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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. Users must then be confirmed by an editor. This usually occurs within a few hours). All users must agree to the Terms and Conditions! If you have questions, go to the Help Page.
Navigating the SDSwiki Project
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!
National Convention
The 2007 SDS National Constitutional Convention is on its way! For more information and to GET INVOLVED, Click Here! The Convention is currently scheduled to take place in Detroit, Michigan on the campus of Wayne State University from Friday, July 27th to Tuesday July 31st.
Action Camps
Action Camps are week-long organizer training camps planned to take place the first two weeks of August. The purpose is to provide a medium in which current and potential SDS organizers, may come together and build their skills in such areas as facilitation, basic organizing, chapter building, and liberation politics. The camps will also have much time to discuss strategy and vision, and things relating to internal SDS structure. The first series of camps are currently in planning: one in the Midwest, the other in the Northeast. For more information on this years camps, and info on how to attend or how to help out, Click Here!
New Organizers!
Organizing Resources for SDS Organizers! Click Here! Organizing at a Community or "Junior" College? There is a manual for that started 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.
