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

Fri May 23 10:12:38 PDT 2014

Caroline, feeling that snailmail letters are much more effective than emails and petitions, brought letter writing materials and stamps to the meeting, along with newspaper articles designed to encourage people to write. Six letters were produced during the meeting, most to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors thanking them for making Santa Cruz the first county to ban fracking.

On Friday, May 23, 2014 9:23 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:

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 
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, Note Taker:  Spencer 
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, Vibes Watcher:  Tian
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, Time Keeper:  Sandy 
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, 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. 
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      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
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>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.  

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>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
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      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.  
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      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.  

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

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>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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