Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:49:38 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher-AT-igc.apc.org> (by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit-AT-igc.apc.org>) Subject: M-NEWS: Black Radical Congress >Black Radical Congress >Chicago, Illinois >June 19-21, 1998 > >The Struggle Continues: >Setting a Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st Century > >Black people face a deep crisis. Finding a way out of this mess requires >new thinking, new vision, and a new spirit of resistance. We need a new >movement of Black radicalism. > >We know that America's capitalist economy has completely failed us. Every >day more of us are unemployed and imprisoned, homeless and hungry. Police >brutality, violence and the international drug trade threaten our children >with the greatest dangers since slavery. The politicians build more prisons >but cut budgets for public schools, day care and health care. They slash >welfare yet hire more cops. The government says working people must pay >more taxes and receive fewer services, while the rich and the corporations >grow fat. Black people and other oppressed people have the power to change >the way things are today. But first we must unite against the real enemy. > >Now is the time for a revival of the militant spirit of resistance that our >people have always possessed, from the Abolitionist Movement to outlaw >slavery to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s, from Black Power to the >anti-apartheid campaign of the 1980s. Now is the time to rebuild a strong, >uncompromising movement for human rights, full employment and self >determination. Now is the time for a new Black radicalism. > >If you believe in the politics of Black liberation, join us in Chicago in >1998 at the Black Radical Congress. If you hate what capitalism has done to >our community--widespread joblessness, drugs, violence and poverty-- >come to the Congress. If you are fed up with the corruption of the >two party system and want to develop a plan for real political >change, come to the Congress. If you want to struggle against class >exploitation, racism, sexism and homophobia, come to the Congress. >The Black Radical Congress is for everyone ready to fight back: trade >unionists and workers, youth and students, women, welfare recipients, >lesbians and gays, public housing tenants and the homeless, the >elderly and people on fixed incomes, veterans, cultural workers and >immigrants. You! > >Sisters and Brothers, we stand at the edge of a new century. The moment for >a new militancy and a new commitment to the liberation of all Black people, >at home and abroad, has arrived. Let us build a national campaign toward >the Black Radical Congress, setting in motion a renewed struggle to claim >our historic role as the real voice of democracy in this country. Spread >the word: "Without struggle, there is no progress!" Now's the time! > > >Black Radical Congress * Endorsers of the Call > >Larry Adams (President, Mailhandlers Local 300) >Royce Adams (Local 1291, International Longshoremen's Association, New Jersey) >Akbar Muhammad Ahmed (Instructor of African-American history & political >science, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland) >Abdul Alkalimat (League of Revolutionaries for a New America) >Makungu Akinyela (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta) >Lisa Anderson, Ph.D. (Lafayette, IN) >Sam Anderson (Network of Black Organizers, New York City) >Marlene Archer (National Co-chair, National Conference of Black Lawyers) >Taisha Ash (Southern International Education Committee) >Ogundara Ayoka (Tampa, FL) >General Baker (Auto worker, Detroit) >Amina Baraka (Communist Party, USA) >Amiri Baraka (Unity & Struggle newspaper) >Debbie Bell (Communist Party, USA) >Jean Carey Bond (Writer/editor, New York City) >Herb Boyd (Journalist/author, New York City) >Rose Brewer (Minneapolis, MN) >Lisa Brock (Chicago) >Humberto R. Brown (Afro Latino Network; Ida B. Wells-W.E.B. Du Bois Network) >Linda Burnham (Women of Color Resource Center, Berkeley, CA) >A.C. Byrd (Political analyst, Washington, DC) >Horace Campbell (Global Pan African Movement; Syracuse University) >James E. Campbell (Retired educator) >Dr. Trevor Campbell (Pomona, CA) >Mandy Carter (Durham, NC) >Michelle Tingling-Clemmons (National Welfare Rights Union, Washington, DC) >Rick Tingling-Clemmons (People's Tribune, Washington, DC) >Cathy Cohen (New York City) >Lisa Crooms (Washington, DC) >Angela Y. Davis (Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz; >Committees of Correspondence) >Michael Dawson (Chicago) >Rukiya Dillahunt (Black Workers for Justice, North Carolina) >Ajamu Dillahunt (Southern labor activist, North Carolina) >James Early (Cultural worker and political activist, Washington, DC) >Robert Ellis (Attorney, New York City) >Johanna Fernandez (International Socialist Organization) >Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Labor activist and writer, Washington, DC) >Gene Ford (News & Letters, Los Angeles) >Tyrone Freeman (Executive Director, Local 1985, SEIU, Atlanta) >Victoria Garvin (Veteran labor and community activist) >Angela Gilliam (Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office) >Doug Gills (Chicago) >Lewis Gordon (Brown University, Providence, RI) >Jim Grant (Black Workers for Justice) >Venus Green (New York City) >Arturo Griffiths (African-American Human Rights Foundation, Washington, DC) >Evelynn Hammonds (Cambridge, MA) >Peter Hardie (Roxbury Youth Works, Roxbury, MA) >Cheryl Harris (ITT Kent Law School) >Karega Hart (Labor activist & instructor, Oakland, CA) >Judy Hatcher (New York City) >Lennox Hines (International Association of Democratic Lawyers, North >American Chair) >Askhari Johnson Hodari (Washington, DC) >Dan Holliman (Syracuse, NY) >Dwight Hopkins (Black theologian, Chicago) >Gerald Horne (Professor of African-American studies, University of North >Carolina, Chapel Hill) >Gerry Hudson (Executive Vice President, Local 1199 - National Health & >Human Services Union, New York City) >Lynette Jackson (African-American Agenda 2000) >Geoffrey Jacques (Poet; Managing editor, New Labor Forum) >Joy James (Boulder, CO) >Ajagbe Adewole-Jimenez (Freedom Road Socialist Organization, New York City) >J.J. Jobnson (DC 1707, AFSCME, New York City) >Robin D.G. Kelley (Historian, Africana Studies, New York University; Ida B. >Wells-W.E.B Du Bois Network) >Marian Kramer (National Welfare Rights Union) >N'Tanya Lee (Ann Arbor, MI) >Clarence Lusane (Professor of Political Science, American University, >Washington, DC) >Shafeah M'Balia (Black Workers for Justice; health care activist) >Julianne Malveaux (Economist & syndicated columnist, Washington, DC) >Manning Marable (Co-chair, Committees of Correspondence; Ida B. Wells-W.E >B. Du Bois Network) >Togi Marshall (Washington, DC) >Tracye Matthews (Chicago) >David Maurasse (New York City) >Sania Metzger (New York City) >Denice Miles (Chicago) >Cbarlene Mitchell (Co-chair, Committees of Correspondence; staff, Local >371, AFSCME) >Anthony Monteiro (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Philadelphia College of >Pharmacy & Science) >Robert Moore (President, Local 1199 EDC, SEIU, Baltimore, MD) >Saladin Muhammad (Southern union organizer, Black Workers for Justice) >Leith Mullings (Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York >Graduate School; Ida B. Wells-W.E.B Du Bois Network) >Salim Muwakkil (Chicago) >Cheryl Mwaria (Ida B. Wells-W.E.B. Du Bois Network) >Prexy Nesbitt (Chicago) >Efia Nwangaza (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement) >Ahmed Obafemi (New Afrikan People's Organization) >Cheryl Johnson-Odim (Evanston, IL) >Kenny Page (National Conference of Black Lawyers, Washington, DC) >Jonathan Peck (Chicago) >Roz Pelles (Washington, DC) >Nelson Peery (League of Revolutionaries for a New America) >Brenda Randolph (Africa Access, Maryland) >Maria Ramos (New York City) >Barbara Ransby (Chicago) >Aisha Ray (Chicago) >Adolph Reed (Labor Party, Chicago) >Palmira N. Rios (Professor, University of Puerto Rico) >Cedric Robinson (Professor of Black Studies, University of California at >Santa Barbara, CA) >Jamala Rogers (Organization for Black Struggle, St. Louis, MO) >Don Rojas (Publisher, Black World Today, New Jersey) >Kathleen Saadat (Portland Rainbow Coalition, Portland, OR) >Bill Sales (Professor, Seton Hall University) >Sonia Sanchez (Poet) >Jerome Scott (Project South, Atlanta) >Joe Sims (Communist Party, USA; Editor, Political Affairs) >Barbara Smith (Albany, NY) >Kim Smith (Chicago) >Lasker Smith (Ecorse, MI) >Leona Smith (National Union of the Homeless) >Yicki Smith (Feminist Action Network, Albany, NY) >Keeanga Taylor (International Socialist Organization; City College >Coalition Against Cuts, New York City) >Anthony Thigpen (Chairman of the Board, Action for Grassroots Empowerment & >Neighborhood Alternatives, Los Angeles) >James Tim Thomas (Executive Director, Emergency Services Network, Alameda >County, CA) >David Thurston (International Socialist Organization, New York City) >Lou Turner (News & Letters, Chicago) >Jarvis Tyner (Communist Party, USA) >William Watkins (Chicago) >Cornel West (Cambridge, MA) >List in formation > >For more information about the Black Radical Congress, please write: >Black Radical Congress, PO Box 5766, Chicago IL 60680-5766 > > >
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