On July 29, 2024, Christiana Porter, a 34-year-old Black single mother and domestic violence survivor, was brutally attacked in broad daylight by SFPD Officer Josh McFall. Without warning, Officer McFall slammed Christiana’s head against a wall so hard that she suffered a concussion and a separated shoulder, apparently for “walking while Black” in a city that uses policing as a weapon against the poor, the unhoused, and our Black and Brown neighbors.

Despite there being video evidence of Ofc. McFall’s actions, the City and County of San Francisco has denied Christiana’s claim and refused to take accountability for wrongdoing, further traumatizing Christiana and furthering SFPD’s culture of racialized violence and impunity. The City and SFPD have not apologized to Christiana, nor have they taken disciplinary action against the officer involved, nor issued a public statement of concern about this incident.

This is not an isolated incident. This is one of the main things that policing was designed to do: control, harm, and silence Black people. The roots of American policing can be traced back to slave patrols, and this history continues to shape how policing disproportionately targets, controls, and harms Black communities. Porter has since filed a lawsuit against the City, citing excessive use of force and the lasting trauma she has endured.

As socialists, we are committed to dismantling the system of state repression that continues to harm the most vulnerable while shielding its enforcers from consequence. At our 2025 Annual Convention, DSA SF unanimously passed a resolution demanding justice for Christiana Porter and full accountability from the City and SFPD. You can read the text of the full resolution at dev.dsasf.org/porter-resolution. 

DSA SF stands in unwavering solidarity with Christiana Porter and all those impacted by racist policing, and will continue to organize and fight alongside communities demanding dignity, safety, and accountability.

DSA SF remains resolute in our solidarity with Palestinians and our support for Palestinian liberation. We condemn Israel’s escalating genocidal tactics and the billions of dollars in US funding supporting them, and we mourn the substantial loss of life occurring every day. 

Israel’s abhorrent siege on Gaza is a new chapter of an awful human tragedy that began with the Nakba in 1948 and continues to this day under the Zionist apartheid regime. These conditions endanger everyone in the region, including Palestinians and Israelis.

As socialists, we stand with Palestinians in their right to self-determination, their right to all forms of resistance – peaceful or otherwise, the right to return, and the right to autonomy. We reject the Zionist occupation of Palestinian land and the imperial investments of the US that fortify it. We reject collective punishment.

We reject all forms of antisemitic and islamophobic bigotry. Our common humanity demands the liberation of all people from imperialism, colonialism, hatred, and military-industrial capitalism. We stand with Palestinian, Arab, and Jewish-led orgs who are demanding an immediate ceasefire and an end to all US military funding to Israel. We continue to march and rally alongside these groups, joined by millions worldwide to stop the genocide and end the occupation. We also recognize the connection between the Palestinian fight for liberation with Native peoples’ fight in the US for liberation from capitalism and colonialism. 

A better world is possible, and we call upon those who share this vision to join us in the fight for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea. Here are some ways to get involved:

Our Palestine Solidarity Working Group is organizing march contingents, art making parties, decompression circles to navigate our collective grief, education events, and more. Our Labor Board is working to organize labor in support of a ceasefire and Palestinian liberation. Join us at dev.dsasf.org/join!

Follow Palestinian Youth Movement (@palestinianyouthmovement), Arab Resource & Organizing Center (@aroc_bayarea), or Jewish Voice for Peace (@jvpbayarea) for information on actions and other ways to plug into the work. Read selections from PYM’s Palestinian Liberation Resource List: All the Walls Will Fall: 2023 Palestine Liberation Resource List

Check out DSA International Committee’s Palestine Solidarity Toolkit: https://international.dsausa.org/palestine-solidarity-toolkit/

Join a phonebank to demand that Congress supports a ceasefire: https://www.dsausa.org/no-money-for-massacres-phonebanks/ 

Read about the shared history of colonial resistance between Palestinians and Indigenous Peoples in the US in this piece from NDN Collective: https://ndncollective.org/right-of-return-is-landback/ 

DSA SF stands in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle for decolonization. We condemn Israel’s ongoing occupation and the apartheid regime under which Palestinians are forced to live in dehumanizing conditions; and we further condemn the US’s continued funding and support of Israel’s decades-long colonization of Palestine.

Violent oppression inevitably produces resistance. Socialists support the Palestinian people’s, and all people’s, right to resist and fight for their own liberation. This weekend’s events are no different. Decolonization is the only path towards peace.

A better world is possible. We call on all those who share our vision of global working-class emancipation to join the fight to end the occupation and decolonize Palestine – from the river to the sea.