup.net Sat Mar 1 07:37:00 2014 From: rainbeaufriend at riseup.net (Drew) Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 07:37:00 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] February 27, 2014, meeting minutes In-Reply-To: <53101BEA.8000904@structuremonitoring.com> References: <9e280.47787bfa.40412981@aol.com> <1393546947.55804.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <8D1023AE126364D-13D4-6B61@webmail-vd011.sysops.aol.com> <53101BEA.8000904@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <2ec24293-4132-44aa-a27f-67bd4df1d5dc@email.android.com> Important required addition: present included: Warner, Andrea Dorey, Pete Reilly (?), John Thielking, Sandy Perry and Spencer Graves. Please reply to list with any additional folks present. Spencer Graves wrote: >Please send any additions or corrections to this list. Spencer > > >On 2/27/2014 5:23 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: >> Hi John, >> Here is a final agenda. >> Sandy >> *Green Party Meeting Thursday, Feb 27, 2014* >> 7:00-7:30 Nancy Neff from California Clean Money Campaign will speak >> on SB 27 and SB 52. > > > Nancy Neff: nancy at neffs.net > > > Nancy mentioned Disclose, Amend, Reform, Empower (DARE): >Disclose, Amend to overturn Citizens United, Reform > > > SB27 requires nonprofits to disclose any amounts over ~$50K. >Passed the house with amendments. Must go back to the Senate for their > >concurrence. > > > SB52 requires the top 3 funders must be identified on TV ads, top >2 on radio ads. > > > Nancy distributed "activist packets": www.CAdisclose.org > >Action > Download materials. This includes a request for funds, a >petition that anyone can download and collect signatures, AND a request > >for letters sent to Assembly Speaker Perez and Assembly Speaker Elect >Atkins. > > > This Saturday, there will be a Grass Roots Leaders Summit at All >Saints Episcopal Church, 555 Waverly, Palo Alto. Y'all come. > >> 7:30 Meeting starts. Identify Facilitator: Sandy > > >> , Note Taker: Spencer > > >> , Vibes Watcher: > > >> , Time Keeper: John > > >> , and AgendaPreparer for March: Warner. > >> 7:40 Introductions, announcements, additions or corrections to agenda > >> 7:55 Treasurer's report and hat passing >> PO Box report: Andrea > >PO Box held over to next month. > >> 8:00 Memorial/appreciation for Lois Duperrault. > > > Brainstorming: $100 for a plaque for the Peace Center. Or give >to a charity Lois particularly liked. > > > Spencer to ask Tian. > >> 8:05 Discuss the following proposal I sent to the Discuss list: >> I also believe we should consider a suggestion made by Drew a while >> ago: to grow the Green Party in small local committees as we are >> attempting to do with some small success at De Anza. To have the main > >> (tedious) business of the Party handled by the County Council in a >> separate meeting (open to any member). To have our monthly membership > >> meeting be an educational or organizing event geared toward new >> members and prospective members, with films, lectures, or actions, >and >> broadly publicized. > > >Warner: There is value in having an open discussion of our business, >even if some may consider this tedious. We need to go through meetings > >like this just to keeping this party going. Warner is more interested >in supporting business meetings than presentations. > > >** >> Spencer to contact Sanda to determine what we need to do to >obtain >a legal County Council. > > > Maybe have an outreach meeting every other month? Sandy is willing >to try to initiate the process -- try it at least once. > > > Maybe this business meeting start at 7 PM rather than 7:30 PM? > > > It helps having people coming from outside for a 7 PM speaker. > > >Conclusion: > > > 1. The regular meeting will remain as is with an extra effort to >get a speaker for the first half hour. > > > 2. We will try to organize occasional extra events, starting >with Sandy. > >> 8:40 Evaluate our candidate signature campaign and lessons learned. > > > PROBLEM: We have no local candidates. The planning process for >that needs to be 2 years long. We have no organization attempt to >identify people to run for local office. > > > Sandy: A new party in New York (well funded) has an active >candidate recruitment effort. > >> 8:55 Report on single payer health care work. Sandy > > > Health Fair: April 12 at Andrew Hill High School. 500-600 >people. We may be able to get a Green speaker on the agenda. > >> 9:05Report on climate change work. > > > An anti-keystone rally -- > > > A court decided Nebraska could NOT us eminent domain for this. > >> 9:15 Whether or not to host a GPCA Plenary ? Warner. > > > The day after our January meeting, Sanda asked if Santa Clara >County would like to host state wide Plenary in June. > > > This would entail finding a location for 50-75 people, lots of >work planning. > > > Warner will write Sanda saying the issue was discussed but we are >not able to do it at this time. > >> 9:25Diane Ritchie campaign for Judge. > > > Pete and a good experience with Diane Ritchie as an attorney. > > > There have been no report to the Judicial Council of the State of >California on Ritchie. > > > There is a clerk, a bailiff, and a reporter. > > > The bailiff is a Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputy. > >> 9:25 Adjourn > >Signatures for Cindy Sheehan > > >Youtube for Daniel Sheehan > > >Labor Council: Pete saw part of a debate at the Labor council. > > >Cathy Sutherland is supported by Carpenter, Mayfield, Warner, and >others. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Thielking >> To: WB4D23 ; spencer.graves >> ; perrysandy >> ; sosfbay-discuss >> Sent: Thu, Feb 27, 2014 4:22 pm >> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Final Agenda Anyone? Legal Opinion About >> DR's Behavior: Was Registrar Of Voters S... >> >> That's fine. Pete would still like a chance to speak about Diane >> Ritchie at our meeting tonight. She was his attorney a few years ago >> and did a good job for him. I still don't see a final agenda being >> circulated. So far we have the additional items of DR and Fred and >his >> wife's death (commemorative certificate for Fred proposed by Tian) to > >> discuss. Thanks. >> >> John Thielking >> >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* "WB4D23 at aol.com " > > >> *To:* spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com >> ; >> pagesincolor at yahoo.com ; >> perrysandy at aol.com ; >> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >> *Sent:* Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:51 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Legal Opinion About DR's Behavior: Was >> Registrar Of Voters S... >> >> February 27, 2014 >> I have previously written and spoken my opinions about GPSCC >> endorsements. I don't think we should be endorsing local candidates >> unless they request it and give us the courtesy of attending a >meeting >> or at least sending someone from their campaign. >> I don't really thing the GPSCC needs to be endorsing judicial >> candidates. If GPSCC members want to get into evaluating candidates, > >> I suggest we follow past practice of delegating >> a committee to put together an information comparison of candidate >> positions with a comment of either reccomended, >> not recommended, or no recommendation. >> Warner >> In a message dated 2/27/2014 3:29:33 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, >> spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com >> writes: >> >> >> I would oppose the Green Party of Santa Clara County taking >> a position on Ritchie without first consulting several attorneys >> for their views on her and on the Merc story / stories about her. >> >> >> We could start by consulting Warner. >> >> >> > > >-- >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 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Tomorrow 3/2 2-4 pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1393737810.49698.YahooMailNeo@web185303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Lisa Altieri To: 350siliconvalley at googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2014 9:38 AM Subject: [350SiliconValley] Cookies, Lemonade & Climate Solutions! Tomorrow 3/2 2-4 pm Hi all, ??? Just a reminder our 350 Silicon Valley Quarterly meeting is tomorrow, Sunday, 3/2, 2-4 pm!? Join us for cookies, lemonade and climate solutions!? Meet others concerned about climate locally and share ideas. ??? We will be featuring a video presentation of new research on a 100% renewable solutions to climate change by Mark Jacobson, Stanford University.? We will also talk about our local efforts and how you can get involved and take action on climate change! Here are the details: When:? Sunday, March 2, 2-4 pm Where:? San Jose Woman?s Club ??????????? 75 South 11th Street, San Jose Please RSVP:? http://www.350siliconvalley.org/350sv_quarterly_meeting We hope you can join us!? Please bring a friend! 350 Silicon Valley Team -- 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 Sun Mar 2 17:44:03 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 17:44:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1393811043.40521.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Governor Brown will be meeting in Mountain View this Wednesday March 5, 2014.? Some groups in the Bay Area are planning an unwelcoming party. It is suggested that protesters show up at 9:30AM.? Anyone on this list is welcome to join them on Wednesday and/or call in to the conference call tonight (Sunday March 2) at 8PM Pacific Time. See the e-mails below for details. ? When:Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. Reporters must check in before 7:30 a.m.Where:Computer History Museum, Hahn Auditorium, 1401 North Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 Thanks. Sincerely, John Thielking ********************************************** Hi Ren and Maureen, People in the East Bay have called for this phone conference call tonight. Some of us in the South Bay already have plans, so hopefully this call will be so that the people from Berkeley, S.F., Oakland and other places in the East Bay will go along with our lead. Donna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rick Sterling Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:26 PM Subject: welcome party To: Henry Norr , PAUL LARUDEE , Donna Wallach , "ptofview ." , Dov Smamit , Richard Becker , Lara Kiswani hi all - a few of us are trying to coordinate plans for wed welcome party for our beloved bibi. please join us on conf call tonight at 8 pm if possible. if you cannot please feel free to contact one or more of this group to find out what's happening and get linked in. conf call 8 pm sunday march 2 559-546-1301 code 633967 cheers rick ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Donna Wallach To: "palestine_solidarity_network at googlegroups.com" Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2014 9:37 PM Subject: CORRECTION: Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week Greetings all, Please note that the date is Wednesday?5th March!?I gave the wrong date in my previous email. Also, some of us are planning on arriving at 9:30am. in solidarity Donna On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Donna Wallach wrote: Greetings all, > > >Okay, at least we know of one place that Netanyahu will be next week. Please read below. I'm guessing we should be there by 10:00am by the latest to find a good place to protest. > > >Donna > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Maggie >Date: Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:28 PM >Subject: [USC West Region] Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week >To: uscampaign+_west_regional_list-63487 at lists.democracyinaction.org > > > >I don?t know if any Bay Area groups are arranging demonstrations, but might be a good idea! >? >From: "Governor's Press Office" >Date: February 28, 2014 1:47:13 PM PST >Subject: Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week >Reply-To: "Governor's Press Office" >? >View this email in a web browser ??? | ??? Forward to a friend ??? > >? >MEDIA ADVISORY: Contact: Governor's Press Office >Friday, February 28, 2014 (916) 445-4571 >Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week >MOUNTAIN VIEW ??Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet next week in the heart of the Silicon Valley to sign a historic agreement that expands California's partnership with Israel on economic development, research and trade. >? >When:Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. Reporters must check in before 7:30 a.m. >Where:Computer History Museum, Hahn Auditorium, 1401 North Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 >? >**NOTE: This event is open to credentialed media only. Reporters interested in attending must RSVP to Danella Debel,?Office of the Governor, at Danella.Debel at gov.ca.gov by Monday, March 3, 2014 at 12:00 p.m.?Media must check in before 7:30 a.m. the day of the event. >? >The agreement will boost economic, cultural and academic cooperation between California and Israel, with an emphasis on water conservation, alternative energy, cybersecurity, health and biotechnology, education and agricultural technology. >? >The agreement will also enable Israeli companies to access California's Innovation Hubs (iHUB), an innovation network that includes 16 clusters of research parks, technology incubators, universities and federal laboratories, together with economic development organizations, business groups and venture capital funds. >? >? ### >Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. >State Capitol Building >Sacramento, CA 95814 >? >Forward View?in?Browser ? >? > > > >? ***** You have been listed as a primary contact for a US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation member group. If you have any questions or concerns about the regional listservs, or feel you have been added by mistake, please contact membership at endtheoccupation.org. > > > >-- >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! > > >Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns! >http://www.bdsmovement.net >http://www.WhoProfits.org >http://www.pacbi.org > > >Support Gaza's Ark >http://www.GazaArk.org > > >Support the Free Gaza Movement >http://www.FreeGaza.org >http://www.WitnessGaza.com > > >Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip! >http://www.palsolidarity.org > >Donna Wallach >donna at freegaza.org >Skype: palestinewillbeTwitter: @PalestineWillBe >(h) 408-557-8824 >(cell) 408-569-6608 -- 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! Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns! http://www.bdsmovement.net http://www.WhoProfits.org http://www.pacbi.org Support Gaza's Ark http://www.GazaArk.org Support the Free Gaza Movement http://www.FreeGaza.org http://www.WitnessGaza.com Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip! http://www.palsolidarity.org Donna Wallach donna at freegaza.org Skype: palestinewillbe Twitter: @PalestineWillBe (h) 408-557-8824 (cell) 408-569-6608 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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David will send out an announcement to me this evening, which I will forward out to my lists and he will forward out to his lists. Please, if ?you haven't read it, read the entire email from Governor Brown's office, in which he states the ? business he wants to turn over to Israel for free. David and I are planning to arrive to the museum by 7:30am. thanks Donna? On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 5:44 PM, John Thielking wrote: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Governor Brown will be meeting in Mountain View this Wednesday March 5, 2014.? Some groups in the Bay Area are planning an unwelcoming party. It is suggested that protesters show up at 9:30AM.? Anyone on this list is welcome to join them on Wednesday and/or call in to the conference call tonight (Sunday March 2) at 8PM Pacific Time. See the e-mails below for details. > >? >When:Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. Reporters must check in before 7:30 a.m.Where:Computer History Museum, Hahn Auditorium, 1401 North Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 > > >Thanks. > > >Sincerely, > > >John Thielking > > > >**********************************************Hi Ren and Maureen, > > >People in the East Bay have called for this phone conference call tonight. Some of us in the South Bay already have plans, so hopefully this call will be so that the people from Berkeley, S.F., Oakland and other places in the East Bay will go along with our lead. > >Donna > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Rick Sterling >Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:26 PM >Subject: welcome party >To: Henry Norr , PAUL LARUDEE , Donna Wallach , "ptofview ." , Dov Smamit , Richard Becker , Lara Kiswani > > > >hi all - > >a few of us are trying to coordinate plans for wed welcome party for our beloved bibi. > >please join us on conf call tonight at 8 pm if possible. > >if you cannot please feel free to contact one or more of this group to find out what's happening and get linked in. > > >conf call 8 pm sunday march 2 > >559-546-1301 code 633967 > > >cheers >rick > > > >----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Donna Wallach >To: "palestine_solidarity_network at googlegroups.com" >Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2014 9:37 PM >Subject: CORRECTION: Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week > > > >Greetings all, > > >Please note that the date is Wednesday?5th March!?I gave the wrong date in my previous email. Also, some of us are planning on arriving at 9:30am. > > >in solidarity >Donna > > > > >On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Donna Wallach wrote: > >Greetings all, >> >> >>Okay, at least we know of one place that Netanyahu will be next week. Please read below. I'm guessing we should be there by 10:00am by the latest to find a good place to protest. >> >> >>Donna >> >> >> >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Maggie >>Date: Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:28 PM >>Subject: [USC West Region] Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week >>To: uscampaign+_west_regional_list-63487 at lists.democracyinaction.org >> >> >> >>I don?t know if any Bay Area groups are arranging demonstrations, but might be a good idea! >>? >>From: "Governor's Press Office" >>Date: February 28, 2014 1:47:13 PM PST >>Subject: Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week >>Reply-To: "Governor's Press Office" >>? >>View this email in a web browser ??? | ??? Forward to a friend ??? >> >>? >>MEDIA ADVISORY: Contact: Governor's Press Office >>Friday, February 28, 2014 (916) 445-4571 >>Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week >>MOUNTAIN VIEW ??Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet next week in the heart of the Silicon Valley to sign a historic agreement that expands California's partnership with Israel on economic development, research and trade. >>? >>When:Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. Reporters must check in before 7:30 a.m. >>Where:Computer History Museum, Hahn Auditorium, 1401 North Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 >>? >>**NOTE: This event is open to credentialed media only. Reporters interested in attending must RSVP to Danella Debel,?Office of the Governor, at Danella.Debel at gov.ca.gov by Monday, March 3, 2014 at 12:00 p.m.?Media must check in before 7:30 a.m. the day of the event. >>? >>The agreement will boost economic, cultural and academic cooperation between California and Israel, with an emphasis on water conservation, alternative energy, cybersecurity, health and biotechnology, education and agricultural technology. >>? >>The agreement will also enable Israeli companies to access California's Innovation Hubs (iHUB), an innovation network that includes 16 clusters of research parks, technology incubators, universities and federal laboratories, together with economic development organizations, business groups and venture capital funds. >>? >>? ### >>Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. >>State Capitol Building >>Sacramento, CA 95814 >>? >>Forward View?in?Browser ? >>? >> >> >> >>? ***** You have been listed as a primary contact for a US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation member group. If you have any questions or concerns about the regional listservs, or feel you have been added by mistake, please contact membership at endtheoccupation.org. >> >> >> >>-- >>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! >> >> >>Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns! >>http://www.bdsmovement.net >>http://www.WhoProfits.org >>http://www.pacbi.org >> >> >>Support Gaza's Ark >>http://www.GazaArk.org >> >> >>Support the Free Gaza Movement >>http://www.FreeGaza.org >>http://www.WitnessGaza.com >> >> >>Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip! >>http://www.palsolidarity.org >> >>Donna Wallach >>donna at freegaza.org >>Skype: palestinewillbeTwitter: @PalestineWillBe >>(h) 408-557-8824 >>(cell) 408-569-6608 > > > >-- >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! > > >Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns! >http://www.bdsmovement.net >http://www.WhoProfits.org >http://www.pacbi.org > > >Support Gaza's Ark >http://www.GazaArk.org > > >Support the Free Gaza Movement >http://www.FreeGaza.org >http://www.WitnessGaza.com > > >Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip! >http://www.palsolidarity.org > >Donna Wallach >donna at freegaza.org >Skype: palestinewillbe >Twitter: @PalestineWillBe >(h) 408-557-8824 >(cell) 408-569-6608 > > -- "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 spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sun Mar 2 22:22:06 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 22:22:06 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?iso-8859-1?q?Tuesday=2C_2_PM=3A__Proposed_increase?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_in_San_Jos=E9_Police_budget_from_30_to_40=25_of_general_r?= =?iso-8859-1?q?evenue?= In-Reply-To: <1116698980349.1103564828456.5627.0.172035JL.1002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> References: <1116698980349.1103564828456.5627.0.172035JL.1002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Message-ID: <53141F8E.9000606@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Please come to the City Council meeting Tuesday, 2 PM, if you can. Councilmember Oliverio wants the City Council to vote then to increase the San Jos? Police budget from 30 to 40 percent of the general revenue; see below. I think this is a serious mistake, possibly leading to an increase rather than a decrease in crime. The incarceration rate in the US today is 5 times what it was 40 years ago. No change in crime correlates with that. I know of only one change during these past 40 years that can explain that: Consolidation of ownership of the mainstream commercial media with a massive reduction in investigative journalism. The air time left open by this reduction in investigative journalism was filled by increasing coverage of violent crime. This fear mongering convinced the public to support stiffer prison sentences. We need evidence-based public policy, not fearmongering. In particular, we need to better understand what programs keep kids in school and out of prison and what prison and release programs minimize recidivism. One example was the one-year Perry Preschool program in 1962 that became the prototype for Head Start. By age 40, only 28% of the Perry Preschool kids had served time in jail or prison vs. 52% of the matched control group. This was only a 1-year intervention. With more serious interventions, I believe we can virtually eliminate the school drop out problem and with it the violent crime that justifies law enforcement. However, to do this, we need more flexibility in how the general revenue is spent. Thanks, Spencer Graves -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Police Budget Security Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 20:36:21 -0500 (EST) From: Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio Reply-To: pierluigi.oliverio at sanjoseca.gov To: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Dear Spencer, The City Council will vote Tuesday afternoon at approximately 2PM on my referendum to increase the police budget. This would allow San Jose residents to vote on locking in funding for police as the top priority, regardless of the elected officials in office at any given time. The June 2014 Police Budget Security ballot initiative would allocate 40% of the general fund to our police department (currently the rate is 30%). If such a secure allocation had been in the city charter, San Jose would have never laid off 66 police officers in 2011. For the purposes described herein, the "police department budget" would encompass all salary compensation, benefit compensation, sick leave, comp time, vacation payouts and workers compensation for sworn and non-sworn employees of the police department. It should also be understood to include all necessary police equipment, new technology (hardware & software), police dispatchers with essential communications equipment, annual utility and maintenance costs of police facilities, and the required personnel from HR, Legal and IT. In light of the Feb 10, 2014 city council study session, it is apparent that a majority of the city council wants to move ahead with a tax increase that is not restricted in nature, and could therefore be spent on anything. No wishlist, statement of intent, or ordinance passed by the city council is legally binding in terms of how new tax revenue dollars can be spent. In fact, spending priorities could be changed any given Tuesday by six votes. The ONLY way to legally lock in future and existing tax revenues for the police department is to allow San Jose voters to amend the city charter. As you may recall I first floated this idea over two years ago in the following articles I wrote: http://sjdistrict6.com/change-the-charter-for-police-budget/ http://sjdistrict6.com/police-budget-we-get-you-get/ If it is the intention of the city council to push a new $60 million a year tax measure in November, then I feel we should first put this charter amendment on the ballot in June. Passage would allow voters to rest assured that a portion of new tax revenues will be earmarked and specifically reserved for police expenditures. This would allow the Police Chief to do his job and allow for greater control over how money is allocated and spent within the police department. By way of background, even the most casual observer would agree that there is an unlimited demand for police services. From stopping the most egregious violent crime to issuing traffic citations, the essential nature of the work of our law enforcement team is beyond debate. If we as citizens properly value the ability to walk down the street knowing that a would-be criminals' fear of police would stop an assault on an innocent person, then we should all agree that it is vitally important to prioritize their ongoing fiscal security. This charter amendment would be the ONLY legal way to guarantee that police would always be the top budget priority. With a budget increase, opportunities would arise to put more police officers on the street, raise salaries, and make technology purchases that would lead to greater operational efficiency. Currently, a higher concentration of police officers are deployed in the Downtown and East side districts, thus leaving other areas to suffer from increased property crimes and quality of life issues. My proposal would solve that. A larger, better compensated police force would lead to more organizational flexibility, improved officer safety, and better overall coverage to ALL areas of San Jose, including your District 6 neighborhood. Allowing residents to prioritize the city budget for police is not only legally sound and democratic, it is also the right thing to do to secure our city's future, retain property values and enable economic growth. I believe you deserve the right to vote. As always, please feel free to contact me regarding any concerns or ideas you have regarding your neighborhood and the City of San Jose overall. Regards, signature Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio District 6 City of San Jos? 408-535-4906 Pierluigi.Oliverio at SanJoseCA.gov www.SJDistrict6.com (Includes over 300 articles I have written about San Jose) Follow me on Facebook for more updates. Like us on Facebook Forward email This email was sent to spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org by pierluigi.oliverio at sanjoseca.gov | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe ^(TM) | Privacy Policy . City of San Jose| 200 East Santa Clara St| San Jose| CA| 95113 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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See the e-mails below for details. > **When:**Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. Reporters must check > in before 7:30 a.m. > **Where:**Computer History Museum, Hahn Auditorium, 1401 North > Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 > > Thanks. > > Sincerely, > > John Thielking > -- "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 pagesincolor at yahoo.com Mon Mar 3 15:58:39 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:58:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Fwd: Protest Israeli PM Netanyahu in Mt. View! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1393891119.88186.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Since there were no changes posted to the e-mails after the conference call on Sunday night, I am assuming that the following e-mail still has valid information. John Thielking ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Donna Wallach To: "palestine_solidarity_network at googlegroups.com" ; Hurriyya ; FG-Discussions at googlegroups.com; usb2gnationalnetwork at googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2014 7:48 PM Subject: Fwd: Protest Israeli PM Netanyahu in Mt. View! Greetings all, Please join us if you can. Please forward to your email lists of justice for Palestine supporters.? Please note the messages we are promoting. If you are bringing your own sign, please make the statements below: Silicon Valley: Don't Support Israeli Occupation of Palestine? or? Gov. Brown: Don't Partner With Israeli Occupation of Palestine. Please read below for all the information of where, what time to arrive and parking. in solidarity, Donna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: david Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:33 PM Subject: Protest Israeli PM Netanyahu in Mt. View! To: david ledesma , "cats4jazz at gmail.com" Silicon Valley: Don't support Israeli Occupation of Palestine Gov. Brown:? Don't Partner With Israeli Occupation of Palestine Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be touring Silicon Valley on Wednesday, March 5.? He will be meeting with CA Governor Brown to sign a historic agreement that expands Califorina's partnership with Israel on economic development, research, and trade.? The emphasis will be on water conservation, alternative energy, cyber security, health and biotechnology, education, and agriculture technology. The agreement will also enable Israeli companies to access California's Innovation HUB (iHUB), an innovation network that includes 16 clusters of research parks, technology incubators, universities and federal laboratories, together with economic development organizations, business groups, and venture capitalist funds. As we know, many American high tech firmsare already strengthening the Occupation of Palestine through this partnership and cooperation.? Join us as we tell Governor Brownand Silicon Valley, NOT to partner with Israeli occupation.? Don't useSilicon Valley worker's brain power and technical skills to strengthen the oppression of the Palestinian people.? Join us! Protest Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Silicon Valley WHEN: Wednesday, March 5 WHERE: Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mt. View TIME: arrive 7:00am (Media has been instructed to RSVP in advance to be credentialed, and to arrive no later than 7:30am) Directions:? From any freeway, head to Hwy 101 toward Mt. View.? Take the N. Shoreline Blvd. exit, North.? Computer History Museum (CHM) will be immediately on the Right.? To park, take the first Left onto "Movies" Rd.? Take the first Left into the Gold's Gym parking lot facing Shoreline Blvd. (across the street from the CHM).? Parking also available in the Cinema 16 parking lot next to Gold's Gym parking. Messaging:? We will be drawing attention toGov. Brown and Silicon Valley High Tech firms who are aiding Israel in the Occupation of Palestine and oppression of the Palestinian people.? Bring signs that will draw attention to this: "Silicon Valley: Don't SupportIsraeli Occupation of Palestine" "Gov. Brown:? Don't Partner with Israeli Occupation of Palestine" -- 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! Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns! http://www.bdsmovement.net http://www.WhoProfits.org http://www.pacbi.org Support Gaza's Ark http://www.GazaArk.org Support the Free Gaza Movement http://www.FreeGaza.org http://www.WitnessGaza.com Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip! http://www.palsolidarity.org Donna Wallach donna at freegaza.org Skype: palestinewillbe Twitter: @PalestineWillBe (h) 408-557-8824 (cell) 408-569-6608 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Mon Mar 3 17:05:24 2014 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:05:24 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: MTA Benefit Show - Are We There yet? In-Reply-To: <5315206d1dfd6_37f27da7f8951a9@worker2.mail> References: <5315206d1dfd6_37f27da7f8951a9@worker2.mail> Message-ID: <531526D4.10400@charter.net> Looks interesting. Anyone going? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: MTA Benefit Show - Are We There yet? Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:38:05 +0000 From: Move to Amend - Santa Cruz To: Wesley Rolley /The National Campaign to End Corporate Personhood and Demand Real Democracy!/ Move to Amend Hello Wesley, We have sold out eight performances of /?Are we there Yet?/? at the Broadway Playhouse ? BUT? we will rock again at the Inner Light Center in Soquel on April 13^th, 3:30 PM matinee! Good for boomers! (See poster below/attached) To get your tickets in advance go to: www.arewethereyetshow.com . This Inner Light /AWTY?/ show will be a *benefit for Move To Amend-Santa Cruz*, a growing movement of Santa Cruz folks who are collecting signatures towards a Santa Cruz County-wide ballot measure to get money out of politics. It?s one step for keeping corporation?s hands out of our ballot boxes. The resilient Harvey Dosik and the stunning Carole English will also be collecting signatures at the April 13th show//at Inner Light Center. Give them a listen; you?ll want to join them. You may recognize Carole English, she plays The Meter Maid who beats down The Spaceman in the Planet Cruz Comedy video/ The Spaceman Falls For Yoga Girl/. It may be our best Spaceman short yet. Watch the three minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsfqAm1uOp4 Think globally, laugh locally, Richard www.arewethereyetshow.com Are We There Yet Poster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SANTA CRUZ MOVE TO AMEND www.MoveToAmend.org/CA-santa-cruz Santa Cruz Move to Amend is a local affiliate of the Move to Amend Coalition /We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. / *NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 www.MoveToAmend.org * This email was sent to wrolley at charter.net. To stop receiving emails, click here . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Mar 3 10:19:46 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:19:46 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week In-Reply-To: <5314BFAE.5090900@charter.net> References: <1393811043.40521.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5314BFAE.5090900@charter.net> Message-ID: <5314C7C2.9070007@earthlink.net> I laughed at Wes's comment! Very good question! A brief article at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/brief/Water.html There's a rather lengthy article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Israel . I have heard that they have techniques to make irrigation less wasteful of water. Here's an article on their irrigation: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Economy/eco3.html Gerry Wes Rolley wrote: > Maybe Jerry can ask him how to hydrate a country in the middle of the > desert. - Wes > > On 3/2/2014 5:44 PM, John Thielking wrote: >> Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Governor Brown will be meeting in >> Mountain View this Wednesday March 5, 2014. Some groups in the Bay >> Area are planning an unwelcoming party. It is suggested that >> protesters show up at 9:30AM. Anyone on this list is welcome to join >> them on Wednesday and/or call in to the conference call tonight >> (Sunday March 2) at 8PM Pacific Time. See the e-mails below for details. >> **When:**Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. Reporters must check >> in before 7:30 a.m. >> **Where:**Computer History Museum, Hahn Auditorium, 1401 North >> Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 >> >> Thanks. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> John Thielking >> > > -- > "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, > then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/ > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Mon Mar 3 21:20:37 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:20:37 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Governor Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Meet in Mountain View Next Week In-Reply-To: <5314C7C2.9070007@earthlink.net> References: <1393811043.40521.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5314BFAE.5090900@charter.net> <5314C7C2.9070007@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <531562A5.3070503@structuremonitoring.com> "In the Middle East, water resources are of great political concern. Since Israel receives much of its water from two large underground aquifers ..., the use of this water has been contentious in the Israeli?Palestinian conflict. ... in the 1950s, Israel consumed 95% of the water output of the Western Aquifer, and 82% of that produced by the Northeastern Aquifer. ... Palestinian irrigation pumps on the Jordan River were destroyed or confiscated after the 1967 war and Palestinians were not allowed to use water from the Jordan River system. Furthermore, the authorities did not allow any new irrigation wells to be drilled by Palestinian farmers, while it provided fresh water and allowed drilling wells for irrigation purposes at the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip." (Wikipedia, "Israeli?Palestinian conflict") Gov. Brown proposes to take water from Northern California and ship it South. Spencer On 3/3/2014 10:19 AM, Gerry Gras wrote: > > I laughed at Wes's comment! Very good question! > > A brief article at: > http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/brief/Water.html > > There's a rather lengthy article at: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Israel . > > I have heard that they have techniques to make irrigation > less wasteful of water. Here's an article on their > irrigation: > http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Economy/eco3.html > > Gerry > > > > Wes Rolley wrote: >> Maybe Jerry can ask him how to hydrate a country in the middle of the >> desert. - Wes >> >> On 3/2/2014 5:44 PM, John Thielking wrote: >>> Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Governor Brown will be meeting in >>> Mountain View this Wednesday March 5, 2014. Some groups in the Bay >>> Area are planning an unwelcoming party. It is suggested that >>> protesters show up at 9:30AM. Anyone on this list is welcome to join >>> them on Wednesday and/or call in to the conference call tonight >>> (Sunday March 2) at 8PM Pacific Time. See the e-mails below for >>> details. >>> **When:**Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. Reporters must check >>> in before 7:30 a.m. >>> **Where:**Computer History Museum, Hahn Auditorium, 1401 North >>> Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> John Thielking >>> >> >> -- >> "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, >> then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Tue Mar 4 10:26:00 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 10:26:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: UPDATED: Protest Israeli PM Netanyahu in Mt. View on Wed. 5th Mar In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1393957560.94582.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Slight change to the info. Protesters can now arrive as late as 12 noon. John Thielking ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Donna Wallach To: SBM ; South_Bay_Activists Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 9:52 AM Subject: UPDATED: Protest Israeli PM Netanyahu in Mt. View on Wed. 5th Mar Here is the updated info, sorry this is so late. Just changing that people can arrive up through 12:00noon. Silicon Valley: Don't support Israeli Occupation of Palestine Gov. Brown:? Don't Partner With Israeli Occupation?of Palestine Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be touring Silicon Valley on?Wednesday, March 5.? He will be meeting with CA Governor Brown to sign a historic agreement that expands Califorina's partnership with Israel on economic development, research, and trade.? The emphasis will be on water conservation, alternative energy, cyber security, health and biotechnology, education, and agriculture technology. The agreement will also enable Israeli companies to access California's Innovation HUB (iHUB), an innovation network that includes 16 clusters of research parks, technology incubators, universities and federal laboratories, together with economic development organizations, business groups, and venture capitalist funds. As we know, many American high tech firms?are already strengthening the Occupation of Palestine through this?partnership and cooperation.? Join us as we tell Governor Brownand Silicon Valley, NOT to partner with Israeli occupation.? Don't use?Silicon Valley worker's brain power and technical skills to strengthen the oppression of the Palestinian people.? Join us! Protest Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Silicon Valley WHEN:?Wednesday, March 5 WHERE:?Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mt. View TIME:?arrive?7:00am - 12:00noon (Media has been instructed to RSVP in advance to be credentialed, and to arrive no later than?7:30am) Directions:? From any freeway, head to Hwy 101 toward Mt. View.? Take the N. Shoreline Blvd. exit, North.? Computer History Museum (CHM) will be immediately on the Right.? To park, take the first Left onto "Movies" Rd.? Take the first Left into the Gold's Gym parking lot facing Shoreline Blvd. (across the street from the CHM).? Parking also available in the Cinema 16 parking lot next to Gold's Gym parking. Messaging:? We will be drawing attention to?Gov. Brown and Silicon Valley High Tech firms who are aiding Israel in the Occupation of Palestine and oppression of the Palestinian people.? Bring signs that will draw attention to this: "Silicon Valley: Don't Support?Israeli Occupation of Palestine" "Gov. Brown:? Don't Partner with Israeli Occupation of Palestine" On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:58 PM, John Thielking wrote: Since there were no changes posted to the e-mails after the conference call on Sunday night, I am assuming that the following e-mail still has valid information. > >John Thielking > > >----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Donna Wallach >To: "palestine_solidarity_network at googlegroups.com" ; Hurriyya ; FG-Discussions at googlegroups.com; usb2gnationalnetwork at googlegroups.com >Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2014 7:48 PM >Subject: Fwd: Protest Israeli PM Netanyahu in Mt. View! > > > >Greetings all, > > >Please join us if you can. Please forward to your email lists of justice for Palestine supporters.? > > >Please note the messages we are promoting. If you are bringing your own sign, please make the statements below: > > >Silicon Valley: Don't Support Israeli Occupation of Palestine? > > >or? > > >Gov. Brown: Don't Partner With Israeli Occupation of Palestine. > > >Please read below for all the information of where, what time to arrive and parking. > > >in solidarity, >Donna > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: david >Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:33 PM >Subject: Protest Israeli PM Netanyahu in Mt. View! >To: david ledesma , "cats4jazz at gmail.com" > > > >Silicon Valley: Don't support Israeli Occupation of Palestine >Gov. Brown:? Don't Partner With Israeli Occupation of Palestine >Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be touring Silicon Valley on Wednesday, March 5.? He will be meeting with CA Governor Brown to sign a historic agreement that expands Califorina's partnership with Israel on economic development, research, and trade.? The emphasis will be on water conservation, alternative energy, cyber security, health and biotechnology, education, and agriculture technology. > >The agreement will also enable Israeli companies to access California's Innovation HUB (iHUB), an innovation network that includes 16 clusters of research parks, technology incubators, universities and federal laboratories, together with economic development organizations, business groups, and venture capitalist funds. > >As we know, many American high tech firmsare already strengthening the Occupation of Palestine through this partnership and cooperation.? Join us as we tell Governor Brownand Silicon Valley, NOT to partner with Israeli occupation.? Don't useSilicon Valley worker's brain power and technical skills to strengthen the oppression of the Palestinian people.? Join us! > > >Protest Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Silicon Valley >WHEN: Wednesday, March 5 >WHERE: Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mt. View >TIME: arrive 7:00am >(Media has been instructed to RSVP in advance to be credentialed, and to arrive no later than 7:30am) > > >Directions:? From any freeway, head to Hwy 101 toward Mt. View.? Take the N. Shoreline Blvd. exit, North.? Computer History Museum (CHM) will be immediately on the Right.? To park, take the first Left onto "Movies" Rd.? Take the first Left into the Gold's Gym parking lot facing Shoreline Blvd. (across the street from the CHM).? Parking also available in the Cinema 16 parking lot next to Gold's Gym parking. > >Messaging:? We will be drawing attention toGov. Brown and Silicon Valley High Tech firms who are aiding Israel in the Occupation of Palestine and oppression of the Palestinian people.? Bring signs that will draw attention to this: >"Silicon Valley: Don't SupportIsraeli Occupation of Palestine" >"Gov. Brown:? Don't Partner with Israeli Occupation of Palestine" > > > > >-- >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! > > >Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns! >http://www.bdsmovement.net >http://www.WhoProfits.org >http://www.pacbi.org > > >Support Gaza's Ark >http://www.GazaArk.org > > >Support the Free Gaza Movement >http://www.FreeGaza.org >http://www.WitnessGaza.com > > >Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip! >http://www.palsolidarity.org > >Donna Wallach >donna at freegaza.org >Skype: palestinewillbe >Twitter: @PalestineWillBe >(h) 408-557-8824 >(cell) 408-569-6608 > > -- "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." 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Sandy ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE******FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE******FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** Contact: Andrew Bigelow (408.661.1065) Raj Jayadev (408.757.5875) Music Video Premiere and Forum with Labor, Civil Rights, & Hip Hop Community on Silicon Valley Inequality In a unique gathering of civic leaders, civil rights advocates and cultural artists -- SV De-Bug will host a forum on the growing economic disparities facing Silicon Valley. The event takes an innovative approach by premiering a music video at a theater to engage the community around an urgent economic, social, and political issue. The video, called "Gold Out West," is by hip hop artist and community organizer Andrew Bigelow (artist name: Society). The 23-year-old Bigelow was inspired to write the song after marching 30 miles with dozens of fixed income Silicon Valley residents from East San Jose to the campuses of Google and Apple in a march called "Heal the Valley" in the winter of 2013. Bigelow says, "I believe in the power of music to bring these very real issues to light, put them on blast, and make the conversation bigger." Ben Fields, Executive Director of the South Bay Labor Council, and featured panelist at the event says, "Income inequality is the most pressing problem facing America today.? While employment and quality of job issues are front and center in the discussion of Silicon Valley's mounting disparity, so is housing. Sandy Perry of the Affordable Housing Network helped organize and lead the Heal the Valley March. He says, "If Silicon Valley cannot even keep its people from freezing to death in the winter, what are we good for?" San Jose City Councilperson Ash Kalra, and event discussant, says the forum can be an opportunity to recalibrate how we create a better future for Silicon Valley. "The bringing together of cultures and traditions from around the globe here to Silicon Valley can be one of our greatest strengths, but only if we use our collective resources to lift up those who are being left out of the enormous opportunity being generated by the global titans of the 21st century industry", says Kalra. By uniting the various communities and generations who are all facing the issue of dwindling opportunity for some and rising costs for all, we hope to cultivate a solution-based dialogue for us to collectively move forward and create a Silicon Valley that works for everyone. Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/sv.debug/events When: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 6:30-8:30pm Where: Camera 12 Theaters (201 S. 2nd Street, San Jose, California 95113) Confirmed Panelists include: Ben Field, South Bay Labor Council Sandy Perry, Community Homeless Alliance Ministry // Affordable Housing Network Maria Fernandez, Working Partnerships USA Shamako Noble, Hip Hop Congress Co-Sponsors Include: Silicon Valley NAACP South Bay Labor Council Working Partnerships USA Community Homeless Alliance Ministry Affordable Housing Network San Jose Zulu Nation Hip Hop Congress -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue Mar 4 17:47:57 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 17:47:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: [350svnotarsands] Time is running out for KXL comments! If you haven't sent yours in, please do so BY THIS FRIDAY In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1393984077.66208.YahooMailNeo@web185306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Pierre Delforge To: 350svnotarsands at googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 7:56 PM Subject: [350svnotarsands] Time is running out for KXL comments! If you haven't sent yours in, please do so BY THIS FRIDAY The email below is from the "Institute for the 21st Century Energy", another deception by the US Chamber of Commerce to mislead unsuspecting Americans into supporting KXL. This is what we're up against. Big Oil is funding robocalls and other deceptive communications to try and buy our democracy and outweigh us in the KXL comment battle.? Please send a letter if you haven't already, and get your friends and families to do the same, here are the model letters and background info on KXL if needed: * Model letters:?http://www.350siliconvalley.org/keystone_xl_comment_drive_march_2014 * Background info on KXL:?http://www.350siliconvalley.org/no_tar_sands_newsletter_2014_02_17 As a 350SV team, we've already generated 242 letters! Fantastic job everyone! Can we get to 300 or more by Friday? Thank you everyone for supporting this effort, we're likely in the home stretch on KXL and every letter counts! Pierre http://www.350siliconvalley.org/www.facebook.com/350SiliconValley http://www.meetup.com/350SiliconValley/ ? ? ? From:Matt Koch, Institute for 21st Century Energy [mailto:energyinstitute at uschamber.com] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 2:32 PM Subject: Time is running out: ? Add energyinstitute at uschamber.com to your address book - Instructions View as a Web Page | Forward to friend ? Dear Friend, The clock is ticking, and the Keystone XL comment period deadline is fast approaching! ? We only have 7 days left to tell Secretary Kerry and the Administration that the Keystone XL pipeline is vital to the national interest and your voice can make the difference. Take 60 seconds to email Secretary Kerry and share these key numbers with him: 42,100:The number of direct, indirect, and induced jobs?during construction if Keystone XL is approved. 65%:Percentage of Americans favor building the Keystone XL pipeline (Pew Research Center, Sept. 2013). ? $3.4B:How much the Keystone XL pipeline on its own will contribute to U.S. GDP.? ? $1.6B:The amount of employee earnings from construction that will occur in non-Keystone states. Because goods and services supporting the Keystone XL project will come from around the country, 80% of employee earnings will occur in other states,making the positive impact on our economy truly national. ? After more than five years of study, enough is enough. The benefits of building the Keystone XL pipeline are clear. We can't let the Administration delay this project any longer. ? It is time to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and put American jobs and energy security as the #1 priority.? ? Next Friday March 7th is the last day to send comments to Secretary Kerry. While there's still time, take a moment TODAY to click here and send an email to the State Department. ? Thank you for your help. ? Matt Koch Vice President Institute for 21st Century Energy ?"U.S. CHAMBER" and "U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE" are registered trademarks of the Chamber of? Commerce of the United States of America. This e-mail was sent by: U.S. Chamber of Commerce 1615 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20062-2000 This email was sent to: dlashof at nrdc.org. 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John Thielking ________________________________ From: "perrysandy at aol.com" To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:22 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Heal the Valley at Camera 12 This Thurs March 6 at 6:30 PM Hi Everyone, ? I will be speaking at this important event highlighting wealth inequality in Silicon Valley and plan to give a shout out for the Green Party. ? ? Sandy ? ? ? ? ? ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE******FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE******FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** Contact: Andrew Bigelow (408.661.1065) Raj Jayadev (408.757.5875) Music Video Premiere and Forum with Labor, Civil Rights, & Hip Hop Community on Silicon Valley Inequality In a unique gathering of civic leaders, civil rights advocates and cultural artists -- SV De-Bug will host a forum on the growing economic disparities facing Silicon Valley. The event takes an innovative approach by premiering a music video at a theater to engage the community around an urgent economic, social, and political issue. The video, called "Gold Out West," is by hip hop artist and community organizer Andrew Bigelow (artist name: Society). The 23-year-old Bigelow was inspired to write the song after marching 30 miles with dozens of fixed income Silicon Valley residents from East San Jose to the campuses of Google and Apple in a march called "Heal the Valley" in the winter of 2013. Bigelow says, "I believe in the power of music to bring these very real issuesto light, put them on blast, and make the conversation bigger."Ben Fields, Executive Director of the South Bay Labor Council, and featured panelist at the event says, "Income inequality is the most pressing problem facing America today.? While employment and quality of job issues are front and center in the discussion of Silicon Valley's mounting disparity, so is housing. Sandy Perry of the Affordable Housing Network helped organize and lead the Heal the Valley March. He says, "If Silicon Valley cannot even keep its people from freezing to death in the winter, what are we good for?"San Jose City Councilperson Ash Kalra, and event discussant, says the forum can be an opportunity to recalibrate how we create a better future for Silicon Valley. "The bringing together of?cultures and traditions from around the globe here to Silicon Valley?can be one of our greatest strengths, but only if we use our collective resources to lift up those who are being left out of the enormous opportunity being generated by the?global titans of the?21st century industry", says Kalra. ? By unitingthe various communities and generations who are all facingthe issue of dwindling opportunity for someand rising costs for all, we hope to cultivate a solution-based dialogue for us to collectively move forwardand create a Silicon Valley that works for everyone. Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/sv.debug/events When: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 6:30-8:30pm Where: Camera 12 Theaters (201 S. 2nd Street, San Jose, California 95113) Confirmed Panelistsinclude: Ben Field,South Bay Labor Council Sandy Perry, Community Homeless Alliance Ministry // Affordable Housing Network Maria Fernandez, Working Partnerships USA Shamako Noble, Hip Hop Congress Co-Sponsors Include: Silicon Valley NAACP South Bay Labor Council Working Partnerships USA Community Homeless Alliance Ministry Affordable Housing Network San Jose Zulu Nation Hip Hop Congress _______________________________________________ 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 perrysandy at aol.com Tue Mar 4 18:28:40 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:28:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Heal the Valley at Camera 12 This Thurs March 6 at 6:30 PM In-Reply-To: <1393985949.15918.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <8D106287E01081F-E18-772C@webmail-m273.sysops.aol.com> <1393985949.15918.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8D10631C16ADD7A-E18-7CB1@webmail-m273.sysops.aol.com> The event is free. -----Original Message----- From: John Thielking To: perrysandy ; sosfbay-discuss Sent: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 6:19 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Heal the Valley at Camera 12 This Thurs March 6 at 6:30 PM Is there an admission charge for this? If so, can I use my movie discount card? John Thielking From: "perrysandy at aol.com" To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:22 PM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Heal the Valley at Camera 12 This Thurs March 6 at 6:30 PM Hi Everyone, I will be speaking at this important event highlighting wealth inequality in Silicon Valley and plan to give a shout out for the Green Party. Sandy ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE******FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE******FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** Contact: Andrew Bigelow (408.661.1065) Raj Jayadev (408.757.5875) Music Video Premiere and Forum with Labor, Civil Rights, & Hip Hop Community on Silicon Valley Inequality In a unique gathering of civic leaders, civil rights advocates and cultural artists -- SV De-Bug will host a forum on the growing economic disparities facing Silicon Valley. The event takes an innovative approach by premiering a music video at a theater to engage the community around an urgent economic, social, and political issue. The video, called "Gold Out West," is by hip hop artist and community organizer Andrew Bigelow (artist name: Society). The 23-year-old Bigelow was inspired to write the song after marching 30 miles with dozens of fixed income Silicon Valley residents from East San Jose to the campuses of Google and Apple in a march called "Heal the Valley" in the winter of 2013. Bigelow says, "I believe in the power of music to bring these very real issues to light, put them on blast, and make the conversation bigger." Ben Fields, Executive Director of the South Bay Labor Council, and featured panelist at the event says, "Income inequality is the most pressing problem facing America today.? While employment and quality of job issues are front and center in the discussion of Silicon Valley's mounting disparity, so is housing. Sandy Perry of the Affordable Housing Network helped organize and lead the Heal the Valley March. He says, "If Silicon Valley cannot even keep its people from freezing to death in the winter, what are we good for?" San Jose City Councilperson Ash Kalra, and event discussant, says the forum can be an opportunity to recalibrate how we create a better future for Silicon Valley. "The bringing together of cultures and traditions from around the globe here to Silicon Valley can be one of our greatest strengths, but only if we use our collective resources to lift up those who are being left out of the enormous opportunity being generated by the global titans of the 21st century industry", says Kalra. By uniting the various communities and generations who are all facing the issue of dwindling opportunity for some and rising costs for all, we hope to cultivate a solution-based dialogue for us to collectively move forward and create a Silicon Valley that works for everyone. Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/sv.debug/events When: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 6:30-8:30pm Where: Camera 12 Theaters (201 S. 2nd Street, San Jose, California 95113) Confirmed Panelists include: Ben Field, South Bay Labor Council Sandy Perry, Community Homeless Alliance Ministry // Affordable Housing Network Maria Fernandez, Working Partnerships USA Shamako Noble, Hip Hop Congress Co-Sponsors Include: Silicon Valley NAACP South Bay Labor Council Working Partnerships USA Community Homeless Alliance Ministry Affordable Housing Network San Jose Zulu Nation Hip Hop Congress _______________________________________________ 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 snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed Mar 5 11:17:54 2014 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:17:54 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The USA's Hypocrisy on Int'l Law Message-ID: On his third day in office, Obama showed his contempt for international law and his alliance with the military-industrial-congressional-lobbyist-media-security complex when he allowed a drone strike on a country, Pakistan, which was not at war with us. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/03 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Wed Mar 5 11:40:14 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:40:14 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The USA's Hypocrisy on Int'l Law In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53177D9E.9020600@prodsyse.com> The worst part is that US drone strikes threaten to turn Pakistan and Yemen into failed states. US drone strikes in Pakistan increase substantially the probability that a few Pakistanis might cross the border into Iran with nuclear weapons. That's not very smart. To counter that threat, I recommend restricting secrecy more than data collection. For more see my blog on that at "sanjosepeace.wordpress.org". Best Wishes, Spencer On 3/5/2014 11:17 AM, Brian wrote: > On his third day in office, Obama showed his contempt for > international law and his alliance > with the military-industrial-congressional-lobbyist-media-security > complex when he allowed a > drone strike on a country, Pakistan, which was not at war with us. > > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/03 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Wed Mar 5 13:06:22 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 13:06:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The USA's Hypocrisy on Int'l Law In-Reply-To: <53177D9E.9020600@prodsyse.com> References: <53177D9E.9020600@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <1394053582.69673.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> For updates on Ukraine and the next steps that the US Empire might be planning in other nearby countries, visit https://www.indybay.org/santacruz/ and look for the series of articles on Ukraine on the lower right hand column by Steven Argue and the PSL. It is even possible that the duly elected president of Ukraine was deposed in an uprising that was in part fueled by a false flag operation where the US NED backed neo-Nazis organized the sniper fire that killed both opposition protesters and police. It was originally reported that President Y of Ukraine was responsible for the snipers.? For up to the minute news on this watch RT America at http://www.rt.com John Thielking ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves To: Brian ; "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] The USA's Hypocrisy on Int'l Law ????? The worst part is that US drone strikes threaten to turn Pakistan and Yemen into failed states.? US drone strikes in Pakistan increase substantially the probability that a few Pakistanis might cross the border into Iran with nuclear weapons.? ????? That's not very smart.? ????? To counter that threat, I recommend restricting secrecy more than data collection.? For more see my blog on that at "sanjosepeace.wordpress.org".? ????? Best Wishes, ????? Spencer On 3/5/2014 11:17 AM, Brian wrote: >On his third day in office, Obama showed his contempt for international law and his alliance >with the military-industrial-congressional-lobbyist-media-security complex when he allowed a >drone strike on a country, Pakistan, which was not at war with us.? > >http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/03 > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ 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 spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Wed Mar 5 14:20:31 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:20:31 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?iso-8859-1?q?Proposed_increase_in_San_Jos=E9_Polic?= =?iso-8859-1?q?e_budget_failed?= In-Reply-To: <1116698980349.1103564828456.5627.0.172035JL.1002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> References: <1116698980349.1103564828456.5627.0.172035JL.1002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Message-ID: <5317A32F.5000800@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Councilmember Oliverio's proposal to increase police from 30 to 40 percent of the general revenue was voted down 10 to 1 by the San Jos? City Council yesterday. "[C]ritics including the police union had written off the Willow Glen councilman's plan as a political stunt. City budget officials said they would have to cut all other departments by about 30 percent to make the new spending plan work." (http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25275593/san-jose-police-wont-get-minimum-funding-after) Thanks to any who attended and spoke against the measure or wrote their councilmembers. Best Wishes, Spencer ################ Please come to the City Council meeting Tuesday, 2 PM, if you can. Councilmember Oliverio wants the City Council to vote then to increase the San Jos? Police budget from 30 to 40 percent of the general revenue; see below. I think this is a serious mistake, possibly leading to an increase rather than a decrease in crime. The incarceration rate in the US today is 5 times what it was 40 years ago. No change in crime correlates with that. I know of only one change during these past 40 years that can explain that: Consolidation of ownership of the mainstream commercial media with a massive reduction in investigative journalism. The air time left open by this reduction in investigative journalism was filled by increasing coverage of violent crime. This fear mongering convinced the public to support stiffer prison sentences. We need evidence-based public policy, not fearmongering. In particular, we need to better understand what programs keep kids in school and out of prison and what prison and release programs minimize recidivism. One example was the one-year Perry Preschool program in 1962 that became the prototype for Head Start. By age 40, only 28% of the Perry Preschool kids had served time in jail or prison vs. 52% of the matched control group. This was only a 1-year intervention. With more serious interventions, I believe we can virtually eliminate the school drop out problem and with it the violent crime that justifies law enforcement. However, to do this, we need more flexibility in how the general revenue is spent. Thanks, Spencer Graves -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Police Budget Security Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 20:36:21 -0500 (EST) From: Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio Reply-To: pierluigi.oliverio at sanjoseca.gov To: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Dear Spencer, The City Council will vote Tuesday afternoon at approximately 2PM on my referendum to increase the police budget. This would allow San Jose residents to vote on locking in funding for police as the top priority, regardless of the elected officials in office at any given time. The June 2014 Police Budget Security ballot initiative would allocate 40% of the general fund to our police department (currently the rate is 30%). If such a secure allocation had been in the city charter, San Jose would have never laid off 66 police officers in 2011. For the purposes described herein, the "police department budget" would encompass all salary compensation, benefit compensation, sick leave, comp time, vacation payouts and workers compensation for sworn and non-sworn employees of the police department. It should also be understood to include all necessary police equipment, new technology (hardware & software), police dispatchers with essential communications equipment, annual utility and maintenance costs of police facilities, and the required personnel from HR, Legal and IT. In light of the Feb 10, 2014 city council study session, it is apparent that a majority of the city council wants to move ahead with a tax increase that is not restricted in nature, and could therefore be spent on anything. No wishlist, statement of intent, or ordinance passed by the city council is legally binding in terms of how new tax revenue dollars can be spent. In fact, spending priorities could be changed any given Tuesday by six votes. The ONLY way to legally lock in future and existing tax revenues for the police department is to allow San Jose voters to amend the city charter. As you may recall I first floated this idea over two years ago in the following articles I wrote: http://sjdistrict6.com/change-the-charter-for-police-budget/ http://sjdistrict6.com/police-budget-we-get-you-get/ If it is the intention of the city council to push a new $60 million a year tax measure in November, then I feel we should first put this charter amendment on the ballot in June. Passage would allow voters to rest assured that a portion of new tax revenues will be earmarked and specifically reserved for police expenditures. This would allow the Police Chief to do his job and allow for greater control over how money is allocated and spent within the police department. By way of background, even the most casual observer would agree that there is an unlimited demand for police services. From stopping the most egregious violent crime to issuing traffic citations, the essential nature of the work of our law enforcement team is beyond debate. If we as citizens properly value the ability to walk down the street knowing that a would-be criminals' fear of police would stop an assault on an innocent person, then we should all agree that it is vitally important to prioritize their ongoing fiscal security. This charter amendment would be the ONLY legal way to guarantee that police would always be the top budget priority. With a budget increase, opportunities would arise to put more police officers on the street, raise salaries, and make technology purchases that would lead to greater operational efficiency. Currently, a higher concentration of police officers are deployed in the Downtown and East side districts, thus leaving other areas to suffer from increased property crimes and quality of life issues. My proposal would solve that. A larger, better compensated police force would lead to more organizational flexibility, improved officer safety, and better overall coverage to ALL areas of San Jose, including your District 6 neighborhood. Allowing residents to prioritize the city budget for police is not only legally sound and democratic, it is also the right thing to do to secure our city's future, retain property values and enable economic growth. I believe you deserve the right to vote. As always, please feel free to contact me regarding any concerns or ideas you have regarding your neighborhood and the City of San Jose overall. Regards, signature Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio District 6 City of San Jos? 408-535-4906 Pierluigi.Oliverio at SanJoseCA.gov www.SJDistrict6.com (Includes over 300 articles I have written about San Jose) Follow me on Facebook for more updates. Like us on Facebook Forward email This email was sent to spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org by pierluigi.oliverio at sanjoseca.gov | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe ^(TM) | Privacy Policy . City of San Jose| 200 East Santa Clara St| San Jose| CA| 95113 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perrysandy at aol.com Thu Mar 6 09:55:21 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:55:21 -0500 (EST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] SUPPLEMENTAL SIGNATURES Message-ID: <8D1077C60F7286F-243C-D1CC@webmail-d177.sysops.aol.com> Hi Everyone, Tomorrow Friday at 5 pm is the deadline for turning in our supplemental signatures. I will be going to the registrar Friday at about 3:30. I will be picking up some signatures from Jim in the morning. If anyone else wants me to take in their signatures, please contact me so we can arrange to meet. By the way the Gold Out West event tonight at Camera 12 might be a good opportunity to get signatures (I won't be able to do it myself because I'm involved in the program). Thanks! Sandy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Rob at MeansForDemocracy.org Mon Mar 3 09:47:14 2014 From: Rob at MeansForDemocracy.org (Rob Means) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:47:14 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Proposed increase in San Jose Police budget from 30 to 40% of general revenue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5314C022.7010701@MeansForDemocracy.org> Spencer, I would submit that consolidation of ownership of prisons - and the attendant concentration of power and profit - was the driving force. "Follow the money" is still sage advice. The mainstream (lamestream) commercial media is simply the handmaiden, delivering the appropriate soothing message (i.e. party line) when necessary, but mostly just infotainment and fear mongering. If you follow the money, you will find that all these huge corporations have interlocking Boards of Directors. Which leads to corporate group-think - which dooms our planet. On 03/02/2014 10:23 PM, sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org wrote: > The incarceration rate in the US today is 5 times what it was 40 > years ago. No change in crime correlates with that. I know of only one > change during these past 40 years that can explain that: Consolidation > of ownership of the mainstream commercial media with a massive reduction > in investigative journalism. > -- > Rob Means for Milpitas City Council > http://MeansForDemocracy.org FPPC # (pending) > 1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913 > 408-262-0420h, 408-262-8975w, Rob at MeansForDemocracy.org > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu Mar 6 13:58:10 2014 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 13:58:10 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Proposed increase in San Jose Police budget from 30 to 40% of general revenue In-Reply-To: <5314C022.7010701@MeansForDemocracy.org> References: , <5314C022.7010701@MeansForDemocracy.org> Message-ID: A case in point was the Pennsylvania "kids for cash" scandal. Luzerne County Senior Judge Michael Conahan shut down the state juvenile detention center in 2002 and used County funds pay for a multimillion-dollar lease for the private facilities. Judge Mark Ciavarella and Conahan corruptly and fraudulently "created the potential for an increased number of juvenile offenders to be sent to juvenile detention facilities," federal court documents alleged. Children would be placed in private detention centers, under contract with the court, to increase the head count. In exchange, the two judges secretly received more than $2.6 million in kickbacks, prosecutors said. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrupt.judges/ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:47:14 -0800 From: Rob at MeansForDemocracy.org To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Proposed increase in San Jose Police budget from 30 to 40% of general revenue Spencer, I would submit that consolidation of ownership of prisons - and the attendant concentration of power and profit - was the driving force. "Follow the money" is still sage advice. The mainstream (lamestream) commercial media is simply the handmaiden, delivering the appropriate soothing message (i.e. party line) when necessary, but mostly just infotainment and fear mongering. If you follow the money, you will find that all these huge corporations have interlocking Boards of Directors. Which leads to corporate group-think - which dooms our planet. On 03/02/2014 10:23 PM, sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org wrote: The incarceration rate in the US today is 5 times what it was 40 years ago. No change in crime correlates with that. I know of only one change during these past 40 years that can explain that: Consolidation of ownership of the mainstream commercial media with a massive reduction in investigative journalism. -- Rob Means for Milpitas City Council http://MeansForDemocracy.org FPPC # (pending) 1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913 408-262-0420h, 408-262-8975w, Rob at MeansForDemocracy.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sat Mar 8 11:34:37 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 11:34:37 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Lois's Funeral In-Reply-To: <1394305023.73223.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1394305023.73223.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <531B70CD.4010402@earthlink.net> Christian Science Church 221 Bryant Avenue, Mountain View, CA (near Grant) 1:00 PM John Thielking wrote: > I was hoping to see an address and time posted for Lois's funeral. We > discussed having this posted at our GA meeting this month. Who was > tasked with finding out the address and time? I have to be in SF at 6PM > so I might not be able to make a 1PM or so event in SJ but others might > want to know about this. Did we at least come through with a card and > flowers for Fred? Thanks. > > John Thielking > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Mar 8 12:18:08 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 12:18:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Lois's Funeral 1PM today (Saturday March 8) In-Reply-To: <531B70CD.4010402@earthlink.net> References: <1394305023.73223.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <531B70CD.4010402@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1394309888.94349.YahooMailNeo@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Just so everyone is clear, that is happening today, Saturday, March 8, 2014. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Gerry Gras To: John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Lois's Funeral Christian Science Church 221 Bryant Avenue, Mountain View, CA (near Grant) 1:00 PM John Thielking wrote: > I was hoping to see an address and time posted for Lois's funeral. We > discussed having this posted at our GA meeting this month. Who was > tasked with finding out the address and time?? I have to be in SF at 6PM > so I might not be able to make a 1PM or so event in SJ but others might > want to know about this. Did we at least come through with a card and > flowers for Fred? Thanks. > > John Thielking > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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The whole conference will be fascinating for Greens: For full info see http://deanza.edu/lead/globalconference2014.html WHERE: De Anza College, in the Hinson Campus Center, Conference Room A&B (See BUS and PARKING info below) OUR WORKSHOPS: + 10:30-11:20 a.m. El Clemente Room ?Global Climate Convergence: Earth Day to May Day?: De Anza Green Party + 11:30 a.m-12:20 p.m. Meeting Room 1 ?Top Three Lies About Syrian Peace Talks?: De Anza Green Party with Dr. Paul Larudee who serves on the steering committee of http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/ Dr. Paul Larudee is a former Ford foundation project supervisor and Fulbright-Hays lecturer in Lebanon, and a U.S. government advisor to Saudi Arabia. He is co-founder of the movement to break the Israeli siege of Gaza by sea, and was one of the Gaza Flotilla captives taken by Israel in 2010. + 1:30-2:20 p.m. Don Bautista Room ?Women Leading the Way: Ecofeminist Heroines? De Anza Green Party BUS: # 23,323,25,54,55,53 all service De Anza College See: http://www.vta.org/schedules/schedule_cupertino.html PARKING: On campus: buy a $3 parking ticket at one of the big yellow dispensers in the parking lot, and Parking lot B is the closest, but any will do. For more on campus: parking info see: http://deanza.edu/parking/ Off campus: WEB SITE: The DA Green Party web site is https://dagreenparty.jottit.com/ Green is connection! Drew From andi at wrytor.com Sun Mar 9 17:38:24 2014 From: andi at wrytor.com (Andrea Dorey) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 17:38:24 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Tom Neilson and his award-winning satire performs March 22nd! Message-ID: <66BDDCBC-3AC5-4A7C-A8FB-C0F1AA4508EA@wrytor.com> > Award winning song-writer, Tom Neilson brings his satire and social commentary to the Redwood City UU on Saturday, March 22 at 8:00 PM. Tom will be performing songs of wit and poignancy, to include autobiographical sketches you won?t want to miss. Come hear his takes on same sex marriage, contraception, lost love, alternative love, distance love, environmental love, human rights love, a love for peace, and more. > > Tom is known for decades of peace and justice work and has converted these experiences into 21 awards and nominations to include a 2011 IMA Song of the Year Award, winning at the Kerrville and South Florida Folk Festivals, JPF International awards for songs and CDs, MASC Silver Award, plus four songs at number 1 on the Soundclick music charts. He has performed in 21 countries on 5 continents, and his music has been used in 9 documentaries and numerous stage and street theater productions. > > The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is located at 2124 Brewster, Redwood City > > Show starts at 8PM > $20 Donation; $15 seniors; $5 youth > Co-sponsored by Social Action Committee of UUFRC and GPSMC > Light refreshments will be served > > For more info: (650) 574-7155 > > VIDEO: Tom Neilson at Freedom Square October2011.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Come hear his takes on same sex marriage, contraception, lost love, alternative love, distance love, environmental love, human rights love, a love for peace, and more. > > Tom is known for decades of peace and justice work and has converted these experiences into 21 awards and nominations to include a 2011 IMA Song of the Year Award, winning at the Kerrville and South Florida Folk Festivals, JPF International awards for songs and CDs, MASC Silver Award, plus four songs at number 1 on the Soundclick music charts. He has performed in 21 countries on 5 continents, and his music has been used in 9 documentaries and numerous stage and street theater productions. > > The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is located at 2124 Brewster, Redwood City > > Show starts at 8PM > $20 Donation; $15 seniors; $5 youth > Co-sponsored by Social Action Committee of UUFRC and GPSMC > Light refreshments will be served > > For more info: (650) 574-7155 > > What are others have said about him: > > Michael Stock of WLRN, Miami says ?He does a great job of reminding people of what is really important, and the power of folk music to say it.? > > "Politically cutting-edge, incisive, warm, & very funny; Raucous political satire &, quick wit; had everyone laughing & engaged." Cathy Gilbert, Miami Greens > > "Marvelous wit, endlessly creative, the storyteller?s storyteller." Layne Longfellow, Prescott Unitarians, AZ > > "The precision of his lyrics, his long history as an activist, his touching on current issues, and his spoken word ? Oh, and he?s hilarious.? Joannes Werner, SEYM > > "Creative & compelling; skewers the outrageous behavior of the greedy & powerful in corporations, the media & government." People?s Voice Caf?, NYC > > One of your San Mateo County Council members, Sanda Everette saw Tom Neilson perform at Freedom Square in Washington, DC just after the beginning of the Occupy Movement. > > VIDEO: Tom Neilson at Freedom Square October2011.org > > For more information about the concert, or other opportunities to get involved with the Green Party, see our website at www.cagreens.org/sanmateo. > > > Looking forward to seeing you, > > Your Green Party of San Mateo County Council, > > Cindy Asrir, Michael Batchhelder, Sanda Everette, Mark Roest and Joel Sarch > > > Donate to the GPCA (we don't take corporate donations, we're funded by people like you) > > cagreens.nationbuilder.com/donate > > Register Green on-line (register your friends Green) > rtv.sos.ca.gov/elections/register-to-vote > > Stay connected on-line with the Green Party of San Mateo County and the Green Party of California > > On Twitter (state): www.twitter.com/gpca > On Facebook (county): www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Party-of-San-Mateo-County/158759390819459 and www.facebook.com/groups/285241844826106/ > On Facebook (state): www.facebook.com/cagreens and www.facebook.com/groups/8071416222 > Email forum (county) and (state): lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpsmc-d State Party email forum: lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpca-forum > > > > > -=-=- > Green Party of California ? 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March 10, 2014 Contact: Eric Ruder >>773-398-3020 >>? >>Stand up?for academic freedom: >>Why is?Palestine taboo at Columbia College? >>? >>Columbia College students, faculty and community members are organizing?a campaign to defend academic freedom after?Columbia administrators retaliated?against an instructor for the content of his course about the Israel/Palestine?conflict. The?campaign includes a petition (www.chn.ge/MXMtpY); March 11 and 12?call-in days to the Columbia College?administration; and a public forum?featuring Ali Abunimah, a leading proponent of Palestinian rights?(www.tinyurl.com/PalColumbia). >>? >>As part of his course, Prof. Iymen Chehade screens the Oscar-nominated?documentary?5 Broken Cameras, which?depicts?popular resistance to Israeli military occupation. After a student alleged?that the film showed that Chehade?s course is??biased,? Chehade was summoned?for a meeting with Dr. Steven Corey, who is the chair of the Department of?Humanities,?History, and Social Sciences. Corey told Chehade to teach his?course in a more ?balanced? manner, and then Columbia?College withdrew one?section of his course just hours after it had been made available to students?registering for classes. >>? >>?Academic freedom entails not only the right to speak from a particular?perspective, but the freedom from being compelled?to engage in a particular?type of speech,? said Chehade. ?The frequent demand from apologists for Israeli?colonialism that?any discussion of the conflict be ?balanced? would be considered?absurd in most other contexts. For example, must every?presentation about the?African-American civil rights movement include a speaker who will attempt to?justify the denial of?these rights?? >>? >>Student and faculty supporters of Chehade and all those interested in?the principle of academic freedom are circulating a?petition (www.chn.ge/MXMtpY),?holding March 11 and 12 call-in days to Columbia College administrators, and?hosting a?March 20 public forum entitled ?Why is Palestine taboo at Columbia College???(www.tinyurl.com/PalColumbia). >>? >>The March 20 forum features Prof. Iymen Chehade; Ali Abunimah, America?s?best known advocate for Palestinian rights?and author most recently of?The Battle for Justice in Palestine;?John Wilson of the American Association of University?Professors-Illinois; and?Columbia college students Ava Ginsburg and Ahmed Hamad, who are both members of?Students for?Justice in Palestine/Jewish Voice for Peace at Columbia College.?After the speaker presentations, there will be ample time?for audience?discussion and debate. >> If you'd like to change the frequency of received messages, consider opting for a daily digest. See subscriber options at: ?https://lists.riseup.net/www/home -- "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 pagesincolor at yahoo.com Mon Mar 10 13:54:29 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: This school is allowing a "rape guide" on campus. In-Reply-To: <8ef98-356-531e0562@list.weareultraviolet.org> References: <8ef98-356-531e0562@list.weareultraviolet.org> Message-ID: <1394484869.95499.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I can't think of a way to specifically condemn the authors of the "rape guide" in a way that would not land me in jail. Expletive deleted. John Thielking ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet" To: John F Thielking Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 10:33 AM Subject: This school is allowing a "rape guide" on campus. A Dartmouth student was sexually assaulted after she was added to a "rape guide" online.And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the school's sexual assault crisis. Tell Dartmouth to take students seriously and punish rape with expulsion. Click Here Dear John, A Dartmouth student was raped on campus just weeks after her name was posted to a "rape guide" on a website run by Dartmouth students--and she's not the first Dartmouth student to be targeted.1 Disturbingly, this also isn't the first time that Dartmouth has found itself in a very public controversy over its handling of campus rape cases. Students are outraged and have staged major campus protests over the school's failure to act--a recent demonstration drew hundreds of attendees.2 Student groups have asked the school to list expulsion as the punishment for rape in the student handbook and to block access to the "rape guide" website on campus. But school authorities haven't taken any of these recommendations seriously.3 Usually, stories like this get little attention from the news media. But if all of us speak up, Dartmouth won't be able to hide. From Steubenville, Ohio, to Billings, Montana, UltraViolet members have stood up for sexual assault survivors and won justice.4 Now it's time to stand up for Dartmouth students. Will you sign the petition calling on Dartmouth to take students seriously and take action immediately to curb the sexual assault crisis on its campus? Dartmouth is one of 41 schools under federal investigation for its mishandling of sexual assault cases, and schools like Dartmouth are the reason President Obama appointed a national task force to deal with campus rape.5 The problem of sexual assault at Dartmouth is so rampant that classes have been cancelled because of violent threats on the website.?Students have taken measures like interrupting speeches on campus to demand that the administration take action. Members of the Panhellenic Council--a student group that oversees sororities--have refused to participate in Rush Week for fear of exposing more female students to a campus culture that condones sexual assault.?A theater teacher was even warned against putting on a particular show because the actors would face violent threats on the website.6 What students are asking for is basic protection--that the campus WiFi block access to the "rape guide" website, that perpetrators be expelled from the school, that students have access to resources like hotlines, and that sexual assault be included in the student handbook as a punishable offense. But Dartmouth administrators claim it's impossible to take steps to eradicate rape or block a website despite all of the protests, government investigations, campus-wide discussions, and even an upcoming conference on the crisis.7 That's why we've got to support students like the young woman who is speaking out after her name, picture, and address were posted on the "rape guide," tragically making her the target of assault. Nobody should fear that getting a college education will lead to something like that. It's up to us to show Dartmouth that the country is watching and that we won't accept anything less than justice for survivors. Click here to sign the petition demanding Dartmouth expel rapists, block access to the "rape guide" website on campus, and take other steps to stop the rape crisis on campus. Thanks for taking action. --Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Malinda, Adam, Gabriela, and Holly, the UltraViolet team Sources: 1. Dartmouth Student Says She Was Sexually Assaulted After Website 'Rape Guide' Named Her, Huffington Post, February 27, 2014. 2. Ibid 3. Ibid 4. The Steubenville Verdict Is in, and These Boys Are Guilty, The Atlantic Wire, March 17, 2013 Justice for the Steubenville Rape Survivor, UltraViolet Embattled judge won't seek re-election at end of term, Billings Gazette, January 6, 2014 Judge who blames 14-year-old victim needs to go, UltraViolet 5. Dartmouth Under Federal Investigation For Handling Of Sexual Harassment Complaints, Huffington Post, July 23, 2013 Obama Seeks to Raise Awareness of Rape on Campus, NY Times, January 22, 2014? 6. Dartmouth Student Says She Was Sexually Assaulted After Website 'Rape Guide' Named Her, Huffington Post, February 27, 2014. 7. Ibid ________________________________ Want to support our work? UltraViolet is funded by members like you, and our tiny staff ensures small contributions go a long way. Chip in here. 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URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Mar 13 08:25:23 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank Message-ID: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> South Bay | Global Justice and Anti-Capitalism Problems With Chase Bank by John Thielking ( pagesincolor [at] yahoo.com ) Wednesday Mar 12th, 2014 4:52 PM Chase Bank is no longer a serious bank. Has anyone else had problems with them similar to what I am having? Has anyone else experienced the following problem with their bank recently (my bank is Chase)? Scores of debit card charges over the past two months have been declined allegedly due to the transactions being flagged for possible fraud. I say allegedly because I doubt this is the real reason. Two sets of transactions cause me to think that legitimate flagging for fraud is not the true cause. One set of transactions was with Microsoft to do a prepayment for the Bing search engine. Half the online marketers in the world use Bing so doing a transaction with them through Chase should be completely routine. Another set of transactions over a period of two months or more was for my web hosting company esilverbullet. I have had the exact same debit charges (on the exact same days of the month) paid to that account through Chase (and before that to brightbuilders who were sold to esilverbullet paid through Wamu before Wamu became Chase) for the past 11 years. Why they decided to flag that set of transactions for fraud at this late date is a complete mystery. When I talked to a customer service rep at my local Chase branch he told me that he has had similar problems with his debit card. In my view, Chase is no longer a serious bank. I am moving all of my monthly online billing to no longer use my Chase debit card, effective immediately. In some cases I am paying my bills for 6 months in advance by check. Does anyone else have any comments or experiences to add? Add Your Comments -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu Mar 13 09:12:16 2014 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:12:16 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank In-Reply-To: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I left Chase a couple of years ago. I'd been meaning to transfer to a credit union, but I'd been slow to choose one 'cause I didn't know how. I'd been put off by the atmosphere inside the bank--lots of gaudy posters advertising chances to win free trips to beach resorts. I was on my way to see Charles Ferguson (Inside Job, the movie) speak at Stanford, and I thought I could stop in at the bank and scribble an order for new checks. The teller referred me to a marketing desk and I sat down reluctantly. She rep assured me that this wouldn't take long. Forty-five minutes later I was still sitting there. That's how long it took her to close out my old WaMu account and create for me two brand new accounts. No doubt this got her a nice commission and gave the branch credit for new business, but all I wanted was some checks! So I was late for Charles Ferguson and because I had bicycled I was clutching my brand new blue folder with the big Chase star on it and I ran into Gerry Gras there and when he saw my folder he gave me a disgusted look. Within a month one of the credit unions was honoring Move Your Money day by paying $100 to new customers and I took the plunge and I'm glad I did. I still have the blue folder. I keep all my papers about the economic meltdown and the banksters in it. Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:25:23 -0700 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org; palestineis at dslextreme.com Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank South Bay | Global Justice and Anti-Capitalism Problems With Chase Bank by John Thielking ( pagesincolor [at] yahoo.com ) Wednesday Mar 12th, 2014 4:52 PM Chase Bank is no longer a serious bank. Has anyone else had problems with them similar to what I am having? Has anyone else experienced the following problem with their bank recently (my bank is Chase)? Scores of debit card charges over the past two months have been declined allegedly due to the transactions being flagged for possible fraud. I say allegedly because I doubt this is the real reason. Two sets of transactions cause me to think that legitimate flagging for fraud is not the true cause. One set of transactions was with Microsoft to do a prepayment for the Bing search engine. Half the online marketers in the world use Bing so doing a transaction with them through Chase should be completely routine. Another set of transactions over a period of two months or more was for my web hosting company esilverbullet. I have had the exact same debit charges (on the exact same days of the month) paid to that account through Chase (and before that to brightbuilders who were sold to esilverbullet paid through Wamu before Wamu became Chase) for the past 11 years. Why they decided to flag that set of transactions for fraud at this late date is a complete mystery. When I talked to a customer service rep at my local Chase branch he told me that he has had similar problems with his debit card. In my view, Chase is no longer a serious bank. I am moving all of my monthly online billing to no longer use my Chase debit card, effective immediately. In some cases I am paying my bills for 6 months in advance by check. Does anyone else have any comments or experiences to add? Add Your Comments _______________________________________________ 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 Thu Mar 13 09:18:13 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:18:13 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank In-Reply-To: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5321DA45.1010800@structuremonitoring.com> Hi, John: I recommend NEVER using debit cards online, because identity theft is too easy and too costly with a debit card. I use credit cards online, because US credit card law makes it relatively easy to contest questionable transactions. Debit card charges are much harder to contest, and you can easily be forced to pay fraudulent debit card charges. Can you use a Credit Union? A recent Al Jazeera article on "A public option for banking" says that some Social Security and Disability recipients have debit cards with major banks, because they do not otherwise have a checking account, and it's extremely difficult and expensive for them cash benefit checks. In January the US Postal Service released a white paper suggesting they be authorized to run a postal bank. In 2011, I wrote a "Move your money" flier that described an eight-step process for selecting an alternative financial institution. The first step in that process is to choose another financial institutions. It took me several months of research to finally select Provident Credit Union; I selected them, because they offered interest with a checking account. (It's currently 1.76%, down from 2.24% when I started with them.) All the other financial institutions offered something like 0.04% or less.) A version of that flier is available as "No Credit Card trifold" on our web site at "http://www.cagreens.org/santaclara/resources/flyers/noCreditCdDebt20111013.pdf". Hope this helps. Spencer On 3/13/2014 8:25 AM, John Thielking wrote: > > > South Bay | Global Justice > and Anti-Capitalism > > *Problems With Chase Bank* > by John Thielking ( pagesincolor [at] yahoo.com > ) > /Wednesday Mar 12th, 2014 4:52 PM / > > Chase Bank is no longer a serious bank. Has anyone else had > problems with them similar to what I am having? > > Has anyone else experienced the following problem with their bank > recently (my bank is Chase)? Scores of debit card charges over the > past two months have been declined allegedly due to the transactions > being flagged for possible fraud. I say allegedly because I doubt this > is the real reason. Two sets of transactions cause me to think that > legitimate flagging for fraud is not the true cause. One set of > transactions was with Microsoft to do a prepayment for the Bing search > engine. Half the online marketers in the world use Bing so doing a > transaction with them through Chase should be completely routine. > Another set of transactions over a period of two months or more was > for my web hosting company esilverbullet. I have had the exact same > debit charges (on the exact same days of the month) paid to that > account through Chase (and before that to brightbuilders who were sold > to esilverbullet paid through Wamu before Wamu became Chase) for the > past 11 years. Why they decided to flag that set of transactions for > fraud at this late date is a complete mystery. When I talked to a > customer service rep at my local Chase branch he told me that he has > had similar problems with his debit card. In my view, Chase is no > longer a serious bank. I am moving all of my monthly online billing to > no longer use my Chase debit card, effective immediately. In some > cases I am paying my bills for 6 months in advance by check. Does > anyone else have any comments or experiences to add? > Add Your Comments > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 tnharter at aceweb.com Thu Mar 13 10:32:44 2014 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:32:44 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank In-Reply-To: <5321DA45.1010800@structuremonitoring.com> References: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5321DA45.1010800@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <5321EBBC.7070301@aceweb.com> I had a Chase Bank account for a brief period years ago. I made a deposit that they disallowed, costing me fees. I'm still mad about that. I closed the account and I still call their customers fools. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from SJBPs Mayor's Ride. There's a dog angel on a Maryland quarter in my home. From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Mar 13 11:21:52 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank In-Reply-To: <5321EBBC.7070301@aceweb.com> References: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5321DA45.1010800@structuremonitoring.com> <5321EBBC.7070301@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <1394734912.92865.YahooMailNeo@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I'm going to close my Chase account just as soon as I successfully open a checking account at a credit union when I move to Eugene. The only problem is I tried to open a checking account at Tech CU in San Jose and they turned me down for an alleged "derogatory" Chex Systems report. When I wrote to Chex Systems to get my consumer report and score it came back clean, with a score of 760 or so out of a possible 999.? I talked to my Legal Shield Identity Theft Plan people and they said that banks sometimes get the Chex Systems report through a third party such as Experian. So who knows what kind of negative info Experian dredged up and added to the report since I have bad credit. Bad credit is not supposed to dramatically affect your Chex Systems report at least in theory.? A year ago I opened a checking account at Citibank with no problems. Unfortunately they don't have a branch in Eugene so I closed that account already. John Thielking PS I also filed a complaint against Chase with the BBB and was not surprised to learn that the BBB gives Chase a rating of "F", the same rating they give to companies promoting work from home scams. ________________________________ From: Tian Harter To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank I had a Chase Bank account for a brief period years ago. I made a deposit that they disallowed, costing me fees. I'm still mad about that. I closed the account and I still call their customers fools. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from SJBPs Mayor's Ride. There's a dog angel on a Maryland quarter in my home. _______________________________________________ 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 Thu Mar 13 20:13:21 2014 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:13:21 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item Junior State Message-ID: <532273D1.3070807@sbcglobal.net> Spring Junior State will be on Saturday April 5-th Make this an agenda item for our March meeting for we have been invited and I have responded that we would be there: --- Thank you Harry and yes, the Green Party will be there. [February 18] We will check on details as the time draws near. Jim Doyle Treasurer Green Party of Santa Clara County Harry Yoon wrote: [February 17] > Hi Mr. Doyle! > > Spring State is coming up soon and Norcal JSA would like to invite the > Green Party > once again to talk to students during the Political Fair. Spring State > is April 4-6 and > will be held at the Santa Clara Marriot. If you have any questions or > concerns please > tell me right away. > > Sincerely, > Harry Yoon > Political Fair Coordinator > > -- > Harry From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Mar 13 20:41:03 2014 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:41:03 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] volunteers, agenda item, subcommittee Message-ID: <53227A4F.1030701@sbcglobal.net> Here is an email I received thursday night at 7:18 pm. I suggest the county council help establish a volunteer / internship committee. But here is the email: Hi, my name is Navreen and I?m a student at De Anza College. I?m taking a political science course and my instructor is seeking opportunities with local politically-oriented organizations and campaigns as part of our service learning offerings. We can send some students your way as volunteers as they must fulfill 12 hours of community service for the course (courses are 12 weeks in duration). If you are interested, please answer the following questions: 1. Do you have a volunteer/internship program? 2. Are college students eligible? 3. If you are interested, please provide a contact name, phone number/email, and a description 4. of the opportunity so we can share with our students. Thank you! Let me know if you have any questions or how we can work together. From rainbeaufriend at riseup.net Thu Mar 13 21:03:16 2014 From: rainbeaufriend at riseup.net (Drew) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:03:16 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] volunteers, agenda item, subcommittee In-Reply-To: <53227A4F.1030701@sbcglobal.net> References: <53227A4F.1030701@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <127de65d-b9c5-4eca-8db3-b5a7d4af73a3@email.android.com> Jim, please send Navreen my contact info. De Anza Green Party club (aka the DA Greens) with the help of Sandy Perry (whom we've designated our County party liaison) has already been doing this kind of work with students for a year now. If the county party comes up with ideas for students they can be implemented with the DA Greens. Drew Johnson Co-chair DA Greens RainBeauFriend at ripstop.net 408.520.1652 Jim Doyle wrote: >Here is an email I received thursday night at 7:18 pm. >I suggest the county council help establish a volunteer / internship >committee. But here is the email: > >Hi, my name is Navreen and I?m a student at De Anza College. I?m taking > >a political science >course and my instructor is seeking opportunities with local >politically-oriented organizations >and campaigns as part of our service learning offerings. We can send >some students your way >as volunteers as they must fulfill 12 hours of community service for >the >course (courses are >12 weeks in duration). If you are interested, please answer the >following questions: > > 1. Do you have a volunteer/internship program? > 2. Are college students eligible? > 3. If you are interested, please provide a contact name, phone > number/email, and a description > 4. of the opportunity so we can share with our students. > > >Thank you! Let me know if you have any questions or how we can work >together. > >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It might be nice to see how deep the "fraud alert" rabbit hole goes if Chase claimed that my check "bounced" even though I had more than enough in the account to cover it, but I don't want to stretch the generosity of the esilverbullet people any more than I already have with their giving me an extra 2 weeks to make the payment if the payment is for 6 months worth of billing. John Thielking ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: Tian Harter ; "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank I'm going to close my Chase account just as soon as I successfully open a checking account at a credit union when I move to Eugene. The only problem is I tried to open a checking account at Tech CU in San Jose and they turned me down for an alleged "derogatory" Chex Systems report. When I wrote to Chex Systems to get my consumer report and score it came back clean, with a score of 760 or so out of a possible 999.? I talked to my Legal Shield Identity Theft Plan people and they said that banks sometimes get the Chex Systems report through a third party such as Experian. So who knows what kind of negative info Experian dredged up and added to the report since I have bad credit. Bad credit is not supposed to dramatically affect your Chex Systems report at least in theory.? A year ago I opened a checking account at Citibank with no problems. Unfortunately they don't have a branch in Eugene so I closed that account already. John Thielking PS I also filed a complaint against Chase with the BBB and was not surprised to learn that the BBB gives Chase a rating of "F", the same rating they give to companies promoting work from home scams. ________________________________ From: Tian Harter To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank I had a Chase Bank account for a brief period years ago. I made a deposit that they disallowed, costing me fees. I'm still mad about that. I closed the account and I still call their customers fools. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from SJBPs Mayor's Ride. There's a dog angel on a Maryland quarter in my home. _______________________________________________ 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 perrysandy at aol.com Thu Mar 13 21:39:07 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:39:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] volunteers, agenda item, subcommittee In-Reply-To: <53227A4F.1030701@sbcglobal.net> References: <53227A4F.1030701@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <8D10D5678BB99CC-13E0-4C8A@webmail-va050.sysops.aol.com> I would suggest that Drew and I be assigned to run this program out of the De Anza Green Party Club, especially since the students are from there. We have a lot of ongoing projects for possible interns to work on. We are working on a Global Climate Convergence program from Earth Day to Mayday at De Anza as well as on the statewide electoral campaigns. In addition, we can connect students with the April 12 Andrew Hill Health Fair if that is their interest, or the Dave Cortese campaign for Mayor that some of us are working on. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Jim Doyle To: sosfbay discussion group Sent: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 8:41 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] volunteers, agenda item, subcommittee Here is an email I received thursday night at 7:18 pm. I suggest the county council help establish a volunteer / internship committee. But here is the email: Hi, my name is Navreen and I?m a student at De Anza College. I?m taking a political science course and my instructor is seeking opportunities with local politically-oriented organizations and campaigns as part of our service learning offerings. We can send some students your way as volunteers as they must fulfill 12 hours of community service for the course (courses are 12 weeks in duration). If you are interested, please answer the following questions: 1. Do you have a volunteer/internship program? 2. Are college students eligible? 3. If you are interested, please provide a contact name, phone number/email, and a description 4. of the opportunity so we can share with our students. Thank you! Let me know if you have any questions or how we can work together. _______________________________________________ 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 Fri Mar 14 07:22:18 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank In-Reply-To: <1394770718.39759.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5321DA45.1010800@structuremonitoring.com> <5321EBBC.7070301@aceweb.com> <1394734912.92865.YahooMailNeo@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1394770718.39759.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1394806938.63235.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> After giving this some more thought I have decided to join the ranks of the "unbanked" rather than continue with Chase. I'm in a unique position in that I get most of my income through SSDI deposited onto a Direct Express debit card run by Comerica Bank. I have various prepaid debit cards and bitcoin accounts that I can use as "savings accounts". I can pay cash at the Post Office for any "checks" that I need to put in the mail or give to my landlords. The main thing I need to be sure of before closing my Chase account is to verify that I can get my Paypal account to function without using funds from my Chase account and that Netflix billing is functioning using one of my prepaid debit cards. So by no later than mid April 2014 I anticipate being able to close my Chase account. Sorry if I seemed to waste everyone's time on this e-mail list with my endless personal troubles with Chase. John Thielking ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: John Thielking ; Tian Harter ; "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank Tian, After mulling over your tale of Chase denying you a particular deposit I'm inclined to send esilverbullet a USPS money order instead of a personal check from Chase. It might be nice to see how deep the "fraud alert" rabbit hole goes if Chase claimed that my check "bounced" even though I had more than enough in the account to cover it, but I don't want to stretch the generosity of the esilverbullet people any more than I already have with their giving me an extra 2 weeks to make the payment if the payment is for 6 months worth of billing. John Thielking ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: Tian Harter ; "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank I'm going to close my Chase account just as soon as I successfully open a checking account at a credit union when I move to Eugene. The only problem is I tried to open a checking account at Tech CU in San Jose and they turned me down for an alleged "derogatory" Chex Systems report. When I wrote to Chex Systems to get my consumer report and score it came back clean, with a score of 760 or so out of a possible 999.? I talked to my Legal Shield Identity Theft Plan people and they said that banks sometimes get the Chex Systems report through a third party such as Experian. So who knows what kind of negative info Experian dredged up and added to the report since I have bad credit. Bad credit is not supposed to dramatically affect your Chex Systems report at least in theory.? A year ago I opened a checking account at Citibank with no problems. Unfortunately they don't have a branch in Eugene so I closed that account already. John Thielking PS I also filed a complaint against Chase with the BBB and was not surprised to learn that the BBB gives Chase a rating of "F", the same rating they give to companies promoting work from home scams. ________________________________ From: Tian Harter To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank I had a Chase Bank account for a brief period years ago. I made a deposit that they disallowed, costing me fees. I'm still mad about that. I closed the account and I still call their customers fools. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from SJBPs Mayor's Ride. There's a dog angel on a Maryland quarter in my home. _______________________________________________ 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 spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Mar 14 08:42:31 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:42:31 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank In-Reply-To: <1394806938.63235.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5321DA45.1010800@structuremonitoring.com> <5321EBBC.7070301@aceweb.com> <1394734912.92865.YahooMailNeo@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1394770718.39759.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1394806938.63235.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <53232367.60207@structuremonitoring.com> Hi, John: Thanks for the report. I've found it interesting (and if I hadn't, I would not have taken the time to read it ;-). Spencer On 3/14/2014 7:22 AM, John Thielking wrote: > After giving this some more thought I have decided to join the ranks > of the "unbanked" rather than continue with Chase. I'm in a unique > position in that I get most of my income through SSDI deposited onto a > Direct Express debit card run by Comerica Bank. I have various prepaid > debit cards and bitcoin accounts that I can use as "savings accounts". > I can pay cash at the Post Office for any "checks" that I need to put > in the mail or give to my landlords. The main thing I need to be sure > of before closing my Chase account is to verify that I can get my > Paypal account to function without using funds from my Chase account > and that Netflix billing is functioning using one of my prepaid debit > cards. So by no later than mid April 2014 I anticipate being able to > close my Chase account. Sorry if I seemed to waste everyone's time on > this e-mail list with my endless personal troubles with Chase. > > John Thielking > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* John Thielking > *To:* John Thielking ; Tian Harter > ; "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" > > *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:18 PM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank > > Tian, > > After mulling over your tale of Chase denying you a particular deposit > I'm inclined to send esilverbullet a USPS money order instead of a > personal check from Chase. It might be nice to see how deep the "fraud > alert" rabbit hole goes if Chase claimed that my check "bounced" even > though I had more than enough in the account to cover it, but I don't > want to stretch the generosity of the esilverbullet people any more > than I already have with their giving me an extra 2 weeks to make the > payment if the payment is for 6 months worth of billing. > > John Thielking > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* John Thielking > *To:* Tian Harter ; > "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" > *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:21 AM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank > > I'm going to close my Chase account just as soon as I successfully > open a checking account at a credit union when I move to Eugene. The > only problem is I tried to open a checking account at Tech CU in San > Jose and they turned me down for an alleged "derogatory" Chex Systems > report. When I wrote to Chex Systems to get my consumer report and > score it came back clean, with a score of 760 or so out of a possible > 999. I talked to my Legal Shield Identity Theft Plan people and they > said that banks sometimes get the Chex Systems report through a third > party such as Experian. So who knows what kind of negative info > Experian dredged up and added to the report since I have bad credit. > Bad credit is not supposed to dramatically affect your Chex Systems report > at least in theory. A year ago I opened a checking account at > Citibank with no problems. Unfortunately they don't have a branch in > Eugene so I closed that account already. > > John Thielking > > PS I also filed a complaint against Chase with the BBB and was not > surprised to learn that the BBB gives Chase a rating of "F", the same > rating they give to companies promoting work from home scams. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Tian Harter > *To:* sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:32 AM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank > > I had a Chase Bank account for a brief period years ago. I made a > deposit that they disallowed, > costing me fees. I'm still mad about that. I closed the account and I > still call their customers fools. > > -- > Tian > http://tian.greens.org > Latest change: Added pictures from SJBPs Mayor's Ride. > There's a dog angel on a Maryland quarter in my home. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Fri Mar 14 10:23:48 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: UPDATE: Dartmouth In-Reply-To: <8ef98-361-5323253e@list.weareultraviolet.org> References: <8ef98-361-5323253e@list.weareultraviolet.org> Message-ID: <1394817828.76634.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Please call the number below to protest the Rape Guide. The message machine is not yet full. John Thielking ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet" To: John F Thielking Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 8:50 AM Subject: UPDATE: Dartmouth Dartmouth is feeling the pressure and issued a response to our petition. But words are not actions, and Dartmouth must act.?Will you call the Dartmouth Board of Trustees and tell them we aren't going to stop speaking out until Dartmouth takes concrete action? * Board of Trustees' Secretary Marcia Kelly: (603) 646-2221 Click Here Dear John, Dartmouth is clearly feeling the pressure. After nearly 50,000 UltraViolet members like you signed the petition demanding Dartmouth get serious about rape culture on its campus, the school issued a statement. In it, Dartmouth administrators said they proposed a change to the student code of conduct to strengthen punishments for sexual assault.1 But words are not actions, and Dartmouth must act. Students are calling for the "rape guide" website to be blocked on campus and for nothing less than expulsion of students who commit sexual assault. Dartmouth students need concrete actions, not proposals. If we don?t keep up the pressure on Dartmouth, the code of conduct changes may never happen. And the student who posted the ?rape guide? that led to a female student being sexually assaulted may just get a slap on the wrist. Now that we know we've got Dartmouth's attention, we need to step up the pressure to get real results. Will you call the Board of Trustees and let them know that we?re not going to stop speaking out until the university acts? * Board of Trustees' Secretary Marcia Kelly: (603) 646-2221 Then, please report your call here, so we can track our impact together. It?s taken years for Dartmouth to even begin to address its rape culture problem. Students have staged massive protests, several sororities boycotted Rush Week, and advocates even interrupted a prospective student presentation to demand the campus get serious about sexual assault.2 A Dartmouth theater teacher was advised to cancel a performance because the performers might be attacked on the same message board that the ?rape guide? was posted to. And classes had to be cancelled because rape culture protesters were being threatened on the site.3 It?s only now that the school is getting a lot of bad press and being investigated by the Department of Education for violating Title IX that Dartmouth is beginning to act. Because it has reached the level of national crisis, President Obama and the White House have committed to changing the staggering statistics of sexual assault on our college campuses. 1 in 5 women has been sexually assaulted or raped.4 But if we're going to change this, we must show campuses that there are high costs for condoning rape and assault on campus. Dartmouth is starting to feel the pressure, but we can?t let them off the hook until they take action. Other universities are watching, and if they see us letting up on Dartmouth, they won?t get serious about sexual assault on their campuses. Will you call the Board of Trustees and let them know that we?re going to keep up the pressure until Dartmouth takes concrete action against rape culture on their campus? Thanks for taking action. --Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Malinda, Adam, Gabriela, and Holly, the UltraViolet team Sources: 1. Statement from Justin Anderson on Ultraviolet's Petition on Sexual Assault at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Office of Public Affairs, March 11, 2014 2. Dartmouth Student Says She Was Sexually Assaulted After Website 'Rape Guide' Named Her, Huffington Post, February 27, 2014. 3. Ibid. 4. A Renewed Call to Action to End Rape and Sexual Assault, White House Blog, January 22, 2014 ________________________________ Want to support our work? UltraViolet is funded by members like you, and our tiny staff ensures small contributions go a long way. Chip in here. You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Fri Mar 14 14:22:34 2014 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:22:34 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item - volunteers Message-ID: <5323731A.9010500@sbcglobal.net> Formal authorisation for Drew and Sandy to run the Green Party community service program for DeAnza volunteers. That as a response to the question the tentative volunteer posed, namely Do you have a volunteer / internship program? And note, they must put in 12 hours of community service time. Once again, here is a copy of the email : Hi, my name is Navreen and I?m a student at De Anza College. I?m taking a political science course and my instructor is seeking opportunities with local politically-oriented organizations and campaigns as part of our service learning offerings. We can send some students your way as volunteers as they must fulfill 12 hours of community service for the course (courses are 12 weeks in duration). If you are interested, please answer the following questions: 1. Do you have a volunteer/internship program? 2. Are college students eligible? 3. If you are interested, please provide a contact name, phone number/email, and a description 4. of the opportunity so we can share with our students. Thank you! Let me know if you have any questions or how we can work together. From palestineis at dslextreme.com Thu Mar 13 09:21:29 2014 From: palestineis at dslextreme.com (Donna Wallach) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:21:29 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank In-Reply-To: References: <1394724323.13536.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hi John, I had a Wamu bank account and then was stuck with Chase when the banks got bailed out. I hated Chase from the beginning - I was being charged for withdrawing money from the ATM machine, among other charges. The straw that broke the camels back for me was when they were going to start charging me money because I couldn't keep my bank account at $1,000 or more. I found a credit union and switched as fast as I could. I was a very happy person the day I could walk into Chase and close out my checking and savings accounts! Chase Bank is as bad as Bank Of America considering the War Crimes they fund. Donna On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Brian wrote: > I left Chase a couple of years ago. I'd been meaning to transfer to a > credit union, > but I'd been slow to choose one 'cause I didn't know how. I'd been put > off by the > atmosphere inside the bank--lots of gaudy posters advertising chances to > win free > trips to beach resorts. > > I was on my way to see Charles Ferguson (Inside Job, the movie) speak at > Stanford, > and I thought I could stop in at the bank and scribble an order for new > checks. > The teller referred me to a marketing desk and I sat down reluctantly. > She rep > assured me that this wouldn't take long. Forty-five minutes later I was > still sitting > there. That's how long it took her to close out my old WaMu account and > create > for me two brand new accounts. No doubt this got her a nice commission > and > gave the branch credit for new business, but all I wanted was some checks! > > So I was late for Charles Ferguson and because I had bicycled I was > clutching my > brand new blue folder with the big Chase star on it and I ran into Gerry > Gras there > and when he saw my folder he gave me a disgusted look. > > Within a month one of the credit unions was honoring Move Your Money day > by > paying $100 to new customers and I took the plunge and I'm glad I did. > > I still have the blue folder. I keep all my papers about the economic > meltdown and > the banksters in it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:25:23 -0700 > From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org; palestineis at dslextreme.com > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Problems With Chase Bank > > > South Bay | Global Justice and > Anti-Capitalism > *Problems With Chase Bank* > by John Thielking ( pagesincolor [at] yahoo.com ) > *Wednesday Mar 12th, 2014 4:52 PM * > > Chase Bank is no longer a serious bank. Has anyone else had problems with > them similar to what I am having? > > Has anyone else experienced the following problem with their bank recently > (my bank is Chase)? Scores of debit card charges over the past two months > have been declined allegedly due to the transactions being flagged for > possible fraud. I say allegedly because I doubt this is the real reason. > Two sets of transactions cause me to think that legitimate flagging for > fraud is not the true cause. One set of transactions was with Microsoft to > do a prepayment for the Bing search engine. Half the online marketers in > the world use Bing so doing a transaction with them through Chase should be > completely routine. Another set of transactions over a period of two months > or more was for my web hosting company esilverbullet. I have had the exact > same debit charges (on the exact same days of the month) paid to that > account through Chase (and before that to brightbuilders who were sold to > esilverbullet paid through Wamu before Wamu became Chase) for the past 11 > years. Why they decided to flag that set of transactions for fraud at this > late date is a complete mystery. When I talked to a customer service rep at > my local Chase branch he told me that he has had similar problems with his > debit card. In my view, Chase is no longer a serious bank. I am moving all > of my monthly online billing to no longer use my Chase debit card, > effective immediately. In some cases I am paying my bills for 6 months in > advance by check. Does anyone else have any comments or experiences to add? > Add Your Comments > > _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing > list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > -- *"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 spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Mar 14 17:51:01 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:51:01 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item - volunteers In-Reply-To: <5323731A.9010500@sbcglobal.net> References: <5323731A.9010500@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <5323A3F5.2000703@structuremonitoring.com> Betsy & I concur. Spencer On 3/14/2014 2:22 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > Formal authorisation for Drew and Sandy to run the Green Party > community service program for DeAnza volunteers. > > That as a response to the question the tentative volunteer posed, namely > > Do you have a volunteer / internship program? > > And note, they must put in 12 hours of community service time. > > Once again, here is a copy of the email : > > Hi, my name is Navreen and I?m a student at De Anza College. I?m > taking a political science > course and my instructor is seeking opportunities with local > politically-oriented organizations > and campaigns as part of our service learning offerings. We can send > some students your way > as volunteers as they must fulfill 12 hours of community service for > the course (courses are > 12 weeks in duration). If you are interested, please answer the > following questions: > > 1. Do you have a volunteer/internship program? > 2. Are college students eligible? > 3. If you are interested, please provide a contact name, phone > number/email, and a description > 4. of the opportunity so we can share with our students. > > > Thank you! Let me know if you have any questions or how we can work > together. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sat Mar 15 10:39:40 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Help Obama Kickstart WWIII Message-ID: <1394905180.72021.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Here is a link to a fictional Youtube video about Obama's WWIII Kickstarter campaign. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ John Thielking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban In-Reply-To: <1394986301.89632.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1393296441.31545.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1393296790.11504.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1394986301.89632.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1394986374.70962.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" ; Robert Norse Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 9:11 AM Subject: Re: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban As posted in a comment on Facebook: I have numerous bones to pick with the SF Board Of Supervisors over this new ordinance [the bottled water ban on city property]. First, they may have violated the Brown Act when they passed it as mysteriously it took only one day for first the BOS subcommittee to take its final vote on it and the BOS full body to vote on it, neglecting the 72 hour notice rule. As for the law itself a) it is not clear if the law will also restrict the sale of bottled soft drinks which are not recommended in place of bottled water to combat dehydration on a hot day and b) although the subcommittee was looking at language that encouraged the city to develop more sources of public drinking water it is not clear if any specific funding was allocated in the final version (ie this could be an unfunded mandate which could result in no public water sources in food deserts such as Dolores Park for the next 10-20 years while at the same time tourists are not allowed to buy bottled water from street vendors and/or are forced to buy bottled soft drinks. ) Finally, I did an experiment where I hung an empty soda bottle and water bottle from opposite ends of a balance beam. The soda bottle proved to be heavier than the water bottle. So if tourists will simply be buying soda instead of water in plastic bottles, the amount of disposable plastic will only increase. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban Another reason to vote the ban down is that the ban does nothing to discourage the sale of soft drinks in plastic bottles. Consuming soft drinks instead of water on a hot day further complicates the problems caused by dehydration on hot days as it is not recommended to consume sugary drinks in place of plain water when dealing with dehydration. John Thielking ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 6:47 PM Subject: Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban While I appreciate the efforts of SF city govt to rein in pollution and excessive production carbon footprints associated with bottled water by promoting a ban of bottled water under 22 oz on city property, I must object for the following reason: Often people from out of town who are on the street at a festival conducted on city property such as the Gay Pride Festival may not be able to find a store not on city property that can sell bottled water. At the last gay Pride Parade event there was a small store located near the event that I could have gone to, but in the real world there is no guarantee that that one small store would not run out of bottled water. The vendors on the street are much better suited to supply large crowds with the amount of bottled water that is needed for the event. That particular day was quite hot and going without bottled water would have been quite dangerous. Other events, such as those conducted at Dolores Park, are not near stores that I am familiar with. Please reconsider your campaign to ban the sale of smaller bottles of bottled water on city property. Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sun Mar 16 13:17:46 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Updated: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban In-Reply-To: <1395000649.51927.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1393296441.31545.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1393296790.11504.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1394986301.89632.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1395000649.51927.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1395001066.37667.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" ; Robert Norse Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:10 PM Subject: Re: Updated: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban After having a bit of a discussion with my friends and friends of friends on Facebook the following points came to light: 1) The city of SF has for the past few years provided water bottle refilling stations at events conducted on city property. 2) These water stations were not noticed by me (John Thielking) at any time since I started visiting SF for events in 1995. 3) It is my opinion that tourists by definition are unprepared and should not be expected to provide their own water containers, unless you expect them to resort to buying a 20 oz bottle of soda and then refill that at the water station. 4) My minimum suggested solution for tourists who are unprepared and unfamiliar with the SF bottled water ban is to have the SF city spend $10000 or so on paper cups that can be made available at the water bottle filling stations. Bigger/better signs on the water stations are also likely needed. A first class, but much more expensive solution, would be to install year round drinking fountains connected to city plumbing. Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" ; Robert Norse Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 9:11 AM Subject: Re: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban As posted in a comment on Facebook: I have numerous bones to pick with the SF Board Of Supervisors over this new ordinance [the bottled water ban on city property]. First, they may have violated the Brown Act when they passed it as mysteriously it took only one day for first the BOS subcommittee to take its final vote on it and the BOS full body to vote on it, neglecting the 72 hour notice rule. As for the law itself a) it is not clear if the law will also restrict the sale of bottled soft drinks which are not recommended in place of bottled water to combat dehydration on a hot day and b) although the subcommittee was looking at language that encouraged the city to develop more sources of public drinking water it is not clear if any specific funding was allocated in the final version (ie this could be an unfunded mandate which could result in no public water sources in food deserts such as Dolores Park for the next 10-20 years while at the same time tourists are not allowed to buy bottled water from street vendors and/or are forced to buy bottled soft drinks. ) Finally, I did an experiment where I hung an empty soda bottle and water bottle from opposite ends of a balance beam. The soda bottle proved to be heavier than the water bottle. So if tourists will simply be buying soda instead of water in plastic bottles, the amount of disposable plastic will only increase. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban Another reason to vote the ban down is that the ban does nothing to discourage the sale of soft drinks in plastic bottles. Consuming soft drinks instead of water on a hot day further complicates the problems caused by dehydration on hot days as it is not recommended to consume sugary drinks in place of plain water when dealing with dehydration. John Thielking ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 6:47 PM Subject: Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban While I appreciate the efforts of SF city govt to rein in pollution and excessive production carbon footprints associated with bottled water by promoting a ban of bottled water under 22 oz on city property, I must object for the following reason: Often people from out of town who are on the street at a festival conducted on city property such as the Gay Pride Festival may not be able to find a store not on city property that can sell bottled water. At the last gay Pride Parade event there was a small store located near the event that I could have gone to, but in the real world there is no guarantee that that one small store would not run out of bottled water. The vendors on the street are much better suited to supply large crowds with the amount of bottled water that is needed for the event. That particular day was quite hot and going without bottled water would have been quite dangerous. Other events, such as those conducted at Dolores Park, are not near stores that I am familiar with. Please reconsider your campaign to ban the sale of smaller bottles of bottled water on city property. Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sun Mar 16 18:09:45 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Updated Part 2: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban In-Reply-To: <1395018192.50754.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1393296441.31545.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1393296790.11504.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1394986301.89632.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1395000649.51927.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1395018192.50754.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1395018585.19688.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> See more below. I hope this is the last e-mail about this from me for awhile. We need to focus on Ukraine right now. Crimea just today voted to join Russia by a 95% Yes vote.? Hopefully RT America stays on cable tv even after the likely sanctions against Russian investors. John Thielking ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" ; Robert Norse Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 6:03 PM Subject: Re: Updated Part 2: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban Just as I was sending the previous e-mail another comment was posted on Facebook that characterized the argument over the bottled water ban as being "funny" and the person said that she went to SF all the time in the 1960's when there was no bottled water and she and her friends didn't die. I have an issue with that. The main reason why I am concerned about the bottled water ban is because I have firsthand experience in watching one of my friends "hit the wall" while walking in various parades in SF on hot days such as SF Gay Pride 2013. My friend does have a clean bill of health from his doctor, after taking a few pills every day, but often complains of not being in good shape. I should think that it would be obvious to anyone familiar with people's various medical conditions that for some people it can be immediately dangerous to reach a certain point of dehydration that for others would be characterized as "mild".? These same people may be counting on the street vendors to have bottled water available. When/if such is not the case they could be sent scrambling for the few remaining blocks that their energy will carry them.? I suppose that not everyone takes these facts for granted, so I am underlining them here. Please work to provide the equivalent of water fountains that don't require people to bring their own containers in place of street/park vendors of bottled water if you choose to fully implement the bottled water ban on SF city property. Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" ; Robert Norse Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:10 PM Subject: Re: Updated: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban After having a bit of a discussion with my friends and friends of friends on Facebook the following points came to light: 1) The city of SF has for the past few years provided water bottle refilling stations at events conducted on city property. 2) These water stations were not noticed by me (John Thielking) at any time since I started visiting SF for events in 1995. 3) It is my opinion that tourists by definition are unprepared and should not be expected to provide their own water containers, unless you expect them to resort to buying a 20 oz bottle of soda and then refill that at the water station. 4) My minimum suggested solution for tourists who are unprepared and unfamiliar with the SF bottled water ban is to have the SF city spend $10000 or so on paper cups that can be made available at the water bottle filling stations. Bigger/better signs on the water stations are also likely needed. A first class, but much more expensive solution, would be to install year round drinking fountains connected to city plumbing. Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" ; Robert Norse Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 9:11 AM Subject: Re: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban As posted in a comment on Facebook: I have numerous bones to pick with the SF Board Of Supervisors over this new ordinance [the bottled water ban on city property]. First, they may have violated the Brown Act when they passed it as mysteriously it took only one day for first the BOS subcommittee to take its final vote on it and the BOS full body to vote on it, neglecting the 72 hour notice rule. As for the law itself a) it is not clear if the law will also restrict the sale of bottled soft drinks which are not recommended in place of bottled water to combat dehydration on a hot day and b) although the subcommittee was looking at language that encouraged the city to develop more sources of public drinking water it is not clear if any specific funding was allocated in the final version (ie this could be an unfunded mandate which could result in no public water sources in food deserts such as Dolores Park for the next 10-20 years while at the same time tourists are not allowed to buy bottled water from street vendors and/or are forced to buy bottled soft drinks. ) Finally, I did an experiment where I hung an empty soda bottle and water bottle from opposite ends of a balance beam. The soda bottle proved to be heavier than the water bottle. So if tourists will simply be buying soda instead of water in plastic bottles, the amount of disposable plastic will only increase. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban Another reason to vote the ban down is that the ban does nothing to discourage the sale of soft drinks in plastic bottles. Consuming soft drinks instead of water on a hot day further complicates the problems caused by dehydration on hot days as it is not recommended to consume sugary drinks in place of plain water when dealing with dehydration. John Thielking ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: "John.Avalos at sfgov.org" ; "David.Campos at sfgov.org" ; "Malia.Cohen at sfgov.org" ; "Jane.Kim at sfgov.org" ; "Katy.Tang at sfgov.org" ; "Norman.Yee at sfgov.org" ; "London.Breed at sfgov.org" ; "David.Chiu at sfgov.org" ; "Mark.Farrell at sfgov.org" ; "Eric.L.Mar at sfgov.org" ; "Scott.Wiener at sfgov.org" Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 6:47 PM Subject: Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban While I appreciate the efforts of SF city govt to rein in pollution and excessive production carbon footprints associated with bottled water by promoting a ban of bottled water under 22 oz on city property, I must object for the following reason: Often people from out of town who are on the street at a festival conducted on city property such as the Gay Pride Festival may not be able to find a store not on city property that can sell bottled water. At the last gay Pride Parade event there was a small store located near the event that I could have gone to, but in the real world there is no guarantee that that one small store would not run out of bottled water. The vendors on the street are much better suited to supply large crowds with the amount of bottled water that is needed for the event. That particular day was quite hot and going without bottled water would have been quite dangerous. Other events, such as those conducted at Dolores Park, are not near stores that I am familiar with. Please reconsider your campaign to ban the sale of smaller bottles of bottled water on city property. Thank you. Sincerely, John Thielking San Jose, CA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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According to Al Jazeera, 83 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots. Thus, at least 79 % (0.83 * 0.95) of the Crimean population voted to join Russia. This is not a surprise, as the Ukrainian Parliament voted 3 weeks ago to tell their Russian-speaking minority they could not use Russian in government offices. Acting President Turchynov vetoed the measure, but the message was heard very clearly by Putin and the Russian speakers in the Crimea. In fact, the Crimea and the Eastern Ukraine were transferred to the Ukraine from Russia in 1954 after having been a part of Russia for the previous 160 years. They had not previously been part of the Ukraine. This is the exact opposite of what Canada did 45 years ago: In 1969 with a popular separatist movement in Quebec, the Canadian Parliament gave French co-equal status with English. The English Canadians told the Quebecois they were part of Canada. There are several recent precedents for this: * In the 1990s, Bosnia and Kosovo became independent of Serbia after very bloody wars. * In 1992-3 Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. * In 1919 plebiscites were held in Schleswig to determine the border between German and Denmark. The Danish king was offered Schleswig and Holstein as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Schleswig and Holstein had been part of Denmark in 1860 and had fought wars of independence in 1864-6. To avoid a repeat of this, the Danish king organized these plebiscites. Northern Schleswig voted to stay with Denmark. Southern Schleswig voted to stay with Germany. Putin moved to both protect both the Russian minority in the Crimea and Russian military facilities there. Spencer On 3/16/2014 6:09 PM, John Thielking wrote: > See more below. I hope this is the last e-mail about this from me for > awhile. We need to focus on Ukraine right now. Crimea just today voted > to join Russia by a 95% Yes vote. Hopefully RT America stays on cable > tv even after the likely sanctions against Russian investors. > > 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... URL: From leedobell at aol.com Mon Mar 17 08:21:54 2014 From: leedobell at aol.com (Leedobell) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:21:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Crimea (was: Updated Part 2: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban) In-Reply-To: <5326706B.6090107@prodsyse.com> References: <1393296441.31545.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1393296790.11504.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1394986301.89632.YahooMailNeo@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1395000649.51927.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1395018192.50754.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1395018585.19688.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5326706B.6090107@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <8D1100BC3125D05-26FC-22441@webmail-d298.sysops.aol.com> When did we start thinking it was our job to countermand local elections? -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves To: John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List ; Donna Wallach Sent: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 8:48 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Crimea (was: Updated Part 2: Full BOS Vote Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban) What would Obama do if Texas were 80% Spanish Speakers and voted to succeed from the US and rejoin Mexico -- AND Mexico had a few thousand nuclear weapons and troops in Texas? According to Al Jazeera, 83 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots. Thus, at least 79 % (0.83 * 0.95) of the Crimean population voted to join Russia. This is not a surprise, as the Ukrainian Parliament voted 3 weeks ago to tell their Russian-speaking minority they could not use Russian in government offices. Acting President Turchynov vetoed the measure, but the message was heard very clearly by Putin and the Russian speakers in the Crimea. In fact, the Crimea and the Eastern Ukraine were transferred to the Ukraine from Russia in 1954 after having been a part of Russia for the previous 160 years. They had not previously been part of the Ukraine. This is the exact opposite of what Canada did 45 years ago: In 1969 with a popular separatist movement in Quebec, the Canadian Parliament gave French co-equal status with English. The English Canadians told the Quebecois they were part of Canada. There are several recent precedents for this: * In the 1990s, Bosnia and Kosovo became independent of Serbia after very bloody wars. * In 1992-3 Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. * In 1919 plebiscites were held in Schleswig to determine the border between German and Denmark. The Danish king was offered Schleswig and Holstein as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Schleswig and Holstein had been part of Denmark in 1860 and had fought wars of independence in 1864-6. To avoid a repeat of this, the Danish king organized these plebiscites. Northern Schleswig voted to stay with Denmark. Southern Schleswig voted to stay with Germany. Putin moved to both protect both the Russian minority in the Crimea and Russian military facilities there. Spencer On 3/16/2014 6:09 PM, John Thielking wrote: See more below. I hope this is the last e-mail about this from me for awhile. We need to focus on Ukraine right now. Crimea just today voted to join Russia by a 95% Yes vote. Hopefully RT America stays on cable tv even after the likely sanctions against Russian investors. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Fidel Castro was running for some minor office in that election. It's cancellation pushed him to adopt more radical measures. * 1953: President Eisenhower ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to organize the secret destruction of democracy in Iran, and subjected that country to a quarter century of state terror. Iran has no reason to fear the intentions of the US? * 1964: President Johnson ordered the destruction of democracy in Brazil. The current president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, is telling the world she was tortured by that dictatorship in the 1970s. Is that in our interest or the interest of the Brazilians? The US has been intervening in foreign countries at least since President Washington sent US tax money to plantation owners in Haiti to help them suppress a slave rebellion there during the French Revolution. However, that did not involve countermanding a local election. I have two blogs at "sanjosepeace.wordpress.com" that provide more examples (with citations for those who would like to know even more). Thanks for asking. Spencer On 3/17/2014 8:21 AM, Leedobell wrote: > When did we start thinking it was our job to countermand local elections? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Spencer Graves > To: John Thielking ; Greens Discussion List > ; Donna Wallach > Sent: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 8:48 pm > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Crimea (was: Updated Part 2: Full BOS Vote > Violated Brown Act? Please Vote Down Bottled Water Ban) > > What would Obama do if Texas were 80% Spanish Speakers and voted > to succeed from the US and rejoin Mexico -- AND Mexico had a few > thousand nuclear weapons and troops in Texas? > > > According to Al Jazeera, 83 percent of the eligible voters cast > ballots. Thus, at least 79 % (0.83 * 0.95) of the Crimean population > voted to join Russia. > > > This is not a surprise, as the Ukrainian Parliament voted 3 > weeks ago to tell their Russian-speaking minority they could not use > Russian in government offices. Acting > President Turchynov vetoed the measure, but the message was heard very > clearly by Putin and the Russian speakers in the Crimea. In fact, the > Crimea and the Eastern Ukraine were transferred to the Ukraine from > Russia in 1954 after having been a part of Russia for the previous 160 > years. They had not previously been part of the Ukraine. > > > This is the exact opposite of what Canada did 45 years ago: In > 1969 with a popular separatist movement in Quebec, the Canadian > Parliament gave French co-equal status with English. The English > Canadians told the Quebecois they were part of Canada. > > > There are several recent precedents for this: > > > * In the 1990s, Bosnia and Kosovo became independent of > Serbia after very bloody wars. > > > * In 1992-3 Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the Czech > Republic and Slovakia. > > > * In 1919 plebiscites were held in Schleswig to determine > the border between German and Denmark. The Danish king was offered > Schleswig and Holstein as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Schleswig > and Holstein had been part of Denmark in 1860 and had fought wars of > independence in 1864-6. To avoid a repeat of this, the Danish king > organized these plebiscites. Northern Schleswig voted to stay with > Denmark. Southern Schleswig voted to stay with Germany. > > > Putin moved to both protect both the Russian minority in the > Crimea and Russian military facilities there. > > > Spencer > > > On 3/16/2014 6:09 PM, John Thielking wrote: >> See more below. I hope this is the last e-mail about this from me for >> awhile. We need to focus on Ukraine right now. Crimea just today >> voted to join Russia by a 95% Yes vote. Hopefully RT America stays on >> cable tv even after the likely sanctions against Russian investors. >> >> 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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Featuring a screening of the documentary "Thirst" and a panel discussion on the future of water to follow the film. About the film: Population growth, pollution, and scarcity are turning water into "blue gold," the oil of the 21st century. Global corporations are rushing to gain control of this dwindling natural resource, producing intense conflict in the US and worldwide where people are dying in battles over control of water. The world is poised on the brink of epochal changes in how water is stored, used, and valued. Will these changes provide clean water to the billions of people who need it? Or save the child who dies every eight seconds from contaminated water? Examining water conflicts in Bolivia, India and Stockton, California, Thirst shows that popular opposition to the privatization of water sparks remarkable coalitions that cross partisan lines. When it comes to water, many people demand local control and fear the arrival of multinational corporations with large lobbying budgets and little local loyalty. This film is a piercing look at the conflict between public stewardship and private profit, where activists claim that water is a human right and corporations declare it a commodity. Panelists: Professor Katherine Cushing - Environmental Studies Department at San Jose State University- "The Struggle Over Water and Privatization in Developing Countries" Professor Katherine Cushing's main areas of research include Water Resource Management and Environmental Policy Implementation in China. Professor Iris Stewart-Frey -Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University. "How Climate Change is Affecting the Water Supply in California and the West." Prof. Iris Stewart-Frey's main research focuses on the effects of climate change on mountain streams and water resources, especially in the western US. 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Sponsored by the Santa Clara County Green Party, Dream Menders, and Common Cause. A discussion will follow the film. I've seen it before. I'll be there, watching and discussing it again. 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 -- 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 wrolley at charter.net Tue Mar 18 14:39:37 2014 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:39:37 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The Future of Water - San Jose Mar 20 - Anyone Planning to Attend? In-Reply-To: <8D11072A2500A0C-1990-2A3E7@webmail-d137.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D11072A2500A0C-1990-2A3E7@webmail-d137.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <5328BD19.5010609@charter.net> I won't be able to make this as I have other things for Thurs. Evening. However, this should be a very good session. If the discussion after the movie sticks to the topic more than a bit of understanding might happen. I have a few comments that I will suggest that might make for further discussion. Since Professor Stewart-Frey is focused on climate change, it might be worth asking her to comment on the relationship between the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (a euphemism for Moonbeam Brown's Water Tunnels) and sea level rise. In particular, the BDCP documentation does not consider that effect of sea level rise on the location of facilities. They end up with the water tunnels terminating at the Clifton Forebay near Tracy and that location is only about 1 meter above current sea level. This makes me question why we would spend $ tens of Billions on new infrastructure with a short lifespan as they will inevitably become saline.;l We know that the demand for water will eventually cause all coastal areas to evaluate desalination. If there is one area where technology is moving in the right direction to make solutions feasible, this is it. One has only to browse E360 site from Yale or the Water Wired blog of Dr. Michael Campagna (Oregon State U) to find abundant reference to technologies that will greatly reduce the energy requirement for the process. There are already technologies that could make use of the solid byproducts. Then the major question becomes one of siting... where can you build the facilities to best provide the water at the least cost. I see a conflict in the way that water is managed in this area. Conservation should always be a primary objective. But the Santa Clara Valley Water District receives it's funds as a water wholesaler and, if everyone conserved to the maximum possible, the district would have a hard time meeting payroll. In other words, they are motivated to sell more water so that they can build more projects or pay for those already built; Finally, I would not be surprised to see a movement to limit the options for water users to take advantage of rain when it falls. While privatization is always a threat, we must consider that municipal utilities will eventually take the position that they should get all runoff. For example, water on my property that is not absorbed into the ground would flow naturally into Anderson Reservoir. I catch 250 - 300 gal from each rain event and use that on our fruit trees. The argument could be made that I would have no right to catch that water for home use but that it belongs to the Water District under the concept of prior use that is prevalent in most Western US states. Something similar has been argued in a Florida court where a home owner went completely off grid and also off city water. The court ruled that the homeowner did not have the right to do that since both the water and electric were municipal utilities and have a shared cost. If homeowners were allowed to opt-out, then cost recovery would drive up the rates for everyone else -- "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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Further work in this area in the 1960s and 1970s became known as "catastrophe theory" where, "Small changes in certain parameters of a nonlinear system can cause equilibria to appear or disappear, or to change from attracting to repelling and vice versa, leading to large and sudden changes of the behaviour" (Wikipedia, "Catastrophe theory"). This is important, because the prestige of AAAS should help marginalize the climate change deniers. Best Wishes, Spencer p.s. Might someone have time to skim the full AAAS report? If yes, I'd like to know if it mentions "chaos theory" or "catastrophe theory". I believe it should be cited in relevant Wikipedia articles. I don't have time at the moment to do that research, but I could help someone else with the knowledge to make appropriate changes to Wikipedia. -- 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 wrolley at charter.net Wed Mar 19 09:32:03 2014 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:32:03 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] AAAS: Climate change may trigger 'abrupt' world-wide consequences In-Reply-To: <532975F7.5030201@prodsyse.com> References: <532975F7.5030201@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <5329C683.9070508@charter.net> On 3/19/2014 3:48 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > > > p.s. Might someone have time to skim the full AAAS report? If yes, > I'd like to know if it mentions "chaos theory" or "catastrophe > theory". I believe it should be cited in relevant Wikipedia > articles. I don't have time at the moment to do that research, but I > could help someone else with the knowledge to make appropriate changes > to Wikipedia. Spencer, the full article is a very good summary statement of what is known and what is still un-known and has no reference to chaos theory. While risk assessment is a major subject in the report, it is referenced in terms of "tail risk". > Where there is a range of uncertainty, the high-side projections > represent tail risk, a common > concept in the world of finance. It is probably appropriate to express things in this manner as the terminology isin fairly common parlance from the discussion of the financial meltdown that we have just gone through. It is the financial risk of climate change that will probably drive much of the changes we need as insurance companies, real estate investment trusts, etc. take action to protect their assets. Consider what a 7 ft. sea level rise would do to S. Florida real estate. As the Daily Climate summarizes this: "The significance of Tuesday's report lies not in its findings, which cover familiar ground, but in who is saying it: the world's largest general scientific body, and one of its most respected." It should be deeply disconcerting to deniers that Katherine Hayhoe's name is on the report as she is political conservative (Republican?) and an Evangelical Christian. -- "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 wrolley at charter.net Wed Mar 19 09:43:02 2014 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:43:02 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] AAAS: Climate change may trigger 'abrupt' world-wide consequences In-Reply-To: <532975F7.5030201@prodsyse.com> References: <532975F7.5030201@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <5329C916.4050602@charter.net> On 3/19/2014 3:48 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > > > p.s. Might someone have time to skim the full AAAS report? If yes, > I'd like to know if it mentions "chaos theory" or "catastrophe > theory". I believe it should be cited in relevant Wikipedia > articles. I don't have time at the moment to do that research, but I > could help someone else with the knowledge to make appropriate changes > to Wikipedia. Spencer, the full article is a very good summary statement of what is known and what is still un-known and has no reference to chaos theory. While risk assessment is a major subject in the report, it is referenced in terms of "tail risk". > Where there is a range of uncertainty, the high-side projections > represent tail risk, a common > concept in the world of finance. It is probably appropriate to express things in this manner as the terminology isin fairly common parlance from the discussion of the financial meltdown that we have just gone through. It is the financial risk of climate change that will probably drive much of the changes we need as insurance companies, real estate investment trusts, etc. take action to protect their assets. Consider what a 7 ft. sea level rise would do to S. Florida real estate. As the Daily Climate summarizes this: "The significance of Tuesday's report lies not in its findings, which cover familiar ground, but in who is saying it: the world's largest general scientific body, and one of its most respected." It should be deeply disconcerting to deniers that Katherine Hayhoe's name is on the report as she is political conservative (Republican?) and an Evangelical Christian. -- "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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Ukraine shall be a unitary state. The territory of Ukraine within its present borders shall be indivisible and inviolable. Article 5. Ukraine shall be a republic. The people shall be the bearer of sovereignty and the sole source of power in Ukraine. The people shall exercise power directly or through the state authorities and local self-government bodies. The right to determine and change the constitutional order in Ukraine shall belong exclusively to the people and shall not be usurped by the State, its bodies, or officials. No one shall usurp the State power. Article 7. Local self-governance shall be recognised and guaranteed in Ukraine. Article 9. International treaties in force, consented by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as binding, shall be an integral part of the national legislation of Ukraine. Conclusion of international treaties, contravening the Constitution of Ukraine, shall be possible only after introducing relevant amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine. Article 40. Everyone shall have the right to address individual or collective petitions, or to personally recourse to public authorities, local self-government bodies, officials, and officers of these bodies obliged to consider the petitions, and to provide a substantiated reply within the period determined by law. Article 73. Alterations to the territory of Ukraine shall be resolved exclusively by the All-Ukrainian referendum. Article 157. The Constitution of Ukraine shall not be amended, if the amendments foresee the abolition or restriction of human and citizen rights and freedoms, or if they are aimed at the liquidation of the independence or violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The Constitution of Ukraine shall not be amended under the conditions of martial law or a state of emergency. The Constitution of Ukraine was adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996 Additional points in the constitution about Crimea: Title X THE AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA Article 134. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall be an integral constituent part of Ukraine and shall resolve issues relegated to its authority within the frame of its reference, determined by the Constitution of Ukraine. Article 135. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall have the Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by no less than one half of the constitutional membership of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Regulatory legal acts of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and decisions of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall not contradict the Constitution and laws of Ukraine and shall be adopted in accordance with and in pursuance of the Constitution of Ukraine, laws of Ukraine, acts of the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Article 136. The Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall be the representative body of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall, within its competence, adopt decisions and resolutions mandatory for execution in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall be the government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall be appointed or dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea subject to the consent of the President of Ukraine. The powers and the procedure for the formation and operation of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall be determined by the Constitution of Ukraine and laws of Ukraine, and by regulatory legal acts of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in relation to the issues within its competence. In the Autonomous Republic of Crimea justice shall be administered by courts belonging to the single system of courts of Ukraine. Article 137. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall effect normative regulation in the following areas: ?1) agriculture and forestry; ?2) land improvement and surface mining; ?3) public works, crafts and trades; charity; ?4) urban construction and housing management; ?5) tourism, hotel business, fairs; ?6) museums, libraries, theatres, other cultural establishments, historical and cultural conservation areas; ?7) public transportation, roadways, water supply; ?8) hunting and fishing; ?9) sanitary and hospital services. In case of nonconformity of regulatory legal acts of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with the Constitution of Ukraine and laws of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine may suspend such regulatory legal acts of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with a simultaneous appeal to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in regard to their constitutionality. Article 138. The following issues shall be under the authority of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea: ?1) call elections of deputies to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, approve of the membership of the electoral commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; ?2) organise and hold of local referendums; ?3) manage property that belongs to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; ?4) elaborate, approve, and execute the budget of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on the basis of the uniform tax and budget policy of Ukraine; ?5) develop, approve, and implement programmes of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea for socio-economic and cultural development, rational exploiting of natural resources and environmental protection in accordance with national programmes; ?6) grant the resort status for localities; establish zones for the sanitary protection of resorts; ?7) participate in ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens, national harmony, and promote the protection of legal order and public security; ?8) ensure the functioning and development of the state language and national languages and cultures in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; protect and use of historical monuments; ?9) participate in the development and realisation of state programmes for the return of deported peoples; ?10) initiate the introduction of a state of emergency and establish zones of ecological emergency as needed in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or in its particular areas. ?Other powers may also be delegated to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea by laws of Ukraine. 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If I think it should be reviewed by others, then we can discuss it in a monthly meeting or refer it to the County Council. (Unfortunately, I have too many other commitments to do much research and artistic creation.) Spencer On 3/19/2014 12:54 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > proposal for a web site update: > > presentation, information about and of candidates, > primarily current statewide, > past presidential candidates with their vote tallies and > accomplishments, current office holders > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 From perrysandy at aol.com Wed Mar 19 22:36:58 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:36:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Request for Agenda Items Thursday March 27th GPSCC Monthly Meeting In-Reply-To: <88875.47237e79.4058a562@aol.com> References: <88875.47237e79.4058a562@aol.com> Message-ID: <8D112158B8131F4-29B0-3B1B1@webmail-m249.sysops.aol.com> Hi Warner, I have three agenda item proposals. 1) That we endorse and participate in the following event on the evening of April 9 (exact time and place in San Jose TBA). It is being organized by Richard Hobbs and Human Agenda, so we might want to agendize it for when he can still be there. GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE CAN WE DO IT HERE? COME LEARN WHAT RICHMOND MAYOR GAYLE MCLAUGHLIN AND HER CITY COUNCIL ARE DOING FOR THE PEOPLE OF RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA --JOBS --HOUSING --HEALTH CARE --EDUCATION --ENVIRONMENT --PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN IMPLEMENT SOME OF THESE IDEAS HERE 2) Report on the Global Climate Convergence at De Anza Apr 22 to May 1. Drew and Sandy. 3) Report on the Andrew Hill Health Fair April 12. Caroline. Thanks! Sandy -----Original Message----- From: WB4D23 To: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 12:22 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Request for Agenda Items Thursday March 27th GPSCC Monthly Meeting March 17, 2014 Hello GPSCC Email List! Please submit your proposals for agenda items for our regular monthly meeting at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center on March 27th. I agreed to prepare the agenda at the February meeting. So far, I have noted Jim Doyle's requests for the Junior Statesman event on April 5th and to create a volunteers committee. It is my understanding that Richard Hobbs will be speaking on the local Move to Amend campaign for a county initiative. Also: I am listing the issue of County Council elections (assuming any information is available). Again, please submit your requests to this list. As always, please be clear about whether you are requesting to make a report, or have a discussion, or are making a proposal (in which case, clearly state the proposal) and how much time you think will be reasonably needed. Happy Spring Everybody! Warner _______________________________________________ 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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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Mar 20 15:15:45 2014 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:15:45 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item: web site update Message-ID: <532B6891.5030305@sbcglobal.net> I suggest we take 10 minutes or less for this proposal starting with the question is it even worth the effort considering the limited naverage number of hits per day, namely between 10 and 11? proposal for a web site update: presentation, information about and of candidates, primarily current statewide, past presidential candidates with their vote tallies and accomplishments, current office holders From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Mar 20 15:19:07 2014 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:19:07 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda item Message-ID: <532B695B.1020008@sbcglobal.net> report on community service students from DeAnza college 5, not more than 10 minutes From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu Mar 20 20:05:54 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] tabling opportunities, a 5-candidate flier? In-Reply-To: <532B8B97.5080604@effectivedefense.org> References: <532B8B97.5080604@effectivedefense.org> Message-ID: <1395371154.31768.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I thought the GPCA was saying we need to support our candidates. Here we are, ready to splash fliers around at our tabling events, and the GPCA can't come up with a flier? What are they for? ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves To: Jim Doyle ; Caroline Yacoub Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:45 PM Subject: tabling opportunities, a 5-candidate flier? Hi, Jim & Caroline: ? ? ? Jim just called about tabling opportunities coming soon.? I currently have 75 copies of the earlier 4 candidate flier, and I'm happy to print whatever you want (within reason);? my color laser still works ;-) ? ? ? I asked GPCA Forum for help creating a 5 candidate flier.? People agreed we should have such, but no one volunteered to help.? I think we need the following: ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.? Someone should draft a proposal for what we should have on that. ? ? ? ? ? ? 2.? Then someone should send that draft proposal with the current flier to all the candidates, asking them to provide input to an update. ? ? ? ? ? ? 3.? Then someone needs to combine the input received and edit it so it actually fits, reads well, etc. ? ? ? ? ? ? 4.? The product from "3" should further be circulated for more comments. ? ? ? ? ? ? 5.? The final result should be uploaded to the web, e.g., "cagreens.org/sclara/resources". ? ? ? I can handle the last step, and I'm willing to help with the first 4.? However, I'm not prepared to take the lead on this. ? ? ? Comments? ? ? ? Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PhD Executive Director Effective Defense 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph:? 408-655-4567 web:? www.effectivedefense.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <1395451263.69988.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Hello, I just today got a fundraising e-mail from the Loma-Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club saying that there may soon be fracking taking place in the Bay Area, including the Southern portion of Santa Clara county. I looked at their map of the areas that may soon be fracked in CA ( located here:? http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/fracking) and it didn't seem that the Bay Area will be heavily impacted.? Monterey county and Napa county and Contra Costa county appear to be heavily affected. It seems that the Monterey Shale formation contains 2/3 of the oil reserves of the US, more than our fair share of oil and of big money chasing oil that will be difficult to overcome. I'm glad I'm moving to Eugene, OR in June. There is little to no fracking currently occurring or planned in the state of Oregon, though there was a problem with the tar sands pipeline equipment being shipped through Portland and Eastern Oregon to the central US earlier this month. Other benefits of living in Eugene: the city recently passed a pro-fluoridation resolution, but the private water company that supplies drinking water to Eugene has no plans to fluoridate. There is no business license required for a home business and Eugene has no restrictions on storing your MLM pills and potions in your garage (though the neighboring town of Springfield technically bans selling anything not made on the premises). Both cities (as well as San Jose) ban having MLM groupies or other types of "employees" assemble at your residence. I'm sure there are other benefits too.? I will find out. John Thielking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pacific Daylight Time >Subj: YOUR CHANCE to motivate Congress on climate legislation... > >?Our Monthly Congressional Initiative this month, involves?. >? >?.calling into House and Senate committees or sub-committee chairs in the Majority/ranking members in the Minority, >on CLIMATE BILLS they each are handling? >? >BY CALLING 7 NUMBERS into Washington DC, you can ask that these bills move forward, while SHARING THIS:? >? >ONE - there is a new website created by Professor Jacobson at Stanford, on how all 50 states can go 100% renewable by 2030.? Check it our yourself - www.theSolutionsProject.org . >His team of fellow professors,? 2 at Cornell and 1 at UC Davis, were challenged by actor turned activist, Mark Ruffalo, wanting to have push back on the fracking industry in rural upstate NY where he makes his home with his young family. ?Filmmaker Josh Fox is in this mix now, as well. >? >TWO - that the American Association for the Advancement of Science, just issued a What We Know report, that states immediate action is necessary to avert irreversible climate chaos - the strongest statement ever made on a policy level, from scientists. >More action will follow from this group, with membership of over 120 thousand scientists and science supporters. >? >I have called these 7 numbers myself already:?? the reception has been MOST POSITIVE! >? >CALL #1 - ?to Senator Boxer's office (D - CA), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW).? She lets you leave a message directly to her, at 202-224-3553.? Your call is concerning S332 - known as the Climate Protect Act, which puts a price on carbon, with a fee and dividend approach, endorsed by leading US climatologist James Hansen, and the Citizens Climate Lobby.? She co-authored this bill with Senator Sanders (I - VT). >? >CALL #2 - to Senator Vitter's office (R - LA), new ranking member of the EPW cmte, S332 - see above.? His office number is 202-224-4623. >? >CALL #3 - to the office of the Senate Committee on Finance, chaired by Senator Wyden (D - OR), with ranking minority member Senator Hatch (R - UT).? This call is about the bill, S329 which cuts subsidies to Fossil Fuel, which President Obama has been asking for, since he ran as a presidential candidate.? The number to call is 202-224-5244. >? >CALL # 4 - to the office of Senator Hatch - see details above - at 202-224-5251. >? >CALL #5 - is to the House Cmte on Natural Resources, ?Majority Office, chaired by Rep Doc Hastings (R - WA), concerning bill HR2956 - ?Ending Welfare to Oil. It is the House counterpart to S329. ?The phone number to call is 202-225-2761. >? >CALL # 6 - is to the House Cmte on Natural Resources, Minority Office, headed by ranking member Peter DeFazio (D - OR).? See details above.? The number to call is 202-225-6065. >? >CALL #7 - is to the subcmte of the House Ways and Means Cmte, Energy and Mineral Resources.? The subcmte office handles both the Majority and Minority staff.? The bill HR 2956 -Ending Welfare to Oil - is going through this 2nd committee, chaired by Rep Lamborn (R - CO) and its minority ranking member is Rush Holt (D - NJ).? The number to call is 202-225-2761. >? >SUGGESTED SCRIPT - >? >I am calling as an effort going on with the Transition Express Campaign, based in Danville CA. >We are making calls onto Capitol Hill, urging passage of climate bills in both the House and Senate. >The urgency is due to new efforts by a team of professors at Stanford, Cornell and UC Davis, >issuing blueprints for all 50 states to go 100% renewable by 2030. >The details can be found at www.theSolutionsProject.org .? >Emphasize there is an s at the end of Solutions. >Make reference to the bill you are calling about. >? >Second point:? that the American Assoc for Advancemt of Science issued this past week, >the urgency for the US govt to take bolder action to avert irreversible climate chaos, >in their What We Know report.? This is the first policy-focused action they have ever taken. >They plan more action soon, from this group that has membership of over 120 thousand scientists and science supporters. >? >Share your name and city and state.? Thank them for passing this on to (legislator's name) and staff. >? >? >Feel free to take action anytime in the next week on this, even leaving messages over the weekend. >We welcome learning if you took this action - if so - contact me.? Thank you! >? >? >my best - Polly Rich, aka Priscilla >? >? >PS - see more details in links below, in my signature. >? >Priscilla Rich, founder&Exec Dir/Transition Express Campaign/Atlas Awards - Danville CA >www.TransitionExpress.vpweb.com? -? an advocacy group, promoting low carbon lifestyles by 2020, with focus on 100% Organics/Renewables movement, building Climate Teams city by city >? >NEW - petition to Congress asking for a Federal Budget that makes us sustainable by 2030 >http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-pass-a-budget-1 >? >NEW - now published, all 50 state blueprints, showing how each can go 100% Renewable, >by 2030 - www.theSolutionsProject.org ?- affiliated with Stanford University >?? ????? >for inspiring our new BeTheExample campaign-within-a-campaign, an Einstein quote:? >'Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.' >? >announcing 2 new websites? - www.AtlasAwards.vpweb.com ?and www.BeTheExample.vpweb.com ?- >presenting climate heroes yearly, and building climate teams locally - 2013 ATLAS AWARDEES still getting posted... >? >www.LowCarbonPledge.vpweb.com ??-? how all Americans can move towards clean energy - now 17 ways >www.RethinkingEnergy.vpweb.com? - affordable way to do energy retrofits on homes >www.SolvingClimateThreat.vpweb.com? - ?national action - see the latest! >www.SustainableDesign.vpweb.com? - resources on energy efficiency/clean energy/climate change >www.WorkingGreen.vpweb.com ???- ideas for creating a unique career in the new green economy >? >for those creating Climate Teams to speak to your mayor/city or town council... >? >www.go100percent.org- campaign effort of Renewables 100 Policy Institute, Santa Monica CA >www.renewables100.org- main website of institute listed immediately above >www.theSolutionsProject.org- Stanford U. Environment Engineering Professor Mark Z Jacobson's upcoming website, based on his team's study for state by state blueprints to go 100% -? sign up for updates >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-clark/mark-z-jacobson-renewable-energy_b_2859518.html ?- the back story on the Jacobson et al studies, state by state, to go 100% renewable >http://www.nationofchange.org/letterman-interviews-stanford-professor-about-us-transitioning-100-renewable-energy-1382622274 ?- Professor Jacobson on Letterman show, Oct 2013 - making clear 2020 is when we need to have policies in place to go 100% renewable, in time >? -- 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. 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Sandy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Fri Mar 21 22:27:34 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 22:27:34 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Can County Council Agree to Co-Sponsor Gatyle McLaughlin in San Jose? In-Reply-To: <8D113A49CF07F78-514-12776@webmail-d294.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D113A49CF07F78-514-12776@webmail-d294.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <532D1F46.4020700@structuremonitoring.com> Betsy and I concur with having the Santa Clara Greens co-sponsor local appearance(s) of the Green Mayor of Richmond, CA, Gayle McLaughlin. Spencer On 3/21/2014 10:13 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: > It occurred to me it would be unwise to wait until our meeting on the > 27th to consider co-sponsoring Gayle McLaughlin's appearance in San > Jose on April 9. If we agree to co-sponsor now, we can get our name on > the publicity. Can the County Council make a decision on this? As soon > as you do, I will transmit the information to Richard Hobbs, who is > organizing the event through Human Agenda. > Thanks! > 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 Sat Mar 22 08:19:16 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Can County Council Agree to Co-Sponsor Gatyle McLaughlin in San Jose? In-Reply-To: <532D1F46.4020700@structuremonitoring.com> References: <8D113A49CF07F78-514-12776@webmail-d294.sysops.aol.com> <532D1F46.4020700@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <1395501556.74630.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I agree to cosponsor. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Spencer Graves To: perrysandy at aol.com; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Can County Council Agree to Co-Sponsor Gatyle McLaughlin in San Jose? Betsy and I concur with having the Santa Clara Greens co-sponsor local appearance(s) of the Green Mayor of Richmond, CA, Gayle McLaughlin.? Spencer On 3/21/2014 10:13 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: It occurred to me it would be unwise to wait until our meeting on the 27th to consider co-sponsoring Gayle McLaughlin's appearance in San Jose on April 9. If we agree to co-sponsor now, we can get our name on the publicity. Can the County Council make a decision on this? As soon as you do, I will transmit the information to Richard Hobbs, who is organizing the event through Human Agenda. >? >Thanks! >? >? >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 Sat Mar 22 14:05:19 2014 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:05:19 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] cosponsor gayle mclaughlin Message-ID: <532DFB0F.6050408@sbcglobal.net> I concur with cosponsoring Gayle McLaughlin. Jim Doyle From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Sat Mar 22 15:01:19 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:01:19 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] cosponsor gayle mclaughlin In-Reply-To: <532DFB0F.6050408@sbcglobal.net> References: <532DFB0F.6050408@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <532E082F.6040607@structuremonitoring.com> Hi, Sandy, et al.: At the risk of wasting your time by belaboring the obvious, Jim's response (below) completes the official approval of the County Council for cosponsoring Gayle McLaughlin. Spencer On 3/22/2014 2:05 PM, Jim Doyle wrote: > I concur with cosponsoring Gayle McLaughlin. > Jim Doyle > _______________________________________________ > 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 From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Sat Mar 22 19:28:04 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:28:04 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara Police Harrassed anti-war protester; join us tomorrow 11:30 - 1, Stevens Creek & Winchester In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <532E46B4.4080904@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Below please find an email from David Ledesma, who had a brother killed in Vietnam. David has been vigiling every Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 AM - 1 PM at Stevens Creek and Winchester Blvd, on a corner that is inside the City of Santa Clara. Earlier today, he was harassed by an officer of the Santa Clara Police, claiming he was violating some city ordinance, though she wasn't sure which one. After the incident, attorney Dan Mayfield told Ledesma he would send letters to appropriate officials on Monday. If you can, please join David and Me tomorrow, Sunday, 11:30 AM - 1 PM, Stevens Creek and Winchester Blvd. Bring your favorite anti-war sign or just a camera ;-) Best Wishes, Spencer M: 408-655-4567 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Santa Clara Police: Sep 30, 2006 D?ja vu Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:31:52 -0700 From: david To: david ledesma Greetings everyone- Today, March 21, marks 11 years that I have been protesting against war and militarism (and other concerns I have) at the corner of Stevens Creek Blvd. & Winchester Blvd. (Santa Clara corner boundary). Today, I was approached by Santa Clara Police Officer, Jamie Ellis (Badge #189), and told someone called SCPD and made a complaint about the message on my signs. Ellis was given the complaint. She told me that it appeared there was a city ordinance not allowing sidewalk signs (like mine) but she wasn't sure it applied to me. She asked me if I had been out there before with my signs. I replied, "yes, for the past 11 years, every weekend". She then pointed to my sidewalk signs and asked if they have been the same signs. I said yes. She followed that up asking if I had ever been approached by SCDP about it, I said "yes, but it's already been resolved". She asked "how long ago", I replied "about 5 years ago". She inquired what happened, so I began explaining that a SCPD SWAT guy (who was on over time) driving a SCPD patrol car, wearing a black jump suit, with no badge and no identifying name plate, who didn't like my signs, told me I had to take down my sidewalk signs because there was a city ordinance not allowing them. When I asked which ordinance, he said if he had to look it up on his computer he would write me a citation. I went on to explain that I took my signs down and went straight to the SCPD to find out what ordinance. /When the officer on duty showed me which ordinance, I read it and said it didn't seem to apply to me and my signs. It applied to signs illegally fixed to the sidewalk or other city property. I asked how I could file a complaint against the SWAT guy for denying my right to Free Speech. He said I could start by coming to the City Offices on Monday and visit the Code Enforcement office, and that I could also ask to speak with the SCPD Watch Commander. So, I asked to speak with the Watch Commander./ By this time I could tell Ellis was getting a little impatient at my in depth explanation. So, I fast forwarded to explaining my attorney, Dan Mayfield, wrote a letter to the SCPD Chief and City Attorney that the ordinance did not apply to my situation and that my First Amendment right to Free Speech was violated by the SCPD officer. That I would return the following weekend with my signs and he would be present to observe. I ended by explaining that I returned the following weekend with 30 people, the San Jos? Mercury News and the Santa Clara Weekly, both who had an article and photos in their papers. Ellis then asked for my name. I gave her my name. She then asked me for my address. I asked why she needed my address. Then she asked for my I.D. to verify my address as part of her "investigation". She wanted to make sure I was who I said I was, in case I gave her a fake name. I told her I didn't want to give her my I.D., and reminded her that she said she wasn't even sure I was violating the ordinance in the first place. She again asked me for my name. I told her, "I already gave you my name". She said, "I mean your address". I said why don't you find out if I violated the ordinance, then come back tomorrow, I'll be here anyway". She said "I'm not interested in tomorrow, I'm asking you now". So, I asked to speak with the Watch Commander. She said "yes, now what's your name"? I said, I already gave you my name". She said, "I mean your address". She then said she's giving me a warning about my signs. I said, "a warning. You said you don't even know if I violated anything, and you're giving me a 'warning'?". I pointed to the "Yard Sale" sign on the corner next to my sign, that was attached by wire to the traffic light pole. She said "that's got nothing to do with this". I said, "nothing to do with this? That's the whole reason why you're here!". By this time another police car showed up. The officer asked, "does he have a permit for this?". I replied, "I don't need a permit". She again tried to get my I.D., and I refused. The other officer asked her to step away and talk. She said she would be back. They consulted for a couple minutes, I went back to my protest, then they both drove off. Maybe she'll be back tomorrow, maybe not. But, I will be there, 11:30am-1pm. Maybe I'll see you there too! -D. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Sun Mar 23 19:40:29 2014 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 22:40:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [gpca-ccwg] Press Release: Green Party endorses Jena Goodman for Lt. Gov... Message-ID: <27405.b45dfd6.4060f51c@aol.com> ____________________________________ From: press-release at cagreens.org Reply-to: gpca-ccwg at cagreens.org To: gpca-ccwg at cagreens.org Sent: 3/22/2014 1:44:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time Subj: [gpca-ccwg] Press Release: Green Party endorses Jena Goodman for Lt. Governor in June 2014 primary (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/?e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=1) NEWS ADVISORY GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2014 Contact: Jena Goodman, Green candidate for Lt. Governor ? _goodman.jena at gmail.com_ (mailto:goodman.jena at gmail.com) ? (707) 328-8654 (mailto:lrodrig555 at aol.com) Michael Feinstein, Green Party Spokesperson ? _mfeinstein at feinstein.org_ (mailto:mfeinstein at feinstein.org) ? (310) 392-8450 _http://www.cagreens.org/press-release/140319 _ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.cagreens.org/press-release/140319&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=2&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967ada d63&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email) Green Party endorses Jena Goodman for Lt. Governor in June 2014 primary Adding a student voice to its 2014 statewide slate, the Green Party of California announced today that it has endorsed 28 year-old UC Davis student _Jena Goodman_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https://www.facebook.com/Jenagoodmanltgovernor&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=3&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780 e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email) for Lieutenant Governor. In a state where chronic underfunding of higher education and the inequities it produces has become a rallying cry for students statewide, Goodman plans on focusing her campaign on college and university campuses. "It's time for a greater student voice in our state's politics," says Goodman. ?My vision is to bring more students and young adults into the political process, so we will actually be heard. My campaign will be reminiscent of a time when candidates took their message directly to the people, through soapbox speeches and townhall meetings. I will seek to mobilize students by engaging and speaking to their issues." A Vallejo resident, Goodman served as president of the Associated Students of Napa Valley College from 2012-2013, representing approximatley 8,000 students. Today she attends UC Davis, studying biodiversity and ecology. At 28 years old, she will the youngest candidate and the only woman on the ballot for Lieutenant Governor. _Goodman?s vision for a Green California_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNjz9Z95rXg&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=4 &e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=e mail) includes free higher education, living wage green jobs, and protecting California from climate change. ?I believe higher education is the key to solving a multitude of crises facing California,? Goodman explained. ?I will use my position as Lt. Governor (on the University of California Board of Regents, California State University Board of Trustees, and Chair of the Commission for Economic Development) to promote a green vision for investing in free higher education to prepare workers for the green economy, coupled with a Green New Deal program to create tens of thousands of living wage green jobs. By investing in education, we can expand opportunity, pull people out of poverty and shift California from fossil fuel dependency to a new green economy.? In 2013, Goodman joined students statewide (and the _Green Party_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.cagreens.org/announce/gpca-opposes- ab955&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=5&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63& utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email) ) in opposing _AB 955_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB955/2013&utm_campaign =pr1403219&n=6&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreen s&utm_medium=email) , a two-tier contract education bill approved by the legislature and signed into law by the governor. Goodman's alternative? "Instead of increasing the financial burden of attending community college on the individual student, while enacting a de facto privatized, fee-for-service education mode, we need to close the corporate tax loopholes in Proposition 13, tax oil extraction, and levying other progressive taxes to fully fund public colleges, health and human services, parks, and environmental restoration."If elected, Goodman will also serve on the State Lands Commission, where her background in biodiversity and ecology will assist her work to protect, preserve, and restore California?s public lands. A former chair of the _Solano County Green Party_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://greenpartysolanocounty.wordpress.com/&utm_campaign=pr14 03219&n=7&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreens&utm _medium=email) , Goodman also wants to use her campaign to build a political alternative to the Democratic/Republican stranglehold on government in California. ?The Green Party is the electoral voice for everyday people fighting for social justice, equal rights, and environmental justice,? Goodman explained. ?My campaign is about providing students, the working class, and the exploited with a political voice.? Goodman joins _four other Greens endorsed_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.cagreens.org/news/gpca-endorses-2014-statewide-candidates& utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=8&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_so urce=cagreens&utm_medium=email) in the June 2014 primary by the Green Party of California: _Luis Rodriguez_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.rodriguezforgovernor.org/&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=9&e=d777bb55257a 7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email) , Governor; _Laura Wells_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.LauraWells.org/&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=10&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad 63&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email) , Controller; _Ellen Brown_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.ellenbrown.com/treasurer&utm_cam paign=pr1403219&n=11&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=c agreens&utm_medium=email) , Treasurer; and _David Curtis_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.votedavidcurtis.org/&utm_campaign=pr1403219 &n=12&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreens&utm_med ium=email) , Secretary of State. About the Green Party of California The Green Party of California (GPCA) is guided by its _Platform_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.cagreens.org/platform&utm_campaign=pr 1403219&n=13&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreens& utm_medium=email) and the _Ten Key Values_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.cagreens.org/ten-key-values&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=14& e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=em ail) of the Green Movement: Ecological Wisdom, Grassroots Democracy, Social Justice, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Community Based Economics, Feminism, Respect for Diversity, Personal and Global Responsibility, and Sustainability. The Green Party has _endorsed_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://www.cagreens.org/news/gpca-endorses-2014-statewide-candidates&utm_campaign= pr1403219&n=15&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm_source=cagreen s&utm_medium=email) five candidates for statewide office in 2014: _Luis Rodriguez_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http://rodriguezforgovernor.org/&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=16&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63 &utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email) (Governor), _Jena Goodman_ (http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https://www.facebook.com/Jenagoodmanltgoverno r&utm_campaign=pr1403219&n=17&e=d777bb55257a7d6ab52f780e960dca7967adad63&utm _source=cagreens&utm_medium=email) (Lt. 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URL: From rainbeaufriend at riseup.net Mon Mar 24 08:10:10 2014 From: rainbeaufriend at riseup.net (Drew) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 08:10:10 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Police Kill Homeless Man In-Reply-To: <1395672909.70474.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1395672909.70474.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <6f461d1d-3316-4e1d-aeee-83c2ecd87f6d@email.android.com> If that's a reference to the California State Fish and Wildlife department action with San Jose, I must say it would be quite a stretch to call that agency "environmentalists". Green is humanitarian, Drew John Thielking wrote: >At least these environmentalists aren't anti-homeless: >http://www.realfarmacy.com/apd-kill-homeless/ > >John Thielking > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition Hip Hop Congress has been providing leadership development, community education, and cultural support at the grassroots, academic and industry level. HHC has been at the heart of movements around Urban Arts education, youth and urban civic engagement, social justice movements and visionary artistic and spiritual initiatives. If you're reading this, it's very likely that Hip Hop Congress has touched your life somehow. Now we need your support. Please purchase a shirt and/or hoodie. Share this on your twitter and on your facebook page. Let your chapter, organizations and friends know. The shirt is a fundraiser to launch some of our new project. And new projects will help launch our organization into a new stratosphere. And once you receive your shirt, take a picture and post it to your facebook page or tweet it. Thank you for your support over the years, and your continued support in the years to come. 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URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Mon Mar 24 08:25:30 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 08:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Police Kill Homeless Man In-Reply-To: <6f461d1d-3316-4e1d-aeee-83c2ecd87f6d@email.android.com> References: <1395672909.70474.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <6f461d1d-3316-4e1d-aeee-83c2ecd87f6d@email.android.com> Message-ID: <1395674730.23002.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I'm referring to the anti-vaccine people who posted the article. Misguided though some may believe they are about vaccines, they are what I call "good environmentalists". Unfortunately it is often the case that "environmentalists" at least in Santa Cruz are often more concerned about trash in the poignip than they are about the civil rights of the unhoused. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Drew To: GPSCC Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Police Kill Homeless Man If that's a reference to the California State Fish and Wildlife department action with San Jose, I must say it would be quite a stretch to call that agency "environmentalists". Green is humanitarian, Drew John Thielking wrote: At least these environmentalists aren't anti-homeless: >http://www.realfarmacy.com/apd-kill-homeless/ > > >John Thielking >________________________________ > >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ 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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Andrea Dorey (5 minutes) Report on March De Anza Community College political organizing workshop ? Drew Johnson and Sandy Perry (10 Minutes) Discussion regarding internal GPCA elections for County Council ? Spencer (10 minutes) Discussion re student interns ? Spencer Graves (15 minutes) Request for GPSCC web page update to show GPCA June 3rd Primary Election candidates (primarily statewide office candidates), plus GPUS Presidential candidates and positions; plus current GPCA officeholders ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Health Care Committee Report ? Andrew Health Fair scheduled for April 12th ? Sandy Pery (10 Minutes) Environment Committee Report -- Global Convergence scheduled for De Anza Community College April 22nd to May 1st ? Drew Johnson and Sandy Perry (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? (10 Minutes) ?Silent Running? as a film proposal ? Caroline Yacoub (5) Plan for Tabling ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Junior Statesman Saturday April 5th afternoon Gayle McLaughlin (Richmond Mayor) speech Wednesday April 9th evening (endorsed by GPSCC County Council) Others? (2 Hours Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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President Obama has the legal authority to stop deportations and expand administrative relief to the undocumented community NOW. Waiting for the three month review, as he suggested, will only lead to more pain as 101,200 people could be deported in that time. Sign the petition: Demand that DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz lead her party in taking a stand against unjust family separations. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz and all Democrats have to decide which side they're on. Will they stand with Latinos and the immigrant community to keep our families together, or will they stand with those who continue to support the terrorizing of our families under this administration?s enforcement machine? We're asking Democrats to reclaim their history of inclusivity, and expanding opportunity for all in this country. Sign the petition and send a clear message to the DNC: Stand on the right side of history or leave your legacy as the Deportation Party. 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We have colorful handouts and a fun ?Do The Math? display that will start great conversations!? We will also be handing out information on our upcoming big KXL event on 4/27 ? look for more info on this event soon. ? Tabling is fun and a great way to grow our 350 Silicon Valley group!? Below are the events:? If you can help, please reply to this email and let me know which events and we will send more info. ? Saturday, April 5th ? City of Cupertino, 11 am ? 3 pm ? Tuesday, April 15th ? Microsoft, Mountain View, 3 ? 5:30 pm ? Thursday, April 17th ? Mission College, Santa Clara, 10:30 am ? 1:30 pm ? Saturday, April 19th ? Earth Day SF Action Parade & Rally, San Francisco, 11 am ? 2 pm ? Saturday, April 19th ? Marine Science Institute, Redwood City, 10 am ? 5 pm ? Tuesday, April 22nd ? Santa Clara University, 11:30 am ? 3 pm ? Wednesday, April 25th ? Escondido Elementary School, Palo Alto, 6 ? 9 pm ? Saturday, April 26th ? City of Fremont, 11 am ? 3 pm ? ? Thanks all! ? 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In my letter I point out that those individuals who are subject to this order will have no legal means of support (not from family sending them money, nor homeless shelters providing food and shelter).? That is essentially a death sentence if it were rigerously enforced.? I don't want to repost it here since I personally attack John Kerry in my rant and it would not be in good taste to post it here, but you are welcome to search for it on Facebook. John Thielking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In my letter I point out that those individuals who are subject to this order will have no legal means of support (not from family sending them money, nor homeless shelters providing food and shelter). That is essentially a death sentence if it were rigerously enforced. I don't want to repost it here since I personally attack John Kerry in my rant and it would not be in good taste to post it here, but you are welcome to search for it on Facebook. John Thielking _______________________________________________ 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 Wed Mar 26 19:49:40 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:49:40 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] "Inequality for All" next Sunday, March 30, 2-4:30 PM Message-ID: <533391C4.2020700@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Just a reminder: "Inequality for All" will be shown again next Sunday, March 30, 2 - 4:30 PM, at the San Jos? Peace & Justice Center. After the movie, we will discuss what we can do about it. A list of alternative actions discussed last Friday is available as "Combatting Inequality for All" at wiki.rootstrikers.org (http://wiki.rootstrikers.org/index.php?title=Combatting_Inequality_for_All). The suggested actions include the following: 1. Make "talking politics" the national sport. If you want to terrorize the ultra-wealthy, vote -- but don't vote for anyone who can afford television advertising ;-) 2. Be active politically 3. Understand the business model of commercial media 4. Increase the minimum wage 5. Support unions: The US had broadly shared economic growth from 1947 to 1970 when unions were strong. Since then, we've had slower growth, and most of the benefits have gone into manufacturing an ultra-wealthy class we didn't have in 1970. 6. Improve public education 7. Support electoral reforms such as discussed in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the United States". Regarding the latter, we'll have petitions to sign for SB 52 (requiring political advertisements to clearly identify their top three contributors) and the Santa Clara County Move to Amend initiative -- plus voter registration forms. Y'all come. 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 -- 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 rainbeaufriend at riseup.net Thu Mar 27 07:04:01 2014 From: rainbeaufriend at riseup.net (Drew) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:04:01 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: ATM fees robbing welfare-to-work funds in California In-Reply-To: <305470666.1499786116@kos.kosDB.mail.salsalabs.com> References: <305470666.1499786116@kos.kosDB.mail.salsalabs.com> Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- From: "Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos" Sent: Wed Mar 26 11:09:57 PDT 2014 To: originalpatriot at RiseUp.net Subject: Sign the petition: ATM fees robbing welfare-to-work funds in California Mark, sign the petition telling big banks in California to stop ripping off welfare recipients $19 million per year in ATM fees. Click here to sign the petition. [ https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/747 ] In California and elsewhere, most recipients of the state's welfare-to-work program receive their monthly checks through an EBT (electronic benefit transfer) card. But each time they use these cards to get cash, the banks charge them an ATM fee. A recent study [1] found that in 2012 big banks took "more than $19 million" out of the pockets of low-income Californians alone-just from ATM fees on their EBT cards. The average family on CalWORKS (the state's welfare-to-work program) earns about $510 per month. Citibank has, to its credit, agreed to waive ATM fees for state-issued EBT cards. But big banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase continue this abhorrent practice. Sign the petition to the big banks, telling them to stop ripping off California's welfare-to-work recipients to the tune of $19 million per year in ATM fees. [ https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/747 ] Keep fighting, Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos [1] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/25/1287213/-Big-banks-ATM-fees-rip-off-19-million-from-welfare-recipients?detail=email If you don't want us emailing you anymore, click here: https://kos.salsalabs.com/o/60000/unsubscribe.jsp?Email=originalpatriot at RiseUp.net&email_blast_KEY=10169&organization_KEY=60000 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Thu Mar 27 09:21:09 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: ATM fees robbing welfare-to-work funds in California In-Reply-To: References: <305470666.1499786116@kos.kosDB.mail.salsalabs.com> Message-ID: <1395937269.26025.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I'm currently using my Direct Express debit card for receiving my SSDI payments. I have the option of being charged $1.50 to make one big deposit into my Chase checking account and then using the free ATMs to make withdrawls. I am being charged $10 per month for having less than the minimum required balance in my checking account. Since I'm trying to avoid using Chase altogether (see previous e-mails on this for background) and I don't yet have another checking account that I could use in Eugene, OR in June, I'm stuck being charged $3 per ATM withdrawl at any ATM other than Chase so that I don't give any more money to Chase.? It would be nice if I weren't being charged the $3 each time I use the ATMs, but for now I'm not complaining too much. I'm just glad to no longer be using Chase for much of anything. Can the CA benefits card be used as a regular debit card/charge card? If so there should be no fees when it is used at a store to make a purchase and get cash back. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Drew To: GPSCC Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 6:04 AM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: ATM fees robbing welfare-to-work funds in California ________________________________ From: "Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos" Sent: Wed Mar 26 11:09:57 PDT 2014 To: originalpatriot at RiseUp.net Subject: Sign the petition: ATM fees robbing welfare-to-work funds in California Mark, sign the petition telling big banks in California to stop ripping off welfare recipients $19 million per year in ATM fees. Click here to sign the petition. In California and elsewhere, most recipients of the state?s welfare-to-work program receive their monthly checks through an EBT (electronic benefit transfer) card. But each time they use these cards to get cash, the banks charge them an ATM fee. A recent study found that in 2012 big banks took more than $19 million out of the pockets of low-income Californians alone?just from ATM fees on their EBT cards. The average family on CalWORKS (the state?s welfare-to-work program) earns about $510 per month. Citibank has, to its credit, agreed to waive ATM fees for state-issued EBT cards. But big banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase continue this abhorrent practice. Sign the petition to the big banks, telling them to stop ripping off California?s welfare-to-work recipients to the tune of $19 million per year in ATM fees. Keep fighting, Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos P.S. Please help keep Daily Kos strong by chipping in $3. To unsubscribe from ALL Daily Kos emails, visit this link. To opt-out ONLY from action emails, visit this link. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ 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 Mar 27 09:38:40 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:38:40 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Dark Money bill one vote short of passage - can be voted on again In-Reply-To: <218404b9b7d17b8e087467c450f0975ebff.20140327021002@mail25.atl71.mcdlv.net> References: <218404b9b7d17b8e087467c450f0975ebff.20140327021002@mail25.atl71.mcdlv.net> Message-ID: <53345410.3080007@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: If you have a Facebook account, could you please go to the link provided below and "Like" SB 27 (http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45&id=9f6a983a1c&fblike=fblike-08dc5138&e=0f0975ebff&socialproxy=http%3A%2F%2Fus7.campaign-archive1.com%2Fsocial-proxy%2Ffacebook-like%3Fu%3D218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45%26id%3D9f6a983a1c%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ffacebook.com%252FCAcleanmoney%253Fref%253Dts%26title%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ffacebook.com%252FCAcleanmoney%253Fref%253Dts)? Also, consider consider sending an email as outlined below. SB 27 would close a loophole that allows "non-profits" to avoid reporting political expenditures. The current version of the bill includes an "urgency" clause, which means that it would become effective immediately (when passed by both Assembly and Senate and signature by the Governor). Because of this, it requires over 2/3 to pass. In a vote earlier this month (March 17), it got 26 yes votes out of 39 total and failed. (It got 4 no votes and 9 abstentions, but abstentions count as "no" for this purpose.) If you think big money should decide who runs the government of California, then you should oppose SB 27 and other initiatives of the California Clean Money campaign. Spencer p.s. Please come to the Green Party monthly meeting tonight at the San Jos? Peace & Justice Center, 48 South Seventh St., San Jos?, CA. At 7 PM Rob Means will ask us to sign the Santa Clara County Move to Amend initiative. This will be followed by the regular Green meeting, 7:30 - 9:30. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Dark Money bill one vote short of passage - can be voted on again Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:10:16 +0000 From: Trent Lange, CA Clean Money Dark Money bill one vote short of passage - can be voted on again "Republican state senators block campaign disclosure bill" ? /LA Times/ Last week the Senate missed a great opportunity to pass what should have been a no-brainer: SB 27, the bill to make Dark Money non-profits reveal their secret contributors when they try to buy California elections. The LA Times tells the story : /"Republican state Senators on Monday blocked a bill that would require more disclosure of those who contribute money through nonprofit groups to affect California elections... With all Republicans either voting against the bill or withholding a vote, the tally was 26 to 4 [with 9 abstentions], one vote short of the two-thirds majority to approve SB 27..."/ *The good news is that SB 27 can come up for another vote ? and we've got their attention because over 30,000 people have signed petitions and hundreds of people have made calls demanding they vote Yes.* Much of the massive support for S.B. 27 is generated through social media as hundreds of people shared petitions on Facebook and Twitter. *Now, please flex _your_ social media power to help get S.B. 27 over its last hurdle:* Several Republican Senators said they would vote for SB 27 if it took effect next year instead of now, because having it take effect now would be /"changing the rules in the middle of the game"/. But as columnist George Skelton of the LA Times said in response, /"If a rule is rotten, it should be chucked immediately."/ Skelton pointed out a very reasonable compromise ? Have SB 27 take effect July 1st, as planned, but exempt all money given before that date. There are other potential compromises ? but we need to keep pressuring the Senate to get it done. Ask People To Sign the Petition for S.B. 27 by Email! Not on Facebook, or want to do more? Then please email your friends to sign the petition: E.g., copy the below text into your email program: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Sign the petition to stop dark money with SB 27! Are you as unhappy about secret billionaires and other special interests trying to buy elections as I am? Then please sign the petition for SB 27, which will require any group spending significant amounts in California elections to report exactly who gave the money. It's a key step towards passing the California DISCLOSE Act! 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As in the novel '1984', violence (80 dead in Kiev at the hands of Neo-Nazi snipers) is nonviolence (or at least nonviolent democratic 'victims' at the hands of Yanocovich) and nonviolence (as in the Russian takeover of Crimea) is violence. John Thielking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Mar 27 10:35:04 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:35:04 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] CA DISCLOSE Message-ID: <53346148.7050307@prodsyse.com> Hi, All: According to the California Clean Money Campaign, the most important electoral reform currently under consideration in California is the Disclose Act, SB 52. This would require political ads to prominently display their top three donors. I will bring blank petitions to the Green Party meeting tonight. Or download the petition from "http://www.caclean.org/content/pdf/ccmc_sb52_petition.pdf", sign it (and get others to sign). Then either mail it to the address on the bottom of the form or scan it and email to an address on the form. Thanks, Spencer p.s. This petition was also circulated last year. It passed the Senate but has so far not come up in the House. If you aren't sure if you've already signed, please sign. Duplicates will be removed. -- 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 WB4D23 at aol.com Thu Mar 27 11:29:40 2014 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:29:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Final Draft Agenda for Tonight's GPSCC Meeting Bring Your Own Copy Message-ID: <8de95.504507b5.4065c814@aol.com> GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General Meeting March 27, 2014 San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA (Between Santa Clara and San Fernando Streets) 7:00 pm ? Speaker: Richard Hobbs/Santa Clara County Move to Amend 7:30 pm ? Begin meeting -- Select Facilitator, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Announcement: The next GPCA General Assembly of Delegates (Plenary) will be in Santa Barbara. CA Saturday-Sunday June 21-22, 2014 Treasurer?s Report ? Jim Doyle (5 minutes) Report on status of P. O. Box ? Continued from February meeting ? Andrea Dorey (5 minutes) Report on March De Anza Community College political organizing workshop ? Drew Johnson and Sandy Perry (10 Minutes) Status Report regarding internal GPCA elections for County Council ? Warner Bloomberg (1 minute) ? Sanda Everette reports that the GPCA Coordinating Committee has a plan that will be disclosed as part of the Plenary Agenda packet Discussion re student interns ? Spencer Graves (15 minutes) Request for GPSCC web page update to show GPCA June 3rd Primary Election candidates (primarily statewide office candidates), plus GPUS Presidential candidates and positions; plus current GPCA officeholders ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Health Care Committee Report ? Andrew Health Fair scheduled for April 12th ? Sandy Pery (10 Minutes) Environment Committee Report -- Global Convergence scheduled for De Anza Community College April 22nd to May 1st ? Drew Johnson and Sandy Perry (10 Minutes) Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? (10 Minutes) ?Silent Running? as a film proposal ? Caroline Yacoub (5) Plan for Tabling ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Junior Statesman Saturday April 5th afternoon Gayle McLaughlin (Richmond Mayor) speech Wednesday April 9th evening (endorsed by GPSCC County Council) Earth Day ? April 22nd Santa Clara University; April ?? San Jose State University Others? (2 Hours Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Thu Mar 27 18:08:38 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:08:38 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: SJPJC-Board Fw: "WE FEAR FOR OUR LIVES..." Urgent Letter needed for Coca Cola workers in Colombia In-Reply-To: <1395966647.13342.YahooMailNeo@web161703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1395966647.13342.YahooMailNeo@web161703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5334CB96.1090000@effectivedefense.org> Will the Green Party of Santa Clara County endorse the letter from Fred Hirsch asking Coca Cola to negotiate fairly with workers and unions in Colombia and stop attacking union leaders? For details, see below. Spencer -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SJPJC-Board Fw: "WE FEAR FOR OUR LIVES..." Urgent Letter needed for Coca Cola workers in Colombia Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:30:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Shelby Minister Reply-To: sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com To: SJPJC Partners , "sjpjcboard at googlegroups.com" , San Jose Community Members Dear Community Partners and Friends, SJPJC has recently signed onto this letter from Fred Hirsch pleading Coca Cola to negotiate fairly with its workers and unions in Colombia and to stop the attacks against union leaders. Please see his letter below. I urge your organizations to sign on as well. Sincerely, *Shelby Minister Coordinator San Jose Peace and Justice Center 48 S. 7th Street, San Jose* *//*---------------------------------------------------- *Brothers, Sisters and Friends, We?ve received an urgent message from William Mendoza and Juan Carlos Galvis in Barranquilla, northern Colombia. They are leaders in Sinaltrainal (National Union of Food Industry Workers), representing workers in Coca Cola bottling plants. Their message says, ?We fear for the lives of our union leaders. Please send protest letters to Coca Cola. The company is making war against us.? Their words are anything but just a figure of speech. Their fears are palpable. Sinaltrainal at Coca Cola has endured a history as terror victims that includes the assassination of eleven leaders and activists. I met William Mendoza in Barrancabermeja in 2002 when my union, Plumbers and Fitters Local 393, in San Jose, CA, sent me on a labor delegation to Colombia. Not long ago William?s young daughter was grabbed into a car in broad daylight. The abductors were thwarted by his wife, who ran screaming into the street. She stopped all traffic and managed to free the traumatized four year old from the kidnap vehicle. A few years ago masked paramilitaries invaded Juan Carlos Galvis? home demanding to know his whereabouts. They tied up his wife, sprayed her with red paint and threatened to kill their little girl. The thugs were frustrated and fled. Both men have had to move their families to other cities. William says, ?We have no choice but to struggle. We must protect our families and children, but struggle is our brother? With the company refusing to bargain in good faith and demanding to impose an unfair contract, the workers mounted protests at bottling plants in various cities. They were attacked by the police in Barranquilla. A worker with access to a management office found photos of Sinaltrainal leaders in a copy machine. William says, ?We are very concerned about the intended use of these photos. We fear for our lives and safety.? In 2001 and 2006 lawsuits were filed in the U.S. **on behalf of Sinaltrainalby the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund. The lawsuits charged that Coca Cola bottlers in Colombia ?contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilized extreme violence and murdered, tortured and unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders.? Labor disputes and collective bargaining for Sinaltrainal have never been smooth. Their process of serving the needs of the workers has always been under the gun. Today it seems to be a matter of life and death again. Juan Carlos Galvis once told the workers,**"If we lose this fight against Coke, first we will lose our union, next we will lose our jobs, and then we will lose our lives.? We can act to prevent that outcome. We can help alleviate the danger by taking the time to do what they ask of us ? send letters to Coca Cola demanding that the company protect the lives of Sinaltrainal members, activists and leaders. Urge the company to bargain in good faith for an orderly and peaceful resolution of the labor dispute. Demand an end to union busting violence, no more intimidation, no more threats ? no more death! There is no moral, ethical or human reason to allow the Coca Cola Company to continue to be enriched by the lifeblood of the workers. *(There is a wealth of additional information available at http://killercoke.org) * Please send letters and/or make phone calls to one or all three of these company officials. Here is a sample letter, but do better, write your own. If you will send only one letter, please send it to Gary Fayard, as Director of Coca Cola FEMSA he has the most direct responsibility for their bottlers in Colombia. Your individual letter is powerful, but if you can get your union or other organization to sign on, that would be all the more powerful. In solidarity, Fred Hirsch * (Please forward this request to your lists, contacts and friends) *------------------------------------------------ /Dear Coca Cola Executive/**/, I have heard from the leaders of the National Union of Food Industry Workers (Sinaltrainal) in Colombia. I am writing to you to demand that the Coca Cola Company take action to bargain with them in good faith and reach a fair and adequate labor agreement. It has been charged in open court that Coca Cola has contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilized extreme violence and murdered, tortured and unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders. We also have learned that the company has dodged any objective investigation of such charges. Coca Cola?s union busting intimidation continues to this day in Colombia. Such uncivilized corporate behavior must stop. There is no justice in imposing an unfair contract. The company must sit down and negotiate a fair contract with Sinaltrainal workers so they and their families can work and live in peace. Until that happens, I will spread the word to my friends, my union, my church and my community to boycott the products of the Coca Cola company. It is up to you to allow justice to prevail. Sincerely, / _______________________________________________________________________ *Muhtar Kent Chairman & CEO The Coca-Cola Company P.O. Box 1734 Atlanta, GA 30301-1734 Telephone 404-676-2121 Gary Fayard Chief Financial Officer & Executive VP The Coca-Cola Company Director, Coca-Cola FEMSA P.O. Box 1734 Atlanta, GA 30301-1734 Telephone 404-676-2121 Ed Potter Director Global Workplace Rights The Coca-Cola Company P.O. Box 1734 Atlanta, GA 30301-1734 404-676-2379 email: _epotter at na.ko.com _ ------ End of Forwarded Message -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SJPJC-Board" group. 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URL: From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Mar 27 22:11:29 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:11:29 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green meeting March 27, 2014, minutes In-Reply-To: <8de95.504507b5.4065c814@aol.com> References: <8de95.504507b5.4065c814@aol.com> Message-ID: <53350481.9030808@prodsyse.com> (Please "reply to all" with any addition / correction) On 3/27/2014 11:29 AM, WB4D23 at aol.com wrote: > > *G**REENPARTYOF SANTACLARACOUNTY* > > DraftAgendaforMonthlyGeneralMeetingMarch 27,2014 > > San JosePeaceandJusticeCenter,48South7thStreet,San Jose,CA (Between > Santa ClaraandSan Fernando Streets) > > 7:00pm -- Speaker:Richard Hobbs/Santa Clara County Move to Amend > Rob Means: Build Democracy, End Corporate Rule (BDECR = PAC to support this) in Santa Clara County = group supporting a local MTA initiative. To put anything on the county-wide ballot: $1.25 per registered voter. Target = 51,000. At the end of this weekend, we'll have over 2,000. Deadline = May 15. (started in December.) Other events: 3/28, Friday, film screening of Cesar Chavez movie at Tech Museum in San Jose 3/28, Friday, 10:30am, public meeting with Anna Eschoo at Campbell Community Center, 1 W. Campbell Ave 3/30, Sunday, 2:00pm, film screening of Inequality for All at S. J. Peach & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose 4/5, Saturday, 6:00pm, COPE/Richard Trumka at S. J. Convention Center, 150 West San Carlos, San Jose 4/9, Wednesday, 7:00pm, Richmond Mayor Gayle Mclaughlin, Laborers Local 270, 509 Emory St., San Jose 4/10, Thursday, 8:00pm, Hillary Clinton at San Jose Event Center, SJSU, One Washington Square, San Jose 4/26, Saturday, Michael Eggman, > 7:30pm -- Beginmeeting -- Select > > Facilitator: Tian > > ,Note taker: Spencer > > ,Time keeper: Sandy > > ,andVibes watcher(s) > > ;SelectAgendaPreparerfor next meeting; Sandy > > Affirmor modifydraftagenda(5 Minutes) > > IntroductionsandAnnouncements(10Minutes) > Tian Harter Sandy Perry Spencer Graves Blair: Warner Bloomberg: John Jensen > Announcement:The next GPCA General Assembly of Delegates (Plenary) > will be in Santa Barbara. CA Saturday-Sunday June 21-22, 2014 > > Treasurer'sReport-- JimDoyle(5 minutes) > balance: $1,004.18 passed hat: collected $18. > Report on status of P. O. Box -- Continued from February meeting -- > Andrea Dorey > > (5 minutes) > PO Box 611083, San Jose, CA 95161. > Report on March De Anza Community College political organizing > workshop -- Drew Johnson and Sandy Perry (10Minutes) > Sandy: We had a workshop LEAD conference March 11, Latino Empowerment. Conference on global climate workshop. Had a workshop on Syria. Workshop on eco-feminism. Arranging for Angela Davis to speak May 12. > Status Report regarding internal GPCA elections for County Council -- > Warner Bloomberg(1 minute) -- Sanda Everette reports that the GPCA > Coordinating Committee has a plan that will be disclosed as part of > the Plenary Agenda packet > No action will be taken until after the General Assembly in Santa Barbara in June. > Discussion re student interns -- Spencer Graves (15 minutes) > Referred to Sandy, who tried to contact the woman, who has not yet responded. > Request for GPSCC web page update to show GPCA June 3^rd Primary > Election candidates (primarily statewide office candidates), plus GPUS > Presidential candidates and positions; plus current GPCA officeholders > -- Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) > Warner sent me an email with information, which I can include on the web page. > Health Care Committee Report -- Andrew Health Fair scheduled for April > 12^th -- Sandy Pery (10Minutes) > Work with Caroline: We can speak if we have a speaker. Caroline will not be there. Sandy will be doing something else. We need a speaker. Large event, ~ 500 people. Caroline will table. Obamacare is fraying. It's a reasonable time to talk about single payer. Even if we get it passed by the legislature and signed by a governor ... . > Environment Committee Report --Global Convergence scheduled for De > Anza Community College April 22^nd to May 1^st -- Drew Johnson and > Sandy Perry (10 Minutes) > Global climate convergence -- to bring together environmental with economic justice movements. Shamako will help. Earth day together with their environmental sustainability. Cultural day April 30. Organize a stop deportations day. National party: Series of events in Philadelphia. Are the state party or national party media groups involved? Answer: We're doing something here, but not coordinated with the state party. > Discussionofstatusoftablingsupplies-- (10 Minutes) > Spencer to ask Trent if we could make buttons "Big money / Big Ideas: Which side are you on"? We can make buttons for them ... . > "Silent Running" as a film proposal -- Caroline Yacoub (5) > > Plan forTabling-- Need to identify event coordinators -- (15Minutes) > Contact Caroline if interested. > Junior StatesmanSaturday April 5^th afternoon > > Gayle McLaughlin (Richmond Mayor) speech Wednesday April 9^th evening > (endorsed by GPSCC County Council) > > Earth Day -- April 22^nd Santa Clara University; April ?? San Jose > State University > > Others? > Someone needs to contact Santa Clara U. and SJSU. Contact Jim Doyle to see if he has information, then make appropriate contacts. Tian can't do it by himself. Warner might be available, but can't organize it. Topographic map: John Jensen (5 minutes) map with lines of constant elevation. 100 meter sea level rise: Sacramento = salt water port. > (2HoursEstimatedCumulativeTimes.Goal:Adjournby 9:30pm) > > ### > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 perrysandy at aol.com Thu Mar 27 22:26:53 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:26:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green meeting March 27, 2014, minutes In-Reply-To: <53350481.9030808@prodsyse.com> References: <8de95.504507b5.4065c814@aol.com> <53350481.9030808@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <8D1185D76464F5A-BCC-AF9C@webmail-vm038.sysops.aol.com> Hi Spencer: One small correction: Caroline will be present at the Health Fair, but she will not be available to speak. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves To: WB4D23 ; sosfbay-discuss Sent: Thu, Mar 27, 2014 10:12 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Green meeting March 27, 2014, minutes (Please "reply to all" with any addition / correction) On 3/27/2014 11:29 AM, WB4D23 at aol.com wrote: GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY Draft Agenda for Monthly General Meeting March 27, 2014 San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA (Between Santa Clara and San Fernando Streets) 7:00 pm ? Speaker: Richard Hobbs/Santa Clara County Move to Amend Rob Means: Build Democracy, End Corporate Rule (BDECR = PAC to support this) in Santa Clara County = group supporting a local MTA initiative. To put anything on the county-wide ballot: $1.25 per registered voter. Target = 51,000. At the end of this weekend, we'll have over 2,000. Deadline = May 15. (started in December.) Other events: 3/28, Friday, film screening of Cesar Chavez movie at Tech Museum in San Jose 3/28, Friday, 10:30am, public meeting with Anna Eschoo at Campbell Community Center, 1 W. Campbell Ave 3/30, Sunday, 2:00pm, film screening of Inequality for All at S. J. Peach & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose 4/5, Saturday, 6:00pm, COPE/Richard Trumka at S. J. Convention Center, 150 West San Carlos, San Jose 4/9, Wednesday, 7:00pm, Richmond Mayor Gayle Mclaughlin, Laborers Local 270, 509 Emory St., San Jose 4/10, Thursday, 8:00pm, Hillary Clinton at San Jose Event Center, SJSU, One Washington Square, San Jose 4/26, Saturday, Michael Eggman, 7:30 pm ? Begin meeting -- Select Facilitator: Tian , Note taker: Spencer , Time keeper: Sandy , and Vibes watcher(s) ; Select Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Sandy Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) Tian Harter Sandy Perry Spencer Graves Blair: Warner Bloomberg: John Jensen Announcement: The next GPCA General Assembly of Delegates (Plenary) will be in Santa Barbara. CA Saturday-Sunday June 21-22, 2014 Treasurer?s Report ? Jim Doyle (5 minutes) balance: $1,004.18 passed hat: collected $18. Report on status of P. O. Box ? Continued from February meeting ? Andrea Dorey (5 minutes) PO Box 611083, San Jose, CA 95161. Report on March De Anza Community College political organizing workshop ? Drew Johnson and Sandy Perry (10 Minutes) Sandy: We had a workshop LEAD conference March 11, Latino Empowerment. Conference on global climate workshop. Had a workshop on Syria. Workshop on eco-feminism. Arranging for Angela Davis to speak May 12. Status Report regarding internal GPCA elections for County Council ? Warner Bloomberg (1 minute) ? Sanda Everette reports that the GPCA Coordinating Committee has a plan that will be disclosed as part of the Plenary Agenda packet No action will be taken until after the General Assembly in Santa Barbara in June. Discussion re student interns ? Spencer Graves (15 minutes) Referred to Sandy, who tried to contact the woman, who has not yet responded. Request for GPSCC web page update to show GPCA June 3rd Primary Election candidates (primarily statewide office candidates), plus GPUS Presidential candidates and positions; plus current GPCA officeholders ? Jim Doyle (10 Minutes) Warner sent me an email with information, which I can include on the web page. Health Care Committee Report ? Andrew Health Fair scheduled for April 12th ? Sandy Pery (10 Minutes) Work with Caroline: We can speak if we have a speaker. Caroline will not be there. Sandy will be doing something else. We need a speaker. Large event, ~ 500 people. Caroline will table. Obamacare is fraying. It's a reasonable time to talk about single payer. Even if we get it passed by the legislature and signed by a governor ... . Environment Committee Report -- Global Convergence scheduled for De Anza Community College April 22nd to May 1st ? Drew Johnson and Sandy Perry (10 Minutes) Global climate convergence -- to bring together environmental with economic justice movements. Shamako will help. Earth day together with their environmental sustainability. Cultural day April 30. Organize a stop deportations day. National party: Series of events in Philadelphia. Are the state party or national party media groups involved? Answer: We're doing something here, but not coordinated with the state party. Discussion of status of tabling supplies ? (10 Minutes) Spencer to ask Trent if we could make buttons "Big money / Big Ideas: Which side are you on"? We can make buttons for them ... . ?Silent Running? as a film proposal ? Caroline Yacoub (5) Plan for Tabling ? Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes) Contact Caroline if interested. Junior Statesman Saturday April 5th afternoon Gayle McLaughlin (Richmond Mayor) speech Wednesday April 9th evening (endorsed by GPSCC County Council) Earth Day ? April 22nd Santa Clara University; April ?? San Jose State University Others? Someone needs to contact Santa Clara U. and SJSU. Contact Jim Doyle to see if he has information, then make appropriate contacts. Tian can't do it by himself. Warner might be available, but can't organize it. Topographic map: John Jensen (5 minutes) map with lines of constant elevation. 100 meter sea level rise: Sacramento = salt water port. (2 Hours Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) ### _______________________________________________ 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 pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Mar 28 09:46:38 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Senate advances unemployment extension, but Boehner refuses to even hold vote In-Reply-To: <1825839199.-1334064486@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> References: <1825839199.-1334064486@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com> Message-ID: <1396025198.55967.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> FYI ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "John Hlinko, LeftAction" To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 8:43 AM Subject: Senate advances unemployment extension, but Boehner refuses to even hold vote ? Republicans talk a big game about "supporting the troops," but over 200,000 veterans have lost their unemployment benefits due to Congressional Republican inaction. The Senate has advanced an extension, with bipartisan support -- but Speaker Boehner is refusing to even hold a vote.? Join with Senator Cory Booker & VoteVets (a veteran's organization fighting for progressive causes), and tell Boehner to hold an up-or-down vote!? John Hlinko, Left Action When his country called, Rick Hall went to Vietnam. He served and sacrificed, but now that he finds himself out of work ? for the first time in over fifty years ? all he can do is wait for Congress restore the unemployment benefits he lost late last year. Last month, almost 40,000 veterans, military family members, and VoteVets supporters signed our petition calling on Congress to act on this important issue. And the good news is, the Senate is set to vote on bipartisan, compromise legislation this week that will restore unemployment benefits for over two million Americans who have lost them since December. Unfortunately, Speaker Boehner and his Tea Party Caucus refuse to hold vote on the bill in the House, despite the fact that over 200,000 veterans have lost their benefits since Congress failed to act last year. They deserve a vote. Please join VoteVets, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Senator Chris Murphy and sign our joint petition calling on Speaker Boehner to bring an unemployment insurance extension up for a vote. As Rick Hall says, "I have never asked for anything that I have not worked for, but after paying into the system for 55 years and fighting for our country in Vietnam, I believe that I have more than paid my fair share in unemployment insurance ? It's not a handout." We received messages and notes from hundreds of veterans like Rick who have lost their benefits since December. Their stories deserve to be heard, and their service to country acknowledged in this debate. Sign our petition and tell Speaker Boehner that Rick Hall and the 200,000 veterans who have lost unemployment insurance deserve a vote in the House. This is an issue of fairness to those who sacrificed so much to serve. They deserve a vote, and we intend to make our voices heard until they get one. All the best, Jon Soltz @JonSoltz Iraq War Veteran and Chairman VoteVets.org ? ? ? You have received this email because you took one of our actions, or subscribed to our email list.? If you did not subscribe, or would no longer like to receive email updates unsubscribe here. Paid for and Authorized by LEFT ACTION 2013 ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Fri Mar 28 15:17:46 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Obama Claims That Russian Takeover Of Crimea Is "Worse" Than US Takeover Of Iraq In-Reply-To: <1395940645.70904.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1395940645.70904.YahooMailNeo@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1396045066.31532.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Some have claimed that Obama did not actually claim that the vote by Crimea to join Russia was "worse" than the US invasion of Iraq. What was actually said by Obama was that in Iraq the US did not annex the territory and did not appropriate its resources for the benefit of the US. The implication still is that the situation in Iraq turned out better for Iraqis because their borders were intact after the US pulled out all of its troops.? The full transcript was published by the Washington Post here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-president-obama-gives-speech-addressing-europe-russia-on-march-26/2014/03/26/07ae80ae-b503-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html John Thielking PS In this speech, Obama repeats the lies that the US was not supporting the Nazi overthrow of the duly elected president of Ukraine and that the uprising in Tripoli (Libya) was also not supported by outside forces. ________________________________ From: John Thielking To: Greens Discussion List ; Donna Wallach Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:17 AM Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Obama Claims That Russian Takeover Of Crimea Is "Worse" Than US Takeover Of Iraq While it may be true that the Crimean vote to join Russia did not have a "no" or "none of the above" option when choosing between joining Russia or going back to the 1992 constitution where Crimea is essentially independent from Ukraine, I hardly think that the shock and awe bombing campaign against Iraq killed less people than Russia's (or the Russian backed "self defense forces' ") takeover of Crimea.? But that is exactly what Obama is asserting, as broadcast this AM on rt.com. I will check out CNN too to see if they are swallowing that fish whole or not.? As in the novel '1984', violence (80 dead in Kiev at the hands of Neo-Nazi snipers) is nonviolence (or at least nonviolent democratic 'victims' at the hands of Yanocovich) and nonviolence (as in the Russian takeover of Crimea) is violence. John Thielking _______________________________________________ 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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URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Sat Mar 29 13:05:18 2014 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:05:18 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] North Bay Green Party Candidate Jena Message-ID: <5337277E.7090306@aceweb.com> I got the following email from Alex Shantz, an old friend who is her campaign manager: > > Hey Tian, > > Jena is for sure on board to visit you all at your next meeting. > > Who should we speak with to arrange this? > > Thank you! > I already told him it's the last Thursday of the month. Who on the county council wants to confirm a statewide Candidate speaker for the next meeting? -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from SJBPs Hippies vs. Hipsters Ride. There's a toy orange on a Northern Mariana Islands quarter in my home. From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Sat Mar 29 13:22:41 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:22:41 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] North Bay Green Party Candidate Jena In-Reply-To: <5337277E.7090306@aceweb.com> References: <5337277E.7090306@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <53372B91.6010707@structuremonitoring.com> For our next meeting April 24, we currently have Steve Raney, Principal at Cities21 in Palo Alto (350.org volunteer), scheduled to speak on "Strategies to Defeat Exxon/Koch: Politics of Federal Climate Legislation", 7 - 7:30 PM. I see the following options: 1. Have Jena speak 7:30 - 8 PM, and compress our regular meeting to 90 minutes so we finish by 9:30. I think this is the best option. (Sandy agreed to prepare the agenda for next time, and he would have to support this; I doubt if that would be a problem.) 2. Pick another date for a special event to have her speak. If you want this, and you want to do it at the San Jos? Peace & Justice Center, pick any time that's free on "http://sanjosepeace.org/calendar.php", and I'll request that -- assuming my calendar is also open. (I may be the only Green with a key, and picking a time I cannot be there would make everything harder.) If someone else has energy to try to organize this, then that would make this preferable. I can print fliers if someone else prepares such. 3. Ask Steve to come May 22 and have Jena come April 24, 7 - 7:30 PM. I don't like this, because we've already been advertising Steve's talk for a couple of weeks now. 4. Ask Jena to come May 22. I don't like this, because it's rather late in the season, with election day on June 3. 5. Tell Jena we can't do anything. For any option other than "5", it would help to discuss it with Shelby Minister to see if she could help get fliers posted on the SJSU campus. What do you think? Best Wishes, Spencer On 3/29/2014 1:05 PM, Tian Harter wrote: > I got the following email from Alex Shantz, an old friend who is her > campaign manager: > >> >> Hey Tian, >> >> Jena is for sure on board to visit you all at your next meeting. >> >> Who should we speak with to arrange this? >> >> Thank you! >> > I already told him it's the last Thursday of the month. > Who on the county council wants to confirm a statewide Candidate > speaker for the next meeting? > -- 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 perrysandy at aol.com Sat Mar 29 19:24:21 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:24:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GPSCC-chat] North Bay Green Party Candidate Jena In-Reply-To: <53372B91.6010707@structuremonitoring.com> References: <5337277E.7090306@aceweb.com> <53372B91.6010707@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <8D119D64B62CFF6-1C58-7BF9@webmail-m137.sysops.aol.com> I suggest rescheduling Jena for May 22. I don't think the lateness in the campaign will necessarily be a problem. Another option would be for her to speak at De Anza on April 28 from 11 - 1 as part of our Global Climate Convergence. We have also invited Luis Rodriguez and Laura Wells, have not heard back from them yet. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves To: Tian Harter ; sosfbay-discuss Sent: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 1:23 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] North Bay Green Party Candidate Jena For our next meeting April 24, we currently have Steve Raney, Principal at Cities21 in Palo Alto (350.org volunteer), scheduled to speak on "Strategies to Defeat Exxon/Koch: Politics of Federal Climate Legislation", 7 - 7:30 PM. I see the following options: 1. Have Jena speak 7:30 - 8 PM, and compress our regular meeting to 90 minutes so we finish by 9:30. I think this is the best option. (Sandy agreed to prepare the agenda for next time, and he would have to support this; I doubt if that would be a problem.) 2. Pick another date for a special event to have her speak. If you want this, and you want to do it at the San Jos? Peace & Justice Center, pick any time that's free on "http://sanjosepeace.org/calendar.php", and I'll request that -- assuming my calendar is also open. (I may be the only Green with a key, and picking a time I cannot be there would make everything harder.) If someone else has energy to try to organize this, then that would make this preferable. I can print fliers if someone else prepares such. 3. Ask Steve to come May 22 and have Jena come April 24, 7 - 7:30 PM. I don't like this, because we've already been advertising Steve's talk for a couple of weeks now. 4. Ask Jena to come May 22. I don't like this, because it's rather late in the season, with election day on June 3. 5. Tell Jena we can't do anything. For any option other than "5", it would help to discuss it with Shelby Minister to see if she could help get fliers posted on the SJSU campus. What do you think? Best Wishes, Spencer On 3/29/2014 1:05 PM, Tian Harter wrote: > I got the following email from Alex Shantz, an old friend who is her > campaign manager: > >> >> Hey Tian, >> >> Jena is for sure on board to visit you all at your next meeting. >> >> Who should we speak with to arrange this? >> >> Thank you! >> > I already told him it's the last Thursday of the month. > Who on the county council wants to confirm a statewide Candidate > speaker for the next meeting? > -- 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 spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Sat Mar 29 20:24:01 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:24:01 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] North Bay Green Party Candidate Jena In-Reply-To: <8D119D64B62CFF6-1C58-7BF9@webmail-m137.sysops.aol.com> References: <5337277E.7090306@aceweb.com> <53372B91.6010707@structuremonitoring.com> <8D119D64B62CFF6-1C58-7BF9@webmail-m137.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <53378E51.1080603@structuremonitoring.com> Hi, Sandy, et al.: If you can get her for the Global Climate Convergence, that sounds like it would give her a larger audience than the Santa Clara Greens, April 24. We should give her a realistic estimate of how many people she can expect to see at our meeting May 22. Otherwise, we could have her coming here to talk with a small group of people who will vote for her anyway instead of possibly meeting a larger group of swing voters -- or people more likely to influence others. Spencer On 3/29/2014 7:24 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote: > I suggest rescheduling Jena for May 22. I don't think the lateness in > the campaign will necessarily be a problem. Another option would be > for her to speak at De Anza on April 28 from 11 - 1 as part of our > Global Climate Convergence. We have also invited Luis Rodriguez and > Laura Wells, have not heard back from them yet. > Sandy > -----Original Message----- > From: Spencer Graves > To: Tian Harter ; sosfbay-discuss > > Sent: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 1:23 pm > Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] North Bay Green Party Candidate Jena > > For our next meeting April 24, we currently have Steve Raney, > Principal at Cities21 in Palo Alto (350.org volunteer), scheduled to > speak on "Strategies to Defeat Exxon/Koch: Politics of Federal Climate > Legislation", 7 - 7:30 PM. > > > I see the following options: > > > 1. Have Jena speak 7:30 - 8 PM, and compress our regular > meeting to 90 minutes so we finish by 9:30. I think this is the best > option. (Sandy agreed to prepare the agenda for next time, and he would > have to support this; I doubt if that would be a problem.) > > > 2. Pick another date for a special event to have her > speak. If you want this, and you want to do it at the San Jos? Peace & > Justice Center, pick any time that's free on > "http://sanjosepeace.org/calendar.php", and I'll request that -- > assuming my calendar is also open. (I may be the only Green with a key, > and picking a time I cannot be there would make everything harder.) If > someone else has energy to try to organize this, then that would make > this preferable. I can print fliers if someone else prepares such. > > > 3. Ask Steve to come May 22 and have Jena come April 24, 7 > - 7:30 PM. I don't like this, because we've already been advertising > Steve's talk for a couple of weeks now. > > > 4. Ask Jena to come May 22. I don't like this, because > it's rather late in the season, with election day on June 3. > > > 5. Tell Jena we can't do anything. > > > For any option other than "5", it would help to discuss it with > Shelby Minister to see if she could help get fliers posted on the SJSU > campus. > > > What do you think? > > > Best Wishes, > Spencer > > > On 3/29/2014 1:05 PM, Tian Harter wrote: > > I got the following email from Alex Shantz, an old friend who is her > > campaign manager: > > > >> > >> Hey Tian, > >> > >> Jena is for sure on board to visit you all at your next meeting. > >> > >> Who should we speak with to arrange this? > >> > >> Thank you! > >> > > I already told him it's the last Thursday of the month. > > Who on the county council wants to confirm a statewide Candidate > > speaker for the next meeting? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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I see the following options: 1. Have Jena speak 7:30 - 8 PM, and compress our regular meeting to 90 minutes so we finish by 9:30. I think this is the best option. (Sandy agreed to prepare the agenda for next time, and he would have to support this; I doubt if that would be a problem.) 2. Pick another date for a special event to have her speak. If you want this, and you want to do it at the San Jos? Peace & Justice Center, pick any time that's free on "http://sanjosepeace.org/calendar.php", and I'll request that -- assuming my calendar is also open. (I may be the only Green with a key, and picking a time I cannot be there would make everything harder.) If someone else has energy to try to organize this, then that would make this preferable. I can print fliers if someone else prepares such. 3. Ask Steve to come May 22 and have Jena come April 24, 7 - 7:30 PM. I don't like this, because we've already been advertising Steve's talk for a couple of weeks now. 4. Ask Jena to come May 22. I don't like this, because it's rather late in the season, with election day on June 3. 5. Tell Jena we can't do anything. For any option other than "5", it would help to discuss it with Shelby Minister to see if she could help get fliers posted on the SJSU campus. What do you think? Best Wishes, Spencer On 3/29/2014 1:05 PM, Tian Harter wrote: > I got the following email from Alex Shantz, an old friend who is her > campaign manager: > >> >> Hey Tian, >> >> Jena is for sure on board to visit you all at your next meeting. >> >> Who should we speak with to arrange this? >> >> Thank you! >> > I already told him it's the last Thursday of the month. > Who on the county council wants to confirm a statewide Candidate > speaker for the next meeting? > -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. 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URL: From wrolley at charter.net Mon Mar 31 16:51:57 2014 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:51:57 -0700 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Delta smelt: 9th Circuit decision protects people as much as fish In-Reply-To: <06887fa70084fef8e939fef633dcf0a5069.20140331213024@mail79.atl91.mcsv.net> References: <06887fa70084fef8e939fef633dcf0a5069.20140331213024@mail79.atl91.mcsv.net> Message-ID: <5339FF9D.8040301@charter.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Delta smelt: 9th Circuit decision protects people as much as fish Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:30:40 +0000 From: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta Reply-To: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta To: wrolley at charter.net Delta smelt: 9th Circuit decision protects people as much as fish Our Op-Ed with Earth Justice is in the San Jose Mercury News. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . *Delta smelt: 9th Circuit decision protects people as much as fish* /By Trip Van Noppen and Barbara Barrigan-Parilla/ /Special to the Mercury News/ Californians who care about a sustainable water future got a big court victory in March that upholds protections for a much-maligned little animal: the delta smelt. The ruling handed down by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals keeps in place science-based guidelines for managing water flows through the Delta at levels that protect the imperiled fish and help to restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem. This victory isn?t really about the fish, however. The smelt are an indicator species, a canary in the coal mine whose health illustrates the overall well-being of the Bay Delta. The tiny fish native to the Delta once thrived, but due to over-pumping of fresh water, largely for industrial-scale agriculture, it is teetering on the edge of extinction. Many other species that rely on freshwater in the Delta, such as salmon, a $1.4 billion industry, have declined alongside their little silver cousins. Our efforts to improve flows through the Delta for the smelt have beneficial effects on the entire ecosystem and the complex web of life it supports. /*Read the rest of our op-ed with Earth Justice here. */ follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend | donate to Restore the Delta /Copyright ? 2014 Restore the Delta, All rights reserved./ You are receiving this e-mail because you signed up for our mailing list to receive updates and news about Restore the Delta. *Our mailing address is:* Restore the Delta 10100 Trinity Parkway, Suite 120 Stockton, CA 95219 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: