- Local
Services Threatened by War - February 9, 2003
- February 14, 2003
Green
Party of Alameda County Members March for Peace and
Protest the War on the Iraqi People - February 15 & 16
- Sunday, March 9,
2003
- Monday, March 24, 2003
GREEN
SUNDAY - Creek
Restoration and Green Streets - April, 2003
- United
States War Aims in Iraq - Sources, Consequences, Alternatives
and Action - May, 2003
Support
Choice Voting in San Francisco (IRV) on June 4, 2003
- The
Campaign for Health Care for All Californians - Senate
Bill 921 - June 8, 2003
Thursday,
June 12th, 2003
July 13,
2003
Reparations
and Slavery - September 7, 2003
Sustainability
in Cuba - Sunday,
October 12, 2003
Sunday,
November 9, 2003
Saturday
Work Party - Saturday, November 22, 2003
East
Bay Regional Meeting - Saturday, November 23, 2003
Solstice
Party - Saturday
December 13, 2003
(Also, since there are 135 candidates listed, to find
Peter's name in your sample ballot, here in Alameda County
it's about 2/3 of the way through the list. The candidates
are grouped by LAST NAME, so look for the "C's" -- and
"Camejo" -- when you go through the list).
For more information or to help
his campaign, see Peter Camejo's website: http://www.votecamejo.org
March 13, 2003
Sacramento
- Seeking alternative voting methods to streamline the
electoral process while saving communities dwindling tax
dollars lost under the new state budget, the Green Party
of California endorses and actively supports AB 1039,
the Local Electoral Freedom bill... Whole
Article
November 2, 2002
Read a
Science
News Article scientifically
analyzing various methods of voting. It finds that the
one we currently use in the United States is the weakest
system.
"Restoration" can mean returning
an area to the condition that existed before humans intervened
to develop the land, or it can be something as straightforward
as planting a public space with native trees and shrubs.
Unfortunately, our highly developed urban landscape allows
few opportunities to do more than create islands of reclaimed
natural habitat. The good news is that the number of projects
is expanding, the public and our State and local officials
are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental benefits
of returning developed areas to their natural state, and
there is a financial commitment by the people of California
to contribute to the cost of restoring the land.
Whole
Article
To volunteer, contact one of
these organizations:
1) Jane Kelly Friends of Strawberry
Creek jandtkelly@igc.org (510) 528-3949
2) Susan Schwartz Friends of Five Creeks - F5creeks@aol.com
(510) 848 9358
3) Friends of Sausal Creek - coordinator@sausalcreek.org
(510) 501-FOSC (3672)
4) Friends of Baxter Creek - baxterfriends@hotmail.com
5) Friends of San Pablo Creek contact the Aquatic Outreach
Institute at (510) 231-9566
March 6 is
the first day of the National Coffee Association's Annual
Meeting, at an exclusive resort near Ft Lauderdale, Florida.
While the big Coffee companies meet and plan how to squeeze
farmers to the last drop, Fair Trade coffee activists
across the country will gather at local supermarkets to
educate consumers and get them to contact Folgers to ask
for Fair Trade coffee.
Want to help
educate local consumers and help build a groundswell of
pressure on the coffee industry to sell Fair Trade Coffee?
Participate in the National Day of Action for Fair Trade
on March 6, 2003! Contact Valerie or Kate at Global Exchange
for materials today at valerie@globalexchange.org,
415-558-6938
June 29, 2003
Months ago the GPAC County Council passed a resolution
opposing the recall petition. The County Council now calls
on Californians not to sign the petition. More...
May 30, 2003
As
the June 2nd date approaches for the Federal Communication
Committee's decision on 'relaxing' media consolidation
rules, the Green Party joins more than 18,000 individuals
and organizations who've submitted public comments overwhelmingly
in opposition to media ownership in fewer and fewer hands.
Whole
Article
April 2003
In recent months the Green Party of Alameda County has
endorsed:
- Senate Bill 17, introduced by Senator Martha Escutia
(D-Montebello), that would reassess property taxes on
corporations every time there is a change in the ownership
of the corporation.
- Senate Bill 921 Health Care for all Californians
- A Planned Wildlife Refuge at Alameda Point managed
by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Find
out more.
Kenny Mostern, GPAC Press Contact
Oakland,
CA During a peaceful, anti-war community picket this
morning attended by over five hundred people, police responded
violently with wooden bullets, bean bag rounds and concussion
grenades, injuring dozens of people. Many people were
treated on site and at least two people, one longshoreman
and one picketer, were taken to the hospital where they
are being treated for injuries. Whole
Article
April 3, 2003
The packet for the next meeting
of the Green Party of California is now available at http://www.cagreens.org/plenary/packet.html
Contact Budd
Dickinson for password information.
More
info
March 2003
The Green Party of California has denounced the Drug
Enforcement Administrationšs prosecution and resulting
conviction of Ed Rosenthal. Rosenthal, 58, the married
father of two children, has been an Oakland resident for
35 years. He was deputized by the City of Oakland to legally
grow marijuana for medicinal use by sick or dying patients
under Californiašs Prop 215, the Compassionate Use Act.
Prop 215 passed overwhelmingly in California in 1996 and,
since then, over a dozen cities, including Oakland, have
passed laws allowing marijuana for medicinal use. Jurors
were not allowed to hear this information during the trial.
Upon learning of it afterward, 7 of the 12 jurors who
convicted him of marijuana cultivation and conspiracy
have apologized to Rosenthal. The jurors are calling for
their own verdict to be overturned on appeal. One critic
said, "Itšs ironic that federal law enforcement officials
come to Oakland, a city with over 100 murders in 2002,
not to seek all those killers but to prosecute one man
who has harmed no one."
The Campaigns and Candidates
Working Group (CCWG) of the Green Party of California
is hosting a Bay Area Forum on Sunday, March 23.
More
Info
March 23, 2003
Oakland,
CA -- About sixty Greens (and non-Greens) met recently
on a rainy evening to wonder out loud whether the Green
Party should run a candidate for president in 2004. What
follows are snippets of thoughts that zoomed around the
room: Green Party of Alameda County Treasurer Bob Marsh
said, "You can't win unless you run a candidate." Lately,
he said, there is a "throw out the bums" movement that
may be growing as the Bush administration grows more draconian.
Nationally, voters may just be ready for the Green Party.
(Miracles do happen.) And if this develops, Greens have
to be ready with a presidential candidate.
Whole
Article
By Marylia
Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs
March 17, 2003
Thumbing its nose at the nation's
environmental laws, the Department of Energy (DOE) on
December 16, 2002 granted itself the go-ahead to construct
and operate a bio-warfare agent facility at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory.
The agency signed a "finding
of no significant impact," opening the flood gate to the
importation of live anthrax, plague and other deadly bio-agents
to the Bay Area nuclear weapons lab - all without benefit
of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze
the dangers and alternatives. In making its determination,
the DOE ignored nearly 100 letters calling on the agency
to conduct an EIS and hold public hearings. Whole
Article
March 14, 2003
Berkeley Greens Patti Marsh &
Tom Kelly, and Oakland Greens Suzanne Baker, Larry Shoup
and Katy Polony were arrested today, March 14, in a non-violent
direct action to demonstrate one of the costs of war to
the people of San Francisco. Traffic in downtown San Francisco
was severely distrupted for over 2 hours during Friday's
action.
By Courtney Hall
March 7, 2003
The Gill Tract, a 10-acre parcel
of farmland just north of Berkeley, is one of the Bay
Areašs last agricultural sites. Located at the corner
of San Pablo Avenue and Buchanan Street, the Gill Tract
and the unmistakable grove of Monterey Pines serve as
the gateway to Albany and its rich agricultural history.
Whole
Article
January 27, 2003
WASHINGTON,
DC -- Minneapolis City Council member Natalie Johnson
Lee will deliver the response from the Green Party of
the United States to President Bush's State of the Union
address on Tuesday, January 28... Whole
Article
125,000+
people participated in San Francisco's January 18th Peace
Rally. See
aerial photos...
county council 