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Barack Obama's biography, as of 2001 - 10/15/08
A copy of Barack Obama's biography as of 2001 is in the extended entry, from Harvard (link). Among other things I didn't know was that he also worked as a community organizer in Harlem after graduating from Columbia in 1983. He's also listed as a "senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School"; the university's site confirms that designation: "Senior Lecturer in Law" (link). However, if they now say that he was a "professor", so be it.
In addition to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the Joyce Foundation, and the Woods Fund of Chicago, they also list three organizations I hadn't hear...
Karina Garcia - 10/03/07
Political Chair of Chicano Caucus at Columbia University
Involved in melee that ended speech by Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project at Columbia University on [[October 4, 2006]] ( video).
Special PSL public forum on immigrant rights - 09/21/07
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Promotes a "special public forum on immigrant rights" which was to be held on [[October 20, 2006]] in New York City. Tag lines: "Build a movement to fight back!", "Stop government and Minutemen attacks!"
Lists just the following as "guest speakers":
Reportback from the Youth Conference for the Cuban Five - 07/01/07
"by Chris Banks / May 28, 2007" link: freethefive.org/updates/Solidarity/SLYouthConference42907.htm
Socialism Conference to take place in Los Angeles - 02/20/07
[[November 8, 2006]]/Sarah Sloan/ link
This Saturday, Nov. 11, the Los Angeles branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation will hold its third annual Socialism Conference. Click here to register for the conference.
Juan Jose Gutierrez, ANSWER, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and NBC News - 11/15/06
Juan Jose Gutierrez is the director of Latino Movement USA, and NBC News featured him as a spokesman for the Hispanic community last month. A week before then, he was a featured speaker at a public forum sponsored by the "Party for Socialism and Liberation". The flyer for that is to the right, and a description of the event is here. Note that the other featured speaker was Karina Garcia, the Political Chair of the Chicano Caucus at Columbia University (columbia.edu/cu/chicanocaucus).
Did NBC News know about this? Perhaps they did, but they were convinced to run the segment without...