[Peace-discuss] PS -- authors and activists in one building in Chgo June 27-30!!!

Thu May 30 18:37:02 UTC 2013

Took a few clicks to find that this conference will be held in Chgo!!!
 --Jenifer
"Non-Profit OrganizationSocialism 2013 • www.socialismconference.org
 • Chicago • June 27 - 30 • A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate,
 and entertainment • Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center - Chicago 
O'hare"

--- On Tue, 5/28/13, jesse phillippe <japhillippe at gmail.com> wrote:

From: jesse phillippe <japhillippe at gmail.com>
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!)...
To: 
Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 4:43 AM

...

Jeremy Scahill

Author of Dirty Wars: The world is a battlefield and Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.

Mark Clements

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.

Ali Abunimah

Palestinian journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada

Joseph “Jazz” Hayden
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.

Briana Hanny

Amherst College student who is active in the movements against sexual assault and racism at Amherst College.

Glenn Greenwald

Journalist for the Guardian. Greenwald’s latest book With Liberty and Justice for Some 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.

Antonis Davanellos

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.

China Miéville

"Weird fiction” author of The City and the City, Embassytown, and Perdido Street Station.

Sue Ferguson

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.

Michael Steven Smith

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 Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away With Murder. Smith co-edited with Frances Goldin and Debby Smith the visionary book Imagine: Living In a Socialist USA which will be published in September. He is on the Board of The Center for Constitutional Rights.

Brian Jones

Teacher, actor, and activist in New York City. Jones co-narrated the film, The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, and contributed to the book, Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation. He is a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators: the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.

Dave Zirin

Left-wing sports columnist for the Nation and author of The John Carlos Story (With Dr. Carlos), What’s My Name, Fool?, and Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love

...and many more amazing authors and activists?Where else but the Socialism 2013 Conference: A full weekend of radical politics, discussion and entertainment.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?
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.
Visit WeAreMany.org to view and listen to all of the meetings from last year’s conference!
Follow us on Facebook.
Follow us on Twitter.Respond to this email or contact the local branch of the International Socialist Organization at contact at isouc.org for more info and to learn about plans for travel to the conference.

Don't miss out-- early bird registration rate ends May 29!

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