Events

How can we build more just and accessible public transit in San Francisco? Come to the kickoff meeting to envision a truly “transit first” system that serves all residents, whether they live centrally or not!

Three DSA-SF members- Shanti Singh, Gabriel Markoff, and Otto Pippenger are running to become delegates to the California Democratic Party for San Francisco in order to block the candidates and policy of reactionary and corporatist influences on our state, and fight to compel the party to support the direct democracy ballot measures and grassroots candidates advancing genuine leftism and antifascism today. The Electoral Committee has voted to recommend support of our three comrades running, and we'd love your help in prevailing!
The vote will be held on January 12th at 3453 18th street, and so we cannot waste any time- if you'd like to see regressives cut off from support by the Democratic Party, and radical, egalitarian reform to our campaign finance laws and democratic processes, come help us get people out!
Come support your comrades who are running by coming to our offices at 350 Alabama Street 11-2 on Saturday January 5th to join us in phonebanking in order to bring enough voters to beat San Francisco's machine politics!
No expertise needed, just bring your cellphone and we'll provide training, snacks, and everything else!

Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed is much more than a text for educators on education. It is a field guide to the way that oppression is made hegemonic, a thorough critique of the way mass education is conducted the world over, and a practical framework for what we might consider in DSA to be base-building. It has been banned by dictators and celebrated by radicals in the decades since its publication. At its core, the task it dictates for radicals is to learn to be one with the oppressed and, by working with them to develop theories about the way the world works based on collective experience, restore their humanity and ability to act on the world materially and concretely. This reading group will be a valuable starting point for important conversations about the work we do, and how we can do it better as we build a movement against capitalist exploitation.

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

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 will continue exploring Part 3 with Chapter 10: The Working Day. 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!

Mark your calendars! San Francisco Public Bank Coalition is launching January 10th. Join us for food, music, community, speakers, and break out sessions.

- LEARN how a city-owned public bank can bring San Francisco's $11 billion budget "From Wall Street to Our Streets!"
- EAT good food surrounded by good people from a wide range of divestment, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice movements across San Francisco!
- DANCE to old and new jams!
- STRATEGIZE with working groups on student debt, affordable housing, green energy, or something else!

Special guests TBA.

The Women’s Building is accessible by
- BART via the 16th St/Mission BART stop
- SF Muni's J Line (at Church & 18th)
- the 14 or 49 bus (both at 18th & Mission)
- the 22 bus (at 16th & Valencia), or
- the 33 bus (at 18th & Valencia)

https://www.facebook.com/events/190975971823539/

As the disastrous fires in Paradise and Chico have highlighted, it's time for us to come together as a responsive, flexible, and prepared group of people who can help support local residents responding to the emerging and ongoing disasters around them. Coming out of the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief training that happened in San Francisco and Oakland at the beginning of October, we want to carry that momentum forward and start regularly meeting, planning, and building a network of activists, organizers, and planners who center mutual aid in their work. We're organizing a planning event that we want as many community members at as possible. We'd love to have you there. To learn more about mutual aid disaster relief, check out https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/

January is Socialist Feminist month, and we need art, banners, signs, flags and what not.

Join your comrades to make art stuff for the socialist contingent of the women’s march SF, reproductive justice rally, and an as-yet-TBD event for international women’s day!

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/828336114164968/?ti=ia

Here’s your chance to get to know the candidates running for the newly created spots on the Steering Committee! We’re throwing a candidate mixer which will feature short speeches by the nominees and an a Q&A with questions submitted by the audience. Food! Drinks! Internal Democracy!

Learn about copyright history and how copyright is currently used (or MIS-used lmao) and then make art with your comrades.

Presentation at 7PM
Art party at 7:30PM

Join the Socialists at the Women's March in 2019 and march under the banner of Feminism for the 99%. We are a contingent of socialists, feminists, labor activists marching together to demand that gender justice be connected to the issues of labor, immigrants rights, mass incarceration, etc.

We support:
Medi-care 4 All
Open Borders
#meToo
decriminalization of sex work
Fully Funded Public Education
Free Childcare
Free Abortion On Demand

Co-Sponsors:
International Women's Strike
International Socialist Organization - NorCal
DSA San Francisco
La Voz de los Trabajadores/Workers' Voice

East Bay DSA - Soc/Fem caucus

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/582039212241795/

Temperatures warming, ice caps melting, politicians dawdling, species dying... it seems every day climate change gives you another thing to feel hopeless about. But you are not alone! Your comrades are right there, feeling those things with you. Talking about it helps. And from solidarity breeds action. There is still time yet to fight back.

So join the Climate & Environmental Justice Committee for our monthly Climate Change Decompression in Franklin Park on Sunday. We'll be unpacking our feelings around climate change in a supportive, safe, environment, and sharing the things that give us hope. Potluck rules — have a snack, bring a snack, share with comrades. This event is open to everyone, and great for first time members and people who are still figuring this all out.

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

Description: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 will continue exploring Part 3 with Chapter 11, and move on to Part 4 with Chapters 12 & 13. It's all about surplus-value and it's gonna be surplus-awesome! Please feel free to show up even if you haven't had a chance to do the reading. We'll summarize for you!

Vote for Preston, Jeremy, and the other candidates recommended by SFBC Momentum! https://sfbcmomentum.org/

For more context, see this forum thread: https://forum.dsasf.org/t/board-of-directors-election-for-the-sf-bike-coalition-join-and-vote/905/

Our regular monthly meeting.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/364665367626986/

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