Oct. 25-26 Southern California Speaking Tour 
War, Racism & Economic Crisis - How to Fight Back!
Money for People’s Needs, Not War & Wall Street!

(1) Saturday, October 25, 2pm - Los Angeles

Southern California Library
6120 S. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles 90044 (Between 61st & 62nd)
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The focus of this special forum will be struggling against racism, stopping the war and how to fight back in the unfolding economic crisis. Everyone is invited to attend.

Featuring:
Gloria La Riva, candidate for President, Party for Socialism and Liberation. La Riva is an ANSWER Coalition leader from San Francisco.
Lucilla Esguerra, candidate for Calif. State Assembly, Dist. 48, Peace & Freedom/PSL. Esguerra is an organizer with Youth & Student ANSWER.
Stephen Hinze, PSL candidate for L.A. County Supervisor in June 2008. Hinze won over 21 percent of the vote in his progressive run against right-wing supervisor Mike Antonovich.
Muna Coobtee, ANSWER-LA Steering Committee; National Council of Arab Americans.

(2) Saturday, October 25, 7pm - Long Beach
Unitarian Universalist Church 
5450 Atherton St, Long Beach, CA 90815
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The focus of this forum will be Workers’ Democracy in Cuba.

Featuring:
Gloria La Riva
Marylou Cabral, PSL candidate for L.A. County Supervisor in June 2008. Cabral got 20,000 votes and came in second in a three-way race. She is also an undergraduate student at Cal State Long Beach.

(3) Sunday, October 26, 4pm - Orange County
San Juan Capistrano Community Center
25925 Camino Del Avion, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
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Featuring:
Gloria La Riva
Sergio Farias, PSL candidate for San Juan Capistrano City Council and leader of SJC Against Racism.

There will also be music by hip-hop artist "Spoken Mind."

For more info on any of these events, call 213-251-1025 or email answerla@answerla.org. 

Get out the vote against war, racism and cutbacks! Fight against the giveaways to Wall Street bankers!

Join students, workers, organizers, and progressive individuals for a series of three fight back public forums on Oct. 25-26 in Southern California. As the elections get closer, the U.S. economy continues to sink. Millions of working families are losing wages, benefits, retirement plans and homes and apartments. Wall Street gets bailed out to the tune of $700 billion, yet people get nothing and foot the bill. We are forced to pay for the greed of the banks and corporations, just like we are forced to pay for the U.S. criminal wars of aggression on Iraq and Afghanistan.

These wars have cost millions of lives and continue to cost hundreds of millions of dollars per day. Meanwhile, the epidemic of racism, police brutality, check points, anti-gang injunctions and immigrant bashing is spreading from South Los Angeles to New York City. 

This is not the way it has to be. Come to these public events featuring anti-war, anti-racist candidates who demand money for people’s needs, not the war machine and Wall Street. Discuss the war, racism and the economic crisis. The people’s movement has organized against the war, against police brutality and for immigrant rights. Talk about how to merge these struggles into a powerful movement that is independent of the two parties of war–the Democrats and Republicans.

At the forums, there will be speakers, political discussion and strategy and planning on how to build a fight back movement for real change. We’ll also discuss the right-wing propositions on the California ballot and what we are doing to defeat them.

To find out more about the PSL campaigns, visit www.votepsl.org.  

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
213-251-1025
http://www.answerla.org
answerla@answerla.org
137 N. Virgil Ave., #201
Los Angeles, CA 90004
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