Left Forum 2017

Left Forum 2017

Path to a Radical New World

WELCOME TO LEFT FORUM 2017

Thank you for participating in Left Forum 2017. The conference has steadily grown over the years and has been transformed by a myriad of political perspectives, and the influence of thousands of participants from six continents. We are proud of this year’s gathering, humbled by the diversity of voices included, and honored that you can join us. The Left Forum Board of Directors would like to express our deep appreciation to John Jay College of Criminal Justice, particularly President Jeremy Travis, Jeff Brown, Cheryl D'Antonio, and so many people in the John Jay community who have been instrumental in bringing this conference to fruition. We are pleased to have our annual conference once again at a CUNY institution—as it was, and also remains our roots. And we are all the more pleased that we are at an institution that, by definition, “educates for justice.” We also want to express our abiding appreciation to the hundreds of volunteers who help before, during, and after the event to make this weekend possible.

LEFT FORUM PEOPLE

Stanley Aronowitz, Maria Carnemolla, Samantha Desire, Kristin Lawler, Catherine Mulder, Rob Robinson, Richard D. Wolff.

Board Members

Randy Howk, Takako Furukawa, Kary Hudson, Gotchanoot Panampham, Todd Tavares, Matthew Binetti, Christian Benjamin, Ted Freed, Joan Iezin, Carlos Mejia, Carrington Morris, Bill Cali, Frank Scelta, Byron Salazar, Yves Sorokobi, Uyen Tran, Jan Weinberg, Valeriya Yermakova, George Ygarza, Louis Jefferson, Gilbert Achcar, Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, Barbara Bowen, Rose Brewer, Renate Bridenthal, Michael Brie, Stephen Brier, Stephen Eric Bronner, Paul Buhle, Joseph Buttigieg, Luciana Castellina, Angela Dillard, Stephen Duncombe, Hester Eisenstein, Barbara Epstein, Deepa Fernandes, Hector Figueroa, Harriet Fraad, Josh Freeman, Barbara Garson, Marvin Gettleman, Arun Gupta, Jack Hammond.

Advisory Board

Ashley Abbott, Marcus Gratsch, Alfredo Gadberry, Laurie Bogath, Chris Harding, Sean Ledden, Michael Lightsmith, Dena Fisher, Gabriel Farofaldane, Sherry Onna, Christine Whitley, Helios Bajwa, Jordi Frank, Danielle Baptiste, Jerry Guillaume, Joanne Delgadillo, Katherine Musgrove, Adam Jeremy Vargas, Edsel Lopez Martin Heinsdorf Andrii Kotliar Theresa Eddins Samantha Désiré David Harvey Gerald Horne Boris Kagarlitsky Robin D. G. Kelley Christine A. Kelly Peter Kwong Joanne Landy Jesse Lemisch Michael Löwy Liz Mestres Susan O’Malley Leo Panitch Christian Parenti Thomas Ponniah Barbara Ransby Jan Rehmann Gerardo Rénique Rainer Rilling Colin Robinson Nan Rubin Stephen R. Shalom Eleni Varikas Victor Wallis Joseph Wilson 6 | Left Forum 2017 THE RESISTANCE A powerful resistance is taking shape in the U.S. Mass spontaneous protests fill the streets and the opposition to the Trump regime heralds an era of civil unrest the likes of which America has not seen for decades. The protesters’ immediate object is the new president and the singularly dangerous and reactionary regime he leads, but it has the potential to move beyond Trump to address the system that produced him. Most important of all, the budding resistance is thinking through questions of power, strategy, and tactics. We find ourselves faced with unprecedented dangers and disorienting shocks but also with massive opportunities—openings for building the movements for justice and liberation and pressing for fundamental transformations. The dangers are easy to name—the ascendance of the highly organized, racist, misogynist right to an office in the White House; Republicans in lockstep, ready to fulfill their dream of the final dismantling of the public sector and the welfare state; an authoritarian American president looking to find like-minded thug cronies across the globe to make deals to vacuum out the last iotas of resources and profit from a planet in deep crisis. Sadly, Trump’s most institutionally powerful opponents are those who desire a return to the glory days of cold war with Russia, not to mention the military manufacturers, contractors, and press operations for whom war and conflict remains the most profitable racket. Other opponents are the Democrats, useless even when they haven’t just totally ignored a populist moment to ensure the nomination of probably their least popular, most militaristic, and big-money friendly candidate over a popular socialist who could, no doubt, have beaten Trump at his own game. It goes without saying that none of these institutional forces favors labor, communal ownership, race freedom, or ecological healing. As rival powers tear themselves apart fighting over the last remaining wealth of a broken system, we must find our leverage and build our power in this new, unstable situation. These past few years have seen the rise of major protest movements, and America’s decades-long slide to the right has been arrested. The population is polarized, but more radical on both sides than we’ve seen in a very long time. On our side, direct action, especially among the brave fighters at Standing Rock, garners wide support. A democratic socialist got very close to the White House. Young Americans favor socialism over capitalism. The Black Lives Matter movement has forged an interracial coalition against police brutality and state sanctioned race murder. And millions of formerly docile centrists and liberals are being radicalized by the regime’s newly bold expression of power and profit politics—without even the ideological patina of the “free market” or “democracy” to paper over anti-worker and militaristic policies at home and abroad. Perhaps most important, people are talking general strike. In short, the old “reasonable, responsible” regime of exploitation has broken down. These are radical times. Which means they are times with great possibilities for real radicalism. Still, the left forces are inchoate, without mass mobilization organizations and searching for strategies that can build raw power and generate victories. Our task is to help organize, nurture, and shape the raw resistance that is exploding across America—and help to build what may come in its wake. What lessons have we learned from the last year or so? What is the status of the strategy of working within the Democratic Party rather than forming a new party organized to represent the interests of the working class? Where is rank and file—and especially international—labor organizing today? Do the social identities that structure the everyday life of workers impede class organization—or do they point the way to the most militant varieties of it? Where can we find the leverage for our movements when great powers battle? How do we engage in the kind of robust international labor organizing that we know is both the key to workers’ power and the antidote to the anti-immigrant right ascendant in so many places today? Most important, how will we build the three structures that we know we need—radical cultural interventions that craft a lefty common sense; a political party for working class people, and, most important, the economic ability to bring production and reproduction to a halt through mass coordinated strike action. Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 7 This is where Left Forum 2017 comes in. The strength of LF has always been its ecumenical inclusion of many perspectives, many groups, fighting on many fronts. Together, we will craft a united front moving in diverse but coordinated ways toward what we all know we need—international, multiracial, non-gendered working class power. As the largest gathering of the U.S. left, we come together this year to debate, to plan, to strategize, to build. We will engage the key questions—historical, analytical, theoretical, strategic—and forge the path ahead together. Our work has never been more important. To this end, Left Forum will be organized from the start around the key substantive issues in shaping the resistance. We are calling for all panels to submit to particular panel tracks. Each track will have a number of panels and should end either with a concrete organizing session or with a more informal social gathering where people can strategize, enjoy each other’s company, and craft explicit next steps. This year, it is more important than ever that when we gather as a thousands-strong, non-sectarian left convergence, the conference helps us move as a broad front to the next crucial steps. We expect to have a record number of panel submissions and the truth is, there are only so many available rooms. Panel track organizing will be decentered but discriminating. The moment demands nothing less from all of us. We have no choice but to organize now to fight the reactionary assault on hard-won rights and freedoms, from unionization to civil rights to abortion. We must move from symbolic protest to materially effective resistance. We need to identify pressure points in the system and push them. We must think seriously about crafting a new political party in the United States. But we must also simultaneously be working toward the broader set of changes—from a system based on alienation, abstraction, and exploitation to one based on human freedom and possibility—that animates all our struggles and that unites us as a left. Matthew Anderson Hester Eisenstein Quitiplas Foundation Erna Gold John L. Hammond Richard Hobbs Jonathan Ned Katz Richard K. Kearney Shahrzad Khayami John Liebau Lela Means National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) Patrick Patterson Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Lee Halprin and Abby Rockefeller Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office Steven Waldbaum Amy Leah Wolf Thanks to our Comrades 8 | Left Forum 2017 EXHIBITION AND SOCIAL SPACE 4Woke-Folk Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press AK Press Autonomedia Beacon Press Between the Lines Black Rose Anarchist Federation Black Rose Books Burning Books Deep State Literature Democratic Socialists of America Dollars & Sense Donnelly/Colt Progressive Resources Draft Bernie for a People’s Party Existence is Resistance Fernwood Publishing Food & Water Watch Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy Food Not Bombs Green Party of NY Haymarket Books Indypendent In These Times International Marxist-Humanist Organization International Publishers Katherine Arnoldi & Sabrina Jones Left Voice Love Knowledge Monthly Review Press North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms. New Political Science NY Progressive Action Network NYS COF OR Books PM Press Politics Reborn Polity Books Progressive Labor Party Progressive Rags Red Star Publishers Repeater Books Red Star Publishers Science & Society Socialism and Democracy Socialist Action Socialist Appeal Socialist Equality Party Socialist Party U.S.A. Society of the Third Millennium (S3K) Speak Out Now Socialist Party U.S.A. The Calyx Institute The Next System Project Toward Freedom United to End Racism University of Chicago Press Verso Veterans For Peace WBAI Indie Caucus Womens Intl League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) World Fellowship Center World War 3 Illustrated Zero Books All weekend in the atrium and lobby areas. The Exhibition offers a dynamic social and networking space for conference attendees. And don’t forget to check out the Cafe, 2nd Floor (by cafeteria), and 1st Floor Hallway too. Come see many organizations, publishers, and artists including The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 9 PANEL TRACK Teach-in on Palestine: Colonialism, Resistance and Justice • Resisting the Corporate University: Academic Freedom, Islamophobia and Palestine • 1948 Nakba: Creation, Catastrophe, Resilience • Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice • Deadly Exchanges: Policing Resistance Movements, Prison Abolition and US and Israeli Collaboration • From 1968 to 2018: Legacies of Liberation and Rising for Our Future Technology and Revolution May First/People Link • Technology and Revolution: A Convergence - Part 1 • Technology and Revolution: A Convergence - Part 2 • Technology and Revolution: Scholar Activists and the Defense of the Knowledge Commons • Reclaiming Human Potential: A Revolutionary Tool • Stepping Into the Future: Technology and Revolution Worker Coops and Union Coops as Tools to Resist, Build, Transform and Liberate The Community and Economic Development Clinic at CUNY School of Law • Ensuring Worker Coop Success Through Experiential Education • Strategies to Create Broad Based, Collective Worker Ownership • The History of Worker Cooperatives Through the Lens of Socio-Economic Class Struggles Worker/Owner Coops Democracy At Work New York • Worker/Owner Coops: Doing Better Than Capitalism • Working Class Organization in the Age of Free Trade, Automation and Union Retreat • Black Community Resists the Siege Resist the Money Power • A New Kind of Money • Ending ‘Free’ Trade, Endless War, and Ballooning Debt • 5,000 Years of Struggle Policing: Repression, Brutality, Mass Incarceration, history, international perspectives, organizing for abolition Love Not Blood Campaign • Race, Place and Police: The 2009 Shooting of Oscar Grant • Healing Through Resistance: Confronting The Crisis of State Sponsored Murder in the ERA of Trumpism Reimagining Resistance in India India Civil Watch • India’s Hindu Nationalist Neoliberal Consensus • India’s Contested Spaces: Labor, Land, and Environment Kapital 2.0 • Das Kapital 2.0: The Next 150 Years - Part 1 • Das Kapital 2.0: The Next 150 Years - Part 2 Working Class Struggles in the Era of Trump Revolutionary Workers Group; New Anti-Capitalist Party (L’Étincelle) • Elections Without Electoralism - Using Elections as a Voice of the Working Class • The Proletariat is Still the Revolutionary Class - It’s Time to Prepare for the Struggles to Come Panel Tracks 2017 10 | Left Forum 2017 Floor 1 FLOOR PLAN FLOOR 1 59TH STEET 58TH STREET 59TH STREET 58TH STREET The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 11 FLOOR 1 59TH STEET 58TH STREET 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 59TH STREET 58TH STREET ROOM SPACE ROOM NUMBER STAIRS SERVICE SPACE OTHER SPACE RESTROOM ENTRANCE ESCALATOR ELEVATOR FLOOR LEGEND 12 | Left Forum 2017

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They Jeer - ELECTION THEFT and why the Media (and the Democrats) Won't Go There L2.84 Gramsci's Importance for the Left Today L2.85 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 1 10:00am - 11:50am Worker/Owner Coops: Doing Better Than Capitalism L.76 After the Women's March: Next Steps toward a New Feminist Movement L2.84 Race, Place and Police: The 2009 Shooting of Oscar Grant L2.85 Grassroots Leadership and The Arts For Social Change 3.79 Creative Democracy. Artistic and cultural perspectives on resistance and social change 3.8 Theater of Resistance - Part 1 3.81 The Long Depression - a critique of the book by Michael Roberts 1.113 New Media for a New Economy 1.114 Ensuring Worker Co-op Success Through Experiential Education 1.115 Taking on the Bosses: Lessons from Recent Workers' Struggles 1.117 Not Just Preaching to the Choir 1.119 Das Kapital 2.0: The Next 150 Years - Part 1 1.121 From Resistance to Revolution: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers 1.123 The Great October Revolution and the Soviet Socialist Experiment: Reassessment and Revivals 1.124 Rainbow Coalition Fascism 1.125 The Watsonville Canning strike, 1985-87: history, lessons, current implications 1.127 Technology and Revolution: A Convergence - Part 1 1.129 Blueprint for a Climate Emergency Movement: Saying Goodbye to Gradualism & Mobilizing for the Future We Need 1.63 Against Doom: Climate Insurgency Now! 1.65 Pedagogies of Resistance 1.66 Agriculture and Capitalism 1.67 How to build a radical science movement 1.69 Young people in supporting grassroots resistance globally: HIV Young Leaders Fund grant-making and partnership model. 1.71 To Keep Refugees Home, Stop Bombing Their Countries 1.73 The Unique Role of Citizen Volunteers in the New Sanctuary Movement and Immigrant Justice 1.75 W.E.B DuBois and James Baldwin, the basis for a new revolutionary movement. 1.76 Scary Tales From the Hood: The War on Black Women and Girls 1.81 The Feminist Revolution in Rojava: Lessons for the Left 1.82 Leading the Resistance: Millennials fighting back 1.83 Envisioning and Strategically Building a Just Society through Organizing and Policy 1.85 THE 2017-18 SUM STRATAGEM: A Grand Unified Theory & Strategy (GUTS) For Radical Evolutionary Transformation 1.87 Framing Resistance: Cultural Identities & Protest Marches 1.89 The normalization of evil in the current Dark Age 1.9 The Incorruptibles Candidate Training: creating 1000 Bernie Sanderses 1.91 What do Socialists Say About Freedom of Speech? 1.92 Deep State 2.0: Against Anti-Semitism, but Critical of Zionism 1.93 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 15 TIMESLOT SESSION ROOM TIMESLOT SESSION ROOM SATURDAY 6/3 Session 1 10:00am - 11:50am What's Going On? - Imperialism and the Current Crisis 1.99 1948 Nakba: Creation, Catastrophe, Resilience 1.1 Common Sense Resistance by Veterans 1.101 Even Bernie Wants to Bomb Syria: Challenges to Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War Organizing Today 1.103 South Africa Today: Confronting Neo-Liberalism 1.105 Mapping the Left in Europe and North America 1.107 What's Next for Latin America's Left? 1.108 Community Culture in the Cuban Revolutionary Experience: Foundations to the Present with Playback as an example 1.109 The UN in Haiti: The Shell Game of Military Occupation L 2.80 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm - 1:50pm Russia, Its Uses and Abuses In US Domestic Policy L.76 Universalizing Resistance with Medea Benjamin, Gar Alperovitz, Chuck Collins and Charlie Derber L2.84 Healing Through Resistance: Confronting The Crisis of State Sponsored Murder in the ERA of Trumpism L2.85 Film Screening: "America First" and "Talking Skin" 3.78 Theater of the Oppressed as a Fight Back Tool: Some Practical Skills for Activists - Part 1 3.79 It's a Wonderful Life: Writing Resistance & Radical Self-Care 3.8 Theater of Resistance - Part 2 3.81 Obstacles and Avenues to a Resource-Based Economy 1.113 Working Class Organization in the Age of Free Trade, Automation and Union Retreat 1.114 Occupy the Commons: The Holy Grail of Economic and Social Justice 1.115 Building the Socialist Community in a Moment of Transition 1.117 Capitalism Gets Knocked Down (and then gets up again) 1.119 Das Kapital 2.0: The Next 150 Years - Part 2 1.121 Capitalism and Shame 1.123 Protests That Work: From Getting Media to Collective Organizing to Negotiating with Power -- Strategies on how to bring power to its knees 1.124 Occupy Evolving: The Trials, Tribulations, Lessons, and Evolution of Occupy Wall Street -Six Years Later 1.125 Rural Proletarian Revolutions, Oklahoma and Mexico, 1917: Capitalism, Environmental Disaster, and Why the Land Question Remains Relevant 1.127 Technology and Revolution: A Convergence - Part 2 1.129 Past, Present and Future: Public Access in a New Era: Lessons Drawn from Manhattan Neighborhood Network 1.61 Public Banking and Divestment Campaigns in NYC 1.63 Resistance Is Not Enough: Imminent Climate Catastrophe Compels a Replacement Strategy 1.65 Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Now (Part I): The Classroom as a Space for Critique 1.66 Land Justice: Re-imagining land, food and the commons in the United States 1.67 Mobilizing and Organizing the Democratic forces in the Age of Trump: Nationalism, Fascism, Racism, and Elite Economic Plunder 1.69 Turning the Tables: How the Attempts to Repeal the ACA are Strengthening the Medicare for All Movement 1.71 The Mexican Crisis and Immigration 1.73 Session 2 “Black Box Theater Presents: Expressions of Resistance” L2.83 16 | Left Forum 2017 TIMESLOT SESSION ROOM SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm - 1:50pm Emergency Response Networks and Resisting Raids and Deportations 1.75 Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated 1.76 Anti-fascist organizing in the age of Trump 1.77 The Fight for Abortion Rights in the Trump Era: It's Up to Us 1.81 Fighting Sexism and Lifting up Gender Justice in Our Movements. 1.82 Memory as Resistance: An Intergenrational Dialogue on Living a Radical Life 1.83 Rethinking the Resistance - Marches, Online Actions and More 1.85 Striving for Utopia in a Toxic Culture 1.87 Understanding Our Resistance 1.89 Can the Democratic Party be Reformed? 1.9 Hegemony How-To: Breaking Out of the Lefty Clubhouse to Contest for Popular Power 1.91 The Resistance is Intersectional; Creating a Politics of Solidarity 1.92 How New 9/11 Legal Actions Redefine Resistance 1.93 Building a Campaign to Support the Democratic Forces and End the War in Syria 1.99 Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice 1.1 War on Terror Veterans’ Dialog with HS and College Students 1.101 Repression and Resistance in Turkey 1.103 The future for politics in South Africa: Youth politics/movements on and off campus. 1.105 The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left with author Helena Sheehan plus Despina Lalaki and Aaron Amaral 1.107 A Multi-polar World in Resistance to a Hegemonic Global Model: The Venezuelan Case 1.108 Oscar Lopez Rivera Freedom Movement, a model for campaigns to free Political Prisoners in the USA 1.109 Venezuela's Resistance against Diplomatic, Media, and Financial Attacks L 2.80 SATURDAY 6/3 LUNCH SESSION 2:00pm - 3:30pm Special Event: Screening and discussion of documentary series "America Divided" - A House Divided & The System L.63 Globalization, Blowback, and Beyond: The 2016 Daniel Singer Prize L2.85 Resisting the Corporate University: Academic Freedom, Islamophobia and Palestine 1.1 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm - 5:15pm Election Integrity 2: Urgent Election Reforms for the 2018 Midterms (that Circumvent Media Silence): Reports from the Field L.76 Economy and Psychology: A Tale of 2 Depressions L2.84 Rethinking Revolution L2.85 Film Screening: "Clean in: How Hotel Workers Fought for a Union-And Won" 3.78 Theater of the Oppressed as a Fight Back Tool: Some Practical Skills for Activists - Part 2 3.79 Artist Development & Accessibility to Grants & Public Funds for Peoples of Color 3.8 THE WRITER AS REVOLUTIONARY: Literary Resistance, Past and Present 3.81 Monopolists: Your Days Are Numbered! 1.113 Free The Land: Let A Thousand Jacksons Bloom 1.114 Strategies to Create Broad Based, Collective Worker Ownership. 1.115 What Would A Left Alternative to Neoliberalism Look Like? 1.117 Utopias and Dystopias: What We Can Learn From Speculative Fiction 1.119 Karl Polanyi's Socialist Vision 1.121 Trotsky's Biography of Stalin: Reconstructing a Masterpiece 1.123 The Russian Revolution: Its Meaning for Activists Today 1.124 The German Revolution, 1918 through 1923: False Hope or Missed Opportunity 1.125 Session 3 “Black Box Theater Presents: Credico”s Comedy Caucus!” L2.83 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 17 TIMESLOT SESSION ROOM SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm - 5:15pm The Re-Connection of Marx with Classical Humanism 1.127 Technology and Revolution: Scholar Activists and the Defense of the Knowledge Commons 1.129 Cultivating Resistance within Religious Traditions 1.61 Standing with Standing Rock at CUNY: Students use Social Media to Learn and Teach about Conflict and Nonviolent Resistance at Borough of Manhattan Community College 1.63 The Final Frontier: Deep-Sea Privatization and Local Resistance 1.65 Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Now (Part 2): Past Lessons and Opportunities for Action Now 1.66 Housing - Permanent Affordability in Gentrifying Neighborhoods 1.67 War, Fascism, and the Psychology of Meat 1.69 NOW IS THE TIME: Healthcare for Everybody (Documentary Film) 1.71 Immigrants And The Labor Movement/ Film on Ludlow and The Coal Wars 1.73 Dismantling the Immigration Detention System 1.75 Structural Violence - Closing Rikers and Ending the Drug War 1.76 Antifascism in Theory and Practice 1.77 When I see them : I see us How Our Struggles Are Connected 1.82 Oligarchical Ideologies in Crisis: Cultural Populism, Dark Enlightenment, Nihilism, and Liberalism 1.83 The New Thought Police - Social Justice Warriors 1.85 Strategy and tactics for building unity: Defeating Trump, the right-wing and the path to U.S. Socialism 1.87 A Homefront Counterextremism Project: How to defeat the Far Right Insurgency 1.89 Fighting Back: Breakthroughs and Challenges in Holding the Powerful Accountable 1.9 Resisting Trump, Exposing the Democrats 1.91 The Party: Do We Need It? If So, What Does It Look Like? How Do We Get It? 1.92 Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change 1.93 Geopolitics, the International Left, and the Syrian Revolt 1.99 Deadly Exchanges: Policing Resistance Movements, Prison Abolition and US and Israeli Collaboration 1.1 Confronting Military Recruitment in the Nation's High Schools 1.101 Free Dr. Saibaba: Resistance to Reaction and Fascism in India 1.103 The North American Campaign for Southern African Liberation Revisited: Lessons from Struggle, Then and Now 1.105 Fighting Back on Both Sides of the Mexico-U.S. Border 1.107 New Constituent Process in Venezuela: Popular Resistance to Conservative Advances in Latin America 1.108 Cuban Political and Economic Reforms 1.109 Elections Without Electoralism " Using Elections as a Voice of the Working Class L 2.80 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 4 5:20pm - 7:10pm Ecosocialism: There Is No Alternative L.76 Reality Check - Why Now More Than Ever, It's Time for Radical Resistance and Independent Green-Left CollaborationS and How to Move Forward L2.84 Sanctuary Cities for Whom? Racial Justice Movements in Montreal, Berlin & NYC L2.85 Film Screening: Good Thinking, Those Who've Tried To Halt Nuclear Weapons 3.78 Acting Out: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith Malina 3.79 Poems of Resistance and Struggle 3.8 18 | Left Forum 2017 TIMESLOT SESSION ROOM SATURDAY 6/3 Session 4 5:20pm - 7:10pm Corporate Debt Bust - our radical reply 1.113 Black Community Resists the Siege 1.114 The History of Worker Cooperatives Through the Lens of Socio-Economic Class Struggles 1.115 From Slave to Temp Shop: Employment Agencies, Surplus Labor, and the History of Investment Capitalism 1.117 Creating a Blueprint for 2042: Visioning for a Future in Color 1.119 Can Hawaiian Pizza Explain Donald Trump? The Politics of Purity in Revanchist America 1.121 Fanon Reloaded: Anti-Racist Confrontations of Neo-Liberal and Neo-Fascist Reconfigurations of Empire 1.123 The Russian Revolution: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 1.124 The Radical Jacksonian Left 1.125 Hip Hop vs Neoliberalism 1.127 Reclaiming Human Potential: A Revolutionary Tool 1.129 Strategies for Advancing the Human Rights movement in your community 1.61 Preservation and Perseverance: Saving our National Lands in the Trump Era 1.63 Changing Climate: Resistance as Survival in the Anthropocene 1.65 Organizing for a Free CUNY 1.66 Housing as a Human Right: What's Wrong With "Affordable Housing" 1.67 Animal liberation, an inevitable outcome of progressive politics: why? and how? 1.69 How to Start an Urban Indigenous Health Center 1.71 Immigrant Rights in 2017: Crisis and Opportunity 1.73 Documented/Undocumented: Stories by Immigrant Youth 1.75 Preemptive Prosecution and Muslim Prisoners 1.76 Beyond Resistance: The Dialectic of Progressive Change 1.77 The March 8th International Women's Day strikes changed class politics. 1.81 Back on Track Towards Republican Collapse and Democratic Split: An Autopsy for the Old Two-Party System Amidst a Mass Extinction of Political Parties Across the World 1.83 Coalition Building Among Grassroots Labor, Student and Social Movements 1.85 We the People: Stories from the Community Civil Disobedience Movement 1.87 Genesis, Evolution and Role of a Campus Political Cell 1.89 Building the Greens Into A Mass Based Party of the Left 1.91 Transforming Power 1.93 Grassroots organizing, micro-politics, and the Syrian Uprising 1.99 From 1968 to 2018: Legacies of Liberation and Rising for Our Future 1.1 Democrats & Republicans: The twin parties of Imperialist War 1.101 DISTANT DEATH: Drugs & The Autocracy of Murder in the Philippines 1.103 Africa in Revolt 1.105 Organizing Nationally and Binationally: A Panel on Action 1.107 Evaluation of Progressive Governments in Latin America in Recent Years 1.108 Cuba-U.S. Relations: Behind the Headlines 1.109 In the Belly of the Beast L 2.80 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am - 11:50am Why Black and Latino Independent Election Campaigns are Needed More than Ever L.76 An Authoritarian Trump, US: Race, Gender and Class Transformation L2.84 J is for JUNK ECONOMICS: And its Worst Sin is... Three Answers L2.85 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 19 TIMESLOT SESSION ROOM SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am - 11:50am Experimental Writing/Experimental Publishing 3.79 RESIST THE MONEY POWER: 5,000 Years of Struggle 1.113 Three takes on Municiplism: Jackson, Barcelona, and Burlington 1.114 Scaling Up: the Transition from Worker Cooperatives to Socialism 1.115 Forms of Worker Militancy in Contemporary Organizing 1.117 Bigotry is the Enemy of the Working Class 1.119 Erich Fromm's Socialist Humanism and the Workers 1.121 The Proletariat is Still the Revolutionary Class: It's Time to Prepare for the Struggles to Come 1.123 The Russian Revolution and its Indelible Stamp on the Course of World History 1.124 Millennial Marxism: Does the Revolution Need a Revolution? 1.125 Organizing the white working class in the 1970s and today: Learning from the work of White Lightning and October 4th Organization 1.127 Digital Security vs. surveillance: defense, meta-defense, and offense 1.129 Realizing Human Rights in the United States of America Through UN Sustainable Development Goals 1.61 Planetary Challenges of Governance and Environment: Forward to a New Ecological Civilization 1.63 School as a Forum of Resistance 1.66 The Right to the City - A New Politics and the Left 1.67 Critics of the Psychiatric Panopticon: Resistance in the Post-Sixties Era 1.71 The US is imperialist & Russia and China are not: A Leninist Approach to Global Class War Today 1.73 Immigrant Detention: Resistance from the Inside Out 1.75 Contextualizing Criminal Justice System Imposed Stigma and Methods of Resistance 1.76 Police Reform: How Community-Led Systems, Dialogue, and Science can change policing forever 1.77 Women of Color Intersectional Solidarity Panel 1.81 Socialists and Greens in the ballot box and in the streets 1.82 Intersectional Activism: A Critical Conversation 1.83 Tough Crowd: What to Do When Emotions Run High 1.85 Confronting "Anti-Neoliberal Left" Collaboration with Trumpism and the Far Right 1.87 From the Spring to the Resistance: radical movements in Quebec since 2012 1.89 Rigged and Stolen Elections 1.9 The Revolution Must Go On! Can Berners Build a New Party That Wins? 1.92 No to US Intervention in Syria - Keeping the antiwar movement focused on US Wars. 1.93 Iran and the Trump Era 1.99 A Single Democracy in Palestine - The Path for Justice and the Right of Return. 1.1 Struggling for Peace in a Time of War: National Liberation and Armed Resistance in the Global Anti-Imperialist Struggle 1.101 Secularism Under Threat: The Rise of Hindutva Fascism 1.103 Transatlantic Dialogue: The Left and the 'Struggle of Giants' 1.107 What The U.S. Can Learn From The Cuban Health Care System 1.108 The Broken Promesa: Resistance to Colonialism and Debt in Puerto Rico 1.109 Juneteenth SUSTABU Utopia: Context Creation Workshop L 2.80 20 | Left Forum 2017 TIMESLOT SESSION ROOM SUNDAY 6/4 Session 6 12:00pm - 1:50pm Stars on the Ecosocialist/Solar Communist Horizon: Ernst Bloch, Abdullah Ocalan, Ana Dinerstein L.76 Resistance for what and with whom? Who are our allies? Which direction next? L2.84 Strategies and Tactics to Sustain Effective Resistance for the Long Haul L2.85 Film screening: Spain Against the Current 3.78 RESIST THE MONEY POWER: Ending 'Free' Trade, Endless War, and Ballooning Debt 1.113 Cooperatives - path to a different society or alternative business model? Chances and risks of workers' self-management in capitalism 1.114 NY Teachers: Save Our Union! 1.115 Labor & Electoral Politics: What Does It Take For Union Members To Win? 1.117 The road to Utopia? A discussion on Universal Basic Income 1.119 The Continuing Relevance of Marx's Capital after 150 Years 1.121 What is Leninism? 1.123 The emerging US Maoist Movement 1.124 A Vanguard That Stands Outside of History: The Revolutionary Legacy of J. Posadas 1.125 The Frankfurt School and Revolution 1.127 Challenges and Successes in Building a Worker-Oriented National Media Network 1.129 Political Economy, Environmental Consequences and Crises 1.63 Restore Sanity: How We Remove Trump Without Violence 1.65 Conceptualizing Revolution in the Classroom: Students Speak Out 1.66 Comparing Trump On... 1.69 The Forgotten Resistance - Childhood and Madness 1.71 Mobilizing with Moral Power: If the Revolution Is Love, Our Religion Must Be Life 1.73 Black on Black Crime: Myth or Reality? 1.75 Resisting NYPD Gang Policing 1.76 Nuclear Power is Dead. Time for a Just Transition. 1.77 What Assata Taught Us: Black Women and Revolutionary Nationalism 1.81 Resisting Trump's War Against the Poor: The People’s Budget Does It! 1.82 Occupy Ethics: Reversing the growth of the Human-Subhuman gangrene 1.83 The Importance of Young Progressives Attaining Political Power in The Resistance 1.85 Building a Student Movement Under Trump 1.89 Which Way Forward on Elections?: Perspectives from New Jersey and New York Socialists 1.9 Co-opting the Left: Infiltration by the Corporate State to Neutralize Resistance 1.91 Movements Against Inequality: Lessons from the WTO protests, Occupy and Fight for $15 1.92 From Syria to Palestine: Struggles Against Dictatorship, Imperialism, and Zionism 1.93 Banned: Islamophobia and the future of progressive foreign policy in the Trump Era 1.99 Radicalize the Streets for Peace in Israel & Palestine 1.1 War on the World, Trump Style 1.101 India's Contested Spaces: Labor, Land, and Environment 1.103 What Next for the European Left: Confronting the Challenge of Right Wing "Populism" 1.105 The Left in Europe 1.107 Dare to Dream: Cuba's Latin American Medical School 1.108 Cuba Speaks for Itself: A Discussion Forum with Anayansi Rodriguez, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations 1.109 SUNDAY 6/4 LUNCH SESSION 2:00pm - 4:00pm Special Event: Screening and discussion of documentary series "America Divided" - Something is in the Water & Democracy for Sale L.63 The Death of Nuke Power, the Birth of Solartopia 1.65 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 21 TIMESLOT SESSION ROOM SUNDAY 6/4 Session 7 3:40pm - 5:40pm Film Screening: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy L.63 Radical Comics L.76 Women and Labor L2.84 From Resistance To Running For Office: How Progressives Can Build Working Class Power At the State & Local Level L2.85 Turning Tables on the Commodity Relationship: Mental Furniture, Commodification, and a Theater of Liberation 3.78 Resistance-U-BET! B> Balance E> Ethics T> Transformation 3.79 Radical art and politics in post-soviet Belarus and Russia (the end of XX - beginning of XXI century) 3.8 RESIST THE MONEY POWER: A New Kind of Money 1.113 Transformative, Transnational and Transcendental: The Labor Process and the Employment Relation under Neoliberalism 1.114 Author Meets Critics: Dave Beech's "Art and Value: Art's Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics" 1.115 The Trump Regime: Same Old Neoliberalism or Something New? 1.117 Universal Basic Income or Jobs Guarantee: A debate on the future of labor 1.119 Trump and Marxist Theory 1.121 Neither Hope Nor Fear: Can Radical Politics Overcome Humanism and Liberalism? 1.123 The Russian Revolution 100 Years On 1.124 Bob Lee, Peggy Terry and the Original Rainbow Coalitions 1.125 The Labor Movement and the Labor Party 1.127 Does Black Media Matter? 1.129 Protests, Association and Assemblies Online 1.61 Nuclear Injustices and Denial: Misogyny and Environmental Racism in the Nuclear Story 1.65 CUNY at the Crossroads: A Discussion of Campus Organizing 1.66 Making-Housing Affordable Again From Trump to DeBlasio 1.67 The People's Cultural Plan and the intersection of public funding, labor, and housing 1.69 The New Solidarities: Experiences of Rural Organizing 1.71 Neoliberalism and the Spirit of Mindfulness 1.73 Sanctuary and Struggle: The Neoliberal University in an age of Neo-Fascism 1.75 Challenging Mass Incarceration Beyond NYC 1.76 Chicanas, Latinas, Latin American Women, Incarceration, Resistance, and Recovery 1.81 Women Demand an End to the Whole Nuclear Era 1.82 Difficult Conversations: Communications Literacy Workshop 1.85 Beyond Resistance: Winning the Revolution 1.87 Kill All Normies: From 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right 1.89 The Socialist Party Today 1.91 Platform for a Left Opposition 1.92 The New Axis of Evil: Understanding U.S. "Regime Change" in Syria 1.93 Islam, Tolerance, and how to have The Conversation: Supporting Muslims, minorities, women and human rights movements across Islamic societies 1.99 Expose the Fraudulent War on Terror and Empower Resistance to it: What CAN Be Done 1.1 Empire of Chaos 1.101 India's Hindu Nationalist Neoliberal Consensus 1.103 The Populist and Radical Right in Europe 1.105 Is There a Future for the European Union? 1.107 Lessons From French Labor: Fighting Precarity and the Far-Right 1.108 Puerto Rico and the Junta: A tale of colonial and neocolonial dispossession 1.109 Session 6 Black Box Theater Presents: Voices of Resistance” L2.83 Session 7 “Black Box Theater Presents: Amina Baraka: Debut CD Release” L2.83 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 2017 Left Forum Panels www.rosalux-nyc.org 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 Recent euphoria, particularly over the rise of SYRIZA and PODEMOS in Europe and the Bernie Sanders campaign in the US, has quickly turned to despair for many on the left. How might we characterize the current state of the left in Europe and North America? How can we build our strength and position ourselves to win while simultaneously fighting ongoing neoliberal austerity and the rise of the nationalist right? Paul Mason (Journalist, London) Cornelia Hildebrandt (RLS–Berlin) Ethan Young (Left Labor Project, New York) Albert Scharenberg (RLS–NYC), chair Mapping the Left in Europe and North America Check out our table with free publications covering a wide range of left topics. Commonly heralded as a champion of liberal thought, many are surprised to find that Karl Polanyi, writer of The Great Transformation, actually considered himself a socialist. How should we understand his contributions to socialist thought in the current conjuncture, particularly as this relates to his notion of “freedom in a complex society”? Michael Brie (RLS–Berlin) Margaret Somers (University of Michigan) Nikil Saval (N+1 magazine) James Hare (RLS–NYC), chair Karl Polanyi’s Socialist Vision The idea of the “sanctuary city” has taken hold across North America since the election of Trump. However, it remains unclear just what a sanctuary city is, and what are its possibilities in the service of defending civil and social rights and implementing radical reform. Will the sanctuary city movement embrace empty cosmopolitan rhetoric, or can it move us toward a more radical vision of racial justice in the city? Tahir Della (Initiative for Black People in Germany) Will Prosper (Montréal Noir) Shatia Strother (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, Brooklyn) Kazembe Balagun (RLS–NYC), chair Sanctuary Cities for Whom? Racial Justice Movements in Montreal, Berlin & New York Deep-sea mining is at the cutting edge of economic exploitation of the oceans, with coastal communities in the global South being used as testing grounds. The ecological, social, economic hazards remain unknown. Facing these risks, local communities are leading the resistance and demanding a stop to such extractivism unless suitable social and ecological standards are met. Kai Kaschinski (Fair Oceans) Christoph Spehr (DIE LINKE, Germany) Christina Tony (Bismarck Ramu Group, Papua New Guinea) Natassa Romanou (NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies), chair The Final Frontier: Deep-Sea Privatization and Local Resistance The women’s march that followed Trump’s victory was hugely impressive and even historic. On the heels of a presidential campaign marred by overt sexism as well as an overly narrow vision of elite feminism, what can we make of this recent upswell in feminist organizing? How we can support a new feminism that embraces all oppressed minorities while basing itself in a material notion of class politics? Sarah Leonard (The Nation magazine) Maria Poblet (Causa Justa :: Just Cause, Bay Area) Carla Murphy (Author and Activist, New York) Stefanie Ehmsen (RLS–NYC), chair After the Women’s March: Next Steps toward a New Feminist Movement Follow us @ rosaluxnyc The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 23 Stepping Into the Future: Technology and Revolution May First/People Link • Alfredo Lopez May First/People Link • Maritza Arrastia May First/People Link • Jerome Scott League of Revolutionaries for a New America • Alice Aguilar Progressive Technology Project • Samir Hazboun The Highlander Research and Education Center • Chinyere Tutashinda Center for Media Justice Gramsci’s Importance for the Left Today • Laura Flanders The Laura Flanders Show • Kate Crehan Professor Emerita, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York • Chris Hedges columnist for Truthdig and host of On Contact Democracy @ Work, Left Forum Election Integrity I: You Protest. You Resist. You Vote. They Count. They “Win.” They Jeer—ELECTION THEFT and why the Media (and the Democrats) Won’t Go There Dr. Joel Simpson • Joel Simpson Left Forum/Independent activist-photographer • Jonathan Simon Executive Director, Election Defense Alliance • Robert Fitrakis Political Science Professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at Columbus State Community College, Columbus, Ohio • Mark Crispin Miller Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU • Marta Steele Independent author, editor and blogger • Jill Stein Green Party Candidate for US President, 2012 & 2017, activist for environmental justice and Election Integrity Fighting Sexism and Lifting up Gender Justice in Our Movements The Women’s Organizing Network, Restaurant Opportunities Center NY, Faith in NY • Dahlia Goldenberg The Women’s Organizing Network • Catherine Barnett Restaurant Opportunities Center of NY • Maya Bhardwaj Faith in NY FRIDAY 6/2 L.76 L2.85 L2.84 L2.81 Session A 5:00pm – 6:45pm Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 2017 Left Forum Panels www.rosalux-nyc.org 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 Recent euphoria, particularly over the rise of SYRIZA and PODEMOS in Europe and the Bernie Sanders campaign in the US, has quickly turned to despair for many on the left. How might we characterize the current state of the left in Europe and North America? How can we build our strength and position ourselves to win while simultaneously fighting ongoing neoliberal austerity and the rise of the nationalist right? Paul Mason (Journalist, London) Cornelia Hildebrandt (RLS–Berlin) Ethan Young (Left Labor Project, New York) Albert Scharenberg (RLS–NYC), chair Mapping the Left in Europe and North America Check out our table with free publications covering a wide range of left topics. Commonly heralded as a champion of liberal thought, many are surprised to find that Karl Polanyi, writer of The Great Transformation, actually considered himself a socialist. How should we understand his contributions to socialist thought in the current conjuncture, particularly as this relates to his notion of “freedom in a complex society”? Michael Brie (RLS–Berlin) Margaret Somers (University of Michigan) Nikil Saval (N+1 magazine) James Hare (RLS–NYC), chair Karl Polanyi’s Socialist Vision The idea of the “sanctuary city” has taken hold across North America since the election of Trump. However, it remains unclear just what a sanctuary city is, and what are its possibilities in the service of defending civil and social rights and implementing radical reform. Will the sanctuary city movement embrace empty cosmopolitan rhetoric, or can it move us toward a more radical vision of racial justice in the city? Tahir Della (Initiative for Black People in Germany) Will Prosper (Montréal Noir) Shatia Strother (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, Brooklyn) Kazembe Balagun (RLS–NYC), chair Sanctuary Cities for Whom? Racial Justice Movements in Montreal, Berlin & New York Deep-sea mining is at the cutting edge of economic exploitation of the oceans, with coastal communities in the global South being used as testing grounds. The ecological, social, economic hazards remain unknown. Facing these risks, local communities are leading the resistance and demanding a stop to such extractivism unless suitable social and ecological standards are met. Kai Kaschinski (Fair Oceans) Christoph Spehr (DIE LINKE, Germany) Christina Tony (Bismarck Ramu Group, Papua New Guinea) Natassa Romanou (NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies), chair The Final Frontier: Deep-Sea Privatization and Local Resistance The women’s march that followed Trump’s victory was hugely impressive and even historic. On the heels of a presidential campaign marred by overt sexism as well as an overly narrow vision of elite feminism, what can we make of this recent upswell in feminist organizing? How we can support a new feminism that embraces all oppressed minorities while basing itself in a material notion of class politics? Sarah Leonard (The Nation magazine) Maria Poblet (Causa Justa :: Just Cause, Bay Area) Carla Murphy (Author and Activist, New York) Stefanie Ehmsen (RLS–NYC), chair After the Women’s March: Next Steps toward a New Feminist Movement Follow us @ rosaluxnyc OPENING PLENARY 7:15–9:15PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL CHALLENGING STATE REPRESSION LINDA SARSOUR, GLEN FORD, JEREMY SCAHILL, SEKOU ODINGA, MOLLY CRABAPPLE & LAURA FLANDERS, MODERATOR Special Introduction By: OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA 24 | Left Forum 2017 Worker/Owner Coops: Doing Better Than Capitalism Democracy At Work New York • Alan Schulman Veteran Public School Educator and Activist; Program Coordinator, Democracy At Work New York • Richard D. Wolff Democracy At Work • Pablo Benson-Silva Director of Membership and Communications at the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYCNOWC). • Rebecca Lurie CUNY, Murphy Institute for Labor and Urban studies • Sean Abbot Klafter Social Studies Teacher, NYC Department of Education After the Women’s March: Next Steps toward a New Feminist Movement • Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office • Stefanie Ehmsen Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office • Sarah Leonard The Nation magazine • Maria Poblet LeftRoots • Carla Murphy Writer and Echoing Ida editor Race, Place and Police: The 2009 Shooting of Oscar Grant Love Not Blood Campaign • Uncle Bobby X Love Not Blood Campaign • Beatrice Johnson X Love Not Blood Campaign • Elizabeth Hinton Author of “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America” • Krystal Brow Team Marlon Foundation • Vanissa Chan Force Trajectory Project Grassroots Leadership and The Arts For Social Change Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Susan Erenrich International Leadership Association; Cultural Center for Social Change; American University • Marie-Claire Picher Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Gail Burton Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Raymond Nat Turner Artistic Director, UpSurge! NYC; Poet-in-Residence, Black Agenda Report; Steering Committee member, National Writers Union Creative Democracy. Artistic and Cultural Perspectives on Resistance and Social Change • Lea Diaz • Susan Brennan • Angela Lang • Lucia Cotarelo Universidad Complutense de Madrid SATURDAY 6/3 L.76 3.79 3.80 3.81 L2.84 L2.85 Session 1 10:00am – 11:50am Theater of Resistance - Part 1 • Richard Moodey Gannon University • Claire Moodey Brooklyn based theater artist • Joseph Stadler SUNY, University at Buffalo • Arthur Vincie The Long Depression - A Critique of the Book by Michael Roberts Union for Radical Political Economics • Al Campbell Union for Radical Political Economics • Jose Tapia Drexel University • Paul Mattick • Michael Roberts 1.113 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 25 New Media for a New Economy The Laura Flanders Show • Laura Flanders The Laura Flanders Show • Natalia Linares New Economy Coalition • Gar Alperovitz Co-Founder, The Democracy Collaborative, and Co-Chair, The Next System Project • Jo Ellen Kaiser The Media Consortium • Deyanira Del Rio New Economy Project Ensuring Worker Co-op Success Through Experiential Education The Community and Economic Development Clinic at CUNY School of Law • Missy Risser Co-founder, 1 Worker 1 Vote • Carmen Huertas-Noble Professor of Law and Director of CUNY Law School’s Community and Economic Development Clinic • Isabel Uribe Mentor on Entrepreneurship and Project Manager at Saiolan • Sandi Vito Executive Director, 1199 SEIU Training and Employment Fund (TEF) • April De Simone Co-founder of designing the WE • Roger Green Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the DuBois-Bunche Center for Public Policy Taking on the Bosses: Lessons from Recent Workers’ Struggles • Dan DiMaggio New York City Democratic Socialists of America • Bianca Cunningham New York City Democratic Socialists of America • Mahoma Lopez Laundry Workers Center • Rosanna Aran Laundry Workers Center Not Just Preaching to the Choir • Chris Sturr Dollars & Sense • Zoe Sherman Dollars & Sense • Robert Emerick Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Das Kapital 2.0: The Next 150 Years - Part 1 Critical Sociology, International Marxist Humanist Organization • Lauren Langman Loyola • Kevin Anderson Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara • David Schweickart Department of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago • Heather Brown Westfield State University From Resistance to Revolution: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America • Walda Katz-Fishman Howard University • Jerome Scott League of Revolutionaries for a New America • Rose Brewer University of Minnesota SATURDAY 6/3 Session 1 10:00am – 11:50am 1.117 1.121 1.123 1.114 1.119 1.115 26 | Left Forum 2017 The Great October Revolution and the Soviet Socialist Experiment: Reassessment and Revivals Journal of Labor and Society, The Anvil • Jackie Di Salvo CUNY • Abhinav Sinha Mazdoor Bigul, India • August Nimtz, Jr University of Minnesota • Alexander Buzgalin Moscow State University • Grover Furr Montclair State University • Immanuel Ness Journal of Labor and Society Rainbow Coalition Fascism • Margaret Stevens Essex County College • Emanuel Martinez Popular Resistance • Kamika Bennett Rutgers University-Newark SATURDAY 6/3 Session 1 10:00am – 11:50am The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87: History, Lessons, and Current Implications Peter Shapiro • Peter Shapiro • Jeffery Hermanson Former Director of Global Strategies, Workers United; former Organizing Director, ILGWU • Gene Carroll The Worker Institue, Cornell ILR • Lucia Gomez LIUNA Local 78 Latino Caucus Technology and Revolution: A Convergence - Part 1 May First/People Link • Melanie Bush International Network of Scholar/Activists • Rob Robinson Nesri, Left Forum, May First/People Link • Alfredo Lopez May First/People Link Blueprint for a Climate Emergency Movement: Saying Goodbye to Gradualism & Mobilizing for the Future We Need The Climate Mobilization • Ashik Siddique The Climate Mobilization • Margaret Klein Salamon The Climate Mobilization • Anya Grenier The Climate Mobilization • Gregory Schwedock The Climate Mobilization 1.124 1.125 1.129 1.63 1.65 1.66 1.127 Against Doom: Climate Insurgency Now! PM Press & The Labor Network for Sustainability • Jeremy Brecher Labor Network for Sustainability • Cynthia Kaufman Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action • Anneke Campbell Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) Pedagogies of Resistance • Andjela Kaur University of Massachusetts at Boston • Olivera Jokic John Jay College, CUNY • Alexis Danzig ACT UP, Rise and Resist The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 27 Agriculture and Capitalism Monthly Review • Fred Magdoff Monthly Review, University of Vermont • Eric Holt Giménez Food First • Elizabeth Henderson Peacework Organic Community Supported Agriculture and Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) How to Build a Radical Science Movement Science for the People NYC • Conor Dempsey Science for the People NYC • Cathy O’Neil O’Neil Risk Consulting and Algorithmic Auditing • Sean Petty New York State Nurses Association and International Socialist Organization • Bob Newton Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University • Sam Anderson Science for the People Young People in Supporting Grassroots Resistance Globally: HIV Young Leaders Fund Grant-making and Partnership Model HIV Young Leaders Fund • Yahir Zavaleta Rocha HIV Young Leaders Fund • Oliver Anene Male Attitude Network • Lorraine Anyango Y+, The Global Network of Young People Living with HIV • Mohammed Barry Y+, The Global Network of Young People Living with HIV To Keep Refugees Home, Stop Bombing Their Countries World Can’t Wait • Debra Sweet Director, World Can’t Wait • Ed Kinane Anti-Militarist Activist • Sallie Latch Artist, volunteer with refugees in Greece The Unique Role of Citizen Volunteers in the New Sanctuary Movement and Immigrant Justice Dena Fisher • Dena Fisher New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City • Ross Upshaw Bethany Baptist Church, Newark, NJ and New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City • Nathan Yaffe N.Y.U. Law School Graduate W.E.B DuBois and James Baldwin, the Basis for a New Revolutionary Movement. • Nandita Chaturvedi Saturday Free School, Desis United for Humanity • Meghna Chandra Saturday Free School, Desis United for Humanity • Brandon Do Temple Students for Justice in Palestine, Saturday Free School, Black and Brown Coalition at Temple • Kayla Watkins Saturday Free School, Media Literacy Coordinate for High School Youth • Elias Gonzalez Saturday Free School, Media Mobilizing Project 1.67 1.69 1.71 1.73 1.75 1.76 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 1 10:00am – 11:50am 28 | Left Forum 2017 Scary Tales From the Hood: The War on Black Women and Girls Sandra Rivers • Aiani-Koli Mars Ianilamars Productions • Ronukaya Lindsay Temple University Student • Colia L Clark Judicial Violence Symposium, Guadeloupe Haiti Tour Comm, HUERA, MNN, UAM • Betty Davis 1.81 1.82 1.83 1.85 1.87 1.89 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 1 10:00am – 11:50am The Feminist Revolution in Rojava: Lessons for the Left • Debbie Bookchin • Carne Ross • Meredith Tax North America Rojava Alliance • Joey L Leading the Resistance: Millennials Fighting Back • Navjot Kaur Khalsa Aid • Sharon Bardales New York Public Interest Group • Carlos Jesus Young Progressives of America • Anthony Gronowicz Professional Staff Congress • Jaslin Kaur One Girl Inc. Envisioning and Strategically Building a Just Society through Organizing and Policy National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) • Cathy Albisa Executive Director, NESRI • Nadia Mohamed Development & Communications Manager • Ben Palmquist Campaign Manager THE 2017-18 SUM STRATAGEM: A Grand Unified Theory & Strategy (GUTS) For Radical Evolutionary Transformation Society of the Third Millennium (S3K) • Zevin Cruz Society of the Third Millennium (S3K) • Amoreena Tellaeche Society of the Third Millennium (S3K) • Alfonso Tellaeche Society of the Third Millennium (S3K) Framing Resistance: Cultural Identities & Protest Marches • Fabiola Salek York CUNY • Elizabeth Meddeb York College - CUNY • Zohra Saad York - CUNY • Aegina Barnes York - CUNY The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 29 The Incorruptibles Candidate Training: creating 1000 Bernie Sanderses The Incorruptibles • Anna Callahan The Incorruptibles • Liz Miller The Incorruptibles • Michele Weiner The Incorruptibles What do Socialists Say About Freedom of Speech? International Socialist Organization • Natalia Tylim International Socialist Organization • Monique Dols International Socialist Organization • Sam Farber Prof. Emeritus of Political Science at Brooklyn College • Ashley Smith International Socialist Organization Deep State 2.0: Against Anti-Semitism, but Critical of Zionism Sander Hicks • Sander Hicks 9/11 Truth Action Project • Alison Weir If Americans Knew • Joel Simpson TK “What’s Going On?” Imperialism and the Current Crisis • Kanishka Chowdhury

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

• John Maerhofer CUNY • Joe Ramsey UMass, Boston • Nino Brown • Mela Heestand 1948 Nakba: Creation, Catastrophe, Resilience Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, the Center for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies & Communication Studies Department at California State University, San Bernardino • Ros Petchesky Hunter College CUNY • Ahlam Muhtaseb California State University-San Bernardino • Andy Trimlett Independent Film Maker • Rabab Abdulhadi Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University. The Normalization of Evil in the Current Dark Age Gotham Greens local • Bonnie Keyes Gotham Greens • John Baldwin Gotham Greens • Gabe Evans Gotham Greens • Persephone Smith Green Party of Brooklyn • Paul Gilman Gotham Greens 1.90 1.93 1.91 1.99 1.92 1.100 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 1 10:00am – 11:50am

The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 31 1.101 1.107 1.103 1.108 1.105 1.109 L2.80 Common Sense Resistance by Veterans Thomas Paine Friends Bulletin and Veterans for Peace Newsletter • Phillip Reiss Veterans for Peace (President VFP 152), Member TPF • Victor Madeson VP of Thomas Paine Friends (TPF), VFP Chapter 152, Lifetime member of VFW, DAV, and VVA. Member: ACLU, Common Cause, Public Citizen, NWU • Vincent Stravino, MD Veterans for Peace (Treas VFP 152), Member Thomas Paine Friends (TPF), LePoco • Jenny Pacanowski Member: One Fight, VFP, IVAW, • Skip Moyer VFP, Green Party Even Bernie Wants to Bomb Syria: Challenges to Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War Organizing Today Workers World Newspaper • Christian Cobb Peoples Power Assembly • Andrew Mayton Baltimore Antifascist Community Defense & Baltimore Asian Resistance in Solidarity • Taryn Fivek International Action Center South Africa Today: Confronting Neo-Liberalism Socialist Action • Christine Marie Socialist Action • Patrick Bond University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg • Glen Ford Black Agenda Report • Leigh-Ann Naidoo • Marty Goodman Socialist Action • Trevor Ngwane Democratic Left Front Mapping the Left in Europe and North America • Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office • Albert Scharenberg Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office • Catarina Principe Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc), Portugal • Cornelia Hildebrandt Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–Berlin • Ethan Young Left Labor Project, New York What’s Next for Latin America’s Left? NACLA & Jacobin • Jason Farbman Jacobin • George Ciccariello-Maher Drexel University • Linda Farthing NACLA • Gabriel Hetland University at Albany, SUNY • Thea Riofrancos Providence College • NACLA/NYU Community Culture in the Cuban Revolutionary Experience: Foundations to the Present with Playback as an example International Playback Theatre Network and Pastors for Peace • Susan Metz International Playback Theatre Network • Nora Gallardo-Hamond Pastors for Peace • Isnoel Yanes Gonzalez Teatro de los Elementos, Ministry of Culture, Cuba

The UN in Haiti: The Shell Game of Military Occupation

• Nat Wood Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) produce live talk show: 30 Frames a Second
• Kim Ives Haiti Liberte Newspaper
• Pojaneey Fleury Brown Eyez Magazine , Ayiti and Disapora Business
• Ray LaForest

SATURDAY 6/3 Session 1 10:00am – 11:50am left forum presents UPSURGE! NYC SATURDAY JUNE 3 2017 12 noon – 12:45 Session 2 BLACK BOX THEATER Room L2.83 jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz poetry radical jazz poetry radical jazzpoetry radical jazz The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 33 L2.84 Russia, Its Uses and Abuses In US Domestic Policy • Chip Gibbons • Aaron Maté • Glenn Greenwald (Via Skype) Universalizing Resistance with Medea Benjamin, Gar Alperovitz, Chuck Collins and Charlie Derber • Suren Moodliar encuentro5 • Charlie Derber Boston College • Medea Benjamin Code Pink • Gar Alperovitz Democracy Collaborative • Chuck Collins Inequality.org/Institute for Policy Studies Healing Through Resistance: Confronting The Crisis of State Sponsored Murder in the ERA of Trumpism Love Not Blood Campaign Uncle Bobby X -- Love Not Blood Campaign • Vanissa Chan Force Trajectory Project • Beatrice Johnson X Love Not Blood Campaign • Kenneth Kenneth Chamberlain Jr Westchester Coalition for Police Reform • Andrew /Deanna Joseph Andrew Joseph Foundation • Krystal Brown Team Marlon Foundation Film Screening: “America First” and “Talking Skin” • Marcos Serafim • Jefferson Kielwagen Theater of the Oppressed as a Fight Back Tool: Some Practical Skills for Activists - Part 1 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Marie-Claire Picher Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Gail Burton Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Leonie Ettinger The Living Theatre • Shanise Rhiney Making Moves It’s a Wonderful Life: Writing Resistance & Radical Self-Care NY Writers Coalition • Rose Gorman NY Writers Coalition • Maritza Arrastia NY Writers Coalition • Elena Schwolsky NY Writers Coalition • Sára Abdullah NY Writers Coalition, Earth Seed Holistic SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm L.76 L2.85 3.78 3.79 3.80 left forum presents UPSURGE! NYC SATURDAY JUNE 3 2017 12 noon – 12:45 Session 2 BLACK BOX THEATER Room L2.83 jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz radical poetry jazz poetry radical jazz poetry radical jazzpoetry radical jazz 34 | Left Forum 2017 Theater of Resistance - Part 2 • David Barker Gannon University • Christopher Magno Gannon University • Philip C. Parnell Indiana University Bloomington Obstacles and Avenues to a Resource-Based Economy Zeitgeist-NYC • Harry T. Cason Zeitgeist-NYC • Mark Horowitz Seton Hall University • Richard Florentino Retired NYC Environmental Engineer Working Class Organization in the Age of Free Trade, Automation and Union Retreat • Dan DiMaggio Assistant Editor, Labor Notes • Alicia Love Former member of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators and the Chicago Teachers Union • Matt Berlin Senior Business Strategist, ICA Group • Tim Schermerhorn Labor For Black Lives, Policy Committee of Labor Notes Occupy the Commons: The Holy Grail of Economic and Social Justice GET-GIVE • Yannis Tziligakis GET-GIVE • Marty Rowland Henry George School of Social Science • Mason Gaffney University of California Building the Socialist Community in a Moment of Transition Monthly Review • Irving Kurki Beyond Capital Study Group • Chris Wood Full Stop • Michael Roberto Democracy Greensboro SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm 3.81 1.113 1.114 1.115 1.117 1.119 Capitalism Gets Knocked Down (and then gets up again) Zero Books • Douglas Lain Zero Books • Michael Roberts Michael Roberts blog “The Next Recession” • Pete Dolack Green Party, Zero Books • Terry Tapp Zero Books (author) The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 35 Das Kapital 2.0: The Next 150 Years - Part 2 • David Schweickart Department of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago • Lauren Langman Loyola University of Chicago, Global Studies Association • David Norman Smitth Department of University of Kansas • Peter Hudis International Marxist Humanist Organization • Nancy Holmstrom Prof Emerita of Philosophy Rutgers University Capitalism and Shame • Roger Salerno Pace University; Psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC • Harriet Fraad Democracy at Work • Tess Fraad Wolff Democracy at Work • Shane Knight Democracy at Work Protests That Work: From Getting Media to Collective Organizing to Negotiating with Power -- Strategies on how to bring power to its knees • Marni Halasa Revolution Is Sexy • Elliot Crown Actor, Director, Puppeteer • David Sauvage Co-Founder of Occupy.com Occupy Evolving—The Trials, Tribulations, Lessons, and Evolution of Occupy Wall Street—Six Years Later Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) • Sumumba Sobukwe Occupy Wall Street (Action Council NYC)/Occu-Evolve • Jan Weinberg Show Up America • Jerry Ashton R.I.P Medical Debt Rural Proletarian Revolutions, Oklahoma and Mexico, 1917: Capitalism, Environmental Disaster, and Why the Land Question Remains Relevant Monthly Review • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz California State University • Hannah Holleman Amherst College • John Womack, Jr. Professor Emeritus, Harvard University • John Hart University of Houston, History Department Technology and Revolution: A Convergence - Part 2 May First/People Link • Melanie Bush International Network of Scholar/Activists • Rob Robinson Nesri, Left Forum, May First/People Link • Alfredo Lopez May First/People Link 1.123 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm 1.121 1.124 1.125 1.127 1.129 36 | Left Forum 2017 Past, Present and Future: Public Access in a New Era: Lessons Drawn from Manhattan Neighborhood Network DeeDee Halleck, Deep Dish Network • DeeDee Halleck Deep Dish TV • Jesus Papoleto Melendez Barrio Art Space • Melissa Nieves • Union Settlement Retired • Diana Agosta NYC Board of Education • Devorah Hill Independent Producer Public Banking and Divestment Campaigns in NYC New Economy Project, Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, 350.org, and The Working World • Deyanira Del Rio New Economy Project • Linda Levy Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union • Beta Coronel 350.org Resistance Is Not Enough: Imminent Climate Catastrophe Compels a Replacement Strategy • Joel Kupferman Co-Chair Environmental Justice Committee of the National Lawyers Guild • Paul Cooney Union for Radical Political Economics/Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento • Patricia S Mann National Lawyers Guild, Radical Philosophy Association Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Now (Part I): The Classroom as a Space for Critique • Erik Jacobson New Jersey Association for Lifelong Learning • Susannah Bien-Gund Arab American Association of New York • Somia Elrowmeim Arab American Association of New York • Andy Beutel Mahwah School District Land Justice: Re-imagining land, food and the commons in the United States Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy • Eric Holt-Gimenez Food First • Hartman Deetz Mashpee Tribe • Leah Penniman Soul Fire Farm SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm 1.61 1.63 1.65 1.66 1.67 1.69 Mobilizing and Organizing the Democratic forces in the Age of Trump: Nationalism, Fascism, Racism, and Elite Economic Plunder • Immanuel Ness Brooklyn College, CUNY • Obasegun Awolabi Medgar Evers College, CUNY • Melanie Bush Adelphi University • Steven A. Reich James Madison University • Godfrey Vincent Tuskegee University The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 37 Turning the Tables: How the Attempts to Repeal the ACA are Strengthening the Medicare for All Movement Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro chapter • Martha Livingston Chair, Public Health, SUNY Old Westbury; Vicechair, PNHP-NY Metro • Mark Dudzic National Coordinator, Labor Campaign for Single Payer Health Care • Walter M. Tsou Past President, PNHP; Past President, American Public Health Association • Adam Gaffney Critical care Doctor • Jenny Brown National Women’s Liberation The Mexican Crisis and Immigration Campaign for Peace and Democracy; PM Press • Richard Roman Socialist Project (Canada) • Edur Velasco Arregui Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana —Independent Union of Workers of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City • Andrés Barreda Marin Mexican chapter of the Permanent Tribunal of the People/Garante del Capítulo México del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos • Juan Carlos Ruíz New York New Sanctuary Coalition 1.71 1.73 Law Offices of David I. Bliven Divorce, Civil Rights/Police Misconduct, Adoptions, Child Custody/Visitation, Child Support/Paternity, Separations/Pre-Nuptials, Child Abuse/Neglect, Juvenile Delinquency, Family Offense, Foster Care Proceedings We offer a sliding scale based on ability to pay for those who financially qualify. I am a former Family Court prosecutor with over 20 years experience. I have an ‘AV’ Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, a 10.0 Rating from Avvo, and am listed as a ‘Super Lawyer’ from Thompson Reuters. And as a solo practitioner, I will give your case more personalized attention. Call for more information and/or to schedule an appointment. Main Office & Mailing Address: Bronx Satellite Office: 445 Hamilton Ave, Ste 607 3174 Riverdale Ave., Ste 1 White Plains, NY 10601 Bronx, NY 10463 (914) 468-0968 (718) 725-9600 Web: www.blivenlaw.net E-mail: DavidBliven@msn.com I’m also a member & proud supporter of the International Socialist Organization (www.internationalsocialist.org) Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm SATURDAY 6/3 38 | Left Forum 2017 Emergency Response Networks and Resisting Raids and Deportations International Socialist Organization • Sandra Merlim • Denise Romero DREAMer • Yasmeen Kamel Bay Ridge for Social Justice • Sherry Wolf Organizer for Rutgers AAUP, which has been active in supporting undocumented students on campus Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated • David Bliven International Socialist Organization • Sharonne Salaam Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated • Yusef Salaam Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated • Alex Clermont International Socialist Organization Anti-fascist organizing in the age of Trump Verso Books • George Ciccariello-Maher • Natasha Lennard • Shuja Haider The Fight for Abortion Rights in the Trump Era—It’s Up to Us NYC for Abortion Rights • Lichi D’Amelio NYC for Abortion Rights • Kate Castle NYC For Abortion Rights • Celia Petty • Liza Fuentes Guttmacher Institute 1.75 1.76 1.77 1.81 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm Fighting Sexism and Lifting up Gender Justice in Our Movements. The Women’s Organizing Network, Restaurant Opportunities Center NY, Faith in NY • Dahlia Goldenberg The Women’s Organizing Network • Catherine Barnett Restaurant Opportunities Center of NY • Maya Bhardwaj Faith in NY 1.82 Memory as Resistance: An Intergenrational Dialogue on Living a Radical Life • Sarah Dziedzic Independent Oral Historian • Joel Kovel Sacked Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Bard College • Tarak Kauff Veterans for Peace • Svetlana Kitto Independent Writer and Oral Historian 1.83 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 39 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm SATURDAY 6/3 Can the Democratic Party be Reformed? Socialist Action • Dan Durso Former Co-Director, Bernie Sanders CT Team • Daniel Vila Chair, Manhattan Green Party • Daniel Adam Socialist Action • Margaret Kimberly Editor and Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report • Melissa Muldoon Socialist Action 1.90 Understanding Our Resistance Black Agenda Report • Nellie Bailey Black Agenda Report • Anthony Montiero Black Agenda Report • Glen Ford Executive Editor Black Agenda Report 1.89 Striving for Utopia in a Toxic Culture The Writers Collective • Stephen James The Writers Collective • Jack Moscou The Writers Collective • Sharon Nelson The Writers Collective 1.87 Rethinking the Resistance - Marches, Online Actions and More Purpose • Caleb-Michael Files Purpose • Devorne Hormeku All Out • Renee Miller Purpose • Moumita Ahmed Millennials for Revolution • Kei Williams Black Lives Matter - New York 1.85 40 | Left Forum 2017 Hegemony How-To: Breaking Out of the Lefty Clubhouse to Contest for Popular Power Beyond the Choir, Democratic Socialists of America, Leftroots • Jonathan Smucker Beyond the Choir (director); Lancaster Stands Up (leadership team); Hegemony How-To (author) • Maria Poblet Leftroots; Causa Justa (former Excecutive Director) • Vicente Rubio-Pueyo Fordham University, Podemos participant The Resistance is Intersectional; Creating a Politics of Solidarity • Brendan James Chapo Traphouse • Karina Moreno LIU Brooklyn • Claude Joseph The New School • Kazembe Balagun Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office • Meg Beyer The New School • Holly Wood Harvard University How New 9/11 Legal Actions Redefine Resistance Les Jamieson • Sander Hicks http://www.sanderhicks.com/slingshot.html • Barbara Honegger Former White House policy analyst and Justice Department official • J. Michael Springmann

Lawyers’ Committee For 9/11 Inquiry, lcfor911.

org • Jane Clark Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, lcfor911.org • Les Jamieson HR14.ORG Building a Campaign to Support the Democratic Forces and End the War in Syria The Global Campaign for Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution • Yasser Munif Emerson College • Stanley Heller Promoting Enduring Peace • Malek Daniel • Shiyam Galyon Campaign Coordinator at Books Not Bombs • Ramah Kudaimi National Committee of the War Resisters League • Mohamed T Khairullah Mayor of Prospect Park, N.J. Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University • Michelle Hartman Islamic Studies Institute, McGill University • Rabab Abdulhadi San Francisco State University • Susan R. Greene Director, Art Forces • Khury Peterson-Smith Black4Palestine • Tami Gold Hunter College-CUNY, film studies “War on Terror” Veterans Dialog with HS and College Students We Are Not Your Soldiers • Stephanie Rugoff Coordinator, We Are Not Your Soldiers • Joe Urgo Vietnam veteran • Lyle Rubin Afghanistan veteran 1.92 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm 1.91 1.93 1.99 1.100 1.101 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 41 $24 for individuals ($50 for institutions, $40 for non-U.S. subscriptions) in U.S. currency only, drawn on a U.S. bank New Politics comes out twice a year. All subscriptions are for 4 issues (2 years) NEW POLITICS • 294 New York Ave. • Brooklyn, NY 11216 www.newpol.org • newpoliticsjournal@gmail.com New Politics allies itself with all those working for peace, social justice, democracy, and cultural freedom, and offers a framework broad enough to embrace diversity and disagreement. NP features serious political analysis, interviews, book and fi lm reviews, and cartoons. newpol.org Repression and Resistance in Turkey Friends of Rojava, Research Institute on Turkey, and others • Kumru Toktamis Friends of Rojava • Saladdin Ahmed • Caghan Kizil Research Institute on Turkey The future for politics in South Africa: Youth politics/movements on and off campus Africa is a Country & Jacobin • Sean Jacobs Africa is a Country/New School • Dan Magaziner Yale University • Thuto Thipe • Dmitri Holtzman Equal Education Law Centre • A. Kayum Ahmed Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia Law School The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left with author Helena Sheehan plus Despina Lalaki and Aaron Amaral Campaign for Peace and Democracy; AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement. New Politics magazine • Joanne Landy Co-director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy; Editorial board member, New Politics magazine; Member, AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement • Helena Sheehan Helena Sheehan is Professor Emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is the author of The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left as well as other books and articles. • Despina Lalaki Adj. Assistant Professor, Sociology, Baruch College – CUNY; Member, AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement • Aaron Amaral Aaron Amaral is a New York City based socialist and labor lawyer and a member of the International Socialist Organization and AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement. His review of Helena Sheehan’s The Syriza Wave appeared in New Politics No. 62 (Winter 2017) SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm 1.103 1.105 1.107 42 | Left Forum 2017 A Multi-polar World in Resistance to a Hegemonic Global Model: The Venezuelan Case Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NY • Daviana Sebastian • Radhka Desal • Nora Delgado • Arnold August Oscar Lopez Rivera Freedom Movement, a model for campaigns to free Political Prisoners in the USA NY Coordinator to Free Puerto Rico • Ana M. Lopez NY Coordinator to Free Oscar • Matt Meyer War Resistance league • Nepher Rodriguez NY Coordinator Venezuela’s Resistance against Diplomatic, Media, and Financial Attacks Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NY • William Camacaro • Samuel Moncada • Francisco Dominguez SATURDAY 6/3 Session 2 12:00pm – 1:50pm 1.108 1.109 L2.80 L.63 Special Event: Screening and discussion of documentary series “America Divided” - A House Divided & The System • Andrew J Padilla Award-winning filmmaker • Pamela Brown • Kazembe Balagun Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 12:00–2:00PM BLACK BOX THEATER EXPRESSIONS OF RESISTANCE FEATURING: UpSurge! NYC: Jazz Shahid Bhuttar: Spoken Word Jeremiah Hosea: Bassist/ Vocal Kabina Singh: Dance THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 3:30 –5:30PM BLACK BOX THEATER CREDICO’S COMEDY CAUCUS! Hosted by Randy Credico Featuring: LIONEL Dan Vitale Rhonda Hansome The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 43 L2.85 1.100 SATURDAY 6/3 Lunch Session 2:00pm – 3:30pm Globalization, Blowback, and Beyond: The 2016 Daniel Singer Prize The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation • Victor Navasky Board Member, Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation • Sarah Leonard The Nation magazine • Dan La Botz New Politics • Leo Panitch York University, Toronto, Canada Resisting the Corporate University: Academic Freedom, Islamophobia and Palestine • Nerdeen Kiswani Al-Awda: Palestinian Right of Return Coalition • Jonathan Buchsbaum City University of New York, Professional Staff Congress • Leena Widdi Fordham University School of Law • Saliem Shehadeh San Francisco State University • Shariana Ferrer Colectiva Feminista en Construccion, Women’s & Gender Working Group, Puerto Rican Student Strike • Khury Peterson-Smith Black4Palestine GLOBALIZATION, BLOWBACK AND BEYOND Honoring Sarah Leonard and Glenn Greenwald, Recipients of the 2016 Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Saturday, June 3, 2017 SARAH LEONARD LEO PANITCH DAN LABOTZ Senior Editor, The Nation and Dissent York University, Toronto The Socialist Register Co-Editor, New Politics Moderated by VICTOR NAVASKY Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Editor Emeritus, The Nation The $2,500 Prize is awarded to an essays or published article of no more than 5,000 words which address some aspect of the current scene in the spirit exemplified by the late Daniel Singer. Essays must be received by December 31, 2017 or published during the 2017 calendar year. E-mail submissions to: danielsingerfdn@gmail.com 44 | Left Forum 2017 L.76 3.78 L2.84 3.79 L2.85 3.80 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm – 5:15pm Election Integrity 2: Urgent Election Reforms for the 2018 Midterms (that Circumvent Media Silence): Reports from the Field • Jonathan Simon Executive Director, Election Defense Alliance • Allegra Dengler Chair, Citizens for Voting Integrity • YahNé Ndgo Independent writer, singer, activist • Virginia Martin Democratic Election Commissioner in Columbia Co., NY • Lori Grace Director of the Institute of American Democracy and Election Integrity (trustvote.org) • Lulu Friesdat Independent documentary producer and Creative director of Shugahworks, a documentary production company Economy and Psychology: A Tale of 2 Depressions • Harriet Fraad Democracy at Work • Richard D. Wolff Democracy at Work; Left Forum • Roger Salerno Pace University; psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC Rethinking Revolution Socialist Register • Greg Albo York University • Leo Panitch Socialist Register • August Nimtz University of Minnesota • David Schwartzman Howard Univesrity • Pierre Beaudet University of Ottawa Film Screening: “Clean in: How Hotel Workers Fought for a Union-And Won” The Nation • Rebecca Rojer • Sarah Leonard The Nation Theater of the Oppressed as a Fight Back Tool: Some Practical Skills for Activists - Part 2 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Marie-Claire Picher Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Gail Burton Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Leonie Ettinger The Living Theatre • Shanise Rhiney Making Moves Artist Development & Accessibility to Grants & Public Funds for Peoples of Color Wesley Beeks • Lydia Clark Arts Services Manager Bronx Council on the Arts • Laronz Murray Visual Artist • Kiran Rajagopalan The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 45 3.81 1.115 1.113 1.117 1.114 1.119 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm – 5:15pm THE WRITER AS REVOLUTIONARY: Literary Resistance, Past and Present John Pietaro/New Masses Media • John Pietaro New Masses Media • Amina Baraka Poetry Foundation, Communist Party USA • Raymond Nat Turner UpSurge! NYC • Hank Williams Lehman College CUNY Monopolists: Your Days Are Numbered! Henry George School of Social Science • Marty Rowland Henry George School of Social Science • Joshua Vincent Center for the Study of Economics • John Jones City of Whistling Grove, CT Free The Land: Let A Thousand Jackson Bloom • Taliba Obuya Malcolm X Grassroots Movement • Makungu Akinyea Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Strategies to Create Broad Based, Collective Worker Ownership The Community and Economic Development Clinic at CUNY School of Law • Carmen Huertas-Noble Professor of Law and Director of CUNY Law School’s Community and Economic Development Clinic • Chris Adams Attorney at CUNY School of Law’s Community and Economic Development Clinic • David Levine Co-founder and CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council • Stephan Edel Policy Director, Center for Working Families • Michael Peck Mondragon NorthAmerican Delegate and Co-founder of 1 Worker 1 Vote What Would A Left Alternative to Neoliberalism Look Like? In These Times • Miles Kampf-Lassin In These Times • Kate Aronoff In These Times • J.W. Mason John Jay College • Deyanira Del Rio New Economy Project • Darrick Hamilton The New School for Social Research Utopias and Dystopias: What We Can Learn From Speculative Fiction Hour of the Wolf radio program; EXO Books LLC • Jim Freund Hour of the Wolf, Pacifica Radio in NYC • Richard Bowes • Terence Taylor • Danielle T. Friedman 46 | Left Forum 2017 1.121 1.125 1.123 1.127 1.124 1.129 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm – 5:15pm Karl Polanyi’s Socialist Vision • James Hare Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office • Michael Brie Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–Berlin • Margaret Somers University of Michigan • Nikil Saval N+1 magazine Trotsky’s Biography of Stalin: Reconstructing a Masterpiece WellRed Books • Tom Trottier International Marxist Tendency • Fred Weston International Marxist Tendency • Antonio Balmer WellRed The Russian Revolution: Its Meaning for Activists Today Socialist Action • Juan Cruz Ferre Founding Editor for Left Voice • Manos Skoufoglou National Coordination Body of ANTARSYA in Greece. • Jeff Mackler National Secretary, Socialist Action • Ann Montague SEIU Western Region Lavender Caucus • Shelby Williams President, Central Connecticut State Youth for Socialist Action The German Revolution, 1918 through 1923: False Hope or Missed Opportunity Marxist Education Project • Robert (David) Worley Marxist Education Project • Branden Rippey

Independent

• Jim Creegan Independent • Pete Dolack Independent • Marilyn Vogt-Downey Independent The Re-Connection of Marx with Classical Humanism • Norman Levine • Zhang Shuguang Professor of Philosophy at Beijing Normal University, a member of School Academic Committee • Lu Kejian School of Philosophy - Beijing Normal University Technology and Revolution: Scholar Activists and the Defense of the Knowledge Commons May First/People Link and International Network of Scholar Activists • Jackie Smith International Network of Scholar Activists • Alfredo Lopez May First/People Link • Manisha Desai University of Connecticut • Melanie Bush Adelphi University The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 47 Cultivating Resistance within Religious Traditions Community of Living Traditions @ Stony Point Center • Amy Dalton Community of Living Traditions • Rosario Ureña Proyecto Faro • Sherly Fabre Muslim Peace Fellowship • Matt Zeltzer Community of Living Traditions, IfNotNow • Will Summers Stony Point Center Farm • Susan Smith Muslim Peace Fellowship Standing with Standing Rock at CUNY: Students use Social Media to Learn and Teach about Conflict and Nonviolent Resistance at Borough of Manhattan Community College Communications Major, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY • Jill Strauss Speech, Communications, Theater Arts Department, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY • Natalie Anise Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY • Jahlil Smithpage Borough of Manhattan Community College • Adam Rodriguez Borough of Manhattan Community College • Yeritza Mejía Borough of Manhattan Community College • Ruby Inoa Borough of Manhattan Community College The Final Frontier: Deep-Sea Privatization and Local Resistance • Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office • Natassa Romanou NASA-Goddard Institute • Kai Kaschinski Fair Oceans • Christoph Spehr Die Linke, Germany • Christina Tony Bismarck Ramu Group, Papua New Guinea Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Now (Part 2): Past Lessons and Opportunities for Action Now • Erik Jacobson New Jersey Association for Lifelong Learning • Susannah Bien-Gund

Arab American Association of New York

• Somia Elrowmeim Arab American Association of New York • Andy Beutel Mahwah School District • Brandon Rippey Newark Public School System • Greg Gallet Critical Teaching and Learning Forum War, Fascism, and the Psychology of Meat Independent Advocates for Animals • Joan Harrison Independent Advocate for Animals • William Crain Professor of Psychology at City College, co-founder of Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary • Adam Weissman Global Justice for Animals and the Environment NOW IS THE TIME: Healthcare for Everybody (Documentary Film) Educational Videos Plus and Health Care for All Pennsylvania • Walter Tsou Secretary, Health Care for All Pennsylvania • Terry Sterrenberg Co-producer, Educational Videos Plus • Laurie Simons Co-producer, Educational Videos Plus 1.61 1.66 1.63 1.69 1.65 1.71 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm – 5:15pm 48 | Left Forum 2017 Immigrants And The Labor Movement/ Film on Ludlow and The Coal Wars AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement • Katya Nicolaou AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement • Dan Georgakas Journal of Modern Hellenism, Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens College • Frosso Tsoukas Apostolis Berdebes, npo Dismantling the Immigration Detention System Social Medicine Journal, Montefiore Residency Program in Social Medicine • Robb Burlage, Ph.D Senior Management Consultant, NYC Health + Hospitals. • Shruthi Rajashekara Montefiore Medical Center Residency in Social Medicine • Homer Venters Physicians for Human Rights • Lauren Quijano New York Lawyers in the Public Interest • Anthony Feliciano Commission on the Public’s Health System • Tasher Losenegger Director of Clinical Operations: Weil Cornell Human Rights Clinic. 1.73 1.82 1.75 1.83 1.77 1.85 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm – 5:15pm Antifascism in Theory and Practice • Alexander Reid Ross • Alexander Ross • Mark Bray • Whitney Mallett When I see them : I see us How our struggles are connected The Hampton Institute : A working Class Think Tank and QPEN • Eyad Alkurabi The Queer Palestinian Empowerment Network • Colia Clark Judicial Violence Symposium • Susan Massad Professor, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA • Angeline Butler Professor at John Jay Oligarchical Ideologies in Crisis: Cultural Populism, Dark Enlightenment, Nihilism, and Liberalism Tax Wall Street Party • Daniela Walls Tax Wall Street Party • Webster Tarpley United Front Against Austerity • Gregory Edwards Tax Wall Street Party • Roland Yanez Indivisible of Montgomery County, Maryland The New Thought Police - Social Justice Warriors Vox • Harry Stuckey www.voxnews.com • Michael Rectenwald New York University; www.michaelrectenwald.com • Helen Buyniski voxnews.com The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 49 Strategy and tactics for building unity: Defeating Trump, the right-wing and the path to U.S. Socialism Communist Party USA • John Bachtell CPUSA • Roberta Wood CPUSA • Joe Sims CPUSA • Dee Miles CPUSA A Homefront Counterextremism Project: How to defeat the Far Right Insurgency • John Kirbow Founder, Reason Revival • Stephen Sharper Science and philosophy advocate, and university undergrad • Michael Walsh Science advocacy, debate, philosophy, and marketing research. • Lee Moore Progressive activist, community organizer, head of The Firebrands Podcast, and lead organizer of various efforts to oppose Trump and Pence Fighting Back: Breakthroughs and Challenges in Holding the Powerful Accountable Toward Freedom Media • Robin Lloyd Toward Freedom Media: http://www.towardfreedom.com/ • Stacy Bannerman Author • Kristina Borjesson • Investigative reporter • Charlotte Dennett Investigative reporter, author Resisting Trump, Exposing the Democrats Black Agenda Report • Glen Ford Executive editor, Black Agenda Report • Bruce Dixon Georgia Green Party, Black Agenda Report • Margaret Kimberley UNAC, Black Agenda Report • Nellie Bailey Harlem Tenants Union • Ajamu Baraka Green Party • Raymond Nat Turner Upsurge Jazz ensemble The Party: Do We Need It? If So, What Does It Look Like? How Do We Get It? Socialism and Democracy • Victor Wallis Socialism and Democracy • Nicole Aschoff Jacobin Magazine • Kali Akuno Cooperation Jackson • Johanna Fernandez Socialism and Democracy • Gerald Meyer Vito Mercantonio Forum & Socialism and Democracy • Sarika Chandra Wayne State University Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change PM Press • Cynthia Kaufman Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action • Matt Meyer War Resisters International • Anneke Campbell Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) • John P. Clark La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology 1.87 1.91 1.89 1.92 1.90 1.93 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm – 5:15pm 50 | Left Forum 2017 Geopolitics, the International Left, and the Syrian Revolt The Global Campaign for Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution • Shireen Akram-Boshar Students for Justice in Palestine • Ashley Smith International Socialist Organization • Joseph Daher Lausanne University • Wael Elasady Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights 1.99 1.103 1.100 1.105 1.101 1.107 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm – 5:15pm Deadly Exchanges: Policing Resistance Movements, Prison Abolition and US and Israeli Collaboration Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University • Jack Norton Critical Resistance • Eran Efrati Executive director, Researching the American-Israeli Alliance • Laura Whitehorn Former US-held Political Prisoner • Kali Akuno Malcolm X Grassroots Movement • Sagiv Galai Jewish Voice for Peace-NYC • Shariana Ferrer Colectiva Feminista en Construccion, Organizing Commitee, UPR con Oscar Confronting Military Recruitment in the Nation’s High Schools Pat Elder, Director, National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy • Pat Elder National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy • Barbara Harris New York Coalition to Protect Student Privacy • Seth Kershner Author, “Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools.” Free Dr. Saibaba: Resistance to Reaction and Fascism in India • William James • A Moritz • Rob Smith The North American Campaign for Southern African Liberation Revisited: Lessons from Struggle, Then and Now • John S. Saul retired & author of On Building a Social Movement: The North American Campaign for Southern African Liberation Revisited • Stephanie Urdang author of Mapping My Way Home and formerly with the American Committee of Africa • Prexy Nesbitt Chicago-based activist now teaching at Columbia College in Chicago • Toivo Asheeke Dept. of Sociology, University of Binghampton • Emily Williams Senior Program Officer, Africa Department, Solidarity Center, Chicago Fighting Back on Both Sides of the Mexico-U.S. Border PM Press • Richard Roman Socialist Project (Canada) • Edur Velasco Arregui Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana —Independent Union of Workers of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City • Andrés Barreda Marin Mexican chapter of the Permanent Tribunal of the People/Garante del Capítulo México del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos • Juan Carlos Ruíz New York New Sanctuary Coalition • Cinthya Santos The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 51 New Constituent Process in Venezuela: Popular Resistance to Conservative Advances in Latin America • Isolina De La Cruz • Maria Eugenia • Nora Delgado • Carlos Ron Cuban Political and Economic Reforms Socialism and Democracy, URPE • Peter Roman Socialism and Democracy • Keith Bolender University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies • Al Campbell URPE Elections Without Electoralism – Using Elections as a Voice of the Working Class Revolutionary Workers Group; New Anti-Capitalist Party (L’Étincelle) • Eden Foster Speak Out Now/Revolutionary Workers Group • Marcus Lissey Speak Out Now/Revolutionary Workers Group • Antoine Perrin New Anti-Capitalist Party (L’Etincelle, France) 1.108 1.109 L2.80 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 3 3:30pm – 5:15pm Free Speech Radio independent progressive news, analysis, music & arts No Sponsors, Just Members Listener Supported: Join Now Listener GOVERNED WBAI 99.5 FM in NYC and nearby ALSO STREAMING ON THE WEB via www.wbai.org to “Middle America and Outer Mongolia” One of the 5 nationwide PACIFICA stations 52 | Left Forum 2017 L.76 3.78 L2.84 3.79 L2.85 3.80 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 4 5:20pm – 7:10pm Ecosocialism: There Is No Alternative Monthly Review • Hannah Holleman Amherst College • Chris Williams Activist, author, journalist • Fred Magdoff University of Vermont, Monthly Review Reality Check - Why now more than ever, it’s time for radical resistance and independent green-left collaboration… And how to move it forward Left Elect Conference • Gloria Mattera Green Party of New York • Jill Stein Green Party USA • Chris Hedges writes an online column for Truthdig. • Margaret Kimberely Black Agenda Report • Medea Benjamin CODEPINK Sanctuary Cities for Whom? Racial Justice Movements in Montreal, Berlin & NYC Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office • Kazembe Balagun Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office • Tahir Della Initiative for Black People in Germany • Will Prosper Hoodstock • Shatia Strother Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, Brooklyn Film Screening: Good Thinking, Those Who’ve Tried To Halt Nuclear Weapons • Anthony Donovan www.GoodThinkingTheDocumentary.net Acting Out: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith Malina • Andrew Hannon UMASS Boston • Tom Walker The Living Theatre • Brad Burgess The Living Theatre Poems of Resistance and Struggle Radical Poets Collective • Lynne Lopez-Salzedo Radical Poets Collective, Jewish Voice for Peace • Chris Butters Radical Poets Collective, WBAI-FM, U.S. Labor Against the War; Communist Party • Robert Gibbons Radical Poets Collective; CUNY City College; Arts Students League; ASALH Association for the Study and Life of African-American History. • Sam Friedman Central Jersey Coalition against Endless War, Jewish Voice for Peace - Central Jersey; Radical Poets Collective • Fred Arcoleo Rally Folk Music, NYC; People Music Network; George Washington Educational Campus ; Academy for Teachers’ SummerSongs From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor No One Is Illegal Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis On Antisemitism Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice Jewish Voice for Peace Foreword by Judith Butler Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Angela Y. Davis Foreword by Cornel West History of the Russian Revolution Hardcover Edition Leon Trotsky The Long Depression How it Happened, Why it Happened, and What Happens Next Michael Roberts BOOKS FOR CHANGING THE WORLD haymarketbooks.org From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor No One Is Illegal Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis On Antisemitism Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice Jewish Voice for Peace Foreword by Judith Butler Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Angela Y. Davis Foreword by Cornel West History of the Russian Revolution Hardcover Edition Leon Trotsky The Long Depression How it Happened, Why it Happened, and What Happens Next Michael Roberts BOOKS FOR CHANGING THE WORLD haymarketbooks.org 54 | Left Forum 2017 Corporate Debt Bust - our radical reply Henry George School of Social Science • Ed Nell Former professor at the New School for Social Research (NY) • Billy Fitzgerald Henry George School of Social Science • Marty Rowland Henry George School of Social Science • Jay Arena

Sociology Department, College of Staten Island

Black Community Resists the Siege • Sacajawea “Saki” Hall Cooperation Jackson • Mark Winston Griffith Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center and Brooklyn Deep • Kimberly Westcott Associate Council, Community Service Society (CSS); Democracy At Work New York, Coordinating Committee The History of Worker Cooperatives Through the Lens of Socio-Economic Class Struggles The Community and Economic Development Clinic at CUNY School of Law • Carmen Huertas-Noble Professor of Law and Director of CUNY Law School’s Community and Economic Development Clinic • April De Simone Co-founder of Designing the We • Roger Green Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the DuBois-Bunche Center for Public Policy • Missy Risser Coufounder, 1 Worker 1 Vote 1.113 1.117 1.114 1.119 1.115 1.121 SATURDAY 6/3 From Slave to Temp Shop: Employment Agencies, Surplus Labor, and the History of Investment Capitalism Haymarket Press • David Van Arsdale SUNY • Stanley Aronowitz CUNY Graduate Center • William DiFazio St. John’s University • Clayton Rosati Bowling Green State University Creating a Blueprint for 2042: Visioning for a Future in Color We Are 2042 • Elizabeth Clay Roy We Are 2042 • Lee Bynum Columbia University • Elissa Cofield Nomadness Travel Tribe Can Hawaiian Pizza Explain Donald Trump? The Politics of Purity in Revanchist America Institute for the Radical Imagination • Michael Pelias LIU Brooklyn and Situations • Arun Gupta Independent Journalist • Peter Bratsis CUNY and Situations • Jeremy Glick CUNY Session 4 5:20pm – 7:10pm The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 55 1.123 1.127 1.124 1.129 1.125 1.61 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 4 5:20pm – 7:10pm Fanon Reloaded: Anti-Racist Confrontations of Neo-Liberal and Neo-Fascist Reconfigurations of Empire The Brotherwise Dispatch and International Marxist-Humanist Organization • Don Jackson The Brotherwise Dispatch, the Indypendent • Lewis R. Gordon • LaRose T. Parris • Peter Hudis International Marxist-Humanist Organization • A. Shahid Stover The Brotherwise Dispatch The Russian Revolution: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Science & Society, and the Union for Radical Political Economics • Renate Bridenthal • August Nimtz Jr University of Minnesota • Aleksandr Buzgalin Professor of Economics, Moscow State University; Editor, *Alternativy*. • Gerald Meyer Hostos Community College. (CUNY) • David Laibman Editor, Science & Society. Professor, Economics (Emeritus), City University of New York The Radical Jacksonian Left The Henry George School of Social Science • Tom Ballou Alliance for the Liberation Left • Sue Peters American Monetary Institute; Manhattan Green Party Local; National Organization of Raw Materials; NYC Labor Chorus • Allen Smith The Henry George School of Social Science Hip Hop vs Neoliberalism • Louis Jefferson All Revolutionary Ques • Rodrigo Venegas (RodStarz) of Rebel Diaz • Gonzalo Venegas (G1) of Rebel Diaz • Khnum Muata Ibomu (stic.man) of Dead Prez Reclaiming Human Potential: A Revolutionary Tool United to End Racism • Maritza Arrastia United to End Racism, May First/People Linkk • Irene Hong Ping Shen United to End Racism • Kathy Martino United to End Racism Strategies for Advancing the Human Rights movement in your community US Human Rights Network • Colette Pichon Battle US Human Rights Network • Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana American Friends Service Committee • Noel Didla Jackson Human Rights Institute • Sheila Katzman NYC4CEDW - www.nyc4cedaw.org • Carl Redwood Hill District Consensus Group and Pittsburgh Black Left Movement A road map to shock resistance in the Trump era from journalist and bestselling author NAOMI KLEIN “Naomi Klein is one of the few revolutionary public intellectuals of great integrity and vision.” —Cornel West On sale June 13 haymarketbooks.org The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 57 A road map to shock resistance in the Trump era from journalist and bestselling author NAOMI KLEIN “Naomi Klein is one of the few revolutionary public intellectuals of great integrity and vision.” —Cornel West On sale June 13 haymarketbooks.org Preservation and Perseverance: Saving our National Lands in the Trump Era • Alexander Groskinsky • Tyler Groskinsky • Taylor Ackerman Changing Climate: Resistance as Survival in the Anthropocene • Gifty Abraham • Jesse Harchack New York University • Michael Mutarelli Chambers Organizing for a Free CUNY • Conor Tomás Reed Free CUNY, Free University • Linda Luu

CRAASH

• Lynne Turner CUNY Adjunct Project • Rachel Chapman CUNY Sanctuary Movement 1.63 1.67 1.109 1.69 1.66 1.71 SATURDAY 6/3 Housing as a Human Right: What’s Wrong With “Affordable Housing” • Tom Angotti Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY • Rob Robinson Leadership Committee of the Take Back the Land movement and a staff volunteer at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) • Samuel Stein CUNY Graduate Center and professor of Urban Studies at Hunter College • Deshonay Dozier CUNY Graduate Center, Mellon Fellow at LaGuardia Community College Animal liberation, an inevitable outcome of progressive politics: why? and how? • Tracey Lall Humane Party of NY, State Co-Developer • Elena L. Cohen The Graduate Center of the City University of New York • Rafael Epstein Humane Party of NY, State Co-Developer • Craig Seeman Green Party Animal Rights Committee, Co-Chair • Jay Shooster Masiyiwa-Bernstein Fellow, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU School of Law How to Start an Urban Indigenous Health Center Montefiore Medical Center’s Social Medicine Program • Cullen F. Shipman Dineh Forced Exile, Inc., Founder and Director, dinehforcedexile.com and Montefiore Medical Center Social Medicine Program • Matthew Anderson Albert Einstein Medical School and Montefiore Medical Center Social Medicine Program • Matthew Williams Chief Resident of Oral Surgery, Harlem Hospital, and Aleut indigenous person, NYC’s sole member of the Association of American Indian Physicians • Julia Raavad UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, NYC Session 4 5:20pm – 7:10pm 58 | Left Forum 2017 1.75 1.81 1.76 1.83 1.77 1.85 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 4 5:20pm – 7:10pm Documented/Undocumented: Stories by Immigrant Youth • Alan Singer Hofstra University • Pablo Muriel Alfred E. Smith High School, Bronx • Eblin Acosta NYC Department of Education • Firuza Uddin John Adams High School, Queens • Dennis Morales Alfred E. Smith HS and Hofstra University Preemptive Prosecution and Muslim Prisoners National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms & Project SALAM • Kathy Manley National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms & Project SALAM • Melva Underbakke National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms • Marlene Jenkins Muslim Solidarity Committee • Leena Al-Arian NCPCF Beyond Resistance: The Dialectic of Progressive Change Transinopia • Stuart Mason Dambrot Transinopia, Artificial General Intelligence Society, Brain-Machine Interface Consortium, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, World Future Society, Humanity+, Lifeboat Foundation • Stuart Baran • Clark Matthews Lifeboat Foundation, Tax Wall Street Party (twsp. us) and the United Front Against Austerity (againstausterity.org The March 8th International Women’s Day strikes changed class politics Socialist Action and Left Voice • Ann Montague SEIU503/SEIU National Lavender Caucus/Socialist Action • Tatiana Cozzarelli

Left Voice

• Magally Miranda International Women’s Strike/NYC Back on Track Towards Republican Collapse and Democratic Split: An Autopsy for the Old Two-Party System Amidst a Mass Extinction of Political Parties Across the World United Front Against Austerity • Webster Tarpley United Front Against Austerity • Daniela Walls Tax Wall Street Party, Washington DC • Gregory Edwards Tax Wall Street Party of New York • Roland Yanez

Indivisible of Montogmery County, Maryland

Coalition Building Among Grassroots Labor, Student and Social Movements • James Andrews People’s Power Assemblies (PPA), organizing committee member - Point A / Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC), analyst, strategist - Pedagogy Group, member - Culture Push, fellow • Benjamin Gingras Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ) - Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) • Shannon Jones Bronxites for NYPD Accountability aka Why Accountability • Jia Lee Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) - United Federation of Teachers (UFT) The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 59 Genesis, Evolution and Role of a Campus Political Cell • Gene Glickman Emeritus Professor, Nassau Community College • Porter Kirkwood Emeritus Professor, Nassau Community College • Phil Nicholson Emeritus Professor, Nassau Community College Building the Greens Into A Mass Based Party of the Left • Howie Hawkins NY Green Party, Teamsters for a Democratic Union • Bruce Dixon GA Green Party, Black Agenda Report • Steve Early Independent journalist Grassroots organizing, micro-politics, and the Syrian Uprising • Ashley Smith International Socialist Organization • Razan Ghazzawi University of Sussex • Loubna Mrie New York University • Yasser Munif Emerson College From 1968 to 2018: Legacies of Liberation and Rising for Our Future AMED Studies, Palestinian Youth Movement USA, Anak Bayan USA and UAW 2865 • Suzanne Adely National Lawyers Guild, co-chair international committee • Yasmin Za3Za3 University of California-San Diego • Alborz Ghandehari UAW, Local 2765 • Anak Bayan • Jennifer Mogannam Palestinian Youth Movement Democrats & Republicans: The twin parties of Imperialist War United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) • Joe Lombardo UNAC co-coordinator • Jeff Mackler UNAC, Socialist Action • Ajamu Baraka Black Alliance for Peace and Green Party • Abayomi Azikiwe Pan African News Wire, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and injustice, United National Antiwar Coalition We the People: Stories from the Community Civil Disobedience Movement PM Press • Anneke Campbell Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) • Jeremy Brecher Labor Network for Sustainability • Right of Nature Alliance Right of Nature Alliance 1.87 1.99 1.89 1.100 1.91 1.101 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 4 5:20pm – 7:10pm 60 | Left Forum 2017 DISTANT DEATH: Drugs & The Autocracy of Murder in the Philippines AF3IRM NYC • Ninotchka Rosca AF3IRM NYC • Christopher Magno Gannon University • Ruben Carranza International Center for Transitional Justice • Neil X student Africa in Revolt Africa is a Country & Jacobin

• Sean Jacobs Africa is a Country/New School
• Samar Al-Bulushi Yale University
• Zachariah Mampilly Vassar College
• Yousef Khalil regular contributor to Africa is a Country
• Benjamin Fogel Africa is a Country
• Oumar Ba Africa is a Country

Organizing Nationally and Binationally: A Panel on Action New Politics; PM Press • Richard Roman Socialist Project (Canada) • Edur Velasco Arregui Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana —Independent Union of Workers of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City • Andrés Barreda Marin Mexican chapter of the Permanent Tribunal of the People/Garante del Capítulo México del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos • Juan Carlos Ruíz New York New Sanctuary Coalition • Diana Mejia Co-director of Wind of the Spirit, an immigrant led organizing collective in Morristown, NJ. • Dan La Botz co-editor of New Politics Evaluation of Progressive Governments in Latin America in Recent Years URPE • Paul Cooney Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento • Juan Kornblihtt Assistant Researcher Conicet (Argentina) / UNGS (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento/ Universidad de Buenos Aires, ICI-Instituto de Ciencias) • Enith Flores Chamba UNGS (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento) • Al Campbell URPE • Paul Cooney

Union for Radical Political Economy/ Universidad

Nacional de General Sarmiento Cuba-U.S. Relations: Behind the Headlines • Ursula Rozum Green Party • Arnold August Author/Journalist Fernwood Publising • Luis Barrios (Ph.D.) John Jay College of Criminal Justice • James Early (Ph.D) Cultural Heritage Policy Smithsonial Institute, Consultant Cultural Democracy and Statecraft Heritage Policy, Institute of Polcy Studies, The Rael News Network and more. • Manolo Enrique De Los Santos Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) 1.103 1.108 1.105 1.109 1.107 SATURDAY 6/3 Session 4 5:20pm – 7:10pm Why Black and Latino Independent Election Campaigns are Needed More than Ever Left Elect Conference • Bruce Dixon Black Agenda Report, Georgia Green Party • Diamonte Brown Ujima People’s Progress Party, Executive committee of Voter’s Choice in Massachusetts • Khalid Raheem New Afrikan Independence Party (NAIP) • Darlene Elias Green Rainbow Party of Massachusettes L.76 SATURDAY EVENING EVENT 7:30–9:30PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL STATE OF THE STRUGGLE: REFLECTING ON “RESISTANCE” With

TITHI BHATTACHARYA , CINZIA ARRUZZA, L.A. KAUFMAN, MADONNA THUNDER HAWK,

NANCY ROMER & IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, MODERATOR The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 61 In the Belly of the Beast Dollars & Sense • Alejandro Reuss Dollars & Sense/UMass-Boston • José Laguarta Ramírez Dollars & Sense/University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras • Jawied Nawabi Dollars & Sense/CUNY Bronx Community College • Zoe Sherman Dollars & Sense/Merrimack College L2.80 An Authoritarian Trump, US: Race, Gender and Class Transformation • Ayala Leyser Psychotherapist, private Practice, Artist • David Norman Smith - Department of Sociology, University of Kansas • Harriet Fraad Mental Health Counselor • Roger Salerno Pace University • Lauren Langman Department of Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago J is for JUNK ECONOMICS: And its Worst Sin is... Three Answer • Michael Perelman

Professor of Economics, Cal State U, Chino

• Bertell Ollman Politics, NYU • Michael Hudson President, Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends Experimental Writing/Experimental Publishing • Peter Dimock Freelance Editor and former Senior Editor at Random House and Columbia University Press • Ian Dreiblatt Director of Digital Media at Melville House Books • Hilary Plum Novelist, Teacher, Co-Editor Open Prose Series at Rescue Press, and Managing Editor, Journal of the History of Ideas • Eugene Lim Novelist, Publisher of Ellipsis Press, and Librarian RESIST THE MONEY POWER: 5,000 Years of Struggle • Geraldine Perry author of “The Two Faces of Money”; thetwofacesofmoney.com • Ann Webre Member, ACLU, National Resources Defense Council, and WNYC. • Sue Peters American Monetary Institute; Manhattan Green Party Local; National Organization of Raw Materials; NYC Labor Chorus Three takes on Municipalism: Jackson, Barcelona, and Burlington • Eleanor Finley Institute for Social Ecology (ISE) • Kali Akuno Cooperation Jackson • Kate Shea Baird Barcelona En Comu • Jim Schumacher 3.79 L2.84 1.113 L2.85 1.114 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am – 11:50am 62 | Left Forum 2017 Scaling Up: the Transition from Worker Cooperatives to Socialism Community & Economic Development Clinic (CEDC) at CUNY School of Law • Brian D’Agostino International Psychohistorical Association • Carmen Huertas-Noble Graduate Center, CUNY • Peter Ranis City University of New York • Olivier Mathey Forms of Worker Militancy in Contemporary Organizing Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU-UFCW) • Lena Solow Communications Worker of America (CWA) Local 1180. Former member, Babeland Workers Union of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU-UFCW) • Phoenix Velásquez Babeland Workers Union of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU-UFCW) • Massima Lei Babeland Workers Union of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU-UFCW) • Briton Malcomson Citibike campaign, Transport Workers Union Local 100 • Max Demers Stardust Family United, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) • Brian Esposito Stardust Family United, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Bigotry is the Enemy of the Working Class • Julia Wallace Left Voice • Travis Richard Sweatte Graduate Student Union at NYU • Meg Beyer Graduate Student Union at NYU; Feminism of the 99% Erich Fromm’s Socialist Humanism and the Workers • Nick Braune South Texas College • Scott Graybow Metropolitan College of New York • Joan Braune Gonzaga University 1.115 1.121 1.117 1.123 1.119 1.124 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am – 11:50am The Proletariat is Still the Revolutionary Class – It’s Time to Prepare for the Struggles to Come Revolutionary Workers Group; New Anti-Capitalist Party (L’Étincelle, France) • Eden Foster Speak Out Now/Revolutionary Workers Group • Marcus Lissey Speak Out Now/Revolutionary Workers Group • Antoine Perrin New Anti-Capitalist Party (L’Etincelle, France) The Russian Revolution and its Indelible Stamp on the Course of World History Marxism-Leninism Today (MLToday.com); Party of Communists USA • Daniel Vila • Joseph Jamison MLtoday.com • Zoltan Zigedy MLtoday.com • Grover Furr Professor at Montclair State University, NJ • George Gruenthal Party of Communists USA The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 63 Millennial Marxism: Does the Revolution Need a Revolution? • Nicholas Powers The Indypendent • Sumitra Rajkumar Activist • Sujani Reddy Associate Professor • Antonio Callari Franklin and Marshall • Ian Seda-Irrizarry John Jay College of Criminal Justice Organizing the white working class in the 1970s and today: Learning from the work of White Lightning and October 4th Organization Melville House Publishing • Colleen Wessess McCoy Labor and Community Studies • Gil Fagiani White Lightning • Sharon McConnell-Sidorick October 4th Organization • Dan Sidorick October 4th Organizations Digital Security vs. surveillance: defense, meta-defense, and offense Electronic Frontier Alliance • Shahid Buttar EFF Defending Rights and Dissent • Nathan Sheard Black Movement Law Project • David Huerta CryptoParty NYC; Freedom of the Press Foundation • Gemini Matt Crypto Harlem Realizing Human Rights in the United States of America Through UN Sustainable Development Goals • Joshua Cooper Executive Director, Four Freedoms Forum • Alice Chen UN Millennium Campaign, World We Want • Ravi Karkara Senior Advisor Strategic Partnership and Advocacy, UN Women • Rebecca Landy Human Rights Outreach & Advocacy Manager, US Human Rights Network Planetary Challenges of Governance and Environment: Forward to a New Ecological Civilization • Tyler Volk New York University, Departments of Environmental Studies and Biology • David Schwartzman professor emeritus, Howard University, Department of Biology • Peter Frase Jacobin Magazine, also the Democratic Socialists of America • Alyssa Battistoni Yale University School as a Forum of Resistance William Stroud • William Stroud Global Teaching and Learning • Robert Lubetsky City College of New York • Hebh Jamal New York City high school student • Yacine Fall New York City high school student 1.125 1.61 1.127 1.63 1.129 1.66 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am – 11:50am 64 | Left Forum 2017 The Right to the City - A New Politics and the Left Black Rose Books • Lucia Kowaluk Milton Parc Citizens’ Committee, la Communauté St Urbain • Peter Marcuse Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University • Emanuel Guay Réseau d’Action Municipale (Montreal) • Sacajawea “Saki” Hall Cooperation Jackson • Dimitri Roussopoulos Black Rose Books, IPAM, the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre Critics of the Psychiatric Panopticon: Resistance in the Post-Sixties Era The Journal of Mind and Behavior • Lauren Tenney College of Staten Island, (CUNY), Montclair State University • Seth Farber The Institute of Mind and Behavior • Todd Giffen www.obamasweapon.com The US is imperialist & Russia and China are not: A Leninist Approach to Global Class War Today Workers World Newspaper • John Steffin International Action Center • Abayomi Azikiwe Pan-African News Wire and Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice • Sara Flounders International Action Center • Andrew Mayton Baltimore Antifascist Community Defense & Baltimore Asian Resistance in Solidarity 1.67 1.75 1.71 1.76 1.73 1.77 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am – 11:50am Immigrant Detention: Resistance from the Inside Out Lacroix Ramos, Attorneys at Law, LLP • Stephanie Ramos Partner, Lacroix Ramos, Attorneys at Law, LLP • Miriam Lacroix Partner, Lacroix Ramos, Attorneys at Law, LLP • Jonathan Campozano Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow 2017-2019 • Mayra Hidalgo Salazar North Star Fund Contextualizing Criminal Justice System Imposed Stigma and Methods of Resistance • Douglas Evans John Jay College/Good Shepherd Services • Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill John Jay College • Jason Szkola John Jay College Police Reform: How Community-Led Systems, Dialogue, and Science can change policing forever • John Kirbow Founder, Reason Revival and Project Fort Defiance. Writer, linguist, and human rights advocate. • Ray Lewis retired Phila Police Captain; Police reform advocate, speaker, justice activist, and public figure • Wally Bazemore Red Hook lifelong resident and community activist Women of Color Intersectional Solidarity Panel Women of Color in Solidarity • Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones Women of Color in Solidarity • Florcy Romero Women of Color in Solidarity • Tara Houska Honor the Earth and Not Your Mascots • Tajah Ellis Black Girl Politics • Nati “conrazón” Linares Conrazón • Moriah Ray African Diaspora Alliance 1.81 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 65 Socialists and Greens in the ballot box and in the streets • Adrian Boutureira Green Party US • Ajamu Baraka Green Party US • Todd Chretren International Socialist Organization • Robert Caldwell Left Elect- Solidarity • Gloria Mattera Green Party; SCNCC • Eljeer Hawkins Socialist Alternative Intersectional Activism: A Critical Conversation • Lisa Rosenthal Pace University • Paulina Davis National Women’s Liberation Women of Color Caucus • Nisrin Elamin African Communities Together & Sadie Nash Leadership Project • Cassady Fendlay Women’s March • Ximena Bustamante International Women’s Strike NYC Tough Crowd: What to Do When Emotions Run High • Diane Rubino NYU and Columbia • Jesse Scinto Columbia University • Craig Mills Confronting “Anti-Neoliberal Left” Collaboration with Trumpism and the Far Right Marxist-Humanist Initiative • Anne Jaclard Marxist-Humanist Initiative • Bill Weinberg CounterVortex • Andrew Kliman Professor Emeritus of Economics, Pace University • Brendan Cooney kapitalism 101 • Ravi Bali London, UK housing activist From the Spring to the Resistance : radical movements in Quebec since 2012 • Alessandro Drago McGill University • Emanuel Guay McGill University • Élisabeth Béfort-Doucet Université de Montréal • José-Frédérique Biron Université de Montréal • Hind Fazazi Université de Montréal • Rafik Bentabbel Université du Québec à Montréal 1.85 1.82 1.87 1.83 1.89 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am – 11:50am

Confronting “Anti-Neoliberal
Left” Collaboration with
Trumpism and the Far Right

Sunday at 10 am, Room 1.87 Speakers: Brendan Cooney, Bill Weinberg, Andrew Kliman, Anne Jaclard, Ravi Bali Panel sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (marxist-humanist-initiative.org) 66 | Left Forum 2017 Rigged and Stolen Elections Socialist Party USA, SPNYC Chapter; Bronx Eco-Socialist Taskforce • John Rey SPUSA / SPNYC ; Occupy Wall Street / Occu-Evolve • Sumumba Sobukwe OWS Occu_Evolve • Ben Blumberg Socialist Party USA • Julia Willebrand Green Party • Wayne Price Anarkos 1.90 1.93 1.92 1.99 1.100 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am – 11:50am The Revolution Must Go On! Can Berners Build a New Party That Wins? Draft Bernie for a People’s Party; Progressive Independent Party • Jonathan Martin Framingham State University • Nick Brana Draft Bernie for a People’s Party • Bayo Sharp Draft Bernie for a People’s Party • Araquel Bloss Progressive Independent Party • Brian Jones Justice Party No to US Intervention in Syria – Keeping the antiwar movement focused on US Wars. Hands off Syria Coalition • Joe Lombardo United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), Hands off Syria Coalition • Bahman Azad U.S. Peace Council, Hands off Syria Coalition • Judith Bello Syria Solidarity Movement, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) • Sara Flounders International Action Center, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) • Tarak Kauff Veterans for Peace Iran and the Trump Era Union for Radical Political Economics • Reza Ghorashi

Stockton University

• Hamideh Sedghi Lehman College • Hamid Zangeneh Widner University • Reza Ghorashi Stockton Universtiy A Single Democracy in Palestine - The Path for Justice and the Right of Return • Lamees Deek Al-Awda NY • Amer Zahr • Miko Peled The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 67 Struggling for Peace in a Time of War: National Liberation and Armed Resistance in the Global Anti-Imperialist Struggle International League of Peoples Struggle-US Chapter • Nina Macapinlac BAYAN USA, International League of Peoples Struggle • Dan Cirrincione NYC Students for Justice in Palestine, ILPS • Bernadette Ellorin BAYAN USA, ILPS Secularism Under Threat: The Rise of Hindutva Fascism Alliance for Justice and Accountability • Sana Uddin AJA • Thenmozi Soundarajan Equality Labs • Marvi Sundaram Dalit History Month Transatlantic Dialogue: The Left and the ‘Struggle of Giants’ transform! europe • Cornelia Hildebrandt Vice Director of the Institute for Critical Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) • Waltraud Fritz-Klackl Member of Secretariat of Party of the European Left, Austria • Leo Panitch York University, Toronto, Canada • Ethan Young Independent Journalist; Left Labor Project, New York • Michael Brie Institute for Critical Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation – Berlin What The U.S. Can Learn From The Cuban Health Care System World Organization on the Right of the People to Health Care. New York State urse’s Association. • Patrick Loman WORPHC • Luis Matos WORPHC, 1199/SEIU • Nancy Sheridan-Gonzalez NYSNA, WORPHC The Broken Promesa: Resistance to Colonialism and Debt in Puerto Rico Friends of Puerto Rico • Jeanette Torres Arroyo Friends of Puerto Rico • Digna Sánchez Coordinator, DiaspoRicans / DiaspoRiqueños • José Velázquez President, New Jersey Puerto Rican Educators Association • Julio López State Director, Make the Road Connecticut Juneteenth SUSTABU Utopia: Context Creation Workshop The Sage Group, L. Toni Lewis, LLC, KSB Coaching and Consulting • Melba J. Nicholson Sullivan Seven Stones Leadership; NYU School of Medicine • L. Toni Lewis • Kathe Shaw-Bassett KSB Coaching and Consulting 1.101 1.108 1.103 1.109 1.107 L2.80 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 5 10:00am – 11:50am 68 | Left Forum 2017 L.76 1.113 L2.84 1.114 3.78 1.115 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 6 12:00pm – 1:50pm Stars on the Ecosocialist/Solar Communist Horizon: Ernst Bloch, Abdullah Ocalan, Ana Dinerstein Capitalism Nature Socialism, Eosocialist Horizons • David Schwartzman Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons • Joel Kovel Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons • Kurt Stand Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America • Quincy Saul Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons • Jane Zara DC Metro Science for the People Resistance for what and with whom? Who are our allies? Which direction next? The Lynne Stewart Org., The New Abolitionist Movement, NYC Jericho • Ralph Poynters New Abolitionist Movement, Lynne Stewart Org., African People’s Socialist Party, NYC Jericho, NYS Farmer’s Market Assoc., Brownsville Matters, NYS Green Party, NYC Free Mumia Coalition • Joel Meyers • Chris Hedges Truthdig, Princeton University, New York Times, Contact • Anne Lamb NYC Jericho Org. • Bob Lederer WBAI, Justice & Unity , • Pam Africa Free Mumia Coalition, MOVE • Ana M. Lopez Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Campaign • Tom Siracuse Manhattan Green Party Film screening: Spain Against the Current Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Bill Koehnlein Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • Markus Toth La Manada Video & Filmproduktion, Vienna • Lee Douglas I+D+i Project I “BELOW GROUND: Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights”; Institute for Language, Literature & Anthropology, CSIC, Madrid, Spain RESIST THE MONEY POWER: Ending ‘Free’ Trade, Endless War, and Ballooning Debt Geraldine Perry -- author of “The Two Faces of Money”; thetwofacesofmoney.com • Jean Giblette Owner, High Falls Gardens; member, High Falls Foundation Inc.; website member, GreensForMonetaryReform.org • Barbara Simpson Upper Westside Monetary Reform Group; in both the US and UK -- Ethical Cultural Society, NY Anthroposophy Society, British Red Cross Society Cooperatives - path to a different society or alternative business model? Chances and risks of workers’ self-management in capitalism • Dario Azzellini www.workerscontrol.net • Evan Casper-Futterman Murphy Institute • Rebecca Lurie Murphy Institute NY Teachers: Save Our Union! MORE (Movement of Rank and File Educators) A.J. Leppelmeier -- MORE (Movement of Rank and File Educators) / UFT (United Federation of Teachers) • Jia Lee MORE (Movement of Rank and File Educators) / United Federation of Teachers (UFT) / U-CORE (United Caucuses of Rank and File Educators) • Marcus McArthur MORE (Movement of Rank and File Educators) / United Federation of Teachers (UFT) Executive Board • Daniel Lupkin MORE (Movement of Rank and FIle Educators) / UFT (United Federation of Teachers) • Francesca Gomes MORE (Movement of Rank and File Educators) / UFT (United Federation of Teachers) • Dermott Myrie MORE (Movement of Rank and File Educators) / UFT (United Federation of Teachers) BUILD THE LEFT • FIGHT THE RIGHT Join more than 1,500 radical activists and authors for four days of discussion, debate and organizing at the largest socialist conference in the United States. The conference will feature hundreds of meetings on topics including Black History and Politics, Debates on the Left, Marxism 101, Understanding the Trump Era, Women and LGBTQ Liberation, 100 Years of Revolutionary Struggle and many more. For speakers, schedule, and information, visit our website at www.socialismconference.org JULY 6TH–9TH IN CHICAGO, IL Visit the website to find out more and register now SOCIALISMCONFERENCE.ORG sponsored by BUILD THE LEFT • FIGHT THE RIGHT Join more than 1,500 radical activists and authors for four days of discussion, debate and organizing at the largest socialist conference in the United States. The conference will feature hundreds of meetings on topics including Black History and Politics, Debates on the Left, Marxism 101, Understanding the Trump Era, Women and LGBTQ Liberation, 100 Years of Revolutionary Struggle and many more. For speakers, schedule, and information, visit our website at www.socialismconference.org JULY 6TH–9TH IN CHICAGO, IL Visit the website to find out more and register now SOCIALISMCONFERENCE.ORG sponsored by 70 | Left Forum 2017 Labor & Electoral Politics: What Does It Take For Union Members To Win? Richmond Progressive Alliance, Left Elect • Steve Early Richmond Progressive Alliance, NewsGuild/ CWA, Democratic Socialists of America, Solidarity, CCDS • Jesse Campoamor Labor Campaign Strategist/Political Consultant • Nelini Stamp Working Families Party • Mike Parker Richmond Progressive Alliance The road to Utopia? A discussion on Universal Basic Income Jacobin • Bhaskar Sunkara Jacobin • Peter Frase Jacobin • Seth Ackerman Jacobin • Alyssa Battistoni Yale University The Continuing Relevance of Marx’s Capital after 150 Years Journal of Labor and Society & The Anvil • Immanuel Ness Brooklyn College, CUNY • Abhinav Sinha Mazdoor Bigul • Michael Hudson University of Missouri, Kansas City • Juliet Ucelli Marxist Education Project • Ben Becker Party for Socialism and Liberation 1.117 1.123 1.119 1.124 1.121 1.125 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 6 12:00pm – 1:50pm What is Leninism? WellRed Books • Tom Trottier Hands Off Venezuela • Fred Weston Marxist.com • Jordana Bombi Alliance for Global Justice The emerging US Maoist Movement Mass Proletariat • Fabian Salt Mass Proletariat • Glenda Robbins Mass Proletariat • Johnathan Little Mass Proletariat A Vanguard That Stands Outside of History: The Revolutionary Legacy of J. Posadas Intergalactic Workers’ League • Comrade Communicator Intergalactic Workers’ League • A.M. Gittlitz • Dovid-Malke Wilderhaufen

72 | Left Forum 2017 1.127 1.65 1.129 1.66 1.63 1.69 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 6 12:00pm – 1:50pm The Frankfurt School and Revolution • Saladdin Ahmed • Joan Braune

Gonzaga University

Challenges and Successes in Building a Worker Oriented National Media Network • Frank Emspak Executive Producer Workers Independent News • Howard Kling Workers Independent News • Ellen la Luzerne President, Diversified Media Enterprises-Workers Independent News; co-producer Madison Labor Radio • Lisa Vives Director,Global Information Network Political Economy, Environmental Consequences and Crises Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) /Capitalism Nature Socialism (CNS) • Paul Cooney Union for Radical Political Economics/ Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento • José Tapía Drexel University/ CNS • Irwin Sperber SUNY New Paltz • Paul Cooney Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)/ Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS) Restore Sanity: How We Remove Trump Without Violence Solartopia.org / Freepress.org • Harvey Wasserman Solartopia.org, Freepress.org • Bob Fitrakis Publisher, Freepress.org • Nina Streich Executive Director, Global Peace Film Festival • Stephen Brown PACIFICA • Greg Palast Conceptualizing Revolution in the Classroom: Students Speak Out International Marxist-Humanist Organization • Peter Hudis International Marxist-Humanist Organization • Rushanas Hasan Oakton Community College • Brigid Martinez Oakton Community College • Melanie Buskin Oakton Community College Comparing Trump On... Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute; Green Party of New York • Peter LaVenia Green Party of New York • Steve Breyman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Pedro De La Torre III Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 73 The Forgotten Resistance - Childhood and Madness • Shirin Ali Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons • Schuyler W. Henderson

Bellevue Hospital

• Kabir Dandona

August Aichhorn Center for Adolescent Residential Care

• Patrice Malone New York State Psychiatric Institute; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Mobilizing with Moral Power: If the Revolution Is Love, Our Religion Must Be Life Nonprofit Start or Fix, Cozmeena Enlightened Living • Stacy Bannerman Author/Post-9/11 Military Family Advocate/Peace Activist • Lisa Luckett Cozmeena Enlightened Living • Ariel Gold Campaign Director, CODEPINK • Ann Wright Retired United States Army colonel, international peace activist, and retired U.S. State Department official Black on Black Crime: Myth or Reality? The Indypendent • Nicholas Powers The Indypendent • Kazembe Balagun The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung • Jamara Wakefield Pratt University 1.71 1.76 1.73 1.77 1.75 1.81 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 6 12:00pm – 1:50pm Resisting NYPD Gang Policing The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College • Alex Vitale Brooklyn College Policing and Social Justice Project • Josmar Trujillo • Anthony Posada Legal Aid Society • Taylonn Murphy • Babe Howell CUNY School of Law • David Brotherton John Jay College Nuclear Power is Dead . Time for a Just Transition. Shut Down Indian Point Now! • Carl Lundgren Shut Down Indian Point Now! • Catherine Skopic

Shut Down Indian Point Now!

• Estela Vazquez 1199 SEIU • Alfred Meyer Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) What Assata Taught Us: Black Women and Revolutionary Nationalism Malcolm X Grassroots Movement • Darasia Shelby Malcolm X Grassroots Movement • Taliba Obuya Malcolm X Grassroots Movement • Melanie McCoy 74 | Left Forum 2017 1.82 1.83 1.89 1.85 1.90 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 6 12:00pm – 1:50pm Resisting Trump’s War Against the Poor: The Peoples Budget Does It! National Alliance of HUD Tenants • Geraldine Collins Secretary, National Alliance of HUD Tenants • Aqua Atta-Mensah Community Voices Heard • Michael Kane National Alliance of HUD Tenants • Rob Robinson Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights Occupy Ethics: Reversing the growth of the Human-Subhuman gangrene Georgist Economic Taskforce • Yannis Tziligakis Georgist Economic Taskforce • Mason Gaffney University of California • Frank Fabio GET-GIVE The Importance of Young Progressives Attaining Political Power in The Resistance Young Progressives of America • Carlos Jesus Calzadilla Young Progressives of America • Jesse Fischer Young Progressives of America • Emily-Anna Barba Young Progressives of America • Juliet DePaula CUNY • Meg Willams

CUNY

Building a Student Movement Under Trump International Socialist Organization • Edna Bonhomme Grad Student Organizing drive at Princeton • Sumaya Awad Columbia Against Trump • Alex Ferrena NYU International Socialist Organization Which Way Forward on Elections?: Perspectives from New Jersey and New York Socialists Movement for Socialism, Red Party and Mid-Atlantic Revolutionary Socialists • Eric Lerner Movement for Socialism • Peter Moody

The Red Party

• Jack Rusk Mid-Atlantic Revolutionary Socialists • Jason Hicks - TWU Local 100 Co-Opting the Left: Infiltration by the Corporate State to Neutralize Resistence Cheryl Curtiss & Cat McGuire • Cheryl Curtiss WWUH Radio -- University of Hartford • Glen Ford BlackAgendaReport.com • Margaret Flowers PopularResistance.org • Kevin Zeese PopularResistance.org 1.91 The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 75 Movements Against Inequality: Lessons from the WTO protests, Occupy and Fight for $15 In These Times • Jeremy Gantz Editor, The Age of Inequality (Verso) • Michelle Chen • Arun Gupta • Shaun Richman From Syria to Palestine: Struggles Against Dictatorship, Imperialism, and Zionism • Yasser Munif Emerson College • Ramah Kudaimi National Committee of the War Resisters League • Joey Ayoub Global Voices • Shireen Akram-Boshar Students for Justice in Palestine • Jehad Abusalim New York University 1.99 1.92 1.100 1.93 1.101 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 6 12:00pm – 1:50pm Banned: Islamophobia and the future of progressive foreign policy in the Trump Era • Sihem Mellah ArteEast • Ben Norton Reporter for AlterNet’s Grayzone Project • Jenna Ruddock Film Producer (will have name of production company ASAP) Radicalize the Streets for Peace in Israel & Palestine • Frank Romano University of Paris, France • Jacqueline Basker German Jordan University • Philip Hopper University of Northern Iowa • Yusif Barakat State of Michigan (Retired: Clinical Program Manager) • John Davenport Fordham University War on the World, Trump Style World Can’t Wait • Debra Sweet Director, World Can’t Wait • Ed Kinane Anti-Militarist Activist • Nick Mottern Coordinator, KnowDrones.com • Elsa Rassbach German-American peace activist & co-founder German Drone Campaign 1.103 India’s Contested Spaces: Labor, Land, and Environment India Civil Watch • Rajeev Ravisankar India Civil Watch • Mamatha Kodidela India Civil Watch • Sirisha Naidu India Civil Watch • Biju Mathew India Civil Watch 76 | Left Forum 2017 1.107 1.105 1.108 1.109 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 6 12:00pm – 1:50pm What Next for the European Left: Confronting the Challenge of Right Wing “Populism” Campaign for Peace and Democracy, New Politics magazine, International Marxist-Humanist Organization • Joanne Landy Co-director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy; Editorial board member, New Politics magazine; Member, AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement • Helena Sheehan Helena Sheehan is Professor Emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left, among other publications. • Kevin Anderson Kevin Anderson teaches Sociology, Political Science, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a member of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization. • Caterina Principe Catarina Príncipe is a member of Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal) and a contributing editor at Jacobin. The Left in Europe transform! europe • Walter Baier Political coordinator transform! europe • Cornelia Hildebrandt Vice Director of the Institute for Critical Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) • Javier Moreno Europe of Citizens Foundation, Spain • Waltraud Fritz-Klackl Member of Secretariat of Party of the European Left, Austria Dare to Dream: Cuba’s Latin American Medical School IFCO/Pastors for Peace • Poonam Srivastava Standing Rock NYC Got Bus • Dr. Melissa Barber IFCO • Jennifer Wager Essex County College • Gail Walker IFCO/Pastors for Peace Cuba Speaks for Itself: A Discussion Forum with Anayansi Rodriguez, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Cuba Solidarity New York • Ike Nahem Cuba Solidarity New York • Anayansi Rodriguez Ambassador of Cuba to the United Nations • Gail Walker Director, IFCO/Pastors for Peace BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 12:00–2:00PM BLACK BOX THEATER VOICES OF RESISTANCE FEATURING: BROOKLYN WOMEN’S CHORUS WALKABOUT CLEARWATER CHORUS The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 77 Special Event: Screening and discussion of documentary series “America Divided” - Something is in the Water & Democracy for Sale Left Forum • Deshonay Dozier CUNY Graduate Center • Cynthia Norris

New York Communities for Change

• Elizabeth Yeampierre UPROSE - Brooklyn • Nelini Stamp Working Families The Death of Nuke Power, the Birth of Solartopia SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH • Harvey Wasserman www.nukefree.org, www.solartopia.org • Karl Grossman Author • Danny Goldberg Writer • Paul DeRienzo - Writer • Nina Streich Executive Director, Global Peace Film Festival • Cora and Peter Weiss long-time activist 1.71 1.73 SUNDAY 6/4 Lunch Session 2:00pm – 4:00pm  Science & Society      Special Issue   John P. Piman, Renate Bridenthal and Shana A. Russell  BLACK BOX THEATER 3:30–5:30PM BLACK BOX THEATER AMINA BARAKA: DEBUT CD RELEASE “AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE” Featuring: AMINA BARAKA: poetry, voice RAS MOSHE BURNETT: reeds, flute ROCCO JOHN IACOVONE: reeds LAURIE TOWERS: electric bass JOHN PIETARO: drums, percussion, musical direction 78 | Left Forum 2017 Film Screening: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Stars at 4:00pm! • Harvey Wasserman www.nukefree.org, www.freepress.org • Greg Palast • Bob Fitrakis co-author: THE STRIP & FLIP DISASTER OF AMERICA’S STOLEN ELECTIONS • Nicole Powers ATTENTION: DOORS OPEN AT 4:00PM not 3:40PM! Radical Comics Seth Tobocman/ World War 3 Illustrated • Seth Tobocman World War 3 Illustrated • Diane DiMassa Giant Ass Publishing • Kevin Pyle World War 3 Illustrated • Sophie Yanow Uncivilized Books, The Nib • Carlo Quispe World War 3 Illustrated Women and Labor Jacobin • Nicole Aschoff • Emily Giles • Sarah Leonard The Nation • Rebecca Rojer From Resistance To Running For Office: How Progressives Can Build Working Class Power At the State & Local Level Richmond Progressive Alliance • Steve Early Richmond Progressive Alliance, NewsGuild/CWA • Kelly Bellin Socialist Alternative • Howie Hawkins Green Party • Isaac Grimm Rights & Democracy, Our Revolution • Jessica Early Rights and Democracy, Our Revolution, Vermont Progressive Party campaign coordinator • Nelini Stamp Working Families Party Turning Tables on the Commodity Relationship: Mental Furniture, Commodification, and a Theater of Liberation Starr King School, Graduate Theological Union • Jiwon Chung Starr King School, Graduate Theological Union • Eugene Ruyle Veterans for Peace/Cal State Long Beach/Institute for the Critical Study of Society • Isabel Call Starr King School/UC 1.63 L2.85 L.76 3.78 L2.84 3.79 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 7 3:40pm – 5:40pm Resistance-U-BET! B> Balance E> Ethics T> Transformation • Sherry Onna • Dipika Shrestha • Shailesh Shrestha • Tom Raffaele The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 79 Radical art and politics in post-soviet Belarus and Russia (the end of XX - beginning of XXI century) • Jury Urso Jury Urso Mini-Gallery of Underground Anticulture • Tatiana Koroleva

Lecturer at Concordia University

• Anastasiya Osipova

Part-time Faculty at New York University

RESIST THE MONEY POWER: A New Kind of Money • Geraldine Perry

author of “The Two Faces of Money”; thetwofacesofmoney.com

• Donal Butterfield The American Monetary Institute; Green Party U.S. • Sue Peters American Monetary Institute; Manhattan Green Party Local; National Organization of Raw Materials; NYC Labor Chorus Transformative, Transnational and Transcendental: The Labor Process and the Employment Relation under Neoliberalism • Johann Jaeckel

New York University

• John Ward Regan New York University • Dave Hancock Independent Management and Labor Consultant Author Meets Critics: Dave Beech’s “Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics” • Bryan Parkhurst Oberlin College • Stephan Hammel University of California - Irvine • Jarek Ervin University of Virginia • Ben Laude independent scholar • Dave Beech University of Gothenburg Universal Basic Income or Jobs Guarantee: A debate on the future of labor Occupy AltBank Group • Rob Hollander (facilitator) Occupy AltBank Group • Pavlina Tcherneva

Assoc. Prof. and Chair, Dept of Economics, Bard

College; Research Assoc. at the Levy Economics Institute; Senior Research Scholar the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability. • Gerald Adams Occupy AltBank Group • Dan Moore Occupy AltBank Group Trump and Marxist Theory League for the Revolutionary Party • Walter Daum League for the Revolutionary Party • Matt Richardson • Evelyn Kaye 3.80 1.115 1.113 1.119 1.114 1.121 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 7 3:40pm – 5:40pm 80 | Left Forum 2017 Neither Hope Nor Fear: Can Radical Politics Overcome Humanism and Liberalism? Institutie for the Radical Imagination • Kristin Lawler Left Forum, Mt. St. Vincent, and Situations • John Clark La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology • Bruno Gulli

CUNY and Situations

• Arto Artinian CUNY and Situations • Michael Pelias LIU Brooklyn and Situations The Russian Revolution 100 Years On Haymarket Books and The International Socialist Review • Todd Chretien Haymarket Books, International Socialist Organization • Samuel Farber Long time socialist activist • Amy Muldoon Communication Workers of America, International Socialist Organization Bob Lee, Peggy Terry and the Original Rainbow Coalitions Melville House Publishing • Jakobi Williams University of Indiana • Melody James Actor • Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture Global Women’s Strike • Hy Thurman Young Patriots Organization Does Black Media Matter? • Dred-Scott Keyes Award-winning Producer of “The Cutting Edge”, editor of “Black Media Matters” • Devorah Hill Editor & Media Education professional • Herb Boyd College of New Rochelle • Milton Allimati Black Star News Publisher/Writer/Adjunct Professor John Jay College CUNY. Pan-African/Nkrumahist • Nayaba Arinde Radio host, editor Amsterdam News Protests, Association and Assemblies Online Bytes for All, Pakistan • Shahzad Ahmad Country Director, Bytes for All Pakistan • Tehmina Zafar Bytes for All Pakistan • Serene Lim Empower Malaysia • Ritu Srivastava Digital Empowerment Foundation India • Haroon Baloch Bytes for All Pakistan Nuclear Injustices and Denial: Misogyny and Environmental Racism in the Nuclear Story Beyond Nuclear • Cindy Folkers Beyond Nuclear • Heidi Hutner Director of Sustainability Studies and Associate Dean, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University • Leona Morgan Diné No Nukes 1.123 1.129 1.124 1.125 1.61 1.65 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 7 3:40pm – 5:40pm The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 81 CUNY at the Crossroads: A Discussion of Campus Organizing CUNY Struggle • Sonam Singh Barnard Contingent Faculty • Andy Battle History, CUNY Graduate Center • Claire Cahen Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center • Jarrod Shanahan Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center • Erin Cully History, CUNY Graduate Center • Chris Natoli Math, CUNY Graduate Center Making Housing Affordable Again- From Trump to DeBlasio Occupy Wall Street (Action Council) • Sumumba Sobukwe OCCUPY WALL STREET (Action Council) • Nellie Bailey Harlem Tenants Council • Kay Samuels PICTURE THE HOMELESS/Occupy Wall Street (OCCU-EVOLVE) • Robert Edwards The Civic Formation The People’s Cultural Plan and the intersection of public funding, labor, and housing The Peoples Cultural Plan www.peoplesculturalplan.org • Alicia Grullon Independent Artist • Sami Abu Shumays Independent musician, Zikrayat • Nicole Reiner Nonprofit Consultant • Diane Fraher American Indian Artists, Inc. (Amerinda) The New Solidarities: Experiences of Rural Organizing • Marina Sitrin • Juliette Consigny • Anna Moschovakis • Molly Stevens Neoliberalism and the Spirit of Mindfulness Adam Szetela • Adam Szetela Berklee College of Music • Daniel Anderson Northern Virginia Community College • Hawa Allan Tricycle: The Buddhist Review • Ronald PurserSan Francisco State University • Alex Caring-Lobel NYC Democratic Socialists of America • Adam Szetela Berklee College of Music Sanctuary and Struggle: The Neoliberal University in an age of Neo-Fascism • John Maerhofer CUNY • Joe Ramsey UMass Boston • Jessica Kerr • Jessica Manry University of Albany 1.66 1.71 1.67 1.73 1.69 1.75 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 7 3:40pm – 5:40pm 82 | Left Forum 2017 Challenging Mass Incarceration Beyond NYC Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier • Andrew Pragacz

Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier

• William Martin

Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier

• Rachelle Jezera Frances Beal Society • Kevin Revier Chicanas, Latinas, Latin American Women, Incarceration, Resistance, and Recovery • Juanita Diaz-Cotto State University of New York at Binghampton • Morey Williams Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University • Elva Orozco-Mendoza Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University • Myriam Laureano Psychotherapist in private practice for over 30 years Women Demand an End to the Whole Nuclear Era Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom • Robin Lloyd Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom • Ray Acheson WILPF - UNO • Alice Slater Nuclear Age Peace Foundation • Ellen Thomas Proposition One Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future Difficult Conversations: Communications Literacy Workshop HealthJournalist.com • Alison Rose Levy Connect the Dots, Progressive Radio, Alternet, TruthDig, HealthJournalist.com • Lulu Friesdat Director; Holler Back - [not] Voting in an American Town hollerbackfilm.com Shugah Works Production Company • Joseph Phillip Illidge JP Illidge, LLC Beyond Resistance: Winning the Revolution'

• Chuck Pennacchio
• Jenny Isaacs
• Rob Kall
• Ben Pennacchio

Kill All Normies: From 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right Zero Books • Douglas Lain Zero Books • Angela Nagle The Baffler, Zero Books • Shuja Haider Viewpoint, Jacobin • Ashley Frawley Swansea University • Alfie Bown Hong Kong Review of Books 1.76 1.85 1.81 1.82 1.87 1.89 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 7 3:40pm – 5:40pm The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 83 The Socialist Party Today The Socialist Party USA • Tana Forrester The Socialist Party USA • Tom Macmillan Socialist Party • Pat Noble Socialist Party (New Jersey) Platform for a Left Opposition Green Party of New York • Peter LaVenia Green Party of New York • Gloria Mattera Green Party of New York • Ajamu Baraka Green Party US • Robert Caldwell Solidarity The New Axis of Evil: Understanding U.S. “Regime Change” in Syria Peaceful Tomorrows: One World–One Chance • Jason Hirthler Journalist • Mark Crispin Miller Professor of Media Studies, NYU • Philip Giraldi Former counter-terrorism specialist and CIA military intelligence officer Islam, Tolerance, and how to have The Conversation: Supporting Muslims, minorities, women and human rights movements across Islamic societies • John Kirbow Founder, Reason Revival and Project Fort Defiance. Writer, linguist, and human rights advocate. • Salah Salah Jordanian-American science educator, and human rights and freedom activist for Islamic societies. • Michael Walsh Science advocacy, debate, philosophy, and marketing research Expose the Fraudulent War on Terror and Empower Resistance to it: What CAN Be Done • David Slesinger BazantMisconduct.com physicsdenial.com LiesAboutMLK.com jenningsMystery.com • Richard Ochs Coalition to Open the 28 Pages, freefromterror.net • Yehuda Littman • Petra Liverani

(by Skype from Australia) -- www.laverite.weebly.

com • Claudio Marty (by Skype from Florida) -- Iamthefaceoftruth.com Empire of Chaos • Bahram Zandi Green Party US • Younes Benab Iranian Left Alliance Washington DC • Sassan Dehghan Iranian Left Alliance Washington DC 1.91 1.99 1.92 1.100 1.93 1.101 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 7 3:40pm – 5:40pm 84 | Left Forum 2017 India’s Hindu Nationalist Neoliberal Consensus India Civil Watch • Biju Mathew India Civil Watch • Swati Birla India Civil Watch • Rajeev Ravisankar India Civil Watch • Raja Swamy India Civil Watch The Populist and Radical Right in Europe transform! europe • Barbara Steiner Co- director transform! europe • Cornelia Hildebrandt Vice Director of the Institute for Critical Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) • Walter Baier Political coordinator transform! europe • Leo Panitch York University, Toronto, Canada • Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska NEVER AGAIN Association, Poland Is There a Future for the European Union? • Andreas Karras John Jay College CUNY • George Andreopoulos John Jay College CUNY • Giuliana Campanelli-Andreopoulos William Patterson University. • Maria Victoria Perez-Rios John Jay College CUNY Lessons From French Labor: Fighting Precarity and the Far-Right In These Times, Solidaires • Cole Stangler Journalist • Nicolas Galepides Solidaires • Marc Tzwangue Solidaires Puerto Rico and the Junta: A tale of colonial and neocolonial dispossession John Jay College/Economics Department • Ian Seda-Irizarry John Jay College/Economics Department • Ed Morales • Sarah Molinari • David Galarza 1.103 1.108 1.105 1.107 1.109 SUNDAY 6/4 Session 7 3:40pm – 5:40pm CLOSING PLENARY 6:30–9:10PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL BEYOND CAPITALISM: WHERE TO GO FROM HERE With RICHARD D. WOLFF, CHRISTIAN PARENTI, TASCHA VAN AUKEN, PAUL SLIKER & BHASKAR SUNKARA, MODERATOR

86 | Left Forum 2017 A Aaron Amaral 41 Aaron Maté 33 Abayomi Azikiwe 59, 64 Abhinav Sinha 26, 70 Adam Gaffney 37 Adam Rodriguez 47 Adam Szetela 81 Adam Weissman 47 Adrian Boutureira 65 Aegina Barnes 28 Ahlam Muhtaseb 29 Aiani-Koli Mars 28 Ajamu Baraka 49, 59, 65, 83 A. Kayum Ahmed 41 Alan Schulman 24 Alan Singer 58 Albert Scharenberg 31 Alborz Ghandehari 59 Al Campbell 24, 51, 60 a Lee 58 Alejandro Reuss 61 Alejandro Velasco 31 Aleksandr Buzgalin 55 Alessandro Drago 65 Alexander Buzgalin 26 Alexander Groskinsky 57 Alexander Reid Ross 48 Alexander Ross 48 Alex Caring-Lobel 81 Alex Clermont 38 Alex Ferrena 74 Alexis Danzig 26 Alex Vitale 73 Alfie Bown 82 Alfonso Tellaeche 28 Alfred Meyer 73 Alfredo Lopez 23, 26, 35, 46 Alice Aguilar 23 Alice Chen 63 Alice Slater 82 Alicia Grullon 81 Alicia Love 34 Alison Rose Levy 82 Alison Weir 29 Allegra Dengler 44 Allen Smith 55 Alyssa Battistoni 63, 70 Amer Zahr 66 A.M. Gittlitz 70 Amina Baraka 45 Amoreena Tellaeche 28 A Moritz 50 Amy Dalton 47 Amy Muldoon 80 Amy Sonnie 80 Anak Bayan 59 Ana M. Lopez 42, 68 Anastasiya Osipova 79 Anayansi Rodriguez 76 ancy Holmstrom 35 Andjela Kaur 26 Andreas Karras 84 Andrés Barreda Marin 37, 50, 60 Andrew /Deanna Joseph 33 Andrew Hannon 52 Andrew J Padilla 42 Andrew Kliman 65 Andrew Mayton 31, 64 Andrew Pragacz 82 Andy Battle 81 Andy Beutel 36, 47 Andy Trimlett 29 Angela Lang 24 Angela Nagle 82 Angeline Butler 48 Anna Callahan 29 Anna Moschovakis 81 Anne Jaclard 65 Anneke Campbell 26, 49, 59 Anne Lamb 68 Ann Montague 46, 58 Ann Webre 61 Ann Wright 73 Anthony Donovan 52 Anthony Feliciano 48 Anthony Gronowicz 28 Anthony Hall 66 Anthony Montiero 39 Anthony Posada 73 Antoine Perrin 51, 62 Antonio Balmer 46 Antonio Callari 63 Anya Grenier 26 April De Simone 25, 54 Aqua Atta-Mensah 74 Araquel Bloss 66 Ariel Gold 73 Arnold August 42, 60 Arthur Vincie 24 Arto Artinian 80 Arun Gupta 54, 75 A. Shahid Stover 55 Ashik Siddique 26 Ashley Frawley 82 Ashley Smith 29, 50, 59 August Nimtz 44 August Nimtz Jr 55 August Nimtz, Jr 26 Ayala Leyser 61 B Babe Howell 73 Bahman Azad 66 Bahram Zandi 83 Barbara Harris 50 Barbara Honegger 40 Barbara Simpson 68 Barbara Steiner 84 Bayo Sharp 66 Beatrice Johnson X 24, 33 Ben Becker 70 Ben Blumberg 66 Benjamin Fogel 60 Benjamin Gingras 58 Ben Laude 79 Ben Norton 75 Ben Palmquist 28 Ben Pennacchio 82 Bernadette Ellorin 67 Bertell Ollman 61 Beta Coronel 36 Bhaskar Sunkara 70 Bianca Cunningham 25 Biju Mathew 75, 84 Bill Koehnlein 68 Bill Weinberg 65 Billy Fitzgerald 54 Bob Fitrakis 72, 78 Bob Lederer 68 Bob Newton 27 SPEAKER INDEX The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 87 Bonnie Keyes 29 Brad Burgess 52 Branden Rippey 46 Brandon Do 27 Brandon Rippey 47 Brendan Cooney 65 Brendan James 40 Brian D’Agostino 62 Brian Esposito 62 Brian Jones 66 Brigid Martinez 72 Briton Malcomson 62 Bruce Dixon 49, 59, 60 Bruno Gulli 80 Bryan Parkhurst 79 C Caghan Kizil 41 Caleb-Michael Files 39 Carla Murphy 24 Carl Lundgren 73 Carlo Quispe 78 Carlos Jesus 28 Carlos Jesus Calzadilla 74 Carlos Ron 51 Carl Redwood 55 Carmen Huertas-Noble 25, 45, 54, 62 Carne Ross 28 Cassady Fendlay 65 Catarina Principe 31 Caterina Principe 76 Catherine Barnett 38 Catherine Skopic 73 Cathy Albisa 28 Cathy O’Neil 27 Celia Petty 38 Charlie Derber 33 Charlotte Dennett 49 Cheryl Curtiss 66, 74 Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones 64 Chinyere Tutashinda 23 Chip Gibbons 33 Chris Adams 45 Chris Butters 52 Chris Hedges 23, 52, 68 Chris Natoli 81 Chris Sturr 25 Christian Cobb 31 Christina Tony 47 Christine Marie 31 Christopher Magno 34, 60 Christoph Spehr 47 Chris Williams 52 Chris Wood 34 Chuck Collins 33 Chuck Pennacchio 82 Cindy Folkers 80 Cinthya Santos 50 Claire Cahen 81 Claire Moodey 24 Clark Matthews 58 Claude Joseph 40 Claudio Marty 83 Clayton Rosati 54 Cole Stangler 84 Colette Pichon Battle 55 Colia Clark 48 Colia L Clark 28 Comrade Communicator 70 Conor Dempsey 27 Conor Tomás Reed 57 Cora and Peter Weiss 77 Cornelia Hildebrandt 31, 67, 76, 84 Craig Mills 65 Craig Seeman 57 Cullen F. Shipman 57 Cynthia Kaufman 26, 49 Cynthia Norris 77 D Dahlia Goldenberg 38 Dan Cirrincione 67 Dan DiMaggio 25, 34 Dan Durso 39 Dan Georgakas 48 Daniel Adam 39 Daniel Anderson 81 Daniela Walls 48, 58 Danielle T. Friedman 45 Daniel Lupkin 68 Daniel Vila 39, 62 Dan La Botz 43, 60 Dan Magaziner 41 Dan Moore 79 Danny Goldberg 77 Dan Sidorick 63 Darasia Shelby 73 Dario Azzellini 68 Darlene Elias 60 Darrick Hamilton 45 Dave Beech 79 Dave Hancock 79 Daviana Sebastian 42 David Barker 34 David Bliven 38 David Brotherton 73 David Galarza 84 David Huerta 63 David Laibman 55 David Levine 45 David Norman Smith 61 David Norman Smitth 35 David Sauvage 35 David Schwartzman 44, 63, 68 David Schweickart 25, 35 David Slesinger 83 David Van Arsdale 54 Debbie Bookchin 28 Debra Sweet 27, 75 DeeDee Halleck 36 Dee Miles 49 Dena Fisher 27 Denise Romero 38 Dennis Morales 58 Dermott Myrie 68 Deshonay Dozier 57, 77 Despina Lalaki 41 Devorah Hill 36, 80 Devorne Hormeku 39 Deyanira Del Rio 25, 36, 45 Diamonte Brown 60 Diana Agosta 36 Diana Mejia 60 Diane DiMassa 78 Diane Fraher 81 Diane Rubino 65 Digna Sánchez 67 Dimitri Roussopoulos 64 Dipika Shrestha 78 Dmitri Holtzman 41 Donal Butterfield 79 88 | Left Forum 2017 Don Jackson 55 Douglas Evans 64 Douglas Lain 34, 82 Dovid-Malke Wilderhaufen 70 Dred-Scott Keyes 80 Dr. Melissa Barber 76 E Eblin Acosta 58 Eden Foster 51, 62 Ed Kinane 27, 75 Ed Morales 84 Edna Bonhomme 74 Ed Nell 54 Edur Velasco Arregui 37, 50, 60 Eleanor Finley 61 Elena L. Cohen 57 Elena Schwolsky 33 Elias Gonzalez 27 Élisabeth Béfort-Doucet 65 Elissa Cofield 54 Elizabeth Clay Roy 54 Elizabeth Henderson 27 Elizabeth Hinton 24 Elizabeth Meddeb 28 Elizabeth Yeampierre 77 Eljeer Hawkins 65 Ellen la Luzerne 72 Ellen Thomas 82 Elliot Crown 35 Elsa Rassbach 75 Elva Orozco-Mendoza 82 Emanuel Guay 64, 65 Emanuel Martinez 26 Emily-Anna Barba 74 Emily Giles 78 Emily Williams 50 Enith Flores Chamba 60 Eran Efrati 50 Eric Holt-Gimenez 36 Eric Holt Giménez 27 Eric Lerner 74 Erik Jacobson 36, 47 Erin Cully 81 Estela Vazquez 73 Ethan Young 31, 67 Eugene Lim 61 Eugene Ruyle 78 Evan Casper-Futterman 68 Evelyn Kaye 79 Eyad Alkurabi 48 F Fabian Salt 70 Fabiola Salek 28 Firuza Uddin 58 Florcy Romero 64 Francesca Gomes 68 Francisco Dominguez 42 Frank Emspak 72 Frank Fabio 74 Frank Romano 75 Fred Arcoleo 52 Fred Magdoff 27, 52 Fred Weston 46, 70 Frosso Tsoukas 48 G Gabe Evans 29 Gabriel Hetland 31 Gail Burton 24, 33, 44 Gail Walker 76 Gar Alperovitz 25, 33 Gemini Matt 63 Gene Carroll 26 Gene Glickman 59 George Andreopoulos 84 George Ciccariello-Maher 31, 38 George Gruenthal 62 Gerald Adams 79 Geraldine Collins 74 Geraldine Perry 61, 79 Gerald Meyer 49, 55 Gifty Abraham 57 Gil Fagiani 63 Giuliana Campanelli-Andreopoulos 84 Glenda Robbins 70 Glen Ford 31, 39, 49, 74 Glenn Greenwald 33 Gloria Mattera 52, 65, 83 Godfrey Vincent 36 Gonzalo Venegas 55 Greg Albo 44 Greg Gallet 47 Gregory Edwards 48, 58 Gregory Schwedock 26 Greg Palast 72, 78 Grover Furr 26, 62 H Hamideh Sedghi 66 Hamid Zangeneh 66 Hank Williams Lehman 45 Hannah Holleman 35, 52 Haroon Baloch 80 Harriet Fraad 35, 44, 61 Harry Stuckey 48 Harry T. Cason 34 Hartman Deetz 36 Harvey Wasserman 72, 77, 78 Hawa Allan 81 Heather Brown 25 Hebh Jamal 63 Heidi Hutner 80 Helena Sheehan 41, 76 Helen Buyniski 48 Herb Boyd 80 Hilary Plum 61 Hind Fazazi 65 Holly Wood 40 Homer Venters 48 Howard Kling 72 Howie Hawkins 59, 78 Hy Thurman 80 I ia Mehreen 58 Ian Dreiblatt 61 Ian Seda-Irizarry 84 Ian Seda-Irrizarry 63 Ike Nahem 76 Immanuel Ness 26, 36, 70 Investigative reporter 49 Irene Hong Ping Shen 55 Irving Kurki 34 Irwin Sperber 72 Isaac Grimm 78 Isabel Call 78 Isabel Uribe 25 SPEAKER INDEX The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 89 Isnoel Yanes Gonzalez 31 Isolina De La Cruz 51 J Jackie Di Salvo 26 Jackie Smith 46 Jack Moscou 39 Jack Norton 50 Jack Rusk 74 Jacqueline Basker 75 Jahlil Smithpage 47 Jakobi Williams 80 Jamara Wakefield 73 James Andrews 58 James Early 60 James Hare 46 James Tracy 63 Jane Clark 40 Jane Zara 68 Jan Weinberg 35 Jarek Ervin 79 Jarrod Shanahan 81 Jaslin Kaur 28 Jason Farbman 31 Jason Hicks 74 Jason Hirthler 83 Jason Szkola 64 Javier Moreno 76 Jawied Nawabi 61 Jay Arena 54 Jay Shooster 57 Jeanette Torres Arroyo 67 Jean Giblette 68 Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana 55 Jefferson Kielwagen 33 Jeffery Hermanson 26 Jeff Mackler 46, 59 Jehad Abusalim 75 Jenna Ruddock 75 Jennifer Mogannam 59 Jennifer Wager 76 Jenny Brown 37 Jenny Isaacs 82 Jenny Pacanowski 31 Jeremy Brecher 26, 59 Jeremy Gantz 75 Jeremy Glick 54 Jeremy Rothe-Kushel 66 Jerome Scott 23, 25 Jerry Ashton 35 Jesse Campoamor 70 Jesse Fischer 74 Jesse Harchack 57 Jesse Scinto 65 Jessica Early 78 Jessica Kerr 81 Jessica Manry 81 Jesus Papoleto Melendez 36 Jia Lee 68 Jill Stein 23, 52 Jill Strauss 47 Jim Creegan 46 Jim Freund 45 Jim Schumacher 61 Jiwon Chung 78 J. Michael Springmann 40 Joan Braune 62, 72 Joan Harrison 47 Joanne Landy 41, 76 Joel Kovel 38, 68 Joel Kupferman 36 Jo Ellen Kaiser 25 Joel Meyers 68 Joe Lombardo 59, 66 Joel Simpson 23, 29 Joe Ramsey 29, 81 Joe Sims 49 Joe Urgo 40 Joey Ayoub 75 Joey L 28 Johanna Fernandez 49 Johann Jaeckel 79 Johnathan Little 70 John Bachtell 49 John Baldwin 29 John Clark 80 John Davenport 75 John Hart 35 John Jones 45 John Kirbow 49, 64, 83 John Maerhofer 81 John P. Clark 49 John Pietaro 45 John Rey 66 John S. Saul 50 John Steffin 64 John Ward Regan 79 John Womack, Jr. 35 Jonathan Buchsbaum 43 Jonathan Campozano 64 Jonathan Martin 66 Jonathan Simon 23, 44 Jonathan Smucker 40 Jordana Bombi 70 José-Frédérique Biron 65 José Laguarta Ramírez 61 Joseph Daher 50 Joseph Jamison 62 Joseph Phillip Illidge 82 Joseph Stadler 24 Jose Tapia 24 José Tapía 72 José Velázquez 67 Joshua Cooper 63 Joshua Vincent 45 Josmar Trujillo 73 Juan Carlos Ruíz 37, 50, 60 Juan Cruz Ferre 46 Juanita Diaz-Cotto 82 Juan Kornblihtt 60 Judith Bello 66 Julia Raavad 57 Julia Wallace 62 Julia Willebrand 66 Juliet DePaula 74 Juliette Consigny 81 Juliet Ucelli 70 Julio López 67 Jury Urso 79 J.W. Mason 45 K Kabir Dandona 73 Kai Kaschinski 47 Kali Akuno 49, 50, 61 Kamika Bennett 26 Kanishka Chowdhury 29 Karina Moreno 40 Karl Grossman 77 Kate Aronoff 45 Kate Castle 38 Kate Crehan 23 90 | Left Forum 2017 Kate Shea Baird 61 Kathe Shaw-Bassett 67 Kathy Manley 58 Kathy Martino 55 Katya Nicolaou 48 Kayla Watkins 27 Kay Samuels 81 Kazembe Balagun 40, 42, 52, 73 Keith Bolender 51 Kei Williams 39 Kelly Bellin 78 Kenneth Kenneth Chamberlain Jr 33 Kevin Anderson 25, 76 Kevin Pyle 78 Kevin Revier 82 Kevin Zeese 74 Khalid Raheem 60 Khnum Muata Ibomu 55 Khury Peterson-Smith 40, 43 Kimberly Westcott 54 Kim Ives 31 Kiran Rajagopalan 44 Kirsten Andersen 63 Kristina Borjesson 49 Kristin Lawler 80 Krystal Brow 24 Krystal Brown 33 Kumru Toktamis 41 Kurt Stand 68 Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill 64 L Lamees Deek 66 Laronz Murray 44 LaRose T. Parris 55 Laura Flanders 23, 25 Laura Whitehorn 50 Lauren Langman 25, 35, 61 Lauren Quijano 48 Lauren Tenney 64 Laurie Simons 47 Lea Diaz 24 Leah Penniman 36 Lee Bynum 54 Lee Douglas 68 Lee Moore 49 Leena Al-Arian 58 Leena Widdi 43 Leigh-Ann Naidoo 31 Lena Solow 62 Leona Morgan 80 Leonie Ettinger 33, 44 Leo Panitch 43, 44, 67, 84 Les Jamieson 40 Lewis R. Gordon 55 Lichi D’Amelio 38 Linda Farthing 31 Linda Levy 36 Linda Luu 57 Lisa Luckett 73 Lisa Rosenthal 65 Lisa Vives 72 Liza Fuentes 38 Liz Miller 29 Lori Grace 44 Lorraine Anyango 27 Loubna Mrie 59 Louis Jefferson 55 L. Toni Lewis 67 Lucia Cotarelo 24 Lucia Gomez 26 Lucia Kowaluk 64 Luis Barrios 60 Luis Matos 67 Lu Kejian 46 Lulu Friesdat 44, 82 Lydia Clark 44 Lyle Rubin 40 Lynne Lopez-Salzedo 52 Lynne Turner 57 M Magally Miranda 58 Mahoma Lopez 25 Makungu Akinyea 45 Malek Daniel 40 Mamatha Kodidela 75 Manisha Desai 46 Manolo Enrique De Los Santos 60 Manos Skoufoglou 46 Marcos Serafim 33 Marc Tzwangue 84 Marcus Lissey 51, 62 Marcus McArthur 68 Margaret Flowers 74 Margaret Kimberely 52 Margaret Kimberley 49 Margaret Kimberly 39 Margaret Klein Salamon 26 Margaret Somers 46 Margaret Stevens 26 Maria Eugenia 51 Maria Poblet 24, 40 Maria Victoria Perez-Rios 84 Marie-Claire Picher 24, 33, 44 Marilyn Vogt-Downey 46 Marina Sitrin 81 Maritza Arrastia 23, 33, 55 Mark Bray 48 Mark Crispin Miller 23, 83 Mark Dudzic 37 Mark Horowitz 34 Markus Toth 68 Mark Winston Griffith 54 Marlene Jenkins 58 Marni Halasa 35 Marta Steele 23 Martha Livingston 37 Marty Goodman 31 Marty Rowland 34, 45, 54 Marvi Sundaram 67 Mason Gaffney 34, 74 Massima Lei 62 Matt Berlin 34 Matthew Anderson 57 Matthew Williams 57 Matt Meyer 42, 49 Matt Richardson 79 Matt Zeltzer 47 Max Demers 62 Maya Bhardwaj 38 Mayra Hidalgo Salazar 64 Medea Benjamin 33, 52 Meg Beyer 40, 62 Meghna Chandra 27 Meg Willams 74 Mela Heestand 29 Melanie Bush 26, 35, 36, 46 Melanie Buskin 72 Melanie McCoy 73 Melba J. Nicholson Sullivan 67 Melissa Muldoon 39 SPEAKER INDEX The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 91 Melissa Nieves 36 Melody James 80 Melva Underbakke 58 Meredith Tax 28 Michael Brie 46, 67 Michael Hudson 61, 70 Michael Kane 74 Michael Mutarelli 57 Michael Peck 45 Michael Pelias 54, 80 Michael Perelman 61 Michael Rectenwald 48 Michael Roberto 34 Michael Roberts 24, 34 Michael Walsh 49, 83 Michele Weiner 29 Michelle Chen 75 Michelle Hartman 40 Mike Parker 70 Miko Peled 66 Miles Kampf-Lassin 45 Milton Allimati 80 Miriam Lacroix 64 Missy Risser 25, 54 Mohamed T Khairullah 40 Mohammed Barry 27 Molly Stevens 81 Monique Dols 29 Morey Williams 82 Moriah Ray 64 Moumita Ahmed 39 Myriam Laureano 82 N Nadia Mohamed 28 Nancy Sheridan-Gonzalez 67 Nandita Chaturvedi 27 Natalia Linares 25 Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska 84 Natalia Tylim 29 Natalie Anise 47 Natasha Lennard 38 Natassa Romanou 47 Nathaniel (Nat) Wood 31 Nathan Sheard 63 Nathan Yaffe 27 Nati “conrazón” Linares 64 Navjot Kaur 28 Nayaba Arinde 80 Neil X 60 Nelini Stamp 70, 77, 78 Nellie Bailey 39, 49, 81 Nepher Rodriguez 42 Nerdeen Kiswani 43 Nicholas Powers 63, 73 Nick Brana 66 Nick Braune 62 Nick Mottern 75 Nicolas Galepides 84 Nicole Aschoff 49, 78 Nicole Powers 78 Nicole Reiner 81 Nikil Saval 46 Nina Macapinlac 67 Nina Streich 72, 77 Nino Brown 29 Ninotchka Rosca 60 Nisrin Elamin 65 n Jones 58 Noel Didla 55 Nora Delgado 42, 51 Nora Gallardo-Hamond 31 Norman Levine 46 O Obasegun Awolabi 36 ohn Maerhofer 29 Olivera Jokic 26 Oliver Anene 27 Olivier Mathey 62 Oumar Ba 60 P Pablo Benson-Silva 24 Pablo Muriel 58 Pam Africa 68 Pamela Brown 42 Pat Elder 50 Pat Noble 83 Patrice Malone 73 Patricia S Mann 36 Patrick Bond 31 Patrick Loman 67 Paul Cooney 36, 60, 72 Paul DeRienzo 77 Paul Gilman 29 Paulina Davis 65 Paul Mattick 24 Pavlina Tcherneva 79 Pedro De La Torre III 72 Persephone Smith 29 Pete Dolack 34, 46 Peter Bratsis 54 Peter Dimock 61 Peter Frase 63, 70 Peter Hudis 35, 55, 72 Peter LaVenia 72, 83 Peter Marcuse 64 Peter Moody 74 Peter Ranis 62 Peter Roman 51 Peter Shapiro 26 Petra Liverani 83 Philip C. Parnell 34 Philip Giraldi 83 Philip Hopper 75 Phillip Reiss 31 Phil Nicholson 59 Phoenix Velásquez 62 Pierre Beaudet 44 Pojaneey Fleury 31 Poonam Srivastava 76 Porter Kirkwood 59 Prexy Nesbitt 50 Q Quincy Saul 68 R Rabab Abdulhadi 29, 40 Rachel Chapman 57 Rachelle Jezera 82 Radhka Desal 42 Rafael Epstein 57 Rafik Bentabbel 65 Raja Swamy 84 Rajeev Ravisankar 75, 84 Ralph Poynters 68 Ramah Kudaimi 40, 75 92 | Left Forum 2017 Ravi Bali 65 Ravi Karkara 63 Ray Acheson 82 Ray LaForest 31 Ray Lewis 64 Raymond Nat Turner 24, 45, 49 Razan Ghazzawi 59 Rebecca Landy 63 Rebecca Lurie 24, 68 Rebecca Rojer 44, 78 Renate Bridenthal 55 Renee Miller 39 Reza Ghorashi 66 Richard Bowes 45 Richard D. Wolff 23, 24, 44 Richard Florentino 34 Richard Moodey 24 Richard Ochs 83 Richard Roman 37, 50, 60 Right of Nature Alliance 59 Ritu Srivastava 80 Robb Burlage, 48 Roberta Wood 49 Robert Caldwell 65, 83 Robert (David) Worley 46 Robert Edwards 81 Robert Emerick 25 Robert Fitrakis 23 Robert Gibbons 52 Robert Lubetsky 63 Rob Hollander 79 Robin Lloyd 49, 82 Rob Kall 82 Rob Robinson 26, 35, 57, 74 Rob Smith 50 Rodrigo Venegas 55 Roger Green 25, 54 Roger Salerno 35, 44, 61 Roland Yanez 48, 58 Ronald PurserSan 81 Ronukaya Lindsay 28 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 24, 31, 47 Rosanna Aran 25 Rosario Ureña 47 Rose Brewer 25 Rose Gorman 33 Ros Petchesky 29 Ross Upshaw 27 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 35 Ruben Carranza 60 Ruby Inoa 47 Rushanas Hasan 72 S Sacajawea “Saki” Hall 54, 64

Sandra Merlim 38 Sára Abdullah 33 Sara Flounders 64, 66 Sarah Dziedzic 38 Sarah Leonard 24, 43, 44, 78 Sarah Molinari 84 Sarika Chandra 49 Sassan Dehghan 83 Schuyler W. Henderson 73 Scott Graybow 62 Sean Abbot Klafter 24 Sean Jacobs 41, 60 Sean Petty 27 Serene Lim 80 Seth Ackerman 70 Seth Farber 64 Seth Kershner 50 Seth Tobocman 78 Shahid Buttar 63 Shahzad Ahmad 80 Shailesh Shrestha 78 Shane Knight 35 Shanise Rhiney 33, 44 Shariana Ferrer 43, 50 Sharon Bardales 28 Sharon McConnell-Sidorick 63 Sharon Nelson 39 Sharonne Salaam 38 Shatia Strother 52 Shaun Richman 75 Sheila Katzman 55 Shelby Williams 46 Sherly Fabre 47 Sherry Onna 78 Sherry Wolf 38 Shireen Akram-Boshar 50, 75 Shirin Ali 73 Shiyam Galyon 40 Shruthi Rajashekara 48 Shuja Haider 38, 82 Sihem Mellah 75 Sirisha Naidu 75 Skip Moyer 31 Somia Elrowmeim 36, 47 Sonam Singh 81 Sophie Yanow 78 Stacy Bannerman 49, 73 Stanley Aronowitz 54 Stanley Heller 40 Stefanie Ehmsen 24 Stephan Edel 45 Stephan Hammel 79 Stephanie Ramos 64 Stephanie Rugoff 40 Stephanie Urdang 50 Stephen Brown 72 Stephen James 39 Stephen Sharper 49 Steve Breyman 72 Steve Early 59, 70, 78 Steven A. Reich 36 Stuart Baran 58 Stuart Mason Dambrot 58 Sue Peters 55, 61, 79 Sujani Reddy 63 Sumaya Awad 74 Sumitra Rajkumar 63 Sumumba Sobukwe 35, 66, 81 Suren Moodliar 33 Susan Brennan 24 Susan Erenrich 24 SPEAKER INDEX The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 93 Susan Massad 48 Susan Metz 31 Susannah Bien-Gund 36, 47 Susan R. Greene 40 Susan Smith 47 Suzanne Adely 59 Svetlana Kitto 38 Swati Birla 84 T Tahir Della 52 Tajah Ellis 64 Taliba Obuya 45, 73 Tami Gold 40 Tana Forrester 83 Tara Houska 64 Tarak Kauff 38, 66 Taryn Fivek 31 Tasher Losenegger 48 Tatiana Cozzarelli 58 Tatiana Koroleva 79 Taylonn Murphy 73 Taylor Ackerman 57 Tehmina Zafar 80 Terence Taylor 45 Terry Sterrenberg 47 Terry Tapp 34 Tess Fraad Wolff 35 Thea Riofrancos 31 Thenmozi Soundarajan 67 Thuto Thipe 41 Tim Schermerhorn 34 Todd Chretien 80 Todd Chretren 65 Todd Giffen 64 Toivo Asheeke 50 Tom Angotti 57 Tom Ballou 55 Tom Macmillan 83 Tom Raffaele 78 Tom Siracuse 68 Tom Trottier 46, 70 Tom Walker 52 Tracey Lall 57 Travis Richard Sweatte 62 Trevor Ngwane 31 Tyler Groskinsky 57 Tyler Volk 63 U Uncle Bobby X 24 Union Settlement Retired 36 Ursula Rozum 60 V Vanissa Chan 24, 33 Vicente Rubio-Pueyo 40 Victor Madeson 31 Victor Navasky 43 Victor Wallis 49 Vincent Stravino, MD 31 Virginia Martin 44 W Wael Elasady 50 Walda Katz-Fishman 25 Wally Bazemore 64 Walter Baier 76, 84 Walter Daum 79 Walter M. Tsou 37 Walter Tsou 47 Waltraud Fritz-Klackl 67, 76 Wayne Price 66 Webster Tarpley 48, 58 Whitney Mallett 48 William Camacaro 42 William Crain 47 William DiFazio 54 William James 50 William Martin 82 William Stroud 63 Will Prosper 52 Will Summers 47 X Ximena Bustamante 65 Y Yacine Fall 63 Yahir Zavaleta Rocha 27 YahNé Ndgo 44 Yannis Tziligakis 34, 74 Yasmeen Kamel 38 Yasmin Za3Za3 59 Yasser Munif 40, 59, 75 Yehuda Littman 83 Yeritza Mejía 47 Younes Benab 83 Yousef Khalil 60 Yusef Salaam 38 Yusif Barakat 75 Z Zachariah Mampilly 60 Zevin Cruz 28 Zhang Shuguang 46 Zoe Sherman 25, 61 Zohra Saad 28 Zoltan Zigedy 62 94 | Left Forum 2017 NOTES The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 95 NOTES 96 | Left Forum 2017 NOTES The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia | 97 NOTES THE INDYPENDENT HELP US BUILD NYC’S RESISTANCE NEWSPAPER SINCE LAST FALL WE HAVE PLACED OUTDOOR NEWS BOXES ACROSS THE CITY AND DOUBLED OUR MONTHLY PRINT RUN TO 30,000 COPIES. WE ARE NOW POISED TO JUMP TO 50,000 COPIES A MONTH BUT CAN ONLY DO SO WITH THE HELP OF OUR READERS. TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED, PICK UP A COPY OF THE JUNE INDY AT OUR EXHIBITOR’S TABLE OR FROM ONE OF OUR DISTRIBUTORS.