[Marxism] Fw: Building a movement for Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and Against Detention

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reposted FYI by dhe, which stands for Dan Elliott, Sacramento -- (I didn't
personally author the below post...either...;)
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From: Staff at N. Cal. CC-DS
To: Dan Elliot
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:42 AM
Subject: Building a movement for Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and Against
Detention


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FREE & OPEN PUBLIC FORUM
Building a movement for CIVIL RIGHTS,CIVIL LIBERTIES & AGAINST DETENTION
Sunday,July 11, 2:15 PM to 4:15 PM FREE
Park Plaza Hotel,Oakland
150 Hegenberger Road (510)635-5300 www.parkplazaoakland.com

Organized by the Bay Area Socialist Party USA as part of the 2004 Socialist
Organizing Conference.

FORUM ENDORSED by the International Socialist Organization, the Alameda
County Peace and Freedom Party, Solidarity, Freedom Socialist Party, Radical
Women, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Democratic
Socialists of American - East Bay, and SUN (Socialist Unity Network - CCDS,
DSA, SP, ISO and Solidarity). Other endorsements forthcoming.

Featured Keynote Panelist
FAROUK ABDEL-MUHTI
As a Palestinian activist in the US, Abdel-Muhti has been engaged for many
years in a number of public political activities, with a focus on
Palestinian rights and issues relating to immigration and Latin America.
Most recently,in March 2002,he began working regularly at community radio
station WBAI-FM,arranging interviews with Palestinians in the Occupied
Territories.One month later INS agents and New York City police agents
arrested him. After being detained for almost 2 years by U.S. Immigration
officials,and never charged with a crime, Farouk was finally released just
this last April.

JESS GHANNAM teaches at the University of California at San Francisco and is
President of the SF American Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee and belongs
to
both the Free Palestine Alliance and al-awda.

Other speakers TBA.

For more information visit http://www.sp-usa.org/orgconf/ or contact Jack
Gerson at jackgerson@xxxxxxx or (510) 658-5520.

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2004 Socialist Organizing Conference
Bay Area Socialist Party USA
Sunday, July 11, 9AM to 5PM
Park Plaza Hotel,Oakland
150 Hegenberger Road (510)635-5300 www.parkplazaoakland.com

Registration: $5 &up
http://www.sp-usa.org/orgconf/

MORNING SESSIONS
Anti-Militarism &Domestic Alternatives
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM Facilitated by:
ERIC CHESTER is a noted author,Rag-Tags,Scum, Riff-Raff and Commies:The U.S.
Intervention in the Dominican Republic,1965-66 (2001)and True
Mission:Socialists
and the Labor Party Question in the United States (Spring,2004.);and
member,SP-USA Tom Mooney Local,Mass.,Industrial Workers of the World and
National Writers Union.
JACK GERSON was a student and anti-draft activist in the 1960s (cofounder of
Stanford U.Students for a Democratic Society;Stop the Draft Week
organizer);has
written for and edited several radical and socialist publications;and is a
high
school teacher and teacher union activist.He is a member of the Socialist
Party.

Reproductive Rights &the Post-March for Women 's Lives
10:15 AM to 11:30 AM Facilitated by:
SUSAN DORAZIO is a child care worker and child care advocacy activist; and
member,SP-USA Tom Mooney Local,Mass.,and SP-USA National
Committee;convener,SP-USA Women's Commission.
TANYA SMITH is cochair of the UC Berkeley Labor Coalition,University
Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE CWA 9119)member, reproductive
rights activist,and SP-USA member.
TINA PHILLIPS is a student activist,Cal State Hayward;and member,SP- USA Bay
Area Local,SP-USA National Committee,Young People's Socialist League and
Peace and Freedom Party of California.

Civil Rights,Civil Liberties & Anti-Detention
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM Facilitated by:
GREG PASON is SP-USA National Secretary;chair,SP-USA Civil Rights, Civil
Liberties and Anti-Detention Campaign;and member, Committee to Free Farouk
Abdel-Muhti, who played an active role in Farouk 's release;currently
visiting
and supporting detainees at Hudson and Bergen County jails, New Jersey.
FAROUK ABDEL-MUHTI is a Palestinian Activist and recently released detainee
from NY.

Bay Area Socialist Party Local
P.O. Box 22822
Oakland, CA 94609
Web Site: http://sp-usa.org/basp/
Email: bayareasplocal@xxxxxxxxx




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