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5 days before Election Day; Vote Absentee, Yes on 19, 21, 24, 25, P&F or Green
Now is the time to get off the dime and vote. There are lots of important propositions and the peace, labor, civil rights and environmental parties, namely Peace & Freedom and the Greens need and deserve your votes. You can vote absentee this weekend at your County Registrar.
In San Francisco, you can vote from 10 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the County Registrar, City Hall, Van Ness & McAllister, basement. Enter on Grove Street on the weekend (parallel to McAllister). And also sign up to be a permanent absentee voter so you never forget to vote.
Statewide information:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2010-elections/2010-election-information/november-2010-general-election.htm
More on voter registration and forms to do so at:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm
The only two parties worth considering:
Peace and Freedom Party at http://peaceandfreedom.org/2010/
Green Party at http://www.cagreens.org
and http://www.sfgreenparty.org/campaigns/campaigns.psp
You cannot expect to have peace if you keep voting for the twin parties of war and fascism, the Democrat-Republicans. The Democratic candidate for governor, Jerry Brown, not only opposes Prop 19 legalizing marijuana, supports a peripheral canal to drain Northern California of our water, and supports continued attacks on the workingclass in the form of budget cuts, he also supported a charter military school while mayor of Oakland. Charter schools are by definition anti-labor and do not solve the problems of education in the workingclass schools. Military and education are antithetical and the same is true for military and culture. Only with peace can we have culture and a well-rounded education. See
http://articles.sfgate.com/2001-07-08/news/17606359_1_oakland-military-institute-oakland-army-base-public-schools
http://counter-recruitment.blogspot.com/2010/05/jerry-brown-raised-12-million-for-his.html
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/jerry-brown-raised-12-million-for-his-two-oakland-schools/Content?oid=1712012
JERRY BROWN IS ALSO INFAMOUS FOR SENDING THE OAKLAND POLICE AGAINST PEACE DEMONSTRATORS IN APRIL 2003, SHOOTING THEM WITH RUBBER AND WOODEN BULLETS.
He is just as reactionary as the Republican candidate for governor, Meg Whitman. VOTE PEACE & FREEDOM OR GREEN FOR ALL OFFICES AT EVERY LEVEL.
California’s 9 propositions:
All California propositions: http://www.calvoter.org/voter/elections/2010/general/props/index.html
Funding of proposition campaigns: http://www.calvoter.org/voter/elections/2010/general/props/prop_committees.html
Yes on 19
http://yeson19.com/
Yes on 21
http://www.yesforstateparks.com/
Yes on 24:
http://yesprop24.org/
Yes on 25:
http://www.endbudgetgridlock.com/
No on 20:
http://www.noprop20.org/
No on 22:
http://votenoprop22.com/
No on 23:
http://www.stopdirtyenergyprop.com/
No on 26:
http://www.stoppolluterprotection.com/
No on 27:
http://www.noprop27.org/
San Francisco voting
Registering at
http://www.sfelections.org/vbm/
Polling place lookup:
http://www.sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/PrecinctServices/2010/Nov2010_PollingPlaceList.pdf
You can always vote at the City Hall Elections Department, City Hall building at Van Ness and McAllister, Van Ness side, basement, from October 4 through and including election day, November 2.
Some endorsements at
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/campaigns/campaigns.psp
San Francisco’s 15 Propositions:
Overall:
http://sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2201
and
http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2163
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_general_elections,_November_2010
Yes on AA, C,E,J,N
No on A,B,F,G,H,I,K,L,M
No on B:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/San_Francisco_Pension_Reform,_Proposition_B_(November_2010)
and
http://www.nobadmedicine.com/
No on G-by Transport Workers Union 250-A:
http://www.twusf.org/
From the San Francisco Voter’s Handbook, p 115, Paid Argument Against Proposition G by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism):
Prop G is a political ploy that tries to put the blame of declining public services on the backs of working families. It is an anti-union proposition. Prop. G scapegoats MUNI drivers while ignoring the bloated salaries of San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Agency management. Executive mismanagement has allowed the siphoning of almost $62 million per year by other city departments, including almost $12 million in charges by the San Francisco Police Department alone. Prop G does not address the lack of funding coming from real estate developers and downtown corporations who profit from MUNI bringing workers to work and shoppers to stores. It is part of a larger trend of austerity measures that is targeting the benefits of hard working families in order to make up for the government’s subsidizing of corporate profits and the continuous funding of endless wars.
THAT’S RIGHT, OUR BUS FARES PAY FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, NOT MUNI!
Should Prop G pass, it will certainly provoke a general strike when the contract expires. Workers' wages are not the cause of public transportation problems in San Francisco; gross mismangement and excessive management salaries are the basic cause, and further, a federal government that spends money on guns instead of butter soon destroys everything, including public transportation.
Statewide information:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2010-elections/2010-election-information/november-2010-general-election.htm
More on voter registration and forms to do so at:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm
The only two parties worth considering:
Peace and Freedom Party at http://peaceandfreedom.org/2010/
Green Party at http://www.cagreens.org
and http://www.sfgreenparty.org/campaigns/campaigns.psp
You cannot expect to have peace if you keep voting for the twin parties of war and fascism, the Democrat-Republicans. The Democratic candidate for governor, Jerry Brown, not only opposes Prop 19 legalizing marijuana, supports a peripheral canal to drain Northern California of our water, and supports continued attacks on the workingclass in the form of budget cuts, he also supported a charter military school while mayor of Oakland. Charter schools are by definition anti-labor and do not solve the problems of education in the workingclass schools. Military and education are antithetical and the same is true for military and culture. Only with peace can we have culture and a well-rounded education. See
http://articles.sfgate.com/2001-07-08/news/17606359_1_oakland-military-institute-oakland-army-base-public-schools
http://counter-recruitment.blogspot.com/2010/05/jerry-brown-raised-12-million-for-his.html
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/jerry-brown-raised-12-million-for-his-two-oakland-schools/Content?oid=1712012
JERRY BROWN IS ALSO INFAMOUS FOR SENDING THE OAKLAND POLICE AGAINST PEACE DEMONSTRATORS IN APRIL 2003, SHOOTING THEM WITH RUBBER AND WOODEN BULLETS.
He is just as reactionary as the Republican candidate for governor, Meg Whitman. VOTE PEACE & FREEDOM OR GREEN FOR ALL OFFICES AT EVERY LEVEL.
California’s 9 propositions:
All California propositions: http://www.calvoter.org/voter/elections/2010/general/props/index.html
Funding of proposition campaigns: http://www.calvoter.org/voter/elections/2010/general/props/prop_committees.html
Yes on 19
http://yeson19.com/
Yes on 21
http://www.yesforstateparks.com/
Yes on 24:
http://yesprop24.org/
Yes on 25:
http://www.endbudgetgridlock.com/
No on 20:
http://www.noprop20.org/
No on 22:
http://votenoprop22.com/
No on 23:
http://www.stopdirtyenergyprop.com/
No on 26:
http://www.stoppolluterprotection.com/
No on 27:
http://www.noprop27.org/
San Francisco voting
Registering at
http://www.sfelections.org/vbm/
Polling place lookup:
http://www.sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/PrecinctServices/2010/Nov2010_PollingPlaceList.pdf
You can always vote at the City Hall Elections Department, City Hall building at Van Ness and McAllister, Van Ness side, basement, from October 4 through and including election day, November 2.
Some endorsements at
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/campaigns/campaigns.psp
San Francisco’s 15 Propositions:
Overall:
http://sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2201
and
http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2163
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_general_elections,_November_2010
Yes on AA, C,E,J,N
No on A,B,F,G,H,I,K,L,M
No on B:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/San_Francisco_Pension_Reform,_Proposition_B_(November_2010)
and
http://www.nobadmedicine.com/
No on G-by Transport Workers Union 250-A:
http://www.twusf.org/
From the San Francisco Voter’s Handbook, p 115, Paid Argument Against Proposition G by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism):
Prop G is a political ploy that tries to put the blame of declining public services on the backs of working families. It is an anti-union proposition. Prop. G scapegoats MUNI drivers while ignoring the bloated salaries of San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Agency management. Executive mismanagement has allowed the siphoning of almost $62 million per year by other city departments, including almost $12 million in charges by the San Francisco Police Department alone. Prop G does not address the lack of funding coming from real estate developers and downtown corporations who profit from MUNI bringing workers to work and shoppers to stores. It is part of a larger trend of austerity measures that is targeting the benefits of hard working families in order to make up for the government’s subsidizing of corporate profits and the continuous funding of endless wars.
THAT’S RIGHT, OUR BUS FARES PAY FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, NOT MUNI!
Should Prop G pass, it will certainly provoke a general strike when the contract expires. Workers' wages are not the cause of public transportation problems in San Francisco; gross mismangement and excessive management salaries are the basic cause, and further, a federal government that spends money on guns instead of butter soon destroys everything, including public transportation.
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Here are the websites describing Jerry Brown's support of the police use of wooden and rubber bullets to attack peace demonstrators at the Oakland port on April 7, 2003.
See
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/14/16002221.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/13/15997471.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/10/15985841.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/09/15977761.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15976541.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15975851.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15975601.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15973241.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15971121.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15969881.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15969781.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15966711.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15964671.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15964151.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15964141.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15963891.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15963711.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15963321.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15963311.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15961911.php
See
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/14/16002221.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/13/15997471.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/10/15985841.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/09/15977761.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15976541.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15975851.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15975601.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15973241.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15971121.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15969881.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/08/15969781.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15966711.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15964671.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15964151.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15964141.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15963891.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15963711.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15963321.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15963311.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/07/15961911.php
For more information:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/04/0...
what are these parties' positions on gun control?
Peace & Freedom Party supports the Second Amendment and opposes the smokescreen "gun control" laws as they have nothing to do with fighting crime and everything to do with making the police stronger. I cannot find it on their website but that has been the traditional position of Peace & Freedom Party. You could Email them at their website at
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/contact-us
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/contact-us
Jerry Brown also helped implement S-Comm (Secure Communities). This is an e-verification program that sends thumbprints when detained to homeland security to verify that you are a legal resident. Despite never having a conviction, many immigrants have already been deported via S-Comm which is a direct attack on our civil liberties and the sanctuary city we have here in San Francisco. What is the P & F stance on immigration and how come there was no mention of this atrocious program signed by none other than Democratic candidate, Jerry Brown?!?!
Peace & Freedom Party is a socialist party and has been a socialist party on the California ballot since 1968, becoming socialist in 1974.
Peace & Freedom Party supports amnesty for all undocumented immigrants as well as repeal of NAFTA and all the other "free trade" agreements promoted by Pres Clinton and Bush that are destroying Latin American economies, forcing people to migrate. P&F also of course opposes S-Comm which Jerry Brown supports.
Here is the Platform on immigration and on gun control:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/platform
1. Immigration
Immigrant workers are hounded by government authorities, worked and housed in substandard conditions by unscrupulous bosses, and blamed by Republican and Democratic demagogues for society's problems.
We call for open borders.
We demand an end to deportations of immigrants.
We demand full political, social and economic rights for resident non-citizens.
2. Freedom, Justice and Crime
We call for the defense and extension of the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, including freedom of speech, press, assembly and association, and the right to keep and bear arms for individual and collective defense. The ultimate guarantee of those rights is the organized strength of the working class.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.
Robert Evans, the P&F candidate for Attorney General, makes that clear on his website at:
http://www.justiceforcalifornia.org/SecondAmendment.html
A socialist organization by definition opposes the private profit system which benefits by attacking immigrant workers, keeping labor divided and wages down, thus maximizing profits. On the crime issue, the police are the armed thugs of the capitalist class used to terrorize the workingclass. The various street crime problems are the result of no jobs in a declining capitalist economy, which can only be solved by eliminating the private profit system, a task done by the workingclass organizing for a general strike to end capitalism. We are not at that stage yet, but the least you can do is vote Peace & Freedom or Green and never vote for any Democrat or Republican.
There are also excellent videos which go over these same issues. A good start is with Carlos Alvarez for Governor:
http://peaceandfreedom.org/2010/index.php?view=article&id=115#free_airtime
https://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/1819
and
Robert Evans for Attorney General:
http://peaceandfreedom.org/2010/index.php?view=article&id=113#free_airtime
https://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/1770
Peace & Freedom Party supports amnesty for all undocumented immigrants as well as repeal of NAFTA and all the other "free trade" agreements promoted by Pres Clinton and Bush that are destroying Latin American economies, forcing people to migrate. P&F also of course opposes S-Comm which Jerry Brown supports.
Here is the Platform on immigration and on gun control:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/platform
1. Immigration
Immigrant workers are hounded by government authorities, worked and housed in substandard conditions by unscrupulous bosses, and blamed by Republican and Democratic demagogues for society's problems.
We call for open borders.
We demand an end to deportations of immigrants.
We demand full political, social and economic rights for resident non-citizens.
2. Freedom, Justice and Crime
We call for the defense and extension of the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, including freedom of speech, press, assembly and association, and the right to keep and bear arms for individual and collective defense. The ultimate guarantee of those rights is the organized strength of the working class.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.
Robert Evans, the P&F candidate for Attorney General, makes that clear on his website at:
http://www.justiceforcalifornia.org/SecondAmendment.html
A socialist organization by definition opposes the private profit system which benefits by attacking immigrant workers, keeping labor divided and wages down, thus maximizing profits. On the crime issue, the police are the armed thugs of the capitalist class used to terrorize the workingclass. The various street crime problems are the result of no jobs in a declining capitalist economy, which can only be solved by eliminating the private profit system, a task done by the workingclass organizing for a general strike to end capitalism. We are not at that stage yet, but the least you can do is vote Peace & Freedom or Green and never vote for any Democrat or Republican.
There are also excellent videos which go over these same issues. A good start is with Carlos Alvarez for Governor:
http://peaceandfreedom.org/2010/index.php?view=article&id=115#free_airtime
https://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/1819
and
Robert Evans for Attorney General:
http://peaceandfreedom.org/2010/index.php?view=article&id=113#free_airtime
https://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/1770
For more information:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-...
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