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YCL 8th National Convention May 2006
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Our Future, Our Fight: Youth Beat Back the Ultra-Right!
Young Communist League, USA
Eighth National Convention
May 27-29, 2006 * New York City
Our Future, Our Fight: Youth Beat Back the Ultra-Right
On Memorial Day Weekend members of the Young Communist League, USA refused to sit back while ultra-right attempts to destroy our future by holding our 8th National Convention in Brooklyn, New York. During the weekend, over 250 delegates and guests from Oakland, Chicago, Maine, Providence, Florida, St. Louis, New York and many other communities came together to celebrate the successes of the YCL in the last 4 years and to plan how to move the YCL forward in the struggle for peace, jobs and education for young people.
Convention highlights include:
Convention-goers attended “War and Peace”, an art exhibit and hip-hop performance co-sponsored by Dynamic Magazine, World Up and Upper Playground
Convention-goers demonstrated outside of a Brooklyn military recruitment center demanding money for schools, jobs and not for war
Convention adopted a national Action Plan, a document that provides a foundation for our work over the next 4 years
Convention approved resolutions covering our approach to the struggle of immigrants, the struggle for peace, and aid to survivors of Hurricane Katrina
Convention elected of new National Council and National Coordinator, Erica Smiley
The convention opened with a rousing speech from out-going National Coordinator Jessica Marshall, setting the tone for the rest of the weekend by noting “This country needs a radical youth organization, a strong and vibrant multi-racial organization. The YCL knows that unity is not a secondary vision. We are not victims, we are fighters!” Also addressing the convention were Congressman Major Owens (D-NY) who welcomed us to Brooklyn “on behalf of all the progressive forces of the nation and world”, Jarvis Tyner, executive Vice Chair of the Communist Party USA who reminded us that “Tomorrow is Yours”, and international guests from the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), YCL of Canada, YCL of Greece, YCL of Israel and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) of El Salvador.
Throughout the weekend YCL members and guests participated in workshops on topics ranging from issues such as “Youth and the Poverty Draft”, skills-building sessions on how to get involved in the upcoming elections to ideological workshops highlighting the YCL’s approach to fighting racism, the struggle women’s equality and the fight for democracy.
As we all return home, pumped from the Convention and ready to hit the streets in the upcoming elections, we invite you to join us in the fight for the rights of young people and for a better future for all youth. You can do this in many ways, signing up for the upcoming YCL School where you can dive deeper into the many ideological questions raised at the convention, you can participate in our elections work, and be a part of implementing our Action Plan in so many ways.
But before you do anything, consider joining the YCLUSA.
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The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement has many hidden negative effects on the lives of people throughout the Western Hemisphere. One of the most malicious of these is the agreement’s assault on public education...
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Oct. 17, 2003 - U.S.-led coalition forces try to resuscitate a soldier, left, as another has a head wound treated, right, after an attack on a Humvee on the main road about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad. The U.S.-led occupation army faces harassing attacks from a shadowy array of Iraqi and possibly foreign foes – die-hard Sunni Muslim loyalists of the toppled Baathist government, other Iraqi nationalists who want the Americans out, terror bombers who may be driven by Islamic fanaticism. In Shiite Muslim areas, the Americans have an uneasy, sometimes bloody coexistence with the armed militias of clerical factions.
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"My husband is in the army national guard and has been deployed since Feb. 13th. We have two beautiful children, a 16 month old and a four month old. He missed our sons first steps and our daughters birth. He has seen her only through pictures, and why? Because our governing officials are a bunch of liars..."
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Judge Baer Jr.
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On 7 May 2003, Harold Baer, Jr., Federal District Judge for the Southern District of New York, handed down a decision awarding damages against Iraq for the deaths of two men in the 9/11 attacks. While the judge admitted the plaintiffs presented “few actual facts of any material support that Iraq actually provided,? he commanded Iraq to pay up to $64 million...
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most important poets of the Palestinian resistance to occupation and war. As a poet, activist and commentator, Darwish has become an international symbol of the Palestinian cause and represents the status of a people without a state, exiled from their homes and histories...
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President Bush listens to a reporter's question during a joint news conference with Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki in the East Room of the White House Monday, Oct. 6, 2003 in Washington.
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In the 1920s, Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci formulated a political strategy that, a decade later, gave birth to the concept of the Popular Front most famously articulated by Georgi Dimitrov, head of the Communist international. This strategy, which was based on the experience of communists resisting fascism in Italy, Spain and elsewhere, proposed an alliance of all anti-fascist forces, across class and even political divides, in order to first weather fascism and ultimately to destroy it...
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Following our trip to Cuba as part of the 3rd US/Cuba Youth Exchange, I traveled with my mother to Mexico to relax, explore and see first hand the struggles of the Mexican people. At first our travel agenda had been to travel south a little bit, see some Mayan ruins, and hang out on the beautiful beaches, but I had additional plans...
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Paul Robeson Stamp
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Paul Leroy Robeson was the U.S. working class’ greatest voice. One critic described his baritone as “the finest musical instrument wrought by Nature in our time.? His outspoken activism against racism and imperialism made him one of the most beloved heroes of the international working class...
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Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
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Atlanta-based duo OutKast has delivered another black experience in their latest and most innovative album yet, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Big Boi and Andre 3000 each took one half of the double-album to develop their own material for what is their fifth album...
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"Salt of the Earth" Movie Poster
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The whole history of the American continent is full of heroic figures that resisted racism, colonialism and exploitation. Those who struggled during the McCarthy era are among the most brave and valiant of all time. In the face of segregation, violence, red baiting and political repression, many stood up for what was right against all odds...
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Matthew Hall 1984-2003
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At 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24, someone shot young activist and poet Matthew Hall in the back. The bullet hit vital internal organs, leaving Matthew lying on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in New York City. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital for treatment, but at 4:30 the next morning, in spite of doctors’ efforts and the hope of family and friends, our dear comrade Matthew Hall was pronounced dead.
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Every night is an opportunity to
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Print and Web Resources on the FTAA.
Globalization: it\'s a buzzword you can\'t escape. But what on earth does it mean? For some it\'s the ticket to a democratic world of instant communications and global prosperity. While for others it\'s a money-mad juggernaut, spinning wildly out of control, threatening both cultural and biological diversity.
The complex entanglement of cultures and economies has been growing since the colonial era and even before. So today commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow.
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Editor's Desk
The Dynamic Editors invite your opinions and feedback. Please type or paste your letter to the editor below. The Dynamic Editors will read your submission and consider it for publication. Thanks for your time and we look forward to reading your letter.
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During the week of November 17-21st hundreds of thousands of workers, unions, environmental groups, youth and student organizations, global justice groups and civil and human rights organizations throughout North and South America will be participating in a week of educational activities, protests, marches, speakouts and forums focused on defeating the ratification and implementation of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). The fight against FTAA is part of the struggle to defeat the right wing attack on our civil and labor rights, democracy and our environment.
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You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want! by Micah Ian Wright
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You Back the Attack! We Bomb Who We Want!: Remixed War Propaganda, a new book by Micah Ian Wright is unlike any peace book you’ve ever read. Published by Seven Stories Press, Back the Attack is actually a unique picture book that takes historical propaganda posters from World War II and alters them into satirical critiques of the “War on Terrorism? and the Bush domestic policy.
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Shoshanna Johnson is a single, Black mother who was one of the first Prisoners of War in the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq.
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Doroteo Garcia works the night shift cleaning classrooms at Stanford University, one of the largest employers in California’s Silicon Valley. As a steward for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877, Doroteo has been active in his union’s efforts to lift janitors out of poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area, as part of SEIU’s national Justice for Janitors campaign. He is also involved as a community leader, organizing for amnesty and immigrants rights.
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I'd like to thank Dynamic Magazine for covering so thoroughly the Bush Administration's drive to war and empire, and the peace movement's struggle to curtail it.
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Cover - 2003/October
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The International Union of Students (IUS) was joined by regional students\' organizations from around the world for the September 13, 2003 Global Student Day of Action to Defend Public Education. The action was aimed at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Students around the world are calling for all levels of education to be removed from the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), a set of rules about international trade in the service sector adopted by the WTO. GATS forces developing countries in particular to open public services, health care and public education to privatization by giant corporations.
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