DSA 2003 National Convention
OTHER RESOLUTIONS

RESOLUTION ON STRATEGIC PLANNING

BE IT RESOLVED, That the National DSA, under a process and timetable to be established by the NPC, take as a major focus in the next period a thorough reassessment of (1) its basic strategy, (2) the realistic opportunities for the existing DSA to participate in the building of a progressive political force in the next few years, and (3) the appropriate organizational structures, processes, and tools for reaching its goals;

That everything be “on the table” except our commitment to socialist values and democratic procedures;
That the process begin with a realistic and unsentimental evaluation of (1) the size and diversity of the present activist core, (2) the viability of existing locals and commissions, (3) the contacts DSA has in other organizations and movements, and (4) our access to highly skilled analysts and high-profile spokespeople;

That the goal of the process be the development of one or more projects which can realistically be carried out by a group with the present size and characteristics of the DSA which will assist existing and potential progressive forces to form a political entity capable of offering an effective challenge to corporate power and free-market globalization.


RESOLUTION ON CORPORATIONS

The pernicious doctrine designating corporations as artificial persons has given them a degree of power exceeding that of natural persons. We should examine and pursue, in coalition with groups such as Programs on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD) and Alliance for Democracy, ways to reduce and eventually limit this power by defining persons only as living individuals.


RESOLUTION ON RADICAL YOUTH

WHEREAS, today’s activist youth constitute a bright hope for a reconstituted broad progressive movement, and an opening for the clear espousal of socialism within such movements;

THEREFORE, be it resolved that DSA nationally shall work actively and in a comradely manner with these radical youth.


RESOLUTION ON ENDORSEMENTS

DSA endorses the march on Washington for women’s right [April 25] to choose and the December 10 55th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, with specific focus on the right to organize.