Silicon Valley DSA

Mutual Aid Working Group
2025-03-13 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-02-13 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 current volunteer opportunities that can be done either in public with minimal contact (for example grocery delivery or flyering) or that can be done from home (for example coordinating aid, helping run meetings, helping research what supplies we should order)

This meeting will be conducted online.
Register Here

ATU 265 Picket Solidarity
2025-03-12 16:00 - 18:00 | VTA Headquarters, 3331 N First St., San Jose, CA, 95134, United States
The strike by the Amalgamated Transit Union local 265 against the VTA is ongoing!
TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, 3/12 4pm @ the VTA HQ 3331 N First St. in San Jose!
Join the Labor working group in showing out for our transit workers! Wear Red!

Leadership Meeting: Chapter Committee
2025-03-11 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-03-04 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-02-11 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-02-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
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.

Labor WG Meeting
2025-03-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
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 virtually on Zoom.
Zoom info will be sent after registering – register here

San Jose Clothing Swap
2025-03-09 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!

SJPC Garden and Pantry Build Day
2025-03-08 09:00 - 12:00 | 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 pantry build day this Saturday at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center (SJPJC)! We will be planning the drip irrigation system, moving plants and soil, lowering the pantry box, as well as general garden maintenance! Be sure to bring gloves, a hat, earplugs, and sunscreen! If you have tools for precision sawing and drilling or 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
Guidelines
For anyone entering the Center, it is recommended that you wear a mask. Thank you!

Electoral Working Group Meeting
2025-03-06 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
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 will meet on Zoom on Thursday March 6 from 6:30-7:30 at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rah-rTDrQIKxuJmR9791Xg

Nodutdol March 1st
2025-03-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Comfort Women Memorial in SF, 651 California St, San Francisco, CA, 94108
Note: This calendar event is for the rally on March 1st. There will also be a preliminary art build, taking place Sunday 2/23.
Nodutdol, an org of Korean diaspora fighting for a liberated Korea and a world free of imperialism, will rally on March 1 against the U.S.’s annual war games in Korea. This March 1st also marks 106 years since the March 1st Movement, which ignited Korea’s fight for independence from Japanese occupation.
Cultural protest against U.S. War Games in Korea!
Sat, 3/1, 1-4pm at the Comfort Women Memorial in SF (located in the back of St Mary’s Square park: 651 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108).This mobilization will uplift cultural resistance against US imperialism through a collective jesa (제사) (altar), pungmul (풍물)(drum) performance, live screen printing, a collective art activity, and words from local organizers in the Bay Area. You are invited to wear white to honor our martyrs in the collective struggle, as well as contribute to our jesa via mementos and photos. For screen printing, please bring materials (a shirt, tote, patch) you’d like us to print on!

March Membership Phonebank
2025-03-01 12:00 - 14:00 | 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose CA, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, OR, 95112, United States
Putting the social back into Socialism.
Our February Membership Phonebank was a raging success! Multiple members signed up, and we had a great community experience. Shout out to Wren for providing the pizza!
But our chapter still has many lapsed members. That means lots of people once signed up for DSA and for whatever reason are no longer contributing dues. DSA is entirely funded by member dues, if we wanna do cool stuff we need as many members contributing as possible.
Its very common dues lapse not intentionally but because someone signed up for a “Yearly Dues” and it never renews. These are great people to reconnect with and plug back into the movement for Socialism. Join us if you love talking to people, are trying to build the org, or looking to get out of your comfort zone a little bit!
What: Membership Phone Bank
Date: March 1st, 2025
Time: 12PM – 2PM
Location: 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose CA 95112

Bay Area Fights Back Protest
2025-02-28 11:00 - 14:00 | El Camino Real and Page Mill Road, El Camino Real and Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
Join a coalition of organizations as we fight back against Trump and Musk’s fascist coup! We will be marching to another location so show up on time!
This action has been endorsed by the membership of Silicon Valley DSA

International Solidarity WG Meeting
2025-02-27 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
Join our International Solidarity Working Group as we organize for a free Palestine, protections for immigrants, 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.

Leadership Meeting: Chapter Committee
2025-02-25 18:00 - 19:30

February Chapter Meeting
2025-02-23 13:00 - 15:00 | SEIU Local 521 Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA, 95131
Our monthly chapter meeting for February will be held from 1-3 on Sunday the 23rd at SEIU 521 Local Union Hall. We are continuing our organizing work and gearing up towards our chapter convention in April.
RSVP here.
If you cannot attend in person, there is a Zoom option for hybrid participation. Register here
All our meetings are open to the public, but only members can vote on our democratically decided agenda and action items. Join here: https://siliconvalleydsa.org/join/
A better world is possible, but it will only occur if we organize towards it together.

Nodutdol Art & Strategy Build
2025-02-23 12:00 - 16:00 | RSVP for details, Richmond, CA
RSVP here for location.
Note: This calendar event is for the preliminary art build, taking place Sunday 2/23. The build is in preparation for a rally on March 1st.
Nodutdol, an org of Korean diaspora fighting for a liberated Korea and a world free of imperialism, will rally on March 1 against the U.S.’s annual war games in Korea. This March 1st also marks 106 years since the March 1st Movement, which ignited Korea’s fight for independence from Japanese occupation. Ahead of the mobilization, please join us for our Art & Strategy Build from 12-4 pm on Sun, 2/23 at David Solnit’s art space in Richmond, CA!
We will paint banners, puppets, and learn more about the March 1st Movement and the ongoing struggle for true Korean sovereignty from military occupation. Please RSVP here, and we will share out the address the day before the event: https://forms.gle/gujtuDNNNjsCvvDv6

SJPC Garden and Build Day
2025-02-22 09:00 - 11:30, 2025-02-08 09:00 - 12:00 | 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 pantry build day this Saturday at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center! We will be planning the drip irrigation system, moving plants and soil, lowering the pantry box, as well as general garden maintenance! Be sure to bring gloves, a hat, earplugs, and sunscreen! If you have tools for precision sawing and drilling or a shovel, they will be needed!

Leadership Meeting: Chapter Committee
2025-02-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
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: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BmGabZDBSGiEhXEFkDKvyQ

San Jose Free Store
2025-02-15 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, 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 6:00 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 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
Guidelines
For anyone entering the Center, it is recommended that you wear a mask. Thank you!

Electoral Working Group First 2025 Meeting
2025-02-13 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
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.
We will be meeting at 6:30 pm on Thursday, February 13 on Zoom. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1XJnqrYqRuidPcSGcH8_tQ

Organizers Retreat 2025
2025-02-08 10:00 - 16:00 | SEIU Local 521 Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA, 95131
An organization without a plan is just a club. The DSA Chapter Committee will be gathering on this day to lay out a plan for 2025 to be as successful as possible. If you are an officer, a working group co-chair, or interested in leadership in our organization please join. Your ideas, insight, and commitment will set us up to have the best 2025 possible What we hope to accomplish:
– SMART goals for 2025
– Meaningful roles for all who join
– Necessary administrative tasks
This is a great way to prep for the March Chapter Convention.
What this retreat is NOT is a hangout, a party, a gripe session, or a pastime. If you are interested in attending its recommended you check out this overview of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (organizers in our case!) As it will get you in the right mindset for tackling the year.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
What: SVDSA Leadership Retreat
Time: 10AM – 4PM
Date: February 8th, 2025
Location: SEIU 521 Local Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd San Jose

International Solidarity WG Meeting
2025-02-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
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.

No ICE in San Jose Protest
2025-02-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Corner of Alum Rock & King, Alum Rock and King, San Jose, CA, 95116, United States
Meet at the corner of Alum Rock and King. Action will begin at 2 PM.
Endorsed by the Silicon Valley DSA Chapter Committee

Membership Phone Bank
2025-02-01 12:00 - 14:00 | 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose CA, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, OR, 95112, United States
Putting the social back into Socialism.
Our chapter has many lapsed members. That means lots of people once signed up for DSA and for whatever reason are no longer contributing dues. DSA is entirely funded by member dues, if we wanna do cool stuff we need as many members contributing as possible.
Its very common dues lapse not intentionally but because someone signed up for a “Yearly Dues” and it never renews. These are great people to reconnect with and plug back into the movement for Socialism. Join us if you love talking to people, are trying to build the org, or looking to get out of your comfort zone a little bit!
What: Membership Phone Bank
Date: February 1st, 2025
Time: 12PM – 2PM
Location: 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose CA 95112
RSVP HERE

Officer Planning Meeting for February Retreat
2025-02-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Officers are holding a leadership retreat open to all members on February 8. To ensure our meeting is well planned and organized, we will have a one hour planning meeting on Zoom from 10-11 to ensure the agenda is set up and all roles are assigned. The meeting is open to all members.
Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/oNSdduxfRxetCSEm5IDDug

SJPC Garden and Pantry Build Day
2025-02-01 09:00 - 12:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
