[Platform] [adcom] [bostonworkersalliance] [Thursday] Walk to Freedom for CORI Reform!

[Merelice]

No concerns. I ask Eli to post on the Announcements list.

Mike,

You were one of the people who agreed that endorsements should be
delegated to the Platform Committee so that Adcom could focus on the
daunting task of making the party organizationally more functional.
Nat and I, from the beginning of our terms, have indicated both at
AdCom meetings and in our Co-Chair reports to StateCom that our goal
was to have endorsements handled elsewhere other than AdCom since the
party's administrative needs should get more attention.

I didn't see this posted to the Platform Committee list for
endorsement. As Eli notes, it doesn't require a meeting of the
Platform Committee to endorse, any more than it requires a meeting of
AdCom.

Another committee that could eventually make sense is the External
Relations Committee, and if people knew that there was a real need for
its existence --such as endorsements and outreach of this kind -- then
perhaps people would join it.

Meanwhile, I encourage you to share this also with the Rainbow list
and try to organize a constituency to participate.

Merelice


On 5/15/08, Eli Beckerman <elibeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have no concerns endorsing this, though I wonder if Mike has sent it to
>  Platform
>  for endorsement (a meeting isn't necessary to endorse). It would be very
>  nice to
>  have a well-functioning Platform Committee that could handle endorsements...
>
>
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  From: mikeheichman at verizon.net <mikeheichman at verizon.net>
>  Date: Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:24 PM
>  Subject: Re: [statecom-discuss] [bostonworkersalliance] [Thursday] Walk to
>  Freedom for CORI Reform!
>
.....>
>  2. Would someone forward this to Adcom with my request that Adcom endorse
>  this action?
......
  c. I am a new member of the Platform Committee. I have been unsuccessful in
>  persuading anyone to call a meeting
>  of the Committee. While ABWG has been meeting many times the past few
>  weeks, ABWG is NOT the Platform Comm.
>  If the Platform Comm will refuse to meet, it will by definition be
>  incapable of dealing with requests for
>  endorsements.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Mike Heichman
>
>
>  Original Message:
>  -----------------
>  From: Aaron Tanaka atanaka at bostonworkersalliance.org
>  Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:07:56 -0400
>  To: bostonworkersalliance at lists.riseup.net, cori at lists.riseup.net,
>  ftd-oc at googlegroups.com, bwa-
>  active at lists.riseup.net
>  Subject: [bostonworkersalliance] [Thursday] Walk to Freedom for CORI Reform!
>
>
>  << *please forward widely* >>
>
>  ------
>  THE WALK TO FREEDOM for CORI REFORM!*
>
>  Thursday, May 22nd @ 10am
>
>  *Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown
>  Orange Line T-Stop: "Community College"
>
>  JOIN us on Thursday, May 22nd for the final leg of the Walk to Freedom.
>  This Sunday (5/18), dozens from Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for
>  Community Advancement (EPOCA) will begin a 5 day walk from Worcester to
>  Boston to raise momentum for CORI reform.