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Left Forum 2010

Personnel 2010

Board of Directors: Stanley Aronowitz, Roderick Bush, Eric Canepa, Vivek Chibber, Nancy Holmstrom, Jamie McCallum, Lorraine Minnite, Frances Fox Piven, Hobart Spalding, William K. Tabb, Richard D. Wolff, Julia Wrigley.

Advisory Board: Gilbert Achcar, Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, Barbara Bowen, Rose Brewer, Renate Bridenthal, Michael Brie, Stephen Brier, Stephen Eric Bronner, Paul Buhle, Joseph A. Buttigieg, Luciana Castellina, Angela Dillard, Stephen Duncombe, Hester Eisenstein, Barbara Epstein, Deepa Fernandes, Hector Figueroa, Harriet Fraad, Josh Freeman, Barbara Garson, Marvin Gettleman, Arun Gupta, Jack Hammond, David Harvey, Gerald Horne, Boris Kagarlitsky, Robin D. G. Kelley, Christine A. Kelly, Peter Kwong, Joanne Landy, Jesse Lemisch, Michael Lowy, Manning Marable, Randy Martin, Liz Mestres, Susan O’Malley, Leo Panitch, Christian Parenti, Thomas Ponniah, Barbara Ransby, Michael Ratner, Jan Rehmann, Gerardo Renique, Rainer Rilling, Colin Robinson, Nan Rubin, Stephen R. Shalom, Neil Smith, Eleni Varikas, Victor Wallis, Ross Weiner, Joseph Wilson.

Endorsing Organisations: Brecht Forum, Center for the Study of Culture, Technology, and Work, Graduate Center, CUNY, Critical Sociology, Logos, Monthly Review, National Lawyers Guild, New Political Science, New Politics, Radical Teacher, Rethinking Marxism/AESA, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Science and Society, Situations, Social Text, Socialism and Democracy, Social Register, Souls, Union for Radical Political Economics.[1]

Participants

At the 2010 Left Forum The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation continued its by now more than 10-year tradition of organising panels at the SSC and Left Forum with a panel on “Union Strategies, Poor People’s Movements and Crisis,” with Christina Kaindl, Jan Rehmann, and speakers from poverty and labor-organizing initiatives in the US. as well as a major session “Can Obama Be Moved? Movement Strategies to Pressure Party Politics” with Margit Mayer and an "impressive panoply of speakers ranging from supporters of third-party initiatives to those cooperating with the Democrats, as well as from other initiatives".

For the first year, the Transform Network had a presence – and an important one – with three major panels: “Social-Security Systems in Comparison: Europe and the US” with Robin Blackburn, Lucy apRoberts, Daniel Ankarloo and Ruurik Holm; “Roundtable on Left Strategies in the Core Capitalist Countries,” with Sam Gindin (Socialist Project, Toronto, formerly with the Canadian Auto Workers), João Romão, Greg Albo (Socialist Project, Toronto), Cornelia Hildebrandt (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Die LINKE), Richard D. Wolff and Ruurik Holm; “Understanding and Responding to the Crisis: The Left in Europe and the U.S.” with Walter Baier, William K. Tabb, Jeremy Brecher, Rainer Rilling and João Romão.

The final plenary featured Noam Chomsky, and included a tribute to Howard Zinn from Arundhati Roy and Frances Fox Piven, along with a performance of Zinn’s play “Marx in Soho.” The Zinn tribute and Chomsky’s appearance drew the expected enormous crowds, with people lining up around the block.[2]

Panels

Left Forum 2010 contained the following panels:

Africa

Exporting the Culture Wars: Who is Spreading Neocolonial Homophobia to Africa and Why

The Public Eye


Africa's Oil Economies - A Mixed Blessing or a Curse?

Global Information Network


Humanitarian Imperialism and Obama's Wars in Africa


Alternative Development Models for Sub-Saharan Africa

Mobile Economists


Art

Punk Rock: Cultural Space For Transformative Politics?


Creating Lasting Change Through Radical Theatre


Redact This! Artists and Writers Against Torture - Art Activism


Playwrights Rekindle the Radical Imagination


Art and Aesthetic Experience in the 21st Century: Learning from the Past


Caribbean Basin

Terrorism Against Cuba and the Case of the Cuban 5

Socialism and Democracy


After the Earthquake: Who's Killing Haiti?


Haiti's Future: A Grassroots Perspective and Potential of Unified Action


China

Recent Transformations in Chinese Marxism

Chinese Students & Workers Organize at the Grass-Roots

Talking Union

The Causes of Current Crises Breaking Out in China


The Problems that Chinese Marxists and Leftists Discuss in Today’s China

Chair: Prof. Norman Levine


Debunking the Myth of the “China Model”: Is a radical alternative possible?


The Influences of the Current Crisis on China and China's Feasible Countermeasures


The Chinese Proletariat and the State


Revisiting the Legacy of Women's Liberation in Maoist China


CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE

Pro Sports Without Owners?

[www.edgeofsports.com]


From Roman Gospels to Jewish Shakespeare: Rethinking Our Cultural Paradigms


No Families, No Justice: Building a Family-Inclusive Left Movement

PM Press


The Mass Psychology of Capitalism: Dialectical Contradictions in the Realm of the Psyche


America's Two Depressions: One Economic, One Psychological


Education

Conducting Critical Social Science Research

Ishay Landa - The Open University, Ra'anana, Israel Paul Paolucci - Eastern Kentucky University Ricardo Dello Buono - Manhattan College


Teaching About Palestine

Radical Teacher


From the Campus to the "Real World": Keeping the Student Activist Spirit Alive Post Graduation


Academic Repression: Book Talk

Theory and Action Chair: Anthony J. Nocella, II

Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter - Syracuse University


Educating Youth in These Conservative Times: Cultural-Politics, Possibilities, and Strategies for Improving Urban Schooling

  • Biany Perez, (Chair) - Arts and Education Program Administrator, Art Sanctuary

Decoteau J. Irby - AAKT (Action, Advocacy, Knowledge, and Training), Concepts LLC Emery Petchauer - Education, Lincoln University Patrick Camangian - Teacher Education, Urban Ed., and Social Justice, University of San Francisco; English Teacher, Mandela High School, Oakland, California


From the Campus to the "Real World": Keeping the Student Activist Spirit Alive Post Graduation

Chair: John Cronan Jr.


The Fight for Public Higher Education in New York City

PSC-CUNY member, TBA -


Public Education: Privatization and Inequity


Economics for the Rest of Us: Teaching Economics to Workers


The Case of California: Coming Soon to Schools Near You


Politics of the Contemporary American Student Left


Rethinking Education


The Fertile Grounds Project: Spaces for Youth To Be Youth/Education Over Indoctrination


Academic Freedom Under Attack


"Race to the Top" - Millions of Children Left Behind

Radical Teacher

Environment

Capitalism and Toxics Pollution: The Fight for Public Health


Hydro/Petrol Federal-Corporatism Under Fire


Nuclear Revival?


No Fracking Way! The Politics and Ecology of Drilling for Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale


Climate Change and the Global South: Upcoming World Climate Conference in Bolivia

Ambassador Pablo Solon, UN Mission of Bolivia


Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part I of II)

New Politics


Dirty Gas, Oil, and Coal: The Fossil Fuel Problematic and Some Solutions


Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change


Organizing for Climate Justice


Speciesm: The Forgotten Oppression -- Why Should The Left Care?


Post-Copenhagen Politics of Climate Change

Capitalism Nature Socialism


Why Green Capitalism Can't Solve the Climate Crisis

International Socialist Review


The Urban Industrial Complex and Emergent Forms of Environmentalism


Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part II of II)

New Politics


Food

The Logic of Capitalism: Understanding Water, Food, and Environmental Crises


What Does Sustainable Agriculture Mean? How will we replace the corporate food supply? Can we have clean energy and clean agriculture?


Parents, Teachers & Students Unite: Health, Sustainability and Social Justice Through the School Food movement


What does food sovereignty look like? Imagining food sovereignty from a variety of perspectives

Chair: Brenda Biddle


Gender

Introductory Session

Gender: Nancy Holmstrom

Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World


AIDS, Sex and Culture : Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa -Author Meets Critics


Feminism and Lesbianism: Bringing Women Together


Envisioning a Post Sexist Society


Women, Militancy and Organizing


Revisiting the Legacy of Women's Liberation in Maoist China

Chair: Di Bai


Health and housing

Direct Action, Self-Determination and the Housing Crisis


After the Health Reform Debacle: What Direction for Real Health Care Justice?

Physicians for a National Health Program Chair: Martha Livingston


No More Affordable Housing Scams: Community Control of Land in New York City

Progressive Planning


Morbid Symptoms: Health Care Under Capitalism

Socialist Register

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India

Neo-Liberalism, State Repression and the Crisis of Indian Democracy


Developmental Terrorism in India Today

Sanhati


International

Imperial Agenda: from Bush to Obama


Illusions and Interests: Perspectives on American Foreign Policy


Revolution in Nepal


Social -Security Systems in Comparison: Europe and the US


The Right to the City: Global Perspectives


Crisis and Beyond: Re-evaluating Pakistan


US Imperialism and Oil Politics: The Middle East, South Asia, and Africa


International Relations: Urban Guerrilla Movements, Europe and Latin America


War Crimes and "Change"


Nationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and International Solidarity Today


Beyond Walls and Cages: Abolitionist Perspectives on Migration & Mass Incarceration


Leading the Battle against the Present Global Economic Crisis: Greece, Iran, Nigeria


Labor

The Future of Labor in the U.S.


U.S. Trade Unions and the Global Economic Crisis


Union Strategies, Poor People's Movements and Crisis


Clean Energy Transition: Decentralized Worker/Community Control vs. Centralized Corporate/State Control


Rebel Rank and File


How Should Friends of Labor on the Left Respond To Conflicts Within and Between Unions?”

WorkingUSA

TBA - Representative of SEIU/Workers United


Struggles of an Independent Radical Union: The Case of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance


How to Fight Disappearing Jobs and Falling Wages: Labor Strategies in the Epoch of Low-wage Capitalism


Union Reform from Below: US, Canada and Puerto Rico

Against the Current


Comparative Labor Movements - Strategies and Class Struggles

http://www.keywiki.org/skins/common/images/button_italic.png Alternative Labor Organizations: Worker Councils and Rank and File Control Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society


Building the Power of Immigrant Workers in NYC's Vast Food Industry


Telling The Story of Working Class Life, Work, and Organization - In Non-Fiction and Fiction

Monthly Review Press and Cornell ILR Press


Transnational Labor Movements

The Awesome Power of Union Democracy and its Implications for Dramatic Social Change

(Kevin) Harry Harrington, Vice President, Transport Workers Union, Local 100 Member, Take Back Our Union


Undermining Capitalism: The Stella D’oro Strike, Committed Art, and Revolutionary Change


Worker Control: The End of Capitalism or Capitalism's Only Salvation


Latin America

The Proposal to Launch a Fifth Socialist International

Venezuela Analysis


Lessons from Venezuela: Achievements and Failures


U.S. Interventionism and Stability in Latin America

Venezuela Analysis TBA (Chair)


Obama's Militarized Status Quo in Latin America

NACLA Report on the Americas


Latin America: Moving Beyond Neoliberalism


The Honduran Coup and Its Aftermath

NACLA Report on the Americas


Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners


Solidarity in Latin America: Solidarity Economy and Bolivarian Socialism in Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela


Indigenous Mobilization and Resistance in the Andean Nations

World War 4 Report


Puerto Rico Can't Wait To Be Free


Marxism and theory

Reimagining Society: The Nature of the Task

Schimmel Z Communications


Imagining Our Way from Here to There


Introductory Session

Dialectics: Bertell Ollman


Introductory Session

Class: Richard Wolff

A Dialogue on Class

Rethinking Marxism


Post-Identity Politcs

  • Todd May, (Chair), - Clemson, Philosophy and Religion

Harmony Goldberg - New York Study Group; Doctoral student, CUNY Graduate Center Linda Alcoff - Hunter College, Philosophy Kevin Alexander Gray - Author, Waiting for Lightning to Strike: the fundamental of Black Politics


Going Beyond the Crisis Means Overcoming Commodity Production and Wage Labor


A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism


Revolution and Marxist-Humanism in the 21st Century: On the centenary of Raya Dunayevskaya

News & Letters


The Fate of Socialism


Envisioning Self-Governance

Z Communications



Rethinking Communism: Debating Badiou's Communist Hypothesis

Verso Books


A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism


Marxism and Anarchism: The Relevance of Radical Traditions Today


Socialism in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Past

Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation


Alain Badiou's “Politics of Emancipation”: Controversies over the Framework and Future of the Communist Project

Respondent: John Gerassi, Political Science, Queens College, CUNY


The Future of World Capitalism Book Panel 2: Concepts of Transition

  • Radhika Desai, (Chair), Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics
  • Alan Freeman, University of Manitoba Greater London Authority (personal capacity)
  • Henry Heller, History, University of Manitoba
  • Jack Rasmus, Santa Clara University and Economics and Politics, St. Marys College


Rethinking Historical Materialism : Scottish Origins and Engelsistic Revisions


New Perspectives on Marx's Concept of Socialism


Remembering Giovanni Arrighi

Verso Books


Critical Theory and Social Movements


The Materiality of Nations


False Alternatives to Capitalism: Proudhonism and its Progeny

Marxist-Humanist Initiative


Passive Revolution and Uneven and Combined Development, 'East' and 'West'


Seeing Marx Anew Via the MEGA Project


Cooperatives, Class, and Value theory

Rethinking Marxism


Media

Going Undercover: The Yes Men and Gumshoe Journalists Discuss Subterfuge and Satire in Activism and Investigative Journalism

Schimmel


Why Communications and Media Creation Can Forward Social Change

Making Contact, [www.radioproject.org]


Network Failure: The Crisis of America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure


Online Organizing: The Missed Opportunities and Challenges to Come


Collaborative Democracy and the Internet: Humanity's Revolutionary Initiative


The State Of Our Foreign News


Mass Media, Islam and the War on Terror


ImMEDIAate Impact: Using Documentaries to organize for a New Progressive Imagination


MIDDLE EAST

Afghanistan/Pakistan/Yemen: Obama's New War


The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran


Of Drones, Warlords and the Taliban: Ending the U.S./NATO Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Canadian Peace Alliance & Campaign for Peace and Democracy


The Gaza Freedom March: Lessons and Challenges


Why Are We in Afghanistan?


Confronting the "Museum of Tolerance" and the Mamilla Cemetery


Iran: Current State of Affairs


Afghanistan: Should We Stay or Should We Go? A Critical Conversation

Foreign Policy In Focus


The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq

Platypus


The Left and prospects for democracy in the Middle East: Iran

Platypus


POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

The History of May Day and the 2010 New York May Day March


Understanding and Responding to the Crisis: The Left in Europe and the U.S.

Transform!


Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition


Power From Below

Left Forum


Capitalism, Crisis and Alternative Possibilities

Critical Theory and Global Studies Association


Roundtable on Left Strategies in the Core Capitalist Countries

Transform!


Movement Building Spaces and Rekindling the Imagination


Beyond Fair Trade and Micro-Finance: Gift and Solidarity Economies

[www.otherworldsareposssible.org]


Intellectuals and the Radical Imagination

How to Make a Revolution in the US

Capitalism, Crisis and Alternative Possibilities II

"The Coming Insurrection": Manifestoes, Militancy, and Mobilization Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination

Left Out: Building Social Movements in a Culture of Isolation

World Social Forum Politics: Left or Post-Left?

The Art & Politics of Spectacle – Creating Ethical Spectacles

Reimagining a New Economic System

Envisioning Real Utopias Verso Books

Organizing against Budget Cuts and Austerity in New York City (Chair) – Doug Singsen, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education, International Socialist Organization

Grassroots Education Member, to be announced

Social Movements And Everyday Life Critical Sociology

Decline of the European Left and the rise of the Far Right Chair: Mark Seddon

What Does it Mean to be a Revolutionary in Our Times?

Socialist Humanism, the Anti-Humanist Turn, and the Consequences for the Left

The US Social Forum and US Social Movements: The Road from Atlanta to Detroit 2010

Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century

Horizontalism and Grassroots Democracy in the Americas

Ten Years Later: Organizers Reflect on the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests Left Turn

Thinking System From the Grassroots: The Intersection of Theory and Practice in Grassroots Organizing

Speaker from 15th Street Manifesto Group

Speaker from Picture the Homeless

Getting from Here to There: Making Radical Visions Reality W606- Session 4 Camilo Vivieros (Chair) - Executive Director, Rhode Island Jobs with Justice Mireya Loza - American Studies, Brown University Reg Flowers - Founder and Artistic Director, Falconworks, Brooklyn NY Michael Pelias - Philosophy, Long Island University-Brooklyn Lesley Wood - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Sociology, York University

Radical Spaces, Radical City W618 - Session 7 Denisse Andrade and Dara Greenwald (Chair) Rebel Diaz Collective Asere Bello - Crystal House Kazembe Balagun - The Brecht Forum

New Developments in Solidarity Economy Organizing in the U.S. W601- Session 4 Germai Medhanie (Chair) - Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Board member, US Solidarity Economy Network Lynn Benander - Dir. of Community Business Development for Co-op Power Maliha Safri - Economics, Drew University; Associate Editor, Rethinking Marxism; Member of Center for Popular Economics Djar Horn - Jersey Shore Neighborhood Cooperative; Social Work graduate student, Monmouth University; former union organizer and union carpenter

Strategizing to Build Real Self-Governance W507 - Session 2 Capitalism Nature Socialism Karen Charman (Chair) - Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism Robert Parry - Publisher and Editor, Consortiumnews.com Richard Grossman - Independent historian Joel Kovel - Editor in Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism

Experiments in Popular Democracy: Is it Really Possible to Democratize the Capitalist State? Student Union - Session 1 Johanna Brenner (Chair) - Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State University Hilary Wainwright - Research Director, Transnational Institute New Politics Program; Sr. Research Associate, International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford Dept. of Peace Studies Sujatha Fernandes - Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Erik Olin Wright - Director, Series Editor of Verso's Real Utopias Project; Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lessons from Latin American Social Movements for a US in Crisis W612 - Session 1 Toward Freedom, Between The Lines Radio Scott Harris (Chair) - Between The Lines Radio Ben Dangl - Toward Freedom Marina Sitrin - Author, Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina Mario Murillo - Author, Voices of Resistance: Indigenous Radio and the Struggle for Social Justice in Colombia

Author meets critics: van der Walt and Schmidt's "Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism" Chair: Lucien van der Walt - University of the Witwatersrand Mitch Miller - WSA-NYC Wayne Price - NEFAC (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists)

New Radical Parties and Experiments in Party Building W626 - Session 6 Geoff Bailey (Chair) - Sebastian Budgeon - Historical Materialism NPA Member - NPA Ahmed Shawki - International Socialist Review; Haymarket Books

We Must Be Good at Learning: Brecht Forum at 35 E326 - Session 3 Kazembe Balagun (Chair) -Brecht Forum Max Uhlenbeck - Left Turn, Brecht Forum Liz Mestres - Brecht Forum Lisa Maya Knauer - Sociology/Anthropology. UMass Dartmouth



POLITICAL ECONOMY [back to top]

Economic Democracy as an alternative to capitalism Multi Purpose Room - Session 2 Costas Panayotakis (Chair) - New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Capitalism Nature Socialism David Schweickart - Loyola University Cathy Mulder - John Jay College, CUNY Michael Menser - Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Food Coalition

A Radical Project in New Economics: theGiftEconomy.org W606 - Session A Hans Schoenburg (Chair) - Yale Brandon Jackson - Yale Leon Noel - Yale

The Case for a NO Growth Economy W610 - Session A Frederick Wolf (Chair) - Pace Josso Caleb - Pace Michelle Passalacqua - Pace Dr. Ghassan Karam - Economics, Pace

Future of World Capitalism Book Panel 1: New Takes On Old Myths W601 - Session 3 Future of World Capitalism book series Alan Freeman (Chair) - University of Manitoba Greater London Authority Radhika Desai - Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics Costas Panayiotakis - Sociology, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Andrew Kliman - Economics, Pace University Anne Jaclard - National Secretary, Marxist-Humanist Initiative



POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE CURRENT CRISIS [back to top]

The Current Economic Crisis and Its Possible Outcomes Student Union - Session 5 Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU Bill Tabb (Chair) - Economics, Queens College Michael Hudson - Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City Gar Alperovitz - Government, Univ. of Maryland Bertell Ollman - Politics, NYU

The Fiscal Crises of the States Student Union - Session 2 Democratic Left Michael Hirsch (Chair) - Democratic Socialists of America; New Politics Magazine James Parrott - Associate Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute Katie Romich - Organizer, Communications Workers of America John Cameron - Organizer, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

The Economic Crisis and Its Impact on the Working Class Multipurpose- Session 4 International Socialist Review Ahmed Shawki (Chair) - International Socialist Review David McNally - University of Toronto Joel Geier - International Socialist Review Greg Albo - Socialist Register, The Bullet, Canadian Dimensions Amy Muldoon - Communications Workers of America

In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives LH - Session 7 Leo Panitch (Chair) - Socialist Register Sam Gindin - Packer Visiting Chair, Social Justice, York Greg Albo - Socialist Register

The Crisis this Time LHN - Session 6 Socialist Register vivek chibber (Chair) - Sociology, New York University Greg Albo - Socialist Register, The Bullet, Canadian Dimensions Anwar Shaikh - New School University Johanna Brenner - Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State Universit

The Crisis and Capital Accumulation: Is the Role of the State Changing? W602 - Session 1 Union for Radical Political Economics Rina Garst (Chair) - Union for Radical Political Economics Jerry Joffe - St. John's University Armagan Gezici - Keene State College Terrence McDonough - Economics, National University of Ireland Galway

The 'PIIGS,' Baltics, and Hungary: Economic Crisis on the EU’s Internal Periphery W613 - Session 3 Left Business Observer Doug Henwood (Chair) - Editor, Left Business Observer; Contributing Editor, The Nation Jeffrey Sommers - Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Faculty and Curator of the Andre Gunder Frank Memorial Library) Mark Weisbrot - Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro - Geography, SUNY New Paltz; Co-Editor, Human Geography Michael Hudson (discussant)


The Crisis That Gives the Capitalist Class Nightmares W511 - Session 1 Critique Suzi Weisman (Chair)- Politics, Saint Mary's College Of California Michael Hudson- Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City Hillel Ticktin- Emeritus Professor Marxist Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland Lea Haro- Politics, University of Stirling Jack Rasmus- Politics and Economics, Saint Mary's College of Claifornia

Alternative Perspectives on Marxist Crisis Theory and the Current Economic Crisis W602 - Session 2 Union for Radical Political Economics; Science and Society Paddy Quick (Chair) - St. Francis College, Brooklyn Julio Huato - St. Francis College, Brooklyn David Kotz - Economics, UMass-Amherst David Laibman - Science and Society Fred Magdoff - Monthly Review

Economics and Politics of the Current Crisis: Causes and Prospects for the Future W617 - Session 6 Anne Jaclard (Chair) - National Secretary, Marxist-Humanist Initiative Brendan Cooney - Video producer, “kapitalism101” Andrew Kliman - Dept. of Economics-Pleasantville, Pace University


PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX [back to top]

What Does the Left Need to Know about Prison? W504 - Session 7 Susie Day (Chair) - Laura Whitehorn - New York State Task Force for Political Prisoners Asha Bandele - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Drug Policy Alliance Vikki Law - Books Through Bars Cleo Silvers - Safiya Bukhari/Albert Nuh Washington Foundation

Criminology and Social Justice: Establishing a Strong Theoretical Foundation W504 - Session 1 Dr. William Calathes (Chair) - Criminal Justice, New Jersey City University; independent human rights attorney Jason WIlliams - New Jersey City University Christine Bell - New Jersey City University



RACE [back to top]

The Economic Crisis, How it Impacts African Americans and Labor LHN - Session 5 Tony Montiero (Chair) - Muhammad Ahmad - African-American Studies, Temple University Bill Fletcher, Jr. - BlackCommentator.com; co-author, Solidarity Divided Henry Nicholas - 1199

Race and Recession: Will a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? W626 - Session 1 Rod Bush (Chair) - Author, The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line Glen Ford - Co-founder and Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report Algernon Austin - Director, Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program, Economic Policy Institute Dedrick Muhammad - Sr. OrganizRescuing the Concept of Internal er and Research Associate, Inequality and the Common Good program, Institute for Policy Studies

How Things Change As They Stay The Same: Talking Through Racial Categories, Politics, and Organizing in the 21st Century W621 - Session 1 Matthew Birkhold (Chair) - Heavy Thinkers, Binghamton University Kazembe Balagun - Heavy Thinkers, Brecht Forum Melanie Bush - Adelphi University Jill Humphries - Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education, Queens College

Introductory Session W608 - Session B Race: Rod Bush

Geography of Malcolm X W612 - Session 6 James Tyner (Chair) – Geography, Kent State Sam Anderson – Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Komozi Woodard – History, Sarah Lawrence Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun

Rebuilding the Black Left/Rejuvenating Revolutionary Black Youth W606 - Session 5 Sam Anderson (Chair) - Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Jerry Jeremie - St. John's University Janessa Robinson - St. John's University Joan Gibbs - National Conference of Black Lawyers

Rescuing the Concept of Internal Colonialism from the Dustbin of History W602- Session 3 Charles Pinderhughes (Chair) - Boston College Davarian Baldwin - Trinity College Komozi Woodard - Sarah Lawrence College Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun

Can the White Left Organize Against Racism in the White Community W619 - Session 2 Bok-Keem Nyerere (Chair)- National Association of Kawaida Organizations John Garvey - NYC Taxi Rank and File Coalition, Race Traitor Geert Dhondt - Political Economics/Economic History, John Jay College

The American Left and the “Black Question”: From Politics to Protest to the Post-Political W610 - Session 3 Platypus Benjamin Blumberg (Chair) - Platypus Affiliated Society Tim Barker - Columbia University Student Pamela Nogales - Platypus Affiliated Society Christopher Cutrone - Platypus Affiliated Society

Black Nationalism in the United States Chair: Rod Bush Algernon Austin Maulana Karenga Eddie Glaude Manning Marable


African Americans and Latinos and the Decolonization of the U.S. Empire in the 21st Century W510 - Session 6 Mojubaolu Okome (Chair) - Political Science, Brooklyn College Agustin Lao-Montes - Sociology, UMass at Amherst Denise Santiago - Director, Multi-Cultural Affairs, Pace University Charles Pinderhughes - Sociology, Boston College


The Left in a Post-Racial United States E323 - Session 7 Sam Anderson (Chair) - Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Fred Ho - Afro Asian Music Ensemble Eduardo Bonilla Silva - Duke University Keith Griffler - SUNY Buffalo Muntu Matsimela - John Jay College and the Black Left Unity Network


The Recession: A Black Left Perspective Chair: Rod Bush Glen Ford - Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report Algernon Austin - Economic Policy Institute. Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program. Dedrick Muhammad - Institute for Policy Studies, Senior Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Andre Showell - Reporter, Black Entertainment Television (BET)


Stand Alone Slide Presentation/Talk on "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918" W623 - Session 2 Jeffrey B. Perry (Chair) - Independent scholar


The Black Internationale E323 - Session 2 Rod Bush (Chair) - Sociology and Antropology, St. John's University Komozi Woodard - Sarah Lawrence College Charles Pinderhughes - Boston College Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun


New Perspectives from the Black Left W605- Session 4 Rod Bush (Chair) - Sociology and Antropology, St. John's University Agustin Lao-Montes - Sociology, UMass, Amherst Humberto Brown - Black Radical Congress Rose Brewer - University of Minnesota


How Things Change As They Stay The Same: Talking Through Racial Categories, Politics, and Organizing in the 21st Century Chair: Matthew Birkhold Matthew Birkhold - heavy Thinkers, Inc,. Binghamton University Kazembe Balagun - Heavy Thinkers, Inc., Brecht Forum Melanie Bush - Adelphi University Jill Humphries - Joseph S Murphy Institute for Worker Education, Queens College


Lynching Then, Lynching Now: Roots of Racism and the Death Penalty in the US W601 - Session 6 Lee Wengraf (Chair) - Campaign to End the Death Penalty Brian Jones - Author, Fifty Years Since the Civil Rights Sit-Ins; Editorial Board, International Socialist Review Lawrence Hayes - Former NYS death row prisoner; Board Member, Campaign to End the Death Penalty Yusef Salaam - Campaign to End the Death Penalty


Radical Black Perspective Panel: Obama, the Crisis of Black Leadership and US Imperialism Running Amuck! W621 - Session 2 Nellie Bailey (Chair), Co-founder of Harlem Tenants Council and HarlemAnti-War Coalition Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report Margaret Kimberley, Senior Editor of Black Agenda Report Jon Jeter, Journalist & former Bureau Chief for the Washington Post in southern Africa and South America. Author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People.


Author Meets Critic: Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell W615 - Session 4 Nikhil Singh (Chair) - History, NYU Jeanne Theoharis - Political Science, Brooklyn College Van Gosse - History, Franklin and Marshall College


Black Youth Looking at the Left E325 - Session 7 Fitzroy Searles (Chair) - History, St. John's University Jerry Jeremie - St. John's University Reginald Pressoir - Catholic Charities Tara Perry - St. John's University


RELIGION [back to top]

Progressive Religion and the Fight for Democracy W626 - Session 2 Religious Socialism, Journal of DSA Religion and Socialism Commission Rev. Peter Laarman (Chair) - Executive Director, Progressive Christians; Contributing Editor, Religion Dispatches Rev. Luis Barrios - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; Associate Priest, St. Mary's Episcopal Church in West Harlem Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou - Sr. Minister, Lemuel Haynes Congregational Church; Fellow-in-residence, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture Tricia Sheffield - Assistant Minister for Administration, Middle Collegiate Church

Reading the Bible from the Left: The Book of Revelation W623 - Session 4 Brigitte Kahl (Chair) - Union Theological Seminary Charlene Sinclair - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Colleen Wessel-McCoy - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Renee Monrose - Union Theological Seminary

Capitalism, Economy, and Religion: A Christian-Marxist Dialogue W605 - Session 2 Charlene Sinclair (Chair) - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Brigitte Kahl - Union Theological Seminary Jan Rehmann - Union Theological Seminary, Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism Richard Wolff - Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism



U.S. POLITICS [back to top]

Where's the Outrage? Schimmel - Session 5 Left Forum Margaret Yard (Chair) - Stanley Aronowitz - Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center Greg Palast - Joel Kovel- Editor-in-Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism Margaret Yard - CUNY, Lehman College; Grad Center NYU Dept of Medicine, Psychiatry

What is the Work of the People's Democratic Coalition That Elected Obama Schimmel - Session 6 Rod Bush (Chair) - St. John's University; Board member, Left Forum Amiri Baraka - Muhammad Ahmad - African American Studies, Temple University Peniel Joseph - History, Tufts University

Right-Wing Populism, Political Economy & Radical Dissent Multipurpose - Session 6 Public Eye Abby Scher (Chair) - Author, "Post-Palin Feminism;" former Editor, Public Eye Magazine Chip Berlet - Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates; Co-author, Right-Wing Populism in America Sue Udry - Executive Director, Defending Dissent Foundation Tarso Luís Ramos - Executive Director, Political Research Associates

The Historical Context of the Politics of WBAI 99.5FM W510- Session 5 Lisa Davis (Chair) - Local Station Board WBAI Russell Dale - Local Station Board WBAI Daniel Vila - Local Station Board WBAI Bernard White - Former Program Manager, WBAI

The Contours of the New Radical Right W617 - Session 5 John Mason (Chair) Joan Lara Amat y León, University of Barcelona, New School of Social Research Charles Laurence, Journalist, First Post, London, UK. Michael Thompson, Associate Professor of Politics, WPU, and Editor of Logos Journal. John Mason, Professor of Politics, WPU, Resource Person, Institute of European Studies, University of ParisVIII. France. (Discussant)

Whose Quality of Life? - Homeless People, the NYPD, and "Disorderly Conduct:" W61 - Session 7 Brandon King (Chair) - Indio - Picture the Homeless Street News Arvernetta Henry - Picture the Homeless

Can Progressives Transform the Democratic Party? Power, Class and Politics W6-Session 6 Joanne Landy (Chair) - Co-Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy; Editorial Board member, New Politics Arun Gupta - Founding Editor, The Indypendent Lance Selfa - Author, The Democrats: A Critical History (Haymarket Books, 2008); columnist, Socialist Worker.org Jodie Evans - Co-Founder, CODEPINK: Women for Peace

The U.S. Right and the War on Terror W610 - Session 7 Ron Crenshaw (Chair) - Past member, Worker's World Party and December 12th Movement. Chip Berlet - Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates Terrell Armistead - History, St. John's University Jonathan Scott - Bronx Community College

Can Obama Be Moved? Movement Strategies to Pressure Party Politics E328 - Session 2 Margit Mayer (Chair) - Free University, Berlin Jenny Brown - Co-chair, Alachua County Labor Party, National Women's Liberation Pete Sikora - Working Families Party, Communication Workers of America Ethan Young - Portside, Brecht Forum Eric Mann - Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles

More than a Year into the Health Reform Debacle: What Direction for Real Health Care Justice? W626 - Session 3 Physicians for a National Health Program Martha Livingston (Chair) - SUNY College at Old Westbury; Vice-chair, Physicians for a National Health Program, New York-Metro chapter Oliver Fein - Dean, Weill-Cornell Medical College; National President and local Chair, Physicians for a National Health Program Leonard Rodberg - Urban Studies, Queens College; Research Director, New York-Metro chapter, Physicians for a National Health Program Katie Robbins - National Coordinator, Healthcare-NOW Laurie Wen - Healthcare-NOW, Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition Bill Henning - Communications Workers of America, Local 1180

Dying for Cool: Case Study on US Militarism and Marketing W618 Culture Clash Terry Marshall (Chair) - Culture Clash, Young Voices Nation Christine Peng - CAAAV, Global Action Project Terry Marshall - Culture Clash, Young Voices Nation Kiara Nagel - Design Studio 4 Social Intervention

Rejuvenating the Left Critique of the War on Terror W626 - Session 5 Sander Hicks (Chair) - Green Party of NY State Paul Zarembka - Economics Dept, State University of New York at Buffalo; Research in Political Economy Journal David MacGregor -

The Empire Strikes Back: Obama and the Teabaggers - (R)evolution and Counter(R)evolution W622 - Session 1 John Kim (Chair) - Culture Clash Vanessa Nisperos - Culture Clash Calvin Williams - Culture Clash

Bush 2.0: Obama’s War at Home and Abroad W610 - Session 5 Saadia Toor (Chair) - Action for a Progressive Pakistan & South Asia Solidarity Initiative Adaner Usmani - Action for a Progressive Pakistan & Labour Party, Pakistan Jawied Nawabi - Afghanistan Peace Association Jeanne Theoharis - Educators for Civil Liberties Leili Kashani - Center for Constitutional Rights


Jobs for All, Legalization for All, a Massive Public Works Program E329 - Session 6 Eric Lerner (Chair) - NJ May 1 Coalition; International Luxemburgist Network Jay Arena - Sociology, College of Staten Island Diana Meija - NJ American Friends Service Committee

Coming to America, Running from Americas: Should the U.S. Owe Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants Coming from Countries Affected by the School of the Americas/WHINSEC? W608 - Session 6 Laura Schleifer (Chair) - Quisia Gonzalez, MD - Latin American Program Director, Earth Rights Institute, Henry George School Joe Dowling - School of the Americas Watch; Nassau Community College Adan Stevens-Diaz - Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College Udi Ofer - Advocacy Director, NYCLU

Rethinking the National Question in the United States W610- Session 4 Yusuf Nuruddin (Chair) - University of Toledo, Africana Studies Charles Pinderhughes - Sociology, Boston College Fred Ho - Afro Asian Music Ensemble Warren Neal Holmes

The Chickenhawk Syndrome: War, Sacrifice and Personal Responsibility W616 - Session 4 Radical Philosophy Review Chair: Anatole Anton Cheyney Ryan - University of Oregon, Oxford University Anatole Anton - Political Science, San Francisco State Harry van der Linden - Butler College Michael Brown - Michigan State

Jobs, Social Issues and Ways to Get Out of the Crisis in Europe and USA E323 - Session 6 Chrystel Le Moing (Chair) - International Relations, Gabriel Peri Foundation Daniel Cirera - Secretary of the scientific council, Gabriel Peri Foundation Alain Guinot - Director, La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière, weekly newspaper of the Labour General Confédération (CGT) of France Ed Ott - Former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council; Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY John Mason - Political Science, William Paterson University

Exonerate The Rosenbergs? Robert & Michael Meeropol React to Morton Sobell and Other New Developments W616 - Session 3 National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case Gerald Markowitz (Chair) - Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Grad Cente Robert Meeropol - Younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg; Founder/Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children; Board of Directors, NCRRC. Michael Meeropol - Older son of the Rosenbergs; John Jay College Interdisciplinary Studies Program Miriam Schneir - Co-author, Invitation to an Inquest David Alman - President of the NCRRC; Founding Member with Emily Alman of the original Rosenberg defense committee.

Toward a Second [Economic] Bill of Rights W503 - Session 3 Democratic Left Michael Hirsch (Chair) - New Politics; Democratic Left Bill Barclay - Chicago Political Economy Group Joseph Schwartz - Politics, Temple University; Vice-Chair, Democratic Socialists of America

Organizing Strategies to Combat the Radical Right W616 - Session 1 David Sprintzen (Chair) - Founder/Officer, Long Island Progressive Coalition, Citizen Action on Long Island; President of Long Island Jobs with Justice Alan Charney - Political Director, US Action Ed Ott - Former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council; Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY Peter Sikora - Communications Workers of America, Working Families Party

Radicals and NYC Politics E329 - Session 1 Charles Barron (Chair) - Operation Power Paul Washington - Inez Barron - State Assemblywoman, New York's 40th District

Fight the Right, Build the Left: Strategy and Tactics for the 2010 Elections W613 - Session 6 Dialogue and Initiative Erica Carter, National Committee, CCDS (Chair) - Howie Hawkins - Green Party of New York, Teamsters for a Democratic Union Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Webmaster, Progressives for Obama Kevin Lynch - Organizer, Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union; Member, Working Families Party Roger Green - Former NY State Assemblyman; Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY


Fashioning a Left Response to the Tea Party Propaganda Assault Schimmel Auditorium - Lunch time panel: SATURDAY, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Frances Fox Piven (Chair) Christian Parenti Richard Kim Dorthee Benz

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  1. ↑ [ http://www.transform-network.net/en/home/journal-transformeurope/display-journal-transform/article//Transform-at-the-LF-in-New-York.html transform! european network for alternative thinking and political dialogue, 2010]
  2. ↑ [ http://www.transform-network.net/en/home/journal-transformeurope/display-journal-transform/article//Transform-at-the-LF-in-New-York.html transform! european network for alternative thinking and political dialogue, 2010]
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