NYC: MXGM Unity Brunch

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Unity Brunch in conjunction with the Revolutionary Work in Our Time s brings you: Which Way Forward for the Left in the Age of Obama & the Economic Crisis

A forum featuring: Chokwe Lumumba; Bill Fletcher, Jr.; Kate Griffiths; and a speaker from the New York Study Group.

This forum is the New York installment in a series of local conversations among left organizers in cities around the country to assess the impacts of the November 2008 elections and the economic crisis and to discuss the resultant strategic priorities for left organizers.

* What did we learn from the elections about the state of politics in the US today?

* What does the election of Obama mean for Black struggles for self-determination?

* What do we expect from the Obama administration?

* How will the deepening global economic crisis effect the direction and action of the next regime? How will it impact our communities and movements?

* Where will key social struggles be, and what can we do to focus our participation in them? What do we think we can achieve in the next period?

* What impact will the new composition of Congress, Senate and Presidency have on what kinds of alliances leftists should make and how we should position ourselves?

When: Sunday November 23, 1 pm

Where: Community Service Society (CSS) 105 E. 22nd St., 4th fl, the Corner of Park Avenue South (6 Train to 23rd street), New York City.

Who: The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) is a organization dedicated to protecting and advocating for the Human Rights of the Black people in the united states. MXGM is a national organization that has many community based programs and grassroots institutions.

Revolutionary Work in Our Times is a network-in-formation of revolutionary activists from different Left and social movement organizations committed to collaborative political education, developing analysis and strategy for today’s struggles, and building unity to create a vibrant revolutionary movement in the US.

Chokwe Lumumba is the chairperson of the New Afrikan Peoples Organization (NAPO) and a founding member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). He is known as a true people’s lawyer for his zealous advocacy on behalf of his clients and is revered for his tireless activism for self-determination.

Kate Griffiths is a labor activist, graduate student in anthropology and co-author of ‘Facing the Financial Crisis: The Problem with Profit and Why it is now Time to Take Down Neoliberalism’ (Left Turn, forthcoming issue)

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is the Executive Editor of BlackCommentator.com, immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum, and the co-author of Solidarity Divided (which addresses the crisis in organized labor in the USA).

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