From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Nov 3 08:35:39 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:35:39 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vote NO to retain CA Justices supporting Citizens United against the 99% Message-ID: <5457AEDB.602@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: If you have not already voted, I encourage you to vote NO to not retain Supreme Court Justices Goodwin Liu and Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, because they voted to remove Prop 49, the "Overturn Citizens United" initiative, from this year's ballot, after having been placed there by SB 1272. If you have not yet posted a mail-in ballot, please do NOT give it to the post office, as it probably will not arrive in time to be counted. Instead, please take it to a local polling station (which you can find at "http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/VBM/Pages/ReturningMail.aspx"). If you've already marked your ballot and want to change it, I believe you can do that at any polling station. If you were wavering on whether to vote, please vote, at least vote NO to not retain Justices Liu and Werdegar. It's important. Thanks, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From eric at philosopherswheel.com Mon Nov 3 09:51:10 2014 From: eric at philosopherswheel.com (Eric Meece) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:51:10 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vote NO to retain CA Justices supporting Citizens United against the 99% In-Reply-To: <5457AEDB.602@prodsyse.com> References: <5457AEDB.602@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <5457C08E.9030602@philosopherswheel.com> Good idea; I voted no on them. On 11/3/2014 8:35 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > If you have not already voted, I encourage you to vote NO to not > retain Supreme Court Justices Goodwin Liu and Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, > because they voted to remove Prop 49, the "Overturn Citizens United" > initiative, from this year's ballot, after having been placed there by > SB 1272. > > > If you have not yet posted a mail-in ballot, please do NOT give > it to the post office, as it probably will not arrive in time to be > counted. Instead, please take it to a local polling station (which > you can find at > "http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/VBM/Pages/ReturningMail.aspx"). If > you've already marked your ballot and want to change it, I believe you > can do that at any polling station. > > > If you were wavering on whether to vote, please vote, at least > vote NO to not retain Justices Liu and Werdegar. It's important. > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Nov 3 10:11:21 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:11:21 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vote NO to not retain CA Justice Werdegar but YES on Liu. In-Reply-To: <5457BDA5.20100@igc.org> References: <5457AEED.1090703@prodsyse.com> <5457BDA5.20100@igc.org> Message-ID: <5457C549.6040006@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Below please find a recommendation from Dave Kadlecek (Peace & Freedom Party) to vote YES to retain CA Supreme Court Justice Liu and NO to not retain Justice Werdegar; please excuse my earlier alternative recommendation. Kadlecek noted (below) that the justices did NOT vote against placing the "Overturn Citizens United" initiative on a ballot, only against placing it on the ballot for November 4, 2014. In brief, he says that if a bill is to take effect before 1 January of the following year, it must be an "urgency bill", and SB 1272 that authorized this initiative failed to meet several of the requirements of urgency bills; see below. Best Wishes, Spencer On 11/3/2014 9:38 AM, Dave Kadlecek wrote: > Spencer and all, > > The State Supreme Court majority did not "support[] Citizens United > against the 99%". What they were asked to rule on was whether Prop 49, > an advisory measure on one of several different proposals to overturn > Citizens United, could be put on the ballot by SB 1272. They didn't > actually rule that the legislature couldn't put such an advisory measure > on the ballot. What they ruled was that there was a substantial chance > that the lawsuit to invalidate Prop 49 (on two grounds, only one of > which was that the legislature can't put advisory measures on the > ballot) would win when the court had time to fully hear it, and that if > Prop 49 appeared on the November ballot, its advocates would effectively > win the lawsuit even if they lost, because the court can't throw out an > advisory measure after the fact in the way it can throw out a law. If > the court rules in favor of the Prop 49 proponents, the advisory measure > would presumably go on the ballot in the next statewide election (June > 2016, unless there is a special statewide election before then). > > I hope that when the Supreme Court hears the full case, they will find > that it is appropriate for the legislature to place an advisory measure > on the ballot, though I'm not sure that they will. The courts have > previously ruled that initiative measures have to be actual changes to > the law and not just advisory measures, so there's a chance that they > might find the same for legislative measures, but also courts tend to > avoid making decisions on major issues when they don't have to, and I > think the court would (and should) throw out Prop 49 on the second > ground of the lawsuit, which would allow them not to rule on the > legislative advisory measures issue. > > The second ground of the lawsuit against Prop 49, which I think is fully > justified, is that the bill to place Prop 49 on the ballot had to be an > "urgency bill" under the state constitution (which requires two-thirds > votes of both houses) but wasn't passed as such (and didn't have the > votes to get passed as such). The reason for this is that the Elections > Code says that measures placed on the ballot by the legislature have to > be passed and sent to the Secretary of State for inclusion in the ballot > pamphlet by a certain date, but the bill placing Prop 49 on the ballot > passed the legislature after that deadline. To get around this, the bill > included a provision saying that the deadline didn't apply to Prop 49 or > any other ballot measure the legislature might approve in this session. > The legislature can change the deadlines in an ordinary bill, but > ordinary bills don't take effect until January 1st of the following > year, which would be too late to change the deadline for placing a > measure on this November's ballot. Urgency bills take effect as soon as > they are passed, but they require two-thirds votes of both houses. The > legislature argues that bills calling an election (which only require a > simple majority) take effect immediately, and since the bill put Prop 49 > on the ballot, it was calling an election and everything in the bill > should take effect immediately (including the provision changing the > deadlines). However, if that is the case, then the deadlines in the > Elections Code are completely meaningless, as it would be just as easy > for the legislature to put something on the ballot after the deadline > they set as it would be to do so on time. > > I see the State Supreme Court ruling as that the legislature can't > ignore its own rules, even if they say they are doing so to support a > good cause. I don't see their ruling on Proposition 49 as a reason to > vote against the justices' retention. I definitely plan to vote in favor > of retaining Goodwin Liu, a left-liberal law professor at Boalt Hall, > who before he was appointed to the State Supreme Court, had his > nomination to the US Court of Appeals withdrawn after Senate Republicans > blocked a vote on it. Right-wingers will oppose Liu because of his > overall record on civil rights, so it would be a shame if he lost (or > looked bad in almost losing) because voters on the left mistakenly also > voted against him. > > /Dave Kadlecek > > > Spencer Graves wrote: > >> Hello, All: >> >> >> If you have not already voted, I encourage you to vote NO to >> not retain Supreme Court Justices Goodwin Liu and Kathryn Mickle >> Werdegar, because they voted to remove Prop 49, the "Overturn >> Citizens United" initiative, from this year's ballot, after having >> been placed there by SB 1272. >> >> >> If you have not yet posted a mail-in ballot, please do NOT give >> it to the post office, as it probably will not arrive in time to be >> counted. Instead, please take it to a local polling station (which >> you can find at >> "http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/VBM/Pages/ReturningMail.aspx"). If >> you've already marked your ballot and want to change it, I believe >> you can do that at any polling station. >> >> >> If you were wavering on whether to vote, please vote, at least >> vote NO to not retain Justices Liu and Werdegar. It's important. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Spencer > > -- Spencer Graves, PE, PhD President and Chief Technology Officer Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.structuremonitoring.com From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Nov 3 11:27:37 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:27:37 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vote NO to retain CA Justices supporting Citizens United against the 99% In-Reply-To: <5457AEDB.602@prodsyse.com> References: <5457AEDB.602@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: <5457D729.2080904@earthlink.net> Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > If you have not already voted, I encourage you to vote NO to not > retain Supreme Court Justices Goodwin Liu and Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, > because they voted to remove Prop 49, the "Overturn Citizens United" > initiative, from this year's ballot, after having been placed there by > SB 1272. > > > If you have not yet posted a mail-in ballot, please do NOT give > it to the post office, as it probably will not arrive in time to be > counted. Yes, I hear that on the radio this morning. > Instead, please take it to a local polling station (which you > can find at > "http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/VBM/Pages/ReturningMail.aspx"). If > you've already marked your ballot and want to change it, I believe you > can do that at any polling station. I doubt that. I think you have to go to your own polling station or to the ROV office in San Jose. You can vote provisionally at any polling place, but who knows when your ballot would be counted. For more info: http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.aspx 1-408-299-VOTE (8683) 1-866-430-VOTE (8683) Gerry > > > If you were wavering on whether to vote, please vote, at least > vote NO to not retain Justices Liu and Werdegar. It's important. > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > From pagesincolor at yahoo.com Mon Nov 3 11:37:38 2014 From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com (John Thielking) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 11:37:38 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vote NO to retain CA Justices supporting Citizens United against the 99% In-Reply-To: <5457D729.2080904@earthlink.net> References: <5457AEDB.602@prodsyse.com> <5457D729.2080904@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1415043458.86474.YahooMailNeo@web126206.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> When I voted by mail I just dropped off my ballot at any polling station. It doesn't have to be "your" polling station. John Thielking ________________________________ From: Gerry Gras To: Spencer Graves ; GPSCC Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] vote NO to retain CA Justices supporting Citizens United against the 99% Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > If you have not already voted, I encourage you to vote NO to not > retain Supreme Court Justices Goodwin Liu and Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, > because they voted to remove Prop 49, the "Overturn Citizens United" > initiative, from this year's ballot, after having been placed there by > SB 1272. > > > If you have not yet posted a mail-in ballot, please do NOT give > it to the post office, as it probably will not arrive in time to be > counted. Yes, I hear that on the radio this morning. > Instead, please take it to a local polling station (which you > can find at > "http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/VBM/Pages/ReturningMail.aspx"). If > you've already marked your ballot and want to change it, I believe you > can do that at any polling station. I doubt that. I think you have to go to your own polling station or to the ROV office in San Jose. You can vote provisionally at any polling place, but who knows when your ballot would be counted. For more info: http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.aspx 1-408-299-VOTE (8683) 1-866-430-VOTE (8683) Gerry > > > If you were wavering on whether to vote, please vote, at least > vote NO to not retain Justices Liu and Werdegar. It's important. > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > _______________________________________________ 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 gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Nov 3 11:45:53 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:45:53 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] vote NO to retain CA Justices supporting Citizens United against the 99% In-Reply-To: <1415043458.86474.YahooMailNeo@web126206.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <5457AEDB.602@prodsyse.com> <5457D729.2080904@earthlink.net> <1415043458.86474.YahooMailNeo@web126206.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5457DB71.9010909@earthlink.net> Ok, I see what I said was not clear. If you are just turning in a vote by mail ballot, yes, you can take that to any polling place, or to the ROV office. And you have to sign it. And if someone is delivering a vote by mail ballot for someone else to a polling place, then it needs three signatures. For example, if I were delivering Dana's ballot to the polling place, she would need to sign it twice, and I would have to sign it once. But if you want to CHANGE your ballot, you need to take it to your own polling place or to the ROV. But I would not want to go to the ROV, it's probably very busy. Gerry John Thielking wrote: > When I voted by mail I just dropped off my ballot at any polling > station. It doesn't have to be "your" polling station. > > John Thielking > > *From:* Gerry Gras > *To:* Spencer Graves ; GPSCC > > *Sent:* Monday, November 3, 2014 11:27 AM > *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] vote NO to retain CA Justices supporting > Citizens United against the 99% > > > > Spencer Graves wrote: > > Hello, All: > > > > > > If you have not already voted, I encourage you to vote NO to not > > retain Supreme Court Justices Goodwin Liu and Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, > > because they voted to remove Prop 49, the "Overturn Citizens United" > > initiative, from this year's ballot, after having been placed there by > > SB 1272. > > > > > > If you have not yet posted a mail-in ballot, please do NOT give > > it to the post office, as it probably will not arrive in time to be > > counted. > > Yes, I hear that on the radio this morning. > > > Instead, please take it to a local polling station (which you > > can find at > > "http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/VBM/Pages/ReturningMail.aspx"). If > > you've already marked your ballot and want to change it, I believe you > > can do that at any polling station. > > I doubt that. I think you have to go to your own > polling station or to the ROV office in San Jose. > > You can vote provisionally at any polling place, > but who knows when your ballot would be counted. > > For more info: > http://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.aspx > 1-408-299-VOTE (8683) > 1-866-430-VOTE (8683) > > Gerry > > > > > > > > > > If you were wavering on whether to vote, please vote, at least > > vote NO to not retain Justices Liu and Werdegar. It's important. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Spencer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Nov 3 21:51:31 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:51:31 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Armistice Day, Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 11am, 4th & Santa Clara, San Jose, CA Message-ID: <54586963.2030208@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: The County Council agreed that the Santa Clara Greens should co-sponsor an observance of Armistice Day Tuesday, November 11, 2014, at 11 AM at the Corner of Fourth & Santa Clara Streets, San Jos?, California Veterans for Peace chapters across the nation are meeting on street corners in major cities to celebrate the original ARMISTICE DAY by ringing bells 11 times at 11:00 AM on November 11. "The War to End All Wars" (World War I) officially ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. Veterans for Peace Chapter 101 invites those with a personal or organizational commitment to peace to join us in the ringing of bells on the morning of November 11 to focus on the desire to end the horror of war rather than celebrate it. After the solemn gathering, the 11am bell-ringing and a minute of silence there will be an opportunity to address the gathering with personal reflections. Banners and signs are fine but it would be best if the ambience were more reserved until after the bell is rung. For more information or if you would like to participate, please contact: Phil Pflager Chapter Contact, VFP101 paz at vfp101.org 408-252-9001 Co-Sponsored by San Jose Code Pink San Jose Peace and Justice Center Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - San Jose Branch -- 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 structuremonitoring.com Sat Nov 8 07:47:54 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 07:47:54 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Any Greens ran in Santa Clara County? In-Reply-To: References: <51C0A96B.2040102@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <545E3B2A.6000804@structuremonitoring.com> Dear Mike: I didn't check, but no one contacted the local Green party in any substantive way. Spencer p.s. A former Green, now Democrat, ran for City Council of Milpitas. He came in 7 in a field of 8, in which the top 2 were elected. Beyond that, I do not recall any discussion at a monthly meeting or on our local email list of a local Green candidate. I've attended and taking minutes at most of the regular monthly meetings for several years and all of them for the past 13 months at least (I have the key to where we meet, so if I'm not there, they don't meet). I have not read all the emails, but if that had happened. On 11/8/2014 7:31 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote: > Dear Santa Clara Greens > > I'm putting together the GPCA's post election report and am still > trying to see if any Greens ran in any counties that I was not yet > aware of > > Did your County Greens ever check the people who ran in non-partisan > races in Santa Clara County, to see if any of them were registered > Greens > > A clean list is here - do you have your own up to date list of > registered Greens in your own county? > > http://classic.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/scl/ballot.html > > Mike > -- 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 mfeinstein at feinstein.org Sat Nov 8 07:31:38 2014 From: mfeinstein at feinstein.org (Mike Feinstein) Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 07:31:38 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Any Greens ran in Santa Clara County? In-Reply-To: <51C0A96B.2040102@structuremonitoring.com> References: <51C0A96B.2040102@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: Dear Santa Clara Greens I'm putting together the GPCA's post election report and am still trying to see if any Greens ran in any counties that I was not yet aware of Did your County Greens ever check the people who ran in non-partisan races in Santa Clara County, to see if any of them were registered Greens A clean list is here - do you have your own up to date list of registered Greens in your own county? http://classic.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/scl/ballot.html Mike From mfeinstein at feinstein.org Sat Nov 8 07:48:34 2014 From: mfeinstein at feinstein.org (Mike Feinstein) Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 07:48:34 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Any Greens ran in Santa Clara County? In-Reply-To: <545E3AB0.5040500@structuremonitoring.com> References: <51C0A96B.2040102@structuremonitoring.com> <545E3AB0.5040500@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <36DE4A8B-D9E9-49F3-873A-9BD781D13E82@feinstein.org> Thanks Spencer for the quick response Do any of you have an up-to-date voter registration list that you could go through for an hour and check, one-by-one, all the people who ran in non-partisan races, to see if any of them were Green I know we normally wait to see if someone calls us, but I found about 15 candidates in other counties that never contacted us, by going through the state data base and comparing to the list of local candidates in those countries but I have not been able to do that for the whole state, and am hoping some local people can do it for theirs - Sanda Everette did it in San Mateo county and we ended up finding a Green who ran for and was elected to the Pacifica City Council! Mike On Nov 8, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Dear Mike: > > > I didn't check, but no one contacted the local Green party in any substantive way. > > > Spencer > > > p.s. A former Green, now Democrat, ran for City Council of Milpitas. He came in 7 in a field of 8, in which the top 2 were elected. Beyond that, I do not recall any discussion at a monthly meeting or on our local email list of a local Green candidate. I've attended and taking minutes at most of the regular monthly meetings for several years and all of them for the past 13 months at least (I have the key to where we meet, so if I'm not there, they don't meet). I have not read all the emails, but if that had happened. > > > On 11/8/2014 7:31 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote: >> Dear Santa Clara Greens >> >> I'm putting together the GPCA's post election report and am still trying to see if any Greens ran in any counties that I was not yet aware of >> >> Did your County Greens ever check the people who ran in non-partisan races in Santa Clara County, to see if any of them were registered Greens >> >> A clean list is here - do you have your own up to date list of registered Greens in your own county? >> >> http://classic.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/scl/ballot.html >> >> Mike >> > > > -- > 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 structuremonitoring.com Sat Nov 8 22:47:08 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:47:08 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Any Greens ran in Santa Clara County? In-Reply-To: <36DE4A8B-D9E9-49F3-873A-9BD781D13E82@feinstein.org> References: <51C0A96B.2040102@structuremonitoring.com> <545E3AB0.5040500@structuremonitoring.com> <36DE4A8B-D9E9-49F3-873A-9BD781D13E82@feinstein.org> Message-ID: <545F0DEC.101@structuremonitoring.com> Hi, Mike: I have the list of all the registered voters in Santa Clara County as of last July 29, almost 800,000 names. There were over 100 candidates for different races in Santa Clara County. In 2.5 hours, I've covered a little over 1/3 of that list. I've written some software to make it easier, but it's still pretty slow. People campaign on names different from the name they are registered under, and some may not even be registered -- if that's possible. The most interesting race I've seen so far has 6 candidates competing for 3 seats on the board of the San Benito High School district. All of 41 people voted in that election. I could not find 5 of the 6 candidates on the voter registration rolls. In another case, a Khanh Tran ran for Alum Rock elementary school district, San Jos?; there are 48 Khanh Tran's in San Jos?, none of them Green. A Joe Mitchner ran for a school board in Mt. View. He's registered as "Joseph Mitchner", I think. I'm going to quit for now. With luck, I'll think of something to make it quicker tomorrow. So far, I found one Green: Heather Bass was elected to the Gilroy Unified School District. After I finish this task, I plan to contact her, congratulate her, and see if what support she might like from the County party. Best Wishes, Spencer On 11/8/2014 7:48 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote: > Thanks Spencer for the quick response > > Do any of you have an up-to-date voter registration list that you could go through for an hour and check, one-by-one, all the people who ran in non-partisan races, to see if any of them were Green > > I know we normally wait to see if someone calls us, but I found about 15 candidates in other counties that never contacted us, by going through the state data base and comparing to the list of local candidates in those countries > > but I have not been able to do that for the whole state, and am hoping some local people can do it for theirs - Sanda Everette did it in San Mateo county and we ended up finding a Green who ran for and was elected to the Pacifica City Council! > > Mike > > On Nov 8, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > >> Dear Mike: >> >> >> I didn't check, but no one contacted the local Green party in any substantive way. >> >> >> Spencer >> >> >> p.s. A former Green, now Democrat, ran for City Council of Milpitas. He came in 7 in a field of 8, in which the top 2 were elected. Beyond that, I do not recall any discussion at a monthly meeting or on our local email list of a local Green candidate. I've attended and taking minutes at most of the regular monthly meetings for several years and all of them for the past 13 months at least (I have the key to where we meet, so if I'm not there, they don't meet). I have not read all the emails, but if that had happened. >> >> >> On 11/8/2014 7:31 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote: >>> Dear Santa Clara Greens >>> >>> I'm putting together the GPCA's post election report and am still trying to see if any Greens ran in any counties that I was not yet aware of >>> >>> Did your County Greens ever check the people who ran in non-partisan races in Santa Clara County, to see if any of them were registered Greens >>> >>> A clean list is here - do you have your own up to date list of registered Greens in your own county? >>> >>> http://classic.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/scl/ballot.html >>> >>> Mike >>> -- 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 mfeinstein at feinstein.org Sat Nov 8 23:48:31 2014 From: mfeinstein at feinstein.org (Mike Feinstein) Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 23:48:31 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Any Greens ran in Santa Clara County? In-Reply-To: <545F0DEC.101@structuremonitoring.com> References: <51C0A96B.2040102@structuremonitoring.com> <545E3AB0.5040500@structuremonitoring.com> <36DE4A8B-D9E9-49F3-873A-9BD781D13E82@feinstein.org> <545F0DEC.101@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <27D70274-E517-4A76-B7A3-9AD20238A158@feinstein.org> On Nov 8, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: > > So far, I found one Green: Heather Bass was elected to the Gilroy Unified School District. After I finish this task, I plan to contact her, congratulate her, and see if what support she might like from the County party. Spencer This is fantastic news. I am very happy you are going through the list and that you found another elected Green. That gives us at least this 23 Greens elected this November http://www.cagreens.org/news/greens-win-23-races-fall-2014-elections Fingers crossed to see if you find any more in your county Mike From perrysandy at aol.com Sun Nov 9 21:20:39 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:20:39 -0500 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Any Greens ran in Santa Clara County? In-Reply-To: <545F0DEC.101@structuremonitoring.com> References: <51C0A96B.2040102@structuremonitoring.com> <545E3AB0.5040500@structuremonitoring.com> <36DE4A8B-D9E9-49F3-873A-9BD781D13E82@feinstein.org> <545F0DEC.101@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <8D1CABD339E51A9-EF0-7CC7@webmail-va098.sysops.aol.com> Thank you for taking the time to do this important work, Spencer. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves To: Mike Feinstein Cc: warner bloomberg ; Drew Johnson ; GPSCC Sent: Sat, Nov 8, 2014 10:58 pm Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Any Greens ran in Santa Clara County? Hi, Mike: I have the list of all the registered voters in Santa Clara County as of last July 29, almost 800,000 names. There were over 100 candidates for different races in Santa Clara County. In 2.5 hours, I've covered a little over 1/3 of that list. I've written some software to make it easier, but it's still pretty slow. People campaign on names different from the name they are registered under, and some may not even be registered -- if that's possible. The most interesting race I've seen so far has 6 candidates competing for 3 seats on the board of the San Benito High School district. All of 41 people voted in that election. I could not find 5 of the 6 candidates on the voter registration rolls. In another case, a Khanh Tran ran for Alum Rock elementary school district, San Jos?; there are 48 Khanh Tran's in San Jos?, none of them Green. A Joe Mitchner ran for a school board in Mt. View. He's registered as "Joseph Mitchner", I think. I'm going to quit for now. With luck, I'll think of something to make it quicker tomorrow. So far, I found one Green: Heather Bass was elected to the Gilroy Unified School District. After I finish this task, I plan to contact her, congratulate her, and see if what support she might like from the County party. Best Wishes, Spencer On 11/8/2014 7:48 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote: > Thanks Spencer for the quick response > > Do any of you have an up-to-date voter registration list that you could go through for an hour and check, one-by-one, all the people who ran in non-partisan races, to see if any of them were Green > > I know we normally wait to see if someone calls us, but I found about 15 candidates in other counties that never contacted us, by going through the state data base and comparing to the list of local candidates in those countries > > but I have not been able to do that for the whole state, and am hoping some local people can do it for theirs - Sanda Everette did it in San Mateo county and we ended up finding a Green who ran for and was elected to the Pacifica City Council! > > Mike > > On Nov 8, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > >> Dear Mike: >> >> >> I didn't check, but no one contacted the local Green party in any substantive way. >> >> >> Spencer >> >> >> p.s. A former Green, now Democrat, ran for City Council of Milpitas. He came in 7 in a field of 8, in which the top 2 were elected. Beyond that, I do not recall any discussion at a monthly meeting or on our local email list of a local Green candidate. I've attended and taking minutes at most of the regular monthly meetings for several years and all of them for the past 13 months at least (I have the key to where we meet, so if I'm not there, they don't meet). I have not read all the emails, but if that had happened. >> >> >> On 11/8/2014 7:31 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote: >>> Dear Santa Clara Greens >>> >>> I'm putting together the GPCA's post election report and am still trying to see if any Greens ran in any counties that I was not yet aware of >>> >>> Did your County Greens ever check the people who ran in non-partisan races in Santa Clara County, to see if any of them were registered Greens >>> >>> A clean list is here - do you have your own up to date list of registered Greens in your own county? >>> >>> http://classic.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/scl/ballot.html >>> >>> Mike >>> -- 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 gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun Nov 9 23:48:15 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:48:15 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Boston Globe on divestment efforts In-Reply-To: <54606D13.1040005@earthlink.net> References: <54606D13.1040005@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <54606DBF.3000703@earthlink.net> FYI, http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/10/fuel-divestment-movement-grows-boston-campuses/uOKCKYo71b6QhMVaKmQQNK/story.html Cynthia Kaufman, DeAnza, is mentioned. Gerry From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Mon Nov 10 22:24:42 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:24:42 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] =?utf-8?q?Urgent_-_Emails_=26_Phone_Calls_Needed_to_?= =?utf-8?q?oppose_tobacco_companies_pushing_products_in_San_Jos=C3=A9?= In-Reply-To: <1415636976.94437.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1415636976.94437.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5461ABAA.7020300@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Brian Davis, Tri-City Health, spoke to us May 22 about tobacco companies offering coupons for $1 pack of cigarettes "buy 1 get 1 free" at local bars. He's been working to get a San Jos? city ordinance against such. San Jos? residents are encouraged to send emails and call their city council representatives asking for their support on this. Brian said it was on a tentative agenda for November 18 but will likely be "postponed" (possibly forever) unless enough people react before Wednesday, Nov. 12. This is related to our support for universal health care. For more details, see Brian's email below. Spencer On Sunday, November 9, 2014 6:45 PM, "Davis, Brian" wrote: *Please do this if you can, and spread around. Thanks!* If you think it is a serious problem that tobacco companies are giving out coupons for packs of cigarettes that can be purchased for just $1 and free e-cigarette products in San Jose?s bars, we need your help right away! (If you don?t think it?s serious, see the sample email below to find out why it is.) A proposal to stop this targeting of vulnerable young adults in the South Bay was going to be considered by the San Jose City Council on November 18th, but now that health initiative (called Butt Out of Our Bars) has been delayed until some undetermined time next year, when the new Council will look at it as part of a ?prioritization? process which could result in it?s being completely discarded or given such a low priority that it will never be dealt with. If we are going to have any chance of this important public health issue being addressed this year we need to show the Council that the public cares about Big Tobacco targeting our young adults! *The final agenda for the November 18^th hearing will be determined this* *Wednesday.* *Will you help by sending an email and calling the Councilmembers' offices as soon as possible and no later than Wednesday morning?*See below for sample language, but it is always best if you create your own message with your own personal reasons for why this is something that needs to get done NOW, and not some unidentified time in the future (maybe). If you are nervous about calling, don't worry, you won't be speaking to the Councilmembers, just a polite member of his or her staff who will take note of your statement and pass it on. If you are uncomfortable talking to anyone at all, you can call outside of regular 9-5 business hours (or anytime on Tuesday, when they will be off for Veteran's Day) and leave a recorded message. The important thing is to let them know that this is urgent and you want them to put us back on the 11/18 agenda. *Remember, you need to call and email /no later than/ Wednesday morning!* * * /(If you are under 21 and don?t want to talk about bars, you could talk about how it is legal to give out free e-cigarettes anywhere in San Jose, and that it important to act fast before the city is flooded with free e-cigarette products, getting more and more kids hooked on nicotine, some of whom have never smoked a tobacco cigarette. There is a paragraph in the sample email below that talks about this issue.)/ / / If you live in San Jose and know which district you live in, you should mention it when you contact that office. You can find a somewhat poor map of SJ Council districts here . Here is a sample phone message: ?Hi. My name is ___ and I live in San Jose (Omit if you don't live in SJ). I am calling to express my concern that the Butt Out of Our Bars agenda item 5.1has been removed from the November 18^th City Council agenda and put off until next year. This is a problem that needs to be dealt with now because (give personal reason or just say ?) nearly everyday in the bars, Big Tobacco is targeting our young adults with $1 packs of cigarettes and free e-cigarettes that make it easy to get hooked on nicotine and hard to quit. What could be more urgent? Every other major Bay Area city passed laws against tobacco sampling years ago. San Jose is long overdue. Please put the Butt Out of Our Bars health initiative back on the November 18^th agenda. Thank you.? You can find the phone numbers for the Councilmembers and the Mayor here . Here are their emails. You can do one group mailing: mayoremail at sanjoseca.gov ; District1 at sanjoseca.gov ; District2 at sanjoseca.gov ; District3 at sanjoseca.gov ; District4 at sanjoseca.gov ; District5 at sanjoseca.gov ; pierluigi.oliverio at sanjoseca.gov ; District7 at sanjoseca.gov ; rose.herrera at sanjoseca.gov ; District9 at sanjoseca.gov ; District10 at sanjoseca.gov ; Here is a sample email. Feel free to add your own message explaining why this issue matters to you. Thanks for helping stop Big Tobacco?s targeting of our young people! Dear Mayor Reed and Members of the City Council: I am writing to request that the ?Butt Out of Our Bars? Public Health Initiative (agenda item 5.1) be added back to the November 18^th 2014 agenda. At their last meeting, the Rules Committee removed this item for the following reasons: that it should be required to go through the ?prioritization? process, that it wasn?t urgent, and to save time on the 11/18 agenda. I feel that this decision was incorrect. Regarding the prioritization issue, not all proposals have to go through that process. The Downtown Sidewalks Bicycle Riding proposal (agenda item 6.1), which was also discussed last week, has never gone through prioritization for example, so clearly exceptions are sometimes made when the need is urgent. The need is very urgent to pass an ordinance in San Jose stopping the distribution of coupons that allow young bar patrons to get a pack of cigarettes for just $1. Overwhelming research evidence shows that keeping tobacco prices higher reduces the number of people that smoke, especially among youth and young adults. Tobacco companies have scheduled over 560 visits to bars in San Jose since the start of last year, so virtually everyday, young vulnerable college students and other young adults are being approached by tobacco company representatives with offers that make it easier to get hooked on tobacco and harder to quit. Every day that this activity continues to be legal, more and more young adults -- who would not otherwise have bought a pack of cigarettes -- are getting hooked on smoking. Many of these young people will never be able to break free from this horrible addiction. One group of people that is especially vulnerable is the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community, which smokes three times as much as the general population in Santa Clara County. Beginning about three months ago, Big Tobacco started to step up its attack on that community when they began scheduling nearly 50% of their San Jose visits to a gay bar. Urgent action is needed to stop this blatant targeting of the LGBT Community in San Jose. Within the last few months, electronic cigarettes have begun to be given out for free in San Jose?s bars. There is no current law which would keep Big Tobacco from expanding their e-cigarette giveaways beyond the bars to community fairs, or on the sidewalk in front of stores near schools. We need to act quickly to prevent the potential for a dramatic increase in the availability of free e-cigarettes in San Jose getting our young adults and our children hooked on nicotine. Five of the six most populated cities in the Bay Area passed laws against tobacco sampling years ago. San Jose is the only exception. None of these cities (or any other city) has ever been sued or had any other difficulties due to the passage of their sampling laws. It is long past time for San Jose to stop Big Tobacco from targeting our young adults in the bars. I know City staff time is limited. To make this a quick and easy process, the Butt Out of Our Bars campaign has provided model legislation from the legal experts at ChangeLab Solutions, and the ordinance passed by the City of Richmond, CA in 2009 (which is based on that model) to the City Manager?s office. With just a few small changes, the Richmond law is exactly what the campaign is proposing for San Jose. Let?s get this done quickly to protect as many people as possible. The Butt Out of Our Bars campaign is only funded through June of 2015. If this issue is pushed to next year, legislation may not pass for six months or more, but if the ordinance moves forward this year that project will be able to provide services to the City such as monitoring the bars for compliance with the law, informing and educating bar owners and staff and paying for advertising to inform the public. None of this enforcement support will be possible if this proposal is forced to go through the prioritization process. Given the clear urgency of this issue, surely time can be made available on November 18^th to move this serious public health problem closer to being resolved so that the City of San Jose can join every other major Bay Area city in the fight against Big Tobacco?s manipulative pricing schemes aimed at our young adults. I appreciate your time and consideration. Sincerely, *Brian Davis * California Tobacco Control Program (CTCP) Coordinator 39465 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite 3400 Fremont, CA 94538 Phone: (510) 252-6806 Cell: (510) 459-4122 Fax: (510) 226-5624 Email: BDavis at tri-cityhealth.org Facebook Twitter Please think of the environment before printing this email. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Tri-City Health Center shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately if you have received this email by mistake. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Tri-City Health Center. Tri-City Health Center accepts no liability for any damage caused by any transmitted data by this email. From carolineyacoub at att.net Thu Nov 13 16:19:33 2014 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:19:33 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Thoughts from Santa Barbara activist on failed fracking ban measure In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1415924373.66063.YahooMailNeo@web185301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> On Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:37 PM, Brian Haberly wrote: HI again friends! Here is a short email from one of the Santa Barbara area activists that worked on the fracking ban measure in Santa Barbara County that went down to defeat, largely buried under $7-8 million in spending by Chevron et al. Katie Davis drives home the point that "extreme energy extraction" (just as we referenced it in our proposed Palo Alto resolutions) is so important to reference, since cyclic steam injection and acidizing as unconventional oil production practices each have their own associated problems. It isn't "just" fracking that we're concerned about, but unconventional oil production as a whole. Brian H. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Katie Davis Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [CAF_Members] ReminderL ALL CAF CALL: Today @ 5pm To: Ash Lauth , "CAF_Members at googlegroups.com" Good call last night on the elections. Thanks! One other really important aspect I forgot to mention that hurt us in Santa Barbara is that you all have done a great job of demonizing fracking, but industry was able to distance themselves from fracking and say that isn't an issue here, and that cyclic steam injection is just fine and dandy and safe, and acidizing is just a normal thing you do to clean wells. Then they accuse us of being deceptive by saying it's a "fracking ban" when it's really more than that. I think the fracking-only focus is risky for us as campaign in Santa Barbara showed. From a climate perspective, steam injection is actually worse than fracking. It is more carbon-intensive. Example -- we first grew alarmed a year ago when a 130-well project came up for approval. This one project will use 300,000 gallons of water a day and emit 88,000 tons GHGs -- equal to adding over 17,000 cars to our roads, and would be one of the largest sources of emissions in the county. After that project was approved, the company announced plans for 7,700 wells! At the same time a chinese company invested $665 million in local oil fields and announced plans to greatly increase production. A few other companies have also submitted applications for expansion -- nearly1000 new wells this year in total. These are all cyclic steam injection. Companies here also experimenting with fracking, but having more success with steam injection here (same process used in Canadian tarsands). If we are concerned about the climate, we can't just be concerned about fracking, but a boom in all unconventional oil production -- like what's happening here in Santa Barbara County. At the convergence I suggest we talk about the issue of targeting fracking specifically vs. extreme oil extraction in general that industry planning to use the extract "tight" oil in California. Thanks, Katie > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Next Plenary Info Message-ID: <29be0.3251071.419d313d@aol.com> November 18, 2014 What the subject line says... Warner In a message dated 11/11/2014 6:00:39 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, mfeinstein at feinstein.org writes: 2) the next GPCA GA will be in Monterrey, January 24-25, www.cagreens.org/ga/2015-01 and the CC has specified a time during the Strategy brainstorming session for focusing on electoral strategy, and we are inviting any current Green officeholders to come and participate and talk about their campaigns, and newly elected John Keener from Pacifica will be there, and local elected Greens Bruce Delgado and Jan Shriner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Wed Nov 19 15:08:03 2014 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:08:03 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda items? Message-ID: <546D22D3.1010808@aceweb.com> Please mention agenda items for the Green Party meeting tomorrow (Thursday) evening in replies to this post. I will do the agenda tomorrow afternoon, so I need input ASAP. Sorry about waiting until the last minute... -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added the story of SJBPs Monsters Vs. Aliens Ride. There's an Eagle pin on a 1976 quarter in my home. From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com Wed Nov 19 18:55:41 2014 From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:55:41 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Nov. 20 agenda: GPCA GA in SJ & US Social Forum, June 24-27, 2015 In-Reply-To: <45C7422A-A71A-4031-A1F9-13B7D3D9C243@feinstein.org> References: <45C7422A-A71A-4031-A1F9-13B7D3D9C243@feinstein.org> Message-ID: <546D582D.4040604@structuremonitoring.com> Hello, All: Do we have the energy to host a GPCA General Assembly next June to support Greens from around the state attending the US Social Forum? Let's discuss at the meeting tomorrow. Spencer -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: GPCA General Assembly in San Jose during US Social Forum Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:48:54 -0800 From: Mike Feinstein To: warner bloomberg , Drew Johnson , Gerry Gras , Tian Harter , Dana St. George , Spencer Graves , Caroline Yacoub , Shamako Noble CC: GPSCC group , Agenda-PPC Dear Santa Clara County Greens The GPCA CC is talking about having the June GPCA General Assembly in San Jose during the time of the US Social Forum next year (June 24-27, 2015), like the GPUS did in 2010 when it held its Annual Nat'l Meeting in Detroit during the U.S. Social Forum there that year (Warner was there) The idea would be that we'd take care of some internal business at the GA like the GPCA FY 2015-2016 budget and breakout sessions for our committees and working groups, but otherwise have Greens be in town to attend the Social Forum events/workshops, and maybe even put on some of our own there about independent/alternative party organizing. For the GA, we would probably want a venue for the budget on Saturday, but otherwise possibly direct our members to various workshops at the Social Forum. Still to be determined how we'd break it down for meeting times. What are your thoughts on this possibility? Mike PS - I'm copying Oakland Green Shamako Noble, who is actively involved in organizing the Social Forum in San Jose. From leedobell at aol.com Sun Nov 16 19:05:57 2014 From: leedobell at aol.com (Leedobell) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:05:57 -0500 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Blair Libby's post in Green Party of Santa Clara County needs approval: "Hi everyone - I'm...". In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D1D02A8BCE742B-C08-32FAE@webmail-vm134.sysops.aol.com> Can we invite them to the meeting Thursday? -----Original Message----- From: Facebook To: Caroline Yacoub Sent: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 4:21 pm Subject: Blair Libby's post in Green Party of Santa Clara County needs approval: "Hi everyone - I'm...". Facebook Blair Libby's post in Green Party of Santa Clara County needs approval: "Hi everyone - I'm...". Blair Libby November 16 at 4:21pm Hi everyone - I'm a Santa Clara University student, and I'm one of many at my school that are supporters and voters for Green Party. I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with starting Green Party groups/affiliations on campuses? There is growing interest for one at SCU! View Post This message was sent to leedobell at aol.com. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe. Facebook, Inc., Attention: Department 415, PO Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mfeinstein at feinstein.org Wed Nov 19 18:48:54 2014 From: mfeinstein at feinstein.org (Mike Feinstein) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:48:54 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] GPCA General Assembly in San Jose during US Social Forum In-Reply-To: References: <51C0A96B.2040102@structuremonitoring.com> Message-ID: <45C7422A-A71A-4031-A1F9-13B7D3D9C243@feinstein.org> Dear Santa Clara County Greens The GPCA CC is talking about having the June GPCA General Assembly in San Jose during the time of the US Social Forum next year (June 24-27, 2015), like the GPUS did in 2010 when it held its Annual Nat'l Meeting in Detroit during the U.S. Social Forum there that year (Warner was there) The idea would be that we'd take care of some internal business at the GA like the GPCA FY 2015-2016 budget and breakout sessions for our committees and working groups, but otherwise have Greens be in town to attend the Social Forum events/workshops, and maybe even put on some of our own there about independent/alternative party organizing. For the GA, we would probably want a venue for the budget on Saturday, but otherwise possibly direct our members to various workshops at the Social Forum. Still to be determined how we'd break it down for meeting times. What are your thoughts on this possibility? Mike PS - I'm copying Oakland Green Shamako Noble, who is actively involved in organizing the Social Forum in San Jose. From perrysandy at aol.com Wed Nov 19 19:31:07 2014 From: perrysandy at aol.com (perrysandy at aol.com) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:31:07 -0500 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Blair Libby's post in Green Party of Santa Clara County needs approval: "Hi everyone - I'm...". In-Reply-To: <8D1D02A8BCE742B-C08-32FAE@webmail-vm134.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D1D02A8BCE742B-C08-32FAE@webmail-vm134.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8D1D2898E1817F0-540-41A76@webmail-va102.sysops.aol.com> By all means please invite them, Caroline. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Leedobell To: sosfbay-discuss Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 7:26 pm Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Blair Libby's post in Green Party of Santa Clara County needs approval: "Hi everyone - I'm...". Can we invite them to the meeting Thursday? -----Original Message----- From: Facebook To: Caroline Yacoub Sent: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 4:21 pm Subject: Blair Libby's post in Green Party of Santa Clara County needs approval: "Hi everyone - I'm...". Facebook Blair Libby's post in Green Party of Santa Clara County needs approval: "Hi everyone - I'm...". Blair Libby November 16 at 4:21pm Hi everyone - I'm a Santa Clara University student, and I'm one of many at my school that are supporters and voters for Green Party. I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with starting Green Party groups/affiliations on campuses? There is growing interest for one at SCU! View Post This message was sent to leedobell at aol.com. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe. Facebook, Inc., Attention: Department 415, PO Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303 _______________________________________________ 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 Nov 19 23:00:39 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:00:39 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Movie Friday, Nov. 21, 2 and 7 PM, "Shadows of Liberty" on "Your news for sale" Message-ID: <546D9197.5080304@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: The movie "Shadows of Liberty" uncovers "the truth about corporate owned media." It will be showing Friday, November 21: * 2 PM @ San Jose State University, Yoshihiro Uchida Hall, Rm. 124. 7 PM @ San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose, CA. The movie includes interviews with Julian Assange, Dan Rather, Dick Gregory, Dan Ellsberg, Robert McChesney, John Nichols, and many others. For more information, see "sanjosepeace.org", call 408-297-2299 or email sjpjc at sanjosepeace.org. Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PhD Executive Director Effective Defense 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.effectivedefense.org -- 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 snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu Nov 20 08:56:37 2014 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:56:37 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Movie Friday, Nov. 21, 2 and 7 PM, "Shadows of Liberty" on "Your news for sale" In-Reply-To: <546D9197.5080304@prodsyse.com> References: <546D9197.5080304@prodsyse.com> Message-ID: Yoshihiro Uchida Hall is on 4th Street, two blocks south of the Martin Luther King library. Other very eye-opening documentaries about the need for media reform are "Outfoxed" and "Orwell Rolls in His Grave". > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:00:39 -0800 > From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Movie Friday, Nov. 21, 2 and 7 PM, "Shadows of Liberty" on "Your news for sale" > > Hello, All: > > > The movie "Shadows of Liberty" uncovers "the truth about > corporate owned media." It will be showing Friday, November 21: > > > * 2 PM @ San Jose State University, Yoshihiro Uchida Hall, > Rm. 124. > > > 7 PM @ San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San > Jose, CA. > > > The movie includes interviews with Julian Assange, Dan Rather, > Dick Gregory, Dan Ellsberg, Robert McChesney, John Nichols, and many others. > > > For more information, see "sanjosepeace.org", call 408-297-2299 > or email sjpjc at sanjosepeace.org. > > > Spencer > > > -- > Spencer Graves, PhD > Executive Director > Effective Defense > 751 Emerson Ct. > San Jos?, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > web: www.effectivedefense.org > > > -- > 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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Event webpage: http://www.peaceandjustice.org/harvest-festival-2014/ Downloadable pdf flyer at: http://www.reachandteach.com/share/peacefair2014flyer.pdf Sanda Everette, co-chair GPCA Delegation GPCA Coordinating Committee -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ gpsmc-d mailing list gpsmc-d at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpsmc-d http://cagreens.org/sanmateo/ From tnharter at aceweb.com Thu Nov 20 14:47:28 2014 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:47:28 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] agenda - printing this if no one says anything by 3:30 PM Message-ID: <546E6F80.6090705@aceweb.com> Green Part meeting agenda, November 20, 2014. Pick meeting officials: facilitator, note taker, vibes watcher, timer, agenda maker for next time. Introductions and announcements Approve or modify and approve agenda Treasurers report Keystone XL and the tar sands train (Caroline) The guy who wants to start a green group at Santa Clara University (Caroline) Tabling (Caroline) End of meeting ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The movie "Shadows of Liberty" uncovers "the truth about corporate owned media." It will be showing Friday, November 21: * 2 PM @ San Jose State University, Yoshihiro Uchida Hall, Rm. 124. 7 PM @ San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose, CA. The movie includes interviews with Julian Assange, Dan Rather, Dick Gregory, Dan Ellsberg, Robert McChesney, John Nichols, and many others. For more information, see "sanjosepeace.org", call 408-297-2299 or email sjpjc at sanjosepeace.org . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2014 Harvest Peace and Social Justice Craft and Info Fair is just around the corner this Sunday, November 23rd starting at 11am and going until 2pm. Event webpage: http://www.peaceandjustice.org/harvest-festival-2014/ Downloadable pdf flyer at: http://www.reachandteach.com/share/peacefair2014flyer.pdf -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added the story of SJBPs Monsters Vs. Aliens Ride. There's an Eagle pin on a 1976 quarter in my home. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyways, ... http://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/ucs-publications/2015-center-science-and-democracy-calendar (The cartoons are on the above web page.) Gerry From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Thu Nov 20 21:05:19 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:05:19 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Meeting minutes 2014-11-20 In-Reply-To: <546E6F80.6090705@aceweb.com> References: <546E6F80.6090705@aceweb.com> Message-ID: <546EC80F.3010807@prodsyse.com> On 11/20/2014 2:47 PM, Tian Harter wrote: > Green Part meeting agenda, November 20, 2014. > > > Pick meeting officials: facilitator: Jim Doyle note taker: Spencer vibes watcher: Sandy Perry > timer: Caroline agenda maker for next time: Sandy Perry > > > Introductions and announcements Sandy Perry Warner Bloomberg: Next Plenary in Monterey in January. If we are to send Delegates and Alternates, they should be selected tonight or December. Jim Doyle: Treasurer and member of the County Council. Tian Harter: Tian is throwing a party Friday, Dec. 26, 7-10 PM, Tian's clubhouse; all are invited. Bike Party tomorrow night. Spencer Graves; County Council, as't treasurer. Caroline Yacoub: In charge of tabling, Keystone tar sands trains Patrick Laban: former Democrat, recently reregistered Green. Gender equality, LGBT, equal rights for people of color, homelessness. > > Approve or modify and approve agenda > > > Treasurers report: ** $36 collected from tabling at Junior State. > > > Keystone XL and the tar sands train (Caroline): There will be mile > long trains going to Santa Maria. Caroline suggests we write letters > to the San Jos? City Council asking them to object to the oil trains. > Deadline is next Monday, Nov. 24. Caroline will forward the email on this to Sandy, and Sandy will forward the "asks" to sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org. > The guy who wants to start a green group at Santa Clara University > (Caroline): Caroline received an email from Blair Libby, a student > at Santa Clara University via a Facebook page on a Green Party of > Santa Clara County; there are 2 such Facebook pages. *** Tian will look at our material on Facebook. *** Sandy will try to find Blair Libby. > Tabling (Caroline) Tian and Caroline did Junior State. Holiday Peace Fair, Dec. 6. Sandy will help part time between 8 and 10. Tian will help in the afternoon. (8 - 4 PM; Tian will help clean up.) (Tian to ask Melanie if she'd like to manage this 10 - noon.) * Follow-up from August: What about: (A1) The second web page on cagreens.org for the Santa Clara County Green party (A2) the Facebook page? ** CA Plenary in Monterey in January. Caroline will go and provide transportation for those who would like to ride with her. Sandy will send an email to the group to volunteer to be a delegate or alternate. * SCC Greens to host a California Green Party Plenary to coincide roughly with the US Social Forum, June 24-27, 2015? [This was suggested by Mike Feinstein. Human Agenda will be doing something with that Social Forum -- including, I think, prep activities in January; Richard Hobbs is involved.] (Sandy) Philadepha + Jackson, MI, + San Jos?. Shamako Noble is the national coordinator for the US Social Forum. * Warner: 1. We either as a local party or representing the State party should have a table at this Social Forum. We should also try to contact Greens in other states. 2. Would we want to present 1 or more workshops? 3. This could be a major theme for the next 6 months for us to do outreach using the voter registration list, etc., to let people know this is coming. ** There will be a People's Movement Assembly. There was one about Hip Hop this last weekend. Nov. 29 another one by Richard Hobbs. Sandy will send material on this. Spencer will post to the web site. Sandy is involved with this. It will be centered at San Jos? State. * Warner would like to know the mechanism for the Santa Clara Greens to be connected with this event so we can say we are connected. Resolution: The Green Party of Santa Clara County will support the US Social Forum in San Jose in June, 2015. (Approved.) * Regarding the possibility of a plenary, we need twice as many active people working on it. Caroline suggests we try to get twice as many people working on it -- organizing an event of about 50 people. Social Forum: Wednesday - Saturday. Plenary would be Friday night for Coordinating Commmittee, Plenary Saturday and Sunday. *** We need to work with Green parties in other counties to help organize this. *** With the Social Forum in San Jos?, it would be stupid if we didn't have the June Plenary here. 1. Find a venue; Sandy will look for this. 2. Check the availability and cost of motel space. 3. The State Coordinating Committee has a dinner the night before that must be arranged. 4. .. - ** Sandy: Rev. Pinkney is facing charges around a petition drive. He was convicted of 5 felonies. Could face 25 years in prison. Sandy would like people to sign. * SCC Greens to endorse or co-sponsor a "Fifth anniversary commemoration of Citizens United" (provided it doesn't cost us any money) being organized by Move to Amend for January 24 (3 days after the actual 5th anniversary, Jan. 21) (approved) * SCC Greens to support a local anti-corruption campaign similar to the referendum that got 2/3 of the vote in Tallahassee, Nov. 4. (Spencer) > End of meeting > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > The movie "Shadows of Liberty" uncovers "the truth about corporate owned media." It will be showing Friday, November 21: > > > * 2 PM @ San Jose State University, Yoshihiro Uchida Hall, Rm. 124. > > > 7 PM @ San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose, CA. > > > The movie includes interviews with Julian Assange, Dan Rather, Dick > Gregory, Dan Ellsberg, Robert McChesney, John Nichols, and many > others. > > > For more information, see "sanjosepeace.org", call 408-297-2299 or > email sjpjc at sanjosepeace.org . > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > The 2014 Harvest Peace and Social Justice Craft and Info Fair is just > around the corner this Sunday, November 23rd starting at 11am and > going until 2pm. > > Event webpage: http://www.peaceandjustice.org/harvest-festival-2014/ > Downloadable pdf flyer at: > http://www.reachandteach.com/share/peacefair2014flyer.pdf > > > > > _______________________________________________ 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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Submit your comment here: http://goo.gl/GKJDgZ. Whenyou submit your comment, do change the text in the form letter so that youmention your concerns for the local risks to San Jose. This lets them know thatour community is mobilized against this expansion. This took me 1 minute tocomplete. 2. Call your San Jose city council member to ask them to send theircomment against the proposed oil by rail project at the Phillips 66 Santa MariaRefinery: http://goo.gl/hDn5hO. (Please give themthe link to the comment page, in step 1, above). We are told that sharingpersonal stories with council members can be very effective. Let them know howfar you live from the train and why this is very personal for you. This took me2 minutes to complete 3. Read our Opinion piece in San Jose Mercury News aboutthe rail expansion! Link: http://goo.gl/3kbsdL. We are told that themore this story is clicked on by a reader the more likely they will be topublish more stories on this issue. 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Seventh St, San Jose 95112. > > The formal meeting will begin at 7:30 pm and part of the agenda will consist of selecting delegates to the State Plenary which will be held in Monterrey on Jan. 24-25. Please consider being a delegate and attend the Dec. 18 meeting. Thanks! > > > Sandy Perry > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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One concern of the GPSCC is the small size and capacity of its own active membership and whether it has the strength to pull it off logistically. One idea is to request some assistance from other Bay Area Greens as needed. The fact that meeting venues and lodgings may be able to be coordinated with the much larger USSF efforts may make the logistics more manageable. These were our preliminary thoughts and we plan to discuss the situation again in our December meeting and have a good idea of what we are willing and able to do by the time of the Monterrey plenary. Above all, the feelings of the membership were that this is an enormous opportunity and not to be missed, both for our local, Bay Area, and statewide Green Party work. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Mike Feinstein To: Sandy Perry Cc: Shamako Noble Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 8:47 pm Subject: Re: GPCA General Assembly in San Jose during US Social Forum Sandy Greetings. This is what I'd like to see: The normal spring/summer GPCA General Assembly focuses on the budget and hearing from candidates seeking election to our state Coordinating Committee and GPUS Delegation. Then we also have breakout sessions for our statewide working groups and committees, and then usually a few other decision-making items and/or discussions. This normally occurs from about 8am-6pm on Saturdays and 9am to 4pm on Sundays This year the GPCA is talking about scheduling it in San Jose, holding our budget session and some other business, but otherwise compress the meeting so that our members could attend the workshops Regarding the workshops, I could envision some political party/electoral-related workshops, where in one workshop, we feature sitting/former elected Greens talking about governing as a Green, and in another we have a workshop on how to be an independent/minor party candidate and run for office; and maybe a third on the more theoretical debates about party/movement organizing I can also see the folks from Richmond (the RPA) wanting to do their own workshop on how they beat Chevron, and that would include Green Mayor/Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin in her own right With these kind of workshops - and all the other good ones that will happen there - I can see us emailing the more than 20,000 California Greens that we have emails for, to come attend the Social Forum - and maybe have Greens in neighboring state parties do the same. The GPCA has a modest budget for meeting space. Hopefully we could rent space for about 75 Greens on Saturday for our General Assembly, and maybe a few other small breakout rooms, then otherwise direct our members to the rest of the forum. Our funds could also be a small win-win to help with the financing of the Social Forum by sending a little more $$$ to SJ State. We have our next state meeting January 23-25 in Monterey and are going to be discussing this on Friday at our Steering Committee annual retreat and Saturday during our strategic planning session You both would be welcome to attend and discuss these possibilities. Thoughts? Mike Feinstein Santa Monica GPCA Coordinating Committee member -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As we understand it, the report of course covers waterboarding and other torture that's euphemistically been called "enhanced interrogation", but also makes it clear that the CIA engaged in even more grotesque, unreported acts as well. All in our names. But seven months after the Senate Intelligence Committee voted overwhelmingly to release the report to the American people, the White House is stonewalling Congress and demanding "redactions"--blacked-out sections that make the report unintelligible--before making its contents public. [2]But one courageous senator is considering releasing the report anyway -- please click here to urge him to do so. We have a real chance to have the report released before the end of the year, when Senator Mark Udall leaves office. Here's how: Members of Congress have an absolute right to free speech, and a member could release the report in its entirety without fear of prosecution. This is just as the Pentagon Papers, disclosing lies that underpinned our involvement in Vietnam, were released in 1971. That's exactly what transparency advocates are calling on the outgoing, staunchly anti-torture and pro-transparency Senator Udall to do -- and he's made it clear that he's actively considering doing so. This is would be a courageous act that would incur the ire of very powerful interests -- so we need to make sure that Udall knows countless people will support him if he chooses to move forward. [3]Click here to tell Mark Udall to be our hero and stand strong against torture: Please release the report before you leave office. We have a real chance to make history -- and hold the Bush administration and the CIA's torturers accountable. 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Anderson / Coyote / Calero complex has been kept at around 38% by bringing in water from the State. There are pipes from San Luis reservoir near Los Banos to Coyote and from Anderson to Calero. Coyote to Andrson is just down hill. If you look at the other side of the valley, though, the story is much different. Lexington Reservoir is the 3rd largest and it is only at 12.8% while Uvas is at 2.1% and Chesbro is empty... showing 0% on the water district chart. These three get their water from Santa Cruz Mountains rainfall and we have not had enough to really start any appreciable run off. So, while the medium range forecast is for December to be slightly warmer and slightly wetter than normal, it won't really make a major difference in drought conditions unless that is followed by wet Jan, Feb, Mar. What we don't need is for residents, either agricultural or urban, beginning to act as if they can ignore the situation. Nor, do we need the large agricultural users to satisfy their demand by pumping more ground water. Some areas near Mendota are subsiding at the rate of a foot / year. Over a square mile, that is 640 acre feet of water that the aquifer's will no longer hold. Note: Californian's passed the bond measure with Proposition 1. It calls for building additional reservoir capacity. But the fact is that this will not do the state any good. I retweeted @chanceofrain who made this clear. > RT @chanceofraincom : The supply > doesn't exist for California water storage expansion bit.ly/1BWmKGE > via @physorg_com > #cawater > 4 SURE -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun Nov 23 21:23:42 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:23:42 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Last Chance for Green Party Promotional Items! In-Reply-To: <2134451249.1063155186@wfc.wfcDB.reply.salsalabs.com> References: <2134451249.1063155186@wfc.wfcDB.reply.salsalabs.com> Message-ID: <5472C0DE.7070105@earthlink.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Green Party of the United States Subject: Last Chance for Green Party Promotional Items! Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:51:12 -0500 (EST) Size: 12097 URL: From spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org Mon Nov 24 07:55:40 2014 From: spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (Spencer Graves) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:55:40 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Kathy's piece on Climate Change. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <547354FC.8080003@effectivedefense.org> Below please find a brief essay (not quite poem) by Kathy LeMay, who did a workshop on fund raising at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, April 4-7, 2013. (I attended an even bought her book;-) Spencer -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Kathy's piece on Climate Change. Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:07:41 +0000 From: Raising Change, LLC Reply-To: Raising Change, LLC To: My Piece on Climate Change. View this email in your browser (http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ed4479c8a8d580edfbc39a97b&id=fc9ffbdf06&e=74cfc2dccf) ** "We will remember we are not alone." ------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================================ Lather, Rinse, Repeat. by Kathy LeMay "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." When you fight for the truth to be told and denial tap dances on it, sometimes waking up and naming truth all over again feels impossible. For those who devote their lives to creating societal change, what we're aiming for is big change. Policy, legal, social, cultural change. On most days what we'd take: the truth, said by everyone, out loud. When it doesn't come and so often it doesn't come, we keep trying. We do it all- write, fight, collaborate, convene, listen, learn, strategize, organize. Days of certainty, resolve, and celebration followed by days of defeat, fatigue, and depletion. We go to sleep having given everything we have. We wake up and do it again. Looking for a when, where and how the truth will be named and when it is named the cascade of transformation that will follow. We rise. We work. One step forward. Ten steps thrown back. No change. A little change. Not enough change. Attacked. Misunderstood. Misrepresented. So often we are in small groups, many times it is just two. And in some cases throughout the world, there is only one sole voice. Then, after day in and day out, weeks in and weeks out, years in and years out of naming truth and wondering what it might feel like to have truth be the collective voice, a gathering. You, who was just one person is suddenly a one plus 399,999. The you who was a voice of hope and love and possibility is everywhere around you. You are beautifully and lovingly amplified. On September 21, 2014 in New York City, hundreds of thousands of you marched. You occupied 4 miles of NYC streets. Artists, musicians, students, teachers, dancers, doctors, social workers, justice seekers, capitalists, socialists, communists, parents, and puppeteers. You who has felt what it is to be on the outside looking in waited nearly two hours to begin marching. You waited with love and patience. You know what it is to wait for truth. You could wait two hours longer if needed. Then movement began and you erupted with joy and celebration. 400,000 truth tellers, catching each others eyes and knowing that you were seen and known. Realizing that truth has a powerful place in this world. Turns out, it's worth working for and waiting for. And what of denial and its ever present place in this world? Before marching and after marching denial will be there. It will keep tap dancing along, upheld by sleekly tainted dollars, flashing digital billboards, illusionary distractions, magical consumption. On those days you are fatigued, you might even be captivated by its brightness. Despite your best efforts, some days you will want to sink into it, the comfort of it. Just for a break. Just to breathe. Underneath it all though you will remember. You will remember what it feels like to be in the presence of truth-telling. You will remember the looks in all of our eyes: that beautiful knowing that you were not just there for you, you were there for everyone who has been alongside you. On those days after this march we will remember that we're not alone, that we want a good life for everyone who was there and everyone we'll never meet. No one excluded, all of us breathing together. We go to bed knowing that we'll wake up and do it again the next morning. Lather, rinse, repeat. Except this time with hundreds of thousands by our side. This email was sent to spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org (mailto:spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org) why did I get this? 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USA Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monkey_rewards&aid=ed4479c8a8d580edfbc39a97b&afl=1 From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com Wed Nov 26 11:27:25 2014 From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:27:25 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Rally for 5th anniversary of Citizens United, Jan. 24, noon - 1 PM, St. James Park Message-ID: <5476299D.7080308@prodsyse.com> Hello, All: Move to Amend is organizing a rally to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Citizens United decision (Jan. 21, 2010) on Jan. 24, 2015, noon - 1 PM, at St. James Park. The tentative agenda includes Live music / Today & Tomorrow skit / Books, and speeches from Scott Meis (CEO Downtown Business Assoc.), Ash Kalra (City of San Jos? Councilmember) and Jeff Moore (President, San Jos? NAACP). For more information, see "www.cagreens.org/santaclara". Please mark your calendars and spread the word as opportunities arise during this holiday season. Best Wishes, Spencer -- Spencer Graves, PhD Executive Director Effective Defense 751 Emerson Ct. San Jos?, CA 95126 ph: 408-655-4567 web: www.effectivedefense.org From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Nov 27 12:45:52 2014 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:45:52 -0800 Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Today We Give Thanks For You In-Reply-To: <2138344749.1957089978@wfc.wfcDB.reply.salsalabs.com> References: <2138344749.1957089978@wfc.wfcDB.reply.salsalabs.com> Message-ID: <54778D80.9020301@earthlink.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Green Party of the United States Subject: Today We Give Thanks For You Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:24:30 -0500 (EST) Size: 10536 URL: