September 23 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty mastodon.sfgreens.org/@sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, At our special endorsement meeting last week, we finished making all our endorsements for this November's election. New endorsements include Chesa Boudin for DA, Mano Raju for Public Defender, and a ranked endorsement of Dean Preston (#1) and Vallie Brown (#2) for District 5 Supe! All details of our endorsements to date, and the official argument we submitted to the Department of Elections in opposition to Prop D, are here on our website: http://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/90-november-2019-endorsements We'll include events for all of our endorsed campaigns and candidates in future newsletters, so please show up to help them win! At our regular monthly meeting this Wed, we're excited to have Howie Hawkins, the original author of the Green New Deal, join us for the evening. Hawkins is one of several candidates running for the Green Party's presidential nomination in 2020. While we have not endorsed any candidate, we welcome all of them to join us to discuss their platform and how they plan to grow the Green Party! Please join us for what should be a fun and informative discussion, and bring any questions you would like to raise. The agenda for our meeting, and other upcoming events, are below: *===========================* What: SF Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, Sep 25, 7-9 pm Agenda: * Introductions * Visit and Discussion with Howie Hawkins, who is campaigning for the Green Party's Presidential nomination in 2020. We'll discuss with Hawkins his proposals to address the climate crisis compared with other presidential candidates, plans for the 2020 campaign, and any other issues Greens wish to raise. * Various California Green Pary decisions: http://int-cagreens.nationbuilder.com/sga_vote_id_184_to_189 http://int-cagreens.nationbuilder.com/sga_vote_id_190 * Finalize our Green Voter Guide and plan campaign outreach and events through the November election. 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: Vote in KPFA elections Where: online When: through October 15 Greens who are KPFA members have asked us for recommendations for the Local Station Board elections. These elections are ongoing through October 15, and people who were already members before a couple of months ago should have gotten ballots by email. This is a ranked choice election in which voters can rank all the candidates. The SF Green Party has endorsed the entire Rescue Pacifica slate, which includes two Greens: Christine Pepin and Don Macleay. The other members of that slate are Marilyn Langlois, Mantra Helene Plonsey, Karina Stenquist, and Tom Voorhees. Finally, after ranking all members of Rescue Pacifica, we recommend that KPFA members also rank Aki Tanaka and Carol Wolfley on their ballots. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.