SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 5/19/06-5/25/06 NEWS: - 5/17: Krissy Keefer Speaks! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PHcOsU_hFbY) - 5/17: SF Bay Guardian Endorses Aimee Allison! (http://www.sfbg.com/endorsements/33end-oakland.html) - 5/17: SFBG endorses Aimee Allison For District two (http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1487) - 5/5: Louisiana And California Committees Pass Bill For Nationwide Election Of The President (http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1485) EVENTS: This week: - 5/19: Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Hosts Art Opening Featuring Photography of Senior PhotoShop Students Next week: - 5/24: Sing Out for a Living Wage, Cantando para un Salario Digno - 5/24: Something Fun at the Green Party Forum!!! Join the medley of politics and performance Save the dateL - 6/6: Housing and Land Use Working Group meeting ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: - Calling White Activists to Support Immigrant Justice! - Co-Chair Needed for GROW Working Group IN EVERY ISSUE: - Discuss Instant Runoff Voting in Green Party Activist Jim Dorenkott's Blog (http://www.dailykos.com/user/jim%20d) - Take Action! - Earn A Living Making San Francisco A More Green and Progressive City! - Become a Green Party Sustainer! JOKE OF THE WEEK: - Billion Dollar Cheney (http://billiondollarcheney.cf.huffingtonpost.com/) ************************************************************ EVENTS: 5/19: Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Hosts Art Opening Featuring Photography of Senior PhotoShop Students WHEN: Friday, May 19 5:00PM-8:00PM WHERE: San Francisco City Hall, 1 Carlton B Goodlett Place, Room 282 DETAILS: Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi hosts the monthly Third Friday's Art Reception in his City Hall office, Room 282. In honor of Older Americans Month, Supervisor Mirkarimi pays tribute to the PhotoShop students of the Western Addition Community Technology Center (WACTC). WACTC is a non-profit organization. Through their art and photography, Mr. Felton Cogell's PhotoShop senior students share their talent and experience for the first time with the greater Community of San Francisco. --------- 5/24: Sing Out for a Living Wage, Cantando para un Salario Digno WHEN: Wednesday, May 24 Miércoles, 24 de mayo 12:00 noon - 1:00PM WHERE: Civic Center side of City Hall, 1 Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco Nos reuniremos en la Alcaldia en el lado del Civic Center Lineas de MUNI #49 o 47 a McAllister o Grove, #5 o #21 a Van Ness Ave. CONTACT, INFORMATION: Call the Living Wage Coalition at: Para mas información, llame al Living Wage Coalition a: 513-5393 e-mail sflivingwage@riseup.net DETAILS: Help raise wages for 15,000 home healthcare aides, non-profit workers, homeless shelter workers and CalWORKs parents Please join us in singing outside the offices of Mayor Gavin Newsom and Board President Aaron Peskin to urge them to support the Ammiano/McGoldrick Amendments to the Living Wage Law Ayude a aumentar el sueldo de 15,000 trabajadores – empleados de hospicio, empleados de instituciones de no-lucro, CalWORKs madres en asistencia pública en transición de empleo Por favor nos reuniremos cantar afuera la oficinas de Alcalde Gavin Newsom y Board President Aaron Peskin para exigir que apoyen las enmiendas Ammiano/McGoldrick para la ley de sueldos justos --------- 5/24: Something Fun at the Green Party Forum!!! Join the medley of politics and performance WHEN: Wednesday, May 24 7:00PM-2:00AM WHERE: Studio Z, 314 11th Street @ Folsom, San Francisco CONTACT: (415) 252-7666 www.StudioZ.tv ADMISSION: $5 to $500 Must be 21+, with ID No one turned away for lack of funds DETAILS: Join the medley of politics and performance with: Barry Hermanson (candidate for 12th Assembly district), Forrest Hill (candidate for Secretary of State), Ross Mirkarimi (Supervisor, District 5), Mehul Thakker (candidate for state treasurer), Medea Benjamin (Global Exchange), Laura Wells (candidate for state controller), Diamond Dave Whitaker (San Francisco icon of poetry and Greenism ...), Ubidube Whitaker (Rocker and son of icon ...), Mike Wyman (candidate for state Attorney General), Go Van Gogh (Indy rock band), Garrin Benfield (Indy soloist) And more...(see http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1521) --------- 6/6: Housing and Land Use Working Group meeting WHEN: Tuesday, June 6 7:30PM-9:30AM WHERE: San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th St.), San Francisco DETAILS: Tuesday's agenda includes: Most of the evening will be spent working on the Housing platform for San Francisco, along with discussion of the Mayor Newsome's plan to add 15,000 housing units in 5 years; Currents Events and Legislation; Any other topics you want to discuss; Announcements Everyone welcomed, Green Party member or not. ============================== ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: Calling White Activists to Support Immigrant Justice! In the past month, five million people, mostly immigrants of color, have mobilized for justice and are making history, flooding the streets in unprecedented numbers. Meanwhile, the most visible participation by white people is coming from the racist and right-wing leaders who are defining and dominating the debate in the Federal government and in the news, radio and opinion pages. Where are the voices of anti-racist white people in this crucial moment, when the worst anti-immigrant legislation in decades is still poised to drop? We, white people who believe in justice and ending racism, have a responsibility and a historic opportunity to stand with immigrant communities and unite behind their demands. As white people, most of us with U.S. citizenship, we call out to our white communities to take to the streets for immigrant rights.We must demonstrate that the rightwing racists, from the Minutemen to in the Congress, do not represent us! Two Bay Area-based white anti-racist organizations, Catalyst Project and the Heads Up Collective (a member organization of the Deporten a La MigraÅ0Ñ2 Coalition primarily composed of organizations based in working-class immigrant communities), ask you to act in solidarity with the principles generated by the Deporten a La MigraÅ0Ñ2 Coalition, Immigrants Fighting For Our Rights. They are: . The land is for those who work it! . No more displacement . The border is hypocritical . Unity makes us strong . Demand dignity and equality for all immigrants . In every neighborhood, organize! Full text can be found at http://www.liberationink.com/revised/navigator.php?s=2&a=deporten If you agree with all these principles, please sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/mayday06/petition.htm In struggle, Catalyst Project and the Heads Up Collective immigrantjusticesolidarity@gmail.com Endorsed by: Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, Institute for Multiracial Justice Maria Poblet, St Peters Housing Committee Eric Mar Eunice Cho Sheila Chung, Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition Renee Saucedo, Day Labor Program/La Raza Centro Legal Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (organizations for identification purposes only) --------- Co-Chair Needed for GROW Working Group Micheas Herman 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. ============================== IN EVERY ISSUE: Take Action! Find out about opportunities to help our elected Greens (writing letters, attending hearings, etc) -- subscribe to the SF Green Party Action list! The Action list is a low-traffic list (approximately one message per week in addition to our newsletter) telling you what you can do to help: https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/action --------- 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. 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