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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  **

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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  <mailto:napacountygreenparty at google.com>,
or join us on Facebook:  Napa County Green  Party.



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