Study group meeting and impeachment actions this week

An interest meeting for a Marxism discussion group will be held Saturday, January 28, at 3pm at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies (1317 W. Pettigrew St., near the intersection with Swift Avenue/Broad Street, directions available at cds.aas.duke.edu). The group will combine
classical texts (probably starting with The Communist Manifesto and going on thematically) with modern or non-Marxist works on current issues and situations (possibly Thomas Franks' What's The Matter With Kansas?). It will look at Marxist economic, political, and social theories and practice. Organized by Alliance Marxist-Leninist (www.allianceml.com) but not limited to Alliance's viewpoint and discussion with members of other groups welcome (I asked local FRSO, Ray O. Light, and Solidarity groups if they would like to be involved, and others are welcome). There seems to be at least some individual interest in doing this, so there will probably be at least a handful of people at the first meeting. For more information email alliance_trianglenc at hotmail.com.

Thursday at 7pm there will be a meeting at Internationalist Books (405 W. Franklin St.) in Chapel Hill to plan a group meeting with Representative David Price (D-NC), which will probably be Monday, the 30th at 1:30 at his Chapel Hill office. The meeting is to present a Bush impeachment petition (mainly relating to the Downing Street memos, available at www.afterdowningstreet.org) petition to him. The petition is online at www.petitiononline.com/dsmnc/petition.html. This Friday there will be a Triangle town meeting on impeachment at the Carrboro Town Hall (I think the address is 105 W. Main Street), possibly the first in a series, the next one being February 28th at the Chapel Hill Town Hall. For more information, see downingstreetactionnc.blogspot.com. Things are starting to move more with this locally, and we will know better where we stand next week.