Left Forum
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Left Forum is the new name for the Socialist Scholars Conference.
Left Forum is held annually in New York City. it is the successor to the Socialist Scholars Conference.
The Left Forum was held March 9 - 11, 2007 at Cooper Union College, New York City.
Left Forum board
In April 2009, the Left Forum board included Stanley Aronowitz, Roderick Bush, Eric Canepa, Vivek Chibber, Nancy Holmstrom, Jamie McCallum, Lorraine Minnite, Frances Fox Piven, Hobart Spalding, Bill Tabb, Richard D. Wolf and Julia Wrigley[1][2]
Staff
In 2009, sole Left forum staff member was Seth Adler[3].
Left Forum 2005 took place April 15-17 2005 at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York. [4]
Open Plenary
The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Welcome: Frances Degen Horowitz, President,The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
- Chair: Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center
- Tariq Ali, New Left Review
- Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University
- Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
- Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickled and Dimed
Panels
The Western Left and Iraq
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair:Julia Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center
- Tariq Ali, New Left Review
- Stephen R. Shalom, William Paterson University
- Joanne Landy, New Politics
- Anthony Arnove, editor, Iraq Under Siege
The Daniel Singer Essay Prize: "The Soul of Socialism"
- Sponsor:The Daniel Singer Foundation
- Chair:Albert Ruben, Writer
- Andrew Blackman, recipient, 2004 Daniel Singer Prize, Wall Street Journal
- Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickled and Dimed
- Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
- Staughton Lynd, Historians Against the War
Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery - Author Meets Critics
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
- William DiFazio, St. John's University,
- Richard D. Wolf, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
New Strategies for Rebuilding Power in the Labor Movement
- Sponsor: Working USA
- Chair:Immanuel Ness, Working USA
- Saru Jayaraman, HERE Workers Center
- Bhairavi Desai, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Ai-jen Poo, New York City Domestic Workers United
- Benjamin Day, Cornell University
The Digital Commons as a Public Good
- Sponsor:Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
- Chair:Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University
- Sabine Nuss, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
- Christoph Engemann, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
- Heather Johnson, Rutgers University, Newark
- Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center
The Future of the Social Forum Movement in the U.S.
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair:Michael Menser, NYC Social Forum
- Victor Rosado, Social Justice Alliance
- Premila Dixit, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
- Suren Moodliar, North Atlantic Alliance for Fair Employment
- Thomas Ponniah, Network Institute for Global Democratization
Fighting for Health Under Neoliberalism in South Korea and Venezuela
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair:Carles Muntaner, University of Toronto
- Francisco Armada, Ministry of Health and Social Development, Venezuela
- Haejoo Chung, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
- Mia Son, Kangwon National University, South Korea
- Juhwan Oh, Seoul National University
Ecological Disasters: The Case of Bhopal
- Sponsor: Council on International & Public Affairs
- Chair:Ward Morehouse, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
- Ryan Boldanyi, International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
- Carolyn Oppenheim, Public Purpose Communications
- Rajan Sharma, lead counsel, class action against Union Carbide
- Ilan Ziv, producer, Litigating Disaster
Social Insanity, Family Transformation, and Personal Neurosis
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair:Harriet Fraad, psychoanalyst and hypnotherapist
- Richard Lichtman, The Wright Institute
- Joel Kovel, Bard College
Racism and the Politics of Oil
- Sponsor: Alliance of Radical Academic/Intellectual Organizations
- Chair:Barbara Foley, Science & Society
- Tony O'Brien, Queens College, PSC-CUNY
- Jack Hammond, CUNY Graduate Center
- Kanishka Choudhury, St. Thomas University, Minneapolis
- George Caffentzis, University of Southern Maine
Dialectical Perspectives on Developing an Alternative to Capitalism
- Sponsor: News & Letters Committees
- Chair:Andrew Kliman, New SPACE
- Peter Hudis, News & Letters Committees
- Anne Pomeroy, Stockton College
- Sam Friedman
- Seth G. Weiss, May Day Books & Infoshop
Crisis of the Labor Movement
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Joseph Wilson, Brooklyn College
- Steve Early, Communication Workers of America
- Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
- Faryce Moore, SSEU, AFSCME Local 371
- Marsha Niemeijer, Labor Notes
The Left and Ecology
- Sponsor: Capitalism, Nature and Socialism
- Chair:Lorraine C. Minnite, Barnard College
- Joel Kovel, Bard College
- Frieder Otto Wolf, "Sustainable Strategy" Freie University - Berlin
- Ynestra King, co-editor, Dangerous Intersections
- John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review
Iraq, Imperialism, and Post-Colonialism
- Sponsor: Social Text
- Chair:Randy Martin, New York University
- Ashley Dawson, CUNY Graduate Center
- Patrick Deer, New York University
- Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
- Josefina Saldana, Rutgers University
The Enlightenment
- Sponsor:Logos
- Chair:Gregory Zucker, Logos
- Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University
- Frank Kirkland, Hunter College, CUNY
- Tom DeZengotita, author of Mediated
- Diana Judd, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- Michael Thompson, Logos
Postmodernism and Democracy
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Patricia T. Clough, CUNY Graduate Center
- Michael Denning, Yale University
- Jan Rehmann, Union Theological Seminary
- Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University
- David Ruccio, Rethinking Marxism
- Michael Hardt, Duke University
The Left in Local Government: Tuscany, Brazil, Germany, and New York State
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Jessica Shearer, Democratic Socialists of America
- Jason West, Mayor, Village of New Paltz
- Mercedes Frias, Environmental Spokesperson, City Council of Empoli (Tuscany)
- Cornelia Hildebrandt, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
- Luiz Fernando Mainardi, Mayor, Bagé, Brazil
After 1989: Marxism in Transition
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Benedetto Fontana, Baruch College, CUNY
- Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Mary Boger, Brecht Forum
The Dialectic of Poverty
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Bill DiFazio, St. John's University
- Rod Bush, St. John's University
- David van Arsdale, Tompkins County Community College
- Melanie Bush, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Fascism Then and Now
- Sponsor: Science & Society
- Chair: Barbara Foley, Science & Society
- Gregory Meyerson, North Carolina State University
- Michael Roberto, North Carolina State University
- Michel Warschawski, Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem
Fighting for National Health Care in a Right-Wing Environment
- Sponsor: Physicians for a National Health Program
- Chair: Martha Livingston, SUNY College at Old Westbury
- Len Rodberg, Queens College, CUNY
- Marcia Bayne-Smith, Queens College
- Oliver Fein, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Mark Hannay, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
Hard Questions for the Peace Movement
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Hilary Rose, co-author, Alas, Poor Darwin
- Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University
- Frida Berrigan, War Resisters League
- Vincenzo Striano, ARCI-Toscana
Media in the Context of Globalization
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Josh Breitbart, Michigan Indymedia Center, Clamor
- Luciana Castellina, Il Manifesto
- Scott Forsyth, York University
- Antwuan Wallace, Media Justice Fund
- Danny Schechter, Media Channel
Palestine: The Occupation and the Challenges Ahead
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
- Michel Warschawski, Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem
- Bashir Abu-Manneh, Barnard College
- Charney V. Bromberg, Meretz USA
- Aseel Sawalha, Pace University
History Matters: The Past, Public Memory, and Resistance
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
- Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago
- Russell Rickford, Columbia University
- Tiffany Patterson, Binghamton University
- Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College, CUNY
What's Happening in the U.S. Economy?
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Nicole Shippin, Rutgers University
- Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- William K. Tabb, Queens College, CUNY
Anarchism and the Left: New Dialogues on Power and Social Change
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Heather Gautney, CUNY Graduate Center
- Andrej Grubacic, ZNet
- Chris Dixon, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
- Stephen Duncombe, New York University
The Politics of the Neoliberal University
- Sponsor: Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University
- Chair: Michael Denning, Yale University
- Amanda Ciafone, Yale University
- Daniel Gilbert, Yale University
- Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota
- Myra Jones-Taylor, Yale University
- Nazima Kadir, Yale University
- Christina Moon, Yale University
- A. Naomi Paik, Yale University
Refocusing Marxism on Class, Surplus, and Exploitation
- Sponsor: AESA/ Rethinking Marxism
- Chair: Stephen Resnick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside
- Ceren Özselçuk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Challenge of the Rightist Values Agenda to Secular and Religious Socialists
- Sponsor: Religion and Socialism Commission, DSA
- Chair: Roderick Ryon, Religion and Socialism Commission, DSA
- Esther Kaplan, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
- Stephen Hart, SUNY Buffalo
- Norman Faramelli, Boston University School of Theology
Capitalism and Collapse: A Symposium on Jared Diamond's New Book
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Richard Smith
- Neil Smith, Center for Place, Culture & Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
- John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review
Gendered Aspects of US Empire
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Hester Eisenstein, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
- Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado--Boulder
- Johanna Brenner, Portland State University
Building Alliances: Parties, Movements, Left Strategies
- Sponsor: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Brecht Forum, New York
- Chair: Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center
- Michael Brie, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
- Luciana Castellina, Il Manifesto
- Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
- Vincenzo Striano, ARCI-Toscana
Race-ing Justice: Black Resistance and the Politics of Mass Incarceration
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
- Keesha Middlemass, Vera Institute, University of Kansas
- Adolphus G. Belk Jr., Winthrop University
- Laurent Alfred, Columbia University
- Angel Asale Ajani, New York University
The Global Geopolitics of Oil
- Sponsor: Union for Radical Political Economics
- Chair: Rina Garst, Union for Radical Political Economics
- Michael Klare, Hampshire College
- Michael Tanzer, Economic Consultant
- Tom O'Donnell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Neoliberalism: Brazil, Venezuela, and Latin American Strategies of Resistance
- Sponsor: Socialism and Democracy
- Chair: Fred Rosen, NACLA
- Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Vivario, Brazil
- Steve Ellner, Duke University
- Margarita Lopez Maya, Columbia University
Repression and Resistance in Higher Education: Academic Freedom,Corporatization and Organizing
- Sponsor: New Political Science
- Chair: Christine A. Kelly, William Paterson University
- Preston Smith, Mt. Holyoke College, Free Higher Education
- Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
- David Schultz, Hamline University
- Melissa Mason, Grad. Student Organizer, Yale University
- Susan O'Malley, Radical Teacher, Chair, CUNY Faculty Senate
Debtor Families - Debtor Nation
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Magalì Safatti Larson, Temple University
- Max Fraad Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Piruz Alemi, economist
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
THE NEW IMPERIALISM: STRATEGY, STRUCTURE, AND IDEOLOGY
Roundtable: The Global Justice Movement
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Barbara Garson, author, Money Makes the World Go Around
- Marina Sitrin, New York University
- Francois Houtart, Centre Tricontinental, Louvain
- Michael Brie, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
- Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
- Eddie Yuen, editor, Confronting Capitalism
- Thomas Ponniah, Network Institute for Global Democratization
Imperial Contradictions at Home and Abroad: Empire Reloaded or Overloaded?
- Sponsor: Socialist Register
- Chair: Leo Panitch, York University
- David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center
- Sam Gindin, Socialist Register
- Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
- William K. Tabb, Queens College, CUNY
The Legacy of Bandung: Rebuilding a Third World Politics of Resistance
- [cancelled]
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
- Rabab Abdulhadi, University of Michigan at Dearborn
- Michael West, Binghamton University
- Gary Okihiro, Columbia University
The Political Impact of Digital Technologies
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Abigail Schoneboom, CUNY Graduate Center
- Steve Pierce, New Media Alliance
- Christoph Engemann, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
- Anthony Riddle, Alliance for Community Media
The Crisis of American Education
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Julia C. Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center
- Jean Anyon, CUNY Graduate Center
- Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center
- Patricia Kruger, CUNY Graduate Center
- Gregory Anderson, College, Columbia University
- Lois Weiner, New Jersey City University
The Marxist Theory of Class and Its Importance for Today
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Liz Mestres, Brecht Forum
- Bertell Ollman, New York Unversity
- Michael Zweig, SUNY Stony Brook
- David McNally, York University
The Left and the Rich: Income Inequality and Democracy
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Sam Pizzigati, author, Greed and Good
- Meizhu Lui, United for a Fair Economy
- Ross Zucker, author, Democratic Distributive Justice
After the 2004 Elections: Progressive Responses
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Adrienne Maree Brown, League of Young Voters
- Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Joanne Landy, New Politics
- Dan Cantor, Working Families Party
- Joe Trippi, Trippi & Associates
- Bill Resnick, Portland Alliance
- Councilman Bill Perkins, NYC Council
Whither the Middle East?: Iraq, Lebanon and the Regional Reshuffle
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Wadood Hamad, physicist and writer
- Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
- Irene Gendzier, Boston University
- Christian Parenti, CUNY Graduate Center
- Fawwaz Trabulsi, American University, Beirut
Social Security "Crisis": Rolling Back the New Deal
- Sponsor: Dollars & Sense
- Chair: Amy Gluckman, Dollars & Sense
- Ellen Frank, Poverty Institute
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
- Trudy Goldberg, Adelphi University
- Chris Rude, York University
Resistance in the Military
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Barbara Garson, author, Money Makes the World Go Around
- Tod Ensign, Citizen Soldier
- Alex Rybov, Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Victor Paredes, brother of Pablo Paredes
- Kim Rosario, MFSO, mother of a G.I. currently serving in Iraq
Class or Multitude
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Rainer Rilling, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
- Ellen Meiksins Wood, author, Empire of Capital
- Michael Hardt, Duke University
- Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
- Michael Albert, Z Magazine
Euro-Imperialism?
- Sponsor: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
- Chair: John Grouard Mason, William Paterson University
- Frieder Otto Wolf, Sustainable Strategy - Freie University, Berlin
- Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University
- Tobias Pflueger, European Parliament
- Philip G. Cerny, Rutgers University at Newark
- Dieter Plehwe, Yale University
We Got Next: Youth Activism in Harlem
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Michael Tyner, Uptown for Peace and Justice
- Que Alequin, Uptown for Peace and Justice
- Jeanette Caceres, Uptown for Peace and Justice
- Alcy Montas, Uptown for Peace and Justice
- Estevan Nembhard, Uptown for Peace and Justice
Sex, Gender and Politics Today
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University
- Ellen Willis, New York University
- Richard Goldstein, Village Voice
- Pamela Bridgewater, American University, Washington, DC
- Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado--Boulder
Insurgency and the Limits of US Imperial Reach
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Eliyanna Kaiser, Democratic Socialists of America
- Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
- Leo Panitch, York University
- Peter Gowan, University of North London
- Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University
The Frame-up of Lynne Stewart: The Emerging Police State
- Sponsor: National Lawyers Guild
- Co-Sponsor: Center for Constitutional Rights
- Chair: Michael Steven Smith, National Lawyers Guild
- Lynne Stewart, Attorney
- Adbeen Jabara, New York Civil Liberties Union
- Michael Avery, National Lawyers Guild
- Dalia Hashad, American Civil Liberties Union
- John Gerassi, Queens College
Educators to Stop the War: Moving Forward
- Sponsor: Educators to Stop the War (E.S.W)
- Chair: Nancy Romer, USLAW, PSC-CUNY (AFT Local 2334)
- Joan Beckerman, Clara Barton High School teacher
- Lusmaia Díaz, S.A.N.I.T.Y., Beacon High School student
- Jackie DiSalvo, Baruch College, CUNY
- Tom Roderick, Educators for Social Responsibility
- Justino Rodrigeouz, Campus Action Network, "CUNY 4"
- Michael Zweig, USLAW, UUP-SUNY (AFT Local 2190)
China and the World
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Satya Gabriel, Mount Holyoke College
- Andrew Ross, New York University
- Richard Smith
Freedom Dreamin': Imagining Socialism
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
- Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University
- Sam Webb, Communist Party USA
- Michael Albert, Z Magazine
- Amiri Baraka, poet
Youth Organizing and Politics in the US
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Malav Kanuga, Young Democratic Socialists
- Crystal Yakacki, United Students Against Sweatshops
- Jonathan Wilson, Critical Resistance
- Steve Theberge, War Resisters League
Why Americans Fall for the Ownership Society
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Maria Svart, Democratic Socialists of America
- Aaron Brenner, Rank & File Enterprises
- Ellen Willis, New York University
- Graham Cassano, Union of Radical Political Economics
- Chris Rude, URPE and New School University
Future of the Left
- Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
- Chair: Leith Mullings, CUNY Graduate Center
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
- Bogdan Denitch, Transition to Democracy
- Ralph Nader, Democracy Rising
- Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
- Ron Daniels, Center for Constitutional Rights
References
Left Forum 2007, Forging a Radical Political Future, "will address the strategic and practical steps needed for us to move forward. We will offer debate on the oft-neglected issue of political organization. Panels will engage the struggles for popular power of social movements here and across the globe. In short, this Left Forum poses the questions necessary to forging a radical political future."[1]
References
Left Forum 2008 took place March 14-16 at The Cooper Union, New York City. The event was themed "Cracks in the Edifice".[1]
- What is the nature of the emerging crises in global political economy? How can the Left confront its current challenges to build stronger anti-capitalist movements? If another world is possible, what will it look like?
Left Forum Board of Directors
Board of Directors, 2008:[2]
- Stanley Aronowitz
- Eric Canepa
- Vivek Chibber
- Bill Fletcher, Jr.
- Nancy Holmstrom
- Mahmood Mamdani
- Jamie McCallum
- Frances Fox Piven
- Julie Ruben
- Michael Steven Smith
- Hobart Spalding
- William Tabb
- Richard D. Wolf
- Julia Wrigley
Panels
Africa
Cracks in the Edifice
- Naomi Klein, Writer and filmmaker
- Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University
- Tariq Ali, Journalist and author
- Adam Hochschild of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
- Moderator: Heather Rogers, Journalist and filmmaker
Resistance is fertile: Changing the World from the Ground Up
- Grace Lee Boggs of James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, Detroit
- Maude Barlow, Chairman of The Council Of Canadians
- Patricia McFadden of the Southern African Feminist Review, SAFERE, Zimbabwe
- Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
- Moderator: Eddie Yuen of the San Francisco Art Institute
Popular Struggles for Democracy in Kenya: Lessons from the 2007 Elections
- Mukoma wa Ngugi of the University of Wisconsin: "African Leadership in Crisis"
- Caroline Elkins of Harvard University: "Historical Legacies and Kenya's Contemporary Crises"
- Micere Githae Mugo of Syracuse University, "What went wrong? A class analysis of the pitfalls of the democratic project in Kenya"
- Tavia Nyong'o of New York University, "Perverse Neoliberalism"
- Moderator: Horace G. Campbell of the Syracuse University, "Kenyan political struggles and political transformation in Africa"
The African Crisis: Politics, Philosophy and Social Movements: A Roundtable
Contributing authors to the November 2007 special issue of Socialism and Democracy will exchange ideas about the current prospects for popular progressive and revolutionary movements in Africa.
- Nigel C. Gibson of Emerson College
- Paget Henry of Brown University
- Biodun Jeyifo of Harvard University
- Judith Van Allen of Cornell University
- Moderator: Victor Wallis of Socialism and Democracy
Southern Africa - Southern African Feminist Review (SAFERE), Zimbabwe
- Patrick Bond of the Center for Civil Society, South Africa
- Dennis Brutus of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Moderator: Thomas Ponniah of Harvard University
Speaking Truth to Power: Africa's Independant Media and its Relationship to Democratic Struggles around the Continent
How does the traditional press and new media forms, including blogs, websites, and text messaging, contribute to democracy movements on the continent and among the diaspora?
- Sowore Omoyele, Journalist and Sahara Reporter
- Kassahun Checole, of the Africa World Press and the Red Sea Press
- Miampela Mpela, of the UN Department of Public Information
- Moderator: Milton Allimadi, of Black Star News, and the Global Information Network
Political Violence in Darfur
This panel will focus on the debate around how to understand the political violence in Darfur since the start of the February 2003 rebellion.
- Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University
- Stephen Eric Bronner of Rutgers University
- Moderator: *Lawrence Davidson of Middle Eastern History, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Racism
Race & Racism: Reimagining 1968: The Black Power Movement and its Legacies
This panel critically analyzes the way in which Black Power radicalism impacted the local, national and international events of 1968.
- Donna Murch of Rutgers University
- Herb Boyd, a Journalist, New York, Amsterdam News
- Moderator: Peniel Joseph of Brandeis University
Harlem is Seized!
How do land issues manifest within black communities, what are their commonalities to other liberation struggles, what is the relationship between the struggle for specific local reforms such as tenants rights and the liberation of the ìimagined community", in what ways is Harlem a new manifestation of the diaspora of folks of African descent.
- Nellie Hester Bailey of the Harlem Tenants Council
- Kamau Franklin of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- Haja Worley of Community Gardens
- Rene Francisco Poitevin of New York University
- Moderator: Cleo Silvers of the For A Better Bronx
Radicalizing Human Rights: Bringing Human Rights Home
In recent years, important sectors of the feminist movement and the left have adopted a strategy of using the language of international human rights to mobilize people for economic and social justice within the US; in what ways is this approach useful in winning reforms and building a movement and what are its possible limitations in terms of a radical strategy?
- Cathy Albisa of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, "Bring Human Rights Home"
- Loretta Ross of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, "Reproductive Justice"
- Sangeeta Budhiraja of Queers for Economic Justice,"Immigration and Human Rights"
- Moderator: Meredith Tax of Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature & Development, Womens WORLD, "Some Strategic Questions about Human Rights"
Race and Ethnicity in America: A Left Perspective
An author/critic discussion of Stephen Steinberg's provocative new book, Race Relations: A Critique, which argues that social science has been complicit in advancing "an epistemology of ignorance" that glosses over racial oppression and denies the reality of a "dual melting pot" one for peoples of African descent, the other for everybody else, including Asians and light-skinned Latinos.
- Jerry Watts, English and Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Stephen Steinberg of Urban Studies, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
- Philip Green, Government, Smith College, and Political Science, New School for Social Research
- Moderator: Alyson M. Cole - Political Science, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Why Have the Women's and Blacks' Movements Stalled? What Can Be Done to Restart Them?
- Johanna Brenner, Sociology, Portland State University, and Women and the Politics of Class
- Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the Center for Labor Renewal and the Black Commentator
- Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Kazembe Balagun of the Brecht Forum
Sports and the Culture Wars
In a world where coverage of sports is increasingly pervasive, this panel examines the way that popular journalism address issues of race, gender and culture.
- Dave Zirin of The Edge of Sports
- Selena Roberts of the New York Times and Sports Illustrated
- David Aldridge of the Philadelphia Inquirer and TNT
- Moderator: Jack McCallum and Sports Illustrated
Non-Degreed Theorizings are Possible, Non-Traditional Revolutions are Necessary, Music is the Weapon
Lyrical Resistance/Action Planning: Fighting the criminalization of black youth. An interactive dialogue of artists and activists on the criminalization of black youth and how art intersects with scholarship to fight these racist ideologies, the potentials available in revolutionary music to mobilize communities and students to resist the criminalization and mass incarceration of black people.
- Viviane Saleh-Hanna of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
- Spiritchild, Poet and performer, Mental Notes
- Stephanie Rooker of Party for the People
- Not4prophet, Musician
- Moderator: Ashanti Alston of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
The Thousand-Yard Stare: Public Health on a Corrupt Trajectory
We propose that AIDS prevention and treatment have failed in the US as a consequence of the harms to thinking systems that resulted from the US original sin of counting African Americans as 3/5ths of a man.
- Mehret Mandefro, Founding Director of TruthAIDS
- Rodrick Wallace, a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, "Concentration is NOT containment"
- Robert E. Fullilove of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, "Finding the moral high ground"
- Moderator: Lourdes Hern·ndez-Cordero of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University and the Mailman School of Public Health
Racial Justice and Public Education
Panelists will discuss the ways in which different communities are addressing the challenges they face fighting for decent and equitable education, how they have resisted and organized, and how their particular struggles speak to the larger political climate of the US.
- Priscilla Gonzalez of the Center for Immigrant Families
- Donna Nevel of the Center for Immigrant Families
- Mona Eldahry of Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media
- Adem Carroll of the Muslim Consultative Network
- Fatin Jarara of Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media
- Moderator: Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director of The Praxis Project, (Center for Immigrant Families)
Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the DeMobolisation of African Voters
New voters are trouble, so it is more efficient to work to suppress opposition voters, and blacks are the usual target of vote suppression, a tactic is used both by the Republican and the Democratic parties.
- Lorraine Minnite, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Major Owens of the US Congress, retired
- Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Andrew Hsiao of The New Press
Beyond Walls and Cages: Linking Immigrant Rights and Prison Abolition Movements
The criminalization of migration builds on the nearly three-decade long project of mass incarceration. How can we understand how walls and cages target different groups of people, yet with similar effects, and how can the prison abolition and immigrant justice movements learn from and support each other?
- Andrew Burridge, Geography, University of Southern California, "Might a theory and politics of open borders manifest themselves spatially and challenge current forms of border securitization and militarization?"
- Trishala Deb of the [[Audre Lorde Project, The intersections of racism, transphobia, and homophobia for immigrant community members, particularly around issues of enforcement and incarceration
- Micol Seigel of the African American Studies, African Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Zero Tolerance Goes South: focus on the international police consulting of former NYPD and current LAPD Police Chief William Brattonî
- Seth Freed Wessler, Research associate at the Applied Research Center
- Fahd Ahmed of DRUM, (Desis Rising Up and Moving)
- Moderator: Lisa Bhungalia, Geography, Syracuse University
- Moderator: Jenna Loyd of Syracuse University
International
Neoliberalism, Citizenship, and Land Wars in the "New India"
As the Indian state attempts to bring into being a new consumer citizen, farmers, workers and cultural activists fight to retain a democratic notion of citizenship, located within specific political spaces and practices.
- Leela Fernandes, Political Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick "The Political Economy of Lifestyle: Consumption, India's New Middle Class and Changing Development Regimes"
- Dolly Daftary, Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, "Morphing dryland communities into 'India Shining': A critique of participatory democracy, watershed development and the postcolonial state"
- Moderator: Kanishka Chowdhury, English, and Director of the Program in American Culture and Difference, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, "Contesting Claims: Land Acquisition and Dispossession in Bengal"
Marxism, Feminism and Critical Theory In Contemporary China
A discussion of recent trends in Chinese philosophy and social theory, with participants from China and the US.
- He Ping of Wuhan University, China, Gender in China
- Wu Xinwei of Wuhan University, China, Purdue University, ìGramsci in Chinaî
- Li Dianlai of Wuhan University, China, Purdue University, ìHabermas in Chinaî
- Wang Xinyan of Wuhan University, China, "Keeping a Foothold on Concrete Reality in Chinese Marxist Philosophy"
- Discussant: Peter Hudis of Oakton Community College
- Moderator: Kevin B. Anderson of Purdue University
- Moderator: Josh Howard of the Graduate Center, CUNY
China: Economic Crisis, Environmental Collapse, and Workers Struggles in Chinas' Market Stalinism
The introduction of market reform in China has installed economic forces that are savaging Chinese society and driving the country toward ecological collapse ó trends which are exacerbated by Chinaís hybrid capitalist-communist social structure which has defeated all efforts at reform but provoked growing resistance from workers and farmers.
- Richard Smith, Author, ìChinaís Capitalist Catastrophe
- Stephen Philion, Sociology, St. Cloud State University, "The Ideology of Rights and Workers Resistance to Privatization in China"
- Yan Sun of Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, "Corruption, growth and reform, the Chinese enigma"
- Moderator: Magali Sarfatti Larson of Temple University (emerita)
Tariq Ali on Pakistan
- Tariq Ali, Journalist and Author
- David Barsamian a Journalist, Alternative Radio
Culture
Sports and the Culture Wars
In a world where coverage of sports is increasingly pervasive, this panel examines the way that popular journalism address issues of race, gender and culture.
- Dave Zirin of The Edge of Sports
- Selena Roberts of the New York Times and Sports Illustrated
- David Aldridge - Philadelphia Inquirer, TNT
- Moderator: Jack McCallum - Sports Illustrated
Literature and Politics: A Session in Memory of Annette Rubinstein
Marxist literary historians and theorists will discuss the red line of literary history and the continuing necessity for historical materialism in literary criticism and cultural critique.
- Jacqueline DiSalvo, English, Baruch College and Graduate Center, CUNY, "William Blake's Revolutionary Socialism"
- Alan Wald, English, University of Michigan,
- Ann Arbor, "Humboldt's Gift: Annette Rubinstein, Charles Humboldt, and the Masses & mainstream writers in Cold War America"
- Kimberly Macellaro of Rice University, "The Politics of 'Intersectional' Feminism"
- Moderator: Barbara Foley, English, Rutgers University, Newark, Science and Society
Left Perspectives on Psychoanalysis
- Isis Leslie, "Romantic Individualism, Existentialism, and Melancholia: The Case of Richard Wright"
- Stanley Aronowitz of the Graduate Center, CUNY, "Can We Grasp the Social World with Psychoanalysis?"
- David N. Smith - ìResistance of the Wrong Kind: Probing the Psychological Roots of Resistance to Psychology"
- Richard Lichtman - Critical Theory in Psychology, Sacramento, California, ìPsychology and Torture: Their Long Dark Historyî
- Moderator: Harriet Fraad - Psychologist
Closed Doors: Household Exploitation and the Struggle for a New Society
The hidden class struggles that occur within contemporary households and their implications for understanding social change and politics today.
- Harriet Fraad, a Psychotherapist, New York, "The Class Analysis of Caring Labor"
- Rick Wolff, Economics, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, "Households and Families, Class Analysis, and Revolutionary Strategy Today"
- Moderator: Graham Cassano, Sociology, Oakland University, Michigan
Political Satire: Speaking Spoof to Power
If you're tired of Leftists over-analyzing everything, and just want a good, pain-filled laugh, see comics, writers and filmmakers present their ingeniously outraged work, inspired by what the US government is doing to us and to the world. Billionaires for Bush
- Alrick Brown, Filmmaker
- Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men
- Andrew Boyd author and humorist
- Elissa Jiji of Billionaires for Bush
- Moderator: Marco Ceglie of Billionaires for Bush
- Moderator: Susie Day, Columnist
Transformative Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Future of Capatilism
What role can indigenous or "precapitalist" forms of knowledge and spirituality play in this transformation, and what are the politics of mobilizing them, and does the recent (re)turn to consciousness mark a significant break from the distinction between idealism and materialism? *Jack Z. Bratich of Rutgers University
- Tiokasin Ghosthorse, "First Voices Indigenous Radio," WBAI Radio
- Daniel Pinchbeck, Author
- Moderator: James Trimarco, Writer
The Left Analyzes Everyday Life
- Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Chicago, "Consumption and the Colonization of Daily life"
- Richard Lichtman, Critical Theory in Psychology, Sacramento, California, "'Cry' Morality in American Life"
- Chyng Sun of New York University, ìWhy Is Pornography a Left Issue?î
- Moderator: Harriet Fraad, Psychologist, "Laborers in the Field of Emotion: What is Emotional Labor and Why Is It Unpaid?"
Non-Degreed Theorizings Are Possible, Non-Traditional Revolutions are Necessary: Music is the Weapon
Lyrical Resistance/Action Planning: Fighting the criminalization of black youth. An interactive dialogue of artists and activists on the criminalization of black youth and how art intersects with scholarship to fight these racist ideologies, the potentials available in revolutionary music to mobilize communities and students to resist the criminalization and mass incarceration of black people.
- Viviane Saleh-Hanna of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
- Spiritchild, Poet and performer, of Mental Notes
- Stephanie Rooker of Party for the People
- Not4prophet, Musician
- Moderator: Ashanti Alston, of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Ecology and Environment
Water Privatization: The Ultimate Theft
The campaign to make clean water accessible to all brings together socialists, environmentalists, wealthy suburbanites and the poorest people in the world in a fight that may save the planet.
- Maude Barlow, Chairman of The Council Of Canadians
- Alan Snitow, Author and Filmmaker
- Patrick Bond of the Center for Civil Society, South Africa
- Moderator: Barbara Garson, Writer
Daniel Singer Essay Prize: Eco Socialism in the Time of Global Warming
The panel will feature comments on the essay of Arthur Mitzman, Dutch professor and the winner of the 2007 Daniel Singer Prize, on the theme of his paper, "The Eco-Socialist Challenge."
- Michael Lowy, Sociology, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
- William Kornblum, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Eleni Varikas, Political Science, University of Paris VIII
- Moderator: Frank Fried, Activist, Daniel Singer Foundation
Radical Approaches to Global Warming
Global Warming is not a technical problem, and cannot be solved within the terms of capitalism; we need, rather, a massive uprising and joining together of movements from below, dedicated to keeping carbon within the ground, and to the transformation of society accordingly.
- Michael Lowy, Sociology, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
- Karen Charman, Managing editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Moderator: Joel Kovel, author and editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism
China: Economic Crisis, Environmental Collapse and Worker's Struggles in China's Market Stalinism
The introduction of market reform in China has installed economic forces that are savaging Chinese society and driving the country toward ecological collapse ó trends which are exacerbated by Chinaís hybrid capitalist-communist social structure which has defeated all efforts at reform but provoked growing resistance from workers and farmers.
- Richard Smith, Author, China's Capitalist Catastrophe
- Stephen Philion, Sociology, St. Cloud State University, "The Ideology of Rights and Workers' Resistance to Privatization in China"
- Yan Sun, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, "Corruption, growth and reform, the Chinese enigma"
- Moderator: Magali Sarfatti Larson, Temple University (emerita)
Corporate Vs. Popular Solutions To the Climate Crisis
In a warming world, corporate intransigence and government dithering are getting heat from grassroots movements around the world mobilizing to stop climate catastrophe.
- Ted Glick, Climate Crisis Coalition, Coordinator of the US Climate Emergency Council, "Building a Mass Movement for Climate Solutions that Solve the Crisis and Advance Justice and Peace"
- Michael K. Dorsey, Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College, "Neoliberal Bird Flu Infects Climate Policy Making: Unveiling Reactionaries, Responses, & Resistance"
- Anne Petermann, Co-Director of Global Justice Ecology, "Climate Change: Crisis and Opportunity"
- Moderator: Natalie Jeremijenko of New York University, (Climate Crisis Coalition)
Education
Racial Justice and Public Education
Panelists will discuss the ways in which different communities are addressing the challenges they face fighting for decent and equitable education, how they have resisted and organized, and how their particular struggles speak to the larger political climate of the US.
- Priscilla Gonzalez of the Center for Immigrant Families
- Donna Nevel of the Center for Immigrant Families
- Mona Eldahry of Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media
- Carroll of the Muslim Consultative Network
- Fatin Jarara of Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media
- Moderator: Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director of The Praxis Project, Center for Immigrant Families
Between Teaching, Facilitating and Promoting: What Kind of Worlds do Teachers Envision?
Examining the Friere, the Free School and the Zapatista models, and questioning the responsibilities of teachers to students, this panel will explore these questions through both personal experience and professional critique, calling on those who work in all levels to participate in this critical discussion.
- Fernando Reals, Teacher, Rikers Island
- Ora Wise, Palestine/Israel Education Project
- Matt Meyer, High School Teacher, New York City
- Esperanza Martel, Community Organizing, Hunter College, CUNY
- Moderator: Rosemary Mealey, Writer and educator
Education Vs. Schooling - The Roles of the Political Intellectual In and Out of Academia
- Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, "Against Schooling"
- C. Ricardo Brown, Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, "The end of critical theory and the institutionalization of cultural studies asks for creating a new political culture in the universityî"
- Michael Pelias, Philosophy, Long Island University, Brooklyn, "Doing Philosophy and confronting its consistent depoliticization in the academy - restoring historical materialism"
- Edwina Stokes, Long Island University, Brooklyn
- Moderator: Dominic Wetzel - Graduate Center, CUNY, Situations Journal
Electoral Politics
Left Political Parties, Left Electoral Successess and the Strategic Challenge of NeoLiberalism and Right Wing Populism
- Michael Krotke, Political Economy, University of Amsterdam, "The Origins of the Success of the Dutch Socialist Party"
- John Sanbonmatsu, Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, "Building the Left in the United States"
- Ingar Solty, Political Science, York University, Toronto, "Neoliberalism, Right-Wing Populism and Neosocialism: The Significance of the New German Left Party"
- Asbjorn Wahl of the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees, "The Origin of the Success and the Experience With the Government Participation of the Norwegian Left Party"
- Moderator: Leo Panitch, York University, Toronto, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Electoral Reform in the US
The elections of 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 cast a spotlight on serious distortions in the American electoral system, exposing problems so serious that the term "vote suppression" had become commonplace in the press.
- Regina Eaton, Associate Director, The Democracy Project at Demos, "Voter Registration Reform"
- Rob Richie, Director of Fair Vote
- Mike Slater, Director of Project Vote, "The Promise and Politics of Voter Registration"
- Moderator: Lorraine Minnite, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
The Interplay of Movements and Electoral Politics in the US
Focusing on particular movements, the perennial dichotomy between doing electoral work or movement work will be examined, as will what can we learn about the impact of electoral politics on political movements, and the impact of political movements on electoral politics.
- Dorian Warren, Political Science, Columbia University, "Electoral/movement dynamics in the labor movement"
- Howard Hawkins of Teamster, Green Party, "A Green Party Strategy Debate"
- Linda Gordon, New York University
- Ron Scott, Member, Detroit Black Panther Party, TV producer
- Ronnie Eldridge of Eldridge & Co., CUNY-TV, "The Second Wave Women's Movement, or How the Victims became Victorious - Women and Politics"
- Moderator: Nancy Holmstrom of Rutgers University, Newark
Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobolization of American Voters
New voters are trouble, so it is more efficient to work to suppress opposition voters, and blacks are the usual target of vote suppression, a tactic is used both by the Republican and the Democratic parties.
- Lorraine Minnite, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Major Owens of the US Congress, retired
- Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Andy Hsiao of The New Press
Anarchism and the 2008 American Elections
Can anarchists shrug off the end of the Bush era and this particular U.S. presidential election as just the same old statecraft - and proceed to "shut down" the conventions - or do the race (Obama), gender (Clinton), and "hope" factors problematize our usual responses?
- Cindy Milstein of the Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Ashanti Alston of Anarchist People of Color
- Ariel of the New York City Anarchist Bookfair Collective
- Eric Laursen of the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists
Looking Presidential? Symbols and Substance, Obama and Clinton
How race and gender have been used, abused and misunderstood in the primaries.
- Amy Richards, Writer
- Patricia Williams of The Nation
- Peggy C. Davis of the New York University School of Law
- Moderator: Gary Younge of The Guardian and The Nation
Europe
Building the Left in Northern Core Capitalist Countries
- Frank Deppe, Political Science, University of Marburg, Germany, "The crisis of neoliberal hegemony and the emergence of authoritarian capitalism"
- Javier Navascues, Management Science and Industrial Organisation, University of Seville, Spain, "United Left in Spain - Its current difficulties and former successes"
- Mimmo Porcaro, Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, "Building a new Left party into a populist society: Is the 'Italian Case' back?"
- Thomas Seibert, Interventionist Left, Germany, "Party and movements, moderates and radicals. Lessons learned from Cologne 1999 to Heiligendamm 2007"
- Moderator: Rainer Rilling, University of Marburg, Germany
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
The Balkans in Crisis: 1990 - 2008
This panel will examine the history of the dismantling of Yugoslavia and the politics of "humanitarian intervention" and capitalist transition as seen "from below" through the struggles of workers, students, Roma and other political activists in the region.
- Irina Ceric, York University, Toronto
- Ziga Vodovnik, University of Ljubljana
- Moderator: Tamara Vukov, McGill University
Understanding Class Dynamics, State Restructuring and Political Alternatives
An examination of the recent dynamics of Turkish capitalism in terms of the accumulation process, social classes and the state, with a specific focus on the post-2001 period.
- Fuat Ercan, Economics, Marmara University, Turkey
- Selime Guzelsari, Department of Public Administration, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey
- Moderator: Sebnem Oguz, Trent University, Canada
Left Political Parties, Left Electoral Successes and the Strategic Challenge of Neoliberalism and Right Wing Populism
- Michael Krotke, Political Economy, University of Amsterdam, "The Origins of the Success of the Dutch Socialist Party"
- John Sanbonmatsu, Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, "Building the Left in the United States"
- Ingar Solty, Political Science, York University, Toronto, "Neoliberalism, Right-Wing Populism and Neosocialism: The Significance of the New German Left Party"
- Asbjorn Wahl - Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees, "The Origin of the Success and the Experience With the Government Participation of the Norwegian Left Party"
- Moderator: Leo Panitch, York University, Toronto, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Kosovo Independence: Timely or Absurd?
- Bogdan Denitch, Sociology (emeritus), Graduate Center, CUNY
- George Szamuely, Writer
- Susan Woodward, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Julia Wrigley - Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Women, Gender & Sexuality
What Would a Feminist Left be Like?
The next wave of the left must integrate the experience and ideas of the feminist and queer movements with an understanding of class and race in order to build a social justice movement that is not only progressive but humane, and able to address people's real life concerns.
- Amber Hollibaugh, Queers for Economic Justice, "Sex, Class, and Desire"
- Sara Kershnar, Generation Five, "Transformative Justice"
- Vanessa Moses, Generation Five, "Transformative Justice"
- Patricia McFadden, Southern African Feminist Review (SAFERE), Zimbabwe, "The Need for a Radical African Feminism"
- Moderator: Meredith Tax, President, Women's WORLD, "What I've Learned"
The Pleasure Frontier: An Intergenerational Dialogue On Sex in Feminism
An interrogation of sex and sexuality through various generations of feminisms
- Nona Willis-Aronowitz, Journalist
- Rebecca Traister, Salon.com
- Jennifer Baumgardner, Grassroots
- Loretta Ross, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, "Reproductive Justice"
- Moderator: Marcia Gillespie, Ms. Magazine
Dangerous Liason: Feminism and Neo-Liberalism
This panel explores the unexpected ideological and political points of convergence — in the US, Europe, and the Third World — between the economic orthodoxy of free market neoliberalism (privatization, welfare cuts, free access for capital everywhere) and mainstream feminism (individualism, women's autonomy).
- Hester Eisenstein, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, "Feminism Seduced? The Uses Of Feminist Ideology For Corporate Elites In The Age Of Terror"
- Iris Nowak, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, "About the conservative German Secretary of Family Affairs and other feminists. Why feminism is (not) a Left issue"
- Kornelia Hauser, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Sociology of Education, Gender Studies, "Neocapitalistic Construction of the Self in Third Wave Feminism"
- Moderator: Soniya Munshi, Queens College, CUNY
- Moderator: Steve Brier, Graduate Center, CUNY
Advancing a Left Feminist Agenda
This panel seeks to create an intergenerational, multiracial, multicultural left feminist analysis of global capitalism and patriarchy including intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, nationalism, sexuality, and class and to focus on the relationship between theory and practice and the need to build a broad-based feminist movement for social justice.
- Patricia Blau Reuss, "The State of Reproductive Rights in the US Today"
- Nkenge Toure, "Not All Panthers were Men"
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, "The Role of Women of Color in the Feminist Movement"
- Andree-Nicola McLaughlin, "Feminist Resistance: An International Perspective"
- Nancy Holmstrom, "The Role of Socialist Women in the Feminist Movement"
- Luz Marquez, "Violence and Hate Crimes against Women"
- Moderator: George Friday, National Coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network
Sex Work, Trafficking and Left Politics: Towards a New Vision on Prostitution and Justice
This panel will unite sex workers, rights activists and professional intellectuals working on queer theory, feminism and progressive sexual politics to discuss the relationship between sex work and the Left.
- Audacia Ray, Spread Magazi
- Kerwin Kaye, New York University
- Elizabeth Wood, Nassau Community College
- Amber Hollibaugh, Queers for Economic Justice
- Ignacio Rivera, Queers for Economic Justice
- Moderator: Antonia Levy, Graduate Center, CUNY
Is a Radical Homosexual Agenda Possible?
- Jessica Rechtschaffer, Radical Homosexual Agenda
- Tim Doody, Radical Homosexual Agenda
- Kaitlyn Tikkun, Callen Lorde Community Health Center, Transgender Community Advisory Board
- Josh Pavan, Q-Team
- Moderator: Dominic Wetzel, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, Radical Homosexual Agenda
A Labor Movement for the 21st Century
What kind of labor movement is needed to deal with 21st century conditions of globalization, labor migration, widespread unemployment and a huge but largely unorganized service sector; and how do womenís rights and workersí rights, workplace issues and community issues, come together to build this kind of movement?
- Willie Baptist, Union Theological Seminary Poverty Initiative, "Organizing the Poor"
- Marisa Franco, Domestic Workers United, "Unionizing Domestic Workers"
- Katie Quan, University of California, Berkeley, Labor Center, "Women, Work, and Globalization"
- Moderator: Carol Barton - Womenís International Coalition for Economic Justice, ìEconomic Rightsî
Why Have the Womens and Blacks Movements Stalled? What Can be Done to Restart Them?
- Johanna Brenner, Sociology, Portland State University, "Women and the Politics of Class"
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., Center for Labor Renewal, Black Commentator
- Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Kazembe Balagun, Brecht Forum
Marxism, Feminism and Critical Theory In Contemporary China
A discussion of recent trends in Chinese philosophy and social theory, with participants from China and the US.
- He Ping, Wuhan University, China, "Gender in China"
- Wu Xinwei, Wuhan University, China, Purdue University, "Gramsci in China"
- Li Dianlai Wuhan University, China, Purdue University, "Habermas in China"
- Wang Xinyan, Wuhan University, China, "Keeping a Foothold on Concrete Reality in Chinese Marxist Philosophy'
- Discussant: Peter Hudis, Oakton Community College
- Moderator: Kevin B. Anderson, Purdue University
- Moderator: Josh Howard, Graduate Center, CUNY
Organising For Tax Justice
- Mimi Abramovitz, Social Policy, Hunter School of Social Work, CUNY, "Taxes are a Woman's Issue"
- Lucy Komisar, Journalist, Tax Justice Network, USA, taxjustice-usa.org, "Tax Justice Activism: targeting the corporate & super-rich tax cheats"
- Stephanie Greenwood, Editor, 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes
- Carol Barton, Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice, "Economic Rights"
- Moderator/Discussant: Bill Tabb, Economics, Queens College, CUNY
Healthcare
Not Politically Feasible? Not so Fast!: Organising For Single Payer Health Care in an Election Year
- Len Rodberg, Queens College, CUNY, "Back to the Health Care Future: Why the Mainstream Candidates Proposals Can't Work, and Can't Win"
- Ayana Jordan, Einstein College of Medicine, "Medical student organizing"
- Mary OíBrien, "Organizing in the Medical Profession"
- Bill Henning, Vice-President, CWA, Local 1180, Labor's role
- Eric Sawyer, ACT UP, Community activism
- Moderator: Martha Livingston, SUNY College, Old Westbury, Physicians for a National Health Program, New York-Metro Chapter
The Thousand Yard Stare: Public Health on a Corrupt Trajectory
We propose that AIDS prevention and treatment have failed in the US as a consequence of the harms to thinking systems that resulted from the US original sin of counting African Americans as 3/5's of a man.
- Mehret Mandefro, Founding Director of TruthAIDS
- Rodrick Wallace, Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute, "Concentration is NOT containment"
- Robert E. Fullilove, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, "Finding the moral high ground"
- Moderator: Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Labor
Reorganising the Working Class
The panel will address the profound crisis within the labor movement and the strategic dimensions of its potential revival as an oppositional force. Kate Bronfenbrenner - Labor Education Research, Cornell University, The Impasse in Unions and Union Organizing
- Ai Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United, "Organizing Immigrant Workers in Non-traditional Union Sectors"
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Black Commentator, co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, "From the Workplace to the Community: Re-strategizing Class Struggle"
- Moderator: Jerry Tucker, Co-founder, Center for Labor Renewal, United Auto Workers, Center for Labor Renewal
In the Shadow of the Anti-Labor Law
This panel examines the state of US labor law 60 years after the passage of Taft-Hartley through critique and assesses alternative means of establishing a just labor law through innovative political and activist strategies by workers.
- Sarumathi Jayaraman, Brooklyn College, CUNY and ROC-NY
- James Gray Pope, Rutgers Law School
- Steve Early, Union Activist, Writer
- Harris Freeman , Western New England Law School, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Moderator: Harris Freeman, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society
Gender, Ethnicity and Culture: Organising on the Margins
In the context of the steady decline of organized laborís white male workers manufacturing jobs, this panel shifts the focus to organizing precarious employment and immigrant labor in an increasingly anti-immigrant climate.
- Jennifer Klein, History, Yale University, "We Were the Invisible Workforce: Low-wage Labor in the American Welfare State"
- Graham Cassano, Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland University, "Republicanism, class war, and the cultural struggle: Lou Dobbs and the new nativism"
- Troy Rondinone, History, Southern Connecticut State University, "Republicanism, class war, and the cultural struggle: Lou Dobbs and the new nativism"
- Nicole Trujillo-Pag·n, Sociology, Wayne State University, "Limits to Solidarity: The Case of Latina Organizers of Male Casual Laborers in Post-Katrina New Orleans"
- Moderator: David Fasenfest, Editor, Critical Sociology, Sociology, Wayne State University, Critical Sociology
A Labor Movement For the 21st Century
What kind of labor movement is needed to deal with 21st century conditions of globalization, labor migration, widespread unemployment and a huge but largely unorganized service sector; and how do womenís rights and workersí rights, workplace issues and community issues, come together to build this kind of movement?
- Willie Baptist, Union Theological Seminary Poverty Initiative, "Organizing the Poor"
- Marisa Franco, Domestic Workers United, "Unionizing Domestic Workers"
- Katie Quan, University of California, Berkeley, Labor Center, "Women, Work, and Globalization"
- Moderator: Carol Barton, "Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice, Economic Rights"
US Manufacturing: Restructuring Or Disappearing?
The hollowing out of American manufacturing is an article of faith in much left analysis, but the truth is more complex and this has important organizing, bargaining, and political implications
- Mark Brenner, Labor Notes, “Overview of job loss and restructuring in US manufacturing”
- Nicole Aschoff, Sociology, John Hopkins University, "New data on the net flow of jobs out of and into the US auto industry”
- Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center, CUNY, long-time labor activist, “The shift to high tech manufacturing and the implications for organizing”
- Moderator: Sam Gindin, York University, former Assistant to the President of CAW, Socialist Register
Precarious Work, Precarious Lives
- Mia Son, Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Korea
- Iris Nowak, *Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
- David Van Arsdale, Sociology, Hartwick College and Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
- Moderator: Bill DiFazio, St. Johns University
How Can Studying Workers Class Consciousness Help To Raise It?
An attempt to combine our research interests on this important topic with our political ones.
- Bertell Ollman, New York University, "Are Class Interests Part of What Workers Are or Part of What They Know (Or Don't)?"
- Howard Horowitz, Howard Horowitiz Associates, "Report on Two Focus Group Studies on Workers' Class Consciousness]]
- Lee Levin, Public Administration, Baruch College, "Problems of Class Consciousness in Working Class Women]]
- Moderator: Michael Zweig, Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook
Sex Work, Trafficking, And Left Politics: Towards a New Vision on Prostitution and Justice
This panel will unite sex workers rights activists and professional intellectuals working on queer theory, feminism and progressive sexual politics to discuss the relationship between sex work and the Left.
- Audacia Ray, Spread Magazine
- Kerwin Kaye, New York University
- Elizabeth Wood, Nassau Community College
- Amber Hollibaugh, Queers for Economic Justice
- Ignacio Rivera, Queers for Economic Justice
- Moderator: Antonia Levy, Graduate Center, CUNY
China: Economic Crisis, Environmental Collapse and Workers' Struggles in China's Market Stalinism
The introduction of market reform in China has installed economic forces that are savaging Chinese society and driving the country toward ecological collapse, trends which are exacerbated by China's hybrid capitalist-communist social structure which has defeated all efforts at reform but provoked growing resistance from workers and farmers.
- Richard Smith, Author, "China's Capitalist Catastrophe"
- Stephen Philion, Sociology, St. Cloud State University, "The Ideology of Rights and Workers' Resistance to Privatization in China"
- Yan Sun, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, "Corruption, growth and reform, the Chinese enigma"
- Moderator: *Magali Sarfatti Larson, Temple University (emerita)
Latin America
Militant Puerto Ricans: Diaspora, Struggle & Political Prisoners
This panel focuses on the role of the Diaspora in the struggle for Puerto Rican national liberation describing and evaluating the radicalization of communities, the differing forms of struggle, political prisoners and use of the grand jury today.
- Mickey Melendez, Author, former Young Lord, "Trends in community organizing from the Young Lords to actual Diaspora struggles"
- Michael Gonz·lez-Cruz, University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¸ez, "Militant Puerto Ricans: from Diaspora to Nation Building"
- Juan Antonio Ocasio Rivera, LMSW, La Nueva Escuela, "Historic role of the Diaspora in the Struggle for Independence"
- Moderator: Ana Lopez, "Grand Jury, Repression, and Resistance in Puerto Rico and the US"
The Latin American Right
Much attention in recent years has been devoted to the Latin American ìleft turnî with little attention focused on how right-wing politics has adjusted to meet new challenges to its dominance.
- Steve Ellner, Political Science, University de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
- Fred Rosen, NACLA
- Forrest Hylton, New York University
- Carlos Vilas, Political Science, Argentina
- Moderator: Jack Hammond, Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, NACLA
New Participatory Working Class Movements Challenge Left Reformism in Latin America
Confronting Left Reformism in Latin America: Non-hierarchical, democratic, and participatory working class movements present challenges to social democratic and centrist governments
- Jack Hammond, Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, "Popular Movements and Left Governments: Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela and Chile"
- Peter Ranis, Political Science, Graduate Center and York College, CUNY, "Struggles of Worker Recuperated Enterprises and Cooperatives in Argentina"
- Nancy Romer, Psychology, Brooklyn College, CUNY, "Indigenous and Workers Organizations in Bolivia"
- Moderator: Renate Bridenthal, History, Brooklyn College, International Committee of PSC-CUNY, AFT, Local 2334))
Evaluating Chavez From the Left
The international Left must address whether we should line up behind Chavez, is he a populist and/or a revolutionary, and is the opposition in Venezuela, perhaps, correct?
- Steve Ellner, Political Science, University de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
- Greg Wilpert, Venezuelanalysis.com
- Fernando Coronil, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan
Moderator: *Olivia Burlingame Goumbri, Director, Venezuela Information Office
Urban Roots of Resistance And the New Left in Latin America
The historical antecedents of many of the leftist movements coming to power across Latin America today, the relationships of social movements with new Left leaders, and the current social movements and their historical roots will be examined.
- Forrest Hylton, New York University, "Indigenous Movements in Bolivia"
- Marina Sitrin, New College, "Horizontalism in Argentina"
- Alejandro Velasco, New York University, "El 23 de Enero in Caracas"
- Moderator: Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College, CUNY, "Barrio-based movements in Caracas"
Changing the World by Taking Power? Challenges Facing the Latin American Left
Leftists have come to power in governments throughout Latin America, from Venezuela to Brazil to Cuba and beyond, and questions of the relationship between state power and social movements are a subject of heated debates: How do left forces relate to questions of electoral struggles, executive power and its contestation, parliamentary reform and revolutionary movements, socialism from above and below?
- Carlos Vilas, Political Science, Argentina
- Michael Lowy, Sociology, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
- Greg Wilpert, Venezuelanalysis.com
- Moderator: Nancy Romer, Brooklyn College
Marxism & Theory
No Neoliberalism Without 1968? The Contradictory Legacy of the Cultural Rebellion
Is it possible that the cultural upheavals of the 60s paved the way for neoliberal policies to be not only implemented but accepted widely?
- Ingar Solty, York University, Toronto
- Barbara Epstein, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Thomas Seibert, Interventionist Left, Germany
- Leo Panitch, York University, Toronto
- Moderator: Lisa Maya Knauer, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Towards a Synthesis of Anarchism and Marxism?
- Dave Berry, European Studies, Loughborough University, UK, "Towards a libertarian communism? Daniel Guerin and the synthesis of marxism and anarchism"
- Ruth Kinna, Politics, Loughborough University, UK, "Bridging Differences Through Revolutionary Action: Aldred on Anarchism and Marx"
- Moderator: Laurence Davis - Founding member, Anarchist Studies Network, "Anarchism, Marxism, and the Ends of Revolution"
Dialectics of Liberation: Praxis For a New Century?
Utilizing over 90 years of collective movement experience, participants in this conversation will discuss using dialectics to explore ways that theorizing social change must change to fit the 21st Century.
- Melanie Bush, Sociology, Adelphi University
- Kazembe Balagun, Brecht Forum
- Matt Birkhold, Independent scholar and writer
- Moderator: Roderick Bush, Sociology, St. John's University
Real Utopia: Participatory Society For the 21st Century
This panel engages visions for what a future participatory society may look like while looking at real world examples in the US, Asia and Latin America, and the strategy and activism needed to take us there.
- Michael Albert, Znet, "Participatory Society for the 21st Century"
- Jessica Azulay, WebRoot Solutions, "Parecon in Practice"
- Brian Dominick, WebRoot Solutions, ìOrganizing for a Participatory Societyî
- Richard W. Franke, Montclair State University, New Jersey, "Kerala. India"
- Chris Spannos, ZNet
- Marie Trigona, ZMag, "Argentina"
- Greg Wilpert, Venezuelanalysis.com, "Socialism for the 21st Century/Venezuela"
- Moderator: Meaghan Linick-Loughley, New York Organization for a Participatory Society, Students for a Democratic Society, Z Communications
Lenin's Return?
While many have proclaimed Goodbye to Leninî since Communismísm's collapse, discussions and debates are re-emerging regarding his historical meaning, contemporary resonance and future relevance.
- Paul Le Blanc, History, La Roche College, Pennsylvania
- Lars Lih, Independent scholar and author
- Helen Scott, English, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Vermont
- August Nimtz, Jr., Political Science, African Studies, University of Minnesota
- Moderator: Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society
Connecting Globalization and Revolution
Marx's slogan about "workers of the world unite" was premature such that only today are the conditions in place to make that possible, and how does contemporary globali==tion repose anew the strategic question, "Reform and/or Revolution?"
- Maliha Safri, Drew University, "The Global Household: Immigration and Economics in Transnational Families"
- John Manley, Political Science, Stanford University, 'Globalization: Precondition of Socialist Revolution?"
- Rick Wolff, Economics, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, "Reaction to Global Neoliberalism: Reform or Revolution?"
- Moderator: Cathy Mulder, Economics, Washington College
Rethinking Marxism and the Future Of Global Struggles: Class Theory, Political Subjects and Contemporary Capitalism
Scholars associated with Marxism and with Rethinking Marxism will interrogate the journal's goals and accomplishments, Marxism's history in relation to political transformations in the world over the last 20 years, and the future of Marxism in the United States and abroad, as both a scholarly discourse and a form of political practice.
- Rick Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Maliha Safri, Drew University
- David Harvey, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Joseph Buttigieg, Notre Dame
- Moderator: David Ruccio, Notre Dame University, editor of Rethinking Marxism
How Can Studying Workers' Class Consciousness Help to Raise It?
An attempt to combine our research interests on this important topic with our political ones.
- Bertell Ollman, New York University, "Are Class Interests Part of What Workers Are or Part of What They Know (Or Don't)?"
- Howard Horowitz, Howard Horowitiz Associates, "Report on Two Focus Group Studies on Worker's Class Consciousness"
- Lee Levin, Public Administration, Baruch College, "Problems of Class Consciousness in Working Class Women"
- Moderator: Michael Zweig, Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook
Beyond the Inarticulate: A "Conversation" With Staughton Lynd On Anarchism and Marxism and History From the Bottom Up
An exploration of the contributions of historian and organizer Staughton Lynd.
- Staughton Lynd, Historian and Author
- Carl Mirra, Adelphi University
- Daniel Gross, Co-author, "Labor Law for the Rank and File"
- Moderator: Jerry Watts, English and Sociology, Graduate Center, [[CUNY
Marxism, Feminism and Critical Theory In Contemporary China
A discussion of recent trends in Chinese philosophy and social theory, with participants from China and the US.
- He Ping, Wuhan University, China, "Gender in China"
- Wu Xinwei, Wuhan University, China, Purdue University, "Gramsci in China"
- Li Dianlai, Wuhan University, China, Purdue University, "Habermas in China"
- Wang Xinyan, Wuhan University, China, "Keeping a Foothold on Concrete Reality in Chinese Marxist Philosophy"
- Discussant: Peter Hudis, Oakton Community College
- Moderator: Kevin B. Anderson, Purdue University
- Moderator: Josh Howard, Graduate Center, CUNY
Media
Speaking Truth to Power: Africa's Independent Media and its Relationship to Dmocratic Struggles Around the Continent
How does the traditional press and new media forms, including blogs, websites, and text messaging, contribute to democracy movements on the continent and among the diaspora?
- Sowore Omoyele, Journalist, Sahara Reporter
- Kassahun Checole, Africa World Press and Red Sea Press
- Miampela Mpela, UN Department of Public Information
- Moderator: Milton Allimadi, Black Star News, Global Information Network
Unembedded From Corporate Journalism At Home - Grassroots Media-Making
Panelists will share video and radio examples as they discuss media-making as a critical component of their community organizing, analysis and communications.
- Nijmie Dzurinko, Media Mobilizing Project
- Kat Aaron, Co-Director, People's Production House
- Moderator: Lisa Rudman, Director of Making Contact, National Radio Project
Middle East
The Iran Crisis: Continuing Threat of War, Post-National Intelligence Estimate
Our panelists will explore US-Iran relations and questions raised by the striking US Intelligence turnaround by looking at domestic politics in the US and Iran, the effects of trade sanctions on Iran's economy and its people, the connection to the war in Iraq, and the long-range energy ambitions of the US.
- Reza Ghorashi, Richard Stockton College
- Tom O'Donnell, Fulbright Scholar, CENDES Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, and The New School
- Faramarz Farbod, Moravian College, Union for Radical Political Economics
Lessons of the Iraq Occupation
This panel will explore a broad range of issues, from mercenaries and outsourcing to counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq and the impact of the ongoing occupation for other conflicts, as well as the anti-war movement.
- Jeremy Scahill, The Nation
- A.K. Gupta, Editor, The Indypendent
- Dennis Brutus, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Frida Berrigan, Senior Program Associate, New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative
- Moderator: Lisa Maya Knauer, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, The Indypendent and International Socialist Review magazine
Oil and Politics in a Neoliberal World Economy
The political economy of the international oil industry in the neoliberal world economy with special foci on the consequences of the rising cost of oil extraction and nationalization of the oil industry for Middle East politics and US foreign policy.
- Michael Klare, Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College, "Oil, War, and Geopolitics: The Struggle Over What Remains"
- Max Fraad Wolff, International Affairs, The New School, "Rising Petrol Prices and Redistribution"
- Irene Gendzier, Political Science, Boston University, "Past Tense, Present Sense: Reflections on US Oil Policy and Middle East Politics from the start of the Good Old Days"
- Moderator: Adolfo Doring
The Backlash Against Dissent on Israel - Strategies For Response
Drawing upon their own experiences, panelists will address how dissenting voices on Israel have been suppressed or silenced, and ways to respond politically to the backlash that is taking place against dissent on Israel.
- Joel Kovel, Author, Overcoming Zionism, Founding Member, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, CODZ
- Debbie Almontaser, Educator, Founding Principal, Khalil Gibran International Academy, New York City
- Donna Nevel, Community Psychologist and educator
- Alison Weir, Journalist, Founder of If Americans Knew
- Moderator: Esther Kaplan, Investigative editor at the Nation Institute, "Author of With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right", Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
Movement Building
Whither the World Social Forum?
This panel will reflect on the World Social Forum process over the last 8 years in terms of challenges, successs, ideologies and future possibilities.
- Patrick Bond, Center for Civil Society, South Africa
- Heather Gautney, Fordham University
- Michael Menser, Brooklyn College
- Marina Karides, Florida State University
- Moderator: Thomas Ponniah, Harvard University
Usable Pasts: Approaches to Movement Histories For Today's Struggles
This panel, featuring a range of younger scholar-activists, will stimulate discussion around creatively and critically bringing movement histories into contemporary struggles.
- Sean Burns, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Maia Ramnath, History, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Marina Sitrin, New College of California
- Eddie Yuen, San Francisco Art Institute
- Moderator: Chris Dixon, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Poverty and Poor People's Movements - Social Analysis and Reflections on Strategies
This workshop analyzes the political economy of todayís poverty and discusses the potentials and difficulties of re-igniting sustainable poor peopleís movements today, looking at theoretical debates and the experiences of current anti-poverty movements in the US.
- Willie Baptist, Poverty Initiative, Union Theological Seminary
- Chris Caruso, Cultural Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Jan Rehmann, Co-editor, German Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, Philosophy and Social Theories, Union Theological Seminary
- Liz Theoharis, Coordinator of the Poverty Initiative, Union Theological Seminary
- Moderator: Charlene Sinclair, Union Theological Seminary, Organizer in Poor People's movements
Real Utopia: Participatory Society For the 21st Century
This panel engages visions for what a future participatory society may look like while looking at real world examples in the US, Asia and Latin America, and the strategy and activism needed to take us there.
- Michael Albert, Znet, "Participatory Society for the 21st Century"
- Jessica Azulay, WebRoot Solutions, "Parecon in Practice"
- Brian Dominick, WebRoot Solutions, "Organizing for a Participatory Society"
- Richard W. Franke, Montclair State University, New Jersey, "Kerala. India"
- Chris Spannos, ZNet
- Marie Trigona, ZMag, "Argentina"
- Greg Wilpert, Venezuelanalysis.com, "Socialism for the 21st Century/Venezuela"
- Moderator: Meaghan Linick-Loughley, New York Organization for a Participatory Society, Students for a Democratic Society, Z Communications
Organizing For Tax Justice
- Mimi Abramovitz, Social Policy, Hunter School of Social Work, CUNY, "Taxes are a Woman's Issue"
- Lucy Komisar, Journalist, Tax Justice Network-USA, taxjustice-usa.org, "Tax Justice Activism: targeting the corporate & super-rich tax cheats"
- Stephanie Greenwood - Editor, 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes
- Moderator/Discussant: William Tabb, Economics (emeritus), Queens College, CUNY
Towards a Revolutionary Student Movement: Organization, Vision and Strategy For a Revitalized Left
This panel is an opportunity for young radicals in the student movement to discuss and share their views on the role students can play in confronting the new challenges our society is faced with, how to transcend the errors of previous generations of revolutionaries, and the difficulties in creating a new new left.
- Patricia Gonzalez, The New School, Students for a Democratic Society
- Rachel Haut, Queens College, Students for a Democratic Society
- Dave Shukla, UCLA, Students for a Democratic Society
- Moderator: Pat Korte, The New School, Students for a Democratic Society
The Evolution of Revolutionary Theory and Practice
Detroit City of Hope campaign points the way for twenty-first century cities.
- Ron Scott, TV producer
- Shea Howell, Co-founder and coordinator, Detroit Summer, columnist, Michigan Citizen
- William Copeland, Poet, cultural worker
- Moderator: Grace Lee Boggs, James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, Detroit
Study Groups in Search of the Questions
This panel is composed of several actual study groups who have been trying to confront the really difficult questions of revolution around consciousness-raising, organizational structure, ideology and the intersections of identity, class-race-gender-place and what ìif notî revolution as we have understood it.
- Another Politics is Possible study group
- Revolution & Evolution in the 20th Century study group
- Resistance in Brooklyn study group
- Party Study Part study group
- Moderator: Edget Betru, Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights
Movement-Building: Finding Common Ground
Drawing on organizing experience across race, ethnic, gender, and generational lines, panelists will discuss what kind of movement we need to build, how we can bridge theory and practice, how to raise difficult issues, and how older activists can make themselves useful to the young.
- Howie Machtinger, Heirs to a Fighting Tradition, "Intergenerational Politics: Legacies of the Sixties"
- Susan Wilcox, Brotherhood/SisterSol, "Youth Development for Social Change"
- Moderator: *Suzanne Pharr, Southerners on New Ground (SONG), "Let the Circle Be Unbroken"
Radicalizing Rights: Bringing Human Rights Home
In recent years, important sectors of the feminist movement and the left have adopted a strategy of using the language of international human rights to mobilize people for economic and social justice within the US; in what ways is this approach useful in winning reforms and building a movement and what are its possible limitations in terms of a radical strategy?
- Cathy Albisa, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, "Bring Human Rights Home"
- Loretta Ross, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, "Reproductive Justice"
- Sangeeta Budhiraja, Queers for Economic Justice, "Immigration and Human Rights"
- Moderator: Meredith Tax, Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature & Development Women's WORLD, "Some Strategic Questions about Human Rights"
Re-Constructing Solidarity
Often invoked, rarely examined, this panel addresses the concept of solidarityówhat it is, why itís important, and the various reasons why it is blocked or flourishes in particular instances.
- Barbara Epstein, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., Center for Labor Renewal, Black Commentator
- Staughton Lynd, Historian and author
- Moderator: Chris Dixon, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Autonomy, Social Change and the Global Justice Movement
Panelists will present on urban and rural movements in Europe and North America, discuss how these local activities are linked to larger movements, and then raise questions about the modalities of feminist, anti-racist, and anticapitalist social change being offered by these actors that are both antagonistic and transformative.
- Thomas Seibert, Interventionist Left, Germany
- Brenda Biddle, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Mike Menser, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Omar Freilla, Green Workers Cooperatives, New York City
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Moderator: Jamie McCallum, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Building the Left in Northern Core Capitalist Countries
- Frank Deppe, Political Science, University of Marburg, Germany, "The crisis of neoliberal hegemony and the emergence of authoritarian capitalism"
- Mimmo Porcaro, Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, "Building a new Left party into a populist society: Is the 'Italian Case' back?
- Thomas Seibert, Interventionist Left, Germany, "Party and movements, moderates and radicals. Lessons learned from Cologne 1999 to Heiligendamm 2007"
- Moderator: Rainer Rilling, University of Marburg, Germany, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
A Labor Movement For the 21st Century
What kind of labor movement is needed to deal with 21st century conditions of globalization, labor migration, widespread unemployment and a huge but largely unorganized service sector; and how do womenís rights and workersí rights, workplace issues and community issues, come together to build this kind of movement?
- Willie Baptist, Union Theological Seminary Poverty Initiative, Organizing the Poor
- Marisa Franco, Domestic Workers United, Unionizing Domestic Workers
- Katie Quan, University of California, Berkeley, Labor Center, "Women, Work, and Globalization"
- Moderator: Carol Barton, Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice, "Economic Rights"
The Solidarity Economy as a Path Towards Radical Economic Transformation
Speakers from the US and Canada, representing five different solidarity economy networks, including the recently founded US Solidarity Economy Network, will introduce the solidarity economy framework and debate key aspects of solidarity economy organizing.
- Ethel Cote, Canadian Community Economic Development Network, International Network for the Social/Solidarity Economy, Solidarity Economy of Ontario
- Emily Kawano, US Solidarity Economy Network, North American Network for the Solidarity Economy, Center for Popular Economics
- Ethan Miller, US Solidarity Economy Network, Grassroots Economic Organizing
- Carl Davidson, US Solidarity Economy Network, solidarityeconomy.net
- Moderator: Julie Matthaei, US Solidarity Economy Network, Economics, Wellesley College
Political Economy
Building the Left in Northern Core Capitalist Countries
- Frank Deppe, Political Science, University of Marburg, Germany, "The crisis of neoliberal hegemony and the emergence of authoritarian capitalism"
- Mimmo Porcaro, Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, "Building a new Left party into a populist society: Is the 'Italian Case' back?"
- Thomas Seibert, Interventionist Left, Germany, "Party and movements, moderates and radicals. Lessons learned from Cologne 1999 to Heiligendamm 2007"
- Moderator: Rainer Rilling, University of Marburg, Germany, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Oil and Politics in a Neoliberal World Economy
The political economy of the international oil industry in the neoliberal world economy with special foci on the consequences of the rising cost of oil extraction and nationalization of the oil industry for Middle East politics and US foreign policy.
- Michael Klare, Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College, "Oil, War, and Geopolitics: The Struggle Over What Remains"
- Max Fraad Wolff, International Affairs, The New School, "Rising Petrol Prices and Redistribution"
- Irene Gendzier, Political Science, Boston University, "Past Tense, Present Sense: Reflections on US Oil Policy and Middle East Politics from the start of the Good Old Days"
- Moderator: Adolfo Doring
Decline of the Dollar: Decline or Flexibility of the Empire?
- Jane D'Arista, Financial Markets Centre
- David Harvey, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
- Chris Rude, Writer
- Moderator: Leo Panitch, York University, Toronto, Socialist Register
The Solidarity Economy As a Path Towards Radical Economic Transformation
Speakers from the US and Canada, representing five different solidarity economy networks, including the recently founded US Solidarity Economy Network, will introduce the solidarity economy framework and debate key aspects of solidarity economy organizing.
- Ethel Cote, Canadian Community Economic Development Network, International Network for the Social/Solidarity Economy, Solidarity Economy of Ontario
- Emily Kawano, US Solidarity Economy Network, North American Network for the Solidarity Economy, Center for Popular Economics
- Ethan Miller, US Solidarity Economy Network, Grassroots Economic Organizing
- Carl Davidson, US Solidarity Economy Network, solidarityeconomy.net
- Moderator: Julie Matthaei, US Solidarity Economy Network, Economics, Wellesley College
The Housing Meltdown
Panelists review the massive house price inflation (2001-2007), withdrawal of money and eventual decline of home prices, wealth and ownership.
- Max Fraad Wolff, International Affairs, The New School, The Huffington Post, "How Big? How Bad? How Long?"
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer, WBIA, KPFA, "The Building/Housing Boom, Bust and Response"
- Kenneth Levin, Queens College, CUNY, "Middle Class Home Insecurity: Policy and Practice"
- Moderator: Jason Ricciuti Borenstein, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Coming Depression?
- Jack Rasmus, "From Minsky to Marx and Beyond: Financial instruments and value"
- Hillel Ticktin, Critique - A Journal of Socialist Theory, "Why this downturn is different from all others since 1929"
- Elizabeth Ramey, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, "The Commodity/Ethanol Boom and the Housing Bubble"
- Moderator: Suzi Weissman, Critique - A Journal of Socialist Theory
The Political Economy of Oil, Energy and the Environment
How the changing oil industry affects recession in the US economy, energy politics, and the growing US inequality of income and wealth.
- AK Gupta, Editor, The Indypendent, "The United States and the political-economy of the global oil order"
- Michael Tanzer, Tanzer Economic Associates, "Oil, Energy and Global Warming: The Disconnect between Scienceís Warnings and Proposed Solution"
- George Caffentzis, Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, "Oil, the US Working Class and the Crisis of Neoliberalism"
- Moderator: Cathy Mulder, Economics, Washington College
Organising For Tax Justice
- Mimi Abramovitz, Social Policy, Hunter School of Social Work, CUNY, "Taxes are a Woman's Issue"
- Lucy Komisar, Journalist, Tax Justice Network, USA, taxjustice-usa.org, "Tax Justice Activism: targeting the corporate & super-rich tax cheats"
- Stephanie Greenwood, Editor, 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes
- Moderator/Discussant: William Tabb, Economics, Queens College, CUNY
Dimensions of the Financialization Crisis
- David McNally, York University, Toronto, "Global Finance, the Current Crisis, and Challenges to the Dollar"
- Michael Krotke, University of Amsterdam, "The Financial Crisis has arrived in Europe - Europe`s share in the international bubble economy"
- Bill Tabb, Economics, Queens College, CUNY, "The Minsky Moment and the Structure of Contemporary Finance"
- Jane D'Arista, Financial Markets Centre, "Broken Systems: the US Financial and Monetary Policy Framework"
- Moderator: Rainer Rilling, University of Marburg, Germany
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Belin
Up to Our Eyeballs: America's Unfolding Crisis of Personal Debt
An unregulated lending and financial services industry, crying out for rules far tougher than our political leaders (with their Wall Street bankrollers) will propose, will be examined, and solutions discussed.
- Robin Blackburn, Committee on Historical Studies, New School for Social Research
- Jose Garcia, Senior Research and Policy Associate at Demos
- James Lardner, Journalist, Senior Fellow at Demos
- Danny Schechter, Television Producer and Independent Filmmaker
- Moderator: Heather McGhee, Economic Opportunity Program
Religion & Spirituality
Transformative Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Future of Capitalism
What role can indigenous or "precapitalist" forms of knowledge and spirituality play in this transformation, and what are the politics of mobilizing them, and does the recent (re)turn to consciousness mark a significant break from the distinction between idealism and materialism?
- Jack Z. Bratich, Rutgers University
- Tiokasin Ghosthorse, First Voices Indigenous Radio, WBAI Radio
- Daniel Pinchbeck, Author
- Moderator: James Trimarco, Writer
The Radical Roots of Theology: What Left Movements Can Learn From Religion
Left movements tend to be skeptical (typically for good reasons) about religion, but are there theological approaches within contemporary religions that can not only be compatible with left politics but can contribute to leftistsí ability to understand the world and create social change?
- Robert Jensen, University of Texas, Austin
- Junaid S. Ahmad, College of William and Mary School of Law, Virginia
- Fahd Ahmed, DRUM, Desis Rising Up and Moving, "Immigrant Rights Since 9/11"
- Moderator: Reverend Jim Rigby, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas
Racial and Religious Solidarity: Breaching the Barriers
What keeps religious leftists and secular leftists from building coalitions, what keeps white religious leftists and religious leftists of color from true dialogue and understanding?
- Noble Bratton, Trade Union activist
- Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, National Coordinator of Clergy and Laity Concerned about Iraq, Minister, Judson Memorial Church, New York City
- Elliot A. Ratzman, Swarthmore College
- Moderator: Juanita Webster, Religion & Socialism Commission of Democratic Socialists of America
United States
Left Perspectives on Immigration Controversies
This panel will focus on the impact of immigrant workers on the political and economic realities facing the US working class today.
- Amy Sugimori, Executive Director, LaFuente
- David Van Arsdale, Sociology, Hartwick College and Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
- Immanuel Ness, Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Stephen Steinberg, Urban Studies, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Marty Oppenheimer, Sociology, Rutgers University
The Battle For Immigrant Rights: From Dialogue To Action
Join us for a dialogue exploring how we can respond effectively to tough questions about immigration, chip away at the anti-immigrant attitudes being amplified by the media, and support immigrants who are organizing against deportation, defending their labor rights and building community power.
- Jane Guskin, Author
- Aarti Shahani, Co-founder, Families for Freedom
- Victor Toro, Founder, Vamos a la PeÒa del Bronx
- Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director, Make the Road, New York
- Moderator: Adriana Rocha, Program Officer, New York Foundation
Torture and the Decline of the American Empire
Torture yields intelligence of dubious value, but its development and use is increasing by the US government as its grip on empire is challenged.
- Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights
- Alfred McCoy, University of Wisconsin
- Marnia Lazreg, Sociology, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY
- Naomi Wolf, Author
- Moderator: Michael Steven Smith, Attorney and author
The State of the Anti-War Movement
There is an urgent need for analysis as to why the anti-war movement has faded from public view despite the fact that it was the burning issue of the 2006 election and that nearly 70 percent of Americans support a US withdrawal from Iraq. Also, we will discuss how the movement can get back on track and make an impact in 2008 and beyond.
- AK Gupta, Editor, The Indypendent
- Max Uhlenbeck, Brecht Forum, Editor, Left Turn
- Max Elbaum, Journalist
- Moderator: Susie Day, Columnist
Beyond Walls and Cages: Linking Immigrant Rights and Prison Abolition Movements
The criminalization of migration builds on the nearly three-decade long project of mass incarceration. How can we understand how walls and cages target different groups of people, yet with similar effects, and how can the prison abolition and immigrant justice movements learn from and support each other?
- Andrew Burridge, Geography, University of Southern California, "Might a theory and politics of open borders manifest themselves spatially and challenge current forms of border securitization and militarization?"
- Trishala Deb, Audre Lorde Project, "The intersections of racism, transphobia, and homophobia for immigrant community members, particularly around issues of enforcement and incarceration"
- Micol Seigel, African American Studies, African Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, "Zero Tolerance Goes South: focus on the international police consulting of former NYPD and current LAPD Police Chief William Bratton"
- Seth Freed Wessler - Research associate, Applied Research Center
- Fahd Ahmed, DRUM, Desis Rising Up and Moving
- Moderator: Lisa Bhungalia, Geography, Syracuse University
- Moderator: Jenna Loyd, Syracuse University
Soldiers Resist: Organizing Against War
This panel features the testimonials of activists employing diverse viewpoints and strategies in order to rebuild a vibrant anti-war movement.
- David McReynolds, War Resisters League
- Anna Brown, Witness Against Torture and the Kairos Community
- Bill Weinberg, Editor, World War 4 Report
- Brian Moore, St. Pete (Fla.) for Peace Coalition, Socialist Party USA
- Moderator: Billy Wharton, Socialist Party USA, New York City Local
Is the Christian Right Dead?
The coalition between economic and social conservatives seems kind of rocky coming out of the Bush Presidency that brought them together. Is the Christian Right dead?
- Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates
- Tarso Luis Ramos, Research Director, Political Research Associates
- Michelle Goldberg, Author
- Rich Meagher, Political Science, Marymount Manhattan College
- Moderator: Esther Kaplan, Nation Institute, The Public Eye, Political Research Associates
Anarchism and the 2008 Presidential Elections
Can anarchists shrug off the end of the Bush era and this particular U.S. presidential election as just the same old statecraft - and proceed to "shut down" the conventions - or do the race (Obama), gender (Clinton), and "hope" factors problematize our usual responses?
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Ashanti Alston, Anarchist People of Color
- Ariel, New York City Anarchist Bookfair Collective
- Eric Laursen, New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists
The Arrival of the American Police State
However narrow and restrictive American bourgeois democracy was before 9/11, its juridical and institutional underpinnings have been transformed by the Bush administration (with the complicity of the Democratic Party) into what can now most accurately be described as a police state.
- Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild
- Clark Kissinger, Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience
- Lynne Stewart, Attorney
- Moderator: Michael Steven Smith, Law and Disorder Radio
Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobolization of American Voters
New voters are trouble, so it is more efficient to work to suppress opposition voters, and blacks are the usual target of vote suppression, a tactic is used both by the Republican and the Democratic parties.
- Lorraine Minnite, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Major Owens, US Congress, retired
- Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Andy Hsiao, The New Press
Urban Issues
A Right to the City!
Communities throughout New York City are coming together to create a proactive, unified and strategic community-based response to gentrification and displacement, including through the development of a local and national alliance, Right to the City, that is working to build a broad-based urban movement fighting for housing, education, health, racial justice, and democracy.
- Nayhshene Molina, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
- Nova Strachan, Mothers on the Move
- Robert Robinson, Picture the Homeless
- Rickke Mananzala, Fabulous Independent Radicals for Community Empowerment
- Moderator: Laine Romero-Alston, Urban Justice Center
Homelessness & Resistance In New York City
An interactive discussion around critical themes relating to homelessness, housing exclusion and the housing market, and the implication for strategies of resistance in terms of race, class and gender.
- Jean Rice, Board Member and civil rights leader, Picture the Homeless
- Nikita Price, Organizer, Rental Subsidies Campaign, Picture the Homeless
Rogers - Housing Campaign, Picture the Homeless
- Lynn Lewis, Picture the Homeless
- Sam Miller, Picture the Homeless
- Moderator: Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY, Picture the Homeless
Harlem Is Seized!
How do land issues manifest within black communities, what are their commonalities to other liberation struggles, what is the relationship between the struggle for specific local reforms such as tenants rights and the liberation of the ìimagined community", in what ways is Harlem a new manifestation of the diaspora of folks of African descent.
- Nellie Hester Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council
- Kamau Franklin, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- Haja Worley, Community Gardens
- Rene Francisco Poitevin, New York University
- Moderator: Cleo Silvers, For A Better Bronx
The Evolution of Revolutionary Theory & Practice
Detroit City of Hope campaign points the way for twenty-first century cities.
- Ron Scott, Detroit Black Panther Party, TV producer
- Shea Howell, Detroit Summer, columnist, Michigan Citizen
- William Copeland, Poet, cultural worker
- Moderator: Grace Lee Boggs, James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, Detroit
1968 - 40 Years Later
Reimagining 1968: The Black Power Movement & Its Legacies
This panel critically analyzes the way in which Black Power radicalism impacted the local, national and international events of 1968.
- Donna Murch, Rutgers University
- Herb Boyd, Journalist, New York, Amsterdam News
- Moderator: Peniel Joseph, Brandeis University
No Neoliberalism Without 1968? The Contradictory Legacy of the Cultural Rebellion
Is it possible that the cultural upheavals of the ë60s paved the way for neoliberal policies to be not only implemented but accepted widely?
- Ingar Solty, York University, Toronto
- Barbara Epstein, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Thomas Seibert, Interventionist Left, Germany
- Leo Panitch, York University, Toronto
- Moderator: Lisa Maya Knauer, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Legacy of '68
- Tariq Ali, Journalist
- Max Elbaum, Journalist
- Frank Deppe, Political Science, University of Marburg, Germany
- Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Lorraine Minnite, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
Movement-Building: Finding Common Ground
Drawing on organizing experience across race, ethnic, gender, and generational lines, panelists will discuss what kind of movement we need to build, how we can bridge theory and practice, how to raise difficult issues, and how older activists can make themselves useful to the young.
- Howie Machtinger, Heirs to a Fighting Tradition, "Intergenerational Politics: Legacies of the Sixties"
- Susan Wilcox, Brotherhood/SisterSol, "Youth Development for Social Change"
- Moderator: Suzanne Pharr, Southerners on New Ground SONG, "Let the Circle Be Unbroken"
Migration
The Battle for Immigrant Rights: From Dialogue To Action
Join us for a dialogue exploring how we can respond effectively to tough questions about immigration, chip away at the anti-immigrant attitudes being amplified by the media, and support immigrants who are organizing against deportation, defending their labor rights and building community power.
- Jane Guskin, Author
- Aarti Shahani, Co-founder, Families for Freedom
- Victor Toro, Founder, Vamos a la Peoa del Bronx
- Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director, Make the Road, New York
- Moderator: Adriana Rocha, Program Officer, New York Foundation
Gender, Ethnicity and Culture: Organizing on the Margins
In the context of the steady decline of organized laborís white male workers manufacturing jobs, this panel shifts the focus to organizing precarious employment and immigrant labor in an increasingly anti-immigrant climate.
- Jennifer Klein, History, Yale University, "We Were the Invisible Workforce: Low-wage Labor in the American Welfare State"
- Graham Cassano, Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland University, "Republicanism, class war, and the cultural struggle: Lou Dobbs and the new nativism"
- Troy Rondinone, History, Southern Connecticut State University, "Republicanism, class war, and the cultural struggle: Lou Dobbs and the new nativism"
- Nicole Trujillo-Pag·n, Sociology, Wayne State University, "From 'Gateway to the Americas' to the 'Chocolate City': The Racialization of Latinos in New Orleans"
- Moderator: David Fasenfest, Editor, Critical Sociology, Sociology, Wayne State University, Critical Sociology
Left Perspectives On Immigration Controversies
This panel will focus on the impact of immigrant workers on the political and economic realities facing the US working class today.
- Amy Sugimori, Executive Director, LaFuente
- David Van Arsdale, Sociology, Hartwick College and Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
- Immanuel Ness, Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Stephen Steinberg, Urban Studies, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
- Moderator: Marty Oppenheimer, Sociology, Rutgers University
Reorganizing The Working Class
The panel will address the profound crisis within the labor movement and the strategic dimensions of its potential revival as an oppositional force.
- Kate Bronfenbrenner, Labor Education Research, Cornell University, "The Impasse in Unions and Union Organizing"
- Ai-Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United, "Organizing Immigrant Workers in Non-traditional Union Sectors"
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Black Commentator, co-founder of Center for Labor Renewal, "From the Workplace to the Community: Re-strategizing Class Struggle"
- Moderator: Jerry Tucker, Co-founder, Center for Labor Renewal, United Auto Workers
A Labor Movement For the 21st Century
What kind of labor movement is needed to deal with 21st century conditions of globalization, labor migration, widespread unemployment and a huge but largely unorganized service sector; and how do womenís rights and workersí rights, workplace issues and community issues, come together to build this kind of movement?
- Willie Baptist, Union Theological Seminary Poverty Initiative, "Organizing the Poor"
- Marisa Franco, Domestic Workers United, "Unionizing Domestic Workers"
- Katie Quan, University of California, Berkeley, Labor Center, "Women, Work, and Globalization"
- Moderator: Carol Barton, "Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice, Economic Rights"
Beyond Walls and Cages: Linking Immigrant Rights and Prison Abolition Movements
The criminalization of migration builds on the nearly three-decade long project of mass incarceration. How can we understand how walls and cages target different groups of people, yet with similar effects, and how can the prison abolition and immigrant justice movements learn from and support each other?
- Andrew Burridge, Geography, University of Southern California, "Might a theory and politics of open borders manifest themselves spatially and challenge current forms of border securitization and militarization"
- Trishala Deb, Audre Lorde Project, "The intersections of racism, transphobia, and homophobia for immigrant community members, particularly around issues of enforcement and incarceration"
- Micol Seigel, African American Studies, African Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, "Zero Tolerance Goes South: focus on the international police consulting of former NYPD and current LAPD Police Chief William Bratton"
- Seth Freed Wessler, Research associate, Applied Research Center
- Fahd Ahmed, DRUM, Desis Rising Up and Moving
- Moderator: Lisa Bhungalia, Geography, Syracuse University
- Moderator: Jenna Loyd, Syracuse University
References
Left Forum 2009 posed the question, "could we be at a historic juncture in the evolution of American power and politics?"[1]
- There is a palpable sense that the end of the Bush Presidency might just be such moment. There are signs of deep and lasting changes might be possible, and even underway, in the political firmament. The economy is teetering on what could be the deepest downturn since the Great Depression. Politically, the Obama campaign and presidency have raised the spirits of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, but in doing so it has also exposed the Party to a defection by this very wing if Obama settles for business as usual. On the international front, the American empire is stretched thinner, and appears more vulnerable, than at any time since the Vietnam War. At an even more basic level, the continuing ecological crisis has reached a tipping point, or a point of no return.
- Taken together, these developments have created a sense of crisis. But they also present the Left with an opportunity – perhaps a historic opportunity – to push for change in a progressive direction. We seem, in every sense, to be at a turning point. How can we address and challenge such a set of catastrophes?
- The primary issue of what is to be done is as critical as it is classic. After we have identified the nature of the current conjuncture: how can the Left intervene effectively? Left Forum provides a unique space for the generation of ideas crucial to theorizing and building a resurgent Left.
Panels
Left Forum 2009 included the following panels:
On the Brink of Depression: Turning point in world Capitalism?
- Suzi Weissman, (Chair) - Politics, St. Mary's College Hillel Ticktin - Critique
- Michael Hudson, Institute for the Study of Long Term Trends
- Nomi Prins, Journalist, "Other People's Money"
- Jack Rasmus, Economics and Politics, St. Marys College
Nationalize the Banks! What Does it Really Mean?
- Leo Panitch, (Chair), Political Science, York University
- Fred Moseley, Economics, Mt. Holyoke College
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
- David Harvey, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Nomi Prins, author of Other People's Money
Progressive Program for Recovery and Financial Reconstruction
- Michael Meeropol, (Chair) - Economics, Western New England College
- David Kotz, Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- Radhika Balakrishnan, International Studies, Economics, Marymount
- William K. Tabb, Economics, Queens College, CUNY
Imperialism and the Global Economic Crisis
- David McNally, (Chair), Political Science, York University
- Radhika Desai, Political Studies, University of Manitoba Hugo Radice - Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
On The Financial Crisis
- Max Fraad Wolff, Economics, New School for Social Research
- Robin Blackburn, Committee on Historical Studies, New School for Social Research
- Paul Mason, Economics correspondent, British Broadcasting Corporation
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
Money, Barrels, and Change
- Mohammad Soleymani, (Chair), Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- Kenneth Levin, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- Oliver Cooke, Stockton College
- Fabian Balardini, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- Mathew Bradbury, Economics, Queens College, CUNY
Marxist Theories of the Global Economic Crisis
- Justin Holt, (Chair), Gallatin School, New York University
- David Kotz, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- John McDermott, Economics, State University of New York
- Julio Huato, Economics, St. Francis College
Author Meets Critics: A Discussion of Joseph Schwartz's "The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America."
- Michael Hirsch, (Chair), Democratic Socialists of America
- Gayatri Spivak, Director, Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
- Steven Eric Bronner, Politics, Rutgers University
- Corey Walker, Africana Studies, Brown University
- Joseph Schwartz, (Author/Respondent) - Political Science, Temple University
What Comes After Neoliberalism?
- Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
- Mario Candeias, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
- William K. Tabb, Economics, Queens College, CUNY
Marx and the Global Economic Crisis
- Radhika Desai, (Chair), Political Studies, University of Manitoba
- Fred Moseley, Economics, Mt. Holyoke College
- David McNally, Political Science, York University
- Anwar Shaikh, Economics, New School
Is the U.S. Turning State Socialist? – An Analysis of the State of the Economy 2009 – Local, National, Global
- Cay Hehner, (Chair), Henry George School
- Andrew Mazzone, Henry George School
- Quisia Gonzalez, Henry George School
- Michael Hudson, Economist
- Robert Fitch, Political Science, Henry George School
The relevance of the 1930s for today’s political and economic scene
- Graham Cassano, (Chair), Sociology, Oakland University, Michigan
- Troy Rondinone, History, Southern Connecticut State University
- Amy Offner, History, Columbia University
Marx's Capital and the Economic Crisis
- Radhika Desai, (Chair), Political Studies, University of Manitoba
- Michael Egoavil, Social Worker
- Brendan Cooney, Video Blogger
- Alan Freeman, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manitoba
- Andrew Kliman, Economics, Pace University
In search of a new political economy in times of global economic crisis
- John Gulick, (chair)
- Mark Friedman, Plant Closures Project
- David Kristjanson-Gural, Economics, Bucknell University
- Cay Hehner, Education, Henry George School
- Wakeen Edmonds, Wall street Financial Advisor
Beyond Capital's Crises
- Richard D. Wolff, (Chair) Economics, New School, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Jack Amariglio, Economics, Merimack College
- Richard McIntyre, Economics, University of Rhode Island
- S. Charusheela, Women's Studies, University of Las Vegas Antonio Callari - Economics, Franklin & Marshall College
Democratic Socialist Responses to Stagnation, the Wall Street Collapse and the World Economic Crisis
- Michael Hirsch, (Chair), Democratic Socialists of America
- Teresa Ghilarducci, New School University
- Mark Levinson, UNITE HERE
- Robert Fitch, Long Island University
Counter Culture Industries: Capitalist, Anti-capitalist, Non-capitalist
- Jesse Goldstein, (Chair), Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- David Spataro, Geography, CUNY, Graduate Center
- Brandon Joyce, Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Studies
- Stephen Duncombe, Gallatin School, New York University
- Chris Carlsson, author, "Nowtopia!"
- Tianna Kennedy, artist and curator
- Josh Macphee, - author and curator
Sports as a Platform for Dissent
- Dave Zirin, (Chair), The Edge of Sports
- Toni Smith, Basketball player
- Ken Krayeske, Journalist
Greed, Can an Information Age Society Afford to Indulge It?
- James Fukuda, (Chair), Catalyst Asset Services, LLC
- Nick Pslatos, CEO, The Horror Channel
- Rev Horace Griffin, Director Field Education, General Theological Seminary, NYC
- Aureo Cardona, Supera America, National Hispanic Housing Congress
Theorizing Crisis and Class Mobilization: Ethnographies of Global Capitalism
- William DiFazio, (Chair) - Sociology, St. John's University
- Clayton Rosati, Telecommunications, Bowling Green State University
- Kang Sun, School of Communication Studies Bowling Green State University
- David Van Arsdale, Sociology, Hartwick College
Childhood, Capitalism and Resistance
- Sue Ferguson, (Chair), Journalism,
- Wilfrid Laurier
- Beryl Langer, Sociology, LaTrobe University
- Alan Sears, Sociology, Ryerson University
- Pablo Idahosa, African Studies, York University
Hip-Hop, Social Movements, and a New Left Turn
- Rosa Clemente, (Chair), Community Organizer, Journalist and Hip-Hop activist
- Omowale James, Grassroots Artists Movement
- Hank Williams, Africana Studies Group, CUNY Graduate Center
New Frontiers: Exploring Emotional Labor
- Arlie Hochschild, (Chair), Emotional Labor: A New Frontier
- Seth Adler, Coordinator, Left Forum, scholar, activist
- Harriet Fraad, Class Transformations in US marriage, Family and Intimate Exploitation
- Pam Smith, author, "'I Don't Want to Bring the House to Work' - the Emotional Labour of Migrant Nurses and the Remaking of Disadvantage"
New Frontiers: Left Psychology Explores US Personal Life
- Roger Salerno, Sociology/Anthropology, Pace University
- Harriet Fraad, Psychotherapist/Hypnotherapist
- Lauren Langman, Sociology, Loyola University
A Marxist-Psychoanalytic Analysis of “Death of a Salesman"
- Isis Leslie, (Chair), Political Science, Texas Tech University
- Richard Lichtman, Critical Theory in Psychology, Sacramento, California
- Lisa Davis, Novelist, Spanish Language and Literature, CUNY & SUNY, Center for Puerto Rican Studies and Circulo de Cultura Cubana
The Trouble With Diversity in the Age of Obama
- Nancy Holmstrom,,, (Chair), Philosophy, Rutgers University
- Walter Benn Michaels, English, Univeristy of Illinois, Chicago
- Adolph Reed Jr., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Black Workers and the Current Economic Crisis
- Christine Williams, (Chair), Transport Workers Union
- Ashaki Binta, United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers and Jobs with Justice
- Angela Glasper, National Union of Healthcare Workers
- Tim Schermerhorn, Black Workers Network and Transport Workers Union
Returning to the Source: Ethnic Studies in the Obama Age
- Hank Williams, (Chair), Africana Studies Group, CUNY Graduate Center
- Sam Anderson, Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence
- Clarissa Horton,
- Angela Davis, Anti-Racist Alliance, Pratt Institute
State Capitalism and a New, New Deal: Limitations and Consequences
- Barbara Foley, (Chair) English, Rutgers University, Newark
- Andrew Kliman, Economics, Pace University
- Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review Foundation
- Gregory Meyerson, Co-editor, "Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice"
- Michael Joseph Roberto, History, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Obama and The Audacity of Hype
- Lauren Langman, (Chair), Department of Sociology, Loyola University
- Thomas Ponniah, Social Studies Program at Harvard
- Laura Flanders, Grit TV
Justice in the Age of Imperial America: Unchecked Political Power Verses the Law
- Erna Paris, author, journalist, winner of 10 International journalism awards
- Minky Worden, Media Director, Human Rights Watch
- David Swanson, Co-Founder, AfterDowningStreet.org, Board member, Progressive Democrats for America
Obama Meets the World: Realities and Recommendations for a New Administration
- David Schultz, Chair), School of Business, Hamline University
- Samer N. Abboud, Political Science, Susquehanna University, “Image, Rhetoric and Reality: The Potential of the Obama Administration in the Middle East”
- Joseph G. Peschek, Political Science, Hamline University, “The Obama Presidency and the Politics of ‘Change’ in Foreign Policy”
- Tracy Lightcap, Political Science, LaGrange College, “To Be or Not to Be: Torture, American Politics, and America's Future”
- Celina Su, Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY, “Leaving No Child Left Behind” Behind: Building a Student-Centered Education Policy”
The Crisis - A Long View from the Left: Embedding Radical Visions and Democratic Potentials in Reform Campaigns
- Bill Resnick, (Chair), Lawyer, radio and print journalist
- Chester Hartman, Research Director, Poverty and Race Research Action Council
- Johanna Brenner, Sociology, Portland State University
Liberalism, Imperialism & the Politics of Human Rights
- Jacob Stevens, (Chair), Verso Books
- Richard Seymour, author, "The Liberal Defense of Murder"
- Samuel Moyn, History, Columbia University
- John R. MacArthur, Publisher, Harper's
Prosecuting Bush Era War Criminals & Seizure of Powers: Preventing More Crimes
- Linda Rigas, Student of Consciousness and Resistance, New England School of Law
- Debra Sweet, Director of World Can't Wait
- David Swanson, Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org
Left Lawyering in the Age of Obama
- Frank Deale, (Chair), Professor, CUNY Law School
- Marianne Lado, General Counsel, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
- Mimi Rosenberg, Attorney, Legal Aid Society
- Sameer Ashar, Clinic Director, CUNY Law School
- Vincent Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights
The Crisis is in Charge, the Center Cannot Hold: What Way Forward with Obama
- John G. Mason, (Chair), Political Science, William Paterson University
- Steve Shalom, Political Science, William Paterson University
- Sheila Collins, Political Science, William Paterson University Professor
- Diana Judd
Local Electoral Politics: Why Bother?
- Karen Young, (Chair), Green Party USA activist and candidate for Secretary of State in Illinois, 2006
- Ted Fertik, New York State Campaign Coordinator for the Working Families Party
- David Pechefsky, current Green Party USA candidate for City Council District 39 (Brooklyn)
- Robert Fitrakis, Political Science, Columbus State Community College
Terror Incognita: Immigrants and the Homeland Security State
- Christy Thornton, (Chair), NACLA
- Renee Feltz, Business of Detention Project
- Manisha Vaze, Families for Freedom
- Jack Hammond, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College/CUNY
- Joseph Nevins, Associate professor of Geography, Vassar College
The New Deal Model and Permanent Change
- Marguerite Rosenthal, (Chair), Social Work, Salem State College
- Philip Harvey, Rutgers University School of Law
- Nancy Rose, Economics, University of California, San Bernardino
- Sheila Collins, Political Science, William Paterson University
- Gertrude S. Goldberg, Social Policy, Adelphi University School of Social Work National Jobs for All Coalition
Status Conflicts in America: Schools, Prisons, and WalMart
- Jessie Klein, (Chair, Sociology/Criminology, Adelphi University
- Jacqueline Johnson, Sociology/Criminology, Adelphi Univiersity
- Colby Prusecki, Student, Adelphi Univiersity, Sociology
Women on the Margins: Incarceration and Resistance in the Current Era
- Diana Block, (Chair), California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- Pilar Maschi, Critical Resistance NYC
- Joanne Macri, Immigrant Defense Project
- Laura Whitehorn, former anti-imperialist political prisoner & editor, POZ
- Susan Rosenberg,
- Victoria Law, Books Through Bars, NYC
Grassroots Organizing: Behind Bars, in the Community
- Daniel Gross, (chair), Co-author, Labor Law for the Rank and File
- Andrea Gibbons
- Gary Phillips
- Gilda Haas
- James Tracy
Campaign to End the Death Penalty National Tour: Live From Death Row! "Live call-in from death row prisoner"
- Lee Wengraf, (Chair), Campaign to End the Death Penalty Family member of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Lawrence Hayes, former Black Panther & NYS death row prisoner
- Yusef Salaam, exonerated in the Central Park jogger case
Resistance Struggles on the Inside: Political Organizing Behind Bars
- Meg Starr, (Chair), Resistance in Brooklyn
- Robert Hillary King, former political prisoner confined to solitary for 30 years in Angola Correctional Facility
- Victoria Law, Books Through Bars, NYC
- Jamie Bissonette, Criminal Justice Program, American Friends Service Committee in New England
Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons
- Alexandra Smith (Chair)- Coordinator, Mental Health Alternatives to Solitary Confinement, MHASC, Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities RIPPD, member
- Leah Gitter, RIPPD, MHASC, family member Jack Beck, Prison Visiting Project, Director, Correctional Association of New York
- Myra Hutchinson, RIPPD, MHASC
- Irene Healey, RIPPD, MHASC
- Marcus Healey, RIPPD, MHASC
Right-Wing Women and the Struggle to Remake Conservatism
- Michelle Goldberg, (Chair)
- Abby Scher, Public Eye Quarterly
- Pam Chamberlain, Political Research Associates
- Kathryn Joyce, author, "Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy movement"
Three Generations of Women Explore the Price of Pleasure in Pornography
- Chyng Sun, Filmmaker, Master Teacher of Media Studies, McGhee Liberal Arts, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, NYU
- Harriet Fraad, Psychotherapist/Hypnotherapist
- Tess Fraad Wolff, Student of Psychology, New School, Assistant to Dr. Chyng Sun
Dialogue on protecting sex workers' rights versus human trafficking laws and logics
- Kai Zhang, (Chair)
- Claire Garvey, Amnesty International
- Will Rockwell, $pread Magazine
The Culture Wars and Sexuality
- David Rosen, (Chair), author, "Sex Scandal America: Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming"
- Betty Dodson, long-term women's sexual freedom activist and author of "Orgasm for Two: The Joy of Partnersex"
- Michelle Goldberg, author, "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" and "The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World"
- Richard Kim, The Nation Institute
- Bianca I. Laureno, Sex-Positive Sexuality consultant, educator, activist, host of LatinoSexuality.com
The New Slavery and the Global Sex Industry: The New Abolitionists
- Karie Gubbins, (Chair), William Paterson University, member North Jersey Coalition Against Trafficking
- John G. Mason, Political Science, William Paterson University
- Faith Huckel, Director, Restore NYC
- Yvonne Rafferty, Psychology, Pace University
Queer Politics, Class, and the Right
- Pam Chamberlain, Political Research Associates
- Joseph DiFillipis, Queers for Economic Justice
- Somjen Fraser, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Women’s Liberation in China
- Bai Di, Director of Chinese and Asian Studies at Drew University
- Li Onesto, author of "Dispatches from the People's War in Nepal" and a writer for Revolution newspaper
Spitzer, Sex Work, and Trafficking
- Maryse Mitchell-Brody, (chair), MSW Candidate, Sex Workers Action New York co-founder, Sex Workers Outreach Project NYC
- Kerwin Kaye, PhD candidate, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
- Elizabeth Bernstein, Professor, Department of Sociology and Women's Studies, Barnard College/Columbia University
- Sienna Baskin, Esq., Staff Attorney, Sex Workers Project, Urban Justice Center (tentative)
- Robin D., Sex Workers Action New York, Sex Workers Outreach Project NYC
Green New Deal - A Global Turn in Capitalism?
- Frieder Otto Wolf, Free University, Berlin
- Mario Candeias, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
- Victor Wallis, Socialism and Democracy
The Debate Over Green Capitalism, Technofixes and Reforms
- Richard Greeman, (Chair) - Victor Serge Foundation, Montpellier, France
- Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology,
- Mitchel Cohen, longtime Brooklyn activist in environmental causes
- Victor Wallis, managing editor, "Socialism & Democracy"
- Gregory Meyerson, Co-editor, "Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice"
Reclaiming Life
- Victor Wallis, (Chair) - managing editor, "Socialism & Democracy"
- David Schwartzman, Biology, Howard University
- Michael Joseph Roberto, History, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- Jeff Noonan, Philosophy, University of Windsor
- Les Levidow, Centre for Technology Strategy, Open University (UK)
Is Another World Really Possible?
- Jenny Greeman, (Chair) - The WorkShop Theater Company
- Jonathan Neale, Campaign against Climate Change, Britain
- Richard Greeman, Victor Serge Foundation, Montpellier, France
- John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review
Science for the People
- Karen Charman,, (Chair), Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Stuart Newman, New York Medical College
- Jane Zara, Molecular biologist and lawyer
- David Schwartzman, Howard University
Convergences and Strategies from the Emerging Global Climate Justice Movement
- Michael Dorsey, (Chair), Dartmouth College & Durban Group
- Julian Drix, Rising Tide North America
- Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
- Brooke Lehman, Bluestockings Bookstore and Direct Action Network
- Janet Redman, [[Institute for Policy Studies
- Hendro Sangkoyo, School of Democratic Economics (Indonesia)
- Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology
- Rachel Smolker, Independent, Vermont-based Intellectual
Building Sustainable Communities, Beyond Green and Into Social Sustainability
- James Fukuda, (Chair)
Overcoming Capitalist Ecological Degradation through Ecosocialism
- Salvatore Engel-di Mauro, (Chair), Geography, SUNY New Paltz/Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Irwin Sperber, Sociology, SUNY New Paltz/Union of Radical Sociologists
- Peter Freund, Sociology, Montclair State University
- Erik Swyngedouw, Geography, University of Manchester (UK)
Global Warming and Society- What changes should students fight for?
- Christopher Williams, Environmental Science and Physics, Pace University
- Mollie Schrantz, High school student, Packer Collegiate Institute.
- Shams Tarek, Communications director of New York City Council's Environmental Protection Committee, Pace University
- Brian Jones
The Case Against Centralized Thermal (Nuclear and Coal) Power
- Karen Charman, (Chair), Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Arnie Gundersen, former nuclear executive turned nuclear whistleblower
- Michel Lee, Promoting Health and Sustainable Energy (PHASE)
Strategies for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis: A Challenge to the American Left
- Paul Mayer, (chair), Climate Crisis Coalition
- Cecil Corbin Mark, WEACT for Environmental Justice
- Lorna Salzman
Withering Energies? Oil and the Financial Crisis
- Amy Freeman, (Chair)
- Matt Huber, Geography, Clark University
- Mazen Labban, Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami
- Nayna Jhaveri, Environmental Studies Program, Colgate University
Yes We Will!: Organizing to Bring Real and Lasting Social and Environmental Justice
- Joel Kovel, (Chair), Capitalism Nature Socialism/author
- Joel Kupferman, New York Environmental Law & Justice Project, Environmental Justice Committee of the National Lawyers Guild
- Richard Grossman, Independent Historian and Democracy Advocate
Grow It, Sell It, Cook It, Serve It, Eat It: Sustainable Alternatives in Food Production, Preparation and Distribution
- Mel Grizer, (Chair), United Community Centers, (East New York, Brooklyn)
- Peter Hoffman, Chef, Owner of Savoy and Back 40 restaurants in Manhattan, Chefs' Collaborative
- Mike Rogowski, Pine Island, New York farmer, supplier of several Community Supported Agriculture CSA sites
- David Vigil, East New York Forums
- Ana Aguierra, United Community Centers
- Kevon Hines, Third year intern and Crew chief, East New York Farms!
===Food Sovereignty: Indigenous and People’s Control Over Their Own Food Production
- Nancy Romer, (Chair), Psychology, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Mark Edelman, Anthropology, Hunter College and CUNY Grad Center, Co-editor, "Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization", Co-author, "Social Democracy in the Global Periphery"
- Christina Schiavoni, International Coordinator, World Hunger Year (WHY) Devaney Jackson: Brooklyn Rescue Mission
The Food Democracy Movement: Organizing for a Healthy, Sustainable, and Socially Just Food System
- Sarita Daftary, Youth Educator and Project Director, East New York Farms!
- Angela Davis, Community Food Education Coordinator, Just Food
- Richard Mandelbaum, Farm Worker and Organizer with CATA (El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas), Founder of the Fair Trade Association
- Nancy Romer, Psychology, Brooklyn College, General Coordinator, Brooklyn Food Conference, Community Activist
God’s Economics: Is an Ethical Economy Possible?
- Maxine Phillips, (Chair) - executive editor Dissent Magazine
- Juanita Webster, (Chair) - Black Radical Congress
- Gary Dorrien, Union Theological Seminary
- Reinhold Niebuhr, Prof. of Social Ethics
- Rabbi Michael Feinberg, director NY Labor Religion Coalition
- Sarah Sayeed, NY Interfaith Center
- Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Harlem
Spiritual Politics and Social Movements: A New Left Turn?
- Rev. Anthony Johnson, (Chair) - Community Church of New York
- Masamichi Kamiya, Minister Rissho Kosei-kai of New York
- Fr. Paul Mayer, Climate Crisis Coalition Association
- Devatmananda Avadhuta, Senior Monk, Ananda Marga, North and Central America
Away With All Gods?
- Matthew LaClair, (Chair), Eugene Lang College, Student President of The Center for Inquiry on Campus
- Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revolution newspaper, host WBAI Equal Time for Freethought
- Paul Eckstein, Philosophy, Bergen Community College, host WBAI Equal Time for Freethought
- Dominic V. Wetzel, CUNY Graduate Center
Critique of Religion and Empire-Critical Bible Readings: A Christian-Marxist Dialogue
- Charlene Sinclair, (Chair) - Christian Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
- Brigitte Kahl, New Testament, Union Theological Seminary
- Jan Rehmann, Philosophy, Union Theological Seminary
- Richard D. Wolff, Economics, New School, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Religious Communities, Social Justice Campaigns, and Poor People’s Movements
- Jan Rehmann, (Chair), Philosophy, Union Theological Seminary
- Charlene Sinclair, Christian Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
- Lisa Donner, ACORN
- Paul Sherry, Let Justice Roll, former UCC president
Global Unions
- Lucas Shapiro, (Chair)
- Ina Hinzer, Cornell University
- Nicola Nicolosi, Italian General Confederation of Labor
- Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University
- Jamie McCallum, CUNY Andrea Montagni, Italian General Confederation of Labor
Crisis in Auto: Public Bailout or Public Ownership?
- Sam Gindin, (Chair), Political Science, York University
- Dan LaBotz, labor writer/activist
- Diane Freeley, UAW activist
Health Care Unionism and the Future of American Labor
- Cal Winslow, (Chair)- UC Berkeley
- Angela Glasper, National Union of Healthcare Workers
- John Borsos, National Union of Healthcare Workers
- Jennifer Klein, History, Yale University
- Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, New York State Nurses Association, Montefiore Medical Center
- Ariel Ducey, Sociology, University of Calgary
Informal Sector Worker Organizing at the Crossroads
- Priscilla Gonzalez, (Chair)
- Beatriz Garayalde, Domestic Workers United Sekou Siby, ROC-NY Saket Soni, New Orleans ]]Workers Center for Racial Justice]]
- Roberto Garcia, Day Laborers of Woodside
Internet Labor and the Economic Crisis
- Trebor Scholz, (Chair) - Media Studies, New School University
- Jonah Bossewitch, doctoral student, educational technologist, activist, Columbia University
- Gabriella Coleman, Media, Culture, & Communication, New York University
- Cara O'Connor, doctoral student Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook
- McKenzie Wark, (respondent) - author Hacker Manifesto
Can the Chinese Labor Movement Reverse the “Race to the Bottom?”
- Ellen David Friedman, (Chair)- School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
- Zhang Xiaodan, Sociology, York College of CUNY
- Earl Brown, Labor and Employment Law Counsel, American Center for International Labor Solidarity
Domestic Worker Organizing - Building Power Locally and Nationally
- Joycelyn Gill-Campbell, (Chair) - Domestic Workers United
- Luna Ranjit, Adikaar
- Liliam Juarez, Unity Housecleaners + Workplace Project
- Debra Cole, Domestic Workers United
- Jackie Amezouita, Beyond Care Cooperative
- Christine Lewis
Laboring American Culture: The Politics and Practices of Studs Terkel, Herbert Gutman, Staughton Lynd, and Archie Green
- Sean Burns, (Chair) - History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Andrej Grubacic, - ZMedia Institute, Sociology, University of San Francisco.
- Steve Brier,- CUNY
- Al Stein, Consortium for Oral History Educators and a lecturer at Chicago State University
Salty Dog Blues: Documenting the Dismantling of the National Maritime Union
- Esteban Charlem
- Bob Blum
- Brenda Stokely, Black Left Unity
- Chris Silvera, Teamsters National Black Caucus
- Rico Speight, Independent Filmmaker
- Rico Worksh
Can Collective Bargaining Aid Labor’s Economic Recovery?
- Steve Early, (Chair) - Union Activist and writer
- Manny Ness, (Chair) - Editor, WorkingUSA
- Ai-Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United
- Mark Brenner, Labor Notes, “Overview of job loss and restructuring in US manufacturing”
- Gene Bruskin, campaign for election at Smithfield's Tar Heel
- Angela Glasper, and John Borsos - National Union of Healthcare Workers
The Past, Present and Future of Strikes
- Aaron Brenner, (Chair) - Service Employees International Union
- Paul Le Blanc, La Roche College
- Gerald Freidman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Michael Letwin, Association of Legal Aid Attorneys
- Kim Phillips-Fein, New York University
- Damone Richardson, United Association for Labor Education
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis of Organized Labor, author meets critic
- Vivek Chibber (Chair)
- Jose La Luz, Democratic Socialists of America
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., Center for Labor Renewal, Black Commentator
Labor Strategy and Tactics for a New Era - A roundtable discussion with labor activists and strikers
- Christopher Williams, Environmental Science and Physics, Pace University
- Marvin Holland, Transport Workers Union, Local 100
- Kervin Campbell, Kingsbridge Striker, Shop Steward SEIU Local 1199
- TBA - Stella D'Oro, Striker
- Megan Behrent, United Federation of Teachers
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3903 York University Strike: 85 Days of Struggle and Failure
- [[Erika Biddle], CUPE 3903
- Kelly Fritsch, CUPE 3903
- Andrew Thompson, CUPE 3903
Class Struggle and the Crisis: From Workers to Capital and Back Again
- George Caffentzis, (Chair) - Philosophy, University of Southern Maine
- Silvia Federici, Hofstra University
- Peter Linebaugh, University of Toledo
- Monty Neill, Deputy Director of FairTest
- Eddie Yuen, San Francisco Art Institute
Direct Action Labor Struggle and Social Change
- Daniel Gross, (Chair) - Organizer and co-author, "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law"
- Luis Carbonel
- Andrej Grubacic, Radical activist and scholar, co-author most recently of "Wobblies and Zapatistas"
- Liberte Locke, Organizer, Industrial Workers of the World (Starbucks Campaign)
Rank-and-file rebellions in a time of economic turbulence: Lessons for today from the long 1970s
- Mike McCarthy, (Chair) - Sociology, New York University & United Auto Workers Local 2110
- Angela Glasper, National Union of Healthcare Workers
- Cal Winslow, Fellow in Environmental Politics, University of California at Berkeley
- Marsha Niemeijer, Longshore Worker's Coalition, staff organizer
- Marvin Holland, Transport Workers Union Local 100 & founder of The Take Back Our Union Movement
- Steve Early, Former organizer for the Communication Workers of America and labor journalist
Once More Into the Breach: Radical Film and Art
- Dennis Broe, (chair)- Graduate Coordinator, Media Arts, Long Island University, author of Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood
- Terri Ginsberg, author of Halocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology - taught at Rutgers and Dartmouth
- Paul Grant, New York University, translator Serge Daney's Postcards From the Cinema
- Francine Tyler, art history, New York University
Poetry and Revolution
- Steve Bloom, Founder and host of the Activist Poets' Roundtable, NYC
- Jackie Sheeler, Editor of Off the Cuffs--Poetry by and about the police
- Angelo Verga, NYC Poet
- Susan Brennan, NYC Poet
- Rich Villar, Louderarts poetry collective
- Sandra Maria Esteves, NYC poet
- Aziza Zenzile Kinteh, Host, "First Friday on Vine," Philadelphia
Classy Documentaries about Class Struggle
- Barbara Garson, Chair- "MacBird", "All the Live Long Day"
- Anne Lewis, "Fast Food Women", "On Our Own Land"
- George Stoney, "The Uprising of 1934", Film and Cinema Studies, New York University
- Peter Miller, "The Internationale", "Sacco and Vanzetti"
Left/Independent Publishing Panel
- Ramsey Kanaan, (Chair)
- Rachel Guidera, The New Press
- Amy Scholder, Feminist Press
- Colin Robinson
- Martin Paddio, Monthly review
Photojournalism and the Aesthetics of Suffering: Embedded Versus Unembedded and Sympathy versus Empathy
- Joel Simpson, (Chair) - Curator, Photographer and Critic
- Anthony Suau, ex-Time photogrpaher
- Antonin Kratochvil, First place, 2002 World Press photo award
- Kael Alford, Unembedded photojournalist in Iraq
- Kate Orne, Brothels and Fundamentalism in Pakistan
Radical Left/International Film Makers
- Big Noise Collective Members
Photography: Revealing the Socially Invisible
- Diane Neumeier, (Chair) - Photography, Rutgers; Editor New American Feminist Photographies
- Donna Ferrato, Love & Lust; Living with the Enemy
- Mariette Pathy-Allen, The Gender Frontier
- Hank Willis Thomas, The B(r)anded Series
Anarchist Cinema, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- Richard Porton, (Chair) Cineaste editor and author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination
- Howard Besser, Prof. of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program
- Andrew H. Lee, New York University’s Tamiment Library
Salty Dog Blues: Documenting the Dismantling of the National Maritime Union
- Esteban Charlem
- Bob Blum
- Brenda Stokely, Black Left Unity
- Chris Silvera, Teamsters National Black Caucus
- Rico Speight, Independent Filmmaker: Rico Worksh
Screening: The Uprising of ’34 (1995), George Stoney
- Post Screening Discussion by George Stoney
- Chair: Barbara Garson, Author MacBird
- Anne Lewis, Fast Food Woman, On Our Own Land
- George Stoney, The Uprising of 1934, New York University
- Peter Miller, The Internationale, Sacco and Vanzetti
SCREENING: Argentina's Dirty War: Through a Mother's Eyes (2008), Jessica Flores
- Screening: Venezuela: Revolution from the inside out (2008), Clifton Ross
- Screening: Morristown: In the Air and Sun (2008), Anne Lewis; and The Internationale (2000), Peter Miller
- Screening: La Commune (2009), Cecile Clairval-Milhaud
- Introduced by Inez Hedges
- Screening: Capitalism hits the fan, (2008), Richard D.Wolff
- Screening: The over spent American (1998) , Julie Schor
- Screening: The End of Poverty? (2008) , Philippe Diaz
- Screening: A Really Inconvenient Truth(2007), Joel Kovel
- Screening: Obama's Iraq (2009), Richard Rowley
- Screening: Malalai Joya: Enemies of Happiness women rights and the state of occupied Afghanistan
Post-screening discussion by
- Derrick O'Keefe, Editor, rabble.ca
- Richard Seymour, Author of "The Liberal Defense of Murder"
- Paper - Tiger Documentary Interviews Left Forum Participants
Understanding the Roots of the “Israel-Palestine conflict”
- Alan Goodman, (Chair) - Contributor to Revolution Newspaper
- Barbara Nimri Aziz, Anthropologist and broadcaster
- Joel Kovel, Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism, author of Overcoming Zionism
- Adam Shapiro, Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and co-producer of "Chronicles of a Refugee"
War and Imperialism: The New Turn in the War On Terror- from Afghanistan to Gaza
Women’s voices from Iran
- Joel Simpson, Chair - critic, photographer, curator
- Christiane Bird, Neither East Nor West: One Woman’s Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran (Washington Square Press)
- Ezzat Goushegir, Medea Was Born in Fallujah (anthologized in Witness magazine), My Name Is Inanna
Looking Back and Moving Forward: A Roundtable on Ending Imperialist Projects in Iraq, the Middle East and South Asia
- Andor Skotnes, and David Applebaum, (Co-chairs)
- Andor Skotnes, History, Law & Government, The Sage Colleges
- Paddy Quick, Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
- Carl Mirra, Adelphi University
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historians Against the War Regional Mobilizations (Bay Area)
- [[Mike Zweig], Center for the Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
Not our war: Afghanistan and the Challenges for the Global Peace Movement
- Kristin Schall, (Chair) - Socialist Party USA (NYC)
- Soren Sondergaard, Member of the European Parliament from the Danish Left-Green alliance
- David McReynolds, Veteran of the Peace Movement
- Jonas Sjostedt, Ex-Member of the European Parliament from the Swedish Left Party, United for Peace and Justice
The Iraq War in Perspective
- Michael Schwartz, Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, journalist
- Arun Gupta, The Indypendent
- Rick Rowley
- Jeremy Scahill
Gaza: Between Invasion and Resistance - Jews and Arabs Speak Out!
- Hadas Thier]], Israeli anti-Zionist campaigner and Author
- Yusef Khalil, Lebanese activist
- Mostafa Omar, Egyptian activist, contributor to "The Struggle for Palestine"
- Jonah Birch, Anti-Zionist campaigner, New York University
- Lichi D'Amelio
Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance
- Houzan Mahmoud, (Chair) - Representative Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI)
- Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report, National Organization for the Iraqi Freedom Struggles
- Michael Zweig, Economics Professor SUNY Stony Brook, director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life, National Steering Committee, US Labor Against the War
The Role of Scholars and Artists in Palestine Solidarity: The Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
- Ryvka Bar Zohar, (Chair) - Palestine Education Project
- Ahmad Shokr, New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel
- Aaron Winslow, Columbia Palestine Forum
The Future of Israel/Palestine after Gaza
- Samira Haj, (Chair) - Modern Middle East History, CUNY Graduate Center/College of Staten Island
- Bashir Abu-Manneh, English, Barnard College
- Norman Finkelstein, Independent scholar, author, "The Holocaust Industry"
A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism: Responses to Lynd/Grubacic "Wobblies and Zapatistas"
- Andrej Grubacic, (Chair) - Sociology, University of San Francisco
- Denis O'Hearn, Sociology, Queens College, Belfast
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Prof. Ziga Vodovnik, University of Ljubljana
Dialectics in Debate
- David Fasenfest, (Chair)- Editor, Critical Sociology, Sociology, Wayne State University
- Paul Paolucci, Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work, Eastern Kentucky University
- Alan P. Rudy, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Central Michigan University
- Carrol Cox, Illinois State University
- Bertell Ollman, Politics, New York University
Remembering Mills: The Sociological Imagination 50 Years Later
- Stanley Aronowitz, (Chair) - CUNY Graduate Center
- Craig Calhoun, University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University
- Bill DiFazio, Sociology, St. John's University
- Lauren Langman, Sociology, Loyola University
In Praise of Socialist Planning
- Anwar Shaikh, (Chair) - Economics, New School
- Bertell Ollman, Politics, New York University
- Raymond Lotta, Maoist political economist and writer
- David Schweickardt, Philosophy, Loyola University
The Return of Marx: How can Socialism Change the World?
- Jennifer Roesch, (Chair)
- Paul le Blanc, History, La Roche College
- Paul D'Amato, Author of "The Meaning of Marxism"
Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies
- Rusell Rockwell, (Chair) - Independent scholar
- Arnold Farr, International Marcuse Society, Philosophy, University of Kentucky
- Andy Lamas, Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Charles Reitz, German and Philosophy, Kansas Community College
Revolution and Protest Yesterday and Tomorrow
- Immanuel Ness, (Chair) - Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
- Frances Fox Piven, Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Kunal Chattopadhyay, History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Paul Le Blanc, History, La Roche College
Responses to Meszaros' "Challenge and Burden of Historical Time"
- Irv Kurki,(Chair) Global Self-Management Project
- Margaret Scarsdale, Writer and social activist.
- Jay Youngdahl, Labor activist and writer for the East Bay Express.
The Trend of Chinese Marxism in the 21st Century
- Chen Xueming, (Chair) - Fudan University
- Wang Fengcai, Fudan University
- Lu Shaochen, Fudan University
Concretizing Marx's Alternative to Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective
- Ray McKay, (Chair)
- Joshua Howard, CUNY Graduate Center
- Seth G. Weiss, The New SPACE
- Anne Jaclard, The New SPACE
- Andrew Kliman, Economics, Pace University
How Does Marxist-Humanism Speak to Socialism for the 21st Century
- Franklin Dmitryev, (Chair) - News and Letters Committees
- Susan Van Gelder, "News & Letters"
- Ron Kelch, Independent scholar
- Russell Rockwell, Independent scholar
Dialectics of Defeat: Towards a Theory of Historical Regression
- Ben Blumberg, (Chair) - Platypus Affiliated Society
- Atiya Khan, History, University of Chicago
- Spencer Leonard, History, University of Chicago
- Chris Cutrone, University of Chicago Chapter, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Richard Rubin, Platypus Affiliated Society, Chicago
The De-Stalinization of Chinese Marxism
- Norman Levine, (Chair) - The Institute of International Policy, Phoenix, Arizona
- Wei Xiaoping, Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
- Wang Dong, Philosophy, University of Beijing
China's Contribution to Socialism and Democracy in the 21st Century
- Sidney Gluck, (Chair) - US-China Society of Friends
- Al Abati, US-China People's Friendship Association
- Martin Gittelman, Served as Consultant to Ministry of Public Health for the People's Republic of China
- Li Bailing, Central Compilation & Translation Bureau of CPC
- Li Zizi, (Discussant)- Central Compilation & Translation Bureau of CPC
China in the Global Crisis of Capitalism: A Turning point?
- Peter Kwong, (Chair) - Asian American Studies, Hunter College
- Michael Hudson, University of Missouri,Kansas
- Pao-yu Ching, Economist and Author
- Ben Mah, Professional investor and author
- Xulin Dong, China Study Group
- Andrew Ross, Sociology and Cultural Analysis, NYU
- Michael Hudson, University of Missouri, Kansas
South Asia Globalizing: What Ruling Classes Do When They Rule
- Prachi Patankar (Chair) - Member of Organizing Collective, South Asian Solidarity Initiative (SASI)
- Vijay Prashad,
- George Kellner and Martha Kellner, (Chair) in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College
- Sahar Shafqat, Associate Professor of Political Science, St. Mary's College of Maryland, member of Action for a Progressive Pakistan and member of Organizing Collective, SASI
- Ahilan Kadirgamar, Steering Committee Member of Sri Lanka Democracy Forum, contributing editor of Himal Southasian and member of Organizing Collective, SASI
- Balmurli Natrajan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, William Paterson University of New Jersey, member of Campaign to Stop Funding Hate and Member of Organizing Collective, SASI
Rethinking the “most dangerous place in the world”: The war on terror in Pakistan
- David Van Arsdale, (Chair)- Sociology, CUNY
- Saadia Toor, Sociology, College of Staten Island, Action for a Progressive Pakistan
- Rakhshanda Saleem, Counseling and Psychology, Lesley University, Pyschiatry, Harvard Medical School, Action for a Progressive Pakistan
- Madiha Tahir, Freelance Journalist, Columbia University, Action for a Progressive Pakistan
- Sofia Checa, graduate student, Sociology, University of Mass. Amherst, Action for a Progressive Pakistan
- Sahar Shafqat, Political Science, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Action for a Progressive Pakistan
- Manan Ahmad
The Chinese Model of Development
- Norman Levine, (Chair) - The Institute of International Policy, Phoenix, Arizona
- Hao Lixin, Philosophy, Renmin University, Beijing
- Qin Xuan, School of Marxism, Renmin University, Beijing
- Liang Shufa, School of Marxism, Renmin University, Beijing
Control and Discipline in Modern China
- Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, (Chair) - Pace University
- Klaus Muehlhahn, Indiana University
- Yamin Xu, La Moyne College
- Zhao Ma, SUNY Fredonia
'China in the face of Deepening Crisis of Globalized Capitalism
- Peter Kwong, (chair), Hunter college, CUNY
- Pao-Yu Ching, Author, Globalization and Crisis of Capitalism
- Henry C. K. Liu, (Chair) - Liu investment Group, NYC
- Michael Hudson, University of Missouri, Kansas
- Ben Mah, Professional investor and author
- Zhang Hongliang, Finance, Minzu University, Beijing, China
Political Economy of Contemporary India'
- Jinee Lokaneeta, (Chair) - Drew University
- Amit Basole, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Nandini Chandra, University of Minnesota
- Kuver Sinha, Texas A&M University
- Deepankar Basu
Marxist and other left perspectives on the future of the Chinese political economy
- Norman Levine, (Chair) - The Institute of International Policy
- Wei Xiaoping, History of Marxism Philosophy, Philosophy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- John E. Roemer, Political Science and Economics, Yale University
Exposing the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline and the Systematic Destruction of Poor Black and Latino Families in New York City
- Rolando Bini, (Chair) - Parents in Action
- Miriam Antoine, Parents in Action
- Evan Clealand, People Power Coalition
- Cristal Flores, Parents in Action
Empowerment in Chinese American Communities- Then and Now
- Peter Kwong (Chair) - Asian American Studies, Hunter College
- Actors from Paper Angels
- Pace/Chinatown Coalition membrers
Grassroots Organizing
- Daniel Gross, Co-author, Labor Law for the Rank and File
- Andrea Gibbons
- Gary Phillips
- Gilda Haas
Building Strategies for Meaningful Local Development
- David Fasenfest, (Chair) - Critical Sociology, Sociology, Wayne State University
- Gregory Hicks, Detroit Community Activist
- William H. Brow, Mid America Medical Center District Neighborhood Redevelopment Corporation
- Gwen Mills, Connecticut Center for a New Economy
- Heather Mooney, Washtenaw County Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Specialist
Turning Points in Building Progressive Majority and Advancing a Vision of Socialism
- Mark Solomon, (Chair) - Emeritus History, Simmons College
- Carl Davidson, Field organizer, Solidarity Economy Network & National Steering Committee Member, United for Peace & Justice
- Renee Carter, Physician, National Coordinating Committee, CCDS
- Committee California Nurses Association - AFL-CIO & National Coordinating Committee, CCDS
- Carl Bloice, "Black Commentator" & National Coordinating Committee, CCDS
From the New School Occupation to Our Political Moment
- Emma Bunkley, New School Graduate Student, RSU Member
- Eric Eingold, New School Graduate Student, RSU Member
- Atlee McFellin, New School Graduate Student, RSU Member
- Dave Shukla, New School Graduate Student, RSU Member
- Kyle Reaves, Eugene Lang Student, RSU Member
- Yotam Marom, New School General Studies, RSU Member
- Sam G. Lewis, Eugene Lang, New School Free Press Photographer
Rebel CUNY: Legacy of People's Struggle
- Hank Williams, (Chair) - Africana Studies Group (CUNY Graduate Center)
- Ateo Laureano, Peruyero Bracero - Queens College, Student and Nuyerorican Activist
- Freddy Bastone, Hunter College, Student and a member of the Hunter Student Union
- Robyn Tang, Hunter College Student, Hunter Student Union member and artist
The Challenge of Right-Wing Populism in Northern Core Capitalist Countries: Differences, Similarities, and Labor Movement Counter-Strategies
- Ingar Solty, Political Science, York University, Toronto
- Sam Putinja, York University, former shop steward & Teamster for a Democratic Union
- Leo Panitch, York University, Toronto
Theorizing Radical Democracy
- Ashley Dawson, (Chair) -Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Mike Menser, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- Christina Schiavoni, World Hunger Year
Left Strategy from the Grassroots
- Harmony Goldberg, (Chair) - CUNY Graduate Center
- Steve Williams, POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights), Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
- Ai-jen Poo, Domestic Workers United
- Marisa Franco, Right to the City Alliance
- Willie Baptist, Union Theological Seminary Poverty Initiative
- Gihan Perera, Miami Workers Center, Right to the City Alliance
To Quell and Expel: Challenging the Police State
- Abby Scher, (Chair) - The Public Eye
- Annette Dickerson, Director of Education and Outreach, Center for Constitutional Rights
- Manisha Vaze, Anti-Deportation Organizer, Families for Freedom
- Thomas Cincotta, Domestic Surveillance Project Director
What Has the World Social Forum Accomplished?
- Thomas Ponniah, (Chair) - Social Studies, Harvard University
- Heather Gautney, Sociology & Anthropology, Fordham University
- Walda Katz-Fishman Sociology, Howard University
- Lauren Langman, Sociology, Loyola University
- Jerome Scott, Project South
- Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Building New Social Relations: Prefigurative Politics in Movements
- Andrew Cornell, (Chair) - American Studies, New York University
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Chris Dixon, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Deborah Gould, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
- Harjit Singh Gill, Institute for Anarchist Studies
The struggle at Six Nations and the politics of settler-indigenous solidarity
- Melissa Elliott, (Tuscarora), Six Nations activist
- Rhonda Martin Hill, (Mohawk), Six Nations activist
- Tom Keefer, non-native indigenous solidarity activist
For Leadership and Human Rights
- Nicola Nicolosi, Director, European Secretariat,
- General Confederation of Italian Labor
- Andrea Montagni, Vice President, General Confederation of Italian Labor
- Steve Lerner, Director, Property Services Division, Service Employees International Union
A Collaborative Multi-national Democracy Workshop: Building a Hemispheric Economy
- Jamie McClelland and Mallory Knodel, (Chairs) - May 1st/People Link
- Alfredo Lopez, May 1st/People Link
- Makani Themba, the Praxis Project
The Internet: Humanity's Revolutionary Initiative
- Alfredo Lopez, May First/People Link
- Makani Themba, the Praxis Project
- Others TBA
How Do We Create A New World: Do we help save the old dying world, or do we help speed up its certain death?
- Curtis Muhammad, (Chair) - International School for Bottom-Up Organizing (ISBO), Jamaica
- Martha M. Vega, Caribbean Cultural Center, New York
- John Javier Ramos, Support Klan and Fundacion Villa Rica, Colombia
- Yvonne Mowforth, People's Uprising Committee, Jamaica
A Networking Session for Radical Movement Centers
- Liz Mestres, (Chair) - Brecht Forum
- Suren Moodliar, Mass. global action
- Kazembe Balagun, Brecht Forum
- Mary Boger
- Others TBA
Global Struggle for Democratic Control of Corporations in Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster
- Carolyn Toll Oppenheim (Chair) - Organizer, Shays 2: Western Mass. Committee on Corporations & Democracy
- Jeffrey Thomson, National Lawyers Guild Northeast
- Joel Kupferman, New York Environmental Law & Justice Center
- Ward Morehouse, National Lawyers Guild Committee on the Corporation, the Constitution & Human Rights
- H. Rajan Sharma, Attorney representing Bhopal Survivors in the US District Court
- Aquene Freechild, International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
Activists and the Current Crisis
- Barbara Epstein, (Chair) - History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Rusti Eisenberg, Historians Against the War
- Sam Gindin, Political Science, York University
- Richard Healey, Director of the Grassroots Policy Project
- Ai-jen Poo, Domestic Workers United
- John Clarke, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hope and Failures
- Alexander L. Hanna, (Chair) - former organizer, United Students Against Sweatshops
- Atlee McFellin, New School Radical Student Union
- Pam Nogales, Platypus Affiliated Society
- C. J. Pereira Di Salvo, Former organizer, United Students Against Sweatshops
- Laurie Rojas-Arts, Journalism from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
From the Barrio to the Barricades: Visions of a Better World
- Frank Fried, (Chair)- President, Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
- Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
- Hugo Radice, Politics and International Studies, Leeds University
- Fred Magdoff, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont
- Sam Farber, Emeritus, Brooklyn College
- Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
Student Organizing in a New Era - A roundtable discussion for mobilizing students against Budget Cuts and War
- Conar Thomas, Campus Anti-War Network, City College of New York
- Ryan Acuff, Students for a Democratic Society, University of Rochester
- Leia Petty, International Socialist Organization, Brooklyn College
- Meaghan Linick, Radical Student Union, New School
- Ellie Kahn, Take Back NYU!, NYU
- Matan Cohen, Students for Justice in Palestine, Hampshire College
Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet
- Carl Davidson, Organizing Committee, Global Studies Association
- Jenna Allard, Solidarity Economy Network, Massachusetts
- Maliha Safri, Economics, Drew University
- Pasqualino Colombaro, Global Economic Alternatives Network (GEAN)
- Peter Ranis, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Rhizomic Democracy
- Ashley Dawson (Chair), English Department, CUNY Graduate Center
- Christina Schiavoni, International Coordinator at World Hunger Year
- Mike Menser, Philosophy Department, Brooklyn College, Member of Rock Dove Collective/NYC
Women, Youth and the Solidarity Economy, Local and Global
- Terri Bennett, Earth and Environmental Studies, CUNY Graduate Student
- Jenna Allard, Growing the Green Economy, member, U.S. Solidarity Economy Network coordinating committee
- Mike Menser, Philosophy Department, Brooklyn College
Radical Organizing: Challenges and Successes
- Camilo Viveiros, (Chair) - Labor Education Center, UMass Dartmouth, MA
- Steve Meachum, tenant organizing coordinator City Life/Vida Urbana, Boston, MA
- Peoples Organization for Progress, Newark, NJ
- Oscar Dominguez, Movement for Justice in El Barrio, East Harlem, NY
- Helena Wong, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (NYC)
- Yeshimabeit Milner, youth organizer, Power U (Miami, FL)
Is the Left Ready for a New Political Party
- Michael Pelias, (Chair) - Philosophy, Long Island University, Brooklyn
- Jean Bond,
- Bill DiFazio, Sociology, St. Johns, host, WBAI "City Watch", author of "Ordinary Poverty"
- Michael Joseph Roberto, History, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
How Occupation Works
- Ayreen Anastas, (Chair)
- Kurt Hill, People's fire house
- Father Frank Morales and Jerry the Peddler, Squatting Movement of the Lower East Side
- Olive Mckeon, NYU occupation
- Lynn Owens, Sociologist
- And Friends from Picture the homeless
- Take Back NYU: Ellie Kahn, Drew Phillips and Olive Mckeon
- New School in Exile: John Clegg
Teaching War and Peace in the Classroom
- Roger Salerno, (Chair) - Pace University, Sociology
- Satish Kolluri, (Chair) - Communications, Pace University
- Aseel Sawalha, Anthropology, Pace University
- Frances Delahanty, Psychology, Pace University
Building Power Through Educational Justice
- Whitney Richards, Calathes (Chair) - parent organizer, Cypress Hills Advocates for Education
- Claudia Martinez, youth organizer, Future of Tomorrow
- Anzhela Mordyga, youth, Future of Tomorrow
- Sarah Landes, youth organizer, Make the Road NY
- Zakiyah Ansari, parent organizer, Alliance for Quality Education
- Ocynthia Williams, parent, United Parents of Highbridge
- Lenore Brown, parent, Cypress Hills Advocates for Education
The Criminalization of People with Psychiatric Disabilities
- Alexandra Smith (Chair) - Coordinator of MHASC, Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD) Member
- Mary Dougherty - RIPPD
- Leah Gitter - RIPPD
- Myra Hutchinson - RIPPD, MHASC, Family Member
- Gregory James - RIPPD
- David Newton - RIPPD
- Kyle Nesbitt - RIPPD
- Lisa Ortega - Organizer, RIPPD
Teaching Immigrants and Immigration
Teaching in Bad Times
- Richard Ohmann, (Chair) - "Politics of Knowledge", Radical Teacher
- Linda Dittmar, "From Hanoi to Hollywood"
- Ira Shor, CUNY Graduate Center
- Steve Fraser, NYU, author
- Shana Agid, Director of Academic Projects at Parsons the New School for Design, and Art Director for Radical Teacher
Teaching Popular Economics
- Chris Sturr, (Chair)- Dollars & Sense
- Ken Nash, Building Bridges, WBAI
- Cecilia Rio, Economy/Women's Studies, Towson University
- Gerald Friedman, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Amy Gluckman, Dollars & Sense Magazine
Campus Responsible Investment Movements
- Cheyenna Weber, (Chair) - Responsible Endowments Coalition
- Dave Shukla, UCLA, Students for a Democratic Society
- Chloe Ciccariello, Columbia University
- Jay Cassano, Hampshire College
Housing: A Basic Human Right
- Dale Laurin, (Chair) - Aesthetic Realism consultant and registered architect
- Ken Kimmelman, Aesthetic Realism consultant and filmmaker
- Barbara Buehler, Associate city planner of the Technical Review Section of the NYC Department of Planning
- Anthony Romeo, Capital and Facilities Management, Queensborough Library system
Defeating the Persistent Assaults on Social Insurance
- Sid Socolar, (Chair) - National Programs Committee, Rekindling Reform
- William Arnone, Founding member, National Academy of Social Insurance
- Michealle Carpenter, Deputy Policy Director and Counsel, Medicare Rights Center
- Theodore Marmor, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, Management, and Political Science, Yale University
- Leonard Rodberg, Chair, Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY
The Practice of Teaching. Researching and Writing on Elite Deviance in the Higher Education Context
- Dr. William Calathes (Chair) - Criminal Justice, New Jersey City University
- Juan Diaz, New Jersey City University student
- Carlos Ciro, New Jersey City University student
- Rebecca Hall, New Jersey City University student
Turning Up the Heat for Single Payer Health Care at this Political Turning Point
- Martha Livingston, (Chair) - SUNY College, Old Westbury
- Physicians for a National Health Program, New York-Metro Chapter
- Oliver Fein,
- Cassandra Barnette Donnelly,
- Katie Robbins,
- Billy Wharton,
Health Care Reform: Building Left Unity is Critical
- Mark Hannay and Sid Socolar (Chairs)
- Rachel DeGolia,
- Becky Martin,
- Nick Unger,
Public Education, Gentrification, and Privatization
- Donna Nevel, (Chair) - community psychologist and popular educator
- Sally Lee, Teachers Unite
- Edwin Mayorga, New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE)
- Ujju Aggarwal and Perla Placencia, Center for Immigrant Families (CIF)
- Jessica Ruglis Institute for Participatory Action Research and Design
- Tara Mack, Education for Liberation Network
The Housing Crisis and the Possibilities for Resistance
The Street Children of Tegucigalpa: Teenage Gangs, Child Labor, Family Disintegration, and the Failed Washington Consensus
- Paul Hancock, (Chair) - Economics, Green Mountain College
- Jose Tulio Galves Contreras
- Cecilia Kline, scholar and activist, former ombudswoman at Casa Alianza Honduras
Venezuela’s Impact on Latin America
- Clara Irazabal, (Chair) - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University
- Edgardo Landerv, Universidad Central de Venezuela
- William I. Robinson, UC Santa Barbara, author of "Latin America and Global Capitalism"
- Carol Delgado, Consul General of Venezuela in New York
Where is Venezuela Heading?
- Clara Irazabal, (Chair) - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University
- Steve Ellner, Political Science, University de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
- Gregory Wilpert, Brooklyn College, author of "Changing Venezuela by Taking Power"
- Sujatha Fernandes, Sociology, Queens College, CUNY
Dependency Theory revisited: elements for a critical interpretation of the new-developmentism in Latin American governments
- Fernando Correa Prado, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos Ciudad Universitaria
- Monika Ribeiro de Freitas Meireles, Latin-America Social Thought, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Not Just Change, but Justice: Taking on U.S. Latin America Policy in the Obama Era
- Christy Thornton, (Chair) - NACLA
- Greg Grandin, Professor of History, NYU
- Mark Weisbrot, Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Mario Murillo, Associate Professor, Radio, Television, Film, Hofstra University
- Barbara Weinstein, Professor of History, NYU
- William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Beyond the Links of Repression: from Chile to the US
- Victor Toro, (Chair) - Vamos a la PeÒa del Bronx
- Nieves Ayress-Moreno, human rights activist
- Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report, author of "Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico"
Social Struggles, Political Conflicts, Democracy in Latin America
- Hobart Spalding, (Chair)
- Carlos Vilas, Political Science, Universidad Nacional Lanus in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Margarita Lope, Universidad Central de Venezuela, author of “The Rise and Rule of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela”
- Emelio Betances, Sociology/Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Gettysburg College
The Puerto Rican Reality: The Duality of the anti-colonial struggle
- Ana M. Lopez, (Chair)- Humanities, Hostos Community College
- Aleida Centeno Rodriguez, Esq., Frente Patriotico de Arecibo, PR (environment and militarizaiton)
- Julio A Rosado, Pro-Independence activist and leader of Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional-PR
- Elizam Escobar, former political prisoner, artist, Visual Arts, University of Puerto Rico
- Lytza Colon, Community Organizer in the South Bronx, member Community CLB
- Liliana Laboy, Community leader and Spokesperson for Mesa de Solidaridad (Against Repression)
- Norberto Clinton Fiallo, labor organizer, president of Latin American Caribbean Coordinator of Puerto Rico (CCLPR)
Cuba 2009: A Turning Point?
- Steve Briar, (Chair) - Provost, CUNY Grad Center
- James Cockcroft, State University of New York Samuel Farber - CUNY
- Saul Landau, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
Indigenous Mobilization in South America
- Gerardo Renique, (Chair) - CCNY-CUNY, Historian, Author and editor
- Hugo Blanco, Peasant leader, former political prisioner and currently editor of "Lucha Indigena"
- Silvia Rivera, Bolivian anthropologist, historian and activist, founder of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina
- Marc Becker, Professor of History, Truman State University
New Left Party Formations in Europe: The Global Crisis of Neoliberalism and New Openings
- Rainer Rilling, (chair)- Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
- Raquel Garrido, Parti de Gauche, France
- Katja Kipping, Die LINKE, Germany
- Nicola Nicolosi, Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, Italy
- Katherine Weissbach, Dutch Socialist Party, Berlin
- Elena Papadopoulu, New Poulantzas Foundation, Greece
Making sense of the Greek uprising
- Costas Panayotakis, (Chair)- New York City College of Technology
- Andreas Kalyvas, The New School
- Peter Bratsis, Salford University
- Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University
- Neni Panourgia, Columbia University
European Perspectives on Obama
- Chrystel Le Moing, (Chair)
- Daniel Cirera, expert on international issues, General Secretary of the Scientific Council of the Gabriel Peri Foundation
- John Mason, Political Science, William Paterson University, New-Jersey
- Martin Shain, Politics, New York University
- Prof. Richard Howard
Victor Serge Read-In: Stop Political Terror in Russia
- James Hoberman, book critic for Village Voice, currently reviewing Serge’s Unforgiving Years for New York Review of Books
- Luc Sante, writer and critic, Bard College
- James Brook, poet and translator, Englished Serge’s book of poems Resistance (City Lights 1990)
- Jenny Greeman, New Perspectives Theater
- Edwin Frank, essayist and publisher, edits Serge at New York Review Books Classics.
Comparative Race and Gender in the U.S. and South Africa
- Christopher Malone and Meghana Nayak, (Co-Chairs) - Political Science, Pace University
- Taylor McHugh, Pace University student
- Alejandra Lopez, Pace University student
- Lorendra Pinder, Pace University student
Creating a Civil Rights Agenda Post-Proposition
- Dr. Meghana Nayak, (Chair) - Political Science, Pace University
- Taylor McHugh, Pace University student
- Alejandra Lopez, Pace University student
- Lorendra Pinder, Pace University student
Hyper-Consumption and the Failure of Capitalism
- Roger Salerno, (Chair) - Sociology/Anthropology Pace University
- Caitlin Gulliford, Pace University student
- Rosemary Hudson, Pace University student
- Marell Ellis, Pace University student
- Fred Wolf, Pace University student
- Natasha Teixeira, Pace University student
Genocide and Human Rights
- Christina Piechowski, Pace University student
- Kasie Lambertson, Pace University student
- Amanda Ferrandino, Pace University student
Regroupment of the European Radical Left
- Sebastian Budgen, (Chair)- Historical Materialism Journal
- Cinzia Arruzza, Sinistra Critica, Italy
- Katja Kipping, Die Linke, Germany
- Leon Cremieux, Nouveau
- Parti Anticapitaliste, France
- Oliver Nachtwey
- Die Linke, Germany
Indigenous activism, the new constitution, and political conflict in Bolivia
- Jack Hammond, (Chair) - Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Pablo Solon, Bolivian ambasador to the UN
- Greg Grandin, History, New York University
- Sinclair Thomson, History, New York University
Universities in (the) Crisis: Class Contradictions in Higher Education
- Jack Amariglio, (Chair) - Professor of Economics, Merrimack College, and former editor of Rethinking Marxism
- David Kristjanson-Gural, Economics,
- Bucknell Rana Jaleel, NYU, Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)-UAW
- Zach Schwartz-Weinstein, NYU GSOC-UAW
- Sarah Stookey, Associate Professor of Management, Central Connecticut State University
- Catherine P. Mulder, Washington College, Department of Economics
Long Term Strategies for the Left
- Michael Albert
- Znet Bill Fletcher, Jr., Center for Labor Renewal, Black Commentator
- Barbara Epstein, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
The Right to the City
- Marnie Brady, (Chair) - Graduate Center, CUNY
- Rob Robinson, Picture the Homeless
- Haeyoung Yoon, CAAV Organizing Asian Communities
- Peter Marcuse, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University
- David Harvey, Anthropology, CUNY
- Rene Francisco Poitevin, Director, Community Learning Initiative, Gallatin Faculty, New York University
- Nova Strachan, Mothers on the Move
- Esther Wang, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence
Africa And The Crisis Of Global Capitalism: Will It Be Bail Out Or Cash Out?
- Milton Allimadi, (Chair) - Publisher, Black Star News
- Sowore Omoyele, Journalist, Publisher of Sahara Reporter
- Kassahun Checole, President, Africa World Press and Red Sea Press
- Rosalind McLymont, Author of Africa: Strictly Business, The Steady March to Prosperity, and Publisher of The Network Journal
China in the Global Economic Maelstrom
- Richard Smith, (Chair) - Rutgers
- Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
- Ellen David Friedman, School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou
- Peter Kwong, Asian American Studies, Hunter College
Marxism and theory
The Return of Karl Marx…But Which Marx is Most Needed, Especially Now?
- Suzi Weissman, (Chair) - Politics, Saint Mary's College of California
- Bertell Ollman, Politics, New York University
- Ishay Landa, Author of 'Nietzsche vs. Marx on Reilgion
- Kevin Anderson, Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara
Obama and Iran: A New Beginning?
- Ruth Indeck, (Chair) - Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
- Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College
- Reza Ghorashi, Richard Stockton College
- Tom O'Donnell, The New School
- Manijeh Saba, Activist/Lobbyist
Illustrating Resistance: Art, Activism and Popular Education
- Molly Fair, (Chair) - member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
- Kevin Pyle, artist, illustrator of Prison Town: Paying the Price, for The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
- Peter Kuper, artist, editor of World War 3 Illustrated, author of Diario de Oaxaca
- Susan Willmarth, artist, illustrator of Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children for the Real Cost of Prisons Comix
- Josh MacPhee, artist, member of Justseeds Artists Cooperative, editor of Reproduce and Revolt/ Reproduce Y Rebelate
What Can Be Done About Corporate Media’s Biggest Magic Trick- The Disappearance of the Working Class?
- Steve Early, (Chair) - Communications Workers of America, Labor Notes
- JoAnn Wypijewski, Journalist
- Brent Cunningham, Columbia Journalism Review
- Frank Emspak, Workers Independent News
- Michael Yates, Monthly Review, author
Secularism and the Radical Imagination
- John D. Boy, (Chair)- CUNY Graduate Center
- Bruno Gulli, Long Island University, CUNY
- Dominic V. Wetzel, CUNY Graduate Center
- Sam Han, CUNY Graduate Center
- Mitra Rastegar, CUNY Graduate Center
Political Economy of the Globalized Food System
- Nancy Romer, (Chair) - Psychology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Food Conference
- Max Fraad Wolff, International Relations, New School University
- Arun Gupta, "The Indypendent" Jason Borenstein
Ecology and Environment
Capitalist Crisis, Energy and the Commons
- Iain Boal (Chair), University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz
- Peter Linebaugh, University of Toledo
- George Caffentzis, Philosophy, University of Southern Maine
- Silvia Federici, Hofstra University
gender
Gay Marriage: Should the Left Care?
- Catherine Sameh, (Chair) - Solidarity
- Kenyon Farrow, Policy Institute Fellow with the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) and the National Public Education Director for Queers for Economic Justice
- Tom Harrison, Campaign for Peace and Democracy
- Sherry Wolf, the International Socialist Review
prison industrial complex
Let Freedom Ring: Strategies to Free Political Prisoners Today
- Matt Meyer, (Chair) - editor of Let Freedom Ring and activist with War Resisters League
- Robert Hillary King, Angola 3 political prisoner and author of 'From the Bottom of the Heap'
- Elizam Escobar, Puerto Rican former political prisoner and artist
- Ashanti Alston, former political prisoner, co-chair of National Jericho Amnesty Movement, member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- Ramona Africa, former MOVE prisoner and activist with the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner and Let Freedom Ring contributor
U.S. Politics
American Violence: Actually-Existing Barbarism?
- Vivek Chibber, (Chair) - Sociology, New York University
- Philip Green, Government, Smith College, and Political Science, New School for Social Research
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, American Studies and Ethnicity and Geography, University of Southern California
- Leo Panitch, York University
Race
Race, Class and the Black Left
- Yusuf Nuruddin, (Chair) - "Socialism & Democracy"
- Rod Bush, Sociology & Anthropology, St. John's University
- Saladin Muhammad, Black Workers for Justice
- Brenda Stokeley, Black Left Unity
- Ron Washington, Black Telephone Workers for Justice
Culture and everyday life
Is the Crisis the Solution?
- Ivan Zatz (Chair), Sociology, Pratt Institute
- Peter Bratsis, Political Science, University of Salford
- Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- John Clark, Philosophy, Loyala University, New Orleans
Political economy and the current crisis
What is the Nature of the Economic Crisis?
- Magali Sarfatti-Larson, (Chair) - Sociology, Temple University
- Bill Tabb, Economics, Queens College, CUNY
- Anwar Shaikh, Economics, New School for Social Research
- Richard D. Wolff, Economics, University of Massachussetts, Amherst
References
Left Forum 2010
Panels
Left Forum 2010 contained the following panels:
Africa
Exporting the Culture Wars: Who is Spreading Neocolonial Homophobia to Africa and Why
- Pam Chamberlain, (Chair) - Political Research Associates
- Kapya Kaoma - Project Director, Political Research Associates; Episcopal Priest
- Frank Mugisha - Leading member, Sexual Minorities of Uganda, SMUG
Africa's Oil Economies - A Mixed Blessing or a Curse?
- Milton Allimadi, (Chair)
- Susana Mendes - Angolan journalist, Editor-in-Chief of the Angolense newspaper, voted to the permanent committee of the Forum for African Investigative Reporters, (FAIR).
- Prince Chima Williams - Head of Legal Resources/Democracy Outreach Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria and National Focal Person, Green Alliance Nigeria, GAN
Humanitarian Imperialism and Obama's Wars in Africa
- Samar Al-Bulushi, (Chair) - Brecht Forum
- Keith Harmon Snow - War correspondent; photographer; independent investigator
- Yaa-Lengi Ngemi - Congo Coalition
Alternative Development Models for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Chudi Ikwueze, (Chair) - Founder, Mobile Economists; Pace University
- Chika Onyeani - Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, African Sun Times; Chairman/CEO, Celebrate Africa Foundation
- Mark Rego-Monteiro - Founder, WakeUpDemocracy.org
- Demba Ndiaye - Comengip, Solidarity Economy Network.
Art
Punk Rock: Cultural Space For Transformative Politics?
- Ramsey Kanaan, (Chair) - Founder, PM Press
- Josh MacPhee - JustSeeds: Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative
- Mark Andersen - Positive Force DC; We Are Family
- Anne Elizabeth Moore - Author, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
- Katy Otto - Exotic Fever Records
Creating Lasting Change Through Radical Theatre
- Ashley Marinaccio, (Chair) - Co-Op Theatre East; Project Girl Performance Collective
- Mariah MacCarthy - Rapscallion Theatre Collective
- Elizabeth Koke - Executive Director, Project Girl Performance Collective; Editor, Velvet Park Media
- Robert Gonyo - Co-Founder/Artistic Director, Co-Op Theatre East
Redact This! Artists and Writers Against Torture - Art Activism
- David Schwittek, (Chair) - Lehman College; designer and artist
- Stephen A. Fredericks - co-founder "Art of Demorcacy", National Coalition of Political Art Exhibitions
- Ann Messner, Pratt Institute
- Frances Jetter - School of Visual Arts
Playwrights Rekindle the Radical Imagination
- Karen Malpede, (Chair) - Theater Three Collaborative
- Najla Said - Twilight Theater Company, Theater Three Collaborative
- Catherine Filloux - Watson Arts
- Lydia Stryk - author of “American Tet”
Art and Aesthetic Experience in the 21st Century: Learning from the Past
- Julia Rothenberg, (Chair) - Sociology, St. Joseph's College, New York
- Gregory Sholette - Queens College
- Laurel George - New York University
- Micki Mcgee - Fordham University
- Jeffrey Halley - Director, Laboratory for the Sociology of the Arts, Culture, and Communications, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Isabel Alonso - St. Joseph's College; Encasa
Caribbean Basin
Terrorism Against Cuba and the Case of the Cuban 5
- Michael Smith, (Chair) - Center for Constitutional Rights
- Peter Roman - Hostos Community College; CUNY Graduate Center; CUNY Editorial Board, Socialism and Democracy
- Keith Bolender - Journalist; course lecturer on Cuba, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
- Leonard Weinglass - Attorney for Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban prisoners
- Jane Franklin - Contributing editor, CUBA Update, journal of the Center for Cuban Studies
- Rafael Anglada - Puerto Rican attorney
After the Earthquake: Who's Killing Haiti?
- Edna Bonhomme, (Chair) -
- Peter Hallward, - Middlesex University
- Roger Leduc, - Haiti Liberte
- Ashley Smith - International Socialist Review
- Ray LaForest -American Federation of State, Country and and Municipal Employees, District Council 1707; WBAI Radio; Pacifica Radio Network
Haiti's Future: A Grassroots Perspective and Potential of Unified Action
- Jerry Jeremie, (Chair) - St. John's University
- Marie Rose Paul - Global Network for Progress
- Dr.Jemima Pierre - William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
China
Recent Transformations in Chinese Marxism
- Norman Levine, (Chair) - Executive Director, Institute for International Policy
- Duan Zhongqiao - School of Philosophy, Remnin University of China
- Feng Ziyi - Philosophy, Beijing University
- Wei Xiaoping - Director, History of Marxist Philosophy; Philosophy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Yang Haifeng - Philosophy, Beijing University
Chinese Students & Workers Organize at the Grass-Roots
- Marc Blecher, (Chair) - Politics and East Asian studies, Oberlin College
- Paul Garver - Co-editor, TalkingUnion blog; National Political Committee, DSA
- Manfred Elfstrom - Program Officer, International Labor Rights Forum
The Causes of Current Crises Breaking Out in China
- Zhou Zhi-qiang, (Chair) - Director, "Liberation daily"
- Ji Gui-bao - Director, "Wenhui Daily"
- Xu Ming - Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; chief editor, Social Science Weekly
The Problems that Chinese Marxists and Leftists Discuss in Today’s China
Chair: Prof. Norman Levine
- Duan Zhongqiao - School of philosophy, Renmin University of China
- Feng Ziyi - Department of Philosophy, Peking University
- Wei Xiaoping - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Yang Haifeng - Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Debunking the Myth of the “China Model”: Is a radical alternative possible?
- Peter Kwong, (Chair) - Hunter College
- Dr. Tong Xiaoxi - Sociology, China Agricultural University; visiting research fellow, Sociology, Binghamton University
- Peng Zhaochang - Economics, University of Massechussets
- Michael Hudson - Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- Xu Zhun - Economics, University of Massechussets
- Ben Mah
- Xulin Dong - The China Study Group
The Influences of the Current Crisis on China and China's Feasible Countermeasures
- Xu Ming, (Chair) - Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; chief editor, Social Science Weekly
- Duan Gang - Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; associate editor, Social Science Weekly
- Liu Shi-jun - Director, Publicity Dept of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee
The Chinese Proletariat and the State
- Ellen Rosen, (Chair) - Research Associate, Center for Research on Women, Brandeis University
- Dongping Han - History and Political Science, Woodrow Wilson College
- Li Qiang - Director, China Labor Watch
- Marc Blecher - History, Oberlin College
Revisiting the Legacy of Women's Liberation in Maoist China
- Di Bai, (Chair) - Drew University
- Tao Qingmei - Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Xurong Kong - Kean University
- Xueping Zhong - Tufts University
- Li Onesto - Revolution newspaper
CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Pro Sports Without Owners?
[www.edgeofsports.com]
- Spring Super, (Chair) - Queer Rising and International Socialist Organization
- Mark Naison - Fordham University; Author, Communists in Harlem During the Depression
- Dr. Walter Beach - Former Cleveland Brown; Amer-I-Can.
- Dave Zirin - Sports Correspondent, The Nation; Author, A People's History of Sports in the United States
From Roman Gospels to Jewish Shakespeare: Rethinking Our Cultural Paradigms
- Jenny Greeman, (Chair) - Resident Director, Dark Lady Players; Program Manager, New Perspectives Theater
- Kathleen Potts - Theatre and Speech, CUNY City College; Playwright-in-residence, Monarch Theater Company
- John Hudson - Dramaturg, Dark Lady Players
No Families, No Justice: Building a Family-Inclusive Left Movement
- Jennifer Silverman, (Chair) - editor, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: the Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities (PM Press, 2009); core member, m*a*m*a (mothers alliance for mutual aid)
- Amanda Vender - IndyKids
- Lauren Karchmer - Regeneracion
- Ileana Mendez-Penate - Regeneracion
- Zera Priestess - Board Chair, Sistas on the Rise, Inc. (SOTR); founder, SoulSWEET Sanctuary
The Mass Psychology of Capitalism: Dialectical Contradictions in the Realm of the Psyche
- Alan Weinerman, (Chair) - Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; MindFreedom International
- Harriet Fraad - Founding Mother of the Women's Movement; Author, Class Struggle on the Home Front
- Bryant Welch, J.D., Ph.D - Author, State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind
- Roger Salerno, Ph.D. - Sociology/Anthropology, Pace University; Chair-elect, Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association
- Alan Weinerman - Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; MindFreedom International
America's Two Depressions: One Economic, One Psychological
- Harriet Fraad, (Chair) - Manifesto Group; International Psychohistory Association
- Andres Ramirez - Education, Rhode Island College
- Khalil Saucier - Sociology and Africana Studies, Rhode Island College
- Richard Greeman - English translator of Victor Serge
- Lauren Langman - Loyola University of Chicago, Global Studies Association
Education
Conducting Critical Social Science Research
- George Sanders, (Chair) - Oakland University
Ishay Landa - The Open University, Ra'anana, Israel Paul Paolucci - Eastern Kentucky University Ricardo Dello Buono - Manhattan College
Teaching About Palestine
- Richard Ohmann (Chair) - Wesleyan University (Emeritus); Author, English in America, Politics of Letters, and Making and Selling Culture
- Ammiel Alcalay - Queens College; CUNY Graduate Center
- Anthony Alessandrini - Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
- Ellen Cantarow - Independent journalist
From the Campus to the "Real World": Keeping the Student Activist Spirit Alive Post Graduation
- John Cronan Jr., (Chair) - Organization for a Free Society
- Ashley Marinaccio - Co-Op Theatre East; Project Girl Performance Collective
- Faiza N. Ali - Council on American Islamic Relations
Academic Repression: Book Talk
Theory and Action Chair: Anthony J. Nocella, II
Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter - Syracuse University
- Caroline Kaltefleiter, SUNY Cortland
- Victoria Fontan - University of Peace, Costa Rica
- Deric Shannon - University of Connecticut
Educating Youth in These Conservative Times: Cultural-Politics, Possibilities, and Strategies for Improving Urban Schooling
- Biany Perez, (Chair) - Arts and Education Program Administrator, Art Sanctuary
Decoteau J. Irby - AAKT (Action, Advocacy, Knowledge, and Training), Concepts LLC Emery Petchauer - Education, Lincoln University Patrick Camangian - Teacher Education, Urban Ed., and Social Justice, University of San Francisco; English Teacher, Mandela High School, Oakland, California
From the Campus to the "Real World": Keeping the Student Activist Spirit Alive Post Graduation
Chair: John Cronan Jr.
- John Cronan Jr. - Organization for a Free Society (OFS)
- Ashley Marinaccio - Co-Op Theatre East, Project Girl Performance Collective
- Faiza N. Ali - Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
The Fight for Public Higher Education in New York City
- Larry Hales - Students for Educational Rights, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
- Claudia O'Brien - CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
- Conor Reed - City College Student Union, International Socialist Organization
PSC-CUNY member, TBA -
Public Education: Privatization and Inequity
- Donna Nevel, (Chair) - community psychologist and popular educator
- Ujju Aggarwal - Center for Immigrant Families
- Perla Placencia - Center for Immigrant Families
- Edwin Mayorga - New York Collective of Radical Educators
- Michelle Fine - The Public Science Project, CUNY Gradudate Center
- Ali Haridopolos - Students Fighting for Equitable Admissions at Beacon High School
- Antonia Perez - Students Fighting for Equitable Admissions at Beacon High School
Economics for the Rest of Us: Teaching Economics to Workers
- Michael Merrill, (Chair) -
- Moshe Adler, - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies; Columbia University
- Howard Harrington - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies
- Kate Spaulding - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies
The Case of California: Coming Soon to Schools Near You
- Kathryn Johnson, (Chair) - San Francisco State University; Vampire Slayer Project
- Kathy Emery - San Francisco Freedom School; San Francisco State, Political Science
- Jerry Shapiro - School of Social Work, San Francisco State University
- Robert Meister - UC Santa Cruz, Council of University of California Faculty; UC Santa Cruz, Politics
Politics of the Contemporary American Student Left
- Pam Nogales, (Chair) - Platypus Affiliated Society
- Ashley Weger, - Platypus Affiliated Society, (Depaul Chapter Head)
- Hannah Rappleye - New School alumni, former Senior Editor of the NS Free Press
- Easton Smith - Sarah Lawrence Student, Unite Here organizer
Rethinking Education
- Brian Kelly, (Chair) - ZNet
- Andrej Grubacic - San Francisco Art Institute, IWW
- Meaghan Linick-Loughley - Anthropology, New School; Organization for a Free Society
- Pat Korte - Radical Student Union, Organization for a Free Society
The Fertile Grounds Project: Spaces for Youth To Be Youth/Education Over Indoctrination
- Jonah Canner, (Chair) - Co-founder/Educational Director, Fertile Grounds Project
- Ileia Burgos - Movement In Motion Artists and Activists Collective
- Becky Raik - Co-founder/Executive Director, Fertile Grounds Project
Academic Freedom Under Attack
"Race to the Top" - Millions of Children Left Behind
- Susan O'Malley, (Chair) - English, Kingsborough, CUNY; Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
- Jean Anyon - Social and Educational Policy, CUNY Graduate School
- Tara Buhl - Annenberg Institute for School Reform
- Stan Karp - Editorial Board member and frequent contributor, Rethinking Schools
Environment
Capitalism and Toxics Pollution: The Fight for Public Health
- Karina Schaefer, (Chair) -Rutgers University,
- Lois Gibbs, Center for Health, Environment & Justice
- Joel Shufro, New York Committee for Occupational Health and Safety
Hydro/Petrol Federal-Corporatism Under Fire
- Catherine Mulder, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
- Fabian Balardini, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- Enrique Lanz Oca, CUNY Graduate Center
- Kenneth Levin, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Nuclear Revival?
- Karen Charman, Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Mary Olson, Director, Southeast Office, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Edwin Lyman, Sr. Scientist, Global Security, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Deb Katz, Executive Director, Citizens Awareness Network.
No Fracking Way! The Politics and Ecology of Drilling for Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale
- Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Karen Charman, Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Walter Hang, Toxics Targeting
- Julian Rodriguez-Drix, ShaleShock Alliance; Alliance for Climate Education
- Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper
- Irwin Sperber, Sociology, SUNY, New Paltz
Climate Change and the Global South: Upcoming World Climate Conference in Bolivia
- Alex van Schaick, (Chair)
Ambassador Pablo Solon, UN Mission of Bolivia
- Margreet Wewerinke, North South XXI
- Maggie Zhou, Climate Justice
Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part I of II)
- Jenny Greeman, (Chair) - Resident Director, Dark Lady Players; Program Manager, New Perspectives Theater
- Richard Greeman, Secretary, Victor Serge Foundation; Co-Founder; Praxis Research and Education Center
- David Schwartzman, Howard University
- Brian Tokar - Institute for Social Ecology, Climate SOS
Dirty Gas, Oil, and Coal: The Fossil Fuel Problematic and Some Solutions
- Karen Charman, (Chair) - Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Julian Rodriguez-Drix, ShaleShock Alliance and Alliance for Climate Education
- Mike Roselle, Climate Ground Zero
- Terisa Turner, University of Guelph
- Richard Grossman, Independent historian
Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change
- Arun Gupta, (Chair)- The Indypendent and Alternet, Moderator
- Christian Parenti, The Nation
- Robert S. Eshelman, Free-lance journalist
- Tina Gerhardt, Columbia University
Organizing for Climate Justice
- Brian Tokar, (Chair), Institute for Social Ecology; Climate SOS
- Cecil Corbin-Mark, WEACT, (West Harlem Environmental Action)
- Julian Rodríguez-Drix, Rising Tide North America, ShaleShock Alliance
- Valeria Georghiu, Environmental Justice Committee, National Lawyers' Guild; Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society (Durban, S. Africa); Durban Group for Climate Justice
- Rose Brewer, AfroEco, Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota
Speciesm: The Forgotten Oppression -- Why Should The Left Care?
- Kamil Ghoshal, (Chair), Philosophy In Action Network; Cantonese and Toisan Cultural Society
- John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Mickey Z., mickeyz.net
- Gary Null, garynull.com
- Pamela Rice, VivaVegie Society
Post-Copenhagen Politics of Climate Change
- Joel Kovel, (Chair), Editor-in-Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Leigh Brownhill, York University
- David Schwartzman, Howard University
Why Green Capitalism Can't Solve the Climate Crisis
International Socialist Review
- Chris Williams, (Chair), International Socialist Review
- Heather Rogers, Author of Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
- Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review
The Urban Industrial Complex and Emergent Forms of Environmentalism
- Brandon Schlueter, (Chair), Pace
- Judith Pajo, Pace
- Lubomir Smilenov, Pace
- Adam Reichardt, Pace
Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part II of II)
- Jenny Greeman, (Chair), Resident Director, Dark Lady Players; Program Manager, New Perspectives Theater
- Les Levidow, Open University, UK
- Ted Glick, Climate Crisis Coalition; Chesapeake Climate Action Network
- Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music; Socialism and Democracy
- R. Michael M'Gonigle
Food
The Logic of Capitalism: Understanding Water, Food, and Environmental Crises
- Dr. Meghana V. Nayak, (Chair), Political Science, Pace
- Andrew Theori, Pace
- Kathleen O'Leary, Pace
- Fred Wolf, Pace
What Does Sustainable Agriculture Mean? How will we replace the corporate food supply? Can we have clean energy and clean agriculture?
- Nancy Romer, (Chair) - Psychology, Brooklyn College, General Coordinator, Brooklyn Food Coalition
- Arun Gupta, The Indypendent
- Tom Forster, New School
- Elizabeth Henderson, Peacework Farm, author, Sharing the Harvest
Parents, Teachers & Students Unite: Health, Sustainability and Social Justice Through the School Food movement
- Nancy Romer, (Chair), Psychology, Brooklyn College, General Coordinator, Brooklyn Food Coalition
- Jan Poppendieck, author, Free For All: Fixing School Food In America, Hunter College, Sociology
- Kristen Mancinelli - City Harvest policy analyst
- Roxanne Henry, Food Bank For New York City
- Kristen Schoonacker, Wellness in the Schools, parent PS 295 Brooklyn
- Jeralyn Beach, School Food Coordinator, Brooklyn
What does food sovereignty look like? Imagining food sovereignty from a variety of perspectives
Chair: Brenda Biddle
- Andrej Grubacic, Znet San Fransisco School of Art
- Gregory Wilpert, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Project Coordinator in Venezuela
- Michael Menser, Brooklyn College Brooklyn Food Coalition
- Brenda Biddle, Evergreen College Anthropology Department of the Graduate Center CUNY
- Silvia Frederici, Hofstra University emerita Committee for Academic Freedom Africa
Gender
Introductory Session
Gender: Nancy Holmstrom
Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World
- Rupal Oza, (Chair), Director, Women and Gender Studies, CUNY
- Valerie Francisco, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Soniya Munshi, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Johanna Brenner, Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State University
- Hester Eisenstein, Sociology, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
AIDS, Sex and Culture : Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa -Author Meets Critics
- Hylton White, (Chair), New School for Social Research
- Zolani Ngwane, Haverford College
- Mandisa Mbali, Yale University
- Ida Susser, Anthropology, Hunter College; CUNY Graduate Center
Feminism and Lesbianism: Bringing Women Together
- Amy Rose Spiegel, (Chair), Pace
- Lillian Lefkowitz, Pace
- Dr. Karla Jay, Pace
- Jeffrey Wolpert, Pace
Envisioning a Post Sexist Society
- Chris Spannos, (Chair), Znet
- Lydia Sargent, Z Magazine
- Diana Carolina Sierra, Organization for a Free society
- Cynthia Peters, Writer, Z Magazine/ZNet
- Meaghan Linick-Loughley, Anthropology, New School; Organization for a Free Society
Women, Militancy and Organizing
- Christina Gerhardt, (Chair) - Columbia University
- Laura Whitehorn, New York Taskforce on Political Prisoners; the Feminist Press
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Advisor, Catalyst Project; Co-founder, Indigenous World Association
- Cleo Silvers, Mount Sinai Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Maysles Film Institute
Revisiting the Legacy of Women's Liberation in Maoist China
Chair: Di Bai
- Tao Qingmei, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Xurong Kong, Kean University
- Xueping Zhong, Tufts University
- Li Onesto, Revolution Newspaper
- Di Bai, Drew University
Health and housing
Direct Action, Self-Determination and the Housing Crisis
- Frank Morales, (Chair), Picture the Homeless
- DeBoRah Dickerson, Picture the Homeless
- Russell Pinsley
After the Health Reform Debacle: What Direction for Real Health Care Justice?
Physicians for a National Health Program Chair: Martha Livingston
- Martha Livingston, SUNY College at Old Westbury; Physicians for a National Health Program, New York-Metro chapter
- Oliver Fein, Weill-Cornell Medical College; Physicians for a National Health Program
- Leonard Rodberg, Queens College; Physicians for a National Health Program
No More Affordable Housing Scams: Community Control of Land in New York City
- Tom Angotti, (Chair), Hunter College, CUNY; Planners Network
- Frank Morales, Picture the Homeless
- Francesca Manning, CUNY Graduate Center
Morbid Symptoms: Health Care Under Capitalism
- Vivek Chibber, (Chair), Sociology, New York University
- Kalman Applbaum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Julie Feinsilver, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
- Christoph Hermann, Working Life Research Centre, Vienna
- Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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India
Neo-Liberalism, State Repression and the Crisis of Indian Democracy
- Biju Mathew, (Chair), South Asia Solidarity Initiative
- Mohammed Junaid, CUNY Graduate Center
- Lalit Batra, CUNY Graduate Center
- Sangay Mishra, Drew University
- Preeti Sampat, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan, Workers and Peasants Solidarity Forum
- Ahilan Kadirgamar, South Asian Solidarity Initiative
Developmental Terrorism in India Today
- Panayiotis T. Manolakos, (Chair), - Sanhati
- Svati Shah, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UMass-Amherst
- Sirisha C. Naidu, Sanhati; Economics, Wright State University
- Siddhartha Mitra, Sanhati
International
Imperial Agenda: from Bush to Obama
- Vivek Chibber, (Chair), Sociology, New York University
- Michael Schwartz
- Nir Rosen
- Stephen Shalom
Illusions and Interests: Perspectives on American Foreign Policy
- Stephen Eric Bronner, (Chair), Rutgers University
- Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University; University of Capetown
- Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University
- John Ehrenberg, Long Island University
- Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University
Revolution in Nepal
- Fanshen Wong, (Chair), Kasama Project
- Mike Ely, The Kasama Project
- Eric Ribellarsi, The FIRE Collective
Social -Security Systems in Comparison: Europe and the US
- Robin Blackburn, (Chair)
- Lucy apRoberts, University of Paris-Nanterre, European Institute of Wage Workers
- Daniel Ankarloo, Malmö University, Sweden
- Ruurik Holm, coordinator, Left Forum, Finland
The Right to the City: Global Perspectives
Crisis and Beyond: Re-evaluating Pakistan
- Ahilan Kadirgamar, (Chair), South Asia Solidarity Initiative
- Naveeda Khan, Dept of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
- Sadia Abbas, Dept of English and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, Newark
- Veena Das, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
US Imperialism and Oil Politics: The Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
- Deepa Kumar, (Chair), Rutgers University
- Michael Schwartz, SUNY, Stony Brook
- Saadia Toor, College of Staten Island, CUNY; Action for a Progressive Pakistan
- Lee Wengraf, International Socialist Organization
- Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University
International Relations: Urban Guerrilla Movements, Europe and Latin America
- Immanuel Ness, (Chair), Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Christina Gerhardt, Columbia University
- Dario Azzellini, Johannes Kepler University in Linz
- Jeremy Varon, New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
War Crimes and "Change"
- Debra Sweet, (Chair), national director of World Can't Wait
- Shayana Kadidal, Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative at Center for Constitutional Rights
- Erin Valentine, International Justice Network
- Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; co-founder Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
- Laura Raymond, the Education and Outreach Associate for CCR’s International Human Rights docket
Nationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and International Solidarity Today
- Ryan Hardy, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Spencer Leonard, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Peter Hudis, U.S. Marxist-Humanists
Beyond Walls and Cages: Abolitionist Perspectives on Migration & Mass Incarceration
- Seth Wessler, (Chair), Applied Research Center
- Jenna Loyd, (co-Chair), Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
- Manisha Vaze, Families for Freedom
- Joe Nevins, Vassar College
- Judy Greene, Justice Strategies
- Amy Gottlieb, American Friends Service Committee
Leading the Battle against the Present Global Economic Crisis: Greece, Iran, Nigeria
- Suzi Weissman, (Chair), Critique
- Yassamine Mather, Economic crisis in Iran
- Bob Arnot, Global Economic Crisis: The Context of Collapse?
- Michael Matsas, The December revolt in Greece: a message from the immediate future
Labor
The Future of Labor in the U.S.
- Schimmel
- Frances Fox Piven, (Chair) - The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., [BlackCommentator.com]; Co-author, Solidarity Divided
- James Gray Pope, Rutgers University School of Law
- Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
- Elaine Bernard, Director of the Harvard Trade Union Program.
U.S. Trade Unions and the Global Economic Crisis
- Joshua Freeman, (Chair)
- Stewart Acuff, Utility Workers Union of America
- Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO
- Elaine Bernard, Labor & Worklife Program, Harvard University
- Ruth Milkman, CUNY, Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies
Union Strategies, Poor People's Movements and Crisis
- Jan Rehmann, (Chair), Union Theological Seminary
- Willie Baptist, Poverty Initiative
- Janice Fine, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
- Saladin Muhammad, Black Workers for Justice, Electrical Workers
- Lian Hurst Mann, National School for Strategic Organizing
- Christina Kaindl, "We-Won't-Pay-for-Your-Crisis" Coalition, Germany
Clean Energy Transition: Decentralized Worker/Community Control vs. Centralized Corporate/State Control
- Bill Resnick, (Chair), KBOO Radio, 90.7fm; Portland Jobs with Justice
- Howie Hawkins, Green Party of New York, Teamsters for a Democratic Union
- Megan Finn, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 3 Solidarity
Rebel Rank and File
- Cal Winslow
- Aaron Brenner, Co-editor, Rebel Rank and File; Editor, The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
- Sandy Pope, President, Teamsters Union Local 805; Founder, Hard Hatted Women and Teamsters for a Democratic Union
- Judith Stein, History, Graduate Center and City College of NY; Contributor to Rebel Rank and File
- Steve Early, Former Communications Workers of America organizer, Author, Embedded With Organized Labor
How Should Friends of Labor on the Left Respond To Conflicts Within and Between Unions?”
- Manny Ness, (Chair), Editor, WorkingUSA; Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Steve Early, (Chair), Former Communications Workers of America organizer, Author, Embedded With Organized Labor
- Sal Rosselli, Interim president, National Union of Health Care Workers
- Andrea van den Heever, UNITE HERE Local 34, Yale University
- Cal Winslow, Fellow, UC-Berkeley; Co-Director, Mendocino Institute
- Stephanie Luce, School of Professional Studies, The Murphy Institute, CUNY
TBA - Representative of SEIU/Workers United
- Godfrey Vincent, History, James Madison University
Struggles of an Independent Radical Union: The Case of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Victor Salazar, (Chair), New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Ed Ott, Former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council; Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY
- Ron Blount, Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania
- Beresford Simmonds, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Biju Mathew, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
How to Fight Disappearing Jobs and Falling Wages: Labor Strategies in the Epoch of Low-wage Capitalism
- Dee Knight, (Chair)
- Fred Goldstein, Workers World newspaper
- Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March
- Berna Ellorin, US Chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, BAYAN USA
Union Reform from Below: US, Canada and Puerto Rico
- Charles Post, (Chair), Professional Staff Congress-AFT 2334
- Rafael Feliciano, President, Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico
- Julia Barnett, Shop Steward, Canadian Union of Public Employees, 73
- Steve Downs, Chair, Train Operators Division, Transport Workers' Union, Local 100
Comparative Labor Movements - Strategies and Class Struggles
- Immanuel Ness, (Chair), Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Dario Azzellini, Johann-Wolgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. Universit of Linz
- Anna Pollert, University of the West of England
- Eduardo Sartelli, University of Buenos Aires Razon y Revolucion
- Jo Nakajima, Chiba University of Commerce
- Alan Tuckman, Nottingham Business School
- Hae-Lin Choi, Freie Universität Berlin Communications Workers of America
- Coen Hussein Pontoh, Brooklyn College/CUNY
http://www.keywiki.org/skins/common/images/button_italic.png Alternative Labor Organizations: Worker Councils and Rank and File Control Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society
- Dario Azzellini, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Germany Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
- Maurizio Atzeni, Loughborough University
- Peter Ranis, Emeritus, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Alan Tuckman, University of Nottingham
- Victor Wallis, Socialism and Democracy, Berkley College of Music
Building the Power of Immigrant Workers in NYC's Vast Food Industry
- Daniel Gross, (Chair), Executive Director, Brandworkers; Executive Committee Member, National Lawyers Guild Labor & Employment Committee
- Sekou Siby, Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York; Former Restaurant Worker
- Art Ramirez, Lead Organizer, Teamsters Local 805, Fresh Direct Campaign
- Diana Robinson, Organizer, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 1500, Gourmet Grocer Campaign
- Liberte Locke, Organizer, Industrial Workers of the World, Starbucks Workers Union
Telling The Story of Working Class Life, Work, and Organization - In Non-Fiction and Fiction
Monthly Review Press and Cornell ILR Press
- Steve Early, (Chair), Former Communications Workers of America organizer, Author, Embedded With Organized Labor
- Suzanne Gordon, National Writers Union, United Auto Workers
- Jane Latour, Associate Editor, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 37’s, Public Employee Press
- Michael Yates, Associate Editor, Monthly Review
- Tim Sheard, Critical Care Nurse
- Gregory A. Butler, Interior Systems Carpenter; Shop Steward in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America; GANG BOX: Construction Workers News Service
Transnational Labor Movements
- Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society
- Jamie McCallum, (Chair), CUNY Graduate Center
- Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University
- Verity Burgmann, University of Melbourne
- Robyn Rodriguez, Rutgers University
- Saket Soni, New Orleans Center for Racial Justice
The Awesome Power of Union Democracy and its Implications for Dramatic Social Change
- Daniel Gross, (Chair), - Executive Director, Brandworkers International Executive Committee Member, National Lawyers Guild, Labor & Employment Committee
(Kevin) Harry Harrington, Vice President, Transport Workers Union, Local 100 Member, Take Back Our Union
- Sandy Pope, President, Teamsters Local 805, Former International Rep, IBT, during legendary UPS Strike
- Vance Hinton, Member, Industrial Workers of the World, Starbucks Workers Union; Henry George School
Undermining Capitalism: The Stella D’oro Strike, Committed Art, and Revolutionary Change
- John Maerhofer, (Chair), English, Queens College, CUNY
- Greg Nuñez and Priscilla Aviles - Independent filmmakers
- Tony O’Brien, International Committee, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY
- Mike Filippou, Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, Shop Steward, Local 50
Worker Control: The End of Capitalism or Capitalism's Only Salvation
- Tylea Richard, (Chair), Operations Coordinator at Green Worker Cooperatives
- Michael Elsas, President of Cooperative Home Care Associates
- Flor de Maria Eilets is a Director at the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
- Jacoby Ballard is a Co-Founder of Third Root Community Health Center
- Omar Freilla is Founder and Team Coordinator at Green Worker Cooperatives
Latin America
The Proposal to Launch a Fifth Socialist International
- Gregory Wilpert, (Chair), Sociology, Brandeis University; ZNet; Editor, Venezuelanalysis.com
- Carmen Bohorquez, (requested), Vice-Minister for Culture, United Socialist Party of Venezuela
- Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Michael Albert, ZNet
- Thomas Ponniah, World Social Forum
Lessons from Venezuela: Achievements and Failures
- Venezuela Analysis
- Clara Irazabal, (Chair), Columbia University, Assistant Professor of International Urban Planning
- Dario Azzellini, Johan Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany
- Steve Ellner, Universidad del Oriente
- Carlos Martinez, Author, Venezuela Speaks!
- Gregory Wilpert, Editor, Venezuelanalysis.com; Sociology, Brandeis University
U.S. Interventionism and Stability in Latin America
Venezuela Analysis TBA (Chair)
- Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Bernardo Alvarez, Ambassador, Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the USA
- Mario Murillo, Hofstra University
Obama's Militarized Status Quo in Latin America
- Christy Thornton, (Chair), History, NYU
- Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Suzanna Reiss, University of Hawaii
- Joseph Nevins, Vassar College
Latin America: Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
- Hobart Spalding, (Chair), History, CUNY (Emeritus); Left Forum Board Member; Editorial Board Member, Socialism and Democracy
- Carlos Vilas, Universidad Nacional Lanus
- Margarita Lopez Maya, Universidad Central de Venezuela
- Gerardo Renique, City College, CUNY
- Emelio Betances, Gettysburg College
The Honduran Coup and Its Aftermath
- Greg Grandin; Chris London (Chair)
- Alexander Main, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Adrienne Pine, American University
- Rodolfo Pastor, Embassy of Honduras
- Suyapa Portillo
Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
- Ana M. Lopez, (Chair), Humanities, Hostos Community College
- Michael Reyes Benavides, Director of Batey Urbano Theater Company, Chicago
- Samuel Vega and Melissa Cintron - actors of the play "Crimes Against Humanity"; college student organizers
- Melissa Montero, National Boricua Human Rights Network
Solidarity in Latin America: Solidarity Economy and Bolivarian Socialism in Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela
- Mark Rego-Monteiro, (Chair), Park Slope Food Co-op member/Co-owner; International Community Sustainable Development, NYU
- Ike Nahem, Coordinator, Cuba Solidarity NY; Teamsters Union Member
- William Camacaro, Chairperson, Bolivarian Circle NY
Indigenous Mobilization and Resistance in the Andean Nations
- Bill Weinberg, (Chair) - WBAI Radio, World War 4 Report
- Gerardo Renique, CUNY
- Mario Murillo, WBAI Radio, Hofstra University
Puerto Rico Can't Wait To Be Free
- Ana M. Lopez, (Chair), Humanities, Hostos Community College
- Elma Beatriz Rosado, Native Puerto Rican and spouse of Filiberto Ojeda Rios
- Aleida Centeno Rodriguez, Attorney in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Director of Frente Arecibeno
- Thelma Ithier-Sterling, Performing Arts - Hostos Community College
- Ricardo Jimenez, former political prisoner pardoned by Clinton
Marxism and theory
Reimagining Society: The Nature of the Task
- Chris Spannos, (Chair), ZNet
- Barbara Epstein, Socialist Review; History, UC Santa Cruz.
- Bill Fletcher Jr., BlackCommentator.com; Co-Author, Solidarity Divided
- Michael Albert, Co-founder, Z Magazine and ZNet
Imagining Our Way from Here to There
- Barbara Epstein, (Chair), Socialist Review; History, UC Santa Cruz.
- Leo Panitch, Socialist Register; Canada Research Chair, Comparative Political Economy; Political Science, York University
- Gregory Wilpert, Sociology, Brandeis University; ZNet; Editor, [Venezuelanalysis.com]
- Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Introductory Session
Dialectics: Bertell Ollman
Introductory Session
Class: Richard Wolff
A Dialogue on Class
- Cathy Mulder, (Chair), John Jay College, CUNY
- Richard Wolff, Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism
- Erik Olin Wright, Director and Series Editor of Verso's Real Utopias Project, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Post-Identity Politcs
- Todd May, (Chair), - Clemson, Philosophy and Religion
Harmony Goldberg - New York Study Group; Doctoral student, CUNY Graduate Center Linda Alcoff - Hunter College, Philosophy Kevin Alexander Gray - Author, Waiting for Lightning to Strike: the fundamental of Black Politics
Going Beyond the Crisis Means Overcoming Commodity Production and Wage Labor
- John Garvey, (Chair), NYC Taxi Rank and File Coalition; co-editors of Race Traitor
- Loren Goldner, NYC writer and activist
- Gifford Hartman, member of the Insane Dialectical Posse
A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
- Andrej Grubacic, (Chair), San Francisco Art Institute, International Workers of the World
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies; Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian/writer
Revolution and Marxist-Humanism in the 21st Century: On the centenary of Raya Dunayevskaya
- Terry Moon, (Chair), Women's Liberation writer and activist
- Susan Van Gelder, News & Letters
- Fred Lavallasse, Independent homeless activist/thinker
The Fate of Socialism
- Martha Rosler, (Chair)
- Marshall Berman
- Kenneth Levin, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Envisioning Self-Governance
- Peter Bohmer, (Chair), ZNet
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies; Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
- Stephen Shalom, New Politics/ZNet
- Between the Old and New Left: An American Post-war Balance Sheet
- Ian Morrison, (Chair), Platypus Affiliated Society
- Benjamin Blumberg, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Chris Mansour, Parsons, The New School For Design
Rethinking Communism: Debating Badiou's Communist Hypothesis
- Maliha Safri, (Chair), Economics, Drew University, NJ
- Antonino G. Callari, Economics, Franklin & Marshall College, PA
- Boris Groys, Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory, Center for Art and Media Technology; Arts and Science, NYU
- Bruno Bosteels, Spanish Literature, Cornell University
A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
- Andrej Grubacic, (Chair), San Francisco Art Institute, International Workers of the World
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies; Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian/writer
Marxism and Anarchism: The Relevance of Radical Traditions Today
- Blair Taylor, (Chair)
- Ian Morrison, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Annie Day, Revolutionary Communist Party RCP
- Peter Staudenmaier, Cornell University
Socialism in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Past
Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
- Robert Capistrano, (Chair), Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
- Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review
- Barbara Garson, Board Member, Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
- Leo Panitch, York University; Socialist Register
- Salvador Aguilar Sole, University of Barcelona
Alain Badiou's “Politics of Emancipation”: Controversies over the Framework and Future of the Communist Project
- Alan Hausman, (Chair), Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY
- Nayi Duniya, Contributor, Demarcations: A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic
- Raymond Lotta, Revolution newspaper; Set the Record Straight Project
Respondent: John Gerassi, Political Science, Queens College, CUNY
The Future of World Capitalism Book Panel 2: Concepts of Transition
- Radhika Desai, (Chair), Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics
- Alan Freeman, University of Manitoba Greater London Authority (personal capacity)
- Henry Heller, History, University of Manitoba
- Jack Rasmus, Santa Clara University and Economics and Politics, St. Marys College
Rethinking Historical Materialism : Scottish Origins and Engelsistic Revisions
- Prof. Norman Levine, (Chair), Executive Director, Institute for International Policy
- Frieder Otto Wolf, Free University of Berlin; European Parliament member since 1984
- Danga Vileisis, Free University of Berlin
New Perspectives on Marx's Concept of Socialism
- Kevin B. Anderson, (Chair), University of California, Santa Barbara
- Paresh Chattopadhyay, Montreal, Canada
- Peter Hudis, Oakton Community College, Illinois
Remembering Giovanni Arrighi
- David Harvey, (Chair), Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; Author, A Companion to Marx's Capital
- Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University
- Leo Panitch, Socialist Register; Canada Research Chair, Comparative Political Economy; Political Science, York University
Critical Theory and Social Movements
- Simon Critchley, (Chair), Philosophy, New School
- Boris Groys, Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory, Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe; Arts and Science, NYU
- Todd May, Philosophy and Religion, Clemson University
The Materiality of Nations
- Neil Davidson, (Chair), Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde
- Radhika Desai, Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics
- John Riddell, co-editor of Socialist Voice
False Alternatives to Capitalism: Proudhonism and its Progeny
- Mike Dola, (Chair), Marxist-Humanist Initiative; student at Hunter College
- Anne Jaclard, Marxist-Humanist Initiative; the New SPACE
- Andrew Kliman, Pace University
- Greg Meyerson, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- Michael Joseph Roberto, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Passive Revolution and Uneven and Combined Development, 'East' and 'West'
- Neil Smith, (Chair), Graduate Center, CUNY
- Jamie Allinson, University of Edinburgh
- Neil Davidson, University of Strathclyde
Seeing Marx Anew Via the MEGA Project
- Kevin B. Anderson, (Chair), University of California, Santa Barbara
- Wei Xiaoping, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Amy E. Wendling, Creighton University
Cooperatives, Class, and Value theory
- Maliha Safri, (Chair), Economics, Drew University; Associate Editor, Rethinking Marxism; Center for Popular Economics
- David Kristjanson-Gural, Spilling Ink Writers' Collective, Bucknell University
- David Ruccio, Rethinking Marxism
- Ian Seda-Irizarry, University of Massachusetts; Association for Economic and Social Analysis
- Stephen Healy, Physical and Earth Sciences, Worcester State College; Contributor, Rethinking Marxism
- Bruce Roberts, University of Southern Maine
Media
Going Undercover: The Yes Men and Gumshoe Journalists Discuss Subterfuge and Satire in Activism and Investigative Journalism
- Joseph Huff-Hannon, (Chair), independent writer and producer; recipient, James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
- Andy Bichlbaum, Co-founder, The Yes Men; Co-director, The Yes Men Fix the World
- Mike Bonanno, Co-founder, The Yes Men; Co-director, The Yes Men Fix the World
- Ken Silverstein, Investigative reporter and DC editor, Harper's magazine
Why Communications and Media Creation Can Forward Social Change
Making Contact, [www.radioproject.org]
- Lisa Rudman, (Chair), National Radio Project, [www.radioproject.org]
- Dee Dee Halleck, Deep Dish TV
- Rob Robinson, Peoples Production House; Picture The Homeless
- Victoria Maldonado, Deep Dish TV
- Lisa Rudman, Making Contact; National Radio Project
Network Failure: The Crisis of America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure
- David Rosen, (Chair), author, Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films
- Bruce Kushnick, telecommunications industry analyst
- Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause NY.
Online Organizing: The Missed Opportunities and Challenges to Come
- Charles Lenchner, (Chair) - Founder, Organizing 2.0
- Elana Levin, Communications Director, Writers Guild of America, East
- Libero Della Piana, Communications Director of Communist Party USA; IT director of [www.peoplesworld.org]
- Michael Whitney, Online organizer with [FireDogLake.org]
Collaborative Democracy and the Internet: Humanity's Revolutionary Initiative
- Alfredo Lopez, (Chair), May First/People Link
- Alfredo Lopez, May First/People Link
- Jamie McClelland, May First/People Link
- Mallory Knodel, May First/People Link
The State Of Our Foreign News
- Matt Pascarella, (Chair)
- Rachel Sterne, CEO, Ground Report, Love From Global Voices
- Nick Sabloff, World Editor, [HuffingtonPost.com]
- Ben Piven, web producer, Worldfocus
Mass Media, Islam and the War on Terror
- Anthony DiMaggio, (Chair), Illinois State University; Z Magazine
- Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University; Critical Studies in Communication Journal
- Adel Iskandar, Georgetown University; The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
- Danny Schechter, Editor [Mediachannel.org]; Latest film: Plunder: the crime of our time
ImMEDIAate Impact: Using Documentaries to organize for a New Progressive Imagination
- Tami Gold, (Chair), Film & Media Studies, Hunter College; Chapter Chair, PSC, CUNY Hunter
- Heidi J. Boisvert, BREAKTHROUGH
- Natasha Florentino, documentary filmmaker
- Priscila Néri, WITNESS
MIDDLE EAST
Afghanistan/Pakistan/Yemen: Obama's New War
- Aaron Amaral, (Chair), International Socialist Review
- Richard Seymour, Lenin's Tomb
- Saadia Toor, Action for a Progressive Pakistan, College of Staten Island
- Ashley Smith, International Socialist Review
The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran
- Laura Lee Schmidt, (Chair), Platypus Affiliated Society; History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, MIT
- Siyaves Azeri, Worker-Communist Party of Iran
- Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University
- Christopher Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society; University of Chicago
- Saeed Rahnema, York University
Of Drones, Warlords and the Taliban: Ending the U.S./NATO Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Canadian Peace Alliance & Campaign for Peace and Democracy
- Thomas Harrison & Joanne Landy (Chairs), Co-Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy; Editorial Board member, New Politics
- Sonali Kolhatkar, Co-Director, Afghan Women's Mission; Executive producer, "Uprising," syndicated KPFK Pacifica Radio show
- Derrick O'Keefe, Co-chair, Canadian Peace Alliance; author, A Woman Among Warlords
- Adaner Usmani, Labor Party of Pakistan (LPP); Action for a Progressive Pakistan
The Gaza Freedom March: Lessons and Challenges
- Alan Goodman, (Chair), Revolution Newspaper, "Gaza Freedom March"
- Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, cofounder of Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence
- Diane Harriford, co-author, When the Center is On Fire
- Felice Gelman, steering committee member of the Gaza Freedom March
- Fida Qishta, Palestinian journalist
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
- Michael Zweig, (Chair), Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
- Chris Vongsawat, Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Mindy Gershon, 1199 SEIU, US Labor Against the War
Confronting the "Museum of Tolerance" and the Mamilla Cemetery
- Joel Kovel, (Chair), Committee for the Open Discussion of Zionism
- Helen Schiff, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
- Alaa Milbes, Columbia Univsersity, Middle Eastern, Asian, African Studies
- Michael Steven Smith, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
Iran: Current State of Affairs
- Reza Ghorashi, (Chair), Richard Stockton College of NJ
- Thomas O'Donnell, The New School, Graduate International Affairs
- Hamid Zangeneh, Economics Widener University, Editor of JIRA
- Hamideh Sedghi, Harvard University
Afghanistan: Should We Stay or Should We Go? A Critical Conversation
- Mark Engler, (Chair), Foreign Policy in Focus
- David Wildman, Co-author, Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer
- Sunita Viswanath, Women for Afghan Women
- Lorelei Kelly, Director, New Strategic Security Initiative
The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq
Platypus
- Laura Lee Schmidt, (Chair), Platypus Affiliated Society; History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, MIT
- Issam Shukri, Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI)
- Kanan Makiya, Brandeis University
- Christopher Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society; University of Chicago
The Left and prospects for democracy in the Middle East: Iran
Platypus
- Chair: Laura Lee Schmidt
- Siyaves Azeri, Worker-communist Party of Iran
- Hamid Debashi, Columbia University
- Christopher Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The History of May Day and the 2010 New York May Day March
- Larry Moskowitz, (Chair), Left Labor Project
- Ai Jen Poo, former Executive Director, Domestic Workers United
- Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition
- Ed Ott, former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council
- Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Frances Liu, Immigration Advocacy Field Coordinator, New York Immigration Coalition
Understanding and Responding to the Crisis: The Left in Europe and the U.S.
- Walter Baier, (Chair), Coordinator, Transform Network
- William K. Tabb, Economics, Queens College
- Jeremy Brecher, Global Labor Strategies
- Rainer Rilling, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
- Joao Romao, Bloco de Esquerda and Cultra, Portugal
Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
- David Harvey, (Chair), Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; Author, A Companion to Marx's Capital
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies; Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
- Mike Menser, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Food Coalition
Power From Below
Left Forum
- Frances Fox Piven, (Chair), The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Max Fraad Wolff, New School University Graduate Program, International Affairs
- Max Rameau, Take Back the Land
- Frank Morales, Picture the Homeless
- Robert Meister, UC Santa Cruz, Council of University of California Faculty Associations
Capitalism, Crisis and Alternative Possibilities
Critical Theory and Global Studies Association
- Walda Katz-Fishman, (Chair), Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Lauren Langman, Global Studies Association, Loyola University of Chicago
- David Schweikert, Loyola University of Chicago
- Peter Hudis, U.S. Marxist-Humanists; Loyola University of Chicago
- Richard Wolff, Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism
Roundtable on Left Strategies in the Core Capitalist Countries
- Walter Baier, (Chair), Coordinator, Transform Network
- Patrice Cohen-Séat, French Communist Party, Espaces Marx
- Ruurik Holm, Left Forum Finland
- Sam Gindin, Socialist Project, Toronto
- Joao Romao, Bloco de Esquerda and Cultra, Portugal
- Greg Albo, Socialist Register
- Richard Wolff, Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism
- Cornelia Hildebrandt, Die LINKE; Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Movement Building Spaces and Rekindling the Imagination
- Suren Moodliar, (Chair), Massachusetts Global Action
- Liz Mestres, Brecht Forum
- Mallory Knodel, May First/People Link
Beyond Fair Trade and Micro-Finance: Gift and Solidarity Economies
[www.otherworldsareposssible.org]
- Andy Lin, (Chair), Coordinating Committee Member and Artistic Coordinator, Other Worlds
- Cheyenna Weber, Organizing Director, Responsible Endowments Coalition
- Rachel Wallis, Media and Education Coordinator, Other Worlds
- Jessie Reilly, Co-Administrator, Time Interchange New York (T.I.N.Y.) Timebank
Intellectuals and the Radical Imagination
- Kanishka Chowdhury, (Chair), University of St. Thomas
- Padmaja Challakere, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
- Rich Daniels, Oregon State University
- Joseph Ramsey, Quincy College
How to Make a Revolution in the US
- Michael Smith, (Chair), Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; Host "Law and Disorder," WBAI
- Paul LeBlanc, History and Political Science, LaRoche College
- Harmony Goldberg, New York Study Group; Doctoral student, CUNY Graduate Center
Capitalism, Crisis and Alternative Possibilities II
- Critical Theory and Global Studies Association
- Lauren Langman, (Chair), Global Studies Association, Loyola University of Chicago
- Carl Davidson, Global Studies Association, Progressives for Social Change
- Walda Katz Fishman, Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Graciela Monteagudo, UMass Amherst, Dartmouth College
- Ana Margarida Estaves, Brown University
"The Coming Insurrection": Manifestoes, Militancy, and Mobilization Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination
- Michael Pelias, (Chair), Philosophy, Long Island University, Brooklyn
- Jeremy Glick, English, Hunter College
- Richard Dienst, Literature and Theory, Rutgers University
- John Clark, Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans
- Rahel Aima, Anthropology, Columbia University
Left Out: Building Social Movements in a Culture of Isolation
- Jonathan Matas, (Chair), - Painter/muralist, teaching artist
- Jason Farbman, NYU; former Green Party candidate for State Rep.; antiwar organizer
- Karina Claudio, Make the Road NY’s LGBTQ Justice Project; poet and performance artist
World Social Forum Politics: Left or Post-Left?
- Thomas Ponniah, (Chair), Harvard University; World Social Forum International Council
- Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago
- Walda Katz Fishman, Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Jerome Scott, National Planning Committee, U.S. Social Forum
- Ana Margarida Esteves, Sociology, Brown University
- Mark Frezzo, Florida Atlantic University; Co-Editor, Sociologists Without Borders
The Art & Politics of Spectacle – Creating Ethical Spectacles
- Terry Marshall, (Chair), Culture Clash, Young Voices Nation
- Lenina Nadal, New York Study Group
- Luz Schreiber, Hunter College Parent Union
- Chong Kim, Culture Clash
Reimagining a New Economic System
- Meaghan Linick-Loughley, (Chair), Anthropology, New School; Organization for a Free Society
- Gar Alperovitz, Government, Univ. of Maryland
- Michael Albert, Co-founder, Z Magazine and ZNet
Envisioning Real Utopias Verso Books
- Erik Olin Wright, (Chair), Director and Series Editor of Verso's Real Utopias Project; Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- David Ruccio, Economics, University of Notre Dame
- Peter Staudenmaier, Cornell University
Organizing against Budget Cuts and Austerity in New York City (Chair) – Doug Singsen, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education, International Socialist Organization
- Marvin Holland, TWU 100, Director of Political and Community Action Development
- Tami Gold, PSC-CUNY, Chapter Chair, Hunter College
- Larry Hales, CCNY student, Students for Educational Rights, (CCNY), CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
Grassroots Education Member, to be announced
Social Movements And Everyday Life Critical Sociology
- Ricardo Dello Buono, (Chair), Manhattan College
- George Sanders, Oakland University
- James Russell, Eastern Connecticut State University
- Graham Cassano, Oakland University
- Troy Rondinone, Southern Connecticut State University
Decline of the European Left and the rise of the Far Right Chair: Mark Seddon
What Does it Mean to be a Revolutionary in Our Times?
- Walda Katz-Fishman, (Chair), Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America; U.S. Social Forum
- Lenina Nadal, New York Study Group
- Manju Rajendran, Left Turn
- Johanna Brenner]], Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State University
Socialist Humanism, the Anti-Humanist Turn, and the Consequences for the Left
- Barbara Epstein, (Chair), Socialist Review; History, UC Santa Cruz.
- John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Kevin B. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
The US Social Forum and US Social Movements: The Road from Atlanta to Detroit 2010
- Walda Katz-Fishman, (Chair), Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America; USSF National Planning Committee
- Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; USSF Gender Justice Working Group
- Harmony Goldberg, New York Study Group; Graduate Center of the CUNY
Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century
- Ida Susser, (Chair), Anthropology, Hunter College; CUNY Graduate Center
- Jeff Maskovsky, (Chair), Urban Studies, Queens College
- Peter Kwong, Hunter College
- Peter Schnieder and Jane Schneider, Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Fernando Coronil, Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Horizontalism and Grassroots Democracy in the Americas
- Joanna Duarte Laudon, (Chair), York University, Barrio Nuevo
- Oscar Dominguez, Movement for Justice in El Barrio
- Marisa Franco, Right to the City Alliance
- Hilary Klein, community organizer, worked with Zapatista women's projects
- Marina Sitrin, Author, Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina
- Josh Lerner, The Participatory Budgeting Project, The New School for Social Research
Ten Years Later: Organizers Reflect on the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests Left Turn
- Chris Dixon, (Chair), University of California
- Rami Elamine, Left Turn
- Gabriel Sayegh, Drug Policy Alliance
- Andréa Schmidt, Researcher/Journalist
Thinking System From the Grassroots: The Intersection of Theory and Practice in Grassroots Organizing
- Billy Wharton, (Chair), Co-Chair, Socialist Party USA
- David McReynolds, Long time peace activist
Speaker from 15th Street Manifesto Group
- Kate Goff, G20 Resistance Project; New York City Anti-War Coalition
- Amilcar Navarro, Crown Heights Organizing Committee; Socialist Party USA, NYC Local
Speaker from Picture the Homeless
Getting from Here to There: Making Radical Visions Reality W606- Session 4 Camilo Vivieros (Chair) - Executive Director, Rhode Island Jobs with Justice Mireya Loza - American Studies, Brown University Reg Flowers - Founder and Artistic Director, Falconworks, Brooklyn NY Michael Pelias - Philosophy, Long Island University-Brooklyn Lesley Wood - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Sociology, York University
Radical Spaces, Radical City W618 - Session 7 Denisse Andrade and Dara Greenwald (Chair) Rebel Diaz Collective Asere Bello - Crystal House Kazembe Balagun - The Brecht Forum
New Developments in Solidarity Economy Organizing in the U.S. W601- Session 4 Germai Medhanie (Chair) - Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Board member, US Solidarity Economy Network Lynn Benander - Dir. of Community Business Development for Co-op Power Maliha Safri - Economics, Drew University; Associate Editor, Rethinking Marxism; Member of Center for Popular Economics Djar Horn - Jersey Shore Neighborhood Cooperative; Social Work graduate student, Monmouth University; former union organizer and union carpenter
Strategizing to Build Real Self-Governance W507 - Session 2 Capitalism Nature Socialism Karen Charman (Chair) - Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism Robert Parry - Publisher and Editor, Consortiumnews.com Richard Grossman - Independent historian Joel Kovel - Editor in Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism
Experiments in Popular Democracy: Is it Really Possible to Democratize the Capitalist State? Student Union - Session 1 Johanna Brenner (Chair) - Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State University Hilary Wainwright - Research Director, Transnational Institute New Politics Program; Sr. Research Associate, International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford Dept. of Peace Studies Sujatha Fernandes - Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Erik Olin Wright - Director, Series Editor of Verso's Real Utopias Project; Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lessons from Latin American Social Movements for a US in Crisis W612 - Session 1 Toward Freedom, Between The Lines Radio Scott Harris (Chair) - Between The Lines Radio Ben Dangl - Toward Freedom Marina Sitrin - Author, Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina Mario Murillo - Author, Voices of Resistance: Indigenous Radio and the Struggle for Social Justice in Colombia
Author meets critics: van der Walt and Schmidt's "Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism" Chair: Lucien van der Walt - University of the Witwatersrand Mitch Miller - WSA-NYC Wayne Price - NEFAC (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists)
New Radical Parties and Experiments in Party Building W626 - Session 6 Geoff Bailey (Chair) - Sebastian Budgeon - Historical Materialism NPA Member - NPA Ahmed Shawki - International Socialist Review; Haymarket Books
We Must Be Good at Learning: Brecht Forum at 35 E326 - Session 3 Kazembe Balagun (Chair) -Brecht Forum Max Uhlenbeck - Left Turn, Brecht Forum Liz Mestres - Brecht Forum Lisa Maya Knauer - Sociology/Anthropology. UMass Dartmouth
POLITICAL ECONOMY [back to top]
Economic Democracy as an alternative to capitalism Multi Purpose Room - Session 2 Costas Panayotakis (Chair) - New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Capitalism Nature Socialism David Schweickart - Loyola University Cathy Mulder - John Jay College, CUNY Michael Menser - Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Food Coalition
A Radical Project in New Economics: theGiftEconomy.org W606 - Session A Hans Schoenburg (Chair) - Yale Brandon Jackson - Yale Leon Noel - Yale
The Case for a NO Growth Economy W610 - Session A Frederick Wolf (Chair) - Pace Josso Caleb - Pace Michelle Passalacqua - Pace Dr. Ghassan Karam - Economics, Pace
Future of World Capitalism Book Panel 1: New Takes On Old Myths W601 - Session 3 Future of World Capitalism book series Alan Freeman (Chair) - University of Manitoba Greater London Authority Radhika Desai - Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics Costas Panayiotakis - Sociology, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Andrew Kliman - Economics, Pace University Anne Jaclard - National Secretary, Marxist-Humanist Initiative
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE CURRENT CRISIS [back to top]
The Current Economic Crisis and Its Possible Outcomes Student Union - Session 5 Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU Bill Tabb (Chair) - Economics, Queens College Michael Hudson - Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City Gar Alperovitz - Government, Univ. of Maryland Bertell Ollman - Politics, NYU
The Fiscal Crises of the States Student Union - Session 2 Democratic Left Michael Hirsch (Chair) - Democratic Socialists of America; New Politics Magazine James Parrott - Associate Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute Katie Romich - Organizer, Communications Workers of America John Cameron - Organizer, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
The Economic Crisis and Its Impact on the Working Class Multipurpose- Session 4 International Socialist Review Ahmed Shawki (Chair) - International Socialist Review David McNally - University of Toronto Joel Geier - International Socialist Review Greg Albo - Socialist Register, The Bullet, Canadian Dimensions Amy Muldoon - Communications Workers of America
In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives LH - Session 7 Leo Panitch (Chair) - Socialist Register Sam Gindin - Packer Visiting Chair, Social Justice, York Greg Albo - Socialist Register
The Crisis this Time LHN - Session 6 Socialist Register vivek chibber (Chair) - Sociology, New York University Greg Albo - Socialist Register, The Bullet, Canadian Dimensions Anwar Shaikh - New School University Johanna Brenner - Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State Universit
The Crisis and Capital Accumulation: Is the Role of the State Changing? W602 - Session 1 Union for Radical Political Economics Rina Garst (Chair) - Union for Radical Political Economics Jerry Joffe - St. John's University Armagan Gezici - Keene State College Terrence McDonough - Economics, National University of Ireland Galway
The 'PIIGS,' Baltics, and Hungary: Economic Crisis on the EU’s Internal Periphery W613 - Session 3 Left Business Observer Doug Henwood (Chair) - Editor, Left Business Observer; Contributing Editor, The Nation Jeffrey Sommers - Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Faculty and Curator of the Andre Gunder Frank Memorial Library) Mark Weisbrot - Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro - Geography, SUNY New Paltz; Co-Editor, Human Geography Michael Hudson (discussant)
The Crisis That Gives the Capitalist Class Nightmares W511 - Session 1 Critique Suzi Weisman (Chair)- Politics, Saint Mary's College Of California Michael Hudson- Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City Hillel Ticktin- Emeritus Professor Marxist Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland Lea Haro- Politics, University of Stirling Jack Rasmus- Politics and Economics, Saint Mary's College of Claifornia
Alternative Perspectives on Marxist Crisis Theory and the Current Economic Crisis W602 - Session 2 Union for Radical Political Economics; Science and Society Paddy Quick (Chair) - St. Francis College, Brooklyn Julio Huato - St. Francis College, Brooklyn David Kotz - Economics, UMass-Amherst David Laibman - Science and Society Fred Magdoff - Monthly Review
Economics and Politics of the Current Crisis: Causes and Prospects for the Future W617 - Session 6 Anne Jaclard (Chair) - National Secretary, Marxist-Humanist Initiative Brendan Cooney - Video producer, “kapitalism101” Andrew Kliman - Dept. of Economics-Pleasantville, Pace University
PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX [back to top]
What Does the Left Need to Know about Prison? W504 - Session 7 Susie Day (Chair) - Laura Whitehorn - New York State Task Force for Political Prisoners Asha Bandele - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Drug Policy Alliance Vikki Law - Books Through Bars Cleo Silvers - Safiya Bukhari/Albert Nuh Washington Foundation
Criminology and Social Justice: Establishing a Strong Theoretical Foundation W504 - Session 1 Dr. William Calathes (Chair) - Criminal Justice, New Jersey City University; independent human rights attorney Jason WIlliams - New Jersey City University Christine Bell - New Jersey City University
RACE [back to top]
The Economic Crisis, How it Impacts African Americans and Labor LHN - Session 5 Tony Montiero (Chair) - Muhammad Ahmad - African-American Studies, Temple University Bill Fletcher, Jr. - BlackCommentator.com; co-author, Solidarity Divided Henry Nicholas - 1199
Race and Recession: Will a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? W626 - Session 1 Rod Bush (Chair) - Author, The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line Glen Ford - Co-founder and Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report Algernon Austin - Director, Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program, Economic Policy Institute Dedrick Muhammad - Sr. OrganizRescuing the Concept of Internal er and Research Associate, Inequality and the Common Good program, Institute for Policy Studies
How Things Change As They Stay The Same: Talking Through Racial Categories, Politics, and Organizing in the 21st Century W621 - Session 1 Matthew Birkhold (Chair) - Heavy Thinkers, Binghamton University Kazembe Balagun - Heavy Thinkers, Brecht Forum Melanie Bush - Adelphi University Jill Humphries - Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education, Queens College
Introductory Session W608 - Session B Race: Rod Bush
Geography of Malcolm X W612 - Session 6 James Tyner (Chair) – Geography, Kent State Sam Anderson – Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Komozi Woodard – History, Sarah Lawrence Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun
Rebuilding the Black Left/Rejuvenating Revolutionary Black Youth W606 - Session 5 Sam Anderson (Chair) - Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Jerry Jeremie - St. John's University Janessa Robinson - St. John's University Joan Gibbs - National Conference of Black Lawyers
Rescuing the Concept of Internal Colonialism from the Dustbin of History W602- Session 3 Charles Pinderhughes (Chair) - Boston College Davarian Baldwin - Trinity College Komozi Woodard - Sarah Lawrence College Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun
Can the White Left Organize Against Racism in the White Community W619 - Session 2 Bok-Keem Nyerere (Chair)- National Association of Kawaida Organizations John Garvey - NYC Taxi Rank and File Coalition, Race Traitor Geert Dhondt - Political Economics/Economic History, John Jay College
The American Left and the “Black Question”: From Politics to Protest to the Post-Political W610 - Session 3 Platypus Benjamin Blumberg (Chair) - Platypus Affiliated Society Tim Barker - Columbia University Student Pamela Nogales - Platypus Affiliated Society Christopher Cutrone - Platypus Affiliated Society
Black Nationalism in the United States Chair: Rod Bush Algernon Austin Maulana Karenga Eddie Glaude Manning Marable
African Americans and Latinos and the Decolonization of the U.S. Empire in the 21st Century W510 - Session 6 Mojubaolu Okome (Chair) - Political Science, Brooklyn College Agustin Lao-Montes - Sociology, UMass at Amherst Denise Santiago - Director, Multi-Cultural Affairs, Pace University Charles Pinderhughes - Sociology, Boston College
The Left in a Post-Racial United States E323 - Session 7 Sam Anderson (Chair) - Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Fred Ho - Afro Asian Music Ensemble Eduardo Bonilla Silva - Duke University Keith Griffler - SUNY Buffalo Muntu Matsimela - John Jay College and the Black Left Unity Network
The Recession: A Black Left Perspective Chair: Rod Bush Glen Ford - Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report Algernon Austin - Economic Policy Institute. Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program. Dedrick Muhammad - Institute for Policy Studies, Senior Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Andre Showell - Reporter, Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Stand Alone Slide Presentation/Talk on "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918" W623 - Session 2 Jeffrey B. Perry (Chair) - Independent scholar
The Black Internationale E323 - Session 2 Rod Bush (Chair) - Sociology and Antropology, St. John's University Komozi Woodard - Sarah Lawrence College Charles Pinderhughes - Boston College Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun
New Perspectives from the Black Left W605- Session 4 Rod Bush (Chair) - Sociology and Antropology, St. John's University Agustin Lao-Montes - Sociology, UMass, Amherst Humberto Brown - Black Radical Congress Rose Brewer - University of Minnesota
How Things Change As They Stay The Same: Talking Through Racial Categories, Politics, and Organizing in the 21st Century Chair: Matthew Birkhold Matthew Birkhold - heavy Thinkers, Inc,. Binghamton University Kazembe Balagun - Heavy Thinkers, Inc., Brecht Forum Melanie Bush - Adelphi University Jill Humphries - Joseph S Murphy Institute for Worker Education, Queens College
Lynching Then, Lynching Now: Roots of Racism and the Death Penalty in the US W601 - Session 6 Lee Wengraf (Chair) - Campaign to End the Death Penalty Brian Jones - Author, Fifty Years Since the Civil Rights Sit-Ins; Editorial Board, International Socialist Review Lawrence Hayes - Former NYS death row prisoner; Board Member, Campaign to End the Death Penalty Yusef Salaam - Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Radical Black Perspective Panel: Obama, the Crisis of Black Leadership and US Imperialism Running Amuck! W621 - Session 2 Nellie Bailey (Chair), Co-founder of Harlem Tenants Council and HarlemAnti-War Coalition Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report Margaret Kimberley, Senior Editor of Black Agenda Report Jon Jeter, Journalist & former Bureau Chief for the Washington Post in southern Africa and South America. Author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People.
Author Meets Critic: Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell W615 - Session 4 Nikhil Singh (Chair) - History, NYU Jeanne Theoharis - Political Science, Brooklyn College Van Gosse - History, Franklin and Marshall College
Black Youth Looking at the Left E325 - Session 7 Fitzroy Searles (Chair) - History, St. John's University Jerry Jeremie - St. John's University Reginald Pressoir - Catholic Charities Tara Perry - St. John's University
RELIGION [back to top]
Progressive Religion and the Fight for Democracy W626 - Session 2 Religious Socialism, Journal of DSA Religion and Socialism Commission Rev. Peter Laarman (Chair) - Executive Director, Progressive Christians; Contributing Editor, Religion Dispatches Rev. Luis Barrios - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; Associate Priest, St. Mary's Episcopal Church in West Harlem Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou - Sr. Minister, Lemuel Haynes Congregational Church; Fellow-in-residence, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture Tricia Sheffield - Assistant Minister for Administration, Middle Collegiate Church
Reading the Bible from the Left: The Book of Revelation W623 - Session 4 Brigitte Kahl (Chair) - Union Theological Seminary Charlene Sinclair - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Colleen Wessel-McCoy - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Renee Monrose - Union Theological Seminary
Capitalism, Economy, and Religion: A Christian-Marxist Dialogue W605 - Session 2 Charlene Sinclair (Chair) - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Brigitte Kahl - Union Theological Seminary Jan Rehmann - Union Theological Seminary, Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism Richard Wolff - Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism
U.S. POLITICS [back to top]
Where's the Outrage? Schimmel - Session 5 Left Forum Margaret Yard (Chair) - Stanley Aronowitz - Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center Greg Palast - Joel Kovel- Editor-in-Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism Margaret Yard - CUNY, Lehman College; Grad Center NYU Dept of Medicine, Psychiatry
What is the Work of the People's Democratic Coalition That Elected Obama Schimmel - Session 6 Rod Bush (Chair) - St. John's University; Board member, Left Forum Amiri Baraka - Muhammad Ahmad - African American Studies, Temple University Peniel Joseph - History, Tufts University
Right-Wing Populism, Political Economy & Radical Dissent Multipurpose - Session 6 Public Eye Abby Scher (Chair) - Author, "Post-Palin Feminism;" former Editor, Public Eye Magazine Chip Berlet - Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates; Co-author, Right-Wing Populism in America Sue Udry - Executive Director, Defending Dissent Foundation Tarso Luís Ramos - Executive Director, Political Research Associates
The Historical Context of the Politics of WBAI 99.5FM W510- Session 5 Lisa Davis (Chair) - Local Station Board WBAI Russell Dale - Local Station Board WBAI Daniel Vila - Local Station Board WBAI Bernard White - Former Program Manager, WBAI
The Contours of the New Radical Right W617 - Session 5 John Mason (Chair) Joan Lara Amat y León, University of Barcelona, New School of Social Research Charles Laurence, Journalist, First Post, London, UK. Michael Thompson, Associate Professor of Politics, WPU, and Editor of Logos Journal. John Mason, Professor of Politics, WPU, Resource Person, Institute of European Studies, University of ParisVIII. France. (Discussant)
Whose Quality of Life? - Homeless People, the NYPD, and "Disorderly Conduct:" W61 - Session 7 Brandon King (Chair) - Indio - Picture the Homeless Street News Arvernetta Henry - Picture the Homeless
Can Progressives Transform the Democratic Party? Power, Class and Politics W6-Session 6 Joanne Landy (Chair) - Co-Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy; Editorial Board member, New Politics Arun Gupta - Founding Editor, The Indypendent Lance Selfa - Author, The Democrats: A Critical History (Haymarket Books, 2008); columnist, Socialist Worker.org Jodie Evans - Co-Founder, CODEPINK: Women for Peace
The U.S. Right and the War on Terror W610 - Session 7 Ron Crenshaw (Chair) - Past member, Worker's World Party and December 12th Movement. Chip Berlet - Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates Terrell Armistead - History, St. John's University Jonathan Scott - Bronx Community College
Can Obama Be Moved? Movement Strategies to Pressure Party Politics E328 - Session 2 Margit Mayer (Chair) - Free University, Berlin Jenny Brown - Co-chair, Alachua County Labor Party, National Women's Liberation Pete Sikora - Working Families Party, Communication Workers of America Ethan Young - Portside, Brecht Forum Eric Mann - Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles
More than a Year into the Health Reform Debacle: What Direction for Real Health Care Justice? W626 - Session 3 Physicians for a National Health Program Martha Livingston (Chair) - SUNY College at Old Westbury; Vice-chair, Physicians for a National Health Program, New York-Metro chapter Oliver Fein - Dean, Weill-Cornell Medical College; National President and local Chair, Physicians for a National Health Program Leonard Rodberg - Urban Studies, Queens College; Research Director, New York-Metro chapter, Physicians for a National Health Program Katie Robbins - National Coordinator, Healthcare-NOW Laurie Wen - Healthcare-NOW, Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition Bill Henning - Communications Workers of America, Local 1180
Dying for Cool: Case Study on US Militarism and Marketing W618 Culture Clash Terry Marshall (Chair) - Culture Clash, Young Voices Nation Christine Peng - CAAAV, Global Action Project Terry Marshall - Culture Clash, Young Voices Nation Kiara Nagel - Design Studio 4 Social Intervention
Rejuvenating the Left Critique of the War on Terror W626 - Session 5 Sander Hicks (Chair) - Green Party of NY State Paul Zarembka - Economics Dept, State University of New York at Buffalo; Research in Political Economy Journal David MacGregor -
The Empire Strikes Back: Obama and the Teabaggers - (R)evolution and Counter(R)evolution W622 - Session 1 John Kim (Chair) - Culture Clash Vanessa Nisperos - Culture Clash Calvin Williams - Culture Clash
Bush 2.0: Obama’s War at Home and Abroad W610 - Session 5 Saadia Toor (Chair) - Action for a Progressive Pakistan & South Asia Solidarity Initiative Adaner Usmani - Action for a Progressive Pakistan & Labour Party, Pakistan Jawied Nawabi - Afghanistan Peace Association Jeanne Theoharis - Educators for Civil Liberties Leili Kashani - Center for Constitutional Rights
Jobs for All, Legalization for All, a Massive Public Works Program E329 - Session 6 Eric Lerner (Chair) - NJ May 1 Coalition; International Luxemburgist Network Jay Arena - Sociology, College of Staten Island Diana Meija - NJ American Friends Service Committee
Coming to America, Running from Americas: Should the U.S. Owe Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants Coming from Countries Affected by the School of the Americas/WHINSEC? W608 - Session 6 Laura Schleifer (Chair) - Quisia Gonzalez, MD - Latin American Program Director, Earth Rights Institute, Henry George School Joe Dowling - School of the Americas Watch; Nassau Community College Adan Stevens-Diaz - Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College Udi Ofer - Advocacy Director, NYCLU
Rethinking the National Question in the United States W610- Session 4 Yusuf Nuruddin (Chair) - University of Toledo, Africana Studies Charles Pinderhughes - Sociology, Boston College Fred Ho - Afro Asian Music Ensemble Warren Neal Holmes
The Chickenhawk Syndrome: War, Sacrifice and Personal Responsibility W616 - Session 4 Radical Philosophy Review Chair: Anatole Anton Cheyney Ryan - University of Oregon, Oxford University Anatole Anton - Political Science, San Francisco State Harry van der Linden - Butler College Michael Brown - Michigan State
Jobs, Social Issues and Ways to Get Out of the Crisis in Europe and USA E323 - Session 6 Chrystel Le Moing (Chair) - International Relations, Gabriel Peri Foundation Daniel Cirera - Secretary of the scientific council, Gabriel Peri Foundation Alain Guinot - Director, La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière, weekly newspaper of the Labour General Confédération (CGT) of France Ed Ott - Former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council; Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY John Mason - Political Science, William Paterson University
Exonerate The Rosenbergs? Robert & Michael Meeropol React to Morton Sobell and Other New Developments W616 - Session 3 National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case Gerald Markowitz (Chair) - Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Grad Cente Robert Meeropol - Younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg; Founder/Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children; Board of Directors, NCRRC. Michael Meeropol - Older son of the Rosenbergs; John Jay College Interdisciplinary Studies Program Miriam Schneir - Co-author, Invitation to an Inquest David Alman - President of the NCRRC; Founding Member with Emily Alman of the original Rosenberg defense committee.
Toward a Second [Economic] Bill of Rights W503 - Session 3 Democratic Left Michael Hirsch (Chair) - New Politics; Democratic Left Bill Barclay - Chicago Political Economy Group Joseph Schwartz - Politics, Temple University; Vice-Chair, Democratic Socialists of America
Organizing Strategies to Combat the Radical Right W616 - Session 1 David Sprintzen (Chair) - Founder/Officer, Long Island Progressive Coalition, Citizen Action on Long Island; President of Long Island Jobs with Justice Alan Charney - Political Director, US Action Ed Ott - Former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council; Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY Peter Sikora - Communications Workers of America, Working Families Party
Radicals and NYC Politics E329 - Session 1 Charles Barron (Chair) - Operation Power Paul Washington - Inez Barron - State Assemblywoman, New York's 40th District
Fight the Right, Build the Left: Strategy and Tactics for the 2010 Elections W613 - Session 6 Dialogue and Initiative Erica Carter, National Committee, CCDS (Chair) - Howie Hawkins - Green Party of New York, Teamsters for a Democratic Union Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Webmaster, Progressives for Obama Kevin Lynch - Organizer, Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union; Member, Working Families Party Roger Green - Former NY State Assemblyman; Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY
Fashioning a Left Response to the Tea Party Propaganda Assault Schimmel Auditorium - Lunch time panel: SATURDAY, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Frances Fox Piven (Chair) Christian Parenti Richard Kim Dorthee Benz
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