Fwd: October 7th, SDS National Convention, and more
Alex Knight
From: Students for a Democratic Society <students4demo...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Subject: [SDS Announcements] SDS announcement email! October 7th, SDS National Convention, and more
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Hello SDSers!
We’re ready to rock and roll as the next school year starts – and we’ve got a lot of information to throw at you to help get your local SDS chapter up and running. First off - if you're in an active chapter, please send us your updated contact information! We'd love to be able to keep our database current. Also if you know of a chapter that no longer exists, please send us that information as well. You can email that information to students4demo...@gmail.com. Check out some of our national projects:
October 7th: Money for Jobs and Education, Not War and Occupation!
October 7th is not only the 9th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, but is also the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. SDS is calling for students and youth to take to the streets and protest increases in tuition and cuts to student services, as well as 9 years of war in Afghanistan. We have attached some flyers as well as the SDS call to action to help with local organizing. Feel free to use whatever you want to out of them. For more information on the national day of action, or if you want your local chapter to endorse, please contact us at students4demo...@gmail.com or see defendeducation.org
SDS National Convention! October 22nd-24th 2010, Milwaukee WI
It’s national convention time again for SDS! We are asking that chapters and members please consider coming to our national convention, being held in Milwaukee Wisconsin the weekend of October 22nd-24th. There will be plenaries, workshops, and speakers and will be a great way to meet and talk with other activists and learn from each other, as well as party with some great radicals!
If you are planning to come to the convention, please fill out the registration form as soon as possible. This will help us with planning when it comes to housing, food, reserving rooms, and allocating funds. In addition, there are limited funds available for travel stipends if you and/or your chapter needs financial help in getting to Milwaukee. These funds are limited, and we encourage chapters to look primarily at fundraising locally or getting your school to sponsor you – but don’t be intimidated to apply!
Also - we are not planning on spending a lot of time in decision-making plenaries at this year's convention. If you have ideas for discussions you want to facilitate with other SDSers (how can we make our national organization more effective? what campaigns are most strategic for the student movement? how can students act most effectively against the wars?) then use the workshop submission form to let us know.
The registration form can be found here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/HWSD5LN
And the workshop registration form can be found here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/HWTN8RT
See you in Milwaukee!
Fundraising appeal
As mentioned above, SDS is trying to help people get to our national convention, as well as put on other national projects – which requires money. When you (or a family member or friend) donates to SDS, your money will be used to help us sustain our national organizing and allow us to do things like provide travel stipends to send students to the national convention. In the past, we have used SDS funds for things like national conventions, action camps, and sending activists to protest the racist SB1070 bill in Arizona.
To donate, please visit newsds.org and click on the “Give to SDS” button on the right. If you wish to donate without using PayPal, or if you have questions about giving to sds, please contact us at students4demo...@gmail.com
Join the National Working Committee!
Interested in being a part of organizing with SDS on a national level? SDS meets every other week on Sundays to discuss national campaigns, national conventions, outreach to local chapters, and other SDS-related activities. Anybody can participate on the phone calls. To get on the mailing list, please email students4demo...@gmail.com and ask to be put on the NWC listserv.
Hope everybody has a great year organizing for social justice! Remember to check us out on facebook and at our website, www.newsds.org.
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Alex Knight
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