Various Events at Left Forum 2014

May 6, 2014 Seth Adler Leave a comment

Sunday Evening Plenary:

Barbara Bowen, Kshama Sawant, and Rob Robinson

Amy Goodman: moderator and interlocutor

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Everyday Revolutions and Transformative Organizing:

Dialgoues, Strategies, Hope, and Trust

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A dialogue in three parts – with audience questions

with a welcome from Dolores Canales

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1980 Coup D’etat to Gezi: From Military Dictatorship to Resistance Against Authoritarianism	A Conversation with Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson Oscar Grant Family and Carl Dix Stop Mass Incarceration : A Film and Discussion on the Movie “Fruitvale Station” and Police Murder and Mass Incarceration
A New McCarthyism?: Fighting Back Against the Crackdown on the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement	A Second Munich Conference in Ukraine and the Threat to World Peace
Abortion Rights, Race and Class	Accumulation of Capital: Why Rosa Luxemburg’s Ideas Matter More Than Ever
Active Nonviolence as a Tool for Creative Social Change Today	Advances in Freedom of Speech in 15 years of the Socialist Government of Venezuela
After Marikana: Workers Fighting Back in South Africa	Alternative Economies: Cooperativism and Autogestion
Alternative Media and Political Activism	American Patriotism and Left Politics
An Economic Bill of Rights: Reform or Revolution?	An End to Gang Violence?
An Introduction to Lacan for Leftists	Angela Davis and Harry Belafonte at Occupy Wall Street, October 28 and 29, 2011: Film and Group Discussion
Animal Liberation and Social Justice – Theory and Testimony	Another Horseman: How Global Economic Convolutions Are Transforming the Course of the AIDS Crisis
Antipsychiatry’s Challenge to the Left: Szasz, Laing and the Mad Movement	Arab Revolutions in Perspective
Archiving a Revolution	Armenian Genocide Denial and Restitution: The Call for Transformative Justice
Art and Class	Art as a Means of Healing and Revolution for Queer People of Color
Art, Class and City	As Young Workers, How Can We Take Media Into Our Own Hands?
Abortion Rights Emergency! Stop the War On Women
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Badass Teachers and Parents Unite!	Bass, Beats, and The Breaks of Dawn: Building Revolutionary Indigenous Movements for Decolonization through Music, Art and Digital Media
Between Black Nationalism and Black Internationalism: The Life, Labor and Legacy of Rod Bush	Beyond Borders: The Global Fight against Racism
Beyond Democracy, Capitalism, and Scarcity: The Possibilities of a Natural Law-Resource Based Economy	Beyond Intersectionality: 21st Century Woman Questions
Beyond May’s Election: Strategic Choices for South Africs’s Lefts	Beyond the ACA: Getting to Guaranteed Healthcare for All
Big Oil: Getting it out of our System	Black America and the Empire in Crisis
Book Launch Celebration – They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy	Bourgeois, White-Collar, Precariat!: Class in the 21st Century
Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy	Bringing CUNY into the US War Machine: Students and Faculty Rise Up
Buddhism, Radical Critique and Revolutionary Praxis	Building Another Reality: Radical Democractic Theory and Zapatista (Re)surgence
Building Community with Media: The Importance of Impact and Outreach Campaigns	But Some of Us Were Brave: Scholars and Activists Remember Mae Mallory

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Can Unions Be a Force Behind New Left Political Parties and/or Electoral Projects?	Can we return to Marxism?
Cancer and the American Left	Capitalism, Contradiction and Character: Angry White Guys?
Capitalism’s “Lost Generation,” How Young Marxist-Leninists will be the Gravediggers of Capitalism	CEEP Delegation to China Report Back
Challenging GMOs: Toward a More Transformative Movement	Change the System YES! But to WHAT?
Changes in Global Capitalism and Africa’s Economic Development and Challenges	Changing Climates: A Collective Presentation of the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
Chinese Imperialism: Implications for Revolution	CIA Still Suppresses 50 year-old JFK Assassination Records. Press Is Silent. Why? Does The Suppression of Historical Facts Affect Our Democracy?
Climate Crisis Emergency: Poetry and Discussion for Eco-Activism	Cloud Labor: Working in the Digital Economy
Colombian Peace Talks: The Flame of Hope Is Back Again!	Comics for Revolution
Comparing Grassroots and National Organizing	Conflicts and Peace-Building: A Revolutionary Perspective
Confronting Global Environmental Catastrophe: Anarchist Analyses of Collapse	Confronting Health Care Marketization under the ACA, Organizing for Single Payer
Coordinating Regional Strategies in the Movement Against Mass Incarceration	Creative Engagement: Innovative Ways of Engaging Communities in Social Change
Criminalizing Survival: Debt and Prison in the Age of Austerity	Crisis in Ukraine
Cuba Today: Capitalist Reform or Safeguarding the Revolution?	Current Iran-USA Relations
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Dangerous Genocidal Crimes of Church and State	Defeating the Fraternal Order of Police
Deportations and Citizenship n the Neo-Liberal Era	De-Privatizing the Internet: Putting High Speed Communications in Everyone’s Hands
Developing a New Psychiatric Paradigm for Individual and Social Emancipation	Dialogue on Revolutionary Experiences from Palestine and Egypt to Occupy
Difficult Hybrids: Natural Politics, Energy Economics, Corporate Catalysis and Material Agencies	Digital Domination: Problems and Solutions to Government Use of Big Data
Direct Democracy within the Internet	Direct Democracy: Describing It, Debating It, Achieving It
Dismantling the Media Industry: The Fight for Intern Justice	Does the Left Exist?: Global Perspectives – Part 1
Does the Left Exist?: Global Perspectives – Part 2	Does the Left’s Silence About Controlled Demolition on 9/11 Promote Islamophobia
Domestic Workers, Mothers and Other Caregivers – Organizing for Welfare and a Living Wage	Don’t Mourn, Organize!: The Radical Decentralist Politics of Social Ecologist Murray Bookchin
Drug User Union Organizing in the United States	Drug War Revolution in Latin America: The Road to Legalization of All Drugs
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Empowerment Humor: What Part Does Comedy Play in Transformative Justice?	En(d)Gendering in Hip Hop
End Raging Economic Inequality with the Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street	Environment, Technology, Society
European Left Perspectives: Struggles Against Austerity and Capitalism	Everyday Revolutions
Exposing ALEC/SPN and Building Momentum Towards Democratic Alternatives
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Fighting Fascism and Austerity in Greece	Fighting for Government, Organizing for Power: Challenges and Opportunities for the Greek Left
Fighting for Socialism in the Deep South	Fighting the Frack Monster
Financial Parasitism: Understanding the “Great Vampire Squids”	Five Economic Lies
Freedom Learning Practices: From Brisbane to New York City to Oaxaca	From the Maple Spring to the Conservative Highjacking of Politics in Québec
From Passive to Active Membership: The Making of a Change Agent	From the Streets to United Nations Suites and Treaty Reviews to Free COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Era Human Rights Defenders
Full Disclosure: Toward an Honest Commemoration of the American War in Vietnam	Functioning from the Core–Towards a Human Technology for Community Empowerment and Global Unity: Root Cause Analysis and Triple Bottom Line.
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Gender and Sexuality in US Capitalism Today	Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope
Getting to Single Payer	GEZI Movement and “Seyyar Forum”: A New Politics of Dissent
GEZI Resistance: A Blossomed Creativity in Revolutionary Potential, Art of Defiance, Collective Culture, Reorganisation and Urban Jargon	GEZI Resistance: How Can We Establish a Joint Reflex against Global Oppression and its Various Demographic Forms?
GEZI Resistance: New Forms of Institutions and Their Effects on Resistance	GEZIniyoruz Network: How We Built an International Network of Activism around GEZI Resistance
Global Unions, Local Power: Can Labor Win Against Multinational Companies?	Globalization and Social Mobilization: From Arab Spring to Occupy to USSF and Beyond
Globalized Markets, Jim Crow Apartheid and Persecution in Burma 2014.	Go Fossil Free: Divesting New York’s Pension Funds from Fossil Fuels
Graduate Education as Transformative Justice?: Standpoints from Feminist Scholars	Graduating K-12 Students Who are Self-Motivated to Learn: An Education Objective More Important than Reading and Math Scores
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Haiti and Caribbean in Western Imperial Storm	Health Care Justice: Single Payer and Labor’s Continuing Battle
Hegemony Reconsidered: Lukacs, Gramsci and the Frankfurt School	Hey Activists, Read This!: Why Progressives Should Read More Fiction
High School Students Demand Changes in the City Budget	Honduras and Central America: Dealing with Imperialism
How Can NYC Police Reform Activists Break Free from the Veal Pen ?	How Critical Thinking, Empowerment and Creativity in Young People of Color Can Transform the Status Quo
How to Be Your Own Amy Goodman	How to Run an Election Campaign (Panel 1)
How to Run an Election Campaign (Panel 2)	How WE Together Can Turn Things Around in the US and Globally: A Strategy to Create Unprecedented Cooperation and Coordination Between Grassroots Movements
Hugo Chavez: His Legacy in Food Sovereignty and the Construction of Eco-Socialism in Venezuela
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Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA	Imperialist Wars and Global Ecological Degradation
In Defense of Bad Art	In the Shadow of the Dragon: The Death of West and the Rise of Chinese Christian Architecture
Independent Political Action in the Streets and in the Political Arena	Informed Agitators : Librarian and Information Professionals in Social Justice
Innovating Collective Action for the 21st Century	Insurgent Legacies, Empire and the Global Revolutionary Horizion
Intellectual Engagement & the Radical Imagination	Introduction to Deep Green Resistance
IOPS Discussion Space: How To Build Revolutionary Organizations in the 21st Century?	Iran: Is the Optimism Justified?
Ireland and the Struggle for a Workers Republic	Is Education Reform Possible?
Is There Any Radical Pedagogy Today?
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Journalism and War Crimes: The Left’s Role in Neo-Liberal Imperialism – Syria, Ukraine & Libya	Justice Denied. JFK’s Assassination: What Did Happen in Dealey Plaza & the Robertson Study; JFK Files Still Withheld; Scientific Press Won’t Publish New Evidence.
Justice for Victor Jara: An Update and Discussion
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Keeping It “In-House”: Ensuring that Scholarly Pursuits Manifest into Transferable Skills for the Community	Keywords for Radicals: A Late-Capitalist Vocabulary of Culture and Society
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Labor Law Reform: Which Way Forward?	Labor Vs. Education Deform
Labour and the International, Part 2: Now	Labour and the International, Part I: Then
Land Trusts, Tax Exemptions and Mission Creep: Neglected Sources of Ecological and Economic Crises in Late Capitalism	Latin America: Renewed Challenges and Opportunities for the Left
Left Electoral Campaigns: Independent Politics, Social Movements, and Community Power	Left Strategies for the Academic Workers’ Movement
Left Wing Comedy Show	Leftists Teachers Discuss the Future of Public Education
Legalize Democracy: Building a Movement to Put Corporations Subordinate to the People (Explore National Move to Amend Initiative, its History and Action)	Lenin’s Revolutionary Strategy for Our Times: Reforms, Elections, Parliaments and the Broader Democratic Struggle
Lessons for Today from the Jewish Labor Movement	Lessons from the Newest Wave of Contention
Lessons of the Verizon Strike: Can Telecom Labor Rise Again?	Life, Liberty, Humanity and Paine’s Path to Justice
Little Mama’s Tool Shed	Long Island Latin and Blacks Fight for Equal Rights and Economic Justice
Looking for Agency in All the “Wrong” Places: Interventions into Race, Gender and Health Discourses	Louis-Auguste Blanqui: The Will to Act
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Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism	Marxism and The Oppression of Women
Marxist-Humanism Confronts Reform or Revolution: Women’s Liberation; Ecology; The Arab Spring	Mass Socialist Party Now!: Unification and Elections
Men Are Parents Too	Migration from a Revolutionary Perspective: Changing the Predominant Narrative
Minority Report: Political Prosecutions in the War on Terror	Mobilizing the Latin@ Community With Social Media
Modern Genocide and Motives: A Radical Psychoanalytical View	More than 15!: The Fight To Raise The Quality of Life for All New Yorkers
Moving to Partnership Culture from the Current Culture of Hierarchy and Domination	Mumia and Other Targets of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and Similar Police Forces Such as the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA)
Music, Social Movements and Revolution	Mutual Aid: On The Ground
Myths on Non-Violence and Building a True Culture of Resistance
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Narratives that Amplify: Using the 5th Element of Hip Hop, Students’ Lives and Art to Break Down Social Barriers and Construct New Realities	New Barbarism and Autonomy: Land and People Severed by Structural Adjustment, Nuclear Disaster and the Olympics
New Pathways to Worker Ownership of the Means of Production	New World Trade Order?
New York City – UN Climate Summit, September 23, 2014: Will it be like Seattle 1999?	New York City’s University Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns: Progress, Successes and Vision for the Future
New York Labor Rank and File	No More Prisons, No More Jails: Update on Campaigns in California and around the US
Nothing’s Too Good For the Working Class: Left Wing Politics and the Crisis of Art	Nou Pa Dakò: Mobilization against Anti-Haitianism in the Americas, Past and Present
Nurses Respond Globally to Climate Crisis Disasters	Nursing, Unions, Socialism and Healthcare
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Occupy Art	Occupying Beyond Occupy Wall Street (The untold story) and Implications for Organizing City-Wide
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Rereading Althusser	One Year after the Rana Plaza Collapse: Where Do We Go from Here
Opposing War and Military and NGO Occupation. Supporting Whistleblowers and Refuseniks	Opt Outs, Boycotts and Test Refusal: Taking a Stand against Standardized Testing
Organizing Against Solitary Confinement in an Era of Mass Incarceration
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Parliamentary Multiparty Democracy for the US: Why Do Most Nations Have What We Do not Have and Is It a Necessary Transitional Step to Socialism?	Pat the Woman the Revolutionary the Mom the Writer! ON FILM (We will do SHARING & DIALOGUE! )
Peak Oil and the Infinite Growth Monetary Paradigm	Pedagogies of Revolt: Erich Fromm and Richard Wright
People’s Struggles in Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Solidarity	Performance, Art, Video and Media: Demonstrating Protests of the 21st Century
Pete Seeger: A Portrait in Song and Story	Philosophical Perspectives on Marx’s Critique of Capital
Planning for a Sustainable Civilization: Can We Use a Green New Deal to Prevent Ecological Collapse and Move toward a Just Society?	Police Terrorism, Mass Incarceration and the Criminal Injustice System
Policing in the 21st Century	Post-Chávez Venezuela: New Directions under the Presidency of Nicolás Maduro?
Postracial Ideology and Empire: How Uncle Tom Bought His Freedom	Poststructuralism and Postcolonialism: Critiques from the Left
Prefigurative Politics, Strategy and the Left After Occupy	Prejudices, Fantasies and Justice
Program for a New Black Freedom Movement	Proletarian Feminism, Revolutionary Student Work and Other Innovations in Mass Line Theory
Prospects of the Global Crisis of Capitalism: Post-Keynesianism vs. Marxism?	Protect Me From What I Want: A Workshop On Race, Capitalism, and Desire
Protracted People’s War and Contemporary Revolutionary Struggles	Psychoanalysis and Privatization: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Freud’s Tool for Social Justice
Puerto Rico Update!



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Quid Pro Cuomo: What Is To Be Done?
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Race, Class and the Fight for Social and Ecological Justice	Race, Class, and Climate Change: Advancing Movement Building Towards Climate Justice
Radical Perspectives on Intellectual Property	Radical Teacher and the Online Open-Access Movement
Rank and File Teachers’ Movements: Challenges and Possibilities	Recalling the Future: Strategies and Speculations in Jameson and Spivak
Re-Examining a DIY Approach to an Evolving New Economy	Reform and Revolution: Building the Solidarity Economy through Radical Public Policy
Reform and/or Revolution: Strategic Challenges for the Mexican Working Class	Reform or Revolution – European Working Class Politics 1871-1914
Registering Class in 21st Century Socialist Strategy	Registering Reform and Revolution: 50 Years of The Socialist Register
Re-Inventing the Psychoanalytic Left	Religion and Class
Renewing Mass-Based Left Politics: Perspectives and Experiences from South Africa and the U.S.	Resisting Dispossession and Deportation in Canada
Restoring the Neighbor Back to the Hood: Detroit	Rethinking Rosa Luxemburg: Pathways from Capitalism to Socialism
Returning to What: The Aftermath of Mass Incarceration	Revitalization to Revolution: The Urban Spring
Revolution and the Scope of Feminist Aesthetics	Revolution or Omnicide: Our Choice
Revolutionary Animism	Revolutionary Digital Archiving: Preserving our Heritage
Revolutionary Politics and Thought	Rise Against Austerity!: Models of Resistance on the European Left
Roudtable -Fear of Crime In My Neighborhood: Confluence of Lived Experience and Ethnographic Research among Undergraduate CRJ Students at an Urban Community College	Roundtable: Reading Dunayevskaya’s “Marxism and Freedom” Collectively
Russia – Ukraine – NATO: Multipolarity of Contradictions
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Screening of “Carry it Forward”: Celebrate the Children of Resistance Film starring Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Rebel Diaz, the Family of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and Others	Screening Terror: Cinematic Representations of Violence, Terrorism, State Terror and Revolution
Sex Work Internationally: Three Contexts in Comparison	Sex Workers Organizing against Violence and Criminalization
Sex Workers Unite: A Collective Call for Decriminalization and Community Support	Shadows of Liberty: Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion -The Urgency of Media Reform as an Essential Element of Restoring Democracy
Snowden, NSA and Public Reception	Socialism Coming Back
Socialism or Barbarism: Meszaros and the Current Crisis	Socialism, Capitalism and Global Injustice
Socialist Strategy for the 21st Century: Building a Militant Minority within a Progressive Majority	Solidarity after Bhopal: Building a Transnational Environmental Justice Movement
Solidarity and Alliances: Issues of Power and Privilege	Solidarity for Survival: Social Union Approaches to Environmental and Climate Justice
Space and Politics of Resistance	Speak!: A Leftist Communications Workshop
Special Meeting of the Alternative Banking Group of Occupy Wall Street: Ethics, Finance and Poverty	State Abuse of Children by Child Welfare Agencies
Struggles in Foster Care and Child Welfare	SYRIZA and the Great Refusal: Revolutionary Prospects in Greece
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Terror, Taboo, Stigma and Muslim Women	The “Two-State Solution” is Dead: For One Democratic State in Palestine-Israel
The ABCs of Squatting in NYC	The Action Switchboard: Co-Opting the Strategies of the Yes Men, the NRA, InterOccupy and Kickstarter
The Black Radical Tradition and Re-Imagining Transformative Justice: Reform/Revolution in the 21st Century	The California Prisoners Hunger and Work Strike Implications for Prisoners Rights and the Movement against Solitary Confinement: Family Members Speak Out
The Campaign to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera: Its Time to Bring Him Home!	The Compass and the Map: Anti-Capitalism, Strategy and the Political Imagination
The Death of Miracle Drugs: The Emerging Threat of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria	The Dominican Republic: History and Politics since 1959 – Constanza, Maimon, Estero Hondo and Freedom Struggles up to the Present
The Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory I	The Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory II
The Economics of Imperialism in the 21st Century	The Eco-Socialist Horizon in Today’s World with a Focus on Hawaii, China and Venezuela
The Ecosocialist Solution to the Environmental Crisis	The Fight for $15 in Seattle and Beyond
The Future of Revolution: What is Social Movement Creation?	The Gates of Hell: European Border Management and the Passage from Turkey to Greece
The Global Minimum Wage Struggle	The Health Left in 2014: Reform and/or Revolution? [Session 1]
The Health Left in 2014: Reform and/or Revolution? [Session 2]	The History of Interracial Love: Desire, Crisis and Representation
The Indian General Election	The Left and Crime: Integrated or Overlooked?
The Legacy of Seymour Melman: Moving from a Permanent War Economy to a Post-Capitalist World	The Legacy of Slavery: Critical Dialogue on CARICOM and Reparatory Justice
The Mandela Legacy	The Misuse of Anti-Semitism to Silence Criticism of Israel and Promote Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Racism: The Use of Law Fare by Israel’s Supporters to Attack Free Speech, Academic Freedom, Anti-Racist Struggle and Ethnic Studies
The Morales Shakur Center: Maintaining the Legacy of Radical Student Struggle	The New “Great Game”: Inter-Imperialist Rivalry and Cooperation in the Age of “Resource Wars”
The New Face of Mesoamerican Immigration in New York – Reproducing Indigenous Culture as a Means of Resistance	The New Face of U.S. Imperialist Wars
The New Social Unionism: Fighting for Main Street, Taxing Wall Street	The Pharmaceutical Industry, Intellectual Property Clauses in Free Trade Agreements and Access to Medicines
The Politics of Work	The Revolution Has Begun: Taking Back Society for All
The Revolutionary as Mentor: The Role of Rod Bush in Building Activism	The Road to Change:The Struggle to Free All Political Prisoners/Freedom Fighters/Revolutionists/Human Rights Defenders – Nothing Has Changed
The Role of Media in a Revolutionary Transformation of Society	The Secret Pillars of Capitalism – Land Control and Debt-Money: Two systems that enslave us and how we can change them
The story of drones from the ground – Wounds of Waziristan screening and discussion	The Syrian Revolution: Grassroots Movements and Media Coverage
The Syrian Revolution: The Impact of Palestinian, Kurdish and Anti-imperialist Politics	The Tragic US Experiment in Guatemala: Corporate Power, State-Sponsored Violence and the Struggle for Justice
The Venezuelan Revolution and Climate Change	The Work of Sex Work: The Sex Trade in a Labor Context
Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Community: A Panel Discussion and Workshop	Think Outside the Boss: How to Start a Worker Cooperative
Time For Class	Toward a New Collegium: Envisioning the Politics and Poetics of a Radical Collective for Writers and Readers
Toxic Philanthropy: The Gates Foundation, Public Health and Imperialism	Transformative Change: The Necessity of Marx
Transformative Justice in a One-Dimensional Society: Is It Still Possible?	Transforming Our Cities from the Grassroots: Potentials of Local and Transnational Networks and Collective Actions for a ‘Just City’
True Value Metrics: Multi-Dimension Impact Accounting	Truth Denied Power To Protect Power To Abuse-foster care
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U.S. Higher Education as a Site of Struggle for Palestinian Rights	Ukraine: Socialist and Fascist and the Fraud of Timothy Snyder’s “Bloodlands”
Union-Coops: A Powerful Tool in a Broad-Based Movement to End Income Inequality and Create Transformative Economic Justice Through Worker-Ownership	University Prison Divestment: Confronting the Prison Industrial Complex and Building Power On Campus
Urban and Rural Land Struggles: Solidarity across Geography and with Academia	Urgently Needed and Being Realized in October 2014: Massive Movement of Resistance to the Slow Genocide of Mass Incarceration!
US “Dirty” Wars, Targeted Killings and Secret Operations Supercede Military Occupations, but Are still Illegitimate	US Social Forum III: Convening to Build a Movement To Win
Using Digital Organizing Tools To Disrupt Traditional Power Structures and Build Strong Communities	USSF: The People’s Movement Assemby
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Vast Surveillance of Whole Populations: The NSA Revelations One Year Out	Venezuela and the Corporate Mass Media: Its National and International Impact
Vote Rustlers and the New Jim Crow: Moving from “Reform” to Real Democracy	Voting Methods: Fundamental Change to Create a Responsive Government
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Water and Energy Are Not for Sale: Ending the Era of Extreme Energy! Social Movements Responding to the Crises.	WBAI/Pacifica: The Role of Media in Reform and/or Revolution
What Would a Transformative Criminal Justice System Look Like Politically, Economically, Spiritually and Intellectually?	What’s Marx Got to Do With It?: A Class Analysis of the Struggle over Schooling
Where is Labor’s Voice?	Who Owns it Matters: Launching a Business that Promotes Economic, Environmental and Labor Justice
Why Are Women In Prison?: The Politics of Risk	Why the American Left Should Care about Europe: Internationalism and the EU
Why the Left Can’t Learn	Winning Civil Rights and Privacy Protection at the Same Time
Wisconsin Rising Film Screening and Panel Discussion: What Did We Learn from Wisconsin?	Woman Power Unlimited and United
Women Taking Charge in African Social Justice Struggles	Women Who Walk on the Tongues of Lions
Women, Trans, Aging Prisoners and FIPs	Working in Fear: Deportation and Labor Exploitation in the Obama Age
Working-Class Politics from the Defeat of the Commune to 1914: Reform or Revolution in History and Praxis	Wrong Life: Three Reflections on Revolutionary Possiblity
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Yes, We Can! (So Why Don’t We?): Building An America Where All Prosper	Yoga/Simplicity are the Enemies of the System
You Don’t Know What You Think You ‘Know’ About the Communist Revolution—Responses to Raymond Lotta’s New eBook	Youth Talk: Experiences in Education and Incarceration
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Zizek Delenda Est

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Left Forum 2014 – 400 Panels, Workshops and Events

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Sunday Evening Plenary:

Barbara Bowen, Kshama Sawant, and Rob Robinson

Amy Goodman: moderator and interlocutor

___________________________________

Everyday Revolutions and Transformative Organizing:

Dialgoues, Strategies, Hope, and Trust

______________

A dialogue in three parts – with audience questions

with a welcome from Dolores Canales

Barbara Bowen is a professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). She taught for fifteen years before becoming president of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY. A scholar of 17th-century English literature and African-American studies, Bowen earned her Ph.D. at Yale and has published numerous works in her field. Throughout her academic career, she also worked in progressive political movements and as a labor organizer. Bowen’s election as president of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) in 2000 was as part of a collective of faculty and staff with deep roots in progressive politics. The PSC represents 25,000 faculty members and professional staff at CUNY and the CUNY Research Foundation. A fierce opponent of accommodating to economic austerity, Bowen has been an outspoken critic of Albany’s failed strategy of disinvestment in CUNY and reliance on increased student tuition. She is a principled and articulate labor leader, pressing city’s labor movement to challenge Wall Street.

Kshama Sawant is an activist who brings a passion for social justice to her work as a public servant. As a member of the Seattle City Council, Kshama pledges to be a voice for workers, youth, the oppressed and the voiceless. After earning her PhD, Kshama moved to Seattle and began teaching at Seattle Central Community College, Seattle University, and the University of Washington Tacoma. In 2012, Kshama ran as a Socialist Alternative candidate for WA State Legislature and surprised everyone by winning 29% of the vote. The momentum continued in her campaign for Seattle City Council where she boldly ran on a platform of fighting for a $15/hr minimum wage, rent control and taxing the super-rich to fund mass transit and education. In November she defeated a 16-year incumbent Democrat to become the first socialist elected in a major US city in decades.

Rob Robinson is a member of the Leadership Committee of the Take Back the Land Movement and a staff volunteer at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). After losing his job in 2001 with a fortune 500 company, he spent two years, homeless on the streets of Miami and ten months in a New York City shelter. He eventually overcame homelessness and has been in the housing movement based in New York City since 2007. In the fall of 2009, Rob was chosen to be New York City chairperson for the first ever official mission of a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. He has worked with homeless populations in Budapest Hungary and Berlin Germany and is connected with housing movements in South Africa and Brazil. He works with the European Squatters Collective, International Alliance of Inhabitants, Landless People’s Movement and the Movement of People Affected by Dams and is a member of the Steering Committee of the USA Canada Alliance of Inhabitants. He is a member of the Board of the Left Forum.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,200 public television and radio stations worldwide. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press.Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration.” PULSE named her one of the 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009.

Dolores Canales is a founding member and organizer with California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC) and on the Advisory Board of CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget) and mother of John Martinez, who has spent the past 13 years in Solitary Confinement in Pelican Bay SHU prison. Since the July 2011 Hunger Strike Dolores and numerous other family members have been actively involved in raising awareness to the issues of solitary confinement and mass incarceration in California. Dolores herself is a formally incarcerated, very productive member of society, and spends her free time advocating on behalf of prisoners and their families. Dolores was awarded the Family Unity Award by Legal Services of Prisoners with Children.

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Sunday Evening – Closing Plenary with Barbara Bowen, Kshama Sawant, Robert Robinson: moderated by Amy Goodman

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Sunday Evening Plenary at 6:00 pm:

Barbara Bowen, Kshama Sawant, and Rob Robinson

Amy Goodman: moderator and interlocutor

___________________________________

Everyday Revolutions and Transformative Organizing:

Dialgoues, Strategies, Hope, and Trust

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A dialogue in three parts – with audience questions

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Left Forum 2013 – Panels and Workshops

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The first round of panels and workshops for Left Forum 2013 are now on display on the website.

Check out the wonderfully engaged array of topics, titles, speakers and panel descriptions. Please click the topics below to see the panels for that topic area.

You will also find a great new feature on the panel displays. Panelists have and will continue to provide support readings, reading lists, and papers for their talks and workshops. This will enable all participants to better prepare for the conference sessions, to raise interesting questions and to engage in critical dialogues.

Left Forum 2013, June 7-9
Pace University,
1 Pace Plaza New York, NY

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Pre-conference registration discounts are available for a limited time (e.g., students $15)

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Left Forum 2014: Panels, Workshops and Events by Topic Area – 100′s of panels, workshops, and events

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This year’s Left Forum offers an extraordinary array of workshops, panels and events. Ranging from music to comedy, and from the issues of social movements rising to transformative justice and the prison-industrial complex, the content of the first round of panels, workshops and events are now on display on the website. Please click the links below to see the panels and workshops for each particular topic area.

Early registration discounts extended until April 22nd (e.g., students $10):

Celebrating 10 Years

Left Forum 2014,

May 30 – June 1

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York

524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, 10019

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Call for panels/workshops: Download or forward -here
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Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis & David Harvey: feature event – Left Forum 2014

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Saturday Evening Feature Event at 7:30 pm:

Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis and David Harvey
___________________________________

Imagining a World with Transformative Justice:

Reform and/or Revolution Today

Harry Belafonte exposed America to world music and spent his life challenging and overturning racial barriers across the globe.Belafonte met a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on King’s historic visit to New York in the early 1950s. Belafonte and King developed a deep and abiding friendship, and Belafonte played a key role in the civil rights movement, including the 1963 March on Washington.

In 1985, disturbed by war, drought, and famine in Africa, Belafonte helped organize the Grammy-winning song “We Are the World,” a multi-artist effort to raise funds for Africa. Belafonte was active in efforts to end apartheid in South Africa and to release Nelson Mandela.

Belafonte served as the cultural advisor for the Peace Corps, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and was honored as an Ambassador of Conscience by Amnesty International. Recently, Belafonte founded the Sankofa Justice & Equity Fund, a non-profit social justice organization that utilizes the power of culture and celebrity in partnership with activism. It is a space for artists to contribute their talents to build awareness and confront the issues that negatively impact marginalized communities.

Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years she has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. She is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era. Today she remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system. She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Angela Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also the world’s most cited academic geographer and the author of many books and essays influential in the development of modern geography as a discipline. His work has contributed to broad social and political debate, and he is credited with helping to resurrect social class and Marxist methods as serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism, particularly its neoliberal form.

Early registration discounts end soon:

Celebrating 10 Years

Left Forum 2014,

May 30 – June 1

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York

524 West 59th. Street, New York, NY, 10019

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Conference Theme Download - here
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Cornel West, Immortal Technique, Marina Sitrin, and Stanley Aronowitz: moderated by Amy Goodman – Left forum Friday Plenary Info and Video

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Friday Evening Plenary:

Cornel West, Immortal Technique, Marina Sitrin, and Stanley Aronowitz

Amy Goodman, moderator
___________________________________

Why revolution now?

What revolution now?

See Video for Event Details

Early registration discounts extended until April 22nd (e.g., students $10):

Celebrating 10 Years

Left Forum 2014,

May 30 – June 1

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York

524 West 59th. Street, New York, NY, 10019

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Conference Theme Download - here
Propose a panel or workshop - here
Call for panels/workshops: Download or forward -here
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Hear Angela Davis, Amy Goodman, Cornel West, David Harvey, Harry Belafonte, Immortal Technique, Kshama Sawant… Early Registration Discounts Extended !

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Don’t miss this chance to see

Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis, Kshama Sawant, Cornel West and Amy Goodman

at a discount rate!

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNTS

EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 22ND.

Register here
Take advantage of these early registration discounts! Student and group rates are a great way to introduce people to the Left Forum. Please do remember that everyone—panelists included—must register for the conference.

Students and youth – 22 or younger (with ID): $ 10.00
Group Rate (10+): $ 20.00
Low-income Registration (25K income or less): $ 35.00
Full Three-Day Registration: $ 60.00
John Jay community (with current ID) $ 15.00

LF Friends or Institutionally Funded Registration: $100.00

For any registration-related queries, email: register@leftforum.org

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Celebrating 10 Years

Left Forum 2014,

May 30 – June 1

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York

524 West 59th. Street, New York, NY, 10019

leftforum.org|leftforum@leftforum.orgg

Register for the conference - here

Conference Theme Download - here
Propose a panel or workshop - here
Call for panels/workshops: Download or forward - here
Volunteer
Support Left Forum
Contribute 10 dollars or more for 10 more years

Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis, David Harvey – Left forum Saturday Event Info and Video

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Saturday Evening Feature Event:

Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis and David Harvey
___________________________________

Imagining a World with Transformative Justice:

Reform and/or Revolution Today

See Video for Event Details

Early registration discounts end soon:

Celebrating 10 Years

Left Forum 2014,

May 30 – June 1

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York

524 West 59th. Street, New York, NY, 10019

leftforum.org|leftforum@leftforum.org Support Left Forum: Contribute 10 dollars or more for 10 more years

Conference Theme Download - here
Propose a panel or workshop - here
Call for panels/workshops: Download or forward -here
Volunteer
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Left Forum at 10 years: Looking Back, Looking Forward

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In preparation for Left Forum 2014 (see pictures of the new conference space here) volunteers and conference organizers produced a newsletter of highlights from last year’s conference. We present it below.

Help build the conference on its 10th year anniversary.
Give someone the gift of a Left Forum registration.