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The Left Forum 2009 included the following panels:


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


Nationalize the Banks! What Does it Really Mean?


Progressive Program for Recovery and Financial Reconstruction


Imperialism and the Global Economic Crisis

  • David McNally, (Chair), Political Science, York University
  • Radhika Desai, Political Studies, University of Manitoba Hugo Radice - Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds


On The Financial Crisis


Money, Barrels, and Change


Marxist Theories of the Global Economic Crisis


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


What Comes After Neoliberalism?


Marx and the Global Economic Crisis


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


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


Marx's Capital and the Economic Crisis


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


Beyond Capital's Crises


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


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


Sports as a Platform for Dissent


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


Theorizing Crisis and Class Mobilization: Ethnographies of Global Capitalism


Childhood, Capitalism and Resistance


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


New Frontiers: Exploring Emotional Labor


New Frontiers: Left Psychology Explores US Personal Life


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


The Trouble With Diversity in the Age of Obama


Black Workers and the Current Economic Crisis


Returning to the Source: Ethnic Studies in the Obama Age


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


Obama and The Audacity of Hype


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


Obama Meets the World: Realities and Recommendations for a New Administration

  • David Schultz, Chair), School of Business, Hamline University
  • Samer N. Abboud, Political Science, Susquehanna University, “Image, Rhetoric and Reality: The Potential of the Obama Administration in the Middle East”
  • Joseph G. Peschek, Political Science, Hamline University, “The Obama Presidency and the Politics of ‘Change’ in Foreign Policy”
  • Tracy Lightcap, Political Science, LaGrange College, “To Be or Not to Be: Torture, American Politics, and America's Future”
  • Celina Su, Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY, “Leaving No Child Left Behind” Behind: Building a Student-Centered Education Policy”


The Crisis - A Long View from the Left: Embedding Radical Visions and Democratic Potentials in Reform Campaigns


Liberalism, Imperialism & the Politics of Human Rights


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


Left Lawyering in the Age of Obama


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


Local Electoral Politics: Why Bother?


Terror Incognita: Immigrants and the Homeland Security State


The New Deal Model and Permanent Change


Status Conflicts in America: Schools, Prisons, and WalMart


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


Grassroots Organizing: Behind Bars, in the Community


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


Resistance Struggles on the Inside: Political Organizing Behind Bars


Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons


Right-Wing Women and the Struggle to Remake Conservatism


Three Generations of Women Explore the Price of Pleasure in Pornography


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


The Culture Wars and Sexuality


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

Queer Politics, Class, and the Right


Women’s Liberation in China

  • Bai Di, Director of Chinese and Asian Studies at Drew University
  • Li Onesto, author of "Dispatches from the People's War in Nepal" and a writer for Revolution newspaper


Spitzer, Sex Work, and Trafficking


Green New Deal - A Global Turn in Capitalism?


The Debate Over Green Capitalism, Technofixes and Reforms


Reclaiming Life


Is Another World Really Possible?


Science for the People


Convergences and Strategies from the Emerging Global Climate Justice Movement


Building Sustainable Communities, Beyond Green and Into Social Sustainability


Overcoming Capitalist Ecological Degradation through Ecosocialism


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


The Case Against Centralized Thermal (Nuclear and Coal) Power


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


Withering Energies? Oil and the Financial Crisis


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


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


Food Sovereignty: Indigenous and People’s Control Over Their Own Food Production

  • Nancy Romer, (Chair), Psychology, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  • Mark Edelman, Anthropology, Hunter College and CUNY Grad Center, Co-editor, "Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization", Co-author, "Social Democracy in the Global Periphery"
  • Christina Schiavoni, International Coordinator, World Hunger Year (WHY) Devaney Jackson: Brooklyn Rescue Mission


The Food Democracy Movement: Organizing for a Healthy, Sustainable, and Socially Just Food System

  • Sarita Daftary, Youth Educator and Project Director, East New York Farms!
  • Angela Davis, Community Food Education Coordinator, Just Food
  • Richard Mandelbaum, Farm Worker and Organizer with CATA (El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas), Founder of the Fair Trade Association
  • Nancy Romer, Psychology, Brooklyn College, General Coordinator, Brooklyn Food Conference, Community Activist


God’s Economics: Is an Ethical Economy Possible?


Spiritual Politics and Social Movements: A New Left Turn?


Away With All Gods?


Critique of Religion and Empire-Critical Bible Readings: A Christian-Marxist Dialogue


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


Global Unions


Crisis in Auto: Public Bailout or Public Ownership?


Health Care Unionism and the Future of American Labor


Informal Sector Worker Organizing at the Crossroads


Internet Labor and the Economic Crisis


Can the Chinese Labor Movement Reverse the “Race to the Bottom?”

  • Ellen David Friedman, (Chair)- School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
  • Zhang Xiaodan, Sociology, York College of CUNY
  • Earl Brown, Labor and Employment Law Counsel, American Center for International Labor Solidarity


Domestic Worker Organizing - Building Power Locally and Nationally


Laboring American Culture: The Politics and Practices of Studs Terkel, Herbert Gutman, Staughton Lynd, and Archie Green

  • Sean Burns, (Chair) - History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Andrej Grubacic, - ZMedia Institute, Sociology, University of San Francisco.
  • Steve Brier,- CUNY
  • Al Stein, Consortium for Oral History Educators and a lecturer at Chicago State University


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


Can Collective Bargaining Aid Labor’s Economic Recovery?


The Past, Present and Future of Strikes


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


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


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


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


Direct Action Labor Struggle and Social Change


Rank-and-file rebellions in a time of economic turbulence: Lessons for today from the long 1970s

  • Mike McCarthy, (Chair) - Sociology, New York University & United Auto Workers Local 2110
  • Angela Glasper, National Union of Healthcare Workers
  • Cal Winslow, Fellow in Environmental Politics, University of California at Berkeley
  • Marsha Niemeijer, Longshore Worker's Coalition, staff organizer
  • Marvin Holland, Transport Workers Union Local 100 & founder of The Take Back Our Union Movement
  • Steve Early, Former organizer for the Communication Workers of America and labor journalist


Once More Into the Breach: Radical Film and Art

  • Dennis Broe, (chair)- Graduate Coordinator, Media Arts, Long Island University, author of Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood
  • Terri Ginsberg, author of Halocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology - taught at Rutgers and Dartmouth
  • Paul Grant, New York University, translator Serge Daney's Postcards From the Cinema
  • Francine Tyler, art history, New York University


Poetry and Revolution


Classy Documentaries about Class Struggle

  • Barbara Garson, Chair- "MacBird", "All the Live Long Day"
  • Anne Lewis, "Fast Food Women", "On Our Own Land"
  • George Stoney, "The Uprising of 1934", Film and Cinema Studies, New York University
  • Peter Miller, "The Internationale", "Sacco and Vanzetti"


Left/Independent Publishing Panel


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


Radical Left/International Film Makers

  • Big Noise Collective Members


Photography: Revealing the Socially Invisible


Anarchist Cinema, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

  • Richard Porton, (Chair) Cineaste editor and author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination
  • Howard Besser, Prof. of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program
  • Andrew H. Lee, New York University’s Tamiment Library


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


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

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

  • Screening: Venezuela: Revolution from the inside out (2008), Clifton Ross
  • Screening: La Commune (2009), Cecile Clairval-Milhaud
  • Screening: The over spent American (1998) , Julie Schor
  • Screening: The End of Poverty? (2008) , Philippe Diaz
  • Screening: A Really Inconvenient Truth(2007), Joel Kovel
  • Screening: Malalai Joya: Enemies of Happiness women rights and the state of occupied Afghanistan

Post-screening discussion by

  • Paper - Tiger Documentary Interviews Left Forum Participants


Understanding the Roots of the “Israel-Palestine conflict”


War and Imperialism: The New Turn in the War On Terror- from Afghanistan to Gaza


Women’s voices from Iran

  • Joel Simpson, Chair - critic, photographer, curator
  • Christiane Bird, Neither East Nor West: One Woman’s Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran (Washington Square Press)
  • Ezzat Goushegir, Medea Was Born in Fallujah (anthologized in Witness magazine), My Name Is Inanna


Looking Back and Moving Forward: A Roundtable on Ending Imperialist Projects in Iraq, the Middle East and South Asia


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


The Iraq War in Perspective


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


Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance


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


The Future of Israel/Palestine after Gaza


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


Dialectics in Debate

  • David Fasenfest, (Chair)- Editor, Critical Sociology, Sociology, Wayne State University
  • Paul Paolucci, Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work, Eastern Kentucky University
  • Alan P. Rudy, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Central Michigan University
  • Carrol Cox, Illinois State University
  • Bertell Ollman, Politics, New York University


Remembering Mills: The Sociological Imagination 50 Years Later


In Praise of Socialist Planning


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


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


Revolution and Protest Yesterday and Tomorrow


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


The Trend of Chinese Marxism in the 21st Century


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


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


Dialectics of Defeat: Towards a Theory of Historical Regression


The De-Stalinization of Chinese Marxism


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


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

South Asia Globalizing: What Ruling Classes Do When They Rule


Rethinking the “most dangerous place in the world”: The war on terror in Pakistan


The Chinese Model of Development


Control and Discipline in Modern China


'China in the face of Deepening Crisis of Globalized Capitalism


Political Economy of Contemporary India'


Marxist and other left perspectives on the future of the Chinese political economy

  • Norman Levine, (Chair) - The Institute of International Policy
  • Wei Xiaoping, History of Marxism Philosophy, Philosophy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  • John E. Roemer, Political Science and Economics, Yale University


Exposing the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline and the Systematic Destruction of Poor Black and Latino Families in New York City


Empowerment in Chinese American Communities- Then and Now


Grassroots Organizing


Building Strategies for Meaningful Local Development

  • David Fasenfest, (Chair) - Critical Sociology, Sociology, Wayne State University
  • Gregory Hicks, Detroit Community Activist
  • William H. Brow, Mid America Medical Center District Neighborhood Redevelopment Corporation
  • Gwen Mills, Connecticut Center for a New Economy
  • Heather Mooney, Washtenaw County Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Specialist


Turning Points in Building Progressive Majority and Advancing a Vision of Socialism


From the New School Occupation to Our Political Moment


Rebel CUNY: Legacy of People's Struggle

  • Hank Williams, (Chair) - Africana Studies Group (CUNY Graduate Center)
  • Ateo Laureano, Peruyero Bracero - Queens College, Student and Nuyerorican Activist
  • Freddy Bastone, Hunter College, Student and a member of the Hunter Student Union
  • Robyn Tang, Hunter College Student, Hunter Student Union member and artist


The Challenge of Right-Wing Populism in Northern Core Capitalist Countries: Differences, Similarities, and Labor Movement Counter-Strategies


  • Ingar Solty, Political Science, York University, Toronto
  • Sam Putinja, York University, former shop steward & Teamster for a Democratic Union
  • Leo Panitch, York University, Toronto


Theorizing Radical Democracy


Left Strategy from the Grassroots


To Quell and Expel: Challenging the Police State


What Has the World Social Forum Accomplished?


Building New Social Relations: Prefigurative Politics in Movements


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


For Leadership and Human Rights


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


The Internet: Humanity's Revolutionary Initiative


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


A Networking Session for Radical Movement Centers


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


Activists and the Current Crisis


Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hope and Failures


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


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


Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet


Rhizomic Democracy


Women, Youth and the Solidarity Economy, Local and Global

  • Terri Bennett, Earth and Environmental Studies, CUNY Graduate Student
  • Jenna Allard, Growing the Green Economy, member, U.S. Solidarity Economy Network coordinating committee
  • Mike Menser, Philosophy Department, Brooklyn College


Radical Organizing: Challenges and Successes


Is the Left Ready for a New Political Party


How Occupation Works


Teaching War and Peace in the Classroom


Building Power Through Educational Justice


The Criminalization of People with Psychiatric Disabilities


Teaching Immigrants and Immigration


Teaching in Bad Times


Teaching Popular Economics


Campus Responsible Investment Movements


Housing: A Basic Human Right


Defeating the Persistent Assaults on Social Insurance


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


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


Health Care Reform: Building Left Unity is Critical


Public Education, Gentrification, and Privatization


The Housing Crisis and the Possibilities for Resistance


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


Venezuela’s Impact on Latin America


Where is Venezuela Heading?

  • Clara Irazabal, (Chair) - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University
  • Steve Ellner, Political Science, University de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
  • Gregory Wilpert, Brooklyn College, author of "Changing Venezuela by Taking Power"
  • Sujatha Fernandes, Sociology, Queens College, CUNY


Dependency Theory revisited: elements for a critical interpretation of the new-developmentism in Latin American governments


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


Beyond the Links of Repression: from Chile to the US


Social Struggles, Political Conflicts, Democracy in Latin America

  • Hobart Spalding, (Chair)
  • Carlos Vilas, Political Science, Universidad Nacional Lanus in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Margarita Lope, Universidad Central de Venezuela, author of “The Rise and Rule of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela”
  • Emelio Betances, Sociology/Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Gettysburg College


The Puerto Rican Reality: The Duality of the anti-colonial struggle


Cuba 2009: A Turning Point?


Indigenous Mobilization in South America

  • Gerardo Renique, (Chair) - CCNY-CUNY, Historian, Author and editor
  • Hugo Blanco, Peasant leader, former political prisioner and currently editor of "Lucha Indigena"
  • Silvia Rivera, Bolivian anthropologist, historian and activist, founder of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina
  • Marc Becker, Professor of History, Truman State University


New Left Party Formations in Europe: The Global Crisis of Neoliberalism and New Openings


Making sense of the Greek uprising


European Perspectives on Obama


Victor Serge Read-In: Stop Political Terror in Russia


Comparative Race and Gender in the U.S. and South Africa


Creating a Civil Rights Agenda Post-Proposition


Hyper-Consumption and the Failure of Capitalism


Genocide and Human Rights


Regroupment of the European Radical Left


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


Universities in (the) Crisis: Class Contradictions in Higher Education


Long Term Strategies for the Left


The Right to the City


Africa And The Crisis Of Global Capitalism: Will It Be Bail Out Or Cash Out?


China in the Global Economic Maelstrom


Marxism and theory


The Return of Karl Marx…But Which Marx is Most Needed, Especially Now?


Obama and Iran: A New Beginning?


Illustrating Resistance: Art, Activism and Popular Education


What Can Be Done About Corporate Media’s Biggest Magic Trick- The Disappearance of the Working Class?


Secularism and the Radical Imagination


Political Economy of the Globalized Food System


Ecology and Environment


Capitalist Crisis, Energy and the Commons


gender


Gay Marriage: Should the Left Care?


prison industrial complex


Let Freedom Ring: Strategies to Free Political Prisoners Today


U.S. Politics


American Violence: Actually-Existing Barbarism?

  • Vivek Chibber, (Chair) - Sociology, New York University
  • Philip Green, Government, Smith College, and Political Science, New School for Social Research
  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore, American Studies and Ethnicity and Geography, University of Southern California
  • Leo Panitch, York University


Race


Race, Class and the Black Left


Culture and everyday life


Is the Crisis the Solution?


Political economy and the current crisis


What is the Nature of the Economic Crisis?

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