September 2022 - announce

Greenzine - monthly members meeting this Wed
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

September 26, 2022 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty instagram.com/sfgreenparty mastodon.sfgreens.org/@sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, All of our endorsements for November are now posted on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/102-november-2022-endorsements Please check our Twitter feed for updated announcemnets of events to support our endorsed candidates. We will also be posting a complete Green Voter Guide with full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements, and mailing a summary of our Voter Guide to our members. If you can help contribute to the costs of this mailing, please click the "Donate" link on our website, https://sfgreenparty.org/donate/ Join us this Wednesday at our members' meeting, where we will go over our draft Voter Guide postcard, and also plan voter outreach to promote our endorsements between now and Election Day. *===========================* What: Green Party monthly members' meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, September 28, 7-9 pm Agenda: * Introductions * Campaign updates * Draft voter guide postcard * Upcoming opportunities for voter outreach - Haight St Fair, Sunday Streets, etc. Every 4th Wednesday the SF Green Party meets to discuss issues of concern, listen to interesting speakers, endorse events, plan outreach and more! Everyone welcome. All meetings are wheelchair accessible. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc(a)sfgreens.org Mask policy: Masks are currently optional indoors, for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. We provide the option for SF Green Party members and invited candidates to participate in our meetings via Zoom, so email cc(a)sfgreens.org for info on how you can join us virtually. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.

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Greenzine - November endorsements and events this weekend
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 17 Sep '22

17 Sep '22

September 17, 2022 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty instagram.com/sfgreenparty mastodon.sfgreens.org/@sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, All of our endorsements for November are now posted on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/102-november-2022-endorsements We will be posting a complete Green Voter Guide with full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements, and also mailing a summary of our Voter Guide to our members. If you can help contribute to the costs of this mailing, please click the "Donate" link on our website, https://sfgreenparty.org/donate/ Here is a summary of some of our positions on key contests and ballot measures: * John Hamasaki for District Attorney - please help support him at his campaign kickoff this weekend! See event listing below. * Rebecca Susan Feng Young for Public Defender * William Walker for Community College Board * Shamann Walton for D10 Supervisor * No endorsements for Board of Education or other contests * No on D: Redefines luxury housing as "affordable" * No on E: Skips environmental review of "affordable" housing development * No on H: Eliminates elections in odd numbered years, giving more power to the Mayor * No on I: Cars everywhere * Yes on J: Car-free JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park * Yes on M: Tax on keeping residential apartments vacant * Yes on O: Parcel tax to fund City College (restoring some of the classes that were cut) * Yes on 1: Protect abortion rights * No on 26: Regressive tax on addicts, loss of tribal sovereignty, supports animal cruelty * No on 27: Just like 26, but with some window dressing for homeless services * No on 30: Lyft-sponsored proposition to defund public transit, subsidize electric cars and clear-cut forests *===========================* What: Hamasaki for DA campaign kickoff Where: 518 Valencia St, SF When: Sun, September 18, 12 noon Join Greens and other supporters of John Hamasaki for District Attorney at his campaign kickoff! Note that if you saw an earlier announcement that this would be at Duboce Park, it has been moved to 518 Valencia St instead due to the likelihood of rain. *===========================* What: Unity and solidarity - Free Assange, Mumia, and Palestine! Where: First Congregational Church of Berkeley, Dana St between Durant and Channing, Berkeley CA When: Sat, September 17, 7 pm LA Progressive Presents: An evening of unity and solidarity... MASK REQUIRED! Admission/donation $20-$10 Speakers include: Alice Walker (Pulitzer Prize novelist) Mama Pam (Internt’l Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal) Chris Hedges (Pulitzer Prize journalist) Mumia Abu-Jamal (via phone from prison) Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers defendant) Susan Schnall (National Pres., Veterans for Peace) Nozomi Hayase (Author, WikiLeaks: The Global Fourth Estate) Vincent De Stefano (Coordinator, Assangedefense.org) Jeff Mackler (Dir., Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal) For more information and endorsers, see this link: https://nepajac.org/sffree.htm *===========================* What: Save the date - Green Party monthly members' meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, September 28, 7-9 pm Every 4th Wednesday the SF Green Party meets to discuss issues of concern, listen to interesting speakers, endorse events, plan outreach and more! Everyone welcome. All meetings are wheelchair accessible. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc(a)sfgreens.org Mask policy: Masks are currently optional indoors, for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. We provide the option for SF Green Party members and invited candidates to participate in our meetings via Zoom, so email cc(a)sfgreens.org for info on how you can join us virtually. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.

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Greenzine - questionnaires posted for candidate forum on Sep 7
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

September 4, 2022 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty instagram.com/sfgreenparty mastodon.sfgreens.org/@sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Our endorsements to date are posted on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/102-november-2022-endorsements Please join us at our candidate forum and endorsement meeting this Wed, 9/7. Details are below. Completed questionnaires from candidates seeking our endorsement have been posted on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/10-campaigns/103-questionnaires-posted-for-9-7-can… We'll also be doing voter outreach this Labor Day at the SF Mime Troupe's closing show in Dolores Park. And join us next weekend for a virtual event discussing housing policy and our efforts to pass the Empty Homes Tax. Details on both events are below. *===========================* What: Candidate forum and endorsement meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, September 7, 6:30-9 pm The SF Green Party has invited all candidates who returned completed questionnaires on time to speak and answer questions at our candidate forum and endorsement meeting (Wed, Sep 7 from 6:30 - 9 pm). Please note the earlier start time. We hope to finish all candidate interviews by around 8, then decide on endorsements. The event is open to the public and all are invited! Please read candidates' answers to our questionnaires in advance, so we don't ask them questions they've already answered on the record: https://sfgreenparty.org/10-campaigns/103-questionnaires-posted-for-9-7-can… Mask policy: Masks are currently optional indoors, for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. We provide the option for SF Green Party members and invited candidates to participate in our meetings via Zoom, so email cc(a)sfgreens.org for info on how you can join us virtually. *===========================* What: Voter outreach at the SF Mime Troupe's closing show Where: Dolores Park, meet by entrance at Church and 18th St When: Mon, Sep 5, 1 pm - 4 pm We'll be doing voter outreach at the Mime Troupe's closing show in Dolores Park this Monday, Sep 5. The play this year is called "Back to the Way Things Were." https://www.sfmt.org/ The play will start at 2 pm, with music at 1:30. Volunteers are needed to help us set up our table and do voter outreach starting at 1 pm. Help us register new Greens and find people willing to help win Medicare for All; email if you can help out: cc(a)sfgreens.org. *===========================* What: Virtual Forum on Housing, Development, and Taxation Where: online, https://bit.ly/SS_S_Housing When: Sat, Sep 10, 2:30-4:30 pm Please join us for our next Suds, Snacks and Socialism forum. Housing: Commodity or Human Right? Register in advance at https://bit.ly/SS_S_Housing to receive your personal link for this event. Keeping rental housing empty is one way landlords manipulate the housing market. At this forum we will discuss local ballot measures for an empty homes tax. We will also examine rent control and other affordable housing policies; and look at the battle over Howard Terminal in Oakland, which is really about gentrification and real estate profits, not about a ball park. Moderated by Marsha Feinland, former Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner. Gwen McLaughlin – member of San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America working on the Empty Homes Tax initiative Steve Barton – retired City of Berkeley Housing Director and Deputy Director of the Rent Board; currently on the Board of the Bay Area Community Land Trust Michael Rubin – member of the Socialist group Solidarity and the Oakland Greens John-Marc Chandonia – San Francisco Green Party County Council Organizations listed for identification purposes only. This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party. For more information, email info(a)sudssnackssocialism.org. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.

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Greenzine - save the date for our candidate forum on Sep 7
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

September 2, 2022 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty instagram.com/sfgreenparty mastodon.sfgreens.org/@sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, At our August members' meeting, we made more endorsements on propositions. Our endorsements to date are posted on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/102-november-2022-endorsements We have sent candidate questionnaires to all candidates for Supervisor, Board of Education, College Board, BART Board, Public Defender, and District Attorney to all candidates we have contact info for. These questionnaires are due tomorrow night, Sep 3, at 11:59 pm. If you support any particular candidates, please remind them to turn in their questionnaire. If they have not received it, they should contact us ASAP at cc(a)sfgreens.org. Completed questionnaires will be posted on our website, and candidates who return our questionnaires by tomorrow will be invited to our candidate forum and endorsement meeting on Wed, September 7, detailed below. We'll send our one more notice when answers to our questionnaires have been received and posted on our website. *===========================* What: Candidate forum and endorsement meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, September 7, 6:30-9 pm The SF Green Party will invite all candidates who return completed questionnaires on time to speak and answer questions at our candidate forum and endorsement meeting (Wed, Sep 7 from 6:30 - 9 pm). Please note the earlier start time. We hope to finish all candidate interviews by around 8, then decide on endorsements. Mask policy: Masks are currently optional indoors, for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. We provide the option for SF Green Party members and invited candidates to participate in our meetings via Zoom, so email cc(a)sfgreens.org for info on how you can join us virtually. *===========================* What: Virtual Forum on Housing, Development, and Taxation Where: online, https://bit.ly/SS_S_Housing When: Sat, Sep 10, 2:30-4:30 pm Please join us for our next Suds, Snacks and Socialism forum. Housing: Commodity or Human Right? Register in advance at https://bit.ly/SS_S_Housing to receive your personal link for this event. Keeping rental housing empty is one way landlords manipulate the housing market. At this forum we will discuss local ballot measures for an empty homes tax. We will also examine rent control and other affordable housing policies; and look at the battle over Howard Terminal in Oakland, which is really about gentrification and real estate profits, not about a ball park. Moderated by Marsha Feinland, former Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner. Gwen McLaughlin – member of San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America working on the Empty Homes Tax initiative Steve Barton – retired City of Berkeley Housing Director and Deputy Director of the Rent Board; currently on the Board of the Bay Area Community Land Trust Michael Rubin – member of the Socialist group Solidarity and the Oakland Greens John-Marc Chandonia – San Francisco Green Party County Council Organizations listed for identification purposes only. This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party. For more information, email info(a)sudssnackssocialism.org. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.

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