[Peace] SOCIALISM 2008

[Jesse Phillippe]

 SOCIALISM 2008
June 19-22, Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare
"A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment."
http://www.socialismconference.org

Register by May 15 for reduced rate!

ARE AMERICAN lifestyles destroying the world? What is life under siege in
Gaza like? What were Che Guevara's politics and strategies for revolution
anyway? If you have questions like these and want to learn what socialists
have to say about how to change the world, check out Socialism 2008, in
Chicago, June 19-22, http://www.socialis mconference. org.

No other event in the U.S. brings together 1,000 radicals from all over the
U.S. with leading voices on the international Left---from Egyptian strikers
and immigrant rights leaders to world-renown authors like Jeremy Scahill and
Amira Hass. You don't have to already be a socialist to come to a our
conference with 100 talks and debates and participate in discussions with
other folks who are learning about how the system works and organizing to
fight it.

For help with child care, housing, travel, directions to the conference or
to ask any other question, please write us at
info at socialismconference.orgor call 773-583-8665.
Sponsored by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher
of International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books. Co-sponsored by the
International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker and
Obrero Socialista.

Featured speakers (affiliations for identification only):

Camilo Mejía, first U.S. military resister in the Iraq war, author of Road
from ar-Ramadi

Dr. John Carlos, founding member, Olympic Project for Human Rights, bronze
medal winner who raised a black-gloved fist at the '68 Olympics

Mark Steel, comedian, Guardian columnist and author, Vive La Revolution!

Dahr Jamail, independent journalist and author of Beyond the Green Zone

Amira Hass lives in Ramallah in the West Bank, where she covers Palestinian
affairs for
the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz, making her the only Jewish Israeli
correspondent on Palestinian affairs to live among the people about whom she
reports.

Mohammed Omer is an award-winning journalist living and working in Gaza,
Palestine. He writes and photographs the impact of the U.S.-sponsored
Israeli occupation. His reporting appears on the BBC, in the Independent
(UK), New Statesman, electronicintifada. net, Democracy Now! and elsewhere.

Barbara Becnel, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, She co-produced the
award-winning TV film Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, based on
her partnership with Stanley Tookie Williams.

Anthony Arnove is the author of the acclaimed Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
and the editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the
United States (Seven Stories). He is also editor of Iraq Under Siege: The
Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War

Paul D'Amato, author, The Meaning of Marxism, managing editor, International
Socialist Review

Laura Flanders is the host of "RadioNation" heard live, weekends, 7-10 pm ET
on the national Air America Radio network. The program is also syndicated to
non-commercial affiliates across the United States. She is the author of
Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. Justin
Akers Chacón, co-author, No One Is Illegal!

The Freightliner Five trade union activists from Cleveland, N.C.

Phil Gasper, editor, The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most
Important Political Document

Adrienne Kinne, Iraq Veterans Against the War

Samuel Farber, author of The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered

Marlene Martin, national director, Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Ahmed Shawki, editor, International Socialist Review, author, Black
Liberation and Socialism

Sharon Smith, columnist, Socialist Worker, and author of Subterranean Fire
and Women and Socialism

Dave Zirin, Nation.com sports columnist and author, What's My Name Fool? and
Welcome to the Terrordome

Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor of Counterpunch and author of Been Brown So
Long it Looks Green to Me, and Joshua Frank, co-editor of Dissident Voice
and author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush speak on
their new book, Green Scare.

Socialists from France, Greece, Egypt, Venezuela, Mexico
…and many more!
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