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GET INVOLVED I ORGANIZE I EDUCATE
Getting
Involved With YSA
Membership in Youth for Socialist Action is open to any young
person who is in general agreement with our 10 Point
Program. There
are YSA clubs in a number of communities and campuses across the
country. If there is a YSA chapter in
your area, we urge you to join and support it. For those comrades who live in areas where there isn’t
currently a YSA chapter, we encourage you to plug into the organization
through our national email list,
myspace.com,
facebook.com,
and by doing what you can to start something in your town.
We
also encourage our members and supporters to read and help distribute
Socialist Action newspaper, as well as to read, write for, and help spread
the word about the Socialist Action website and news blog.
To
fill out a membership application click on the graphic below. Applications should be mailed to P.O.
Box 16853, Duluth MN 55816. If
you have any questions you can email us wainosunrise [at] yahoo [dot]
com.
Click on the graphics below to
access YSA’s facebook, myspace, flickr and youtube webpages:
   
YSA
Campaigns
Our organization and our
members are involved in a wide range of social movements and coalitions – from
the abortion rights movement to the Palestine solidarity movement to the
trade unions. Below is a list of
our current major campaigns and links for how to get involved in them. To find out about other projects that
YSA is involved in, contact our National Office at wainosunrise [at] yahoo
[dot] com.
Anti-War: Our main current campaign is
organizing against the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. We call for an immediate withdrawal of
all U.S. and other foreign troops.
We are a proud supporter and participant in the National Assembly to
End the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars & Occupation. The National Assembly is a new national
anti-war network that is striving to bring activists together from across the
country to build a mass action oriented movement. To find out more about upcoming National Assembly projects,
conferences and calls to action, you can check out their website at http://natassembly.org
Immigrant Rights: We believe in a world without
borders, and demand the immediate legalization of all immigrant workers in
the U.S. We organize against ICE
deportation raids, and any and all anti-immigrant measures. To get involved in the immigrant rights
movement, we recommend checking out www.stoptheraids.org.
Free Mumia: We stand in solidarity with
Mumia Abu-Jamal in his struggle for a new, fair trial. Mumia is a political prisoner who was
framed up for the murder of a 1981 Philadelphia police officer. His real “crime” though was exposing
police brutality and injustice in the Black community. We have long been active in the movement
to win Mumia’s freedom, and we recommend that activists looking to get
involved in this important campaign check out the Mobilization to Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal at www.freemumia.org.
Socialist
Action Newspaper
Youth for Socialist Action supports Socialist
Action newspaper. We urge our members
and supporters to read and help distribute it. Socialist Action is a well-researched, unique, quality,
working class newspaper. Every
month, since 1983, it has been hitting the streets, being passed from
activist to activist, and arriving in peoples mailboxes with our message of
hope and struggle. Each issue of Socialist
Action is filled with international and national news, along with local
reports and analysis of interest to activists, workers and students.
Unlike
the corporate press, our newspaper is an unabashedly independent working
class voice that is published by and for working people, and supported by
contributions from workers – not corporate advertisers!
Subscriptions to Socialist Action are
available for only $5 a year (12 issues) for new subscribers, and $12 a
year for one-year renewals.
Two-year subscriptions are $20.
First class subscriptions (which come in a sealed envelope and
usually arrive two to three weeks earlier) are also available for $18.
To subscribe you can send a check or money order
made out to “Socialist Action Newspaper” to P.O. Box 10328, Oakland
CA 94610. You can also subscribe online with a credit card by clicking the
PayPay icon below:
If you’d like to help us distribute Socialist
Action, we encourage you to get a monthly bundle of the paper. To find out how you can get a monthly
bundle of the paper sent to you click here.
In
addition to mailing out subscriptions and selling individual copies at
demonstrations, plant gates, campuses and street corners, we distribute a
select number of articles each month online by posting them on our website. A number of other sites also post some
of our articles. Click here to peruse a selection of online
SA articles from recent back issues.
And
finally, we also help publish a weekly e-zine called Reisistance! Our e-zine consists of an activist
calendar, together with links to select articles from Socialist Action newspaper,
International Viewpoint magazine, and other progressive statements,
announcements and misc. materials. Tell your friends about our email list,
and encourage them to subscribe.
Subscribing to Resistance! e-zine is free; just click here to find out how.
YSA and
Socialist Action
Youth for
Socialist Action is an independent organization. Yet we do not stand alone though in the struggle for a better
world. We are proud to be part of a
rich and long socialist tradition.
That is why we are in fraternal political solidarity with Socialist
Action and the Fourth International.
Socialist
Action is a revolutionary socialist party that traces its roots back to the
founding of the socialist movement in this country. Politically it also stands on shoulders
of American and international revolutionaries like Karl Marx, Mother Jones,
Frederick Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Eugene Debs, Clara Zetkin, V.I. Lenin,
Leon Trotsky, Malcolm X and James Cannon.
We urge members and supporters of YSA to work with, and consider
joining Socialist Action. To learn
more about Socialist Action, and how to become a member, check out their
website at www.socialistaction.org
The Fourth
International is a network of revolutionary socialists
with sections in 50 countries around the world. Reactionary U.S. legislation prevents Socialist Action and
Youth for Socialist Action from formally affiliating to the Fourth
International, but we stand in political solidarity with it and maintain
fraternal relations with its members.
Issues From 1996-2003:
Click here for info on how to subscribe to Socialist Action
newspaper.
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