| 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 |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Kirk Leonard |
| Eden Again Ecosanctuary |
Protect habitat |
Protect habitat |
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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. |
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James Cox |
| Education for Schooling |
Help people with devel. Disabilities finish H.S. education |
Forming the group |
Funding, teachers |
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People w/disabilities |
People who think this is unrealistic |
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Finances |
Enthusiasm/anxiety |
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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. |
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3-4,000 in OR. 4-500 locally. 20 or so active. |
US and international groups as well as OR and Salem |
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Longevity, illustrious past. A lot of members are too old to attend or donate any more. Tradition of voluntary simplicity. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Keep people in their homes |
People w/housing insecurity |
Bankers who illegal evict people under color of law |
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Legal info. |
Bodies, money, outreach, leafletting. Legal help. |
Being late to an eviction. |
Gotten good TV coverage, |
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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 |
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Sing all kinds of music: classical, pop, rock, jazz… |
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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. |
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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. |
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Nancy O’Laughlin, 503-364-5013, Morningside Methodist website. Pastor Mike Powell. |
Kathleen O’Daniels |