Next ISO Meeting

The next meeting of the International Socialist Organization will be on Thursday, April 9th in the RIT Library Idea Factory at 7:30pm.

Four agenda points have been proposed for this meeting:

Part I will be a presentation on our annual summer Socialism Conference in Chicago taking place on June 18-21. Banks are getting bail-outs after ruining the economy while unemployment figures hit record levels. Building a Socialist alternative has never been more urgent. We will be discussing how this conference fits into building this alternative as well as how we are going to raise the funds to ensure that everyone serious about this project from Rochester is able to attend.

Part II will be a quick update on the Marx Is Back! tour we are in the process of setting up. We plan to have a bunch of meetings on campuses to discuss the relevance of Marx's ideas for explaining the way capitalism works today. But we also aim to show that Marxism provides a guide to action for activists serious about organizing for revolution today.

Part III will be a presentation on how we can use the new issue of Socialist Worker Newspaper to connect up socialist ideas with our friends and co-workers as well as in our organizing these coming weeks.

Part IV will be a proposal and vote to add a new Socialism Conference fraction (or working group) to our branch division of labor. Specifically, the Socialism Conference fraction will need to work on: 1) Centralizing registration, 2) Housing, 3) Transportation, and 3) Fundraising (although the whole branch--especially members that need fundrasing--will be involved in fundraising).

For more info, contact us at: Rochiso@yahoo.com