Category: News
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DSA SF Adopts Three More Resolutions for November Elections
DSA SF recently voted to endorse California State Proposition 15 and San Francisco Municipal Proposition E, and to oppose California State Proposition 22, in advance of the November 2020 election. Prop 15 aims to raise billions in new taxes to specifically fund schools, community colleges and local government services. The…
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DSA SF Endorses Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor, along with Transfer Tax and Social Housing Ballot Initiatives
At our July general meeting, DSA SF voted to endorse Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor, along with two potential ballot measures Dean has introduced. An active member of DSA SF, Dean was elected as supervisor last year in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Mayor London…
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DSA SF Labor Organizing Zines
DSA SF has produced a handful of zines that we think will be helpful to you and your co-workers as you start to organize on the job.
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Juneteenth 2020: Shut Down the Port for Black Lives!
DSA SF’s Labor Organizing Committee is organizing chapter support for the black leaders of Locals 10, 34, 75, and 91 of the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) and the Movement 4 Black Lives, and their action to shut down the port of Oakland in defense of black lives. Join…
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DSA SF Justice Committee: Tell the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to Defund and Disband the Police
George Floyd. Tony McDade. Breonna Taylor. David McAtee. These are only the latest victims of police violence in the United States, where police kill over a thousand people a year and injure tens of thousands more. After decades of austerity and racism, these latest killings have touched off an uprising…
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DSA SF Calls Comrades to Action Against San Francisco Curfew
The San Francisco chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America continues calling for justice of victims of unjust systems and state violence, including George Floyd and the victims of the San Francisco Police Department: Alex Nieto, Mario Woods, Amílcar Pérez-López, Luis Góngora, Jessica Williams, Kenneth Harding Jr., and Derrick Gaines. …
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DSA SF Steering Committee Statement: Justice for George Floyd and all Victims of Police Murder
George Floyd’s death at the hands of police is yet another in a long series of extrajudicial killings of black people by American law enforcement. Predictably, the justified outrage of the black community is being painted by reactionary media and government voices as some kind of overreaction, while 1960s language…
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DSA SF Announces COVID-19 Platform
DSA San Francisco has released a statement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and attendant economic recession that we believe to be on the horizon. Read our full platform of policy demands and organizational initiatives here. The COVID-19 pandemic is not just the defining crisis of the Trump administration, but…
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DSA SF’s Justice Committee Distributes Hand Sanitizer to SF Jails In Response to City’s Inaction
On Saturday, March 28, members of DSA SF’s Justice Committee dropped off 900 bottles of hand sanitizer for people being held in San Francisco’s jails in an effort to address the city’s failure to release more people amid the COVID-19 crisis. The Justice Committee released the following statement: San Francisco…
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DSA Demands COVID-19 Response That Places People Over Profit
The Democratic Socialists of America and its chapters are demanding a people-centered response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exposed many flaws in the United States’ emergency response systems and the healthcare industry at large. As noted by our local chapter’s Steering Committee, which recently issued a statement outlining its…