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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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.
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.
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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"... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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,... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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"... Read more »
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.
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
Come tend our garden box! We rent two raised beds where we grow food for members and the community.
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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"... Read more »
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... Read more »
