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>Subject: [SP-USA] Celebrate 100 Years of the Socialist Party! Note:
>Important Deadlines
>
>The Socialist Party will celebrate its 100th Anniversary on Saturday
>July 28 with a conference in Milwaukee, WI. One of the main speakers
>will be Frank Zeidler, the party's Chairman Emeritus who served three
>terms as Milwaukee's openly Socialist mayor during the Cold War years of
>1948 through 1960.
>
>"The Socialist Party is as American as apple pie," said David
>McReynolds, 2000 Socialist presidential candidate and a speaker at the
>100th Anniversary Conference. "We've been here since 1901, rooted in the
>struggle for social justice."
>
>The Socialist Party of America was founded at a Unity Convention of two
>smaller groupings on July 28, 1901. In its first two decades, it elected
>two Members of Congress, over 70 mayors, innumerable state legislators
>and city councilors. Its membership topped 100,000, and its presidential
>candidate, Eugene Debs, received close to a million votes in 1912 and
>again in 1920. Over the century, the party included among its ranks such
>Socialist spokespersons as Upton Sinclair, Helen Keller, Norman Thomas,
>A. Phillip Randolph and Michael Harrington.
>
>The party has experienced renewed vitality in recent years, with many
>new younger members joining and involving the party in the anti-WTO and
>IMF movement. "It's been really inspiring to see younger people, who may
>or may not know the party's long history, join and take us out of the
>history books and into the streets," said Greg Pason, 35, the party's
>National Secretary since 1995.
>
>The other speakers at the conference will be SP-USA Co-Chair Susan
>Dorazio, a child care activist from Massachusetts; former National
>Director of Democratic Socialists of America and organizer for the April
>2000 anti-IMF rally in Washington D.C., Horace Small; and three-term
>Iowa City Councilwoman, Karen Kubby. The forum will be moderated by Erin
>Lares,18, Vice Chair of the Young People's Socialist League.
>
>IMPORTANT! The deadline for ads and greetings for the 100th Anniversary
>Conference Journal is Friday, June 29.
>
>Please be sure to register for the conference and reserve your room now
>if you are planning on attending. Sliding scale registration fees for
>conference: $5-$15. Make checks payable to: "Socialist Party USA" Mail
>to: SP100, c/o Socialist Party USA, 339 Lafayette Street, #303, New
>York, NY 10012
>
>Please note: you must reserve your own rooms. Hotel Wisconsin, 720 N.
>Old World Third St., Milwaukee, WI 53203
>(414)271-4900 Room rates are $69.00 a night. Mention "Socialist Party"
>to get this special rate.
>
>http://sp-usa.org/sp100
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