[GPCA-SGA-Votes] Green Party Sex Tape video

Mon Mar 5 18:11:59 PST 2018

I saw the video and personally don't think it was in the best taste nor the most effective way to promote our Party and the importance of corporate free elections.  However, it does not and would not change for me my support for the Greens or any particular candidate.

As far as prostitution is concerned, there is a legitimate debate going on especially in Europe among feminists and progressives between two approaches to government policy - complete decriminalization of prostitution; and supporters of what is known as the Nordic model that decriminalizes the prostiitutes but not the men that buy and sell (mostly) women's bodies. The latter approach is not about shaming anyone but about a different understanding of the nature of prostitution and what would be most empowering for the women involved and women generally.  It would be an interesting debate to have but that is tor another day.

Ann

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> On Mar 5, 2018, at 11:01 AM, Sadie Fulton <sadie.fulton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Angelica, 
> 
> I understand your concern with our promotional video. However, I cannot sit quiet and allow you to speak in this way. 
> 
> I am concerned that you have claimed you would have not considered joining the Green Party had you seen this video prior. You are running for an office position as a green, no? I am disturbed by the fact you would state that, due to a video intended to draw attention to hot button topics like public funding, you would have turned away from the Green Values and all the things the Green Party has done.... and what? Gone back to the Democratic Party? 
> 
> While we are here, it is important that I mention, there is absolutely nothing “disturbing” “offensive” or “embarrassing” about sex work. By stating that this concept is so offensive to you, this is what you are stating and I don’t believe that is acceptable. 
> 
> Furthermore, if you listen to the video and script you will hear that this video was ALSO intended to draw attention to that fact. As a statement against slut shaming, and for the media to draw more attention to things that matter. Like Monsanto and Chevron corruption. Which, by the way, is something I know MANY greens are actively fighting for. 
> 
> You being offended by the idea of sex work, is unfortunate. I am sorry that you were not able to see past your prior indoctrination to see the big messages being a video made humorous to get the message out to demographics who don’t see the messages we do in our formats. 
> 
> I would implore you to look into this topic. 
> https://theestablishment.co/the-green-party-is-failing-sex-workers-586329848557
> 
> Sadie
> 
>> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 10:57 Angelica Duenas, <angelica at aduenas.org> wrote:
>> I think there was a miscommunication. I had watched the Video...but I have not watched Monty Python. Which he mentioned that this was a parody of. 
>> 
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>>> On Mar 5, 2018 9:55 AM, "Sadie Fulton" <sadie.fulton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Angelica,
>>> When you raised your objection to this video you had not even watched it. Have you watched it yet?
>>> Sadie
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 02:05 Angelica Duenas <angelica at aduenas.org> wrote:
>>>> Dear SGA delegates
>>>> 
>>>> I am very disturbed by the Green Party Sex Tape video (https://youtu.be/dxhUS-QQPbg) created and posted by Gubernatorial candidate Josh Jones. I find the video offensive and an example of extremely poor judgment by someone seeking to represent our party as a candidate for our state’s highest office.
>>>> 
>>>> I was first introduced face to face with the Green Party at the August 2016 Green Party national convention in Houston, which I attended as an interested observer, after being turned off by the Democratic Party (as a Berniecrat delegate at the Democratic National Convention a week earlier.)
>>>> 
>>>> At the GPUS convention, I met David Cobb, Laura Wells, Mike Feinstein, Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka, Cornel West (when things looked like he might Go Green) and Luis Rodriguez (the GPCA's 2014 Gubernatorial candidate). Based upon those interactions, I was impressed by the Green Party, effectively going Green the following month. Since then, I have learned a lot about the Green Party and its inner workings. I love how there is a high value on internal democracy. And I love the GPCA and GPUS platforms – solid.
>>>> 
>>>> But I have to say that if I would have come across this Josh Jones Sex Tape video in 2016 prior to attending the Green Party convention, I would have not given the Green Party a chance at all. The concept and content is immature and damaging to our party.  A more thoughtful treatment could have been a great PSA moment.  Instead it is an embarrassment, plain and simple.
>>>> 
>>>> Given this, for anyone seeking our party’s endorsement, I think the video should be deleted from YouTube. But at a minimum, if this embarrassment is to remain on-line, the use of the words “Green Party” should be removed from the video's title. No one in our party has the right to post something like that, misrepresenting our party’s name in that manner.
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Disappointed in Los Angeles, 
>>>> Angelica Dueñas
>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>>> Angelica M. Duenas, M.A.
>>>> GPLAC Councilmember
>>>> GYG Delegate
>>>> GPCA CC Member
>>>> GPUS Alternate Delegate
>>>> 
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