{news} Proposed agenda for the 9-29-09 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center, at the front entrance

[B Barry]

Proposed agenda for the 7PM 9-29-09 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior
Center, at the front entrance

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 6-30-09 and
7-28-09 SCC meetings.

4.     (2 minutes): Review and acceptance of the minutes of the 7-21-09 and
9-22-09 EC meetings.

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

 

B.     Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee.

 

C. Reports:

1.  (10-15minutes): GPUS reports from: a) CTGP representatives: Tim McKee
and Charlie Pillsbury; b) National Committee Members: U. S. Proposal 413.

 

2. (20 minutes): Green Party of CT won in the 8-28-09 U. S. Federal decision
regarding: Green Party of CT, Libertarian Party, S. M. DeRosa, ACLU,et al vs
Garfield, State of CT, et. al. The judge indicated that the CT 2005 Campaign
Finance Reform Laws/regulations violated our rights under the 1st Amendment
and the 14th Amendment of the U. S. Constitution and declared the entire
2005 Campaign Finance Reforms: unconstitutional. The State of CT requested
and received from Judge Underhill a stay until there is an expedited appeal
of the case by the U. S. Appellate Court. 

Here is the URL for the Green Party Lawsuit:
http://www.acluct.org/downloads/GreenPartyDecisionAug27.pdf

 

3. (20minutes): Discussion whether or not the Green Party of CT wants to
request damages regarding our lawsuit: Green Party of CT, et. al vs.
Garfield, et.al about CT's 2005 Campaign Finance Reform laws. 

 

4. (5-10 minutes): Sending out a fundraising letter/postcard  re: the Green
Party of CT's initiation (with the ACLU, Libertarian Party, et al) of the
lawsuit against the State of CT and Garfield, et.al.

This could include a list of current candidates of the Green Party of CT and
the 2010 CT Green Party Initiative. 

 

5. (5-10minutes): Status of Allan Brison's campaign for reelection for New
Haven Board of Alderman: Allan urgently needs donations from around the
state if he is to have the resources he'll need to hold his seat and to show
good numbers when the first financial report comes out. The maximum
contribution is $250.00 and there is a donation form that must be filled
out. 100 donations of $50.00 each would give Allan a fighting chance.
Brochures, lawn signs and door hangers, plus mailings cost money. Please
mail a check of any size you can afford to:  The Committee to Re-Elect Allan
Brison for Alderman Charlie Pillsbury, Treasurer:  274 Saint Ronan St., New
Haven, CT 06511    Please include your address, fax or email info so we can
send you the form to sign, or you can include your check with the form you
can download from:
http://www.allanbrison.net/2009ContributionFormforBrisonforAlder.PDF.

You can DONATE ONLINE via http://www.allanbrison.net
<http://www.allanbrison.net/> .  Patricia Kane, Campaign Manager.

 

6.  (10-15minutes): Status of other CTGP candidates for the 11-2-09
elections

 

6.  (10minutes): 2010 Green Party candidates for the 2010 CT Green Party
Initiative and potential candidates.

 

7.  (10-15 minutes): Endorsement of the Saturday, 10-17-09 March and Rally
at Copley Square, Boston, MA from 1:00PM  regarding: bringing our troops
home, now, from Afghanistan, Pakistand and Iraq; jobs; health care, home and
the environment: not the military or Wall Street.  Current Endorsers: United
for Justice and Peace, Stop the Wars Coalition; New England United; American
Friends Service Committee; Massacusetts Peace Action; Progressive Democrats
of America; Rhode Island Mobilization Committee  to Stop War and Occupation;
A.N.S.W.E.R.; Code Pink; Veterans For Peace; Smedley Butler Brigade;
Socialist Party; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom;
Connecticut United for Peace; International Socialist Organization; Boston
Coalition for Palestinian Rights; Durham, New Hamsphire SDS; Dorchester
People for Peace: Merrimack Valley People for Peace; Chelsea Uniting Against
the War; Milton for Peace; Newton Diagogues on Peace and Ware; East Bay (RI)
Citizen for Peace.      For transportation from CT, flyers or to donate
money, contact: CTUP and CTSAW via Dan at 617/823-4068 or
dancetothepiper at gmail.com; visit   wwe.ctup.8k.com

 

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

 

9.  (5 minutes): Bundles of GPUS Green Pages newspaper can be acquired via
gpinfo at gp.og or P.O. Box 57065 Washington, D.C. 20037, Phone: 202/ 319-7191
or toll-free (US) 866/41GREEN. Cost is 35cent/each. Or it is  now on-line at
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog/  

    

10. (5-10 minutes): GPUS is requesting that the Green Party of CT "forgive"
the donations to the GPCT.

 

11. (5minutes): CT  Green Times News via website/internet.

 

12. (2-5 minutes, each):  Chapter reports: Central; Fairfield, Greater
Hartford, New London, New Haven; Southeast.

 

13. Next SCC meeting=Tuesday, October 27, 2009 SCC meeting at the Portland
Senior Center.   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,
decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future
focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and
gender

 

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