Silicon Valley DSA

Nakba Day Rally
2026-05-15 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Show up as we join SJAW, Silicon Valley DSA, and other orgs in front of MLK Library for a rally and march as all of us commemorate the 78th year of the Nakba where in 1948 the Zionist project originally displaced 750,000 Palestinians and expelled them from their homes to establish the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. The occupation forces continue its violence in the West Bank and Gaza all on the U.S. taxpayer dollars.
We must continue the struggle for a Free Palestine! We must STAND UP and FIGHT BACK!
📍 Rally starts at MLK Library
⏰ Friday, May 15th, 6:00PM

Food Not Bombs San José Sunday Serve
2026-05-17 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-05-24 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-05-31 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-06-07 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-06-14 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-06-21 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-06-28 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-07-05 14:00 - 15:30 and 8 more dates | St. James Park, N. 2nd St., San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Join Food not Bombs San José in providing free food, hygiene supplies, fresh produce, and clothing to the community no questions asked.
Location Details:
St. James Park
N Second St
San Jose CA 95112
Parking:
There is street parking and parking garages close by at San Pedro
Public Transportation:
Bus: 2nd & Santa Clara (72, 73), 1st & Santa Clara (72, 73)
Light Rail: St. James Station – Blue Line South and Green Line North
Train: San Jose Diridon Station – take Line 64A to Santa Clara & 2nd

Defend Public Education: Support ACE
2026-05-20 16:30 - 19:00 | Santa Clara County Office of Education, 1290 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA, 95131, United States
Join us in advocating for our students’ futures! Together, we can stop classroom closures, rescind layoffs, and invest in our children’s success. Mark your calendars for this Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 4:30 PM—your voice matters!

Community Briefing: NO to the proposed Gilroy ICE facility
2026-05-22 10:00 - 11:30 | CA
ICE is trying to move to build a facility in South County — and our community is fighting back.
Although there is not definitive information about the future use for this land, our community will be vigilant and organized to ensure ICE can not expand deportation operations in the Bay at this site.
On May 22, join us for a community briefing to get the full picture: what we know, what’s at stake, and how we stop it. This is your chance to hear directly from community leaders, ask questions, and plug into the campaign.
This facility would threaten the safety and well being of immigrant families across the entire region. Research has consistently shown that communities located near ICE detention centers experience increased enforcement activity and higher rates of arrests—a pattern that puts immigrant families, mixed-status households, and entire neighborhoods at greater risk.
Santa Clara County is home to one of the largest immigrant populations in California. For years, county leaders and community organizations have fought to pass and defend strong sanctuary protections because they know that the safety of immigrant residents is inseparable from the safety and well being of the whole county. A new ICE detention center in Gilroy would be a direct threat to everything those protections stand for.
Sign up here for a link to join: https://actionnetwork.org/events/community-briefing-no-to-the-proposed-gilroy-ice-facility

San Jose Clothing Swap
2026-06-14 12:30 - 16:30, 2026-07-12 12:30 - 16:30, 2026-08-09 12:30 - 16:30 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
SJ Clothing Swap is mutual aid for our community through clothing and fabric, with an emphasis on sustainability, queer expression, intersectional community care, accessibility, and community organizing. We’re focused on:
– Quality clothes for all
– Being a safe space for exploring your style and gender expression
– Building local community and making new friends
– Combating fast fashion, clothing overproduction & overconsumption, and textile waste (keeping clothes out of landfills)
We want to help you clear your closet of clothes, shoes and accessories that you don’t wear, and take home amazing new styles for free! We stop taking donations at 3:30 PM!

All Hands on Deck! Stand Against Flock in Palo Alto
2026-06-15 17:00 - 18:30 | Palo Alto City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA, United States
All Hands On Deck! Indivisible Palo Alto Plus and the Safety Over Surveillance Palo Alto Coalition are organizing one final targeted action in Palo Alto before the Council goes on Summer Recess. SV-DSA is a founding member of the SOS Coalition.
The plan is simple: Show up for pizza on the Plaza at 5pm and join us in Council Chambers during General Comments at 5:30pm. Two designated spokespeople from the coalition will urge the council to (1) cover Flock cameras while council researches Flock during the summer recess, and (2) cancel the city’s Flock contract, especially in light of federal plans to open two detention centers in the Bay Area. You do not need to be a Palo Alto resident and will not be asked to speak. Since the Council will not be able to take action, our goal is not to bombard the Council with public comments, but to provide them with a few parting remarks to consider during the break and demonstrate popular opposition to the cameras by mass mobilization.
More information can be found at https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/971008/ and please RSVP so we know how much pizza to order.
We hope you’ll join us!

Democracy Forum - Who's Watching? Safeguarding Our Privacy
2026-06-28 15:00 - 17:30 | First Presbyterian Church Palo Alto
Silicon Valley DSA is an active participant in opposing automated license plate readers and the expansion of the surveillance state in Santa Clara County. We are members of the Safety Over Surveillance (SOS) coalition that supports evidence-based approaches to promoting public safety and community needs over building a panopticon that erodes our democracy and civil liberties. Join us with Indivisible Palo Alto + and the SOS coalition for a forum on democracy and mass surveillance on Sunday, June 28 from 3-5:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto (1140 Cowper St.).
Register for the event here: https://www.mobilize.us/ipaplus/event/961311/
Event description from webpage:

About this event

Democracy cannot flourish when privacy is under threat.
Rulers have spied on their subjects since time immemorial. The less democratic the government, the greater the impulse to monitor its population.
Our founders established safeguards against this behavior—most notably, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. However, two trends are coalescing to fuel a new and dangerous era of American mass surveillance:

The rise of Big Tech and digital surveillance capacities that reach far beyond anything that James Madison could have imagined
A federal government that, instead of upholding the right to privacy, seeks to weaponize technology to consolidate its power and to marginalize or prosecute political rivals

Mass surveillance of American citizens has arrived at federal and local levels. It has the potential to radically alter the lives of every American—and to radically shape the future of our democracy.
Participants in this session of Democracy Forum will explore the “brave new world” of mass surveillance, its impact on our everyday lives, and its implications for our democracy. They will also learn about ways to counter mass surveillance and to protect their privacy.
PROGRAM
Nationally recognized experts will discuss these critical developments:

The latest “advances” in surveillance technology and deployment
The actions of the Trump administration to promote mass surveillance
The growing alliance of Big Government and Big Tech
The spread of surveillance technology in our communities
The proliferation of apps on our personal devices (including mobile phones and personal computers) that monitor our actions and speech, both online and offline
The increasing adoption of mass surveillance methods by ICE and other agencies
The use of mass surveillance technologies to target, harass, and prosecute people of color and vulnerable populations

Following a plenary session featuring expert panel, there will be a series of breakout sessions:

Digital Privacy
Cameras on Our Streets: Automated License Plate Readers and Us
Mass Surveillance and Racial Justice
Mass Surveillance and Dissent
Legal Protections and Remedies: What Is Working and What Has Failed

Participants will leave with deepened knowledge and understanding of these topics:

How mass surveillance affects our lives—on our personal devices and in our local communities
How mass surveillance intersects or conflicts with democracy, privacy, and civil liberties
How the alliance of Big Government and Big Tech threatens constitutional and legal privacy protections
How organized citizens can work to protect public safety and civil liberties

SPEAKERS
A wide range of experts on mass surveillance and civil liberties will lead the plenary and breakout sessions. Here are the speakers confirmed thus far:
Cindy Cohn has led the Electronic Frontier Foundation—an organization that defends civil liberties in the digital age—for the past thirty years. A leading advocate against government overreach, she has spearheaded landmark legal battles to limit mass surveillance and to protect constitutional rights against threats posed by modern technology.
Cyrus Farivar is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has focused on technology policy, surveillance law, and consumer privacy. He has covered tech policy for several media outlets, including Ars Technica, Forbes, and NBC News. In addition, he has written two books, The Internet of Elsewhere (2011) and Habeas Data (2018). In 2025, he joined Fire Aside, a startup that develops software for fire departments. He is based in Oakland.
Brian Hofer is the executive director of Secure Justice. He is also the architect of Oakland’s pioneering surveillance technology ordinance and the chair of its privacy advisory commission. A privacy advocate known for his work on local government oversight, he specializes in turning civil rights advocacy into enforceable policy that limits unwarranted state spying.
Reem Sulaiman is the senior campaigns director at Fight for the Future, a nonprofit digital rights group that focuses on internet freedom and anti-surveillance advocacy. Previously, she served as the U.S. advocacy lead for the Mozilla Foundation. Based in Oakland, she has deep experience in local civic tech policy and served as an original member of the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission
CONNECT. LEARN. ACT.
Who’s Watching? Safeguarding Our Privacy is the third presentation of Democracy Forum, a series of action-oriented events hosted by Indivisible Palo Alto Plus. Democracy Forum aims to provide a “deep dive” educational experience that will equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools that they need to preserve and strengthen the American democratic experiment.

ICE Out of Gilroy and Dublin--World Cup
2026-07-01 15:00 | Lick Mill Station, 2221 Tasman Dr., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Join SVDSA and other anti-ICE coalition members, like Bay Resistance, as we demand that ICE leave the place we call home, and leave our neighbors in peace.
The federal government plans to build ICE detention centers in Gilroy and Dublin. If this happens, operations in the bay area will increase and our neighbors will be put at risk. We must speak out against these dangerous and cruel detention centers. We must demand that ICE leaves and stays out of the Bay Area. We must demand that ICE be abolished.

This event will start at 3PM and we will meet at Lick Mill Station (2221 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara 95054). This location is accessible from VTA’s green and orange lines.
Stay tuned to this page for more information.

ICE Out of the Bay - Banner Drop Peaceful Protest (Morgan Hill)
2026-07-03 13:00 - 17:00 | CA
Join us in Morgan Hill on the Burnett Ave Overpass for a peaceful protest, showing others we stand against ICE presence in South County.

ICE Out of the Bay - Banner Drop Peaceful Protest (Gilroy)
2026-07-03 16:30 - 17:30 | CA
Join us in Gilroy for a peaceful protest against ICE presence in the bay area. We will be starting in San Ysidro Park for a pinata breaking, then moving on to the 6th Street overpass for a banner drop styled protest.

ICE Out of Gilroy March
2026-07-19 15:00 - 18:00 | San Ysidro Park, 7700 Murray Ave, Gilroy, CA, 95020, United States
Join San Jose Coalition Against Trump and ICE out of Gilroy to oppose the construction of an ICE facility capable of holding detainees!
The detention center would allow ICE the necessary infrastructure to hold operations such as Midway Blitz in the Bay Area. Locally, we haven’t seen the full scale of attacks and won’t allow them to operate to such an extent! As of 2025 to now, up to 51 immigrants have died in detention, we cannot allow any more deaths! We must stand up and Fight back and organize against ICE attacks whether through protests, barrio walks or campaigns to prevent any detention centers in the South Bay! We demand ICE OUT!
LEGALIZATION FOR ALL! FREE THEM ALL!
-July 19th 3PM
Meet at 7700 Murray Ave
March to 7240 Holsclaw RD

ICE Out of the Bay Rally
2026-07-22 17:00 - 20:00 | Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA, 95116, United States
ICE OUT THE BAY

From Gilroy to Dublin

Wednesday, July 22 at 5pm
Mexican Heritage Plaza (corner of Alum Rock and King) 1700 Alum Rock Ave. San Jose, 95116

Let’s come together to tell ICE that they are not welcome in our community!

Questions? DM us or email jbarousse@amigosdeguadalupe.org

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¡FUERA ICE DE LA BAHÍA!

De Gilroy a Dublin

Miércoles, 22 de julio a las 5pm
Mexican Heritage Plaza (esquina de Alum Rock y King) 1700 Alum Rock Ave. San Jose, 95116

¡Unámonos para decirle a ICE que no es bienvenido en nuestra comunidad!

¿Preguntas? Envíanos un mensaje directo o escribe a jbarousse@amigosdeguadalupe.org

Democracy Forum - Meet the Authors of "On Courage"
2026-07-29 12:00 - 13:30 | First Presbyterian Church Palo Alto
Silicon Valley DSA has endorsed the fourth installment of the Democracy Forum organized by our allies Indivisible Palo Alto + on Wednesday July 29 from 12-1:30 PM. The event takes place at the First Presbyterian Church and is a “brown bag” bring your own lunch format.
Register for the event here: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/991799/
Event description from the organizers:

About this event

​On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear is a new book that’s made for this moment—and a book written for all of us who are trying to defend democracy in these perilous, promising times.
“INVALUABLE. A CLASSIC OF OUR TIME. Everybody should read it,” says Rachel Maddow of MS-NOW. The book’s publisher calls On Courage “a deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian—based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world.”
Join us for a special DEMOCRACY FORUM appearance by Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer, the authors of On Courage. Anguin and Fields-Meyer will be in conversation with David Waksberg, a local Indivisible leader and a former human rights activist.
Julia is a Palo Alto native who, along with her co-author, Ami, has agreed to make time during her national book tour to meet with Indivisible members and friends from across the Peninsula.
The event takes place at lunchtime, so attendees are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch. Snacks and drinks will be provided. The facility will open 11:30 AM, so please arrive early to enjoy your lunch with other attendees.
Angwin and Fields-Meyer will sign copies of their book, and the book will be available for purchase at the event.
ABOUT THE BOOK
From the publisher’s description of On Courage:
The United States is only the latest country to face a leader who wields fear as a weapon, punishes political enemies, disappears people off the street, and undermines free and fair elections. Today nearly three out of four people on earth live under authoritarianism, the highest rate since the late 1970s.
But even under repressive conditions, each of us holds the power to help defeat autocrats. Based on their acclaimed The New Yorker essay “So You Want to Be a Dissident?,” veteran reporter Julia Angwin and political strategist Ami Fields-Meyer give us a captivating—and profoundly hopeful—guide to courage in an age of fear.
Meet a student from Hong Kong who risked everything for democracy. A mom in a working-class neighborhood of Caracas who broke with the political movement that raised her. Cairo twentysomethings who staged a gutsy stunt to help bring down a dictator. A mild-mannered immigrant fighting to save a landmark U.S. civil rights law. People throughout the United States and across five continents who faced serious risks for dissenting in their workplace, their community, or their country. On Courage is the story of how they did it anyway—and how you can do it, too.
Blending rich, previously untold narratives with history, spirituality, and movement research, Angwin and Fields-Meyer deliver a highly accessible book full of practical lessons—an inspiring resource for anyone, anywhere, who feel the walls of history closing in on them. On Courage is a roadmap to political courage and a powerful case for how taking personal risks can help save the free world.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author, a New York Times contributing Opinion writer, and founding director of the Independent Media + Audience Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She is the founder of two nonprofit newsrooms—Proof News and The Markup – that investigate the impacts of technology. She is a winner and two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance (Times Books, 2014) and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, March 2009).
Ami Fields-Meyer is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and a former senior policy advisor at the White House, where he led U.S. policy initiatives related to civil rights, consumer protection, and technology policy. He has served as a strategist to national civil rights organizations, political candidates, and high-profile public officials from Los Angeles City Hall to the West Wing. Fields-Meyer’s writing on issues of democracy and public policy has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and other outlets. A former speechwriter, he is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
SPONSORING PARTNERS

Blue Turn Indivisible
Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice
Silicon Valley Democratic Socialists of America

ABOUT DEMOCRACY FORUM
This special author event is the fourth presentation of Democracy Forum, a series of action-oriented events hosted by Indivisible Palo Alto Plus. Democracy Forum aims to provide a “deep dive” educational experience that will equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools that they need to preserve and strengthen the American democratic experiment.
