[fvc-wat-disc] [fvc-wat-announce] Happy New Year Fair Vote Supporters

[lanickerson at b2b2c.ca]

Interesting point, Kevin. I think interest in the issue of proroguing parliament
is happening right now - by the time we got something like a speaker organized
trying to tap into that momentum the parliament might be back to work and the
issue might have lost interest and coverage... Wish I was super resourceful to
pull something together right now! I think just attending the Democracy rally
and handing out some flyers with our local sites Bob has made might get our
message out to new people.

Thanks for the response and discussion!

Anita

Quoting Kevin Smith <kevedsmith at gmail.com>:

> Hi folks:
>
> It's all about how you market it.  If it's a talk about democratic renewal,
> and linked to the whole proroguing parliament issue, I think there would
> be a lot of interest.
>
> Kevin.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Shannon Adshade
> <sadshade at lutherwood.ca>wrote:
>
> > Hi Anita, We had Larry come out to Wilfrid Laurier University to do a
> > public talk about 5 months prior to the MMP Referendum and the turn out
> then
> > was very poor!!  I don't think we would get a good turnout right now!!
> >
> > Shannon
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org [
> > fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org] On Behalf Of
> > lanickerson at b2b2c.ca [lanickerson at b2b2c.ca]
> > Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:20 PM
> > To: FVC Waterloo Region Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [fvc-wat-disc] [fvc-wat-announce] Happy New Year Fair
> >  Vote    Supporters
> >
> > Hey, Shannon. Good to hear from you! It was actually Bob - bless his
> > heart!! -
> > that wrote the message and requested I send it out!
> >
> > Shannon, what do you think about organizing something like London did,
> > where we
> > have Larry Gordon come do a public talk? I'm willing to do as much
> > publicity as
> > I can. I'd just be worried about getting enough people to show up to make
> > it
> > worth his while.
> >
> > Anita
> >
> > Quoting Shannon Adshade <sadshade at lutherwood.ca>:
> >
> > > Thanks Anita!!  Happy New Year to all Fair Voters!!
> > >
> > > Shannon
> > >
> > > From: fvc-wat-announce-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org
> > > [mailto:fvc-wat-announce-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org] On Behalf Of
> > Anita
> > > Nickerson
> > > Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 10:27 PM
> > > To: fvc-wat-announce at listserv.thinkers.org
> > > Subject: [fvc-wat-announce] Happy New Year Fair Vote Supporters
> > >
> > > Happy New Year to all Fair Voters!
> > >
> > > While there was not much activity for our chapter in 2009, the Fair Vote
> > > Canada office continues to work on all aspects of Electoral Reform.
> > Working
> > > in conjunction with Vote Toronto, there was a major electoral
> > > reform victory in Toronto in December, when the Toronto city council
> > voted to
> > > ban corporate and union campaign contributions.
> > >
> > > Fair Vote Canada is planning an informal followup meeting with Vote
> > Toronto
> > > to discuss how to further advance this and possibly other campaign
> > finance
> > > reforms for all municipal and provincial elections in Ontario. Queen's
> > Park
> > > is now surrounded on this issue - the ban is in
> > > place federally, to the west in Manitoba, to the east in Quebec, and now
> > in
> > > the province's largest city. More info on "Funding City Politics" can be
> > > found at http://votetoronto.ca/
> > >
> > > There have been a few changes on the FVC Waterloo Regional Chapter
> > executive:
> > > In November Neil Dietrich stepped down as Co-Chair due to work
> > committments.
> > > In his place Member-at-Large Shannon Adshade took up
> > > the Co-Chair position for the remainder of the term. Elections for the
> > > Chapter executive will take place again in April or May. Nominations can
> > be
> > > made at any time; if you're interested it's OK to nominate yourself.
> > >
> > > The Internet has come to FVC-WRC: We now have Identi.ca and Twitter
> > accounts,
> > > http://identi.ca/fairvotewrc and
> > > http://twitter.com/fairvotewrc Links to news and opinions are posted
> > every
> > > week or so; follow fairvotewrc to get the latest. And FVC-WRC has come to
> > the
> > > Internet: We also have a Facebook page:
> > >
> >
> >
>
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fair-Vote-Canada-Waterloo-Region-Chapter/272005040345
> > >
> > > Finally, if you have not yet signed the Declaration of Voter's Rights you
> > can
> > > do so at http://www.fairvote.ca/en/declaration-of-voters-rights
> > >
> > > Happy New Year from the Fair Vote Canada Waterloo Region Chapter!
> > >     * Anita Nickerson - Co-Chair
> > >     * Shannon Adshade - Co-Chair
> > >     * Bob Jonkman - Secretary
> > >     * Angela Yenssen - Treasurer
> > >     * Donna Reid - Member at Large
> > > mailto:waterlooregion at fairvote.ca
> > >
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