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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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El dia 13 de noviembre, 2003 en Santa Cruz, Bolivia dos mundos se reunieron en la forma de cumbres competentes: la
oficial - la Cumbre Presidencial Iberoamericano y la alternativa - el foro social alternativo organizado por el sindicato de granjeros de Bolivia. Un mes después de que los Bolivianos habian derrocado el presidente apoyado por los EE UU, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, en protestas masivas de la calle, los presidentes de los paises Latino Americanos llegaron a Bolivia para su junta anual para discutir la crisis de la región...
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Hay un movimiento actual, un movimiento de jovenes quienes se estan dando cuenta de la naturaleza opresiva de su sociedad y estan dedicando sus vidas a crear nuevas realidades para ellos mismos y sus comunidades. La poesia, en sus varias formas,
está en el corazon de este movimiento, hablando en contra de sistemas opresivos y a favor de determinación propia, identificación propia y visiones audazes de realidades alternas...
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Herbert Aptheker, a member of the Communist Party USA from 1939 until 1991, died March 17, 2003. He is probably best remembered for his groundbreaking American Negro Slave Revolts and the seven-volume work A Documentary History of the Negro People...
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"Our enemy is imperialism not abstract art"
- Fidel Castro, 1977
¡Revolución! Cuban Poster Art is an embodiment of the beauty of solidarity, revolution and education. It all started in the mid-1960s, when Cuban graphic artists came together and produced an artistic power that had a massive social impact...
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How do we view Iraq today? Who supplies information and what is its nature? What is the medium? Newspapers, television, military reports. Even those highly critical of the United States’ war and occupation of Iraq are speaking in certain terms. Facts. Numbers. Politics. Bush Presses UN to Mediate. 56 Kurds Killed. In this context I take up the book, Iraqi Poetry Today, with excitement and hope. Here is a different forum....
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Lines of heavily armed police block the streets of downtown Miami.
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The week of November 17-21, the city of Miami held meetings on the Free Trade Area of the Americas, with ministers from 32 countries in attendance. Miami is one of several cities under consideration to serve as the FTAA's base of operations. In response, a broad range of groups and individuals attended events throughout the week to voice their opposition to the policies outlined in the FTAA...
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Are we going to allow George Bush to rule our country for another four years?? asked Jarvis Tyner, executive vice-chair of Communist Party USA.
“No!? the crowd roared back...
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Students address issues of education and privatization in a workshop at the International Youth Camp;
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It’s late January in Mumbai, India and I’m walking across the street to enter the fair grounds where the 4th World Social Forum is to be held. I get there a day early to register, orient myself to the location and check out the program. As I’m crossing the street, I pass a family who live alongside a stagnant sewage trough that divides two sections of a major highway...
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Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition at Macalester organize to support workers' rights.
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LDP: What is the Student Labor Action Project? When was it founded?
AR: In 1999, Jobs with Justice and the United States Students Association (USSA) joined together to create the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) to support, advise, and solidify the student/labor work that is energizing campuses and communities across the country...
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Climbing Poetree
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At a New York Jobs With Justice MOVE (Mobilizing and Organizing Voices for Equality) meeting in New York City we were fortunate to come upon the spoken word of Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, the self-described "heartbeat-soul-sister-warrior-artist-duo" that makes up Climbing Poetree...
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Five imprisoned Shministim (Refuseniks) - from left to right: Noam Bahat, Hagai Matar, Shimri Tzamaret, Matan Kaminer, Adam Maor
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Reem Hazzan is a twenty-year-old student at Haifa University in Haifa, Israel. She is the International Secretary of the Students’ Department of the Young Communist League of Israel, and a member of the YCLI’s Executive Bureau...
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Bolivian coca growers, draped in their union's flag, anticipate the arrival of their leader Evo Morales. The cocaleros lead Bolivia's powerful unions and helped overthrow US-backed President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in Oct. 2003.
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On November 13, 2003 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia two worlds converged in the form of competing summits: the official Iberoamerican Presidential Summit and an alternative social forum organized by Bolivia’s farmers unions. A month after Bolivians overthrew US-backed President, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, in massive street protests, Latin America’s Presidents arrived for their annual meetings...
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© Jose Venturelli
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Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez once called Pablo Neruda “the greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language.? This July 12th, festivities around the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the Chilean poet’s birth. In the U.S., the Neruda centennial will be celebrated with the publication of a volume of eighty new English translations of his poems, and a documentary about his life and his words narrated by author Isabel Allende...
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Linton Kwesi Johnson (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In the last 25 years Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) has had a huge impact on poetry and politics in the UK and internationally. His commitment to the rights of Black British people has been paired with a deep appreciation of history and his Jamaican musical and cultural roots...
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Roque Dalton
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Roque Dalton was a Salvadoran poet and revolutionary activist who became one of the most influential voices in the continent during the great upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Born in 1932, Roque Dalton became involved in literary work and activism while attending the University of San Salvador...
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© Jose Venturelli
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Alone, you can fight,
you can refuse, you can
take what revenge you can
but they roll over you...
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Lenin walks around the world.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scar him...
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© Jose Venturelli
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Hunger…
I’m hungry for letting that tongue
Weave paths down my
Spine...
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© Jose Venturelli
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I Read the other day
That Four Hundred and Fifty Seven members
Of the United States armed forces
Have died since the beginning…
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Humility has taken me to the epitome of my beginning
Where I grasped my soul
Searching for a cause
There were many faces
But in the end...
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