tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45053172187616614082024-03-13T20:40:43.121-07:00Socialist Contingent on Oct 2ndSocialist Contingent on Oct 2http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570350967341967610noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505317218761661408.post-84168057628583108092010-09-28T23:20:00.001-07:002010-09-28T23:20:43.675-07:00More endorsements for the Socialist Contingent<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.845805284101516" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Against The Current</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Democratic Left @ GWU, coordinating committee</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15th Street Manifesto Group</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Socialist Party of Connecticut</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Socialist Party </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Socialist Organizer</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanley Aronowitz, 15th Street Manifesto Group</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jared Ball, Morgan State University, Green Party, Black is Back Coalition*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leighton Christiansen, steward and officer-at-large, Graduate Employees Organization, University of Illinois</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Urbana-Champaign*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark Clements, Campaign to End the Death Penalty*</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solomon Commissiong, activist, educator, Hip Hop historian and independent journalist</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bill DeFazio, 15th Street Manifesto Group</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barry Finger, New Politics</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter E. Fowler, critical theorist, Academy of Critical Thinking</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harriet Fraad, 15th Street Manifesto Group</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph Gainza, Vermont Action for Peace*</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Jess Ghannam, National Coordinating Committee of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesse Lakahi Heiwa, Queers for Peace and Justice*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin, Democratic Socialists of America member</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Todd Vachon, Socialist for Senate, Chairperson Socialist Party of CT</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reginald Wilson, New Politics</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bruce Wolf, OPEIU local 2 social justice committee, DC Labor for Peace and Justice*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Candace Wolf, storytelling artist, oral historian and educator</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rick Wolff, 15th Street Manifesto Group</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>Socialist Contingent on Oct 2http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570350967341967610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505317218761661408.post-88655514312748781872010-09-27T01:12:00.000-07:002010-09-27T09:03:56.788-07:00Initial Endorsement list and information for Washington, DC<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6752547980286181" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To support and endorse the Socialist Contingent contact us at: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">socialistcontingentoct2@gmail.com</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizations:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dan La Botz, Socialist Party campaign for U.S. Senate, Ohio</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Organization (ISO)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solidarity: a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Socialist Alternative</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Socialist Action</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Socialist Party of New York City</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Socialist Party of Central Virginia</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Action for a Progressive Pakistan</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publications</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Individuals:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Organizations listed for listed for identification purposes only.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cindy Sheehan, “Peace Mom,” founder Peace of the Action</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steve Early, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embedded With Organized Labor, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Writers Union/UAW member</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jerry Tucker, former member, UAW International Executive Board</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nativo Vigil Lopez, National President of the Mexican American Political Association</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fred Magdoff, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Great Financial Crisis</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mike Davis, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planet of Slums</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Professor, Department of Creative Writing, U.C. Riverside</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camilo Mejía, Iraq war veteran and resister and member of IVAW</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naseer Aruri, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Chancellor Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joanne Landy, New Politics</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Victor Agosto, Afghanistan War resister and member of IVAW</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Billy Wharton, Co-chairperson, Socialist Party USA</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason Schulman, New Politics, Democratic Socialists of America National Political Committee</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul Street, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dave Zirin, Sports Editor of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nation Magazine</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A People's History of Sports</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David McReynolds, former chair of War Resisters International, Socialist Party USA Presidential candidate in 1980 and 2000</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dahr Jamail, author </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond the Green Zone, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">independent Journalist</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthony Arnove, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Iraq Logic of Withdrawal</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Hirsch, New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought editorial board, member Democratic Socialists of America</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greg Albo, Socialist Project and York University</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David McNally, Professor of political science at York University</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sandy Boyer, co-host of WBAI's Radio Free Eireann and has led campaigns to free Irish political prisoners including the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Board, Historical Materialism</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul D’Amato, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Meaning of Marxism</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Managing Editor of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tod Ensign, Citizen Soldier</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julie Fain, editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam Farber, retired professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phil Gasper, Editor of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Communist Manifesto: A Roadmap to History’s Most Important Political Document</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joel Geier, Associate Editor of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hunter Bear (Hunter Gray), Native Rights activist, Rocky Mountains</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thomas Harrison, New Politics</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ron Jacobs, Author and Library Worker</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brian Jones, performer of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marx and Soho</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deepa Kumar, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outside the Box</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and member of AAUP-AFT, Rutgers*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Micah Landau, New Politics</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul LeBlanc, antiwar activist and author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesse Lemisch, Professor of History Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of NY</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tom Lewis, editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Traven Leyshon, President, Green Mountain Labor Council*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alan Maass, Editor SocialistWorker.org</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scott McLemee, New Politics</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nagesh Rao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, The College of New Jersey, AFT Local 2364*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bill Roberts, editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jennifer Roesch, editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Herman Rosenfeld, Socialist Project and Labour Studies, McMaster University.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eric Ruder, journalist for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SocialistWorker.org</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kristin Schall, National Committee member, Socialist Party USA</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Schwartz, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">War Without End: The Iraq War in Context</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Stony Brook</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Helen Scott, editor of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Essential Rosa Luxemburg</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lance Selfa, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Democrats: A Critical History</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephen R. Shalom, editorial board, New Politics</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ahmed Shawki, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Liberation and Socialism</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Editor of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ashley Smith, editorial board of the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sharon Smith, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Subterranean Fire</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women and Socialism</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zelig Stern, Labor Commissioner, Socialist Party USA</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elizabeth Terzakis, editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeff Webber, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Professor of political science at the University of Regina</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lois Weiner, New Politics</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chris Williams, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ecology and Socialism</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and adjunct professor of Chemistry and Physical Science, Pace University, NYC; Vice President, Union of Adjunct Faculty at Pace; NYSUT Local 37-960*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sherry Wolf, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sexuality and Socialism</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and editorial board of the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia Wrigley, New Politics</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Annie Zirin, editorial board of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Socialist Review</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us at the rally:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At 12th and Constitution (NW)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Washington, D.C.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following the rally, 5PM:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Socialism for the 21st Century’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> forum with Dan La Botz, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and others.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143310705712188&ref=ts"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #942e06; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143310705712188&ref=ts</span></a></div>Socialist Contingent on Oct 2http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570350967341967610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505317218761661408.post-31851389659702506562010-09-27T01:10:00.000-07:002010-09-27T01:10:33.998-07:00Join the Socialist Contingent on October 2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join the Socialist Contingent on October 2</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We March for Jobs, Peace, Justice and the Socialist Alternative That Can Win Them</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hundreds of thousands of Americans organized by labor and civil rights organizations will gather in Washington, D.C. on October 2 to demand a change in the direction that our nation is heading. We are proud to join this march to demand jobs, to demand an end to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and for a society that is fairer, more equal and more just. We believe it important to be in the capital on that date to help create a counterweight to Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and Republicans, their reactionary politics, ruthless economics, and their racism.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We do not, however, share the goals of the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, and other organizations which hope to achieve jobs and justice by supporting Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in the national elections on November 2. We believe that it has become quite clear now that neither Democrats nor the Republicans are capable of solving the country’s three great crises—the economy, the environment, and the wars—in a way that will be good for the American people. The goals of a full employment economy, real environmental sustainability, and peace cannot be achieved by our capitalist system and the corporations motivated only by profit. We need a new direction toward a new system.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The two major parties have failed us. During the past two years, the Democrats and Republicans have failed to represent us, but they have done a fine job of representing the banks, insurance companies, and corporations. They saved the banks for the bankers—not those whose homes are still threatened with foreclosure or collapsing value. They saved the auto industry for the auto CEOs—not for the workers whose plants have been closed, whose health insurance contributions have been raised, and whose wages have been lowered. They have saved the health insurance companies by forcing millions of Americans to buy their policies, while denying us a single-payer plan and leaving prices remain uncontrolled. They have saved them, but they have not saved us.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We join the movement for this march, excited and enthused to see the labor unions, the African American and Latino populations, the women’s, gay and lesbian and environmental movements taking to the streets. But we know that change can only be brought about as it has been in every period of American history by independent social movements. And such independent movements must find political expression first in independent candidates and then in a party of working people and all in our society who suffer exploitation, discrimination and oppression.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The organizers of this march have called it “One Nation.” The truth is we are two nations. One nation of corporate CEOs and Bankers and their legions of high level executives, the very wealthy of our country, and another nation of working people, many of them now jobless. We are two nations: the corporations who run this country and the working people who make this country run. We will be marching with the working class to end a system dominated by corporations. We march because we believe that those working people who make the country run should run the country.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We know from American history and the history of the world that great and progressive changes come about only from below. We know that in modern times working people, who stand at the center of our economy and represent the majority of our population, represent the crucial force capable of making the changes we need. We also know that if we only organize movements and fail to create an independent political force, the Democrats will harvest all of our organizing. The fruits of our labor will be turned against us in Congress.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So we march. We march for jobs. We march for single-payer health care. We march for free public education from K to Ph.D. We march for an end to our racist and class-biased injustice system, and for equal justice for all. We march for women’s rights. We march for legalization of all the undocumented. We march for LGBT rights. We march for an end to the destruction of our environment. We march for an end to the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. We march for an end to US support for Israel's occupation of Palestine and blockade of Gaza. We march knowing that the things we march for can only be achieved by abolishing capitalism and creating a democratic socialist society. We invite you to march with us. Join the Socialist Contingent on October 2 in Washington, D.C.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To support and endorse the Socialist Contingent contact us at: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">socialistcontingentoct2@gmail.com</span></div></span></span></span>Socialist Contingent on Oct 2http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570350967341967610noreply@blogger.com1