Dear EmailNation Subscriber,
We thought Nation readers might be interested in hearing
about a couple of upcoming conferences that have both become venerable annual
meeting places for important parts of the progressive community:
THE SOCIALIST SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
April 13 - 15, New York City
Now in its 19th year, the S.S. Conf has become
the longest-standing and largest annual gathering of the U.S. left. Two days of more than sixty panels will
feature leading activists and thinkers debating a wide-range of charged
political and cultural issues. The Conference will take place this weekend at
Cooper Union in downtown Manhattan. Speakers include Naomi Klein, Eric
Schlosser, Ellen Willis, Cornel West, Boris Kagarlitsky, Robert McChesney, Paul
Buhle, Barbara Ehrenreich and Manning Marable, among many others. There will
also be a special session in honor of The Nation’s late Europe Correspondent
Daniel Singer at 10:00 AM on Saturday, April 14, featuring Victor Navasky,
Frances Fox Piven and Harry Magdoff.
For ticket information and directions, please call
212-817-7868 or go to
http://www.socialistscholar.org
LABOR NOTES CONFERENCE
April 20-22, Detroit
No one knows how deep or long the current recession will
be, but it raises the same questions for union members as the last slump did:
Do concessions save jobs? Are strikes hopeless? The upcoming Labor Notes
Conference in Detroit will be the first opportunity for large numbers of union
activists to discuss the new context: a deteriorating economy and a colder
political climate.
Labor Notes, a 22-year-old monthly, was one of the first
labor
organizations to take on concessions, with a conference in
the early 1980s
and a book, “Concessions and How to Beat Them” soon
thereafter. This
year’s conference will look at ways to avoid the mistakes of
those years
and ally with the movement for global justice. Speakers
include Ken Riley
of the Charleston 5 dockworkers, framed on felony riot
charges for
picketing scab labor; Sandy Ellis, a leader of a nurses’
strike against
mandatory overtime; Meredith Schaffer, leader of the
successful organizing
drive at Powell’s Books; and speakers from Brazil, Bolivia,
Sri Lanka and
Colombia. For ticket information and directions, please call
313-842-6262
or go to http://www.labornotes.org
Best Regards,
Peter Rothberg
Associate Publisher, The Nation
P.S. You can still read recent articles of interest from
the pages of The Nation, including Bruce Shapiro on the arrest of James Kopp;
Senator Jon Corzine on why he’s not joining the DLC; Scott Sherman on Al
Sharpton;
Jonah Peretti on his “Nike media adventure”; Naomi Klein
on the World Social Forum; Eben Moglen on Napster; JoAnn Wypijewski on General Electric;
Victor Navasky on David Horowitz’s latest campaign; Ellen Willis on The
Sopranos; Marc Cooper on Plan Columbia; Robert Sherrill on death-penalty
politics, Vincent Bugliosi on Bush vs. Gore and Eric Alterman on commies and the
conservatives who love them. All that and more currently available at: