Events & Actions

🌹 Tuesday, July 29 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery) 

🌹 Tuesday, July 29 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom or in person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Wednesday, July 30 (6:45 PM – 8:30 PM) Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (In person at 438 Haight) 

🌹 Thursday, July 31 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM) 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹 Thursday, July 31 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Electoral Board Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Thursday, July 31 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom) 

🌹 Saturday, August 2 (12:45 PM – 4:00 PM) 🐣Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Saturday, August 2 (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM) 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Consumer Pledge Canvass (Meet at 18th St & Dolores) 

🌹 Sunday, August 3 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Monday, August 4 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Socialist In Office (SIO) Subcommittee Regular Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Monday, August 4 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM) Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Monday, August 4 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board Meeting (Zoon) 

🌹 Tuesday, August 5 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery) 

🌹 Tuesday, August 5 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM) SF Public Bank Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Wednesday, August 6 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM) 🐣 New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia) 

🌹 Thursday, August 7 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Electoral Board Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Thursday, August 7 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹 Sunday, August 10 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) 🐣 Physical Education and Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument, Panhandle) 

🌹 Monday, August 11 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate) 

🌹 Monday, August 11 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board x SF EWOC Local Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)

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

Apartheid-Free Bay Area Consumer Canvass

Let’s build public support for the BDS movement and our local businesses that have pledged to go apartheid-free in support of Palestine. This Saturday, August 2 from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, we’ll meet at Dolores Park near 18th St and Dolores.

We will first train you, and then you will put that training into practice by collecting signatures in Dolores Park.

RSVP

ICE Out of SF Courts!

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.

Public Bank Discussion Group

What is a Public Bank? How can it help solve climate and housing problems? How can we make it happen in SF? Join us from 6:30 PM-7:30 PM on Tuesday, August 5 at 1916 McAllister. We will be discussing the short article “How Public Banks Can Help Finance a Green and Just Energy Transformation” by Thomas Marois. We recommend the reading, but it’s totally fine to attend if you didn’t get to it! We will then be discussing current public bank efforts in San Francisco, as well as the best way for DSA to get involved. RSVP to let us know you’ll attend and get access to the reading.

RSVP
A photo of members of the Blue Bottle Independent Union posing in front of Blue Bottle Coffee together.

📣 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. Recently, 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

Reports

As Gaza is Starved, We Must Take Action

Even after nearly 22 months of ongoing U.S.-backed, Israeli-led genocide in Gaza and as settler violence ramps up in the West Bank, we are seeing Palestinians on the brink of mass starvation. Last week, the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist working group (PSAI) participated in a slew of Bay Area demonstrations and actions to make it clear: no business as usual while the ruling class profits off genocide. From confronting Boston Consulting Group’s direct role in profiting of their malicious Gaza “Humanitarian” Fund which uses distribution sites to trap and kill Palestinians, to demanding aid be let in to Gaza at Alex Padilla’s office, we also took time to canvas signatures for our No Appetite for Apartheid pledge at an event featuring Mohammed El-Kurd on his book Perfect Victims (quote below). Ready to take part? Join the #palestine-solidarity Slack channel or come to our meetings Thursdays at 5:30 PM. 

“We reject our complicity in this bloodshed… The moment demands that we renew our commitment to the truth, unflinchingly, unabashedly, cleverly…Such bravery is asked of us now, not when gardens grow over our martyrs’ graves, not when the debris is swept up and sculpted into memorials, and not when the bloodied press vests of our fallen journalists rest eternally in shadow boxes… Because Gaza cannot fight the empire on its own.” – Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims

Social Housing Reading Group

The Ecosocialist Working Group, in conjunction with the Electoral Board, held a discussion on what municipal social housing could look like in San Francisco. 25 attendees, including 10 non-members, responded to an SF Berniecrats policy brief and last year’s feasibility report by the Budget and Legislative Analyst, commissioned by comrade and then-supervisor Dean Preston. We had a wide-ranging conversation that touched on income mix, feasibility, and political strategy.

Stay tuned for the next social housing event! To get involved, join the #ecosocialism Slack channel, or reach out to ecosocialist@dsasf.org.

Socialist in Office Update

Our own socialist-in-office and DSA member Jackie Fielder won two hard-earned victories to mitigate the harms of the billionaires’ agenda and the city administration’s relentless attacks on the poor and working class.

  • Led by the homeless families themselves, Faith in Action, and the Coalition on Homelessness, Jackie  also fought to extend the shelter Length of Stay Policy for families winning provisions for unlimited extensions of up to 90-days (versus the current 3 30-days extension allotted) and ensures that families have access to due process to prevent unnecessary shelter evictions.
  • Jackie’s office also  successfully negotiated restorations of $30 million to house homeless families and transitional aged youth, and $9 million to house homeless adults in the City’s Prop C allocation – important funding towards affordable housing, which was initially slated to be allocated entirely to temporary shelter by the Lurie administration

These actions demonstrate DSA SF’s and Jackie’s commitment to fight back against the city’s policies that continually criminalize poverty and reward the rich and corporations at the expense of the poor and working class. These harmful policies expand austerity measures and defund social safety nets like secure housing for all people, regardless of class or income.

Despite our recent wins, the only way to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty is by fighting for a socialist system which builds an economy that meets the needs of working people. To discuss more how to bring about socialist realities in the electoral realm, join the Electoral Board every Thursday at 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM; and to discuss how to better coordinate with the socialist-in-office, join the SIO subcommittee meeting on Monday from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

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.