November 20

This meeting dealt with the push to privatize public infrastructure and public services for profit.

Speakers:

Lisa Schweitzer, Associate Professor, USC, spoke about "Federal Transportation Funding and the Future of Infrastructure".  Here is an article she wrote for the Los Angeles Times entitled: “For Sale: U.S. Infrastructure? The Privatization Debate"

Our second speaker was Tim Steed, Labor Relations Representative of the Orange County Employees Association and he spoke about "Outsourcing the Democratic Party"

Sunday, September 18

Mary Ellen Early, LA County Democratic party, provided data on the current and planned Assembly Districts in this area.  Rochelle Schneider, current chair of the 53rd Assembly District, spoke about the efforts to seat a Democrat in the new 66th Assembly District and introduced Democrat and Torrance School Board member Al Muratsuchi, who is considering running to represent us in that new Assembly District.  

Also at this meeting, our first vice president, Hans Grellmann moderated a discussion among four of the five Democrats running for RPV city council -- Eric Alegria, Dora de la Rosa, Dave Emenhiser, and Jim Knight.

Sunday, August 21

Program: The Innocence Project

Speaker: Justin Brooks

Sunday, July 17

Potluck and wine reception thanking the outgoing board members and welcoming the new board of directors.  Special guest speaker was Mary Scott, editor of the Palos Verdes Peninsula News

Thursday, June 23

Topic: The Annenberg Project at Lower Point Vicente

speakers:

Leonard Aube, Executive Director of the Annenberg Foundation

Ara Michael Mihranian, Deputy Director, RPV Community Development

Pro and con viewpoints.

May, 2011

Our Sunday, May 15 meeting dealt with The Assault on Women's Rights

our speakers were:

April, 2011

• Billie Weiss, MPH, founder of the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles Ms. Weiss is also the Associate Director of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Program at the UCLA School of Public Health

• Suzanne Verge, President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 

• RPV resident Sheri Barnett, representing Women Against Gun Violence

• Paul Nussbaum, shooting victim and USC Life Coach

Gun-free dining in our area

March, 2011

We devoted our March meeting to the examination of the most effective way to communicate with voters by focusing on the teachings of George Lakoff, linguistics professor at UC Berkeley.  We started with a video overview of his book "Moral Politics", followed by a look at the difference between liberal and conservative thinking and a lesson on how to successfully frame our messages.  Club Vice President Hans Grellmann lead the discussion. 

Feb, 2011

We devoted our February meeting to the March 8 ballot. All PVP citizens voted for
four members of the L.A. Community College District Board of Trustees. In addition, RPV
voters made a decision as to whether the city should switch from being a general-law city to becoming a charter city.

All registered Democrats running for the Community College seats were invited. 
The following candidates were endorsed by the LA County Democratic Party:
Seat No. 1, Mona Field
Seat No. 3, Steven Veres
Seat No. 5, Scott Svonkin
Seat No. 7, Miguel Santiago

We also heard from members of the RPV City Council, who asked citizens to vote
Yes on Measure C to make their city a charter city. Additionally representatives of the No on Measure C campaign spoke, enabling attendees to hear a lively debate on both sides of the issue.

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