[mrg-announce] Mystic River Green-Rainbow Action Announcements

[Eli Beckerman]

Contents:

--@ 1. Luc Schuster School Committee Inauguration Tonight @ CRLS
--@ 2. Mystic River Green-Rainbow Action Meeting Tomorrow Night
--@ 3. 2008 GRP Presidential Primary Info

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@@ 1. Luc Schuster School Committee Inauguration Tonight @ CRLS

Join Luc Schuster at his 2nd inauguration to Cambridge School Committee.

You are cordially invited to attend the Inaugural Exercises of the
School Committee of the City of Cambridge on Monday, the seventh day
of January in the year two thousand-eight at five thirty in the evening
in the Henrietta S. Attles Meeting Room.

Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
459 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
5:30pm, Monday Jan 7, 2008

Collation immediately following in the Main Cafeteria.
Parking in CRLS Garage (Ellery Street)

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--@ 2. Mystic River Green-Rainbow Action Meeting Tomorrow Night

MRGRA Monthly General Meeting

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
7 - 9 pm
Cambridge Public Library - Central Square Branch
45 Pearl Street, Basement Meeting Room

- Should have a values discussion - anyone leading this?
- Police brutality issues
- Defend Abortion action on Saturday Jan 12
- February 5th Primary
- Report on disabilities access

Agenda items to mrg-action at green-rainbow.org

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--@ 3. 2008 GRP Presidential Primary Info

The Green-Rainbow Party is proud to announce that we will have our primary
elections on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, with a fantastic lineup of
candidates running for the Green Party's nomination.

You can vote in the Green-Rainbow Party primary if you are a voter who is
either registered in the Green-Rainbow (designated J) Party or registered
"unenrolled". January 16 is the last day to register or switch your party
affiliation to be eligible to vote in the GRP primary.

Here are the 6 candidates, in the order they will appear on our ballot:

Jared Ball
Independent journalist; radio host (WPFW 89.3 FM Pacifica Radio in
Washington, DC), hip-hop scholar, assistant professor of communications
studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
www.jaredball.com

Ralph Nader
1996 and 2000 Green candidate for President; 2004 independent candidate for
President; consumer advocate.
www.draftnader.org

Elaine Brown [Withdrawn]

Kat Swift
Texas Green organizer; former Campus Greens leader; activist with Clean
Money San Antonio and San Antonio Democracy Now.
www.bexargreens.org/katforprez

Cynthia McKinney
Former member of the US House of Representatives (Georgia), 1993 to 2003,
2005 to 2007; former member of the Georgia House of Representatives,
1988-1992.
www.runcynthiarun.org

Kent Mesplay
2004 candidate for the Green presidential nomination; former president of
Turtle Island Institute; environmental engineer, alternative energy
activist; California Green organizer.
www.mesplay.org

Contact information, photographs, video clips, and bios of the candidates
can be found on the candidates' own web sites. Video clips of many of the
candidates are also linked at www.gp.org/audio_video.shtml

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