GPSMC Local News

Location for GPSMC Meetings at Our meetings are the fourth Tuesday of each month. Administrative meeting 6:00-7:15 Topics will include reviewing the agenda of the May GPCA General Assembly. Green Talk 7:15-9:00 Green Talks can be a movie or a speaker on a topic related to Green issues or political campaigns or just a time to share with others interested in the party. They will be hosted by Reach And Teach, a peace and social justice learning company dedicated to transforming the world through teachable moments, located at 178 South Blvd, in San Mateo near the Hayward Park Caltrain.   Next meeting: April 24, 2012 We will be showing the new movie, Koch Brothers Exposed See the trailer here Videos recorded at our last meeting: March 27, 2012 available on YouTube Topic: "Peace, Social Justice and Sustainability in the Middle East -- The Vision of Israel's Green Party" a presentation by Alon Tal, the founder of the current Green Movement in Israel Sanda shot it in 6 short segments. The first one is here, and then you can find the rest.   If you want to watch them and cannot find them online, contact us. New County Council Elections in June But we won't be on the ballot because we did not find 8 people to run. Five people were interested. Three turned in sufficient signatures and the other two will be appointed as well as someone who was not eligible to pull papers at that time, but is now.     Recent events in which San Mateo Greens participated: Gloria Purcell and Sanda Everette attended the Medical Students' Lobby Day for Prop 810, Single Payer Health Care, in Sacramento San Mateo and Santa Clara Greens attended Meet and Greet events for Jill Stein on November 28. Cindy Asrir and Sanda Everette joined Jill at Occupy SF Gloria Purcell and Sanda Everette represented GPSMC in Los Angeles at our GPCA state meeting. Despite incredible technical difficulties, an additional presidential event at the state meeting was Livestreamed on our GPUS channel. Sanda Everette went to Washington DC for the October2011.org event. There are many local Greens participating in Occupy events around the bay area. The Green Party of California has endorsed the Occupy Movement. Sanda Everette attended the European Green Congress in Paris in November. More pictures later, but I am actually in this audience shot in the fourth row Gloria Purcell and Sanda Everette attended the GPCA Strategy gathering in Ventura on August 20-21. Sanda Everette attended the GPUS Annual National Meeting and NY Green Fest in Alfred, NY August 5-7 2011. She was part of the Livestream team bringing you online video of those events. A few Greens joined the Single Payer Health care group supporting the bill by Mark Leno, marching in the Pride parade in San Francisco. San Francisco also had a booth at the amazingly well attended event, registering Greens, sharing information, and gathering signatures for a Green (lesbian) candidate for mayor. Greens from all over the San Francisco Bay Area showed up for the march and rally on March 19, 2011, that was happening simultaneously at cities all over the country. I heard that 130 protesters were arrested in Washington, DC, but none in SF.           On February 26, 2011, there was a rally in support of the workers in Wisconsin.

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State News

See what is happening around the state and opportunities to be involved by looking at the state party website.

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The next General Assembly will be in May 12-13 in San Francisco near 16th and Mission. The draft agenda is online now.

There will be a live Presidential Forum on Saturday night as an separate event open to the public. The three candidates on the California Ballot will be there.

There is a general GPCA-forum list serve available if you want to be in communication with Green Party members around the state.

 

Sanda Everette interviewed Laura Wells, former GPCA gubernatorial candidate

on August 11, 2011 for the GPUS Livestream Channel.

 

 

The Spring 2010 edition of the "Green Focus" GPCA news magazine is available for downloading. This issue centered around Green candidates and Spring ballot propositions. Click here to download	The Fall 2010 edition of the "Green Focus" GPCA news magazine is available for downloading. This issue centers around Green candidates and Fall ballot propositions. It also has an article about voter registration. Click here to download
Fall 2010 The GPUS news magazine and blog also has articles about California as well as other Green Party member states.	The summer 2011issue of "Green Pages" This issue also includes an updated version of Democracy is Coming (1.05 mb). The full PDF version of this issue can be downloaded here (2.02 mb).

 

 

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National News

GPUS has an internet TV channel. There are regular shows on topics of interest to Greens. There is also coverage of special events. Programs are recorded and archived, and whatever is currently playing, whether live or archived will show up right here. Archived shows can also be chosen and played whenever you want to see them on our Livestream page. During live shows there is also an opportunity to chat with other viewer and to ask questions of the featured presenters on the show.

Read the latest press releases on the GPUS website. The most recent are listed here. .

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The national newspaper of the Green Party of the United States

In between printed issues that can be downloaded in pdf form, there is an ongoing Green Pages blog provide an online version with articles of interest.

 

News from other Greens and Bay Area Progressives

Calendars of events of some other bay area progressive organizations:

• KPFA Sponsored Events
• Acterra EcoCalendar
• Peninsula Peace and Justice Center Calendar
• Bay Area Indymedia Calendar
• Ecology Center EcoCalendar (Berkeley)

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Green Change is an online community of people with Green values: justice, grassroots democracy, sustainability and non-violence. This is their news feed.

This website is the creation of Marnie Glickman, a Marin County Green Party co-chair.

Green Change also provides opportunity for activism from the comfort of your computer.

 

*Green Party Watch is a good blog for information about Greens all over the country

 

Previous Year's Activities of Interest

Two of the San Mateo County Council members, Gloria Purcell and Sanda Everette, went to Cancun for the Global Climate Change Conference in December 2010. "I found it quite exciting to be in the middle of all these events. I was able to attend some of the large plenary sessions and they were also available on television screens in the other venues such as the shot I have of Evo Morales." said Sanda. Unfortunately, only Sanda had credentials to get into the official events. "Here are a few photos that I took there. Gloria was able to join me for the beginning of the march of the indigenous people, Via Campesina."

 

Sanda shared some information from her experience at the Climate Change Conference:

From what I understand, though it was not a perfect agreement, results from Cancun were far more successful tan people had hoped for. I recommend reading the blog of Elizabeth May, the head of the Green Party of Canada, particularly the blog entry, What Just Happened. I feel quite fortunate to have had the opportunity to spend tie with this amazingly knowledgable woman in Cancun. I arranged an interview for her with Velcrow Ripper , a filmmaker working on Live in a Time of Climate Crisis and just happened to walk by when they were doing the interview. She gave an incredible 20mminute summary of everything that has happened since 1992 in Kyoto.

I was very impressed by the work of OXFAM on climate change issues and you can read some fairly balanced reporting from the Climate Action Network. They provided daily reports at the event, though not as radical as some groups, but representing many NGOs, certainly more progressive than many of the governmental parties present. The UNFCC website is also still available with lots of information.