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Presenters: Yusuf Nuruddin, Anamaría Flores, Victor Wallis (all of Socialism and Democracy);Suren Moodliar (Massachusetts Global Action); Francisca Porchas (Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles); Dave Lippman (songwriter/satirist, formerly of the Committee to Intervene Anywhere);David Rovics (songwriter)
We hope that those who attend this session will sharpen their understanding of how each particular struggle relates to other popular struggles and, above all, to the broader goal of bringing about a radical power-shift. We see socialism as meaning that power is no longer held by a property-owning class but instead belongs to the people as a whole. Socialism in its actual workings is not simply “big government” and is not what some “elite” might prescribe; it is what the people though their organizations make it into. The basic question for our presenters will be to explain how their own activism on various issues, through various forms of expression, and with various sectors of the population informs and is informed by their consciousness of the way power is currently structured – and of how its restructuring can reflect the interests of the working-class majority (understanding the latter in all its diversity).
