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2007
program
FRIDAY
12 TO 5 PM
Left
Forum Film Festival
New York University, 721
Broadway, Btw. Waverly Pl. and Washington Pl. Room 006
free and open to the public
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PRE-CONFERENCE
COCKTAIL PARTY:
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 5:00 TO 6:30 at COOPER UNION
$5 per person to help cover
costs
FRIDAY 7pm
OPENING PLENARY
FORGING
A RADICAL POLITICAL FUTURE
saturday march 10
SATURDAY 10 AM
Imperial Debacle?
Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine (Socialist Register)
Today’s Black Agenda (Black Radical Congress)
Revolution In Nepal: Marxist Praxis (Monthly Review)
Oaxaca Democratic
Insurgency (Socialism and Democracy)
Horn of Africa, Somalia and the Gulf War (LF)
Catching
Up or Dropping Further Behind? The First Five Years of No Child Left Behind
(Radical Teacher)
An Agenda for America: Demands for this Congress,
and the Next
(Democratic Socialists of America Fund)
Peak Oil: Politics of the Debate (LF)
The Cost of Privilege: Working Class Fragmentation (Camino Press)
The New Left in Europe: Crises and Prospects
(Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
What Are Non-reformist
Reforms Today? (LF)
SATURDAY 12 PM
Ecological Struggles Around The World (capitalism nature socialism)
Socialism and Social Critique in Science Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion (Socialism and Democracy)
Puerto Rico: Financial-colonial Crisis & Social Movement Response (2005-2006) (LF)
Political Satire
(LF)
The Split in Organized Labor: What’s the Result?
(LF)
The
Left, Islam and the War on Terror (International Socialist Review)
New Orleans: What's Left and Who's Left? (LF)
The Politics of Victimhood (LF)
The Academy as an Arena for Organizing: An Intergenerational Dialogue (LF)
The "European Social Model" and the USA (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Radical Visions for the 21st Century (Z Magazine)
US, Iran and Israel: What's Ahead? (Union for Radical Economists, URPE)
Marx for Today: Alternatives to Capitalism (News and Letters)
Wage Stagnation, Growing Insecurity, and the Future of the US Working Class (LF)
SaTURDAY 2 PM
Lunch Hour
saturday 3 PM
Israel/Palestine: One State or Two? (LF)
State and Revolution in the 21st Century (LF)
The Left And Conspiracy:
Post 9/11 Dissent (LF)
Issues of Global Immigration (LF)
Do We Need Another Wave? An Intergenerational
Dialogue on the Legacy of Feminist Thought and Activism (LF)
Popular Power and
Latin American Social Movements: Horizontalidad, Autonomy and Self-Management
(LF)
Left Turn: A Dialogue on Constructing Left Formations
(LF)
The Power of Money—The Money of Power (Rosa
Luxemburg Foundation)
What's Missing from the Student Movement? (LF)
Seeking Revolutionary Change Through Culture (Science & Society)
Sports: Resistance
and Culture in America (LF)
Progressive Realism: Neo-Conservatism & The
American Empire (Religion & Socialism Commission)
Organizing
Low Wage Workers (CityWatch-WBAI)
Doing Independent Reporting: A Tribute to Brad
Will (LF)
SATURDAY 5 PM
Real Solutions for the Middle East (LF)
Challenges Facing the World Social Forum (LF)
The Personal Meets the Political 2007 (LF)
A New Left in Latin America? (LF)
Public Health and the Left (LF)
Immigrant Women Workers Organizing (LF)
CyberOrganizing—The Internet and Beyond (LF)
Toward a New Socialism (Radical Philosophy Association)
Class, Postmodernism, and Marxism: An (un)Happy Marriage? (Rethinking Marxism)
Imperialism and the Nation-State (Socialist Register)
Anarchism and the Left: An Uneasy Relationship?(LF)
Thinking Beyond War (Social Text)
Revisiting South Africa’s Transition: Contradiction and Possibilities (LF)
Working Class Politics, Historic Blocs, and Political Parties: A Dialogue (LF)
Voices From a People's History of the United
States
Karen
Finley's "George and Martha"
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS AT 2 AM. SET CLOCKS FORWARD
SUNDAY March 11
SUNDAY 10 AM
Socialism’s Future: Revisiting the Reform vs. Revolution Controversy (LF)
Genocide, the Left, and Darfur (LF)
The Political Economy of the Escalating Pentagon Budget (URPE)
Forging a Radical Feminist Future: The Legacy of Ellen Willis (LF)
Radicalizing Students: Teaching Politically in the Time of David Horowitz (Radical Teacher)
New Interpretations of Marx’s Capital (LF)
Parecon and Movement Building (ZNet)
Europe-China-USA: Hegemonic Actors and Imperial Projects (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Immigration and Labor:
Latin American Workers in the United States (NACLA)
Agitating for a National Health Plan (Healthcare-NOW)
SUNDAY 12 PM
Latin America's Left Turn (LF)
Coalition Building in the US Social Forum Movement (LF)
Student Activism Today: SDS Revived (LF)
The Trouble With Diversity: Challenging Multiculturalism (LF)
Attacks on Arabs
& Muslims (International Socialist Review)
Beyond Solidarity: Creating Global Labor Unions
(LF)
Schooling in a Global Marketplace: Combating
Neoliberalism's International Agenda (New Politics)
Personal Debt: Traps and Dynamics (LF)
Ecosocialism: What It Is And Why We Need It (Socialist Register)
Prisons, Prisoners and Political Prisoners (LF)
Reflections on Feminism in a Global Era (LF)
More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States (Monthly Review)
SuNDAY 2 PM
Lunch Hour
SUNDAY 3 PM
The Left in the Arab World: History, Conditions, and Prospects (LF)
Are the Barons of
Finance Robbing the Store (URPE)
Race, Fascism, and the Unknown History of the Frankfurt School (Critical
Sociology)
Europe and Islam:
An Intolerant Minority or An Intolerant Majority? (LF)
What would a Serious Left Electoral Program Be?
(LF)
Capitalism And Climate Change (capitalism nature socialism)
Hearts of Darkness. Science Fiction, Horror and the Political Unconscious (LF)
Henri Lefebvre: Re(de)fining the Radical Imagination (Situations)
Soldiers in Revolt: Building Today's GI Movement (Citizen Soldier)
The
Nuclear Threat: Now More than Ever (Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy)
SUNDAY 5:30 pm
CLOSING PLENARY