Orange County DSA

May Know Your Rights Canvassing Event
2025-05-17 08:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Jerome Park, 2115 W McFadden Ave, Santa Ana, CA, 92704, United States
Orange County DSA will be back in force to distribute flyers, red cards, and additional immigration information on Saturday, 17 May from 8:00AM-12:00PM at Jerome Park (2115 W McFadden Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92704) in order to inform our own immigrant communities of their rights in the event of ICE knocks, traffic stops, or arrests. This particular location was the site of an ICE abduction, so we are back in Santa Ana to directly respond to the community’s need for support. Please join us for this event, especially if you speak Spanish!
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Socialist Night School: Why the Working Class?
2025-05-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
We want to transform the world into one that is just, with freedom and equality for all. But rather than begin with the world as we want it to be, we must start with the world as it is. Investigating the mechanics of capitalism provides us the tools to dismantle and replace it. Winning socialism is the most ambitious project in history, and we cannot succeed without a close analysis of our terrain. Join us to discuss our experiences under capitalism as workers, how it divides the working class, and how we can work to replace it.
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May Immigration Justice Working Social
2025-05-10 11:00 - 14:00 | LibroMobile Bookstore, 1150 S Bristol St A3, Santa Ana, CA, 92704, United States
Join us on Saturday, 10 May at LibroMobile Bookstore at 11:00AM for a productive afternoon of light reading and preparation. At this event, we’ll be putting together the flyers and cards we’ll be handing out during our next canvassing event, so your participation there will be crucial in helping us get ready without burning our leadership out ahead of time. If you have the means to do so, please consider helping us by printing out additional flyers for us to prepare using the following link. By bringing additional flyers (printed double sided, horizontal orientation)to this working social, you can directly help us increase our ability to empower our community through the provision of educational resources!
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Socialist Night School: Race & Capitalism in the USA
2025-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Race and capitalism are intricately woven together in our society, and this has been true since capitalism’s inception in colonialism and slavery. To unite the multi-racial working class, we must expose capitalism as the common enemy and overcome the ways that racism has historically divided workers. We as socialists must recognize that racism cannot be ended without supplanting capitalism and vice versa. Join us as we discuss and investigate the relationship between race and capitalism.
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May Day March & Rally 2025
2025-05-01 15:00 - 21:00 | El Centro Cultural de México, 837 N Ross St, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States
OC-DSA will be taking to the street with our coalition partners next Thursday in commemoration of International Workers Day. Join us on May 1st, 2025 International Workers Day for a rally and march in Santa Ana as we build unity and demand an end to the attack on immigrant and refugee families. As neighbors from working class communities, we are coming together to fight for each other and say NO to raids, NO to ICE transfers, and NO more money for family separation.
This country and county runs on our labor. The wealth we generate should be used to care for working families and our communities!Join us if you feel the same.
El Centro Cultural de Mexico, 837 N. Ross St, Santa Ana, CA Rally starts at 3:30 pm. Gather at 3:00 PM Follow our hosts on IG at @ocmayday and Facebook at OC May Day Coalition
Signup below:
OC-DSA May Day RSVPs

April Mutual Aid Event
2025-04-27 07:30 - 12:30 | Someone Cares Soup Kitchen, 720 W 19th St, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627, United States
On 27 April from 7:30AM-12:30PM, we will be returning to Someone Cares for our April Mutual Aid Opportunity.

We have also been specifically asked to bring one-gallon zip-lock baggies this time around. Our crew in the back will be using them to package animal food, grains, and other miscellaneous items for individual distribution to our guests. With spring in full bloom, this is also an excellent opportunity for everyone to get rid of plastic shopping bags they have lying around their homes as the soup kitchen definitely needs them to get other donations out to folks!

If you’re interested in jumping in for this mutual aid opportunity, please sign up using the form below:
https://forms.gle/beh5MxbHCCvo33xU9

April Socialist Social
2025-04-26 14:00 - 18:00 | Solima Coffee & Bookstore, 115 W Main St, Tustin, CA, 92780, United States
For the month of April, OC-DSA will be out at Solima Coffee and Bookstore in Tustin (115 W Main St, Tustin, CA 92780) to enjoy tasty beverages, searching for good reads, lounging in the sunshine, and having rousing conversations. To sign up for this event, please click the link below to RSVP:
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Socialist Forum: Meet Your Local Activists Town Hall
2025-04-26 11:00 - 13:30 | Memorial Park, Memorial Park, W Anahurst Pl, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States
This month, our general meeting will be a socialist forum. We plan to meet in Santa Ana for a Meet Your Local Activists Townhall, in which we will be working with groups like Women’s March, Affirming OC, JVP-OC, Naturalist for You, and many more to allow members of the community to meet their local activist groups and allow us to network with other orgs in the fight for a more progressive future. This meeting will be at the Memorial Park Mural in Santa Ana (Memorial Park, W Anahurst Pl, Santa Ana, CA 92707) from 11:00AM-1:30PM. To RSVP for this event, please click the link below:

Punk Rock Market: OC-DSA Tabling & Outreach
2025-04-19 17:00 - 22:00 | The Pizza Press, 117 W 4th St Unit 101, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States
On Saturday, 19 April, OC-DSA will be out in Santa Ana, tabling at the Punk Rock Market! Come stop by to say hi to our fantastic tablers, peruse the market (which is an incredible street market for fans of punk culture), and meet with community members who might unlock a bit more of your inner rebel! For more information about the Punk Rock Market, please check out their Instagram in the link below:
https://www.instagram.com/punkrockmarket/

April Know Your Rights Canvassing
2025-04-19 08:00 - 12:00 | Chaparral Park, 1770 W Broadway, Anaheim, CA, 92804, United States
Orange County DSA will be back in force to distribute flyers, red cards, and additional immigration information on 19 April from 8:00AM-12:00PM at Chaparral Park (1770 W Broadway, Anaheim, CA 92804). From there we will be going to the cities of both Garden Grove and Anaheim in order to inform our own immigrant communities of their rights in the event of ICE knocks, traffic stops, or arrests. Our flyers can be found in the Resources and Reminders portion of the newsletter for you to distribute to people you may know, but if you are interested in joining us for this event, please follow the link below to sign up and receive more information:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/april-know-your-rights-canvassing?source=direct_link&

April Immigration Justice Working Social
2025-04-13 11:00 - 14:00 | Hidden House Coffee, 511 E Santa Ana Blvd, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States
Join us on Sunday 13 April at Hidden House Coffee in Santa Ana at 12:00PM for an afternoon of conversation, food and drink, and most importantly: preparation. At this event, we’ll be putting together the flyers and cards we’ll be handing out during our next canvassing event, so your participation there will be crucial in helping us get ready without burning our leadership out ahead of time. Parking is available onsite for paying customers, so please bring a pair of scissors, a laminator if you have one, and your thirst for some tasty coffee/tea!
To sign up, please follow the link below:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/april-immigration-justice-working-social?source=direct_link&

Hands Off Protest & Mass Mobilisation
2025-04-05 12:00 - 15:00 | Sasscer Park, 600 W Santa Ana Blvd, #955, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States
On Saturday 5 April, a mass mobilisation will be taking place, organised by 50501 OC, OC Indivisible Coalition, Activate America, Democrats of North Orange County, and OC Huddle. While we would ordinarily not work with Democratic operatives, this will be a mass mobilised effort that involves a huge swath of the community, making it an excellent recruiting event and opportunity to make our chapter known to residents of Orange County. This event will be from 1:00-2:30PM at Sasscer Park (600 W Santa Ana Blvd, #955 Santa Ana, CA 92701), but we will be meeting up at 12:00PM onsite. If you’re interested in joining in on the march, please fill out the form below:

SBWU Solidarity Phone Bank and April Labor Committee Meeting
2025-04-05 06:00 - 18:00 | CA
Our phone banking event with the Starbucks Workers United will be virtual and open to all from 6:00AM-6:00PM. If you would like to participate in this event, RSVP using the link below:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/sbwu-solidarity-phone-bank?source=direct_link&

End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba, Support the Cuban People!
2025-03-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Page Against the Machine, 2714 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA, 90814, United States
On 30 March, OC-DSA will be joining DSA-LB, union reps from the U.S. and Cuba, and activists from the US Hands Off Cuba Committee for a teach-in at Page Against the Machine, a leftist bookstore in Long Beach, starting at 6:00PM. This event is an excellent networking opportunity with our neighboring chapter to the north as well as with activists from all over the SoCal region.

OC-DSA Pop Social: March 2025
2025-03-30 12:15 - 15:00 | The Frida Cinema, 305 E 4th St Ste 100, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States
OC-DSA will be getting together for a pop social on Sunday, 30 March at 12:15PM at The Frida Cinema for a matinee screening of No Other Land, the Oscar Award winning documentary on the systematic destruction of the West Bank in occupied Palestine.

March Know Your Rights Canvassing Event
2025-03-29 08:00 - 12:00 | Richman Park, 711 S Highland Ave, Fullerton, CA, 92832, United States
Orange County DSA will be back in force to distribute flyers, red cards, and additional immigration information on 22 March from 8:00AM-12:00PM at Richman Park (711 S Highland Ave, Fullerton, CA. 92832) in Fullerton. From there we will be going to the cities of both Fullerton and Anaheim in order to inform our own immigrant communities of their rights in the event of ICE knocks, traffic stops, or arrests.

March Mutual Aid Opportunity
2025-03-23 07:30 - 12:30 | Someone Cares Soup Kitchen, 720 W 19th St, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627, United States
We are asking for volunteers to be part of our shift at Someone Cares Soup Kitchen that feeds our unhoused and at-risk neighbors in Costa Mesa. If you plan on volunteering, please make sure to arrive early to find parking and plan to stay until the end time.

If you are new to volunteering with the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen, please let us know so we can reach out to you with important information to know while working there. The shift can be fast-paced at times, so it is important to know what you’re getting yourself into before you go!

Items Needed:
Plastic Shopping Bags
Socks
New + Lightly Used Clothes
Tarps
Vacuum cleaners
Gift Cards (Smart & Final)
Women’s Sanitary Products
Water Bottles
Animal Food (Dog + Cat)
Canned Goods
Fresh Eggs (to be brought the morning of)

March Social
2025-03-22 14:30 - 19:00 | SteelCraft Garden Grove, 12900 Euclid St, Garden Grove, CA, 92840, United States
For the month of March, we are heading back to SteelCraft in Garden Grove for an afternoon of tasty food and even tastier conversation. Come join us after the general meeting as we discuss the most recent happenings, what our chapter is up to, and what you’d like to see out of our activity in the time to come from 2:30-7:00PM. RSVP for our March Social below:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/march-2025-social?source=direct_link

March General Meeting
2025-03-22 11:00 - 13:30 | The Untold Story Bookstore, 1141 N Anaheim Blvd, Anaheim, CA, 92801, United States
On Saturday 22 March from 11:00AM-1:30PM, OC-DSA will be holding our general administrative meeting at The Untold Story Bookstore (1141 N Anaheim Blvd, Anaheim, CA 92801).
Parking is free and you MAY park in handicapped spaces – even if you do not have a handicapped placard – so long as at least 2 are left open to the public.
For Women’s Month this month, we will be hearing and discussing resolutions and motions from the membership, hearing from members of our community and our coalition partners, and hosting an important event for reproductive health. RSVP below:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/3222025-general-meeting

Know Your Rights Session at Cal State Fullerton
2025-03-17 16:00 - 19:15 | CSUF Humanities Building, 2600 Nutwood Ave, Fullerton, CA, 92831, United States
We are collaborating with the Chicano and Chicana Studies Department, Latinx Scholars CSUF, the OC Rapid Response Network, OC Justice Fund, Orange County DSA, and more to bring you a CSUF-wide know your rights training! This event will teach everyone how to protect themselves and others from ICE, DHS, and CBP as our immigrant communities face new threats under the new administration.
The event itself will be on Monday, March 17 from 4:00-7:00PM in Humanities 110.

Please RSVP here.
