[SFGP] SF Green Party Weekly 11/15-11/21
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SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 11/15/06-11/21/06
NEWS:
- Green Party Congratulates Candidates. Bay Area Election Highlights:
http://tinyurl.com/yeatoq
- History Has Been Made:
http://tinyurl.com/y3luyo
EVENTS:
This week:
- 11/15: SF Green Party General Meeting; Post Election Discussion
- 11/17: Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Features the Art of Gail Camhi,
Jacqueline Ruben, Heike Seefeldt, and Sue Vaughan
- 12/03: FIG Social and Election Wrap (Rap) Up
ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS:
- KPFA Local Station Board Ballots Due 11/15 10PM, SFGP Endorses Dave
Heller
- 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://www.dailykos.com/user/jim%20d)
- 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:
- If the Constitution can't protect us against terrorists, why
protect it? (http://tinyurl.com/sbevs)
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EVENTS:
11/15: SF Green Party General Meeting; Post Election Discussion
WHEN:
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
7:30PM-9:30PM
WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St.
and 7th St.), San Francisco
DETAILS:
If you are interested in the party, have a question about how the
local Green Party operates, want to get involved, please attend.
This is also a chance for us to convene and discuss the November 2006
election. What worked, what did not and why; what did we learn? We
can discuss how and why we made the endorsements we did, and factors
we can include moving forward.
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11/17: Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Features the Art of Gail Camhi,
Jacqueline Ruben, Heike Seefeldt, and Sue Vaughan
WHEN:
Friday, November 17, 2006
5:00PM-8:00PM
WHERE:
San Francisco City Hall, 1 Carlton B Goodlett Place, Room 282, San
Francisco
CONTACT:
(415) 554-7630
DETAILS:
This month’s featured artists are Gail Camhi, Jacqueline Ruben, Heike
Seefeldt, and Sue Vaughan. In charcoal, pencil, pastels, collage,
markers, watercolors, and mixed-media, these artists engage us in an
exploration of diverse landscape genres.
Gail Camhi is showing Landscape of the Imagination. In watercolor,
Ms. Camhi uses wet on wet technique to activate responsive dialogues
with color, and allows her subjects to present herself as part of the
explorative process. Gail Camhi was born in NYC and moved to San
Francisco in 1982. She studied painting and drawing at Brooklyn
Museum Art School, and later earned a B.A. from Hunter College in
painting and still photography.
Jacqueline Ruben is presenting Landscapes of Distance and Approach.
Her paintings emerge from the spark of all the impressions and
sensations swirling around us in the phenomenal world. This mixed
media series of four paintings explores the intersection of interior
space with the peripheral world. Ms. Ruben teaches adult and youth
drawing and painting classes at City College of San Francisco
Continuing Education, and Sharon Art Studio in Golden Gate Park. She
also teaches art at the San Francisco Unified School District. Her
artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States and can be
viewed online at www.jacquelineartworks.com
Heike Seefeldt will exhibit Landscape of Manipulation. By arranging
and manipulating diverse materials in a collage overlay technique,
Ms. Seefeldt questions the extent to which raw information is
manipulated and channeled by media, politics and religious messages.
She is a native German, who received an MFA from University of Fine
Arts in Dresden, Germany. In 2004, Ms. Seefeldt settled in San
Francisco, and has since been working for a great variety of theater,
television and mural companies in the Bay Area. More of her artworks
can be found on her website www.pintofpaint.com
Sue Vaughan will exhibit Landscape of the Human Body. Many of the
portrait and figure drawings included in this show were created at
the San Francisco Art Institute or the Mission Cultural Center, and
are based on black and white photographs from the book, The Body:
Photographs of the Human Body, by William Ewing. Sue Vaughan began to
explore portrait drawing in high school. She discovered her talent
for figure drawing in college. In her spare time, she continues to
develop a signature artistic style, and explore her creativity
through adult education art courses.
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12/03: FIG Social and Election Wrap (Rap) Up
WHEN:
Sunday, December 3, 2006
4:00PM-6:00PM
WHERE:
To be announced
CONTACT:
Please contact Vicki Leidner, Chairperson at vleidner at rcn.com for
details and exact location or visit the FIG working group page:
http://tinyurl.com/uk8a4
DETAILS:
The next meeting will be the FIG social and election wrap up in the
Mission district. We’ll be combining an informal FIG meeting with a
more social gathering and debriefing. We'll also re-energize and
strategize next steps, both individually and for FIG. Friends and
guests welcome.
If you would like to bring food or drink to share, please feel free
to do so - it will be most welcome.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTION ALERTS:
KPFA Local Station Board Ballots Due 11/15 10PM, SFGP Endorses Dave
Heller
The San Francisco Green Party's sole endorsement for the (94.1 FM)
KPFA Local Station Board election goes to longtime dedicated Green
Party activist, Dave Heller: http://tinyurl.com/y3vwx5
Ballots must be received (not postmarked) by KPFA by 10 PM Wednesday
the 15th! They can be dropped off at the station.
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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.
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IN EVERY ISSUE:
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action
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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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