Events & Actions

🌹Tuesday, September 9 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)

🌹Tuesday, September 9 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, September 10 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM):🌹 September General Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Thursday, September 11 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, September 11 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM):🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation  (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, September 12 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)

🌹Saturday, September 13 (10:00 AM – 2:00 PM): 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Training and Outreach (Meet at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, September 13 (11:00 AM – 1:30 PM): 🐣 Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee Fall Cohort Training Party (In person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight)

🌹Saturday, September 13 (12:45 PM – 4:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (Meet at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, September 14 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument)

🌹Monday, September 15 (5:00 PM – 6:30 PM): Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Training (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, September 15 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, September 15 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, September 16 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at Ingleside Branch Library, 1298 Ocean Ave)

🌹Thursday, September 18 (7:30 PM – 9:30 PM): “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights and Class Politics in San Francisco” – Tenant Organizing Working Group Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, September 19 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 Maker Friday (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, September 20 (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM): DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing (In person at Lincoln Square Park, 261 11th St., Oakland)

🌹Sunday, September 21 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM): Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, September 21 (5:00 PM – 6:45 PM): Homelessness Working Group Reads Capitalism & Disability… (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, September 22 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board x Divestment Priority Meeting (Zoom and 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!

All Out to Defend Palestine in Education. There will no longer be an AB 715 hearing on September second or third. The hearing is now tentatively set for the week of September eighth, the exact day is To Be Announced. Additional information on the flyer replicated in text immediately below.

Say NO to AB 715!

SAY NO TO AB 715! The California Senate Education Committee will be holding a hearing on AB 715, a very dangerous bill that aims to censor criticism of Israel from K-12 public education across the state. This bill comes straight out of the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther playbook. Scott Wiener has been pushing this bill for several months now, and it is essential for comrades and allies in the pro-Palestine movement to turn out to oppose this draconian measure.

The hearing will now take place on the week of September 8 at 1021 O St, Sacramento with exact date TBD. We need to be ready to mobilize in large numbers to say NO. If you are able to make this hearing to voice your opposition, please reply to this RSVP.

Tell your reps to vote against AB 715! ✊

AB 715 is an extremely dangerous bill designed to censor any criticism of Israel and education about Palestine in California schools, by framing it as antisemitic.

For instance, AB 715 defines the following things as antisemitic:

  • “Language […] denying the right of Israel to exist”
  • “Labeling Israel a settler colonial state”
  • “Denigration of people who believe Zionism is inherent to Jewish identity”

 We need your help to stop this bill. Follow the steps here to email and call your representatives.

Apartheid-Free Bay Area Canvass This Saturday

On Saturday, September 13 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. RSVP here.

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!

EWOC: Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in September (see below for schedule). Just like we did back in May, we’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities (at 1916 McAllister). If you’re interested, RSVP here! 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 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on:

  • Monday, September 15
  • Monday, September 22
  • Monday, September 29

If you have any questions, reach out to labor@dsasf.org.

Court Action Orientation

Come out to the office at 1916 McAllister every Wednesday at 6:00 PM (except Wednesday, September 10 due to the chapter meeting) to help us make signs, learn about how we are resisting ICE, and discover how you can help. It’s a great time to meet like-minded people and ask any questions you might have before court actions!

DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing in Oakland 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, September 20, at 10:30 AM in Oakland’s Lincoln Square Park to provide Know Your Rights materials and educate local businesses and religious institutions on their rights in relation to ICE/DHS. This canvass will be EBDSA Migrant Defense’s first in Oakland Chinatown — and DSA SF’s Immigrant Justice is helping out! Meet at the sign for Lincoln Square Park for a brief training before we canvass in pairs or small groups.

Wear DSA merch if you can, or put a DSA pin on a visible part of your clothing.

RSVP here or, if you’d like more details, Contact an organizer via email at immigrantjustice@dsasf.org.

Digital flier advertising DSA SF Homelessness Working Group's reading series on Capitalism & Disability

📖 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, September 21. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd and check the events calendar for latest details.

A flyer for a Tech Worker Reading Group at DSA SF. Additional information on the flyer is replicated in the text below.

Tech Reading Group with Kickstarter Union Founder Clarissa Redwine

Come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United on Wednesday, September 24 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at 1916 McAllister for our monthly tech reading group. We’ll be reading an article by Clarissa Redwine about the Kickstarter Union Campaign that started in 2016. Clarissa will also be making an appearance on Zoom to answer questions about her experience. RSVP here!

Behind the Scenes

he 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.