Events & Actions
🌹Tuesday, September 30 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)
🌹Tuesday, September 30 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Healing Circle (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, October 1 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)
🌹 Thursday, October 2 (7:30 PM – 9:30 PM): TOWG Reading Group: “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco” (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹Friday, October 3 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)
🌹 Friday, October 3 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Municipal Social Housing: Learning from Seattle’s Win (518 Valencia)
🌹 Saturday, October 4 (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM): DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing (In person at Portsmouth Square Park, 745 Kearny St)
🌹Saturday, October 4 (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM): International Day of Action: Oakland Arms Embargo Now! (In person at Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland)
🌹Saturday, October 4 (4:00 PM – 6:00 PM): Divestment Strategy Session (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹 Saturday, October 5 (5:30 PM – 7:15 PM): HWG Reads “Capitalism & Disability – Selected Writings by Marta Russell” (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹Monday, October 6 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board x SF EWOC Local Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹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)
🌹Saturday, October 11 (12:45 PM – 4:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (Meet in person at 1916 McAllister)
Check out https://dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
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.
Municipal Social Housing: Learning from Seattle’s Win
Two DSA SF-backed ballot props in 2020 were meant to enable and fund social housing, but mayoral opposition has blocked the funds being spent for that purpose. Seattle’s victory offers a lesson in how we might beat that blockage. In February, Seattle’s House Our Neighbors passed a ballot proposition with dedicated funds for a social housing developer. The campaign won by 26 points over opposition from Seattle’s mayor and most of their city council.
Join us at 518 Valencia on Friday, October 3 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM for a conversation with Seattle organizer Eric Lee (House Our Neighbors, Seattle DSA) and our own Shanti Singh (Tenants Together, DSA SF).
Stop the World for Gaza! Arms Embargo Now!
At least 280 shipments have left the Oakland Airport in the first 6 months of this year, carrying deadly military cargo to maintain Israel’s F-35 fleet. On Saturday, October 4th at 1:00 PM, we’ll link arms at Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland and re-energize ourselves for the fight ahead and demand killer cargo out of OAK! If you’d like to join the DSA contingent, check out the #palestine-solidarity Slack channel.
DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing in SF Chinatown
The DSA SF Immigrant Justice Working Group and East Bay DSA Migrant Defense Working Group are leaving No Space for ICE! Join us on Saturday, October 4, at 1:00 PM to distribute red cards and other Know Your Rights materials to businesses and community members in SF Chinatown. We will meet at Portsmouth Square Park to share materials and train before we canvass. You can RSVP for the event here! Wear DSA merch if you can, or put a DSA pin on a visible part of your clothing.
New to canvassing? No worries! There will be a brief how-to training before we go out in pairs or small groups.
Steal This Story, Please! at the Roxie
DSA SF is proud to be a community partner with the Bay Area Premiere of Steal This Story, Please!, a documentary about award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman. The film will be playing on Saturday, October 4th from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM at the Roxie Theater. Expected guests include Amy Goodman and the directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin.
Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the front lines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media. Get your tickets 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 5. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd and check the events calendar for latest details.
Save the Date📆: Palestine Study – Understanding Zionism and Imperialism for Palestine Liberation
What does socialism have to do with Palestine? What did the founding of Israel really look like? How do we fight the genocide in Gaza here in the Bay Area? Join DSA SF on Sunday, October 19th from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM for the upcoming Palestine Study exploring the foundations of Zionism and how we fight imperialism for Palestinian liberation.
🐣 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!
📖 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 2nd.
If you wish to join please RSVP here!
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.
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