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August 2024
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
Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC)
Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) is a member-run autonomous tenant union in the San Francisco Bay Area. We encourage all tenants of private landlords, unhoused people, and public housing residents, to join us in organizing councils. We are a group of Bay Area tenants who are fed up with rising rents, evictions, and harassment at the hands of landlords. We are fed up with our neighbors having no option but to live unsheltered and at constant risk of police harassment.…
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 »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 »Comms Committee – September
Join us for the September meeting of the new Comms Committee! Let's brainstorm how to get membership and the broader community engaged in the work we're doing! Interested in graphic design? Newsletters? Register here.
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 »Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC)
Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) is a member-run autonomous tenant union in the San Francisco Bay Area. We encourage all tenants of private landlords, unhoused people, and public housing residents, to join us in organizing councils. We are a group of Bay Area tenants who are fed up with rising rents, evictions, and harassment at the hands of landlords. We are fed up with our neighbors having no option but to live unsheltered and at constant risk of police harassment.…
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…
Find out more »Mutual Aid Garden Day
Come tend our garden box! We rent two raised beds where we grow food for members and the community.
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 »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 »SVDSA September Chapter Meeting
Join Silicon Valley DSA for our September 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 »October 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 »Canvass for Lissette in Redwood City 10.05.2024
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 to unleash our people power to support a candidate of and for the working class! There will be a canvass for Lissette on Saturday…
Find out more »San Jose: Protest 1 Year of Genocide!
📢 HANDS OFF PALESTINE & LEBANON! 📢 Silicon Valley DSA mourns one year of genocide, with over 40,000 Palestinians directly killed by Israel, and over 186,000 deaths expected after including famine and disease. As Zionists spreads their terror campaign to Lebanon in the pursuit of more land theft, our demand is clear: Hands off Palestine & Lebanon! We call on ALL allies to join us and San José Against War at a protest march and rally on Sunday October 6…
Find out more »Sally Lieber Canvass Cupertino 10.06.2024
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 the opponent to fight against a pro-renter agenda. We will meet at Cupertino Civic Park Center at noon (Town Center Lane, https://maps.app.goo.gl/EHDtxHmhxxDpaVbx8).
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 »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://southbaymutualaid.org/volunteermulti 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 »Free Pantry and Garden Build Day
The Silicon Valley DSA Mutual Aid Working group, in association with San Jose Food Not Bombs and South Bay Mutual Aid, is hosting a free pantry and garden build day this Saturday at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center! We will be putting in the poles for the pantry, varnishing the materials for the box, building compost shifters, and general garden maintenance! Be sure to bring gloves, a hat, and sunscreen! Location Details San Jose Peace & Justice Center…
Find out more »San Jose Free Store
Join Silicon Valley DSA, South Bay Mutual Aid, San Jose Food Not Bombs, and Art Pocket SJ for a really really free goods event in the San Jose 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 6:30 PM and clean…
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 »October Chapter Meeting
Come join our monthly October meeting from 2-4 PM at the Joyce Ellison Branch Library in San Jose at 491 E Empire St. We will have updates from our chapter working groups and a check in with our Field Organizer Alicia. Meetings are open to all. Zoom registration here.
Find out more »November 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 »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://southbaymutualaid.org/volunteermulti 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 »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. Read more about the International Solidarity Working Group here.
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November Chapter Meeting
RSVP here for Zoom information and event details. Come join a special November chapter meeting from 1-3 PM at the SEIU 521 Union Hall at 2302 Zanker Road in San Jose. In the wake of the US election result, let’s cry, laugh, argue, strategize, despair, celebrate, and above all struggle together - for the better world that can and must be. Meetings are open to all. Transit info VTA Light Rail Blue Line and Green Line Component Station VTA Bus…
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