[SFGP] Greenzine - upcoming KPFA elections, articles and online events

Tue Apr 6 09:46:20 PDT 2021

April 6, 2021
GREENZINE
SF Green Party Weekly News and Events

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Dear Greens,

    We will be making endorsements in the upcoming membership votes at
KPFA radio.  The KPFA station board currently includes three Alameda
county Greens, Don Macleay, Daniel Borgstrom, and James McFadden, as
well as Santa Clara county Green Christine Pepin.  If you don't have a
subscription, or your previous subscription has expired, please
contribute $25 for a year's subscription (membership) at:
https://secure.kpfa.org/support/ by this Wednesday (4/7) in order to
be able to vote in upcoming elections.

    Although Republican voter supression in Georgia has been getting
well-deserved focus recently, little attention is being paid to voter
supression by the Democratic Party.  Mike Feinstein, from the Santa
Monica Greens, has written a good article about the problems with HR-1
and efforts to block Greens from the ballot in Nevada:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/commentary-democrats-have-their-own-voter-suppression-issues-2322963/

    SF Green Party member Barry Hermanson also wrote a nice article
about COVID vaccines, Big Pharma, and Medicare for All:
https://sfbayview.com/2021/03/big-pharma/

    Here are a number of online lectures and events in the next month
or so that will be of interest to Greens:

Tue, 4/6, 2:30 pm -- Cultivating Fear: Anti-Muslim Bias in the Media
and Society -- With Rowaida Abdelaziz, a national reporter at
HuffPost, Malika Bilal, senior presenter at The Take, an
interview-driven news podcast, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, a civil rights
attorney and Deputy Director of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations, and Saif Shahin, Assistant Professor at American
University, whose current research looks at artificial intelligence
and big data as a sociopolitical phenomena, and online identity
construction as a sociotechnical practice -- Organized the American
University School Of Communication:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultivating-fear-anti-muslim-bias-in-the-media-and-society-registration-145123202405?aff=erellivmlt

Wed, 4/7, 3:30 pm -- A discussion of Kurt Vonnegut's, “Man Without a
Country" -- Presented by the "Radical Reading Circle", and hosted by
the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library and Lasana Kazembe and Jason
Kelly, with Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-reading-circle-with-the-kurt-vonnegut-museum-and-library-tickets-142723548977?aff=erellivmlt

Wed, 4/7, 5 pm -- In Conversation: Jeff Chang, Dave Cook, and Tina
Bell Wright -- Professors Cook and Wright join author Chang to discuss
his book about Hip Hop, "Can't Stop Won't Stop" -- Organized by the
California African American Museum:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-jeff-chang-dave-cook-and-tina-bell-wright-tickets-147173855965?aff=erellivmlt

Thu, 4/8, 12 Noon -- Antiracism and Environmental Justice: Latinx
Imperatives -- Ramón Cruz, president of the Sierra Club, and David
Vazquez, co-editor of "Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and
the Decolonial", and a professor at American University, will discuss
environmental justice in Latinx communities and the prospects for
antiracist environmentalism:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antiracism-and-environmental-justice-latinx-imperatives-tickets-144678331785?aff=erellivmlt

Thu, 4/8, 4 pm -- Religious Communities and the Planetary Crisis --
This webinar will examine the response of the faith communities to the
climate crisis from the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian
perspectives -- Sponsored by the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network,
the Hartford Seminary, and CT Interfaith Power & Light:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/religious-communities-and-the-planetary-crisis-tickets-140617341253?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Sat, 4/10, 4 pm -- Frida Berrigan on Martin Luther King's Triad:
Racism Militarism & Excessive Materialism -- Organized by the
Cleveland Nonviolence Network:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frida-berrigan-on-ml-kings-triad-racism-militarism-excessivematerialism-tickets-144123133171?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1

Sun, 4/11, 10 am -- Visionary Virtual Conference: Bigger Love -- With
economist Hazel Henderson, European Union Ambassador to the United
States Stavros Lambrinidis, and two others -- Organized by the
American Visionary Art Museum:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/logan-visionary-virtual-conference-bigger-love-tickets-143160343441?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1

Mon, 4/12, 2 pm -- Conformity, Propaganda, and the Fight for a Left
Future with Noam Chomsky -- A critical discussion on a plethora of
issues with world (in)famous dissident, public intellectual, and
author Noam Chomsky:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conformity-propaganda-and-the-fight-for-a-left-future-with-noam-chomsky-tickets-145961299175?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Tue, 4/13, 4 pm -- Freedom-Making in an Age of Mass Incarceration --
With Toussaint Losier, UMass-Amherst; editor, Rethinking the American
Prison Movement; Beth Richie, University of Illinois-Chicago; author,
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation;
and 3 others -- Organized by the Pozen Center Human Rights Lab:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-making-in-an-age-of-mass-incarceration-tickets-144031462983?aff=erellivmlt&keep_tld=1

Wed, 4/14, 10 am -- The Arab Spring: 10 Years On -- Five panelists
from King's College London (KCL) will discuss protests and protest
movements in Egypt and Lebanon, media and the Arab Spring in north
Africa, Syria, Palestine, and the Gulf -- Organized by the Institute
of Middle Eastern Studies, KCL:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-arab-spring-10-years-on-tickets-146356318689?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1

Wed, 4/14, 11 am -- Anarchist in The UK - Louise Michel, heroine of
the Paris Commune -- To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Paris
Commune, Naomi Clifford explores the life of Louise Michel, feminist,
anarchist, poet, playwright and journalist, who survived the bloody
end of the 1871 Paris Commune -- Organized by Lambeth Libraries:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anarchist-in-the-uk-louise-michel-heroine-of-the-paris-commune-tickets-145436986943?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Mon, 4/19, 4:30 pm -- DearTomorrow: Envisioning a sustainable future
in a time of climate change -- An experiential climate change workshop
-- Participants will break into smaller conversation groups --
Organized by Long Now Boston:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deartomorrow-envisioning-a-sustainable-future-in-a-time-of-climate-change-tickets-145892764185?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Sat, 4/24, all day -- 2nd Annual National Antiracist Book Festival --
including Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Dave Zirin, Benjamin Crump, Albert
Woodfox, and dozens of others -- Boston University Center for
Antiracist Research:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2nd-annual-national-antiracist-book-festival-tickets-94478727417?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Thu, 4/29, 8 am -- As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for
Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock -- Dina
Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes), Lecturer of American
Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, discusses
some of the main themes of her book "As Long As Grass Grows" --
Organized by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/as-long-as-grass-grows-the-indigenous-fight-for-environmental-justice-tickets-143396413533?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

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What:  Stop HR 1
When:  Now
Where:  Online

Dear Greens,

HR 1 is sold as a way to get money out of politics and to protect
voters, but it contains a poison pill fordemocracy and opposition
parties like the Green Party.  HR1 quintuples the amount of money
Green presidential campaigns will be required to raise to qualify for
federal matching funds: from $5,000 in each of 20 states to $25,000
per state.

The Green Party stands opposed to this bait-and-switch legislation
that claims to improve access to voting while actually dismantling
everyone's right to organize electorally against the parties of War
and Wall Street. In a recent Gallup poll, a record 62% of US voters
said we need a new major party.

HR 1 is just the latest example of how the parties of War and Wall
Street have no shame about strangling democracy to preserve their
duopoly, even while pretending they're doing exactly the
opposite. Please donate to the Green Party today so we can fight back.

No doubt you've heard from "progressive" groups about how HR 1
contains much-needed voter protections.  And it's true, HR1 contains
some badly needed reforms.  That makes it all the more shameful for
the Democrats to use those reforms as cover to eliminate competition
from alternative parties.

Goto our Action Page (https://www.gp.org/hr_1) and Tell Congress: Stop
HR 1, the "Voting Rights Bill" That Restricts Voter Choice!

And make sure you tell your family and communities how HR 1 will:

   - Eliminate the limits on donations and expenditures candidates can
     receive and make — what kind of campaign finance reform is that?

   - Inflate the amount of money national party committees can give to
     candidates from $5000 to $100 million, an astonishing increase of
     1999900% that would give party bosses virtually unlimited power
     to flood elections with big money.

   - Abolish the general election campaign block grants that parties
     can access by winning at least 5% of the vote in the previous
     presidential election.  HR1 will eliminate this provision that
     was created to give a fair shot to alternative parties that
     demonstrate significant public support.

   - Replace the general election block grants (where each qualified
     candidate receives a set, lump sum of public funding for campaign
     expenses) with matching funds through Election Day — a huge step
     backwards for public campaign finance reform — using the
     above-mentioned criteria designed to squeeze out alternative
     parties and independent candidates.

Instead of trying to fool American voters and eliminating minor party
voices, the Green Party calls for real reforms to democratize
elections:

   - The Fair Representation Act, introduced in 2018 and 2019, would
     enact Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) and multi-member districts for
     Congressional elections, giving voters more power and more choice.

   - Individual state governments should enact RCV for their
     elections, including the presidential election.

   - Fully-public campaign finance for every federal, state and local
     office through the Clean Money/Clean Elections model now used in
     Arizona and Maine.

For more info about how you can help, see:
https://www.gp.org/hr_1

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What:  SF Green Party Organizing
When:  All the time
Where:  Online

Until the pandemic is under control, we will not be holding in-person
meetings.  Government will need to implement a widespread testing and
contact tracing program in order to safely open things up.

Unfortunately, a number of our active members do not have reliable
internet access (especially with our public libraries closed), so
holding general monthly meetings over Zoom is not an option.  Instead,
we have an email list for discussions between active members, and our
county council (CC) meets by Zoom on the 3rd Wednesdays of every
month.

If you'd like to join our conversation online, or our CC meetings,
please email cc at sfgreens.org with your name and contact info, and also
please remind us if you've been to a meeting before.  If you are
unable to join us but still want to follow what's going on, you can
call Barry Hermanson at 415-255-9494.

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