SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 1/10/07-1/16/07 NEWS: - School Board President Mark Sanchez, Board of Education Vice- President Norman Yee, Progressives Gaining Power http://tinyurl.com/y6okfz - Editorial: Green Era Begins http://tinyurl.com/y2kp22 - Matt Gonzalez for Mayor? http://tinyurl.com/y265kz http://tinyurl.com/yykur5 EVENTS: This week: - 1/11: Feminist Issues Group Meeting, Postponed to January 11, 2007 Next week: - 1/13: Demand Living Wage Jobs, Picket Gavin Newsom's Town Hall Meeting - 1/17: SFGP General Membership Meeting Save the date: - 1/23: Transportation Working Group - 2/10: Workshop on Designing Leaflets - 2/13: County Council Meeting - 2/17: San Francisco Green Party's Annual Celebration ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS: - Car-Free Talk with Green Party Activist Sue Vaughan IN EVERY ISSUE: - Discuss Instant Runoff Voting in Green Party Activist Jim Dorenkott's Blog (http://tinyurl.com/y2j2gs) - 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: - Neologisms ************************************************************ EVENTS: 1/11: Feminist Issues Group Meeting, Postponed to January 11, 2007 WHEN: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:30PM WHERE: Wild Awakenings, 142 McAllister, San Francisco, CA DETAILS: Due to the number of inaugural activities this week, the FIG meeting, which normally meets every first Thursday of the month, will be postponed one week later. Agenda for this meeting: - Time to elect new chair(s) - Prioritize our objectives for the new year - Plan and prepare for future electoral opportunities and challenges. --------- 1/13: Demand Living Wage Jobs, Picket Gavin Newsom's Town Hall Meeting WHEN: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:00AM WHERE: Richmond Recreation Center, 251 – 18th Avenue (between Clement and California), San Francisco, CA DIRECTIONS: Public transit: – Near 1 California and 2 Clement, one-and-a-half blocks from 38 Geary. Carpool leaves at 8:30 a.m. from Redstone Building, 2940-16th Street, between Mission and South Van Ness, near 16th Street BART. INFORMATION, RSVP: Call 415-863-1225 DETAILS: Newsom, You Can Run but You Can’t Hide: Low-wage Workers Take Message to Mayor as He Dodges Question Time Session with Board of Supervisors The City’s social infrastructure is in a state of crisis. City-funded non-profit agencies cannot retain experienced workers as they are pushed out of San Francisco by the rising cost-of-living. High turn- over is threatening the quality of services that San Franciscans expect and need. The wage required under the Minimum Compensation Ordinance for non-profit workers working on a city service contract has fallen below the city-wide minimum wage. Homecare workers only received a 1.6 percent wage increase last year and the inflation rate was 2.8 percent. Join us for an informational picket and leafleting of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s town-hall meeting We demand that the Mayor: * Meet with low-wage non-profit workers who are providing valuable services to residents of the City * Support the Ammiano/McGoldrick amendments to the living wage law * Budget wage increases for non-profit workers, homecare workers and parents working for a CalWORKs grant --------- 1/17: SFGP General Membership Meeting WHEN: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:30PM-9:30PM WHERE: San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th St.), San Francisco, CA 94103 DETAILS: This is the monthly meeting of the SF Green Party. The agenda is set by the CC the previous week, but can be modified at the beginning of the meeting. Agenda: Facil Sue and Marc, Notes Susan, Timekeeper Jim. 5 minutes - Intro and accreditation. 15 minutes - Decision, Compassionate Use endorsement. Shona will email text to post here. 2 minutes - Presentation, Progressive Pledge of Allegiance (Jim Adams) 5-10 minutes - John Rizzo Update, and potential announcement of longer discussion with him later at a CIWG meeting 1st Monday in February. 15 minutes - Bylaws: First reading of proposed bylaws change (below) dealing with selection of GPCA delegates 5 minutes - Bylaws discussion: get more feedback on what the GM/WG quorums should be. 30 minutes - Discussion of our endorsement policy 2 minutes - Transgender Training 20 minutes - Working Group Reports: People of Color Caucus, Transportation, Animal Advocacy, HLU, CIWG, GROW, Westside, FIG, Sustainability, Electoral Reform 5 minutes - Announcement of wanting to form a WG: Compassionate Use and 10 minutes - GPCA report, Bruce Announcements --------- 1/23: Transportation Working Group WHEN: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:00PM-9:00PM WHERE: San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th St.), San Francisco, CA 94103 DETAILS: Topics for discussion: MUNI riders union, free MUNI, and others suggested by participants. We will also submit our active membership list for 2007 (based on participation in the group in 2006) and elect new co-chairs --------- 2/10: Workshop on Designing Leaflets WHEN: Saturday, February 10, 2007 2:00PM-6:00PM WHERE: 2940 – 16th St. Room 204 (between Mission and South Van Ness), San Francisco, CA INFORMATION: Call the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition at 513-5393 or email sflivingwage@riseup.net DETAILS: Workshop on Designing Leaflets with Russell Kilday-Hicks Russell is editor-in-chief of a statewide union paper for staff working on the 23 campuses of the California State University system, and production editor for “Green Focus,” the California Green Party newspaper. He has taught newspaper production at Laney and is a teaching assistant in Workplace Ethics and Environmental Ethics courses. He is statewide chair of the communication committee of CSEA Local 1000, SEIU, and chair of the City of Berkeley’s Commission on Labor. --------- 2/13: County Council Meeting WHEN: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:00PM-9:00PM WHERE: San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th St.), San Francisco, CA 94103 DETAILS: Join us to plan the agenda for the following Wednesday's General Meeting. --------- 2/17: San Francisco Green Party's Annual Celebration WHEN: Saturday, February 17, 2007 7:00PM-10:00PM WHERE: Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street, San Francisco (across from 24th St BART) DETAILS: Join host Krissy Keefer as we welcome our elected Green and progressive representatives in our annual bash featuring music, guest speakers, performances and more! ============================== 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. ============================== 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! Three 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 end PG&E's monopoly and run the City on renewable energy like solar and wind power, and to stop corporations from taking private monopoly control of the new public internet and cable system being built for San Francisco. We have just begun hiring and training new grassroots organizers to help us win these campaigns. 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. By becoming a sustaining member you save us money and time that we can then devote to our political work. It is a method of donation that is perfect for a grassroots organization like the Green Party as it allows us to thrive off of many, many small and medium size donations instead of depending on a few large donors. For more information, please visit the MAKE A DONATION page on the website at http://www.sfgreenparty.org/makeadonation/makeadonation.html For questions about the sustaining member program contact treasurer@sfgreens.org To make a one-time donation by mail please send a check made out to The San Francisco Green Party to: San Francisco Green Party 1028A Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 ============================== JOKE OF THE WEEK: Neologisms Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are: 1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained. 3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent. 6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown. 7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash. 9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller. 10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline. 11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists. The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners: 1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. 3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period. 4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very,very high. 5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness. 8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 9. Karmageddon (n): its like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. 10 Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action. 12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating. And the pick of the literature: 16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole. ************************************************************ For more info on our activities, please see our website, http://www.sfgreenparty.org. You can also email us questions at info@sfgreens.org. To send us news items (short blurb please, plain text only) for possible inclusion in the newsletter, email news@sfgreens.org. Please don't put these addresses on mailing lists; messages not specifically addressed to us won't go through.