Events & Actions

🌹 Tuesday, February 10 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Wednesday, February 11 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM): 🌹 DSA SF General Meeting (zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Thursday, February 12 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 New Member Happy Hour – Richmond District Edition! (in person at Lost Marbles Brewery, 823 Clement St)

🌹 Thursday, February 12 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting 🌹 (zoom)

🌹 Thursday, February 12 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 Tech Worker Reading Group (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Friday, February 13 (9:30 AM – 10:30 AM): 🐣 District 1 Coffee with Comrades (in person at Breck’s, 2 Clement St)

🌹 Friday, February 13 (3:00 PM – 5:00 PM): 🐣 KCC Office Clean with TLHC (in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Saturday, February 14 (11:00 AM – 2:00 PM): 🐣 ETOC Session 2 – Building Campaigns I (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Sunday, February 15 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣No Appetite for Apartheid Consumer Pledge Canvas (in person at Breck’s, 2 Clement St)

🌹 Sunday, February 15 (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM): Get to Know EWOC Flyering Event (location TBD)

🌹 Monday, February 16 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board Meeting – Existing Union Support (in person at 1916 McAllister St and zoom)

🌹 Monday, February 16 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (in person at 1916 McAllister St and zoom)

🌹 Monday, February 16 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 DSA Run Club (in person at McClaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan St)

🌹 Tuesday, February 17 (5:30 PM – 7:00 PM): 🏘️ Social Housing Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Tuesday, February 17 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🚎 Public Transit Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Wednesday, February 18 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Thursday, February 19 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM): 🐣 Social Committee Meeting (zoom)

🌹 Thursday, February 19 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): 🏦 Public Bank Project Meeting (zoom)

🌹 Thursday, February 19 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Saturday, February 21 (11:00 AM – 2:00 PM): 🐣 ETOC Session 3 – Building Campaigns II (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Saturday, February 21 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 HWG Food Service (in person at Castro Street & Market Street)

🌹 Sunday, February 22 (1:30 PM – 3:00 PM): 🐣 Get to Know EWOC! ☕ (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Sunday, February 22 (5:00 PM – 6:00 PM): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle Working Group (zoom)

🌹 Monday, February 23 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Monday, February 23 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board Meeting – Existing Union Support (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

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

New Member Happy Hour – Richmond District Edition!

Join us for our a Happy Hour on Thursday, February 12th, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, at Lost Marbles Brewery, 823 Clement St. Learn more about DSA SF’s upcoming projects, find out how to plug in, or just socialize with socialists! 

Also open to old members, regular folks and the socialism-curious 🐣🍻.

No Appetite for Apartheid (NA4A) Consumer Pledge Canvas

This Sunday, February 15th, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, our next consumer pledge canvass will be at the Clement Street Farmer’s Market (Clement & Arguello). Join the Palestine Solidarity & Anti Imperialist Working Group in building public support for stores that have pledged to go apartheid-free. RSVP here. Training will be held on-site.

Find more info for NA4A here 🇵🇸.

Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) Fundamentals of Tenant Organizing Watch Party

Looking to deepen your understanding of housing work on the ground? Interested in building durable tenant power in SF? Come learn how to organize tenant associations, fight landlords collectively, and build toward radical tenant unionism in San Francisco. These ETOC watch parties happen every Saturday in February at 11:00 AM at our office (1916 McAllister) and focus on turning socialist analysis into mass tenant struggle: investigation, campaigns, and building real tenant organizations that can win. If you’re serious about anti-landlord work, this is where to plug in.

Reportback: EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing

We have another graduated cohort from the four week long Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee organizing training! The last two weeks covered “The Arc of the Campaign” and “Inoculation and the Boss Campaign”, allowing for even more detailed discussion about the organizing efforts happening within the group. 

The “Arc of the Campaign” focused on Lisa, a nurse who met with her co-workers to organize them in an escalating campaign towards a strike. They used different ways to organize people towards this goal, such as media coverage, candlelight vigils, educating about the meaning of the strike, and collectively representing their issues. There are a variety of ways that union leaders can educate the public about their cause, and making them fun and creative can move the campaign forward!

We heard from Diego, a Trader Joe’s worker whose union election ended in a tie, during “Inoculation and the Boss Campaign”. The boss targeted workers that were less informed about their rights or shakier in their commitment to organizing in order to catch people off guard. It was important that organizers had people prepared to combat the anti-union narrative in larger captive meetings and after 1:1s with management. We went through the union busting bingo card to ideate what we could say in response to anti-organizing rhetoric, whether it was from management or fellow coworkers.

The Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course is run every other month! If you’re interested in an in-person format or generally want to get involved with the SF local chapter of EWOC, reach out to the lead coordinator Caitlin S or email labor@dsasf.org. EWOC is a standing topic at the new organizing meetings of the Labor Board, which are held on the second Monday of every month at 7:00 PM, both in-person at 1916 McAllister and over Zoom. Anyone is welcome to attend, and we’re always looking for people interested In workplace lead canvassing, organizer trainings, and volunteer outreach. If you’re interested in organizing your workplace and would like to be connected with an EWOC organizer, fill out the request form here.

DSA Run Club

Runners of all speeds and experience levels are warmly welcome to join our running club! We meet every Monday evening, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM in front of McClaren Lodge, the stone building at the eastern end of JFK drive. Wear comfortable running clothes (DSA attire encouraged) and bring your most positive vibes! We stretch and warm up for 15 minutes, then hit the car-free streets for a 3.4-mile loop at a gentle pace.

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.