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DESCRIPTION:Join Norman Solomon, Boots Riley, Laura Flanders, Greg Palast, Colleen 
 Kelly and Ahmed Shawki at the...\n\nNorthern California Socialist 
 Conference\nMarch 16 at UC Berkeley campus\nValley Life Sciences 
 Building\ncall 510-333-4604 for info or to reserve child care or to ask 
 about tabling/endorsing.\nTickets are $5 to $50 sliding scale.\n\nNoon - 
 12:30 Registration\n\n1pm  Marxism in the 21st Century\nTodd Chretien, 
 contributor to the International Socialist Review\n\n2:45 pm to 4:15pm 
 First round of workshops\n\nWhy the US goes to war:  100 years of 
 imperialism - Leticia Arrellano\n\nABC's of Marxist Economics - Scott 
 Johnson\n\nCrisis and Revolt in Argentina - Phil Gasper\n\nRacism, Sexism 
 and Homophobia: Socialist Strategies for Liberation - Snehal 
 Shingavi\n\nSocialism and Anarchism:  Debating Revolution - Sue 
 Sandlin\n\n\n4:30pm to 6pm Second Round of Workshops\n\nFighting Back:  Bay 
 Area labor and the recession - Jessie Muldoon and reps from fight to defend 
 immigrant jobs at Bay Area airports, campaign against education cuts and 
 other labor battles.\n\nHow America's Criminal Injustice System Kills - 
 Elizabeth Terzakis from the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and family 
 members of death row inmates and victims of police brutality.\n\nAnother 
 World is Possible:  Which Way Forward for the Global Justice 
 Movement?\nAhmed Shawki - Eyewitness report from the World Social Forum in 
 Porto Alegre, plus other Bay Area Global Justice activists on the WEF 
 protests in New York and the upcoming mobiliztations against the IMF and 
 World Bank in April.\n\n6pm to 7pm Dinner Break\n\n7pm International 
 Socialist Review Tour:  War & Resistance, Another World Is 
 Possible!\n\nfeaturing, \n\nLaura Flanders is the host of Working Assets 
 Radio, Monday-Friday from 10 to 11am PT on KALW, 91.7 fm, in San Francisco. 
  Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the mediawatch 
 group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted 
 "CounterSpin," FAIR's weekly, syndicated radio program. She's been a senior 
 correspondent for the Pacifica radio network, and News Director of the 
 Pacifica Network News. \n\nGregory Palast is an investigative journalist 
 for the London Observer newspaper and the Guardian.  He recent article "Who 
 Shot Argentina" features secret memos from the IMF and World Bank and can 
 be read in the latest ISR.\n\nNormon Solomon's Media Beat is the insightful 
 weekly syndicated column on media and politics written by FAIR associate 
 Norman Solomon. It runs in newspapers across the country.  A Los Angeles 
 Times reviewer wrote: "The bold, muckraking tone of these columns offers a 
 welcome respite from the decerebrated discourse that too often passes for 
 contemporary journalism."   \n\nBoots Riley is a leading Bay Area 
 revolutionary hip hop artist with the group The Coup.  The Coup's latest 
 release "Party Music" is available on Elektra Records.\n\nAhmed Shawki, 
 editor of the International Socialist Review and author of Black Liberation 
 and Socialism.\n\nWe will also hear solidarity greetings from local labor, 
 immigrant rights, and police brutality struggles for justice.\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/5013.php
SUMMARY:NorCal Socialist Conference M16
LOCATION:UC Berkeley, Valley Life Science Building
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/5013.php
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