September 12 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ NEWS: Jill Stein will be visiting the Bay Area and headlining two events in SF. See events section below, or go here for more info: http://sfgreenparty.org/11-news/56-jill-stein-in-sf ENDORSEMENTS for November 5 election: At our August monthly meeting, we endorsed NO on Prop A (health trust fund modification), as well as NO on B and C (condos for millionaires). We endorsed YES on Prop D, a statement in favor of cheaper prescription drugs. We are writing longer statements about all of these, which will be posted on our website. We will be holding a candidate forum at our September meeting, and may make additional endorsements in the District 4 (Sunset) Supervisor's race and citywide campaigns. This is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday evening, September 25. Location and exact time TBA. We are looking into several locations in the Sunset. We have sent candidate questionnaires to all District 4 Supervisor candidates--if you are supporting any of them, please remind them to return their questionnaire by September 20, so it can be posted on our website before the forum. If you are a candidate and need more info, please email cc@sfgreens.org or call Erika McDonald at 337-1499. EVENTS: *Sunday, September 15* - Petaluma Progressive Festival, Walnut Park, Petaluma Blvd South & D Street, Petaluma, CA. The Festival is 12:30pm-5pm, featuring keynote by Jill Stein (at ~ 3pm), with talks by Daniel Ellsberg, Norman Solomon and others. Also music, theater, poetry, food, drinks and goodies. More info at: http://ProgressiveFestival.org <http://progressivefestival.org/> *Monday, September 16*, 6:00pm-9:00pm, SF OccupyForum presents Dr. Jill Stein speaking on *The Green Shadow Cabinet and Strategies for Movement vs. Money Politics* at UNITE HERE Local 2, 209 Golden Gate (at Leavenworth near Civic Center BART) in San Francisco. Jill will discuss the creation and intent of The Green Shadow Cabinet and current political dynamics and strategies for *how we can create good jobs, end student debt, bring peace, develop democracy and rescue the planet right now with our voices, our bodies and our votes!* Free (Donations to OccupyForum welcome, no one turned away). For more info: 415-425-3733 *Tuesday, September 17*, 7:00pm - 8:30 pm, fundraiser, with Single Payer Now, at Laura Wells' community house in Oakland. This special event focused on health care will be a Meet and Greet, Informational, Fundraiser. The suggested donation is $25.00 -- or more if you are able! -- to benefit Single Payer Now and the the Green Party of Alameda County, which in turn will help with Jill's expenses. (There are a few openings for volunteers, who will be able to attend for free.) There will be light refreshments. Limit it to the first 35 people, so please RSVP as soon as possible if you would like to attend. Call in your RSVP at 510-225-4005 or via email laurawells2014@gmail.com by Saturday the 14th. *Wednesday, September 18*, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, fundraiser, with Single Payer Now, at Barry Hermanson's home in San Francisco. The suggested donation is $25.00 or more -- to benefit Single Payer Now and the San Francisco Green Party which in turn will help with Jill's expenses. Email: barry@hermansons.com (and for our Southern California subscribers) *Saturday, September 21, *EcoSocialist Conference in Los Angeles. Featuring keynote by Dr. Jill Stein with talks by Ben Manski and Kimberly King of the Green Shadow Cabinet, as well many other interesting people, including the fomer Green Party mayor of Santa Monica, Mike Feinstein, as well as activists from the Socialist Party, Occupy, Democratic Socialists of America, International Socialist Organization, Solidarity, Valley College Socialists, and more for a day of discussion on Ecology, Society and Capitalism! More information here: http://escla2013.wordpress.com/ To register: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/453655 *===========================* Dr. Jill Stein was the Green Party 2012 candidate for president of the United States. She is a mother, physician, and pioneering environmental-health advocate who has been on the front lines of battles to stop tar sands oil, fracking and nuclear power, and to create 25 million healthy, green jobs instead. She has worked to get big money out of politics, to provide health care and education as human rights, to end student debt, home foreclosures, wars for oil, Wall Street bail outs, and tax giveaways for the wealthy. Dr. Stein now serves as President of the Green Shadow Cabinet, which watchdogs and debunks the corporate-sponsored political establishment, and raises the bar for solutions that are available to us right now. Dr. Stein is a Harvard trained clinical doctor who served for decades as an instructor in internal medicine. Now she practices "political medicine", addressing the "mother of all illnesses" - the moribund political system that needs emergency resuscitation to start healing all the all the other things that are literally killing us. *===========================* The Green Party of California is seeking independent contractors for a variety of positions: fundraiser, organizer, and press secretary. To get more details, or to apply, see their web page: http://www.cagreens.org/ *===========================* 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.