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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">This is particularly
impressive because Butte is a very red county with a blue smudge
in the middle called Chico (and 'old' Chico at that, not the newer
outskirts.) So the rural landowners must have opposed fracking
(the same ones who opposed the measure there in late 2004 to ban
GMO's like we did earlier that year.) What a pleasant surprise!
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Steve <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/8/2014 2:41 PM, Kelly Larson
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Shannon Biggs</b> <span
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Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:39 PM<br>
Subject: Re: Signature Jam and CONGRATS ALL!!!<br>
To: Kelly Larson <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:solarkelly@gmail.com">solarkelly@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt">FYI from Northern Cali: <br>
Democracy RULES in Butte County, where the BOS voted 4-1
to ban fracking today! And the Chairman made it very
clear that a vote on our proposed ban, indicating the
will of the people, would be the only way to assure the
ban stands. Exciting day!
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On 4/8/14 2:23 PM, "Kelly Larson" <<a
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County's Sample Petition...<br>
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Shannon Biggs <<a
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<div class="">I can’t send this to the lsit because
its moderated. Can you please share my email with
everyone? <br>
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<b>Date: </b>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:50:04 -0700<br>
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<div class="h5"><b>Conversation: </b>Signature
Jam and CONGRATS ALL!!!<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Signature Jam and CONGRATS
ALL!!!<br>
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Greetings all you Mendocino Water defenders! <br>
<br>
Congratulations on passing the first big hurdle
and to those who put their shoulder to the wheel
to make sure all the I's were dotted and t's
crossed - Kelly and Korina you really held it
down, and to the whole team of folks who were
working to make it happen. I also saw the list
of proponents, great job! <br>
<br>
I have some thoughts/ideas below in blue.. <br>
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</font><font color="#0000FF"><b>Volunteer
training(s) for signature jam </b>Ultimately
the best trainer is Prajna – if there is any
way you can raise a few funds to bring her up
for that, I would recommend it (Prajna does
not get paid through Global Exchange, she
volunteered her time to join us for the
Training in Fort Bragg). I’m happy to come up
to help, my only costs as you know are car
rental and gas. ;-) <br>
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<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF">CREDO can assist in
putting the word out for volunteers, esp.
signature collecting (they have a fracking
campaign). Let me know asap so we can be
in touch with their folks! </font></span></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF">I’m happy to help put
together a manaual for training folks and
answering questions while they are out
collcting signatures<br>
</font></span></font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<b>Training new folks in the fundamentals of
rights-based organizing –</b> train the
trainers – I’d love to work with a team of
folks who will train new people on a 1-2 hour
no-books hands on training, so you can do it
for yourselves or in partnership with me
anytime. Be good to figure out when my next
trip is to Mendocino County, and pack my time
full of all sorts of meetings, trainings,
whatever your needs are. <br>
<br>
<b>MEDIA and SOCIAL MEDIA </b>– so I don’t
know if you have a website up, but within a
very short period of time you’ll want to let
folks see the ordinance and to have some
materials for folks to get involved and learn
more about it. Not many groups like yours have
had their own website, but I think if you have
the wherewithall to have a website it would
be good to do. It is time to create a media
strategy- including OpEds and other
“announcements” of your network, the ordinance
and the campaign. Who makes decisions about
our Water water water – residents or someone
else? Some media hooks include the drought in
general, the recent McCutcheon case at SCOTUS,
and fracking. <br>
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<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF"><b>For website samples for
your own website,</b> you might check
out Groundswell-Democracy Rising: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.groundswell.gs/"
target="_blank">http://www.groundswell.gs/</a>
Envision Spokane, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://envisionspokane.org/"
target="_blank">http://envisionspokane.org/</a>
the Colorado CRN: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cocrn.org/"
target="_blank">http://www.cocrn.org/</a>
Lots of other groups do facebook, please
let me know when you have a page up so I
can begin to share it </font></span></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF">I have an army or fracking
activists state and nationwide who will
happily help spread the word about your
campaign and join on to help. </font></span></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF">David Braun, national
fracking activist wants to come up and
help, do a speaking event on
fracking/local jobs and encourage you on,
while he learns about community rights. He
has his own funding to come up. Might be
a great opportunity. Daiv has lead NY
against Fracking and Americans Against
Fracking. Let me know if you’d like to
know more about him, he’s excited and and
has been following your progress! He can
also be talked in to writingan OpEd if you
like, and then get it sent around
nationally though the fracking networks.
Might be good to have the point of view
that the nation of fracking communities is
behind you. </font></span></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF"><b>Some places to link to
in terms of fracking resources</b>
include list of the harmed – moving
personal testimonies: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/the-list/"
target="_blank">http://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/the-list/</a>
</font></span></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF">and my article on fracking
and rights of nature: </font></span><font
color="#0000FE"><font><span
style="font-size:10pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/shannon-biggs/welcome-to-frackland-does-river-have-right-not-to-be-polluted"
target="_blank">http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/shannon-biggs/welcome-to-frackland-does-river-have-right-not-to-be-polluted</a></span></font></font><font
color="#0000FF"><span style="font-size:11pt">
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<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><font color="#0000FF"><span
style="font-size:11pt">A organic farmer’s
story of fracking and mineral estate: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/peopletopeople/2013/09/30/a-one-man-fracking-ban/"
target="_blank">http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/peopletopeople/2013/09/30/a-one-man-fracking-ban/</a>
</span></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><font color="#0000FF"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><b>Community Rights
resources</b>: we will be posting our
new toolkit online today, so will send you
the link for the toolkit. (free download
through April) </span></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><font color="#0000FF"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><b>Link to Global
Exchange and CELDF for community rights
resources</b>, and to the Mt. Shasta
Campaign report for good information on
all of it. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalexchange.org/communityrights/rbo/shasta"
target="_blank">http://www.globalexchange.org/communityrights/rbo/shasta</a>
</span></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FE">The blog post I wrote on
your upcoming ordinance: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/peopletopeople/2014/04/01/mendocino-county-charting-a-new-course-for-water-protection/"
target="_blank">http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/peopletopeople/2014/04/01/mendocino-county-charting-a-new-course-for-water-protection/</a><br>
</font></span></font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#0000FF"><b>Upcoming
Events:</b> <br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF"><b>Town Hall Willits May
18: </b> Peter is I believe the contact
for this. This should be a totally packed
event, with a rally/training prior to help
folks with messaging inside the town hall.
A great place for signature collection
too. Should I plan on staying longer to
visit other communities while I’m in the
area? Please let me know so I can book
more time. </font></span></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF"><b>Earth Day -</b>? <b>What
other events are upcoming –</b> a
calendar of local events would be great to
have, both those we want to create and
those that are already occurring that
would be great for getting the word out,
tabling, and collecting signatures. <br>
</font></span></font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<b>Newspaper publishing the title and summary
etc</b>. <br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF">I assume the ordinance
team is going to be working on this? <br>
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</ul>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<b>Materials: <br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF"><b>Getting Petitions
ready:</b> we need to submit very soon
to our designers to have them ready asap.
We don’t have to wait. Someone from your
Ordinance team needs to get the exact
dimensions and requirements for
formatting, send them to me and we can get
that ready to be printed. Our designer is
very booked this month for another BIG
global Exchange event, and so the sooner
the better – this week would be great. </font></span></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font
color="#0000FF">I see there are requests
for a flyer. We can do the printing of
some flyers for you. You are welcome to
use the designs above if you like. We may
not be able to get our designers to work
on this in April (their time is booked)
but we can do something inhouse here at GX
and we can do the printing. <br>
</font></span></font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><br>
Best to you all! Let me know if I’ve missed
anything! Deep breath. You’re all amazing. <br>
<br>
Congratulations again on this critical first
step! <br>
<br>
Shannon <br>
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