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DESCRIPTION:Green “Tea Party”\n\nThe 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/2011/08/04/18686888.php
SUMMARY:Green “Tea Party” (massive anti-tea party rally)
LOCATION:Veterans Memorial Park at the corner of Main and Third streets in downtown 
 Napa
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/08/04/18686888.php
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