NorCal Socialist Conference M16

Join Norman Solomon, Boots Riley, Laura Flanders, Greg Palast, Colleen Kelly and Ahmed Shawki at the... Northern California Socialist Conference March 16 at UC Berkeley campus Valley Life Sciences Building call 510-333-4604 for info or to reserve child care or to ask about tabling/endorsing. Tickets are $5 to $50 sliding scale. Noon - 12:30 Registration 1pm Marxism in the 21st Century Todd Chretien, contributor to the International Socialist Review 2:45 pm to 4:15pm First round of workshops Why the US goes to war: 100 years of imperialism - Leticia Arrellano ABC's of Marxist Economics - Scott Johnson Crisis and Revolt in Argentina - Phil Gasper Racism, Sexism and Homophobia: Socialist Strategies for Liberation - Snehal Shingavi Socialism and Anarchism: Debating Revolution - Sue Sandlin 4:30pm to 6pm Second Round of Workshops Fighting Back: Bay Area labor and the recession - Jessie Muldoon and reps from fight to defend immigrant jobs at Bay Area airports, campaign against education cuts and other labor battles. How America's Criminal Injustice System Kills - Elizabeth Terzakis from the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and family members of death row inmates and victims of police brutality. Another World is Possible: Which Way Forward for the Global Justice Movement? Ahmed Shawki - Eyewitness report from the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, plus other Bay Area Global Justice activists on the WEF protests in New York and the upcoming mobiliztations against the IMF and World Bank in April. 6pm to 7pm Dinner Break 7pm International Socialist Review Tour: War & Resistance, Another World Is Possible! featuring, Laura Flanders is the host of Working Assets Radio, Monday-Friday from 10 to 11am PT on KALW, 91.7 fm, in San Francisco. Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the mediawatch group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted "CounterSpin," FAIR's weekly, syndicated radio program. She's been a senior correspondent for the Pacifica radio network, and News Director of the Pacifica Network News. Gregory Palast is an investigative journalist for the London Observer newspaper and the Guardian. He recent article "Who Shot Argentina" features secret memos from the IMF and World Bank and can be read in the latest ISR. Normon Solomon's Media Beat is the insightful weekly syndicated column on media and politics written by FAIR associate Norman Solomon. It runs in newspapers across the country. A Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote: "The bold, muckraking tone of these columns offers a welcome respite from the decerebrated discourse that too often passes for contemporary journalism." Boots Riley is a leading Bay Area revolutionary hip hop artist with the group The Coup. The Coup's latest release "Party Music" is available on Elektra Records. Ahmed Shawki, editor of the International Socialist Review and author of Black Liberation and Socialism. We will also hear solidarity greetings from local labor, immigrant rights, and police brutality struggles for justice.