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Greenzine: monthly members' meeting
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 21 Aug '23

21 Aug '23

August 21, 2023 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 monthly members' meeting is this Wednesday evening. Details and agenda are below. KPFA voting is now underway, for listener subscribers to this radio station. If you are a KPFA member, please see below for our endorsements. *===========================* What: Green Party monthly members' meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, Aug 23, 7-9 pm Agenda: * Intruductions - 5 min * New policy cards in Spanish and English - 5 min * SFPUC proposal on taking over PG&E infrastructure - 20 min * Watch some highlights from Alameda County's "Green Sunday" form on the Cornel West campaign, and discuss - 45 min * KPFA update - on-air forum was last Friday, ballots are out - 10 min * Haight Ashbury Stree Fair update - booth will be on south side of Clayton/Cole - 10 min 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. *===========================* What: KPFA voting Where: online When: now through September 30 We strongly recommend voting for the "Rescue Pacifica" ticket. To make maximum use of your "single transferable vote," please vote for all eight candidates (in any order). The Rescue-Pacifica ticket is: * Rich Stone (a SF Green Party County Council member) * Cheryl Davila * Stan Woods * Edward Escobar * Pathma Venasithamby * Dr. Nayvin Gordon * Steve Zeltzer * Elizabeth Milos Read more about the candidates, platform, and endorsements at https://RescuePacifica.net/ *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news(a)sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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Greenzine: KPFA elections and upcoming meeting
by Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

August 14, 2023 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, We think many of you probably listen to KPFA radio. So if you're a KPFA subscriber, we'd like to remind you that it's voting time. On August 15, an election gets underway to choose the next members of KPFA's Local Station Board, the "LSB." The Pacifica Bylaws (with listener-elected boards) were adopted after a long struggle against the 1999 takeover attempt at KPFA. So please use your hard-won right to vote. We strongly recommend voting for the "Rescue Pacifica" ticket. To make maximum use of your "single transferable vote," please vote for all eight candidates (in any order). The Rescue-Pacifica ticket is: * Rich Stone (a SF Green Party County Council member) * Cheryl Davila * Stan Woods * Edward Escobar * Pathma Venasithamby * Dr. Nayvin Gordon * Steve Zeltzer * Elizabeth Milos Read more about the candidates, platform, and endorsements at https://RescuePacifica.net/ Why vote for Rescue Pacifica? Because they oppose the pro-war / pro-intervention views that lately have been appearing more often on KPFA. Those opinions can already be found throughout the corporate media. We think KPFA should remain true to its history as an anti-war media outlet. Also, it's time for an infusion of fresh talent – we need to hear more voices from people of color, especially youth of color. Another of their priorities is having the station walk its talk about "democracy," by restoring participatory decision-making about programming. Top-down decision making is not the way to run a community institution! For many years, KPFA had a listener/staff Program Council to review proposed new shows and evaluate existing ones. A previous management eliminated the Program Council. It needs to be revived. Rescue Pacifica is also Green-friendly -- two Rescue Pacifca Greens currently serve on the LSB: Daniel Borgstrom and Alameda County Council member James McFadden. We urge KPFA subscribers not to vote for the rival "Protectors" slate. This faction (or its predecessors under different names) has held a majority on the LSB for years now, yet has actually avoided some of the most important responsibilities assigned to the LSB under the Pacifica Bylaws. For example: KPFA's previous General Manager resigned last summer after nine years on the job. The Bylaws require the LSB to do an annual evaluation of the manager's job performance. But the Protectors-dominated LSB did only one such evaluation, in nine years! And although the manager resigned a year ago, the Protectors majority still hasn't begun the process of hiring a successor. KPFA subscribers deserve an LSB that takes its duties seriously, and will do the work that's required of it. KPFA subscribers who provided an email address to the station should receive voting instructions by email. If you don't receive a ballot link by email on August 15, please go to https://elections.pacifica.org/ and follow the instructions there. *===========================* What: Save the Date - Green Party monthly members' meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, Aug 23, 7-9 pm The agenda will be set at the CC meeting the week before. 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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