[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 Updates]

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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.