Events

FUNDRAISER FOR A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS

COME to DSA SF happy hour fundraiser at El Rio!

All bar proceeds from 4-6 pm will go to Pueblos Sin Fronteras, providing direct aid at the US/Mexico border.

We will also have a raffle for amazing art, and will pass the hat for Mariposas Sin Fronteras, providing direct aid to LGBT refugees in ICE detention.

Work party! Make maps with your comrades, overlay them with data, and maybe have a cool consciousness raising tool at the end of three hours.

Let's do what we do best: Face to face conversations with San Franciscans in D5!

Youth Vs. Apocalypse general organizing meeting, hosted by the DSASF C&EJ committee

Climate & Environmental Justice's banner has gone missing! Not to worry though, we got this! Join us to paint a new banner, press buttons, and fold zines in preparation for all the Ecosocialist and Green New Deal events we have coming up. Food will be provided, and we'll have all the materials on hand, so all you have bring is your enthusiasm for environmental justice.

We are meeting to prep for the Unite Against the Sweeps at City Hall rally and the city’s cold weather protocol hearing on Thursday, March 7th at 11:30am on the steps of city hall
FB event for Thursday, March 7th
https://www.facebook.com/events/387171972071162/?ti=ia

Interested in local politics? Have you heard about the Democratic Socialists and wanted to find out more? Are you looking for a way to be involved in your community?

Come learn about the Democratic Socialists of America, San Francisco. Hear about our projects and ways that you can get involved. A better world is possible!

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/305595390082191/

Our first lobby effort was so impactful (https://goo.gl/G4YtJX) we're doing it again! Come to City Hall to encourage the Supervisors to show up and support Matt Haney's Hearing on Rainstorm Sweeps. We'll walk around to each Supervisor's office and convey the importance of this hearing. All are welcome, there's no need to speak if you don't want to. We'll meet outside the front entrance of City Hall at 2pm.

Background: SFPD and the Department of Public Works (DPW), collaborating with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, have continued the cruel and inhumane practice of "sweeps", forced relocation and property confiscation of those living on the streets. During the last two rainstorms we know that DPW and SFPD confiscated tents, sleeping bags, and survival gear handed out by DSA SF and allies, leaving people with no way to protect themselves from the elements. Very few politicians in SF have been willing to own up to sweeps being official city policy, but Sup. Haney has given us a rare opportunity to spotlight the lack of services available during winter storms and the ensuing sweeps. Let's show up big and let our supervisors know that these human rights violations will not be tolerated on our watch. The hearing is scheduled to be held in Room 250 of City Hall on March 7th at 12pm.

You're working on an event you're excited about but you're kept up late with questions like "what if no one comes?" or "how do I make sure folks show up?". Or your committee is in a funk where no one is turning out.

Learn what to do during these critical milestones:
2 weeks before the event
1 week before the event
2 day before the event
Day of the event

And strategies for getting your committee's attendance up!

Marx’s Capital is the single most influential socialist text in the world, containing extraordinary insights about the dynamics of capitalism. Join us to read and discuss this foundational text and apply its ideas to our present struggles! This session cover Chapters 16-19 (The Production of Absolute and of Relative Surplus-Value and Wages). It's going to be so good! Please feel free to show up even if you haven't had a chance to do the reading. We'll summarize for you!

Please come out to City Hall, Room 263, at 10am on Thursday morning! Come demand the appointment of an independent agency to investigate misconduct by the Sheriff's department. The San Francisco Sheriff's department goons have been beating up inmates at the San Bruno Jail, and are conducting aggressive strip searches of female inmates. The Sheriff says they will investigate themselves. Cops can't investigate themselves! Come out and let the City know we need real accountability.

On Thursday, March 7th, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is having an "exploratory" hearing into the City's cold weather policy. The Government of the City of San Francisco has endlessly harassed folks with nowhere to go. The San Francisco Police Department has confiscated people’s tents in the rain, arrested people for creating shelter, and not offering more than a temporary stay in a shelter or a cot.
The People of San Francisco and the Bay Area must come together to resist these attacks on working people. Join activists from other Bay Area cities in this action against the attack on the poor and learn about local struggles and ways we can work together to fight back.

Planning meeting this Sunday, March 2nd 1pm at 350 Alabama St.

This event is sponsored by: The United Front Against Displacement, Democratic Socialists of America: San Francisco chapter, and the Bay Area Landless People's Alliance

See Facebook event here: https://facebook.com/events/387171972071162

If you show up to City Hall once in 2019, make it this. SFPD and the Department of Public Works (DPW), collaborating with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, have continued the cruel and inhumane practice of "sweeps", forced relocation and property confiscation of those living on the streets. During the last two rainstorms we know that DPW and SFPD confiscated tents, sleeping bags, and survival gear handed out by DSA SF and allies, leaving people with no way to protect themselves from the elements.

Very few politicians in SF have been willing to own up to sweeps being official city policy, but Sup. Haney has given us a rare opportunity to spotlight the lack of services available during winter storms and the ensuing sweeps. Let's show up big and let our supervisors know that these human rights violations will not be tolerated on our watch. The hearing is scheduled to be held in Room 250 of City Hall.

It's time to build just and accessible public transit in San Francisco! Come to the thirdTransit Justice meeting to envision a truly “transit first” system that serves all residents, whether they live centrally or not!

Hands Off Venezuela! March & Rally - No Coup; No War; No Sanctions
Join us on March 9 for a march and rally against the US intervention in Venezuela. The US aims to continue it's imperial domination of Latin America by overthrowing the current regime in Venezuela, waging economic warfare against the people, fomenting a coup and preparing for military intervention either by US forces or through proxy forces. The US has a long history of such interventions in Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba, Honduras and the Dominican Republic among others which has resulted in the deaths of many thousands and the impoverishment of the people of those countries. It is time for all anti-imperialists, socialists and peace-loving people to oppose the looming war.

DSA SF will have a table at Sunday Streets, a public event that reclaims San Francisco streets throughout the summer. Stop by and say hi!
http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/sunday-streets-2019/

Youth vs. Apocalypse and other youth climate strike folks will be doing an art build to prepare for the march on 3/15.

Most design needs don't need to be filled by designers. Here’s the activist and non-designer guide to just getting the work done.

Learn how to hack Google slides and use Canva to make:

• Quarter sheets
• Posters
• Social media graphics and how to submit them
• Banners
• ...and more

This is a BoS Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee hearing on homelessness, 5150s, and mental health called by conservative supervisor Catherine Stefani; although it's only an informational hearing, it's a good opportunity to speak out against pending legislation (yet to be heard in committee) that would implement SB1045 on a local level. Be at Rm 250 in City Hall this Thursday, 10am, the Voluntary Services First Coalition will be there with talking points.

SB1045 would allow the city to expand conservatorship (ie: backdoor incarcerate in hospital jails) disabled homeless people based on number of 5150s rather than whether they can take care of themselves. According to an ACLU attorney, conservatorship is the biggest deprivation of civil liberties aside from the death penalty.

It is likely that many of our black, brown, transgender, and disabled unhoused neighbors will be targeted by the police if the city passes the local implementation of SB1045, and once again, although the legislation itself will not be heard at this meeting, the issue of expanded conservatorship is germane to the hearing.

Please speak out in favor of the autonomy of disabled and homeless people and voluntary services instead of the backdoor incarceration of conservatorship.

Learn to make shrinky dinks: plastic charms you can turn into pins, jewelry, keychains, and pretty much anything. Kid friendly event, but no dedicated childcare planned.

SUPPLIES PROVIDED, just bring you.

Location has ramp access. Soda, Anchor Steam, la croix, and pizza will be provided. For more accessibility information email mobilizer@dsasf.org.

This Saturday Lennar is having the "official Grand Opening of Landing at The San Francisco Shipyard" complete with music, food and salespeople! Let's rain on their party!
http://theopendoor.lennar.com/california-san-francisco-bay-area/lennars-landing-at-the-san-francisco-shipyard-grand-opens-saturday/

Please join Greenaction and the Bayview Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee SATURDAY MARCH 16 AT NOON in front of the Lennar Shipyard Welcome Center, 11 Innes Court, to speak the truth about the Shipyard and contamination, and tell Lennar and our government agencies and officials:
We Demand Comprehensive Re-testing of the Shipyard Superfund Site and Parcel A...and a full cleanup! Stop Lennar's Gentrification!
As you can see, Lennar again of course omitted any mention of radioactive or toxic waste, that this used to be part of the Superfund site, that it is next to the Superfund site, and that radioactive waste was found next to the new Lennar homes.

Here is some of their public relations/sales pitch announcement:
San Francisco, Calif. – March 2019 – Lennar, the nation’s leading homebuilder, is thrilled to announce the official Grand Opening of Landing at The San Francisco Shipyard will take place on Saturday, March 16, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Landing is the latest collection of new homes to join the upscale masterplanned community. Home shoppers are invited to enjoy complimentary food and refreshments, live music, giveaways and the first opportunity to tour the professionally-decorated model homes.

“We are so excited to unveil these brand-new homes and introduce our incredible community to families who have not yet come out here and see it firsthand,” said Garrett Chan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lennar at The San Francisco Shipyard. “With stunning views, awesome amenities and a unique waterfront location, there really is no other place like it in the city. It’s sure to become the next highly-sought after location to own for a luxury living experience.”

Do art! With comrades! This time we're going to be transforming a kids playhouse into a medicare for all booth.