Feb 3 - SF J8 Mobilization working groups & organizing meeting

Greetings, Direct Action Activists!

At the Direct Action to Stop the War Assembly on Jan 10, about 40 activists expressed an interest in working on the SF June 8 Mobilization. Now's your chance to plug in! ***Add your vision, creativity, and hard work to the mix to make this one of the most successful, MOVEMENT-BUILDING mobilizations ever!!!*** We have four months to lay the groundwork. No time to lose! Come to the Bay Area J8 Visioning & Organizing Meeting on February 3, join the J8 listserve, and hook up with the working groups of your choice or invent your own! Details below!

***GREAT NEWS: The Beehive Collective is supporting the mobilization big-time--designing a one of their AWESOME POSTERS for it, doing other outreach, lending their incredible collection of banners and clip-art CD, and joining in for teach-ins and actions!!! THREE CHEERS for those WONDROUS POLLINATORS, who are also working hard to stop Plan Puebla Panama!!!!***

For those who were not at the DASW Assembly on Jan.10, here's what the SF June 8 Mobilization is about: The closest thing we may ever have to a Global Summit in SF is happening here in June when the BIO-TECH INDUSTRY descends upon the City. At the same time that the BIO-TECH INDUSTRY is meeting in SF, the G8--that INFAMOUS GROUP OF EIGHT NATIONS of the industrial north who run the world, and whose policies, according to the UN, extinguish the lives of 19,000 children a day--is meeting on the EAST COAST on a private island off Georgia, near Savannah. Organizers across the continent are making this an occasion to BUILD COALITIONS, UNITE OUR ISSUES, and SHOW OUR MASSIVE RESISTANCE to Corporate Control of Public Policy--from Energy, Water, and the World Food Supply to the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, from the ruination of our natural resources and regional economies to the gutting of education & social programs, from the mass exportation of jobs & exploitation of workers to the burgeoning prison-industrial complex!!! We'll also use this opportunity to DEMONSTRATE SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES to the Corporate Regime, starting with the GREENING OF SF in a series of massive, fun, and effective eco-actions and workshops aimed at getting us off the corporate grid. Creative neighborhood outreach, actions spotlighting community struggles, and a series of remarkable teach-ins that bring us all up to speed on each other's issues, local and global, and their solutions, are also in the works. Since the Bio-Tech Industry most imminently threatens the World Food Supply, there will also be special events focusing on FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, GMOs, & CORPORATE CONTROL OF AGRICULTURE. All this and more will build to a DAY OF MASSIVE DIRECT ACTION on June 8!!! ***JOIN THE SF JUNE 8 MOBILIZATION to RECLAIM DEMOCRACY & END CORPORATE RULE!**** For SONOMA GREEN BLOC's inspiring call-to-action, check out http://www.adoptanactivist.org/greenbloc/biotech2004.html


-->Join the SF J8 Mobilization listserve! Send an email to SF.June8-subscribe [at] lists.riseup.net. The Web Site is coming soon!

-->Come to the Bay Area Visioning and Organizing Meeting! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 7 PM, Black Cat Collective, 2852 Folsom (btw 24th & 25th Streets), SF.

-->Join a Working Group or Create Your Own (following are some working groups, point people and their contact info):

-*- Fundraising: BECKY beckytarbotton [at] yahoo.com 250-389-1536
-*- City Liaison: MARY chalicenew [at] earthlink.net 415-731-7924
-*- Visioning and Messaging: KORI awakenprogress [at] yahoo.com 707-874-9941
-*- Trainings: STARHAWK stella [at] mcn.org 415-640-5872
-*- Messaging Strategy & Media: EILEEN, eileenr [at] sonic.net 707-523-4304
-*- Outreach: MEDDLE meddle [at] riseup.net 707-579-8911
-*- Education (teach-ins, roadshows, etc.): PIGEON HAWK paddrix [at] yahoo.com 707-888-2404
-*- Scenario (direct action: mass & eco): EILEEN eileenr [at] sonic.net 707-523-4304
-* -MAJOR PROJECTS working groups (point people in Caps)
--Greening the Convergence Space: STARHAWK stella [at] mcn.org 415-640-5872
--Movable Permie Playground: MEDDLE meddle [at] riseup.net 707-579-8911
--Homeless Eco Village: STARHAWK stella [at] mcn.org 415-640-5872
--Reclaiming Public Space/City Repair: MARY chalicenew [at] earthlink.net 415-731-7924
--Community Focused Actions (enviro racism, police brutality, etc.) MARY chalicenew [at] earthlink.net 415-731-7924
--Really Free Market (Plant Give Away, Arrestable Seed Exchange, etc.)
--Farmers Market
--Guerilla Gardening Actions


***For Justice and Ecology, Viva the SF J8 Mobilization!***

Mary Bull
Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign
252 Frederick, San Francisco, CA 94117
http://www.gapsucks.org 415-731-7924 chalicenew [at] earthlink.net

For People & Planet, Stop the FTAA! http://www.flfairtrade.org
http://www.ftaaresistance.org http://www.ftaaimc.org
http://stopftaa.org http://www.therootcause.org
http://www.mediamouse.org/fcaa/index.php

For Global Ecology & Global Justice, End Corporate Rule!
http://www.ifg.org http://www.canadians.org http://www.citizen.org
http://www.foodfirst.org http://www.globalexchange.org

For the SAD TRUTH about the Forest Stewardship Council,
Check out http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org