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Greenzine - join us on Thursday for a People's Earth Day Rally
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

April 18, 2021 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty instagram.com/sfgreenparty mastodon.sfgreens.org/@sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, This Thursday, April 22nd, is Earth Day! Residents of Bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island and about 20 environmental justice, social justice and climate groups have united to organize a People's Earth Day Rally for Environmental Justice focusing on the contamination and health impacts from the radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund Site and Treasure Island. Please join Greens and many other groups for a noon rally at City Hall; details follow our events listing. Journalist Ann Garrison wrote a nice article about the state of Pacifica Radio and KPFA for the SF Bayview newspaper: https://sfbayview.com/2021/04/pacifica-radio-lets-talk-about-the-debt/ Here are a number of online lectures and events in the next few weeks that will be of interest to Greens: Sun, 4/18, 2 pm -- Kiss the Ground Screening and Discussion -- Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on an “new, old approach” to farming called “regenerative agriculture” and which unveils a solution to our climate crisis: the Earth’s own soil! Following the film, we'll have a moderated discussion -- Organized by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Of Newark: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kiss-the-ground-screening-and-discussion-ticke… Mon, 4/19, 10:30 am -- Bolivia - People Power, Hope & Solidarity -- With MP Jeremy Corbyn & special guests from Bolivia - marking 6 months since the Left's historic election victory. With eyewitness speakers from Bolivia including journalist Ollie Vargas: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bolivia-people-power-hope-solidarity-tickets-1… Mon, 4/19, 12 Noon -- A presentation and Q&A with Native American Environmentalist & Political Activist Winona LaDuke -- LaDuke is a rural development economist and author who lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. She is the author of six books, including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations, Last Standing Woman, and her newest, Winona LaDuke Chronicles -- Organized by Sierra College: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winona-laduke-native-american-environmentalist… Mon, 4/19, 4:30 pm -- DearTomorrow: Envisioning a sustainable future in a time of climate change -- An experiential climate change workshop -- Participants will break into smaller conversation groups -- Organized by Long Now Boston: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deartomorrow-envisioning-a-sustainable-future-… Tue, 4/20, 11 am -- Beyond the law and stigma: a grown up conversation about cannabis -- With medical cannabis proponent Dr. Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, Nathaniel Loxley, director of the British Hemp Alliance, medical historian and founder of the Black Medical Cannabis Alliance, Dr. Yewande Okuleye, and two others -- Organized by the (UK) Green Party's Drug Policy Action Group: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the-law-and-stigma-a-grown-up-conversat… Tue, 4/20, 5 pm -- Screening of the film Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder, with filmmaker Chris Felver; Ferlinghetti biographer and poet Neeli Cherkovski; San Jose Statue University Professor Patrick Surgalski; and City Lights Publishing editor and poet Garret Caples: https://events.sjsu.edu/event/ferlinghetti_a_rebirth_of_wonder_-_film_and_p… Wed, 4/21, 10:30 am -- Workers' Rights & the Gig Economy -- With journalist and author Naomi Klein, freelance journalist and former gig worker Wilfred Chan, and Veena Dubal, professor of law at UC Hastings San Francisco: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-rights-the-gig-economy-tickets-1482645… Wed, 4/21, 3 pm -- Author Meets Critic: "Why Austerity Persists" -- A conversation with Jon Shefner, Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, and discussant Clara Mattei, Assistant Professor in Economics at New School for Social Research (NSSR), about Shefner's recently published book: Why Austerity Persists (co-authored with C. Glad) -- Presented by the Critical Perspectives on Democratic Anti-Colonialism Project and the Department of Sociology at NSSR: https://event.newschool.edu/whyausteritypersists Wed, 4/21, 3 pm -- The Climate Imperative: Meeting the Moment -- The next decade will require unprecedented, powerful, action to curb greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the most catastrophic climate impacts -- With Alex Halliday, Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute; and Maureen Raymo, Interim Director of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climate-imperative-meeting-the-moment-tick… Thu, 4/22, 9 am thru Fri, 4/23, 2:30 pm -- UC Center for Climate Justice Launch Event -- With food sovereignty scholar-activist Vandana Shiva, DOE Deputy Director for Energy Justice Shalanda Baker, Green New Deal architect Rihana Gunn-Wright, six panels, and more https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-center-for-climate-justice-launch-event-tic… Thu, 4/22, 10 am -- A conversation with Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé -- A discussion about impasse, internationalism and radical change -- Laureate professor and activist Chomsky is the author of many books, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, and Understanding Power. Pappé, Professor of History at the University of Exeter, is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is the author of many books and wrote two books with Chomsky: Gaza in Crisis and On Palestine -- Organized by the Exeter Decolonising Network: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-noam-chomsky-and-ilan-papp… Thu, 4/22, 12 Noon -- Cuba’s Approach to Healthcare for All -- Join Doctors Helen Yaffe and Valia Rodriguez, MD for a transnational conversation on why it is so important to establish medical cooperation between the people of the US and Cuba. The discussion will be introduced by Cuban Ambasadora Lianys Torres Rivera -- Sponsored by National Nurses United, Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, the SF Latino Task Force, the National Network on Cuba, and four other groups: https://globalhealth.stanford.edu/featured-events/cubas-approach-to-healthc… Fri, 4/23, 4 pm -- The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity -- Jessica Ordaz's book "The Shadow of El Centro" tells the story of how the El Centro Immigration Detention Camp evolved into ICE's Processing Center of the 2000s and became a national model for detaining migrants—a place where the policing of migration, the racialization of labor, and detainee resistance coalesced. Ordaz is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-shadow-of-el-centro-a-history-of-migrant-i… Sat, 4/24, all day -- 2nd Annual National Antiracist Book Festival -- including Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Dave Zirin, Benjamin Crump, Albert Woodfox, and dozens of others -- Boston University Center for Antiracist Research: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2nd-annual-national-antiracist-book-festiv… Mon, 4/26, 3 pm -- Imagining and Remaking a World Without Prisons: Visions, Study and Practice -- With Angela Davis, activist, Civil Rights icon, and professor emerita at the UC, Santa Cruz; Beth Richie, Professor of African American Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago; Kathy Boudin, Director of the Criminal Justice Initiative, and Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Social Work at Columbia University; and Timmy Chau, a Vietnamese organizer, lawyer, and facilitator based in Chicago -- Organized by the Prison+Neighborhood Arts/Education Project: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-and-remaking-a-world-without-prisons… Thu, 4/29, 8 am -- As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock -- Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes), Lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, discusses some of the main themes of her book "As Long As Grass Grows" -- Organized by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/as-long-as-grass-grows-the-indigenous-fight-fo… *===========================* What: People's Earth Day Rally When: Thurs, April 22, noon Where: City Hall Thursday, April 22nd is Earth Day and residents of Bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island and about 20 environmental justice, social justice and climate groups have united to organize a People's Earth Day Rally for Environmental Justice focusing on the contamination and health impacts from the radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund Site and Treasure Island. We will rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall (Polk Street steps) at noon to challenge the Mayor and Board of Supervisors to finally support community demands for a moratorium on Lennar's Shipyard development, declare a public health emergency, and support full cleanup and removal of ALL contamination at both sites, including by the bay waterfront where rising sea levels and rising groundwater will flood the radioactive and toxic waste the government plans on leaving buried and capped at the waterfront of San Francisco Bay. As you know, the city pretends to support environmental and climate justice, but the opposite is true when it comes to the shipyard and Treasure Island. It is time to call them out and demand health and justice. The SF Green Party is a co-sponsor of this rally. See the complete list of policies in our "Green New Deal for SF" here: https://sfgreenparty.org/issues/92-a-green-new-deal-for-san-francisco *===========================* What: Stop HR 1 When: Now Where: Online Dear Greens, HR 1 is sold as a way to get money out of politics and to protect voters, but it contains a poison pill fordemocracy and opposition parties like the Green Party. HR1 quintuples the amount of money Green presidential campaigns will be required to raise to qualify for federal matching funds: from $5,000 in each of 20 states to $25,000 per state. The Green Party stands opposed to this bait-and-switch legislation that claims to improve access to voting while actually dismantling everyone's right to organize electorally against the parties of War and Wall Street. In a recent Gallup poll, a record 62% of US voters said we need a new major party. HR 1 is just the latest example of how the parties of War and Wall Street have no shame about strangling democracy to preserve their duopoly, even while pretending they're doing exactly the opposite. Please donate to the Green Party today so we can fight back. No doubt you've heard from "progressive" groups about how HR 1 contains much-needed voter protections. And it's true, HR1 contains some badly needed reforms. That makes it all the more shameful for the Democrats to use those reforms as cover to eliminate competition from alternative parties. Goto our Action Page (https://www.gp.org/hr_1) and Tell Congress: Stop HR 1, the "Voting Rights Bill" That Restricts Voter Choice! And make sure you tell your family and communities how HR 1 will: - Eliminate the limits on donations and expenditures candidates can receive and make — what kind of campaign finance reform is that? - Inflate the amount of money national party committees can give to candidates from $5000 to $100 million, an astonishing increase of 1999900% that would give party bosses virtually unlimited power to flood elections with big money. - Abolish the general election campaign block grants that parties can access by winning at least 5% of the vote in the previous presidential election. HR1 will eliminate this provision that was created to give a fair shot to alternative parties that demonstrate significant public support. - Replace the general election block grants (where each qualified candidate receives a set, lump sum of public funding for campaign expenses) with matching funds through Election Day — a huge step backwards for public campaign finance reform — using the above-mentioned criteria designed to squeeze out alternative parties and independent candidates. Instead of trying to fool American voters and eliminating minor party voices, the Green Party calls for real reforms to democratize elections: - The Fair Representation Act, introduced in 2018 and 2019, would enact Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) and multi-member districts for Congressional elections, giving voters more power and more choice. - Individual state governments should enact RCV for their elections, including the presidential election. - Fully-public campaign finance for every federal, state and local office through the Clean Money/Clean Elections model now used in Arizona and Maine. For more info about how you can help, see: https://www.gp.org/hr_1 *===========================* What: SF Green Party Organizing When: All the time Where: Online Until the pandemic is under control, we will not be holding in-person meetings. Government will need to implement a widespread testing and contact tracing program in order to safely open things up. Unfortunately, a number of our active members do not have reliable internet access (especially with our public libraries closed), so holding general monthly meetings over Zoom is not an option. Instead, we have an email list for discussions between active members, and our county council (CC) meets by Zoom on the 3rd Wednesdays of every month. If you'd like to join our conversation online, or our CC meetings, please email cc(a)sfgreens.org with your name and contact info, and also please remind us if you've been to a meeting before. If you are unable to join us but still want to follow what's going on, you can call Barry Hermanson at 415-255-9494. *===========================* 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 - upcoming KPFA elections, articles and online events
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

April 6, 2021 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty instagram.com/sfgreenparty mastodon.sfgreens.org/@sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, We will be making endorsements in the upcoming membership votes at KPFA radio. The KPFA station board currently includes three Alameda county Greens, Don Macleay, Daniel Borgstrom, and James McFadden, as well as Santa Clara county Green Christine Pepin. If you don't have a subscription, or your previous subscription has expired, please contribute $25 for a year's subscription (membership) at: https://secure.kpfa.org/support/ by this Wednesday (4/7) in order to be able to vote in upcoming elections. Although Republican voter supression in Georgia has been getting well-deserved focus recently, little attention is being paid to voter supression by the Democratic Party. Mike Feinstein, from the Santa Monica Greens, has written a good article about the problems with HR-1 and efforts to block Greens from the ballot in Nevada: https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/commentary-democrats-have-their-own-v… SF Green Party member Barry Hermanson also wrote a nice article about COVID vaccines, Big Pharma, and Medicare for All: https://sfbayview.com/2021/03/big-pharma/ Here are a number of online lectures and events in the next month or so that will be of interest to Greens: Tue, 4/6, 2:30 pm -- Cultivating Fear: Anti-Muslim Bias in the Media and Society -- With Rowaida Abdelaziz, a national reporter at HuffPost, Malika Bilal, senior presenter at The Take, an interview-driven news podcast, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, a civil rights attorney and Deputy Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Saif Shahin, Assistant Professor at American University, whose current research looks at artificial intelligence and big data as a sociopolitical phenomena, and online identity construction as a sociotechnical practice -- Organized the American University School Of Communication: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultivating-fear-anti-muslim-bias-in-the-media… Wed, 4/7, 3:30 pm -- A discussion of Kurt Vonnegut's, “Man Without a Country" -- Presented by the "Radical Reading Circle", and hosted by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library and Lasana Kazembe and Jason Kelly, with Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-reading-circle-with-the-kurt-vonnegut-… Wed, 4/7, 5 pm -- In Conversation: Jeff Chang, Dave Cook, and Tina Bell Wright -- Professors Cook and Wright join author Chang to discuss his book about Hip Hop, "Can't Stop Won't Stop" -- Organized by the California African American Museum: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-jeff-chang-dave-cook-and-tina-… Thu, 4/8, 12 Noon -- Antiracism and Environmental Justice: Latinx Imperatives -- Ramón Cruz, president of the Sierra Club, and David Vazquez, co-editor of "Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial", and a professor at American University, will discuss environmental justice in Latinx communities and the prospects for antiracist environmentalism: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antiracism-and-environmental-justice-latinx-im… Thu, 4/8, 4 pm -- Religious Communities and the Planetary Crisis -- This webinar will examine the response of the faith communities to the climate crisis from the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian perspectives -- Sponsored by the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network, the Hartford Seminary, and CT Interfaith Power & Light: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/religious-communities-and-the-planetary-crisis… Sat, 4/10, 4 pm -- Frida Berrigan on Martin Luther King's Triad: Racism Militarism & Excessive Materialism -- Organized by the Cleveland Nonviolence Network: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frida-berrigan-on-ml-kings-triad-racism-mili… Sun, 4/11, 10 am -- Visionary Virtual Conference: Bigger Love -- With economist Hazel Henderson, European Union Ambassador to the United States Stavros Lambrinidis, and two others -- Organized by the American Visionary Art Museum: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/logan-visionary-virtual-conference-bigger-lo… Mon, 4/12, 2 pm -- Conformity, Propaganda, and the Fight for a Left Future with Noam Chomsky -- A critical discussion on a plethora of issues with world (in)famous dissident, public intellectual, and author Noam Chomsky: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conformity-propaganda-and-the-fight-for-a-left… Tue, 4/13, 4 pm -- Freedom-Making in an Age of Mass Incarceration -- With Toussaint Losier, UMass-Amherst; editor, Rethinking the American Prison Movement; Beth Richie, University of Illinois-Chicago; author, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation; and 3 others -- Organized by the Pozen Center Human Rights Lab: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-making-in-an-age-of-mass-incarcerati… Wed, 4/14, 10 am -- The Arab Spring: 10 Years On -- Five panelists from King's College London (KCL) will discuss protests and protest movements in Egypt and Lebanon, media and the Arab Spring in north Africa, Syria, Palestine, and the Gulf -- Organized by the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, KCL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-arab-spring-10-years-on-tickets-1463563186… Wed, 4/14, 11 am -- Anarchist in The UK - Louise Michel, heroine of the Paris Commune -- To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Naomi Clifford explores the life of Louise Michel, feminist, anarchist, poet, playwright and journalist, who survived the bloody end of the 1871 Paris Commune -- Organized by Lambeth Libraries: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anarchist-in-the-uk-louise-michel-heroine-of-t… Mon, 4/19, 4:30 pm -- DearTomorrow: Envisioning a sustainable future in a time of climate change -- An experiential climate change workshop -- Participants will break into smaller conversation groups -- Organized by Long Now Boston: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deartomorrow-envisioning-a-sustainable-future-… Sat, 4/24, all day -- 2nd Annual National Antiracist Book Festival -- including Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Dave Zirin, Benjamin Crump, Albert Woodfox, and dozens of others -- Boston University Center for Antiracist Research: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2nd-annual-national-antiracist-book-festiv… Thu, 4/29, 8 am -- As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock -- Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes), Lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, discusses some of the main themes of her book "As Long As Grass Grows" -- Organized by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/as-long-as-grass-grows-the-indigenous-fight-fo… *===========================* What: Stop HR 1 When: Now Where: Online Dear Greens, HR 1 is sold as a way to get money out of politics and to protect voters, but it contains a poison pill fordemocracy and opposition parties like the Green Party. HR1 quintuples the amount of money Green presidential campaigns will be required to raise to qualify for federal matching funds: from $5,000 in each of 20 states to $25,000 per state. The Green Party stands opposed to this bait-and-switch legislation that claims to improve access to voting while actually dismantling everyone's right to organize electorally against the parties of War and Wall Street. In a recent Gallup poll, a record 62% of US voters said we need a new major party. HR 1 is just the latest example of how the parties of War and Wall Street have no shame about strangling democracy to preserve their duopoly, even while pretending they're doing exactly the opposite. Please donate to the Green Party today so we can fight back. No doubt you've heard from "progressive" groups about how HR 1 contains much-needed voter protections. And it's true, HR1 contains some badly needed reforms. That makes it all the more shameful for the Democrats to use those reforms as cover to eliminate competition from alternative parties. Goto our Action Page (https://www.gp.org/hr_1) and Tell Congress: Stop HR 1, the "Voting Rights Bill" That Restricts Voter Choice! And make sure you tell your family and communities how HR 1 will: - Eliminate the limits on donations and expenditures candidates can receive and make — what kind of campaign finance reform is that? - Inflate the amount of money national party committees can give to candidates from $5000 to $100 million, an astonishing increase of 1999900% that would give party bosses virtually unlimited power to flood elections with big money. - Abolish the general election campaign block grants that parties can access by winning at least 5% of the vote in the previous presidential election. HR1 will eliminate this provision that was created to give a fair shot to alternative parties that demonstrate significant public support. - Replace the general election block grants (where each qualified candidate receives a set, lump sum of public funding for campaign expenses) with matching funds through Election Day — a huge step backwards for public campaign finance reform — using the above-mentioned criteria designed to squeeze out alternative parties and independent candidates. Instead of trying to fool American voters and eliminating minor party voices, the Green Party calls for real reforms to democratize elections: - The Fair Representation Act, introduced in 2018 and 2019, would enact Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) and multi-member districts for Congressional elections, giving voters more power and more choice. - Individual state governments should enact RCV for their elections, including the presidential election. - Fully-public campaign finance for every federal, state and local office through the Clean Money/Clean Elections model now used in Arizona and Maine. For more info about how you can help, see: https://www.gp.org/hr_1 *===========================* What: SF Green Party Organizing When: All the time Where: Online Until the pandemic is under control, we will not be holding in-person meetings. Government will need to implement a widespread testing and contact tracing program in order to safely open things up. Unfortunately, a number of our active members do not have reliable internet access (especially with our public libraries closed), so holding general monthly meetings over Zoom is not an option. Instead, we have an email list for discussions between active members, and our county council (CC) meets by Zoom on the 3rd Wednesdays of every month. If you'd like to join our conversation online, or our CC meetings, please email cc(a)sfgreens.org with your name and contact info, and also please remind us if you've been to a meeting before. If you are unable to join us but still want to follow what's going on, you can call Barry Hermanson at 415-255-9494. *===========================* 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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