[GPSCC-chat] Minutes of May 22, 2014, meeting of the Green Party of Santa Clara County (corrected)

[Spencer Graves]

Please post corrections to this list.


On 5/21/2014 3:27 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> 7:00  Speaker: Brian Davis, Tri-City Health Center


       Tri-City in Fremont:  LGBT Tobacco Prevention Project, "Butt out 
of our bars".  Funding from the fact that they have funding to deal with 
LGBT smoking, who tend to smoke 3 times as much as the general 
population.  There is a gay bar in San José (plus at least 8 other bars 
in SJ) where tobacco company reps distribute cigarettes for 1 pack for 
$1 at that bar that night.  Splash, Caravan, Gringos, Branham Lounge, 
Pure Lounge (Svle).  Or buy one get one free or ... .  All this makes it 
easier for people to get hooked.


       Councilmember Ash Kalra and others are supporting an ordinance to 
outlaw passing out for free or minimal cost cigarettes or coupons for 
same.  San Francisco and many other cities in the bay area have bans 
like this.  San José does not.


       Another ordinance proposes to ban e-cigarettes.


       Residents of San José are encouraged to contact their City 
Council representatives, asking them to support bans on free and minimal 
cost cigarettes and e-cigarettes.


Tian:  Dan Winkler and Thomas Spielbauer were two of the people who got 
one of the first anti-smoking ordinances in the US passed.

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> 7:30 Meeting begins. Introductions, announcements, changes or 
> additions to
>          agenda, hat passing.


       Spencer


       Caroline


       Drew:  Tomorrow 11 AM at De Anza:  Ellen Brown speaks.  Father 
Michael Lapsley, lost an eye and parts of both arms in the 
anti-apartheit effort in South Africa.


       John Thielking


       Pete O'Reilley:  Friday, there have been about 17 days of 
emergency protests (ends Monday) -- at Zoe Lofgren's tomorrow, 3:45 - 5 
PM (635 N. First) -- against US intervention in the Ukraine. Sam Farr 
won't talk with people about this.


       Sandy Perry


       Warner Bloomberg, Esq.:  ~May 12, Warner's subscription to 
sosfbay-discuss was dropped.


       Sandy receives but can't send.


       Tian from Mountain View.  Fixes email problems.

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> 7:45 Identify Facilitator:  Caroline


> , Note Taker:  Spencer


> , Vibes Watcher:  Tian


> , Time Keeper:  Sandy


> , and Agenda
>          Preparer for June meeting: Sandy if someone will fix his chat 
> list.

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> 7:55  Report on Climate Change work, including rally at the Fairmont.


       Tian went to the Fairmont:  Atmosphere;  Free speech area was 
surrounded by a fence with police walking around.  Security was a 
bummer.  Working also with Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (~30 years 
old) working to make San José more bike friendly -- and through that to 
impact global warming.


       Pete:  His brother-in-law is working on the San Benito ban on 
fracking.  "The Overnighters" is a movie about problems created by 
Fracking.


>           Santa Cruz County first county to ban fracking. There are 
> groups in Gilroy
>            and Hollister working on it. 350.org Silicon Valley is 
> working on it.


       Soil sequestration of carbon:  John's preliminary evaluation of 
the literature says all the carbon in the topsoil escapes in 10 years.  
With special grass with deep roots could get carbon sequestration to 
last 100 years.

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> 8:10  Letter writing
>
> 8:20  Report on De Anza work


       Lots of events.


       Maria and Lucia wrote an Op Ed re. terrible coverage on the 
Governor's race.


       Rodriguez has a new image on Facebook roughly every other day.

>
> 8:35  Report from Health Care Coalition meeting


       Lots of outreach.


>            June 7 in Oakland training for people to be regional 
> coordinators
>            July 30 Health Care is a Human Right Day  (39th anniversary 
> of Medicare)
>             August 22-24 in Oakland, people from all over the country 
> who are working
>               for Single Payer
>

       Greg Miller, RN, is volunteering to take a carload of folks to 
Oakland on August 22-24 and June 7.


       Endorsers and Affiliates of the Campaign for a Healthy California.


> 8:50  John's Resolution on Ukraine and Russia asking the US government 
> to get out of the Ukraine.  US contributed $5 billion for "democracy 
> promotion" in the Ukraine.  Allegedly, a truckload of cash was seen 
> driving from the airport ot the US embassy and some of the money went 
> to pay people to protest in Kiev.


       Proposed:  The Green Party of Santa Clara County will send an 
expression of concern about US intervention in the Ukraine to Bay Area 
congressional representatives, Senators Boxer and Feinstein, Secretary 
of State John Kerry, Senators John McCain and Mitch McConnell plus 
President Barack Obama.


       Warner does not like terms like fascist in the resolution. 
"tinderbox" in hyperbolic.


       Warner would support a much briefer statement focusing on the 
"Therefore" clause, eliminating the discussion of fascists, etc.


       Tian & Caroline would prefer to scratch references to organized 
labor.


        Warner will draft a statement and send to Tian for posting.


*** Email problems refer to Tian (and Spencer), who will refer them 
further to Tim Laidman if needed to resolve the problem.


       Drew:  Use riseup.net of you have problems with Yahoo, gmail, 
hotmail, sbcglobal, ..., move to riseup.net.


       Agenda for next time:  Proposal for change of our email list.

>
> 9:10 Is anybody going to the Plenary? Are we going to choose 
> delegates? Has anybody looked at the agenda?


             Next June 21-22 at UC Santa Barbara -- a specific campus 
there (see www.cagreens.org/ga).



       Drew and Sandy are considering attending.  Debbie would also go 
if Drew did.  Registration period is now open.  Deadline = Wednesday 
before the meeting.


             (1) Someone on the County Council must send in the list of 
delegates and alternates by the Wednesday before the meeting.


             (2) The delegates and alternates must register by the 
Wednesday before.


       The County Council will designate delegates and alternates and 
notify the state party as required.


       Volunteers are being recruited for delegates and alternates.


Also:  Plans for reappointment of County Council members.


       Per a statewide interpretation of the rules, existing county 
council members are reappointed.

>
> 9:25 (or perhaps earlier) the will be a movie here at the Peace Center 
> tomorrow night called  "Salt of the Earth"  a 1954 film on Economic 
> Justice.



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