SFGP WEEKLY Welcome to all our new subscribers from the Castro Street Fair! For The Week of 10/6/05 - 10/13/05 This Week: ********************************************************** News: 9/28: UCSF's Lab Fiasco 9/30: A Bold and Beautiful Vision 10/2: U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Framework Published 10/3: Mission Condo Project Sparks Debate ********************************************************** Events: 10/6, 10/10, 10/12, 10/19: Fundraising Phone Banking 10/12: San Francisco Green County Council Meeting ********************************************************** Announcements: Joke of the Week Become A Sustainer! ********************************************************** News ********************* ********************************************************** 9/28: UCSF's Lab Fiasco Mirkarimi Considers Ban on Animal Testing Source: SF Bay Guardian LIKE LAW ENFORCEMENT and the military, science needs civilian oversight. There are too many questions the folks in the white coats shouldn't answer for the rest of us. Cloning, pharmaceutical work, industry-financed studies ... you don't want that stuff going on without some public monitoring and input. And while it might not be as explosive as human cloning, animal experimentation belongs on the list. When is it OK to make animals suffer – even suffer badly – for the good of human research? Is it acceptable to mangle and abuse animals if the research leads to a cure for cancer? What if it's just pure science that has no immediate human application? Is there a difference between the suffering of a dime-a-dozen lab rat and that of an intelligent monkey? Those are valid policy questions, ones that ought to be discussed openly. But in San Francisco, the opposite is happening. Read more at: http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1386 ********************************************************** 9/30: A Bold and Beautiful Vision New Orleans Green, Malik Rahim Saves Lives What happens when your feet leave the ground? Answer: you fall down. That's the story of the U.S. government, or at least the story of how it fell flat on its face in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In failing to connect with local communities, the government stumbled wildly in the mud and floodwaters that left tens of thousands of folks without healthcare, housing or hope. I learned this story from the people of Algiers, an impoverished New Orleans neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Like the rest of New Orleans, Algiers experienced a mass exodus in the days prior to Katrina. By the time the storm arrived on August 29, the district was emptied of most of its 60,000 residents. Stores were closed, public services shut down, and only the police provided any semblance of working local government. But Algiers was far from a ghost town -- about 20 percent of the houses remained occupied. I visited Algiers at the behest of one of those who stayed behind: Malik Rahim, an ex-Black Panther and former Green Party city council candidate. Rahim stayed because he feared many of the folks left behind would be abandoned. Read more at: http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1387 ********************************************************** 10/2: U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Framework Published Source: Massachusetts Technology Collaborative SYNOPSIS: The Framework, developed over the past year, identifies the technical, environmental, economic and regulatory needs required for the responsible development of our nation's offshore wind energy potential. WESTBOROUGH, MA (September 30, 2005) – The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) today joined the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and GE to unveil A Framework for Offshore Wind Energy Development in the United States, an agenda aimed at tapping abundant offshore winds, especially over deep waters, to increase the nation's production of clean, sustainable energy. The Framework, developed over the past year, identifies the technical, environmental, economic and regulatory needs required for the responsible development of our nation's offshore wind energy potential, as well as strategies for addressing them. Read more at: www.masstech.org ********************************************************** 10/3: Mission Condo Project Sparks Debate By Emily Fancher Quotes from the article: "They may call it Mission Gardens, but certainly no fruit will fall for the poor," said Richard Marquez, a member of the Mission Agenda. "If anything, it'll be 'Mission: Impossible' to get into the garden." Planning Commissioner Christina Olague said she is generally concerned about upscale housing projects in the Mission that may continue to drive out the working poor, as well as people of color. Read more at: http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/10/04/news/20051004_ne03_condo.txt ********************************************************** *********************************** Events *********************************** *********************************************************** Fundraising Phone Banking Thursday, October 6th, Monday, October 10th, Wednesday, October 12th, and Wednesday, October 19th 6:00PM- 9:00PM 1028A Howard St. (SFGP Office) Help us raise money to mail out our slate card. Experienced fundraisers will lead phone calling out of the Green Party Office. New volunteers welcome... we'll teach you how to do it! *********************************************************** 10/12: San Francisco Green County Council Meeting and Fundraising Wednesday, October 12th 6:00PM- 8:00PM and 7:30PM- 9:30PM 1028A Howard St. (SFGP Office) The Green Party County Council meets monthly (2nd Wednesdays) to plan the agenda for the General Meeting, reivew finances, make business decsions for the party. Agenda TBA. All are welcome. *********************************************************** ************************* Announcements: ************************* *********************************************************** Joke of the Week New FOX News Slogans List of New Slogans for Fox News: 1. "The gospel according to Rove" 2. "Agree with us or SHUT UP, JUST SHUT UP!" 3. "Fox News Channel. Proving why America needs to pay attention." 4. "The news source George Orwell predicted" 5. "Fox News: replacing cogent argumentation with good old-fashioned vitriol!" 6. "It's not Propaganda, it's Hypothetical Reporting!" 7. "Fox News - You're a terrorist if you watch anything else" 8. "Bush re-elected. Mission accomplished" 9. "Fox News - First in Right Wing Lemming Blather" 10. "I'm George Bush and I approve of this news." 11. "We prove that mad cow disease can be transmitted to humans - watch us when Ann Coulter is on." 12. "Someone in the media had to ridicule the victims of Hurricane Katrina" 13. "Evangelical anchors gone wild!" Before the inauguration, George W. was invited to a 'get acquainted' tour of the White House. After drinking several glasses of iced tea, he asked President Clinton if he could use his personal bathroom. He was astonished to see that the President had a solid gold urinal! That afternoon, George W. told his wife, Laura, about the urinal. "Just think," he said, "when I am President, I'll have my own personal gold urinal!" Later, when Laura had lunch with Hillary at her tour of the White House, she told Hillary how impressed George had been with his discovery of the fact that, in the President's private bathroom, the President had a gold urinal. That evening, Bill and Hillary were getting ready for bed. Hillary turned to Bill and said, "Well, I found out who peed in your saxophone." *********************************************************** 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. Sustainers also ensure that we are able to keep our office, which has hosted numerous campaigns' headquarters including the successful Prop A, Instant Runoff Voting initiative. Becoming a Green Party sustainer is easy, fun, and secure! Online: http://www.sfgreenparty.org/makeadonation/makeadonation.html Phone: 415-701-7090 ************************************************************ For more info on our activities, please see our website, http://www.sfgreenparty.org. You can also email us questions, comments, Letters to the Editor, or fan mail, at info@sfgreens.org. To send us news items (short blurb please, plain text only), email news@sfgreens.org. Please don't put these addresses on mailing lists; messages not specifically addressed to us won't go through. Submissions for Joke of the Week are welcomed by the editor at ladypest@hotmail.com