Events & Actions
🌹 Tuesday, September 16 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery St)
🌹 Tuesday, September 16 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at Ingleside Branch Library, 1298 Ocean Ave)
🌹 Tuesday, September 16 (7:30 PM – 8:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? Social Hour (In person at Beep’s Burgers, 1051 Ocean Ave)
🌹 Thursday, September 18 (7:30 PM – 9:30 PM): “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco” – TOWG Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Friday, September 19 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE out of SF courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery St)
🌹 Friday, September 19 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 Maker Friday (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Saturday, September 20 (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM): DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing (In person at Lincoln Square Park, 261 11th St, Oakland)
🌹 Saturday, September 20 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee Training: Session 3 (In person at 399 Webster St)
🌹 Saturday, September 20 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Homelessness Working Group Food Service (In person at Castro St & Market St)
🌹 Sunday, September 21 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM): Capital Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Sunday, September 21 (5:30 PM – 7:15 PM): Homelessness Working Group Reads “Capitalism & Disability…” (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, September 22 (5:00 PM – 6:30 PM): EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Training (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, September 22 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board x Divestment Priority Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Tuesday, September 23 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, September 24 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 DSA SF Tech Reading Group (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)z
🌹 Wednesday, September 24 (6:45 PM – 8:30 PM): Tenant Organizing Working Group Meeting (Zoom and in person at 438 Haight St)
🌹 Thursday, September 25 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)
🌹 Thursday, September 25 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): 🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Friday, September 26 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Kashmir: Partition, Nationalism, and Global Fascism (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Saturday, September 27 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): 🐣 Physical Education + Self Defense Training (In person at William McKinley Monument)
🌹 Saturday, September 27 (1:30 PM – 3:30 PM): Divestment Strategy Session (1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, September 29 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Monday, September 29 (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!
This is the Last Chance to Stop AB 715
AB 715 is an extremely dangerous bill designed to censor any criticism of Israel and education about Palestine in California schools, by framing it as antisemitic.
On Friday, after a long week of mobilization to oppose the bill, it passed both Senate and Assembly chambers and will now head to California Governor Newsom’s desk.
We need to bombard his office with letters and calls of opposition!
- Send a letter today (takes less than 30 seconds): https://win.newmode.net/caircalifornia/newsomveto
- Call Newsom’s office during business hours: (916) 445-2841
You can follow this sample script: “I am calling the Governor to strongly oppose AB 715, a dangerous and discriminatory bill aimed at silencing and censoring any teaching of Palestine and Palestinians under the guise of antisemitism.”
Let’s support Palestinian students and teachers in the classroom from being silenced and censored! Please share with friends, family, neighbors to do the same!
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!
Maker Friday: Zine Edition
Come make with us on Friday, September 19 from 7:00-9:00 PM at 1916 McAllister St! We’ll be making zines about socialism, organizing, and our reflections/hopes/dreams. Masks required and provided. All are welcome, no experience necessary, see you there!
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, RSVP 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 22
- Monday, September 29
If you have any questions, reach out to labor@dsasf.org.
DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing in Oakland Chinatown
The DSA SF Immigrant Justice Working Group and East Bay DSA Migrant Defense Working Group are leaving No Space for ICE!
Join us on Saturday, September 20, at 10:30 AM in Oakland’s Lincoln Square Park to provide Know Your Rights materials and educate local businesses and religious institutions on their rights in relation to ICE/DHS. This canvass will be EBDSA Migrant Defense’s first in Oakland Chinatown — and DSA SF’s Immigrant Justice is helping out! Meet at the sign for Lincoln Square Park for a brief training before we canvass in pairs or small groups.
Wear DSA merch if you can, or put a DSA pin on a visible part of your clothing.
RSVP here or, if you’d like more details, Contact an organizer via email at immigrantjustice@dsasf.org.
Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) Training
This month the Tenant Organizing Working Group has been attending the Fall 2025 Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) training, a four-part series, offered by the national DSA Housing Justice Commission! In the first ETOC session, we learned about the four principles of social housing as well as tools and techniques we could employ in the course of our social investigation and class analysis of the tenants and landlords in our area. In session 2, we learned how to approach tenants about forming a union organizing committee, how to identify tenants who are most readily accepting of agitation and to mobilize to convince their neighbors, and generally getting our foot in the door to begin the process of making a tenants association or union.
We hope to see you join us for the upcoming ETOC session 3 on Saturday, September 20 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM either remotely via zoom or at our watch party at 399 Webster St at the Embassy. There will be snacks! All are welcome! Please get in touch with us at tenants@dsasf.org if you’d like to explore the ETOC materials.
📖 DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting every other Sunday evening starting in September for 4 or 5 sessions at 1916 McAllister. The next session is Sunday, September 21. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd and check the events calendar for latest details.
Tech Reading Group with Kickstarter Union Founder Clarissa Redwine
Come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United on Wednesday, September 24 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at 1916 McAllister 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. RSVP here!
🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation
Come one, come all to 1916 McAllister St for our court watch orientation! You’ll learn how we are resisting ICE , how you can help, and participate in a biweekly art build. Bring questions and anti-ICE slogans! This event will take place every-other week on Thursday’s starting at 7:00 PM and the next one is September 25!
Kashmir: Partition, Nationalism, and Global Fascism
Nationalism is rising all over the world, and violence as always is accompanying it. Nowhere is the genocidal logic of the nation-state more evident than in Israel’s occupation of Palestine, but it is not the only example that we must learn from. The Partition of India in 1947 and subsequent conflicts in South Asia have many similarities, and some important differences. Come join the DSA SF as we investigate the Kashmir Conflict, which flared up violently this spring, and its relationship to Hindu nationalism and the global fascist movement. We’ll be meeting Friday, September 26 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at 1916 McAllister St.
Reportback: No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass 🍉
This last Saturday, Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism Working Group had 27 people attend a canvass to partner with store owners to de-shelve products profiting off Israeli apartheid! We had so many new faces from many different orgs, even outside our coalition partners (AROC, DSA, JVP, Speak Out Socialist). We covered 8 turfs in Bernal Heights and Outer Mission, 32 stores in total, and also got some consumer pledge signatures. Join #palestine-solidarity on Slack for more information on the next canvass! Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Behind the Scenes
he 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.
