Join Anthony Arnove, Paul D’Amato, Sam Farber, Laura Flanders, Arun Gupta, Frances Fox-Piven, Robert Gangi, Lawrence Hayes, Marvin Holland, Brian Jones, Miguel Luna, Alan Maass, Fred Magdoff, Mahmood Mamdani, Manning Marable, Scott McLemee, Paul LeBlanc, Jeffrey Perry, John Riddell, Jen Roesch, Heather Rogers, Jeremy Scahill, Helen Scott, Ahmed Shawki, Liliana Segura, Ashley Smith, Dave Zirin and dozens more speakers and hundreds more participants at...
Crisis and Resistance: Building a Socialist Alternative
Northeast Socialist Conference
October 24-25, 2009
New York City
Columbia University
(see below for full location, schedule and registration information)www.northeastsocialistconference.net
Capitalism isn’t working. Socialism is the alternative: a world based on human need rather than profit and controlled by the vast majority rather than a tiny rich minority. But to win this world, we need struggle and action by our side. Every year hundreds of activists and socialists gather at the Northeast Socialist Conference to debate and discuss the struggles before us as well as an analysis of the urgent problems we face and a vision for a different future. With the free-market consensus in tatters and an open debate beginning about how best to organize our society, these discussions are more vital than ever.
Discussions will include reports and strategizing from today’s front-line battles. There will also be workshops on the history of radical labor and socialist movements; alternatives to capitalism; US imperialism and solidarity movements around the world.
With nearly 50 workshops to choose from, these are just some of the topics that will be featured:
*The New Movement for LGBT Equality*Sports and Sexuality: Fighting for a Level Playing Field*The Global Food Crisis*Where is the Economy Headed?*Guantanamo at Home*Resistance and Solidarity: Eyewitness from Gaza*Poor People’s Movements*A People’s Guide to the Healthcare Debate*What Would Socialism Look Like?*Social Unionism: Putting the Movement Back in the Labor Movement*Hubert Harrison: Voice of Harlem Radicalism*What Would a Sustainable Society Look Like?*Occupation Rebranded: US Imperialism in the Obama Era*Reform and Revolution*Malcolm X*What a Sustainable Society Could Look Like*Racism, Sentencing and the Prison System*The Assault on Abortion Rights*Another Brick in the Wall: Education under Capitalism vs Socialism*The Russian Revolution and Its Significance Today*Media as Weapon: Speaking Truth to Power*Report-Back from Honduras*Student Struggle and the Fight for Socialism*The Communist Women’s Movement in the Comintern Era*The History of the ISO and dozens more
For a full list of speakers and workshops, and to register, see our website at: www.northeastsocialistconference.net
Arrange registration, travel, and carpooling with local members of the International Socialist Organization in Western Mass.: contact@isonoho.org
Registration: $20 weekend; $15 low-income/student; $10 single dayRegistration online, through a local ISO branch or at the conference
