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Proposed Distribution of State Committee Members
Thursday July 05, @10:11AM Thursday July 05, @10:11AM by Jamie O'Keefe
I was asked by Rose to compute the number of state committee members in each county or sub-county and give an explanation as to how I arrived at that number. Here it is.

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MGP By-laws ratified on 6/3/2001 (Updated)
Wednesday June 13, @02:56PM Wednesday June 13, @02:56PM by Jamie O'Keefe
Gil suggested a number of oversights on my part. I have corrected them. Specifically, I failed to add sections 7.6-7.8 and to include regional reps in 9.2. I have corrected this problems.
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MGP by-laws ratified on 6/3/2001
Friday June 08, @12:53PM Friday June 08, @12:53PM by Jamie O'Keefe
Here are the by-laws we ratified at the 2001 congress. I believe I have added all of the changes we approved and removed those we did not. Please email me if you see that I missed anything or added things I should not have.
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Statistics on Mass. Green Party Members and Voters
Saturday June 02, @01:00AM Saturday June 02, @01:00AM by Jamie O'Keefe
Here is some information on our dues-paying members and registered voters.
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Final draft of Rainbow Green resolution
Friday June 01, @03:14PM Friday June 01, @03:14PM by Gil Obler
from the Tired ready for summer dept.
Final draft. We have responded to some of the feedback on this site, in email, and in phone conversations.
All reference to the name of the merged party has been deleted, as have all references to the word immediate.
We clarified that the labor caucus is just one of many issue caucueses (as we always intended).
We removed the sharing of lists, since we only intended for locals to do this.
We clarified that the joint committee does not mean that two bodies do not also have separate governing bodies functioning prior to a final merger.
We moved the date of the first draft platform and bylaws to Jan 1, 2002.
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Tentative Congress Rules (DRAFT)
Friday June 01, @01:58PM Friday June 01, @01:58PM by Jamie O'Keefe
Here are the tentative congress rules in PDF format. The ms-word version is attached in a reply.
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Proposed Changes to the By-laws and the Amendments to those Changes (Revised)
Friday June 01, @01:43PM Friday June 01, @01:43PM by Jamie O'Keefe
I have gone through the list of changes we made at the Saturday, May 26th review meeting and implemented in the proposed changes or as amendments to the proposed changes. The first two pages are a summary of the proposed changes and the amendments. The PDF version is attached.
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Voting Systems suggested document
Friday June 01, @01:43AM Friday June 01, @01:43AM by Dan Keshet
from the of arcane bylaws... dept.
This is my suggestions for the voting systems, based on Jamie's original document.

Somebody might want to help translate into English.

Also, there are variations which must be selected from.
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My version coming out of Saturday's meeting
Monday May 28, @11:24PM Monday May 28, @11:24PM by Gil Obler
from the Structure and Procedures dept.
Here is my version of the (mostly) unified proposals. Jamie is working on his copy independently and hopefully they come out reasonably the same.
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Modified RGL (Rainbow-Green merger) proposal
Monday May 28, @06:21PM Monday May 28, @06:21PM by Gil Obler
from the RGL working group dept.
Changed "must" to "should" in last sentence to address concerns about:
1) mandating a date for implementation as opposed to a filing date,
2) need for another vote of the general membership on the specific merger proposal once it is drafted (we are only asking for a mandate to continue the process and a timetable for the talks, not asking for approval of something that is not written yet, the actual merger)
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suggestions about the bylaw changes
Saturday May 26, @07:07PM Saturday May 26, @07:07PM by Neil Brick
from the bylaw changes dept.
Disagree with change 2 and 6
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A few more suggested changes
Friday May 25, @10:31AM Friday May 25, @10:31AM by Jamie O'Keefe
Looking over the JJ draft, I find that we missed a few things.
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Since we will be meeting at noon on Saturday...
Friday May 25, @10:24AM Friday May 25, @10:24AM by Jamie O'Keefe
Since we will be meeting at noon on Saturday, I suggest that people bring their appetites and show up a little early so we can get some food from the many fine establishments in Davis Sq. Or bring it yourself.
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Rudy Perkin's comments
Thursday May 24, @11:55PM Thursday May 24, @11:55PM by Rudy Perkins
Rudy Perkin's comments
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Update to Damon and Gil's bylaws revisions
Thursday May 24, @11:44PM Thursday May 24, @11:44PM by Gil Obler and Damon Harrison
from the Structure and Procedures Working Group dept.
More changes as requested by Damon, Dan Keshet, Joe DelGizzi, and Rudy Perkins.
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June 3rd 2001 Congress Voting Rights Proposal
Thursday May 24, @09:36PM Thursday May 24, @09:36PM by Gil Obler
from the Structures and Procedures Working Group dept.
This proposal intended for the floor of the MGP June 3, 2001 Congress at the earliest possible oppotunity, extends the franchise for the duration of the Congress to registered voters in the MGP (who have not paid dues), to Rainbow Coalition members, and to youth ages 14-18, convicted felons, and immigrants who agree to the Ten Key values and to join the MGP in the next year if they are allowed to by party rules.
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Rainbow-Green Labor Merger Proposal
Thursday May 24, @08:58PM Thursday May 24, @08:58PM by Gil Obler and the RGL working group
from the RGL working group dept.
This proposal, planned to be presented at both the Massachusetts Green Party and Rainbow Coalition Party Congresses in June, creates the timetable and action plan for the merger process that was agreed to by the general membership in January,
but which has resulted in only one official meeting by the leadership since.
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Text version of Damon/Gil mods
Wednesday May 23, @04:42PM Wednesday May 23, @04:42PM by Gil Obler and Damon Harrison
from the Structure and Procedures Working Group dept.
export as HTML version sucks (numbering is all wrong, etc.), so I just copied into a text file and attached it.
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Damon/Gil bylaws modifications
Wednesday May 23, @04:15PM Wednesday May 23, @04:15PM by Gil Obler and Damon Harrison
from the Structure and Procedures Working Group dept.
We have taken the great work by Jamie and Jonathan and made several modifications. We left the original versions of each section by Jamie and Jonathan in the doc with our mods and additions noted. 4.1 is mostly rewritten, 5.3 had minor modification, 6.6 was added, and sections 9.2 and 9.4 are significantly different.
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comments on by-law proposal
Monday May 21, @05:30PM Monday May 21, @05:30PM by Jeff O'Neill
Attached are some coments regarding the by-law proposal. Overall I think it looks great. Big problem in the IRV section.
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Pre-Congress structure working group meeting
Tuesday May 15, @01:31PM Tuesday May 15, @01:31PM by Many people
We will have a meeting at the the Mystic River Greens office on Saturday, May 26th from noon to 4 pm to reconcile any issues with the current by-law changes prior to the Congress on June 3rd.
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Minutes of the December 15th concerning future of Greens in Massachusetts
Thursday May 10, @03:25PM Thursday May 10, @03:25PM by Many people
These are the meeting notes from the 12/15 meeting on the where the Greens should go in MA. It goes over projects on which we should focus and has ideas on a new structure.
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Proposed Changes to the By-laws
Monday May 07, @05:27PM Monday May 07, @05:27PM by Jamie O'Keefe
Here is a summary of changes to proposed changes to the by-laws Jonathan Leavitt and James O'Keefe have written. The last date for comments is May 25th and they should be added to the web site. We will hold a meeting on either the 26th or 27th at hopefully the Davis Sq. office to go over proposed changes. From this meeting will come a draft document and, where we could not agree, a set of amendments to that document to be voted on at the meeting. All Greens are invited to attend this review meeting.
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Working Groups Proposal, accepted at Jan 2001 SC Meeting
Sunday May 06, @01:30PM Sunday May 06, @01:30PM by Jamie O'Keefe
This proposal outlined several working groups to better distribute the work of the MGP steering committee.
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