June 16 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Although progressives narrowly lost the Mayor's race, we have some successes to celebrate: we won on every ballot proposition, and we took back a narrow majority on the Board of Supervisors. Progressives finally made good use of ranked choice voting, with the vast majority of Jane Kim's votes transferring to Mark Leno. Thanks to RCV, we came closer to winning the Mayor's race than we have at any time since the late 1980s. We'll have more election results to discuss at our meeting on June 27. This weekend, we'll be out gathering signatures to get the Community Housing Act on the November ballot. Look for us at the Juneteenth celebration in the Fillmore today! Email us or contact the campaign (see event below) if you can help. Next weekend, we'll be celebrating Pride at the Civic Center. Come join us at our booth, which will be near the corner of Larkin and Grove, to help gather signatures and do voter outreach. *===========================* What: SF Community Housing Act Office Hours Where: Dolores and 19th St, SF When: Sat, June 16 & Sun, June 17, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Greens have endorsed the SF Community Housing Act, a ballot measure for this November to fund the building and acquisition of 500 units of affordable public housing every year, as well as related infrastructure such as public transit and child care: https://www.sfcommunityhousingact.com/ The campaign will be training new volunteers to gather signatures to get the measure on the November ballot, accepting turn-ins for booklets from existing volunteers, re-upping all volunteers with new petition booklets & palm cards, giving advice on signature gathering, and generally chatting about our historic measure. This will ensure all volunteers have a chance to meet with us at some point during our signature gathering period to get trained, even if they can't make our big mobilizations or other events. We can stay until 2PM upon advance request. Can't find us or make office hours? Feel free to call us at (415) 952-0972, our campaign phone number. See you there!! and PS: activism is always sweeter when you bring a friend. More info: https://www.facebook.com/pg/sfcommunityhousingact/events/?ref=page_internal *===========================* What: Voter outreach at Pride Where: Near Larkin and Grove, Civic Center When: Sat, June 23 - Sun, June 24, all day We'll be gathering signatures to put the SF Community Housing Act (see above) on the ballot, as well as registering new Greens and helping to organize for Single Payer Healthcare for All in California. We'll need volunteers to help staff our table, sign up volunteers, and register new Greens! The event runs all day, and we'll also need help setting up and taking down the booth. Please email cc@sfgreens.org if you can help! Pride is more disorganized than usual this year, so although we've paid for a spot near the corner of Larkin and Grove, we still don't know our exact booth location. We'll send out a message towards the end of next week with our booth number. *===========================* What: Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, June 27, 7-9 pm Join us for a discussion of the election results, and organizing for the next round of elections this November! The detailed agenda will be set at our CC meeting on June 20, so look for more details in our next newsletter. 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 *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.