BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18627824 SEQUENCE:18686732 CREATED:20091104T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Haymarket Books, Modern Times Bookstore and norcalsocialism.org present...\nNEW LOCATION!!!! UC BERKELEY, EVANS HALL\n \nNorthern California Socialism Conference: Crisis and Resistance November\n14th - 15th at UC Berkeley\n*** SEE THE UPDATED SCHEDULE BELOW***\nVisit http://www.norcalsocialism.org for updates and to register.\n \n* This regional socialist conference is dedicated to: arming a new\ngeneration of activists and organizers with arguments and ideas for a\nrevolutionary socialist alternative; learning our history of resistance; and\ndiscussing strategies for building organization and winning struggles for\nreal change.*\n \n*Workshop Highlights* include:\n \n- *What is Socialism?\n- *LGBT: We have only begun to fight! *Panel w/ Sherry Wolf and local\nactivists from One Struggle One Fight *\n- *What Happened with Obama? *A discussion w/ Rose Aguilar & Lance Selfa\n- *Fighting the Budget Cuts in California*\n- *Is Revolution possible in the United States?*\n- *Race and Racism in the United States*\n \n*A complete tentative schedule is provided below and will be updated at\nhttp://norcalsocialism.org/sf-northern-california-socialism-conference-crisis-and-resistance\n \n*WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND:*\nThe country and California are in the midst of the worst economic crisis\nsince the Great Depression. Talk of an economic recovery for Wall Street\nbelies the reality facing millions of working people who face work speedups,\ncuts in wages and health benefits, and layoffs. The California budget crisis\nis being resolved on the backs of the working class with steep cuts to\neducation, health care, and other social services—even as Democratic and\nRepublican politicians increase subsidies to large corporations - most of\nwhich pay no taxes - by $9 billion!\n \n*There is a way out of the crisis*, and it depends on the ability of\nworkers, students, and all oppressed people to organize in opposition to the\nupside down priorities which put banks, profits, prisons and war before\neducation, health care, and human liberation. Join us for the Northern\nCalifornia Socialist Conference, where activists from the entire Bay Area\nwill come together to discuss the challenges we face and debate the way\nforward.\n \n*TICKETS\n*Tickets are $20 to $50, sliding scale.\nTickets are for sale at:\n \n- Modern Times, 888 Valencia St. SF\n- City Lights Books 261 Columbus Ave. SF\n- Green Arcade 1680 Market St. SF\n- Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley\n- at the conference, and online at norcalsocialism.org\n \nUpdated Full Schedule\n*Saturday, November 14th*\n*9am - 10am*\n- Registration\n\n*10am - 10:45am*\n- What is Socialism (Cameron Sturdevant)\n \n*11am - 12:30pm* Session 1 \n- Can Labor Win? (Larry Bradshaw)\n- Explaining the Economic Crisis in California (Deborah Goldsmith)\n- Lenin's Political Thought (Andy Libson)\n- The Socialist Strategy for the Liberation of the Oppressed (Dana Blanchard)\n \n*12:30pm - 2pm* Lunch Break\n \n*2pm - 3:30pm* Session 2\n- What Happened to Obama? (Lance Selfa and Rose Aguilar)\n- Student Struggles: Now and Then (Alex Schmaus)\n- Trotsky's Fight Against Stalinism (Elizabeth Terzakis)\n- Is Revolution Possible in the U.S.? (Jeff Boyette)\n \n*4pm - 5:30pm* Session 3\n- Afghanistan: Good War or Quagmire? (Jeremy Tully)\n- What is Dialectics? (Jessie Muldoon)\n- Race and Racism in the U.S. (Sid Patel)\n- What Would Socialism Look Like? (Ragina Johnson)\n \n*5:30pm - 7pm* Dinner Break\n \n*7pm - 9pm*\n- *Fighting the Budget Cuts in California ** *\nFeaturing:\n- *Adrienne Johnstone*, United Educators of San Francisco*\n- *Blanca Misse*, UC Berkeley Student Worker Action Team*\n- *Kathryn Lybarger*, UC Berkeley AFSCME Local 3299*\n- *Prof. Gopal Balakrishnan*, UCSC Department of History of\nConsciousness, editorial board of the New Left Review*\n \n*Sunday, November 15th*\n \n*11am - 1pm*\n- *History of the ISO* (Todd Chretien)\n \n*1pm - 3pm*\n- *LGBT: We Have Only Begun to Fight!* Report back from the DC National\nEquality March and next steps for the movement\n \nFeaturing:\n- *Sherry Wolf*, steering committee of the National Equality March* and\nauthor of Sexuality and Socialism (HaymarketBooks)\n- *Seth Fowler*, organizer with One Struggle, One Fight, steering\ncommittee member of the National Equality March, and organizer\nfor Equality\nAcross America.\n- *Whitney Walton*, organizer with One Struggle, One Fight and youth\norganizer for the National Equality March\n- *David McElhatton*, organizer with One Struggle, One Fight, Gender\nDiversity Project at CCSF, and organizer for the Transgender\nCaucus at the\nNational Equality March.\n \n*3pm - 5pm*\n- Haymarket Social\n \n*Organizations listed for identification purposes\nonly. \nhttp://www.facebook.com/norcalsocialism\n \n*Become a fan of norcalsocialism.org on facebook to be continually updated\non any Bay Area ISO events: http://www.facebook.com/norcalsocialism*\n*Follow norcalsocialism.org on twitter: http://twitter.com/norcalsocialism*\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/04/18627824.php SUMMARY:Crisis and Resistance: Northern California Socialism Conference LOCATION:UC Berkeley Evans Hall \n2200 University Avenue \nBerkeley, CA 94720 URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/04/18627824.php DTSTART:20091115T190000Z DTEND:20091116T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR