News and Updates


Single-Payer Campaign Kickoff: Building Power to Win Big

March 01, 2017

Last Saturday, 160 people took part in East Bay DSA's Single-Payer Healthcare Campaign Kickoff event in Oakland. Our goal was to mobilize support for The Healthy California Act, or SB 562, a single-payer healthcare bill that would provide comprehensive medical coverage to all Californians, includ...
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East Bay DSA Gears Up for Big Single-Payer Kickoff

February 14, 2017

Yesterday was the beginning of something big. We at the East Bay DSA were blown away by the success of the soft kick-off for the California Single-Payer Health Care campaign. With our big campaign canvassing event coming up on February 25 (check it out on Facebook!), we took a day to train 35 of ...
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East Bay DSA at SFO Protests

February 07, 2017

Hi everyone, just wanted to tell you a little bit about East Bay DSA's presence at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) protests last weekend.We became aware on Saturday that there were several detainees being held at SFO as a result of Trump's executive order banning immigrants and refu...
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East Bay DSA on Jacobin Panel

February 06, 2017

On Friday, February 3, more than 200 people filled the California Nurses Association headquarters to attend a panel called "Resisting Trump in California." The panelists included our own East Bay DSA co-chair Jeremy Gong, editor and founder of Jacobin Magazine Bhaskar Sunkara, and Stephanie Schwa...
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Join the Fight for Fair Housing!

January 23, 2017

We have a housing crisis in the Bay Area. East Bay DSA is forming a housing committee to fight for housing access! Fill out our East Bay DSA Housing Campaign Interest form for more information on what we're doing and how you can plug in!
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Candidate Statements for January 14 Election

January 10, 2017

We just emailed out the candidate statements for the upcoming election on Saturday. Please check your email for further details! If you didn't receive the email, please get in touch with us at dsaeastbay@dsaeastbay.org so we can get you a copy of the statements and make sure that you're on our ch...
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January 14 Elections

January 03, 2017

We will be holding elections for chapter leadership (Executive Committee) at our January 14 General Meeting.See our election information for a full rundown of the details, including position descriptions.Election Guidelines in BriefThe term for this election is six months.If you want to run, you ...
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Recap: The ABCs of Socialism Study Session

January 01, 2017

More than 60 folks crammed into the South Berkeley Library on Saturday to discuss The ABCs of Socialism as the first of the East Bay DSA's study series. We're excited by how many folks turned out ready to engage with the material and excited to figure out how to win others to socialism. Stay tune...
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Upcoming Events - November 27, 2016

November 28, 2016

Wow! It was great seeing so many of you at the meeting this Sunday and to hear how fired up everybody is. Also, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) nationally has grown more than 10 percent in the last week alone, so keep spreading the word. We just wanted to post some links to the events we t...
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