Events & Actions
Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
🌹 Tuesday, October 7 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE out of SF courts! (in person at 100 Montgomery St)
🌹 Tuesday, October 7 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Watch party: “Documenting Genocide: Gaza, Before and After October 2023” (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Tuesday, October 7 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)
🌹 Wednesday, October 8 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM): October General Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)
🌹 Thursday, October 9 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)
🌹 Thursday, October 9 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Friday, October 10 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE out of SF courts! (in person at 100 Montgomery St)
🌹 Saturday, October 11 (10:00 AM – 2:00 PM): 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Training and Outreach (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Saturday, October 11 (12:45 PM – 4:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Sunday, October 12 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (in person at William McKinley Monument)
🌹 Sunday, October 12 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM): Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, October 13 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)
🌹 Monday, October 13 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, October 15 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Thursday, October 16 (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)
🌹 Saturday, October 18 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Food Service (meet at Castro St & Market St)
🌹 Sunday, October 19 (3:00 PM – 5:00 PM): Palestine Study: Understanding Zionism and Imperialism (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Sunday, October 19 (5:30 PM – 7:15 PM): Homelessness Working Group Reads “Capitalism & Disability…” (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, October 20 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board x Divestment Priority 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 for more details.
IFPTE Local 21 Comrades Protest Airbnb
Local 21 comrades have asked for our support in protesting Airbnb this Wednesday, October 8 at 12:00 PM at 888 Brannan St.Tech giant Airbnb is suing San Francisco for $120 million while using our city as their personal playground and not paying their fair share. At a time when public services are crumbling and budget cuts run rampant, Labor Board is endorsing this campaign in support of our workers. A pledge to boycott Airbnb will be soon to come, and our very own DSA member Firas will be a speaker at the protest.
🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation
Come one, come all to 1916 McAllister St for our court watch orientation! You’ll learn how we are resisting ICE , how you can help, and participate in a biweekly art build. Bring questions and anti-ICE slogans! This event will take place every other week on Thursdays starting at 7:00 PM and the next one is October 9th!
No Appetite for Apartheid Outreach Training & Canvassing
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, October 11 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, we will be doing a training on how to talk to stores in your neighborhood, then going out and talking with stores together! Meet at 1916 McAllister St. 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 16.
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, October 19. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd and check the events calendar for latest details.
Palestine Study on Zionism: Understanding Zionism and Imperialism for Palestine Liberation
Join DSA SF on Sunday, October 19 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at 1916 McAllister St for the upcoming Palestine Study exploring the foundations of Zionism and how we fight imperialism for Palestinian liberation. We will equip ourselves with a precise understanding of the history, foundations, aspirations, and contradictions of Zionism in order to fight for Palestinian liberation. Participants will walk away from this first session with a precise understanding of the forces that propelled the colonization of Palestine and how US imperialist interests continue the efforts today. This curriculum is designed especially for those new to DSA, the Palestine movement, or those deepening their commitment to being anti-zionist. RSVP here!
Reportback: EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) ran the four week Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course this past September. Just like we did back in May, we got a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities (at 1916 McAllister). The four weeks covered developing worker leadership for Organizing Committee formation, the steps of the Organizing Conversation, what actions can constitute the arc of a campaign, and how to inoculate workers against the boss. Each plenary featured stories from ongoing organizing, with the discussion section giving time for participants to share about their own organizing experiences, ask questions about the material, and share strategies.
One of the sessions focused on Collective Action and Escalation, where we heard from comrades Elce R. and Phoebe G. about an ongoing campaign at Sesame Street Workshop, the nonprofit production company which produces Sesame Street and other programs for children. We learned that the workers at SSW didn’t want to run a confrontational campaign, preferring instead to organize around principles at home on Sesame Street such as inclusivity, playfulness, creativity. As a result, the first action in the campaign was a March on the Boss framed as “Delivering the Good News”—the good news being the existence of the union. Subsequent actions included gatherings and block parties to build community and show how the boss couldn’t celebrate their own decisions. Earlier this year, SSW workers voted to form their union and are currently in contract negotiations.
Our final session this past Monday (September 29th) focused on inoculation and responding to anti-union talking points from management, anti-union consultants, and coworkers. In the plenary session, we heard from comrades from Starbucks Workers United and Kickstarter United on how they inoculated their coworkers against anti-union propaganda from their bosses. We went through the most common anti-union strategies and talking points, such as framing the union as a third party, captive audience meetings, and fearmongering about union dues. We learned how important it is to respond to these common talking points with your coworkers before management even starts their anti-union campaign. After the plenary session, we talked through how we would respond to common anti-union talking points if they were raised in our workplaces.
If you’d like to get involved with the SF local chapter of EWOC, reach out to the lead coordinator Caitlin S or email labor@dsasf.org. The EWOC meetings of the Labor Board are the first Monday of every month at 7:00 PM, both in-person at 1916 McAllister and over Zoom. Anyone is welcome to attend, and we’re always looking for people interested workplace lead canvassing, organizer trainings, and volunteer outreach. And if you’re interested in organizing your workplace and would like to be connected with an EWOC organizer, fill out the request form here.
Reportback: DSA SF at Oakland Arms Embargo March
This past Saturday, DSA SF, EB DSA and YDSA marched in Oakland to demand an arms embargo and an end to the genocide in Gaza. We also gathered 14 pages of signatures for the No Appetite for Apartheid consumer pledge!! 👏 Thank you to everyone who showed that the Bay Area will keep fighting back against genocide and Israeli war crimes, free Palestine 🇵🇸
Behind the Scenes
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