News and updates
DSA SF Endorses Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor, along with Transfer Tax and Social Housing Ballot Initiatives
At our July general meeting, DSA SF voted to endorse Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor, along with two potential ballot measures Dean has introduced. An active member of DSA SF, Dean was elected as supervisor last year in a...
DSA SF Labor Organizing Zines
DSA SF has produced a handful of zines that we think will be helpful to you and your co-workers as you start to organize on the job.
Juneteenth 2020: Shut Down the Port for Black Lives!
DSA SF’s Labor Organizing Committee is organizing chapter support for the black leaders of Locals 10, 34, 75, and 91 of the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) and the Movement 4 Black Lives, and their action to shut down...
DSA SF Justice Committee: Tell the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to Defund and Disband the Police
George Floyd. Tony McDade. Breonna Taylor. David McAtee. These are only the latest victims of police violence in the United States, where police kill over a thousand people a year and injure tens of thousands more. After decades of austerity...
DSA SF Calls Comrades to Action Against San Francisco Curfew
The San Francisco chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America continues calling for justice of victims of unjust systems and state violence, including George Floyd and the victims of the San Francisco Police Department: Alex Nieto, Mario Woods, Amílcar Pérez-López,...
DSA SF Steering Committee Statement: Justice for George Floyd and all Victims of Police Murder
George Floyd’s death at the hands of police is yet another in a long series of extrajudicial killings of black people by American law enforcement. Predictably, the justified outrage of the black community is being painted by reactionary media and...
DSA SF Announces COVID-19 Platform
DSA San Francisco has released a statement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and attendant economic recession that we believe to be on the horizon. Read our full platform of policy demands and organizational initiatives here. The COVID-19 pandemic is...
DSA SF’s Justice Committee Distributes Hand Sanitizer to SF Jails In Response to City’s Inaction
On Saturday, March 28, members of DSA SF’s Justice Committee dropped off 900 bottles of hand sanitizer for people being held in San Francisco’s jails in an effort to address the city’s failure to release more people amid the COVID-19...
DSA Demands COVID-19 Response That Places People Over Profit
The Democratic Socialists of America and its chapters are demanding a people-centered response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exposed many flaws in the United States’ emergency response systems and the healthcare industry at large. As noted by our local...
Elections Are Only the Start— Join DSA SF Today!
Yesterday’s primary confirms that San Francisco’s working-class and young voters are ready to embrace the bold democratic socialist vision that candidates like Bernie Sanders and Jackie Fielder are putting forward. But the primaries are only one part of the movement...