Starbucks Workers United Strike
2025-11-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Disney Way & Harbor Blvd., Anaheim, Disney/Harbor, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
It’s official: Starbucks Workers United, the union behind more than 9,500 baristas across 550 Starbucks cafes, is on strike! On 13 November, our green-aproned comrades will be hitting the picket line if the corporate heads of the company do not agree to a contract, which would include fairer wages, better hours, and the immediate reinstatement of their embattled leadership. As of NOW, SBWU is calling on comrades to come out to support their Downtown Disney strike tomorrow, Thursday 13 November, from 4:00-5:00PM. Attendees are strongly encouraged to park at the Anaheim Garden Walk (where the first hour of parking is free) and walk to the protest at the intersection of Disney Way & Harbor Boulevard. To signup or find the maps on where to park and where to head, please click the links below: RSVP Link | Map

Electoral Politics Committee
2025-11-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Online (Zoom)
Our Electoral Politics Committee is back up and running, with its first strategy meeting ending with a productive first step in the right direction. With the election year of 2026 hot upon us, we call on all interested parties to join us on Thursday 13 November at 6:00PM via Zoom for our next meeting. RSVPs are required to join the call, so please click the link below to sign up. Electoral Politics Committee RSVP

Grocery Support Pick Up
2025-11-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Announced Following Registration
With SNAP/CalFresh still down for the majority of recipients, OCDSA will be supporting local families, regardless of immigration status, by picking up food items and preparing them for distribution. The pick up will be on the morning of Friday 14 November from 10:00AM-12:00PM, while the distribution itself will be on Saturday 15 November from 10:00AM-3:00PM. Due to the sensitivity of this work, more details will be provided to volunteers who fill out the form below. If you cannot attend but still wish to contribute, there is an option for financial contributors to pitch in to help us get even more food out to the community! Volunteer/Donor Signup Form

Know Your Rights Canvassing
2025-11-15 08:30 - 11:30 | Euclid Park (Garden Grove), 12732 Main St, Garden Grove, CA, 92840, United States
OCDSA’s Immigrant Justice Working Group will be doing Know-Your-Rights canvassing in Garden Grove on Saturday November 15th, 8:30am-11:30am. Rain or shine, we will be meeting at Euclid Park to distribute canvassing packets and assign canvassing locations. Please join us in talking to community members about their rights at home, work and in public spaces! RSVP Link

Grocery Support Distribution
2025-11-15 10:00 - 15:00 | Announced Following Registration

AFSCME 3299 Strike Support
2025-11-17 07:00 - 16:00 | UCI Medical Center, 101 The City Dr S, Orange, CA, 92868, United States
Come support our AFSCME 3299 siblings on the picket line as they fight for a fair contract with UC Irvine. The picket line will run from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the UCI Medical Center campus in Orange, as well as the university campus in Irvine.

Harm Reduction Distribution with 714 Mutual Aid
2025-11-22 14:30 - 17:00
We are asking for volunteers to help us in aiding our allies at 714 Mutual Aid in Santa Ana, with their food/essentials/HR distribution event, on Saturday 22 November from 2:30-5:00PM. We will be providing food, clothing, blankets, hygiene essentials, first aid materials, HR materials, and more, to our unhoused neighbors at Santiago Park. 714 Mutual Aid has built a relationship with these individuals, and they have come to rely on the bi-weekly distributions for clean goods. For more information and to sign up, please check the form below: Harm Reduction Signup Form

Mutual Aid at Someone Cares Soup Kitchen
2025-11-23 07:30 - 12:30 | Someone Cares Soup Kitchen, 720 W 19th St, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627, United States
For the final mutual aid opportunity of the month of November, OC-DSA will be returning to the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen from 7:30AM-12:30PM on Sunday 23 November. Per usual, we will be assisting the Soup Kitchen in helping to reorganise after their stores while also feeding our hungry neighbours in Costa Mesa and the surrounding area. If you are interested in signing up or would like to donate to help our friends at Someone Cares out, please click the links below: RSVP Link | List of Needed Items | What to Expect at the Soup Kitchen

Stand With Starbucks Workers
2025-11-24 11:00 - 15:00 | 700 Newport Center Dr., 700 Newport Center Dr, Newport Beach, CA, 92660, United States
Join Starbucks Workers on Monday, November 24th, 2025 at 11:00AM for a March and Action in Newport Beach. Location details will be shared with you once you complete this form. For questions, reach out to Rose at rose.molina@workers-united.org.
RSVP Link

November 2025 Chapter Social
2025-11-28 17:00 - 22:00 | Irvine Ranch Water District Community Meeting Room, 15500 Sand Canyon Ave, Irvine, CA, 92618, United States
The month of November is off to a great start with an amazing election day that saw so many of our comrades from across the country win big! To celebrate the wins and remind ourselves of the solidarity that produced them the monthly social will be a Friendsgiving! So prepare your finest dishes and join us on November 28th at the Irvine Ranch Water District Community Room from 5-10PM for good food, great company, and recharge before returning to our important work in the new year. An ask we do make of all attendees is that – whether you bring a dish for the potluck or not – please bring at least one food item (canned or fresh) of your choice for us to drop off for a food drive we will be conducting to help stock local pantries, ICE watch hubs, and community distributors to fight hunger in OC on the back of Thanksgiving. Please signup below and confirm your attendance by adding what you plan to bring to the potluck!
RSVP Link | Potluck Signup

SBWU December 2025 Strike Support
2025-12-01 00:00 - 2025-12-31 23:59 | Downtown Disney District, 1580 S Disneyland Dr, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
With Starbucks workers still on strike all around the country, our comrades need our support on the picket line now more than ever. Join SBWU strikers in Downtown Disney for the duration of the strike from 2-7PM or drop by to drop off donations the striking workers will need to sustain their efforts. For those hoping to drop by, parking at the Anaheim Garden Walk is free for the first hour. List of Needed Donations

ICE Watch Hubs
2025-12-01 00:00 - 2025-12-31 23:59 | Announced Following Registration
In collaboration with groups all over the county, OCDSA is participating in community Hubs to keep our communities safe from ICE & the DHS. Please join us in standing in solidarity with the OC day laborer community. Immigrants have a right to seek work without fear of racial profiling and illegal detainment. Have some time to spare in the mornings? RSVP with your preferred contact info to learn how you can make a difference right now with OCDSA! RSVP Link

Political Education Committee
2025-12-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Online (Zoom)
Our Political Education Committee (PEC) will be meeting tonight, 3 December, at 7:30PM for its biweekly meeting. Please join us as we prepare for upcoming Socialist Night Schools and Night Lites later in the month and early next year. As always, there will be time for new items and open discussion at the end of the meeting, so we hope to see you there soon! Zoom Link

Early December Grocery Support Distribution
2025-12-05 00:00 - 2025-12-06 23:59 | Announced Following Registration
OCDSA will be supporting local families, regardless of immigration status, by picking up food items and preparing them for distribution. The pick up will be on the morning of Friday 5 December from 10:00AM-12:00PM, while the distribution itself will be on Saturday 6 December from 10:00AM-3:00PM. We are specifically looking to have at least 10 members present for the Saturday distribution effort, as more hands makes the difficult work much more manageable. Due to the sensitivity of this work, more details will be provided to volunteers who fill out the form below. If you cannot attend but still wish to contribute, there is an option for financial contributors to pitch in to help us get even more food out to the community! RSVP Link

December 2025 Labor Committee Meeting
2025-12-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Everywhere Beer, 1501 W Orangewood Ave, Orange, CA, 92868, United States
OCDSA’s Labor Committee will be meeting at Everywhere Brewing in Orange to discuss all things labor and organizing in our communities. If you’d like to link up with organized workers in OC, talk shop, hear the latest direct from the source, or even just hang out, please consider dropping by from 1-3PM this Saturday, 6 December. RSVP Link

Mutual Aid Harm Reduction
2025-12-06 13:30 - 16:00 | Announced Following Registration
We are asking for volunteers to help us in aiding our allies at 714 Mutual Aid in Santa Ana, with their food/essentials/HR distribution event, on Saturday 6 December from 1:30-4:00PM. We will be providing food, clothing, blankets, hygiene essentials, first aid materials, HR materials, and more, to our unhoused neighbors at Santiago Park. 714 Mutual Aid has built a relationship with these individuals, and they have come to rely on the bi-weekly distributions for clean goods. If you cannot attend the Early December Grocery Support Distribution, kindly consider attending this opportunity. For more information and to sign up, please check the form below: RSVP Link

Downtown Santa Ana Art Walk & Punk Rock Market
2025-12-06 17:00 - 22:00 | Plaza Calle Cuatro, 325 E 4th St, Santa Ana, CA, 92704, United States
This Saturday, 6 December is OCDSA’s final tabling event of the year. Join us at the Downtown Santa Ana Artwalk and/or the Punk Rock Market any time from 5:00-10:00PM on Saturday for an evening of tabling, community outreach, recruitment, and conversation! For a full map of vendors, events, and parking, please click the link below

Bi-Weekly Mutual Aid Training
2025-12-09 20:00 - 21:00 | Online (Zoom)
OCDSA Mutual Aid is expanding its reach and with expansion comes a need for asynchronous organising! As such, Mutual Aid will be meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month from 8:00-9:00PM. If you are interested in helping us with making the most of our mutual aid capacity, please consider joining us next Tuesday, 9 December as we brainstorm, report back, and continue to focus our work! Zoom Link

Electoral Politics Committee
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Online (Zoom)
Our Electoral Politics Committee is hosting its biweekly strategy meeting next Thursday, 11 December from 6:00-7:00PM. With the election year of 2026 hot upon us, we call on all interested parties to join us on via Zoom for these biweekly meetings to help steer the direction of our chapter’s electoral strategies. RSVPs are required to join the call, so please click the link below to sign up. Zoom Link

December 2025 KYR Canvassing
2025-12-13 08:30 - 23:30 | Euclid Park (Garden Grove), 12732 Main St, Garden Grove, CA, 92840, United States
OCDSA’s Immigration Justice Working Group will be doing Know-Your-Rights canvassing in Garden Grove on Saturday, December 13 from 8:30-11:30AM. We will be meeting at Euclid Park to distribute canvassing packets and assign canvassing locations. Please join us in talking to community members about their rights at home, work and in public spaces! RSVP Link

Brake Light Clinic Training
2025-12-13 15:00 - 16:30 | To Be Announced
After many long months in the works, OCDSA Mutual Aid is preparing to start free Brake Light clinics, which are open and free to the community. This cheap, easy program helps mitigate law enforcement interactions with community members and keeps everyone on our busy roads safe. In preparation for this undertaking, OCDSA Mutual Aid will be hosting a Brake Light Clinic Training on Saturday, 13 December from 3:00-4:30PM to teach attendees skills such as how to change a brake light, how to set up a Brake Light Clinic, how to interact with community members in need of brake light changes, and how to pass these skills along responsibly. The location of our first training is still in the works, but please keep an eye out for next week’s newsletter as we plan it out!

Palestine Posada with OC Banner Drop for Palestine
2025-12-20 12:00 - 16:00 | Orange Circle, Plaza Circle, Orange, CA, 92688, United States
Calling all musically-inclined activists: OC Banner Drop for Palestine will be hosting a Christmas Posada to commemorate the struggle for Palestinian liberation and the ongoing genocide that continues in spite of the Trump-sponsored “ceasefire” that – as of November 2025 – has been violated 497 times. If you are available, please bring your instruments, your signing voice, or even just your keffiyehs and signs to the Orange Circle in Downtown Orange on 20 December at 12:00PM to lend your voice to those whose might otherwise be silenced.
RSVP Link

OCDSA Brake Light Clinic
2025-12-20 15:00 - 16:30
After many long months in the works, OCDSA Mutual Aid is hosting its very first tail light workshop, which will teach attendees how to change a vehicle tail light and organise a tail light clinic. Tail light clinics provide a crucial service to the community by offering free tail light changes, which serve to reduce law enforcement interactions and save lives. In a time of unprecedented systemic racism directed at black and brown communities in contemporary America, a little light can go a long way! This event will be hosted at Centro Cultural de Mexico on 20 December from 3:00-4:30PM and is RSVP only. For more details on how you can learn a couple new skills and support your own communities, please consider joining us for this groundbreaking event!
RSVP Link

December Social
2025-12-20 15:00 - 20:00
On 20 December from 3:00-8:00PM, OCDSA will be hosting its December 2025 Social at Gamecraft Brewing in Anaheim. Bring your favourite boardgames and join us for a jubilant afternoon of games, drinks, snacks, conversation, and camaraderie! We’ll also be collecting grocery donations to help stock local pantries in Anaheim, so please bring what you can to help support the needy in our community! This event is RSVP only, so signup to join in the fun!
RSVP Link

OCDSA Mutual Aid Meeting
2025-12-23 20:00 - 21:00 | Online (Zoom)
OCDSA Mutual Aid is expanding its reach and with expansion comes a need for asynchronous organising! As such, Mutual Aid will be meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month from 8:00-9:00PM. If you are interested in helping us with making the most of our mutual aid capacity, please consider joining us next Tuesday, 23 December as we brainstorm, report back, and continue to focus our work!
Zoom Link

Mutual Aid Harm Reduction Distribution
2025-12-27 13:30 - 16:00 | Announced Following Registration
We are asking for volunteers to help us in aiding our allies at 714 Mutual Aid in Santa Ana, with their food/essentials/HR distribution event, on Saturday 27 December from 1:30-4:00PM. We will be providing food, clothing, blankets, hygiene essentials, first aid materials, HR materials, and more, to our unhoused neighbors at Santiago Park. 714 Mutual Aid has built a relationship with these individuals, and they have come to rely on the bi-weekly distributions for clean goods. If you cannot attend the Early December Grocery Support Distribution, kindly consider attending this opportunity. For more information and to sign up, please check the form below:
RSVP Link

Mutual Aid at Someone Cares Soup Kitchen
2025-12-28 07:30 - 12:30 | Someone Cares Soup Kitchen, 720 W 19th St, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627, United States
For the final mutual aid opportunity of the month of December, OC-DSA will be returning to the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen from 7:30AM-12:30PM on Sunday 28 December. This time, we will be assisting the Soup Kitchen in helping to reorganise after their stores while also feeding our hungry neighbours in Costa Mesa and the surrounding area. If you are interested in signing up or would like to donate to help our friends at Someone Cares out, please click the links below: RSVP Link | List of Needed Items | What to Expect at the Soup Kitchen

No More Murderers ICE Protest
2026-01-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Santa Ana Federal Building, 34 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States
Earlier this week, ICE agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota shot a woman to death amidst a sweeping reign of terror perpetrated against immigrant communities in the area. This marks the first murder of a US citizen at the hands of this fascist force, though their hands were far from bloodless before this incident. In response, OCDSA will be joining our comrades from the Community Service Organization (CSO) in protest this Friday at 6:30PM at 34 Civic Center Plaza in Santa Ana. Safety comes with numbers and knowledge, so we will be present to help recruit more folks into standing patrol hub work in OC. As is the norm for protests, attendees are encouraged to bring signs, masks to protect their identities, and good walking shoes.

Protest War Against Venezuela and Against ICE Terror
2026-01-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 411 W 4th St, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States
The Trump administration has kidnapped Nicolas Maduro, the President of Venezuela, an absurd show of American imperialism in an attempt to steal Venezuela’s oil resources. Meanwhile, at home, ICE has murdered a US citizen who was legally observing their violent acts in Minneapolis. This war on working people all over the world can’t continue. We have called on a national day of action to say FIGHT TRUMP’S WAR ON VENEZUELA AND STOP ICE TERROR ACROSS THE U.S. This event will be taking place at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building at 2:00PM on Saturday, 10 January. As is the norm for protests, attendees are encouraged to bring signs, masks to protect their identities, and good walking shoes.

January General Meeting
2026-01-31 11:00 - 13:30 | Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim, 511 S Harbor Blvd, Anaheim, CA, 92805, United States
OCDSA will be meeting for its first administrative meeting of the year at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim (511 S Harbor Blvd, Anaheim, CA 92805) on Saturday, 31 January from 11:00-1:30PM. This month, we will be discussing a number of resolutions and actions the chapter plans to undertake for the calendar year of 2026, so your attendance is highly recommended to help us vote! The meeting will be hybrid, meaning that if you cannot join us in-person, you are welcome to join us via Zoom. This month’s agenda and proposed resolutions are currently in the works, but the signup is linked below.
