[Marxism] Build the Left, Fight the Right: Socialism 2006 in NYC [updated announcement]

["Elizabeth Wrigley-Field" <ewrigleyfield@xxxxxxxxx>]

***Please forward widely!***

*Build the Left, Fight the Right
Socialism 2006
*June 22–25, 2006
Columbia University, New York City *
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*FEATURING:*
*Voices of a People's History of the United States* -- dramatic readings
from Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's book featuring leading actors from
Hollywood and Broadway, including Lili Taylor, Wallace Shawn, Christina
Kirk, Josh Hamilton, John Sayles, and many others; introduced by Anthony
Arnove * *Friendly Fire: A conversation between Giuliana Sgrena and Amy
Goodman* -- in which the Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq, then
almost killed when fired upon by U.S. forces, speaks in the U.S. for the
first time * *Soldiers Speak Out Against the War* -- featuring Kelly
Doughtery, Camilo Mejia, and Pablo Paredes * *The New Immigrant Rights
Movement* -- led by Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American
Political Association, and Justin Akers Chacon, co-author with Mike Davis of
No One Is Illegal! * *Impeach Bush?* -- A debate between Jeffrey St Clair
and Dave Lindorff * *Sports and Resistance *-- with sportswriter Dave Zirin,
Washington Wizards forward Etan Thoman, and basketball player and activist
Toni Smith * *30 Years is Enough: We Can Stop the Death Penalty* -- with
exonerated death-row prisoner Shujaa Graham, exonerated Central Park 5
member Yusef Salaam, and Alice Kim of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
* *Red, Black, Blue Green: Electoral Challenges to the Democrats* -- with
Green Party leaders Peter Camejo, Todd Chretien, Aaron Dixon, and Howie
Hawkins, currently running against Arnold Schwartzenegger, Dianne Feinstein,
Maria Cantwell, and Hillary Clinton respectively
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*... and nearly 100 more workshops* led by Lynne Stewart, Jeremy Scahill,
Josh Frank, Sharon Smith, Ahmed Shawki, Robert Robideau, Mike Marqusee, Alan
Maass, Ron Jacobs, Paul D'Amato, Sam Farber, Dennis Brutus, Luciana Genro;
activists from around the U.S., the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe;
and many others.
*See http://www.socialismconference.org for the full conference details*
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*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/

*Free on-site childcare and Spanish translation are available; see website
for details*


*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.
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*UPDATE: *The performance will include readings from Lili Taylor, Wally
Shawn, Amy Goodman, John Sayles, Christian Kirk, Josh Hamilton, and many
other stage and screen actors; and will be introduced by Anthony Arnove, who
co-edited the book with Howard Zinn. For a full list of actors and their
bios, see
http://www.socialismconference.org/voices.shtml

*"Friendly Fire: A conversation between Amy Goodman and Giuliana Sgrena"*

Leading Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, whose personal story was
featured on 60 Minutes and in other major media worldwide, describes the
real story of her capture, dramatic release, and shooting in 2004. While
reporting for the Italian daily newspaper Il Manifesto in Iraq, Sgrena was
taken hostage by a group of Iraqis on February 4, 2004, and held until March
4, 2004. On the day of her release, as she was being escorted to Baghdad
International Airport by Italian security, US forces fired on her vehicle.
The attack killed Major General Nicola Calipari, the number-two man in
Italian military intelligence, as he shielded Sgrena. The remarkable story
of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq, rescued by an Italian secret service
agent and shot at by U.S. forces will be recounted in person for the first
time in the U.S. at Socialism 2006. Sgrena's book, *Friendly
Fire*(Haymarket, 2006), to be released at this event, describes her
experience as
a hostage and provides unique insights into the situation in Iraq under
occupation, exposing U.S. war crimes there. This event is free as part of
the conference, or $10 for non-conference attendees.

*Featured Speakers Include:*
(See fuller list of speakers, with bios, at
http://www.socialismconference.org/speakers.shtml <http://homemail.nyu.edu/>)
*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*, *Aaron Dixon*, and *Howie Hawkins*, Green Party candidates
from U.S. Senate from California, Washington, and New York
*Kelly Dougherty*, Iraq Veterans Against War
*Sam Farber *, author, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
*Joshua Frank*, author, Left Out!
*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
*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
*Nativo López*, Hermandad Mexicana and Mexican American Political
Association
*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
*Yusef Salaam*, wrongly convicted as a teenager in the Central Park jogger
case; now a criminal justice activist and advocate
*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
*Lynne Stewart*, radical human rights lawyer facing 30 years in prison for
unjust conviction of "aiding terrorists"
*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

*affiliations for identification only


*Meetings Include: *
(full schedule is available at
http://www.socialismconference.org/schedule_en.shtml
)
*U.S. politics*
Generation "Debt": the criminalization of Youth
Monkey trials: Evolution under attack
Under Attack, Fighting Back: Free speech and the movement against military
recruitment
Addicted to profit: The politics of drugs
Free Leonard Peltier!
The crisis in education
Red, Black, Blue and Green: Electoral Challenges to the Democrats
The antiwar movement inside the military
Grand Theft Pentagon
30 Years is Enough: We can stop the death penalty
Eye of the storm: Eyewitness reports from Hurricane Katrina and its
aftermath
Debate: Should our movements call for impeaching Bush?

*America's radical history*
Slave revolts in the U.S.
The populist movement
The rise and fall of SDS
George Jackson and Attica Revolt
America's radical working class history
Are US workers different?
Labor's Giant Step: Class war in the 1930s
Big Bill Haywood and American Socialism

*Women's and Gay Liberation*
Gay oppression: A prop for the family
"You can't understand my oppression": The politics of identity
Capitalism and sexuality
When abortion was a crime
That's so "reductionist": Do Marxists reduce everything to class?

*Black Politics
*Is there a white skin privilege?
> From Civil Rights to Black Power
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
The politics of blame: Is Bill Cosby right

*Latino and immigration politics*
A history of farmworkers' struggles in the U.S.
The Young Lords
Give us your poor huddled masses: the history of U.S. immigration
The new immigrants rights movement
*No One is Illegal!* Immigrants are welcome here

*The ABC's of Marxism*
Marx's historical materialism
Marx's theory of alienation
Marx's theory of revolution
Marx's critique of other socialisms

*Questions about socialism*
Socialism and War: Are All Wars Bad?
Is Human Nature a Barrier to Socialism?
Are Prisons Necessary?
Is Marxism pro-violence?
Outside agitators? Socialists and movements

*Marxist Classics*
Lenin's What is to be Done
Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution
Explaining Marx's Capital
Engels' Origin of the Family
Gramsci's Prison Notebooks

*The lost revolutions*
Germany 1918-1923: the lost revolution
Hungary 1956: workers' against the monolith
Iran: Islam and revolution, 1979

*The Russian Revolutionary Movement
*Ten Days that Shook the World—the 1917 revolution
Original Sin? Why did the Russian Revolution Fail?
A Party like no other: Lenin and the party
Anarchists and the Russian Revolution

*Trotsky *
Trotsky and fight against Fascism in Germany
Trotsky, the Chinese revolution, and the roots of Maoism
Debate on Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution

*Imperialism and war*
Iraq: Graveyard of U.S. imperialism?
The classical Marxist theory of Imperialism
Should socialists support intervention in Darfur?
Lords of Poverty: The economics and politics of international aid
Is the earth overcrowded?
Lenin and Right of Nations to Self-Determination

*Latin America in transition*
Venezuela: from populism to revolution
Bolivia: the end of neoliberalism?
Land Struggles in Latin America
Cuban Revolution reconsidered
Latin America on fire

*Culture and art*
Dennis Brutus on Poetry and Protest
Myth and reality of Van Gogh
International music of protest
The Juice: Capitalism and Steroids
The politics of sports
Bob Dylan
Woody Guthrie

*Marxist Economics*
Will capitalism collapse? The Marxist theory of Crisis
The U.S. economy: when will the bubble burst?
Is the US Becoming a Post-Industrial Society?
The Walmartization of America
India, China, and the changing world economy
Despoiling our earth: have we passed the tipping point?

*Middle East*
Israel: a colonial/settler state
Hamas and the future of Palestine
The coming war with Iran?
Myth and reality of Islam

*Our tradition and theirs*
The "people's front" and the tragedy of American Communism
Ending the madness of the market: In defense of socialist planning
"I only drink fair trade coffee": The politics of alternative lifestyle
What Kind of Party do we need?
Change the world without taking power? The new anarchism
Is Marxism a Science?


*REGISTRATION*

*Registration Rates
*Whole conference $100
Two day pass $70
Single day pass $35
Single session $10

*Online Registration*
Visit http://www.socialismconference.org/register.html


FOR MORE INFORMATION
Write: Socialism 2006, c/o ISR, P.O. Box 258082, Chicago, IL 60625
Call: 773-583-8665
E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.socialismconference.org

This website is being updated often, so check back soon for even more
speakers and events!

Free on-site childcare and Spanish translation are available; see website
for details.
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