[SFGP] SF Green Party Weekly 3/31-4/6
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SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 3/31/06-4/6/06
NEWS:
- 3/26: Election Whistle-Blower Stymied by Vendors
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1465)
- 3/27: Green Party Mourns Loss of Member Tom Fox
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1469)
- 3/27: Green Congressional Candidate Berg Launches Peace Org
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1468)
- 3/27: Bernie Sanders' Independent Revolution
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1467)
- 3/27: Third Parties Shake Off "Spoiler" Image
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1466)
- 3/28: Green Party US Senate Hopefuls Charge Senate Changes In
Immigrant Legislation Don't Go Far Enough
(http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1470)
EVENTS:
- 3/30: San Francisco's Annual Political Trivia Contest
- 3/31: ACORN Action for Money Mart
- 4/1: Stand Up! Stand Out! Free Leadership Training Session for Women
- 4/3: Campaigns and Issues Working Group
- 4/4: Housing and Land Use Working Group
- 4/5: Expand the First Source Hiring Program
- 4/6: Feminist Issues Group
- 4/8: Auctioning Off Downtown! San Francisco People's Organization
Art Auction & Party
- 4/10, 4/23: Reception for Barry Hermanson for Assembly
- 4/12: SF Green Party County Council meeting
- 4/13: FILM: INDEPENDENT AMERICA: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop
- 5/24: SAVE THE DATE!!! Something Fun at the Green Party Forum!!!
Join the medley of politics and performance
ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS:
- Bay Area Reporter and Fairmont boycott
- Co-Chair Needed for GROW Working Group
- Earn A Living Making San Francisco A More Green and Progressive City!
IN EVERY ISSUE:
- Discuss Instant Runoff Voting in Green Party Activist Jim
Dorenkott's Blog (http://www.dailykos.com/user/jim%20d)
- Take Action!
- Become a Green Party Sustainer!
JOKE OF THE WEEK:
- Funny Scam Email from a man who says he's Jean-Bertrand Aristide's
Brother
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NEWS:
3/30: San Francisco's Annual Political Trivia Contest
WHEN:
Thursday, March 30th
7:00PM-9:00PM
WHERE:
Cafe Royale, 800 Post Street, San Francisco
DETAILS:
Come to the fun-filled, laughter-filled 3rd annual SF Political Trivia
Contest!
Celebrity emcees include Public Defender Jeff Adachi, School Board
Commissioner Mark Sanchez, Supervisor Chris Daly, School Board
Commissioner Eric Mar and many others. (Ross had a conflict on his
calendar). The categories include "Streets of San Francisco," "Look
for the Union Label," "Housing" and "You Thought that You Knew San
Francisco."
This is a fundraiser for the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, who
almost got their charter revoked for endorsing Matt Gonzalez for Mayor
and Mark Sanchez, Sarah Lipson & Whit Leigh for School Board.
Admission is $5 per person or $20 for a team of four or more.
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3/31: Action for Money Mart
WHEN:
Friday, March 31st
6:00PM
WHERE:
7th and Market
CONTACT:
David Sharples
San Francisco ACORN
415-587-9080
DETAILS:
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is doing
a campaign against Money Mart to get them to stop ripping off poor
people with their 300% interest rate payday loans and high check
cashing fees. On March 2nd we hit them in 30 cities across the country
and in Canada, including a 35 person action on the Money Mart store at
7th and Market. We gave Money Mart the Loan Shark of the Year Award.
Now we're doing another action on Money Mart to get them to reduce
their fees.
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4/1: Stand Up! Stand Out! Free Leadership Training Session for Women
WHEN:
Saturday, April 1st
10:00AM-2:00PM
WHERE:
Bayview Hunters Point YMCA, 1601 Lane Street, San Francisco, CA 94124
Bayview Hunters Point YMCA is wheelchair accessible
COST:
Free of charge, lunch & childcare provided
LUNCH AND CHILDCARE:
Will be provided to registered participants.
RSVP:
Open to Public via RSVP to nwpcsf at yahoo.com or
415-931-4364
CONTACT:
Alix Rosenthal, President
National Women°Øs Political Caucus - San Francisco
Tel: 415-377-6722
nwpcsf at yahoo.com
DETAILS:
°∞Stand Up! Stand Out!°± is a free leadership training program aimed at
empowering women from Bayview Hunters Point by helping them effect
change in their neighborhood and in their city.
This one-day skill-building workshop is intended to begin teaching
women how to organize around community issues and best approach local
officials.
As NWPC-SF President Alix Rosenthal said: °∞Our core mission is to get
more women involved in politics. We can work towards this goal by
helping to demystify the processes by which local governments make the
decisions that most directly affect women and their communities.°±
The program will kick off with an introductory greeting from S.F.
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, followed by a panel of guest speakers
including local commissioners Angelo King (Bayview Hunters Point
Project Area Committee, Environmental Commission), and Willie Kennedy
(Southeast Community Facilities Commission). The session will finish
with smaller, interactive group discussions facilitated by grass roots
organizers, which will focus on strategies and skill building.
The National Women's Political Caucus is a multicultural,
intergenerational, and multi-issue grassroots organization dedicated to
increasing women°Øs participation in the political process. The San
Francisco NWPC caucus has been in existence since 1973, working hard
locally in support of the NWPC mission: to recruit, train and support
pro-choice women candidates for elected and appointed offices at all
levels of government.
For more information about the San Francisco NWPC caucus, see
http://www.nwpc-sf.org/
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4/3: Campaigns and Issues Working Group
WHEN:
Monday, April 3rd
7:30PM-9:00PM
WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and
7th St.), San Francisco
DETAILS:
Monthly meeting of the Campaigns and Issues working group. We will
discuss the four issues on the SF ballot, plus any other pending
election related topics, including the timeline for our slate card
production.
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4/4: Housing and Land Use Working Group
WHEN:
Tuesday, April 4th
7:00PM
WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and
7th St.), San Francisco
DETAILS:
The local Green Party is drafting a housing platform to help guide its
future. This is a great time to get involved to shape the vision you
have for what San Francisco will look like 30 years from now, and what
income groups will be inhabitting the city. Non-Greens are welcomed to
all HLU meetings.
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4/5: Expand the First Source Hiring Program
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 5th
1:00PM
WHERE:
San Francisco City Hall, 1 Carlton B Goodlett Place, Budget and Finance
Committee Hearing, Board chambers
DETAILS:
This hearing was previously scheduled for March 29.
The city currently has a 1st Source Hiring Program that is supposed to
connect low-income and historically disadvantaged peoples with job
opportunities.
Companies list job openings for entry level positions with the program
and the program distributes this information to public assistance
programs, community organizations and other centers that serve the
disadvantaged.
Low-income people then have an advantage of applying for the jobs
early. Unfortunately this program has not be given the resources to be
effective.
Support Supervisor Mirkarimi's legislation to improve the program and
bring more jobs to the poor.
Supervisor Mirkarimi's legislation will do the following:
1. Expand the types of jobs available to low-income and disadvantaged
people to go beyond construction into other industries with more growth
in SF.
2. Ensure that the program gets enough resources to be successful via
fines that will be strictly enforced on companies that don't comply
with offering jobs to low-income and disadvantaged people first.
3. Reduce poverty in SF by increasing creating more avenues for
low-income people to get access to jobs with the opportunity for
advancement.
Take Action!
Attend the Budget and Finance Committee Hearing and tell the Board you
support expanding the First Source Hiring program.
Also, please show your support for this important legislation by
calling and emailing the Mayor, your Supervisor, and the other members
of the Board.
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4/6: Feminist Issues Group
WHEN:
Thursday, April 6th
7:00PM-9:00PM
WHERE:
Wild Awakenings Cafe, 142 McAllister, San Francisco
DETAILS:
The topic will be "What are the feminist issues today?" The 4th wave is
here.
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4/8: Auctioning Off Downtown! San Francisco People's Organization Art
Auction & Party
WHEN:
Saturday, April 8th
Doors open at 7:30 pm
Silent Auction 7:30 ®C 10:00 pm
Live Auction with Auctioneer Matt Gonzalez at 9:30 pm
WHERE:
111 Minna, San Francisco
TICKETS:
$10-$20, or pay what you can
Advance Tickets available at Ticketweb.com
DETAILS:
Music by Goh Nakamura, Dan Johnson, DJ VNA, Olga Salamanca, & judy b.
Poetry reading by SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman
Work-in-Progress Film screening of °∞For Real Bayview°± by Markus
Darkraven
Artists: Chris Corales, Ben Baumgartner, Monique Deschaines, Mark
Erlinger, Lawrence Ferlenghetti, Ana Fernandez, Pam Pam Gaddies, Albert
Herter, Blake Herod, Jack Hirschman, Martha Hubert, Jamie Knight, Luna
Media, Robin Margerin, Siri Margerin, Valerie Mih, Theresa Morris,
Keady Phelan, Lucho Pozo, Michael Rauner, Jane Reed, Albert Reyes,
Steve Richards, Janet Rosen, Augusta Talbot, Amy Trachtenberg, Debra
Walker, Kelly Yount, Arngunnur Yr, & MORE°≠
Curators: Bruno Mauro, Siri Margerin and Catherine Rauschuber
Honorary Hosts: Chris Daly, Matt Gonzalez, Jack Hirschman, Mesha
Irazarry, Krissy Keefer, Ross Mirkarimi, & Debra Walker
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4/10: Reception for Barry Hermanson for Assembly
WHEN and WHERE:
Monday, April 10
7:00PM-8:30PM
1045 Santiago, San Francisco
Sunday, April 23
3:00PM-5:00PM
1339 27th Avenue, San Francisco
DETAILS:
Join the Westside Green Club in support of Green candidates:
Barry Hermanson (State Assembly, District 12) and Nancy Lewis (Green
Party County Council)
Refreshments served. Bring family, friends and all interested voters.
Children are most welcome. These events are sponsored by the Westside
Green Club.
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4/12: SF Green Party County Council meeting
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 12
7:30PM-9:30PM
WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St. and
7th St.), San Francisco
DETAILS:
This is the Green Party's monthly meeting of the County Council. We
will be setting the agenda for the General Membership meeting,
reviewing our finances, and other business related discussion and
decisions.
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4/13: FILM: INDEPENDENT AMERICA: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop
WHEN:
Thursday, April 13
Starts 7:30PM
WHERE:
Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street (@ York St.), San Francisco
TICKETS:
$5-$10, and go on sale 30 minutes before the show. Proceeds benefit the
2006 CounterCorp Film Festival in October.
INFORMATION:
http://www.countercorp.org
DETAILS:
In their new 80-minute documentary, "INDEPENDENT AMERICA,"
award-winning journalists Hanson Hosein and Heather Hughes took a
32-state road trip to uncover the growing opposition to corporate
franchises and Å0Ç9big boxÅ0É0 retailers across the U.S., and the David
vs. Goliath struggle that local small businesses, many of them local
"mom and pop" stores, are being forced towage to stay alive.
The former reports have only two self-imposed rules: 1) no interstate
highways, and 2) no corporate chains -- including gas stations,
restaurants, hotels, and grocery stores. In other words, they can only
shop with mom and pop.
What they discover during their trip is growing discontent with
corporate America, and a growing movement away from globalization and
toward localization,Å0É0 as individuals and small businesses across the
country band together to preserve not only their livelihoods, but their
local communities as well.
In Colorado, a Starbucks is repeatedly vandalized. In Texas, a
rebellious city forces Borders Books into retreat. Residents of
AmericaÅ0Ç8s Å0Ç9Fourth of JulyÅ0É0 capital in Nebraska turn against
their new Wal-Mart. And an entire Wyoming town goes into business for
itself after it is abandoned by its one chain department store.
Along the way, their conversations with corporate executives,
economists, entrepreneurs, political leaders, union members, and
ordinary Americans from all walks of life lead Hosein and Hughes to
conclude that a healthy democracy needs local small businesses if it is
to control ever-growing corporate power.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS:
Bay Area Reporter and Fairmont boycott
The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club just found out that the Bay Area
Reporter is planning on holding their 35th Anniversary at the Fairmont
Hotel this Friday. Local 2 members were locked out by the Fairmont for
53 days and currently are engaged in a long-standing, nearly 2-year
boycot of the Hotel--the boycott is still on. It's tough to move an
event at the last minute, but it's critical that queer community groups
hold the line on the boycott. Please support Local 2 workers and call
Tom Horn or Mike Yamashito at 861 5019 of the BAR and encourage them to
move their event.
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Co-Chair Needed for GROW Working Group
Micheas Herman of the GROW Working Group (tabling and voter
registration) is seeking a new co-chair. Contact Micheas Herman at ...
or the County Council at cc at sfgreens.org for more information.
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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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IN EVERY ISSUE:
Take Action!
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letters, attending hearings, etc) -- subscribe to the SF Green Party
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can do to help:
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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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JOKE OF THE WEEK:
Funny Scam Email from a man who says he's Jean-Bertrand Aristide's
Brother
Editor's Note: I got an email the other day that I thought was the
funniest spam/scam email I ever received. Of course, I did not respond
to this person, but thought I'd share it:
Hello,
My name is Col(Rtd) Jon Aristide,brother to the exiled President of
Haiti,(Dr.Jean Betrand Aristide).Due to the evolution against the
government of my brother caused by his political opponents in Haiti,we
managed to enter a red cross airplane that was evacuating foreigners
and we are presently on political assylum in Central African
Repubilc(CAR)
I wish to invest in Real Estate and commercial Properties and equally
start a new life in your country with your assistance and
cooperation.If you are in a good position to help my family,please send
an e-mail to my personal address below indicating your desire to help
meinvest this funds in your country and beyond.
I urgently await your e-mail letter. Best Regards and hope to meet you
soon.
God bless,
Col Jon(Rtd).
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