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National SDS Demands: Drop the Charges on Alejandro Orellana!

On June 12, 2025, the FBI raided the home of Alejandro “Alex” Orellana in Los Angeles and arrested him on bogus charges. Alex is a leading member of Centro CSO, a Chicano-led organization that opposes deportations and defends immigrant rights. He is being charged with “conspiracy to commit civil disorder”

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National SDS Demands: No War with Iran

Students for a Democratic Society resolutely condemns and opposes Trump's unprovoked and escalatory strikes on Iran. These strikes were done without congressional approval, they are an unconstitutional overreach of executive power by the Trump administration. To justify their attacks, Israel and Trump have pushed forward with the same

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National SDS Statement: No War with Iran!

National SDS condemns Israel’s agression and recent missile strikes on Iran. Israel’s continued attacks on Iran, beginning Thursday, are an unjustified military escalation and now threaten to provoke a wider war, endangering millions of people throughout the whole region. Israel continues to commit a genocide in Gaza with

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National SDS Statement on Escalation in Detentions and the National Guard in LA

In the past couple of weeks Trump’s administration has doubled their shameless quota of daily detentions to 3,000. Since then we have witnessed unbridled brutality and a complete lack of shame from the blatantly racist and anti-immigrant ICE and DHS agencies. Our neighbors and families are under attack.

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Register Now for the 2025 SDS National Convention!

📣 National Convention Announcement📣 Join National SDS and progressive students around the country as we hold our 19th annual convention at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, on October 11th & 12th! Only a few months into Donald Trump's second term, and all sectors of our movement are under attack.

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Pause on Visa Revocations: A Win for the Student Movement!

The pause on international student visa revocations and the reinstatement of many is a win for the student movement, and a time for us to keep on organizing! On April 4th, the first international student visas were revoked, and students were told to leave the country. Almost 2,000 were

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New SDS Stands in Solidarity with the Rutgers 4

On Tuesday April 29th, Rutgers SDS led a protest against a Zionist speaking event held by Rutgers Hillel. The invited speaker of the event was U.S Representative Josh Gottheimer, a staunch supporter of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. The rally outside faced intimidation from police, which escalated and resulted

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National Students for a Democratic Society condemns the FBI and police raids on pro-Palestine University of Michigan activists

National Students for a Democratic Society condemns the FBI and police raids of the homes of pro-Palestine University of Michigan student activists. SDS calls out the FBI, Michigan State Police for the illegal and unrighteous attack on pro-Palestine activists. Three activists were temporarily detained by law enforcement. These raids are

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Free Our Prisoners, Free them all! National SDS Statement on Mahmoud Khalil Ruling

On April 11th, 2025, Louisiana Judge Jamee Comans ruled that Mahmoud Khalil could be legally deported. She stated the government’s assertion that his presence threatened US foreign policy was enough to warrant removal from the country. This verdict was made despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the state

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SDS Condemns Trump Admin Revocations of Visas for 400 Plus International Students, Calls for Emergency Mobilizations Nationally

Over the last few days, Trump's administration has revoked visas for over 400 international students at schools across the US, despite being actively enrolled and eligible. More revocations are likely to follow, as Trump uses federal agencies and even congressional committees to demand information from colleges on more

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New SDS Commemorates Trans Day of Visibility

On this trans day of visibility we reaffirm our commitment to the fight for trans liberation. In the wake of notorious transphobe Donald Trump’s election, attacks against transgender people have intensified. For the past few years many states have been in the process of overturning our hard-fought rights through

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National SDS Condemns Letter From Trump’s Department of Education, Threats to Cut Cultural Programs and Affirmative Action Measures

On February 15, the Department of Education sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to public institutions that threatened massive cuts in funding if institutions did not terminate programs designed to combat racist discrimination – programs that promote affirmative action-inspired admissions initiatives such as those run by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices,

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National SDS Calls on Students: Smash Trump’s Anti-Palestine Task Force Visits, Protect Free Speech and the Campus Movement for Palestine

Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism has announced that it will be visiting 10 universities around the US to investigate so-called antisemitic incidents – which, in reality, are what they call pro-Palestine, anti-genocide protests. According to Trump, schools that are found to harbor these protests will lose federal funding.

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Say His Name: Justice for Sam Nordquist!

Last week, National SDS was deeply saddened and angered to learn of the torture and murder of Sam Nordquist in west New York. Sam was a beloved son, uncle, and friend who deserved to be safe, and live a long life. Sam was a trans and biracial man; it is

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SDS Call for National Week of Action Against ICE

SDS calls on all students and youth to take up the fight to protect their campuses from ICE. Under the new Trump administration college campuses are no longer safe from ICE. Trump has signed an executive order to declare a national emergency on the US Mexico border, allowing him to

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SDS Celebrates Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month! Defend DEI! This February National SDS celebrates Black History month by continuing to defend Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Affirmative Action in our universities and workplaces- especially in the face of recent attacks by Trump’s administration. We honor the Black student activists and community

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LA Fires: Standing with the Wretched of the Earth

For weeks now, fires have been ravaging southern California and spreading north from Los Angeles. Due to climate change, heightening winds during the driest wet season on record made for perfect wildfire conditions on January 7th. As a result, wildfires broke out across Los Angeles and 4 other California counties.

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No Deportations! Fight Trump's Racist Anti-Immigrant Agenda!

National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) condemns President Donald Trump’s threats to use the “full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement” including the U.S. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) to conduct a campaign of mass deportations across the country. During his presidential inauguration

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Ceasefire in Gaza! Victory to Palestine!

After fifteen months of Israel’s US-funded genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian resistance and the occupying state of Israel have reached a ceasefire agreement. For the last 467 days, the masses of oppressed people around the world have struggled to intervene against the most despicable military in

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NEW CHAPTER ORIENTATION: Monday, January 13th

Join National SDS on January 13th for our first new chapter orientation of 2025! As Trump's second term looms, it's more important than ever for students to organize and prepare to fight back against his far-right attacks on education, DEI, LGBTQ+ rights, and more. If your

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National Week of Action January 20-24: Defeat Trump's Agenda!

National SDS is taking up a national campaign to defeat Trump’s reactionary, racist agenda. Donald Trump is pushing a right-wing agenda that will attack students and our right to an education. His appointment of Linda McMahon as the Secretary of Education is his first step to closing the Department

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National SDS Day of Action 11/19: Stop Trump’s Agenda!

National SDS Day of Action 11/19: Stop Trump’s Agenda! National Students for a Democratic Society is making an official stand to oppose Trump’s right-wing, racist agenda at every turn. We did the same in 2015 when he announced his presidential campaign for the first time: he had

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End the Genocide! National Student Walkout October 7th

On October 7th, 2023, fighting broke out between the liberation forces in Palestine and the Israeli Occupation forces. These events reclaimed stolen land from Zionist territories, a breakthrough weakening of the US-funded Iron Dome, and ignited a prolonged period of mass resistance to the occupation. In a frenzy, Israeli Occupation

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SDS Statement on Drop-out Joe Biden

On Sunday, July 21st, 2024 President Biden announced he will no longer be running for re-election. While the national news pundits and politicians will continue to insist Biden stepped down due to his age, that is far from the full story. The reality is that over the last nine months

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National Students for a Democratic Society says take the streets for Sonya Massey!

On July 6th, 2024 Sonya Massey, a 36 year old Black woman and beloved mother of two teenage children, was murdered in her kitchen by racist killer, Deputy Sheriff Sean Grayson in Springfield, Illinois. Massey had called 911 for help to report a possible intruder near her home. Notably, the