From barnes992001 at yahoo.com Tue Jul 24 14:55:22 2007 From: barnes992001 at yahoo.com (Steve Barney) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:55:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Seac] ALERT: Oshkosh City Council & "US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement" Message-ID: <67295.94646.qm@web51702.mail.re2.yahoo.com> [Spread the Word!] If you can, please attend tonight's Oshkosh City Council meeting and make a 5 minute "citizen's statement" encouraging Oshkosh Mayor Frank Tower to sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement - see: HTML Text: U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement http://usmayors.org/uscm/resolutions/73rd_conference/en_01.asp PDF copy: US Mayor?s Climate Protection Agreement http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/climate/PDF/Resolution_FinalLanguage_06-13-05.pdf This mayors agreement began as a local initiative in the City of Seattle on the day that the Kyoto Protocol went into effect around the world, and over 600 mayors have now signed it. 2 weeks ago, I attended the Oshkosh City Council meeting, and asked Oshkosh Mayor Frank Tower to sign that agreement. Oshkosh City Councilor Tony Palmeri http://tonypalmeri.com followed with a councilor's statement on "sustainable Oshkosh", in which he agreed that our mayor should sign that agreement, and will work on it. He needs our HELP, NOW! Here's the agenda: Agenda Cover http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us/weblink/index.asp?DocumentID=445195&FolderID=432218&SearchHandle=0&DocViewType=ShowImage&LeftPaneType=Hidden&dbid=0&page=1 Whole Agenda http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us/weblink/index.asp?DocumentID=445201&FolderID=432218&SearchHandle=0&DocViewType=FolderContents&LeftPaneType=FolderContents&dbid=0 more info: Seattle Mayor Nickels - US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement: http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/climate Mayors Climate Protection Center http://usmayors.org/climateprotection Mayors Climate Protection Center: The Agreement http://usmayors.org/climateprotection/agreement.htm It would also be helpful to write a letter to the editor, a letter to the councilors and mayor http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us/City_Council_Directory.htm , etc. Be creative. Thank you, Steve Barney Oshkosh, WI "Unless you can refute the central argument of this book, you should now recognize that speciesism is wrong, and this means that, if you take morality seriously, you should try to eliminate speciesist practices from your own life, and oppose them elsewhere. Otherwise no basis remains from which you can, without hypocrisy, criticize racism or sexism." --_Animal Liberation_ (2002), by Peter Singer, pgs 251-2: Excerpt: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0060011572/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/103-1022246-8587017?ie=UTF8&p=S00S#reader-link ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC From carpepax at riseup.net Tue Jul 24 22:40:32 2007 From: carpepax at riseup.net (Bob Poeschl) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:40:32 -0500 Subject: [Seac] FW: Oshkosh Book Collective Event! You are Invited on August 9th! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi everyone! This is going out to catch everyone up on the status of the lending library and invite you all to the next event. COME TO THE BOOK TRADE! We're meeting again next month to swap our old books and share ideas for the library. Bring a snack, tea or coffee if you want and a few books to trade. This will be really informal and while Bob might try and talk you into becoming a member, there is of course, no pressure. Thursday August 9th, 7pm 321 Market St downtown Oshkosh We have set a tentative plan to operate for 20 hours a week, from the Peace and Justice Center Space, starting in September. Folks are out there poking around for more sources for books (we have a few!) and shelving. Other than that, we need more people that want this to happen to get involved. MORE SPECIFICS ON MEMBERSHIP What does it mean to be a Collective Member? Is it like being a Communist Party member? No... but you might get to carry a card. Operating collectively means that in all our interactions but especially in decisions regarding the Library we make the effort to respect each other and keep an equal balance of power, with each giving what they can and taking only what they need. This might mean listening when we might otherwise talk, or speaking up when we might otherwise be silent. Letting someone else arrange the shelves or doing the dishes for once. It might be strange for anyone not used to it, but it's worth it in the long run! Being a Collective Member also means having a spot in the meetings and a say on the direction of the Library, what books we want in, hours, etc. How long and how much you want to be involved is ultimately up to you, just keep us in the know. Beyond that there's the financial nitty gritty: because monthly rent is $275, each member would contribute $10 a month, ($120 dollars for the year,) OR 10 hours of "librarian" time a month, or any combination of the two (like 5 hours and $5 a month.) Of course more time and dough is welcome if you want. There's still free bagels involved. (Be grateful I spared you the dough/bagel pun.) COME TO THE BOOK TRADE! We're meeting again next month to swap our old books and share ideas for the library. Bring a snack, tea or coffee if you want and a few books to trade. This will be really informal and while Bob might try and talk you into becoming a member, there is of course, no pressure. Thursday August 9th, 7pm 321 Market St downtown Oshkosh Yours Truly, OSHKOSH BOOK COLLECTIVE PS-Pass on this message to everyone you know and wheat-paste the flyer attached everywhere you can. ------ End of Forwarded Message -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thursday August 9th, 7pm 321 Market St downtown Oshkosh We have set a tentative plan to operate for 20 hours a week, from the Peace and Justice Center Space, starting in September. Folks are out there poking around for more sources for books (we have a few!) and shelving. Other than that, we need more people that want this to happen to get involved. MORE SPECIFICS ON MEMBERSHIP What does it mean to be a Collective Member? Is it like being a Communist Party member? No... but you might get to carry a card. Operating collectively means that in all our interactions but especially in decisions regarding the Library we make the effort to respect each other and keep an equal balance of power, with each giving what they can and taking only what they need. This might mean listening when we might otherwise talk, or speaking up when we might otherwise be silent. Letting someone else arrange the shelves or doing the dishes for once. It might be strange for anyone not used to it, but it's worth it in the long run! Being a Collective Member also means having a spot in the meetings and a say on the direction of the Library, what books we want in, hours, etc. How long and how much you want to be involved is ultimately up to you, just keep us in the know. Beyond that there's the financial nitty gritty: because monthly rent is $275, each member would contribute $10 a month, ($120 dollars for the year,) OR 10 hours of "librarian" time a month, or any combination of the two (like 5 hours and $5 a month.) Of course more time and dough is welcome if you want. There's still free bagels involved. (Be grateful I spared you the dough/bagel pun.) COME TO THE BOOK TRADE! We're meeting again next month to swap our old books and share ideas for the library. Bring a snack, tea or coffee if you want and a few books to trade. This will be really informal and while Bob might try and talk you into becoming a member, there is of course, no pressure. Thursday August 9th, 7pm 321 Market St downtown Oshkosh Yours Truly, OSHKOSH BOOK COLLECTIVE PS-Pass on this message to everyone you know and wheat-paste the flyer attached everywhere you can. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: flyerOBC_0002.jpg Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1554635 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.uwosh.edu/archives/seac/mh/attachments/20070724/603d7d9f/attachment.dll From barnes992001 at yahoo.com Sun Jul 29 15:27:46 2007 From: barnes992001 at yahoo.com (Steve Barney) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Seac] ALERT: Ask Oshkosh Mayor to sign Climate Protection Agreement Message-ID: <253373.46009.qm@web51706.mail.re2.yahoo.com> [Please SPREAD THE WORD] Here is an action alert and update on the current call for the Mayor of the City of Oshkosh to sign the US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, which was sounded at the Oshkosh City Council meeting of July 10. 1. Attached is a digital audio file of the council member statement on "Sustainable Oshkosh" that Oshkosh City Council member Tony Palmeri gave at the Oshkosh City Council meeting of July 10. It begins at 1:44 minutes and continues to the end of the file. In that statement, Palmeri supported my request that the mayor sign the US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, which I made in my citizen statement minutes before Palmeri's statement (see my letter, included below, and the Minutes of that meeting, page 8 http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us/weblink/index.asp?DocumentID=445444&FolderID=432217&SearchHandle=0&DocViewType=ShowImage&LeftPaneType=Hidden&dbid=0&page=8 ). In his statement, Palmeri said, "I do think that the mayor should sign the climate protection agreement that Mr. Barney talked about" (2:40 minutes). 2. A copy of my latest letter to the editor, as it appears in today's Oshkosh Northwestern, is included below. It asks the Mayor of Oshkosh to sign the US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. I encourage you to submit your own letter http://www.thenorthwestern.com/contact/forms/editor_letter.shtml in support of this call. You may also comment about this letter in the online forum regarding today's letters (see the "Add Comment" link at end of the online letter). 3. Please attend the next Oshkosh City Council meeting (6 pm, Tuesday, Aug 14, Oshkosh City Hall, 4th floor), and make a statement in support of the call to sign the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreeement. You may preview the agenda online at http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us/weblink/mainframe.asp?DocumentID=445444&FolderID=432219&SearchHandle=0&DocViewType=FolderContents&LeftPaneType=FolderContents&dbid=0 . It should be there no later than Friday, Aug 10. If the agreement is not on the agenda, you can make a 5 minute statement during the "citizen's statements" portion of the meeting. If it is on the agenda, you can make a 5 minute statement when that agenda item comes up. You may also write or contact the council members directly (City of Oshkosh - City Council Directory http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us/City_Council_Directory.htm ). For further information, you may contact myself at this email address, or Tony Palmeri. -- "Oshkosh should support climate protections" http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007707290434 First, at the Oshkosh City Council meeting of June 26, a woman representing WISPIRG (wispirg.org) urged Oshkosh to use more renewable energy. Upon hearing that, I immediately forwarded an Environment News Service article titled "U.S. Mayors Take the Lead in Fighting Climate Change" to Mayor Tower, which describes a survey of cities that have signed the "US Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement" usmayors.org/climateprotection/agreement.htm and how they have met its goals. In a citizen's statement of my own at the succeeding Oshkosh City Council meeting, July 10, I asked Mayor Tower to sign that agreement, which began as an initiative in Seattle. As I told the council, on the day that the Kyoto Protocol went into effect, February 16, 2005, the Mayor of Seattle asked mayors across the U.S. to join him by signing that U.S. mayor's agreement and strive to meet the goals of the Kyoto Protocol, in spite of the federal government, within their city (see: seattle.gov/mayor/climate). As of today, over 600 mayors have signed on. The agreement lists a few actions cities may take; such as: inventory global warming emissions within the city implement policies to reduce urban sprawl promote transportation options such as bike trails use alternative energy on fleet vehicles use Energy Star approved equipment replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs Furthermore, Oshkosh City Councilor Tony Palmeri followed-up with a statement of his own on "Sustainable Oshkosh," in which he, likewise, urged the mayor to sign that agreement. Please help out, now. Steve Barney Oshkosh --END of Letter-- TY, Steve Barney Oshkosh, WI non-partisan "Unless you can refute the central argument of this book, you should now recognize that speciesism is wrong, and this means that, if you take morality seriously, you should try to eliminate speciesist practices from your own life, and oppose them elsewhere. Otherwise no basis remains from which you can, without hypocrisy, criticize racism or sexism." --_Animal Liberation_ (2002), by Peter Singer, pgs 251-2: Excerpt: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0060011572/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/103-1022246-8587017?ie=UTF8&p=S00S#reader-link ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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