June 6, 2024 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, Our first endorsement meeting of the year will be on June 26, the same night as our regular members' meeting. We'll interview candidates for Mayor and Supervisor between 6:30-8:30 pm, and then try to reach consensus on endorsements between 8:30-9:30. If you have a question for candidates that you want to ask, please come to the meeting. Or you can get candidates "on the record" by suggesting additions to our questionnaire! Please email cc@sfgreens.org with your suggestions for additions or edits to our current drafts: * Supe - https://sfgreens.org/supe_q.txt * Mayor - https://sfgreens.org/mayor_q.txt At our meeting in May, we endorsed the ComMUNIty Transit Act, a community-led ballot initiative to tax Uber and Lyft to fund Muni. You can find out more about this initiative at https://www.sftransitact.com/ Greens are helping gather signatures to put this on the November ballot, so it will need only 50% support to pass. Some signature gathering events are listed below and also at https://www.sftransitact.com/events *===========================* What: Save the Date - Green Party endorsement meeting / members' meeting Where: 2973 16th St, #300, SF (note new location!) When: Wed, June 26, 6:30-9:30 pm Agenda: * 6:30-8:30 - Interview candidates for Mayor and Board of Supervisors * 8:30-9:30 - Decide on endorsements Candidates for other offices besides Mayor and Supe will be considered after the filing deadline for those offices. Our process this year will be different than in previous years. We will consider endorsments for all candidates who answer our questionnaires, which we will email to everyone in the race after the filing deadline whose contact information we can find. Candidates' answers will be posted on our website. However, we will only interview candidates who at least 3 active members want to invite. We'll give the candidates until Friday, June 21, to answer our questionnaires, then have our active members decide over the weekend who to invite on Wednesday the 26th. 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 Mask policy: Masks are currently optional indoors, for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. We provide the option for SF Green Party members and invited candidates to participate in our meetings via Zoom, so email cc@sfgreens.org for info on how you can join us virtually. *===========================* What: Signature gathering for ComMUNIty Transit Act Where: see below When: over the next week Sunday, May 19 at 2 PM, Castro Stroll Premiere. Signature gathering. Tuesday, May 21, 6 PM – 7 PM, Duboce Park. Packet exchange and signature gathering! Sunday, May 26 at 1:30 PM, Dolores Park. Meet by the bell at Dolores & 19th for signature gathering in the park. RSVP for events here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSec4G7alSuaFmejeSXZuAFPhF8mILrx4_1_... *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected. _______________________________________________ San Francisco Green Party Announcement List To unsubscribe, go here: http://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- End forwarded message ----- -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc@sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/