Upcoming Events

🌹Wednesday, April 16 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, April 16 (6:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (In person at 438 Haight)

🌹Thursday, April 17 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, April 18 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, April 19 (11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.): Flyering for May Day Events (Meet at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, April 19 (12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Tenant Organizing Mission Canvass (Meet at Café La Bohème, 3318 24th St)

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

🌹Monday, April 21 (5:50 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): Electoral Board Meeting + Socialist in Office Hour (Zoom)

🌹Monday, April 21 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)

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

🌹Tuesday, April 22 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Maker Tuesday: Red Cards (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, April 23 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): DSA SF Tech Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, April 24 (5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, April 26 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Food Service (In person at Castro & Market)

🌹Sunday, April 27 (1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.): Know Your Rights Canvassing (In person at San Francisco Botanical Garden, 1199 9th Ave)

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

🌹Monday, April 28 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (In person at 1916 McAllister)

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

Events & Actions

Tenant Organizing Mission Canvass

Tenant organizing is hosting a canvass in the Mission! Join us in talking to tenants about their housing conditions and how collective power can help. This action will be great for organizers at any level of experience — if you’d like an orientation, you can meet us a little earlier at 12:30pm for training. Spanish-speakers and multi-lingual comrades are especially needed! We’re meeting April 19th 1:00 p.m. at Cafe La Boheme at 3318 24th St. 

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Come Join the Tenderloin Healing Circle on April 28

All are welcome to attend the Tenderloin Healing Circle. The healing circle is a great way to connect, reflect, and share food with other DSA members and folks in the Tenderloin community. The Healing Circle will be meeting at the Kelly Cullen Auditorium at 220 Golden Gate Ave on April 28th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Food is provided, and masks are provided and encouraged.

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Capital Reading Group

DSA SF has started a Marx’s Capital reading group! We’ll be meeting every other Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister St. and also on Zoom. We’ll meet on April 20th to wrap up our discussion of chapter 1 and cover chapter 2 and the afterword to the second German edition. We’re reading the new translation published by Princeton University Press. You can also join the #capital-rdg-group-2025 channel on the DSA SF Slack for additional information and discussion!

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Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in May (see below for schedule). We’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities,. If you’re interested, fill out the form here and join the #ewoc-fundamentals-2025 channel in Slack! The goal is to have more people learn organizing skills, both for your own projects and for organizing with EWOC.

Sessions run every week from 6:00-7:30 p.m. on 

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

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

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Office Hours

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

Behind the Scenes

The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.

To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.

Upcoming Events

🌹Tuesday, April 1 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): ☎️ Turnout Tuesday for Vision Drive (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, April 2 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): New Member Happy Hour at Zeitgeist (In person at Zeitgeist at 199 Valencia)

🌹Thursday, April 3 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, April 3 (7:00 pm. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigration Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, April 4 (12:00 pm. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, April 5 (12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): 🌹Chapter Local Vision and Strategy Meeting (In person at 518 Valencia)

🌹Sunday, April 6 (1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.): Surveillance of Palestinian Activism: the 1993 case of the ADL Spy Ring in San Francisco (In person at 1916 McAllister)

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

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

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

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

🌹Tuesday, April 8 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Abolish Rent Reading Group session 3 (In person at 438 Haight)

🌹Wednesday, April 9 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): April General Meeting (Zoom and In person at TBD)

🌹Thursday, April 10 (5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, April 12 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Training and Outreach (Location TBD)

🌹Saturday, April 12 (1:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.): 🚌 Muni History Walking & Riding Tour (Meet at Kearny & Market)

🌹Monday, April 14 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Healing Circle Tenderloin (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

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

Events & Actions

Office Hours

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

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🌹Chapter Local Vision and Strategy Meeting 🌹

This Saturday DSA SF is hosting a Chapter Local Vision and Strategy Meeting to shape our chapter’s direction in the short-term and long-term. Please join us for lively discussion and take part in building socialism in San Francisco and beyond! We’ll be meeting at 518 Valencia this Saturday, April 5 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Capital Reading Group

DSA SF has started a Marx’s Capital reading group! We’ll be meeting every other Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister and also on Zoom. We’ll meet on April 6th to cover Chapter 1. We’re reading the new translation published by Princeton University Press. You can also join the #capital-rdg-group-2025 channel on the DSA SF Slack for additional information and 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.

Upcoming Events

🌹Tuesday, March 18 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Abolish Rent Reading Group – Session 2 (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, March 19 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): What Is DSA? (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, March 19 (6:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenant Organizing Working Group (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, March 20 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, March 20 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigration Justice Priority Working Group (Zoom)

🌹Friday, March 21 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Maker Friday (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, March 22 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): No Appetite for Apartheid Training and Outreach (522 Valencia)

🌹Saturday, March 22 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Food Service (In person at Castro & Market Sts)

🌹Monday, March 24 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Monday, March 24 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly (Zoom)

🌹Monday, March 24 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, March 24 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, March 26 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): 📚Intro to Socialism (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, March 27 (5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, March 29 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism Reading Group: Ten Myths About Israel (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, March 30 (12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.): Spanish for Organizers (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, March 30 (1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Know Your Rights Canvassing (Meet at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, March 31 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

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

Events & Actions

Maker Friday: Zine Edition

Join us for Maker Friday on March 21 at 1916 McAllister from 7:00 p.m. to 9 p.m.! We’ll be doing a free zine-making workshop with Tenant Organizing. Come make some art and connect with comrades. All levels are welcome, see you there!

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No Appetite for Apartheid Training and Outreach

Come and canvass local businesses with the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group! No Appetite for Apartheid is a campaign aimed at reducing economic support for Israeli apartheid by canvassing local businesses to boycott Israeli goods. On Saturday, March 22, we’ll be doing a training on how to talk to stores in the neighborhood, then going out and talking with stores together. Meet at 522 Valencia at 10:00 a.m. and we’ll debrief after canvassing at 2:00 p.m.

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Homelessness Working Group Food Service

Join the DSA HWG for a food service on Saturday, March 22 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Castro and Market Streets. We’ll be serving food for our unhoused neighbors and the larger community. Sign up here to cook, serve, or otherwise help out! Questions? Email homelessness@dsasf.org.

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Spanish for Organizers

Join the Immigrant Justice Working Group for Spanish for Organizers! Come learn and practice basic Spanish phrases for organizing. All skill levels welcome. We’re meeting on Sunday, March 30, at 12:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. See you there!

Can’t make it to Spanish for Organizers or are feeling extra inspired to encourage turnout? Come through for our Turnout Tuesday on March 25 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. We’ll be making calls and sending texts to let folks know about the Spanish for Organizers training. RSVP here.

Behind the Scenes

The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.

To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.

Upcoming Events

🌹Tuesday, March 4 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): DSA Board Game Night (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, March 5 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)

🌹Thursday, March 6 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti Imperialist Working Group (Zoom)

🌹Thursday, March 6 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigration Justice Priority Working Group (Zoom)

🌹Friday, March 7 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Saturday, March 8 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Training & Outreach (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, March 9 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): Chapter Local Vision and Strategy Meeting (In person TBD)

🌹Monday, March 10 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Monday, March 10 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, March 10 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, March 10 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Wednesday, March 12 (6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): March General Meeting (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Friday, March 14 (4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, March 15 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti Imperialism Reading Group: Ten Myths About Israel (Zoom)

🌹Sunday, March 16 (1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): DSA SF Socialist Job Fair (In person at 215 Golden Gate)

🌹Monday, March 17 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

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

Events & Actions

Board Game Night

We’re hosting board game night! Come get to know your comrades while playing some board games. All are welcome. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. tonight, March 4 with some games, snacks, and drinks to share. 

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Socialists in Office Hours

Socialists in Office Hours will be 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. this Friday, March 7 instead of our usual 3:00 p.m. time! Join us to look ahead at Jackie Fielder’s hearing on the ‘Four Pillars’ and other Supervisors’ anti-harm reduction solutions to the drug crisis. Does this sound like jargon to you? No worries! Join us to find out and ask questions, no experience required.

Behind the Scenes

The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.

To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.

Upcoming Events

🌹Tuesday, February 25 (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Abolish Rent Reading Group, Session 1 (In person at 438 Haight)

🌹Tuesday, February 25 (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Organizing 102 (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, February 26 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Maker Wednesday (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Thursday, February 27 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.): Palestine Solidarity and Anti Imperialist Working Group (Zoom)

🌹Friday, February 28 (4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Friday, February 28 (7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.): Comrade Karaoke (In person at The Roar Shack, 34 7th St.)

🌹Monday, March 3 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Electoral Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Monday, March 3 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Monday, March 3 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Labor Board Meeting (Zoom)

🌹Tuesday, March 4 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): DSA Board Game Night (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Wednesday, March 5 (6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)

🌹Thursday, March 6 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigration Justice Priority Working Group (Zoom)

🌹Saturday, March 8 (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Training & Outreach (In person at 1916 McAllister)

🌹Sunday, March 9 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.): Chapter Local Vision and Strategy Meeting (In person TBD)

🌹Monday, March 10 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate)

🌹Monday, March 10 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Ecosocialist Monthly Meeting (Zoom)

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

Events & Actions

Electoral Board Organizing to Oppose Removal of Police Commissioner Carter-Oberstone

This week the Electoral Board has organized a letter campaign, direct lobbying action, and turnout for a public commentary hearing to organize opposition to the removal of Max Carter-Oberstone. Commissioner Carter-Oberstone has supported reduction of pretext traffic stops which disproportionately affect People of Color in San Francisco, and had refused to comply with illegal requests from former Mayor London Breed’s office.

Folks who are available today, February 25 at 3:00 p.m. are invited to join us at City Hall for public comment. You can sign up to attend here. Can’t make it or also want to participate in our associated letter writing campaign? Please submit an email to the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, and the Budget Clerk here.

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Organizing 102

Come out and flex your organizing skills with the Labor Committee in this follow up to Organizing 101. Attendance at Organizing 101 is not a pre-requisite. At this next session today, February 25, we’ll jump into what it takes to start planning collective actions with a special focus on workplace organizing. We’ll meet 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. See you there!

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Socialists in Office Hours

SFPD is requesting how many millions in overtime? What’s up with Dorsey wanting to hire some crime consultant for $300k a year? Get answers and ask questions at this week’s Socialists in Office Hours with Jackie Fielder this Friday, February 28 at 3:00 p.m.

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Maker Wednesday on February 26th 🎨

We’ll be having a Maker Wednesday tomorrow, February 26 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister! Support chapter work through art or bring your own project and come hang out. We’ll be making Know Your Rights cards to support Immigrant Justice, buttons, and more. Masks are required and will be provided! See you there!

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🎙️Comrade Karaoke 🎙️

Do you like karaoke? Do you like free karaoke? Do you like radicalizing your friends and comrades with the power of song? If so, come through to the Roar Shack (34 7th St) Friday, February 28 from 7:30-10:00 p.m. It’s free with a suggested donation to the chapter of $10. We will have wine and beer available for purchase but feel free to also bring your own bevs and your comrades.

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Board Game Night

We’re hosting board game night! Come get to know your comrades while playing some board games, all are welcome. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister 7:00-9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4 with some games, snacks, and drinks to share. 

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.