WED ISO Meeting - Political Roundup Discussion

[Ethan Boyles]

 

Happy New year!  The ISO is back to organizing and meeting weekly at UW!

Join us for this Week's Political Roundup Discussion Wednesday at 7pm, Room B14
in the basement of the UW School for Social Work (Corner of 15th N.E. and N.E. 41st) 

1. Political Roundup discussion
As our first meeting of the quarter after a several week break, the first section of our meeting will be a Political roundup discussion of recent events. A lot has happened in politics during our break -- the attempted plane bombing and the subsequent escalations and overtures to war with yemen to attacks on CIA operatives in Afghanistan to "progress" on the senate health care bill  -- Come discuss  the socialist perspective on the news of the day!

2. The second half of the meeting we will discuss and vote on our Committee Structure for the winter quarter.



Recent Articles from


Analysis: Elizabeth Schulte
YEMEN IN THE CROSSHAIRS
In the name of the "war on terror," the U.S. government is carrying out a covert and not-so-covert war in Yemen, with bloody results.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/04/yemen-in-the-crosshairs
 
Comment: Laura Durkay
EGYPT'S SHAMEFUL BAN ON FREEDOM MARCHERS
Activists from 43 countries came to Cairo for the Gaza Freedom March, but Egyptian authorities showed their loyalties by stopping the marchers.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/04/egypts-shameful-ban

Statement: Gaza Freedom March
THE CAIRO DECLARATION
Participants in the Gaza Freedom March approved a statement aimed at accelerating the campaign against Israeli apartheid.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/04/the-cairo-declaration
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Tributes to Dennis Brutus, South African activist and poet

Comment: Lee Sustar and Aisha Karim
REMEMBERING A FREEDOM FIGHTER
The movement for global justice lost an irreplaceable comrade when the South African poet and activist passed away December 26.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/04/remembering-a-freedom-fighter

Comment: Patrick Bond
AN EMBLEM OF SOLIDARITY
Even in his last days, Dennis Brutus was fully engaged, advocating protest against those responsible for climate change and social injustice.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/04/an-emblem-of-solidarity

Comment: Dave Zirin
HE SHAMED THE SHAMELESS
The 1976 Olympic Games were in jeopardy, and the cause of all the tumult, according to Sports Illustrated, was a diminutive South African poet.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/04/shaming-the-shameless

From Haymarket Books
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/index.php

Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader
Edited by Aisha Karim and Lee Sustar

This vital original collection of interviews, poetry, and essays of the much-loved anti-apartheid leader is the first book of its kind to bring together the full, forceful range of his work. Dennis Brutus, imprisoned along with Nelson Mandela, was known worldwide for his unparalleled eloquence as an opponent of the apartheid South African regime. Since its fall, he has been a voice for global justice and humanity, speaking and writing extensively on issues of debt, poverty, war, racism, and neoliberalism.

Buy Poetry and Protest online
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Poetry-and-Protest-A-Dennis-Brutus-Reader