October 21 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Please join us on Wednesday, October 25, for our monthly meeting. Details and agenda are below. *===========================* What: Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, Oct 25, 7-9 pm Agenda: 1) Introductions - 5 minutes 2) Report-back from Save Midtown meeting - an event the residents of Midtown organized to get answers from their Supervisor, London Breed, who didn't show up. (see https://www.facebook.com/savemidtown/) 15-25 minutes 3) Delegate selection and decision making for the Green Party of California's General Assembly in Ventura (see details below) - 20 min 4) Work on new SFGP outreach materials on universal health care and on opposing military spending. Our card on military spending is near-final, and posted on our website: http://sfgreenparty.org/issues/81-new-card-on-military-spending 15 min 5) Update our questionnaires to candidates running for office in 2018. We hope to work with other progressive groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America and the SF Berniecrats next year to hold joint candidate forums or ask candidates similar policy questions. Our questionnaires from last year are here: http://sfgreens.org/supe_q.txt - Supervisor http://sfgreens.org/boe_q.txt - School Board http://sfgreens.org/ccb_q.txt - College Board http://sfgreens.org/bart_q.txt - BART Board Please let us know if there's anything else you want to ask! 20-30 minutes 6) Preliminary planning for our Holiday Party in December/January 5-10 minutes Everyone welcome. All meetings are whelchair accessible. The SF Green Party County Council is our local leadership body that plans the agenda for our monthy meetings. If you want to get an item on the agenda, please contact us at cc@sfgreens.org. The CC has moved its in-person meetings to the 2nd Wednesdays of each month, two weeks prior to our monthly meetings. Monthly meetings (like the one above) will still be held on the 4th Wednesday of every month, although we usually reschedule them in November and December due to holidays. *===========================* What: Green Party of California General Assembly Where: Bell Arts Factory, 432 N Ventura Ave, Ventura, CA When: Sat-Sun, Nov 11-12, all day The next statewide Green Party meeting will be in Ventura. San Francisco can send up to 6 delegates to make decisions, as well as an unlimited number of observers or alternates. If you want to go, please attend the SFGP monthly meeting on 10/25, or email us at cc@sfgreens.org. More information, including a draft agenda, is posted here: http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2017-11 *===========================* What: Save the Date - next Save Midtown Meeting When: Wed, Nov 15, evening Residents of Midtown (a public housing complex in the Fillmore) are still fighting with the City to save their homes from demolition. It was announced at last week's meeting that the next meeting will be held on November 15. Details TBA, so watch the facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/savemidtown/ *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.