PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

LEFT FORUM 2006 is less than a month away!

Join many of the world's leading left thinkers and activists for an 
important, engaging weekend of political commentary and debate. LEFT 
FORUM takes place from March 10-12 at Cooper Union. The program 
schedule is available at:
www.leftforum.org


Register early and save time and money at www.leftforum.org

Friday night's Opening Plenary, moderated by WBAI's Deepa Fernandes, 
"Challenges to Empire," will feature Chico Whitaker (Brazil), François 
Houtart (Belgium), Bill Fletcher Jr. (USA), Aníbal Quijano (Peru) and 
Heike Hänsel (Germany) discussing recent developments in Latin 
American, global social movements, political struggles around the world 
and the implications to US hegemony.


Throughout the weekend, social movement activists, left intellectuals, 
artists and organizers will debate the pressing political questions we 
are facing: How can we end the war in Iraq and combat the permanent war 
at home? How can we integrate struggles for racial justice, gender 
equality, immigrant rights and sexual freedom with a battle against 
capitalist globalization and destruction of workers' gains and 
organizations? How can the US Left, the health of which impacts left 
movements around the world, rise from fragmentation to organize for an 
alternative future here?

We urge you to join the dialogue, March 10-12 at Cooper Union in New 
York City.

In Solidarity,

Stanley Aronowitz
Eric Canepa
Bill Fletcher Jr.
Nancy Holmstrom
Mahmood Mamdani
Jamie McCallum
Leith Mullings
Frances Fox Piven
Julie Ruben
Michael Steven Smith
Bill Tabb
Rick Wolff
Julia Wrigley