Upcoming Events

🌹Tuesday, April 22 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Maker Tuesday: Red Cards (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, April 23 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): DSA SF Tech Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, April 23 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00p.m.): Presentation: Know Your Rights for Encounters with ICE (In person at 2000 Mission St.)

🌹Thursday, April 24 (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.): “Recovery First” Ordinance Public Comment at City Hall (In person at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl., Room 250)

🌹Thursday, April 24 (5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, April 24 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, April 25 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): 🐣Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, April 26 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣Homelessness Working Food Service (In person at Castro & Market)

🌹Sunday, April 27 (1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.): 🐣Know Your Rights Canvassing (In person at San Francisco Botanical Garden, 1199 9th Ave)

🌹Monday, April 28 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Monday, April 28 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, April 28 (7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.): Screening of We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day (In person at Carr Auditorium, Building 3, 22nd St.)

🌹Tuesday, April 29 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣Maker Tuesday (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, May 1 (4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): May Day March and Rally — Immigrant and Workers’ Rights: One Struggle, One Fight! (In person at Civic Center Plaza, 335 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, May 1 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): May Day Happy Hour (In person at Tempest Bar & Box Kitchen, 2940 431 Natoma St.)

🌹Saturday, May 3 (11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): 🐣Comrade Doggie Social (In person at Marx Meadow, Golden Gate Park)

Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.

Events & Actions

Letter campaign: No to the regressive and anti-science "Recovery First Drug Policy." Recovery First falsely pits harm reduction against treatment and divides effective public health approaches, echoing failed "war on drugs" tactics and ignores the real causes of our city's opioid crisis: capitalism's deep economic and social inequalities, driven by a system that profits from the suffering of working-class and marginalized people. Sign on: DSASF.org/no-bad-drug-policy

Support Harm Reduction and Oppose Bad Drug Policy – Email the Board of Supervisors and Turn Out to Public Comment this Week!

DSA SF is joining with other community organizations to oppose Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s “Recovery First Policy” ordinance. The proposed ordinance appears benign, but is actually part of a larger assault on harm reduction policy, intent on replacing nuanced solutions with an abstinence-only, one-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t address the real issues at the heart of San Francisco’s opioid crisis.

Join DSA SF in speaking out in favor of science-based harm reduction, treatment on demand, and safe consumption sites. Start by sending an email to the Board of Supervisors, then follow up by showing up Thursday, April 24th at 10 a.m. at SF City Hall, Room 250 to give public comment! Email homelessness@dsasf.org with any questions.

Apartheid-Free Bay Area: No Appetite for Apartheid! Stand with Palestine! Outreach Training & Canvassing, Saturday, April 26th, San Francisco. 10AM-2PM. Meet at 1916 McAllister St. Join the movement to make the Bay Area Apartheid-Free! ApartheidFreeBayArea.org

No Appetite for Apartheid Outreach Training & Canvassing 🍉

 We’ll be holding our next training/canvassing for No Appetite for Apartheid this Saturday! We’ll be meeting at 10:00 a.m. at 1916 McAllister to do training. After the training, we will divide up into groups to visit stores (and maybe restaurants and cafes, too!) in the Russian Hill/Lower Nob Hill neighborhoods and discuss deshelving and boycotting Israeli products!

If you’ve already trained and you just want to canvass, feel free to show up at 11:30 a.m. at 1916 McAllister to get a turf. If you are able to provide transportation for people from the training site to the canvassing location, please indicate that in the RSVP form below.

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May Day Events: Immigrant & Workers' Rights: One Struggle, One Fight! April 27, 1:30PM, SF Botanical Garden: Know Your Rights Canvass. Join us to distribute posters and Know Your Rights red cards to local businesses and members of our community! April 28, 7PM, Carr Auditorium, SFGH: Screening & Discussion of We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day. Come learn about the history of May Day! April 29, 7PM-9PM, 1916 Mcallister: May Day Maker Tuesday. Crafting for the May Day rally by making buttons, signs, and more! May 1, 4PM, Civic Center: May Day Rally. Commemorate the long history of labor resistance and take to the streets to say NO to attacks on workers, immigrants, students, and the international working class. May 11, 9AM-11AM, 1916 McAllister: Hygiene Kit Assembly. We'll assemble hygiene kits to distribute to our homeless neighbors and talk about ways to come together in community to keep each other safe in the face of state-sanctioned violence. May 20, 7PM-8:15PM, 1916 McAllister: Socialist Night School: Salting. Curious about salting? Learn about salting strategies, examine past SF wins, and hear about current opportunities to salt a workplace. For more info visit the website https://dsasf.org/mayday2025/

May Day Events 🌹

Join us in celebrating May Day 2025! Labor Board’s slate of events this year begins on April 27th with a Know Your Rights canvas programmed with the Immigrant Justice Working Group!

We also have:

  • an education event on the history of May Day (featuring a discussion with the Education Board)
  • a Maker Tuesday night to craft buttons and flyers for the rally
  • the May Day Rally at Civic Center (which comrade Hazel W will be speaking at!)

After May Day we’ll be assembling hygiene kits with the Homelessness Working Group and learning about salting opportunities in SF with a Socialist Night School on Salting!

For more information and to RSVP to these events, check out https://dsasf.org/mayday2025/

Tenderloin Healing Circle: A free space to listen, reflect, and be heard in community. Food is provided. Everyone is welcome. Kelly Cullen Auditorium, 220 Golden Gate Ave. April 14 & 28, 6-8PM. Masks provided & encouraged.

Come Join the Tenderloin Healing Circle on April 28

All are welcome to attend the Tenderloin Healing Circle. The healing circle is a great way to connect, reflect, and share food with other DSA members and folks in the Tenderloin community. The Healing Circle will be meeting at the Kelly Cullen Auditorium at 220 Golden Gate Ave on April 28th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Food is provided, and masks are provided and encouraged.

Capital Reading Group

DSA SF has started a Marx’s Capital reading group! We’ll be meeting every other Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister St. and also on Zoom. We’ll meet on May 4th to wrap up our discussion of chapter 1 and cover chapter 2 and the afterword to the second German edition. We’re reading the new translation published by Princeton University Press. You can also join the #capital-rdg-group-2025 channel on the DSA SF Slack for additional information and discussion!

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in May (see below for schedule). We’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities,. If you’re interested, fill out the form here and join the #ewoc-fundamentals-2025 channel in Slack! The goal is to have more people learn organizing skills, both for your own projects and for organizing with EWOC.

Sessions run every week from 6:00-7:30 p.m. on

  • Wednesday, May 7
  • Tuesday, May 13
  • Wednesday, May 21
  • Wednesday, May 28

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a project of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to build a distributed, grassroots organizing program to support workers organizing at the workplace.

Register

Office Hours

Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll  be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.

Behind the Scenes

The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.

To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.