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Welcome to Students for a Democratic Society's SDSwiki Project!
The SDSwiki Project is a new project within Students for a Democratic Society, open to SDS members, that is designed as a place where SDSers can share information, work on collective documents, write our own history, share lessons learned in grassroots movement work, and upload pictures, audio, and video.
How do I join?
To join and contribute to SDSwiki pages, simply Click Here! to register. (Only registered users who have confirmed their e-mail addresses can edit pages). All users must agree to the Terms and Conditions! If you have questions, go to the Help Page.
Navigating the SDSwiki Project
Check out the new Table of Contents!!!
Want a list of all the pages on SDSwiki? Click Here. Want to see what is going on in SDS? Visit the SDS Calendar. You can view SDS events, post your own, and update old events. If you are feeling really consider writing a writeup of a past SDS event you have attended to share your lessons with others. Eventually we will have paged that list all of our images, events, audio, video, reportbacks, and news articles about us. Stay tuned!
Find/Contact an SDS Chapter!
Check out the List of SDS chapters to find and contact the nearest SDS chapter, or to add your chapter to the list!
There is also a companion page for chapters starting up or inactive.
New Organizers!
Organizing Resources for SDS Organizers! Click Here! Check out this guide to Starting a chapter!
Organizing at a Community or "Junior" College? There is a manual for that started Here! Organizing in High School? Check out the High School Organizing guide! Or are you in a small town? Got that covered too, here!
National Convention
The 2008 SDS National Convention will be held July 24-27 in College Park, MD / DC!!!
Hope to see you there!!! Register if you're coming!
To get involved in organizing the convention, sign up for our mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/sds-national-convention-2008
Action Camp
The 2008 Action Camp will be held August 15-17 in Asheville North Carolina!!! Start raising $ among your chapter to send many people to N.C!
We would love for you to get involved! Logistics, curriculum, contacting trainers etc. You can sign up for our mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/sds-action-camps-08
Visibility Project
The Visibility Project is ecstatic to bring you 2 offerings to help make SDS work more visible and accessible:
1. The *NEW* SDS National Announcements Listserv = http://groups.google.com/group/sdsannouncements (send your announcements to: sdsannouncements@googlegroups.com)
2. The *NEW* SDS National Calendar = http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=4bpt7d1susgr1icar99egh0vj4%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York (Press the little "+ Google Calendar" button on the bottom right of the screen to subscribe!)
Help make more great stuff like this happen by getting involved: http://groups.google.com/group/sdsvisibility
Chapter Communications
The new Chapter Communications working group is transforming the way SDS members and chapters communicate with each other, by creating a new phone-based system of chapter contacts.
Check out the new SDS Chapters Blog: http://sdschapters.wordpress.com
And the SDS Chapters Map: coming soon!
This working group needs your help, so volunteer to be a contact by emailing Mike da Cruz of Brown SDS - mike.dacruz@gmail.com and/or signing up for the listserv: http://groups.google.com/group/sds-chapter-comms.
News Bulletin
Issue #5 of the SDS News Bulletin - Get it while it's HOT!
PRINT and DISTRIBUTE to your Chapter, Campus and Community!
The SDS News Bulletin working group is proud to bring you our fifth issue, the best yet. From front cover to articles to action reports to poetry to art, we loaded this issue up for maximum pleasure, and once again you made it all possible by sending in your work, thoughts, ideas and love.
Now here's the result:
Download now! - http://newsds.org/bulletinfiles/final_bulletin5.pdf
(You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view the PDF file, which is FREE software you can download Here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html)
Enjoy! and Distribute widely!
Send us your stuff to be published in Issue 6: sds.bulletin@gmail.com
Want to join the bulletin working group? Get involved by signing up for our email listserv: http://groups.google.com/group/sds-news-bulletin
Collective Liberation
As a radical organization, SDS is not immune to divisions along class, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or other lines, and so collective liberation is a major focus within SDS. Some important articles related to oppression and privilege within the movement can be found on the Women's Caucus page, and the People of Color Caucus has made two important statements at the 2006 and 2007 National Conventions, available Here!
What is Students for a Democratic Society?
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is an association of young people of the left. It seeks to create a sustained community of educational and political concern, one bringing together liberals, radicals, and revolutionaries, activists and scholars, students, staff, and faculty. It maintains a vision of democratic society, where at all levels the people have control of the decisions which affect them and the resources on which they are dependent. It seeks a relevance through the continual focus on realities and on programs necessary to effect change at the most basic levels of economic, political and social organization. It feels the urgency to put forth a radical, democratic program whose methods embody the democratic vision.
SDS is an education and social action organization dedicated to increasing democracy in all phases of our common life. It seeks to promote the active participation of young people in the formation of a movement to build a society free from poverty, ignorance, war, exploitation, racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and environmental destruction.
