2009 PROGRAM
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
1-5:00 PM
5-6:00 PM
COCKTAIL PARTY
AT PACE UNIVERSITY'S MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
$5 per person to help us cover costs
6:30 PM
OPENING PLENARY
THE CURRENT CRISIS: ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
Chair: Julia Wrigley, Sociology Professor Walden Bello - Focus on the Global South (Philippines) Katja Kipping - Die Linke (The Left Party, Germany) Adolph Reed Jr. - Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Richard D. Wolff - Economics, The New School Arlie Hochschild – Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (followed by) Performance Vignettes of "The Cradle Will Rock", Yo Miss
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Can Collective Bargaining Aid Labor’s Economic Recovery?
Yes We Will!: Organizing to Bring Real and Lasting Social and Environmental Justice
Spiritual Politics, Social Movements: a New Left Turn?
Marx's Capital and the Economic Crisis
Control and Discipline in Modern China
The Relevance of the 1930s for Today’s Political and Economic Scene
The Trend of Chinese Marxism in the 21st Century
New Frontiers: Exploring Emotional Labor
Let Freedom Ring: Strategies to Free Political Prisoners Today
Responses to Meszaros' "Challenge and Burden of Historical Time"
The New Slavery and the Global Sex Industry: The New Abolitionists
Health Care Unionism and the Future of American Labor
Gaza: Between Invasion and Resistance - Jews and Arabs Speak Out!
Food Sovereignty: Indigenous and People’s Control Over Their Own Food Production
Capitalist Crisis, Energy and the Commons
Withering Energies? Oil and the Financial Crisis
Empowerment in Chinese American Communities- Then and Now
Rethinking the “Most Dangerous Place in the World”: The War on Terror in Pakistan
Childhood, Capitalism and Resistance
From the Barrio to the Barricades: Visions of a Better World
Global Warming and Society- What changes should students fight for?
Paper Tiger Documentary Interviews with Forum Participants
SCREENING: Salty Dog Blues: Documenting the Dismantling of the National Maritime Union
Status Conflics in America: Schools, Prisons, and WalMart
Right-Wing Women and the Struggle to Remake Conservatism
Anarchist Cinema - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
SATURDAY, 12-2:00 PM
Long Term Strategies for the Left
Resistance Struggles on the Inside: Political Organizing Behind Bars
Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hope and Failures
Turning Points in Building Progressive Majority and Advancing a Vision of Socialism
Critique of Religion and Empire-Critical Bible Readings: A Christian-Marxist Dialogue
State Capitalism and a New, New Deal: Limitations and Consequences
Making Sense of the Greek Uprising
Obama Meets the World: Realities and Recommendations for a New Administration
Rank-and-File Rebellions in a Time of Economic Turbulence: Lessons for Today from the Long 1970s
Women, Youth, and the Solidarity Economy
Victor Serge Read-In: Stop Political Terror in Russia
Obama and Iran: A New Beginning?
The Struggle at Six Nations and the Politics of Settler-Indigenous
Can the Chinese Labor Movement Reverse the “Race to the Bottom?”
Once More Into the Breach: Radical Film and Art
Hip-Hop, Social Movements, and a New Left Turn
Secularism and the Radical Imagination
Race, Class and the Black Left
Strategies for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis: A Challenge to the American Left
The CUPE 3903 York University Strike: 85 Days of Struggle and Failure
The Puerto Rican Reality: The Duality of the Anti-colonial Struggle
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: The Uprising of ’34 (1995)
Paper Tiger Documentary Interviews with Forum Participants
Three Generations of Women Explore the Price of Pleasure in Pornography
A Networking Session for Radical Movement Centers
SCREENING: The End of Poverty (2008) , Philippe Diaz
SATURDAY, 2-3:00 PM
Lunch Hour
SATURDAY, 3-5:00 PM
Revolution and Protest Yesterday and Tomorrow
Obama and the Audacity of Hype
Understanding the Roots of the “Israel-Palestine conflict”
War and Imperialism: The New Turn in the War On Terror- from Afghanistan to Gaza
The Return of Karl Marx…But Which Marx is Most Needed, Especially Now?
Laboring American Culture: The Politics and Practices of Studs Terkel
Justice in the Age of Imperial America: Unchecked Political Power Verses the Law
Indigenous Mobilization in South America
Building New Social Relations: Prefigurative Politics in Movements
European Perspectives on Obama
God’s Economics: Is an Ethical Economy Possible?
Classy Documentaries about Class Struggle
Africa And The Crisis Of Global Capitalism: Will It Be Bail Out Or Cash Out?
Building Strategies for Meaningful Local Development
Remembering Mills: The Sociological Imagination 50 Years Later
Campus Responsible Investment Movements
The Future of Israel/Palestine after Gaza
The Past, Present and Future of Strikes
Is Another World Really Possible?
Religious Communities, Social Justice Campaigns, and Poor People’s Movements
Political Economy of the Globalized Food System
Counter Culture Industries: Capitalist, Anti-capitalist, Non-capitalist
The Housing Crisis and the Possibility of Resistance
Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons
Left/Independent Publishing Panel
SCREENING: Argentina’s Dirty War: Three decades later (2008)
SCREENING: Malalai Joya: Enemies of Happiness
Paper Tiger Documentary Interviews with Forum Participants
Dialogue on Protecting Sex workers' Rights Versus Human Trafficking Laws and Logics
SATURDAY, 5-7:00 PM
What Comes After Neoliberalism?
On the Brink of Depression: Turning Point in World Capitalism?
Marx and the Global Economic Crisis
Activists and the Current Crisis
Not Just Change, but Justice: Taking on U.S. Latin America Policy in the Obama Era
Radical Organizing: Challenges & Successes
Spitzer, Sex Work, and Trafficking
China in the face of Deepening Crisis of Globalized Capitalism
New Frontiers: Left Psychology Explores US Personal Life
Building Power Through Educational Justice
Regroupment of the European Radical Left
Turning Up the Heat for Single Payer Health Care at this Political Turning Point
Is the Left Ready for a New Political Party
China's Contribution to Socialism and Democracy in the 21st Century
The Relation Between Chinese Reform and the Opening Up of Marxism
How Does Marxist-Humanism Speak to Socialism for the 21st Century
Queer Politics, Class, and the Right
China in the Global Crisis of Capitalism: A Turning point?
Dialectics of Defeat: Towards a Theory of Historical Regression
Direct Action Labor Struggle and Social Change
Radical Left/International Film Makers
The Food Democracy Movement: Organizing fo a Healthy, Sustainable, and Socially Just Food System
The Case Against Centralized Thermal (Nuclear and Coal) Power
SCREENING: Morristown: In the Air and Sun (2008), and The Internationale (1998)
Prosecution for Bush Era War Criminals
Left Lawyering in the Age of Obama
SCREENING: La Commune (2009), Cécile Clairval-Milhaud
Paper Tiger Documentary Interviews with Forum Participants
Grassroots Organizing: Behind Bars, in the Community
SATURDAY, 7:30PM
SATURDAY EVENING PLENARY
THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN AND PRESIDENCY: LESSONS FOR THE LEFT
Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Moderator) - Center for Labor Renewal, Black Commentator Stanley Aronowitz – Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY Frances Fox Piven - Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY Barbara Epstein - History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz Gihan Perera- Miami Workers Center, Right to the City Alliance Barbara Ransby – Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
SUNDAY, APRIL 19
10:00 AM
Nationalize the Banks! What Does it Really Mean?
What Has the World Social Forum Accomplished?
Convergences and Strategies from the Emerging Global Climate Justice Movement
Political Economy of Contemporary India
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis of Organized Labor, Author Meets Critic
Social Struggles, Political Conflicts, Democracy in Latin America
A Marxist-Psychoanalytic Analysis of “Death of a Salesman”
Marxist Theories of the Global Economic Crisis
Defeating the Persistent Assaults on Social Insurance
Rebel CUNY : Legacy of People's Struggle
Greed, Can an Information Age Society Afford to Indulge It?
In search of a new political economy in times of global economic crisis
Theorizing Crisis and Class Mobilization: Ethnographies of Global Capitalism
The Criminalization of People with Psychiatric Disabilities
Teaching Immigrants and Immigration
New Left Party Formations in Europe: The Global Crisis of Neoliberalism and New Openings
The Internet: Humanity's Revolutionary Initiative
Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance
Not our war: Afghanistan and the Challenges for the Global Peace Movement
The New Deal Model and Permanent Change
Informal Sector Worker Organizing at the Crossroads
Class Struggle and the Crisis: From Workers to Capital and Back Again
Photography: Revealing the Socially Invisible
In Praise of Socialist Planning
Imperialism and the Global Economic Crisis
The Chinese Model of Development
SCREENING: VENEZUELA: REVOLUTION FROM THE INSIDE OUT (2008), Clifton Ross
Paper Tiger Documentary Interviews with Forum Participants
12-2:00 PM
Progressive Program for Recovery and Financial Reconstruction
China in the Global Economic Maelstrom
South Asia Globalizing: What Ruling Classes Do When They Rule
Marxist and Other Left Perspectives on the Future of the Chinese Political Economy
American Violence: Actually-Existing Barbarism?
A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
Venezuela’s Impact on Latin America
The Return of Marx: How can Socialism Change the World?
Returning to the Source: Ethnic Studies in the Obama Age
Crisis in Auto: Public Bailout or Public Ownership?
Sports as a Platform for Dissent
Black Workers and the Current Economic Crisis
Teaching War and Peace in the Classroom
Beyond the Links of Repression: from Chile to the US
A Collaborative Multi-national Democracy Workshop: Building a Hemispheric Economy
To Quell and Expel: Challenging the Police State
Universities in (the) Crisis: Class Contradictions in Higher Education
Liberalism, Imperialism & the Politics of Human Rights
Green New Deal - A Global Turn in Capitalism?
The Crisis is in Charge, the Center Cannot Hold: What Way Forward with Obama
Women on the Margins: Incarceration and Resistance in the Current Era
Health Care Reform: Building Left Unity is Critical
Indigenous Activism, the New Constitution, and Political Conflict in Bolivia
Building Sustainable Communities, Beyond Green and Into Social Sustainability
Paper Tiger Documentary Interviews with Forum Participants
SCREENING: A Really Inconvenient Truth (2007), Joel Kovel
3-5:00 PM
Labor Strategy and Tactics for a New Era- A roundtable discussion with labor activists and strikers
Domestic Worker Organizing- Building Power Locally and Nationally
What is the Nature of the Economic Crisis?
Gay Marriage: Should the Left Care?
Overcoming Capitalist Ecological Degradation through Ecosocialism
Left Strategy from the Grassroots
Democratic Socialist Responses to Stagnation, the Wall Street Collapse and the World Economic Crisis
The Trouble With Diversity in the Age of Obama
Local Electoral Politics: Why Bother?
Concretizing Marx's Alternative to Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective
For Leadership and Human Rights
The De-Stalinization of Chinese Marxism
Public Education, Gentrification, and Privatization
From the New School Occupation to Our Political Moment
Illustrating Resistance: Art, Activism and Popular Education
The Practice of Teaching. Researching and Writing on Elite Deviance in the Higher Education Context
Campaign to End the Death Penalty National Tour: Live From Death Row!
Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies
The Role of Scholars and Artists in Palestine Solidarity: The Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet
The Debate Over Green Capitalism, Technofixes and Reforms
Terror Incognita: Immigrants and the Homeland Security State
Paper Tiger Documentary Interviews with Forum Participants
SCREENING: Obama's Iraq (2009) , Richard Rowley
5:30 pm
CLOSING PLENARY
TURNING POINTS
Nancy Holmstrom (Chair) - Philosophy, Rutgers Medea Benjamin - Co-founder Code Pink and Global Exchange Johanna Brenner - Sociology, Portland State University Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education and Research, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Bhairavi Desai - Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance <!-- close the main doc holder -->