[Northampton-GP] Priorities, Building the Party, Local Electoral Work, Etc.

[Scott McGinley]

I just want to recognize Jim's dedication to the Northampton GRP.  I have
always been able to depend on him for knowing what's going on.
-- 
Peace,

Scott
scott.mcg at earthlink.net

> From: Jim Bosman <jamesbosman at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: northampton-greens-discuss at green-rainbow.org
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:52:09 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Hamp Greens <northampton-greens-discuss at massgreens.org>
> Subject: [Northampton-GP] Priorities, Building the Party, Local Electoral
> Work, Etc.
> 
> A few observations, etc., I would like to share with
> you, as I begin to scale down my involvement in the
> Northampton Green Party, and turn my local energy to
> forming a South Deerfield local, which is where I have
> lived since April.
> 
> 
> This local as a local has worked on and off in various
> fashion locally in support of electoral reform.
> 
> There is a statewide project underway for an historic
> march to end poverty, of which the G-RP is a primary
> sponsor, as decided by the state convention last
> summer, which is going through Northampton next
> spring:
> 
> March to End Poverty
> 3/20/04 ? 4/03/04
> Proposed route: from  Hyannis through New Bedford,
> Fall River, Worcester, Southbridge, Ware, Springfield,
> Holyoke, S. Berkshires, Pittsfield, North Adams,
> Greenfield, Northhampton, Amherst, Orange/ Athol,
> Gardner, Fitchburg, Lowell, Lawrence, Salem, Lynn,
> Chelsea, Somerville, Cambridge, to Boston.
> 
> This is a great project for the local to sink its
> teeth into and gain significant visibility as Green
> Rainbows. The coordinating committee's next meeting is
> Tuesday 10/21/03 @ 6:30 - 8:30PM. in Fitchburg. For
> more details, check the archives of the email list at:
> 
> http://www.green-rainbow.org/mailman/listinfo/abolishpoverty
> 
> 
> 
> If the membership of the Nothampton Green Party club,
> or registered Greens in general in the city, want to
> raise and spend money as a group in support of
> candidates, they are going to have to form a city or
> ward committee(s), and follow all of the rules and
> regulations that go along with that. This will require
> the efforts of a number of Northampton residents.
> 
> Neither of the two Northampton residents present at
> the local meeting last night expressed the desire or
> the availability for such a project. The first
> deadline for nomination papers is November 7, 2003.
> More information is availalble at:
> 
> http://www.massgreens.org/pipermail/locals/2003-July/000355.html
> 
> 
> 
> A number of members of this group have expressed
> sentiments over the past year desiring greater
> leadership and direction from the state party.
> 
> At the Forum on the 2004 Green Presidential Strategy
> which I attended on Sunday in Fitchburg, Ebony - the
> male co-chair of the G-RP, stated that he sees all
> these state party working committees that are empty of
> volunteers, and that any energy that our membership
> spends on campaigning for Kucinich or others is energy
> that is not availalble for these understaffed and
> non-performing party-building committee functions.
> 
> Massachusetts is a very safe state for Greens to
> organize in. Northampton has as many registered
> Green-Rainbows as all of Bershire county. Please
> consider pledging your time, energy, and intellects to
> the growth of the Northampton local.
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Jim Bosman
> 
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