Category: News
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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…
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DSA SF Calls for Day of Action Against GOP Tax Scam
Comrades, Last week, at the end of the disastrous first year of the Trump presidency, the GOP’s long-waged war on the poor reached its most egregious stage yet, exposing their ruthless agenda to millions of Americans. Capitalism, and the violence it begets, are poised for an unprecedented assault on our…
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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 the June 2018 ballot that would give all tenants faced…
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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 Representation city ballot initiative, the San Francisco Arts and Families…
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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 those things our capitalist, for-profit housing system so seldom provides:…
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#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 more. After 7 hours of protest, public comment that was…
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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 into a fully staffed four day effort that ended in…
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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 bill continues to target individuals rather than organized operations, and…
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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 your help! Reuters has reported that over 1,000 people have…