Media Committee Report
November 5, 2003
Media Committee Report for October
I did not have time to contact people to add more members to the Media
Team and/or the Media Matrix Committee this month. In looking at
Irene’s Chapter Development report, I see several people whom I might
call upon to join the matrix committee. I hope to have time for that
later in November, since I am almost done with “catch up” work on PGP
records. I also need to work on updating my media contact lists. We
have a new media listserve up on the website, and I’d like to make it
a discussion list for sharing ideas for more frequent press releases,
vetting each other’s work, and coordinated letters-to-the-editor
campaigns. I sent out an invitation to the old media committee list
for the former media committee members to join the new list, but have
not been notified that anyone has done so. It’s going to take some
phoning.
My media activities for the month of October included weekly posts to
the Announce list, placing an ad in the Statesman Journal for the
October convention, and publishing press releases before and after the
convention (see below). These press releases go out to the PGP News
listserve, the GPUS states media listserve, my state and local media
contact lists, and my own local lists of Greens and “Naderites.” This
month I’ve also started posting them to the Green Voice On-Line.
I researched prices at a number of newspapers in order to place the ad
for our fundraiser position opening, and ended up placing ads with the
Portland Tribune (three weeks), the Eugene Weekly (one week), and the
Peaceworker (one month), the latter with the help of Trey. I also
posted the ad to the Announce list and the job description, modified
from the original, to my local lists and to the GV On-line. Peter put
the job description on the website, and Jeff Cropp posted the ad to a
number of listserves.
Joanne Cvar, Media Coordinator
Convention ad:
The Pacific Green Party of Oregon
announces its fall nominating convention,
hosted by the Marion/Polk Chapter of the PGP,
Saturday October 25, 2003,
8 A.M.-5 P.M.
at the Cipriano Ferrel Education Center
1274 Fifth Street, Woodburn, OR
Free and open to all.
503-587-0874
Pre-convention press release:
PACIFIC GREEN PARTY OF OREGON
MEDIA ADVISORY
For immediate release:
For more information contact:
Joanne Cvar, PGP Co-Chair, 541-563-3615,
Seth Woolley, PGP Elections Administrator, 503-587-0874,
Pacific Green Party nominating convention features Latino labor activist s
The Marion/Polk Chapter of the Pacific Green Party of Oregon is
hosting the fall statewide PGP convention on Saturday, October 25th at
the Cipriano Ferrel Education Center, 1274 Fifth Street, Woodburn,
Oregon. Labor activists Juan Galvis, from Bogota, Colombia, and Jaime
Castillo Ulloa from Tehuacan, Mexico will be the keynote speakers. The
convention will also feature presentations from PGP candidates for
public office, a tax reform workshop, and a “Slow Food” luncheon. All
activities and events are free and open to the public. Participation
in elections, however, is limited to supporting members of the Party
who have attended at least one meeting prior to the
convention. Registration begins at 8:00 A.M.
Please visit the PGP website,
www.pacificgreens.org, to download copies of the agenda and supporting
materials for this convention. For more information, you may also call
503-887-0874.
The convention site is named in honor of Cipriano Ferrel, who was one
of the founders of PCUN, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste
(Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United). The Center is located
1.5 miles from I-5 just off the main road leading into the City of
Woodburn.
Post-convention press release:
PACIFIC GREEN PARTY OF OREGON
MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate release
Contacts: Joanne Cvar, Co-Chair and Media Coordinator,
541-563-3615
Liz Trojan, Co-Chair, 503-246-7850
PACIFIC GREEN PARTY CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF KILLER COKE
The Pacific Green Party of Oregon passed a resolution at its fall
convention supporting a boycott of all products manufactured by the
Coca Cola Company, including Sprite, Fanta, Minute Maid, Nestea,
Powerade, Swerve, and bottled Dasani water. Convention-goers voted
unanimously to support the boycott after hearing testimony from Juan
Carlos Galvi, a union organizer for Coca Cola workers in Colombia,
S.A. Sr. Galvi, whose own life has been threatened, told about massive
human rights violations including murder, torture, and kidnapping
committed against union leaders and members by paramilitaries
encouraged by the company’s managers in Colombia in an effort to crush
their union.
The convention took place on October 25 at the new Cipriano Ferrel
Education Building in Woodburn, named for one of the founders of
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste (PCUN). The PGP was honored
with the presence of several other international guests, including
visitors from Zambia here to observe the democratic process and Jaime
Castillo Ulloa from Tehuacan, Mexico, who testified about the damage
to that country’s workers and farmers as a result of the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
PGP members present explored the possibility of a self-funded primary
for Green candidates in 2004 and heard a presentation on fair taxation
in Oregon, in preparation for consideration of remedies for the
state’s current fiscal crisis, with its resultant cuts in public
services. They also heard presentations from potential candidates for
national office, re-elected Marnie Glickman as the PGP delegate to the
Green Party US, endorsed and pledged to work for Initiative #53, which
will put Campaign Finance Reform on the ballot in Oregon next
November, and enjoyed a “Slow Food” dinner of Russian and Hispanic
dishes prepared by the host chapter, the Marion/Polk Greens.
