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

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Merelice- was some decision made to send endorsements to platform?

also, this walk kicks off in Worcester at 9am TOMORROW, os let me ask again, 
do we have a statement since I'll be there?   Thanks, G
In a message dated 5/17/08 12:48:19 PM, merelice at gmail.com writes:


> 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.
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