ANNOUNCEMENT LIST FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO GREEN PARTY Saturday, Dec. 12, 2008 Send Announcement items to news@sfgreens.org Please keep items brief; submissions may be edited for length and content. PLEASE NOTE: There will be no General Meeting in December; meetings will return to their usual dates/times (Fourth Wednesday of each Month), beginning in January 2009. http://www.sfgreenparty.org **************************************************************************** SF GREEN PARTY HOLIDAY PARTY: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 7-10 p.m. SFGP Headquarters, 1028A Howard St. (between 6th and 7th streets) Join us as we celebrate our many victories and close calls, with music, snacks and drinks. Please bring something to share, if you can. Live music from: DJ Daneekah (http://www.myspace.com/djdaneekah) Phantom Power (guitar, bass and vocals) DJ Platypus Info at http://www.sfgreenparty.org or 701-7090. RSVP on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=40728042749 **************************************************************************** Events * KPFA Crafts & Music Fair: Dec. 13 & 14, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., $7-$10 Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th St., at Brannan Northern California’s largest fine-crafts fair returns to San Francisco this weekend with eco-friendly Green Crafts, Fair Trade items and beautifully handcrafted work. It’s the Bay Area’s best opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts and to ring in the holidays with nonstop live performances, including jazz, hip hop, bluegrass, world music and blues. http://www.kpfa.org/craftsfair/ * The Last Continent Québec Film Week: Dec. 14, 3:30 p.m. Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema Filmmaker and marine biologist Jean Lemire (The White Planet) leads an intense 430-day expedition to Antarctica in this resonant documentary about a group of scientists investigating the effects of climate change. When the team arrives they discover that warmer temperatures causing upheavals in the ecosystem also threaten the safety of the crew members themselves. Awaiting the arrival of a desperately needed winter, they struggle to keep food supplies cold and the boat anchored against gale-force winds. http://www.sffs.org/events/index_series_quebec.html * SF Green Party Holiday Party: Wednesday, Dec. 17 -- See details above . * SF Green Party General Meeting: Dec. 24 - Canceled * James Madison Awards: Deadline for nominations is Friday, Jan. 9. Winners honoring/shielding freedom-of-information and First Amendment rights will be recognized at SPJ's annual dinner in mid-March; date, time and place TBA. Categories include professional journalist, citizen, legal counsel, nonprofit organization, public official, student journalist, source/whistle blower, educator, librarian, electronic access, cartoonist, career achievement and news media. http://www.spjchapters.org/norcal/ _______________________ NEWS Who controls what we drink? Corporate water comes to (and from) San Francisco http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=7650&volume_id=398&issue_id=409&volum... Socialism for the Rich http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081222/scheer Green Party Calls for Carbon Tax, Higher Taxes for the Rich and Wall Street, to Resolve State Budget Crisis http://us.mg203.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.partner=sbc&.rand=5t2m2lpgdaqgp While the Economy Burns, Bush Babbles On About Religion http://www.beyondchron.org/news/