THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
www.cagreens.org
Friday, July 15, 2005
Contact: Sara Amir, spokesperson 310.270.7106 saraamir@earthlink.net
Beth Moore Haines, spokesperson 530.277.0610 beth@ncws.com
Greens, social justice activists will 'crash'
Bohemian Club gathering this weekend, describe members as architects
of war.
SAN FRANCISCO (July 15, 2005) - Green Party
members will join other social justice activists this weekend to
"crash" the exclusive San Francisco Bohemian Club gathering
of military, political - members include past U.S. Presidents - and
corporate leaders, who Greens describe as architects of wars like the
one now in Iraq.
The first protest will run 12 Noon to Dusk FRIDAY
in the Sonoma town of Monte Rio, near Rio Theater at the intersection
of Bohemian Highway and Hwy. 116. Protests begin at 11 a.m. SATURDAY.
Every Republican president since Herbert Hoover,
recent cabinet members Donald H. Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and
"notables" including Henry Kissinger, James Baker and
members of Joint Chiefs of Staff are in the Bohemian Club, which
Greens charge is a concentration of power and wealth which subverts
legitimate political processes.
Protests began about 25 years ago when it was
learned that political and military leaders, scientists and corporate
executives were using the gatherings to float ideas - from plans for
the Manhattan Project to the World Bank and nuclear weapons - about
public policy without public scrutiny.
"This is the biggest back room in the
world," Paul Encimer, a member of the Green Party of California
Coordinating Committee. "Many of the corporate heads coming to
this encampment have profited immeasurably from the insider status
this club offers."
"These men are the elite, the aristocracy, in
this country. Some of them run the war machinery, others profit from
it, all are complicit in the war in Iraq," added Don Eichelberger,
co-coordinator of the Green Issue Working Group, which is
co-sponsoring the demonstrations along with protest founder Bohemian
Grove Action Network, whose supporters include Native American, peace,
veteran, student and social justice organizations statewide.
