<div class="im"><div><div><b style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The 4<sup>th</sup> Annual New England Socialist Conference
is entitled “We Won’t Pay for Their Crisis!”</b><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="im"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><font size="6"><u>*Featuring* Cindy Sheehan and Steve Early</u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="6"><i>Also: Socialists Debate the Tea Party</i></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><font size="4"><b>Saturday and Sunday, October 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup></b></font><p class="MsoNormal"><b>UMass-Boston, Wheatley Building’s First Floor</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Main sessions will be held in the Snowden Auditorium, and
workshop venues will be clearly marked at the event.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div><div>Facebook Event: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/event.php?eid=149396868407456" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=149396868407456</a><p class="MsoNormal">
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><u>Schedule Below</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><font color="#ffffff">Saturday, October 16th</font></b></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The event will begin at <b>1pm</b>
with opening remarks and move on to the first main session on <u>“The Economic
Crisis and Working People.”</u> </p></div><div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers will include<b> Alan Jones</b>, a founding member of
Socialist Alternative, an editor of Justice newspaper, and regular writer for <a href="http://socialistworld.net/" target="_blank">socialistworld.net</a>. </p><div><div><span id="q_12b984048408e524_5" class="h4"><br></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Genevieve Morse</b>, a shop steward in the Classified Staff
Union at UMass-Boston, will also be speaking. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4">Saturday’s second main session will begin roughly at <b>3:30pm</b>. This session will feature <i><u><b>Cindy
Sheehan</b></u></i>, and it is entitled “Socialism: Why We Need It.”</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Speakers at 3:30:</u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u>Cindy Sheehan</u></i></b> is the country’s most prominent antiwar
activist. Her courageous stand after the loss of her son in Iraq
has continued as she strongly stands up against empire today.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span></span>Bryan Koulouris</b> is an
editor of Justice newspaper and a member of the Committee for a Workers’
International Executive Committee.</p>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sunday, October 17</span><sup style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">th</sup></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">With coffee and bagels, Sunday’s first main session will
kick off at 10am. It is entitled <u>“Labor’s
Struggles in a Time of Crisis.”</u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Speakers</u> at this session:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u>Steve Early</u></i></b> will facilitate the discussion. Steve is a labor
journalist, organizer and lawyer. He has written for the Boston Globe, Labor
Notes, Counterpunch and many other notable publications. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>John Harris</b> recently helped spearhead a successful
organizing drive at his job, getting a new bargaining unit of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers formed. <span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Marty Harrison</b> is a nurse in Philadelphia.
She recently helped lead a successful hospital strike at Temple
University. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">At around </span><b style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">11:30am</b><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">,
we will break out into a few small group discussions happening simultaneously
in separate rooms.</span><br>
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<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal">Single
Payer Health Care Isn’t Dead! -- <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Ashley Fox</span>, socialized medicine campaigner throughout New England.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Why Unions Matter – <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Rob Mirabito</span>,
Carpenters Local 33 (personal capacity)</li><li class="MsoNormal">Racism in the age of Obama – <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Eljeer Hawkins</span>, Bronx, NY author of “The State
of Black America”</li><li class="MsoNormal">Socialism and the Environment – <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Joshua Koritz</span>, member of AFSCME Local 3650
(personal capacity)<br></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>From 1pm to 2:30pm (on Sunday), we will have lunch on the site of the
event.</u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>From 2:30 to 2:45, we will gather in the Snowden Auditorium
for announcements.</i></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><u>At around 2:45,
we will begin another round of small group discussions, again happening simultaneously with
four options.</u></p>
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1. Linking Labor and Immigrants’ Rights – <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Dorotea Manuela</span>, activist with
the Boston May Day Coalition.<br>
2. Defending and Extending Public Education -- <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Tom Crean</span>, Chapter Leader in Brooklyn,
NY for the United Federation of Teachers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. War in Afghanistan
and Pakistan --
<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Mike Russell</span>, a school site representative at David Ellis school in Roxbury.<br>
4. The Media and Capitalism – <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Jeff Booth</span>, member of AFSCME Local 3650 and host
of Socialist Alternative Radio on<span> </span>WMFO.<br>
<font size="4"><span> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4">Around 4pm on Sunday, we
will begin the debate between Socialist Alternative and the Tea Party.</font></p>
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<b>Jesse Lessinger</b>, a campaigner against cuts in higher education and a writer for
<a href="http://socialistalternative.org/" target="_blank">socialistalternative.org</a> will debate…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Loren Spivack</b>, a prominent right-wing writer and lecturer
known as the “Free Market Warrior.”</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a suggested $10 donation for this event, but
nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.</span><br><font color="#888888">
<br>-- <br>-Boston Socialist Alternative <br><a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org/" target="_blank">www.socialistalternative.org</a><br>
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