September 28, 2018 Newsletter

Jo Comerford at FCCPR General Assembly

October 28th 2pm – 4pm

Montague Common Hall, 34 Main St.
Montague

We are pleased that  Jo Comerford, our next State Senator, will be in attendance to talk and answer questions that we have.

We will be organizing for people to stand out on Nov. 6th and pass out information on the 4 ballot questions that FCCPR has endorsed.

The Climate task force is asking that we endorse the “Stand for Forests” program. We will be
discussion and voting on this at the General Assembly. For more information please go to
https://stand4forests.org/endorse-the-platform/

For more information here is the video, 17-minute TED TALK, “US Forests and Our Climate
Emergency”.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCu3rRZUjI

There will also be information on how to help with the national “Swing Left” program.

Labor Schmooze

The first annual Labor Schmooze organized by FCCPR was a great success.
Union folks gathered at the office and spent time schmoozing and
eating. Attending wereFranklin County union folks from the Massachusetts Teachers
Association, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers Union,
United Food & Commercial Workers Union & the Carpenters
Union. Hopefully this will be an annual event.

Tahirah
Wins Franklin County!

By a margin of 1,631 votes to 1,396, Tahirah Amatul-Wadud won Franklin County in the race
to represent the constituents of CD-1 in Congress. Richie Neal, however, won the Primary election. FCCPR members were the first to endorse Tahirah Amatul-Wadud for Congress. Our endorsement meant that we would put considerable time and energy into her campaign and we did just that. Our work resulted in national endorsements of Tahirah by Indivisble and Our Revolution, and most importantly, victory in Franklin County. David Greenberg, of FCCPR, stated: “We clearly have started to build a movement of progressive people in CD1 who want more out of their congressional representative than we’re getting”. FCCPR thanks all of you who helped move this campaign forward.

Vote on Office Use

The results of the vote on allowing candidates of the Democratic Party that were not endorsed by FCCPR use our office was 82-12 in favor.

State Rep. Paul Mark will be in contact with us if they need to use the office.

Thanks to all who took part in the vote.

Peoples Party Oct 13th

FCCPR office, 345 Main St Greenfield.  3 – 5 pm

Come Discuss the four Ballot Questions that we will vote on Nov. 6th

FCCPR is co-hosting this event with Jobs with Justice  Light
refreshments will be provided

Canvassing in Greenfield for Yes on Question 3

Sunday Sept. 29th 10 – 3 pm . Meet at FCCPR Office, 345 Main St Greenfield

For
more information please contact Ken Eisenstein at
kheisenstein@gmail.com

FCCPR TV Show

All of the “Democracy Here” episodes can be found at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYffEkQm3tP7GuqfhSVpIqw

Minutes from last FCCPR General Assembly  

August 26, 2018

1.  Membership and Finances Report – Dave Cohen reported that we have $2,037.00  in
our bank account and $2,151.00 in our rent account.

Patti Williams made a fundraising pitch and asked for some help with
fundraising so we can maintain and expand our programming.

2.   Announcements

  • FCCPR Chorus starting up – Contact Patti Williams,
    (    mspwilliams007@gmail.com), if you are interested
  • FCCPR Cookbook – Well underway!  Still looking for recipes and
    stories – send them to Ferd Wulkan (ferdwulkan@gmail.com)
  • Meeting about Greenfield Politics 9/16 – Dave Cohen explained that CPR wants
    to intervene as effectively as possible in next year’s Greenfield
    elections, ideally running a slate of candidates committed to a
    platform agreed upon by CPR members.  The meeting will be on
    Sunday, Sept. 16, from 1:00 – 3:00 PM at the CPR office.
  • Single Payer Work – Judy Atkins explained that thanks to CPR members’ and
    others’ activism, single payer will be on the ballot in the 1st
    Franklin and 2nd Berkshire districts.  We have a new brochure
    and members took copies to hand out on Primary Day and other times.

3.   Primary Election


Members took our newly printed voting cards and single payer brochures, and
signed up for canvassing, phone banks, poll work.  We also collected names of people who could give voters rides to the polls, and are passing those along to the campaigns of our endorsed
candidates.

4.   New Greenfield Library  


Paul Jablon gave a detailed presentation about the need for a new library
in Greenfield, as well as the politics surrounding the
decision-making.  After questions, the membership voted
unanimously to endorse Greenfield building the new library.

5.    Indivisible has offered us a training on organizing and political work with Jeff
Rousset.


There was not sufficient interest to accept the offer at this time.

6.   Open Discussion consisted primarily of various announcements.

The meeting adjourned at 3 PM so that pairs of people could go canvassing
for Jo Comerford in Greenfield for an hour.  3 pairs went out.