[Membership] Re: Message that we need to get out on October 27.

[Eli Beckerman]

Sorry Gary, that this email was not answered. The best answer that I can
come up with is that at a time when the Democrats could not be a better
advertisement for our Party, at a time when the economic, ecological,
political, and social circumstances in New England and the world could not
set the stage more dramatically for our Party, and at a time when 10,000
people from across New England are expected to come to Boston -- hundreds if
not thousands of them being Greens or something close -- if we DON'T
organize around this event and try to create a visible contingent and get
our message out, then we are simply not serious about our intention to build
a political alternative. I can't pretend that my contribution to this
"organizing" can be regarded as "serious" but I can promise you that my
intentions are. And I could not be more thankful to the small handful of
people who have taken this seriously, and because of them we will have a
space to gather and reflect after the rally, and we will have the most
visible Green/Rainbow contingent we have ever had at one of these demos
locally. Will it be polished? Far from it. But the more people who step
forward -- even now, 2 days before the rally -- to help move it along, the
better it will be.

To answer your question a little more directly -
1. visibility as the Green-Rainbow Party and New England Green Parties and
2. baby steps toward the "Organize" in "Vote and Organize!"

Peace,
Eli
On 10/18/07, gary hicks <gooberthink06 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> all:
>
> i got lost somewhere in this thread ---------------------EXACTLY WHAT DOES
> GREEN-RAINBOW WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS PROPOSED ACTION?
>
> gh
>
> *Jamie O'Keefe <jokeefe at jamesokeefe.org>* wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> > I respect your personal views BUT don't you think this should be
> > decided by some group or committee.
>
> Of course. A small group of people are doing the organizing. None of
> us want it that way. Thanks for stepping up to help with organizing
> such a group. :-) It would really help if someone would call the
> local chapters listed on our web site and see whether they can help
> with this effort.
>
> > You seem to be advocating a timid approach.
>
> I don't propose a timid approach.
>
> I would love us to have a speaker there exhorting those assembled to
> not go with the Dems but to go with us instead. However, the party
> decided to pull out of UJP over a year ago and so we didn't have
> representation when this came about and weren't there at the start to
> get one of our own in the speakers list.
>
> That is water under the bridge. Right now organizing ourselves so
> that we can have the largest contingent most visible contingent we can
> get with a well stated, well defined message that does not kowtow to
> the Dems is, in my mind, the most important thing we can do.
>
> We could create our own march afterwards, but there is a Palestine
> rally in Copley Sq. we may decide to attend and we do have a GP/GRP
> social/fundraiser that, several of us believe, would be an important
> tool to organize ourselves and just plain have some fun. I would
> rather we had 70+ people at our social all meeting one another and
> talking about where we go from here than doing another march that
> won't get us much attention.
>
> It would be nice to have record of additional people we can go back to
> for future efforts and events. We get that from the social.
>
> > Has anyone gone to organizing meetings for the event representing the
> Greens?
>
> Yes. Eli and a member of the GP of RI have stepped forward to do it.
> I have called on members of state com to attend these meetings several
> times.
>
> I appreciate and sympathize with your comments and feeling. Please
> realize we are volunteers doing what we can do with what we have.
>
> peace,
>
> Jamie
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