All LSC-endorsed Resolutions for 2019 National Convention

Anonymous Comrade -

Updates: R 37, R 83 endorsed.

The following are all of the Resolutions and Constitution/Bylaws changes that have been endorsed or are being discussed or voted on at the moment.
We'll use CB for Constitution/Bylaws changes and R for Resolutions:

  • CB, 1: A Binding National Referendum - Creates a process by which the membership can make decisions through direct voting.

  • CB, 2: National Stipends to Chapters - aka "Pass the Hat", gives a stipend of $100 a month to every chapter that can process the money.

  • CB, 3: Replace the NPC Steering Committee with an Administrative & Agenda Committee

  • CB, 4: NPC Special Election - Fill NPC vacancies by special election, replacing the current method of appointment.

  • CB, 5: Greater Chapter Democracy Requirements - Requires chapters to amend bylaws to ensure democratic processes and notification of members of decisions.

  • CB, 7: Increase NPC Transparency - Requires NPC to set detailed agendas and release minutes in a timely manner, include roll calls for votes in minutes.

  • CB, 8: NPC Transparency and Fairness - Selects NPC Steering Committee based on NPC election results, defines valid purposes for and raises thresholds for Executive Sessions, requires STV for NPC elections, among other items.

  • CB, 9: NPC Steering Committee Reforms - Requires all NPC members to take a turn on Steering Committee, assigns them by sortition and rotates every six months.

  • CB, 10: Requiring Low Income Representation on the NPC - Exactly as it sounds, requires a certain number of NPC members be low-income.

  • CB, 13: Promote Regional Representation on the NPC - Requires, where possible, that membership from all parts of the US are represented on NPC, and that a overly large segment of NPC is not from one region only.

  • CB, 15: Increase the Size of the NPC - Increases NPC size from 16 to 28.

  • CB, 17: Procedures for NPC Recall - Ensures that NPC members can be recalled by the general membership.

  • CB, 21: Forming State & Regional Organizing Committees - Creates a process to form OCs for State or Regional Organizations.

  • CB, 22: YDSA Governance Changes - Transparency requirements for YDSA, provisions for allowing dechartered YDSA units to remain in DSA.

  • CB, 23: Nobody Is Too Poor for DSA: Redefining Member in Good Standing - Changes language from "dues-paying member" to "member in good standing".

  • CB, 28: Reform National Commissions, Committees, and Working Groups - Creates an official process by which national Commissions (including Working Groups) are formed, makes membership open by default.

  • CB, 33: Assembly of Locals - Replaces national leadership with an assembly body made of representatives from locals.

  • CB, 36: Proportional Representation - Requires proportional representation voting methods for Convention delegate and NPC elections.

  • CB, 37: Local Jurisdiction - Creates guidelines for when new chapters seek to form from existing ones.

  • CB, 38: Improving At-Large Representation - Creates a process by which at-large delegates are apportioned for conventions.

  • R, 1: Police Exclusion for Chapter Bylaws - Forbids the withholding of a chapter charter based on the chapter excluding law enforcement officers from membership.

  • R, 5: Defense of Immigrants and Refugees - Supports radical action around immigration and freedom of movement as well as harm-reduction.

  • R, 6: Orienting to Latinx Communities - Supports DSA building better relationships with Latinx communities, Spanish-language support on website.

  • R, 7: Create a Conflict Resolution Training Program for DSA - Creates such a program to support organizers' continued work, especially for conflicts that do not rise to the level of a grievance.

  • R, 9: Establishing a National Anti-Fascist Working Group

  • R, 11: DSA Law Enforcement Exclusion - Excludes law enforcement officers from membership in DSA.

  • R, 12: YDSA Stipends - Provides funds to DSA chapters for the purpose of building their associated YDSA chapters.

  • R, 14: Disallow Usage Of Membership Information For Marketing Purposes

  • R, 16: No Title or Privilege for Donors - Prevents special treatment of members based on donation amount.

  • R, 17: Record and Transcribe NPC Meetings

  • R, 18: Regular Membership Reports - Requires the national office to release regular updates on membership numbers.

  • R, 19: National Organizing Manual - Creates a program by which the national office will prepare and release a manual to help chapters and OCs learn how to organize.

  • R, 20: Protection for Caucuses - Ensures that caucuses are not prohibited from using communications channels, creates a commission to investigate a future Constitution/Bylaws amendment to this end.

  • R, 21: Implement Electronic NPC Townhalls - Requires open teleconference calls with membership preceding each NPC meeting.

  • R, 22: Local Dues Autonomy - Allows members to join DSA or pay dues through their chapter, indicating the proportion of dues to go to national and local.

  • R, 25: Childcare - Fight for parental leave, implement childwatch in chapters and strengthen childwatch where already implemented.

  • R, 29: Prioritizing Financial Solidarity - Make Convention affordable for all members by minimizing out-of-pocket expenses.

  • R, 34: Ecosocialist Green New Deal Priority - Fight for a radical GND.

  • R, 35: Establish a National BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group.

  • R, 37: 50/50 Dues Split (amended to 70/30) - Give 30% of national dues back to locals, add a quarterly stipend, and support chapters setting up bank accounts.

  • R, 38: Fight for Abortion Access - Make repeal of the Hyde Amendment a litmus test for endorsees, fight for abortion access in general and in M4A efforts, among other items.

  • R, 44: YDSA Staff Review - Review and increase staff support for YDSA.

  • R, 53: Support for Decriminalization of Sex Work - Require chapters to ask endorsement candidates about decriminalization of sex work, ask Bernie to rescind support of SESTA/FOSTA, among other items.

  • R, 54: Criminal Justice and Decarceration - Create a Police and Prison Abolition Working Group, and support abolition efforts, among other items.

  • R, 56: Ecosocialism as a Guiding Principle - Prioritize ecosocialist goals as intersections with open borders, community control of energy, food justice, and environmental racism.

  • R, 63: Convention Reforms - Requires elections to Convention Committee and subcommittees, provides a partial schedule for 2021 Convention.

  • R, 65b: Affirming and Accommodating Struggles of Oppressed, Exploited and Erased Comrades

  • R, 67: Organizing the Unorganized - Encourages the rank-and-file strategy and DSA members' organizing within their labor unions.

  • R, 68: A New Operation Dixie - Emphasizes labor organizing in the South.

  • R, 76: Local Anti-Racist Action - Supports Anti-racist work at the chapter level.

  • R, 77: Supporting Workers Organizing in Electoral Campaigns - Organize political campaign workers, litmus test of having a unionized campaign for any endorsees.

  • R, 78: Funding for Local Projects (Not endorsed, in discussion)

  • R, 85: Standardize Accountability - Implements new Standard New Local Constitution for forming Chapters, requires that charter decisions not depend on requirements outside of the National Constitution and Bylaws.

  • R, 83: Support Locals and Make DSA Accessible - Centers the work of making events, locals, and national accessible.

  • R, 86: Prioritize National Working Groups (Not endorsed, in discussion)