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[[KeyWiki]] has information on [[Left Forum]] conferences held in [[Left Forum 2005|2005]], [[Left Forum 2006|2006]], [[Left Forum 2007|2007]], [[Left Forum 2008|2008]], [[Left Forum 2009|2009]], [[Left Forum 2010|2010]] and [[Left Forum 2011|2011]]. The [[Left Forum]] is the new name for the [[Socialist Scholars Conference]].
 
[[KeyWiki]] has information on [[Left Forum]] conferences held in [[Left Forum 2005|2005]], [[Left Forum 2006|2006]], [[Left Forum 2007|2007]], [[Left Forum 2008|2008]], [[Left Forum 2009|2009]], [[Left Forum 2010|2010]] and [[Left Forum 2011|2011]]. The [[Left Forum]] is the new name for the [[Socialist Scholars Conference]].
  
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'''[[Left Forum]] 2011''' took place March 18 - 20 at Pace University, [[New York City]]. The theme for the conference is "Towards a Politics of Solidarity".
 
  
==Panels==
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'''[[Left Forum]] 2015'''
The following panels were held at the 2015 Forum:
 
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The Board of Directors and Staff of Left Forum
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==Board of Directors and Staff==
 
 
==BOARD MEMBERS==
 
  
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[[Left Forum 2015]]:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240306235500/https://cryptome.org/2015/05/left-forum-2015.pdf Left Forum 2015 (accessed March 7, 2024)]</ref>
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===BOARD MEMBERS===
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*[[Ashley Abbott]]
 
*[[Ashley Abbott]]
 
*[[Seth Adler]]
 
*[[Seth Adler]]
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*[[Kristin Lawler]]
 
*[[Kristin Lawler]]
 
*[[Rob Robinson]]
 
*[[Rob Robinson]]
*[[Richard D. Wolff]]
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*[[Richard D. Wolff]]</div>
 
 
===VOLUNTEERS, INTERNS, & ACTIVISTS===
 
  
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==VOLUNTEERS, INTERNS, & ACTIVISTS==
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*[[Meriam Ayachi]]
 
*[[Meriam Ayachi]]
 
*[[Yingchen Bai]]
 
*[[Yingchen Bai]]
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*[[Kevin Valentine]]
 
*[[Kevin Valentine]]
 
*[[Sage Velastegui]]
 
*[[Sage Velastegui]]
*[[Winnie Wong]]
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*[[Winnie Wong]]</div>
  
 
==LEFT FORUM STAFF & ORGANIZERS==
 
==LEFT FORUM STAFF & ORGANIZERS==
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*IT Coordinator/Web Developer [[Carlos Mejia]]
 
*IT Coordinator/Web Developer [[Carlos Mejia]]
 
*Media Liaison [[Peter Rugh]]
 
*Media Liaison [[Peter Rugh]]
*Panel Outreach and Administration Evan Jones, Yasmina Madeira
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*Panel Outreach and Administration [[Evan Jones]], [[Yasmina Madeira]]
*Plenary and Logistics Coordinator Gabriel Farofaldane
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*Plenary and Logistics Coordinator [[Gabriel Farofaldane]]
*Program Coordinator/Panel Administration Marcus Gratsch
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*Program Coordinator/Panel Administration [[Marcus Gratsch]]
*Program Guide Steven Matthews
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*Program Guide [[Steven Matthews]]
*Public Relations and Media Andanta Djafa, Theresa Eddins, Scott Mason
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*Public Relations and Media [[Andanta Djafa]], [[Theresa Eddins]], [[Scott Mason]]
*Registration Samantha Désiré, Serina Xue
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*Registration [[Samantha Desire]], [[Serina Xue]]
 
*Video [[Alexandra Bourekas]], [[Vincent Crincoli]]
 
*Video [[Alexandra Bourekas]], [[Vincent Crincoli]]
 
*Volunteer Coordination [[Lily Bizuneh]]
 
*Volunteer Coordination [[Lily Bizuneh]]
  
==NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! CONFRONTING THE CRISES OF CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY==
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==NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!==
  
::"The 2015 Left Forum will take place in a period of excitement and challenge. In Greece and Spain the Left has either taken power or is
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::"The 2015 Left Forum will take place in a period of excitement and challenge. In Greece and Spain the Left has either taken power or is on the verge of it. At home, police violence is now being contested by a popular upsurge of protest and resistance. And facing a solid reactionary front, president [[Obama]] has finally shown signs that the administration, however hesitantly, is responding to deep mass disaffection.
on the verge of it. At home, police violence is now being contested by a popular upsurge of protest and resistance. And facing a solid reactionary front, president Obama has finally shown signs that the administration, however hesitantly, is responding to deep mass disaffection.
 
  
 
::"From the recent Syriza victory in the Greek elections and movements against austerity throughout Europe to the spread of horizontal democratic politics around the world, and from the nationwide activism arising out of Ferguson and the [[Black Lives Matter]] movements, to the growing momentum to end the Cuban embargo, recent events and left politics in the current year are shaping up to be pivotal.
 
::"From the recent Syriza victory in the Greek elections and movements against austerity throughout Europe to the spread of horizontal democratic politics around the world, and from the nationwide activism arising out of Ferguson and the [[Black Lives Matter]] movements, to the growing momentum to end the Cuban embargo, recent events and left politics in the current year are shaping up to be pivotal.
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::"More than ever, we need to assemble and mobilize the fast-growing ranks of those able and willing to face these problems. As the systems that supposedly were built to sustain society fail so many so badly, activists for democracy, sustainability, equality, and the abolition of oppression and exploitation increasingly grasp their shared demand for basic social justice. Yet these are times when the usual liberal democratic remedies have lost their relevance.  
 
::"More than ever, we need to assemble and mobilize the fast-growing ranks of those able and willing to face these problems. As the systems that supposedly were built to sustain society fail so many so badly, activists for democracy, sustainability, equality, and the abolition of oppression and exploitation increasingly grasp their shared demand for basic social justice. Yet these are times when the usual liberal democratic remedies have lost their relevance.  
  
::"Pressing questions loom for justice seeking social forces: What is to be done today when a reform brings us one step forward, while leaving other important struggles worse off in the process? What type of movements will it take to overcome such challenges? What type of institutions, systems and
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::"Pressing questions loom for justice seeking social forces: What is to be done today when a reform brings us one step forward, while leaving other important struggles worse off in the process? What type of movements will it take to overcome such challenges? What type of institutions, systems and societal conditions are possible when transformed conditions of justice no longer take the forms of, “the aggrieved speaking to the grievance alleviators”?  
societal conditions are possible when transformed conditions of justice no longer take the forms of, “the aggrieved speaking to the grievance alleviators”?  
 
  
 
::"How do these issues raise the question of confronting and ending the crises of capitalism and democracy?
 
::"How do these issues raise the question of confronting and ending the crises of capitalism and democracy?
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===ADVISORY BOARD===
 
===ADVISORY BOARD===
 
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<div style="column-count:4;-moz-column-count:4;-webkit-column-count:4">
 
*[[Gilbert Achcar]]
 
*[[Gilbert Achcar]]
 
*[[Tariq Ali]]
 
*[[Tariq Ali]]
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*[[Stephen Eric Bronner]]
 
*[[Stephen Eric Bronner]]
 
*[[Paul Buhle]]
 
*[[Paul Buhle]]
*[[Joseph Buttigieg
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*[[Joseph Buttigieg]]
*[[Luciana Castellina
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*[[Luciana Castellina]]
*[[Angela Dillard
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*[[Angela Dillard]]
*[[Stephen Duncombe
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*[[Stephen Duncombe]]
*[[Hester Eisenstein
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*[[Hester Eisenstein]]
*[[Barbara Epstein
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*[[Barbara Epstein]]
*[[Deepa Fernandes
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*[[Deepa Fernandes]]
*[[Hector Figueroa
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*[[Hector Figueroa]]
*[[Harriet Fraad
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*[[Harriet Fraad]]
*[[Josh Freeman
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*[[Josh Freeman]]
*[[Barbara Garson
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*[[Barbara Garson]]
*[[Marvin Gettleman
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*[[Marvin Gettleman]]
*[[Arun Gupta
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*[[Arun Gupta]]
*[[Jack Hammond
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*[[Jack Hammond]]
*[[David Harvey
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*[[David Harvey]]
*[[Gerald Horne
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*[[Gerald Horne]]
*[[Boris Kagarlitsky
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*[[Boris Kagarlitsky]]
*[[Robin D. G. Kelley
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*[[Robin D. G. Kelley]]
*[[Christine A. Kelly
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*[[Christine A. Kelly]]
*[[Peter Kwong
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*[[Peter Kwong]]
*[[Joanne Landy
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*[[Joanne Landy]]
*[[Jesse Lemisch
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*[[Jesse Lemisch]]
*[[Michael Löwy
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*[[Michael Lowy]]
*[[Randy Martin
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*[[Randy Martin]]
*[[Liz Mestres
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*[[Liz Mestres]]
*[[Susan O’Malley
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*[[Susan O’Malley]]
*[[Leo Panitch
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*[[Leo Panitch]]
*[[Christian Parenti
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*[[Christian Parenti]]
*[[Thomas Ponniah
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*[[Thomas Ponniah]]
*[[Barbara Ransby
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*[[Barbara Ransby]]
*[[Michael Ratner
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*[[Michael Ratner]]
*[[Jan Rehmann
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*[[Jan Rehmann]]
*[[Gerardo Rénique
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*[[Gerardo Renique]]
*[[Rainer Rilling
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*[[Rainer Rilling]]
*[[Colin Robinson
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*[[Colin Robinson]]
*[[Nan Rubin
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*[[Nan Rubin]]
*[[Stephen Shalom
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*[[Stephen Shalom]]
*[[Eleni Varikas
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*[[Eleni Varikas]]
*[[Victor Wallis
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*[[Victor Wallis]]
*[[Ross Weiner
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*[[Ross Weiner]]
*[[Joseph Wilson
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*[[Joseph Wilson]]</div>
  
 
===THANKS TO OUR COMRADES===
 
===THANKS TO OUR COMRADES===
 
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<div style="column-count:4;-moz-column-count:4;-webkit-column-count:4">
*[[Frank Brockway
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*[[Frank Brockway]]
*[[Kate Bronfenbrenner
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*[[Kate Bronfenbrenner]]
*[[Carole Campana
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*[[Carole Campana]]
*[[Mary Ann Clawson
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*[[Mary Ann Clawson]]
*[[Ted Cox
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*[[Ted Cox]]
*[[Charles Delman
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*[[Charles Delman]]
*[[Meredith Dillon
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*[[Meredith Dillon]]
 
*[[Alvin Dorfman]]
 
*[[Alvin Dorfman]]
*[[Rochelle Dorfman
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*[[Rochelle Dorfman]]
*[[Hester Eisenstein
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*[[Hester Eisenstein]]
*[[Ray Elling
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*[[Ray Elling]]
*[[Lawrence Feinberg
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*[[Lawrence Feinberg]]
*[[Christine Fogler
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*[[Christine Fogler]]
*[[Eugene Fogler
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*[[Eugene Fogler]]
*[[Olive Freud
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*[[Olive Freud]]
 
*[[Patricia Friedland
 
*[[Patricia Friedland
*[[Alan Gardner
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*[[Alan Gardner]]
*[[Harold GarrettGoodyear
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*[[Harold Garrett Goodyear]]
*[[James Grainger
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*[[James Grainger]]
*[[Lee Halprin
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*[[Lee Halprin]]
*[[John Hammond
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*[[John Hammond]]
*[[Fred Harrison
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*[[Fred Harrison]]
*[[Dina Heisler
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*[[Dina Heisler]]
*[[William Herbert
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*[[William Herbert]]
*[[Rebecca Hoffman
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*[[Rebecca Hoffman]]
*[[Elliot Holar
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*[[Elliot Holar]]
*[[Beth Holden
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*[[Beth Holden]]
*[[Jay Lawrence Holman
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*[[Jay Lawrence Holman]]
*[[Frank Hughes
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*[[Frank Hughes]]
*[[Marc Kagan
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*[[Marc Kagan]]
*[[Herschel Kaminsky
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*[[Herschel Kaminsky]]
*[[James Katz
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*[[James Katz]]
*[[Arn Kawano
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*[[Arn Kawano]]
*[[Larry Lawrence
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*[[Larry Lawrence]]
*[[Barbara Lawrence
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*[[Barbara Lawrence]]
*[[John Liebau
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*[[John Liebau]]
*[[Robin Lloyd
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*[[Robin Lloyd]]
*[[Gail Mansouri
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*[[Gail Mansouri]]
*[[Peter Marcuse
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*[[Peter Marcuse]]
*[[Irving Markovitz
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*[[Irving Markovitz]]
*[[Susan Metz
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*[[Susan Metz]]
*[[Marion Nestle
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*[[Marion Nestle]]
*[[Shaun O’Connell
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*[[Shaun O’Connell]]
*[[Michael Perna
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*[[Michael Perna]]
*[[Michael Ratner
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*[[Michael Ratner]]
*[[Ron Reosti
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*[[Ron Reosti]]
*[[Abby Rockefeller
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*[[Abby Rockefeller]]
*[[Carol Smith
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*[[Carol Smith]]
*[[Stephen Steinberg
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*[[Stephen Steinberg]]
*[[Merry Tucker
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*[[Merry Tucker]]
*[[Steven Waldbaum
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*[[Steven Waldbaum]]
*[[Victor Wallis
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*[[Victor Wallis]]
*[[Charles Wright
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*[[Charles Wright]]
*[[June Zaccone
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*[[June Zaccone]]</div>
  
 
===EXHIBITION AND SOCIAL SPACE===
 
===EXHIBITION AND SOCIAL SPACE===
  
 
"All weekend in the atrium and lobby areas. The Exhibition offers a dynamic social and networking space for conference attendees. Come see many organizations, publishers, and artists including:"
 
"All weekend in the atrium and lobby areas. The Exhibition offers a dynamic social and networking space for conference attendees. Come see many organizations, publishers, and artists including:"
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*[[911 Truth Outreach]]
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*[[Ad Astra Comix]]
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*[[AK Press]]
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*[[Alternative Press Index]]
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*[[Autonomedia]]
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*[[Between the Lines]]
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*[[Burning Books]]
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*[[CCDS]]
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*[[Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism]]
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*[[Cornell Press]]
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*[[Deep Dish TV]]
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*[[Democratic Socialists of America]]
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*[[Dissent Magazine]]
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*[[Dollars and Sense]]
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*[[Donnelly/Colt]]
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*[[Fernwood Publishing]]
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*[[Food and Water Watch]]
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*[[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]]
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*[[Green Party of NY]]
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*[[Haymarket Books]]
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*[[HINT Magazine]]
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*[[Icarus Films]]
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*[[In These Times]]
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*[[International Marxist Humanist Organization]]
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*[[International Publishers Co.]]
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*[[Jacobin Magazine]]
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*[[Joseph S. Murphy Institute]] at CUNY SPS
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*[[Justice Integrity Project]]
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*[[Kasama Project]]
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*[[Marxist-Humanist Initiative]]
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*[[Military Families]]
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*[[Speak Out]]
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*[[Monthly Review]]
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*[[New Politics]]
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*[[News and Letters Committee]]
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*[[Panelist #161]]
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*[[Platypus Affiliated Society]]
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*[[PM Press]]
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*[[Polity]]
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*[[Proletarian Alternative]]
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*[[WW3 Illustrated]]
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*[[Radical Social Work Group]]
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*[[Red Wedge Magazine]]
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*[[Redwood Justice Fund]]
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*[[Revolution Books NYC]]
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*[[Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung]] – NY Office
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*[[Science and Society]]
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*[[Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination]]
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*[[Social Security Works]]
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*[[Socialism and Democracy]]
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*[[Socialist Action]]
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*[[Speakout Now]]
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*[[Stony Point Center Community of Living Traditions]]
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*[[Syracuse Cultural Workers]]
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*[[The Indypendent]]
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*[[The Marxist Education Project]]
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*[[Trotskyist Faction]]
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*[[Uhuru Solidarity Movement]]
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*[[United for Peace and Justice]]
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*[[University of Chicago Press]]
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*[[Verso Books]]
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*[[VINE Sanctuary]]
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*[[War Resisters League]]
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*[[WBAI Gorilla Volunteers]]
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*[[Workers World]]
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*[[World Fellowship]]
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*[[Z Magazine]]
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*[[Zero Books]]</div>
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*[[911 Truth Outreach
 
*[[Ad Astra Comix
 
*[[AK Press
 
*[[Alternative Press Index
 
*[[Autonomedia
 
*[[Between the Lines
 
*[[Burning Books
 
*[[CCDS
 
*[[Communities of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
 
*[[Cornell Press
 
*[[Deep Dish TV
 
*[[Democratic Socialists of America
 
*[[Dissent Magazine
 
*[[Dollars and Sense
 
*[[Donnelly/Colt
 
*[[Fernwood Publishing
 
*[[Food and Water Watch
 
*[[Freedom Road Socialist Organization
 
*[[Green Party of NY
 
*[[Haymarket Books
 
*[[HINT Magazine
 
*[[Icarus Films
 
*[[In These Times
 
*[[International Marxist Humanist Organization
 
*[[International Publishers Co.
 
*[[Jacobin Magazine
 
*[[Joseph S. Murphy Institute at CUNY SPS
 
*[[Justice Integrity Project
 
*[[Kasama Project
 
*[[Marxist-Humanist Initiative
 
*[[Military Families
 
*[[Speak Out
 
*[[Monthly Review
 
*[[New Politics
 
*[[News and Letters Committee
 
*[[Panelist #161
 
*[[Platypus Affiliated Society
 
*[[PM Press
 
*[[Polity
 
*[[Proletarian Alternative]]
 
*[[WW3 Illustrated
 
*[[Radical Social Work Group
 
*[[Red Wedge Magazine
 
*[[Redwood Justice Fund
 
*[[Revolution Books NYC
 
*[[Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung– NY Office
 
*[[Science and Society
 
*[[Situations: Project of the
 
*[[Radical Imagination
 
*[[Social Security Works
 
*[[Socialism and Democracy
 
*[[Socialist Action
 
*[[Speakout Now
 
*[[Stony Point Center Community of Living Traditions
 
*[[Syracuse Cultural Workers
 
*[[The Indypendent
 
*[[The Marxist Education Project
 
*[[Trotskyist Faction
 
*[[Uhuru Solidarity Movement
 
*[[United for Peace and Justice
 
*[[University of Chicago Press
 
*[[Verso Books
 
*[[VINE Sanctuary
 
*[[War Resisters League
 
*[[WBAI Gorilla Volunteers
 
*[[Workers World
 
*[[World Fellowship
 
*[[Z Magazine
 
*[[Zero Books
 
  
PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE
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CLOSING PLENARY 6:30–8:45PM
SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM
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A National Left Politics?
Meszaros and Strategies for the
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M. Adams, Pamela Brown, Glen Ford,
Emancipatory Transition 1.121 22
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Tom Hayden, Reverend Osagyefo Sekou,
A Maple Autumn? The Struggle
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and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Against Austerity in Quebec 1.123 22
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GYM. 78
Network Movements:
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18
The Changing Tide of Politics 1.124 23
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SESSION A: 5:00 – 6:45PM
Union Power: Boston School Bus
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19
Drivers take on Goliath 1.125 23
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SESSION A: 5:00 – 6:45PM
The Millennium at 15: Protest,
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FRIDAY 5/29
Power and the Socialist Vision 1.127 23
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SESSION A 5:00 – 6:45PM
The Levity of the Left, the Materiality
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The Internet and the World’s Struggle
of Power: Bodies and Organization 1.129 23
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for Survival: The Next Five Years
For Love, Music, Shared Spaces and Economies:
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L.76
De/Post-colonial Resistance Strategies 1.61 23
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Alfredo Lopez, Chair............................................................... May First/People Link
Intelligentsia, Working Class and the “Spirit of
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Juan Gerardo Dominguez Carrasco .................. May First/People Link – Mexico
Generalization” Through the lens of Organic
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Ahmed Ogunlaja ....................................................................... Open Access Nigeria
Intellectuals of the Working Class (OIWC)
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Malkia Cyril .............................................
1.63 23
 
(Re)producing Capital: Theorizing
 
the Relationships Between
 
Oppression and Exploitation
 
1.65 23
 
Women Who Walk On the Tongues of Lions 1.66 23
 
New Mad Pride Movement: "Schizophrenics"
 
and "Bipolars" as the New Spiritual Vanguard? 1.67 23
 
Healthcare Restructuring: Neoliberalism
 
and the Assault on the Social Wage 1.69 23
 
5 Economic Lies 1.71 23
 
Achieving Justice for the
 
Wrongfully Incarcerated 1.73 23
 
Occupy Wall Street Black Lives Matter 1.75 24
 
#BlackLivesMatter: Now What Is To Be Done? 1.76 24
 
Black Internationalism, Multiculturalism
 
and the Contemporary Crises in
 
Capitalism: between the Black Radical
 
Tradition and the Local/Global Nexus
 
1.77 24
 
Organizing Grad Student, Contingent,
 
and Tenure-Track Faculty: A Fight
 
Against Corporatization for the
 
Soul of Higher Education
 
1.81 24
 
Support the Colombian Peace
 
Process, Free Simon Trinidad! 1.82 24
 
Why We Focus on U.S. Imperialist Wars 1.83 24
 
PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE
 
SESSION A 5:00–6:45PM
 
The Internet and the World's Struggle
 
for Survival: The Next Five Years L.76 19
 
Building the Black Lives Matter Movement:
 
Assessments and Perspectives L2.84 19
 
Against the Narrative: Independent
 
Media and The Left L2.85 19
 
Building a Global Solidarity Movement 1.76 19
 
Sports, Resistance, and Black Lives Matter 1.77 19
 
OPENING PLENARY 7:00–9:15PM
 
Syriza, Podemos, Left Bloc, and the Left:
 
A European Revolutionary Politics? GYM. 19
 
SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM
 
The Confiscation of American Prosperity L2.84 20
 
Entertainment Superpower:
 
Media Technology and the American Empire L2.85 20
 
Climate Justice and Energy Democracy L.76 20
 
Dc Metro Science For The People:
 
How Can Science Be Used To Empower
 
Rather Than Undermine Communities?
 
1.100 20
 
Does The United Front Against Austerity
 
And The Tax Wall Street Party Have The
 
Demands Needed For Jobs And Justice?
 
1.101 20
 
Multi-Racial Coalitions for Prison Divestment:
 
Confronting Mass Incarceration and Detentions
 
and Building Black and Brown Unity
 
1.103 20
 
Conceptualizing Post-Capitalist Transition
 
In The Age Of Imperialism And Terrorism 1.105 20
 
Organizing in the Internet Era: Building an
 
All-purpose Democratic Platform on the Web 1.107 20
 
Slave Routes: A Global Vision 1.108 20
 
Overturning the Culture of White Violence:
 
A Call for White People to Stand in Solidarity
 
with African Liberation and Reparations
 
1.109 20
 
Challenges Facing Latin America’s Radical Left 1.114 22
 
Humanity & Haiti–Building the Haitian
 
Bond: A Role in the Evolution of Humanity 1.115 22
 
Building Revolutionary Autonomy:
 
A Discussion with Woodbine 1.117 22
 
From Syriza to Syracuse: How Can Elected
 
Radicals Fight Austerity from Above? 1.119 22
 
PANEL INDEX
 
PANEL INDEX
 
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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE
 
SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM
 
Armenian Freedom Struggle and the 100th
 
Commeration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide 3304N 27
 
SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM
 
Words of Resistance:
 
Spoken Word For A Movement
 
BLACK BOX
 
THEATER 28
 
Betrayed By Our Government:
 
Phil Donahue Hosts Discussion With
 
Matthew Hoh, Ray Mcgovern, Kevin
 
& Joyce Lucey And Cathy Smith
 
L.63 28
 
We Are Our Own Liberators! When We Free
 
Our Political Prisoners, We Free Ourselves. L2.84 28
 
New Challenges, New Responses:
 
the 2015 U.S. Social Forum L2.85 28
 
Democracy at Work: Achieving Social
 
Change through Worker Coops L.76 28
 
Critical Perspectives on Naomi Klein's
 
"This Changes Everything." 1.100 28
 
Another World Is Possible : Towards the
 
World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal 1.101 29
 
Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win 1.103 29
 
Congressman Vito Marcantonio (1934
 
to 1950): Champion for Civil Rights
 
(panel and dramatization)
 
1.105 29
 
Commonizing Academia for Open Knowledge 1.107 29
 
Grassroots Media in an
 
Increasingly Digital World 1.108 29
 
"We Are Not Ebola!" West African
 
Perspectives On The Many-Layered
 
Struggle For Democracy And Development
 
In Sierra Leone, Liberia And Guinea
 
1.109 29
 
Brazilian Dilemma and Afro-American
 
Links: An Afro-Centred Mass Culture
 
Submitted to Structural Racism
 
1.113 30
 
Is Post-Chavez Venezuela Still Leftist? 1.114 30
 
Yes Peace, Yes Justice, But Only In
 
A
 
 
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
 
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
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THEORY IN ACTION
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Deep Into Drones, Drone Wars & Secret Ops:
FREE SUBMISSIONS - NO FEES
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What’s the “War on Terror” Coming To?
TWO WEEK AVERAGE DECISION TIMES
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1.85
RADICAL IDEAS WELCOMED
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Debra Sweet, Chair ....................................................................... World Can’t Wait
Theory in Action is an international peer reviewed
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Marjorie Cohn.......................................................Former pres., Nat. Lawyers Guild
journal in its 8th year available in libraries around the
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Ed Kinane ................................................................................ Nonviolent civil resister
world and published quarterly by the independent
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Elsa Rassbach ..............................................Co-founder, German Drone Campaign
Transformative Studies Institute (TSI), a non-profit
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Amanda Bass
educational think tank committed to academic
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The Syrian Revolution, Yarmouk, Rojava:
freedom, social justice, and scholar-activism.
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Politics of Solidarity
ISSN: 1937-0229 (Print)
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1.87 Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
ISSN: 1937-0237 (Electronic)
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Yusef Khalil, Chair ........................................ International Socialist Organization;
Library of Congress: H1 .T485 361 14 2007214369
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Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
Manuscript & submission guidelines
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Talal Alyan ....................... Palestinian Network of Civil Society in Syria (SHAML)
www.transformativestudies.org
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Mariam Barghouti
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
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Emrah Yildiz ................................................................................... Harvard University
22
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War Normalized or War Abolished:
Challenges Facing Latin America’s Radical Left
+
Drones, Nukes, and the Choice Before Us
1.114
+
1.89 World Beyond War, Know Drones
Steve Ellner, Chair ........................................... Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela
+
David Swanson, Chair ................................................ World Beyond War Director
Dan La Botz ......................................................................... Co-editor of New Politics
+
Alice Slater ......................World Beyond War Coordinating Committee Member
Linda Farthing
+
Nick Mottern ........................................................................................knowdrones.com
Alexander Main ...................................... Senior Associate for International Policy,
+
Joe Scarry .......................World Beyond War Coordinating Committee Member
Center for Economic and Policy Research
+
Amanda Bass ..............................................................................Law Student at NYU,
Humanity & Haiti– Building the Haitian Bond:
+
organizer of protest of hiring of Harold Koh
A Role in the Evolution of Humanity
+
Animal Intelligence and Its
1.115
+
Implications for the Left
21-Michel Alexendre Sacha Vington, Chair...............................................................
+
1.90
HumanityEvolutionMovement.org
+
Joan Harrison, Chair
Patrick Hilton .............................................................................. Hilton and Associates
+
Karen Davis ............................................................................United Poultry Concerns
Pojanee Fleury ..........................................................................Brown Eyez Magazine
+
Josephine Donovan ...................................................................... University of Maine
Building Revolutionary Autonomy:
+
Vasile Stanescu .................................................................................Mercer University
A Discussion with Woodbine
+
From Lima to Paris to Climate Justice:
1.117
+
The Context for COP21
Stephanie Wakefield, Chair
+
1.91 AFGJ.org
Glen Dyer
+
James Jordan, Chair ....... National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice
Frank Coughlin
+
George Ygarza........................................................North Jersey Grassroots Action
From Syriza to Syracuse: How Can Elected
+
Pamela Brubaker ................Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University
Radicals Fight Austerity from Above?
+
Joleen Kirschenman ....................................................................... ThoughtWorks, Inc.
1.119
+
Reclaiming New York’s Energy Vision:
Michael O’Neil, Chair .......................................... Green Party of New York State
+
Utility Reform, Green Jobs and the
Peter LaVenia ......................................................... Green Party of New York State
+
Struggle for Energy Democracy
David Doonan ......................................................Mayor, Village of Greenwich, NY
+
1.92
Meszaros and Strategies for the
+
Eric Walker, Chair
Emancipatory Transition
+
Jessica Azulay ........................................................... Alliance for a Green Economy
1.121 Monthly Review
+
Emmaia Gelman
Irv Kurki, Chair ............................................................................ essential discussions
+
James Wilcox
Anne Pomeroy ..................................................................... Richard Stockton College
+
Organizing at the Margins Against State Violence:
David Holmquist ..................................................................... researcher and activist
+
Challenges and Strategies for Success
Paul Raekstad .................................... PhD Candidate at University of Cambridge
+
1.93
A Maple Autumn?
+
Darakshan Raja, Chair ................................................. Washington Peace Center/
The Struggle Against Austerity in Quebec
+
Muslim American Women’s Policy Forum
1.123 International Socialist Review
+
Maha Hilal .........................................National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms
Ashley Smith, Chair .................................................... International Socialist Review
+
Dante Barry ...................................................Million Hoodies Movement for Justice
Sandrine Dobson .................................................................................................... ASSÉ
+
Ramah Kudaimi ..................................US Campaign to End The Israeli Occupation
Jean-Michel Savard .............................................................................................. ASSÉ
+
China: Socialist Hegemony in a Country in a
Stefan Christoff ...................................................Radio Host with CKUT in Montreal
+
Multilateral but Capitalist Global Environment
Now in Vol. 79!
+
1.99
Science & Society A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis
+
Gary Hicks, Chair ....................................... Artworks for the people Berkeley CA
www.scienceandsociety.com Subs: info@guilford.com
+
Luo Xiaoping .................................................... Visiting Scholar in Boston University,
Published quarterly since 1936, S&S specializes in serious Marxism,
+
Assistant Professor in Zhejiang Ocean University
without boundaries or binaries: no economics vs. culture, theory vs. history,
+
Norman Markowitz .............Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
west vs. east, classics vs. innovation. Just solid, critical scholarship.
+
Whose City? Our City!
From recent issues: Capitalism and Unfree Labor, Tom Brass ●
+
Fighting Gentrification in the U.S. & Europe
The Universal Class, Paddy Quick ● Daniel Bensaïd’s Joan of Arc,
+
[[Category:Gentrification]]
Josep Maria Antentas ● RED ON BLACK: Marxist Encounters
+
L2.80 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office
with Anarchism (Special Issue), ed. John P. Pittman
+
Rachel LaForest, Chair ................... Right to the City Alliance, Executive Director
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
+
Dawn Phillips .................................Causa Justa : Just Cause, Program Co-Director
23
+
Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus .......................................PAH, Plataforma de Afectados
Network Movements:
+
por la Hipoteca, Barcelona
The Changing Tide of Politics
+
Florian Kasiske ................................... Recht auf Stadt/Right to the City, Germany
1.124
+
Nothing to Lose But Our Chains:
Luis Moreno-Caballud, Chair ........................................ University of Pennsylvania
+
Mass Incarceration as Political Repression
Pablo Benson ...............................................................Movement Net Lab & LIU Post
+
L2.81 Socialism and Democracy
Tamara Shapiro ............................................................................... Movement Netlab
+
Johanna Fernández, Chair ................................. Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Bernardo Gutiérrez
+
Dequi Kioni-Sadiki .........................................................................Educator & Activist
Gan Golan ....................................................................................... Movement Netlab
+
Laura Whitehorn ..................................................................Former political prisoner
Union Power:
+
Nyle Fort ...............................................Newark-based youth organizer and writer
Boston School Bus Drivers Take on Goliath
+
Arielle Newton ......................................................Founding Editor, Black Millennials
1.125 Workers World Newspaper
+
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
Tony Murphy, Chair ............................................................................ Team Solidarity
+
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Andre Francois ................................ Boston School Bus Drivers Union (USW 8751)
+
The Fight Against Austerity in Europe and the
Steve Gillis ...................................... Boston School Bus Drivers Union (USW 8751)
+
United States: Revolutionary Socialist Politics in
The Millennium at 15:
+
the Wake of the Syriza and Podemos Experiences
Protest, Power and the Socialist Vision
+
L2.82
1.127 The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
+
Marty Goodman, Chair ............................................................... Socialist Action US
Suzi Weissman, Chair ...................................... Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
+
Manos Soufoglo ...........................................Member of the Political Bureau of the
Hillel Ticktin ..........................................................................................Critique Journal
+
Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece
Natassa Romanou .............................................................................Syriza-New York
+
Stan Meunier ............................France, New Anticapitalist Party Youth Organizer
Christina Kaindl .....................................DIE LINKE, Head of Strategy Department
+
Christine Marie ................................................................................Socialist Action US
The Levity of the Left, the Materiality of Power:
+
Christina Palliou ................................................................................. OKDE-Spartacus
Bodies and Organization
+
This Side of the Darkness: The Global AIDS
1.129 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination
+
Crisis, the TPP and the Politics of Epidemics
Stanley Aronowitz, Chair ......................................................... CUNY and Situations
+
3.76
Konstantinos Tsoukalas ..................Syriza and Member of the Greek Parliament
+
Mariel Selbovitz, Chair ..................................... Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group
Arto Artinian ...............................................................................CUNY and Situations
+
Community Advisory Board
Leo Panitch
+
Timothy Ray Brown
Peter Bratsis
+
Roscoe M. Moore Jr. ...............................Assistant U.S. Surgeon General (Retired)
For Love, Music, Shared Spaces and Economies:
+
Mark Wainberg .........................................................McGill University AIDS Center
De/Post-Colonial Resistance Strategies
+
Margaret Flowers .................................Physicians for a National Health Program
1.61
+
Gary Blick ..............................................................................World Health Clinicians
Erica Kohl-Arenas, Chair ................................ New School for Public Engagement
+
David Miller .........................................................Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group
Fabiola Berdiel ..................................................New School for Public Engagement
+
Community Advisory Board
Rebecca Hollender............................................New School for Public Engagement
+
Jeannie Wraight ....................................................................AIDS Treatment Activist
Jacquelin Kataneksza.......................................New School for Public Engagement
+
Queering Animal Liberation,
Sara Shroff ........................................................New School for Public Engagement
+
Animating Restorative Justice
Intelligentsia, Working Class, and the “Spirit of
+
3.78
Generalization” Through the Lens of Organic
+
Pattrice Jones, Chair
Intellectuals of the Working Class (OIWC)
+
Christopher-Sebastian McJetters
1.63
+
Brandie Skorker
Bronislaw Czarnocha, Chair .......................................................... Hostos CC, CUNY
+
Dangerous Scapegoating of Islam:
Jarekh Stelmark ...............................................................................Hostos CC, CUNY
+
Exacerbated by the Left’s Silence About
Dennis Speed ................................................................Executive Intelligence Review
+
Controlled Demolition on 9/11
(Re)producing Capital: Theorizing the Relationships
+
3.79 911TruthOutreach.org
Between Oppression and Exploitation
+
Wayne Coste, Chair .................................................................... Truth Outreach, Inc.
1.65
+
David Slesinger .............................................................................. 9/11 Truth Activist
Ariane Fischer, Chair ........................... Associate Professor, Intellectual Heritage,
+
Mauri Saalakhan ................................................ The Peace and Justice Foundation
Temple University
+
A Black Liberation Manifesto for the 21st Century:
Kanishka Chowdhury ................................University of Saint Thomas St. Paul, MN
+
The Centrality of Youth, Women & Revolutionary Praxis
Carolyn Elerding ....................................................................... Ohio State University
+
3.80 The Black Activist (jblun.org)
Joseph Ramsey ................................................................................Univ. Mass. Boston
+
Sam Anderson, Chair......................................................... Black Left Unity Network
Women Who Walk On the Tongues of Lions
+
Ashaki Binta .........................................................................Black Left Unity Network
1.66
+
Tony Menelik Vandermeer ................................................Black Left Unity Network
Betty Davis, Chair .................................................. New Abolitionist , Green Party,
+
Rose Brewer .........................................................................Black Left Unity Network
Free Lynne Stewart, Free Mumia
+
Ajamu Baraka ......................................................................Black Left Unity Network
Leola Maddock ............................. United African Movement and Freedom Party
+
Vonds Vonds ...................................The Boston Chapter of Black Lives Matter and
Devonya Havis Walton .....................................................................Canisius College
+
Safe Hub Boston plus others
Kanene Holder ................................................Colin Powell Center For Policy Study
+
Sadie Barbosa..................................................We Are The Ones Coalition–Boston
Muna Mire ...................................................................................................Youngist.org
+
Adebukola Ajao ...............................................We Are The Ones Coalition–Boston
New Mad Pride Movement: “Schizophrenics” and
+
FILM: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
“Bipolars” as the New Spiritual Vanguard?
+
3.81 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
1.67
+
ROAR! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights)
Seth Farber, Chair
+
Bill Koehnlein, Chair ................ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
Sascha Altman DuBrul ................................................................... Icarus Project NYC
+
Nancy Kogel .............................................ROAR! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights)
Lauren Tenney
+
Land Conservancies in Late Capitalism: How Trusts
Healthcare Restructuring:
+
Provide a Bird’s-Eye View into the Ruling Class
Neoliberalism and the Assault on the Social Wage
+
8.61
1.69 Physicians for a National Health Program
+
Irwin Sperber, Chair ......................................... Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz
Martha Livingston, Chair..................... Physicians for a National Health Program
+
Sophia Apkarian ...............teaching assistant, Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz
–NY Metro Chapter
+
Alexander Groskinsky .....................................................Employed in social agency
Christos Giovanopoulos ....................................................................Solidarity for All
+
David McCarthy .......................................................................... Independent scholar
Sean Petty ...........................................................................................................NYSNA
+
The Western Buddhist Ethic and
Martha Kuhl ............................................................................National Nurses United
+
the Spirit of Late Capitalism
Adam Gaffney ......................................Physicians for a National Health Program
+
8.67 Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Mark Dudzic .................................Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care
+
Stuart Smithers, Chair
5 Economic Lies
+
Alex Caring-Lobel .......................................................Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
1.71 No.
+
Eske Mollgaard .................................................................University of Rhode Island
Marty Rowland, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Task Force
 
Kim Baxter ............................................................ NYC Land & Money Study Group
 
B. Allen Barndt ......................................................... Taos Institute/Tilburg University
 
Achieving Justice for the Wrongfully Incarcerated
 
1.73 #MarchForJustice
 
David Bliven, Chair ......................................... International Socialist Organization
 
Sharonne Salaam .............................................................................#MarchForJustice
 
Yusef Salaam ....................................................................................#MarchForJustice
 
Raymond Santana ............................................................................#MarchForJustice
 
Lynne Stewart
 
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
 
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Occupy Wall Street Black Lives Matter
 
1.75
 
Sumumba Sobukwe, Chair ............................... Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)
 
Alejandrina Murphy ..................... Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)/Stop Mass
 
Incarceration
 
Bill Johnsen .............................. Occupy Sandy (Walk For Justice and Democracy)
 
Robert Hernandez ............................................. Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)
 
#BlackLivesMatter: Now What Is To Be Done?
 
1.76 Science & Society
 
Adam Stevens, Chair
 
Morgan Horowitz ...................................................................Lehman College, CUNY
 
Russell Dale .......................................................................................Science & Society
 
Stephanie Foard ................................................................Park Slope Collegiate HS
 
Black Internationalism, Multiculturalism and the
 
Contemporary Crises in Capitalism: Between the
 
Black Radical Tradition and the Local/Global Nexus
 
1.77
 
Darryl Thomas, Chair ................................................ Pennsylvania State University
 
Youb Kim ................................................................. University of Northern Colorado
 
Zulema Blair ................................................................................CUNY Medgar Evers
 
Ahmed Banya ................................................................................................Penn State
 
Lindah Mhando .....................................................................................Duke University
 
Organizing Grad Student, Contingent,
 
and Tenure-Track Faculty: A Fight Against
 
Corporatization for the Soul of Higher Education
 
1.81
 
Kathryn Eskew, Chair .......................................................................... Hilbert College
 
Ruth Wangerin ......................................................................College of Staten Island
 
Joe Richard ..................................................................................... Rutgers AAUP-AFT
 
Natasha Raheja.......................... Graduate Student Organizing Committee, NYU
 
Support the Colombian Peace
 
Process, Free Simon Trinidad!
 
1.82
 
Jess Sundin, Chair ........................................ Antiwar 23, FreeRicardoPalmera.org
 
Mark Burton ......................................................................Lawyer for Simon Trinidad
 
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan ....................President-elect National Lawyers Guild
 
Why We Focus on U.S. Imperialist Wars
 
1.83
 
Marilyn Levin, Chair ........................................................................................... UNAC
 
Sara Flounders ................................................................ International Action Center
 
Joe Lombardo ........................................................................................................UNAC
 
SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY
 
sdonline.org
 
“Socialism and Democracyhas a venerable reputation of uniquely providing socialists and leftists of all
 
perspectives with consistently rigorous analytic and historical essays on the most urgent questions of our time.
 
In this period of capitalist repression and upheaval, I strongly recommend Socialism and Democracy as essential
 
reading for all leftists who seek to unify theory and praxis.”
 
Immanuel Ness, Editor,
 
International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
 
Look for our sponsored panels on these topics (locate them under the names listed here):
 
Art Against Capitalism (chair: Mat Callahan)
 
Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberalism, Austerity, War, and Terror (chair: Hester Eisenstein)
 
Mass Incarceration as Political Repression (chair: Johanna Fernández)
 
We publish three 200-page issues per year. Visit our table. Contact: info@sdonline.org; 617-776-9505
 
 
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
 
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
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Deep Into Drones, Drone Wars & Secret Ops:
+
A Look At Student Unionism’s
What’s the “War on Terror” Coming To?
+
Present And Potential
1.85
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8.69 Canon: Interdisciplinary Journal of the New School for Social Research
Debra Sweet, Chair ....................................................................... World Can’t Wait
+
The Platypus Review
Marjorie Cohn.......................................................Former pres., Nat. Lawyers Guild
+
Pam C. Nogales, Chair ..................................................................... Platypus Review
Ed Kinane ................................................................................ Nonviolent civil resister
+
Sean Kennedy.............................................................................. UNY Adjunct Project
Elsa Rassbach ..............................................Co-founder, German Drone Campaign
+
Daniel Aldana Cohen ............................................................GSOC-UAW organizer
Amanda Bass
+
Armenian Freedom Struggle and the 100th
The Syrian Revolution, Yarmouk, Rojava:
+
Commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide
Politics of Solidarity
+
3304N
1.87 Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
+
Beth K. Lamont, Chair ...................................................................... Humanist Society
Yusef Khalil, Chair ........................................ International Socialist Organization;
+
Anoush Ter Taulian ....................................................................Artsakh War Veteran
Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
+
Kevork Esayan
Talal Alyan ....................... Palestinian Network of Civil Society in Syria (SHAML)
+
Dying to Forget
Mariam Barghouti
+
Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of
Emrah Yildiz ................................................................................... Harvard University
+
U.S. Policy in the Middle East
War Normalized or War Abolished:
+
irene l. gendzier
Drones, Nukes, and the Choice Before Us
+
“By tying together the strands of oil and strategic
1.89 World Beyond War, Know Drones
+
interests in Saudi Arabia with the familiar narrative
David Swanson, Chair ................................................ World Beyond War Director
+
about the American relationship with zionism, this book
Alice Slater ......................World Beyond War Coordinating Committee Member
+
is a major contribution to our understanding of crucial
Nick Mottern ........................................................................................knowdrones.com
+
events for the future of the Middle east. gendzier provides revelations and fresh insights throughout.
Joe Scarry .......................World Beyond War Coordinating Committee Member
+
—Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
Amanda Bass ..............................................................................Law Student at NYU,
+
$40.00 / £27.50 · 978-0-231-15288-4 · cloth
organizer of protest of hiring of Harold Koh
+
$39.99 / £27.50 · 978-0-231-52658-6 · ebook
Animal Intelligence and Its
+
forthcoMing
Implications for the Left
+
columbia university press
1.90
+
cup.columbia.edu · cupblog.org
Joan Harrison, Chair
+
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
Karen Davis ............................................................................United Poultry Concerns
+
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Josephine Donovan ...................................................................... University of Maine
+
SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM
Vasile Stanescu .................................................................................Mercer University
+
Betrayed By Our Government: Phil Donahue
From Lima to Paris to Climate Justice:
+
Hosts Discussion with Matthew Hoh, Ray McGovern,
The Context for COP21
+
Kevin & Joyce Lucey, and Cathy Smith
1.91 AFGJ.org
+
L.63
James Jordan, Chair ....... National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice
+
Phil Donahue, Chair
George Ygarza........................................................North Jersey Grassroots Action
+
Cathy Smith ....................................................................Military Families Speak Out
Pamela Brubaker ................Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University
+
Kevin Lucey .....................................................................Military Families Speak Out
Joleen Kirschenman ....................................................................... ThoughtWorks, Inc.
+
Joyce Lucey ....................................................................Military Families Speak Out
Reclaiming New York’s Energy Vision:
+
Matthew Hoh
Utility Reform, Green Jobs and the
+
Ray McGovern
Struggle for Energy Democracy
+
We Are Our Own Liberators! When We Free
1.92
+
Our Political Prisoners, We Free Ourselves.
Eric Walker, Chair
+
L2.84
Jessica Azulay ........................................................... Alliance for a Green Economy
+
Ralph Poynter, Chair ............. New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org.
Emmaia Gelman
+
Lynne Stewart .........................New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org.
James Wilcox
+
Pam Africa ........................................................................ Free Mumia & MOVE Org.
Organizing at the Margins Against State Violence:
+
Ramona Africa ......................................................................................................MOVE
Challenges and Strategies for Success
+
Ana Lopez ................................................... Humanities, Hostos Community College
1.93
+
Jess Sundin ...........................................................Committee To Stop FBI Repression
Darakshan Raja, Chair ................................................. Washington Peace Center/
+
Sundiata Sadiq ........................Committee To Free Mumia Abu Jamal Org.–NYC
Muslim American Women’s Policy Forum
+
Bob Boyle ........................................................................................................NLG-NYC
Maha Hilal .........................................National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms
+
Anne Lamb ..............................................................................NYC Jericho Movement
Dante Barry ...................................................Million Hoodies Movement for Justice
+
Jerry Koch .........................................................................NYC Anarchist Black Cross
Ramah Kudaimi ..................................US Campaign to End The Israeli Occupation
+
Naomi Braine .........................................Brooklyn College – Assoc. Prof. Soc. Dept
China: Socialist Hegemony in a Country in a
+
New Challenges, New Responses:
Multilateral but Capitalist Global Environment
+
The 2015 U.S. Social Forum
1.99
+
L2.85
Gary Hicks, Chair ....................................... Artworks for the people Berkeley CA
+
Jerome Scott, Chair ..................... League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Luo Xiaoping .................................................... Visiting Scholar in Boston University,
+
Walda Katz-Fishman ......................................................................Howard University
Assistant Professor in Zhejiang Ocean University
+
Shamako Noble ................................................Hip Hop Congress, US Social Forum
Norman Markowitz .............Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
+
German Parodi ................................................................................Disabled in Action
Whose City? Our City!
+
Deeq Abdi ...................................Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign
Fighting Gentrification in the U.S. & Europe
+
Democracy at Work:
L2.80 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office
+
Achieving Social Change through Worker Coops
Rachel LaForest, Chair ................... Right to the City Alliance, Executive Director
+
L.76
Dawn Phillips .................................Causa Justa : Just Cause, Program Co-Director
+
Maria Carnemolla ....................Democracy at Work, Left Forum Board Member
Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus .......................................PAH, Plataforma de Afectados
+
Richard D. Wolff .........................................................................Democracy at Work
por la Hipoteca, Barcelona
+
Carmen Huertas Noble ..........................................................CUNY Law School and
Florian Kasiske ................................... Recht auf Stadt/Right to the City, Germany
+
Community Economic Development Clinic (CEDC)
Nothing to Lose But Our Chains:
+
Michael Peck ................................................Mondragon North American Delegate
Mass Incarceration as Political Repression
+
Ted De Barbieri ...........................................................................Brooklyn Law School
L2.81 Socialism and Democracy
+
Critical Perspectives on Naomi Klein’s
Johanna Fernández, Chair ................................. Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal
+
“This Changes Everything.”
Dequi Kioni-Sadiki .........................................................................Educator & Activist
+
1.100 Capitalism Nature Socialism
Laura Whitehorn ..................................................................Former political prisoner
+
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Chair ............................... Capitalism Nature Socialism
Nyle Fort ...............................................Newark-based youth organizer and writer
+
Joel Kovel ..................................................................................... Ecosocialist Horizons
Arielle Newton ......................................................Founding Editor, Black Millennials
+
Jane Zara .............................DC Metro Science for the People (dcmetroSFTP.org)
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
+
David Schwartzman............................ Ecosocialist Horizons, Metro DC Committee
26
+
of Correspondence for Democracy and Ecosocialism
The Fight Against Austerity in Europe and the
+
THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 12:00–1:50PM BLACK BOX THEATER
United States: Revolutionary Socialist Politics in
+
WORDS OF RESISTANCE:
the Wake of the Syriza and Podemos Experiences
+
SPOKEN WORD FOR A MOVEMENT
L2.82
+
FEATURING:
Marty Goodman, Chair ............................................................... Socialist Action US
+
PEERS EDUCATING PEERS
Manos Soufoglo ...........................................Member of the Political Bureau of the
+
WORDS OF CHOICE
Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece
+
CESCHI
Stan Meunier ............................France, New Anticapitalist Party Youth Organizer
+
MASTER OF CEREMONIES: JIM VRETTOS
Christine Marie ................................................................................Socialist Action US
+
ORGANIZED BY: GEORGE YGARZA
Christina Palliou ................................................................................. OKDE-Spartacus
+
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
This Side of the Darkness: The Global AIDS
+
29
Crisis, the TPP and the Politics of Epidemics
+
Another World Is Possible:
3.76
+
Towards the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal
Mariel Selbovitz, Chair ..................................... Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group
+
1.101
Community Advisory Board
+
Raphael Canet, Chair....................... WSF Montreal 2016, University of Ottawa
Timothy Ray Brown
+
Nathalie Guay .........................................................................................................CSN
Roscoe M. Moore Jr. ...............................Assistant U.S. Surgeon General (Retired)
+
Alexander Warnet .............................The United Humanity, WSF Montreal 2016
Mark Wainberg .........................................................McGill University AIDS Center
+
Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win
Margaret Flowers .................................Physicians for a National Health Program
+
1.103
Gary Blick ..............................................................................World Health Clinicians
+
Peter LaVenia, Chair ............................................ Green Party of New York State
David Miller .........................................................Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group
+
Ursula Rozum........................................................... Green Party of New York State
Community Advisory Board
+
Michael O’Neil ....................................................... Green Party of New York State
Jeannie Wraight ....................................................................AIDS Treatment Activist
+
Congressman Vito Marcantonio (1934 to 1950):
Queering Animal Liberation,
+
Champion for Civil Rights (Panel and Dramatization)
Animating Restorative Justice
+
1.105
3.78
+
Gil Fagiani, Chair ..................................... CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum
Pattrice Jones, Chair
+
Gerald Meyer ............................................ CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum
Christopher-Sebastian McJetters
+
Roberto Ragone ......................................... CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum
Brandie Skorker
+
Commonizing Academia for Open Knowledge
Dangerous Scapegoating of Islam:
+
1.107
Exacerbated by the Left’s Silence About
+
Caghan Kizil, Chair ............................................ RIT | Research Institute on Turkey
Controlled Demolition on 9/11
+
Simten Cosar ..........Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University (Ankara,
3.79 911TruthOutreach.org
+
Turkey)
Wayne Coste, Chair .................................................................... Truth Outreach, Inc.
+
Emrah Goker ........................................................................................... Koc University
David Slesinger .............................................................................. 9/11 Truth Activist
+
Hakan Ergul .........Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University in Ankara
Mauri Saalakhan ................................................ The Peace and Justice Foundation
+
Grassroots Media in an Increasingly Digital World
A Black Liberation Manifesto for the 21st Century:
+
1.108 The Indypendent
The Centrality of Youth, Women & Revolutionary Praxis
+
John Tarleton, Chair ......................................................................... The Indypendent
3.80 The Black Activist (jblun.org)
+
Todd Wolfson .................................... Rutgers University, Media Mobilizing Project
Sam Anderson, Chair......................................................... Black Left Unity Network
+
MIlena Velis ......................................................................... Media Mobilizing Project
Ashaki Binta .........................................................................Black Left Unity Network
+
Mario Murillo ......................................................WBAI-99.5 FM, Hofstra University
Tony Menelik Vandermeer ................................................Black Left Unity Network
+
“We Are Not Ebola!” West African Perspectives
Rose Brewer .........................................................................Black Left Unity Network
+
On The Many-Layered Struggle For Democracy and
Ajamu Baraka ......................................................................Black Left Unity Network
+
Development in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea
Vonds Vonds ...................................The Boston Chapter of Black Lives Matter and
+
1.109
Safe Hub Boston plus others
+
Kewulay Kamara, Chair
Sadie Barbosa..................................................We Are The Ones Coalition–Boston
+
Nvasekie Konneh
Adebukola Ajao ...............................................We Are The Ones Coalition–Boston
+
Sahr Ngaujah
FILM: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
+
Aliou E ..............................................................................Espoir et combat de femme
3.81 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
+
Zeinab Camara ..................................................................Women in Mining Guinea
ROAR! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights)
+
Aroun Deen.....................................................................................Freelance journalist
Bill Koehnlein, Chair ................ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
+
An open space…
Nancy Kogel .............................................ROAR! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights)
+
… for organizing!
Land Conservancies in Late Capitalism: How Trusts
+
Looking for a place to retreat, relax,
Provide a Bird’s-Eye View into the Ruling Class
+
organize, or energize? Join us!
8.61
+
Stony Point Center is an open space
Irwin Sperber, Chair ......................................... Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz
+
supported by an intentional residential
Sophia Apkarian ...............teaching assistant, Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz
+
community of Muslims, Jews, and
Alexander Groskinsky .....................................................Employed in social agency
+
Christians committed to peace and social
David McCarthy .......................................................................... Independent scholar
+
justice
The Western Buddhist Ethic and
+
 Serving farm-to-table produce from our
the Spirit of Late Capitalism
+
gardens
8.67 Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
+
 Accepting bookings for conferences
Stuart Smithers, Chair
+
and retreats
Alex Caring-Lobel .......................................................Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
+
 Just 45 minutes north of the George
Eske Mollgaard .................................................................University of Rhode Island
+
Washington Bridge in Rockland
SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM
+
County
27
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Thank you, Left Forum, for all you do!
A Look At Student Unionism’s
+
17 Cricketown Rd, Stony Point, NY 10980
Present And Potential
+
(845) 786-5674 ext. 110 • stonypointcenter.org
8.69 Canon: Interdisciplinary Journal of the New School for Social Research
 
The Platypus Review
 
Pam C. Nogales, Chair ..................................................................... Platypus Review
 
Sean Kennedy.............................................................................. UNY Adjunct Project
 
Daniel Aldana Cohen ............................................................GSOC-UAW organizer
 
Armenian Freedom Struggle and the 100th
 
Commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide
 
3304N
 
Beth K. Lamont, Chair ...................................................................... Humanist Society
 
Anoush Ter Taulian ....................................................................Artsakh War Veteran
 
Kevork Esayan
 
Dying to Forget
 
Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of
 
U.S. Policy in the Middle East
 
irene l. gendzier
 
“By tying together the strands of oil and strategic
 
interests in Saudi Arabia with the familiar narrative
 
about the American relationship with zionism, this book
 
is a major contribution to our understanding of crucial
 
events for the future of the Middle east. gendzier provides revelations and fresh insights throughout.”
 
—Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
 
$40.00 / £27.50 · 978-0-231-15288-4 · cloth
 
$39.99 / £27.50 · 978-0-231-52658-6 · ebook
 
forthcoMing
 
columbia university press
 
cup.columbia.edu · cupblog.org
 
 
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
 
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
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30
SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM
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Brazilian Dilemma and Afro-American
Betrayed By Our Government: Phil Donahue
+
Links: An Afro-Centred Mass Culture
Hosts Discussion with Matthew Hoh, Ray McGovern,
+
Submitted to Structural Racism
Kevin & Joyce Lucey, and Cathy Smith
+
1.113 estrategiaeanalise.com.br
L.63
+
Bruno Lima Rocha, Chair ............. ESPM and Unisinos–estrategiaeanalise.com.br
Phil Donahue, Chair
+
Cristian Salaini ............................................................................espm.br and Iacorec
Cathy Smith ....................................................................Military Families Speak Out
+
Edson Cadette ......................................................Afropress website–afropress.com
Kevin Lucey .....................................................................Military Families Speak Out
+
Kawaun Adon Akhenaten VII ............................................Constelltion International
Joyce Lucey ....................................................................Military Families Speak Out
+
Daniel Marks ........................................................Constellation Global International
Matthew Hoh
+
Is Post-Chavez Venezuela Still Leftist?
Ray McGovern
+
1.114
We Are Our Own Liberators! When We Free
+
Gabriel Fumero, Chair
Our Political Prisoners, We Free Ourselves.
+
Steve Ellner........................................................Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela
L2.84
+
Eva Golinger
Ralph Poynter, Chair ............. New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org.
+
Dario Azzellini .......................................... Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Lynne Stewart .........................New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org.
+
Yes Peace, Yes Justice, But Only In
Pam Africa ........................................................................ Free Mumia & MOVE Org.
+
A Resourced-Based Economy
Ramona Africa ......................................................................................................MOVE
+
1.115 Zeitgeist NYC
Ana Lopez ................................................... Humanities, Hostos Community College
+
Harry Cason, Chair ............................................... College of Staten Island, CUNY
Jess Sundin ...........................................................Committee To Stop FBI Repression
+
Julio Herrera ............................................................................................Zeitgeist NYC
Sundiata Sadiq ........................Committee To Free Mumia Abu Jamal Org.–NYC
+
Johnny Hobbes .........................................................................................Kinhin Media
Bob Boyle ........................................................................................................NLG-NYC
+
Arjang Jameh ..........................................................................................Zeitgeist NYC
Anne Lamb ..............................................................................NYC Jericho Movement
+
Radical Archive Practice
Jerry Koch .........................................................................NYC Anarchist Black Cross
+
1.117 Radical Teacher
Naomi Braine .........................................Brooklyn College – Assoc. Prof. Soc. Dept
+
Susan O’Malley, Chair ......................................................... Radical Teacher, CUNY
New Challenges, New Responses:
+
Veronica Ordaz .......................................................................... Interference Archive
The 2015 U.S. Social Forum
+
Andrea Vasquez .................................................... American Social History Project,
L2.85
+
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jerome Scott, Chair ..................... League of Revolutionaries for a New America
+
Chloe Smolarski ...................................................... American Social History Project,
Walda Katz-Fishman ......................................................................Howard University
+
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Shamako Noble ................................................Hip Hop Congress, US Social Forum
+
Kate Donovan ......................................................................... Tamimant Library, NYU
German Parodi ................................................................................Disabled in Action
+
proudly present
Deeq Abdi ...................................Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign
+
Encuentros
Democracy at Work:
+
F O L K meets JA Z Z
Achieving Social Change through Worker Coops
+
Guillermo Cardenas on percussion
L.76
+
and special appearance by Bernardo Palombo
Maria Carnemolla ....................Democracy at Work, Left Forum Board Member
+
June 13, 2015@7 pm
Richard D. Wolff .........................................................................Democracy at Work
+
at St. Michael’s Church Sanctuary
Carmen Huertas Noble ..........................................................CUNY Law School and
+
Amsterdam Avenue between 99th and 100th Streets
Community Economic Development Clinic (CEDC)
+
For more information and online tickets:
Michael Peck ................................................Mondragon North American Delegate
+
www.tallerlatino.org 212-665-9460
Ted De Barbieri ...........................................................................Brooklyn Law School
+
www.saintmichaelschurch.org 212-222-2700
Critical Perspectives on Naomi Klein’s
+
Encuentros is supported in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
“This Changes Everything.
+
The Offices of Council Member Mark Levine and The National Endowment for the Arts
1.100 Capitalism Nature Socialism
+
Suggested Donation: $20
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Chair ............................... Capitalism Nature Socialism
+
The event is wheelchair accessible
Joel Kovel ..................................................................................... Ecosocialist Horizons
+
Hudson Valley Sally and The John Cantrell Trio
Jane Zara .............................DC Metro Science for the People (dcmetroSFTP.org)
+
Songs of Social Justice
David Schwartzman............................ Ecosocialist Horizons, Metro DC Committee
 
of Correspondence for Democracy and Ecosocialism
 
THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 12:00–1:50PM BLACK BOX THEATER
 
WORDS OF RESISTANCE:
 
SPOKEN WORD FOR A MOVEMENT
 
FEATURING:
 
PEERS EDUCATING PEERS
 
WORDS OF CHOICE
 
CESCHI
 
MASTER OF CEREMONIES: JIM VRETTOS
 
ORGANIZED BY: GEORGE YGARZA
 
 
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
 
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
29
+
31
Another World Is Possible:
+
Not Hillary, Not Jeb: Stopping the Permanent
Towards the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal
+
Dictatorship of Austerity and War
1.101
+
1.119 The United Front Against Austerity
Raphael Canet, Chair....................... WSF Montreal 2016, University of Ottawa
+
Daniela Walls, Chair ......................................................................... Deputy Director
Nathalie Guay .........................................................................................................CSN
+
Webster Tarpley ...........United Front Against Austerity & Tax Wall Street Party
Alexander Warnet .............................The United Humanity, WSF Montreal 2016
+
Dylan Shelton ..................................... Tax Wall Street Party North Carolina Local
Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win
+
Trotsky: A Revolutionary Life
1.103
+
1.121 International Socialist Review
Peter LaVenia, Chair ............................................ Green Party of New York State
+
Ashley Smith, Chair
Ursula Rozum........................................................... Green Party of New York State
+
Paul LeBlanc ......................................................................................La Roche College
Michael O’Neil ....................................................... Green Party of New York State
+
Ahmed Shawki ............................................................. International Socialist Review
Congressman Vito Marcantonio (1934 to 1950):
+
Pepijn Brandon ................Post Doctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh
Champion for Civil Rights (Panel and Dramatization)
+
Transforming Community and Labor
1.105
+
Organizing into Electoral Victory
Gil Fagiani, Chair ..................................... CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum
+
1.123 Dialogue & Initiative
Gerald Meyer ............................................ CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum
+
Pat Fry, Chair .... Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Roberto Ragone ......................................... CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum
+
Andrea Miller .....................................................Progressive Democrats of America
Commonizing Academia for Open Knowledge
+
Paul Krehbiel ....................................................................................CCDS Los Angeles
1.107
+
Ethan Young .......................................................................................Left Labor Project
Caghan Kizil, Chair ............................................ RIT | Research Institute on Turkey
+
Rosie Mendez ..........................................................New York City Council Member
Simten Cosar ..........Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University (Ankara,
+
The Future of OccupyWallSt.nyc
Turkey)
+
1.124 OccupyWallSt.nyc
Emrah Goker ........................................................................................... Koc University
+
Priscilla Grim, Chair ....................................................................... OccupyWallSt.nyc
Hakan Ergul .........Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University in Ankara
+
Jack Abbott ......................................................................................OccupyWallSt.nyc
Grassroots Media in an Increasingly Digital World
+
Kelli Daley ................................................................Coordinator, OccupyWallSt.nyc
1.108 The Indypendent
+
Muna Mire ................................................................Coordinator, OccupyWallSt.nyc
John Tarleton, Chair ......................................................................... The Indypendent
+
The U.S. Middle Class in Crisis: A Panel
Todd Wolfson .................................... Rutgers University, Media Mobilizing Project
+
in Honour of Randy Martin: Socialist
MIlena Velis ......................................................................... Media Mobilizing Project
+
Register 2015 Transforming Classes
Mario Murillo ......................................................WBAI-99.5 FM, Hofstra University
+
1.125 Socialist Register
“We Are Not Ebola!” West African Perspectives
+
Leo Panitch, Chair ................................................................. York University, Toronto
On The Many-Layered Struggle For Democracy and
+
John McCullough ..............................................Department of Film, York University
Development in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea
+
Jeff Goodwin............................................................Department of Sociology, NYU
1.109
+
Greg Albo ............................................................... Political Science, York University
Kewulay Kamara, Chair
+
Liza Featherstone ............................................... Political Science, Brooklyn College
Nvasekie Konneh
+
A Communist Road in the U.S.: How Do We Start?
Sahr Ngaujah
+
1.127 Kasama Project
Aliou E ..............................................................................Espoir et combat de femme
+
Robina Rai, Chair ............................................................................... Kasama Project
Zeinab Camara ..................................................................Women in Mining Guinea
+
Nat Winn ...............................................................................................Kasama Project
Aroun Deen.....................................................................................Freelance journalist
+
Mike Ely .................................................................................................Kasama Project
An open space…
+
15 Now’s Strategy for the
… for organizing!
+
Low-Wage Worker Movement
Looking for a place to retreat, relax,
+
1.129 Socialist Alternative
organize, or energize? Join us!
+
Dan Kroop, Chair ............................................................................................. 15 Now
Stony Point Center is an open space
+
Elan Axelbank........................................................................... 15 Now Northeastern
supported by an intentional residential
+
Marty Harrison .......................................................................... 15 Now Philadelphia
community of Muslims, Jews, and
+
How Tribal Traditions To Capitalism
Christians committed to peace and social
+
To Hip Hop and Culture Met
justice
+
1.61 Ankhlave Mind Media
 Serving farm-to-table produce from our
+
David Acala, Chair ...................................................................................... Facilitator
gardens
+
Wadsworth Hall ............................................................................................... Speaker
 Accepting bookings for conferences
+
David Hall-Goldstein ................................................................................. Co-Curator
and retreats
+
Art Against Capitalism: Past Experience,
 Just 45 minutes north of the George
+
Present Practices and Alternative Futures
Washington Bridge in Rockland
+
1.63 Socialism and Democracy
County
+
Mat Callahan, Chair
Thank you, Left Forum, for all you do!
+
Eli Smith
17 Cricketown Rd, Stony Point, NY 10980
+
Ana Ratner
(845) 786-5674 ext. 110 • stonypointcenter.org
+
Marxist-Feminist Perspectives On
 +
Neoliberalism, Austerity, War And Terror
 +
1.65 Socialism and Democracy
 +
International Socialist Review
 +
Hester Eisenstein, Chair ..................... Department of Sociology, Queens College
 +
and the Graduate Center, CUNY
 +
Tithi Battacharya .....Associate Professor, South Asian History, Purdue University
 +
Kate Doyle Griffiths-Dingani ....................................Department of Anthropology,
 +
CUNY Graduate Center
 +
Ida Susser ........................................ Department of Anthropology, Hunter College
 +
and the Graduate Center, CUNY
 +
A Trial By Fire: From Moynihan to
 +
Today: Black Women Continue Fight
 +
for Human Rights in 21st Century
 +
1.66
 +
Betty Davis, Chair .................................................. New Abolitionist , Green Party,
 +
Free Lynne Stewart, Free Mumia
 +
Kisha Foster .................................... United African Movement and Freedom Party
 +
An-a Wilson ........................................................................Tri-County Womens Clubs
 +
Colia L Clark .............................................................................Grandmas for Mumia,
 +
Guadeloupe Haiti Tour Comm, Green Party
 +
Devonya Havis Walton .....................................................................Canisius College
 +
Kanene Holder ................................................Colin Powell Center For Policy Study
 +
Muna Mire ...................................................................................................Youngist.org
 
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
 
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
30
+
32
Brazilian Dilemma and Afro-American
+
This Is Not Justice; There Ought Not Be Peace:
Links: An Afro-Centred Mass Culture
+
Psychiatry, Capitalism, and State Power
Submitted to Structural Racism
+
1.67 Talk with Tenney Media blogtalkradio.com/TalkWithTenney
1.113 estrategiaeanalise.com.br
+
Lauren Tenney, Chair ............................................................. Talk with Tenney Radio
Bruno Lima Rocha, Chair ............. ESPM and Unisinos–estrategiaeanalise.com.br
+
Rachel Liebert
Cristian Salaini ............................................................................espm.br and Iacorec
+
Eva Dech
Edson Cadette ......................................................Afropress website–afropress.com
+
People with psychiatric histories
Kawaun Adon Akhenaten VII ............................................Constelltion International
+
Faultlines of the Medical Industrial Complex
Daniel Marks ........................................................Constellation Global International
+
1.69 Social Medicine (socialmedicine.info)
Is Post-Chavez Venezuela Still Leftist?
+
Robb Burlage, Chair
1.114
+
Matthew Anderson ........................................Social Medicine (socialmedicine.info);
Gabriel Fumero, Chair
+
Residency Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore
Steve Ellner........................................................Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela
+
John Ehrenreich
Eva Golinger
+
Oliver Fein
Dario Azzellini .......................................... Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
+
Carmelita Blake
Yes Peace, Yes Justice, But Only In
+
Robert Padgug ..................Brooklyn College, CUNY, Health & Nutrition Sciences
A Resourced-Based Economy
+
L. Toni Lewis
1.115 Zeitgeist NYC
+
Theory vs. Practice, or What is Praxis?
Harry Cason, Chair ............................................... College of Staten Island, CUNY
+
1.71 Zero Books
Julio Herrera ............................................................................................Zeitgeist NYC
+
Douglas Lain, Chair .......................................... Zero Books, author and podcaster
Johnny Hobbes .........................................................................................Kinhin Media
+
Michael Steinberg .......................................................................................Zero Books
Arjang Jameh ..........................................................................................Zeitgeist NYC
+
Frank Smecker ..............................................................................................Zero Books
Radical Archive Practice
+
Masha Tupitsyn .............................................................................................Zero Books
1.117 Radical Teacher
+
Christopher Vitale ........................................................................................Zero Books
Susan O’Malley, Chair ......................................................... Radical Teacher, CUNY
+
A Socialist Rethinking of Youth Gangs
Veronica Ordaz .......................................................................... Interference Archive
+
1.73
Andrea Vasquez .................................................... American Social History Project,
+
David Brotherton, Chair ............... Prof of Sociology John Jay and Grad Center
The Graduate Center, CUNY
+
Louis Kontos ...................................................... Prof of Sociology, John Jay College
Chloe Smolarski ...................................................... American Social History Project,
+
Antonio Fernandez......................... Former Latin Kings Leader and Street Activist
The Graduate Center, CUNY
+
Imagining Crisis and Maximizing
Kate Donovan ......................................................................... Tamimant Library, NYU
+
Radical Brand Equity
proudly present
+
1.75 Mask Magazine
Encuentros
+
New York Year Zero, Chair ................................................................................... POC
F O L K meets JA Z Z
+
McKenzie Wark
Guillermo Cardenas on percussion
+
MC Sole
and special appearance by Bernardo Palombo
+
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
June 13, 2015@7 pm
+
33
at St. Michael’s Church Sanctuary
+
 
Amsterdam Avenue between 99th and 100th Streets
+
'''How Should We as Comrades Respond to the Ferguson Rebellion and #BlackLivesMatter?'''
For more information and online tickets:
+
 
www.tallerlatino.org 212-665-9460
+
*[[John Maerhofer]], Chair  CUNY
www.saintmichaelschurch.org 212-222-2700
+
*[[Joseph Ramsey]] Univ. Mass. Boston
Encuentros is supported in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
+
*[[Clayton Brown]] Boston Teacher Residency Program
The Offices of Council Member Mark Levine and The National Endowment for the Arts
+
*[[A. Shahid Stover]] Editor-in-chief of [[Brotherwise Dispatch]]
Suggested Donation: $20
+
*[[Demetrius Noble]] UNC Greensboro
The event is wheelchair accessible
+
 
Hudson Valley Sally and The John Cantrell Trio
+
'''Racism by Another Name: Mayoral Control of Urban Education, Privatization & the Grassroots Fightback!'''
Songs of Social Justice
+
1.77 Getting Out From Under: A Human Rights Alternative to the
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
+
Corporate Model of Public Education in NYC (written and
31
+
published by iCOPE)
Not Hillary, Not Jeb: Stopping the Permanent
+
Benita Lovett-Rivera, Chair .............. iCOPE: Independent Commission On Public
Dictatorship of Austerity and War
+
Education
1.119 The United Front Against Austerity
+
& The Mothers’ Agenda NY (a.k.a. The MANY)l
Daniela Walls, Chair ......................................................................... Deputy Director
+
Victor Gibson ............................................................. Keep the Vote, No Take Over!
Webster Tarpley ...........United Front Against Austerity & Tax Wall Street Party
+
Sam Anderson .................. iCOPE: Independent Commission On Public Education,
Dylan Shelton ..................................... Tax Wall Street Party North Carolina Local
+
End Mayoral Control Campaign, CPE
Trotsky: A Revolutionary Life
+
Fatima Hafiz ....................................................Transformative Education Associates
1.121 International Socialist Review
+
Palestine/Israel and the 2016 Election
Ashley Smith, Chair
+
1.81
Paul LeBlanc ......................................................................................La Roche College
+
Julia Willebrand, Chair .............................................................. Green Party of NY
Ahmed Shawki ............................................................. International Socialist Review
+
Justine McCabe .......................................................................Green Party of the US
Pepijn Brandon ................Post Doctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh
+
Lenni Brenner .................................................................. Green Party of Connecticut
Transforming Community and Labor
+
Radical Democracy and Education: Possibilities
Organizing into Electoral Victory
+
and Challenges in One School and Beyond
1.123 Dialogue & Initiative
+
1.82
Pat Fry, Chair .... Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
+
[[Robert Lubetsky]], Chair ....................................... [[City College of New York]], CUNY
Andrea Miller .....................................................Progressive Democrats of America
+
William Stroud .....................................................................Long Beach High School
Paul Krehbiel ....................................................................................CCDS Los Angeles
+
Jason Warwin ..........................................................................Brotherhood/Sister Sol
Ethan Young .......................................................................................Left Labor Project
+
Palestine, Anti-Racism, and Academic Freedom
Rosie Mendez ..........................................................New York City Council Member
+
1.83 Haymarket Books
The Future of OccupyWallSt.nyc
+
Jason Farbman, Chair .................................................................... Haymarket Books
1.124 OccupyWallSt.nyc
+
Steven Salaita ............................................................................ Independent Scholar
Priscilla Grim, Chair ....................................................................... OccupyWallSt.nyc
+
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor .............................International Socialist Organization
Jack Abbott ......................................................................................OccupyWallSt.nyc
+
Jasbir Puar
Kelli Daley ................................................................Coordinator, OccupyWallSt.nyc
+
The Great War in Marxist Perspective
Muna Mire ................................................................Coordinator, OccupyWallSt.nyc
+
1.85 Science & Society
The U.S. Middle Class in Crisis: A Panel
+
Barbara Foley, Chair ..................................................................... Science & Society
in Honour of Randy Martin: Socialist
+
Peter Gardner ...................................................................... Temple University, Rome
Register 2015 Transforming Classes
+
Allen Ruff
1.125 Socialist Register
+
August Nimtz .......................................................................... University of Minnesota
Leo Panitch, Chair ................................................................. York University, Toronto
+
Margaret Stevens ..................................................................... Essex County College
John McCullough ..............................................Department of Film, York University
+
The Syrian Tragedy: Failure of the Left and
Jeff Goodwin............................................................Department of Sociology, NYU
+
the Need for a Movement of Solidarity
Greg Albo ............................................................... Political Science, York University
+
1.87 Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
Liza Featherstone ............................................... Political Science, Brooklyn College
+
Yasser Munif, Chair ......................................................................... Emerson College;
A Communist Road in the U.S.: How Do We Start?
+
Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
1.127 Kasama Project
+
Yusef Khalil ......................................................International Socialist Organization;
Robina Rai, Chair ............................................................................... Kasama Project
+
Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
Nat Winn ...............................................................................................Kasama Project
+
Joseph Daher ....................................................... Revolutionary Left Current (Syria)
Mike Ely .................................................................................................Kasama Project
+
U.S. Wars of Aggression & Islamic Jihad:
15 Now’s Strategy for the
+
What is the Bigger Danger and How Should
Low-Wage Worker Movement
+
the Antiwar Movement Respond?
1.129 Socialist Alternative
+
1.89
Dan Kroop, Chair ............................................................................................. 15 Now
+
Debra Sweet, Chair ....................................................................... World Can’t Wait
Elan Axelbank........................................................................... 15 Now Northeastern
+
William Blum .................................................................................. Anti-Empire Report
Marty Harrison .......................................................................... 15 Now Philadelphia
+
Alan Goodman ...............................................................................................Revolution
How Tribal Traditions To Capitalism
+
Roed Jarrar .....................................................American Friends Service Committee
To Hip Hop and Culture Met
+
David Swanson ........................................................................ WorldBeyondWar.org
1.61 Ankhlave Mind Media
+
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
David Acala, Chair ...................................................................................... Facilitator
+
34
Wadsworth Hall ............................................................................................... Speaker
+
Since 1979, El Taller’s conversational SPANISH
David Hall-Goldstein ................................................................................. Co-Curator
+
classes have been recognized by The Village
Art Against Capitalism: Past Experience,
+
Voice, The Daily News, The Columbia Spectator
Present Practices and Alternative Futures
+
and hundreds of satisfied students
1.63 Socialism and Democracy
+
Registration every month!
Mat Callahan, Chair
+
212 665 9460
Eli Smith
+
www.tallerlatino.org
Ana Ratner
+
LeaRn españoL
Marxist-Feminist Perspectives On
+
oYe! habLa! ConveRsa!
Neoliberalism, Austerity, War And Terror
+
with Art, Music, Poetry and Friends
1.65 Socialism and Democracy
+
Our students learn Spanish of the Americas
International Socialist Review
+
developing the most important aspect of the
Hester Eisenstein, Chair ..................... Department of Sociology, Queens College
+
Spanish language - the mastery of vowel
and the Graduate Center, CUNY
+
pronunciation and the significance of those
Tithi Battacharya .....Associate Professor, South Asian History, Purdue University
+
sounds to articulate the past, present and future
Kate Doyle Griffiths-Dingani ....................................Department of Anthropology,
+
“Climate Justice: The U.S. Left & the Problem of
CUNY Graduate Center
+
the State” Short Film Screening and Discussion on
Ida Susser ........................................ Department of Anthropology, Hunter College
+
the Current State of Youth-led Climate Movements
and the Graduate Center, CUNY
+
1.90 Responsible Endowments Coalition
A Trial By Fire: From Moynihan to
+
Nina Mariella Macapinlac, Chair .................. Responsible Endowments Coalition
Today: Black Women Continue Fight
+
Yves Nibungco ....................................................................................Anakbayan USA
for Human Rights in 21st Century
+
Jess Grady-Benson ..................................Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network/
1.66
+
Responsible Endowments Coalition
Betty Davis, Chair .................................................. New Abolitionist , Green Party,
+
Sean Estelle .............................................................................Energy Action Coalition
Free Lynne Stewart, Free Mumia
+
Jatnna Ramirez ...........................................................................................Global Kids
Kisha Foster .................................... United African Movement and Freedom Party
+
The Climate Mobilization: A Route to Reclaiming
An-a Wilson ........................................................................Tri-County Womens Clubs
+
Democracy and Preventing Ecological Collapse
Colia L Clark .............................................................................Grandmas for Mumia,
+
1.91
Guadeloupe Haiti Tour Comm, Green Party
+
Ashik Siddique, Chair ....................................................... The Climate Mobilization
Devonya Havis Walton .....................................................................Canisius College
+
Margaret Klein Salamon ...................................................The Climate Mobilization
Kanene Holder ................................................Colin Powell Center For Policy Study
+
Ezra Silk ................................................................................The Climate Mobilization
Muna Mire ...................................................................................................Youngist.org
+
Campaign for 100% Green Energy in NYS by 2030
 +
1.92
 +
Mark Dunlea, Chair ............................................ Green Education and Legal Fund
 +
Betta Broad ............................................................................................ Renewable NY
 +
Gloria Mattera ............................................................................Green Party of NYS
 +
The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics,
 +
and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas
 +
1.93 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination
 +
Bruno Gulli, Chair ..................................................................... CUNY–Kingsborough
 +
Federico Luisetti ...........................The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 +
Sorin Radu Cucu .........................................LaGuardia Community College–CUNY
 +
 
 +
'''Sea Changes: China and the World Since 2008'''
 +
 
 +
*[[Gary Hicks]], Chair  [[Artworks for the People]] Berkeley CA
 +
*[[Wahd’i Halabi]]  [[Center for Marxist Education]], Cambridge MA
 +
*[[Duncan McFarland]]  [[Center for Marxist Education]], Cambridge MA
 +
*[[David Ewing]] [[U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association]]
 +
 
 +
'''Occupy the Commons: Resisting the Feudalistic Kleptocratic Stranglehold on our Economy'''
 +
 
 +
Yannis Tziligakis, Chair ............................................... Georgist Economic Taskforce
 +
Mike Curtis ................................................Henry George School of Social Science,
 +
The Arden Land Trust, Arden, DE
 +
Fred Harrison ..........................Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation
 
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
 
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
32
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35
This Is Not Justice; There Ought Not Be Peace:
+
Commons, Alternative Organizations, and Turkey
Psychiatry, Capitalism, and State Power
+
L2.81
1.67 Talk with Tenney Media blogtalkradio.com/TalkWithTenney
+
Eylem Delikanli, Chair ........................................ RIT | Research Institute on Turkey
Lauren Tenney, Chair ............................................................. Talk with Tenney Radio
+
Ozgur Narin .................................................................... Research Institute on Turkey
Rachel Liebert
+
Ali Yalçın Göymen ...........................................YTU Department of Political Science
Eva Dech
+
and International Relations
People with psychiatric histories
+
 
Faultlines of the Medical Industrial Complex
+
'''New Phase of the Struggle in Greece'''
1.69 Social Medicine (socialmedicine.info)
+
 
Robb Burlage, Chair
+
[[Socialist Alternative]]
Matthew Anderson ........................................Social Medicine (socialmedicine.info);
+
 
Residency Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore
+
*[[Alan Akrivos]], Chair  [[Socialist Alternative]]
John Ehrenreich
+
*[[Despina Lalaki]]  [[Greek Left Solidarity Movement]]
Oliver Fein
+
*[[Andreas Karras]] [[Syriza NYC]]
Carmelita Blake
+
 
Robert Padgug ..................Brooklyn College, CUNY, Health & Nutrition Sciences
+
Marxist-Humanist Philosophy’s Role
L. Toni Lewis
+
in Confronting Today’s Global Crises:
Theory vs. Practice, or What is Praxis?
+
Greece and Syriza; Bosnia and Syria;
1.71 Zero Books
+
Racism vs. Black Lives Matter
Douglas Lain, Chair .......................................... Zero Books, author and podcaster
+
3.76 News & Letters
Michael Steinberg .......................................................................................Zero Books
+
Susan Stellar, Chair ........................................................................... Retired teacher
Frank Smecker ..............................................................................................Zero Books
+
Franklin Dmitryev ........................................................News and Letters Committees
Masha Tupitsyn .............................................................................................Zero Books
+
Fred Mecklenburg .......................................................News and Letters Committees
Christopher Vitale ........................................................................................Zero Books
+
Mohammed Elnaiem .......................................................Student, Bucknell University
A Socialist Rethinking of Youth Gangs
+
Unfurling Hong Kong’s Umbrella
1.73
+
Movement: Intro & Documentary
David Brotherton, Chair ............... Prof of Sociology John Jay and Grad Center
+
3.78
Louis Kontos ...................................................... Prof of Sociology, John Jay College
+
Sean Starrs, Chair .......................................................City University of Hong Kong
Antonio Fernandez......................... Former Latin Kings Leader and Street Activist
+
Shannon Walsh ............................................................City University of Hong Kong
Imagining Crisis and Maximizing
+
Vicky Do .......................................................................City University of Hong Kong
Radical Brand Equity
+
The 2001 Anthrax Attacks and
1.75 Mask Magazine
+
the Challenge to the Left
New York Year Zero, Chair ................................................................................... POC
+
3.79 911TruthOutreach.org
McKenzie Wark
+
Cathleen McGuire, Chair ............................................................ Truth Outreach, Inc.
MC Sole
+
Meryl Nass
SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM
+
Barry Kissin
33
+
Graeme MacQueen
How Should We as Comrades Respond to the
+
FILM: ‘Still We Ride’ 10 Years After…
Ferguson Rebellion and #BlackLivesMatter?
+
A Recent History of Critical Mass
1.76
+
3.80 dedicated-lane.com
John Maerhofer, Chair ....................................................................................... CUNY
+
Stephen Arthur, Chair ............................................................................................ NYC
Joseph Ramsey ................................................................................Univ. Mass. Boston
+
FILM: Control
Clayton Brown ...................................................Boston Teacher Residency Program
+
3.81
A. Shahid Stover ........................................ Editor-in-chief of Brotherwise Dispatch
+
Chris Bravo, Chair
Demetrius Noble............................................................................... UNC Greensboro
+
Robert Pluma
Racism by Another Name:
+
Devon Brandon
Mayoral Control of Urban Education,
+
Live From Academia!: Bringing the Insight of
Privatization & the Grassroots Fightback!
+
the Ivory Tower to the Energy of the Masses
1.77 Getting Out From Under: A Human Rights Alternative to the
+
8.61
Corporate Model of Public Education in NYC (written and
+
Henry Schwarz, Chair ..................... Georgetown University, Professor of English
published by iCOPE)
+
Terrell Taylor ............................University of Mary Washington, adjunct instructor
Benita Lovett-Rivera, Chair .............. iCOPE: Independent Commission On Public
+
Mike Isaacson .................................................The New School for Social Research,
Education
+
Capital, Race and the Reshaping
& The Mothers’ Agenda NY (a.k.a. The MANY)l
+
of Adult Basic Education
Victor Gibson ............................................................. Keep the Vote, No Take Over!
+
8.69
Sam Anderson .................. iCOPE: Independent Commission On Public Education,
+
Erik Jacobson, Chair ........................................................ Montclair State University
End Mayoral Control Campaign, CPE
+
Adam Nathanson ...............................................Virginia Commonwealth University
Fatima Hafiz ....................................................Transformative Education Associates
+
Julie Quinton ......................................................................Make the Road New York
Palestine/Israel and the 2016 Election
+
The Challenges of Building a Revolutionary
1.81
+
Organization in the Working Class Today
Julia Willebrand, Chair .............................................................. Green Party of NY
+
8.72 Speak Out Now
Justine McCabe .......................................................................Green Party of the US
+
Marcus Lissey, Chair .......................................................................... Speak Out Now
Lenni Brenner .................................................................. Green Party of Connecticut
+
Joan Berezin ........................................................................................Speak Out Now
Radical Democracy and Education: Possibilities
+
Kip Waldo
and Challenges in One School and Beyond
+
Kimberly Serrano .................................
1.82
 
Robert Lubetsky, Chair ....................................... City College of New York, CUNY
 
William Stroud .....................................................................Long Beach High School
 
Jason Warwin ..........................
 
 
SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM
 
SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM
62
+
63
Celebrating
+
FILM: Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley
25 years of
+
1.123
supporting the
+
Lucy Pagoada-Quesada, Chair ........Colectivo Honduras USA Resistencia=libre
children of resistance!
+
 
www.rfc.org
+
 
No Working Class Media Voice; No Democracy
+
'''Toward a Mass Left Party'''
1.108
+
[[The North Star]]
Frank Emspak, Chair
+
 
Howard Kling
+
*[[Loren Anderson]], Chair [[Philly Socialists]]
John Anderson
+
*[[Louis Proyect]] [[North Star]] founder & editor
Sam Mayfield
+
*[[Stephanie Altimari]] [[Philly Socialists]]
Youth in Revolt:
+
*[[Jim Brash]] [[North Star]] & [[Green Party USA]]
The International Role of Youth on the Left
+
 
1.109
+
'''Neoliberalism and the Importance of the Radical Imagination'''
Alexi Shalom, Chair .............. Students for Justice in Palestine at Hunter College
+
 
Arielle Newton ......................................................................................Black Millenials
+
[[Red Wedge]] magazine
Irving Perez ................................................................................Raza Youth Collective
+
 
Angelica Lara .............................................................. Frente Estudiantil Ayotzinapa
+
*[[Alexander Billet]], Chair  [[Red Wedge]] magazine
Chrissi Fabro ........................................................................................Anakbayan–NY
+
*[[Nikeeta Slade]] [[Red Wedge]] magazine
Colombian Women’s Struggles:
+
*[[Adam Turl]] [[Red Wedge]] magazine
Overcoming Violence and Oppression
+
 
by Becoming Agents of Change
+
'''Confronting the Retirement Crisis: The Campaign to Expand Social Security Benefits'''
1.113 Movement for Peace in Colombia
+
 
Julio Bedoya, Chair ........................................... Movement for Peace in Colombia
+
James W. Russell, Chair ............ Connecticut Committee for Equity in Retirement
Sebastian Ramirez ........................................................................Princeton University
+
Eric Kingson .............................................................................. Social Security Works!
Melissa Cox ......................................................................................Witness for Peace
+
Alex Lawson ............................................................................. Social Security Works!
Natalia Caruso .......................................
+
Worker Coops, Labor and Cities: How New Thinking
 +
Is Building Economic Power from the Ground Up
 +
1.129 Union-Coops Council, US Federation of Worker Coops
 +
Abby Scher, Chair .......................
 
SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM
 
SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM
72
+
73
Anarchism, Socialist Humanism,
+
Poetry of Resistance:
and Libertarian Marxism
 
1.124
 
Kevin Anderson, Chair ............................ University of California, Santa Barbara
 
Barbara Epstein .............................................University of California, Santa Cruz
 
Joan Braune ....................................................... Mount Mary University, Milwaukee
 
Reject the Student-Worker Binary! Undergraduate
 
Student Labor Organizing on Campus
 
1.125
 
Anais Surkin, Chair ........................................................................... GEO-UAW2322
 
Beth Huang .................................................................. Student Labor Action Project
 
Jenna Grady ..............................................................................................UAW 2322
 
Jessica Linder ...........................................................Ohio University RA Union Drive
 
Jonah Walters ...................................................Student & Labor Action Movement
 
Avery Fürst ..................................................................................................UAW 2322
 
Deepening Technological Changes in
 
the Workplace, Workers’ Organizing,
 
and Marx’s Mature Critical Theory
 
1.127 New Politics
 
Jason Schulman, Chair ............................................................................. New Politics
 
Kevin O’Brien
 
Bhairavi Desai ....................................................... New York Taxi Workers Alliance
 
Russell Rockwell ......................................................................... Independent Scholar
 
Living Near a Deadly Neighbor: A Coalition’s
 
Struggle to Achieve Good Jobs and a Clean
 
Environment Near the New Jersey/ New York Port
 
1.129
 
Isella Ramirez, Chair ....................................... Ironbound Community Corporation
 
Ana Baptista .......................................................................................The New School
 
David Bensman
 
SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM
 
73
 
Poetry of Resistance:
 
 
Imagining the Overthrow of Capitalist Oppression
 
Imagining the Overthrow of Capitalist Oppression
 
1.61 National Writers Union
 
1.61 National Writers Union
Line 5,007: Line 3,516:
 
Peter Goldberg ............................................................................. Brooklyn Bail Fund
 
Peter Goldberg ............................................................................. Brooklyn Bail Fund
 
Carl Williams ............................. American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
 
Carl Williams ............................. American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
An Indigenous Peoples’ History
+
 
and the Struggle for Justice
+
'''An Indigenous Peoples’ History and the Struggle for Justice'''
1.99
+
 
Mike Bento, Chair ................................ #BlackLivesMatter, Unite Against Fascism,
+
*[[Mike Bento]], Chair #BlackLivesMatter, [[Unite Against Fascism]], [[Marxist Education Project]]
Marxist Education Project
+
*[[Ibrahim Diallo]] [[Marxist Education Project]]
Ibrahim Diallo ....................................................................Marxist Education Project
+
*[[Fantasia Painter]]  [[alterNative Education]] Executive Director, [[Salt River Pima–Maricopa]]
Fantasia Painter .................................... alterNative Education Executive Director,
+
*[[Ghassan Fawzi]] [[Umm al Fahim]], Israel;  
Salt River Pima–Maricopa
+
*[[Abna al Balad]]; [[Red Front]]; Columbia University; [[1199 SEIU]] delegate
Ghassan Fawzi .............................................Umm al Fahim, Israel; Abna al Balad;
+
 
Red Front; Columbia University; 1199 SEIU delegate
+
'''Capturing Land Value Revenue from Condo Criminals'''
Capturing Land Value Revenue
 
from Condo Criminals
 
 
L2.80
 
L2.80
 
Marty Rowland, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Task Force
 
Marty Rowland, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Task Force
Line 5,045: Line 3,552:
 
Creative Tools, Creating Change:
 
Creative Tools, Creating Change:
 
Deconstructing Systems of Power, Privilege and
 
Deconstructing Systems of Power, Privilege and
Oppression Using Theatre of the Oppressed
+
Oppression Using Theatre of the Oppressed
3.78
+
3.78
S. Leigh Thompson, Chair .............................................................. The Forum Project
+
S. Leigh Thompson, Chair .............................................................. The Forum Project
Charles Shealy
+
Charles Shealy
Clara Kiely .......................................................................................The Forum Project
+
Clara Kiely .......................................................................................The Forum Project
Assessing Potential for Combative Syndicalism in
+
Assessing Potential for Combative Syndicalism in
the U.S.: Adapting Structures and Tactics of Quebec
+
the U.S.: Adapting Structures and Tactics of Quebec
Student Movement for Organizing in the States
+
Student Movement for Organizing in the States
3.79
+
3.79
Ryan Thomson, Chair ........................................... International Student Movement,
+
Ryan Thomson, Chair ........................................... International Student Movement,
Students for a Democratic Society
+
Students for a Democratic Society
Rushdia Mehreen .............................................. Student and community organizer,
+
Rushdia Mehreen .............................................. Student and community organizer,
Previously ASSÉ committee member
+
Previously ASSÉ committee member
Aaron Dixon ...........................................................Author of My People Are Rising:
+
Aaron Dixon ...........................................................Author of My People Are Rising:
Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
+
Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
Sean Estelle ..............National Divestment Campaigner, Energy Action Coalition
+
Sean Estelle ..............National Divestment Campaigner, Energy Action Coalition
Biola Jeje ................................Ex-organizer with Brooklyn College Student Union
+
Biola Jeje ................................Ex-organizer with Brooklyn College Student Union
and New York Students Rising
+
and New York Students Rising
Benjamin Gingras ................................. ASSÉ Committee member, IWW Montreal
+
Benjamin Gingras ................................. ASSÉ Committee member, IWW Montreal
FILM: PAH Film
+
FILM: PAH Film
3.80
+
3.80
Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus, Chair
+
Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus, Chair
Youth Self Expression as Education:
+
Youth Self Expression as Education:
 
+
 
===Making Movies and Poetry in Jail and the Barrio===
+
'''Making Movies and Poetry in Jail and the Barrio'''
 
+
 
*Simin Farkhondeh, Chair .................................................................. Democracy Now
+
*[[Simin Farkhondeh]], Chair [[Democracy Now]]
*DeeDee Halleck .........................................................................Deep Dish Television
+
*[[DeeDee Halleck]] [[Deep Dish Television]]
*Jesus Papoleto Melendez ....................................................................... 2 Leaf Press
+
*[[Jesus Papoleto Melendez]] [[2 Leaf Press]]
 
+
 
===Just Information for All===
+
'''Just Information for All'''
 
+
 
*Meghan Maurus, Chair ................................................................................... Just Info
+
*[[Meghan Maurus]], Chair [[Just Info]]
*Nathan Sheard .................................................................................................Just Info
+
*[[Nathan Sheard]] [[Just Info]]
*Moira Meltzer-Cohen ......................................................................................Just Info
+
*[[Moira Meltzer-Cohen]] [[Just Info]]
*William Eric Waters ........................................................................................Just Info
+
*[[William Eric Waters]] [[Just Info]]
*Rebecca Heinegg
+
*[[Rebecca Heinegg]]
 
+
 
===Common Core and the End of History===
+
'''Common Core and the End of History'''
 +
 
 +
*[[Felica Hirata]], Chair  Baruch-CUNY
 +
*[[Alan Singer]] Hofstra University
 +
*[[Maram Mabrouk]]  North Shore High School
 +
*[[Harrison Rubenfeld]]  Civic Leadership Academy, Queens, NY
 +
*[[Laura Bauer]] Oceanside (NY) Middle School
 +
*[[Rob Schimenz]] Queens Vocational and Technical High School
 +
*[[Pablo Muriel]] Bronx Design and Construction HS
 +
 
 +
'''ABCs of Squatting'''
 +
 
 +
*[[Frank Morales]], Chair  New York City housing activist and a radical Episcopalian priest
 +
*[[Bill DiPaola]]
 +
*[[Mette Pedersen]] International squatter
 +
 
 +
'''Taking the U.S. to the World Court on Human Rights'''
 +
 
 +
*[[Ejim Dike]], Chair[[US Human Rights Network]]
 +
*[[Jamil Dakwar]] [[American Civil Liberties Union]]
 +
*[[Fahed Ahemd]] [[DRUM]]–South Asian Organizing Center
 +
*[[Roberto Mukaro Borrero]] [[International Indian Treaty Council]]
 +
*[[Marbre Stahly-Butts]] [[Center for Popular Democracy]]
 +
*[[Sofia Campos]] [[United We Dream]]
 +
 
 +
'''Creating Interfaith Dialog in Schools'''
 +
 
 +
*[[Divpreet Kaur]], Chair[[Junior Sikh Coalition]]
 +
*[[Sunpreet Singh]] [[Junior Sikh Coalition]]
 +
*[[Amani Zeinab Mohamed]] [[Interfaith Center of NY]]
 +
*[[Torendra Kalicharan]][[Junior Sikh Coalition]]
 +
*[[Dawud Omar]] [[AAANY]]
 +
 
 +
==References==
  
*Felica Hirata, Chair .............................................................................. Baruch-CUNY
 
*Alan Singer ......................................................................................Hofstra University
 
*Maram Mabrouk ................................................................ North Shore High School
 
*Harrison Rubenfeld ................................. Civic Leadership Academy, Queens, NY
 
*Laura Bauer .............................................................Oceanside (NY) Middle School
 
*Rob Schimenz .................................Queens Vocational and Technical High School
 
*Pablo Muriel .......................................................Bronx Design and Construction HS
 
 
===ABCs of Squatting===
 
 
*Frank Morales, Chair ....................................... New York City housing activist and a radical Episcopalian priest
 
*Bill DiPaola
 
*Mette Pedersen ........................................................................International squatter
 
 
===Taking the U.S. to the World Court on Human Rights===
 
 
*Ejim Dike, Chair .................................................................US Human Rights Network
 
*Jamil Dakwar ..............................................................American Civil Liberties Union
 
*Fahed Ahemd .............................................DRUM–South Asian Organizing Center
 
*Roberto Múkaro Borrero ..................................International Indian Treaty Council
 
*Marbre Stahly-Butts .................................................Center for Popular Democracy
 
*Sofia Campos ..................................................................................United We Dream
 
 
===A Conversation Amongst Youth on Creating Interfaith Dialog in Schools===
 
 
*Divpreet Kaur, Chair..................................................................[[Junior Sikh Coalition]]
 
*Sunpreet Singh ............................................................................[[Junior Sikh Coalition]]
 
*Amani Zeinab Mohamed ...................................................... [[Interfaith Center of NY]]
 
*Torendra Kalicharan ...................................................................[[Junior Sikh Coalition]]
 
*Dawud Omar ......................................................................................................[[AAANY]]
 
 
==References==
 
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{{Conferences}}
 
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[[Category:Left Forum]]
 
[[Category:Democratic Socialists of America]]
 
[[Category:Democratic Socialists of America]]

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Left Forum 2015:[1]

BOARD MEMBERS

VOLUNTEERS, INTERNS, & ACTIVISTS

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NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!

"The 2015 Left Forum will take place in a period of excitement and challenge. In Greece and Spain the Left has either taken power or is on the verge of it. At home, police violence is now being contested by a popular upsurge of protest and resistance. And facing a solid reactionary front, president Obama has finally shown signs that the administration, however hesitantly, is responding to deep mass disaffection.
"From the recent Syriza victory in the Greek elections and movements against austerity throughout Europe to the spread of horizontal democratic politics around the world, and from the nationwide activism arising out of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movements, to the growing momentum to end the Cuban embargo, recent events and left politics in the current year are shaping up to be pivotal.
"The conditions of the rise of these transformative politics are daunting: the twin economic and ecological crises persist with predictable social consequences: deepening inequalities of wealth and income, erosion of civil liberties, and dangerous scapegoating by those not facing the systemic nature of our problems. The promises of the political and corporate elite for democratic rights and freedom ring evermore hollow in the court of public opinion. They are like warped nightmares of a reality in which most democracies are strangling the promise of “we the people” with democratic hierarchies that privilege capitalist ideologies in every public and private institution.
"Simultaneously, the global economic and political system is inflaming violent conflicts, while pushing populations of many countries into permanent wars of conquest. Within national borders, capitalism now relies increasingly on military and police forces to intervene brutally to maintain the system by subordinating ever more groups. And this transpires while the surveillance state apparatus pours-over and tears into more and more of everyone’s public and private lives.
"In the past decade we have experienced a series of climate-related catastrophes: extreme weather that, among other events, has destroyed crops and precipitated unprecedented hurricanes that have devastated many cities and towns throughout the globe. Meanwhile, the powers that be sanction the depletion of the earth’s non-renewable resources while basically ignoring warnings from environmentalists that the clock is ticking towards a planetary point of no return. Clearly, we need radical solutions that entail a major re-evaluation of capitalism’s viability.
"More than ever, we need to assemble and mobilize the fast-growing ranks of those able and willing to face these problems. As the systems that supposedly were built to sustain society fail so many so badly, activists for democracy, sustainability, equality, and the abolition of oppression and exploitation increasingly grasp their shared demand for basic social justice. Yet these are times when the usual liberal democratic remedies have lost their relevance.
"Pressing questions loom for justice seeking social forces: What is to be done today when a reform brings us one step forward, while leaving other important struggles worse off in the process? What type of movements will it take to overcome such challenges? What type of institutions, systems and societal conditions are possible when transformed conditions of justice no longer take the forms of, “the aggrieved speaking to the grievance alleviators”?
"How do these issues raise the question of confronting and ending the crises of capitalism and democracy?
"Please come analyze, debate, build, ally, and strategize at Left Forum 2015.

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THANKS TO OUR COMRADES

EXHIBITION AND SOCIAL SPACE

"All weekend in the atrium and lobby areas. The Exhibition offers a dynamic social and networking space for conference attendees. Come see many organizations, publishers, and artists including:"


CLOSING PLENARY 6:30–8:45PM A National Left Politics? M. Adams, Pamela Brown, Glen Ford, Tom Hayden, Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor GYM. 78 18 SESSION A: 5:00 – 6:45PM 19 SESSION A: 5:00 – 6:45PM FRIDAY 5/29 SESSION A 5:00 – 6:45PM The Internet and the World’s Struggle for Survival: The Next Five Years L.76 Alfredo Lopez, Chair............................................................... May First/People Link Juan Gerardo Dominguez Carrasco .................. May First/People Link – Mexico Ahmed Ogunlaja ....................................................................... Open Access Nigeria Malkia Cyril ......................................................................... Center for Media Justice Shahzad Ahmad ......................................................................Bytes for All - Pakistan Seeta Peña Gangadharan .............................................. Open Technology Institute Joseph Torres ................................................................................................. Free Press Jackie Smith ........................................... International Network of Scholar Activists Building the Black Lives Matter Movement:Assessments and Perspectives

Against the Narrative: Independent Media and The Left L2.85 The Julianna Forlano Show / WBAI Julianna Forlano, Chair .............. WBAI / The Progressive Voices Radio Network Paul Jay ................................................................................. The Real News Network Glen Ford ...................................................................................Black Agenda Report Eddie Conway ...........................................Former Black Panther, for forty years a political prisoner, now with The Real News Network Building a Global Solidarity Movement 1.76 Mary Taylor, Chair .......Assistant Director, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics CUNY Graduate Center David Scheller Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus ..........................................Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) Prachi Pantanker ..................................................... South Asian Solidarity Network Leocadia Diaz Romero ............................................................... University of Murcia Sports, Resistance, and Black Lives Matter 1.77 Left Forum Dave Zirin, Chair .......................................................................................... The Nation Ariyana Smith .........................Knox College, Allies for Sexual Assault Prevention Etan Thomas ..................................................................................NBA, Pacifica Radio OPENING PLENARY 7:00–9:15PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL SYRIZA, PODEMOS, LEFT BLOC, AND THE LEFT: A EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS? EDUARDO MAURA, VICENTE NAVARRO, LEO PANITCH, CATARINA PRINCIPE, & KONSTANTINOS TSOUKALAS LAURA FLANDERS: MODERATOR/INTERLOCUTOR KRISTIN LAWLER: HOST AND INTERLOCUTOR SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 20 SATURDAY 5/30 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM The Confiscation of American Prosperity L2.84 Julio Huato, Chair ........................................ Science & Society, St. Francis College Michael Hudson .................................................University of Missouri (Kansas City) Michael Perelman Entertainment Superpower: Media Technology and the American Empire L2.85 Alexa O’Brien, Chair Chris Hedges Tim Shorrock Ahmed Ghappour Ray Nowosielski Climate Justice and Energy Democracy L.76 Green Party of New York State Howie Hawkins, Chair ............................................................................. Green Party Sean Sweeney .................................................Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Jill Stein ..........................................................Green Party Candidate for President Mark Dunlea ......................................................... Green Education and Legal Fund DC Metro Science For The People: How Can Science Be Used To Empower Rather Than Undermine Communities? 1.100 dc metro science for the people: dcmetrosftp.org David Schwartzman, Chair ................................. dc metro science for the people John Tharakan .........................................................dc metro science for the people Mai Abdul Rahman .................................................dc metro science for the people Jane Zara Does The United Front Against Austerity And The Tax Wall Street Party Have The Demands Needed For Jobs And Justice? 1.101 Daniela Walls, Chair ........................... Chairperson of the Tax Wall Street Party Perry Thomas Marrs III ..............................................United Front Against Austerity & Tax Wall Street Party, Austin Local Evan Papp ...................................................................United Front Against Austerity Founding Member, Maryland Local Multi-Racial Coalitions for Prison Divestment: Confronting Mass Incarceration and Detentions and Building Black and Brown Unity 1.103 Daniel Carrillo, Chair ......................................................................................... Enlace Ian Trupin ............................................................. Responsible Endowments Coalition Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye ...............................Black Alliance for Just Immigration Cindy Martinez .......................................................................... Families For Freedom Conceptualizing Post-Capitalist Transition in the Age of Imperialism and Terrorism 1.105 Institute for Peace and Progress Danish Khan, Chair ....................................... University of Massachusetts–Amherst Shahram Azhar ...............................................University of Massachusetts–Amherst Ricardo Fuentes-Ramírez ................................................................. UMASS–Amherst Organizing in the Internet Era: Building an All-Purpose Democratic Platform on the Web 1.107 Kilian Walsh, Chair ................................................................................... NYU Physics Patrick Cooper............................................................................................NYU Physics Michael Skirpan . Human Centered Computing, University of Colorado Boulder Slave Routes: A Global Vision 1.108 AfrobeatRadio, WBAI Radio, FOTC, UNESCO Sheila Walker, Chair ..................................................................... Afrodiaspora, Inc. Wuyi Jacobs Manbo Dòwòti Désir.................................................... The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) Tyrene Wright ..............................AfrobeatRadio, African Women for Africa, Inc. Overturning the Culture of White Violence: A Call for White People to Stand in Solidarity with African Liberation and Reparations 1.109 Uhuru Solidarity, Chair ................................................................................ Movement Jesse Nevel ......................................................................Uhuru Solidarity Movement Penny Hess .................................................... African People’s Solidarity Committee

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Center for Economic and Policy Research Humanity & Haiti– Building the Haitian Bond: A Role in the Evolution of Humanity 1.115 21-Michel Alexendre Sacha Vington, Chair............................................................... HumanityEvolutionMovement.org Patrick Hilton .............................................................................. Hilton and Associates Pojanee Fleury ..........................................................................Brown Eyez Magazine Building Revolutionary Autonomy: A Discussion with Woodbine 1.117 Stephanie Wakefield, Chair Glen Dyer Frank Coughlin From Syriza to Syracuse: How Can Elected Radicals Fight Austerity from Above? 1.119 Michael O’Neil, Chair .......................................... Green Party of New York State Peter LaVenia ......................................................... Green Party of New York State David Doonan ......................................................Mayor, Village of Greenwich, NY Meszaros and Strategies for the Emancipatory Transition 1.121 Monthly Review Irv Kurki, Chair ............................................................................ essential discussions Anne Pomeroy ..................................................................... Richard Stockton College David Holmquist ..................................................................... researcher and activist Paul Raekstad .................................... PhD Candidate at University of Cambridge A Maple Autumn? The Struggle Against Austerity in Quebec 1.123 International Socialist Review Ashley Smith, Chair .................................................... International Socialist Review Sandrine Dobson .................................................................................................... ASSÉ Jean-Michel Savard .............................................................................................. ASSÉ Stefan Christoff ...................................................Radio Host with CKUT in Montreal Now in Vol. 79! Science & Society A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis www.scienceandsociety.com Subs: info@guilford.com Published quarterly since 1936, S&S specializes in serious Marxism, without boundaries or binaries: no economics vs. culture, theory vs. history, west vs. east, classics vs. innovation. Just solid, critical scholarship. From recent issues: Capitalism and Unfree Labor, Tom Brass ● The Universal Class, Paddy Quick ● Daniel Bensaïd’s Joan of Arc, Josep Maria Antentas ● RED ON BLACK: Marxist Encounters with Anarchism (Special Issue), ed. John P. Pittman SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 23 Network Movements: The Changing Tide of Politics 1.124 Luis Moreno-Caballud, Chair ........................................ University of Pennsylvania Pablo Benson ...............................................................Movement Net Lab & LIU Post Tamara Shapiro ............................................................................... Movement Netlab Bernardo Gutiérrez Gan Golan ....................................................................................... Movement Netlab Union Power: Boston School Bus Drivers Take on Goliath 1.125 Workers World Newspaper Tony Murphy, Chair ............................................................................ Team Solidarity Andre Francois ................................ Boston School Bus Drivers Union (USW 8751) Steve Gillis ...................................... Boston School Bus Drivers Union (USW 8751) The Millennium at 15: Protest, Power and the Socialist Vision 1.127 The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation Suzi Weissman, Chair ...................................... Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA Hillel Ticktin ..........................................................................................Critique Journal Natassa Romanou .............................................................................Syriza-New York Christina Kaindl .....................................DIE LINKE, Head of Strategy Department The Levity of the Left, the Materiality of Power: Bodies and Organization 1.129 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Stanley Aronowitz, Chair ......................................................... CUNY and Situations Konstantinos Tsoukalas ..................Syriza and Member of the Greek Parliament Arto Artinian ...............................................................................CUNY and Situations Leo Panitch Peter Bratsis For Love, Music, Shared Spaces and Economies: De/Post-Colonial Resistance Strategies 1.61 Erica Kohl-Arenas, Chair ................................ New School for Public Engagement Fabiola Berdiel ..................................................New School for Public Engagement Rebecca Hollender............................................New School for Public Engagement Jacquelin Kataneksza.......................................New School for Public Engagement Sara Shroff ........................................................New School for Public Engagement

Intelligentsia, Working Class, and the “Spirit of Generalization” Through the Lens of Organic Intellectuals of the Working Class (OIWC) Bronislaw Czarnocha, Chair .......................................................... Hostos CC, CUNY Jarekh Stelmark ...............................................................................Hostos CC, CUNY Dennis Speed ................................................................Executive Intelligence Review

(Re)producing Capital: Theorizing the Relationships Between Oppression and Exploitation 1.65 Ariane Fischer, Chair ........................... Associate Professor, Intellectual Heritage, Temple University Kanishka Chowdhury ................................University of Saint Thomas St. Paul, MN Carolyn Elerding ....................................................................... Ohio State University Joseph Ramsey ................................................................................Univ. Mass. Boston Women Who Walk On the Tongues of Lions 1.66 Betty Davis, Chair .................................................. New Abolitionist , Green Party, Free Lynne Stewart, Free Mumia Leola Maddock ............................. United African Movement and Freedom Party Devonya Havis Walton .....................................................................Canisius College Kanene Holder ................................................Colin Powell Center For Policy Study Muna Mire ...................................................................................................Youngist.org New Mad Pride Movement: “Schizophrenics” and “Bipolars” as the New Spiritual Vanguard? 1.67 Seth Farber, Chair Sascha Altman DuBrul ................................................................... Icarus Project NYC Lauren Tenney Healthcare Restructuring: Neoliberalism and the Assault on the Social Wage 1.69 Physicians for a National Health Program Martha Livingston, Chair..................... Physicians for a National Health Program –NY Metro Chapter Christos Giovanopoulos ....................................................................Solidarity for All Sean Petty ...........................................................................................................NYSNA Martha Kuhl ............................................................................National Nurses United Adam Gaffney ......................................Physicians for a National Health Program Mark Dudzic .................................Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care 5 Economic Lies 1.71 No. Marty Rowland, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Task Force Kim Baxter ............................................................ NYC Land & Money Study Group B. Allen Barndt ......................................................... Taos Institute/Tilburg University Achieving Justice for the Wrongfully Incarcerated 1.73 #MarchForJustice David Bliven, Chair ......................................... International Socialist Organization Sharonne Salaam .............................................................................#MarchForJustice Yusef Salaam ....................................................................................#MarchForJustice Raymond Santana ............................................................................#MarchForJustice Lynne Stewart SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 24 Occupy Wall Street Black Lives Matter 1.75 Sumumba Sobukwe, Chair ............................... Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Alejandrina Murphy ..................... Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)/Stop Mass Incarceration Bill Johnsen .............................. Occupy Sandy (Walk For Justice and Democracy) Robert Hernandez ............................................. Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)

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1.76 Science & Society Adam Stevens, Chair Morgan Horowitz ...................................................................Lehman College, CUNY Russell Dale .......................................................................................Science & Society Stephanie Foard ................................................................Park Slope Collegiate HS Black Internationalism, Multiculturalism and the Contemporary Crises in Capitalism: Between the Black Radical Tradition and the Local/Global Nexus 1.77 Darryl Thomas, Chair ................................................ Pennsylvania State University Youb Kim ................................................................. University of Northern Colorado Zulema Blair ................................................................................CUNY Medgar Evers Ahmed Banya ................................................................................................Penn State Lindah Mhando .....................................................................................Duke University Organizing Grad Student, Contingent, and Tenure-Track Faculty: A Fight Against Corporatization for the Soul of Higher Education 1.81 Kathryn Eskew, Chair .......................................................................... Hilbert College Ruth Wangerin ......................................................................College of Staten Island Joe Richard ..................................................................................... Rutgers AAUP-AFT Natasha Raheja.......................... Graduate Student Organizing Committee, NYU

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Marilyn Levin, Chair ........................................................................................... UNAC Sara Flounders ................................................................ International Action Center Joe Lombardo ........................................................................................................UNAC SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY sdonline.org “Socialism and Democracyhas a venerable reputation of uniquely providing socialists and leftists of all perspectives with consistently rigorous analytic and historical essays on the most urgent questions of our time. In this period of capitalist repression and upheaval, I strongly recommend Socialism and Democracy as essential reading for all leftists who seek to unify theory and praxis.” Immanuel Ness, Editor, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest Look for our sponsored panels on these topics (locate them under the names listed here): Art Against Capitalism (chair: Mat Callahan) Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberalism, Austerity, War, and Terror (chair: Hester Eisenstein) Mass Incarceration as Political Repression (chair: Johanna Fernández) We publish three 200-page issues per year. Visit our table. Contact: info@sdonline.org; 617-776-9505 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 25 Deep Into Drones, Drone Wars & Secret Ops: What’s the “War on Terror” Coming To? 1.85 Debra Sweet, Chair ....................................................................... World Can’t Wait Marjorie Cohn.......................................................Former pres., Nat. Lawyers Guild Ed Kinane ................................................................................ Nonviolent civil resister Elsa Rassbach ..............................................Co-founder, German Drone Campaign Amanda Bass The Syrian Revolution, Yarmouk, Rojava: Politics of Solidarity 1.87 Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Yusef Khalil, Chair ........................................ International Socialist Organization; Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Talal Alyan ....................... Palestinian Network of Civil Society in Syria (SHAML) Mariam Barghouti Emrah Yildiz ................................................................................... Harvard University War Normalized or War Abolished: Drones, Nukes, and the Choice Before Us 1.89 World Beyond War, Know Drones David Swanson, Chair ................................................ World Beyond War Director Alice Slater ......................World Beyond War Coordinating Committee Member Nick Mottern ........................................................................................knowdrones.com Joe Scarry .......................World Beyond War Coordinating Committee Member Amanda Bass ..............................................................................Law Student at NYU, organizer of protest of hiring of Harold Koh Animal Intelligence and Its Implications for the Left 1.90 Joan Harrison, Chair Karen Davis ............................................................................United Poultry Concerns Josephine Donovan ...................................................................... University of Maine Vasile Stanescu .................................................................................Mercer University From Lima to Paris to Climate Justice: The Context for COP21 1.91 AFGJ.org James Jordan, Chair ....... National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice George Ygarza........................................................North Jersey Grassroots Action Pamela Brubaker ................Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University Joleen Kirschenman ....................................................................... ThoughtWorks, Inc. Reclaiming New York’s Energy Vision: Utility Reform, Green Jobs and the Struggle for Energy Democracy 1.92 Eric Walker, Chair Jessica Azulay ........................................................... Alliance for a Green Economy Emmaia Gelman James Wilcox Organizing at the Margins Against State Violence: Challenges and Strategies for Success 1.93 Darakshan Raja, Chair ................................................. Washington Peace Center/ Muslim American Women’s Policy Forum Maha Hilal .........................................National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms Dante Barry ...................................................Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Ramah Kudaimi ..................................US Campaign to End The Israeli Occupation China: Socialist Hegemony in a Country in a Multilateral but Capitalist Global Environment 1.99 Gary Hicks, Chair ....................................... Artworks for the people Berkeley CA Luo Xiaoping .................................................... Visiting Scholar in Boston University, Assistant Professor in Zhejiang Ocean University Norman Markowitz .............Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University Whose City? Our City! Fighting Gentrification in the U.S. & Europe L2.80 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Rachel LaForest, Chair ................... Right to the City Alliance, Executive Director Dawn Phillips .................................Causa Justa : Just Cause, Program Co-Director Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus .......................................PAH, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, Barcelona Florian Kasiske ................................... Recht auf Stadt/Right to the City, Germany Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Mass Incarceration as Political Repression L2.81 Socialism and Democracy Johanna Fernández, Chair ................................. Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal Dequi Kioni-Sadiki .........................................................................Educator & Activist Laura Whitehorn ..................................................................Former political prisoner Nyle Fort ...............................................Newark-based youth organizer and writer Arielle Newton ......................................................Founding Editor, Black Millennials SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 26 The Fight Against Austerity in Europe and the United States: Revolutionary Socialist Politics in the Wake of the Syriza and Podemos Experiences L2.82 Marty Goodman, Chair ............................................................... Socialist Action US Manos Soufoglo ...........................................Member of the Political Bureau of the Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece Stan Meunier ............................France, New Anticapitalist Party Youth Organizer Christine Marie ................................................................................Socialist Action US Christina Palliou ................................................................................. OKDE-Spartacus This Side of the Darkness: The Global AIDS Crisis, the TPP and the Politics of Epidemics 3.76 Mariel Selbovitz, Chair ..................................... Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group Community Advisory Board Timothy Ray Brown Roscoe M. Moore Jr. ...............................Assistant U.S. Surgeon General (Retired) Mark Wainberg .........................................................McGill University AIDS Center Margaret Flowers .................................Physicians for a National Health Program Gary Blick ..............................................................................World Health Clinicians David Miller .........................................................Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group Community Advisory Board Jeannie Wraight ....................................................................AIDS Treatment Activist Queering Animal Liberation, Animating Restorative Justice 3.78 Pattrice Jones, Chair Christopher-Sebastian McJetters Brandie Skorker Dangerous Scapegoating of Islam: Exacerbated by the Left’s Silence About Controlled Demolition on 9/11 3.79 911TruthOutreach.org Wayne Coste, Chair .................................................................... Truth Outreach, Inc. David Slesinger .............................................................................. 9/11 Truth Activist Mauri Saalakhan ................................................ The Peace and Justice Foundation A Black Liberation Manifesto for the 21st Century: The Centrality of Youth, Women & Revolutionary Praxis 3.80 The Black Activist (jblun.org) Sam Anderson, Chair......................................................... Black Left Unity Network Ashaki Binta .........................................................................Black Left Unity Network Tony Menelik Vandermeer ................................................Black Left Unity Network Rose Brewer .........................................................................Black Left Unity Network Ajamu Baraka ......................................................................Black Left Unity Network Vonds Vonds ...................................The Boston Chapter of Black Lives Matter and Safe Hub Boston plus others Sadie Barbosa..................................................We Are The Ones Coalition–Boston Adebukola Ajao ...............................................We Are The Ones Coalition–Boston FILM: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret 3.81 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) ROAR! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights) Bill Koehnlein, Chair ................ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Nancy Kogel .............................................ROAR! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights) Land Conservancies in Late Capitalism: How Trusts Provide a Bird’s-Eye View into the Ruling Class 8.61 Irwin Sperber, Chair ......................................... Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz Sophia Apkarian ...............teaching assistant, Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz Alexander Groskinsky .....................................................Employed in social agency David McCarthy .......................................................................... Independent scholar The Western Buddhist Ethic and the Spirit of Late Capitalism 8.67 Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Stuart Smithers, Chair Alex Caring-Lobel .......................................................Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Eske Mollgaard .................................................................University of Rhode Island SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 27 A Look At Student Unionism’s Present And Potential 8.69 Canon: Interdisciplinary Journal of the New School for Social Research The Platypus Review Pam C. Nogales, Chair ..................................................................... Platypus Review Sean Kennedy.............................................................................. UNY Adjunct Project Daniel Aldana Cohen ............................................................GSOC-UAW organizer Armenian Freedom Struggle and the 100th Commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide 3304N Beth K. Lamont, Chair ...................................................................... Humanist Society Anoush Ter Taulian ....................................................................Artsakh War Veteran Kevork Esayan Dying to Forget Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East irene l. gendzier “By tying together the strands of oil and strategic interests in Saudi Arabia with the familiar narrative about the American relationship with zionism, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of crucial events for the future of the Middle east. gendzier provides revelations and fresh insights throughout.” —Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University $40.00 / £27.50 · 978-0-231-15288-4 · cloth $39.99 / £27.50 · 978-0-231-52658-6 · ebook forthcoMing columbia university press cup.columbia.edu · cupblog.org SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 28 SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM Betrayed By Our Government: Phil Donahue Hosts Discussion with Matthew Hoh, Ray McGovern, Kevin & Joyce Lucey, and Cathy Smith L.63 Phil Donahue, Chair Cathy Smith ....................................................................Military Families Speak Out Kevin Lucey .....................................................................Military Families Speak Out Joyce Lucey ....................................................................Military Families Speak Out Matthew Hoh Ray McGovern We Are Our Own Liberators! When We Free Our Political Prisoners, We Free Ourselves. L2.84 Ralph Poynter, Chair ............. New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org. Lynne Stewart .........................New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org. Pam Africa ........................................................................ Free Mumia & MOVE Org. Ramona Africa ......................................................................................................MOVE Ana Lopez ................................................... Humanities, Hostos Community College Jess Sundin ...........................................................Committee To Stop FBI Repression Sundiata Sadiq ........................Committee To Free Mumia Abu Jamal Org.–NYC Bob Boyle ........................................................................................................NLG-NYC Anne Lamb ..............................................................................NYC Jericho Movement Jerry Koch .........................................................................NYC Anarchist Black Cross Naomi Braine .........................................Brooklyn College – Assoc. Prof. Soc. Dept New Challenges, New Responses: The 2015 U.S. Social Forum L2.85 Jerome Scott, Chair ..................... League of Revolutionaries for a New America Walda Katz-Fishman ......................................................................Howard University Shamako Noble ................................................Hip Hop Congress, US Social Forum German Parodi ................................................................................Disabled in Action Deeq Abdi ...................................Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign Democracy at Work: Achieving Social Change through Worker Coops L.76 Maria Carnemolla ....................Democracy at Work, Left Forum Board Member Richard D. Wolff .........................................................................Democracy at Work Carmen Huertas Noble ..........................................................CUNY Law School and Community Economic Development Clinic (CEDC) Michael Peck ................................................Mondragon North American Delegate Ted De Barbieri ...........................................................................Brooklyn Law School Critical Perspectives on Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything.” 1.100 Capitalism Nature Socialism Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Chair ............................... Capitalism Nature Socialism Joel Kovel ..................................................................................... Ecosocialist Horizons Jane Zara .............................DC Metro Science for the People (dcmetroSFTP.org) David Schwartzman............................ Ecosocialist Horizons, Metro DC Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Ecosocialism THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 12:00–1:50PM BLACK BOX THEATER WORDS OF RESISTANCE: SPOKEN WORD FOR A MOVEMENT FEATURING: PEERS EDUCATING PEERS WORDS OF CHOICE CESCHI MASTER OF CEREMONIES: JIM VRETTOS ORGANIZED BY: GEORGE YGARZA SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 29 Another World Is Possible: Towards the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal 1.101 Raphael Canet, Chair....................... WSF Montreal 2016, University of Ottawa Nathalie Guay .........................................................................................................CSN Alexander Warnet .............................The United Humanity, WSF Montreal 2016 Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win 1.103 Peter LaVenia, Chair ............................................ Green Party of New York State Ursula Rozum........................................................... Green Party of New York State Michael O’Neil ....................................................... Green Party of New York State Congressman Vito Marcantonio (1934 to 1950): Champion for Civil Rights (Panel and Dramatization) 1.105 Gil Fagiani, Chair ..................................... CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum Gerald Meyer ............................................ CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum Roberto Ragone ......................................... CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum Commonizing Academia for Open Knowledge 1.107 Caghan Kizil, Chair ............................................ RIT | Research Institute on Turkey Simten Cosar ..........Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) Emrah Goker ........................................................................................... Koc University Hakan Ergul .........Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University in Ankara Grassroots Media in an Increasingly Digital World 1.108 The Indypendent John Tarleton, Chair ......................................................................... The Indypendent Todd Wolfson .................................... Rutgers University, Media Mobilizing Project MIlena Velis ......................................................................... Media Mobilizing Project Mario Murillo ......................................................WBAI-99.5 FM, Hofstra University “We Are Not Ebola!” West African Perspectives On The Many-Layered Struggle For Democracy and Development in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea 1.109 Kewulay Kamara, Chair Nvasekie Konneh Sahr Ngaujah Aliou E ..............................................................................Espoir et combat de femme Zeinab Camara ..................................................................Women in Mining Guinea Aroun Deen.....................................................................................Freelance journalist An open space… … for organizing! Looking for a place to retreat, relax, organize, or energize? Join us! Stony Point Center is an open space supported by an intentional residential community of Muslims, Jews, and Christians committed to peace and social justice  Serving farm-to-table produce from our gardens  Accepting bookings for conferences and retreats  Just 45 minutes north of the George Washington Bridge in Rockland County Thank you, Left Forum, for all you do! 17 Cricketown Rd, Stony Point, NY 10980 (845) 786-5674 ext. 110 • stonypointcenter.org SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 30 Brazilian Dilemma and Afro-American Links: An Afro-Centred Mass Culture Submitted to Structural Racism 1.113 estrategiaeanalise.com.br Bruno Lima Rocha, Chair ............. ESPM and Unisinos–estrategiaeanalise.com.br Cristian Salaini ............................................................................espm.br and Iacorec Edson Cadette ......................................................Afropress website–afropress.com Kawaun Adon Akhenaten VII ............................................Constelltion International Daniel Marks ........................................................Constellation Global International Is Post-Chavez Venezuela Still Leftist? 1.114 Gabriel Fumero, Chair Steve Ellner........................................................Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela Eva Golinger Dario Azzellini .......................................... Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Yes Peace, Yes Justice, But Only In A Resourced-Based Economy 1.115 Zeitgeist NYC Harry Cason, Chair ............................................... College of Staten Island, CUNY Julio Herrera ............................................................................................Zeitgeist NYC Johnny Hobbes .........................................................................................Kinhin Media Arjang Jameh ..........................................................................................Zeitgeist NYC Radical Archive Practice 1.117 Radical Teacher Susan O’Malley, Chair ......................................................... Radical Teacher, CUNY Veronica Ordaz .......................................................................... Interference Archive Andrea Vasquez .................................................... American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, CUNY Chloe Smolarski ...................................................... American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, CUNY Kate Donovan ......................................................................... Tamimant Library, NYU proudly present Encuentros F O L K meets JA Z Z Guillermo Cardenas on percussion and special appearance by Bernardo Palombo June 13, 2015@7 pm at St. Michael’s Church Sanctuary Amsterdam Avenue between 99th and 100th Streets For more information and online tickets: www.tallerlatino.org 212-665-9460 www.saintmichaelschurch.org 212-222-2700 Encuentros is supported in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Offices of Council Member Mark Levine and The National Endowment for the Arts Suggested Donation: $20 The event is wheelchair accessible Hudson Valley Sally and The John Cantrell Trio Songs of Social Justice SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 31 Not Hillary, Not Jeb: Stopping the Permanent Dictatorship of Austerity and War 1.119 The United Front Against Austerity Daniela Walls, Chair ......................................................................... Deputy Director Webster Tarpley ...........United Front Against Austerity & Tax Wall Street Party Dylan Shelton ..................................... Tax Wall Street Party North Carolina Local Trotsky: A Revolutionary Life 1.121 International Socialist Review Ashley Smith, Chair Paul LeBlanc ......................................................................................La Roche College Ahmed Shawki ............................................................. International Socialist Review Pepijn Brandon ................Post Doctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh Transforming Community and Labor Organizing into Electoral Victory 1.123 Dialogue & Initiative Pat Fry, Chair .... Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism Andrea Miller .....................................................Progressive Democrats of America Paul Krehbiel ....................................................................................CCDS Los Angeles Ethan Young .......................................................................................Left Labor Project Rosie Mendez ..........................................................New York City Council Member The Future of OccupyWallSt.nyc 1.124 OccupyWallSt.nyc Priscilla Grim, Chair ....................................................................... OccupyWallSt.nyc Jack Abbott ......................................................................................OccupyWallSt.nyc Kelli Daley ................................................................Coordinator, OccupyWallSt.nyc Muna Mire ................................................................Coordinator, OccupyWallSt.nyc The U.S. Middle Class in Crisis: A Panel in Honour of Randy Martin: Socialist Register 2015 Transforming Classes 1.125 Socialist Register Leo Panitch, Chair ................................................................. York University, Toronto John McCullough ..............................................Department of Film, York University Jeff Goodwin............................................................Department of Sociology, NYU Greg Albo ............................................................... Political Science, York University Liza Featherstone ............................................... Political Science, Brooklyn College A Communist Road in the U.S.: How Do We Start? 1.127 Kasama Project Robina Rai, Chair ............................................................................... Kasama Project Nat Winn ...............................................................................................Kasama Project Mike Ely .................................................................................................Kasama Project 15 Now’s Strategy for the Low-Wage Worker Movement 1.129 Socialist Alternative Dan Kroop, Chair ............................................................................................. 15 Now Elan Axelbank........................................................................... 15 Now Northeastern Marty Harrison .......................................................................... 15 Now Philadelphia How Tribal Traditions To Capitalism To Hip Hop and Culture Met 1.61 Ankhlave Mind Media David Acala, Chair ...................................................................................... Facilitator Wadsworth Hall ............................................................................................... Speaker David Hall-Goldstein ................................................................................. Co-Curator Art Against Capitalism: Past Experience, Present Practices and Alternative Futures 1.63 Socialism and Democracy Mat Callahan, Chair Eli Smith Ana Ratner Marxist-Feminist Perspectives On Neoliberalism, Austerity, War And Terror 1.65 Socialism and Democracy International Socialist Review Hester Eisenstein, Chair ..................... Department of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Tithi Battacharya .....Associate Professor, South Asian History, Purdue University Kate Doyle Griffiths-Dingani ....................................Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center Ida Susser ........................................ Department of Anthropology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY A Trial By Fire: From Moynihan to Today: Black Women Continue Fight for Human Rights in 21st Century 1.66 Betty Davis, Chair .................................................. New Abolitionist , Green Party, Free Lynne Stewart, Free Mumia Kisha Foster .................................... United African Movement and Freedom Party An-a Wilson ........................................................................Tri-County Womens Clubs Colia L Clark .............................................................................Grandmas for Mumia, Guadeloupe Haiti Tour Comm, Green Party Devonya Havis Walton .....................................................................Canisius College Kanene Holder ................................................Colin Powell Center For Policy Study Muna Mire ...................................................................................................Youngist.org SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 32 This Is Not Justice; There Ought Not Be Peace: Psychiatry, Capitalism, and State Power 1.67 Talk with Tenney Media blogtalkradio.com/TalkWithTenney Lauren Tenney, Chair ............................................................. Talk with Tenney Radio Rachel Liebert Eva Dech People with psychiatric histories Faultlines of the Medical Industrial Complex 1.69 Social Medicine (socialmedicine.info) Robb Burlage, Chair Matthew Anderson ........................................Social Medicine (socialmedicine.info); Residency Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore John Ehrenreich Oliver Fein Carmelita Blake Robert Padgug ..................Brooklyn College, CUNY, Health & Nutrition Sciences L. Toni Lewis Theory vs. Practice, or What is Praxis? 1.71 Zero Books Douglas Lain, Chair .......................................... Zero Books, author and podcaster Michael Steinberg .......................................................................................Zero Books Frank Smecker ..............................................................................................Zero Books Masha Tupitsyn .............................................................................................Zero Books Christopher Vitale ........................................................................................Zero Books A Socialist Rethinking of Youth Gangs 1.73 David Brotherton, Chair ............... Prof of Sociology John Jay and Grad Center Louis Kontos ...................................................... Prof of Sociology, John Jay College Antonio Fernandez......................... Former Latin Kings Leader and Street Activist Imagining Crisis and Maximizing Radical Brand Equity 1.75 Mask Magazine New York Year Zero, Chair ................................................................................... POC McKenzie Wark MC Sole SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 33

How Should We as Comrades Respond to the Ferguson Rebellion and #BlackLivesMatter?

Racism by Another Name: Mayoral Control of Urban Education, Privatization & the Grassroots Fightback! 1.77 Getting Out From Under: A Human Rights Alternative to the Corporate Model of Public Education in NYC (written and published by iCOPE) Benita Lovett-Rivera, Chair .............. iCOPE: Independent Commission On Public Education & The Mothers’ Agenda NY (a.k.a. The MANY)l Victor Gibson ............................................................. Keep the Vote, No Take Over! Sam Anderson .................. iCOPE: Independent Commission On Public Education, End Mayoral Control Campaign, CPE Fatima Hafiz ....................................................Transformative Education Associates Palestine/Israel and the 2016 Election 1.81 Julia Willebrand, Chair .............................................................. Green Party of NY Justine McCabe .......................................................................Green Party of the US Lenni Brenner .................................................................. Green Party of Connecticut Radical Democracy and Education: Possibilities and Challenges in One School and Beyond 1.82 Robert Lubetsky, Chair ....................................... City College of New York, CUNY William Stroud .....................................................................Long Beach High School Jason Warwin ..........................................................................Brotherhood/Sister Sol Palestine, Anti-Racism, and Academic Freedom 1.83 Haymarket Books Jason Farbman, Chair .................................................................... Haymarket Books Steven Salaita ............................................................................ Independent Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor .............................International Socialist Organization Jasbir Puar The Great War in Marxist Perspective 1.85 Science & Society Barbara Foley, Chair ..................................................................... Science & Society Peter Gardner ...................................................................... Temple University, Rome Allen Ruff August Nimtz .......................................................................... University of Minnesota Margaret Stevens ..................................................................... Essex County College The Syrian Tragedy: Failure of the Left and the Need for a Movement of Solidarity 1.87 Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Yasser Munif, Chair ......................................................................... Emerson College; Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Yusef Khalil ......................................................International Socialist Organization; Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Joseph Daher ....................................................... Revolutionary Left Current (Syria) U.S. Wars of Aggression & Islamic Jihad: What is the Bigger Danger and How Should the Antiwar Movement Respond? 1.89 Debra Sweet, Chair ....................................................................... World Can’t Wait William Blum .................................................................................. Anti-Empire Report Alan Goodman ...............................................................................................Revolution Roed Jarrar .....................................................American Friends Service Committee David Swanson ........................................................................ WorldBeyondWar.org SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 34 Since 1979, El Taller’s conversational SPANISH classes have been recognized by The Village Voice, The Daily News, The Columbia Spectator and hundreds of satisfied students Registration every month! 212 665 9460 www.tallerlatino.org LeaRn españoL oYe! habLa! ConveRsa! with Art, Music, Poetry and Friends Our students learn Spanish of the Americas developing the most important aspect of the Spanish language - the mastery of vowel pronunciation and the significance of those sounds to articulate the past, present and future “Climate Justice: The U.S. Left & the Problem of the State” Short Film Screening and Discussion on the Current State of Youth-led Climate Movements 1.90 Responsible Endowments Coalition Nina Mariella Macapinlac, Chair .................. Responsible Endowments Coalition Yves Nibungco ....................................................................................Anakbayan USA Jess Grady-Benson ..................................Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network/ Responsible Endowments Coalition Sean Estelle .............................................................................Energy Action Coalition Jatnna Ramirez ...........................................................................................Global Kids The Climate Mobilization: A Route to Reclaiming Democracy and Preventing Ecological Collapse 1.91 Ashik Siddique, Chair ....................................................... The Climate Mobilization Margaret Klein Salamon ...................................................The Climate Mobilization Ezra Silk ................................................................................The Climate Mobilization Campaign for 100% Green Energy in NYS by 2030 1.92 Mark Dunlea, Chair ............................................ Green Education and Legal Fund Betta Broad ............................................................................................ Renewable NY Gloria Mattera ............................................................................Green Party of NYS The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas 1.93 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Bruno Gulli, Chair ..................................................................... CUNY–Kingsborough Federico Luisetti ...........................The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sorin Radu Cucu .........................................LaGuardia Community College–CUNY

Sea Changes: China and the World Since 2008

Occupy the Commons: Resisting the Feudalistic Kleptocratic Stranglehold on our Economy

Yannis Tziligakis, Chair ............................................... Georgist Economic Taskforce Mike Curtis ................................................Henry George School of Social Science, The Arden Land Trust, Arden, DE Fred Harrison ..........................Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 35 Commons, Alternative Organizations, and Turkey L2.81 Eylem Delikanli, Chair ........................................ RIT | Research Institute on Turkey Ozgur Narin .................................................................... Research Institute on Turkey Ali Yalçın Göymen ...........................................YTU Department of Political Science and International Relations

New Phase of the Struggle in Greece

Socialist Alternative

Marxist-Humanist Philosophy’s Role in Confronting Today’s Global Crises: Greece and Syriza; Bosnia and Syria; Racism vs. Black Lives Matter 3.76 News & Letters Susan Stellar, Chair ........................................................................... Retired teacher Franklin Dmitryev ........................................................News and Letters Committees Fred Mecklenburg .......................................................News and Letters Committees Mohammed Elnaiem .......................................................Student, Bucknell University Unfurling Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: Intro & Documentary 3.78 Sean Starrs, Chair .......................................................City University of Hong Kong Shannon Walsh ............................................................City University of Hong Kong Vicky Do .......................................................................City University of Hong Kong The 2001 Anthrax Attacks and the Challenge to the Left 3.79 911TruthOutreach.org Cathleen McGuire, Chair ............................................................ Truth Outreach, Inc. Meryl Nass Barry Kissin Graeme MacQueen FILM: ‘Still We Ride’ 10 Years After… A Recent History of Critical Mass 3.80 dedicated-lane.com Stephen Arthur, Chair ............................................................................................ NYC FILM: Control 3.81 Chris Bravo, Chair Robert Pluma Devon Brandon Live From Academia!: Bringing the Insight of the Ivory Tower to the Energy of the Masses 8.61 Henry Schwarz, Chair ..................... Georgetown University, Professor of English Terrell Taylor ............................University of Mary Washington, adjunct instructor Mike Isaacson .................................................The New School for Social Research, Capital, Race and the Reshaping of Adult Basic Education 8.69 Erik Jacobson, Chair ........................................................ Montclair State University Adam Nathanson ...............................................Virginia Commonwealth University Julie Quinton ......................................................................Make the Road New York The Challenges of Building a Revolutionary Organization in the Working Class Today 8.72 Speak Out Now Marcus Lissey, Chair .......................................................................... Speak Out Now Joan Berezin ........................................................................................Speak Out Now Kip Waldo Kimberly Serrano ................................................................................Speak Out Now Jean Morand ...........................L’Etincelle and New Anti-Capitalist Party (France) PhD Student and associate editor Philosophies, Strategies And Resources For Building Local Peace Economies And Leaving The War Economy 3303N Jodie Evans, Chair .................................co-founder and co-director of CODEPINK Medea Benjamin ...............................................................co-founder of CODEPINK Susan Witt ............................................................................ Executive Director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics Lefties Are In Their Right Minds! 3304N Beth K. Lamont, Chair ....................................................................Humanist Chaplain Pamela Timmins Richard Morgan Sara Flounders ................................................................ International Action Center Seyn Laproyen SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM 36 SESSION 3 3:15PM – 4:50PM Marx: The System is the Problem L.63 Gail Dines .......................................................................Wheelock College in Boston Richard D. Wolff ......................................................................... Democracy at Work Chris Hedges Ya Gotta Get A Gimmick: How to Stage an Effective Media-Worthy Protest & Get Attention for Your Cause L2.84 Marni Halasa, Chair .................................................................... Revolution Is Sexy/ OWS Alternative Banking Group Elliot Crown ................................................................ Performance Artist/Puppeteer Michael B. Friedman ....................................................Professor of Public Relations, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Harry Siegel ............................................................New York Daily News Reporter Noah Fischer ................................................................Occupy Museums and Global Ultra Luxury Faction/Gulf Labor Jim Costanzo .................................................................................Aaron Burr Society/ OWS Strike Debt/Occupy Museums THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 3:15–5:00PM BLACK BOX THEATER LEFT WING COMEDY SHOW! FEATURING: RANDY CREDICO BARRY CRIMMINS JULIANNA FORLANO JOHN MARSHALL AND MORE! LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:15PM L.63 (LECTURE HALL) DIALOGUE WITH VENEZUELAN LEADERSHIP DELCY RODRIGUEZ, JORGE RODRIGUEZ STEVE ELLNER: INTERLOCUTOR STANLEY ARONOWITZ: MODERATOR/INTERLOCUTOR SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM 37 Is It Time for a Major Independent Party of the Left? L2.85 Green Party of New York State Howie Hawkins, Chair ............................................................................. Green Party Bruce Dixon ................................................................................Black Agenda Report Jill Stein ......................................................................Green candidate for President Brian Jones .......................................................International Socialist Organization, 2014 Green candidate for NY Lt. Gov. Calvin Priest ..................................................................................Socialist Alternative Justifiable Homicide, Part 1: 7 Victims’ Families Give Testimony on Police Terrorism and Racism in the United States L.76 Operation Ghetto Storm Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, Chair Frank Graham .............................................................Ramarley Graham Foundation Ron Davis ............................................................................... Jordan Davis Foundation Kenneth Chamberlain ........................................... Kenneth Chamberlain Foundation Michael Brown ....................................................................Michael Brown Foundation Andrew Joseph ................................................................. Andrew Joseph Foundation Kenneth Johnson ............................................................ Kendrick Johnson Foundation What Is Occupy Up To? 1.100 Cathy O’Neil, Chair Sumumba Sobukwe.............................................OccuEvolve (Occupy Wall Street), Black Lives Matter Neil Taylor ............................................................................................Occupy the SEC Jan Weinberg ..................................................................................Show Up! America Luke Herrine ....................................................................Debt Collective/Strike Debt Corporate Dominance: Our Debt-Money System and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) 1.101 Don Butterfield, Chair ................................................. American Monetary Institute Susan Peters ...................................................................American Monetary Institute Paula Pace ..................................................................................................Local Futures Barbara Simpson ............................... Upper West Side Monetary Reform Group Radical Themes in Mass Culture 1.103 Doug Enaa Greene, Chair Alexander Billet Joseph Ramsey ................................................................................Univ. Mass. Boston Anarchism and Critical Theory for Revolt and Revolution 1.105 Javier Sethness Castro, Chair Gino-Arturo Yarish ...........................................................................................The Base Sky Cohen William Brown Commonizing Collective Memory 1.107 Eylem Delikanli, Chair ........................................ RIT | Research Institute on Turkey Ragip Zik ............................................................Columbia Global Centers | Turkey Sami Elvan Strengths, Weaknesses, Challenges in Online Activism: How Can It Advance a Progressive Agenda 1.108 RootsAction.org and The Nation David Swanson, Chair .............................. RootsAction.org campaign coordinator Sarah Arnold ............................................................................... The Nation, Activism Campaign Manager/Community Coordinator David Segal ......................................................................................Demand Progress SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM 38 email: printing@radixmedia.org phone: 7 18 -7 8 1-5 9 4 7 web: radixmedia.org radix media is New York City’s only 100% worker-owned, union print shop. We print flyers, posters, brochures, booklets, envelopes, cards, paperback books, rally signs and so much more. Our name comes from the Latin root of the word radical. A strong movement needs a strong print shop. Day in and day out, we’re here for you. Contact us today. And be sure to mention this Left Forum ad for special pricing on your next print job! o j RADIX MEDIA o RM j printing & publishing print’s not dead. it’s soaring. Frantz Fanon: The Forgotten Prophet 1.109 Critical Sociology David Fasenfest, Chair .......... Critical Sociology, Dept. Sociology, Wayne State University Lauren Langman .............................Dept Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago Peter Hudis .......................................Dept Philosophy, Oakton Community College Arnold Farr .................................................Dept Philosophy, University of Kentucky Rose Brewer ..............................................Dept Sociology, University of Minnesota Colombia’s Peace Talks in Havana, Cuba: An Update by the FARC-EP 1.113 Toward Freedom Juan Carlos Vallejo, Chair .. Director Humanitarian Law Peace and Democracy Member of the Secretariat Peace Commissioner FARC-EP ...................................... Peace Commissioners at the Peace Talks in Havana, Cuba Alexandra Nariño Tanja Nijmeijer .....................Internationalist guerrillas fighter Cuba And The United States Moving Towards Normalization : Realities Of The New Relationship 1.114 Keith Bolender, Chair ........... University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Jane Franklin Bob Guild ..........................................................................................Marazul Charters Haiti: The People vs the Empire 1.115 Haiti Liberte Ray LaForest, Chair ................................. Free Haiti Movement, Union Organizer Kim Ives ....................................................................................................... Haiti Liberte Tom Siracuse............................................................................................... Green Party Marty Goodman ..............................................................Miami Haiti Refuge Center Sandra Rivers ......................................................New York Free Mumia Committee Muna Mire ..................................................................................................Youngist.org.

Leninism Today

International Socialist Organization

Our Candidate Won: President-Elect TBA’s Victory Party 1.119 Alan Bounville, Chair Louis Flores Andy Podell SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM 39 E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left 1.121 Monthly Review Forrest Hylton, Chair ............................................................................. Northwestern Jesse Lemisch ....................................................................... John Jay College/CUNY Cal Winslow ............................................................................................... UC Berkeley From the Indignados Movement to Political Organization: Political Changes in Spain 1.123 Victor Casanova-Abos, Chair ........................ Marea Granate NY/Podemos USA Cristina Ramirez ............................................... Marea Granate NY/Podemos USA Oriol Valles-Codina .....................................................................Marea Granate NY Jesus Martinez-Garcia ...........................................................................Podemos USA Berta de Miguel ............................................... Marea Granate NY/Podemos USA Marga Ferré ....................................................................................... Izquierda Unida Book Launch: An Alternative Labour History. Worker Control and Workplace Democracy 1.124 Zed Books Camilo Turi, Chair Dario Azzellini ................................................................Johannes Kepler Universität Godfrey Vincent.........................................................Tuskegee University, Alabama Claudia Bernardi ..................................................................... Postdoctoral Fellow in Global History at Harvard University United Contract Attorneys Organize to Confront Capitalism in Law Firms 1.125 Valeria Gheorghiu, Chair ............................................... United Contract Attorneys Alex Franco David Tykulsker ............................................... NYC National Lawyers Guild Labor and Employment Committee

Build a Fight For Jobs For All to Confront the Global Capitalist System in Crisis Head On

Low-Wage Worker Movements in South Korea, Germany, & the U.S. 1.129 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Albert Scharenberg, Chair .............. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Sukjong Hong ......................... Freelance Writer and Korea Policy Institute Fellow Sarah Jaffe ...........................................................................Journalist and Author of RLS-NYC study “Roll Back Low Wages” Oliver Nachtwey ................................... Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Hey, Activists: Read This! Why Progressives Should Read More Fiction 1.61 PM Press Kenneth Wishnia, Chair ............................................................ Professor of English, Suffolk County Community College Steven Wishnia .................................................................. Editor, Dissent News Wire Suzanne Solomon .................................................................................................Author Michael Cooper .........................................................................................Author, M.D. Nicholas Powers..................................Assoc. Prof. of English, SUNY Old Wesbury Art Against Capitalism (II) 1.63 Socialism and Democracy Mat Callahan, Chair ........................................................ Socialism and Democracy Demetrius Noble Michael Fiorentino ............... Somos and the International Socialist Organization Eroc Arroyo-Montano .................................................... The Foundation (Movement) Women and the Red Scare: [En]gendering [In]justice 1.65 Blanche Wiesen Cook, Chair ........................................... John Jay College, CUNY Andrew Feffer ........................... Professor, Department of History, Union College Barbara J. Falk ...............................Associate Professor, Dept. of Defence Studies Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada Lisa E. Davis ................................................................................ Independent Scholar Emily Socolov ....................................................Visiting Scholar, University of Texas Miriam Moskowitz In the Wake of Capitalism: The Contamination of American Intimacy, Sexuality & Personal Life 1.66 Harriet Fraad, Chair Roger Salerno ....................................................................................... Pace University Tess Fraad Wolff Shane Knight Mental Health and Social Justice in Vulnerable Populations 1.67 Shirin Ali, Chair ............................................................ Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Kabir Dandona ...................................................................... August Aichhorn Center for Adolescent Residential Care Schuyler Henderson ........................................................................ Bellevue Hospital, New York University Medical Center Anupama Reddy .........................................................Manhattan Psychiatric Center SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM 40 THE NEW PRESS THE NEW PRESS Democracy in the Dark The Seduction of Government Secrecy FREDERICK A.O. SCHWARZ JR. “Timely and provocative.”

Successes and Challenges of Human Rights Campaigns for Publicly Financed Health Care in the U.S. 1.69 Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Scott Harris, Chair ................................. Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Anja Rudiger ......................National Economic and Social Right Initiative (NESRI) Karim Sariahmed ........................................................................... Put People First PA Traven Leyshon ....................................................................Vermont Workers Center As Governments Leave Humanity’s Crises Unaddressed, What Must Be Done? 1.71 Alison Rose Levy, Chair ........................................................ Alternet and EcoWatch Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig ............................................................... The New Republic Lynn Parramore ................................................................................................. Alternet Sarah Leonard .............................................................................................. The Nation Mumia 911: Health Emergency for Incarcerated Journalist Mumia AbuJamal; Briefing and Strategies 1.73 Noelle Hanrahan, Chair .......................................................................... Prison Radio Jennifer Black ............................................................................................ Prison Radio Pam Africa .............................................................................................................MOVE Ramona Africa ......................................................................................................MOVE "The Transgender Tipping Point is Crushing Us": Trans Politics in the Era of Visibility 1.75 Joshua Allen, Chair Malcolm Shanks Shaktii X Alok Vaid-Menon Black Lives Matter NYC 1.76 No Police State Carla Cubit, Chair ..................................................................................... Occupy Art Mia Anderson ....................................................................Peoples Power Assemblies Deb Lee...............................................................................Peoples Power Assemblies No Peace, No Justice: The Psycho-Socio Roots of Racism, Social Injustice and Ecological Degradation 1.77 Leonard Burg, Chair .......................................... Stop the Destruction of the World Richard James ..........................New York City Department of Education Teacher Susan Berkley ........................................International Society of Analytical Trilogy The End of the World As We Know It? Education and the Student Response to the Crisis 1.81 Journal of Social Justice Deric Shannon, Chair .................................... Oxford College of Emory University Marianne LeNabat ................................................................................................IWW Scott Nappalos ....................................................................................... Recomposition Monica Kostas ......................................................................................... Recomposition Building a Narrative on Displacement Nationwide 1.82 Andrew Padilla, Chair Diana Pérez Ramírez Lynn Roberts Foreign Policy for All: Re-Thinking U.S. Foreign Policy for the 21st Century 1.83 Massachusetts Peace Action Subrata Ghoshroy, Chair ................................................... MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society Cole Harrison ..................................................................Massachusetts Peace Action Hayat Imam ...................................................................Dorchester People for Peace Imperialist Economics and the New Cold War 1.85 Bernadette Ellorin, Chair ................................................................Chair, Bayan USA Abayomi Azikiwe ................................................................. Pan-African News Wire, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice Bill Dores ............................vice Chair, International League of People’s Struggle, International Action Center Jess Sundin .................................................................Minnesota Antiwar Committee, Committee to Stop FBI Repression The Rojava Revolution: From Arab Spring to Democratic Autonomy 1.87 Elliott Madison, Chair ...................... Combustion Books – Rojava Solidarity–NYC Jerry Koch ...............................................................................Rojava Solidarity–NYC Kitty Bryzinski .........................................................................Rojava Solidarity–NYC

Imperialism, Counter-Revolution, and Conflict in the Middle East 1.89 International Socialist Review Ashley Smith, Chair ........... Editorial Board of the International Socialist Review Michael Schwartz ......................Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University Anand Gopal ............................ Author of No Good War: American, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes Suzanne Adely ..............................................................................Al-Awda New York

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 2015 Left Forum Panels Displacement is currently one of the most insidious forms of accumulation through dispossession—as well as oppression of working class and Black and brown communities. How are different activist groups educating the general population about this trend? Florian Kasiske (Recht auf Stadt, Germany) Santi Mas de Xaxas (PAH, Spain) Dawn Phillips (Causa Justa :: Just Cause, Bay Area) CHAIR: Rachel LaForest (Right to the City Alliance, USA) Black communities in the U.S. have long experimented with different forms of mutual aid and cooperative enterprise. How can coops and other tools of economic democracy be used to build community strength in a country founded on slavery? Jessica Gordon Nembhard (CUNY, John Jay College) Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson) Ed Whitfield (Fund 4 Democratic Communities) CHAIR: Ethan Earle (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung— New York Office) Black Cooperatives and the Fight for Economic Democracy Austerity is being used to curtail workers’ rights and drive an ever increasing low-wage sector. What are the national particularities involved in this process across the advanced industrialized world and what are the similarities? Sarah Jaffe (Labor Journalist) Oliver Nachtwey (University of Darmstadt, Germany) Sukjong Hong (Korea Policy Institute) CHAIR: Albert Scharenberg (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office) Low-Wage Worker Movements in South Korea, Germany, and the United States Portrayed as a “David vs. Goliath” story in the media, the continued drama between Greece and Germany has swept across the world. How does this narrative impact international left solidarity and SYRIZA’s fight against the Troika? Konstantinos Tsoukalas (Member of Parliament, SYRIZA) Natassa Romanou (SYRIZA New York) Christina Kaindl (Head of Strategy Dept., DIE LINKE) Dominic Heilig (DIE LINKE’s Forum Democratic Socialism) CHAIR: Eduardo Maura (PODEMOS, Political Secretariat) This panel is co-hosted by The Nation Magazine. Greece vs. Germany: The Battle for Europe’s Future NEW YORK OFFICE ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG www.rosalux-nyc.org Twitter: @rosaluxnyc Facebook: rosaluxnyc

Animal Rights? The Liberal Limits to Human Emancipation 1.90 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Ilgin Yorukoglu, Chair ............................................................................. CUNY-BMCC Bruno Gulli ...................................................................................CUNY and Situations Arun Gupta Babette Babich .............................................................................. Fordham University Peter Bratsis ................................................................................CUNY and Situations The Climate Crisis is a Democracy Crisis: Why We Need a Democratic Revolution in the U.S. and Beyond 1.91 Liberty Tree Foundation Adam Porton, Chair ............................................................. Liberty Tree Foundation Cheri Honkala ............................Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Suren Moodliar .............................................................Massachusetts Global Action A People’s Climate Strike: Transformative Justice Through Collaborative Strike Action 1.92 Cheri Honkala, Chair ............................................................ Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign/Global Climate Convergence Deeq Abdi ..................................Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign James Jordan ..................................................................Alliance for Global Justice/ Global Climate Convergence Building Our Future Through Games 1.93 OccupyWallSt.nyc Priscilla Grim, Chair ....................................................................... OccupyWallSt.nyc Chris Gotano ............................................................................. Revolution: The Game Brian Van Slyke ........................................................................ Toolbox for Education Bertell Ollman........................................................................ Creator: Class Struggle Vietnam: A Brief Review of History and Today’s Situation at 85th Birthday of Communist Party of Vietnam (1930–2015) 1.99 Bahram Zandi, Chair ............................................................................... Green Party Yunes Parsa Benab ................................................................ Iranian Left Alliance of Washington Metropolitan Area Farshid Moghimi ..................................................................... Iranian Left Alliance of Washington Metropolitan Area.

Transformative Organizing in the City: From the Right to the City to Radical Democracy?

David Scheller, Chair GCSC, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Brian McCarthy 16Beaver Group, NYC Robert Robinson Left Forum Board of Directors Kendall Jackman Organizing Committee, Co-Founder Bronx Organizers, Right to the City Alliance, NYC Peter Marcuse GSAPP, Columbia University, NYC Tashy Endres Kotti&CoTenants Collective, Berlin Ballot-Initiative on Rents 2016, Researcher at UdK Berlin

Getting Serious About the Next System

The Next System Project Keane Bhatt, Chair The Democracy Collaborative

The Fight Against Austerity in Ireland

Socialist Alternative


Political Correctness And Its Devastating Effect On The Left 3.76 Voxnews Harry Stuckey, Chair ...................................................................................... voxnews Webster Tarpley Wayne Madsen ..............................................................The Wayne Madsen Report Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Community: A Panel Discussion and Workshop – Part 1 3.78 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Marie-Claire Picher, Chair .... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Janet Gerson ........................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB); International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) Reg Flowers ........................................................................Falconworks Artists Group Leonie Ettinger .................................................................................The Living Theatre SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM 44 Intellectual Justice: Libraries, Privacy & Access in the Neoliberal Information Economy. 3.79 Kate Adler, Chair ............................................. Metropolitan College of New York Haruko Yamauchi ..............................................Hostos Community College (CUNY) Alison Macrina ......................................................................Library Freedom Project Jaime Taylor .........................................................................Center for Jewish History FILM: My Brooklyn 3.80 Kelly Anderson, Chair Global Imagery of Terrorism and State Terror in Democratic, Historical, and Cinematic Context 3.81 Fabiola Salek, Chair ................................................................. York College–CUNY Martin Miller .........................................................................................Duke University Annabel Martin .............................................................................................Dartmouth Zohra Saad ..................................................................................York College–CUNY Reform or Abolition? The Resist Rikers Movement 8.61 Paul Funkhouser, Chair Dakem Roberts Gabriel Kilpatrick Natasha Carter Utopia School Report Back and Planning Session 8.67 Dylan Gauthier, Chair Stephen Polk Scott Rigby Laughing at Malfeasance 8.69 In magazines / Taconic Papers & STREETNEWS: My TV show (since ’98) on MNN: What’s Ailing/Healing US America? A question we have a right/duty to ask/answer Frank Craven, Chair ................................................................................ MNN Studio Rev. Carole Antun ........................................(Granny for HEMP) Course In Miracles Peace Arnold ..........................................................................Honorary Seneca Elder Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today 8.72 Peter Hudson ...........................................................................................................UCLA Patrick Bond .......................................University of Kwa Zulu Natal / South Africa Jemima Pierre ................................................. University of California, Los Angeles Horace Campbell ..........................................................................Syracuse University The Student Movement in NYC 3.303N Percy Lujan, Chair ..................................................................................................RSCC Angie Hernandez ...................................................................................RSCC and SJP Sean Kennedy.........................................................................................................RSCC Ateo Bracero ...........................................................................................................RSCC SOS: State of the Struggle 3304N Samantha Desire, Chair ...............................................................................Left Forum Liz Mestres Sasha Alexander ..................Director of Membership, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Denise G. Romero .....................................................Ayotzinapa Caravana43 NYC SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM 45 SESSION 4 5:10 – 7:00PM Justifiable Homicide, Part 2: A National Coalition Combating Police Terrorism L.76 Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, Chair Frank Graham ........................................................... Ramarley Graham Foundation Ron Davis ..............................................................................Jordan Davis Foundation Kenneth Chamberlain ..........................................Kenneth Chamberlain Foundation Kenneth Johnson ...........................................................Kendrick Johnson Foundation Michael Brown .................................................................. Michael Brown Foundation Andrew Joseph ................................................................Andrew Joseph Foundation Occupy Democracy: The Public Square and/or The Ballots! L2.84 Jesse Alexander Myerson, Chair Kshama Sawant .........................................................................................Vote Sawant Charles Lenchner .......................................... Ready For Warren & Organizing 2.0 Winnie Wong ..................................... Ready For Warren & Occupy Wall St NYC Economy Meets Psychology in the U.S. L2.85 Harriet Fraad, Chair Richard D. Wolff .........................................................................Democracy at Work Roger Salerno ....................................................................................... Pace University Beyond Privilege Checking: Class, Oppression and Strategies for Solidarity 1.100 International Socialist Organization and Socialist Worker Natalia Tylim, Chair ....................................... International Socialist Organization Sarah Jaffe ...............................................................................In These Times, Dissent Sofia Arias ..........................................................................................Socialist Worker Jen Roesch .........................................................International Socialist Organization Patriarchy and Revolution

OldandNewProject.net

National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case Greets the 2015 Left Forum The 62nd Memorial of the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is on Thursday, June 18, 2015, at 7pm Soffiyah Elijah is our keynote speaker Screening of “Strange Fruit” Q&A with Robert Meeropol, younger son of the Rosenbergs UAW/National Writers Union 256 West 38th Street, 12th fl., NYC Free Admission. RSVP (212) 533-1015, info@ncrrc.org SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM 46 Activism and Academia: When Scholars Study Social Movements 1.103 The Indypendent

  • John Tarleton, Chair ......................................................................... The Indypendent

Michael Gould-Wartofsky .................................................................................... NYU Todd Wolfson Khadijah Costley White ....................................... Rutgers Univeristy, Occupy Philly Marina Sitrin Is Nazism Raising Its Ugly Head in Ukraine Today? 1.105 Bulletin of U.S. Friends of the Soviet People Angelo D’Angelo, Chair ...................................... U.S. Friends of the Soviet People Caleb Maupin Andrey Lotoskyy Barry Lituchy ...............................................................Medgar Evers College, CUNY Martin Sawma Digitizing Our Radical Past… Affordably 1.107 Ken Wachsberger, Chair ..................................................................... Reveal Digital Jeff Moyer .............................................................................................. Reveal Digital Thai Jones ......................................................................................Columbia University Kathie Sarachild ........................................................................................Redstockings Tensions In The American Dream: Dialogue with Authors Melanie (and Rod) Bush 1.108 Melanie Bush, Chair ....................................................................... Adelphi University Manny Ness ........................................................................................Brooklyn College Devin Thornburg ..............................................................................Adelphi University Godfrey Vincent........................................................................... Tuskegee University The Unfinished Revolution: South Africa Today 1.109 Socialist Action books Christine Marie, Chair ......................................................................... Socialist Action Patrick Bond .................................... Senior professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal Centre for Civil Society in Durban, South Africa Marsha Coleman-Adebayo ....................................................Black Agenda Report Marty Goodman ...................................................................................Socialist Action Land Grabs, Forced Displacement and Political Violence: Cases From Honduras, Venezuela And Colombia 1.113 Arturo J. Viscarra, Chair ............................... School of Americas Watch (SOAW) Lucy Pagoada-Quesada .................................................Honduras USA Resistencia Omar Sierra ..........................................................Consulate of Venezuela in Boston Ricardo Prado ......................................................... Marcha Patriótica of Colombia SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM 47 The New Stage in Cuban/U.S. Relations: What Has and Has Not Changed 1.114 Science & Society August Nimtz, Chair ............................................................. University of Minnesota Ike Nahem .............................................Coordinator of Cuba Solidarity New York Catherine Murphy ......................................................................................... Filmmaker Transcending Material Scarcity 1.115 Synergetics Binary Economics Harold Channer, Chair ................................ Manhattan Neighborhood Network/ Conversations With Channer Sidney Greenfield ....................................University of Wisconsin – Anthropology Stuart Dambrot ................................................................. interdisciplinary synthesist, futurist and science communicator Empire in Crisis: Uniting the Struggles to Defeat Racist State Terror, Austerity, and Endless War 1.117 Workers World Newspaper Ramiro Funez, Chair .................................... FIST and FNRP (Honduran Resistance) Abayomi Azikiwe Teresa Gutierrez .......................................................................Workers World Party Sara Flounders ................................................................ International Action Center Reviewing Struggles in Seattle and the Next Steps 1.119 Socialist Alternative

Publishing the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg – In English and Chinese 1.121 Verso Books Peter Hudis, Chair ......................................................... Oakton Community College Deng Rene ................................................ People’s Publishing House, Beijing, China Xiong Min ..........................................................................................Wuhan University Paul LeBlanc ............................................Department of History, La Roche College He Peng ................................ Department of Philosophy, Wuhan Unviersity China From The Greek Streets: Grassroots Resistance to Austerity 1.123 Athena Hassiotis, Chair .............................. Solidarity For All–Greece, Syriza NY Christos Giovanopoulos ................................................... Solidarity For All–Greece Sarah Leonard .............................................................................................. The Nation Resist, Reclaim, Restructure: A Call for Transition and Energy Democracy 1.124 Michael Ware, Chair ................................... System Change Not Climate Change Gloria Mattera ..............................................System Change Not Climate Change, Green Party of NY State David Holmquist .............................................System Change Not Climate Change Sean Sweeney .................................................Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Left Strategies for the Academic Workers’ Movement – A Year Later 1.125 Anais Surkin, Chair ........................................................................... GEO-UAW2322 Sean Kennedy............................................................................CUNY Adjunct Project Anna Waltman .................................................................................. GEO-UAW2322 Lauren Schaeffer ............................................................UAW 2865/UC–Academic Workers for a Democratic Union Natasha Raheja................................................................GSOC-UAW/NYU-AWDU Symposium: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution by Michael Andrew Žmolek 1.127 Haymarket (/Brill) Historical Materialism Series Charles Post, Chair ........................... Borough of Manhattan Community College Michael Andrew Zmolek ................................................................ University of Iowa Pepijn Brandon ................................. History Department, University of Pittsburgh Decolonizing Class Struggle: Building Workers Movements that Challenge Imperialism 1.129 Michelle Flores, Chair .................................................................................. 99 Pickets Suzanne Adely ................................................Global Workers Solidarity Network Jack Mahoney....................................................................................Workers United/ International Union League for Brand Responsibility Amin Husain Leonel Perez ...........................................................Coalition of Immokalee Workers Beauty Concept: Art and Evolution 1.61 Sain-City Magazine Dario Mohr, Chair .................................................................. AnkhLave Mind Media Pricilla Smikle Matthew Carter ...................................................................Model/Actor/Life Coach David Acala ..............................................................................D’evoluion Productions Myths of Non-Violence and Building a True Culture of Resistance 1.63 Frank Coughlin, Chair Jennifer Bilek Hetal Sheth SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM 48 The Extremist Regime Running Saudi Arabia and How to Expose It 1.65 The Struggle Video News Stanley Heller, Chair ................................................................. The Struggle, MECC Ali Al-Ahmed ..........................................................................Institute for Gulf Affairs Naseer Alomari Medea Benjamin ........................................................................................... Code Pink Erich Fromm’s Criticality and Creativity in Pedagogy, and His Approach to Labor Unions in Crisis 1.66 Joan Braune, Chair ................................................................ Mount Mary University Robert Lake ................................................................... Georgia Southern University Nick Braune .......................................................... South Texas College, McAllen, TX. Icarus Project NYC: Mad Maps and Forum Theater 1.67 Sascha Altman DuBrul, Chair ...................................................... Icarus Project NYC Rebecca Stabile ............................................................................. Icarus Project NYC Erin Lemkey ....................................................................................... The Icarus Project Jonah Bossewitch .............................................................................. The Icarus Project The Political Economy of State Single Payer Plans

Contemporary Topics on Maoism

Black Community Control Over the Police 1.73 Robert Robinson, Chair ............................................ Left Forum Board of Directors M. Adams ..........................Freedom, Inc. and Young, Gifted, and Black Coalition Max Rameau Julien Terrell ..............................................................................Brotherhood Sister Sol Transformation In Action: Non-Traditional Approaches to Prison Transformation! 1.75 Traumatology: An International Journal Lewis Webb, Chair.........................................American Friends Service Committee Tina Maschi ............................ Be the Evidence International, Fordham University Lawrence White ............................................................ Hope Lives for Lifers Project Jamila Codrington ........................... New York Association of Black Psychologists Kimberly Westcott ..........................................................Community Service Society From Anthony Baez to Eric Garner:

  1. Blacklivesmatter and the Struggle Against

Police Brutality in New York City 1.76 Jullian Guerrero, Chair ...................................................... Millions March NYC and International Socialist Organization Gina Sartori ..........................................................................Millions March NYC and International Socialist Organization Umaara Elliott ...............................................................................Millions March NYC aventuras del verano s p a n i s h c a m p through art and music July 6 - July 31, 2015 Monday - Friday 9am - 12pm

El Taller Latino Americano

@ St Michael’s Church 225 W 99th Street for more information 212 665 9460 www.tallerlatino.org SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM 49 The Ferguson Streets to the High Courts: Protest, Policing, and Resistance 1.77 Abi Hassen, Chair ............................................................... National Lawyers Guild Nicole Lee King Downing .....................................................Human Rights-Racial Justice Center Justin Hansford ................................................ Saint Louis University School of Law Kris Hermes ...............................................................Mass Defense Committee, NLG Public Schools vs. Charter Schools: The Legacy of the NYC Community Control Struggle: The True Debate Must Be Education vs. Mis-Education 1.81

  • Ralph Poynter, Chair ..................................................... New Abolitionist Movement

& Lynne Stewart Org. Lynne Stewart ..................................................................New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org. Anthony Gronowicz ...................................................................................Green Party Pastor Sherri Jackson-Black ..........................................New Abolitionist Movement & Brownsville Matters Betty Davis .......................................................................New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org. Howie Hawkins ..........................................................................................Green Party Marilyn Zuniga .................................... Former Orange N.J. Public School Teacher For CORAL and an Anarchist International 1.82

“The Predator” A Play Reading and Discussion about Killer Drones 1.83 Ed Kinane, Chair ....................................................................... Upstate Drone Action Carol Baum .............................Syracuse Peace Council and Upstate Drone Action Barbara Humphrey ................Syracuse Peace Council and Upstate Drone Action Bonny Mahoney ......................................................................... Upstate Drone Action Simone Richmond .................................................................. Syracuse Peace Council The New World Order and Warfare in the 21st Century: Drones, Space and Cyber Weapons 1.85 Subrata Ghoshroy, Chair ............................ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hugh Gusterson ........................................................George Washington University William Hartung.........................................................Center for International Policy From Syria and Turkey to Detroit, the Global Crisis and Women’s Struggle for Humanity: A Marxist-Humanist View 1.87 News & Letters Franklin Dmitryev, Chair ........................................... News and Letters Committees Terry Moon .........................................News and Letters Committees, FURIE, NOW Susan Stellar .........................................................................................Retired teacher Fred Mecklenburg .......................................................News and Letters Committees The Business of Backlash: The Attack on the Palestinian Movement and Other

Movements for Social Justice

Integrating City, State and Federal to Reduce Carbon – Obstacles and Successes

The Pledge to Mobilize: A Denial-Fighting Tool to Organize Against Climate Change

Energy Geopolitics in a Contested World

Equality Through Transportation and Infrastructure

KentuckyBikes

Inside-Out: A Journey Exploring Justice Via Nepali, Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, U.S. Immigrant Communities – Here/There & Animal Rights Naturally 1.99 Sherry Onna, Chair .............................................. Dance Theater of Nepal Inc NY Ang Gelden Sherpa ...................................................... United Sherpa Assn of USA Shailesh Shrestha .............................................Sampreshan White Himal television Pratip Dasgupta ............................................... Ethical-Humanist Society of Queens Bill Westerman ................................................................ New Jersey City University The End of the World As We Know It? Housing, Occupy, and Transnational Resistance to Green Capitalism L2.80 Journal of Social Justice Deric Shannon, Chair .................................... Oxford College of Emory University Davita Silfen Glasberg...................................................... University of Connecticut Mark Bray .........................................................................................Rutgers University Yesenia Barragan ........................................................................Columbia University Strategic Role of the Commons for Movements? L2.81 Michelle Wenderlich, Chair ............................................................. Clark University Eric Rogers Amanda Huron Greece vs. Germany: The Battle for Europe’s Future L2.82 The Nation Magazine Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Eduardo Maura, Chair ......................................... PODEMOS, Political Secretariat Konstantinos Tsoukalas ........................................... SYRIZA, Member of Parliament Christina Kaindl .....................................DIE LINKE, Head of Strategy Department Natassa Romanou ............................................................................SYRIZA New York Dominic Heilig ....................DIE LINKE’s Forum of Democratic Socialism, Co-Chair

What Happened to “The State and Revolution”? The Question of Power in Russia, 1917–1921

Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Community: A Panel Discussion and Workshop – Part 2

Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)

  • Marie-Claire Picher, Chair .... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
  • Janet Gerson ........................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB);

International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE)

  • Reg Flowers ........................................................................Falconworks Artists Group
  • Leonie Ettinger .................................................................................The Living Theatre

Teaching Economics As If Science Mattered (In Honor of Ross Thomson)

Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research

Resistance Against The Sell-Out Of The City

FILM: “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?” 3.81 Donald Goldmacher, Chair Joel Kovel ......................................... Editor-in-Chief, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism Lawrence Mitchell ................................................................author of Stacked Deck: A Story of Selfishness in America Sins of Omission: Stories the Media Overlook 8.61 Jenna Orkin, Chair ............................................................................ Collapsenet.com Robert F. Court Dorsey ............................................................................... Project Unspeakable FPA-Foundation-Child Welfare & Community Organizing 8.67 Dorin Matthews, Chair................................................................... Executive Director Sylvia Hooper .................................................................................................... Founder Kim Kennedy John Lance The Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline 8.69 Rolando Bini, Chair ............. Parents in Action for Leadership and Human Rights Platina Poreshqi .....................Parents in Action for Leadership and Human Rights Lucille Peña ................................. Parents Against the System of Forced Adoptions

Building Anti-Imperialist Front For 2016, From a Co-opted Anti-War Movement"'

AfroCrowd Call To Action Workshop

FEATURE EVENT 7:30–9:45PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL INDICTING AND TRANSFORMING THE SYSTEMS OF STATE AND CAPITALISM: FROM FERGUSON TO BALTIMORE AND BEYOND SPEAKERS: GLEN FORD, ALICIA GARZA, MAKAYLA GILLIAM-PRICE, KRISTIN LAWLER, THENJIWE MCHARRIS, & KSHAMA SAWANT PAUL JAY: MODERATOR/INTERLOCUTOR SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 52 You CAN handle the truth ! “We on the Left can continue to lose and celebrate, or we can read CODE RED and start doing something about what is really happening to us and to America.” – Victoria Collier, National Election Integrity Coalition “CODE RED can be a game-changer, the differencemaker in the years and decades to come.” – Andrew Kreig, Justice Integrity Project; Presidential Puppetry An observable count is a voting right! Print and Kindle Editions of CODE RED available at www.CODERED2014.com and www.amazon.com. Signed copies available at the Left Forum Marketplace. Please join Dr. Simon and his colleagues for Computerized Vote Theft And The Subversion Of Democracy (Panel #161). SUNDAY 5/31 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM

Labor and the Left in the U.S.: Socialist Register 2015 Transforming Classes

Socialist Register

Dreaming to be Free: Ferguson, Palestine and the Fight for Migration Justice

hamptoninstitution.org

Liberation Politics in the Post Obama World

Organizing for New Directions in U.S./Cuba Relations: The Cuba Caravans and Cuban Med School Experience

Crisis Of Capitalism: The Lightning Before The Storm

Critique – Journal of Socialist Theory

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton With, Against and Beyond Left Governments?

After Militarism and Capitalism: Panel in Honor of Seymour Melman

Radical Publishing and the Facebook Left: Contradictions in Clickbait

Zero Books

Beyond Crisis: Communicating Persuasively For Social Change

Diane Rubino, Chair ............................................................................................... NYU Craig Mills ................................................................................................................ NYU Jesse Scinto ...................................................................................Columbia University

Caribbean Responses to the Cuban Revolution

Human Rights In Venezuela And Co-Responsibility Between The State And Popular Power

Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera Daviana Sebastian, Chair Frederick Mills Keane Bhatt Robin Garcia Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan ...................President-Elect, National Lawyers Guild

Anti-Imperialism, A Debate

Workers World Newspaper

Quechua Realities: A Discussion on Subjectivity

Occupy Alternative Banking: A Meeting and Open Discussion on the Financial System’s Dysfunction

Thomas Paine And Henry George – Two Patriots, One Common Adversary Of Monopoly

Thomas Paine Friends & Bulletin Marty Rowland, Chair ............................ Henry George School of Social Science Victor Madeson .......................................................Thomas Paine Friends & Bulletin Thomas Ballou Georgeson Sustaining Organizations with Values 1.123 Michael Skirpan, Chair ................................................ Collaborative Laboratories Patrick Cooper.................................................................Collaborative Laboratories Kilian Walsh ............................................................................................................. NYU Jacqueline Cameron ..................................................................................CU–Boulder

Connecting the Dots: Big Capital, Contingent Labor & Poverty

Lines of Work: Telling Our Stories of Work and Building Movement

Recomposition

Confronting the Social and Natural Crises of 21st Century Capitalism: Water, Oil, and Economic Inequality

  • Fabian Balardini, Chair ................... Borough of Manhattan Community College
  • Kenneth Levin .......................................Borough of Manhattan Community College
  • Ross Tippit .............................................Borough of Manhattan Community College
  • Enrique Lanz Oca ................................Borough of Manhattan Community College
  • Mohammad Soleymani ......................Borough of Manhattan Community College

Growing U.S. Trade Unionist Support for BDS, From UAW 2865 to Block-the-Boat

Where Do We Go From Here? Is Radical Art Relevant To The Left?

A World on The Verge of Collapse: A Guide And Discussion On Taking The Power Back

And Deliver Us From All Our Saviors: Reflections on Coalition Building in the Sex-Worker Rights Movement

Masculinity and Ideology

Situations Journal: Project of the Radical Imagination

Eco-Feminist Paths Towards a World Beyond Capital

Progressive Healthcare Unions Fighting for Patient Care

Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Program”: New Direction for Revolutionary Organization

Marxist-Humanist Initiative

Quest for Identity: Negro, Colored, Black, Afro, African American: The Role of Religion in Shaping Black Identity in America

As the South Goes: Climate Justice and a Just Transition in the Black Belt South

The Indictment of the American Criminal Justice System and the New Criminology of Hope

We Have Still Not Been Moved: Taking Aim at White Supremacy, the War Machine, and Police Brutality

Press, War Resisters League, & WESPAC

Dismantling the Intern Economy: Building Student, Intern, and Worker Power

A People’s Congress

More than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing

Haymarket Books

Systematic Violence of the War on Terror and Collective Actions of Dissenters 1.85 Sharmin Sadequee, Chair ........................................................National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) Inas Shnewer .....................National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) Tausif Khan ...................................................................................No Separate Justice

Iran and the New (Nuclear) Deal 1.87 URPE Reza Ghorashi, Chair ................................................................... Stockton University Hamid Zangeneh ...........................................................................Widener University Evan Siegel .................................................................................. Independent Scholar

War, Imperialism & the People’s Struggle in the Middle East Today

Nurses Healing the World: Climate Change and the Fight for Climate Justice

Private Power vs. Public Rights: Why Do Fracking Corporations Have So Much Power? 1.91 Susan Peters, Chair ...................................................... American Monetary Institute B. Allen Barndt ......................................................... Taos Institute/Tilburg University Dee Aherne ......................................................................................................... 350nyc

The Climate Crisis, Nonviolent Direct Action and the Necessity Defense 1.92 The Indypendent John Tarleton, Chair ................................. The Indypendent, Flood Wall Street 10 Krystle Holmes ........................................................................... Flood Wall Street 10 Marty Stolar ..........................................................................National Lawyers Guild Michael Dineen .......................................................................... We Are Seneca Lake

Internal Relations and Practice

Science & Society

Confronting Corporate Rule in India 1.99 Sanhati Deepankar Basu, Chair.................................................................................... Sanhati Partho S Ray ....................................................................................................... Sanhati Debarshi Das ...................................................................................................... Sanhati Siddhartha Mitra ............................................................................................... Sanhati Sirisha Naidu ...................................................................................................... Sanhati The Housing Trust and Affordability in Perpetuity L2.80 Walter South, Chair ............................... Urban Policy at Milano–The New School Peter Marcuse Philip Van Buren ............................................................................................... Attorney Left Alternatives to Neoliberalism in France and the United States: Economic Reforms and Political Strategies

Mark Kesselman, Chair .............................. Professor emeritus of political science Columbia University Robert Pollin .........................Political Economy Research Institute–UMass-Amherst Daniel Cirera ............................................................... Fondation Gabriel Peri, Paris Mireille Bruyere...................................................................... Prof of Economy at the University of Toulouse 2, France Greece–EU–USA & the BRICS: International Solidarity & Cooperation as a Way to Fight Feudalism, Colonialism and Imperialism L2.82 Georgist Economic Taskforce Yannis Tziligakis, Chair ............................................... Georgist Economic Taskforce Nikos Alexiou .................................................................Queens College, SYRIZA-NY Marshall Auerback ...................................................................................Levy Institute Democratic Totalitarianism 3.76 Jalen Matney, Chair Matthew Ballinger Joshua Headley Dance for Social Justice 3.78 Marsha Parrilla, Chair .............................. Danza Orgánica (danzaorganica.org) Mckersin Previlus ..........................Dancer company member at Danza Orgánica. Joya Powell ....................................................................................................Colleague Why Jaurès Matters 3.79 Democratic Left (Democratic Socialists of America) Pluto Press Pennsylvania State University Press Nichole Shippen, Chair ............................ LaGuardia Community College, CUNY Mitchell Abidor Sheri Berman ..................................................................................... Barnard College Geoffrey Kurtz ...................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY FILM: “The Missile Dick Chicks Take on America” 3.80 Randi Cecchine, Chair ......................................................... Independent Filmmaker Disaster Capitalism: A Screening and Discussion of Richard Ledes’ “The Dark Side” 3.81 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Despina Lalaki, Chair Richard Ledes ........................................................................ Independent Filmmaker Michael Pelias ..................................................................LIU Brooklyn and Situations

Stop Militarizing Our Children: Organizing for Alternatives to ROTC and Military Recruitment in Schools

Textual Communities

We Can’t Breathe: (The Connection Between Movements)

Environmental Collapse and the Need for Resistance: Introduction to Deep Green Resistance

The Unnecessary Drugging of Children

The History of Authority; Understanding Leadership 3304N Glen Morton Ganaway, Chair Nomi Naeem Carmen Pena ...................................................................................Life Conversations Kevin O’Connor ................................................................................. C-Realm Podcast

Black Labor and the Fate of Capitalism

The Indypendent

  • Nicholas Powers, Chair .................................................................... The Indypendent
  • Bill Fletcher, Jr. ............................................................................. The Black Commentator
  • Matt Birkhold .............................. Sociology Department in Binghamton University

Progressive Satirical Activism

ACE

How to Teach Marxism? Glad You Asked!

Occupy + 4: Lessons for the Anti-Capitalist Left

Extractivisms, North and South and in Between

Review of Radical Political Economics

Brian Tokar, Chair ........................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Patrick Bond ...................................................................University of KwaZulu-Natal Don Fitz .................................................................................. Green Party of St. Louis Eric Pineault .......................................................................UQAM/sociology and IRIS Marcela Olivera .............................................................................................Red Vida Commonizing Public Spaces Against Neoliberal Urbanization 1.103 Emre Cetin Gurer, Chair .............................................. Research Institute on Turkey Esra Akcan ...................................Cornell University / Research Institute on Turkey Mete Pamir

The Limits of Liberal Police Reforms 1.105 Alex Vitale, Chair ............................................................................ Brooklyn College Naomi Murakawa .........................................................................Princeton University Raven Rakia ....................................................................................................Journalist José Martín Resisting Technology Privatization and Surveillance: Roles for Scholar-Activists 1.107 Jackie Smith, Chair .............................. International Network of Scholar Activists Barry Cohen .......................................................................................................portside Seda Gürses ......................................................................................................... INoSA Peter Murray-Rust ...............................................................University of Cambridge Rebecca Kennison ................................................................................KJN Consultants

Celebrating 25 years of supporting the children of resistance! www.rfc.org No Working Class Media Voice; No Democracy 1.108 Frank Emspak, Chair Howard Kling John Anderson Sam Mayfield

Youth in Revolt:The International Role of Youth on the Left

Alexi Shalom, Chair .............. Students for Justice in Palestine at Hunter College Arielle Newton ......................................................................................Black Millenials Irving Perez ................................................................................Raza Youth Collective Angelica Lara .............................................................. Frente Estudiantil Ayotzinapa Chrissi Fabro ........................................................................................Anakbayan–NY Colombian Women’s Struggles: Overcoming Violence and Oppression by Becoming Agents of Change 1.113 Movement for Peace in Colombia Julio Bedoya, Chair ........................................... Movement for Peace in Colombia Sebastian Ramirez ........................................................................Princeton University Melissa Cox ......................................................................................Witness for Peace Natalia Caruso .................................................................................................... Madre Perspectives on Puerto Rico in a Changing Latin American and Caribbean Reality 1.114 Antonio Nadal, Chair .......................................... Friends of Puerto Rico at the UN Edward Morales ................................................................................Brooklyn College Andres Matias Ortiz .............................................................................Mercy College Oscar Lopez Rivera: Beauty and Strength in Resistance 1.115 Free Oscar Lopez Rivera PM Press Matt Meyer, Chair ........................................ Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Campaign Alejandro Molina ............................................Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Campaign Ana Lopez ...................................................NY Coord. to Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Puerto Rican former political prisoner TBA “We Tortured Some Folks” But Don’t Take It Too Seriously, Says U.S. Government 1.117 Ray McGovern, Chair Debra Sweet ....................................................................................World Can’t Wait Marjorie Cohn......................................Former President, National Lawyers’ Guild Roy Eidelson .......................................................Coalition for an Ethical Psychology What Is To Be Done: How To Build A Global Anti-Capitalist Movement Today? 1.119 Shahram Azhar, Chair ...................................................................... UMASS-Amherst Danish Khan ....................................................................................... UMASS–Amherst Ricardo Fuentes-Ramírez ................................................................. UMASS–Amherst Marx on Ecology, Preliterate Societies and the Global South: New Research from the MEGA Project 1.121 Joel Kovel, Chair ........................................................................ Ecosocialist Horizons Kohei Saito ........................................................................Humboldt University Berlin Tairako Tomonaga ......................................................Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Kevin Anderson ......................................... University of California, Santa Barbara SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 63 FILM: Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley 1.123 Lucy Pagoada-Quesada, Chair ........Colectivo Honduras USA Resistencia=libre


Toward a Mass Left Party The North Star

Neoliberalism and the Importance of the Radical Imagination

Red Wedge magazine

Confronting the Retirement Crisis: The Campaign to Expand Social Security Benefits

James W. Russell, Chair ............ Connecticut Committee for Equity in Retirement Eric Kingson .............................................................................. Social Security Works! Alex Lawson ............................................................................. Social Security Works! Worker Coops, Labor and Cities: How New Thinking Is Building Economic Power from the Ground Up 1.129 Union-Coops Council, US Federation of Worker Coops Abby Scher, Chair .......................................................................... Dollars and Sense Esteban Kelly .................co-executive director, US Federation of Worker Coops Asar Amen ................................................................................................. Detroit UAW Laura Hanson Schlachter ........................................................................UW Madison David Hammer ............................................................................................. ICA Group Saduf Syal .....................................................................................Make the Road NY

If I Can’t Sing, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution

Jocelyne Clarke, Chair ................................................................................ Filmmaker Molly Klopot ...........................................Raging Grannies, Granny Peace Brigade Corinne Willinger ......................... NYC Raging Grannies, Granny Peace Brigade Mercy Van Vlack ....................................Raging Grannies, Granny Peace Brigade Vicki Ryder ...........................................Triangle (North Carolina) Raging Grannies

Shutting Down Indian Point: The Movement Toward Ending the Nuclear Era 1.63 Carl Lundgren, Chair .................................................. Shut Down Indian Point Now! Catherine Skopic ............................................................People’s Climate Movement Alfred Meyer ......................................................Physicians for Social Responsibility Tim Judson .....................................Nuclear Information & Resource Service (NIRS) “SELMA”: Action Lessons for Concrete Outcomes for the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Movement and Progressive Empowerment–Insights of Black Women Activists

Trans Lives Matter 1.66 Sasha Alexander, Chair ..................................................... Director of Membership, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Enki ........................................................................................Sylvia Rivera Law Project Sheneeneh Smith ................................................................Sylvia Rivera Law Project Xena .....................................................................................Sylvia Rivera Law Project Cherno Biko .......................................................................... SRLP Director of Finance Juana Peralta ................................... SRLP Director of Outreach and Engagement Rage Kidvai......................................SRLP, Paul Rapoport Foundation Equal Justice Works Fellow, Immigrant Justice Project Vanessa McEnery ...............................................................Sylvia Rivera Law Project Neoliberalism and Psychiatry: How Do We Respond? 1.67 Carl Cohen, Chair Kenneth Thompson .................................................................University of Pittsburgh Bradley Lewis ..................................................New York University Medical Center Amjad Hindi Sascha Altman DuBrul ................................................................... Icarus Project NYC

Health Needs Assessment and Planning in New York City 1.69 Leonard Rodberg, Chair ..................................................... Queens College, CUNY Anthony Feliciano ...................................Commission on the Public’s Health System Robert Padgug .....................................................................Brooklyn College, CUNY Leon Bell .............................................................New York State Nurses Association Louis Cholden-Brown................................................................New York City Council

Anti-Neoliberalism vs. Anti-Capitalism 1.71 Marxist-Humanist Initiative Anne Jaclard, Chair ........................................................ Marxist-Humanist Initiative Andrew Kliman ...............................economist, professor emeritus, Pace University Douglas Lain ....................................................... Zero Books, author and podcaster Kostas Demetriou .....................................TPTG (Children of the Gallery), Greece Alex Papadopoulos .................................TPTG (Children of the Gallery), Greece

Next Phase of the Black Freedom Struggle

Socialist Alternative and 15 Now

I Pledge Allegiance to the Struggle: Black & Brown Resistance Against Nationalism 1.75 Joshua Allen, Chair Alok Vaid-Menon Nakaiyé Ndé Flotte José Ramón García-Madrid Confronting Injustice: Ferguson, Social Control, and Mass Incarceration 1.76 Jason Williams, Chair ................................................ Fairleigh Dickinson University Hillary Potter ..........................................................University of Colorado, Boulder Christine Bell ................................................................................. Fordham University Sean Wilson .......................................................................Texas Southern University Miah Register .............................................................. Fairleigh Dickinson University Liza Chowdhury ........................................................... Fairleigh Dickinson University The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home presents: Live From Death Row to #Blacklivesmatter: The Anatomy of Revolutionary Leadership 1.77 Sophia Williams, Chair Jeffrey Camp ................................................The Campaign To Bring Mumia Home Gabriel Bryant ..............................................The Campaign To Bring Mumia Home How Can Teachers Respond Politically to Neoliberalism’s Unjust Education Policies? 1.81 John Antush, Chair Marilena Marchetti ........Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) International Socialist Organization August Leppelmeier ....................Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE), Democratic Socialists of America Brian Jones ......................................................International Socialist Organization; CUNY Graduate Center Alexandra Alves Francesca Gomes .........................Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) Socialist Alternative Marcus McArthur ..........................Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) Akinlabi Mackall .........................................................Coalition for Public Education Beth Dimino .......................President, Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association

The Democratic Tea Party: Where Do We Go From Here?

The Most Significant Right in the BDS Call: Advocating Palestinian Refugee Return 1.83 Pamela Brown, Chair Amin Husain ............................................................Direct Action Front for Palestine David Letwin ....................................................Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Lamis Deek ...........................Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition The Wars Come Home 1.85 United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Joe Lombardo, Chair .......................................................................................... UNAC Abayomi Azikiwe ................................................................. Pan African News Wire Margaret Kimberley ................................................................Black Agenda Report Critical Perspectives on Palestine: Revitalizing a One State Solution 1.87 Students for Justice in Palestine Nerdeen Kiswani, Chair ......................................... Students for Justice in Palestine at College of Staten Island Leena Widdi Kassem Nasser Alexi Shalom ................................................Hunter Students for Justice in Palestine

Evaluating the Consequences of the Post-9/11 Era, Redirecting Our Future 1.89 Les Jamieson, Chair ........................................................................................ hr14.org Frank Morales Mark Crispin Miller ..................................................................... New York University Globalization, Climate Change, and the Second Contradiction of Capitalism 1.90 RRPE and CNS Paul Cooney, Chair .......................................... URPE Steering Committee Member David Schwartzman ......................................................................Howard University Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro Shifting Money, Shifting Power: Fossil Fuel Divestment and Alternative Energy Reinvestment as a Strategy for Confronting Climate Change 1.91 Mimi Bluestone, Chair ..................................................................................... 350NYC Sophie Lasloff ............................................................................................ NYU Divest Lisa DiCaprio ...................................................................................................350NYC Rosina Pohlmann Appropriation of Climate Justice and Intersectionality by Mainstream Environmentalists: Challenges, Opportunities, and Concerns 1.92 Cecilia Pineda, Chair ...................................................................................... RADIKO Myles Lennon ........................ Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Jacqueline Patterson ........................................................................................ NAACP Camila Apaza Mamani Victor Serge Today 1.93 PM Press Mitchell Abidor, Chair Christopher Winks James Brook Academic Capitalism/Authoritarianism And The Status Of The Profession: Academic Freedom And The Role Of Professors In Mainland China, Hong Kong And Macau 1.99 Zhidong Hao, Chair ................................................................... University of Macau Kwok-bun Chan ........................................................ Chan Institute of Social Studies Zhengyang Guo .......................................................................... University of Macau Organizing A Spatial Justice Movement In A Punitive Neoliberal City L2.80 Christopher Magno, Chair ........................................................... Gannon University Judah Schept .................................................................... Easter Kentucky University Doug Evans .......................................................John Jay College of Criminal Justice Cooperation Jackson and The Struggle for Economic Democracy in Jackson Mississippi L2.81 Brandon King, Chair ................................................................. Cooperation Jackson Kali Akuno ..................................................................................Cooperation Jackson Kazembe Balagun ........................................ Friends of Cooperation Jackson NYC Report Back from Spain: A Social Movement Delegation in the “Year of Change” L2.82 Lucas Shapiro, Chair Jess Powers ................................................................................................WhyHunger Luis Moreno-Caballud .....................................................University of Pennsylvania Jesus Gonzalez Europe on the Move, Part 1: Syriza, Podemos – How the Left Addresses the Issue of Power in Greece and in Spain 3.76 Walter Baier, Chair ........................................... Coordinator of transform! europe Stelios Foteinopoulos ............................................Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Syriza Marga Ferré ....................Fondaciòn Investigaciones Marxistas, Izquierda Unida Roberto Morea ................................... transform-italia, L’altra Europa con Tsipras. (212) 260-7853 shop 136 EAST THIRD STREET NEW YORK, NY 10009 stmarksbookshop.com stmarksbooks@gmail.com NEW LOCATION! SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 68 FILM: Two Short Youth Made Films on Social Justice and the Intersections of Race, Sexual Orientation, and Gender 3.78 Scenarios USA: Using Film to Amplify Youth Voices on Social Justice Bianca Laureano, Chair ....................................................................... Scenarios USA Emily Saltzman War Zones to Peace Zones: How to End Police Brutality 3.79 Ronald Scott, Chair .................................................................... Peace Zones for Life Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality Richard Feldman ....................... Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership Matt Birkhold ............................. Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership FILM: 3½ Minutes: Jordan Davis, Race and Guns 3.80 Ron Davis, Chair FILM: “The Hand That Feeds” Documentary Film with Filmmaker and Film Subject Q&A 3.81 Robert Robinson, Chair ............................................Left Forum Board of Directors The Anthropocene Debate 8.61 Haymarket Books John McDonald, Chair .................................................................... Haymarket Books Chris Williams .................................................System Change Not Climate Change Hadas Thier .....................................................System Change Not Climate Change Bringing the Transition Movement to NYC 8.67 Pamela Boyce Simms, Chair ....................................... Convener and Lead Trainer, Mid-AtlanticTransition Hub Dan Miner .......................................................................................Transition NYC Hub Christopher Powers ................................................................The Redemption Center Ted Schulman Occupy Ethics: Rehumanizing the Economy 8.69 Yannis Tziligakis, Chair ............................................... Georgist Economic Taskforce Frank Fabio ...................................................Georgist Economic TaskForce, NYMAS Jerome Johnson .......................Solar One Brooklyn, Georgist Economic Taskforce Harold Channer ......................................................................................................MNN Spying and Infiltration of Activist Groups 8.72 Heidi Boghosian, Chair ............. former Director of the National Lawyer’s Guild Bill DiPaola ..........................................Director of Time’s Up Environmental Group. Abi Hassen ............... Mass Defense Coordinator of the National Lawyers Guild FILM: The Anti-War Movement from Hollywood to Harlem 2003–2011 3303N Joseph Calhoun, Chair, .................................................................... Empire, Colorado Legal Solutions to JFK Assassination Research 3304N Jerry Policoff, Chair Andrew Kreig ................................................................................ justice-integrity.org William E. Kelly Lawrence Schnapf SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 69 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM Ferguson to New York: Faces and Voices of a Movement L2.84 Jim Vrettos, Chair ............................... John Jay College -- Sociology Department Immortal Technique ............................................................................... Viper Records Danny Aguilar ...............................................................Union Theological Seminary Reverend Osagyefo Sekou ............................ Sekou Fellowship of Reconcilliation Leslie MacFadyen ........................................................ Ferguson Response Network Tamika Mallory .................................Executive Director, National Action Network Carmen Perez ...................................Executive Director, The Gathering For Justice Sahaah Jordan

Should the Left Support Bernie Sanders?

International Socialist Review, Jacobin

The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy L.76 Verso Books Review of Radical Political Economics Debbie Bookchin, Chair .............................coeditor, The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy Chaia Heller ...................................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Marina Sitrin ......................................................author of They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy Nazan Üstündağ ...................................................Associate Professor of Sociology at Boğaziçi University, Instanbul Seeking Truth in the Balkans (And In Africa) 1.101 AfrobeatRadio.Com, FOTC., WBAI Gnaka La Goke, Chair ......................................... Revival of Panafricanism Forum June Vutrano ............................................................... seekingtruthinthebalkans.com Bradley McCallum .........................................................................Portraits of Justice Jennifer Trahan ................................................................NYU–SPS, Global Affairs. Erin K. Lovall .................................................... Graduate of New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and Duke University School of Law 21st Century Movement-Building Centers 1.103 Mayday Space Liz Mestres, Chair ............................................... Socialism and Democracy Journal Lucas Shapiro ......................................................................................Mayday Space Weimin Tchen ...............................................................................................Encuentro 5 THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 3:40–5:40PM BLACK BOX THEATER TRANSCENDING BORDERS: SOUNDS OF SOLIDARITY FEATURING: MAT CALLAHAN OMNIA HEGAZY INKARAYKU SHARLEEN LEAHEY BERNARDO PALOMBO STEVE SIEGELBAUM MASTER OF CEREMONIES: MAT CALLAHAN ORGANIZED BY: STEVE SIEGELBAUM, JIM VRETTOS, AND GEORGE YGARZA SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 70 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 71 ISIS and Islamic Extremism: A “Failure” of US Policy? or Precisely What The Hidden Hand of U.S. Power Wants? 1.105 Voxnews

Computerized Vote Theft and the Subversion of Democracy 1.107 Joel Simpson, Chair Jonathan Simon ..................................................................Election Defense Alliance Bob Fitrakis ..................................................................Co-Chair, Ohio Green Party, Political Science Prof. Columbia State Community College, Columbus, OH Mark Crispin Miller Allergra Dengler .............................Citizens for Voting Integrity, New York State Victoria Collier ................................................National Election Integrity Coalition Revolutionary Culture and Media: Our Movement as Ecosystem 1.108 Revolutionary Student Media Project Liam Wright, Chair ........ Revolutionary Student Media Project, Kasama Project Brenden Larosa ..................... Revolutionary Student Media Project, Mass Action Reshma Mohan The American Deep State: How Capitalism Has Subverted Democracy 1.109 Cheryl Curtiss, Chair .......................... Radio show host of “9/11 Wake-Up Call” at wwuh.org University of Hartford Andrew Kreig ............................................................................... justice-integrity.org Russ Baker ......................................................................................... whowhatwhy.org David MacGregor Reprimarization: Implications for the Environment and Development 1.113 RRPE Paul Cooney, Chair ............................ URPE Steering Committee Member/UNGS Fabian Balardini ................................................................................................. BMCC Orlando Justo ...................................................................................................... BMCC The Cuban Revolution Today: Cuba Speaks for Itself 1.114 July 26 Coalition, july26coalition.org Ike Nahem, Chair ........ July 26 Coalition, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Gail Walker ..........................................................................IFCO/Pastors for Peace Frank Velgara ..................................................................................July 26 Coalition Rodolfo Reyes .................................... Ambassador of Cuba to the United Nations Hostility Between Haitian and Dominicans – Why? 1.115 Vita Devyatkin, Chair Ricardo Deschamps Simon Morell Overcoming Econophobia: Renewing Popular Economics On The Left 1.117 Ricochet.Media Derrick O’Keefe, Chair Michal Rozworski Doug Henwood ......................................................................Left Business Observer The Pirate Party: Navigating the Seas of Surveillance 1.119 Halley Murray, Chair James O’Keefe ............................................................... Massachusetts Pirate Party Steve Revilak .................................................................. Massachusetts Pirate Party Lindsay-Anne Brunner .....................................................United States Pirate Party Kendra Moyer ................................................................ Massachusetts Pirate Party Harvey vs. Marx: On Capitalist Crisis and “Marxist Entertainment” 1.121 Marxist-Humanist Initiative Mike Dola, Chair ............................................................. Marxist-Humanist Initiative Brendan Cooney ...................................................................................kapitalism101 Andrew Kliman ..............................economist, professor emeritus, Pace University Douglas Lain ....................................................... Zero Books, author and podcaster Marxist Encounters with Anarchism 1.123 Science & Society John Pittman, Chair .......................... John Jay College, CUNY; Science & Society Gerald Meyer ..................Hostos Community College, CUNY; Science & Society Jackie DiSalvo ............................Department of English - Baruch College, CUNY Linda Alcoff ............................................................................ Hunter College, CUNY José Martín Mark Bray ..............................................................Black Rose Anarchist Federation SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 72 Anarchism, Socialist Humanism, and Libertarian Marxism 1.124 Kevin Anderson, Chair ............................ University of California, Santa Barbara Barbara Epstein .............................................University of California, Santa Cruz Joan Braune ....................................................... Mount Mary University, Milwaukee Reject the Student-Worker Binary! Undergraduate Student Labor Organizing on Campus 1.125 Anais Surkin, Chair ........................................................................... GEO-UAW2322 Beth Huang .................................................................. Student Labor Action Project Jenna Grady ..............................................................................................UAW 2322 Jessica Linder ...........................................................Ohio University RA Union Drive Jonah Walters ...................................................Student & Labor Action Movement Avery Fürst ..................................................................................................UAW 2322 Deepening Technological Changes in the Workplace, Workers’ Organizing, and Marx’s Mature Critical Theory 1.127 New Politics Jason Schulman, Chair ............................................................................. New Politics Kevin O’Brien Bhairavi Desai ....................................................... New York Taxi Workers Alliance Russell Rockwell ......................................................................... Independent Scholar Living Near a Deadly Neighbor: A Coalition’s Struggle to Achieve Good Jobs and a Clean Environment Near the New Jersey/ New York Port 1.129 Isella Ramirez, Chair ....................................... Ironbound Community Corporation Ana Baptista .......................................................................................The New School David Bensman SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 73 Poetry of Resistance: Imagining the Overthrow of Capitalist Oppression 1.61 National Writers Union Steve Bloom, Chair .................................................. Southern Anti-Racism Network Raymond Nat Turner ...............................................................Black Agenda Report Martín Espada Lauren Schmidt ..................................................Passaic County Community College Lora Tucker ..............................................................................National Writers Union Racism, Capitalism and Black Liberation 1.63 International Socialist Organization Lichi D’Amelio, Chair ....................................... International Socialist Organization Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor .......................Haymarket Books, Princeton University Brian Jones .......................................................International Socialist Organization Mychal Denzel Smith ................................................................... The Nation Institute Andrew Wilkes .....................................................Democratic Socialists of America Slacktivism to Activism: Combating Gender and Racial Inequality in a Violent World 1.65 Romina Perino, Chair ..................................................................... Adelphi University Danielle Medina ............................................................................Adelphi University Tyra Busigo .....................................................................................Adelphi University Monique Knight ..............................................................................Adelphi University Restorative Justice for All?: Race, Class, Gender, Disability and Animal Liberation 1.66 Lauren Gazzola, Chair ...................................................... National Lawyers Guild Pattrice Jones .......................................................................................VINE Sanctuary Christopher-Sebastian McJetters ..................................................Vegan Publishers Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan ...............................................National Lawyers Guild Lawrence Carter-Long Political Prisoners in the U.S.: Crisis or Opportunity? 1.67 Basir Mchawi, Chair ............................................................... Family and Friends of Dr Mutulu Shakur, WBAI. John Jay Sid Wilson ................................................Family and Friends of Dr. Mutulu Shakur Suzanne Ross ........................................................ Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition Esperanza Martell ..................................................................................Human Rights Brother Mogadishu Sekou ..........................................Odinga Support Committee, Jericho Movement Envisioning a New Healthcare Delivery in New York City: Health as a Model of Social Justice 1.69 Marcelo Venegas-Pizarro, Chair Diana Ramirez Grameen .......................................................................... Vida Sana Manel Silva ..................................................... NYU Lutheran Family Health Center Marcellus Walker ..................................................HHC–East New York Diagnostic and Treatment Center K. Jonathan Joseph ...........................................................................................CityMD The Politics of Social Reproduction 1.71 Viewpoint Magazine Gavin Mueller, Chair .............................................. George Washington University Salar Mohandesi ...................................................... The University of Pennsylvania Evan Calder Williams .......................................................Parsons School of Design Fulvia Serra .............................................................. The University of Pennsylvania Zhivka Valiavicharska ............................................................................ Pratt Institute 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Malcolm X: A Review of the National Question Behind the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Uprising 1.73 Workers World Monica Moorehead, Chair .......................... International Working Women’s Day Coalition, Workers World Party Secretariat Larry Holmes .................................................Workers World Party First Secretary Ramiro Funez ............................................... FIST and FNRP (Honduran Resistance) Colin Ashby ........................................................................ People’s Power Assembly Ferguson: The F#$%&ing Conversation, Its Aftermath and Going Forward 1.75 A. J. Segneri, Chair ...................................................................... Socialist Party USA Brien Redmon P. Arianna Norris-Landry Ebonie Tyse Black Cooperatives & the Fight for Economic Democracy 1.76 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Ethan Earle, Chair ............................. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Jessica Gordon Nembhard ............... Professor and Author, Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought Ed Whitfield ...........................................................Fund 4 Democratic Communities Kali Akuno ..................................................................................Cooperation Jackson SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 74 New BLACK Power: Moving Beyond Black 1.77 21-Michel Alexendre Sacha Vington, Chair ............................................................... HumanityEvolutionMovement.org Patrick Hilton ............................................................................. Hilton and Associates Pojanee Fleury .........................................................................Brown Eyez Magazine Educating Toward Revolution 1.81 Monique Scott, Chair ................................................................. Freebrook Academy Terry Marshall ............................................................................... Intelligent Mischief Rosa Knoepfel .....................................................................................Urban Art Beat Building Multilingual Movements: Experiences Form The Grassroots 1.82 Raji Manjari Pokhrel, Chair .......................................................................... Adhikaar Patricia Gonzalez .............................................. Caracol Interpreters Cooperative Telesh Lopez ..................................................................................................... Caracol Fear of Who, Where?: Ethnographic Research as Learning Tool in an Urban Community College 1.83 Yolanda C. Martin, Chair ... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Josean Melendez ................................................................................ Vassar College Roydel Morris ....................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Elyse Ortiz ............................. Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Bernadette Schaefer ............ Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY War Culture and Resistance 1.85 Patrick Deer, Chair ............................ Associate Professor at New York University Ross Caputi ................................. Graduate Student at Fitchburg State University Nicole Goodwin Concerning Violence 1.87 AfrobeatRadio, WBAI Radio, FOTC Maurice Carney, Chair ............................................... Friends of the Congo (FOTC) Omowale Clay ............................................................................Dec 12th Movement Bruce Dixon .................................Black Agenda Report (blackagendareport.com) Benjamin Bowser ............................................ California State University East Bay Kimone Tecumseh Freeman ..................................We Act Radio (weactradio.com) Fundamentalism in Iran and Israel: Compare and Contrast in the Context of Turmoil in the Greater Middle East 1.89 Bahram Zandi, Chair .................................................................. Dr. Zandi, Co-Chair, International Committee US Green Party Farshid Moghimi .................................................................... Iranian Left Alliance of Washington Metropolitan Area Yunes Parsa Benab ............................................................... Iranian Left Alliance of Washington Metropolitan Area People’s Climate Movement – New York: Organizing for Next Steps 1.90 Catherine Skopic, Chair ....................................... PCM-NY; IMAC; WEACT; SDIPN Jon Forster .............................................................................................................DC37 Lyna Hinkel .......................................................................................350.org; 350.nyc Ray Figueroa .............................................................Community Garden Coalition; People’s Climate Movement–New York Zita Allen .................................................... People’s Climate Movement–New York Garrett O’Connor ..................................... People’s Climate Movement–New York Aesthetics of Climate Justice 1.91 Milena Popov, Chair ....................................................................... John Jay College Karen Malpede .................. Theater Three Collaborative, Inc., John Jay College Nyasha Laing ....................................................................................John Jay College Alexander Schlutz ............................................................................John Jay College George Bartenieff ..................................................... Theater Three Collaborative SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 75 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 76 FAKE RECOVERY, FAILING FIX-ITS — GOING NOWHERE FASTER ISBN 978-0-9860769-4-7 $29.95 2015 406 pp. See http://www.claritypress.com/Rasmus.html This book clarifies how the price system in general, and financial asset prices in particular, transform into fundamentally destabilizing forces under conditions of systemic fragility. It explains why the global system has in recent decades become dependent upon, and even adicted to, massive liquidity injections, and how fiscal policies have been counterproductive, exacerbating fragility and instability Dr. Jack Rasmus is the author of Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression, 2010, Obama’s Economy, 2012, and An Alternative Program for Economic Recovery, 2012 (Pluto Press). He hosts Alternative Visions on the Progressive Radio network; is shadow Federal Reserve Bank chair of the ‘Green Shadow Cabinet’ and economic advisor to USA Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein. He writes bi-weekly for teleSUR TV, for Z magazine, Znet, among others. Rasmus currently teaches economics and politics at St. Marys College in California. “...Rasmus’s book [Epic Recesson] offers readers an illuminating and developed theoretical framework that adds to our understanding of specific contours of the current crisis, and its difference from earlier crisis experiences...” Review of earlier work, Capital & Class CLARITY PRESS, INC SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 77 Massage the Movements: Disability and Intersectionality 1.92 Evan Yankey, Chair ...................... Self-Advocacy Association of New York State Peter Cobb .....................................................................United Cerebral Palsy-NYC Tony Phillips .................................. Self-Advocacy Association of New York State, National Action Network Bernard Carabello ...................... Self-Advocacy Association of New York State Diane McCourt .................................................................Disability Rights Advocate Susan Hoffman .........................................................United Cerebral Palsy of NYC Creating and Managing Bail Funds: A Tangible Response to the Prison Industrial Complex 1.93 Norma Wassel, Chair ......................................................... Massachusetts Bail Fund Peter Goldberg ............................................................................. Brooklyn Bail Fund Carl Williams ............................. American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

An Indigenous Peoples’ History and the Struggle for Justice

Capturing Land Value Revenue from Condo Criminals L2.80 Marty Rowland, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Task Force Mike Curtis ..............................................................................Henry George Institute Joshua Vincent ....................................................Center for the Study of Economics Drawing Lines: Liberation and Co-Conspirators L2.81 Bobby London, Chair ............................................................................ On Resistance Esho Funi ..................................................................................................On Resistance Edxie Betts ..............................................................................................On Resistance Jessica Rey ..............................................................................................On Resistance The Greek Crisis in Context: National and Regional Dimensions L2.82 George Andreopoulos, Chair .................................... City University of New York Andreas Karras ...................................................................John Jay College, CUNY Tina Mavrikos Adamou ..................................................................Hofstra University Peter Bratsis ...........................Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY Europe on the Move, Part 2: The Ascendancy of the Far and Nationalist Right in Europe – How the Left Copes with It 3.76 Walter Baier, Chair ....................................................................... transform! europe Sarah Lukow ......................................Beyond Europe, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Stelios Foteinopoulos ...........................................Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Syriza Creative Tools, Creating Change: Deconstructing Systems of Power, Privilege and Oppression Using Theatre of the Oppressed 3.78 S. Leigh Thompson, Chair .............................................................. The Forum Project Charles Shealy Clara Kiely .......................................................................................The Forum Project Assessing Potential for Combative Syndicalism in the U.S.: Adapting Structures and Tactics of Quebec Student Movement for Organizing in the States 3.79 Ryan Thomson, Chair ........................................... International Student Movement, Students for a Democratic Society Rushdia Mehreen .............................................. Student and community organizer, Previously ASSÉ committee member Aaron Dixon ...........................................................Author of My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain Sean Estelle ..............National Divestment Campaigner, Energy Action Coalition Biola Jeje ................................Ex-organizer with Brooklyn College Student Union and New York Students Rising Benjamin Gingras ................................. ASSÉ Committee member, IWW Montreal FILM: PAH Film 3.80 Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus, Chair Youth Self Expression as Education:

Making Movies and Poetry in Jail and the Barrio

Just Information for All

Common Core and the End of History

ABCs of Squatting

Taking the U.S. to the World Court on Human Rights

Creating Interfaith Dialog in Schools

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