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Dec 21

Written by: Tom
12/21/2009 12:34 PM 

Let’s marvel at industry’s attention to breast cancer and menopause only where profitable. Let’s marvel at the back of hand misogyny of a Congress whose palm is out for the healthcare industry to salve. And let’s marvel at the spectacle of senator Ben Nelson making sure women cannot get care for a basic female need. Let’s recoil from all that callous hypocrisy to honor what women do in addition to supplying half the brains on this planet. I hardly know where to begin, so might as well start with the two mammaries, those wonderful hug bumpers. Industry has interfered with their primary purpose by sly promotion of bottle feeding here and by criminal promotion of bottle feeding in the third world. Industry has hijacked their secondary function of attraction to create an unhealthy fixation on fake standards of beauty. All of this contributes to the noted travesties. Anyway in regard to mammaries I am reminded of a story about cows my wife told her grandaughter the other day.

My wife grew up on a dairy farm in Oppdal, Norway where each summer cows were sent to a pasture 1000 meters above the valley. What bottom land existed was needed in the summer to grow hay. The high pasture produced a fine deep yellow butter. To this day the name of that pasture appears on dairy labels even though the last cows were sent up in the seventies. The cows were milked by girls, one reason perhaps was a six to one plurality of girls in that family. One cow is remembered above the rest, Lucky, for over eight years the bell cow. When the time came that comes to all dairy cows, my wife’s mother went to get Lucky. My wife, now seventy-seven, started to describe Lucky’s expression as my wife’s mother approached but could not finish for the tears. Now why should that come to mind. I think it was the size of the gulf separating the cruelty of the US Senate from the humanity of the bond between cow and woman.

Mitigation of the unpleasant effects of menopause has been highjacked to sell needlessly harmful hormone replacements.

If prevention of breast cancer had received one percent of the cost for chemo and surgery then breast cancer today would be just a bad memory. What an if. The pandemic of breast cancer is the result of chemical contamination of food and enviroment plus the ministrations of poverty, in other words, the total hijacking for profit of the stuff of life. Breast cancer is the canary in the cage of our capitalist society.

Congress has persisted in allowing industry to hijack women’s most basic health concerns for the sake of profit. Yet Congress brushes off the impotent rage of the populace with grand speech and forked tongue,

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March 9th Agenda: Second Draft - Monday, March 01, 2010

Hello again everyone! Spencer Campbell here. Preparations for the upcoming meeting are going as smoothly as can be expected, considering I am all but cold calling people. It will be happening at Joy's house, as usual.

Some of you may have noticed that there was no new announcement last Monday. This is because, unexpectedly, no one added more items to the agenda that week. This week, however, there is one new item contributed by Maryrose Asher. An update is certainly in order!

1): I will give a treasury report. -- Jeannie Ernst (inferred)

2): "I will explain the meeting format." -- Spencer Campbell

3): "Who should facilitate the April meeting?" -- Spencer Campbell

4): "What do we want to accomplish by meeting here today?" -- Spencer Campbell

5): "Would an annual plan be realistic - and would it be a good or bad thing for us?!" -- John Cornelison

6): What should we do about the strawberry parade? -- John Cornelison (paraphrased)

7): I will give an update on Richard Curtis's senate campaign. -- Maryrose Asher (paraphrased)

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March 9th Agenda: First Draft - Monday, February 15, 2010

For those of you who didn't get the memo*... hi. My name is Spencer Campbell, and I'll be your facilitator for the March meeting. Because I believe in optimizing the efficiency of everything I can get a hold of, I'll be using my own format on a trial basis. Instead of an agenda consisting of explicitly-scheduled items, an agenda for my meetings consists of a simple numbered list of questions and statements (with corresponding speaker). There is no time attached to these items, and no guarantee that we will get around to them, but as a rule those appearing higher in the list will be addressed earlier in the meeting.

*Yes, there was an actual memo. It was on the mailing list! It's difficult to imagine anyone who reads the website yet neglects to read the mailing list, but I would be remiss to assume.

The first draft of the March agenda follows. It's worth noting that, as of 0001 hours on March 9th, this agenda will be finalized and fixed. No new items will be added, no old items removed, and no sneaky rearrangement of existing items will occur. If you have an issue that you'd like addressed, you should send an Email to me as soon as possible so that I can tack it on. (Please phrase it in such a way that I can convey the concept to the group in one or two sentences.)

Generally, items will be ordered on a first-come first-serve basis. In this case the first three items are mostly a holdover from the previous meeting format, so I have Jeannie making the first announcement even though I haven't actually heard from her.

1): I will give a treasury report. -- Jeannie Ernst (inferred)

2): "I will explain the meeting format." -- Spencer Campbell

3): "Who should facilitate the April meeting?" -- Spencer Campbell

4): "What do we want to accomplish by meeting here today?" -- Spencer Campbell

5): "Would an annual plan be realistic - and would it be a good or bad thing for us?!" -- John Cornelison

6): What should we do about the strawberry parade? -- John Cornelison (paraphrased)

That's it for the time being. From now until the meeting itself (which is on a Tuesday, mind), I will be posting the latest version of the agenda as an announcement here every Monday. I'll be personally contacting as many known affiliates of the VMIGP as possible, finding out whether they're coming and if they have any issues to bring up, but if you want to save me some time or if you just want to chat:
795-7767
Lacertilian@gmail.com

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Tuesday, February 9 Membership Meeting Agenda - Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Vashon Maury Island Green Party Proposed Agenda for Monthly Membership Meeting
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 – 7:00 PM Joy Goldstein’s

7:00 Modify/Approve Agenda
7:05 Modify/Approve January 12, 2010 Minutes
7:10 Treasurer’s Report
7:15 Choose facilitator for March meeting
7:20 Announcements
7:25 Melvin Mackey -- Status of "The End of Money" at Vashon College.
 7:30 Joy Goldstein -- Status of the Political Party forum for Ms. Powell's High School Government Class.
7:40 "Feminism" as one of the Ten Key Values -- Changes?
8:10 "Decentralization" as one of the Ten Key Values -- Changes?
8:50 New Business / Good of the Order
8:58 Next Meeting -- Date, Time, and Place
9:00 Adjourn

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