TURNING THE TIDE TOWARDS FREEDOM:
Building the Youth and Student Movement for Justice
February 17-19, 2006 - New York City
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The Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) are hosting a national conference in New York City on February 17-19 (President's Day vacation weekend), called "Turning the Tide Towards Freedom: Building the Youth and Student Movement for Justice" to bring together activists from across the country for workshops, trainings, great speakers, and more to reenergize the struggle to build a better future! 

FULL SCHEDULE / REGISTER  / MORE INFO: WWW.YDSUSA.ORG
 

PLENARIES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC* INCLUDE:
Friday Evening/Feb.17    7:00  8:30
BEYOND KATRINA: CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE

• Bill Fletcher - President of TransAfrica Forum, founder of the Black Radical Congress, former AFL-CIO Education Director
• Komozi Woodard - Professor of American history at Sarah Lawrence College, author of Black Power Politics    
• Elizabeth Rothschild - National Organizer, Young Democratic Socialists
• Adrienne Maree Brown - League of Young Voters, co-editor of How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office

Saturday/Feb.18     12:00  1:30
EDUCATION & DEMOCRACY: FIGHTING FOR OUR SCHOOLS, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR MINDS

• Eddy Morales  President of the United States Student Association-the country's largest national student organization, representing millions
• Anya Kamenetz  Author of Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to be Young and regular contributor to the Village Voice
• Jay Woodson - National Hip Hop Political Convention, Black Radical Congress Youth Caucus    

Saturday/Feb.18      2:30  4:00
OUR WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE: CORPORATE POWER & INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY

• Fances Fox Piven - Distinguished sociologist at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism and Poor People's Movements and Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America
• Damu Smith  Co-chair and founder of Black Voices for Peace, executive director of the National Black Environmental Justice Network
• Joe Schwartz - Chair, department of Political Science, Temple University, author of The Future of Democratic Equality and DSA National Political Committee member

Sunday/Feb.19      11:45  1:15
CONFRONTING EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM

• Gayatri Spivak - Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, author of Can the Subaltern Speak?
• Christian Parenti - The Nation correspondent, author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, The Soft Cage, and Lockdown America
• Stephen Eric Bronner - Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, author of Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy , and Socialism Unbound
• Jeff Goodwin - Associate Professor of Sociology at NYU and co-editor of Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements     

*The above plenaries are open to the public with a $5 suggested donation for those not registered for the entire conference.  Sunday events free to Columbia/Barnard students.

FULL WORKSHOP SCHEDULE & SPEAKER LIST ON WEBSITE
REGISTER TODAY: WWW.YDSUSA.ORG

Travel and housing assistance available.  Go on-line for details.


Locations:
FRIDAY EVENING & ALL DAY SATURDAY
H.S. 440 Bayard Rustin High School for The Humanities
351 West 18th Street (btwn 8th & 9th Ave)
subway: 1/2/9/A/C/E

SUNDAY
Barnard College / Barnard Hall
117th Street (btwn Claremont Ave. & Broadway)
subway: 1 train to 116th (Colombia U.)

Young Democratic Socialists
198 Broadway, Suite 700
New York, NY 10038
212-727-8610 ext. 24
www.ydsusa.org
Liberty! Equality! Solidarity!