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Thatcher the snatcher

took away milk from youngsters as Education Minister prior to becoming PM in England. She thought Mandela was a terrorist and counted Pinochet as a pal. Chile in the 70s &amp 80s is where the Chicago College very first attempted out their financial policies(we get in touch with Neoliberalism) Which have been enacted by Thatcher, Reagan whose death was also celebrated in 2003. Ofcourse Canada had Mulroney&#8230 issues went poor in 2008 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/04/ten/thatcherism_and_margaret_thatcher_are_both_dead_walkom.html &nbsp...

Marxism 2012 GLOBAL CRISIS. GLOBAL RESISTANCE.

Marxism is the annual political conference organized by the International Socialists. This year’s theme is “global crisis, global resistance.” Held over three days at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Marxism 2012 features more than 30 talks and panels with speakers from across Canada and Quebec and around the world. Marxism 2012 is endorsed by the Ryerson Students’ Union. DATES Friday, May 25 to Sunday, May 27, 2012 For exact times, please see the full schedule. LOCATION Ryerson Students’ Centre * 55 Gould Street Toronto, Ontario TTC: Dundas | Directions & map * The Ryerson Students’ Centre is a fully accessible space. MORE INFO Email: marxism [at] socialist [dot] ca Phone: 416-972-6391 Facebook: Marxism 2012 Schedule This is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change. Speakers’ biographies are availablehere. FRIDAY MAY 25 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm The global fight against austerity: from the ballot box to the street (Room 1) – Nikos Loudos, Judith Orr, Andria Babbington, Monique Moisan, Carolyn Egan 9:00 pm – late Social SATURDAY MAY 26 10:00 am – 11:15 am Egypt and the Arab World: the year of revolution (Room 1) – Member of Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists (TBA), Yusur Al-Bahrani, Sid Lacombe 11:30 am – 12:45 pm The 2012 Quebec student strike (Room 1) – Xavier Lafrance, Monique Moisan, Sibel Epi Ataoğul Thomas Mulcair & the NDP: what next? (Room 2) – Ritch Whyman The red in the rainbow: socialists & queer liberation (Room 3) – Darren Edgar Why is the 1% imposing austerity? (Room 4) – Pam Frache, Paul Kellogg 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Building rank & file resistance in labour / lunch break (Room 1) – Carolyn Egan, Sung-Lim Kang, Jonathon Hodge, Jeff Ince, Pam Johnson 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm Tar Sands, pipelines & Indigenous sovereignty (Room 1) – Ben Powless, John Bell ‘Occupy everything!’ The history of the Russian Revolution (Room 2) – Octavian Cadabeschi Can capitalism be reformed? (Room 3) – Kevin Brice 1965: Canada’s rank & file rebellion (Room 4) – Pam Johnson 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm ‘From each according to their ability’: socialists & the disability movement (Room 1) – Melissa Graham, Michele MacAulay, Patricia Reilly Quebec, First Nations & the Canadian state (Room 2) – Chantal Sundaram Too many people? Population, immigration & climate change (Room 3) – Ian Angus The radical roots of hip hop (Room 4) – Mohammad Ali Aumeer 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Can we stop the Harper Agenda? (Room 1) – Brigette DePape, Tasha Peters, Ben Powless, Hadayt Nazami, Michelle Robidoux 9:00 pm – late Social SUNDAY MAY 27 10:00 am – 11:15 am Eyewitness to the Greek rebellion (Room 1) – Nikos Loudos ‘Never going back!’ How women won abortion rights (Room 2) – Michelle Robidoux, Judith Orr The new class struggle in Africa (Room 3) – Ali Awali From Libya to Syria: revolution vs ‘humanitarian intervention’ (Room 4) – Jesse McLaren 11:30 am – 12:45 pm Palestine: imagining the one-state solution (Room 1) – Palestinian guest speaker, Abbie Bakan Racism, Islamophobia & economic crisis (Room 2) – Nikos Loudos, Chantal Sundaram 1972: when Quebec workers occupied (Room 3) – Jessica Squires Chile: students & workers rise up (Room 4) – Peter Hogarth 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Are you a revolutionary? Introduction to the International Socialists / lunch break (Room 1) – Yusur Al-Bahrani, Kevin Brice 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm The role of socialists in Egypt’s revolution (Room 1) – Member of Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists (TBA), Judith Orr What’s green about Marxism? (Room 2) – Bradley Hughes Women, workers & resistance in Iran (Room 3) – Niaz Salimi, Faline Bobier Hacktivism, social media & revolution (Room 4) – Chris Bruno, James Clark 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Closing rally: global crisis, global resistance (Room 1) – Nikos Loudos, Judith Orr, Monique Moisan...

Upcoming conferences that Occupiers should attend:

First, on the weekend right before May Day, the Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture at York and Ryerson Universities is hosting their annual conference, which is going to be almost exclusively about the Occupy Movement this year. Check it out: http://thecomcult.wordpress.com/intersections-2012/ April 27–29, 2012 at the Ryerson university. Just to give you a sens of how cool this confrence sounds, here’s the descripton of the first keynote speaker (check the rest out at the website above!) “Because the Night Belongs to Lovers: Occupying the Time of Precarity Sarah Sharma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill While much of Occupy’s political power is rooted in its spatial tactic, the movement’s temporal realities are also key to understanding its complexities. This talk considers those realities, specifically turning to the night: a time when the spatial practice of occupying and the temporality of precarity find each other in a strange embrace. In the dark, new and unheard of demands emerge for the first time. At night, the faultiness of the movement ruptures to the surface in new ways. It is also at night, that those outside the camps, from the police, journalists and the public, fix their gaze upon Occupy. Night also reflects the lived experience of precarity that Occupy and other activists and theorists have long mobilized against. To be precarious means to be unsure, uncertain and exposed to forces beyond one’s control. It means to live and work without a sense of a guaranteed future. As Judith Butler offers, precarity is not just an economic reality, it is a characteristic of the lives of those who “do not qualify as recognizable, readable or grievable. And in this way, precarity is a rubric that brings together women, queers, transgender people, the poor, and the stateless (2009).” To be precarious means to live in something akin to a permanent state of night with no guarantee of dawn. In these darknesses, what is revealed about the conceptual vitality and political possibility of ‘generalized precarity’?” Yes, it’s very academic, but speaking for myself, I can’t wait to go check it out! Next is the yearly conference organized by the International Socialists, also at the Ryerson University. “Marxism 2012 is a three-day political conference of more than 30 talks and panels from May 25-27 at Ryerson University in Toronto. 2011 was a historic year of revolt. There have been revolutions across the Arab world, general strikes in Europe, a massive campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, student strikes in Chile and huge working class fightbacks in Wisconsin and Ohio. The #Occupy movement shook the world, spreading to over 1,700 cities worldwide. In 2012, the ruling class shows no sign of straying from its austerity agenda, but people are continuing to fight back. From the deepening revolution in Egypt to the Quebec student strike, resistance is challenging the logic of the status quo and posing alternatives to the crisis and cruelty of the capitalist system. Join the discussion about how to build a better world. Topics include the Arab Spring, the #Occupy movement, rank-and-file rebellion, anti-imperialism, environmental justice, disability rights, anti-oppression and much more.” For more information, check out : www.marxism2012.com...