July 3, 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, Please join us this Monday, July 4, for voter outreach at the SF Mime Troupe's "home opener" show in Dolores Park. Details are below, in the first event listing below news and announcements. All Greens are invited to the Green Party of California's General Assembly next weekend, July 9-10. This event will be held by video teleconference, and early registration ends on July 4. Join us and help welcome the Green Party's 2016 presidential nominee, Dr. Jill Stein, and long-time Green activist Ms. Margaret Kimberley. They will discuss how Greens can play a pivotal role in building the people's movement that we need to save our world. We will also welcome the Left Unity Slate of 2022 candidates who will share their campaign experiences. We'll also hear updates from county representatives, engage in discussions, and much more: https://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/july_2022_ga Since 2009, the SF Green Party has supported a boycott of Israel until the country complies with all international laws, resolutions, and court decisions (https://www.sfgreenparty.org/issues/13-israel-bds). This week, we're proud to announce that the CA Green Party has formally joined us in supporting the BDS movement. The state party's statement is here: http://cagreens.org/california-green-party-formally-joins-israel-boycott-div... Here's a good article about Newsom's "CARE Court" from the Western Regional Advocacy Project. The SF Green Party previously endorsed WRAP's "Homeless Bill of Rights", which also discusses the concern about funds being reallocated away from needed services such as mental health care and towards more police and coerced health care: https://wraphome.org/2022/06/28/care-court-is-another-tool-for-oppression-ca... For many years, Green Parties across the United States have promoted reform measures that would result in more democracy in the US, including ranked choice voting and proportional representation. FairVote has an article about a ballot initiative to implement PRCV (ranked choice voting with proportional representation) in Portland this November: https://www.fairvote.org/portland_could_be_the_next_american_city_with_propo... *===========================* What: Voter outreach at the SF Mime Troupe's "home opening" show Where: Dolores Park, meet by entrance at Church and 18th St When: Mon, July 4, 1 pm - 4 pm We'll be doing voter outreach at the Mime Troupe's opening show in Dolores Park this Monday, July 4. Their 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@sfgreens.org. *===========================* What: Save the Date - Green Party Monthly meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, July 27, 7-9 pm Agenda TBA (will be set the week before). Mask policy: Masks are currently optional indoors, for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. We provide the option for SF Green Party members to participate in our meetings via Zoom, so email cc@sfgreens.org for info on how you can join us virtually. 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@sfgreens.org *===========================* Below are some more online events of potential interest to Greens; almost all of them are free, and they're hosted across the country, as well as in Canada and the UK. (The listed times are for the local Pacific time zone). They cover a fairly broad range of topics, so please just ignore the ones you' Mon, 7/4, 10 am -- Building Global Movements for Peace, People & Planet -- With Jeremy Corbyn plus international guests Yanis Varoufakis, DIEM 25, Greece // Sevim Dağdelen, Die Linke MP (Left Party), Germany // Gabriel Rodriguez, International Transport Workers' Federation, Argentina // Gyekye Tanoh, Third World Solidarity Network, Ghana //Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Progressive International and Danièle Obono, MP & spokesperson for La France Insoumise -- Come together and discuss how we build global movements for peace, people and a better world -- Chaired by Kate Hudson, CND: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/building-global-movements-for-peace-people-p... Mon, 7/4, 11 am -- An evening with Yanis Varoufakis - Wycombe CLP -- Wycombe CLP has the pleasure of welcoming the eminent Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis for a discussion on Zoom. A former academic, he served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. He has been Secretary-General of MeRA25, a left-wing political party, since he founded it in 2018. He has been a member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens B since 2019 -- Yanis will be discussing his new book 'Another Now' which is about how we can create a fair and equal society and creating a post capitalist society that is far more realistic than we think -- This will no doubt generate widespread interest and be a fantastic opportunity for political education for members and supporters - we look forward to seeing you all!: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/an-evening-with-yanis-varoufakis-wycombe-clp... Thu, 7/7, 3 pm -- 'Presumed Guilty: How SCOTUS Empowered Police & Subverted Civil Rights' Book Talk with Alliance for Justice -- Please join Alliance for Justice for a conversation with Berkeley Law Dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, and ACLU National Board President, Deborah Archer -- For decades, the Supreme Court has knelt to police power, and communities of color have suffered disproportionate levels of harm and police violence as a result -- Apart from the brief decade during which the Warren Court narrowly expanded the rights of the accused, the Supreme Court has historically sided with police and enabled racist practices. The chipping away at those rights has caused too many to become victim to police brutality and violence -- Join a discussion with Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on his most recent book, "Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered Police and Subverted Civil Rights", and the Supreme Court's compliance in expanding police violence: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/06/16/18850512.php Mon, 7/11, 11 am -- Dawn of Everything Book Discussion Group -- Detailed discussion of the 2021 book by Graeber & Wengrow, hosted by anthropologist Dr. Michelle Merrill -- We will meet every other Monday (11:00 am Pacific) to discuss the book chapter by chapter -- Registrants will receive questions to consider in their reading, plus additional info, slides and video from our preliminary meeting -- This recent book provides fodder for deep dialogue about possible futures. We can use this as a space to explore the human capacity to work together as we co-create a world that works for all beings. Join us in a series of probing conversations, facilitated by Novasutras founder and resident anthropologist, Dr. Michelle Merrill -- “The Dawn of Everything is the radical revision of everything, liberating us from the familiar stories about humanity’s past that are too often deployed to impose limitations on how we imagine humanity’s future. Instead Graeber and Wengrow tell us that what human beings are most of all is creative, from the beginning, so that there is no one way we were or should or could be. Another of the powerful currents running through this book is a reclaiming of Indigenous perspectives as a colossal influence on European thought, a valuable contribution to decolonizing global histories.” ~ Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell and Hope in the Dark -- Ch 10: Jun 13, Ch 11: Jun 27, Ch 12: Jul 11, Wrap-up: Jul 25: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dawn-of-everything-book-discussion-group-regist... Sun, 7/31, 12 Noon -- Burning Issues Book Club (July 2022: GIVE PEOPLE MONEY) -- Burning Issues Book Club (BIBC) is an online and local book club that gathers to read and discuss non-fiction works related to climate change, environmental degradation, environmental and social justice, and implementation of social change movements -- Burning Issues Book Club (meets last Sunday of the month) -- July - Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World -- August - As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock -- September - The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/burning-issues-book-club-july-2022-give-peop... *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.