San Jose Clothing Swap
2025-09-14 12:30 - 16:30, 2025-10-12 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!

Tech Committee Meeting
2025-09-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-09-29 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-13 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
The Tech Committee meets bi-weekly to organize and maintain our chapter’s tech infrastructure: the chapter website (https://svdsa.org), automations, and more! If you’re curious about how we use technology for good or if you want to build systems that attract and empower DSA members, join #cmte-tech-data on Slack or swing by the Zoom!
Register for the Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XbMFPFzMQVGH1sXutjLxRg

Mutual Aid Working Group Meeting
2025-09-17 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
Join the mutual aid working group to help support community-based efforts in the South Bay! No experience is required and everyone has something to contribute! We will be meeting at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center and a zoom link is available for those who cannot join in person.
We will discuss:
– Our current projects such as the San Jose Free Store, our gardens at Grateful Garden and the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, as well as a brake light clinic/repair cafe!
– Supporting South Bay Mutual Aid (SBMA) as one of their coalition members. Sign up to volunteer with SBMA here: https://southbaymutualaid.org/volunteermulti
This meeting will be conducted online.
Register Here for Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zJSg9nsyTrWrXQ-_uOptAQ

Immigrant Rights Flyering
2025-09-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Sunnyvale Caltrain Station, 121 W Evelyn Ave, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, United States
Join the International Solidarity Working Group and the Mutual Aid Working Group to ask business to hang the Rapid Response Network poster and inform community members of their rights if approached by ICE.
Meeting Location Details
Sunnyvale Caltrain Station
121 W Evelyn Ave
Sunnyvale CA 94086
Parking
There is street parking and paid parking in the Caltrain station.
Public Transportation

Bus Stops: Evelyn & Frances (VTA Line 21), Sunnyvale & Evelyn (VTA Line 55)
Train Stop: Sunnyvale Caltrain Station (Caltrain)
Guidelines
Masks are optional for this event.

SJPJC Garden Day
2025-09-20 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-27 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-04 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-11 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-18 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-25 09:00 - 12:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
The Silicon Valley DSA Mutual Aid Working group, in association with San Jose Food Not Bombs and South Bay Mutual Aid, is hosting a garden and build day this Saturday at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center (SJPJC)! We will be moving soil, planting plants, garden maintenance, and finishing the drip irrigation! Be sure to bring gloves, a hat, earplugs, sunglasses, and sunscreen! If you have tools like a shovel, they will be needed!
Location Details
San Jose Peace & Justice Center Parking Lot
48 S. 7th Street
San Jose CA 95112
Parking
There is street parking and parking garages close by on 4th street. Do not park at the Grocery Outlet they will tow your car.
Public Transportation

Bus: 7th & Santa Clara (Rapid 523, 64), San Carlos / 7th (22, 23, 66), San Fernando & 7th (72,73)
Light Rail: Santa Clara Station – Blue and Green Line
Train: San Jose Diridon Station – take Rapid 500 to Santa Clara / 6th or 22 to San Carlos / 7th
Wheelchair Accessibility

We will mostly be working outside the Center itself in the garden. To enter the Center itself: There is a wheelchair lift to access the 1st floor behind the building past the gate. Please ring the doorbell next to the lift for assistance.
Guidelines
For anyone entering the Center, it is recommended that you wear a mask. Thank you!

San José Free Store
2025-09-20 14:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-18 14:00 - 18:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Join Silicon Valley DSA, South Bay Mutual Aid, Food Not Bombs San José, San José Clothing Swap, and Art Pocket SJ, for a really really free goods event in the San José Peace and Justice Center parking lot. We’ll have cleaning supplies, clothes, fresh produce, fire preparedness kits, menstrual products, zines, and more available so that people can take what they need, for free.
Set up begins at 2 to 2:30 PM. The Free Store will run from 3:30 to 6:00 PM and clean up will go from 6-7 PM~. Please wear a mask to prevent the spread of respiratory diseases.
Feel free to bring and leave items you want to donate, but don’t bring more than 50 pounds of items, or items that won’t fit into a 2×2 box.
We look forward to seeing you!
Location Details
San José Peace & Justice Center Parking Lot
48 S. 7th Street
San Jose CA 95112
Parking
There is street parking and parking garages close by on 4th street. Do not park at the Grocery Outlet they will tow your car.
Public Transportation

Bus: 7th & Santa Clara (Rapid 523, 64), San Carlos / 7th (22, 23, 66), San Fernando & 7th (72,73)
Light Rail: Santa Clara Station – Blue and Green Line
Train: San Jose Diridon Station – take Rapid 500 to Santa Clara / 6th or 22 to San Carlos / 7th
Guidelines
For anyone entering the Center, it is recommended that you wear a mask. Thank you!

Last Friday Social: Redwood City!
2025-09-26 18:00 - 21:00 | ROCKN WRAPS, 2053 Broadway, Redwood City, CA, 94063, United States
Curious about socialism but don’t know where to start? In need of some comradely time to unwind? Want to connect with other local comrades and build community?
Join us for a special edition of our monthly Last Friday Social, this time in Redwood City! All ages are welcome. The venue is owned by a Palestinian ally, Ali, who has shown up alongside us to demand a ceasefire at Redwood City’s City Council back in 2023-24. It has food and drinks (including one alcoholic beer option), and is right next to the Redwood City Caltrain station.
Rockn Wraps
2053 Broadway
Redwood City, CA 94063
September 26, 2025
6-9 PM

September Chapter Meeting
2025-09-27 13:00 - 15:00
Join Silicon Valley DSA for our September General Meeting! This meeting will feature updates from our working groups and ongoing projects, as well as a space to connect with comrades and discuss our current and future work as a Chapter.
We welcome everyone to our meetings, whether you’ve been involved for a long time or are curious to learn more. To take part in Chapter decisions as a voting member, please sign up with National DSA at https://dsausa.org/join.
This meeting will be held in person, with the option to participate virtually via Zoom.
2302 Zanker Rd
San Jose, CA 95131
Saturday, September 27th
1PM – 3PM
Register for the Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/M2Ow5-B3THWhk9-M6ILlYw
RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/september-chapter-meeting-7

Member Phonebanking for Measure A after September Chapter Meeting
2025-09-27 15:00 - 15:30 | SEIU Local 521 Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA, 95131
Silicon Valley has endorsed Measure A to help save county hospitals and combat the destruction wrought by Trump’s billionaire tax cut. That means we have to mobilize to speak to everyone we can reach in Santa Clara County. After our monthly September chapter meeting, we will be phonebanking our membership to build support to save critical infrastructure as a first step in response to the robbery of public goods by our ruling class of oligarchs. We will begin the phonebank directly after the conclusion of our chapter meeting at SEIU 521 Union Hall or on Zoom. Bring a laptop of your own, if able. Details for the meeting and Zoom are at the calendar page for that event here: https://siliconvalleydsa.org/event/september-chapter-meeting/

Labor Working Group Meeting
2025-09-30 18:30 - 19:30
Labor is rising in the South Bay–and we need to be partners in the struggle.
Please come to the Labor Working Group meeting at 6:30 on Tuesday the 30th (zoom link below), whether you are a longtime WG member, or new to DSA, and/or labor friendly.
We are gearing up to support the struggle of Starbucks workers–find out details at the meeting. We are salting–find out more, and join that effort if you can. Other workplaces do and will need our help to form unions.
We are planning a screening (on October 16th) of “Union,” which shows the fight to form an Amazon union. (See that calendar entry for details!) Finally, we are working to gather strength and influence within the unions of the South Bay. Please join us!
Silicon Valley DSA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: SV DSA Labor WG meeting
Time: Sep 30, 2025 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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SJPJC Garden Day
2025-10-01 17:30 - 19:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
The Silicon Valley DSA Mutual Aid Working group, in association with San Jose Food Not Bombs, Food not Lawns South Bay, and South Bay Mutual Aid, is hosting a garden and build day this Saturday at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center (SJPJC)! We will be moving soil, planting plants, garden maintenance, and finishing the drip irrigation! Be sure to bring gloves, a hat, earplugs, sunglasses, and sunscreen! If you have tools like a shovel, they will be needed!
Location Details
San Jose Peace & Justice Center Parking Lot
48 S. 7th Street
San Jose CA 95112
Parking
There is street parking and parking garages close by on 4th street. Do not park at the Grocery Outlet they will tow your car.
Public Transportation

Bus: 7th & Santa Clara (Rapid 523, 64), San Carlos / 7th (22, 23, 66), San Fernando & 7th (72,73)
Light Rail: Santa Clara Station – Blue and Green Line
Train: San Jose Diridon Station – take Rapid 500 to Santa Clara / 6th or 22 to San Carlos / 7th
Wheelchair Accessibility

We will mostly be working outside the Center itself in the garden. To enter the Center itself: There is a wheelchair lift to access the 1st floor behind the building past the gate. Please ring the doorbell next to the lift for assistance.
Guidelines
For anyone entering the Center, it is recommended that you wear a mask. Thank you!

Stop the Genocide Rally and March
2025-10-04 15:00 - 17:00 | San Jose City Hall Plaza, 200 E Santa Clara st., San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
RALLY AND MARCH COMMEMORATING TWO YEARS OF GENOCIDE & TWO YEARS OF RESISTANCE!
Join us as we take to the streets to demand an end to the genocide, an end to U.S. aid to Israel, and for San Jose to divest from Israel!
Saturday Oct 4, 3pm, San Jose City Hall
There will be a 1.2 mile march for this action.
Come join our contingent for this rally and march! Find our banner and flag and wear your DSA shirt if you have one! Shirts will also be distributed to members at the rally

Social Committee Meeting
2025-10-08 18:00 - 19:00
Interested in building community and camaraderie? Looking for more opportunities to blow off steam and connect with people who share your values?
Join us to contribute to organizing and facilitating social events!

Use this link to join the meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/socialcommitteemeeting

Labor Movie Night! "Union"
2025-10-16 19:00 - 22:00 | SEIU Local 521 Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA, 95131
A timely and powerful film about the struggle of the workers of Amazon on Staten Island to form a union. The Amazon Labor Union now exists! Check them out here: amazonlaborunion.org
Join us to see and learn from this documentary. There will be a special call-in guest, current ALU President Connor Spence, to talk about more recent developments, and to answer questions.
Hosted at the SEIU521 Labor Hall, 2302 Zanker Road, by SEIU and the Labor Working Group of Silicon Valley DSA. The film starts at 7, on Thursday evening, October 16th. Snacks and drinks will be provided too! Tell your friends; spread the word!

No Kings Rally and March
2025-10-18 12:00 - 14:00 | St. James Park, N. 2nd St., San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Event Details:
Protest Location: McKinley Statue, St. James Park, 180 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Time: Saturday, October 18th, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (noon) – 2:00 p.m.
Attendees are asked to bring their own food and water, hat, sunscreen, and signs and to carpool or use mass transportation wherever possible. St. James Park is a 26 minute walk from Caltrain San Jose Diridon Station and is at the St. James Station on the VTA light rail Blue and Green lines. Parking is available on street and at the following nearby parking garages:
• Market & San Pedro Square Garage, 45 N. Market St., three blocks from the park (first 90 minutes free)
• Third Street Garage: 95 N. Third St., north of Santa Clara St. (first 90 minutes free)
• Fairview Plaza Parking Garage: 50 W. San Fernando, two blocks from the park
Come join our contingent for this rally and march! Find our banner and flag and wear your DSA shirt if you have one! Shirts will also be distributed to members at the rally

Labor Working Group Meeting
2025-10-21 18:30 - 19:30
If you want to build labor power, worker power, this is a meeting for you.
The Labor WG is committed to building power in numerous ways, but we need willing hands to make it happen.
We have already begun building support for the Starbucks Workers United. We are starting an EWOC–an Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee–to be part of the national (and even international) unionization effort–it’s JUST starting, so you can take part in the founding. We are interested in organizing tech workers, as well as more gig-oriented situations, like Starbucks and rideshare drivers. And, we are building Silicon Valley DSA’s presence and power in the South Bay Labor Council.
Please join us on zoom, Tuesday, October 21st, from 6:30-7:30.
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Last Friday Social: Walking Tour & Socialize
2025-10-24 17:30 - 21:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Curious about socialism but don’t know where to start? In need of some comradely time to unwind? Want to connect with other local comrades and build community? Join us for our October Last Friday Social!
This month, we will be taking a 90 minute guided tour to learn about the history of activism and progressivism in San José. It begins at the San José Peace & Justice Center and ends near city hall.
After the tour, we will meet nearby to socialize, eat, and drink at Peanuts Deluxe Cafe, a business that recently changed ownership and became a co-op. Peanuts will also be hosting open mic night, so feel free to prepare something if you want to participate!
Hope you can make it! Feel free to bring friends, family, or anyone else who is interested.

Last Friday Social – 10/24
Walking Tour

Starting Point: San José Peace & Justice Center – 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA 95112
Meet at: 5:40pm
Ends: ~7:10pm
Tour Locations:

SJ Peace & Justice Center
SJSU Chavez Arch
Black Power Statue
Internment Monument (South Second Street)
Ernesto Galarza Table (Market Street)
Former CPUSA Headquarters (Post Street)
Sarah Knox-Goodrich Building (First Street)
UFW Mural (4th Street)

*If you drive, DO NOT park in the Grocery Outlet parking lot. Your car will get towed.*
Socialize & Open Mic Night

Location: Peanuts Deluxe Cafe – 275 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA 95112
Time: ~7:15pm – 9:00pm
Open Mic Night!
They do serve food and drinks (no peanuts)

Last Friday Social 10.2025 by SV DSA

DSA 101
2025-10-25 12:15 - 13:00 | SEIU Local 521 Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA, 95131
At DSA, we believe a better world is possible. But the only way it can happen is if we organize together as members of the working class to restructure society based on human needs. DSA is the largest socialist organization in the United States, but we have to grow even larger to change our society. One barrier to growth is lack of knowledge about socialism in general and DSA as an organization specifically.
What is socialism? How can we achieve it? What projects does Silicon Valley DSA work on? How is our chapter structured to do work? How can I get involved? We are running a DSA 101 event where we will answer these questions and any others that you bring. This event is open to the public, and we encourage non-members to get involved and come with any questions.
The event will be held at SEIU 521 Union Hall on Saturday October 25 at 12:15-1 PM, right before our monthly General Chapter Meeting.
A hybrid Zoom option is available. Register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Dkzcam-2SjerPLuBlEGQOQ

Beyond Survival: Disability, Resilience and Justice
2025-10-25 13:00 - 16:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Join the San Jose Peace and Justice Center and partners in hosting a diverse panel discussion exploring what it means to grieve the self we used to be and how to nurture resilience in the face of that loss. Together, we will reflect on the complexities of self- grief, honor the emotions that come with change, and explore ways to imagine hope, identity, and purpose.
How does this go beyond the individual? How, as a community, can we support those of us with a disability?
This event is co-sponsored by Silicon Valley DSA!

Location Details
San Jose Peace & Justice Center Parking Lot
48 S. 7th Street
San Jose CA 95112
Parking
There is street parking and parking garages close by on 4th street. Do not park at the Grocery Outlet they will tow your car.
Public Transportation

Bus: 7th & Santa Clara (Rapid 523, 64), San Carlos / 7th (22, 23, 66), San Fernando & 7th (72,73)
Light Rail: Santa Clara Station – Blue and Green Line
Train: San Jose Diridon Station – take Rapid 500 to Santa Clara / 6th or 22 to San Carlos / 7th
Wheelchair Accessibility

We will mostly be working outside the Center itself in the garden. To enter the Center itself: There is a wheelchair lift to access the 1st floor behind the building past the gate. Please ring the doorbell next to the lift for assistance.
Guidelines
For anyone entering the Center, a mask is required for this event. Thank you!

October Chapter Meeting
2025-10-25 13:00 - 16:00 | SEIU Local 521 Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA, 95131
Join Silicon Valley DSA for our October General Meeting! This meeting will feature updates from our working groups and ongoing projects, as well as a space to connect with comrades and discuss our current and future work as a Chapter. We will also have a skill-building session on “How to Crack Public Speaking”! Towards the end at 3-4 PM, we will phone bank our members whose DSA membership is expiring about renewing, Measure A, and Prop 50.
We welcome everyone to our meetings, whether you’ve been involved for a long time or are curious to learn more. To take part in Chapter decisions as a voting member, please sign up with National DSA at https://dsausa.org/join.
This meeting will be held in person, with the option to participate virtually via Zoom.
Register for the Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tIHLftJaS7S-kK3Lf8fLaw
RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/2025-10-25-chapter-meeting
2302 Zanker Rd
San Jose, CA 95131
Saturday, October 25
1–4 PM
