Renate Bridenthal

Renate Bridenthal

“Take Back CUNY!”

“Take Back CUNY!” strategic dialogue and action plan

Friday, November 15th 2013, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St., Room C201/C202.

Join CUNY students, faculty, staff, and community in a strategic dialogue and action plan to resist: militarization of CUNY with Petraeus, ROTC, research, and recruitment, theft of student & community spaces like the Morales/Shakur Center, repression of activism and dissent through the CUNY Board of Trustees “Policy on Expressive Conduct” and arrests/suspensions/jail-time of CUNY student organizers, turning colleges into corporations, labor exploitation

Confirmed speakers: Sharmin Hossain (Ya-Ya Network), Luis Henriquez (Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee), Glenn Petersen (Professional Staff Congress – Baruch College), Renate Bridenthal (Professional Staff Congress – International Committee).

Science & Society

In 2009, the Editorial Board of Science & Society, a New York based "journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis", consisted of:;

• Renate Bridenthal
• John Ehrenberg
• Frank T. Fitzgerald
• Barbara Foley
• Martha Gimenez
• Justin Holt
• Julio Huato
• Gerald Horne
• Sharryn Kasmir
• David Laibman, Editor
• Derek Lovejoy
• Gerald Meyer
• Paul Mishler
• Leith Mullings
• Deborah Mutnick
• Bertell Ollman
• John P. Pittman
• Ellen W. Schrecker
• Alan Shandro
• Mark Solomon
• Lise Vogel
• Alan Wald

Left Forum Advisory Board

In 2009 the Left Forum Advisory Board included Gilbert Achcar, Tariq Ali, Ashanti Alston, Anthony Arnove, Robin Blackburn, Barbara Bowen, Jack Bratich, 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, Heather Gautney, Marvin Gettleman, Arun Gupta, Jack Hammond, David Harvey, Gerald Horne, Boris Kagarlitsky, Robin D. G. Kelley, Christine A. Kelly, Peter Kwong, Joanne Landy, Jesse Lemisch, Michael Lowy, Nivedita Majumdar, Manning Marable, Randy Martin, Liz Mestres, Susan O'Malley, Cathy Mulder, Leo Panitch, Christian Parenti, Thomas Ponniah, Barbara Ransby, Michael Ratner, Jan Rehmann, Gerardo Renique, Rainer Rilling, Colin Robinson, Nan Rubin, Roger Salerno, Stephen R. Shalom, Neil Smith, Richard Smith, Meredith Tax, Eleni Varikas, Victor Wallis, Joseph Wilson.

Left Forum 2005

History Matters: The Past, Public Memory, and Resistance:

• Sponsor: Global Left Dialogue
• Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
• Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago
• Russell Rickford, Columbia University
• Tiffany Patterson, Binghamton University
• Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Brecht Forum Event: Science & Society 60th Birthday

In 1996,Renate Bridenthal was listed as a speaker of the Brecht Forum's Sixtieth Anniversary of Science & Society, "the oldest Marxist journal in the United States."

featured speakers include Renate Bridenthal, Gerrie Casey, Robin D. G. Kelley, Jerry Lembcke, Yusuf Nuruddin, Annette T. Rubinstein.

Socialist Scholars Conference 1992

Harry Magdoff, Monthly Review, Bill Tabb, Queens College, Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College and Samir Amin, Senegal were speakers on the Imperialism and the New World Order panel sponsored by Monthly Review at the Tenth Annual Socialist Scholars Conference. The conference was held April 24-26, 1992 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City

Socialist Scholars Conference 1990

The Socialist Scholars Conference 1990, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:

Political Change in Eastern Europe: A Roundtable Discussion

• Sponsor: Science and Society
• John Cammett, History, John Jay College, CUNY
• Carl Bloice, Moscow correspondent, Peoples Daily World
• Renate Bridenthal, History, Brooklyn College
• Joan Ecklein, University of Massachusetts