DSA SF member and Electoral organizer Avery Yu gives an introduction to the world of field organizing - list building, contact strategy, and more!

6 - Intro To Field

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!

7 - Empty Homes Tax w/ Dean Preston

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 get 14,000 signatures by this July, so if you can, please come join us for signature gathering.

8 - Socialist Answer to the Housing Question

The event focused on the limits of policy work under capitalism and the potential for mass organization and mobilization in the face of crisis. In this episode, Andy M. addresses Alex Lee’s social housing proposal for San Jose, the major issues of America’s affordable housing programs, systemic barriers to Berlin’s Housing Expropriation Initiative, and Stomp Out Slumlord’s successes in organizing and mobilizing tenants during earlier stages of the pandemic.

9 - Limits of Policy Under Capitalism and Opportunities for Organizing

Education sessions and reports from the chapter priority campaigns of the Democratic Socialists of America's San Francisco chapter

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