Socialist Party of Michigan

March 18th Demonstration and Teach-In in Grand Rapids

merard - slnaphtali@yahoo.com — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:08:00 GMT

The Socialist Party of Michigan has endorsed the March 18th demonstration and teach-in in Grand Rapids and SPMI members will be participating at the event.

Beginning at 11:00 a.m. at Veteran�s Park in Grand Rapids on the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. Join community leaders, workers, religious leaders, activist groups, and people just fed up with our current state of affairs.

The teach-in will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the downtown area and will include focus groups with tools to organize follow-up actions against the war.

The rallying points for the event are:
*Stop the War on the [more ...]

SPMI Public Class-Discussion Series Beginning January 7th

merard - slnaphtali@yahoo.com — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:50:00 GMT
Beginning Saturday January 7th 2006, the Socialist Party of Michigan will be hosting a class-discussion series on the book Socialism On Trial by James P. Cannon. Classes will run from 2:00PM until approximately 5:00PM and will continue every other Saturday after the 7th for at least six weeks. All classes are open to the public and will be held at the Socialist Party of Michigan state office in Kalamazoo.

Socialism on Trial consists of Cannon's verbatim courtroom testimony from the 1941 Minneapolis trial in which leaders of the Socialist Workers Party were charged with violating the Smith Act by allegedly [more ...]

SPMI Voter Outreach Mobilization Saturday November 19th

merard - slnaphtali@yahoo.com — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:40:00 GMT
The Socialist Party of Michigan will be holding its second Voter Outreach mobilization on Saturday November 19th in which we will hand out copies of our Voter Outreach flyer to residents in one of the districts in Detroit with the highest vote totals for Socialist and Green candidates in the 2004 elections. We will be meeting at 2:00PM at the McDonalds at the Southwest Corner of E. Seven Mile Rd. and Gratiot Ave. in Detroit.

Copies of the Voter Outreach flyer will be available for all members to hand out when they arrive. If you'd like to bring your own copies, [more ...]

SPMI member heads out to New Orleans

ktaylor - ktaylor@stu.wccnet.edu — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:49:00 GMT
Socialist Party members Sean White (SP New Jersey) and Sam Mesick (SP
Michigan) have joined the Emergency Broadcast System
(http://www.dominantfiction.com/EBS.html) and have just given us a call.

Sean says they have stopped in Algeres to help set up a free clinic and
drop off some supplies they brought from Northern NJ. The EBS is also
helping set up a radio station for the Houma (local native american tribe)
They are on their way to New Orleans.

Socialist Party of Michigan Statement on the Crisis in New Orleans

merard - slnaphtali@yahoo.com — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:18:00 GMT
We of the Socialist Party of Michigan want to express our most sincere solidarity and sympathy with all the victims of Hurricane Katrina. At the same time we are outraged, as are millions of other Americans, at the cavalier and arrogant attitudes, the bureaucratic bungling, the total insensitivity, the petty jurisdictional squabbling, and the absolute dysfunction that have characterized the behavior of the capitalist politicians and governmental functionaries of both major political parties.

While thousands die of thirst, drowning, exposure and starvation in New Orleans, and thousands more suffer in Mississippi and Alabama, the politicians and bureaucrats at all levels [more ...]

Support the Striking Northwest Workers!

merard - slnaphtali@yahoo.com — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:54:00 GMT
Members of the Socialist Party of Michigan have been on the picketline at the Northwest Terminal of Detroit Metro Airport to support the workers striking against Northwest Airlines. If you'd like to help support the strikers on the picketline, you can park for free at the UAW hall at 29841 Van Born Road, Romulus, MI 48174 where vans go to and from the airport picketline every hour. Click here to download the SPMI flyer for distribution to NWA strikers

Socialist Party USA Labor Commission Statement on the NWA Mechanics Strike

The Labor Commission of the Socialist Party USA [more ...]

August Issue of The Michigan Socialist Available

ktaylor - ktaylor@stu.wccnet.edu — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:38:00 GMT
The Socialist Party of Michigan has released the August 2005 issue of its bimonthly publication, The Michigan Socialist. It may be downloaded here.

Contents:
* SPUSA Statement on London Bombs
* Pat Buchanan Welcomed to Kalamazoo
* Resistance Continues in Benton Harbor
* Debate on �Communism"
* Million Worker March Movement Points the Way

SPMI Voter Outreach Event Saturday August 27th

merard - slnaphtali@yahoo.com — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:14:00 GMT
The Socialist Party of Michigan will be holding our Voter Outreach mobilization on Saturday August 27th in which we will hand out copies of our Voter Outreach flyer to residents in one of the districts in Detroit with the highest vote totals for Socialist and Green candidates in the 2004 elections. We will be meeting at 12:00PM at the McDonalds at the Southwest Corner of E. Seven Mile Rd. and Gratiot Ave. in Detroit.

Copies of the Voter Outreach flyer will be available for all members to hand out when they arrive. If you'd like to bring your own copies, you [more ...]

September Actions Against The IMF and Worldbank

ktaylor - ktaylor@stu.wccnet.edu — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:06:00 GMT

The Socialist Party of Michigan and Socialist Party USA have endorsed the Mobilization for Global Justice's call for actions against the World Bank and IMF in Washington DC September 23-25, 2005. The September actions in opposition to the World Bank and IMF are set to coincide with the fall anti-war mobilization.

Check-out http://www.globalizethis.org and http://www.septemberaction.org for details about the mobilization.

Socialist Party USA Statement on the Recent Bombings in London

ktaylor - ktaylor@stu.wccnet.edu — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:26:00 GMT
The Socialist Party USA believes we must work toward a new society; a new society free of aggression and the violence of hunger, homelessness, and disease, and from the exploitation of labor; a new society where war is written in history books, not reported in the daily news media; a new society based on radical democracy from below; a socialist rebirth of humankind.

The recent tragedy in London that resulted in murdering and maiming hundreds of working people, is a deplorable and de-humanzing act. The unintended consequences of the global "war on terror" has made it's way into to the streets of [more ...]