Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)

Students for a Democratic Society
AbbreviationSDS
PredecessorStudents for a Democratic Society
Formation2006
TypeStudent activist organization
PurposeTo build a fighting student movement against US wars and intervention, racist discrimination, police crimes, homophobic and transphobic attacks, attacks on women, attacks on reproductive rights, and more.
Location
  • United States
Websitenew-students-for-a-democratic-society.ghost.io

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), or New Students for a Democratic Society (New SDS) is a United States student activist organization founded in 2006 in response to the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan with the aim to rebuild the student movement.[1] It takes its name and inspiration from the original SDS of 1960–1969, then the largest radical student organization in US history. The contemporary SDS is a distinct youth and student-led organization with chapters across the United States.[2][3][4] SDS chapters participated in organizing the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses,[5] March on the RNC and the DNC,[6] and 2025 United States protests against mass deportation.[7]

  1. ^ "Who Are New SDS?". Students for a Democratic Society. 14 August 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  2. ^ Aviv, Rachel (2008-01-06). "One Generation Got Old, One Generation Got Soul". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
  3. ^ Elaine Korry (2006-01-30). "The Return of the Students for a Democratic Society". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
  4. ^ Claire Provost (2007-11-19). "Why American students are hunger striking". New Statesman. Retrieved 2008-12-08. A call to relaunch the organization went out in January 2006, organized by high school students Jessica Rapchick and Pat Korte.
  5. ^ Burch, Audra D. S.; Manley, Kelley (2024-08-17). "The Next Stop for Denver Campus Protesters Is the Democratic Convention". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
  6. ^ Burch, Audra D. S.; Manley, Kelley (2024-08-17). "The Next Stop for Denver Campus Protesters Is the Democratic Convention". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
  7. ^ "PHOTOS: Protests against immigration raids spread across the U.S." PBS News. 2025-06-11. Retrieved 2025-06-14.

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