SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 7/27/06-8/2/06 NEWS: - Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Clarifies Rules on Sidewalk Tjjjjjjables (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/24/ EDGOBIPTS21.DTL, http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story? section=local&id=4374448) - Resolution Aims to Stop Enforcement fo Ellis Act Evictions (http:// www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3510#more) - Green Party Candidate for Senate Todd Chretien Criticizes Senator Feinstein's Support of Isreali attacks on Lebanon (http:// www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/23/18290848.php? show_comments=1#18290889, http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/ a/2006/07/24/BAG6GK4AKO1.DTL) EVENTS: This week: - 7/26: Bay Area Coalition for Reproductive Rights Meeting - 7/26: MOVIE NIGHT: WalMart - the High Cost of Low Price - 7/27: Eyewitness Account of Clinic Defense in Jackson, Mississippi - 7/28: Peak Oil Press Conference - 7/28: Peak Oil Hearing - 7/28: Krissy for Congress House Party Next week: - 7/28-30: 7th Annual Northern California Green Campout - 7/29: Geary BRT Town Hall Meeting - 8/1: Krissy Keefer Challenges Nancy Pelosi - 8/3: Feminist Issues Group Save the date: - 8/05: Impeach George Bush! - 8/06: Green Party Candidate Michael Berg is Honored by World Forgiveness Alliance - 8/9: Ceremony and Nonviolent Action at Bechtel Headquarters - 8/23: Krissy Keefer at the Bazaar - 9/10: Ready! Set! Go! Krissy Keefer Kicks Off Congressional Race ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: - Car-Free Talk with Green Party Activist Sue Vaughan - Counter the Right-Wing "Walk for Life!" IN EVERY ISSUE: - Left Talk with Diamond Dave! - 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! - Support the San Francisco Green Party by Becoming a Sustainer JOKE OF THE WEEK: - Uncle Sam On the River (http://www.moveleft.com/ uncle_sam_on_the_river_display.html) ************************************************************ EVENTS: 7/26: Bay Area Coalition for Reproductive Rights Meeting WHEN: Wednesday, July 28, 2006 6:30PM WHERE: 369 15th Street, between Franklin & Webster, Oakland, CA DETAILS: Discuss how to fight pro-life forces. --------- 7/26: MOVIE NIGHT: WalMart - the High Cost of Low Price WHEN: July 26, 2006 7:00PM - 9:00PM WHERE: San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th Streets), San Francisco, CA DETAILS: Please join us for our monthly (free) movie screening of "Wal-Mart: The high cost of low price." --------- 7/27: Eyewitness Account of Clinic Defense in Jackson, Mississippi WHEN: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:15PM Dinner with vegetarian option for a $6.50 donation 7:00PM WHERE: New Valencia Hall, 1908 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA One block from 16th/Mission BART and on the #14 and #49 MUNI bus lines INFORMATION: Call 415-864-1278 or email rwbayarea@yahoo.com DETAILS: Reproductive Freedom Summer: An Eyewitness Account of Clinic Defense in Jackson, Mississippi Queer Chicana youth activist Norma Gallegos will give a firsthand account of the latest national battle for abortion rights and reproductive justice. The only clinic to provide abortions in the entire state of Mississippi is being targeted July 15-22 by “Operation Save America” (formerly Operation Rescue), the Minutemen, and other far rightwing religious zealots determined to overthrow a woman’s right to control her own body. Radical Women is joining activists from across the country to organize reproductive rights actions in Jackson to combat this offensive and defend the clinic staff and clients. Help reinvigorate the movement to expand reproductive choice and healthcare for all--regardless of race, sexuality, gender, income, age or immigrant status. Learn about grassroots planning to oppose anti-choice legislation on the November ballot and protest the third so-called “Walk for Life—West Coast” coming to San Francisco in January 2007. --------- 7/28: Peak Oil Press Conference WHEN: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:30PM WHERE: Polk Street Side of City Hall, San Francisco, CA DETAILS: Polk Street side of City Hall, with Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, Dave Room of Energy Awareness, and members of San Francisco Oil Awareness. For more info, contact www.sfbayoil.org. --------- 7/28: Peak Oil Hearing WHEN: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:00PM WHERE: LAFCo, City Hall, Room 250, San Francisco, CA DETAILS: Sponsored by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi. RIchard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over" and "Powerdown," will be testifying for 30 minutes, followed by questions. --------- 7/28: Krissy for Congress House Party WHEN: Friday, July 28, 2006 8:00PM-12:00AM WHERE: 37 Alpha Street, San Francisco, CA DETAILS: With spoken word artist Guillermo Gomez Pena; hosted by Liz Lerma, Caroline Wallace, Tim Keefe, Roxana Bowerman, and Jeff Jones. If you need transportation, please call ahead of time to (415) 835-4748 or e- mail krissyforcongress@yahoo.com. We will try to arrange transportation or give you easy directions to the house party via public transportation. --------- 7/28-30: 7th Annual Northern California Green Campout WHEN: July 28/29/30, Fri/Sat/Sun. One may arrive as early as 'bout noon Friday, and stay until 'bout sometime Sunday afternoon. Or come for the afternoon and/or evening. WHERE: 'Dogwood camp' at Jenkinson Lake in the Sly Park Recreation Area, Pollock Pines, CA How to get there: To find the main gate at Dogwood Camp, which closes at midnight: - Take HWY. 50 from Sacramento east to & through Placerville (38 miles) - Go forward through the three stoplights on HWY. 50 in Placerville. - Continue east about 13 miles on 50 to the Sly Park exit (in Pollock Pines). - Take exit, turn right (south) onto Sly Park Road. - Continue 4.3 miles to the Park entrance on your left. - Dogwood camp is 3.4 (3.8?) miles straight into the park from the Park entrance (go slow, this 3.4 miles has 234 sharp turns). - The site (on left) has a sign: 'Dogwood'. Something green will be on the sign. INFORMATION: Call us at: 530.620.6659, <thebor@cagreens.org> (email is OK, but phone calls get answered quicker). Sly Park info: 530.644.2545, 530.644.2792 <www.eid.org>, <slypark@eid.org> ADMISSION: No reservations needed, room for almost 100. Just arrive at main gate, tell'em you're with the Green Party at Dogwood camp, pay $9.00 per car/per day. (if you come Friday & just pay for Friday night, it remains unclear that you will be charged again for Saturday night) Dogs are $2.00 ea., per day for any size dog. DONATION: GP El Dorado Co. will also accept a $10 donation per each adult staying overnight (one or two nights just 10 bucks). This donation covers the cost of the site rental. Any extra moneys can be donated back to the counties or region, or expended on good beer. If you need to save money, you can try our sliding scale. DETAILS: The 7th Annual Northern California Green Campout invites you to spend the last weekend of July camping out next to beautiful El Dorado National Forest, Northern California. This campout is not just for Green Party folks, but also deep-green- leaning friends, light green relatives, closet greens, and kids. Come spend three days (or any portion of this time-frame) swimming, hiking, tree sitting (under not in), boating/canoeing (bring your own boat or canoe), fireside joke/song fest (voluntary), great fun-loving greens, and...The Secret Tunnel (really!). GREAT weather guaranteed. You may bring: Your food/beverage, tents, personal recreation stuff, Kids of any age, dogs ON LEASH, acoustic instruments, Marshmallows etc... Dogwood Camp is a large campsite at the back of a large lake (9.5 miles around), and is bordered on the back by only the El Dorado National Forest, which stretches from our site to the Nevada border. We're a couple a hundred yards from the lake. You'll be in a tall pine forest at 3518.2 feet elevation. Car camping: - The paved road goes almost right to the campsites. - Great dirt, pine needles, soft forest floor to sleep on. - Picnic tables, fire rings, BBQ's, plenty FRESH water await you. - Fire wood can be purchased or scounged or each car bring 2 pieces... - Lovely wooden outhouses w/ locking doors, cement floors, and vault toilets. FYIs: - At HWY.50 & Sly Park Rd. at left (north) is a Safeway if you need supplies. There is also a small store opposite the Park entrance. - Along with NO meetings, the park also has NO showers. So bring bathing suit, & if we must, we'll hose you off [bring hose]. Please join us. Your hosts, Green Party of El Dorado Co. --------- 7/29: Geary BRT Town Hall Meeting WHEN: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:00PM-2:00PM WHERE: Geary Boulevard, 450 30th Avenue, between Clement and Geary, San Francisco, CA DETAILS: Join Supervisor Jake McGoldrick and Mayor Gavin Newsom at the Presidio Middles School to discuss Bus Rapid Transit. The Green Party supports BRT on Geary and encourages people to turn out to speak up in favor of it. --------- 8/1: Krissy Keefer Challenges Nancy Pelosi INFORMATION: Contact krissyforcongress@yahoo.com or call (415) 835-4748. --------- 8/3: Feminist Issues Group WHEN: Thursday, August 3, 2006 6:30PM WHERE: Wild Awakenings Cafe, 142 McAllister, San Francisco, CA DETAILS: Meet our green women candidates and help with planning fundraising and outreach efforts to support them in the november election. We now have several fine women running for office-this is going to be a very exciting election. --------- 8/05: Impeach George Bush! WHEN: Saturday, August 5, 2006 7:00PM-9:30PM WHERE: Dance Mission Theatre, 3316 24th Street at Mission, San Francisco, CA DETAILS: Green Party congressional candidates Krissy Keefer and Michael Berg unite in their call for the impeachment of George W. Bush. With Ross Mirkarimi and others. Contact krissyforcongress for more information. --------- 8/06: Green Party Candidate Michael Berg is Honored by World Forgiveness Alliance WHEN: Sunday, August 6, 2006 7:00PM-10:00PM WHERE: Angelico Hall, Dominican College, 50 Acacia Street, San Rafael, CA INFORMATION: www.forgivenessday.org DETAILS: Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Congress in Wilmington, Delaware, is honored by the World Forgiveness Alliance. Also honored are Nadia McCaffrey, Kai Harriot, and Tanya David. --------- 8/9: Ceremony and Nonviolent Action at Bechtel Headquarters Wednesday, August 9, 2006 10:00AM WHERE: Bechtel Corporate Headquarters, 50 Beale St, San Francisco, CA Half a block from Embarcadero BART DETAILS: Join us for a morning of protest and a ceremony led by Western Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney at Bechtel’s Corporate Headquarters. Bechtel is one of the top profiteers of the war in Iraq, manages nearly every aspect of the nuclear weapons cycle, and is known by communities worldwide for its habitual violations of indigenous and human rights. The anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki, August 9, is also the UN declared International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Since their earliest stages, nuclear weapons and the people who profit from them have caused untold suffering to indigenous peoples around the world. Come and act with us to voice our support for the sovereignty and dignity of indigenous peoples and call for an end to nuclear weapons and war! --------- 8/23: Krissy Keefer at the Bazaar WHEN: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:00PM-9:00PM WHERE: Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California Street, between 21st and 22nd avenues, San Francisco, CA ADMISSION: Free but a donation to Krissy's campaign is suggested. DETAILS: Congressional candidate Krissy Keefer, former congressional candidate Terry Baum with performer/musician Scrumbly Koldewyn, and singer/ songwriter Austin Willacy and more, rock the Bazaar Cafe. --------- 9/10: Ready! Set! Go! Krissy Keefer Kicks Off Congressional Race WHEN: Sunday, September 10, 2006 4:00PM WHERE: Medjool, 2522 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA INFORMATION: Contact krissyforcongress@yahoo.com or call (415) 835-4748. DETAILS: Hosted by Taiko drummers, Debbie Kajiyama, Jose Navarette, Amara Tabor Smith, Ramon Alayo, Afro Cuban Modern Word. ============================== ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: Car-Free Talk with Green Party Activist Sue Vaughan Keep an eye out for "Car-Free Talk" on San Francisco's public access tv station, Channel 29. In the next show, David Fridley, staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley and member of San Francisco Oil Awareness, discusses the myth of biofuels. Date and time to be announced. --------- Counter the Right-Wing "Walk for Life!" Come to a Community Meeting to discuss how we will counter the Right Wing "Walk for Life" coming to SF in January 2007. Please bring yourself and your ideas to participate in building a forceful resistance. Date and location to be announced. Please email the Bay Area Coalition for Reproductive Rigths at bacorrinfo@riseup.net for more information or call 415-864-1278. ============================== IN EVERY ISSUE: Left Talk with Diamond Dave! Tune in to a round table discussion of progressive issues from the Green perspective (represented by Diamond Dave Whitaker) and the ISO perspective. 88.1 FM or 880 AM, every Friday from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Hosted by Spencer the Speaker. --------- 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 --------- Support the San Francisco Green Party by Becoming a Sustainer The San Francisco Green Party needs donations for rent on the office, mailings, signs, and many other expenditures in order to wage effective political campaigns. We are especially interested in building up our base of "sustaining members," those who agree to contribute a certain amount each month by credit card. 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