Events & Actions
Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
🌹 Tuesday, October 21 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE out of SF courts! (in person at 100 Montgomery St)
🌹 Tuesday, October 21 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, October 22 (4:00 PM – 7:00 PM): Zohran Debate Watch Party! (in person at The Savoy Tivoli, 1434 Grant Ave)
🌹 Thursday, October 23 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting 🌹 (zoom)
🌹 Thursday, October 23 (6:30 PM – 9:30 PM): The Internet: Live & In-Person w/ Dean Preston! (in person at Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St)
🌹 Thursday, October 23 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Friday, October 24 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE out of SF courts! (in person at 100 Montgomery St)
🌹 Saturday, October 25 (11:00 AM – 2:00 PM): HWG RV Outreach Event (meet at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Sunday, October 26 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM): Capital Reading Group (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, October 27 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)
🌹 Monday, October 27 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, October 29 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Tech Reading Group: Empire of AI by Karen Hao 🐣 (zoom and in person at 518 Valencia St)
🌹 Wednesday, October 29 (6:45 PM – 8:30 PM): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (zoom and in at person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight St)
🌹 Thursday, October 30 (7:30 PM – 9:30 PM): “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco” – TOWG Reading Group (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Friday, October 31 (2:30 PM – 4:00 PM): Keep Market St. Moving! Roundtable with Drivers (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Saturday, November 1 (1:00 PM – 5:00 PM): 🐣 Growing Community: Urban Food Production at Alemany Farm (in person at Alemany Farm, 700 Alemany Blvd)
🌹 Sunday, November 2 (1:00 PM – 2:00 PM): SF EWOC Lead Generation Strategy Session (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Sunday, November 2 (5:30 PM – 7:15 PM): HWG Reads “Capitalism & Disability…” (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, November 3 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board x SF EWOC Local Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.
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 and Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck. The 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM window is when we most need to boost turnout, but if you can’t make that please come whenever works for you. 1 or 2 hours or the entire time! We’re also holding orientation sessions for folks, but that is not required to attend. See the 🐣Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation event in the calendar for more details.
Zohran Debate Watch Party
Join us Wednesday, October 22, 4:00-7:00 PM to watch future New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wipe the floor with Andrew “The Creep” Cuomo! We’ll watch party at Savoy Tivoli (1434 Grant Ave) with free food and fun!
Apartheid-Free Bay Area Consumer Pledge Canvassing
Let’s build public support for stores that have pledged to go apartheid-free this Saturday, October 25 from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM! We’ll meet at Dolores Park on 18th St and Dolores St. We will first train you, and then you will put that training into practice by collecting signatures in Dolores Park. RSVP here!
RV Ban Outreach Event and Letter Writing Campaign
Join Homelessness Working Group this Saturday, October 25 from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM to do outreach to RV residents on the city’s new oversize vehicle ban before it goes into effect November 1st. We’ll meet at 1916 McAllister Street to learn more about the ban before pairing up and going out to door-knock and speak with our neighbors living in vehicles about how they can get refuge permits.
RSVP here if you’re able to come. Can’t attend? Send a letter to the Board of Supervisors here to tell them to do better!
Stop The Threat Of US War On Venezuela! 🇻🇪
Stop The Threat Of US War On Venezuela! :flag-ve: Wondering how we got here? Want to understand why Trump is attacking Venezuela? Need to deepen your understanding of US-Venezuela relations? And most importantly: want to discuss how we can fight back?
Join the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism working group in an educational forum on the history of Venezuela and the struggle against US imperialism.
🗓️ Tuesday, October 28
🕐 6:00-7:30 PM
📍 1916 McAllister
📝 RSVP here!
📖 DSA SF Tenant Organizing Reading Group – “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco”
San Francisco has always had an affordable housing shortage, but solutions outside of the private sector have long been neglected or overlooked. Join us as we learn about the history of one proposed solution: public housing.
Our four-part reading group will meet every other Thursday at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM hybrid in person at 1916 McAllister and Zoom with RSVP to discuss John Baranski’s book “Housing the City by the Bay”. The next meeting will be Thursday, October 30.
If you wish to join please RSVP here!
📖 DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting every other Sunday evening starting in September for 4 or 5 sessions at 1916 McAllister. The next session is Sunday, November 2. For more info, register here and check the events calendar for latest details.
Reportback: UESF Teachers for a Fair Contract
United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) gathered the evening of October 14th at 555 Franklin St. to deliver more than 4,000 strike-ready signatures to the management of San Francisco Unified School District. Union organizers have been in negotiations since March trying to get a fair contract, with district management unwilling to budge on reasonable demands. Teachers are asking for a more balanced work load for special education instructors, health care for dependents, fair pay for their labor, sanctuary protections against ICE on school grounds – only to be met with unwillingness by management. This was enough to rile up a host of teachers, parents, students, and community members to come out and rally together. The picket line took over the whole block at its height, with everyone from babies to the elderly chanting and marching together, accompanied by an endless chorus of supportive car horns. DSA members across the city came out to support our community and march in solidarity with our fellow DSA members in UESF. Union power and love for public schools was on full display as district management and the union drew the line in the sand. The ball is now in management’s court – let’s make sure they do what’s right! Let’s support our educators and comrades in UESF! Fight for Public Education!
Reportback: DSA SF at No Kings Rally
Dozens of DSA SF members mobilized for the recent No Kings demonstration this Saturday (10/18) afternoon, with a reported 50,000 San Franciscans taking to the streets to protest the authoritarian federal regime and their domestic military invasion. DSA SF coordinated a two-pronged approach, hosting a literature table at Civic Center Plaza and a contingent at the Embarcadero. Our marching contingent drew support from those around us through anti-ICE chants and chants against military occupation. Meanwhile, comrades at the table (and their children) received a warm welcome from the public with people of all ages feeling a sense of community and a desire to get organized. Lots of interest was displayed towards the Oakland Arms Embargo and ICE Court Watch. Thanks to the efforts of other comrades who participated in Maker’s Night, dropped off or picked supplies, or who just came by for a few minutes, the table was able to stay operating constantly from 12 to 4 PM; we passed out a lot of literature, had many extended discussions about socialism and signed up new potential recruits. We expect there will be many more demonstrations and actions to come as Trump sets his eyes on San Francisco, so come get involved in building community today for a socialist tomorrow.
What do we do when fascism comes to town? Stand up and Fight back!
Reportback: Palestine Study on Understanding Zionism and Imperialism
On Sunday October 19th, the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism working group hosted the first part of our Palestine Study on Understanding Zionism and Imperialism. We packed the office with 38 attendees, all interested in deepening their knowledge of zionism, to better fight for Palestinian liberation!
The second part of our Palestine Study, November 9th, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, will focus on debunking the myth of a socialist Israel. Stay tuned for more details on the event.
Reportback: Tenant Organizing Working Group
Sunday afternoon (10/19), DSA comrades joined with Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) for a rally to protest the eviction of three elders from their home in Noe Valley. A great ruckus was made as the comrades chanted in unison in support of the at-risk elders. Apparently, a nearby neighbor even called the police, according to posts on neighborhood social media, though no officers ever arrived at the scene. The rally was also featured in a segment by ABC7 News. When people have no control over their own homes they are vulnerable to the whims of their landlords, who might push them out of their homes of decades just to raise the rent back to market rate; however when we come together as a community in the spirit of collective action and socialism, it is the people who ultimately hold the power!
Reportback: Learning from Seattle’s Social Housing Win
Did you miss our panel and Q&A on social housing efforts in Seattle and across California? Now you can read a transcript from that event in California Red!
In February, Seattle beat Big Tech and real estate opposition and passed a ballot measure to fund a municipal social housing developer, by more than 20 points. On October 3, the Ecosocialist Working Group hosted a panel and Q&A to learn how Seattle did it and the current status of efforts in California, featuring Seattle DSA/House Our Neighbors organizer Eric Lee, and DSA SF member/Tenants Together advocate Shanti Singh.
Read the transcript here, and get involved by reaching out to ecosocialist@dsasf.org or joining #ecosocialism on Slack.
Behind the Scenes
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