Thursday, May 25, 7-8:30pm
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave. OSU campus
The demonstrations against Milo Yiannopolis's planned speech in Berkeley, and subsequent efforts to shut down the Right, have renewed debate on the role of free speech within the Left and society more broadly. In light of these debates, how should the Left understand free speech, and the relationship between speech and power? What has the role of socialists been in struggles for free speech?

To take on these questions, we will read articles that assess the experiences of the demonstrations in Berkeley and a more recent attempt to shut-down a right-wing "Free speech" rally in Boston.

Suggested readings:

"Thousands confront the right in Berkeley," Mukund Rathi
https://socialistworker.org/2017/02/06/thousands-confront-the-right-in-berkeley

"The far right pollutes Boston Common," Alpana Mehta and Michael Fiorentino

Monroe County, Ohio. After a three-day long action training conference near the Wayne National Forest, organizers from multiple groups have launched a long-term resistance encampment to defend the Wayne National Forest from fracking and fracked gas pipelines.

President Trump is in Saudi Arabia where he will instruct his puppets then
go to apartheid Israel where get further instructions from his masters. He
will do a token visit to Bethlehem Tuesday and desecrate the city of the
Prince of Peace with his entourage of racist Zionists. I wish I was there
to join demonstrations against this symbol of hypocricy (I am still in
Europe). Everyone now knows that the US government, Israel, and the Saudi
regime have been the biggest perpetrators of terrorism and genocide in the
world. This is to serve one interest and one interest only: money.  Just to
emphasize this, the US arms industry (owned largely by Zionists) will get
110 billion deal (bribe) from the Saudis. Kushner is very happy as are all
the rich profiteers around Donald Trump. The neoconservatives in Washington
may have some differences among themselves (hence the frenzy by the
establishment media around Russia-Trump connections). But make no mistake
about it, it is a difference as between rival gangsters. Meanwhile the

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