FCCPR General Assembly with
Special Guest Jo Comerford
Sunday, Oct. 28, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
Montague Common Hall, 34 Main St., Montague
Click here for directions.
Agenda
1) Financial/membership report
2) Brief presentation on Safe Staffing ballot question 1.
3) Distribution of FCCPR Ballot Question Poll Cards (If you cannot make it to the General Assembly, but would like to distribute the ballot question cards please send an email to info@fccpr.us)
4) 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/
5) Information on Swing Left program
6) Announcement of FCCPR Coordinating Committee elections
7) Jo Comerford, our next State Senator will be present to tell us her plans and answer questions.
8) 4 p.m.-4:30 Stay and schmooze – If you are thinking about running for the FCCPR Coordinating Committee or are a new member, current members will be there to answer any questions.
Question 1 – Safe Staffing Phone Bank
The Massachusetts Hospital Association is pouring millions of dollars into their “Vote NO on Question 1” campaign. Their goal is to defeat the Safe Staffing (Patient limitation) ballot initiative being championed by the Nurse’s Union, the Massachusetts Nurses Association. A YES Vote on Question 1 will limit the number of patients assigned to a nurse during her shift. An appropriate assignment will mean safe quality care for hospital patients, meeting human needs as opposed to feeding corporate greed. Your help is needed.
We have organized a FCCPR phone bank starting Thursday, Oct. 18, and continuing the following Thursdays, Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., 70 Federal Street, 2nd floor, Suite 5. Please bring your cell phones and laptops.
RSVP to Patti at MsPWilliams007@gmail.com
Join Congressman Jim McGovern…
…and Franklin County officials for a Vote Yes ON 1 rally and canvass blitz: Friday, Oct. 19, 12:30 p.m. press
conference and 1 p.m. lunch and canvass launch at The Episcopal Church of St. James and Andrew, Nine Church St., Greenfield
Question 3 Phone Banking
Freedom For All Massachusetts will be holding Tuesday night phone banks at GCC on the 2nd floor of the main building from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Please reply to Ken Eisenstein 325-6680 or keisenstein@yahoo.com
Come together in Greenfield at the Town Common this Friday at noon until 1pm. Bring your signs. Wear Black. Join a national expression of Sacred Rage. The most nourishing lunch hour you can possibly have.
To all who are grieving for themselves and this country, who are in pain and feeling the deep effects of this toxic culture—some for the first time, and others, as they have for their entire lifetimes–you are not alone.
We are an intersectional group of womxn* from every cross section of society who have come together in sacred rage and with a call to ACT.
Starting this Friday and continuing weekly through November 23, we are calling on womxn to wear black, rise up, and put a halt to ‘business as usual.’
For more information go to:
https://www.facebook.com/events/309144096305006/
Local Rally and Panel Calls Attention to #TrialOfTheCentury
Greenfield Commons October 29, 4 p.m.
Twenty-one youths, ages 11 to 21, are suing the U. S. government, contending that through the government’s actions that cause climate change, it has violated their generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty and property, and has failed to protect essential public trust resources. After years of delays brought about by both the Obama and Trump administrations, the suit, Juliana v. United States
is scheduled for trial in U.S. District Court in Oregon on October 29, 2018.
Greening Greenfield is holding a rally and panel discussion to inform our local community about the history and basis of the suit, the impact of climate change on local youth, and Greenfield’s own record with regard to safeguarding public trust resources.
If you wish to take part in the theater action i.e. carry a mask of one of the plaintiffs (twenty one teenagers) and perhaps speak a scripted line into a microphone or for more information please contact:
Jan Maher jcmaher@aol.com,
206-234-9146 Sponsored by Greening Greenfield