October 2006 Local Meeting
From SP Boston
The Socialist Party of Greater Boston met at noon on Sunday, 29 October 2006 in the Harvest Co-op Community Room in Cambridge. We discussed the upcoming elections, heard a report from the National Committee meeting of 21-22 October, and organized for future actions such as the 18 November Stop the War Profiteers March.
[edit] Agenda
[edit] Public discussion
- Brief introductions (5 minutes)
- Discussion: Election 2006: What do we care? (50 minutes)
- It's time again for America's biennial political circus. But should we really care?
- Can anything really be accomplished through elections? Is there anything to be gained by voting for Democrats? Are third parties the answer or a waste of time? Can the system be improved, if so, how?
[edit] Short break
- Anybody who doesn't care to stay for the business meeting may leave without a fuss (5 minutes or less).
[edit] Business
- Form a "No War but Class War Campaign Committee" for the new YPSL Campaign, and try getting other organizations involved.
- Organize for the 18 November Stop the War Profiteers March and other future events.
- Organize carpools to the 11 November 2006 Regional Meeting in Brattleboro. Current plans are to leave from Alewife around 9:00 AM.
- Announcements of and planning for any other future actions on people's minds.
- Report from the National Committee meeting of 21-22 October.
- How to get info from Greg about members' contact information.
- Other Reports of recent news, events and actions.
- T picket
- SFA days of action
- Info about Ocean Press books through Greg
- Update on Web site status
- Getting in touch and working with other groups.
- Plan future local meetings
- Date, time, location -- possibly for both November and January
- Potential discussion topics:
- Community-labor organizing.
- A workshop on democratic socialism (and implicitly the Socialist Party USA, as the only democratic socialist party in Massachusetts). Potential resources include You Don't Have to be a Saint to be a Socialist, The Two Souls of Socialism, SP USA statement of principles.