August 16, 2021 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, At our monthly meeting last month, we endorsed NO on the gubernatorial recall election. Although we strongly disapprove of Newsom's performance as Governor, we also have many concerns about the leading candidates to replace him, as well the plurality vote (rather than ranked choice vote) on his replacement, since a plurality vote will likely result in a winner with little popular support. We are currently vetting the Green candidates running to replace Newsom, and will consider making an endorsement at a special meeting this Wednesday, 8/18. If you are an active Green and would like to participate, email cc@sfgreens.org. Also, if you're a KPFA member, please be sure to vote for the Rescue Pacifica candidates in the election that starts today (8/16)! The election is for the Local Station Board (LSB) and it will be conducted using ranked choice voting. We have endorsed the nine Rescue Pacifica candidates, as listed below. (More info about Rescue Pacifica is here: https://rescuepacifica.net/ ). This year's election is vital to preserve democracy at KPFA and Pacifica! Individuals involved with the opposing faction worked to gut the powers of the LSB and they've filed lawsuits to try to take control of KPFA and the Pacifica network. Please use your democratic voting rights to maintain and strengthen the LSB by voting for the Rescue Pacifica candidates as your top nine choices! Please vote for all nine of the following candidates as your top choices (in any order): Rich Stone * Daniel Borgstrom * Don Macleay * James McFadden * Adisa Armand Donna Carter Pete Farruggio Amber Jayanti Elizabeth Milos * = Registered Greens; note that Rich Stone is a County Council member here in San Francisco. Thank you for standing up for democracy and supporting progressive, independent radio! *===========================* What: SF Green Party Special Meeting - Gubernatorial Recall Where: online and/or in person, details TBA When: Wed, Aug 18, 7:30-9 pm We are currently vetting the Green candidates running to replace Newsom, and will consider making an endorsement at a special meeting this Wednesday, 8/18 (combined with our regular CC meeting). If you are an active Green and would like to participate, email cc@sfgreens.org. *===========================* What: Save the date - Green Party Monthly meeting Where: online and/or in person, details TBA When: Wed, Aug 25, 7-9 pm We will set the agenda and location at this Wed's CC meeting. 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: Online events When: various dates, see below Below are some more online events -- as before, almost all of them are free, and they're hosted across the country, as well as in Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Ireland. (The listed times are for the local Pacific time zone). They cover a fairly broad range of topics, so please just ignore the ones you're not interested in. And of course, do feel free to forward as much or as little of this info to others as you'd like: Mon, 8/16, 3 pm -- P&P Live! Eyal Press: DIRTY WORK with Patrick Radden Keefe -- Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name -- Eyal Press is an author and a journalist based in New York. The recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, a Cullman Center fellowship at the New York Public Library, and a Puffin Foundation fellowship at Type Media Center, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He is the author of Beautiful Souls and Absolute Convictions -- Press will be joined in conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-eyal-press-dirty-work-with-patrick-radd... Mon, 8/16, 5 pm -- An audience with environmental economist Suzi Kerr -- An audience with environmental economist Suzi Kerr -- New Zealander Suzi Kerr is at the forefront of international climate change research and policy. In her current role as the chief economist at the Environmental Defense Fund in New York City, Suzi looks at how economic forces can be used to address climate change rather than drive it. Join Suzi, Commission Chair Rod Carr and principal economist Chris Holland for a panel discussion on the intersection of climate action, climate change policy and economic -- Organized by the Climate Change Commission of New Zealand: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-audience-with-environmental-economist-suzi-k... Tue, 8/17, 10:30 am -- Wretched of the Earth ONLINE -- Online book club meeting to discuss Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth -- We will be discussing Frantz Fanon's classic text, Wretched of the Earth, on 17 August. All are welcome to join, even if you haven't read the book! A link to join the Teams meeting will be sent to whichever email you use to register closer to the time of the event -- Organized by the Revolutionary Reading Room: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wretched-of-the-earth-online-tickets-1618082157... Tue, 8/17, 3:30 pm -- Conversations Book Club: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own-- We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president who refused to embrace a vision of the country shorn of the insidious belief that white people matter more than others -- We have been here before: For James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the civil rights movement, when a similar attempt to compel a national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In these years, spanning from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin transformed into a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair -- In the story of Baldwin’s crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Mixing biography with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude’s endeavor, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. It lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America -- James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle?: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-book-club-begin-again-tickets-163... Tue, 8/17, 7 pm -- Lisa Wells & Mickey Huff: Believers: Making a Life at the End of World -- In search of answers and action, award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change -- Like many of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by news of apocalyptic-scale climate change and a coming sixth extinction. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes. But what can be done? Wells embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking answers in dedicated communities—outcasts and visionaries—on the margins of society -- Wells meets Finisia Medrano, an itinerant planter and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists to rewild the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing "watershed discipleship" in New Mexico; another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farming—guns into plowshares. She watches the world’s greatest tracker teach how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in new ways that acknowledge the fires will come again. Wells opens up seemingly intractable questions about the damage we have done and how we might reckon with our inheritance. Believers demands transformation: If the Earth is our home, if our home is being destroyed—how then shall we live? -- Lisa Wells is the author of The Grief Tower, Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids, and The Simple Life -- Mickey Huff is the current Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation, and professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lisa-wells-mickey-huff-believers-making-a-life-... Tue, 8/24, 6 pm -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in conversation with Alejandro Murguía -- Celebrating the launch of her new book Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion -- Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States -- Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US's history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, and is the author or editor of many books, including An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-in-conversation-with-aleja... *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.