We’ll be switching up our normal August meeting schedule to co-sponsor the Potrero Hill District Attorney Debate with the Potrero Boosters at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House.

All four District Attorney candidates have confirmed attendance, and provided answers to our questionnaire.

• Chesa Boudin
• Leif Dautch
• Nancy Tung
• Suzy Loftus

Read their answers to our District Attorney questionnaire to prepare to ask our candidates great questions!

WHEN: Tuesday, August 27, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

WHERE: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 DeHaro St.

RSVP HERE

Sponsored by:

Thank you to everyone who attended and especially to our panelists!
As we discussed, there is A LOT to do before 2020 in order to take back our country, and we need every one of you to get involved.

Work on local issues in San Francisco
Get involved with the Potrero Hill Democratic Club and the SF Democratic PartyWe’ve got a small team and need more volunteers to have a bigger impact on Potrero Hill. You can help plan panel discussions, organize local political engagement and more. Contact us at contact_us@phdemclub.org.
Join the mailing list of the San Francisco Democratic Party to stay up-to-date on its latest activities. Join here: http://www.sfdemocrats.org/

Work on non-partisan issues
ACLU San Francisco: ACLU San Francisco works on local non-partisan issues. They have phone banks coming up to call decision-makers about AB392, a bill about updating police use of force standards. Check out their upcoming phone banks or learn more about getting involved in the local ACLU chapter.

Work on national/state partisan issues and campaigns
As mentioned on the panel, Swing Left San Francisco, Sister District San Francisco, and Indivisible SF actively collaborate (along with the SF Dem Party) on actions and engagement.

Indivisible SF: Check out Indivisible SF if you’d like to work to hold existing elected officials accountable for their actions. Learn more on their website.

Swing Left San Francisco: Swing Left San Francisco focuses on national level races (Congress, Senate, etc) that can be flipped red to blue in California and across the country. Sign up to receive Swing Left’s awesome weekly newsletter here to keep up to date on their activities. Upcoming events are listed on its Facebook page.

Sister District: Sister District San Francisco focuses on electing Democratic state legislatures across the country in “last chance” races which will determine the voting maps for years to come due to the Census. The SoMa/Mission Bay/Potrero Hill Sister District neighborhood group meets next on June 20. Learn more here.

The State of the Resistance

Join us on Tuesday June 4 to hear how local activists are fighting the GOP agenda – even from deep blue San Francisco. Contrary to what the pundits say, the Resistance is alive and well. We are gathering effective local activist groups who turned out millions of volunteers in 2018 to discuss what’s been happening since the midterms and what’s on tap for 2020. Our speakers will also talk about how resistance groups work with the Democratic party and campaigns.

Panelists include:

• Indivisible SF: Lauren Carpenter, Indivisible SF communication team lead

• Swing Left San Francisco: Colleen McCarthy, Regional Field Director for Swing Left Northern California and member of Swing Left San Francisco

• Sister District San Francisco: Pete Kronowitt, District Captain

• San Francisco Democratic Party: Sophie Maxwell, Vice-Chair of Group Strategies

• No on H campaign (2018): Melissa Hernandez, board member ACLU San Francisco

WHEN: Tuesday, June 4, 7:00 pm

WHERE: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro St

South Beach District 6 Democratic Club of San Francisco and Potrero Hill Democratic Club would like to thank everyone who participated in our May 7th meeting.
Panelists and organizations:

– John Stokes, Volunteer Co-manager, Friends of Alemany Farm http://www.alemanyfarm.org/ Alemany Farm

– Ashley Wong, Program Coordinator, San Francisco-Marin Food Bank https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/ San Francisco-Marin Food Bank

– Tim Campbell, Food Runners SF http://www.foodrunners.org/ Food Runners SF

– Randy Bowman, Executive Board President, St. Gregory’s Food Pantry https://www.saintgregorys.org/the-food-pantry.html Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church

– Monique LeSarre, Executive Director, Rafiki Coalition http://rafikicoalition.org/ Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness

We had a spirited discussion on Tuesday about how we can work together to make our green dreams a reality. Thank you to the panelists for taking time out of their busy lives to enlighten us! Please learn more about their organizations below.

• Gabrielle Lichtenstein, Sunrise Movement
• Michelle Pierce, Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates
• Daniel Tahara, Citizens’ Climate Lobby
• Magick Altman, Extinction Rebellion
• Thea Selby, speaking about High Speed Rail
• Cassidy Wallerstein, CleanPowerSF

More information about the topics discussed

Green Dreams

You can make a plan to attend and speak at city government meetings by visiting https://sfgov.org/. The calendar for the Board of Supervisor and committee meetings is located at this link: https://sfbos.org/events/calendar
You can find info about Bay Area Air Quality Management District board meetings here: http://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/board-meetings
And water board meetings here: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sanfranciscobay/board_info/calendar.html

High Speed Rail

Latest High Speed Rail Document for Working Group from Thea

SuperGreen Power

Sign up for SuperGreen power here: https://www.cleanpowersf.org/supergreen

The Potrero Hill Democratic Club is looking for volunteers to support our activities.

We rely on volunteers to ensure we can bring you the monthly meetings.

We currently need additional help due to changes in our Executive Committee, or we may have to cut back on the meetings.Our needs:

• Secretary: You can make this role what you’d like. You would help us keep track of decisions made and communicate out to our members. This role would be part of our Executive Committee.

• VP of Membership: Our membership VP is responsible for keeping our member information up to date and producing membership sign-in sheets each month. As the VP of membership, you would also work to engage members in all of our activities.

• VP of Politics: Our politics VP is responsible for helping identify and invite speakers each month and create the agenda for the meeting. The politics VP also makes connections with local elected officials.

• Communications: We need help with our social media and emails about our monthly meetings. You would need to be available every month but would not need to attend Executive Committee meetings. You could do this work on your own time.

• Annual Fundraising Auction: We need help putting on our annual auction in the summer. This would be a several month project you could do mostly on your own time.

• Other: If you are interested but not sure how you’d like to get involved, we’d love to hear from you.

If you are interested or have questions about what the volunteer roles would entail, please reach out to us at contact_us@phdemclub.org. We are happy to discuss your interests.