MEETING THIS WEEK ::: Fighting the War on Women

Wednesday, April 25, 7pm
Location: Rodeo Room, 2nd Floor University Center, UH - Main Campus

Fighting the War on Women: A Panel Discussion

Nationally and locally, legislators have launched an assault on women's reproductive rights and access to health care. In Texas this has resulted in as many as 300,000 women losing health care due to political ploys in Austin, and our state politicians voting to force women to undergo humiliating vaginal probes before making reproductive choices.

In Houston, join us for a discussion on the state of women's rights in Texas and nationally, the upcoming War on Women march in Austin and how we can fight back.

Sponsored by: Houston Feminist Movement, International Socialist Organization - Houston, Socialist Feminist Group Houston, WHEW - Women Healing and Empowering Women

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MEETING THIS WEEK ::: Organizational Meeting

Wednesday, April 18, 7pm
Location: Rodeo Room, 2nd Floor University Center, UH - Main Campus

Organizational Meeting
Join us as we discuss recent work around evictions and housing as well as talking about other upcoming events. We will also be discussing our upcoming conference in Chicago! It is not until late June but now is the time to prepare to go to this amazing event. To find out more information or to register now, go to:

http://www.socialismconference.org

Join us for more than 100 presentations on such topics as:
Where Is the Egyptian Revolution Going? • The Future of the Occupy Movement • Marxism and Imperialism • The Overpopulation Myth • The Communist Manifesto • The New War On Women • What is the Real Marxist Tradition?
And many more…

NEXT WEEK:
Fighting the War on Women: A Panel Discussion

Nationally and locally, legislators have launched an assault on women's reproductive rights and access to health care. In Texas this has resulted in as many as 300,000 women losing health care due to political ploys in Austin, and our state politicians voting to force women to undergo humiliating vaginal probes before making reproductive choices.

In Houston, join us for a discussion on the state of women's rights in Texas and nationally, the upcoming War on Women march in Austin and how we can fight back.

Sponsored by: Houston Feminist Movement, International Socialist Organization - Houston, Socialist Feminist Group Houston, WHEW - Women Healing and Empowering Women

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MEETING THIS WEEK ::: Communists in Harlem During The Depression - ch 3 - 6

Please note that we have a room change this week!
We we will be meeting this week only in the Palo Duro room also in the University Center

Wednesday, April 11, 7pm
Location: Palo Duro Room, 2nd Floor University Center, UH - Main Campus

Study Group
This week we will be discussion chapters 7 - 12 of the great book Communists in Harlem During the Depression. Even if you have not read it come out and learn more about the great work done by the single largest multi-racial organizing group in the 1930's.

More about the book:
No socialist organization has ever had a more profound effect on black life than the Communist Party did in Harlem during the Depression.

Mark Naison desribes how the party won the early endorsement of such people as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and how its support of racial equality and integration impressed black intellectuals, including Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robson.

This meticulously researched work, largely based on primary materials and interviews with leading black Communists from the 1930s, is the frist to fully explore this provocative encounter between whites and blacks.

You can order the book online from Haymarket Books or come to the meeting and buy a copy from us.

MEETING THIS WEEK ::: Racism in the US

Wednesday, April 4, 7pm
Location: Rodeo Room, 2nd Floor University Center, UH - Main Campus

Racism in the US:
The racist murders of Trayvon Martin and Shaima Alawadi have sparked a national groundswell of protest and points to the potential for building an anti-racist movement. Join us as we discuss racism in the US and what we can do to fight it right here in Houston. In preparation please read some of the following articles.

Background on the cases:
Bringing the battle to Sanford
Honoring Shaima Alawadi

More general articles on the racist nature of these murders and the US justice system:
The racism that connects these murders
When racism is the law

If you have time and interest to dig even deeper, this is a longer article from the International Socialist Review on the historical roots of racism:
Slavery and the Origins of Racism

NOTE: We will continue our discussion of Communists In Harlem During the Depression next week with chapters 3 - 6. You can order the book online from Haymarket Books or come to the meeting and buy a copy from us at this week's meeting.

MEETING THIS WEEK ::: Communists in Harlem During The Depression - part 1

Wednesday, March 28, 7pm
Location: Rodeo Room, 2nd Floor University Center, UH - Main Campus

Study Group
This week we will be discussion chapters 1 and 2 of the great book Communists in Harlem During the Depression. Even if you have not read it come out and learn more about the great work done by the single largest multi-racial organizing group in the 1930's.

More about the book:
No socialist organization has ever had a more profound effect on black life than the Communist Party did in Harlem during the Depression.

Mark Naison desribes how the party won the early endorsement of such people as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and how its support of racial equality and integration impressed black intellectuals, including Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robson.

This meticulously researched work, largely based on primary materials and interviews with leading black Communists from the 1930s, is the frist to fully explore this provocative encounter between whites and blacks.

You can order the book online from Haymarket Books or come to the meeting and buy a copy from us.

MEETING THIS WEEK ::: Organizational Meeting/Verizon Action

Wednesday, March 21, 7pm
Location: Rodeo Room, 2nd Floor University Center, UH - Main Campus

Organizational Meeting
Join us as we discuss recent work around evictions and housing as well as talking about other upcoming events.


VERIZON DAY OF ACTION
Thursday, March 22, 11am.
Location: the corner of San Felipe and Post Oak (map)

Verizon has made tens of billions in profits and its top executives walked away with $283 million in the last four years. But when it comes to the 45,000 workers who made Verizon's success possible, suddenly the company cries broke.

On March 22, CWA and IBEW workers and thousands of others will be rallying around the country to support good jobs and the U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act.

Please join the CWA in support of over 3,000 workers being lad off by Verizon Telephone Company. If we don't fight for these jobs, who will??

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MEETING THIS WEEK ::: Socialists And Elections

Wednesday, March 7, 7pm
Location: Rodeo Room, 2nd Floor University Center, UH - Main Campus

What Do Socialists Say About Elections?
There is always a time when socialists need to think about running candidates in popular elections. Even while revolutionary socialists do not believe you can vote in socialism, there is a large body of thought on when it is appropriate to run candidates in elections. Join us as we discus this important issue. Below find a couple of articles that are in essence pro vs contra views on the question whether revolutionaries should run in elections (although one was obviously written within a very specific context):\

Can socialism be voted into power?

The left should run in Wisconsin