Events & Actions

🌹Tuesday, June 17 (5:50 p.m. – 7:20 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹Tuesday, June 17 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹Tuesday, June 17 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group & East Bay DSA: Know Your Rights & Immigration 101 Training (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹Wednesday, June 18 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 🐣What Is DSA? (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹Thursday, June 19 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹Thursday, June 19 (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Book Talk on US-China Relations with Dee Knight and Kyle Ferrana (Zoom) 

🌹Friday, June 20 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣Maker Friday (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹Saturday, June 21 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣Homelessness Working Group Monthly Food Service (In person at Castro & Market) 

🌹Sunday, June 22 (12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): 🐣Picnic (In person at Dolores Park, Dolores & 19th St) 

🌹Sunday, June 22 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group (In person at Dolores Park, Dolores & 19th St) 

🌹Monday, June 23 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹Monday, June 23 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate) 

🌹Monday, June 23 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹Monday, June 23 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹Tuesday, June 24 (6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 🐣 Ecosocialism Office Gardening (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹Wednesday, June 25 (6:45 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (Zoom & in person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight) 

🌹Wednesday, June 25 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Screening of ‘They Live’ (In person at Roar Shack, 34 7th St) 

🌹Thursday, June 26 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)  Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.
Join the DSA SF Immigrant Justice Working Group & EBDSA Migrants Defense Working Group for Know Your Rights & Immigration 101. Tuesday, June 17, 6:30-8:00PM. 1916 McAllister St.

IJWG & EBDSA: Know Your Rights + Immigration 101 Training

Join the DSA SF Immigrant Justice Working Group and EBDSA Migrants Defense Working Group for a joint Know Your Rights + Immigration 101 training! We will be discussing the current political moment, a brief history of immigration in the U.S., and important Know Your Rights information, including the difference between a judicial and administrative warrant and how to exercise your rights or intervene as a bystander in various scenarios. The training will take place on Tuesday, June 17, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St.

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Maker Friday. Join us as we make buttons and flyers to support our chapter work. Or bring your own craft and come hang out! June 20, 7-9PM. 1916 McAllister. Masks required (and provided).

Maker Friday on June 20 🎨

Join us for Maker Friday on June 20 at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister from 7:00 p.m. to  9:00 p.m.! Come make some art and connect with comrades. All are welcome. See you there!

Apartheid-Free Bay Area Training & Canvassing

Join the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group at 1916 McAllister St this Saturday, June 21st from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. as we canvass Hayes Valley as part of the No Appetite for Apartheid campaign! This campaign aims to reduce economic support for Israeli apartheid by canvassing local businesses to boycott Israeli goods.

You will receive training on how to talk to stores in your neighborhood, then we will go out and talk to stores together! This is a great event for both beginner and experienced canvassers.

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DSA SF presents: Summer Social(ist) Events! June 22nd, 2PM: Picnic @ Dolores Park. June 25th, 7PM: Screening of "They Live" @ Roar Shack (34 7th St). July 6th, 11PM: Screening of "The Room" @ Balboa Theater. July 11th, 7:30PM: Comrade Karaoke @ Roar Shack (34 7th St). July 27th, 1:05PM: Oakland Ballers/"Halloween in July" @ Raimondi Park (Please RSVP!). Links to RSVP in QR code or dsasf.org/events.

Summer Social(ist) Events! ☀️

  • June 22nd, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Picnic @ Dolores Park! Bring some food or drinks, bring your dog, bring your friends, bring your friend’s dog! We will be in the Northeast corner by the tennis courts.
  • June 25th @ 7:00 p.m. – Screening of They Live at Roar Shack (34 7th Street) – Let’s watch the classic monster movie inspired by the scariest monsters of them all (Ronald Reagan and Capitalism)!
  • 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!

🌱 Ecosocialism Gardening

Come garden with our Ecoscocialism Working Group to talk socialism and get to know our garden! We’ll start with a discussion of the history of native plants in the Bay Area and then identify the native plants in our office garden. Join us Tuesday, June 24th at 6:30 p.m. at 1916 McAllister.

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People’s Conference for Palestine: Gaza is the Compass

📣 Come one, come all! We’re hoping to have a DSA SF delegation at the 🍉 People’s Conference For Palestine: Gaza is the Compass 🧭 from August 29-31 in Detroit, Michigan. Interested? We’re gauging interest, so please fill out this form by June 19th at 11:00 p.m. Limited financial aid may be available.

Interest Form

Reports

Chapter Convention

This past weekend we held our chapter’s Annual Convention. At Convention, we elect new leadership, charter our chapter bodies, consider bylaws amendments, and determine our chapter’s priority campaigns for the year. Here’s a recap from this year’s Convention!

Bylaws Amendments

We amended our bylaws to reduce the number of annual priority campaigns from up to 3 to only 2, now requiring one of those priorities to be an external-facing campaign and the other to be an internal organizing priority.

Priority Campaigns

  • Our new priority campaign for the year is San Francisco Divestment: Confronting Israeli Genocide and Apartheid at Home. The priority campaign will be led by Christina W, Doc R, and Jayson V. You can read more about the goals for this campaign in the resolution we passed.
  • Both of the priority resolutions up for consideration at Convention were external-facing campaigns, so we will have a single priority campaign for the year unless an internal priority is considered at a future chapter meeting.

Resolutions  Adopted

Chapter Bodies & Leadership

We rechartered several chapter bodies and elected new leadership for the first six-month term.

  • Steering Committee – Aditya B, Annie R, Ellyn D, Jenbo, and Julian M
  • Grievance Officers – Chloe J, Jenna L
  • Electoral Board – Anya W-Z, Carlos C-R, Lizzie M, Harlo P, Jordan N
  • Education Board – Matt R, Stephen A, Volo K
  • Labor Board – Caitlin S, Erich F, James S, Reilly P, Sayuri F
  • Ecosocialism Working Group – Rishav R, Sophie P
  • Homelessness Working Group – Ben P, Keith H
  • Immigrant Justice Working Group – Caroline G, Cindy R
  • Palestine Solidarity & Anti-Imperialism Working Group – Andrew Y, Louise D
  • Tenant Organizing Working Group – Dan E, Ellyn D

Sunday Streets Tabling

DSA hosted a table at Sunday Streets this past weekend on June 15 which took place in the Tenderloin, right outside the DSA convention happening in Kelly Cullen Auditorium. We had a group of 4 helpers representing the healing circle who facilitated the activities and spoke with community members.

We handed out flyers for DSA SF and the Tenderloin Healing Circle, Know Your Rights cards, educational zines previously created by members, buttons with various comradely phrases and information on No Appetite for Apartheid; and shared the QR code in support of Jackie Fielder’s legislation to extend family shelter stays. We also ran a button making station, which was incredibly popular, and had chalk available, which was especially popular with the littles but appreciated by all ages.

We had a steady stream of folks of all ages at our table the entire time, asking questions about DSA and the different projects we were promoting, or even just stopping to chat about life for a few minutes. In the end, we handed out the entire original stack of healing circle flyers, and the button design with “Stand Up Fight Back” really seemed to strike a chord. We found this to be a very engaging and inspiring event and would strongly encourage the chapter to attend again in the future.

A few other moments to highlight:

  • The first person to use the chalk was a young man who drew the blue and pink design – a passerby stopped to compliment the artist saying it looked like a unicorn
  • A mom with her three daughters sat and each made a pin together with great enthusiasm while chatting with our helpers
  • A father and his three young daughters took turns with chalk and expanded the mural in front of our table, running up to our table each time to retrieve new colors

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.