Ricardo
16th May 2006, 23:12
Build the Left, Fight the Right
Socialism 2006
June 22–25, 2006
Columbia University, New York City
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE felt their power in the streets on May Day 2006, when immigrants and their supporters shut down businesses and staged massive protests across the U.S. and South of the border.
The government and the Right have a vision of the world -- one of endless wars, racist scapegoating, and continuing to enrich the few while the rest of us pay the price. Bigots like the Minutemen line up at the border as hate crimes against immigrants rise, while anti-abortionists try to strip women of the right to choose. An entire U.S. city is nearly destroyed while the Bush administration fiddles. And the Democrats seem to offer no alternative to Bush's attacks.
But the new movement for immigrant rights -- and struggles around the world, from France to Bolivia to Nepal -- offer a different vision. They show that an alternative on the left -- an alternative that speaks to the millions of ordinary people who are fed up with war, attacks on workers, and threats to our civil rights -- is not only necessary, but possible. Building that alternative is up to us -- and Socialism 2006 is a great place to start.
http://www.socialismconference.org/
Featured Events Include:
"Voices of a Peoples’ History of the United States"
The conference will kick off with a performance of "Voices," readings from the words of fighters for social justice in U.S. history. This special performance will include leading actors from Broadway and Hollywood interpreting the words of great fighters like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Leonard Peltier. If you would like to attend, please order tickets at the special conference price of $10. Only a limited number will be available. Tickets will be delivered when you register for the conference. The performance will be held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 64th Street at Central Park West, at 8PM, Thursday, June 22.
Featured Speakers Include:
Justin Akers Chacón, author, No One Is Illegal!
Anthony Arnove, author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
Dennis Brutus, author, Poetry and Protest
Peter Camejo, Green Party, California
Todd Chretien and Aaron Dixon, Green Party candidates from U.S. Senate from California and Washington
Kelly Dougherty, Iraq Veterans Against War
Phil Gasper, editor, The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document
Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now!
Shujaa Graham, former death row prisoner and activist against the death penalty
Sam Farber, author, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Joshua Frank, author, Left Out!
Nativo López, Hermandad Mexicana and Mexican American Political Association
Luciana Genro, member of Brazilian parliament, Party of Socialism and Liberty
Suheir Hammad, poet and spoken-word artist
Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass, authors, Between the Lines, an analysis of the current political situation in Israel and Palestine
Ron Jacobs, author, The Way the Wind Blew: A history of the Weather Underground
Mike Marqusee, author, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan in the 1960s
Marlene Martin, national director, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Camilo Mejía, first U.S. soldier to refuse to return to Iraq
Pablo Paredes, U.S. war resister
Phyliss Prentice, Maryland Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Robert Robideau, American Indian Movement and co-director, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Michael Schwartz, Sociology professor who has written extensively on the Iraqi resistance
Giuliana Sgrena, journalist, Il Manifesto and author of Friendly Fire
Ahmed Shawki, editor, International Socialist Review, and author of Black Liberation and Socialism
Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Larry Bradshaw, eyewitnesses from Hurricane Katrina
Sharon Smith, columnist, Socialist Worker, and author of Subterranean Fire
Toni Smith, Manhattanville College basketball player who protested the Iraq War on court
Jeffrey St. Clair, author, Grand Theft Pentagon and co-editor of Counterpunch
Etan Thomas, Washington Wizards’ center/power forward and author, More Than an Athlete
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, national coordinating committee, Campus Antiwar Network
David Williams, author, A Peoples’ History of the Civil War
The Welfare Poets, hip hop artists and activists
Dave Zirin, TheNation.com sports columnist and author, What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
Socialism 2006
June 22–25, 2006
Columbia University, New York City
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE felt their power in the streets on May Day 2006, when immigrants and their supporters shut down businesses and staged massive protests across the U.S. and South of the border.
The government and the Right have a vision of the world -- one of endless wars, racist scapegoating, and continuing to enrich the few while the rest of us pay the price. Bigots like the Minutemen line up at the border as hate crimes against immigrants rise, while anti-abortionists try to strip women of the right to choose. An entire U.S. city is nearly destroyed while the Bush administration fiddles. And the Democrats seem to offer no alternative to Bush's attacks.
But the new movement for immigrant rights -- and struggles around the world, from France to Bolivia to Nepal -- offer a different vision. They show that an alternative on the left -- an alternative that speaks to the millions of ordinary people who are fed up with war, attacks on workers, and threats to our civil rights -- is not only necessary, but possible. Building that alternative is up to us -- and Socialism 2006 is a great place to start.
http://www.socialismconference.org/
Featured Events Include:
"Voices of a Peoples’ History of the United States"
The conference will kick off with a performance of "Voices," readings from the words of fighters for social justice in U.S. history. This special performance will include leading actors from Broadway and Hollywood interpreting the words of great fighters like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Leonard Peltier. If you would like to attend, please order tickets at the special conference price of $10. Only a limited number will be available. Tickets will be delivered when you register for the conference. The performance will be held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 64th Street at Central Park West, at 8PM, Thursday, June 22.
Featured Speakers Include:
Justin Akers Chacón, author, No One Is Illegal!
Anthony Arnove, author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
Dennis Brutus, author, Poetry and Protest
Peter Camejo, Green Party, California
Todd Chretien and Aaron Dixon, Green Party candidates from U.S. Senate from California and Washington
Kelly Dougherty, Iraq Veterans Against War
Phil Gasper, editor, The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document
Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now!
Shujaa Graham, former death row prisoner and activist against the death penalty
Sam Farber, author, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Joshua Frank, author, Left Out!
Nativo López, Hermandad Mexicana and Mexican American Political Association
Luciana Genro, member of Brazilian parliament, Party of Socialism and Liberty
Suheir Hammad, poet and spoken-word artist
Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass, authors, Between the Lines, an analysis of the current political situation in Israel and Palestine
Ron Jacobs, author, The Way the Wind Blew: A history of the Weather Underground
Mike Marqusee, author, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan in the 1960s
Marlene Martin, national director, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Camilo Mejía, first U.S. soldier to refuse to return to Iraq
Pablo Paredes, U.S. war resister
Phyliss Prentice, Maryland Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Robert Robideau, American Indian Movement and co-director, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Michael Schwartz, Sociology professor who has written extensively on the Iraqi resistance
Giuliana Sgrena, journalist, Il Manifesto and author of Friendly Fire
Ahmed Shawki, editor, International Socialist Review, and author of Black Liberation and Socialism
Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Larry Bradshaw, eyewitnesses from Hurricane Katrina
Sharon Smith, columnist, Socialist Worker, and author of Subterranean Fire
Toni Smith, Manhattanville College basketball player who protested the Iraq War on court
Jeffrey St. Clair, author, Grand Theft Pentagon and co-editor of Counterpunch
Etan Thomas, Washington Wizards’ center/power forward and author, More Than an Athlete
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, national coordinating committee, Campus Antiwar Network
David Williams, author, A Peoples’ History of the Civil War
The Welfare Poets, hip hop artists and activists
Dave Zirin, TheNation.com sports columnist and author, What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States