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Made important contributions. At the time, first as a College Student mna worker at chop stewart, c. Observed as leader of the party in his native maine distinction. So in the 1970s, the parties urging sam and his family moved to detroit when they add a mobile industry was still king. Understands leadership, the party in michigan ably contributed to the fresh winds that were reenergizing the Labor Movement, and the process resulting in todays progressive trends. In the 1980s after his meteoric, sam went on to become secretary of the Partys National labour commission. During subsequent years, sam and not to take nationalist assignments, becoming an effective troubleshooter, a major front of the party were. After the soviet union and the socialist camp in Eastern Europe imploded, sam played a pivotal role in helping lead the party out of one of the most challenging periods, bringing unity, stability, continuity and renewal to the party. It was a united party enthusiastically elect to Tennis National chairman in 2000. And it is this threat, continuity and renewal. Continuity can we know that our National Chairman has taught us to pass through the eye of the needle, resulting in the sound policies and forwardlooking project jury that characterizes our party today. In todays world, when the contradictions have never been greater in our life time, the 1 in the 19 kind to gather come and see them again with other highly capable comrades in the leadership could the body together with comrades at all levels, together with our close coalition partners, we are molding a modern 21st century communist party. [applause] through the course of the next three days, we will have the opportunity to review our parties can measurable accomplishment. Those where we excel in why we fell short. With fresh minds together, this weekend we chart a course that will build on the Great Strides weve made since i left tension. Sam has brought outstanding qualities worth mentioning because of the impact they have on our party and through our party carryover in to the mass arena. A deep understanding of the science and art we call marxism. Marxism, not fixed in stone for all time, but one very much alive masterfully applied to her circumstances in developing with everchanging reality. A keen appreciation for the sent abilities and aspirations of our nations working class in people, not least for members of our own party. His style of leadership utterly collect his come and be a quick disarming humility at the same time realitybased bold initiative. Leadership by example as well as persuasion. Being aware that sam is not one for personal enticement, nevertheless i thought applies to bring his qualities out because they represent much of the best in our parties collect it experience. And so it is, with our mindset on continuity and renewal that we set out as we said leading to a National Convention not to perform some radical takeover of our programs, policy and party, but rather to make some adjustments, due sometime to meet and discuss and agree on some exciting new initiatives. Without further ado, i present to you my dear friend and comrade, sam webb. [applause] [cheers and applause] thank you, juan for your overly generous introduction and i accept it and i collect us. That is so we tried to function over the past 14 years and biologic weve done a pretty good job at it. I expect untreated expected in the collective spirit. Its great to see all of you here in a special thank you the convention organized community who did johnsburg, john judy, joe, joe out, galena, herschel and tony. Lets have a hand. [applause] good afternoon, everybody in the special good afternoon to our international guests. Thank you for coming so far. Seems like everybody is raring to go, so i hope i can get this off and running well. Every convention has some particular mission. So it is the mission of this 30th convention. In addition to catching up with old friends in meeting new and, breaking bread together and generally having a good time, our mission is to take a fresh and sober look at todays realities and challenges. This includes making adjustments to the strategic and tactical nature to new conditions. And entails taking better care of the future of the struggles of the president. Over the next three days will turn our attention to the social and such are critical to recasting our countrys politics, economics and popular thinking. While we look ahead, we also keep the safety media challenge of this falls election. Of course whatever attention decided building of a party for the 21st century. Such a party should be modern, mature, militant en masse. In my world, a foreign party. They must utilize the collective and penetrating voice of the peoples world, far more effectively than a half ton of it now. Now im going to turn my attention to the main challenges that the leadership of the party would like you that delegates to discuss, debate, decided in the next three days. I present them one by one for the purposes of clarity. The real a few sinter at the other countless ways. Challenge one, people search. Seems like everyday somebody new is raising how, rattling the cages of the powers that be. When they are dreamers, the next it the moms of walmart and fast food workers in the moral monday movement the day after that. Then there is seemingly unless action to increase the minimum wage. To start deportations and militarization of the border. Todays we have to at the mobilization against Voter Suppression along with Ongoing Campaign to register the vote. Nor can we forget the struggles to start mass incarceration and overhaul a judicial system that is punitive with racial and class bias. Of great significance are the efforts to protect Womens Health and abortion clinics which are under fierce attack. Then there are the inspiring Student Campaign against Global Energy corporations, student debt and the keystone pipeline. We shouldnt forget the flood of phone calls that nearly overwhelmed the congress, switch ports to protest but looks like a minute u. S. Voluntary action. Spirit also of great significance as a transformative aflcio can mention last fall. Still another impressive example of the surge with landslide when of buildable osseo of mayor of new york right baraka in another impressive victory was elect newarks mayor. [applause] finally, an aspect of the search that is so a diary and it brings tears to my eyes has been the passage of Marriage Equality ledges nation state after state. [applause] is the trees have become so common that it is easy to lose sight of the enormous change that this represents and thanks go to the courage and tenacity of the lb gt movement. From this podium, let me never has been suburbia to the late harry hay, as well as to the pioneering stonewall generation that includes our own Carrie Donovan and you bet gordon. Stand up. Crop act [applause] the stonewall generation came out when i was eerie difficult to do so. They battled a mosque love one to the aids epidemic in the navigate image to ignorance and hate. As i could sum up the surge in a few words, i might say that things are breaking good, not breaking god. Ill be the first to say that the surge of struggle doesnt have the capacity resolving crisis of capitalism in a consistently democratic can classmen are. But does it have transformative potential . Yes. I believe it contains the seeds it contains a seasick that could have properly cared for sprout and bring a new burst of freedom, Economic Security and peace to our land. Of course the devils advocate would put the reminder to make any progress malevolent social transformation unlikely. And you know what, the obstacles are familiar. The task is daunting. Though we should lower our site or lose this precious gifts called hope and desire or give up on the American People. The present surge is real and it can evolve into a movement of the majority in the interest of the immense majority. Which means that it reaches into small towns and suburbs as well as ditties into lovick as well a san francisco. Into the south as well as in north. Into the heartland as well as the coast. Into the red states as well as blue state. But to put it differently, only a movement thats when progressive analysts wrote that includes the desperately poor and the insecure metaclass has any chance of success. That is not exactly a marxist formulation to frame you might then encourages big universe of the an expansive tack ticks, both of which are something lacking on the last hand of the party at times. Which brings me to challenge two. An economy that works for working people. The 99 are faring too well. Are you . The economic recovery is anemic if things dont look good going forward. The phrase economic stagnation has to enter the conversation after a long absence. Paul krugman, the nobel prizewinning economist and New York Times columnist wrote a while back, and i quote, but what if the world we have been living in for the past five years is the new normal . Would have depression like conditions are on track to persist not for one year, but two years, but for decades. Wow, that is big stuff. Presentday capitalism of being governed by the same underlying laws of motion and dynamics theres little resemblance to u. S. Capitalism in the year stretching from the end of world war ii to the mid70s. During that era between 1945 and 1975, sometimes called capitalisms golden age, the economy grew steadily and dynamically. But this change in the mid1970s when the commission assisting capitalisms de minimis expansion over 25 years. Largely disappear in the way to what is called stagflation. High inflation, slow growth and profitability. Happy with this turn of events and especially the prophet, the moneybags the corporate do two things. First they declared war in this bitter class which we know cocoa in the sphere of material production and said to it you are free. Go wherever you want. Multiplied many times over and make me rich. The desserts are audited. Establish connection everywhere. But they made plays to the entire financial murch. In fact the flow is so massive it became the main factor shaping the contours and evolution of the National Global economy. As we know too well over the overwhelming parasitic money into the financial sphere while pumping life in an underperforming economy was anything but a nonmixed blessing. Sure, few people on wall street are connected to wall street got rich. Rotten rich. Lived in unconscionable luxury and accumulated enormous power. Most of us got big. We got piled up debt so we could get by and did nothing but worry about the future for our families and communities. When the financial feeding frenzy finally unraveled in the whole economic edifice came down into that in the comment if we didnt get again. To think that not one, not even one of these fees of high finance spent a day in jail. To make matters worse, sightseers later things are no better for as. Nearly all of the income gains during this time have gone to the 1 . The prognosis for the economy is by the same period of slow growth mounting contradictions. The course of this type nation pressures in the fast changes that have occurred in the Global Economy since 1980. On one hand at the apex of the economy only huge banks and on the other hand works its reserve are in the template and informally doubled in size during that time. The scale of the subscription to workers as radically relapse rate the relative positions of capital, labor in favor of the capitalist class. What is more is this disparity of wealth and power at the core of the economy cant dictate a new and powerful source of downward pressure on the u. S. And Global Economy. Now this turn of events and we cant duchenne of capitalism could not have happened without a major assist from the government and the political class. Of crucial importance was the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 in the ascendancy of the right wing that followed. But to be fair, the democrats, especially the Clinton Administration were not bystanders either. They also had a hand in transforming the economy to the advantage of the 1 . So the question before the house is how do we get out of this mess . Here is my 2 cents. What is needed is not a minus the restructuring of the economy and consistently in deeply affect was to and eventually socialist direction. First [applause] first the conversion of a fossil fuel driven in a militarized economy into peaceful, sustainable one based on developing Renewable Energy source is. Saturday, major Infrastructure Construction and renewal. Third, you will like this, it guaranteed and livable income for olive the reduction of the work week with no cut in pay. [applause] is worth a major expansion of every aspect of the Public Sector education, housing, recreation and child care, retirement security, health care, elder care and so forth. Yes, strengthening of workers rights and peoples rights generally. , too big to fail banks in the Energy Industry into public utilities. [applause] southend, measures to overcome longstanding inequality and rebuild hardhit communities. [applause] finally, controllers and capitalist ability to abandon communities and move around the world. [applause] of course, of course such reforms weve met with the refrain there is no money. But that is perhaps the biggest of all lies. In the past two decades, trillions of dollars of unearned wealth has been en masse by 1 . This should be transferred into public hands, our hand. [applause] and another another huge source of funds is ordering up government priorities away from military spending. And finally, taxing of the financial flows to transactions should get a radical Economic Program often rending. [applause] let me add this. The purpose of such a Reform Program isnt to level the Playing Field were to ensure that everyone who plays by the rules and works hard gets a fair shot at the american dream. To the contrary, the purpose is to decisively changed the rules and tilt the Playing Field in favor of the underpaid, the underemployed committee unemployed, the discriminated against, the struggling family comedy and david didnt come in the underwater homeowner, the economy underfinanced school, every victim of capitalism crisis. [cheers and applause] so where do we begin . My answer is that we begin where we are. That is the case is in the vincent struggles and there are so many. Starting with the growing movement against economic inequality, the lowwage economy and extremism. One native afo ceo president Richard Trumka passionately speaking about the growth of inequality. The next day as president obama making a speech on the same subject. The book of Thomas Pickett and Elizabeth Warren both on the subject of glaring unjustified equality in the New York Times bestsellers list. A progressive bloc in Congress Stand firm behind economic justice. The minimum Wage Movement is really kicking up the latest tape very on the city council, to lift the minimum wage to 15 an hour. [applause] meanwhile around the world, powerful movements in some cases even government are demanding economic justice. And before we move on his a former altar boy, i got to bring the pope into the conversation. [applause] who said in i have to quote him, while the earnings of the minority are growing exponentially, so to is a gap separating the majority from across. He enjoyed by those happy few. The imbalances to resolve the ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and the speculation, a new tyranny of us born. Invisible and often virtual. A new tyranny which imposes it on good old. A thirst for power and possibilities there is no limit knows no limit. In this system which tends to divide everything that stands in the way the priest prophet. Whatever his fragile like the environment is defenseless before the interest of the deified market which becomes the only role, end of quote. Powerful stuff. [applause] like lebron james, the pope sky game. [applause] one of the most compelling struggles against economic inequality, maybe the most compelling is the lowwage worker organizing campaign. Who are these workers . Irs. They are young as well as old, black and brown as well as weight, women in, immigrant as well as native grown. Suburban and rural as well as urban and im sure and straight. They also come from red states as well as blue state. And mark warner are important sections of the u. S. Labor movement. We had many, many others are supporters of the struggle. But at this convention, we should agree to up the ante. I say lets decide here, right now at the 30th convention of the communist party to make the struggle a strategic focus. Can we agree to that . [applause] i thought youd agree. Which moves to challenge three, insisting labours growth and revitalization of overriding turkey shaped house. The Labor Movement is an essential cornerstone of transformative politics. Though not everyone in the left and Progressive Community is the spine. Some assigns the Labor Movement no part in the process of change. Some a big part and still others include labor and a very long list of other political actors. Contrast reception on the left to occupy can or to the recent convention of the aflcio that was gaga in one case at all home in the other. This obviously is in our attitude. When marketers have united and equipped with the class and democratic vision, the working class and its organized sector possess transformative power. Of course this isnt the case today. Labors membership is not as lowest level since world war ii. It is on the defensive infraction. The left and outgoing is still small and eyes and the barriers to become to two or revitalized and growing Labor Movement are preventable. Now if this were the entire story, it would be the bomber. I would go on vacation at the pub by noon. But it isnt. Labor is breaking out of its defensive shell, opening its arms to millions of new members in taking new initiatives. So what should we do . We should do what sections of labor, acknowledging doing to her thing about prices. I am not pollyannaish. Even the best of circus dances with the transformation of the labor move wont be accomplished overnight. But as they said, the first steps are being taken. Labor is beginning to dance with the new beat and rhythm. Labor allies on the left should join the dance. But the question before the house, before this convention is are you ready to put on your dancing shoes and booties to weavers beat . [applause] now i expected you would break out in applause because i know how many of you like to your. Or retain control of the house they will claim that the American People have unambiguously rejected the president. Its politics of redistributive economics, government overreach and a supersized nanny state. On this ground they will press their reactionary agenda to the max. They will block the president at every turn as well as ramp up their efforts to portray him as a competent doughboys of takers and freeloaders and a weakling in the global theater. Nothing new here except but except that they will pursue the Smear Campaign with more vigor. This Republican Opposition goes beyond the normal giveandtake and rancor of politics and even partisanship. What it reveals is a barely concealed and deeply felt racial animus toward a black president. In their eyes he symbolizes the eminent demise of the old order, that is white, male and welltodo. As fixated as they are on obama theyll are equally indifferent to stand tens of millions struggling to survive. Does the stakes are tremendously high in this election. It goes without saying that we should be in this battle, no one should sit on the bench. This is playoff time. Now granted it wont be easy but whoever said there wrote to freedom would be easy is whoever said it would be easy to elect the first africanamerican president. None of us all that and boast of the shared are few but that yes we can attitude combined to break new ground and make history. [applause] can we surprise the pundits once again and give the republicans a good thrashing in november . [applause] we have got the right spirit. But we in the larger Peoples Movement have to combine the spirit with two other things if we are to win in november. First good the talking points that will convince people that their vote counts out that the rightwing can be defeated this fall. And two a massive administration to protect the boat to get out the Vote Campaign beginning now. [applause] if this is done and i think it can be, there are lots of talking heads who predicted a republican victory will have to eat their words. Now some on the left in the Progressive Movement minimize the importance of this election in part because they dont share our concern about the right and in part because they feel the Democratic Party is no great shakes either. Well, im mindful of the fact that the Democratic Party has a class angry chair and it aint working class. Despite the broad range of people and organizations that comprise it not everyone has an equal seat at the table. But im also mindful that any realistic strategy to defeat the right thereby creating opportunities to move to Higher Ground necessarily includes the Democratic Party is part of the growing peoples coalition. [applause] so, how do we square the circle . Im not sure if i can do it completely but here are some brief thoughts. First of all, an independent laborbased party able to compete on a National Level with the two main parties of capitalism does not exist now nor is it onto her eyes and. And while there is disaffection within the Democratic Party nearly nobody is ready to say see you later. What they are ready to do is to fight for the Party Leaders for policy and political direction. So if a third party isnt on the agenda for now what does the left do in the meantime . Hope the Democratic Party will do was write . Not at all. Two interrelated tasks come to mind. One, is to continue to build the broadest deepest Grassroots Coalition including against the right in this falls election and the other is to give new imagination and urgency to extending and deepening the stream of political independents both inside and outside the Democratic Party and to press the progressive agenda. [applause] now there will be tensions. Of course how could there not be . Thats the nature of coalitions. But we will learn in the course of doing how to unravel and move this whole thing forward which takes me to challenge five, Climate Change and planetary sustainability. The piling up of carbon and other Greenhouse Gases in our atmosphere has reached the point that james hansen one of the worlds foremost climate scientists, calls it a planetary emergency. What makes matters worse is that time is becoming our enemy. Our window to act as closing. Never before has such a challenge confronted the human species and yet we sit on our hands. I cant say the same thing about the fossil fuel industry. Most of the republican party, the rightwing, wellfunded, wellfunded think tanks and the rightly despised koch brother brothers can i hear a blue . This gang is making the rounds denying the science, denying the science of Climate Change in resisting the smallest measures that might cut down on carbon emissions. While this crisis is the planetary scope the worst consequences will weigh the most heavily on workingclass racially oppressed and the poor and especially the countries of peoples of the developing world. Despite this impending calamity and the response of the left broader Democratic Movement has not been commensurate with the new danger. If our party in particular is going to be graded on our performance my guess is that we would get a d. The only reason he would receive an f is due to the regular and outstanding coverage on Climate Change in the requirement of peoples world. We can and must do better. The clock is ticking. Im reminded of the call from Martin Luther king in another context. And i quote, we are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now and this unfolding conundrum of life there such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still a feat of time, end of quote. If kings eloquent words and Scientific Data dont move you to be a better steward of this fragile planet the place we call earth, then make it personal. Thats what i do. I think of my two daughters, stepdaughter and stepsons. I also think a lot about my granddaughters two and four years old who hopefully will live long into the century and in climate conditions that are friendly to humans and other life forms. Whether that happens or not however renaissance what we and tens of millions of other people do in the next few years. But heres the good news if i made you too gloomy. A movement is being born and it includes young people in the trade Union Movement too. Although they are understandably concerned that working people not bear the weight of a necessary and absolutely necessary transition to a fossil fuel free economy. We should join this Movement Heart and soul. We should bring our energy including our socialist perspective to it. In the fall mass globalization is scheduled at the United Nations to demand action from the worlds leaders of governments to mitigate Climate Change. Can we agree that we will join as well as mobilize friends and neighbors for this action . What do you think . [applause] a month or two ago i signed up as a leader to stop the keystone pipeline. [applause] how many of you will make that pledge today . New beginnings require a first step and i think we have taken one. Bringing me to challenge number six order. The rightwing attack against inequality is exceedingly dangerous to and the rightwings bullseye on a whole range of rights of social institutions unions Churches Community organizations families kinship groups and so forth to sustain everyday life and empower tens of millions. But for sections of the ruling class their rightwing papers and the rightwing media robust democracy and substandard equality is at war with their worldview and their zealous pursuit for full spectrum political dominance. This gang of democracy inequality busters by temperament, outlook practice of authoritarian racist xenophobic misogynist despise labor. I wish i could say that this gang isnt yet at the gate but they are. And in two years they hope to be inside and in charge of the castle, no joke. What do we do now . Went to the American People to . The obvious answer is thoughtf thoughtful, to concede no crown, to go on the offensive to expand democracy and equality, to interconnect the whole range of democratic struggles and give their right wing as thinking this fall and again in 2016. Of particular significance in this regard racism and the struggle against it. Both have left an indelible mark on every aspect of the democratic class struggle for the past 300 years. Today an idea tomorrow will be no different. As much as racism and the struggle against it they express themselves differently over time as conditions change. In fact i would argue that the vast Political Economic social and demographic changes going back to the 1960s have given rise in the century to a new racist order into a new Antiracist Movement resisting that order. This dialect makes the struggle against racism and equality more difficult and more promising. Here is why. On the one hand notable victories in the struggle for equality led by people of color in the first place have been registered over past decades. Perhaps none more than the stunning election of president obama in 2008 and 2012. Furthermore Racial Attitudes and sections of the White Community have changed for the better. Of particular significance sections of labor and other social movements engaged in organized antiracist struggle and take steps to make their leadership reflective of their membership, something that they didnt do years ago. Can anyone who grew up in the 60s, a bunch of us here, imagine aflcio president george meany or making the case to white workers to vote for an africanamerican president ial candidate . I dont think so. And of course young people like to embrace some of the old racist and other stereotypes of older generations. This is one side of the dialectic around which conform even broader, deeper antiracist understanding. But on the other side of the dialect new political and economic realities which had taken shape over the past 30 years have given rise to a new racist order making racist exploitation and oppression and discrimination much more durable and difficult to dislodge. Legitimizing this new racist order is an ideological structure that draws together old and new racist notions including the pernicious notion that our nation has entered into a postracial postcivil rights colorblind era. Dress that notion up as you will but it is nothing but hogwash. So what do we do . It seems to me we expand in every way what we have been doing. That is jobs, housing Adequate Funding of schools and education going after racial profiling stopandfrisk and were on drugs. The criminal Justice System mass incarceration system for Political Representation for affirmative action and not least for the defeat of their right in the coming elections. I would add week, you end me, have to make the case more persuasively and vigorously that everyone who hopes that this country move in a democratic direction let alone a few where people trump corporate profits cannot afford to sit out the struggle. To challenge this new racist order to throw the country in the back to the days long gone by or future that we long thought would never happen again. We have to argue that racism hurts. It crushes hopes, dreams and families. It tramples on dignity. It destroys lives. It denies jobs. It shortchanges education and housing. It profiles and sanctions violence and it kills. Especially the young, sometimes in the streets, sometime in distant lands, sometimes in prisons and the victims are people of color. But racism disciplines brings wisdom begets courage provokes resistance inspires liberating and poetic visions and gives rise to a narrative of freedom bus making people of color marches on freedoms road and a powerful voice and material force for progressive and radical change generally. [applause] but i would add this, and this is a crucial point. After the end of the day, white people as well are morally and materially scarred and diminished in one way or another. While racist ideology and practice denies equality and dignity people of color in the first place, it also heightens exploitation of all. It makes a society free of class racial and gender divisions a pipe dream. Can we overcome . Which leads to challenge seven, end to violence in a world of peace. We can barely turn in any direction without encountering violence of one kind or another. Violence is a pervasive presence in the world. It kills innocent people and tears of the social fabric of our communities and societies. It can even numb our sense of outrage to the point where we become accepting of its presence. But violence isnt natural and eternal. Hate is an in human dna. War is a social construct. There are alternatives. Dr. King was right when he appealed for transmigration of values. His message to humankind was nonviolent and love. But for him neither were passive appeals to peoples goodwill but categories of struggle. They rested on contesting exploitation and obstruction that are the material ground for violence. He appealed to anyone who racism and militarism were the gateway to a beloved community and a nonviolent world. Were he alive today i cant help but think that he would despair but only for a moment and then my guess is he would tell us in our nation begin to nothing less that than to join with millions of others here and across the planet to insist on these and end violence and to study war no more but to be concrete. Let me suggest to you what i think we should do on our peace agenda. First we should insist that our government make a uturn in its foreign policy. Second [applause] second we should insist on the dismantlement of multinational institutions that are nothing but staging grounds ground to project violence. [applause] third, we should insist not on a pivot to asiapacific but towards a common effort to resolve the pressing issues of Nuclear Proliferation and equality and Climate Change. [applause] four we should insist on a just settlement of the palestinian and israeli conflict that includes at its core an independent viable and robust palestinian state existing sidebyside, existing sidebyside in peace and equality with israel. [applause] five, we should insist on hands off venezuela. No war in iraq. [applause] a normalization of relations to freedom for the cuban five and an end to the whole [applause] thats the spirit. And into the hole sanctions regime. Sixth, we should insist powers existing and rising respect the rights of small states. Seven, we should insist on an end to the war on terror in the surveillance state. Terrorist actions against innocent people cannot be justified and should be stopped. But the war on terror is not the way to do it. It becomes easily the rationale for wars of oppression abroad in the cutting down of democratic rights and neglected human needs at home. The scourge of terrorist actions can only be counted by the collective effort of the world community. Eight, we should insist on a peace budget. A peace economy not a militarized one. The judicial system overhauled and mass incarceration be abolished. Then we should insist on an end to Capital Punishment and imposition of stricter gun control laws in the formation of power review boards in every city. [applause] 11 we should insist on expansion of Health Care Clinics and schools staff to provide humane and urgent treatment to people, young and old, young and old who have mental problems. No shame in that, right . 12 we should insist on a reconstruction plan of massive scale on a massive scale for the purpose of restoring and sustaining hardhit communities and cities, Rural Communities and reservations of native peoples. [applause] 13 and finally, we should insist on a just and humane immigration system. [applause] if we want to fight a war we should once again declare a war on poverty, joblessness decaying of our schools and adequate housing on attrition and all the social ills that make life difficult for millions. Nor should we show in a tolerance towards racism supremacy of which all can easily turn into acts of violence. We know that too well. And into war and peace among nations the cessation of violence, the cessation of pillaging and violence. Such is our ideal end of quote. [applause] i would modify that. I would modify that this way. The end of violence is our ideal but it must become our passion. It should not be at goal but better yet coded into our emotional and political dna come into everything we say and do and into the images banners and slogans that we create. If peace is to have a chance we have to embrace and convince others to do the same. Finally, building the communist party. Im sure everyone would agree that taking care of the future struggles includes the building of the party and size capacity and influence. In other words, building a transformative party. So what is to be done . What will it take . Here im going to abbreviate my remarks in the interest of time and not exhausting your patience. What i will do is mention what stands out in my mind if we are going to build a transformative party including a couple of things that generate some lively discussion in our preconvention period. First of all take confidence that the audience for ideas in our party is growing under the impact of objective and subjective conditions. And there is reason to think that this is the case both in size, capacity and influence we are in a better place now than we were four years ago when we gathered. We are growing not by huge leaps and bounds but incrementally. By incremental growth can add up. Also build a transformative party they have to to pay systematic attention at every level of the party to building a party. It cant be the work of one or two or three comrades. It has to be the work of the entire collective. Also to build a transformative party we have to address ways to further extend a whole new pool of younger comrades. I think we are a little bit too thin in terms of political depth at that level so we have to change that. We will also take more active and vibrant which are the grand ground floor of a transformative party. Its hard if not impossible to qualitatively bring up organizational capacity without a much larger organizational presence at the local level. Just as union power depends on local unions party power is grounded in a Dense Network of clubs across the country. They should go without saying that the clubs will come in many different sizes and shapes. Some will be statewide. Others citywide and still others we hope will be located in the neighborhood or workplace. Building a transformative party will also take a more robust utilization of social media and especially the peoples world. We have made headway in this area but not enough. We still have a long ways to go. But it will also take a special approach to building a party among trade unionist people of color women youth and immigrants. It will also take a range of forms including a Young Communist League to attract youth to our circle and we have to do more systematic places while the party is in its infancy. In addition we will take a more fullblooded and modern Educational Program that is equipped to reach new members and old members alike. This i think is a major responsible task. Another requirement of the transformative party is a deeper organizing culture. We arent yet steeped enough in the notion and practice of organizing and implementing the thinking of others. Yes we are part of the mix. We take part en masse organizations, activities and movements. We fight the good fight but in too many cases where all my participants, not movers and shakers, not organizers and change agents, not the people who make things happen to change the way people think. Also building a transformative party will take a more compelling vision of socialism. A view of socialism that is modern and shaped by our national experiences, realities, traditions, sensibilities and challenges. A Rearview Mirror to construct a vision of socialism usa wont fill the bill. It wont meet the challenges of the new century including the massive ecological challenge and the deep yearnings for real democracy. Socialism if its going to be attractive to millions cant simply speak in the language of planning, growth rates and material provision of goods. That wont do it. We must possess a vision but tell a story that expands the boundaries of human freedom and equality, situates ordinary people in the center of the transforming practice of creating a new society. Craddick humanistic people at the absence of the marxist socialism. When the declarations are what we did yesterday. The level of ideas into practice in todays and tomorrows struggles. We would be much better served if we situate ourselves as an equal and dynamic part of a larger Progressive Movement and on that, in fact we are making a unique movement and the bulls. Finally, building a transformative party but guided by marxism. Why do we give great pride to england and london weekend race parts of the whole party of the marxist thinking as well as a nations radical and democratic traditions we need to take more seriously the observation and i quote we do not regard the theory that is a viable. They must develop all directions if they wish to keep pace with life. It isnt a closed and completed the system but one that has constant collaboration. To the simplistic answers and just the opposite. Our job is to complicate our own and other peoples understanding of the class struggle and the role of democracy and democratic struggles. The process of social change, racism, antiracism, imperialism, the economy and so on. Our theoretical and end up with a cold work is strongly argued that isnt what it should be. This falls short of what is necessary into the Major Political players of politics in the country. Being in the fight is an absolutely necessary condition if we are at a qualitative role to influence the successive stages of the struggle. It will be a mature 21st century communist party to distinguish itself at the level of ideas and as well as at the level of practice. The enormous challenges are all around us that one could easily wallow in despair but i know you wont do that. Communists here and around the world dont give up on the face of momentous challenges. Its not our style. Its not our heritage. It is not in our dna. Its not in the dna of the American People. It is in our default position fighting harder and smarter is and i dont doubt for a moment that we will do both in the years ahead. In the journey that began 95 years ago takes a step down freedom road. Let us resolv resolve in this ts convention on this day and in this great city to step up the pace of the march. Our legs may be tired but our spirit is strong. Determination is unshakable and in the vision of the three People Living in harmony with each other and nature is ever more urgent. While we cant exactly say when socialism will arrive on this journey, we remain into this new century positive that one day it will. And on that day the bills will ring and the people will rejoice and the new burst of freedom will transform the nation into a more perfect union. [applause] on that day we will remember the songs of woody, paul and pete and hear the echoes of doctor kings word in august of 1963 we would recall the memory of the farm workers marching to sacramento. We will shed a tear or two to the trail of tears, slavery, unrelenting exploitation and the other crimes of the now vanquished capitalism and we will feel a new kinship, renewed attention if with all Freedom Fighters who walked in the ramble downfreedom highway inwhr etched in the sas of time. And also on that day we will sing the words of my angelou. You may trod me in the very dirt still the best will rise. [applause] we will overcome. [applause] thank you. [applause] [applause] now a panel of journalists and Community Organizers discussing the struggle for the living wage at the communist partys 30th National Convention. [applause] [cheering] [applause] tonight we will interview our panelists. There will be no speech. We will get their impressions as labor journalists, activists and organizers of the movement for raising the minimum wage and for the rights of the lowwage workers. What impact will this have for the living wage into the future of the Labor Movement and local Sustainable Economic Development in our communities. It will be a little bit of jimmy fallon, a little Queen Latifah style interview. No worries. It wont be like stephen cole colbert. But will this be the greatest panel . The greatest. I want to introduce the panel who are going to join us. The coeditor of peoples world home grown here in chicago. [applause] howard, the secretary of the International Labor communications association, the aflcio and the editor of minnesota working. [applause] the organizing director of the south Austin Coalition and National Board member of jobs with justice. [applause] so, panelists, this story is as old as dirt. Corporations making mega profits and paying the work of barely a living wage and the labor press has always covered the life for better working people. So tell us one story that you have written about concerning lowwage workers, the struggle of fast food workers and what those stories show about the uniqueness of these struggles today. Okay. So im at the university of Minnesota Education service and im actually a project director in minnesota and florida if it was my idea or whatever. But anyway, we have been covering a lot of working minnesota is the first online paper in the United States we think that it was founded in 2001. Weve been covering the labor news in minnesota since then suggest to give people an idea we have been covering the organizing of the lowwage workers and minimum wage fight in minnesota as its been going on for a number of years now. I will tell you one story that just happened. Monday i had the privilege, and i do video. I contribute about half the video to the site and we do a bunch of videos every week. I had the privilege monday and it is to go to a trailer park in the suburb of minneapolis and interview Alicia Florez who is a building cleaner for the target corporation, a subcontracting, actually works for the firm that subcontracts with target and sat in her kitchen and have her tell me about the recent victory they just had. She is a member at [inaudible] were the center for workers united and the language challenge, anyway. Based in the twin cities that has been operating for about three and a half or four years organizing the subcontractors with target and sears and home depot and stuff like that. So the biggest fight has been the target corporation, and monday they announced them actually tuesday they announced that they had reached an agreement with the target corporation. The three pieces this is unprecedented for the agreement and includes and protects and ensures workers rights to collectively bargain with their employees with interference. [applause] and ensures that workers have the right to form safety committees in the workplace made up of the 50 of workers who are designated by their coworkers. And number three and this is the one she talked about, it ensures that the workers are not forced to work seven days a week. [applause] so a leash a talked about how this felt and the time away from her family and the people that told her it wasnt going to work and all the doubts that she had had and finally her kids she had something to tell her kids about why shed been gone in the evenings after a long day of work or whatever. But the thing that struck me she said before this happened we were going back and forth and back and forth and my heart was so tight and it was so close and now its over and up and its blossomed. And, you know, while so im running the camera now and little whatever. The power they won something. And the powder of that and the dignity that she felt was just enormous and it makes everything i do worth it to be there when someone can tony that stuff and so this is a remarkable achievement. The Workers Center thats on its way to probably unionize. They are going t to make hard drives. They work very closely with the Service Employers International Union local 26. I could tell you way more. [applause] first of all i want to say awesome. And i say that because my story is about the Global Strike and there was a protest here in mcdonalds had a lot of the workers were there including somebody from rockford who came in and told her story about how she started working at mcdonalds when she was 16 and made 3 an hour and shes still working as a chief bookmaking because in illinois it is 8. 25 for minimum wage but still cant stay alive on 8. 20 but making that. But this woman has, you know, devoted her life to this mega billiondollar corporation and, you know, has put her heart and soul she talked about training people because shes a group chief and training people to keep to the standards at mcdonalds and, you know, has wants and all that and was unbelievably thrilled like the other mcdonalds workers and the other workers like walmart workers and carwash workers etc. Who are struggling and were thrilled that theres a 150 cities and people showing their pictures from around the world in brazil and japan, etc. And that people are not alone and that was the message and weve already heard a lot of that. So, when i went to interview and other mcdonalds worker i said what do you think about this and she said we will win if we stick together because that is what a union does. And when you think about it, i dont know, 30 years ago when i was younger we talked about how all these young people are working at fast food. It was like an impossible. Thats going to be impossible to do that. And now look at what is happening. Fast food workers, while walmart workers, earlier today we stood up when who is the new union. I stood up and i was really impressed but then i realized why didnt everybody stand up . Because the Labor Movement has opened its doors wide and can say joint working america. Join fast food join the fight for 15, joined walmart. Everybody can be part of the Labor Movement. So anyway, you dont just have to have a car that says communication workers america that you can be part of the Labor Movement. [applause] the solutions to the crisis of growing joblessness and Rising Economic inequality are very complicated. But the polls show that an overwhelming majority support a hike in the minimum wage. Seattle of course is leading the way that the recent decision to raise the minimum wage to 15 2020. As a Community Organizer in a labor activist, what do you think is driving the growing support for raising the minimum wage, what is the opposition and how can it be counted especially in the u. S. Senate. I glad to be here. We were in the brotherhood of sleepy porkers union. [applause] we spent 12 years trying to organize a union and one of the things when i was young he would tell stories about the massive humanization that was happening within that industry itself. Three things they were fighting for, they were fighting for living wages, they were fighting for dignity, they were fighting for respect during the early part of the 20th century you had the big moguls, you have a jpmorgan, you had vanderbilt, k. Now we see in the 21st century that we dont have those individuals that we have these multinational corporations. So jpmorgan has been replaced by walmart and buy young brands. Rockefeller has been placed by amazon and the kennedys have been replaced by disney. So you have these multinational corporations who are doing the same thing that these sort of robber barons did in the early part of the 20th century. They dont want to pay the workers living wages. They dont want to give any dignity. They dont want to give the workers any respect and they dont want to recognize the union. And what we need to do now in the 21st century is what our brothers and sisters in the fight for 15 for bidding for word, the fight for walmart is doing is mobilizing not only on the local at the national and international scale. And looking at the issues of inequality and how the oneperson or controlling 99 of our economy. And with all of this going on uc that people are rising up. Workers all over the world are rising up against this massive inequality. So, the organizing that we are doing right now is ming a difference, and its affecting the congress and its affecting the senate and what we need to do is mobilize even more to attack these issues and the issues of inequality and poverty and racism and dehumanization thats happening within these workforces have all been exposed. Now what we need to do is mobilize the workers, the community, labor and to mobilize on a much larger scale. Unfortunately, one of the worst issues is the massive unemployment that exists in the country itself and how it affects africanamericans and latinos in our society. We also need to be fighting for jobs and we need to be pushing for a National Jobs program that puts people back to work rebuilding this country. [applause] on may 15 and the struggle for the rights of the fast food workers went global day of action from the uk to brazil to india to germany and japan they took it to the streets. Youve got to love facebook, right . I have friends in tokyo but for posting bad pictures of people going to the streets and protesting outside of mcdonald mcdonalds. So what is the significance of going global . And what do you think will be the outcome of fast food workers connecting globally . What will be the outcome, what do you think is going to happen . [inaudible] let me just say i had the opportunity to meet the workers in other countries and the workers in denmark, guess how much they are making . Just throw a number out of the their. You know the power of facebook. So, there make in 21 an hour and also have a union. [applause] so by us going global is showing that the workers in america are tired of being sick and tired and the workers on the other side of the world its like what in the world is going on. How do you have these workers working for this amount of money that dont give them any type of benefit or anything. And so, the workers on the other side are concerned. Its only right for them to stand up and help us to win this victory because all of us are in it together. So this shows the corporations that be are not g . Sing up and we want to keep getting bigger and bigger. Its already global. Whats next . Everybody needs to shut it down. So pretty much its going to prove that we are not going to be stopped until we get what we deserve and what we demand. [applause] basically the struggle is a Global Movement like the whole of the Labor Movement because capital is international. And if the capital can move from one country to another, the labor has to also have solidarity from one country to another. [applause] and unity that is where the strength is in the movement. If we all just want to challenge the system just individually and its like to try to individually negotiate the employment contracts, good luck with that. Thats the only way that its possible and the inevitable outcome of this movement is workers taking control of things. This is workers demanding more rights and inevitably asked to get to the point where we have more rights that they cant be taken back because then nobody else can take back the rights. [applause] thats why its important that it also has to be for the union because if we get this team, tomorrow they can take that away without a union. We cant have them take it away. [applause] united we stand separately fall. It was kind of interesting to know that we are at the country that Everyone Wants to come to for freedom but australia and denmark are paying their workers more money. This is america. Where does that have been at, how does that work out . I definitely think that the people are standing up because they know what it is to make a minimum wage and they know what it is to not have to worry and not have to struggle and to have a union and its great. Once again its kind of strange that these workers living in these other countries making more money dont have the same resources that they are standing up against the same company that over here telling them if you can do it over there why dont you do it in the usa and thats powerful and strong to have another country be standing with america and lowwage workers in america. This is definitely something thats going to be in the history books and the kids are going to be reading up on. [applause] two things came to mind. One was the power of social media helping to fuel the narrative and to win people ov over. And an incredible organizing tool because here as a couple of people have already mentioned that people are posting t the gs to facebook and twitter and in the midst of realtime during the strike so that helps get the whole issue in the large media as well in terms of network and all that. It expands people prize horizon and then you find out about how the workers are being treated in other countries but its interesting, to that this kind of organizing and reaching out is happening in a lot of different sectors as well. The steelworkers, mexican steelworkers etc. There is these International Solidarity campaigns going on in the south end of mississippi gettinand mississippigetting suh african workers for their organizing campaign. As of this kind of thing is incredibly important and it expands the mind. Is it at a point that we are going to be able to tip the balance of forces. It is going to be a lot of things people have to confront, like ideas of the war and peace and, you know, being number one in this whole idea of america being number one in the world or whatever. So, its a lot of things get involved in it. [applause] in our country we have a long history with the Racial Equity gap and racial divisions. Tell us what you think the impact of the site for 15, the support for walmart workers is having on the racial unity both in the Labor Movement as well as in our communities. I think that these campaigns address both the issues of race and class and gender. And i think thats very important right now in the 21st century to really have campaigns that connect people on a global basis. As you look around the world, there are people of color who are making minimum wage is. There are people of color that are working in the humanizing situations. There are people of color are standing up with others across the communities fighting together on these issues because its wages, dignity, respect. And those issues cross racial lines and it brings people together from all across the country and all across the world. If you look at the fight for 15 campaign and the walmart campaign. The dollar amount of the workers of color are also women who are the heads of household trying to support their families. But there are quite a few of whites also living in the same conditions and the campaigns have brought all of these groups together in have unified than against one common enemy and that is big capital regardless of whether it is walmart or amazon or disney or whoever. We all understand one important thing that this is a global fight and we are fighting against Global Capital. And like africanamericans, whites, asians, women we are all fighting this fight together and i think th is one unifying factor and you ee that all over the world. Ucla brothers and sisters in brazil standing up against the Global Capital who is destroying their communities for these games. So its going on all over the world. Someone mentioned about social media and how its brought us all together. And in real time we can tell our stories and i think thats whats really important. And if we look at the issues of the race and class and fight these issues together against our common ewe nnemy ed to know who our common enemy is. [applause] last question what is the response by the Labor Movement to this rising of lowwage workers and what significance does it have for the future of the Labor Movement . Most people whove been advanced before have looked at the fast food workers like this is whats next in the Labor Movement, this is going to get people off of their butts and moving. [applause] also like she said people have been trying to organize for a while to finally be happening and have change coming in the cities eventually getting 15, we still want that humans dont forget about it. They are like is this the new avenue or group of people we need to be tapping into. The outcome is everyb organized. It doesnt matter who you are or work for everyone can be organized and should have a union and fast food workers this is the group of people they say are just young and dumb and dont have a degree. Many of us have a degree but to see them finally standing up against mcdonalds, we are talking about all these Different Countries that have ads on tv and all this different crazy stuff to get people to come and buy their food, talk about. These are big billiondollar companies have to be standing up against them is like young people do this . Its possible. This is the turning point in the labor force and hopefully. [applause] i probably shouldnt say anything. Thats almost what i was going to say. I was trying this one out. I dont usually talk and this language but i think its a nothing less than reignite the Labor Movement in the United States at least. [applause] in this room there was the red scare of anticommunist witchhunt with the inauguration of the Business Union and a disinterested practice. Im going to be a little negative for a minute. Those of you that know me have been in the Labor Movement for a long time that our numbers are infected by ideology still. Its not easy. This provides an opportunity all the things we now have an opportunity to fight racism in every single union because they have to recognize this fight is expressing something very important in second, by examplee something you said if theres a union in minnesota someone i know people that are not very militants they said if we can do it why dont we march and they suddenly discovered the militancy they never had it so by example its making people think differently. So, i actually and finally, it actually is i think it engaged the 1 in a very concrete way that expresses the class and i think people understand it and its taken it out of that abstract expression that is agreed into a concrete fight and i think its put the class on the agenda and its fantastic. [applause] my grandmother always told me that you never get the last word. She was talking about family fighting with your spouse. But not at the peoples were working for a living new challenge panel. They are all going to get the last word. What im going to ask the staff with you, tell us something we dont know about you. Tell us something you think you want us to do when we leave here tonight. [applause] something you dont know about me. Maybe this might be good. When i started this Campaign Come at first i was excited about maybe a few weeks later i stopped answering organizer phone calls but i will give you a story on why. Some people might feel like i understand. When i was very excited about what was going on i went back to my family because i didnt really know what the union was. I had always heard about it and heard about construction and nursing, benefits, money. Im like okay that sounds good i have to find me a job in a union. That i still didnt know the whole background of what it actually means and how much power the union has. My grandmother raised me so i was telling her about this like, you know changing stuff in the workplace and i was like what do you think about fast food having the union. The u. S. Post office. Im like wait you are in a union. I dont get it. Its too good to walk away and not give more information so i went to my aunts that works for verizon and she was like what, youve got to do it. I believe you all deserve the union. Now im just all messed up. Then something clicked. If i get fired. I get fired but at least i know i tried that is something id want to get to tell you and i hope you liked that story. One thing i wouldve told you to leave here tonight keep supporting us. Keep supporting all of us. Its not just about lowwage workers but its about your city and community and your country. Just keep fighting because without you i dont think i would have kept fighting. Just keep supporting everybody. [applause] i have family members that are not 100 supportive but ive tried to help out with and my mom is actually very conservative and because i live in texas the thing is with my mom in a weird way even though shes very republican and watches fox news all the time [inaudible] [laughter] high mom. [applause] [laughter] she is what inspired me to get involved in this because ive always watched my mom come home from work and she would always be so beaten down about how tough it is working. Shes a secretary and she would come home telling me how she would be venting about how her boss just treats her at the machine and expect so much from her and she gets less and less money every year. And its just something i hope everybody else can understand that even though there are people that disagree and have differences and can be the most backward reactionary kind of people at the end of the day they are still going through the same struggle as everybody else and they might not realize it but whenever they hear the idea of working people having power over their own lives and control of the situation, even if they are still trapped in this backward mentality, it has the power to bring out some support. I talked to my mom like about it. If it is a communist legal she is going to lash out. If i talk in general terms of people having control over the workplace and being able to vote on policy in the workplace she tends to agree with it and shes like a conservative teen party kind of person. Dont you think people should be able to make some of these decisions and not have as somebody for them. We need a world people have control over their own lives. Everybody can understand that. [applause] these fights have put the race, class and inequality as a part of the national and International Narrative and i think that is very important. Now what we need to do is have some real concrete victories so people can see that wherever they are rather it is kfc or dominoes were jimmy johns or a local warehouse that they organize and come together and they can win. 20 years ago there was a decline to the power of the unions and now we see that power rising again in the 21st century from these fights, so we need to continue that. [applause] im from buffalo new york, not minnesota. Anybody here from a fellow . From buffalo . Completely different direction. Im going to get a project because i cant talk any of that stuff. I. E. A and a media person and as thhas potential from minnesota n the salon i think broadlyabout the media and you are talking about the peoples world into someone and what to do with it. Im involved in a project called project worksite which hasnt happened yet. It will be menudriven and available universally on any device that can get to the internet. Things will be broken up in the social media and into small segments and it will house the labor documentaries and so on. Its not happening yet, but im happy you said awesome to try to get this off the ground and kind of sounding it out, trying to get money out of the unions we had some pretty big meetings so far in washington, d. C. And with other stuff. I hope someday you will be able to see it. There you have it. [applause] something about me if its karaoke around here between now. [laughter] most from st. Louis in the back of the room wouldnt notice that this campaign has changed me and made me into a real leader. This campaign has gave me more power to stand up for myself. I dont think if there was the fight for 15 never came around they would be involved. I dont know how strong i would say myself is if that makes sense. It even taught me things i never knew such as what a union is. Im probably the first to even know what a union is in my family and to know what the union came to for your family and for your community and for your neighborhood. Its not only taught me that the campaign has taught a lot of other people and especially a lot of colored people can finally say that they have stepped up for something. They stood up for themselves. They didnt just get walked over and they know what a union is. So i do appreciate this campaign because its teaching us it isnt just having us stand up for ourselves but its to teach the next person. Thats something that i definitely appreciate. [applause] Something Else about myself is i love to swim. Thats one thing. Not only that, but i compete. This rightful age. I just think thats the power of stories and what we heard tonight is it moves people. Thats what we try to provide in the peoples world to create and have that space for people to tell their stories. And to do it with an iaf winning more people over to the fight because like your grandmother, like my family, or like our neighbors may not be familiar with unions. Its a small percentage in our country that organized. But i think once you start scratching the surface which i think stories hoped to do, people start to move and thats what we tried to do in the peoples world. When the people over to fighting for racial e. Quality. When the people over to fight for gender equality. So thats what we try to do. Tell the story and idea of reaching out and pulling more people into the good fight. Thank you. [applause] so are we ready for more unity, more organizing, more justice . Are we ready . [applause] so remember as doctor cornell west has said justice is just showing love in public so you can show a little love and be part of the fight to save the job and make a call tonight. You can make a call tonight or during the weekend. When people start handing these out. I think the second number isnt quite right. Freaky fast makes the call. And i just want to say that we want the viewers that are watching this on the lifestream to go to peoplesworld. Org and read about the struggles and to share with your friends and family. For the viewers and the lifestream, we will return tomorrow morning at 9 a. M. And we are sorry to say that you will not be joining us out of the reception to honor our panel down at the inner circle o circe first floor. Good night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] booktv sat down with former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in little rock to discuss her book hard choices. Getting to the point that you can make peace is never easy because you dont make peace with your friends. You make it with people who are your adversaries and who have killed those you care about your own people or those you are trying to protect. And its a psychological drama. You have to get into the heads of those on the other side because you have to change their population enough to get them to the table, to talk about what we did in iran have to put a lot of economic pressure on the table and we will see what happens, but that has to be the first. And i write about what we did in afghanistan and pakistan cant try t, try toget the tablet inte for a comprehensive discussion and the government of afghanistan. While, in iraq today i think what we have to understand is a political problem that has to be addressed. The extension of the sunni Extremist Group is taking advantage of the break down in the political dialogue and the total lack of trust between the valid key government, the sunni leaders and the kurdish leaders. Prospect was founded by the revolutionary war veteran from south carolina. And when he realized that he was going to die and the sleeves would end up being sold, he wrote in his well at the time the plantation would be sold and the money used to pay the way in liberia where the colony had been established by the society. They call it repatriation and about going back to africa. But you have to understand these people, most of them were americans. They had been here for three or four or five so it wasnt like they were just going home. They were going back to the continent that their ancestors originally inhabited. All those people came from those states in the u. S. Lynne cheney the wife of former Vice President dick cheney has written a biography about James Madison that examines his political

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