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July 2024
Really Really Free Store
Join Silicon Valley DSA, South Bay Mutual Aid, and San Jose Food Not Bombs, for a really really free goods event in the Peace and Justice Center parking lot. We’ll have cleaning supplies, clothes, book, zines, children’s toys, fire preparedness kits, and more available so that people can take what they need, for free. Please wear a mask to prevent the spread of COVID and other respiratory diseases. We will only allow 20 people in the parking lot at the…
Find out more »Labor WG Meeting
Join SVDSA’s Labor working group for our biweekly meeting as we discuss how SVDSA members can channel growing popular interest in unionization into effective labor action and wins for working people. Meeting to be held on Zoom. Zoom info will be sent after registering - register here
Find out more »SVDSA Electoral Working Group Meeting
Come join the Electoral Working Group as we discuss our orientation towards the 2024 general election. We will also make plans to support Sally Lieber, our endorsed candidate for Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors District 5. Meeting is on Thursday, July 25 from 6 - 7 PM on zoom. All are welcome! Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcu-rqjwiGtK7BzuI7mPP2i9hCChpiwTQ
Find out more »Leadership Meeting: Chapter Committee
The elected officers (Chapter Committee) meet every two weeks or more on zoom to check in on our chapter’s admin committees, make decisions on behalf of the chapter in between general meetings, and collaborate on urgent tasks. If you’re interested in the nuts and bolts of chapter administration or have questions for the officers, you’re welcome to attend. This session will discuss getting the Solidarity Fund restart in motion. All members with concerns regarding the Solidarity Fund are invited to…
Find out more »Leadership Meeting: Chapter Committee
The elected officers (Chapter Committee) meet every two weeks or more on zoom to check in on our chapter’s admin committees, make decisions on behalf of the chapter in between general meetings, and collaborate on urgent tasks. If you’re interested in the nuts and bolts of chapter administration or have questions for the officers, you’re welcome to attend. Registration link for zoom TBD.
Find out more »SVDSA July Chapter Meeting
Join Silicon Valley DSA for our July General Meeting featuring 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 have been involved for a long time or are just curious to learn more. To take part in chapter decisions as a voting member of the chapter, please sign up with National DSA here. This…
Find out more »August 2024
International Solidarity WG Meeting
Join our International Solidarity Working Group as we organize for a free Palestine, an end to U.S. support for fascism, and a liberated international working class! Please request to join our Google Group for the Zoom link: https://groups.google.com/g/sv-dsa-wg-international/about . Click "Ask to join group" if you have a GMail account, or "Contact owners and managers" if you do not. You can also reach out to #wg-international-solidarity on Slack.
Find out more »Leadership Working Meeting: Chapter Committee
The elected officers (Chapter Committee) are meeting to get some outstanding administrative tasks done in a group setting. If you’re interested in the nuts and bolts of chapter administration or have questions for the officers, you’re welcome to attend. Register here.
Find out more »SV-DSA Support for Cori Bush and St. Louis DSA
The International Solidarity Working Group and Electoral Working Group from Silicon Valley DSA are organizing a joint phonebanking effort to support DSA comrade Rep. Cori Bush in her primary effort in St. Louis. Cori has been one of the strongest national voices against the genocide in Gaza, and AIPAC is funneling millions of dollars to her primary opponent. The race is on Tuesday, August 6, and it will be close. It may come down to how successfully Democratic Socialists of…
Find out more »Housing Working Group
The Silicon Valley DSA Housing Working Group is organizing for housing as a human right. For us, the way to this goal involves both organizing as tenants to build direct power in our communities as well as proposing and advocating for policies that improve material conditions for everyone affected by the housing crisis. We want to shift power away from landlords and developers and live in a world where housing is for people not for profit. This meeting will be…
Find out more »2024-08-07 Electoral Working Group Meeting
The SV-DSA Electoral Working Group will have its next meeting Wednesday, August 7 on Zoom from 7:30-8:30. We are roughly three months out from the election in November and will take the time to build up our ground game to support class struggle candidates. All are welcome to join. Zoom registration link here: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwoc-qhqzwiG9FJnuEFghYbYYkOT31sJ5Td
Find out more »Leadership Working Meeting: Chapter Committee
The elected officers (Chapter Committee) are meeting to get some outstanding administrative tasks done in a group setting. If you’re interested in the nuts and bolts of chapter administration or have questions for the officers, you’re welcome to attend. Register here.
Find out more »Leadership Retreat
The SV-DSA Chapter Officers and Working Group Co-Chairs are gathering for a leadership retreat. We will review our activities over the past year, strategize goals for the rest of the Leadership term, and build social cohesion to amplify our organizing efforts together. Join us at the Joyce Ellington Branch Library in San Jose at 2 PM! Location Details Joyce Ellington Branch Library 491 E Empire St San Jose, CA 95112 Parking There is parking at the library as well as…
Find out more »Mutual Aid Working Group
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 discuss: supporting South Bay Mutual Aid (SBMA) as one of their coalition members sign up to volunteer with SBMA here: https://southbay.aidnetwork.org donate to SBMA here by selecting the “Mutual Aid Fund”: https://siliconvalleydsa.org/donate/ our current projects such as the really really free store, clothing drive, unhoused support, the garden box, and much more! review…
Find out more »Leadership Working Meeting: Chapter Committee
The elected officers (Chapter Committee) are meeting to get some outstanding administrative tasks done in a group setting. If you’re interested in the nuts and bolts of chapter administration or have questions for the officers, you’re welcome to attend. Register here.
Find out more »Canvassing for Sally Lieber in the General Election 2024.08.17
Come join DSA for a canvassing kickoff for Sally Lieber, our endorsed candidate for Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors District 5 and chapter comrade. We will meet at Rengstorff Park in Mountain View at 11 am on Saturday, August 17. After a short canvassing training session, we will hit the streets to go talk to our neighbors about how to build a better world together. After canvassing, we will gather together to share a meal to decompress and refuel.…
Find out more »Really Really Free Store
Join Silicon Valley DSA, South Bay Mutual Aid, and San Jose Food Not Bombs, for a really really free goods event in the Peace and Justice Center parking lot. We’ll have cleaning supplies, clothes, book, zines, children’s toys, fire preparedness kits, and more available so that people can take what they need, for free. Please wear a mask to prevent the spread of COVID and other respiratory diseases. We will only allow 20 people in the parking lot at the…
Find out more »Housing Working Group
The Silicon Valley DSA Housing Working Group is organizing for housing as a human right. For us, the way to this goal involves both organizing as tenants to build direct power in our communities as well as proposing and advocating for policies that improve material conditions for everyone affected by the housing crisis. We want to shift power away from landlords and developers and live in a world where housing is for people not for profit. All our meetings and…
Find out more »International Solidarity WG Meeting
Join our International Solidarity Working Group as we organize for a free Palestine, an end to U.S. support for fascism, and a liberated international working class! Please request to join our Google Group for the Zoom link: https://groups.google.com/g/sv-dsa-wg-international/about . Click "Ask to join group" if you have a GMail account, or "Contact owners and managers" if you do not. You can also reach out to #wg-international-solidarity on Slack.
Find out more »SVDSA August Social and Chapter Meeting
Join Silicon Valley DSA for our August General Meeting featuring 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 have been involved for a long time or are just curious to learn more. To take part in chapter decisions as a voting member of the chapter, please sign up with National DSA here. This…
Find out more »Post Chapter Meeting Sally Lieber Canvass 2024.08.24
After our August chapter meeting and social in Sylvan Park in Mountain View, we will have a canvassing session for our endorsed candidate for Santa Clara County District 5 Board of Supervisors and chapter comrade Sally Lieber. We will begin with a short training on canvassing and then hits the streets to talk to our neighbors about how to build a better world together. After canvassing, we will gather together to share a meal to decompress and refuel. The landlord…
Find out more »Membership Committee Phonebank
Earlier this year our chapter made a resolution to reach 500 members. To hit that goal, the SVDSA Membership Committee invites you to participate in our upcoming phonebank event! This is an excellent opportunity to engage with our prospective members, strengthen our community, and mobilize support for our ongoing initiatives such as a protesting the end of the Palestine atrocities. Agenda: 1. Welcome and Introductions: Brief overview of the phonebank process. 2. Training Session: Step-by-step guidance on how to effectively…
Find out more »Black August East Palo Alto + Brakelight Clinic!
VOLUNTEER FORM here! Our friends at The Araminta Ross Foundation are holding a Black August event at Bell Street Park (550 Bell St) in East Palo Alto. Black August is a commemoration of political prisoners and Black freedom fighters behind bars. It emanates from their struggle, experience, and reality. It is a time for discipline, study, fasting, and re-commitment to the struggle for Black liberation. SVDSA will table at the event. We will also offer a free brakelight clinic, where…
Find out more »September 2024
Leadership Meeting: Chapter Committee
The elected officers (Chapter Committee) meet every two weeks or more on zoom to check in on our chapter’s admin committees, make decisions on behalf of the chapter in between general meetings, and collaborate on urgent tasks. If you’re interested in the nuts and bolts of chapter administration or have questions for the officers, you’re welcome to attend. Registration link for zoom here.
Find out more »Leadership Meeting: Chapter Committee
The elected officers (Chapter Committee) meet every two weeks or more on zoom to check in on our chapter’s admin committees, make decisions on behalf of the chapter in between general meetings, and collaborate on urgent tasks. If you’re interested in the nuts and bolts of chapter administration or have questions for the officers, you’re welcome to attend. Registration link for zoom here.
Find out more »Leadership Meeting: Chapter Committee
The elected officers (Chapter Committee) meet every two weeks or more on zoom to check in on our chapter’s admin committees, make decisions on behalf of the chapter in between general meetings, and collaborate on urgent tasks. If you’re interested in the nuts and bolts of chapter administration or have questions for the officers, you’re welcome to attend. Registration link for zoom here.
Find out more »International Solidarity WG Meeting
Join our International Solidarity Working Group as we organize for a free Palestine, an end to U.S. support for fascism, and a liberated international working class! Please request to join our Google Group for the Zoom link: https://groups.google.com/g/sv-dsa-wg-international/about . Click "Ask to join group" if you have a GMail account, or "Contact owners and managers" if you do not. You can also reach out to #wg-international-solidarity on Slack.
Find out more »Housing Working Group
The Silicon Valley DSA Housing Working Group is organizing for housing as a human right. For us, the way to this goal involves both organizing as tenants to build direct power in our communities as well as proposing and advocating for policies that improve material conditions for everyone affected by the housing crisis. We want to shift power away from landlords and developers and live in a world where housing is for people not for profit. All our meetings and…
Find out more »Mutual Aid Working Group
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 discuss: supporting South Bay Mutual Aid (SBMA) as one of their coalition members sign up to volunteer with SBMA here: https://southbay.aidnetwork.org donate to SBMA here by selecting the “Mutual Aid Fund”: https://siliconvalleydsa.org/donate/ our current projects such as the really really free store, clothing drive, unhoused support, the garden box, and much more! review…
Find out more »Labor Movie Night (On The Waterfront)
Join SV DSA and SEIU 521 for a screening of perennial classic "On The Waterfront" starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan. A controversial film, heralded for Brando's historic performance, but referred to by Orson Welles as "A celebration of the informant" as it came out two years after Kazan, under oath, named 8 members of the American Communist Party, of which he had once been a member. "Terry Malloy, a dockworker and former boxer, defies a corrupt union…
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