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WELCOME TO LEFT FORUM 2016 BOARD MEMBERS Ashley Abbott Seth Adler Stanley Aronowitz Stephon Boatwright Maria Carnemolla Kristin Lawler Rob Robinson Richard D. Wolff Thank you for participating in Left Forum 2016. The conference has steadily grown over the years. It 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 to 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. This program guide includes the full conference schedule, and will help you navigate through the 400 panels, workshops, and events that are happening this weekend. Please look through it carefully. The accompanying map should help you find your panels and get you there on time, but feel free to ask a staff member or volunteer for assistance. This year we are devoting several rooms to specific panel topics. Signs will be posted in the room areas as to these topics. This will enable anyone interested in similar issues and activism to more easily network and develop familiarity with people and issues engaged within a common area of interest. We also heartily invite you to participate in the Left Forum Exhibition, held in the First Floor Commons, the Hallway, the Second Floor Overlook, the Café, and the registration entry areas of the conference center. The Exhibition, which includes book publishers, publications, and movement organizers, is one of several meeting and networking spaces for the conference. With so much happening at once, we ask that you help us keep things running smoothly. Please keep your conference badge/necklace visible. If you lose your badge/necklace, you will have to purchase another one. Additionally, we ask you not to overcrowd the rooms; anyone who cannot find a seat is kindly requested to select another panel to attend. Please note that the plenary sessions and all standalone events operate on a first come, first serve basis (for all ticketed plenary sessions, one ticket will be handed out per person at the registration desks, starting on the morning of the evening’s plenary session). Please also note that two cafes will be open, on Saturday and Sunday afternoon through early evening, starting at 1:30. They are located on the first floor near the exhibit tables and on the lower lobby level near the registration tables. Finally, we encourage you to take the opportunity to share and discuss ideas with each other, and take advantage of the rare occasion for such rich public debate. We organize the Left Forum with the intention of opening an arena for dialogue on the most pressing matters of our world, with an ardent belief that this will help to change it. To this end, we thank you once again for your participation, and look forward to seeing you in the future. In Solidarity, The Board of Directors and Staff of Left Forum ADVISORY BOARD Gilbert Achcar Tariq Ali Robin Blackburn Barbara Bowen Rose Brewer Renate Bridenthal Michael Brie Stephen Brier Stephen Eric Bronner Paul Buhle Joseph A. Buttigieg Luciana Castellina Angela Dillard Stephen Duncombe Hester Eisenstein Barbara Epstein Deepa Fernandes Héctor Figueroa Harriet Fraad Josh Freeman Barbara Garson Marvin Gettleman Arun Gupta Jack Hammond David Harvey Gerald Horne Boris Kagarlitsky Robin D. G. Kelley Christine A. Kelly Peter Kwong Joanne Landy Jesse Lemisch Michael 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 Ross Weiner Joseph Wilson 1 RAGE, REBELLION, REVOLUTION ORGANIZING OUR POWER Today’s left generates an increasingly bold and resonant criticism of contemporary capitalism and the severely compromised everyday life that it produces. From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter and the Fight for $15; from escalating climate justice and gender freedom demands and the movement against mass incarceration to the massive national support for Bernie — not despite but because he wears the socialist label: left critique is going big. Something profound is shaking. The fuel for radical social transformation is all around us. From the streets and from offices; from campuses, factories, and stores, we see a growing rage against the system coming from those left behind and left out. People have had it. But we know too well that rage can easily feed the dangers of right wing populism, fascism, militarism, and gun violence in the U.S. and around the world. Rebellion, too, stalks the institutions that perpetuate a ruthless and violent system. Rebellion is inevitable when people live in a dehumanizing and contradictory society. But rebellion can fuel the right as well as the left — from “Know-Nothing” style populism to positive reforms like higher wages, and from movements to end the racist dimensions - and transform the institutional purposes - of policing in our country, all the way up to a revolutionary alternative. The future depends on what we envision and build today, and on how we ride this wave. We know that we can do better than capitalism and its state violence and endless bullshit. We reject the corporate dominance that corrupts our politics while delivering depressions, unemployment, and austerity. Folks all around the world share our disgust at the grotesque inequalities of today’s corporate system: its discriminations against and oppressions of vast populations, and its destruction of our environment. They sense that there are better alternatives. At Left Forum, we come together to imagine and hash out these alternatives, and to organize our power to make them real. There is a lot to build on, and a lot to build. LEFT FORUM STAFF & ORGANIZERS VOLUNTEERS, INTERNS, & ACTIVISTS Seth Adler .................................................................................... Coordinator Ashley Abbott ..................... Administrative and Operations Coordinator Marcus Grätsch ................... Program Coordinator/Panel Administration Carlos Mejia ............................................ IT Coordinator/Web Developer Laurie Bogath ...................................................... Editorial/Graphic Design Steven Matthews .................................................................. Program Guide Samantha Désiré ......................................................................... Registration Gabriel Farofaldane ......................... Plenary and Logistics Coordinator George Ygarza ......................................................... Art and Social Media Matthew Binetti .................................................................... Graphic Design Lou Hillier ...................................................................................... Operations Jessica Wanamaker .................................................................... Fundraising Michael Ryan ......................................................................................... Media Yves Sorokobi ........................................................................................ Media Chris Harding ............................................................... Social Media, Video Theresa Eddins ....................................................... Child Care Coordinator Valeryia Yermakova ..................................... Program and Administration Fatih Seyhanoglu .............................................................................. Program Denise Leal-Soto ............................................................................. Exhibition Christian Dominguez ............................................... Volunteer Coordination Ted Freed ................................................................. Volunteer Coordination Thiago de Mello Bueno ................................................. Web Development Martin Heinsdorf ........................................... Programming and Database Ian McKenzie .......................................................................................... Video Dena Fisher ................................................................ PR and Administration John Fisher .............................................................................. Performing Arts Aylin Sozen ...................................................... Public Relations and Media Max Ruetsche ............................................................................... Advertising Yasinul Ashraf Azhar Asif Helios Bajwa Mark Balderrama Joab Bastidas Fikirte “Lilly” Bizuneh Zar Castillo Nancy Castro Berta Devant Andanta Djafar Jeff Erickson Richard Felipe Dena Fisher Sukruti Gandham Priscilla Grim Hao Huang Joan Iezin Yue (Onny) Jin Soojin Joo 2 Daryl King Sean Ledden Wei Li Zhi Li Michael Lightsmith Akil Mitchell Wenmei Niu Sherry Onna Axel Owen Nigel Pollard Mia Ragozino Kazi Nistyer Rahman Vicente Rubio Manuela Senatore Andrew Sokulski Basak Valbuena Sage Velastegui Yushun Wang Ralph Yazzo CONTENTS CONFERENCE HOURS FRIDAY WELCOME ................................................................... 1 5:00P M – 9:15P M DOORS OPEN 3:00PM SATURDAY 10:00A M – 9:45P M DOORS OPEN 8:00AM SUNDAY 10:00A M – 9:15P M DOORS OPEN 8:00AM FLOOR PLANS ............................................................. 4 PANEL INDEX ............................................................. 7 PANEL SCHEDULE ....................................................... 17 SPEAKER INDEX ......................................................... 78 NOTES ....................................................................... 84 THANKS TO OUR COMRADES Leslie Adams Frank Brockway Russell B Christensen Mary Cleveland Charles Delman Samantha Desire Meredith Dillon Alvin Dorfman Perk Elmer Valerie Francis Olive Freud Patricia Friedland Pat Fry David Gallant Jose Garcia Ema Gold Lee Halprin John L. Hammond Jeffrey Henigson Richard Hobbs Herschel Kaminsky Richard K. Kearney Shahrzad Khayami Joseph F Knowles Bill Koehnlein Michael F. Kolassa Lawrence Larry Larry Lawrence Daniel Le Dressay Don Lichty John Liebau Gail Mansouri Frances Marcuse Peter Marcuse Susanna Martin Mattlin Foundation Jane Mattlin Lela Means Gerald Meyer Marilyn Millien-harris Sudeb Mitra Miriam Moskowitz Robert A Murtha Shaun O’Connell Jason Parker Patrick/Maria Patterson/Wilkens Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Charlotte Phillips M. V. Ramana Mario Rendon Shaun Richman Abby Rockefeller Sal Rosselli David Schweickart Maynard Seider Joan Shapiro Lee Sheppard Arthur Spears Marla Stone Merry Tucker Steven Waldbaum Victor Wallis Ken Wark McKenzie Wark EXHIBITION AND SOCIAL SPACE All weekend in the atrium and lobby areas. The Exhibition offers a dynamic social and networking space for conference attendees. Come see many organizations, publishers, and artists including: Society of the Third National Union of Freedom Road Socialist AB Film Publishing Millennium (S3K) Healthcare Workers Organization Ad Hoc Movement to Replace Spark Teacher Training Collective New Politics GRD Publishing/Cooperative the Manhattan DA Stop Mass Incarceration Network News and Letters Committee Republic Movement Africanist Press Syracuse Greens Occupy Albany Green Party of NY USA AK Press Socialism and Democracy OccupyEMFHarm Haymarket Books Autonomedia Socialist Party U.S.A. Jerry Perry Indypendent Burning Books Speak Out Now PM Press International MarxistCommittee for Democracy Tax Revolution Institute Inc. Polity Books Humanist Organization in Mexico United National Antiwar Coalition Progressive Labor Party International Socialist Review Deep State Literature University of Chicago Press Progressive Rags Jacobin Democracy at Work Verso Books Radicaljack.com Left Voice Democratic Socialists of America Veterans for Peace Red Star Publishers Love Knowledge Dissent Magazine WBAI Indie Caucus Revolution Books Stephanie McMillan Dollars and Sense Workers Defense League Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Marxist Educational Press Donnelly/Colt World Fellowship Center Rosenberg Fund for Children Marxist Educational Project Fernwood Publishing Z Communications Science and Society Media Education Foundation Food and Water Watch Situations: Project of the Monthly Review Press Fordham SDS Documentary Radical Imagination Murphy Institute at CUNY SPS 3 4 1.63 EDUCATION 1.65 EDUCATION TO THE GYMNASIUM MIDDLE EAST 1.124 1.125 TRUMP/ RIGHT-WING/ FASCISM L.61 TO THE GYMNASIUM L.63 NEW BUILDING — LOBBY LEVEL EDUCATION 1.61 MIX 1.129 WAR/ ANTI-WAR 1.127 NEW BUILDING — FLOOR 1 RACE RACE 1.69 1.121 MIDDLE EAST KROLL ATRIUM 1.67 1.123 WAR/ ANTI-WAR RACE 1.71 RACE 1.66 1.119 MIDDLE EAST 1.73 COMMONS/ CO-OPS/ LABOR CLIMATE 1.117 MIX L.76 1.75 COMMONS/ CO-OPS CLIMATE 1.115 1.77 HOUSING LABOR 1.76 MIX 1.114 EUROPE 1.113 LOUNGE EXHIBITION AREA CAFÉ LOUNGE 1.81 1.83 PRISON PRISON INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX COMPLEX 1.82 PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX THEORY ASIA/ INT’L 1.85 1.87 1.89 POLITICAL POLITICAL SOCIAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS MOVEMENTS MEDIA 1.90 HEALTH CARE 1.91 CULTURE/ EVERYDAY LIFE 1.92 1.93 FEMINISM GENDER SEXUALITY 1.100 FEMINISM/ GENDER/ SEXUALITY LATIN LATIN LATIN LATIN AMERICA/ AMERICA/ AMERICA/ AMERICA/ CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN BASIN/ BASIN BASIN BASIN/ GENDER & SEXUALITY GENDER/ SEXUALITY THEORY 1.108 THEORY 1.109 1.107 1.105 1.103 1.101 1.99 FLOOR PLAN NEW BUILDING — FLOOR L2 L2.80 FEMINISM GENDER SEXUALITY/ AFRICA MIX L2.85 MIX L2.84 MIX L2.81 BLACK BOX THEATER MIX L2.82 BLACK BOX CAFÉ 860 11TH AVENUE ENTRANCE ENTER THE CONFERENCE HERE FLOOR PLAN NEW BUILDING — FLOOR 3 3.76 TOPIC ART FILM 3.80 3.81 3.79 3.78 ART FILM NEW BUILDING — FLOOR 8 POLITICAL ECONOMY/ CURRENT CRISIS/ SUNDAY: MIX 8.67 8.72 MIX 8.69 MIX 8.61 MIX 5 FLOOR PLAN NORTH HALL — FLOOR 2 2322 MIDDLE EAST 2303 2325 MIX CHILD CARE 2513 2512 HOUSING 2324 MIX MIX 2327 ASIA/INT’L 2450 2514 RACE FILM 2511 MIDDLE EAST 2504 TRUMP/ RIGHT-WING/ FASCISM 2503 ENTER NORTH HALL AT 445 WEST 59TH STREET BETWEEN 9TH & 10TH AVENUES NORTH HALL — FLOOR 3 3326 MIX 3325 MIX 6 3321 MIX MIDDLE EAST 2505 MIDDLE EAST 2507 WAR/ ANTI-WAR PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME SESSION A ROOM PAGE 5:00–6:45PM SESSION 1 Rosa Luxemburg: Reform Or Revolution? L2.84 17 Computerized Election Theft, The Rolling Right Wing Coup, And How To Stop It L2.85 17 Privacy, Surveillance And Secure Internet Access: Planning The Fight L.76 17 The Rise Of Independent Media, Perspectives From The Progressive Left L2.81 17 Another World Is Necessary: Articulating Our Common Struggles, Towards The World Social Forum 2016 In Montreal L2.82 17 OPENING PLENARY 7:00–9:15PM Capitalism And Militarism — At Humanity’s Peril: Organizing Our Power PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE 10:00–11:50AM Rise Of Fascism And The Working Class Movement In India 1.85 21 Fighting To Stay Alive: Mumia, Hep C And The Health Crisis Facing The Incarcerated 1.66 21 Grasping The Black Freedom Movement In Global And Revolutionary Terms: Part 1 – Theory And Criticism 1.67 21 To The Masses: Proceedings Of The Third Congress Of The Communist International, 1921 Book Launch And Celebration NHB 2514 21 Black Labor And The Fate Of Capitalism 1.71 21 GYM 17 No More Stolen Lives: Perspectives From Families And Activists In The Struggle Against Police Terror 1.81 21 Europe’s Refugee Crisis: A Man-Made Disaster L2.84 19 1.82 23 Building Movement-To-Movement Solidarity: A Roundtable Discussion With Folks From Around The World The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers Then & Now: Race, Class, And Revolution L2.85 19 Fighting Back: From The Frontlines – Family Members Of Prisoners Building Movements For Justice 1.83 23 Revolutionary Mothering: Radical Caretaking As Essential To Creating Revolutionary Communities 1.93 23 Neoliberalism, Globalization And The Privatization Of Everything – What It Will Take To Win Back Government Of The People 1.100 23 Rethinking Privilege Politics: Marxist Perspectives L2.80 23 Climate Justice And Energy Democracy After Paris 1.115 23 Globalized Pollution And Predation In Late Capitalism: The Role Of Nonprofits In Contributing To The Profit And Protecting The Wealth Of Multinaational Corporation 1.114 23 The Climate Mobilization: A Route To Reclaiming Democracy And Preventing Ecological Collapse 1.99 23 Venezuela: Hope, Not A Threat 1.101 23 Bolivarian Venezuela Vs Us Regime Change: What Is Happening And What We Can Do 1.103 23 Why Workers Should Attend The World Social Forum In Montreal 1.105 23 The Vanguardist/Spontaneist Binary And The Marxist-Humanist Alternative 1.107 25 SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM Keywords For Radicals Book Launch And Discussion L.76 19 Ecosocialism: What Is It And How Do We Get There? NHB 2324 19 Pulling Back The Curtain On Debt With John Perkins And Gerald Celente NHB 2325 19 Political Ecologies Of Destruction, Displacement, And Deviation: A Diagnosis, With Prescriptions 8.61 19 Beyond Rage, Violence & Anger NHB 3321 19 Hope In A Time Of Extinction NHB 3325 19 The Activation Of Capital’s Absolute Limits NHB 3326 19 Muslim Global, Muslim Local: Confronting The Current Crisis 1.124 19 Book Panel Discussion – Confronting Injustice: Social Activism In The Age Of Individualism 1.129 21 A Full Life: James Connolly The Irish Rebel – Comic Book Launch And Discussion With Tom Keough, Mat Callahan, & Allen Ruff 3.80 Class Struggle In Popular Music 3.81 Film: To Begin The World Over Again – The Life Of Thomas Paine NHB 2450 Michael Moore’s “Where To Invade Next”: What Can The Rest Of The World Teach Us About Multiparty Democracy With Strong Left Parties? NHB 2327 21 21 21 21 7 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM ROOM PAGE Imperialists Collide: War And Refugees In The Eastern Mediterranean And The Middle East. The Dangerous Role Of The EU And NATO NHB 2504 27 Now, For The Future: Youth Organizing For Independent Left Political Power NHB 2512 27 What Next For The Movement Behind Bernie? L2.84 28 A Dialogue On The Meaning And Importance Of Alienation, With David Harvey And Bertell Ollman L2.85 28 L.76 28 SESSION 1 How The Demos Speaks: Theory, Representation, Insurrection 1.108 25 The Proletariat Is Still The Revolutionary Class 1.109 25 Did Trotsky Lie? Towards The Truth About The Soviet Union And Its Relevance To Social Movements Today 1.87 25 The Rise Of Millennials: Engaging Youth In The 2016 Presidential Election 1.89 25 Cooperation Jackson Countering The Confederate Assault And The Struggle For Economic Democracy In Jackson, Mississippi 1.75 25 Putting A Premium On Workers Rights: Making Capital Subordinate To Labor Through The Expansion Of Worker Co-Ops And Union Co-Ops 1.73 The Commons, Assemblies, And Horizontalidad – Their Anti-Capitalist Roots And Liberatory Possibilities 1.76 25 Inner Truth To Power: Meditation As A Revolutionary Act 1.92 25 Uncovering The Racial Climate At A Liberal Arts College 1.63 25 Bringing Participatory Budgeting To CUNY 1.65 25 The Destructuring Of The Department Of Education & The Rebuilding Of Our Educational Currency PANEL NAME 25 SESSION 2 10:00–11:50AM 12:00–1:50PM The Communalist Turn: Bookchin And The Quest For Confederal Direct Democracy Forging The Radical And Principled Black Movement Of The 21St Century NHB 2324 28 Right On The Rise: Neo-Fascism And FarRight Politics In The U.S. And Europe NHB 2325 28 Moral Economy And The Art World NHB 2513 27 8.61 28 Close Guantánamo Now Or Move Guantánamo North? NHB 3321 28 Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg NHB 3325 28 John Brown: Debunking Myths And Liberating Truths – Reflections On His Last Days As A Prisoner In Virginia NHB 3326 28 Islamic State: Responsibility And Response 1.124 29 The Transformation Of American Health Care: For Whom? By Whom? 1.91 27 Neurotic? Unable To Organize? What The Fuck Is Wrong With Us? 1.129 29 NYC’s Affordable Housing Zoning: Beyond The Gentrifiers’ Deception 1.77 27 Rap, Art & Revolution: How Do We Create A Culture Of Resistance ? 3.80 29 Create Social Change Via The Media: Using Politically Negative Messages To Your Advantage 1.90 27 Radical Songwriting To Change The World 3.81 29 The Situation In Ukraine 1.113 How Universal U.S. Sovereignty Threatens World Peace NHB 2507 27 27 Deep State: The Fabricated Global War On Terrorism – Why The Left Should Unite To Expose And Rebel Against It NHB 2505 27 The Imperative Of Nuclear Disarmament In An Increasingly Dangerous World NHB 2511 27 Activism For Peace In Israel & Palestine NHB 2503 27 8 Film Screening: In The Image: Palestinian Women Capture The Occupation NHB 2450 29 Film Screening: The Hand That Feeds (Hot & Crusty Union) NHB 2327 29 The Battle For Democracy In A Time Of Neo-Liberal Fascism 1.85 29 Detroit, Greece, And Capitalist Abandonment 1.66 29 Grasping The Black Freedom Movement In Global And Revolutionary Terms: Part 2 – Artistic And Activist Interventions 1.67 29 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 2 12:00–1:50PM Black Lives Matter Moving Beyond Black… A New Black Power A Call For Paradigm Shift In Clinical Science PANEL NAME SESSION 2 NHB 2514 30 A Pair Of Twin Faces In America 1.71 30 A Just Transition To A Peaceful And Ecological Society 1.81 30 Tear Down The Prison Walls! 1.82 30 Behind Enemy Lines: From Slavery To Mass Imprisonment 1.83 30 Intersectionality: Marxist Commentaries And Critiques 1.93 30 From Red Squads To Counterterrorism: Keeping The U.S. Safe From Democracy 1.100 31 The Ebola Outbreak In West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals & Rogue Politicians L2.80 31 Climate Change And Capitalism 1.115 31 Trash Talk: Fighting Incineration & Achieving A Zero Waste Vision For Environmental Justice 1.114 31 Haiti Rising: Dessalines Fight Back 1.99 31 Short And Long-Term Prospects For Twenty-First Century Latin American Leftist Governments 1.101 31 Us–Cuba Relations Today: Fighting For Real, Full Normalization 1.103 31 Revisiting The Grenada Revolution, 1979–1983 1.105 31 The Frankfurt School And Religion 1.107 31 Successes And Challenges In Developing A Pedagogy From Below 1.108 31 Rage And Rebellion Requires A Vision 1.109 31 What Does A Just Transition Look Like? How Do We Get There? 1.87 31 Katrina To Ayotzinapa: People’s Tribunals Condemn Crimes Against The People 1.89 33 Democracy At Work: Organizing Direct Action At The Local Level 1.75 ROOM PAGE 12:00–1:50PM Community Mobilization And Cultural Pluralism In Working-Class Neighborhoods: Leonard Covello (1887-1982) And CommunityCentered Education In East Harlem 1.92 33 Gcas And The Construction Of A Future Democracy 1.63 33 Mountain View Program – Reverse The School To Prison Pipeline By Sending Prisoners To College 1.65 33 Students: Bring The No More Stolen Lives Tour To Campus! NHB 2513 33 The Movement For Single Payer Health Care Justice In A Pivotal Election Year 1.91 33 Zoned Out! Race, Displacement And City Planning In New York City 1.77 33 The Life And Work Of Maria Victoria Maldonado 1.90 34 The Future Of Europe And The European Left 1.113 34 The U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia And War In The “Middle East” NHB 2507 34 Deep State: 9/11 – An Ecumenical Approach NHB 2505 34 Toward A Revival Of The U.S. Anti-War Movement NHB 2511 34 Intifada In America: The History Of The Palestine Left In The United States NHB 2503 34 One Democratic State In Palestine/Israel NHB 2504 34 COINTELPRO 2016: The New Age Of Active Measures By The Post9/11 National Security State NHB 2512 34 LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:30 Rage, Rebellion, Revolution, & Song L.63 35 Easter Rising — Songs of Freedom L.76 35 BLACK BOX THEATER 3:30–5:15PM Occupy The Commons: Towards A Rational, Peaceful, Bloodless And Effective Revolution For Social Justice, Economic Equity And Human Liberation 1.73 The International Working Class: Organizations And Struggles 1.76 33 33 33 Poetic Justice: An Afternoon Of Emancipatory Lyrics BLACK BOX THEATER 37 A Father Perspective On Police Terrorism Against Children Of Color: Aberrations Or Everyday Occurrences? L2.84 37 A Dialogue On Israel And Palestine With Tariq Ali And Norman Finkelstein L2.85 37 SESSION 3 3:30–5:15PM 9 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 3 3:30–5:15PM Revolution In Rojava… And New York? PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE South Africa Today: Liberation Or Economic Apartheid? L2.80 41 SESSION 3 3:30–5:15PM L.76 37 Richard Levins: Dialectics, Nature, And Society L2.81 37 Debate: The Left And The Sanders Campaign L2.82 37 Reprimarization: Implications For The Environment And Development 1.115 41 Transinopia: A Technology-Based PostScarcity Community Prototype 8.61 37 The Climate Justice Moment: A Movement Of Movements 1.117 41 Crisis Of Neoliberalism And Opportunities For The Left 8.67 39 1.99 41 Animal Liberation Strategies In The Face Of Indifference And Repression 8.69 39 Colombian Peace Talks: What Are The Unresolved Issues Between The Farc-Ep And The Colombian Government? What Can/Should We Inherit From The French Revolution? 1.101 42 8.72 39 The Centrality Of Care, Affect, Trust And Love In Movement(S) Fukushima On The Hudson: The Risks Posed By Governmental Negligence At Indian Point 1.103 42 1.114 39 Cuba – Political And Economic Reforms For 21St Century Socialism What Has Happened To “Leftist Theology” And What Has This Got To Do With Political Prisoners In The Day Of The “Trumpocalypse” And The Trump/Clinton/Obama Triumvirate? Greece/EU/USA/BRICS/Middle East: Who’s The Current Greek Government Working For? 1.105 42 1.129 A Brief History Of The Future 1.107 42 1.108 42 Revolt Art Movements And Their Social Impact Then And Now Marx On The Civil War And Reconstruction After 150 Years: Race, Capital, And Revolution 3.80 39 Politics Of Life In The Age Of The Anthropocene 1.109 42 Grassroots Leadership & The Arts For Social Change 3.81 39 1.87 43 Representations Of Terrorism And State Terrorism In Film: Algeria, India, South Africa, Usa, And Isis Territories 3.78 39 “Liberation Of The People – The Pathology Of Power”: Keys To Freeing Ourselves From Enslavement By The Socio-Economically Powerful Film Screening: Groundwork 3.79 39 The Summoning I: Citizen Accountability Purge Of Congress, President, & Supreme Court / National Strike During November Election 1.89 43 India Spring? Maybe For Dalits Too, Finally! 1.85 39 Intellectual Engagement, The Black Radical Imagination & Ta-Nehesi Coates 1.75 43 1.66 39 Humanity At Work: Mondragon Worker Cooperatives Network Comfort Women: Asian Women Fight Back To Challenge History And Claim Our Future 1.73 43 1.67 41 Class Struggle Not Class Collaboration: Rebuilding The Labor Movement Jewish Noir: A New Anthology Of Short Stories 1.69 41 Worker Control: Experiences & Perspectives From The Occupied Factories Of Argentina 1.76 43 Sanders’ Politics And The Path To Socialism 1.71 41 The War On Refugees 1.92 43 Resistance In Prisons For Immigrants 1.81 41 1.63 44 Transcending Material Scarcity 1.82 41 Bully Nation: How Militaristic Capitalism Creates A Bullying Society Criminal Justice Reform, Or Justice Denied? 1.83 41 Building A New Student Left 1.65 44 Young Women Against Hillary’s Corporate Agenda Moving To A Net Zero Living Space 1.61 44 1.93 41 1.91 44 1.100 41 Report From The British Junior Doctors’ Strikes: A Conversation On The Role Of Organized Labor In Progressive Health Policy Change Capitalism’s Right Turn: From Far Right Populism To Authoritarian Neoliberal State 10 39 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 3 3:30–5:15PM PANEL NAME SESSION 4 Land Trusts And Perpetually Affordable Housing 1.77 44 The Internet: Stopping The War On Women 1.90 One Year Of The SYRIZA-ANEL Government In Greece: The Perspective Of The Greek Communist Party (KKE) ROOM PAGE 5:20–7:10PM Using Science Fiction As An Organizing Tool 3.81 47 44 Junct: The Trashing Of Higher Ed. In America – A Screening Of A Documentary In Progress And Group Discussion 3.78 47 1.113 44 Film Screening: Dia De Festa 3.79 47 No To NATO! No To War! 1.123 45 China: The Politics Of Peaceful Rising In An Environment Of Collusion And Contention 1.85 47 Deep State: COINTELPRO Post-9/11 – First They Came For The Muslims 1.127 45 Shut It Down! Black Struggle Class Struggle 1.66 49 Machiavelli, Gramsci, & Islamic States 1.124 45 1.67 49 Silencing Dissent: False Accusations Of Anti-Semitism Against Palestine Solidarity 1.119 45 The Doctrine Of Discovery And The Legacy Of Colonialism, Racism And The American Genocide Imperialism, Counter-Revolution, And Conflict In The Middle East 1.69 49 1.121 45 The Black Revolutionary Socialist Choice: Monica Moorehead For President Marcus Garvey 100 Years Later 1.71 49 The Destruction Of The Republicans As A National Party – An Agenda For United States Political Reform 1.125 45 Inside The Activist Studio 1.81 49 Justice 4 The Wrongfully Incarcerated 1.82 49 Who Do You Serve? Police Violence And Resistance In The United States 1.83 49 #Nofilter: Candid Conversations About Abortion Storytelling Work 1.93 49 Feminists Against Prostitution As A Tool Of Imperialism: Promoting Sexualized Racism 1.100 49 The Benchmarks Of The Liberal Youth In The Context Of A New Burkina ( Post Uprising ) L2.80 49 Climate Change, Environmental Movements, And O´Connor´S Second Contradiction Of Capitalism 1.115 49 BLACK BOX THEATER 5:00–7:00PM Comedy Show: Who Says The Left Has No Sense Of Humor? BLACK BOX THEATER 45 SESSION 4 5:20–7:10PM Mother’s Pain, Rage, And Rebellion Is Fueling The Black Lives Matter Movement In 21St Century L2.84 Psyching Out The Election L2.85 46 L.76 46 Imperialism In The Twenty-First Century L2.81 46 Climate Refugees: The Point Of No Return 1.117 49 The International Dimensions Of Black Lives Matter L2.82 47 The Eln And The Role Of The Catholic Church In The Armed Conflict In Colombia 1.99 50 Mediations In The Transition Beyond Capital 8.61 47 1.101 50 Thomas Paine, Henry George: Two Patriots, Common Adversaries Of Monopoly Defending Human Rights In Venezuela: Impunity, Justice And Social Movements 8.67 47 1.103 50 Jacobin And Animal Liberation: Interrogating The Speciesist Left Co-Ops In Socialist Cuba: A Major Social Change 8.69 47 Che Guevara: A Critical Perspective 1.105 50 Now You See Me: Looking In The Face Of Abuse 8.72 47 American Utopia: A Realistic Goal? 1.107 50 Education Is, Has Always Been, And Always Will Be A Political Issue! 1.129 47 An Insoluble Crisis? 1.108 50 Writing Our Rebellion: A NY Writers Coalition Workshop 3.80 1.87 50 Big Money On Campus – Rigging The Academy And American Criminal Justice System 46 47 Talking About Revolution: Free Speech Under Fire 11 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 4 5:20–7:10PM PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE Capitalism And Loneliness L2.84 53 Climate Justice: Carbon Markets vs. Energy Democracy L2.85 53 L.76 53 Comix International L2.81 53 How Would Thomas Paine And Henry George Plan A Rebellion? L2.82 53 How Do We Build A Mass Movement To Reverse Runaway Inequality? 8.61 53 Poetry For A New Order 8.67 53 Animals, The Buddha, And The Left 8.69 53 Free Our Political Prisoners 8.72 53 1.114 53 SESSION 5 The Summoning Ii: Citizen Accountability Purge Of Congress, President, & Supreme Court / National Strike During November Election 1.89 Re-Orientation Of Society To Meet The Needs Of Human Beings And The Planet (Eco-Humanism) 1.75 50 The TPP, TTIP And The Continuing Free Trade Onslaught: The View From Canada 1.73 50 Is Bernie Sanders Left Enough? Which Forward For His Supporters 1.76 Moral Foundation Of The Left: Accessing Limitless Power 1.92 50 Criminalization From CUNY To Community: Surveillance And Repression Of Muslim And Arab Spaces 1.63 50 50 50 10:00–11:50PM So The Next Bernie Can Run As An Indie: The Ballots, The Dollars, And The Debates The Drug War From Anslinger And The War On Jazz, Thru Nixon And Reagan, Aids, Medical Marijuana, Bush And Obama 1.65 51 Drunk On Wireless? Public Health Consequences Of Cell Phone And Wireless Exposure Creating Spaces For Critique Inside Institutional Education 1.61 51 The Quebec Labor Movement Against The Liberal Agenda 1.129 55 Dismantling Racism In The Nyc Health System 1.91 51 New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative: A Positive Idea For New York’s Future 3.80 55 1.77 51 Theater Of The Oppressed For SelfOrganizing And Building Community: Panel Discussion And Workshop – Part 1 Street Theater For Liberation 3.81 55 Protect Yourself: Using Secure Software On The Internet 1.114 51 Screening: What We Told Our Sons – Four Families React To The Trayvon Martin Verdict 3.78 55 The Lessons Of Syriza 1.113 51 We Are Not Your Soldiers: Learn To Talk Students Out Of Signing Up For War 3.79 55 1.123 51 Reducing Fossil Carbon Use: Wind, Water & Solar Or Nuclear Fission – Which Has Better Promise? Deep State: Assassinations And Their CoverUps – Could A Left Consensus Promote Unity? 1.127 51 Capitalist Economic Crisis & The World War Danger 1.85 55 Labor 4 Palestine 1.124 51 1.67 55 Turkey’s Denial Of The Armenian Genocide And The Question Of Reparations 1.119 51 Slavery Is Such An Ugly Word, We Prefer To Call It “Free Trade”: How Debt Fuels The Global Economy Undocublack & Fighting For Liberation 1.69 55 Rejecting Oslo: Self-Determination And The One-State Solution 1.121 51 Urban Ethnography And Perceptions Of Crime And Drugs 1.71 55 The Donald Trump Presidential Campaign: How To Fight The Rise Of Fascism In Our Time 1.125 51 How Citizens, Individuals Under The Control Of The System, And Criminal Justice Actors Respond To Neoliberal Social Control 1.81 55 GYM 52 Prison Abolition: A Movement Towards New Directions 1.82 55 SATURDAY PLENARY 7:30–9:45 Black Liberation And The Sanders Groundswell: Prospects For Left Unity 12 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 5 10:00–11:50PM PANEL NAME SESSION 5 Claiming The Ultimate Power: Amending The Us Constitution 1.83 57 The “Strip And Flip” Election Of 2016: Voter Suppression, Electronic Vote Rigging, And Other Jim Crow Tactics 1.93 ROOM PAGE 10:00–11:50PM The Community College In Ruins(?): Neoliberal Discourses In Community College Policy And Classrooms 1.61 59 57 Fixit: Healthcare At The Tipping Point 1.91 61 Our Last Stand! New York, Whose City? We (Still) Say No To The Mayor’s Citywide Gentrification Plan 1.77 61 The Rise Of Big Surveillance: How Oakland Pushed Back And Won! 1.90 61 Neoliberalism And Its Discontents: Political Parties, Social Movements, And Organized Labor In France And The U.S. In The Neoliberal Era 1.113 61 1.123 61 Deconstructing Gender Identity Under Male Supremacy 1.100 57 Neocolonialism In West Africa L2.80 57 The Universal Basic Income As A Method To End Oppression 1.115 57 Intersectionality Of Refugees, Migration, War, National Security, And Climate Change 1.117 57 Mexico Since Ayotzinapa 1.99 57 Elections And Revolutionaries: The Experience Of The Left And Workers’ Front In Argentina 1.101 57 Bringing The Battlefield Home: Suicide, Heartache, And Healing For Victims Of Unjust War Update On Puerto Rico: Crisis In America’s Colony 1.103 57 Deep State: False Flags – How A United Left Could Defeat A “Global Gladio” Agenda 1.127 61 Is The “Progressive Cycle” Over In Latin America? 1.105 57 The Revolution Of The Oppressed In Kurdistan 1.124 61 Dreaming To Be Free: Ferguson, Palestine And The Fight For Migration Justice 1.119 61 Human Rights Industry And Commodification Of Public Spheres In Iran 1.121 61 An Integral Look At The Left And Right: Maturing Politics 1.125 61 59 Bernie, Capitalism’s Crisis, And Democratic Socialism: What Next? L2.84 63 L2.85 63 L.76 63 The Kurdish Revolution In Rojava: How Can We Support It? What Can We Learn From It? L2.81 63 Does The Sanders Campaign Or Independent Campaigns Serve To Build The Left? L2.82 63 The Next Left – Leadership For Tomorrow 8.61 63 The Jfk Murder Cover-Up: Your Rosetta Stone To Today’s News, Elections, Policy 8.67 63 How Can We Get Better Publicity For Our Actions? 8.69 63 Occupy Ethics: Deconstructing The Subhumanization And Dehumanization Of Global Society 1.107 Some Reflections On The Russian Revolution 1.108 57 A Call For Leninist Unity 1.109 59 Circles: An Old Tool For Organizing In A New Way – Part 1 1.87 59 Oral History And Movement Building – Strategies And Methodologies 1.89 Alexander Hamilton The Leftist: Hamilton’s Political Economy Is Key To Defeating Wall Street 1.75 59 Bernie V. The Greens: What Can The Government Actually Do To Fix Our Economic Mess? Toward A Commons/Communes Transition 1.73 59 Berning Down The House? Left Populism And Its Limits Workers Power And Insurgency In A Globalized Capitalist World 1.76 59 Revolution And Nonviolence: From Deming, Fanon, And Pan-Africanism To Today’s Global Movements 1.92 59 Educating For Democracy 1.63 59 Future Of Education: Choice, Independence, And Connection 1.65 59 57 SESSION 6 12:00–1:50PM 13 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 6 12:00–1:50PM PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE Discussion With Cubans About Life Under Blockade, The Cuban Economy, And Mass Organizations During The Changing US–Cuban Relations 1.103 67 Finance Capital And Fraud: Are Financial Markets Rigged? 1.105 67 SESSION 6 12:00–1:50PM Theater Of The Oppressed For SelfOrganizing And Building Community: Panel Discussion And Workshop – Part 2 3.80 65 The Politics Of Fiction/The Fiction Of Politics 3.81 65 Film: The Brainwashing Of My Dad 3.78 65 Film Screening: A Place To Call Home 3.79 65 Globalization For The 99%: A Presentation And Discussion On Whether Free Trade Agreements Can Work For All Marxist Laws Of Motion And Today’s Economic Collapse 1.107 67 1.85 65 Marxism And Religion: Cooperation And Contradiction 1.108 69 Authors’ Roundtable: New Landmark Books On Race Relations In America 1.66 65 Overcoming Capitalism 1.109 69 The History Of Interracial Desire: From Slave Narratives To Obama 1.67 65 Circles: An Old Tool For Organizing In A New Way – Part 2 1.87 69 Strategies To Transform Black Fraternities Into The Financial Backbone Of A Relevant Social Movement For The Global African Struggle Through Cooperative Economics 1.89 69 1.69 65 Political Repression At The 2016 Rnc/Dnc And How We Can Use Collective Action To Fight Back! 1.75 69 Refugees, War And Austerity: The View From Syria, Greece And Turkey Global Perspectives On The Commons And Enclosure Struggles 1.71 #Fuckice: Queer Immigrant Organizing For Liberation 1.73 69 1.81 65 The Case For Publishing Cooperatives: Alternative Book Publishing In The Age Of Amazon, Apple, Google, And Facebook The Second Amendment, Police Violence, And The Left 1.82 65 Movement Of Rank & File Educators (MORE): New UFT, New Labor Movement 1.76 69 Comics vs. Capitalism 1.83 65 1.92 69 Warrior Sisters Self Defense 1.93 67 Unifying Independent Media: Creating Networks For Bloggers, Freelance Journalists, And Livestreamers 67 Revolution & National Liberation: Building An Anti-Imperialist Student Movement In The Belly Of The Beast 1.63 69 How To Flip A Bigot 1.65 69 65 The Impact Of The U.S. War On Drugs On Latinas/Chicanas/Latin American Women And Their Communities In The U.S., Latin America, And Europe 1.100 Reparations Time: Justice Is Due In The Decade For People Of African Descent L2.80 67 The Pentagon And The Universities 1.61 70 Ecosocialists Confront The Copout: Climate Catastrophe Or Solar Communism! 1.115 67 Political Economy And Neoliberalism: Their Influence On Mental Health Practice, Research, And Policy 1.91 70 Neoliberalism And Language: The Management Of Meaning In Late Capitalism 1.117 67 1.77 70 Understanding Today’s Brazil: Class Struggle And Democracy Under Threat 1.99 67 Neoliberal Policies And The Right To Housing: A Comparative Analysis Between Greece, Spain, And The United States The Causes Of Venezuela’s Crisis And The Government’s Efforts To Overcome It 1.90 70 1.101 67 Attacking The Digital Plantation: Racism On The Internet And The Struggle Against It From Blockupy To Solidarity For All – Answering Europes Crisis Of Representation 1.113 70 The Fight To End U.S. Wars 1.123 70 14 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 6 12:00–1:50PM SESSION 7 Deep State: Islamophobia – Fallout For Failure To Challenge The Proxy Role Of Muslims In 9/11 1.127 70 Creating Our Own Culture: Playback Theatre As Practice For A Humane Society 1.124 70 Palestine: Strategies Of Resistance 1.119 70 The Transatlantic Slippery Slope – Suppression Of Freedom Of Expression From Israel To The Us 1.121 70 Expanding The Fightback Against Neoliberalism 1.125 70 LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:40PM Chasing Utopia: A Roundtable On Workers Co-Ops And Socialist Strategy BLACK BOX EVENT BLACK BOX EVENT L.63 71 2:00–3:50PM ¡Sing In Spanish — Canta En Inglés! Chorus As Community: The Power Of Singing To Gether BLACK BOX THEATER 71 4:00–6:00PM Waking Each Other Up! The People Have The Power… PANEL NAME BLACK BOX THEATER 72 SESSION 7 3:40–5:40PM ROOM PAGE 3:40–5:40PM Socially-Conscious Poets: Voices Of Resistance 3.80 73 Between Play, Revolt, And Biopolitics 3.81 73 Film Screening: Profiled – A Documentary About Racial Profiling And Police Brutality Directed By Kathleen Foster 3.78 73 Film Screening: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story 3.79 73 Greece And Syriza: What Happened? 1.85 73 Judicial Violence And Road Back To Niagara 1.67 74 Women’s Boat To Gaza 1.69 74 “We Charge Genocide” Human Rights Violations Of Black Women And Girls In The U.S. 1.75 74 Private Prisons As Profit Factories – How Banks & Wall Street Control & Profit From The (In)Justice System 1.81 74 Free Them All! Political Prisoners And Pows In The Us 1.82 74 Building Independent Organizations In The Working Class Today 1.83 74 Birth, Reproduction And Liberation Politics: A Radical Caregivers Roundtable 1.93 74 On The Frontlines: Queer People Of Color Fighting For Socialism In The Us South 1.100 74 Beyond Bernie: Socialism And Black Liberation L2.84 72 Building Left Media In The Digital Commons L2.85 72 Cuba Speaks For Itself: A Panel With Cuba’s Ambassador To The United Nations L.76 72 The Left In Africa: An Evaluation Of The African Socialist Movement Of Sierra Leone L2.80 75 Political Comics L2.81 72 Roots And Trajectories Of Solar Commoners’ Movements Against Fossil Capitalism 1.115 75 Is Sanders The Answer To Building Left And Black Power? L2.82 72 Northeastern Climate Justice Struggles And Global Intersections Of Oppression 1.117 75 Rethinking The 1950s: How Progressives Survived The Great Terror 8.61 72 Right Wing Assault On Latin America 1.101 75 Defending Women’s Rights In A New Corporate World Order & Winning 8.67 73 1.103 75 Indigenous Peoples And The Environmental Struggles Against Pipelines 8.69 73 Conflict Between The Dominican Republic And Haiti: The Historical Background, Great Injustices Today: How Can We Understand And Hopefully, Better The Relationship Laudato Si: Roadmap For Revolution? 8.72 73 Queer Archival Theory & Critical Library Pedagogy 1.105 75 Interrogating The Sixties 1.114 73 1.107 75 Jacques Lacan’s Four Discourses: Towards A New Critical Framework For Analysis & Action In Contemporary Political Life Why Frantz Fanon Matters For Today’s Struggles Against Racism 1.129 73 Marx, Hegel, And The Current Situation 1.108 75 15 PANEL INDEX PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE What Is The Role Of Marxism Leninism In The Us And The World Today? Is It Time For A New Us Marxist Leninist Party? 1.109 75 Occupy Wall Street 2016 (5 Years Still Here!) – Past Lessons, Victories, Defeats, And What’s Next For The 99% Movement 1.87 75 Workers, Disobedience, And The Power To Act 1.73 75 Uber-Ization, Flexible Labor And New Knowledge Economies 1.76 75 The Greyhound Diaries 1.92 76 Low Income Taxpayer Assistance And Preparation For The Tax Court Exam Free Outreach Program 1.63 76 Breaking Patterns: Changing Systems 1.65 76 Organizing In The Student Movement With SDS 1.61 76 Neoliberalism And The “Mental Health” System – The Failure Of The Left 1.91 76 Reform: Road To Revolution Or Surrender? 1.77 76 From Mexico: The Tpp And Its Impact On Internet Freedom And Free Software 1.90 76 Roundtable – Greece At A Crossroads: Enduring Issues, Contending Responses 1.113 76 U.S. Militarism’s Expanse And The Need For A Movement To Cut Military Spending And Invest In Human Needs 1.123 77 The Endless “War On Terror”: Us Drones & Targeted Killing 1.127 77 The Wars Come Home 1.124 77 Empire Of Chaos In The Context Of The Turmoil In The Middle East 1.119 77 The Saudi Regime And Its Victims 1.121 77 Exposing 28 Pages Of 9/11 Evidence, Legislating Transparency 1.125 77 GYM 77 SESSION 7 3:40–5:40PM CLOSING PLENARY 6:00–9:15PM Rage, Rebellion, Organizing New Power: A Hegelian Triad 16 SESSION A: 5:00 – 6:45PM FRIDAY 5/20 SESSION A 5:00PM – 6:45PM Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution? L2.84 The Laura Flanders Show Laura Flanders, Chair ................... host of The Laura Flanders Show on teleSUR Richard D. Wolff ................................................................... democracyatwork.info Sandra Rein ...... Socialist Studies: A Journal of the Society of Socialist Studies Chris Hedges Computerized Election Theft, the Rolling Right Wing Coup, and How to Stop It L2.85 Joel Simpson, Chair Jonathan Simon ................................................................ Election Defense Alliance Mark Crispin Miller ................................................................... New York University Bob Fitrakis .................................................... Columbus State Community College Mimi Kennedy .................................................. Progressive Democrats of America Virginia Martin .......................................................... Columbia County (New York) Democratic Election Supervisor The Rise of Independent Media, Perspectives From the Progressive Left L2.81 David Pakman, Chair ....................................................... The David Pakman Show Benjamin Dixon ................................................................. The Benjamin Dixon Show Sam Seder ................................................................................. The Majority Report Nomiki Konst .................................................................... The Accountability Project Paul Jay ............................................................................... The Real News Network Another World Is Necessary: Articulating Our Common Struggles, Towards the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal L2.82 Raphaël Canet, Chair ............................................................... World Social Forum Emile Langlois-Vallieres ............................................................ World Social Forum Carminda Mac Lorin ................................................................. World Social Forum Nicolas Lavallée ........................................................ UÉQ (Quebec Student Union) Privacy, Surveillance and Secure Internet Access: Planning the Fight L.76 Maritza Arrastía, Chair ........................................................ May First/People Link Nicholas Merrill ....................................................................... Calyx Internet Access Lars Bretthauer .................................................... Free University, Berlin, Germany Shahid Buttar ........................................................... Electronic Frontier Foundation Hamid Khan ................................................................. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Brandi Collins ................................................................................... Color of Change Joseph Torres ............................................................................................... Free Press Jackie Smith ........................................ International Network of Scholar Activists OPENING PLENARY 7:00–9:15PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL CAPITALISM AND MILITARISM — AT HUMANITY’S PERIL: ORGANIZING OUR POWER TARIQ ALI, MEDEA BENJAMIN, AND CHRIS HEDGES LAURA FLANDERS, MODERATOR 17 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 2016 Left Forum Panels Session 1: Sat, 10:00am - 11:50am in Room L2.84 Europe’s Refugee Crisis: A Man-Made Disaster Over a million refugees came to Europe in 2015, and the numbers continue to rise. How can the left support these immigrants and articulate a coherent, positive policy approach to this man-made crisis? Tariq Ali (Writer, Journalist & Filmmaker) Katharina Mühlbeyer (Refugee Council of Berlin) Dimitris Christopoulos (International Federation for Human Rights) Albert Scharenberg, chair (RLS–NYC) Session 2: Sat, 12:00pm - 01:50pm in Room L2.82 North Hall Building 2325 Right on the Rise: Neo-Fascism and Far-Right Politics in the U.S. and Europe Right-wing politics are gaining strength across the U.S. and Europe. What conditions have allowed this rise? What are the contours of the phenomenon, and what are its most dangerous expressions? What can the left do to fight the right’s rise? Evelyn Schlatter (Southern Poverty Law Center) Gerd Wiegel (DIE LINKE / Left Party) Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin Magazine) Ethan Earle, chair (RLS–NYC) Check out our table with free publications covering a wide range of left topics. www.rosalux-nyc.org Twitter: @rosaluxnyc 18 Facebook: rosaluxnyc P A R E N T A L ADVISO EXPLI RY CIT S OCIAL ISM Session 3: Sat, 03:30pm - 05:00pm in Room 1.117 The Climate Justice Moment: A Movement of Movements From the People’s Climate March to COP 21, there has been a recent groundswell of attention around our planet’s need to come together for climate justice. How have different movements converged to support the emerging climate justice movement? Heather Milton Lightening (Idle No More, Canada) Tadzio Müller (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin) Aurash Khawarzad (We Act for Environmental Justice) Sean Petty (New York State Nurses Association) Stefanie Ehmsen, chair (RLS–NYC) Session 4: Sat, 05:10pm - 07:00pm in Room L2.82 The International Dimensions of Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter movement has taken root not just in the U.S. but, increasingly, also across Canada and Europe. How have these struggles broadened what it means to be Black, while also deepening international solidarity with activists here in the U.S.? Jessica De Abreu (European Network of People of African Descent) Wail Qasim (London Coalition Against Police Brutality) Autumn Griffin (Black Lives Matter) Kazembe Balagun, chair (RLS–NYC) ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG NEW YORK OFFICE SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM SATURDAY 5/21 SESSION 1 10:00AM – 11:50AM Europe’s Refugee Crisis: A Man-Made Disaster L2.84 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Political Ecologies of Destruction, Displacement, and Deviation: a Diagnosis, With Prescriptions Albert Scharenberg, Chair ............ Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Tariq Ali ................................................................... Writer, Journalist, & Filmmaker Katharina Mühlbeyer ........................................................... Refugee Council Berlin Dimitris Christopoulos ........................ International Federation for Human Rights 8.61 Building Movement-to-Movement Solidarity: A Roundtable Discussion With Folks From Around the World Beyond Rage, Violence & Anger L2.85 LeftEast Mary Taylor, Chair .......... BLSC, LeftEast, Center for Place, Culture and Politics Einat Manoff Robert Robinson Keywords for Radicals Book Launch and Discussion L.76 AK Thompson, Chair George Caffentzis Stacy Douglas ............................................................................. Carleton University Silvia Federici Conor Tomás Reed ............................................................................................. CUNY; Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Clare O’Connor Ecosocialism: What Is It and How Do We Get There? 2324 NORTH HALL BUILDING Monthly Review Brett Clark, Chair ............................... Sociology Department, University of Utah Fred Magdoff ......................................................................... University of Vermont Chris Williams ..................................................................................... Pace University Hannah Holleman ............................................................................ Amherst College Pulling Back the Curtain on Debt With John Perkins and Gerald Celente NORTH HALL BUILDING 2325 Trends Journal Fabian Balardini, Chair .................. Borough of Manhattan Community College Enrique Lanz Oca ............................ Borough of Manhattan Community College Matthew C. Ally ............................... Borough of Manhattan Community College NORTH HALL BUILDING 3321 Mary Szto ............................................................. Professor, Valparaiso University Peter Szto Abott ........................ School of Social Work, University of Nebraska Bateer Chen .............................................. Yen-Ching Institute, Harvard University Hope in a Time of Extinction NORTH HALL BUILDING 3325 O/R Books Ashley Dawson, Chair ....................................................................................... CUNY Eben Kirksey ............................................................................... Princeton University Genese Sodikoff ............................................................ Rutgers University-Newark Adriana Petryna ................................................ University of California-Berkeley The Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits NORTH HALL BUILDING 3326 Monthly Review Irv Kurki, Chair ........................................................................... Essential Discussions Kim Koo ...................................................................................... Racial Justice Group Mario Rendon ......................................... American Institue of Psychoanalysis and Centro Psychoanalytic de Madrid Muslim Global, Muslim Local: Confronting the Current Crisis 1.124 Sharmin Sadequee, Chair ................................................................................ CUNY Sana Uddin .......................... Indian American Muslim Political Affairs Commitee P. Adem Carroll ...................................................................... Justice for All, MACLC Shaik Ubaid ...................... Coalition Against Genocide, Muslim Peace Coalition Malek Rasamny ........................................................... The Native and the Refugee Rana Abdelhamid ................................ Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment Catherine Watters, Chair John Perkins ......................................................................... Former Economic Hitman Gerald Celente ...................................................................................... Friend/Client 19 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM RADICALLY REFRAMING UNITED STATES HISTORY “The most important US history book you will read in your lifetime. . . . Spoiler alert: the colonial era is still here, and so are the Indians.” —ROBIN D. G. KELLEY “Justice-seekers everywhere will celebrate Dunbar-Ortiz’s unflinching commitment to truth—a truth that places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the United States.” —WAZIYATAWIN, PHD, activist and author of For Indigenous Minds Only “A must-read for anyone interested in the truth behind this nation’s founding.” —VERONICA E. VELARDE TILLER, PHD, Jicarilla Apache author, historian, and publisher of Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country “Pulls up the paving stones and lays bare the deep history of the United States, from the corn to the reservations. . . . A sobering look at a grave history.” —VIJAY PRASHAD, author of The Poorer Nations ON SALE OCTOBER 4, 2016 “All the Real Indians Died Off” unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans including: • • • • • Indians were savage and warlike The United States did not have a policy of genocide US presidents were benevolent or at least fair-minded Most Indians are on government welfare Indians are naturally predisposed to alcohol www.beacon.org · www.beaconbroadside.com · 20 beaconpress · @beaconpressbks SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM Book Panel Discussion — Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism Fighting to Stay Alive: Mumia, Hep C and the Health Crisis Facing the Incarcerated 1.129 1.66 Umair Muhammad, Chair Lina Nasr ................................................ Toronto Industrial Workers of the World Patrick Desjardins Ama Amponsah ................................................. Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty Johanna Fernandez, Chair ............................... Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Five Maulimm-ak .......................................... Campaign to End the New Jim Crow Pam Africa ................................... MOVE & International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal Bob Boyle ........................................................................................ Mumia’s Attorney A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel — Comic Book Launch and Discussion With Tom Keough, Mat Callahan, & Allen Ruff 3.80 PM Press Tom Keough, Chair ....................................................................................... PM Press Allen Ruff ........................................................................................................ PM Press Mat Callahan ................................................................................................ PM Press Class Struggle in Popular Music 3.81 Science & Society Maria Damon, Chair ................. Department of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute Carter Mathes ............................ Department of English, Rutgers-New Brunswick Rachel Rubin ..................... U of Mass, Boston, Department of American Studies James Smethurst .................................................. Department of Africana Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst Film: To Begin the World Over Again — The Life of Thomas Paine Grasping the Black Freedom Movement in Global and Revolutionary Terms: Part 1 — Theory and Criticism 1.67 Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice Joseph Ramsey, Chair ......................................................................... UMass-Boston John Maerhofer ........................................................... City University of New York A. Shahid Stover Kanishka Chowdhury .......................................... University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Ryan Costello ........................................................ M.A. Student at Boston College. To The Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 Book Launch and Celebration NORTH HALL BUILDING 2514 Haymarket Books Natalia Tylim, Chair ...................................... International Socialist Organization John Riddell Mike Taber NORTH HALL BUILDING 2450 National Educational Telecommunications Association Black Labor and the Fate of Capitalism Ian Ruskin ...... The Life of Thomas Paine Productions: thelifeofthomaspaine.org Victor Madeson ....................... Thomas Paine Friends, thomas-paine-friends.org 1.71 Michael Moore’s “Where to Invade Next”: What Can the Rest of the World Teach Us About Multiparty Democracy with Strong Left Parties? NORTH HALL BUILDING 2327 Mark Looney, Chair ................................................................................ Green Party Steve Sherwin .......................................................... United Federation of Teachers Jefferson Kielwagen .............................................. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute K. Soraya Batmanghelichi ......................... Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Rise of Fascism and the Working Class Movement in India The Indypendent Nicholas Powers, Chair .................................................................. The Indypendent Nikol Alexander Floyd Arun Gupta No More Stolen Lives: Perspectives From Families and Activists in the Struggle Against Police Terror 1.81 Steve Yip, Chair ................................................. Stop Mass Incarceration Network Hawa Bah .......................................................................... Mother of Mohamed Bah Noche Diaz ............................................................................... NYC Revolution Club Travis Morales .................................................... Stop Mass Incarceration Network Hertencia Petersen .................................................................... Akai Gurley Family Nicholas Heyward, Sr. ...................... Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Foundation 1.85 Rajendra Sahay, Chair Abhinav Sinha Suzanne Adely 21 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM SOCIAL STRUCTURES OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EQUALITY By John Asimakopoulos “A lucid and powerful analysis of the threat that inequality poses to any viable democracy while also providing a brilliant analysis of the mechanisms that make it so savage and unsustainable. [It] offers a stirring program for change at a time when democracy is under dire siege. A must read for anyone concerned about the fate of democracy …” —Henry Giroux, Center for Research in the Public Interest, McMaster University, Canada “[A] significant and lasting contribution to democratic theory and political economy. The book deserves praise for its interdisciplinary breadth and critical depth.” —Nathan Jun, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Midwestern State University, US “Anyone with an interest in new, wonderfully alternative responses to address the current political and economic crisis should buy this book now!” —Richard J White, Senior Lecturer Economic Geography, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Available Now! Paperback, $28 ISBN: 978-1604864920 ABOUT THE BOOK: Neoliberalism has pushed capitalism to its limits, hollowing out global economies and lives in the process, while people are left with no voice. Asimakopoulos addresses this problem with a theory-to-practice model that reconciles Marxism and anarchism with democratic theory, offering a practical vision of an egalitarian society. 22 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM The League of Revolutionary Black Workers Then & Now: Race, Class, and Revolution Climate Justice and Energy Democracy After Paris 1.82 Brian Tokar, Chair .......................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Sean Sweeney .............................................. Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Darcey O’Callaghan ............................................................. Food & Water Watch Senowa Mize-Fox ..... United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America Tadzio Mueller ................................................................... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Walda Katz-Fishman, Chair ...................................................... Howard University Jerome Scott ................................ League of Revolutionaries for a New America Rose Brewer ......................................................................... University of Minnesota Can Tuzcu ................................................ League of Revolutionary Black Workers Education & Media Project Virginia Leavell ...................................... League of Revolutionary Black Workers Education & Media Project Fighting Back: From the Frontlines — Family Members of Prisoners Building Movements for Justice 1.83 Shandre Delaney, Chair ........ Human Rights Coalition, Abolitionist Law Center, Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike Karen Lee .............................................................................. Human Rights Coalition Theresa Shoatz ....................................................... Human Rights Coalition, CADBI Ana Santigo Saundra Hill ............................................................ Human Rights Coalition – Philly Revolutionary Mothering: Radical Caretaking as Essential to Creating Revolutionary Communities 1.93 PM Press Mai’a Williams, Chair .................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................... PM Press China Martens ............................................................................................... PM Press Terri Nilliasca Lisa Factora-Borchers Cynthia Oka Alana Apfel 1.115 RRPE Globalized Pollution and Predation in Late Capitalism: The Role of Nonprofits in Contributing to the Profit and Protecting the Wealth of Multinaational Corporation 1.114 Irwin Sperber, Chair ........................................ Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz Jessica B. Burke Alex Groskinsky The Climate Mobilization: A Route to Reclaiming Democracy and Preventing Ecological Collapse 1.99 Ashik Siddique, Chair ...................................................... The Climate Mobilization Margaret Klein Salamon ................................................ The Climate Mobilization Nicole Leigh Harris .......................................................... The Climate Mobilization Venezuela: Hope, Not a Threat 1.101 Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NYC Isolina De La Cruz, Chair .............................................................................................. ........................................................................ Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NYC Eric Draitser .................. Editor, StopImperialism.org; Host, CounterPunch Radio Gabriel Hetland ...................................... State University of New York - Albany Frederick Mills ........................... Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University Neoliberalism, Globalization and the Privatization of Everything — What It Will Take to Win Back Government of the People Bolivarian Venezuela vs US Regime Change: What is Happening and What We Can Do 1.100 Stan Smith, Chair .......................................... Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee Jesus Rodriguez Espinoza ................................................................ Consul General, Consulate of Venezuela in Chicago Carlos Ron ........................................................ Minister Counselor Political Affairs, Embassy of Venezuela, Washington, DC Stephen Spitz, Chair ...................................................... People Demanding Action Andrea Miller .................................................................. People Demanding Action Jann Campbell ................................................................ People Demanding Action Donna Smith ..................................................... Progressive Democrats of America Mimi Kennedy ................................................ National Election Integrity Coalition Celeste Drake ................................................................................................. AFL-CIO 1.103 Why Workers Should Attend the World Social Forum in Montreal Rethinking Privilege Politics: Marxist Perspectives 1.105 L2.80 Nathalie Guay, Chair ........................................ Council of National Labor Unions Patrick Rondeau ......................................................... Quebec Workers Federation Erika English .................................................................... World Social Forum 2016 Sophia Moon, Chair ..................................................................... Socialist Discourse John Bell Ian Goodrum 23 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM We prepare our students to create a just and sustainable world. The Master of Science program in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management (EPSM) is designed to turn passion for environmental change and sustainability into careers with impact. Our students benefit from small, customized classes; a rigorous program of theory and practice; and close attention from a faculty engaged in research, scholarship, and cutting-edge professions in the heart of NYC. For more information about the program, contact Chair Ana Baptista at baptista@newschool.edu or visit newschool.edu/epsm. Equal Opportunity Institution / Photo by Martin Seck 24 SESSION 1 The Vanguardist/Spontaneist Binary and the Marxist-Humanist Alternative 1.107 Marxist-Humanist Initiative, www.marxist-humanist-initiative.org Anne Jaclard, Chair ...................................................... Marxist-Humanist Initiative Mike Dola ............................................................................. Worker-Student-Activist Andrew Kliman ............................................................................................. Economist Ravi Bali ......................................................................................... DC Resists, London How the Demos Speaks: Theory, Representation, Insurrection 1.108 Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Chair ........................ University of Illinois, Springfield Ali Zaidi ................................................................................................. SUNY, Canton John Asimakopoulos ................................................... City University of New York The Proletariat is Still the Revolutionary Class 1.109 Speak Out Now & Convergences Révolutionnaires 10:00 – 11:50AM Putting a Premium on Workers Rights: Making Capital Subordinate to Labor through the Expansion of Worker Co-ops and Union Co-ops 1.73 Forbes Contributor Cameron Keng Carmen Huertas-Noble, Chair ......... CUNY School of Law and 1Worker1Vote April De Simone ............................................................................ Designing the We Christina Jaus ................................................................................. Wheels Collective Michael Peck ............ MAPA Group, North American Delegate for Mondragon, 1 Worker 1 Vote Roger Green ..................................... DuBois-Bunche Center for Public Policy and Medgar Evers College Alex Van Shaick .............................................................. U.S. Department of Labor The Commons, Assemblies, and Horizontalidad – Their Anti-Capitalist Roots and Liberatory Possibilities 1.76 Kim Serrano, Chair .......................................................................... Speak Out Now Kip Waldo Timothée Erard L’Etincelle ............ (the Spark), NPA (New Anti-Capitalist Party) Mike Corr .......................................................................................... Speak Out Now Camilo Azzellini Sitrin, Chair Debbie Bookchin Susana Draper Marcela Olivera Marina Sitrin Did Trotsky Lie? Towards the Truth About the Soviet Union and Its Relevance to Social Movements Today Inner Truth to Power: Meditation as a Revolutionary Act 1.87 US Friends of the Soviet People John Dennie, Chair ............................................... US Friends of the Soviet People Grover Furr George Gruenthal ............................................... US Friends of the Soviet People Jason Myers The Rise of Millennials: Engaging Youth in the 2016 Presidential Election 1.89 Prabjoot Lally, Chair ................................................................ Junior Sikh Coalition Ameek Bindra ............................................................................ Junior Sikh Coalition Darian X ....................................................................................... Make the Road NY Hossam Gamea .......................................................... Islamic Movement for Justice Luba Cortes .................................................................................. Make the Road NY Cooperation Jackson Countering the Confederate Assault and the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi 1.75 Brandon King, Chair ................................................................ Cooperation Jackson Rukia Lumumba .................................................. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Kali Akuno ................................................................................. Cooperation Jackson 1.92 Sander Hicks, Chair Marc Eliot Stein ............................................... Stein Pacifism for the 21st Century Robert Rafiq Lewis .............................................. Days of Shock, Days of Wonder Gregg Hill ........................................................................................ New York Insight Uncovering the Racial Climate at a Liberal Arts College 1.63 Deborah Little, Chair .................................................................... Adelphi University Richard Sejour ............................................................................... Adelphi University Anna Smith ..................................................................................... Adelphi University Danja Xhaxhi ................................................................................. Adelphi University Dariann Rickerson ......................................................................... Adelphi University Melanie Bush .................................................................................. Adelphi University Bringing Participatory Budgeting to CUNY 1.65 Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives (SODA) Susan Kalaz, Chair ................................ PB-Queens College Steering Committee Jennifer Li ................................................................................... PB-Brooklyn College Michael Devan ...... Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives (SODA) Chandni Tarek ........................................ PB-Queens College Steering Committee Jennifer Innes ............................................................................. PB-Brooklyn College 25 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM Karl Polanyi A Political Economy of the Senses A Life on the Left GARETH DALE Neoliberalism, Reification, Critique “Here is the book the many ANITA CHARI admirers of Karl Polanyi have “[The book] represents the rise been waiting for: a vivid, thor- of a new, dynamic critical theory oughly researched and lucidly for the twenty-first century.” written intellectual biography —John Bellamy Foster, that is worthy of its subject.” author of Marx’s Ecology —Steven Lukes, New York University $30.00 / £22.00 · 978-0-231-17389-6 · paper $29.99 / £22.00 · 978-0-231-54038-4 · ebook $40.00 / £30.00 · 978-0-231-17608-8 · cloth $39.99 / £30.00 · 978-0-231-54148-0 · ebook Political Responsibility After the Red Army Faction ANTONIO Y. VÁZQUEZ- CHARITY SCRIBNER ARROYO “The most innovative discus- “Exquisitely subtle and ardently sion of the RAF to date.” polemical.” —Sabine von Dirke, University of —Wendy Brown, University of Pittsburgh California, Berkeley $50.00 / £37.00 · 978-0-231-16864-9 · cloth $49.99 / £37.00 · 978-0-231-53829-9 · ebook Responding to Predicaments of Power Gender, Culture, and Militancy $65.00 / £48.00 · 978-0-231-17484-8 · cloth $64.99 / £48.00 · 978-0-231-54146-6 · ebook Political Freud Intimate Strangers A History ELI ZARETSKY Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse “This brilliant riposte to Freud- ANDREEA DECIU RITIVOI bashers ought to be . . . “Lucid, careful, well balanced.” on every shelf.” —Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, —Logos: A Journal of Modern University of Western Ontario Society & Culture $35.00 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-16868-7 · cloth $34.99 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-53791-9 · ebook $35.00 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-17244-8 · cloth $34.99 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-54014-8 · ebook Marx After Marx Factory of Strategy History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin ANTONIO NEGRI HARRY HAROOTUNIAN “This book on Lenin turns into a “Provocative and important.” revolutionary text, into a true —William Haver, translator of manual of resistance.” Nishida Kitarō ‘s Ontology of —Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in Production: Three Essays the End Times $35.00 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-17480-0 · cloth $34.99 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-54013-1 · ebook $35.00 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-14682-1 · cloth $34.99 / £26.00 · 978-0-231-51942-7 · ebook columbia university press CUP. COLUMBIA . EDU 26 · CUPBLOG . ORG SESSION 1 The Destructuring of the Department of Education & the Rebuilding of Our Educational Currency NORTH HALL BUILDING 2513 10:00 – 11:50AM Deep State: The Fabricated Global War on Terrorism — Why the Left Should Unite to Expose and Rebel Against It Gina Humber, Chair ............................................................. Diversity is a Verb LLC Charlene Humber ........... New York State Licensed Mental Health Professional Katrina Sparks ............................................ The New York Yonkers School District Jacqueline McMickens ......................... Jacqueline McMickens & Associates PLLC Naomi Lucas ..................... New York State Licensed Mental Health Professional NORTH HALL BUILDING 2505 The Transformation of American Health Care: For Whom? By Whom? The Imperative of Nuclear Disarmament in an Increasingly Dangerous World 1.91 NORTH HALL BUILDING 2511 Mary O’Brien, Chair ....................... Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter Oliver Fein ....................................... Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter Leonard Rodberg ........................... Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter Annette Gaudino ............................ Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter/Campaign for New York Health Jim Anderson, Chair ....................................................................................................... ....................................................................................... Peace Action New York State Jackie Cabasso .................................................. Western States Legal Foundation Joseph Gerson .............................................. American Friends Service Committee M. V. Ramana ............................................................................. Princeton University & Nuclear Power in Space Matt De Vlieger ......................................................... United for Peace and Justice NYC’s Affordable Housing Zoning: Beyond the Gentrifiers’ Deception NORTH HALL BUILDING 2503 1.77 Marty Rowland, Chair .... Henry George School of Social Sciences and ASTM Ayisha Oglive ........................... CB 12 Manhattan, Chair of Housing Committee Ibrahima Drame ..................................... Henry George School of Social Science Create Social Change via the Media: Using Politically Negative Messages to Your Advantage 1.90 Michael Friedman, Chair ...................... University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Marni Halasa ............................................................................ Revolutions are Sexy Chandler Harriss .................................... University of Tennessee at Chattanooga The Situation in Ukraine 1.113 United National Antiwar Coalition Phil Wilayto, Chair .......................................... United National Antiwar Coalition Irina Kovel .............................................. Oddessa Committee Against the Attacks Greg Butterfield ........................................................... International Action Center Bruce Gagnon ................................................. Global Network Against Weapons How Universal U.S. Sovereignty Threatens World Peace NORTH HALL BUILDING 2507 Cheryl Curtiss, Chair ........................................................................... WWUH Radio Gearoid O Colmain ............................................................. Independent Journalist Wayne Madsen .................................................................. Wayne Madsen Report Michael Springmann ......................................................... MichaelSpringmann.com Activism for Peace in Israel & Palestine Frank Romano, Chair ........... University of Paris; member of the California and Marseille Bars. Maurice Jacobsen ..................................................................... We All Live in Gaza Habiba Boumlik .............................. City University of New York, LaGuardia CC Jacqueline Casale Taylor Basker ............ German Jordan University, Near East Maya Bloom ....................................................................................... Bead for Peace Peter Ilich ......................................................................... TCI College of Technology Imperialists Collide: War and Refugees in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. the Dangerous Role of the EU and NATO NORTH HALL BUILDING 2504 Marxism-Leninism Today.com Walter Tillow, Chair .............................................. M-L Today.com Editorial Board Kostas Papadakis .................................................... Greek Communist Party (KKE) Kostas Pateras .......................................................... Greek Communist Party (KKE) Now, for the Future: Youth Organizing for Independent Left Political Power NORTH HALL BUILDING 2512 Ursula Rozum, Chair ................................. Young Greens US, Green Party of NY William Gunger ............................................................... Young Greens, Secretary Nikeeta Slade ........... International Socialist Organization, Green Party of NY Sasha White ................................. Young Greens, Green Party US Youth Caucus David Hungerford, Chair ............................................. Coalition for Social Justice Michael Perino Sara Flounders .............................................................. International Action Center 27 SESSION 2 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM 12:00PM – 1:50PM What Next for the Movement Behind Bernie? L2.84 Close Guantánamo Now or Move Guantánamo North? Bryan Koulouris, Chair ............................................................... Socialist Alternative Kshama Sawant .......................................................................... Socialist Alternative Winnie Wong ................................................................................. People for Bernie Philip Locker ................................................................................ #Movement4Bernie Justin Molito ...................................................................................... Labor for Bernie NORTH HALL BUILDING 3321 A Dialogue on the Meaning and Importance of Alienation, with David Harvey and Bertell Ollman Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg L2.85 Jennifer Meeropol, Chair ......................................... Rosenberg Fund for Children Robert Meeropol ....................................................... Rosenberg Fund for Children Amber Black ............................................................... Rosenberg Fund for Children Maliha Safri, Chair ............................. Economics Department at Drew University David Harvey .......................................... Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center Bertell Ollman ......................................................................................... Politics, NYU Debra Sweet, Chair ...................................................................... World Can’t Wait Seth Farber ....................................................................................... The Talking Dog Noor Mir .................................................................................. Amnesty International Omar Shakir ........................................................... Center for Constitutional Rights NORTH HALL BUILDING 3325 The Communalist Turn: Bookchin and the Quest for Confederal Direct Democracy John Brown: Debunking Myths and Liberating Truths — Reflections on His Last Days as a Prisoner in Virginia L.76 Review of Radical Political Economics NORTH HALL BUILDING 3326 Eleanor Finley, Chair ..................................................... Brian Tokar ...................................................................... Daniel Chodorkoff ......................................................... Chaia Heller ................................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Institute for Social Ecology Institute for Social Ecology Institute for Social Ecology Forging the Radical and Principled Black Movement of the 21st Century NORTH HALL BUILDING 2324 Black Agenda Report — blackagendareport.com Bruce Dixon, Chair .................................................................. Black Agenda Report Glen Ford ................................................................................. Black Agenda Report Margaret Kimberley .............................................................. Black Agenda Report Larry Lawrence, Chair Louis DeCaro Norman Marshall Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy and her execution was wrongful Right on the Rise: Neo-Fascism and Far-Right Politics in the U.S. and Europe NORTH HALL BUILDING 2325 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Moral Economy and the Art World 8.61 Cindy Smith, Chair ............................................................................... Artist/Curator Maxwell Graham ...... Dealer – Founder and Director of Essex Street Gallery Gregory Sholette .................................................................................. Artist/Activist Occupy Museums 28 Ullstein Bild Getty Images Ethan Earle, Chair ............................ Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Evelyn Schlatter ......................................................... Southern Poverty Law Center Gerd Wiegel .......................................................... Die Linke – German Left Party Bhaskar Sunkara .......................................................................... Jacobin Magazine Sign the petition at rfc.org/ethel calling on President Obama to exonerate Ethel Attend the Exonerate Ethel panel or stop by the Rosenberg Fund for Children table to learn more SESSION 2 Islamic State: Responsibility and Response 1.124 Susan Smith ...................... Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point Center and Muslim Peace Fellowship Arun Kundnani .................................................... Professor at New York University Daisy Khan ....................... Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality and Today’s Islam Abdelhamid Siyam ....................................................................... Rutgers University, Al Quds Al Araby International Newspaper, and the United Nations Neurotic? Unable to Organize? What the Fuck Is Wrong With Us? 1.129 Mitchel Cohen, Chair ........................................... Author, “What Is Direct Action?” Debbie Despina Sophia Stamos ............................................... Missile-Dick Chicks Ann Snitow ................... Author, “The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary” Irene Javors .......................................................................... Psychotherapist; Author, “Culture Notes: Essays on Sane Living” Jack Shalom ................................................................... WBAI Radio 99.5 FM NYC Sister Dragonfly .................................................... Church of Stop Shopping Choir Rap, Art & Revolution: How Do We Create A Culture of Resistance ? 3.80 Jamel Mims, Chair ...................................... rapper, artist, organizer & educator; NYC Revolution Club, Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Urban Arts Partnership Shyvonne ............................................................ singer-songwriter, Artists 4 Justice Patrick ..................................................................................... Actor, Artists 4 Justice Noche Diaz .............................................................................. NYC Revolution Club Radical Songwriting to Change the World 3.81 Sharleen Leahey, Chair ............................ songs4peace; Peoples Music Network Ben Grosscup ....................................................................... People’s Music Network Penn Johnson 12:00 – 1:50PM Film Screening: In the Image: Palestinian Women Capture the Occupation NORTH HALL BUILDING 2450 Emmy Scharlatt ...................................................................... Co-director/Producer Film Screening: The Hand That Feeds (Hot & Crusty Union) NORTH HALL BUILDING 2327 Mahoma Garfais, Chair The Battle for Democracy in a Time of Neo-Liberal Fascism 1.85 Siddhartha Mitra, Chair ....................................................................... Sanhati, USA Anindya Dey ........................................................................................... Sanhati, USA Rajeev Ravisankar ................................................................................. Sanhati, USA Detroit, Greece, and Capitalist Abandonment 1.66 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination and Left Forum Kristin Lawler, Chair ........................................................ Situations and Left Forum Dan Georgakas ............................................................................................. Cineaste Michael Pelias ............................... Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Peter Bratsis ................................... Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Dianne Feeley .............................................................................. Against the Current Grasping the Black Freedom Movement in Global and Revolutionary Terms: Part 2 — Artistic and Activist Interventions 1.67 Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal Of Marxist Theory And Practice Joseph Ramsey, Chair .......................................................................... UMass Boston Nino Brown Mela Jones Heestand Amy Evans .......................................................................................................... Writer Joseph G. Ramsey ...... UMass Boston, Cultural Logic, Socialism and Democracy Demetrius Noble ................. Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Artists 4 Justice, #BlackLivesMatter Greensboro, UNC Party of Communists USA, League of Young Communists For a Socialist USA, For Marxism-Leninism www.PartyOfCommunistsUSA.org 29 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM Black Lives Matter Moving Beyond Black… A New Black Power A Call for Paradigm Shift in Clinical Science NORTH HALL BUILDING 2514 Michel Alexendre Sacha Vington M.D., Chair .................................. Vaya Instiute Darnell Smith .......................................................................................... Vaya Instiute Mutale Kanyanta A Pair of Twin Faces in America 1.71 Tear Down the Prison Walls! 1.82 Patrick McCann, Chair ............................................................... Veterans For Peace Theresa Shoatz .......... Board Member, Human Rights Coalition of Philadelphia Noelle Hanrahan .................................................................................... Prison Radio Behind Enemy Lines: From Slavery to Mass Imprisonment 1.83 American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Program D’Evolution Productions David Acala, Chair Rick Sanford .......................................................... The New School Class of 2010 M.S. in Organizational Change Management David Hall A Just Transition to a Peaceful and Ecological Society Bonnie Kerness, Chair .................................................... Director, American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Kayla Stepinac ................... American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Ojore Lutalo ........................ American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Intersectionality: Marxist Commentaries and Critiques 1.93 Science & Society 1.81 Jonathan Rynn, Chair Tom Gogan ........................................................................... US Labor Against War Bruce Gagnon John Braxton .............................................................. Philadelphia Jobs for Justice, US Labor against the War, Labor Convergence on Climate Shana Russell, Chair .................................................................. Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School – Newark Rutgers University Hester Eisenstein ............................ Women & Gender Studies Masters Program, Graduate Center, CUNY Barbara Foley ............................................................................... Rutgers University Martha Gimenez .................................................................. University of Colorado Lise Vogel ........................................................................................... Rider University The Center for Critical Research on Religion is pleased to sponsor the following session:mi THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND RELIGION SATURDAY, 12:00 – 1:50 ROOM 1.107 WARREN S. GOLDSTEIN (Harvard University, USA) EDUARDO MENDIETA (Penn State University, USA) “The Axial Age, Social Evolution, and Postsecular Consciousness” CHRISTOPHER CRAIG BRITTAIN (University of Aberdeen, UK), “Elucidating Evangelical Support for Donald Trump: Adorno on Religion and Sectarian Movements” MATT SHEEDY (University of Manitoba, Canada) “Habermas, Islam, and the Limits of Public Reason” The Center for Critical Research on Religion (www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org) publishes the journal Critical Research on Religion with SAGE Publications (crr.sagepub.com) and the book series “Studies in Critical Research on Religion” with Brill Academic Publishers in hardcover (brill.com/scrr) and Haymarket Books in paperback (www.haymarketbooks.org/category/scrr-series) 30 SESSION 2 From Red Squads to Counterterrorism: Keeping the U.S. Safe From Democracy 1.100 Bill of Rights Defense Committee & Defending Dissent Foundation Chip Gibbons, Chair ....................................... Bill of Rights Defense Committee & Defending Dissent Foundation Brendan Dunn Kris Hermes Maha Hilal .................................................................................... Executive Director, National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals & Rogue Politicians L2.80 The Africanist Press Joshua Lew McDermott, Chair ................................ New Mexico State University Chernoh Alpha M. Bah ............................. Chairman, African Socialist Movement Jessica Collen ......................................................... McDermott University of Idaho Climate Change and Capitalism 1.115 M. V. Ramana, Chair ................................................................. Princeton University Natassa Romanou ............................ NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Robert Jensen .............................................................. University of Texas at Austin Trash Talk: Fighting Incineration & Achieving a Zero Waste Vision for Environmental Justice 1.114 Ana Baptista ............................................................ The New School/NJEJA/GAIA Molly Greenberg ......................................................... Ironbound Community Corp Priya Mulgaonkar ......................... New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Brigid Flaherty .................................................................................................. ALIGN Kumar Amarnath ............................................................................... The New School Haiti Rising: Dessalines Fight Back 1.99 Haiti Liberte Nat Wood, Chair .................................... Nat Wood Show MNN Public Televison Kim Ives ............................................................................... Haiti Liberte Newspaper Ray Laforest .. Haiti Support Netwrk,Black Lives Matter Dominican Republican Colia Clark .......... Guadeloupe Haiti Committee, Judiciail Violence Symposium Charles Pitts ...... Connecting the Dots Harambee Radio, Judicial Violence Sym Short and Long-Term Prospects for Twenty-First Century Latin American Leftist Governments 1.101 Steve Ellner, Chair ........................................ Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela) Peter Ranis ...................................................................... Graduate Center of CUNY Emelio Betances .......................................................................... Gettysburg College Linda Farthing ........................................................... Andean Information Network Alex Main 12:00 – 1:50PM US–Cuba Relations Today: Fighting for Real, Full Normalization 1.103 Gail Walker, Chair ............................................................. IFCO/Pastors for Peace Ike Nahem ........................................................................................ July 26 Coalition Frank Velgara .................................................. New York Cuba Solidarity Project Estela Vazquez Rosemari Mealy Revisiting the Grenada Revolution, 1979–1983 1.105 Clyde Robertson, Chair ............................................................ Tuskegee University Obasegun Awolabi .............................................................. Medgar Evers College Godfrey Vincent ........................................................................ Tuskegee University The Frankfurt School and Religion 1.107 Critical Research on Religion Warren S. Goldstein, Chair ...................................................... Harvard University Eduardo Mendieta .................................................................. Penn State University Christopher Craig ................................................. Brittain University of Aberdeen Matt Sheedy ......................................................................... University of Manitoba Successes and Challenges in Developing a Pedagogy From Below 1.108 George Ygarza, Chair ........................................................... NJ Grassroots Action Zellie Imani Tanaisa Brown ....................................................................... Newark Student Union Lisa Thompson Rage and Rebellion Requires a Vision 1.109 Zeitgeist Media Harry Cason, Chair ........................................................... College of Staten Island Michael Havok ...................................................................................... Zeitgeist NYC Kenneth Fernandez Stuart Dambrot ......................................................................................... Transinopia Kyle Hicks ............................................................................. United Citizens of Earth What Does a Just Transition Look Like? How Do We Get There? 1.87 Carl Lundgren, Chair ......................................................................................... SDIPN Catherine Skopic .......................................... SDIPN Legislative Committee, Chair; People’s Climate Movement Susan Shapiro ............................................................... Attorney, Hito–Shapiro Law Sean Sweeney ....................................................................... CUNY Murphy Institute 31 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM The New York State Nurses Association and its 39,000 members are fighting for a Single Payer, Medicare for All healthcare system in the U.S. Join the fight! Patients Over Profits! NYSNA salutes the Left Forum 2016 and its commitment to social and economic equality nysna.org 32 nynurses @nynurses SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM Katrina to Ayotzinapa: People’s Tribunals Condemn Crimes Against the People GCAS and the Construction of a Future Democracy 1.89 Creston Davis, Chair .......................................................................................... GCAS Sigrid Hackenberg ............................................................................................ GCAS Eleni Xilakis ......................................................................................................... GCAS Joelle Eliza M. Lingat, Chair .................... Student National Vice President, NLG Azadeh N. Shahshahani ......................................... Legal and Advocacy Director, Project South & Former President, NLG Bernadette Ellorin ........................................................... Chairperson, BAYAN USA Bina Ahmad ............................................ Public Defender, Legal Aid Society and Former National Vice President, NLG Gill Boehringer ............... Former Head of Law School, Macquarie University & Permanent Peoples Tribunal Democracy at Work: Organizing Direct Action at the Local Level 1.75 Alan Schulman, Chair ............................................................... Democracy at Work Madelyn Hoffman ........................................................... New Jersey Peace Action Moumita Ahmed ............................................................................. People for Bernie Occupy the Commons: Towards a Rational, Peaceful, Bloodless and Effective Revolution for Social Justice, Economic Equity and Human Liberation 1.73 Georgist Economic Taskforce – Georgist Institute for Value-Based Economics 1.63 Mountain View Program — Reverse the School to Prison Pipeline by Sending Prisoners to College 1.65 Boris Franklin, Chair ..................................................................... Danny Murillo ................................................................................ Nafeesah Goldsmith .................................................................... Ivelisse Gilestra ............................................................................. Rutgers University Rutgers University Rutgers University Rutgers University Students: Bring the No More Stolen Lives Tour to Campus! NORTH HALL BUILDING 2513 Steve Yip, Chair ................................................. Stop Mass Incarceration Network Nicholas Heyward Sr. ....................... Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Foundation Noche Diaz ............................................................................... NYC Revolution Club Travis Morales .................................................... Stop Mass Incarceration Network Hawa Bah .......................................................................... Mother of Mohamed Bah Hertencia Petersen ................................................................... Aunt of Akai Gurley Yannis Tziligakis, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Taskforce Marty Rowland PhD ................................................................. PE, NYC Parks, HGS Fred Harrison ........................ Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation The Movement for Single Payer Health Care Justice in a Pivotal Election Year The International Working Class: Organizations and Struggles Martha Livingston, Chair ............... Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter Adam Gaffney Mark Dudzic ..................................................... Labor for Single Payer Campaign Ben Day ......................................................................................... Healthcare-NOW! Gloria Mattera ....................................................................................... Green Party Judy Gonzalez ................................................ New York State Nurses Association 1.76 Stephanie McMillan, Chair ................................................. Proletarian Alternative Immanuel Ness Kiki Makandal ................................................. Batay Ouvriye Solidarity Network Kim Scipes .................................................................... Purdue University Northwest Community Mobilization and Cultural Pluralism in Working-Class Neighborhoods: Leonard Covello (1887-1982) and CommunityCentered Education in East Harlem 1.92 Vito Marcantonio Forum Gil Fagiani, Chair .............................................................. Vito Marcantonio Forum Gerald Meyer .................................................................... Vito Marcantonio Forum Simone Cinotto .............................................................. Universita di Pollenzo, Italy Roberto Ragone ................................................................. Vito Marcantonio Forum 1.91 Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City 1.77 Progressive Planning Tom Angotti, Chair ............................... Hunter College and Progressive Planning Peter Marcuse ............................................................................. Columbia University Sylvia Morse Samuel Stein ....................................................................... CUNY Graduate Center Andrew Padilla .................................................................................... El Barrio Tours Josmar Trujillo 33 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM The Life and Work of Maria Victoria Maldonado One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel 1.90 Deep Dish TV NORTH HALL BUILDING 2504 DeeDee Halleck, Chair .................... Deep Dish Network, Paper Tiger Television Mario Murillo ......................................................... WBAI Radio, Hofstra University Irene Sosa ........................................................................................ Brooklyn College Julia Willebrand, Chair .......................................................... US Green Party and OWS Alternative Banking Group Justine McCabe ................................................................................. US Green Party Lenni Brenner The Future of Europe and the European Left 1.113 Transform! European Network For Alternative Thinking And Political Dialogue Walter Baier, Chair ...................................................................... Transform! Europe Luciana Castellina .......................................................................... Il Manifesto, Italy Leo Panitch ....................................................................................... Socialist Register Haris Golemis ...................................................... Syriza, Nicos Poulantzas Institute Dominic Heilig ........................................................................... Die LINKE, Germany COINTELPRO 2016: The New Age of Active Measures by the Post-9/11 National Security State NORTH HALL BUILDING 2512 twsp.us Webster Tarpley, Chair .......................................... United Front Against Austerity Daniela Walls ................................................. Chairperson, Tax Wall Street Party Dylan Shelton ......................................................................... Tax Wall Street Party The US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and War in the “Middle East” NORTH HALL BUILDING 2507 Bill Dores, Chair ...................................................................................................... IAC Lamis Deek ......................... Al Awda NY the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, US Palestinian Community Network, National Lawyer Ayman Sayed ......................................................................... Existence is Resistance Abayomi Azikiwe ................................................... Editor, Pan African News Wire, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice Kazem Azin ........................ Solidarity Iran, United National Antiwar Committee Deep State: 9/11 — An Ecumenical Approach NORTH HALL BUILDING 2505 Frank Tolopko, Chair Barbara Honegger ............................................................ Independent Researcher Wayne Madsen .................................................................. Wayne Madsen Report Kevin Barrett ...................................................................................... Veterans Today Toward a Revival of the U.S. Anti-War Movement NORTH HALL BUILDING 2511 Stanley Heller, Chair ..................................................... Promoting Enduring Peace Nidal Bitari Ashley Smith Dan Fischer ...................................................................... Capitalism vs. The Climate Medea Benjamin ........................................................................................ CODEPINK Intifada in America: The History of the Palestine Left in the United States NORTH HALL BUILDING 2503 Dan Cione, Chair ........................ New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Suzanne Adely ............................................................................ Labor for Palestine Nerdeen Kiswani ........................ New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Mohammed Nabulsi ................................ Palestine Solidarity Committee (Austin) Specializing in Arabic, North African, & Middle Eastern studies Spring and Fall Semesters Intensive Arabic at INLAC Courses on North Africa and the Middle East covering: Politics, Islam, Gender, Migration, History and Society, Literature, Linguistics, Translation, Contemporary Issues, Social Movements Summer Intensive Arabic From 3 to 12 weeks Summer I starts May 20 Summer II starts June 3 INLAC also offers homestays, excursions, volunteer work, and many cultural and social activities. 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Contact: International Institute for Languages & Cultures (INLAC) 7bis Derb Ben Abdejlil, Ziat Fez Médina, Fez, Morocco Tel/Fax: +(0)535 63 63 84; Email: info@inlac.net For further details, please visit www.inlac.net 34 LUNCH LUNCH 2:00 – 3:30PM 2:00PM – 3:30PM LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:30PM L.63 (LECTURE HALL) RAGE, REBELLION, REVOLUTION, AND SONG RYAN HARVEY & KAREEM SAMARA (BALTIMORE/LONDON) SON OF NUN (BALTIMORE) BELL’S ROAR (ALBANY) LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:30PM L.76 (LECTURE HALL) EASTER RISING — SONGS OF FREEDOM FEATURING: MAT CALLAHAN AND YVONNE MOORE SPONSORED BY: PM PRESS 35 SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM * * 36 SESSION 3 SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM 3:30PM – 5:15PM THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 3:30–5:15PM BLACK BOX THEATER POETIC JUSTICE: AN AFTERNOON OF EMANCIPATORY LYRICS HOSTED BY SHAYLA COOK FEATURING: SHAYLA COOK, BOCA FLOJA, ROXANA MARROQUIN, MATT SEDILLO, THE PEACE POETS, AND PEERS EDUCATING PEERS A Father Perspective on Police Terrorism Against Children of Color: Aberrations or Everyday Occurrences? L2.84 Keith Beauchamp, Chair ...................................... Till Freedom Come Productions; Executive Producer and Host of The Injustice Files Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson ................................... Love Not Blood Campaign Ron Davis ............................................................................ Jordan Davis Foundation Andrew Joseph .............................................................. Andrew Joseph Foundation Nicolas Heyward ............. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Memorial Foundation Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. .............................................. Families United for Justice; Westchester Coalition for Police Reform (WCPR), A Dialogue on Israel and Palestine With Tariq Ali and Norman Finkelstein L2.85 Richard Levins: Dialectics, Nature, and Society L2.81 Monthly Review John Bellamy Foster, Chair ................................ Monthly Review Editorial Board, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon Brett Clark ........................................... Sociology Department, University of Utah Tamara Awerbuch Friedlander Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health Martha Livingston ............ Professor, Chair, Public Health, SUNY Old Westbury Physicians for a National Health Program Debate: The Left and the Sanders Campaign L2.82 Bryan Koulouris, Chair ............................................................... Socialist Alternative Jen Roesch ................................................................................................................ ISO Philip Locker ................................................................................ Socialist Alternative Paul Jay, Chair ................................................................... The Real News Network Tariq Ali Norman Finkelstein Transinopia: A Technology-Based Post-Scarcity Community Prototype Revolution in Rojava… and New York? Stuart Mason Dambrot, Chair ................................................................ Transinopia Harry Cason ....................................................................... College of Staten Island Clark Matthews Stuart Baran L.76 Green Party of New York State Howie Hawkins, Chair ............................................................................ Green Party Debbie Bookchin Chiah Heller .................................................................... Institute for Social Ecology Michael O’Neil ........................................................................................ Green Party 8.61 Transinopia 37 SESSION 3 38 3:30 – 5:15PM Abdullah Majid Hugo Pinell Phil AAica Luis V. Rodriguez Oscc WashingtM Sundiata Sadiq WWashitwe MMdo Eyen we Langa HHman Wallace SESSION 3 Crisis of Neoliberalism and Opportunities for the Left 8.67 Union for Radical Political Economics 3:30 – 5:15PM Revolt Art Movements and Their Social Impact Then and Now 3.80 Al Campbell, Chair ...................................... Union for Radical Political Economics Robert Chernomas ............................................................... University of Manitoba Ricardo Fuentes-Ramírez ............................ University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez David Kotz .................................................... University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ayala Leyser, Chair ...................... International Marxist Humanist Organization Milena Popov ................................................. Adjunct Professor Sustainability and Environmental Justice Minor Jane Feigenbaum ........................................................................ Code Pink, NY/NJ Animal Liberation Strategies in the Face of Indifference and Repression Grassroots Leadership & The Arts for Social Change 8.69 3.81 International Leadership Association Joan Harrison, Chair Karen Davis .......................................................................... United Poultry Concerns Donny Moss .............................................................................................. TheirTurn.net Raffaella Ciavatta ......................................................................... Collectively Free Benjamin Haas ..................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Susan Erenrich, Chair ..................................... Cultural Center for Social Change; International Leadership Association; Peoples’ Voice Cafe Terry Leonino ..................................................... Magpie, A Husband & Wife Duet In The Topical Song Tradition Greg Artzner ..................................................... Magpie, A Husband & Wife Duet In The Topical Song Tradition What Can/Should We Inherit From the French Revolution? 8.72 Donald Nicholson Smith, Chair ................................................................... PM Press Howard Swerdloff ............................................... College of Staten Island, CUNY John Galbraith Simmons Christopher Winks Fukushima on the Hudson: The Risks Posed by Governmental Negligence at Indian Point 1.114 Alison Rose Levy, Chair ....................................... Alternet, Ecowatch, TomDispatch Ellen Cantarow ........................................................................................ TomDispatch Paul Blanch ............................................................. Independent Energy Consultant Nancy Vann .................................................................... Safe Energy Rights Group What Has Happened to “Leftist Theology” and What Has This Got to Do With Political Prisoners in the Day of the “Trumpocalypse” and the Trump/Clinton/Obama Triumvirate? 1.129 Ralph Poynter, Chair .................................................... New Abolitionist Movement Lynne Stewart ............................ lynnestewart.org & New Abolitionist Movement Jess Sundin ........................................................................... NYC Jericho Movement Anne Lamb ........................................................................... NYC Jericho Movement Pam Africa ............................................................. Free Mumia Coalition, MOVE 9 Razakhan Shaheed ..................................................... Nationtime Judicial Res., Inc. Free Mumia Coalition, MOVE 9 Tom Siracuse ................................................... Green Party – Manhattan Chapter Ramona Africa ....................................................... Free Mumia Coalition, MOVE 9 Joel Meyers ................................ lynnestewart.org & New Abolitionist Movement Representations of Terrorism and State Terrorism in Film: Algeria, India, South Africa, USA, and ISIS Territories 3.78 Fabiola Salek, Chair ................................................................ Aegina Barnes ........................................................................... Zohra Saad ................................................................................ Mychel Namphy ........................................................................ York College, CUNY York College, CUNY York College, CUNY York College, CUNY Film Screening: Groundwork 3.79 Milena Velis, Chair India Spring? Maybe for Dalits Too, Finally! 1.85 Bronislaw Czarnocha, Chair ..................................................................... Hostos CC Immanuel Ness ............................................................................... Brooklyn C. CUNY Swati Sawant ........ Program Director, International Commission for Dalit Rights Intellectual Engagement, the Black Radical Imagination & Ta-Nehesi Coates 1.66 The Brotherwise Dispatch Don Jackson, Chair .......................... The Brotherwise Dispatch, The Indypendent Nicholas Powers ...................................... The Indypendent, SUNY Old Westbury Rhone Fraser ......................................................................... Howard University and Paul Robeson House in West Philadelphia A. Shahid Stover .............................................................. The Brotherwise Dispatch 39 SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM Bully Nation How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society Charles Derber and Yale Magrass “This thoughtful study expertly dissects the ‘bullying scourge’ that poisons lives and society, exposing its roots in the institutional structure of a ‘militaristic capitalist culture’ that it reflects and nurtures, while also revealing the encouraging reactions that may offer cures for the malady and the factors that engender it.” —Noam Chomsky “A canny and sobering look at bullying behavior and how it permeates our nation’s major institutions. When children do it, we abhor it. When our leaders do it, we usually applaud it. The authors remind us.”—Oliver Stone “Bully Nation is the most comprehensive analysis of bullying yet published. It is a brilliant book that refuses to define bullying as merely a psychological concept. Instead, it addresses in great detail the interplay of bullying as having its roots in a range of historical, economic, “Clear and compelling. Its case for shifting political, and social conditions. This is a our focus from individual schoolyard bullies powerful and compelling book that addresses to power imbalances in American society is one of the most important social problems of badly needed in current discussions of our time. It should be read by all educators, bullying. A brilliant example of the socioparents, and anyone else interested in a world logical imagination at work.”—Daniel Geary, free of aggression and violence. Bully Nation author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan deserves widespread attention.”—Henry Report and Its Legacy Giroux, author of Zombie Politics and Culture 288 pages, Cloth $24.95, Ebook $24.95 in the Age of Casino Capitalism University Press of Kansas Phone (785) 864-4155 • Fax (785) 864-4586 • www.kansaspress.ku.edu 40 SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM Comfort Women: Asian Women Fight Back to Challenge History and Claim Our Future Young Women Against Hillary’s Corporate Agenda 1.67 Meghan B., Chair ....................................................................... Socialist Alternative Kelly Bellin Elma Relihan ............................................................... 15 Now, Socialist Alternative Grace Balbutin, Chair ...................... Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Suzanne Jay ....................................... Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Olivia Canlas ................................................................................................... AF3IRM Yoko Oikawa ..................................... Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Jewish Noir: A New Anthology of Short Stories 1.69 PM Press Kenneth Wishnia, Chair ........................................................... Professor of English, Suffolk Community College, Long Island, NY Steven Wishnia .......................................................................... Freelance journalist Sanders’ Politics and the Path to Socialism 1.71 Socialism and Democracy Victor Wallis, Chair ........................................................ Socialism and Democracy Stephen Ferguson ................................................ North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Johanna Fernandez .............................................................. Baruch College, CUNY Michael Joseph Roberto ..................................... North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Resistance in Prisons for Immigrants 1.81 My N. Le, Chair ........................................................ Student, CUNY School of Law Fahd Ahmed ....................................................................................................... DRUM Abraham Paulos ...................................................................... Families for Freedom Azadeh N. Shahshahani ....................................................................... Project South Transcending Material Scarcity 1.82 Synergetic Binary Economics Harold Channer, Chair ........................................... Manhattan Neighbor Network Ted Schulman Jerry Spivack ......................................... Columbia University, The United Nations, The World Future Society Criminal Justice Reform, or Justice Denied? 1.83 William Martin, Chair ........................................................... Binghamton University Andrew Pragacz .................................................................... Binghamton University Zhandarka Kurti ..................................................................... Binghamton University Luis Gonzalez ................................................................................ Rutgers University Kevin Revier ............................................................................ Binghamton University Chungse Jung .......................................................................... Binghamton University 1.93 Socialist Alternative Capitalism’s Right Turn: From Far Right Populism to Authoritarian Neoliberal State 1.100 Socialist Register Leo Panitch, Chair ........................................................................... Socialist Register Greg Albo ........................................................................................ Socialist Register Walter Baier ................................................................. Transform Network, Europe Doug Henwood Nicole Aschoff .................................................................... Johns Hopkins University Barbara Epstein .................................... History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz South Africa Today: Liberation or Economic Apartheid? L2.80 Socialist Action Newspaper Christine Marie, Chair ........................................................................ Socialist Action Marty Goodman ........................................................... Socialist Action newspaper Patrick Bond ........................................ Centre for Civil Society in Durban (UKZN) Glen Ford ................................................................................. Black Agenda Report Reprimarization: Implications for the Environment and Development 1.115 Union for Radical Political Economics; Capitalism, Nature Socialism Paul Cooney, Chair .............................................................................................. URPE Terisa Turner ............................................................................. University of Guelph Terran Giacomini ...................................................................... University of Toronto The Climate Justice Moment: A Movement of Movements 1.117 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Stefanie Ehmsen, Chair ................... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Aurash Khawarzad ............................................. We Act for Environmental Justice Sean Petty ........................................................ New York State Nurses Association Heather Milton ............................................................................................ Lightening Tadzio Mueller ...................................................... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin Colombian Peace Talks: What Are the Unresolved Issues Between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government? 1.99 Toward Freedom Juan Carlos Vallejo, Chair Director Humanitarian Law Peace and Democracy Ani Diesselmann ........................................................................................ Amerika21 Alexandra Nariño ........................ Peace Delegation FARC-EP in Havana, Cuba 41 SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM WORLD ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION WEA BOOKS PRESENTS The Centrality of Care, Affect, Trust and Love in Movement(s) 1.101 Camilo Azzellini Sitrin, Chair Marcela Olivera Marina Sitrin Liz Mason-Deese Cuba — Political and Economic Reforms for 21st Century Socialism 1.103 Socialism and Democracy Peter Roman, Chair .......................................... Hostos Community College/CUNY Editorial Board of Socialism and Democracy Keith Bolender ...................... University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Gabriel Vignoli ................. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School/Cuba International Field Program Rafael Hernandez ............................................................................................ TEMAS Greece/EU/USA/BRICS/Middle East: Who’s the Current Greek Government Working For? 1.105 Georgist Economic Taskforce Yannis Tziligakis, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Taskforce Fred Harrison ........................ Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation Helga Zepp-Larouche ....................................................................... Schiller Institute Nikos Alexiou .............................................................. Queens College, SYRIZA-NY A Brief History Of The Future 1.107 Peter LaVenia, Chair ........................................... Green Party of New York State Steve Breyman ........................................................ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Byron Harmon ....................................................... New School for Social Research Richard Smith contends that the there is no possible solution to our global ecological crisis within the framework of any conceivable capitalism. The only alternative to market-driven planetary collapse is to transition to a largely planned, mostly publicly-owned economy based production for need, on democratic governance and rough socio-economic equality, and on contraction and convergence between the global North and South. “Smith brings an impressive command of economics and an engaging conversational style of writing. He explains and illustrates with devastating clarity the key mechanisms of capitalism that force it to grow unendingly ... In the final two chapters, Smith outlines ecological constraints necessary for any post-capitalist economy and describes ecosocialist alternatives to capitalism. The necessary changes are staggering ... To that end he outlines a number of attractive and attainable features of an ecosocialist society. – David Klein director of the Climate Science Program at California State University and author of Capitalism and Climate Change “Everyone who cares about the future of our children and grandchildren must read Smith’s book.” – David Suzuki www.worldeconomicsassociation.org/books/ 42 Marx on the Civil War and Reconstruction After 150 Years: Race, Capital, and Revolution 1.108 Susan Kang Andrew Zimmerman Kevin Anderson August H. Nimtz Politics of Life in the Age of the Anthropocene 1.109 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Bruno Gullì, Chair ............................... Kingsborough Community College, CUNY Federico Luisetti ........................................................... Professor of Italian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Joost de Bloois ................................................................... University of Amsterdam Dept. Literary Studies/Cultural Analysis Miriam Tola .......................................................................... Northeastern University SESSION 3 “Liberation of the People — The Pathology of Power”: Keys to Freeing Ourselves From Enslavement by the Socio-Economically Powerful 1.87 stopna.org/stop-science Leonard Burg, Chair ................. STOP The Destruction of the World Association Susan Berkley ............................ STOP The Destruction of the World Association Richard James ........................... STOP The Destruction of the World Association 3:30 – 5:15PM Class Struggle Not Class Collaboration: Rebuilding the Labor Movement 1.73 Labor Today Angelo D’Angelo, Chair ...................................... Labor United for Class Struggle Daniel Villa ........................................................... Labor United for Class Struggle John Dennie ...................................... Organizer, American Postal Workers’ Union Mahoma Lopez ................................................ Hot & Crusty Workers Association The Summoning I: Citizen Accountability Purge of Congress, President, & Supreme Court / National Strike During November Election Worker Control: Experiences & Perspectives from the Occupied Factories of Argentina 1.89 Tikkun Magazine Valeria Molina, Chair ................................................................................. Left Voice Raul Godoy .................................................................... Left & Workers’ Front (FIT), Socialist Workers’ Party (PTS) – Argentina Juan Ferre ..................................................................................................... Left Voice Zevin X. Cruz, Chair .............................................. Society of the Third Millennium Amoreena Tellaeche ............................................. Society of the Third Millennium Leonel Alfonso Tellaeche ...................................... Society of the Third Millennium 1.76 Left Voice Humanity At Work: Mondragon Worker Cooperatives Network The War on Refugees 1.75 William Westerman, Chair ......................................... New Jersey City University Sally Pillay ...................................................................... First Friends of NJ and NY Nasim Lomani Danielle Hlatky .......................................... U.S. volunteer on the island of Lesbos Ali Jamal .................................................................................... human rights activist David Schwartzman, Chair .............................. DC Metro Science for the People Younes Parsa Benab ............................... Iranian Left Alliance of Washington DC Bahram Zandi .................................................................................... Green Party US 1.92 Now in Vol. 80! Science & Society A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis Published quarterly since 1936, S&S specializes in serious Marxism, without boundaries or binaries: no economics vs. culture, theory vs. history, west vs. east, classics vs. innovation. Just solid, critical scholarship. Recent and forthcoming Special Issues: RED ON BLACK: Marxist Encounters with Anarchism, ed. John P. Pittman ● SOCIALIZING PHILOSOPHY, ed. Russell Dale and Justin Holt ● CRISES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF CAPITALISM, ed. Eduardo Albuquerque and Alex Callinicos www.scienceandsociety.com Subs: info@guilford.com 43 SESSION 3 3:30 – 5:15PM Bully Nation: How Militaristic Capitalism Creates A Bullying Society 1.63 Yale Magrass, Chair ............................... University Of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Charles Derber Marcia Newfield Building a New Student Left 1.65 International Socialist Organization Bennet Wilcox, Chair ............................... Barnard Columbia Solidarity Network Cami Quarta ..................................................................... Columbia University ISO Sean Larson .............................................................. NYU Graduate Student Union Thaer Keesh ......................................... Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Moving to a Net Zero Living Space 1.61 Catherine Skopic, Chair ......................... People’s Climate Movement-New York; Shut Down Indian Point Now Michael Vandenbergh ...................................... Vanderbilt University Law School Ryan Madden ..................................................... Long Island Progressive Coalition Report from the British Junior Doctors’ Strikes: A Conversation on the Role of Organized Labor in Progressive Health Policy Change 1.91 Roona Ray, Chair ....................................................................................... SEIU 1199 Johann Malawana ........ Junior Doctors’ Committee, British Medical Association Matthews Hurley ........................................ 1st Vice President of Doctors’ Council Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez .............................. New York State Nurses Association Mark Dudzic .............................................. The Labor Campaign for Single Payer Lanny Smith ................................................ Founder, Liberation Medicine Counsel; Board Member, Doctors for Global Health Land Trusts and Perpetually Affordable Housing 1.77 Walter South, Chair .................................................. Trust for Affordable Housing Peter Marcuse ............................................................................. Columbia University Tom Angotti ......................................................................................... Hunter Collage The Internet: Stopping the War on Women 1.90 Melanie Bush, Chair ........................... International Network of Scholar/Activists Alice Aguilar ........................................................... Progressive Technology Project Erika Smith ........................................ Association for Progressive Communications Elandria Williams ........................................................................ Highlander Center Manisha Desai .......................... University of Connecticut, May First/People Link One Year of the SYRIZA-ANEL Government in Greece: The Perspective of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) 1.113 Marxism-Leninism Today.com Greg Godels, Chair .............................................. M-L Today.com Editorial Board Kostas Papadakis .................................................... Greek Communist Party (KKE) Kostas Pateras .......................................................... Greek Communist Party (KKE) .org Progressive news and analysis since 1924 We take sides. Yours. 44 SESSION 3 No to NATO! No to War! 1.123 Jackie Cabasso, Chair ...................................................................... Peace & Planet Bahman Azad ............................................................................... U.S. Peace Council Joseph Gerson ................ American Friends Service Committee, Peace & Planet Deep State: COINTELPRO Post-9/11 — First They Came for the Muslims NORTH HALL BUILDING 2505 Zarinah Shakir, Chair ....................................................... Perspectives of Interfaith Mauri Saalakhan ............................................. The Peace Thru Justice Foundation Taalib-Din Shakir Robert Boyle ....................................................................... National Lawyers Guild Machiavelli, Gramsci, & Islamic States 1.124 Piruz Alemi, Chair ..................... Faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (Dept of Public Administration) Madiha Babar .................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice MPA program Daniel Romagnoli ......................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice Elijah Rodriguez ......................................... John College of Criminal Justice, MPA Kris Rampersad ................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice MPA Olayinka Oki ................................................ John Jay College of Criminal Justice Maygoo Bhojranie ....................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 3:30 – 5:15PM Silencing Dissent: False Accusations of AntiSemitism Against Palestine Solidarity 1.119 David Letwin, Chair ....................................... Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Lamis Deek ......................... Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Radhika Sainath ................................................................................. Palestine Legal Mohammed Nabulsi ............................ Palestine Solidarity Committee, UT Austin Imperialism, Counter-Revolution, and Conflict in the Middle East 1.121 International Socialist Review Yusef Khalil, Chair .................................................... International Socialist Review Ella Wind Michael Schwartz ................................................. Professor at SUNY Stony Brook Ashley Smith ............................................................... International Socialist Review Anand Gopal The Destruction of the Republicans as a National Party – An Agenda for United States Political Reform 1.125 United Front Against Austerity/ Tax Wall Street Party Webster Tarpley, Chair .......................................... United Front Against Austerity Daniela Walls ............................................................. Chair, Tax Wall Street Party Dylan Shelton ......................................................................... Tax Wall Street Party 5:20–7:10PM BLACK BOX THEATER COMEDY SHOW: WHO SAYS THE LEFT HAS NO SENSE OF HUMOR? FEATURING: RANDY CREDICO, JOHN FUGELSANG AND RHONDA HANSOME 45 SESSION 4 SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM 5:20PM – 7:10PM Mother’s Pain, Rage, and Rebellion Is Fueling the Black Lives Matter Movement in 21st Century Big Money on Campus — Rigging the Academy and American Criminal Justice System L2.84 L.76 Dayvee Sutton, Chair .......................................................... Dream Network Media Krystal Brown .............................................................................. Team Marlon Brown Marian Tolan ...................................................................... Robbie Tolan Foundation Danetta Chavis ................. National Action Against Police Brutality and Murder Hawa Bah ............................................................. The Mohammad Bah Foundation Chevara Orrin ........................... EQ3 Media; co-creator, We Are Straight Allies Randi Gloss .................................................................. The “Stay Woke” Collection James Vrettos, Chair ............................ John Jay College Sociology Department Delores Jones-Brown ..................................................................... John Jay College James Gilligan ................................................ New York University School of Law Carl Hart ..................................... Columbia University – Psychology Departmnet Rev. Dr. William Barber .................................................................................. NAACP Felipe Coronel Immortal Technique .............................................................................. Viper Records Psyching Out the Election Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century L2.85 Critical Sociology L2.81 Monthly Review Roger Salerno, Chair ......................................................................... Pace University Harriet Fraad ....................................................... Psychotherapist-Private Practice Lauren Langman ........................................................ Loyola University of Chicago Michael Bader ..................................... San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis/ The Institute4Change John Bellamy Foster, Chair ................................ Monthly Review editorial board; Department of Sociology, University of Oregon John Smith ................................................................... Monthly Review Press author Hannah Holleman ............................................................................ Amherst College Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz ................ Professor Emerita, California State University Intan Suwandi ................................ University of Oregon, Sociology Department 46 SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM The International Dimensions of Black Lives Matter Education Is, Has Always Been, and Always Will Be a Political Issue! L2.82 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office 1.129 Kazembe Balagun, Chair ............... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Wail Qasim ........... London Coalition Against Police Brutality (United Kingdom) Jessica De Abreu ................... European Network of People of African Descent Autumn Griffin ........................................... Black Lives Matter, New York Chapter Ralph Poynter, Chair .................................................... New Abolitionist Movement Lynne Stewart ............................ lynnestewart.org & New Abolitionist Movement Tom Siracuse ...................................................... Green Party, Manhattan Chapter Betty Davis ....................... New Abolitionist Movement, Coalition to Free Mumia Kangela Moore ................................................................ College of New Rochelle, Youth & Educ. Cmmtte-Cm.Bd. #13 Cheryl Ford ....................................................................... College of New Rochelle Mary Adams ....... The Community Task Force on School Climate, Rochester, NY Ricardo Adams ........................ Building Leadership and Community Knowledge Mediations in the Transition Beyond Capital 8.61 Monthly Review Kim Koo, Chair ........................................................................... Racial Justice Group Anne Pomeroy .............................................................. Professor of Philosophy and leader in the teacher’s union Irv Kurki ........................................................................................ essential discussions Thomas Paine, Henry George: Two Patriots, Common Adversaries of Monopoly 8.67 Kim Baxter, Chair ......................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice Marty Rowland ....................................... Henry George School of Social Science Victor Madeson ..................................................... Thomas Paine Friends & Bulletin Vincent Stravino .......................................................................... Veterans for Peace Phillip Reiss ................................................................................... Veterans for Peace Jacobin and Animal Liberation: Interrogating the Speciesist Left 8.69 John Sanbonmatsu, Chair ........... Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Pattrice Jones ...................................................................... Vine Sanctuary, Vermont Robert Jones ........................................................ California State University, Chico Now You See Me: Looking in the Face of Abuse 8.72 Devin Thornburg, Chair ................................................................ Adelphi University Dariann Rickerson ......................................................................... Adelphi University Jenna Szabo .................................................................................. Adelphi University Isuri Wijesundara .......................................................................... Adelphi University Hugo Salazar ................................................................................ Adelphi University Angela Morales ............................................................................ Adelphi University Jennifer Krol .................................................................................. Adelphi University Precious Sahagun .......................................................................... Adelphi University Harneet Gulati .............................................................................. Adelphi University Rob Goldman ................................................................................ Adelphi University Writing Our Rebellion: A NY Writers Coalition Workshop 3.80 Maritza Arrastia, Chair .......................................................... NY Writers Coalition Rose Gorman ............................................................................ NY Writers Coalition Elena Schwolsky Using Science Fiction as an Organizing Tool 3.81 Joe Carraha, Chair Vagabond Beaumont Jelani Wilson Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. In America — A Screening of a Documentary in Progress and Group Discussion 3.78 Hidden River Publishing, 2255 Films Debra Leigh Scott, Chair ................................................................... Junct Rebellion Chris LeBree ................................................................................................ 2255 Films John Raines ...................................................................................... Temple University Rich Murphy ..................................................................................... Rich Murphy INK Lee Kottner .......................................................................................................... CUNY Gordon Haber .................................................................................. Dutch Kills Press Film Screening: Dia de Festa 3.79 Laura Belik, Chair China: the Politics of Peaceful Rising in an Environment of Collusion and Contention 1.85 Gary Hicks, Chair ..................................... Artworks for the People, Berkeley, CA David Ewing Duncan McFarland Norman Markowitz 47 SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM MONICA MOOREHEAD for U.S. president & LAMONT LILLY U.S. vice president What We Stand for. What We Fight For. DISARM THE POLICE, Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) & PENTAGON JOHN PARKER For U.S. Senate, California STAND WITH THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT ABOLISH CAPITALISM – FIGHT FOR REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM Paid for by Workers World Party 2016 Presidential Campaign Committee Andre Powell and Sharon Black are leading activists in the People’s Power Assembly and Workers World Party in Baltimore. They plan to use their campaigns to promote the BLM movement and to demand that Baltimore put people’s interests before those of banks and big business. Join us! For more information, contact: Moorehead/Lilly Campaign Manager TERESA GUTIÉRREZ at 917.740.2628 online: workers.org/wwp/ or email wwp2016@workers.org. IROQUOIS PROMOTIONS, LLC. is proud to sponsor and participate in THE LEFT FORUM Iroquois Promotions is a company providing speakers and panelists as well as producing events and audio production to advocate for Native issues and concerns. The “Let’s Talk Native… with John Kane” radio show, now entering it 7th year, is produced in association with Iroquois Promotions at our studio on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. For more information contact John Kane at 716-864-8462 or at jmkane1220 @ aol.com 48 SESSION 4 Shut It Down! Black Struggle Class Struggle 1.66 Left Voice 5:20 – 7:10PM Who Do You Serve? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States Alexis Toliver, Chair ............................................................ Founder of BLM Boston, Julia Wallace ................................... Left Voice, Struggles United/Luchas Unidas Ben Woods ............................................................................... Black Agenda Report Dan Georgakas ................................................................. Detroit, I Do Mind Dying 1.83 Haymarket Books; Truthout The Doctrine of Discovery and the Legacy of Colonialism, Racism and the American Genocide #nofilter: Candid Conversations About Abortion Storytelling Work 1.67 1.93 John Kane, Chair ............................... Mohawk radio host, speaker and columnist Ross John ....................................... Seneca Nation Councilor, Native Entrepreneur Peter d’Errico ....................................... Practicing Attorney and Professor of Law at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Melissa Cornick ....................................... Adjunct Professor at Adelphi University and Award Winning Television Journalist Lauren Himiak, Chair ...................................................... The Sea Change Program Julia Reticker-Flynn ................................................................... Advocates for Youth Katie Morris .................................................................................... Speak Your Story Teal Cracraft .................................................................................. Speak Your Story Melissa Madera .......................................................................... The Abortion Diary The Black Revolutionary Socialist Choice: Monica Moorehead for President 1.69 Workers World Teresa Gutierrez, Chair ........................................................ Workers World Party Monica Moorehead ............................................................... Workers World Party Lamont Lilly Erica Mines .......................................................... Philadelphia Coalition for Racial, Economic and Legal Justice Marcus Garvey 100 Years Later 1.71 Rhone Fraser, Chair ..................................................................... Howard University Jason Latty ........................................................... Caribbean Alliance For Equality Sharon Gordon ........................................................ Coalition to Preserve Reggae Frederic Bertley ................................................................................ Franklin Institute Saundra Gilliard-Davis ....................................................... Keepers of the Culture Feminists Against Prostitution as a Tool of Imperialism: Promoting Sexualized Racism 1.100 Sarah Mah, Chair ............................. Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Charie Siddayao ............................................................ Philippine Women Centre Alice Lee ............................................. Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution Nicole Matthews ............... Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition The Benchmarks of the Liberal Youth in the Context of a New Burkina ( Post Uprising ) L2.80 Harouna Bara, Chair ........... People Movement for the Progress – Burkina Faso Hassane Nonni ...................... People Movement for the Progress – Burkina Faso Assetou Kobre ...................... People Movement for the Progress – Burkina Faso Climate Change, Environmental Movements, and O´Connor´s Second Contradiction of Capitalism 1.115 Inside the Activist Studio 1.81 Carlito Rovira, Chair ......................................... Sophia Williams ................................................. Jeff Camp ........................................................... Alyssa Roberts .................................................... Robyn Spencer ................................................... Nisha Bolsey, Chair ........................................................................ Haymarket Books Aaron Miguel Cantú ....................................................................................... Truthout Eisa Ulen Richardson Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated 1.82 URPE Paul Cooney, Chair ........... Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento/URPE David Schwartzman .................................................................... Howard University Joel Kupferman ....................................................... Environmental Justice Initiative Climate Refugees: The Point of No Return 1.117 Alexander Groskinsky, Chair ........................................... SUNY New Paltz Alumni Tyler Groskinsky ....................................................................................... Global Kids Gifty Abraham ......................................................................................... Global Kids David Bliven, Chair ........................................ International Socialist Organization Sharonne Salaam ...................................... Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated Yusef Salaam ............................................. Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated 49 SESSION 4 5:20 – 7:10PM The ELN and the Role of the Catholic Church in the Armed Conflict in Colombia 1.99 Toward Freedom Juan Carlos Vallejo, Chair Director Humanitarian Law Peace and Democracy Pablo Beltrán ....................................... Member of Central Command of the ELN Ani Diesselmann ............................................................. Member of amerika21.de Defending Human Rights in Venezuela: Impunity, Justice and Social Movements 1.101 Eva Golinger, Chair ........................................ Human rights lawyer and journalist Francisco Torrealba Two Members ...................................... Comite de las Victimas de los Guarimbas Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan ........................... President, National Lawyers Guild Co-ops in Socialist Cuba: A Major Social Change 1.103 Union for Radical Political Economics Al Campbell, Chair ...................................... Union for Radical Political Economics Ricardo Fuentes-Ramírez ............................ University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Isaac Saney ................................................................................ Dalhousie University Che Guevara: A Critical Perspective 1.105 Haymarket Books Jason Farbman, Chair ................................................................... Haymarket Books Charles Post ................................................................................. Against the Current Samuel Farber The Summoning II: Citizen Accountability Purge of Congress, President, & Supreme Court / National Strike During November Election 1.89 Tikkun Magazine Zevin X. Cruz, Chair .............................................. Society of the Third Millennium Amoreena Tellaeche ............................................. Society of the Third Millennium Alex Aloi .................................................................. Society of the Third Millennium Re-Orientation of Society to Meet the Needs of Human Beings and the Planet (Eco-Humanism) 1.75 Richard Hobbs, Chair ....................................................................... Human Agenda Derek Tennant .................................................................................... Human Agenda Dave Lippman The TPP, TTIP and the Continuing Free Trade Onslaught: The View From Canada 1.73 Holly Solomon, Chair ........................................................... Inter Pares, and rabble Leo Broderick ........................................................................... Council of Canadians Steven Shrybman ........................ Goldblatt Partners, the Council of Canadians, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policies Nathalie Guay ........................ Confédération des syndicats nationaux, Quebec Blair Redlin ............................................................................. Trade Justice Network Is Bernie Sanders Left Enough? Which Forward for his Supporters American Utopia: A Realistic Goal? 1.76 Party of Communists USA 1.107 George Gruenthal, Chair ................................................ Party of Communist USA Jessica Coco ....................................................................... Party of Communist USA Navjot Kaur ..................................................................... Bernie Sanders Campaign Stephen James, Chair ........................................................... The Writers Collective Jack Moscou ............................................................................ The Writers Collective Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich ...................................................... The Writers Collective An Insoluble Crisis? 1.108 Critique, Journal of Socialist Theory Suzi Weissman, Chair .................................................. Saint Mary’s College of CA Michael Hudson ................................................ University of Missouri, Kansas City Yassamine Mather ............................................................................ Critique Journal Hillel Ticktin ........................................................... University of Glasgow, Scotland Talking About Revolution: Free Speech Under Fire 1.87 Theory in Action Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Chair ........................ University of Illinois, Springfield John Asimakopoulos ................................................... City University of New York Ali Zaidi ...................................................................... State University of New York Joel Nathan Rosen ........................................................................ Moravian College 50 Moral Foundation of the Left: Accessing Limitless Power 1.92 Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter Glen Ganaway, Chair ........................................... Bearded Lady Productions LlC Abe Karl-Gruswitz ......................... Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter Caroline Woolard ........................................... OurGoods.org, TradeSchool.coop, BFAMFAPhd.com, NYCREIC.org DK Holland .................................................................. Greenehill Food COOP; TED John Stasio ............................................................ Easton Mountain Retreat Center Criminalization From CUNY to Community: Surveillance and Repression of Muslim and Arab Spaces 1.63 Nerdeen Kiswani, Chair ............ New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Fahd Ahmed Desis ................................................................. Rising Up and Moving Lamis Deek ............................................................................................... Al-Awda NY SESSION 4 The Drug War From Anslinger and the War on Jazz, Thru Nixon and Reagan, AIDS, Medical Marijuana, Bush and Obama 1.65 The Yippie! Museum 5:20 – 7:10PM We Are Not Your Soldiers: Learn to Talk Students Out of Signing Up for War 1.123 Dana Beal, Chair A.J. Weberman Paul DeRienzo Stephanie Rugoff, Chair .............................................................. World Can’t Wait Miles Megaciph ............................................................... US Marine Corps veteran Lyle Rubin ................................................... US Marine Corps Afghanistan veteran Joe Urgo .................................................................... US Air Force Vietnam veteran Creating Spaces for Critique Inside Institutional Education Deep State: Assassinations and Their Cover-Ups – Could a Left Consensus Promote Unity? 1.61 1.127 Erik Jacobson, Chair ....................................................... Montclair State University Adam Nathanson ............................................. Virginia Commonwealth University Andy Beutel ........................................................................... Mahwah School District Gregory Longo, Chair .......................................................................... WBLQ Radio Andrew Kreig .............................................................................. justice-integrity.org Russ Baker ................................................................................... WhoWhatWhy.org William Pepper ...................................................................... International Barrister Dismantling Racism in the NYC Health System 1.91 Kamini Doobay, Chair Alan Pean Aletha Maybank Neil Calman ..................................................................... Institute for Family Health Anthony Feliciano New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative: A Positive Idea for New York’s Future 1.77 Ms. K. (Dr. Samuels), Chair ...................................... Steering Committee Member, New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative Todd Arena .................................................................Steering Committee Member, New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative Oksana Mironova ..................................................... Steering Committee Member, New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative Labor 4 Palestine 1.124 Michael Letwin, Chair ................ Former President, ALAA/UAW L. 2325 (NYC) Suzanne Adely ............................................ Global Workers Solidarity Network; Global Organizing Institute, UAW (NYC) Clarence Thomas ................................................................... Million Worker March; ILWU Local 10, retired, Oakland CA Jaime Veve ....................................... Transport Workers Union Local 100, retired Turkey’s Denial of the Armenian Genocide and the Question of Reparations 1.119 Beth Lamont, Chair ............................................................... Half Moon Foundation Levon Chorbajian ......................................................... University of Massachusetts Henry C. Theriault ....................................................... Worchester State University Anoush Ter Taulian .................................................................. Artsakh War Veteran Protect Yourself: Using Secure Software on the Internet Rejecting Oslo: Self-Determination and The One-State Solution 1.114 1.121 Jamie McClelland, Chair ...................................................... May First/People Link Micky Metts ........................................................................................... Agaric Design Alfredo Lopez ........................................................................ May First/People Link Aatika Al Bashir, Chair ............. Andrew G. ................................... Alexi Shalom ............................... Rawan Toom ................................ The Lessons of Syriza 1.113 International Socialist Review Laura Bartkowiak, Chair ......................................... International Socialist Review Aaron Amaral ............................................................ International Socialist Review Antonis Davanellos Nantina Vgontzas New York City Students for Justice in Palestine New York City Students for Justice in Palestine New York City Students for Justice in Palestine New York City Students for Justice in Palestine The Donald Trump Presidential Campaign: How to Fight the Rise of Fascism in Our Time 1.125 twsp.us Webster Tarpley, Chair ....................................... United Front Against Austerity/ Tax Wall Street Party Daniela Walls ............................................................. Chair, Tax Wall Street Party Kyle McCarthy .......................................................... United Front Against Austerity 51 SESSION 4 PLENARY SATURDAY 5:20 – 7:10PM 7:30–9:45PM SATURDAY PLENARY 7:30–9:45PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL BLACK LIBERATION AND THE SANDERS GROUNDSWELL: PROSPECTS FOR LEFT UNITY SPEAKERS: KSHAMA SAWANT, AUGUST H. NIMTZ, AND DEBBIE BOOKCHIN KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR, MODERATOR/INTERLOCUTOR SATURDAY PLENARY 7:30PM – 9:30PM Brought to you by Firebrand Records and Mayday Space A Left Forum Concert Does the Sanders Campaign or Independent Campaigns Serve to Build the Left Howie Hawkins -- Green Party USA, Rukia Lumumba -- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, --Eljeer Hawkins Socialist Alternative, Khalid Raheem -- New Afrikan Independence Party, Jennifer Roesch -- International Socialist Organization of NY, Nnamdi Lumumba -- Ujima People Party Session 6 on Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm in Room L2.82 Saturday May 21 at 8 PM _________________________________ Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power?? Glen Ford Black Agenda Report Son of Nun (Baltimore) bell's roar (Albany) Ryan Harvey & Kareem Samara (Baltmore/London) Mayday Space 176 St Nicholas Ave, Brooklyn New York 11237 $8 52 Jill Stein Green Party Candidate for President Chris Hedges Author and Journalist for Truthdig Session 7 on Sun 03:40pm - 05:40pm in Room L2.82 Sponsored by the LEFTELECT COALITION leftelect.org SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM SUNDAY 5/22 SESSION 5 10:00AM – 11:50AM Capitalism and Loneliness L2.84 Critical Sociology How Do We Build a Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality? Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Ayala Leyser, Chair ............................................................ Out of Line Art Gallery Harriet Fraad ...................................................... Psychotherapist/Private Practice Michael Bader ....... San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, Institute4Change Roger Salerno .................................................................................... Pace University Shane Knight .............................................................................. Democracy at Work Tess Fraad ............................................................................... Living in Socialist USA Lauren Langman ........................................................ Loyola University of Chicago 8.61 Climate Justice: Carbon Markets vs. Energy Democracy Lisa Markuson, Chair ........................................................................ The Haiku Guys Paasha Motamedi .................. Poet Collaborator, Jazz Drummer, Photographer Carter Edwards ........................................ Director of Projects and Programming, Bowery Arts And Science Lea Díaz Nikhil Melnechuk ............................................................. Bowery Arts and Sciences Akil Apollo Davis ........................................................................................ LOUDSOL L2.85 Green Party of New York State Howie Hawkins, Chair ............................................................................ Green Party Sean Sweeney .............................................. Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Jill Stein .................................................................................................... Green Party Mark Dunlea ....................................................... Green Education and Legal Fund Leonard Rodberg ................................................................ Professor and Chair of Urban Studies at Queens College, CUNY So the Next Bernie Can Run as an Indie: The Ballots, the Dollars, and the Debates L.76 Michael O’Neil, Chair .................................................... Green Party of New York Johannes Epke ................................................................................... Move to Amend Ursula Rozum ................................................................... Green Party of New York Peter LaVenia .................................................................. Green Party of New York Comix International L2.81 World War 3 Illustrated Seth Tobocman, Chair ...................................................... World War 3 Illustrated Kate Evans Magdy El-Shafee Orijit Sen How Would Thomas Paine and Henry George Plan a Rebellion? L2.82 Thomas Paine Friends “Bulletin” Kim Baxter, Chair ............................................................ Montclair State University Victor Madeson .................................. Thomas Paine Friends, Veterans for Peace Vincent Stravino .......................................................................... Veterans for Peace Phillp Reiss ........................................... Thomas Paine Friends, Veterans for Peace Martin Rowland ...................................................................... Henry George School Scott Harris, Chair ............................... Between The LInes Radio Newsmagazine Les Leopold ................... Cofounder & Director, Labor Institute in New York City Richard Hill ............................................ Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Poetry for a New Order 8.67 Animals, the Buddha, and the Left 8.69 Dharma Voices for Animals Kamil Ghoshal, Chair .................................................. Dharma Voices for Animals; Original Buddhism Society Emma Cobb ................................................................... Dharma Voices for Animals Bob Isaacson .................................................................. Dharma Voices for Animals Free Our Political Prisoners 8.72 Jennifer Meeropol, Chair ......................................... Rosenberg Fund for Children Lynne Stewart Ralph Poynter Kazi Toure Sekou Odinga Drunk on Wireless? Public Health Consequences of Cell Phone and Wireless Exposure 1.114 OccupyEMFHarm Camilla Rees, Chair ....................................................... ElectromagneticHealth.org David Carpenter ....................................................................... University at Albany Martin Pall .................................................................... Washington State University Duncan Campbell .............................................................. Living Dialogues/KGNU Martin Blank ........................................................... Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University 53 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM Watchthispowerfulnewdocumentarythat reachesacrossthepoliticalandideological divide.Weneedabetterhealthcaresystem! Sunday,May22,10–11:50AM moviestarts10:15AM Room1.91 JoinAssociateProducerChuckPennacchio Dr.WalterTsou,HealthCareforAllPA Dr.LarryMelniker,PNHPNYMetro 54 Twoyearsinthemaking,FIXITlooksatthe increasingcostofUShealthcarefroma businessperspectiveandoffersa surprisingremedy-singlepayerhealth care.Nowfreefordownload.Please disseminatewidely.Formore information:http://fixithealthcare.com SESSION 5 The Quebec Labor Movement Against the Liberal Agenda 1.129 Ethan Earle, Chair ............................................................. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Patrick Rondeau .......... Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec Nathalie Guay ........................................ Confédération des syndicats nationaux Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Community: Panel Discussion and Workshop — Part 1 3.80 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Marie-Claire Picher, Chair ...................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Leonie Ettinger ............................................................................... The Living Theatre Janet Gerson ........................................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory; International Institute on Peace Education Lupe Family ....................................................................... Novelist, Yoga Specialist; Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Gail A. Burton ............................................ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Street Theater for Liberation 3.81 Kelly Junno, Chair ............................................................. Spark Theater Collective Becca Polk .......................................................................... Spark Theater Collective Lauren Perlstein ................................................................. Spark Theater Collective Screening: What We Told Our Sons — Four Families React to the Trayvon Martin Verdict 3.78 Dayvee Sutton, Chair Reducing Fossil Carbon Use: Wind, Water & Solar or Nuclear Fission — Which Has Better Promise? 3.79 Timothy Maloney, Chair .................................................................................. Retired John Humphrey ................................................................................. Bright Power Inc. Cullen Kasunic ........................................................................ Kasunic Consulting Co. Capitalist Economic Crisis & The World War Danger 1.85 Bill Dores, Chair ........................................... International Action Center, Al Awda Abayomi Azikiwe ................................................................... Pan African Newswire Irina Kovel ................................................ Odessa Committee Against the Attacks 10:00 – 11:50AM Slavery Is Such an Ugly Word, We Prefer to Call It “Free Trade”: How Debt Fuels the Global Economy 1.67 Donal Butterfield, Chair ............ American Monetary Institute Geraldine Perry Susan Peters ............. American Monetary Institute Barbara Simpson ........ Upper West Side Monetary Reform Group UndocuBlack & Fighting for Liberation 1.69 Jamie Richards, Chair ........................................................... UndocuBlack Network Deborah Alemu ...................................................................... UndocuBlack Network Nicola Phillips Joel Sati Urban Ethnography and Perceptions of Crime and Drugs 1.71 Yolanda C. Martin, Chair .. Laiquan Bates ...................... Milton Hernandez ............... Samantha Jean ................... Amanda Lopez .................... Kadesha Thompson ............. Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY How Citizens, Individuals Under the Control of the System, and Criminal Justice Actors Respond to Neoliberal Social Control 1.81 Doug Evans, Chair .............................................. John Jay College/Mercy College Tyrane Williamson .............................................................................. Mercy College Tara Blute ............................................................................................. Mercy College Luciana Lozada ................................................................................... Mercy College Stephanie Valles ................................................................................. Mercy College Emely Moreta ......................................................................................... LIU, Brooklyn Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill .............................. John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prison Abolition: A Movement Towards New Directions 1.82 William Calathes, Chair .............................................. New Jersey City University Jason Williams ........................................................... Farleigh Dickinson University Sean Wilson ...................................................................... Texas Southern University Whitney Richards-Calathes ..... CUNY Graduate School and University Center 55 SESSION 5 56 10:00 – 11:50AM SESSION 5 Claiming the Ultimate Power: Amending the US Constitution Mexico Since Ayotzinapa 1.83 Dan La Botz, Chair Gerardo Renique Christy Thornton Denise Romero-Franco Andrea Miller, Chair ...................................................... People Demanding Action Eileen Davis .................................................................................. Women-Matter.org Stephen Spitz .................................................................. People Demanding Action 10:00 – 11:50AM 1.99 New Politics The “Strip and Flip” Election of 2016: Voter Suppression, Electronic Vote Rigging, and Other Jim Crow Tactics Elections and Revolutionaries: The Experience of the Left and Workers’ Front in Argentina 1.93 The Columbus Free Press Juan Ferre, Chair ......................................................................................... Left Voice Wladek Flakin ............... Revolutionary Internationalist Organization, Germany Robert Belano ............................................................................................... Left Voice Suzanne Patzer, Chair .............................................................. Columbus Free Press Bob Fitrakis .................................................... Columbus Fress Press, freepress.org, CICJ Books, Columbus State Community College Harvey Wasserman ................ Columbus Fress Press, freepress.org, CICJ Books, Columbus State Community College Marta Steele .................................. Author, Election Integrity activist, CICJ Books Deconstructing Gender Identity Under Male Supremacy 1.100 Joyce H., Chair Kara D. Penny W. Kathy S. Sam B. Neocolonialism in West Africa L2.80 The Africanist Press Jessica Collen McDermott, Chair ............................................. University of Idaho Chernoh Alpha M. Bah ................... African Socialist Movement of Sierra Leone Joshua Lew McDermott ............................................ New Mexico State University The Universal Basic Income as a Method to End Oppression 1.115 Diane Pagan, Chair Joel Cabrera Jonathan Vasquez Jude Thomas William Difazio Intersectionality of Refugees, Migration, War, National Security, and Climate Change 1.117 Christopher Magno, Chair .......................................................... Gannon University Joseph Stadler ............................................................................. Gannon University Richard Moodey .......................................................................... Gannon University 1.101 Left Voice Update on Puerto Rico: Crisis in America’s Colony 1.103 blog of the Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano Janette Torres Arroyo, Chair ....................................................... Brooklyn College; Friends of Puerto Rico at the UN Antonio Nadal .................... Brooklyn College; Friends of Puerto Rico at the UN Andres Matias Ortiz ........................................................................... Mercy College Olga Sanabria Davila .................... Comite de Puerto Rico en Naciones Unidas Is the “Progressive Cycle” Over in Latin America? 1.105 Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NY William Camacaro, Chair Frederick Mills Gabriel Hetland Aline Cristiane Piva Julio Escalona Occupy Ethics: Deconstructing the Subhumanization and Dehumanization of Global Society 1.107 Georgist Economic Taskforce Yannis Tziligakis, Chair .............................................. Georgist Economic Taskforce Frank Fabio ................................................................. Georgist Economic Taskforce Fred Harrison ........................ Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation Helga Zepp-Larouche ....................................................................... Schiller Institute Jason Ross ............................................................................................ Schiller Institute Some Reflections on the Russian Revolution 1.108 David Worley, Chair ........ Jim Creegan ...................... Amy Dalton ........................ Branden Rippey ................ Marxist Education Project: Revolutions Study Group Marxist Education Project: Revolutions Study Group Marxist Education Project: Revolutions Study Group Marxist Education Project: Revolutions Study Group 57 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM Our new part-time evening program allows you to earn a law degree while keeping the job you love! law.cuny.edu 58 SESSION 5 A Call for Leninist Unity 10:00 – 11:50AM Workers Power and Insurgency in a Globalized Capitalist World 1.109 John Dennie, Chair ................................................................. Retired Postal Worker Mike Gimbel .................. Retired Executive Board member, Local 375, AFSCME and member of the May 1st Coalition Chuck Mohan .................. President of the Guyanese American Workers United and member of the May 1st Coalition 1.76 International Socialist Review Circles: An Old Tool for Organizing in a New Way — Part 1 Revolution and Nonviolence: From Deming, Fanon, and Pan-Africanism to Today’s Global Movements 1.87 1.92 PM Press and Africa World Press, in conjunction with the AJ Muste Memorial Institute and Deep Dish Television Mika Dashman, Chair Ashley Ellis Abdul Malik Talib Jose Alfaro Vivianne Guevara Matthew Guldin Quandisha German Shana Louallen Melody Benitez Matt Meyer, Chair ................. PM Press, Africa World Press, AJ Muste Institute; author, We Have Not Been Moved Ynestra King .......................................................... Eco-feminist author and theorist Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams ..... Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College Kassahun Checole ............................................. CEO, Africa World Press (invited) Wende Elizabeth Marshall .......................................................... Temple University Educating for Democracy Oral History and Movement Building – Strategies and Methodologies 1.89 Lesley Wood, Chair ............................................................................ York University Adam King ................................................................................... adkking@yorku.ca Benjamin Shephard ....................................... NYC College of Technology, CUNY Nate Prier ............................................................................................ York University Amy Starecheski ............................ Oral History Program, Columbia University/ Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change Alexander Hamilton the Leftist: Hamilton’s Political Economy Is Key to Defeating Wall Street 1.75 twsp.us Dylan Shelton, Chair ............................................................. Gregory Edwards .................................................................. Chris Rieth ............................................................................... Kyle McCarthy ........................................................................ Amy Muldoon, Chair ................................................ International Socialist Review Kyle Brown ................................................................. International Socialist Review Immanuel Ness ............................................. Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY Sarah Jaffe Tax Wall Street Party Tax Wall Street Party Tax Wall Street Party Tax Wall Street Party Toward a Commons/Communes Transition 1.73 Donald Cuccioletta, Chair ........................... Université du Québec en Outaouais Emanuel Guay ................................................................................. McGill University Jonathan Durand-Folco ............................................................ Saint Paul University 1.63 Robert Lubetsky, Chair ................................................... City College of New York William Stroud ................................................................................. Long Beach H.S. David C. Bloomfield ................ Professor Educational Leadership, Law & Policy, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center Julien Terrell .................................................................... The Brotherhood Sister Sol Debbie Almontaser ........... Board President of the Muslim Community Network Future of Education: Choice, Independence, and Connection 1.65 Svetlana Zabolotnaia, Chair ................................ Waldorf Homeschool Teacher, Educational Designer Jens Peter de Pedro Prem Makeig Anyanwu Glanville Danielle Levine William Beckler The Community College in Ruins(?): Neoliberal Discourses in Community College Policy and Classrooms 1.61 Maureen Matarese, Chair . Jeffrey Gonzalez ............... James Hoff ........................... Andrew Levy ........................ Bernadette Schaefer ......... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY 59 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM THEORY IN ACTION FREE SUBMISSIONS - NO FEES TWO WEEK AVERAGE DECISION TIMES RADICAL IDEAS WELCOMED Theory in Action is an international peer reviewed quarterly journal in its 9th year. Published by the Transformative Studies Institute, an independent non-profit educational think tank committed to academic freedom, social justice, and scholar-activism. ISSN: 1937-0229 (Print) ISSN: 1937-0237 (Electronic) Library of Congress: H1 .T485 361 14 2007214369 Volume 8 Number 4 October 2015 Theory In Action IN THIS ISSUE 1 Some Things Borrowed, Some Things New: Toward a Multi-Sites of Power Approach to State Theory Davita Silfen Glasberg and Deric Shannon 38 Idle No More – Indigenous Activism and Feminism Sonja John 55 The Case for Humanities Training: A Woman of Color Teaching Social Justice in a Predominantly White Institution Ginger Ko 66 The Environmental Flight from Reason Michael Barker 94 Lucian Blaga Between Words and Silence Rodica Grigore 111 Book Review: Dušan Deák and Daniel Jasper (Eds.), Rethinking Western India: The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2014. ISBN: 9788125055822 (Hardcover). 291 Pages. $65. Jon Keune 117 Book Review: Liberti, Rita and Maureen Smith, (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780815633846 (Paperback). 352 Pages $39.95. Earl Smith Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute Guidelines & Submissions: www.transformativestudies.org 60 SESSION 5 FIXIT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point 1.91 Walter Tsou, Chair ............................................. Health Care for All, Pennsylvania Chuck Pennacchio ..................................................................... University of the Arts Larry Melniker ........................................................... New York Methodist Hospital Our Last Stand! New York, Whose City? We (Still) Say No to the Mayor’s Citywide Gentrification Plan 1.77 Sumumba Sobukwe, Chair ................................... New York City Council Watch/ Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Nellie Bailey ......................................................................... Harlem Tenants Council Tom Siracuse ............................................................................................ Green Party Ms K (Dr. Samuels) .............................................................. NYCHA SUCCESSION/ Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Scott Hutchins ............ Picture The Homeless/Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) The Rise of Big Surveillance: How Oakland Pushed Back and Won! 1.90 Oakland Privacy Working Group, a spinoff of Occupy Oakland Heather La Mastro, Chair ................................ Oakland Privacy Working Group Ali Winston ........................................................ Center for Investigative Reporting Brian Hofer ........................................................ Oakland Privacy Working Group Joshua Smith ...................................................... Oakland Privacy Working Group Shahid Buttar ............................................................. Electronic Frontier Foundation Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Political Parties, Social Movements, and Organized Labor in France and the U.S. in the Neoliberal Era 1.113 Mark Kesselman, Chair ............................................................. Columbia University Gerald Friedman ..................... Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Daniel Cirera ............................................................. Fondation Gabriel Peri, Paris Christophe Deroubaix ............................................... L’Humanité newspaper, Paris Judith Stein .......................... History, Graduate Center and City College, CUNY Bringing the Battlefield Home: Suicide, Heartache, and Healing for Victims of Unjust War 10:00 – 11:50AM Deep State: False Flags — How a United Left Could Defeat a “Global Gladio” Agenda 1.127 Cathleen McGuire, Chair Chris Emery ........................................................................................ Free Mind Films Richard Dolan ............................................................................... Keyhole Publishing Kevin Barrett ...................................................................................... Veterans Today The Revolution of the Oppressed in Kurdistan 1.124 Saladdin Ahmed, Chair Kamal Suleimani Sardar Saadi ........................................................................... University of Toronto Elif Genc ......................................................... The New School for Social Research Dreaming to Be Free: Ferguson, Palestine and the Fight for Migration Justice 1.119 hamptoninstitution.org Eyad Alkurabi, Chair ............................................................. hamptoninstitution.org Susan Massad ............................................................. Framingham State University Colia Clark ........................................................................................................... SNCC Eman Rimawi ............................................................................................... AMPed Up Human Rights Industry and Commodification of Public Spheres in Iran 1.121 Soheil Asefi .............................................. Politics-New School for Social Research Arash Kia .............................................. Clinical Data Scientist in Remedy Partners Andrew Kliman ............................................................. Marxist-Humanist Initiative/ Emeritus Professor of Economics at Pace University An Integral Look at the Left and Right: Maturing Politics 1.125 Integral Life Magazine Glen Ganaway, Chair ................................................................................... Integral Lynne Feldman ................................................................................. Integral Healing Nomi Naeem ......................................................................... Brooklyn Public Library 1.123 Nancy Lessin, Chair .................................................... Military Families Speak Out Tim Kahlor .................................................................... Military Families Speak Out Marcia Westbrook ..................................................... Military Families Speak Out Kevin Lucey .................................................................. Military Families Speak Out 61 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney calling for a new investigation into 9/11 in 2005 Four speakers at the Left Forum say: Time to Take Down the Wall between the Left and the Truth Movement No Justice or Peace without Truth Cynthia McKinney former member of Congress (D-Ga.) with Ph.D. on Deep State Graeme MacQueen Co-editor, Journal of 9/11 Studies and author of The 2001 Anthrax Deception Tony Szamboti Engineer and expert on 9-11 destruction of World Trade Center Session 6 on Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm in Room 1.129 62 Barry Kissin (Panel Chair) retired attorney, journalist, and expert on 2001 anthrax attacks SESSION 6 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM 12:00PM – 1:50PM Bernie, Capitalism’s Crisis, and Democratic Socialism: What Next? The Next Left – Leadership for Tomorrow L2.84 Deborah Engel-Di Mauro, Chair .......................................... Old and New Project Matt Meyer .................................................................... War Resisters International Theresa El-Amin ...................................................... Southerm Anti-Racism Network Raymond Nat Turner .............................................................. Black Agenda Report Brittany Williams ........................................ Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Carmen Perez ......................................... Justice Leage and Gathering for Justice Dequi Kioni-Sadiki ................................... Malcolm X Commemoration Committee Betsy Avila, Chair ..................................................................... Democracy at Work Richard D. Wolff Harriet Fraad Jan Rehmann ................................................................ Union Theological Seminary Bernie v. The Greens: What Can the Government Actually Do to Fix Our Economic Mess? L2.85 Dollars and Sense Abby Scher, Chair ..................................................... Dollars and Sense magazine Gerald Friedman .......................................... UMASS Amherst/Dollars and Sense Jill Stein .................................................. Green Party candidate for US President Sean Sweeney ................................................ CUNY Murphy Institute, Respondent Berning Down the House? Left Populism and Its Limits 8.61 PM Press The JFK Murder Cover-up: Your Rosetta Stone To Today’s News, Elections, Policy 8.67 Jerry Policoff, Chair .................... Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA Lawrence Schnapf Andrew Kreig How Can We Get Better Publicity for Our Actions? L.76 Left Forum 8.69 Kristin Lawler, Chair .......... Situations, College of Mt. St. Vincent, & Left Forum Arun Gupta ............................................................................ Independent Journalist Bhaskar Sunkara .............................................................................................. Jacobin Peter Bratsis ................................................................ Situations and BMCC, CUNY Bil Lewis Elise Whitaker .............................................................................. Democracy Spring Pete Callahan ............................................................................... Democracy Spring The Kurdish Revolution in Rojava: How Can We Support It? What Can We Learn From It? L2.81 Debbie Bookchin, Chair ......................... North America Rojava Alliance (NARA) Joey L. Eleanor Finley .......................................... Co-Director, Institute for Social Ecology Carne Ross Does the Sanders Campaign or Independent Campaigns Serve to Build the Left? L2.82 Howie Hawkins, Chair ................................................................... Green Party USA Rukia Lumumba .................................................. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Eljeer Hawkins ............................................................................ Socialist Alternative Khalid Raheem .................................................. New Afrikan Independence Party Jennifer Roesch ................................... International Socialist Organization of NY Nnamdi Lumumba ....................................................................... Ujima People Party Millennials, Left Politics, and the Question of Generations: Race, Class, Youth, and Social Change 8.72 Left Forum Ryan Moore, Chair ............................................................................................. CUNY Nona Willis Aronowitz ................................................................... Fusion Magazine Dante Barry ................................................. Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Nikil Saval ............................................................................................................... n+1 Electromagnetic Pollution Solutions- Workshop 1.114 OccupyEMFHarm Camilla Rees ................................................................... ElectromagneticHealth.org Patti Wood ..................................................... Grassroots Environmental Education. Jim Turner ........................................................................................ Swankin & Turner Oram Miller ................................................................... Certified Building Biologist Emil De Toffol ........................................................................................... LessEMF.com Time to Take Down the Wall Between the Left and the Truth Movement 1.129 Barry Kissin Cynthia McKinney Tony Szamboti Graeme MacQueen 63 SESSION 6 64 12:00 – 1:50PM SESSION 6 Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Community: Panel Discussion and Workshop — Part 2 3.80 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Marie-Claire Picher, Chair ...................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Leonie Ettinger ............................................................................... The Living Theatre Janet Gerson .......................................... Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory/ International Institute on Peace Education Lupe Family ...................................................................... Novelist, Yoga Specialist/ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Gail A. Burton ............................................ Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory The Politics of Fiction/The Fiction of Politics 3.81 PM Press Kenneth Wishnia, Chair ......... Professor of English, Suffolk Community College S.A. Solomon ..................................................................................... Freelance writer Steven Wishnia .......................................................................... Freelance journalist Film: The Brainwashing of My Dad 3.78 Alison Rose Levy, Chair Jen Senko ..................................................................................................... Filmmaker Melodie Bryant ............................................................................................ Filmmaker Film Screening: a Place to Call Home 3.79 Sakiko Sugawa, Chair Globalization for the 99%: A Presentation And Discussion On Whether Free Trade Agreements Can Work For All 12:00 – 1:50PM The History of Interracial Desire: From Slave Narratives to Obama 1.67 The Indypendent Nicholas Powers, Chair .................................................................. The Indypendent Jamara Wakefield Teshale Nuer Strategies to Transform Black Fraternities Into the Financial Backbone of a Relevant Social Movement for the Global African Struggle Through Cooperative Economics 1.69 All Revolutionary Qs Louis Jefferson, Chair ............................................................... All Revolutionary Qs Jinida Djoba ......................................................................... Dorsey Public Relations Justin Laing ................................. The Carter G. Woodson Project, Pittsburgh, PA. Julian Mack ........................................................... Black Lives Matter Toledo, Ohio Refugees, War and Austerity: The View from Syria, Greece and Turkey 1.71 Campaign for Peace and Democracy; AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement, New Politics, MENA-Solidarity Network-US Joanne Landy, Chair .................................. Campaign for Peace and Democracy Despina Lalaki ............................................... AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement Nidal Bitari Costas Panayotakis #FUCKICE: Queer Immigrant Organizing for Liberation 1.81 1.85 José Ramon Garcia-Madrid, Chair ..................................................... ICEFREENYC Ella Mendoza .................................... Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement Aru Aru ..................................................................................................... ICEFREENYC Cathy O’Neil, Chair ................ Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking Group Tamir Rosenblum ............................. AltBank: Occupy Alternative Banking Group Sanjay Reddy ................................................ The New School for Social Research The Second Amendment, Police Violence, and the Left Authors’ Roundtable: New Landmark Books on Race Relations in America Libero della Piana, Chair .............................................. Alliance for a Just Society Johanna Fernandez ............................. Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz .............................................. Indigenous World Associaion 1.66 Ibram Kendi, Chair ................................................................... University of Florida Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ....................................................... Princeton University Russell Rickford ............................................................................... Cornell University Eddie Glaude Jr. ........................................................................ Princeton University 1.82 Comics vs. Capitalism 1.83 Stephanie McMillan, Chair ................................................. Proletarian Alternative Ted Rall .............................................................................................. Universal/Uclick Dave Rine ........................................................................... Global Revolution Comix Chris McCamic ................................................................... Global Revolution Comix 65 (Juanita Ramos) SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM Books by Juanita D íaz-Cotto (Juanita Ramos) CHICANA LIVES AND COMPAÑERAS: GENDER, ETHNICITY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Latina Lesbians AND THE STATE: Voices from El Barrio (An Anthology)/ Latina and Latino Prison Politics *Winner of an Lesbianas Lationoamericanas (Expandido en Español) International Latino Book Award and a ForeWord Magazine Book Award SINISTER WISDOM 74: Latina Lesbians CHICANA LIVES AND COMPAÑERAS: GENDER, ETHNICITY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Latina Lesbians AND THE STATE: Voices from El Barrio (An Anthology)/ Latina and Latino *Winner of an Lesbianas Lationoamericanas Prison Politics International (Expandido en Español) Latino Book Award and a ForeWord Magazine Book Award SINISTER WISDOM 74: Latina Lesbians Empowering Progressive Third Parties in the United States: Defeating Duopoly, Advancing Democracy Edited by Jonathan H. Martin Framingham State University, USA © 2016 – Routledge This timely collection of essays by key political scholars and activists addresses an essential question for the U.S. left: Which electoral conditions and strategies are truly capable of sparking critical breakthroughs by progressive third parties? Pb: $31.96 (with 20% discount; enter code FLR40 at checkout) Info/order: www.routledge.com/9781138022010 66 SESSION 6 Warrior Sisters Self Defense Understanding Today’s Brazil: Class Struggle and Democracy Under Threat 1.93 Hetal Sheth ......................................................................................... Elena Fedina ....................................................................................... Varsha Narasimhan ........................................................................... Kelly Farah .......................................................................................... 12:00 – 1:50PM Warrior Sisters Warrior Sisters Warrior Sisters Warrior Sisters The Impact of the U.S. War on Drugs on Latinas/ Chicanas/Latin American Women and their Communities in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe 1.99 Aline Piva, Chair Alex Main Jeffrey Frank Saulo Araújo The Causes of Venezuela’s Crisis and the Government’s Efforts to Overcome It 1.100 1.101 Juanita Diaz-Cotto, Chair .................. State University of New York Binghamton Stephanie Campos ......................... Postdoctoral fellow with Behavioral Science Training Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse Belinda Hill ................ Director, Solo Por Hoy, Inc. (Recovery Home for Women), San Juan, Puerto Rico Clara Irazabal, Chair ............................................................... Columbia University Steve Ellner ..................................................... Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela Naomi Schiller ................................................................... Brooklyn College, CUNY George Ciccariello-Maher ............................................................ Drexel University Mark Weisbrot Gregory Wilpert ............................................................... The Real News Network Reparations Time: Justice is Due in the Decade for People of African Descent L2.80 Dowoti Désir, Chair ......... UN NGO Subcommittee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Pres., DDPA Watch Group Vilna Bashi Treitler ................ Professor and Chair, City University of New York (Baruch College; The Graduate Center) Onleilove Alston .......................................................... Exec. Dir., Faith in New York Delois Blakely ....................................................................... New Future Foundation Jumoke Ifetayo ......................................... Co-Chair (male), National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA) Minton Brooks .............................................................. Tulsa Reparations Coalition; Allies for Racial Equality (ARE) Ecosocialists Confront the COPout: Climate Catastrophe or Solar Communism! 1.115 Capitalism Nature Socialism, Science & Society, Ecosocialist Horizons Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Chair .............................. Capitalism Nature Socialism Joel Kovel .............................. Ecosocialist Horizons, Capitalism Nature Socialism Quincy Saul ........................... Ecosocialist Horizons, Capitalism Nature Socialism David Schwartzman ................ Science & Society, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons Jane Zara ............................................................ DC Metro Science for the People Neoliberalism and Language: The Management of Meaning in Late Capitalism 1.117 Carl Watson, Chair Ando Arike Jill Rapaport Discussion With Cubans About Life Under Blockade, the Cuban Economy, and Mass Organizations During the Changing US–Cuban Relations 1.103 Stan Smith, Chair .......................................... Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee Elier Ramírez Cañedo ...................... Cuba’s Union of Writers and Artists Union, Cuban Historians National Union, Young Communists Union Claudia Marín Suárez ...................... National Association of Cuban Economists, Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas, FMC Felipe de J. Pérez Cruz ............. Center of Political International Investigations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba Raynier Pellón Azopardo ...................................................... University of Havana Finance Capital and Fraud: Are Financial Markets Rigged? 1.105 Dollars & Sense John Sarich, Chair ................................................................................ Cooper Union Jason Hecht ...................................................................................... Ramapo College John Summa ............................................................................. University of Vermont Haim Bodek .............................................................. Decimus Capital Markets, LLC Marxist Laws of Motion and Today’s Economic Collapse 1.107 Michael Perelman, Chair .................................................... Economics Department, California State University Chico Michael Hudson ............................................... President, Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends Bertell Ollman ......................................................................................... Politics, NYU 67 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM New from Haymarket Books From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation. The Politics of Che Guevara Theory and Practice Samuel Farber This volume examines Guevara’s views on socialism, democracy, and revolution and asks what lessons can be learned by today’s activists and social movements. It also analyzes Guevara’s conduct as guerrilla commander and government administrator in Cuba, his political perspectives on revolutionary agency and his attempts to implement them in Cuba, Africa and Bolivia, as well as Guevara’s economic views. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement By Angela Y. Davis, Edited by Frank Barat, Foreword by Dr. Cornel West In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Books for Changing the World 68 Socialism . . . Seriously A Brief Guide to Human Liberation Danny Katch Danny Katch brings together the two great Marxist traditions of Karl and Groucho to provide an entertaining and insightful introduction to what the socialist tradition has to say about democracy, economics and the potential of human beings to be something more than being bomb-dropping, planet-destroying racist fools. Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown Richard Wolff While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having passed, these essays from Richard Wolff paint a far less rosy picture. Drawing attention to the extreme downturn in most of capitalism’s old centers, the unequal growth in the its new centers, and the resurgence of a global speculative bubble, Wolff makes the case that the crisis should be grasped as an evolving stage in capitalism’s history. China on Strike Narratives of Workers’ Resistance Edited by Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li China on Strike provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and other multinationals. The interviews collected here document the processes of migration, changing employment relations, worker culture, and other issues related to China’s explosive growth. SESSION 6 Marxism and Religion: Cooperation and Contradiction 1.108 Science & Society Russell Dale, Chair ........................................................................ Science & Society Shana Russell ............................................. Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School, Newark Rutgers University Gerald Meyer .................................................. Hostos Community College, CUNY Overcoming Capitalism 1.109 Zero Books Douglas Lain, Chair ................................................................ Publisher, Zero Books Pete Dolack ................................................................................... Author, Zero Books Terry Tapp ................................................................................... Zero Books (author) Anne Jaclard .................................................................. Marxist Humanist Initiative Andrew Kliman ................................................................................... Pace University Circles: An Old Tool for Organizing in a New Way – Part 2 1.87 Mika Dashman, Chair Ashley Ellis Abdul Malik Talib Jose Alfaro Vivianne Guevara Matthew Guldin Quandisha German Shana Louallen Melody Benitez Political Repression at the 2016 RNC/DNC and How We Can Use Collective Action to Fight Back! 1.89 PM Press Kris Hermes, Chair King Downing ...................................................................... National Lawyers Guild Lesley Wood Kazembe Balagun Global Perspectives on the Commons and Enclosure Struggles 1.75 Ida Susser, Chair ................... Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY Sarah Molinari .......................................................... The Graduate Center, CUNY Ola Galal .................................................................. The Graduate Center, CUNY Marty Kirchner .......................................................... The Graduate Center, CUNY Helen Panagiotopoulos ............................................ The Graduate Center, CUNY Marina Pera .................................................... Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Yuca Meubrink .................................... HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany Kelsey Chatlosh ......................................................... The Graduate Center, CUNY 12:00 – 1:50PM The Case for Publishing Cooperatives: Alternative Book Publishing in the Age of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook 1.73 Peter Dimock, Chair ........ Author, Freelance Editor, Publishing Consultant to the Wealth of Society Project, NYU Ian Dreiblatt ................................................................................ Seven Stories Press Hilary Plum ................ Author, Managing Editor Journal of the History of Ideas, book review editor of the Kenyon Review Movement of Rank & File Educators (MORE): New UFT, New Labor Movement 1.76 Kevin Prosen, Chair ........................................................................................... Jia Lee ................................................................................................................. Julie Neusner ...................................................................................................... Janice Manning .................................................................................................. John Antush .......................................................................................................... Ashraya Gupta .................................................................................................. Marcus McArthur ................................................................................................ MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE Unifying Independent Media: Creating Networks for Bloggers, Freelance Journalists, and Livestreamers 1.92 Brien Redmon, Chair Nesly Geffrard Arianna Norris Alex J. Segneri Revolution & National Liberation: Building an Anti-Imperialist Student Movement in the Belly of the Beast 1.63 Miriam Rodriguez Diaz, Chair . New York City Students for Justice in Palestine Mike Legaspi ..................................................................................... Anakbayan–NY Nicole Bugarin How to Flip a Bigot 1.65 Olivera Jokic, Chair ........................................................... John Jay College CUNY Andjela Kaur ................................................... University of Massachusetts, Boston Dara Byrne ........................................................................ John Jay College, CUNY Zeljko Kaludjerovic ............................................................... University of Novi Sad 69 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM The Pentagon and the Universities The Fight to End US Wars 1.61 1.123 United National Antiwar Coalition Subrata Ghoshroy, Chair ....................................................................................... MIT Hugh Gusterson ....................... George Washington University, Washington, DC Ian Hansen .......................................................................................................... CUNY Sara Flounders, Chair .................................................. International Action Center Joe Lombardo ..................... Co-coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition Phil Wilayto ..................... Virginia Defenders for Freedom Justice and Equality Bernadette Ellorin .................................................................................... BAYAN USA Political Economy and Neoliberalism: Their Influence On Mental Health Practice, Research, and Policy Deep State: Islamophobia — Fallout for Failure to Challenge the Proxy Role of Muslims in 9/11 1.91 1.127 Carl Cohen, Chair ........................................... SUNY Downstate Medical Center/ Radical Caucus of the APA Amjad Hindi ........................................................ SUNY Downstate Medical Center Charles Duncan Wright .............................................. Critical Psychiatry Network Zarinah Shakir, Chair ....................................................... Perspectives of Interfaith Stephen Downs .................................................................................... Project SALAM Kevin Barrett ...................................................................................... Veterans Today Neoliberal Policies and the Right to Housing: A Comparative Analysis Between Greece, Spain, and the United States 1.77 Yannis Vagios, Chair ........................................................................................... AKNY Albert Jimenez ..................................................................................... PAH Sabadell Athena Hassiotis Malcolm Torrejón Chu ..................................................................... Right to the City Elia Gran Lisa Owens Pinto .................................................................. City Life/Vida Urbana Attacking the Digital Plantation: Racism on the Internet and the Struggle Against It 1.90 Jerome Scott, Chair .................... League of Revolutionaries for a New America Morgan M. Willis .................................................................... Allied Media Projects Ejim Dike ........................................................................ U.S. Human Rights Network Jacqui Patterson ............................................................................................... NAACP Michele Metts Agaric Sphinx Eben .................................................................................... Indymedia Africa From Blockupy to Solidarity for All — Answering Europes Crisis of Representation 1.113 Panel from Interventionist Left (Germany/Austria) Anita Starosta, Chair .......... Interventionistische Linke Köln; Assistent Left Party, Duesseldorf, Germany Thorsten Haedicke ............ Interventionist Left Düsseldorf/Frankfurt, Germany; Peter Behrens School of Arts Ani Diesselmann Redher ................................. Intervetnionistsche Linke, Germany Karin Zennig .... Interventionistische Linke Frankfurt, Germany; Union organizer 70 Creating Our Own Culture: Playback Theatre as Practice for a Humane Society 1.124 Interplay, Journal of the International Place Theatre Network Susan Metz, Chair ................................. International Playback Theatre Network Lorraine LaPrade .......................... International Playback Theatre Network and WOW Cafe Theater, NYC Laurie Bennett ................................ International Playback Theatre Network and WOW Cafe Theater, NYC Palestine: Strategies of Resistance 1.119 Lynne Lopez-Salzedo, Chair .............................................. Jewish Voice for Peace Ellen Isaacs ............................................................................ Jewish Voice for Peace Tzvia Thier ............................................................................. Jewish Voice for Peace Elik Elhanan ...................................................................... City College of New York Irene Siegel ........................................................................... Jewish Voice for Peace The Transatlantic Slippery Slope – Suppression of Freedom of Expression from Israel to the US 1.121 Nadia Ben-Youssef, Chair ......................... Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Rahul Saksena .................................................................................... Palestine Legal Omar Shakir ................................ Bertha Fellow, Center for Constitutional Rights Expanding the Fightback against Neoliberalism 1.125 Union for Radical Political Economics Al Campbell, Chair ...................................... Union for Radical Political Economics Cyrus Bina ............................................................... University of Minnesota, Morris Bill Goldsmith .................................................................................. Cornell University Peg Rapp Barbara Garson ........................................................................ Independent Author LUNCH LUNCH 2:00 – 3:30PM 2:00PM – 3:30PM LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:40PM L.63 (LECTURE HALL) CHASING UTOPIA: A ROUNDTABLE ON WORKERS CO-OPS AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY SAM GINDIN, GAR ALPEROVITZ, SHARRYN KASMIR, AND RICHARD D. WOLFF LEO PANITCH, MODERATOR/INTERLOCUTOR THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 2:00–3:50PM BLACK BOX THEATER ¡SING IN SPANISH — CANTA EN INGLÉS! CHORUS AS COMMUNITY: THE POWER OF SINGING TOGETHER FEATURING: BERNARDO PALOMBO, RUBEN GONZALEZ, MARIO CANCEL, HUDSON VALLEY SALLY, & LUPE RAMSEY (NARRATION) 71 SESSION 7 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM 3:40PM – 5:40PM THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 4:00–6:00PM BLACK BOX THEATER WAKING EACH OTHER UP! THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER… 1ST ACT: UPSURGE! 2ND ACT: LITERARY WARRIORS Beyond Bernie: Socialism and Black Liberation Political Comics L2.84 Dissent Magazine L2.81 World War 3 Illustrated Sarah Jaffe, Chair .................................... Dissent Magazine, Belabored podcast Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Mariame Kaba .......................................................................................... Project NIA Janae Bonsu .................................................................................................... BYP 100 Seth Tobocman, Chair ...................................................... World War 3 Illustrated Sabrina Jones .................................................................................. WW3 Illustrated Kevin Pyle .......................................................................... World War 3 illustrated Ted Rall Building Left Media in the Digital Commons Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power? L2.85 The Real News Gregory Wilpert, Chair .................................................................... The Real News Pablo Vivanco .................................................................................................. teleSUR Laura Flanders .................................................................................................. GritTV Paul Jay ................................................................................................ The Real News Priya Reddy L2.82 Cuba Speaks for Itself: A Panel With Cuba’s Ambassador to the United Nations Rethinking the 1950s: How Progressives Survived the Great Terror L.76 8.61 Ike Nahem, Chair ............................................................................ July 26 Coalition Rodolfo Reyes ..................................... Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Estela Vazquez Rosemari Mealy David Rosen, Chair Lisa E. Davis .......................................... Spanish Language and Literature, CUNY Ellen Schrecker .............................................................................. Yeshiva University Marjorie Heins 72 Linda Thompson, Chair ................................................................ Left Elect Coalition Glen Ford Chris Hedges ................................................................................................... Truthdig Jill Stein ........................................................................................... Green Party USA SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM Defending Women’s Rights in a New Corporate World Order & Winning Socially-Conscious Poets: Voices of Resistance 8.67 Lynne Lopez-Salzedo, Chair ............................................ Robert Gibbons .................................................................. Angelo Verga ..................................................................... Zigi Lowenberg .................................................................. Raymond Nat Turner ......................................................... Kwame Fosu, Chair ....................................................... Rebecca Project for Justice Tsigereda Sophie Schwoerer .............................................. The Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle Lisa Davis ............................................... Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice Grace Akallo ............................ United Africans for Women and Children Rights Indigenous Peoples and the Environmental Struggles Against Pipelines 8.69 David Welch, Chair ................................................................. University of Ottawa Roger Rashi ............................................................................................... Alternatives Sarah Sultani .................................................................. World Social Forum 2016 Anne-Céline Guyon .......................................................................... STOP Oléoducs Natasha Kanapé Fontaine ................................................... Idle No More Quebec Laudato Si: Roadmap for Revolution? 8.72 Steve Knight, Chair ......................................................... Beloved Earth Community, Riverside Church; GreenFaith Fellow Marian Ronan ....................................................... New York Theological Seminary Richard Smith ............................................... System Change Not Climate Change Nancy Lorence ................................................. Global Catholic Climate Covenant 3.80 Between Play, Revolt, and Biopolitics 3.81 Milena Popov, Chair .................................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice Leigh Smith ....................................................................................... LANDR Audio Inc Shan Jayakumar ................................................. New York Institute of Technology Film Screening: Profiled — a Documentary About Racial Profiling and Police Brutality Directed by Kathleen Foster 3.78 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Bill Koehnlein, Chair .............................. Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory/ Marxist Education Project Kathleen Foster .................................................................... Independent Filmmaker Shanika Anderson Kristine Anderson Welch Margarita Rosario Interrogating the Sixties Film Screening: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story 1.114 3.79 Barbara Epstein, Chair . History of Consciousness Department, UC Santa Cruz Justin Paulson ............. Sociology Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, CA Kevin Anderson ................................. Sociology Department, UC Santa Barbara Marisa Holmes, Chair Jacques Lacan’s Four Discourses: Towards a New Critical Framework for Analysis & Action in Contemporary Political Life 1.129 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Michael Pelias, Chair Vakhtang Gomelauri ........................................................... Occupy Psychoanalysis Fred Baitinger Ph.D. ............. Program in French - The Graduate Center, CUNY Andrew Fremont-Smith ............ Andharbor: An Education & Events Cooperative Socially-Conscious Poets Socially-Conscious Poets Socially-Conscious Poets Socially-Conscious Poets Socially-Conscious Poets Greece and SYRIZA: What Happened? 1.85 Socialist Action newspaper Khaliah D Pitts, Chair ................................................ Judicial Violence Symposium Marty Goodman ........................................................... Socialist Action newspaper Manos Soufoglo ................................ National Coordination ANTARSYA and the Central Committee and Political Bureau of OKDE-Spartacos Eric Poulos ............................................................................................................. AKNY Felekis Giannis ............................................................... OKDE-Spartacos (Greece) 73 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM Judicial Violence and Road Back to Niagara 1.67 Colia Clark, Chair ..................................................... Judicial Violence Symposium, Guadeloupe Haiti Tour, GRP Charles Pitts ................................................................ Judicial Violence Symposium Kevin Annett ................. International Tribunal For the Disappeared of Canada Charles Bonner ........................................................... Judicial Violence Symposium Theron Cook ................................................................ Judicial Violence Symposium Marcus Tillery ............................................................. Judicial Violence Symposium Women’s Boat to Gaza 1.69 Ann Wright, Chair ....................................................................... Veterans for Peace Ellen Davidson ............................................................................. Veterans for Peace Susan Kerin ..................................... Women’s Boat to Gaza Steering Committee Gail Miller ........................................................................ Women of a Certain Age “We Charge Genocide” Human Rights Violations of Black Women and Girls in the US 1.71 National Campaign for the Elimination of Violence and Abuse of Women and Girls of African Descent (NA) Sis. Empress Phile’ Chionesu, Chair ................. National Million Woman March/ Universal Movements and MWM National Black Women’s Defense League Empress Chi ........................................................................................ National MWM Sis. Munirah Bomani .................................................................... Women Build Too/ MWM Black Women’s Defense League, Newark Branch Private Prisons as Profit Factories — How Banks & Wall Street Control & Profit from the (In)Justice System 1.81 Susan Peters, Chair ..................................................... American Monetary Institute Allen Smith .............................................. Henry George School of Social Science Nina Mariella Macapinlac ............................. Responsible Endowments Coalition Free Them All! Political Prisoners and POWs in the US 1.82 Basir Mchawi ................................................ Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition Sekou Odinga ............................................. Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition, Seko Odinga Defense Committee Suzanne Ross ....................................................... Free Mumia Abu Jamal Coalition Susan Rosenberg .......................................... Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition Mujahid Farid ....................................................................................................... RAPP Laura Whitehorn .................................................................................................. RAPP Building Independent Organizations in the Working Class Today 1.83 Speak Out Now Stephanie McMillan, Chair .......................................................... Workers Struggle Joan Berezin ..................................................................................... Speak Out Now Joseph Hutchinson ......................................................................... Workers Struggle Izzi Creo ......................................................................................... Workers Struggle Marcus Lissey .................................................................................... Speak Out Now Mahoma Lopez ................................................................. Laundry Workers Center Rosanna Rodríguez ........................................................... Laundry Workers Center Birth, Reproduction and Liberation Politics: A Radical Caregivers Roundtable 1.93 PM Press Alana Apfel, Chair ....................................................................................... PM Press China Martens ............................................................................................... PM Press Silvia Federici Mai’a Williams .................................................................... PM Press/Water Studio On the Frontlines: Queer People of Color Fighting for Socialism in the US South 1.100 Workers World Loan Tran, Chair ..................................................................... Workers World Party Eva Panjwani ......................................... NC #BlackLivesMatter QTPOC Coalition Q Wideman ...................................................................... Muslims for Social Justice It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment Available at theZero Bookstable • www.zero-books.net/books/its-not-over The march forward of human history is not a gift from gods above nor presents handed us from benevolent rulers, governments, institutions or markets — it is the product of collective human struggle on the ground. 74 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM The Left in Africa: An Evaluation of the African Socialist Movement of Sierra Leone Why Frantz Fanon Matters for Today’s Struggles Against Racism L2.80 Africanist Press 1.107 Jessica McDermott ............................................................................. Africanist Press Joshua Lew McDermott ................................................ African Socialist Movement International Support Committee Chernoh Alpha M. Bah ................... African Socialist Movement of Sierra Leone Jinny Prais, Chair .................................... African Institute of Columbia University Drucilla Cornell ................... Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Peter Hudis ..................................... International Marxist-Humanist Organization Wuyi Jacobs ...................................................................................... Afrobeat Radio Kazembe Balagun ............................... Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung/New York City Roots and Trajectories of Solar Commoners’ Movements Against Fossil Capitalism 1.115 Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons, International Oil Working Group Terisa Turner ...................................................... International Oil Working Group, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons Ana Isla ................................. Capitalism Nature Socialism, Ecosocialist Horizons Leigh Brownhill PhD ............................................................... Independent Scholar/ Founder, First Woman, the East and Southern Afri Terran Giacomini ................. University of Toronto; Capitalism Nature Socialism Ynestra King ............................................................................... Columbia University Northeastern Climate Justice Struggles and Global Intersections of Oppression 1.117 Gabriela Rodriguez, Chair ........................................... Capitalism vs. the Climate Nyree Hodges ............................................................................ Healthy CT Alliance Dan Fischer ....................................................................... Capitalism vs. the Climate Eric Feltham ...................................................................... Capitalism vs. the Climate Right Wing Assault on Latin America 1.101 Isolina De La Cruz, Chair ......................... Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera NYC Eric Draitser .................. Editor, StopImperialism.org; Host, CounterPunch Radio Gabriel Hetland ........................................ State University of New York, Albany Frederick Mills ........................... Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University Conflict Between the Dominican Republic and Haiti: The Historical Background, Great Injustices Today: How Can We Understand and Hopefully, Better the Relationship 1.103 Vita Devyatkin, Chair ...................................... Centro Cultural Orlando Martinez Ricardo Deschamps Simon Morell ..................................................... Centro Cultural Orlando Martinez Queer Archival Theory & Critical Library Pedagogy 1.105 Kate Adler, Chair ............................................ Metropolitan College of New York Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz ........................................................ CUNY Graduate Center Karen Hammer ................................................................... CUNY Graduate Center Marx, Hegel, and the Current Situation 1.108 Science & Society / Marxist Education Project Russell Dale, Chair ........................................................................ Science & Society Stephanie Basile .............................................................. Marxist Education Project Malik Reaves .................................................................... Marxist Education Project James Trybendis ............................................................... Marxist Education Project Bill Cali .............................................................................. Marxist Education Project What is the Role of Marxism Leninism in the US and the world today? Is it Time For a New US Marxist Leninist Party? 1.109 Joseph Wilson, Chair .................................. Author and Editor Labor snd Society Angelo D’Angelo .......................... General Secretary, Party of Communists USA Jackie DiSalvo ....................................................................... Baruch College, CUNY Abhinav Sinha ............................................................. Bigdul Mazdoor Dasta (ML) Kyle Kassick .................................... All Marxist Leninist Union, Rutgers University Occupy Wall Street 2016 (5 Years Still Here!) — Past Lessons, Victories, Defeats, and What’s Next for the 99% Movement 1.87 Sumumba Sobukwe, Chair ............................. Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Alejindrina Murphy ........................................ Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)/ Stop Mass Incarceration Network Bill Johnsen ............................ Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Occupy Sandy Boris Rorer ......................................................... Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Workers, Disobedience, and the Power to Act 1.73 Linden Lewis, Chair ...................................................................... Bucknell University Dave Ramsaran ................................................................... Susquehanna University Bruno Gulli ........................................... Kingsborough Community College, CUNY Uber-ization, Flexible Labor and New Knowledge Economies 1.76 Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group Henry Schwarz, Chair ......................................................... Georgetown University Grant Shreve ...................................................................... Johns Hopkins University Cole Stangler ............................................................. independent labor journalist 75 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM The Greyhound Diaries Organizing In the Student Movement with SDS 1.92 Left Forum Program Committee 1.61 Kristin Lawler, Chair .................................................................................. Left Forum Doug Levitt Stephen Lovekin Ryan Moore ........................................................................................................ CUNY Chrisley Carpio, Chair ....................... Tampa Students for a Democratic Society Michela Martinazzi ......................................... Students for a Democratic Society Ian Gallagher ........................................ WCU Students for a Democratic Society Low Income Taxpayer Assistance and Preparation for the Tax Court Exam Free Outreach Program 1.63 Tax Revolution Institute Inc Bobby Rodrigo, Chair .................................................................. Coffee Party USA Frank Agostino .................................................................... Agostino and Associates Jeffrey Dirmann ................................................................. Agostino and Associates Daniel Johnson ....................................................................... Tax Revolution Institute Breaking Patterns: Changing Systems 1.65 Irene Shen ................................................................................. United to End Racism Maritza Arrastia ...................................................................... United to End Racism Tokumbo Bodunde ................................................................... United to End Racism Neoliberalism and the “Mental Health” System — The Failure of the Left 1.91 Lauren Tenney, Chair ................................................. Staten Island College, CUNY Seth Farber .............................................................. Institute of Mind and Behavior Todd Giffen Reform: Road to Revolution or Surrender? 1.77 Mikaela Simms, Chair, Janaki Natarajan .............................................. Spark Teacher Education Institut/ Marlboro Graduate School Abraham Paulos ...................................................................... Families for Freedom CASA Member ........................................ Community Action for Safe Apartments From Mexico: The TPP and Its Impact on Internet Freedom and Free Software 1.90 Capitalism at a Dead End Job destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High-Tech Era By Fred Goldstein Available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Also go to lowwagecapitalism.com for more writings by Goldstein. 76 Capitalism at a Dead End explains that the economic crisis, which began in August 2007, marked a turning point in the history of capitalism. The author contends that the system will not return to the normal capitalist boomand-bust cycle. Unlike Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, Goldstein’s work points to socialism, not reformed capitalism, as the solution. For decades the capitalist class has used the revolution in digital technology to increase productivity of labor at record rates. Fewer workers are needed to produce more goods and services in less time at lower wages, resulting in a race to the bottom for the working class and oppressed. Repeated crises of overproduction lead to economic contraction and persistent mass unemployment. Goldstein uses Marx’s laws to show how productivity is strangling production and capitalism has outgrown the planet. The work includes an important chapter, “Historical materialism: robots and revolution.” Juan Gerardo Dominguez Carrasco, Chair ...................... May First/People Link Jaime Villareal ....................................................................... May First/People Link Jacobo Najera ..................................................................... May First/People Lkink Estrella Soria ................................................................. Cooperativa Tierra Comun Roundtable — Greece at a Crossroads: Enduring Issues, Contending Responses 1.113 George Andreopoulos, Chair ................................... City University of New York Andreas Karras ............................... John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Peter Bratsis ......................... Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Despina Lalaki ........................................................ School of Global Affairs, NYU SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM US Militarism’s Expanse and the Need for a Movement to Cut Military Spending and Invest in Human Needs Empire of Chaos in the Context of the Turmoil in the Middle East 1.123 United for Peace and Justice – unitedforpeace.org Bahram Zandi, Chair ....................................................................... Green Party, US Younes Parsa Benab ............................... Iranian Left Alliance of Washington DC Ahmad Gharanfoli .................................................... Left Alliance Washington DC Sassan Dehghan ......................................................... Left Alliance Washington DC Matt De Vlieger, Chair ...... Communications & Organizing Coordinator, UFPJ/ Member of Amplify Jackie Cabasso ............................... Director, Western States Legal Foundation/ Co-Convener of United for Peace & Justice Joseph Gerson ........ Director of American Friends Service Committee’s Peace/ Board Member, Economic Security Program George Paz Martin ... Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution/ Former Co-Coordinator of UFPJ Terry Rockefeller ................. September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows/ UFPJ Co-Convener The Endless “War on Terror”: US Drones & Targeted Killing 1.119 The Saudi Regime and Its Victims 1.121 Stanley Heller, Chair ................................................ Middle East Crisis Committee Ali Al Ahmed Walid Fidama Exposing 28 Pages of 9/11 Evidence, Legislating Transparency 1.127 Amanda Bass, Chair Debra Sweet .................................................................................. World Can’t Wait Ed Kinane ................................................................ Upstate Drone Action Coalition Nick Mottern ................................................................................... kNOwDrones.com Shelby Sullivan-Bennis ............................................................................ Reprieve US 1.125 Les Jamieson ................................................................................................. HR14.org Barry Kissin J. Michael Springman The Wars Come Home 1.124 United National Antiwar Coalition Joe Lombardo, Chair Jaribu Hill ...................... Founder, Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights Ana Edwards .................. Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality Abayomi Azikiwe ................................................................ Pan-African News Wire Margaret Kimberley .............................................................. Black Agenda Report Christine Marie ................................................................................................ 350.org CLOSING PLENARY 6:30–9:15PM Essential Discussions Engaging on-line discussions based on readings on getting beyond capital and building socialism today.To join, contact: ikurki2@verizon.net or 1-617-731-8725 GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL RAGE, REBELLION, ORGANIZING NEW POWER: A HEGELIAN TRIAD SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK AMY GOODMAN, MODERATOR 77 SPEAKER INDEX A Abdelhamid, Rana 19 Abraham, Gifty 49 Acala, David 30 Adams, Mary 47 Adams, Ricardo 47 Adely, Suzanne 21, 34, 51 Adem Carroll, P 19 Adler, Kate 75 Africa, Pam 21, 39 Africa, Ramona 39 Agostino, Frank 76 Aguilar, Alice 44 Ahmad, Bina 33 Ahmed, Fahd 41 Ahmed, Moumita 33 Ahmed, Saladdin 61 Akallo, Grace 73 Akuno, Kali 25 Al Ahmed, Ali 77 Al Bashir, Aatika 51 Albo, Greg 41 Alemi, Piruz 45 Alemu, Deborah 55 Alexiou, Nikos 42 Alfaro, Jose 59, 69 Ali, Tariq 17, 19, 37 Alkurabi, Eyad 61 Ally, Matthew C. 19 Almontaser, Debbie 59 Aloi, Alex 50 Alperovitz, Gar 71 Alston, Onleilove 67 Ama Amponsah 21 Amaral, Aaron 51 Amarnath, Kumar 31 Anderson, Jim 27 Anderson, Kevin 42, 73 Anderson, Shanika 73 Anderson Welch, Kristine 73 Andreopoulos, George 76 Angotti, Tom 33, 44 Annett, Kevin 74 Antush, John 69 Apfel, Alana 23, 74 Araújo, Saulo 67 Arena, Todd 51 Arike, Ando 67 Arrastia, Maritza 47, 76 Arrastía, Maritza 17 Artzner, Greg 39 Aru, Aru 65 Aschoff, Nicole 41 Asefi, Soheil 61 Asimakopoulos, John 25, 50 Avila, Betsy 63 78 A–C Awerbuch Friedlander, Tamara 37 Awolabi, Obasegun 31 Azad, Bahman 45 Azikiwe, Abayomi 34, 55, 77 Azin, Kazem 34 Azzellini Sitrin, Camilo 25, 42 B Babar, Madiha 45 Bader, Michael 46, 53 Bah, Chernoh Alpha M. 31, 57, 75 Bah, Hawa 21, 33, 46 Baier, Walter 34, 41 Bailey, Nellie 61 Baitinger Ph.D., Fred 73 Baker, Russ 51 Balagun, Kazembe 47, 69, 75 Balardini, Fabian 19 Balbutin, Grace 41 Bali, Ravi 25 Bannan, Natasha Lycia Ora 50 Baptista, Ana 31 Bara, Harouna 49 Baran, Stuart 37 Barber, Rev. Dr. William 46 Barnes, Aegina 39 Barrett, Kevin 34, 61, 70 Barry, Dante 63 Bartkowiak, Laura 51 Basile, Stephanie 75 Bass, Amanda 77 Bates, Laiquan 55 Batmanghelichi, K. Soraya 21 Baxter, Kim 47, 53 Beal, Dana 51 Beauchamp, Keith 37 Beaumont, Vagabond 47 Beckler, William 59 Belano, Robert 57 Belik, Laura 47 Bellin, Kelly 41 Bell, John 23 Bell’s Roar 35 Beltrán, Pablo 50 Benitez, Melody 59, 69 Benjamin, Medea 34 Benjamin, Medea 17 Bennett, Laurie 70 Ben-Youssef, Nadia 70 Berezin, Joan 74 Berkley, Susan 43 Bertley, Frederic 49 Betances, Emelio 31 Beutel, Andy 51 Bhojranie, Maygoo 45 Bina, Cyrus 70 Bindra, Ameek 25 Bitari, Nidal 34, 65 Black, Amber 28 Blakely, Delois 67 Blanch, Paul 39 Blank, Martin 53 Bliven, David 49 Bloomfield, David C. 59 Bloom, Maya 27 Blount-Hill, Kwan-Lamar 55 Blute, Tara 55 B., Meghan 41 Bodek, Haim 67 Bodunde, Tokumbo 76 Boehringer, Gill 33 Bolender, Keith 42 Bolsey, Nisha 49 Bomani, Sis. Munirah 74 Bond, Patrick 41 Bonner, Charles 74 Bonsu, Janae 72 Bookchin, Debbie 25, 37, 52, 63 Boumlik, Habiba 27 Boyle, Bob 21 Boyle, Robert 45 Bratsis, Peter 29, 63, 76 Braxton, John 30 Brenner, Lenni 34 Bretthauer, Lars 17 Brewer, Rose 23 Breyman, Steve 42 Broderick, Leo 50 Brooks, Minton 67 Brownhill Phd, Leigh 75 Brown, Krystal 46 Brown, Kyle 59 Brown, Nino 29 Brown, Tanaisa 31 Bryant, Melodie 65 B., Sam 57 Bugarin, Nicole 69 Burg, Leonard 43 Burke, Jessica B. 23 Burton, Gail A. 55, 65 Bush, Melanie 25, 44 Buttar, Shahid 17, 61 Butterfield, Donal 55 Butterfield, Greg 27 Byrne, Dara 69 C Cabasso, Jackie 27, 45, 77 Cabrera, Joel 57 Caffentzis, George 19 Calathes, William 55 Cali, Bill 75 Callahan, Mat 21 Callahan, Mat 35 Callahan, Pete 63 Calman, Neil 51 Camacaro, William 57 Campbell, Al 39, 50, 70 Campbell, Duncan 53 Campbell, Jann 23 Camp, Jeff 49 Campos, Stephanie 67 Cancel, Mario 71 Canet, Raphaël 17 Canlas, Olivia 41 Cantarow, Ellen 39 Cantú, Aaron Miguel 49 Carpenter, David 53 Carpio, Chrisley 76 Carraha, Joe 47 Casale Taylor Basker, Jacqueline 27 Cason, Harry 31, 37 Castellina, Luciana 34 Celente, Gerald 19 Chamberlain Jr., Kenneth 37 Channer, Harold 41 Chatlosh, Kelsey 69 Chavis, Danetta 46 Checole, Kassahun 59 Chen, Bateer 19 Chernomas, Robert 39 Chionesu, Sis. Empress Phile’ 74 Chodorkoff, Daniel 28 Chorbajian, Levon 51 Chowdhury, Kanishka 21 Christopoulos, Dimitris 19 Ciavatta, Raffaella 39 Ciccariello-Maher, George 67 Cinotto, Simone 33 Cione, Dan 34 Cirera, Daniel 61 Clark, Brett 19, 37 Clark, Colia 31, 61, 74 Cobb, Emma 53 Coco, Jessica 50 Cohen, Carl 70 Cohen, Mitchel 29 Collen, Jessica 31 Collins, Brandi 17 Colmain, Gearoid O 27 Cook, Shayla 37 Cook, Theron 74 Cooney, Paul 41, 49 Cornell, Drucilla 75 Cornick, Melissa 49 Coronel, Felipe 46 Corr, Mike 25 Cortes, Luba 25 Costello, Ryan 21 Cracraft, Teal 49 C–G Craig, Christopher 31 Credico, Randy 45 Creegan, Jim 57 Creo, Izzi 74 Crispin Miller, Mark 17 Cruz, Zevin X. 43, 50 Cuccioletta, Donald 59 Curtiss, Cheryl 27 Czarnocha, Bronislaw 39 D Dale, Russell 69, 75 Dalton, Amy 57 Dambrot, Stuart 31 Dambrot, Stuart Mason 37 Damon, Maria 21 D’angelo, Angelo 43, 75 Dashman, Mika 59, 69 Davanellos, Antonis 51 Davidson, Ellen 74 Davis, Akil Apollo 53 Davis, Betty 47 Davis, Creston 33 Davis, Eileen 57 Davis, Karen 39 Davis, Lisa 73 Davis, Lisa E. 72 Davis, Ron 37 Dawson, Ashley 19 Day, Ben 33 De Abreu, Jessica 47 De Bloois, Joost 42 Decaro, Louis 28 Deek, Lamis 34, 45, 50 Dehghan, Sassan 77 De J. Pérez Cruz, Felipe 67 De La Cruz, Isolina 23, 75 Delaney, Shandre 23 Della Piana, Libero 65 Dennie, John 25, 43, 59 De Pedro, Jens Peter 59 Derber, Charles 44 Derienzo, Paul 51 Deroubaix, Christophe 61 D’errico, Peter 49 Desai, Manisha 44 Deschamps, Ricardo 75 De Simone, April 25 Désir, Dowoti 67 Desis, Fahd Ahmed 50 Desjardins, Patrick 21 De Toffol, Emil 63 Devan, Michael 25 De Vlieger, Matt 27 Devyatkin, Vita 75 Dey, Anindya 29 Diaz-Cotto, Juanita 67 SPEAKER INDEX Díaz, Lea 53 Diaz, Noche 21, 29, 33 Diesselmann, Ani 41, 50 Diesselmann Redher, Ani 70 Difazio, William 57 Dike, Ejim 70 Dimock, Peter 69 Dirmann, Jeffrey 76 Disalvo, Jackie 75 Dixon, Benjamin 17 Dixon, Bruce 28 Djoba, Jinida 65 D., Kara 57 Dolack, Pete 69 Dola, Mike 25 Dolan, Richard 61 Dominguez Carrasco, Juan Gerardo 76 Doobay, Kamini 51 Dores, Bill 34, 55 Douglas, Stacy 19 Downing, King 69 Downs, Stephen 70 Draitser, Eric 23, 75 Drake, Celeste 23 Drame, Ibrahima 27 Draper, Susana 25 Dreiblatt, Ian 69 Dudzic, Mark 33, 44 Dunbar Ortiz, Roxanne 46, 65 Dunlea, Mark 53 Dunn, Brendan 31 Durand-Folco, Jonathan 59 E Earle, Ethan 28, 55 Eben, Sphinx 70 Edwards, Ana 77 Edwards, Carter 53 Edwards, Gregory 59 Ehmsen, Stefanie 41 Eisenstein, Hester 30 El-Amin, Theresa 63 Elhanan, Elik 70 Ellis, Ashley 59, 69 Ellner, Steve 31, 67 Ellorin, Bernadette 33, 70 El-Shafee, Magdy 53 Emery, Chris 61 Empress Chi 74 Engel-Dimauro, Salvatore 67 English, Erika 23 Epke, Johannes 53 Epstein, Barbara 41, 73 Erenrich, Susan 39 Escalona, Julio 57 Ettinger, Leonie 55, 65 Evans, Amy 29 Evans, Doug 55 Evans, Kate 53 Ewing, David 47 F Fabio, Frank 57 Factora-Borchers, Lisa 23 Fagiani, Gil 33 Family, Lupe 55, 65 Farah, Kelly 67 Farber, Samuel 50 Farber, Seth 28, 76 Farbman, Jason 50 Farid, Mujahid 74 Farthing, Linda 31 Federici, Silvia 19, 74 Fedina, Elena 67 Feeley, Dianne 29 Feigenbaum, Jane 39 Fein, Oliver 27 Feldman, Lynne 61 Feliciano, Anthony 51 Feltham, Eric 75 Ferguson, Stephen 41 Fernandez, Johanna 21, 41, 65 Fernandez, Kenneth 31 Ferre, Juan 43, 57 Fidama, Walid 77 Finkelstein, Norman 37 Finley, Eleanor 28, 63 Fischer, Dan 34, 75 Fitrakis, Bob 17, 57 Flaherty, Brigid 31 Flakin, Wladek 57 Flanders, Laura 17, 72 Flanders, Laura 17 Floja, Boca 37 Flounders, Sara 27, 70 Floyd, Nikol Alexander 21 Foley, Barbara 30 Fontaine, Natasha Kanapé 73 Ford, Cheryl 47 Ford, Glen 28, 41, 72 Foster, John Bellamy 37, 46 Foster, Kathleen 73 Fosu, Kwame 73 Fraad, Harriet 46, 53, 63 Fraad, Tess 53 Frank, Jeffrey 67 Franklin, Boris 33 Fraser, Rhone 39, 49 Fremont-Smith, Andrew 73 Friedman, Gerald 61, 63 Friedman, Michael 27 Fuentes-Ramírez, Ricardo 39, 50 Fugelsang, John 45 Furr, Grover 25 G Gaffney, Adam 33 Gagnon, Bruce 27, 30 Galal, Ola 69 Galbraith Simmons, John 39 Gallagher, Ian 76 Gamea, Hossam 25 Ganaway, Glen 50, 61 G., Andrew 51 Garcia-Madrid, José Ramon 65 Garfais, Mahoma 29 Garson, Barbara 70 Gaudino, Annette 27 Geffrard, Nesly 69 Genc, Elif 61 Georgakas, Dan 29, 49 German, Quandisha 59, 69 Gerson, Janet 55, 65 Gerson, Joseph 27, 45, 77 Gharanfoli, Ahmad 77 Ghoshal, Kamil 53 Ghoshroy, Subrata 70 Giacomini, Terran 41, 75 Giannis, Felekis 73 Gibbons, Chip 31 Gibbons, Robert 73 Giffen, Todd 76 Gilestra, Ivelisse 33 Gilliard-Davis, Saundra 49 Gilligan, James 46 Gilman-Opalsky, Richard 25, 50 Gimbel, Mike 59 Gimenez, Martha 30 Gindin, Sam 71 Glanville, Anyanwu 59 Glaude Jr., Eddie 65 Gloss, Randi 46 Godels, Greg 44 Godoy, Raul 43 Gogan, Tom 30 Goldman, Rob 47 Goldsmith, Bill 70 Goldsmith, Nafeesah 33 Goldstein, Warren S. 31 Golemis, Haris 34 Golinger, Eva 50 Gomelauri, Vakhtang 73 Gonzalez, Jeffrey 59 Gonzalez, Judy 33 Gonzalez, Luis 41 Gonzalez, Ruben 71 Goodman, Amy 77 Goodman, Marty 41, 73 Goodrum, Ian 23 Gopal, Anand 45 Gordon, Sharon 49 79 SPEAKER INDEX Gorman, Rose 47 Graham, Maxwell 28 Gran, Elia 70 Greenberg, Molly 31 Green, Roger 25 Griffin, Autumn 47 Groskinsky, Alex 23 Groskinsky, Alexander 49 Groskinsky, Tyler 49 Grosscup, Ben 29 Gruenthal, George 25, 50 Guay, Emanuel 59 Guay, Nathalie 23, 50, 55 Guevara, Vivianne 59, 69 Gulati, Harneet 47 Guldin, Matthew 59, 69 Gulli, Bruno 75 Gullì, Bruno 42 Gunger, William 27 Gupta, Arun 21, 63 Gupta, Ashraya 69 Gusterson, Hugh 70 Gutierrez, Teresa 49 Guyon, Anne-Céline 73 H Haas, Benjamin 39 Haber, Gordon 47 Hackenberg, Sigrid 33 Haedicke, Thorsten 70 Halasa, Marni 27 Hall, David 30 Halleck, Deedee 34 Hammer, Karen 75 Hanrahan, Noelle 30 Hansen, Ian 70 Hansome, Rhonda 45 Harmon, Byron 42 Harris, Nicole Leigh 23 Harrison, Fred 33, 42, 57 Harrison, Joan 39 Harriss, Chandler 27 Harris, Scott 53 Hart, Carl 46 Harvey, David 28 Harvey, Ryan 35 Hassiotis, Athena 70 Havok, Michael 31 Hawkins, Eljeer 63 Hawkins, Howie 37, 53, 63 Hecht, Jason 67 Hedges, Chris 17, 72 Hedges, Chris 17 Heilig, Dominic 34 Heins, Marjorie 72 Heller, Chaia 28 Heller, Chiah 37 80 G–L Heller, Stanley 34, 77 Henwood, Doug 41 Hermes, Kris 31, 69 Hernandez, Milton 55 Hernandez, Rafael 42 Hetland, Gabriel 23, 57, 75 Heyward, Nicolas 37 Heyward Sr., Nicholas 21, 33 Hicks, Gary 47 Hicks, Kyle 31 Hicks, Sander 25 Hilal, Maha 31 Hill, Belinda 67 Hill, Gregg 25 Hill, Jaribu 77 Hill, Richard 53 Hill, Saundra 23 Himiak, Lauren 49 Hindi, Amjad 70 H., Joyce 57 Hlatky, Danielle 43 Hobbs, Richard 50 Hodges, Nyree 75 Hofer, Brian 61 Hoff, James 59 Hoffman, Madelyn 33 Holland, Dk 50 Holleman, Hannah 19, 46 Holmes, Marisa 73 Honegger, Barbara 34 Hudis, Peter 75 Hudson, Michael 50, 67 Hudson Valley Sally 71 Huertas-Noble, Carmen 25 Humber, Charlene 27 Humber, Gina 27 Humphrey, John 55 Hungerford, David 27 Hurley, Matthews 44 Hutchinson, Joseph 74 Hutchins, Scott 61 I Ifetayo, Jumoke 67 Ilich, Peter 27 Imani, Zellie 31 Innes, Jennifer 25 Irazabal, Clara 67 Isaacs, Ellen 70 Isaacson, Bob 53 Isla, Ana 75 Ives, Kim 31 J Jackson, Don 39 Jaclard, Anne 25, 69 Jacobsen, Maurice 27 Jacobson, Erik 51 Jacobs, Wuyi 75 Jaffe, Sarah 59, 72 Jamal, Ali 43 James, Richard 43 James, Stephen 50 Jamieson, Les 77 Jaus, Christina 25 Javors, Irene 29 Jayakumar, Shan 73 Jay, Paul 17, 37, 72 Jay, Suzanne 41 Jean, Samantha 55 Jefferson, Louis 65 Jensen, Robert 31 Jimenez, Albert 70 John, Ross 49 Johnsen, Bill 75 Johnson, Cephus “Uncle Bobby” 37 Johnson, Daniel 76 Johnson, Penn 29 Jokic, Olivera 69 Jones-Brown, Delores 46 Jones Heestand, Mela 29 Jones, Pattrice 47 Jones, Robert 47 Jones, Sabrina 72 Joseph, Andrew 37 Jung, Chungse 41 Junno, Kelly 55 K Kaba, Mariame 72 Kahlor, Tim 61 Kalaz, Susan 25 Kaludjerovic, Zeljko 69 Kane, John 49 Kang, Susan 42 Kanyanta, Mutale 30 Karl-Gruswitz, Abe 50 Karras, Andreas 76 Kasmir, Sharryn 71 Kassick, Kyle 75 Kasunic, Cullen 55 Katz-Fishman, Walda 23 Kaur, Andjela 69 Kaur, Navjot 50 Keesh, Thaer 44 Kendi, Ibram 65 Kennedy, Mimi 17, 23 Keough, Tom 21 Kerin, Susan 74 Kerness, Bonnie 30 Kesselman, Mark 61 Khalil, Yusef 45 Khan, Daisy 29 Khan, Hamid 17 Khawarzad, Aurash 41 Kia, Arash 61 Kielwagen, Jefferson 21 Kimberley, Margaret 28, 77 Kinane, Ed 77 King, Adam 59 King, Brandon 25 King, Ynestra 59, 75 Kioni-Sadiki, Dequi 63 Kirchner, Marty 69 Kirksey, Eben 19 Kissin, Barry 63, 77 Kiswani, Nerdeen 34, 50 Klein Salamon, Margaret 23 Kliman, Andrew 25, 61, 69 Knight, Shane 53 Knight, Steve 73 Kobre, Assetou 49 Koehnlein, Bill 73 Konst, Nomiki 17 Koo, Kim 19, 47 Kottner, Lee 47 Kotz, David 39 Koulouris, Bryan 28, 37 Kovel, Irina 27, 55 Kovel, Joel 67 Kreig, Andrew 51, 63 Krol, Jennifer 47 Kundnani, Arun 29 Kupferman, Joel 49 Kurki, Irv 19, 47 Kurti, Zhandarka 41 L La Botz, Dan 57 Laforest, Ray 31 Lain, Douglas 69 Laing, Justin 65 Lalaki, Despina 65, 76 Lally, Prabjoot 25 La Mastro, Heather 61 Lamb, Anne 39 Lamont, Beth 51 Landy, Joanne 65 Langlois-Vallieres, Emile 17 Langman, Lauren 46, 53 Lanz Oca, Enrique 19 Laprade, Lorraine 70 Larson, Sean 44 Latty, Jason 49 Lavallée, Nicolas 17 Lavenia, Peter 42, 53 Lawler, Kristin 29, 63, 76 Leahey, Sharleen 29 Leavell, Virginia 23 Lebree, Chris 47 Lee, Alice 49 L–P Lee, Jia 69 Lee, Karen 23 Legaspi, Mike 69 Le, My N. 41 Leonino, Terry 39 Leopold, Les 53 Lessin, Nancy 61 L’etincelle, Timothée Erard 25 Letwin, David 45 Letwin, Michael 51 Levine, Danielle 59 Levitt, Doug 76 Levy, Alison Rose 39, 65 Levy, Andrew 59 Lewis, Linden 75 Leyser, Ayala 39, 53 Li, Jennifer 25 Lilly, Lamont 49 Lingat, Joelle Eliza M. 33 Lippman, Dave 50 Lissey, Marcus 74 Literary Warriors 72 Little, Deborah 25 Livingston, Martha 33, 37 L., Joey 63 Locker, Philip 28, 37 Lomani, Nasim 43 Lombardo, Joe 70, 77 Longo, Gregory 51 Looney, Mark 21 Lopez, Alfredo 51 Lopez, Amanda 55 Lopez, Mahoma 43, 74 Lopez-Salzedo, Lynne 70, 73 Lorence, Nancy 73 Louallen, Shana 59, 69 Lovekin, Stephen 76 Lowenberg, Zigi 73 Lozada, Luciana 55 Lubetsky, Robert 59 Lucas, Naomi 27 Lucey, Kevin 61 Luisetti, Federico 42 Lumumba, Nnamdi 63 Lumumba, Rukia 25, 63 Lundgren, Carl 31 Lutalo, Ojore 30 M Macapinlac, Nina Mariella 74 Mack, Julian 65 Mac Lorin, Carminda 17 Macqueen, Graeme 63 Madden, Ryan 44 Madera, Melissa 49 Madeson, Victor 21, 47, 53 Madsen, Wayne 27, 34 SPEAKER INDEX Maerhofer, John 21 Magdoff, Fred 19 Magno, Christopher 57 Magrass, Yale 44 Mah, Sarah 49 Main, Alex 31, 67 Makandal, Kiki 33 Makeig, Prem 59 Malawana, Johann 44 Malik Talib, Abdul 59 Maloney, Timothy 55 Manning, Janice 69 Manoff, Einat 19 Marcuse, Peter 33, 44 Marie, Christine 41, 77 Marín Suárez, Claudia 67 Markowitz, Norman 47 Markuson, Lisa 53 Marroquin, Roxana 37 Marshall, Norman 28 Marshall, Wende Elizabeth 59 Martens, China 23, 74 Martinazzi, Michela 76 Martin, George Paz 77 Martin, Viriginia 17 Martin, William 41 Martin, Yolanda C. 55 Mason-Deese, Liz 42 Massad, Susan 61 Matarese, Maureen 59 Mather, Yassamine 50 Mathes, Carter 21 Matias Ortiz, Andres 57 Mattera, Gloria 33 Matthews, Clark 37 Matthews, Nicole 49 Maulimm-Ak, Five 21 Mauro, Deborah Engel-Di 63 Maybank, Aletha 51 Mcarthur, Marcus 69 Mccabe, Justine 34 Mccamic, Chris 65 Mccann, Patrick 30 Mccarthy, Kyle 51, 59 Mcclelland, Jamie 51 Mcdermott, Jessica 75 Mcdermott, Jessica Collen 57 Mcdermott, Joshua Lew 31, 57, 75 Mcfarland, Duncan 47 Mcguire, Cathleen 61 Mchawi, Basir 74 Mckinney, Cynthia 63 Mcmickens, Jacqueline 27 Mcmillan, Stephanie 33, 65, 74 Mealy, Rosemari 31, 72 Meeropol, Jennifer 28, 53 Meeropol, Robert 28 Megaciph, Miles 51 Melnechuk, Nikhil 53 Melniker, Larry 61 Mendieta, Eduardo 31 Mendoza, Ella 65 Merrill, Nicholas 17 Metts Agaric, Michele 70 Metts, Micky 51 Metz, Susan 70 Meubrink, Yuca 69 Meyer, Gerald 33, 69 Meyer, Matt 59, 63 Meyers, Joel 39 Miller, Andrea 23, 57 Miller, Gail 74 Miller, Oram 63 Mills, Frederick 23, 57, 75 Milton, Heather 41 Mims, Jamel 29 Mines, Erica 49 Mir, Noor 28 Mironova, Oksana 51 Mitra, Siddhartha 29 Mize-Fox, Senowa 23 Mohan, Chuck 59 Mohandas Amani Williams, Hakim 59 Molinari, Sarah 69 Molina, Valeria 43 Molito, Justin 28 Moodey, Richard 57 Moon, Sophia 23 Moorehead, Monica 49 Moore, Kangela 47 Moore, Ryan 63, 76 Moore, Yvonne 35 Morales, Angela 47 Morales, Travis 21, 33 Morell, Simon 75 Moreta, Emely 55 Morris, Katie 49 Morse, Sylvia 33 Moscou, Jack 50 Moss, Donny 39 Motamedi, Paasha 53 Mottern, Nick 77 Mueller, Tadzio 23, 41 Muhammad, Umair 21 Mühlbeyer, Katharina 19 Muldoon, Amy 59 Mulgaonkar, Priya 31 Murillo, Danny 33 Murillo, Mario 34 Murphy, Alejindrina 75 Murphy, Rich 47 Myers, Jason 25 N Nabulsi, Mohammed 34, 45 Nadal, Antonio 57 Naeem, Nomi 61 Nahem, Ike 31, 72 Najera, Jacobo 76 Namphy, Mychel 39 Narasimhan, Varsha 67 Nariño, Alexandra 41 Nasr, Lina 21 Natarajan, Janaki 76 Nathanson, Adam 51 Nat Turner, Raymond 63, 73 Ness, Immanuel 33, 39, 59 Neusner, Julie 69 Newfield, Marcia 44 Nicholson Smith, Donald 39 Nilliasca, Terri 23 Nimtz, August H. 42 Nimtz, August H. 52 Noble, Demetrius 29 Nonni, Hassane 49 Norris, Arianna 69 Nuer, Teshale 65 O O’brien, Mary 27 O’callaghan, Darcey 23 O’connor, Clare 19 Odinga, Sekou 53, 74 Oglive, Ayisha 27 Oikawa, Yoko 41 Oka, Cynthia 23 Oki, Olayinka 45 Olivera, Marcela 25, 42 Ollman, Bertell 28, 67 O’neil, Cathy 65 O’neil, Michael 37, 53 Orrin, Chevara 46 Owens Pinto, Lisa 70 P Padilla, Andrew 33 Pagan, Diane 57 Pakman, David 17 Pall, Martin 53 Palombo, Bernardo 71 Panagiotopoulos, Helen 69 Panayotakis, Costas 65 Panitch, Leo 34, 41 Panitch, Leo 71 Panjwani, Eva 74 Papadakis, Kostas 27, 44 Parsa Benab, Younes 43, 77 Pateras, Kostas 27, 44 Patrick 29 Patterson, Jacqui 70 81 SPEAKER INDEX Patzer, Suzanne 57 Paulos, Abraham 41, 76 Paulson, Justin 73 Pean, Alan 51 Peck, Michael 25 Peers Educating Peers 37 Pelias, Michael 29, 73 Pellón Azopardo, Raynier 67 Pennacchio, Chuck 61 Pepper, William 51 Pera, Marina 69 Perelman, Michael 67 Perez, Carmen 63 Perino, Michael 27 Perkins, John 19 Perlstein, Lauren 55 Perry, Geraldine 55 Petersen, Hertencia 21, 33 Peters, Susan 55, 74 Petryna, Adriana 19 Petty, Sean 41 Phillips, Nicola 55 Picher, Marie-Claire 55, 65 Pillay, Sally 43 Pitts, Charles 31, 74 Pitts, Khaliah D 73 Piva, Aline 67 Piva, Aline Cristiane 57 Plum, Hilary 69 Policoff, Jerry 63 Polk, Becca 55 Pomeroy, Anne 47 Popov, Milena 39, 73 Post, Charles 50 Poulos, Eric 73 Powers, Nicholas 21, 39, 65 Poynter, Ralph 39, 47, 53 Pragacz, Andrew 41 Prais, Jinny 75 Prier, Nate 59 Prosen, Kevin 69 Pyle, Kevin 72 Q Qasim, Wail 47 Quarta, Cami 44 R Rafiq Lewis, Robert 25 Ragone, Roberto 33 Raheem, Khalid 63 Raines, John 47 Rall, Ted 65, 72 Ramana, M. V. 27, 31 Ramírez Cañedo, Elier 67 Rampersad, Kris 45 Ramsaran, Dave 75 82 P–S Ramsey, Joseph 21, 29 Ramsey, Joseph G. 29 Ramsey, Lupe 71 Ranis, Peter 31 Rapaport, Jill 67 Rapp, Peg 70 Rasamny, Malek 19 Rashi, Roger 73 Ravisankar, Rajeev 29 Ray, Roona 44 Reaves, Malik 75 Reddy, Priya 72 Reddy, Sanjay 65 Redlin, Blair 50 Redmon, Brien 69 Reed, Conor Tomás 19 Rees, Camilla 53, 63 Rehmann, Jan 63 Rein, Sandra 17 Reiss, Phillip 47 Reiss, Phillp 53 Relihan, Elma 41 Rendon, Mario 19 Renique, Gerardo 57 Reticker-Flynn, Julia 49 Revier, Kevin 41 Reyes, Rodolfo 72 Richards-Calathes, Whitney 55 Richards, Jamie 55 Richardson, Eisa Ulen 49 Rickerson, Dariann 25, 47 Rickford, Russell 65 Riddell, John 21 Rieth, Chris 59 Rimawi, Eman 61 Rine, Dave 65 Rippey, Branden 57 Roberto, Michael Joseph 41 Roberts, Alyssa 49 Robertson, Clyde 31 Robinson, Robert 19 Rockefeller, Terry 77 Rodberg, Leonard 27, 53 Rodrigo, Bobby 76 Rodriguez Diaz, Miriam 69 Rodriguez, Elijah 45 Rodriguez Espinoza, Jesus 23 Rodriguez, Gabriela 75 Rodríguez, Rosanna 74 Roesch, Jen 37 Roesch, Jennifer 63 Romagnoli, Daniel 45 Romano, Frank 27 Romanou, Natassa 31 Roman, Peter 42 Romero-Franco, Denise 57 Ronan, Marian 73 Ron, Carlos 23 Rondeau, Patrick 23, 55 Rorer, Boris 75 Rosario, Margarita 73 Rosenberg, Susan 74 Rosenblum, Tamir 65 Rosen, David 72 Rosen, Joel Nathan 50 Ross, Carne 63 Ross, Jason 57 Ross, Suzanne 74 Rovira, Carlito 49 Rowland, Marty 27, 33 , 47, 53 Rozum, Ursula 27, 53 Rubin, Lyle 51 Rubin, Rachel 21 Ruff, Allen 21 Rugoff, Stephanie 51 Ruskin, Ian 21 Russell, Shana 30, 69 Rynn, Jonathan 30 S Saadi, Sardar 61 Saad, Zohra 39 Saalakhan, Mauri 45 Sacha Vington M.D., Michel Alexendre 30 Sadequee, Sharmin 19 Safri, Maliha 28 Sahagun, Precious 47 Sahay, Rajendra 21 Sainath, Radhika 45 Saksena, Rahul 70 Salaam, Sharonne 49 Salaam, Yusef 49 Salazar, Hugo 47 Salek, Fabiola 39 Salerno, Roger 46, 53 Samara, Kareem 35 Samuels), Ms K (Dr. 61 Sanabria Davila, Olga 57 Sanbonmatsu, John 47 Saney, Isaac 50 Sanford, Rick 30 Santigo, Ana 23 Sarich, John 67 Sati, Joel 55 Saul, Quincy 67 Saval, Nikil 63 Sawant, Kshama 28 Sawant, Kshama 52 Sawant, Swati 39 Sayed, Ayman 34 Schaefer, Bernadette 59 Scharenberg, Albert 19 Scharlatt, Emmy 29 Scher, Abby 63 Schiller, Naomi 67 Schlatter, Evelyn 28 Schnapf, Lawrence 63 Schrecker, Ellen 72 Schulman, Alan 33 Schulman, Ted 41 Schwartzman, David 43, 49, 67 Schwartz, Michael 45 Schwarz, Henry 75 Schwoerer, Tsigereda Sophie 73 Schwolsky, Elena 47 Scipes, Kim 33 Scott, Debra Leigh 47 Scott, Jerome 23, 70 Scruggs-Leftwich, Yvonne 50 Seder, Sam 17 Sedillo, Matt 37 Segneri, Alex J. 69 Sejour, Richard 25 Senko, Jen 65 Sen, Orijit 53 Serrano, Kim 25 Shaheed, Razakhan 39 Shahshahani, Azadeh N. 33, 41 Shakir, Omar 28, 70 Shakir, Taalib-Din 45 Shakir, Zarinah 45, 70 Shalom, Alexi 51 Shalom, Jack 29 Shapiro, Susan 31 Sheedy, Matt 31 Shelton, Dylan 34, 45, 59 Shen, Irene 76 Shephard, Benjamin 59 Sheridan-Gonzalez, Judy 44 Sherwin, Steve 21 Sheth, Hetal 67 Shoatz, Theresa 23, 30 Sholette, Gregory 28 Shreve, Grant 75 Shrybman, Steven 50 Shyvonne 29 Siddayao, Charie 49 Siddique, Ashik 23 Siegel, Irene 70 Simms, Mikaela 76 Simon, Jonathan 17 Simpson, Barbara 55 Simpson, Joel 17 Sinha, Abhinav 21, 75 Siracuse, Tom 39, 47, 61 Sister Dragonfly 29 Sitrin, Marina 25, 42 Siyam, Abdelhamid 29 S–Z S., Kathy 57 Skopic, Catherine 31, 44 Slade, Nikeeta 27 Smethurst, James 21 Smith, Allen 74 Smith, Anna 25 Smith, Ashley 34, 45 Smith, Cindy 28 Smith-Cruz, Shawn(Ta) 75 Smith, Darnell 30 Smith, Donna 23 Smith, Erika 44 Smith, Jackie 17 Smith, John 46 Smith, Joshua 61 Smith, Lanny 44 Smith, Leigh 73 Smith, Richard 73 Smith, Stan 23, 67 Smith, Susan 29 Snitow, Ann 29 Sobukwe, Sumumba 61, 75 Sodikoff, Genese 19 Solomon, Holly 50 Solomon, S.A. 65 Son Of Nun 35 Soria, Estrella 76 Sosa, Irene 34 Soufoglo, Manos 73 South, Walter 44 Sparks, Katrina 27 Spencer, Robyn 49 Sperber, Irwin 23 Spitz, Stephen 23, 57 Spivack, Jerry 41 Springman, J. Michael 77 Springmann, Michael 27 Stadler, Joseph 57 Stamos, Debbie Despina Sophia 29 Stangler, Cole 75 Starecheski, Amy 59 Starosta, Anita 70 Stasio, John 50 Stein, Jill 53, 63, 72 Stein, Judith 61 Stein, Marc Eliot 25 Stein, Samuel 33 Stepinac, Kayla 30 Stewart, Lynne 39, 47, 53 Stover, A. Shahid 21, 39 Stravino, Vincent 47, 53 Stroud, William 59 Sugawa, Sakiko 65 Suleimani, Kamal 61 Sullivan-Bennis, Shelby 77 Sultani, Sarah 73 SPEAKER INDEX Summa, John 67 Sundin, Jess 39 Sunkara, Bhaskar 28, 63 Susser, Ida 69 Sutton, Dayvee 46, 55 Suwandi, Intan 46 Sweeney, Sean 23, 31, 53, 63 Sweet, Debra 28, 77 Swerdloff, Howard 39 Szabo, Jenna 47 Szamboti, Tony 63 Szto Abott, Peter 19 Szto, Mary 19 T Taber, Mike 21 Talib, Abdul Malik 69 Tapp, Terry 69 Tarek, Chandni 25 Tarpley, Webster 34, 45, 51 Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta 52, 65, 72 Taylor, Mary 19 Tellaeche, Amoreena 43, 50 Tellaeche, Leonel Alfonso 43 Tennant, Derek 50 Tenney, Lauren 76 Terrell, Julien 59 Ter Taulian, Anoush 51 The Peace Poets 37 Theriault, Henry C. 51 Thier, Tzvia 70 Thomas, Clarence 51 Thomas, Jude 57 Thompson, Ak 19 Thompson, Kadesha 55 Thompson, Linda 72 Thompson, Lisa 31 Thornburg, Devin 47 Thornton, Christy 57 Ticktin, Hillel 50 Tillery, Marcus 74 Tillow, Walter 27 Tobocman, Seth 53, 72 Tokar, Brian 23, 28 Tola, Miriam 42 Tolan, Marian 46 Toliver, Alexis 49 Tolopko, Frank 34 Toom, Rawan 51 Torrealba, Francisco 50 Torrejón Chu, Malcolm 70 Torres Arroyo, Janette 57 Torres, Joseph 17 Toure, Kazi 53 Tran, Loan 74 Treitler, Vilna Bashi 67 Trujillo, Josmar 33 Trybendis, James 75 Tsou, Walter 61 Turner, Jim 63 Turner, Terisa 41, 75 Tuzcu, Can 23 Tylim, Natalia 21 Tziligakis, Yannis 33, 42, 57 U Ubaid, Shaik 19 Uddin, Sana 19 Upsurge! 72 Urgo, Joe 51 V Vagios, Yannis 70 Vallejo, Juan Carlos 41, 50 Valles, Stephanie 55 Vandenbergh, Michael 44 Vann, Nancy 39 Van Shaick, Alex 25 Vasquez, Jonathan 57 Vazquez, Estela 31, 72 Velgara, Frank 31 Velis, Milena 39 Verga, Angelo 73 Veve, Jaime 51 Vgontzas, Nantina 51 Vignoli, Gabriel 42 Villa, Daniel 43 Villareal, Jaime 76 Vincent, Godfrey 31 Vivanco, Pablo 72 Vogel, Lise 30 Vrettos, James 46 W Wakefield, Jamara 65 Waldo, Kip 25 Walker, Gail 31 Wallace, Julia 49 Wallis, Victor 41 Walls, Daniela 34, 45, 51 Wasserman, Harvey 57 Watson, Carl 67 Watters, Catherine 19 Weberman, A.J. 51 Weisbrot, Mark 67 Weissman, Suzi 50 Welch, David 73 Westbrook, Marcia 61 Westerman, William 43 Whitaker, Elise 63 Whitehorn, Laura 74 White, Sasha 27 Wideman, Q 74 Wiegel, Gerd 28 Wijesundara, Isuri 47 Wilayto, Phil 27, 70 Wilcox, Bennet 44 Willebrand, Julia 34 Williams, Brittany 63 Williams, Chris 19 Williams, Elandria 44 Williams, Jason 55 Williams, Mai’a 23, 74 Williamson, Tyrane 55 Williams, Sophia 49 Willis Aronowitz, Nona 63 Willis, Morgan M. 70 Wilpert, Gregory 67, 72 Wilson, Jelani 47 Wilson, Joseph 75 Wilson, Sean 55 Wind, Ella 45 Winks, Christopher 39 Winston, Ali 61 Wishnia, Kenneth 41, 65 Wishnia, Steven 41, 65 Wolff, Richard D. 17, 63 Wolff, Richard D. 71 Wong, Winnie 28 Wood, Lesley 59, 69 Wood, Nat 31 Wood, Patti 63 Woods, Ben 49 Woolard, Caroline 50 Worley, David 57 W., Penny 57 Wright, Ann 74 Wright, Charles Duncan 70 X X, Darian 25 Xhaxhi, Danja 25 Xilakis, Eleni 33 Y Ygarza, George 31 Yip, Steve 21, 33 Z Zabolotnaia, Svetlana 59 Zaidi, Ali 25, 50 Zandi, Bahram 43, 77 Zara, Jane 67 Zennig, Karin 70 Zepp-Larouche, Helga 42, 57 Zimmerman, Andrew 42 Žižek, Slavoj 77 83 NOTES 84 NOTES 85 NOTES 86 NOTES 87 NOTES 88
