January Green Sunday (1/13/13)

The speaker for our January Green Sunday is Jack Rasmus.  He is the author of the 2012 book “Obama’s Economy:  Recovery For The Few“.  He also hosts a radio show “Alternative Visions” on the Progressive Radio Network and teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in Moraga.

He will be discussing the recent battle over the so-called fiscal cliff; analyzing the political considerations which were decisive in the outcome.  Recognizing that the battle over spending and taxation is far from over, he will talk about future battles as well.

Sunday January 13th, 2013
5:00 to 6:30 pm
Niebyl-Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave. at 65th in North Oakland
wheelchair accessible

DIRECTIONS: One block north of Alcatraz on the West side of Telegraph, wheelchair accessible. Buses pass by regularly. Ashby BART is approximately 7 blocks away.

SPONSOR: Green Sundays are a series of free programs & discussions sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County. They are held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party of Alameda County follows at 6:45 p.m. Council meetings are always open to anyone who is interested.

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Saturday 9/22: Jill Stein in Berkeley with Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Please come out to hear Jill Stein speak with Green Party Candidate for Berkeley Mayor, Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi at the Kahlil for Mayor headquarters in Berkeley, September 22, 2012 at 6:30pm

The event will serve as a fundraiser for the Stein campaign to help cover the costs of our California campus tour.  All are welcome.

WHEN
September 22, 2012 at 6:30pm
WHERE
Kahlil for Mayor of Berkeley Community Campaign Headquarters
1551 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703
United States
Google map and directions

CONTACT

Kahlil · Kahlil4Mayor@gmail.com · 310-927-0391

Jill Stein will start her California trip with Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Green Party Candidate for Mayor in Berkeley.  Kahlil is a teacher, free speech and community activist who has worked to energize and empower youth in California.  Jill Stein’s visit follows the previous night’s opening kick-off of the Kahlil for Mayor Community Campaign’s New Headquarters and Green Party Endorsement Celebration with speakers, DJs and music from 5pm-9pm Friday.

 

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Stein=Peace, Obama and Romney=War

From a post on facebook, unattributed.

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Oakland Greens Propose an Oakland Progressive Alliance

The Oakland Greens propose an Oakland Progressive Alliance to offer our communities an alternative in the November 2012 local elections

In this next election we need values, ethics and a commitment to good government.

We invite the public to come and discuss our city’s future in open forum on:

Friday, February 24, 2012
6-8 PM forum discussion
8-9 Pot luck dinner
Humanist Hall
411 28th Street, Oakland, CA, 94609

EVERYONE is welcome.

If you are considering running for office in this next election and think you could make common cause with us,please come and speak up. If there is someone you would like to invite, please forward this email to them.

Oakland is in crisis in our youth, in our schools, in our government.

We need active, progressive leadership.

We are proposing a platform based on:

1. personal ethics
2. independence of the candidates
from the existing money and influence politics
3. overhaul and reform of our institutions,
especially our budget, our council and our law enforcement.

Our speakers will be:

Andrea Pritchett, CopWatch

Andres Soto, Richmond Progressive Alliance

Larry Shoup, Historian, local political activist

Wilson Riles, Oakland Community Action Network

Laura Wells, California Green Party

Shawn McDougal, Community Democracy Project

The panel will consist of our four Oakland Green candidates so far:

Don Macleay, City Council Candidate Dist. 1
Randy Menjivar, City Council Candidate Dist. 7
Theresa Anderson-Downs, At Large Candidate
Vicente Cruz, School Board candidate Dist. 3

For videos of our candidate launch, please follow these links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSHGcNoCg24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHYwtIIOVCs

We offer our efforts to the community and we make this proposal to the community.It is the strongly held view of the Oakland Greens that a full slate of candidates, a program that covers the issues well and a political alternative that can guide our city in a much needed new direction will come from the whole community.

This is an invitation to join, to lead, to mold and to run for office.
All individuals and organizations welcome.

Oakland Green Party
contact@oaklandgreens.org
(510) 866-7488
P.O. Box 20299, Oakland, CA 94620

(If you would like to have a speaker and/or want to set up a table, please RSVP, also let us know if you can help with the pot-luck food)

http://www.facebook.com/events/297602983629519/

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VIDEO: Oakland Progressive Alliance Launches (2/9/12)

On Thursday Feb 9th, 4 PM at the steps of City Hall, four Oakland Greens declared their joint slate candidacies in the 2012 Oakland Council and School Board elections. Public and Press are invited.

• Theresa Anderson will run for the At Large Council Seat
• Don Macleay will run for the 1st District Council Seat
• Vicente Cruz will run for the 3rd District School Board Seat
• Randy Menjivar will run for 7th District Council Seat.

All four candidates were present to discuss their shared vision for our city. They also made a call to the like-minded progressives in the community to discuss making a common cause. The Oakland Greens invite the public in general and other independent progressive organizations to gather on Feb 24th 2012, 6 PM at Humanist Hall in Oakland.

For more information write or call contact@oaklandgreens.org (510) 866-7488

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Rosanne Barr Seeks 2012 Green Party Presidential Nomination

https://twitter.com/#!/TheRealRoseanne

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roseanne-Barr/106140096083553

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr

http://www.roseanneforpresident.com

http://www.gp.org/candidates/2012-display.php?Campaign_CLName=Roseanne%20Barr

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Event: What California Can Learn from Latin America (1/28/12)

Saturday, January 28, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, with check-in and socializing at 9:30 am

Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland (between Telegraph and Broadway)

A one-day People’s Movement Assembly will advance solutions to California’s challenges by exploring the successes that have occurred in Latin America.

The day will be moderated by Laura Wells of the East Bay Social Forum planning group. Presenters will include peace activist Cindy Sheehan; Andres Soto, KPFA and the Richmond Progressive Alliance; Martin Sanchez, former Consul General of Venezuela; Tanya Kersson, Food First; David Cobb, Move to Amend; Charlotte Casey, Friends of the Landless Workers Movement; Anka Karewicz, Occupy Oakland and East Bay Social Forum; and filmmaker Clif Ross.

Topics, such as cooperatives, food justice, participatory budgeting, constitutional assemblies, occupy foreclosures movement, and social and electoral movements working together for change, will be discussed in break-out groups.

No food will be available, so attendees must provide their own brown bag lunch.

This event is sponsored by the East Bay Social Forum 2012 and the Task Force on the Americas. A $5-20 donation is requested. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information, please call 510/225-4005 or email info [at] eastbaysocialforum.org.

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Laura Wells: Open Letter to Governor Jerry Brown

by Laura Wells on Solutions

I just heard your voice on the radio saying, “That’s where the money is!” The reference was to the oft-quoted answer to the question, “Why do you rob banks?”

That little joke, right there, points to the heart of our budget disasters and to the thinking that keeps the disasters in place.

Where is the money? In cuts to public education? In cuts to welfare and childcare? No, the money is in the hands of the super rich. Not in public schools where California’s spending is near the bottom of all the states.

Every single time that you – and all of your colleagues in the huge majority the Democratic Party holds in Sacramento – speak about the budget you have a chance to improve the system, or not. Every time you speak and do not condemn the two-thirds majority required to increase taxes, you are selling out the 99% and pandering to the 1%.

I cannot wait until representatives in Sacramento – the current batch or new ones we will elect – catch up with the rest of us. The social movements have shifted from the plea of “Stop The Cuts” to demanding the solution, “Tax The Rich.”

Statistics are readily available to explain to people who love old Prop 13 and its two-thirds vote requirement that their love is misplaced.

Explain that California has 85 billionaires with a total wealth of $287 billion. Only 3.5% of that wealth would close a state budget gap of $10 billion. And although it would be a hardship for 7 people since they would no longer be billionaires, and would only have $900 million, they would probably get that 3.5% back within a year. And California would not have to cut welfare, childcare, and schools.

Explain facts the California Budget Project gives us every year: when you look at family income, the poorest 20% pay more in state and local taxes than the richest 1%. Those who average $12,600 pay 11.1% and those who average $2.3 million pay 7.8%. That’s where the money is. Wealth like that used to be taxed at higher rates, and in those times people could still get richer.

Explain that a bipartisan budget agreement in favor of the 99% will never be reached when slightly more than 1/3 of California legislators have signed a pledge that they will never vote to raise taxes. The 2/3 requirement gives that 1/3 minority veto power over taxing the rich. The only bipartisan budget agreement operating right now is the silence about the rotten parts of old Proposition 13.

You were Governor in 1978 when Proposition 13, with all of its damaging unintended consequences (unintended by the voters), was voted into law. It is only fitting that you should undo its damage now.

Sincerely,

Laura Wells

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Green Sunday: The Occupy Movement and The Green Party

Green Sunday, January 8th, 5:00 – 6:30 pm

The Occupy Movement and The Green Party

Samsarah Morgan, an active Oakland Green, will lead our discussion. Samsarah has been involved with Occupy Oakland from its beginning, and played a key role in starting and maintaining the Children’s Village.

We will look at the Occupy Wall Street Movement especially in its Occupy Oakland form.  We will discuss the effect of the Movement on national and local politics, particularly how Occupy has changed the political environment in which we work. We will also talk about how the Green Party can interact with the Occupy Movement by both learning from the movement and trying to influence it. Even though many OWS activists are resolutely opposed to electoral politics, is it possible over time to win some of them to our vision of an alternative electoral politics? How might we go about such a project?

LOCATION: Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. at 65th in North Oakland.

DIRECTIONS: One block north of Alcatraz on the West side of Telegraph, wheelchair accessible. Buses pass by regularly. Ashby BART is approximately 7 blocks away.

SPONSOR: Green Sundays are a series of free programs & discussions sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County. They are held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party of Alameda County follows at 6:45 p.m. Council meetings are always open to anyone who is interested.

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Look out Golden State: Here comes Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein

Let’s take our democracy back from Wall Street. We need a new politics for the other 99% of America that doesn’t collect a CEO’s salary or write big checks for politicians.

“The Candidate of the 99%” to cheer on Occupy Wall Street protests in 5+ California cities. Green Party events, campaign events, and media interviews also a part of Jill Stein’s first California tour.

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein tours the Golden State this week, with visits planned to Occupy Wall Street protests across northern and southern California, as well as a presidential primary debate before the Green Party of California state convention in Los Angeles. The tour begins Monday, November 28th, and runs through Monday, December 5th (full schedule below).

“The American people are standing up in a way we haven’t seen in generations, and they are providing the leadership that isn’t coming from the political elite,” Jill Stein said. “The people have to take charge because the political parties that are serving the top 1 percent are not going to solve the problems that the rest of us face.”

Jill Stein announced her presidential campaign on Monday, October 24th, before a crowd of supporters at the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston. Stein is a medical doctor and prominent health care advocate. Her California tour follows on a statewide tour of her childhood home of Illinois earlier this month.

Please see http://www.jillstein.org for any last-minute changes or updates. Donations to the campaign may be made at https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/donate

== JILL STEIN’S GREEN PARTY GOLDEN STATE TOUR ==

~ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 ~

7:00 – 9:00 pm ~ Meet and Greet with Bay Area Greens ~ Duperrault Clubhouse at Willow Park, 500 West Middlefield Rd., Mountain View, CA

~ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 ~

10:00 am – noon ~ Bike/walk the San Lorenzo River Trail to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk ~ Meet at Gateway Plaza, east end by the riverwalk, Junction Hwy 1 and Hwy 9, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

12:30 – 1:00 pm ~ Visit Occupy Santa Cruz

4:00 pm ~ Meetup with OccupySF activists ~ front steps of the Federal Reserve Bldg. 101 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

6:00 – 8:00 pm ~ Occupy San Francisco General Assembly ~ Justin Herman Plaza ~ Market Street at The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94102

~ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 ~

1:00 – 2:00 pm ~ Occupy Napa Kickoff ~ Napa Valley Community College ~ 2277 Napa Vallejo Highway ~ Napa, CA 94558

4:00 pm ~ Occupy Oakland Meetup

6:00 – 8:00 pm ~ Oakland Fundraiser hosted by Kate and Aki Tanaka ~ Music by Eliza Rickman ~ 1019 Harvard Rd., Oakland, CA 94610 ~ Please RSVP: http://www.jillstein.org/green_party_party_in_oakland

~ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 ~

12:30 – 1:30 pm ~ Speech and Discussion Group ~ Napa Valley Community College, 2277 Napa Vallejo Highway, Napa, CA 94558

6:00 – 8:00 pm ~ Fundraiser with Mayor Bragman and Vice Mayor Hartwell-Herrero ~ Music by Eliza Rickman ~ The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax, CA 94903. Please RSVP: http://www.jillstein.org/green_party_party_in_fairfax

~ FRIDAY, DEC 2 ~

11:00 am – 12:15 pm ~ Speech to Political Science Academy ~ Rio Americano High School ~ 4540 American River Dr. ~ Sacramento, CA 95864

~ SATURDAY, DEC 3 ~

8:00 am – 7:00 pm ~ Green Party of California General Assembly ~ Vermont Square United Methodist Church, 4410 South Budlong Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90051

7:00 – 9:00 pm ~ GPCA Presidential Candidate Forum ~ Vermont Square United Methodist Church, 4410 South Budlong Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90051. Please RSVP: http://www.jillstein.org/green_party_presidential_candidate_forum

~ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 ~

8:00 am – 5:00 pm ~ Green Party of California General Assembly ~ Vermont Square United Methodist Church, 4410 South Budlong Avenue, Los Angeles, California

~ MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 ~

7:00 – 9:00 pm ~ Fundraiser hosted by Michael McCue and Jeff Bacon ~ Mayflower Club, 11110 Victory Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91606

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Please see http://www.jillstein.org for any last-minute changes or updates.

Donations to the campaign may be made at https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/donate

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