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Eugene V. Debs - Norman Thomas - Michael Harrington

52nd Annual Dinner

 

 Honoring

Carl Rosen

President, United Electrical Workers Western Region
Bring America Home

Honoring the

People's Law Office

Bring America Home

featuring

William Greider

Columnist for The Nation; Journalist; Author: Come Home America (2009), The Soul of Capitalism (2004), The Secrets of the Temple (1989), and others


and our Master of Ceremonies, Kim Bobo (Executive Director, Interfaith Worker Justice)
     

Friday, May 7, 2010

Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro, 733 W. Madison, Chicago

Cocktails at 6:00 p.m. -- Dinner at 7:00 p.m. -- Tickets @ $60

Tickets must be reserved no later than Tuesday, May 4. A limited number of tickets may be available at the door at $70 per person. Make sure you and your organization appear in the program book! For more details: call 773.384.0327 or email chiildsa@chicagodsa.org or CLICK HERE for to download a printable (PDF) flyer with more information..

Auspices: Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation with 501c4 IRS status;
contributions are not tax-deductible.

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Bring America Home! As Frederick Douglass said, "power concedes nothing without a demand," and in these early years of the 21st Century, "Bring America Home!" must be our demand to the powerful. It is not a cry of isolationism. It is a demand for priorities that are sensible for the majority of Americans: for health care instead of bombs, for productive jobs instead of billions to bail out a financial elite, for fair trade agreements instead of free trade agreements, for internationalism instead of empire. Bring America Home! is the theme of the 2010 Debs ­ Thomas ­ Harrington Dinner.

To address this theme, we have William Greider: reporter, editor, columnist for The Nation, and author. Among his many books are Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal of American Democracy, One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism, and The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy. His most recent book is Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country. Greider writes about capitalism and about democracy and explains how these two value systems are in collision. There isn't a speaker better suited to these times. This is someone you will not want to miss.

This year we are honoring Carl Rosen. Rosen is President of the Western Region of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE). He is also a vice-president of UE nationally and a member of UE's General Executive Board. Rosen serves as an officer of Chicago Jobs with Justice, an organization he helped start. These are the bare bones of his work. The truly interesting stuff is his involvement with the historic, successful Republic Windows occupation that once again made plant occupations a viable tactic for the labor movement and his work for immigrant rights, against the wars, for the abolition of the death penalty, and in favor of universal health care. Please join us in honoring Carl Rosen and his work.

For the second time in the history of the Dinner, we are honoring an organization: the People's Law Office. The People's Law Office (PLO) has its proudly controversial origins in the legal battles following the 1968 Democratic Convention: a "law collective" that worked "in the movement for the movement and with the movement." To be brief, the PLO's work has been an illustration of what Eugene Debs meant when he said, "While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." In recent years, the PLO has worked to curb police misconduct and brutality and has worked to abolish the death penalty. Please join us in honoring this resource for social justice.

These two honorees have done work worthy of your recognition. If you cannot attend (or even if you can), please consider placing an ad in the Dinner Program Book. Information about the Dinner and the Program Book is here. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. More information about Chicago DSA and the work we do can be found at our web site, www.chicagodsa.org.

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