Come celebrate the wedding of our chairwoman Kristin Schall and our webmaster Scott Bleck. The actual wedding is the day before, but everyone is invited to this party the day after. Beer & food will be served!!!!!!!! 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY

If Things are So Bad, Why is Everyone so Quiet? Activist Uses of Gramsci's Theory of Hegemony Housing Foreclosures! Rising Gas Prices! Never-ending war! Corporate controlled elections! The standard left response to these problems is to issue apocalyptic proclamations forecasting the immediate demise of capitalism. Yet, despite such predictions, mass acceptance of the system continues to be the norm. Join the NYC Local of the Socialist Party USA for an examination of strategic uses of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. Gramsci's understanding of where, why and how consent is produced has informed volumes of academic work but has had little influence on left-wing organizing in North America. Find out how we can better examine, identify, and disrupt the weakest points in the capitalist system and re-build a