Come see Ramsey Clark, Robert King Wilkerson & more at the Nov. 13-14 National Conference on Socialism

Ramsey Clark

Ramsey Clark is
an internationally-renowned progressive attorney and human rights
activist. His remarkable career has included active opposition to U.S.
wars and interventions from Vietnam to Central America to Afghanistan.
Ramsey has defended numerous political prisoners, among them the San
Quentin 6, Leonard Peltier, Father Phil Berrigan and Lori Berenson. He
has been a leader in the movements against sanctions and blockades
targeting Iraq, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Iran and other countries. In 2003,
Ramsey drafted articles of impeachment against George W. Bush, Dick
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and others for war crimes.

Robert King Wilkerson

Thirty-eight
years ago, deep in rural Louisiana, Robert King Wilkerson was one three
young Black men silenced for trying to expose continued segregation,
systematic corruption and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the
United States, Angola. Eager to put an end to outside scrutiny, prison
officials began punishing inmates they saw as troublemakers.

Herman Wallace,
Albert Woodfox and Wilkerson—now known as the Angola 3—were charged
with murders they did not commit and thrown into solitary cells for
decades. Woodfox and Wallace remain in solitary confinement. Wilkerson
was released from prison in 2001, and will accept the “Fighters for
Justice” award on behalf of the Angola 3.

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard

Mara
Verheyden-Hilliard is a civil rights lawyer and co-founder of the
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, a public interest legal organization
in Washington, D.C. that handles key constitutional rights litigation,
particularly concentrated in the areas of free speech, assembly or other
protected political organizing
activity.

Verheyden-Hilliard
is co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee and
serves on the National Executive Committee of the NLG. She is one of the
leading voices of the antiwar movement and in defense of targeted Arab
and Muslim communities. Verheyden-Hilliard is a recipient of the
“Champions of Freedom” award.

Heidi Boghosian

Heidi Boghosian
is the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. She is the
co-host of the weekly civil liberties radio show Law and Disorder on Pacifica’s WBAI in New York and over 25 national affiliates.

Boghosian received her JD from Temple Law School where she was the editor-in-chief of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review. She has an MS from Boston University and a BA from Brown University.

Mahdi Bray

Imam Mahdi Bray
is a long time civil and human rights activist currently serving as the
Executive Director of Muslim American Society Freedom based in
Washington, D.C.

Imam Bray is
also an organizer against the U.S. wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and
U.S.-Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. He is the author
of several books and is a frequent speaker in cities across the United
States.

Additional Guest Speakers

Guest speakers at the National Conference on Socialism include the following well-known activists and organizers:

• Jollene Levid: National Chairperson, AF3IRM
• Dr. Henry Clark: Executive Director, West County Toxics Coalition
• Izzy Alvaran: Community Outreach Organizer UNITE HERE! Local 2
• Jim Lafferty: Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles
• Yousef Abudayyeh: National Coordinator, Free Palestine Alliance
• Arturo Garcia: Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines

These are just a few of the speakers who will be present. Click here for a full conference schedule.

Make sure you
register for the National Conference on Socialism today. Be there and
bring your friends, family, co-workers, co-students and everyone you
know.

Click here to register for the conference. 

For more information visit www.PSLweb.org/conference.