Pacific Greens Portland Metro

12 Jan 2010

Agenda for PGP State Convention

Pacific Green Party of Oregon, State Nominating Convention

Metanoia Peace House, 18th And NE Tillamook, Portland, OR

16 January 2010,  Agenda

1.  9:00 -- 9:30 am: Introductions

2.  9:30 -- 10:00 am: Committee Memberships

   Report by Seth Woolley on any vacancies, Nominations to fill, any Election(s)

3.  10:00 -- 11:30 am: Policy Discussion and Action by Convention

   What limits do we place to financial support from unions to Green Party candidates for elective office?

4.  11:30 -- 11:45 am: Nomination of candidate(s) to elective office in the 2010 election

Lunch Break noon to 1:30 pm: Pizza and other comestibles

5.  1:30 -- 2:00 pm: Address by Ed Garren, candidate for Portland City Commissioner,

   (endorsed by the Portland Metro Chapter of the Pacific Green Party)

6.  2:15 -- 2:45 pm: "Democratic Party Commitment to Endless War" by Michael Meo

   Obama repeats false justifications for Afghan War in Cairo and in Stockholm

7.  3:00 -- 3:30 pm: "Abolition of Corporate Personhood: A Genuine Reform Natural to the Green Party,"

   by Helen Umberger, Volunteer Co-ordinator, Portland Metro Chapter

7 Nov 2009

The Beginning of An Alliance

One result of State Senator Rod Monroe's appearance as a speaker at last night's weekly meeting of the Portland Metro Chapter was his pledge to help our party get bills introduced into the state legislature, on subjects which are vital to our future electoral chances.

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19 Oct 2009

Clackamas County Greens Meeting

Clackamas County Greens

Meeting in Oregon City

Tuesday October 20th from 7 to 9 pm at "Super Torta" 710 Washington St, Oregon City (Across from 7/11 at 7th and Washington).

Come meet other Pacific Green Party members of the Clackamas County Chapter. Enjoy FREE chips and salsa, make new friends, discuss your Green vision and share your greatest political concerns: city, county, regional, state and federal.

Plenty of parking. Tri-Met: Take either the 32 or 33 line.

For info: Call Chris: 503.443.5801 or Kathy: 503.303.8101

19 Oct 2009

Chomsky On Vietnam

A couple of weeks ago Noam Chomsky, whose works need no introduction from me, addressed a conference co-sponsored by the Pacific Green Party in Portland.  He spoke about a variety of topics, and ranged across the world: but he spoke of something close to my heart when he analyzed the American War in Vietnam.

According to Chomsky, clarity about the causes and the outcome of the Vietnam War is "highly important" to the situation in which we find ourselves today; not least because of active efforts by the corporate elite which directs the political fortunes of the United States to revise history into a romance hardly recognizable to those who lived through it.

I lived through that war of choice, that aggressive war against a country which was no threat to the United States, a war begun under a Democratic President, continued under his successor, and broadened and made even more brutal by the Republican President who signed a truce agreement that ended active American involvement.  I spent two years in federal penitentiary, refusing the draft, during that invasion and bombardment of South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.  As we today do the same to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and possibly Iran, I found myself struck with the insight Chomsky offered on this nation's foreign policy choices of forty years ago.

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18 Oct 2009

Senator Rod Monroe on Fusion and Electoral Reform

State Senator Rod Monroe (D) will be addressing the Metro Chapter of the Pacific Green Party on the topic of the recently passed cross-endorsement law and other election reforms.

This event is free and open to the public and takes place at one of our regular weekly chapter meetings at the usual time and place:

The Bipartisan Cafe

7901 SE Stark St, Portland

November 5th, 2009, 7 p.m.

12 Oct 2009

Think Globally: Act Locally

At Thursday night's meeting of the Portland Metro Chapter, Helen Umberger proposed a campaign to deny legal personhood to corporations within the city limits.  This radical proposal encapsulates in one idea what the Green Party, within our community and throughout the nation, can do to free us from the fetters of corporate control of political power.

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27 Sep 2009

Notes of a Political Life, 2

Not the least of the products of a state convention such as yesterday's in Corvallis is the conversation among the participants, occasionally rising to a certain degree of intensity, on political theory and practice.

In the car driving south from Portland on Interstate Five were Seth Woolley, state party secretary, Chris Henry, executive director of the Portland Metro chapter, Kathy Bushman, former state co-ordinating committee member, and David Osborne.  And me.

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27 Sep 2009

Notes of a Political Life

The Party held its fall 2009 state convention today, in a building run by the Episcopal Church next to the Oregon State University campus.

Barbara Ellis, of the Southside group of the Democracy for America, laid out for the Greens the prospects for a united choice of all progressive Oregon third parties: in particular the chair of the Independent Party, Linda Williams, has said she supports the idea.

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22 Sep 2009

Open letter Regarding Trout Hiring

( See the press release at http://pacificgreens.org/node/81 )

Secretary of State Kate Brown:

I write to you regarding your recent hiring of Stephen Trout as the new Director of Elections.  I have a few questions, but first, I will provide the context in which my questions originate.

A number of people have brought to my attention Mr. Trout's history as an elections administrator.  Frankly, the information, which can now be found online, is disturbing.

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11 Sep 2009

HempStalk 2009, Sept, 12-13

We will have a table at this event, and need volunteers to staff it!

Please contact Chris Henry at ( critter at riseup dot net ) if you can help staff the table.

At the very least stop by and say hi!

http://www.hempstalk.org/

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