Silicon Valley DSA

Labor Working Group
2025-08-19 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us in growing SV DSA’s strength in the labor movement in the South Bay! We’ll be strategizing and deciding on the actions we want to focus on in the near term. With the goal to be a player in south bay labor. Help us to get a good showing for our next Labor movie night as well.

Zoom link here:
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Comms Committee Meeting
2025-08-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-04 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

Tech Committee Meeting
2025-08-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-08-04 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

Anti-Palantir Flyering
2025-08-16 15:00 - 16:30
The International Solidarity Working Group is meeting up to flyer around Palo Alto to educate the public about the evil actions of Palantir, a company which materially supports Trump’s ICE deportations and the genocide of the Palestinians!
If you’re interested in attending this event and want to know more details, join our Google Group here to get in contact with the organizers! 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 our Slack.

San José Free Store
2025-08-16 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!

No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass (San Jose)
2025-08-16 14:00 - 16:00
Come join the International Solidarity Working Group and participate in a No Appetite for Apartheid canvass in San Jose!
No Appetite for Apartheid is a national campaign that follows the principles of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to reduce US support for Israeli apartheid and genocide against Palestinians. The campaign urges local small businesses to stop carrying Israeli food products and educates community members about supporting Palestine by boycotting Israeli products, a time-tested consumer tactic used against states perpetrating injustice. During our canvass, we’ll be visiting businesses in San Jose and asking them to drop Israeli food products as well as to put up a flyer showing the community their support for Palestinians.
If you’re interested in attending this event and want to know more details, join our Google Group here to get in contact with the organizers! 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 our Slack.

Chapter Leadership Retreat 08.16.2025
2025-08-16 09:00 - 13:00 | SEIU Local 521 Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA, 95131
At our April Chapter Convention, we passed a resolution to hold chapter leadership retreats quarterly. These are events where we strategize about long-term plans, set mile markers, and generally do the work that keeps the chapter running strongly. We will be meeting on Saturday, August 16 at SEIU 521 Union Hall from 9-1 for a retreat. All members of chapter leadership are invited – steering committee, working group co-chairs, and active members looking to get more deeply involved in the nuts-and-bolts of running the chapter. This will be an in-person event with no Zoom option.

SJPJC Garden Day
2025-08-16 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-08-09 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-08-02 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-26 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 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!

Electoral Working Group Meeting
2025-08-14 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

Political Education Working Group Internal Meeting
2025-08-13 19:30 - 21:00
This is our once monthly meeting where we review planned curriculum, vote on future topics, hear proposals for working group activities and handle administrative tasks. Join us to do the behind the scenes tasks that make the educational events possible.
Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/smcCFZ6_TUa25E2ZQp-Oiw#/registration

International Solidarity WG Meeting
2025-08-13 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/.

Leadership Meeting: Steering Committee
2025-08-12 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-08-05 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-07-29 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.

No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass (San Jose)
2025-08-09 14:00 - 16:00
Come join the International Solidarity Working Group and participate in our first No Appetite for Apartheid canvass in San Jose!
No Appetite for Apartheid is a national campaign that follows the principles of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to reduce US support for Israeli apartheid and genocide against Palestinians. The campaign urges local small businesses to stop carrying Israeli food products and educates community members about supporting Palestine by boycotting Israeli products, a time-tested consumer tactic used against states perpetrating injustice. During our canvass, we’ll be visiting businesses in San Jose and asking them to drop Israeli food products as well as to put up a flyer showing the community their support for Palestinians.
If you’re interested in attending this event and want to know the location, join our Google Group here to get in contact with the organizers! 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 our Slack.

No Appetite for Apartheid Campaign for Palestine (Santa Clara)
2025-08-08 12:30 - 14:30 | Muslim Community Association Mosque, 3003 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Come join the International Solidarity Working Group and participate in outreach as part of the No Appetite for Apartheid campaign that we are running locally in Santa Clara! This event will be handing out flyers at the MCA Mosque in Santa Clara during Jummah prayer.
No Appetite for Apartheid is a national campaign that follows the principles of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to reduce US support for Israeli apartheid and genocide against Palestinians. The campaign urges local small businesses to stop carrying Israeli food products and educates community members about supporting Palestine by boycotting Israeli products, a time-tested consumer tactic used against states perpetrating injustice.
If you’re interested in attending this event, join our Google Group here to get in contact with the organizers!
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 our Slack.

Rage Against the Regime Protest
2025-08-02 12:00 - 14:00 | St. James Park, N. 2nd St., San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
This action has been endorsed by Silicon Valley DSA. Please come join our contingent!

Labor WG Meeting
2025-07-31 18:30 - 19:30
Join SVDSA’s Labor Working group for our monthly meeting as we begin a discussion of how to help in unionization, and contract issues and grow our power in the South Bay. Meeting will be held virtually on zoom.

Zoom info will be sent after registering-register here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UqVBNxKkRIK8DZHfLnacnw

Political Education Reading Group
2025-07-30 19:30 - 21:00
Hello comrades! Tonight at 7:30 we are holding our first discussion group that focuses on shorter-than-a-whole-book form socialist content (such as a podcast episode or an article, for example).Our first meeting will be on the topic of Climate Leninism and Climate Imperialism, as discussed both on an episode of the Upstream podcast and in an article co-authored by the two guests on that episode:
Upstream Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1vqMO5JgnkD1raf2T2PVbk?si=Icig9-WBRsGJ-RQhVrQxFA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1FgnTBfUlzkeKt
Article: https://spectrejournal.com/climate-leninism-and-revolutionary-transition/
It is open to all, but we strongly encourage reading and/or listening to the episode beforehand so that you are able to fully participate in the discussion.

Electoral Working Group Meeting
2025-07-30 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
The electoral working group will have a meeting on Wednesday July 30 from 6:30-7:30 pm. We will debrief from our recent Brew & Chew event, make further plans for our Ranked Choice Voting campaign, and plan for future working group actions. All are welcome.
Register for the Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KCzhOShhQISDcMrCn2Cs6A

Administrative Committee Meeting
2025-07-28 19:00 - 20:00
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/meeting/register/_lN5KAb_Q6SOipbX5JYb-A

July Chapter Meeting
2025-07-26 13:00 - 15:00 | SEIU Local 521 Union Hall, 2302 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA, 95131
Join Silicon Valley DSA for our July General Meeting! This meeting will feature a lively discussion on DSA’s National Convention resolutions, 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’ve been involved for a long time or are curious to learn more. To take part in Chapter decisions as a voting member, please sign up with National DSA at https://dsausa.org/join.
This meeting will be held in person, with the option to participate virtually via Zoom.
Register for the Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/t9AcC_a4SaiP0aYRccxSDA#/registration
RSVP HERE: https://actionnetwork.org/events/2025-07-26-chapter-meeting/

Brew & Chew Close Out Event
2025-07-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Strike Brewing, 2099 S 10th St #30, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
Last month we opened ballots for our Brew & Chew Ranked Choice Voting social event at Strike Brewing in San Jose. We will be closing ballots and announcing the winners at Strike on Friday, July 25! Come join us to socialize with comrades, hear the election results, and spread the word about ranked choice voting in our community. Ballots remain open until this final event, so be sure to head to Strike Brewing and bring your friends in the interim to get higher turnout. There is also a ‘ballot box’ at Strike where you can share reasons why you support ranked choice voting. When we announce the winners, we will randomly choose one of the contributors and they will be awarded a $100 gift card. You have to be present when the winners are called to be eligible for the gift card.
We invite you to Strike Brewing on July 25 at 6 pm.
RSVP here: https://www.mobilize.us/calrcv/event/815416/

International Solidarity WG Meeting
2025-07-24 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 request to join our Google Group at https://groups.google.com/g/sv-dsa-wg-international/about for the Zoom link. 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 at https://siliconvalleydsa.org/international-solidarity/.

Family Preparedness Plan Creation
2025-07-24 17:00 - 19:00 | San José Peace and Justice Center, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S 7th St, San Jose, CA, 95112, United States
In collaboration with PACT the Silicon Valley DSA is offering families help with preparing a plan for what to do if a loved one is detained by ICE.
