From: AdamTurl@aol.com
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 02:01:39 EST
*****please forward*****
Only four days until...
2002 MIDWEST REGIONAL SOCIALIST CONFERENCE:
A WORLD OF POVERTY AND WAR -- SOCIALISM IS THE ALTERNATIVE!
Coming up this Saturday, April 6th, don't miss the 2002 Midwest Regional
Socialist Conference at the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle Center.
The conference, **A World of Poverty and War, Socialism Is the Alternative,**
features a dozen sessions and workshops, starting at 11am, including:
--Budget Cuts & Layoffs: Where is the Economy Headed?--
--They Are Enron: We Are Argentina! Which way forward for the Global Justice
movement?--
--Confronting the Israeli Occupation: The New Intifada.--
--Incarceration Nation: Race, class and the criminal injustice system--
--Marxism in the 21st Century--
--& more…
The conference also features the International Socialist Review National
Antiwar Tour, **War and Resistance: Another World Is Possible** at 7pm, with
--Journalist Greg Palast, from the Observer of London.
--Socialist Worker columnist, and contributor to the book, Iraq Under Siege,
Sharon Smith.
--Veteran Washington, D.C. civil rights activist Rev. Graylan Hagler.
--Former Chicago school board member and victim of anti-Arab racial
profiling, Anna Mustafa.
Tickets are just five dollars. To arrange tickets, free on-site child care or
to get more information call 312-458-9920 or e-mail
chicagosocialistconference2002@hotmail.com
Tickets will be available at the event. For more information visit
www.internationalsocialist.org. Sponsored by the International Socialist
Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker newspaper. Visit
www.socialistworker.org to read SW online. For more information on the
antiwar tour and the International Socialist Review visit www.isreview.org
MORE DETAILED INFORMATION:
SATURDAY, APRIL 6 -- University of Illinois--Chicago
10am Registration, Chicago Circle Center, 750 S. Halsted
11am OPENING DISCUSSION--MARXISM AT THE 21st CENTURY -- Alan Maass, editor of
Socialist Worker
1:30pm WORKSHOPS SESSION I:
-Stop Bush*s War on Iraq -- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
-Can Black & White Unite & Fight? -- Hector Reyes
-How to Win a Revolution: Marxism or Anarchism? -- Matt Nichter
-Budget Cuts & Layoffs: Where is the Economy Headed? -- Joel Geier
-Crisis and Class Struggle in Latin America -- Tom Lewis
3:30pm WORKSHOPS SESSION II:
-They Are Enron, We Are Argentina: Which Way Forward for the Global Justice
Movement? -- Katherine Dwyer
-What Would Socialism Look Like? -- Kirstin Roberts
-Confronting Israel*s Occupation: The New Intifada -- Lance Selfa
-From Abortion to Welfare Cuts: Defending Women*s Rights -- Alice Kim
-Incarceration Nation: Race, Class & the Criminal Injustice System -- Joan
Parkin
7pm CLOSING RALLY -- INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST REVIEW ANTIWAR TOUR: WAR &
RESISTANCE--ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
-- Gregory Palast, investigative journalist --
-- Amber Amundson, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows --
-- Rev. Graylan Hagler, civil rights activist --
-- Sharon Smith, Socialist Worker columnist, contributor to Iraq Under Siege
PLACE: University of Illinois-Chicago (call number below for exact location)
ON-SITE CHILD CARE: To arrange, call the number below
SPONSOR: International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker
newspaper
TICKETS: $5-$25 (sliding scale)
FOR INFORMATION & TICKETS: Call 312-458-9920 or e-mail
chicagosocialistconference2002@hotmail.com
More information on sessions and workshops:
-- International Socialist Review Antiwar Tour: War & Resistance--Another
World Is Possible --
The International Socialist Review Antiwar Tour is bringing together voices
of opposition, and hope for a better future, around the country this spring.
Veteran activists such as author Howard Zinn, journalists such as Amy
Goodman, and family members of the September 11 victims are coming together
to help build opposition to this barbaric war. Visit the isreview.org web
site for more information on the Antiwar Tour.
-- Marxism in the 21st Century --
We live in a world of obscene inequalities. A world where nearly half the
population survives on less than a dollar a day. A world where unending wars
and environmental destruction have become the norm. Marxists argue there is
an alternative worth fighting for--socialism. A society in which the world*s
vast resources are harnessed to meet everyone*s needs. One in which ordinary
people decide democratically how to run society. This talk will explain the
genuine Marxist tradition of struggle from below needed to create a socialist
society.
-- Incarceration Nation: Race, Class and the Criminal Injustice System -- The
US prison population is larger than the population of Boston, Denver and San
Francisco combined. Among the African American poor, most young men will
spend some time behind bars. But growing numbers of people are rejecting this
incarceration nation--and organizing to demand more schools, not more jails.
-- What Would Socialism Look Like? --
Many people have felt the bitter consequences of the corporate-run,
free-market system and are outraged that people around the world have to
suffer poverty, oppression and war. But what is the alternative? This
workshop is designed to discuss a vision of a socialist future--a vision
that a long tradition of revolutionaries have looked to in their struggle for
a better world.
-- How to Win a Revolution: Marxism or Anarchism? --
Socialists and anarchists both stand opposed to the inequality and oppression
of the current political system. But there are significant
differences when it comes to how to wage a fight against this system--and how
to achieve our shared political vision of freedom and democracy.
-- They Are Enron, We Are Argentina: Which Way Forward for the Global
Justice Movement? --
After September 11, the global justice movement floundered, unsure of how to
address the US offensive at home and abroad. But in February, the
15,000-strong march against the World Economic Forum in New York City and the
World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, helped revitalize the movement.
-- Can Black & White Unite & Fight? --
Racism runs deep in the US, and is historically one of the biggest obstacles
to a united workers fightback against the system. Yet such unity is sorely
needed if we are to win. Only by linking the fight against racial
oppression--around issues of police brutality, housing and job
discrimination, racial profiling and the racist criminal injustice
system--with the economic struggles against the priorities of
capitalism--around health care, jobs, better working conditions and
wages--can we build that sort of unity.
-- Budget Cuts & Layoffs: Workers Fight Recession --
In both corporate America and the public sector, working people are being
asked to pay the price for the recession. Can our unions organize a fight to
defend jobs and wages in the face of an assault being carried out by private
companies and bosses alike?
-- Crisis & Class Struggle in Latin America --
The economic crisis and Argentinazo have brought to the fore not only the
failures of free-market capitalism, but how that crisis is producing a new
resistance, centered on workers and the unemployed. The answer to capitalist
globalization needs to come not from conference meetings between NGOs and
corporate heads, but from ordinary workers themselves, taking action to win
the right to food, work and a better life.
-- From Abortion Rights to Welfare Cuts: Defending Women*s Rights --
George W. Bush has declared war on women*s right to choose, most recently by
classifying fetuses as "unborn children." And he has announced that
Clinton*s 1996 welfare cuts **didn*t go far enough.** This workshop addresses
the assault on women*s rights and how we can reverse it.
-- Stop Bush*s War on Iraq --
After a devastating military attack in 1991 and more than a decade of
genocidal sanctions, the US has now openly proclaimed its intent to go to
war against Iraq again. **The question is not whether but when** to attack
Iraq, according to one US official. This workshop explains why.
http://www.internationalsocialist.org
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http://www.isreview.org
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