FCCPR
General Assembly
Sunday
May 19th 2-4pm
Guiding
Star Grange
401 Chapman St., Greenfield MA.
Immediately
after the General Assembly there will be a brief meeting of the
Single-Payer Task Force and an
orientation meeting for people going to the Democratic Party caucuses this spring, which will
elect delegates to the DP convention in the fall.
Videos
from the Municipal Socialism Conference
Over 135 people attended the conference that was held on March 30. Here are videos of most of the workshops that were held and the keynote address by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, which was the closing portion of the conference.
Here
are links to videos of some
of the workshops held at the Municipal Socialism conference.
Solar
Power Workshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKN__2lI0A0
Public Banking Workshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA9wggp-ff0
Public Broadband Workshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyZBJuglC5E
Housing Workshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEk4hbupqw Housing
Keynote
Talk by Gianpaolo Baiocchi:
https://youtu.be/rkHGYSAHtBc
Worker
Owned Coops Workshop:
https://youtu.be/Tc8lNZ3Hgh0
Local
Elections
As
was announced at our last General Assembly, Sheila Gilmour a member
of the FCCPR coordinating committee is running for Mayor of
Greenfield. At that GA, the members adopted some modifications to
the FCCPR candidate endorsement policy, that outlined the endorsement
procedures for Town elections. Greenfield members of FCCPR have
selected an endorsement committee which will soon begin interviewing
candidates for the municipal elections in Greenfield.
3rd
Annual Franklin County Pride March & Rally
Saturday, June
15, 2019 at 12 PM – 3 PM
Greenfield
Franklin
County Continuing the Political Revolution is a sponsor of the march.
Changing
the State Flag & Seal
Thanks
to Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution’s Susan Triolo
– who introduced the warrant article at Sunderland Annual Town
Meeting this evening with a brilliant speech in support of changing
the Massachusetts Flag and Seal, and offered a powerful pacifist
rebuttal of a patriot who rose to defend the continued use of the
Latin motto on the Seal (By the Sword we seek peace, but peace only
under liberty) the town of Sunderland voted 46 to 17 to support
H.2776 / S.1877 and change the flag and seal.
Racial
Justice Rising’s Scott Reed was instrumental in gathering the
required signatures to get the article on the town meeting warrant
and in organizing community support. He and Susan did a fantastic job
– and Sunderland vote will be heard.
FCCPR Table at Farmers Market
It’s that time of year again. On May 25th, there will be an FCCPR table at the Greenfield Farmers Market. Copies of the Greenfield FCCPR “Platform for Greenfield”, along with other FCCPR material will be distributed. If you would like to have a FCCPR table at your Farmers Market please let us know and we can supply you with material.