Solidarity Summer School 2001--Pittsburgh

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

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>Solidarity Summer School 2001
>
>IN THE STREETS, AT THE WORKPLACE, & AROUND THE GLOBE: THE FIGHT FOR SOCIALISM
>
>A National Conference for Radical Activists
>
>June 14-17 at the Carnegie Mellon University Center in Pittsburgh, 
>Pennsylvania
>
>(Registration details below)
>
>Plenary Sessions:
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>· Challenging the Two-Party System: Recession and the Bush Agenda
>
>· National Liberation in the Age of Neoliberalism
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>· The Battle for a Living Wage
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>· Racism & Resistance in the U.S.
>
>· In the Streets, At the Workplace and Around the Globe: The Fight 
>for Socialism
>
>Workshops:
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>· From NAFTA to the FTAA: Free Trade, Cross Border Resistance, and Immigration
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>· Remembering the Great Homestead Strike
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>· The Face of Repression: Prisons, Policing, and Surveillance
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>· History of the Death Penalty and the Fight Against It
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>· Queer Politics and Liberation
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>· A Better World is Possible: Socialism & Anarchism
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>· The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation
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>· Organizing for Justice and Equality in Public Education
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>· Radicalism and Reform in the History of American Labor
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>· Marxism and Ecology . The Marxist Theory of Capitalism
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>· History of the Revolutionary Socialist Tradition: Marx & Luxemburg
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>· History of the Revolutionary Socialist Tradition: Lenin & Trotsky
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>· Cultures of Resistance
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>· Socialist Feminism: Understanding Patriarchy
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>· Whiteness & Antiracism
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>· Labor Activism from Below
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>· Black Radicalism, 1960s-Present
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>· US Intervention in Latin America Today
>
>· Plus a picnic in the park, music, videos, and fun
>
>SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE (organizations listed for identification purposes only):
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>* MARY McGINN*, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of 
>America; author of Solidarity versus Competition: Unions and Free 
>Trade * TEOFILO REYES, Labor Notes; Xicano Development Center, 
>Detroit * STEPHIE DOMIKE, director of The River Ran Red and Women of 
>Steel * CHRISTIAN PARENTI, author of Lockdown America: Police and 
>Prisons in the Age of Crisis * ADOLPH REED, Labor Party; author of 
>The Jesse Jackson Phenomena: the Crisis of Purpose in African 
>American Politics and W.E.B. DuBois and American Political Thought * 
>DONNA CARTWRIGHT, CWA Newspaper Guild Local 3; Working Group for 
>Transgender Equality; Solidarity * DENNIS BRUTUS, Jubilee 2000 South 
>Africa/ Jubilee South; author of Letters to Martha, A Simple Lust, 
>and Stubborn Hope * DAVID McNALLY, New Socialist Group, Canada; 
>author of Bodies of Meaning: Studies of Language, Labor and 
>Liberation and Against the Market: Political Economy, Market 
>Socialism and the Marxist Critique * PAM GALPERN, Jews Against the 
>Occupation; Solidarity * DAN LA BOTZ*, Cincinnati Coalition for a 
>Fair Economy (CHE); author of Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers 
>Since Suharto, Rank and File Rebellion: the History of Teamsters for 
>a Democratic Union, and Democracy in Mexico; Solidarity * BECCA 
>SOLOMON, United Teachers Los Angeles; Coalition for Education 
>Justice; Solidarity * PETE SHELL, Western PA Coalition to Close the 
>School of the Americas; Thomas Merton Center * JOEL KOVEL, Green 
>Party; author of Red Hunting in the Promised Land and History and 
>Spirit; Solidarity * JOSE PALOFAX, contributor to Colorlines and Z 
>magazine * JANE SLAUGHTER*, Labor Notes; author of Inside the 
>Circle: Unions and Team Concept and Working Smart; Solidarity * KIM 
>MOODY, Labor Notes, author of An Injury to All and Workers In A Lean 
>World; Solidarity * PAUL LE BLANC, author of A Short History of the 
>US Working Class and From Marx to Gramsci; Solidarity * STEVE BLOOM, 
>author of Fighting for Justice: the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal; 
>Solidarity * CHARLIE POST, New Caucus of the PSC; author of 
>Socialist Organization Today; Solidarity * DEAN ROBINSON, Labor 
>Party, author of Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought 
>* STEPHANIE LUCE, editor of Against the Current; author of The 
>Living Wage; Solidarity * MARCUS REDIKER*, Western PA Coalition to 
>Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; author of The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, 
>Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary 
>Atlantic * BETSY ESCH, editor of Against the Current; Solidarity * 
>JOANNA MISNIK, SEIU Local 73; Solidarity * BRAD DUNCAN, Irish 
>Republican Writers Support Group; Solidarity * CYNTHIA YOUNG*, 
>member of Scholars and Writers for Social Justice * RUTHIE GILMORE*, 
>Critical Resistance; UC Berkeley * DAVID ROEDIGER, author of Toward 
>the Abolition of Whiteness and Our Own Time: History of American 
>Labor and the Working Day * GABRIELE GOTTLIEB, Western PA Coalition 
>to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal * BARNEY OURSLER, Alliance for Progressive 
>Action, Pittsburgh; Mon Valley Unemployed Committee * HENRY 
>PHILLIPS*, Teamsters for A Democratic Union * AND OTHERS TO BE 
>ANNOUNCED! * (*) indicates unconfirmed
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------REGISTER 
>NOW!---------------------------------------------------------
>
>Name________________________ Address ________________________
>
>Phone ________________________ Email________________________
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>Registration - $10/day - please check below
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>Thursday___ Friday___ Saturday___ Sunday___
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>Housing - $18/night double - $25/night single - please check below
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>Thursday night___ Friday night___ Saturday night___
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>Meals - (B)reakfast $5 - (L)unch $7 - (D)inner $8 - please check below
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>Thu/D___ Fri/B___ Fri/L___ Fri/D___ Sat/B___ Sat/L___ Sat/D___ Sun/B___
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>Please send form and checks to Solidarity * 7012 Michigan Ave * 
>Detroit MI 48210. For more information call 313-841-0160, email 
>solidarity at igc.org, website www.solidarity-us.org, in Pittsburgh 
>call 412 231-8464. Childcare available upon request. The conference 
>will begin Thursday 1pm and end Sunday 1pm.
>
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