Silicon Valley DSA

San Jose Clothing Swap
2026-07-12 12:30 - 16:30, 2026-08-09 12:30 - 16:30, 2026-09-13 12:30 - 16:30, 2026-10-11 12:30 - 16:30, 2026-11-08 12:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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!

Food Not Bombs San José Sunday Serve
2026-07-12 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-07-19 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-07-26 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-08-02 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-08-09 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-08-16 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-08-23 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-08-30 14:00 - 15:30 and 14 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

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.
