News

Weekly Roundup: September 2, 2025

on September 2, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹Tuesday, September 2 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)

🌹Wednesday, September 3 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Court Action Orientation (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, September 3 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 New Member Happy Hour at Zeitgeist! (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)

🌹Friday, September 5 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)

🌹Saturday, September 6 (11:00 AM – 1:30 PM) 🐣 Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee Fall Cohort Training Party (In person at the Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight)

🌹Sunday, September 7 (5:00 PM – 6:45 PM): Homelessness Working Group Reads “Capitalism & Disability – Selected Writings by Marta Russell” (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, September 8 (5:00 PM – 6:30 PM): EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Training (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

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

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

🌹Tuesday, September 9 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Wednesday, September 10 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM): September General Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Thursday, September 11 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, September 11 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Office Hour  (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, September 13 (12:45 PM – 4:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, September 14 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument)

🌹Monday, September 15 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, September 15 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

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 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! 

Court Action Orientation

Come out to the office at 1916 McAllister every Wednesday at 6:00 PM to help us make signs, learn about how we are resisting ICE, and discover how you can help. It’s a great time to meet like-minded people and ask any questions you might have before court actions!

All Out to Defend Palestine in Education. There will no longer be an AB 715 hearing on September second or third. The hearing is now tentatively set for the week of September eighth, the exact day is To Be Announced. Additional information on the flyer replicated in text immediately below.

Say NO to AB 715! 

SAY NO TO AB 715! The California Senate Education Committee will be holding a hearing on AB 715, a very dangerous bill that aims to censor criticism of Israel from K-12 public education across the state. This bill comes straight out of the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther playbook. Scott Wiener has been pushing this bill for several months now, and it is essential for comrades and allies in the pro-Palestine movement to turn out to oppose this draconian measure.

The hearing will now take place on the week of September 8 at 1021 O St, Sacramento with exact date TBD (note that the original tentative date of September 2nd or 3rd has been postponed). We still need to be ready to mobilize in large numbers to say NO. Please be ready to mobilize! If you are able to make this hearing to voice your opposition, please reply to this RSVP.

RSVP
Digital flier advertising DSA SF Homelessness Working Group's reading series on Capitalism & Disability

📖 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 at 1916 McAllister starting September 7th at 5:30 PM and running every other week for 4 or 5 sessions. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd

RSVP

EWOC: Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in September (see below for schedule). Just like we did back in May, we’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities (at 1916 McAllister). If you’re interested, fill out the form here! 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 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on:

  • Monday, September 8
  • Monday, September 15
  • Monday, September 22
  • Monday, September 29

If you have any questions, reach out to labor@dsasf.org.

RSVP
A flyer for a Tech Worker Reading Group at DSA SF. Additional information on the flyer is replicated in the text below.

Tech Reading Group with Kickstarter Union Founder Clarissa Redwine

Come join DSA SF, TWC, BAL4P, and RDU tech workers on Wednesday, September 24th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for our monthly tech reading group. We’ll be reading an article by Clarissa Redwine about the Kickstarter Union Campaign that started in 2016. Clarissa will also be making an appearance on Zoom to answer questions about her experience. This is a hybrid event, with in-person attendance at 1916 McAllister and remote attendance on Zoom. 

RSVP

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.

News

Weekly Roundup: August 26, 2025

on August 26, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹Tuesday, August 26 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)

🌹Tuesday, August 26 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹Wednesday, August 27 (6:45 PM – 8:30 PM) Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (Zoom and in person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight St) 

🌹Thursday, August 28 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM) 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting  (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹Thursday, August 28 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom) 

🌹Friday, August 29 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)

🌹Friday, August 29 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Ecosoc Plant and Seed Swap (1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, August 31 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹Monday, September 1 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM) Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹Monday, September 1 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, September 3 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣New Member Happy Hour at Zeitgeist! (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)

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 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!

Labor & Homelessness Working Group Food Serve and Rideshare Driver Political Education Event

Join Labor and the Homelessness Working Group for a food serve and political education event at Bayside Park near Burlingame today (Tuesday, August 26th) from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. We need volunteers to help Homelessness Working Group with food prep and also helping with political education and serving! Pop into the #labor channel on Slack if you’re interested.

Eco-Soc Plant Swap This Friday!

Join DSA SF’s eco-socialism working group for a plant swap on August 29th from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM at 1916 McAllister. Bring a plant, plant cutting, seeds, or plant containers you are hoping to swap, and get plugged in to DSA SF’s eco-socialism working group to hear about current projects related to social housing, public bank, progressive transit funding, community agriculture, and more.

Digital flier advertising Second Annual People's Conference for Palestine

People’s Conference for Palestine

Our chapter is sending a five-person delegation to join thousands of organizers, artists, students, and community members from across North America to the People’s Conference for Palestine, taking place August 29–31 in Detroit, Michigan.

With the guiding theme “Gaza is the compass,” the conference aims to deepen our collective strategy, convene us at a critical juncture, and strengthen the mass movement for Palestinian liberation in North America. Attendees will engage in plenaries, workshops, cultural events, and organizing sessions that reflect the urgency of this moment. Our organization is proud to endorse the conference and is actively mobilizing our members to attend. We see this as a critical opportunity to connect with others in the movement, share strategies, and reaffirm our commitment to justice for Palestine.

Although we’ve voted on our official delegation, you’re still able to attend if you’d like and join up with other Bay Area organizers!

For more information and to register, visit the official conference website: 👉peoplesconferenceforpalestine.org

📩 Looking for other ways to support? Consider donating to support the cost of the Conference.

Watch Party for People’s Conference for Palestine

Can’t make it to Michigan but still want to be part of the global convening for Palestinian liberation? This Saturday, August 30, from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM, come to 1916 McAllister to watch the live-streamed plenary sessions of The People’s Conference on Palestine and support our contingent!

All Out to Defend Palestine in Education. Tuesday 9/2 or Wednesday 9/3. Exact day to be announced - be ready either day! 1021 O Street, Sacramento, California. NO ON AB 715! Additional information on the flyer replicated in text immediately below.

Say NO to AB 715!

SAY NO TO AB 715! The California Senate Education Committee will be holding a hearing on AB 715, a very dangerous bill that aims to censor criticism of Israel from K-12 public education across the state. This bill comes straight out of the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther playbook. Scott Wiener has been pushing this bill for several months now, and it is essential for comrades and allies in the pro-Palestine movement to turn out to oppose this draconian measure. The hearing will take place either on Tuesday, September 2, or Wednesday, September 3 in Sacramento. If you are able to make this hearing to voice your opposition, please reply to this RSVP.

Digital flier advertising DSA SF Homelessness Working Group's reading series on Capitalism & Disability

📖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 at 1916 McAllister starting September 7th at 5:30pm and running every other week for 4 or 5 sessions. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd

EWOC: Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in September (see below for schedule). Just like we did back in May, we’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities (at 1916 McAllister). If you’re interested, fill out the form here! 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 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on:

  • Monday, September 8
  • Monday, September 15
  • Monday, September 22
  • Monday, September 29

If you have any questions, reach out to labor@dsasf.org.

A flyer for a Tech Worker Reading Group at DSA SF. Additional information on the flyer is replicated in the text below.

Tech Reading Group with Kickstarter Union Founder Clarissa Redwine

Come join DSA SF, TWC, BAL4P, and RDU tech workers on Wednesday, September 24th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for our monthly tech reading group. We’ll be reading an article by Clarissa Redwine about the Kickstarter Union Campaign that started in 2016. Clarissa will also be making an appearance on Zoom to answer questions about her experience. This is a hybrid event, with in-person attendance at 1916 McAllister and remote attendance on Zoom.

RSVP

Reports

13 people pose outside in a park while smiling with their fists up.

DSA SF Phys Ed and Self-Defense in the Park

This Sunday, DSA hosted its 4th physical education and self defense class. We learned the following core movement skills: how to crawl, fall, and roll. We also learned some basic grappling and punching techniques.

Interested in Physical Education? Join us next time Sept 14th or 27th. All are welcome 💪

Two people at the front of a classroom, one behind a podium, the other gesturing while standing in front of a projected presentation with the word "AGITATE" in bold lettering on the screen. The back of another person facing them can be seen in the foreground.

Immigrant Justice x Labor Board Know Your Rights and Organizing Training

This past Thursday, the Immigrant Justice Working Group and Labor Board partnered with UAW 4811 on a combo Know Your Rights/organizing conversation training! We had 40 engaged attendees learn about and practice how to handle ICE interactions in the workplace and talk with coworkers about engaging in collective action. If you’re interested in getting involved in future Immigrant Justice work, join us this Thursday, August 28th at 7:00 PM on Zoom for our Office Hour and join the #immigrant-justice channel on Slack!

A zine titled DSA SF's Palestine Healing Circle. The zine is mostly text, with simple illustrations of flowers, keffiyeh patterns, and other symbols of connection and solidarity with Palestine. The text of the zine reads: "Today, a group of comrades gathered for a healing circle (think: community share/group therapy) to talk about Palestine. It was beautiful + intense + helpful + energizing. We sat around a centerpiece of candles, native plants, & our community agreements all lovingly arranged on a keffiyeh. We took turns sharing. People talked about their anger, grief & hope in relation to the Palestinian struggle. we heard stories about how the genocide has changed people's beliefs & relationships. it was heavy & vulnerable. We checked in with our bodies. We took deep breathing breaks. We ended the circle by singing together. Afterwards, we enjoyed a delicious home-cooked meal. As i sit at home now, I am thinking about how community supports & sustains us. About how powerful it can be to remember we are not alone & we are not alone & we are stronger together. I am also reflecting on how important it is to acknowledge & honor our feelings. As organizers we can focus hard on our work. But as we fight for others, we can recognize our own humanity too. Overall, my biggest takeaway is that I am so lucky to know my comrades. You all give me hope. Thank you. Free Palestine."
A photo of flowers, plants, candles, notes, and stickers sitting on top of a red keffiyeh.

Palestine Healing Circle

This past week, we held a Palestine Healing Circle at the office. We discussed our relationship to anger, grief, and reverence as these feelings related to Palestine. The circle was very powerful; comrades were able to grieve and hold space for each other. The circle ended in song and with a potluck where Palestinian dishes were served. One participant even created a zine about their experience of the event.

If you’re interested in getting involved, check out the Tenderloin Healing Circle or join PSAI at their monthly consumer or business canvasses!

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.

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Weekly Roundup: August 19, 2025

on August 19, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹 Tuesday, August 19 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery St) 

🌹 Tuesday, August 19 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) DSA SF Tech Reading Group featuring author Mike Monteiro (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Wednesday, August 20 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Thursday, August 21 (5:30 PM – 7:00 PM) DSA SF x UAW 4811 – Organizing Against ICE: On and Off Campus (In person at Mission Hall UCSF, 550 16th St) 

🌹 Thursday, August 21 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Fun Committee Meeting (Location TBD) 

🌹 Friday, August 22 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery St) 

🌹 Friday, August 22 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM) Book talk with Jaz Brisack: Get on the Job and Organize (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Saturday, August 23 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) Divestment Strategy Session: Coalition-Building (In person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Saturday, August 23 (2:00 PM – 4:30 PM) Palestine Healing Circle (In person1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Sunday, August 24 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) Sip ‘n’ Stitch (In person at Rise & Grind Coffeehouse, 2598 Folsom St)

🌹 Sunday, August 24 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) 🐣 Physical Education and Self Defense (In person at William McKinley Monument) 

🌹 Monday, August 25 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave) 

🌹 Monday, August 25 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board x Divestment Priority Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Tuesday, August 26 (12:00 PM – 3:00 PM) DSA x RDU Food Serve and Social 🍽️🙋‍♂️ (In person at Bayside Park, 1125 Airport Blvd, Burlingame) 

🌹 Tuesday, August 26 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Wednesday, August 27 (6:45 PM – 8:30 PM) Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (Zoom and in person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight St) 

🌹 Thursday, August 28 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM) 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting  (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Thursday, August 28 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom) 

🌹 Friday, August 29 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Ecosoc Plant and Seed Swap (Location TBD)

🌹 Sunday, August 31 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)

🌹 Monday, September 1 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM) Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St) 

🌹 Monday, September 1 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

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 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! 

DSA SF x United Auto Workers 4811 – Organizing Against ICE: On and Off Campus

The Immigrant Justice Working Group, Labor Board, and UAW 4811 are teaming up for a combination know your rights and union organizing training at UCSF!

Tired of seeing your immigrant neighbors and coworkers be terrorized by masked agents? How about of the fact that we are funding ICE instead of science? Come join union members Thursday, August 21, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM at Mission Hall UCSF (550 16th St) to learn about how we can effectively organize and mobilize to protect our immigrant community.

  • Learn how to handle questions from ICE officers and how to help your neighbors dealing with immediate immigration issues
  • Protect your community from ICE raids
  • Connect with UAW 4811 and DSA SF organizers
  • Get involved in the fight to protect international workers
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No Appetite for Apartheid Follow-up Canvass

This Friday, August 22, we are having a follow-up canvass for our recent No Appetite for Apartheid work. Join a team of canvassers to follow-up with stores we have already canvassed, and build a stronger base of apartheid-free store owners! If you are interested, please drop a message in the #no-appetite-for-apartheid channel on Slack or email palestine-solidarity@dsasf.org.

Digital flier describing "A space for us to grieve the devastation in Palestine together" with background of red flowers

Palestine Healing Circle

This Saturday, August 23rd from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM at 1916 McAllister, DSA SF will be hosting a Palestine Healing Circle. We will be holding space for the anger, grief, and reverence related to this movement. Participants are asked to come with respect, an open heart, and an open mind. The circle will have a centerpiece for which the following contributions are welcome

  • Unscented candle
  • A flower or plant clipping
  • Photos of lost loved ones
  • Any small objects which hold meaning

At the end of the circle, there will be a potluck. Gifts of food and non-alcoholic drinks are encouraged if they fall within your means.

RSVP
Digital flier advertising a gathering for fiber artists. Yarn and scissors background.

🐣Sunday Sip ‘n’ Stitch ☕

Calling all artists for Sip N Stitch! Bring a craft while casually enjoying some drinks with comrades on Sunday, August 24th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Rise & Grind Coffeehouse at 2598 Folsom St. All are welcome! 

Labor & Homelessness Working Group Food Serve and Rideshare Driver Political Education Event

Join Labor and the Homelessness Working Group for a food serve and political education event at Bayside Park near Burlingame on Tuesday, August 26th from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. We need volunteers to help Homelessness Working Group with food prep and also helping with political education and serving! Pop into the #labor channel on Slack if you’re interested.

Digital flier advertising Second Annual People's Conference for Palestine

People’s Conference for Palestine

Our chapter is sending a five-person delegation to join thousands of organizers, artists, students, and community members from across North America to the People’s Conference for Palestine, taking place August 29–31 in Detroit, Michigan.

With the guiding theme “Gaza is the compass,” the conference aims to deepen our collective strategy, convene us at a critical juncture, and strengthen the mass movement for Palestinian liberation in North America. Attendees will engage in plenaries, workshops, cultural events, and organizing sessions that reflect the urgency of this moment. Our organization is proud to endorse the conference and is actively mobilizing our members to attend. We see this as a critical opportunity to connect with others in the movement, share strategies, and reaffirm our commitment to justice for Palestine.

Although we’ve voted on our official delegation, you’re still able to attend if you’d like and join up with other Bay Area organizers!

For more information and to register, visit the official conference website: 👉peoplesconferenceforpalestine.org

📩 Can’t make it? Consider donating to support the cost of the Conference.

Digital flier advertising DSA SF Homelessness Working Group's reading series on Capitalism & Disability

📖 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 at 1916 McAllister starting September 7th at 5:30pm and running every other week for 4 or 5 sessions. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd

Reports

August Chapter Meeting Recap

 On August 13, comrades packed into Kelly Cullen Community for our monthly general meeting. Jenbo and Carlos held it down as co-chairs and kicked things off by recognizing the Immigrant Justice Working Group for organizing weekly ICE protests alongside our allies and for their continued efforts to protect our people. The chapter also celebrated Hazel’s recent election to the National Political Committee, the highest elected body of DSA. We heard report-backs from our chapter committees and working groups — you can read more about their work in other sections of this newsletter!

Caitlin from our Labor Board led a training on how to have effective organizing conversations. Ellyn gave an update from the Steering Committee on recent meetings between the Steering Committee, Electoral Board, SiO, the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism Working Group, and Divestment leads, focused on maintaining an anti-Zionist stance in City Hall. Specifically, not supporting resolutions that promote Zionism under the pretext of combating antisemitism.

The chapter voted to endorse the Keep Market Street Moving campaign, which will be led by our Ecosocialism Working Group. DSA SF is showing up to make our politics clear: Waymo off Market, power to Muni, and public transit for the people. To get plugged in, email ecosocialist@dsasf.org or join the Slack channel if you’re a member. That’s it for August — see you at the next meeting!

Palestine Solidarity and Anti Imperialism Working Group

On Tuesday, August 12th, the Palestine Solidarity and Anti Imperialism (PSAI) working group along with other comrades in the chapter gathered with hundreds of protesters at Union Square to demand accountability for the targeted assassination of journalists in Gaza who sacrificed their lives to broadcast the truth of the ongoing US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Saturday, we organized another No Appetite for Apartheid canvas with our coalition partners Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC) and the Neighborhood Business Alliance (NBA). We canvased 21 stores in the Excelsior and Bayview, continuing to build relationships and encourage store owners to pledge their commitment to deshelving products complicit in apartheid. Join us in the fight!

This Friday, August 22, we are having a follow-up canvass for our recent No Appetite for Apartheid work. Join a team of canvassers to follow-up with stores we have already canvassed, and build a stronger base of apartheid-free store owners! If you are interested, please drop a message in the #no-appetite-for-apartheid channel on Slack or email palestine-solidarity@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 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.

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Weekly Roundup: August 12, 2025

on August 12, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹Tuesday, August 12 (8:15 AM – 4:45 PM) ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)

🌹Tuesday, August 12 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, August 13 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM) 🌹 August General Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹Thursday, August 14 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM) 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, August 14 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom)

🌹Friday, August 15 (8:15 AM – 4:45 PM) ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)

🌹Friday, August 15 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM) 🐣 Maker Friday: SF Zine Fest Prep (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, August 16 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Food Service (In person at Castro & Market)

🌹Sunday, August 17 (1:30 PM – 5:00 PM) 🐣 Tenant Organizing Canvass (Meet in person at In Chan Kaajal Park)

🌹Sunday, August 17 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Capital Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, August 18 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Socialist In Office (SIO) Subcommittee Regular Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, August 18 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM) Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, August 18 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, August 19 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) DSA SF Tech Reading Group feat. Author Mike Monteiro (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, August 20 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) 🐣What Is DSA? (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, August 22 (6:30 PM to 8:00 PM) Book Talk with Jaz Brisack: Get On the Job and Organize (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, August 23 (2:00 PM to 4:30 PM) Palestine Healing Circle (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!

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 Security Workers United: American Federation of Government Employees. Show up for Social Security! August 14th, 2025. Rally - Social Security's 90th birthday! SF Nancy Pelosi Building, 90 7th St., SF. Thursday, August 14th, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM. Show up to show support!

Join East Bay DSA and Social Security Workers United to Rally for Social Security’s 90th Birthday 🎂

The recent attacks from the Trump administration and DOGE on Social Security workers and the services they provide have made our jobs more difficult and have degraded service for the millions of Americans who rely on Social Security. But we’re ready to fight back. That’s why on August 14, Social Security’s 90th birthday, we are taking action to keep #SocialSecurityStrong.

Join us as we demand Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano:

  • Fully staff the Social Security Administration to reduce wait times and ensure high quality service delivered by professionals, not machines.
  • Protect the private information that millions of Americans have entrusted to the Social Security Administration.
  • Make the rich pay their fair share so that we can expand Social Security and keep it strong for the next 90 years.
Maker Friday: Zine Edition. Help us prepare for SF Zine Fest by folding and making zines! Or bring your own craft and come hang out. August 15, 7-9PM. 1916 McAllister.

Maker Friday: Zine Edition 🎨

DSA SF will be tabling at SF Zine Fest at the end of the month! Help us fold and update zines, or bring your own craft and come hang out. Everyone is welcome!

Apartheid-Free Bay Area. No appetite for apartheid! Stand with Palestine! Outreach training & canvassing. Saturday, August 16th. San Francisco. 10 AM to 2 PM. Meet at 1916 McAllister St. Join the movement to make the Bay Area Apartheid-Free! apartheidfreebayarea.org

No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass 📋

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, August 16th 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! Meet at 1916 McAllister.

RSVP
Calling Out Capitalism: An Op-Ed Writing Workshop. San Francisco needs good stories about capitalism's failures. Why not yours? In this workshop, you'll learn how to write effective op-eds, find an audience for your story, and reframe the narratives media outlets miss. Sunday, August 17. 1-3:30PM. 1916 McAllister. RSVP by clicking this image or at actionnetwork.org/events/op-ed-writing-workshop-5

Calling Out Capitalism: An Op-Ed Writing Workshop

San Francisco needs good stories about capitalism’s failures. Why not yours?

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to write effective op-eds, find an audience for your story, and reframe the narratives media outlets miss. Join us on Sunday, August 17 from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM at 1916 McAllister. You can RSVP by clicking the image above or visiting this link.

Tech Worker Reading Group. Tuesday, August 19th, 6 PM - 8 PM. 1916 McAllister St & Zoom. Featuring author Mike Monteiro. RSVP: bit.ly/TRGAugust

Tech Worker Reading Group: The Case for Community with Mike Monteiro

Come join TWC, DSA SF, BAL4P, and RDU tech workers at 1916 McAllister on Tuesday, August 19th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for our monthly tech reading group. We’ll be reading a chapter from Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro, “The Case for Community.” 

RSVP
Palestine Healing Circle. Saturday, August 23rd. The office, 1916 McAllister. Circle at 2:00 PM, community potluck at 4:00 PM. A space for us to grieve the devastation in Palestine together.

Palestine Healing Circle

Join us Saturday, August 23rd from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM at 1916 McAllister for the Palestine Healing Circle. The event will begin with a healing circle and end with a community potluck. Join us as we take a moment to process and collectively hold the grief of the devastation in Palestine 🌹

Calling all fiber artists! Sip 'n' Stitch. Enjoy fiber arts? Bring a project and craft with comrades while sipping on some tasty drinks. Sunday, August 24th 11 AM - 1 PM. 2598 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94110.

🐣Sunday Sip ‘n’ Stitch ☕

Calling all artists for Sip N Stitch! Bring a craft while casually enjoying some drinks with comrades on Sunday, August 24th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Rise & Grind Coffeehouse at 2598 Folsom St. All are welcome!

Labor & Homelessness Working Group Food Serve and Rideshare Driver Political Education Event

Join Labor and the Homelessness Working Group for a food serve and political education event at Bayside Park near Burlingame on Tuesday, August 26th from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. We need volunteers to help Homelessness Working Group with food prep and also helping with political education and serving! Pop into the #labor channel on Slack if you’re interested.

Gaza is the compass. Second Annual People's Conference for Palestine. Detroit. August 29th-31st.

People’s Conference for Palestine

We’re excited to announce that our chapter is sending a five-person delegation to join thousands of organizers, artists, students, and community members from across North America at the People’s Conference for Palestine, taking place August 29th through 31st, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan.


With the guiding theme “Gaza is the compass,” the conference aims to deepen our collective strategy, convene us at a critical juncture, and strengthen the mass movement for Palestinian liberation in North America. Attendees will engage in plenaries, workshops, cultural events, and organizing sessions that reflect the urgency of this moment.


Our organization is proud to endorse the conference and is actively mobilizing our members to attend. We see this as a critical opportunity to connect with others in the movement, share strategies, and reaffirm our commitment to justice for Palestine.


Although we’ve voted on our official delegation, you’re still able to attend if you’d like and join up with other Bay Area organizers!


For more information and to register, visit the official conference website at 👉peoplesconferenceforpalestine.org

📩Can’t make it? Consider donating to support the cost of the Conference.

🇵🇸 Help spread the word by liking and sharing the following posts:

Call for Endorsers: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJAE5LJgJFl/

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DSA SF HWG Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. Biweekly starting Sunday, September 7th. 5:30 PM. 1916 McAllister. bit.ly/martacd

📖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 at 1916 McAllister starting September 7th at 5:30pm and running every other week for 4 or 5 sessions. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd

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.

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Weekly Roundup: August 5, 2025

on August 5, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹 Tuesday, August 5 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery) 

🌹 Tuesday, August 5 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM) SF Public Bank Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Wednesday, August 6 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM) 🐣 New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia) 

🌹 Thursday, August 7 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, August 9 (6:00 PM – 9:00 PM) Battle of Algiers Screening (In person at Carr Auditorium, Building 3, 22nd St.)

🌹 Sunday, August 10 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) 🐣 Physical Education and Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument, Panhandle) 

🌹 Monday, August 11 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate) 

🌹Monday, August 11 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Socialist In Office (SIO) Subcommittee Regular Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Monday, August 11 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board x SF EWOC Local Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Tuesday, August 12 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, August 13 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM) 🌹 August General Meeting (Zoom and in person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

🌹Thursday, August 14 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM) 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, August 14 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom)

🌹Friday, August 15 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM) 🐣 Maker Friday: SF Zine Fest Prep (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, August 16 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Food Service (In person at Castro & Market)

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.

Hosted by DSA SF's Ecosocialist Working Group. SF Public Bank Reading Group. What could a public bank bring to SF? How do we make it a reality? Join us to read and discuss SF's bank. Tuesday, August 5, 6:30 - 7:30 PM. 1916 McAllister St.

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 TODAY, 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 below!

RSVP

🎬Screening of The Battle of Algiers

Join us at the Carr Auditorium in Potrero Hill at 6:00 PM on Saturday, August 9th for a free screening of The Battle of Algiers, the landmark 1966 film that dramatizes the Algerian resistance against French colonial rule in the 1950s and early 1960s. Shot in a neorealist style and banned in France for years, the film remains one of the most influential political films of the 20th century, studied by organizations like the IRA, PLO, and the Black Panthers for their own liberation struggles.

This free screening will take place at the Carr Auditorium in Potrero Hill and is open to all.

Following the film, we’ll host a discussion exploring its parallels between the Algerian liberation struggle and the current plight of Palestinians under occupation. We invite you to stay, share your thoughts, and engage with others in critical dialogue.

Maker Friday: Zine Edition. Help us prepare for SF Zine Fest by folding and making zines! Or bring your own craft and come hang out. August 15, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. 1916 McAllister. Masks required (and provided).

Maker Friday: Zine Edition 🎨

DSA SF will be tabling at SF Zine Fest at the end of the month! Help us fold and update zines, or bring your own craft and come hang out. Everyone is welcome!

DSA SF HWG Reads: Capitalism & Disability, Selected Writings by Marta Russell. Biweekly starting Sunday, September 7th at 5:30 PM at 1916 McAllister. bit.ly/martacd

📖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 at 1916 McAllister starting September 7th at 5:30pm and running every other week for 4 or 5 sessions. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd

A photo of members of the Blue Bottle Independent Union posing in front of Blue Bottle Coffee together.

📣 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. 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.

Blue Bottle workers are asking for our support

Donate

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.

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Weekly Roundup: July 29, 2025

on July 29, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹 Tuesday, July 29 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery) 

🌹 Tuesday, July 29 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom or in person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Wednesday, July 30 (6:45 PM – 8:30 PM) Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (In person at 438 Haight) 

🌹 Thursday, July 31 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM) 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹 Thursday, July 31 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Electoral Board Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Thursday, July 31 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom) 

🌹 Saturday, August 2 (12:45 PM – 4:00 PM) 🐣Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Saturday, August 2 (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM) 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Consumer Pledge Canvass (Meet at 18th St & Dolores) 

🌹 Sunday, August 3 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Monday, August 4 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM) Socialist In Office (SIO) Subcommittee Regular Meeting (Zoom)

🌹 Monday, August 4 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM) Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Monday, August 4 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Labor Board Meeting (Zoon) 

🌹 Tuesday, August 5 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery) 

🌹 Tuesday, August 5 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM) SF Public Bank Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Wednesday, August 6 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM) 🐣 New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia) 

🌹 Thursday, August 7 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM) Electoral Board Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister) 

🌹 Thursday, August 7 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom) 

🌹 Sunday, August 10 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) 🐣 Physical Education and Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument, Panhandle) 

🌹 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.

RSVP

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.

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.

RSVP
A photo of members of the Blue Bottle Independent Union posing in front of Blue Bottle Coffee together.

📣 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. 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.

Blue Bottle workers are asking for our support

Donate

Reports

As Gaza is Starved, We Must Take Action

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.

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Weekly Roundup: July 22, 2025

on July 22, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹Tuesday, July 22 (8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.): ICE Out of SF Courts! (San Francisco Immigration Court, 100 Montgomery St.)

🌹Tuesday, July 22 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Social Housing Reading Group: SF Analyst’s Report (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, July 23 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tech Worker Reading Group: You Deserve a Tech Union (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, July 23 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Independent Outreach (Meet at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, July 24 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, July 24 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, July 25 (5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): 🐣 Electoral Education: Zohran x DSA’s Victory (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, July 25 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Maker Friday: Zine Edition (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, July 26 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): 🐣Excelsior Know Your Rights Canvassing (Meet in person at Silver Ave & Mission St)

🌹Saturday, July 26 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Cuba Reportback (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, July 27 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): 🐣 Oakland Ballers vs Northern Colorado Owlz baseball game + “Halloween in July Night” (In person at Raimondi Park, 1800 Wood St, Oakland)

🌹Monday, July 28 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Socialist in Office (SIO) Subcommittee Regular Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, July 28 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Monday, July 28 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board x Divestment Priority Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Tuesday, July 29 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, July 30 (6:45 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (Zoom and in person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight)

🌹Thursday, July 31 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, July 31 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, August 2 (12:45 – 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!

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.

What could social housing look like in San Francisco? And how do we get there? A reading and discussion of: Budget & Legislative Analyst's Report; Housing for the 99% from the SF Berniecrats. Tuesday, 7/22. 7-8PM. DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister.

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.

RSVP
Tech Worker Reading Group. Wednesday, July 23. 6-8PM. 1916 McAllister St. and Zoom. RSVP: bit.ly/TRGJuly
Groupo de lectura de trabajadores technologia. Mier 23 de julio. 6-8PM. 1916 Calle McAllister y Zoom. RSVP: bit.ly/TRGJuly

DSA SF Tech Reading Group

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!

Join DSA SF for an electoral discussion: Zohran x DSA's Victory. New members welcome! Food and drink provided! Friday, July 25, 5:30-7PM. 1916 McAllister St.

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. Come learn how to make zines, brainstorm zine ideas, cut zines, and/or hang out!! No experience necessary, all are welcome. July 25, 7-9PM. 1916 McAllister.

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.

Immigrant Justice Know Your Rights canvassing event. July 26, 1:00 PM. Meet up at Silver Ave & Mission St. New to canvassing? No worries! There will be a brief how-to training before we go out in pairs or small groups.

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.

RSVP
Cuba May Day Brigade Reportback. firsthand experience witnessing life in Cuba and their May Day Celebrations. 1-3PM PST. July 36. DSA SF Office, 1916 McAllister St. RSVP: dsasf.org/CubaReportback

Cuba May Day Brigade Reportback at the Office 🇨🇺

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!

RSVP
DSA San Francisco goes to Oakland B's v. N. Colorado Owlz. July 27, 3:30 PM. Raimondi Park. 1800 Wood Street, Oakland. Tickets $20. No one turned away for lack of funds. dsasf.org/baseball-rsvp

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) – 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.

A photo of members of the Blue Bottle Independent Union posing in front of Blue Bottle Coffee together.

📣 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.

Blue Bottle workers are asking for our support

Donate

Reports

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.

News

Weekly Roundup: July 15, 2025

on July 15, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹Tuesday, July 15 (8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.): ICE out of SF Courts (In person at Immigration Court, 100 Montgomery St)

🌹Tuesday, July 15 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, July 15 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Reading Group: The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels, Part 2 (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, July 16 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at Potrero Branch Library, 1616 20th St)

🌹Wednesday, July 16 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): EWOC: Organizer Toolkit Workshop (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, July 17 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, July 17 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, July 17 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom)

🌹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)

🌹Saturday, July 19 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group (HWG) Food Service (In person at Castro & Market)

🌹Sunday, July 20 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group – Review (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, July 21 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Socialist in Office Subcommittee Regular Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, July 21 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, July 21 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, July 22 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Social Housing Reading Group: SF Analyst’s Report (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, July 23 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tech Worker Reading Group: You Deserve a Tech Union (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, July 23 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Independent Outreach (Meet at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, July 24 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, July 25 (5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): 🐣 Electoral Education: Zohran x DSA’s Victory (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Friday, July 25 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🐣 Maker Friday: Zine Edition (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, July 26 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Cuba Reportback (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, July 27 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): 🐣 Oakland Ballers vs Northern Colorado Owlz baseball game + “Halloween in July Night” (In person at Raimondi Park, 1800 Wood St, Oakland)

🌹Monday, July 28 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Monday, July 28 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board x Divestment Priority Meeting (Zoom and 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!

Letter campaign: Say "NO" to seizing homes. Oppose Lurie's RV ban. Mayor Lurie's restriction on RV parking threatens to force poor and working class people out of their homes and into an under-provisioned, inadequate shelter system. It's clear the mayor is more concerned with optics than helping our neighbors find permanent homes. Write the Board of Supervisors to oppose this ill-conceived ban and demand real solutions including safe parking sites and affordable housing! Sign on: dsasf.org/no-rv-ban

Say NO to Seizing Homes!

Join DSA SF in writing the Board of Supervisors to oppose Mayor Lurie’s RV ban, which threatens to seize the homes of poor and working San Franciscans. Demand real, permanent solutions for our neighbors living in their vehicles. Email homelessness@dsasf.org with any questions.

ICE Out of SF

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.

Engels: The Housing Question. Reading group hosted by the Tenant Working Group, DSA SF. Can you imagine a world beyond rent? Every month of your life you are forced to parcel off countless hours of your work for the privilege of lining the pockets of your landlord. Join us as we search for a better answer! Dates: Session 1: Tuesday, July 1, 1916 McAllister St, 7PM. Session 2: Tuesday, July 15, 1816 McAllister St, 7PM. https://bit.ly/housing-question

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 2 at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St. on July 15th at 7:00 p.m. A full PDF of the book can be found here.

RSVP

EWOC: Organizer Toolkit Workshop

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!


We’ll be meeting at 1916 McAllister Let us know if you can make it! Hope to see you there!

RSVP

Apartheid-Free Bay Area Canvass

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.

RSVP
Tenant Organizing: Mission Canvass. Saturday, July 19th at 3PM with training in Chan Kaajal Park. Sign up @ bit.ly/towg-canvass

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.

RSVP
Tech Worker Reading Group. Wednesday, July 23. 6-8PM. 1916 McAllister St. and Zoom. RSVP: bit.ly/TRGJuly

DSA SF Tech Reading Group

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.

DSA San Francisco goes to Oakland B's v. N. Colorado Owlz. July 27, 3:30 PM. Raimondi Park. 1800 Wood Street, Oakland. Tickets $20. No one turned away for lack of funds. dsasf.org/baseball-rsvp

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!

A photo of members of the Blue Bottle Independent Union posing in front of Blue Bottle Coffee together.

📣 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.

Blue Bottle workers are asking for our support

Donate

Reports

Physical Education Training

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.

News

Weekly Roundup: July 8, 2025

on July 8, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹Wednesday, July 9 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🌹 July General Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, July 10 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹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.): 🐣 Sip ‘n’ Stitch (In person at The Nosh Box, 1116 Folsom 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)

🌹Monday, July 14 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, July 15 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, July 15 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Reading Group: The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels, Part 2 (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, July 16 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at Potrero Branch Library, 1616 20th St)

🌹Wednesday, July 16 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) Training Workshop (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, July 17 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, July 17 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Office Hour (Zoom)

🌹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 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group (HWG) Food Service (In person in the Castro)

Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!

Letter campaign: Say "NO" to seizing homes. Oppose Lurie's RV ban. Mayor Lurie's restriction on RV parking threatens to force poor and working class people out of their homes and into an under-provisioned, inadequate shelter system. It's clear the mayor is more concerned with optics than helping our neighbors find permanent homes. Write the Board of Supervisors to oppose this ill-conceived ban and demand real solutions including safe parking sites and affordable housing! Sign on: dsasf.org/no-rv-ban

Say NO to Seizing Homes!

Join DSA SF in writing the Board of Supervisors to oppose Mayor Lurie’s RV ban, which threatens to seize the homes of poor and working San Franciscans. Demand real, permanent solutions for our neighbors living in their vehicles. Email homelessness@dsasf.org with any questions.

Summer Social(ist) Events! ☀️

Karaoke Night with DSA SF. July 11. 7:30 PM. Roar Shack, 34 7th Street. $10 suggested, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

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

DSA San Francisco goes to Oakland B's v. N. Colorado Owlz. July 27, 3:30 PM. Raimondi Park. 1800 Wood Street, Oakland. Tickets $20. No one turned away for lack of funds. dsasf.org/baseball-rsvp

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!

Engels: The Housing Question. Reading group hosted by the Tenant Working Group, DSA SF. Can you imagine a world beyond rent? Every month of your life you are forced to parcel off countless hours of your work for the privilege of lining the pockets of your landlord. Join us as we search for a better answer! Dates: Session 1: Tuesday, July 1, 1916 McAllister St, 7PM. Session 2: Tuesday, July 15, 1816 McAllister St, 7PM. https://bit.ly/housing-question

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 2 at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister St. on July 15th at 7:00 p.m. A full PDF of the book can be found here.

RSVP

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!

Tenant Organizing: Mission Canvass. Saturday, July 19th at 3PM with training in Chan Kaajal Park. Sign up @ bit.ly/towg-canvass

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.

RSVP
Tech Worker Reading Group. Wednesday, July 23. 6-8PM. 1916 McAllister St. and Zoom. RSVP: bit.ly/TRGJuly
Groupo de lectura de trabajadores technologia. Mier 23 de julio. 6-8PM. 1916 Calle McAllister y Zoom. RSVP: bit.ly/TRGJuly

DSA SF Tech Reading Group

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!

A photo of members of the Blue Bottle Independent Union posing in front of Blue Bottle Coffee together.

📣 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.

Blue Bottle workers are asking for our support

Donate

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.

News

Weekly Roundup: July 1, 2025

on July 1, 2025

Events & Actions

🌹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 (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)

🌹Thursday, July 3 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, July 3 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Socialist in Office + Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, July 5 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): 🐣 No Appetite for Apartheid Consumer Pledge Canvass (Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza)

🌹Saturday, July 5 (12:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Outreach and Outreach Training (Meet at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, July 5 (1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.): Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Training: Planning Sync (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, July 5 (2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Phonebank to Stop the Billionaire’s Budget Attack on the Unhoused (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, July 6 (5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Capital Reading Group (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, July 6 (10:30 p.m. – 1:30 a.m.): 🐣 Screening of The Room at the Balboa Theater (In person at Balboa Theatre, 3630 Balboa)

🌹Monday, July 7 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister)

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

🌹Wednesday, July 9 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): 🌹 July General Meeting (Zoom)

🌹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.

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.

RSVP

Summer Social(ist) Events! ☀️

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!

RSVP

Oppose the billionaire budget

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.

Send Letter

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!

📣 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.

Blue Bottle workers are asking for our support

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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.

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Physical Education Training

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.

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