8 Million Man (or More) March on DC, plus

[Mike Morin]

It should be approaching feelings of 1968, in the US (and elsewhere).

Do you all think that we could put together a march on Washington (The Pentagon, CIA, Congress, and the White House) to demand that the world have freedom from US and other Capitalist militaristic and economic domination.

We could try to organize marches all over the country and the world particularly in Capitols and Capitals (Financial Centers).

I'd be willing to work to put together an explarotaory committee, perhaps evolving into an organizing committee.

What think?

Let's discuss?


Mike Morin

[spritely]

You sure not going to organize something like that through this website.

[Mike Morin]

I have other "avenues".

It can't hurt to "fish" among the many participants here.

I have hopes that some, if not many, on this website can make very active and positive contributions.


Peace,

Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[NecroCommie]

If you truly can pull this thing off I am 100% with you. If you start organizing something like that eventually, then I will speak to my local comrades for you.

[Stranger Than Paradise]

Does sound a bit ambitious but I support it fully.

[Mike Morin]

I'll post any progress on this thread.

Remember, our intentions need to be non-violent, then hopefully we can be upfront about our activities.

You know, using aliases in today's electronic age, especially, is no guarantee of protection from the "law".


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[Davie zepeda]

Let's get to it make the flayers i'll send out campus !fuck them i fear no man!

[Rebel_Serigan]

We are waiting right here for a good cause and idea. I have been organizing my little group of students out here in right wing country and we are itchy for anything to get the word out. I know the police are trained to handel sit ins and marches now more than ever (You see they are so effective that the 5-0 had to learn how to put down peacful protest without looking like jackasses) I have an in deapth knowledge of police tactics so if you want to know what we would be up against I could let you know. I am all for this march. let us join together and walk to the places of opression, we are ready out here in ID.

[Mike Morin]

The million man march, many people took buses. some took trains, some car-pooled.

Others just took the Metro and some, if not many walked.

Hitch-hiking ain't like it used to be.


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[Rebel_Serigan]

If there is a will there is a way, an old but ever true saying.

[Charles Xavier]

The AFL-CIO is the ones to be talking to.

[Mike Morin]

The AFL-CIO is the ones to be talking to.

The formation of the AFL-CIO was one of the more positive developments and lessons in "American" History.

But, their influenced has dwindled, they became too complicit with Capitalist interests, they became too complacent and they are much too bureaucratic. If you go to their website, you'll see that there is no way to communicate with them. They just want to disseminate information down, mostly lackey stuff for Democratic Party ineffectual and quasi-labor causes.

However, I would not preclude their participation, if they were interested so. Do you have any contacts with them?


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[NecroCommie]

When you get somekind of date and/or website or anything I can refer to, please link it here. Then I can put it forward to my local organizations and hopefully spark a support event here in Finland.

[Mike Morin]

When you get somekind of date and/or website or anything I can refer to, please link it here. Then I can put it forward to my local organizations and hopefully spark a support event here in Finland.


Will do.

Over.


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[Mike Morin]

I went to AFL-CIO website. Their website looks more promising than previously. They have a comment submittal form so I briefly brought them up to date with the plan.

I forwarded the letter to the United Farm Workers, and I talked on the phone (very briefly, they are very busy) with the folks organizing the March on Wall Street. She said call back Monday after 1:30 PM EDT. I will do that.

I have communicated to ACORN (Action for Community Reform Now) offices, nationwide in the USA, to the National and Regional Offices of the American Friends Service Committee, and to others...

Things are starting to coalesce here in Eugene. The Socialist Workers were selling their weekly on the street and in front of the library, and they had a local sign-up list, which I signed.

I have suggested the date of August 21, 22, 23...

That's all for now.


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[Mike Morin]

Am working on communicating tentative plans for ocho huit eight millions men march to the 55 offices in the USA and Puerto Rico of the International (I prefer the term world wide, but I suppose that they are stating the extant) Socialist Organization.

Why "The Socialist Worker" limits themselves to offices in the USA, I don't know.

Anyways, I thought I'd keep you all up to date.

Suggested tentative date is August 22,23,24...

That should give us plenty of time to organize, but the way things are going, we may want to do it sooner like 7/4 to 711 May be?

What think?


Mike Morin
[email protected] or
[email protected]
(541) 343-3808

[Dean]

The formation of the AFL-CIO was one of the more positive developments and lessons in "American" History.

But, their influenced has dwindled, they became too complicit with Capitalist interests, they became too complacent and they are much too bureaucratic. If you go to their website, you'll see that there is no way to communicate with them. They just want to disseminate information down, mostly lackey stuff for Democratic Party ineffectual and quasi-labor causes.

However, I would not preclude their participation, if they were interested so. Do you have any contacts with them?


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

The AFL-CIO gives monetary aid* to the National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S. Imperial organization meant to subvert democracy in nations where populism is gainign ground.

*Or rather, they did. Now it is more rhetorical (or behind closed doors)

I would be willing to go to any such marches, I live in Richmond, VA so its not too far.

[Mike Morin]

I would be willing to go to any such marches, I live in Richmond, VA so its not too far.

Dean,

Please start talking about this amongst your friends and others. If and when plans start to coalesce, it would be great if you could do some pamphleteering and other types of organizing.


Thanks,

Mike :)

[Sam_b]

Why "The Socialist Worker" limits themselves to offices in the USA, I don't know.


Because the Socialist Worker (the newspaper I presume) is written and distributed by the ISO, who only organise in the US.

[Mike Morin]

Because the Socialist Worker (the newspaper I presume) is written and distributed by the ISO, who only organise in the US.

That's very ironic, because ISO, is an abbreviation for International Socialist Organization.

I prefer WSO (World Socialist Organization).


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[Sam_b]

Not really. The ISO used to be part of our international, the International Socialist Tendency.

[Mike Morin]

Not really. The ISO used to be part of our international, the International Socialist Tendency.

You don't seem to get the point, calling a group International, and organizing on the national level implies an acceptance of national division, the most noxious trait in modern history.

It was nowhere salient in "The Socialist Worker" publication that it was among their goals to minimize the role of States in transition to a stateless ecological economic democracy.


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[Sam_b]

Thats ridiculous. Its like saying that (arguments about the party aside) that the Communist Party of Britain are not communist because the 'Britain' in their name implies an acceptance of national division.

I think you should critique parties with substance and not on poorly-analysed ideas about their name.

[Mike Morin]

Thats ridiculous. Its like saying that (arguments about the party aside) that the Communist Party of Britain are not communist because the 'Britain' in their name implies an acceptance of national division.

I didn't write that the Socialist Workers' Party or the International Socialist Organization were not Socialists.

However, it is very important that we stress the minimalization of the State(s) in presenting our case to the people.


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[Sam_b]

Good idea. Let's start with the SWP tailing religious reactionaries.

This thread has nothing to do with the SWP, or, from that sentence, your complete misunderstanding of the politics of national liberation. So why post?

[Mike Morin]

Because "Klondike5" appears to be a very talented sarcastic humorist, and it feels good to laugh.:D

[Mike Morin]

There is an upcoming "Peoples Summit" to counterpose an "establishment" financial/business summit, "National Business Summit" in Detroit scheduled for June 14th through the 17th, 2009.

Also, folks in San Antonio have formed an organizing committee.

Over for now.


Mike Morin

[Mike Morin]

Just contacted the World Socialist Movement, an alter-ego of the Socialist Part of Britain.

They are an excellent organization.

They call themselves the Socialist Party of Great Britain, but I challenged and challenge that moniker.

The sun never sets?

Rule the waves?

Retaining the G with the B is very delusional, and the world is better of for it being a delusion.

Now, we must deal with GUSA (the Great United State(s)). :bored:

Over.


Mike Morin
(aka Mike Hill)

I know I am Mike Hill today
alive as you and me
said I, but Mike, I'm 43 years after...
I'm still alive said me...
now, let's go on to organize
let's go on to organize...

(aka gus (good us (the people) ha(u)ll))


MM
peu

[ashaman1324]

if you can get the wheels turning, i fully support the idea.
for something like this though, you would need alot of publicity.
if your already talking to unions that sounds like a good start
and online chat boards would be helpful
local involvement, not so much but definitely wouldnt hurt.
best of luck to you

[Mike Morin]

The folks in NYC who organized the April 3, 4, march on Wall Street and are helping to organize the upcoming "Peoples Summit" to counterpose an "establishment" financial/business summit, "National Business Summit" in Detroit scheduled for June 14th through the 17th, 2009, have broadened their scope to anti-war, anti- imperialism.

Call them at (212) 633-6646 and listen to their recorded message.

I liked what I heard and I am hoping that they will get back to me soon.

Peace.


Mike Morin
peu

[Mike Morin]

You folks are all talk and no action.

[Dr. Fish]

You folks are all talk and no action.
Obviously.


The folks in NYC who organized the April 3, 4, march on Wall Street and are helping to organize the upcoming "Peoples Summit" to counterpose an "establishment" financial/business summit, "National Business Summit" in Detroit scheduled for June 14th through the 17th, 2009, have broadened their scope to anti-war, anti- imperialism.

Call them at (212) 633-6646 and listen to their recorded message.

I liked what I heard and I am hoping that they will get back to me soon.

Peace.


Mike Morin
peu

I am confused. You are still trying to organize for the Million Man-March right?
If so, I propose a mission statement. Because that makes pamphlets and the like easier to distribute, and form is more important than message.

[Mike Morin]

Obviously.



I am confused. You are still trying to organize for the Million Man-March right?
If so, I propose a mission statement. Because that makes pamphlets and the like easier to distribute, and form is more important than message.

I'm waiting for others to step forward and share the lead, and I'm watching how the situation unfolds and how it needs to, if it does, evolve.


Mike Morin
peu

[Mike Morin]

I am confused. You are still trying to organize for the Million Man-March right?
If so, I propose a mission statement. Because that makes pamphlets and the like easier to distribute, and form is more important than message.

I am planting a seed for an EIGHT million man march on Warshington DeCeased, with concurrent marches on complicit World Capitol and perhaps more importantly cities of World Financial Capital.

The mission is to once and for all rid the world of US Imperialist Military and Economic hegemony, and to propose minimalist governments that would facilitate the development of a local/inter-community/inter-regional/worldwide ecological socialist economic democracy.

The apathy thus far expressed by the Fascist Consumers of Amerika, does this include you all, has been pathetic.

[Mike Morin]

Have been contacting many organizations to put together a march on DeCeaser to rid the world of its Military and Capitalist hegemony and to enlist the more enlightened souls in the governments to minimalize themselves and work to facilitate to a neighborhood/inter-community/inter-regional/worldwide ecological economic democracy based on the principles of peace, inclusion, equity, humanity, quality of life, and sustainability.

I am trying to organize world wide so that people will march on complicit Capitals and complicit Finacial Capital centers.

May be we should march on "Defense" Contractors and Military, Bases as well...

Anybud interested can contact me at [email protected] and/or
(541) 343-3808

MM
peu

[Mike Morin]

In response to a query at my e-mail address as to whether or not my proposal for an eight million (or more) "man" march was a sexist proposition:

**********************************************

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the note.

In my case I'd be human organizing rather than "piggy backing". The idea for
the eight, other than it is a homonym for eat - something that we all must
do, is based on the legacy of the Chicago Eight, which is a rough
approximation of the distribution of our population. Add Hispanics, Asians,
Arabs, and others then we have (or More).

I have put "Man" in quotes to suggest that it does not preclude women. I
want it all to be peaceful, I consider myself a leader of the Peoples'
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (PNCC), but things could possibly start
to get a little or very rough (I hope not) and I want men to be at the
forefront.

I invite discourse, and please, if you see the light, spread the word in
whatever communities you are involved.

Where are you?

I'm a work kin for peace and cooperation.


With much love and care,

Mike Morin

[StalinFanboy]

Sounds pretty sexist to me.

[ckaihatsu]

Mike, all,

I'd like to address this in some detail. I think it's not necessarily a bad idea, and I'd actually just been kicking around this idea myself as a result of reading rosie's post at this other thread:





We must organize a mass meeting, and stop the capitalist over lords before they get a chance to get back on thier feet. Did Marx and Lenin and Luxemburg and Castro and Mao and Stalin WAIT to see how the capitalists would fair? No. They had it together. They organized in times like we have today. They took advantage of the economic crisises and trumped thier bosses. Now is the time indeed.

How do we make revolution today? We need to seriously consider our work.
http://www.revleft.com/vb/do-we-make-t105032/index.html?p=1406117#post1406117


Judging from the yardstick of current economic and world events I'd say that we *do* want to get some kind of a mass movement / march going, ideally as much along the lines of 1968's Poor People's Campaign as possible.





In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized the Poor People's Campaign to address issues of economic justice, specifically for sanitation workers to receive a $9 per hour minimum wage rather than $1.70. The campaign let to a worker's strike and a march in Washington, D.C. demanding economic aid to the poorest communities of the United States. [...]

King's economic bill of rights called for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. He saw a need to confront a Congress that had demonstrated its "hostility to the poor": appropriating "military funds with alacrity and generosity", but providing "poverty funds with miserliness."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People's_Campaign


More recently we've had the Million Man March, but that was nowhere nearly as politically advanced as the Poor People's Campaign was. As one can tell from the name alone it emphasized gender issues too much, to the exclusion of a solid class analysis.

However, what Mike is proposing is basically piggybacking on the name recognition, in a marketing manner, to leverage something more current and -- hopefully -- politically pertinent.





Sounds pretty sexist to me.





I have put "Man" in quotes to suggest that it does not preclude women. I
want it all to be peaceful


This is obviously the foremost issue to hammer out if this is going to move forward -- will the movement's name consistently be billed as Mike is stating it:

The 8 Million "Man" March

-- ???

If so, does this title alone communicate the meaning that we want it to? Is it clear or is it not-so-clear? Does it leverage the name recognition of the original in the way we want it to, by the title alone, or not really?

I'm the Chris that Mike refers to in his earlier post. I think it's valuable that he's doing some footwork for outreach to leftist and left-leaning organizations on this, but I also have to express my own reservations, beginning with the title name.

We can discuss the objective (or inter-subjective) perceptions that go with the terms we're using -- really it's an important discussion to have, because this is all about the communication of political meanings.

I've noted that the use of the term 'man' is problematic in and of itself, but especially so in a leftist political context. In an email to me Mike brought up a point that even the word 'person' is problematic because it contains the word 'son' -- according to Mike we'd have to consider the use of a word 'per-daughter' to compensate for this.

I have to disagree with this line of reasoning because of the *actual* visualization that the word 'person' *invokes* -- the reader / listener does *not* recall a sense of maleness in reading or hearing the term 'person' -- it really *is* gender-neutral in practice.

So, for the sake of name recognition / marketing, we can't really throw out the term 'man' altogether in favor of 'person' -- but on the other hand including 'man' is problematic since it is a male-gender-biased term.

Is it enough to put it into double quotes, or does that just confuse the entire meaning altogether? I'm leaning toward saying that it *is* ultimately confusing.





You are still trying to organize for the Million Man-March right?
If so, I propose a mission statement. Because that makes pamphlets and the like easier to distribute, and form is more important than message.


I think Dr. Fish is making the most important point here -- we're definitely getting ahead of ourselves if we're doing outreach without having collectively hammered out a mission statement and the actual communications that we would be using in reaching out with a coherent political message.

Mike referenced the following link to me in his email, and I find it disconcerting that he doesn't reference RevLeft as the source of the conversations reproduced there.

http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com/


So, that's about it for my thoughts. This is a discussion that's worth having, but we're only at the very beginning if that's the case.


Chris




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-- Of all the Marxists in a roomful of people, I'm the Wilde-ist. --

[Mike Morin]

The poor peoples' march was 1963 and it helped bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which included formation of the "Office" of Economic Opportunity (OEO), a Government bureaucracy that had little to no success in what became the community development corporation (CDC) boondoggle, because the CDCs were isolated communities, and the study of utopian communities show us that enclaves, even when an intelligent well planned socialist community development, will always fail. Besides, these projects were co-opted by the Capitalists and unscrupulous corrupt operators, "white", "black", "latino", "asian". The poor communities and the Capitalists became parasites and they are still begging and clamoring for more handouts.

With regards to the sexist claim, following is a couple of responses that I sent to Chris:

***********************************************
Hi Chris,

Thanks for the note.

In my case I'd be human organizing rather than "piggy backing". The idea for
the eight, other than it is a homonym for eat - something that we all must
do, is based on the legacy of the Chicago Eight, which is a rough
approximation of the distribution of our population. Add Hispanics, Asians,
Arabs, and others then we have (or More).

I have put "Man" in quotes to suggest that it does not preclude women. I
want it all to be peaceful, I consider myself a leader of the Peoples'
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (PNCC), but things could possibly start
to get a little or very rough (I hope not) and I want men to be at the
forefront.

I invite discourse, and please, if you see the light, spread the word in
whatever communities you are involved.

Where are you?

I'm a work kin for peace and cooperation.


With much love and care,

Mike Morin

**************************************************

We could start using the word person, but even that has a bias (i.e.
perdaughter). Peoples' is more gender sensitive, I suppose, but similar to
what I wrote before, these "events" are not the sort of thing that you would
necessarily want to bring very small children, for example. I've already
explained that position. We are doing it for the youth and the children, and
I hope to have and would have to expect youth's involvement, but it's up to
the women what role they want to work, and it would be great if the
atmosphere and environment was one in which children could participate,
but....I'm not sure...and my recommendation would be to keep them safe.

Thank you.

Let's keep in touch, and work together in whatever way we are able to make
this world a better place.


Most sincerely,

Mike Morin

[Dr. Fish]

I wrote a little mission thingy but I am not good at rhetoric so it's gonna be edited past recognition or what not:

March on Washington DC! It's been far too long to let the pigs rape the land, lay devastation to innocence, cage our brothers and sisters, and exploit the children of foreign countries as a cheap labour source and chain! Therefore we must drive, ride, or even walk to DC.
Feel free to edit. please.

I'd like to know what exactly everyone would be doing. What activities besides a parade. Concert, speech, whatever.
Mike-If there's gonna be some danger, seeing as you want the men to be at the front lines, I think that women could handle it. We should just ensure that everyone has protection.
Regarding the title- I think we should cut out the noun completely. 8 Million March on DC. (people aren't nouns people are free... as idealistic as that sounds).
I think that buses would be a good idea for transportation.

[Mike Morin]

'ppreciate your input, Doctor, There's a lot to do in organizing something like this that is why I am looking for a central committee and we all have to form local and regional committees.

I'm in Eugene, OR. I'd have to make up my mind as to whether I should take the bus all across country. I 'spose if I am the Primary Catalyst and (one of the) principal organizers, then I must make the sacrifice and be there.

With regards to speakers, we can all speak to each other. Let the march evolve, but to do that we must start talking about it seriously, and everybuddy has got to start thinking seriously about their role and how much it is worth to them.

I bet the apathetic Fascist American Driving "Middle Class" ewes and cows (the men are female too) wouldn't do a thing even to save their own children.

So let the children be damned.

I care, do you?


Mike Morin
peu

[Mike Morin]

Seriously now, folks.

Am I to interpret from the paltry response and the willingness to let this initiative to just slide out of view, that you all are mostly a lot of hot air, who like to twitter away their time away intellectually discussing what is really a lot of world trivia, irrelevant to your legitimate working class concerns where you live, or maybe interspersed with Capitalist obfuscators?

I can understand the secret identities given the history of active persecution of "leftists", but is it also true that you are too cowardly to stand up and take action for what you profess to believe?

[StalinFanboy]

'ppreciate your input, Doctor, There's a lot to do in organizing something like this that is why I am looking for a central committee and we all have to form local and regional committees.

I'm in Eugene, OR. I'd have to make up my mind as to whether I should take the bus all across country. I 'spose if I am the Primary Catalyst and (one of the) principal organizers, then I must make the sacrifice and be there.

With regards to speakers, we can all speak to each other. Let the march evolve, but to do that we must start talking about it seriously, and everybuddy has got to start thinking seriously about their role and how much it is worth to them.

I bet the apathetic Fascist American Driving "Middle Class" ewes and cows (the men are female too) wouldn't do a thing even to save their own children.

So let the children be damned.

I care, do you?


Mike Morin
peu
Wtf

[Mike Morin]

Bring it just wrote, Wtf, which I interpreted as What the fuck?

Unless he means World Trade Federation? :D

The problem with Bring it is that he knows that I'm correct and that he is a little wimpy cowardly fairy...

Yes I am What the Fuck!

Oh come on all of you little wimpy faggots
Uncle Sham, her sheeple and military are Fascist Maggots

Private Reagan Clinton War BusHitlers Barracks O'bombers have got
the "I will kill, sir! Fascist punks in a terrible jam
In Iraq, Afghanistan, maybe China, Russia and Iran
so put down your books and pick up a gun
Oh, driving is so much fun (isn't it fairies)

And it's one, two, three,
what are we fighting foil
Don't ask me, but I'll tell you it's oil
(and major pipeline routes from the more Northern Stans, oil and gas that was not found by USGS, but by the Soviet Union)

Major genocidal thievery so that the wimps can drive, drive, drive...


MM
peu

[Dr. Fish]

Bring it just wrote, Wtf, which I interpreted as What the fuck?

Unless he means World Trade Federation? :D

The problem with Bring it is that he knows that I'm correct and that he is a little wimpy cowardly fairy...

Yes I am What the Fuck!

Oh come on all of you little wimpy faggots
Uncle Sham, her sheeple and military are Fascist Maggots

Private Reagan Clinton War BusHitlers Barracks O'bombers have got
the "I will kill, sir! Fascist punks in a terrible jam
In Iraq, Afghanistan, maybe China, Russia and Iran
so put down your books and pick up a gun
Oh, driving is so much fun (isn't it fairies)

And it's one, two, three,
what are we fighting foil
Don't ask me, but I'll tell you it's oil
(and major pipeline routes from the more Northern Stans, oil and gas that was not found by USGS, but by the Soviet Union)

Major genocidal thievery so that the wimps can drive, drive, drive...


MM
peu

Do you own a car?

I am going to e-mail my local zine about it, and hopefully it'll get to the North East Anarchist Network's paper and then we'll have some good.... influence.
But I first want to be concrete over the dates, and everything. I'm gonna try and go on with 8 Million March for the title.
August I think is really good. But whatever works.

Were you drunk?

[Mike Morin]

Do you own a car?

I am going to e-mail my local zine about it, and hopefully it'll get to the North East Anarchist Network's paper and then we'll have some good.... influence.
But I first want to be concrete over the dates, and everything. I'm gonna try and go on with 8 Million March for the title.
August I think is really good. But whatever works.

Were you drunk?

I'm not careless like most Americans, I'm carless.

I drink only water and bean stock.

August would give us more time, given the paucity of respone (apathy) that I've been getting on this initiative, and other initiatives that are action oriented and not just psueudo-working class intellectual drivel that makes up the majority of this RevLeft board.

[Mike Morin]

The Folks out of NYC, Baltimore, Detroit, Boston, Raleigh, Los Angeles, Saginaw, and Northern Michigan, who have an extensive list of contacts beyond the "organized" areas listed are suggesting a March on Warshington DeCeasers and the convening of a Peoples' Assembly for the "Fall 2009".

These are the people who organized the April 3,4 March on Wall Street and are planning action in Detroit, June 14th - 17th in counterposition to a WTO/NTO type meeting that the Capitalists have scheduled.

They are also trying to catalyze interest in May Day demonstrations.

I certainly yield to their organization and experience, and intend to try to become an active cog in their organizing efforts.

You May want to go to their website www.bailoutpeople.org (http://www.bailoutpeople.org) and read through their four page (it is dated, but worth the read) Draft Working Paper entitled "Bail Out the People Movement: Fighback Conference".

I am going to make and distribute copies of said document here in Eugene, today and in the coming few days.

That's it for now.

Apologize for anger expressed due to frustration, but I am very disappointed, thus far, withe the willingness of you all to show real interest at action and cooperation.


Peace,

Mike Morin
peu

[Mike Morin]

You are invited to attend ...

"CAPITALISM IS ORGANIZED CRIME"
a conference taking place on
Sunday, April 19 in Washington, D.C.

The "Capitalism is Organized Crime" conference will take place on Sunday, April 19 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm at the Festival Center, located at 1640 Columbia Rd. NW, between 16th and 17th Sts. (green line metro to Columbia Heights), in Washington, D.C.

The conference will link the struggles of those fighting for social and economic justice at home with those fighting against U.S. imperialism and for national liberation around the world, and will address the need for a society organized to meet the needs of the majority rather than to maximize the profit of a few.

FEATURED SPEAKERS at the April 19th Conference will include:
* Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney and co-founder, Partnership for Civil Justice
* Hodari Abdul-Ali, Chair of the Social Justice Task Force for MANA, the Muslim Alliance in North America
* Prof. Zachary Wolfe, George Washington University, chair of the Amicus Curiae Committee of the National Lawyers Guild
* Representative, Friends of the Congo
* Frances Villar, Senator and Senate Parliamentarian of Bronx Community College Student Government, Vice Chair for Legislative Affairs for University Student Senate of City University of New York (CUNY)
* Brian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition
* James Circello, Iraq war veteran and co-coordinator of the Veterans and Service Members Task Force of the ANSWER Coalition
* Eugene Puryear, Howard University student, PSL 2008 Vice-Presidential Candidate
* Crystal Kim, PSL 2008 Candidate for D.C. Council At-Large

SCHEDULE for the day

11:00 am: Doors open for registration

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm: Panel I
Capitalism is Organized Crime

2:30 - 4:00 pm: Panel II
The Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism and for National Liberation

4:30 - 5:15 pm: Panel III
Is Socialism Possible in the United States?

To PRE-REGISTER for the April 19th Conference, click here:
http://www.pslweb. org/registerDCco nference (http://www.pslweb.org/registerDCconference)

$20 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Childcare available. Please call to reserve.

The April 19th "Capitalism is Organized Crime" Conference is hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).

For more information, click here:
http://www.pslweb. org/dcconference (http://www.pslweb.org/dcconference)

Email: [email protected] ration.org (dc%40socialismandliberation.org)
Phone: 202-543-4900

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