East Bay DSA is comprised of hundreds of volunteers who work every week, even every day, to build a progressive community in the East Bay. DSA campaign work comes in many forms, including canvassing, calling, posting, and organizing among its members and the greater community.
As a chapter we are involved in the following campaigns.
Top Priority Campaign
At our 2024 convention, we as a chapter voted to prioritize a single campaign as top priority for 2024/25, with many members committing to at least 2 hrs of work on the campaign.
Divest From Apartheid
We as a chapter have been organizing for Palestinian liberation and anti-imperialism at large for years and officially took a stance as an anti-Zionist organization in 2023. Comrades here in the East Bay across faiths, identities, and circumstances are deeply committed to this work and it kicked into high gear in October 2023 as we responded to the escalations of the Israeli apartheid regime. Projects such as Bay Area Labor For Palestine, and our work supporting Oakland educators who have faced repercussions for being in open support of Gaza, have helped us build a foundation to do more.
At our 2024 convention, we as a chapter voted overwhelmingly to regroup, recommit, double-down, and push to DIVEST from the Israeli war machine! Now the top priority campaign for our ranks, and hot on the heels of divestment wins in Hayward and Richmond, we are pushing to take even more resources and dollars out of the Israeli terror state and make a material impact against the genocide. We are privileged to be in community with many principled local organizations as part of the Bay Area Divest! coalition and ask that you sign and circulate our petition by clicking here to help make the collective voice of the people ring loud and clear!
Just as local and global divestment campaigns helped dismantle the apartheid regime in South Africa decades ago, we will again meaningfully contribute to the dismantling of the Israeli apartheid state today. Reach out to learn how you too can organize against these atrocities. Together, we will end this genocide.
Priority Campaigns
At our 2024 convention, we as a chapter voted to prioritize other campaigns for 2024/25.
Block Cop Campus
Since 2020, the police, the Parties, and Property have been clawing back what little progress was made by the George Floyd protests. But that radicalism was what inspired and enabled Atlanta to halt the construction of Cop City in Weelaunee Forest. San Pablo’s Cop Campus will churn out union-busters and camp-clearers and school 'resource officers' all across the Bay. But it already has numerous opponents—tenants and the unhoused, Palestinians and Afrikans, anarchists and socialists, unions and abolitionists.
Find out more & Join the fight to make our streets ours.
Oakland Schools for All
Join East Bay DSA members fighting to get the Lead out of OUSD & protect students from cuts & closures.
There are a number of ways to build the campaign, from one-time actions to sustained support.
To find out more find the next Oakland Schools for All event or if you're a member check the #Oakland-Schools-For-All channel on our discord
Team leaders: Shane R. and Nate L.
Campaigns
Organize Your Workplace
The East Bay Workplace Organizing Committee (EBWOC) supports non-union workers in any industry to organize with their coworkers and win lasting change on the job. Connect with a workplace organizer to learn how you and your coworkers can improve your working conditions.
Stop California Forever
The Solano/Napa Branch of EBDSA is on the frontline of a class struggle against billionaire investors who are trying to profit from an unprecedentedly massive land flip, and tip the political balance in favor of tech broligarchy. Connect with us to fight back!
Find out more about the Solano/Napa Branch
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Bay Area Labor For Palestine
Since the onset of Israel’s military campaign against Gaza, East Bay DSA members have helped organize a grassroots collection of rank-and-file union members seeking to push their unions to take stances in solidarity with Palestine.