Celebrate 100 Years of the Socialist Party! Note: Important Deadlines The Socialist Party will celebrate its 100th Anniversary on Saturday July 28 with a conference in Milwaukee, WI. One of the main speakers will be Frank Zeidler, the party's Chairman Emeritus who served three terms as Milwaukee's openly Socialist mayor during the Cold War years of 1948 through 1960. "The Socialist Party is as American as apple pie," said David McReynolds, 2000 Socialist presidential candidate and a speaker at the 100th Anniversary Conference. "We've been here since 1901, rooted in the struggle for social justice." The Socialist Party of America was founded at a Unity Convention of two smaller groupings on July 28, 1901. In its first two decades, it elected two Members of Congress, over 70 mayors, innumerable state legislators and city councilors. Its membership topped 100,000, and its presidential candidate, Eugene Debs, received close to a million votes in 1912 and again in 1920. Over the century, the party included among its ranks such Socialist spokespersons as Upton Sinclair, Helen Keller, Norman Thomas, A. Phillip Randolph and Michael Harrington. The party has experienced renewed vitality in recent years, with many new younger members joining and involving the party in the anti-WTO and IMF movement. "It's been really inspiring to see younger people, who may or may not know the party's long history, join and take us out of the history books and into the streets," said Greg Pason, 35, the party's National Secretary since 1995. The other speakers at the conference will be SP-USA Co-Chair Susan Dorazio, a child care activist from Massachusetts; former National Director of Democratic Socialists of America and organizer for the April 2000 anti-IMF rally in Washington D.C., Horace Small; and three-term Iowa City Councilwoman, Karen Kubby. The forum will be moderated by Erin Lares,18, Vice Chair of the Young People's Socialist League. IMPORTANT! The deadline for ads and greetings for the 100th Anniversary Conference Journal is Friday, June 29. Please be sure to register for the conference and reserve your room now if you are planning on attending. Sliding scale registration fees for conference: $5-$15. Make checks payable to: "Socialist Party USA" Mail to: SP100, c/o Socialist Party USA, 339 Lafayette Street, #303, New York, NY 10012 Please note: you must reserve your own rooms. Hotel Wisconsin, 720 N. Old World Third St., Milwaukee, WI 53203 (414)271-4900 Room rates are $69.00 a night. Mention "Socialist Party" to get this special rate. http://sp-usa.org/sp100 -- Socialist Party USA Announcement List Socialist Party USA 339 Lafayette Street, #303 New York, NY 10012 phone/fax: (212)982-4586 http://www.SocialistPartyUSA.org *************************************** *** Vote Socialist in 2001! *** *** http://votesocialist.org *** *************************************** STOP NOVOM SVETSKOM PORETKU ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrBE8.bVKZIq Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
