[Leftforumvolunteers] Saturday volunteer work days at Left Forum

[Left Forum]

Saturday volunteer days at Left Forum!
starting this Saturday March 14th  12 noon til whenever
365 5th Ave between 34th and 35th, 6th floor room 6115
pizza and snacks for volunteers

Free conference admission with two Saturdays volunteering!
Some volunteers will work at the office, others will disperse across
the city to distribute postcards.

Opportunity for a team of people or group to do promotional work in
exchange for an exhibitor table at the forum.

For those not yet familiar with Left Forum, it is traditionally the
biggest annual gathering of the radical left in North America. Check
out last year's program to get an idea of what happens at the Forum:
http://www.leftforum.org/?q=2008/program

This year's Left Forum has generated an unprecedented level of
interest; the three-day event will feature 200 panels and events and
almost 600 speakers.  With several escalating crises facing the world,
it should be no surprise that so many people are hungry for critical
dialogues and radical alternatives.  The 2009 conference theme,
TURNING POINTS, articulates the revolutionary potential in our current
historical moment:

"Even before the financial meltdown and its spreading destruction to
other sectors of the US and global economy, we have had a sense of a
capitalism in deep trouble, unable not only to meet the needs of
people but unable to even reproduce its exploitative norms nor able to
effectively force its once robust ideological hegemony on people.
American capitalism has been deeply discredited in its failed wars,
failed economy, and failure to meet the basic needs of people and the
planet...Taken together, these developments have created a sense of
crisis. But they also present the Left with an opportunity – perhaps a
historic opportunity – to push for change in a progressive direction.
We seem, in every sense, to be at a turning point.  How can we address
and challenge such a set of catastrophes? The primary issue of what is
to be done is as critical as it is classic. After we have identified
the nature of the current conjuncture: how can the Left intervene
effectively?"

Read all of this year's statement here: http://www.leftforum.org/2009

Given the lofty hopes for this year's Forum, and the fact that it is
only five weeks away, we need a lot of help to get a sizable turnout.
We want you to come to the event and bring all your friends.  Help us
outreach to groups and tell them about Left Forum.  Work with us to
distribute postcards and posters all over the city.  Our mobilization
for the conference begins this Saturday and will continue every
Saturday until the conference in April.  In exchange we can offer
food, an exhibitor table for a group willing to put in more time, and
admission to 2009 Left Forum--which will be amazing if I didn't
mention that already!  Call if you have questions or need
directions: (212) 817-2003