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<DIV style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em; TEXT-ALIGN: center">SOCIALISM 2008<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">June 19-22, Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">“A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment.”<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><A style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em" href="http://www.socialis/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.socialis</A> mconference. org<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"></DIV><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,255); LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Register by May 15 for reduced rate!</SPAN></DIV><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">ARE AMERICAN lifestyles destroying the world? What is life under siege in Gaza like? What <SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em; FONT-STYLE: italic">were </SPAN>Che Guevara’s politics and strategies for revolution anyway? If you have questions like these and want to learn what socialists have to say about how to change the world, check out Socialism 2008, in Chicago, June 19-22,<A style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em" href="http://www.socialis/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.socialis</A> mconference. org. <BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">No other event in the U.S. brings together 1,000 radicals from all over the U.S. with leading voices on the international Left---from Egyptian strikers and immigrant rights leaders to
world-renown authors like Jeremy Scahill and Amira Hass. You don’t have to already be a socialist to come to a our conference with 100 talks and debates and participate in discussions with other folks who are learning about how the system works and organizing to fight it. <BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">For help with child care, housing, travel, directions to the conference or to ask any other question, please write us at info@socialismconfe rence.org or call 773-583-8665.<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Sponsored by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books. Co-sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker and Obrero Socialista.<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Featured speakers (affiliations for identification
only):</SPAN><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Camilo Mejía, </SPAN>first U.S. military resister in the Iraq war, author of Road from ar-Ramadi<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Dr. John Carlos,</SPAN> founding member, Olympic Project for Human Rights, bronze medal winner who raised a black-gloved fist at the ’68 Olympics<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Mark Steel, </SPAN>comedian, Guardian columnist and author, Vive La Revolution!<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Dahr Jamail,</SPAN> independent journalist and author of Beyond the Green Zone<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT:
1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Amira Hass</SPAN> lives in Ramallah in the West Bank, where she covers Palestinian affairs for <BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz, making her the only Jewish Israeli correspondent on Palestinian affairs to live among the people about whom she reports. <BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Mohammed Omer</SPAN> is an award-winning journalist living and working in Gaza, Palestine. He writes and photographs the impact of the U.S.-sponsored Israeli occupation. His reporting appears on the BBC, in the Independent (UK), New Statesman, electronicintifada. net, Democracy Now! and elsewhere.<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Barbara Becnel,</SPAN> Campaign to End the Death Penalty, She
co-produced the award-winning TV film Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, based on her partnership with Stanley Tookie Williams.<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Anthony Arnove</SPAN> is the author of the acclaimed Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and the editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States (Seven Stories). He is also editor of Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Paul D’Amato</SPAN>, author, The Meaning of Marxism, managing editor, International Socialist Review<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Laura Flanders</SPAN> is the host of "RadioNation" heard live, weekends, 7-10 pm ET
on the national Air America Radio network. The program is also syndicated to non-commercial affiliates across the United States. She is the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. Justin Akers Chacón, co-author, No One Is Illegal!<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">The Freightliner Five</SPAN> trade union activists from Cleveland, N.C.<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Phil Gasper,</SPAN> editor, The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Adrienne Kinne,</SPAN> Iraq Veterans Against the War<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Samuel Farber</SPAN>, author of The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Marlene Martin,</SPAN> national director, Campaign to End the Death Penalty<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Ahmed Shawki,</SPAN> editor, International Socialist Review, author, Black Liberation and Socialism<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Sharon Smith,</SPAN> columnist, Socialist Worker, and author of Subterranean Fire and Women and Socialism <BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Dave Zirin,</SPAN> Nation.com sports columnist and author, What’s
My Name Fool? and Welcome to the Terrordome<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Jeffrey St. Clair</SPAN>, co-editor of Counterpunch and author of Been Brown So Long it Looks Green to Me, and <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Joshua Frank,</SPAN> co-editor of Dissident Voice and author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush speak on their new book, Green Scare.<BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">Socialists from France, Greece, Egypt, Venezuela, Mexico </SPAN><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.22em">…and many more!</SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>
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