PAA General Monthly Meeting Minutes Thursday, December 14, 2006
Submitted by C. Lee Taylor on January 1, 2007 - 4:29pm. :: Meeting Minutes
PAA General Meeting Thursday, December 14, 2006
2929 Richmond Ave, 6th Floor, Rm. 6
Convened: 7:10 p.m.
- Aleithia
- Art Browning
- Bill Crosier
- Bob Carter
- Carondelet Dember
- Charlie Mauch
- CLT
- David Courtney
- Don Cook
- Hardy Loe
- Ivan Espinosa
- Jon Axford
- Joseph Kaye
- Kathy Kain
- Kris Graham
- Lee Demers
- Lee Loe
- Margaret Davis
- Nebeil al-Oboudi
- Rochelle Brachman
- Ron Graham
- Sarah Gonzales
- Willie Simmons
Activism, Committee Action Group reports, Discussion/Updates
- Book Exchange: Charlie Mauch proposes we explore the book exchange system Carole Keene participates in; he’ll find out more and report back via email
- Election Updates: Democrat Ciro wins District 23 special election against Henry Bonilla; South Dakota US senator recovering from aneurysm
- Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference – Black & Brown Unite; great conference and opportunity to network; Bill got permission to have PAA and KPFT tables; lot’s of material that drew crowd; Angela Davis gave powerful plenary talk; other talks and workshops great; discussion about comfort/discomfort attending conference as white minority amongst people of color; Jaribu Hill (conference coordinator) brought incredible energy/spirit
- “We are the dream” Silent March Saturday, Jan. 13 scheduled as antidote to highly militarized MLK March planned for following Monday, Jan. 15; Veterans for Peace participating in the 13th parade; consensus to participate in 13th march; proposal & consensus to create flier for distribution at MLK parade with both PAA and HCGP coordinating the flier and identified as sponsored; Proposal and consensus to create and circulate impeachment petition at parade; check out WeAreTheDream.org to register; MLK Blvd, staging at Beekman culminating at MacGregor Park
- Flier committee: Don Cook; Ivan Espinoza, Lee Demers; Bill Crosier; Nebeil al-Odoubi ; Don Cook
- 3000th military casualty and civilian loss of life memorial Jan 14-21 – consensus to participate and host one of the evening memorials
- Impeach Petition Committee: Doc Cook; I van; Willie; Lee D; Bob C; Art B; Joseph Kaye; Bill Crosier; Ron & Kris Graham
- Consensus to hold next meeting Thursday, Jan. 11, at The Havens Center, 1827 W. Alabama between Shepherd and Dunlavy; parking across the street and at St. Stephen’s Church; Costs: $25 has large room with tables and chairs and kitchen; Aleithia to explore other venues on West side for subsequent meetings
- Motion to suspend goals & objectives part of agenda until next month’s meeting, Thursday, Jan 11 at The Havens subject to some discussion by folk who came to meeting to discuss 2007 goals and objectives; Motion passed
- Discussion about outreach to representatives who voted against Military Commissions Act (33 senators one of whom was a republican and 100 plus representatives only 7 of which ;
- Next Fourth Friday Flicks Dec. 22 “It’s Worse than You Think” at The Havens
- Proposal to film freeway blogging; last week response’s seemed to mark a new high in positive response (e.g. 3 high school kids joined group; car passengers returned to bridge to participate)
- To be discussed at next meeting: Ending Iraq Occupation; Promoting Peace; Impeachment; Networking to build a stronger progressive alliance; Other goals
- Motion passed to extend meeting for additional 15 minutes to discuss Kucinich campaign
- Proposal made and consensus reached to create planning committee; decided to discuss some planning after Dec. 22 movie night; check out Kucinich.tv to see speeches; animated discussion about 2008 Kucinich campaign; his position on issues; his electability; how to counter media’s studied refusal to cover DK while foisting the candidacies of Clinton and Obama on public; we are the ones we’ve been waiting for;
- Announcements: Aleithia needs help publishing a 3000 word article on Houston air, whose monitoring it; GreenWatch show will feature Bill Crosier; Maria Jimenez; Jenifer Poole; Attend next Harris County Green Party meeting next 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 18 at Central Market located at corner of Westheimer and Weslayen
- Adjourned 9:29 p.m.