[Peace] Don't Miss Socialism 2009: Chicago, June 18-21

[martin smith]

The UIUC branch of the International Socialist Organization has lodging at the hotel and space in our carpool available.  Scholarships are also available.  For more
information, please contact Steven Wyatt at: wyatt2 at illinois.edu



BUILDING A NEW LEFT FOR A NEW ERA

http://www.socialismconference.org/

A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment



Socialism 2009

Chicago – June 18-21




Socialism 2009 will feature the columnists and writers SocialistWorker.org readers have come to know, including:




Dave Zirin, author of A People's History of Sports in the United States, Nation columnist and host of Edge of Sports Radio  | Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and co-author, with Howard Zinn of Voices of a People’s History of the United States | Paul D’Amato, author of the Meaning of Marxism | Mark Steel, comedian, columnist and author| Brian Jones, teacher, actor and activist in New York City and SocialistWorker.org columnist | Alan Maass, editor of SocialistWorker.org and author of The Case for Socialism | Lee Sustar, labor editor for SocialistWorker.org  | Helen Scott, editor of The Essential Rosa Luxemburg | Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History | Sharon Smith, author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the United States







AND MANY MORE, INCLUDING:   

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! radio | Clarence Thomas, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 | Mike Davis, author In Praise of Barbarians | Rose Aguilar, host, Your Call, KALW, 91.7 FM | David Bacon, author, Illegal People | Nora Barrows- Friedman, co-host, Flashpoints Radio, KPFA | Robert Brenner, author, The Economics of Global Turbulence  Flanders, host, GRITtv | David Roediger, author of How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon | Anand Gopal, Afghanistan correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor | Dahr Jamail, author, Beyond the Green Zone and Military Resisters: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq | Nativo López, president, Mexican American Political Association | Marlene Martin, Campaign to End the Death Penalty | Anuradha Mittal, director, The Oakland Institute | Christian Parenti, author, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq | Heather Rogers, author, Gone
 Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage | Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor, CounterPunch.org | Ahmed Shawki, editor, International Socialist Review | Cindy Sheehan, founder, Gold Star Families for Peace | Sherry Wolf, author, Sexuality and Socialism





The world economic crisis has shattered the free-market consensus that
has dominated politics for the last generation. Meanwhile, the end of
the conservative era and the election of the first African American
president have raised expectations among working people that long
overdue change is coming. With capitalism in crisis, even some in the
corporate media are admitting that Karl Marx was right.




There has never been a better time for those who want see fundamental
change to get together to debate, to discuss and organize for a new
society—a society based on the needs of the many instead of on the
whims of a few. In other words, there has never been a better time to
organize a new socialist left to meet the challenge of this new era.




This is a time to get together and
discuss the politics that will make a difference in this new era and
the important organizing that we are involved in. Socialism
2009—expanded to two sites this year—will gather together the activists
and the struggles you’ve read about in SocialistWorker.org, as well the
writers and columnists we feature regularly.




Yes we can organize for socialism in the 21st century! ¡Sí se puede!




Sponsored by Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books, and the International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker and Obrero Socialista. 





Register online

http://www.socialismconference.org/

or call (773) 583-7884.

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