DSA has announced its Workers Deserve More program to fight for a better world. Are you interested in DSA? Are you interested in building a better world? Then come to this meeting and help us launch our planning for our Solidarity Initiatives. We would like to hear from you on our planning process, considerations, and your early ideas about how we can strengthen our movement.

Housing Justice, Healthcare for all, Educational for all, labor justice and more are all on the table. But we need your help to get it done. RSVP and join the movement.

Join DSA Ventura County’s Labor Working Group on zoom to discuss recent labor struggles in our communities, from Starbucks Workers United’s indefinite strike, to the new contract our County employees won by threatening to strike, to the movement for an arms embargo by Labor for Palestine, and the calls for a general strike by May Day 2028. Please, bring other ideas, campaigns, and your own workplace experiences. An agenda will be posted on slack soon. You will receive the zoom link shortly after completing RSVP.

Monthly Working Session Meeting

The Political Education Working Group is the place to bring your ideas for workshops, educational material, agitprop, and more. Our goal is to bring socialist ideas, DSA messaging and campaigns, and class consciousness to the people of Ventura County. All levels of organizing experience welcome.

Date: Saturday, September 19 from 10 AM until 2 PM

Location: Kellogg Park• 33 Kellog st, Ventura, CA 93001 US

The Mutual Aid Working Group of DSA Ventura County is engaged in base-building and community organizing by exchanging goods and services with those who want to see a world beyond capitalist profiteering.

A free meal is served to attendees. Come get a free meal, or even bring your favorite potluck item or beverages, or non-perishable food to donate.

If you would like to help our mutual aid efforts but are not able to attend, DONATE HERE:

Many hands make light work.

Please reference our Slack’s events channel, or general, for the Agenda.

Zoom Meeting link will appear upon RSVP.

Sunday – September 13 at 12 pm PDT

Location:  The Open Book – The Oaks Mall

556 W Hillcrest Dr, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

Join the DSA Ventura County book club for discussions about selected readings. If you love history, the written word, or the world around you, then you belong here!

This will be a friendly, inclusive event open to all, regardless of prior experiences or familiarity with the topic.

Monday, September 14 at 7 pm

Join DSA Ventura County’s Mutual Aid Working Group for a planning meeting focused on addressing unmet needs in Ventura County. Bring your big ideas, suggestions for coalition partners, and a desire to stand in solidarity with others. We are cookin’ up some ideas, and will post an agenda on our slack.

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Wednesday, September 9 at 6 pm

ROC DSA Steering Committee | September 8, 2026

This August saw the highest number of immigration arrests on record at 50,925, surpassing the previous record of 50,208 set in July. More than 65,000 people are currently being held in ICE detention. In the first eighteen months of Trump’s presidency, ICE detention in Monroe County increased by 1,500 percent. Most of those detained have no prior criminal record, and we know all too well of the hardworking and caring friends and family members who are missing. 

Meanwhile, the federal government is building a detention center in our own backyard, and despite community concerns our County Legislature just approved grant funding that requires coordination with Customs and Border Protection (CBP). We need reassurance that our neighbors are being protected.

ROC DSA applauds the leadership of the City of Rochester and New York State on this issue. Rochester has considered itself a sanctuary city since May 1986 – a policy recently upheld to the embarrassment of the Trump Administration’s lawyers. At the state level, immigration reforms now ban formal 287(g) agreements, bar local jails from being used for immigration detention, and prohibit local governments from contributing to the costs of immigration detention facilities. 

Monroe County needs to plug the gaps by barring all forms of coordination, whether under 287(g) agreements or otherwise. The state policy does not bar much of the coordination we have witnessed. In Illinois, similar state-level legislation is being undercut by informal coordination. And despite the protests of County legislators that Operation Stonegarden is “not about enforcing immigration laws or facilitating deportations,” an investigation by New York Focus has found examples of sheriffs participating in immigration arrests under the program. Already, sheriffs across New York are challenging the state’s legislation, and our own sheriff, Todd Baxter, joined Republican sheriffs from eleven other counties to speak out about the proposed legislation in April. We do not trust the Sheriff’s pinky-promises about enforcement policy.

ROC DSA also demands that the County use its economic leverage against the proliferation of detention centers by divesting from companies involved in their construction. 

Recently, many of our legislators took photo ops in front of Lake Ontario, or released strongly-worded statements against the Trump regime. It’s time they back this rhetoric up with action. 

This proposal to Protect Our Neighbors may not achieve our vision of a clear path to citizenship for all, ending deportation, abolishing ICE, and dismantling detention centers. However, it is an important step toward building a bastion of resistance against the rising tide of fascism.

We encourage our community to give voice to those too vulnerable to speak out. And we encourage our legislators to remember that they represent all county residents, and have a duty to use their privileged position for our protection. 

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