EXPAND THE DEBATE TEACH-IN SERIES - Boston, MA (Distribute Widely)

["Ben B. Day" <bday@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The first Presidential Debate in the U.S. has been scheduled to come to
the University of Massachusetts-Boston on October 3rd. All third party
candidates, and with them a broad spectrum of positions, ideas, and
options will be excluded from the debate. The values of diversity and
plurality - essential to any democracy - have been increasingly violated
in the U.S. as its two major parties lean towards the same platform,
funded by and catering to corporate interests and big money.

UMass Boston's Radical Student Alliance has assembled a series of seven
panels of speakers and a debate on independent progressive politics to
scrutinize important issues which will find no dissenting voice in the
mainstream debates or media, as well as to challenge the political
structure that supports such monopolitics.

Please, join us and find out whether alternative politics offer a more
just and fair alternative for you!

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UMass Boston's Radical Student Alliance Presents:

     EXPAND THE DEBATE TEACH-IN SERIES

[All seven teach-ins will be held in the Lipke Auditorium
      at UMass Boston - directions listed below.]

THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES IN AMERICA
Friday September 15 - 2:30-5:00

* Ben Day from UMass Boston's Radical Student Alliance.
* Thomas Ferguson author of Golden Rule, Senior Associate Provost at
UMass Boston.
* Reverend David Carl Olson Minister of the Community Church of Boston.

MILITARY SPENDING AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION
Monday September 18 - 2:30-5:00

* Anthony Arnove of South End Press and the International Socialist
Organization, editor of Iraq Under Siege.
* Kim Foster from the Rainforest Action Network.
* Mathew Knoester from the Colombia Support Network.

CONTINGENT LABOR AND SOCIAL WAGE
Friday September 22 - 2:30-5:00

* Diane Dujon Director of Independent Learning, CPCS at UMass Boston.
* Barbara Gottfried Field organizer with the American Association of
University Professors.
* Jason Pramas Associate Director, Campaign on Contingent Work.
* Gary Zabel Co-Chair, Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor.

PUBLIC EDUCATION AND PUBLIC SPENDING
Monday September 25 - 2:30-5:00

* Annie Zirin from the Lynn Teachers Union and the International Socialist
Organization.
* Jonathan King MIT Professor and Chair, Mass. Labor Party Education
Committee.
* Representative from Fair Test.

HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY
Wednesday September 27 - 2:30-5:00

* Judith Atkins President, District 2, United Electrical Workers Union.
* Phil Mamber President, Mass. Senior Action.

THE U.S. AND GLOBALIZATION
Thursday September 28 - 7:00-10:00

* Michael Albert editor of Z Magazine.
* Hardip Man from South Asian Women For Action
* Arthur MacEwan author of Neoliberalism or Democracy?, Professor of
Economics at UMass Boston.
* Robert Naiman Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Economic and
Policy Research (DC).

THE DEATH PENALTY (Organized by the Coalition for Mumia.)
Friday September 29 - 6:30-9:30

* Moderated by City Counselor Chuck Turner.
* Taped message from Mumia Abu Jamal on death row.
* Ramona Africa from MOVE.
* Steven Hawking lawyer for Mumia's federal appeal.
* Laywer Johnson former MA death row inmate.
* Monica Moorehead presidential candidate for the Workers World party.
* Professor Becky Thompson of Simmons College and Academics for Mumia.
* Kazi Toure former political prisoner.

(For directions to the UMass campus:
        http://www.umb.edu/about_umb/directions.html )
(To find Lipke Auditorium on a map of the campus:
        http://www.umb.edu/campus_tour/science/second.html )

SEE ALSO: "WHERE DOES INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE POLITICS GO FROM HERE?"
Monday October 2 - 4:30-6:30

... a debate between representatives of:
* The Green Party (Howie Hawkins)
* The Labor Party (Ed Bruno)
* The Socialist Party (Eric Chester)

Moderated by: Marisa Figueiredo of Redstockings of the Women's Liberation
Movement.

To be held at: MIT - 25 Ames St. - Room 66-110
(Down the street from Kendal Square.)

(For more information and other events: http://www.expandthedebate.org )

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