March 9 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Our 2016 Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein returns to the Bay Area tomorrow, Friday March 10th! We will also be doing voter outreach at Sunday Streets in the Mission this Sunday. Details on these and other upcoming events are below. *===========================* What: Jill Stein Visits Bay Area Where: UC Berkeley and San Francisco (details below) When: Fri, March 10, all day
From 12 noon until 2 pm, Jill will be speaking at UC Berkeley's Anthony Hall (Pelican Building). The title of her talk is: "Building Rebel Cities: Local Politics, Resistance, and Revolution in the Age of Trump," which will address the "progressive, people-powered uprising that is breaking out on the American political landscape, and the potential for local-scale coalitions and insurgent electoral campaigns to turn grassroots energy into political power of, by, and for the people."
More info is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1072266356212149/ At 4:30 pm, she and other Greens will be meeting at San Francisco's Civic Center BART station, after which we'll go as a group to join the allies contingent in the Native Nations March, which begins at the Federal Building (90 7th Street) at 5:00 pm. Idle No More SF Bay and Tribal Nations in the west are in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous grassroots leaders who are calling on our allies across the United States and around the world to peacefully March for Native American rights on March 10th. We ask that you rise in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of the world whose rights protect Mother Earth for the future generations of all. More info is here: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/25/18796819.php Jill will also be in Davis on Thursday evening, and elsewhere in California over the next week. For details on those events, please see: http://www.jill2016.com/events *===========================* What: Sunday Streets When: Sun, March 12, 11-4 pm Where: Valencia, between 18th and 24th Sts, SF Mission Greens will walk around between 18th and 24th Streets at Sunday Streets with Green Party signs and petitions to Recall Ed Lee. Mike Murphy will have a small table at 18th St. We will meet up with Evolve volunteers at 24th St. Evolve is a non-profit working to increase education funding and reform Proposition 13 through grassroots organizing. Please email cc@sfgreens.org or call Barry at 415-255-9494 if you're able to stop by and help. *===========================* What: State Green Party Meeting Where: Central Labor Council, 200 West Jeffrey Street, Bakersfield, CA When: Saturday/Sunday, March 11 & 12, 2017 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/general-assembly-green-party-of-california-tick... The General Assembly <http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Article_7._General_Assembly> is the primary decision-making body of the Green Party of California (GPCA) and consists of delegates from each active county organization recognized by the GPCA. Join us, along with 2016 Green Presidential Candidate Jill Stein, and many other National and California Green Party leaders, in getting together to implement the Green Party's Ten Key Values <http://www.cagreens.org/ten-key-values> toward a better world! Registration is open now. Please make sure to register early as prices will increase on February 26th. *===========================* What: Concert for Juarez Where: 2940 16th Street, San Francisco When: Tuesday, March 21, 7 p.m. Maquiladora workers are rising in Ciudad Juarez. They are protesting $5 per day wages and abusive working conditions. Their courageous actions are presenting a direct challenge to the "free trade" regime that keeps people in poverty in Mexico and the United States to increase the profits of transnational corporations. Live music: Francisco Herrera - Elizabeth, Nancy and Mario Esteva - Diego Sardaneta - and special guests Tickets - $10 pre-paid or $15 at the door, children under 12 free Sponsored by the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition and Trabajo Cultural Caminante For more information, contact (415) 863-1225, sflivingwage@riseup.net, www.livingwage-sf.org *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.