Full schedule is now available here: http://www.socialismconference.org/chicago/schedule
* UPDATE: Speakers just added to the Chicago conference:
CHRIS HEDGES (author, war critic, and former NY Times correspondent), ARUN GUPTA (founding editor of the NYC basedIndypendent, speaking on “The Politics of Food”), ANAND GOPAL (Afghanistan correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and other publications), and PAUL STREET (author and radical journalist), DAN LABOTZ (labor activist and writer), NATIVO LOPEZ(president, Mexican American Political Association), FRED MAGDOFF (environmental expert and author of Building Soils for Better Crops).
* Early bird discount registration ends this Saturday (May 15).
Socialism 2010
Ideas for Changing the World
Revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment
June 17-20 in Chicago • July 1-4 in Oakland
http://www.socialismconference.org
List of talks at Chicago conference: http://www.socialismconference.org/chicago/talks
With the economy in shambles and with wars and occupations continuing, the challenge to change these conditions confronts us all. More than a year ago, millions placed their hopes in Barack Obama and the Democrats to solve these problems. But after months of broken promises and concessions to conservatives, jobs are scarce, the banks are unregulated, and full equality for LGBT people remains elusive.
Socialism 2010 -- to be held in both Chicago and Oakland -- will provide an unparalleled opportunity for new and veteran activists and scholars to explore questions about how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it. Last year, more than 1,800 people turned out to explore the history of struggles of ordinary people, to learn about radical figures who led social movements and to debate theoretical questions that can help us change the world. Don't miss the chance to meet, talk and socialize with hundreds of others like you who want to build an alternative to a system of greed, racism, war and oppression.
Featured speakers
GILBERT ACHCAR, author, The Arabs and the Holocaust; TARIQ ALI, writer, filmmaker and an editor of New Left Review;ANTHONY ARNOVE, co-producer with the late Howard Zinn of “The People Speak”; PAUL D'AMATO, author, The Meaning of Marxism; MIKE DAVIS, historian and socialist activist whose books include In Praise of Barbarians; ANAND GOPAL, Kabul correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; JAMES GREEN, author, Death in the Haymarket; BRIAN JONES, actor and activist in New York City, and a frequent guest on GRITtv; SONALI KOLHATKAR, host, "Uprising," KPFK-FM; PAUL LEBLANC, activist and author whose books include Lenin and the Revolutionary Party; ALAN MAASS, editor, Socialist Worker; SALIM MUWAKKIL (editor for In These Times and radio host); HEATHER ROGERS, journalist and filmmaker, author of Green Gone Wrong; JEREMY SCAHILL, contributor to The Nation and author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army; LILIANA SEGURA, AlterNet staff writer on civil rights and liberties; JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK, authors,Greenscare: The New War on Environmentalism; LANCE SELFA, author, The Democrats: A Critical History; AHMED SHAWKI,editor, International Socialist Review; SHARON SMITH, author of Subterranean Fire and Women and Socialism; LEE SUSTAR, labor editor, Socialist Worker; SHERRY WOLF, interim governing board, Equality Across America, author of Sexuality and Socialism; KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR, editorial board of International Socialist Review and frequent contributor on race and class; DAVE ZIRIN, sportswriter and author, A People's History of Sports in the United States; SOCIALISTS from France, Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Britain; and many more!
Check out http://www.socialismconference.org to register and for more information about
schedule, housing, and childcare.
Sponsored by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of the International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books. Co-sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker and Obrero Socialista.
People from Houston will be traveling as a group to the Chicago conference in June. For more information, emailhouston.iso@gmail.com
CHRIS HEDGES (author, war critic, and former NY Times correspondent), ARUN GUPTA (founding editor of the NYC basedIndypendent, speaking on “The Politics of Food”), ANAND GOPAL (Afghanistan correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and other publications), and PAUL STREET (author and radical journalist), DAN LABOTZ (labor activist and writer), NATIVO LOPEZ(president, Mexican American Political Association), FRED MAGDOFF (environmental expert and author of Building Soils for Better Crops).
* Early bird discount registration ends this Saturday (May 15).
Socialism 2010
Ideas for Changing the World
Revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment
June 17-20 in Chicago • July 1-4 in Oakland
http://www.
List of talks at Chicago conference: http://www.
With the economy in shambles and with wars and occupations continuing, the challenge to change these conditions confronts us all. More than a year ago, millions placed their hopes in Barack Obama and the Democrats to solve these problems. But after months of broken promises and concessions to conservatives, jobs are scarce, the banks are unregulated, and full equality for LGBT people remains elusive.
Socialism 2010 -- to be held in both Chicago and Oakland -- will provide an unparalleled opportunity for new and veteran activists and scholars to explore questions about how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it. Last year, more than 1,800 people turned out to explore the history of struggles of ordinary people, to learn about radical figures who led social movements and to debate theoretical questions that can help us change the world. Don't miss the chance to meet, talk and socialize with hundreds of others like you who want to build an alternative to a system of greed, racism, war and oppression.
Featured speakers
GILBERT ACHCAR, author, The Arabs and the Holocaust; TARIQ ALI, writer, filmmaker and an editor of New Left Review;ANTHONY ARNOVE, co-producer with the late Howard Zinn of “The People Speak”; PAUL D'AMATO, author, The Meaning of Marxism; MIKE DAVIS, historian and socialist activist whose books include In Praise of Barbarians; ANAND GOPAL, Kabul correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; JAMES GREEN, author, Death in the Haymarket; BRIAN JONES, actor and activist in New York City, and a frequent guest on GRITtv; SONALI KOLHATKAR, host, "Uprising," KPFK-FM; PAUL LEBLANC, activist and author whose books include Lenin and the Revolutionary Party; ALAN MAASS, editor, Socialist Worker; SALIM MUWAKKIL (editor for In These Times and radio host); HEATHER ROGERS, journalist and filmmaker, author of Green Gone Wrong; JEREMY SCAHILL, contributor to The Nation and author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army; LILIANA SEGURA, AlterNet staff writer on civil rights and liberties; JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK, authors,Greenscare: The New War on Environmentalism; LANCE SELFA, author, The Democrats: A Critical History; AHMED SHAWKI,editor, International Socialist Review; SHARON SMITH, author of Subterranean Fire and Women and Socialism; LEE SUSTAR, labor editor, Socialist Worker; SHERRY WOLF, interim governing board, Equality Across America, author of Sexuality and Socialism; KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR, editorial board of International Socialist Review and frequent contributor on race and class; DAVE ZIRIN, sportswriter and author, A People's History of Sports in the United States; SOCIALISTS from France, Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Britain; and many more!
Check out http://www.
schedule, housing, and childcare.
Sponsored by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of the International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books. Co-sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker and Obrero Socialista.
People from Houston will be traveling as a group to the Chicago conference in June. For more information, emailhouston.iso@gmail.com
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