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<b><span style="font-size: medium; ">July 1-4, Oakland </span></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; ">
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<span style="font-size: small; ">With the economy in shambles and with wars and occupations continuing, the challenge to change these conditions confronts us all. More than a year ago, millions placed their hopes in Barack Obama and the Democrats to solve these problems. But after months of broken promises and concessions to conservatives, jobs are scarce, the banks are unregulated, and full equality for LGBT people remains elusive. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; ">Socialism 2010—to be held in </span><i><span style="font-size: small; ">both</span></i><span style="font-size: small; "> Chicago and Oakland—will provide an unparalleled opportunity for new and veteran activists and scholars to explore questions about how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; ">Last year, more than 1,800 people turned out to explore the history of struggles of ordinary people, to learn about radical figures who led social movements and to debate theoretical questions that can help us change the world. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; ">Join us for more than 100 talks on issues such as: What is the Real Marxist Tradition?, Race in the Obama Era, Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Future of Humanity, Abortion and Women’s Liberation, and Building a New Left in the Obama Era. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; ">Don’t miss the chance to meet, talk and socialize with hundreds of others like you who want to build an alternative to a system of greed, racism, war and oppression. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; ">
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<b><span style="font-size: medium; ">Featured Speakers: </span></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; ">
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<b><span style="font-size: medium; ">GILBERT ACHCAR</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, author, </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">The Arabs and the Holocaust</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">; </span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">TARIQ ALI</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, writer, filmmaker and an <span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">editor of </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">New Left Review; </span></i><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">ANTHONY ARNOVE</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, co-producer with the late Howard Zinn of “The <span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">People Speak”;</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">PAUL D’AMATO, </span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">author, </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">The Meaning of Marxism</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">;</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; "> MIKE DAVIS</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, historian and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">socialist activist whose books include </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">In Praise of Barbarians</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">; </span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">SAM FARBER</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, author, </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">The <span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">;</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">JOEL GEIER</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, associate editor, </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">International <span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Socialist Review</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">; </span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">ANAND GOPAL</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, Kabul correspondent for the </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Christian Science Monitor</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">; </span></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium; ">JAMES GREEN</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, author, </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Death in the Haymarket</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">; </span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">BRIAN JONES,</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">actor and activist in New York <span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">City, and a frequent guest on GRITtv;</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">SONALI KOLHATKAR</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, host, "Uprising", KPFK-FM, Los <span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">Angeles</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">; PAUL LE BLANC, </span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">activist and author whose books include </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Lenin and the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; "><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Revolutionary Party</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">;</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; "> ALAN MAASS</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, editor, </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Socialist Worker</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; ">;</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">MARLENE MARTIN</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, Campaign to <span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">End the Death Penalty</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">; JOHN RIDDELL</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, co-editor, </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Socialist Voice</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; "> (Canada); </span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">HEATHER <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; "><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">ROGERS</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, journalist and filmmaker, author of </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Green Gone Wrong <span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">JEREMY SCAHILL</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">, <span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">contributor to </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">The Nation</span></i><span style="font-size: medium; "> and author, </span><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful <span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; "><i><span style="font-size: medium; ">Mercenary Army</span></i><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">; LILIANA SEGURA,</span></b><span style="font-size: medium; ">AlterNet staff writer on civil rights and liberties</span><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">; JEFFREY <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; "><b><span style="font-size: medium; ">ST. 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