What DSA teaches college students, and the environment it operates in
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
DSA's own internal survey shows something specific: more than 80 percent of members 25 and older who responded hold a bachelor's degree.
DSA's youth section has spent the last decade building a structured campus operation, with its own curriculum, its own labor strategy, and in at least one Colorado classroom, a university course built to recruit.
That operation runs through Young Democratic Socialists of America, DSA's youth and student section.
Join YDSA and you're automatically a DSA member too. It has grown rapidly over the past decade and is, by its own account, the place where a lot of its future organizers get their start.
YDSA has grown from roughly a dozen chapters in 2016 to more than 150 today, s...