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July 2024
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 »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 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 »Labor Movie Night – The Killing Floor (1984)
Join the labor working group for movie night at 7pm on July 18th (Thursday) at the SEIU 521 Union Hall (2302 Zanker Road, San Jose)! This month's movie is a drama called The Killing Floor. Join us for some drinks and snacks and a fun evening with other local comrades. When: Friday, June 21st @ 7PM Where: 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose CA 95112
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 »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. Registration link for zoom TBD.
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 »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 »RED for BREAD: Support Workers at McKee Starbucks!
"Starbucks workers are fighting for their first union contracts... ...and from July 26-29 it's time we get that bread! We're asking you to turn out to your local union Starbucks and stand in solidarity with us as we continue working toward our contracts! Wear something RED, order a drink under "UNION STRONG," and share some words of support for your baristas who are more than RED-dy for that bread!" Solidarity pledge here.
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 »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 »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 »Community Forum: Why should San Jose support a ceasefire?
The Ceasefire forum aims to connect the billions spent on the conflict in Gaza to everyday issues experienced by the average residents of San Jose and California, and get folks involved in demanding the SJ City Council to sign onto Jewish Voice for Peace's resolution for a ceasefire. San Jose Peace and Justice Center 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA 95112 Saturday August 10, 1-3 PM
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 »Comms Committee – August
Join us for the inaugural 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 »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 »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 »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…
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