SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 2/25/06-3/1/06 NEWS: - 2/14: Green Senate Candidates Only Real Option For Voters Opposed To War (http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1453) - 2/15: Democrats Push Bill That Would Bar Third Parties in Races for Congress (http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1452) - 2/22: Controversy May End California Executions, Including Michael Morales' (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022306N.shtml) EVENTS: - 2/25: BANG4CHANGE 2006, SF Human & Civil Rights Revival Festival - 2/25: KAISAHAN/UNITY: An Evening of Resistance - 2/28: Transportation Working Group - 3/1: Support Living Wage in San Francisco - 3/2: NEW TIME: Feminist Issues Group - 3/4: 21st Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference - 3/17: SAVE THE DATE: San Francisco Party for Aimee Allison - 3/30: SAVE THE DATE: San Francisco's Annual Political Trivia Contest ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: - Thanks to All Who Made A Green Party for Peace @Studio Z a Success! - Co-Chair Needed for GROW Working Group - Filing Period for County Council Candidates 2/13-3/10 (for details, see http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1435) - 2006 General Membership Survey - Earn A Living Making San Francisco A More Green and Progressive City! - Become a Green Party Sustainer! JOKE OF THE WEEK: - Daily Show: Cheney Shooting (http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1490) ************************************************************ EVENTS: 2/25: BANG4CHANGE 2006, SF Human & Civil Rights Revival Festival WHEN: Saturday, February 25 12:00PM-5:00PM WHERE: Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco INFO, SPEAKER ENGAGEMENTS/TABLING Call Mesha at 415-595-8251 or email iolmisha@cs.com. For booking performances and vendors space, call Barry Eisenberg, Website Manager http//groups.yahoo.com/group/BANG4CHANGE/ at 415-731-2939 or email barryeisenberg@comcast.net DETAILS: Come and join the Idriss Stelley Foudation (ISF) and emcee Pam Pam for an event that is dedicated to poor youth of color, their families, teachers and elders. The festival seeks to educate them about human and civil rights violations affecting their present and future, and to lay out clear demands & concrete solutions at the government and street level. The festival will include music, spoken words, a Revolution Fashion Show, speakers, ethnic market & Bang4Change Art Exhibit! --------- 2/25: KAISAHAN/UNITY: An Evening of Resistance WHEN: Saturday, February 25 Starts 8:00PM WHERE: SPACE180, located at 180 Capp Street (at 17th Street), 3rd Floor in San Francisco DETAILS: Come and see hard-hitting documentaries in celebration of Philippine Solidarity Month. Plus literary artists, punk/hip hop bands and more! Suggested donation is $5 – 7. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Sponsored by BAYAN USA and Locus Arts, this event features these films: "Sa Ngalan ng Tubo" (In the Name of Sugar Profit) - a film on the Hacienda Luisita massacre in Tarlac Philippines of sugarcane plantation farmers and workers. "People's Verdict: 2005 International Solidarity Mission for Human Rights in the Philippines" - This recent documentary highlights the fact findings of 90 international delegates to the Philippines from 16 countries to bring international attention to end political repression and state terror in the Philippines under the Arroyo regime's undeclared and deadly state of martial law. This event also features the following musical artists: - Power Struggle (Nomi and DJ Deetalx of the now defunct Oddjobs). Power Struggle has completed their debut record Arson at the Petting Factory, released in Fall 2005. - Echo of Bullets. What began as a simple conversation between friends, (including Rupert Estanislao, Def Poetry Jam artist, Suicide Kings), developed into a vehicle to bring to the forefront a positive representation of Asian Americans in punk rock and a sharp alternative to American mainstream culture and politics. For more information about this event, visit http://www.locusarts.org/calendar.html?date=25+1+2006 --------- 2/28: Transportation Working Group WHEN: Tuesday, February 28 7:00PM-9:00PM WHERE: SF Green Party Headquarters, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th St.), San Francisco, CA 94103 DETAILS: Agenda so far: 1) Howard Strassner's $5 per gallon gas tax proposal, with rebates of update to $600 (monthly?) per household, including those without cars; 2) Proposals for legislation we would like to work on for the year -- parking permits for parking in front of driveways (JMC); 3) Greg Hayes would like to discuss the Bicycle Plan Update (he is to bring a proposal); 4) BRT on Geary and Van Ness boulevards; 5) Proposed underground garage for Haight and Stanyan. 6) Other items. --------- 3/2: NEW TIME: Feminist Issues Group WHEN: Thursday, March 3 6:00PM-8:00PM WHERE: SF Green Party Headquarters, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th St.), San Francisco, CA 94103 DETAILS: The Feminist Issues Group of the San Francisco Green Party strives to define why feminism is important to Greens and to promote Green feminism in all realms of Green Party activities and in our lives. The goals of FIG are to: - Create linkages with other Green women and progressive women; - Build progressive coalitions; - Promote the need for, and develop, female leadership and candidates; - Educate Party members and the community about feminist values - Expand the notion of women's rights/women's issues to include social justice, economic justice and environmental justice issues; - Work to broaden the debate and understanding of the wholesale attack taking place against women's rights and sexual politics in the world today; including attacks on womes health and reproductive rights, gay and lesbian rights, Title IX, public assistance and other issues. FIG advocates for stronger local, state and national policy initiatives affecting women's rights; increasing the visibility and leadership of progressive women; and helping to secure electoral victories and political appointments for progressive women. FIG also endorses and actively participates in local organizing efforts, public mobilizations and coalition-building efforts to improve the status of women. And finally, FIG produces educational and awareness raising events designed to build bridges among political women and encourage their active participation in local politics. For more information, please contact: Vicki Leidner, Co-Chair, vleidner@rcn.com --------- 3/1: Support Living Wage in San Francisco WHEN and WHERE: Wednesday, March 1 12 noon – Rally, City Hall Steps – Civic Center Side 1PM – Hearing, City Hall, room 263 Take MUNI lines #49 or 47 to McAllister or Grove, #5 or #21 to Van Ness Avenue DETAILS: Support the Ammiano/McGoldrick Amendments to the Living Wage Law. Non-profit and homecare workers should not be treated as second-class and should be paid the same as for-profit workers on city contracts. The City should commit to funding non-profits to create more living wage jobs. CalWORKs mothers in the welfare-to-work transition should get a living wage. The government should not subsidize employers to pay poverty wages. The City should treat workfare workers with respect and base their grant on the living wage. --------- 3/4: 21st Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference WHEN: Saturday, March 4 Registration 8:30-9:30AM Conference starts 9:30 AM WHERE: UC Berkeley campus in Barrows Hall. Barrows Hall is accessible from Bancroft Way between Telegraph Ave and Bowditch St, northeast from Sproul Hall. Wheelchair accessible. INFORMATION, HOW TO REGISTER: Pre-register online at http://ewocc.berkeley.edu starting February 5th or in-person on the day of the event beginning at 8 a.m in Barrows Hall. DETAILS: This year marks the 21st anniversary of the Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC), which is acknowledged to be the longest running women of color conference in the country. Past speakers have included Nikki Giovanni, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Sonia Sanchez, among many others. This year's theme will be Nourishing Mother E.A.R.T.H, or environmental justice. Featured will be Dr. Beverly Wright, Founder and Director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Xavier University located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a panel of five amazing environmental justice women of color activists: - Enei Begaye, Diné (Navajo) with the Black Mesa Water Coalition, Native Movement Collective, and Indigenous Environmental Network - Dr. Jenice View, Education and Train! ing Director of Just Transition Alliance - Sarah James, Board Member of the Gwich’in Institute - Dr. Ann Aurelia López, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management - Carla M. Perez, Community Organizer for Contra Costa Communities for a Better Environment. There will also be workshops, cultural performances, and much, much more. --------- 3/17: SAVE THE DATE: San Francisco Party for Aimee Allison WHEN: Friday, March 17th (St. Patrick's Day) Wear your Green! 7:00PM-9:00PM WHERE: The home of Vicki Leidner and John Radogno 770 Shotwell St/22nd St San Francisco, CA 94110 RSVP: Vicki at 415-648-5050 vleidner@rcn.com DETAILS: Hosted by: - Mark Sanchez, San Francisco School Board Commissioner* - Nancy Mancias, CODEPINK San Francisco Coordinator* - Vicki Leidner, counter-recruitment activist with CODEPINK*, committee for College Not Combat*, FIG Co-hosts include: - Tom Ammiano, San Francisco Supervisor* - Carol Brouillet, Deception Dollars, 9-11 Truth activist* - David Campos, San Francisco Police Commissioner* - Elizabeth Creely, BACORR* - Chris Daly, San Francisco Supervisor* - Marie Harrison, Greenaction* - Krissy Keifer, Mission Dance - Jane Kim, CCDC* - Whitney Leigh, Gonzalez and Leigh LLP - Sarah Lipson, San Francisco School Board Commissioner* - Christina Olague, San Francisco Planning Commision* Photography Exhibit Courtesy Happy/L.A. Hyder evite and more details to follow very soon *for identification purposes only --------- 3/30: SAVE THE DATE: San Francisco's Annual Political Trivia Contest WHEN: Thursday, March 30th 7:00PM-9:00PM WHERE: Cafe Royale, 800 Post Street, San Francisco DETAILS: With invited guests Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi Jake McGoldrick, Tom Ammiano and Chris Daly as well as School Board Commissioners Mark Sanchez and Eric Mar. This is a fundraiser for the Harvey Milk LBGT Democratic Club, one of only two Democratic clubs who will endorse Greens in nonpartisan races and who recently had its charter threatened for endorsing Matt Gonzalez for Mayor and other elected Greens. $5 per person or $20 for a team of four or more. ============================== ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: Thanks to All Who Made A Green Party for Peace @Studio Z a Success! Dear Fellow Greens and Green-Identifiers: We had a very enjoyable and successful event on January 26 at Studio Z. We look forward to doing more events there and elsewhere and hope that you continue to participate in our efforts to spread the Green message. Thanks for your support! --------- Co-Chair Needed for GROW Working Group Micheas Hermn 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. --------- 2006 General Membership Survey The County Council is conducting a survey of San Francisco Green Party members to get your opinion on several issues to help us plan and set goals for the party in 2006. Results will be discussed at a future General Meeting. You can get a copy of the survey online at the following link, and respond to us by email: http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1464 --------- 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. Earn $280 to $400 each four day work week learning to be a strong progressive organizer. To apply, call Eric at 415-756-8844 from noon to 2pm any weekday, or send an email to jobs@our-city.org For more information, see our web site at http://our-city.org --------- Become a Green Party Sustainer! As you may know, the SFGP is supported by our wonderful sustaining donors -- 175 and growing. In the next 12 months we hope to double that figure, and you can help us achieve our goal by signing up to make a regular contribution to the Green Party. Our sustainer program nearly pays all of our basic monthly operating expenses, including rent and utilities on the office, and drastically reduces the amount of work needed to raise money. Our sustainers free us up to do what we're really here for - to pursue Green values through the democratic system. 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