Providence SDS

Providence Students for a Democratic Society

Providence SDS, formed in the summer of 2007, is composed of students from Rhode Island School of Design, Brown, Providence Area High Schools, Rhode Island College and other students and youth from the greater Providence area.

As Students for a Democratic Society, we want to remake a movement – a young left where our struggles can build and sustain a society of justice-making, solidarity, equality, peace and freedom. This demands a broad-based, deep-rooted, and revolutionary transformation of our society. It demands that we build on movements that have come before, and alongside other people’s struggles and movements for liberation.

Together, we affirm that another world is possible: A world beyond oppression, beyond domination, beyond war and empire. A world where people have power over their own lives. We believe we stand on the cusp of something new in our generation. We have the potential to take action, organize, and relate to other movements in ways that many of us have never seen before. Something new is also happening in our society: the organized Left, after decades of decline and crisis, is reinventing itself. People in many places and communities are building movements committed to long-haul, revolutionary change.

SDS can play a vital role by redefining the student and youth movement and how it relates to others. Yet we have a choice ahead of us: We can do what has been done before – reinvent the wheel with the same old cycles – or we can build something new together, something informed by our past and grounded in a vision of what the future might look like. We envision the new SDS in the light of the second alternative.

For more information about Providence SDS, check out these pages:

• What is Students for a Democratic Society?
  Information about what SDS is, how we organize, and how it opperates locally, regionally, and nationally.
• Whats on the Providence SDS agenda?
  SDS is an organization which focuses on many social and pollitical issues. Find out which agenda items top the lists for local chapters and SDS members.
• Where are Providence SDS chapters located?
  Is SDS at your college, university or high school? Find out what your chapter is up to, or organize your own school chapter.