From jims at greens.org Wed Oct 18 18:21:03 2006 From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:21:03 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-news] [Fwd: RSVP: Please forward to your listserves, etc.: KPFA "LSB" Endorsements from the Green Party of Alameda County] Message-ID: <4536D2FF.41386460@greens.org> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RSVP: Please forward to your listserves, etc.: KPFA "LSB" Endorsements from the Green Party of Alameda County Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:47:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Jan Dear Greens, Below is a message from the Green Party of Alameda County that we would like for you to forward to Greens in your county, via your listserves, e-mail lists, etc. (Unless of course you have your own list of KPFA "LSB" endorsements that you're sending to them -- if so, please let us know -- let's see if we're "mostly on the same page", or not!). Please forward the message below as soon as you possibly can, as the voting period has now begun, and many KPFA members are already receiving "campaign information" from the candidates! If you have any questions, please contact me by e-mail, or at (510) 444-7336. Thanks in advance for your help with this -- let's definitely (and quickly!) try to get a KPFA Board that will clearly and firmly be fair to the Green Party! Sincerely, Greg Jan Green Party of Alameda County PS -- Please reply back to this e-mail (or telephone me) -- so I know you have received it, and will be getting a message out promptly to the Greens in your county! Thank you! [ Subject line: ]KPFA "LSB" Endorsements from the Green Party of Alameda County >From the Green Party of Alameda County: Dear Greens, There is a very important election coming up for the KPFA Local Station Board. We urge every Green Party Member who is a member of KPFA to cast their vote to help the Green Party. For the Greens onemajor issue is the total lack of third party coverage by KPFA. In an era when corporations own the media and control both the Democratic and Republican parties, it is critical that progressive voices like KPFA give voice to alternative parties like the Green Party. -------------------------------------------------------------- The Green Party of Alameda County endorses the following candidates for the Local Station Board: [ Alliance for a Democratic KPFA slate:] 1. Akio Tanaka- Green Party, Oak to Ninth Referendum Committee 2. Henry Norr- Green Party, journalist and peace activist 3. Dave Heller- Green Party, Californians for Electoral Reform 4. Bob English - labor activist [Independents:] 5. Dave Welsh - journalist and labor activist 6. Vida Samiian - Dean, Fresno State University 7. Jane Jackson ? Incumbent and civil rights activist [Concerned Listeners:] 8. Phoebe Sorgen ? Green Party, Chair BFUU Social Justice Committee --------------------------------------------------------------- The ? Alliance for a democratic KPFA? is endorsed by the following: Peter Philips - (Project Censored- Sonoma State ) Lawrence Ferlinghetti - (Poet) Jack Hirschman - (Poet laureate, SF) Michael Parenti - (Author) Terry Baum ? (Playwright) Dennis Bernstein - (Executive Producer, Flashpoints) Bonnie Faulkner - (Produce, Guns and Butter) Riva Enteen - (National Lawyers Guild, KPFA LSB member) Renee Saucedo - (Attorney, Civil Rights activist) James Vann - (Architect, affordable housing activist) Jack Heyman - (ILWU, Local 10) Krissy Keefer - (Green Party candidate for Congress) Aimee Allison - (Green Party candidate Oakland City Council, Dist. 2) (Partial list) ---------------------------------------------------------------- The basic issue of this election is whether the democratic reforms that were put in place after the great Lock-Out will go forward so that the listeners have an input in the governance of the station, or whether the status quo will remain. In the election there are two competing ?slates? and the ?independents?. ?Concerned Listener? slate is backed by the 'entrenched staff' like Larry Bensky, Mark Mirecle, Phil Maldavi, and Sasha Lilly who is opposing the implementation of democratic governance that resulted from the settlement. They have enlisted people from the Wellstone Democrats like Conn Hallinan to run on their slate. They also include two incumbents, Mark Hernandez and Sarv Randhara, who blocked the KPFA LSB support for the Berkeley Honda strikers. ?Alliance for a Democratic KPFA? slate is backed by the 'progressive staff' like Dennis Bernstein and Bonnie Faulkner. The candidates include mostly peace and media activist like Henry Norr, the SF Chronicle journalist who was fired for participating in an anti-war march at the start of the Iraq War and also for supporting the Palestinian cause. Then there is a group of independents, which includes some very capable and progressive candidates. From cls at truffula.sj.ca.us Tue Oct 24 13:18:48 2006 From: cls at truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:18:48 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Precinct walking for measure A Saturday Message-ID: Green Party of Santa Clara County endorsed this measure early. It would be good to get some volunteers out Saturday. Wear a Green Party button. "The San Jose office" is half a block south of 7th and Santa Clara streets. The 22 bus stops at that corner. That bus runs every 15 minutes Saturday morning. You might get lucky and find parking on the street or in back of the office, but beware of tickets and towing in the big empty parking lot across the street. Parking is free on Saturday in the garage at 4th and East San Fernando. Cameron >From: Yes on Measure A >Subject: Signs / Precinct Walking >Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:15:19 -0700 >Friends: >The Yes on A lawn signs have arrived. Please feel free to pick one >up at the San Jose office (48 South 7th St. near Santa Clara St.) or >at the Palo Alto office (Peninsula Conservation Center - directions >at http://www.acterra.org/contact/locations.html). >We will be walking precincts in San Jose on Saturday. Can you join >us for a couple of hours? We will meet at the San Jose office at >9:30am. If you would like to carpool from the Palo Alto area, please >meet at the Peninsula Conservation Center at 9am. >There are a number of other ways you can support Measure A. Please >visit http://www.openspace2006.org/volunteer.htm for details. >For more information about volunteering, or to RSVP for precinct >walking on Saturday, please contact Brooke Anderson at >Brooke[ at ]OpenSpace2006.org or (408) 947-7526. >Thank you. >Peter Drekmeier >Campaign Coordinator >Yes on Measure A >People for Land and Nature (PLAN) >48 So. Seventh St. >San Jose, CA 95112 >(650) 223-3306 >Peter[ at ]OpenSpace2006.org >http://www.OpenSpace2006.org