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'''On the Brink of Depression: Turning point in world Capitalism?'''  
 
'''On the Brink of Depression: Turning point in world Capitalism?'''  

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The Left Forum 2009 included panels the following panels:


On the Brink of Depression: Turning point in world Capitalism?

Nationalize the Banks! What Does it Really Mean?

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

Money, Barrels, and Change

Marxist Theories of the Global Economic Crisis

Author Meets Critics: A Discussion of Joseph Schwartz's "The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America."

What Comes After Neoliberalism?

Marx and the Global Economic Crisis

Is the U.S. Turning State Socialist? – An Analysis of the State of the Economy 2009 – Local, National, Global

The relevance of the 1930s for today’s political and economic scene

Marx's Capital and the Economic Crisis

In search of a new political economy in times of global economic crisis

Beyond Capital's Crises

Democratic Socialist Responses to Stagnation, the Wall Street Collapse and the World Economic Crisis

Counter Culture Industries: Capitalist, Anti-capitalist, Non-capitalist

Sports as a Platform for Dissent

Greed, Can an Information Age Society Afford to Indulge It?

Theorizing Crisis and Class Mobilization: Ethnographies of Global Capitalism

Childhood, Capitalism and Resistance

Hip-Hop, Social Movements, and a New Left Turn

New Frontiers: Exploring Emotional Labor

New Frontiers: Left Psychology Explores US Personal Life

A Marxist-Psychoanalytic Analysis of “Death of a Salesman"

The Trouble With Diversity in the Age of Obama

Black Workers and the Current Economic Crisis

Returning to the Source: Ethnic Studies in the Obama Age

State Capitalism and a New, New Deal: Limitations and Consequences

Obama and The Audacity of Hype

Justice in the Age of Imperial America: Unchecked Political Power Verses the Law

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

Liberalism, Imperialism & the Politics of Human Rights

Prosecuting Bush Era War Criminals & Seizure of Powers: Preventing More Crimes

Left Lawyering in the Age of Obama

The Crisis is in Charge, the Center Cannot Hold: What Way Forward with Obama

Local Electoral Politics: Why Bother?

Terror Incognita: Immigrants and the Homeland Security State

The New Deal Model and Permanent Change

Status Conflicts in America: Schools, Prisons, and WalMart

Women on the Margins: Incarceration and Resistance in the Current Era

Grassroots Organizing: Behind Bars, in the Community

Campaign to End the Death Penalty National Tour: Live From Death Row! "Live call-in from death row prisoner"

Resistance Struggles on the Inside: Political Organizing Behind Bars

Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

Right-Wing Women and the Struggle to Remake Conservatism

Three Generations of Women Explore the Price of Pleasure in Pornography

Dialogue on protecting sex workers' rights versus human trafficking laws and logics

The Culture Wars and Sexuality

The New Slavery and the Global Sex Industry: The New Abolitionists

Queer Politics, Class, and the Right

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

Green New Deal - A Global Turn in Capitalism?

The Debate Over Green Capitalism, Technofixes and Reforms

Reclaiming Life

Is Another World Really Possible?

Science for the People

Convergences and Strategies from the Emerging Global Climate Justice Movement

Building Sustainable Communities, Beyond Green and Into Social Sustainability

Overcoming Capitalist Ecological Degradation through Ecosocialism

Global Warming and Society- What changes should students fight for?

The Case Against Centralized Thermal (Nuclear and Coal) Power

Strategies for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis: A Challenge to the American Left

Withering Energies? Oil and the Financial Crisis

Yes We Will!: Organizing to Bring Real and Lasting Social and Environmental Justice

Grow It, Sell It, Cook It, Serve It, Eat It: Sustainable Alternatives in Food Production, Preparation and Distribution

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?

Spiritual Politics and Social Movements: A New Left Turn?

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

Religious Communities, Social Justice Campaigns, and Poor People’s Movements

Global Unions

Crisis in Auto: Public Bailout or Public Ownership?

Health Care Unionism and the Future of American Labor

Informal Sector Worker Organizing at the Crossroads

Internet Labor and the Economic Crisis

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

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

Can Collective Bargaining Aid Labor’s Economic Recovery?

The Past, Present and Future of Strikes

Solidarity Divided: The Crisis of Organized Labor, author meets critic

Labor Strategy and Tactics for a New Era - A roundtable discussion with labor activists and strikers

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3903 York University Strike: 85 Days of Struggle and Failure

Class Struggle and the Crisis: From Workers to Capital and Back Again

Direct Action Labor Struggle and Social Change

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

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

Photojournalism and the Aesthetics of Suffering: Embedded Versus Unembedded and Sympathy versus Empathy

Radical Left/International Film Makers

  • Big Noise Collective Members

Photography: Revealing the Socially Invisible

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

Videos from Chyng Sun

Salty Dog Blues: Documenting the Dismantling of the National Maritime Union

Screening: The Uprising of ’34 (1995), George Stoney

SCREENING: Argentina's Dirty War: Through a Mother's Eyes (2008), Jessica Flores

  • Screening: Venezuela: Revolution from the inside out (2008), Clifton Ross
  • Screening: La Commune (2009), Cecile Clairval-Milhaud
  • Screening: Capitalism hits the fan, (2008), Rick 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: Malalai Joya: Enemies of Happiness women rights and the state of occupied Afghanistan

Post-screening discussion by

  • Paper - Tiger Documentary Interviews Left Forum Participants

Understanding the Roots of the “Israel-Palestine conflict”

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

Not our war: Afghanistan and the Challenges for the Global Peace Movement

The Iraq War in Perspective

Gaza: Between Invasion and Resistance - Jews and Arabs Speak Out!

Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance

The Role of Scholars and Artists in Palestine Solidarity: The Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel

The Future of Israel/Palestine after Gaza

A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism: Responses to Lynd/Grubacic "Wobblies and Zapatistas"

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

In Praise of Socialist Planning

The Return of Marx: How can Socialism Change the World?

Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies

Revolution and Protest Yesterday and Tomorrow

Responses to Meszaros' "Challenge and Burden of Historical Time"

The Trend of Chinese Marxism in the 21st Century

Concretizing Marx's Alternative to Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective

How Does Marxist-Humanism Speak to Socialism for the 21st Century

Dialectics of Defeat: Towards a Theory of Historical Regression

The De-Stalinization of Chinese Marxism

China's Contribution to Socialism and Democracy in the 21st Century

China in the Global Crisis of Capitalism: A Turning point?

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 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

The Chinese Model of Development

Control and Discipline in Modern China

China in the face of Deepening Crisis of Globalized Capitalism

Political Economy of Contemporary India'

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

Empowerment in Chinese American Communities- Then and Now

Grassroots Organizing

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

From the New School Occupation to Our Political Moment

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

Left Strategy from the Grassroots

To Quell and Expel: Challenging the Police State

What Has the World Social Forum Accomplished?

Building New Social Relations: Prefigurative Politics in Movements

The struggle at Six Nations and the politics of settler-indigenous solidarity

For Leadership and Human Rights

A Collaborative Multi-national Democracy Workshop: Building a Hemispheric Economy

The Internet: Humanity's Revolutionary Initiative

How Do We Create A New World: Do we help save the old dying world, or do we help speed up its certain death?

A Networking Session for Radical Movement Centers

Global Struggle for Democratic Control of Corporations in Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster

Activists and the Current Crisis

Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hope and Failures

From the Barrio to the Barricades: Visions of a Better World

Student Organizing in a New Era - A roundtable discussion for mobilizing students against Budget Cuts and War

Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet

Rhizomic Democracy

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

Is the Left Ready for a New Political Party

How Occupation Works

Teaching War and Peace in the Classroom

Building Power Through Educational Justice

The Criminalization of People with Psychiatric Disabilities

Teaching Immigrants and Immigration

Teaching in Bad Times

Teaching Popular Economics

Campus Responsible Investment Movements

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

The Practice of Teaching. Researching and Writing on Elite Deviance in the Higher Education Context

Turning Up the Heat for Single Payer Health Care at this Political Turning Point

Health Care Reform: Building Left Unity is Critical

Public Education, Gentrification, and Privatization

The Housing Crisis and the Possibilities for Resistance

The Street Children of Tegucigalpa: Teenage Gangs, Child Labor, Family Disintegration, and the Failed Washington Consensus

Venezuela’s Impact on Latin America

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

Not Just Change, but Justice: Taking on U.S. Latin America Policy in the Obama Era

Beyond the Links of Repression: from Chile to the US

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?

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

Making sense of the Greek uprising

European Perspectives on Obama

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

Creating a Civil Rights Agenda Post-Proposition

Hyper-Consumption and the Failure of Capitalism

Genocide and Human Rights

Regroupment of the European Radical Left

Indigenous activism, the new constitution, and political conflict in Bolivia

health, housing and education

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

political and social movements

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

community organizing

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

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


Asia

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

middle east

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

art

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

labor

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

religion

Secularism and the Radical Imagination John D. Boy (Chair)- CUNY Graduate Center Bruno Gullì - Long Island University, CUNY Dominic V. Wetzel - CUNY Graduate Center Sam Han - CUNY Graduate Center Mitra Rastegar - CUNY Graduate Center

food

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 TodayMatt 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? Magalí Sarfatti-Larson (Chair) - Sociology, Temple University Bill Tabb - Economics, Queens College, CUNY Anwar Shaikh - Economics, New School for Social Research Rick Wolff - Economics, University of Massachussetts, Amherst

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