Updates

Defunding the Police

Our local Fremont group showed up in force at the recent city council meeting to oppose the building of more police substations — and won! However, many city council members voiced that they were still in favor of increasing funds to the police, just not through substations, so we’ll need to continue showing up in the future.

Showing Up Like Captain Planet

The ecosocialist working group spoke up at a Board meeting of the Metropolitan Water District to oppose continuing the Delta Tunnel project, and we’ve also been invited to speak at the Yolo DSA about ecosocialism. At our next meeting, we’ll be drafting a 6-month steering plan to establish what activities and priorities we’ll be working on. If you’re interested in speaking out to protect the environment, or managing our garden plot, come to our meeting on Sunday, December 20th at 6pm.

Housing Coalition

The Housing Working group is participating in a Bay Area coalition that will coordinate actions around evictions, rent relief, and housing folks in vacant properties. This coalition involves DSA chapters, tenant organizations from the East Bay, Hotels not Hospitals from SF, and South Bay Mutual Aid. This work is especially important as the eviction moratorium could end as soon as January, so if you're interested, contact the housing working group on Slack to get involved! 

Unions 101

The labor working group is working on modifying their Unions 101 training to be a readily available resource for anyone wanting to learn how to organize their workplace. We’re looking for people to facilitate “train the trainers” events and build out the presentation in an easily digestible format (no labor organizing experience necessary!). Join the labor working group meeting on Sunday, December 27th at 4:30pm to help.

Socialist Feminist Videos

The SocFem working group is almost done with our Crisis Pregnancy Center expose! We’re working on a webpage to post the final video along with some resources. We’re also working on a Domestic Violence Exose. If you have video editing skills or experience with domestic violence crisis counseling, come to the weekly Tuesday meetings at 7pm to get involved!