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| Abbreviation | SDS |
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| Formation | 2006 |
| Type | Student activist organization |
| Purpose | To build a fighting student movement against US wars and intervention, racist discrimination, police crimes, homophobic and transphobic attacks, attacks on women, attacks on reproductive rights, and more. |
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| Website | NewSDS.org |
| Part of the Politics series on |
| Students' rights |
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), or New Students for a Democratic Society (New SDS) is a United States student organization founded in 2006 in response to the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan with the aim to rebuild the student activist movement.[1] It takes its name and inspiration from the original SDS of 1960–1969, then the largest radical student organization in US history. The contemporary SDS is a distinct youth and student-led organization with chapters across the United States.[2][3][4]
Politics
SDS is a broadly progressive, multi-issue student and youth-led activist organization, which aims to rebuild the student movement through direct action campaigns on college, university, and high school campuses across the United States. While united by a committment to direct action rather than any particular political ideology, SDS does release statements and resolutions standing against US wars and intervention, racist descrimination, police brutality, homophobic and transphobic attacks, attacks on women, attacks on reproductive rights, and other US and campus-based issues as they emerge.
Structure
SDS is a grassroots organization without affiliation to any non-profits or political parties. Every chapter of SDS organizes its own internal functioning and plans its own campaigns along campus-based demands and protests. Rather than have a national leadership body, members of any chapter can participate in the Naional Working Committee, made up of volunteer participants in regular, nation-wide calls.[5] The national structure is also maintained through annual national conventions since its founding in 2006, which are hosted by a different chapter each year. Conventions columinate in the adoption of resolutions, which outline the political issues chapters agree to prioritize in their campaigns in the coming year.
Both resolutions and the National Woorking Committee also determine national days of action, coordinated protests carried out by all chapters.[6] Past days of action include protests against the Dobbs v. Jackson decision to defend abortion access, against Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, against the War in Afghanistan, and for education rights, among others.[7][8][9][10]
Students for a Democratic Society also occasionally leads national campaigns, such as the Stop Trump Campaign, lasting the duration of the presidential campaign and presidency of Donald Trump. During that period, while chapters led various campaigns, slogans and demands always related back to opposing Trump.[11]
History
2006-2010: Refounding of SDS
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Beginning January 2006, a movement to revive the Students for a Democratic Society took shape. Two high school students, Jessica Rapchik and Pat Korte, decided to reach out to former members of the "Sixties" SDS, to re-establish a student movement in the United States.[2] Korte did this by contacting Alan Haber.[12] They called for a new generation of SDS, to build a radical multi-issue organization grounded in the principle of participatory democracy. Several chapters at various colleges and high schools were subsequently formed. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day of 2006, these chapters banded together to issue a press release that stated their intentions to recreate the national SDS organization.[13] In the press release, the SDS called for the organization's first national convention since 1969 to be held in the summer of 2006 and to have it preceded by a series of regional conferences occurring during the Memorial Day weekend. These regional conferences would also be the first of their kind since 1969. On April 23, 2006, SDS held a northeast regional conference at Brown University. Info about how SDS was structured at the time, how it expanded rapidly, and maybe how it then shrunk?
2010-2015: Chop from the Top Campaigns
Info on how SDS focused on economic issues Chop from the Top main slogan???And expanded/maintained chapters in this period. Info on national conventions.
2015-2020: Stop Trump Campaign
Info on how SDS began protesting Trump before the elections, never stopped during his time as president. How it grew
2020-Present: The George Floyd Uprising and Civil Rights Attacks
How SDS has grown since, the work we did during and after the Uprising, and the campaigns we’ve held since. Focus on the Not Another Step Back work we’ve done around Women’s and Reproductive Rights, including the 10,000 people protest in Minneapolis. Sections of the current article to search for citations and info to include elsewhere. In need of fact checking, ask Chrisley!
See also
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Global justice movement
- List of anti-war organizations
- Peace movement
References
- ^ "Who Are New SDS?". Students for a Democratic Society. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ a b Aviv, Rachel (2008-01-06). "One Generation Got Old, One Generation Got Soul". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
- ^ Elaine Korry (2006-01-30). "The Return of the Students for a Democratic Society". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
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Claire Provost (2007-11-19). "Why American students are hunger striking". New Statesman. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
A call to relaunch the organization went out in January 2006, organized by high school students Jessica Rapchick and Pat Korte.
}} - ^ Figueroa, Fernando (20 July 2014). "Students for a Democratic Society hold Florida Day School". FightBack! News. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "sds resolutions 2022". Instagram. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "Salt Lake City rejects Kavanaugh!". FightBack! News. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "Oshkosh rallies in solidarity with survivors, against Kavanaugh". FightBack! News. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "Students mobilize for national day of action for education rights". FightBack! News. 29 February 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "Students Protest 8 Years of War in Afghanistan". FightBack! News. 10 October 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "SDS strengthens at 14th annual national convention". FightBack! News. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Alternetwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Students for a Democratic Society Chapters form National Organization" (PDF) (Press release). Students for a Democratic Society. January 16, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-14.
Further reading
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- Russell, Joshua Kahn. "Not Your Grandfather's SDS." Yes! Magazine, Yes! Magazine (Fall, 2007).
- Lemisch, Jesse. "Sectarian Rage in the New SDS" History News Network (September 18, 2006).
- Knight, Alexander. "The Rebirth of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)." Monthly Review, MRZine (August 9, 2006).
- Phelps, Christopher. "The New SDS," The Nation (16 April 2007).
- Viehmeyer, Doug. "Steppin' In Up: The New SDS." Left Turn, Left Turn Magazine, Apr/May, 2007).
- The Students Are Stirring: A Campus Antiwar Movement Begins to Make Its Mark MRzine interview on SDS's March 20 Day of Student Action Against the War with UNC-Asheville SDS member, Kati Ketz.
- SDS March 20 National Day of Action: Thousands of students walk out, take to streets Article on March 20 day of action from Fight Back News.
- Carriere, Michael. "The Kids Will Have Their Say: The Rebirth of Students for a Democratic Society." Punk Planet, Punk Planet Cover Story (May/June, 2007).