[SFGP] SF Green Party Weekly 1/3-1/9
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SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 1/3/07-1/9/07 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
NEWS:
- CODEPINK Arrested and In Jail, Cameraman Assaulted and Injured
http://tinyurl.com/y45p98
- New College of California Hosts Green Party Panel Discussion
http://tinyurl.com/yff6kr
- Local Green Party Wraps-Up a Successful Year in 2006
http://tinyurl.com/yag2e9
EVENTS:
This week:
- 1/4: Voters for Peace Rally
- 1/4: Banner Drops with World Can't Wait
- 1/4: Tell Nancy Pelosi to Support Impeachment!
- 1/4: Support Lieutenant Watada, Refuse Illegal War!
- 1/4: Swearing-In Ceremony of John Rizzo
- 1/4: Animal Advocacy Working Group
- 1/5: Swearing-In Ceremony of Jane Kim
- 1/6: Beach Impeach Flashmob at Ocean Beach
- 1/8: Campaigns and Issues Working Group
Next week:
- 1/11: Feminist Issues Group Meeting, Postponed to January 11, 2007
- 1/13: Demand Living Wage Jobs, Picket Gavin Newsom's Town Hall Meeting
Save the date:
- 1/27: Workshop on Designing Leaflets
- 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:
- Germans Not Amused (http://tinyurl.com/yflr53)
Editor's Note: This article is not political, but hey, it's the New
Year. I thought this was hysterically funny.
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EVENTS:
1/4: Voters for Peace Rally
WHEN:
Thursday, January 4, 2007
12:00 noon
WHERE:
Federal Building, 455 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco
DETAILS:
In just one week, Congress begins the 2007 session with new
leadership ready to take the reigns. The problem is, the new Congress
doesn't look very different than the old Congress that we supposedly
voted out of office. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is promoting a
troop increase, Nancy Pelosi said that she won't defund the war, and
now President Bush is asking for at least $127 billion more to waste
on our failed venture in Iraq. Although voters expressed a clear
mandate to end the war in Iraq, Democratic Congressional leaders are
already on record promising to continue the violence in our name and
with our tax dollars.
We think this is an unacceptable betrayal of American voters, so on
January 4th, VotersForPeace is working with several peace
organizations to remind the new Congress that we will no longer
tolerate destroying lives and wasting money for war. We will
congratulate them for their win and then demand that they defund
Bush's war effort.
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1/4: Banner Drops with World Can't Wait
WHEN:
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Morning and evening rush hour
WHERE:
Highways 101 & 280, near San Francisco
CONTACT:
Call Don at 415-724-1479
Call World Can't Wait SF Office at 415-864-5153, or email
sfwcwmedia at gmail.com
INFORMATION:
www.worldcantwait.org
DETAILS:
World Can’t Wait will also be doing “banner drops” aimed at AM & PM
rush hour traffic on Highways 101 & 280. They will focus on a demand
for impeachment based on War Crimes, Torture, and Crimes Against
Humanity.
Nationally, The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime will be
ushering in 2007 with mass demonstrations at the opening of Congress
in Washington, DC. Featured speakers include Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia
McKinney, Gore Vidal, and others.
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1/4: Tell Nancy Pelosi to Support Impeachment!
WHEN:
Thursday, January 4, 2007
2:00PM-5:00PM
WHERE:
Nancy Pelosi’s Office, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco
CONTACT:
Call Don at 415-724-1479
Call World Can't Wait SF Office at 415-864-5153, or email
sfwcwmedia at gmail.com
INFORMATION:
www.worldcantwait.org
DETAILS:
On January 4th, as the new congress opens, World Cant Wait, Drive
Out the Bush Regime! will be rallying in front of the Nancy Pelosis
office to demand impeachment for War Crimes, Torture, and Crimes
Against Humanity. We will be putting large block letters to spell
IMPEACH on a table in front of her office. Reasons, and demands for
impeachment in order to repudiate the policies of the Bush
Administration will be read. Participants are also encouraged to
bring other items to be put on the table.
Nancy Pelosi has continually said impeachment is off the table. The
Democrats have pledged to work with the Bush Administration. We will
voice our opposition to endless war, torture, crimes against
humanity, and a possible bi-partisan war escalation.
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1/4: Support Lieutenant Watada, Refuse Illegal War!
WHEN & WHERE:
Thursday, January 4, 2007
11:15 gather at J-town Peace Plaza (Post & Buchanan)
11:45 procession to meet up with Unitarian Universalist contingent @
Franklin & Geary 12:15 joint procession to peace vigil at Federal
Building
12:30 vigil
01:00 die-in program--MC David Hartsough, Declaration for Peace;
speakers include Unitarian Universalist, WSC/APIsR!, & IVAW [not
confirmed]
01:30 die-in commences--those who wish not to risk arrest can stand
and bear witness/lend their solidarity.
There is a nonviolent cd training scheduled for Tues, 2 Jan @ UUC,
1187 Franklin @ Geary, SF, from 7-9 pm, for anyone interested.
INFORMATION:
Email watadasupport at mac.com
DETAILS:
Please join the Watada Support Committee and APIs Resist! in a show
of solidarity with this brave, young man refusing to obey orders to
fight this illegal war...
I-sho-ni
Na-re-ba
Ke-sh'-te ma-ke-nai
[The People, united, will never be defeated]
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1/4: Swearing-In Ceremony of John Rizzo
WHEN:
Thursday, January 4, 2007
5:00PM
WHERE:
State Building, Milton Marks Auditorium, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San
Francisco
DETAILS:
Come support John Rizzo, first Green elected to the SF Community
College, as he is officially sworn into the College Board!
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1/4: Animal Advocacy Working Group
WHEN:
Thursday, January 4, 2007
7:00PM-9:00PM
WHERE:
Golden Era Vegetarian Restaurant, 832 Clement Street, between 9th and
10th Avenues, San Francisco
DETAILS:
The Animal Advocacy Working Group is involved in animal issues in San
Francisco. The Ten Key Values apply to protecting the welfare of non-
human animals. Of course, all are welcome.
For more information, email Rosalind Lord at rclord at seaserpent.com
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1/5: Swearing-In Ceremony of Jane Kim
WHEN:
Friday, January 5, 2007
6:00PM
WHERE:
Tenderloin Community School, 627 Turk Street, San Francisco
DETAILS:
Come support Jane Kim, first-place finisher in the SF School Board
race, as she is officially sworn into the School Board!
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1/6: Beach Impeach Flashmob at Ocean Beach
WHEN:
Saturday, January 6, 2007
10:30AM - noon
WHERE:
Ocean Beach, San Francisco
Near 48th Avenue and Lincoln Way, next to Golden Gate Park, directly
across the Great Highway from the Beach Chalet
DETAILS:
See http://www.beachimpeach.org, also register at this site to help out.
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1/8: Campaigns and Issues Working Group
WHEN:
Monday, January 8, 2007
7:00PM
WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party, 1028A Howard St (between 6th St. and 7th
St.), San Francisco, CA 94103
DETAILS:
Please note the date is moved from the first Monday to the second, to
accommodate the New Year's Day holiday. Feb meeting is on the first
Monday, Feb 5.
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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.
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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
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1/27: Workshop on Designing Leaflets
WHEN:
Saturday, January 27, 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 at 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.
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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!
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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.
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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 at our-city.org
For more information, see our web site at http://our-city.org
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For more information, please visit the MAKE A DONATION page on the
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For questions about the sustaining member program contact
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San Francisco, CA 94103
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