September 2, 2022 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 August members' meeting, we made more endorsements on propositions. Our endorsements to date are posted on our website: https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/102-november-2022-endorsements We have sent candidate questionnaires to all candidates for Supervisor, Board of Education, College Board, BART Board, Public Defender, and District Attorney to all candidates we have contact info for. These questionnaires are due tomorrow night, Sep 3, at 11:59 pm. If you support any particular candidates, please remind them to turn in their questionnaire. If they have not received it, they should contact us ASAP at cc@sfgreens.org. Completed questionnaires will be posted on our website, and candidates who return our questionnaires by tomorrow will be invited to our candidate forum and endorsement meeting on Wed, September 7, detailed below. We'll send our one more notice when answers to our questionnaires have been received and posted on our website. *===========================* What: Candidate forum and endorsement meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, September 7, 6:30-9 pm The SF Green Party will invite all candidates who return completed questionnaires on time to speak and answer questions at our candidate forum and endorsement meeting (Wed, Sep 7 from 6:30 - 9 pm). Please note the earlier start time. We hope to finish all candidate interviews by around 8, then decide on endorsements. 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: Virtual Forum on Housing, Development, and Taxation Where: online, https://bit.ly/SS_S_Housing When: Sat, Sep 10, 2:30-4:30 pm Please join us for our next Suds, Snacks and Socialism forum. Housing: Commodity or Human Right? Register in advance at https://bit.ly/SS_S_Housing to receive your personal link for this event. Keeping rental housing empty is one way landlords manipulate the housing market. At this forum we will discuss local ballot measures for an empty homes tax. We will also examine rent control and other affordable housing policies; and look at the battle over Howard Terminal in Oakland, which is really about gentrification and real estate profits, not about a ball park. Moderated by Marsha Feinland, former Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner. Gwen McLaughlin – member of San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America working on the Empty Homes Tax initiative Steve Barton – retired City of Berkeley Housing Director and Deputy Director of the Rent Board; currently on the Board of the Bay Area Community Land Trust Michael Rubin – member of the Socialist group Solidarity and the Oakland Greens John-Marc Chandonia – San Francisco Green Party County Council Organizations listed for identification purposes only. This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party. For more information, email info@sudssnackssocialism.org. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.