June 20, 2024 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 first endorsement meeting of the year will be on June 26, the same night as our regular members' meeting. We'll interview candidates for Mayor and Supervisor between 6:30-8:30 pm, and then try to reach consensus on endorsements between 8:30-9:30. If you know of any candidates for Mayor or Supervisor who you think we should endorse, please remind them to return their answered quesionnaire to us by this Friday, June 21! Here are the questionnaires - please feel free to forward to any candidate who may have misplaced thier copy: * Supe - https://sfgreens.org/supe_q.txt * Mayor - https://sfgreens.org/mayor_q.txt Volunteers are needed for both SF Pride (June 29-30) and the SF Mime Troupe's home opener on July 4! Details on both events are below. Barry Hermanson recently wrote this article for the SF BayView newspaper: https://sfbayview.com/2024/06/sacramento-democrats-kill-universal-healthcare... At our meeting in May, we endorsed the ComMUNIty Transit Act, a community-led ballot initiative to tax Uber and Lyft to fund Muni. You can find out more about this initiative at https://www.sftransitact.com/ Greens are helping gather signatures to put this on the November ballot, so it will need only 50% support to pass. Some signature gathering events are listed below and also at https://www.sftransitact.com/events *===========================* What: Green Party endorsement meeting / members' meeting Where: 2973 16th St, #300, SF (note new location!) When: Wed, June 26, 6:30-9:30 pm Agenda: * 6:30-8:30 - Interview candidates for Mayor and Board of Supervisors * 8:30-9:30 - Decide on endorsements Candidates for other offices besides Mayor and Supe will be considered after the filing deadline for those offices. Our process this year will be different than in previous years. We will consider endorsments for all candidates who answer our questionnaires, which we will email to everyone in the race after the filing deadline whose contact information we can find. Candidates' answers will be posted on our website. However, we will only interview candidates who at least 3 active members want to invite. We'll give the candidates until Friday, June 21, to answer our questionnaires, then have our active members decide over the weekend who to invite on Wednesday the 26th. 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 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 SF Pride! Where: Booth H-VB36, on Hyde between McAllister and Golden Gate Streets When: Sat-Sun, June 29-30, all day We still need volunteers for voter outreach at Pride. Our booth will be on Hyde, between McAllister and Golden Gate Streets. The booth number is H-VB36. Email cc@sfgreens.org to let us know if you can volunteer. The event officially starts at 11 am and goes until 6 pm both days, but we could also use volunteers to set up and break down our booth. *===========================* What: Voter outreach at the SF Mime Troupe's "home opening" show Where: Dolores Park, meet by entrance at Church and 18th St When: Mon, July 4, 1 pm - 4 pm We'll be doing voter outreach at the Mime Troupe's opening show in Dolores Park this Monday, July 4. Their play this year is called "American Dreams." 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 gather signatures for the ComMUNIty Transit Act; email if you can help out: cc@sfgreens.org. *===========================* What: Signature gathering for ComMUNIty Transit Act Where: see below When: over the next week Friday, June 21: 5:30 PM JFK Promenade (No Training) John F Kennedy Dr & Nancy Pelosi Dr San Francisco, CA 94118 Saturday, June 22: 9:00 AM Alemany Farmer's Market (No Training) 100 Alemany Blvd 9:00 AM Fillmore Farmers Market (No Training) 1700 O'Farrell St 1:00 PM Queer Art Fair Stonestown Galleria (No Training) Old UA Cinema Sunday, June 23: 9:00 AM Inner Sunset Farmer's Market (No Training) 1315 8th Ave 10:00 AM Divisadero Farmers' Market (No Training) 1377 Fell St 10:00 AM Clement Farmer's Market (No Training) 244 Clement St 10:00 AM Outer Sunset Farmer's Market (No Training) 1994 37th Ave 12:00 PM Sunday Streets Golden Gate Avenue & Leavenworth Street RSVP for events here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSec4G7alSuaFmejeSXZuAFPhF8mILrx4_1_... *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. 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