Events & Actions
🌹Tuesday, June 24 (6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 🐣 Ecosocialism Office Gardening (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Wednesday, June 25 (6:45 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (Zoom & in person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight)
🌹Wednesday, June 25 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Screening of ‘They Live’ (In person at Roar Shack, 34 7th St)
🌹Thursday, June 26 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Thursday, June 26 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Friday, June 27 (3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): No Appetite for Apartheid Consumer Pledge Canvass x Trans March (Meet at the Dolores Park tennis courts)
🌹Monday, June 30 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Tuesday, July 1 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Tuesday, July 1 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Reading Group: The Housing Question by Friederich Engels (Part 1 of 2) (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Wednesday, July 2 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 New Member Happy Hour at Zeitgeist (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)
🌹Saturday, July 5 (12:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (Meet in person at 1916 McAllister)
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
🌱 Ecosocialism Gardening
Come garden with our Ecoscocialism Working Group to talk socialism and get to know our garden! We’ll start with a discussion of the history of native plants in the Bay Area and then identify the native plants in our office garden. Join us Tuesday, June 24th at 6:30 p.m. at 1916 McAllister.
Summer Social(ist) Events! ☀️
Mark your calendars for our Summer Social(ist) event series!
- June 25th @ 7:00 p.m. – Screening of They Live at Roar Shack (34 7th Street) – Let’s watch the classic monster movie inspired by the scariest monsters of them all (Ronald Reagan and Capitalism)!
- July 6th @ 11:00 p.m. – Screening of The Room at the Balboa Theater! We’ll meet outside at 10:30.
- July 11th @ 7:30PM – Comrade Karaoke at the Roar Shack (34 7th Street) – Come hang out and do some FREE karaoke with your fellow DSA SF comrades or cool people you want to impress with your incredible singing voice! No songs refused, no entry denied! Suggested Donation: $10. Drinks: Wine + Beer Available / BYOB
- July 27th @ 1:05PM – Oakland Ballers vs Northern Colorado Owlz baseball game + “Halloween in July Night” (at Raimondi Park) – RSVP here by July 13th so that we can put in a group order of tickets! Group tickets are are $15 per ticket, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds!
Apartheid-Free Bay Area Canvassing @ Trans March
🏳️⚧️Celebrate Trans Pride and build public support for stores that have pledged to go apartheid-free 🇵🇸 this Friday, 6/27 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.! We’ll meet at the Dolores Park tennis courts.
You will receive basic training, and then you will put that training into practice by collecting signatures at the Trans March. RSVP and then sign up for a 1-hour shift. Bring a tote bag and make sure to wear your DSA merch. New members encouraged to join!
Reading Group: “The Housing Question” by Friedrich Engels
Join us in reading the seminal text on the political economy of housing. Written in 1872, “The Housing Question” is Friedrich Engels’ critique of the housing market and the solutions promoted by his contemporaries. 150 years later, his work resonates just as much, if not more, with tenants’ current struggles.
This two-part series will have readers discuss the various historical attitudes and debates around housing and apply those lessons to our modern housing crisis.
Join us for session 1 at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St. on July 1st at 7:00 p.m. A full PDF of the book can be found here.
EWOC: How to Talk About Organizing
EWOC (Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee) is a project of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and DSA working to build a distributed grassroots organizing program to support workers organizing at the workplace. To learn more about the work EWOC does, come by the DSA SF office to pick up a copy of Unite and Win or tune into the Labor Board’s weekly meetings every Monday at 7 p.m. on Zoom.
The next EWOC event hosted by DSA SF features EWOC staff members conducting a training on generating workplace leads and conducting organizing conversations on July 16th from 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m. Let us know if you can make it! Hope to see you there!
People’s Conference for Palestine: Gaza is the Compass
📣 Come one, come all! We’re hoping to have a DSA SF delegation at the 🍉 People’s Conference For Palestine: Gaza is the Compass 🧭 from August 29-31 in Detroit, Michigan. Interested? We’re gauging interest, so please fill out this form by June 19th at 11:00 p.m. Limited financial aid may be available.
Reports
Immigrant Justice Working Group x East Bay DSA Know Your Rights Training
About 30 attendees filled the DSA office for a KYR training hosted by the Immigrant Justice Working Group (IJWG) and East Bay DSA Migrants Rights Working Group on Tuesday, June 17. A highlight from the training included roleplay scenarios which allowed participants to practice exercising their rights at work and during a traffic stop, among other scenarios.
Special thanks to comrades Caroline G., Cielo, Rashad X, Eric (EBDSA), Kevin (EBDSA) for helping present and facilitate the breakout sessions.
Stay tuned for future trainings. Join the #immigrant-justice channel on the DSA SF Slack for more information.
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.
