From WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com Thu Aug 11 20:15:52 2011 From: WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com (WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:15:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Picnic in Sunnyvale this Saturday (August 13th) Message-ID: <18756.5ea2b0bf.3b75f4e8@aol.com> The Green Party of California's "Silicon Valley Region" (consisting of the GP of Santa Clara County and GP of San Mateo) will be holding its annual potluck Speakers and activities: Including Dr. Sharat Lin, President of the SJ Peace & Justice Center to speak on Next Steps to Real Democracy More speakers and activities TBA: suffice it to say it will include Green speakers as well as fun and games. :-) What: Green Party Annual "Silicon Valley" Regional Potluck Picnic When: Saturday Aug 13th 11am-5pm Where: Sunnyvale's Murphy Park (same location as previous two years) 250 N. Sunnyvale Ave. Mass Transit: Murphy park is just a few blocks north of the Sunnyvale Caltrain station and the Sunnyvale Bus Station. Also the VTA #55 bus goes right by the park and the #26 and #54 go within about 6 blocks. http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Departments/CommunityServices/Parks/MurphyPark.aspx Potluck food Coordinator: Drew Johnson 408-520-1652 rainbeaufriend (at) yahoo (dot) com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com Thu Aug 11 20:58:51 2011 From: WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com (WSB3ATTYCA at aol.com) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:58:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Fwd: [GPCA Updates] BAY AREA EVENT: Green "tea party" Rally in Napa August 27th Message-ID: <1958b.68a842f3.3b75fefb@aol.com> ____________________________________ From: updates at cagreens.org Sent: 8/5/2011 6:11:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time Subj: [GPCA Updates] BAY AREA GREEN EVENT: Green "tea party" Rally to Protest Tea Party Express National Kick off Tour in Napa! ** Green Party of California Update ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Green ?Tea Party? (Please distribute far and wide) The Napa County Green Party invites you to participate in a momentous and historic Green ?tea party" on Saturday, August 27, 2011, at 10:30 AM in Veterans Memorial Park at the corner of Main and Third streets in downtown Napa. Come help us unwelcome the Tea Party Express to Napa and instead show the public a positive Green Party alternative. This Green Party counter-rally is being held simultaneously with the Tea Party's kick-off of its national tour. The Tea Party has steered our nation further toward the reactionary right, undermining workers' collective bargaining rights, attacking human rights such as access to health care, damaging our environment through attacks on regulation, and fostering an anti-diversity agenda that scapegoats Muslims, immigrants, and the LGBT community. As the dominant parties acquiesce to this reactionary current, the Green Party stands apart as the healthiest alternative to the corrupt two-party system; a ?duopoly? that has given rise to this right-wing shift. The Green Party's platform is based on 10 Key Values, and unlike its corporate-controlled Democratic and Republican counterparts, the Green Party refuses to accept any corporate financing. The Green Party holds dear to a core set of humanitarian and ecological values essential to building a sustainable society that honors the needs of struggling blue and white collar workers and the Earth as a whole. This Green ?tea party" will be a chance for Green Party members and our progressive allies from across the state to unite in opposition to the negative Tea Party agenda by affirming positive Green Party values such as grassroots democracy, social justice, respect for diversity, nonviolence, community-based economics, and sustainability. Our Green ?tea party? will feature prominent Green speakers, such as Green Party mayor of Fairfaix Larry Bragman and Green Party gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells. Other features will include progressive speakers and cultural highlights such as live entertainment, fun information booths, iced green tea, and vegetarian cuisine from Food Not Bombs of Santa Rosa. In line with our Green Party values of ecological wisdom and personal and global responsibility, this will be a zero waste event, and we ask that participants bring canned food items to the rally for donation to the Napa Food Bank. In addition, please wear a green shirt to show your support for the Green Party and/or our Green values. Event participants should be advised that the Napa authorities may consider this peaceful assembly of citizens to be an act of civil disobedience. Despite the ongoing efforts of the Napa County Green Party to work in good faith to obtain a permit, the City appears intransigent. Our rally will culminate in a progressive solidarity march from Veterans Park to the Napa Valley Expo Fairgrounds just across the river to protest the Tea Party Express event being held there. Please join us on Saturday, August 27th at 10:30 AM in Veterans Park for this historic Green ?tea party.? Let?s come together to stand up against the Tea Party and affirm the rights and needs of a society that empowers the majority of Americans and heals and nurtures the Earth. For more information, please email napacountygreenparty at gmail.com , or join us on Facebook: Napa County Green Party. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sun Aug 28 01:20:52 2011 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:20:52 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Move to Amend Event In-Reply-To: <4E59F990.4070904@earthlink.net> References: <4E59F990.4070904@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4E59FA64.6040602@earthlink.net> Move to Amend is coming to Santa Clara County, on Monday, Sept. 12th. Details at: http://movetoamend.org/events/palo-alto-move-amend-california-tour Info about Move to Amend at: http://movetoamend.org/ I hope you can attend, David Cobb was a good speaker as a presidential candidate, and I hear he is even better now. Gerry