Vote on Tuesday, November 8, 2016!

This November, we have the opportunity to vote for Affordable Housing, Good Government, Funding for Schools and City Services and Less Criminalization.

Get your bilingual San Francisco Rising Voter Guide here.

PODER is a founding member of San Francisco Rising, an electoral alliance that builds the power of working class communities of color in San Francisco!

We support the Housing Forward SF housing affordability slate:

Yes on Prop C to preserve affordable housing!

Yes on Prop M to create transparency for housing and development decisions!

No on Props P and U – say no to real estate developer giveaways!

Finally, check out the recommendations on statewide propositions by Bay Rising, our regional civic engagement and grassroots power building alliance. The voter guide is here.

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#NoDAPL

San Francisco.  On Thursday, September 7, 2016, a press conference in solidarity with the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Nations will be held at the Army Corp of Engineers San Francisco office. The group will meet at 1455 Market Street, from 10am-11am. The Standing Rock Sioux Nation is suing the US Army Corp of Engineers in the US District Court in Washington, D.C., demanding that the pipeline permit be rescinded, that the engineers withdraw their nationwide permitting process as it applies to the pipeline, and for the environmental impacts to be properly reviewed. The court will hear the case on Friday, September 8, 2016.

SFC Sunflower Alliance “We stand with the courageous Standing Rock Sioux as they struggle to prevent further devastation of their precious natural resources and sacred sites by the Dakota Access Pipeline project.  We are saddened and outraged by this environmental injustice perpetrated by the Army Corps of Engineers, and call upon them to immediately revoke permits for the pipeline project.   The Dakota Access Pipeline is a national disgrace of the greatest proportions; the indigenous land and water defenders opposing it are real American heroes.”

Background information:  In 2014 Energy Transfer Partners and Dakota Access planned a 1,168 mile long oil pipeline that will carry crude oil from Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to Illinois (via South Dakota and Iowa) where it will link with another pipeline to terminals along the Gulf of Mexico. The US Army Corps of Engineers along with these oil companies is attempting to “fast track” this project without proper legal consultation with tribes, inadequate archaeological and anthropological studies nor proper environmental review. Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge announced it will also invest in this pipeline as well. Dakota Access plans to run pipelines under the Missouri River in three places. Those areas directly threaten the drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux nations, as well as the 18 million people who depend on the Missouri River for water, such as ranchers, farmers and city dwellers.

This press conference has been organized by NoDAPL Solidarity SF. We are a local Environmental Justice and Climate Justice activist group responding to a call from our sisters and brothers at the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp and Sioux Nations. Our organizing committee includes Indian People Organizing for Change, Idle No More SF Bay, the Chinese Progressive Association, PODER, and Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth.

For more information, contact Teresa Almaguer at 415-431-4210 or tere@podersf.org.

Supervisor Eric Mar will honor PODER founder, Leticia Alcantar, at an Earth Day reception at City Hall. The reception, co-sponsored with the Surfrider Foundation and the Sierra Club – Bay/SF Chapter, will take place on April 27, 2016 at City Hall, Room 284, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm..

The reception will honor environmental champions in District 1 who are working in the areas of community gardens, green schools, and organizing for environmental and climate justice.

The reception will be an opportunity to enjoy the “Message in a Bottle” art exhibit sponsored by the Surfrider Foundation. The exhibit, which will be on display throughout May in Supervisor Mar’s office, is a collaboration of local artists and environmentalists that seek to inform and highlight the various threats that our oceans currently face.

Please RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/788724087937822/.

For more information, please email raquel.redondiez@sfgov.org.

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is considering allowing REDD programs into California’s already-flawed cap and trade program. Take action today against international forest offsets and REDD in California by taking one minute to send a letter to the ARB.

We need real solutions for reducing emissions and preventing deforestation, not false solutions like REDD! Click here to send a letter today.

In 2016, everyday people are coming together with real grassroots solutions to our City’s housing crisis. Last year, our neighborhood coalitions made up or residents, workers, parents, teachers, youth and elders demanded action from our City leaders. Join us on January 20, 2016 to prioritize how to invest $50 million in preserving and creating more affordable housing in the Mission District.