[Platform] Re: [statecom-discuss] 12/17 Locations: State-level Peace Agenda 10am/boston 1pm/worcester

Thu Dec 14 16:34:17 EST 2006

With particular respect to the UJP. It was the Adcom that initiated the mess, so it should be the Adcom that cleans it up. Also, the External Relations Committee has yet to have its first meeting, put together a mission/ vision, etc.  This is because we have a party which up until now hasn't had a clue as to what it means to build a coalition [ which is different from merely joining one].

Lissa White <lissagrp at gmail.com> wrote:  I'm not entirely clear this is on Adcom. We did create an external
relations committee to handle our relations with outside organizations,
like UFPJ. I don't disagree with any of your reasoning for us being
involved, It's just my opinion that we should not always look to Adcom
when we have a working committee created just for that purpose.
~Melissa

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 14:34 -0500, John Walsh wrote:
> I would suggest that the AdCom immediately get back on the web site of
> UFPJ and to re-involve itself in UFPJ.
> Absent us, the PDA is the dominant voice for an electoral party,
> mainly the Dems. And we have already begun to see how disastrous
> their candidate Deval Patrick is.
> If you want someone to serve as the intermediary, I will do so. I
> already keep in contact with UFPJ as an individual for their
> conference calls. We should avoid splits in the antiwar movement.
> It was disastrous that ANSWER was driven out of UFPJ and it is a
> disaster that the Greens do not have a voice in UFPJ. And it is a
> disaster that the Libertarians have not been invited to speak at UFPJ
> rallies, in the person of Ron Paul, for example, or Justin Raimondo.
> They have shown the courage to stand up against the imperium, a police
> state and the Lobby.
> At this moment the peace movement needs a very broad united front. We
> must recognize this. Otherwise none of us will be around to do the
> other good things we hope to accomplish.
> jw
> 
> 
> On 12/14/06, gary hicks wrote:
> > At some point "my campaign" may cease to be that of Grace Ross and become that of the Green-Rainbow Party. Of course, in the case of this particular meeting about Peace, etc. it would be enormously helpful if there were a Green-Rainbow Party whose activity in the antiwar movement weren't confined to a few press statements, etc. on the website, and one antiwar statement distributed by individuals at rallies in late October in support of Grace Ross ------ and, lest we forget [I'd truly rather] the individual, public, if sometimes controversial expressions of those party members who felt that SOMETHING had to be expressed, in the absence of G-R leadership doing so.
> >
> > Since it was the Adcom that made the decision to withdraw from the United for Peace and Justice some time back, and subsequently did not follow up with any plan to remain a part of the peace and justice movement ----------------- it should probably be incumbent upon the Adcom to initiate a move whereby we can reconnect with the peace and justice movement.
> >
> > Gary Hicks
> >
> > BillCunningham wrote:
> > As a StateCom member, I should know the relationship between activities hosted by "my campaign" and the Party, but I don't. I'm sorry to disturb the discussion list if I am the only one who isn't clear about this.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com
> > >Sent: Dec 13, 2006 12:51 PM
> > >To: statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org, platform at green-rainbow.org
> > >Subject: [statecom-discuss] 12/17 Locations: State-level Peace Agenda 10am/boston 1pm/worcester
> > >
> > >Dear friends, (please pass along to peace activists you know!)
> > >My campaign is very excited to host initial meetings for putting together a
> > >state-level focused peace campaign.
> > >
> > >We chose two sites so that the December 17th meetings would be as accessible
> > >as possible for activists across the state! Please come to whichever meeting
> > >is most convenient to you.
> > >
> > >Boston: 10-12noon
> > >Enceuntro 5, 33 Harrison Ave.,
> > >Chinatown/Boston
> > >
> > >Worcester: 1-3pm
> > >Pleasant St. Neighborhood Network Center 301 Pleasant St.
> > >
> > >If you come to one meeting in this process, this is the one to come to! This
> > >is going to be brainstorming and then we'll have to be in touch more anyway
> > >to do all the implementation. We can arrange for some people to call in and be
> > >on a speaker phone - let us know.
> > >
> > >We are all so proud and excited by the results of the hardworking activists
> > >on the anti-war referendums across the state - great work to all of you! And I
> > >know already people are talking about a campaign to get the governor-elect to
> > >bring home the national guard while recent national news looks like the
> > >federal government may be trying to call up more national guard.
> > >
> > >We should for sure talk about the referendum and the national guard. Other
> > >possibilities include:
> > >o Stop tax breaks for weapons producers
> > >o Youth jobs,
> > >o Youth street workers & other peace at home initiatives
> > >o State assisted counter-recruitment
> > >o Dependence on oil
> > >o No contracts for war mongers
> > >o Bioterror Lab
> > >o Anti-Patriot act?
> > >o Anti-discrimination? Illegal search? anti-intervention? Immigrant
> > >detention?
> > >And other creative ways to get at the state's contributions to war!
> > >
> > >Please pass this along and encourage everyone to attend (as many as are able
> > >and interested!) because there are many short-term and longer term ways we can
> > >get Massachusetts to stop showing up for the war - and both have a measurable
> > >impact of the national plans and model for other states other ways to put
> > >teeth behind our opposition to the war.
> > >
> > >Love, grace (for directions on the day, my cell is: 617-291-5591)
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
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