6501 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94609
USA
Our October Green Sunday program will focus on the upcoming November 6 elections: the various measures and offices which will be on the ballot in Alameda County, and the written analyses and recommendations in our Voter Guide.
Join a discussion about state and local tax measures, as well as candidates for various local races: mayors, city councils, school boards, special districts, etc.
We will have short presentations by Laura Wells (Green candidate for Congress, CA-D13), Saied Karamooz (Green candidate for Oakland Mayor), James Vann (about housing issues on the ballot), and Mike Hutchinson (No on Measure AA, the Oakland Children Initiative of 2018). [See bios below]
Bring your sample ballot, questions, and opinions. This is an opportunity to ask about — and comment about — items on the November ballot.
SPONSOR: Green Sundays are a series of free programs & discussions sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County. They are usually held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party of Alameda County follows at 6:45 pm. Council meetings are always open to anyone who is interested.
Hundreds of Green Voter Guides will be available, for those of you who can distribute them around town at cafes, bookstores, laundromats, libraries, and the like, or by passing them out at BART stations, farmers markets, grocery stores, or anywhere else where there’s a lot of foot traffic.
An electronic version of the Guide is now available at our blog website here: http://acgreens.wordpress.com/voter-guides
Bios of presenters:
Laura Wells has been a Green Party activist since 1992, when the Green Party was first on the ballot in California. She has been very active within the party at local and state levels, and has run as our candidate for state Controller and for Governor. This year, we called for a Green to run for Congress since Barbara Lee was running unopposed in the primary. Laura stepped up as a write-in candidate, and won. She faced Barbara Lee at a League of Women Voters candidate forum on October 5. With Top 2, they will be the only two candidates for Congress, District 13, on the ballot in November. https://laurawells.org/
Saied Karamooz is running for Mayor of Oakland. Saied has been involved in a number of progressive campaigns over the years. Most notably, he has been serving as an active member of the Coalition for Police Accountability that spearheaded Measure LL, resulting in the establishment of a Police Commission in Oakland. Currently he is a commissioner on Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission and President of the Jack London Improvement District. Over the past few years, Saied has supported initiatives such as the Fight for 15, Stop Urban Shield, the Public Bank of Oakland, and No Coal in Oakland. Saied’s campaign website (everyonesmayor.org) provides a clear outline of how to make Oakland an equitable city for all.
James Vann, a recently retired architect, is a long-time community, political, and housing activist in Oakland. He co-founded the Oakland Tenants Union, and continues to fight for justice and equality in the policies and laws of Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program toward the benefit of tenants. As an original member of East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO), James works for funding and construction of housing that is affordable to Oakland workers and households throughout the flatlands. Politically, James was a organizer in 1967 of the Peace & Freedom Party, where he forged an alliance between Peace & Freedom and the Black Panther Party. P&F qualified for the ballot in 1968. James was elected that same year to chair the opening session of the founding convention of the P&F Party. www.oaklandtenantsunion.org/
Mike Hutchinson was born and raised in Oakland and is a proud graduate of the Oakland Public Schools. After working in our schools for 20 years, in 2012 he became a public education advocate. Since then he has been working to save and fix public education in Oakland by any means necessary. He is currently working to build the organization he co-founded, OPEN: the Oakland Public Education Network, which is a founding member of the Journey For Justice national alliance, and the west coast anchor organization for the #WeChoose national campaign.