[Sosfbay-discuss] GPCA anniversary celebration

[Jim Doyle]

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Green Party of California: 1990 to the present
Celebrate Green History • Look Ahead
February 6th, 2010 • 12pm to 9pm • Berkeley

• 20 Years Anniversary of Founding of GPCA on February 4th, 1990
• 25 years since Charlene Spretnak's "Green Politics: the Global Promise
<http://www.charlenespretnak.com/GreenPolitics/index.html>"

Saturday, February 6th • 12pm to 9pm • Donations accepted

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists <http://www.bfuu.org/>,
1924 Cedar Street, at Bonita Avenue
/Site of the East Bay Green Alliance founding meeting in 1985 - the
first CA Green local/

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All Day: Make a video, tell your story of when and why you joined the
Green Party

Daytime: Workshop/Strategy/Press Conference

• Noon: Socializing, bring your Green Party signs, banners, literature
for display

• 1:00 pm: Greening California 2010 Election Strategy/Media Open
Session, featuring
- present & past GPCA candidates for Statewide Constitutional Office
- 2010 GPCA candidates for State Legislative Office
- present & past California Green Officeholders
<http://www.cagreens.org/elections/electeds.shtml>
- media training
- ballot measures

• 3:30pm: Press Conference

Nightime: History/Party/Dinner/Story Telling/See old friends, make new ones

• 4:30pm: Panels/discussions/recollections/videos of GPCA History
<http://www.cagreens.org/history>, including
- the pre-party years, 1985-1990
- founding and qualification ballot drive of the Green Party of California
- early statewide candidacies
- Green city council majorities in Arcata and Sebastopol
- Charlene Sptreknak video interview, call-in
- share your own stories

Confirmed participants from the party's early days currently include
Sara Amir, Barbara Blong, Hank Chapot, Regina Endrizzi, Mike Feinstein,
Margaret Garcia, Dan Hamburg, Joe Louis Hoffman, Greg Jan, Mitra and others

• 7:00pm: Vegetarian dinner included w/$17 donation or more

Sliding scale donation $8-$25; space is limited

Please RSVP to strategyretreat at cagreens.org 
<mailto:strategyretreat at cagreens.org>
<mailto:strategyretreat at cagreens.org> to guarantee space and let us know
if you plan to be there for dinner so we know how much food to order

Sponsored by the Green Party of California's Campaigns & Candidates
Working Group <http://www.cagreens.org/ccwg> and co-hosted by the Green
Party of Alameda County <http://www.acgreens.org/>