Schedule
PLENARY MEETINGS
Special Friday Event
A Woman Among Warlords: Eyewitness to Empire
Featuring Malalai Joya, a female Member of the Afghan Parliament and courageous voice against women’s oppression and US occupation. Also featuring Saadia Toor and Ashley Smith.
8pm
Columbia University – International Affairs Building – Altschul Auditorium (417)
Entrance at 117th Street and Amsterdam
Malalai Joya rose to fame in December 2003 when, as an elected delegate to the Constitutional Loya Jirga, she spoke out publicly against the domination of warlords. Since then she has survived four assassination attempts, and travels in Afghanistan under a burqa and with armed guards. Her newly published book, A Woman Among Warlords, has been widely praised; Noam Chomsky has written that it “leaves us with hope that the tormented people of Afghanistan can take their fate into their own hands if they are released from the grip of foreign powers”.
There will be a book signing following the event.
Capitalism Isn’t Working: The Case for Socialism
Alan Maass, editor of Socialist Worker and author of The Case for
Socialism (Haymarket Books, 2001), looks at the recent economic
and financial crises and argues the free market’s inability to meet
even the basic needs of the world’s population and for an alternate
vision of a society based on human need not profit and corporate
greed. Saturday, 10am
Resistance in a Time of Crisis and War
Jeremy Scahill, independent journalist and author of Blackwater:
The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books,
2007), Ahmed Shawki, editor of the International Socialist Review,
and other activists will address the nature of the world economic
crisis, continuing wars and occupation, and how to build social
movements and a political alternative to win fundamental social
change. Saturday, 8pm
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
| 9:00am | Registration Opens Lerner Hall, Columbia University, 115th and Broadway |
| 10:00am | Opening Plenary Capitalism Isn’t Working: The Case for Socialism with Alan Maass |
Noon | Workshop Block 1 All workshops held at Columbia University, Hamilton Hall. 116th St and Broadway |
| 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 2:30pm | Workshop Block 2 |
| 4:30pm | Workshop Block 3 |
| 6:00pm | Dinner |
| 6:15pm | Dinner Meeting An Introduction to the ISO |
| 8:00pm | Final Plenary Resistance in a Time of Crisis with Jeremy Scahill, Ahmed Shawki and other activists |
| 10:00pm | Party! |
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
| 10:00am | Workshop Session 1 |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | Workshop Session 2 |
| 3:00pm | Workshop Session 3 |
SPECIAL PIZZA DINNER MEETING
Introduction to the ISO
A discussion for those interested in finding out more about
the International Socialist Organization. Bring your questions,
disagreements and ideas to this open discussion.
6:15pm Saturday
