Socialism 2009 Less Than Two Weeks Away!

 Now less than two weeks away!

Socialism 2009: Building a New Left for a New Era

A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate, and entertaintment.

June 18-21

Chicago, IL

Wyndham Hotel (Near O'Hare airport)

http://www.socialismconference.org/

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.

Now is the time for those who want see fundamental change to get together to debate, discuss, and organize for a new society—a society based on the needs of the many instead of on the whims of a few.

That’s the purpose that Socialism 2009 has set for itself. Gather with activists from around the world to take part in dozens of discussions about changing the world: How can we end racism? What kind of organization do we need? What would a future socialist society look like? There has never been a better time to organize a new socialist left to meet the challenge of this new era.

Don’t miss this opportunity to join in the discussion. Register today at http://socialismconference.org/register.php

Among the many Socialism 2009 speakers will be:

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

Mike Davis, author of In Praise of Barbarians

Amy Goodman, investigative journalist and award-winning host of Pacifica radio's Democracy Now!

Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.

Brian Jones, teacher, actor and activist in New York City whose commentary is also featured on GritTV and SleptOn.com

John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker

David Roediger, professor and author of How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon

Jeremy Scahill, investigative journalist and author of Blackwater

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

Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation

Dave Zirin, author of A People's History of Sports in the United States, Nation columnist and host of Edge of Sports Radio

AND MANY MORE, INCLUDING:   

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 | Dennis Brutus, longtime anti-apartheid and global justice activist | Paul D’Amato, author of the Meaning of Marxism / Laura Flanders, host, GRITtv | Anand Gopal, Afghanistan correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor | 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 | Clarence Thomas, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10

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

For more information and to register for the conference, check out www.socialismconference.org or write to info@socialismconference.org or call us at 773-583-7884.

"The young people at the conference took me back in time to when you were ready to stand for what was right. It lets you know that what you may have planted years ago will come to reality today. I feel great to have become a part of it."


—Dr. John Carlos, 1968 Olympic bronze medalist who raised the Black Power salute.

Video of Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation, who will be speaking at Socialism 2009:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7395565160878666485&ei=FVgtSuXlMoik-AHx7Jm9CQ&q=sherry+wolf