This episode is a recording from the third installment of the Empty Homes Tax educational series on A Socialist Answer to the Housing Question. This event focused on Engel’s The Housing Question, its relevance for DSA SF’s Empty Homes Tax campaign, and how it might inform our larger socialist efforts in addressing the housing crisis. The Empty Homes Tax was passed in November 2022, and the work continues. This was recorded in June 2022 ..read more

DSA SF member Andy M interviews D5 Supervisor and fellow DSA SF member Dean Preston on the Empty Homes Tax campaign, how similar taxes have been implemented in other cities, and the specific conditions underlying San Francisco’s current housing crisis. If you would like to get involved in the SF Empty Homes Tax campaign, go to fillemptyhomes.com to sign up for signature gathering events or donate. We need 14,000 signatures by this July, so any support helps ..read more

This episode is a recording from the second installment of the Empty Homes Tax educational series on A Socialist Answer to the Housing Question. This event focused on Engel’s The Housing Question, its relevance for DSA SF’s Empty Homes Tax campaign, and how it might inform our larger socialist efforts in addressing the housing crisis. If you feel inspired by what you hear and want to get involved in our campaign work, please check out the campaign site www.fillemptyhomes.com, where you can register for signature gathering events or donate. In order to get this measure on the ballot, we need to ..read more

As part of our chapter's Labor Circles priority campaign, we held an introduction to the basic unit of labor organizing: the organizing conversation. Take the labor census at https://dsasf.org/census to get involved in our Labor Circles priority campaign ..read more

A recording of a panel held by DSA San Francisco's Labor Organizing Committee discussing the work of Jane McAlevey, author of "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" Take the labor census at https://dsasf.org/census to get involved in our Labor Circles priority campaign ..read more

Special guest Shaun Scott joins DSA SF to discuss "Forward Thrust," a 1968 and 1970 ballot measure package campaign in Seattle ..read more

Alisha F discusses the chapter Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty campaign, including the chapter's internal audit and political education program. Interview the chapter’s Communications Committee Co-Chair and Mobilizing Lead of the chapter’s International Solidarity Organizing Committee Savannah K ..read more

In this episode, Jason talks with Kaylah Williams (https://twitter.com/KaylahSF), an organizer from Afrosocialist Caucus and Defund SFPD Now. Find out why DSA SF wants to defund, disarm, and disband the police, and how this new campaign is already making a big impact! For more information on the campaign, or to get involved, check out https://defundsfpdnow.com or follow https://twitter.com/AfrosocialistSF and https://twitter.com/defundSFPDnow on Twitter. Also check out the Strike for Black Lives on July 20: https://j20strikeforblacklives.org ..read more

The podcast formerly known as "Report Back" will now be "The Priority." In this episode you'll hear an introduction to our chapter's Ballot Measure priority campaign. Join DSA San Francisco: https://dsasf.org/join ..read more

Following the widespread protests against police brutality following the killing of George Floyd, London Breed the mayor of San Francisco announced an unprecedented citywide curfew on Sunday, May 31. In the next few days hundreds of thousands of dollars in police overtime would be spent enforcing this clear suppression of free speech to arrest a handful of peaceful protestors. The following Tuesday June 2, Democratic Socialists of America and other supporters demonstrated against the curfew with a sit-in. 27 demonstrators and a journalist were arrested. The next day the curfew order was lifted ..read more