Category: News
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New Blood: Welcoming Our Incoming Steering Committee
At our June 27th General Meeting, DSA SF elected a new Steering Committee! We want to thank our outgoing Steering Committee for their tireless work in helping this fledgling chapter get off the ground and grow into the healthy, productive organizing space that has become. Here’s a statement from the…
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In Solidarity with Sex Workers: Come March with Us!
On June 2nd a group of sex workers is organizing a protest in Oakland. They outline five goals: to make the Bay Area and local media more aware of the systematic violence against sex workers, legal and otherwise; to make it clear that sex workers’ concerns are intersectional concerns; to…
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Stop Imperialist Wars
The bourgeoisie is laying a trap. For the past five years, in some form or another, the forces of global capital, which take (in part) the form of the governments that form the EU and the USA, have been calling for a war of annihilation upon the people of Syria.…
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DSA SF Announces Endorsements for June 5, 2018 Election
On March 4, 2018, the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America gathered in a special meeting to consider endorsements for local and statewide ballot initiatives appearing in the June 5, 2018 elections, as well as an early endorsement of the November 2018 statewide Affordable Housing Act ballot initiative, which would…
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Feminism for the 99%—SF International Women’s Day of Action and Rally
On March 8th, members of DSA SF’s Socialist Feminist working group joined a coalition of organizations[1] at San Francisco’s Civic Center to celebrate International Women’s Day. Together we made ourselves loud and clear, wearing our red, waving our signs and being unapologetically vocal about women, LGBTQI, immigrant, people of color…
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Live from Death Row: A Conversation with Kevin Cooper
On February 10th the DSA SF Justice Committee at Koret Auditorium hosted a Q&A and discussion with anti-death penalty activist Kevin Cooper to talk about his case, the barbarism of the death penalty, the racism of California’s justice system, and the agony of being innocent on death row. Fourteen years…
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DSA SF Joins the SF Public Bank Coalition
The San Francisco chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is pleased to announce that our members have voted to formally join the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition (SFPBC), a collaboration of local left and progressive groups working to promote and shape a public bank for San Francisco. The final…
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Marching for Reproductive Justice
The Rally for Reproductive Justice will take place on January 27th – we begin at the Federal Building (90 7th St.) at 11:30 a.m to voice strong opposition to the Walk for Life, a hypocritically named movement backed by individuals who stand against reproductive justice for women. We ask you…
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2017: A Year In Review
Our chapter was started by a group of friends in the fall of 2016. They imagined they’d have a small discussion group that met once a month. Then the general election happened. The Democratic Socialists of America San Francisco chapter saw membership skyrocket to nearly 500 dues paying members. Now…
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Stop the #GOPTaxScam March
Trump and the GOP’s tax bill is the latest and most brutal attack on working people and the middle class. Bernie Sanders rightly characterized it as an act of ‘class war’. The plan will cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%, while simultaneously raising the rate on the…