Decisions Made:

• May 2020 MDVR minutes approved by consensus.
• John will ask Matt Andrews about being the Communications Director.
• John: John will create and share Info sheet on local media to GRP chapters.
• Dues Proposal discussion tabled.
• Josh will call David Gerry, Techcom, re voter list. Brian can merge the files with Nation Builder when we get it.

Attendance: John Blumenstiel, Brian Cady, Joshua Gerloff and Elie Yarden.

Roles: John facilitator. Joshua Minutes.

May 2020 minutes approved by consensus.

​​Approve Agenda.

• ​Elie: Add ​under ​other items re Boston reg conv. Good for outreach to Boston membership.
• Agenda approved as amended by consensus.

Discuss strategies for outreach during lockdown

• Brian: Merelice suggested buying publicity through Facebook for people running for office.
• John: Powerful to comment and mention GPUS and GRP.
• Elie: David Schwab, who had presented an ANM 2019 workshop on the use of social media: lives in Milwaukee, WI. NGO supported from various sources. Active in Wisconsin, Maine and Jill's campaign. He's doing a study, for use of electronic media. Many of the people we want to reach don’t have the tech. Most people will have a telephone. People have been less uptight about giving out information.
  • 1. We can devise a project for distributing information, via the different media.
  • 2. Strategic preparedness: develop technique of what we will do under various circumstances.
  • We don't know the course of the virus. Be ready for all the possibilities. Likely alternatives, ascertain methods we can use.
• Josh: Matt A. seems to have been tapped for Communications Director?
  • John: He's busy. I will ask. Can this be a priority for him?
• John: Watching Youtube videos and talking green in the comments. "Rational National" Youtube channel by David Dole, Canadian Green.
• John: Mass Peace Action (MAPA): Letter writing campaigns, LTEs. This is a good way to do, encourage. Some success in getting LTEs out over the years.
• John: Maha response to John B’s letter re GRP Top Down vs Bottom Up Governance = New Green Roundtable. Matt A: Signage, signs, George Floyd, etc. Chapters placing signs around with our position. David R thinks pandemic is contrived. Niomi Klein. GRP homepage.
• John: John will create and share Info sheet on local media to GRP chapters.
• Elie: CCTV. Local access TV. Take a course on how. And then you can have your own show.

Review outreach literature used by North Shore.

• How distributed? What is the impact? Feedback from recipients?

Report on Convention Planning

• John: Working to create a virtual convention. Asking chapters for workshop submissions.
• Josh: Sunday June 14. Maine Green Independent Party (MGIP) Convention. Watch and learn.
• Convention Planning Committee = Roni Beal, John B, Joshua G, Matt A, Dan Kontoff and Big Mike.

Review with Matt our last meeting Discussion re:Dues

• John: Had not reached out to Matt re MDVR concerns (see May minutes). More complex, less likely compliance. Questions to Matt?
• Elie: Purpose: to build a list of party members. If we have membership cards.... There are 4000 or so GRP reg members.

Other items:

• Elie: Has a new list. 282 women and 360 mem in Boston 5 and 6 (metro boston). There is a party in Boston that we don't connect with at all.
• Race: Some towns are all white like Westwood, persistence of race issues. 23% of registered Greens in Metro Boston are Black.
• Brian: Voter history is recorded. Indicates history and party preference. You can see which ballot they pulled.
• Elie: Working from this. At least 20 people from Boston, committed to GRP, mostly unknown. Missing a history of which of these people have voted green 3 times.  We call them first. Must be an intense campaign to establish contact by any means necessary, with people who are on the current list in Boston: 1. A regional Convention, meet in virtual space.
• Brian: Ask them "What is the next step for the GRP, GBC, African American community." New list from SOC. Will say which ballot they pulled.
• Elie: The list contains private info.
• John: Let's do it right. Democratically.
• Brian: It's a double region. No separation.
• Elie: The notice of the convention should go to everyone.
• Speakers?: Jill and/or John Andrews: An attraction re the pandemic.
• Elie: 3 hour event telecon? The planning: find a way to maximize the outreach. These people are likely to accept an invite because they've been Green for a long time.
• Josh will call David Gerry, Techcom, re voter list. Brian can merge the files with Nation Builder.