Category: News
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DSA SF campaigns to end anti-homeless encampment sweeps
On Sunday, seventeen members of DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group gathered at UN Plaza to disseminate an educational pamphlet to fellow San Franciscans as they browsed the weekly Farmer’s Market. The pamphlet provided information about the realities of homelessness in San Francisco, warned of the dangers of involving police in…
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Creating Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees
How are cities being fearless when it comes to its immigrant and undocumented citizens? Is San Francisco calling itself a Sanctuary City enough, or how can we change our city to be fearless in the face of xenophobia? A policy roundtable entitled Sanctuary and Refuge Cities was presented on the…
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Stop the deportation of Rodrigo and Hugo
Hugo and Rodrigo are beloved fathers, workers, and community volunteers. Their families and communities are suffering without them. Rodrigo and Hugo both have deep roots in the Bay Area and have lived in the US for over 15 years. Rodrigo and Hugo are long-time construction workers. Last month, they reported…
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DSA and Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge
Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge is a community-based non-profit that organizes with encampment residents, neighbors, volunteers, and city services. When City of San Francisco told residents they needed to move their belongings for a scheduled deep cleaning of the encampment DSA SF showed up to help our neighbors. We brought burritos,…
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DSA SF stands with CWA
Tens of thousands of CWA members at AT&T have been working without a contract for months. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson didn’t settle by Friday, and the workers went on strike. We stood for worker’s rights and joined to support CWA Local 9410 on the picket line. …
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Socialist feminism panel
Socialism and Feminism…you can’t have one without the other. DSA SF and Northern California ISO, with a guest speaker from Socialist Alternative, talked about the role of women in revolution and how we can work to fight sexism today. We know the liberation of women can’t be achieved by merely…
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May Day
On May 1st DSA joined with thousands of other immigrants, activists, socialists and workers for a march on Market Street to celebrate International Workers Day and A Day Without Immigrants. …and there were good dogs.
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Save Midtown Rally
139 Fillmore families are fighting displacement. Midtown tenants have been on rent strike since August 2015, protesting the demolition of their homes, rent hikes 102% on average, and draconian new lease that’s streamlined for eviction, abuse and negligence by Mercy California, and City’s failure to deliver on a Board of…