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PDF of Issue 193 with Imagine THE INDYPENDENT— Paid advertisement — iSSUe #193: JanUarY 20–FeBrUarY 16, 2014 a Free PaPer For Free PeoPle imagine living in a Socialist USa acclaimeD neW BooK SaYS “YeS, We can.” FrEd AskEW BooK laUncH PartY imagine: living in a SocialiSt USa JanUarY 27 • 7 Pm • Free HoUSing WorKS BooKStore & caFÉ • 126 crosby St Speakers: FranceS FoX Piven, JUan gonZaleZ, BlancHe WieSen cooK, FranceS golDin, DeBBY SmitH & micHael Steven SmitH — Paid advertisement — “socialism could be defi ned as economic democracy. it means rule by people over the economic structures and resources that we need to keep ourselves alive and healthy, to engage in creative activity, to maintain good relationships with one another, and to have good and meaningful lives”— PaUl le Blanc fromimaGine: livinG in a socialisT Usa looK WHo WaS a SocialiSt YoUng PeoPle more liKelY to Favor With the “S” word banished to the margins of political discourse, it’s often forgotten how many SocialiSm over caPitaliSm prominent Americans have been socialists, including these six individuals: Faced with soaring student loan debt, bleak job prospects and a looming global environmental crisis, WoRLD FaMouS pHYSiciSt young Americans favor socialism over capitalism, according to a national survey by the Pew research Albert Einstein is renowned as a scientifi c genius whose Center. Conducted in december 2011, the poll sought to measure sentiments toward different political theory of relativity transformed human understanding of labels. in the 18–29 age bracket, 49 percent said they had a positive reaction to socialism versus 46 the universe and how it works. he took up residence in the percent for capitalism. United states in 1933 after fl eeing the rise of the Nazis in his native Germany. A lifelong pacifi st and a supporter of the Pew survey also found substantial support for socialism over capitalism among people of color. civil rights, Einstein had strongly held political views. “i am Fifty-fi ve percent of African-Americans had a positive reaction to socialism, versus 41 percent to capi- convinced there is only one way to eliminate [the] grave talism. Among Latinos, it was 44 percent for socialism, 32 percent for evils [of capitalism],” he wrote in 1949, “namely through capitalism. By a 43-22 percent margin, the poll also showed that the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by socialism was almost twice as popular with people mak- an educational system which would be oriented toward ing under $30,000 per year as with those earning more social goals.” than $75,000 per year. support for socialism fell off dramatically among whites (24 percent support- BLiND But couLD See ing) and people 65 years and older (13 percent helen keller became the fi rst deaf and blind person to supporting). overall, 31 percent of Americans graduate from college in 1904, and her story of personal said they had a positive reaction to socialism, a perseverance quickly made her a beloved national fi gure. strong showing for an idea that politicians and An intellectual virtuoso who could read in three languages the media have scorned for decades. with her hands, keller was the author of numerous books. in 1912 she came out as a supporter of both the socialist PEOPLE 18–29 Party and the anarchist industrial Workers of the World. PoSitive SocialiSm she was denounced in the press but persisted in her campaign against what she described as the “industrial PoSitive caPitaliSm blindness and social deafness” of capitalism. ciViL RigHtS LeaDeR Around this time every year Martin Luther king Jr. is celebrated for his role as a civil rights leader who led the struggle to end the system of formal racial segregation in this country. Little noted is the fact that king came to see that winning legal equality did not guarantee economic equality and he began to advocate for a massive redistribution of wealth and power in society. in a 1965 letter, he wrote, “if we are to achieve real equality, the U.s. will have to adopt a modifi ed system of socialism.” FRee LoVe & FRee SpeecH Calling herself a “communist anarchist,” Emma Goldman became the most famous symbol of working-class militancy and female revolt in America in the pre-World War i era. From her base in the Lower East side, Goldman barnstormed the country speaking before crowds. she was a courageous fi ghter against police harassment and reD tiDe riSing in a daring lecturer on free love, the right to birth control and homosexual rights. Seattle DuSt BoWL tRouBaDouR ocialists routinely won local elections since her election, she hasn’t stopped push- Born in okemah, oklahoma, in 1912, Woodie Guthrie in the United states during the fi rst two ing the political envelope. At a November 18 became one of America’s most popular musicians during decades of the 20th century, before their rally for Boeing workers facing job losses if the Great depression with his dust Bowl ballads of hard S movement was crushed by government repres- they didn’t accede to company demands for times and hard people. he frequently performed in union sion. For kshama sawant, that kind of electoral concessions, sawant denounced Boeing for halls and on picket lines with his protégé Pete seeger. success need not be just for the history books. carrying out “economic terrorism.” she then Guthrie penned his most famous song — “this Land is in November, sawant, 41, drew national atten- made headlines across the country by sug- your Land” — in 1940. When he sang “this land was made tion when she knocked off a four-term demo- gesting that if the company took fl ight, workers for you and me,” he did so as a committed socialist who cratic incumbent in a citywide race for a se- should seize control of their factory and run it believed the wealth of society should be held commonly. attle City Council seat while running openly as themselves. a socialist. her campaign mobilized hundreds “the only response we can have if Boe- pioNeeRiNg NuRSe of volunteers. she received neither corporate ing executives do not agree to keep the plant Public health nursing combines a concern for individual campaign donations nor the support of the here,” she said, “is for the machinists to say the health experiences with knowledge of the community city’s liberal political establishment. machines are here, the workers are here, we will do the job, we don’t need the executives. in which a patient lives. this approach to nursing was “this moment belongs to that way of orga- the executives don’t do the work, the machin- pioneered by Lillian Wald, a gifted organizer who founded nizing,” she told cheering supporters after be- ing named the winner in the race. ists do.” the henry street settlement in 1893 to serve immigrants sawant teaches economics at a local com- in early January, seattle’s new mayor cre- who were crowded into New york’s Lower East side. she munity college and was active in occupy seat- ated a commission to study the possibility of also launched the Visiting home Nurse service. An early tle. she ran on a platform calling for a citywide enacting a $15 minimum wage. sawant has advocate of a system of national health insurance, Wald minimum wage of $15 per hour, rent control for vowed to collect enough petition signatures to was also a strong supporter of racial integration and a tenants and a tax on millionaires to improve put the issue on the ballot next fall if the seattle leading opponent of the U.s. entry into World War i. public services. City Council does not act before then. RADICAL SPORTS SECTION, p 12–13 Issue #193, January 20–February 16, 2014 THE INDYPENDENT A FREE PAPER FOR FREE PEOPLE Making School Fun Again NEW NYC SCHOOLS CHIEF CARMEN FARIÑA WANTS TO ‘PUT THE JOY’ BACK IN EDUCATION. CAN SHE PULL IT OFF? 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