On August 27th, members of the chapter came together to give the office a deep clean, getting the space tidied after many months of everything from day-to-day chapter business to film screenings, book clubs, and worker meetups. These comrades helped bring some order to the happy chaos that will help keep the office a pleasant, inviting space to organize and socialize in.
Thank you to the members who spent their Sunday working to keep this valuable shared space clean!
Chapter Coordination Committee Rotations
The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among different 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.
August 23rd, DSA SF co-sponsored a counter-rally along with Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club to protest the criminalization of homelessness in San Francisco.
This counter-rally was organized in response to London Breed, Supervisors Mandelman and Dorsey, and others grandstanding in front of the San Francisco district court on the day of hearing regarding the court ordered injunction against indiscriminate sweeping of homelessness encampments, demanding a return to inhumane sweeps of homeless people.
The counter-rally was well-attended, with at least 25 members of DSA SF present. Speakers underscored the importance of housing for all and the ineffectiveness and cruelty of sweeps.
Thank you to the DSA SF comrades who turn
Thank you to the DSA SF comrades who turned up to this protest on such short notice!
Chapter Coordination Committee Rotations
The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among different 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.
🌹Wednesday, 8/23 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.): What is DSA? (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)
🌹Friday, 8/25 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Saturday, 8/26 (12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.): Finishing the Crosstown Trail Hike (Meet at the 43 bus stop at Laguna Honda, across the street from Forest Hill Station)
🌹Sunday, 8/27 (11 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.): Office Cleaning Party (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Thursday, 8/31 (6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.): Tech Worker Meetup (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Saturday, 9/2 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.): Homelessness Working Group Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)
Join us this Saturday, August 26th to hike the last leg of the Crosstown Trail!
Folks will be meeting up to hike the rest of the Crosstown Trail this weekend on Saturday, August 26th at 12:00 p.m. at the 43 bus stop across from Forest Hill station. We’ll be hiking the second half of the Crosstown Trail from Laguna Honda to Land’s End. Bring water and wear comfy shoes!
Office Cleaning Party on August 27th 🎉
This Sunday, August 27th, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., we’ll be deep cleaning the office at 1916 McAllister and hanging out! Come hang with comrades and help give the office a refresh. You can stay as little or as long as you like! Lunch, snacks, and drinks will be provided, and masks are optional. You can ping TJ on Slack with any questions.
See you there!
Chapter Coordination Committee Rotations
The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among different 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.
🌹Friday, 8/19 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)
🌹Saturday, 8/19 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.) Homelessness Working Group Office Hours (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)
🌹Wednesday, 8/23 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.) What is DSA? (In person at the DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister)
🌹Saturday, 8/26 (12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.): Finishing the Crosstown Trail Hike (Meet at the 43 bus stop at Laguna Honda, across the street from Forest Hill Station)
At last Wednesday’s chapter meeting, we heard updates from across the chapter:
Emily presented a new expense policy
Edna, Joseph, Will, and Gwen presented updates on our chapter priorities
Faye reported on our chapter’s delegation to the recent DSA National Convention
After the break, attendees heard a first reading of a bylaws amendment regarding corporate donations and debated whether to charter a healthcare committee.
Our next chapter meeting will be Wednesday, September 13th at 6:45 p.m. Stay tuned for more details.
Socializing for Socialism
Join us on August 26th to hike the last leg of the Crosstown Trail!
Folks will be meeting up to hike the rest of the Crosstown Trail next week on Saturday, August 26th at 12:00 p.m. at the 43 bus stop across from Forest Hill station. We’ll be hiking the second half of the Crosstown Trail from Laguna Honda to Land’s End. Bring water and wear comfy shoes!
Congratulations to the DSA SF Orcas on their 2-0 win!
This past Friday, the DSA SF Orcas, the chapter’s soccer club, won their match 2-0! Congrats, Orcas!
If you’re interested in supporting the team, check out the #orca-comrades channel on Slack.
Chapter Coordination Committee Rotations
The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among different 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.
Thank you for making the Starbucks canvass a success!
Last Saturday (8/5), DSA SF members met up at the 9th and Irving Starbucks to support the workers’ unionization effort. Members canvassed local businesses and organizations in the neighborhood asking them to show their solidarity with the workers. Many were happy to show their support!
Thank you to everyone who made it happen! 🌹
If you’re interested in participating in future labor actions and want to keep San Francisco union strong, email labor@dsasf.org, check out the #labor channel on the DSA SF Slack, or reach out to Feng H or britt stern for more info.
DSA National Convention Updates
The National DSA Convention took place this past weekend in Chicago. Delegates from across the country, including our very own DSA SF chapter, attended and helped set the organization’s agenda for the next two years.
Key wins, in no particular order:
nationalizing public railroads is now part of DSA’s platform 🚂
new housing justice priorities, including training tenant organizers 🏠
establishing the Immigrants and Refugees Working Group to coordinate with local and state campaigns for immigrant justice
new priorities for the National Labor Commission as part of a renewed commitment to labor organizing
Thank you to all of the DSA SF delegates who attended and helped represent our chapter!
And last, but certainly not least, huge congratulations to Sam H-L on his election to the DSA National Political Committee (NPC), the highest body of DSA leadership!
Chapter Coordination Committee Rotations
The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among different 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.
RESCHEDULED! Revolutionary Selfie: Red Battalion Film Screening on June 9
Join DSA SF International Solidarity Committee and Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle-San Francisco on Friday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the DSA SF office (1916 McAllister St) for a rescheduled film screening of Revolutionary Selfie: The Red Battalion, which is a mock video game film that shows us face to face with the armed warriors of the New People’s Army, which the CIA dubs a foreign terrorist organization in the Philippines.
We’re back with a 🌹 Convention Update 🌹 – your easy guide to what’s happening with convention this week!
Chapter Convention is this weekend on June 10-11!
❗ Check your email for more details on the convention. Subject line: “2023 Chapter Convention Info and Packet.” Find the convention packet (on our new wiki): https://wiki.dsasf.org/s/conventionpacket/
Clear your calendar for June 10-11!!! This will be The. Most. Fun. Convention in our chapter’s history. There will be guest speakers and musical acts and 🍞 food and 🍾 drinks and a 🍪 bake sale and hanging out at 🏞️ Dolores Park 🌳 and a 🎉 fundraiser party 🍹 at Bar Part Time and limited edition merch and posters and more!
June 22: Labor Logistics 101
Join the DSA SF Labor Working Group at the DSA SF office or over Zoom to learn from labor organizers on how you can help organize the logistics industry!
7/19 Free Outdoor Screening of the Documentary Live Nude Girls Unite! in Kerouac Alley
Join DSA SF Labor and Vesuvio for a free outdoor screening of Live Nude Girls Unite!, about the 1996 unionization effort at The Lusty Lady. Come watch this iconic labor film in Kerouac Alley, right across the street from where it all happened!
Sign Up to Distribute Socks with Homelessness Working Group
Come do sock distro with HWG! DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group is currently organizing a sock distribution, and restarting our chapter’s efforts directed toward connecting with our homeless neighbors. We’ll be low-key training chapter members about our specific approach to mutual aid and street solidarity, as well as building capacity for this and, potentially, more expansive mutual aid projects in the future! Sign up here!
Join DSA SF’s Labor Working Group on May 31st at 8 p.m. in Kerouac Alley for a free outdoor screening of Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple’s unforgettable documentary of a coal miners’ strike! Register to attend here.
June Muni Ridership Outreach
Come canvass Muni riders with the Free Muni Full Service team! We will be talking to Muni riders about our work to raise awareness, and collect contact info to engage more riders in the future. We will be canvassing in Chinatown at Chinatown – Rose Pak Station on Friday, June 2nd from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and at 24th and Mission on Saturday, June 3rd from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. For more details and to RSVP, check out https://bit.ly/FreeMuniRiderCanvass
Powerlands Film Screening
The Ecosoc Committee, AfroSoc Committee, the Education Board, and an Indigenous comrade welcome you to join us at 1916 McAllister for an outdoor film screening of Powerlands on June 4th from 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
🍿Doors will open at 7 p.m. A brief introduction to the film starts at 7:30 p.m. The screening begins at 7:45 p.m. and lasts 75 mins. A 30-minute community discussion will follow the film. The film is in Zapotec, Blaan, Visayan, Wayuunaiki, Diné, Spanish, and English, with English subtitles. This is a sober event. The event location is not ADA accessible. There are three stairs to climb to get from the front of the office to the back two rooms and the backyard where the film screening will take place.
Powerlands is a film about the extractive nature of both the usual polluting suspects and the so-called “green energy” movement, a colonizer “new deal” which often exploits Indigenous peoples and lands. Powerlands follows the trail of extractive industries that have exploited the land where the director, Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso, was born and around the world. Over the course of the documentary, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home, and underscores that an Indigenous socialism must be driven by consent and care.
🌹 Socialist Housing Organizing Project (SHOP): Tenant Rights Training 🌹
Join the Tenant Organizing PWG for the second session of our Socialist Housing Organizing Project (SHOP) on Sunday, June 4th at 3:00 p.m. at the DSA SF office (1916 McAllister St)! (Zoom available upon request.)
Our goal with this 3-part workshop is to build DSA SF’s tenant organizing capacity and plug folks into autonomous tenant organizing efforts in the city. We will discuss a socialist perspective on housing, current tenant rights in the city, and collaborate with seasoned Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) organizers on learning direct action strategies.
This second module will focus on tenants’ legal rights in San Francisco and California. We will discuss different legal protections for renters and how to best utilize the law to fight landlords.
RESCHEDULED! Revolutionary Selfie: Red Battalion Film Screening on June 9
Join DSA SF International Solidarity Committee and Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle-San Francisco on Friday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the DSA SF office (1916 McAllister St) for a rescheduled film screening of Revolutionary Selfie: The Red Battalion, which is a mock video game film that shows us face to face with the armed warriors of the New People’s Army, which the CIA dubs a foreign terrorist organization in the Philippines.
We’re back with a 🌹 Convention Update 🌹 – your easy guide to what’s happening with convention this week and next!
Chapter Convention is around the corner on June 10-11!
❗ Check your email for more details on the convention. Subject line: “2023 Chapter Convention Info and Packet.” Find the convention packet (on our new wiki): https://wiki.dsasf.org/s/conventionpacket/
Join us this Saturday (6/3) at noon (hybrid office/Zoom) for an open 💬 discussion 🤔 on the proposed priority resolutions. Authors from all the priority resolutions will be attending and ready to take feedback and discuss their proposals
Clear your calendar for June 10-11!!! This will be The. Most. Fun. Convention in our chapter’s history. There will be guest speakers and musical acts and 🍞 food and 🍾 drinks and a 🍪 bake sale and hanging out at 🏞️ Dolores Park 🌳 and a 🎉 fundraiser party 🍹 at Bar Part Time and limited edition merch and posters and more!
June 22: Labor Logistics 101
Join the DSA SF Labor Working Group at the DSA SF office or over zoom to learn from labor organizers on how you can help organize the logistics industry!
Sign Up to Distribute Socks with Homelessness Working Group
Come do sock distro with HWG! DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group is currently organizing a sock distribution, and restarting our chapter’s efforts directed toward connecting with our homeless neighbors. We’ll be low-key training chapter members about our specific approach to mutual aid and street solidarity, as well as building capacity for this and, potentially, more expansive mutual aid projects in the future! Sign up here!
TODAY! They Don’t Speak for Us: Stop San Francisco’s Racist War on the Poor at City Hall Steps
Come stand with the Tenderloin Community at San Francisco City Hall today, 5/23, at 5 p.m. as we reject politicians’ racist, classist, and carceral response to the drug and homelessness crises in our city. Mayor Breed, Governor Newsom, District Attorney Jenkins, and members of the Board of Supervisors have tried to redefine public safety in San Francisco as the presence of more police on our streets. They attack the symptoms of poverty instead of seeking to transform the profit-driven system that produces it.
Their demands are about more and more of the City and State budget – our money – going towards SFPD and other police agencies which then result in the racist criminalization of our communities. These politicians do not speak for us! We are fighting for the guaranteed right to safe and dignified housing, living wage jobs, comprehensive healthcare services to address the public health crisis of addiction and overdose deaths, and community-led violence interruption programs as an alternative approach to improving public safety. Please attend the rally and sign the petition demanding that SF and California government fund and empower our communities, not police.
Book Talk with Visiting Organizers from London
Two comrades from London are visiting SF on a tour discussing their new book, Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace. Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock have been organizing with gig workers in the UK for the past decade, and will be discussing their work on May 24th at 6:30 p.m. at 1916 McAllister Street.
The culmination of years of conversations on picket lines, in community centers, and in union offices, with workers in Britain, the US, India, Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and across Europe, Troublemaking brings together lessons from around the world. Precarious workers like waste collectors in Mumbai show that no worker is “unorganizable,” and cleaner organizing at LSE and St Mary’s hospital in London and Sans-papier workers in France indicate that demanding more at work can lead to big wins. Struggles like The Water Wars in Cochabamba, Bolivia show how we can use our power beyond the workplace.
On Thursday, May 25th from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister, the DSA SF Labor Working Group is hosting our second session in our monthly series of meetups for workers in tech and adjacent industries to come together, educate each other, and develop organizing strategies for the next phase of the tech worker movement.
For this upcoming meeting we are pleased to welcome Valentina Luketa, an organizer with United Electrical Workers (UE) who will be giving a short talk on the UE rank and file model of organizing tech.
Join DSA SF’s Labor Working Group on May 31st at 8 p.m. in Kerouac Alley for a free outdoor screening of Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple’s unforgettable documentary of a coal miners’ strike! Register to attend here.
Powerlands Film Screening
The Ecosoc Committee, AfroSoc Committee, the Education Board, and an Indigenous comrade welcome you to join us at 1916 McAllister for an outdoor film screening of Powerlands on June 4th from 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
🍿Doors will open at 7 p.m. A brief introduction to the film starts at 7:30 p.m. The screening begins at 7:45 p.m. and lasts 75 mins. A 30-minute community discussion will follow the film. The film is in Zapotec, Blaan, Visayan, Wayuunaiki, Diné, Spanish, and English, with English subtitles. This is a sober event. The event location is not ADA accessible. There are three stairs to climb to get from the front of the office to the back two rooms and the backyard where the film screening will take place.
Powerlands is a film about the extractive nature of both the usual polluting suspects and the so-called “green energy” movement, a colonizer “new deal” which often exploits Indigenous peoples and lands. Powerlands follows the trail of extractive industries that have exploited the land where the director, Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso, was born and around the world. Over the course of the documentary, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home, and underscores that an Indigenous socialism must be driven by consent and care.
Sign Up to Distribute Socks with Homelessness Working Group
Come do sock distro with HWG! DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group is currently organizing a sock distribution, and restarting our chapter’s efforts directed toward connecting with our homeless neighbors. We’ll be low-key training chapter members about our specific approach to mutual aid and street solidarity, as well as building capacity for this and, potentially, more expansive mutual aid projects in the future! Sign up here!
Sign Up to Distribute Socks with Homelessness Working Group
Come do sock distro with HWG! DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group is currently organizing a sock distribution, and restarting our chapter’s efforts directed toward connecting with our homeless neighbors. We’ll be low-key training chapter members about our specific approach to mutual aid and street solidarity, as well as building capacity for this and, potentially, more expansive mutual aid projects in the future! Sign up here!
Join the Tenant Organizing Provisional Working Group!
Overlapping TANC and DSA SF members have come together to start a Tenant Organizing Provisional Working Group! Our goal is to build a cadre of well-versed tenant organizers in DSA SF that will help us reach mass tenant organizing efforts in order to fight back against the landlord class, in San Francisco and beyond. Join your neighbors in the tenant organizing movement by joining our slack channel #Tenant-Organizing!
East Bay and SF DSA Social at Anchor Public Taps
DSA SF will be hosting a cross-bay social at the Anchor Stream Public Taps at495 De Haro Streettomorrow, May 17th at 6:00 p.m. with East Bay DSA! Come hang with your fellow comrades from the East Bay and enjoy some union-made brews. RSVP here!
Join the Tenant Organizing PWG for the First Session of Our Socialist Housing Organizing Project (SHOP)!
Please join us on Saturday, May 20th at 3:00 p.m. at the DSA SF office at 1916 McAllister for the first module of this 3-part workshop to build DSA SF’s tenant organizing capacity and plug folks into autonomous tenant organizing efforts in the city. In our sessions, will discuss a socialist perspective on housing, current tenant rights in the city, and collaborate with seasoned TANC (Tenant and Neighborhood Councils) organizers on learning direct action strategies.
The first module focuses on A Defense of Housing’s first chapter “Against the Commodification of Housing,” as well as Tenants in Movement Reader’s “Tenant Power is Proletarian Power” which are both available in our RSVP link below!
Please join DSA SF’s AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Committee at our Slow Book Club gathering on May 21st from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. We will be covering Chapter 3 of Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson, and intend to cover approximately one chapter per month.
Two comrades from London are visiting SF on a tour discussing their new book, Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace. Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock have been organizing with gig workers in the UK for the past decade, and will be discussing their work on May 24th at 6:30 p.m. at 1916 McAllister Street.
The culmination of years of conversations on picket lines, in community centers, and in union offices, with workers in Britain, the US, India, Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and across Europe, Troublemaking brings together lessons from around the world. Precarious workers like waste collectors in Mumbai show that no worker is “unorganizable,” and cleaner organizing at LSE and St Mary’s hospital in London and Sans-papier workers in France indicate that demanding more at work can lead to big wins. Struggles like The Water Wars in Cochabamba, Bolivia show how we can use our power beyond the workplace.
On Thursday, May 25th from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister, the DSA SF Labor Working Group is hosting our second session in our monthly series of meetups for workers in tech and adjacent industries to come together, educate each other, and develop organizing strategies for the next phase of the tech worker movement.
For this upcoming meeting we are pleased to welcome Valentina Luketa, an organizer with United Electrical Workers (UE) who will be giving a short talk on the UE rank and file model of organizing tech.
Join DSA SF’s Labor Working Group on May 31st at 8 p.m. in Kerouac Alley for a free outdoor screening of Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple’s unforgettable documentary of a coal miners’ strike! Register to attend here.
Powerlands Film Screening
The Ecosoc Committee, the Education Board, and an Indigenous comrade welcome you to join us at 1916 McAllister for an outdoor film screening of Powerlands on June 4th from 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
🍿Doors will open at 7 p.m. A brief introduction to the film starts at 7:30 p.m. The screening begins at 7:45 p.m. and lasts 75 mins. A 30-minute community discussion will follow the film. The film is in Zapotec, Blaan, Visayan, Wayuunaiki, Diné, Spanish, and English, with English subtitles. This is a sober event.
Powerlands is a film about the extractive nature of both the usual polluting suspects and the so-called “green energy” movement, a colonizer “new deal” which often exploits Indigenous peoples and lands. Powerlands follows the trail of extractive industries that have exploited the land where the director, Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso, was born and around the world. Over the course of the documentary, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home, and underscores that an Indigenous socialism must be driven by consent and care.
