Matt Kirkegaard
Matt Kirkegaard is active in Salt Lake Democratic Socialists of America.
DSA conference resolutions
Signatories to MUG and R&R's Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention "On the votes of DSA Congressmembers to fund the Israeli military and ban a railway workers strike" included Matt Kirkegaard At Large.
For a Political, Prolific and Democratic DSA Editorial Board
In May 2023 Matt Kirkegaard signed a resolution "For a Political, Prolific and Democratic DSA Editorial Board" as one of the MUG and R&R's Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention in August in Chicago.
DSA conference resolutions
Signatories to MUG and R&R's Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention "On the votes of DSA Congressmembers to fund the Israeli military and ban a railway workers strike" included Matt Kirkegaard At Large.
At-Large Delegate candidate
At-Large Delegate Candidates, DSA National Convention 2021 included Matt Kirkegaard.
2019 coordinating committee/conference delegates
2019 Salt Lake Democratic Socialists of America coordinating committee.
- Alyssa Hymas
- Bryan Davies
- Danny Bates
- Darin Mann
- Dominic Ciarlette
- Garrick Butler
- Hailey Freeman
- Issac Hann
- Natalie Stewart
- Sergio Gomes
- Tracey Bushman
2019 Salt Lake Democratic Socialists of America National Conference Delegates.
Socialist Majority Caucus
DSA's Socialist Majority Caucus signatories list as of April 25 2019 included Matt Kirkegaard of Salt Lake Democratic Socialists of America.
Salt Lake DSA
Atticus Edwards, Matt Kirkegaard, and Weston Wood are ecosocialists and members of Salt Lake Democratic Socialists of America.[2]
Salt Lake DSA
The Salt Lake Democratic Socialists of America saw a bump in membership after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016. But organizers agree that the momentum they’ve seen in the past two months — swelling now to more than 270 members — coincides with the candidacy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is herself a member of the national chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
“I’ve been a socialist for a while, and I was always kind of on the fence about actually joining,” said Nate Emery, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Utah who recently joined the Salt Lake chapter. “And then with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that’s kind of when I decided yeah, I want to be part of this. This organization is the real deal.”
“Our generation has witnessed what capitalism has done and we don’t like it,” said Matt Kirkegaard, the co-membership coordinator for the Salt Lake Democratic Socialists. “To millennials, it means debt and a climate in crisis. The world is burning around us — we’re watching capital profit off of that.”
But the question of what, if anything, the fledgling organization will do with the momentum around its movement is still up for debate.
“We’ve had this problem in this organization where we have an idea, it’s a really good idea, there’s one or maybe two people that thought of it and then it kind of dies,” Nancy Barrickman, co-chair of the Salt Lake Democratic Socialists, said at the meeting.
That’s why the group is working to revise its bylaws and change its organizational structure, she said, in the hopes that they can get to the work of executing real change in the community.
Barrickman and Kirkegaard, both joined the socialist group in the months immediately after Trump’s inauguration.[3]
References
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- ↑ Salt Lake tribune, Commentary: Democratic socialism is the answer to climate change By Atticus Edwards, Matt Kirkegaard, and Weston Wood | Special to The Tribune April 7 2019
- ↑ lake Tribune, Salt Lake Democratic Socialists see a bump in membership — spurred in part by a socialist candidate in New York CitySalt Lake Democratic Socialists see a bump in membership — spurred in part by a socialist candidate in New York City