Green Party of Alameda County Opposes Recall Petition and asks Californians NOT to Sign the Petition
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...

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

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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A Bay Area coalition of environmental groups, Environmentalists Against the War, has developed a statement. Read the whole statement.

Albany - Two men haul in brightly colored fish nets. Farther on, lily pads float on a lush green pond, with faces in their centers looking up at the sky. An audience of strange movie characters watch the mudflats.

The materials are simple: paint, large pieces of discarded wood, time and creativity. Unfortunately, the outdoor art exhibit at the Albany Landfill will soon be removed to make way for the expanded Eastshore State Park, which the California State Park and Recreation Commission unanimously voted for on December 6, 2002. Whole Article

The Green Party is the largest political party to formally issue a statement against the proposed war against Iraq. The full statement can be viewed at www.gp-us.org/committees/intl

The Green Party of the United States is adamantly opposed to President George W. Bush's plans to continue and expand military operations against Iraq... Whole Article

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