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Symposium on Race and Racism at SFSU
Thursday's schedule on top, then the entire schedule below (Th - Sun)
Symposium on Race and Racism
Thu Jul. 25, 9:30 am-5:30 pm
San Francisco State University
Seven Hills Conference Center
San Francisco
9:30am - 12pm Plenary Panel:
Manning Marable "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America"
Elizabeth Martinez "Racism and its Impact on Nationalities in the US"
Tim Wise "White Racism in the Present Era"
Miriam Ching Louie "Race, Racism and Immigration"
1pm - 5pm Workshops of the Whole
Herbert Aptheker "Racism: What it was, What it is, and How it can be
Overcome"
Gina Dent "Racism and the Prison Industrial Complex"
Ken Riley "Advancing the Fight for Economic Justice"
Fran Beal "The Meaning of Durban - Where do we go from here?"
5pm - 5:30pm closing remarks by Mark Solomon
6pm Reception hosted by the Kendra Alexander Foundation
$15 ($5 for unemployed, students, youth; No one refused for lack of
funds).
Sponsored by the Committees of Correspondence
For more information, contact: Committees of Correspondence,
415-863-6637
FULL SCHEDULE:
Thursday July 25 Morning Plenary:
8:00 Registration Opens
9:30 Opening Remarks : Welcome and Presentation of
Scope and Objectives of the Symposium by Charlene Mitchell
Plenary Panel
"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America" by Manning Marable
"Racism and Its Impact on Nationalities in the USA"by Elizabeth
(Betita) Martinez
"White Racism in the Present Era" by Tim Wise
"Race, Racism and Immigration" by Lillian Galedo
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 Workshops of the Whole
"Racism: What it Was, What it Is, and How It Can be Overcome"
(discussion following)
"Racism and the Prison Industrial Complex" by Gina Dent
(discussion
following)
"Advancing the Fight for Economic Justice" (discussion
following)
"The Meaning of Durban - Where Do We Go From Here?" by Fran Beal
(discussion following)
5:00 - 5:30 Closing Remarks by Mark Solomon
6:00 Reception Hosted by the Kendra Alexander
Foundation
CCDS CONFERENCE/CONVENTION
Friday, July 26
9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks from the CCDS
10:00 Plenary Panel and Discussion on Economic Justice and
Globalization. This panel will focus on the question of
alternatives to the corporate domination of globalization today?
Linda Burnham
Mike Prokosch
Jorge Cuevas Ramos
Manning Marable, CCDS/Moderator
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Workshops: Topics will continue discussion of economic
justice
and globalization. (Workshops will be moderated by a member of
the CCDS.)
Trade Unions: David Bacon, Marilyn Albert, David Cohen (CCDS)
Immigrant Rights Renee Saucedo, Angela Sambrano, Cathy
Tactaquin, Eric Quezada (CCDS)
Education Marty Price, Patrice Sewell, Joan Cohen, Claire
Carsman, Jim Campbell, (CCDS)
Health Care Tolbert Small, Thelma Correll, Peter
Orris(CCDS)
Living Wage Amaha Kassa, Harry Targ, Jane Martin, Edith
Pollach
(CCDS)
Peace, Disarmament and the Military Budget Steve
Williams, Carl Bloice, Karen Talbott, Mort Frank (CCDS)
4:30 Plenary Panel and Discussion on Electoral Reform and the
Struggle
for Democracy. In the aftermath of the Florida presidential vote
and Enron, this panel will focus on the protection of the right
to vote, ballot access, electoral campaigns that are independent
of corporations and major political parties.
Speakers:
John Nichols
Gus Newport
Carl Bloice
Mildred Williamson, CCDS/Moderator
7:00 Dinner
Celebration of the Cuban Revolution
Saturday, July 27
8:00 AM International Breakfast Forum on Saturday, July 27
Andre Brie - PDS Germany
Jorge Cuevas Ramos - Cuba
South African Communist Party
PT of Brazil
Christina Marinez - Columbia
Michel Shehadeh - Palestine
Israel
10:00 Plenary Panel and Discussion on War, Peace and Democracy.
This
panel will focus on the current situation in the Middle East and
Afghanistan, and the movements in response. The panel will also
address the increased militarism, the attack on civil liberties,
the role of the United Nations and other international bodies.
Speakers:
Elaine Hagopian
Leslie Cagan, CCDS/Moderator
Rhonda Ramiro
Angela Davis
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Plenary on HIP HOP Culture. This panel event will focus
on Hip
Hop as part of the culture of the young generation and what it is
all about.
Speakers:
Mael Apollon, CCDS/Moderator
Faye Moore
Toussaint Haki
Stefan Goldstone
Felix Rodriguez
4:00 CCDS Credential and Election Committee Report, Voting
Procedures
4:30 - 6:30 Elections by Ballot Vote
4:30 Plenary on CCDS: the Organization and the Road Ahead
Opening Remarks by Mark Solomon
Workshop of the Whole Discussion
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Evening Cultural Program/Presentation of Courage Award
Sunday, July 28
8:30 CCDS: the Organization and the Road Ahead (continued
discussion)
10:00 Plenary Panel on Beyond Capitalism. This closing panel
will take
an exploratory approach to perspectives.
Speakers:
Andre Brie - PDS of Germany
Angela Davis
Charlene Mitchell, CCDS Moderator
Barry Cohen
11:30 CCDS Business, Resolutions
12:00 Convention Close
Thu Jul. 25, 9:30 am-5:30 pm
San Francisco State University
Seven Hills Conference Center
San Francisco
9:30am - 12pm Plenary Panel:
Manning Marable "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America"
Elizabeth Martinez "Racism and its Impact on Nationalities in the US"
Tim Wise "White Racism in the Present Era"
Miriam Ching Louie "Race, Racism and Immigration"
1pm - 5pm Workshops of the Whole
Herbert Aptheker "Racism: What it was, What it is, and How it can be
Overcome"
Gina Dent "Racism and the Prison Industrial Complex"
Ken Riley "Advancing the Fight for Economic Justice"
Fran Beal "The Meaning of Durban - Where do we go from here?"
5pm - 5:30pm closing remarks by Mark Solomon
6pm Reception hosted by the Kendra Alexander Foundation
$15 ($5 for unemployed, students, youth; No one refused for lack of
funds).
Sponsored by the Committees of Correspondence
For more information, contact: Committees of Correspondence,
415-863-6637
FULL SCHEDULE:
Thursday July 25 Morning Plenary:
8:00 Registration Opens
9:30 Opening Remarks : Welcome and Presentation of
Scope and Objectives of the Symposium by Charlene Mitchell
Plenary Panel
"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America" by Manning Marable
"Racism and Its Impact on Nationalities in the USA"by Elizabeth
(Betita) Martinez
"White Racism in the Present Era" by Tim Wise
"Race, Racism and Immigration" by Lillian Galedo
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 Workshops of the Whole
"Racism: What it Was, What it Is, and How It Can be Overcome"
(discussion following)
"Racism and the Prison Industrial Complex" by Gina Dent
(discussion
following)
"Advancing the Fight for Economic Justice" (discussion
following)
"The Meaning of Durban - Where Do We Go From Here?" by Fran Beal
(discussion following)
5:00 - 5:30 Closing Remarks by Mark Solomon
6:00 Reception Hosted by the Kendra Alexander
Foundation
CCDS CONFERENCE/CONVENTION
Friday, July 26
9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks from the CCDS
10:00 Plenary Panel and Discussion on Economic Justice and
Globalization. This panel will focus on the question of
alternatives to the corporate domination of globalization today?
Linda Burnham
Mike Prokosch
Jorge Cuevas Ramos
Manning Marable, CCDS/Moderator
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Workshops: Topics will continue discussion of economic
justice
and globalization. (Workshops will be moderated by a member of
the CCDS.)
Trade Unions: David Bacon, Marilyn Albert, David Cohen (CCDS)
Immigrant Rights Renee Saucedo, Angela Sambrano, Cathy
Tactaquin, Eric Quezada (CCDS)
Education Marty Price, Patrice Sewell, Joan Cohen, Claire
Carsman, Jim Campbell, (CCDS)
Health Care Tolbert Small, Thelma Correll, Peter
Orris(CCDS)
Living Wage Amaha Kassa, Harry Targ, Jane Martin, Edith
Pollach
(CCDS)
Peace, Disarmament and the Military Budget Steve
Williams, Carl Bloice, Karen Talbott, Mort Frank (CCDS)
4:30 Plenary Panel and Discussion on Electoral Reform and the
Struggle
for Democracy. In the aftermath of the Florida presidential vote
and Enron, this panel will focus on the protection of the right
to vote, ballot access, electoral campaigns that are independent
of corporations and major political parties.
Speakers:
John Nichols
Gus Newport
Carl Bloice
Mildred Williamson, CCDS/Moderator
7:00 Dinner
Celebration of the Cuban Revolution
Saturday, July 27
8:00 AM International Breakfast Forum on Saturday, July 27
Andre Brie - PDS Germany
Jorge Cuevas Ramos - Cuba
South African Communist Party
PT of Brazil
Christina Marinez - Columbia
Michel Shehadeh - Palestine
Israel
10:00 Plenary Panel and Discussion on War, Peace and Democracy.
This
panel will focus on the current situation in the Middle East and
Afghanistan, and the movements in response. The panel will also
address the increased militarism, the attack on civil liberties,
the role of the United Nations and other international bodies.
Speakers:
Elaine Hagopian
Leslie Cagan, CCDS/Moderator
Rhonda Ramiro
Angela Davis
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Plenary on HIP HOP Culture. This panel event will focus
on Hip
Hop as part of the culture of the young generation and what it is
all about.
Speakers:
Mael Apollon, CCDS/Moderator
Faye Moore
Toussaint Haki
Stefan Goldstone
Felix Rodriguez
4:00 CCDS Credential and Election Committee Report, Voting
Procedures
4:30 - 6:30 Elections by Ballot Vote
4:30 Plenary on CCDS: the Organization and the Road Ahead
Opening Remarks by Mark Solomon
Workshop of the Whole Discussion
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Evening Cultural Program/Presentation of Courage Award
Sunday, July 28
8:30 CCDS: the Organization and the Road Ahead (continued
discussion)
10:00 Plenary Panel on Beyond Capitalism. This closing panel
will take
an exploratory approach to perspectives.
Speakers:
Andre Brie - PDS of Germany
Angela Davis
Charlene Mitchell, CCDS Moderator
Barry Cohen
11:30 CCDS Business, Resolutions
12:00 Convention Close
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This conference is amazing in its arrogance and contempt for the intelligence of San Francisco voters in particular and American voters in general.
It is correctly assumed that the Republican Party, as a capitalist party, is incapable of fighting racism.
It is also understood by all socialists that the Democratic Party is a capitalist twin party of the Republican Party, and is thus incapable of fighting racism. All socialists also understand that the primary struggle is the class struggle and that we fight racism by defending the workingclass and fighting for socialism.
Most people who have been politically active for a few years will immediately recognize many of the names of the speakers at this conference as they are public figures with many decades of political activism behind them. Many of these people we all know to have been Communist Party members and are now members of the Committees of Correspondence. There is nothing wrong with membership in either organization and the former was known for accomplishing some good things.
However, there was always a strange sympathy with the Democratic Party and the reactionary politics of "lesser evilism" in the Communist Party, and thus, the truth about lots of Democrats, especially black Democrats like Willie Brown, was never told, although it most certainly had to be known. That is, Willie Brown is a lifelong organized crime, election-frauding, anti-labor, real estate, PG&E, gambling and tobacco industry attorney who profited from the whitening of San Francisco when representing the real estate industry. His story is told in "Willie Brown: A Biography" by James Richardson (1996: University of California Press).
Willie Brown currently sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud, committed in December 1999, and he now has 20% support. He is universally despised by the entire workingclass of all colors for his anti-tenant, anti-homeless, anti-labor and anti-public power policies. This election fraud was committed in the same manner, by the same parties and with same 20-point difference as the June 3, 1997 49er Stadium Swindle election. The story of that election fraud can be found at http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
The election fraud of the Democratic Party, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown and others of the 1970s, with the use of the CIA front known as the People's Temple, is described at http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown
One of the featured speakers at this conference is Carl Bloice, former editor of the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily World. Mr. Bloice is a man who is over age 60 with many decades of political activism behind him and as an activist and editor of this kind of newspaper certainly knew all about Willie Brown. Yet we find that he made contributions to Willie Brown's campaign in 1999, after we all experienced Willie Brown's horrible first term in office from 1996-1999. Those contributions can be found at the website of the San Francisco Ethics Commission at http://www.sfgov.org/ethics (clict campaign finance, etc.) There you will find the contributions of Carl Bloice to Willie Brown as follows:
Contribution of June 2, 1999 for $100:
http://sunset.ci.sf.ca.us/OLFSPublish205.nsf/2746779c8dbc0f12882568b6005da76e/6d799cf3ab10cf4d88256bed00725e35?OpenDocument
Contribution of November 17, 1999 for $100:
http://sunset.ci.sf.ca.us/OLFSPublish205.nsf/2746779c8dbc0f12882568b6005da76e/78d60f2249be01ff88256bed00712997?OpenDocument
Should anyone decide to attend this insulting, hot air conference featuring people who have been supporting racist Democrats in general and Willie Brown in particular, you might ask all of the speakers these questions:
1. Are they registered to vote as Democrats?
2. In the last applicable election, did they vote for a Democrat for president, US Senator, Congress, governor, state senate, state assembly or any other office, whether partisan or not?
3. Did they ever make any contribution to any campaign of Willie Brown?
4. If they were San Francisco residents from 1964 to the present, did they vote for Willie Brown in any election and if so, in which election?
5. If they were San Francisco residents in 1968 and old enough to vote (over age 21 in 1968) did they vote for Willie Brown for Assembly when he was opposed by Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panther Party running on the Peace & Freedom Party ticket?
If they answer "Yes" to any of the above and do not apologize for their misdeeds, they have no business telling anyone how to fight racism as they are actively promoting racism with such votes.
It is correctly assumed that the Republican Party, as a capitalist party, is incapable of fighting racism.
It is also understood by all socialists that the Democratic Party is a capitalist twin party of the Republican Party, and is thus incapable of fighting racism. All socialists also understand that the primary struggle is the class struggle and that we fight racism by defending the workingclass and fighting for socialism.
Most people who have been politically active for a few years will immediately recognize many of the names of the speakers at this conference as they are public figures with many decades of political activism behind them. Many of these people we all know to have been Communist Party members and are now members of the Committees of Correspondence. There is nothing wrong with membership in either organization and the former was known for accomplishing some good things.
However, there was always a strange sympathy with the Democratic Party and the reactionary politics of "lesser evilism" in the Communist Party, and thus, the truth about lots of Democrats, especially black Democrats like Willie Brown, was never told, although it most certainly had to be known. That is, Willie Brown is a lifelong organized crime, election-frauding, anti-labor, real estate, PG&E, gambling and tobacco industry attorney who profited from the whitening of San Francisco when representing the real estate industry. His story is told in "Willie Brown: A Biography" by James Richardson (1996: University of California Press).
Willie Brown currently sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud, committed in December 1999, and he now has 20% support. He is universally despised by the entire workingclass of all colors for his anti-tenant, anti-homeless, anti-labor and anti-public power policies. This election fraud was committed in the same manner, by the same parties and with same 20-point difference as the June 3, 1997 49er Stadium Swindle election. The story of that election fraud can be found at http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
The election fraud of the Democratic Party, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown and others of the 1970s, with the use of the CIA front known as the People's Temple, is described at http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown
One of the featured speakers at this conference is Carl Bloice, former editor of the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily World. Mr. Bloice is a man who is over age 60 with many decades of political activism behind him and as an activist and editor of this kind of newspaper certainly knew all about Willie Brown. Yet we find that he made contributions to Willie Brown's campaign in 1999, after we all experienced Willie Brown's horrible first term in office from 1996-1999. Those contributions can be found at the website of the San Francisco Ethics Commission at http://www.sfgov.org/ethics (clict campaign finance, etc.) There you will find the contributions of Carl Bloice to Willie Brown as follows:
Contribution of June 2, 1999 for $100:
http://sunset.ci.sf.ca.us/OLFSPublish205.nsf/2746779c8dbc0f12882568b6005da76e/6d799cf3ab10cf4d88256bed00725e35?OpenDocument
Contribution of November 17, 1999 for $100:
http://sunset.ci.sf.ca.us/OLFSPublish205.nsf/2746779c8dbc0f12882568b6005da76e/78d60f2249be01ff88256bed00712997?OpenDocument
Should anyone decide to attend this insulting, hot air conference featuring people who have been supporting racist Democrats in general and Willie Brown in particular, you might ask all of the speakers these questions:
1. Are they registered to vote as Democrats?
2. In the last applicable election, did they vote for a Democrat for president, US Senator, Congress, governor, state senate, state assembly or any other office, whether partisan or not?
3. Did they ever make any contribution to any campaign of Willie Brown?
4. If they were San Francisco residents from 1964 to the present, did they vote for Willie Brown in any election and if so, in which election?
5. If they were San Francisco residents in 1968 and old enough to vote (over age 21 in 1968) did they vote for Willie Brown for Assembly when he was opposed by Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panther Party running on the Peace & Freedom Party ticket?
If they answer "Yes" to any of the above and do not apologize for their misdeeds, they have no business telling anyone how to fight racism as they are actively promoting racism with such votes.
For more information:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
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