August 22, 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, We've started making endorsements for the November election! At our July meeting, we made endorsements on all the statewide propositions. These are posted on our website: http://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/102-november-2022-endorsements Please join us this Wed, August 24, at our monthly members' meeting. This month, we'll finish making endorsements of local ballot measures, and make last minute edits to our candidate questionnaires. After our meeting, we will email candidate questionnaires for Supervisor, Board of Education, College Board, BART Board, Public Defender, and District Attorney to all candidates we have contact info for. Candidates who return our questionnaires by Saturday, Sep 3, will be invited to our candidate forum and endorsement meeting on Wed, September 7. Our agenda for this Wednesday is below: What: Green Party Monthly meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, August 24, 7-9 pm * Introductions * Endorsements of Local Ballot Measures; read them here: https://sfelections.sfgov.org/measures * Finalize candidate questionnaires * Announcements 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 *===========================* What: Mothers for Peace - Stop Diablo Canyon Where: Online - email Senators When: Before Aug 31 Take Immediate Action to STOP the extended operation of Diablo Canyon! Newsom's latest capricious bill exempts environmental review and costs us $1.4 Billion! Governor Newsom has now introduced another bill to allow for the continued operation of Diablo Canyon by a vague "five or ten years." The draft of this bill includes shortcuts and sweeping exemptions from environmental review from State permitting agencies. This bill also promises to "loan" PG&E up to $1.4 billion to cover costs of extending Diablo Canyon’s operating life - with all of the loan potentially "forgivable." It agrees to pay PG&E $7 per every megawatt-hour of power generated which would mean an annual subsidy exceeding $120 million. For more info, see this alert from Mothers for Peace: https://mailchi.mp/3bb5656d6ead/urgent-action-request *===========================* What: Save the Date - Candidate forum and endorsement meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness), SF When: Wed, September 7, evening The SF Green Party will invite all candidates who return completed questionnaires on time to speak and answer questions at our candidate forum and endorsement meeting (tentatively scheduled for 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. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.