Minutes for November 15, 2020

7:00 pm – Zoom Conference

 

Meeting Attendees

Members: Mike Hugo, Robert Case, Beverly Hugo, Parwez Wahid, Jack Lewis, Mel Warshaw, Larry Stoodt, Barbara LeDuc, Norma Shulman, David Magnani, Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, Mary Kate Feeney, Cesar Stewart-Morales, Jack Duffy, Carmen Chico, Jim Hansen, Thom Mahoney, Chris Broyles, Kathie McCarthy, Patrick Dunne, Phil Ottaviani, Caraline Levy, Cheryl Tully Stoll, Adam Freudberg, Adam Steiner, Chris Lorant, Margareth Shepard, Gwendolyn Holbrow, Doug Lawrence , Jeanne Bullock, Shahid Khan, Kurt Fusaris

 

Associate Members: Ohad Klopman, Andrew Machkasov, Cheryl Gordon, Vanessa Pendexter, Tracey Bryant

 

Guests: Isabella Petroni, Karen Margolis, Alex Bausch, Kate Donoghue, Liam Horsman, Sam Wong, Michael Ansara, Jeffrey Blum, Becca Rausch

 Welcome, Announcements and Updates – Chair Mike Hugo

The chair called the meeting to order at 7:05pm and reviewed the agenda for the meeting.

Georgia On My Mind: A Discussion of the Upcoming Runoff Senatorial Election and How we WILL Help to Take Back the Senate

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Action From Feb 21 Business Meeting

Documents Pertaining To Items Taken Up On Feb 21

At the February 21, 2021 business meeting of the Framingham Democratic Committee several action items were take up concerning an assortment of issues from climate change to vaccine distribution equity.  Links to documents relating to these issues are presented here:

Baker Climate Veto 2.0 Action Guide

A resolution in support of S 9 An Act to create a next-generation roadmap for Massachusetts climate policy

TRIPS Waiver Letter[7470]

Joint Letter Opposing Biomass Carbon Neutrality Rider_12-02-20[7485]

Vax Equity Now Call to Action

FDC Env. Sub-Committee’s Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor from members of the FDC Environmental Sub-Committee posted by the Source and the Patch, and sent to the Metrowest Daily News as well, in response to the action taken by the Framingham City Council Finance Sub-Committee on the matter of solar panels at the McAuliffe library:

“If Framingham is going to embrace fundamental sustainable development we must adopt robust adaptation and mitigation processes in the face of the climate crisis that threatens to engulf us. It is incumbent upon us solarize Framingham now. Not next year, not in five years. Now. Our enigmatic inaction to address this egregious calamity is terrifying given the damning evidence of global warming; to whit, Texas.

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