<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Took a few clicks to find that this conference will be held in Chgo!!!<br> --Jenifer<br><div class="detail frame"><div class="mat"><div class="fbTimelineSummarySection"><span class="fbProfileNonIconBylineFragment"><div class="fsm fwn fcg"><span>"Non-Profit Organization</span></div></span><span class="fbLongBlurb"><div>Socialism 2013 • <a href="http://www.socialismconference.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow">www.socialismconference.org</a>
• Chicago • June 27 - 30 • A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate,
and entertainment • Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center - Chicago
O'hare"</div></span></div></div></div><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 5/28/13, jesse phillippe <i><japhillippe@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: jesse phillippe <japhillippe@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Where else are you going to find all these authors and activists in one building (Seriously, if you can tell me, I'll be there!)...<br>To: <br>Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 4:43 AM<br><br><div id="yiv305295793"><div dir="ltr">
<div>...<br><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Jeremy Scahill" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/JeremyScahill.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Jeremy Scahill<br>
</strong>Author of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://dirtywars.org/the-book"><em>Dirty Wars: The world is a battlefield</em></a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/156858394X/ref=nosim/?tag=nationbooks08-20"><em>Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army</em></a>.<br>
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<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Mark Clements" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MarkClements.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Mark Clements<br>
</strong>spent 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He now
fights tirelessly against injustice for those still behind prison bars.
Mark is a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.<br><br><br>
<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Ali Abunimah" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ali_Abunimah.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Ali Abunimah<br>
</strong>Palestinian journalist and co-founder of <a rel="nofollow" title="Electronic Intifada" target="_blank" href="http://electronicintifada.net/">Electronic Intifada</a><br><br><br>
<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Joseph " src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/JazzHayden.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Joseph “Jazz” Hayden</strong></div>
<div>Founding member of the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow. An
advocate for prisoners’ right to vote, Hayden was the pro se plaintiff
in Hayden v. Pataki, a class action law suit that fought for the right
to vote for prisoners. In 2012, Jazz along with a grassroots campaign
successfully defeated charges against him brought in retaliation for his
Harlem cop watch activism.<br><br><br>
<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Brianna Hanny" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BriannaHanny.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Briana Hanny<br>
</strong><span>Amherst College student who is active in the movements against sexual assault and racism at Amherst College.</span></div><br></div></div>
<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Glenn Greenwald" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/glenn-greenwald.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Glenn Greenwald<br>
</strong>Journalist for the <em>Guardian</em>. Greenwald’s latest book <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.macmillan.com/withlibertyandjusticeforsome/GlennGreenwald"><em>With Liberty and Justice for Some</em></a> is an indictment of America’s two-tiered system of justice.
He is the winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for
his investigative reporting about Bradley Manning.<br><br></div><br>
<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Antonis Davanellos" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/AntonisDavanellos.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Antonis Davanellos<br>
</strong><span>Journalist and leading member of SYRIZA, the radical left coalition party in Greece, that got second place in the Greek elections 2 times in a row, on a platform of unapologetically rejecting austerity.<br>
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<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="China Mieville" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/china-mieville.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">China Miéville<br>
</strong><span>"Weird fiction” author of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/City-Random-House-Readers-Circle/dp/034549752X"><em>The City and the City</em></a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Embassytown-China-Mieville/dp/0345524500"><em>Embassytown</em></a>, and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Perdido-Street-Station-China-Mieville/dp/0345459407"><em>Perdido Street Station</em></a><em></em><em>.<br>
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<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Sue Ferguson" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/sue-ferguson.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Sue Ferguson<br>
</strong>Canadian socialist-feminist activist and theorist. An associate
professor of journalism, she has written extensively on issue of
feminism, Marxism, and social reproduction theory. More recently, she
has written on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign
against Israel.</div><br>
<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Michael Steven Smith" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/michael-smith.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Michael Steven Smith<br>
</strong>Author and attorney in New York City. He is the co-host (along
with Heidi Boghosian of the National Lawyers Guild and Michael Ratner or
the Center for Constitutional Rights) of the nationally broadcast radio
show “Law and Disorder”. He is co-author with Michael Ratner of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Che-Away-Murder/dp/193592849X"><em>Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away With Murder</em></a>. Smith co-edited with Frances Goldin and Debby Smith the visionary book <em>Imagine: Living In a Socialist USA</em> which will be published in September. He is on the Board of The Center for Constitutional Rights.</div>
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<div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Brian Jones" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/brian-jones.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Brian Jones<br>
</strong>Teacher, actor, and activist in New York City. Jones co-narrated the film, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.com/2012/10/20/watch-the-film/"><em>The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman</em></a>, and contributed to the book, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Education-and-Capitalism"><em>Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation</em></a>. He is a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators: the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.<br>
</div><div><img class="yiv305295793" alt="Dave Zirin" src="http://alpha.socialismconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/DaveZirin.jpg" height="100" width="100"></div>
<div><strong style="color:rgb(186,0,18);">Dave Zirin</strong><br>
<span>Left-wing sports columnist for the </span><a rel="nofollow" title="The Nation" target="_blank" href="http://www.thenation.com/"><em>Nation</em></a><span> and author of </span><a rel="nofollow" title="The John Carlos Story" target="_blank" href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/hc/The-John-Carlos-Story"><em>The John Carlos Story</em></a><span> (With Dr. Carlos), </span><a rel="nofollow" title="What's My Name, Fool?" target="_blank" href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Whats-My-Name-Fool-Sports-and-Resistance-in-the-United-States"><em>What’s My Name, Fool?</em></a><span>, and </span><em><a rel="nofollow" title="Bad Sports" target="_blank" href="http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1853">Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love</a></em></div>
<p>...and many more amazing authors and activists?</p><p>Where else but the Socialism 2013 Conference: A full weekend of radical politics, discussion and entertainment.</p><p>The Socialism 2013 conference will bring together hundreds of
activists from across the U.S., and around the world, to tackle the many
discussions and debates that confront anyone interested in changing the
world. How can women’s liberation and LGBT equality be won? What will
it take to win real justice for immigrant workers? Can organized labor
make a comeback? What lessons can be learned from the revolutions
shaking the Middle East? Why is Marxism relevant today?</p>
<p>Featured speakers include teachers on the front lines of the fight to
defend public education, anti-racist fighters against police brutality
and the New Jim Crow, trade unionists, Marxist authors, radical
historians, and much more. Start making your plans to attend.</p>
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