Events & Actions
🌹 Tuesday, August 5 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)
🌹 Tuesday, August 5 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM) SF Public Bank Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹 Wednesday, August 6 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM) 🐣 New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)
🌹 Thursday, August 7 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Saturday, August 9 (6:00 PM – 9:00 PM) Battle of Algiers Screening (In person at Carr Auditorium, Building 3, 22nd St.)
🌹 Sunday, August 10 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) 🐣 Physical Education and Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument, Panhandle)
🌹 Monday, August 11 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)
🌹Monday, August 11 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Socialist In Office (SIO) Subcommittee Regular Meeting (Zoom)
🌹 Monday, August 11 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board x SF EWOC Local Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Tuesday, August 12 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Wednesday, August 13 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM) 🌹 August General Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)
🌹Thursday, August 14 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM) 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Thursday, August 14 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom)
🌹Friday, August 15 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM) 🐣 Maker Friday: SF Zine Fest Prep (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Saturday, August 16 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Food Service (In person at Castro & Market)
Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
ICE Out of SF Courts!
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck, even if you can only participate for 1 or 2 hours.
Public Bank Discussion Group
What is a Public Bank? How can it help solve climate and housing problems? How can we make it happen in SF? Join us from 6:30 PM-7:30 PM TODAY, Tuesday, August 5 at 1916 McAllister. We will be discussing the short article “How Public Banks Can Help Finance a Green and Just Energy Transformation” by Thomas Marois. We recommend the reading, but it’s totally fine to attend if you didn’t get to it! We will then be discussing current public bank efforts in San Francisco, as well as the best way for DSA to get involved. RSVP to let us know you’ll attend below!
🎬Screening of The Battle of Algiers
Join us at the Carr Auditorium in Potrero Hill at 6:00 PM on Saturday, August 9th for a free screening of The Battle of Algiers, the landmark 1966 film that dramatizes the Algerian resistance against French colonial rule in the 1950s and early 1960s. Shot in a neorealist style and banned in France for years, the film remains one of the most influential political films of the 20th century, studied by organizations like the IRA, PLO, and the Black Panthers for their own liberation struggles.
This free screening will take place at the Carr Auditorium in Potrero Hill and is open to all.
Following the film, we’ll host a discussion exploring its parallels between the Algerian liberation struggle and the current plight of Palestinians under occupation. We invite you to stay, share your thoughts, and engage with others in critical dialogue.
Maker Friday: Zine Edition 🎨
DSA SF will be tabling at SF Zine Fest at the end of the month! Help us fold and update zines, or bring your own craft and come hang out. Everyone is welcome!
📖DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting at 1916 McAllister starting September 7th at 5:30pm and running every other week for 4 or 5 sessions. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd
📣 Support the Blue Bottle Independent Union
Nestlé is one of the biggest corporations in the world charged with decades of human rights violations in the global south. They’re now in our backyard intimidating baristas with surveillance, firing, and bad-faith bargaining. Recently, baristas in four Bay Area locations of Nestlé-owned Blue Bottle presented management with a super majority of union cards and demanded voluntary recognition. Instead, Blue Bottle fired one of the organizers, B.B. Young. This comes at an especially bad time for B.B. since their husband was also recently laid off.
Blue Bottle workers are asking for our support
- Donate at this GoFundMe page
- Sign the petition to demand that the company voluntarily recognize the Blue Bottle Independent Union
- Join the Blue Bottle Independent Union email list or follow on Instagram to stay in touch
- If you are an employee of Blue Bottle, fill out this intake form to get involved with organizing the union at your own store
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 publishing the weekly newsletter. Members can view current CCC rotations.
Interested in helping with the newsletter or other day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running? Fill out the CCC help form.
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