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

[BillCunningham]

The question is not resolved by rejoining UJP. While GRP was part of UJP we turned up at actions and demos but almost never had a definable presence there as a group or party. I have been at actions where over half the people were GRP, but we just became backdrop for the signs and banners of other groups. We don't need to belong to UJP to do that. 

GRP has adopted distinctive positions on war related issues, but whenever anyone tries to express them publicly, others in GRP shrink back in horror.

The real question is when and how we are going to begin organizing from the recent electoral campaign to strengthen the GRP. Our campaign debriefing was useful but did not address this question. I would like to hear people's ideas about this.

Will our other candidates and campaign workers get involved in the work that Grace is doing, such as preparing legislative proposals for the Jan. 10 deadline?


-----Original Message-----
>From: gary hicks <gooberthink06 at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Dec 14, 2006 1:37 PM
>To: BillCunningham <etwee at earthlink.net>, Discussion List for StateCom members <statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org>, platform at green-rainbow.org
>Subject: Re: [Platform] Re: [statecom-discuss] 12/17 Locations: State-level Peace Agenda 10am/boston 1pm/worcester
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>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 <etwee at earthlink.net> 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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