One of the most exciting Green events this year in San Francisco is happening tonight for Rev. Billy, Green Mayoral candidate for NYC! To top it off the SF Board of Supervisors declared today, July, 21, Reverend Billy Day! Tuesday 07/21 7:00PM-10:00PM *ELECT-A-LUJAH! Vote Rev Billy Fundraiser * *Bay Area Supporters to Host Fundraiser for Reverend Billy Talen, Nyc Mayoral Candidate *from the Church of Life After Shopping & the documentary "What Would Jesus Buy?" * DNA Lounge 375 Eleventh Street* San Francisco, CA 94103 *WHO* Bill Talen, also known as Reverend Billy, is the Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York City. Talen lived and worked as a performance artist in the Bay area for twenty years. Moving to NYC in the early 90s, he started up the Life After Shopping Church, with a 40 voice choir. Casting himself as the anti-consumerist televangelists, his comic "retail interventions" got him outlawed from all the Starbucks in California. In NYC, the church membership grew after 9/11, as citizens looked for a kind of fellowship independent from organized religion. Now Talen’s mayoral campaign is leading the rise of the 500 neighborhoods. He has inspired many to embrace a life beyond corporate control. As Mayor, he would be a global leader for local rights, economic and social justice, the environment and the arts. http://www.voterevbilly.org *SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCES* Loyd Family Players DJ Smoove Miss Rosie and friends Esmerelda Strange Cheese Puffs The Bombshells Get advance tickets now! Suggested contribution: $10 and up No one turned away due to lack of funds. 21 and over * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *HOST COMMITTEE* (Affiliations listed for identification purposes only) Mayor of Richmond Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor of Marina Bruce Delgado, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and Eliana Lopez, Supervisor Chris Daly, School Board Commissioner Jane Kim, Former School Board President Mark Sanchez, Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan, Former President of Board of Supervisors Matt Gonzalez, Medea Benjamin (Founder Code Pink / Global Exchange), Former SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, Larry Harvey (Co-Founder Burning Man), Aimee Allison, Nick and Sloane Morgan, Chicken John, Filmmaker Barry Jenkins, Filmmaker Kevin Epps, Kevin Danaher (Co-Founder Global Exchange), Andy Blue, Marnie Glickman and Gary Ruskin, Mark Barnes, Ken Masters, Julian Davis, Alix Rosenthal, Sunny Angulo, Aimee Ellis, Heather Box (League of Pissed Off Voters), Jeremy Pollock (Pirate Cat Radio), Lafcadio Cortesi and JoAnne Welsch, Andre Carothers and Firuzeh Mahmoudi, Terry Gross and Mellissa Barron, Brian McConnell, Stacy Malkan, Annie Leonard, Erika McDonald and John-Marc Chandonia, Elaine Santore, Marc Caswell (SF Bike Coalition). *CONTACT* Marnie Glickman 503-313-7919, marnie@greenechange.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * **SF Green Party General Membership Meeting* Wednesday 7/22 7-9pm 1028A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th streets) *NEWS* --------- *Happy Planet Index* An article on a different approach for valuing economies of countries around the world, called the Happy Planet Index that includes ecological footprint. Costa Rica is #1. US is #114 out of 143. Here's an article on it: Published on Sunday, July 5, 2009 by the Observer/UK by Ashley Seager *Costa Rica is World's Greenest, Happiest Country* Latin American nation tops index ranking countries by ecological footprint and happiness of their citizens http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/05-0 The original study is worth reading, and contains a plug for Green Parties: http://www.happyplanetindex.org/ -------------------------------------- *Gavin Newsom on Current TV: Silent on Offshore Drilling, Oil Severance Tax, Nuclear Power, and War * http://current.com/items/90389010_green-party-members-upset-at-current-green... (Excerpt) "I just watched San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's June 11, 2009 interview on Al Gore's internet Current TV, about what Current called his "Green Ticket," with a capital "G," gubernatorial campaign, even though the San Francisco Green Party ran Matt Gonzalez against Newsom in the 2003 mayor's race, and, has not endorsed [Gavin Newsome], to say the least. -------------------------------------- *Alberto Torrico says "No more sequels, Arnold," as the Terminator holds a gun to California's head* http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d4-... -------------------------------------- *Alberto Torrico urges California Democrats to lead* http://coloredopinions.blogspot.com/2009/07/assembly-majority-leader-alberto... -------------------------------------- Big oil too big for Arnold's "shared sacrifice" http://tinyurl.com/nvqrn7 -------------------------------------- * Join the new SF Green Party Facebook Group!:* http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62534706497 Send Announcements to news@sfgreens.org Please keep items brief; submissions may be edited for length and content. Green Party General Membership Meetings are scheduled 7-9pm every Fourth Wednesday of the Month 1028A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th streets) http://www.sfgreenparty.org/