Students for a Democratic Society was created in the 1960s on the heels of the Civil Rights movement. SDS quickly became the face of the student anti-war movement across the country. SDS joined forces with the struggles of working and oppressed people to fight, and win radical social change.

In 2006, students re-formed SDS as a national organization. SDS now has hundreds of chapters in High Schools and Universities across the country.

We are a non hierarchical organization that believes in participatory democracy. Here is the Eight Point Platform written by Milwaukee SDS (which is elaborated further on SDSMKE.com):

1. We believe that the international military posture of the United States is fundamentally flawed.

2. We believe that the imperialist occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are detrimental to the well-being of both the occupied people and the global community as a whole.

3. We believe that the structure of unrestrained corporate capitalism is unethical and undemocratic.

4. We oppose the efforts of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization to reduce "Third World" nations to a state of perpetual poverty and debt.

5. We believe that environmental policy, on all levels, must pursue immediate sustainability.

6. We stand in solidarity with all members of our global society whose voices are muted, whose concerns are marginalized, and whose basic human rights are violated.

7. We believe that the U.S. justice system is fundamentally biased and unbalanced.

8. We believe that the University should be a place of learning and that students should have a larger voice in the structuring of the institution.
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Students for a Democratic Society was created in the 1960s on the heels of the Civil Rights movement. SDS quickly became the face of the student anti-war movement across the country. SDS joined forces with the struggles of working and oppressed people to fight, and win radical social change.

In 2006, students re-formed SDS as a national organization. SDS now has hundreds of chapters in High Schools and Universities across the country.

We are a non hierarchical organization that believes in... (read more)