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Greenzine - Gubernatorial and KPFA election endorsements
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

August 16, 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, At our monthly meeting last month, we endorsed NO on the gubernatorial recall election. Although we strongly disapprove of Newsom's performance as Governor, we also have many concerns about the leading candidates to replace him, as well the plurality vote (rather than ranked choice vote) on his replacement, since a plurality vote will likely result in a winner with little popular support. We are currently vetting the Green candidates running to replace Newsom, and will consider making an endorsement at a special meeting this Wednesday, 8/18. If you are an active Green and would like to participate, email cc(a)sfgreens.org. Also, if you're a KPFA member, please be sure to vote for the Rescue Pacifica candidates in the election that starts today (8/16)! The election is for the Local Station Board (LSB) and it will be conducted using ranked choice voting. We have endorsed the nine Rescue Pacifica candidates, as listed below. (More info about Rescue Pacifica is here: https://rescuepacifica.net/ ). This year's election is vital to preserve democracy at KPFA and Pacifica! Individuals involved with the opposing faction worked to gut the powers of the LSB and they've filed lawsuits to try to take control of KPFA and the Pacifica network. Please use your democratic voting rights to maintain and strengthen the LSB by voting for the Rescue Pacifica candidates as your top nine choices! Please vote for all nine of the following candidates as your top choices (in any order): Rich Stone * Daniel Borgstrom * Don Macleay * James McFadden * Adisa Armand Donna Carter Pete Farruggio Amber Jayanti Elizabeth Milos * = Registered Greens; note that Rich Stone is a County Council member here in San Francisco. Thank you for standing up for democracy and supporting progressive, independent radio! *===========================* What: SF Green Party Special Meeting - Gubernatorial Recall Where: online and/or in person, details TBA When: Wed, Aug 18, 7:30-9 pm We are currently vetting the Green candidates running to replace Newsom, and will consider making an endorsement at a special meeting this Wednesday, 8/18 (combined with our regular CC meeting). If you are an active Green and would like to participate, email cc(a)sfgreens.org. *===========================* What: Save the date - Green Party Monthly meeting Where: online and/or in person, details TBA When: Wed, Aug 25, 7-9 pm We will set the agenda and location at this Wed's CC meeting. Every 4th Wednesday the SF Green Party meets to discuss issues of concern, listen to interesting speakers, endorse events, plan outreach and more! Everyone welcome. All meetings are wheelchair accessible. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc(a)sfgreens.org *===========================* What: Online events When: various dates, see below Below are some more online events -- as before, almost all of them are free, and they're hosted across the country, as well as in Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Ireland. (The listed times are for the local Pacific time zone). They cover a fairly broad range of topics, so please just ignore the ones you're not interested in. And of course, do feel free to forward as much or as little of this info to others as you'd like: Mon, 8/16, 3 pm -- P&P Live! Eyal Press: DIRTY WORK with Patrick Radden Keefe -- Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name -- Eyal Press is an author and a journalist based in New York. The recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, a Cullman Center fellowship at the New York Public Library, and a Puffin Foundation fellowship at Type Media Center, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He is the author of Beautiful Souls and Absolute Convictions -- Press will be joined in conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-eyal-press-dirty-work-with-patrick-rad… Mon, 8/16, 5 pm -- An audience with environmental economist Suzi Kerr -- An audience with environmental economist Suzi Kerr -- New Zealander Suzi Kerr is at the forefront of international climate change research and policy. In her current role as the chief economist at the Environmental Defense Fund in New York City, Suzi looks at how economic forces can be used to address climate change rather than drive it. Join Suzi, Commission Chair Rod Carr and principal economist Chris Holland for a panel discussion on the intersection of climate action, climate change policy and economic -- Organized by the Climate Change Commission of New Zealand: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-audience-with-environmental-economist-suzi-… Tue, 8/17, 10:30 am -- Wretched of the Earth ONLINE -- Online book club meeting to discuss Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth -- We will be discussing Frantz Fanon's classic text, Wretched of the Earth, on 17 August. All are welcome to join, even if you haven't read the book! A link to join the Teams meeting will be sent to whichever email you use to register closer to the time of the event -- Organized by the Revolutionary Reading Room: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wretched-of-the-earth-online-tickets-161808215… Tue, 8/17, 3:30 pm -- Conversations Book Club: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own-- We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president who refused to embrace a vision of the country shorn of the insidious belief that white people matter more than others -- We have been here before: For James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the civil rights movement, when a similar attempt to compel a national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In these years, spanning from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin transformed into a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair -- In the story of Baldwin’s crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Mixing biography with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude’s endeavor, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. It lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America -- James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle?: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-book-club-begin-again-tickets-16… Tue, 8/17, 7 pm -- Lisa Wells & Mickey Huff: Believers: Making a Life at the End of World -- In search of answers and action, award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change -- Like many of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by news of apocalyptic-scale climate change and a coming sixth extinction. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes. But what can be done? Wells embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking answers in dedicated communities—outcasts and visionaries—on the margins of society -- Wells meets Finisia Medrano, an itinerant planter and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists to rewild the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing "watershed discipleship" in New Mexico; another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farming—guns into plowshares. She watches the world’s greatest tracker teach how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in new ways that acknowledge the fires will come again. Wells opens up seemingly intractable questions about the damage we have done and how we might reckon with our inheritance. Believers demands transformation: If the Earth is our home, if our home is being destroyed—how then shall we live? -- Lisa Wells is the author of The Grief Tower, Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids, and The Simple Life -- Mickey Huff is the current Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation, and professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lisa-wells-mickey-huff-believers-making-a-life… Tue, 8/24, 6 pm -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in conversation with Alejandro Murguía -- Celebrating the launch of her new book Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion -- Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States -- Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US's history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, and is the author or editor of many books, including An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-in-conversation-with-alej… *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. 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Greenzine - monthly meeting agenda for July 28
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 24 Jul '21

24 Jul '21

July 24, 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, One of our members, Ann Garrison, was just on Redacted Tonight this last week. The subject of the show was some of what she's been reporting on KPFA and Pacifica for the past 12 years: This Is Where The US Might Invade Next (w/ Ann Garrison) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUuvwctdXM&t=1s Thanks to all Greens who urged the MTA to restore full Muni service, and keep private vehicles out of transit lanes. Follow us on Twitter for updates on this fight. Next week, we're happy to welcome back members to our second month of in-person meetings! See the agenda, below: What: SF Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, July 28, 7-9 pm Agenda: * Mask protocol - see below * Intros * Gubernatorial recall endorsements. We need to decide on whether to make endorsements on two separate questions: 1) A yes/no vote on recalling Newsom, and 2) if the recall vote gets 50%+1, who will replace him. Voters will vote on both questions on September 14. The candidates on the ballot for the second question are listed here, and include two LA Greens (we are not sure if either is active): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_California_gubernatorial_recall_election We will be deciding on endorsements both on behalf of the SFGP, as well as determining how our four votes at the GPCA will be cast as the state party makes its endorsement decisions. * Tabling feedback. Several Greens are going out and doing voter outreach at farmers markets during the summer. They wanted feedback on literature and other aspects of their outreach. * KPFA updates. We will hear the latest news on bylaws election results and on the new slate of board candidates who are running, including several Greens. * Discussion of state bills SB9 and SB10, housing bills which would have far-reaching effects. Both SB9 and SB10 would continue the move to centralize land use decisions in Sacramento: SB9 would eliminate single family zoning statewide by allowing for additional housing units to be built in existing parcels without hearings or environmental review. SB10 will allow city councils to overturn ballot measures put in place to protect open space and approve by-right 10 unit developments regardless of existing zoning laws. Mask protocol: since we don't know in advance who might be coming to the meetings, the CC's suggested protocol will be to ask at the beginning if everybody present is fully vaccinated, and if so, masks would be optional. If anybody is not vaccinated, we would all wear masks during the meeting. Every 4th Wednesday the SF Green Party meets to discuss issues of concern, listen to interesting speakers, endorse events, plan outreach and more! Everyone welcome. All meetings are wheelchair accessible. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc(a)sfgreens.org *===========================* What: National Green Party, elders caucus Where: online When: by Monday, July 26 The national Green Party is now in the process of forming an Elders Caucus. Among other things, the Elders Caucus "strives to bring the many years of Green Party activism and life experiences of its members to bear on the critical struggles facing us today in our party, our nation, and our world. We have lived the history of our Party. We believe that our institutional knowledge and experiences, combined with our continuing efforts and actions can empower Greens of all ages to engage in collaborative forward thinking to influence policies and incorporate actions that liberate, honor and empower us all". So if you're 55 or older, please consider joining! More info is here: https://greenpartyelderscaucus.wordpress.com/ And the registration form to join is also on that same website, under "Membership Criteria---> Register". (Note: Please be sure to join no later than by this coming Monday, July 26, if you'd possibly like to participate in the discussion of the caucus's bylaws, which are also on the website). *===========================* Below are some more online events of interest to Greens -- as before, almost all of them are free. (The listed times are the local Pacific time zone times). Sat, 7/24, 5 pm -- People’s Park, UC and Privatization -- The ongoing battle to prevent the development of People’s Park in Berkeley by the millionaire UC Regents continues unabated. This panel will talk about this history and how the corporatization and privatization of UC is pushing to privatize the University for the profiteers -- With Harvey Smith, President, National New Deal Preservation Association and Michael Delacour, Boilermaker Local 6 and Organizer of Fight To Defend People’s Park: https://laborfest.net/event/world-poets/ Fri, 8/6, 8 am thru Sat, 8/7, 5 pm -- 7th Soil Not Oil Virtual Conference "Our Food Our Medicine": This conference will focus on practical solutions to the various problems that impact us all -- From the four crises humanity currently faces --on public health, job loss, climate instability and extensive food insecurity-- a local, sustainable, organic production of food following key agroecological principles can serve as a holistic solution that can easily be implemented planet wide -- Organized by the Soil Not Oil Coalition -- We are part of a global-growing movement leaded by scientists, environmental organizations and citizens who share concerns and collect data that proves the decline in soil health, which is the result of the use of fossil fuels since the 1800's and the extended use of agro-chemicals in industrial agriculture since the 1960's. Those factors, along with deforestation, acidification of the ocean and disruption of ecological cycles, have created a problem that only can be solved with educating on tools available to sequester carbon back into the soils. We believe that restructuring land management practices is key to combating climate change, restoring water cycles, reducing global environmental pollution, stopping ocean acidification, re-establishing biodiversity, improving food production and revitalizing local economies across the planet. The Soil Not Oil Coalition promotes research and further understanding to optimize soil carbon sequestration and sustainability, to aid in the development of adequate food production for future generations and to help reverse the effects of global warming: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-soil-not-oil-virtual-conference-our-food-o… *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. 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Greenzine - Join us in Dolores Park on July 4 for voter outreach
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

July 2, 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, Join us this Sunday, July 4 as we do voter outreach in Dolores Park! Although this is traditionally the SF Mime Troupe's season- opening show, they are continuing to do podcasts instead of live shows this year. However, many fans are still planning to gather to picnic in Dolores Park to celebrate the Troupe's podcast debut. Greens will bring our sign and table to the park at 1:30 pm. If you're a KPFA member, please remember to vote in the online election that's currently taking place through July 7. See details below. Finally, thanks to the high vaccination rates and low COVID prevalence in SF, we are once again having in-person meetings! As with pre-COVID, we'll be meeting at our office in the Redstone Building in the Mission on the 4th Wed of every month. *===========================* What: Voter outreach at Mime Troupe Event Where: 19th Street and Dolores St When: Sun, July 4 from 1:30-4 pm Help us register new Greens and do voter outreach! We'll be tabling at the Mime Troupe's podcast debut and picnic in Dolores Park, July 4; email if you can help out cc(a)sfgreens.org. *===========================* What: KPFA election Where: online, for KPFA members When: now through July 7 For Greens who are members of our local Pacifica radio station, KPFA, we've endorsed a NO vote on the proposed new Pacifica bylaws. If you are KPFA member, you should have gotten a ballot by email on June 7, or a postcard in the mail. More info is on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/96-endorsement-against-new-kpfa-bylaws and here is the article on Greenbaiting that we linked to: https://sfbayview.com/2021/05/march-madness-mccarthyism-at-kpfa/ *===========================* What: Save the date - SF Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, July 28, 7-9 pm Every 4th Wednesday the SF Green Party meets to discuss issues of concern, listen to interesting speakers, endorse events, plan outreach and more! Everyone welcome. All meetings are wheelchair accessible. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc(a)sfgreens.org *===========================* 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 - Welcome back on June 23, Happy Juneteenth and Pride!
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

June 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, Happy Juneteenth! Greens welcome the federal recognition of Juneteenth, the oldest national celebration of the end of slavery in the US. At the same time, we'll continue to fight for more material victories, such as defunding the police and military, a Green New Deal, and free healthcare, housing, and education for all. We also wanted to wish everyone a Happy Pride month! Although we'll miss doing our traditional voter outreach this year at the Civic Center, we'll discuss at next week's meeting what other outreach events we'll be able to participate in. Finally, thanks to the high vaccination rates and low COVID prevalence in SF, we're happy to be able to safely welcome you all back to in-person meetings! We'll be meeting at our office in the Redstone Building in the Mission. Details and agenda items are below: *===========================* What: SF Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, June 23, 7-9 pm We're returning to in-person meetings in June! Agenda: * Mask protocol - see below * Intros * Discussion with "Recall School Board" campaign leaders * Planning - What outreach / events should we do to grow our membership this Summer? * KPFA update - Rich * GPCA online plenary report-back - Barry * Decisions on 4 GPCA online votes. SF casts our online votes in GPCA elections in proportion to the preferences of our active membership. Please read about the 4 elections in advance, here: https://int-cagreens.nationbuilder.com/sga_vote_216_to_220_6_2021 Mask protocol: since we don't know in advance who might be coming to the meetings, the CC's suggested protocol will be to ask at the beginning if everybody present is fully vaccinated, and if so, masks would be optional. If anybody is not vaccinated, we would all wear masks during the meeting. Every 4th Wednesday the SF Green Party meets to discuss issues of concern, listen to interesting speakers, endorse events, plan outreach and more! Everyone welcome. All meetings are wheelchair accessible. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc(a)sfgreens.org *===========================* What: KPFA election Where: online, for KPFA members When: now through July 7 For Greens who are members of our local Pacifica radio station, KPFA, we've endorsed a NO vote on the proposed new Pacifica bylaws. If you are KPFA member, you should have gotten a ballot by email on June 7, or a postcard in the mail. More info is on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/96-endorsement-against-new-kpfa-bylaws and here is the article on Greenbaiting that we linked to: https://sfbayview.com/2021/05/march-madness-mccarthyism-at-kpfa/ *===========================* Below are some more online events -- as before, almost all of them are free. (The listed times are the local Pacific time zone times). Sat, 6/19, 8:30 am -- George Floyd’s Legacy -- A moment of remembrance and an insight into the George Floyd Foundation underscoring the importance of racial equity -- Shareeduh Tate and Tera Brown, members of the Floyd family, present this moment of remembrance and an update on the George Floyd Foundation initiatives. Moderated by Tezlyn Figaro, political consultant and senior Advisor for the George Floyd Foundation https://www.eventbrite.com/e/george-floyds-legacy-registration-154760176855… Sat, 6/19, 10 am -- Detroit Public Library Author Series Presents: Annette Gordon-Reed -- Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond -- Annette Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Her other books include Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History and a biography of Andrew Johnson, and with Peter S. Onuf she co-authored Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. The Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University, Gordon-Reed’s honors include the National Humanities Medal, a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” and the Frederick Douglass Prize: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/detroit-public-library-author-series-presents-… Sat, 6/19, 5 pm -- Understanding Juneteenth: An Online Presentation -- Learn the history of Emancipation Day as a holiday, now commonly referred to as "Juneteenth," and how it has been celebrated throughout the US. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger led thousands of federal troops to Galveston, Texas to announce that the Civil War had ended, and slaves had been freed. We want to make sure that with the commercialization of the celebration we don't forget the true significance and importance of the holiday. It is vital that the history of Emancipation is not distorted or lost; this is why we are hosting this presentation: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-juneteenth-an-online-presentatio… Sun, 6/20, 8 am -- Artificial You: AI and the future of your mind -- Can robots really be conscious? Can we merge with artificial intelligence (AI) as tech leaders like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil suggest? Is your mind just a program? -- Join Susan Schneider, author of Artificial You, as she examines what AI can truly achieve -- Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that AI could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades, and from there, quickly outpace it. Susan will urge that while it’s inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions, it’s up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it’s crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with ‘tools’ they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial-you-ai-and-the-future-of-your-mind-… Mon, 6/21, 10 am to Fri, 6/25 -- Reactionary Digital Politics: Ideologies, Rhetorics, Aesthetics -- A five-day series of interdisciplinary conversations about online politics, right-wing populism and reactionary ideologies -- 6/21: Reactionary Ideas and Ideologies, Online & Off; 6/22: Mapping Online Extremism & the Far Right; 6/23: Reactionary Rhetorics & Aesthetics; 6/24: Reactionary Politics and Digital Platforms; 6/25: In Conversation with Whitney Phillips and Quinn Slobodian -- Phillips is co-author of You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape; and Slobodian is author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism and the co-editor of Nine Lives of Neoliberalism -- Please see the Eventbrite page for more descriptions and participant bios: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reactionary-digital-politics-ideologies-rhetor… Mon, 6/21, 10:30 am -- William Blake vs the World, with John Higgs -- Join us for a wild journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius William Blake in the twenty-first century. Blake famously experienced visions, and it is these that shaped his attitude to politics, sex, religion, society and art. Thanks to the work of neuroscientists and psychologists, we are now in a better position to understand what was happening inside that remarkable mind, and gain a deeper appreciation of his brilliance. His timeless work, we will find, has never been more relevant -- In his book and talk, cultural historian and novelist John Higgs will return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion. Higgs's previous books include: The KLF, Stranger Than We Can Imagine, Watling Street, and The Future Starts Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-blake-vs-the-world-john-higgs-tickets-… Mon, 6/21, 10:30 am -- How Empire Turned People into Patients: Big Pharma's Early Modern Roots -- During the eighteenth century, trends in overseas trade, enslaved labour, and colonial warfare hastened a turn toward viewing individuals as interchangeable patients who could be targets of similar medicines. Before germ theory, antibiotics, or x-rays—before so much of what people think makes medicine “modern”—a key part of how we relate to our bodies was reshaped by the exigencies of the early modern British empire. Drawing on historical examples from my book, Merchants of Medicines, this lecture traces the emergence of an expectation that people could be interchangeable patients from the late seventeenth century to the ramifications of such an idea in today’s “big pharma.” -- Zachary Dorner is a historian and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Maryland (USA), and author of Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-empire-turned-people-into-patients-big-pha… Mon, 6/21, 2:30 pm -- End Poverty Action: National Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers One Year Campaign Kick-Off -- Join our virtual rally on June 21st, when the Poor People’s Campaign will launch a one year campaign fighting forward every day against poverty and other systemic ills towards a massive, generationally-transformative Moral March on Washington and Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly in one year in June 2022. We are demanding of our government a Third Reconstruction in America that addresses poverty and low wages from the bottom up, as well as systemic racism, voter suppression, health care access, and other critical human rights issues. Drawing on the transformational history of the First Reconstruction following the Civil War and the Second Reconstruction of the civil rights struggles of the 20th century, the Third Reconstruction is a revival of our constitutional commitment to establish justice, provide for the general welfare, end decades of austerity, and recognize that policies that center the 140 million people living in poverty or with low wages in this nation are also good economic policies that can heal and transform the nation: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/12/18843166.php Tue, 6/22, 11 am -- William Thompson Forum: Eve Olney on "The Living Commons: Reconfiguring the Social for Unknown Futures" -- The Living Commons is a holistic, social and ecological living, working and learning scheme with a focus on aiding the economic and culturally disadvantaged. It is informed by Murray Bookchin’s concept of communalism/libertarian municipalism; Cornelius Castoriadis’s ‘project of autonomy’ as an alternative ‘social imaginary’; and Silvia Federici’s challenges to the patriarchy. This talk explores the project’s conceptual framework, past and current developments, and objectives around social change -- Olney is an artist, activist, educator and researcher. Her latest essays can be found in Passepartout’s issue 40, ‘New Infrastructures’ (2021) and the book Enlightenment and Ecology: The Legacy of Murray Bookchin in the 21st Century (2021): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-thompson-forum-tickets-148062772739?af… Wed, 6/23, 5 pm -- The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Discussion with PM Press Climate Authors -- Participate in a dialogue on taking climate action from PM Press authors: Cynthia Kaufman, author of The Sea is Rising and so Are we: A Climate Justice Handbook; Jeremy Brecher, who has three books on the climate with PM Press, the most recent of which is Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual; and Eddie Yuen, co-author of Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth -- The Sea is Rising and So Are We is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our species has ever faced. The book explains how to engage in productive messaging that will pull others into the climate justice movement, what you need to know to help build a successful movement, and the policy changes needed to build a world with climate justice: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sea-is-rising-and-so-are-we-a-discussion-w… Thu, 6/24, 5:30 am -- Crafting Worlds in Common -- Craftspace and Crafting the Commons Research Network warmly invite you to attend 'Crafting Worlds in Common', a half day symposium followed by a guided virtual tour of We are Commoners exhibition -- Keynote speaker: Professor Peter Linebaugh, author of: The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All; and Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance -- Key contributor: Torange Khonsari , a researcher in the field of Cultural and Civic Commons -- The keynote will be followed by four panel discussions on the themes of: Searching for the commons, Commoning in an individualised world, Creating commons and Common futures -- Recently, the idea of the commons has made a comeback in the humanities and the social sciences, as well as in contemporary forms of activism, and has gathered traction both as a way of imagining ecological and political futures, and of finding ways to live in an increasingly privatised and austerity-blighted world. At the same time, an array of community-oriented craft initiatives that draw on the politics of the commons have emerged, including makerspaces, online networks and repair shops. Enabling peer-to-peer exchange of knowledge, tools and materials, they disrupt industrial capitalist production and resist the individualism of intellectual capital and consumer culture: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crafting-worlds-in-common-tickets-156905477507… Thu, 6/24, 11 am -- Murray Bookchin: The Ecology of Freedom -- A discussion of Murray Bookchin's theory for the way to a sane, sustainable and ecological future. The Ecology of Freedom is indispensable reading for anyone who's tired of living in a world where everything is an exploitable resource -- With Debbie Bookchin, a long time journalist and author who is currently active in the municipalist movement and in the Emergency Committee for Rojava; Dan Chodorkoff, a cultural anthropologist who specializes in urban anthropology and utopian studies, and the co-founder of the Institute for Social Ecology with Murray Bookchin in 1974; and David Wengrow, professor of comparative archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, who, with David Graeber, co-authored many articles and their forthcoming book The Dawn of Everything, which will be published in 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom-tickets… Thu, 7/1, 10 am -- Social Guarantee Launch -- Come and join us as we discuss why we need a Social Guarantee! The Social Guarantee enshrines every person’s right to life’s essentials: education, health and social care, a decent home, childcare, nutritious food, clean air and water, energy, transport and access to the internet. For this to happen, all people must have access to collectively provided services that meet their needs, as well as to a fair living income -- With Ann Pettifor, economist and author of The Case for The Green New Deal; Kate Raworth, economist and creator of Doughnut Economics; Georgia Gould, Leader of Camden Council; and Chaitanya Kumar, Head of Environment and Green Transition at the New Economics Foundation: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-guarantee-launch-tickets-158078327533?a… *===========================* 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 - Return to in-person meetings in June, Oppose new KPFA bylaws
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 25 May '21

25 May '21

May 25, 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, At our CC meeting last week, we proposed resuming in-person meetings on June 23 (meetings are held the the 4th Wed of each month from 7-9 pm at the Redstone; see below). Since we don't know in advance who might be coming to the meetings, our suggested protocol would be to ask at the beginning if everybody present is fully vaccinated, and if so, we will not require people to wear masks (although you are welcome to do so). If anybody is not vaccinated, we would all wear masks during the meeting. Let us know if you are comfortable with this process. Are there any Greens who want to participate in in-person meetings, but will not be able to be fully vaccinated (i.e., 2 weeks past your last shot) by June 23? Email us at cc(a)sfgreens.org with your feedback. We also wanted to let Greens who are members of our local Pacifica radio station, KPFA, know that we've endorsed a NO vote on the proposed new Pacifica bylaws. If you are KPFA member, you should get a ballot on June 7. More info is on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/96-endorsement-against-new-kpfa-bylaws and here is the article on Greenbaiting that we linked to: https://sfbayview.com/2021/05/march-madness-mccarthyism-at-kpfa/ Finally, here are two free online lectures and events today and tomorrow, featuring some Green Party candidates: Tue, 5/25, 3:30 pm -- Dr. Margaret Flowers, MD, on a Green Medicare for All during the Biden Era -- Flowers will be discussing advocating for a Green Medicare for All and also lay out a Green Vision for Medicare for All and the challenges the Biden Administration poses to that fight. Flowers is the director of PopularResistance.org and the host of Clearing the FOG radio. She is also an adviser to the board of Physicians for a National Health Program, for which she served as a congressional fellow in 2009-10 -- Flowers is a past member of the GPUS steering committee and ran for US Senate as a Maryland Green in 2016. She is active with her local and state Green Party: https://www.gp.org/muskegon_greens_may_speaker_series_event Wed, 5/26, 3:30 pm -- Conversations on Culture: Race, Myth, Art = Justice -- Biden/Harris: Impact on Black and Brown communities -- Has the new Biden Harris administration's promise of change been fulfilled? Are our communities better? -- With Karl Rodney, co-founder of New York Carib News; Esmeralda Simmons, founder and former director, The Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College; Rosa Clemente, journalist, scholar-activist, and former 2008 Green Party vice-presidential candidate; and three others: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-on-culture-race-art-myth-justice… *===========================* What: Save the Date - SF Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, June 23, 7-9 pm We hope to see you again in person this June! Since we don't know in advance who might be coming to the meetings, our suggested protocol would be to ask at the beginning if everybody present is fully vaccinated, and if so, we will not require people to wear masks (although you are welcome to do so). If anybody is not vaccinated, we would all wear masks during the meeting. Every 4th Wednesday the SF Green Party meets to discuss issues of concern, listen to interesting speakers, endorse events, plan outreach and more! Everyone welcome. All meetings are wheelchair accessible. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc(a)sfgreens.org *===========================* Below are some more online events -- as before, almost all of them are free, and they're hosted across the country, as well as in Canada, and the UK. (The listed times are the local Pacific time zone times). Tue, 5/25, 6 pm -- Cynthia Kaufman discusses her new book, "The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook" -- By explaining the entrenched forces that are preventing rapid action, it helps you understand the nature of the political reality we are facing and arms you with the tools you need to overcome them -- Organized by by City Lights Booksellers & Publishers: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cynthia-kaufman-in-conversation-with-francesca… Wed, 5/26, 11:30 am -- Regenerative Agriculture - Eating our way out of Climate Chaos -- What if food could be grown in a way that regenerates the land, stores carbon, promotes biodiversity and stops flooding, all while growing healthy, nutrition-rich food? -- Dan Geerah has spent the last three years working closely with food producers, encouraging them to work with nature and not against it. Formerly a Farm Conservation Adviser for a local charity, where he helped farmers move to regenerative practices, Dan now spends his time helping landowners collaborate across landscapes to join up habitats, protecting their ecological value, while continuing to produce healthy food: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-talk-regenerative-agriculture-eating-ou… Wed, 5/26, 3 pm -- Human Rights Book Salon: Chiara Cordelli - “The Privatized State” -- Many governmental functions today—from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation—are outsourced to private entities. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? The Privatized State argues that it cannot. Author Chiara Cordelli advocates for constitutional limits on privatization and a more democratic system of public administration, and she presents a new conceptual account of political representation and novel philosophical theories of democratic authority and legitimate lawmaking -- Cordelli is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/human-rights-book-salon-chiara-cordelli-the-pr… Wed, 5/26, 7 pm -- The Public Health Threat of Policing and Mass Incarceration -- In 2020, an average of three people were killed by the police every day of the year. The highly respected medical journal, The Lancet, and the CDC both state that racism is a serious threat to public health. Policing is supposed to protect, not threaten lives, and yet Black people are killed by police at 2.6 times the rate of white people. Mass incarceration adds to this burden by harming more than rehabilitating -- We will explore these issues and more with expert guest speakers Zach Norris, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center, and Dr. Jennifer James, bioethics researcher, professor, and Black feminist scholar at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) -- Sponsored by San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-public-health-threat-of-policing-and-mass-… Thu, 5/27, 7:30 am -- Military Myanmar: Fearing Freedom -- A panel discussion with academics and activists on the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021 & the future of democracy -- With David Brenner, a Lecturer in Global Insecurities at the University of Sussex, and author of Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands; Htike Htike, a Refugee Advocate from Rakhine State and a Rohingya Research Scholar at Queen Mary University of London; Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, a Burmese human rights activist with The Burma Campaign UK; and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, a Burmese artist, and the grandson of Sao Shwe Thaik, the first President of the Union of Burma who was overthrown & imprisoned in the military coup in 1962: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/military-myanmar-fearing-freedom-tickets-15282… Thu, 5/27, 9 am -- Global Living Room: ONENESS VS. THE 1% with VANDANA SHIVA, physicist, peace prize winner, scholar, and author -- Organized by HATCH, a non-profit ecosystem that is a "chemistry set of diverse individuals, industries, and expertise — collaborators, who cross-pollinate to accelerate solutions for positive impact and HATCH A Better World": https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-living-room-tickets-141346718841?aff=eb… Thu, 5/27, 5:30 pm -- We are the Land: A History of Native California -- We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- With William J. Bauer, Jr., an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Damon B. Akins, Associate Professor of History at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-the-land-a-history-of-native-california… Fri, 5/28, 12 Noon -- A Test of Empathy: Engagement with the Unhoused (Homeless) -- Engagement with the unhoused population can be difficult or awkward for most average people. However, ignoring them is not a long-term solution. As a nation there is so much more we can do to support and enable people to escape the cycle of homelessness. There are viable long-term solutions that can take millions of people off the streets and into suitable homes. It's possible and can happen within our lifetimes - but it won't happen overnight: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-test-of-empathy-engagement-with-the-unhoused… Thu, 6/10, 3 pm -- Noam Chomsky: Confluence of Challenges: The Fate of the Human Experiment -- We live at a moment of extraordinary challenges, unique in human history: environmental catastrophe, nuclear war, new pandemics, all too many others. Crucially, for each imminent crisis we know of feasible solutions, which can lead to a better world. What we do not know is whether humans, who have the fate of the world in their hands, have the moral and intellectual capacity to rise to the challenge and do what must be done. And soon. There can be no delay -- Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. Chomsky is also one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world. He has written more than 100 books, his most recent being “Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power.”: https://event.newschool.edu/ICSINoamChomsky *===========================* 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 *===========================* 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 - Happy International Workers Day!
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 01 May '21

01 May '21

May 1, 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, Today is International Workers Day, a global holiday recognizing the historic struggle of working people throughout the world. It is interconnected with the struggles being led by immigrants, climate justice activists, the Black Lives Matter movement, young people and the LGBTIQA+ community. The US Green Party has posted a number of essays written by Green Party activists in celebration of May Day: https://www.gp.org/may_day Our most recent Presidential candidate, Howie Hawkins, recently wrote an essay in response to Biden's climate plan: "It's too late for gradualism." You can read it here in Counterpunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/28/bidens-climate-plan-its-too-late-fo… In Germany, the Green Party is now a leading contender to take power in the next federal elections! These elections will be held on 9/26, in less than 5 months. Recent polls have put the Greens narrowly ahead of Merkel's conservative party. The recent choice of the Greens' first-ever Chancellor candidate, Annalena Baerbock, to potentially become the country's leader shows that they're not discounting their chances of governing this planet's 4th largest national economy. More info: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/germanys-greens-want-to-shake-up-the-countr… Here are a number of online lectures and events this month that will be of interest to Greens: Sat, 5/1, 3:30 pm -- The Haymarket Trial - American Amnesia and Memory as Revenge -- Musician, writer, and poet Warren Leming, dubbed “Chicago’s radical Renaissance man” by the Chicago Reader, will speak about the Haymarket trial from his book, Cold Chicago: A Haymarket Fable -- Organized by the Historical Society of Forest Park: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-haymarket-trial-american-amnesia-and-memor… Tue, 5/4, 2 pm -- Remake the World -- Writers and activists Astra Taylor and Rebecca Solnit in conversation about radical hope and organizing for a better future to celebrate the launch of Taylor's new book, Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions -- Sponsored by Haymarket Books:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/remake-the-world-tickets-148810422981?af… Sat, 5/8, 10 am -- No time to lose, time to act -- Online mass festival for Civil Resistance with love. Featuring Vandana Shiva, Charles Eisenstein, Jem Bendell and more -- Join in or support resisting the destruction of our world and future -- Organized by XR World with Extinction Rebellion (US)America: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-time-to-lose-time-to-act-registration-15029… Tue, 5/25, 6 pm -- Cynthia Kaufman discusses her new book, "The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook" -- By explaining the entrenched forces that are preventing rapid action, it helps you understand the nature of the political reality we are facing and arms you with the tools you need to overcome them -- Organized by by City Lights Booksellers & Publishers: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cynthia-kaufman-in-conversation-with-francesca… *===========================* 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 - 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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Greenzine - Defend Black Journalism, Online Events, Stop HR-1
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

March 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, Join us outside tomorrow for a socially distanced rally to free SF Bay View Editor Malik Washington! More details are listed below the list of upcoming online events. In national news, the US House of Representatives recently passed HR 1, which unfortunately contains a "poison pill" which will greatly hurt the Green Party. So please read the article below from the national Green Party (after the list of upcoming online events), and follow the link in it to sign the petition to get HR 1 amended. Here are a number of online lectures and events in the next month or so that will be of interest to Greens: Wed, 3/10, 4 pm -- A Conversation with Naomi Klein -- What needs to happen to bring about transformative, systemic change at this critical time? -- University of Michigan: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/18th-peter-m-wege-lecture-featuring-naomi-klei… Fri, 3/12, 1 pm -- Rising from the Ashes: The Resurgence of Environmentalism -- With Patrick A. Parenteau, Professor of Law and Senior Counsel in the Environmental Advocacy Clinic at Vermont Law School: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rising-from-the-ashes-the-resurgence-of-enviro… Mon, 3/15, 4 pm through Fri, 3/19, 6 pm -- Religion & Ecology Summit --Indigenous Lifeways, Cosmologies & Ecology: Connecting to the Past, Restor(y)ing the Present and Future, with over 15 speakers -- A California Institute of Integral Studies event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/religion-ecology-summit-indigenous-lifeways-co… Thu, 3/18, 7 am -- The Climate Emergency: Do We Need a Whole New Political Economy? (A "King’s Great Debate") -- Organized by the School of Politics & Economics, King's College London -- Speakers include: Professor Rebecca Willis, from Lancaster University, and Professor Sam Fankhauser, from the London School of Economics: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climate-emergency-do-we-need-a-whole-new-p… Mon, 3/22, 1 pm -- Noam Chomksy: Reflections on the Future of Democracy -- The celebrated linguist, philosopher, and political activist discusses the current threats to democracy. Noam will be interviewed by William Crawley, a journalist and broadcaster with the BBC: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/noam-chomksy-reflections-on-the-future-of-demo… Tue, 3/23, 12:30 am -- Capital and Ideology, with Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century -- Piketty’s latest book, Capital and Ideology, examines inequality as a political phenomenon, shaped by ideology and social institutions. What would need to happen for change to occur? Organized by the UNSW Centre for Ideas, Sydney, Australia: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/capital-and-ideology-registration-139599121731… Tue, 3/23, 4 pm -- Holey Safety Net or Basic Income? Learn more about the benefits of Basic Income and why support is growing. With poverty law lawyer Kristen Thompson, family therapist Andrea Kauppinen, and business manager Rob Evans: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holey-safety-net-or-basic-income-registration-… Thu, 3/25, 1 pm -- Bill McKibben, on "Climate Change: Have We Turned a Corner?" -- What have we already locked in and how we can keep it from getting more traumatic than it must? -- Organized by Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bill-mckibben-climate-change-have-we-turned-a-… 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… *===========================* What: Defend Black Journalism - Rally to Free SF Bay View Editor Malik Washington and Get GEO Out of California! When: Sun, March 7, 12-2 pm Where: 111 Taylor Street, SF SF Bay View National Black Newspaper Editor Malik Washington is being severely retaliated against for releasing a public memo documenting a preventable COVID-19 outbreak at 111 Taylor, an enormous GEO Group-owned halfway house in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. The $2B+ for-profit prison company stole his phone and put a gag order on him in what is the most egregious attack on journalism and Malik's constitutional right to freedom of speech. They are now threatening to send him back to jail, and Malik has sued. For more information, see these articles in 48 Hills: * https://48hills.org/2021/01/covid-outbreak-and-media-crackdown-at-private-h… * https://48hills.org/2021/02/editor-sues-over-gag-rule-at-private-prison-in-… * https://48hills.org/2021/02/bay-view-editor-wont-face-immediate-discipline-… For an excellent documentary expose on the atrocious, dehumanizing conditions at 111 Taylor St, please view the 11 minute documentary put forth by SF Public Defender's The Adachi Project here: https://wearedefender.com/111-taylor/ GEO Group is fighting Malik, but they are also currently litigating against AB 32, which would ban private detention facilities in California, arguing that they would lose $15M per year in revenue, with a large portion coming from caging our siblings in abusive ICE Detention Facilities across the state. Join the Malik Washington Defense Committee for a masked up, socially distanced rally at 111 Taylor Street, SF from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 7 to demand Malik Washington's freedom, to stop the attack on Black journalism, and to shout to the rooftops: GEO Group - get out of California! More details: https://www.facebook.com/events/3787568457993790 *===========================* 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 - former Green VP candidate Winona LaDuke on panel today
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

February 25, 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, See below for a couple of interesting online panels in the next several days, featuring Greens and our allies. This afternoon, there will be a panel featuring Ralph Nader's former Vice Presidential candidate, activist Winona LaDuke: Thu, 2/25, 1 pm -- YES! Magazine Presents "An Ecological Civilization: The Path We're On" -- Join Vandana Shiva, Leah Penniman, Winona LaDuke, and Jeremy Lent for a discussion on moving the world to a community-oriented way of life: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yes-presents-an-ecological-civilization-the-pa… Note: Yes! Magazine's "Ecological Civilization" issue has articles by these 4 speakers here: https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/ecological-civilization/ -- Fri, 2/26 thru Sat, 2/27 -- Antipolitics: From New Anarchisms to the Alt-Right -- Graduate Student Conference, open to the public -- Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of Chicago: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antipolitics-from-new-anarchisms-to-the-alt-ri… -- Fri, 2/26, 7 pm -- Cultivating Joyous Resilience: A Live Online Conversation with marriage and family therapist Anjuli Sherin and California Institute of Integral Studies professor Monique LeSarre: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultivating-joyous-resilience-tickets-12883581… -- Sat, 2/27, 11 am (previously 10 am) -- Chris Hedges, Kumi Naidoo (former spokesperson for Greenpeace and Amnesty International), Clare Farrell (spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion), and Roger Hallam (co-founder of Extinction Rebellion UK and Burning Pink) -- Civil Disobedience, Here and Now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civil-disobedience-here-now-w-chris-hedges-rog… -- Mon, 3/1, 11 am -- Elizabeth Kolbert on her new book Under a White Sky, in conversation with David Wallace-Wells: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5x15-presents-elizabeth-kolbert-and-david-wall… *===========================* 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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