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Beyond Obama & McCain:
The Politics of Race Class & Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election
Special Guest
Glen Ford
Publisher Black Agenda Report. Com
Guest Speakers: Glen Ford, James Haughton, Harlem Fight Back

The Black Anti-War Coalition of Harlem & the Harlem Tenants Council held the first of its series on Obama: Race, Class & Politics in Marchl of 2008. Nearly two hundred people attended the forum that featured awarding winning poet Amiri Baraka along with other panelists. This was followed by a second forum in April with an even larger audience of approximately 250 at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Education Center that featured Amiri Baraka and Glen Ford of BAR along with others. We hope an even larger audience will join us for the third session scheduled for Friday, October 26, 2008 at the Malcolm X & Shabazz Center. Much has transpired since the first forum held back in March. Senator Barack Obama now stands as the nominee for the Democratic Party and Senator John McCain for the Republican Party.

Clearly, the nomination of Obama, without question, has historic significance whether one would argue only symbolically but of not much substance since Blacks and other oppressed nationalities continue to suffer and lag behind whites disproportionately in all spheres of life in the US. It remains to be seen if the Obama candidacy and indeed his election will provide an "opening" for the advancement of the majority of brutally disenfranchised poor and working class Blacks. A critical analysis of the US ruling class selection of Obama as the new face of US imperialism is necessary not to mention equally, an analysis of the racist and reactionary rhetoric of John McCain and his running mate Governor Sarah Palin, the "pit-bull with lipstick". The forum will focus on a number of substantive issues, both domestic and global: The significance of the US Economic Collapse in a Post De-industrialized Period; Crisis in Black Leadership; The "Bradley Factor & Obama; Getting Beyond Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils: The Need for Principle Third Party Movements; Gentrification and the Restructuring of US Cities: A Case Study of Chicago; State Repression in Hard Times to Come; American Exceptionalism; The Middle East: Wars for Oil & Hegemony; The US & Post Colonial Africa: Pillage, Mischief & Crisis in African Leadership; Cuba & Latin America; and Gender versus Race: White Feminists, Michelle Obama and Cynthia Mckinney. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS ONE!! CD (audio only) are available for all three fourms.

Moderator: Herb Boyd, Award winning Author & Journalist
Panelists:
Amiri Baraka, - International Acclaimed Poet &Writer
Malaak Shabazz, - UNIFEM & Women for Baraka Obama
Anthony Monteiro,Associate Director - Institute for the Study of Race & Social Thought, Temple University.

The second of our critical dialogue on race and class in US politics from a Black left perspective: the political crimes of the Clintons against Black people; an in-depth analysis of Obama’s unconventional presidential bid touted as transcending US racial politics; the role of the Black Left in providing a clear analysis on the dangerous paradigm of post racial politics in America eagerly endorsed and promoted by Senator Barack Obama. How does the Black left seize the ¡°window of opportunity¡± Obamamania presents to build a Black United Front? How does this happen and what hasn¡¯t it happen? In reality is the Black Left so joined at the hip with the Democratic Party that it has presented Obama as the lesser of the two evils because he is Black and our moment in history has arrived. In the privacy of the voting booth will white America transcend the politics of race? If you are curious about any of these issues join us for this much needed debate.
Co-sponsored by the Harlem Tenants Council and the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Education Center

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