[SFGP] SF Green Party Weekly 1/22- 1/28
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SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 1/22/06 - 1/28/06
NEWS:
- 1/13-19: Schools Are Not Out After All, Thanks to Ross
- 1/14: Pelosi 'Town Hall' Meeting Disappoints; House Minority Leader
Refuses to Halt War Funding or Support Impeachment
- 1/17: Austrian Green Parliament Members Demand that Schwarzenegger's
Citizenship be Revoked, California Greens Back Action
EVENTS:
- 1/21: Join the Green Party in Standing Up for Reproductive Rights!
- 1/24: Transportation Working Group
- 1/24: Housing and Land Use Working Group Brainstorming Session
- 1/25: Public Financing Hearing
- 1/25: A Citizens Assembly for Political Reform
- 1/26: A Green Party for Peace
- 2/2: Aimee Allison's Campaign Kick-off Party
ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS:
- 2006 General Membership Survey
- Volunteers Needed for A Green Party for Peace
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1437)
- Public Financing for the Mayor's Race: We Need Your Help!
- Earn A Living Making San Francisco A More Green and Progressive City!
- How to Run For the SF Green Party County Council
- Become a Green Party Sustainer!
JOKE OF THE WEEK:
- Kickback Mountain
(http://blogs.citypages.com/canderson/2005/12/post_1.asp#comments)
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NEWS:
1/13-19: Schools Are Not Out After All, Thanks to Ross
Ross Mirkarimi delays planned closing of schools...
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=2839
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=2843
http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/news_in_brief/
school_closures_060116.shtml
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1/14: Pelosi 'Town Hall' Meeting Disappoints; House Minority Leader
Refuses to Halt War Funding or Support Impeachment
SAN FRANCISCO—Members of the San Francisco Green Party who attended
today's 'town hall' meeting with Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi at Marina
Middle School were extremely dissatisfied with her support for funding
the war in Iraq and her unwillingness to impeach President Bush.
Some Greens, including well-known peace activist Medea Benjamin, held
up signs urging Pelosi to stop voting to fund the war during the 'town
hall'.
Pelosi stressed that she voted for war funding because of the troops,
but acknowledged that the soldiers still do not have sufficient
protective armor.
The Green Party will continue to challenge Pelosi to represent the
views of her district, and are expecting to run a candidate against her
in November.
Pioneer lesbian playwright Terry Baum was the Green Party's candidate
against Pelosi in 2004.
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1/17: Austrian Green Parliament Members Demand that Schwarzenegger's
Citizenship be Revoked, California Greens Back Action
SACRAMENTO (January 17, 2006) – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian
citizenship should be revoked for permitting death penalty executions
in California, said a formal request made by Green Party members of the
Austrian Parliament and supported by the International Protocol
Committee of the Green Party of California late Monday.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to stop executions of Donald
Beardslee, Stanley Tookie Williams – and now Clarence Allen. Greens all
over the world are against the death penalty.
And in Austria, the death penalty is illegal.
"No Austrian citizen is legally permitted to participate in or order
the execution of another human being," said the Green Party committee.
The committee added that it also supports "other pertinent and
appropriate sanctions which the Austrian Parliament may enact in this
regard."
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EVENTS:
1/21: Join the Green Party in Standing Up for Reproductive Rights!
WHEN:
Saturday, January 21
11:00 AM
WHERE:
Assemble at Pier #1, Embarcadero and Market Streets, San Francisco
WHAT: Demonstration to support reproductive rights. This effort is a
response to the second annual anti-choice march organized and sponsored
by the San Francisco and
Oakland Archdiocese.
WHO: Green Party, BACORR (Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive
Rights), Code Pink, Raging Grannies
WHY: The Green Party proudly supports a position of "no interference"
in a woman's right to control her own body! The Green Party is working
to expand women's basic reproductive rights!
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1/24: Transportation Working Group
WHEN:
Tuesday, January 24
7:00PM-9:00PM
WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St.
and 7th St.), San Francisco
DETAILS:
The transportation working group is focusing on transportation justice
- increasing public transit service to underserved communities. Please
contact either co-chair, John-Marc Chandonia ( jmc at sfgreens.org ) or
Sue Vaughan (susan_e_vaughan at yahoo.com) for more info.
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1/24: Housing and Land Use Working Group Brainstorming Session
WHEN:
Tuesday, January 24
7:30PM-9:30PM
WHERE:
La Solea Cafe, 376 19th Street between Mission and Capp, San Francisco
DETAILS:
The Housing and Land Use Working Group is holding a brainstorming
session towards the development of a housing and land use platform.
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1/25: A Citizens Assembly for Political Reform
WHEN:
Wednesday, January 25
12:00-1:30 PM
WHERE:
The Commonwealth Club of California, 595 Market Street, Second Floor,
San Francisco
CONTACT:
RSVP to Lily Ho at (916) 448-5189 or to ho at newamerica.net. New America
Foundation is also sponsoring this event on January 24th in Los
Angeles and January 26th in Sacramento. Please specify which event you
are RSVPing for in your email. If you have questions about the panels,
please contact Steven Hill at (415) 665-5044 or hill at newamerica.net.
DETAILS:
Election reform is badly needed. A model solution? A Citizens Assembly.
Its strength lies in restoring power to the people.
Speakers will include Joseph Canciamilla, Democratic Assemblyman of
Pittsburg, and Green Party member Steven Hill, the director of the New
America Foundation, which is sponsoring this event.
To find out more, see
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1462
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1/25: Public Financing Hearing
WHEN:
Wednesday, January 25
1:30 PM
WHERE:
Room 263 of City Hall (McAllister & Polk), San Francisco
CONTACT:
Please sign up onto the Evite so we can keep track of whose coming:
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?
inviteId=NXJJRDMXIURAGFTJREBH&li=iq&src="#FFFFFF">
If you can't make it, please take the time to contact the Board of
Supervisors to let them know this reform is important to you:
http://voterownedelections.org/contact_supervisors.html
For more information on Voter-Owned Elections, visit
www.voterownedelections.org or call 415-596-5808.
DETAILS:
On December 19th, over 100 young activists, community members, and
social justice advocates ensured that the San Francisco Ethics
Commission unanimously approved legislation that could bring public
campaign financing to the San Francisco Mayor’s race. In order to
ensure that this grassroots-powered legislation is passed into law, we
need to come together once again.
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1/26: A Green Party for Peace
WHEN:
Thursday, January 26
8:00PM until closing
WHERE:
Studio Z, 314 11th Street at Folsom, San Francisco
DETAILS:
Join Ross Mirkarimi, Jello Biafra, Aimee Allison, Jane Kim, Mark
Sanchez, Ahimsa Sumchai, Kevin Danaher, Terry Baum and many others as
we start the year to end the war in Iraq! There will also be some great
music and DJS Andres Octavio, Space Invader, and Daneekah.
For more details, see
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1437
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2/2: Aimee Allison's Campaign Kick-off Party
WHEN:
Thursday, February 2
Starts 6:30PM
WHERE:
La Estrellita Café
446 E. 12th Street (between 4th and 5th Ave), Oakland CA 94606
COST:
$10 and up at the door – this is a fundraising event. Please bring your
checkbook and contribute generously.
INFO:
http://www.aimeeallison.org/
DETAILS:
Join Aimee Allison, community members, activists, artists, and friends
as we kick-off a campaign for change in the city of Oakland.
Aimee Allison is launching her bid to be Oakland's next City
Councilwoman from District 2, and she would like you to come celebrate
and organize with her.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS:
2006 General Membership Survey
The County Council is conducting a survey of San Francisco Green Party
members to get your opinion on several issues to help us plan and set
goals for the party in 2006. Results will be discussed at a future
General Meeting. You can get a copy of the survey online at the
following link, and respond to us by email:
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1464
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Volunteers Needed for A Green Party for Peace
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1437)
We're seeking people to help out during any part of the day or evening
at the San Francisco Green Party fundraising event at Studio Z
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1437).
If interested, please contact Sue Vaughan at (415) 668-3119 or
susan_e_vaughan at juno.com.
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Public Financing for the Mayor's Race: We Need Your Help!
On Tuesday October 25, Green Party Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi,
representing a broad-based coalition, introduced legislation that
could forever change the way politics is done in San Francisco:
With public financing, the public helps fund the campaigns of
candidates who can demonstrate a wide base of community support by
collecting a large number of small donations. In exchange candidates
agree to a strict spending cap, and to limit their private
fundraising.
The idea is to make politicians accountable only to the public, rather
than private campaign donors, and to ensure that all serious
candidates, regardless of access to money, have enough resources to
get their message out to the voters.
To make this legislation happen, please do two things:
1. Write or call the Supervisors to encourage their support (they need
hear this from as many people as possible); and
2. Ask your friends to do the same.
Sample letters and contact information for the Supervisors can be
found at http://www.voterownedelections.org/contact_supervisors.html
To learn more about the campaign visit www.voterownedelections.org or
call 415-596-5808.
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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 at our-city.org
For more information, see our web site at http://our-city.org
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How to Run For the SF Green Party County Council
County Council Candidates will be elected in June of 2006. For details
on how to run, see
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1435
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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!
For more information, see
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/makeadonation/makeadonation.html
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