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September 2017
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Central Committe Ad Hoc Committee on Bylaws
Central Committe Ad Hoc Committee on Bylaws
September 7, 2017 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave, Port Hadlock, WA 98339, USAThe ad-hoc bylaws committee will be having a meeting to discuss Article XIXB of our bylaws (the only item the Central Committee (CC) did not adopt of the previous recommendations sent to them by the ad-hoc committee. We may also discuss the our other out-of-compliance issue (according to Marty Gilmore), which is the manner in which the four officers elected by the CC could be recalled. (the bylaws currently leave this to the membership, where it should be the CC) It will be held in the Shold Room of the Jefferson County Library. If we have time, we may discuss a docket of other bylaws issues and when and in what order we might make recommendations about them in the future.
Note: The ad-hoc bylaws committee only makes recommendations to the Central Committee, who has authority to change bylaws only at a publicly noticed meeting. The ad-hoc bylaws committee has no authority to take action on the bylaws.
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WSDCC
WSDCC
September 9, 2017-September 10, 2017 @
South Seattle Community Collegehttps://september2017wsdccmeeting.eventsmart.com/events/september-2017-wsdcc-meeting/
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Exec Board Meeting
Exec Board Meeting
September 11, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave, Port Hadlock, WA 98339, USAHumphrey Room
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Single Payer Healthcare Commitee
Single Payer Healthcare Commitee
September 14, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave, Port Townsend, WA 98368, USA2nd Thursday - Single Payer Health Care Committee meeting at QUUF
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Occupy the Tables!
Occupy the Tables!
September 14, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
San Juan Taqueria, 23 Kala Square Pl, Port Townsend, WA 98368, USAEach month on the 2nd Thursday, we get together for fun and a no-host meal. We try to alternate between a potluck or inexpensive venue and a moderately priced Jefferson County restaurant. If you have a suggestion for a location, please e-mail info@jeffcodemocrats.com or chat with Beth Stroh-Stern, our Membership Chair, at our next members meeting.
July 2017 - Disco Bay Detour
August 2017 - Cancelled in favor of Fish Feast, being held August 27th.
September 2017 - San Juan Taqueria, Kala Point
October 2017 - The Geoduck, Brinnon
November 2017 - TBD
December 2017 - TBD
1516- Quilcene Fair Dems booth
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Quilcene Parade (part of the Quilcene fair)
Quilcene Parade (part of the Quilcene fair)
September 16, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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FYI - Our Sound, Our Salmon Flotilla
FYI - Our Sound, Our Salmon Flotilla
September 16, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Off Southern BainbridgeOn Saturday Sept. 16, Backbone is teaming up with Our Sound, Our Salmon to protect the Salish Sea from diseased and parasite ridden non-native Atlantic Salmon. Every Pacific state except for Washington has banned Atlantic Salmon Net Pens. It's time Washington join the ranks of Alaska, Oregon, and California who have already taken action to protect the health of their native wild salmon and waters. The Flotilla next Saturday is the launch of the campaign to do just that, protect our sound from non-native Atlantic salmon fish farms.
The August 19th collapse of the Atlantic Salmon Net Pen that held 300,000 non-native farmed fish is a stark reminder of the importance of protecting and restoring a healthy native Salmon population for indigenous tribes, Southern Resident Orcas, our economy, the health of our Sound and the way of life in the Salish Sea.
On Saturday September 16th in the waters off Bainbridge Island - team up with Our Sound, Our Salmon to launch their campaign to ban Atlantic Salmon Net Pens in the Salish Sea. Backbone Campaign will show up with a 150' floating banner and a team of kayaktivist leads joining the flotilla adjacent to Aquaculture's Salmon Net Pens.
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Membership Meeting
Membership Meeting
September 19, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Port Townsend Community Center
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FYI - LGBTQ+ YOUTH LEGISLATIVE THEATRE EVENT Monday & Tuesday, Sept 25-26 @ 6:30 PM
FYI - LGBTQ+ YOUTH LEGISLATIVE THEATRE EVENT Monday & Tuesday, Sept 25-26 @ 6:30 PM
September 25, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Fort Worden - McCurdy Pavilion, Port Townsend, WA 98368, USAAt: Fort Worden, USO Building across from Mc Curdy Pavillion
LGBTQ+ YOUTH LEGISLATIVE THEATRE EVENT
Monday & Tuesday, Sept 25-26 @ 6:30 PM
Fort Worden USO Bldg (across from McCurdy Pavillon)
FREE (donations welcome)Video Livestream for online participation
www.mandalaforchange.com 360.344.3435The voices of LGBTQ+ Youth must no longer be silenced. Policy change is needed to support this marginalized group of powerful individuals whose human rights are under siege.
Legislative Theatre (a creative spin on town hall like you’ve never experienced!) invites policy makers and the general public to affect social change on a grassroots level. Legislative Theatre has been effectively used to steer laws and policies around the world. The LGTBQ+ Youth Legislative Theatre Project is civic engagement at its best with a creative twist: employing interactive theatre to directly impact policy change on a local as well as potentially state and national levels.
Watch an original play created by youth (ages 14-22), "Queer Survival Quest". Actively explore solutions to the problems presented. Propose policies. Vote! Your voice is needed in this practice of true democracy.
Not only does this project cultivate a way for LGBTQ+ youth to bond and express their experiences in a supportive, safe space; it creates a platform for the local community and its legislators to directly change laws -- youth, adults, allies, and policy-makers working together.
It is time for unheard voices to be expressed. It is time for policy-makers to listen. Join us and make this exploration a call to action!
“Our society still has a long way to go. It’s critical to help our community listen to, validate, and support our transgender and gender-queer youth. Come and learn what it's like to grow up in a system that doesn't make space for you, that doesn't even have a word to describe you!” -- Simon de Voil - Musician, Interfaith Minister, and Transgender Activist
PLEASE GIVE ONLINE AND SUPPORT GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING!
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FYI - LGBTQ+ YOUTH LEGISLATIVE THEATRE EVENT Monday & Tuesday, Sept 25-26 @ 6:30 PM
FYI - LGBTQ+ YOUTH LEGISLATIVE THEATRE EVENT Monday & Tuesday, Sept 25-26 @ 6:30 PM
September 26, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Fort Worden - McCurdy Pavilion, Port Townsend, WA 98368, USAAt: Fort Worden, USO Building across from Mc Curdy Pavillion
LGBTQ+ YOUTH LEGISLATIVE THEATRE EVENT
Monday & Tuesday, Sept 25-26 @ 6:30 PM
Fort Worden USO Bldg (across from McCurdy Pavillon)
FREE (donations welcome)Video Livestream for online participation
www.mandalaforchange.com 360.344.3435The voices of LGBTQ+ Youth must no longer be silenced. Policy change is needed to support this marginalized group of powerful individuals whose human rights are under siege.
Legislative Theatre (a creative spin on town hall like you’ve never experienced!) invites policy makers and the general public to affect social change on a grassroots level. Legislative Theatre has been effectively used to steer laws and policies around the world. The LGTBQ+ Youth Legislative Theatre Project is civic engagement at its best with a creative twist: employing interactive theatre to directly impact policy change on a local as well as potentially state and national levels.
Watch an original play created by youth (ages 14-22), "Queer Survival Quest". Actively explore solutions to the problems presented. Propose policies. Vote! Your voice is needed in this practice of true democracy.
Not only does this project cultivate a way for LGBTQ+ youth to bond and express their experiences in a supportive, safe space; it creates a platform for the local community and its legislators to directly change laws -- youth, adults, allies, and policy-makers working together.
It is time for unheard voices to be expressed. It is time for policy-makers to listen. Join us and make this exploration a call to action!
“Our society still has a long way to go. It’s critical to help our community listen to, validate, and support our transgender and gender-queer youth. Come and learn what it's like to grow up in a system that doesn't make space for you, that doesn't even have a word to describe you!” -- Simon de Voil - Musician, Interfaith Minister, and Transgender Activist
PLEASE GIVE ONLINE AND SUPPORT GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING!
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FYI - Water Protectors Peace Arch March & Rally for Our Salish Sea
FYI - Water Protectors Peace Arch March & Rally for Our Salish Sea
September 30, 2017 @ 10:00 am-October 1, 2017 @ 4:00 pm
Birch Bay State Park, 5105 Helweg Rd, Blaine, WA 98230, USAHosted by Protectors of the Salish Sea
Saturday Day 1. 10am we begin with a traditional Lummi welcome, then a traditional brushing off with cedar bows for each walker before we launch our one day 8.8 mile walk from Birch Bay State Park (Lummi Territory) to Peace Arch Park. We leave from Birch Bay area because it is the proposed location of the Island Gas Connector Pipeline that would carry Canadian LNG (Fracked methane gas) to the Malahat LNG Facility (currently in construction) on Vancouver Island BC we walk with the blessings of our ancestors, with the strength of the songs laying our blessings upon the land in each step to create that bridge to a liveable future for our children and their children beyond them, to think about the Kulthlala'muchen (Orcas) and the return of wild salmon, to think about the return of ancestor forests (Scalal'nexw) and to Protect and Restore all of the once abundant life in our Salish Sea. Once we reach Peace Arch Park we will feast, have a short rally and catch a shutte off to our camping site.
Sunday Day 2. Peace Arch Park Lunch at 11am (provided). Peace Arch No LNG, No Kinder Morgan, No Open Water Atlantic Salmon farms in our Salish Sea, Create our Salish Sea Whale Sanctuary Rally at 12 noon! Feast at 2pm (Provided). Tokitae / Salish Sea Whale Sanctuary Proclamations will be signed throughout the day to continue the collaborative work of creating the worlds first Indigenous created Whale Sanctuary which has high potential for banning the traffiking of hazardous chemicals such as Malahat LNG, PSE Tacoma LNG and Kinder Morgan's nearly 1 million barrels of Tar Sands oi per day in our Salish Sea! We also sign this proclamation to bring Tokitae (aka Lolita) home from 47 years captivity in Miami Seaquarium where recently she was left alone in an illegal sized open pool during Hurricane Irma and could have easliy died from flying debris.
Monday Day 3. For those who are available on this day will be providing a shuttle for a rally at the Kinder Morgan court hearing in Vancouver BC!
Peace Arch Park is Neutral ground for people from both sides of the border to enjoy! No Passorts, No Enhanced Drivers Licenses needed! Come as you are.. to help create peace and wellness!
We have 35 four foot Kulthlala'muchen (Orca) puppets and salmon for walkers to hold in support of life in our Salish Sea as we walk along the Salish Sea to the Peace Arch!
Camping gear will be transported from Birch Bay State Park to Peace Arch Park and from there to our camp site. Transport will be available from Peace Arch Park back to Birch Bay after the rally on Oct 1st for those that can not make it to the court hearing up North.
There will be Spring water offered at various stops along the walk as well as portable toilet stops along the walk. Please bring energy bars, granolla snacks to fuel up along the way. Please bring your usual camp gear. All forms of sustainable human powered transportation are welcome! Road To Athabasca cycle organization will be attending!
Link to walk route: https://goo.gl/maps/Ete4VoSHkm52On the Canadian side of the border there is a walk being organized from Crescent Beach (Semiahmoo Territory) to Peace Arch Park!
Speakers include:
Rose Henry
Snohomish Sladai
Dakota W Case
Freddie Lane
Paul Cheoketen Wagner
More to be announced!Supporting organizatiions include:
350 Seattle
Greenpeace USA
#NoLNG253 Water Warrior
Students for the Salish Sea
Social Environmental Alliance
Indigenous Solidarity Working Group
Road to Athabasca
More Supporting Organizations to be announced!A few reasons why we must move forward now to create a future and stop LNG, Kinder Morgan and Open Water Atlantic Salmon Fish Factories in our Salish Sea:
LNG (Liquefied Fracked Gas) is a methane based fuel which destroys water tables everywhere! Methane is 80 times more toxic to our children's climate that we will leave them to survive in.
Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion is moving forward with there plan of bringing nearly 1 million barrels of Tar Sands Oil PER DAY to the shores of our Salish Sea! Then traffic it across our waters in 350 Oil Tankers which have an 85% chance of an oil spill.
Open Water Atlantic Salmon Fish Factories are nothing short of diseased, mutated pollution being allowed in our Salish Sea that threaten genocide for our WIld Salmon.Our previous Event: Walk to Protect & Restore our Salish Sea was a huge success full of goodness and positive change! We pray you can hep make this one a smashing success also! We raise our hands to you for coming together once again with your good hearts and minds to help end this era of fossil fuel foolishness in our Salish Sea and beyond for all life! And to bring Tokitae home and create our Salish Sea Whale Sanctuary! HiSW'KE SIEM NE SCHAYLA'CHA (Thank you my honorable friends and family)!
See you there!
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Central Committe Ad Hoc Committee on Bylaws
JCD at Quilcene Fair and Parade – Sept 16-17
On the grounds of the Quilcene School, 294715 Highway 101, Quilcene, WA 98376
September Members Meeting, Tuesday 9/19
6pm to 8:30pm
Port Townsend Community Center,
620 Tyler St, Port Townsend, WA 98368Program: Affordable Housing
Executive Board – Monday, October 9th
Monday, October 9th, 6pm to 8pm at The Chimacum Farmhouse CoLab, 9103 Rhody Dr, Chimacum, WA 98325.
Occupy the Tables! Thursday, October 12th at The Geoduck
5:30pm, The Geoduck Family Restaurant, 307103 US-101, Brinnon, WA 98320
October Members Meeting, Tuesday 10/24
6pm to 8pm, Port Ludlow Beach Club, 121 Marina View Dr, Port Ludlow, WA 98365
Program: Tax Reform
Executive Board, Monday November 13th
6pm to 8pm at Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Avene, Pt. Hadlock 98339
November Members Meeting, Wednesday 11/29
6pm to 8pm, Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Rd, Sequim, WA 98382
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