7:30pm - 8:30pm
NO SPECIFIC FACILITATOR
ERIK - MINUTES
ATTENDING:
JOSHUA, LORSEN, MIGNA, CALVIN, IMRAN, ERIK
AGENDA:
1. FLYERS
2. CHRIST HOSPITAL UPDATE
3. ISRAELI DIVESTMENT ISSUE / THANK YOUS
4. NATO / CHICAGO
5. NDAA / STOP AND FRISK ISSUES
6. COMMUNITY GARDENS
1. FLYERS
-Erik donated print outs of Alex's language for NEW OJC flyers - front and back.
-Lorsen and all agreed they were very good, but need editing (TOO long)
-Committee created for flyer editing (Erik, Alex, Migna, Lorsen and Joshua)
2. CHRIST HOSPITAL UPDATE
-CHRIST HOSPITAL still needs to be monitored
-SAVE CHRIST HOSPITAL is still in existence and is having several meetings soon which OJC should attend if possible:
Agreement on several key issues:
*** IMPORTANCE OF HAVING GOOD GRASSROOTS REPRESENTATION ESPECIALLY ON THURSDAY 5/24 ***
Both meetings begin at 6pm and are at the same location:
Both meetings begin at 6pm and are at the same location:
Culinary Conference Center at Hudson County Community College
Scott Ring Room, 2nd Floor
161 Newkirk Street at Sip Avenue
Jersey City, New Jersey 07306
- HPAE to bring 20-30
- NJCA doing email blasts
- SCH should strive to bring out 20+ from attendees of prev mtgs
- PB to contact press, electeds
1. Inconsistencies between Holdco's public statements, Asset Purchase Agreement, and state application for license (Certificate of Need), especially definition of services and length hospital will operate.
2. Need for state to clarify and enforce operating commitments. Establish an independent health care access monitor.
3. Meaningful public role in implementing recommendations of the Navigant report. We thought it was more important to have a community role in this, than seats on a toothless community advisory board for Christ Hospital
4. Asset protection for Christ Hospital's valuable real estate. The concern is that the new owners will sell to a Real Estate Investment Trust (as they reserve the right to do in their APA, and as they have done in Bayonne and Hoboken, using those windfall profits to fund new acquisitions like Christ Hospital). We might suggest "clawback" provisions so that sale profits go not to the owners' pockets, but to establish a "conversion foundation" to carry one Christ Hospital's charitable health care mission.
Will send further details later, as well as talking points for testimony next week.
Paul Bellan-Boyer
3. ISRAELI DIVESTMENT ISSUE / THANK YOUS
-It was explained that The Quakers recently divested funds from Caterpillar (business that produces bulldozers) over Israeli aggressions and bulldozing of homes, etc. in Palestine
-End the Occupation and other groups, including many progressive Jewish groups against occupation have called for other groups to send thank-yous to the Quakers for their action.
-Erik proposed that OJC send a thank you to Quakers
-ALL agreed
-VOTED ON AND PASSED UNANIMOUSLY to send a thank you to Quakers.
-Migna suggested we send letters/thank yous to other nations who've spoken out on occupation also
4. NATO / CHICAGO
-Lorsen gave us all a lesson on history and meaning of "NATO" (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION)
-Protests are scheduled for this weekend in CHICAGO
-Our OJC / OWS member Michael Pellagatti will be in Chicago all week for these actions as a member of MEDIA
5. NDAA / STOP AND FRISK ISSUES
-Migna explained that two separate judges both declared injunctions on provisions in both the NDAA and the 'Stop and Frisk' policy in NY, based on UN-Constitutionality
-This is very good news and will be supported and monitored
-Calvin explained that the current NDAA provisions should only be used in' dire straits'
6. COMMUNITY GARDENS
-Lorsen requested an update on COMMUNITY GARDENS
-Roxana was contact person for this and will be tabled/ brought up again - at future OJC meetings for information when she returns
*REMINDERS:
1. OJC is sponsoring a TRIP to LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL - MAY 25, 26, 27th - NYC
3. ISRAELI DIVESTMENT ISSUE / THANK YOUS
-It was explained that The Quakers recently divested funds from Caterpillar (business that produces bulldozers) over Israeli aggressions and bulldozing of homes, etc. in Palestine
-End the Occupation and other groups, including many progressive Jewish groups against occupation have called for other groups to send thank-yous to the Quakers for their action.
-Erik proposed that OJC send a thank you to Quakers
-ALL agreed
-VOTED ON AND PASSED UNANIMOUSLY to send a thank you to Quakers.
-Migna suggested we send letters/thank yous to other nations who've spoken out on occupation also
4. NATO / CHICAGO
-Lorsen gave us all a lesson on history and meaning of "NATO" (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION)
-Protests are scheduled for this weekend in CHICAGO
-Our OJC / OWS member Michael Pellagatti will be in Chicago all week for these actions as a member of MEDIA
5. NDAA / STOP AND FRISK ISSUES
-Migna explained that two separate judges both declared injunctions on provisions in both the NDAA and the 'Stop and Frisk' policy in NY, based on UN-Constitutionality
-This is very good news and will be supported and monitored
-Calvin explained that the current NDAA provisions should only be used in' dire straits'
6. COMMUNITY GARDENS
-Lorsen requested an update on COMMUNITY GARDENS
-Roxana was contact person for this and will be tabled/ brought up again - at future OJC meetings for information when she returns
*REMINDERS:
1. OJC is sponsoring a TRIP to LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL - MAY 25, 26, 27th - NYC
OJC will pay for ALL PATH TRAIN RIDES of OJC members both there and back!
WE HAVE $36. in METROCARD TRIPS for OJC MEMBER USE!
http://www.
OJC will decide on TUE. which day we will all go (MOST LIKELY SATURDAY) - SO PLEASE COME BY / EMAIL US and vote for your choice day.
2. FIRST WEEK IN JUNE - FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE - OJC MOVES BACK TO FOUNTAIN w/ SIGNS
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