Fellow Workers:

Join us for our monthly IWW meeting, forming a General Membership Branch for North Carolina!

The Industrial Workers of the World, the One Big Union, brought you the end of child labor, the 8 hour day, the weekend, and important gains in US Free Speech rights, protecting the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution.

Join us as we bring workplace democracy to jobs, and Dumb the Bosses of Your Backs!

The local chapter of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) will hold a general meeting on April 27th at 7:30 PM. The meeting is open to anyone. Topics of discussion will include Mayday celebration and ongoing labor solidarity campaigns.

More info on the IWW is available at www.iww.org.

Also, don't miss our film screening of "The Wobblies" on Saturday, May 1st!

Join us at the Internationalist for an exciting lunchtime talk with Sherry Wolf about her book "Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation".

Join UNC-SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) as they continue their radical Summer School with a facilitation training, featuring local activist Elena Everett. More information coming soon!

Fred Goldstein, author of Low-Wage Capitalism, will talk about his groundbreaking new book "Low-Wage Capitalism," which presents a Marxist view of the capitalist economic crisis. Critically acclaimed by both Howard Zinn and Michael Parenti, "Low-Wage Capitalism" provides a sorely-needed and easy-to-read analysis of the roots of the current global economic crisis, its implications for workers and oppressed peoples, and the strategy needed for future struggle.

The Pentagon just ordered 16,000 additional troops to the war in Afghanistan. But what are they fighting for? And how likely are they to succeed?

"Combat Outpost", a 10-minute documentary produced by the Guardian Newspaper (February 2009), brilliantly highlights the failures of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. The documentary footage from a reporter's trip to a combat outpost in Afghanistan helps us understand why the U.S. is losing its war against the Afghan people, and what the inevitable results of the Pentagon's "surge" will be.

[PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO WEDNESDAY, 3/18; IT IS NO LONGER ON TUESDAY, 3/17.]

Join us for a screening of the documentary "Meeting Resistance" and discussion about Iraq's National Liberation Movement!

March 19, 2009 will mark the six year anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. For the past six years, Iraqis have waged a heroic resistance, armed and unarmed, to the occupation of their country. The film "Meeting Resistance" offers us a first-hand view of the anti-occupation struggle through the eyes of Iraqis. From the film's website:

Please join us for a study group & discussion of the war on Gaza and its significance in the context of the broader struggle for the liberation of Palestine. We will discuss the aims of the Palestinian war of liberation, some historical background, the role of U.S. imperialism in the oppression of Palestine, the latest murderous assault by Israel in Gaza, the current 'ceasefire', and what we can do as solidarity activists to support the people of Palestine.

A discussion with our neighbors at El Kilombo in Durham

Join us for our second meeting of this reading group. Bring yourself, friends, and snacks to share. For more information, please email obsolete_discourse@riseup.net