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Holiday Party on December 17
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Please join us for our SFGP 2025 Holiday Party on Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025!
The theme of the party is "Decades Past." If you're able, dress up according to your favorite past decade, such as the '70s, '80s, etc. We will be serving wine and light appetizers. The wine will be for sale by the glass and by the bottle, and we ask that guests buy a glass of wine (if you partake) to support the establishment as they are generously allowing us to use their space for free.
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Time: 7:00-10:00 PM
Location: Eco Terreno Urban Tasting Room
140 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133
*If you can make it, please RSVP here so we have an accurate head count:*
https://forms.gle/J9nDW6XTFz9ekDQc8
Feel free to forward the invite to friends, especially active or prospective Green Party members. Be sure to include the RSVP link!
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Endorsement - NO on Prop 50
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NO on Prop 50 - Newsom Gerrymandering
Prop 50 would temporarily repeal the Citizens Redistricting Commission that California voters created in 2008 and further empowered in 2010. It would create new gerrymandered Congressional districts drawn by Democrats in the state legislature for elections in 2026, 2028, and 2030. As a result, CA Democrats are expected to win 5 more Congressional seats than they currently hold. Governor Newsom's move is in response to gerrymandering in Texas, where Republicans are redrawing district lines to win 5 more seats currently held by Texas Democrats. Because gerrymandering is not compatible with democracy, one of the Green Party's Key Values, we strongly oppose Prop 50.
In any democracy, voters must be able to choose who we want to represent us, rather than politicians picking which voters they want in their districts. Under Prop 50 or the proposed system in Texas, any Democrat who's been gerrymandered into a district with a large majority of Republicans would basically lose their right to vote. So would a Republican who's been moved into a district with an overwhelming majority of Democrats.
Newsom claims that eliminating Californians' right to choose our own representatives is necessary to stop Trump from imposing a dictatorship on the entire country, which Republicans would go along with if they maintain control of Congress after the 2026 election. But regardless of how CA votes on Prop 50, Republicans are almost certain to lose their current 5-seat majority in the House. In 20 of the last 22 midterm elections going back to 1938, the party in power has lost House seats, with the only two exceptions being years when the incumbent president had job approval from over 60% of Americans. In most of these elections, the party in power lost a very large number of seats: Republicans lost 26 seats in 1982 under Reagan, while Democrats lost 54 seats in 1994 under Clinton and 63 in 2010 under Obama. During Trump's first term, Republicans lost 41 seats to Democrats in the 2018 midterm election. Trump's behavior in his second term has been far more authoritarian and unhinged. His Gestapo-like ICE raids have even resulted in the arrests of some of his own supporters. MAGA policies are increasingly unpopular among all Americans outside of a small fascist fringe, so we expect a huge electoral swing away from Trump in the 2026 midterms. A couple of gerrymandered seats in CA or Texas isn't going to change that.
The best solution to ensure all Californians' votes count would be to change all our legislative elections to a proportional representation system. The current balance among CA's 52 congressmembers is 43 Democrats (83%), 9 Republicans (17%), and 0 Greens and others. In contrast, voters in CA are 45% registered Democrats, 25% Republicans, 22% Decline to State, and 7% Others. Greens routinely get from 2% to 4% of the vote in statewide races. Under proportional representation, this would translate into 1 or 2 House seats for Greens, while Democrats would win almost twice as many seats as Republicans. Everybody's vote would count, including rural Democrats and urban Republicans.
However, under the extreme gerrymandering in Prop 50, California's congressional delegation would become even more unrepresentative of our voters. If Prop 50 passes, Democrats would take over 5 Republican seats in CA, resulting in a 2028 delegation with 48 Democrats (92%), 4 Republicans (8%), and 0 Greens and others. People from rural areas in communities north of Redding would be "represented" by a suburban Democrat from Marin county.
Greens previously endorsed both ballot measures to create and expand the powers of the Citizens Redistricting Commission. In endorsing the second measure, we wrote:
Prop 20 will allow the voter-approved Citizens Redistricting Commission to draw California's congressional districts in addition to state legislative districts. Under Prop 20, Sacramento politicians will no longer be able to draw election districts to help ensure reelection for their friends in Congress - even when they ignore voters.
Prop 20 also ensures that our communities can no longer be carved up by politicians just to ensure the political outcome they want. This kind of gerrymandering, discussed by SF Green party activist Steve Hill in his book "Fixing Elections," is one factor in our current system that reduces democracy.
All Americans need to stand up to the authoritarian Trump regime to defend what little democracy we have left. Newsom's scheme to take away voting rights from Californians is a move in the opposite direction. We can't fight MAGA with Blue MAGA. Vote NO on Prop 50, and instead help us to build a stronger Green Party that will stand up to fascist politicians from both sides of the aisle!
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Oct 7: 2 Years of Resistance
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As the genocide in Gaza rages and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people have been killed or starved to death, two years after the Oct. 7th attack, communities all across the United States increasingly feel the need to speak up and take a stand. There can be no "business as usual" when the next Holocaust is being livestreamed to our phones.
In the face of the US government actively supporting Israel's genocidal campaign, the only option left is demanding an end to the genocide via collective action. But how can American workers organize when they are being silenced, repressed, and retaliated against at their workplaces when advocating for Palestine? How do we overcome the culture of fear that has silenced and intimidated the working class? How do regular people stop a genocide?
Join us for an engaging dialogue on these issues with workers from a variety of industries and the local community. An injury to one is an injury to all!
Event details:
Tues Oct 7, 5:30-7:30 pm
SF Main Library
Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St, SF
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Engardio Recall 2025 Statement
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The District 4 Recall Election is happening between now and Election Day, September 16. If you are voting by mail, your ballot must be postmarked on or before September 16. You can also vote in person on Election Day, or beforehand at City Hall. Only voters in District 4 (the Sunset) can vote in this election.
The ability to recall elected officials is a critical right in a representative democracy, because politicians who disregard the wishes of those who put them in office know they are always at risk of being fired. District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio spearheaded 2024's Prop K, which closed the Great Highway to cars. This proposition was opposed by almost 2/3 of his constituents in D4, as well as by Greens (as we wrote at the time, this was primarily out of concern for the over-monetization of our public parks and YIMBY plans for coastal development). However, SF Greens are not making any endorsement on Prop A, the Engardio recall, because SF's recall process is rigged to favor the Mayor and his wealthy supporters. As we have written previously:
Greens believe that our current recall system is broken in two ways: first, if voters recall an elected official in SF, only the Mayor has the power to choose a replacement. Voters who the Mayor does not listen to cannot meaningfully exercise our constitutional right to recall elected officials, because if we recall a Mayoral ally, the Mayor can just replace that person with a different sock puppet. Second, there are no meaningful campaign finance laws that apply to recall elections, as there are for regular elections, so wealthy people and corporations have far too much influence. This leads to even more corruption in our local government.
Greens have long called for giving voters (not the Mayor) the right to choose the replacement for recalled elected officials. Recall elections could be done as a "vote of confidence" in the politician, who would appear on a single ranked choice ballot along with all the candidates hoping to replace them. The person with majority support in the final ranked choice tally would win: either the original official would survive the recall, or the voters would choose a more popular candidate to serve the remainder of the term.
We ask all Supervisorial candidates if they would support a charter amendment to allow voters to choose a replacement official on the same ballot as the recall vote. Engardio did not answer our candidate questionnaire when he ran for office in 2022. We hope that voters will vote your conscience on Prop A, and then join us in working to empower ordinary San Franciscans to elect our own representatives in future recall elections.
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New Members Meeting March 26
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If you are upset at the Democrats for retreating and backpedaling, and if you are wanting to protect yourself from the far reaching effects of conservative policy, this is a platform for those who do wish to STAND UP.
Progressive ideals are not radical and in fact have been the backbone of an aspiring San Francisco society.
Union Jobs, Universal Healthcare, Free Childcare & Public Schools, Well Funded Public Transit, Safe Streets, Affordable Housing, and Public Utilities are good policy - they just need protection and to be brought into the new age.
With a new generation of workers in the Green Party, we wish to infuse modernization and a strong, united working class back into decision making.
San Francisco needs builders. Doers. Thinkers. People like you.
This isn’t just a meeting—it’s an invitation. An opportunity to bring your skills, passions, and ideas into a community of people who want to uplift this city and each other. You don’t need to be an activist. You don’t need political experience. You just need that feeling—that drive—to contribute, to create, to make things better.
San Francisco has given us all so much. Now, it’s our turn to give back.
We want to build a community of action—where projects, solutions, and skillsharing allow us to step up, contribute, and lead.
Maybe you’re a builder, an artist, a strategist. Maybe you work in tech, in government, in food service, in labor, or in education. Whatever your background, there is a role for you to contribute and volunteer.
Join us. Bring your ideas. Find your role. You’ll leave this meeting inspired, energized, and ready to make an impact.
RSVP here: https://partiful.com/events/hOaPPT55o3FrqEu92l6I/
or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or just show up!
Where: 2973 16th St, #300, SF, next to 16th and Mission BART station
When: Wed, March 26, 6-9 pm
Wheelchair accessible, elevator to 3rd floor
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November 2024 endorsements
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These are the SF Green Party's final endorsements for the November 2024 election. We have mailed a postcard with our endorsements to all our members. If you can donate to help cover our printing and mailing costs, please use the "donate" link to the left!
Our complete Green Voter Guide is now posted. Click "read more" to see full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements.
President and Vice President: Jill Stein and Butch Ware (nominated at our national convention in August)
Mayor: Aaron Peskin (#1 ranked choice), Dylan Hirsch-Shell (#2 ranked choice)
SF Board of Supervisors:
- D1: Connie Chan
- D3: Sharon Lai
- D5: Dean Preston
- D7: no endorsement
- D9: no endorsement
- D11: Ernest "EJ" Jones(#1 ranked choice), Adlah Chisti (#2 ranked choice)
District Attorney: Ryan Khojasteh
School Board: Matt Alexander, Laurance Lem Lee, Virginia Cheung
College Board: Alan Wong, Aliya Chisti
BART Board: no endorsement
Local Ballot Measures:
- NO on A: school bonds without accountability on which projects will be funded
- NO on B: bonds for various City construction projects
- YES on C: create Inspector General under the Controller's office to investigate corruption
- NO on D: eliminating many City commissions and further empowering the Mayor
- no consensus on E: task force to create future ballot measure to eliminate City commissions
- NO on F: allows retired police to work for 5 more years and get retirement pay plus salary
- YES on G: rent subsidies for low income seniors, families, and people with disabilities
- no position on H: lower retirement age for firefighters
- YES on I: retirement credits for nurses and 911 operators
- NO on J: more mayoral control over public education funds
- NO on K: environmentally damaging park next to Ocean Beach
- YES on L: ComMUNIty Transit Act (Greens gave an early endorsement and are helping gather signatures to put this on the ballot)
- NO on M: business tax reform that would kill Prop L
- NO on N: first responder student loan forgiveness fund
- YES on O: protect abortion rights in SF
State Ballot Measures:
- NO on 2: pay for school maintenance through bonds rather than state budget
- YES on 3: repeals Prop 8, the CA constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage
- NO on 4: water bond with funding for logging, ranching, and biomass-based fuel
- NO on 5: makes it easier to spend public bond money on private luxury housing
- YES on 6: reduces coercion of forced prison labor
- YES on 32: increases minimum wage
- YES on 33: allows more rent control
- NO on 34: attack on AIDS foundation
- YES on 35: tax on private insurance plans to fund Medical
- NO on 36: war on drugs, longer jail sentences for nonviolent crimes
Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.
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