Events & Actions
🌹 Tuesday, January 20 (4:00 PM – 6:00 PM): No War No ICE March (in person at Civic Center Plaza, 335 McAllister St)
🌹 Tuesday, January 20 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM): 🏘️ Social Housing Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Tuesday, January 20 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🚎 Public Transit Meeting (zoom)
🌹 Tuesday, January 20 (7:00 PM – 8:30 PM): EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Training (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, January 21 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? (in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹 Thursday, January 22 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): Public Bank Meeting (zoom)
🌹 Thursday, January 22 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 DSA Board Game Night (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Thursday, January 22 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Friday, January 23 (9:30 AM – 10:30 AM): 🐣 District 1 Coffee with Comrades (in person at Breck’s, 2 Clement 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)
🌹 Saturday, January 24 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Public Bank Lit Drop – Bayiew (in person at 1801 Palou Ave)
🌹 Sunday, January 25 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Public Bank Lit Drop – Excelsior (in person at 579 Madrid St)
🌹 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 (Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)
🌹 Monday, January 26 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 DSA Run Club (meet at front of McLaren Lodge, JFK Dr)
🌹 Monday, January 26 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board Meeting (zoom)
🌹 Tuesday, January 27 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, January 28 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM): 🐣 Social Committee Meeting (zoom)
🌹 Wednesday, January 28 (6:45 PM – 8:30 PM): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (zoom and in person at 438 Haight St)
🌹 Thursday, January 29 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting 🌹 (zoom)
🌹 Thursday, January 29 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 ICE Out initiatives orientation (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Sunday, February 1 (1:00 PM – 2:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Sunday, February 1 (1:00 PM – 2:00 PM): SF EWOC Lead Generation Strategy Session (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, February 2 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (zoom and in person 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, February 2 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board x SF EWOC Local Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.
Game Night
Join us for a casual night of board and card games at 1916 McAllister St on Thursday, January 22, 6:30 – 10:00 PM! Feel free to bring your favorite game(s) or play one of ours. Light refreshments will be provided.
🎨 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 St.
Reportback: EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
Last Tuesday, we held our second 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 “The Organizing Conversation” and we heard from an organizer from Louisville discussing her experiences with remote work, organizing a workplace at the pre-majority phase, and finding issues to rally around. A key focus of the plenary and the breakout discussion that followed was the need for relationship building to create a solid base for future organizing conversations so that labor leaders can understand their coworkers motivations and values. The group identified how differences in temporal (e.g., shift work) and spatial structure (e.g., remote work) of the workplace may present barriers to relationship building, but also identified different means by which these barriers can be overcome.
The next session will take place on Tuesday, January 20th at 7:00 PM, hosted at 1916 McAllister St. It’ll cover the steps of the arc of the campaign: choosing demands that are widely and deeply felt by their coworkers, targets that have decision making power, and escalation tactics that build confidence in the organizing campaign.
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 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.
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