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News Archive
July 18, 2011 The Summer 2011 Issue of Democratic Left is now online.
Click ***HERE*** for Table of Contents and access to individual articles. Click ***HERE*** for pdf file of the complete issue. July 10, 2011 Speak Up at Congressional Town Hall Meetings. Here is a set of documents to help you get DSA's message across on the need for policies that will create jobs, increase the Debt Ceiling, defend Social Security and Medicare, reduce military spending, and get the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes. Also, click ***HERE*** to see a master index of recent DSA sample op-eds, letters to the editor, talking points, and Q&A on recent topics. June 10, 2011 DSA has a new National Director. Democratic Socialists of America has appointed Maria Svart to be DSA’s next National Director. She succeeds Frank Llewellyn, who announced earlier this year that he was stepping down after ten years. Maria will start on July 5, 2011. Frank will stay on for a brief period to assist in the transition. April 27, 2011 Support the Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act. Petition your Congressional Representative to become a co-sponsor of H.R. 870. DSA supports the legislation introduced by Representative John Conyers to establish a National Full Employment Trust Fund to create employment opportunities for the unemployed. View or download a new DSA flyer on HR870 and the Jobs Crisis. April 16, 2011 Taxes and the Budget Deficit Just in time for Tax Day, April 18, 2011, we offer a collection of documents, resources and information for DSA activists. Here are "Questions and Answers", flyers, sample op-eds and letters to the editor. The files are editable, so that you can modify them for use in your own community.
March 2011 Defend Public Employees, Protect State Budgets: A collection of documents, resources and information for DSA activists. Here are "Questions and Answers", flyers, sample op-eds and letters to the editor. The files are editable, so that you can modify them for use in your own community.
January 22, 2011 The DSA Organizing Manual is available on the resources page. A DSA Resource for Effective Community Organizing January 22, 2011 Cuando ser latino es ilicito - a translation of Breathing While Brown, a DSA response to Arizona's anti-Latino crusade. 
Ten Reasons the Social Security Proposal of the Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs Should be DOA (Dead on Arrival) February 10, 2011 Information and Registration for the Spring 2011 YDS Conference. January 18, 2011 The Winter 2010/11 Issue of Democratic Left is now online. Click ***HERE*** for Table of Contents and access to individual articles. Click ***HERE*** for pdf file of the complete issue. July 2010 DSA Background Paper: A Social and Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century July 2010 The Spring 2010 Issue of The Red Letter is now online June 2010 Breathing While Brown Call for a DSA Response to Arizona's Anti-Latino Crusade May 21, 2010 Young Democratic Socialists has relaunched its web site with a new look and new content. View it at http://ydsusa.org May 2010 Video Presentation: DSA at the Left Forum March 20, 2010 DSA Vice Chair Joe Schwartz: Toward a Second (Economic) Bill of Rights May 2010 Video Presentation: DSA at the Left Forum March 20, 2010 Bill Barclay A Real Jobs Program May, 2010 Video Presentation: DSA at the Left Forum March 20, 2010 Mike Hirsch: The Fiscal Crisis of the States; The Class Fight over State Budgets April 20, 2010 The Spring 2010 Issue of Democratic Left is now online. Click ***HERE*** for Table of Contents and access to individual articles. Click ***HERE*** for pdf file of the complete issue. April 5, 2010 TAX WALL STREET: We Need Good Jobs NOW! March 25, 2010 Toward An Economic Bill of Rights: Represents DSA's first effort to define the critical economic and social needs of our society within the framework of Rights. March 9, 2010 DSA has issued a statement on Immigration Reform. Click ***HERE*** for the pdf file. January 15, 2010 Join members and friends of DSA in contributing to Haiti earthquake relief. The following groups have long established programs in Haiti and are independent of the forces that contributed to Haiti's poverty and oppression. Doctors Without Borders Partners in Health Quixote Center December 21, 2009 DSA Resolution on the Senate Health Care Bill Senate Bill Must be Fixed in Conference Committee Click ***HERE*** for the pdf file. December 30, 2009 From the January issue of In these Times: "Mobilized in Motor City: How Detroit DSA works in the Democratic Party to effect change." Click ***HERE*** for the link. November 13-15, 2009 Documents and videos from the DSA National Convention Click ***HERE*** for the convention page. September 28, 2009 The Alternative to Capitalism is Democratic Socialism Here are two revised recruitment flyers with a brief description of DSA's politics and beliefs: Click ***HERE*** for the pdf file with statements from Cornel West and Dolores Huerta. Click ***HERE*** for the pdf file with statements from Barbara Ehrenreich and Dolores Huerta. August 8, 2009 Socialism and the Politics of Fear Frank Llewellyn's commentary has now been issued as a DSA flyer. Click ***HERE*** for the pdf file. July 25, 2009 Socialism and the Politics of Fear DSA National Director Frank Llewellyn's article is the headline piece on the CBSNEWS Opinion web page for July 23, 2009. View the article ***HERE*** July 20, 2009 Video discussion with DSA Vice Chair Joe Schwartz Why Obama is not a socialist Joe Schwartz was interviewed by Petra Hepburn of Ithaca DSA. View a 10 minute excerpt on YouTube at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A_ZOWI1aLU The complete 30 minute program is on the Ithaca DSA blog at: http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/ July 27, 2009 Health Care Reform: Push Comes to Shove Bill Moyers Journal interviews Marcia Angell and Trudy Lieberman on July 24, on the intense battle over health care reform. This is the best comparison of the Single Payer approach to the bills under consideration in Congress that we have seen. See the video ***HERE***
June 27, 2009 Take Action for Universal Health Care
March 14, 2009 DSA has two new brochures and a flyer on the Employee Free Choice Act. Click on our Resources page to access them.
Join other DSA members on July 30 in Washington D.C. for the Health-Care Now Single Payer Lobby Day and Rally Get more information on Health Care activism from the Boston DSA web site and the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care June 24, 2009 The DSA NPC has passed a resolution On the Struggle for Universal Health Care. To view the resolution click ***HERE*** , or click on the Resources icon to the left to access all DSA documents. June 16, 2009 The DSA NPC has passed a Statement on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Winning Peace with Justice in the Middle East. To view the statement click ***HERE***. June 12, 2009 Listen to an interview on KPFA with DSA Vice Chair Joe Schwartz, on his new book, The Future Of Democratic Equality, on "why Obama is not a socialist" and "what is socialism". May 21, 2009 With the help of DSA Vice-Chair Steve Max, we have developed a short audio-visual slide show on health care that makes the case for single payer as well as the public option. To view the slide show on YouTube click here. March 2, 2009 DSA has two editorial flyers on "bailing out the banks": Rescue the Banks, not the Bankers and Shareholders and The Banks are Made of Marble. Click the resources icon to the left for a list of our other documents. Feb. 25, 2009 DSA has two new flyers on our Economic Justice Agenda: EJA, an Introduction and EJA, a Summary. Click **HERE** for the full document: Toward an Economic Justice Agenda. Feb. 21, 2009 DSA has a new flyer on Single Payer Health Care: Health Care For Everyone: Healthier for Everyone Feb. 5, 2009 DSA has released our economic recovery plan: Economic Recovery for Everyone. Please download and distribute this important document. The recovery plan deals with the origins of the crisis and our responses to it, and connects it to the issues we raise in DSA's Economic Justice Agenda. Jan. 28, 2009 DSA has produced a short two page flyer: Economic Recovery that Benefits Everyone. The flyer focuses on the origins of the crisis and our responses to it. The Winter 2008/9 issue of Red Letter, the newsletter of Young Democratic Socialists, is now online. Click **HERE** for the pdf file. How a President Creates Change. DSA Vice Chair Joseph Schwartz reminds Barack Obama that major political change is never top down. From Tikkun December 31, 2008. The Winter 2008/9 issue of Democratic Left is now online. Click **HERE** for the Table of Contents. Click **HERE** for the pdf file. The DSA Labor Network blog Talking Union has a report on Atlanta DSA's Douglas-Debs Dinner, held on Nov. 8, 2008. There is lots of good stuff on this blog. Socialism is Not Communism. DSA editorial response published in the Richmond Times Dispatch to "McCain, Obama, and 'the Change We Need',". Nov. 7, 2008 The Fall 2008 issue of Democratic Left is now online. Click **HERE** for the Table of Contents. Click **HERE** for the pdf file. DSA in the news: Obama is a "socialist". An amusing article by Joe Conason in the New York Observer, with a comment by DSA National Director Frank Lewellyn. The final version of DSA's Toward an Economic Justice Agenda has been added to the resources page, May 25, 2008. Click **HERE** to view or download the pdf file. The DSA Labor Network has a new blog: Talking Union Why the Left Needs an Economic Justice Agenda Now Michael Hirsch on ZNet The Political Economy of International Migration An important analysis by David Bacon The DSA PAC has issued a report on John McCain's dangerous vision of U.S. foreign policy. The DSA PAC has issued a report on John McCain's radical health care plan. DSA has issued a Statement on the 2008 Presidential Election , August 14, 2008. Click **HERE** to view or download the pdf file. Job Announcement: DSA is accepting applications for YDS Youth organizer position starting August 2008. Application deadline: Extended to April 30, 2008. Young Democratic Socialists conference. New York City, February 15-17, 2008. Manning Marable, Bill Fletcher Jr., Francis Fox Pivin, Nancy Fraser, Stephen Eric Bronner and many more. The Winter 2007/8 issue of Democratic Left is now online. Click **HERE** for the pdf file. This issue reports on the DSA Convention, and includes talks by Bernie Sanders and Bill Fletcher.
Report from the DSA National Convention
CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC LEFT
November 9-11, 2007 Atlanta, Georga DSA endorses October 27 National Mobilization of United for Peace and Justice to end the war in Iraq. Click **HERE** for information. A new draft of the DSA Economic Justice Agenda has been added to the toolbox, July 26,2007. Click **HERE** for the pdf file. 2007 YDS Summer School and Activist Conference Click **HERE** for information, and **HERE** to register. DSA has a new flyer on the U.S. Occupation of Iraq. The flyer and other documents are in the tool box . Click **HERE** for the pdf file. DSA National Political Committee Resolution on The Rights of Undocumented Immigrants. Adopted June 2, 2006. Get your books through the newly updated DSA Bookshop. Click the bookshop icon on the left. The Spring 2007 issue of Democratic Left is now online. Click **HERE** for the pdf file. YDS (Young Democratic Socialists) conference in NYC Feb.16-18, 2007. Justice Beyond Borders: Democracy and Socialism in the 21st Century. Participants include Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gayatri Spivak, Liza Featherstone, and Christian Parenti. YDS summer conference in NYC Aug. 11-13. International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) World Festival in Spain July 18-23. Click **HERE** for details on the YDS web site. Historic event March 25, 2006 in Los Angeles. The Birth of a Movement. Click **HERE** for commentary and pictures. DSA Statement on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans The Winter 2006 issue of Democratic Left is now online. Click **HERE** for the pdf file. YDS Conference in NYC February 17-19, 2006. Report and results from the 2005 DSA National Convention Contribute to Katrina Relief through the DSA Fund New DSA Statement on IRAQ and the Anti-War Movement -- for Sept. 24, 2005 Anti-War demonstration. YDS Conference in NYC: Turning the Tide Towards Freedom. Special premier screening of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price at the DSA 2005 National Convention
DSA Membership Increases by 13%
DSA has issued a new statement on Defending Social Security. The statement is available as a flyer by clicking here. Other documents and resources can be obtained by checking the toolbox to the left. Germany's Political Crisis-- And Why its Left is in Disarray Norman Birnbaum - reprinted from DIRELAND Progressive Politics in Europe, A Frog's-eye Perspective Stephan Peter - Twin Cities DSA DSA recommends the article by Stephen Shalom: The Anti-War Movement and Iraq Young Democratic Socialists National Conference and Activist Retreat August 12-14, 2005 DSA web site to include reports and photo-essays by journalist and photographer David Bacon.
Up to the minute news on Wal-Mart from LabourStart now Available on DSA Web Site
San Diego DSA hosts Western Regional Conference.
DSA challenges Wal-Mart CEO to debate advertising theme. East Coast Regional DSA conference set for April 16 in New York City March 9 UPDATE Young Democratic Socialists Conference March 11-13, 2005 New York City Young Democratic Socialists Conference March 11-13, 2005 New York City DSA Western Regional Conference March 5, 2005 San Diego, CA DSA National Director's post election analysis DSA Honorary Chair Cornel West publishes Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. DSA releases Study on the Politics of Race DSA releases Health Care Study DSA NPC Resolution on Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. SEIU's Eliseo Medina named an Honorary Chair of DSA DSA Midwest Regional Conference Minneapolis, October 9, 2004 Including an international dialog: Building a Multilateral Future.
Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) at the Republican Convention
DSA and the Republican National Convention DSA In Boston for the Social Forum and Democratic Convention Major Business Week article: Working...And Poor on the DSA Low Wage Economy Page Reports & Resolutions from the 2003 Detroit Convention. Report from the UCSB Wal-Mart Conference Important Wal-Mart Conference at UC Santa Barbara News and analysis of the Southern California Grocery Strike on the DSA Low Wage Economy Page Revised DSA statement on the 2004 presidential elections. Working Assets holiday petition on the DSA Wal-Mart Page Young Democratic Socialists conference in New York City Feb. 20-22, 2004. Print pdf flyer. DSA resolution: Support the Grocery Workers. Don't shop at Safeway. The Freedom Rides have come to New York.New poverty numbers document Bush's failure. DSA statement here. The Freedom Rides are rolling across the country. Latest news here. California DSA and the Recall Election. DSA statement on the Recall and Proposition 54. Dolores Huerta appointed to the University of California Board of Regents For Labor Day: Labor Lost in Wal-Mart's America, by Harold Meyerson DSA National Convention Set for November 14-16 in Detroit On the DSA Low Wage Economy Page: Barbara Ehrenreich on the UNC Nickel and Dimed Contoversy; Events Calendar for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Rides. On the Wal-Mart Page: DSA's letter to the New York Times on Wal-Mart's "Image Problem" DSA statement on the 2004 presidential elections. Click here for details. The 400. News Flash: The rich are getting richer. DSA Midwest Activist Conference July 12 in Chicago on the Low Wage Economy Object to Wal-Mart entering the banking business. The information is here |
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