January 18 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty mastodon.sfgreens.org/@sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Happy MLK weekend! Greens from around the Bay Area will be participating in "Reclaim MLK's Radical Legacy" in Oakland this weekend. And please join us for our monthly meeting this coming Wednesday to kick off an election year of Green organizing. Details on these events are below. Thanks to everybody who participated in our special endorsement meeting for the March 3rd election. We'll be posting a complete voter guide in the upcoming week or so, but a summary is already online: http://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/91-march-2020-endorsements And if you have any time to volunteer in the South Bay, the Green Party is running a candidate in the March election for the San José City Council! Jake Tonkel has been endorsed by his local Green Party and many other progressives, so please help if you can: https://jake4d6.com/ Greens have also written several good articles in the Bayview newspaper: * Barry Hermanson wrote about SF 50 and "trickle down housing": https://sfbayview.com/2019/12/trickle-down-housing/ * Anne Garrison reported from the California Progressive Alliance: https://sfbayview.com/2020/01/voices-of-the-california-progressive-alliance/ *===========================* What: SF Green Party Monthly Meeting Where: Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF When: Wed, Jan 22, 7-9 pm Agenda: * Introductions * Outreach for the March election - printed voter guide? * Voter outreach after the March primary - new literature and strategy to get people to re-register Green if they switched to Dem to vote in their primary. Also, what outreach can we be doing with our current members in order to get them more involved? * Events in 2020 - Sunday Streets, Haight St, Pride. Need to register early for some events, and plan new literature. * A Green New Deal for San Francisco - how can we synergize with the national party's Green New Deal platform to promote similar local legislative priorities, such as social housing and free public transit? * Presentation from Laksh Bhasin from the Berniecrats on updates to their Social Housing ballot measure that we helped with last year. Possible endorsement and organizing strategy for this year. * Announcements 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: 6th Annual Reclaim MLK's Radical Legacy Weekend Where: Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th Street and Broadway, Oakland When: All this weekend, Jan 18-20 Greens from around the Bay Area are joining with like-minded organizations to lift up the radical legacy of Martin Luther King all weekend long. Many events are posted on this page, culminating in the 6th Annual Rally and March on Monday, 1/20, at noon at Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway: https://www.facebook.com/events/606684710071623/ *===========================* What: Extinction Rebellion Bay Area Organizing Meeting Where: South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis St, Berkeley When: Sun, Jan 19, 2-4 pm At this XR meeting, we will join together to awaken and unify to a common purpose. We will look ahead to create a plan of action for Earth Day and beyond! This is a like-minded event, not sponsored by the Green Party. *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.