This Saturday in New York City, come join Laura Flanders of GRITtv and many of our favorite GRITtv guests at the 2009 Northeast Socialist Conference, Crisis and Resistance. Laura's workshop is at noon on Saturday, "Media as Weapon: Speaking Truth to Power" with Arun Gupta, Alan Maass, and Liliana Segura. Other speakers at the conference include Jeremy Scahill, Brian Jones, Dave Zirin, Frances Fox Piven, Heather Rogers, and our guest next week, Malalai Joya.