Local 20/20 (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA)

Joining the Running on Empty caucus

DickMcManus — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:11:42 -0800

Joining the ROE caucuses

We have started a Running on Empty (ROE) caucus of Washington State Democrats . We have also started a national ROE caucus. The goal of this caucus is to bring more emphasis by our Party to the coming end of cheap oil and natural gas which will result in an extreme disaster.

To become a member of our caucus we require some more information from you. If you agree or basically agree with the following statements and you are a Democrat, then we will accept you into our caucus.

We request you comment on our below listed platform statements.

1. There are no sustainable energy sources that will rescue us at our current population levels.

2. Population reduction must be a part of any plan to rationally deal with peak oil (the end of cheap oil, natural gas, and coal), atmospheric destabilization, biological/species decline, and natural resource depletion.

3. Absent immediate attention to peak oil, our government and/or political system have no chance whatsoever to react soon enough to help us.

4. We need a US Constitutional amendment defining a corporation as not a natural person and therefore, the rights to equal protection under the 14th Amendment do not apply.

5. Whereas, We the Democratic party) think, based on evidence accumulated since these two elections, that the last two Presidential elections were won by the Democratic Party candidate. In 2000, the US Supreme Court stole the election by stopping the recount and in both 2000 and 2004, the Republican Party stole the election by intentional misconduct and illegal acts, therefore be it resolve that the election laws need to be enforced.

I came up with the idea of this caucus after reading the following books, The Party's Over and Powerdown by Richard Heinberg, The Long Emergency by James Kunstler, and Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann.

Cut and past onto a search engine to visit our websites:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyDemocratCaucusWA

and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyCaucusDemocratsUSA

my N&V newsletters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose
my book (a draft) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/

Sustainable Orcas Island (WA)

A Proper Connection to Food

David Strongman — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:32:53 -0700

Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy - APPLE Shasta

Relocalization - The Power of Community Responses to Energy Issues

Steve Hamm — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:42:49 -0700

Start: 2006-08-17 07:00

End: 2006-08-17 09:00

Teaser:

Julian Darley, internationally recognized bioregional expert, speaks about successful relocalization strategies - ways more and more communities are working positively to reduce and eventually eliminate community fossil fuel dependence.

Contact email:
local2020@olympus.net

Local 20/20 (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA)

"An Inconvenient Truth", actions you can take

Wildman — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:00:12 -0700

Turn the Tide
Turn the Tide is an innovative program that Americans are using to make a difference for our environment. Turn the Tide offers nine simple actions almost anyone can take and then instantly shows the positive impact of each reported action. Log on to www.newdream.org/truth You can also print the following flyer and hand it out to people leaving the theater: http://www.newdream.org/truth_flyer.pdf

Roderick Wilde

Local 20/20 (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA)

Lobbying The City Government to Join The Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition

Wildman — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:42:47 -0700

Hi Folks, I am new here. My name is Roderick Wilde and I am the Director of Port Townsend based Citizens for Rideable Communities (CRC), www.rideablecommunities.org. I would like to see if there is any interest in lobbying the local City government to become a member of The Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition, www.pugetsoundcleancities.org. For those of you not familar with this organization here is their statement from their home page: "The Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition (PSCCC) is a voluntary, public/private partnership that works to advance the region's environmental and public health, energy security and economic development by promoting policies and practices that reduce petroleum consumption in transportation." I am sure that many of you who are reading this are currently using petroleum products in their daily life. There will come a time when you will not be able to afford to have many of these things in your life. I personally feel this is a very good organization to support. So far Seattle, Kirkland, Olympia, Tacoma, Lacey and Everett are members as well as Jefferson County Transit. I would love to hear your thoughts. We at CRC just joined.

Local 20/20 (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA)

Local 20/20 General Meeting

Steve Hamm — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:27:18 -0700

Start: 2006-05-26 12:00

End: 2006-05-26 14:00

Teaser:
Local 20/20 hosts its next brown-bag lunch meeting Friday, May 26, noon-2:00 at the Masonic Hall (behind the Post Office) in Port Townsend. Contact email:
debstin@hotmail.com

Local 20/20 (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA)

Should County Governments establish an ordinance giving first preference to local businesses?

Steve Hamm — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:33:24 -0700

INTRODUCTION: This forum subject is offered as a topic for discussion to determine if people think creating a County ordinance giving preference to local businesses in the competitive bidding process is an important issue.

Local 20/20 (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA)

May Local 20/20 Steering Committee Mtg

Steve Hamm — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:38:21 -0700

Start: 2006-05-16 18:00

End: 2006-05-16 21:00

Teaser:

This month's SC meeting will be on Tuesday, May 16th at 6 PM in Port townsend, WA. For more information send email debstin@hotmail.com

Contact email:
debstin@hotmail.com

Local 20/20 (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA)

Local 20/20 (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA)

Steve Hamm — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:27:20 -0800