ANNOUNCEMENT LIST FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO GREEN PARTY Thursday, May 1, 2008 Send Announcement items to news@sfgreens.org. Please keep items brief; submissions may be edited for length and content. Green Party General Membership Meeting is held 7:30 p.m. every Third Wednesday of the Month 1028-A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th Streets) http://www.sfgreenparty.org/ ____________________ EVENTS (San Francisco, unless otherwise noted) * Bay Area Groups Demand Halt to Polluting Power Plant Project: Monday, May 5, 9 a.m. San Francisco City Hall, Polk Street Steps Group Representatives, with, Sup. Ross Mirkarimi (likely), State Sen. Carole Migden (likely) Bay Area environmental and social justice organizations, including San Francisco Green Party, Sierra Club, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Huntersview Mothers Committee, Ella Baker Center For Human Rights, SPUR, Our City, and Brightline Defense will demand a halt to San Francisco's proposed highly polluting Peaker Power Plant Project -- aka the Combustion Turbine Project -- proposed to be built in Southeast San Francisco, right next to the Bayview Hunters Point community that is already overburdened with pollution. * Meet the Candidate, Matt Gonzalez: May 14, 6-7:30 p.m.; $12 members, $20 non-members, $7 students The Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St. As president of San Francisco�s Board of Supervisors, Vice Presidential Candidate Matt Gonzalez helped to install rank-choice voting and raise the San Francisco minimum wage. In 2003, he ran for San Francisco mayor in a controversial election, just barely losing to Gavin Newsom. An unorthodox politician and local lawyer, Gonzalez plans to shake up the 2008 presidential race and reframe the dialogue. Join us for another �Get to Know the Candidate� program with Ralph Nader�s running mate in a wide-ranging conversation about Gonzalez� political views, background and plans for the race in 2008. Wine and hors d�oeuvres reception. http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1 * Green Party General Membership Meeting: Wednesday, May 21, 7:30 p.m. 1028-A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th Streets) http://www.sfgreenparty.org/ * Chicago to Host 2008 National Green Party Convention: July 10-13 http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1601 _____________________ NEWS Save Rent Control http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events.gem Green Party Elected Officials Oppose State�s Proposed Pesticide Spraying of Bay Area http://www.cagreens.org/press/pr080422.shtml Pelosi and the Pesticide Spraying http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=6243&catid=4&volume_id=317&issue_id=3... Supes Pass Greenhouse Gas Ordinance -- Deemed Strictest in State http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/2008/04/30/supes-pass-greenhouse-gas... Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations� http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/us/23prison.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2 http://www.alternet.org/rights/83434/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRPxN7DGy5c Salaries of all Public School Teachers in New York City, Paid to One Man http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/83545 Food Riots Erupt Worldwide http://www.alternet.org/workplace/83457 Confessions of a Sweatshop Inspector http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0804.frank.html

From Chief Prosecutor To Critic at Guantanamo http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802...

FOX & Pentagon Exposed http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=2&oref=slogi... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64TvTgH4IE&feature=related Protecting Yourself From Suspicionless Searches While Traveling http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/protecting-yourself-suspicionless-searc... Bill O'Reilly's Foxy Lady http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/317036 God Bless the Wealthy, For They Shall Save the Non-Gilded http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address... Tough Love for Israel http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=1541