Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)

**Students for a Democratic Society**
SDS logo adopted in 2022
Abbreviation	SDS
Formation	2006
Type	Student activist organization
Purpose	To 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 of America
Website	new-students-for-a-democratic-society.ghost.io

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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. While working alongside such groups as the Freedom Road Socialist Organization,^[2] the contemporary SDS is a distinct youth and student-led organization with chapters across the United States.^[3]^[4]^[5]

^ "Who Are New SDS?". Students for a Democratic Society. 14 August 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
^ Casale, Christian (2023-12-04). "FSU student group pushes back against university after pro-Palestine rally; demands changes". Florida Phoenix.
^ Aviv, Rachel (2008-01-06). "One Generation Got Old, One Generation Got Soul". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
^ Elaine Korry (2006-01-30). "The Return of the Students for a Democratic Society". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
^ 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.