If some of you in Northern California would like to keep in touch, the East Bay Coalition for Border Security has been keeping each other posted on local events. We've started back about the time of the demonstrations back in March.

Recently we became affiliated with the Minuteman Project founded and head up by Jim Gilchrist. We are the Golden Gate Chapter and are going by the name, "Golden Gate Minutemen".

We have a pretty good core group that has come together in Fremont for meetings and rallies. We also have been attending local political meetings, supporting candidates for election. handing out flags and flyer's at The Forth of July Parade and many other actions.

Some of our members have been traveling some distance to get to meetings and rallies. We have recently been working on establishing some new groups in the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area. We have started a group in Redwood City and one in Castro Valley. We have been hoping that we can get some groups organized like we had in scouts when we were kids. We hope to have many smaller groups working together like patrols, then we could all come together like a troop for meetings, rallies and other events. I see no reason to limit ourselves to the bay area. We have a membership list going and may be able to help others find each other locally. If our group can help you get your own group started let us know. We have a pretty good team that may be able to come to your area and guide you on getting started. We may also be able to get you in contact with others that may help. MCDC is also working on helping others get started.

This is basically how our contact list works. We have different levels of email notification. We also have a phone list.

We've had some trouble with the International Socialist Organization in the past so we had to tighten up our mailing list.

The newest form of contact is the Golden Gate Minutemen Yahoo Group. We are new at it and are still exploring ways to use it. To get on it you need to get through one of our members, USAdave, to be approved. He needs to have been to a rallies with you or know you in some way as to feel secure in sharing the information that is posted there. The Yahoo group makes it possible for members to mass email the other members with information, plus it has a calendar of upcoming events.

We also have a list of members that are contacted the old fashioned way. By email. We have a secure list and a not so secure list.

If you want to get on one of them contact us at the www.goldengateminutemen.com

StokeyBob