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You guys and gals should go check out the FMLA display in the Student Center. There’s an SDS flyer on the display too so it’s extra sweet.
yesterday I saw this exhibit at the Elaine Jacobs gallery at Old Main. I really reccomend seeing it.. it’s freeeeeeee!

Original post by carmen and reposted by Radical Blogs

SDS Southeast Regional Convention


Southeast Regional SDS convention!
Orlando, FL. UCF Main campus
Jan. 13-15th, 2007
http://newsds.org/seregional
The Southeast has scheduled a conference, which will bring together regional SDS chapters, progressive organizations, equal rights groups, and many more organizations of the politically disenfranchised. As organizers of this Southeastern SDS conference, we would like to build the broadest, most inclusive, diverse, multi-issue collective […]

Prairie Fire (PFOC) to hold 13th Annual Pancake Breakfast


From the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) in Chicago:

Join us for the 13th Annual Pancake/Waffle Breakfast, on Sunday, December
3rd, 2006 from 10:00 am - 12:30 at the new Puerto Rican Cultural Center,
2700 W. Haddon.
BENEFIT for VIDA/SIDA, the Aids/Life Project of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center which is in desperate need of funds.
All the pancakes, waffles, […]

Pace Transportation Union speaks out in support of the Pace students


To: Tom Good
Editor: Next Left Notes
Movement for a Democratic Society
November 17, 2006
For Immediate Release:
The Pace Transportation Union speaks out in support of the Pace students who dare to address the urgent and very legitimate concerns of the student body by standing up to the Administration. They should be allowed to be heard.We are in total […]

William Godwin and Education


I’m reading A Primer of Libertarian Education by Joel Spring. In the first chapter he introduces William Godwin (as well as Francisco Ferrer and Ivan Illich), the first so called “philisophical anarchist”. Godwin was a heavy critic of the national education system that was developing around the late eighteenth century, which was uncommon even among […]

Petition to Pace University


CLICK HERE TO SIGN!
To:  Pace University
We the undersigned members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Movement for a Democratic Society(MDS), and friends thereof, denounce the actions of Pace University in regards to the planned arrest of several SDS first amendment activists on November 15, 2006 at the downtown campus. The targeting of these activists […]

Emergency Westchester Faculty Council Resolutions passed 11/21/06


The following resolutions were passed at yesterday’s emergency Westchester
Faculty Council meeting:
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Emergency Faculty Council Resolutions passed 11/21/06
The following motions were passed at our meeeting this afternoon
1. We, the members of the Westchester Faculty Council, will submit the date and time and place of demonstration events to University officials for safety purposes but not for permission to […]

Gainesville SDS Demonstrates In Solidarity With Oaxaca


Gainesville SDS demonstrating on the University of Florida Campus (Photo: Gainesville SDS)
Gainesville, FL - November 21, 2006. Gainesville Students for a Democratic Society held a demo on the University of Florida campus Monday in solidarity with the rebels in Oaxaca, Mexico.
A mock barricade was erected in the highly trafficked Plaza of the Americas around lunch […]

Northwest SDS Convention Statement On UCLA Taser Incident


November 18, 2006
Dear President Robert C. Dynes, UCLA Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams, and Chief Karl T. Ross,
We support the University’s decision to conduct an independent investigation of the recent excessive and unnecessary force used against Mostafa Tabatabainejad at the UCLA Powell Library. We insist that this incident be investigated as one of racial profiling. This […]

SDS Northwest Regional Convention Statement In Solidarity With Pace SDS


Portland, OR - November 21, 2006. SDS held a Northwest Regional Convention this past weekend. SDSers at the convention issued a statement in solidarity with Pace SDS:
November 18, 2006
Dear Chairman Aniello A. Bianco, President David Caputo, Vice President Doug Whiting, Dean Marijo Russel-O’Grady, and Director Christopher Cory,
We are writing in support of the five SDS […]