Silicon Valley DSA

SVDSA Bike Ride
2025-12-07 08:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Grab your bikes and come out for a ride on Sunday December 7th with your comrades! The ride will be up to 40 miles if you complete the entire route, but there are options to make it shorter. Meet at Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto at 8:30am on 12/7!
See the link below for more details. Don’t forget your helmet!
SV DSA Bike Route 12/7

Cubberley Community Center – 4000 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Tech Committee Meeting
2025-12-08 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-22 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

SJPJC Garden Day
2025-12-13 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-20 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-27 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-03 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-10 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-17 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-24 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-31 09:00 - 12:00 and 3 more dates | 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!

SV DSA Holiday Party!
2025-12-13 18:30 - 22:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
​Grab your festive sweaters and join us for Silicon Valley DSA’s Holiday Party! Socialize with comrades and acknowledge the work we’ve done this year. Food and beverages provided. We suggest a holiday sweater or semi-formal/business casual attire. We will have a limited number of Santa hats available as well. Hope you can make it!
For parking, it may be easiest to find a spot on 6th or 7th street between Santa Clara & St. John. There’s also a public garage on 5th between Santa Clara and St. John. Whatever you do, take care NOT to park in the Grocery Outlet parking lot. They will tow.
RSVP Here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/silicon-valley-dsa-holiday-party

San Jose Clothing Swap
2025-12-14 12:30 - 16:30, 2026-01-11 12:30 - 16:30, 2026-02-08 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!

Labor Working Group Meeting
2025-12-16 18:30 - 19:30 | CA
Join the Labor Working Group in organizing workers of Silicon Valley as we fight for the basic human dignity of all laborers! We will discuss the chapter’s involvement in local labor actions and our own programming. If you have topics you’d like to bring up, please share in the chapter Slack!
Register for zoom meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XzrzeaAyQ8i7RVGGrhu8Yg
Read more about the Labor Working Group: https://siliconvalleydsa.org/labor/

Mutual Aid Working Group Meeting
2025-12-17 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-01-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-02-18 18:30 - 19:30 | CA
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

Community Safety Working Group Meeting
2025-12-17 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
Join the community safety working group to help support efforts to improve the safety of our communities in the South Bay! No experience is required and everyone has something to contribute! We will be meeting via Zoom, please register with the link below, from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm.

Register for Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/33Ti1dehTzOblxmkrwLH5Q

Political Education Event: Vietnam War Discussion
2025-12-17 19:30 - 20:30
This month, instead of a Socialist Night School, we are going to do a “book club” type meet-up on zoom. But instead of a book, just listen to this podcast episode, and then we will gather to chit chat about it.
The topic is Socialism Around the World: Vietnam Edition.
The podcast episode is The Vietnam War run by RevLeft Radio. You can find it on their website, spotify, or apple music.The episode is 2 hours. If you have limited time, here are some recommended snippets:

For a 55 min version: 10:44 – 1:05:22
For a 25 min version: 40:22 – 1:05:22
For a 0 min version: just come even if you don’t listen, we’ll go over some of the content (very high-level) before discussing

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81524710609?pwd=[REDACTED]

San José Free Store
2025-12-20 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-17 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-02-21 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!

Immigrant Rights Canvas
2025-12-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Palo Alto Caltrain Station, 95 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, United States
Join the International Solidarity Working Group, Community Safety, 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
Palo Alto Caltrain Station
95 University Ave
Palo Alto CA 94301
Parking
There is street parking and paid parking in the Caltrain Station
Public Transportation

Bus:
Light Rail:
Train: Palo Alto Caltarin Station
Guidelines
Masks are optional for this event.

Social Committee Meeting
2026-01-01 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
Interested in building community and camaraderie? Looking for more opportunities to blow off steam and connect with people who share your values?
Join the Social Committee for our monthly meeting to help organize and facilitate social events for our comrades!
Register for the Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LWghXCCVSh29sc6AtS4Zqg
