Events & Actions

🌹 (NOTE: TIME CHANGE) Tuesday, February 3 (5:30 PM – 7:00 PM): Social Housing Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Tuesday, February 3 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Public Transit Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Thursday, February 5 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM): 🐣 Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (zoom)

🌹 Thursday, February 5 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): Public Bank Project Meeting (zoom)

🌹 Thursday, February 5 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Friday, February 6 (7:00 PM – 11:00 PM): 🐣 District 1 Coffee with Comrades (Breck’s, 2 Clement St)

🌹 Friday, February 6 (3:00 PM – 5:00 PM): 🐣 KCC Office Clean with TLHC (Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Friday, February 6 (7:00 PM – 11:00 PM): 🐣 Comrade Karaoke at the Roar Shack (Roar Shack, 34 7th St)

🌹 Saturday, February 7 (11:00 AM – 2:00 PM): 🐣 ETOC Session 1 – Social Investigation and the Tenant Movement (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Saturday, February 7 (11:00 AM – 12:30 PM): 🐣 Public Bank Lit Drop – Mission (Mission Playground Park, 36 Cunningham Pl)

🌹 Saturday, February 7 (4:00 PM – 6:30 PM): “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” Film Screening (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Sunday, February 8 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Monday, February 9 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Monday, February 9 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 DSA Run Club (in person at McClaren Lodge)

🌹 Monday, February 9 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board General Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 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)

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

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

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

Comrade Karaoke at the Roar Shack

This Friday, February 6, 7:00 – 11:00 PM, come hang out at the Roar Shack (34 7th Street) and do some FREE karaoke with your fellow DSA SF comrades or cool people you want to impress with your incredible singing voice! No songs refused, no entry denied! The entrance is on Odd Fellows Way around the corner from 7th Street.

SF Public Bank Lit Drop

Please join the Ecosocialist Working Group and the SF Public Bank Coalition for a lit drop event this upcoming Saturday, February 7th at 11:00 AM. We’ll be meeting at Mission Playground (Valencia between 19th and 20th). No experience needed and snacks will be provided. RSVP 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.

Immigrant Justice Know Your Rights Canvassing + Social

Join the Immigrant Justice working group Saturday, February 7 at 1:00 PM for a KYR canvass in the Marina district, followed by a happy hour where we’ll be grabbing food and drinks and doing a debrief on canvassing! Meet up at the Marina Branch Public Library!

🎥 Film Screening of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

On April 11, 2002, a failed US-backed coup attempt was orchestrated against the then Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Join us this Saturday, February 7 at 4:00 PM at 1916 McAllister St for a screening of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, a documentary that focuses on events leading up to and during the failed 2002 coup, and filmed by Irish filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain, who happened to be in Caracas when it happened. We hope you can join us as we stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their fight for self-determination and against U.S. sanctions.

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.

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.