[SFGP] SF Green Party Weekly 1/17-1/23

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SF GREEN PARTY WEEKLY 1/17/07-1/23/07

NEWS:
- Green Party Activist Marc Salomon in "We Rented A Chicken Suit?"
	http://tinyurl.com/y3atct
- Citizen Susan (King) Feedback on Gavin Newsom event
	http://tinyurl.com/y6bgc6

EVENTS:
This week:
- 1/17: SFGP General Membership Meeting
- 1/20: Forward, Not Back – Reproductive Justice for All!
- 1/21: WestSide Green Club
- 1/23: Transportation Working Group
Next week:
- 1/27-28: FILM: Little Birds
Save the date:
- 2/10: Workshop on Designing Leaflets
- 2/13: County Council Meeting
- 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:
-  Jon Stewart & Co. show montage inspired by President Bush's 20,000- 
troop speech (http://tinyurl.com/y6rtwl)

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EVENTS:

1/17: SFGP General Membership Meeting

WHEN:
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
7:30PM-9:30PM

WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St.  
and 7th St.), San Francisco, CA 94103

DETAILS:
This is the monthly meeting of the SF Green Party. The agenda is set  
by the CC the previous week, but can be modified at the beginning of  
the meeting.

Agenda: Facil Sue and Marc, Notes Susan, Timekeeper Jim.

5 minutes - Intro and accreditation.

15 minutes - Decision, Compassionate Use endorsement. Shona will  
email text to post here.

2 minutes - Presentation, Progressive Pledge of Allegiance (Jim Adams)

5-10 minutes - John Rizzo Update, and potential announcement of  
longer discussion with him later at a CIWG meeting 1st Monday in  
February.

15 minutes - Bylaws: First reading of proposed bylaws change (below)  
dealing with selection of GPCA delegates

5 minutes - Bylaws discussion: get more feedback on what the GM/WG  
quorums should be.

30 minutes - Discussion of our endorsement policy

2 minutes - Transgender Training

20 minutes - Working Group Reports: People of Color Caucus,  
Transportation, Animal Advocacy, HLU, CIWG, GROW, Westside, FIG,  
Sustainability, Electoral Reform

5 minutes - Announcement of wanting to form a WG: Compassionate Use and

10 minutes - GPCA report, Bruce

Announcements

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1/20: Forward, Not Back – Reproductive Justice for All!

WHEN & WHERE:
Saturday, January 20, 2007
10:30AM: Pier 5 (on Embarcadero Street near Market Street) San  
Francisco, CA
11:30AM: Multi-issue counter-demonstration to the “Walk for Life”  
route along the Embarcadero  waterfront, ending in a community rally  
at Aquatic Park with more speakers, music and art.
4:00PM: BACORR will also host a post-rally gathering at New Valencia  
Hall at 1908 Mission St (at 15th Street), San Francisco

INFORMATION:
Call 415-730-2917, email bacorrinfo at riseup.net, or visit www.bacorr.org.

DETAILS:
Come celebrate Roe Vs. Wade and stand up for reproductive rights at  
the “Forward, Not Back – Reproductive Justice for All!” pro-choice  
events.

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1/21: WestSide Green Club

WHEN:
Sunday, January 21, 2007
3:00PM-5:00PM

WHERE:
Home of Barry Hermanson, 2467 - 28th Ave, between Taraval and Ulloa,  
San Francisco, CA

INFORMATION:
Call Barry at 664-7754 or Nancy Lewis at 661-5713

DETAILS:
Bring your calendar, because we will be scheduling the rest of 2007  
meetings and planning 2007 activities.

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1/23: Transportation Working Group

WHEN:
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
7:00PM-9:00PM

WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St.  
and 7th St.), San Francisco, CA 94103

DETAILS:
Topics for discussion: MUNI riders union, free MUNI, and others  
suggested by participants. We will also submit our active membership  
list for 2007 (based on participation in the group in 2006) and elect  
new co-chairs

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1/27-28: FILM: Little Birds

WHEN & WHERE:
Saturday, January 37, 2007
7:00PM
Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
Oakland, CA

Sunday, January 28, 2007
7:00PM
Women's Building
3543 18th Street
San Francisco, CA

INFORMATION:
Call (415) 822-4732
www.littlebirds.net
Arab Film Festival: www.aff.org

DETAILS:
Come to the screening of "Little Birds" and talk with Carolyn Ho,  
mother of Lieutenant Ehren Watada.

A prize-winning Japanese independent journalist, Takeharu Watai, has  
produced a film depicting the daily lives of Iraqi people following  
the launch of the U.S.-led war on the country in March 2003. In  
Baghdad, Samawa, Falluja, and at Abu Ghraib, Watai listened to the  
voices of the Iraqi people and succeeded in catching glimpses of the  
truth about the Iraq war that mainstream media have failed to  
capture. To capture the true essence of the situation in Iraq, the  
filmmaker purposely left out narration and background music. He  
simply allowed the daily sounds of air bombardments, helicopters, and  
approaching armored vehicles to tell the story. Watai has published  
various articles on Iraq and made frequent live news reports on  
Japanese mainstream television during the Baghdad air raids.

After the screening, we will have a panel discussion with the  
filmmaker and Carolyn Ho (Mother of Lt. Ehren Watada*).

Endorsed by Lt.Watada Support Committee & APIs Resist:  
www.thankyoult.org

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2/10: Workshop on Designing Leaflets

WHEN:
Saturday, February 10, 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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2/13: County Council Meeting

WHEN:
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
7:00PM-9:00PM

WHERE:
San Francisco Green Party office, 1028 A Howard St (between 6th St.  
and 7th St.), San Francisco, CA 94103

DETAILS:
Join us to plan the agenda for the following Wednesday's General  
Meeting.

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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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IN EVERY ISSUE:

Take Action!

Find out about opportunities to help our elected Greens (writing  
letters, attending hearings, etc) -- subscribe to the SF Green Party  
Action list! The Action list is a low-traffic list (approximately one  
message per week in addition to our newsletter) telling you what you  
can do to help:  https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ 
action

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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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Support the San Francisco Green Party by Becoming a Sustainer

The San Francisco Green Party needs donations for rent on the office,  
mailings, signs, and many other expenditures in order to wage  
effective political campaigns.

We are especially interested in building up our base of "sustaining  
members," those who agree to contribute a certain amount each month  
by credit card. By becoming a sustaining member you save us money and  
time that we can then devote to our political work. It is a method of  
donation that is perfect for a grassroots organization like the Green  
Party as it allows us to thrive off of many, many small and medium  
size donations instead of depending on a few large donors.

For more information, please visit the MAKE A DONATION page on the  
website at http://www.sfgreenparty.org/makeadonation/makeadonation.html

For questions about the sustaining member program contact  
treasurer at sfgreens.org

To make a one-time donation by mail please send a check made out to  
The San Francisco Green Party to:

San Francisco Green Party
1028A Howard St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

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