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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ideas
for
Changing the World</span><br>Revolutionary politics, debate and
entertainment<br>June 17-20, Chicago<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.socialismconference.org/" rel="nofollow"><span>http://www.socialismconference.org</span></a><br><br><div style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>BUS FARE:</b></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Regular fare: $130</span><br><span style="font-size: large;">Solidarity fare: $150 and up</span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Bus leaves on Wednesday, June 16</b></i></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">from <b>BOSTON</b>: 8pm, <a style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0);" target="_blank" href="http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/lines/stations/?stopId=14477&lat=42.317251&lng=-71.104021">Stonybrook
Station</a> </span><span style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);"> </span></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">(on MBTA orange line - parking available -
<a style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0);" target="_blank" href="http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/lines/stations/?stopId=14477&lat=42.317251&lng=-71.104021">mbta.com</a>)</span><br><span style="color: rgb(39, 78, 19);">from <b>AMHERST</b>, MA: 10pm</span></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><br><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Arriving
back in Mass. on Monday morning, June 21</b></i></span><br><br><i><b>For
information or to buy a bus ticket,</b></i><br>call 617-648-0561</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://us.mc510.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=newenglandsocialism@gmail.com" rel="nofollow"><span></span></a>or email <span style="color: blue;">contact@bostonsocialism.org</span></div>
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<b>Chicago:</b>
June 17-20, 2010 at the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago. (<a target="_blank" href="http://maps.google.com/?q=palmer+house+hilton+17+east+monroe+street+chicago+il">Map</a>)<br>
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<div align="justify">With the economy in shambles and with wars and
occupations continuing, the challenge to change these conditions
confronts us all. More than a year ago, millions placed their hopes in
Barack Obama and the Democrats to solve these problems. But after months
of broken promises and concessions to conservatives, jobs are scarce,
the banks are unregulated, and full equality for LGBT people remains
elusive.<br><br>Socialism 2010—to be held in <i>both</i> Chicago and San
Francisco—will provide an unparalleled opportunity for new and veteran
activists and scholars to explore questions about how we got into this
mess and how we can get out of it.<br><br>Last year, more than 1,800
people turned out to explore the history of struggles of ordinary
people, to learn about radical figures who led social movements and to
debate theoretical questions that can help us change the world.<br><br>Join
us for more than 100 talks on issues such as: What is the Real Marxist
Tradition?, Race in the Obama Era, Capitalism, Climate Change, and the
Future of Humanity, Abortion and Women’s Liberation, and Building a New
Left in the Obama Era.<br><br>Don’t miss the chance to meet, talk and
socialize with hundreds of others like you who want to build an
alternative to a system of greed, racism, war and oppression.</div>
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<b>Featured
Speakers:</b><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GILBERT
ACHCAR</b>, author, The Arabs and the Holocaust; <b>TARIQ ALI</b>,
writer, filmmaker and an editor of New Left Review; <b>ANTHONY ARNOVE</b>,
co-producer with the late Howard Zinn of “The People Speak”; <b>PAUL
D’AMATO</b>, author, The Meaning of Marxism; <b>MIKE DAVIS</b>,
historian and socialist activist whose books include In Praise of
Barbarians; <b>SAM FARBER</b>, author, The Origins of the Cuban
Revolution Reconsidered;<b> JOEL GEIER</b>, associate editor,
International Socialist Review; <b>ANAND GOPAL</b>, Kabul correspondent
for the Christian Science Monitor; <b>JAMES GREEN</b>, author, Death in
the Haymarket; <b>BRIAN JONES</b>, actor and activist in New York City,
and a frequent guest on GRITtv; <b>SONALI KOLHATKAR</b>, host,
"Uprising", KPFK-FM, Los Angeles; <b>PAUL LEBLANC</b>, activist and
author, whose books include Lenin and the Revolutionary Party; <b>ALAN
MAASS</b>, editor, Socialist Worker; <b>MARLENE MARTIN</b>, Campaign to
End the Death Penalty; <b>JOHN RIDDELL</b>, co-editor, Socialist Voice
(Canada); <b>HEATHER ROGERS</b>, journalist and filmmaker and author of
Green Gone Wrong; <b>JEREMY SCAHILL</b>, contributor to The Nation and
author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary
Army; <b>LILIANA SEGURA</b>, AlterNet staff writer on civil rights and
liberties; <b>JEFFREY ST. CLAIR</b> and <b>JOSHUA FRANK</b>, authors,
Greenscare: The New War on Environmentalism; <b>LANCE SELFA</b>, author,
The Democrats: A Critical History; <b>AHMED SHAWKI</b>, editor,
International Socialist Review; <b>SHARON SMITH</b>, author of
Subterranean Fire and Women and Socialism; <b>LEE SUSTAR</b>, labor
editor, Socialist Worker; <b>SHERRY WOLF</b>, Sherry Wolf, interim
governing board, Equality Across America, and author of Sexuality and
Socialism; <b>KEEANGAYAMAHTTA TAYLOR</b>, editorial board of
International Socialist Review and frequent contributor on race and
class; <b>DAVE ZIRIN</b>, sportswriter and author, A People’s History of
Sports in the United States; <b>SOCIALISTS</b> from France, Greece,
Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Britain and many more!</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">What
you’ll find at Socialism 2010: More than 100 meetings, a bookfair,
films, entertainment, and parties.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(39, 78, 19); text-align: justify;"><i><b>For
Boston mobilization information
(including reserving a seat on our chartered bus to Chicago), email
contact@bostonsocialism.org or call 617-648-0561.</b></i></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Check out <a target="_blank" href="http://www.socialismconference.org/">http://www.socialismconference.org</a>
to register and for more information about schedule, housing, and
childcare.</div>
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Download the <a target="_blank" href="http://sites.google.com/a/bostonsocialism.org/resources/home/flyers/socflierboston.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1"><b>flyer</b></a>
or the <a target="_blank" href="http://sites.google.com/a/bostonsocialism.org/resources/home/flyers/Soc2010_Brochure.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1"><b>full
brochure</b></a> with list of workshops for <i>Socialism 2010.</i> <br>
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To
get more of a taste of what you'll find at this conference, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nycsocialist.org/2008/05/audio-archive.html">check out
these mp3 recordings</a> of all of the talks from the Socialism 2009
conference.<br>
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<b>Socialism
2010 Sponsored by:</b> <a target="_blank" href="http://cersc.org/">Center
for Economic Research and Social Change</a> (publisher of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.isreview.org/">International Socialist
Review</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/">Haymarket
Books</a>).<br>
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<b>Cosponsored by:</b> The International Socialist
Organization (publisher of <a target="_blank" href="http://socialistworker.org/">Socialist Worker</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://socialistworker.org/Obrero.shtml">Obrero
Socialista</a>). For more information, email <a target="_blank" href="mailto:info@socialismconference.org">info@socialismconference.org</a>
or call (773) 583-7884.<br>
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