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DESCRIPTION:Green Party Presidential Forum (Sat 5/12):\nRoseanne Barr, Jill Stein and 
 Kent Mesplay\nCo-Sponsored by the League of Women Voters, KALW-FM’s Rose 
 Aguilar Will Moderate\nSAN FRANCISCO–Presidential candidates Roseanne 
 Barr, Kent Mesplay and Jill Stein will face-off the evening of Saturday, 
 May 12, as Greens all across California are getting ready to go to the 
 polls and vote. Joining them on stage at the Victoria Theatre will be Rose 
 Aguilar, Host of “Your Call” on KALW-FM and author of “Red Highways, 
 A Liberal’s Journey Through the Heartland.”\nCo-sponsored by the League 
 of Women Voters of San Francisco, the forum is scheduled to coincide with a 
 Green Party of California plenary May 12 and 13, also in San Francisco. 
 California Greens will have the largest delegation heading into the Green 
 Party’s Presidential Nominating Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, July 
 12-15.\nDr. Jill Stein has been endorsed by Professor Noam Chomsky\nJill 
 Stein has run several strong campaigns in her home state of Massachusetts 
 and has been active in the Occupy movement. Jill is a 1979 graduate of 
 Harvard Medical School, serves on several boards, and has been active with 
 the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy\nCommunities. When asked by The New 
 York Times, “Does President Obama deserve credit for health care and 
 other accomplishments?” Jill responded, “Small time, sure. There are 
 minor improvements. But on the other hand, he took single-payer off the 
 table. He absolutely took a public option off the table. As we found on 
 issue after issue — the war, reappointing George Bush’s secretary of 
 defense, sticking to George Bush’s timeline on Iraq, expanding the war, 
 expanding the drone wars all over the place. And how about bringing Wall 
 Street in, the guys who created the problem, among his first appointments. 
 It was pretty clear right then that this was going to be business as usual 
 on steroids. We’re certainly not more secure, more equitable, more 
 healthy or safer internationally, with what Obama has brought.”\nRoseanne 
 Barr has been endorsed by NORML, Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan\nAside 
 from her Emmy award winning role as a working class “domestic goddess,” 
 Roseanne Conner, Roseanne Barr has been a champion for social justice 
 issues for decades, supporting and bringing attention women’s rights, the 
 legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage, among other issues. She 
 supports the Occupy movement and her platform focuses on the legalization 
 of marijuana, economic reforms on Wall St., and ending war, in particular 
 bringing peace to Israel / Palestine through the right of return for 
 Palestinians, removal of the wall, and stopping US military funding for 
 Israel. In her Green FAQ, Roseanne stated: “The ‘two party’ system is 
 clearly broken. The 1 percent has two political parties—Democratic and 
 Republican— but the 99 percent only has one: The Green Party. . . The 
 Green Party is already well-positioned as an existing party and with the 
 right candidate, the underlying sanity of its platform can not only reach 
 new ears, it can change both the course of conversation in America and the 
 course of this country itself.”\nKent Mesplay focuses on environmental 
 issues and advocates that “sustainability is security”.\nKent Mesplay 
 wants to help California become a national and national leader in areas 
 critical to mitigating the effects of Global Climate Change. He calls for 
 state and national energy independence based upon renewable energy (wind 
 and solar), which will create jobs, help clean up the environment by 
 reducing carbon in the atmosphere and improve our basic physical security 
 by promoting decentralization of power. He notes the fact that when we meet 
 our needs in a sustainable manner at home, we are less likely to concern 
 ourselves with oil markets elsewhere. Kent also advocates solutions such as 
 single payer health insurance, ranked choice voting and publicly funded 
 campaigns as a move away from the current system of legalized bribery in 
 campaigning. “In short,” Kent says, “we need good governance, we need 
 Green values and we need to get the influence of money out of politics. And 
 we certainly need to cut bloated Pentagon spending and waste, and enact an 
 independent, trusted system to audit military spending.”\nDetails on the 
 Presidential Forum:\nDay: Saturday, May 12thTime: 7:30-9:30 PMLocation: 
 Victoria Theater, 2961 16th St., S.F. (one block from 16th St. BART)Cost: 
 $10 – 20 sliding scaleNo one will be turned away for lack of 
 funds.Tickets available here 
 https://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/may_12_donate\nThe forum will be 
 livestreamed at http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus\nSee more about the 
 Green Party’s presidential candidates here: 
 http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=496\nFor information about Rose 
 Aguilar and her KALW-FM program “Your Call,” 
 visithttp://www.yourcallradio.org/ and League of Women Voters of San 
 Francisco http://lwvsf.org/\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.roseanneforpresident2012.org/\nhttp://www.jillstein.org/\nhttp://www.mesplay.org/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/08/18713154.php
SUMMARY:Green Party Presidential Forum: Roseanne Barr, Jill Stein and Kent Mesplay
LOCATION:If you are voting for Obama, you are voting for war.  It's that simple.  
 Support third party candidates and parties.  It's the only message the war 
 parties will be capable of hearing.  France spoke out with their votes and 
 supported the candidate who will take them out of war and do the opposite 
 of "austerity", and the very next day, headlines read "austerity is a bad 
 word."  The first step is breaking away from your fear of Mitt Romney 
 winning -- he has already won, and his name is Barack Obama.
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