Activist Agenda Proposal: Election/Voting
While we understand that electoral politics are not and should not be the final stage of political action, it is still critical to protect the right to vote without coercion, ignominious errors, and trivial impediments. It is our hope that YDSers will involve themselves in voting rights campaigns in communities of […]
Please follow the links below to review the 2008-2009 YDS Activist Agenda Proposals. These will be voted on during the August Conference. Please feel free to post comments, questions, criticisms, etc. It is better to begin the debate now so that we can accomplish more during the conference. Enjoy!
Access to and Quality of Education
Coalition of […]
Activist Agenda Proposal: Expanding the Fight for Economic Justice: Immigration, Foreign Policy and Workers’ Rights
After two years of YDS’ Immigrant Rights Project, it is clear that we must continue our activism around this issue. Our communities (and often our families) are full of immigrants seeking a better life, but facing a xenophobic backlash in the […]
Activist Agenda Proposal: Renegotiate NAFTA
For most members of the Young Democratic Socialists, 1994 merely marks another year of their childhood. It was in 1994, however, that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada, and Mexico was signed. This trade agreement, under a Democratic president and during the beginning of post-Cold […]
This is a response to the criticisms of the proposal to rename the YDS. You can read the amendment draft and the lively debate that followed here, please continue any further debate on this post
I want to thank everyone who has taken the time read my proposal. I especially want to express my […]
Proposal to Amend the Constitution of the Young Democratic Socialists, USA
For the 2008 YDS National Convention
The YDS Constitution will be amended as follows:
Article 1 will remove:
The name of the organization shall be the Young Democratic Socialists, USA.
Article 1 will add:
The name of the organization shall be the Campus Democratic Socialists of America.
Note well: This goes […]
Wichita State University (Kansas): WSU YDS members helped registered nearly 500 new voters at the largest Wichita Democratic caucus. The chapter also co-hosted a talk with Wichita’s mayor. They’ll end the semester with a movie showing and a panel with national speakers on the issue of student debt as part of YDS’s “Education […]
Labor movement solidarity remains at the forefront of Young Democratic Socialists’ (YDS) work. As a socialist organization, we believe organized working people play a central role in movements for progressive change. YDS, however, does not limit our activism solely to trade unionism. For the past two years, as part of our annual Activist Agenda, […]
The rejection of an attempt to use a fear-generating slur in the campaign for the White House over the past few weeks may represent a change of conditions in US electoral politics. A photograph of presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama dressed in traditional Somali tribal grab was leaked to the press, which led many to […]
At the November 2007 Democratic Socialists of America Convention in Atlanta, a group of DSA labor activists formed a Labor Network to revitalize DSA’s relationship to the labor movement.
We have set up a blog, “Talking Union” (http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/), as a forum for democratic socialists, labor activists and their allies to address the challenges facing the labor […]
