[SFGP] Greenzine - questionnaires posted for candidate forum on Sep 7

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September 4, 2022
GREENZINE
SF Green Party Weekly News and Events

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Dear Greens,

    Our endorsements to date are posted on our website:
https://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/102-november-2022-endorsements

    Please join us at our candidate forum and endorsement meeting this
Wed, 9/7.  Details are below.  Completed questionnaires from
candidates seeking our endorsement have been posted on our website:
  https://sfgreenparty.org/10-campaigns/103-questionnaires-posted-for-9-7-candidate-forum

    We'll also be doing voter outreach this Labor Day at the SF Mime
Troupe's closing show in Dolores Park.  And join us next weekend for a
virtual event discussing housing policy and our efforts to pass the
Empty Homes Tax.  Details on both events are below.

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What:  Candidate forum and endorsement meeting
Where:  Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF
When:  Wed, September 7, 6:30-9 pm

The SF Green Party has invited all candidates who returned completed
questionnaires on time to speak and answer questions at our candidate
forum and endorsement meeting (Wed, Sep 7 from 6:30 - 9 pm).  Please
note the earlier start time.  We hope to finish all candidate
interviews by around 8, then decide on endorsements.

The event is open to the public and all are invited!

Please read candidates' answers to our questionnaires in advance, so we don't ask them questions they've already answered on the record:

https://sfgreenparty.org/10-campaigns/103-questionnaires-posted-for-9-7-candidate-forum

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 at sfgreens.org for info on how you can join us
virtually.

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What:  Voter outreach at the SF Mime Troupe's closing show
Where:  Dolores Park, meet by entrance at Church and 18th St
When:  Mon, Sep 5, 1 pm - 4 pm

We'll be doing voter outreach at the Mime Troupe's closing show in
Dolores Park this Monday, Sep 5.  The play this year is called
"Back to the Way Things Were."  https://www.sfmt.org/

The play will start at 2 pm, with music at 1:30.  Volunteers are
needed to help us set up our table and do voter outreach starting at 1
pm.  Help us register new Greens and find people willing to help win
Medicare for All; email if you can help out: cc at sfgreens.org.

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What:  Virtual Forum on Housing, Development, and Taxation
Where:  online, https://bit.ly/SS_S_Housing
When:  Sat, Sep 10, 2:30-4:30 pm

Please join us for our next Suds, Snacks and Socialism forum. Housing:
Commodity or Human Right?

Register in advance at https://bit.ly/SS_S_Housing
to receive your personal link for this event.

Keeping rental housing empty is one way landlords manipulate the
housing market.  At this forum we will discuss local ballot measures
for an empty homes tax.  We will also examine rent control and other
affordable housing policies; and look at the battle over Howard
Terminal in Oakland, which is really about gentrification and real
estate profits, not about a ball park.  Moderated by Marsha Feinland,
former Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner.

Gwen McLaughlin – member of San Francisco Democratic Socialists of
America working on the Empty Homes Tax initiative

Steve Barton – retired City of Berkeley Housing Director and Deputy
Director of the Rent Board; currently on the Board of the Bay Area
Community Land Trust

Michael Rubin – member of the Socialist group Solidarity and the
Oakland Greens

John-Marc Chandonia – San Francisco Green Party County Council

Organizations listed for identification purposes only.  This event is
sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate
Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party.  For more
information, email info at sudssnackssocialism.org.

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