Left Forum 2016

Left Forum 2016

Agenda

WELCOME TO LEFT FORUM 2016:^[1]

FRIDAY 5/20 SESSION A 5:00PM – 6:45PM Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution? L2.84 The Laura Flanders Show Laura Flanders, Chair ................... host of The Laura Flanders Show on teleSUR Richard D. Wolff ................................................................... democracyatwork.info Sandra Rein ...... Socialist Studies: A Journal of the Society of Socialist Studies Chris Hedges Computerized Election Theft, the Rolling Right Wing Coup, and How to Stop It L2.85 Joel Simpson, Chair Jonathan Simon ................................................................ Election Defense Alliance Mark Crispin Miller ................................................................... New York University Bob Fitrakis .................................................... Columbus State Community College Mimi Kennedy .................................................. Progressive Democrats of America Virginia Martin .......................................................... Columbia County (New York)

Democratic Election Supervisor

Privacy, Surveillance and Secure Internet Access: Planning the Fight L.76 Maritza Arrastía, Chair ........................................................ May First/People Link Nicholas Merrill ....................................................................... Calyx Internet Access Lars Bretthauer .................................................... Free University, Berlin, Germany Shahid Buttar ........................................................... Electronic Frontier Foundation Hamid Khan ................................................................. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Brandi Collins ................................................................................... Color of Change Joseph Torres ............................................................................................... Free Press Jackie Smith ........................................ International Network of Scholar Activists The Rise of Independent Media, Perspectives From the Progressive Left L2.81 David Pakman, Chair ....................................................... The David Pakman Show Benjamin Dixon ................................................................. The Benjamin Dixon Show Sam Seder ................................................................................. The Majority Report Nomiki Konst .................................................................... The Accountability Project Paul Jay ............................................................................... The Real News Network Another World Is Necessary: Articulating Our Common Struggles, Towards the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal L2.82 Raphaël Canet, Chair ............................................................... World Social Forum Emile Langlois-Vallieres ............................................................ World Social Forum Carminda Mac Lorin ................................................................. World Social Forum Nicolas Lavallée ........................................................ UÉQ (Quebec Student Union) OPENING PLENARY 7:00–9:15PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL CAPITALISM AND MILITARISM — AT HUMANITY’S PERIL: ORGANIZING OUR POWER TARIQ ALI, MEDEA BENJAMIN, AND CHRIS HEDGES LAURA FLANDERS, MODERATOR SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 18 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 2016 Left Forum Panels From the People’s Climate March to COP 21, there has been a recent groundswell of attention around our planet’s need to come together for climate justice. How have different movements converged to support the emerging climate justice movement? Heather Milton Lightening (Idle No More, Canada) Tadzio Müller (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin) Aurash Khawarzad (We Act for Environmental Justice) Sean Petty (New York State Nurses Association) Stefanie Ehmsen, chair (RLS–NYC) The Black Lives Matter movement has taken root not just in the U.S. but, increasingly, also across Canada and Europe. How have these struggles broadened what it means to be Black, while also deepening international solidarity with activists here in the U.S.? Jessica De Abreu (European Network of People of African Descent) Wail Qasim (London Coalition Against Police Brutality) Autumn Griffin (Black Lives Matter) Kazembe Balagun, chair (RLS–NYC) The International Dimensions of Black Lives Matter Right-wing politics are gaining strength across the U.S. and Europe. What conditions have allowed this rise? What are the contours of the phenomenon, and what are its most dangerous expressions? What can the left do to fight the right’s rise? Evelyn Schlatter (Southern Poverty Law Center) Gerd Wiegel (DIE LINKE / Left Party) Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin Magazine) Ethan Earle, chair (RLS–NYC) Right on the Rise: Neo-Fascism and Far-Right Politics in the U.S. and Europe Over a million refugees came to Europe in 2015, and the numbers continue to rise. How can the left support these immigrants and articulate a coherent, positive policy approach to this man-made crisis? Tariq Ali (Writer, Journalist & Filmmaker) Katharina Mühlbeyer (Refugee Council of Berlin) Dimitris Christopoulos (International Federation for Human Rights) Albert Scharenberg, chair (RLS–NYC) Europe’s Refugee Crisis: A Man-Made Disaster NEW YORK OFFICE ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG www.rosalux-nyc.org Twitter: @rosaluxnyc Facebook: rosaluxnyc A D V I S O R Y P A R E N T A L E X P L I C I T S O C I A L I S M The Climate Justice Moment: A Movement of Movements Check out our table with free publications covering a wide range of left topics. Session 4: Sat, 05:10pm - 07:00pm in Room L2.82 Session 3: Sat, 03:30pm - 05:00pm in Room 1.117 Session 2: Sat, 12:00pm - 01:50pm in Room L2.82 Session 1: Sat, 10:00am - 11:50am in Room L2.84 North Hall Building 2325 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 19 SATURDAY 5/21 SESSION 1 10:00AM – 11:50AM Europe’s Refugee Crisis: A Man-Made Disaster L2.84 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Albert Scharenberg, Chair ............ Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Tariq Ali ................................................................... Writer, Journalist, & Filmmaker Katharina Mühlbeyer ........................................................... Refugee Council Berlin Dimitris Christopoulos ........................ International Federation for Human Rights Building Movement-to-Movement Solidarity: A Roundtable Discussion With Folks From Around the World L2.85 LeftEast Mary Taylor, Chair .......... BLSC, LeftEast, Center for Place, Culture and Politics Einat Manoff Robert Robinson Keywords for Radicals Book Launch and Discussion L.76 AK Thompson, Chair George Caffentzis Stacy Douglas ............................................................................. Carleton University Silvia Federici Conor Tomás Reed ............................................................................................. CUNY; Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Clare O’Connor Ecosocialism: What Is It and How Do We Get There? 2324 NORTH HALLBUILDING Monthly Review Brett Clark, Chair ............................... Sociology Department, University of Utah Fred Magdoff ......................................................................... University of Vermont Chris Williams ..................................................................................... Pace University Hannah Holleman ............................................................................ Amherst College Pulling Back the Curtain on Debt With John Perkins and Gerald Celente NORTH HALLBUILDING 2325 Trends Journal Catherine Watters, Chair John Perkins ......................................................................... Former Economic Hitman Gerald Celente ...................................................................................... Friend/Client Political Ecologies of Destruction, Displacement, and Deviation: a Diagnosis, With Prescriptions 8.61 Fabian Balardini, Chair .................. Borough of Manhattan Community College Enrique Lanz Oca ............................ Borough of Manhattan Community College Matthew C. Ally ............................... Borough of Manhattan Community College Beyond Rage, Violence & Anger NORTH HALLBUILDING 3321 Mary Szto ............................................................. Professor, Valparaiso University Peter Szto Abott ........................ School of Social Work, University of Nebraska Bateer Chen .............................................. Yen-Ching Institute, Harvard University Hope in a Time of Extinction NORTH HALLBUILDING 3325 O/R Books Ashley Dawson, Chair ....................................................................................... CUNY Eben Kirksey ............................................................................... Princeton University Genese Sodikoff ............................................................ Rutgers University-Newark Adriana Petryna ................................................ University of California-Berkeley The Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits NORTH HALLBUILDING 3326 Monthly Review Irv Kurki, Chair ........................................................................... Essential Discussions Kim Koo ...................................................................................... Racial Justice Group Mario Rendon ......................................... American Institue of Psychoanalysis and Centro Psychoanalytic de Madrid Muslim Global, Muslim Local: Confronting the Current Crisis

Book Panel Discussion — Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism 1.129 Umair Muhammad, Chair Lina Nasr ................................................ Toronto Industrial Workers of the World Patrick Desjardins Ama Amponsah ................................................. Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel — Comic Book Launch and Discussion With Tom Keough, Mat Callahan, & Allen Ruff 3.80 PM Press Tom Keough, Chair ....................................................................................... PM Press Allen Ruff ........................................................................................................ PM Press Mat Callahan ................................................................................................ PM Press Class Struggle in Popular Music 3.81 Science & Society Maria Damon, Chair ................. Department of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute Carter Mathes ............................ Department of English, Rutgers-New Brunswick Rachel Rubin ..................... U of Mass, Boston, Department of American Studies James Smethurst .................................................. Department of Africana Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst Film: To Begin the World Over Again — The Life of Thomas Paine NORTHHALLBUILDING 2450 National Educational Telecommunications Association Ian Ruskin ...... The Life of Thomas Paine Productions: thelifeofthomaspaine.org Victor Madeson ....................... Thomas Paine Friends, thomas-paine-friends.org Michael Moore’s “Where to Invade Next”: What Can the Rest of the World Teach Us About Multiparty Democracy with Strong Left Parties? NORTH HALLBUILDING 2327 Mark Looney, Chair ................................................................................ Green Party Steve Sherwin .......................................................... United Federation of Teachers Jefferson Kielwagen .............................................. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute K. Soraya Batmanghelichi ......................... Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Rise of Fascism and the Working Class Movement in India

Fighting to Stay Alive: Mumia, Hep C and the Health Crisis Facing the Incarcerated

Johanna Fernandez, Chair ............................... Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Five Maulimm-ak .......................................... Campaign to End the New Jim Crow Pam Africa ................................... MOVE & International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal Bob Boyle ........................................................................................ Mumia’s Attorney Grasping the Black Freedom Movement in Global and Revolutionary Terms: Part 1 — Theory and Criticism 1.67 Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice Joseph Ramsey, Chair ......................................................................... UMass-Boston John Maerhofer ........................................................... City University of New York A. Shahid Stover Kanishka Chowdhury .......................................... University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Ryan Costello ........................................................ M.A. Student at Boston College. To The Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 Book Launch and Celebration NORTH HALLBUILDING 2514 Haymarket Books Natalia Tylim, Chair ...................................... International Socialist Organization John Riddell Mike Taber Black Labor and the Fate of Capitalism 1.71 The Indypendent Nicholas Powers, Chair .................................................................. The Indypendent Nikol Alexander Floyd Arun Gupta No More Stolen Lives: Perspectives From Families and Activists in the Struggle Against Police Terror 1.81 Steve Yip, Chair ................................................. Stop Mass Incarceration Network Hawa Bah .......................................................................... Mother of Mohamed Bah Noche Diaz ............................................................................... NYC Revolution Club Travis Morales .................................................... Stop Mass Incarceration Network Hertencia Petersen .................................................................... Akai Gurley Family Nicholas Heyward, Sr. ...................... Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Foundation SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 22 SOCIAL STRUCTURES OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EQUALITY By John Asimakopoulos “A lucid and powerful analysis of the threat that inequality poses to any viable democracy while also providing a brilliant analysis of the mechanisms that make it so savage and unsustainable. [It] offers a stirring program for change at a time when democracy is under dire siege. A must read for anyone concerned about the fate of democracy …” —Henry Giroux, Center for Research in the Public Interest, McMaster University, Canada “[A] significant and lasting contribution to democratic theory and political economy. The book deserves praise for its interdisciplinary breadth and critical depth.” —Nathan Jun, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Midwestern State University, US “Anyone with an interest in new, wonderfully alternative responses to address the current political and economic crisis should buy this book now!” —Richard J White, Senior Lecturer Economic Geography, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ABOUT THE BOOK: Neoliberalism has pushed capitalism to its limits, hollowing out global economies and lives in the process, while people are left with no voice. Asimakopoulos addresses this problem with a theory-to-practice model that reconciles Marxism and anarchism with democratic theory, offering a practical vision of an egalitarian society. Available Now! Paperback, $28 ISBN: 978-1604864920 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 23 The League of Revolutionary Black Workers Then & Now: Race, Class, and Revolution 1.82 Walda Katz-Fishman, Chair ...................................................... Howard University Jerome Scott ................................ League of Revolutionaries for a New America Rose Brewer ......................................................................... University of Minnesota Can Tuzcu ................................................ League of Revolutionary Black Workers Education & Media Project Virginia Leavell ...................................... League of Revolutionary Black Workers Education & Media Project Fighting Back: From the Frontlines — Family Members of Prisoners Building Movements for Justice 1.83 Shandre Delaney, Chair ........ Human Rights Coalition, Abolitionist Law Center, Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike Karen Lee .............................................................................. Human Rights Coalition Theresa Shoatz ....................................................... Human Rights Coalition, CADBI Ana Santigo Saundra Hill ............................................................ Human Rights Coalition – Philly Revolutionary Mothering: Radical Caretaking as Essential to Creating Revolutionary Communities 1.93 PM Press Mai’a Williams, Chair .................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................... PM Press China Martens ............................................................................................... PM Press Terri Nilliasca Lisa Factora-Borchers Cynthia Oka Alana Apfel

Neoliberalism, Globalization and the Privatization of Everything — What It Will Take to Win Back Government of the PeopleWELCOME TO LEFT FORUM 2016:^[2]

Stephen Spitz, Chair ...................................................... People Demanding Action Andrea Miller .................................................................. People Demanding Action Jann Campbell ................................................................ People Demanding Action Donna Smith ..................................................... Progressive Democrats of America Mimi Kennedy ................................................ National Election Integrity Coalition Celeste Drake ................................................AFL-CIO

Rethinking Privilege Politics: Marxist Perspectives L2.80 Sophia Moon, Chair ..................................................................... Socialist Discourse John Bell Ian Goodrum Climate Justice and Energy Democracy After Paris 1.115 RRPE Brian Tokar, Chair .......................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Sean Sweeney .............................................. Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Darcey O’Callaghan ............................................................. Food & Water Watch Senowa Mize-Fox ..... United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America Tadzio Mueller ................................................................... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Globalized Pollution and Predation in Late Capitalism: The Role of Nonprofits in Contributing to the Profit and Protecting the Wealth of Multinaational Corporation 1.114 Irwin Sperber, Chair ........................................ Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz Jessica B. Burke Alex Groskinsky The Climate Mobilization: A Route to Reclaiming Democracy and Preventing Ecological Collapse 1.99 Ashik Siddique, Chair ...................................................... The Climate Mobilization Margaret Klein Salamon ................................................ The Climate Mobilization Nicole Leigh Harris .......................................................... The Climate Mobilization Venezuela: Hope, Not a Threat 1.101 Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NYC Isolina De La Cruz, Chair .............................................................................................. ........................................................................ Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NYC Eric Draitser .................. Editor, StopImperialism.org; Host, CounterPunch Radio Gabriel Hetland ...................................... State University of New York - Albany Frederick Mills ........................... Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University Bolivarian Venezuela vs US Regime Change: What is Happening and What We Can Do 1.103 Stan Smith, Chair .......................................... Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee Jesus Rodriguez Espinoza ................................................................ Consul General, Consulate of Venezuela in Chicago Carlos Ron ........................................................ Minister Counselor Political Affairs, Embassy of Venezuela, Washington, DC Why Workers Should Attend the World Social Forum in Montreal 1.105 Nathalie Guay, Chair ........................................ Council of National Labor Unions Patrick Rondeau ......................................................... Quebec Workers Federation Erika English .................................................................... World Social Forum 2016 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 24 We prepare our students to create a just and sustainable world. The Master of Science program in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management (EPSM) is designed to turn passion for environmental change and sustainability into careers with impact. Our students benefit from small, customized classes; a rigorous program of theory and practice; and close attention from a faculty engaged in research, scholarship, and cutting-edge professions in the heart of NYC. For more information about the program, contact Chair Ana Baptista at baptista@newschool.edu or visit newschool.edu/epsm. Equal Opportunity Institution / Photo by Martin Seck SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 25 The Vanguardist/Spontaneist Binary and the Marxist-Humanist Alternative 1.107 Marxist-Humanist Initiative, www.marxist-humanist-initiative.org Anne Jaclard, Chair ...................................................... Marxist-Humanist Initiative Mike Dola ............................................................................. Worker-Student-Activist Andrew Kliman ............................................................................................. Economist Ravi Bali ......................................................................................... DC Resists, London How the Demos Speaks: Theory, Representation, Insurrection 1.108 Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Chair ........................ University of Illinois, Springfield Ali Zaidi ................................................................................................. SUNY, Canton John Asimakopoulos ................................................... City University of New York The Proletariat is Still the Revolutionary Class 1.109 Speak Out Now & Convergences Révolutionnaires Kim Serrano, Chair .......................................................................... Speak Out Now Kip Waldo Timothée Erard L’Etincelle ............ (the Spark), NPA (New Anti-Capitalist Party) Mike Corr .......................................................................................... Speak Out Now Did Trotsky Lie? Towards the Truth About the Soviet Union and Its Relevance to Social Movements Today 1.87 US Friends of the Soviet People John Dennie, Chair ............................................... US Friends of the Soviet People Grover Furr George Gruenthal ............................................... US Friends of the Soviet People Jason Myers The Rise of Millennials: Engaging Youth in the 2016 Presidential Election 1.89 Prabjoot Lally, Chair ................................................................ Junior Sikh Coalition Ameek Bindra ............................................................................ Junior Sikh Coalition Darian X ....................................................................................... Make the Road NY Hossam Gamea .......................................................... Islamic Movement for Justice Luba Cortes .................................................................................. Make the Road NY Cooperation Jackson Countering the Confederate Assault and the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi 1.75 Brandon King, Chair ................................................................ Cooperation Jackson Rukia Lumumba .................................................. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Kali Akuno ................................................................................. Cooperation Jackson Putting a Premium on Workers Rights: Making Capital Subordinate to Labor through the Expansion of Worker Co-ops and Union Co-ops 1.73 Forbes Contributor Cameron Keng Carmen Huertas-Noble, Chair ......... CUNY School of Law and 1Worker1Vote April De Simone ............................................................................ Designing the We Christina Jaus ................................................................................. Wheels Collective Michael Peck ............ MAPA Group, North American Delegate for Mondragon, 1 Worker 1 Vote Roger Green ..................................... DuBois-Bunche Center for Public Policy and Medgar Evers College Alex Van Shaick .............................................................. U.S. Department of Labor The Commons, Assemblies, and Horizontalidad – Their Anti-Capitalist Roots and Liberatory Possibilities 1.76 Camilo Azzellini Sitrin, Chair Debbie Bookchin Susana Draper Marcela Olivera Marina Sitrin Inner Truth to Power: Meditation as a Revolutionary Act 1.92 Sander Hicks, Chair Marc Eliot Stein ............................................... Stein Pacifism for the 21st Century Robert Rafiq Lewis .............................................. Days of Shock, Days of Wonder Gregg Hill ........................................................................................ New York Insight Uncovering the Racial Climate at a Liberal Arts College 1.63 Deborah Little, Chair .................................................................... Adelphi University Richard Sejour ............................................................................... Adelphi University Anna Smith ..................................................................................... Adelphi University Danja Xhaxhi ................................................................................. Adelphi University Dariann Rickerson ......................................................................... Adelphi University Melanie Bush .................................................................................. Adelphi University Bringing Participatory Budgeting to CUNY 1.65 Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives (SODA) Susan Kalaz, Chair ................................ PB-Queens College Steering Committee Jennifer Li ................................................................................... PB-Brooklyn College Michael Devan ...... Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives (SODA) Chandni Tarek ........................................ PB-Queens College Steering Committee Jennifer Innes ............................................................................. PB-Brooklyn College SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 26 Karl Polanyi A Life on the Left GARETH DALE “Here is the book the many admirers of Karl Polanyi have been waiting for: a vivid, thoroughly researched and lucidly written intellectual biography that is worthy of its subject.” —Steven Lukes, New York University $40.00 / £30.00 · 978-0-231-17608-8 · cloth $39.99 / £30.00 · 978-0-231-54148-0 · ebook columbia university press CUP.COLUMBIA.EDU · CUPBLOG.ORG Political Responsibility Responding to Predicaments of Power ANTONIO Y. VÁZQUEZARROYO “Exquisitely subtle and ardently polemical.” —Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley $65.00 / £48.00 · 978-0-231-17484-8 · cloth $64.99 / £48.00 · 978-0-231-54146-6 · ebook Political Freud A History ELI ZARETSKY “This brilliant riposte to Freudbashers ought to be . . . on every shelf.” —Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture $35.00 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-17244-8 · cloth $34.99 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-54014-8 · ebook Marx After Marx History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism HARRY HAROOTUNIAN “Provocative and important.” —William Haver, translator of Nishida Kitarō ‘s Ontology of Production: Three Essays $35.00 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-17480-0 · cloth $34.99 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-54013-1 · ebook A Political Economy of the Senses Neoliberalism, Reification, Critique ANITA CHARI “[The book] represents the rise of a new, dynamic critical theory for the twenty-first century.” —John Bellamy Foster, author of Marx’s Ecology $30.00 / £22.00 · 978-0-231-17389-6 · paper $29.99 / £22.00 · 978-0-231-54038-4 · ebook After the Red Army Faction Gender, Culture, and Militancy CHARITY SCRIBNER “The most innovative discussion of the RAF to date.” —Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh $50.00 / £37.00 · 978-0-231-16864-9 · cloth $49.99 / £37.00 · 978-0-231-53829-9 · ebook Intimate Strangers Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse ANDREEA DECIU RITIVOI “Lucid, careful, well balanced.” —Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, University of Western Ontario $35.00 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-16868-7 · cloth $34.99 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-53791-9 · ebook Factory of Strategy Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin ANTONIO NEGRI “This book on Lenin turns into a revolutionary text, into a true manual of resistance.” —Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End Times $35.00 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-14682-1 · cloth $34.99 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-51942-7 · ebook SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM 27 The Destructuring of the Department of Education & the Rebuilding of Our Educational Currency NORTH HALLBUILDING 2513 Gina Humber, Chair ............................................................. Diversity is a Verb LLC Charlene Humber ........... New York State Licensed Mental Health Professional Katrina Sparks ............................................ The New York Yonkers School District Jacqueline McMickens ......................... Jacqueline McMickens & Associates PLLC Naomi Lucas ..................... New York State Licensed Mental Health Professional The Transformation of American Health Care: For Whom? By Whom? 1.91 Mary O’Brien, Chair ....................... Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter Oliver Fein ....................................... Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter Leonard Rodberg ........................... Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter Annette Gaudino ............................ Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter/Campaign for New York Health NYC’s Affordable Housing Zoning: Beyond the Gentrifiers’ Deception 1.77 Marty Rowland, Chair .... Henry George School of Social Sciences and ASTM Ayisha Oglive ........................... CB 12 Manhattan, Chair of Housing Committee Ibrahima Drame ..................................... Henry George School of Social Science Create Social Change via the Media: Using Politically Negative Messages to Your Advantage 1.90 Michael Friedman, Chair ...................... University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Marni Halasa ............................................................................ Revolutions are Sexy Chandler Harriss .................................... University of Tennessee at Chattanooga The Situation in Ukraine 1.113 United National Antiwar Coalition Phil Wilayto, Chair .......................................... United National Antiwar Coalition Irina Kovel .............................................. Oddessa Committee Against the Attacks Greg Butterfield ........................................................... International Action Center Bruce Gagnon ................................................. Global Network Against Weapons How Universal U.S. Sovereignty Threatens World Peace NORTH HALLBUILDING 2507 David Hungerford, Chair ............................................. Coalition for Social Justice Michael Perino Sara Flounders .............................................................. International Action Center Deep State: The Fabricated Global War on Terrorism — Why the Left Should Unite to Expose and Rebel Against It NORTH HALLBUILDING 2505 Cheryl Curtiss, Chair ........................................................................... WWUH Radio Gearoid O Colmain ............................................................. Independent Journalist Wayne Madsen .................................................................. Wayne Madsen Report Michael Springmann ......................................................... MichaelSpringmann.com The Imperative of Nuclear Disarmament in an Increasingly Dangerous World NORTH HALLBUILDING 2511 Jim Anderson, Chair ....................................................................................................... ....................................................................................... Peace Action New York State Jackie Cabasso .................................................. Western States Legal Foundation Joseph Gerson .............................................. American Friends Service Committee M. V. Ramana ............................................................................. Princeton University & Nuclear Power in Space Matt De Vlieger ......................................................... United for Peace and Justice Activism for Peace in Israel & Palestine NORTH HALLBUILDING 2503 Frank Romano, Chair ........... University of Paris; member of the California and Marseille Bars. Maurice Jacobsen ..................................................................... We All Live in Gaza Habiba Boumlik .............................. City University of New York, LaGuardia CC Jacqueline Casale Taylor Basker ............ German Jordan University, Near East Maya Bloom ....................................................................................... Bead for Peace Peter Ilich ......................................................................... TCI College of Technology Imperialists Collide: War and Refugees in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. the Dangerous Role of the EU and NATO NORTH HALLBUILDING 2504 Marxism-Leninism Today.com Walter Tillow, Chair .............................................. M-L Today.com Editorial Board Kostas Papadakis .................................................... Greek Communist Party (KKE) Kostas Pateras .......................................................... Greek Communist Party (KKE) Now, for the Future: Youth Organizing for Independent Left Political Power NORTH HALLBUILDING 2512 Ursula Rozum, Chair ................................. Young Greens US, Green Party of NY William Gunger ............................................................... Young Greens, Secretary Nikeeta Slade ........... International Socialist Organization, Green Party of NY Sasha White ................................. Young Greens, Green Party US Youth Caucus SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 28 SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM What Next for the Movement Behind Bernie? L2.84 Bryan Koulouris, Chair ............................................................... Socialist Alternative Kshama Sawant .......................................................................... Socialist Alternative Winnie Wong ................................................................................. People for Bernie Philip Locker ................................................................................ #Movement4Bernie Justin Molito ...................................................................................... Labor for Bernie A Dialogue on the Meaning and Importance of Alienation, with David Harvey and Bertell Ollman L2.85 Maliha Safri, Chair ............................. Economics Department at Drew University David Harvey .......................................... Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center Bertell Ollman ......................................................................................... Politics, NYU The Communalist Turn: Bookchin and the Quest for Confederal Direct Democracy L.76 Review of Radical Political Economics Eleanor Finley, Chair ..................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Brian Tokar ...................................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Daniel Chodorkoff ......................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Chaia Heller ................................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Forging the Radical and Principled Black Movement of the 21st Century NORTH HALLBUILDING 2324 Black Agenda Report — blackagendareport.com Bruce Dixon, Chair .................................................................. Black Agenda Report Glen Ford ................................................................................. Black Agenda Report Margaret Kimberley .............................................................. Black Agenda Report Right on the Rise: Neo-Fascism and Far-Right Politics in the U.S. and Europe NORTH HALLBUILDING 2325 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Ethan Earle, Chair ............................ Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Evelyn Schlatter ......................................................... Southern Poverty Law Center Gerd Wiegel .......................................................... Die Linke – German Left Party Bhaskar Sunkara .......................................................................... Jacobin Magazine Moral Economy and the Art World 8.61 Cindy Smith, Chair ............................................................................... Artist/Curator Maxwell Graham ...... Dealer – Founder and Director of Essex Street Gallery Gregory Sholette .................................................................................. Artist/Activist Occupy Museums

Close Guantánamo Now or Move Guantánamo North?

Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg

Jennifer Meeropol, Chair Rosenberg Fund for Children
Robert Meeropol Rosenberg Fund for Children
Amber Black Rosenberg Fund for Children

John Brown: Debunking Myths and Liberating Truths — Reflections on His Last Days as a Prisoner in Virginia

Larry Lawrence, Chair Louis DeCaro Norman Marshall Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy and her execution was wrongful Sign the petition at rfc.org/ethel calling on President Obama to exonerate Ethel Attend the Exonerate Ethel panel or stop by the Rosenberg Fund for Children table to learn more Ullstein Bild Getty Images SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 29 Islamic State: Responsibility and Response 1.124 Susan Smith ...................... Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point Center and Muslim Peace Fellowship Arun Kundnani .................................................... Professor at New York University Daisy Khan ....................... Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality and Today’s Islam Abdelhamid Siyam ....................................................................... Rutgers University, Al Quds Al Araby International Newspaper, and the United Nations Neurotic? Unable to Organize? What the Fuck Is Wrong With Us? 1.129 Mitchel Cohen, Chair ........................................... Author, “What Is Direct Action?” Debbie Despina Sophia Stamos ............................................... Missile-Dick Chicks Ann Snitow ................... Author, “The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary” Irene Javors .......................................................................... Psychotherapist; Author, “Culture Notes: Essays on Sane Living” Jack Shalom ................................................................... WBAI Radio 99.5 FM NYC Sister Dragonfly .................................................... Church of Stop Shopping Choir Rap, Art & Revolution: How Do We Create A Culture of Resistance ? 3.80 Jamel Mims, Chair ...................................... rapper, artist, organizer & educator; NYC Revolution Club, Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Urban Arts Partnership Shyvonne ............................................................ singer-songwriter, Artists 4 Justice Patrick ..................................................................................... Actor, Artists 4 Justice Noche Diaz .............................................................................. NYC Revolution Club Radical Songwriting to Change the World 3.81 Sharleen Leahey, Chair ............................ songs4peace; Peoples Music Network Ben Grosscup ....................................................................... People’s Music Network Penn Johnson Film Screening: In the Image: Palestinian Women Capture the Occupation NORTH HALLBUILDING 2450 Emmy Scharlatt ...................................................................... Co-director/Producer Film Screening: The Hand That Feeds (Hot & Crusty Union) NORTH HALLBUILDING 2327 Mahoma Garfais, Chair The Battle for Democracy in a Time of Neo-Liberal Fascism 1.85 Siddhartha Mitra, Chair ....................................................................... Sanhati, USA Anindya Dey ........................................................................................... Sanhati, USA Rajeev Ravisankar ................................................................................. Sanhati, USA Detroit, Greece, and Capitalist Abandonment 1.66 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination and Left Forum Kristin Lawler, Chair ........................................................ Situations and Left Forum Dan Georgakas ............................................................................................. Cineaste Michael Pelias ............................... Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Peter Bratsis ................................... Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Dianne Feeley .............................................................................. Against the Current Grasping the Black Freedom Movement in Global and Revolutionary Terms: Part 2 — Artistic and Activist Interventions 1.67 Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal Of Marxist Theory And Practice Joseph Ramsey, Chair .......................................................................... UMass Boston Nino Brown Mela Jones Heestand Amy Evans .......................................................................................................... Writer Joseph G. Ramsey ...... UMass Boston, Cultural Logic, Socialism and Democracy Demetrius Noble ................. Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Artists 4 Justice,

BlackLivesMatter Greensboro, UNC

Party of Communists USA, League of Young Communists For a Socialist USA, For Marxism-Leninism www.PartyOfCommunistsUSA.org SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 30 Black Lives Matter Moving Beyond Black… A New Black Power A Call for Paradigm Shift in Clinical Science NORTH HALLBUILDING 2514 Michel Alexendre Sacha Vington M.D., Chair .................................. Vaya Instiute Darnell Smith .......................................................................................... Vaya Instiute Mutale Kanyanta A Pair of Twin Faces in America 1.71 D’Evolution Productions David Acala, Chair Rick Sanford .......................................................... The New School Class of 2010 M.S. in Organizational Change Management David Hall A Just Transition to a Peaceful and Ecological Society 1.81 Jonathan Rynn, Chair Tom Gogan ........................................................................... US Labor Against War Bruce Gagnon John Braxton .............................................................. Philadelphia Jobs for Justice, US Labor against the War, Labor Convergence on Climate Tear Down the Prison Walls! 1.82 Patrick McCann, Chair ............................................................... Veterans For Peace Theresa Shoatz .......... Board Member, Human Rights Coalition of Philadelphia Noelle Hanrahan .................................................................................... Prison Radio Behind Enemy Lines: From Slavery to Mass Imprisonment 1.83 American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Program Bonnie Kerness, Chair .................................................... Director, American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Kayla Stepinac ................... American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Ojore Lutalo ........................ American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Intersectionality: Marxist Commentaries and Critiques 1.93 Science & Society Shana Russell, Chair .................................................................. Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School – Newark Rutgers University Hester Eisenstein ............................ Women & Gender Studies Masters Program, Graduate Center, CUNY Barbara Foley ............................................................................... Rutgers University Martha Gimenez .................................................................. University of Colorado Lise Vogel ........................................................................................... Rider University WARREN S. GOLDSTEIN (Harvard University, USA) EDUARDO MENDIETA (Penn State University, USA) “The Axial Age, Social Evolution, and Postsecular Consciousness” CHRISTOPHER CRAIG BRITTAIN (University of Aberdeen, UK), “Elucidating Evangelical Support for Donald Trump: Adorno on Religion and Sectarian Movements” MATT SHEEDY (University of Manitoba, Canada) “Habermas, Islam, and the Limits of Public Reason” The Center for Critical Research on Religion is pleased to sponsor the following session:mi THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND RELIGION The Center for Critical Research on Religion (www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org) publishes the journal Critical Research on Religion with SAGE Publications (crr.sagepub.com) and the book series “Studies in Critical Research on Religion” with Brill Academic Publishers in hardcover (brill.com/scrr) and Haymarket Books in paperback (www.haymarketbooks.org/category/scrr-series) SATURDAY, 12:00 – 1:50 ROOM 1.107 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 31 From Red Squads to Counterterrorism: Keeping the U.S. Safe From Democracy 1.100 Bill of Rights Defense Committee & Defending Dissent Foundation Chip Gibbons, Chair ....................................... Bill of Rights Defense Committee & Defending Dissent Foundation Brendan Dunn Kris Hermes Maha Hilal .................................................................................... Executive Director, National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals & Rogue Politicians L2.80 The Africanist Press Joshua Lew McDermott, Chair ................................ New Mexico State University Chernoh Alpha M. Bah ............................. Chairman, African Socialist Movement Jessica Collen ......................................................... McDermott University of Idaho Climate Change and Capitalism 1.115 M. V. Ramana, Chair ................................................................. Princeton University Natassa Romanou ............................ NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Robert Jensen .............................................................. University of Texas at Austin Trash Talk: Fighting Incineration & Achieving a Zero Waste Vision for Environmental Justice 1.114 Ana Baptista ............................................................ The New School/NJEJA/GAIA Molly Greenberg ......................................................... Ironbound Community Corp Priya Mulgaonkar ......................... New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Brigid Flaherty .................................................................................................. ALIGN Kumar Amarnath ............................................................................... The New School Haiti Rising: Dessalines Fight Back 1.99 Haiti Liberte Nat Wood, Chair .................................... Nat Wood Show MNN Public Televison Kim Ives ............................................................................... Haiti Liberte Newspaper Ray Laforest .. Haiti Support Netwrk,Black Lives Matter Dominican Republican Colia Clark .......... Guadeloupe Haiti Committee, Judiciail Violence Symposium Charles Pitts ...... Connecting the Dots Harambee Radio, Judicial Violence Sym Short and Long-Term Prospects for Twenty-First Century Latin American Leftist Governments 1.101 Steve Ellner, Chair ........................................ Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela) Peter Ranis ...................................................................... Graduate Center of CUNY Emelio Betances .......................................................................... Gettysburg College Linda Farthing ........................................................... Andean Information Network Alex Main US–Cuba Relations Today: Fighting for Real, Full Normalization 1.103 Gail Walker, Chair ............................................................. IFCO/Pastors for Peace Ike Nahem ........................................................................................ July 26 Coalition Frank Velgara .................................................. New York Cuba Solidarity Project Estela Vazquez Rosemari Mealy Revisiting the Grenada Revolution, 1979–1983 1.105 Clyde Robertson, Chair ............................................................ Tuskegee University Obasegun Awolabi .............................................................. Medgar Evers College Godfrey Vincent ........................................................................ Tuskegee University The Frankfurt School and Religion 1.107 Critical Research on Religion Warren S. Goldstein, Chair ...................................................... Harvard University Eduardo Mendieta .................................................................. Penn State University Christopher Craig ................................................. Brittain University of Aberdeen Matt Sheedy ......................................................................... University of Manitoba Successes and Challenges in Developing a Pedagogy From Below 1.108 George Ygarza, Chair ........................................................... NJ Grassroots Action Zellie Imani Tanaisa Brown ....................................................................... Newark Student Union Lisa Thompson Rage and Rebellion Requires a Vision 1.109 Zeitgeist Media Harry Cason, Chair ........................................................... College of Staten Island Michael Havok ...................................................................................... Zeitgeist NYC Kenneth Fernandez Stuart Dambrot ......................................................................................... Transinopia Kyle Hicks ............................................................................. United Citizens of Earth What Does a Just Transition Look Like? How Do We Get There? 1.87 Carl Lundgren, Chair ......................................................................................... SDIPN Catherine Skopic .......................................... SDIPN Legislative Committee, Chair; People’s Climate Movement Susan Shapiro ............................................................... Attorney, Hito–Shapiro Law Sean Sweeney ....................................................................... CUNY Murphy Institute SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 32 The New York State Nurses Association and its 39,000 members are fighting for a Single Payer, Medicare for All healthcare system in the U.S. Join the fight! Patients Over Profits! NYSNA salutes the Left Forum 2016 and its commitment to social and economic equality The New York State Nurses Association and its nysna.org nynurses @nynurses

Katrina to Ayotzinapa: People’s Tribunals Condemn Crimes Against the People

Joelle Eliza Lingat, Chair Student National Vice President, NLG
Azadeh Shahshahani Legal and Advocacy Director, Project South & Former President, NLG
Bernadette Ellorin Chairperson, BAYAN USA
Bina Ahmad Public Defender, Legal Aid Society and Former National Vice President, NLG
Gill Boehringer Former Head of Law School, Macquarie University & Permanent Peoples Tribunal

Democracy at Work: Organizing Direct Action at the Local Level

Occupy the Commons: Towards a Rational, Peaceful, Bloodless and Effective Revolution for Social Justice, Economic Equity and Human Liberation 1.73 Georgist Economic Taskforce – Georgist Institute for Value-Based Economics Yannis Tziligakis, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Taskforce Marty Rowland PhD ................................................................. PE, NYC Parks, HGS Fred Harrison ........................ Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation The International Working Class: Organizations and Struggles 1.76 Stephanie McMillan, Chair ................................................. Proletarian Alternative Immanuel Ness Kiki Makandal ................................................. Batay Ouvriye Solidarity Network Kim Scipes .................................................................... Purdue University Northwest Community Mobilization and Cultural Pluralism in Working-Class Neighborhoods: Leonard Covello (1887-1982) and CommunityCentered Education in East Harlem 1.92 Vito Marcantonio Forum Gil Fagiani, Chair .............................................................. Vito Marcantonio Forum Gerald Meyer .................................................................... Vito Marcantonio Forum Simone Cinotto .............................................................. Universita di Pollenzo, Italy Roberto Ragone ................................................................. Vito Marcantonio Forum GCAS and the Construction of a Future Democracy 1.63 Creston Davis, Chair .......................................................................................... GCAS Sigrid Hackenberg ............................................................................................ GCAS Eleni Xilakis ......................................................................................................... GCAS Mountain View Program — Reverse the School to Prison Pipeline by Sending Prisoners to College 1.65 Boris Franklin, Chair ..................................................................... Rutgers University Danny Murillo ................................................................................ Rutgers University Nafeesah Goldsmith .................................................................... Rutgers University Ivelisse Gilestra ............................................................................. Rutgers University Students: Bring the No More Stolen Lives Tour to Campus! NORTH HALLBUILDING 2513 Steve Yip, Chair ................................................. Stop Mass Incarceration Network Nicholas Heyward Sr. ....................... Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Foundation Noche Diaz ............................................................................... NYC Revolution Club Travis Morales .................................................... Stop Mass Incarceration Network Hawa Bah .......................................................................... Mother of Mohamed Bah Hertencia Petersen ................................................................... Aunt of Akai Gurley The Movement for Single Payer Health Care Justice in a Pivotal Election Year 1.91 Martha Livingston, Chair ............... Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter Adam Gaffney Mark Dudzic ..................................................... Labor for Single Payer Campaign Ben Day ......................................................................................... Healthcare-NOW! Gloria Mattera ....................................................................................... Green Party Judy Gonzalez ................................................ New York State Nurses Association Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City 1.77 Progressive Planning Tom Angotti, Chair ............................... Hunter College and Progressive Planning Peter Marcuse ............................................................................. Columbia University Sylvia Morse Samuel Stein ....................................................................... CUNY Graduate Center Andrew Padilla .................................................................................... El Barrio Tours Josmar Trujillo SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 34 The Life and Work of Maria Victoria Maldonado 1.90 Deep Dish TV DeeDee Halleck, Chair .................... Deep Dish Network, Paper Tiger Television Mario Murillo ......................................................... WBAI Radio, Hofstra University Irene Sosa ........................................................................................ Brooklyn College The Future of Europe and the European Left 1.113 Transform! European Network For Alternative Thinking And Political Dialogue Walter Baier, Chair ...................................................................... Transform! Europe Luciana Castellina .......................................................................... Il Manifesto, Italy Leo Panitch ....................................................................................... Socialist Register Haris Golemis ...................................................... Syriza, Nicos Poulantzas Institute Dominic Heilig ........................................................................... Die LINKE, Germany The US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and War in the “Middle East” NORTH HALLBUILDING 2507 Bill Dores, Chair ...................................................................................................... IAC Lamis Deek ......................... Al Awda NY the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, US Palestinian Community Network, National Lawyer Ayman Sayed ......................................................................... Existence is Resistance Abayomi Azikiwe ................................................... Editor, Pan African News Wire, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice Kazem Azin ........................ Solidarity Iran, United National Antiwar Committee Deep State: 9/11 — An Ecumenical Approach NORTH HALLBUILDING 2505 Frank Tolopko, Chair Barbara Honegger ............................................................ Independent Researcher Wayne Madsen .................................................................. Wayne Madsen Report Kevin Barrett ...................................................................................... Veterans Today Toward a Revival of the U.S. Anti-War Movement NORTH HALLBUILDING 2511 Stanley Heller, Chair ..................................................... Promoting Enduring Peace Nidal Bitari Ashley Smith Dan Fischer ...................................................................... Capitalism vs. The Climate Medea Benjamin ........................................................................................ CODEPINK

Intifada in America: The History of the Palestine Left in the United States

Dan Cione, Chair New York City Students for Justice in Palestine
Suzanne Adely Labor for Palestine
Nerdeen Kiswani New York City Students for Justice in Palestine
Mohammed Nabulsi Palestine Solidarity Committee (Austin)

One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel

Julia Willebrand, Chair .......................................................... US Green Party and OWS Alternative Banking Group Justine McCabe ................................................................................. US Green Party Lenni Brenner COINTELPRO 2016: The New Age of Active Measures by the Post-9/11 National Security State NORTH HALLBUILDING 2512 twsp.us Webster Tarpley, Chair .......................................... United Front Against Austerity Daniela Walls ................................................. Chairperson, Tax Wall Street Party Dylan Shelton ......................................................................... Tax Wall Street Party Spring and Fall Semesters  Intensive Arabic at INLAC  Courses on North Africa and the Middle East covering: Politics, Islam, Gender, Migration, History and Society, Literature, Linguistics, Translation, Contemporary Issues, Social Movements Summer Intensive Arabic  From 3 to 12 weeks  Summer I starts May 20  Summer II starts June 3 INLAC also offers homestays, excursions, volunteer work, and many cultural and social activities. Our services are customized. Our staff and faculty are dedicated professors and instructors who are highly competent and skilled in their fields. Contact: International Institute for Languages & Cultures (INLAC) 7bis Derb Ben Abdejlil, Ziat Fez Médina, Fez, Morocco Tel/Fax: +(0)535 63 63 84; Email: info@inlac.net Specializing in Arabic, North African, & Middle Eastern studies For further details, please visit www.inlac.net LUNCH 2:00 – 3:30PM 35 LUNCH 2:00PM – 3:30PM LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:30PM L.63 (LECTURE HALL) RAGE, REBELLION, REVOLUTION, AND SONG RYAN HARVEY & KAREEM SAMARA (BALTIMORE/LONDON) SON OF NUN (BALTIMORE) BELL’S ROAR (ALBANY) LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:30PM L.76 (LECTURE HALL) EASTER RISING — SONGS OF FREEDOM FEATURING: MAT CALLAHAN AND YVONNE MOORE SPONSORED BY: PM PRESS SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 36

SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 37 SESSION 3 3:30PM – 5:15PM A Father Perspective on Police Terrorism Against Children of Color: Aberrations or Everyday Occurrences? L2.84 Keith Beauchamp, Chair ...................................... Till Freedom Come Productions; Executive Producer and Host of The Injustice Files Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson ................................... Love Not Blood Campaign Ron Davis ............................................................................ Jordan Davis Foundation Andrew Joseph .............................................................. Andrew Joseph Foundation Nicolas Heyward ............. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Memorial Foundation Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. .............................................. Families United for Justice; Westchester Coalition for Police Reform (WCPR), A Dialogue on Israel and Palestine With Tariq Ali and Norman Finkelstein L2.85 Paul Jay, Chair ................................................................... The Real News Network Tariq Ali Norman Finkelstein Revolution in Rojava… and New York? L.76 Green Party of New York State Howie Hawkins, Chair ............................................................................ Green Party Debbie Bookchin Chiah Heller .................................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Michael O’Neil ........................................................................................ Green Party Richard Levins: Dialectics, Nature, and Society L2.81 Monthly Review John Bellamy Foster, Chair ................................ Monthly Review Editorial Board, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon Brett Clark ........................................... Sociology Department, University of Utah Tamara Awerbuch Friedlander Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health Martha Livingston ............ Professor, Chair, Public Health, SUNY Old Westbury Physicians for a National Health Program Debate: The Left and the Sanders Campaign L2.82 Bryan Koulouris, Chair ............................................................... Socialist Alternative Jen Roesch ................................................................................................................ ISO Philip Locker ................................................................................ Socialist Alternative Transinopia: A Technology-Based Post-Scarcity Community Prototype 8.61 Transinopia Stuart Mason Dambrot, Chair ................................................................ Transinopia Harry Cason ....................................................................... College of Staten Island Clark Matthews Stuart Baran THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 3:30–5:15PM BLACK BOX THEATER POETIC JUSTICE: AN AFTERNOON OF EMANCIPATORY LYRICS HOSTED BY SHAYLA COOK FEATURING: SHAYLA COOK, BOCA FLOJA, ROXANA MARROQUIN, MATT SEDILLO, THE PEACE POETS, AND PEERS EDUCATING PEERS SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 38 Abdullah Majid Hugo Pinell Phil AAica WWashitwe MMdo Eyen we Langa Luis V. Rodriguez Oscc WashingtM Sundiata Sadiq HHman Wallace SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 39 Crisis of Neoliberalism and Opportunities for the Left 8.67 Union for Radical Political Economics Al Campbell, Chair ...................................... Union for Radical Political Economics Robert Chernomas ............................................................... University of Manitoba Ricardo Fuentes-Ramírez ............................ University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez David Kotz .................................................... University of Massachusetts, Amherst Animal Liberation Strategies in the Face of Indifference and Repression 8.69 Joan Harrison, Chair Karen Davis .......................................................................... United Poultry Concerns Donny Moss .............................................................................................. TheirTurn.net Raffaella Ciavatta ......................................................................... Collectively Free Benjamin Haas ..................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY What Can/Should We Inherit From the French Revolution? 8.72 Donald Nicholson Smith, Chair ................................................................... PM Press Howard Swerdloff ............................................... College of Staten Island, CUNY John Galbraith Simmons Christopher Winks Fukushima on the Hudson: The Risks Posed by Governmental Negligence at Indian Point 1.114 Alison Rose Levy, Chair ....................................... Alternet, Ecowatch, TomDispatch Ellen Cantarow ........................................................................................ TomDispatch Paul Blanch ............................................................. Independent Energy Consultant Nancy Vann .................................................................... Safe Energy Rights Group What Has Happened to “Leftist Theology” and What Has This Got to Do With Political Prisoners in the Day of the “Trumpocalypse” and the Trump/Clinton/Obama Triumvirate? 1.129 Ralph Poynter, Chair .................................................... New Abolitionist Movement Lynne Stewart ............................ lynnestewart.org & New Abolitionist Movement Jess Sundin ........................................................................... NYC Jericho Movement Anne Lamb ........................................................................... NYC Jericho Movement Pam Africa ............................................................. Free Mumia Coalition, MOVE 9 Razakhan Shaheed ..................................................... Nationtime Judicial Res., Inc. Free Mumia Coalition, MOVE 9 Tom Siracuse ................................................... Green Party – Manhattan Chapter Ramona Africa ....................................................... Free Mumia Coalition, MOVE 9 Joel Meyers ................................ lynnestewart.org & New Abolitionist Movement Revolt Art Movements and Their Social Impact Then and Now 3.80 Ayala Leyser, Chair ...................... International Marxist Humanist Organization Milena Popov ................................................. Adjunct Professor Sustainability and Environmental Justice Minor Jane Feigenbaum ........................................................................ Code Pink, NY/NJ Grassroots Leadership & The Arts for Social Change 3.81 International Leadership Association Susan Erenrich, Chair ..................................... Cultural Center for Social Change; International Leadership Association; Peoples’ Voice Cafe Terry Leonino ..................................................... Magpie, A Husband & Wife Duet In The Topical Song Tradition Greg Artzner ..................................................... Magpie, A Husband & Wife Duet In The Topical Song Tradition Representations of Terrorism and State Terrorism in Film: Algeria, India, South Africa, USA, and ISIS Territories 3.78 Fabiola Salek, Chair ................................................................ York College, CUNY Aegina Barnes ........................................................................... York College, CUNY Zohra Saad ................................................................................ York College, CUNY Mychel Namphy ........................................................................ York College, CUNY Film Screening: Groundwork 3.79 Milena Velis, Chair India Spring? Maybe for Dalits Too, Finally! 1.85 Bronislaw Czarnocha, Chair ..................................................................... Hostos CC Immanuel Ness ............................................................................... Brooklyn C. CUNY Swati Sawant ........ Program Director, International Commission for Dalit Rights Intellectual Engagement, the Black Radical Imagination & Ta-Nehesi Coates 1.66 The Brotherwise Dispatch Don Jackson, Chair .......................... The Brotherwise Dispatch, The Indypendent Nicholas Powers ...................................... The Indypendent, SUNY Old Westbury Rhone Fraser ......................................................................... Howard University and Paul Robeson House in West Philadelphia A. Shahid Stover .............................................................. The Brotherwise Dispatch SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 40 University Press of Kansas Phone (785) 864-4155 • Fax (785) 864-4586 • www.kansaspress.ku.edu “This thoughtful study expertly dissects the ‘bullying scourge’ that poisons lives and society, exposing its roots in the institutional structure of a ‘militaristic capitalist culture’ that it reflects and nurtures, while also revealing the encouraging reactions that may offer cures for the malady and the factors that engender it.” —Noam Chomsky “A canny and sobering look at bullying behavior and how it permeates our nation’s major institutions. When children do it, we abhor it. When our leaders do it, we usually applaud it. The authors remind us.”—Oliver Stone “Bully Nation is the most comprehensive analysis of bullying yet published. It is a brilliant book that refuses to define bullying as merely a psychological concept. Instead, it addresses in great detail the interplay of bullying as having its roots in a range of historical, economic, political, and social conditions. This is a powerful and compelling book that addresses one of the most important social problems of our time. It should be read by all educators, parents, and anyone else interested in a world free of aggression and violence. Bully Nation deserves widespread attention.”—Henry Giroux, author of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism “Clear and compelling. Its case for shifting our focus from individual schoolyard bullies to power imbalances in American society is badly needed in current discussions of bullying. A brilliant example of the sociological imagination at work.”—Daniel Geary, author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy 288 pages, Cloth $24.95, Ebook $24.95 Bully Nation How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society Charles Derber and Yale Magrass SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 41 Comfort Women: Asian Women Fight Back to Challenge History and Claim Our Future 1.67 Grace Balbutin, Chair ...................... Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Suzanne Jay ....................................... Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Olivia Canlas ................................................................................................... AF3IRM Yoko Oikawa ..................................... Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Jewish Noir: A New Anthology of Short Stories 1.69 PM Press Kenneth Wishnia, Chair ........................................................... Professor of English, Suffolk Community College, Long Island, NY Steven Wishnia .......................................................................... Freelance journalist Sanders’ Politics and the Path to Socialism 1.71 Socialism and Democracy Victor Wallis, Chair ........................................................ Socialism and Democracy Stephen Ferguson ................................................ North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Johanna Fernandez .............................................................. Baruch College, CUNY Michael Joseph Roberto ..................................... North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Resistance in Prisons for Immigrants 1.81 My N. Le, Chair ........................................................ Student, CUNY School of Law Fahd Ahmed ....................................................................................................... DRUM Abraham Paulos ...................................................................... Families for Freedom Azadeh N. Shahshahani ....................................................................... Project South Transcending Material Scarcity 1.82 Synergetic Binary Economics Harold Channer, Chair ........................................... Manhattan Neighbor Network Ted Schulman Jerry Spivack ......................................... Columbia University, The United Nations, The World Future Society Criminal Justice Reform, or Justice Denied? 1.83 William Martin, Chair ........................................................... Binghamton University Andrew Pragacz .................................................................... Binghamton University Zhandarka Kurti ..................................................................... Binghamton University Luis Gonzalez ................................................................................ Rutgers University Kevin Revier ............................................................................ Binghamton University Chungse Jung .......................................................................... Binghamton University Young Women Against Hillary’s Corporate Agenda 1.93 Socialist Alternative Meghan B., Chair ....................................................................... Socialist Alternative Kelly Bellin Elma Relihan ............................................................... 15 Now, Socialist Alternative Capitalism’s Right Turn: From Far Right Populism to Authoritarian Neoliberal State 1.100 Socialist Register Leo Panitch, Chair ........................................................................... Socialist Register Greg Albo ........................................................................................ Socialist Register Walter Baier ................................................................. Transform Network, Europe Doug Henwood Nicole Aschoff .................................................................... Johns Hopkins University Barbara Epstein .................................... History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz South Africa Today: Liberation or Economic Apartheid? L2.80 Socialist Action Newspaper Christine Marie, Chair ........................................................................ Socialist Action Marty Goodman ........................................................... Socialist Action newspaper Patrick Bond ........................................ Centre for Civil Society in Durban (UKZN) Glen Ford ................................................................................. Black Agenda Report Reprimarization: Implications for the Environment and Development 1.115 Union for Radical Political Economics; Capitalism, Nature Socialism Paul Cooney, Chair .............................................................................................. URPE Terisa Turner ............................................................................. University of Guelph Terran Giacomini ...................................................................... University of Toronto The Climate Justice Moment: A Movement of Movements 1.117 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Stefanie Ehmsen, Chair ................... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Aurash Khawarzad ............................................. We Act for Environmental Justice Sean Petty ........................................................ New York State Nurses Association Heather Milton ............................................................................................ Lightening Tadzio Mueller ...................................................... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin Colombian Peace Talks: What Are the Unresolved Issues Between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government? 1.99 Toward Freedom Juan Carlos Vallejo, Chair Director Humanitarian Law Peace and Democracy Ani Diesselmann ........................................................................................ Amerika21 Alexandra Nariño ........................ Peace Delegation FARC-EP in Havana, Cuba SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 42 The Centrality of Care, Affect, Trust and Love in Movement(s) 1.101 Camilo Azzellini Sitrin, Chair Marcela Olivera Marina Sitrin Liz Mason-Deese Cuba — Political and Economic Reforms for 21st Century Socialism 1.103 Socialism and Democracy Peter Roman, Chair .......................................... Hostos Community College/CUNY Editorial Board of Socialism and Democracy Keith Bolender ...................... University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Gabriel Vignoli ................. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School/Cuba International Field Program Rafael Hernandez ............................................................................................ TEMAS Greece/EU/USA/BRICS/Middle East: Who’s the Current Greek Government Working For? 1.105 Georgist Economic Taskforce Yannis Tziligakis, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Taskforce Fred Harrison ........................ Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation Helga Zepp-Larouche ....................................................................... Schiller Institute Nikos Alexiou .............................................................. Queens College, SYRIZA-NY A Brief History Of The Future 1.107 Peter LaVenia, Chair ........................................... Green Party of New York State Steve Breyman ........................................................ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Byron Harmon ....................................................... New School for Social Research Marx on the Civil War and Reconstruction After 150 Years: Race, Capital, and Revolution 1.108 Susan Kang Andrew Zimmerman Kevin Anderson August H. Nimtz Politics of Life in the Age of the Anthropocene 1.109 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Bruno Gullì, Chair ............................... Kingsborough Community College, CUNY Federico Luisetti ........................................................... Professor of Italian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Joost de Bloois ................................................................... University of Amsterdam Dept. Literary Studies/Cultural Analysis Miriam Tola .......................................................................... Northeastern University WORLD ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION www.worldeconomicsassociation.org/books/ Richard Smith contends that the there is no possible solution to our global ecological crisis within the framework of any conceivable capitalism. The only alternative to market-driven planetary collapse is to transition to a largely planned, mostly publicly-owned economy based production for need, on democratic governance and rough socio-economic equality, and on contraction and convergence between the global North and South. “Smith brings an impressive command of economics and an engaging conversational style of writing. He explains and illustrates with devastating clarity the key mechanisms of capitalism that force it to grow unendingly ... In the final two chapters, Smith outlines ecological constraints necessary for any post-capitalist economy and describes ecosocialist alternatives to capitalism. The necessary changes are staggering ... To that end he outlines a number of attractive and attainable features of an ecosocialist society. – David Klein director of the Climate Science Program at California State University and author of Capitalism and Climate Change “Everyone who cares about the future of our children and grandchildren must read Smith’s book.” – David Suzuki WEA BOOKS PRESENTS SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 43 “Liberation of the People — The Pathology of Power”: Keys to Freeing Ourselves From Enslavement by the Socio-Economically Powerful 1.87 stopna.org/stop-science Leonard Burg, Chair ................. STOP The Destruction of the World Association Susan Berkley ............................ STOP The Destruction of the World Association Richard James ........................... STOP The Destruction of the World Association The Summoning I: Citizen Accountability Purge of Congress, President, & Supreme Court / National Strike During November Election 1.89 Tikkun Magazine Zevin X. Cruz, Chair .............................................. Society of the Third Millennium Amoreena Tellaeche ............................................. Society of the Third Millennium Leonel Alfonso Tellaeche ...................................... Society of the Third Millennium Humanity At Work: Mondragon Worker Cooperatives Network 1.75 David Schwartzman, Chair .............................. DC Metro Science for the People Younes Parsa Benab ............................... Iranian Left Alliance of Washington DC Bahram Zandi .................................................................................... Green Party US Class Struggle Not Class Collaboration: Rebuilding the Labor Movement 1.73 Labor Today Angelo D’Angelo, Chair ...................................... Labor United for Class Struggle Daniel Villa ........................................................... Labor United for Class Struggle John Dennie ...................................... Organizer, American Postal Workers’ Union Mahoma Lopez ................................................ Hot & Crusty Workers Association Worker Control: Experiences & Perspectives from the Occupied Factories of Argentina 1.76 Left Voice Valeria Molina, Chair ................................................................................. Left Voice Raul Godoy .................................................................... Left & Workers’ Front (FIT), Socialist Workers’ Party (PTS) – Argentina Juan Ferre ..................................................................................................... Left Voice The War on Refugees 1.92 William Westerman, Chair ......................................... New Jersey City University Sally Pillay ...................................................................... First Friends of NJ and NY Nasim Lomani Danielle Hlatky .......................................... U.S. volunteer on the island of Lesbos Ali Jamal .................................................................................... human rights activist Now in Vol. 80! Science & Society A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis 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. Recent and forthcoming Special Issues: RED ON BLACK: Marxist Encounters with Anarchism, ed. John P. Pittman ● SOCIALIZING PHILOSOPHY, ed. Russell Dale and Justin Holt ● CRISES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF CAPITALISM, ed. Eduardo Albuquerque and Alex Callinicos www.scienceandsociety.com Subs: info@guilford.com SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 44 Bully Nation: How Militaristic Capitalism Creates A Bullying Society 1.63 Yale Magrass, Chair ............................... University Of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Charles Derber Marcia Newfield Building a New Student Left 1.65 International Socialist Organization Bennet Wilcox, Chair ............................... Barnard Columbia Solidarity Network Cami Quarta ..................................................................... Columbia University ISO Sean Larson .............................................................. NYU Graduate Student Union Thaer Keesh ......................................... Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Moving to a Net Zero Living Space 1.61 Catherine Skopic, Chair ......................... People’s Climate Movement-New York; Shut Down Indian Point Now Michael Vandenbergh ...................................... Vanderbilt University Law School Ryan Madden ..................................................... Long Island Progressive Coalition Report from the British Junior Doctors’ Strikes: A Conversation on the Role of Organized Labor in Progressive Health Policy Change 1.91 Roona Ray, Chair ....................................................................................... SEIU 1199 Johann Malawana ........ Junior Doctors’ Committee, British Medical Association Matthews Hurley ........................................ 1st Vice President of Doctors’ Council Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez .............................. New York State Nurses Association Mark Dudzic .............................................. The Labor Campaign for Single Payer Lanny Smith ................................................ Founder, Liberation Medicine Counsel;

Board Member, Doctors for Global Health

Land Trusts and Perpetually Affordable Housing 1.77 Walter South, Chair .................................................. Trust for Affordable Housing Peter Marcuse ............................................................................. Columbia University Tom Angotti ......................................................................................... Hunter Collage The Internet: Stopping the War on Women 1.90 Melanie Bush, Chair ........................... International Network of Scholar/Activists Alice Aguilar ........................................................... Progressive Technology Project Erika Smith ........................................ Association for Progressive Communications Elandria Williams ........................................................................ Highlander Center Manisha Desai .......................... University of Connecticut, May First/People Link One Year of the SYRIZA-ANEL Government in Greece: The Perspective of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) 1.113 Marxism-Leninism Today.com Greg Godels, Chair .............................................. M-L Today.com Editorial Board Kostas Papadakis .................................................... Greek Communist Party (KKE) Kostas Pateras .......................................................... Greek Communist Party (KKE) Progressive news and analysis since 1924 We take sides. Yours. .org SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 45 No to NATO! No to War! 1.123 Jackie Cabasso, Chair ...................................................................... Peace & Planet Bahman Azad ............................................................................... U.S. Peace Council Joseph Gerson ................ American Friends Service Committee, Peace & Planet Deep State: COINTELPRO Post-9/11 — First They Came for the Muslims NORTH HALLBUILDING 2505 Zarinah Shakir, Chair ....................................................... Perspectives of Interfaith Mauri Saalakhan ............................................. The Peace Thru Justice Foundation Taalib-Din Shakir Robert Boyle ....................................................................... National Lawyers Guild Machiavelli, Gramsci, & Islamic States 1.124 Piruz Alemi, Chair ..................... Faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (Dept of Public Administration) Madiha Babar .................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice MPA program Daniel Romagnoli ......................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice Elijah Rodriguez ......................................... John College of Criminal Justice, MPA Kris Rampersad ................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice MPA Olayinka Oki ................................................ John Jay College of Criminal Justice Maygoo Bhojranie ....................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice Silencing Dissent: False Accusations of AntiSemitism Against Palestine Solidarity 1.119 David Letwin, Chair ....................................... Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Lamis Deek ......................... Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Radhika Sainath ................................................................................. Palestine Legal Mohammed Nabulsi ............................ Palestine Solidarity Committee, UT Austin Imperialism, Counter-Revolution, and Conflict in the Middle East 1.121 International Socialist Review Yusef Khalil, Chair .................................................... International Socialist Review Ella Wind Michael Schwartz ................................................. Professor at SUNY Stony Brook Ashley Smith ............................................................... International Socialist Review Anand Gopal The Destruction of the Republicans as a National Party – An Agenda for United States Political Reform 1.125 United Front Against Austerity/ Tax Wall Street Party Webster Tarpley, Chair .......................................... United Front Against Austerity Daniela Walls ............................................................. Chair, Tax Wall Street Party Dylan Shelton ......................................................................... Tax Wall Street Party THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 5:20–7:10PM BLACK BOX THEATER COMEDY SHOW: WHO SAYS THE LEFT HAS NO SENSE OF HUMOR? FEATURING: RANDY CREDICO, JOHN FUGELSANG AND RHONDA HANSOME SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM 46 SESSION 4 5:20PM – 7:10PM Mother’s Pain, Rage, and Rebellion Is Fueling the Black Lives Matter Movement in 21st Century L2.84 Dayvee Sutton, Chair .......................................................... Dream Network Media Krystal Brown .............................................................................. Team Marlon Brown Marian Tolan ...................................................................... Robbie Tolan Foundation Danetta Chavis ................. National Action Against Police Brutality and Murder Hawa Bah ............................................................. The Mohammad Bah Foundation Chevara Orrin ........................... EQ3 Media; co-creator, We Are Straight Allies Randi Gloss .................................................................. The “Stay Woke” Collection Psyching Out the Election L2.85 Critical Sociology Roger Salerno, Chair ......................................................................... Pace University Harriet Fraad ....................................................... Psychotherapist-Private Practice Lauren Langman ........................................................ Loyola University of Chicago Michael Bader ..................................... San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis/ The Institute4Change Big Money on Campus — Rigging the Academy and American Criminal Justice System L.76 James Vrettos, Chair ............................ John Jay College Sociology Department Delores Jones-Brown ..................................................................... John Jay College James Gilligan ................................................ New York University School of Law Carl Hart ..................................... Columbia University – Psychology Departmnet Rev. Dr. William Barber .................................................................................. NAACP Felipe Coronel Immortal Technique .............................................................................. Viper Records Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century L2.81 Monthly Review John Bellamy Foster, Chair ................................ Monthly Review editorial board; Department of Sociology, University of Oregon John Smith ................................................................... Monthly Review Press author Hannah Holleman ............................................................................ Amherst College Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz ................ Professor Emerita, California State University Intan Suwandi ................................ University of Oregon, Sociology Department SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM 47 The International Dimensions of Black Lives Matter L2.82 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Kazembe Balagun, Chair ............... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Wail Qasim ........... London Coalition Against Police Brutality (United Kingdom) Jessica De Abreu ................... European Network of People of African Descent Autumn Griffin ........................................... Black Lives Matter, New York Chapter Mediations in the Transition Beyond Capital 8.61 Monthly Review Kim Koo, Chair ........................................................................... Racial Justice Group Anne Pomeroy .............................................................. Professor of Philosophy and leader in the teacher’s union Irv Kurki ........................................................................................ essential discussions Thomas Paine, Henry George: Two Patriots, Common Adversaries of Monopoly 8.67 Kim Baxter, Chair ......................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice Marty Rowland ....................................... Henry George School of Social Science Victor Madeson ..................................................... Thomas Paine Friends & Bulletin Vincent Stravino .......................................................................... Veterans for Peace Phillip Reiss ................................................................................... Veterans for Peace Jacobin and Animal Liberation: Interrogating the Speciesist Left 8.69 John Sanbonmatsu, Chair ........... Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Pattrice Jones ...................................................................... Vine Sanctuary, Vermont Robert Jones ........................................................ California State University, Chico Now You See Me: Looking in the Face of Abuse 8.72 Devin Thornburg, Chair ................................................................ Adelphi University Dariann Rickerson ......................................................................... Adelphi University Jenna Szabo .................................................................................. Adelphi University Isuri Wijesundara .......................................................................... Adelphi University Hugo Salazar ................................................................................ Adelphi University Angela Morales ............................................................................ Adelphi University Jennifer Krol .................................................................................. Adelphi University Precious Sahagun .......................................................................... Adelphi University Harneet Gulati .............................................................................. Adelphi University Rob Goldman ................................................................................ Adelphi University Education Is, Has Always Been, and Always Will Be a Political Issue! 1.129 Ralph Poynter, Chair .................................................... New Abolitionist Movement Lynne Stewart ............................ lynnestewart.org & New Abolitionist Movement Tom Siracuse ...................................................... Green Party, Manhattan Chapter Betty Davis ....................... New Abolitionist Movement, Coalition to Free Mumia Kangela Moore ................................................................ College of New Rochelle, Youth & Educ. Cmmtte-Cm.Bd. #13 Cheryl Ford ....................................................................... College of New Rochelle Mary Adams ....... The Community Task Force on School Climate, Rochester, NY Ricardo Adams ........................ Building Leadership and Community Knowledge Writing Our Rebellion: A NY Writers Coalition Workshop 3.80 Maritza Arrastia, Chair .......................................................... NY Writers Coalition Rose Gorman ............................................................................ NY Writers Coalition Elena Schwolsky Using Science Fiction as an Organizing Tool 3.81 Joe Carraha, Chair Vagabond Beaumont Jelani Wilson Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. In America — A Screening of a Documentary in Progress and Group Discussion 3.78 Hidden River Publishing, 2255 Films Debra Leigh Scott, Chair ................................................................... Junct Rebellion Chris LeBree ................................................................................................ 2255 Films John Raines ...................................................................................... Temple University Rich Murphy ..................................................................................... Rich Murphy INK Lee Kottner .......................................................................................................... CUNY Gordon Haber .................................................................................. Dutch Kills Press Film Screening: Dia de Festa 3.79 Laura Belik, Chair China: the Politics of Peaceful Rising in an Environment of Collusion and Contention 1.85 Gary Hicks, Chair ..................................... Artworks for the People, Berkeley, CA David Ewing Duncan McFarland Norman Markowitz SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM 48 IROQUOIS PROMOTIONS, LLC. is proud to sponsor and participate in THE LEFT FORUM Iroquois Promotions is a company providing speakers and panelists as well as producing events and audio production to advocate for Native issues and concerns. The “Let’s Talk Native… with John Kane” radio show, now entering it 7th year, is produced in association with Iroquois Promotions at our studio on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. For more information contact John Kane at 716 -864-8462 or at jmkane1220@aol.com MONICA MOOREHEAD for U.S. president & LAMONT LILLY U.S. vice president JOHN PARKER For U.S. Senate, California Andre Powell and Sharon Black are leading activists in the People’s Power Assembly and Workers World Party in Baltimore. They plan to use their campaigns to promote the BLM movement and to demand that Baltimore put people’s interests before those of banks and big business. DISARM THE POLICE, Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) & PENTAGON STAND WITH THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT ABOLISH CAPITALISM – FIGHT FOR REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM What We Stand for. What We Fight For. Join us! For more information, contact: Moorehead/Lilly Campaign Manager TERESA GUTIÉRREZ at 917.740.2628 online: workers.org/wwp/ or email wwp2016@workers.org. Paid for by Workers World Party 2016 Presidential Campaign Committee SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM 49 Shut It Down! Black Struggle Class Struggle 1.66 Left Voice Alexis Toliver, Chair ............................................................ Founder of BLM Boston, Julia Wallace ................................... Left Voice, Struggles United/Luchas Unidas Ben Woods ............................................................................... Black Agenda Report Dan Georgakas ................................................................. Detroit, I Do Mind Dying The Doctrine of Discovery and the Legacy of Colonialism, Racism and the American Genocide 1.67 John Kane, Chair ............................... Mohawk radio host, speaker and columnist Ross John ....................................... Seneca Nation Councilor, Native Entrepreneur Peter d’Errico ....................................... Practicing Attorney and Professor of Law at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Melissa Cornick ....................................... Adjunct Professor at Adelphi University and Award Winning Television Journalist The Black Revolutionary Socialist Choice: Monica Moorehead for President 1.69 Workers World Teresa Gutierrez, Chair ........................................................ Workers World Party Monica Moorehead ............................................................... Workers World Party Lamont Lilly Erica Mines .......................................................... Philadelphia Coalition for Racial, Economic and Legal Justice Marcus Garvey 100 Years Later 1.71 Rhone Fraser, Chair ..................................................................... Howard University Jason Latty ........................................................... Caribbean Alliance For Equality Sharon Gordon ........................................................ Coalition to Preserve Reggae Frederic Bertley ................................................................................ Franklin Institute Saundra Gilliard-Davis ....................................................... Keepers of the Culture Inside the Activist Studio 1.81 Carlito Rovira, Chair ......................................... Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Sophia Williams ................................................. Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Jeff Camp ........................................................... Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Alyssa Roberts .................................................... Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Robyn Spencer ................................................... Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated 1.82 David Bliven, Chair ........................................ International Socialist Organization Sharonne Salaam ...................................... Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated Yusef Salaam ............................................. Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated Who Do You Serve? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States 1.83 Haymarket Books; Truthout Nisha Bolsey, Chair ........................................................................ Haymarket Books Aaron Miguel Cantú ....................................................................................... Truthout Eisa Ulen Richardson

nofilter: Candid Conversations About

Abortion Storytelling Work 1.93 Lauren Himiak, Chair ...................................................... The Sea Change Program Julia Reticker-Flynn ................................................................... Advocates for Youth Katie Morris .................................................................................... Speak Your Story Teal Cracraft .................................................................................. Speak Your Story Melissa Madera .......................................................................... The Abortion Diary Feminists Against Prostitution as a Tool of Imperialism: Promoting Sexualized Racism 1.100 Sarah Mah, Chair ............................. Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Charie Siddayao ............................................................ Philippine Women Centre Alice Lee ............................................. Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Nicole Matthews ............... Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition The Benchmarks of the Liberal Youth in the Context of a New Burkina ( Post Uprising ) L2.80 Harouna Bara, Chair ........... People Movement for the Progress – Burkina Faso Hassane Nonni ...................... People Movement for the Progress – Burkina Faso Assetou Kobre ...................... People Movement for the Progress – Burkina Faso Climate Change, Environmental Movements, and O´Connor´s Second Contradiction of Capitalism 1.115 URPE Paul Cooney, Chair ........... Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento/URPE David Schwartzman .................................................................... Howard University Joel Kupferman ....................................................... Environmental Justice Initiative Climate Refugees: The Point of No Return 1.117 Alexander Groskinsky, Chair ........................................... SUNY New Paltz Alumni Tyler Groskinsky ....................................................................................... Global Kids Gifty Abraham ......................................................................................... Global Kids SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM 50 The ELN and the Role of the Catholic Church in the Armed Conflict in Colombia 1.99 Toward Freedom Juan Carlos Vallejo, Chair Director Humanitarian Law Peace and Democracy Pablo Beltrán ....................................... Member of Central Command of the ELN Ani Diesselmann ............................................................. Member of amerika21.de Defending Human Rights in Venezuela: Impunity, Justice and Social Movements 1.101 Eva Golinger, Chair ........................................ Human rights lawyer and journalist Francisco Torrealba Two Members ...................................... Comite de las Victimas de los Guarimbas Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan ........................... President, National Lawyers Guild Co-ops in Socialist Cuba: A Major Social Change

Union for Radical Political Economics

Al Campbell, Chair Union for Radical Political Economics
Ricardo Fuentes-Ramirez University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Isaac Saney Dalhousie University

Che Guevara: A Critical Perspective 1.105 Haymarket Books Jason Farbman, Chair ................................................................... Haymarket Books Charles Post ................................................................................. Against the Current Samuel Farber American Utopia: A Realistic Goal? 1.107 Stephen James, Chair ........................................................... The Writers Collective Jack Moscou ............................................................................ The Writers Collective Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich ...................................................... The Writers Collective An Insoluble Crisis? 1.108 Critique, Journal of Socialist Theory Suzi Weissman, Chair .................................................. Saint Mary’s College of CA Michael Hudson ................................................ University of Missouri, Kansas City Yassamine Mather ............................................................................ Critique Journal Hillel Ticktin ........................................................... University of Glasgow, Scotland Talking About Revolution: Free Speech Under Fire 1.87 Theory in Action Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Chair ........................ University of Illinois, Springfield John Asimakopoulos ................................................... City University of New York Ali Zaidi ...................................................................... State University of New York Joel Nathan Rosen ........................................................................ Moravian College The Summoning II: Citizen Accountability Purge of Congress, President, & Supreme Court / National Strike During November Election 1.89 Tikkun Magazine Zevin X. Cruz, Chair .............................................. Society of the Third Millennium Amoreena Tellaeche ............................................. Society of the Third Millennium Alex Aloi .................................................................. Society of the Third Millennium Re-Orientation of Society to Meet the Needs of Human Beings and the Planet (Eco-Humanism) 1.75 Richard Hobbs, Chair ....................................................................... Human Agenda Derek Tennant .................................................................................... Human Agenda Dave Lippman The TPP, TTIP and the Continuing Free Trade Onslaught: The View From Canada 1.73 Holly Solomon, Chair ........................................................... Inter Pares, and rabble Leo Broderick ........................................................................... Council of Canadians Steven Shrybman ........................ Goldblatt Partners, the Council of Canadians, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policies Nathalie Guay ........................ Confédération des syndicats nationaux, Quebec Blair Redlin ............................................................................. Trade Justice Network Is Bernie Sanders Left Enough? Which Forward for his Supporters 1.76 Party of Communists USA George Gruenthal, Chair ................................................ Party of Communist USA Jessica Coco ....................................................................... Party of Communist USA Navjot Kaur ..................................................................... Bernie Sanders Campaign Moral Foundation of the Left: Accessing Limitless Power 1.92 Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter Glen Ganaway, Chair ........................................... Bearded Lady Productions LlC Abe Karl-Gruswitz ......................... Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter Caroline Woolard ........................................... OurGoods.org, TradeSchool.coop, BFAMFAPhd.com, NYCREIC.org DK Holland .................................................................. Greenehill Food COOP; TED John Stasio ............................................................ Easton Mountain Retreat Center Criminalization From CUNY to Community: Surveillance and Repression of Muslim and Arab Spaces 1.63 Nerdeen Kiswani, Chair ............ New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Fahd Ahmed Desis ................................................................. Rising Up and Moving Lamis Deek ............................................................................................... Al-Awda NY SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM 51 The Drug War From Anslinger and the War on Jazz, Thru Nixon and Reagan, AIDS, Medical Marijuana, Bush and Obama 1.65 The Yippie! Museum Dana Beal, Chair A.J. Weberman Paul DeRienzo Creating Spaces for Critique Inside Institutional Education 1.61 Erik Jacobson, Chair ....................................................... Montclair State University Adam Nathanson ............................................. Virginia Commonwealth University Andy Beutel ........................................................................... Mahwah School District Dismantling Racism in the NYC Health System 1.91 Kamini Doobay, Chair Alan Pean Aletha Maybank Neil Calman ..................................................................... Institute for Family Health Anthony Feliciano

New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative: A Positive Idea for New York’s Future

Ms. K. Samuels), Chair Steering Committee Member, New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative
Todd Arena Steering Committee Member, New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative
Oksana Mironova Steering Committee Member, New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative

Protect Yourself: Using Secure Software on the Internet

The Lessons of Syriza

We Are Not Your Soldiers: Learn to Talk Students Out of Signing Up for War

Stephanie Rugoff, Chair World Can’t Wait
Miles Megaciph US Marine Corps veteran
Lyle Rubin US Marine Corps Afghanistan veteran
Joe Urgo US Air Force Vietnam veteran

Deep State: Assassinations and Their Cover-Ups – Could a Left Consensus Promote Unity?

Labor 4 Palestine

Michael Letwin, Chair Former President, ALAA/UAW L. 2325 (NYC)
Suzanne Adely Global Workers Solidarity Network; Global Organizing Institute, UAW (NYC)
Clarence Thomas Million Worker March; ILWU Local 10, retired, Oakland CA
Jaime Veve Transport Workers Union Local 100, retired

Turkey’s Denial of the Armenian Genocide and the Question of Reparations

Beth Lamont, Chair ............................................................... Half Moon Foundation Levon Chorbajian ......................................................... University of Massachusetts Henry C. Theriault ....................................................... Worchester State University Anoush Ter Taulian .................................................................. Artsakh War Veteran Rejecting Oslo: Self-Determination and The One-State Solution 1.121 Aatika Al Bashir, Chair ............. New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Andrew G. ................................... New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Alexi Shalom ............................... New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Rawan Toom ................................ New York City Students for Justice in Palestine The Donald Trump Presidential Campaign: How to Fight the Rise of Fascism in Our Time 1.125 twsp.us Webster Tarpley, Chair ....................................... United Front Against Austerity/ Tax Wall Street Party Daniela Walls ............................................................. Chair, Tax Wall Street Party Kyle McCarthy .......................................................... United Front Against Austerity SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM 52 SATURDAY PLENARY 7:30PM – 9:30PM SATURDAY PLENARY 7:30–9:45PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL BLACK LIBERATION AND THE SANDERS GROUNDSWELL: PROSPECTS FOR LEFT UNITY SPEAKERS: KSHAMA SAWANT, AUGUST H. NIMTZ, AND DEBBIE BOOKCHIN KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR, MODERATOR/INTERLOCUTOR Brought to you by Firebrand Records and Mayday Space A Left Forum Concert Saturday May 21 at 8 PM Mayday Space 176 St Nicholas Ave, Brooklyn New York 11237 $8 Son of Nun (Baltimore) bell's roar (Albany) Ryan Harvey & Kareem Samara (Baltmore/London) Does the Sanders Campaign or Independent Campaigns Serve to Build the Left Howie Hawkins -- Green Party USA, Rukia Lumumba -- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, --Eljeer Hawkins Socialist Alternative, Khalid Raheem -- New Afrikan Independence Party, Jennifer Roesch -- International Socialist Organization of NY, Nnamdi Lumumba -- Ujima People Party Session 6 on Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm in Room L2.82 _________________________________ Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power?? Glen Ford Black Agenda Report Jill Stein Green Party Candidate for President Chris Hedges Author and Journalist for Truthdig Session 7 on Sun 03:40pm - 05:40pm in Room L2.82 Sponsored by the LEFTELECT COALITION leftelect.org SATURDAY PLENARY 7:30–9:45PM SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 53 SUNDAY 5/22 SESSION 5 10:00AM – 11:50AM Capitalism and Loneliness L2.84 Critical Sociology Ayala Leyser, Chair ............................................................ Out of Line Art Gallery Harriet Fraad ...................................................... Psychotherapist/Private Practice Michael Bader ....... San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, Institute4Change Roger Salerno .................................................................................... Pace University Shane Knight .............................................................................. Democracy at Work Tess Fraad ............................................................................... Living in Socialist USA Lauren Langman ........................................................ Loyola University of Chicago Climate Justice: Carbon Markets vs. Energy Democracy L2.85 Green Party of New York State Howie Hawkins, Chair ............................................................................ Green Party Sean Sweeney .............................................. Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Jill Stein .................................................................................................... Green Party Mark Dunlea ....................................................... Green Education and Legal Fund Leonard Rodberg ................................................................ Professor and Chair of Urban Studies at Queens College, CUNY So the Next Bernie Can Run as an Indie: The Ballots, the Dollars, and the Debates L.76 Michael O’Neil, Chair .................................................... Green Party of New York Johannes Epke ................................................................................... Move to Amend Ursula Rozum ................................................................... Green Party of New York Peter LaVenia .................................................................. Green Party of New York Comix International L2.81 World War 3 Illustrated Seth Tobocman, Chair ...................................................... World War 3 Illustrated Kate Evans Magdy El-Shafee Orijit Sen How Would Thomas Paine and Henry George Plan a Rebellion? L2.82 Thomas Paine Friends “Bulletin” Kim Baxter, Chair ............................................................ Montclair State University Victor Madeson .................................. Thomas Paine Friends, Veterans for Peace Vincent Stravino .......................................................................... Veterans for Peace Phillp Reiss ........................................... Thomas Paine Friends, Veterans for Peace Martin Rowland ...................................................................... Henry George School How Do We Build a Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality? 8.61 Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Scott Harris, Chair ............................... Between The LInes Radio Newsmagazine Les Leopold ................... Cofounder & Director, Labor Institute in New York City Richard Hill ............................................ Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Poetry for a New Order 8.67 Lisa Markuson, Chair ........................................................................ The Haiku Guys Paasha Motamedi .................. Poet Collaborator, Jazz Drummer, Photographer Carter Edwards ........................................ Director of Projects and Programming, Bowery Arts And Science Lea Díaz Nikhil Melnechuk ............................................................. Bowery Arts and Sciences Akil Apollo Davis ........................................................................................ LOUDSOL Animals, the Buddha, and the Left 8.69 Dharma Voices for Animals Kamil Ghoshal, Chair .................................................. Dharma Voices for Animals; Original Buddhism Society Emma Cobb ................................................................... Dharma Voices for Animals Bob Isaacson .................................................................. Dharma Voices for Animals Free Our Political Prisoners 8.72 Jennifer Meeropol, Chair ......................................... Rosenberg Fund for Children Lynne Stewart Ralph Poynter Kazi Toure Sekou Odinga Drunk on Wireless? Public Health Consequences of Cell Phone and Wireless Exposure 1.114 OccupyEMFHarm Camilla Rees, Chair ....................................................... ElectromagneticHealth.org David Carpenter ....................................................................... University at Albany Martin Pall .................................................................... Washington State University Duncan Campbell .............................................................. Living Dialogues/KGNU Martin Blank ........................................................... Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 54 Watch this powerful new documentary that reaches across the political and ideological divide. We need a better health care system! Sunday, May 22, 10 – 11:50 AM movie starts 10:15 AM Room 1.91 Join Associate Producer Chuck Pennacchio Dr. Walter Tsou, Health Care for All PA Dr. Larry Melniker, PNHP NY Metro Two years in the making, FIXIT looks at the increasing cost of US health care from a business perspective and offers a surprising remedy - single payer health care. Now free for download. Please disseminate widely. For more information: http://fixithealthcare.com SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 55 The Quebec Labor Movement Against the Liberal Agenda 1.129 Ethan Earle, Chair ............................................................. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Patrick Rondeau .......... Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec Nathalie Guay ........................................ Confédération des syndicats nationaux Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Community: Panel Discussion and Workshop — Part 1 3.80 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Marie-Claire Picher, Chair ...................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Leonie Ettinger ............................................................................... The Living Theatre Janet Gerson ........................................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory; International Institute on Peace Education Lupe Family ....................................................................... Novelist, Yoga Specialist; Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Gail A. Burton ............................................ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Street Theater for Liberation 3.81 Kelly Junno, Chair ............................................................. Spark Theater Collective Becca Polk .......................................................................... Spark Theater Collective Lauren Perlstein ................................................................. Spark Theater Collective Screening: What We Told Our Sons — Four Families React to the Trayvon Martin Verdict 3.78 Dayvee Sutton, Chair Reducing Fossil Carbon Use: Wind, Water & Solar or Nuclear Fission — Which Has Better Promise? 3.79 Timothy Maloney, Chair .................................................................................. Retired John Humphrey ................................................................................. Bright Power Inc. Cullen Kasunic ........................................................................ Kasunic Consulting Co. Capitalist Economic Crisis & The World War Danger 1.85 Bill Dores, Chair ........................................... International Action Center, Al Awda Abayomi Azikiwe ................................................................... Pan African Newswire Irina Kovel ................................................ Odessa Committee Against the Attacks Slavery Is Such an Ugly Word, We Prefer to Call It “Free Trade”: How Debt Fuels the Global Economy 1.67 Donal Butterfield, Chair ............ American

Monetary Institute

Geraldine Perry Susan Peters ............. American Monetary Institute Barbara Simpson ........ Upper West Side Monetary Reform Group UndocuBlack & Fighting for Liberation 1.69 Jamie Richards, Chair ........................................................... UndocuBlack Network Deborah Alemu ...................................................................... UndocuBlack Network Nicola Phillips Joel Sati Urban Ethnography and Perceptions of Crime and Drugs 1.71 Yolanda C. Martin, Chair .. Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Laiquan Bates ...................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Milton Hernandez ............... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Samantha Jean ................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Amanda Lopez .................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Kadesha Thompson ............. Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY How Citizens, Individuals Under the Control of the System, and Criminal Justice Actors Respond to Neoliberal Social Control 1.81 Doug Evans, Chair .............................................. John Jay College/Mercy College Tyrane Williamson .............................................................................. Mercy College Tara Blute ............................................................................................. Mercy College Luciana Lozada ................................................................................... Mercy College Stephanie Valles ................................................................................. Mercy College Emely Moreta ......................................................................................... LIU, Brooklyn Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill .............................. John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prison Abolition: A Movement Towards New Directions 1.82 William Calathes, Chair .............................................. New Jersey City University Jason Williams ........................................................... Farleigh Dickinson University Sean Wilson ...................................................................... Texas Southern University Whitney Richards-Calathes ..... CUNY Graduate School and University Center SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 56 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 57 Claiming the Ultimate Power: Amending the US Constitution 1.83 Andrea Miller, Chair ...................................................... People Demanding Action Eileen Davis .................................................................................. Women-Matter.org Stephen Spitz .................................................................. People Demanding Action The “Strip and Flip” Election of 2016: Voter Suppression, Electronic Vote Rigging, and Other Jim Crow Tactics 1.93 The Columbus Free Press Suzanne Patzer, Chair .............................................................. Columbus Free Press Bob Fitrakis .................................................... Columbus Fress Press, freepress.org, CICJ Books, Columbus State Community College Harvey Wasserman ................ Columbus Fress Press, freepress.org, CICJ Books, Columbus State Community College Marta Steele .................................. Author, Election Integrity activist, CICJ Books Deconstructing Gender Identity Under Male Supremacy 1.100 Joyce H., Chair Kara D. Penny W. Kathy S. Sam B. Neocolonialism in West Africa L2.80 The Africanist Press Jessica Collen McDermott, Chair ............................................. University of Idaho Chernoh Alpha M. Bah ................... African Socialist Movement of Sierra Leone Joshua Lew McDermott ............................................ New Mexico State University The Universal Basic Income as a Method to End Oppression 1.115 Diane Pagan, Chair Joel Cabrera Jonathan Vasquez Jude Thomas William Difazio Intersectionality of Refugees, Migration, War, National Security, and Climate Change 1.117 Christopher Magno, Chair .......................................................... Gannon University Joseph Stadler ............................................................................. Gannon University Richard Moodey .......................................................................... Gannon University Mexico Since Ayotzinapa 1.99 New Politics Dan La Botz, Chair Gerardo Renique Christy Thornton Denise Romero-Franco Elections and Revolutionaries: The Experience of the Left and Workers’ Front in Argentina 1.101 Left Voice Juan Ferre, Chair ......................................................................................... Left Voice Wladek Flakin ............... Revolutionary Internationalist Organization, Germany Robert Belano ............................................................................................... Left Voice Update on Puerto Rico: Crisis in America’s Colony 1.103 blog of the Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano Janette Torres Arroyo, Chair ....................................................... Brooklyn College; Friends of Puerto Rico at the UN Antonio Nadal .................... Brooklyn College; Friends of Puerto Rico at the UN Andres Matias Ortiz ........................................................................... Mercy College Olga Sanabria Davila .................... Comite de Puerto Rico en Naciones Unidas Is the “Progressive Cycle” Over in Latin America? 1.105 Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NY William Camacaro, Chair Frederick Mills Gabriel Hetland Aline Cristiane Piva Julio Escalona Occupy Ethics: Deconstructing the Subhumanization and Dehumanization of Global Society 1.107 Georgist Economic Taskforce Yannis Tziligakis, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Taskforce Frank Fabio ................................................................. Georgist Economic Taskforce Fred Harrison ........................ Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation Helga Zepp-Larouche ....................................................................... Schiller Institute Jason Ross ............................................................................................ Schiller Institute Some Reflections on the Russian Revolution 1.108 David Worley, Chair ........ Marxist Education Project: Revolutions Study Group Jim Creegan ...................... Marxist Education Project: Revolutions Study Group Amy Dalton ........................ Marxist Education Project: Revolutions Study Group Branden Rippey ................ Marxist Education Project: Revolutions Study Group SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 58 Our new part-time evening program allows you to earn a law degree while keeping the job you love!

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SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 59 A Call for Leninist Unity 1.109 John Dennie, Chair ................................................................. Retired Postal Worker Mike Gimbel .................. Retired Executive Board member, Local 375, AFSCME and member of the May 1st Coalition Chuck Mohan .................. President of the Guyanese American Workers United and member of the May 1st Coalition Circles: An Old Tool for Organizing in a New Way — Part 1 1.87 Mika Dashman, Chair Ashley Ellis Abdul Malik Talib Jose Alfaro Vivianne Guevara Matthew Guldin Quandisha German Shana Louallen Melody Benitez Oral History and Movement Building – Strategies and Methodologies 1.89 Lesley Wood, Chair ............................................................................ York University Adam King ................................................................................... adkking@yorku.ca Benjamin Shephard ....................................... NYC College of Technology, CUNY Nate Prier ............................................................................................ York University Amy Starecheski ............................ Oral History Program, Columbia University/ Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change Alexander Hamilton the Leftist: Hamilton’s Political Economy Is Key to Defeating Wall Street 1.75 twsp.us Dylan Shelton, Chair ............................................................. Tax Wall Street Party Gregory Edwards .................................................................. Tax Wall Street Party Chris Rieth ............................................................................... Tax Wall Street Party Kyle McCarthy ........................................................................ Tax Wall Street Party Toward a Commons/Communes Transition 1.73 Donald Cuccioletta, Chair ........................... Université du Québec en Outaouais Emanuel Guay ................................................................................. McGill University Jonathan Durand-Folco ............................................................ Saint Paul University Workers Power and Insurgency in a Globalized Capitalist World 1.76 International Socialist Review Amy Muldoon, Chair ................................................ International Socialist Review Kyle Brown ................................................................. International Socialist Review Immanuel Ness ............................................. Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY Sarah Jaffe Revolution and Nonviolence: From Deming, Fanon, and Pan-Africanism to Today’s Global Movements 1.92 PM Press and Africa World Press, in conjunction with the AJ Muste Memorial Institute and Deep Dish Television Matt Meyer, Chair ................. PM Press, Africa World Press, AJ Muste Institute; author, We Have Not Been Moved Ynestra King .......................................................... Eco-feminist author and theorist Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams ..... Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College Kassahun Checole ............................................. CEO, Africa World Press (invited) Wende Elizabeth Marshall .......................................................... Temple University Educating for Democracy 1.63 Robert Lubetsky, Chair ................................................... City College of New York William Stroud ................................................................................. Long Beach H.S. David C. Bloomfield ................ Professor Educational Leadership, Law & Policy, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center Julien Terrell .................................................................... The Brotherhood Sister Sol Debbie Almontaser ........... Board President of the Muslim Community Network Future of Education: Choice, Independence, and Connection 1.65 Svetlana Zabolotnaia, Chair ................................ Waldorf Homeschool Teacher, Educational Designer Jens Peter de Pedro Prem Makeig Anyanwu Glanville Danielle Levine William Beckler The Community College in Ruins(?): Neoliberal Discourses in Community College Policy and Classrooms 1.61 Maureen Matarese, Chair . Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Jeffrey Gonzalez ............... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY James Hoff ........................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Andrew Levy ........................ Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Bernadette Schaefer ......... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM 60 THEORY IN ACTION 9FREE SUBMISSIONS - NO FEES 9TWO WEEK AVERAGE DECISION TIMES 9RADICAL IDEAS WELCOMED Theory in Action is an international peer reviewed quarterly journal in its 9th year. Published by the Transformative Studies Institute, an independent non-profit educational think tank committed to academic freedom, social justice, and scholar-activism. ISSN: 1937-0229 (Print) ISSN: 1937-0237 (Electronic) Library of Congress: H1 .T485 361 14 2007214369 Guidelines & Submissions: www.transformativestudies.org Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute Theory In Action Volume 8 Number 4 October 2015 IN THIS ISSUE 1 Some Things Borrowed, Some Things New: Toward a Multi-Sites of Power

Approach to State Theory

Davita Silfen Glasberg and Deric Shannon 38 Idle No More – Indigenous Activism and Feminism Sonja John 55 The Case for Humanities Training: A Woman of Color Teaching Social Justice in

a Predominantly White Institution

Ginger Ko 66 The Environmental Flight from Reason Michael Barker 94 Lucian Blaga Between Words and Silence Rodica Grigore 111 Book Review: Dušan Deák and Daniel Jasper (Eds.), Rethinking Western India:

The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion. Hyderabad: Orient
Blackswan, 2014. ISBN: 9788125055822 (Hardcover). 291 Pages. $65.

Jon Keune 117 Book Review: Liberti, Rita and Maureen Smith, (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780815633846 (Paperback).

352 Pages $39.95.

Earl Smith

FIXIT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point

Walter Tsou, Chair Health Care for All, Pennsylvania
Chuck Pennacchio University of the Arts
Larry Melniker New York Methodist Hospital

Our Last Stand! New York, Whose City? We (Still) Say No to the Mayor’s Citywide Gentrification Plan 1.77 Sumumba Sobukwe, Chair ................................... New York City Council Watch/ Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Nellie Bailey ......................................................................... Harlem Tenants Council Tom Siracuse ............................................................................................ Green Party Ms K (Dr. Samuels) .............................................................. NYCHA SUCCESSION/ Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Scott Hutchins ............ Picture The Homeless/Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) The Rise of Big Surveillance: How Oakland Pushed Back and Won! 1.90 Oakland Privacy Working Group, a spinoff of Occupy Oakland Heather La Mastro, Chair ................................ Oakland Privacy Working Group Ali Winston ........................................................ Center for Investigative Reporting Brian Hofer ........................................................ Oakland Privacy Working Group Joshua Smith ...................................................... Oakland Privacy Working Group Shahid Buttar ............................................................. Electronic Frontier Foundation Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Political Parties, Social Movements, and Organized Labor in France and the U.S. in the Neoliberal Era 1.113 Mark Kesselman, Chair ............................................................. Columbia University Gerald Friedman ..................... Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Daniel Cirera ............................................................. Fondation Gabriel Peri, Paris Christophe Deroubaix ............................................... L’Humanité newspaper, Paris Judith Stein .......................... History, Graduate Center and City College, CUNY Bringing the Battlefield Home: Suicide, Heartache, and Healing for Victims of Unjust War 1.123 Nancy Lessin, Chair .................................................... Military Families Speak Out Tim Kahlor .................................................................... Military Families Speak Out Marcia Westbrook ..................................................... Military Families Speak Out Kevin Lucey .................................................................. Military Families Speak Out Deep State: False Flags — How a United Left Could Defeat a “Global Gladio” Agenda 1.127 Cathleen McGuire, Chair Chris Emery ........................................................................................ Free Mind Films Richard Dolan ............................................................................... Keyhole Publishing Kevin Barrett ...................................................................................... Veterans Today The Revolution of the Oppressed in Kurdistan 1.124 Saladdin Ahmed, Chair Kamal Suleimani Sardar Saadi ........................................................................... University of Toronto Elif Genc ......................................................... The New School for Social Research Dreaming to Be Free: Ferguson, Palestine and the Fight for Migration Justice 1.119 hamptoninstitution.org Eyad Alkurabi, Chair ............................................................. hamptoninstitution.org Susan Massad ............................................................. Framingham State University Colia Clark ........................................................................................................... SNCC Eman Rimawi ............................................................................................... AMPed Up Human Rights Industry and Commodification of Public Spheres in Iran 1.121 Soheil Asefi .............................................. Politics-New School for Social Research Arash Kia .............................................. Clinical Data Scientist in Remedy Partners Andrew Kliman ............................................................. Marxist-Humanist Initiative/ Emeritus Professor of Economics at Pace University An Integral Look at the Left and Right: Maturing Politics 1.125 Integral Life Magazine Glen Ganaway, Chair ................................................................................... Integral Lynne Feldman ................................................................................. Integral Healing Nomi Naeem ......................................................................... Brooklyn Public Library SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 62 Cynthia McKinney former member of Congress (D-Ga.) with Ph.D. on Deep State Graeme MacQueen Co-editor, Journal of 9/11 Studies and author of �e 2001 Anthrax Deception Tony Szamboti Engineer and expert on 9-11 destruction of World Trade Center Barry Kissin (Panel Chair) retired attorney, journalist, and expert on 2001 anthrax attacks Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney calling for a new investigation into 9/11 in 2005 Four speakers at the Le� Forum say: Time to Take Down the Wall between the Left and the Truth Movement No Justice or Peace without Truth Session 6 on Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm in Room 1.129 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 63 SESSION 6 12:00PM – 1:50PM Bernie, Capitalism’s Crisis, and Democratic Socialism: What Next? L2.84 Betsy Avila, Chair ..................................................................... Democracy at Work Richard D. Wolff Harriet Fraad Jan Rehmann ................................................................ Union Theological Seminary Bernie v. The Greens: What Can the Government Actually Do to Fix Our Economic Mess? L2.85 Dollars and Sense Abby Scher, Chair ..................................................... Dollars and Sense magazine Gerald Friedman .......................................... UMASS Amherst/Dollars and Sense Jill Stein .................................................. Green Party candidate for US President Sean Sweeney ................................................ CUNY Murphy Institute, Respondent Berning Down the House? Left Populism and Its Limits L.76 Left Forum Kristin Lawler, Chair .......... Situations, College of Mt. St. Vincent, & Left Forum Arun Gupta ............................................................................ Independent Journalist Bhaskar Sunkara .............................................................................................. Jacobin Peter Bratsis ................................................................ Situations and BMCC, CUNY The Kurdish Revolution in Rojava: How Can We Support It? What Can We Learn From It? L2.81 Debbie Bookchin, Chair ......................... North America Rojava Alliance (NARA) Joey L. Eleanor Finley .......................................... Co-Director, Institute for Social Ecology Carne Ross Does the Sanders Campaign or Independent Campaigns Serve to Build the Left? L2.82 Howie Hawkins, Chair ................................................................... Green Party USA Rukia Lumumba .................................................. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Eljeer Hawkins ............................................................................ Socialist Alternative Khalid Raheem .................................................. New Afrikan Independence Party Jennifer Roesch ................................... International Socialist Organization of NY Nnamdi Lumumba ....................................................................... Ujima People Party The Next Left – Leadership for Tomorrow 8.61 PM Press Deborah Engel-Di Mauro, Chair .......................................... Old and New Project Matt Meyer .................................................................... War Resisters International Theresa El-Amin ...................................................... Southerm Anti-Racism Network Raymond Nat Turner .............................................................. Black Agenda Report Brittany Williams ........................................ Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Carmen Perez ......................................... Justice Leage and Gathering for Justice Dequi Kioni-Sadiki ................................... Malcolm X Commemoration Committee The JFK Murder Cover-up: Your Rosetta Stone To Today’s News, Elections, Policy 8.67 Jerry Policoff, Chair .................... Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA Lawrence Schnapf Andrew Kreig How Can We Get Better Publicity for Our Actions? 8.69 Bil Lewis Elise Whitaker .............................................................................. Democracy Spring Pete Callahan ............................................................................... Democracy Spring Millennials, Left Politics, and the Question of Generations: Race, Class, Youth, and Social Change 8.72 Left Forum Ryan Moore, Chair ............................................................................................. CUNY Nona Willis Aronowitz ................................................................... Fusion Magazine Dante Barry ................................................. Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Nikil Saval ............................................................................................................... n+1 Electromagnetic Pollution Solutions- Workshop 1.114 OccupyEMFHarm Camilla Rees ................................................................... ElectromagneticHealth.org Patti Wood ..................................................... Grassroots Environmental Education. Jim Turner ........................................................................................ Swankin & Turner Oram Miller ................................................................... Certified Building Biologist Emil De Toffol ........................................................................................... LessEMF.com Time to Take Down the Wall Between the Left and the Truth Movement 1.129 Barry Kissin Cynthia McKinney Tony Szamboti Graeme MacQueen SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 64 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 65 Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Community: Panel Discussion and Workshop — Part 2 3.80 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Marie-Claire Picher, Chair ...................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Leonie Ettinger ............................................................................... The Living Theatre Janet Gerson .......................................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory/ International Institute on Peace Education Lupe Family ...................................................................... Novelist, Yoga Specialist/ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Gail A. Burton ............................................ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory The Politics of Fiction/The Fiction of Politics 3.81 PM Press Kenneth Wishnia, Chair ......... Professor of English, Suffolk Community College S.A. Solomon ..................................................................................... Freelance writer Steven Wishnia .......................................................................... Freelance journalist Film: The Brainwashing of My Dad 3.78 Alison Rose Levy, Chair Jen Senko ..................................................................................................... Filmmaker Melodie Bryant ............................................................................................ Filmmaker Film Screening: a Place to Call Home 3.79 Sakiko Sugawa, Chair

Globalization for the 99%: A Presentation And Discussion On Whether Free Trade Agreements Can Work For All

Authors’ Roundtable: New Landmark: Books on Race Relations in America

Ibram X. Kendi, Chair University of Florida
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Princeton University
Russell Rickford Cornell University
Eddie Glaude, Jr. Princeton University

The History of Interracial Desire: From Slave Narratives to Obama

Strategies to Transform Black Fraternities Into the Financial Backbone of a Relevant Social Movement for the Global African Struggle Through Cooperative Economics

All Revolutionary Qs
Louis Jefferson, Chair All Revolutionary Qs
Jinida Djoba Dorsey Public Relations
Justin Laing The Carter G. Woodson Project, Pittsburgh, PA.
Julian Mack Black Lives Matter Toledo, Ohio

Refugees, War and Austerity: The View from Syria, Greece and Turkey 1.71 Campaign for Peace and Democracy; AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement, New Politics, MENA-Solidarity Network-US Joanne Landy, Chair .................................. Campaign for Peace and Democracy Despina Lalaki ............................................... AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement Nidal Bitari Costas Panayotakis

FUCKICE: Queer Immigrant

Organizing for Liberation 1.81 José Ramon Garcia-Madrid, Chair ..................................................... ICEFREENYC Ella Mendoza .................................... Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement Aru Aru ..................................................................................................... ICEFREENYC The Second Amendment, Police Violence, and the Left 1.82 Libero della Piana, Chair .............................................. Alliance for a Just Society Johanna Fernandez ............................. Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz .............................................. Indigenous World Associaion Comics vs. Capitalism 1.83 Stephanie McMillan, Chair ................................................. Proletarian Alternative Ted Rall .............................................................................................. Universal/Uclick Dave Rine ........................................................................... Global Revolution Comix Chris McCamic ................................................................... Global Revolution Comix Books by Juanita Díaz-Cotto (Juanita Ramos) CHICANA LIVES AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Voices from El Barrio

Winner of an

International Latino Book Award and a ForeWord Magazine Book Award COMPAÑERAS: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology)/ Lesbianas Lationoamericanas (Expandido en Español) GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND THE STATE: Latina and Latino Prison Politics SINISTER WISDOM 74: Latina Lesbians SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 66 Empowering Progressive Third Parties in the United States: Defeating Duopoly, Advancing Democracy Edited by Jonathan H. Martin Framingham State University, USA © 2016 – Routledge This timely collection of essays by key political scholars and activists addresses an essential question for the U.S. left: Which electoral conditions and strategies are truly capable of sparking critical breakthroughs by progressive third parties? Pb: $31.96 (with 20% discount; enter code FLR40 at checkout) Info/order: www.routledge.com/9781138022010 CHICANA LIVES AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Voices from El Barrio

Winner of an

International Latino Book Award and a ForeWord Magazine Book Award COMPAÑERAS: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology)/ Lesbianas Lationoamericanas (Expandido en Español) GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND THE STATE: Latina and Latino Prison Politics SINISTER WISDOM 74: Latina Lesbians Books by Juanita Díaz-Cotto

(Juanita Ramos)

SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 67 Warrior Sisters Self Defense 1.93 Hetal Sheth ......................................................................................... Warrior Sisters Elena Fedina ....................................................................................... Warrior Sisters Varsha Narasimhan ........................................................................... Warrior Sisters Kelly Farah .......................................................................................... Warrior Sisters The Impact of the U.S. War on Drugs on Latinas/ Chicanas/Latin American Women and their Communities in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe 1.100 Juanita Diaz-Cotto, Chair .................. State University of New York Binghamton Stephanie Campos ......................... Postdoctoral fellow with Behavioral Science Training Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse Belinda Hill ................ Director, Solo Por Hoy, Inc. (Recovery Home for Women), San Juan, Puerto Rico Reparations Time: Justice is Due in the Decade for People of African Descent L2.80 Dowoti Désir, Chair ......... UN NGO Subcommittee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Pres., DDPA Watch Group Vilna Bashi Treitler ................ Professor and Chair, City University of New York (Baruch College; The Graduate Center) Onleilove Alston .......................................................... Exec. Dir., Faith in New York Delois Blakely ....................................................................... New Future Foundation Jumoke Ifetayo ......................................... Co-Chair (male), National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA) Minton Brooks .............................................................. Tulsa Reparations Coalition; Allies for Racial Equality (ARE) Ecosocialists Confront the COPout: Climate Catastrophe or Solar Communism! 1.115 Capitalism Nature Socialism, Science & Society, Ecosocialist Horizons Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Chair .............................. Capitalism Nature Socialism Joel Kovel .............................. Ecosocialist Horizons, Capitalism Nature Socialism Quincy Saul ........................... Ecosocialist Horizons, Capitalism Nature Socialism David Schwartzman ................ Science & Society, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons Jane Zara ............................................................ DC Metro Science for the People Neoliberalism and Language: The Management of Meaning in Late Capitalism 1.117 Carl Watson, Chair Ando Arike Jill Rapaport Understanding Today’s Brazil: Class Struggle and Democracy Under Threat 1.99 Aline Piva, Chair Alex Main Jeffrey Frank Saulo Araújo The Causes of Venezuela’s Crisis and the Government’s Efforts to Overcome It 1.101 Clara Irazabal, Chair ............................................................... Columbia University Steve Ellner ..................................................... Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela Naomi Schiller ................................................................... Brooklyn College, CUNY George Ciccariello-Maher ............................................................ Drexel University Mark Weisbrot Gregory Wilpert ............................................................... The Real News Network Discussion With Cubans About Life Under Blockade, the Cuban Economy, and Mass Organizations During the Changing US–Cuban Relations 1.103 Stan Smith, Chair .......................................... Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee Elier Ramírez Cañedo ...................... Cuba’s Union of Writers and Artists Union, Cuban Historians National Union, Young Communists Union Claudia Marín Suárez ...................... National Association of Cuban Economists, Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas, FMC Felipe de J. Pérez Cruz ............. Center of Political International Investigations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba Raynier Pellón Azopardo ...................................................... University of Havana Finance Capital and Fraud: Are Financial Markets Rigged? 1.105 Dollars & Sense John Sarich, Chair ................................................................................ Cooper Union Jason Hecht ...................................................................................... Ramapo College John Summa ............................................................................. University of Vermont Haim Bodek .............................................................. Decimus Capital Markets, LLC Marxist Laws of Motion and Today’s Economic Collapse 1.107 Michael Perelman, Chair .................................................... Economics Department, California State University Chico Michael Hudson ............................................... President, Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends Bertell Ollman ......................................................................................... Politics, NYU SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 68 China on Strike Narratives of Workers’ Resistance Edited by Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li China on Strike provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and other multinationals. The interviews collected here document the processes of migration, changing employment relations, worker culture, and other issues related to China’s explosive growth. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement By Angela Y. Davis, Edited by Frank Barat, Foreword by Dr. Cornel West In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. The Politics of Che Guevara Theory and Practice Samuel Farber This volume examines Guevara’s views on socialism, democracy, and revolution and asks what lessons can be learned by today’s activists and social movements. It also analyzes Guevara’s conduct as guerrilla commander and government administrator in Cuba, his political perspectives on revolutionary agency and his attempts to implement them in Cuba, Africa and Bolivia, as well as Guevara’s economic views. Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown Richard Wolff While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having passed, these essays from Richard Wolff paint a far less rosy picture. Drawing attention to the extreme downturn in most of capitalism’s old centers, the unequal growth in the its new centers, and the resurgence of a global speculative bubble, Wolff makes the case that the crisis should be grasped as an evolving stage in capitalism’s history. Socialism . . . Seriously A Brief Guide to Human Liberation Danny Katch Danny Katch brings together the two great Marxist traditions of Karl and Groucho to provide an entertaining and insightful introduction to what the socialist tradition has to say about democracy, economics and the potential of human beings to be something more than being bomb-dropping, planet-destroying racist fools. New from Haymarket Books From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation. Books for Changing the World SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 69 Marxism and Religion: Cooperation and Contradiction 1.108 Science & Society Russell Dale, Chair ........................................................................ Science & Society Shana Russell ............................................. Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School, Newark Rutgers University Gerald Meyer .................................................. Hostos Community College, CUNY Overcoming Capitalism 1.109 Zero Books Douglas Lain, Chair ................................................................ Publisher, Zero Books Pete Dolack ................................................................................... Author, Zero Books Terry Tapp ................................................................................... Zero Books (author) Anne Jaclard .................................................................. Marxist Humanist Initiative Andrew Kliman ................................................................................... Pace University Circles: An Old Tool for Organizing in a New Way – Part 2 1.87 Mika Dashman, Chair Ashley Ellis Abdul Malik Talib Jose Alfaro Vivianne Guevara Matthew Guldin Quandisha German Shana Louallen Melody Benitez Political Repression at the 2016 RNC/DNC and How We Can Use Collective Action to Fight Back! 1.89 PM Press Kris Hermes, Chair King Downing ...................................................................... National Lawyers Guild Lesley Wood Kazembe Balagun Global Perspectives on the Commons and Enclosure Struggles 1.75 Ida Susser, Chair ................... Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY Sarah Molinari .......................................................... The Graduate Center, CUNY Ola Galal .................................................................. The Graduate Center, CUNY Marty Kirchner .......................................................... The Graduate Center, CUNY Helen Panagiotopoulos ............................................ The Graduate Center, CUNY Marina Pera .................................................... Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Yuca Meubrink .................................... HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany Kelsey Chatlosh ......................................................... The Graduate Center, CUNY The Case for Publishing Cooperatives: Alternative Book Publishing in the Age of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook 1.73 Peter Dimock, Chair ........ Author, Freelance Editor, Publishing Consultant to the Wealth of Society Project, NYU Ian Dreiblatt ................................................................................ Seven Stories Press Hilary Plum ................ Author, Managing Editor Journal of the History of Ideas, book review editor of the Kenyon Review Movement of Rank & File Educators (MORE): New UFT, New Labor Movement 1.76 Kevin Prosen, Chair ........................................................................................... MORE Jia Lee ................................................................................................................. MORE Julie Neusner ...................................................................................................... MORE Janice Manning .................................................................................................. MORE John Antush .......................................................................................................... MORE Ashraya Gupta .................................................................................................. MORE Marcus McArthur ................................................................................................ MORE Unifying Independent Media: Creating Networks for Bloggers, Freelance Journalists, and Livestreamers 1.92 Brien Redmon, Chair Nesly Geffrard Arianna Norris Alex J. Segneri Revolution & National Liberation: Building an Anti-Imperialist Student Movement in the Belly of the Beast 1.63 Miriam Rodriguez Diaz, Chair . New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Mike Legaspi ..................................................................................... Anakbayan–NY Nicole Bugarin How to Flip a Bigot 1.65 Olivera Jokic, Chair ........................................................... John Jay College CUNY Andjela Kaur ................................................... University of Massachusetts, Boston Dara Byrne ........................................................................ John Jay College, CUNY Zeljko Kaludjerovic ............................................................... University of Novi Sad SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 70 The Pentagon and the Universities 1.61 Subrata Ghoshroy, Chair ....................................................................................... MIT Hugh Gusterson ....................... George Washington University, Washington, DC Ian Hansen .......................................................................................................... CUNY Political Economy and Neoliberalism: Their Influence On Mental Health Practice, Research, and Policy 1.91 Carl Cohen, Chair ........................................... SUNY Downstate Medical Center/ Radical Caucus of the APA Amjad Hindi ........................................................ SUNY Downstate Medical Center Charles Duncan Wright .............................................. Critical Psychiatry Network Neoliberal Policies and the Right to Housing: A Comparative Analysis Between Greece, Spain, and the United States 1.77 Yannis Vagios, Chair ........................................................................................... AKNY Albert Jimenez ..................................................................................... PAH Sabadell Athena Hassiotis Malcolm Torrejón Chu ..................................................................... Right to the City Elia Gran Lisa Owens Pinto .................................................................. City Life/Vida Urbana Attacking the Digital Plantation: Racism on the Internet and the Struggle Against It 1.90 Jerome Scott, Chair .................... League of Revolutionaries for a New America Morgan M. Willis .................................................................... Allied Media Projects Ejim Dike ........................................................................ U.S. Human Rights Network Jacqui Patterson ............................................................................................... NAACP Michele Metts Agaric Sphinx Eben .................................................................................... Indymedia Africa From Blockupy to Solidarity for All — Answering Europes Crisis of Representation 1.113 Panel from Interventionist Left (Germany/Austria) Anita Starosta, Chair .......... Interventionistische Linke Köln; Assistent Left Party, Duesseldorf, Germany Thorsten Haedicke ............ Interventionist Left Düsseldorf/Frankfurt, Germany; Peter Behrens School of Arts Ani Diesselmann Redher ................................. Intervetnionistsche Linke, Germany Karin Zennig .... Interventionistische Linke Frankfurt, Germany; Union organizer The Fight to End US Wars 1.123 United National Antiwar Coalition Sara Flounders, Chair .................................................. International Action Center Joe Lombardo ..................... Co-coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition Phil Wilayto ..................... Virginia Defenders for Freedom Justice and Equality Bernadette Ellorin .................................................................................... BAYAN USA Deep State: Islamophobia — Fallout for Failure to Challenge the Proxy Role of Muslims in 9/11 1.127 Zarinah Shakir, Chair ....................................................... Perspectives of Interfaith Stephen Downs .................................................................................... Project SALAM Kevin Barrett ...................................................................................... Veterans Today Creating Our Own Culture: Playback Theatre as Practice for a Humane Society 1.124 Interplay, Journal of the International Place Theatre Network Susan Metz, Chair ................................. International Playback Theatre Network Lorraine LaPrade .......................... International Playback Theatre Network and WOW Cafe Theater, NYC Laurie Bennett ................................ International Playback Theatre Network and WOW Cafe Theater, NYC Palestine: Strategies of Resistance 1.119 Lynne Lopez-Salzedo, Chair .............................................. Jewish Voice for Peace Ellen Isaacs ............................................................................ Jewish Voice for Peace Tzvia Thier ............................................................................. Jewish Voice for Peace Elik Elhanan ...................................................................... City College of New York Irene Siegel ........................................................................... Jewish Voice for Peace The Transatlantic Slippery Slope – Suppression of Freedom of Expression from Israel to the US 1.121 Nadia Ben-Youssef, Chair ......................... Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Rahul Saksena .................................................................................... Palestine Legal Omar Shakir ................................ Bertha Fellow, Center for Constitutional Rights Expanding the Fightback against Neoliberalism 1.125 Union for Radical Political Economics Al Campbell, Chair ...................................... Union for Radical Political Economics Cyrus Bina ............................................................... University of Minnesota, Morris Bill Goldsmith .................................................................................. Cornell University Peg Rapp Barbara Garson ........................................................................ Independent Author LUNCH 2:00 – 3:30PM 71 LUNCH 2:00PM – 3:30PM THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 2:00–3:50PM BLACK BOX THEATER ¡SING IN SPANISH — CANTA EN INGLÉS! CHORUS AS COMMUNITY: THE POWER OF SINGING TOGETHER FEATURING: BERNARDO PALOMBO, RUBEN GONZALEZ, MARIO CANCEL, HUDSON VALLEY SALLY, & LUPE RAMSEY (NARRATION) LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:40PM L.63 (LECTURE HALL) CHASING UTOPIA: A ROUNDTABLE ON WORKERS CO-OPS AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY SAM GINDIN, GAR ALPEROVITZ, SHARRYN KASMIR, AND RICHARD D. WOLFF LEO PANITCH, MODERATOR/INTERLOCUTOR SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 72 SESSION 7 3:40PM – 5:40PM Beyond Bernie: Socialism and Black Liberation L2.84 Dissent Magazine Sarah Jaffe, Chair .................................... Dissent Magazine, Belabored podcast Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Mariame Kaba .......................................................................................... Project NIA Janae Bonsu .................................................................................................... BYP 100 Building Left Media in the Digital Commons L2.85 The Real News Gregory Wilpert, Chair .................................................................... The Real News Pablo Vivanco .................................................................................................. teleSUR Laura Flanders .................................................................................................. GritTV Paul Jay ................................................................................................ The Real News Priya Reddy Cuba Speaks for Itself: A Panel With Cuba’s Ambassador to the United Nations L.76 Ike Nahem, Chair ............................................................................ July 26 Coalition Rodolfo Reyes ..................................... Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Estela Vazquez Rosemari Mealy Political Comics L2.81 World War 3 Illustrated Seth Tobocman, Chair ...................................................... World War 3 Illustrated Sabrina Jones .................................................................................. WW3 Illustrated Kevin Pyle .......................................................................... World War 3 illustrated Ted Rall Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power ? L2.82 Linda Thompson, Chair ................................................................ Left Elect Coalition Glen Ford Chris Hedges ................................................................................................... Truthdig Jill Stein ........................................................................................... Green Party USA Rethinking the 1950s: How Progressives Survived the Great Terror 8.61 David Rosen, Chair Lisa E. Davis .......................................... Spanish Language and Literature, CUNY Ellen Schrecker .............................................................................. Yeshiva University Marjorie Heins THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 4:00–6:00PM BLACK BOX THEATER WAKING EACH OTHER UP! THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER… 1ST ACT: UPSURGE! 2ND ACT: LITERARY WARRIORS SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 73 Defending Women’s Rights in a New Corporate World Order & Winning 8.67 Kwame Fosu, Chair ....................................................... Rebecca Project for Justice Tsigereda Sophie Schwoerer .............................................. The Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle Lisa Davis ............................................... Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice Grace Akallo ............................ United Africans for Women and Children Rights Indigenous Peoples and the Environmental Struggles Against Pipelines 8.69 David Welch, Chair ................................................................. University of Ottawa Roger Rashi ............................................................................................... Alternatives Sarah Sultani .................................................................. World Social Forum 2016 Anne-Céline Guyon .......................................................................... STOP Oléoducs Natasha Kanapé Fontaine ................................................... Idle No More Quebec Laudato Si: Roadmap for Revolution? 8.72 Steve Knight, Chair ......................................................... Beloved Earth Community, Riverside Church; GreenFaith Fellow Marian Ronan ....................................................... New York Theological Seminary Richard Smith ............................................... System Change Not Climate Change Nancy Lorence ................................................. Global Catholic Climate Covenant Interrogating the Sixties 1.114 Barbara Epstein, Chair . History of Consciousness Department, UC Santa Cruz Justin Paulson ............. Sociology Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, CA Kevin Anderson ................................. Sociology Department, UC Santa Barbara Jacques Lacan’s Four Discourses: Towards a New Critical Framework for Analysis & Action in Contemporary Political Life 1.129 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Michael Pelias, Chair Vakhtang Gomelauri ........................................................... Occupy Psychoanalysis Fred Baitinger Ph.D. ............. Program in French - The Graduate Center, CUNY Andrew Fremont-Smith ............ Andharbor: An Education & Events Cooperative Socially-Conscious Poets: Voices of Resistance 3.80 Lynne Lopez-Salzedo, Chair ............................................ Socially-Conscious Poets Robert Gibbons .................................................................. Socially-Conscious Poets Angelo Verga ..................................................................... Socially-Conscious Poets Zigi Lowenberg .................................................................. Socially-Conscious Poets Raymond Nat Turner ......................................................... Socially-Conscious Poets Between Play, Revolt, and Biopolitics 3.81 Milena Popov, Chair .................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice Leigh Smith ....................................................................................... LANDR Audio Inc Shan Jayakumar ................................................. New York Institute of Technology Film Screening: Profiled — a Documentary About Racial Profiling and Police Brutality Directed by Kathleen Foster 3.78 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Bill Koehnlein, Chair .............................. Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory/ Marxist Education Project Kathleen Foster .................................................................... Independent Filmmaker Shanika Anderson Kristine Anderson Welch Margarita Rosario Film Screening: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story 3.79 Marisa Holmes, Chair Greece and SYRIZA: What Happened? 1.85 Socialist Action newspaper Khaliah D Pitts, Chair ................................................ Judicial Violence Symposium Marty Goodman ........................................................... Socialist Action newspaper Manos Soufoglo ................................ National Coordination ANTARSYA and the Central Committee and Political Bureau of OKDE-Spartacos Eric Poulos ............................................................................................................. AKNY Felekis Giannis ............................................................... OKDE-Spartacos (Greece) SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 74 Judicial Violence and Road Back to Niagara 1.67 Colia Clark, Chair ..................................................... Judicial Violence Symposium, Guadeloupe Haiti Tour, GRP Charles Pitts ................................................................ Judicial Violence Symposium Kevin Annett ................. International Tribunal For the Disappeared of Canada Charles Bonner ........................................................... Judicial Violence Symposium Theron Cook ................................................................ Judicial Violence Symposium Marcus Tillery ............................................................. Judicial Violence Symposium Women’s Boat to Gaza 1.69 Ann Wright, Chair ....................................................................... Veterans for Peace Ellen Davidson ............................................................................. Veterans for Peace Susan Kerin ..................................... Women’s Boat to Gaza Steering Committee Gail Miller ........................................................................ Women of a Certain Age “We Charge Genocide” Human Rights Violations of Black Women and Girls in the US 1.71 National Campaign for the Elimination of Violence and Abuse of Women and Girls of African Descent (NA) Sis. Empress Phile’ Chionesu, Chair ................. National Million Woman March/ Universal Movements and MWM National Black Women’s Defense League Empress Chi ........................................................................................ National MWM Sis. Munirah Bomani .................................................................... Women Build Too/ MWM Black Women’s Defense League, Newark Branch Private Prisons as Profit Factories — How Banks & Wall Street Control & Profit from the (In)Justice System 1.81 Susan Peters, Chair ..................................................... American Monetary Institute Allen Smith .............................................. Henry George School of Social Science Nina Mariella Macapinlac ............................. Responsible Endowments Coalition Free Them All! Political Prisoners and POWs in the US 1.82 Basir Mchawi ................................................ Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition Sekou Odinga ............................................. Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition, Seko Odinga Defense Committee Suzanne Ross ....................................................... Free Mumia Abu Jamal Coalition Susan Rosenberg .......................................... Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition Mujahid Farid ....................................................................................................... RAPP Laura Whitehorn .................................................................................................. RAPP Building Independent Organizations in the Working Class Today 1.83 Speak Out Now Stephanie McMillan, Chair .......................................................... Workers Struggle Joan Berezin ..................................................................................... Speak Out Now Joseph Hutchinson ......................................................................... Workers Struggle Izzi Creo ......................................................................................... Workers Struggle Marcus Lissey .................................................................................... Speak Out Now Mahoma Lopez ................................................................. Laundry Workers Center Rosanna Rodríguez ........................................................... Laundry Workers Center Birth, Reproduction and Liberation Politics: A Radical Caregivers Roundtable 1.93 PM Press Alana Apfel, Chair ....................................................................................... PM Press China Martens ............................................................................................... PM Press Silvia Federici Mai’a Williams .................................................................... PM Press/Water Studio On the Frontlines: Queer People of Color Fighting for Socialism in the US South 1.100 Workers World Loan Tran, Chair ..................................................................... Workers World Party Eva Panjwani ......................................... NC #BlackLivesMatter QTPOC Coalition Q Wideman ...................................................................... Muslims for Social Justice It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment Available at theZero Bookstable • www.zero-books.net/books/its-not-over The march forward of human history is not a gift from gods above nor presents handed us from benevolent rulers, governments, institutions or markets — it is the product of collective human struggle on the ground. SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 75 The Left in Africa: An Evaluation of the African Socialist Movement of Sierra Leone L2.80 Africanist Press Jessica McDermott ............................................................................. Africanist Press Joshua Lew McDermott ................................................ African Socialist Movement International Support Committee Chernoh Alpha M. Bah ................... African Socialist Movement of Sierra Leone Roots and Trajectories of Solar Commoners’ Movements Against Fossil Capitalism 1.115 Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons, International Oil Working Group Terisa Turner ...................................................... International Oil Working Group, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons Ana Isla ................................. Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons Leigh Brownhill PhD ............................................................... Independent Scholar/ Founder, First Woman, the East and Southern Afri Terran Giacomini ................. University of Toronto; Capitalism Nature Socialism Ynestra King ............................................................................... Columbia University Northeastern Climate Justice Struggles and Global Intersections of Oppression 1.117 Gabriela Rodriguez, Chair ........................................... Capitalism vs. the Climate Nyree Hodges ............................................................................ Healthy CT Alliance Dan Fischer ....................................................................... Capitalism vs. the Climate Eric Feltham ...................................................................... Capitalism vs. the Climate Right Wing Assault on Latin America 1.101 Isolina De La Cruz, Chair ......................... Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NYC Eric Draitser .................. Editor, StopImperialism.org; Host, CounterPunch Radio Gabriel Hetland ........................................ State University of New York, Albany Frederick Mills ........................... Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University Conflict Between the Dominican Republic and Haiti: The Historical Background, Great Injustices Today: How Can We Understand and Hopefully, Better the Relationship 1.103 Vita Devyatkin, Chair ...................................... Centro Cultural Orlando Martinez Ricardo Deschamps Simon Morell ..................................................... Centro Cultural Orlando Martinez Queer Archival Theory & Critical Library Pedagogy 1.105 Kate Adler, Chair ............................................ Metropolitan College of New York Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz ........................................................ CUNY Graduate Center Karen Hammer ................................................................... CUNY Graduate Center Why Frantz Fanon Matters for Today’s Struggles Against Racism 1.107 Jinny Prais, Chair .................................... African Institute of Columbia University Drucilla Cornell ................... Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Peter Hudis ..................................... International Marxist-Humanist Organization Wuyi Jacobs ...................................................................................... Afrobeat Radio Kazembe Balagun ............................... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung/New York City Marx, Hegel, and the Current Situation 1.108 Science & Society / Marxist Education Project Russell Dale, Chair ........................................................................ Science & Society Stephanie Basile .............................................................. Marxist Education Project Malik Reaves .................................................................... Marxist Education Project James Trybendis ............................................................... Marxist Education Project Bill Cali .............................................................................. Marxist Education Project What is the Role of Marxism Leninism in the US and the world today? Is it Time For a New US Marxist Leninist Party? 1.109 Joseph Wilson, Chair .................................. Author and Editor Labor snd Society Angelo D’Angelo .......................... General Secretary, Party of Communists USA Jackie DiSalvo ....................................................................... Baruch College, CUNY Abhinav Sinha ............................................................. Bigdul Mazdoor Dasta (ML) Kyle Kassick .................................... All Marxist Leninist Union, Rutgers University Occupy Wall Street 2016 (5 Years Still Here!) — Past Lessons, Victories, Defeats, and What’s Next for the 99% Movement 1.87 Sumumba Sobukwe, Chair ............................. Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Alejindrina Murphy ........................................ Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)/

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Bill Johnsen ............................ Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Occupy Sandy Boris Rorer ......................................................... Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Workers, Disobedience, and the Power to Act 1.73 Linden Lewis, Chair ...................................................................... Bucknell University Dave Ramsaran ................................................................... Susquehanna University Bruno Gulli ........................................... Kingsborough Community College, CUNY Uber-ization, Flexible Labor and New Knowledge Economies 1.76 Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group Henry Schwarz, Chair ......................................................... Georgetown University Grant Shreve ...................................................................... Johns Hopkins University Cole Stangler ............................................................. independent labor journalist SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 76 The Greyhound Diaries 1.92 Left Forum Program Committee Kristin Lawler, Chair .................................................................................. Left Forum Doug Levitt Stephen Lovekin Ryan Moore ........................................................................................................ CUNY Low Income Taxpayer Assistance and Preparation for the Tax Court Exam Free Outreach Program 1.63 Tax Revolution Institute Inc Bobby Rodrigo, Chair .................................................................. Coffee Party USA Frank Agostino .................................................................... Agostino and Associates Jeffrey Dirmann ................................................................. Agostino and Associates Daniel Johnson ....................................................................... Tax Revolution Institute Breaking Patterns: Changing Systems 1.65 Irene Shen ................................................................................. United to End Racism Maritza Arrastia ...................................................................... United to End Racism Tokumbo Bodunde ................................................................... United to End Racism Organizing In the Student Movement with SDS 1.61 Chrisley Carpio, Chair ....................... Tampa Students for a Democratic Society Michela Martinazzi ......................................... Students for a Democratic Society Ian Gallagher ........................................ WCU Students for a Democratic Society Neoliberalism and the “Mental Health” System — The Failure of the Left 1.91 Lauren Tenney, Chair ................................................. Staten Island College, CUNY Seth Farber .............................................................. Institute of Mind and Behavior Todd Giffen Reform: Road to Revolution or Surrender? 1.77 Mikaela Simms, Chair, Janaki Natarajan .............................................. Spark Teacher Education Institut/ Marlboro Graduate School Abraham Paulos ...................................................................... Families for Freedom CASA Member ........................................ Community Action for Safe Apartments From Mexico: The TPP and Its Impact on Internet Freedom and Free Software 1.90 Juan Gerardo Dominguez Carrasco, Chair ...................... May First/People Link Jaime Villareal ....................................................................... May First/People Link Jacobo Najera ..................................................................... May First/People Lkink Estrella Soria ................................................................. Cooperativa Tierra Comun Roundtable — Greece at a Crossroads: Enduring Issues, Contending Responses 1.113 George Andreopoulos, Chair ................................... City University of New York Andreas Karras ............................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Peter Bratsis ......................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Despina Lalaki ........................................................ School of Global Affairs, NYU Capitalism at a Dead End Job destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High-Tech Era By Fred Goldstein Capitalism at a Dead End explains that the economic crisis, which began in August 2007, marked a turning point in the history of capitalism. The author contends that the system will not return to the normal capitalist boomand-bust cycle. Unlike Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, Goldstein’s work points to socialism, not reformed capitalism, as the solution. For decades the capitalist class has used the revolution in digital technology to increase productivity of labor at record rates. Fewer workers are needed to produce more goods and services in less time at lower wages, resulting in a race to the bottom for the working class and oppressed. Repeated crises of overproduction lead to economic contraction and persistent mass unemployment. Goldstein uses Marx’s laws to show how productivity is strangling production and capitalism has outgrown the planet. The work includes an important chapter, “Historical materialism: robots and revolution.” Available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Also go to lowwagecapitalism.com for more writings by Goldstein. SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 77 US Militarism’s Expanse and the Need for a Movement to Cut Military Spending and Invest in Human Needs 1.123 United for Peace and Justice – unitedforpeace.org Matt De Vlieger, Chair ...... Communications & Organizing Coordinator, UFPJ/ Member of Amplify Jackie Cabasso ............................... Director, Western States Legal Foundation/ Co-Convener of United for Peace & Justice Joseph Gerson ........ Director of American Friends Service Committee’s Peace/ Board Member, Economic Security Program George Paz Martin ... Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution/ Former Co-Coordinator of UFPJ Terry Rockefeller ................. September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows/ UFPJ Co-Convener The Endless “War on Terror”: US Drones & Targeted Killing 1.127 Amanda Bass, Chair Debra Sweet .................................................................................. World Can’t Wait Ed Kinane ................................................................ Upstate Drone Action Coalition Nick Mottern ................................................................................... kNOwDrones.com Shelby Sullivan-Bennis ............................................................................ Reprieve US The Wars Come Home 1.124 United National Antiwar Coalition Joe Lombardo, Chair Jaribu Hill ...................... Founder, Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights Ana Edwards .................. Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality Abayomi Azikiwe ................................................................ Pan-African News Wire Margaret Kimberley .............................................................. Black Agenda Report Christine Marie ................................................................................................ 350.org Empire of Chaos in the Context of the Turmoil in the Middle East 1.119 Bahram Zandi, Chair ....................................................................... Green Party, US Younes Parsa Benab ............................... Iranian Left Alliance of Washington DC Ahmad Gharanfoli .................................................... Left Alliance Washington DC Sassan Dehghan ......................................................... Left Alliance Washington DC The Saudi Regime and Its Victims 1.121 Stanley Heller, Chair ................................................ Middle East Crisis Committee Ali Al Ahmed Walid Fidama Exposing 28 Pages of 9/11 Evidence, Legislating Transparency 1.125 Les Jamieson ................................................................................................. HR14.org Barry Kissin J. 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