Chapin Gray
Template:TOCnestleft Chapin Gray was in 2007, a 22-year-old from Spanish Fort and head of Tuscaloosa Students for a Democratic Society.[1]
SDS
In 2010 Chapin Gray was a member of Tuscaloosa Students for a Democratic Society.[2]
FRSO connection
The Student Commission of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack! (FRSO) met over the 2009 winter break to discuss education rights, building a movement against war and occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting racism on campus and supporting immigrant rights. FRSO students came from as far as California and Florida, with large delegations from the South and Midwest. With a burning desire for social justice, the national cold wave could not stop them
Led by Kati Ketz, the FRSO Student Commission chair, the students discussed the impact of the failing economy on working people and students. Debates centered on whether the economic crisis would worsen and how to organize against U.S. imperialist war during the Obama presidency.
Fight Back! writer and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist Chapin Gray, from Alabama, said, "We oppose the U.S. government bank bailouts that benefit the rich and the mega-corporations. Workers are being thrown out of their jobs and left in the streets by the very same banks foreclosing on them. Students are being forced to take larger and larger loans. Unemployment is over 10%! Where are the jobs programs? Working people need a bailout."
Kas Schwerdtfeger, with University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society, said, "The meeting made decisions to promote organizing for education rights. At my school we are already in a coalition with campus workers, faculty and staff. We protested on Nov. 11, the National Day of Action for Education Rights called by the Network to Fight for Economic Justice. We were chanting, 'They say cut back. We say fight back!'"[3]