The Atlanta Progressive reports:
At the Douglas and Debs Dinner, awards were presented to Charlie Flemming, Georgia President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), and Alice Lovelace, who organized the first US Social Forum this year. Tambor also received a surprise award. Rev. Timothy McDonald of the First Iconium Baptist Church gave introductory remarks.The New York Times didn't cover this because their readers would get confused between modern day "liberalism" and "socialism".Especially, since Comrade Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America and a sometime columnist at the New York Times.You'll notice the Times mentions nothing in her extensive biography about socialism.What is the Times afraid of?
Local public officials in attendance included State Sens. Nan Orrock and Vincent Fort, and State Rep. "Able" Mable Thomas.
Union organizer Nancy Lenk recalled in an interview how Atlanta previously had a DSA chapter in 1983, when she served as Co-chair.
"We spent a lot of time talking about multiple issues, like education, movements in Central America. We organized educational programs. We had a Southern Socialist Conference, which included Barbara Ehrenreich," Lenk told Atlanta Progressive News.
"We had a regular newsletter. There was an active core of people. It wasn’t very big. There was such a diversity of interests, it was a little too vague for anyone to put our hands around," Lenk recalled. The group kind of disintegrated because people were interested in a variety of different things, she said.
US Sen. Sanders discussed the economy in his remarks.
"Greed should not be the dominant factor in our society today. People can come together to create a different world. We have a moral obligation to pass this vision on to our kids," Sanders said.
