Silicon Valley DSA

SJPJC Garden Day
2026-01-03 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-20 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-13 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 build day this Saturday at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center (SJPJC)! We will be moving soil, planting plants, garden maintenance, and finishing the drip irrigation! Be sure to bring gloves, a hat, earplugs, sunglasses, and sunscreen! If you have tools like 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
Wheelchair Accessibility

We will mostly be working outside the Center itself in the garden. To enter the Center itself: There is a wheelchair lift to access the 1st floor behind the building past the gate. Please ring the doorbell next to the lift for assistance.
Guidelines
For anyone entering the Center, it is recommended that you wear a mask. Thank you!

Leadership Meeting: Steering Committee
2025-12-30 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-12-23 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-12-16 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-12-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
The elected officers (Steering Committee) meet every week on Zoom to check in on our Chapter’s administration, 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.
Register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/pP5BIdvzQMKTuXGL-d-ohw#/registration.

Administrative Committee Meeting
2025-12-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
A lot of work goes into keeping our chapter running behind the scenes. We need to communicate with members through our newsletters and social media, and perform many necessary administrative tasks. The Administrative Committee will have a meeting that is open to all interested in helping keep the Chapter running smoothly.
Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81176574306?pwd=[REDACTED]

Housing Working Group Meeting
2025-12-29 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-15 18:30 - 19:30
Join us in working to establish dignified housing as a basic human right in Silicon Valley!
Register Here
(copy/paste: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gZW0OEB9T3K1_Fwy9-CmuQ )

Immigrant Rights Canvas
2025-12-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Palo Alto Caltrain Station, 95 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, United States
Join the International Solidarity Working Group, Community Safety, and the Mutual Aid Working Group to ask business to hang the Rapid Response Network poster and inform community members of their rights if approached by ICE.
Meeting Location Details
Palo Alto Caltrain Station
95 University Ave
Palo Alto CA 94301
Parking
There is street parking and paid parking in the Caltrain Station
Public Transportation

Bus:
Light Rail:
Train: Palo Alto Caltarin Station
Guidelines
Masks are optional for this event.

Tech Committee Meeting
2025-12-22 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-08 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
The Tech Committee meets bi-weekly to organize and maintain our chapter’s tech infrastructure: the chapter website (https://svdsa.org), automations, and more! If you’re curious about how we use technology for good or if you want to build systems that attract and empower DSA members, join #cmte-tech-data on Slack or swing by the Zoom!
Register for the Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XbMFPFzMQVGH1sXutjLxRg

San José Free Store
2025-12-20 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, Food Not Bombs San José, San José Clothing Swap, and Art Pocket SJ, for a really really free goods event in the San José 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 José 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!

Phone Zap for Stanford 11
2025-12-19 16:00 - 16:30, 2025-12-12 16:00 - 16:30
In June 2024, students, alumni, and one student reporter were arrested at a sit-in of the office of Stanford University’s president in protest of Stanford’s complicity with Israel’s genocide in Palestine. In Santa Clara County, the District Attorney Jeff Rosen has chosen to charge these protesters against genocide with felonies, and 11 Stanford student protesters have been indicted on two grand jury charges, making them the first out of thousands of protesters across the nation in the past two years to go to felony trial over their pro-Palestinian activism.
The next court date for the Stanford 11 is November 17, where trial proceedings are set to be scheduled and assigned. Therefore, Silicon Valley DSA’s international solidarity working group is standing in solidarity with the Stanford 11 by holding a weekly phone zap among our members to call Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Stanford University’s President Levin, and Representative Ro Khanna to pressure them to drop these unprecedented charges against the Stanford 11! Join us by registering for the phone zap here.
If you can’t join us, you can also call and email using Stanford SJP’s action toolkit.

Political Education Event: Vietnam War Discussion
2025-12-17 19:30 - 20:30
This month, instead of a Socialist Night School, we are going to do a “book club” type meet-up on zoom. But instead of a book, just listen to this podcast episode, and then we will gather to chit chat about it.
The topic is Socialism Around the World: Vietnam Edition.
The podcast episode is The Vietnam War run by RevLeft Radio. You can find it on their website, spotify, or apple music.The episode is 2 hours. If you have limited time, here are some recommended snippets:

For a 55 min version: 10:44 – 1:05:22
For a 25 min version: 40:22 – 1:05:22
For a 0 min version: just come even if you don’t listen, we’ll go over some of the content (very high-level) before discussing

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81524710609?pwd=[REDACTED]

Community Safety Working Group Meeting
2025-12-17 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
Join the community safety working group to help support efforts to improve the safety of our communities in the South Bay! No experience is required and everyone has something to contribute! We will be meeting via Zoom, please register with the link below, from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm.

Register for Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/33Ti1dehTzOblxmkrwLH5Q

Mutual Aid Working Group Meeting
2025-12-17 18:30 - 19:30
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 be meeting at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center and a zoom link is available for those who cannot join in person.
We will discuss:

our current projects such as the San Jose Free Store, our gardens at Grateful Garden and the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, as well as a brake light clinic/repair cafe!
supporting South Bay Mutual Aid (SBMA) as one of their coalition members

sign up to volunteer with SBMA here: https://southbaymutualaid.org/volunteermulti

This meeting will be conducted online.
Register Here for Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zJSg9nsyTrWrXQ-_uOptAQ

Labor Working Group Meeting
2025-12-16 18:30 - 19:30
Join the Labor Working Group in organizing workers of Silicon Valley as we fight for the basic human dignity of all laborers! We will discuss the chapter’s involvement in local labor actions and our own programming. If you have topics you’d like to bring up, please share in the chapter Slack!
Register for zoom meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XzrzeaAyQ8i7RVGGrhu8Yg
Read more about the Labor Working Group: https://siliconvalleydsa.org/labor/

San Jose Clothing Swap
2025-12-14 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!

SV DSA Holiday Party!
2025-12-13 18:30 - 22:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
​Grab your festive sweaters and join us for Silicon Valley DSA’s Holiday Party! Socialize with comrades and acknowledge the work we’ve done this year. Food and beverages provided. We suggest a holiday sweater or semi-formal/business casual attire. We will have a limited number of Santa hats available as well. Hope you can make it!
For parking, it may be easiest to find a spot on 6th or 7th street between Santa Clara & St. John. There’s also a public garage on 5th between Santa Clara and St. John. Whatever you do, take care NOT to park in the Grocery Outlet parking lot. They will tow.
RSVP Here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/silicon-valley-dsa-holiday-party

Toys for Everyone
2025-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc, 47 E William Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Join the Holiday Blackout — Don’t Buy New Toys This Season ✊🏽🎁
Instead of spending more money, we’re choosing community care over consumer culture. This season, we’re redistributing toys through mutual aid, keeping resources circulating, reducing waste, and making sure every child still gets joy.
Únete al Apagón de Compras Navideñas — No Compres Juguetes Nuevos Esta Temporada ✊🏽🎁
En lugar de gastar más dinero, elegimos el cuidado comunitario sobre la cultura del consumo. Esta temporada redistribuimos juguetes a través de la ayuda mutua, reduciendo desperdicio y asegurando que todas las niñas y niños tengan alegría.

Toy Drop Off: 10 AM to 12 PMToy Swap: 5 PM to 7 PM
Location Details
Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc
47 E William Street
San Jose CA 95112
Parking
There is street parking and parking garages close by on 3rd Street.
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

SB 63 Debrief
2025-12-13 16:00 - 18:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Bay Area Transit is facing a fiscal cliff – come and hear from Transbay’s Harry Neil about SB63 and other efforts taking place to prevent effective collapse of Bay Area Transit.
Hybrid option planned.
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

SF + Peninsula DSA Transit Social
2025-12-12 18:30 - 21:00 | Roar Shack Live!, 34 7th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Join our comrades from SF and Peninsula DSA for a transit social, where they’ll be screening Who Framed Roger Rabbit and giving a presentation on the General Motors streetcar conspiracy. Popcorn will be provided!
Please note that the venue is not listed on Google Maps, but the entrance should be facing Fellows Wy.

Electoral Working Group Meeting
2025-12-11 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
The electoral working group will meet to discuss and plan for current and future electoral projects. All are welcome.
Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lMhKwarkTNqJPSg6qjXeUQ

International Solidarity WG Meeting
2025-12-10 18:30 - 20:00
Join our International Solidarity Working Group as we organize for a free Palestine, protections for immigrants, an end to US imperialism, and a liberated international working class!
Please register for the Zoom meeting here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Pzfk-whGRre39zr8rv2Dew
Read more about the International Solidarity Working Group at https://siliconvalleydsa.org/international-solidarity/.

Comms Committee Meeting
2025-12-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
A lot of work goes into keeping our chapter running behind the scenes. The Comms Committee focuses on outreach and communication, including the monthly newsletter and social media acounts. Please feel free to join and learn about what it takes to reach out to our community.
Register for the Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dFuBcKG2QwKNB-0acfruSg

SVDSA Bike Ride
2025-12-07 08:30 - 12:30
Grab your bikes and come out for a ride on Sunday December 7th with your comrades! The ride will be up to 40 miles if you complete the entire route, but there are options to make it shorter. Meet at Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto at 8:30am on 12/7!
See the link below for more details. Don’t forget your helmet!
SV DSA Bike Route 12/7

Cubberley Community Center – 4000 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Holiday Bar Hop
2025-12-06 18:00 - 21:00
Are you feeling festive? Join us for a holiday themed bar hop in downtown San José! We will start at Paper Plane and then move to Miniboss. First game is on us!

When: Saturday, 12/6
Time: 6:00pm
Where: Paper Plane (Miniboss around 7:15pm)

Paper Plane – 72 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113

Miniboss – 52 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113
