Author: Joni Eisen

Tues April 4: Up next for Sanctuary – and for the Democratic Party

On By Joni EisenIn Uncategorized

At our next meeting, we’ll have updates from the many Resistance fronts that have opened up, from single-payer healthcare in California to boycotts nationwide.  And we’ll plan our next steps in joining the growing coalition for Sanctuary and immigrant rights, and in working with San Francisco’s Democratic Party to make the political infrastructure work for us.

Lorena Melgarejo, parish organizer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Human Life and Dignity, will discuss what we can do to help right now, with local churches and on our own.  We will also have a roundtable conversation, facilitated by PHDC board members, to discuss how San Francisco’s Democratic Party and our neighborhood Club can work better together to fight Trumpism and corporate democracy at home and nationally. 

On Sunday, April 9, DCCC members Sophie Maxwell and Keith Baraka will be joining us at Sunday Streets in Dogpatch. You are invited to spend whatever time you can spare for some car-free fun, between 11am and 4pm. Email contact_us@phdemclub.org for more info, exact location, and/or to volunteer. Let’s spread the Resistance throughout the neighborhood! And register voters too.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 4th, 7:00 pm
WHERE: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro St

Tues Feb 7th: Climate change, health care, & so much more

On By Joni EisenIn Environment, Health Care, Journalism, Social justice, Uncategorized

Two-plus weeks after the “inauguration,” we find that all the challenges we feared are coming at us, almost all at once.  So for the foreseeable future, our Club will focus on ongoing, practical resistance against the Republican agenda in Washington, and the corporate agenda in Sacramento and City Hall.  Each meeting will start with quick updates and specific upcoming actions, and then we’ll dive deeper into conversations with allies on specific subjects. This meeting featured:

• Combating Climate Change. Back in 2013, Citizens’ Climate Lobby appeared before the DemClub; as a result, we became the first organization in SF to endorse its proposed federal legislation, Carbon Fee & Dividend – which, considering the current climate (so to speak) looming in Washington DC, just might have a chance in today’s Congress (it’s both market-based and socially just). CCL volunteers Joni Eisen, Heath Massey, & Brendan Rhoan updated us on their progress, coupled with a call to action.

• Supporting Real Investigative Journalism. Michael Stoll and Daphne Magnawa of San Francisco Public Press, a local nonprofit, noncommercial news organization, described some of their work producing high-impact in-depth reporting projects on a wide range of topics.

• Saving Health Care. Carolyn Barden of California Nurses Association and Jonathan Meade of Healthy California discussed expanding health care, not cutting it, and why now is the time to move forward in California with Single-Payer legislation:  Medicare for all.

For your ongoing convenience, find links to overall resistance info, and particular actions, in our current newsletter.