Events & Actions
🌹Tuesday, July 15 (8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.): ICE out of SF Courts (In person at Immigration Court, 100 Montgomery St)
🌹Tuesday, July 15 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Tuesday, July 15 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Reading Group: The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels, Part 2 (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Wednesday, July 16 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at Potrero Branch Library, 1616 20th St)
🌹Wednesday, July 16 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): EWOC: Organizer Toolkit Workshop (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Thursday, July 17 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Thursday, July 17 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Thursday, July 17 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom)
🌹Saturday, July 19 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Training and Outreach (Meet in person for training at 1916 McAllister, then head out to do outreach in the Bayview)
🌹Saturday, July 19 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenant Organizing Canvass (Meet in person at Chan Kaajal Park, 3100 17th St)
🌹Saturday, July 19 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group (HWG) Food Service (In person at Castro & Market)
🌹Sunday, July 20 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group – Review (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Monday, July 21 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Socialist in Office Subcommittee Regular Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Monday, July 21 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Monday, July 21 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Tuesday, July 22 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Social Housing Reading Group: SF Analyst’s Report (Zoom)
🌹Wednesday, July 23 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tech Worker Reading Group: You Deserve a Tech Union (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Wednesday, July 23 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Independent Outreach (Meet at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Thursday, July 24 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Friday, July 25 (5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): 🐣 Electoral Education: Zohran x DSA’s Victory (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Friday, July 25 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Maker Friday: Zine Edition (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Saturday, July 26 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Cuba Reportback (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Sunday, July 27 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): 🐣 Oakland Ballers vs Northern Colorado Owlz baseball game + “Halloween in July Night” (In person at Raimondi Park, 1800 Wood St, Oakland)
🌹Monday, July 28 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)
🌹Monday, July 28 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board x Divestment Priority Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
Say NO to Seizing Homes!
Join DSA SF in writing the Board of Supervisors to oppose Mayor Lurie’s RV ban, which threatens to seize the homes of poor and working San Franciscans. Demand real, permanent solutions for our neighbors living in their vehicles. Email homelessness@dsasf.org with any questions.
ICE Out of SF
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck, even if you can only participate for 1 or 2 hours.
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 2 at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St. on July 15th at 7:00 p.m. A full PDF of the book can be found here.
EWOC: Organizer Toolkit Workshop
Join us Wednesday, July 16 from 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m. for a workshop held by the San Francisco local of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)! We’ll be going over how to generate workplace organizing leads and hold organizing conversations. This will be an interactive session for any and all levels of organizing experience. Whether you’re an organizer or volunteer with EWOC or simply someone who wants to start learning about workplace organizing, this workshop is a great place to join the conversation and plan work for the labor movement!
We’ll be meeting at 1916 McAllister Let us know if you can make it! Hope to see you there!
Apartheid-Free Bay Area Canvass
No Appetite for Apartheid is a campaign aimed at reducing economic support for Israeli apartheid by canvassing local businesses to boycott Israeli goods. Come and canvass local businesses with the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group!
On Saturday, July 19 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., We will be doing a training on how to talk to stores in your neighborhood, then going out and talking with stores together in the Bayview! Meet at 1916 McAllister.
Tenant Organizing Canvass in the Mission
Help us build tenant power in SF! Tenant Organizing Working Group is hosting a canvass the Mission, in partnership with Tenant and Neighborhood Councils. We’ll meet July 19th at 3:00 p.m. at Chan Kaajal Park, near 16th St. BART station, and we’ll walk the neighborhood together, talking to tenants about their housing conditions and how collective action can help. This is a powerful way to build organizing skills and relationships within the community. We will start with a training, so no prior experience is required. Sign up here so we know you’re coming. See you there!
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.
DSA SF Tech Reading Group
On July 23rd from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United tech workers for our next monthly tech reading group.
We’ll be reading an excerpt from You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte. This event is hybrid with food provided at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St.
RSVP here to access the link to the reading! See you there!
Electoral Education: Zohran x DSA’s Victory
Join us Friday, July 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister for an open discussion about the very exciting Zohran campaign, how they did it, and how it’s shaping the national discussion about electoral politics in the United States and in our national organization! .
Audience: EVERYONE! Whether you’re new to movement or been following the Zohran campaign for a while, we hope this will be interesting for us all!
Maker Friday: Zine Edition
Join us for Maker Friday: Zine Edition on July 25 at 1916 McAllister from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.! We will learn how to make zines, brainstorm ideas for them, and make them. All are welcome, no experience necessary, come connect with your fellow comrades while making fun content to pass out.
Summer Social(ist) Events! ☀️
On Sunday, July 27th at 3:30 p.m. we’ll be going to the 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!
📣 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
- Donate at this GoFundMe page
- Sign the petition to demand that the company voluntarily recognize the Blue Bottle Independent Union
- Join the Blue Bottle Independent Union email list or follow on Instagram to stay in touch
- If you are an employee of Blue Bottle, fill out this intake form to get involved with organizing the union at your own store
Reports
Physical Education Training
On July 13th DSA SF held its second physical education training. Seven comrades got together in the park to learn and practice basic movement and self defense skills such as falling, quick get ups, rolling, human crutch carries, and basic stance work.
Stay tuned for the next one! If you’re interested in inclusive physical education and self defense strategies, please join #phys-ed on the DSA SF Slack.
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.
Share this: