Author: DSA SF

Comrades, Mayor London Breed recently announced a declaration of a state of emergency with proposals and claimed that they will “make Tenderloin a safer, healthier neighborhood”. Given her history of overpolicing and criminalizing the unhoused and poor, DSA SF strongly condemns her proposals and calls on the Board of Supervisors…

DSA SF strongly condemns Mayor London Breed’s latest winter police state occupation of the Tenderloin and supports the recent condemnations by Defund SFPD Now, Coalition on Homelessness, and many others. We call on the Board of Supervisors to reject ratification of the mayor’s declaration of a State of Emergency in…

Comrades, To bring about a just world, the fight for socialism is just as vital here in San Francisco as it is anywhere else in the world. This past week, DSA SF took action against international and local injustices – last Friday, DSA folks organized and marched with various human…

Comrades,  Last week, DSA-endorsed District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston’s housing appropriation PASSED with a veto-proof majority in the Board of Supervisors! This a huge victory for socialism and DSA SF, because it consolidates our victory at the polls last year with Prop I. While Mayor Breed tried to redirect the money via bureaucratic obfuscation,…

Comrades,  News about the emergent omicron variant of COVID-19 puts a clear truth into focus – there is no post-COVID era. We are still living through a pandemic, our lives are still being disrupted, and our friends, family, neighbors, and comrades are still being endangered as much by the viciousness…

Comrades,  While many of us are going to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families and loved ones, we must also recognize that we occupy the ancestral lands of the Muwekma Ohlone people, and it’s important to learn from Indigenous leaders about their untold history. And, with the turmoil that took place last…

Comrades, On Saturday, many DSA SF members, new and old, and including YDSA members, finally got to meet other comrades in person for the first time at our DSA SF fall social. With the Kyle Rittenhouse trial reaching a verdict soon (while trying not to keep our hopes up) and…

DSA SF’s Fall Social is this Saturday! Come meet your comrades! The DSA SF fall social is this Saturday, November 13 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. by the tennis courts in Dolores Park. Please feel free to bring an individual snack(s). We won’t be bringing anything from the office —…

New to the chapter? Find out more about DSA and how you can contribute to building socialism at Intro to DSA tomorrow! If you’re new to DSA or considering joining, but don’t know where to start, good news! Join us for Intro to DSA on Zoom – you’ll get an…

Join DSA’s Electoral Board voter action network and field training session! Join the DSA Electoral Board and Outreach Committee tomorrow, October 27 at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom for a voter action network and field training session with Avery Yu! We will learn about campaign data and field targeting for our upcoming priority…

DSA SF Weekly Roundup — Setting Priorities Spotlight on: Striketober Although you might not have heard about it, labor actions have been sparked all over the country and San Francisco is no exception. From the walk-in staged by UESF educators, to Giants concessions workers who threatened to strike to demand a fair contract,…

Comrades, We are near the end of Latinx Heritage Month, which began September 15 and ends this Friday, October 15. The date, September 15, marked the 100-year anniversaries of the independence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. All of these countries and others in the Global South…

Comrades, Last week, we marched in solidarity with tenants from the Embarcadero to Veritas headquarters on Market and Bush as the statewide eviction moratorium expired. You can also read about it here in the San Francisco Independent Journal. The day after, DSA SF member and District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston declared his district…

Comrades, In case you missed the latest updates on our social media channels, here are some recent posts: Some members of the Labor Circle staged a walk-in last week to demand more safety in schools. Read about it here in the San Francisco Independent Journal. We wrote a Twitter thread regarding…

Comrades, This summer, DSA SF committed ourselves to developing a set of ballot measures that build power for the working class and train leaders in our chapter. As a chapter priority, the work of developing ballot measures that may someday become law will be a challenging process that all DSA…

Comrades, Yesterday, we celebrated Labor Day as unemployment benefits expired for millions of Americans and protections against evictions are ceasing. Even as working-class couriers are forced to deliver Grubhub orders during a flood or drive Ubers to rescue people from wildfires, those same workers face conditions that are ever more…

Comrades, We’d like to end the month of August by commemorating Black August, which honors the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, and to call for the release of all political prisoners, abolition of all prisons, and to continue to build power for Black liberation. Exactly 50 years…

Dear comrades, Despite the media telling us the US military had been in Afghanistan to help the Afghan people, we know that’s not the case – the Afghan people have long suffered under US violence, and will now continue to suffer under the Taliban. The 20-year occupation – and the…

Comrades, The chapter has been busy! At the August regular meeting, priority campaign leaders reported on what they’ve been working on, such as establishing subcommittees for the ballot measure campaign and presenting a plan of work for the next year to build a true multicultural working class. We also recently…