UMass Boston International Socialist Organization
Organizing Meeting
Building for the SOCIALISM 2012 Conference!
Thursday April 26th
7pm-9pm
Room 43 Wheatley Building 1st Floor
“A GLOBAL rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.”
That's how the African American revolutionary Malcolm X characterized
the international scene in 1965. But the description seems even more apt
today.
After years of devastation in the clutches of the Great Recession,
masses of people are discovering their own power to change the world.
The Arab Spring has given birth to a global movement of Occupiers that
has revived the politics of class struggle and revolution for the 21st
century. Instead of the cutbacks, unemployment and repression that our
rulers offer us, solidarity in struggle shows that “another world is
possible.”
Each year, the Socialism conference brings together more than 1,500
scholars and activists from around the country to learn OUR history of
class struggle and debate strategies for building a better world. Don't
miss this chance to meet hundreds of others like you: committed fighters
against a system of greed, racism, war, and oppression.
Join
the UMass Boston branch of the International Socialist Organization
for our weekly organizing meeting where we will be discussing how to
build this conference on campus with students and faculty, building for
an upcoming city-wide panel on "From Trayvon Martin to DJ Henry: Fighting Racism and Police Brutality", and a major protest this Saturday in solidarity with the Museum of Fine Arts security guards who are
currently in a labor struggle to save their jobs.
Proposed Agenda
1) Building for Socialism 2012 Conference 45 min
2) Justice for Trayvon Martin Organizing Perspectives 30 min
please read Building a New Struggle for Racial Justice
3) Labor Solidarity Rally with
MFA Security Guards
Perspectives 20 min
Please read Taking on MFA's Corporate Model and Their Plan for Low-Wage America
