• David Campos
• David Chiu
• Gabriel Haaland
• Hope Johnson
• Joe Julian
• Rafael Mandelman
• Aaron Peskin
• Eric Quezada*
• Alix Rosenthal
• Debra Walker

*Club Member

Assembly District 12:

• John Avalos
• Michael Bornstein
• Sandra Lee Fewer
• Hene Kelly
• Eric Mar
• Milton Marks
• Jane Morrison
• Melanie Nutter

revenue4all

Grassroots Democratic Club Endorsement Meeting
Wednesday, May 5th, 6pm
Mission Creek Cafe (back room)
968 Valencia Street

We will be deciding our endorsements for Democratic County Central Committee and several propositions.

The amended bylaws are here in English. They’ll be up in Spanish soon.

Grassroots Democratic Club Meeting
April 14th, 6pm
Dolores Street Community Services, 938 Valencia

We’ll be moving our endorsement process forward as well as having updates on many of the struggles happening around the city.

The big news, though, is that our application for chartering will be presented before the DCCC on April 21st. In order to make sure the process goes smoothly, the following two bylaws amendments have been proposed:

(you can download a copy of the club bylaws in english at http://grassrootsdemocraticclub.org/files/bylaws_eng_090920.doc or spanish at http://grassrootsdemocraticclub.org/files/bylaws_esp_090729.doc )

1. Strike Article III.A.4, which states: “(4) who is not a registered California voter in any other party than the Democratic Party.” There is no reason to prohibit club membership to folks registered with other political parties.

2. Add Article X.F, stating “The club shall not consider candidates registered in any party but Democrat for endorsement in partisan races.” This will not affect our endorsements in city races, which are all non-partisan, and is necessary to gain chartering.

We will be voting on these changes at our meeting.

See you then!

Si Se Puede: Pass Immigration Reform

Tuesday, January 12th, 4 pm
Federal Building,
7th & Mission

Do you want to keep families together?
Do you want ICE raids to stop?
Do you want to live without fear?

Then join us!

Call 415.282.6209 x15 for more information

Homelessness Ends With a Home

Wednesday, January 20th, 11am
Justin Herman Plaza (1 Market St.)

Join WRAP and allies throughout the West Coast as we march on the Federal Building and demand House Keys Not Handcuffs!

Call 415.5621.2533 or wraphome.org for more information

We will discuss roles of officers, and much more!

Admin: Created officer roles

Outreach: Contacting 2 orgs per month

Political: did not meet

Education: no report

ways city can raise revenue “tax rich not poor meeting”  (progressive) (sales tax, fees for service being proposed currently)

Role in immigration

We participate directly in democratic party politics. Invite others to join us around electoral work.

December 18th- kicked off 100 day campaign to get calls/week for immigration reform by end of March need to be introduced to Senate.

Club endorses January 19th action (see flyer)

Crucial target times for this push: President’s Day break, April Recess, May Day.

Meetings to push this forward: Tuesdays, St. Peter’s Church, 6pm.

1400 people

Boycotting Hilton

Will raise at Southeast Alliance meeting

http://unitehere2.org

Need to have banners and whatnot to show community supports workers.

Would add families with children to protected classes from OMIs

Trying to get 8 votes to make veto-proof

families with children currently 14% of SanFrancisco tenants, but 28% of OMI evictions.

As usual, Dufty and Maxwell are swing votes

Inspired by 1975 citywide community congresses

3 tracks: Housing/tenants, Health/Human Services, Economic Development

Would like to have platforms to use in vetting supe candidates in mid 2010.

Proposed Agenda:

• Committee Reports
• Report from Community Congress Organizers
• Prep representatives for 1/12 meeting
• Discuss Officer Roles
• Immigration update
• HERE Update
• Evictions Update
• Work Plan Update

At our December monthly meeting, the Grassroots Democratic Club unanimously passed two resolutions, and set an ambitious calendar of goals for the coming year.

We passed resolutions endorsing the Board of Supervisors’ resolution opposing the troop surge in Afghanistan, and supporting the efforts of our sisters and brothers at HERE Local 2 to get a fair contract with San Francisco’s biggest hotels.

The goals we set are exciting and ambitious, and we discussed ways to prioritize and work as strategically and effectively as possible. The plans, detailed below, include holding educational forums on issues and elections, endorsing candidates in upcoming June and November elections, developing strategic field campaigns to make our endorsements really count, and collaborating with other groups to spearhead discussion of progressive revenue options in San Francisco, among others.

We also discussed ways to build our capacity to take on the work ahead, including expanding our outreach and collaborations. Along those lines, we will have two representatives present at the Jan. 2 roundtable meeting with the Southeast Alliance, Community Congress and other groups.

On December 18, many GDC members will be attending a Town Hall meeting on immigration reform, one of many being held across the country; Rep. Nancy Pelosi will not be attending, but is sending a staffer to the event. Folks are encouraged to join the campaign of letter writing and phone banking to pressure politicians to pass progressive reforms; you can connect with the San Francisco Organizing Project, which is holding phone banks Mon, Weds. and Thurs. at 6 PM.

We invited folks at the meeting — and you — to join committees and help get the work done. As of now, the committees include:

Outreach and Organizing: Huli, Sarah, Anne, Lindsay, Veronica, Lulu, Eric and Lorena
Education and Culture: Lindsay, Matthias, Lulu, Anne, Andrew, Chris
Administrative: Andrew and Sasha
Politics and Policy: Sasha, Chris, Enrique, Matthias, Wendy, Eric, LJ, Carmina