<div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Dear friends: </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt"></span><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">We’re writing to see if you might help out in this critical conference and action building period of the Left Forum (the conference will held be at Pace, <b>March 16-18^th</b>, 2012). While Left Forum has always been an event that has been built and sustained by volunteers, </span><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">with the conference growing as it has been (1,000 speakers came last time) your help is vitally important. </span></div>



<div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt"></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Areas of internship and volunteer work include: </span></div>



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<li style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Program and Outreach Administration </span></li>

<li style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Media and Publicity </span></li>

<li style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Website and Database Coordination </span></li>

<li style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Editorial and Digital Graphic Arts </span></li>

<li style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Event Planning </span></li>

<li style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Video and Social Media </span></li>

<li style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Fundraising and Development </span></li>
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<div style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">People interested in Left media work will find unprecedented opportunities to source future stories, produce current topical stories, engage in hands on media and social media work, and develop working relationships with people in major progressive media outlets.</span></div>



<div style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt"></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">In addition to working to create and encourage panels for the conference in one’s area of interest or activism the Program and Outreach Administration volunteer area offers unique opportunities to work with speakers and focus on issues and dialogues around activism that one feels strongly about.</span></div>



<div style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt"></span><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">We are currently working with web developers to build up the website and database processes. This area of help would be ideal for people who want to further their digital-technological skills, careers, and experience.</span></div>



<div style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt"></span><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Teams are forming around all the areas mentioned above and we’d love to have you consider joining the effort. </span></div>



<div style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt"></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Garamond','serif';font-size:13.5pt">Internship announcements are attached below; shorter volunteer statements are available upon request and are posted on the website: <a href="http://www.leftforum.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">leftforum.org</font></a>. Interested applicants should contact Left Forum at <a href="mailto:volunteer@leftforum.org" target="_blank">volunteer@leftforum.org</a>. We are located at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. If you have any please questions give us a call. </span></div>



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"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">About Left Forum:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> Taking place </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">each spring in New York City, Left
Forum </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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the largest yearly conference of a broad spectrum Left and progressive intellectuals and organizers. Conference participants come together to share
ideas to transform the world; to better understand commonalities, differences,
and alternatives to current predicaments; and to engage a wide range of
critical perspectives on the world. Left Forum 2011 drew about 4,000 participants,
1,000 speakers for 300 panels. Recent plenary speakers included Noam Chomsky,
Arundhati Roy, and Cornel West.</span></p></span></div>
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