March 2013 - announce

Greenzine - upcoming actions, Earth Day events
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Dear Greens, See our website for more details on these events: www.sfgreenparty.org as well as our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_62534706497&ap=1 Please pass this newsletter on to others; we're looking for a large number of volunteers to help us out at the Earth Day events! 1. Howard Grayson LGBT Elder Life Conference When: Saturday, March 30, 1 pm-5 pm Where: SF LGBT Center 1800 Market St, SF Description: This is an LGBT Elders Conference created in memory of life-long LGBT and labor activist Howard Grayson. Hosted By Anna Conda and Sue Englander, there will be a speaking panel and entertainment. More info can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/430362660384798/ 2. President Obama is in SF Wednesday April 3rd. Meet at his $5,000 a plate dinner to protest Keystone XL pipeline, the $85 billion cuts/Sequester, drone killings and more. 5-6 pm at 2870 Broadway @ Baker. Sierra Club & other environmental groups are sponsoring this event. 3. Thursday April 11, 6-8 pm important Town Hall Meeting about the suspension of JR Valrey from his KPFA 8 am Wednesday Block Report program. Justice needs a wake-up call at KPFA. Laney College, 900 Fallon St., Student Center Rm. 401. Lake Merritt BART. SFGP has signed the petition in support of JR as well as many of our members. Add your name: editor(a)sfbayview.com 4. Saturday April 13 at Noon: Drones out of Africa, Middle East and here! Rally at Powell & Market. Sponsored by ANSWER. 5. Sunday April 14th, 11am-2pm: Join SFGP for tabling at Sunday Streets in the Mission 11am-2pm. Shotwell & 24th. Valencia will be shut down to car traffic for several miles. Call John-Marc 415-285-5696 if you can help. 6. SF Earth Day Celebration When: Sat, April 20, 10 am - 6 pm Where: Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco Description: Help us do outreach on Earth Day at the Civic Center! If you can help register and talk to potential Green voters, email cc(a)sfgreens.org or call us at 415-480-4773. 7. Sunday April 21, 10am-Noon: Earth Day clean-up Ocean Beach. Bring your own bags. Organizers will be on the beach just below the Cliff House off the Great Hwy. 8. Monday April 22, Earth Day: Stop Environmental Injustice! Protest the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada across the US. Noon at the US EPA Region 1X office, 75 Hawthorne St. between 2nd & 3rd St. and Howard & Folsom near the Mongomery BART. 9. SF Green Party Members meet every 4th Wednesday. Next meeting 4/27 at 7-9 pm. Speaker rescheduled on SF Public School planning/PEPS: Community process for envisioning the best public schools possible and making it happen; no Charter schools. El Cafetazo, 3087 16th St. near Valencia St and 16th St. BART. Everyone welcome. *===========================* The Green Party of California is seeking independent contractors for a variety of positions: fundraiser, organizer, and press secretary. To get more details, or to apply, see their web page: http://www.cagreens.org/ *===========================* Paid contractor wanted: SF Green Party Fundraiser/Volunteer Coordinator (a part time independent contractor (1099) position): http://sfgreenparty.org/help-wanted *=========================== Join our updated Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_62534706497&ap=1 *=========================== To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.

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Greenzine - correction to tonight's Empowering Latinas event
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Dear Greens, Tonight's event was previously listed in our newsletter with a typo in the address. The "Empowering Latinas" Panel Discussion will be at the Eric Quezada Center, 518 Valencia St (not 513 as stated before). Hope to see you there and at our monthly meeting tomorrow night. > 5. Tuesday 3/26 6 pm March is Women's Month. Panel on Empowering > Latinas with Eliana Lopez-Mirikarimi speaking. 518 Valencia--2 blks > from 16th & Mission BART. donation....no one turned > away. 415-595-4729. > > 6. SF Green Party Members meet every 4th Wednesday. Next meeting 3/27 > from 7-9 pm. We will be discussing outreach and organizing efforts, > including in-person work and an electronic outreach strategy. We'll > also have a speaker on SF Public School planning/PEPS: Community > process for envisioning the best public schools possible and making it > happen; no Charter schools. El Cafetazo, 3087 16th St. near Valencia > St and 16th St. BART. Everyone welcome.

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Greenzine - Sunset Greens meet; Save the Post Office & more
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Dear Greens, Happy Spring Equinox. Equal hours of day and night give a sense of balance. See our website for more details on these events: www.sfgreenparty.org 1. SF Sunset Greens Gathering Saturday 3/23 at NOON. Come meet some of the hundreds of Greens who live in the Outer Sunset. Talk of gardening, upcoming fall election Green candidate and more. Home of Mike Murphy & Kim Pelish, 1511 44th Av. @ Kirkham. Lunch. Call Mike for more information: 415-823-9743. Children welcome. Mike and Kim have a 5 yr. old son. 2. Saturday 3/23 4:30-7:30pm See "Bowling for Columbine" with Michael Moore. Moore is screening it from NY for its 10th Anniversary of its Academy Award; then following it up with questions from groups of people like us all over the country. Get a deeper understanding of what it will take to decrease violence in the US. It's not going away without serious change and we do much more than be the change we want to see. Serving Peace Pizza, incl. vegetarian. Though quite funny, film is rated R; older teens welcome w/parent. RSVP Sandra 650-303-1176. revdecker(a)msn.com 3. Sunday 3/24 11am-3 pm--National Day to Keep Saturday Delivery and Save the Postal Service. Gather at N. Beach Post Office, 1640 Stockton St.@ Union opposite Washington Square Park. Speakers, music and protest. The Post Office is the 2nd largest employer in the US with over 500,000 employees. If they privatize the post office, will you pay to have your mail delivered? The good union jobs for many women and people of color will be gone and it will be like working for Wal Mart. More info: David Marsh 510-847-8657 savethepostoffice(a)sonic.net 4. Monday 3/25, 6 pm Public forum on the Trans-Pacific Partner Free Trade Agreement. Being drawn up behind closed doors with the intention of signing this year! Another NAFTA/CAFTA nightmare. Held at 2017 Mission, #200. Arthur Stamoulis. media(a)citizenstrade.org 5. Tuesday 3/26 6 pm March is Women's Month. Panel on Empowering Latinas with Eliana Lopez-Mirikarimi speaking. 513 Valencia--2 blks from 16th & Mission BART. donation....no one turned away. 415-595-4729. 6. SF Green Party Members meet every 4th Wednesday. Next meeting 3/27 from 7-9 pm. We will be discussing outreach and organizing efforts, including in-person work and an electronic outreach strategy. We'll also have a speaker on SF Public School planning/PEPS: Community process for envisioning the best public schools possible and making it happen; no Charter schools. El Cafetazo, 3087 16th St. near Valencia St and 16th St. BART. Everyone welcome. 7. Join us for tabling at Sunday Streets in the Mission April 14th, 11am-2pm. Shotwell & 24th. John-Marc 415-285-5696. *===========================* The Green Party of California is seeking independent contractors for a variety of positions: fundraiser, organizer, and press secretary. To get more details, or to apply, see their web page: http://www.cagreens.org/ *===========================* Paid contractor wanted: SF Green Party Fundraiser/Volunteer Coordinator (a part time independent contractor (1099) position): http://sfgreenparty.org/help-wanted *=========================== Join our updated Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_62534706497&ap=1 *=========================== To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.

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Greenzine - 3/14 Protest SF City College cuts
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Dear Greens, see our website for more details on these events: www.sfgreenparty.org 1. SAVE CITY COLLEGE: MASS RALLY: Thursday March 14th. Students walk out of classes on all CCSF campuses at 1 pm. March from Mission CCSF Campus. 2 pm: March from Mission Campus on 22nd St & Valencia. 4-6 pm: protest at Civic Center. More info: www.ccsf.org Endorsed by SF Green Party. 2. 6th Annual Bay Area Arab Women's Conference, "Weaving with New Threads" at Main SF Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. Great speakers, music, break-outs and lunch. $25 at the door/$15 students. Saturday March 16th, 10:30 am-5:30 pm. 3. March in the SF St. Paddy's Day Parade 3/16 with the SAVE OUR POST OFFICE United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Wear Green T-shirts! Meet on 2nd St. S. of Market near Mongomery BART. More details: 510-847-8657 David Marsh. SavethePostOffice(a)sonic.net 4. Monday March 18th 9:15 am, SAVE OUR POST OFFICE at Moscone Center W. Plaza on Howard & 4th St., SF. Protest while Post Master General Donahue is speaking inside. 5. Tuesday March 19th 6-8 pm film "The Great 1970 Nationwide Postal Strike". Power of the People worked then and it will again. Redstone Building, 2940 16th St., 3rd flr., elevator. 1/2 block from BART. 6. SF Green Party County Council meets every 3rd Wednesday. Next meeting 3/20/13 at 7:30 pm, El Cafetazo, 3087 16th St. near Valencia. 1 1/2 blks. from 16th St. BART in the Mission. 7. SF Sunset Greens Gathering Saturday 3/23 at noon. Come meet some of the hundreds of Greens who live in the Outer Sunset. Home of Mike Murphy, 1511 44th St. Free lunch. Children welcome. 415-823-9743 8. Sunday March 24, 11am-3 pm National Day to Keep Saturday Delivery and Save the Postal Service. N. Beach P.O., 1640 Stockton @ Union St. opposite Washington Sq. Park. Speakers and activities. More info. 510-847-8657 9. SF Green Party Members meet every 4th Wednesday. Next meeting 3/27, 7-9 pm, El Cafetazo, 3087 16th St. near Valencia/16th St. BART. *===========================* The Green Party of California is seeking independent contractors for a variety of positions: fundraiser, organizer, and press secretary. To get more details, or to apply, see their web page: http://www.cagreens.org/ *===========================* Paid contractor wanted: SF Green Party Fundraiser/Volunteer Coordinator (a part time independent contractor (1099) position): http://sfgreenparty.org/help-wanted *=========================== Join our updated Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_62534706497&ap=1 *=========================== To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.

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