Events & Actions

Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!

🌹 Tuesday, January 13 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Tuesday, January 13 (7:00 PM – 8:30 PM): EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Training (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Wednesday, January 14 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM): DSA SF General Meeting (Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Thursday, January 15 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Thursday, January 16 (9:30 AM – 10:30 AM): 🐣 District 1 Coffee with Comrades (Breck’s, 2 Clement St)

🌹 Saturday, January 17 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 HWG Food Service (Castro St & Market St)

🌹 Sunday, January 18 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Consumer Pledge Canvass (Outer Sunset Farmer’s Market & Mercantile, 1994 37th Ave)

🌹 Sunday, January 18 (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM): 🐣 SF EWOC Flyering (TBD)

🌹 Monday, January 19 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Monday, January 19 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 DSA Run Club (McClaren Lodge)

🌹 Tuesday, January 20 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM): Social Housing Meeting 🏘️ (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Wednesday, January 21 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Thursday, January 22 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM): DSA Board Game Night (TBD)

🌹 Thursday, January 22 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): Public Bank Meeting (TBD)

🌹 Thursday, January 22 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Friday, January 23 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 Maker Friday (In person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Saturday, January 24 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Sunday, January 25 (5:00 PM – 6:00 PM): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle Working Group (Zoom)

🌹 Monday, January 26 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

SF EWOC Flyering

Our next NA4A consumer pledge canvass will be on Sunday, January 18th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Outer Sunset Farmer’s Market! We’ll meet at 37th and Ortega. This will be the first consumer pledge canvass of 2026, so let’s kickstart the year on a high note and continue our momentum from 2025 on making SF apartheid-free! RSVP HERE.

🎨 Maker Friday

Come make with us on January 23rd from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the 1916 McAllister office! We’ll be making buttons and zines. Masks required and provided. All are welcome, no experience necessary, see you there!

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

Join DSA SF’s Tenant Organizing Working Group for the Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) Fundamentals of Tenant Organizing course. We will gather to watch this training over four Saturdays in February. The first session is Saturday, February 7th 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM at 1916 McAllister.

NO ICE, NO WAR – DSA Brings Out Hundreds in San Francisco Protest

On Saturday, our chapter co-organized an emergency protest against Trump’s illegal and imperialist war on Venezuela and to demand the abolition of ICE. Alongside our comrades in East Bay DSA, we organized the rally and march within 72 hours, following a national call by the Democratic Socialists of America where our own chapter member, Savannah K., spoke.

This was the first local DSA-led protest and march since 2019. We sent out an email and text message to all chapter members, and organized flyering throughout the Mission, Bernal Heights, Divisadero, Civic Center, the Sunset, and parts of Oakland. Over 1,000 people showed up to attend the rally and march that began at 24th Street BART Plaza San Francisco. The plaza was flooded with red banners, handmade protest signs, and roaring chants in a powerful display of international solidarity with the Venezuelan people. Hazel W. from our chapter and NPC member kicked off the speeches that tied the imperialist attack on Venezuela with the violence playing out on our streets at home. “That same empire reaping violence abroad brings terrorism back home. They murdered Renee Good in Minneapolis. A mother shot down by ICE. They kill our mothers here and bomb mothers in Caracas. They jail our fathers here at home and murder them in Gaza. This is not a coincidence. This is a strategy. They divide us by borders so we don’t see our common enemy.”

We hosted speakers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Palestine Youth Movement, Nodutdol, Trabajadores Unidos Workers United, autonomous court defenders, San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Haiti Action Committee, and BAMN. The entire march, we saw a news helicopter circling above, and received coverage from ABC 7 News, KQED, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Our comrades produced our own media posted on our social media channels featuring protest attendees and DSA members.

While a nearby protest organized by Indivisible centered on ICE violence at home, protesters at the No War, No ICE protest emphasized the interconnectedness of both struggles. The No War, No ICE protest sent a clear message that ICE is doing exactly what it was designed to do: terrorize vulnerable workers with impunity. ICE operates hand in hand with the U.S. military and prison industries to create displacement through sanctions, austerity, and war, and then re-victimize migrants as exploitable labor once they arrive in the United States.

The San Francisco and East Bay DSA chapters, along with chapters nationwide, pledge to continue organizing against U.S. imperialism, to oppose unchecked executive war powers enabled by Congress, and to stand in unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people, immigrants, workers, and oppressed communities everywhere. To learn more about Venezuela, view this F.A.Q. There has never been a greater moment to join the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist working group within our chapter. Join the #palestine-solidarity channel on Slack to get started.

Reportback: EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Week #1

Last Tuesday we held our first session of the four-week-long Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) course Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing. Our group met in person at 1916 McAllister to watch the course plenary before diving into a discussion about the material we covered. This week’s topic was “Developing Leadership” and we heard from a federal worker organizer at Glacier National Parks. They spoke about the challenges of organizing in such a large geographic area with little cell service and how identifying leaders in each spread out department was absolutely key. Part of the lecture talked about the importance of charting your workplace, and it was interesting to hear how Glacier National Parks has different charts for the summer and non-summer seasons due to changes in the number of seasonal workers.

The next session will take place on Tuesday, January 16th at 7:00 PM, hosted at 1916 McAllister. It’ll cover the steps of the organizing conversation, a critical skill for organizing in any environment!

If you’d like 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 meetings of the Labor Board, which are held every other Monday 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  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.