September 10 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Thanks to all who came out to the #DefendDACA rally on September 5! Please join us at Sunday Streets today in the Western Addition, and again in the Excelsior on October 1. Details on those events are below. Barry Hermanson, our candidate for Congress, wrote a nice article on US budget priorities for the SF Bay View newspaper: http://sfbayview.com/2017/08/u-s-budget-priorities/ Barry is also looking for a volunteer to help with social media. If you're interested, contact us at cc@sfgreens.org. *===========================* What: Voter outreach at Sunday Streets Where: Western Addition (details TBA) When: Sunday, Sep 10, from 11-4 pm Greens will be walking around Sunday Streets as a group today, handing out literature. We'll start near Baker and Hayes this morning, then walk the route towards Fillmore and Geary. Our contact person will be Barry Hermanson; call him at 415-255-9494 if you are meeting up with us and want to know exactly where we are. *===========================* What: Final WILPF Peace Talk of 2017: Maxine Hong Kingston Where: Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley (at Ashby BART) When: Sunday, Sep 17, 3-5pm Event is free, wheelchair accessible, refreshments served, all are welcome The East Bay-San Francisco branches of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom are honored to have Maxine Hong Kingston, celebrated author and professor of creative writing at UC Berkeley, as the final speaker in our 2017 Peace Talks series. She will reflect on her life and writing, on immigration, war, peace, and activism. She will be in conversation with Kate Raphael, author and producer of KPFA's Women's Magazine. Kingston's first book, a memoir entitled The Woman Warrior, was published in 1976 and won the National Book Critic's Circle Award, making her a literary celebrity at age thirty-six. Her second book, China Men, earned the National Book Award. Both books are still widely taught in literature and other classes. Kingston has earned additional awards, including the PEN West Award for Fiction for Tripmaster Monkey, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the National Humanities Medal, which was conferred by President Clinton. Her most recent books are The Fifth Book of Peace and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. Kingston is Senior Lecturer Emerita for Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama. For more information contact wilpf@wilpfeastbay.org *===========================* What: Save the date - Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, Sep 27, 7-9 pm The agenda will be set the week before, at our CC meeting on Sep 20. 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 whelchair accessible. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc@sfgreens.org *===========================* What: Voter outreach at Sunday Streets Where: Excelsior (details TBA) When: Sunday, Oct 1, from 12-4 pm Save the date for voter outreach at Sunday Streets in the Excelsior! Email us if you can help out cc@sfgreens.org. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.