[Sosfbay-discuss] Come Sunday for Holiday Social and meet Jared Ball, presidential candidate

[Drew Johnson]

Forward far and wide!

http://www.greens.org/~cls/SanXJoseXholidayXparty.pdf

Hi friends,
The Santa Clara Co. Greens are always interested in meeting the
presidential candidates and hosting a get together for her/him.  This will
be our second one for the 2008 campaign (the first one was a highly
successful meet and greet gathering in support of Cynthia McKinney).
Please invite like-minded folks concerned with issues of urban social
justice and bring them with you!

Holiday Social w/ special guest Green Party Candidate for President,
Dr. Jared Ball

When: Sunday Dec 16th 5-9
Where: Smoke Tiki Lounge and Barbeque, Downtown San Jose,
http://www.smoketiki.com/
152 Post Street, San Jose, Ca. 95113, (408) 292-4266
Intersection of Post and San Pedro (which is close to Santa Clara and Market)
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2ulvpw
Cost: $20, $10 for students (includes food/appetizers, does not include
alcoholic beverages)

Dr. Jared Ball, one of the seven 2008 Green Party Presidential candidates
on the CA Green party primary ballot, will stop in San José while
touring CA, on Sunday, December 16th, 2007.

His web site:
http://JaredBall.com
http://myspace.com/jaredforgreen

Dr. Ball is a recognized progressive scholar, educator, and journalist,
Pacifica Radio talk show host, and DC activist.  Taking his cues from the
style of hip-hop artists such as Public Enemy and KRS One, who years ago
motivated entire communities of urban youth towards political activism,
professor Jared Ball remains an outspoken critic of what’s wrong with
America, and an unrelenting optimist regarding the Hip-hop Generations
power to change society for the better.

“We are spending untold billions in an unsupported war in Iraq, yet our
urban cities remain war zones with scarce opportunities hidden among the
minefields of drugs, failing schools and poverty,” said Dr. Ball,
professor of communications at Morgan State University. “Our politicians
say a lot about themselves when they lie to spend billions on needless
wars and refuse to spend on providing universal health care for all or
ensuring that young people from Oakland or Los Angeles have access to
decent schools, jobs and training,” added Ball.

During his December tour of California, Ball hopes to bring attention for
such issues as the “Green Economy,” and many of the progressive California
initiatives for improving the environment as potential national models for
creating economic opportunity, particularly for African American and
Latino youth.

The Santa Clara Co. Green Party will hold the Holiday Social with special
guest Jared Ball from 5-9PM at the Smoke Tiki Lounge and Barbeque (
http://www.smoketiki.com/ ) 152 Post Street, San Jose, Ca. 95113, (408)
292-4266.  Performance by nationally renowned progressive Hip-Hop
artist/educator/activist Head-Roc (http://www.head-roc.com) will
accompany Dr. Ball’s presentation.

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https://greens.org/sqmail/src/webmail.php
Potential Green Party nominee visits HSU
by Cerena Johnson, 12/12/2007

Green Party presidential hopeful Jared Ball visited Humboldt State
University Wednesday to deliver a message in a distinctive political
style.

Accompanied by “mayor of DC hip-hop” artist Head-Roc, local poets and
speakers, Ball emphasized issues that he said are largely unaddressed in
society.

“We’re using hip-hop as the delivery vehicle to get to the people of
culture,” Head Roc said, to get people in different communities interested
and participating.

“We’re trying to erase a lot of the negative stereotypes,” Head-Roc said.

Ball said by using hip-hop style, he is trying to reach out to the
communities who are most disenfranchised.

“We want to help build the Green Party,” he said, and “help re-center the
discussion.”

He lists among his campaign issues a redistribution of wealth in order to
approach problems such as poverty and access to health care.

The top 1 percent of Americans are wealthier than 90 percent of the
population, he said.

Ball also offered the example of the prison industrial complex, in which
80 percent of prisoners are non-violent offenders, and said issues such as
police brutality need to be addressed.

“If we address how we treat people here, it would have a direct effect on
what we do overseas,” he said.

Ball said he is running his campaign based on the influence of the goals
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Ball is an assistant professor of communications studies at Morgan State
University in Baltimore, Md.

Ball is also an independent journalist; a radio host with WPFW 89.3 FM
Pacifica Radio in Washington, D.C.; the editor of Words, Beats and Life
Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture; founder of FreeMix Radio: The Original
Mixtape Radio Show; and a veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm.

For more information on Ball’s campaign, go to www.jaredball.com or
www.voxunion.com