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

Tue Mar 6 13:57:23 PST 2018

Sadie,

You are sorry that I am unable to see passed what prior indoctrination?
Care to elaborate? Not sure what you are referring to.

If I would have seen this sort campaign ads from a GP Gubernatorial
candidate with many local GP endorsements I would not have given the GP
serious consideration. I would have assumed that this is not a serious
party ready to put up serious candidates.

Yes, I am running for Congress in California’s 29th Congressional District.
Please check out our website: angelica4congress.com

I don’t think that I mentioned going back or staying with the Democratic
Party at all. I am not sure where I would have ended up … maybe PSL? La
Raza Unida? NPP? Movement for a People’s Party? …. I can only guess.

I have not gone back and forth between the Democratic Party, I haven’t been
active in the ADEM or Kimberly Ellis efforts or anything like that. So I
don’t appreciate the insinuation that I would have chosen an Establishment
Party.

I have been giving 100% of my efforts to the Green Party. I am involved in
all levels of the GP. Local club, County, State, National and International
(GYG) and am now a Candidate.

I a mother of 5 children and am doing my best to do it all …I am running a
mature and focused campaign. And this video makes a mockery of our work.
Serious activist on the ground are working very hard to establish our Party
as a serious option.

I think that the video missed a perfect opportunity for an informative PSA.

With a clarification that No there is no sex video … “but now that we have
your attention let us tell you about the outrageous candidate fees we have
to pay”….. type thing.  With text and graphics to better illustrate the
point.

I feel that the video itself is offensive to Sex Workers if you ask me. I
feel that this video is making fun of sex work. Making it appear like Sex
Work is an act of desperation or last resort – rather than a legitimate
profession. I believe that sex work should be legalized and that this is
the only way to protect sex workers from trafficking and slavery.

I am running for Congress as a Green candidate. It has not been easy to
establish myself as a serious candidate as a 3rd party candidate…. And this
is not making it any easier to be taken seriously.

I think that the big message was lost in the shallow presentation. It would
have been better with a deeper presentation regarding the ridiculous filing
fees and signature requirements – that are killing 3rd party presence on
the ballot.  I feel that there was certain potential in this video to
deliver a real PSA. But it fell short.

Angelica Duenas

On Mon, 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Disappointed in Los Angeles,
>>>> Angelica Dueñas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Angelica M. Duenas, M.A.
>>>> *GPLAC Councilmember*
>>>> *GYG Delegate*
>>>> *GPCA CC Member*
>>>> *GPUS Alternate Delegate*
>>>>
>>>> *"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" *- John Lennon
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Angelica M. Duenas, M.A.
Political Organizer - Green Party Member
Former Jill Stein 2016 Campaign Coordinator
Former Bernie Sanders Delegate

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