Events

Hey we have to put stickers of polling places on all our lit for our big election day lit drop! We need you!

When was the last time you heard someone say, "That Nancy Pelosi sure does fight hard for the healthcare system the vast majority of Americans want!" Been a minute for you? Us too! In fact, despite over half of Democrats in the House of Representatives saying they support H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019, our San Francisco Representative and Speaker of the House still refuses to allow a vote on it!

That's why DSASF is teaming up with National Nurses United and California Nurses Association at UN Plaza, November 2nd at 2PM for a rally to urge Nancy Pelosi to move forward with the bill. The rally will feature activists and speakers from around California pushing for the comprehensive, single-payer healthcare system we desperately need!

After meeting at UN Plaza, we will march to Yerba Buena Gardens to meet and greet with your fellow healthcare activists. Planning on going? Great! Register here to let NNU and CNA know you'll be there and even sign up for transportation from select locations: bit.ly/sfrallymfa

Join us, and let's fight for the best quality healthcare there is: Medicare for All!

Join the Bay Area branch of the DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus and the Emergency Committee for Rojava for an evening of learning and discussion about Libertarian Municipalism and the situation in Northern Syria with journalist and author Debbie Bookchin.

We’ll start with a reading and a discussion on Libertarian Municipalism, a theory of revolution through directly democratic local assemblies developed by Debbie’s father, Murray Bookchin. Libertarian Municipalism was a major influence on the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, and it is a key element of the governing structure in Rojava, the socialist autonomous zone in Northern Syria facing invasion by Turkey following its betrayal by the Trump administration.

Following the discussion, we’ll hear a talk from Debbie Bookchin, who has recently returned from Rojava. She will talk about why it is critical to defend this feminist, ecological, democratic project from the ongoing onslaught by Turkey and its jihadi allies as well as the Syrian regime, and how ideas of libertarian municipalism and social ecology have influenced the Kurdish freedom movement. This report is part of the speaking tour that ECR envisions as a step towards building a nationwide network to support Rojava and the Kurdish movement at a time when they are in grave danger.

Reading & Discussion 5:30PM-6:30PM (Refreshments provided)

Debbie Bookchin talk 7:00PM-9:00PM.

A Zoom room is available for people who would like to attend the discussion remotely!

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

Call centers, Kafka, the centerlessness of capitalism, The Parallax View and so much more will be discussed at the next Capitalist Realism Reading Group when we read pages 53-86 of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism!

We will be reading up to the section entitled "The Relation of the State and Law to Property" on page 186 in this version:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hxl9jkT2Uee3I_zK48D1QfJgp6JzgajF/view

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/1119229314924931/

Salesforce: Stop Providing Tech for Concentration Camps
For more info or to get involved, contact immigration@dsasf.org

Our regular monthly meeting.

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

Come out and support the Anchor Brewery workers organizing to unionize at Anchor Public Taps this Thursday 11/21! The happiest hour will be when they win their contract, but until then, let's do a happy hour and show management how much we like Anchor Steam. This is a low-key event so great for people new to this campaign and/or DSA. Cheers to the Labor Movement, and let the workers know we drink to them.

Great for first-time attendees!

NOTE: IRIS (Immigrant Rights and International Solidarity Committee) is going to join this webinar, and then have a short Zoom meeting in lieu of a regular in-person meeting this week. If you have questions, email immigration@ dsasf.org, Thanks!
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When:             November 21st, 2019, 8:30pm EST,7:30pm CST; 5:30pm PST

Register:          https://act.dsausa.org/signup/no-one-illegal-webinar-capitalism-imperialism-and-borders/

Sponsor:         Immigrant Rights Working Group – Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

Borders throughout the world have become sites of stateviolence, racist discrimination, and policing of workers freedom of movement.Governments from the US to Mexico, the EU and Israel to name just a few havemilitarized their boundaries, policed them with guards, forced migrants to takedangerous routes where they are losing their lives in record numbers, jailedthose that survive in concentration camps, and exploited others as cheap labordenied the rights of workers with citizenship. On this webinar, experts oncapitalism, climate change, imperialism and migration will explain the systemicroots of population displacement, the nature and function of the new borderregime and present a case for working class unity against the oppression andscapegoating of migrants in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Speakers:

Justin Akers Chacon, author of No One is Illegal andRadicals in the Barrio.

Todd Miller, author of Empire of Borders, Border PatrolNation, and Storming the Wall.

Harsha Walia, author of Undoing Border Imperialism,cofounder of No One Is Illegal.

Jorge Mújica, author of Voces Migrantes: Movimiento 10 deMarzo, DSA member and Organizer with Arise Chicago, National Council member ofthe National Writers Union.