Upcoming Events

🌹 Tuesday, May 27 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tech Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Tuesday, May 27 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣📕 Da Vinci Code Reading Group – Day 2 (In person at 1916 McAllister and Zoom)

🌹 Wednesday, May 28 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Maker Wednesday (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Thursday, May 29 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Ecosoc Vision and Strategy (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Thursday, May 29 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Saturday, May 31 (6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): 🐣 Chapter Movie Night: A Screening of Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba) (In person at Carr Auditorium, SF General Hospital, 22nd St)

🌹 Sunday, June 1 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister and Zoom)

🌹 Monday, June 2 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Monday, June 2  (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Biweekly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Monday, June 2 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Wednesday, June 4 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)

🌹 Thursday, June 5 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Saturday, June 7 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Training (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Saturday, June 7 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Know Your Rights Canvassing (Location TBD)

🌹 Monday, June 9 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹 Monday, June 9 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)

Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.

Events & Actions

Maker Wednesday

Join us for Maker Wednesday on May 28 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.! Come make some art and connect with comrades. All are welcome, see you there!

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Visioning an Ecosocialist San Francisco

Join us for “Visioning an Ecosocialist San Francisco” this Thursday, May 29 6:00-8:00 p.m.! We’ll meet in-person at 1916 McAllister to imagine, brainstorm, strategize, and plan our ecosocialist future.

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🎥 Move Night: Soy Cuba

The Labor Board and Immigrant Justice Working Group are excited to announce our upcoming Spanish Language Movie Night! As part of our desire to improve our Spanish, learn more about Marxist movements in Latin America, and connect with the Spanish speaking community of San Francisco, we are going to be showing “Soy Cuba,” an 1964 international co-production of Cuba and the USSR. We are planning on having food, so please RSVP so we can know how much food to order. We will be watching at the Carr Auditorium at SF General, Saturday, May 31 from 6-8:30 p.m. Invite your friends, eat snacks, and sharpen your knowledge of Spanish and Marxism in Latin America. Hope to see you there!

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Socialist in Office Reportback

At the Socialist in Office meeting on May 19, the electoral board discussed several items

• Land use permitting reforms being pushed by the Mayor which threaten gentrification of districts in the City like Calle 24
• A debrief on on the Four Pillars hearing. Notably, SFPD admitted to not being able to solve the underlying issues surrounding drug overdoses.
• Proposed ordinance from Jackie Fielder preventing unhoused families from evictions from shelters for at least a year
  • The board is organizing a contingent for a rally in support of the hearing on the resolution on June 9 at City Hall. Keep an eye on the calendar for full details and a link to the RSVP which will be posted shortly.

If you would like to be involved in these conversations, join the electoral board on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom and find us on Slack at #electoral-discussion.

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EWOC Fundamentals Training Reportback

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) Fundamentals Training group continued with our third session. The lecture plenary was an interview with Phoebe from the Sesame Workers union, who won their union campaign this past week! Phoebe talked about how they navigated a company environment that outwardly championed community but was actually deeply anti-worker. The lecture also focused on how to escalate campaigns with actions successfully.  We began our discussion section with a reaction to the plenary interview. One comrade shared how they connected to how workers at quote-unquote ‘progressive companies’ can use the company’s mission against them. For example, a pharmaceutical company’s workers can use a slogan like “wellness for all” to argue that workers deserve to be part of that too. Another comrade shared the story they heard of Starbucks workers having a catchphrase to write on coffee cups to build support for their campaign.  Our assignment from last week was to have an organizing conversation with a coworker, so we also discussed our experiences with that. We helped one comrade troubleshoot their conversation, where they encountered people of the “things are okay” camp. We talked about how asking hypothetical questions has worked to open up people’s imaginations and be more receptive to joining the campaign. Things like… “what if you didn’t have to work two jobs – that this one would be enough?”  Next week, we’re going to wrap up the training with a focus on inoculation and the boss campaign!

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.

Upcoming Events

🌹 Tuesday, May 20 (7:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): 🐣 Socialist Night School: Salting (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Wednesday, May 21 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 🐣 What is DSA? (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Wednesday, May 21 (6:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (In person at 438 Haight)

🌹 Thursday, May 22 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Thursday, May 22 (7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.): 🐣 Comrade Karaoke (In person at The Roar Shack, 34 7th St)

🌹 Saturday, May 24 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): No Appetite for Apartheid Outreach and Training (Meet at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Saturday, May 24 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Food Service (Meet at Castro St. and Market St.)

🌹 Sunday, May 25 (1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.): Excursion to Angel Island to see Border Surveillance: From Gaza to the Rio Grande (Meet at the Ferry Building)

🌹 Monday, May 26 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Monday, May 26 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹 Monday, May 26 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Regular Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Monday, May 26 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Tuesday, May 27 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tech Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Tuesday, May 27 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣📕 Da Vinci Code Reading Group – Day 2 (In person at 1916 McAllister and Zoom)

🌹 Wednesday, May 28 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Maker Wednesday (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Thursday, May 29 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Ecosoc Vision and Strategy (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Thursday, May 29 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Saturday, May 31 (6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): 🐣 Chapter Movie Night: A Screening of Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba) (In person at Carr Auditorium, 22nd St, Building 3)

🌹 Sunday, June 1 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister and Zoom)

🌹 Monday, June 2 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Biweekly Meeting (Zoom)

Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.

Events & Actions

🐣 Socialist Night School: Salting

Curious about salting? Heard the term but not sure what it means? Interested in learning about salting opportunities in the Bay Area? Join the Labor Board for a Socialist Night School on salting on Tuesday, May 20 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. We’ll learn about salting strategies, examine past SF wins, and hear about current opportunities to salt a workplace.

Masks are encouraged but not required. Food and drink will be provided!

RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/socialist-night-school-salting/

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DSA Karaoke 🎤

Come hang out and do some karaoke with your fellow DSA SF comrades or cool people you want to impress with your incredible singing voice! Thursday, May 22 from 7:30 – 10:00 p.m. at The Roar Shack (34 7th Street at Market). Suggested donation of $10, no one turned away for lack of funds. No songs refused, no entry denied! Cheap drinks available to purchase or feel free to bring your own!

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Good Vibrations & Urban Ore Celebration & Fundraiser

Party with East Bay DSA to celebrate two union victories and rai$e money to continue the fight! After more than two years of organizing and struggle, workers from Good Vibrations and Urban Ore, with support from the East Bay Workplace Organizing Committee (EBWOC), BEAT their bosses, reaching major milestones at the bargaining table!

Come to Berkeley’s Hottest Backyard at 2923 Newbury St on Friday, May 23rd from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. for food, rousing speeches, DJs, dancing and karaoke! There’s a sliding scale entry fee to raise funds!

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No Appetite for Apartheid Training & Canvassing

We’ll be holding our next training and canvassing for No Appetite for Apartheid this Saturday, May 24! We’ll be meeting at 10:00 a.m. at 1916 McAllister to do training. After the training, we will divide up into groups to visit stores, and maybe some restaurants and cafes!

If you’ve already trained and you just want to canvass, feel free to show up at 11:30 a.m. at 1916 McAllister to get a turf. If you are able to provide transportation for people from the training site to the canvassing location, please indicate that in the RSVP form.

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Border Surveillance: From Gaza to the Rio Grande

The logic of empire extends all the way from Gaza to the Rio Grande. Join DSA for a thoughtful excursion, as we discuss the past and present of border surveillance, and how it relates to the methods and policies of colonization and empire.

On May 25th, the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism Working Group will lead a group to San Francisco’s historic immigration detention center on Angel Island where the Electronic Frontier Foundation is currently holding its exhibition Border Surveillance: Places, People and Technology.

We will meet at the Ferry Building at 1:30 p.m. to catch the 1:55 p.m. shuttle to Angel Island. We will then view the exhibition at the Angel Island Immigration Museum and discuss the connections between border surveillance practices and technology in the United States and decades of occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Our event will conclude at the Ferry Building at 5:30 p.m.. Note: The cost of a roundtrip on the ferry is $15 per person.

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Maker Wednesday

Join us for Maker Wednesday on May 28 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.! Come make some art and connect with comrades. All are welcome, see you there!

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Office Hours

Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll  be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.

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May Chapter Meeting Recap

Our May Chapter Meeting was full of energy and lots of business! We heard report backs from Emilye on our May Day labor actions, and from Christina and Nayef from our Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group on what it means to divest here in San Francisco. Members debated and passed three important resolutions: to nominate Andrew and Hazel to DSA’s National Political Committee, and to increase our travel budget while launching a fundraising push to make sure everyone can take part in the work, regardless of finances. We also heard from over 30 candidates running to be delegates to the 2025 DSA National Convention!

We won’t have a regular chapter meeting in June, because we’ll be having our annual June Chapter Convention June 14 and 15, from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. each day at the Kelly Cullen Auditorium (220 Golden Gate). All are welcome!

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Reportback

After breaking the ice by sharing our first concert experiences, the 12 of us dove into the second EWOC Fundamentals Training Series session focused on organizing conversations. We started with learning about the steps of an organizing conversation, had a group discussion about factors that could make those conversations more or less difficult, then we partnered up and practiced among ourselves before wrapping up for the day.

Coming out of those practice conversations, one comrade acting as an organizer was praised for how they organically applied the 3D framework when they got to the issue identification and agitation step. They detected an issue, asked their partners to further define the nature of the problem, and dug deeper by inquiring about the emotional impact of the issue. Inquiry tools were also a major part of our group conversations about conditions that make organizing challenging. More specifically, we discussed how asking questions that make people imagine life outside of their current state can make it easier to organize someone who either thinks their situation is fine or rationalizes it as being okay. While asking questions, listening, and making people feel heard are critical, they were just a few of the traits we learned to look for in workers who should be brought into an organizing committee. The others were: not being abrasive, having the trust of coworkers, and demonstrating the ability to lead coworkers into action.

Next week we’re going to learn about the arc of a campaign!

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Hygiene Kit Assembly and Distribution Reportback

Mutual aid is a tactic that models a socialist world where community members take up the responsibility of caring for each other through material solidarity. It exposes participants to revolutionary possibilities in the face of state neglect and violence. On Sunday May 11, the Labor Board and the Homeless Working Group hosted a Hygiene Kit Assembly and Distribution event at the DSA Office at 1916 McAllister Street. This was done not as an act of charity, but rather solidarity — an opportunity to share a resource, commune, and learn with working-class people who are in struggle against capitalism. The morning event attracted over 25 eager and early-risen volunteers, including some community members from outside of DSA, who stepped up by bringing requested kit supplies and delivered by building over 100 hygiene kits to distribute to our unhoused neighbors. The Homeless Working Group also provided information and guidance on how to best distribute the kits that all volunteers were provided at the end of the event. It can be tempting to view this as a one-time, “feel good” activity. Instead, we asked participants to see it as the first step in a project of regular support for, and community-building with, our unhoused neighbors. Hygiene kits are just a starting point  — please reach out to DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group for further training and collaboration!

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.

Upcoming Events

🌹Tuesday, May 6 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Reading Group for “The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth” (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, May 7 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)

🌹Thursday, May 8  (5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, May 9  (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, May 10 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Training (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, May 11  (9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.): 🐣 Hygiene Kit Assembly with Labor Board and Homelessness Working Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, May 12  (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, May 12  (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Monday, May 12  (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, May 12 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, May 14 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): May General Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate and on Zoom)

🌹Thursday, May 15  (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Sunday, May 18 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, May 19 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)

Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates.

Events & Actions

New Member Happy Hour

🍻🌹 Join us for our New Member Happy Hour starting at 6:30PM at Zeitgeist (199 Valencia Street). Learn more about DSA SF’s upcoming projects, find out how to plug in, or just socialize with socialists! Also open to old members, regular folks and the socialism-curious. Members running for DSA National Convention delegate will also be there to answer questions about their questionnaires, so members should come through, too!

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Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in May (see below for schedule). We’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities,. If you’re interested, fill out the form here and join the #ewoc-fundamentals-2025 channel in Slack! 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 6:00-7:30 p.m. on:

• Wednesday, May 7
• Tuesday, May 13
• Wednesday, May 21
• Wednesday, May 28

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a project of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to build a distributed, grassroots organizing program to support workers org

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No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass

We will be holding our next training and canvassing for No Appetite for Apartheid this Saturday, May 10! We’ll be meeting at 10:00 a.m. at 522 Valencia to do training. After the training, we will divide up into groups to visit stores in the Castro and Noe Valley (and maybe restaurants and cafes too!) and discuss de-shelving and boycotting Israeli products!

If you’ve already trained and you just want to canvass, feel free to show up at 11:30 a.m. at 522 Valencia to get a turf. If you are able to provide transportation for people from the training site to the canvassing location, please indicate that you RSVP here.

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Hygiene Kit Assembly

Keeping the May Day spirit alive, we have a Hygiene Kit Assembly planned on Sunday, May 11 in partnership with the Homelessness Working Group. We’ll assemble hygiene kits to distribute to our homeless neighbors and talk about ways to come together in community. People experiencing homelessness are systematically left out of political decisions that impact them, and we’ve invited members of local unions and community members to have conversations with us about this disparity at this event. All ages welcome – this event is kid friendly.

Sunday, May 11
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
1916 McAllister

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Office Hours

Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll  be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.

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May Day Reportback

This week the world celebrated International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, to mark the anniversary of the 1886 United States general strike to demand an eight-hour workday. To celebrate this historic day, the Labor Board, in collaboration with other chapter bodies, mobilized chapter members to attend a slate of events focused on immigrant and workers’ rights.

Our events kicked off on Sunday, April 27th with a Know Your Rights canvass in partnership with the Immigrant Justice Working Group. DSA members handed out  multilingual red cards and asked local businesses to hang flyers in their windows. It was powerful to see so many neighbors and businesses standing in solidarity with the immigrant community.

In place of the Labor Board’s regular Monday meeting, we held an education event focused on the history of May Day. We screened “We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day,”  a documentary co-produced by members of East Bay DSA. The Education Board facilitated a discussion about the documentary and shared several political cartoons from the late 19th  and early 20th centuries.

On April 29th we turned out dozens of comrades to Maker Tuesday in preparation for the May Day rally. With everyone’s help, we made hundreds of  DSA buttons, flyers, and red cards, and assembled goodie bags to bring to the rally.

Though Thursday May 1st didn’t mark the end of our May Day events, it certainly was a high point in understanding how we can come together in solidarity for workers and immigrants alike. The San Francisco and East Bay chapters formed a large contingent at the rally where comrade Hazel W and socialist-elected District Supervisor Jackie Fielder gave empowering speeches about how every struggle is part of the connected fight for freedom, dignity, and justice. Thousands of workers, immigrants and people from all walks of life marched from San Francisco City Hall to the ICE building. We will fight back, and when we fight, WE WIN! 🌹

Interested in continuing the fight for workers’ and immigrants’ rights? Come to our next May Day events:

• Sunday, May 11 – Hygiene Kit Assembly from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at 1916 McAllister. RSVP here.
• Tuesday, May 20 – Socialist Night School on Salting from 7:00 to 8:15 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. RSVP here.

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Socialist in Office Reportback

At the Socialist in Office meeting on April 28, the electoral board discussed several items

• Supporting legislation for a Tenant’s Right to Pay to prevent evictions due to nonpayment after delinquent payments are resolved
• Opposing the SFPD & Sheriff Overtime Budget
• Upcoming hearing on the Four Pillars model for overdose prevention on May 16 
• Supporting unhoused families facing evictions from shelters after 90 days
  • There will be a rally in support of the families with Faith in Action on May 12 at 4:00 p.m. at City Hall. Please come to support! 
• Potential attacks on housing-first policies for permanent supportive housing (PSH) by legislation requiring 25% to be sober housing

If you would like to be involved in these conversations, join the electoral board on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom and find us on Slack at #electoral-discussion.

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.