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<div>At our March 28 meeting we agreed to the following proposal, which directs us to organize our agendas around the movement for single payer health care and the movement against climate change. It did not direct us to form committees, although that might be a good idea that might arise out of the discussion. Since this proposal was adopted by the meeting, I believe we should do what it says.</div>
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<div>PROPOSAL ADOPTED: <font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I propose that our local GPSCC adopt two issue campaigns in
order to concentrate our local work, increase our impact, and grow: climate
change and single payer heath care. <o:p></o:p></font></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">This does not mean we would drop other issues or refrain
from endorsing other causes. Above all, it does not mean any member has to stop
doing work he or she as an individual feels called to do. <o:p></o:p></font></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">It means we would devote more collective thought,
discussion, planning, and meeting time to two campaigns with the idea of making
a breakthrough in expanding our ranks and influence. We would build our monthly
meeting agenda around planning how to advance our work around these issues.
This would help to keep us grounded in life and death questions facing our
people, and make us more accessible for new members who want to get involved in
concrete activity.<o:p></o:p></font></font></div>
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From: WB4D23 <WB4D23@aol.com><br>
To: perrysandy <perrysandy@aol.com>; sosfbay-discuss <sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org><br>
Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 9:17 pm<br>
Subject: Critique of an agenda item<br>
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<div><font size="4">The following are just my opinions -- FWIW --
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<div>In a message dated 4/24/2013 1:53:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:perrysandy@aol.com">perrysandy@aol.com</a> writes:</div>
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<div>a discussion of the next steps for the single payer health care movement,
upcoming activities, role of the Green Party in building the movement and how
we can work in the movement more effectively to build the Green Party.</div>
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<div><font size="4">To my thinking this is an excessively broadly framed
discussion. I don't believe that the GPSCC has agreed to take on or other
wise be responsible for the entire "single payer health care movement". To
do so would seem to be hugely arrogant and cosmically beyond the relatively
meager GPSCC participants' time/energies -- notwithstanding members who are
already involved in the local county health care for all chapter.
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<div><font size="4">The term "Green Party" likewise is overly broad. Is a
member of the California Delegation to the GPUS or some other GPUS officer or
committee member expected to attend our meeting to represent and discuss
the activities of the national Green Party? Is there someone from the GPCA
Coordinating Committee or Green Issues Working Group expected to attend?
Isn't our self-acknowledged role as a progressive political party to be
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<div><font size="4">Again, use of the word "movement" without qualification seems
overly broad and poorly framed. How are we expecting ourselves to have
responsibility for the whole "movement" -- whatever that means.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">30 MINUTES... 30 MINUTES!!!!???? There
is no concrete proposal; just an invitation for more meandering undirected
conversation. Isn't this something a committee can be created for
people who want to have an extended conversation to develop a clear proposal for
action(s) that GPSCC participants could practically accomplish and
bring to a meeting as a clear and doable proposal?. </font></div>
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<div><font size="4">-- Warner</font></div>
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