Hello there Greens!

In This Issue:

1) Nader in Nevada
2) Greens National Convention on C-SPAN
3) Post-Convention Campaign Rally in Oakland
4) Interdependence Day Picnic
5) Chat with U.S. Rep Candidate Ken Adams
6) Sacto Progressive Events Calendar
7) Sacgreenews Back Issues
8) Nader Gallup Poll
9) Randall Robinson Backs Nader
10) Labor for Nader
11) Nader and the Greens Letter Campaign
12) Upcoming Greentalks
13) Forest Service Roadless Area Hearing
14) Sacto Airport Master Plan
15) Proposed UC Merced Site

1) NADER IN NEVADA
Help get Nader on the Nevada ballot!  Right now, Nevada Greens are struggling to get the 4098 signatures required to secure a place for Nader on Nevada's presidential ballot in the fall.  They need your help now!  The deadline is July 7th.  To find out how to help, call Sandi Rizzo 775 853-2935.  For more info: http://www.nevadagreenparty.org/contact/signatures.html

2) GREENS NATIONAL CONVENTION ON C-SPAN
The Association of State Green Parties National Nominating Convention will be this coming weekend, June 23rd, 24th, and 25th. On Sunday the 25th, guest speakers will include CA U.S. Senate Candidate Medea Benjamin, and presidential candidates Jello Biafra, Stephen Gaskin, and Ralph Nader.  Rumor has it that C-SPAN will be there live all day, so find a friend with cable and check it out!  For more details, see http://www.greens.org/colorado/convention

3) POST-CONVENTION CAMPAIGN RALLY IN OAKLAND
Come and join Green candidates Ralph Nader, Medea Benjamin, and Rebecca Kaplan on Monday, June 26th to officially launch the Nader campaign.  This will be Ralph Nader's first public appearance as the official presidential nominee of the Green Party.  Sweet's Ballroom, 1933 Broadway, Oakland (at 19th St BART) The program: 7pm - 9pm, followed by time for socializing, dancing, and snacks.  Sliding scale contribution of $5 - $50.  More info at: http://www.rebeccakaplan.org/June26.htm

4) INTERDEPENDENCE DAY ACTIVIST PICNIC
Please bring your own utensils, a potluck dish to share,and a joke, a song, a skit, a story to entertain us with. This is an alcohol-free event and children are welcome! 

When? July 2 from 12 to 7 pm.  
Where? In Land Park near Funderland. 

If you're coming from I-5, turn left onto Land Park Drive and take the first right into the park.  Proceed as directed.  See you there!

5) CHAT WITH U.S. REP CANDIDATE KEN ADAMS
5th District Green candidate Ken Adams will be informally discussing his campaign over coffee on July 13th (7:30 pm) at the Book Collector in Sacramento, 1008 24th St. Info: 442-9295.

6) SACTO PROGRESSIVE EVENTS CALENDAR
Are you familiar with the Sacramento Progressive Events Calendar?  This highly useful resource, put out by Gail Ryall, lists daily Sacramento area progressive happenings.  Protests, meetings, social events-you'll find them all here.  Check it out: http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~dylan/homepage.html

7) SACGREENEWS BACK ISSUES
In case you've had trouble finding back issues of Sacgreenews, they are now being posted on the Sacramento Free Press's new Website at https://www.angelfire.com/ca5/sacfreepress.  Sacto Free Press was having trouble with its old server, so it has been moved temporarily.  

8) NADER GALLUP POLL
A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted June 6th and 7th, tested a four-way race between Nader, Buchanan, Bush and Gore. In this scenario, Bush received 46% of  the vote, compared to 41% for Gore, 6% for Nader and just 2% for Buchanan.  Read about it: http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr000609.asp

9) RANDALL ROBINSON BACKS NADER
In the Washington Post on Friday, June 9, page C01: Randall Robinson, anti-apartheid activist and president of TransAfrica, announced that he has signed on as the steering committee co-chair for Ralph Nader's presidential campaign. "The important thing is that Ralph stands for something," said Robinson at TransAfrica's annual dinner, an event attended by celebrities such as Danny Glover, Muhammad Ali, Angela Bassett, and Bill Cosby.

10) LABOR FOR NADER
On June 14th, Ralph Nader picked up the endorsement of  the California Nurses Association, a 31,000 member union based in Oakland, which praised Nader as committed to universal health care, patients' rights and expanded federal health insurance for Americans.  http://www.votenader.org/press/000614NaderNurse.html

United Auto Workers President Stephen P. Yokich on 5/23rd: ". . . we have no choice but to actively explore alternatives to the two major political parties. It's time to forget about party labels and instead focus on supporting candidates, such as Ralph Nader, who will take a stand based on what is right, not what big money dictates."
http://www.uaw.org/publications/releases/2000/0523.html

11) NADER AND THE GREENS LETTER CAMPAIGN
An appeal from local activist Jeanie Keltner: Now's the time to write all the newspapers you can, but for sure the Bee, asking them to start including Nader and other Greens in the presidential and other campaign news.  Remember, the Letters to the Ed is the most read newspage in the paper. We can emphasize that it would enliven the election coverage with some real discussion of issues, like global warming, contaminated food, the health care crisis, the commercialization of education.  Remember short letters are best.  And if we timed them to go in this week starting June 19th, we'd get the benefit of many letters together, which helps the message stick. Some emails:

     Sacramento Bee : opinion@sacbee.com;
     Christian Science Monitor: oped@csps.com;
     LA Times: letters@latimes.com;
     News & Review: sactoletters@newsreview.com;
     SF Chronicle:  Chronletters@sfgate.com

12) UPCOMING GREENTALKS
Come to these Greentalks at Luna's Cafe, 1414- 16th St. (at O St.), 7 - 8:30 PM.  For more information, email greens@sacgreens.org, call 484-5888 or visit www.sacgreens.org

July 19: Greentalk on Campaign Finance Reform.  Kriss Greenlee and Rick Bettis will speak on Common Cause's proposal for local campaign contributions and public financing.

August 2nd: Greentalk on Deer Creek Hills and the fight against the senior citizens' housing hoax.

"Most of my folks are going to vote for Nader.  They will never vote for Al Gore again....  How often can we be betrayed, lied to, cheated and stolen from and still have us go back to that trough . . . Yet some of us will still vote for Gore because we are so afraid of Republicans and believe they are worse.  I think the worst, dumbest Republican is better for us because we don't perceive him to be our friend. When a Republican is president, conservationists act like savage Rottweilers. Put a Democrat in the White House and they become obsequious lap dogs, groveling over a few meager crumbs." --Tim Hermach, Executive Director, Native Forest Council, Eugene, OR.

14) SACRAMENTO AIRPORT MASTER PLAN
ECOS (the Environmental Council of Sacramento) is looking for someone to represent ECOS during the development of the airport master plan to voice support for more bus service and less parking.  For more information, contact Jim Barton, 448-6017  (sactonader@aol.com)

15) PROPOSED UC MERCED SITE IS A BAD IDEA
A unique site in California with a mosaic of vernal pools, open skies, and rolling grassland is threatened to be paved over!  The University of California is proposing to build its 10th campus in Merced on a particularly environmentally-sensitive site.  Please check out http://www.vernalpools.org to find out more and learn what you can do.
 

Hope to see you soon!

Jen Ferro
Sacramento County Green Party
PO Box 191742
Sacramento, CA
(916) 484-5888
www.sacgreens.org