Build a movement to fight back! Struggle for socialism!
Join us on December 6-7 in Los Angeles for a National “Fight Back” Conference on Socialism hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Find out what socialism is, what we aim for, and why socialism is the only answer to the misery created by capitalism.
For more information, visit the PSL website.
From the Boston Phoenix
In a recent sit-down with Fox News’s Chris Wallace, McCain suggested that, if he loses, he’ll gracefully retreat to his pre-campaign existence. “I have to go back and live in Arizona,” he said. “Be in the United States Senate representing them, a wonderful family, daughters and sons that I’m so proud of, and a life that’s been blessed.”
But a radically different picture emerged in an interview that former Missouri senator John Danforth, the co-chair of McCain’s “Honest and Open Election Committee,” did with National Public Radio. Judging from Danforth’s comments, the ongoing GOP fuss over the low-income advocacy group ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) isn’t just a way to whip up the conservative base and dissuade newly registered Democratic voters. It’s also a possible prelude to post-election litigation aimed at reversing an Obama victory. As Danforth told NPR, “If there are a number of states where the election is close — and there have been many, many people registered by this organization ACORN — and where there are numerous cases of fraudulent registration, then the contest could go on for a very long time.”
The Digital Revolution and Labor Media Strategy
December 5, 6 & 7, 2008
At University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., near Cole, San Francisco
From the LaborTech website:
This semi-annual educational and training conference brings together labor videographers, radio programmers, Internet developers, educators, artists and cultural workers to help educate, train and build labor communication and media technology for working people. It also examines issues of how these new technologies are being used both for and against labor in the workplace, on the Internet and the airwaves.
We will look at how unions are building new channels on the web, using pod-casting and other Internet tools to develop labor education, solidarity and directly connect with the rank and file. We will learn how to produce a daily video strike bulletin, how to stream our rallies and conferences, and how to develop labor channels on YouTube and other portals as well as using social networks.
We will also see examples of video and radio programs that have helped win our battles by education and involving the community in these campaigns. Labor and our unions cannot afford to wait in using these tools in our struggle to defend working people and to train our members to build a labor media movement.
For more information, visit the LaborTech website.
Here’s an excerpt from comment in the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News…
Nothing she did as governor suggests Sarah Palin would conduct witch hunts or give voice to seditious Christian Nationalists were she to reach the Oval Office. On the other hand, quoting the father of Christian Nationalism and directly participating in a religious rite protecting her from witchcraft that espoused the Seven Mountains Strategy is a reason to ask questions. The real problem is that no national candidate has been so shielded from the press and scripted (and, it turns out, clothed) as Sarah Palin so it’s hard to know what she believes.
To read the full piece, go to http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/567096.html.
From a Time.com article:
We can go to the moon, split atoms to power submarines, squeeze profits from a 99 cent hamburger and watch football highlights on cell phones. But the most successful democracy in human history has yet to figure out how to conduct a proper election. As it stands, the American voting system is a worrisome mess, a labyrinth of local, state and federal laws spotted with bewildered volunteers, harried public officials, partisan distortions, misdesigned forms, malfunctioning machines and polling-place confusion.
The full article can be found here.
October 15th, 2008
C-SPAN will broadcast the October 19 debate between Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, and Chuck Baldwin, although it is not yet known if it will be broadcast live. The debate will be Sunday evening, October 19, at Columbia University in New York city. The moderator will be Amy Goodman of Pacifica Radio. It is possible that Pacifica Radio will also broadcast it.
Bob Barr declined to participate because he is scheduled to speak somewhere else that evening. According to this MSNBC story of October 14, he will be campaigning at colleges in Ohio and Virginia during the period October 14-23.