Socialist Alternative

BAILOUT WORKERS, NOT WALL STREET!
What strategy to confront the economic crisis?

12 PM FORUM
SPEAKERS:
Dean Gunderson: State bargaining committee representative for the Minneapolis Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) Local 501*

Brett Hoven:
St. Paul Ford Assembly Plant worker-activist, United Auto Workers Local 879*

Angel Gardner: Barista-organizer with the Starbucks Workers’ Union drive*

Alec Johnson: Metro Transit worker-activist with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005*

2:30 WORKSHOPS
- Climate in Crisis: Is there a solution under capitalism?
- The End of Empire?: Will Obama transform U.S. foreign policy?
- The Struggle for Marriage Equality: GLBT politics in the era of Republican decline

4:00 PM FORUM
THE S-WORD RE-EMERGES: What Socialism Really Means
SPEAKERS:
April Knutson: Professor of Marxism at the U of M, contributor to the journal Science, Nature, and Society

David Riehle: Social activist, historian of 1934 Minneapolis Truckers strike, United Transportation Union Local 650*

Tyron Moore: Editorial Committee member for Justice newspaper, organizer for Socialist Alternative

SATURDAY APRIL 11TH
12:00-6:00 PM
COFFMAN UNION, Room 303
U of M East Bank, 300 Washington Ave, Minneapolis

(612) 760-1980

* Union and other affiliations listed for identification purposes only and do not imply endorsement of event.