Join the Immigrant Justice Working Group on Saturday, June 7th at 1:00 p.m. for Know Your Rights (KYR) canvassing! We will be distributing red cards and KYR posters to businesses and community members on Mission between Cesar Chavez and 30th St. Our meeting point will be at the intersection of Mission & Cesar Chavez St. New to canvassing? No worries! There will be a brief how-to training before we go out in pairs or small groups.
Hello all, there will be a hearing on June 9th about the family shelter evictions, and it is in need of YOUR support! Jackie is proposing to extend the stay of families in shelters to 1 year. The mayor would like to limit the stay to 90 days, which is not long enough to secure permanent housing. Come speak at the public comment in support of families getting to stay sheltered, or just cheer on Jackie!
Our 2025 Chapter Convention will be held on June 14th and 15th at Kelly Cullen Auditorium (220 Golden Gate Ave) and will take the place of our June Regular Meeting. At convention we will debate amendments to our bylaws, select our 2025/2026 chapter priorities, re-charter chapter bodies, and elect new leadership. RSVP at dev.dsasf.org/convention-RSVP. The Convention Packet with reflections on our work from the last year and proposals for the next year can be viewed at dev.dsasf.org/packet2025.
EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Reportback
EWOC (Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee) is a project of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and DSA working to build a distributed grassroots organizing program to support workers organizing at the workplace. This week local organizers-in-training met at the DSA SF office to wrap up Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing, a four-module EWOC course, with a lesson on preparing your coworkers to counter against bosses’ anti-union rhetoric, also known as inoculation. Bosses utilize rhetoric like “the union doesn’t represent you” or “we’re all making sacrifices” as a way to incite fear, division, and complacency among workers. Inoculation helps ensure that bosses’ messaging doesn’t further exploit workers and keeps the focus on the positive power of union organizing.
To learn more about the work EWOC does, come by the DSA SF office to pick up a copy of Unite and Win or tune into the Labor Board’s weekly meetings every Monday at 7 p.m. on Zoom. The next EWOC event hosted by DSA SF features EWOC staff members conducting a training on generating workplace leads and conducting organizing conversations on July 17th from 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m. Let us know in if you can make it! Hope to see you there!
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
Join us for Maker Wednesday on May 28 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.! Come make some art and connect with comrades. All are welcome, see you there!
Visioning an Ecosocialist San Francisco
Join us for “Visioning an Ecosocialist San Francisco” this Thursday, May 29 6:00-8:00 p.m.! We’ll meet in-person at 1916 McAllister to imagine, brainstorm, strategize, and plan our ecosocialist future.
The Labor Board and Immigrant Justice Working Group are excited to announce our upcoming Spanish Language Movie Night! As part of our desire to improve our Spanish, learn more about Marxist movements in Latin America, and connect with the Spanish speaking community of San Francisco, we are going to be showing “Soy Cuba,” an 1964 international co-production of Cuba and the USSR. We are planning on having food, so please RSVP so we can know how much food to order. We will be watching at the Carr Auditorium at SF General, Saturday, May 31 from 6-8:30 p.m. Invite your friends, eat snacks, and sharpen your knowledge of Spanish and Marxism in Latin America. Hope to see you there!
At the Socialist in Office meeting on May 19, the electoral board discussed several items
Land use permitting reforms being pushed by the Mayor which threaten gentrification of districts in the City like Calle 24
A debrief on on the Four Pillars hearing. Notably, SFPD admitted to not being able to solve the underlying issues surrounding drug overdoses.
Proposed ordinance from Jackie Fielder preventing unhoused families from evictions from shelters for at least a year
The board is organizing a contingent for a rally in support of the hearing on the resolution on June 9 at City Hall. Keep an eye on the calendar for full details and a link to the RSVP which will be posted shortly.
If you would like to be involved in these conversations, join the electoral board on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom and find us on Slack at #electoral-discussion.
EWOC Fundamentals Training Reportback
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) Fundamentals Training group continued with our third session. The lecture plenary was an interview with Phoebe from the Sesame Workers union, who won their union campaign this past week! Phoebe talked about how they navigated a company environment that outwardly championed community but was actually deeply anti-worker. The lecture also focused on how to escalate campaigns with actions successfully.
We began our discussion section with a reaction to the plenary interview. One comrade shared how they connected to how workers at quote-unquote ‘progressive companies’ can use the company’s mission against them. For example, a pharmaceutical company’s workers can use a slogan like “wellness for all” to argue that workers deserve to be part of that too. Another comrade shared the story they heard of Starbucks workers having a catchphrase to write on coffee cups to build support for their campaign.
Our assignment from last week was to have an organizing conversation with a coworker, so we also discussed our experiences with that. We helped one comrade troubleshoot their conversation, where they encountered people of the “things are okay” camp. We talked about how asking hypothetical questions has worked to open up people’s imaginations and be more receptive to joining the campaign. Things like… “what if you didn’t have to work two jobs – that this one would be enough?”
Next week, we’re going to wrap up the training with a focus on inoculation and the boss campaign!
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
Curious about salting? Heard the term but not sure what it means? Interested in learning about salting opportunities in the Bay Area? Join the Labor Board for a Socialist Night School on salting on Tuesday, May 20 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. We’ll learn about salting strategies, examine past SF wins, and hear about current opportunities to salt a workplace.
Masks are encouraged but not required. Food and drink will be provided!
Come hang out and do some karaoke with your fellow DSA SF comrades or cool people you want to impress with your incredible singing voice! Thursday, May 22 from 7:30 – 10:00 p.m. at The Roar Shack (34 7th Street at Market). Suggested donation of $10, no one turned away for lack of funds. No songs refused, no entry denied! Cheap drinks available to purchase or feel free to bring your own!
Good Vibrations & Urban Ore Celebration & Fundraiser
Party with East Bay DSA to celebrate two union victories and rai$e money to continue the fight! After more than two years of organizing and struggle, workers from Good Vibrations and Urban Ore, with support from the East Bay Workplace Organizing Committee (EBWOC), BEAT their bosses, reaching major milestones at the bargaining table!
Come to Berkeley’s Hottest Backyard at 2923 Newbury St on Friday, May 23rd from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. for food, rousing speeches, DJs, dancing and karaoke! There’s a sliding scale entry fee to raise funds!
We’ll be holding our next training and canvassing for No Appetite for Apartheid this Saturday, May 24! We’ll be meeting at 10:00 a.m. at 1916 McAllister to do training. After the training, we will divide up into groups to visit stores, and maybe some restaurants and cafes!
If you’ve already trained and you just want to canvass, feel free to show up at 11:30 a.m. at 1916 McAllister to get a turf. If you are able to provide transportation for people from the training site to the canvassing location, please indicate that in the RSVP form.
The logic of empire extends all the way from Gaza to the Rio Grande. Join DSA for a thoughtful excursion, as we discuss the past and present of border surveillance, and how it relates to the methods and policies of colonization and empire.
On May 25th, the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism Working Group will lead a group to San Francisco’s historic immigration detention center on Angel Island where the Electronic Frontier Foundation is currently holding its exhibition Border Surveillance: Places, People and Technology.
We will meet at the Ferry Building at 1:30 p.m. to catch the 1:55 p.m. shuttle to Angel Island. We will then view the exhibition at the Angel Island Immigration Museum and discuss the connections between border surveillance practices and technology in the United States and decades of occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Our event will conclude at the Ferry Building at 5:30 p.m.. Note: The cost of a roundtrip on the ferry is $15 per person.
Join us for Maker Wednesday on May 28 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.! Come make some art and connect with comrades. All are welcome, see you there!
Office Hours
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
May Chapter Meeting Recap
Our May Chapter Meeting was full of energy and lots of business! We heard report backs from Emilye on our May Day labor actions, and from Christina and Nayef from our Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group on what it means to divest here in San Francisco. Members debated and passed three important resolutions: to nominate Andrew and Hazel to DSA’s National Political Committee, and to increase our travel budget while launching a fundraising push to make sure everyone can take part in the work, regardless of finances. We also heard from over 30 candidates running to be delegates to the 2025 DSA National Convention!
We won’t have a regular chapter meeting in June, because we’ll be having our annual June Chapter Convention June 14 and 15, from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. each day at the Kelly Cullen Auditorium (220 Golden Gate). All are welcome!
After breaking the ice by sharing our first concert experiences, the 12 of us dove into the second EWOC Fundamentals Training Series session focused on organizing conversations. We started with learning about the steps of an organizing conversation, had a group discussion about factors that could make those conversations more or less difficult, then we partnered up and practiced among ourselves before wrapping up for the day.
Coming out of those practice conversations, one comrade acting as an organizer was praised for how they organically applied the 3D framework when they got to the issue identification and agitation step. They detected an issue, asked their partners to further define the nature of the problem, and dug deeper by inquiring about the emotional impact of the issue. Inquiry tools were also a major part of our group conversations about conditions that make organizing challenging. More specifically, we discussed how asking questions that make people imagine life outside of their current state can make it easier to organize someone who either thinks their situation is fine or rationalizes it as being okay. While asking questions, listening, and making people feel heard are critical, they were just a few of the traits we learned to look for in workers who should be brought into an organizing committee. The others were: not being abrasive, having the trust of coworkers, and demonstrating the ability to lead coworkers into action.
Next week we’re going to learn about the arc of a campaign!
Hygiene Kit Assembly and Distribution Reportback
Mutual aid is a tactic that models a socialist world where community members take up the responsibility of caring for each other through material solidarity. It exposes participants to revolutionary possibilities in the face of state neglect and violence. On Sunday May 11, the Labor Board and the Homeless Working Group hosted a Hygiene Kit Assembly and Distribution event at the DSA Office at 1916 McAllister Street. This was done not as an act of charity, but rather solidarity — an opportunity to share a resource, commune, and learn with working-class people who are in struggle against capitalism. The morning event attracted over 25 eager and early-risen volunteers, including some community members from outside of DSA, who stepped up by bringing requested kit supplies and delivered by building over 100 hygiene kits to distribute to our unhoused neighbors. The Homeless Working Group also provided information and guidance on how to best distribute the kits that all volunteers were provided at the end of the event. It can be tempting to view this as a one-time, “feel good” activity. Instead, we asked participants to see it as the first step in a project of regular support for, and community-building with, our unhoused neighbors. Hygiene kits are just a starting point — please reach out to DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group for further training and collaboration!
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
Apartheid-Free Bay Area: Consumer Pledge Canvassing
Help gather signatures in order to build public support for local apartheid-free stores and to raise awareness about Israeli apartheid! We’ll be meeting at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 17th in front of 3100 16th St. We will first train you, and then you will put that training into practice by collecting signatures at the Nakba Day Rally. RSVP here! New members encouraged to join!
Rally: Remember the Nakba, Demand an End to Genocide in Gaza
Saturday, May 17 will mark 77 years since the Nakba. Since then, Palestinians have faced genocide, displacement, and occupation under Zionism. This Nakba Day, we will rally at 16th St. and Valencia St. starting at 2:30 p.m. alongside cities worldwide to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, a full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel, the release of all Palestinian political prisoners, Immediate humanitarian aid and reconstruction for Gaza, and an end to the Zionist occupation of all Palestinian land.
The world stands with Palestine—see you in the streets!
🐣 Socialist Night School: Salting
Curious about salting? Heard the term but not sure what it means? Interested in learning about salting opportunities in the Bay Area? Join the Labor Board for a Socialist Night School on salting on Tuesday, May 20 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. We’ll learn about salting strategies, examine past SF wins, and hear about current opportunities to salt a workplace.
Masks are encouraged but not required. Food and drink will be provided!
Come hang out and do some karaoke with your fellow DSA SF comrades or cool people you want to impress with your incredible singing voice! Thursday, May 22 from 7:30 – 10:00 p.m. at The Roar Shack (34 7th Street at Market). Suggested donation of $10, no one turned away for lack of funds. No songs refused, no entry denied! Cheap drinks available to purchase or feel free to bring your own! RSVP here.
Office Hours
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
EWOC Training Reportback
9 of us gathered at the Office on Wednesday with wide-eyed curiosity for the first session of the EWOC Fundamentals Training series. While some of us are actively looking to engage in workplace organizing, others are motivated to become informed and fluent supporters of the fighting section of workers. Across both groups, learning the brass tacks of Analyzing Your Workplace is the common first step, i.e. mapping the workplace for workers’ concerns, their shifts & departments, relationships, willingness to get involved and more. This all informs who we should approach to gauge interest about joining the organizing committee (OC), or a representative group of the workplace that democratically drives the strategy and bottomlines the organizing efforts. Our biggest shared takeaways from the lecture were (1) the importance of acting like a union, even if you aren’t legally recognized as one yet and (2) the fact that the OC model minimizes unnecessary risks taken by workers and is the safest method for workplace organizing. Next week, we’re going to run it back and learn all about how to Bring Coworkers Together!
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
🍻🌹 Join us for our New Member Happy Hour starting at 6:30PM at Zeitgeist (199 Valencia Street). Learn more about DSA SF’s upcoming projects, find out how to plug in, or just socialize with socialists! Also open to old members, regular folks and the socialism-curious. Members running for DSA National Convention delegate will also be there to answer questions about their questionnaires, so members should come through, too!
Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in May (see below for schedule). We’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities,. If you’re interested, fill out the form here and join the #ewoc-fundamentals-2025 channel in Slack! 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 6:00-7:30 p.m. on:
Wednesday, May 7
Tuesday, May 13
Wednesday, May 21
Wednesday, May 28
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a project of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to build a distributed, grassroots organizing program to support workers org
We will be holding our next training and canvassing for No Appetite for Apartheid this Saturday, May 10! We’ll be meeting at 10:00 a.m. at 522 Valencia to do training. After the training, we will divide up into groups to visit stores in the Castro and Noe Valley (and maybe restaurants and cafes too!) and discuss de-shelving and boycotting Israeli products!
If you’ve already trained and you just want to canvass, feel free to show up at 11:30 a.m. at 522 Valencia to get a turf. If you are able to provide transportation for people from the training site to the canvassing location, please indicate that you RSVP here.
Keeping the May Day spirit alive, we have a Hygiene Kit Assembly planned on Sunday, May 11 in partnership with the Homelessness Working Group. We’ll assemble hygiene kits to distribute to our homeless neighbors and talk about ways to come together in community. People experiencing homelessness are systematically left out of political decisions that impact them, and we’ve invited members of local unions and community members to have conversations with us about this disparity at this event. All ages welcome – this event is kid friendly.
Sunday, May 11 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 1916 McAllister
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
May Day Reportback
This week the world celebrated International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, to mark the anniversary of the 1886 United States general strike to demand an eight-hour workday. To celebrate this historic day, the Labor Board, in collaboration with other chapter bodies, mobilized chapter members to attend a slate of events focused on immigrant and workers’ rights.
Our events kicked off on Sunday, April 27th with a Know Your Rights canvass in partnership with the Immigrant Justice Working Group. DSA members handed out multilingual red cards and asked local businesses to hang flyers in their windows. It was powerful to see so many neighbors and businesses standing in solidarity with the immigrant community.
In place of the Labor Board’s regular Monday meeting, we held an education event focused on the history of May Day. We screened “We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day,” a documentary co-produced by members of East Bay DSA. The Education Board facilitated a discussion about the documentary and shared several political cartoons from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
On April 29th we turned out dozens of comrades to Maker Tuesday in preparation for the May Day rally. With everyone’s help, we made hundreds of DSA buttons, flyers, and red cards, and assembled goodie bags to bring to the rally.
Though Thursday May 1st didn’t mark the end of our May Day events, it certainly was a high point in understanding how we can come together in solidarity for workers and immigrants alike. The San Francisco and East Bay chapters formed a large contingent at the rally where comrade Hazel W and socialist-elected District Supervisor Jackie Fielder gave empowering speeches about how every struggle is part of the connected fight for freedom, dignity, and justice. Thousands of workers, immigrants and people from all walks of life marched from San Francisco City Hall to the ICE building. We will fight back, and when we fight, WE WIN! 🌹
Interested in continuing the fight for workers’ and immigrants’ rights? Come to our next May Day events:
Sunday, May 11 – Hygiene Kit Assembly from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at 1916 McAllister. RSVP here.
Tuesday, May 20 – Socialist Night School on Salting from 7:00 to 8:15 p.m. at 1916 McAllister. RSVP here.
Socialist in Office Reportback
At the Socialist in Office meeting on April 28, the electoral board discussed several items
Supporting legislation for a Tenant’s Right to Pay to prevent evictions due to nonpayment after delinquent payments are resolved
Opposing the SFPD & Sheriff Overtime Budget
Upcoming hearing on the Four Pillars model for overdose prevention on May 16
Supporting unhoused families facing evictions from shelters after 90 days
There will be a rally in support of the families with Faith in Action on May 12 at 4:00 p.m. at City Hall. Please come to support!
Potential attacks on housing-first policies for permanent supportive housing (PSH) by legislation requiring 25% to be sober housing
If you would like to be involved in these conversations, join the electoral board on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom and find us on Slack at #electoral-discussion.
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
Join us in celebrating May Day 2025! Labor Board and Immigrant Justice Working Groups kicked things off on Sunday with a Know Your Rights canvass. We’ll be keeping the ball rolling with a Maker Tuesday event tonight to craft buttons and flyers for the May Day Rally on Thursday.
Tuesday, April 29 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Maker Tuesday (In person at 1916 McAllister)
Thursday, May 1 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): May Day Happy Hour (In person at Tempest Bar & Box Kitchen, 431 Natoma)
After May Day we’ll be assembling hygiene kits with the Homelessness Working Group and learning about salting opportunities in SF with a Socialist Night School on Salting!
Join DSA SF and ACLU, Critical Resistance, and Harvey Milk Club to oppose the SFPD and Sheriff Overtime Abuse!
📝 Send a letter to the Board of Supervisors to tell them that you oppose additional overtime funding to SFPD and the Sheriff’s department.
📢 Rally with us on Wednesday, April 30 at 1:00 p.m. then join the Budget & Appropriations Committee Hearing at 1:30 p.m. to give public comment in opposition to this proposal.
Capital Reading Group
DSA SF has started a Marx’s Capital reading group! We’ll be meeting every other Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister St. and also on Zoom. We’ll meet on Sunday, May 4th to wrap up our discussion of chapter 1 and cover chapter 2 and the afterword to the second German edition. We’re reading the new translation published by Princeton University Press. You can also join the #capital-rdg-group-2025 channel on the DSA SF Slack for additional information and discussion!
Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in May (see below for schedule). We’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities,. If you’re interested, fill out the form here and join the #ewoc-fundamentals-2025 channel in Slack! 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 6:00-7:30 p.m. on:
Wednesday, May 7
Tuesday, May 13
Wednesday, May 21
Wednesday, May 28
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a project of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to build a distributed, grassroots organizing program to support workers organizing at the workplace.
🍻🌹 Join us for our New Member Happy Hour starting at 6:30PM at Zeitgeist (199 Valencia Street). Learn more about DSA SF’s upcoming projects, find out how to plug in, or just socialize with socialists! Also open to old members, regular folks and the socialism-curious. Members running for DSA National Convention delegate will also be there to answer questions about their questionnaires, so members should come through, too!
Office Hours
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
April 22 Maker Tuesday Reportback
We made nearly 200 red cards at the last Maker Tuesday as part of ongoing efforts to keep the chapter resupplied with Know Your Rights material. Homelessness, Labor, Tenants Rights, and Palestine Solidarity are among some of the working groups that have enjoyed distributing these around various neighborhoods in the city.
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
🌹Tuesday, April 22 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.): Maker Tuesday: Red Cards (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Wednesday, April 23 (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): DSA SF Tech Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Wednesday, April 23 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00p.m.): Presentation: Know Your Rights for Encounters with ICE (In person at 2000 Mission St.)
🌹Thursday, April 24 (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.): “Recovery First” Ordinance Public Comment at City Hall (In person at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl., Room 250)
🌹Thursday, April 24 (5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.): 🍏 Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Thursday, April 24 (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom)
🌹Friday, April 25 (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.): 🐣Office Hours (In person at 1916 McAllister)
Support Harm Reduction and Oppose Bad Drug Policy – Email the Board of Supervisors and Turn Out to Public Comment this Week!
DSA SF is joining with other community organizations to oppose Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s “Recovery First Policy” ordinance. The proposed ordinance appears benign, but is actually part of a larger assault on harm reduction policy, intent on replacing nuanced solutions with an abstinence-only, one-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t address the real issues at the heart of San Francisco’s opioid crisis.
Join DSA SF in speaking out in favor of science-based harm reduction, treatment on demand, and safe consumption sites. Start by sending an email to the Board of Supervisors, then follow up by showing up Thursday, April 24th at 10 a.m. at SF City Hall, Room 250 to give public comment! Email homelessness@dsasf.org with any questions.
No Appetite for Apartheid Outreach Training & Canvassing 🍉
We’ll be holding our next training/canvassing for No Appetite for Apartheid this Saturday! We’ll be meeting at 10:00 a.m. at 1916 McAllister to do training. After the training, we will divide up into groups to visit stores (and maybe restaurants and cafes, too!) in the Russian Hill/Lower Nob Hill neighborhoods and discuss deshelving and boycotting Israeli products!
If you’ve already trained and you just want to canvass, feel free to show up at 11:30 a.m. at 1916 McAllister to get a turf. If you are able to provide transportation for people from the training site to the canvassing location, please indicate that in the RSVP form below.
Join us in celebrating May Day 2025! Labor Board’s slate of events this year begins on April 27th with a Know Your Rights canvas programmed with the Immigrant Justice Working Group!
We also have:
an education event on the history of May Day (featuring a discussion with the Education Board)
a Maker Tuesday night to craft buttons and flyers for the rally
the May Day Rally at Civic Center (which comrade Hazel W will be speaking at!)
After May Day we’ll be assembling hygiene kits with the Homelessness Working Group and learning about salting opportunities in SF with a Socialist Night School on Salting!
Come Join the Tenderloin Healing Circle on April 28
All are welcome to attend the Tenderloin Healing Circle. The healing circle is a great way to connect, reflect, and share food with other DSA members and folks in the Tenderloin community. The Healing Circle will be meeting at the Kelly Cullen Auditorium at 220 Golden Gate Ave on April28th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Food is provided, and masks are provided and encouraged.
Capital Reading Group
DSA SF has started a Marx’s Capital reading group! We’ll be meeting every other Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister St. and also on Zoom. We’ll meet on May 4th to wrap up our discussion of chapter 1 and cover chapter 2 and the afterword to the second German edition. We’re reading the new translation published by Princeton University Press. You can also join the #capital-rdg-group-2025 channel on the DSA SF Slack for additional information and discussion!
Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in May (see below for schedule). We’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities,. If you’re interested, fill out the form here and join the #ewoc-fundamentals-2025 channel in Slack! 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 6:00-7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, May 7
Tuesday, May 13
Wednesday, May 21
Wednesday, May 28
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a project of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to build a distributed, grassroots organizing program to support workers organizing at the workplace.
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
Tenant organizing is hosting a canvass in the Mission! Join us in talking to tenants about their housing conditions and how collective power can help. This action will be great for organizers at any level of experience — if you’d like an orientation, you can meet us a little earlier at 12:30pm for training. Spanish-speakers and multi-lingual comrades are especially needed! We’re meeting April 19th 1:00 p.m. at Cafe La Boheme at 3318 24th St.
Come Join the Tenderloin Healing Circle on April 28
All are welcome to attend the Tenderloin Healing Circle. The healing circle is a great way to connect, reflect, and share food with other DSA members and folks in the Tenderloin community. The Healing Circle will be meeting at the Kelly Cullen Auditorium at 220 Golden Gate Ave on April28th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Food is provided, and masks are provided and encouraged.
Capital Reading Group
DSA SF has started a Marx’s Capital reading group! We’ll be meeting every other Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister St. and also on Zoom. We’ll meet on April 20th to wrap up our discussion of chapter 1 and cover chapter 2 and the afterword to the second German edition. We’re reading the new translation published by Princeton University Press. You can also join the #capital-rdg-group-2025 channel on the DSA SF Slack for additional information and discussion!
Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in May (see below for schedule). We’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities,. If you’re interested, fill out the form here and join the #ewoc-fundamentals-2025 channel in Slack! 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 6:00-7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, May 7
Tuesday, May 13
Wednesday, May 21
Wednesday, May 28
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a project of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to build a distributed, grassroots organizing program to support workers organizing at the workplace.
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
No Appetite for Apartheid Outreach Training & Canvassing This Saturday 🇵🇸
No Appetite for Apartheid is a campaign aimed at reducing economic support for Israeli apartheid by canvassing local businesses to boycott Israeli goods. Join the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group at 518 Valencia St this Saturday, April 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to learn how you can help and take steps to make the Bay Area apartheid-free!
We will be doing a training on how to talk to stores in your neighborhood, then going out and talking with stores together!
Come Join the Tenderloin Healing Circle on April 14 and 28
All are welcome to attend the Tenderloin Healing Circle. The healing circle is a great way to connect, reflect, and share food with other DSA members and folks in the Tenderloin community. The Healing Circle will be meeting at the Kelly Cullen Auditorium at 220 Golden Gate Ave on April 14th and 28th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Food is provided, and masks are provided and encouraged.
Office Hours
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
Capital Reading Group
DSA SF has started a Marx’s Capital reading group! We’ll be meeting every other Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister St. and also on Zoom. We’ll meet on April 20th to wrap up our discussion of chapter 1 and cover chapter 2 and the afterword to the second German edition. We’re reading the new translation published by Princeton University Press. You can also join the #capital-rdg-group-2025 channel on the DSA SF Slack for additional information and discussion!
Urban Ore Picket Line Reportback
On March 30th, at 900 Murray St., DSA members and Urban Ore workers held the picket line for a strike that started on March 22nd, demanding that the owners bargain in good faith with workers who formed a union with IWW IU 670 in April 2023. Despite claims since at least 2017 that they would like to transfer ownership to workers “as soon as possible,” the owners have been absent from or cancelled bargaining sessions and have not provided financial information necessary to bargain.
DSA SF Labor Board’s presence brought the picket line total to 15. Workers were able to deter about 50% of visitors from crossing the picket line. DSA SF also stood at the donation area at the back of the warehouse to encourage those unloading to take their salvage elsewhere. In addition to avoiding bargaining, the owners have threatened layoffs to keep the business afloat during the strike instead of coming to the table. The Urban Ore strike fund is currently at 91% of their goal and keeps costs low for workers. Please spread the word to support these courageous comrades and get them to 100%! For more strike and bargaining updates, check out @Urban_Ore_Workers and @sfbayareaiww on Instagram.
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
Co-work with your comrades! Come to the DSA SF office and get your DSA work or work-work done, or just hang out. We’ll be at 1916 McAllister from 12:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.
🌹Chapter Local Vision and Strategy Meeting 🌹
This Saturday DSA SF is hosting a Chapter Local Vision and Strategy Meeting to shape our chapter’s direction in the short-term and long-term. Please join us for lively discussion and take part in building socialism in San Francisco and beyond! We’ll be meeting at 518 Valencia this Saturday, April 5 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Capital Reading Group
DSA SF has started a Marx’s Capital reading group! We’ll be meeting every other Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 1916 McAllister and also on Zoom. We’ll meet on April 6th to cover Chapter 1. We’re reading the new translation published by Princeton University Press. You can also join the #capital-rdg-group-2025 channel on the DSA SF Slack for additional information and discussion!
Behind the Scenes
The 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 newsletter, etc. Members can view current CCC rotations.
To help with the day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running, fill out the CCC help form.
