This is to ask anyone who reads this to please call their Supe--- whoever their Supe is, except of course Chris, whose lead I'm following here---and ask them to sign the "Declaration of Policy" below, so that Richard Knee, my only other collaborator on this at this point, and I, don't have to harass 7200 San Franciscans into signing petitions to get this on the ballot. (Actually,Peter Gabel is so pissed off by the Blue Angels as well that even he offered to collect signatures if we have to, but I'd much rather find less stressful ways to get this initiative on the ballot and more creative ways, then, to campaign to get it passed. The other advantage, it seems,of an initiative that four Supes sign to get on the ballot is that they'll then have to hold public hearings, during which we can really make the point that this Blue Angels Air Show is really all about military recruitment for the Wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and now Africa, in the form of Africom, http://www.africom.mil/, the plan to build a U.S. military base in every African nation except Egypt. Here's my draft "Declaration of Policy," in case anyone's still with me on this; I've been following Chris Daly's lead all along here, and Cindy Sheehan is with us as well. She's going to try to make the Board meeting next week. POINT: Please call your Supe, any Supe but Chris, (since Chris suggested this), and urge them to sign to get ithis on the ballot. Ross and Tom voted to stop the Blue Angels at the full Board, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're gonna sign. I've asked both without getting responses yet, and Tom's aide wasn't sure he would, because, it seems Tom thinks the ballot initiative process is overused. Someone sent me a # and e-address for a particular aide in Ross's office but he hasn't responded yet either. I'm not going to go knocking on doors till next week, in hopes that more people will call and urge their own Supes to sign this "Declaration of Policy" to get it on the ballot: Declaration of Policy The voters of San Francisco declare the Blue Angels Air Shows and all other military demonstration shows, including the Canadian SnowBirds and the U.S. Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team, unwelcome in and around the City and County of San Francisco. These military demonstration teams come here every year to recruit our struggling immigrant and inner city youth into the U.S. Armed Services, to fight imperial wars for the natural resources of poor nations mischaracterized as "rogue states" because they have abundant natural resources, including uranium, but no nuclear weapons. These resource wars that the military demonstration shows recruit for are currently mischaracterized as the "Global War on Terrorism." The voters of San Francisco declare that our hard-earned federal and municipal taxes, and the energies of all our young people, shall be devoted, instead, to sane and constructive activity like education, environmental remediation, and other positive forms of collective self-care. The voters of San Francisco also declare that our taxes and the energies of our youth should circumvent the need for these annual military recruitment demonstrations by building a truly renewable energy infrastructure---solar, tidal, and wind. A truly renewable energy infrastructure will not only keep all our utility bills under control, by eliminating fuel costs, but also end the wars for dirty energy fuels, and circumvent the next resource war, for water, which will surely come if the dirty energy wars which so damage and deplete the world's water resources, continue. ----Ann Garrison anniegarrison@mac.com (415) 285-7259 (415) 786-6839 "El-Baradei has as much intention of stopping proliferation as George Bush has of stopping the drug trade." --Craig Reishus, Nuclear Free Future Awards, http://www.nuclear- free.com/english/frames7.htm ---Ann Garrison anniegarrison@mac.com (415) 285-7259 (415) 786-6839 "El-Baradei has as much intention of stopping proliferation as George Bush has of stopping the drug trade." --Craig Reishus, Nuclear Free Future Awards, http://www.nuclear- free.com/english/frames7.htm