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Three Weekly Branch Meetings of the
International Socialist Organization, Portland
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 6:45pm @Portland State University Rm. 294
more info:  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/iso

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00pm @ PCC Cascade Rm. 203

SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2:00pm @ SE Uplift Center, 3534 SE Main St

Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky most clearly formulated the theory of the United Front, a particular tactic that aimed both to unite workers in struggle and also to prove the superiority of revolutionary politics in practice. While revolutionaries face a vastly different situation today, there are still very important lessons to be learned from the theory. Join us at the weekly ISO branch meeting for this discussion!

Check out the original essay On the United Front:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/ffyci-2/08.htm
And also an abridged version with introduction from the International Socialist Review
http://www.isreview.org/issues/17/unitedfront.shtml

http://www.theportlandlaliance.or/iso
Here is an overview of the current work ISO members and allies are working on with the idea that you might want to get more involved.
If you'd like to know more, the best thing to do is to come to one of our meetings or email pdxiso@gmail.com.

As always, for up to date news and political analysis, read www.socialistworker.org.

Occupy Portland (general)  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/occupyportland
Occupy Calendar http://www.theportlandalliance.org/occupation   or www.occupyportlandcalendar.org to stay connected with the many ongoing activities of the new movement for Economic Justice for the 99%

SocialistWorker.org's two main areas of work currently include:
Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee: workersoccupyportland@googlegroups.com (email that or maldelamer@gmail.com w/questions)
Occupy PSU: http://www.facebook.com/groups/occupypdxinfo/
and here's a good link that explains how to share or coordinate your events with Occupy Portland:
http://occupyportland.org/organise-and-discuss/share-event/

Anti-War/Anti-Imperialism  War and Peace  
In addition to participating in the Iraq and Afghanistan anniversary marches, we are heavily involved in the movement
against Israeli Apartheid and currently participate in 2 groups: SUPER Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (PSU) https://www.facebook.com/PSUSUPER
Portland Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Coalition: http://pdxbds.wordpress.com/
We are also happy to announce the recent win of Recruiter Watch PDX and others at successfully obtaining equal access to portland schools for counterrecruitment Oregonian Article

Education
We work to defend the right to affordable, quality (preferrably free) public education, addressing both labor struggles and student issues:
The Portland Coalition to Defend Education http://defendeducationpdx.wordpress.com/
and Oregon Save Our Schools http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/

Environmental Justice
We participate in the newly formed Climate Justice Coalition in Portland which unites around the need for systemic change.
http://cjcpdx.tumblr.com/

Labor Movement
In addition to rank and file union work carried out by members in several local unions, we work in the following groups:
Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee (see above)
Unified Labor Committee (which holds the Unified Labor Strategy Meeting and recently passed a resolution through the Oregon AFL-CIO to Tax the Rich and End the Wars, among other things)
Cross-Trade Solidarity (focused on building trades union members)
Jobs with Justice http://pdxjobswithjustice.blogspot.com/
AND OF COURSE we are super involved and excited about the December 12th West Coast Port Shutdown in solidarity with Longview ILWU Local 21 against the multinational union busting corporation EGT. Email pdxiso@gmail.com to get connected to this work.

Immigrants Rights
We support the Voz Workers Center and help to plan the May Day marches each year.
Currently we are also building the December 17th Somos El 99% march in conjunction with PCASC, many other groups, and Occupy Portland. Email D17outreach@gmail.com.

Housing Justice
This is a newly formed committee, so we are looking into existing work in the community, from demanding the right to housing for the homeless to keeping people in their homes and fighting foreclosures. Feel free to email us at pdxiso@gmail.com if you know of people currently doing this work.

Other Movements
We continue to be involved with women's rights, single payer health care, anti-death penalty, anti-racism and LGBT liberation struggles as we can. We would love to have committees around these struggles (and sometimes do), but it's dependent on our capacity. So consider sitting down with a member of the ISO to discuss how to become active in quickly growing, principled, and committed revolutionary organizations.

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