> >
> > ----------
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Carnegie Mellon University Center, Pittsburgh PA
> >
> > PRE-REGISTER NOW ONLINE!!!
> >
> > http://www.igc.org/solidarity/ssReg2001-OnLine.html
> >
> > $10/day - $5/day low-income, on-campus housing and meals available. For
>more
> > information contact Solidarity at 313.841.0160 / solidarity at igc.org /
> > www.solidarity-us.org / in Pittsburgh 412.231.8464.
> >
> > CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
> >
> > (Note: We have allowed for plenty of time between workshops, with the
> > understanding that certain workshops may run for up to 2 hours. For
>speaker
> > descriptions see the bottom of this message.)
> >
> > THURSDAY, June 14
> >
> > 1:00 pm-2:30 pm -- Registration
> >
> > 2:30 pm-3:00 pm -- Welcome & Orientation
> >
> > 3:00 pm-4:30 pm -- Workshops
> >
> > * The Free Trade Area of the Americas and Cross-Border Resistance (w/
>Mary
> > McGinn, Teofilo Reyes)
> >
> > * Grassroots Media and the New Movements (w/ Dee Dee Halleck, Jerry
>Starr)
> >
> > * History of the Death Penalty and the Fight Against It (w/ Marcus
>Rediker,
> > Gabriele Gottlieb)
> >
> > 5:30 pm-7:00 pm -- Dinner
> >
> > 7:00 pm-9:00 pm -- Plenary:
> > Challenging the Two Party System: Recession & the Bush Agenda
> > (w/ Joel Kovel, Dean Robinson, Charlie Post, additional speaker TBA)
> >
> > 9:00pm-11:00pm -- Film Showing "Too Soon for Sorry", by Katharina
> > Weingartner (w/ Kim Gilmore)
> >
> > FRIDAY, June 15
> >
> > 8:00 am-9:15 am -- Breakfast
> >
> > 9:30 am-11:00 am -- Workshops
> >
> > * Labor Activism From Below: A Socialist Strategy (w/ Henry Phillips)
> >
> > * The Marxist Theory of Capitalism (w/ Charlie Post)
> >
> > * Corporatization of Culture & Cultures of Resistance (w/ Kim Hunter,
>Jose
> > Palafox)
> >
> > 11:30 am-1:00 pm -- Lunch
> >
> > 1:00 pm-2:30 pm -- Workshops
> >
> > * The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (w/ Chloe Tribich,
> > additional speaker TBA)
> >
> > * A Better World is Possible: Socialism and Anarchism (w/ Dan La Botz)
> >
> > * Memory & History: Film & Radical Politics (w/ Steffi Domike)
> >
> > * The Legacy of Victor Serge: Novelist, Anti-Authoritarian,
>Revolutionary
> > Socialist (w/ Suzi Weissman)
> >
> > 3:30 pm-5:30 pm -- Plenary:
> >
> > National Liberation in the Age of Neoliberalism
> >
> > (w/ Dan La Botz, Brad Duncan, David Finkel, Samera Esmair)
> >
> > 5:30 pm-9:00 pm -- Picnic in Schenley Park (w/ food, music by Anne
>Feeney,
> > video, & fun-- bring your talent, poetry, musical instrument if you feel
>so
> > moved!)
> >
> > 9:00 pm-11:00 pm -- Film Showing "Rosa Luxemburg" by Margarete von
>Trotter
> >
> > SATURDAY, June 16
> >
> > 8:00 am-9:15 am -- Breakfast
> >
> > 9:30 am-11:30 am -- Plenary:
> >
> > The Battle for a Living Wage
> >
> > (w/ Stephanie Luce, Sara Mersha, Barney Oursler)
> >
> > 11:30 am-1:00 pm -- Lunch
> >
> > 1:00 pm-2:30 pm -- Workshops
> >
> > * Queer Politics and Liberation (w/ Donna Cartwright)
> >
> > * Anti-Racist Fightback: The Cincinnati Rebellion and Beyond (A
>Roundtable
> > Discussion w/ Dan La Botz, Sherry Baron, Ahmad Rahman, additional
>speaker
> > TBA)
> >
> > * Marxism and Ecology (w/ Joel Kovel)
> >
> > * Campus Activism & Organizing For Global Justice (w/ John Lacny, Paula
> > Chakravartty, Ryan Nuckel)
> >
> > 3:30 pm-5:00 pm -- Workshops
> >
> > * Surveillance & Hacking Before Computers: Identification, Registration,
>&
> > Class Struggle (w/ Christian Parenti)
> >
> > * An Activist History of Feminist Theory (w/ Stephanie Luce, Betsy Esch)
> >
> > * Radicalism and Reform in the History of American Labor (w/ Kim Moody)
> >
> > * History of the Revolutionary Socialist Tradition: Marx and Luxemburg
>(w/
> > Dianne Feeley, Steve Bloom)
> >
> > 5:30 pm-7:00 pm -- Dinner
> >
> > 7:00 pm-9:00 pm -- Plenary:
> >
> > In the Streets, At the Workplace, & Around the Globe: The Fight for
> > Socialism
> >
> > (w/ Dennis Brutus, Betsy Esch, Kim Moody, Tim Schermerhorn)
> >
> > 9:00 pm-11:00 pm -- Film Showing "New World Border" (w/ producer Jose
> > Palafox)
> >
> > SUNDAY, June 17
> >
> > 8:00am-9:15 am -- Breakfast
> >
> > 9:30 am-11:00 am -- Workshops
> >
> > * History of Revolutionary Socialism: Lenin and Trotsky (w/ Paul Le
>Blanc,
> > Peter Olson)
> >
> > * Black Radicalism: 1960s-Present (w/ Dean Robinson)
> >
> > * U.S. Intervention in Latin America Today (w/ Pete Shell, Forrest
>Hylton)
> >
> > * Film Showing TBA (w/ director Travis Wilkerson)
> >
> > 11:30 am-1:00 pm -- Closing Plenary:
> >
> > Racism and Resistance in United States History
> >
> > (w/ Jose Palafox, Cynthia Young, Ahmad Rahman)
> >
> > 2:00pm - 4:00pm -- Meeting for local participants "Building a Socialist
> > Movement in Pittsburgh"
> >
> > ABOUT THE SPEAKERS (organizations listed for identification):
> >
> > Sherry Baron (Cincinnati, OH) is an occupational health and safety
> > physician, an activist in the Coalition for a Fair Economy/CHE, and a
>member
> > of Solidarity.
> >
> > Steve Bloom (New York, NY) is a painter by trade, an activist in the New
> > York Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a member of Solidarity.
> >
> > Dennis Brutus (Pittsburgh, PA) teaches at University of Pittsburgh, was
>a
> > longtime leader in the South African anti-apartheid movement, is an
>activist
> > in Jubilee 2000 South Africa / Jubilee South, and is the author of
>numerous
> > books of poetry including A Simple Lust and Stubborn Hope. Due to
>pressing
> > concerns in South Africa, he is unable to attend the Summer School but
>will
> > be presenting on Saturday's panel through a video recording.
> >
> > Donna Cartwright (Cliffside Park, NJ) is a newspaper worker and member
>of
> > CWA Local Guild Local 3, an activist in the Working Group for
>Transgender
> > Equality, and a member of Solidarity.
> >
> > Paula Chakravartty (San Diego, CA) teaches Communications at UC San
>Diego.
> > An activist in progressive South Asian politics in both Canada and the
>US,
> > she is currently a researcher at the Center on Policy Initiatives, a
>labor
> > and social justice think tank.
> >
> > Steffi Domike (Pittsburgh, PA) is a filmmaker who has directed and
>produced
> > a number of labor and political films including The River Ran Red,
>Terminal
> > Time, and Women of Steel.
> >
> > Brad Duncan (Detroit, MI) works at the Solidarity National Office, and
>is
>a
> > founding member of the Irish Republican Writers Support Committee in the
> > United States.
> >
> > Betsy Esch (New York, NY) is a graduate student in African American
>History
> > at New York University, an activist with NYU Students for Justice in
> > Palestine, an editor of Against the Current magazine, and member of
> > Solidarity.
> >
> > Samera Esmair (New York, NY) is an activist in the Palestine Right to
>Return
> > Coalition Al-Awda, NYU Students for Justice in Palestine, and an editor
>of
> > Adallahs Review.
> >
> > Dianne Feeley (Detroit, MI) is an auto worker and UAW member, an editor
>of
> > Against the Current magazine, and a member of Solidarity.
> >
> > David Finkel (Detroit, MI) is an editor of Against the Current magazine
>and
> > member of Solidarity.
> >
> > Kim Gilmore (New York, NY) is a graduate student in History at New York
> > University, and organizer of Critical Resistance East, and a contributor
>to
> > Social Justice.
> >
> > Gabriele Gottlieb (Pittsburgh, PA) is a graduate student in History at
>the
> > University of Pittsburgh, and an activist in the Western PA Committee to
> > Free Mumia.
> >
> > Dee Dee Halleck (San Diego, CA) teaches Communications at UC San Diego,
>and
> > is associated with Deep Dish TV and Paper Tiger Television.
> >
> > Kim Hunter (Detroit, MI) is a poet, radio journalist, and editor of
>Against
> > the Current magazine.
> >
> > Forrest Hylton (New York, NY) is a student at New York University and a
> > Colombia solidarity activist.
> >
> > Joel Kovel (Willow, NY) is a member of the Green Party and of
>Solidarity,
> > and is the author of History and Spirit, Red Hunting In the Promised
>Land,
> > and White Racism: A Psychohistory.
> >
> > John Lacny (Pittsburgh PA) is a student in History at the University of
> > Pittsburgh, an activist in Students in Solidarity and the Western
> > Pennsylvania Living Wage Campaign, and a member of Solidarity.
> >
> > Dan La Botz (Cincinnati, OH) is an activist in Coalition for a Humane
> > Economy/CHE, author of Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since
>Suharto,
> > Rank and File Rebellion and other books, and is editor of Mexican Labor
>News
> > and Analysis.
> >
> > Traven La Botz (Cincinnati, OH) is a middle school student and activist
>in
> > Cincinnati Radical Youth/ CRY.
> >
> > Paul Le Blanc (Pittsburgh, PA) teaches at La Roche College, is the
>author
>of
> > A Short History of the US Working Class, From Marx to Gramsci and other
> > books, and is a member of Solidarity.
> >
> > Stephanie Luce (Amherst, MA) teaches at the University of Massachusetts
> > Labor Center, is co-author of The Living Wage, an editor of Against the
> > Current magazine, and a member of Solidarity.
> >
> > Mary McGinn (Pittsburgh, PA) is an organizer with the United Electrical,
> > Radio, and Machine Workers of America.
> >
> > Sara Mersha (Providence, RI) is an organizer with Direct Action for
>Rights
> > and Equality / DARE in Rhode Island.
> >
> > Kim Moody (Detroit, MI) is director of Labor Notes, author of Workers In
>A
> > Lean World and An Injury To All, and a member of Solidarity.
> >
> > Ryan Nuckel (New York, NY) is a labor and anti-globalization activist at
>New
> > York University who works with Students for Social Equality.
> >
> > Peter Olson (Pittsburgh, PA) works in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, is
>an
> > activist in the Western PA Committee to Free Mumia, and a member of
> > Solidarity.
> >
> > Barney Oursler (Pittsburgh, PA) is co-coordinator of the Mon Valley
> > Unemployed Committee and an organizer for the Western Pennsylvania
>Living
> > Wage Campaign.
> >
> > Jose Palafox (Berkeley, CA) is a graduate student in Ethnic Studies at
>the
> > University of California Berkeley, contributor to Colorlines and Z
> > magazines, and producer of the film New World Border.
> >
> > Christian Parenti (San Francisco, CA) teaches at the New College of San
> > Francisco and is the author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in
>the
> > Age of Crisis.
> >
> > Henry Phillips (New York, NY) is an activist in Teamsters for a
>Democratic
> > Union.
> >
> > Charlie Post (New York, NY) teaches Sociology at CUNY Manhattan, is a
> > activist in the New Caucus of the PSC, co-author of Socialist
>Organization
> > Today, and member of Solidarity.
> >
> > Ahmad Rahman (Ypsilanti, MI) is a graduate student in History at the
> > University of Michigan, and a former Black Panther and political
>prisoner
> > from Detroit.
> >
> > Marcus Rediker (Pittsburgh, PA) teaches History at the University of
> > Pittsburgh, is an activist in the Western PA Committee to Free Mumia,
>and
> > co-author of The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the
> > Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic.
> >
> > Teofilo Reyes (Detroit, MI) is a writer and organizer for Labor Notes
>and
>a
> > founding member of the Xicano Development Center.
> >
> > Dean Robinson (Amherst, MA) teaches at University of Massachusetts, is a
> > member of the Labor Party, and author of Black Nationalism in American
> > Politics and Thought.
> >
> > Tim Schermerhorn (New York, NY) is Vice-President of Transit Workers
>Union
> > Local 100, a longtime leader of the TWU New Directions caucus, and a
>member
> > of Solidarity.
> >
> > Pete Shell (Pittsburgh, PA) is a leader of the Western PA Campaign to
>Close
> > the School of the Americas and is on the executive board of the Thomas
> > Merton Center.
> >
> > Jerry Starr (Pittsburgh, PA) is a leader of Citizens for Independent
>Public
> > Broadcasting.
> >
> > Chloe Tribich (New York, NY) is a member of Jews Against the Occupation,
>and
> > a tenants rights activist.
> >
> > Suzi Weissman (Berkeley, CA) is a radio journalist with the Pacifica
> > network, an editor of Against the Current magazine, and author of a
> > forthcoming biography of Victor Serge.
> >
> > Cynthia Young (Los Angeles, CA) teaches at University of Southern
>California
> > and is a member of Scholars an Writers for Social Justice.
> >
> >
> > "[C]apital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood
>and dirt."
> > --Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 31
> >
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