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Weekly Roundup: October 28, 2025

on October 28, 2025

Events & Actions

Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!

🌹 Tuesday, October 28 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE out of SF courts! (in person at 100 Montgomery St)

🌹 Tuesday, October 28 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): “Stop the Threat of US War on Venezuela!”: A History of US-Venezuela Relations (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Wednesday, October 29 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Tech Reading Group: Empire of AI by Karen Hao 🐣 (zoom and in person at 518 Valencia St)

🌹 Wednesday, October 29 (6:45 PM – 8:30 PM): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (zoom and in at person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight St)

🌹 Thursday, October 30 (7:30 PM – 9:30 PM): “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco” – TOWG Reading Group (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Friday, October 31 (2:30 PM – 4:00 PM): Keep Market St. Moving! Roundtable with Drivers (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Saturday, November 1 (1:00 PM – 5:00 PM): 🐣 Growing Community: Urban Food Production at Alemany Farm (in person at Alemany Farm, 700 Alemany Blvd)

🌹 Sunday, November 2 (1:00 PM – 2:00 PM): SF EWOC Lead Generation Strategy Session (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Sunday, November 2 (5:30 PM – 7:15 PM): HWG Reads  “Capitalism & Disability…” (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Monday, November 3 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board x SF EWOC Local Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Tuesday, November 4 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Thursday, November 6 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting 🌹 (zoom)

🌹 Thursday, November 6 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Friday, November 7 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Comrade Karaoke (in person at the Roar Shack, 34 7th St)

🌹 Sunday, November 9 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (in person at the William McKinley Monument)

🌹 Sunday, November 9 (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM): Palestine Study: There is No Socialist Israel  (in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Sunday, November 9 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM): Capital Reading Group (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Monday, November 10 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹 Monday, November 10 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Monday, November 10 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board Meeting (zoom)

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

Take Action: Support a Green Public Bank for San Francisco 🌱🏦

San Francisco has the chance to make history by creating a green bank: a publicly-owned institution that invests in affordable housing, small businesses, and clean energy instead of Wall Street profits. A Green Bank Resolution was recently introduced by our Socialist in Office Jackie Fielder, and we need to show the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Lurie that San Franciscans support it.

A public bank would keep our money circulating in our communities, fund climate solutions, and help build a city that works for everyone — not just the wealthy.

Take two minutes to send an email to the Mayor and Supervisors using our email tool.

Want to help build the campaign? Join the #public-bank channel in Slack or email ecosocialist@dsasf.org to get plugged into organizing efforts and stay updated on next steps.

Stop The Threat Of US War On Venezuela! 🇻🇪

Wondering how we got here? Want to understand why Trump is attacking Venezuela? Need to deepen your understanding of US-Venezuela relations? And most importantly: want to discuss how we can fight back?

Join the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism working group at 1916 McAllister on Tuesday, October 28th, 6:00-7:30PM in an educational forum on the history of Venezuela and the struggle against US imperialism. RSVP HERE!

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 and Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck. The 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM window is when we most need to boost turnout, but if you can’t make that please come whenever works for you. 1 or 2 hours or the entire time! We’re also holding orientation sessions for folks, but that is not required to attend. See the 🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation event for more details.

📖 DSA SF Tenant Organizing Reading Group – “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco” 

San Francisco has always had an affordable housing shortage, but solutions outside of the private sector have long been neglected or overlooked. Join us as we learn about the history of one proposed solution: public housing.

Our four-part reading group will meet every other Thursday at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM hybrid in person at 1916 McAllister and Zoom with RSVP to discuss John Baranski’s book “Housing the City by the Bay”. The next meeting will be Thursday, October 30.

If you wish to join please RSVP here!

Growing Community: Urban Food Production at Alemany Farm

Come join DSA SF’s Ecosocialist working group Saturday, November 1st, 2025 1:00 – 5:00PM  as we get our hands dirty gardening at one of SF’s community gems, Alemany Farm.

First, we will tour the farm and learn about its history as a community gathering place and food source. Next, we will be doing volunteer gardening tasks (planting seedlings, harvesting weeds, flipping compost, building paths, etc.). Midway through our volunteer work, we’ll take a break to discuss the farm’s mission and how it relates to DSA’s values and goals, covering topics including environmentalism, anti-capitalist food production, and shared public space. We’ll finish with a bit more volunteer work and a harvest, where we’ll collect some crops from around the farm and take some home! RSVP here!

Join SF EWOC to Organize the Unorganized!

The SF local of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) needs to get more workplace organizing leads so we can increase union density! Our strategy sessions (held at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister) will determine what neighborhoods and tactics to use at the next flyering event. You don’t need to be a volunteer or organizer with EWOC to attend! Our next strategy session will be Sunday, November 2nd at 1:00PM at 1916 McAllister. RSVP here!

We will have monthly regular strategizing and flyering events on the first and third Sundays of every month at 1PM. Our next flyering event will be  Sunday, November 16th at 1:00PM – location TBD! RSVP here!

✊ Organizing Mindset Training

Organizing is at the core of what we do as socialists — and it’s a skill that can be developed and practiced. Come join fellow comrades as we learn and discuss how we can incorporate organizing fundamentals into our day-to-day actions so that we can build stronger, more cohesive, and more active communities that can rally together against the unjust capitalist system. Whether it’s our neighbors, coworkers, friend groups, fellow transit-riders, or any other communities we interact with daily, we will always be stronger when we are organized, aligned on the most critical issues we are facing, and ready to act in unison and put our collective people power behind our demands.

Join us at 1916 McAllister St on Sunday, November 16th from 3:00 – 6:00PM for the first iteration in what we hope will become a recurring, multi-part Organizing Mindset training. 🐣  All are invited and encouraged to attend, whether you are new to DSA, new to organizing, or a more seasoned member/organizer. This first session in particular is a great one to attend if you are interested in helping shape future iterations of this training. RSVP here!

📖 DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting every other Sunday evening starting in September for 4 or 5 sessions at 1916 McAllister. The next session is Sunday, November 2nd. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd and check the events calendar for latest details.

🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation

Come one, come all to 1916 McAllister St for our court watch orientation! You’ll learn how we are resisting ICE , how you can help, and participate in a biweekly art build. Bring questions and anti-ICE slogans! This event will take place every other week on Thursdays starting at 7:00 PM and the next one is November 6th!

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Weekly Roundup: August 27, 2024

on August 27, 2024

Upcoming Events

🌹 Tuesday, August 27 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): How to Be an Organizer (Zoom)

🌹 Thursday, August 29 (5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Jackie Fielder For D9 & SF Rising Mobilization (Meet at Garfield Square, 26th St & Harrison)

🌹 Thursday, August 29 (5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): ☎️ Phonebank for Extreme Dean (In person at 1630 Haight St)

🌹 Thursday, August 29 (5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Zine Making Party (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Thursday, August 29 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Thursday, August 29 (7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Palestine and Socialism Study Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Friday, August 30 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Saturday, August 31 (10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): Extreme Dean Door Knock Mobilization (Meet at Jefferson Square Park, Laguna & Turk)

🌹 Sunday, September 1 (10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): Jackie Fielder For D9 Supervisor Mobilization (Meet at Palega Rec Center, 500 Felton)

🌹 Sunday, September 1 (11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.): DSA SF at SF Zine Fest (In person at City View at Metreon, 135 4th St, table 256)

🌹 Sunday, September 1 (1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.): No Appetite for Apartheid Work Session (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Monday, September 2 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Monday, September 2 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Monthly Reading Group (Zoom)

🌹 Wednesday, September 4 (5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): ☎️ Phonebank for Extreme Dean (In person at 1630 Haight St)

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

🌹 Friday, September 6 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Unpacking the Political Climate in SF: What the ****? (Location TBD)

🌹 Saturday, September 7 (10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): Jackie Fielder For D9 Supervisor Mobilization (Location TBD)

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

🌹 Sunday, September 8 (10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): Extreme Dean Door Knock Mobilization (Location TBD)

🌹 Monday, September 9 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Monthly Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Monday, September 9 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Maker Monday (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹 Monday, September 9 (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

Mobilize for Jackie Fielder & SF Rising

Let’s canvass for Jackie this Thursday (August 29th) with SF Rising! We’re meeting at Garfield Square Park at 26th St & Harrison at 5:00 p.m..  No experience required and we can train you or have you walk with a buddy if this is your first time! ​This is the most important way we can reach voters to get Jackie elected as D9 supervisor. We need all the canvassers we can get! Bring comfortable clothes and shoes to walk in.

RSVP

Palestine and Socialism Study Group

The DSA SF’s Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperial Working Group is kicking off its study group this coming Thursday, August 29 at 7:30 p.m. at 1916 McAllister (and on Zoom)! Are you interested in expanding your understanding of the history of settler colonialism in Palestine and the Palestinian liberation struggle? In the first of three sessions, we discuss excerpts from Palestine: A Socialist Introduction by brian bean and Sumaya Awad, and The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, specifically applying a socialist lens the history of the Zionist movement in the region through 1948.

RSVP

Volunteer for Dean Preston’s Campaign at Fillmore Pride

Please join us this Saturday, August 31 at 10:00 a.m. for our Fillmore Pride Mobilization for DSA SF member Dean Preston’s re-election campaign. We’ll be meeting at Jefferson Square Park (Laguna & Turk) and offer  trainings to anyone who wants them!

The Fillmore, sometimes referred to as the Western Addition, is a neighborhood with a rich and vibrant history and was one of the only predominantly black neighborhoods in SF since the 50s, earning itself the nickname of the “Harlem of the West”. But, after decades of corporate planning and urban re-development (rebranded as “urban renewal”), real estate developers demolished hundreds of homes in the Western Addition, largely concentrated in black-occupied dwellings. The history of the Fillmore and the Western Addition is the story  of racism and gentrification in SF. Although tens of thousands of black residents have been displaced out of San Francisco, the Fillmore is still a proud and strong neighborhood with many residents actively organizing against gentrification and displacement. (Just ask Pat about his work with the tenant’s union at Thomas Paine!)

Black residents in the Fillmore support Dean because they know the importance of having a representative that will challenge the real estate industry and corporate developers. Dean has led the fight on anti-displacement in City Hall. Come out and knock doors for our Fillmore and Western Addition Neighbors.

DSA SF at SF Zine Fest!

DSASF will be exhibiting at SF Zine Fest this Sunday, September 1 at City View at Metreon from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.! Come by table 256 and say hi!

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.

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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.