SV-DSA has re-endorsed Lissette Espinoza-Garnica for City Council in Redwood City. Lissette is a former member of chapter leadership and has been fighting for workers and tenants as a council member in Redwood City over the past few years. This is the last weekend before ballots drop, so it is one of the best chances... Read more »
Ballots for the 2024 election are dropping soon and this is our last chance to reach voters face-to-face. We are continuing to support our endorsed candidate for Santa Clara County District 5 Supervisor, Sally Lieber, with our people-powered campaign. The landlord SuperPAC in California, CAA, has been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to support... Read more »
The electoral working group is meeting to determine what campaigns and strategies we will pursue in 2025. We will survey potential elections, policy issues being considered at the municipal and county levels, and pursuing ranked choice voting. We will also discuss re-chartering the working group at our yearly convention. The meeting is open to all.... Read more »
The electoral working group will meet to continue discussing ongoing electoral projects. We will continue strategizing for local adoption of ranked choice voting in elections, creating renter and tenant-supportive policies like rent control and tenant/community opportunity to purchase, and adopting our working group charter at the upcoming chapter convention. All are welcome to join. We... Read more »
At our annual Chapter Convention, members overwhelmingly voted in favor of having our chapter officially adopt a position to advocate for the adoption of ranked choice voting in Santa Clara County Elections. The resolution passed with no opposition, indicating the depth of support from membership. Our first action in support of the resolution will be... Read more »
The electoral working group will have a meeting to discuss strategy and internal organizing housekeeping topics on Wednesday April 23 from 6:30-7:30 on Zoom. After unanimous support from members at our annual chapter convention in support of ranked choice voting, we mobilized to a County meeting. We will debrief from that meeting and plan for... Read more »
The electoral working group will have a meeting on Zoom on May 8 from 6:30-7:30. We will continue our discussions and strategizing around Ranked Choice Voting. We will also elect co-chairs for the working group for the coming year. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/D986DtGxR9u-0EtxFwmGuw
The Electoral Working Group will meet on Wednesday May 21 at 6:30 pm on Zoom. We are making plans for a June Social event in support of Ranked Choice Voting in addition to other regular topics of discussion. If you'd like to get involved, come join us! Register for the Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1RVsTdIgReuaYXXxGvwb2Q
The Electoral Working Group will meet on Wednesday June 4th at 6:30 pm on Zoom. We are making plans for a June Social event in support of Ranked Choice Voting in addition to other regular topics of discussion. If you’d like to get involved, come join us! Zoom Agenda
We are planning an exciting Brew & Chew Event at Strike Brewing on June 20 in support of Santa Clara County adopting Ranked Choice Voting. We'll also have a how to talk to non-socialists skill building training just before that. But to make sure everything goes smoothly, we need to get together and organize in... Read more »
We are helping run an event to help build broad support for Ranked Choice Voting at Strike Brewing with a Brew and Chew event. Since this event is open to the public, there will be many people who are not socialists who join us. With decades of Red Scare propaganda, many people have an aversion... Read more »
Join Silicon Valley DSA for a fun night at Strike Brewing in San Jose! We’ll hang out, eat cookies, and talk about how Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) can make our elections fairer. This event is our start to showing local leaders that folks here support RCV. Come by, bring a friend, and help us build... Read more »
Socialist electoral work has had a big boost with the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral primary! Comrade Zohran was the keynote speaker at our National Convention in 2023 and now is poised to govern the largest city in the US. His victory came through hard work of working class people like us,... Read more »
The electoral working group meets every other Wednesday at 6:30 PM on Zoom. Our major ongoing campaign is to advocate for the adoption of Ranked Choice Voting in County elections. We have a close out event for our Brew & Chew RCV social where winners in the election will be announced coming at the end... Read more »
Last month we opened ballots for our Brew & Chew Ranked Choice Voting social event at Strike Brewing in San Jose. We will be closing ballots and announcing the winners at Strike on Friday, July 25! Come join us to socialize with comrades, hear the election results, and spread the word about ranked choice voting... Read more »
The electoral working group will have a meeting on Wednesday July 30 from 6:30-7:30 pm. We will debrief from our recent Brew & Chew event, make further plans for our Ranked Choice Voting campaign, and plan for future working group actions. All are welcome. Register for the Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KCzhOShhQISDcMrCn2Cs6A
The electoral working group will meet to discuss and plan for current and future electoral projects, including our campaign for adoption of Ranked Choice Voting in local elections. All are welcome. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lMhKwarkTNqJPSg6qjXeUQ
