What is the #Occupy Movement? Cambridge I

Video Recording A series of roundtable discussions hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society. This is the first part of the discussion series held in Cambridge. Panelists Jason Giannetti (Lawyer) Doug Enaa Greene (Kasama Project) Nick Ford (ALL-oNE) Evan Sarmiento (FRSO) Stephen Squibb (Occupy Harvard, n+1) Held on December 15, 2011 at Harvard University. The recent Occupy protests are driven by discontent with the present state of affairs: glaring economic inequality, dead-end Democratic Party politics, and, for some, the suspicion that capitalism could never produce an equitable society. [Read More]

The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS

FROM JULY 24 UNTIL JULY 28 2008, the new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had its third annual national convention in College Park, Maryland. At the convention, national campaigns were presented and voted on by the attendees. A major campaign introduced at the convention was the Hundred Days campaign, which seeks to organize and engage newly politicized Americans in politics beyond the campaign season. During the first one hundred days of the next administration the campaign will organize two nationwide weeks of action to ensure that the people remain involved in politics after the election cycle. [Read More]