News and updates
It’s Striketober! 🌹
DSA SF Weekly Roundup — Setting Priorities Spotlight on: Striketober Although you might not have heard about it, labor actions have been sparked all over the country and San Francisco is no exception. From the walk-in staged by UESF educators, to Giants...
Celebrating Latinx Heritage and Indigenous Peoples’ Day as We Combat Detention, Deportation, and Line 3 🌹
Comrades, We are near the end of Latinx Heritage Month, which began September 15 and ends this Friday, October 15. The date, September 15, marked the 100-year anniversaries of the independence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua....
How the U.S. Empire made today’s Afghanistan ?
Comrades, Last week, we marched in solidarity with tenants from the Embarcadero to Veritas headquarters on Market and Bush as the statewide eviction moratorium expired. You can also read about it here in the San Francisco Independent Journal. The day after, DSA...
Updates on our recent priority campaigns 🌹
Comrades, In case you missed the latest updates on our social media channels, here are some recent posts: Some members of the Labor Circle staged a walk-in last week to demand more safety in schools. Read about it here in the...
Using the past to thrust forward! 🌹
Comrades, This summer, DSA SF committed ourselves to developing a set of ballot measures that build power for the working class and train leaders in our chapter. As a chapter priority, the work of developing ballot measures that may someday...
What We Are Laboring Towards
Comrades, Yesterday, we celebrated Labor Day as unemployment benefits expired for millions of Americans and protections against evictions are ceasing. Even as working-class couriers are forced to deliver Grubhub orders during a flood or drive Ubers to rescue people from...
Commemorating Black August
Comrades, We’d like to end the month of August by commemorating Black August, which honors the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, and to call for the release of all political prisoners, abolition of all prisons, and to...
Solidarity with the people of Afghanistan 🌹
Dear comrades, Despite the media telling us the US military had been in Afghanistan to help the Afghan people, we know that’s not the case – the Afghan people have long suffered under US violence, and will now continue to...
DSA SF Moves Forward to Push For International Solidarity
Comrades, The chapter has been busy! At the August regular meeting, priority campaign leaders reported on what they’ve been working on, such as establishing subcommittees for the ballot measure campaign and presenting a plan of work for the next year...
Housing is a right, not a political calculation
Over the past couple weeks, we’ve seen our government carelessly allow the federal moratorium on evictions to lapse, all to have the CDC reinstate it through October 3 – an extension that will be challenged in courts. Will it survive...