2010 Solidarity Northeast Educational Conference

Friday, Nov. 19 - Saturday, Nov. 20, New York University

Click here to register for the conference; pre-registration is strongly encouraged so we can anticipate childcare, housing and catering needs. If you have any questions, send an email to nyc@solidarity-us.org.

Click here for conference schedule: speakers, rooms and times.

Download a promo leaflet for the conference. Invited speakers include: David McNally (New Socialist Group, Canada) Gilbert Achcar (Fourth International; Author of Arabs and the Holocaust) Paul Street (Author of Empire's New Clothes) Cinzia Arruzza (Solidarity, New School) Adriana Mulero (Comité de Estudiantes en Defensa de la Educación Pública, CEDEP; Unión de Juventudes Socialistas-Movimiento Socialista de Trabajadores, Puerto Rico) Blanca Misse (Student Worker Action Team, University of California-Berkeley) Bill Zoda (Philadelphia Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals) Steve Downs (Transport Workers Union Local 100) Wes Strong(Defend Public Education) Adaner Usmani (Labour Party Pakistan) *Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only

Solidarity and the Radical Film and Lecture Series bring you a weekend of discussion regarding the key issues that radical activists face today, as capitalism enters the third year of a profound crisis that has presented stark challenges to social movements and left organization.

Both the left and the ruling class struggle to find strategies that will see their side through the crisis, while workers and the oppressed continue to pay for the economic crisis and the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But even as the crisis has exacted enormous cost from the working class and its organizations, popular struggles have emerged that we can not only celebrate but also learn from—that's what this weekend is about. Drawing lessons and inspiration from the strikes and struggles that have marked this period and charting our course in a difficult political terrain.

Join us for a weekend of debate and discussion about where movements have gone in the wake of the biggest crisis in seventy years, the role of the anti-capitalist left in rebuilding mass movements that can win—and the political renewal that is necessary for left politics to become relevant in a world marked by the resurgence of the right.

Conference Program

Main Sessions:

Two Years In: Socialist Activists and the Crisis
Obama's America: Resistance at Home and Abroad
Rebuilding the Movements, Renewing the Left

The conference will also feature workshops on
The Labor Movement • Defending Higher Education • Public Sector Fightback • The Rise of the Right and more

Conference agenda here. Lunch and coffee breaks will be provided by the conference organizers and are included
in registration costs.

Click here to register for the conference; pre-registration is strongly encouraged.

If you still need to pay for the conference, click here.

Free housing, childcare and meals provided; see form for more details
Travel subsidies available for Solidarity members and friends in the Northeast region