Ms. LeiLani Dowell, a leader of Workers World Party and Managing Editor of Workers World newspaper, will be speaking on the subject of “The Global Capitalist Economic Crisis: What It Will Take To Fight It.” Topics discussed will include the 2011 people’s uprising in the Middle East and Wisconsin, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the immigrant rights & LGBTQ people’s struggles, the need to oppose poverty, racism and war & the international fight to build socialism.
Saturday, Jan. 21, 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Center Street Library, Milwaukee
2727 W. Fondulac Avenue, Milwaukee WI 53210
MS. DOWELL’S BIOGRAPHY:
Ms. LeiLani Dowell began her activism while studying Labor Studies at San Francisco State University shortly after 9/11, when she became actively engaged in the struggle to prevent the war against Iraq. In 2004, she ran against Nancy Pelosi for Congress on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. As a queer woman, Ms. Dowell has done organizing for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer rights in both San Francisco and New York, where she currently resides.
Ms. Dowell has participated in solidarity and fact-finding delegations to Colombia, Lebanon, El Salvador and Haiti, reporting on her experiences in the pages of Workers World Newspaper. She represented the U.S. delegation at a deliberative session of the World Festival of Youth and Students in 2005, and was a lead organizer of a youth delegation to Cuba in 2007. In 2009, Ms. Dowell traveled on an International Action Center-sponsored delegation to Honduras as a right-wing coup was taking place in the country, reporting on the incredible people’s resistance that awakened in response.
Ms. Dowell’s writings have been published in the books Feminism and War; Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle; Gaza: Symbol of Resistance;and What is Marxism All About. Currently she is a Managing Editor of Workers World Newspaper and a student at Hunter College in New York City.
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