Upcoming Events
🌹Wednesday, October 30 (5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): ☎️Phonebank for Extreme Dean (In person at 1630 Haight)
🌹Wednesday, October 30 (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Organizing 102 (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Thursday, October 31 (5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): ☎️Phonebank for Extreme Dean (In person at 1630 Haight)
🌹Thursday, October 31 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Friday, November 1 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Friday, November 1 (3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass (Location TBD)
🌹Saturday, November 2 – Tuesday, November 5 (9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.): All Day Get Out the Vote with Team Jackie (In person at 3389 26th St)
🌹Saturday, November 2 – Tuesday, November 5 (9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.): All Day Get Out the Vote with the Dean Team (In person at 1630 Haight)
🌹Monday, November 4 (12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.): No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass (In person at Le Beau Market, 1263 Leavenworth)
🌹Monday, November 4 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Reading Group – Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry (Zoom)
🌹Wednesday, November 6 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Board Game Night (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Thursday, November 7 (6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Ecosocialist Monthly Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Thursday, November 7 (7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Palestine and Socialism Study Group: Session 3 (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Saturday, November 9 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Food Serve (Castro, location TBD)
🌹Monday, November 11 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Monday, November 11 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at 220 Golden Gate)
🌹Monday, November 11 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.
Events & Actions
Organizing 102
Interested in learning about labor organizing or picking up organizing skills? Join us for our second session on labor organizing on Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister and on Zoom!
We’ll be taking a closer look at what collective action looks like and how to prepare for pushback from the boss, as well as learning organizing skills that could be used outside the workplace.
Everyone is welcome even if you weren’t at the first session RSVP here.
Get Out the Vote
Join comrades on the Dean and Jackie campaigns for the final Get Out the Vote (GOTV) push this weekend! Starting this Saturday, October 2, we are getting out the vote across the entirety of Districts 5 and 9 for our endorsed candidates and reminding folks to vote yes on L for transit funding and yes on 5 and 33 for affordable housing and rent control.
Volunteer dispatching will be happening all day 9:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. every night on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Election Day. We will be knocking on doors and making calls to remind folks to turn in their ballots and raising DSA’s profile with our own brochures promoting yes on Props 5 and 33. Our campaigns have been building up momentum for over a year and we are finally at the finish line. We are well positioned to finish strong across the city—only 20% of ballots have been submitted so far!
Limited edition merch is on the line! If you volunteer for an entire day, you’ll earn a 2024 Socialist Power Grab long sleeve t-shirt as a badge of honor to show off your contributions to the struggle.
Join at the Dean HQ at 1630 Haight St or the Jackie HQ at 3389 26th St to plug in. See you there!
Get Out in the Field and Get a T-Shirt!
If you’ve been considering doing some door-knocking but haven’t yet found the right motivation, let this be it! DSA SF is giving out free t-shirts exclusive to volunteers who meet either (or both!) of the following criteria:
- you’ve completed 6 field shifts for a candidate campaign between October 11th and election day on November 5th
- you’ve one a full day of Get Out the Vote work for one of our candidate campaigns in the days right before the election
T-shirts will be arriving soon, and we can’t wait to give them out, so let’s give it our all and show SF the power of socialist organizing and get this socialist power grab done!
Tenderloin Healing Circle
We’d like to invite you (yes, you!) to join the Tenderloin Healing Circle every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month! We serve food right before the meeting at 6:00 p.m., and meet from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at 220 Golden Gate Avenue.
This is a free healing circle for the neighborhood. Join other Tenderloin folks for support, hope, and food. All are welcome. The venue is wheelchair accessible, bathrooms are available, and masks are encouraged.
No Appetite for Apartheid in SF!
Inspired by long-standing Palestinian boycott tactics and the BDS call, the Palestine Solidarity Anti-Imperialist Working Group are canvassing local stores and asking them to pledge to become Apartheid-Free by dropping products from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians and colonization of Palestine. It’s time to turn up the heat on this apartheid regime and take apartheid off our plates!
Want to show your support? Sign our Apartheid-Free Pledge so business owners know how popular this movement is with their local customers. After signing the pledge, we would love to see you at any of our upcoming campaign strategy sessions and canvassing days. Check dev.dsasf.org/events for updates.
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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
