September 20, 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, Thanks to everybody who voted in last week's Gubernatorial recall election! Our endorsed position of "no" on the recall won with 86% of the vote in SF, and our endorsed candidate, LA Green Party member Dan Kaplelovitz, has received nearly 3000 votes in SF to date. Kapelovitz earned nearly twice as many votes in SF as Caitlyn Jenner, just one of many conservative candidates who received extensive positive coverage from the SF Chronicle. Results from mail-in ballots are still being counted, and current totals can be found here: https://sfelections.sfgov.org/september-14-2021-election-results-summary Several local Greens published op-eds in local media this week. Barry Hermanson wrote an article on "Turning off the gas" in the SF Bayview: https://sfbayview.com/2021/08/turning-off-the-gas/ and Steven Hill wrote about "The Great Highway shutdown fiasco" at 48 Hills: https://48hills.org/2021/09/the-great-highway-shutdown-fiasco/ Please join us this Wednesday, 9/22, from 7-9 pm for our monthly membership meeting. You can participate in person or online: What: Green Party Monthly meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, Sep 22, 7-9 pm Agenda items: 1) Introductions 2) Update on SB9 and 10 passing, and how we might help to repeal them. 3) Decide our position on COVID vaccines and mandates. Do we think current COVID vaccines are safe and effective, and what is our position on government and/or business mandates? 4) Decide SF positions on GPCA proposals regarding changes to internal state party elections. Mask protocol: SF's COVID rules currently require people to wear masks indoors, even if everybody present is fully vaccinated, unless you are Mayor Breed or one of her friends or allies from the Democratic Party. We now provide the option for SF Green Party members to participate in our meetings via Zoom, so email cc@sfgreens.org for info on how you can join us virtually. 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: KPFA election Where: online When: ballots were sent by email 8/16, vote before 10/15. If you're a KPFA member, please be sure to vote for the Rescue Pacifica candidates in the Local Station Board (LSB) election. 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: 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: Tue, 9/21, 11:30 am -- Sustainable Book Group (launch meeting, discussing Doughnut Economics) -- The first meeting of a new Sustainability Book Club hosted by Transition Tavistock. A chance to discuss new and classic titles that inspire -- Something tasty to start with - "Doughnut Economics" by Kate Raworth, who argues that a healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow -- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-book-group-launch-meeting-discussin... Tue, 9/21, 7 pm -- California RCV Coalition Statewide Launch California has been a leader when it comes to ranked choice voting, with several cities implementing the reform beginning two decades ago. Now some advocates are looking to build on that success by starting a new statewide organization to bring ranked choice voting to more communities. They have a launch event coming up next week. We hope you’ll consider attending. https://www.fairvote.org/r?u=iKj5iuxBXy-0B6ifolAJk-7Mb6lE5uIHFHjDzmPEvfamRDi... *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.