On July 29, 2024, Christiana Porter, a 34-year-old Black single mother and domestic violence survivor, was brutally attacked in broad daylight by SFPD Officer Josh McFall. Without warning, Officer McFall slammed Christiana’s head against a wall so hard that she suffered a concussion and a separated shoulder, apparently for “walking while Black” in a city that uses policing as a weapon against the poor, the unhoused, and our Black and Brown neighbors.
Despite there being video evidence of Ofc. McFall’s actions, the City and County of San Francisco has denied Christiana’s claim and refused to take accountability for wrongdoing, further traumatizing Christiana and furthering SFPD’s culture of racialized violence and impunity. The City and SFPD have not apologized to Christiana, nor have they taken disciplinary action against the officer involved, nor issued a public statement of concern about this incident.
This is not an isolated incident. This is one of the main things that policing was designed to do: control, harm, and silence Black people. The roots of American policing can be traced back to slave patrols, and this history continues to shape how policing disproportionately targets, controls, and harms Black communities. Porter has since filed a lawsuit against the City, citing excessive use of force and the lasting trauma she has endured.
As socialists, we are committed to dismantling the system of state repression that continues to harm the most vulnerable while shielding its enforcers from consequence. At our 2025 Annual Convention, DSA SF unanimously passed a resolution demanding justice for Christiana Porter and full accountability from the City and SFPD. You can read the text of the full resolution at dev.dsasf.org/porter-resolution.
DSA SF stands in unwavering solidarity with Christiana Porter and all those impacted by racist policing, and will continue to organize and fight alongside communities demanding dignity, safety, and accountability.
🌹 Monday, August 11 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)
🌹 Monday, August 11 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board x SF EWOC Local Meeting (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!
Apartheid-Free Bay Area Consumer Canvass
Let’s build public support for the BDS movement and our local businesses that have pledged to go apartheid-free in support of Palestine. This Saturday, August 2 from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, we’ll meet at Dolores Park near 18th St and Dolores.
We will first train you, and then you will put that training into practice by collecting signatures in Dolores Park.
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck, even if you can only participate for 1 or 2 hours.
Public Bank Discussion Group
What is a Public Bank? How can it help solve climate and housing problems? How can we make it happen in SF? Join us from 6:30 PM-7:30 PM on Tuesday, August 5 at 1916 McAllister. We will be discussing the short article “How Public Banks Can Help Finance a Green and Just Energy Transformation” by Thomas Marois. We recommend the reading, but it’s totally fine to attend if you didn’t get to it! We will then be discussing current public bank efforts in San Francisco, as well as the best way for DSA to get involved. RSVP to let us know you’ll attend and get access to the reading.
Nestlé is one of the biggest corporations in the world charged with decades of human rights violations in the global south. They’re now in our backyard intimidating baristas with surveillance, firing, and bad-faith bargaining. Recently, baristas in four Bay Area locations of Nestlé-owned Blue Bottle presented management with a super majority of union cards and demanded voluntary recognition. Instead, Blue Bottle fired one of the organizers, B.B. Young. This comes at an especially bad time for B.B. since their husband was also recently laid off.
Even after nearly 22 months of ongoing U.S.-backed, Israeli-led genocide in Gaza and as settler violence ramps up in the West Bank, we are seeing Palestinians on the brink of mass starvation. Last week, the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist working group (PSAI) participated in a slew of Bay Area demonstrations and actions to make it clear: no business as usual while the ruling class profits off genocide. From confronting Boston Consulting Group’s direct role in profiting of their malicious Gaza “Humanitarian” Fund which uses distribution sites to trap and kill Palestinians, to demanding aid be let in to Gaza at Alex Padilla’s office, we also took time to canvas signatures for our No Appetite for Apartheid pledge at an event featuring Mohammed El-Kurd on his book Perfect Victims (quote below). Ready to take part? Join the #palestine-solidarity Slack channel or come to our meetings Thursdays at 5:30 PM.
“We reject our complicity in this bloodshed… The moment demands that we renew our commitment to the truth, unflinchingly, unabashedly, cleverly…Such bravery is asked of us now, not when gardens grow over our martyrs’ graves, not when the debris is swept up and sculpted into memorials, and not when the bloodied press vests of our fallen journalists rest eternally in shadow boxes… Because Gaza cannot fight the empire on its own.” – Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims
Social Housing Reading Group
The Ecosocialist Working Group, in conjunction with the Electoral Board, held a discussion on what municipal social housing could look like in San Francisco. 25 attendees, including 10 non-members, responded to an SF Berniecrats policy brief and last year’s feasibility report by the Budget and Legislative Analyst, commissioned by comrade and then-supervisor Dean Preston. We had a wide-ranging conversation that touched on income mix, feasibility, and political strategy.
Stay tuned for the next social housing event! To get involved, join the #ecosocialism Slack channel, or reach out to ecosocialist@dsasf.org.
Socialist in Office Update
Our own socialist-in-office and DSA member Jackie Fielder won two hard-earned victories to mitigate the harms of the billionaires’ agenda and the city administration’s relentless attacks on the poor and working class.
Led by the homeless families themselves, Faith in Action, and the Coalition on Homelessness, Jackie also fought to extend the shelter Length of Stay Policy for families winning provisions for unlimited extensions of up to 90-days (versus the current 3 30-days extension allotted) and ensures that families have access to due process to prevent unnecessary shelter evictions.
Jackie’s office also successfully negotiated restorations of $30 million to house homeless families and transitional aged youth, and $9 million to house homeless adults in the City’s Prop C allocation – important funding towards affordable housing, which was initially slated to be allocated entirely to temporary shelter by the Lurie administration
These actions demonstrate DSA SF’s and Jackie’s commitment to fight back against the city’s policies that continually criminalize poverty and reward the rich and corporations at the expense of the poor and working class. These harmful policies expand austerity measures and defund social safety nets like secure housing for all people, regardless of class or income.
Despite our recent wins, the only way to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty is by fighting for a socialist system which builds an economy that meets the needs of working people. To discuss more how to bring about socialist realities in the electoral realm, join the Electoral Board every Thursday at 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM; and to discuss how to better coordinate with the socialist-in-office, join the SIO subcommittee meeting on Monday from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
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 publishing the weekly newsletter. Members can view current CCC rotations.
Interested in helping with the newsletter or other day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running? Fill out the CCC help form.
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
ICE Out of SF Courts!
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck, even if you can only participate for 1 or 2 hours.
Social Housing Reading Group
What could social housing look like in San Francisco, and how do we get there? Join DSA SF for a reading of the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report on how the city can build its own publicly owned, deeply affordable housing. We will also read the SF Berniecrats report, Housing for the 99%, which lays out a vision for social housing for all in San Francisco. Join us at 1916 McAllister today (Tuesday, July 22) from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
On July 23rd from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United tech workers for our next monthly tech reading group.
We’ll be reading an excerpt from You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte. This event is hybrid with food provided at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St.
RSVP here to access the link to the reading! See you there!
Electoral Education: Zohran x DSA’s Victory
Join us Friday, July 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister for an open discussion about the very exciting Zohran campaign, how they did it, and how it’s shaping the national discussion about electoral politics in the United States and in our national organization! .
Audience: EVERYONE! Whether you’re new to movement or been following the Zohran campaign for a while, we hope this will be interesting for us all!
Maker Friday: Zine Edition
Join us for Maker Friday: Zine Edition on July 25 at 1916 McAllister from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.! We will learn how to make zines, brainstorm ideas for them, and make them. All are welcome, no experience necessary, come connect with your fellow comrades while making fun content to pass out.
Know Your Rights (KYR) Canvassing with Immigrant Justice
Join the Immigrant Justice Working Group this Saturday (July 26) for Know Your Rights (KYR) canvassing! We will be distributing red cards and KYR posters to businesses and community members in the Excelsior. Our meeting point will be at the intersection of Silver Ave & Mission St at 1:00 pm. New to canvassing? No worries! There will be a brief how-to training before we go out in pairs or small groups.
Join us this Saturday (July 26th) from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister for a reportback from the 2025 May Day Brigade in Cuba! You’ll hear a comrade’s firsthand experience of the socialist program in Cuba, its medical and educational systems, the May Day events that occurred in Havana, the challenges the Cuban people are currently facing, and their revolutionary optimism that we should adopt in the face of our organizing in the belly of the beast. 🇨🇺
We’ll be blasting some classic Cuban tunes to get us in the revolutionary spirit, and there will be snacks and refreshments. Hope you can come!
On Sunday, July 27th at 3:30 p.m. we’ll be going to the Oakland Ballers vs Northern Colorado Owlz baseball game + “Halloween in July Night” (at Raimondi Park) – We will be sitting in the 3rd Base GA2 section. Tickets are $15 each, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (just reach out to us if you need help buying a ticket!). RSVP here and purchase tickets here.
📣 Support the Blue Bottle Independent Union
Nestlé is one of the biggest corporations in the world charged with decades of human rights violations in the global south. They’re now in our backyard intimidating baristas with surveillance, firing, and bad-faith bargaining. Last week, baristas in four Bay Area locations of Nestlé-owned Blue Bottle presented management with a super majority of union cards and demanded voluntary recognition. Instead, Blue Bottle fired one of the organizers, B.B. Young. This comes at an especially bad time for B.B. since their husband was also recently laid off.
What You Missed at Last Week’s Electoral Board Meeting
At the Electoral Board meeting on July 17, the Electoral Board discussed several items:
Legislative updates from the Socialist in Office Subcommittee
Please join the new #socialist-in-office Slack channel to receive more frequent updates from the subcommittee!
An upcoming meeting on with Jackie Fielder’s office to advance our Divestment priority
A letter campaign to support Jackie in her sole dissenting vote on the City’s budget which forces austerity and potential future actions such as an op-ed
A Zohran Mamdani themed discussion event happening this Friday at 5:30 in the office!
If you would like to be involved in these conversations, join the Electoral Board on Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom or the office at 1916 McAllister 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.
After a late-night session on June 26, the Budget & Appropriations Committee of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is moving forward with a set of proposed resolutions regarding the budget. This includes one key provision proposed by Mayor Daniel Lurie to reallocate tax revenue raised from 2018’s Local Measure C, a.k.a. “Our City Our Home” or just Prop C. Besides likely being illegal – per the city attorney – this move would remove funding for a popular and successful housing program addressing homelessness in San Francisco.
In 2018, hundreds of activists came together with over a hundred endorsers in a political upsurge to fight for a durable solution to homelessness in San Francisco. DSA San Francisco formed a key part of this coalition, with DSA members occupying positions at every level of the campaign, from signature-gathering to running the field operation. We saw something revolutionary in Prop C: the ability to address homelessness at its root by funding permanent supportive housing.
Prop C implemented a gross receipts tax on large businesses, with the revenue going into a special city fund. It also specified that this fund be used for four things, in proportion: at least half for permanent housing, at least a quarter for mental health services, up to 15% on homelessness prevention, and only up to 10% for temporary shelter. This isn’t an afterthought: Prop C was built around the Housing First approach, which argues that homelessness and the constellation of issues that often surround it — drug use, mental health crises, and poverty — are best resolved by providing housing, not by temporary half-measures.
Prop C has faced challenges before. In 2018, before its passage, it received unprecedented pushback from the mayor at the time, London Breed, in an astounding statement where she highlighted the “lack of accountability” in her own administration and claimed that housing people without homes would worsen homelessness by “funding services for residents from other counties”. (San Francisco’s Point-in-Time count has continued to show that around 60–70% of the homeless population was most recently housed in San Francisco, before and after Prop C’s passage). She also raised the possibility of it being blocked by business interests: “if it passes, Proposition C will likely immediately become part of an ongoing lawsuit to invalidate it and similar signature-driven tax measures passed earlier this year.”
When it has been allowed to work, Prop C and Housing First have been successful. The city’s 2024 report shows that it has provided more than 5,000 units – a number larger than the current remaining unsheltered homeless population in San Francisco – and that this housing works: “In the Permanent Housing service area, 96% of households retained their housing or exited to other stable housing options”. The contrast with other approaches is stark, and the city’s approach to temporary shelter has been, at best, chaotic: during the pandemic, San Francisco made it difficult for people to self-refer into shelter. On the other hand, Prop C made it possible for many of the residents of the city’s Shelter-in-Place Hotel program to exit to permanent housing.
This is the funding that Mayor Lurie plans to re-allocate to temporary shelter or other programs. As socialists we believe in provisioning the economy based on the needs of the people, not on the whims of startup capitalists or technocratic heirs-turned-mayors, and it’s clear that the urgent need of San Francisco’s homeless population is housing. The people of San Francisco agree. We call on the Board of Supervisors and the mayor to keep this funding permanent supportive housing and to protect Prop C and reject this antidemocratic provision.
🌹Saturday, July 19 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Training and Outreach (Meet in person for training at 1916 McAllister, then head out to do outreach in the Bayview)
🌹Saturday, July 19 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenant Organizing Canvass(Meet in person at Chan Kaajal Park, 3100 17th St)
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck, even if you can only participate for 1 or 2 hours.
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 Wednesday, July 16 from 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m. for a workshop held by the San Francisco local of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)! We’ll be going over how to generate workplace organizing leads and hold organizing conversations. This will be an interactive session for any and all levels of organizing experience. Whether you’re an organizer or volunteer with EWOC or simply someone who wants to start learning about workplace organizing, this workshop is a great place to join the conversation and plan work for the labor movement!
No Appetite for Apartheid is a campaign aimed at reducing economic support for Israeli apartheid by canvassing local businesses to boycott Israeli goods. Come and canvass local businesses with the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group!
On Saturday, July 19 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., We will be doing a training on how to talk to stores in your neighborhood, then going out and talking with stores together in the Bayview! Meet at 1916 McAllister.
Help us build tenant power in SF! Tenant Organizing Working Group is hosting a canvass the Mission, in partnership with Tenant and Neighborhood Councils. We’ll meet July 19th at 3:00 p.m. at Chan Kaajal Park, near 16th St. BART station, and we’ll walk the neighborhood together, talking to tenants about their housing conditions and how collective action can help. This is a powerful way to build organizing skills and relationships within the community. We will start with a training, so no prior experience is required. Sign up here so we know you’re coming. See you there!
Social Housing Reading Group
What could social housing look like in San Francisco, and how do we get there? Join DSASF for a reading of the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report on how the city can build its own publicly owned, deeply affordable housing. We will also read the SF Berniecrats report, Housing for the 99%, which lays out a vision for social housing for all in San Francisco. Join us at 1916 McAllister Tuesday, July 22 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
On July 23rd from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United tech workers for our next monthly tech reading group.
We’ll be reading an excerpt from You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte. This event is hybrid with food provided at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St.
RSVP here to access the link to the reading! See you there!
Electoral Education: Zohran x DSA’s Victory
Join us Friday, July 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister for an open discussion about the very exciting Zohran campaign, how they did it, and how it’s shaping the national discussion about electoral politics in the United States and in our national organization! .
Audience: EVERYONE! Whether you’re new to movement or been following the Zohran campaign for a while, we hope this will be interesting for us all!
Maker Friday: Zine Edition
Join us for Maker Friday: Zine Edition on July 25 at 1916 McAllister from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.! We will learn how to make zines, brainstorm ideas for them, and make them. All are welcome, no experience necessary, come connect with your fellow comrades while making fun content to pass out.
Summer Social(ist) Events! ☀️
On Sunday, July 27th at 3:30 p.m. we’ll be going to the 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!
📣 Support the Blue Bottle Independent Union
Nestlé is one of the biggest corporations in the world charged with decades of human rights violations in the global south. They’re now in our backyard intimidating baristas with surveillance, firing, and bad-faith bargaining. Last week, baristas in four Bay Area locations of Nestlé-owned Blue Bottle presented management with a super majority of union cards and demanded voluntary recognition. Instead, Blue Bottle fired one of the organizers, B.B. Young. This comes at an especially bad time for B.B. since their husband was also recently laid off.
On July 13th DSA SF held its second physical education training. Seven comrades got together in the park to learn and practice basic movement and self defense skills such as falling, quick get ups, rolling, human crutch carries, and basic stance work.
Stay tuned for the next one! If you’re interested in inclusive physical education and self defense strategies, please join #phys-ed on the DSA SF Slack.
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.
🌹Saturday, July 19 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Training and Outreach (Meet in person for training at 1916 McAllister, then head out to do outreach in the Bayview)
Mark your calendars for our Summer Social(ist) event series! Our next event is coming up this Friday, 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
Later this month on July 27th @ 1:05PM we’ll be going to the 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!
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.
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!
Tenant Organizing Canvass in the Mission
Help us build tenant power in SF! Tenant Organizing Working Group is hosting a canvass the Mission, in partnership with Tenant and Neighborhood Councils. We’ll meet July 19th at 3:00 p.m. at Chan Kaajal Park, near 16th St. BART station, and we’ll walk the neighborhood together, talking to tenants about their housing conditions and how collective action can help. This is a powerful way to build organizing skills and relationships within the community. We will start with a training, so no prior experience is required. Sign up here so we know you’re coming. See you there!
Social Housing Reading Group
What could social housing look like in San Francisco, and how do we get there? Join DSASF for a reading of the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report on how the city can build its own publicly owned, deeply affordable housing. We will also read the SF Berniecrats report, Housing for the 99%, which lays out a vision for social housing for all in San Francisco. Join us at 1916 McAllister Tuesday, July 22 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
On July 23rd from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United tech workers for our next monthly tech reading group.
We’ll be reading an excerpt from You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte. This event is hybrid with food provided at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St.
RSVP here to access the link to the reading! See you there!
📣 Support the Blue Bottle Independent Union
Nestlé is one of the biggest corporations in the world charged with decades of human rights violations in the global south. They’re now in our backyard intimidating baristas with surveillance, firing, and bad-faith bargaining. Last week, baristas in four Bay Area locations of Nestlé-owned Blue Bottle presented management with a super majority of union cards and demanded voluntary recognition. Instead, Blue Bottle fired one of the organizers, B.B. Young. This comes at an especially bad time for B.B. since their husband was also recently laid off.
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.
🌹Thursday, July 10 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Friday, July 11 (7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Comrade Karaoke (In person at The Roar Shack, 34 7th St)
🌹Sunday, July 13 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument, Panhandle Park)
🌹Monday, July 14 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
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.
Mark your calendars for our Summer Social(ist) event series!
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 Consumer Pledge Canvassing
Help build public support for stores that have pledged to go apartheid-free 🇵🇸 at the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market, Harry Bridges Plaza, this Saturday, July 5 from 11:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m.! You will receive basic training, and then you will put that training into practice by collecting signatures at the Ferry Plaza Building Farmer’s Market. Please sign up here. Bring a tote bag and make sure to wear your DSA merch. New members encouraged to join!
Call your comrades to oppose the billionaire budget! Join the DSA SF Electoral Board this Saturday, July 5, 2:00 p.m. to – 4:00 p.m at 1916 McAllister to phonebank members and urge them to send letters opposing Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Billionaire Budget. The proposed budget forces austerity upon the most vulnerable San Franciscans by redirecting Prop C Our City Our Home funds away from effective solutions to homelessness to temporary measures which do not address the root causes of homelessness.
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!
📣 Support the Blue Bottle Independent Union
Nestlé is one of the biggest corporations in the world charged with decades of human rights violations in the global south. They’re now in our backyard intimidating baristas with surveillance, firing, and bad-faith bargaining. Last week, baristas in four Bay Area locations of Nestlé-owned Blue Bottle presented management with a super majority of union cards and demanded voluntary recognition. Instead, Blue Bottle fired one of the organizers, B.B. Young. This comes at an especially bad time for B.B. since their husband was also recently laid off.
What could social housing look like in San Francisco, and how do we get there? Join DSASF for a reading of the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report on how the city can build its own publicly owned, deeply affordable housing. We will also read the SF Berniecrats report, Housing for the 99%, which lays out a vision for social housing for all in San Francisco. Join us at 1916 McAllister Tuesday, July 22 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
On June 28th, DSA SF held its first physical education training. Five comrades got together in the park to learn and practice basic movement and self defense skills like falling, squatting, lifting, and palm striking. The next one will be held on July 13th at 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the William McKinley Monument in Panhandle Park. Join us for some fun and inclusive physical education, aimed at building the strength and flexibility to build a better world.
Ecosocialist Office Gardening
The Ecosocialist Working Group held their first office gardening event last Tuesday, with 12 attendees, including 5 non-members. We discussed native plants in the bay area and the various tools to help with plant identification, and labeled our garden with popsicle sticks. Our comrade Lizzie even brought a microscope to take a closer look at petals and leaves.
Stay tuned for the next office gardening event! To get involved, join #ecosocialism on the DSA SF Slack, or reach out to ecosocialist@dsasf.org.
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.
