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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Is anyone going to attend the <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State>
Socialist Conference in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Austin</st1:place></st1:City>
on November 14<sup>th</sup> and 15<sup>th</sup>? We are probably going on Saturday
the 14<sup>th</sup> to check it out. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Kris<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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bold'><a href="http://www.texassocialism.org/">http://www.texassocialism.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=subcopy align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Saturday - Sunday,
November 14 - 15 </span></font></b></strong><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">University</font></b></strong></st1:PlaceType><strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName> at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Austin</st1:City></st1:place></font></b></strong></span></b>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=subcopy><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The world financial system is in the grip of the most severe crisis
since the Great Depression, and working class people will be asked to pay for
this economic disaster in a number of ways - higher prices for food and other
necessities, millions of foreclosures and evictions, greater unemployment,
growing poverty, government programs cut back or eliminated, and rising
tensions throughout society. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=subcopy><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Against this backdrop, Barack Obama's big victory last year has ushered
in a new political era -- an end to the dominance of conservative politics, and
the beginning of a period of renewed expectations and struggles for real
change. <font color=red><span style='color:red'>(I disagree with most of this
statement but that’s neither here nor there).<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=subcopy><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The TEXAS SOCIALIST CONFERENCE aims to provide space to debate and
clarify strategies for change, learn from the history of previous struggles,
and put forward a vision for the future. Join activists, progressives and
socialists from across the region to discuss the key issues facing the Left
today, as well as how we can build a revolutionary alternative to the
capitalist system of war, racism and poverty. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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