Boston Socialist Unity Project Annual Conference 2018
Saturday, March 17, 9-5 pm, @ MIT Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street
Website: BostonSocialistUnity.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1600917569991653/
We invite you to join our third annual conference on the theme “Building a Socialist Political Force: social movements and the Left in an Election Year.” The conference will feature speakers on important issues facing the Left and socialists, as well as a full range of workshops.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROGRAM
Saturday, March 17, 9:00 AM
registration opens 9:00 a.m. / program begins 10:00 a.m.
Featured speakers
o Savina Martin, eastern Massachusetts chair of the new Poor Peoples Campaign
o Monica Poole, associate professor at Bunker Hill Community College, on a radical take on #MeToo and current women’s issues
o Louise Parker, University of Massachusetts – Boston, on single payer and a national health care system
o Ari Wohlfeiler, national deputy director of Jewish Voice for Peace, on Palestinian rights
o Jill Stein, former Green Party presidential candidate, on the crisis in Korea and US imperialism
Our lunchtime plenary presents different perspectives on the 2018 elections and electoral politics, seeking common ground and strengthening the movement: presentations by members of: Socialist Party of Boston, Our Revolution, the Communist Party USA of Greater Boston, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Green Party, Democratic Socialists of America
Two sessions of participatory workshops will showcase movement-building work and issues. Topics include: Puerto Rico; immigrant rights and deportation; Drugs, Violence and Free Trade; Jobs not Jails; lessons from Gramsci; Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel; socialist organizing strategies; student organizing; digital security; labor issues in education
Breakfast and lunch options available at the conference.
Everyone is welcome, $10 suggested donation; nobody turned away for lack of funds.