A lot of programming gets crammed into convention weekend that really is out of place. An NAC could serve several crucial functions that DSA is missing right now: While it may have been acceptable 10 years ago for a smaller DSA not to hold an activist conference, the transformed mass organization that DSA is today desperately needs this venue for the health and further development of our movement and its organizers. I have authored a resolution supported by DSA’s Bread & Roses caucus, to be debated at the 2023 convention, that would bring back the NAC in 2024, and over 300 DSA members from chapters across the country co-sponsored it.
Unfortunately, it has been a very long time since DSA actually held an Activist Conference, with many considering the bylaws a dead letter. The National Activist Conference (NAC) is meant to be held every other year between our biennial conventions and provide a much needed space for DSA members to come together and share information and lessons while developing our national infrastructure and interconnected chapter work as organizers. Inevitably, attempts are made to also use this large gathering for other sorts of programming, such as training in organizing - but there is just not enough time in one weekend for everything, and two years pass before a large organization-wide gathering comes again.įortunately, the DSA Constitution & Bylaws provide for another regularly scheduled gathering, to fill the gaps left by a jam-packed convention. Most of the program is naturally dedicated to strategic discussion and voting on all manner of proposals. Every two years delegates meet for the DSA National Convention, our highest decision-making body.
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