San Francisco Green Party Weekly Newsletter Announcement List for SF Green Party: October 17-24, 2007 Send items to news@sfgreens.org. EVENTS (San Francisco, unless otherwise noted) * Green Party General Membership Meeting & Phone Banking: Wednesday, Oct. 17, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 1028 A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th Streets) The General Meeting is held every third Wednesday of the month. This month, most of the meeting will be devoted to phone banking to raise money to pay for our first-ever San Francisco Green Party Election Newspaper. Please join us for a evening of phone banking and food (BRING YOUR CELL PHONE). Call Sue at 415-668-3119 or 415-601-9297, for more information. * Anti-Corporate Film Festival, Oct. 18-20, various times Victoria Theatre, 2961 16 St. Tickets are $10 and a festival pass is $50. This year's Festival includes documentaries on the disturbing hike in corporate control of art, creativity, ideas; abuse of banks’ credit terms to trap people in revolving debt servitude; worker-run collectives as alternatives to corporate business models, and much more. www.countercorp.org/countercorp-festival.htm * Iraq Moratorium Day #2, Friday, Oct. 19, Various Locations and Times Wear Black Armband or Antiwar Button. Click on Events for details at www.iraqmoratorium.org. Times & Locations: - Noon, Federal Building - 5 p.m., Market & Montgomery, with Jack Hirschman & Poets - 6-8 p.m., Haight Panhandle - 6 p.m. (3 locations), 30th & Virginia; Cortland & Andover; 24th & Mission (BART Station) - 7 p.m., 16th & Mission (BART Station) * Mass Mobilization and Critical Mass to Protest the IMF: Friday, Oct. 19, 4 p.m. Meet at Market & 2nd streets for march through the Financial District. Bring your signs, drums, noisemakers, lungs and passion! No arrests are planned. Another World Is Possible! www.globalizethissf.org * Bioneers Conference, Friday, Oct. 19-21, Marin Center, San Rafael The Bioneers Conference is a dynamic, leading-edge forum, focused on practical and visionary solutions for restoring the Earth's imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities. We offer great speakers, exciting workshops, and fun-filled events. To register and see the event schedule, go to: www.bioneers.org/conference. * West Side Green Club, Sunday, Oct. 21, 3-5 p.m. At the home of Barry Hermanson, 2467 28th Ave, near Ulloa. For more information, call Barry at 664-7754, or Nancy Lewis at 661-5713. * Community Planning Workshop - Treasure Island, Monday, Oct. 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. SMWM Architects, 989 Market St. (at 6th), Third Floor Help build San Francisco's first sustainable community! Treasure Island is being redeveloped and could be a model of sustainable transportation. Separate bike lanes? Car-free zones? Great public spaces? Bicycle libraries? What is your vision for a bike- and pedestrian-centered Treasure Island? Come and be a part of this interactive workshop. Contact Neal at 415/431-2453 x312 or neal@sfbike.org for more information. * Last Day to Register to Vote: Monday, Oct. 22, until 5 p.m. City Hall, 1 Carlton B. Goodlett Place (Polk & Grove streets) Are you registered? Have you moved since you last voted? The Department of Elections needs to receive your voter-registration form by 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22. www.sfgov.org/elections * Veggie Car Conversion Workshop: Tuesday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m. until ? 705 Hampshire St., between 19th and 20th streets. Come learn how to turn your diesel-guzzler into a veggie-eater! Want to learn how to convert your car to run on waste vegetable oil without buying an expensive conversion kit? We’re not talking biodiesel here - this is the real thing -- 100% used grease straight outta your local restaurant’s fryolator. Please come to this day-long workshop with visiting East Coast vegetable-oil master Patrick Keaney (greengreasemonkeys.com); convert an ‘83 Mercedes named Esmerelda with an entirely D.I.Y kit. * Sustainability Working Group, Thursday, Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m. SF Green Party Office, 1028-A Howard, between 6th and 7th streets, near Civic Center BART/Muni. Likely topics of discussion: - Important update on the campaign to stop the Williams’ natural-gas turbines from being installed in the Bayview; - Update on the newly formed Peak Oil Taskforce; - Update on the Community Choice renewable-energy project. * Defend Public Campaign Financing from Raid by Mayor: Monday, Nov. 5, early evening Ethics Commission; contact Rob Arnow for time and location at 415-596-5808 or info@voterownedelections.org. The public financing program implemented for the mayoral race in San Francisco is currently under threat from a proposal coming out of the mayor's office, which would move half of the money to another program. We need all supports to show the Ethics Commission that San Francisco wants to protect campaign-reform financing! http://www.voterownedelections.org/ * SFGP Election Newspaper Distribution, Now until Election Day Help us distribute our first ever San Francisco Green Party Election Newspaper at transit stops and elsewhere throughout the city. Call Sue at 415-601-9297 or 415-668-3119 to arrange to get papers from our office at 1028a Howard St., between 6th and 7th streets. **** Election Day **** Tuesday, Nov. 6, 7 a.m.-8 p.m. - Department of Elections: http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp - Find Your Polling Place: http://gispubweb.sfgov.org/website/pollingplace/ - Ranked-Choice Voting: http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp?id=60440. Early voting continues at City Hall, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., during the last two weekends before election day. * The Board Match, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Free Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, 701 Mission St. Over 70 diverse Bay Area nonprofits will be available to give information about serving on a nonprofit board of directors. You may also join a free information session before The Board Match to learn more about its services. http://www.thevolunteercenter.net * Green Festival, Friday, Nov. 9-11, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th St, at Brannan Street. Enjoy more than 200 visionary speakers and 400 green businesses in the Bay Area, great how-to workshops, green films, yoga and movement classes, green-career sessions, organic beer and wine, delicious organic cuisine and live music. For SFGP activities, contact info@sfgreenparty.org NEWS Green Party’s 2007 Endorsements & Campaigns http://www.sfgreenparty.org/campaigns/campaigns.gem Former congresswoman McKinney on ballot for Green Party presidential nomination: from the Atlanta Journal Constitution http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2007/10/16/McKinney_1... Halloween in the Castro this Year? http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/City_Presents_Plan_for_Halloween_in_the_... What Did Pelosi Know About NSA, and When Did She Know It? http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/16/4561/ _______________ BECOME A SUSTAINER FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO GREEN PARTY! The San Francisco Green Party has been hard at work interviewing candidates, poring over ballot initiatives, deliberating over endorsements and drafting statements regarding the November 2007 election. All of this work is being done exclusively by volunteers. Also this year, for the first time, the SFGP is drafting a newspaper with statements explaining the positions and endorsements we are taking for the November election. Our hope is to mail this newspaper to every registered Green in San Francisco. Reaching every Green with this newspaper will help guarantee a high voter turnout among Green Party members for this important election. Mailing and printing this newspaper will cost thousands of dollars. Please help us out in this effort by becoming a Green Party sustainer, or making a one time donation! Your generous contribution now will help us finish the year on strong financial footing and get a jump-start on the 2008 elections. There will be several SF Green Party candidates to support in November 2008. Ross Mirkarimi, for example, will be up for re-election as District 5 Supervisor. Please help us remain solvent by donating now! http://www.sfgreenparty.org/makeadonation/makeadonation.html Volunteers Needed - Contact cc@sfgreens.org or susan_e_vaughan@yahoo.com City Hall is seeking members for: Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force, http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=64788 LAFCo: http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=36743 Thank you for your on-going support!