Upcoming Events
🌹 Thursday, January 30 (5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Thursday, January 30 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group (Zoom)
🌹 Thursday, January 30 (6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Ecosocialist Monthly Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Saturday, February 1 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): Boycott Chevron Picket (In person at 5500 Telegraph Ave., Oakland)
🌹 Monday, February 3 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister & on Zoom)
🌹 Monday, February 3 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Reading Group (SF Reds Chapters 4, 5, 6) (Zoom)
🌹Tuesday, February 4 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Newsletter Training (Zoom)
🌹Wednesday, February 5 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): New Member Happy Hour at Zeitgeist (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)
🌹Saturday, February 8 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Outreach Training and Outreach (In person at 1916 McAllister)
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.
Events & Actions
#BoycottChevron Picket
Join the #BoycottChevron picket on Saturday, February 1st from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at 5500 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland! Chevron is one of the largest providers of power and fuel to Israel, which they extract off the coast of Palestine, and they are a primary target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement.
Let’s stop their profits while educating our community together!
Newsletter Training
Curious about how the newsletter gets put together each week? Interested in joining the newsletter team and learning how to do it yourself? Join us on Zoom on Tuesday, February 4th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for an online tutorial! Working on the newsletter is a great way to stay engaged with the chapter and help out with vital but often overlooked work. We are particularly seeking out disabled comrades and folks with busy schedules who might not be able to make it to in-person DSA events regularly.
Check out the #newsletter channel on Slack or message Serena M for the Zoom link!
Tenderloin Healing Circle Recap
At the January general meeting, DSA SF members voted unanimously in favor of a proposal to continue the Tenderloin Healing Circle project (TLHC) that started in August 2023 as a part of the Mutual Aid priority.
Initially formulated as a response to our Tenderloin neighbors’ expressed need for support with gun-related trauma, the twice-monthly healing circle (think: group therapy) became a place for the TL and DSA SF community to come together and connect, process emotions, and be in solidarity.
We spent December reflecting on the successes and challenges of our TLHC work, and brought a proposal to the chapter highlighting the positive reputation the TLHC gained through community members attending and benefiting from the work, as well as the need to continue the project to strengthen the existing relationships between DSASF and the TL community. As the project continues, we want to emphasize that everyone is welcome to attend – not just those of us who live or work in the TL.
The Tenderloin Healing Circle will run through 2025! Please join us every second and fourth Monday of the month from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Kelly Cullen Auditorium at 220 Golden Gate Ave, and check out the #tl-healing-circle channel on slack to get involved.
DSA SF Education Board: 2025 Planning Survey
What did you come to DSA to learn about? What types of educational events do you think would help our organizing work as a chapter? Help the ed board shape our 2025 educational offerings by taking this three-minute survey.
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.
