From cls at truffula.sj.ca.us Thu Feb 1 07:21:09 2007 From: cls at truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:21:09 -0800 Subject: [Sosfbay-news] agenda item - logging proposal near Los Gatos Message-ID: Sorry for the short notice. San Jose Water Company wants to cash in a thousand acres of mature second growth redwood on its property between Lexington Reservoir and Summit Road. Bad idea. Green Party needs to get in the public record against it, maybe take other actions. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16559963.htm Looks like we missed the public comment hearing. Cameron From jamboi at yahoo.com Thu Feb 15 19:10:53 2007 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:10:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Greens, SVIC to host author Dr. Peter Phillips re: Impeachment in Mountain View Message-ID: <678758.88117.qm@web52209.mail.yahoo.com> YOU ARE INVITED TO HEAR PETER PHILLIPS, PH.D. present the rational for IMPEACHING Pres. Bush and Vice Pres. Cheney, on Friday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Phillips is a professor of Sociology at Sonoma State Univ.; Director of Project Censored; and the co-editor of & contributor to "IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT, THE CASE AGAINST BUSH AND CHENEY." The venue for Phillips' talk will be the Willow Park CLUBHOUSE located on the northeast corner of Moffett Blvd. & West Middlefield Road in To the Green Party of Santa Clara County and Friends: YOU ARE INVITED TO MEET DR. PETER PHILLIPS who will speak on IMPEACHING G.W. Bush, Jr. and D. Cheney, on Friday, Feb. 16, (7:30 p.m.) in the Willow Park Condo CLUBHOUSE, on the northeast corner of Moffett Blvd. and W. Middlefield Road, Mountain View. (Enter from Moffett Blvd.) Co-sponsored by the Green Party of Santa Clara County and the Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition (SVIC). Admission FREE. Donations will be appreciated. Contact: (650) 691-1215, fredd at freeshell.org Sonoma State's Professor Phillips, the co-editor of and contributor to the collection of essays, "Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney," will also sign any of his books purchased. In the interests of peace, justice and the U.S. Constitution, Fred Duperrault, SVIC Events Committee Member ___________________ JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 From jims at greens.org Sat Feb 17 14:48:42 2007 From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:48:42 -0800 Subject: [Sosfbay-news] It's Time for IRV in Santa Clara Message-ID: <45D7864A.7FF7D805@greens.org> For any Greens interested in helping implement IRV here in Santa Clara, Californians for Electoral Reform will be holding a strategy meeting on this topic. We're looking for people who want to work on this project. CfER is a non-partisan organization with members from all parties. Announcement below. Jim ========================================= Californians for Electoral Reform Strategy Meeting Feb. 28 You are invited to an IRV implementation strategy meeting with CfER on Wednesday Feb. 28 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Santa Clara Central Park Library 2635 Homestead Rd. (between San Thomas & Keily) Sycamore room (1st floor; back, right corner) As you may remember, Santa Clara County voters adopted Measure F in 1998 which allows the use of Instant Runoff Voting in county elections when voting equipment is in place that can accommodate ranked ballots. That voting equipment has been in place for two election cycles now, but IRV implementation has been held up awaiting the Secretary of State to write the protocols for conducting an IRV election. While the newly elected Secretary, Debra Bowen, is generally favorable to IRV, getting the protocols written is still likely to be a ways off. CfER believes we should lobby the County Board of Supervisors to establish a task force to write local protocols for implementing IRV here in the county. San Francisco has held three elections with IRV. Oakland and Berkeley have adopted measures to implement IRV. There's no reason why we should not be able to implement IRV here in Santa Clara. This will be the topic of the strategy meeting. Please come and help put together a plan to bring IRV to Santa Clara County elections. RSVP to Jim Stauffer jimstauffer at sbcglobal.net 408-432-9148 From jamboi at yahoo.com Sun Feb 18 11:07:18 2007 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:07:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Sosfbay-news] [Sosfbay-discuss] It's Time for IRV in Santa Clara In-Reply-To: <45D7864A.7FF7D805@greens.org> Message-ID: <262741.32476.qm@web52205.mail.yahoo.com> Excellent! Its definitely TIME! I'm extremely interested in general. I'll have to see if that particular time will work for me. Thanks so much to Jim for tracking this vital issue! Green solidarity! Drew --- Jim Stauffer wrote: > For any Greens interested in helping implement IRV here in Santa > Clara, Californians for Electoral Reform will be holding a strategy > meeting on this topic. We're looking for people who want to work on > this project. > > CfER is a non-partisan organization with members from all parties. > > Announcement below. > > Jim > ========================================= > > > Californians for Electoral Reform > Strategy Meeting Feb. 28 > > > > You are invited to an IRV implementation strategy meeting with CfER > on Wednesday Feb. 28 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. > > Santa Clara Central Park Library > 2635 Homestead Rd. (between San Thomas & Keily) > Sycamore room (1st floor; back, right corner) > > > As you may remember, Santa Clara County voters adopted Measure F in > 1998 which allows the use of Instant Runoff Voting in county > elections when voting equipment is in place that can accommodate > ranked ballots. > > That voting equipment has been in place for two election cycles now, > but IRV implementation has been held up awaiting the Secretary of > State to write the protocols for conducting an IRV election. While > the newly elected Secretary, Debra Bowen, is generally favorable to > IRV, getting the protocols written is still likely to be a ways off. > > CfER believes we should lobby the County Board of Supervisors to > establish a task force to write local protocols for implementing IRV > here in the county. San Francisco has held three elections with IRV. > Oakland and Berkeley have adopted measures to implement IRV. There's > no reason why we should not be able to implement IRV here in Santa > Clara. > > This will be the topic of the strategy meeting. Please come and help > put together a plan to bring IRV to Santa Clara County elections. > > > RSVP to Jim Stauffer > jimstauffer at sbcglobal.net > 408-432-9148 > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > ___________________ JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news From jamboi at yahoo.com Fri Feb 23 09:54:04 2007 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:54:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Still room for this weekend's Strategic Retreat Message-ID: <975833.57833.qm@web52202.mail.yahoo.com> To all Green activists! Here's the registration (and it looks like there's enough room) http://register.cagreens.org/register.cgi Here is the weekend?s schedule of events: http://www.cagreens.org/cc/strategy/retreat/ The location for the Strategic Retreat will be at Valley of the Moon Camp in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County http://www.uccr.org/vom.htm, with directions to the camp here http://www.uccr.org/driving_vom.htm Greening America one impeachment at a time! Drew Warner Bloomber (WB4D23 at aol.com) wrote: In a message dated 2/10/07 11:55:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, mfeinstein at feinstein.org writes: Dear fellow Green Party of California member This is to announce registration for the Greening California Strategic Retreat, February 23-25 (Friday-Sunday) in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County: The retreat is open to all Green Party of California members, with a particular focus on - members of GPCA statewide Standing Committees and Working Groups and others active on the state level - members of GPCA County Councils and others active on the county level - former (and future) GPCA candidates, campaign managers and campaign workers - former and present Greens holding elected office Saturday's daytime focus will be on GPCA electoral strategy for 2007-2008. Our state party?s Campaigns & Candidates Working Group will be coordinating the sessions. Saturday evening will feature former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, introduced by Aimee Allison, former Green candidate for Oakland City Council. Brent McMillan, Green Party of the United States Political Director, will precede them with an overview of Green Party national planning for 2008. On Sunday, the focus will be on various GPCA internal party issues that would benefit from free flowing discussions, before they are brought forward to decision-making at our state business meetings (General Assemblies.) These sessions will be coordinated by GPCA members involved with each issue at hand, with the overall day coordinated by our state party?s Strategy Committee. Saturday will also feature a gathering of Campus Greens from across California. Sunday will feature Green officeholders (present and past) establishing a California Green Officeholders Network. The location for the Strategic Retreat will be at Valley of the Moon Camp in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County http://www.uccr.org/vom.htm, with directions to the camp here http://www.uccr.org/driving_vom.htm The reason for choosing such a venue, is so that party members can benefit from the informal contact, networking and building opportunities that staying in the same place together can provide. In order to make this possible, inexpensive lodging on site ($18.50) will be available - and is encouraged - for both Friday and Saturday evenings. Space is limited to 90 people sleeping on site and 115 attending day-time sessions. Parking is limited, so car-pooling is strongly encouraged. All Retreat Attendees must register in advance and pay a day fee of $19/person/day for Saturday and Sunday. There will be no charge for Friday, day or night. The Saturday evening program is open only to attendees of the daytime program. Lodging is in dormitory style rooms of four to 16 people. Attendees must bring their own bring linens, pillows, sleeping bags. Meals are $7 breakfast, $9.25 lunch and $10.50 dinner (includes tip and 7.75% Sonoma County sales tax.) Saturday evening will feature complimentary local wine. All registration must occur on-line prior to the retreat. There will be no on-site registration, and given the limited space, the retreat is likely to fill up quickly. Here is the registration form: http://register.cagreens.org/register.cgi Here is the weekend?s schedule of events: http://www.cagreens.org/cc/strategy/retreat/ We look forward to seeing you in Sonoma. Sincerely, Warner Bloomberg, Campaigns & Candidates Working Group Mike Feinstein, Strategy Committee ___________________ JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html From jamboi at yahoo.com Fri Feb 23 10:17:33 2007 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:17:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Green Party County Council Meeting this Sunday Feb 25th 3-6:30p @ Jim Doyle's house Message-ID: <22257.63510.qm@web52212.mail.yahoo.com> This Sunday, Feb 25th, from 3:30 to 6 pm at Jim Doyle's house there will be a Green Party of Santa Clara County, County Council Meeting which all are free to join and observe. Here's Jim Doyle's address: For any who don't know, the County Council is the Green Party equivalent of the 'Central Committee' and the County County (CC) is legally responsible for carrying on the business of the Party in this county. Current members are Jim Doyle, Gerry Gras and myself, Drew Johnson. We are specifically looking to bring the CC up to its full 7 member strength as rapidly as is managable and are looking for input and nominations especially for females and people of color as right now we have only us 3 white males. :-) These items are not necessarily in the final order we'll tackle them in. If you have additional items or proposals for consideration please send them to the sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org e-mail list ASAP. Organize, Energize, Coalize! Drew Here's what we've got so far: + Bylaws Review http://cagreens.org/sclara/bylaws.shtml + Bringing the CC up to full strength. Merriam Kathaleen is ready and qualified. Talking about other female CC nominee possibilities (I'll send a separate note about this). Also I propose adding Tim Alvarado - with the definite intention of connection to the Latino community. Setting up 5 Locals: + North Valley: PA, MV, LA, LAH, + East Valley: Milpitas and SJ from East of 87 and So. to Bernal + West Valley: W. SJ, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara + Mid Valley: Campbell, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, + South Valley: So. of Bernal, So. SJ, Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy Event for next month: Impeachment talk w/ Elizabeth De La Vega? Getting our newly created committees operating. + Events planning. + Health Care. Note: Health Care can include Veteran's affairs. Drew to report on meeting w/ McNerney. + Strategic Planning. + Thinking ahead about candidates and campaigns. + Running at least one candidate each against Honda, Lofgren & Eshoo. + Nonpartisan races + The Los Gatos logging controversy and do we have a role to play? + Report on how (mostly Green Party led) Silicon Valley Impeachment Committee is going great: 60 people at the Peter Phillips event!!! ___________________ JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know. From jamboi at yahoo.com Fri Feb 23 10:35:17 2007 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:35:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Green Party County Council Meeting this Sunday Feb 25th 3-6:30p @ Jim Doyle's house Message-ID: <649720.62124.qm@web52203.mail.yahoo.com> This Sunday, Feb 25th, from 3:30 to 6 pm at Jim Doyle's house there will be a Green Party of Santa Clara County, County Council Meeting which all are free to join and observe. Here's Jim Doyle's address: 1668 Nora Way, San Jose CA For any who don't know, the County Council is the Green Party equivalent of the 'Central Committee' and the County County (CC) is legally responsible for carrying on the business of the Party in this county. Current members are Jim Doyle, Gerry Gras and myself, Drew Johnson. We are specifically looking to bring the CC up to its full 7 member strength as rapidly as is managable and are looking for input and nominations especially for females and people of color as right now we have only us 3 white males. :-) These items are not necessarily in the final order we'll tackle them in. If you have additional items or proposals for consideration please send them to the sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org e-mail list ASAP. Organize, Energize, Coalize! Drew Here's what we've got so far: + Bylaws Review http://cagreens.org/sclara/bylaws.shtml + Bringing the CC up to full strength. Merriam Kathaleen is ready and qualified. Talking about other female CC nominee possibilities (I'll send a separate note about this). Also I propose adding Tim Alvarado - with the definite intention of connection to the Latino community. Setting up 5 Locals: + North Valley: PA, MV, LA, LAH, + East Valley: Milpitas and SJ from East of 87 and So. to Bernal + West Valley: W. SJ, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara + Mid Valley: Campbell, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, + South Valley: So. of Bernal, So. SJ, Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy Event for next month: Impeachment talk w/ Elizabeth De La Vega? Getting our newly created committees operating. + Events planning. + Health Care. Note: Health Care can include Veteran's affairs. Drew to report on meeting w/ McNerney. + Strategic Planning. + Thinking ahead about candidates and campaigns. + Running at least one candidate each against Honda, Lofgren & Eshoo. + Nonpartisan races + The Los Gatos logging controversy and do we have a role to play? + Report on how (mostly Green Party led) Silicon Valley Impeachment Committee is going great: 60 people at the Peter Phillips event!!! ___________________ JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html From jamboi at yahoo.com Fri Feb 23 11:03:59 2007 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:03:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Potential County Council Nominees (was Re: Green Party County Council Meeting this Sunday Feb 25th 3-6:30p @ Jim Doyle's house) In-Reply-To: <649720.62124.qm@web52203.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <681265.74486.qm@web52204.mail.yahoo.com> We have 4 County Council immediate vacancys we need to fill ASAP. We can (and intend to) go well beyond the minimum 7 number with individuals that will specifically aid us in reach out to the various ethnic, sexual orientation and that make up our Valley, but for right now we need to at least fill up 4 more positions with at least 3 females and preferably some of the four being people of color. We're also specifically attempting to find and activate new people so that we don't just end up with the same old 'usual suspects' running the party all the time. County Council potential nominees who we've previously talked about or have actually approached: The Council asked that people interested in being considered try to make it to the (hugely successfull) Peter Phillips talk we co-sponsored with the (mostly Green Led) Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition. Unfortunately only Merriam was able to make it. Again we are specifically looking to balance the council by gender and ethnicity to represent the Valley (as our bylaws require), so since we currently have 3 white males (Jim Doyle, Gerry Gras, and Drew Johnson) we're really focusing on females and people of color for now. + Carol Brouillet: (female, Anglo, PA) Green congressional candidate v Eshoo in 06. I haven't had a chance to specifically ask her if she's interested. She's so busy that I'm kinda doubting it, but hey what list of potential nominees would be complete without Carol's name? + Merriam Kathaleen: (female, Irish-American, SJ) Came to Feb General Meeting. Very active in Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition. So Bay Mobilization and a real go-getter and fantastic organizer! + Evonne (spelling? female Chinese-American, SJ or Milpitas) Came to Jan General Meeting and gave some great suggestions for reaching the 'minority' communities. Jim D. has last name and contact info. + Pat (female Phillipino-American, MV)Organic Farmer. Came to one of our impeachment vigils and is a friend of Tian. Tian knows her last name and can get her contact info). + Gabi (female Anglo, SJ?) works in Mountainview Bicycle shop called "Bicycle Springs"). Young, vibrant and energetic! Previously involved in rad politics in college (which she recently graduated from). I can track down her last name and contact info. + Brenda Pierce. (female, Anglo, PA) Registered Green for many years. Very active in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) community. + Yvonne Shevnin (female, Irish/French-American, SC). Business woman, entrepreneur. Active in Fair Elections and clean money for elections movement. Great organizer! + Your suggestions Here! Please send them to the sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Organize, Energize, Coalize! Drew --- JamBoi wrote: > This Sunday, Feb 25th, from 3:30 to 6 pm at Jim Doyle's house there > will be a Green Party of Santa Clara County, County Council Meeting > which all are free to join and observe. Here's Jim Doyle's address: > 1668 Nora Way, San Jose CA > > For any who don't know, the County Council is the Green Party > equivalent of the 'Central Committee' and the County County (CC) is > legally responsible for carrying on the business of the Party in this > county. Current members are Jim Doyle, Gerry Gras and myself, Drew > Johnson. We are specifically looking to bring the CC up to its full > 7 > member strength as rapidly as is managable and are looking for input > and nominations especially for females and people of color as right > now > we have only us 3 white males. :-) > > These items are not necessarily in the final order we'll tackle them > in. If you have additional items or proposals for consideration > please > send them to the sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org e-mail list ASAP. > > Organize, Energize, Coalize! > > Drew > > Here's what we've got so far: > > + Bylaws Review > http://cagreens.org/sclara/bylaws.shtml > > + Bringing the CC up to full strength. Merriam Kathaleen is ready > and > qualified. > > Talking about other female CC nominee possibilities (I'll send a > separate note about this). Also I propose adding Tim Alvarado - with > the definite intention of connection to the Latino community. > > Setting up 5 Locals: > + North Valley: PA, MV, LA, LAH, > + East Valley: Milpitas and SJ from East of 87 and So. to Bernal > + West Valley: W. SJ, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara > + Mid Valley: Campbell, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, > + South Valley: So. of Bernal, So. SJ, Morgan Hill, San Martin and > Gilroy > > Event for next month: Impeachment talk w/ Elizabeth De La Vega? > > Getting our newly created committees operating. > + Events planning. > + Health Care. > Note: Health Care can include Veteran's affairs. Drew to > report on meeting w/ > McNerney. > + Strategic Planning. > > + Thinking ahead about candidates and campaigns. > + Running at least one candidate each against Honda, Lofgren & > Eshoo. > + Nonpartisan races > > + The Los Gatos logging controversy and do we have a role to play? > > + Report on how (mostly Green Party led) Silicon Valley Impeachment > Committee is going great: 60 people at the Peter Phillips event!!! > > ___________________ > > JamBoi > Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer > > "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) > http://dailyJam.blogspot.com > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. > Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > ___________________ JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com From WB4D23 at aol.com Mon Feb 26 16:49:32 2007 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:49:32 EST Subject: [Sosfbay-news] [Sosfbay-discuss] Green Party County Council Meeting this Sunday Feb 25th... Message-ID: In a message dated 2/23/07 10:18:01 AM Pacific Standard Time, jamboi at yahoo.com writes: Bylaws Review http://cagreens.org/sclara/bylaws.shtml If you look at our GPSCC Bylaws, they are supposed to be reviewed every two years. When I have gone to the GPSCC Webpage, I keep seeing that that 2001 amendment is missing. Warner


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