Equality Phone Banking with the Portland Greens

Join the Portland Greens on Thursday in a pot luck and phone banking effort to help protect marriage equality in the State of Maine. The pot luck and phone bank will take the place of our usual business meeting. Here are the details and please RSVP by sending an email to portlandgreens@gmail.com and let me know if you will donate cell phone minutes to the effort.

5:30 Meet at Equality Maine Headquarters at 1 Pleasant Street 2nd Floor and bring food, your cell phones, and cell phone chargers
5:30 - 6:15 EQ ME Organizers will train us in the phone script for calling voters
6:15 - 8:30 Call voters
8:30 - 9:00 Debriefing

Please RSVP by sending an email to portlandgreens@gmail.com and let me know if you will donate cell phone minutes to the effort. We need your help marriage equality based on three of the Key Values of the Portland Greens!

1. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives and not be subject to the will of another. Therefore, we will work to increase public participation at every level of government and to ensure that our public representatives are fully accountable to the people who elect them. We will also work to create new types of political organizations which expand the process of participatory democracy by directly including citizens in the decision-making process.

2. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
All persons should have the rights and opportunity to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment. We must consciously confront in ourselves, our organizations, and society at large, barriers such as racism and class oppression, sexism and homophobia, ageism and disability, which act to deny fair treatment and equal justice under the law.

8. RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY
We believe it is important to value cultural, ethnic, racial, sexual, religious and spiritual diversity, and to promote the development of respectful relationships across these lines.

We believe that the many diverse elements of society should be reflected in our organizations and decision-making bodies, and we support the leadership of people who have been traditionally closed out of leadership roles. We acknowledge and encourage respect for other life forms than our own and the preservation of biodiversity.

Please RSVP by sending an email to portlandgreens@gmail.com and let me know if you will donate cell phone minutes to the effort.

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Best Wishes,

Dave Marshall
Portland Green Independent Chair
207.409.6617
portlandgreens@gmail.com
portlandgreens.blogspot.com