News and updates

SF Right To Counsel Ballot Measure Kickoff

A coalition of tenant groups, neighborhood leaders, and senior advocates gathered on December 2nd  at the San Francisco Tenants Union to kick off the SF Right To Counsel Ballot Measure signature gathering. We’re working towards putting an historic initiative on...

December 3, 2017

DSA SF makes early endorsements for June 2018 elections

  On November 18, 2017, the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America (DSA SF) gathered in a special meeting to consider early electoral endorsements for the June 5, 2018 elections. The chapter voted overwhelmingly to endorse the No Eviction Without...

November 21, 2017

DSA SF Stands With Save Midtown

Midtown should have been a triumph. In its heyday, the unique community homeownership cooperative was a model for how cities and their less advantaged citizens could work together to find creative solutions to housing challenges. It was supposed to offer...

November 11, 2017

#NoTasersSF – Police Commission Vote

Friday, November 3 marked the fifth vote on “conducted energy devices” in the last decade and a half, and perhaps the most contentious — met with large-scale protests from our chapter, the Frisco 500, Coalition on Homelessness, Do No Harm Coalition, and many...

November 11, 2017

North Bay Fire Donation Drive

Starting October 8th, 15 wildfires broke out in the North Bay forcing 20,000 people to evacuate. We responded with a donation drive to bring material aid to evacuation shelters in Sonoma County. What started as a one day drop-off turned...

October 15, 2017

Fighting the pointless “chop shop” bill.

We showed up to oppose the “chop shop” ordinance, introduced earlier this year. This bill authorizes the arbitrary confiscation of property from our most vulnerable citizens, those living on the city streets, and does nothing to stem bike theft. The...

October 11, 2017

SFPD Does Not Need Tasers

DSA SF has joined a coalition of community groups in standing up and fighting back against a push from the right-wing San Francisco Police Officer’s Association to equip the San Francisco Police Department with deadly Taser weapons, and we need...

October 9, 2017

DSA Joins with Bay Area Community to Reject Fascist Rallies

DSA SF along with DSA chapters from all over the Bay Area joined a broad coalition of activists, union members, community groups and religious leaders to protest white supremacy at a pair of fascist rallies last weekend in San Francisco...

September 1, 2017
Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor

There can be no compromise on reproductive justice

San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America’s Socialist Feminism Committee drafted the following statement about reproductive justice, subsequently ratified by the chapter at our July meeting, in response to discussion both within and outside of the DSA surrounding the Omaha, Nebraska...

August 2, 2017

DSA SF July General Meeting draws record crowd

It was standing room only this week at the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America July General Meeting, the first such meeting organized by our newly elected Steering Committee. All told 119 comrades both new and known gathered to participate...

July 23, 2017