[SFGP] Greenzine - join us on Thursday for a People's Earth Day Rally

Sun Apr 18 12:37:44 PDT 2021

April 18, 2021
GREENZINE
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Dear Greens,

    This Thursday, April 22nd, is Earth Day!  Residents of Bayview
Hunters Point and Treasure Island and about 20 environmental justice,
social justice and climate groups have united to organize a People's
Earth Day Rally for Environmental Justice focusing on the
contamination and health impacts from the radioactive and toxic
contamination at the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund Site and
Treasure Island.  Please join Greens and many other groups for a noon
rally at City Hall; details follow our events listing.

    Journalist Ann Garrison wrote a nice article about the state
of Pacifica Radio and KPFA for the SF Bayview newspaper:
https://sfbayview.com/2021/04/pacifica-radio-lets-talk-about-the-debt/

    Here are a number of online lectures and events in the next few
weeks that will be of interest to Greens:

Sun, 4/18, 2 pm -- Kiss the Ground Screening and Discussion -- Kiss
the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson
that sheds light on an “new, old approach” to farming called
“regenerative agriculture” and which unveils a solution to our climate
crisis: the Earth’s own soil!  Following the film, we'll have a
moderated discussion -- Organized by the Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship Of Newark:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kiss-the-ground-screening-and-discussion-tickets-149807196357?aff=erellivmlt

Mon, 4/19, 10:30 am -- Bolivia - People Power, Hope & Solidarity --
With MP Jeremy Corbyn & special guests from Bolivia - marking 6 months
since the Left's historic election victory.  With eyewitness speakers
from Bolivia including journalist Ollie Vargas:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bolivia-people-power-hope-solidarity-tickets-146403445647?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1

Mon, 4/19, 12 Noon -- A presentation and Q&A with Native American
Environmentalist & Political Activist Winona LaDuke -- LaDuke is a
rural development economist and author who lives and works on the
White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota.  She is the author of
six books, including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations, Last
Standing Woman, and her newest, Winona LaDuke Chronicles -- Organized
by Sierra College:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winona-laduke-native-american-environmentalist-political-activist-tickets-148057308395

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

Tue, 4/20, 11 am -- Beyond the law and stigma: a grown up conversation
about cannabis -- With medical cannabis proponent Dr. Sunil Kumar
Aggarwal, Nathaniel Loxley, director of the British Hemp Alliance,
medical historian and founder of the Black Medical Cannabis Alliance,
Dr. Yewande Okuleye, and two others -- Organized by the (UK) Green
Party's Drug Policy Action Group:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the-law-and-stigma-a-grown-up-conversation-about-cannabis-tickets-148255473111?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1

Tue, 4/20, 5 pm -- Screening of the film Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of
Wonder, with filmmaker Chris Felver; Ferlinghetti biographer and poet
Neeli Cherkovski; San Jose Statue University Professor Patrick
Surgalski; and City Lights Publishing editor and poet Garret Caples:
https://events.sjsu.edu/event/ferlinghetti_a_rebirth_of_wonder_-_film_and_panel

Wed, 4/21, 10:30 am -- Workers' Rights & the Gig Economy -- With
journalist and author Naomi Klein, freelance journalist and former gig
worker Wilfred Chan, and Veena Dubal, professor of law at UC Hastings
San Francisco:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-rights-the-gig-economy-tickets-148264572327?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Wed, 4/21, 3 pm -- Author Meets Critic: "Why Austerity Persists" -- A
conversation with Jon Shefner, Professor of Sociology at the
University of Tennessee, and discussant Clara Mattei, Assistant
Professor in Economics at New School for Social Research (NSSR), about
Shefner's recently published book: Why Austerity Persists (co-authored
with C. Glad) -- Presented by the Critical Perspectives on Democratic
Anti-Colonialism Project and the Department of Sociology at NSSR:
https://event.newschool.edu/whyausteritypersists

Wed, 4/21, 3 pm -- The Climate Imperative: Meeting the Moment -- The
next decade will require unprecedented, powerful, action to curb
greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the most catastrophic climate
impacts -- With Alex Halliday, Director of Columbia University's Earth
Institute; and Maureen Raymo, Interim Director of Columbia's
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climate-imperative-meeting-the-moment-tickets-149702583457?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Thu, 4/22, 9 am thru Fri, 4/23, 2:30 pm -- UC Center for Climate Justice Launch
Event -- With food sovereignty scholar-activist Vandana Shiva, DOE Deputy
Director for Energy Justice Shalanda Baker, Green New Deal architect Rihana
Gunn-Wright, six panels, and more
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-center-for-climate-justice-launch-event-tickets-148061143867?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Thu, 4/22, 10 am -- A conversation with Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé --
A discussion about impasse, internationalism and radical change --
Laureate professor and activist Chomsky is the author of many books,
including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass
Media, and Understanding Power.  Pappé, Professor of History at the
University of Exeter, is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist
activist.  He is the author of many books and wrote two books with
Chomsky: Gaza in Crisis and On Palestine -- Organized by the Exeter
Decolonising Network:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-noam-chomsky-and-ilan-pappe-tickets-147756137585?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1

Thu, 4/22, 12 Noon -- Cuba’s Approach to Healthcare for All -- Join
Doctors Helen Yaffe and Valia Rodriguez, MD for a transnational
conversation on why it is so important to establish medical
cooperation between the people of the US and Cuba.  The discussion
will be introduced by Cuban Ambasadora Lianys Torres Rivera --
Sponsored by National Nurses United, Stanford’s Center for Innovation
in Global Health, the SF Latino Task Force, the National Network on
Cuba, and four other groups:
https://globalhealth.stanford.edu/featured-events/cubas-approach-to-healthcare-for-all.html/

Fri, 4/23, 4 pm -- The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant
Incarceration and Solidarity -- Jessica Ordaz's book "The Shadow of El
Centro" tells the story of how the El Centro Immigration Detention
Camp evolved into ICE's Processing Center of the 2000s and became a
national model for detaining migrants—a place where the policing of
migration, the racialization of labor, and detainee resistance
coalesced.  Ordaz is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the
University of Colorado Boulder:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-shadow-of-el-centro-a-history-of-migrant-incarceration-and-solidarity-tickets-149780255777?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

Mon, 4/26, 3 pm -- Imagining and Remaking a World Without Prisons:
Visions, Study and Practice -- With Angela Davis, activist, Civil
Rights icon, and professor emerita at the UC, Santa Cruz; Beth Richie,
Professor of African American Studies at The University of Illinois at
Chicago; Kathy Boudin, Director of the Criminal Justice Initiative,
and Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Social Work at Columbia
University; and Timmy Chau, a Vietnamese organizer, lawyer, and
facilitator based in Chicago -- Organized by the Prison+Neighborhood
Arts/Education Project:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-and-remaking-a-world-without-prisons-visions-study-and-practice-tickets-149366973639?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:  People's Earth Day Rally
When:  Thurs, April 22, noon
Where:  City Hall

Thursday, April 22nd is Earth Day and residents of Bayview Hunters
Point and Treasure Island and about 20 environmental justice, social
justice and climate groups have united to organize a People's Earth
Day Rally for Environmental Justice focusing on the contamination and
health impacts from the radioactive and toxic contamination at the
Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund Site and Treasure Island.

We will rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall (Polk Street
steps) at noon to challenge the Mayor and Board of Supervisors to
finally support community demands for a moratorium on Lennar's
Shipyard development, declare a public health emergency, and support
full cleanup and removal of ALL contamination at both sites, including
by the bay waterfront where rising sea levels and rising groundwater
will flood the radioactive and toxic waste the government plans on
leaving buried and capped at the waterfront of San Francisco Bay.

As you know, the city pretends to support environmental and climate
justice, but the opposite is true when it comes to the shipyard and
Treasure Island.  It is time to call them out and demand health and
justice.

The SF Green Party is a co-sponsor of this rally.  See the complete
list of policies in our "Green New Deal for SF" here:
https://sfgreenparty.org/issues/92-a-green-new-deal-for-san-francisco

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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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