2011 Conference Schedule

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A. Friday Registration—1:00 - 6:30 p.m. | B. Opening Plenary—Friday 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | C. Saturday Registration—7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | D. Panel Session 1—Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | E. Panel Session 2—Saturday 12:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. | F. Lunch—Saturday 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. & Raffle—2:15p.m. – 2:50 p.m. | G. Panel Session 3—Saturday 3:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. | H. Panel Session 4—Saturday 5:00 p.m. – 6:50 p.m. | I. Social Space & Exhibition Gathering—Saturday 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | J. Saturday Night Panel Event—7:30 – 9:00 p.m. | K. Sunday Registration—8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | L. Panel Session 5—Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | M. Panel Session 6—Sunday 12:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. | N. Lunch—Sunday 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. & Raffle—2:15p.m. – 2:50 p.m. | O. Panel Session 7—Sunday 3:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. | P. Closing Plenary—Sunday 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

A. Friday Registration—1:00 - 6:30 p.m. [top]

B. Opening Plenary—Friday 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. [top]
With: Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Paul Mason, and Laura Flanders

C. Saturday Registration—7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. [top]

D. Panel Session 1—Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. [top]

Abrupt Climate Change as the Long Emergency; Left Responses to the Energy,Food And Water Crises
Africana Studies :Which Way Forward --Marxism or Afrocentricity?
An “Ethnography” of The US Congress
Austerity, Security and Resistance
Breaking the Siege on Gaza -- How Solidarity is Overcoming State Terror
Capitalism, Climate Change and Social Conflicts
Combating Corporate Control of Health - The Bottom Line or Your Life (part 1)
Communication and Solidarity
Creating Leverage: Non-Electoral Strategies for Change in the Obama Era
Dreaming the Revolution & Winning the World We Want: An Open Form on Rebuilding the Left
Ethnic relations in China
Faiz Ahmed Faiz - Anthems of Resistance
Film: The Inconvenient Truth About 'Waiting for Superman'
How do we fight neoliberal austerity
Is Socialism Possible?
Is the Rosenberg Case Closed? If So, What Does it Mean, and Why Won’t the Right Accept the Truth?
Leadership and The Limits of Demands: The 2010 Daniel Singer Millennium Prize
Left Strategies to Exit the Crisis?
Marx and Human Nature
One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
Peoples Movements in Iran: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Socialism, Solidarity, and Life-Value
The Attack on Teacher Unionism and Public Education
The Bourgeois Revolution: from Marx's point of view
The Challenge of Creating a Culture of Culture on the US Left
The Living Wage - a UK-US dialogue
The Urban Racial State: Managing Race Relation
Understanding and Responding to the Tea Party Threat
Urban space: What Difference does it make for Organizing?
What Is the Work of the Democratic Coalition That Elected Obama
Winning the Battle of Democracy
Wither Democracy: Militarization and Neoliberal Development in South Asia

E. Panel Session 2—Saturday 12:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. [top]

F. Lunch—Saturday 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. & Raffle—2:15p.m. – 2:50 p.m. [top]

G. Panel Session 3—Saturday 3:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. [top]
Aesthetics in Protests
Against Capitalism and Imperialism
Alter-Globalization: Becoming an Actor in the Global Age
Art as a Weapon in Western Sahara: New Strategies in the Fight for Independence
Being a Black Lesbian in American, A Discussion of How “THE LIFE” Has Changed!
Black Liberation Theory: Towards Praxis & Solidarity
Building a New Priorities Network to Move the Money
Building Solidarity through Community Power: Community-Labor Coalitions
Capital’s War on Labor, Labor’s Civil Wars
Contested Forms of Protest and Struggle and the Neoliberal World Order
Critical Issues for Marxist Feminists Today
Defending the Public Square: Public Education and Teacher Unions Under Attack
Ecological and Economic Crises: Making Linkages
Ecstatic Pedagogy inside the Classroom and Out
Engaging Youths & Coummunity in Dialogue: Our Roles in Cultivating Global Peace?
Ethical Socialism?
Forbidden Fruit: The Role of Spirituality in the Left
Global Warming and Economic Cooling: Causes and Fight-back Strategies
How the Exception Became the Rule: The American Middle Class
How to Achieve Solidarity in the Electoral Arena - A Debate
Identities, Multiculturalism, and Solidarity
Increasingly Boisterous - Making Action More Direct
Jewish solidarity with the Palestinian struggle
Labor relations in China
Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle
Left Movements in Contemporary India-I
Lukács's Marxism
Marx for Today. Part II: Marx’s Global Reception Today
Movement, generation and moments of excess
Political Documentary Film - What is it good for?
Programs forLeft Rejuvenation
Puerto Rico: Colonialism & the Struggle Against the Privatization of Education
Reading the Bible from the Left: St. Paul the Community Organizer
Solidarity With the Non-human World: Postcolonial Explorations
Sustainablity: Solidarity issues (local and general)
The Betrayal of Haiti
The Great Recession and its Aftermath
The Rise of Electronic Voting, the Red Shift and the Question of Election Democracy
The role of Brazil in Geopolitics Today
The State of the Financial Sector
The uses of Islamophobia
Theater of the Oppressed in Building and Organizing Communities
Tous-Ensemble! Making a Unified Fight Against the Attacks, from Europe to the U.S.
Transformative Organizing: The Ultimate Solidarity
You Bet Your Life! The Struggle for Real Health Care Reform Continues

H. Panel Session 4—Saturday 5:00 p.m. – 6:50 p.m. [top]

- A Federal Jobs Program: A Green Jobs Program—What Shall We Demand
  Accumulation by dispossession and the politics of post-socialist solidarity
  Afghanistan, Pakistan and India: The Regional Context of Obama's War
  Africa's Re-colonization - Strategies for Africa and the U.S. left
  Building Resistance in NYC to the Neoliberal Restructuring of Public Education
  Capital and Its Discontents: Routes Out of the Crisis for Them and for Us
  Community Organizing: Building Solidarity, Addressing Contradictions
  Debating Alain Badiou’s “Politics of Emancipation”--An Exchange on Communism and the Historical Moment
  Don't Take the Bait: The Left and Crisis A Social Text Roundtable
  Facing the New MacCarthyism: Organizing to Fight the Islamophobic Right
  Fighting for a Free Society: Analysis, Vision, & Strategy to Confront the Totality of Oppression
  Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
  From Bank Bailout to Fiscal Austerity: Organizing to Fight the Budget Cuts
  From Caring for the Poor to Luxury Care - Narrowing the Worldwide Spectrum of Health Care
  From Silence to Solidarity: Unpacking the Silence and How to Break It
  Global Imbalances and the Great Recession
  Going into Debt: A Collective Presentation by the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
  How Do We Shift the Black Revolutionary Center Back to the Youth
  Imperial Unraveling: The Implosion of US Global Hegemony
  In Defense of Water: Building the Movement Against Fracking in NY and PA
  Iran: The Current State of Affairs
  Left Movements in Contemporary India-II
  Mobilizing American Youth in the Classroom, at the Workplace, in the Community in an Era of Demoralization and Demobilization.
  Nuclear Relapse
  Occupation, Resistance and International Solidarity in Kashmir and Palestine
  Organizing the Unemployed
  Putting the Public Back Into Public Education
  Racism and resistance in the immigration debate
  Radical Cartography: Are We There Yet?
  Redefining “Winning” as Winning: Running Locally, Getting Elected, and Why electoral success should matter more to the left.
  Resisting the War Abroad and the War at Home
  Roundtable: The Anticapitalist Left in the World Today
  Still in Transition? Debating Developments Since the End of Socialist Yugoslavia
  Taking Back The Teamsters & Telephone Worker Unions: Case Studies in Rank-and-File Insurgency Then and Now
  The Business of Black Power: Collective Economic Empowerment
  The Environmental Emergency: A Dialogue and Exchange on Real Solutions
  The Environmental Movement
  The Obama Years: Potential and Peril for American Progressives
  The Prison-Industrial Complex----Spiritual and Political Transformations from Outside and Inside the Criminal Justice System
  The Struggle Against Mainstream Economic Ideology
- The World Food and Agriculture Crisis
  Then and Now: Is the Gay Rights Movement Radical?
  Trotsky's Marxism
  United States Social Forum – Detroit 2010
  What do Pension Theft, the Assault on Labor, and the Public Sector, and Tax Injustice Mean for Communities of Color
  What is to be done?

l .Social Space & Exhibition Gathering—Saturday 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. [top]

J. Saturday Night Panel Event—7:30 – 9:00 p.m. [top]
The Tea Party and the Media

K. Sunday Registration—8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. [top]

L. Panel Session 5—Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. [top]

- Another Power Shift? Europe
  Assault on Public Sector Unions: Resisting Anti-worker State Initiatives and Cuts to Labor and Working Class Programs
  Badiou's Event: Who's afraid of Fidelity and Truth, Difference or Sameness, Solidarity or Selfishness?
  Building the Socialist Alternative: History, Theory and Radical Imagination
  Capitalism’s Terminal Crisis I: Economic Causes, Ecological Consequences, Radical Responses
  Challenging Islamophobia and Racism
  Changing the Relationships to Land
  China and International Left Solidarity
  Countering Dominant Narratives of 'Liberation' (in a revolutionary way)
  Cuba Update
  Disarmament work amidst a global crisis
  Does Marxism have Gender Trouble?
  Drone Wars
  Environmental Studies as Radical Ecology: Population, Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainability in the Context of University Education
  Film as an organizing tool
  Freedom and Democracy: Bringing Africa Back into the Discourse of Modernity
  Harvesting Justice: Solidarity in Transforming the Food System
  Helping Haiti rebuild with dignity, sovereignty and justice
  Hillbilly Nationalists, Revolutionary Greasers, and Black Power: > Organizing Poor Whites in the New Left
  How 'The Declining Significance of Race' Helped to Hide Internal Colonialism in Plain Sight
  Howard Zinn: Toward a Politics of Solidarity Within the Academy and Among the Citizenry
  International Labor Solidarity
  Jobless Recovery, the Intractability of the Capitalist Crisis, and Prospects for Fightback
  Lessons From the Third-Party Campaign Taill: What’s It Like To Be A Green, WFP, or Vermont Progressive Party Candidate
  Lethal Injustice: Standing Against the Death Penalty, and Harsh Punishment
  Locating the Left: The spaces and scales of meaningful politics today
  New York’s Health Systems: Change Without Transformation?
  Organizing for a Participatory Society
  Power and Politics in Latin America
  Renewing Working Class Struggles in the City: The Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
  Sharing a Cutlure for the US Left
  Solidarity Economy: Toward a Pluralist Socialist, Anti-capitalist, Post-capitalist unity?
  Songwriting, Media, and Culture Building
  Tactical Workshop with the Yes Men, Andrew Boyd (other98.com), and other mischief makers
  The Artists' Collective: Practical Aspects of Creative Activism
- The Bloomberg Mystique
  The Crisis This Time
  The Crisis, the Fightback,and Solidarity, from Anarchist and Marxist Perspetives
  The Politics of Climate Change: From the Neoliberal State to Oppositional Movements
  The Resistance Dilemma in Latin America: Relationships Between Social Movements and States
  The Revolution Just *Might* Be Televised
  The Unhappy Marriage of Loneliness and Capitalism
  What Are Cities Good For?: Gentrification and the Future of Urban Life
  Working in (Commercialized) Higher Education
  Working in (Commercialized) Higher Education

N. Lunch—Sunday 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. & Raffle—2:15 p.m.–2:50 p.m. [top]

O.Panel Session 7—Sunday 3:00 p.m.–4:50 p.m. [top]

Building Solidarity Through Theatre
Capitalism and Education: A Marxist discourse on what we're fighting against and what we're fighting for
Challenges in Palestine Solidarity Work in Canada
China and Marxism: Theory and Practice in Transition
Developing Capitalist Countries and Sustainability
Excluded Workers: Building a Labor Movement for the Twenty-First Century
Factory Occupatoins and Worker Control
Feminist Marxism in Theory and Practice
Financialization & Jobless Recovery
Food Chain Worker Solidarity
Food Movements in the City
From Financial Bailouts and Austerity Policies to Progressive Action: Linking Popular Protest and Political Change in Europe and the U.S.
Going Forward: A Revolutionary Perspective on Ethnic Studies.
Honoring and Engaging Aronowtiz: Remaking the Knowledge Factory
Is Socialism Possible? Part 2
Laughing Left: Spreading The Word With F-bombs, Oily Mermaids and Clowns On Bikes
Marked for Life: the social outcast in capitalist society; origins and resistance
No Fracking Way! Resisting Shale Gas Extraction—the Next Fossil Fuel Industry Assault
Obama's Imperial Policy in the Middle East and South Asia
Out of the Clinic and Into the World: Creating Activist Health Care Professionals for the 21st Century
Pass the Dream Act: How the student immigrant youth is leading the immigration debate
People of Color and Independent Left Politics
Political Cartoons: Resistance Through Ridicule
Political Crisis and Class Struggle in Europe
Post-Financial Crisis: Neoliberalism and the Global Economic Recovery
Rethinking the Contemporary Form of Capitalism: The Cases of North America, the EU, South Korea, and Venezuela
Revolution and Evolution in the Twenty First Century: Personal and Political Transformation
Science for the People: Empowerment through Science Literacy
Singing is Political
Social movements and Civil activism in China
Space is the Place 2: Building Capacities for Social Transformation
Surviving the Crisis and Transforming Society
Symposium on Social Justice and Criminal Justice for Progressive Reform!
The Crisis and the Middle Class: Right-Wing Populism in the Advanced Capitalist Countries and How to Combat It
The Engaged Photographer: From Courage to Creativity
The Left Debates the Democratic Party
The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
The Revolutionary Project and Socialism in the 21st century: US Bottom-up Struggles and the US Social Forum
The Wisconsin Uprising & Beyond
Transforming Public Higher Education in NYC
Tunisia and Egypt: culture and resistance
What We Learned from Wikileaks Revelations
Worker Control and Factory Occupations, Global South and North
Worker Control, Past and Present

P. Closing Plenary—Sunday 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. [top]

With: Malalai Joya, Luciana Castellina, Carlos M. Vilas, and John Nichols.