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

Sat Mar 10 14:47:12 PST 2018

It almost seems as if the video is mocking/shaming sex workers as something
dirty or taboo. Having had friends who've worked in such industries I find
it highly offensive.

Faygo

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018, 3:12 PM 1 <jbrjaw1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good stuff, Marnie! I'd love to have you on my Livestream (Mana Talk with
> James on Youtube) in the near future. If you can fit me that would be
> fantastic.
>
> Mahalo nui loha,
>
> James Young
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018, 12:41 AM Marnie Glickman <marnie.glickman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Green friends,
>>
>> I am disappointed in the video because it does not appeal to the broad
>> base of the CA Green Party. A founding mother of the Green Party of the US,
>> Jennifer Ellingston, once said to me that a Green should always recommend a
>> constructive idea when she offers a critique. I agree!
>>
>> We should always share at least one positive reason to donate when we
>> fundraise. I love comedy, satire and creativity. I have worked for some of
>> the funniest, most creative Green in the country. They always add a shred
>> of truth, positivity to their presentation.
>>
>> OK…You made it this far. Let me tell you a little bit more about me.
>>
>> I am an elected official in San Rafael, CA, 18 miles north of the Golden
>> Gate Bride in the Bay Area. I serve on a school board and educate 2,000
>> children. It is rough to be an elected Green! At home, I care three
>> children with my husband David Curtis, who twice ran statewide as a Green
>> Party candidate. . Our budget is limited. If we could, we would donate to
>> every Green candidate in the United States.
>>
>> This video does not motivate me. I feel like it blames me. The clear
>> message is that the candidates only made the video because not enough
>> people donated. The video feels like a punishment to Greens like me who
>> haven’t donated to Josh Jones. Honestly, I’ve never met the guy. I’ve never
>> talked to him by phone. Yes! 46-year-olds like me still use the telephone.
>> He’s never contacted me by phone, text or email.
>>
>> The video is embarrassing too. In Marin County where I live, we have many
>> Green elected officials and have a very affluent, very progressive
>> population. Our Green elected officials struggled like warriors to get
>> elected. We have some networks and sway. I would never share the video with
>> my friends because it’s embarrassing and confusing and not positive. The
>> Governor of California would never make this kind of video.
>>
>> I’m going to add in all of my titles per the request of one of the list
>> administrators. I hate the titles, but maybe it provides some context to
>> new Greens. Welcome to all of you! Thank you for joining our bad ass party.
>>
>> Peace,
>> Marnie Glickman
>> Dixie School Board Trustee, San Rafael, CA
>> Marin Green Party County Council Member
>> Former Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States
>> Former Managing Director of the Green Party of California
>> Former Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States Platform Committee
>> Former Member of the Green Party of the United States International
>> Committee
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 7, 2018, at 3:04 PM, james clark <faygodrinkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's mocking sex workers...
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 10:29 PM F Lambert <boatrocker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's a comedy and a plea for Greens to start supporting GP candidates
>>> with money, for God's sake!  Stop being so prudish.  The DemoRATS and
>>> the Repulsives have done more harm to this country and the world and
>>> are psyching the uninformed and willfully ignorant American people for a
>>> confrontation with Russia and the start of World War Three and the
>>> destruction of planet Earth.
>>>
>>> $.14 cents a day per the 100,000 or so registered Greens in California
>>> and they wouldn't have to make an unusual plea for $$$ like this. Yes,
>>> $51.50 a year (or more, if you're sincere about the Green Party) would give
>>> us over five million dollars in our state treasury. Not hardly much to ask
>>> for.
>>>
>>> BTW, I didn't see anything lewd or sexual at all on the above video. Did
>>> anybody else?
>>>
>>> Frank Lambert
>>> Monterey County
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:33 PM, 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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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