20 Thursday Jun 2019
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350 VC Climate Hub Monthly Meeting
JUNE 20, 6:30 pm
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Ventura, 5654 Ralston, 93003
Think of a Sci-Fi vision for Ventura County set around 2030. Our comments on the general plan update are how we rewrite the script. And it’s not too late to jump on with your vision. Our meeting Thursday will review what’s happened so far, and how you can get your opinion heard, and acted on.
Enter at the back of the building.
04 Friday May 2018
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Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions, Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions may 2018 meeting, unitarian universalist church ventura Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions, Women in leadership mothering the planet
When: Sunday, May 6, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions | Women in leadership-mothering the planet
http://www.c-p-r.net/2018/04/may-meeting-women-in-leadership-mothering-the-planet/
You are invited to an open conversation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura, 5654 Ralston Street, Ventura. With Kat Shore, organizer of March for Justice Jan 2017; Carmen Ramirez, public interest lawyer and on Oxnard City Council; Mary Haffner, Ventura Unifed School District board member and on Ventura Social Services Task Force, Ventura County Regional Energy Alliance and more.
29 Monday Dec 2014
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build bridges community ventura, grow food locally ventura, local food ventura, stop fracking ventura, vc climate hub events jan 2015, ventura 250 events, ventura citizens group, ventura county climate hub meeting jan 2015, ventura occupy, ventura promote transition from fossil fuels to renewables
Thursday, January 8th, 2014 at 7 p.m.
Who
Everyone 10 years of age and older who wants to lead, work together or support goals to promote transition from fossil fuels to renewables, grow food locally, and build capacity/relationships/bridges for broad-based community pursuit of such goals.
Invite your friends!
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VC Climate Hub, email to ventura@citizensclimatelobby.org]
What
Three Currently Active Working Groups:
Anti-Fracking Events
Renewables, and
Crude by Rail Protest Letters
Where Unitarian-Universalist Church of Ventura, 5654 Ralston Street, Ventura, CA 93003.
Why To pool resources and seize opportunities for action and exercise political will in Ventura County to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition from fossil fuels to a renewable energy.
Process
Below are the draft agenda outlines for each Working Group. Agendas with Pre-Meeting Memos will be sent on January 2 to allow you a week to read ahead of the meeting.
If you are interested in forming a new Working Group or have input to a current Working Group, let us know. We’re trying to have as much information as possible in the Pre-Meeting Memo. That way the discussion at the Climate Hub meeting will be among participants who are informed in advance about the topics. Our goal is the best meetings ever for action-oriented people working together to reverse climate change.
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—January Meeting Agenda—
Reports Back 16 mins
• CFROG Campaign Victory at Modelo Canyon; next project
• Oxnard City Council protests Edison’s plan for new power plant — Tomas
• Keep Hermosa Hermosa – here’s their Facebook about banning oil drilling in Hermosa Beach, sign up to help walk precincts and phone bank for No on Measure O on March 3
• Citizen Climate Lobby: Meet VCCF, Camarillo, Mon 1/12. Guest conf call speaker: Climate Change Advisor for Shell Oil. Thank Rep Brownley for supporting Oxnard against Edison – Jan
• Exploring Community Choice Aggregation & Related Programs for Oxnard – Jan
• Citizen Science training with Earthworks Action delayed til Feb
• Moorpark wrote to SLO Co Planning opposing rail spur–need letters from Ventura, Oxnard and Camarillo – Ron
• CA Against Fracking Tour Stop Downtown Oxnard Wed January 14: Save the Date
• March for REAL Climate Leadership Oakland February 7:
Buy charter bus ticket now!
VC Climate Hub Immediate General Needs – 4 min
• Four people for logistics for meetings: mainly set up and clean up
• Phoning folks on the list to encourage participation.
• Media Coordinator for the Steering Committee
• Media Coordinator for the Steering Committee
Working Groups and Draft Content for Agendas 45 mins
– Two Big Events Being Planned by the Anti-Fracking Working Group:
1. California Crossroads Tour: Taking Back Ventura County on January 14 at Oxnard Cultural Heritage Center. Doors open at 6:30. $10 donation requested, no one turned away. We hope it will get us pumped to sign up for…
2. March for REAL Climate Leadership on February 7, Oakland
Now it’s our turn to turn up the pressure on Gov Jerry Brown! The March for Real Climate Leadership is Saturday, Feb 7 is aiming for 10,000 marchers. Hop on the charter bus in Camarillo (4:45 am), Ventura (5 am), or Santa Barbara (5:30 am) and return by midnight!
Buy your $30 ticket HERE.
On January 8 we’ll discuss how to bring out as many people as possible for both events.
– Crude by Rail Protest was taken up by the Citizen Science Working Group. If you can help before or after January 8, it is urgent to talk to first responders in Camarillo, Oxnard and Ventura who will ask their City Councils to vote to send a protest letter. Call Ron Whitehurst for more info how to help now: 805-746-5365
– Renewables Working Group Fact-Finding: Contact Jan Dietrick if you are interested to help do fact-finding for any of the following ideas for projects/programs/campaigns that were brought up during or since the last Renewables Working Group meeting.
• Explore taking control of our power from Edison by forming a scalable Community Choice Aggregation.
• Help or partner with another org to increase participation in energy efficiency improvement programs, like emPower.
• Investigate campaign or partnering to get Superchargers for plug-in EV’s in Ventura County at commercial sites and more chargers at apartment complexes.
• Investigate renewable fuels project, such as methane digester.
Recap & Wrap up 15 mins
Do you have information for a current working group?
Do you want to facilitate a new working group?
Email to VCClimate@gmail.com or contact the facilitators of the current Working Groups to ask questions, share your knowledge and be involved.
28 Tuesday Aug 2012
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ga notes occupy ventura august 7, occupy 805 august 7 2012, occupy 805 GA august 7 2012, occupy 805 ga minutes 2012
Carpinteria State Beach
Carpinteria, CA
6:42 pm – 8:00 pm
Attending: Nico, Blair, John, Adrienne, Janet, Keely, Kendra, Audra, Glenn, Lucas, Dug, Tom, Tracy
Facilitator: Blair
Timekeeper: Glenn
Stack: Adrienne
Greeter: John
Note taker: Tracy
The meeting opened with a one minute round-robin.
Announcements
The following dates were announced for upcoming actions:
August 9 – In Santa Barbara, Solidarity with Occupy LA International Chalk-upy Chalk Art Protest
August 11 – Move to Amend conference in LA
August 19 – Call to the Peaceful in Solidarity Park in front of LA City Hall at 10:00 am
August 20 – Robert Ramirez Action at Oxnard Police Department
August 30 – All day protest in front of new Chik-Fil-A opening on Thousand Oaks Blvd. in Westlake Village
September 1 – Funk the War dance party to protest war at noon in Mission Park, Ventura
September 17 – 1 year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
September 17 – Protest and GMO Labeling information event at Monsanto offices in Oxnard, 4 – 6:30 pm
October 15 – Global Noise Around the World
November 5 – Occupation in Washington, D.C.
Proposals
1. Lucas read a statement concerning police brutality. He wants to send the statement as a letter to all legislators in the 805 area asked Occupy 805 to endorse the statement and sign the letter. Members of the group asked for clarifications which Lucas addressed.
During the discussion, the assembly agreed to limit discussion of each proposal to six minutes beginning from the point in time that the decision was made.
Discussion continued on Lucas’ proposal. Janet offered to work with Lucas to craft the message, but Lucas was anxious to send the letters the night of the assembly. Kendra also offered to work on the wording. Audra suggested that a working group meet the next day. Lucas asked the assembly to empower the work group to wordsmith and sign the statement on behalf of Occupy 805, possibly with consensus from the next Occupy Santa Barbara general assembly. The proposal ran out of time without resolution.
2. Glenn asked Occupy 805 to endorse, participate in, and assist with the September 1 Dance Party and also asked everyone to take the proposal back to their own cities for endorsement. The proposal received consensus.
3. Adrienne passed out post cards and shared the address of Occupy Wall St. She asked everyone to use the post cards to let Occupy in New York know that we support them and wish we could be there for their event. She also suggested that we send post cards to others to let them know what we think about the upcoming election.
4. Kendra provided a presentation on the GMOs and the Proposition 37 Label GMO initiative on the upcoming ballot. She said that the pro campaign needs help to fight the big money opposition. She passed around a petition in support of Prop. 37 for individuals to sign. The assembly gave consensus for Occupy 805 to endorse and support Prop. 37 and to sign the petition as an organization. Audra stood aside because she does not want to take part in a system that she does not endorse.
5. Monsanto Protest
Janet shared information about the action that will take place at the Monsanto offices in Oxnard from 4 – 6:30 pm on September 17. The event has its own Facebook event page and is called Monsanto Protest and Yes on Prop 37 – GMO labeling. Occupy 805 previously endorsed the formation of a work group and now Janet is asking 805 to endorse the event. Lucas suggested that the protest start prior to employee arrival at Monsanto at the start of the work day. Janet responded that the purpose of the event is to educate about GMOs and the November ballot initiative. We don’t want to harass the employees. Kendra agreed with Janet and reminded the assembly that Occupy 805 has already endorsed the Label GMOs ballot initiative. After discussion Janet’s proposal was amended to state that people could protest at Monsanto all day if they desired, but the main event would still be held in the evening. The proposal received consensus as amended.
6. Lucas asked the assembly to affirm that the Ventura College English Department needs to include poetry. The proposal received consensus. Lucas then read a poem that he wrote about human rights. He asked Occupy 805 to endorse the poem and send it to all politicians in the 805 area code. The assembly reached consensus to have Lucas and other group member collaborate to create a poem as a group.
7. Janet proposed that Occupy 805 collaborate with Occupy Santa Barbara on a totally free market. She wants to create a working group for the market and other non-capitalist activities. Blair provide information that OSB requires a quorum of 13 to make decisions, which they have not had recently, but puts working groups together and does have a similar effort in the works. Lucas shared that OLA decides on a quorum by taking 90% of the average attendance of the last six meetings and using that as the number of attendees required for decision-making. Nico thinks that a totally free market could be arranged outside of Occupy and the groups don’t need to collaborate. Lucas asked to amend the proposal to set a date. Discussion on the proposal ran out of time. Janet and Blair agreed to exchange information and work together.
8. Lucas asked Occupy 805 to endorse solidarity with Judith of Santa Barbara in her efforts to shut down the nuclear power plant. The proposal received consensus.
The next meeting of Occupy 805 will be held on September 4, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Mission Park in Ventura.
The meeting closed at 8:00 pm with a solidarity clap.
23 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Calendar, Meetings & General Assemblies
Monthly 805 GA (first Tuesday of the Month)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-805/156136431151189
August 7, 2012,
6:00 pm
in Carpinteria at the park on Linden Avenue across from Carpinteria State Beach.
Participants are encouraged to come at 5:00 pm, if they can, to socialize and share food ~ GA starts on 6pm
Occupy Ventura 