ANNOUNCEMENT LIST FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO GREEN PARTY Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 Send Announcement items to news@sfgreens.org Please keep items brief; submissions may be edited for length and content. Green Party General Membership Meetings are scheduled 7-9 p.m. every Fourth Wednesday of the Month 1028-A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th streets) PLEASE NOTE: Our website is down due to technical issues with our hosting. If you can provide SFGP with free hosting or can contribute to pay for a new host, it would be greatly appreciated. Please email cc@sfgreens.org. Please bear with us as we resolve the situation. Thank you. _____________________________________________________ EVENTS * Joint Meeting: Transportation & Sustainability Working Groups: Monday, Jan. 19, 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m. SFGP Office, 1028A Howard St. Agenda Items: Transportation - New York City proposal for free mass transit, how to apply it to SF - Leveraging Obama stimulus dollars for mass transit - Stopping likely fare increase and Muni's disrespect for riders (especially disabled riders) - MTA increasing fare inspectors instead of revenues - need to act to get big revenue boost to Muni - BART police shooting of passengers and morphing of local transit into Homeland Security police state Sustainability - Mayor's corporate privatization of San Francisco biofuels - Board of Supervisors Clean Energy Act for 100% clean electricity in SF! - SFPUC's hiring of former PG&E employee to run Community Choice clean energy project - Keeping Community Choice on track - SFPUC staff's move to defund nonprofit/low-income - Mirkarimi solar program to increase Mayor's private subsidies * SF Green Party General Membership Meeting: Jan. 28, 7-9 p.m. 1028-A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th streets) _______________________ NEWS * San Francisco Judges Nullify Tenants Rights http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=6477#more * Is This The City We All Want To Live In? http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=7855&catid=4 * City Insider, Experienced Prosecutor Wanted (Last Article On The Page) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/14/BALM159GA1.DTL * The Ethical Inquisition of Tony Hall http://sfciviccenter.blogspot.com/2009/01/ethical-inquisition-of-tony-hall.h... * Board Of Supervisors' New Progressive Majority Won Its First Big Vote http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=7853&catid=4 * Democrats Blocked Legislation Holding Police Accountable For Misconduct http://www.cagreens.org/press/pr090109.shtml * Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/klein?rel=hp_currently * Barack Obama & Rick Warren -- KPFA Evening News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEgElC6OEpw&feature=channel_page