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DESCRIPTION:The Napa County Green Party invites you to participate in a momentous and 
 historic Green “tea party" on Saturday, August 27, 2011, at 10:30 AM in 
 Veterans Memorial Park at the corner of Main and Third streets in downtown 
 Napa. Come help us unwelcome the Tea Party Express to Napa and instead show 
 the public a positive Green Party alternative.\n\nThis Green Party 
 counter-rally is being held simultaneously with the Tea Party's kick-off of 
 its national tour.  The Tea Party has steered our nation further toward the 
 reactionary right, undermining workers' collective bargaining rights, 
 attacking human rights such as access to health care, damaging our 
 environment through attacks on regulation, and fostering an anti-diversity 
 agenda that scapegoats Muslims, immigrants, and the LGBT community.\n\nAs 
 the dominant parties acquiesce to this reactionary current, the Green Party 
 stands apart as the healthiest alternative to the corrupt two-party system; 
 a “duopoly” that has given rise to this right-wing shift. The Green 
 Party's platform is based on 10 Key Values, and unlike its 
 corporate-controlled Democratic and Republican counterparts, the Green 
 Party refuses to accept any corporate financing.  The Green Party holds 
 dear to a core set of humanitarian and ecological values essential to 
 building a sustainable society that honors the needs of struggling blue and 
 white collar workers and the Earth as a whole.\n\nThis Green “tea party" 
 will be a chance for Green Party members and our progressive allies from 
 across the state to unite in opposition to the negative Tea Party agenda by 
 affirming positive Green Party values such as grassroots democracy, social 
 justice, respect for diversity, nonviolence, community-based economics, and 
 sustainability.\n\nOur Green “tea party” will feature prominent Green 
 and progressive speakers, and cultural highlights for this event will 
 include live entertainment, fun information booths, iced green tea, and 
 vegetarian cuisine from Food Not Bombs of Santa Rosa. In line with our 
 Green Party values of ecological wisdom and personal and global 
 responsibility, this will be a zero waste event, and we ask that 
 participants bring canned food items to the rally for donation to the Napa 
 Food Bank.  In addition, please wear a green shirt to show your support for 
 the Green Party and/or our Green values.\n\nEvent participants should be 
 advised that the Napa authorities may consider this peaceful assembly of 
 citizens to be an act of civil disobedience. Despite the ongoing efforts of 
 the Napa County Green Party to work in good faith to obtain a permit, the 
 City appears intransigent.\n\nOur rally will culminate in a progressive 
 solidarity march from Veterans Park to the Napa Valley Expo Fairgrounds 
 just across the river to protest the Tea Party Express event being held 
 there.\n\nPlease join us on Saturday, August 27th at 10:30 AM in Veterans 
 Park for this historic Green “tea party.” Let’s come together to 
 stand up against the Tea Party and affirm the rights and needs of a society 
 that empowers the majority of Americans and heals and nurtures the Earth.  
 For more information, please email napacountygreenparty@gmail.com, or join 
 us on Facebook:  Napa County Green Party.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/08/04/18686887.php
SUMMARY:Green “Tea Party” (massive anti-tea party rally)
LOCATION:Veterans Memorial Park\ncorner of Main and Third streets\ndowntown Napa
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/08/04/18686887.php
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