Linked with Michael Albert – USA.
There are two organisations with almost the same name:
1): The SDS 1960 organization: see on wikipedia:
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was, historically, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country’s New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. SDS was the organizational high point for student radicalism in the United States and has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. Participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current national student activist groups. Though various organizations have been formed in subsequent years as proposed national networks for left-wing student organizing, none has approached the scale of SDS, and most have lasted a few years at best … (full text on wikipedia/1960 organisation).
Their blog: the SDS organizer;
Links: New Left Archive; SDS Historical Documents and other links; Shut it down; The Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection; Further reading.
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2): The SDS 2006 organization: their homepage:
Bulletin June/July 2008, 23 pages;
Contact Regional Organizers (240 Total);
Join SDS;
See also on wikipedia: SDS’ main page, and also the wiki’s 2006, The New SDS: Beginning January 2006, there is a movement to start a new SDS. A small group of old SDS members joined with a Connecticut high school student to call for a new SDS fighting for civil rights and against war. Several chapters at various colleges were later started. On Martin Luther King Day of 2006, these chapters called for the first national convention since 1969 to be held in the summer of 2006.
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