As of Fall 2025, DSA San Diego endorsed the Labor for an Arms Embargo National Campaign, which works in collaboration with the Mask off Maersk and No Harbor for Genocide campaign to build support for arms embargo campaigns in unions at the local level in cities with seaports, airports, and inland logistics hubs implicated in the logistics machine sustaining Israel’s military or in cities with Maersk terminals.  Both DSA San Diego's Labor Working Group and Palestine Solidarity Working Group will be collaborating on this effort to end these shipments. San Diego is uniquely positioned as a logistics hub and military city, with multiple public and private entities participating in the manufacturing and shipment of weapons to Israel.

We are just beginning the third year of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, the latest escalation of their decades-long campaign to occupy and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land. Israel is killing dozens of Palestinians daily, all while still claiming adherence to the Trump administration’s “ceasefire” agreement. Between Trump’s continued support of Israel and the number of victories on a local level, it is clearer than ever that an arms embargo will only come through consistent, organized action, city by city. By working to end San Diego’s complicity in genocide, we are fighting to protect lives and assert our humanity in the face of state violence and colonialism. We are not free until all of us are free!

If you are interested in getting regularly involved in this work, please let us know by filling out this form, and we will follow up to schedule a call.

Prospective tasks:

• Research - conversations with stakeholders in our community to identify viable political organizing demands
• Outreach - calls and texts to fellow DSA union members to discuss how their unions can get involved in the campaign, as well as DSA non-union members to encourage participation in meetings, events, forums and campaign actions
• Communications - preparing social media posts and email/newsletter copy
• Coordination - taking meeting notes, scheduling and calendaring meetings, facilitating meetings
• Organizing - planning and leading actions, canvasses, recruiting members to deliver public comment at city council/county supervisor general meetings/committees