Susan Chacin

Susan Chacin MSW, is a member of the Office and Professional Employees International Union, OPEIU Local 3, living in Berkeley with her domestic partner.

Susan Chacin is a veteran socialist and labor movement activist. She is a former member of the New American Movement of the 1970s, and served two terms on DSA’s National Political Committee (NPC) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She is a member of East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.

Steering Committee

Members of the DSA North Star Steering Committee are elected by the members of North Star.

For 2024 the steering committee consists of ​

• Bill Barclay, co chair, Ventura, Ca
• Barbara Joye, co chair Atlanta, Ga
• Michael Dover Cleveland, Ohio
• Duane Campbell Sacramento, Ca.
• Susan Chacin East Bay, Ca.
• Terry Altherr Boston, Ma
• Walter Reeves Atlanta, Ga
• Jone Lewis New York, NY

'Not Dead Yet'

Susan Chacin, Paul Garver, Margaret Morganroth Gullette.

DSA Members Organizing Against Trump

DSA Members Organizing Against Trump was a letter released early October 2010 to shore up Democratic Socialists of America support for Joe Biden.

Signatories included Susan Chacin, East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.

An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left

An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left.

Now it is time for all those who yearn for a more equal and just social order to face facts.

By Former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. April 16, 2020.

On April 13, 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders urged his supporters to vote for the presumptive Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden. Writing as founders and veterans of the leading New Left organization of the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society, we welcome Bernie’s wise choice—but we are gravely concerned that some of his supporters, including the leadership of Democratic Socialists of America, refuse to support Biden, whom they see as a representative of Wall Street capital. Some of us are DSA members, but do not believe their position is consistent with a long-range vision of democracy, justice, and human survival....

We salute Bernie Sanders and our friends and comrades in DSA and in the diverse movements for social justice and environmental sanity that enabled them to rise. We look forward to joining together to build on and defend our accomplishments. And now we plead with all: Get together, beat Trump, and fight for democracy—precious, fragile, worth keeping.

The signers of this letter were founders, officers, and activists in Students for a Democratic Society between 1960 and 1969.

Signers included Susan Chacin.

Socialist Majority Caucus

DSA's Socialist Majority Caucus signatories list as of April 25 2019 included Susan Chacin of East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.

2001 DSA leadership

Nineteen people ran for the sixteen National Political Committee positions elected at the 2001 Democratic Socialists of America Convention. The winners were:

• Theresa Alt, Ithaca
• Susan Chacin, Berkeley
• Eric Ebel, Ann Arbor
• Virginia Franco, San Diego
• David Green, Detroit
• Gabe Kramer, Columbus
• Selina Musuta, Ithaca
• Gina Neff, New York City
• Angel Picon, Stockton
• Maria Pineda, Davis
• Kathy Quinn, Philadelphia
• Jason Schulman, New York City
• Joseph Schwartz, Ithaca
• Timothy Sears, Oakland
• Jessica Shearer, New York City
• Herb Shore, San Diego

The Young Democratic Socialists representatives to the NPC (sharing the one Youth Section vote) were Joan Axthelm (Chicago) and Fabricio Rodriguez (Arizona).

DSA committee

The 2003 convention committed DSA to a thorough discussion and rethinking of organizational basics, including the "development of a strategic plan, refinement of a mission statement, and discussion of Socialist Vision".

This continues the process initiated at a weekend retreat in July 2001, . Duane Campbell of Sacramento headed the organizing committee, and Susan Chacin from the East Bay was also a member. Other Californians present were Ross Boylan (SF), Delores Delgado Campbell (Sacramento), Virginia Franco (San Diego), Karl Knobler (East Bay), Maria Pineda (Davis), Michele Rossi (East Bay), Herb Shore (San Diego), and Eric Vega (San Diego).

Center for Political Education

In 2004 Phil Hutchings, Susan Chacin, and Eric Mar were speakers in a panel entitled: "Electoral Politics", a panel that explored electoral politics and how they have been used in the past to build the movement for progressive social change, and the lessons learned from those campaigns. The talks were held at the San Francisco based Center for Political Education, an organization closely associated with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.

DSA Monthly Meeting

East Bay Democratic Socialists of America meeting Saturday, April 12 2014 . And Wilma, one of our members will be celebrating the beginning of her 90th red year!

As well, Susan Chacin and Shereen Rahman will be talking about the feminist socialist experience and the challenges faced. It should be a great discussion.

Meeting will be at Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Avenue.

Democratic Socialists of America Unity

Susan Chacin supported the Democratic Socialists of America Unity grouping, established for the 2017 Democratic Socialists of America National Convention in Chicago.

DSA Facebook group

Members of the California Democratic Socialists of America, statewide Facebook group, as of March 16, 2017 included Susan Chacin.

East Bay DSA leadership

Minutes. East Bay Democratic Socialists of America ExComm Meeting, 01/29/2017

ExComm Members Present at the meeting: Michael Nye, Michael McCowan, Kevin Wright, Susan Chacin, Jess Dervin-Ackerman, Molly Armstrong, Angad Bhalla, Jeremy Gong, Ari Marcantonio, Mary Virginia Watson, Ben Fife.

The Regular twice a month meeting, from here on scheduled for the second and fourth Sunday of each month from 7pm-9pm, of the East Bay DSA Executive Committee was held today, January 29, at 7pm at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland CA. The Meeting was Chaired by Jeremy Gong, Co-Chair of the Executive committee. The secretary was also present and recording notes. All officers and at large members of the Executive committee were present. The meeting was open and several committee chairs as well as other members were present in attendance at the meeting. The minutes of the last meeting were approved without amendment but with suggestions for future consistency around the inclusion of names.

Dan Russell, committee lead of the Education committee made a report for the Education committee.

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