Socialism 2008: Conference this summer (June 19th-22nd)
Nathan Mullenax
If you're in town over the summer, and interested in helping rebuild a fighting left, please consider coming to the International Socialist Organization's yearly conference.
Send me an email if you're interested--I'm coordinating transportation and lodging. Feel free to call me with any questions at (607) 342-4720. See below for more details and conference website. Thanks!
Nathan
SOCIALISM 2008
June 19-22, Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare
"A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment."
http://www.socialismconference.org
ARE AMERICAN lifestyles destroying the world? What is life under siege
in Gaza like? What were Che Guevara's politics and strategies for
revolution anyway? If you have questions like these and want to learn
what socialists have to say about how to change the world, check out
Socialism 2008, in Chicago, June 19-22,http://www.socialismconference.org
No other event in the U.S. brings together 1,000 radicals from all
over the U.S. with leading voices on the international Left---from
Egyptian strikers and immigrant rights leaders to world-renown authors
like Jeremy Scahill and Amira Hass. You don't have to already be a
socialist to come to a our conference with 100 talks and debates and
participate in discussions with other folks who are learning about how
the system works and organizing to fight it.
For help with child care, housing, travel, directions to the
conference or to ask any other question, please write us at
in...@socialismconference.org
or call 773-583-8665.
Sponsored by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change,
publisher of International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books. Co-
sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, publisher of
Socialist Worker and Obrero Socialista.
Featured speakers (affiliations for identification only):
Camilo Mejía, first U.S. military resister in the Iraq war, author of
Road from ar-Ramadi
Dr. John Carlos, founding member, Olympic Project for Human Rights,
bronze medal winner who raised a black-gloved fist at the '68 Olympics
Mark Steel, comedian, Guardian columnist and author, Vive La Revolution!
Dahr Jamail, independent journalist and author of Beyond the Green Zone
Amira Hass lives in Ramallah in the West Bank, where she covers
Palestinian affairs for
the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz, making her the only Jewish
Israeli correspondent on Palestinian affairs to live among the people
about whom she reports.
Mohammed Omer is an award-winning journalist living and working in
Gaza, Palestine. He writes and photographs the impact of the U.S.-
sponsored Israeli occupation. His reporting appears on the BBC, in the
Independent (UK), New Statesman, electronicintifada.net, Democracy
Now! and elsewhere.
Barbara Becnel, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, She co-produced the
award-winning TV film Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story,
based on her partnership with Stanley Tookie Williams.
Anthony Arnove is the author of the acclaimed Iraq: The Logic of
Withdrawal and the editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's
History of the United States (Seven Stories). He is also editor of
Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War
Paul D'Amato, author, The Meaning of Marxism, managing editor,
International Socialist Review
Laura Flanders is the host of "RadioNation" heard live, weekends, 7-10
pm ET on the national Air America Radio network. The program is also
syndicated to non-commercial affiliates across the United States. She
is the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the
Politicians.Justin Akers Chacón, co-author, No One Is Illegal!
The Freightliner Five trade union activists from Cleveland, N.C.
Phil Gasper, editor, The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's
Most Important Political Document
Adrienne Kinne, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Samuel Farber, author of The Origins of the Cuban Revolution
Reconsidered
Marlene Martin, national director, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Ahmed Shawki, editor, International Socialist Review, author, Black
Liberation and Socialism
Sharon Smith, columnist, Socialist Worker, and author of Subterranean
Fire and Women and Socialism
Dave Zirin, Nation.com sports columnist and author, What's My Name
Fool? and Welcome to the Terrordome
Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor of Counterpunch and author of Been Brown
So Long it Looks Green to Me, and Joshua Frank, co-editor of Dissident
Voice and author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W.
Bush speak on their new book, Green Scare.
Socialists from France, Greece, Egypt, Venezuela, Mexico
…and many more!