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DESCRIPTION:Free. Two presentations with discussion and lunch break. Refreshments 
 available.  12 noon:  Race, Class and Socialist Revolution:   
 Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom   Speaker: Don Cane, Spartacist League 
 Central Committee        America’s capitalist rulers left New Orleans’ 
 blacks and poor to die in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, laying bare the 
 class and race divisions in America. The revulsion over this racist 
 atrocity blows to shreds the “national unity” patriotism that has been 
 whipped up under the guise of the “war on terror,” which is really a 
 war on the rights of labor, blacks, and immigrants. At the same time, the 
 recent New York City transit strike shows the power of the integrated 
 working class, the power that a revolutionary leadership would link to the 
 anger of the black ghetto masses in struggle against racist capitalism.     
   Since the days of slavery blacks have been an integral part of the 
 working class. Black oppression, the forcible segregation of masses of 
 black people at the bottom of society’s economy, is intrinsic to American 
 capitalist rule. We seek to mobilize the multiracial working class on the 
 program of revolutionary integrationism, for the full integration of black 
 people in an egalitarian socialist order where those who labor rule. For 
 us, the study of black history, a key part of the history of class 
 struggle, is not a passive endeavor: We seek to understand the world in 
 order to change it.  3 pm:   Mumia is an Innocent Man!   The Fight to Free 
 Mumia Abu-Jamal  Speaker: Rachel Wolkenstein, Partisan Defense Committee, 
 former counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal       The fight for freedom for Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal, black revolutionary and America’s foremost political prisoner, 
 is part of the fight for black equality in America, which itself is part of 
 the broader fight against the capitalist system. Today Mumia’s case has 
 reached a critical juncture. His new appeal, to be filed February 17, could 
 lead to vastly different outcomes, from overturning his conviction to 
 reinstating his death sentence.       The overwhelming evidence of his 
 innocence includes the confession of Arnold Beverly that he, not Mumia, 
 killed the Philadelphia policeman that Mumia was framed-up for killing in 
 1981. In 1982 Mumia was sentenced to die explicitly because of his 
 revolutionary views and his past membership in the Black Panther Party.     
    The courts have repeatedly refused to allow Beverly’s confession to be 
 heard and February 17 will be no exception. Issues that will be heard are 
 the racist jury-rigging in the 1982 trial, the outrageous bias of the 
 “prosecutor in robes” Judge Sabo, and the DA’s closing argument that 
 erased the “reasonable doubt” standard.       Mumia’s scheduled 
 execution in 1995 was stopped in the context of mass international protests 
 involving unions representing millions of workers. As his case enters the 
 fast track, it is urgent to mobilize on the basis that Mumia is an innocent 
 man. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the racist death penalty!  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/01/86623.php
SUMMARY:Spartacist Black History Month Educational
LOCATION:YWCA Tea Room  1515 Webster St., Oakland  Near downtown Oakland BART.  
 Wheelchair entrance on 15th St.  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/01/86623.php
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