every meeting you attend!! 2.2 VOTING MEMBERS 2.2.1 Voting Members include all members who regularly attend meetings, affiliate with a Standing Team, and maintain an accurate email address with the NSP Secretary. 2.2.2 Regular meeting attendance is defined as attending at least five (5) NSP meetings during the previous six (6) month period, documenting attendance by signing in on the meeting attendance sheet, regularly joining the break-out meetings of one or more Standing Teams, and affiliating with one Standing Team per Section 2.2.3. 2.2.3 Voting Members must affiliate with one Standing Team for the purposes of establishing representation to the OT but may participate with any Standing Team or form a new Standing Team (per Section 2.4). 2.2.4 Voting Members will be credentialed as voters for all NSP Coordinator elections, endorsement votes, and votes on other issues duly brought before the NSP membership. Voting Members will receive periodic information from NSP via email or Facebook. Notices of elections or other votes will be delivered via email.
Environment • Bobbi Garcia, Environment • Bonnie Morris/Thea DeYoung, Healthcare • Carol Butterfield, Treasurer • David Sudmeier, Kremlingate • Deborah Viertel, Elections • Janet Way, Kremlingate • Jessica Goldman, Asst Lead Organizer • Larry Goldman, Secretary • Liz Curran, Lead Organizer • Pam Dalan, Healthcare • Ron Leslie, Elections Contact us: [email protected] or talk to your sub-group OT representative If you are not receiving the weekly email from North Seattle Progressives about current actions and the next meeting, as well as slides from the previous meeting, please contact Larry Goldman
– meeting to be scheduled this week to work toward moving to our website as our primary online presence! • NSP business cards and pamphlets – Anne is working on business cards; we have a preliminary draft of the pamphlet for Teams to review/revise this week • Ongoing coordination with Wallingford Indivisible, Code Blue WA, Alphabet Resistance – look for events in FB “Announcements” • Opposing I-976 • June 2nd North Sound Progressive People’s Summit (Everett) • Local Races: City councils, counties, port elections • Working with Seattle’s Future to interview Seattle City Council candidates to determine who to support • Working on upcoming meetings: • Immigration / Bond Fund fundraiser (May?, Alycia) – see Alycia if you’re able to help! • 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Riots/LGBTQ program(s) (June, Bobbi) • Anne: Roberts Rules training
28 – Green New Deal discussion with Rep Jayapal staff member May 5 – Cynthia Hamilton Spokane ant Tracy Williams, Walla Walla, will speak to their work of organizing and training effective precinct and LD leadership and action in the more conservative areas of the state May 12 – No Meeting (Mother’s Day) May 19 - Mark McDermott - Labor Educator (Large Room) May 26 – No Meeting (Memorial Day) June 2 – NSP Elections June 9 – WA State Tax Reform – State Rep Noel Frame June 16 – No Meeting (Father’s Day) June 23 – Green New Deal: Electric Vehicles – Arvia Morris June 30 – Seattle Pride March- 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
to Prison Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle” with Robin DiAngelo and Aneela Afzali – Communities of Color Coalition. Sat, April 20th, 8:30am-3pm, Everett, Get on the wait list now!! https://www.c3coalition.org/2019-conference-on-race Continuing to educate ourselves about Homeslessness/Lack of Affordable Housing in our Region: TRICKLE DOWN TOWN Thursday April 25 6:30pm at Mt Baker Community Club, 2811 Mt Rainier Dr S. OR Woodinville Meaningful Movies 7:00 PM, Friday, May 10, 2019 Northshore UCC, 18900 168th Ave NE Woodinville,WA First Personal Plural movie Saturday, April 27th 4:00-9:30pm, Rainier Arts Center 3515 S Alaska St Seattle 98118 Following the screening, Movie & Meal ticket holders join actors Fathia Absie, Mikey Johnson and director Eric Tretbar for a discussion of the film’s issues and production over a delicious Somali meal provided by Fathia Absie’s Eat With Muslims program Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-person-plural-movie-and-somali-meal-tickets- 59733977936
bills Saturday, May 4, 2 - 4 PM: Crowd Canvassing event for MEDICARE FOR ALL in Delbene’s District. Location TBD Wednesday, May 15, 7-9 PM NSP presentation at PNHPWW meeting. Swedish Cherry Hill, James Tower, 17th and Jefferson. Thursday, May 30, 6-8PM FIX IT, Viewing party and Q and A at Verdant Health in Lynnwood. Health and Wellness Actions and Events:
be speaking at PNHPWW’s April 17 meeting. Raleigh Watts is CEO of the Country Doctor Community Health Centers. Rich Kovar, MD, is a longtime Country Doctor family physician who has taken a leadership role there for decades. "CHCs are the future of health care." They will talk about the role of CHCs - the patients they see and the type of unique comprehensive care they offer and how they are financed now. There will be a lively discussion about how CHCs might be affected by the new improved Medicare for All Acts of 2019 - Pramila Jayapal's HR 1384 and Bernie Sanders's new bill, just introduced April 10th. If you can’t attend in person, you can tune in via your computer or phone: Join PNHPWW April 17th, 7:30pm Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/126792820 or, Dial 1 669 900 6833 US; or 1 929 436 2866, Meeting ID: 126 792 820
or floor of 2nd house April 17 – Pass 2nd house by 5:00pm - except for bills necessary to implement the budget (NTIB), initiatives and alternatives to initiatives, differences between the houses, and matters incident to the interim and closing of the session. April 28 – Pass budget and initiatives (I-976, I-1000) Our bill tracker https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12FxTaypgXVAzbIO_g1hv1RClq un1oZSPbmIVk6y3aP4/edit#gid=0
with actual bill number) •Prepaid Postage for Ballots (SB5063) Passed Senate 42-3 Passed House 83-10 (Amended Version) •Remove “Eyman” advisory votes (SB5224) Passed Senate 27-20 House – In Rules committee •Stricter requirements for campaign PAC disclosures (HB1379) Passed House 91-5 Senate – In Rules committee
with actual bill number) •Pathway to universal healthcare (SB5822) Passed Senate 28-21 House – In Rules Committee •Restricting gun licenses for people involuntarily committed (suicide prevention) (SB5181) Passed Senate 26-19 Passed House 55-40 (amended version) •Gun restrictions for people not competent to stand trial (SB5205) Passed Senate 30-17 Passed House 53-39 (amended version)
with actual bill number) •Carbon Neutral Energy by 2030 (SB5116) Passed Senate 28-19 Passed House 56-42 (amended version) •Ban Plastic Grocery Bags (SB5323) Passed Senate 31-14 House – On Floor
“1234” with actual bill number) •Presidential Tax Returns (SB5078) Passed Senate 28-21 House – In Rules Committee •Keep WA Working Act (SB5497) Passed Senate 30-16 Passed House 57-38 (Amended Version)
(SB5273) (partisan) •Require schools to have transgender bullying policy (SB5689) (partisan) •Provide felons with instructions how to regain voting rights (SB5207) (partisan) •Native American Voting Rights Act (SB5079) (bipartisan) •Implement I-940 compromise (HB1064) (unanimous) •Applying campaign contribution limits to port campaigns •HB 1219 Providing cities and counties authority to use real estate excise taxes (REET) to support affordable housing and homelessness projects •HB 1440 Providing longer notice of rent increases would require a landlord to provide a tenant at least 60 days' prior written notice of an increase in rent and prohibiting a rent increase during the term of the lease. The rent increase would only apply at the end of the lease term. Passed the House, 62-36. Passed the Senate 29-18 and will go to the Governor for signature.
faithless electors to be replaced (SB5074) •Higher appliance energy standards (HB1444) •Ban fracking (SB5145) •Reduce hydrofluorocarbon use (HB1112) •Yearlong daylight savings time (HB1196) •Ban undetectable guns (HB1739) •Remove personal exemptions from MMR vaccine (HB1638) •WA healthcare public option (SB5526/HB1523)
SB1160 House and Senate each have passed/considering their own version Will need to reconcile their versions Governor has “line-item” veto power Follow LWV (or other groups) for details and suggestions on particular portions to support or oppose
vote in favor of more progressive revenue changes that expand revenue sources. Support of constituents for legislators taking these actions is imperative to offset the special interest lobbying in favor of keeping the more regressive system in place. The two budget bills from the House and Senate are now one bill, ESHB 1109 and behind-the- scenes negotiating is in full swing. The exciting news from the revenue perspective are: •The Extraordinary Profits tax, formerly called the Capital Gains tax (over $250,000 – SB 5961) •Making the REET Real Estate Excise Tax slightly progressive •Funding for Working Families Tax Credit •Reducing the B&O tax on small businesses •Increasing the B&O tax increase on high end service businesses like lawyers, architects and accountants •Keeping the Rainy day Fund intact •Also 1703 Reforming Tax exemptions!! We will see what survives and what else is stealthily added like funding for Charter schools attached to a levy lid lift bill. -League of Women Voters Newsletter 4/14/19
Environment • Buried in the proposed Washington state budget is a plan to spend $534,000 to “study” the use of the lawn pesticide imidacloprid to kill naturally occurring burrowing shrimp in shellfish aquaculture. Imidacloprid is an insecticide neurotoxin and instructions for use specifically warn against use in water. • We are dismayed that legislators inserted the study into the budget after HB 1611 and SB 5626 never made it out of committee. Contact your legislators now to request that this expensive and toxic study be removed from the budget. -League of Women Voters 4/14/19
white supremacist ideology, the alt right typically attracts younger , and more aggressive white men, who hold extreme conservative beliefs. It is a movement that uses social media, online chat boards (such as reddit, 4chan, and discord), memes and websites to recruit new members and spread racist content. They typically rally against multiculturism, immigration, feminism and "political correctness". E.g.: Patriot Prayer Though the alt right used to be contained to primarily online, that has quickly changed. Emboldened by the open racism of President Trump, they have begun to resort to more instances of real world violence and aggression.
for being a progressive region, hate is still able thrive here, partly because our past was founded on hate. Oregon was founded to be a whites only paradise in 1844 and black Americans were not legally allowed to live there. And in WA state redlining and racial covenants kept non- whites out of many neighborhoods until the 1970's, and the KKK had one of the largest hubs on the west coast in the Seattle area until the 1930's.
racist past https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/Pages/life-race.aspx https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/31/portland-white-supremacy- racism-train-stabbing-murder WA's racist past: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/kkk_history.htm Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate map for WA: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map?state=WA
heart of philosophical nonviolence is taking action to oppose injustice and winning over one's enemies through love and redemptive suffering. • Community members who adopt philosophical nonviolence try to love their enemies and to refrain from any form of violence in all aspects of their lives. • Includes pacifists, adherents of Gandhian and Kingian creeds, members of specific religious communities (e.g., the Quaker community). • Tactical Nonviolence. • Tactical Nonviolent Resistance is a tool for building political power as an organizing technique and as part of an overarching political strategy to achieve specific goals. • Community members who adopt tactical nonviolence may adopt other tactics in other situations - both personal and political. • NSP community members have agreed to adopt tactical nonviolence because we want to win and we agree that nonviolence is the most effective way to accomplish our goals through political means. These are endpoints on a continuum of behavior and not discrete or separate concepts. These endpoints are mutually supportive. Reference: Bruce Hartford, 2004 “Two Kinds of Nonviolent Resistance”
nonviolence, they think of a sort of passivity, a peacefulness. If you are talking about the Civil Rights Movement and our practice of nonviolence, you have to think of aggressive, confrontational activity, edgy activity; action designed to paralyze things as they are, nonviolent actions to force change.“ Bernice Johnson Reagon Founding member, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Singers Organizer and Member, Sweet Honey in the Rock
to influence people towards affecting some kind of social/political change. Demonstration participants are saying “NO” and speaking truth to power. Fundamental protest audiences are: • Participants. The nonviolent resistors engaged in the protest. • Observers. The individuals at the businesses or institutions the protest is targeting, and the uninvolved bystanders who encounter or observe the protest. • Grapevine. Those who directly hear about the protest from some other person whom they know (including through personal social media such as Twitter, FaceBook, & etc). • Media. Those who learn of the protest through impersonal mass media. Reference: Bruce Hartford, 2011 “The Onion Theory of Nonviolent Protest”
Participants: The participants gain strength through collective action, through standing together to say “NO”. • Everyone else: The direct observers and those who learn about it through the grapevine or media will take their own message from the event and its tactics. The demeanor and discipline of the participants significantly affects the message received and internalized by observers. Observers have to process the message “NO”. Will they awaken and realize they can also say “NO”? Or will they recoil in horror and turn away from the protestors? Remember: whatever people fear, they will hate and oppose. Reference: Bruce Hartford, 2011 “The Onion Theory of Nonviolent Protest”
can help peacekeeping, the energy of the event, and the success of the event! You can help other attendees remain calm and focused on the goals of the event. Model your best self, support the cause, and appreciate the work of volunteers supporting the event– it’s contagious! If there are counter-protesters: • Focus your attention and energy (and that of those around you) towards the event and away from disruptions. Ignore counter-protesters- and don’t give them any useful video footage. • Let the peacekeepers and safety officers step in: for example, peacekeepers may create a distance between counter‐protesters and their intended audience- let them do this! Don’t: • Allow yourself to escalate • Encourage those around you escalate • Argue with counter-protesters • Physically confront counter‐protesters • Physically touch (or in any way contact) others, especially if they are agitated • Put your safety or the safety of other attendees at risk in any way.
IN THE NSP PAMPHLET (2 COPIES PER TEAM AVAILABLE)! KREMLINGATE: Game Room ENVIRONMENT: Meeting Room HEALTHCARE: Conference Room ELECTIONS/IMMIGRATION: Meeting Room
energy, 5116, passed the State House, it has now been voted on in both chambers! We need one more push to make 100% clean a reality by 2045, we need to greatly increase our energy efficiency. And save our orca and our state’s waters. PLEASE MAKE A COUPLE MORE CALLS TO GET THESE BILLS OVER THE FINISH LINE. There are key efficiency bills that need a SENATE Floor vote! Please contact your own Senator and ask them to support these bills! Also, contact Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib, the President of the Senate, 360 786 7770 or [email protected] and Majority Leader Senator Andy Billig, 360 786 7604 or [email protected] ASK THEM TO PLEASE SCHEDULE THESE FOR FLOOR VOTES. 1257 increasing building efficiency 1444 appliance efficiency 1114 reducing food waste 1112 reducing hydrofluorocarbons; hydrofluorocarbons are much more potent greenhouse gases than C02 or methane and are widely used for cooling. On the HOUSE side, several important bills to help Orca and marine life and clean water, still need to be scheduled on the House floor. Please contact your State Representatives and ask them to support these bills. Also contact Speaker Frank Chopp 360 786 7920 or [email protected] and ask him to PLEASE SCHEDULE THESE FOR FLOOR VOTES. 5135 reduce toxic pollution 5577 reduce vessel noise 5323 ban plastic bags 5322 clean water
Snohomish County PUD Commissioners a message -Use the below email template, and direct your messages to each of these three SnoPUD Commissioners: • Sidney (Sid) Logan: [email protected] • Rebecca Wolfe: [email protected] • Tanya (Toni) Olson: [email protected] • Sample Commissioner Message: Dear Commissioner _________, There is a 100% Clean Electricity bill in the state legislature that will move Washington to a clean electricity future. As a SnoPUD customer, I ask that you, your colleagues on the Commission, and the utility leadership and staff support a strong 100% Clean Electricity bill. Thank you, (Your Name)
Film: https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaig n=6fede9f436- EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_22_11_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c58 26c50-6fede9f436-59118945&mc_cid=6fede9f436&mc_eid=9b75e4a6b7 Immigration: ICE hotline 844-724-3737 – Keep this in your phone and call if you see potential ICE activity that needs to be investigated
has launched a despicable and irresponsible attack on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, sharing a propaganda video questioning the Congresswoman's loyalty to the United States. This is as dangerous as it is unprecedented. Representative Omar is receiving countless death threats as the president of the United States is inciting violence against a Black Muslim sitting member of congress, putting her life at risk. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/suspend-trump-from-facebook-and-twitter/ Other: Town Hall with Pramila Jayapal, Kim Schrier – Mon 4/15 6:30-7:45pm Seattle University, Pigott Auditorium
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