Santa Cruz Bioneers --
Intro Emails

Nov '03 1st email | 2nd email | Jan '04 email

Greetings Bioneers,

We had almost 40 people sign up to receive e-mails, and nearly 100 fliers were picked up. We're also trying to spread the word locally to people who missed the meeting last weekend but would like to join us. In addition, we're hoping to tie-in with the crowd who saw Michael Moore on Sunday, so if you have friends who were there and want to share their ideas and opinions from that experience, please invite them to join us! I understand that the two sold-out crowds at his talks had a similarly juicy experience, and it seems we could come together in common cause and see what we can co-create.

We're hoping for an energized turn-out on Sunday, November 2nd (2:00 p.m., on the 2nd floor of the central branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library on Church Street). Please bring any notes you have about what you saw, and any questions you'd like to ask other attendees about things you might have missed. Also, bring along any literature you picked up that you'd like to pass on to others. This is our chance to get to know other locals who share our interests, others who have been inspired by Bioneers and want to use that energy to build a local community.

We're hoping that we can get some regular meetings and discussions going, so think about if and when that can fit into your schedule, and what you'd like to discuss, develop or do.

See you then-
Michelle

P.S. The website "Common Dreams" has posted an article about Bioneers from the SF Chronicle at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1020-04.htm if you'd like to see how the press responded to such an extraordinary gathering.

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Hi again Santa Cruz Bioneers-

I don't want to overwhelm your inboxes, but one of you (Mish) suggested these two events for this week that should interest a lot of people on the list. The first (starting this evening) is the EARTH VISION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in Santa Cruz - see http://earthvisionfest.org/ for more info.

The second is "a conference scheduled to be held on the UCSC campus on touch screen voting machines, with some excellent people as headliners, including David Dill from Stanford… Clearly, there are umpteen environmental social justice issues to be worked on but it is my sense that none of them stand a chance unless we dump this administration in the next election. And, if the 2000 and 2002 elections are any indication, this administration will employ every method, legal and otherwise, to ensure their winning in 2004. Electronic balloting systems without a "voter verifiable physical audit trail" is tailor made for the possibility of "tampering". "

Michael Moore was on Democracy Now! this morning on KUSP, and I believe KUSP plans to air one of his Santa Cruz talks in a few weeks. If you missed it, you can get audio, video or transcript free from Democracy Now! over the web at http://www.democracynow.org

I realize that I did not BCC the list when I sent it out. I'm hoping everyone is okay with this, and that everyone will be respectful of the others on the list and keep correspondence to a reasonable minimum. This is one of the issues we should discuss on Nov 2nd. If anyone out there is or knows a sympathetic techie with a little spare time to help set up listservs, please let me know (I've never done it before, and I don't know what I need for it).

If you plan to go to either of these events, feel free to print out some announcements to pass around about our upcoming gathering for kindred spirits there. I'll put a printable version on my website -- http://www.rattlebrain.com/~apegrrl. I'll put more information on these two items and on our Nov 2nd meeting (and any subsequent info) on my website as well. Don't worry if you can't make Nov 2nd, I'm sure there's more to come.

-Michelle

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Jan '04 email

Hi Bioneers! This email includes news about the January 18th meeting and an important message about email announcements. I've also set up a new website specific to Santa Cruz Bioneers at http://www.baymoon.com/~scbioneers Please have a look, and contact me (apegrrl<AT>rattlebrain<DOT>com ) with any suggestions.

Our next meeting is this Sunday, January 18th at 2:00 at the Santa Cruz Library, Central Branch, 2nd Floor (handicapped accessible), Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA. In December we had started to build strategies for hosting a Beaming Bioneers conference in October 2004.

Last week we got word that Bioneers isn't going to consider applications for this year for Northern California. Judy and I greeted this news with both disappointment (because it was a really exciting proposal) and relief (because it might have been more work than we could accomplish in one year).

So at the meeting this week, we will discuss proposals for what we'd like to do instead. Many people expressed a desire to have more time for education and discussion of Bioneers topics. Others were more interested in tangible local activities. Together, we can plan for future gatherings to address our wishes for both thoughtful reflection and constructive practice.

For more information, call Judy at (831) 251-5939 or email Michelle at apegrrl<AT>rattlebrain<DOT>com

IMPORTANT EMAIL LIST ISSUES: People have had problems getting the emails I sent to the list due to spam-filter settings. I am taking extra time and sending these in small batches to avert the problem for this email. I can't take the time to do this again, so we need to find another solution.

Chris Burbridge suggested using the automated, free Yahoo! Groups feature to simplify email announcements and avoid issues with most spam filters. I'd like to try it out, but I need more people to join the email list that way. I only got four responses from my first request. To be on the new e-mail list, please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scbioneers, and click the "Join this Group!" button on the right of the screen. You won't get any spam through this, and we'll limit the emails to meeting announcements or critical, time-sensitive issues.

Finally, I've set up a new website with a somewhat simpler address - http://www.baymoon.com/~scbioneers. Look to this website for more information, links, notes from earlier meetings, and other updates in the future. If you have browser bookmarks or webpage links, you might want to change them to http://www.baymoon.com/~scbioneers (I've included a link from the old site to the new one, in case you loose track, but future updates will all be on the new one).

See you Sunday!

-Michelle

 

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