Below you will find a brief description of each of our working groups. If you would like to learn more about our working groups or lend a hand, check out our events page and join us for an upcoming meeting.
Migrant Rights Working Group
The Migrant Rights Working Group organizes in solidarity with migrant communities across San Diego County through rapid response networks, community self-defense, political education, and coalition organizing. The working group supports efforts to resist immigration enforcement overreach, defend vulnerable community members, and build long-term systems of solidarity and protection rooted in working-class power. Members coordinate closely with allied community organizations and local partners to support campaigns, trainings, and direct response efforts throughout the region.
The working group is open to all members, and no prior organizing experience is required to get involved. Volunteers can participate in a variety of ways depending on their skills, availability, and comfort level, including rapid response support, outreach, logistics, research, communications, and community defense efforts. Organizing is conducted with an emphasis on safety, legality, discipline, and effectiveness.
The group hosts regular meetings and coordinates ongoing work through the chapter Discord and Signal channels. Members interested in joining the effort should introduce themselves in the #migrant-rights Discord channel to stay informed about meetings, trainings, campaigns, and volunteer opportunities.
Ecosocialist Working Group
Our Ecosocialist working group seeks to address the root of the climate crisis – global systems of capitalism, imperialism, and oppression – that cause and exacerbate ecological crises. We organize locally to implement, expand, and sustain universal public services that meet the needs of our communities while making a meaningful improvement to the health and happiness of people and the planet. We are currently campaigning to expand a sustainable local food system through our Food Sovereignty campaign; to lower San Diegans’ electric bills and rapidly transition away from fossil fuels by replacing SDG&E with a public not-for-profit utility in our Public Power campaign; and to expand the public transit system to decrease pollution and fossil fuel dependence.
We meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00 PM over Zoom to coordinate campaigns, discuss local environmental issues, and organize upcoming activities, and we also host Community Garden workdays twice a month, which is the perfect event for a DSA newcomer. No prior experience is required to get involved, and members can participate in both organizing and hands-on volunteer work in San Diego. Find these meetings and workdays on our calendar, or join the #ecosoc-general channel the in the chapter Discord to stay in the loop.
Electoral Working Group
The Electoral Working Group organizes campaigns in support of candidates and ballot measures endorsed by DSA San Diego. We coordinate canvassing, phone-banking, text-banking, voter outreach, and coalition work with allied organizations across the county. Our goal is to build working-class political power around issues like housing affordability, public investment, labor rights, and democratic socialism. If you want to get involved, the best way to stay up to date is by joining the chapter Discord and introducing yourself in the #electoral-general channel. No prior experience is required — we are always looking for more people to help build our organizing capacity.
The working group hosts a public meeting once per month, along with internal coordinating meetings every other week focused on campaign planning and volunteer coordination. Most meetings, phone-banks, and text-banks are held virtually, while canvasses take place in person throughout San Diego County. Many of these events are open to the public and listed on our calendar – first timers are always welcome and accommodated. Organizing work also happens continuously through Discord and Signal, where we coordinate turnout efforts, plan upcoming actions, and work alongside coalition partners on shared campaigns and endorsements.
Labor Working Group
San Diego DSA Labor Working Group strives to assist workers in organizing their workplaces, support organized and unorganized workers, build solidarity between DSA and labor unions, and promote labor education and awareness. Our work currently supports a Labor for an Arms Embargo campaign in coordination with our Palestine Solidarity Working Group. We also engage in local strike support and actively encourage workers to act collectively to take back their power from the capitalist class.
We encourage our members, union members, pro-labor activists, and individuals interested in forming a union or cooperative to check the calendar for our monthly meeting every third Tuesday, and join the #wg-labor channel of our chapter discord to stay in the loop.
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Palestine Solidarity Working Group
Our Palestine Solidarity working group organizes in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation. We seek an end to the genocide in Gaza, the occupation, and the apartheid system, and we fight for the Palestinian right to self-determination and the right of refugees to return to their homeland. Our working group organizes banner drops every month. These events, found on the calendar, are open to the public and we would love for you to join.
As citizens of the United States, our mission is to end the complicity of our government and local institutions in these injustices. We organize through labor solidarity for an arms embargo, participating in the Boycott Chevron campaign, community education and outreach, and building coalitions with local organizations.
We believe that Palestinian liberation is intrinsically tied to our collective liberation. Join us in building the movement here, at the heart of the empire, to help end this genocide and win a free Palestine. You can get involved by joining the #palestine-solidarity-general channel of the chapter Discord, or attending one of our bi-weekly zoom meetings which you can find on our calendar.