Sunday, August 3, 2003, 2 PM
Solidarity Meeting (open to all socialists from all traditions and those who are open to working with all socialists)
Date & Time: Sunday, August 3, 2 PM Location: Victorians' Midnight Café, 251 W. 5th Ave., (near the corner of 5th and Neil Aves.), Columbus, OH -- Cf. <http://www.geocities.com/victoriansmidnightcafe/>
Contact: Yoshie, 614-668-6554, <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> <http://solidarity.igc.org/whyjoin.html>
Items on the meeting agenda include the following:
* Planning anti-war/anti-occupation activities (e.g., banner-drops, weekly Sunday, 5-6 PM actions, Columbus Campaign for Arms Control annual Hiroshima & Nagasaki commemoration on Wednesday, August 6, 7:30 PM, an anti-occupation die-in in Columbus on Saturday, August 9, 12 Noon/an ISO-led anti-racist rally in Cincy on on August 9, 1 PM) * Mobilizing anti-war/anti-occupation activists for the Poor People's March for Economic Human Rights on Washington, D.C. on Saturday, August 23, 2003, the 40th anniversary of King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech (sponsored by the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, <http://www.kwru.org/ehrc/ppmarch.html>) -- linking movements against the wars at home and abroad * Lobbying against the Occupation of Iraq, Wednesday, August 27 * OSU Student Involvement Fair (the Student International Forum tabling), Monday, September 22, 12 Noon-4 PM, <http://www.ohiounion.com/welcomeweek/involve.asp> * OSU Multicultural Festival (the Student International Forum tabling), Thursday, September 25 * Actions against the Occupations and Empire, for Refugees' Right to Return, Thursday, September 25 -- Monday, September 29 (sponsored by Al-Awda, ANSWER, UfPJ, UK Stop the War, etc.) -- local actions coordinated by the Committee for Justice in Palestine
--- Save the Dates! ---
* ISM Activist Eyewitness Report featuring Karl of the Committee for Justice in Palestine, Friday, October 3 or Saturday, October 4 (TBA) * Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a Mass Rally in Queens, NY, Saturday, October 4, <http://www.immigrantworkersfreedomride.com/ny.asp> * The Third National Student Conference on the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, @ Douglas College Student Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, <http://www.divestmentconference.com/>, Friday, October 10 -- Sunday, October 12 * Indigenous People's Observance, Sunday, October 12 * Big Mobilizations in D.C., etc. to Bring the Troops Home and End the Occupation Now! (sponsored by ANSWER <http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o25/index.html>), Saturday, October 25 -- a bus organized by the Committee for Justice in Palestine * U.S. Labor Against War Conference <http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/>, Saturday, October 25 (get your union, labor council, JwJ chapter, etc. to endorse the conference and/or send one delegate to it) * International Education Week Film Festival at the Ohio State University, November 14-23 (including the films sponsored by the Committee for Justice in Palestine) * SOA Watch Vigil & Non-violent Civil Resistance, Fort Benning, Georgia, November 21-23, <http://www.soaw.org/> * Human Rights Day -- Stand Up for Human Rights -- Don't Let the Empire Take Away Your Rights! <http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html>, December 10 * A Day of Remembrance -- Commemorate Japanese Internment, February 19, 2004 * Palestinian Land Day, March 30, 2004 * Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition -- International Day of Action against the Occupation and for the Right of Return, April 9, 2004 [commemorating the Deir Yassin Massacre] * End the Occupation of Iraq, April 9, 2004 [the day when Baghdad fell -- recently declared to be a new "national holiday" by the US-backed Iraqi "Governing Council"] * African American Heritage Festival, April 2004, <http://www.osuheritagefestival.com/> * May Day! * Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition -- International Day of Action against the Occupation and for the Right of Return, May 15, 2004 [commemorating the 1948 Nakba] * Juneteenth, June 2004, <http://www.juneteenthohio.net/> * Pride in Solidarity -- No Pride in the Occupation (at the gay pride parade), June 2004 * ComFest, <http://www.comfest.com/> * Bastille Day [commemorating 1789]/Iraq National Day [commemorating 1958], July 14, 2004
+++ Planning Speakers/Topics (provided that the following speakers are available)/Film Showings, under the auspices of either the Student International Forum or the Committee for Justice in Palestine or possibly both or more +++ -- Frances Hasso, Women's Studies, Oberlin (September 25, 2003?), Women in Palestine, <http://www.oberlin.edu/gaws/faculty/hasso.html> -- Steve Bloom, United for Peace and Justice, NYC (most likely early October), Anti-Racist Organizing against the Empire -- Dozthor Zurlent, Casa Venezuela, <http://www.casavenezuela.org/inicio.html> -- John Quigley, the Ohio State University, a workshop on talking points on human rights and international law in Palestinian solidarity activism -- Joseph Levine, the Ohio State University, a teach-in on the Road Map to Nowhere and/or a workshop on talking points on Palestinian solidarity activism -- Ike Newsum <http://aaas.ohio-state.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=117> & Christopher Phelps <http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/shachtman_race_rev.shtml>, the Ohio State University, Black Revolutionary Traditions -- Isaac Mowoe, the Ohio State University, <http://aaas.ohio-state.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=113>, Law & Politics in Africa -- Claire Robertson, the Ohio State University, <http://people.history.ohio-state.edu/robertson.htm>, Class, Gender, & Africa -- Rania Masri, the Institute for Southern Studies <http://www.southernstudies.org/>/United for Peace and Justice <http://www.unitedforpeace.org/> -- Ajamu Dillahunt, Black Solidarity Against the War, <http://www.blacksagainstwar.com/> -- Mazin Qumsiyeh, Al-Awda, <http://www.al-awda.org/> -- Jeff McKenzie, Military Families Speak Out, <http://www.mfso.org/> -- Stan Goff (Master Sergeant, US Army, Special Forces [Ret.]), the Bring Them Home Now campaign, <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> [Cf. <http://www.freedomroad.org/milmatters.html> & <http://www.softskull.com/store/goff/hideous_dream.html>] -- Staughton Lynd, Overcoming Racism, <http://www.monthlyreview.org/200lynd.htm>; _The New Rank and File_, <http://www.laborers.org/ZMag_Staughton_Book.htm> -- Michael D. Yates, Labor Educator/Associate Editor of _Monthly Review_, _Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy_, <http://www.monthlyreview.org/namingthesystem.htm>; _Why Unions Matter_, <http://www.monthlyreview.org/whyunion.htm> -- Robert Fisk, Middle-East Correspondent for _The Indipendent_, <http://www.robert-fisk.com/>, (contact Allen Ruff, Madison) -- Dennis Brutus, South African poet/activist, Pittsburgh Social Forum, <http://www.ustawi.org/dennis.htm> & <http://www.pitt.edu/~bjgrier/brutus.htm> -- Dan La Botz, Labor Educator/Professor of History, Miami University, <http://www.southendpress.org/books/MadeinIndonesia.shtml>, <http://www.southendpress.org/books/DeminMex.shtml>, <http://www.southendpress.org/books/MaskofDem.shtml> -- Patrick Bond, University of Witwatersrand/Center for Economic Justice, <http://www.counterpunch.org/bond07232003.html> -- Doug Henwood, _Left Business Observer_, <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/> (Doug's new book will be -- hopefully! -- out soon), and Liza Featherstone, _Students Against Sweatshops_, <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Sweatshops.html> -- Valentine M. Moghadam, Director of Women's Studies, Illinois State University, <http://www.womenstudies.ilstu.edu/drmoghadam/>, Politics of Class and Gender in Iran -- Tim Shorrock, Journalist, "A New Solidarity Front in Iraq," <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030707&s=shorrock>; "Selling (Off) Iraq," <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20030623&s=shorrock>; "Labor's Cold War," <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20030519&s=shorrock>; "A Skewed History of Asia," <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030505&s=shorrock>; <http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/shorrok.htm> -- Norman G. Finkelstein, <http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/> -- Travis Wilkerson, _An Injury to One_, <http://www.frif.com/new2003/inj.html> -- Stephanie Black, _Life and Debt_, <http://www.lifeanddebt.org/> -- Raoul Peck, _Lumumba_, <http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/current/lumumba/lumumba.html> -- Tom Hayes, _People and the Land_, <http://store.globalexchange.org/peopleland.html> -- Gerard Ungerman & Audrey Brohy, _Plan Colombia: Cashing-in on the Drug War Failure_, <http://www.plancolombia.com/> Etc.
-- Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>