2006 program

Great Hall - Foundation
Opening Plenary: Challenges to Empire, Friday, 7 p.m.
Left Forum

Welcome

Dr. George Campbell Jr., President,
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Chair: Deepa Fernandes, WBAI
Chico Whitaker, World Social Forum, Brazil
François Houtart, Centre Tricontinental, Belgium
Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
Aníbal Quijano, Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Peru
Sabine Leidig, ATTAC - Germany

Saturday, 10 a.m.

Great Hall - Foundation
The World Social Forum Alternatives to Empire
Left Forum
Chair: Thomas Ponniah, Network Institute for Global Democratization
François Houtart, Centre Tricontinental, Belgium
Chico Whitaker, World Social Forum, Brazil
Nancy Fraser, New School University
Heather Gautney, Graduate Center, CUNY

Wollman Lounge - Engineering
The Daniel Singer Foundation 2005 Prize:
"Sustaining Equality and Justice in the Struggle for Socialism"
The Daniel Singer Foundation
Chair: Percy Brazil, The Daniel Singer Foundation
Sam Farber, Brooklyn College, CUNY biography
Victor Navasky, The Nation
Daniel Finn, Daniel Singer Prize Recipient
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, CUNY

Wollman Auditorium - Engineering
Fascism: Then and Now
Alliance of Radical Academic/Intellectual Organizations
Chair: Patricia Keeton, Ramapo College
Gregory Meyerson, North Carolina State University
Mark Rosenzweig, American Library Association
Michael Roberto, North Carolina State University

Hewitt Auditorium
Hungry Capital: Food Security and Global Migration
Dollars & Sense and Union for Radical Political Economics
Chair: Renee Toback, National Treasury Employee's Union
Paul Hancock, Green Mountain College
Fred Magdoff, University of Vermont
Julio Huato, Graduate Center, CUNY

Foundation - 315
Imperialism and its Future
Left Forum
Chair: Jomo K.S., University of Malaya
Vivek Chibber, New York University
Anwar Shaikh, New School University
Eric Reinert, The Other Canon Foundation, Oslo

Peter Cooper Suite - Foundation - 8th floor
Academic Freedom and Labor
Social Text
Chair: Ashley Dawson, Graduate Center, CUNY
Michael Palm, GSOC, United Auto Workers Local 2110
Lisa Duggan, New York University
Gil Anidjar, Columbia University

Engineering - 605
Iraq: Exit Strategies - with film screening "Meeting Face to Face"
US Labor Against the War
Chair: Michael Zweig, USLAW, UUP-SUNY (AFT Local 2190)
Carolyn "Rusty" Eisenberg, Legistlative Working Group of UFPJ
Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
TBA

Engineering - 515
Poor Peoples' Organizing Campaigns
Left Forum
Chair: Chris Caruso
James Tracy, San Francisco Community Land Trust
Ujju Aggarwal, Center for Immigrant Families
Priscilla González, Center for Immigrant Families
Kevin Fitzpatrick, Taxi Driver's Alliance
Willie Baptist, Kensington Welfare Rights Union

Engineering - 521
Artists Organizing, Organizing Artists
Chair: Dara Greenwald, cultural worker
Josh MacPhee, JustSeeds.org
Surajit Sarkar, Catapult Arts Caravan
Mary Anne Staniszewski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Gregory Sholette, REPOhistory

Saturday, 12 p.m.

Great Hall - Foundation
The Neo-Rainbow Coalition Strategy and the Left
Left Forum
Chair: Leith Mullings, Graduate Center, CUNY
Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
Sonia Ivany, New York City Central Labor Council
Barbara Bowen, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY
Charlene Mitchell, Committees of Correspondence
Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice
Roger Toussaint, Transit Workers Union, New York
Manning Marable, Columbia University

Hewitt Auditorium
After the "No" to the E.U. Treaty
Left Forum and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Chair: Barbara Garson, author, MacBird!
Jörg Huffschmid, University of Bremen
François Houtart, Centre Tricontinental, Belgium
Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
Jonas Sjöstedt, Left Party ( Sweden ), European Parliament
Michael R. Krätke, University of Amsterdam

Wollman Auditorium - Engineering
Crisis in Auto or Crisis in Health? Crisis in Capital or Crisis in Labor
Socialist Register
Chair: Leo Panitch, Socialist Register
Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
Thomas Sablowski, Social Science Research Center, Berlin
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, CUNY
Sam Gindin, ex-research director, Canadian Auto Workers
Marsha Niemeijer, Labor Notes

Wollman Lounge - Engineering
The Political Economy of U.S. Neo-Imperialism
Monthly Review,
Chair: John Mage, Monthly Review Foundation
Forrest Hylton, author, An Evil Hour: Colombia in Historical Context,
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California State University, East Bay
John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review

Foundation 315
The Welfare State: Once Capitalism's Savior, Now Capitalism's Enemy?
Left Forum
Chair: Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
John Manley, Stanford University
Graham Cassano, Union of Radical Political Economics
Michael Hillard, University of South Maine
Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island

Engineering - 615
Understanding and Challenging the Right-Wing Resurgence
Political Research Associates
Chair: Abby Scher, Political Research Associates
Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates
Michelle Goldberg, Salon.com
Gerald Horne, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Peter Cooper Suite - Foundation, 8th floor
Militants and Citizens: Participatory Democracy, Anarchism, and the State
Left Forum
Chair: Thomas Ponniah, Network Institute for Global Democratization
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Marina Sitrin, New York University
David Graeber, Yale University
Michael Menser, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Engineering - 521
The New Development Economics: Critical Perspectives
International Development Economics Associates
Chair: Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Queens College, CUNY
Brian van Arkadie, Economic and Social Research Center, Dar Es Salaam
Eric Reinert, The Other Canon Foundation, Oslo
Arthur MacEwen, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Jomo K.S., University of Malaya

Engineering - 515
What Religious Socialists And The Rest Of The Left Have To Say To Each Other
Religion and Socialism Commission, Democratic Socialists of America
Chair: Rev. Judith Deutsch, Sudbury, Massachusetts
Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School
Rev. Norman Faramelli, Boston University School of Theology
Donna Schaper, Judson Memorial Church
Juanita Webster, community activist

Engineering - 609
Personal Crises in the U.S. as a Basis for Radical Organizing
Left Forum
Chair: James Trimarco, Left Forum
Richard Lichtman, The Wright Institute
Harriet Fraad, Psychoanalyst and Hypnotherapist
Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago

Saturday, 2 p.m.

Great Hall - Foundation
The Media Makes the World: Telesur, Al Jazeera and the Potential of

New Media
Left Forum
Chair: Nan Rubin, Community Media Services
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Carl Ginsburg, Air America Radio
Gary Younge, The Guardian, U.K.
Representative of Al Jazeera
Aram Aharonian, director of Telesur

Wollman Auditorium - Engineering
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution
Left Forum
Chair: Thomas Ponniah, Network Institute for Global Democratization,
Steve Ellner, Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela
Carles Muntaner, University of Toronto
Fermin Toro Jiménez, Ambassador to the U.N., Venezuela
Margarita López Maya, Central University of Venezuela

Hewitt Auditorium
What's Happening to the Left of Social Democracy in Europe

Today?: The Party Landscape
Left Forum and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
Chair: Marta Petrusewicz, Hunter College, CUNY
Christoph Spehr, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
Roberto Rezzo, l'Unità, Italy
Frieder Otto Wolf, "Sustainable Strategy" Freie Universität - Berlin
Sabine Leidig, ATTAC- Germany

Foundation - 315
Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties Today
Science & Society and Socialism and Democracy
Chair: Marvin Gettleman, Science & Society, HAW
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
Mark Smith, American Association of University Professors
William Cutler, Temple University
Barbara Foley, Science & Society
Abdeen Jabara, New York Civil Liberties Union
David Graeber, Yale University

Engineering - 515
Labor in Transition: Rebuilding and Restrategizing
Left Forum
Chair: Martin Fishgold, International Labor Communications Association
Saru Jayaraman, HERE Workers
Steve Early, Communication Workers of America
Steve Downs, New York City Transit Workers Union
Bhairavi Desai, New York Taxi Workers Alliance

Engineering - 521
Socialism: Preface to Communism, or Humane State Capitalism?
AESA/Rethinking Marxism
Chair: Harriet Fraad, AESA/Rethinking Marxism
Satya Gabriel, Mount Holyoke College
Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside
Anjan Chakrabarty, University of Calcutta
Stephen Resnick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Peter Cooper Suite - Foundation, 8th floor
Participatory Budgeting in North America and NYC
Left Forum
Chair: Michael Menser, NYC Social Forum
Josh Lerner, New School University
Gianpaolo Baoicchi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jennifer Flynn, HIV Aids Housing Network, Still We Rise
Bonnie Brower, City Project

Engineering - 615
America and the World
Logos
Chair: Gregory Zucker, Logos
Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University
Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University
J. Michael Turner, Hunter College

Wollman Lounge - Engineering
Did Julius Nyerere's Strategy for African Socialism Ever Have a Chance?
Left Forum
Chair: George Caffentzis, University of Southern Maine
Brian van Arkadie, Economic and Social Research Center, Dar Es Salaam
John Loxley, University of Manitoba
John Saul, York University
Mahmood Mamdani, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University

Engineering - 315
The War on Pensions
Dollars & Sense and Union for Radical Political Economics
Chair: Rina Garst, Union for Radical Political Economics
David Brennan, Franklin & Marshall College
Sara Burke, Gloves Off
Eric Glynn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Chris Rude, URPE and New School University

Engineering - 321
Why Marx? Why Now?
Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU
Chair: Bertell Ollman, International Endowment for Democracy
Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado, Boulder
John Manley, Stanford University
David Laibman, Brooklyn College
Hillel Ticktin, Critique

Saturday, 4 p.m.

Great Hall - Foundation
The Cartoons Syndrome: A Clash of Civilizations?
Left Forum
Chair: Nina Felshin, Welseyan University
Mahmood Mamdani, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
Til Mette, cartoonist, Der Stern

Wollman Auditorium - Engineering
Coming to Terms With Nature
Socialist Register
Chair: Leo Panitch, York University
John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Heather Rogers, author, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage,
Frieder Otto Wolf, "Sustainable Strategy" Freie Universität - Berlin
Minqi Li, York University

Foundation - 315
Cuba and Venezuela's Impact on the Struggle Against Racism in the U.S.
Black Radical Congress
Chair: Jarvis Tyner, Black Radical Congress
Gerald Horne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Leonor C. Osorio, Consul General of Venezuela, New York
Jesús García, Afro-Venezuelan Network

Engineering - 515
Thinking Through a Post-Capitalist Future
News & Letters Committees
Chair: Anne Jaclard, News & Letters Committees
Michael Albert, Z Magazine
Paresh Chattopadhyay, University of Quebec, Montreal
Andrew Kliman, New SPACE
Joshua Howard, Graduate Center, CUNY

Hewitt Auditorium
Anti-imperialist Resistance in Puerto Rico: Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Armed Struggle, and Popular Organizing (1990-2005)
Socialism and Democracy
Chair: Victor Wallis, Socialism and Democracy
Michael González Cruz, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Judith Berkan, attorney
Orlando Portela, Facultad de Derecho, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Mayagüez
Gualesca Yarima Rodríguez, La Nueva Escuela, Puerto Rico

Peter Cooper Suite - Foundation, 8th floor
Problems of the Left: Objective and Self-Made
Left Forum
Chair: Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University - Newark
Barbara Epstein, University of California, Santa Cruz
Bill Fletcher Jr., TransAfrica Forum
Arun Gupta, The Indypendent
Eric Canepa, Left Forum
Nicholas Powers, Graduate Center, CUNY

Wollman Lounge - Engineering
A Tribute to Harry Magdoff
Monthly Review and Left Forum
Chair: Percy Brazil, The Daniel Singer Foundation
John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review
William K. Tabb, Queens College, CUNY
Annette T. Rubinstein, Science & Society

Engineering - 315
Paths to Revolutionary Democracy
Revolutionary Research Project
New Political Science
Chair: Immanuel Ness, Working USA
Geoffroy de Laforcade, Longwood University
Christine A. Kelly, New Political Science
Victor Mayorga, City College of New York, CUNY
Benjamin Day, Cornell University
Paul Le Blanc, La Roche College

Engineering - 321
Health Care Meltdown: Solutions Left and Right, and a Vision of Truly

Liberatory Health Care
Physicians for a National Health Program
Chair: Martha Livingston, SUNY College at Old Westbury
Mark Hannay, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
Leonard Rodberg, Queens College, CUNY
Oliver Fein, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Marilyn Clement, Healthcare - NOW

Sunday, 10 a.m.

Great Hall - Foundation
The Left, the Palestine Issue, and Hamas
Left Forum
Chair: Abdeen Jabara, New York Civil Liberties Union
Noura Erakat, Arab Movement of Women Arising for Justice
Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
Uri Ram, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Peter Weiss, Center for Constitutional Rights

Wollman Auditorium - Engineering
Do We Need A New Radical Party? Going Beyond Movement Coalitions
Left Forum and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin,
Chair: Julia Wrigley, Graduate Center, CUNY
Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center, CUNY
Rainer Rilling, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
Eric Chester, Socialist Party
Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies
Dan Cantor, Working Families Party

Hewitt Auditorium
The Rise of the Modern Media Movement: Where We've Been and
Where We're Going
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Chair: Steve Rendall, FAIR
Deepa Fernandes , WBAI
Robin Andersen, Fordham University
Jeff Cohen, FAIR

Wollman Lounge - Engineering
Autonomism Across Borders
Left Forum
Chair: Paolo Carpignano, New School University
George Caffentzis, University of Southern Maine
Silvia Federici, Hofstra University
Jack Bratich, Rutgers University
Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Leicester, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy
Kirsten Forkert, Whitney Fellow

Foundation - 315
University for Sale?
Radical Teacher
Chair: Susan O'Malley, Radical Teacher, CUNY Faculty Senate
Paul Lauter, Trinity College
Renate Bridenthal, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY
Molly Nolan, New York University

Peter Cooper Suite - Foundation, 8th floor
Does Historical Materialism Need an Ethics?
Left Forum
Chair: Karsten Struhl, New School University
John Pittman, John Jay College, CUNY
Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University - Newark
Respondent: Bertell Ollman, New York University

Engineering - 515
Marxist Views of China 's Contemporary Development
Left Forum
Chair: David Kotz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Minqi Li, York University
Richard Smith, author
Cheng En Fu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Engineering - 521
Decline, Democracy and Authoritarianism
Critique
Chair: Susan Weissman, Saint Mary's College of California
Hillel Ticktin, Critique
Richard Lichtman, The Wright Institute

Engineering - 321
65th Anniversary of Reason and Revolution: Marcuse's
Hegelian-Marxism Today
Left Forum
Chair: Eli Messinger, Brecht Forum
Russell Rockwell, Fordham University
Arnold L. Farr, Saint Joseph 's University

Sunday, 12 p.m.

Great Hall - Foundation
The Katrina Crisis: Race, Class and Disaster in New Orleans
Left Forum
Chair: Leith Mullings, Graduate Center, CUNY
Kristen Clarke-Avery, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
William Cross, Graduate Center, CUNY,
Manning Marable, Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Gary Younge, The Guardian (U.K.)
Joseph Wilson, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Wollman Auditorium - Engineering
China, India and Capitalism in the Long Run
Left Forum
Chair: Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Queens College, CUNY
Giovanni Arrighi, Johns Hopkins University
Beverly J. Silver, Johns Hopkins University
Leo Panitch, York University
Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII

Wollman Lounge - Engineering
The Politics of Music/The Music of Politics
Left Forum
Chair: Eli Smith, musician
Mat Callahan, author, The Trouble With Music,
Immortal Technique, political rapper, Viper Records,
Ned Sublette, QBADisc
Nana Soul, Black Waxx Productions
Henrietta Yurchenco, Pan-American Music Arts Research

Hewitt Auditorium
Evo Morales and the New Bolivia
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA )
Chair: Christy Thorton, NACLA
Teo Ballvé, NACLA
Forrest Hylton, Author, An Evil Hour: Columbia in Historical Context,
Sinclair Thomson, New York University
Aníbal Quijano, University of Binghamton
Linda Farthing, Andean Information Network

Peter Cooper Suite - Foundation, 8th floor
The Human-Rights Movement as a Basis for Organizing
Left Forum
Chair: Ellen Raider, Independent Commission on Public Education
Dennis Brutus, African Social Forum
Sam Anderson, Medger Evers College, CUNY
Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island
Ibrahim Ramey, Fellowship of Reconciliation

Engineering - 621
Oil, Nukes, Mullahs, Democracy and U.S. Hegemony: The Political

Economy of the Iran Crisis
Left Forum
Chair: Fatemeh Moghadam, Hofstra Univesity
Tom O'Donnell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reza Ghorashi, Richard Stockton College
Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College, CUNY

Engineering - 521
Is There a Dollar Crisis?
Left Forum
Chair: Arun Gupta, The Indypendent
Max Fraad Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Arslan Razmi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Chris Rude, URPE and New School University

Foundation - 315
Time Warp: Intergenerational Dialogue about Social Movements
Left Forum
Chair: Jamie McCallum, Graduate Center, CUNY
Kenyon Farrow, co-editor, Letters From Young Activists
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, CUNY
Dan Berger, co-editor, Letters From Young Activists
Barbara Epstein, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nilda Laguer, Urban Mana

Engineering - 515
From Class to Race? ... or Sex or ... ?
Left Forum
Chair: Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers - Newark
Charles Mills, University of Illinois, Chicago
Michael Zweig, USLAW, UUP-SUNY (AFT Local 2190)
Catherine Sameh, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University, Connecticut

Engineering - 615
Left Out: Space, Time and Everyday Life
Situations
Chair: Julia Nevárez, Kean University
William DiFazio, Saint John's University
Michael Pelias, Long Island University, Brooklyn
Iván Zatz Díaz, Pratt Institute
Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center, CUNY

Engineering - 609
New Directions in Resisting Corporate Globalization: Amnesty International's

Bhopal Report and Protecting International Human Rights
Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA)
Chair: Ward Morehouse, CIPA
Amy Omeara, Amnesty International USA
Raj Sharma, attorney representing Bhopal victims in the U.S.

Sunday, 2 p.m.

Great Hall - Foundation
Ten Minutes to Midnight: The Emerging Police State
Left Forum
Chair: Michael Steven Smith, National Lawyers Guild
Dalia Hashad, American Civil Liberties Union
Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
Heidi Bogosian, National Lawyers Guild
Lynne Stewart, attorney

Wollman Auditorium - Engineering
Iraq in Context
Left Forum
Chair: Nancy Romer, U.S. Labor Against the War
Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
Irene Gendzier, Boston University
Rahul Mahajan, New York University
Christian Parenti, Graduate Center, CUNY

Hewitt Auditorium
Latin America: State and Social Movements
Left Forum
Chair: Jack Hammond, Hunter College, CUNY
Aníbal Quijano, Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Peru
Steve Ellner, Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela
François Houtart, Centre Tricontinental, Belgium
Chico Whitaker, World Social Forum, Brazil

Wollman Lounge - Engineering
Does Left Influence in Cinema Make a Difference?
Left Forum
Chair: Albert Ruben, screenwriter
Walter Bernstein, screenwriter
Eva Vives, screenwriter
Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter
James Schamus, Focus Features

Peter Cooper Suite - Foundation, 8th floor
The US Economy Today: Debts, Bubbles, Uncertainties
Left Forum
Chair: Ruth Indeck, URPE
Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer,
Eric Glynn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachussetts, Amherst
William K. Tabb, Queens College, CUNY

Foundation - 315
Turmoil in the Imperial Zone: Youth Uprisings and the

'Colonial Fracture' in France
Left Forum
Chair: Immanuel Ness, Working USA
Geoffroy de Laforcade, Longwood University
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, CUNY
Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Studies
Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
David Applebaum, Rowan University

Engineering - 605
Out-Cooperating the Empire
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
Chair: Brooke Lehman, Bluestockings Books
Trebor Scholz, SUNY, Buffalo
Jim Fleming, Autonomedia
Christoph Spehr, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
Andrej Grubacic, University of Belgrade

Engineering - 515
A Soldier's Movement Against the Iraq War: Prospects and Challenges
Citizen Soldier
Chair: Tod Ensign, Citizen Soldier
Aiden Delgado, Iraq War veteran
José Vásquez, Army Reserve conscientious objector
Geoffrey Millard, Iraq War veteran, Iraq Veterans Against the W ar
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Citizen Soldier

Engineering - 609
Is Democracy Compatible with Capitalism?
International Endowment for Democracy
Chair: Bertell Ollman, International Endowment for Democracy
John Gerassi, Queens College, CUNY
John Ehrenberg, Long Island University
Barbara Foley, Science & Society
William H. Schaap, attorney

Sunday, 4 p.m.

Great Hall - Foundation
Debating Strategies in the Anti-War Movement
Left Forum
Chair: Jim Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild
Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice
Kamau Karl Franklin, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Brian Becker, A.N.S.W.E.R.
Rahul Mahajan, New York University
Arun Gupta, The Indypendent, New York

Wollman Auditoirum - Engineering
Can We Change the World Without Taking Power?
Left Forum
Chair: Irina Ceric, Upping the Anti
Michael Albert, Z Magazine
Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies,
Leo Panitch, Socialist Register
Marina Sitrin, New York University
Andrej Grubacic, ZNet

Hewitt Auditorium
Wal-Mart and Global Capitalism Today
Left Forum
Chair: Barbara Garson, author, Money Makes the World Go Around
Liza Featherstone, The Nation
Max Fraad Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bill DiFazio, St. John's University

Wollman Lounge - Engineering
The Ecological Question: From False Solutions to Anti-capitalist Resistance
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman, Capitalism Nature Socialism
Costas Panayotakis, Capitalism Nature Socialism
Les Levidow, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Heather Rogers, filmmaker,
Irwin Sperber, SUNY, New Paltz

Peter Cooper Suite - Foundation, 8th floor
Will the Constitution Survive? Answers from the Center for

Constitutional Rights
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
Chair: Bill Goodman, CCR
Maria LaHood, CCR
Shayana Kadidal, CCR
Seema Ahmad, Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative - CCR

Foundation - 315
The Power of the Rich
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Chair: Rainer Rilling, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Hans - Jürgen Krysmanski, University of Münster
Jörg Huffschmid, University of Bremen
Michael R. Krätke, University of Amsterdam
William K. Tabb, Queens College, CUNY