Socialist Scholars Conference 1998
Template:TOCnestleft The 1998 Socialist Scholars Conference, "A World to Win: From the 'Manifesto' to New Organizing for Socialist Change" was held March 20 to 22, 1998 Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street NYC.[1]
Speakers
Speakers included:[2]
- Michael Moore
- Katha Pollitt
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Frances Fox Piven
- Manning Marable
- Ellen Willis
- Reverend Al Sharpton
- Samir Amin
- Doug Henwood
- Stanley Aronowitz
- Ellen Meiksins Wood
- David Abdulah
- Leith Mullings
- Harry Magdoff
- Daniel Singer
- Paul Sweezy
- Sal Albanese
- Elaine Bernard
- Aijaz Ahmad
- Paco Ignacio Taibo
- Bill Fletcher, Jr.
- David Harvey
- Jakob Moneta
- John Bellamy Foster
- Bogdan Denitch,
- Tom Frank
- Kim Moody
- Angela Ards
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Hector Figueroa
- Edward Herman
Panels
A World to Win: New Organizing for Socialist Change
- Elaine Bernard, Harvard Trade Union Program
- Bogdan Denitch, Democratic Socialists of America
- Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
- Dave Cotterall, Liverpool Dock Workers
- Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Mexican Author
Globalization or Not: Political Consequences for Organizing at the Millennium
- Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
- Richard DuBoff, Bryn Mawr College
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
- Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
- Erika Polakoff, Bloomfield College
One Hundred Fifty Years After t h e Communist Manifesto
- Samir Amin, Forum du Tiers Monde, Senegal
- Aljaz Ahmad, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
- Daniel Singer, The Nation
- Ellen Meiksins Wood, Monthly Review
Transnational Labor Organizing
- Jean Pierre Page, CGT, France
- Hector Figueroa, SEIU
- Jakob Moneta, German Metalworkers Union
- David Abdulah, Oilfield Workers, Trinidad & Tobago
- Elaine Bernard, Harvard Trade Union Program
Whither Feminism ?: From Roe v. Wade to Lewinsky
- Katha Pollitt, The Nation
- Ellen Willis, New York University
- Lynn Chancer, Barnard College
- Angela Ards, Village Voice
- Barbara Katz Rothman, CUNY Graduate Center
The Left Speaks to America: Are WE Listening?
- Michael Moore,TV Nation
- JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation
- Manning Marable, Columbia University
- Bogdan Denitch, Democratic Socialists of America
U.S. Popular Culture: Subversive or Sellout?
- Tom Frank, The Baffler
- Stephen Duncombe, SUNY Old Westbury
- Kate Crehan, New School for Social Research
- Tony Medina, Long Island University[3]
Panels on Globalization
DSA worked with the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL) to sponsor two panels on globalization, economic justice and the MAI. One included speakers from Public Citizen and 50 Years is Enough, focused on the MAI and its potential impact on Southern countries.
The second, which included feminist economist, Radhika Balakrishnan, addressed gender, human rights and globalization, .[4]
References
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- ↑ http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg23347.html
- ↑ http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg23347.html
- ↑ Issue #1 1998 • Democratic Left • page 14
- ↑ Issue #1 1998 • Democratic Left • page 8