Hello Sonoma Greens,

You are urged to attend the following meeting to network, strategize and conduct an election for our representation to the Green Party State Coordinating Committee...

There will be food and refreshments at about noon with the business meeting scheduled to begin at about 1pm...

Come get involved... Bring your ideas on how to help stop the war NOW ! We can't wait for Bush and the Dems to do it...

Sonoma Greens will have a Table and/or presence at the following upcoming Events :

Tiffany Renee, recent candidate for Petaluma City Council, came within ONE vote on the Petaluma City Council of being appointed to take Pam Torliatt's old seat (Pam was elected as Mayor)...

Tiffany is getting a running start on the next election, is forming her campaign committee... This is a race where we have a strong, highly intelligent and dedicated candidate, with a lot of support from the community already, and a great opportunity to make a statement for Green Values and Good Green Governance...

This is a really exciting possibility to continue spreading Green Awareness, so Tiffany encourages all local Greens to get informed, get involved and help get her elected, to represent us in the next election cycle in 2008...
For more information, Contact Tiffany Renee, tiff@designmotif.com (707) 766-9917
 

The next General Assembly meeting of the Green Party of California will be held Friday 05/25/2007 through Sunday 05/27/2007 in San Francisco.

See http://www.cagreens.org/plenary/ for full details.
 

Take to the Streets May 1st 2007!
In support of Immigrant Rights:
NO shopping, NO work, NO economic activity!

Demand an end to deportations & raids!

Fight for equal rights for all workers, U.S. and foreign born!

Across the country on Tuesday, May 1st 2007, tens of thousands of workers are expected to take to the streets once again to say no to anti-immigrant, anti-worker policies.

The forthcoming National May Day 2007 mobilizations are a continuation of last year's historic marches of undocumented and documented immigrants as well as their supporters against the highly repressive and punitive Sensenbrenner legislation that criminalized workers.

The current raids and deportations in cities across the country carried out by ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) are just as deplorable and unacceptable.

By singling out Latinos, Asians, Muslims, Caribbeans, and Africans they are thoroughly racist. Not only are they meant to warn immigrants that they better not fight against super-exploitation, it is a message to all working people in this country. As the economic crisis deepens workers-whether they are foreign or U.S. born-are being warned that they had better accept these conditions. The raids and the anti-immigrant climate are designed to bust unions as well as to foster divisions among U.S. and foreign born workers.

But workers are fighting back. Across the country, the most exploited and poorest workers are standing together. Day laborers, for example are standing up to racist attacks whether they emanate from goons or from local city or state officials.

Others are standing up as well. Several unions such as the International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU), Local 10 and the San Francisco Labor Council AFL-CIO are passing resolutions in favor of May 1st and mobilizing their union members to get people out on May Day. In New York , a UFCW local pushed the May 1st event at a labor event demanding justice for Smithfield workers in Tar Heel, North Carolina .

The Committee for Immigrant Rights of Sonoma County (CIRSC) is a part of The National Movement for Worker and Immigrant Rights, and is actively supporting these efforts in every way possible.

We urge you to do the same! Here is how you can help:

1. Request that your group or community organization officially endorse the May 1st mobilization. To endorse email us at: mayday4workers@yahoo.com
2. All are welcome to attend the organizing meetings there are two meetings weekly: Every Weds. at the UFW office at the Corby Labor Center 1700 Corby Ave. in Santa Rosa from 6p-9p and/or Every Thursday at Local 1021 SEIU 600 'B' Street in Santa Rosa from 7pm-9pm

If you cannot participate in an organizing capacity please donate to help build our local May Day. Event funds are urgently needed!

Please make checks/money orders payable to:

"Instituto Sanchez-Mendoza"
C/O May Day Movement & Family Unity Day at Julliard Park
719 Orchard St.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Thank You (GRACIAS :)

Click here for a PDF Flyer
Click here for a press release
Click here for a donation request flyer

Tuesday, May 1st
Booksigning and Presentation
7 PM
Copperfields Books
176 North Main Street
Sebastopol

Richard Walker, UC Berkeley, Geography, will discuss his new book on the Bay Area environmental movement, "The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area" (University of Washington Press 2007).

Conservation Action Fund for Education, Leadership Institute For Ecology and the Economy, Living Wage Coalition, New Economy, Working Solutions, Sonoma Group Sierra Club, Sonoma County Conservation Action, and Sonoma Land Trust.

Admission is free and for more information call: 829-0429

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place.

The Bay Area's civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments-Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast-have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations.

This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day.

Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life.

Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography. Richard A. Walker is professor of geography and chair of the California Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor and The Conquest of Bread.
 

Praxis Peace Institute presents

PAUL HAWKEN

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007 AT 8:00 P.M.

Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming
Tickets: $15.00 ($10 for Praxis members buying online or through Praxis - 707-939-2973).
Tickets also available at Readers' Books in Sonoma, or at the door.
This event is likely to sell out!

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and best-selling author. He is the Director of the Natural Capital Institute in Sausalito and is the best-selling author of The Ecology of Commerce, Growing a Business, and Natural Capitalism. Hawken has founded and co-founded several businesses, including Smith & Hawken, Pax Scientific, Erewon Natural Foods, and others. Starting at the age of 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His principle of "comprehensive outcome," introduced in The Ecology of Commerce, takes into account all costs of doing business, including natural resource depletion, pollution, and the distribution process. This book has been used in numerous business schools. His book, Growing a Business, became the basis of a 17-part PBS series on sustainable and responsible business.

Hawken has appeared on national television and radio shows and has consulted with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. Hawken will discuss his new book, Blessed Unrest, which explores the diversity, ideas, strategies, and hidden history of revolutionary social movements. Hawken's conclusions will inspire and surprise many in the movement!
 

NOTES:
- We sometimes include events that may not have been officially endorsed by the GPSC, but may be of interest to local Greens.
- To check for new events and schedule changes, visit our home page at http://www.sonomagreenparty.org

29  

(Sun) Northbay Greens Regional Meeting
12 Noon to 4 PM, 6607 Redwood Drive, Rohnert Park
Rancho Feliz Mobile Home Park Clubhouse.
See item #1 above

1  

(Tue) May Day March
Santa Rosa, Old Albertson's parking lot in Roseland to Julliard Park.
See item #5 above

1  

(Tue) Richard Walker Booksigning and Presentation
7 PM, Copperfields Books, 176 North Main St, Sebastopol
See item #6 above

5  

(Sat) Cinco de Mayo
3 - 10 PM, Santa Rosa, Old Albertson's parking lot in Roseland to Julliard Park.
See item #2 above

10  

(Thu) Paul Hawken in Sonoma
8 PM, Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma
See item #7 above

16  

(Wed) GPSC Newsletter Submissions Due for Jun
If you have a Green-related article or event that you want included in the next GPSC e-newsletter, email your draft or completed submission to editor@sonomagreenparty.org by 5/16. If you email a draft, please submit the completed article by Monday, 5/21.

17  

(Thu) General Business Meeting
6:30-9 PM, State Building, 50 D Street, 4th floor, Santa Rosa (between 2nd Street & Sonoma Ave). Direction signs posted inside the building will lead you to the right room. This meeting is held every 3rd Thursday of the month.
All interested Greens are welcome to attend!
Info: info@sonomagreenparty.org

25  

(Fri-Sun) GPCA General Assembly
San Francisco
See item #4 above

8 - 10  

(Fri-Sun) Health and Harmony Festival
Santa Rosa Fairgrounds
See item #2 above

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