Stephen Crowley Green Party Candidate for Cork City Council Cork South East Ward

I'm going to take photos tonight for my flickr

here is the associated email that was sent out a few weeks back.

Contents
1.EGM
2.WEEKLY / FORTNIGHTLY MEETINGS
3.GREEN PARTY CONVENTION
4.MINISTERIAL VISITS
5.LOCAL AND EUROPEAN ELECTIONS
6. JOIN THE GREEN PARTY
7. UNSUBSCRIBING

1.EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
to become an officially active Society for 08/09 we need to have an
EGM and create a committee list. the date and time for the AGM is

Monday the 26th of January 2009
between 7pm and 9pm
in West Wing 8

All positions are open for contest. These positions will be held until
the AGM that will be in March Date to be arranged
they are

Auditor
Duties: Chairs meetings organises the society as a whole

Secretary:
Records minutes of meetings and keeps an archive of all decisions made
by the society to be made available to all committee

Treasurer:
Deals with the funding of the society, creating budgets, applying for
money from various sources, keeping records and generally being
responsible for all monies going through the society

Public Relations Officer (PRO):
Publicising the Society by means of posters and trying to get people
involved(this is always a group effort). but mainly posters events.

First Year Rep:
is an Ordinary committee member with voting rights, but must be a first year.

two Ordinary committee member (OCM)
helps out when they can with the running of the society. in political
societies most members are OCMs but officially in the greens we will
have three (including first year rep)

more info here
http://www.ucc.ie/en/societies/admin/handbook/

we need help publicising the AGM and the society so if you are willing
to help for an hour. please email us back.

2.WEEKLY/FORTNIGHTLY MEETINGS
traditionally we have had weekly or fortnightly meetings. these
usually consist of a discussion or debate on current events or issues
of interest to our members followed by a social in the old bar to
discuss these issues in a more informal and relaxed atmosphere.
everyone is always welcome to attend. the meetings are always
informative and definitely fun and the best way to learn about green
party politics. the dates for these will be announced at the EGM

3. MINISTERIAL VISITS

It is planned that John Gormley and Eamon Ryan will visit UCC during
this term while visiting local election candidates.
John is booked for February the 20th. we are considering inviting him
for a lunchtime open forum Q&A and photo opp for societies and
students of UCC to ask him questions or direct campaigns e.g. student
housing, envirosoc extending a campaign to a national level or the
UCCLGBT blood ban / equal marriage campaign for the public and a later
Q&A. I'm sure he'd like to hear from all of you. it is also planned
that he will meet and greet with UCC Green party members and Green
party members in a closed invitation only event that night.

Eamon will probably visit in April but there is talk of a large Green
energy festival to be held during the month off. (but it is only talk
so far)

4. GREEN PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTION

6-8 March 2009
Whites Hotel, Abbey Street, Wexford

we usually have a good representation at these events and can prove to
be the best young greens event of the year as it is a national
political party in action. usually they have extremely engaging
keynote speakers, discussion groups, workshops, leader's address and
motions with great social at nightime.

this year the UCC greens are entitled to one motion, as are all young
green groups and Green Party Dail constituency groups this will be
discussed and debated on at the meeting following the AGM.

to be eligible to apply for partial funding from the societies guild
you must have turned up to at least two meetings this year and also
apply with definite interest two weeks in advance. but this will all
be sorted out in due time.

5. LOCAL AND EUROPEAN ELECTIONS
we will ask from time to time about people interested in canvassing
for local candidates
the next date for this is Saturday the 17th of January 2009. if you
are interested in canvassing please email Helen.Maher2@hse.ie and CC
us

there will also be a canvassing training day for green party
supporters on February 21st in Frankfield, Douglas. details to follow

and always make sure you're entitled to vote
http://www.checktheregister.ie/

6. JOIN THE GREEN PARTY
if you have graduated but are still interested in the green party,
please join the green party.
the forms are available at

http://www.greenparty.ie/en/get_involved

7. UNSUBSCRIBE
To join or leave the mailing list
http://lists.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=greens&A=1
or reply asking to be unsubscribed please do. or we will not unsubscribe you!!!
thanks