7TH MEETING of the ASSOCIATION
OF STATE GREEN PARTIES
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA -
JULY 27-29, 2001
Theme - GREENS ARE ORGANIZED AND MOVING FORWARD!
La Casa de Maria, 801 Ladera Ln, Santa Barbara
CA, 805-565-9062
FRIDAY JULY 26
All day, concurrent workshops
and committee meetings
1:00 PM - Registration begins
5:30-7:00 PM - Dinner (all meals served only during the first
45 min)
7:30 PM - Welcoming reception, La Casa de Maria
- Santa Barbara Greens will welcome the conference participants
- CoChair of the Steering Committee welcome speech
- International Green visitors will
speak as well as some elected green party candidates.
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
7:30-9:00 AM - Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 AM: 7th ASGP MEETING - OPENING PLENARY FOR THE
CC
- Facilitators explain procedures for the plenary (10 min)
- Roll-call of members (3 min) (link to list of delegates,
text format)
- Accreditation Report and welcome for new State Green Party
members (15 min)
(vote on MD and ID)
- Introductions by all CC (30 min)
- CoChair of the Steering Committee opening speech (3 min)
10:00 - 10:15 AM: STEERING COMMITTEE REPORT
- CoChairs reports (5 min)
- Secretary's report (5 min)
- Treasurer's report (5 min)
10:15 AM - 12:30 PM: REPORT FROM OTHER COMMITTEES
- Bylaws - 10 min (incl. presentation & vote on SC
restructuring resolution from the GP of Maine)
- Media - 10 min
- Internal Communications - 5 min
10:40 - 10:50 AM: BREAK - 10 MINUTES
- Accreditations - 5 min
- Presidential Exploratory Committee - 2 min
- Shadow Green Cabinet - 5 min
- Green Pages publication - 10 min
- International - 15 min
- Green Party Pro-Democracy Network - 10 min
- Legal advisors - 20 min (intro of RI and CT resolutions
and info about national lawsuit) Vote?
- Transition Committee - 15 min (review of proposal for proportional
representation for the ASGP-COO)
- Fundraising - 10 min (review only of past fundraising system)
12:30 - 2:00 PM: LUNCH
2:00 - 6:00 PM: AFTERNOON PLENARY
- Introduction of Management
Plan 1 - 45 min
Growth and office plan, field organizing plan, publications
and materials plan
- Platform Committee - 60 min
Includes AZ resolution on immigration, 2
proposed summary platforms, Global Greens Charter approval
3:45 - 3:55 PM: BREAK - 10 MINUTES
- Diversity Caucus presentation - 10 min
- Steering Committee Nominations - 10 min
- FEC filing - 40 min (includes resolution)
- Introduction of Management Plan 2 - 60 min
Includes budget, fundraising and resolution on donation
cap
6:00 - 7:30 PM: DINNER
8:00 PM - SPECIAL SATURDAY EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Charge $5 for green party members, public $10
Confirmed speakers include:
- Jello Biafra - Dead Kennedys, Green Party nominated
presidential candidate 2000
- Medea Benjamin - GPCA member, 2000 GP candidate
for the CA US Senate
- Linda Krop - Green Party of Santa Barbara member,
Environmental Defense Center
- Ralph Armburster Sandoval - Professor of Chicano
Studies and SB Campus Greens organizer
- Antonio Affigne - Green Party of Rhode Island
PLUS: Ranchero singer Marisol and guitarist and other artistic
performance
SUNDAY, JULY 29TH
7:30 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM: CLOSING PLENARY
- Management plans endorsement - 30 min
- New Steering Committee voting and welcome - 15 min
- Campus Greens report - 15 mins
- Committee report updates and recruitment:
= Transition Committee update and vote - 20 min
= Internal Communications committee update and approval
- 15 min
= Other committees - 25 min
11:00 - 11:10: BREAK - 10 MINUTES
- Resolve old and new business - 30 min
- Announcements (includes NJ gubernatorial candidate announcement)
- 30 min
- CoChair of Steering Committee closing speech - 5 min
12:30 - 2:00 PM: LUNCH
2:00 - 4:00 PM: Seminars and Committee Meetings
- Corporate personhood, the legal social history of Corporations
- POCLAD, David Cobb
- Diversity and minority organizing - Amy Mondloch, Tony Affigne
and others
- Voting systems & electoral reform - Center for Vorting
& Democracy, Caleb Klebner
- Green Campus fundraising party at La Casa de Maria
MONDAY, JULY 30TH
Santa Monica Green Party office - breakfast reception
11 AM Press conference for the ASGP
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International guests to the 7th ASGP meeting:
(go back)
Tamara Muruetagoiena
(Adviser on Cultural, Media, Education, Youth and Sport Affairs Green/EFA
Group in the European Parliament)
Ralph Mono (former Secretary General
EFGP)
International Coordinator for the Swedish Greens
Maitalal Gurung
Green Nepal Party Deputy Jacqueline Argüelles
Partido Verde Ecologista de México
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