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On 6/25/2014 2:54 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
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at San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. Seventh
St., San Jose CA 95112</font></span></div>
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<font size="2"><font face="arial">Warner </font></font><br>
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<font size="2"><font face="arial"> Sandy: two trends: <br>
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1. try to get a bill. <br>
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2. initiative on the ballot<br>
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Two state-wide networks, which need to patch up their
differences if they want to be effective. California Nurses'
Association needs to be figure out how to work with others and
vice versa. <br>
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No major events as far as is known now. <br>
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<font size="2"><font face="arial"> Caroline: 2 climate change
meetings this week. They are trying to get more groups </font></font>in
350 Silicon Valley. One is Vietnamese and Filipinos. De Anza
Filipino students have organized events around this. <br>
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There will be a Climate Train to New York Sept. 15-18 (must
sign up by July 11) to support a march Sept. 20-21. <br>
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<font size="2"><font face="arial"> Global Climate Convergence
Sept. 19-21 in NYC. </font></font><br>
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A group has organized a presentation and is looking for
venues. <br>
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There is now a DeAnza Green Party with student officers.
They've made their own banner. <br>
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Cheri Honkala came in 2012. Laura Wells and Luis Rodriguez
came this spring. Club advisors: Cynthia Kaufman(sp) organizes the
Institute of Community and Civic Engagement at DeAnza. <br>
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Drew would like to see more student empowerment, e.g., a
representative on the Board of Trustees. <br>
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A bank "Higher One" is pushed by DeAnza for the students.
Approved by the Board of Trustees over the objections of a student
representative on the Board. Try to organize a drive to expose the
questionable marketing practices of Higher One. <br>
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Problems with sexual predators / rape on campus. <br>
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Working with other groups such as "Inclusability" (disability
rights) plus minority groups. <br>
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Sandy got info on this from "Voice of Detroit" (available on
the web). <br>
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Warner would prefer that we just affirm the proposal and give
Sandy the authority to create a final version without the need for
approval by the County Council. We have consensus on the proposal
as revised. <br>
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No one here went to Santa Barbara. <br>
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Andrea talked with Sanda on the GPCA Media committee (email):
Mike is putting together information. He's no longer on the Media /
PR committee. "Mike is going to write a report." <br>
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* Discussion about the status and future of email list and web site
(15 minutes, max) <br>
<br>
<br>
Are local web page and email list have had operational
problems from its connection with the statewide Green Party. This
was a system created a decade ago by Cameron among others. <br>
<br>
<br>
Do we want to close down our email lists and web site and
create something new? Warner spoke about this with Cameron roughly
a month ago. riseup.net tries to minimize the intrusions of the
surveillance state. We should have a list for the County Council to
record their deliberation. <br>
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There are two separate GPSCC web sites. They should be
merged. <br>
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Let's continue this discussion on the email list, and we will
keep this on the agenda for next month's meeting. <br>
<br>
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* Who will get the current list from the Registrar of Voters (10
minutes)<br>
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Spencer will contact Jim Doyle to find out the rules and then
try to get a free update of the list of registered voters. Sometime
now and the end of August. <br>
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We will have this on the agenda as a regular item at least
until we get an updated list. <br>
<br>
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* Strategy, e.g., <font size="2"><font face="arial">How to revive
this group (Drew, 15 minutes) <br>
<br>
<br>
Drew is concerned that our monthly meetings are boring.
He likes the Move to Amend group with their committee
submeetings then coming together are reporting to the group as a
whole. <br>
<br>
<br>
Caroline: We used to do things, organize events. "Food
for Thought" = pot luck with one or more speakers. Movie
nights. <br>
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Sandy and Drew has organized 2 or 3 events each month. <br>
<br>
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Andrea: We need to fix the email list and web page. <br>
<br>
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Sandy will make a list of what we've done recently. <br>
<br>
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Warner can draft a short envisioning exercise for next
month's meeting. <br>
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* Cosmos watching at Caroline's (date yet open) <br>
<br>
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* Treasurer's report: balance $1,158.29 as of earlier this
week. <br>
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Circulating a Petition<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Party
member and 2008 Congressional candidate Rev. Edward
Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan is once again
battling political persecution. On July 21, he will
stand trial for circulating recall petitions against
Benton Harbor’s pro-corporate Mayor James Hightower. The
state is charging him with five felony counts and
threatening him with up to twenty-five years in prison.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;
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Harbor
has 70% unemployment and 90% of its people living below
the poverty line, and is also home to one of the richest
companies in the world, the $19 billion Whirlpool
Corporation. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;
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Pinkney
has led residents in a relentless battle against racism
in the criminal justice system, for jobs, for education,
for a better life, and against the state-appointed
“Emergency Financial Manager” (EFM) that took over
Benton Harbor in 2011. EFMs are a threat to democracy
everywhere, as proven when an EFM declared the
bankruptcy of Detroit in 2013. A federal judge
subsequently ruled that its workers had no right to keep
their pensions despite explicit protection in the
Michigan State Constitution, a decision that impacts the
fate of workers as far away as California.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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specific
charges against Rev. Pinkney in the recall of Mayor
Hightower are that he altered some of the dates on the
petitions. However, the evidence against him introduced
at his preliminary hearing was flimsy and contradictory,
as pointed out in a June 3 article in </font><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><font size="3">Voice
of Detroit</font></i><font size="3">:<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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Benton
Harbor resident turned in the recall petitions on
January 8, not Rev. Pinkney.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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style="font-family:
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Pinkney
was formally charged and a warrant issued for his arrest
on that same day, January 8, but the petitions were not
turned over to the Michigan State Police Forensics Lab
for examination until February 26.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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March,
Berrien County Sheriff Deputies conducted a massive
campaign to interrogate and intimidate petition signers
throughout Benton Harbor.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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style="font-family:
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James
Goff, who examined the petitions, is not a certified
Forensics Document Examiner.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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Goff
testified that, “I can’t say who altered them or when.”<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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style="font-family:
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original
petitions were admitted into evidence, only copies, and
the Berrien County Sheriff’s Department, Elections
Commission, and Michigan State Police disagree on where
the originals are located.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";"><font size="3">Three
witnesses
who had circulated petitions testified that they saw
petition signers themselves change the dates on their
signatures due to errors, and one circulator testified
that she changed a date she herself entered due to an
error.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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style="font-family:
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Sheriff
Sgt. David Zizkovsky stated that he himself asked the
Forensics Lab to change five dates on the petitions.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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style="font-family:
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was
no confession, no certified handwriting expert
testimony, no eye witnesses, no evidence that Rev.
Pinkney had exclusive access to the petitions, and lots
of evidence that lots of other people had access to
them.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;
line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family:
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charges
against Rev. Pinkney are an attack on our right to
petition for redress of grievances and our right to take
political action independently of the corporate agenda
and the two-party system. The fight to defend Rev.
Pinkney is the fight for democracy and for the future of
America. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;
line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";"><font size="3">Publicize
this
case. Write letters of support for Rev. Pinkney to BANCO
(Black Autonomous Network of Community Organizations) at
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href="mailto:banco9342@sbcglobal.net"><span
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color="#0000ff" size="3">banco9342@sbcglobal.net</font></span></a><span
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Donations for legal defense may be sent to BANCO, 1940
Union Street, Benton Harbor, MI 49022. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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