[Peace] Challenging Racism in Obama's America: Speakers & workshops @ Socialism 2009

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Socialism 2009: Building a New Left for a New Era


www.socialismconference.org 

June 18-21 Chicago, IL

Wyndham O'Hare Hotel (Near O'Hare airport)






Barack
Obama’s election as the first African-American Vice President was
historic in a country founded on slavery. At the same time, racism in
the United States is alive and well.  A country with 5 percent of the
world’s population, the U.S. has 25 percent of the world’s prison
population and disproportionately incarcerates African-Americans. The
U.S. is one of six countries that accounts for 95 percent of the
world’s executions, and race plays a substantial role in who lives and
who dies. Meanwhile, the economic crisis is hitting African-Americans
especially hard, leading to a disproportionately high rate of
unemployment, foreclosures and evictions in the African-American
community. The Socialism 2009 conference is a place where progressives
and anti-racist activists can discuss these problems, where they come
from, how others have confronted them in the past, and how we can begin
to solve them. Of the more than 100 talks at this conference, here are
just a few:






How Race Survived U.S. History

David Roediger
Hubert Harrison: Black Socialist Pioneer




Jeffrey R. Perry



Challenging the American Injustice System

Lee Wengraf, Rebekah Ward and Jack Bryson



Rebelling Against Racism: The Black Power Revolt of the 1960S

Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor



Abraham Lincoln and the Abolitionists

Alan Maass



The Radical Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

Brian Jones



The Roots of Racial Oppression

Khury Peterson-Smith



How Capitalism Underdeveloped Africa

Brian Kwoba



CLR James and African American Liberation

Scott McLemee



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ISO Resources:
socialismconference.org
internationalsocialist.org
haymarketbooks.org

socialistworker.org
isreview.org





      
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