[GPSCC-chat] creating campaign plans?

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


	  We began a planning exercise last night following the 388-page 
"Campaign Toolkit" freely downloadable from the IFEX, the International 
Freedom of Expression Exchange (www.ifex.org/campaign_toolkit).


	  Could someone suggest a way to make the notes from this discussion 
available some place where many people can edit and leave comments?  If 
we do this right, the resulting documentation will become too unwieldy 
for an email, least of all for sosfbay-discuss with its limit on email 
length.


	  The IFEX Campaign Toolkit describes a campaign in terms of 6 steps: 
[1] Build (select issue and plan campaign), [2] Fund, [3], Digitise, [4] 
Support, [5] Escalate, and [6] Tell.  Below please find a discussion of 
the first part of stop 1.


PHASE ONE.  BUILD:  "Building" starts with reviewing the core vision and 
mission of the organization and selecting specific issue(s) to work on. 
  Sept. 25, we discussed three issues:


	  * 1.  Building the Green Party.


	  * 2.  Environment, especially global warming.


	  * 3.  Healthcare for all.


	  The Campaign Toolkit asked how these issues relate to the 
organization's core vision and mission.  The first two are in the name 
"Green".  To evaluate the connection of healthcare to the Green vision 
and mission, it may help to recite the "four pillars that define Green 
politics:  ecology, social justice, grassroots democracy, and 
non-violence."  (Wikipedia, "Green politics)  For me at least, 
healthcare for all is an important component of social justice.


	SUBSTEP 2.  CAMPAIGN CYCLE WORKSHEET:  The next step recommended by the 
Toolkit is a "campaign cycle worksheet", which requires answering two 
questions:

2 A. What specific problem or problems related to the larger issue will 
you focus your campaign on?
2 B. How do these problems align with your organisation’s core vision 
and mission?


	  Caroline said that where ever she goes, there are people unhappy with 
the Republicans and Democrats. She then invites them to register Green. 
  She also noted that Lisa Altieri (goco2free.org and 350.org) wants to 
be apolitical.  Caroline noted that we could easily politicize their 
issue.


SG:  Nader (2014) Unstoppable (Nation Books) suggests that there are 
broad segments of the US population, including people registered 
Republicans and Libertarians -- especially conservative icons like 
Friedrich Hayak, who advocated regulatory mechanisms to prevent 
deception and monopolies and preserve health, and who also supported a 
comprehensive system of social insurance for sickness and accidents (pp. 
161-162).  This is most obvious for infectious diseases:  We'd all be 
healthier if everyone else got all the effective vaccines and sought 
medical attention for any condition that might be contagious.  I think 
many conservatives now know that the US lags the rest of the developed 
world in public health.  We need to talk with conservatives to learn 
more about their concerns and what they would support.


	  Regarding increasing voter registration and electoral participation, 
people noted that Prop 14 created problems for the Greens and other 
minority parties.  Spencer said that Dave Kadlecek, who's with the Peace 
& Freedom Party, said that they conducted write-in campaigns for 
uncontested seats in the primary.


SPENCER WILL ASK ABOUT THE RULES FOR CONDUCTING AN OFFICIAL WRITE-IN 
CAMPAIGN.


** WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT INVITING PEACE & FREEDOM PARTY MEMBERS TO OUR 
MONTHLY MEETINGS?  We can share the agenda and collaborate on common 
issues.  Only Green party members can vote to decide what the Greens 
want to do, and similarly for the Peace & Freedom party members.  I 
should ask Kadlecek.


	  Comments?  Clearly, we can have a broader discussion of specific 
problems related to party registration, environment and health care 
including how they align with our Ten Key Values.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


-- 
Spencer Graves, PhD
Executive Director
Effective Defense
751 Emerson Ct.
San José, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567
web:  www.effectivedefense.org