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| Organization/Question | 1. What are your organization’s goals (short, medium, long-range)? | 2. What are you currently working on? | 3. What can others do to help? | 4. How do you help others? | 5. Who are your constituents? | 6. Who are your group’s adversaries? | 7. How many members in your group? | 8. Is your group affiliated with another? | 9. What resources do you have to offer? | 10. What resources do you need? | 11.What has/has not worked to help you achieve/ pursue your goals? | 12.What has/has not worked to help you recruit members & volunteers? | Contact info | Spkr: |
| Beyond Coal | Raise awareness, activism against transport of coal thru PNW. Other parts of NW are shorter term than Salem. Build regional support. Raise awareness of global warming. | Petitioning the Gov. | Come to events, join the local group, write LTEs, follow Beyond Coal and Power Past Coal websites. | Whole community. | Coal companies, railroads, fossil fuel companies, workers who might get the jobs, | 12-20 locally | Sierra Club, Beyond Coal, | National backing, Mayor Bloomberg of NY, | People to raise awareness, | Have yet to get key officials on board | Narrow goals help recruit | Laurie Dougherty | ||
| Citizen Lobby Center (CLC) | Move to Amend is working with Oregon PeaceWorks and other statewide groups to push a bill for a Constitutional amendment in the State Legislature. This is the first step. CLC is working with gun control, ending the death penalty, health care and humanizing foreclosure campaigns too. | Pass HJM 6. HJM5 and SJM6 don’t do enough. | Sign up at oregonrestoresdemocracy.org. Volunteer to help staff the CLC | CLC helps existing campaigns to promote or block selected legislation. | “Thousands” across the state and nation | Conservatives and corporations. | about 15 volunteers so far | Common Cause, Mainstreet Alliance, Rural Organizing Project, Alliance for Democracy, OPW | Good info at oregonrestoresdemocracy.org. Great legislative learning opportunity | Volunteer energy. | Kirk Leonard | |||
| Eden Again Ecosanctuary | Protect habitat | Protect habitat | No affliates, but some good friends. | Science background, organic gardening background, family has property in addition to this one. | Funding | Not clear enough, still fledgling. Have a botanist who is planning to help. A lot of work. Not sure how to do it right. | James Cox | |||||||
| Education for Schooling | Help people with devel. Disabilities finish H.S. education | Forming the group | Funding, teachers | People w/disabilities | People who think this is unrealistic | 6 | Finances | Enthusiasm/anxiety | Gordi | |||||
| FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation) | Essential unity of humanity, exploring the use of love | Bank depredations. Peace vigil downtown every Wed. @ noon. 4th Sunday at 4 meetings for business and education. | 3-4,000 in OR. 4-500 locally. 20 or so active. | US and international groups as well as OR and Salem | Longevity, illustrious past. A lot of members are too old to attend or donate any more. Tradition of voluntary simplicity. | Gary Pullman | ||||||||
| Mill Creek Cleanup Project | Build public awareness about public waterways, seed creeks with fish, | Cleaning up Mill Creek on April 20. Duck Inn to the Willamette. | Help needed on April 20. 9-1. | Clean creeks benefit all residents as well as fish and other creek dwellers. | SESNA (Neighborhood Assn) could help connect to natural constituents. North Hi science classes? | None | 5 people. Began as children’s project of Salem Friends Meeting. | SOLV | Garbage bags | Need truck to move large refuse items. | Mark Babson | |||
| MTA (Move to Amend) | Teach us how money got into politics and overturn corporate personhood and get money out of politics. Need 38 states to call for a constitutional amendment. In OR trying to get Leg. To demand a Const. amendment. | Petitions to bring to the Legislature. Also working on elections. | Need 38 states to call for a constitutional amendment. | Table sharing with Occupy and have donated to Occupy. | Anyone who wants to pursue the goals. | Big corporations | 500 in MarPo, but 25 active. | National org. | Merchandise. Education programs. | Bodies, money | A lot of committed people, but the group changes a lot. Need a tabling coordinator. | City Council approach did not work. Study groups have done several sessions and are very good and in depth. | Bobbie Cade | |
| No Third Bridge | Defeat the proposal to build a third auto bridge across the Willamette. Improve transit service. Expand bicycle travel. | Stopping the bridge. Possibly substitute a double-deck on the Marion St. Bridge for streetcars. | Attend work sessions, next on Feb. 19 @ 5:30. Will be televised. | Residents and taxpayers of Salem and West Salem. 160 homes will be removed. | Chamber of Commerce, current City leadership | Leaders: Jim Scheppke & Scott Bassett. Small core of workers. Active FB page. Listserv has 60 members. no3rdbridge@comcast.net to join. | 1000 Friends of Oregon, Willamette Riverkeeper, | Lots of information on their website. | People are not well educated on this issue at all despite its having been live for 6-7 years. Still, the big bridge proposal (4D) is “on life support” due to stiff opposition. | Jim Scheppke | ||||
| OPW (Oregon PeaceWorks) | Mission: educate and activate people for peace, justice and sustainability. Shift dominant paradigm from domination to cooperation and from growth to sustainability. Earth Charter is guiding doc. | PeaceWorker online magazine, education about militarization of America, training in nonviolence and nonviolent communication, establishing an Earth Champs program in Salem, establishing a group working to make Salem a Transition Town. | Plug in to our projects, donate money, bring special expertise, facilitate connections in the community & in Oregon. | Help other groups network more effectively. Have sponsored several statewide Peace Summits. Provide peace-related info via The PeaceWorker and via our regular action alerts emailed weekly. | Peace-oriented progressives, other organizations, network of donors. | Almost everything we try to do negatively affects large corporate interests, so they oppose us. | 1200 donors statewide and a mailing list of some 8-9,000 names. | OPW is the Oregon affiliate of national Peace Action, the largest grassroots peace organization in the U.S. | Large office space, mailing list with contacts in almost every OR state rep & senate district, some decent office equipment, various things in storage. | People to work with us, a few qualified board members, money, new members. Better computer equipment. | Worked: step-by-step organizing; taking on managable projects.Not worked: trying to involve the business community. | Worked: asking people one by one for help. Social networking – a bit. Not worked: purchasing lists and calling them. | 104 Commercial St.NE, Salem, OR 97301; 503-585-2767, oregonpeaceworks.org, info@oregonpeaceworks.org. | Peter Bergel |
| Salem Area Homeowner Resources Group | Mutual education, keep people in their homes & stop illegal evictions and foreclosures. Empower communities to help keep people in their homes. | Keep people in their homes | People w/housing insecurity | Bankers who illegal evict people under color of law | 6 | Legal info. | Bodies, money, outreach, leafletting. Legal help. | Being late to an eviction. | Gotten good TV coverage, | Stacey Phillips & Katharine Moore | ||||
| Salem Community Chorus | Community singing. Non-auditioned choir. (Dues: $45/term; $80/couple/term.) | Dec. 9 concert @ Salem Library, Loucks Aud. 2 pm | Attend their concerts; join the group. Call 503-679-9328 | Possibly do benefits | Sing all kinds of music: classical, pop, rock, jazz… | Info at www.scchorus.com | Gary Pullman | |||||||
| KMUZ | Celebrate the mid-Willamette area and strengthen our community. Collect and transmit information. | Get a second translator so people can tune them in rather than stream them at kmuz.org. Scheduling shows. Adding new folks to originate or take over shows. | Help with fundraising. Looking for grants now. Host a show. Spread the word that the station exists. 3 pledge drives have met goals. Need engineers. | Provides a voice to the Mid-Valley. Report on what’s going on in the area. Explore public affairs. | Potentially anyone in the mid-valley area. | OPB is competition, not adversarial, though. Americans for Prosperity opposed them at city council. | 7-member board, 7-member review committee. About 70 volunteers all together. 140 pledgers (may represent 1400 listeners [10%]). | No. | Being a place where people can get the word out. | Money, equipment, more volunteers. | Underwriting is going well to raise funds. | 88.5 FM, KMUZ.org, PSA@kmuz.org, 503-990-6091 | Melanie Zermer | |
| Disability Connections | Educate the OR/Idaho Methodist Conference about disability issues. | Educate about how autism impacts families. Survey to learn what facilities churches have for the diabled. Provide transportation for diabled. Lobby on disabled issues. | More publicity needed.Get to know disabled people and learn about their challenges and needs. | Neighborhood connections (sponsor events). Promote good disabled accesss. | Families in which someone is disabled. | Competing services promote an adversarial attitude, but really the pie needs to be enlarged because all are needed. | 18-20 volunteers under direction of Nancy O’Laughlin. | Methodist Church, Morningside School | Automatic door on church. | Nancy O’Laughlin, 503-364-5013, Morningside Methodist website. Pastor Mike Powell. | Kathleen O’Daniels | |||
