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-cand... 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-cand... 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@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@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@sudssnackssocialism.org. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.