[Green-Rainbow] Re: Hello again

[JenningsL at aol.com]

Dear All,

Not sure how to respond to this.

Laura

In a message dated 1/6/2003 4:02:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ebeckerman at wesleyan.edu writes:

<< Subj:     Hello again
 Date:  1/6/2003 4:02:35 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:  ebeckerman at wesleyan.edu (Eli Beckerman)
 To:    JenningsL at aol.com
 
 Hi Laura,
 Happy New Year!
 
 I have some questions for you (though I'm not sure how
 familiar you are with the whole merger thing). There are
 a couple of Mystic River Greens groups/committees that have
 recently formed, and I am a part of two of them.
 
 We have a media/newspaper group that is trying to hammer out the details
 of a Cambridge & Somerville area newspaper, which will also
 be part of a larger multi-media effort (web, cctv & scat[somerville
 community access television], maybe radio, in addition to print).
 
 We also have split into groups to organize ward and city committees.
 So there's now a Somerville Greens group and a Cambridge Greens group.
 
 These groups have started to meet and discuss actions and goals. Both
 the Somerville Greens group and the media group have discussed expanding
 from our predominantly white & middle-class bases. And both groups want
 to do it at the outset before we become any more self-selecting.
 
 Of course, the merger with the RCP will have an impact on the very
 existence of the Mystic River Greens, and few people I know have any
 idea of what the merger actually means! It seems like now is as good
 a time as any to discuss the details as far as these committees and
 Green or RCP locals are concerned. I can tell you that the MRG has some
 growing pains ahead, not the least of which is the name-change (if we
 hang around).
 
 Is there any useful place to find out info about the merger?
 Personally, I don't like the name MG-RP, and prefer instead MR-GP,
 because I prefer "Green" as a noun and "Rainbow" as an adjective!
 
 Lastly, I'd like to promote several upcoming meetings to whatever
 Rainbowers might be interested. The media group is meeting this
 Friday in Cambridge, the MRG general meeting is a week from tomorrow
 and we are holding officer elections (you can see how this might be
 a bad thing with an upcoming merger!), and that same night the Cambridge
 Greens are meeting. The Somerville Greens are meeting Jan 29th...
 
 All of the meetings are posted on the MRG website
 http://www.massgreens.org/mrg, except the one on the 29th...
 
 But I'd be happy to write up an invitation geared directly to
 members and supporters of the Rainbow Coalition Party.
 
 Just let me know!
 
 Cheers,
 Eli >>