THE U.S., THE WORLD AND
THE NEXT FOUR YEARS

Speakers include: Tariq Ali, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joe Trippi, Joanne Landy, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Michelle Fine, Ralph Nader, Tod Ensign, Ellen Meiksins Wood, François Houtart, Frida Berrigan, Robin Kelley, Stanley Aronowitz, Ellen Willis, Gilbert Achcar, Stephen R. Shalom, Michael Klare, Bogdan Denitch, Luciana Castellina, Lynne Stewart, Manning Marable, Jason West, Suren Moodliar, Peter Gowan, Barbara Epstein, Doug Henwood, Frances Fox Piven, Gerald Horne, Rosa Clemente, William K. Tabb, Joel Rogers, David Harvey, Rose Brewer, Cindy Milstein, Leo Panitch, Christine A. Kelly, Barbara Garson, Christian Parenti, Stephen Eric Bronner, Michael Albert, MIchael Zweig, Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Frieder Otto Wolf, Michael Hardt, Stephen Duncombe, Eddie Yuen, Chris Dixon, Staughton Lynd, Richard Goldstein, Richard D. Wolff, Ward Morehouse, Victor Paredes, resisters and veterans of the War in Iraq, and many more...

Panels include: The Western Left and the Future of Iraq | Civil Rights in the Post-Affirmative Action Era | The Daniel Singer Prize | Why Americans Fall for the Ownership Society | The Middle East: States, Insurgencies, Islam, and the International Economy | The 2004 Elections: Progressive Responses | Class or Multitude? | Youth Organizing and Politics in the U.S. | Neoliberal Rollback: Social Security | Imperialism and the Domestic Agenda | The Left in Local Government: Kerala, Tuscany, Brazil, New York State | Building Alliances: Parties -- Movements -- Left Strategies | Hip Hop Politics Today | History Matters: The Past, Public Memory, and Resistance | Debtor Families, Debtor Nation | Insurgencies and the Limits of U.S. Imperial Reach | Ecology and the Left | Neoliberalism and National Strategies in Latin America | Dilemmas of the U.S. Peace Movement | and much more.