Events

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, our ballot measure, and ways that you can get involved. A better world is possible!

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1625209684200598/

Telling our personal stories is one of the most powerful activist tools we have. This workshop will provide a fun, safe environment to develop our storytelling and public speaking skills, our personal repertoire of stories, and, most importantly, giving ourselves permission to tell our own stories. Telling personal stories is vulnerable and scary, on many levels, but that very vulnerability is what gives our stories such power. Fortunately, there are small steps we can take to build our comfort and skill, and the first thing we will do is build a safe and supportive environment for each other.

This workshop will be adaptive to the needs of the group, and will include:

• Working with our relationship to our own voices and stories, and our internalized messages about whose stories are valid.
• Why stories are so effective; theory and history of human storytelling.
• Story structure and rules-of-thumb like the Story Spine.
• Lots of fun and play to help us get through the scary stuff and build capacity.
• An opportunity to practice one-on-one storytelling when we invite friends to a cocktail party.
• An opportunity to practice public storytelling in front of an audience.

RSVP to any date: https://www.facebook.com/events/384922078649105/

Joining Forces Against Policing and Jails in SF: A Half Day Summit Against the Prison Industrial Complex.

The Summit will bring together organizational partners and community activists working to stop the violence of the prison industrial complex in San Francisco. Summit presenters and participants will discuss interrelated topics such as jail construction, gang injunctions, justice for community members murdered by police, tasers, bail reform, increased policing on our streets, and more. Interactive workshops, trainings, and panel discussions will allow for participants to share information and strategize between campaigns. Our goal is to strengthen connections between our organizations and efforts in order to better address the interlocking impacts of imprisonment, policing, surveillance, courts, and prosecution in San Francisco. Join us.

Before the Summit: Saturday, April 7th, is the TWO YEAR anniversary of the killing of Luis Gongora Pat by SFPD. We will start the day as always on the 7th with a special ceremony at 10am at the altar at Shotwell and 19th St. At its conclusion, we will walk to CCSF to join the summit against policing and jails in SF. Please join us! More details soon about how we will honor Luis that day and during the month. WWW.JUSTICE4LUIS.ORG

Lunch provided. Donations accepted.

Accessibility: Venue is wheelchair accessible. Childcare and language interpretation provided upon request, please contact us regarding this and other accessibility needs.

Contact: nosfjail@curbprisonspending.org
(510) 444-0484
https://nonewsfjail.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/374153742995243/

The DSA Labor Committee is hosting a public meetup for anyone and everyone interested in workplace organizing! Grab a drink, meet some cool folks, and learn about what DSA is doing to organize SF workers as well as how you can get involved! (Venue 21+)

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1636297279795897/

Fight the Police! Come together to protest and disrupt an event hosted by the police on Tuesday April 10th from 6 - 7:30 in the Outer Sunset (https://www.facebook.com/events/1581029828662815/). Police claim to be listening to the community, but really they are killing our community members.

Join the No on H campaign to fight back! The police union is pushing for complete control over Taser policy. Tasers are lethal weapons and the police union doesn't care about civilian insight, they just want more power. Hold the police accountable, resist their racist and oppressive ways, and vote no on H!

Art show benefit brought to you by Incline Gallery (on Valencia at 17th) & the Yes on Prop F! campaign.
Featuring a growing list of over 50 local artists, including:
Adam Feibelman, Aggie Falk, Alicia Escort, Allison Snopek, Amy Rathbone, Andres Guerrero, Annie Galvin, Ben Venom, Beth Waldman, Camila Magrane, Cate White, Christopher Tandy, Dana Smith, Daniel Segrove, Dave Eggers, David Steele, Dennis Parlante, Drew Price, Emilio Villalba, Eric Rewitzer, Ezra Eismont, Felix Macnee, Gregory Goldman, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Guy Diehl, Ian Johnson, Jack Hirschman, James Eddy, Jean Oppermann, John Held Jr., Jon Levy-Warren, Kat Geng, Kevin Earl Taylor, Kim Frohsin, Lucien Shapiro, Lynda Hirose, Mary Ijichi, Matt Gonzalez, Megan Gorham, Michelle Fernandez, Miguel Arzabe, Nick Makanna, Paz de la Calzada, Rachel Dwan, Rachelle Reichert, Sahar Khoury, Sofie Ramos, Sonny Smith, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Tamsin Smith, & Terbo Ted!

Jump on the anti-eviction train with us Saturday at 11AM at the entrance to Golden Gate Park where 9th Ave hits MLK Drive, right across from the botanical gardens.

Vote by mail bail ballot drop in less than 3 weeks and we need the west side if we want to have a chance to win strong eviction protection for tenants! We'll be dropping lit and window signs--be there!

We want every renter we can about plan to make San Francisco the first city in California to offer a right to counsel for tenants facing eviction! 

Join us for coffee and pastries, get inspired by the AMAZING volunteers and organizers, get your all-star lit drop training and then pop in your headphones and hit that pavement for renters rights!

Don't miss it!


https://www.facebook.com/events/2116502635231008/

State and Revolution reading group. Fifth session but previous attendance not required

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/2060697480878624/

Join us on Sundays throughout the year to get out into the neighborhoods of San Francisco and hear from our neighbors about their lives and visions for a better world.

Interested in tabling? Sign up! https://bit.ly/dsasf-tabling-2018
More about Sunday Streets: https://www.sundaystreetssf.com/

12:30 MARCH at Oscar Grant Plaza
1:30 Main Rally
http://www.springaction2018.org/
DSA Contingent: https://www.facebook.com/events/1989478761303191/

No! To US Wars at Home & Abroad.

Join DSA for an anti-war rally in coordination with others across the nation. We demand an end to US wars abroad, the dismantling of the military, and the closure of all US military bases.

Join us in this important fight!

Hello all! Everyone is invited to the next meeting of the Anti-Imperialism Reading Group, hosted by DSA SF. Admission is free, the location is child-friendly, and free copies of the reading(s) are linked here. No prior knowledge of the subject is required, we're all here to learn together!

For our next meeting, we will be transitioning to a focus on North America through a study of W.E.B Du Bois's Black Reconstruction via Cedric Robinson's text, "Black Marxism." Robinson's contribution provides a rich summary of Black Reconstruction by placing Du Bois's canonical work into the context of his life and early 20th century American socialism. The 30-page selection from Robinson intersects themes that include the production of black history and a Marxist analysis of American class structure, while simultaneously framing this history within the context of International Communist politics.

While this is the key reading for this meeting, for those that have time, we highly recommend the second attached reading from Du Bois's text that looks at the counter-revolution following Emancipation. This Chapter provides a compelling examination of the processes through which Southern Capital and Northern Industry fought to restructure the foundations of American capitalism to maintain domination over newly proletarianized black subjects. The relevance of Du Bois's Black Reconstruction is almost eerie and provides a super useful lens for thinking about our current political moment. We can't wait to discuss these readings with y'all during our upcoming meeting!

Bring ideas: This is a collaborative group, so bring ideas for future readings or discussions you would like to lead! We're hoping that the topic of next meeting will be Latin America anti-colonialism, but ideas for future meetings are very welcome as well.

Texts:

Join DSA SF Labor Committee for a FREE workshop on workplace organizing! This workshop is for anyone and everyone who is interested in helping themselves and others improve their conditions at work. Absolutely no previous experience or knowledge necessary, come meet some really cool folks and learn how YOU can build worker power!

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1740178852695256/

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/205204270066191/


Help us spread the word about No on H! On Sunday April 15th we will:

*learn about the prop & how you can volunteer with the campaign
*have a quick community brainstorm about how to defeat H
*drop lit at as many houses as we can!

Snacks will be provided, and we can celebrate after at Wooden Nickel.

Let’s beat back Prop H and keep San Francisco safe!! Please fill out this quick form to get more involved with No on H!
http://bit.ly/VolunteerNoOnH

More about No on H:

Prop H has been put forth by the San Francisco Police Officers Association to circumvent the Police Commission, Board of Supervisors, and the Police Chief when it comes to the use of force policy on Tasers, as well as funding. Prop H is not about giving SFPD Tasers. Prop H is about when Tasers will be used and who will be able to control when they're used. The backers of Prop H want you to undermine the important policy decisions made by the Police Commission and the Police Chief that require de-escalation before use of force. Prop H would instead establish an overly permissive policy that can only be changed through another expensive election process or a ⅘ majority vote of the Board of Supervisors.

In November of last year, the Police Commission approved Tasers for SFPD, but they also set into place a process that would require community input in formulating a sensible use of force policy for Tasers. Implementation was delayed until December of 2018 to give the Police Commission adequate time to work with SFPD and various stakeholders, including the community, to come up with a policy on how SFPD should go about using Tasers. The POA wants to do an end run around that process because they want complete control over how Tasers will be used – and their policy is dangerous!

Under Prop H, the police will be able to use a Taser on someone who is running away, or someone who verbally indicates they may not comply with a police order. The policy also contradicts a lot of the de-escalation training the police department has undergone. We have to stop the SF POA from unilaterally establishing dangerous policy that cannot be altered, even for common sense reforms that emerge after Tasers are deployed.

We hope to count on you to volunteer and join us in standing up to the POA’s blatant power play!

Check out more info and our list of endorsements here: https://votenoproph.nationbuilder.com/

Paid for by No On Prop H Committee
Sponsored by ACLU of Northern California
350 Alabama St. #9
San Francisco, CA 94110
Financial disclosures available at sfethics.org
FPPC # 1403673

Bi-monthly informal, guided discussions on socialist topics. Open to all DSA-SF members.

This week's topic is: "Chutes and Ladders" of DSA Leadership: What's Working and What's Not?
(Note: this will be an informal, comradely conversation focused on recognizing the complexities of Democratic Socialist leadership strategies.  This is NOT a leadership planning or platform meeting!)


RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/184446992198896/

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/175467006605036/

MISSION - WE NEED YOU HERE! We expect gentrifying neighbors to show up to oppose our proposed Mission and Mission St protections that will be presented at this meeting.

Come get some food, share your thoughts about the legislation we have been working on with city officials, and defend our right to these Mission protections!

MAP 2020 Meeting
April 18th, 5:30pm
Women's Building
3543 18th St

Please invite your friends!

MISIÓN- ¡LOS NECESITAMOS AQUÍ! Anticipamos que los vecinos aburguesados se van a presentar para oponerse a nuestras propuestas de proteger la Misión y la Calle Misión que serán presentadas en esta reunión.

¡Vengan a comer, compartan sus ideas sobre la legislación en la que hemos estado trabajando con los funcionarios de la ciudad y defiendan nuestro derecho a estas protecciones de la Misión!

18 Abril a las 5:30 p.m.
Edificio de las Mujeres
3543 Calle 18

¡Por favor inviten a sus amigos!

Telling our personal stories is one of the most powerful activist tools we have. This workshop will provide a fun, safe environment to develop our storytelling and public speaking skills, our personal repertoire of stories, and, most importantly, giving ourselves permission to tell our own stories. Telling personal stories is vulnerable and scary, on many levels, but that very vulnerability is what gives our stories such power. Fortunately, there are small steps we can take to build our comfort and skill, and the first thing we will do is build a safe and supportive environment for each other.

This workshop will be adaptive to the needs of the group, and will include:

• Working with our relationship to our own voices and stories, and our internalized messages about whose stories are valid.
• Why stories are so effective; theory and history of human storytelling.
• Story structure and rules-of-thumb like the Story Spine.
• Lots of fun and play to help us get through the scary stuff and build capacity.
• An opportunity to practice one-on-one storytelling when we invite friends to a cocktail party.
• An opportunity to practice public storytelling in front of an audience.

RSVP to any date: https://www.facebook.com/events/384922078649105/