Civil rights sit-ins. Bell-bottoms. Anti-war marches. Student Power. Afros. Mini-skirts. Hippies. Riots. Space flights. The generation gap.

Those hallmarks of the turbulent 1960’s will be rekindled Friday November 14 at this year’s annual “Spirit of the ‘60’s Coffeehouse”:

Friday November 14 7:30 p.m.

King Avenue Methodist Church
299 W. King at Neil in Columbus.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the church basement, but get there early for a good seat.

Bill Cohen will lead a candlelit, musical, year-by-year journey through the era, with live folksongs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions.

Bill will also challenge the audience with sixties trivia questions, and he’ll award prizes (with a 1960’s theme) to those with the right answers.

Proceeds from the suggested $10 donations will go to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. Refreshments will be available at no extra charge. Free parking is also available in the lots just South and West of the church.

The program is suitable for ADULTS and MATURE TEENS.

It’s the 23rd year of sixties coffeehouses for Bill. He’s performed the show more than a hundred times now at colleges, churches, synagogues, conferences, high schools, and middle schools across Ohio and beyond.

For more information, call Bill at (614) 263-3851.

****BUILDING A REVOLUTIONARY ALTERNATIVE****

November 15-16 * Chicago * DePaul University
(Munroe Hall, 2312 N. Clifton)

****2008 MIDWEST SOCIALIST CONFERENCE****

On November 15, join hundreds of socialists and activists from across the Midwest to discuss today's struggles and building a movement for revolutionary change at the 2008 Midwest Socialist Conference.

****SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS

*Saturday Morning Plenary
Capitalism in Crisis: Building the Revolutionary Alternative

*Saturday Evening Plenary
Resisting U.S. Empire

*Saturday Workshops
From Boom to Bust: The Economic Crisis Today
Is a Revolution Possible in the U.S.?
What's next in the Struggle for Immigrant Rights?
From New Deal to Raw Deal: Keynesianism to Neoliberalism
Afghanistan: The Right War?
Lock 'em up and Throw Away the Key: Capitalism: Crime and Punishment
Radical Black Workers Struggles of the 1960s
Environment in Crisis: Can the Planet Be Saved?
Capitalism and Sexuality
Harvest of Empire: Globalization and Immigration
How Can We Organize to Fight Back? The Politics of Mass Protest and Direct Action
Marxism versus Anarchism
The Women's Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
Lenin and Buhkarin on the Theory of Imperialism
After the Elections: The Democratic Party and War
The Fight for Single-Payer Health Care (Patients and Health Care Workers Speak Out)
Why Do We Need a Revolutionary Party?
From Unemployed Councils to Factory Occupations: The Class Rebellion of the 1930s
Introduction to the International Socialist Organization (ISO)

*Sunday "Socialist School" Workshops
Why Capitalism Doesn't Work: The Marxist Theory of Economic Crisis
World Revolution: The First Five Years of the Communist International
The Russian Revolution: When Workers Ran Society
Rosa Luxemburg's The Mass Strike
The Myth of Lenin's Elitism

****SPEAKERS INCLUDE (SO FAR)

SHARON SMITH author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the United States

CAMILO MEJíA of Iraq Veterans Against the War (*for id only)

ACTIVISTS form the front-lines of the struggles against the death penalty, for immigrant rights, for single-payer health care and against the war.

JOE ALLEN author of Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost

PHIL GASPER columnist for the International Socialist Review and editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

KEEANGA TAYLOR frequent contributor to Counterpunch, International Socialist Review and Socialist Worker on questions of race and class

ELIZABETH SCHULTE journalist for Socialist Worker newspaper and Socialist Worker Online

ADAM TURL contributor to Socialist Worker and Socialist Worker Online.

DAVID WHITEHOUSE reviews editor for the International Socialist Review

****CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Saturday

9-10am Registration
10-11am Opening Plenary
11:30-1pm Workshops
1-2pm Lunch
2-3:30pm Workshops
4-5:30pm Workshops
5:30-7:30pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Evening Plenary

Sunday "Socialist School"

11am-1pm Workshops

****REGISTRATION is on a sliding scale of $15-50 (solidarity) donation

****FOR MORE INFORMATION contact your local branch of the International Socialist Organization, call 773-370-4575 or e-mail contact@internationalsocialist.org.

SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION

http://www.internationalsocialist.org/
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