[SFGP] SFGP Weekly Newsletter

Wed Oct 17 23:56:26 PDT 2007

San
Francisco Green Party Weekly Newsletter 

Announcement List for SF Green Party: October 17-24, 2007

Send items to news at sfgreens.org. 

EVENTS (San Francisco, unless otherwise
noted)

* Green Party General Membership
Meeting & Phone Banking: Wednesday, Oct. 17, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 1028 A Howard
Street (between 6th and 7th Streets)

The General Meeting is held every
third Wednesday of the month. This month, most of the meeting will be devoted
to phone banking to raise money to pay for our first-ever San Francisco Green
Party Election Newspaper.  Please join us for a evening of phone banking
and food (BRING YOUR CELL PHONE). Call Sue at 415-668-3119 or 415-601-9297, for
more information.

* Anti-Corporate Film Festival, Oct. 18-20, various times  

Victoria Theatre, 2961 16 St.  Tickets are $10 and a festival pass is $50.

This year's Festival includes documentaries on the disturbing hike in corporate
control of art, creativity, ideas; abuse of banks’ credit terms to trap people
in revolving debt servitude; worker-run collectives as alternatives to
corporate business models, and much more.  www.countercorp.org/countercorp-festival.htm

* Iraq
Moratorium Day #2, Friday, Oct. 19, Various Locations and Times

 Wear Black Armband or Antiwar Button.  Click on Events for details at www.iraqmoratorium.org.  Times & Locations: 

- Noon, Federal Building 

- 5 p.m., Market & Montgomery, with Jack Hirschman & Poets

- 6-8 p.m., Haight Panhandle

- 6 p.m. (3 locations), 30th & Virginia; Cortland & Andover; 24th &
Mission (BART Station)

- 7 p.m., 16th & Mission (BART Station)

* Mass Mobilization and Critical Mass to Protest the IMF: Friday, Oct. 19, 4
p.m.

Meet at Market & 2nd streets for march through the Financial District. 
Bring your signs, drums, noisemakers, lungs and passion! No arrests are
planned.  Another World Is Possible! www.globalizethissf.org

* Bioneers Conference, Friday, Oct. 19-21, Marin Center, San Rafael 

The Bioneers Conference is a dynamic, leading-edge forum, focused on practical
and visionary solutions for restoring the Earth's imperiled ecosystems and
healing our human communities. We offer great speakers, exciting workshops, and
fun-filled events. To register and see the event schedule, go to: www.bioneers.org/conference.

* West Side Green Club, Sunday, Oct.
21, 3-5 p.m. 

At the home of Barry Hermanson, 2467  28th Ave, near Ulloa. For more information,
call Barry at 664-7754, or Nancy Lewis at 661-5713.

* Community Planning Workshop - Treasure Island, Monday, Oct. 22, 5:30-7:30
p.m.  SMWM Architects, 989 Market St. (at
6th), Third Floor

Help build San Francisco's first sustainable community! Treasure Island is
being redeveloped and could be a model of sustainable transportation. Separate
bike lanes? Car-free zones? Great public spaces? Bicycle libraries? What is
your vision for a bike- and pedestrian-centered Treasure Island? Come and be a
part of this interactive workshop. Contact Neal at 415/431-2453 x312 or
neal at sfbike.org for more information. 

* Last Day to Register to Vote:  Monday, Oct. 22, until 5 p.m.

City Hall, 1 Carlton B. Goodlett Place (Polk & Grove streets)

Are you registered?  Have you moved since you last voted?  The
Department of Elections needs to receive your voter-registration form by 5 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 22. www.sfgov.org/elections

* Veggie Car Conversion Workshop:  Tuesday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m. until ?

705 Hampshire St., between 19th and 20th streets.

Come learn how to turn your diesel-guzzler into a veggie-eater! Want to learn
how to convert your car to run on waste vegetable oil without buying an
expensive conversion kit? We’re not talking biodiesel here - this is the real
thing -- 100% used grease straight outta your local restaurant’s
fryolator.  Please come to this day-long workshop with visiting East Coast
vegetable-oil master Patrick Keaney (greengreasemonkeys.com); convert an ‘83
Mercedes named Esmerelda with an entirely D.I.Y kit.

* Sustainability Working Group, Thursday,
Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.

SF Green Party Office, 1028-A Howard, between 6th and 7th streets, near Civic
Center BART/Muni.  Likely topics of discussion:

- Important update on the campaign to stop the Williams’ natural-gas turbines
from 

being installed in the Bayview;

- Update on the newly formed Peak Oil Taskforce; 

- Update on the Community Choice renewable-energy project.

* Defend Public Campaign Financing from Raid by Mayor: Monday, Nov. 5, early
evening Ethics Commission; contact Rob Arnow for time and location at
415-596-5808 or info at voterownedelections.org.

The public financing program implemented for the mayoral race in San Francisco
is currently under threat from a proposal coming out of the mayor's office,
which would move half of the money to another program.  We need all
supports to show the Ethics Commission that San Francisco wants to protect
campaign-reform financing! http://www.voterownedelections.org/

* SFGP
Election Newspaper Distribution, Now until Election Day

Help us distribute our first ever
San Francisco Green Party Election Newspaper at transit stops and elsewhere
throughout the city.  Call Sue at 415-601-9297 or 415-668-3119 to arrange
to get papers from our office at 1028a Howard St., between 6th and 7th streets.

**** Election Day ****

Tuesday, Nov. 6, 7 a.m.-8 p.m.

- Department of Elections: http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp

- Find Your Polling Place: 
http://gispubweb.sfgov.org/website/pollingplace/

- Ranked-Choice Voting: http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp?id=60440.

Early voting continues at City Hall, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday
and Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., during the last two weekends before election day.

* The Board Match, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Free 

Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, 701 Mission St.

Over 70 diverse Bay Area nonprofits will be available to give information about
serving on a nonprofit board of directors. You may also join a free information
session before The Board Match to learn more about its services.
http://www.thevolunteercenter.net

* Green Festival, Friday, Nov. 9-11, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th St, at Brannan Street.

Enjoy more than 200 visionary speakers and 400 green businesses in the Bay
Area, great how-to workshops, green films, yoga and movement classes,
green-career sessions, organic beer and wine, delicious organic cuisine and
live music.  For SFGP activities, contact
info at sfgreenparty.org

NEWS 

Green Party’s 2007 Endorsements
& Campaigns

http://www.sfgreenparty.org/campaigns/campaigns.gem

Former
congresswoman McKinney
on ballot for Green Party presidential nomination: from the
Atlanta Journal Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2007/10/16/McKinney_1017.html

Halloween in the Castro this Year?

http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/City_Presents_Plan_for_Halloween_in_the_Castro_5000.html

What Did Pelosi Know About NSA, and When Did She Know It?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/16/4561/

_______________

BECOME A SUSTAINER FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO GREEN PARTY! 

The San Francisco Green Party has been hard at work interviewing candidates,
poring over ballot initiatives, deliberating over endorsements and drafting
statements regarding the November 2007 election.  All of this work is
being done exclusively by volunteers.

Also this year, for the first time, the SFGP is drafting a newspaper with
statements explaining the positions and endorsements we are taking for the
November election. Our hope is to mail this newspaper to every registered Green
in San Francisco.  Reaching every Green with this newspaper will help 

guarantee a high voter turnout among Green Party members for this important
election. 

Mailing and printing this newspaper will cost thousands of dollars. Please help
us out in this effort by becoming a Green Party sustainer, or making a one time
donation!

Your generous contribution now will help us finish the year on strong financial
footing and get a jump-start on the 2008 elections. There will be several SF
Green Party candidates to support in November 2008.  Ross Mirkarimi, for
example, will be up for re-election as District 5 Supervisor. Please help us
remain solvent by donating now! 
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/makeadonation/makeadonation.html

Volunteers Needed - Contact cc at sfgreens.org or susan_e_vaughan at yahoo.com

City Hall is seeking members for:

Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force,
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=64788

LAFCo: http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=36743

Thank you for your on-going support!

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