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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