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SB DSA VALUES
- Democratize social institutions
- Sexism, racism and other structural oppression are intersectional challenges demanding an intersectional approach to combatting
- Weaken the power of corporations and increase the power of working people
- Empowers local coalition-building
- Self-education
- Grassroots / horizontal organizing
- Not for profit
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“Active organizing for democracy is needed now more than ever. For this to succeed, both working and poor people—who are the majority—have to have a voice. DSA is one of those voices.” —Dolores Huerta
What is DSA?
Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. We are a political and activist organization, not a party; through campus and community-based chapters DSA members use a variety of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms that empower working people.
From the Blog:
2021 Abortion Access Fund-A-Thon
What is Fund-A-Thon? An annual spring (March-May) fundraiser hosted by the National Network of Abortion Funds. In 2019, DSA raised over $100,000 nationwide and we’re trying to match that again…
2019 Declared Chapter Election Candidates
Co-chair (2 positions) Britta Young Britta Young has been involved in socialist projects in Santa Barbara since she was in high school, including helping to start local leftist pop-up cafe…
Chapter members invited to help develop our platform
An aspirational, living document we can grow and amend over time. Click here to comment or make suggestions. You can also send us an email: dsasantabarbara@gmail.com
About DSA:
“We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.
We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane international social order based both on democratic planning and market mechanisms to achieve equitable distribution of resources, meaningful work, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, gender and racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships.” (Excerpt: About DSA)
“History has shown time and time again that societies fall short of their full potential for human emancipation without radical trailblazers working ceaselessly to pull mainstream political discourse to the Left and thereby expand the “politics of the possible…“