Seattle Educators - 8 for 4 School Board Candidates!

EACH of us needs to reach out to 8 friends and family to recommend the following 4 school board members. EACH of us needs to email or to talk in person or to phone call 8 Seattle voter people who trust us on this school stuff. 

Hello out there in working teacher & working educator world! Remember starting the school year on strike! Why were we on picket lines instead of in our buildings and our classrooms, with our kids?

Do you remember Superintendent Nyland's bargaining team ignoring our bargaining team from May until August 17, when they rejected everything? Do you remember the hardball from the district? Do you remember that the Seattle Public School School Board voted to give Mr. Nyland authority to take us to court for exercising a human right to organize and to petition for redress of grievance? (except for Sue Peters and Betty Patu)? Do you remember that this was the school board which hired Mr. Nyland last November, at the last minute, with an announcement of a key meeting on the Wed. before Thanksgiving weekend?

EACH of us needs to reach out to 8 friends and family to recommend the following 4 school board members. EACH of us needs to email or to talk in person or to phone call 8 Seattle voter people who trust us on this school stuff.  

IF we don't participate, THEN elected officials patronize us. They have less incentive to help us help our kids, and more incentive to do what they've been doing for years - pat us on the heads and tell us what we want to hear.

Jill Geary in District 3:  http://www.jillforschoolboard.com/  

Leslie Harris in District 6:  http://harrisforschoolboard.com/ 

Rich Burke in District 2:  http://www.rickburke4schools.com/ 

Scott Pinkham in District 1:  https://www.facebook.com/pinkhamforseatleschools

Sunday, October 18, 2015
Crucial Voting for Seattle School Board
http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2015/10/crucial-voting-for-seattle-school-board.html

Rah-Rah For Seattle School Board Candidates - Geary, Harris, Burke

WHEN - Friday 30 Oct. 2015 From 3:30 to 5:30 
WHERE - Franklin High Corner of Rainier & MLK.
WHAT - Sign Waving Rah-Rah To Our Community!!
HOW - Contact Bob Murphy rmseamurphy AT gmail so he has enough signs for all to wave!
WHO - YOU Seattle educators! Remember The Strike? Remember the Superintendent who ignored our bargaining team until 17 August, remember the school board members who hired him and who supported him?

IF you'd like to rah-rah at a different location in the SOUTH END that day & need help & contact me before Fri. the 23rd, I'll help you get signs blah blah blah! (or, contact the campaign, details below.)

WHEN - Sunday 1 Nov. 2015 From 3:30 to 5:30 
WHERE - Northgate - Corner of 1st Ave. NE and Northgate Way. 
WHAT - Sign Waving Rah-Rah To Our Community!!
HOW - Contact Bob Murphy rmseamurphy AT gmail so he has enough signs for all to wave!
WHO - YOU Seattle educators! Remember The Strike? Remember the Superintendent who ignored our bargaining team until 17 August, remember the school board members who hired him and who supported him?

IF you'd like to rah-rah at a different location in the NORTH END that day & need help & contact me before Fri. the 23rd, I'll help you get signs blah blah blah! (or, contact the campaign, details below.)

WHEN - Monday 2 Nov. 2015 From 3:30 to 5:30 
WHERE - Northgate - Corner of 1st Ave. NE and Northgate Way. 
WHAT - Sign Waving Rah-Rah To Our Community!!
HOW - Contact Bob Murphy rmseamurphy AT gmail so he has enough signs for all to wave!
WHO - YOU Seattle educators! Remember The Strike? Remember the Superintendent who ignored our bargaining team until 17 August, remember the school board members who hired him and who supported him?

IF you'd like to rah-rah at a different location in the NORTH END that day & need help & contact me before Fri. the 23rd, I'll help you get signs blah blah blah! (or, contact the campaign, details below.)

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IF people would like to use this diary as an electronic WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN HOW for your rah-rah event, just use a comment.
I work at Franklin, I live by Ingraham, hence the different locations.

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Please vote before Tues. 3 Nov. 2015 for Jill Geary & Leslie Harris for School Board of Seattle Public Schools. I support both because they're qualified: they're on the side of our kids, our community, and those of us working in the schools.  Both are attorneys with years of experience in SPS legal issues. Both have or have had children in our schools.

Jill is running in District 3 to replace Harium, who isn't running.  http://www.jillforschoolboard.com/  Jill's opponent (Lauren ...) is endorsed by Seattle School Board members who hired Superintendent Nyland last Nov., in a very last minute, behind closed door anointment. Remember Sup. Nyland – THE REASON we building working stiffs were out on a picket line instead of in our classes with our kids? 

Leslie is running in District 6 http://harrisforschoolboard.com/ against the incumbent, Marty McLaren. Marty helped hire Sup. Nyland last Nov. and she voted to allow Sup. Nyland to take us teachers to court for some legal injunction garbage, because we working stiffs are exercising our human rights to stand up together.

I support Rich Burke who has been on the side of educators, kids and the community. I don't know much about his campaign opponent. http://www.rickburke4schools.com/ 

Jill & Leslie & Rick will need help after ballots go out on Wed. 14 Oct. The busiest voting weekends will be around Sat. the 24^th and Sat. the 31^st.  Does your yard face a busy street where you could put up a sign? Can you phonebank or leaflet at weekend events? Contact their campaigns!

Educators For Geary, Harris, Burke - Seattle School Board.

Please vote before Tues. 3 Nov. 2015 for Jill Geary & Leslie Harris for School Board of Seattle Public Schools. I support both because they're qualified: they're on the side of our kids, our community, and those of us working in the schools.  Both are attorneys with years of experience in SPS legal issues. Both have or have had children in our schools.

Jill is running in District 3 to replace Harium who isn't running.  http://www.jillforschoolboard.com/  Jill's opponent (Lauren ...) is endorsed by Seattle School Board members who hired Superintendent Nyland last Nov., in a very last minute, behind closed door anointment. Remember Sup. Nyland – THE REASON we building working stiffs were out on a picket line instead of in our classes with our kids? 

Leslie is running in District 6 http://harrisforschoolboard.com/ against the incumbent, Marty McLaren. Marty helped hire Sup. Nyland last Nov. and she voted to allow Sup. Nyland to take us teachers to court for some legal injunction garbage, because we working stiffs are exercising our human rights to stand up together.

Rich Burke has been on the side of educators, kids and the community. His campaign opponent is off the radar. http://www.rickburke4schools.com/ 

Jill & Leslie will need help after ballots go out on Wed. 14 Oct. The busiest voting weekends will be around Sat. the 24^th and Sat. the 31^st.  Does your yard face a busy street where you could put up a sign? Can you phonebank or leaflet at weekend events? Contact their campaigns!

Would you consider doing some rah-rah sign waving for both or either??  In a few days from the date of this posting, Sat. 19 Sept., I'll have details for 9 possible sign waving locations north of the ship where I live. Does anyone from the south end have ideas for 3, 6, 9 busy intersections in the south end?   

Meet & Greet SPS School Board Candidates!

WHAT:
Leslie Harris For Seattle School Board, Position 6. 

http://harrisforschoolboard.com/

Jill Geary For Seattle School Board. Position 3.

http://www.jillforschoolboard.com/


WHEN:
Thurs. 27 Aug. 2015

6-8 P.M. 

WHERE:
Carkeek Park, Seattle.

http://www.seattle.gov/parks/environment/carkeek.htm

Picnic Shelter #2

http://www.seattle.gov/parks/_images/maps/picnics/Carkeek.pdf

WHO: 
Citizens who want to help Leslie & Jill, Seattle voters, Seattle School District employees who are concerned about the leadership of the District. 


HOW:
Hang out, talk to candidates & fellow citizens, enjoy one of Seattle's best parks, ... plan campaign activities to support our candidates.   


WHY:
See "HOW" ... ;) 

PEACEFUL HOME PROTEST RULES

PEACEFUL HOME PROTEST RULES

1. We’re leaving if any violence starts. 

2. Media Messaging / Communications: 

IF there is someone designated as the lead on messaging / communications, defer to them? ;)  

IF there is an agreed upon hand out of talking points, use it ? ;) 

Sound bites work better to get attention than big sentences filled with big words. Sorry. 
(Be able to explain the sound bites! ) 

The actions of the people we're protesting are harmful and offensive, that's why we're here. 

Where is the bright line between pointed commentary on offensive actions and offensive commentary…?  

3. Check out the protest location address on an internet map thing before going. Familiarize yourself with the local roads. 

Where will you park? How will you get to the protest location? Will that method work when returning to home?

4. If things get goofy, remember details. Scribble them down, repeat them to others you're with, leave a voice message to someone, email them off … 

Details to remember: the time, the place, the characters /people (badge numbers…), directions


SOME OF MY SOURCES FOR PEACEFUL PROTEST 'RULES'


The Ruckus Society
http://ruckus.org/index.php

Manuals & Checklists
Security Culture for Activists
http://www.ruckus.org/section.php?id=82

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Handbook For Nonviolent Action - SOA Watch
http://soaw.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=644#1

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Veterans For Peace: Protest and March
Organized Locally. Recognized Nationally. Exposing the true costs of war since 1985
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/files/6413/3312/6472/Protest_and_March_Toolkit.pdf

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How to Organize a Protest or March
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/how_135670_organize-protest-march.html

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How to Protest
http://www.wikihow.com/Protest

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Survey - YOUR PEACEFUL PROTEST ORGANIZING COMFORT ZONE.

I PHILOSOPHICALLY believe in open processes and open involvement.  .  I'm not into zapping people at the last minute with info from The Secret Clique They're Not Part Of.

When it comes to organizing, each thing / step "we" are going to do needs the The Questions Of Organizing answered: WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOWI I honestly can't figure out how to solve The Questions Of Organizing, efficiently, without email and or blogs

CIRCLE 1 ANSWER FOR EACH.

MY PREFERENCE for organizing is a Blog Diary with email sent to possible participants, pointing to the Blog Diary

1.  Is this within YOUR comfort zone?

a. yes

b. no

c. other _______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Are you comfortable using email such that all of us are openly on the To: line?

a. yes

b. no

c. other _______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________

3. IF you answered "no" to #2, I am in no way committing to keeping people updated via phone, snail mail, pigeon …

Would you accept being part of a BCC group who get to know what is going on?

a. yes

b. no

c. other _______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________

In conclusion, I have purposely not mentioned civil disobedience. Given the level of participation in community events by the population at large, I'm not interested in risking arrest for people who won't vote, or hold a sign on street corner, or write a letter to politician, or ...  

If you're interested in civil disobedience, you really really need to skim the resources of Ruckus and SOA Watch, and make sure those who are going with you know what you're up to so that they can decide if it is in their comfort zone.

PARTICIPATION AND RESPECTING PEOPLE'S TIME

VERSION ONE

In the community organizations which you belong to, is open, accessible participation by community members a core value of yours? Do the processes of your organization run openly, and on time, so that when people try to participate their time is respected?   

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I.) Will decisions (votes) on proposals (New business Items, rules, regulations, norms, …) be made at specific times during the meeting, according to the agenda?

- Are those times be held to?

Did people have time to discuss the proposals at a prior meeting?  

- Was the discussion period at the end of the meeting, after votes, so that people who weren't interested in the discussion, or who didn't have time, could leave?

Were the proposals available, electronically, at least 2 weeks before the prior meeting? 

II.) Was the agenda available at least one week before the meeting? Is there a consistent, open, electronic, accessible opportunity for community members to weigh in on the agenda before the agenda was available? 

III.) Is there an abbreviated, single page, large font subset of Robert's Rules used? If people aren't paid, as their full time job, to participate in meetings, then people don't have the time to master the ins and outs of Robert's Rules. Period. 

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VERSION TWO

In the community organizations which you belong to, is open, accessible participation by community members a core value of yours? Do the processes of your organization run openly, and on time, so that when people try to participate their time is respected?   

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I.) Will decisions (votes) on proposals (New business Items, rules, regulations, norms, …) be made at specific times during the meeting, according to the agenda?

- Are those times be held to?

When people show up, on time, and things don't happen on time, what does that say to those who took time to show up? 

Did people have time to discuss the proposals at a prior meeting?  

Why do people have to make decisions with only hours, or a few days, to think about a proposal, to discuss the proposal, to think about it some more, to lobby for and against the proposal?

- Was the discussion period at the end of the prior meeting, after votes, so that people who weren't interested in the discussion, or who didn't have time, could leave?

Discussion time can be very passionate and contentious. When there are only a few hours or days notice to vote on a proposal, those passions only get amplified.  Why can't the discussion happen after the votes, which happened at well defined times? 

Were the proposals available, electronically, at least 2 weeks before the prior meeting? 

Why are proposals available a few hours or a few days before discussion and voting? In the internet era, why aren't the proposals available for all interested parties?  I've been a member of a score of orgs over the years. In some orgs you can't vote on anything which wasn't discussed at a prior meeting. 

II.) Was the agenda available at least one week before the meeting? Is there a consistent, open, electronic, accessible opportunity for community members to weigh in on the agenda before the agenda was available? 

Adopting the agenda at the beginning of the meeting is fine when you're part of a paid legislature. If you don't like the agenda and wish to revise it, as a paid member of the legislature you can use Robert's Rules to do that. How does last minute, arcane manipulation of Robert's Rules of Misrule engender participation? trust? 

III.) Is there an abbreviated, single page, large font subset of Robert's Rules used? If people aren't paid, as their full time job, to participate in meetings, then people don't have the time to master the ins and outs of Robert's Rules. Period. 

Want to turn people off? Take your last minute agenda, with your last minute proposals, your last minute discussion, and add last minute process manipulation with Robert's Rules of Order. 

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4 - 3 - 2 Is Needed From You

IF our unions are going to matter to the decision makers, the decision makers are going to have to be scared of us. When they're scared of us, they'll work with us. When they work us, they'll stop pulling the kind of garbage they've pulled on Washington State educators over the last 5+ years: denial of citizen approved cost of living raises, denial of citizen approved smaller classes sizes, a multi billion dollar Boeing give away in the fall of 2013 in an emergency 3 day session.

They'll be scared of us when 4 times a year, during 1 of the 3 important political seasons of the year, each of us does something political for at least 2 hours.

IT'S TIME To Evaluate Democratic Politicians Every 2 Years

IT'S TIME to support 10 primary challengers for the WA. state legislature every 2 years. Every 2 years over 100 Washington State Representatives and Senators are up for re-election.

IT'S TIME  to put up 1000 yard signs for 10 primary challengers on the 2 weeks after the deadline for candidates to file for office.  At Boruck Printing & Silkscreen in Seattle, for $5000 you get 1000 plastic 2 sided 2 color signs and the metal thingies the signs go on. What candidate wouldn’t love to have their name on 1000 signs around a legislative district in the short window between filing and the primary? WEA spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every year in Olympia – what is 50 grand for 10 primary challengers?

IT'S TIME to evaluate all legislators all the time. Did they vote for anything that made things worse for our kids? Yes or No. Did they stand by while some legislation made things worse for our kids? Yes or No.

IT'S TIME to quit playing these insider games about who is electable and who is a lessor of two evil – did s/he help or stand by while our kids were hurt? How many people on WEA-PAC’s 2014 endorsement page betrayed us working stiffs with their votes for tying test scores to junk evaluations in SB5748? (Senators Kohl-Welles, Habib and Frockt!!)  

IT'S TIME     ORGANIZING WORKING EDUCATOR COMMUNITIES

1. BY LOCATION, 2. BY ACTIVITY, 3. BY CANDIDATE / ISSUE

IF we the little working people are going to have sustainable influence on the decisions juggling the trade-offs which are made in our communities, we need to organize ourselves differently.

http://organizingteacherswa.blogspot.com/2014/06/organizing-working-educator-communities.html

IT'S TIME           4-3-2 IS NEEDED FROM YOU.

IF our unions are going to matter to the decision makers, the decision makers are going to have to be scared of us. When they're scared of us, they'll work with us. When they work us, they'll stop pulling the kind of garbage they've pulled on Washington State educators over the last 5+ years: denial of citizen approved cost of living raises, denial of citizen approved smaller classes sizes, a multi-billion dollar Boeing give away in the fall of 2013 in an emergency 3 day session.

They'll be scared of us when 4 times a year, during 1 of the 3 important political seasons of the year, each of us does something political for at least 2 hours.

http://organizingteacherswa.blogspot.com/2014/08/4-3-2-is-needed-from-you.html