[statecom-discuss] [Platform] Reminder about minutes and the bylaws

[Merelice]

Hi Betts,

Your email shows us that as the party continues to grow and attract
new people, it needs to work on how to coordinate and communicate
better. I'm confident we will learn as we go along.

Of late, a great deal of emphasis has been put on the ecology and
environmental issues. Maybe because you are on the Rainbow Coalition
list, you are more aware of the predatory lending work. But the last
newsletter showed that at least equal attention is being paid to
ecological wisdom.  Are you on the GRP Announcements list? You might
also want to check recent statements on the website.

Regards,
Merelice

On 4/13/08, Betty H. Zisk <zisk at bu.edu> wrote:
> I am going to ride on this message (which I dont fully understand) to get
>  some thoughts out. They arise from my experience in Calif last weekend which
>  focused on oral history of early Green mvt. (Unfortuately though the title
>  of the project promised a focus on first twenty years we never got beyond
>  the first five years. Prject was filmed. I can give a report on it if you
>  might find it useful. But here are my thoughts (not in order of importance)
>  and they may be unpopular:
>  1) I think we have somehow lost sight of one of our 10KV--an ecologcal
>  focus. Lorna Satzman has long been sreaming about this (I mean strident
>  tones) but dammit she is right. That is one reason that I (and Owen in a
>  lonely effort)supprted her campaign in 04
>  2) I realize the GRP is now a merged party (and I was asked about how we
>  accomplished that when I attended the Green Party Meeting. I am a proud
>  member of GRP and said so. But I realize that with the focus on poverty and
>  mortgage problems and the like that we have shifted away from focus on what
>  I consider a more burning issue: ecol wisdom I realize that people are
>  suffering right now. But I want to keep an eye on long range as well. I
>  think predictions on global warmimg are probably accurate.
>
>  I have note from my 1987 era --intervmew with John Andrews along with
>  otthers. I am still ditressed by idea that peace and justice issues should
>  be so separated from ecol values. This was the ideal on which our orginal
>  green groups were founded. I am not posing an either/or solution but an
>  inclusive one. Betts Zisk