Here’s your weekly roundup of announcements, events, and reportbacks for March 28, 2023.

Events

🌹Tuesday, 3/28 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/31 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/31 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): The Battle of Chile Film Screening (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, 4/1 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Sock Distro (Meet in person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, 4/1 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): DSA SF Labor Logistics Presentation (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Tuesday, 4/4 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, 4/5 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): What is DSA? (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, 4/6 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 pm.): Ecosocialist Monthly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, 4/12 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): April Chapter Meeting (In person at 518 Valencia St or on Zoom)

For more events, click here.

Announcements

DSA SF COVID-19 Survey

Hey comrades! Now that we’re doing more and more events in person, Steering wants to better understand how everyone is feeling about COVID-19 precautions at DSA SF events. To help us out, please fill out this COVID-19 Survey by Friday, March 31st! Your responses will help inform an updated COVID-19 policy that we’re thinking about. Individual responses will be private to Steering, but we’ll share aggregate and anonymized results with the chapter once it’s complete.

DSA SF Labor Education and Training Interest Survey

Want to learn how to organize your workplace? Support workers’ fights against Amazon and Starbucks? Understand the importance of labor as a key to winning socialism? Complete the 2-minute DSA SF Labor Education and Training Interest survey to let the DSA SF Labor Working Group know what training and education you’re interested so we can tailor labor education and training events to your interests.

Upcoming Chapter Elections!

👋 Some important chapter business is coming up in the next few months as we near our chapter’s annual convention in June and national DSA’s biennial convention in August.🌹 Steering will be following up every week or so with updates/reminders.

This week, we’re highlighting the  upcoming elections. At the April chapter meeting, in addition to other reportbacks, business, and fun group discussion, we will:

1. Elect delegates to California DSA. Nominate a comrade or yourself here: dev.dsasf.org/cadsa-delegate
2. Start to collect nominations for delegates to National DSA convention. Elections will be held at the May general meeting.
3. Start to collect nominations for Steering and Grievance Officers. Nominations will close at the May general meeting and elections will be held at convention in June.

April Chapter Meeting

The April chapter meeting will be taking place on April 12th from 6:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Attendees have the option to register for the meeting through Zoom or to attend in person at 518 Valencia. For those who choose to attend in person, masks are required. The meeting will consist of updates about what is currently happening within the chapter, as well as report backs from members on recent actions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Sign Up to Distribute Socks with Homelessness Working Group

Come do sock distro with HWG! DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group is currently organizing a sock distribution, and restarting our chapter’s efforts directed toward connecting with our homeless neighbors. We’ll be low-key training chapter members about our specific approach to mutual aid and street solidarity, as well as building capacity for this and, potentially, more expansive mutual aid projects in the future!

Battle of Chile Film Screening on March 31

Join the DSA SF International Solidarity Committee for part 3 of the film screening and discussion of Patricio Guzmán’s documentary The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People. The documentary covers the right wing boycott and military coup against the Allende administration, focusing on the bottom-up organizing of Chilean workers in response to U.S.-funded efforts to dismantle their revolution. The film highlights the many counter-revolutionary tactics that U.S. imperialism continues to deploy in Latin America today while providing key insights into organizing strategies that we can apply to our current struggle for a worker-controlled democracy. The screening is taking place on Friday, March 31 at 6:30 p.m. at the DSA SF office (1916 McAllister). Food and drinks will be provided!

Labor Working Group Logistics Presentation

Are you inspired by the successful labor organizing at Amazon, Starbucks, and many other workplaces that unionized recently? Wondering how you can get directly involved and join the historic effort to rebuild the US labor movement? DSA SF is working to build power in the logistics industry, and we need your help. Join us for a presentation on Saturday, April 1st from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister St.

CCC Game Night

Come to the DSA SF office to enjoy an evening of fun and games for another CCC game night! We’ll have chess, tons of board games, snacks, and drinks. Feel free to bring your own games, consoles, or comrades! Join us at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister on Sunday, April 16th from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and have fun with comrades!

Here’s your weekly roundup of announcements, events, and reportbacks for March 21, 2023.

Events

🌹Tuesday, 3/21 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Ecosocialist Book Club: The Future is Degrowth (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, 3/21 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, 3/22 (6:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): Starbucks 18th and Castro Strike (In person at 4094 18th Street)

🌹Wednesday, 3/22 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): What is DSA? (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/24 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister

🌹Friday, 3/24 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): The Battle of Chile Film Screening (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, 3/25 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, 3/25 (1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.): The War in Ukraine: Book Talk with Medea Benjamin (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, 3/25 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group (HWG) Sock Distro (Meet in person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/31 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): The Battle of Chile Film Screening (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, 4/1 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): DSA SF Labor Logistics Presentation (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, 4/6 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 pm.): Ecosocialist Monthly Meeting (Zoom)

For more events, click here.

Announcements

DSA SF Afrosocialist Caucus Co-Chairs Speak Out Against Mayor’s $27.6 Million Giveaway to SFPD (and So Can You!)

Broke-Ass Stuart published a piece titled “Giving Away More Money to SFPD Won’t Fix the City’s Problems” by SF DSA’s Afrosocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus co-chairs, Aditya and Humphrey, speaking out against the Mayor’s request to give an additional $26.7 million to SFPD. This piece was written just ahead of the SF Board of Supervisors meeting that starts today, March 21st at 2:00 p.m. where the BoS will be voting on whether to continue their giveaways to SFPD. 

The piece is an excellent read that lays out the case for investing in city services that meet our community’s needs, rather than continuing to bolster police power in San Francisco.

The chapter has created a form letter you can customize and use to reach out to the Mayor and all the SF Supervisors asking them to support SF residents instead of the cops. You can find the meeting agenda, the phone number to call to participate in remote public comment, and the in-person meeting information here.

DSA SF COVID-19 Survey

Hey comrades! Now that we’re doing more and more events in person, Steering wants to better understand how everyone is feeling about COVID-19 precautions at DSA SF events. To help us out, please fill out this COVID-19 Survey by Friday, March 31st! Your responses will help inform an updated COVID-19 policy that we’re thinking about. Individual responses will be private to Steering, but we’ll share aggregate and anonymized results with the chapter once it’s complete.

Ecosocialist Book Club: The Future is Degrowth

Join the DSA SF Ecosocialist Committee’s book club for the second half of a two part discussion on degrowth tonight, March 21st from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. We’re reading and discussing The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism. Open to all!

Sign Up to Distribute Socks with Homelessness Working Group

Come do sock distro with HWG! DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group is currently organizing a sock distribution, and restarting our chapter’s efforts directed toward connecting with our homeless neighbors. We’ll be low-key training chapter members about our specific approach to mutual aid and street solidarity, as well as building capacity for this and, potentially, more expansive mutual aid projects in the future!

Battle of Chile Film Screening on March 24 and 31

Join the DSA SF International Solidarity Committee for a film screening and discussion of Patricio Guzmán’s documentary The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People. The documentary covers the right wing boycott and military coup against the Allende administration, focusing on the bottom-up organizing of Chilean workers in response to U.S.-funded efforts to dismantle their revolution. The film highlights the many counter-revolutionary tactics that U.S. imperialism continues to deploy in Latin America today while providing key insights into organizing strategies that we can apply to our current struggle for a worker-controlled democracy. The second screening is taking place on Friday, March 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the DSA SF office (1916 McAllister). Food and drinks will be provided!

Book Talk with Medea Benjamin on March 25

Come join us on Saturday, March 25, at 1:00 p.m. for a talk on Zoom with Medea Benjamin, author of War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict. Her book provides a fantastic summary of points generally ignored in Western media: the historical context to the conflict, America’s role in escalation, NATO expansion, misinformation campaigns, the global impact of Western sanctions, and the real threat of nuclear war. Medea is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange; she has also written books on drone warfare, US-Saudi relations, and American aggression against Iran. Medea has been awarded with the US Peace Memorial Foundations Prize and has been a recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and Martin Luther King, Jr Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

The MADE Field Trip with Peninsula DSA (PDSA) on March 25th

PDSA has been running a monthly social event where they play alternative board games to both hang out and explore socialist themes in games and the games industry. As part of this, PDSA will be visiting The Made in Oakland, one of few museums that let you play old games, both for fun and to see media preservation in spite of capitalism in practice. The chapter wanted to extend an invite to any other local socialist gamers, including those of us in SF DSA!

Folks will be meeting at The MADE at 921 Washington St. in Oakland Saturday, March 25th at 2:00 p.m. If you are planning to attend, you can register here. 

Homelessness Working Group Office Hours

Have questions about DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group and the work that we are doing? Want to talk outside of our regular meetings and events? Come to the the DSA office Saturday, March 25th from 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. for HWG office hours and chit-chat with a co-chair! For further info, reach out to homelessness@dsasf.org.

Here’s your weekly roundup of announcements, events, and reportbacks for the week of March 14, 2023.

Events

🌹Tuesday, 3/14 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, 3/15 (1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): SFPD Budget Supplemental Committee Hearing (Agenda, location, and remote public comment information here)

🌹Wednesday, 3/15 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Free Muni Full Service Priority Monthly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, 3/16 (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Labor Organizing Training (Zoom and in person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/17 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/17 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): The Battle of Chile Film Screening (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, 3/18 (5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Starbucks Strike Picket Sign Building Social (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Tuesday, 3/21 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Ecosocialist Book Club: The Future is Degrowth (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, 3/21 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, 3/22 (6:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): Starbucks 18th and Castro Strike (In person at 4094 18th Street)

🌹Wednesday, 3/22 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): What is DSA? (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/24 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/24 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): The Battle of Chile Film Screening (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, 3/25 (1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.): The War in Ukraine: Book Talk with Medea Benjamin (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, 3/28 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/31 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/31 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): The Battle of Chile Film Screening (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Tuesday, 4/4 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, 4/6 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 pm.): Ecosocialist Monthly Meeting (Zoom)

For more events, click here.

Announcements

National Day of Action for Cuba 3/15 – 3/16

Labor Organizing 101 Training!

Battle of Chile Film Screening on March 17, 24, and 31

Join the DSA SF International Solidarity Committee for a film screening and discussion of Patricio Guzmán’s documentary The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People. The documentary covers the right wing boycott and military coup against the Allende administration, focusing on the bottom-up organizing of Chilean workers in response to U.S.-funded efforts to dismantle their revolution. The film highlights the many counter-revolutionary tactics that U.S. imperialism continues to deploy in Latin America today while providing key insights into organizing strategies that we can apply to our current struggle for a worker-controlled democracy. The first of three screenings is taking place on Friday, March 17th at 6:30 p.m. at the DSA SF office (1916 McAllister). Food and drinks will be provided!

Starbucks Strike Picket Sign Building Social

DSA SF is providing strike support to the Castro Starbucks workers this month! On March 18th, join us at 1916 McAllister from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. to build picket signs that will be used on the picket line during the strike on March 22nd. Come join us to help make picket signs, have a chat, or just hang out! Pizza and beverages will be provided.

Book Talk with Medea Benjamin on March 25

Come join us on Saturday, March 25, at 1 p.m. for a talk on Zoom with Medea Benjamin, author of War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict. Her book provides a fantastic summary of points generally ignored in Western media: the historical context to the conflict, America’s role in escalation, NATO expansion, misinformation campaigns, the global impact of Western sanctions, and the real threat of nuclear war. Medea is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange; she has also written books on drone warfare, US-Saudi relations, and American aggression against Iran. Medea has been awarded with the US Peace Memorial Foundations Prize and has been a recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and Martin Luther King, Jr Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Ecosocialist Book Club: The Future is Degrowth

Join the DSA SF Ecosocialist Committee’s book club for the second half of a two part discussion on degrowth on March 21st from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. We’re reading and discussing The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism. Open to all!

Office Hours Every Friday This Month!

The DSA SF office will be open for office hours from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. every Friday in March! Folks will be milling around working on a variety of DSA and non-DSA things and generally hanging out and having a good time. If you’re looking for a place to work for the afternoon in community with other socialists on Friday, come hang out!

DSA SF, led by AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Committee, condemns the recent proposals for increased signing bonuses and a $27.6M budget supplemental for the San Francisco Police Department, and instead advocates for increased spending for teachers, public health workers, and other underfunded social services and community based solutions that will make a meaningful and long-term impact on our community. We call on the people of San Francisco to oppose another massive increase to SFPD’s budget.

At a time when many working class residents and San Francisco city workers are facing potential eviction, hunger, a lack of jobs offering living wages, and countless other crises that could be addressed by local government, it is unsurprising but disappointing to see the mayor and many supervisors fighting to spend more money on policing.

Just last year, the Board of Supervisors approved an amendment to the Police Officers Association’s memorandum of understanding (i.e., contract) to include longevity bonuses, pay raises, and sign-on bonuses. In addition to the fact that the city voluntarily opened up the SFPD contract for negotiation, the SFPD was the only agency that received all three of these concessions from the city. Teachers, sanitation workers, firefighters, bus drivers, and other essential workers were denied such consideration. 

The Mayor and Board of Supervisors also approved a massive SFPD’s $713 million budget for 2023, which it is on track to overspend.

SFPD doesn’t have a budget problem, they have an accountability problem. 

Compared to similar jurisdictions around the country, SFPD already spends more per capita on policing, and has a higher police officer to resident ratio than similar cities. This latest move continues an ongoing trend of increased police spending, despite data from the SF police department itself showing that crime has decreased compared to previous years. Meanwhile, the SFPD is taking longer and longer to respond to calls, including serious calls about violent crime. 

Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s recent call for increased signing bonuses for new officers continues this unfair and unjustified use of public funds. Just last year, the Board of Supervisors approved an amendment to the Police Officers Association’s memorandum of understanding to include longevity bonuses, pay raises, and sign-on bonuses. The SFPD was the only agency that received all three of these concessions from the city. Teachers, sanitation workers, firefighters, bus drivers, etc. were denied such consideration. 

All of this paints a clear picture: this is a blatant display of SFPD exceptionalism which does nothing to solve the root causes of San Francisco’s tattered social fabric. 

The city is in crisis. Crucial functions that boost the city’s wellness continue to be severely underfunded. Even well-tenured teachers in San Francisco typically make less than $80,000 annually, putting them below the poverty line and below the earnings of a starting police officer. City College of San Francisco is similarly facing a budget crisis, with many educators being laid off and many others being forced to part time roles as classes are canceled. Many public health workers were supposed to be hired to support linkages to housing and medical treatment in the Tenderloin, but plans have repeatedly fallen through with little accountability. Muni faces a $215 million deficit as federal pandemic funding runs out, and could potentially cut service by 25%. 

As a country, we already know that our community’s safety is dependent not on increased policing, but funding of our social pillars, such as health, education, and safer streets. 

Under capitalism, we live in an atomized society where the capitalists hoard all the wealth while the working class fights for scraps. This inequality creates the conditions of desperation that lead to crime. When a person’s needs: food, water, housing, healthcare, transportation, education, are not met, they have every right (even a duty) to break the rules of a society that denies them to all. Punishment of individuals does nothing to end the conditions that lead to crime, nor is it intended to. Police exist to protect property and maintain a hierarchical order through the threat of violence. Our criminal “justice” system regularly breaks families apart, puts them in debt due to fees and penalties, and reinforces desperate situations that lead to more crime. Restorative justice is transformative when we look to build better people instead of punishing them. The solution: solidarity and socialism. Creating a society where we work together to meet our collective needs will always be more effective than an order rooted in violence. 

In the face of this injustice, we ask every San Francisco resident: when we give the Police Officer’s Association and SFPD priority and political weight over our teachers, public health workers, and public transportation, what does this say about our values?

We know that we can do better. If you also believe in investing in the long-term health of our communities, speak out against both of these proposals when they hit the Board of Supervisors. The police department’s $27.6 million supplemental will be heard on March 14, and we expect police bonuses to be heard in the coming weeks. In the meantime, join our coalition as we push back against increased policing, and in favor of the services that uplift our community and address the root causes of the issues we see today. You can use our toolkit to make public comment at the relevant meetings and email the Mayor and Board of Supervisors.

Here’s your weekly roundup of announcements, events, and reportbacks for the week of March 7, 2023.

Events

🌹Tuesday, 3/7 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Ecosocialist Book Club: The Future is Degrowth(Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, 3/8 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): March Chapter Meeting (Zoom and in person at 518 Valencia)

🌹Thursday, 3/9 (5:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): DSA SF Labor Reads: Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns (Zoom)

🌹Friday, 3/10 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Tuesday, 3/14 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, 3/15 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Free Muni Full Service Priority Monthly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, 3/17 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/17 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): The Battle of Chile Film Screening (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Tuesday, 3/21 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Ecosocialist Book Club: The Future is Degrowth(Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, 3/21 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, 3/22 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): What is DSA? (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/24 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, 3/25 (1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.): The War in Ukraine: Book Talk with Medea Benjamin (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, 3/28 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Turnout Tuesday for Recommitment Drive (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, 3/31 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)

For more events, click here.

Announcements

🌹March Chapter Meeting

DSA SF’s chapter-wide regular monthly meeting is happening next week, March 8th from 6:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.! Register to join on Zoom below or join us in person at 518 Valencia St. (Masks are recommended for in-person attendees.) We look forward to seeing you there!

Battle of Chile Film Screening on March 17, 24, and 31

Join the DSA SF International Solidarity Committee for a film screening and discussion of Patricio Guzmán’s documentary The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People. The documentary covers the right wing boycott and military coup against the Allende administration, focusing on the bottom-up organizing of Chilean workers in response to U.S.-funded efforts to dismantle their revolution. The film highlights the many counter-revolutionary tactics that U.S. imperialism continues to deploy in Latin America today while providing key insights into organizing strategies that we can apply to our current struggle for a worker-controlled democracy. The first of three screenings is taking place on Friday, March 17th at 6:30 p.m. at the DSA SF office (1916 McAllister). Food and drinks will be provided!

Book Talk with Medea Benjamin on March 25

Come join us on Saturday, March 25, at 1 p.m. for a talk on Zoom with Medea Benjamin, author of War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict. Her book provides a fantastic summary of points generally ignored in Western media: the historical context to the conflict, America’s role in escalation, NATO expansion, misinformation campaigns, the global impact of Western sanctions, and the real threat of nuclear war. Medea is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange; she has also written books on drone warfare, US-Saudi relations, and American aggression against Iran. Medea has been awarded with the US Peace Memorial Foundations Prize and has been a recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and Martin Luther King, Jr Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Office Hours Every Friday This Month!

The DSA SF office will be open for office hours from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. every Friday in March! Folks will be milling around working on a variety of DSA and non-DSA things and generally hanging out and having a good time. If you’re looking for a place to work for the afternoon in community with other socialists on Friday, come hang out!

Ecosocialist Book Club: The Future is Degrowth

Join the DSA SF Ecosocialist Committee’s book club for a two part discussion on degrowth on March 7th and 21st from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. We’re reading and discussing The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism. Open to all!