SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 4/7/06-4/13/06 NEWS: - 3/30: Feinstein Greenhouse Gas Bill Grossly Inadequate (http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1471) - 3/31: Father of Man Beheaded in Iraq Runs For Congress as a Gree (http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1472) - 3/31: Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and Mayor Gavin Newsom Host First Annual Iranian New Year (http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/news_in_brief/narooz_060331.shtml) - 4/4: Health Care for All Massachusetts (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/us/05mass.html? _r=1&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fB%2fBelluck%2c%20Pam& oref=slogin) - 4/4: Green Party member and BACORR leader Elizabeth Creeley on "The Meaning of Tolerance" (http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/news_in_brief/ creely_sentinel_chronicle_wrong_060403.shtml) - 4/4: Matt Gonzalez and director Stanley Nelson ponder the fate and impact of Peoples Temple and Jonestown (http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=236) EVENTS: - 4/6: Feminist Issues Group - 4/6: FILM: "Sir! No Sir!" A Benefit for Iraq Vets Against the War - 4/7: Green Party member "Diamond" Dave Whitaker on KDNZ! - 4/7: At Sea to See Famous Sunken Ships — Eating with Ghosts of the Deep with Captain Don Walsh - 4/8: Auctioning Off Downtown! San Francisco People's Organization Art Auction & Party - 4/10, 4/23: Reception for Barry Hermanson for Assembly - 4/12: SF Green Party County Council meeting - 4/13: FILM: INDEPENDENT AMERICA: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop - 4/14: 2nd Friday Party for Barry Hermanson For Assembly - 4/17: Ruin, Rubble And Race: The San Francisco Earthquake and Post–Katrina America,1906 to 2006, One Hundred Years Later - 4/19: SF Green Party General Membership Meeting - 5/24: SAVE THE DATE!!! Something Fun at the Green Party Forum!!! Join the medley of politics and performance ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: - Bay Area Reporter and Fairmont boycott - Co-Chair Needed for GROW Working Group - Earn A Living Making San Francisco A More Green and Progressive City! IN EVERY ISSUE: - Discuss Instant Runoff Voting in Green Party Activist Jim Dorenkott's Blog (http://www.dailykos.com/user/jim%20d) - Take Action! - Become a Green Party Sustainer! JOKE OF THE WEEK: - Daily Show: Bush's War Memo (http://www.bushflash.com/wmf/TDS-War-Memo-3-30-06.wmv) ************************************************************ NEWS: 4/6: Feminist Issues Group WHEN: Thursday, April 6th 7:00PM-9:00PM WHERE: Wild Awakenings Cafe, 142 McAllister, San Francisco DETAILS: The topic will be "What are the feminist issues today?" The 4th wave is here. --------- 4/6: FILM: "Sir! No Sir!" A Benefit for Iraq Vets Against the War WHEN: Thursday, April 6th Starts 7:00 PM WHERE: Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland (Closest BART: MacArthur or 19th Street Station) TICKETS: Advance tickets $8, $10 at the door For Tickets call 415-255-7296 x244 DETAILS: Celebrate Soldiers' Resistance from Vietnam to Iraq with the documentary "Sir, No Sir!," winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival & Best Documentary Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival There will also be music, hip hop, spoken word, community Aimee Allison - Army Conscientious Objector Pablo Paredes - Iraq War Resister David Zeiger - Director of the Film Vietnam Veterans from the Film Alicia Raquel - Art in Action Spoken Word Artist Galen Peterson - Art in Action Spoken Word Artist Presented in partnership with: Global Exchange, Courage to Resist, Not Your Soldier, Leave My Child Alone, Not in Our Name, Ruckus Society, Art in Action, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Veterans for Peace, Codepink --------- 4/7: Green Party member "Diamond" Dave Whitaker on KDNZ! WHEN: Friday, April 7th 6:30PM-7:30PM WHERE: The radio. Tune in at at 88.1 FM, 880 AM, or listen online at http://www.usfca.edu/clubs/kdnz/ DETAILS: Longtime San Francisco activist, poet, and Green Party member "Diamond" Dave Whitaker will be a guest on KDNZ. The show is called "The War of Art Waged on the Radio" with Spencer the Speaker. --------- 4/7: At Sea to See Famous Sunken Ships — Eating with Ghosts of the Deep with Captain Don Walsh WHEN: Friday, April 7th Meeting starts at 6:30 PM Speaker at 7:45 PM WHERE: Golden Gate Yacht Club, the Marina, San Francisco TICKETS: $20, including light buffet and beverage Make reservations at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=108061 INFO: Contact Anders Jepsen (ajviking@aol.com or 925-254-3079). DETAILS: Don Walsh (HON61, Explorers Medalist'01) is a retired naval deep submersible pilot (the first), a Ph.D. Oceanographer who has taught and written over 200 publications, has worked in the Arctic and Antarctic on over 50 expeditions, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, has travelled to over 112 nations, served in two wars, graduated from the Naval Academy and Texas A&M and was born in Berkeley. In 2001, he was cited as one of the great explorers in the Life Magazine book, The Greatest Adventures of All Time. With Jacques Piccard he dove Trieste to the deepest place in the World Ocean: 35,840 feet. While still on earth these two men were farthest from sea level than any others, ever. The feat has never been duplicated. This evening's talk will describe the 12-14 hour dives to those famous shipwrecks, and what it was like to enjoy a modest box lunch while sitting on the decks of these ships. It is interesting to know that these dive programs were for paying tourists. In the past seven years nearly 80 have made the two-mile trip down to Titanic and about 12 to Bismarck. A brief history of each ship's loss will be given to provide a context for the diving operations. Don will even tell you how anyone can join these expeditions. San Francisco Ocean Film Festival web: http://oceanfilmfest.org e-mail: info@oceanfilmfest.org --------- 4/8: Auctioning Off Downtown! San Francisco People's Organization Art Auction & Party WHEN: Saturday, April 8th 7:30 — Gallery Doors Open 7:30 - 10:30—Music and Silent Auction 9:30 — Live Auction with Matt Gonzalez auctioneer WHERE: 111 Minna, San Francisco TICKETS: $10-$20, or pay what you can Advance Tickets available at Ticketweb.com DETAILS: Music by Goh Nakamura, Dan Johnson, DJ VNA, Olga Salamanca, & judy b. Poetry reading by SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman Work-in-Progress Film screening of °∞For Real Bayview°± by Markus Darkraven Artists: Chris Corales, Ben Baumgartner, Monique Deschaines, Mark Erlinger, Lawrence Ferlenghetti, Ana Fernandez, Pam Pam Gaddies, Albert Herter, Blake Herod, Jack Hirschman, Martha Hubert, Jamie Knight, Luna Media, Robin Margerin, Siri Margerin, Valerie Mih, Theresa Morris, Keady Phelan, Lucho Pozo, Michael Rauner, Jane Reed, Albert Reyes, Steve Richards, Janet Rosen, Augusta Talbot, Amy Trachtenberg, Debra Walker, Kelly Yount, Arngunnur Yr, & MORE°≠ Curators: Bruno Mauro, Siri Margerin and Catherine Rauschuber Honorary Hosts: Chris Daly, Matt Gonzalez, Jack Hirschman, Mesha Irazarry, Krissy Keefer, Ross Mirkarimi, & Debra Walker --------- 4/10, 4/23: Reception for Barry Hermanson for Assembly WHEN and WHERE: Monday, April 10 7:00PM-8:30PM 1045 Santiago, San Francisco Sunday, April 23 3:00PM-5:00PM 1339 27th Avenue, San Francisco DETAILS: Join the Westside Green Club in support of Green candidates: Barry Hermanson (State Assembly, District 12) and Nancy Lewis (Green Party County Council) Refreshments served. Bring family, friends and all interested voters. Children are most welcome. These events are sponsored by the Westside Green Club. --------- 4/12: SF Green Party County Council meeting WHEN: Wednesday, April 12 7:30PM-9:30PM WHERE: San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th St.), San Francisco DETAILS: This is the Green Party's monthly meeting of the County Council. We will be setting the agenda for the General Membership meeting, reviewing our finances, and other business related discussion and decisions. --------- 4/13: FILM: INDEPENDENT AMERICA: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop WHEN: Thursday, April 13 Starts 7:30PM WHERE: Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street (@ York St.), San Francisco TICKETS: $5-$10, and go on sale 30 minutes before the show. Proceeds benefit the 2006 CounterCorp Film Festival in October. INFORMATION: http://www.countercorp.org DETAILS: In their new 80-minute documentary, "INDEPENDENT AMERICA," award-winning journalists Hanson Hosein and Heather Hughes took a 32-state road trip to uncover the growing opposition to corporate franchises and Å0Ç9big box retailers across the U.S., and the David vs. Goliath struggle that local small businesses, many of them local "mom and pop" stores, are being forced towage to stay alive. The former reports have only two self-imposed rules: 1) no interstate highways, and 2) no corporate chains -- including gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and grocery stores. In other words, they can only shop with mom and pop. What they discover during their trip is growing discontent with corporate America, and a growing movement away from globalization and toward localization, as individuals and small businesses across the country band together to preserve not only their livelihoods, but their local communities as well. In Colorado, a Starbucks is repeatedly vandalized. In Texas, a rebellious city forces Borders Books into retreat. Residents of AmericaÅ0Ç8s Å0Ç9Fourth of July capital in Nebraska turn against their new Wal-Mart. And an entire Wyoming town goes into business for itself after it is abandoned by its one chain department store. Along the way, their conversations with corporate executives, economists, entrepreneurs, political leaders, union members, and ordinary Americans from all walks of life lead Hosein and Hughes to conclude that a healthy democracy needs local small businesses if it is to control ever-growing corporate power. The film will be followed by a panel discussion. --------- 4/14: 2nd Friday Party for Barry Hermanson For Assembly WHEN: Friday, April 14th, 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: The home of Barry Hermanson 2467 28th Avenue, San Francisco 94116 (1/2 block from the L-Taraval Street Car line) CONTRIBUTIONS: Minimum donation of $25 per person requested (no corporate contributions accepted) Please make checks payable to: Barry Hermanson For Assembly No one will be turned away for lack of funds. DETAILS: This month, the artwork of Kelly Nelson will be shown. Kelly is the Program Director at the Art Production Center on 14th Street. In addition to being a very talented artist, her creativity enables developmentally disabled adults to express themselves through art. (Later this year, we will have an art show of their work.) We will also hear the political punk/folk banjo of Jack Chernos. If you haven't heard his music before, I encourage you to visit his web site: http://www.department-of-justice.org/. Lots of good tunes - check out the solo guitar version of “My People Are Rising.” In addition to the homebrew beer, fresh homemade bread and a big pot of vegetarian soup will be available. For those who don't drink beer - wine, soda and water will be served. RSVP by calling 415-664-7754. --------- 4/17: Ruin, Rubble And Race: The San Francisco Earthquake and Post–Katrina America,1906 to 2006, One Hundred Years Later WHEN: Monday, April 17 6:30PM-8:30PM WHERE: Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, 950 Clay Street (between Stockton & Powell), San Francisco ADMISSION: Free. Food provided. INFO: Contact Nicole Derse at 415-374-5429 DETAILS: History has revealed that the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, and the monumental, post-disaster rebuilding efforts, gave tragic rise to a modern era of twentieth-century displacement and gentrification of working-class people, immigrants and communities of color throughout San Francisco. In 2005, the nation witnessed how Hurricane Katrina and the government's racist and cruel response devastated the social and economic conditions of these same communities in the Gulf Coast region. One hundred years later we ask: "What would happen if another earthquake shakes up San Francisco? Who would survive? Who would be displaced? And would the city be rebuilt for the wealthy, power elite and corporations that dominant the debate?" Join us for the discussion! This event is co-sponsored by the Chinatown Community Development Center, Mission Agenda, The Progressive Voter Project, Senior Action Network and the San Francisco Peoples' Organization, along with Supervisor Chris Daly, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and Supervisor Aaron Peskin. Panelists Include: - CC Campbell-Rock, Katrina Survivor, Community Organizer, and Journalist - Willie Ratcliff, Community Activist and Editor of San Francisco Bay View newspaper - Connie Young Yu, Historian and Author of Chinatown, San Jose, USA - Chris Carlsson, Board President, Counterpulse and Executive Director, Shaping San Francisco: An Interactive Multimedia Excavation of the Lost History of San Francisco - Shanell Williams, Community Activist, Former SF Youth Commissioner Distinguished Emcee: Bob Wing, Activist and Writer --------- 4/19: SF Green Party General Membership Meeting WHEN: Wednesday, April 19 7:30PM-9:30PM WHERE: San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th St.), San Francisco DETAILS: We will be taking up local initiatives and finishing any decisions around candidate endorsements. Any active Green may participate in endorsement decisions. --------- 5/24: SAVE THE DATE!!! Something Fun at the Green Party Forum!!! Join the medley of politics and performance WHEN: Wednesday, May 24 7:00PM-2:00AM WHERE: Studio Z, 314 11th Street @ Folsom, San Francisco CONTACT: (415) 252-7666 www.StudioZ.tv ADMISSION: $5 to $500 Must be 21+, with ID No one turned away for lack of funds DETAILS: Join the medley of politics and performance with: Barry Hermanson (candidate for 12th Assembly district), Forrest Hill (candidate for Secretary of State), Ross Mirkarimi (Supervisor, District 5), Mehul Thakker (candidate for state treasurer), Laura Wells (candidate for state controller), Diamond Dave Whitaker (San Francisco icon of poetry and Greenism ...), Ubidube Whitaker (Rocker and son of icon ...), Mike Wyman (candidate for state Attorney General), Go Van Gogh (Indy rock band), Garrin Benfield (Indy soloist) And more ... ============================== ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: Bay Area Reporter and Fairmont boycott The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club just found out that the Bay Area Reporter is planning on holding their 35th Anniversary at the Fairmont Hotel this Friday. Local 2 members were locked out by the Fairmont for 53 days and currently are engaged in a long-standing, nearly 2-year boycot of the Hotel--the boycott is still on. It's tough to move an event at the last minute, but it's critical that queer community groups hold the line on the boycott. Please support Local 2 workers and call Tom Horn or Mike Yamashito at 861 5019 of the BAR and encourage them to move their event. --------- Co-Chair Needed for GROW Working Group Micheas Herman of the GROW Working Group (tabling and voter registration) is seeking a new co-chair. Contact Micheas Herman at ... or the County Council at cc@sfgreens.org for more information. --------- Earn A Living Making San Francisco A More Green and Progressive City! Two years ago, former organizers for the Matt Gonzalez for Mayor campaign decided it was time to stop getting 'close but not close enough' to progressive victories like public power and Matt as Mayor, and to begin a city wide, year round, grassroots campaign that would start helping us win such victories! So in January 2004, the organization Our City was born. Since then we have helped to: - Pass the ban on old polluting diesel buses - Pass Matt Gonzalez's anti chain store law - Get the downtown hotel workers back on the job, and - Get the Police and Planning Commissions put back on SF Government TV after the City tried to pull them off. Now we are campaigning to get rid of PG&E's monopoly on our electricity service, and start running the City on renewable energy like solar and wind power instead! We have just begun hiring and training new grassroots campaigners to help us win this fight. No experience necessary. 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