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The Socialism Conference 2010 is a yearly forum where students, radicals, young activists, revolutionary scholars and social justice advocates converge to express and consolidate their views of what they want America to look like in the future and to share ideas and experiences that can help them understand how they can move America and the world towards a more socialistic/Marxist/progressive agenda. The events are sponsored by Center for Economic Research and Social Change and co-sponsored by the International Socialist Organization and KPFA.[1] Return to the main page of Socialism Conference...
Speakers
2010 Featured Speakers:[2]
- Pablo Alvarado is a long-time activist, born and raised in El Salvador. Since 2002, he has been the National Coordinator of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). NDLON is composed of nearly forty member organizations and was founded in 2001 as a means to work with and organize day laborers in their efforts to protect their rights. NDLON is the initiator of the Alto Arizona Campaign — a grassroots response to Arizona's anti-immigrant and anti-worker law, SB1070. On May 29th of 2010, approximately 100,000 people gathered in Phoenix to protest against that law, in a march and rally organized by NDLON.
- Justin Akers Chacón is co-author, with Mike Davis, of No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S-Mexico Border, which Haymarket Books recently published in Spanish. He is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review on issues of immigration and is a leading activist in San Diego's immigrant rights movement.
- Todd Chretien is a longtime activist and socialist in the International Socialist Organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a regular contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. He was an organizer in the national presidential campaigns of Ralph Nader in 2000 and of Nader and Peter Camejo in 2004. He was the Green Party's candidate for U.S. senate from California in 2006.
- Joshua Frank is a journalist and noted left-wing writer and co-author with Jeffrey St. Clair of the forthcoming Green Scare: The New War on Environmentalism. His articles and essays appear in CounterPunch, Z Magazine, Truthout and Alternet, among other publications.
- Brian Jones is a teacher, actor and activist in New York City. His commentary and writing have been featured on GRITtv, SleptOn.com, Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. Jones has also lent his voice to several audiobooks, including Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's Voices of a People's History of the United States and Zinn's one-man play Marx in Soho.
- Sarah Knopp is a high school teacher and rank-and-file activist in United Teachers Los Angeles. She is involved in recent organizing against California's education cuts and attacks on teachers and students in California. She is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review, including her article, Charter schools and the attack on public education.
- Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host and producer of Uprising, a daily morning drive-time program based at KPFK-FM, Pacifica Radio, KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. She is the co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence.
- Alan Maass is editor of Socialist Worker newspaper and the daily Web site SocialistWorker.org. He is the author of The Case for Socialism (Haymarket Books, 2004), an introduction to socialism and the socialist tradition.
- Liliana Segura is an AlterNet staff writer and editor of Rights & Liberties and World Special Coverage. She also writes for CounterPunch and the New Abolitionist, a publication of the CampaigntoEnd the DeathPenalty.
- Lance Selfa is the author of The Democrats: A Critical History (Haymarket, 2008). He is a member of the editorial board of the International Socialist Review, a regular columnist for Socialist Worker and co-editor of Obrero Socialista, Socialist Worker newspaper's Spanish-language counterpart. He is editor of The Struggle for Palestine (Haymarket, 2002) a collection of essays by leading solidarity activists.
- Ahmed Shawki is editor of the International Socialist Review and the author of Black Liberation and Socialism, an analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States.
- Wallace Shawn is an Obie Award-winning playwright and a noted stage and screen actor (Star Trek, Gossip Girl, The Princess Bride, Toy Story). His plays, The Designated Mourner and Marie and Bruce, have recently been produced as films. He is co-author of the movie My Dinner with Andre and author of the plays The Fever, The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. His critically acclaimed Essays are published by Haymarket Books.
- Sharon Smith is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the U.S. and Women and Socialism. She is a columnist for Socialist Worker and is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review and CounterPunch.
- Jeffrey St. Clair is an investigative journalist, writer and editor. He is the co-editor, with Alexander Cockburn, of the political newsletter CounterPunch, and author of several books including the forthcoming Green Scare: The New War on Environmentalism with Joshua Frank.
- Lee Sustar is the labor editor for Socialist Worker and frequently writes on the unfolding economic crisis. He is a regular contributor to International Socialist Review, CounterPunch and ZNet. He is also co-editor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader. Lee is a member of the National Writers Union in Chicago.
Topics
Over 100 topics will be covered at the conference including:[3]
- Capitalism, Climate Change and the Future of Humanity
- Obama and Black Politics
- Is a Second Recession Coming?
- Breaking the Siege of Gaza
- Is Human Nature a Barrier to Socialism?
- The ABC's of Marxism
Talks
External Links
References
- ↑ Socialism Conference 2010 Socialism Conference 2010 (accessed 04/03/11)
- ↑ Socialism Conference 2010 - Speakers Socialism Conference 2010 - Speakers (accessed 04/03/11)
- ↑ Socialism Conference 2011 Socialism Conference 2011 (accessed 04/02/11)