April 18, 2013 GREENZINE SF Green Party News and Events See the SFGP website for more details on these events and more! www.sfgreenparty.org Click on events in the top left corner for the calendar, then click on an event for more information. NEW! The SF Green Party now has a Twitter account: @SFGreenParty Follow us and re-tweet to help us build a following! https://twitter.com/SFGreenParty If you're not on Twitter, you can see our tweets on our website, on the left side of the page. SF Green Party Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ SF GREEN PARTY NEWS: The Green Party had a great time last Sun. 4/14 at Sunday Streets on 24th @ Shotwell. The crowds of people walking, biking and roller blading in the streets were very rewarding to watch. Thanks to John-Marc & Yolanda for getting things set up, and to Barry for getting GREAT new 10 Key Value cards printed up--we gave away dozens and dozens of them and watched as people walked away reading them. Many people over the years have joined the GP because of our 10 Key Values that guide us. And thanks to Rich (great buttons!!!), Vicki, John-Marc & daughter Amy, Sandra and new Greens Preston and Charles for helping at the table. Mark your calendars now for SFGP outreach events at Sunday Streets throughout this year: Sunday Streets 2013: 6/9 Bayview & Dogpatch 7/7 Great Highway & Golden Gate Park 7/28 Mission 8/18 Tenderloin 9/8 Western Addition 9/29 Excelsior 10/27 RichmondBike (SundayStreetsSF.com) April Events and Meetings: 1. Saturday April 20, ONE GREEN VOICE! SF Green Party tables at Civic Center Earth Day event--10am-6pm. Email cc@sfgreens.org or call Barry at 415-255-9494 if you can help. Help to register more Green voters; hand out new(!) SFGP literature and educate/collect postcards against the giant Soccer Field mess in W. Golden Gate Park. Also take in important Regional Desalination Project event at the Main Library across Larkin St. from Civic Center from 10:30 am-12:30 pm, Koret Auditorium. Learn about the project's potential impacts on climate change, Bay water quality and sensitive fish species... and share your thoughts! www.regionaldesal.com 2. Saturday April 20 Cesar Chavez Parade and Festival. 11 am parade 19th St. @ Guerrero St. to Mission/24th Treat St. Noon-5 pm 24th St. Fair from Treat to Bryant St. www.cesarchavezday.org 3. Sunday April 21, 10am-Noon: Earth Day clean-up Ocean Beach. Bring your own bags. Organizers will be on the beach just below the Cliff House off the Great Hwy. 4. Monday April 22nd at NOON: Earth Day: Stop Environmental Injustice! Protest the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada across the US. US EPA Region 1X office, 75 Hawthorne St. between 2nd & 3rd St. and Howard & Folsom near the Mongomery BART. Event is endorsed by the San Francisco Green Party. 5. SF Green Party Members meet every 4th Wednesday. Next meeting 4/24 at 7-9 pm. Speaker for tonight on SF Public School planning/PEPS Community process for envisioning the best public schools possible and making it happen; no Charter schools! Other items on the agenda include a discussion of the garbage rate hike, and our relationship with the CA State Green Party. El Cafetazo, 3087 16th St. near Valencia St and 16th St. BART. Everyone welcome. 6. Former US Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney, speaks in Oakland Wednesday April 24th, 6:30 pm on her recent trip to Venezuela for the funeral of Hugo Chavez, and Latin America, America, Africa and Obama. Laney College Forum, 900 Fallon St. JR Valrey will host this event. more info www.sfbayview.com editor@sfbayview.com *===========================* Paid contractor wanted: SF Green Party Fundraiser/Volunteer Coordinator (a part time independent contractor (1099) position): http://sfgreenparty.org/help-wanted *===========================* The Green Party of California is seeking independent contractors for a variety of positions: fundraiser, organizer, and press secretary. To get more details, or to apply, see their web page: http://www.cagreens.org/ *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.