January 15 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Happy New Year! We encourage Greens to participate in several marches and rallies for this Martin Luther King Jr holiday: Monday, Jan 19 - March in Oakland, at the Fruitvale BART station, organized by Black Lives Matter. Meet at Fruitvale BART at 11 am. ANSWER is also organizing/joining two rallies in SF: Saturday, Jan 17 - Speak-out at noon at 24th & Mission BART, followed by a march at 1 pm. Monday, Jan 17 - participate in the SF MLK Day Parade, meet at 11 am at the CalTrain Station (4th and King in SF). *===========================* The Green Party's lawsuit against California's "Top Two" primary system, which virtually eliminates Green ballot access in partisan elections, is moving forward with another court date today. Follow this site for updates: http://www.restorevoterchoice.org/ *===========================* Our monthly meeting for January will be held on Wed, January 28, from 7-9 pm in the Redstone Building room 302. We will set the final agenda next week, but one thing we'll be working on is our annual legislative report card for the Board of Supervisors. Here's an example we made last year: http://www.sfgreenparty.org/issues/60-sf-supervisors-report-card-2013 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 #302, San Francisco. *===========================* The Green Party of California is meeting on Jan 24-25 in Monterey County (home of the Green Party Mayor of Marina CA, Bruce Delgado). The event will be at the Monterey College of Law in Seaside. More info, and the agenda, are here: http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2015-01 If you're interested in going as a delegate from SF, or just attending, email cc@sfgreens.org for more info. *===========================* 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.