Upcoming Events
🌹Tuesday, May 6 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Reading Group for “The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth” (Zoom)
🌹Wednesday, May 7 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)
🌹Thursday, May 8 (5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Friday, May 9 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Saturday, May 10 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Training (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Sunday, May 11 (9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.): 🐣 Hygiene Kit Assembly with Labor Board and Homelessness Working Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Monday, May 12 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Monday, May 12 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)
🌹Monday, May 12 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person 1916 McAllister)
🌹Monday, May 12 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Wednesday, May 14 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): May General Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate and on Zoom)
🌹Thursday, May 15 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Sunday, May 18 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Monday, May 19 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)
Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.
Events & Actions
New Member Happy Hour
🍻🌹 Join us for our New Member Happy Hour starting at 6:30PM at Zeitgeist (199 Valencia Street). Learn more about DSA SF’s upcoming projects, find out how to plug in, or just socialize with socialists! Also open to old members, regular folks and the socialism-curious. Members running for DSA National Convention delegate will also be there to answer questions about their questionnaires, so members should come through, too!
Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in May (see below for schedule). We’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities,. If you’re interested, fill out the form here and join the #ewoc-fundamentals-2025 channel in Slack! The goal is to have more people learn organizing skills, both for your own projects and for organizing with EWOC.
Sessions run every week from 6:00-7:30 p.m. on:
- Wednesday, May 7
- Tuesday, May 13
- Wednesday, May 21
- Wednesday, May 28
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a project of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to build a distributed, grassroots organizing program to support workers org
No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass
We will be holding our next training and canvassing for No Appetite for Apartheid this Saturday, May 10! We’ll be meeting at 10:00 a.m. at 522 Valencia to do training. After the training, we will divide up into groups to visit stores in the Castro and Noe Valley (and maybe restaurants and cafes too!) and discuss de-shelving and boycotting Israeli products!
If you’ve already trained and you just want to canvass, feel free to show up at 11:30 a.m. at 522 Valencia to get a turf. If you are able to provide transportation for people from the training site to the canvassing location, please indicate that you RSVP here.
Hygiene Kit Assembly
Keeping the May Day spirit alive, we have a Hygiene Kit Assembly planned on Sunday, May 11 in partnership with the Homelessness Working Group. We’ll assemble hygiene kits to distribute to our homeless neighbors and talk about ways to come together in community. People experiencing homelessness are systematically left out of political decisions that impact them, and we’ve invited members of local unions and community members to have conversations with us about this disparity at this event. All ages welcome – this event is kid friendly.
Sunday, May 11
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
1916 McAllister
Office Hours
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
May Day Reportback
This week the world celebrated International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, to mark the anniversary of the 1886 United States general strike to demand an eight-hour workday. To celebrate this historic day, the Labor Board, in collaboration with other chapter bodies, mobilized chapter members to attend a slate of events focused on immigrant and workers’ rights.
Our events kicked off on Sunday, April 27th with a Know Your Rights canvass in partnership with the Immigrant Justice Working Group. DSA members handed out multilingual red cards and asked local businesses to hang flyers in their windows. It was powerful to see so many neighbors and businesses standing in solidarity with the immigrant community.
In place of the Labor Board’s regular Monday meeting, we held an education event focused on the history of May Day. We screened “We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day,” a documentary co-produced by members of East Bay DSA. The Education Board facilitated a discussion about the documentary and shared several political cartoons from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
On April 29th we turned out dozens of comrades to Maker Tuesday in preparation for the May Day rally. With everyone’s help, we made hundreds of DSA buttons, flyers, and red cards, and assembled goodie bags to bring to the rally.
Though Thursday May 1st didn’t mark the end of our May Day events, it certainly was a high point in understanding how we can come together in solidarity for workers and immigrants alike. The San Francisco and East Bay chapters formed a large contingent at the rally where comrade Hazel W and socialist-elected District Supervisor Jackie Fielder gave empowering speeches about how every struggle is part of the connected fight for freedom, dignity, and justice. Thousands of workers, immigrants and people from all walks of life marched from San Francisco City Hall to the ICE building. We will fight back, and when we fight, WE WIN! 🌹
Interested in continuing the fight for workers’ and immigrants’ rights? Come to our next May Day events:
- Sunday, May 11 – Hygiene Kit Assembly from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at 1916 McAllister. RSVP here.
- Tuesday, May 20 – Socialist Night School on Salting from 7:00 to 8:15 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. RSVP here.
Socialist in Office Reportback
At the Socialist in Office meeting on April 28, the electoral board discussed several items
- Supporting legislation for a Tenant’s Right to Pay to prevent evictions due to nonpayment after delinquent payments are resolved
- Opposing the SFPD & Sheriff Overtime Budget
- Upcoming hearing on the Four Pillars model for overdose prevention on May 16
- Supporting unhoused families facing evictions from shelters after 90 days
- There will be a rally in support of the families with Faith in Action on May 12 at 4:00 p.m. at City Hall. Please come to support!
- Potential attacks on housing-first policies for permanent supportive housing (PSH) by legislation requiring 25% to be sober housing
If you would like to be involved in these conversations, join the electoral board on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom and find us on Slack at #electoral-discussion.
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.
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