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<strong><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: #ffffff;">A New England Regional Conference on Socialism</span></strong>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: #ffffff;"><em><strong>Hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)</strong></em></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #ffffff;"><strong>This conference will link the struggles against war, racism and bigotry with the fight for economic justice. It will be an important opportunity for all working people, activists and revolutionaries to meet, analyze, discuss and propose solutions to the crimes of capitalism. The PSL believes that it is possible to radically reorganize society to meet the needs of the people - that socialism IS possible!<br /><br />We have a great program lined up with important guest speakers addressing some of the many issues facing poor and working people here in the U.S. and around the world. Don't miss this important conference!</strong></span>
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<li><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #ffffff;">More information on some of our featured guest speakers</span></li>
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<li><strong><span style="color: #ffff77; font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Información en español</span></strong></li>
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<br />Join students, workers, activists and others on May 15 in Boston for the New England Regional Conference on Socialism hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Find out what socialism is, what we aim for, and how you can join the struggle for revolutionary change. There will be speakers, workshops, food and discussion.</strong></span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #ffffff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Conference Day-of Schedule:</strong></span>
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<strong>11:00 AM</strong> - Doors open for registration
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<strong>12:00 PM to 2:00 PM</strong> - Opening Panel
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<li><strong><span style="color: #ffff77;">"What is socialism? Is it possible in the U.S.?"</span></strong></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>"Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution", featuring Jorge Marin, founding member of the MLK Bolivarian Circle of Boston.</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffff77;"><strong>"Immigrant rights are workers rights!", featuring John Lugo of Unidad Latina en Acción and the New Haven Workers Association</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>"Women and revolutionary leadership"</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffff77;"><strong>"From protest to resistance: Strengthening the anti-war movement", featuring Iraq war veteran and March Forward! member, Ryan Henowitz</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>"Building a movement to combat racism and fascism", featuring Eugene Puryear, 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate of the PSL</strong></span></li>
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<strong>2:00 to 2:45 PM</strong> - Networking and lunch (provided)
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<strong>3:00 to 4:15 PM</strong> - Organizing Workshops
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<li><strong><span style="color: #ffff77;">"The fight for equal, quality education", featuring Sandra McIntosh, chair of the Coalition for Equal Quality Education (CQE) and founding member of Work 4 Quality, Fight 4 Equity</span></strong></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>"The struggle to end racist police brutality", featuring Radhika Miller, staff attorney at the Partnership for Civil Justice</strong></span></li>
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4:30 PM to 6:00 PM</strong> - Closing Panel
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<li><strong><span style="color: #ffff77;">"Defending our communities: Free all political prisoners!"</span></strong></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>A showing of "Police Terror: The Murder of Kenny Lazo", an A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition documentary short by Edward Pages</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffff77;"><strong>"Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: A capitalist made disaster", featuring Sarah Sloan, national staff organizer of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and the "Seize BP!" campaign</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>"Socialists and Elections: Why we need a revolutionary working-class Party" featuring Frances Villar, 2009 New York City mayoral candidate of the PSL</strong></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #ffffff;"><strong>See below more information on some of our featured guest speakers!</strong>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="color: #ffff77;"><img src="http://www.pslweb.org/site/../images/content/pagebuilder/62896.jpg" border="0" alt="John Lugo at East Haven protest" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="130" height="150" align="right" />John Lugo</span></strong> is an organizer with Unidad Latina en Acción, an immigrant rights group in New Haven, CT. He has been part of organizing many demonstrations for immigrant rights, including May Day demonstrations of thousands of people. Lugo was extremely active in getting the New Haven Resident Identification Card approved in the city. He has been involved in many struggles for immigrant and worker rights in the region.
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He was a primary organizer of the August 15th, 2009 demonstration against racial in profiling in East Haven, CT that resulted in the police chief being suspended. Lugo is also a member of Colombia Action CT, which aims to end U.S. military aid to the corrupt government of Colombia, all in the name of the so-called "war on drugs".
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<strong><span style="color: #ffff77;"><img src="http://www.pslweb.org/site/../images/content/pagebuilder/57745.jpg" border="0" alt="Sandra McIntosh, Work 4 Quality, Fight 4 Equity, Boston" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="140" height="140" align="left" />Sandra McIntosh</span></strong> is a founding member of Work 4 Quality, Fight 4 Equity, an organization working towards improving the Boston Public School system and is a parent coordinator at English High School in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. She is the chair of the Coalition for Equal, Quality Education (CEQE) which has organized many actions in defense of public education. This notably includes last year's successful campaign to defeat the "5-zone" rezoning scheme which would have in essense re-segregated BPS by eliminating bus transportation for thousands of students.<br /><br /><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ffff77;">Eugene Puryear</span></strong> was the 2008 vice-presidential candidate of the PSL. He is an active anti-war and social justice organizer in the Washington D.C. area. He is a volunteer organizer with the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and has been active in the anti-war movement since high school when he led a walkout of over 800 students. Puryear has been profiled by the Washington Post and interviewed by numerous other outlets such as WBAI, the Final Call newspaper and the Associated Press. He is regular contributor to Liberation, the newspaper of the PSL.
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<img src="http://www.pslweb.org/site/../images/content/pagebuilder/57881.jpg" border="0" alt="Frances Villar in El Diario" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="140" height="200" align="left" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #ffffff;">An organizer, fighter, student and mother of two - 26 year-old <strong><span style="color: #ffff77;">Frances Villar</span></strong> made history by becoming the first woman of color on the NYC Mayoral Ballot and received the highest vote for a socialist candidate since 1981.<br /><br />Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Washington Heights and the Bronx, NY, Frances Villar is many things - a mother of two, a pre-med student at Lehman College and a tireless organizer. From forming a tenant association in her Bronx apartment building to organizing against education cuts in the CUNY system to struggling against racist police brutality - Frances Villar is a <em>fighter</em>.</span>
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<strong><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #ffffff;">Una Conferencia Regional en New England sobre el socialismo <br />
<span style="font-size: 13px;"><em>Organizado por el Partido Socialismo y Liberación </em><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #ffffff;">Recortes, despidos, desalojos, policía racista y guerra sin fin...<br /><br />¡Ya basta! ¡Levántate y lucha!<br /></span></strong><br />
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Programa de 12 a 6 pm</span>
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¿Qué es el socialismo? </li>
<li>La lucha por una educación pública, equitativa y de calidad </li>
<li>La lucha para terminar con la brutalidad policial racista </li>
<li>Ganar derechos plenos para todos los inmigrantes y los trabajadores </li>
<li>Las mujeres y el liderato revolucionario </li>
<li>y mucho más </li>
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