This week -- Activist Training and Black Liberation!

Two meetings going on this week:

1) Black Liberation and Socialism, 8pm This Thursday in the "Idea Factory" in the RIT Library.

For this week's branch meeting the International Socialist Organization will be discussing the book Black Liberation and Socialism by Ahmed Shawki. The book discusses the roots of racism in the United States, and the different struggles throughout history that have tried to free African-Americans from the institutionalized racism has oppressed Blacks since before our nation was founded. We will discuss what these movements were, why they succeeded in some aspects, and why they ultimately have failed. We will be discussing the ideas of Fredrick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, The Communist Party of the 1930s, Martin Luther King, The Black Panthers, Malcolm X, and the Dodge Revolutionary Movement. Will also discuss the role socialists have played from the Scottsboro Boys, to Emmit Till, to Troy Davis, and Trayvon Martin and how we believe we can put an end to racism.

Haven't read the book? Check out these awesome articles:
On Race and Class: http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/04/race-class-and-marxism
Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: http://www.isreview.org/issues/45/civilrights.shtml

2) Activist Training Sessions, this Thursday at 7:30pm in the Miller Center on Gibbs Street, Rochester (across the street from Java's Cafe).

* Soapbox and Politics Training Session
* How to prepare and give a public presentation
* Report and Next Steps for Anti-racism organizing