[Community Rights Network] Fwd: Signature Jam and CONGRATS ALL!!!

Tue Apr 8 21:11:28 PDT 2014

Does anyone have a sense that there is a wonderful wave passing over our state at the present time ?

Mendocino County
Santa Barbara County
Los Angeles
Butte County
(add a name here)

On Apr 8, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Kelly Larson wrote:

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> From: Shannon Biggs <shannon at globalexchange.org>
> Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Signature Jam and CONGRATS ALL!!!
> To: Kelly Larson <solarkelly at gmail.com>
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> FYI from Northern Cali: 
> 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" <solarkelly at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here is Mendocino County's Sample Petition...
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> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Shannon Biggs <shannon at globalexchange.org> wrote:
> I can’t send this to the lsit because its moderated. Can you please share my email with everyone? 
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> From: Shannon Biggs <shannon at globalexchange.org <http://shannon@globalexchange.org> >
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> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:50:04 -0700
> To: Carrie Durkee <cdurkee at mcn.org <http://cdurkee@mcn.org> >, <crn at lists.mcn.org <http://crn@lists.mcn.org> >
> Conversation: Signature Jam and CONGRATS ALL!!!
> Subject: Re: Signature Jam and CONGRATS ALL!!!
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> Greetings all you Mendocino Water defenders!  
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> 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! 
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> I have some thoughts/ideas below in blue..   
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> Volunteer training(s) for signature jam 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. ;-) 
> 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!
> I’m happy to help put together a manaual for training folks and answering questions while they are out collcting signatures
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> Training new folks in the fundamentals of rights-based organizing – 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. 
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> MEDIA and SOCIAL MEDIA – 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. 
> For website samples for your own website, you might check out Groundswell-Democracy Rising: http://www.groundswell.gs/  Envision Spokane, http://envisionspokane.org/  the Colorado CRN: http://www.cocrn.org/   Lots of other groups do facebook, please let me know when you have a page up so I can begin to share it
> 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.
> 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.
> Some places to link to in terms of fracking resources include list of the harmed – moving personal testimonies: http://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/the-list/   
> and my article on fracking and rights of nature: http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/shannon-biggs/welcome-to-frackland-does-river-have-right-not-to-be-polluted
> A organic farmer’s story of fracking and mineral estate: http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/peopletopeople/2013/09/30/a-one-man-fracking-ban/
> Community Rights resources: we will be posting our new toolkit online today, so will send you the link for the toolkit. (free download through April)
> Link to Global Exchange and CELDF for community rights resources, and to the Mt. Shasta Campaign report for good information on all of it. http://www.globalexchange.org/communityrights/rbo/shasta
> The blog post I wrote on your upcoming ordinance: http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/peopletopeople/2014/04/01/mendocino-county-charting-a-new-course-for-water-protection/
> Upcoming Events: 
> Town Hall Willits May 18: 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.
> Earth Day -? What other events are upcoming – 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. 
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> Newspaper publishing the title and summary etc. 
> I assume the ordinance team is going to be working on this? 
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> Materials: 
> Getting Petitions ready: 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.
> 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. 
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> Best to you all! Let me know if I’ve missed anything!  Deep breath.  You’re all amazing. 
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> Congratulations again on this critical first step! 
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> Shannon 
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