Karina Garcia is Political Chair of Chicano Caucus at Columbia University and was a primary organizer of the anti-Minutemen protest that took the stage when Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen attempted to speak there in October. A few days later on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now, Gilchrist refused to debate her and hurriedly left the studio instead. She talks about how the Minutemen are just the KKK without the robes, how they have the support of some sections of the ruling class, and must be confronted and stopped.

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Recorded at a Party for Socialism and Liberation conference in L.A. on 11/11/06.

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Juan Jose Gutierrez is founder of Latino Movement USA and a primary organizer of major immigrant rights marches, including the historic march of two million in L.A. on March 25. He talks about the struggle for amnesty and where the immigrant rights movement is headed now.

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Recorded at a Party for Socialism and Liberation conference in L.A. on 11/11/06.

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Howard University student leader Eugene Puryear speaks on the movement for Black liberation and its relation to socialism, reparations, and the fight to right historic wrongs.

mp3 (12:33, 4.3 mb)

Recorded at a Party for Socialism and Liberation conference in L.A. on 11/11/06.

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Brian Becker is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. He discusses what the overwhelming anti-Bush and anti-neocon vote last Tuesday means for the left, and why we need to build a independent people’s movement to create real change rather than let that dissent be dissipated harmlessly by the Democratic Party.

Recorded at a Party for Socialism and Liberation conference in L.A. on 11/11/06. (More podcasts coming.)

mp3 (29:05, 10 mb)

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