[Sdalliance] new action committee? (was Re: CRSD Outreach and SDRAH meeting Friday)

Bo Elder belder76 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 11:57:36 PDT 2017 

update fyi:

I confirmed the Brown Building 10-11:30am Sunday (before CRSD Delegate
Council meeting) and invited people who told me they were interested in
continuing sustained anti-fascist, anti-racist organizing.  I expect 10-20.

Bo

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Bo Elder <belder76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I reread the notes and looks like we agreed to have me, Eric, Jose,
> Monty, Yesi, and maybe Lydia as an ad hoc committee *separate* from the
> outreach work.  I had gotten the 2 confused.
>
> As of now I have 15 people from the past several weeks' organizing
> interested in attended a meeting to continue sustained anti-fascist,
> anti-racist organizing at 10am Sunday.  Almost all of them not yet  members
> of any organization.  I suggested a meeting length of 90 min.
>
> Would Eric, Jose, Monty, Yesi, and maybe Lydia be able to join us?  I
> figure we can work out with these 15 what kind of work we see a need for
> and then create an open committee proposal to submit to CRSD.
>
> Do folks have ideas about *where* we can meet?  Would it be possible to
> get the Brown Building open earlier?
>
> Thanks and solidarity,
>
> Bo
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Bo Elder <belder76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> P.S. it might make sense to limit the committee to *domestic* state and
>> vigilante violence.  I feel like an anti-war committee might be another
>> thing...
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Bo Elder <belder76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Monty and Yesi for your work.  I think it would make sense to
>>> propose a committee tomorrow at SDRAH for
>>>
>>> *responding rapidly* *to*
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> *keep events safe* (specifically but not necessarily exclusively) *from*
>>>
>>> *state* and *vigilante* violence
>>>
>>> in the way that we did on Sunday.  I think it makes sense to say that
>>> we'd love to have such a committee become a part of CRSD, but unless people
>>> are very interested in getting into such details tomorrow, save discussion
>>> of details and process etc for a future meeting of such a committee.  We
>>> can have any very interested people join the two of you in the writing
>>> process this weekend.  How does that sound?
>>>
>>> Thanks and solidarity,
>>>
>>> Bo
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Monty Kroopkin <mkroopkin at juno.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So then we need somebody still to put together something for the sdrah
>>>> meeting Friday evening ?
>>>>
>>>> *We could propose something like this excerpt from the event call, as a
>>>> statement of purpose for a new CRSD Open Campaign Committee:*
>>>>
>>>> "We have seen fascists and racists show their faces in the past few
>>>> months: at the rally in Huntington Beach a few months ago, at the
>>>> Impeachment March at the beginning of July, and then we all saw the horror
>>>> of the hoods-off “Unite the Right” Rally in Charlottesville, and the deadly
>>>> aftermath. Enough is enough! We will not stand by while fascists, Klansman,
>>>> Nazis, Identitarians, the Proud Boys, and the Aryan Brotherhood walk in our
>>>> streets, and intimidate, harass, belittle, or hurt peaceful protesters. We
>>>> will come together and unite our movements against the racists and fascists
>>>> who seek to divide us, and belittle and destroy our culture of inclusivity,
>>>> empathy, and tolerance.
>>>>
>>>> "...San Diego will stand up to hate and bigotry! We, as a diverse
>>>> community of working people, people of color, Indiginous People, immigrants
>>>> and refugees, gay, bi, and trans people, concerned parents and students,
>>>> Jews, Muslims, Christians, and people of all faiths, and centrists,
>>>> liberals, and leftists alike -- we will not allow violent right-wing
>>>> fascists, Nazis, the Klan, or any of their horrible ilk take over our
>>>> cities, towns, bars, places of worship, or campuses."
>>>>
>>>> We could share the definition of our open campaign committees, from our
>>>> CRSD structure document, along with our mission statement ? Not sure how
>>>> much detail about CRSD docs makes sense for this meeting. Probably not all
>>>> our docs at this meeting?
>>>>
>>>> mk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi All:
>>>>
>>>> I'll be working on a draft letter this weekend, Justin was to compile
>>>> docs to make a packet. I'll send out the draft as a google doc this
>>>> weekend!
>>>>
>>>> In Solidarity,
>>>>
>>>> Yesi
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Monty Kroopkin <mkroopkin at juno.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> correction: ad hoc committee for outreach proposal is Justin, Yesi,
>>>>> Lace, Monty.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Per the meeting notes, Yesi, Lace, me, you? were to work on the
>>>>> outreach proposal. I would like us to meet this week.
>>>>>
>>>>> Assuming that the sdrah crowd mostly wants to stick together and
>>>>> mostly wants to do more similar actions (big assumptions) then it ought to
>>>>> be simple to adapt the sdrah announcement of the purpose of the rally/march
>>>>> to form a committee proposal.
>>>>>
>>>>> If there arose any opposition to sdrah voting as a bloc to form such a
>>>>> committee, we might want to form it anyway, and invite whoever does like it.
>>>>>
>>>>> mk
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Bo Elder <belder76 at gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:44:32 -0700
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Sdalliance] CRSD Outreach and SDRAH meeting Friday
>>>>> To: Monty Kroopkin <mkroopkin at juno.com>
>>>>> Cc: SDalliance at lists.resist.ca
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this is exactly the right thing to do, Monty.  Maybe we can
>>>>> write up a short pitch for the SDRAH crowd that could double as a proposal
>>>>> to charter an Open Committee at the next CRSD delegate meeting?  Who was it
>>>>> that was gonna work on the proposal (I think I was one of the ppl)?
>>>>>
>>>>> Bo
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Monty Kroopkin <mkroopkin at juno.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It won't be time enough for CRSD to approve our next outreach
>>>>>> campaign, before the follow-up meeting this Friday, for the San Diego Rally
>>>>>> Against Hate. However, our orgs were well represented in the sdrah planning
>>>>>> meetings. So, do we want to make some effort to state our case for the
>>>>>> "next move" of the sdrah folks to logically be to consider affiliation with
>>>>>> CRSD? propose that they make sdrah into a CRSD Open Campaign Committee? OR
>>>>>> do we sit it out and wait for the next time we have a good opportunity to
>>>>>> grow CRSD?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: "Monty Kroopkin" mkroopkin at juno.com
>>>>>> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:25:12 GMT
>>>>>> To: SDalliance at lists.resist.ca
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Sdalliance] CRSD Notes and Next Meeting
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Outreach task will have a meeting this week?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: justin hewgill <jhewgill at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 18:49:02 -0700
>>>>>> To: SDalliance at lists.resist.ca
>>>>>> Subject: [Sdalliance] CRSD Notes and Next Meeting
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our next meeting is on the 10th of September. Please find our notes
>>>>>> from our prior meeting attached.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> J
>>>>>>
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