****************** Special Edition!!**************** ********************** Special Edition!!*************** ****************** Special Edition!!**************** The Staff of The San Francisco Green Party Weekly Is Proud To Present: The SFGP Guide to WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY June 1- June 5 Here are the up-to-the-minute World Environment Day events! Please plan on attending and participating as much as possible during this historic 5 day celebration! (Cause we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy!) Pre-WED Events: Banner-Making Party Date: May 31, 7-9 pm Location: Greenpeace Warehouse at 698 Indiana, cross street and entrance is on 19th. What: Banner making party for World Environmental Day events. Come show your creativity and support! Day One: Banner Drops Date: June 1 6:15 am (Yes, that is 6:15 in the MORNING!) Location: 16th and Bryant Streets, Peet's Coffee parking lot What: Meet with activists from Coalition to Shutdown PG & E to hang banners in off high visibility overpasses. Meet at 6:15, teams will leave by 6:45 to locations to hold banners for the morning commute. Day Two: World Environment Day Opening Ceremonies followed by festival at the Civic Center Date: June 2, 9 am Location: Civic Center, across from City Hall What: Kick off event for World Environment Day and the International Conference of Mayors. This event will be an opportunity for activists to bring their own message to compliment the official World Environment Day events and sponsors. Look for activists representing efforts to shutdown the dirty power plant in Hunter's Point, stop the proposed Muni fare hikes and service cuts, preserve Hetch Hetchy, implement public power in San Francisco and stop wars for oil. The Green Party will be doing voter registration at the event, please contact Susan King for more info: 823-5524. Protest With the Green Party and the Coalition for Transit Justice Date: June 2, 9am What: We will be greeting mayors from around the world who are attending the UN World Environment Day events. Our protest will demonstrate the irony of Gavin Newsom as an environmental host, among other things. We hope to have signs from last week's Coalition for Transit Justice press conference on the steps of City Hall as well as signs and fliers indicating Newsom's Sierra Club environmental scorecard (a "D"). Please feel free to bring your own sign. San Francisco Green Party Press Conference Date: June 2 1:00 pm Location: In front of the Main Library, Larkin St. (moved from steps of City Hall) What: The SF Green Party will be presenting our vision for a Green Future with Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, former Oakland City Council Candidate Aimee Allision, New Paltz, New York Mayor Jason West, School Board Member Sarah Lipson, and many other Green elected officials and leaders. We will discuss the Green Party vision for the future, our history present policy papers on a range of issues including sustainable transportation, public power, electoral reform and how that impacts our environment, the environmental impact of war, reducing solid waste, and land use. Green Institute Reception Date: June 2, 5:30-7:30 pm Location: Soluna Cafe, 272 McAllister St, SF (across from the Asian Art Museum) What: Bay Area Greens are cordially invited to a reception hosted by the Green Institute, Please join Executive Director Dean Myerson and Senior Fellow Charlene Spretnak for an informal presentation of the projects and activities of the Green Institute, the first national-level institute dedicated to explicitly Green policy studies and initiatives. Appetizers and wine will be provided. A special guest will be the Green mayor of New Paltz, New York: Jason West, whose attendance the Green Institute is sponsoring at the UN World Environment Day conference that week. Also attending will be Peter Camejo, Matt Gonzalez, Jo Chamberlain (GPUS Co-Chair), Mark Sanchez (San Francisco School Board), and others. Day Three: Demonstration with the Coalition to Shutdown PG & E Date: June 3, 2:00 Location: Metreon, 4th and Mission Streets What: The Green Party is working in solidarity with activists working to shut down the polluting power plant in Hunter's Point. The official event is the "Our Reality Tour" showcasing some of SF's worst environmental issues, sponsored by Greenaction and other Environmental Justice organizations. The baby clothes project (baby clothes on a clothes line to graphically remind our leaders of the 11% infant mortality rate for babies born in Bay View Hunter's Point) will be displayed, along with banners and signs urging the shutdown of the power plants. Street theater and creative forms of action encouraged!! For more info, contact Greenaction at: 248-5010. Day Four: Rally for Environmental Justice Date: June 4, 11 am Location: Steps of City Hall What: Environmental Justice grassroots community groups, organizations and individuals from Bayview Hunters Point to communities around the world-the people demand environmental justice! Sponsored by over 40 Environmental Justice Grassroots Community Groups and Organizations-Street Theater by the Coalition to Evict PG&E. San Francisco Ecological History Tour By Bicycle Date: June 4 12-4pm Location: Reservations required. Please RSVP to 626-2060 What: Local historian and director of Shaping San Francisco Chris Carlsson will lead a four-hour bicycle tour of San Francisco?s ecological history. On bicycles we will reconnect to the subterranean flows of water that percolate beneath us, see where towering sand dunes once stood, learn about the first-ever citizen?s environmental movement (that saved Telegraph Hill from quarrying), discuss the changing flora and fauna of the city and explore the concept of ?nature? as it applies to San Francisco (and how San Francisco was built on its rapacious exploitation). Wild parrots make their home on what was once a deep garbage dump and is now one of the most beautiful gardens in the city. Today?s shoreline obscures a long history of ?making land?, which includes a fascinating story of saving the bay from San Francisco's own garbage; that same garbage in turn helped to ?save? one of the last ecological treasures of the SF peninsula. Donations to CounterPULSE requested but not required. Benefit for Environmental Justice Date: June 4 7pm Location: St Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave (between Leavenworth and Jones) What: join Greenaction and other residents from Bayview Hunters Point for a celebration of the struggles and victories for Environmental Justice at 7 p.m. on Saturday evening. An amazing lineup of entertainment, including our own Malcolm X Polynesian Dancers and the Huntersview Youth Choir will headline the event! It will be a fun evening with raffles, food and cultural presentations by the Mohave Bird Singers, Aztec Dancers and community environmental justice leaders. Proceeds will go to fund the struggle to close the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant. Day Five: Eco-Parade to Celebrate the Environment Date: June 5, noon Location: City Hall (meet in front of City Hall at noon) What: Everybody loves a parade! Join Code Pink, the Green Party, Greenaction and others for a parade around City Hall to celebrate environmental successes, observe (and protest) the failures and plan our future! This is a kid-friendly event, and all are encouraged to bring banners, signs, floats (non-motorized only) to participate as we march around City Hall to commemorate the Mayor's signing of the new environmental accords inside. Costumes, decorated bikes, strollers, and all kinds of fun creativity encouraged! Celebrating Women's Leadership in Sustainable Development Date: June 5, 2-5 pm Location: Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA What: A United Nations World Environment Day 2005 Event Convened by the Women?s Global Green Action Network and Local Partners. Come listen to inspiring speakers, & amazing musicians! Learn about local initiatives in the Bay Area, & hear the stories of grassroots environmental women leaders working tirelessly for positive change! Confirmed Speakers Include: Marta Benavides, Rev. Sally Grover Bingham, Sharon Fuller, Julia Butterfly Hilland, others. $15 (Sliding Scale) at the door.