Radical Scholars & Chicago Labor Teach-In

Carl Davidson (Democracynet@worldnet.att.net)
Sat, 4 Oct 1997 00:46:19 +0000

8TH ANNUAL MIDWEST RADICAL
SCHOLARS & ACTIVISTS CONFERENCE

A TEACH-IN
ON LABOR &
NEW ALLIANCES

Strategies for Workplace, School
& Community in the 21st Century

October 24-25, 1997
Roosevelt University, Chicago

Conference begins Friday, 1pm
and ends Saturday 10pm
Keynote Plenary: Friday, 7pm

Speakers: Abdul Alkalimat, William Adelman, Bill Ayres, Liane Casten,
Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher, Doug Gills, John Hagedorn, Manning
Marable, Robert McChesney, Kim Moody, Bertell Ollman, Mike Parker,
David Schweikart, Helen Slessarev, Pavlos Stavropoulos, Dan Swinney,
Carole Travis, Gerry Zero and many more...

MAJOR PANELS

--Labor's Alliances: Learning from History
--Radical Theory: Why Dialectics? Why Now?
--Unfair Burdens: Working Women, Today's Inequities & The Tasks of Unions
--The Media, Labor and Labor's Media
--Democratic Schools in a Democratic Society
--New Technology, Unions & Changes in Work
--Socialism's Future: A Debate
--Race, Nationality and Winning Alliances
--Structural Reform, Mass Campaigns & New Alliances
--Globalization, Neoliberalism and Labor Strategy
--Independent Politics: Labor-Community Alliances
--Welfare Reform, Income Policy & Trade Unions

Also: Book & Literature Exhibits, Political Receptions, Videos, Cultural Events

Roosevelt Co-Sponsor: School of Policy Studies
Organizational Co-Sponsors: Committees of Correspondence,
Democratic Socialists of America, Midwest Center for Labor Research
Open University of the Left

Help by Registering in advance
$50 Sustainer $25 Regular $15 Student/Low income
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