June 21 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Happy Fathers' Day! We're meeting this Wednesday (non-Greens are welcome to come and ask questions, but only active SF Green Party members can decide on our endorsements), and we still need volunteers for next weekend at Pride (see below). *===========================* EVENT: Green Party Monthly Meeting WHEN: Jun 24, 7-9 pm WHERE: Redstone Building, 2940 16th Street #302 Agenda: 1) Interview Ross Mirkarimi and decide on endorsement for Sheriff (45 min) 2) Update on Francisco Herrera's mayoral campaign and upcoming events; we still need volunteers for Pride! (5 min) 3) Go over our last endorsement questionnaires for Mayor/Supe/College Board, to see if we want to add or remove any questions before sending to candidates (30 min) Our questionnaires from last time are posted online: http://www.sfgreenparty.org/11-news/65-questionnaires-posted-for-827-candida... If you want to get the candidates' positions on record on any issue of interest to Greens, come to the meeting or send us your proposed questions in writing. 4) Decide whether to formally endorse the new Airbnb regulations being circulated (10 min) 5) Presentation on new development near Rincon Park (15 min) *===========================* EVENT: Pride! WHEN: Jun 26-27 WHERE: Civic Center We'll have a booth both days at the Pride Celebration! We still need volunteers to staff the booth in order to help register new Greens and let people know about Francisco Herrera's Mayoral campaign! If you can help, please email cc@sfgreens.org. We have a slightly better booth location this year, on Grove Street near Larkin. On Sunday, June 28th, Greens will join Courage To Resist and the Chelsea Manning Support Network (Free whistleblower PVT Chelsea Manning) in the San Francisco Pride Parade! You're invited to march for our heroic WikiLeaks whistle-blower Chelsea Manning and show your support for Chelsea, whistle-blowers, and government transparency. * Be a contingent safety monitor (more info below) * Help lead the Chelsea Manning parade contingent by holding our lead banner! * Wave from the motorized cable car! * Cheer on our Flash Mob Dancers! * Help staff the Chelsea Manning booth at the TransMarch In 2013, the Chelsea Manning contingent was awarded the highest honor, "The Absolutely Fabulous Overall Contingent." That contingent was the largest non-corporate group with well over 1,000 people! And last year, Chelsea Manning was honored as an official Parade Grand Marshal! With Chelsea's legal appeals beginning soon, she needs your support more than ever! Volunteers are urgently needed to attend a one hour contingent monitor training prior to parade day. Contingent monitors walk (or ride) along with us during the parade to double-check everyone is following the parade rules and being safe. SF Pride requires each contingent to provide their own monitors to participate, and we'll need about 20 monitors to participate. Organized by the Chelsea Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist, and endorsed by the SF Green Party. *===========================* EVENT: US Social Forum and Green Party of California Plenary WHEN: Jun 24-28 WHERE: San Jose Greens from around the state will be participating in the US Social Forum in San Jose, which also coincides with the Green Party of California's plenary. For more info, see http://www.ussfsanjose.com/ *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.