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DSA's first convention took place in a Manhattan high school on October 14-16, 1983. Guillermo Ungo, leader of the Revolutionary Democratic Front in El Salvador, was a featured speaker. Barbara Ehrenreich was elected co-chair of DSA. Notable attendees included Randall Forsberg and U.S. Representative Ronald Dellums.
The Democratic Socialists of America is a political nonprofit organization and not a political party, therefore DSA members usually run as members of the Democratic Party, Green Party, Working Families Party, or as independents. [citation needed] In the 2017 elections, DSA members were elected to fifteen state and local offices.
Cornel West, a philosopher, academic, and political activist, announced his campaign on June 5, 2023, in the 2024 US presidential elections as a People's Party candidate via a video on Twitter where he called for "truth and justice" and pledged to use the presidency to accomplish that.
Formerly known as the Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section, the organization played a significant role in the 1980’s in the movements against apartheid in South Africa and United States intervention in Central America. It helped introduce many student activists to trade union struggles, with many of the organization's alums going on ...
The DSA was tested almost immediately with the Cuban Missile Crisis and the military buildup in Vietnam. Supporting U.S. forces in Vietnam was the most severe, extensive test of the supply system in the young agency's history.
History Background See also: Socialist movement in the United States and Socialist Party of America In 1958, the Independent Socialist League led by Max Shachtman dissolved to join the Socialist Party of America, which was founded by Eugene V. Debs. Shachtman had written that Soviet communism was a new form of class society, bureaucratic collectivism, in which the ruling class exploited and ...
Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is a fluoroscopy technique used in interventional radiology to clearly visualize blood vessels in a bony or dense soft tissue environment. Images are produced using contrast medium by subtracting a "pre-contrast image" or mask from subsequent images, once the contrast medium has been introduced into a ...
Life and career He was the son of Augustus Pugin and his second wife, Louisa Burton, making him Pugin's fourth child and second son. He was the brother of Edward Welby Pugin and half-brother of Peter Paul Pugin, who were both architects. St John's Church, Poulton-le-Fylde, Cuthbert Pugin architect He is most notable for his design of St John the Evangelist, Poulton-le-Fylde and his ...