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...group as a whole. Various national interest groups (not to be confused with the previously mentioned working groups) - including different caucuses for women, people of color and queer people - keep everyone in check. "This is of the utmost importance if SDS is to remain effective," says Dave Schulka, a UCLA SDSer. "SDS is an anti-oppression organization...
...Spokespeople who fielded questions about the convention were also elected in Detroit and had to meet certain criteria. They had to be female because "men dominate SDS media so now only women will be SDS spokespeople," explains Schulka, a male, and "half or more of the group should be of color or queer." While anyone can be interviewed, Schulka explains, SDSers are eventually supposed to refer media inquires back to this all-female enclave...
...this all sounds confusing, it's because they are confused. Schulka says to think of the group's executive organization as a bunch of little pebbles. "Draw a circle around all these pebbles," he says, and they all kind of connect...
...Some wonder why they chose the controversial label in the first place. Why not start a fresh organization? According to many current members, the SDS name packs major punch. "Part of the attraction for revising SDS was its history, its legacy and its promise," says Schulka. "In the '60s it had real promise. Today it has real promise...
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