Evening Rally
Saturday, June 21, 7:30PM
Crowne Plaza O'Hare, Chicago
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Laila al-Arian: journalist, daughter of Sami al-Arian, Palestinian political prisoner in the U.S.

Mamdouh Habashi: Egyptian striker and activist

Saber Barakat: Egyptian striker and activist

Salam Talib: Iraqi journalist exposing U.S. war crimes

Ahmed Shawki: editor, International Socialist Review

Sherry Wolf: Jewish anti-Zionist and socialist recently returned from Middle East

Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian workers have gone on strike over the past 18 months in the largest and most successful strike wave in 60 years. Egyptian women lead food protests in opposition to price hikes that have made daily survival a struggle for millions living on $2 a day. On the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe of dispossession and displacement from their homeland, Palestinians continue to fight the Israeli apartheid state. The resistance in Iraq persists in its 5th year of challenging the imperial aims of the U.S. occupation. While at home, the Bush administration has locked up and tormented Palestinian activist and professor Sami al-Arian for demanding justice for Palestine.

Come hear the voices from these struggles in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and the U.S. at the evening rally of Socialism 2008: A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment, June 19-22, Chicago.

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