Events

Join the DSA SF contingent at the ILWU May Day March! We will be rallying and marching with our Local 10 comrades to tell Oakland A's owner, GAP billionaire John Fisher, that he cannot destroy Howard Terminal for his own private gain.

Find us under the red flags starting at Howard Terminal at 11am.
Please see the schedule below for the day's programming. We will be marching between locations.

11:00am – Rally at Howard Terminal (1 Market and Embarcadero)
12:00pm – Rally at Port of Oakland Headquarters (530 Water Street)
2:00pm – Rally at Oscar Grant Plaza (Frank Ogawa Plaza)
4:00pm – Oakland Sin Fronteras March to Lake Merritt from OGP

Come celebrate May Day with your comrades in other Bay Area DSA chapters! We'll learn about the history of this important day in workers' history and celebrate with food and fun!

Great for first-time attendees! A facilitator will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to orient new members.

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/320543668564664/

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/

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/2319588551594276/

Just two months after the end of the Oakland Teachers Strike and our fightback against privatization, the NewSchools Venture Fund is having their annual summit in the heart of Oakland.

The NewSchools Venture Fund is financed by the Walton Family Foundation (Walmart), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Microsoft), the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Facebook), and other billionaires committed to quietly privatizing education.

The Oakland school board is gearing up to close dozens of neighborhood schools in favor of new charters. Join comrades from Socialist Alternative and DSA to fight back and let everyone know that the Bay isn't for billionaires.

Join the Education Comittee for the third class in our Intro to Socialism series: the American Labor Movement.

In this class, we’ll explore the overlapping history of the labor movement and socialism in the United States, from the Railroad Strikes of 1877 to the struggle for the 8-hour day to the formation of the Socialist and Communist parties.

Great for first-time attendees! A facilitator will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to orient new members.

Support the work of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice by joining the DSA Bayview Hunter's Point Task Force contingent and walk with a DSA banner from Peacock Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Meet at 10 a.m.

Great for first-time attendees! A facilitator will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to orient new members.

Sneak Preview and Q&A Discussion w/ Director
May 12th, Sunday, 1:00-2:30pm
The New Parkway, Oakland

~~~~~~TICKETS~~~~~~
Any donation to the kickstarter counts as a ticket: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/socialismmovie/socialism-an-american-story-post-production?ref=mxkwfx

Come ready to show your receipt at the door! Suggested donation: $15

~~~~~THE FILM~~~~~~
We will be showing 15 minutes of footage from Socialism: An American Story, a feature-length documentary about the history and resurgence of socialism in America.

Socialism: an American Story features the stories of ordinary Americans across the United States. From a Marine veteran turned socialist legislator, to a teacher on strike, to young activists working towards Medicare for All, today’s surging interest in socialism manifests across demographics. Through their stories and a historical road trip through the old socialist hub of Wisconsin, we learn what a uniquely American form of socialism might look like.

Two years ago, 13 million Americans voted for a socialist presidential candidate for the first time. Millions more flirted with socialism, feared it, or scratched their heads and moved on. We want to reach people who are unfamiliar with socialist thought but feel its growing influence in their lives. For the first time in decades, there are socialists in both houses of Congress. Americans deserve an opportunity to evaluate socialist ideas without the usual Cold War stigma or fear-mongering.

The word “socialism” can be alienating. “Medicare for All” now enjoys wide majority support even among Republicans, but the socialist project goes beyond healthcare reform. We journey through a vision of America transformed by that project.

~~~~~~Q&A DISCUSSION FEATURING~~~~~~
Yael Bridge is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, recently produced Netflix’s Saving Capitalism.

Bhaskar Sunkara is the founder and editor of Jacobin and author of new book The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality.

Meagan Day is a staff writer at Jacobin. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Vox, Mother Jones, The Week, The Baffler, In These Times, n+1 and elsewhere.

Vilma Serrano is a teacher in Oakland who recently went on strike with the Oakland Education Association.

~~~~~~COSPONSORS~~~~~~
Democratic Socialists of America
Young Democratic Socialists of America
Jacobin
Our Revolution
Socialist Alternative

David Ranney (UIllinois Chicago) will dialogue with us about his vivid new book on his life organizing in the heart of the Rust Belt and thinking about labor organizing in academia. We join him in reflecting on 40 years of change in the workplace.

The Board of Supervisors’ Rules Committee will vote on whether or not to implement state Senate Bill 1045 in San Francisco. Join us to urge Supervisors Ronen, Mar, and Walton to vote NO on the implementation of SB 1045 in San Francisco!

SB 1045 would create a new form of conservatorship, which moves us away from the longstanding practice of only placing people in locked facilities when they present a harm to self and others, and instead use 8 “5150” police detentions as the criteria. This is a new legal process through which an individual can lose the right to make decisions about their housing, finances, and medical care. The bill targets homeless people with severe mental illness and substance addiction. While claiming to be a solution to chronic homelessness, this bill provides no funding for housing or mental health treatment. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/SDA_SB1045 .

On what is likely our only debate...
come see our endorsed DSA member and candidate for D5 debate the Mayor's choice: Vallie Brown. If you come to one campaign event of the year, this should be it.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2265343997117682/

Come mingle with DSA-SF and meet the candidates for delegate to the DSA National Convention!

A presentation on labor history by the workers and organizers making it. Panel discussion includes workers from Anchor Brewing and organizers from Transporters Workers Union and Tech Workers Coalition -- all everyday workers and activists engaging in what local labor historian Fred Glass calls the "oral culture of unionism...[the culture of] workers journeying from isolation and powerlessness to community, strength, and hope."

We're hosting a fundraiser for sex workers' rights at El Rio next week, and we want to put together a small zine explaining why sex workers are workers just like us who deserve safe working conditions without fear of violence, whether from the state or elsewhere! Come hang out with other SocFem folks and help us put together a rad zine!

Protest against the American governments illegal seizure of the Venezuelan Embassy in DC & the arrest of the Embassy Defenders!

Emergency Protest
Saturday 5/18 @ 12pm
Powell + Market Street, San Francisco CA

Protest the illegal seizure of the Venezuelan Embassy! Drop the charges against Embassy defenders!

UPDATE: In violation of International and U.S., police invaded the Venezuelan Embassy and arrested the Embassy Protection Collective members who were inside. The four are now in police custody. Join us on Saturday, May 18, 12 noon Powell & Market Sts in San Francisco (rain or not) to protest the unprecedented U.S. seizure of the embassy of another sovereign state, and to demand : “Drop the charges against the Embassy defenders – U.S. Hands Off Venezuela!”

The Embassy Protection Collective is calling on all peace and social justice organizations and people from all over the United States to join together next Saturday, May 18, for a massive mobilization in Washington D.C. at the Venezuelan Embassy.

Right-wing and fascist thugs have laid siege to the Venezuelan Embassy. The electricity has been cut off. The water has been cut off and people attempting to bring food were violently attacked and arrested. The Secret Service and the D.C. Police Department, under orders of the Trump Administration, have created a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Washington D.C. at a diplomatic compound that is protected by the Vienna Convention.

Momentum is building all over the country in defense of the Embassy Protection Collective and in opposition to the Trump Administration's lawless attempt to seize Venezuela's Embassy.

Peace activists have been residing inside the Venezuelan Embassy, since mid-April to protect it from takeover by the Trump Administration as part of the U.S. orchestrated coup, they are there as the invited guests of the owner of the building, the Venezuelan government. Organized by CODEPINK, Popular Resistance and ANSWER Coalition, they formed the Embassy Protection Collective. They are demanding that the electricity and water be turned back on, and that food and medicines be allowed inside.

The San Francisco march and rally endorsers include: ANSWER Coalition – Act Now to Stop War & End Racism, Code Pink-Women for Peace, Task Force on the Americas, Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee, Party for Socialism & Liberation, Campaign to End US and Canada Sanctions against Venezuela, Bay Area CISPES, QUIT, San Francisco Peace & Freedom Party,Communist Workers League Bay Area, N'COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America), Black Alliance for Peace, Veterans for Peace Chapter 69, AROC - Arab Resource and Organizing Center, and San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, Haiti Action Committee, SOA Watch, Green Party of Santa Clara County (List in formation - to endorse send to answer@answersf.org) View full list of endorsers

Worried about climate change? Heard about the new UN report on environmental destruction?

Talking helps. Join the Climate & Environmental Justice Committee for our monthly Climate Change Decompression in Franklin Park on Sunday (we'll meet on the nice grass near the SE corner of the park). We'll be unpacking our feelings around climate change in a supportive, safe environment.

We'll have snacks and encourage you to bring a snack to share with comrades. This event is open to everyone, not just DSA members, and is great for first time members.

Join the DSA SF Homelessness Working Group to canvass for Dean Preston! We'll have a homelessness-themed script to use and we'll get a thorough training before we hit the streets. No worries if you're new or nervous, you'll be partnered with an experienced canvasser! We'll meet at Dean Preston's campaign office at 631 Haight Street at 5:30pm on Monday 5/20.

Great for first-time attendees! A facilitator will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to orient new members.

Join your comrades for a discussion on Marx's Capital. First floor has a ramp access.

Meeting of volunteers for the San Francisco Public Banking Coalition. All DSA Members Welcome!

Our regular monthly meeting.

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/346878902776319/

Email livemeeting@dsasf.org to request live stream access.

Come sip with friends at El Rio and raise money for sex workers' rights! Our $$ will go to US PROStitutes Collective, an SF organization.

The US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) is a multiracial network of women who work or have worked in different areas of the sex industry. Founded in 1982, US PROS campaigns for the decriminalization of prostitution and for justice, protection and resources so that no woman, young person or man is forced into prostitution through poverty or violence.
Email socfem@dsasf.org for more info. If you're unable to attend, please feel free to donate to US PROS at https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=8vgjJiIw6cPu1Ufrqfv1vlqpAdAiXv3Gq49GL1X0pL4Eehv-nc4HdqB-YBSa-ZFKX5WTkG&country.x=US&locale.x=US&Z3JncnB0=.

In 1934, a strike started by longeshoremen up and down the West Coast escalated into a general strike involving 150,000 workers, shutting down the city of San Francisco for four days. On July 5, or "Bloody Thursday," police fired into a crowd of picketing workers, killing 3 and injuring 115. When unions called for a general strike, the mayor declared a state of emergency and police raided the homes and meeting places of suspected "radicals," "subversives," and "communists," arresting 300 in one day. The general strike of 1934 brought the city of San Francisco to a boiling point of class struggle, and would have a pivotal impact in the growth of a militant labor movement across America during the 1930s and 40s.

This event on May 23rd is an educational presentation by Chris Carlsson of Shaping SF about San Francisco’s 1934 General Strike, the single most important event in California labor history. Be there, or be a SCAB : )

Great for first-time attendees! A facilitator will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to orient new members.

1pm SF City Hall, 4pm Oakland City Hall (Show up to either one or both.)

Co-sponsored by Poor Magazine.

As SF, Berkeley, and Oakland politricksters continue their Violent hate campaigns and policies toward and against us houseless folks we realized that another frame needs to be launched - instead of us just constantly reacting to their hate and lygislations - we are asking folks with homes, with resources to gather - in critical mass and clearly claim - No we don't want our houseless neighbors, swept, Banned, arrested and profiled - we don't want their bodies and resources and belongings stolen-and we don't equate "clean streets" with streets that are empty of people.

We are hoping that as many housed folks can stand together with us unhoused and formerly unhoused folks and listen to actual solutions we are manifesting and WeSearch (Poor people-led research) we have uncovered as well as speak your own commitments to enact solutions, not more hate.

With this action we hope to cause the gaze to be shifted from us the Swept, to you the so-called Stake-holders who the poltricksters say they are "sweeping" us for.

As renters and Mama Earth "owners" your presence against more sweeps is extremely important to end the dangerous and ongoing War On the Poor .

For more info, email poormag@gmail.com and eowski@gmail.com.

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/333963660797610/

The West Coast Pet Care Worker of VCA SF are spreading the word about their fight for a fair contract and DSA SF member are joining them.

From the workers: Our booth will be on 18th St and Harrison which is behind our hospital. Stop on by and say hi! we will have information on our union, Pet care and prizes. Many of our members will be there!!! We are continuing to spread to the community and happy to be a part of the Mission District

https://www.facebook.com/events/596270454211688/

Let's hang out! Burn-out is a real thing and a lot of the events we do are so focused on being productive and getting done all the the amazing shit we do as an organization. I wanted to organize a chill day in the park with no goals; just a happy, fun time to eat sandwiches and enjoy each other's company.

There will be makings for PB&J and I will be making hummus for anyone with nut allergies. Tiffany C. is making some delicious homemade bread as well! I'll bring some six packs of beer and tasty non-alcoholic treats. If you want to see a certain snack or beverage feel free to bring along.

Great for first-time attendees! A facilitator will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to orient new members.

The West Coast Pet Care Worker of VCA SF are spreading the word about their fight for a fair contract and DSA SF member are joining them.

From the workers: Our booth will be on 18th St and Harrison which is behind our hospital. Stop on by and say hi! we will have information on our union, Pet care and prizes. Many of our members will be there!!! We are continuing to spread to the community and happy to be a part of the Mission District

https://www.facebook.com/events/596270454211688/