Denton Socialist Meeting

Here is the information for this week’s ISO meeting
Location: UNT Union, room 255
Time: Wednesday February 1 at 7 PM

*Announcements (5)

*Organizing to keep abortion clinics open and going to Take Root (10/20)
In preparation for the Take Root Conference in Oklahoma (take-root.org), we will discuss this article on organizing for abortion access under the Reagan administration, when abortion rights were severely attacked and restitched.

Suggested reading
https://socialistworker.org/2017/01/09/organizing-to-keep-the-clinics-open

*Response to the Muslim ban (15/20)
Trump’s executive orders to ban Muslims from 7 countries were met with mass protests across the US, showing us what solidarity looks like under the first days of Trump.

Suggested reading:
https://socialistworker.org/2017/01/30/the-uprising-of-the-airports
https://socialistworker.org/2017/01/26/trumps-executive-hate-crimes
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/trump-refugee-muslim-ban-airport-protests/

*Confronting the Far-Right on campus (10/20)
Flyers belonging to the white supremacist group American Vanguard have been appearing on campuses around the country, including UNT. Fascist mobilizations should be taken seriously, big or small, confronted, and smashed.

Suggested reading:
https://socialistworker.org/2016/12/08/confronting-the-far-right-threat-at-purdue
https://socialistworker.org/2017/01/30/get-racist-hate-off-purdues-campus
http://www.thedentonite.com/blog/unt-white-supremacist-flier