From chapillsbury at gmail.com  Wed May  6 22:22:47 2009
From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:22:47 -0400
Subject: {news} Fwd: Green Party National Meeting-Thursday,
	July 23-Sunday July 26
Message-ID: <10859a090905061922o636306dbu2f79152c3519bdf6@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <brian at gp.org>
Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Green Party National Meeting
To: info at gp.org

The Green Party of the United States is pleased to announce that the 2009
Annual National Meeting will be held from Thursday, July 23-Sunday July 26,
2009 on the campus of *North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC*. We
hope you plan to attend this year's largest national gathering of Greens to
make new friends, network, and help grow the Green Party in your community.

At this year's meeting, workshops will begin Thursday afternoon, July 23rd
and all meetings and workshops will be over by noon Sunday, July 26th.

There wil be workshops on candidate development, ballot access, fundraising,
platform development, energy, ecology, and much more.

Please TAKE ADVANTAGE of discounted earlybird registration prices NOW! To
register, please visit:

http://tinyurl.com/gpANMreg2009

See you in Durham this summer!
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From edubrule at sbcglobal.net  Wed May  6 23:08:28 2009
From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 23:08:28 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: Upcoming Connecticut events for peace and social justice
Message-ID: <16C14A5A72974F0EA9732E574CA5FDD7@edgn2b574u14bi>

6-Story Newsletter Template + Images
----- Original Message ----- 
From: AFSC Connecticut 
To: edubrule at sbcglobal.net 
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: Upcoming Connecticut events for peace and social justice


                                     American Friends Service Committee Connecticut  
                                 
                                In This Issue:  May 6 2009   
                                 
                                 .    Take Action Today to Abolish the Death Penalty in Connecticut  
                                   
                                 
                                 .    May 19: Remember Iraq Invest in Peace  
                                   
                                 
                                    
                                 
                                 
                                Take Action Today to Abolish the Death Penalty in Connecticut  
                                 
                                IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT:
                                Urge State Representatives to Abolish Connecticut's Death Penalty

                                On March 31, a bill proposing to abolish Connecticut's death penalty passed a major legislative hurdle when the judiciary committee endorsed it by a 24-13 vote. Now as this piece of legislation, HB-6578, moves forward, it is important to contact your state representative and urge them to support it.

                                The most effective action YOU can take to help end the death penalty is to write a short email asking your state representative to support HB-6578. Here is a sample email:

                                Dear Representative _______,

                                I am a constituent in your district and am asking you to SUPPORT HB-6578, which proposes to abolish Connecticut's death penalty.

                                Clearly, the country as a whole is moving away from the death penalty. In March, New Mexico became the third state in two years to abolish the death penalty, joining New York and New Jersey. And in a vote that is to be applauded, the state judiciary committee recently recommended that Connecticut join the growing number of states and nations that have rejected capital punishment.

                                Connecticut's death penalty remains a highly flawed practice, which costs millions of dollars to maintain, is applied in an arbitrary manner, and puts victims' families through an incredible amount of pain by dragging out the legal process. By voting for HB-6578, you can help end this broken system and replace it with the sensible alternative of life without release.

                                Sincerely,
                                Your Name

                                If you are unsure who your state representative is, please visit www.cnadp.org, click on "Take Action," and enter your 9-digit zip code. For your state representative's contact information, please visit http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/hlist.asp.

                                Thank you for your help!



                                http://cnadp.org  

                                    
                                 
                                 
                                May 19: Remember Iraq Invest in Peace  
                                 
                                Remember Iraq Invest in Peace

                                A film screening and fundraiser to benefit Iraqi refugees

                                Tuesday, May 19 7 - 9 p.m.
                                Hartford Friends Meetinghouse
                                144 South Quaker Lane
                                West Hartford, CT
                                Refreshments provided

                                Direct Aid Iraq (DAI) is a network of Iraqis, Americans, and others supporting a future of peace for Iraq through providing aid, facilitating cooperation, engaging in advocacy, and providing education.

                                "The Rivers"
                                A new one-hour film, featuring the stories of DAI team members and aid recipients, all of whom are Iraqis displaced from their homes

                                Facilitated discussion will follow the film screening. 
                                Donations encouraged.

                                Local Contact: John Humphries
                                860-236-5175; jhumphries at igc.org
                                Co-sponsored by: CT American Friends Service Committee

                                For more information: www.DirectAidIraq.org


                                http://www.DirectAidIraq.org  

                                    
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                American Friends Service Committee
                                Connecticut Area Office
                                56 Arbor Street, Suite 213
                                Hartford, CT 06106
                                Phone: 860.523.1534
                                Fax: 860.523.1705
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From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com  Fri May  8 16:58:48 2009
From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell)
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 16:58:48 -0400
Subject: {news} Greens' Leaders Split On Strategy
Message-ID: <BLU109-DAV923E7D7ADB682CD325FE5D6640@phx.gbl>

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/05/brison_announce.php

Greens' Leaders Split On Strategy

by Melissa Bailey | May 4, 2009 7:24 AM


As the Green Party's only office-holder launched a reelection run, the party
's leader prepared to attend a fundraiser - for the Democratic mayor's
campaign.

The two developments reflect a difference in strategy among vestiges of a
party that once played an influential role in steering city policy. The
difference raises the question of what role a third party, albeit a
diminished one, can play in a one-party city.

East Rock Alderman Allan Brison, the only Green on a board of 28 Democrats
and one Republican, officially kicked off his campaign for reelection
Friday. After representing Ward 10 for two years, Brison is facing a
challenge from a young environmental activist, Justin Elicker, in a November
contest. (Click here to read about the race.)

Brison made his campaign announcement Friday not in his ward, but inside a
downtown church, where the city's social justice activists gathered to
celebrate May Day. He made his 2007 announcement at the same festival, which
marks International Workers' Day. After a brief speech inside the United
Church on the Green, he grabbed a ribbon and joined a group weaving around a
maypole (pictured).

All Eyes On East Rock

Charlie Pillsbury, co-chair of the New Haven Green Party, said his party is
focusing entirely on defending Brison's seat this year, instead of backing
candidates for multiple offices.

In fact, Pillsbury is supporting the Democratic incumbent for mayor, John
DeStefano, Jr.

"Our plan is to reelect Allan," he said, speaking outside the church on May
Day.

Unlike the past two years, the party won't be backing perennial candidate
Ralph Ferrucci, who just announced he's making his third run for mayor this
year.

"Ralph has been there and done that, and I think we need fresh voices,"
Pillsbury explained. He said the Greens want to focus on races they can win
or races with a hot local issue.

Ferrucci this year is running on the ticket of the Waterbury-based
Independent Party. In past mayoral runs, he garnered almost 12 percent of
the vote as a Green in 2007 and 15 percent in 2005 on the parodic Guilty
Party line. Pillsbury predicted that as an Independent, Ferrucci wouldn't
top 10 percent.

"I'm not sure it's a serious candidacy," Pillsbury added.

Ferrucci replied that he planned to focus on serious issues like taxes and
crime. In a phone conversation, he chided the Greens for not making more of
an effort to make an impact citywide.

"They aren't taking the election seriously," said Ferrucci. "They're only
looking for one candidate."

Ferrucci said he didn't seek support from the Greens this year because he
knew they were focusing on Ward 10. He added that the Independent Party is
looking to back aldermanic candidates this year. Pillsbury said his party
hasn't ruled out backing other candidates, but has no plans to at this
point.

A Birthday Guest

Instead, the Green Party leader is supporting Democrat DeStefano. In a
one-party town, DeStefano is running virtually unopposed for a historic
ninth term in office.

"I think the mayor, by and large, has done a good job," said Pillsbury.

In fact, Pillsbury said he's planning on attending DeStefano's annual
birthday party/ fundraiser on Wednesday.

Pillsbury's party plans highlighted a difference in strategy between the
Greens' leader and its only candidate.

Brison does not plan to attend the birthday bash.

"I assume when you go to a campaign event, you go with a checkbook," said
Brison. "I won't be contributing any money to the mayor's campaign." Last
month, when DeStefano critic and former state legislator Bill Dyson was
considering a mayoral run, Brison replied without hesitation that he'd
support Dyson's campaign.

Pillsbury identified his attitude towards City Hall as "one area where
[Brison] and I disagree."

"As a Green, you need to be talking to everybody," Pillsbury argued. In his
role as a mediator, Pillsbury has worked closely with the mayor, including
helping him reach a historic peace accord with East Haven on the Tweed
Airport.

On the board, Brison has allied himself with aldermen, led by Jorge Perez,
who are often critical of DeStefano's proposals. The group has voted against
the mayor's agenda, including a mid-year subsidy for Tweed-New Haven
Airport.

Pillsbury praised Brison for making good relationships with those members of
the board.

Before Brison, there were only two Green aldermen in city history, Joyce
Chen of Dwight and East Rock's John Halle. They won their seats in 2001 -
and a third candidate came close to winning a third seat in Wooster Square -
on a platform that called for publicly financed elections, opposition to a
proposed energy plant in Fair Haven, and a greener city policy. After their
victories, Mayor DeStefano and his newly hired aides embraced all those
positions; the mayor even ditched his SUV for a Prius hybrid.

Chen also led a successful neighborhood revolt in Dwight against city plans
to raze a block of successful businesses on Upper Chapel to make way for a
new high school.

Pillsbury said Halle and Chen were "loners" on the board. He said Brison has
gotten more accomplished because of his good relationships with the outsider
aldermen. Asked for an example of something Brison has accomplished,
Pillsbury couldn't think of one.

However, Pillsbury charged that Brison has not been successful in making
similar relationships inside City Hall.

The "ultimate challenge" of Brison's candidacy will be, "can he find enough
common ground with all, including City Hall?" said Pillsbury. "That's an
open question. Do you need that support within City Hall to get things
 done?"

Brison addressed that point in Friday's speech. He recounted how, when he
first ran for office two years ago, opponents argued that as a third-party
candidate, Brison would be excluded from the workings of the board,
including the Democratic caucus, where many decisions get made. As a loner,
he wouldn't be able to get things done, his critics charged.

"This has simply not been true," replied Brison Friday. He said he has been
welcomed by the "independent" members of the board and has worked
effectively beside them.

Brison argued that he has worked together with City Hall staff to address
constituent services, and has supported some of the administration's
efforts, in lobbying for prison reentry and PILOT money, in the Complete
Streets initiative and in a green cleaning bill.

To The Streets

Meanwhile, back in East Rock, both candidates are hitting the streets to
bring their message to voters.

In the term ahead, Brison announced plans to try to restore community
policing, "institute reforms to bring the Board of Education under taxpayer
and/or aldermanic control," investigate double-dipping and fight for
sustainable energy policies.

Brison, a 71-year-old, retired computer programmer, emerged as an
indefatigable door-knocker last election, in 2007. He brought his message to
every doorstep in the ward and, on election day, toppled a City Hall-backed
incumbent Democrat, Ed Mattison, in a surprise upset.

This year, Pillsbury predicted a tougher battle ahead.

"Allan ran almost a guerrilla campaign [in 2007]. He knocked on every door
twice, and sold himself to the voters," said Pillsbury. "He caught the
Democrats napping."

"This year, they're going to come at us with everything they have," said
Pillsbury. He suggested that Elicker, a young, environmentalist Democrat,
was a strategic choice to combat a Green Party man.

While both candidates refrained from going negative, Pillsbury did not.

"I think it takes a lot of chutzpah to think [Elicker] can win in a ward he'
s only lived in [the ward] for four or five months," charged Pillsbury.

"That has Yale arrogance written all over it."

Reached by phone, Elicker dismissed the comment as "misleading." A graduate
student at Yale, he moved into East Rock's Ward 10 from East Rock's Ward 9
in January. He has been active as the co-leader of the Friends of East Rock
Park.

"I've lived in East Rock for two years, and the activities that I've done in
East Rock have been primarily in Ward 10, in East Rock Park," he said.

"The issues in Ward 9 and Ward 10 are very similar," he said. "To insinuate
that I can't understand issues on Willow Street when I've lived on Edwards
Street, which is five blocks away, is irresponsible."

"I've committed to staying in New Haven long term," Elicker added. "The fact
that I happen to be going to graduate school at Yale is irrelevant to
whether I can do a good job" as an alderman.



From chapillsbury at gmail.com  Wed May 13 22:31:32 2009
From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:31:32 -0400
Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] state reps at nat'l meeting
Message-ID: <10859a090905131931w11685902oc5a049c91390e75d@mail.gmail.com>

fyi, charlie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hart, Holly J <holly-hart at uiowa.edu>
Date: Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Subject: [usgp-nc] state resps at nat'l meeting
To: "natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org" <natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org>

ON the question of what/how many delegates to the national meeting states
will send, It was suggested I post this response I sent to another inquiry
recently:

The non-presidential-year meetings have plenaries that are just for the
national committee delegates.  However, ideally, more would attend for
various committee meetings, workshops, to observe, other activities.  In the
past, some of the working committees have used these as a chance to hold a
face-to-face meeting of whoever is able to attend, and there have always
been good workshops.

Holly Hart
Secretary, GPUS
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From chapillsbury at gmail.com  Wed May 13 22:36:19 2009
From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:36:19 -0400
Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Invitation to Party Building Teleconferences
In-Reply-To: <c8d.44a4ab89.373b587a@aol.com>
References: <c8d.44a4ab89.373b587a@aol.com>
Message-ID: <10859a090905131936w538e1765k54c94d12e5e56254@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Subject: [usgp-nc] Invitation to Party Building Teleconferences

Invite: GPUS Activists  Teleconferences

A group of GP activists who served as state  volunteer contact during the
McKinney/Clemente 2008 presidential campaign have  continued email and
teleconference communications since November.  In  evolving discussions
about how
we might contribute to building the GPUS, we have  reached agreement to
sponsor monthly teleconferences that would be open to Green Party  members
from
around the U.S.

Our plan is to  invite GPUS officers and committee and caucus
representatives to describe  what they were doing and planning and
howinterested persons can support those  activities as well as how they
canempower
US to build the Party.

These calls would  last one to two hours, include a summary of efforts and
stated needs followed by  q & a, and would include the intention that the
audience would then report  information back to their respective state
delegations and Party organizations. With follow up  of needed help from
Greens at
large (some of our most resourceful  members!)
This will be focusing outward, i.e., workshops to help  people with
practical Party-building, and things they can use in their local and  state
parties.

We have three  teleconferences scheduled thus far:

1. Wednesday, June 3rd  beginning 9:00 pm EDT with Brent McMillan,
Political Director of GPUS, as our first presenter. An exciting place to
begin
with an Overall View of the GPUS to date.

2. Tuesday, June 30th beginning  9 pm EDT with Outreach doing skill
building on online activism, have your  computer handy as we may do an
action while
on the call, for those able  to.

3. Tuesday, July 7th also beginning at 9 pm EDT  we'll have Brian Bittner
from Ballot Access Committe discussing BA issues in  regards to the GPUS.

*If you wish to participate in this program please  reply by private e-mail
to: Holly Hart _hhart11 at gmail.com_*
(http://us.mc1115.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hhart11 at gmail.com)
*NOTE:You will be  charged long distance charges by your telephone carrier
(as applicable).*

These will be facilitated  teleconferences using "stack" process for the
questions and discussion section  allowing the presenter to respond to
questions and comments in order.  We  are looking into how to record these
sessions
and/or archive them on-line for  access by GP members who cannot attend any
particular call.

These calls are intended as party building and informational activities
created by a group of Green Party  activists acting collaboratively by
consensus.  No "official  business" or "decisions" will occur by these
teleconferences. These calls are  intended to foster communication and
participation in
a manner which stays  focused on the announced agenda for each call without
distractions from other  agendas.

A reminder with the  call info and number will be sent out to those who
have contacted Holly to be on  the call both the week before the call and on
the day  of.

*If you have questions about any of the contents  of this message, reply by
private email to: Holly Hart _hhart11 at gmail.com_*
(http://us.mc1115.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hhart11 at gmail.com) ,



-- 
Charlie Pillsbury, CTGP
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From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com  Thu May 14 16:22:07 2009
From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell)
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:22:07 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: ACLU-CT Action Alert: Abolish the Death Penalty in
	Connecticut
Message-ID: <BLU109-DAV109B62B44D8666FF975AB8D65E0@phx.gbl>

ACLU of Connecticut Action AlertThis is an important part of the Green
Party's nonviolence and social justice platform.

David Bedell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ACLU of Connecticut
To: dbedellgreen@ hotmail.com
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:25 PM
Subject: ACLU-CT Action Alert: Abolish the Death Penalty in Connecticut


In a historic vote yesterday evening, the Connecticut House of
Representatives voted to abolish the death penalty.  Thanks to all of your
phone calls and e-mails the bill passed by a wide margin (90 to 56).  Our
State Representatives heard, and answered, our calls for a fair and equal
justice system (click here to see how your Representative voted).  The bill
now moves on to the State Senate and we urgently need you to contact your
Senator and urge him/her to support this bill.

Please call Senator _________ at 800-842-1420 [for all Democratic State
Senators.  800-842-1421 for Republicans.]

Tell your Senator that you are a constituent and that the death penalty is
unfair, racially biased, disproportionately punishes the poor, and that you
hope he/she supports HB 6578 An Act Concerning The Penalty For A Capital
Felony and abolishes the death penalty in Connecticut.


Here are some facts about the Death Penalty:
The Death Penalty Kills the Innocent:
Since 1976, 123 death-row prisoners have been released because they were
innocent. In addition, at least seven people have been executed since 1976
even though they were probably innocent.1 Wrongful convictions often result
from false confessions, which are frequent among people with mental
retardation, mistaken eyewitnesses, jail house snitches, junk science and
prosecutorial abuse.

The Death Penalty is Racially Biased and Punishes the Poor:
Most defendants are poor and are forced to depend on incompetent or token
representation. Some lawyers have slept or appeared drunk during trials.
Those who kill white people are far more likely to get the death penalty
than those who kill black people.

The Death Penalty is Unfair:
The death penalty has never been applied fairly across race, class, and
gender lines. Who is sentenced to die often depends on the attitudes of
prosecutors, where one is tried, the prejudices of judges and juries, and
the abilities and commitment of defense attorneys.

The Death Penalty Cost More than Life in Prison:
Prosecuting a death penalty case is extremely expensive for a state and
drains money that could be used for education and social programs. Capital
punishment costs more than sentencing a prisoner to life without parole. The
most comprehensive death penalty study in the country found that the death
penalty cost North Carolina $2.16 million more per execution over the costs
of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The majority of these costs
occur at the trial level.2 In its review of death penalty expenses, the
State of Kansas concluded that capital cases are 70% more expensive than
comparable non-death penalty cases, including the costs of incarceration.3

The Death Penalty is Not a Deterrent to Crime:
Since 1977 over 80% of all executions have occurred in the South, the region
with the highest murder rate. The Northeast, the region with the lowest
murder rate, has accounted for less than 1% of the executions. Although the
issue of deterrence has been studied extensively, there is no credible
evidence that capital punishment deters murder or makes us any safer.

1) Staff of House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights on the
Judiciary, 103rd Cong., Innocence and the Death Penalty: Assessing the
Dangers of Mistaken Executions available at
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty-assessing-danger-mistaken-executions
2) Duke University, May 1993
3) Kansas Performance Audit Report, December 2003
ACLU Capital Punishment Project, http://www.aclu.org/capital/index.html


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To learn more about ACLU-CT please visit our website at
http://www.acluct.org



From edubrule at sbcglobal.net  Sat May 16 09:59:30 2009
From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule)
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 09:59:30 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: FUEL opens in Hartford on June 12!-WANT VOLUNTEERS FOR
	PANEL, PROMOTE FILM, AT THEATER
Message-ID: <051FC134586841A5A3E4E76973AB9E70@edgn2b574u14bi>

This appears to have been sent to the CT Green Party website.
--Ed DuBrule
----- Original Message ----- 
From: [Amy Turman]
To: [a single e-mail address--probably sent by bcc to greens at ctgreens.org]
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:43 PM
Subject: FUEL opens in Hartford on June 12!


Hello,


FUEL, a documentary about America's dependency on oil and the need for renewable, sustainable energy, is opening in Hartford on June 12th at the Real Art Ways Theater.  We are very excited!  We were wondering if it was possible for you to mention us in your newsletter (with of course a reciprocal mention in ours) to get the word out.  We are also looking for people to speak in our panel so if you have anyone that would be interested please let us know.



Moreover, we are looking for volunteers to help promote the film and volunteer at the theater.  This would include passing out fliers, hanging up posters, and talking to guests about FUEL and educating them about sustainable choices.  Please forward the green paragraph below to your members and have them respond to fuelthefilm at gmail.com if they are interested.


FUEL the documentary about America's dependency on oil and the need for sustainable, renewable energy is opening in Hartford on June 12th at the Real Art Ways Theater.  It won best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and is opening in various theaters across the country!  We need passionate volunteers to help passing out fliers and greeting viewers at the door, as well as hanging up signs and posters around town and campus.  People are always looking for an interesting, unique way to give back and help out--volunteering for FUEL is a fun and rewarding opportunity.  Again, FUEL opens June 12th in Hartford and needs your help!


For more information please go to www.thefuelfilm.com.


If you are interested please email fuelthefilm at gmail.com and see how you can help.


Again, thank you so much for your help and go see FUEL starting June 12th!


Thank you,


Amy Turman
---------------------------------------------
Amy B. Turman
University of California [further info deleted by Ed DuBrule]
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From chapillsbury at gmail.com  Sat May 16 19:36:59 2009
From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 19:36:59 -0400
Subject: {news} Fwd: May 2009 Greenline
In-Reply-To: <263664995.449161563@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com>
References: <263664995.449161563@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com>
Message-ID: <10859a090905161636t674bc6dr9f6676060f80bf87@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Green Party of the United States <office at gp.org>
Date: Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:53 PM

      *May 2009
*
         Greens Come Together for the 2009 Annual National Meeting in Durham,
North Carolina

The Green Party of the United States is pleased to announce that the 2009
Annual National
Meeting<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=263664995&url_num=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsalsa.wiredforchange.com%2Fo%2F175%2Ft%2F460%2Fevent%2FcheckOut.jsp%3Fevent_KEY%3D13147>will
be held Thursday, July 23-Sunday July 26, 2009 on the campus of North
Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. Plan to attend this year's
largest national gathering of Greens to make new friends, network, and help
grow the Green Party nationally and in your community.  Join with other
greens across the country as we prepare for the 2010 election cycle with
workshops on candidate recruitment, ballot access, fundraising, media
outreach, and other skills you can take back to your local party.

Registration is open now!  Discounted earlybird registration is available
for only a few more days...register now to save money and start making your
travel plans early.  Registration and other information is available
at the 2009
Annual National Meeting
wepage<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=263664995&url_num=2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsalsa.wiredforchange.com%2Fo%2F175%2Ft%2F460%2Fevent%2FcheckOut.jsp%3Fevent_KEY%3D13147>
.
Record Number of Greens Running in '09

Green Parties across the U.S. are running a record number of
candidates<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=263664995&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gp.org%2Felections%2Fcandidates%2Findex.php>in
local and state elections.  Fewer elections are scheduled in
odd-numbered
years, but that hasn't stopped over 100 Greens from running for office in
2009 elections.  In 2005, 69 candidates had declared their run by the middle
of May.  In 2007, that number was 74.  So far in 2009, 119 candidates have
declared their runs.  That's 119 people (and their volunteers) asking for
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From roseberry3 at cox.net  Sun May 17 23:17:11 2009
From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:17:11 -0400
Subject: {news} proposed agenda for 5-19-09 7PM EC meeting
Message-ID: <20090518031714.MMDD29053.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>

Proposed agenda for the 5-19-09 7PM EC meeting. Location: home of Steve
Fournier, 74 Tremont Street, Hartford, CT 06105. 

 

Development of the agenda for the 5-26-99 SCC CTGP meeting.

 

 

Proposed agenda for the 7PM 5-26-09 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior
Center

Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT  06480

Facilitator:  To Be Determined

 

A.      Preliminaries:

1.       (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters;
if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules.

2.       (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions
or additions.

3.       (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 12-30-08, 2-24-09,
3-31-09 and 4-28-09 SCC meetings.

4.     (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the minutes of the 3-18-09 and
5-19-09 EC meetings.

5.     (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from treasurer: Christopher Reilly.

 

B.     Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee.

 

C. Reports:

1. (10-15 minutes): Internal Election Committee: official report from all
the members of the Internal Elections committee (David Bedell, Christopher
Reilly, Steve Fournier and Richard Duffee)

regarding the official results of the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual Meeting. The five
(5) people elected to be CTGP representatives to the GPUS; people elected to
the various GPUS National committees:

Platform committee, International committee, Ballot Access committee;
Dispute Resolution committee; Diversity committee; Merchandise committee;
Eco-action committee.

 

2.  (10-15minutes): GPUS reports from: a) CTGP representatives: Tim McKee
and Charlie Pillsbury; b) National Committee Members: 

 

3.  (20minutes): Discussion of the short and long term goals of the CTGP as
recommended by the participants at the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual Meeting.

 

4. (10-15 minutes): Discuss the GPUS Annual National Meeting being held from
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 through Sunday, July 26, 2009 at North Carolina
Central University 

(HYPERLINK "http://www.nccu.edu/"www.nccu.edu) in Durham, NC

 

5. (5-10minutes): Rock and Roll show.

 

6. (10-15minutes): CTGP Fundraising/budget Committee. 

 

7. (2-5 minutes): any future CTGP Road Shows?

 

8.  (2-10 minutes): Report about the 3-09 court hearing about our lawsuit
against the State of CT regarding the 2005 State of CT Campaign Finance
Reform Laws.

 

9. (2-5 minutes, each):  Chapter reports.

 

10. Next SCC meeting=Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at the Portland Senor Center.
Date, place and time of next EC meeting: to be determined.

 

11.  Any additions

 

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From rstuller at snet.net  Mon May 18 18:28:23 2009
From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:28:23 -0400
Subject: {news} Anti-War March and Witness - Weds 5/20 9 AM
Message-ID: <152BBA6B-D645-494D-B11E-FFA17293473E@snet.net>


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COW Action Alert

Anti-War March and Witness Coast Guard Academy commencement New  
London, CT

WHEN:

Wednesday, May 20
9 AM to 12 Noon
GATHERING POINT:

Williams Memorial Park (corner of Broad Street and Williams Street)
New London
COW, along with the Southeastern Connecticut Peace and Justice  
coalition and Connecticut Students Against War (CT SAW), will march  
from Williams Memorial Park to the gates of the Coast Guard Academy.  
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will be delivering the  
commencement address.

After gathering and a short speaking program, we will be delivering a  
message to Janet Napolitano to end the wars of occupation, provide  
health care, jobs and education for all, end war spending while  
funding financial and medical support for our troops and their  
families, and make our cities and towns safe.

For those of you who have marched before, the Soldiers and Sailors  
Memorial near the train station (our former starting point) is under  
repair and reconstruction. Williams Memorial Park is on last year's  
march route, on the corner of Broad and Hempsted Streets closer to the  
Coast Gurad Academy.

To get involved, or for more information, contact John Murphy by email  
at murphy at ctcow.org; or by telephone at (860) 995-3389.
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From timmckee at mail.com  Tue May 19 16:48:04 2009
From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:48:04 -0500
Subject: {news} FBI infiltrated Iowa anti-war group before GOP convention
Message-ID: <20090519204805.3CDC3478023@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com>

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To: "national comm affairs"
Subject: [usgp-dx] FBI infiltrated Iowa anti-war group before GOP
convention
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:06:16 -0400



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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:48:11 -0500
Subject: {news} FBI infiltrated Iowa anti-war group before GOP convention
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From: "Brent McMillan"
To: "national comm affairs"
Subject: [usgp-dx] FBI infiltrated Iowa anti-war group before GOP
convention
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:06:16 -0400



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From chapillsbury at igc.org  Fri May 22 13:12:44 2009
From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 13:12:44 -0400
Subject: {news} URGENT REQUEST for Action to abolish the death penalty in CT
Message-ID: <002201c9db00$88671630$99354290$@org>

After over ten hours of debate, the senate voted shortly after 4 AM to
abolish the death penalty by a vote of 19-17! This is obviously another
tremendous victory. We now have to do everything possible to pressure the
governor to sign the piece of legislation.

Today (Friday) there will be an 11 AM press conference of murder victims'
family members at the Legislative Office Building calling on the governor to
sign the abolition bill. In addition to a media blitz, we need everyone to

 

1.      Call Governor Rell at 860-566-4840

2.      Email Governor Rell at  <mailto:Governor.Rell at ct.gov>
Governor.Rell at ct.gov

3.      Write a letter to Governor Rell addressed to:

 

Executive Office of the Governor
State Capitol
210 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut 06106


After you've done these things, tell everyone you know to do the same!

Thank you!

 

Ben Jones

Executive Director

Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty
56 Arbor St., Suite 213, Hartford, CT 06106
860-231-1489 (w)    614-390-8417 (c)    ben.jones at cnadp.org

www.cnadp.org 

 

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From roseberry3 at cox.net  Sun May 24 00:35:56 2009
From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:35:56 -0400
Subject: {news} proposed agenda for 5-26-09 7PM SCC meeting at Portland
	Senior Center
Message-ID: <20090524043549.GJYY5257.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>

 

Proposed agenda for the 7PM 5-26-09 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior
Center

Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT  06480

Facilitator:  To Be Determined

 

A.      Preliminaries:

1.       (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters;
if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules.

2.       (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions
or additions.

3.       (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 12-30-08, 2-24-09,
3-31-09 and 4-28-09 SCC meetings.

4.     (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the minutes of the 3-18-09 and
5-19-09 EC meetings.

5.     (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from treasurer: Christopher Reilly.

 

B.     Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee.

 

C. Reports:

1. (10-15 minutes): Internal Election Committee: official report from all
the members of the Internal Elections committee (David Bedell, Christopher
Reilly, Steve Fournier and Richard Duffee)

regarding the official results of the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual Meeting. The five
(5) people elected to be CTGP representatives to the GPUS; people elected to
the various GPUS National committees:

Platform committee, International committee, Ballot Access committee;
Dispute Resolution committee; Diversity committee; Merchandise committee;
Eco-action committee.

a) 4/25/09 Record of vote

Red = elected. NOTA = None of the above. Italics (following NOTA) = write-in
candidate.

State Co-Chair        1st  2nd  3rd  Points (3x1st + 2x2nd + 1x3rd)  

Mike DeRosa            21    8   14 =  93

Steve Fournier         14   24    9 =  99

Jane Weston            17   16   20 = 103

NOTA                    1    1    1 =   6

Justine McCabe          0    1    0 =   2

Cantor Rachel Littman   0    0    1 =   1

Secretary

Barbara Barry        47

NOTA                  5

Treasurer

Christopher Reilly   50 

NOTA                  3

Diane Shaheen         1

Representatives to the GPUS        1st    2nd    3rd    4th    5th

Charlie Pillsbury

Richard Duffee

Tim McKee

Mike DeRosa

Amy Vas Nunes

NOTA

Joel Furst

Cliff Thornton

International Committee to the GPUS   1st   2nd   3rd   Points (3x1st +
2x2nd + 1x3rd)

Hector Lopez        14    16     9 = 83

Justine McCabe      23    28     9 = 94

German Tedesco       8    20    13 = 77

Amy Vas Nunes        6     2    10 = 32

NOTA                 0     2     3 =  7

Richard Duffee       0     1     0 =  2

Robert Garavel       0     0     1 =  1

John Kozicki         1     0     0 =  3

Platform Committee to the GPUS   1st   2nd   3rd   Points (3x1st + 2x2nd +
1x3rd)

Richard Duffee      34     9     1 = 121

Amy Vas Nunes        7    16     1 =  54

NOTA                 3     9     9 =  36

Daniel Casey         0     1     0 =   2

Robert Garavel       0     0     1 =   1

Justine McCabe       5     2     1 =  20 (Because she was left off the
ballot by mistake, her appointment is to be raised at the SCC meeting)

Charlie Pillsbury    1     0     0 =   3

Cliff Thornton       0     1     0 =   2

Merchandizing Committee to the GPUS 1st   2nd   3rd   Points (3x1st + 2x2nd
+ 1x3rd)

Rolf Maurer        

NOTA

Hector Lopez        1

Gilliam Tanz        1

The following uncontested candidates were elected by one or more write-in
votes. (These should probably be confirmed at an SCC meeting, and David
Eliscu and Colin Bennett have been contacted to confirm if they are willing
to serve.)

Ballot Access Committee: Mike DeRosa

Dispute Resolution Committee: David Eliscu, Charlie Pillsbury

Eco Action Committee: Colin Bennett

 

2.  (10-15minutes): GPUS reports from: a) CTGP representatives: Tim McKee
and Charlie Pillsbury; b) National Committee Members: 

 

3.  (20minutes): Discussion of the short and long term goals of the CTGP as
recommended by the participants at the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual Meeting.

 

4. (10-15 minutes): Discuss the GPUS Annual National Meeting being held from
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 through Sunday, July 26, 2009 at North Carolina
Central University 

(HYPERLINK "http://www.nccu.edu/"www.nccu.edu) in Durham, NC

 

5. (5-10minutes): Rock and Roll show.

 

6. (10-15minutes): CTGP Fundraising/budget Committee. Job description for
the position of:  Fund Raiser :Plans fund raising programs; and writes to,
telephones, or visits individuals or establishments to solicit funds or
gifts-in-kind: Compiles and analyzes information about potential
contributors to develop mailing or contact list and to plan selling
approach. Writes, telephones, or visits potential contributors and persuades
them to contribute funds or gifts-in-kind by explaining purpose and benefits
of fund raising program. Takes pledges or funds from contributors. Records
expenses incurred and contributions received and provide this information to
the Treasurer of the Green Party of CT in a timely manner.  Provides, at a
minimum monthly reports to EC and SCC of CTGP, and upon request.. May
organize volunteers and plan social functions to raise funds. May prepare
fund raising brochures for mail-solicitation programs. May train volunteers
to perform certain duties to assist fund raising.

 

7. (5-10 minutes): Discussion about a summer intern for the CTGP.

 

8. (5-10 minutes): Discusssion about petitions in support of single payer
healthcare; literature for same.

 

9. (5-10 minutes): CT Green Times News via  website/internet.

 

10. (2-5 minutes): any future CTGP Road Shows?

 

11.  (2-10 minutes): Report about the 3-09 court hearing about our lawsuit
against the State of CT regarding the 2005 State of CT Campaign Finance
Reform Laws.

 

12.. (2-5 minutes, each):  Chapter reports.

 

13. Next SCC meeting=Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at the Portland Senor Center.
Date, place and time of next EC meeting: to be determined.

 

14.  Any additions

 

Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots
democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom,
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From vogel at ct.metrocast.net  Sun May 24 12:38:29 2009
From: vogel at ct.metrocast.net (vogel at ct.metrocast.net)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 12:38:29 -0400
Subject: {news} Governor Rell, a Republican, won't change her mind.
Message-ID: <9A066B66F66E418889F8BC104E76206F@JUNKNAME>



Why is it that Republicans along with their 'pro-life', talk-radio propagandists favor not just waterboarding but the death penalty ?

George W. Bush during his six years as governor of Texas presided over 152 executions, more than any other governor in the recent history of the United States. Still Republicans nominated him and we are all paying the price. Republicans at the very top spawned Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, waterboarding, secret prisons, and other lawless 'justice'. 

Both the Ct House and Senate passed a bill to abolish the death penalty. The death penalty does not save money. It is error prone. It is vengeful, but satisfies no one. Because of US continued use of the death penalty, advanced countries refuse to extradite to us. The Declaration of Independence reads "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." 

Governor Rell, a true Republican, has said she intends to veto It. 
We should oppose Republicans in government and on talk radio. They are a threat to the Constitution, civilization, and the habitability of the planet. 

Robert L Vogel 

East Lyme, Ct 

www.seconnecticut.com 



Consider writing a letter to your newspaper to support abolition of the death penalty. Think this one is too strong ?
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From chapillsbury at gmail.com  Mon May 25 23:05:44 2009
From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 23:05:44 -0400
Subject: {news} Fwd: CALL for FACILITATORS FOR 2009 GREEN NATIONAL
	MEETING-6/5 deadline
Message-ID: <10859a090905252005g73c27729ib3316c8bb6de6de3@mail.gmail.com>

Another opportunity to serve your party, especially if you plan to be at the
Annual Meeting.

Please don't reply to me or the list; send your name directly to  *
facilitators09 at gp.org

*thanks, Charlie Pillsbury, CTGP*
*
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From: <secretary at gp.org>
Date: Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Subject: [usgp-nc] CALL for FACILITATORS FOR 2009 GREEN NATIONAL MEETING
To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org

Proposal 121 (adopted 1/30/05) calls for the nomination by committees,
states, and caucuses of qualified facilitators for the Annual National
Meeting to be in no later than two months before the meeting.

"It is encouraged that Committees, Caucuses and States
consider the qualifications such as experience and familiarity with the
Green Consensus process. No candidate who is registered with another party
other than Greens, where Green registration is available, will be
considered. The ANMC will make the names of eligible candidates available
to the CC within a week following the two month deadline."

*The Annual Meeting Committee requests that nominations of qualified Greens
be sent in no later than later than June 5. *The SC shall put the election
of facilitators on the voting queue per the regular schedule.

*PLEASE SEND NOMINATIONS to <facilitators09 at gp.org>*

****************************
Proposal 121
http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=121

All face to face meetings of the Coordinating Committee of the
Green National Committee will be facilitated by a person or persons who
have been approved by the Coordinating Committee of the Green National
Committee.

Names should be submitted to the ANMC no less than two months prior to the
meeting date. Committees, Caucuses, and State Parties will send names and
qualifications of recommended facilitators to the ANMC. It is encouraged
that Committees, Caucuses and States consider the
qualifications such as experience and familiarity with the Green
Consensus process. No candidate who is registered with another party other
than Greens, where Green registration is available, will be
considered. The ANMC will make the names of eligible candidates
available to the CC within a week following the two month deadline.

The Steering Committee will schedule a vote by the CC for approval of
individual facilitators. No Facilitator who failed to receive at least
50%+1 of the approval vote will be permitted to facilitate the CC
meetings.

Facilitators with the highest approval ratings will be given preference
when assigning facilitators. The ANMC will strive to schedule two
facilitators for any given time period to ensure backup if needed. Gender
balance is strongly encouraged. The ANMC will notify the CC of the
facilitation schedule no later than two weeks before the national meeting.
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From rstuller at snet.net  Tue May 26 22:23:43 2009
From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:23:43 -0400
Subject: {news} PDA forum in Middletown
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https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/personalopt1.asp?formid=meet&c=4074145


Day of Action in Middletown, CT ~ Forum

Open Health Care Forum boasts a panel that includes Congressman John  
Conyers and Donna Smith from the Michael Moore movie ?Sicko?

Join thousands of single-payer supporters in a nationwide week of  
action to support improved Medicare for all (HR 676). Single-payer  
activists will be gathering all over the country to say, "Healthcare,  
yes; Insurance companies, no."

Confirmed for the panel are Katie Robbins, the assistant national  
coordinator for Healthcare-NOW!; Donna Smith, featured in Michael  
Moore?s movie Sicko, who is a legislative associate and community  
organizer for the California Nurses Association; and Rep. John Conyers  
(D-MI), who introduced HR 676, the current Federal legislation for a  
Medicare-for-all style health care system. Also invited for the panel  
are a local community doctor and a local professor of economics. Many  
CT legislators are being invited, including Rep. DeLauro, Rep. Murphy,  
Rep. Courtney, and Sen. Dodd.

Please make sure you bring Healthcare NOT Warfare visibility items  
with you. Order yours here. Be sure to order FREE professionally  
printed flyers, shipping charges apply.

More Info: Deb Hall or (860) 302-5352
Emily Langner or (518) 928-1318


Register to Attend

When  	Thursday, May 28, 2009
6:30 PM

Where 	Wesleyan University?s Exley Science Center
265 Church St
Middletown, CT
See Map


REGISTER TO ATTEND
Please enter your contact information to register for this event.  
(This information must match your credit card billing address.)
* = required field
  	
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From edubrule at sbcglobal.net  Wed May 27 20:09:49 2009
From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule)
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 20:09:49 -0400
Subject: {news} Fw: May 26: Upcoming Connecticut events for peace and social
	justice
Message-ID: <83FCBF8CA5B145439D6C70258F00343E@edgn2b574u14bi>

6-Story Newsletter Template + Images
----- Original Message ----- 
From: AFSC Connecticut 
To: edubrule at sbcglobal.net 
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:00 PM
Subject: May 26: Upcoming Connecticut events for peace and social justice


                                     American Friends Service Committee Connecticut  
                                 
                                In This Issue:  May 26 2009   
                                 
                                 .    Call today: Tell Gov Jodi Rell to Sign Legislation Abolishing the Death Penalty in Connecticut  
                                   
                                 
                                 .    May 30: Hope Out Loud Chili Cook Off  
                                   
                                 
                                 .    June 6: AFSC Connecticut Annual Dinner  
                                   
                                 
                                 
                                Call today: Tell Gov Jodi Rell to Sign Legislation Abolishing the Death Penalty in Connecticut  
                                 

                                IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT:
                                Urge Governor to Sign Bill to Repeal Connecticut's Death Penalty

                                The movement to abolish Connecticut's death penalty already has advanced further this year than anyone had predicted. The Connecticut Judiciary Committee, House, and Senate all have voted to repeal the state's death penalty. None of this could have happened without thousands of letters, emails, and calls from residents across Connecticut. Now the only step left is to convince Governor Jodi Rell to sign into law the repeal legislation, HB-6578.

                                Though Governor Rell has said that she will veto the bill, there is still time to change her mind before it reaches her desk. Please take a moment to call AND email her office. Here is the phone number and email address, as well as a sample email letter:

                                Phone: 860-566-4840 or 800-406-1527 
                                Email: Governor.Rell at ct.gov

                                Dear Governor Rell,

                                I am your constituent and strongly urge you to sign into law HB-6578, which proposes to abolish Connecticut's death penalty.

                                The people's elected representatives have clearly spoken - it is time to end Connecticut's death penalty. Seeing that the death penalty is irreversibly flawed, bipartisan majorities of the Connecticut House and Senate voted to abolish it. Democrats and Republicans alike recognized that the state's system of capital punishment suffers from error, discrimination, waste, and delay. 

                                I respectfully ask you to reconsider your stated intention to veto the legislation. Before making a final decision, consult with legal experts and victims' families. Ask them if it is possible to have a death penalty that addresses victims' families' desire for a speedy legal process while still protecting the innocent from execution. What one will find is that capital punishment fails at balancing these two goals. 

                                Please sign this legislation and put Connecticut on the right side of history, with the growing number of states and nations that already have abandoned the death penalty.

                                Sincerely,
                                Your Name


                                For more information on the efforts to repeal Connecticut's death penalty, please visit www.cnadp.org. Thank you to everyone for your help thus far in this campaign. With one more final push, we may succeed in making Connecticut the 16th state to reject capital punishment! 


                                www.cnadp.org  

                                    
                                 
                                 
                                May 30: Hope Out Loud Chili Cook Off  
                                 
                                Hope Out Loud Chili Cook Off

                                5-7pm on Saturday, May 30th
                                Hartford Friends Meeting house
                                144 S.Quaker Lane, West Hartford

                                Featuring: 
                                Eva's Cincinnati Two-alarm
                                Walt's Hartford Red and
                                Steve's Caf? Verdi Sinus-cleaner 

                                Along with your entry.

                                Prizes for top two and best meatless. 

                                Suggested donation $10** benefits 
                                The 8th Annual Hope Out Loud Peace and Arts Festival
                                on September 20th in Hartford, CT
                                ** Everyone welcome. No one turned away for lack of funds.

                                Email stepfour at stepfour.com for details or
                                just show up with a potful or a ten-spot.

                                www.hopeoutloud.org
                                (860) 523-4823

                                http://hopeoutloud.org  

                                    
                                 
                                 
                                June 6: AFSC Connecticut Annual Dinner  
                                 
                                2009 AFSC Connecticut Annual Awards Soiree and Silent Auction

                                Saturday, June 6, 2009 5-7pm
                                First Church of Christ Congregational
                                190 Court St Middletown, CT 06457

                                Keynote speakers:

                                Keith Harvey, New England Regional Director, American Friends Service Committee and Brian Corr, National Board Member AFSC and Peace Commissioner City of Cambridge, MA. 

                                Community Award Honorees:

                                We Refuse to Be Enemies: Peace Building

                                Hartford Areas Rally Together: Immigrant Rights

                                National Lawyers Guild-CT Chapter: Economics Justice

                                People of Faith CT: Transformative/Healing Justice


                                $25 pp 
                                RSVP by Saturday, May 30
                                This location is handicapped accessible.

                                If you have special mobility needs, are interested in
                                having a literature table, having an ad in the Program Book, or need more information, please contact the office at 860-523-1534 or Connecticut at afsc.org


                                    
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                American Friends Service Committee
                                Connecticut Area Office
                                56 Arbor Street, Suite 213
                                Hartford, CT 06106
                                Phone: 860.523.1534
                                Fax: 860.523.1705
                                Email: connecticut at afsc.org  Visit AFSC CT Online  
                             
                       
                 
           
     


     
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From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com  Thu May 28 23:49:34 2009
From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:49:34 -0400
Subject: {news} Connecticut Supreme Court Sides With Activist Against
	Millstone
Message-ID: <BLU109-DAV8311FE0031B961A5AA787D6510@phx.gbl>

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-activist-wins-ruling.artmay21,0,1750333.story

SUPREME COURT
Connecticut Supreme Court Sides With Activist Against Millstone

Associated Press

May 21, 2009

A Connecticut environmental activist on Wednesday scored a significant legal
victory in her fight over how the Millstone nuclear power complex manages
its wastewater.

The state Supreme Court unanimously decided to allow Nancy Burton to
challenge the state process that led to a preliminary decision to allow
Millstone to renew its wastewater discharge permit. The state Department of
Environmental Protection released a draft decision in August 2006 to renew
the permit.

Burton claims Millstone's water intake and discharge system has destroyed
billions of fish and other marine life in Long Island Sound and alleges that
the permit renewal process that began in 1997 has been tainted by bias,
state favoritism toward Millstone and a disregard for environmental laws.

The five justices overturned a lower court judge's ruling that Burton had no
standing under state law to challenge the permit process.

"We conclude that the plaintiff's complaint adequately sets forth facts to
support an inference that unreasonable pollution, impairment or destruction
of a natural resource will probably result from Millstone's operation,"
Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote in the court's decision.

The high court sent the case back to Superior Court, where a different judge
will hold a hearing on Burton's allegations about the permit process.
Justices said the lower court judge would be allowed to decide how to fix
any problems with the process - if any are found.

"Today's decision is a full vindication of the rights of all citizens to go
to court to protect the environment," Burton said Wednesday.

A spokesman for Millstone's owner, Richmond, Va.-based Dominion, said the
company is disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision. He said in a
statement that Burton's claims of bias and favoritism have no merit.

"We are confident that the Superior Court will acknowledge the integrity of
the department's administrative process, which has included 19 days of
public hearing," spokesman Jim Norvelle said.

Burton, a former lawyer who has been fighting Millstone's effort to renew
its wastewater discharge permit for more than a decade, wants a state court
to force Dominion to install a "closed" system that would recirculate water
to cool the reactors instead of continuously taking water from the Sound.

Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved.



From timmckee at mail.com  Fri May 29 16:36:04 2009
From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:36:04 -0500
Subject: {news} The Green Candidates Resource Center
Message-ID: <20090529203604.CEEE1606885@ws1-4.us4.outblaze.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent McMillan"
To: "national comm affairs"
Subject: [usgp-dx] The Green Candidates Resource Center
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:15:10 -0400



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From roseberry3 at cox.net  Fri May 29 22:56:27 2009
From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 22:56:27 -0400
Subject: {news} Approved minutes of the 2-24-09 SCC CTGP meeting. Quorum met.
Message-ID: <20090530025622.OXFG14603.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>

Approved minutes of the 2-24-09 SCC CTGP meeting.  Quorum met.

Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT  06480
Time: 7PM to 9PM

Attendees by chapter: Central: Vittorio Lancia; Fairfield: Paul Bass,
Richard Duffee; Greater Hartford: Barbara Barry, secretary of CTGP; CTGP
co-chairpersons: S. Michael DeRosa, Steve Fournier, CTGP treasurer:
Christopher Reilly;

New London: Ronna Stuller; New Haven: Jerry Martin; Northeast: G. Scott
Deshefy; Tolland: Tim McKee.

Facilitator:  Tim McKee

 

A.      Preliminaries:

1.       Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; quorum was
met; timekeeper: Steve Fournier.

2.       Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, no deletions; addition:
resolution in support of GPUS position about the 

Pennsylvania juvenile court judges accused of fraud.

3.       Review and approval of minutes of the 1-27-09 SCC meeting. The
12-30-08 SCC minutes were held to the future.

4.     Review and acceptance of the minutes from the 1-19-09 and 2-17-09 EC
meetings.

5.     Treasurer's report from treasurer: Christopher Reilly: balance as of:
1-31-09: $1480.87; as of 2-24-09: $1578.83. 

 

B.     Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee.

1.  Election Autopsy from Steve Fournier, co-chairperson:

Four our first meeting of 2009, having had a couple of months to reflect on
the election of 2008, it seems a good time to assess our status and plan for
the coming year and the 2010 election.

Vote-getting experience:  

In the election of the U.S. House of Representative, Greens received less
than 5% of the vote. Green candidates were excluded from most broadcast
debates and largely ignored by the media. Green won ballot status in 3
districts and will be able to run candidates without petitioning in the next
congressional election, but no Green candidate had a discernible effect on
the outcome.

In state elections, four Green candidates in tree-way races did poorly
(under 10%), even though their districts were safe for the Democrat. In the
one two-way contest, the Green candidate did better at 19%. Voters for our
write-ins likely were not all counted, and there were fewer than 100
recorded altogether.

Under the campaign finance law, now under legal challenge, all but one of
our ballot candidates got so few votes that successor candidates in these
districts are legally disqualified from public financing in 2010. They are
likely to face at least one major party candidate who does qualify, and the
major party opponents will spend tens of dollars for every spent by Greens,
further disabling potential Green voters and guaranteeing continuation of
the Democratic/Republican dynasty.

Fundraising experience:

The Greens' five congressional candidates were barely able to raise enough
to gain name recognition, and this was in sprawling districts. It is
extremely unlikely that any could have raised $5000 in a much smaller state
legislative district. Greens running for state office raised negligible
amounts.

Greens' fundraising problems are compounded by the fact that progressives'
natural constituency consists of the working poor, the unemployed and
underemployed, and students. Greens would have to abandon principle and
alter the party's message to appeal to high-income individuals.  The
required $5000 private funding threshold will present little impediment to
Democrats and Republicans. In fact, it appears that private campaign funds,
in helping candidates meet the threshold, will continue to wield influence,
but for a much smaller investment. Public funding for Democrats and
Republicans, far from empowering the poor, will make it ever more likely
that the needs of people without resources will be ignored.

Planning for 2010 and beyond:

Greens' best hope of winning a seat in the state House or Senate will be a
long-term project involving the recruitment of one or more well-known,
popular progressives to try to turn out 10% in the first election year (the
best that can be hoped for without public funding) in order to qualify for
funding two years later. By the 2014 election, Greens might be able to run
one or more partially funded candidates and make themselves competitive.
Greens might also reasonably predict that the Democrat or Republican will
face no opponent in 2010 in many districts (a third of them faced no
opponent in 2008), raising the slim change that a green might garner enough
votes to qualify for funding in 2012.

Recruiting candidates was difficult before publicly-funded campaigns for
major party opponents. With public funding, potential Green candidates now
have to be willing to run hard with a certainty of defeat, and such people
are rare on the current political landscape. Candidates will have to be
willing to appeal to voters to cast their sufficient money to qualify for
funding. A plan for recruiting such people could be our biggest challenge in
the coming year. To adapt to the public funding law, the state party might
be well advised to direct all contributors to candidate committees, even if
it meant strangling the state treasury. 

As a pressure group or a progressive lobby, Greens are frustrated at every
turn by the public financing scheme, which will always depress the Green
vote. In the past, social movements have run doomed election campaigns for
the purpose of widening debate and gradually attracting support. All signs
indicate that, in state elections at least, support for Green issues will
appear to be eroding and not growing. Public funding is likely to keep
potential supporters from casting Green votes, simply because the outcome of
almost every contest will be known far in advance. It won't be possible to
gauge true levels of support for social justice and environmental
restoration when elections are, for all practical purposes, fixed. Debate
won't be broadened but narrowed under the new regime.  Greens might also
have to abandon the message that the party is running to win state contests
and acknowledge that's running to qualify for funds in a future election. To
conserve the party's sparse resources, members will have to consider, this
year, whether it's worthwhile to run candidates for state office at all, in
view of these disabling laws, and whether the party might more profitably
put its emphasis on local elections and national office.

RD: we should add that candidates who want to represent financially poor
people are more likely to be rejected in the following ways: signatures of
financially poor people are more likely to be rejected because poor people
are more likely to move from residence to residence or be homeless; poor
people are more likely to have their petitions thrown out due to their
difficulty proving their residencies over time; the longer a voter is in a
residence the less likely their signature or chance to vote will be
rejected.

GSD: overall, the above leads to less representation for the financially
poor people.

RD: the Democrats and Republicans tend to have "professional" candidates and
develop multiple tiers of potential candidates in the wings.  Third
political parties tend not to have these.

PB: the 2005 CT Campaign Finance Reform Law does 3 things: 1)requires 3rd
political parties to do things that the Democrats and Republicans are not
required to do;  2) money is speech and the Democrats and Republicans get a
lot of 

"speech" with this law; 3) this law is really a referendum which is required
each time a 3rd political party requests money. E.G. 3rd political parties
need to get petition signatures which in a sense indicates that the signer
supports the 3rd political party to get money for a specific
purpose/candidate. This is vastly different from requesting a person's
signature to allow a 3rd political party to run a candidate for specific
office.  The Democrats and Republicans are not required to overcome this
hurdle.                           Consensus: passed.

2. Proposal from Jerry Martin and David Bedell to join the coalition: Better
Choices for Connecticut: Consensus: passed.  See 10 pages of Addendum 1.

 

C. Reports:

1. GPUS reports from: a) CTGP representatives: Tim McKee: GPUS National
Committee Meeting will be held in Durham, N.C. at University of North
Carolina from 6-25-09 through 6-28-09. It will have a lot of workshops and
will allow for gatherings of people who have hands-on expertise in the
various things that a 3rd political party needs.  Registration fee is likely
to be $25.  CTGP will be allowed five (5) people.   Neither Cliff Thornton,
National Co-chairperson of the GPUS nor CTGP representative to GPUS Charlie
Pillsbury were present.  b) National Committee Members: Steve Fournier:
there tends to be a continuous debate about policies, Richard Duffee on the
GPUS International Committee: one tends to get 400 emails a month. 83% of
the committee discussion is regarding Gaza. There is a current debate about
whether this committee needs to have its resolution approved by the GPUS or
can the international committee pass resolutions without GPUS approval. JM:
reviewed GPUS bylaws and perceives that the bylaws allows the international
committee to do what it wants to do. TMcK: the international committee tends
to work with other international Green Parties. SMD: on the Ballot Access
committee: is requesting suggestions for bills that this committee could
support; .

 

2.  deleted: were covered at 1-27-09 SCC meeting: CTGP 1-21-09 meeting with
CT State Legislative Government and Election Committee Co-chairpersons,
Senator Slossberg and Representative James Spallone of 36th district. and

CTGP concerns regarding the Elections Department of the CT. Secretary of
State during the 11-08 election: 

 

3. CTGP lawsuit with the ACLU against the State of CT regarding the 2005
State of CT Campaign Finance Reform Laws. The above report from Steve
Fournier. SMD: there will be another court hearing in 3-09. Date to be
determined.

 

4.  CTGP literature is available for the 2-26-09 evening Wrench in the Works
event in Willimantic.

 

5.  CTGP potential goals for 2009: a) Fight the Hike about election rates
continues there efforts inside the legislature and is also striving for
towns (e.g. New Haven, West Haven, Hamden and Bridgeport) to support
resolutions; b) universal health care: SF: we may wish to consider joining a
single payer coalition.

 

6. Authorization of money to get the state-wide list of registered Green
Party voters. SMD: an attorney with the Secretary of States office had
indicated it will be provided to the CTGP via email to SMD in the near
future, possibly for free. 

 

7.  Volunteers for the 4-25-09 CTGP Internal Elections Committee: Steve
Fournier, Barbara Barry, S. Michael DeRosa, Christopher Reilly.  Convention
Committee: Barbara Barry. 

 

8.  Chapter reports: TMc: we need to recruit local CTGP candidates; CCSU is
offering internships.

SMD: may have a candidates for Meriden mayor and perhaps Middletown mayor
and West Hartford mayor.

RS: New London had its town meeting two (2) weeks ago(i.e. it was the
scheduled 2nd meeting of each month): 

 

9. Addition was not addressed: resolution in support of GPUS position about
the Pennsylvania juvenile court judges accused of fraud.

 

10: Place for the 3-31-09, Tuesday SCC meeting.  Date, place and time of
next EC meeting in 3-09: to be determined.

 

 

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From roseberry3 at cox.net  Fri May 29 23:04:18 2009
From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:04:18 -0400
Subject: {news} Approved minutes of the 3-31-09 SCC 7PM meeting of the CTGP.
	Quorum not meet.
Message-ID: <20090530030413.PDPP14603.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>

Approved minutes of the 3-31-09 SCC 7PM meeting of the CTGP.   Quorum not
meet.

Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT  06480

Attendees by chapter: Fairfield: Richard Duffee and Jane Weston; Greater
Hartford: Co-chairpersons:

Steve Fournier and S. Michael DeRosa; Secretary: Barbara Barry; Treasurer:
Christopher Reilly.

Non-voting attendees:   none.                            Facilitator:
Barbara Barry

 

A.      Preliminaries:

1.       Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; two (2) chapters
attended so quorum was not met. 

2.       DELETED due to lack of quorum: Approval of tonight's proposed
agenda, any deletions or additions.

3.       DELETED due to lack of quorum: Review and approval of minutes of
12-30-08 and 2-24-09 SCC meetings.

4.     DELETED due to lack of quorum: Review and acceptance of the minutes
of the 3-18-09 EC meeting.

5.     Treasurer's report from treasurer: Christopher Reilly: balance as of
3-31-09: $1778.00.

 

B.     DELETED due to lack of any proposals/referendums by chapters,
committee.

 

C. Reports:

1. DELETED due to lack of quorum: GPUS reports from: a) Cliff Thornton,
National Co-chairperson of the GPUS who was absent; b) CTGP representatives:
Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury who were both absent; c) National Committee
Members in attendance: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa.

 

2.  Report about the 3-09 court hearing about our lawsuit against the State
of CT regarding the 2005 State of CT Campaign Finance Reform Laws. SMD: had
final court hearing on 3-09. 

 

3. a) Internal Election Committee: date=Saturday, 4-25-09, site= New Haven
Labor Council on Chapel Street in New Haven.  Agenda: similar to last year
with CTGP speakers: to be determined but inclusive of SMD regarding CTGP
lawsuit against the State of CT regarding the 2005 CT Campaign Finance
"Reform" law. CTGP members may bring merchandise and literature for
distribution at the 4-25-09 annual meeting b) CTGP registered voters may
submit their names to run for the indicated offices  and  a 100-word
statement about why they are running for the positions needs to be provided
to the secretary, Barbara Barry, (roseberry3 at cox.net) by 9PM 3-31-09 to be
considered for the ballot for the 4-25-09 annual convention.  (ballots are
likely to be mailed out on 4-1-09 or so) c) Convention Committee: monitors
check validity of ballots and vote count; suggest participants bring food
for themselves and for others.

 

4. CT. Secretary of State list of registered Green Party members in CT has
been received by SMD and has been forwarded to the Internal Elections
Committee. 

 

5.  CTGP literature: has been provided by various members: David Bedell,
Jerry Martin and S. Michael DeRosa.

 

6. DELETED due to lack of quorum: CTGP potential goals for 2009: a)
legislative goals for petitioning; b) electric rates; c) universal health
care.

 

7.  DELETED due to lack of quorum: Chapter reports.

 

8.  No future CTGP Road Shows are known to be scheduled at this time.

 

9. Date and place of the next SCC meeting: skip the 4-28-09 SCC meeting
because the 4-25-09 annual meeting will likely cover similar
issues/concerns.  So next SCC meeting to be May 26, 09  Date, place and time
of next EC meeting: to be determined.

 

10.  No additions

 

Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots
democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom,
decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future
focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and
gender 

 

 

 

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From roseberry3 at cox.net  Fri May 29 23:12:53 2009
From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:12:53 -0400
Subject: {news} Approved minutes of the 7PM 4-28-09 SCC CTGP meeting. Quorum
	was not met.
Message-ID: <20090530031248.RUPR12338.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>

Approved minutes of the 7PM 4-28-09 SCC CTGP meeting.  Quorum was not met.

Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT  06480

Attendees by chapter: Central: Vic Lancia; Fairfield: Jane Weston,
Co-chairperson of CTGP, Richard Duffee; Greater Hartford: S. Michael DeRosa,
Co-chairperson of CTGP; Richie Miller.       Facilitator: none.

 

*         Rock and Roll Show: Rickie Miller will organize a show to take
place in Willimantic, to be a fund raiser for CTGP.

 

*         CT Green Time news will be restarted via website. Chris Reilly
will get the URL name for CTGP. Jane Weston will edit it; Steve Fournier
will be the host; goal is to have a monthly blog newsletter.

 

 

THE FOLLOWING WERE DELETED DUE TO LACK OF ATTENDANCE. 

 

A.      Preliminaries:

1.       (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters;
if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules.

2.       (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, any deletions
or additions.

3.       (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 12-30-08 and
2-24-09  and 3-31-09 SCC meetings.

4.     (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the minutes of the 3-18-09 EC
meeting.

5.     (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from treasurer: Christopher Reilly.

 

B.     Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee.

 

C. Reports:

1. (10-15 minutes): Internal Election Committee: official report from all
the members of the Internal Elections committee (David Bedell, Christopher
Reilly, Steve Fournier and Richard Duffee) regarding the official results of
the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual Meeting. 

a) The five (5) people elected to be CTGP representatives to the GPUS.

b) The people elected to the various GPUS National committees: Platform
committee, International committee, Ballot Access committee; Dispute
Resolution committee; Diversity committee; Merchandise committee; Eco-action
committee.

 

2.  (10-15minutes): GPUS reports from: a) CTGP representatives: Tim McKee
and Charlie Pillsbury; b) National Committee Members: Steve Fournier,
Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa.

 

3.  (20minutes): Discussion of the short and long term goals of the CTGP as
recommended by the participants at the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual Meeting.

 

4. (5 minutes): Report about the 3-09 court hearing about our lawsuit
against the State of CT regarding the 2005 State of CT Campaign Finance
Reform Laws.

 

5. (2-5 minutes, each):  Chapter reports.

 

6.  (2-5 minutes):  any future CTGP Road Shows? 

 

7. Next SCC meeting is Tuesday, May 26, 2009 (day after Memorial Day
holiday) at Portland Senior Center.

Date and time of the next EC meeting: to be determined.

 

Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots
democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom,
decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future
focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and
gender 

 

 

 

 

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From roseberry3 at cox.net  Fri May 29 23:15:38 2009
From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:15:38 -0400
Subject: {news} Accepted minutes from the 3-18-09 EC meeting of CTGP
Message-ID: <20090530031534.FIZF29053.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>

Accepted minutes from the 3-18-09 EC meeting of CTGP

Location: 74 Tremont Street, Hartford, CT        Time: 7:10pm to 8:30pm

Attendees: co-chairpersons: Steve Fournier, S. Michael DeRosa; Christopher
Reilly, treasurer and Barbara Barry, secretary.

 

Discuss potential short and long term goals of the Green Party of CT: short
term goals: deadline for nominations, mailed ballots deadline. volunteers
for convention committee inclusive of monitors at the 4-25-09 CTGP annual
convention.

 

Develop the agenda for the 3-31-09 SCC meeting as indicated below:

Proposed agenda for the 7PM 3-31-09 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior
Center

Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT  06480

Facilitator:  To Be Determined

 

A.      Preliminaries:

1.       (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters;
if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules.

2.       (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, any deletions
or additions.

3.       (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 12-30-08 and
2-24-09 SCC meetings.

4.     (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the minutes of the 3-18-09 EC
meeting.

5.     (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from treasurer: Christopher Reilly.

 

B.     Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee.

 

C. Reports:

1. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: a) Cliff Thornton, National
Co-chairperson of the GPUS; b) CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie
Pillsbury; c) National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and
S. Michael DeRosa.

 

2.  (20 minutes): Report about the 3-09 court hearing about our lawsuit
against the State of CT regarding the 2005 State of CT Campaign Finance
Reform Laws.

 

3. (15-20 minutes): a) Internal Election Committee: discussion of date,
site, agenda  and any additional volunteers for the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual
Convention.  b) CTGP registered voters may submit their names to run for the
indicated offices, A 100-word statement about why they are running for the
positions needs to be provided to the secretary, Barbara Barry,
(roseberry3 at cox.net) by 9PM 3-31-09 to be considered for the ballot for the
4-25-09 annual convention.  c) Convention Committee: monitors for
attendees/vote count; literature, merchandise, volunteers; food for
fundraising?

 

4. (5 minutes): CT. Secretary of State list of registered Green Party
members in CT:  Mike DeRosa anticipates receiving this list any day now.  It
will be passed on to chapter and for the 4-09 CTGP Annual Convention.  

 

5.  (5 minutes): CTGP literature.

 

6. (5-10 minutes): CTGP potential goals for 2009: a) legislative goals for
petitioning; b) electric rates; c) universal health care.

 

7.  (2-5 minutes, each):  Chapter reports.

 

8.  (2-5 minutes):  any future CTGP Road Shows? 

 

9. Date and place of the next SCC meeting: to be determined.  Date, place
and time of next EC meeting: to be determined.

 

10.  Any additions

 

Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots
democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom,
decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future
focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and
gender 

 

 

 

 

 

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From roseberry3 at cox.net  Fri May 29 23:31:13 2009
From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:31:13 -0400
Subject: {news} Accepted minutes of the 5-19-09 7PM EC meeting. Location: 74
	Tremont Street, Hartford, CT 06105. 
Message-ID: <20090530033109.FXDN29053.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>

Accepted minutes of the 5-19-09 7PM EC meeting. Location: 74 Tremont Street,
Hartford, CT 06105. 

 

Development of the agenda for the 5-26-99 SCC CTGP meeting.

         Proposed agenda for the 7PM 5-26-09 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland
Senior Center

         Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT
06480     Facilitator:  To Be Determined

 

         A.      Preliminaries:

         1.       (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees;
chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules.

         2.       (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, any
deletions or additions.

         3.       (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 12-30-08,
2-24-09, 3-31-09 and 4-28-09 SCC meetings.

         4.     (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the minutes of the
3-18-09 and 5-19-09 EC meetings.

         5.     (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from treasurer:
Christopher Reilly.

 

         B.     Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee.

 

        C. Reports:

        1. (10-15 minutes): Internal Election Committee: official report
from all the members of the Internal Elections   committee      (David
Bedell, Christopher Reilly, Steve Fournier and Richard Duffee)

regarding the official results of the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual Meeting. The five
(5) people elected to be CTGP representatives to the GPUS; people elected to
the various GPUS National committees:

Platform committee, International committee, Ballot Access committee;
Dispute Resolution committee; Diversity committee; Merchandise committee;
Eco-action committee.

 

2.  (10-15minutes): GPUS reports from: a) CTGP representatives: Tim McKee
and Charlie Pillsbury; b) National Committee Members: 

 

3.  (20minutes): Discussion of the short and long term goals of the CTGP as
recommended by the participants at the 4-25-09 CTGP Annual Meeting.

 

4. (10-15 minutes): Discuss the GPUS Annual National Meeting being held from
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 through Sunday, July 26, 2009 at North Carolina
Central University (www.nccu.edu <http://www.nccu.edu/> ) in Durham, NC

 

5. (5-10minutes): Rock and Roll show in Williamtic.

 

6. (10-15minutes): CTGP Fundraising/budget Committee. 

 

7. (2-5 minutes): any future CTGP Road Shows?

 

8.  (2-10 minutes): Report about the 3-09 court hearing about our lawsuit
against the State of CT regarding the 2005 State of CT Campaign Finance
Reform Laws.

 

9. (5-10minute): Literature and petitions about the single payer healthcare.

 

10. (5-10 minutes): CT Green Times News via website: Chris Reilly to get the
internet URL; Jane Weston will edit; Steve Fournier will be host; Goal: a
monthly blog newsletter. 

 

 11. (2-5 minutes, each):  Chapter reports.

       

12. Next SCC meeting=Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at the Portland Senor Center.
Date, place and time of next EC meeting: to be determined.

 

13.  Any additions

 

Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots
democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom,
decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future
focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and
gender. 

 

 

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From timmckee at mail.com  Sat May 30 11:29:51 2009
From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee)
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 10:29:51 -0500
Subject: {news} Nader: McAuliffe Offered Money To Avoid Key States in '04
	Race
Message-ID: <20090530152951.8FF481CE833@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com>

----- Original Message -----

From: "Skip Mendler"
To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org
Subject: [usgp-dx] Nader: McAuliffe Offered Money To Avoid Key States in
'04 Race
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 00:04:12 -0400


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803823.html?hpid=topnews

Nader: McAuliffe Offered Money To Avoid Key States in '04 Race>>
Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader went public Thursday with an
allegation that Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe offered
his
campaign money to stay off the ballot in key states during the 2004
elections -- a disclosure timed to raise questions about McAuliffe's
fitness
for public office.
[...]

He said McAuliffe, who was the Democratic National Committee chairman at
the
time, had offered Nader's campaign an unspecified amount of money,
believed
to be party funds, to spend in 31 states in exchange for an agreement to
withdraw from 19 battleground states where he could potentially hurt
Democrat John Kerry.

The allegation -- which McAuliffe has not disputed -- is the latest
attempt
to suggest that the candidate's lengthy career as a confidant to
President
Bill Clinton and top party fundraiser could now be a political liability.
McAuliffe's aides countered that any effort he made to thwart Nader might
actually play well with party loyalists.

"It looks like Ralph Nader misses seeing his name in the press," said
Elisabeth Smith, McAuliffe's spokeswoman. "Terry's focused on talking
with
Virginians about jobs, not feeding Ralph Nader's ego."
[...]
<<

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From efficacy at msn.com  Sun May 31 09:42:21 2009
From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton)
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 09:42:21 -0400
Subject: {news} Surveillance Of Citizens Bared In Files
Message-ID: <BLU128-DS53878F49BA56C87E9310FD14F0@phx.gbl>

Surveillance Of Citizens Bared In Files
  Jon Lender | Government Watch 
  May 31, 2009
 http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-citizen-surveillance-green-party-0531-column,0,7974920.column<http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-citizen-surveillance-green-party-0531-column,0,7974920.column>
The state police Central Criminal Intelligence Unit set up a surveillance operation to watch Green Party supporters during an Oct. 18, 2006, gubernatorial campaign debate at the studios of WVIT, Channel 30, in West Hartford<http://www.courant.com/topic/us/connecticut/hartford-county/west-hartford-PLGEO100100202260000.topic>.

The police were on the alert for a protest by Green Party supporters who were upset that their candidate for governor, Cliff Thornton, was not being allowed in debates between Democrat John DeStefano<http://www.courant.com/topic/politics/government/john-destefano-PEPLT007444.topic> and incumbent Gov. M. Jodi Rell<http://www.courant.com/topic/politics/jodi-rell-hpp2166.topic>. The Greens had protested a week or so earlier outside a debate in New London<http://www.courant.com/topic/us/connecticut/new-london-county/new-london-(new-london-connecticut)-PLGEO100100206140000.topic>.

But that night, they didn't show up.

"Approximately 15 to 20 supporters of Candidate John DeStefano were observed outside of [the] studios, however, no Green Party supporters were observed. No criminal activity was observed or reported," according to a typed report on the "surveillance operations."


The criminal intelligence unit's surveillance of citizens at a political event was a police operation above and beyond the normal protection provided to Rell by her regular state police security detail.

Until now, the episode had not surfaced publicly. But details showed up in papers filed last week by defendants in a pending federal lawsuit by Ken Krayeske, a free-lance journalist and political activist who was arrested on Jan. 3, 2007, after taking pictures of Rell at her inauguration parade in Hartford.

Krayeske, who acted as Thornton's Green Party campaign director in 2006, claims that he and Green Party members were targeted for surveillance simply because they exercised their rights of free expression. He claims that his individual statements about public issues -- by means including his website, the40yearplan.com -- drew police attention that led to his wrongful arrest.

Krayeske and his lawyers consider the Channel 30 surveillance to be a creepy, dangerous excess by police against citizens.

"They apparently paid officers to surveil a man who is, and was, as harmless as a fly," said Kevin Smith<http://www.courant.com/topic/sports/football/kevin-smith-PESPT008473.topic>, a Krayeske lawyer.

But police say Krayeske had once been arrested in a nonviolent act of civil disobedience, and had displayed what they called recent "disruptive behavior" toward Rell -- including a verbal encounter with her Oct. 14, 2006, at the Apple Festival in Glastonbury<http://www.courant.com/topic/us/connecticut/hartford-county/glastonbury-PLGEO100100202120000.topic> -- which merited monitoring him as one who might break the law.

On Jan. 3, 2007, when Hartford police charged Krayeske at the parade with breach of peace and interfering with police, he was held for 12 hours, with bail set at $75,000.

Then he was released without having to post bail -- after it was too late for him to lead a protest outside Rell's inaugural ball.

Prosecutors dismissed the charges.

Krayeske later filed the suit -- seeking damages for alleged violations of his rights, and requesting that municipal police be ordered not to compile or maintain "lists of political activists."

Krayeske has a penchant for controversy; at a Feb. 21 press conference, he confronted UConn<http://www.courant.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/university-of-connecticut-OREDU0000152.topic> basketball coach Jim Calhoun<http://www.courant.com/topic/sports/basketball/jim-calhoun-hpa2011.topic> on whether he should give up some of his high salary to ease the state budget crisis.

Krayeske is being represented by prominent defense lawyer Norman Pattis, at whose firm Smith works. Pattis has said Krayeske shouldn't have been identified by state police as a "person of interest" to be watched at Rell's inauguration parade. State police prepared a two-page security flier for Hartford police on parade duty, with driver's license photos of him.

Pattis has said Krayeske "was not arrested for taking pictures. He was arrested because he was on a list of potential threats. His innocent conduct took on a sinister cast when viewed through the secret lens of suspicion."

Although Krayeske and his lawyers decry police monitoring of political activists, it was the state police -- represented by the office of Attorney General Richard Blumenthal<http://www.courant.com/topic/politics/richard-blumenthal-hpp4069.topic> -- who filed the Channel 30 surveillance report as an exhibit to show their actions were reasonable.

They noted Krayeske's 2004 misdemeanor arrest at a nonviolent protest at the Groton<http://www.courant.com/topic/us/connecticut/new-london-county/groton-PLGEO100100206060000.topic> submarine base. They said that during the October 2006 Apple Festival parade, he approached Rell and "refused to disengage" until escorted away by a trooper while "screaming" that Rell refused to debate Thornton. They cited a December 2006 Internet blog by Krayeske about a possible protest at the Jan. 3 inaugural ball, noting he used the words "no need to make nice."

State police materials on Krayeske, as well as other people perceived as possible threats to Rell, are now in the court file along with legal motions by both the Hartford and state police for dismissal of the suit against them. To some degree, city and state police point fingers at each other.

For example, Pedro Rosado, a state police detective who walked the parade route, said in an affidavit that he did not know why the Hartford police arrested Krayeske.

Rosado said he saw Krayeske take Rell's picture from a street median near Bushnell Park<http://www.courant.com/topic/travel/bushnell-park-HPL5.topic> and recognized him as one of the "person[s] of interest" in materials froma pre-parade security briefing. He said then-state police Sgt. Mark Cassista "had already made it clear to us that just because an individual was identified as a 'person of interest' was not justification for an arrest." "I saw Krayeske begin to snap pictures. ...

I looked at him and said, 'Good morning.' Krayeske said, 'Good morning' to me." Then several plainclothes Hartford police officers politely led Krayeske to a sidewalk, he said.

"I think Krayeske may have asked what the problem was ... but he appeared to accompany the Hartford police detectives willingly," Rosado said. "I continued to walk with the parade and had no further contact with Krayeske. ... [A]t the conclusion of the parade, I learned via radio ... that Krayeske had been arrested. I do not know what transpired ... but I had not observed any conduct on the part of Krayeske which, in my judgment, constituted an offense for which he could be arrested," he said.

Meanwhile, lawyers for Hartford police say in legal papers that "any criminal history information received by the City of Hartford about Kenneth Krayeske was provided by the Connecticut State police."

A lawyer for three city policemen, Joseph W. McQuade, wrote: "The Hartford Police Department does not compile 'lists' or 'records' regarding 'political activists.' ...

Plaintiff's First Amendment claim appears to be directed against the State Police."

Jon Lender is a reporter on The Courant's investigative desk, with a focus on government and politics. Contact him at jlender at courant.com, 860-241-6524, or c/o The Hartford Courant, 285 Broad St., Hartford, CT 06115.

  
Cliff

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From vogel at ct.metrocast.net  Sun May 31 14:00:00 2009
From: vogel at ct.metrocast.net (vogel at ct.metrocast.net)
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:00:00 -0400
Subject: {news} Obama's GM plan looks like a raw deal.
Message-ID: <3E8018E8544B423AA40055AFAB061A14@JUNKNAME>

Obama's GM plan looks like a raw deal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124355327992064463.html
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