OGP 2013/2014 plan of action

Oakland Green Party Two Year Plan 2013 and 2014

Social Goals

· Develop more awareness around the city, specifically on peace, environment, and social justice issues; notably in Oakland, focus on issues of grass roots democracy and money free elections, budget priorities, police accountability and effectiveness, subsidies to developers, lack of accountability for foreclosures, planning and zoning issues, urban tree cover, grey water, urban gardening/farming issues, including but not limited to, access to healthy food for all and the food justice movement as a whole; tax/revenue issues working toward living wages, port jobs, equal education for all and by ending welfare for the rich/wealthy(?) providing a more rounded education system including funding for arts, sports, language, trade, special/physical education. Safe, walk able neighborhoods and promoting more small businesses to support those neighborhoods.

· Make the Oakland Green Party a more effective vehicle to raise these issues and advocate policies in accordance with the public needs, and our values through grass roots movement building and participation in the electoral process. Note, we should be able to influence the outcome of elections by making responsible use of our second vote recommendations based on policy priorities.

Outreach Goals

· Increase the number of people who we reach with our messages.

· Increase the number of Registered Greens who are informed and/or more active in Oakland politics.

· Increase our participation and effectiveness in the next elections with viable candidates for ALL seats if possible.

· Have a better and more consistent fundraising component to our work, including online donations.

Outreach Methods

· Have public points of presence on a regular basis to advocate our proposals.

· Develop themes to participate in the public discussion, such as challenging those who work inside the Democratic Party claiming to be “practical progressives” to show some results.

· Attend government meetings in Oakland and write publically about it in social media platforms.

· Work on campaign themes of timely relevance to city affairs.

· Volunteer and candidate recruitment.

· Regular phone banking

· Distribution of our materials in public places.

· Voter Registration (door to door).

· Produce and distribute basic information on:

1.     Description of Oakland Greens and our activities

2.     Our vision for Oakland City Government

 

· Thematic handouts as relevant to current events and government actions, such as the next two year budget or city response to the Riders Case.

· Promote our own meetings, activities, campaigns and events.

· Obtain printed materials from organizations and/or on actions that we support to distribute alongside our own

Campaign Themes:

· Upcoming Budget

· Police Accountability

· Foreclosure regulations


Organization of Core Group

· Steering Committee responsible for legal and political representation of the Oakland Greens. Develop our policies to be converted into publications. Handle our donations and bank account. Decide on how we spend our funds.

· Outreach committee responsible for the web site, final version of publications, volunteer coordinating.

· General Meeting held monthly where the election of committee members, adoption of policies, and endorsements of other candidates, causes and organizations takes place,

Schedule

In a normal month we should have

· 2 tables in different locations including Mime Troupe Shows in summer.

· 2 voter registration walks

· 1 phone bank to registered greens

· 1 general meeting (with film and discussion?)

At all of these we should be distributing our literature and promote our own events.

Next two years

All of 2013 we can work on this regular rhythm and work on our campaigns. 0
Note the budget will come with the new council in Jan/Feb and maybe March.

We should also have the Steering Committee meet with other groups we should be cooperating with and with potential candidates for the 2014 election.

Jan-April Set up our candidates with basic structure for campaigns
i.e. paperwork, bank accounts, websites, YouTube, Facebook, basic handout and setup campaign teams.

April – June first round of precinct walking with our candidates and their basic outreach handouts and once available, distribute our voter guide door to door.

June 2014 collect signatures for our candidates petitions, prepare voter statements.

July 2014 to November 2014 precinct walking, voter registration and online / social media. Again as available, hand out the voter guide.