[Marxism] Build the Left, Fight the Right: Socialism 2006 -- the summer's biggest radical conference, next weekend!

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

 Build the Left, Fight the Right
 SOCIALISM 2006

 June 22–25, 2006
 Columbia University, New York City
 http://www.socialismconference.org

FEATURING:

* Voices of a Peoples' 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, Laura Flanders, 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

* Build the Left, Fight the Right -- with Lynne Stewart, two weeks
before her sentencing in an unjust conviction for "terrorism" meant to
silence activists and human rights lawyers; Ahmed Shawki, editor of
the International Socialist Review; Nativo Lopez, president of the
Mexican American Political Association; and Shujaa Graham, exonerated
death row prisoner and former Black Panther

* 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!

* Impeaching Bush: Justice at Last or Democratic Diversion? -- 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

* Race, Class and the Criminal Injustice System -- with exonerated
death-row prisoners Shujaa Graham, Madison Hobley and Darby Tillis,
and exonerated Central Park 5 member Yusef Salaam

* 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

... and nearly 100 more workshops led by Jeremy Scahill, Josh Frank,
Sharon Smith,  Robert Robideau, Mike Marqusee, Alan Maass, Ron Jacobs,
Paul D'Amato, Sam Farber, Sherry Wolf, 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


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.

UPDATE: The performance will include readings from Lili Taylor, Wally
Shawn, Amy Goodman, John Sayles, Christian Kirk, Josh Hamilton, Laura
Flanders, 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.

And dance parties featuring DJ Rekha, Son of Non, the Welfare Poets,
and more! Parties open to all ages; bar for those 21+.


Featured Speakers Include:
(See fuller list of speakers, with bios, at
http://www.socialismconference.org/speakers.shtml )
* Justin Akers Chacón, author, No One Is Illegal!
* Anthony Arnove, author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
* 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, co-founder, 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

Full schedule of meetings is available at
http://www.socialismconference.org/schedule_en.shtml

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