Events & Actions

🌹Tuesday, July 1 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, July 1 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Reading Group: The Housing Question by Friederich Engels (Part 1 of 2) (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, July 2 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)

🌹Thursday, July 3 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, July 3 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, July 5 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Consumer Pledge Canvass (Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza)

🌹Saturday, July 5 (12:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (Meet at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, July 5 (1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.): Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Training: Planning Sync (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, July 5 (2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Phonebank to Stop the Billionaire’s Budget Attack on the Unhoused (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, July 6 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, July 6 (10:30 p.m. – 1:30 a.m.): 🐣 Screening of The Room at the Balboa Theater (In person at Balboa Theatre, 3630 Balboa)

🌹Monday, July 7 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, July 7 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, July 9 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🌹 July General Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, July 10 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, July 11 (7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Comrade Karaoke (In person at The Roar Shack, 34 7th St)

🌹Sunday, July 13 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument, Panhandle Park)

🌹Monday, July 14 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!

Reading Group: “The Housing Question” by Friedrich Engels

Join us in reading the seminal text on the political economy of housing. Written in 1872, “The Housing Question” is Friedrich Engels’ critique of the housing market and the solutions promoted by his contemporaries. 150 years later, his work resonates just as much, if not more, with tenants’ current struggles.

This two-part series will have readers discuss the various historical attitudes and debates around housing and apply those lessons to our modern housing crisis.

Join us for session 1 at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St. on July 1st at 7:00 p.m. A full PDF of the book can be found here.

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Summer Social(ist) Events! ☀️

Mark your calendars for our Summer Social(ist) event series!

  • July 6th @ 11:00 p.m. – Screening of The Room at the Balboa Theater! We’ll meet outside at 10:30.
  • July 11th @ 7:30PM – Comrade Karaoke at the Roar Shack (34 7th Street) – Come hang out 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! Suggested Donation: $10. Drinks: Wine + Beer Available / BYOB
  • July 27th @ 1:05PM – Oakland Ballers vs Northern Colorado Owlz baseball game + “Halloween in July Night” (at Raimondi Park) – RSVP here by July 13th so that we can put in a group order of tickets! Group tickets are are $15 per ticket, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds!

🇵🇸 Apartheid-Free Bay Area Consumer Pledge Canvassing

Help build public support for stores that have pledged to go apartheid-free 🇵🇸 at the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market, Harry Bridges Plaza, this Saturday, July 5 from 11:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m.! You will receive basic training, and then you will put that training into practice by collecting signatures at the Ferry Plaza Building Farmer’s Market. Please sign up here. Bring a tote bag and make sure to wear your DSA merch. New members encouraged to join!

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Oppose the billionaire budget

Call your comrades to oppose the billionaire budget! Join the DSA SF Electoral Board this Saturday, July 5, 2:00 p.m. to – 4:00 p.m at 1916 McAllister to phonebank members and urge them to send letters opposing Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Billionaire Budget. The proposed budget forces austerity upon the most vulnerable San Franciscans by redirecting Prop C Our City Our Home funds away from effective solutions to homelessness to temporary measures which do not address the root causes of homelessness.

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EWOC: How to Talk About Organizing

EWOC (Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee) is a project of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and DSA working to build a distributed grassroots organizing program to support workers organizing at the workplace. To learn more about the work EWOC does, come by the DSA SF office to pick up a copy of Unite and Win or tune into the Labor Board’s weekly meetings every Monday at 7 p.m. on Zoom.

The next EWOC event hosted by DSA SF features EWOC staff members conducting a training on generating workplace leads and conducting organizing conversations on July 16th from 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m. Let us know if you can make it! Hope to see you there!

📣 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. Last week, 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

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Social Housing Reading Group

What could social housing look like in San Francisco, and how do we get there? Join DSASF for a reading of the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report on how the city can build its own publicly owned, deeply affordable housing. We will also read the SF Berniecrats report, Housing for the 99%, which lays out a vision for social housing for all in San Francisco. Join us at 1916 McAllister Tuesday, July 22 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Reports

Physical Education Training

On June 28th, DSA SF held its first physical education training. Five comrades got together in the park to learn and practice basic movement and self defense skills like falling, squatting, lifting, and palm striking. The next one will be held on July 13th at 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the William McKinley Monument in Panhandle Park. Join us for some fun and inclusive physical education, aimed at building the strength and flexibility to build a better world.

Ecosocialist Office Gardening

The Ecosocialist Working Group held their first office gardening event last Tuesday, with 12 attendees, including 5 non-members. We discussed native plants in the bay area and the various tools to help with plant identification, and labeled our garden with popsicle sticks. Our comrade Lizzie even brought a microscope to take a closer look at petals and leaves.

Stay tuned for the next office gardening event! To get involved, join #ecosocialism on the DSA SF Slack, or reach out to ecosocialist@dsasf.org.

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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.

To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.