E-Newsletter of the Green Party of Maricopa County, AZ, USA
 
   2006 August 1.          Issue # 8.
 
   El boletín electrónico del Partido Verde del Condado Maricopa, Arizona, EEUU.  Si usted no lee inglés, podemos ponerle en contacto con alguien que habla español.  Por favor, escríbanos por correo electrónico o puede buscar gratis una traducción aproximada en el Internet, por exemplo, en www.freetranslation.com.
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A.  Events.
B.  Letters to the editor.
C.  Articles--news and features.
   1.  National Green meeting ends in Tucson.
   2.  Arizona referenda list updated.
   3.  ASU Campus Greens need members to revive.
   4.  Alternative power vehicles charge in.
   5.  Matriarchy:  Women rule in China's Mosuo culture; documentary by Xiaoli Zhou.

   6.  Mixed Greens (short items).
      -- Surprising products contain beef.
      -- Arizona finally approves breastfeeding.
      -- India guarantees rural jobs.
D.  Humor, comedy, and humour.
   7.  Do cars make the man?
      -- Top ten dumb guy ideas for lowering gas prices. 
      -- Police get you coming or going.
      -- "God Bless My S.U.V." by the Capitol Steps.
   8.  Favorite slogans, sayings, anecdotes, etc.
E.  Articles--opinion
   9.  Why we have a duopoly--while parliamentary and pro-rep countries don't.
   10.  Gubernatorial candidate Hess answers questions.
   11.  Buying votes with advertising.
F.  Green Party notices.
G.  Other notices.
H.  Please write one of these articles!
I.  Masthead:  publication identity, owners, address, etc.
End of TABLE OF CONTENTS.

A. Events.

2006 August

   August 1, Tuesday, 6 p.m.  Concerned Citizens Movie Night re-screens the documentary The Future of Food:  the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery shelves.  Free.  Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ.  Telephone Jason Williams 480-730-0205. www.changinghands.com
 
   August 1, Tuesday, 8 p.m.  Mesa Greens meet at Bookmans E.E., 1056 South Country Club Drive (at Southern Avenue), Mesa.  Free.  See also 2006 July issue, Article # 3.  www.mesagreens.org.
 
   August 3, Thursday.  Last day to register as a write-in candidate for public office in Arizona.  Then if you get a certain small number of write-ins in the September 12 primary, you are put onto the November 7 ballot.*
 
   August 4, Friday.  Who Killed the Electric Car?  documentary movie opens on some big screens.  Was to be at AMC Desert Ridge 18 in Phoenix, but now it's not on the Web pages.  Try telephoning 480-606-0803.  # 32 - 21001 North Tatum Boulevard.  Also in Tucson at Century Elcon 20 theater.  www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com 
 
   August 4, Friday, 6 - 11 p.m.  Central Phoenix, AZ.  First Friday Art Walk (first Friday of each month).  The Green Party usually has a table in the parking lot just west of Modified Arts, 407 East Roosevelt Street, from about 6 to 10 p.m.
   Free shuttle bus all around central Phoenix among the participating art galleries, etc., such as the Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Avenue.  Free admission to most galleries.  www.cenpho.com/journal/2005/11/5/first-fridays-art-walk.html  and  www.maricopagreens.org.
 
   August 9.  Arizona Citizens for Election Reform.  Changed to August 23, which see.
 
   Estimated late August.  Gentle Strength Co-operative moving to 9 East Southern Avenue (southeast corner of Mill Avenue), Tempe.  Until then, non-members and members should buy their natural food at 234 West University Drive, Tempe.  Telephone 480-968-4831.  www.gentlestrength.com.
 
   August 15, Tuesday, 8 p.m.  Mesa Greens meet at Bookmans E.E., 1056 South Country Club Drive (at Southern Avenue), Mesa.  Free.  See also 2006 July issue, Article # 3.  ww.mesagreens.org.
 
   August 15, Tuesday.  Submissions due for the next issue of this Green e-newsletter.  Later ones are welcome?we'll try to squeeze them in.  See procedure in Masthead at the end of this e-newsletter.
 
   August 16, Wednesday, 6 p.m.  The documentary Manufacturing Consent, the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky.  Concerned Citizens Movie Night.  Free.  Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ; www.changinghands.com.  Telephone Jason Williams 480-730-0205.
 
   August 23, Wednesday, 7 to 9 p.m.  Arizona Citizens for Election Reform (ACER) meeting.  Free.  At Bookmans E.E., meeting room, 8034 North 19th Avenue (n.w. corner of West Northern Avenue), Phoenix, AZ.  Map. www.aceronline.org.  (Changed from August 9.  See also Article # 9.a. in 2006 June issue.)
 
   August 27, Sunday, 2 to 4:30 p.m.  (Steering Committee meeting 1 to 2 p.m.)  General Membership meeting, Green Party of Maricopa County.  For all registered Greens and guests.  Bookmans E.E., 1056 South Country Club Drive, Mesa, AZ; telephone 480-835-0505.  Car pool:  telephone 602-417-0213.  www.maricopagreens.org.
 
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   August 29, Tuesday, 8 p.m.  Mesa Greens meet at Bookmans E.E., 1056 South Country Club Drive (at Southern Avenue), Mesa.  Free.  See also 2006 July issue, Article # 3.  ww.mesagreens.org.
 
   August 30, Wednesday, 7 p.m.  Political Bookgroup discusses Hostile Takeover by David Sirota.  Free.  Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ; telephone 480-730-0205.  John 480-755-1704 or jandj11@cox.netwww.changinghands.com.
 
Recurring events
 
   Daily 11:10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:10 p.m., and 8:40 p.m.  An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary movie, rated PG, 100 minutes.  Claudia Ellquist recommended it in the 2006 July edition, Article # D.1., and in Green Party Digest (Pima Greens), 2006 June 29.  Regular prices.  Harkins Shea 14 theater, 7354 East Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale, AZ.  Telephone 480-948-6555.  IMDb  map  http://harkinstheatres.moviefone.com/showtimes/.
 
   Mondays, 5 - 6 p.m.  Tempe, AZ.  Peace Vigil outside 740 South Mill Avenue (n.w. corner of West University Drive).  Free.
 
   Every second Saturday:  August 12, 26, September 9, etc., 10 a.m. to noon.  Phoenix, AZ.  Grandma's for Peace protest.  Free.  West Bell Road and 99th Avenue.  www.codepinkphx.org/local_groups.html
and
www.grandmothersforpeace.org/directory/
 
   Sundays, 6 - 7 p.m. Cold Turkey re-runs, television Channel 51, i Network.  Unwitting volunteers try to quit smoking.  www.ionline.tv/shows/coldturkey/.

2006 September and later
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