Events & Actions
🌹 Tuesday April 14 (5:30 PM – 7:30 PM) 🏘️ Social Housing Working Group (zoom)
🌹 Tuesday April 14 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Labor Board – 1934 Teamsters Strike Educations Event (1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Tuesday April 14 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🚎 Public Transit Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday April 15 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) 🐣 What is DSA? (1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Thursday April 16 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM) Public Bank Project Meeting (zoom)
🌹 Thursday April 16 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice regular meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Friday April 17 (9:30 AM – 10:30 AM)🐣District 1 Coffee with Comrades (Breck’s, 2 Clement St)
🌹 Saturday April 18 (10:00 AM – 2:00 PM) 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Training and Outreach – Store Canvass (May Day Emphasis!) (1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Saturday April 18 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🐣 HWG Food Service (Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley)
🌹 Sunday April 19 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) 🐣 Oakland People’s Arms Embargo Mass Meeting (1433 Madison St, Oakland)
🌹 Sunday April 19 (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM) 🐣 Get to Know EWOC: Flyering (TBD)
🌹 Sunday April 19 (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM) 🐣 RESIST!: Lessons from the Rojava Revolution on Resisting Trump, ICE, and Fascism (Presidio Branch Library, 3150 Sacramento St)
🌹 Monday April 20 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM) 🐣 DSA Run Club (McClaren Lodge)
🌹 Monday April 20 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board Meeting – Existing Union Support (1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Tuesday April 21 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM) Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Thursday April 23 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) 🐣 Social Committee (zoom)
🌹 Thursday April 23 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting 🌹 (zoom)
🌹 Thursday April 23 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM) 🐣 Maker Thursday (1916 McAllister)
🌹 Friday April 24 (6:00 PM – 8:30 PM) 🐣 May Day Movie Night: “Pride” Screening (Roar Shack 34 7th St)
🌹 Saturday April 25 (11:00 AM – 3:00 PM) Public Bank Campaign (Mission Playground)
🌹 Saturday April 25 (12:00 PM – 4:00 PM) Tenderloin Healing Circle picnic + flyering (Yerba Buena Gardens, 750 Howard St)
🌹 Sunday April 26 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (William McKinley Monument)
🌹 Sunday April 26 (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM) 🐣 Get to Know EWOC Picnic (Dolores Park, Dolores St & 19th St)
🌹 Sunday April 26 (3:00 PM – 4:30 PM) 🐣 Socialist Shop Talk (1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Sunday April 26 (5:00 PM – 6:00 PM) 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle Working Group
(zoom)
🌹 Monday April 27 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)
🌹 Monday April 27 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM) Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday April 27 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board – Flex Meeting (zoom)
🌹 Tuesday April 28 (5:30 PM – 7:00 PM) Social Housing Working Group🏘️ (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Tuesday April 28 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🚎 Public Transit Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
Petition: SAN FRANCISCO, DIVEST NOW!
Despite being a progressive city, San Francisco invests millions of dollars in corporations that are complicit in the genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people, facilitates ICE in the kidnapping of our immigrant community, and furthers the climate crisis. In January 2024, San Francisco was a leading voice in passing a ceasefire measure to demand an end to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians and the US’s role in contributing to the death toll of Gazans, which now officially stands at 70,000. Yet, the City and County of San Francisco continues to invest in well-known corporations that facilitate the genocide and apartheid of Palestinians and the over-militarization of our city streets. These investments are managed under a “socially responsible” policy that already discourages investments in tobacco, firearms, and the Dakota Access Pipeline but remains silent on genocide, apartheid, and immigrant detention. As San Franciscans, we think there is nothing “socially responsible” about investing in war, militarization, and climate destruction.
Sign the petition here to tell the City and County of San Francisco: NO to genocide, NO to ICE, and NO to fueling the climate crisis!
Strike Education
In the lead up to May Day, veteran members of DSA and the Labor Movement, Bill and Anne will be holding a discussion on the Minneapolis general strike of 1934, a momentous event that paved the way for militancy in the larger American labor movement. The event will be at the DSA office (1916 McAllister) at 6 p.m. on Tuesday
May Day Events
Join DSA in a series of May Day related events!
- April 14 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) General Strike Ed Event (1916 McAllister St)
- April 24 (6:00 PM – 8:30 PM) Labor Movie Night: Pride (34 7th St)
- May 1 May Day Rally and March (2:00 PM) Civic Center (4:00 PM) Embarcadero
Oakland People’s Arms Embargo Mass Meeting
Come on April 19th to learn more about OPAE and how you can be a part of this critical fight!
📅SUN APRIL 19th 🕰️11:00AM📍Islamic Cultural Center of Northern CA – 1433 Madison St. in Oakland (a few short blocks from the Lake Merritt BART station)
✉️RSVP here
Tenant Canvas
Curious about tenant organizing but not sure where to start? Join the DSA Tenant Organizing Working Group for a canvass in the Excelsior on Sunday, April 19th!
We’ll meet nearby at 10:30 AM at Cumaica Coffee (4726 Mission St.) for a quick, beginner-friendly crash course in tenant canvassing, so no experience needed. You’ll learn the basics, meet comrades, and get grounded before we head out to canvass at 11 AM. Spanish speakers are especially appreciated!! Come help us connect with tenants, build relationships, and grow collective power in our community.
Resist! Lessons from the Rojava Revolution
Socialist Shop Talk
Come chat with comrades about socialism through the lens of current events! In this new series, we will read a short text together, then discuss and analyze it from a socialist point of view. This is a low-key environment where comrades can develop their skills of applying socialist analysis to current events, while having an outlet to discuss and process everything that’s happening in the world together.
This event is open to all, whether you’re socialism-curious, new to DSA, or a longtime member. In our first session, we will discuss two short readings highlighting the connection between immigrant justice work and the broader anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggle.
When: Sunday, April 26th, 3-4:30pm
Where: 1916 McAllister St
Get to Know EWOC Picnic
Sunday April 26th from 2-4 PM at Dolores Park (near Hidalgo Statue)
Want to enjoy the outdoors and snacks? Overworked, underpaid, and fed up with your working conditions? Interested in learning what it means to unionize your workplace? The world is a tough place, so why should your work make it even harder? Attending this picnic doesn’t mean you have to organize your workplace, but you’ll get the chance to talk to organizers and volunteers from the San Francisco local of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee!
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a volunteer-run network of hundreds of workers, organizers, and supporters who together are building a stronger, worker-led labor movement. We support and train any non-union worker in any industry who wants power and agency at work. Along with unions and other labor organizations, we can build the militancy and strength of the working class and effectively organize the millions of unorganized workers in the United States.
RSVP Here
Flyering for EWOC Picnic
Additionally there will be some flyering for the picnic to help spread the word.
Meet to put up flyers around San Francisco. No experience is required! Get your walking shoes on and tape up some flyers with DSA and EWOC members 🙂
Saturday, April 12 from 1-3 PM starting at 1916 McAllister: RSVP here
Saturday, April 19 from 1-3 PM starting at TBD: RSVP here
EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Course
Sign up here
EWOC holds a regular training course to help you build your union from the ground up alongside workers in your industry. It doesn’t require an organizing background to understand the material, which covers topics including mapping and charting, building an organizing committee, uniting over common concerns, and how to take action. If you’re interested in becoming any level of organizer for EWOC, this course is mandatory.
This course will be hybrid, with the EWOC lectures occurring over Zoom and the discussion activities occurring at the DSA office (1916 McAllister). If you can’t make all of the sessions, reach out to Caitlin Stanton (SF EWOC local lead coordinator, DSA SF Labor Board member) for accommodations.
SCHEDULE:
Week 1: Developing Leadership
Sunday, April 26 (12:00-1:30 p.m. PT)
Week 2: The Organizing Conversation
Sunday, May 3 (12:00-1:30 p.m. PT)
Week 3: The Arc of the Campaign
Sunday, May 10 (12:00-1:30 p.m. PT)
Week 4: Inoculation and the Boss Campaign
Sunday, May 17 (12:00-1:30 p.m. PT)
May 1st: International Worker’s Day
DSA of San Francisco will be joining a local and national movement on MAY 1ST, MAY DAY, to take action against the Trump administration, oligarchs, and CEOs exploiting and abusing immigrants and workers. We need to stand up to the people and corporations making our city and our country worse for all but the most privileged. If the working class wants to defeat Trump and his elite class and build a better society for everyone, we need to learn how to take action together!
There will be a variety of rallies, marches and protests throughout the day and we will need YOU, our chapter members, to come out and help represent DSA SF. Sign onto the pledge and stay tune for contingent organizing.
Join DSA SF on May Day 2026 and pledge: no work, no school, no shopping this May 1!
Thank you!
UESF strike update
An update from this year’s historic UESF strike: in February, this chapter raised $19,172 in one week to support the courageous efforts of educators and school employees who went on strike for their students and for our communities. We used about half the funds to bring food to striking educators and school employees on picket lines and to make hundreds of meals to distribute to students at community centers and childcare programs. The strike ended in a victory for the workers before we could spend all the money we raised! We are happy to announce that DSA SF distributed the remaining $9,312 in funds to UESF’s health and welfare fund for the benefit of educators at SF public schools. Thank you to everyone who helped raise funds and donated!
April Chapter Meeting Recap
On April 8th we had our monthly chapter meeting at Kelly Cullen Community, featuring Annie R. and Ollie B. as chairs of the meeting. We kicked off the event with a political grounding from Ollie and Robinson N., where they each read statements from women who are currently living in Gaza. Ollie also shared some updates about the Prairieland defendants, and shared printed material and zines for attendees to learn more about the cases against them. Jason K. gave a “Red Talk” on “The French Revolution and Metric Time,” where we learned about an alternate decimal time system that was implemented in France during the French Revolution.
We heard from our DSA SF member and NPC member Hazel W. about grants, trainings, and other resources offered by the DSA Growth & Development Committee. They have trainings available to all members happening this month, including “Constructive Criticism” and “Chairing a Meeting With Robert’s Rules”. Find out more and sign up for these trainings at gdc.dsausa.org.
We heard the first reading of a proposed amendment to our bylaws, by Scott F., to remove chapter priorities from the bylaws, and we took some time to hear members’ reactions to the proposal. If you’d like to join the conversation, please do so in the forum.
We also ratified Steering’s decision to endorse AB1900, or “CalCare”. And we elected new leaders! Your new chapter leaders are:
Izzy S., CCC Co-Chair
Scott F., Social Housing Working Group Co-Chair
Wren M., Social Housing Working Group Co-Chair
Please join us in congratulating them and giving them a warm welcome. And we’ll see you in May!
Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.
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