April 15 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, In our last newsletter, we announced our June endorsements, and also that we've made an early endorsement for the November election: http://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/74-june-2016-endorsements Francisco Herrera, who finished with 1/3 of the votes in last year's Mayoral election, is running for Supervisor of District 11, the district currently represented by John Avalos! Francisco will make a great representative for D11 residents as well as all people throughout the City who share Green values. This is a race that Francisco can win, provided he can get enough donations to receive public financing! Please help him out by donating to his campaign, and by coming to the election teach-in this Saturday (see below) Donate to Francisco's campaign here: https://squareup.com/store/francisco4supe/ (When donating, please put your occupation, employer, and address where you're registered to vote in the "note" field.) More info is on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FranciscoHerreraforsupervisor/ *===========================* What: Election Teach-in! Democracy is for everyone...all ages and ethnicities welcome. When: Saturday April 16th, 10 am to 11 am. Where: Excelsior Library, 4400 Mission Av., SF in Meeting Room. Understand why Ranked Choice Voting is a much better and more ethical ballot system than the previous winner-take-all system. Why vote for more than one candidate? It actually represents YOU better. Learn how to become a poll worker and earn $95-$195 for working the June 7 Primary Election. Applications will be available. Excellent training at SF City Hall. FREE handouts in English, Spanish, Chinese and Tagalog. Register to Vote (deadline for June election is May 23rd) or update your registration/change address/ political parties. Also learn how you can help to register other voters. The free event is offered by the Peoples' Campaign. call 650-303-1176 for more information. English & Spanish speakers present. *===========================* What: Unitarian Universalist Breakfast Forum on CleanPowerSF Where: Martin Luther King Room, First Unitarian Universalist Church, San Francisco, 1187 Franklin Street at Geary When: Sunday, April 17, 2016, 9 am - 10:45 am Green Party member Eric Brooks speaks on CleanPowerSF Eric Brooks began his grassroots campaigning in 1985 working for Ralph Nader's PIRGs in California and Oregon, and has worked as a field organizer, campaign manager, and coalition builder for several organizations. He has been a coordinator for San Francisco Clean Energy Advocates for 12 years and is the preeminent source of knowledge on the long and arduous effort to make CleanPowerSF a reality. 9:00: Coffee/socializing. Breakfast is available for nominal fee. 9:30: CleanPowerSF presentation 10:30: Questions, Comments, Discussion 10:45: Adjourn *===========================* What: Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Building, 2940 16th Street #301, San Francisco, CA When: Wed, April 27, 7-9 pm 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. To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc@sfgreens.org Meetings are now held in our new office space in the Redstone Building! 2940 16th Street #301, San Francisco, CA *===========================* What: OccupyForum on Waging Non-Violent Revolution through Constitutional Amendment, with David Cobb Where: Local 2, 215 Golden Gate near Leavenworth, Civic Center BART station When: Monday, May 2nd from 6 - 9 pm Corporations do not merely exercise power, they rule over us. The wealthy elite have stolen our sacred right to self-government, and the illegitimate, court-created legal doctrines of "corporate constitutional rights" and "money is political speech" legalize the theft. All across the country ordinary folks are crying ENOUGH!!!! Come hear how you can get involved in a concrete campaign to abolish these doctrines via a constitutional amendment. *Move To Amend's* strategy incorporates art and culture, grassroots organizing and educating, resolutions and initiatives, and we are beginning to explore direct action strategies. The session will be facilitated by *David Cobb*, a people's lawyer and an engaged citizen. Cobb has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for office himself, and been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. He ran for Attorney General of Texas pledging to use the office to revoke the charters of corporations that violate health, safety and environmental protection laws. In 2004 he was the Green Party nominee for President of the US, and filed for the Ohio Recount that helped to launch a movement for election integrity and against the use of electronic voting machines. *===========================* What: Green Party of California General Assembly Where: Redstone Building, 2940 16th Street, San Francisco, CA When: May 14-15, all day The next General Assembly and Gathering of the Green Party of California will take place on Saturday/Sunday, May 14-15 in San Francisco! The draft agenda is here: http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2016-05/agenda-draft-to-counties The event will be held at the historic site of the San Francisco Labor Temple, now known as the Redstone Building, 2926-2948 16th Street between Mission and South Van Ness, San Francisco. Registration is here: https://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/reg_ga_may2016 and is $40 through April 27, $50 afterwards. San Francisco can send 7 official delegates, as well as an unlimited number of observers. If you want to be a delegate, email us! We'll choose delegates at our monthly meeting on April 27. You don't have to be a delegate to register for the meeting. There will be a special 'Green Gathering' session from 2:30pm to 6pm on Saturday, with workshops/breakout sessions on issues and organizing. The content for that session is still being firmed up. If there are special themes you want to see included, please let us know at gpca@cagreens.org. Please share this with other Greens in your county. We hope to see you in San Francisco! *===========================* Paid contractor wanted: SF Green Party Fundraiser/Volunteer Coordinator (a part time independent contractor (1099) position): http://sfgreenparty.org/help-wanted *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.