During the early morning of March 18, as people were asleep or preparing suhoor to begin their Ramadan fast, the Israeli occupation forces openly resumed the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza. Over 400 Palestinians were murdered in a single day, including 174 children – one of the largest child death tolls in Gaza ever recorded.… Read more »
Official Statements
SVDSA opposes AB 1468’s racist attacks on ethnic studies
The Silicon Valley Democratic Socialists of America condemn the introduction of California Assembly Bill 1468 (Zbur, Addis), which seeks to distort ethnic studies curricula to focus exclusively on the “domestic” experiences of historically marginalized groups in American society. We oppose the proposed restriction to focus on “domestic” experiences, because foreign policy evidently affects various ethnic… Read more »
On the 2024 US national election
The results of the election are frightening and difficult to process. DSA knows that Donald Trump and the Republican Party will be a terror on the working class while they remain in power. This terror will disproportionately impact already vulnerable communities, including people who are Black, indigenous, Hispanic, queer, immigrants, and more, as it did… Read more »
SVDSA Unanimously Passes Anti-Zionist Resolution
Today, a nuclear-armed state rains down terror on an oppressed population of natives, behind a multi-billion dollar shield of rockets protecting its settlers. Built on the ethnic cleansing of almost a million natives, the occupying state imposes a system of apartheid and ethnosupremacy over its claimed territories, placing its own settlers’ rights above the natives’… Read more »
Statement on the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh
Supporters of Palestinian rights around the world are taking action to prevent the imminent displacement of at least 1,000 Palestinians, including 500 children from the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank, an area Israel has declared a military firing zone. On May 4th, 2022, the Israeli High Court issued its final decision in… Read more »
Silicon Valley DSA Statement Regarding SCOTUS Overturning Roe v. Wade
This Friday, the Supreme Court released their ruling on the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. As feared, an unelected and illegitimate Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 decision that protected the right to abortion as an extension of the right to privacy. This undemocratic attack on reproductive freedom by… Read more »
Silicon Valley DSA Stands in Solidarity with Palestinians
In the past week, the state of Israel has escalated its violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel is expelling Palestinian families in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods to make way for more Jewish settlers. When Palestinians protested these expulsions, Israeli police responded with violent repression, including attacks on… Read more »
Letter of Condemnation: Diana Reddy
Silicon Valley DSA condemns the racist, dismissive, and insensitive statements made by Redwood City Councilwoman Diana Reddy in response to widespread public calls to defund the police. Since June, thousands of people around the country and right here in Redwood City have called to defund and descope the police and have asked for concrete action… Read more »
Descope and Defund the Redwood City Police Department, and Reinvest in the Community
Sign our petition to demand that Redwood City defund the police! To: Mayor Howard, Vice Mayor Masur, the City Council of Redwood City, and City Manager Diaz. As a diverse and vibrant city, Redwood City has the opportunity to re-imagine what public safety and justice look like, and to defund oppressive institutions that continue to… Read more »
In Support of Juristac and Against Sargent Quarry
Resolution adopted March 24, 2019 by a general membership vote. Declaration Silicon Valley Democratic Socialists of America (SV DSA) stands together with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band in opposition to profit-driven “development” that threatens Amah Mutsun sacred sites and burials. In particular, SV DSA stands in solidarity with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band in its… Read more »