Students For A Democratic Society (SDS)

[GoaRedStar]

A while back there was a thread discussing a possible remake of the SDS.
well here it is

here is the announcement

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Is Back!

Students for a Democratic Society chapters to form national organization.


Several chapters of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) announced today, Monday, January 16, 2006, their intent to form a national organization and hold the first SDS national convention since 1969. "It seemed appropriate to make this announcement today, on the observed Martin Luther King day", said SDS regional organizer Thomas Good. "We have an anti-war movement that is addressing the issue of stopping the bloodletting in Iraq but the civil rights issue remains unaddressed", he added. The national convention is scheduled for Summer 2006 and will be preceeded by a series of regional conferences occurring on the Memorial Day weekend.

The newly formed SDS national organization was the idea of a student anti-war activist who contacted other student and veteran organizers. Good joined SDS when Stonington High School (Connecticut) senior Pat Korte contacted him with the idea of linking nascent SDS chapters into a national structure.

Here the link http://antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/index.html

http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/

[bayano]

yeah, they sprang up in chicago too. might chance out to their meeting. they say their about radical tactics, and then they talk all this junk about lobbying. i dont oppose lobbying all together, but it isnt a radical tactic.

[which doctor]

I see they have a big chapter at the University of Michigan. That's one of the schools I'm considering attending. The other school is Evergreen State College, but they don't have a chapter their yet.

This looks like it is growing pretty fast.

[BattleOfTheCowshed]

I'd be interested in participating in them. My only question is, what is truly their character at the moment? They seem to have been awesome and revolutionary in the 60s, are they still so now? If they're talking about lobbying, i dont know...

[redstar2000]

They have a small message board that really needs input from members & potential members...

http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/erap/

http://www.websmileys.com/sm/cool/123.gif

[bayano]

ill check them out in person. see what i think.

[Jimmie Higgins]

From checking out their website just now, I'd say they seem very politically immature. the original SDS had years of organizing behind it before it became the SDS that we all know about. But it seems like this gruop is starting from scrathch which is probably way they are starting out with illusions about lobbying and other reformist ideas.

If there is a chapter near you or on your campus, it would probably be benificial to check out what the org is really like. If you do, I would read up on the original SDS first and how they came to some of their more radical conclusions through the process of more reformist ideas to more radical ones (especially any SDS debates about supporting or not supporting LBJ or other Democrats). THis way you can show them why these radical ideas are better, rather than just telling them they arn't radical enough.

[encephalon]

from the conversations I've witnessed and participated in, the group seems to be heading in a reformist direction extremely fast. I was hoping that wouldn't happen.

Reformists in the group greatly outnumber revolutionaries, and unless that changes soon I fear it will turn into another chapter of campus democrats.