[R-G] Invitation to Disability Caucus of Green Party + Welcome all new members :)

Wed Aug 15 01:49:44 MDT 2007

Dear All,

Good Day. Very cool posts and responses, thanx! I hope you and yours are
well and will continue to be.  I've been an advocate/activist on all
issues, et al, for 32 years of my 48; please, do what you can for
humanity. Dylan Thomas' poem line comes to mind, "...and death (murder)
shall have no dominion..."; as others might say, "we, the people...", can
make it so!

"Invitation to Join the Disability Caucus of the Green Party

The Disability Caucus is an Identity Caucus of the United States Green
Party.
Once we are accredited, we will have the same status as state parties do
within
the Green Party (except that we can not cast a vote for our presidential
nominee). There are several other Identity Caucuses, including Black,
Latino,
Women, and Lavender.

Verified Members:

Please join us by becoming a verified member aka a voting member. We need
100
verified members, spread out over at least 15 states, in order to be
accredited
as a Caucus. As of January 2006, we have 91 people in 21
states.

To be a verified member you must meet the following requirements:

1. Be registered to vote as a Green in your US State; OR (if your state
does not have a Green Party or you are not eligible to vote) be connected
to the Green Party in some tangible way (fairly flexible).
2. Be a person with a disability. We may allow some non-disabled voting
members but so far have not made that decision.
3. Agree to follow major discussions and participate in votes.
4. Send your information to our Membership Committee at
greencaucus at .... We will need your legal name, snail mail
address, email address, phone number, date of birth, connection to
the Green Party (are you registered Green?), and if you are disabled
or a friend of the disabled community. This information is for
internal Green Party use only and will not be made public. If you are
joining as an adjunct member (a nonvoting friend of the Caucus),
please let the membership committee know. If you aren't sure if you
want to become a verified member, just let them know that too.

Adjunct Members:

If you do not qualify as a verified (voting) member but want to be part of
the
Caucus, we welcome you to join the mailing list and participate in the
discussions. Please let the Membership Committee know who you are and that
you
are an adjunct member. We require your real name and a brief description
of why
you are here. Adjunct members include people living outside the United
States,
those whose hearts are Green but who are not part of the Green Party at
this
time, and people who are not themselves disabled (or do not qualify if we
offer
expanded membership).

Disabled Greens Mailing List:

Our discussions and votes take place on the Disabled Greens mailing
list. If possible, please join this list. We average 1-4 messages a day,
but this can vary a lot. The list is to discuss Caucus business and
related
activism work only. We are not a disability support group.

To join the Disabled Greens mailing list:

Please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disabledgreens/
Or send email to disabledgreens-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
For more information, contact Cyndi Norman at cyndi at ...

Disabled Greens Votes Mailing List:

This is an announcement list for official caucus business only (no
discussion). This is where votes and other important items will go. Only
the list moderators can post. Nothing will go here that won't also be on
Disabled Greens. If you do not have the energy to keep up with the regular
Disabled Greens list, you can join Disabled Greens Votes to make sure you
won't miss anything important.

If you join this list, please also join Disabled Greens as at least a
Special Notices subscriber so you will be able to read posts on the
webpage
(or switch back to receiving posts) when you wish to follow a particular
discussion.

To join the Disabled Greens Votes mailing list:

Please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disabledgreensvotes
Or send email to disabledgreens-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
For more information, contact Cyndi Norman at cyndi at ...

Non-Internet Members:

We recognize that some potential members will not be able to have internet
access, either for financial reasons or due to their disability. We
encourage everyone who can get internet access (it's free at the public
library) to take advantage of it, but if you can't, we would still like to
have you be a member of this Caucus.

To join as a non-internet member, please use one of the following contact
people and give them all the information for verification (see list
above). You will be able to choose phone, TTY, or snail mail contact,
though it will make it easier if you are able to do more than one. You
will
be assigned another member (if you don't already know one) who will keep
you up to date on discussions and send in a proxy for your votes.

We are still working out these details so please be patient.

Contact People:

Email (mailing lists, website, general questions):

Cyndi Norman at cyndi at ...

Email (membership committee and verification questions):

Erica Freeman at greencaucus at ...

Voice Telephone:

Heidi Friedman at 617-666-7816 (Eastern Time). Noon-8:00 pm.

TTY Telephone:

Sharon Wachsler at (413) 625-9820 (Eastern Time). TTY calls only. Includes
TTY answering machine. Please allow time for me to switch over from voice
to
TTY.

Snail Mail:
Green Party Disability Caucus, attn: Heidi
c/o Havurat Shalom
113 College Ave, Somerville MA 02144

Website:
http://immuneweb.org/dg/

The Green Party Disability Caucus has several associated mailing lists.
Please join as many as you like.

Caucus Business List:
Disabled Greens
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disabledgreens/

This is the main list for the Caucus. If you are a Caucus member you
should
join this list (if you do not wish to get all the mail, join as a "special
notices" subscriber and then join the Announcements/Votes list so you have
access to files and archives).

Caucus Business is the only topic for this list. Everything else is off
topic
and needs to be directed elsewhere.

Caucus Announcement List:
Disabled Greens Votes
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disabledgreensvotes/

This is an adjunct list for Caucus members. If you can not keep up with
the
volume of the main list, join this one (but be sure to join the main list
too as
a "special notices" subscriber).

Only moderators can post here. Volume is very low. All votes and important
business will be announced here. No discussion.

Disability News List:
Disabled Greens News
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/   

This list is intended to take all the related but off-topic posts. Here is
the
place for chat, discussions that aren't strictly Caucus business, and
forwards
of Green or Disability Activism. If you have something you want to share
with
the Caucus, and it's not Caucus business, go ahead and post it here."

What do you think? From the heart in the heart of the heartland.  Some
groups I moderate:
Disabled Greens News and discussion, home page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/   ,
Abuse in Therapy, homepage:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AbuseinTherapy/  
Diffabled, Mental Health, all related issues, advocacy, and professionals:
Invite link: http://passport.care2.net/invite.html?g=880     Homepage:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/Diffabled_MentalHealth_Action
reality's 360 page and blog :) http://360.yahoo.com/jamesmnordlund   
reality's My Space page, blog :) http://myspace.com/jamesmnordlund 
"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting
which is heard but not seen." ~ Leonardo da Vinci  Enjoy an estival eve'
as you can. Copy, share, as you will. Lest "we" forget, if you don't
exercise responsibility, its Siamese twin sister, freedom, will wither
like a muscle, as well. Sadly, now, it first needs to be exorcized, before
its exercised. Viva la evolution, viva Green Party!

Matutinally Yours,         james m nordlund        reality (aja) :)

For those interested "of or pertaining to the morning, day: relating to or
happening in the morning or in the early part of the day (formal),
(Mid-16th century, from late Latin matutinalis, from Matuta, goddess of
the dawn.)" Music is life's song accompanying the abundance of joy's
Spring. I look forward to hearing from you.  Goodbye. 

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