keep an eye on Dave. They knew they didn't want him doing something that, you know, he shouldn't be doing. So these people all got on board and the city council . He actually had to change the council, get three new people on board because there were three negatives. Then you heard the storyabout we've become like Ann Arbor wine drinking instead of beer drinking in Bowling Town.
done and we have to give him credit for the good things he's done. City Council presents an opportunity for us to really change the climate, change the environment, change how the City Council conducts its business. So that guys like, aldermen like Waguespack,
city decide which way it should go. Now, the judge had probably far more influence in the town. He knew the other the city council . He knew he'd been there longer. Uh so he actually won the vote that they voted to keep it north south. But what they did not do was what we call today in the software world technical debt. That they made a new
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amenities for people; it was a very commercial affair. The people of the city of Santa Monica didn't agree and so there was a great outpour of, of rebellion actually against, against the city. The city council voted to pass, voted to accept the city manager's proposal and each city council member who, who had voted to tear down the Pier ended up facing an assault from the city of Santa Monica's and, and other people who loved the Pier.
things that were in his plan, in some form or another, has since come to be. In 1973, the city council did go ahead and change their minds and, like I said, each city councilman, even though they voted to keep the Pier standing, was ultimately voted out of office. But they saved the Pier and in 1975, the Pier was declared a landmark, was given landmark status and declared that the only way that anything could happen to tear down or alter
what I think of as the vegetables of the media diet, which is things like coverage of schools, encounters with others' humanity, coverage of city council meetings, coverage of planning decisions in your community. And that worked because advertisers really liked putting their advertisements
And her victory, which was only made possible, not by a majority of Seattlites, but by an active, motivated minority. Her victory on the city council completely changed the frame of debate in city politics. It shifted everything leftward.
Because they understand, right, the powers that be who want to hold Asians back understand that if they limit your family from coming, There's also a city council woman in Boston, a new state legislator in Illinois.
That's what happened in Maine and several other places. Even in the Burlington City Council . The Burlington mayoral election was something that was voted on, a proposition that was locally voted on directly by the people, in and out.
But my entree into politics, and the reason that I was really committed to the advocacy training work of Deeds Not Words, happened when I went to a city council meeting. I was in my 30s.
Something like that. He set a deadline. And then the city council took it on again.
So last thing. You're smart, so stay smart. But being on City Council , even if I lost, is changing the narrative and the course of the campaign-- would make a real change.
And in order to do that you have to go to your alderman and your alderman has to file an ordinance and that ordinance has to be approved, and so it takes about two months because the city council meets once a month. That's an archaic process. Number one it shouldn't have to go through the legislative system and so why not do it administratively. You could still have the aldermen sign off because the aldermen want
Mail and the Toronto Sun. I mean, everywhere I was going, I was being interviewed. But when I watched their pieces, the piece right after the one covering me, for example, is about the Vancouver City Council and how it had passed legislation that if you had a sign in your house that said anything against the Olympics, your house could be raided. Oh, athletes weren't allowed to speak out against corporations that sponsored the Olympics.
policy. We all know how well calling your congressperson works, right? And so I think what people feel is like being able to show up to the city council meeting for the local data center project might be one of the only channels they have to express I don't like what's going on with the way that AI is going in our lives. And so, if if you were frustrated about AI, what
and others could have indicated a second or third choice. Santa Clara has an all white city council in a city that's majority minority.
Under the new law passed by city council -- The city-- the Criminal Justice Reform Act?
So here you can see the Barcelona City Council in the background in this photo that really looks at social value creation
If you live in New York City, you have city council races, you have the mayor's race, you have the public advocates race,
It was particularly bad in my race. So the school board races and city council races, which is where I started, too.
So last thing. You're smart, so stay smart. Probably the hardest part is that the City Council -- we're so close to the people.
So last thing. You're smart, so stay smart. But I'm just on City Council .
So he went to the City Council of Cambridge to ask for some help for his students but the response was really bad and really awful.
I'm going to run for city council and fix that.
When we got the Oakland city Council in 2007 to pass I guess a piece of local legislation
is what's happening today among City Council people. Vote if you haven't. It seemed like
arrests as anti-Muslim activists clashed with counterprotesters outside a city council meeting, bringing the tensions
It was an honor from the mayor as well as City Council for Los Angeles.
it still was exceedingly difficult to get Dublin City Council to back me to be able to build a distillery.
And one more thing out there is that if you're picking more than one person, there's an even more powerful thing you can do. Proportional representation is the notion that if you're electing a city council or a state legislature, if 20% of the people show up in some constituency and vote for whatever their favorite cause is, then 20% of the seats of the legislature
So vote for mayor of New York or in city council ballots and referendum.
We now have an Asian American president of the Boston City Council .
to put that on the radar screen of people running for city council and mayor, where a lot of the action on these things happen, to state legislators, and, of course, federal
I remember one day one when Mike Bloomberg and City Council were involved in a huge fight about which social services got
The charter did create a decently powerful mayor but also a very strong city council and
At the mayor's behest, an anonymous city council member spread word to three of Cambridge's biggest newspaper stands that continued sales of "Avatar"
Some decide that the government actually-- the police have to come to the city council , whatever, and ask to get the permission.
representing the region and that's the way he wanted to come across is that this was a regional effort. So trying to get those 40 communities to get on board plus the chamber plus the city council . People were telling him, "You're wasting your time." GM has never changed their mind about doing something like this.
I was just asked to testify last week before the New York City Council , which is adopting a bill-- I think it probably
Then you'd have all these folks line in this front of the city council and say, no way.
And it's been really heartening for me to see how the City Council members, they're our neighbors.
So last thing. You're smart, so stay smart. But I do think through 2016, being on City Council is probably the biggest way to do that.
city, things were done by paper, David Lieber: Miguel del Valle: journals etcetera produced by paper. And so we've modernized the office, we've used technology to bring the council closer to the people putting the city council meetings online, doing live webcasts of those city council meetings, and we've done those types of things. So back to your question of what makes me different: my experience, my knowledge of
the city of Santa Monica's and, and other people who loved the Pier. And ultimately, each of the city council members who voted to tear down the Pier were voted out of office. Now movements, there were two movements on the Pier, there was the Save the, Save the Pier campaign and the Santa Monica Citizens Committee to Save the Pier campaign. Both met on the Pier. Both were very heavily involved with trying to influence
the, Save the Pier campaign and the Santa Monica Citizens Committee to Save the Pier campaign. Both met on the Pier. Both were very heavily involved with trying to influence media and petitioning and trying to influence the local politicians-- During one city council meeting, Larry Barber, the Chairman of the Save the Santa Monica Pier Committee, gave a beautiful, beautiful speech and part of it he said, and I think that this is really striking statement, "It's like a family. You don't get rid of your grandmother
I ran into a woman the other night who is now the head of a city council who was a V-Day activist for years and I ran into another woman who's become this and you don't even
Meinhardt feels at home here. She serves on the city council for the Social Democrats. She has never regretted the
But what I am confident about is that people from the technology industry could start winning local school board and city council and, you know, congressional seats.
I mean, local congressmen, city council members, local-- when I say local legislatures, I mean at the state level.