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Nuclear Revival?
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman
Mary Olson - Director, Southeast Office, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Edwin Lyman - Senior scientist, global security, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Karen Charman - Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism, and independent investigative environmental journalist.
Deb Katz - Executive Director, Citizens Awareness Network.
No Fracking Way! The Politics and Ecology of Drilling for Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman
Walter Hang - Toxics Targeting
Julian Rodriguez-Drix - ShaleShock Alliance and Alliance for Climate Education
Wes Gillingham - Catskill Mountainkeeper
Irwin Sperber - Associate professor, Sociology, SUNY New Paltz
Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part I of II)
New Politics
Chair: Jenny Greeman
Richard Greeman - Secretary Victor Serge Foundation, Montpellier, France Co-Founder, Praxis Research and Education Center, Moscow Russia
David Schwartzman - Geochemical Society American Geophysical Union
Brian Tokar - Institute for Social Ecology Climate SOS;
Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part II of II)
New Politics
Chair: Jenny Greeman
Dr. Les Levidow - Open University, UK
Ted Glick - Climate Crisis Coalition; Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Victor Wallis - Berklee College of Music; "Socialism and Democracy"
R. Michael M'Gonigle
Dirty Gas, Oil, and Coal: The Fossil Fuel Problematic and Some Solutions
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman
Julian Rodriguez-Drix - ShaleShock Alliance and Alliance for Climate Education
Mike Roselle - Climate Ground Zero
Terisa Turner - University of Guelph
Richard Grossman - Independent historian
Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change
Chair: Arun Gupta, The Indypendent and Alternet
Moderator Christian Parenti - The Nation
Robert S. Eshelman - Free-lance journalist
Tina Gerhardt - Columbia University
Organizing for Climate Justice
Chair: Brian Tokar
Cecil Corbin-Mark - WEACT (West Harlem Environmental Action)
Julian Rodríguez-Drix - Rising Tide North America ShaleShock Alliance
Valeria Georghiu - National Lawyers' Guild Environmental Justice Committee Center for World Indigenous Studies
Patrick Bond - University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society (Durban, S. Africa) Durban Group for Climate Justice
Brian Tokar - Institute for Social Ecology Climate SOS Speciesism
The Forgotten Oppression: Why Should the Left Care?
Chair: Kamil Ghoshal
John Sonbonmatsu
Mickey Z Post - Copenhagen Politics of Climate Change
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Joel Kovel - Capitalism Nature Socialism, Editor-in-Chief
Leigh Brownhill - York University
David Schwartzman - Howard University
Why Green Capitalism Can't Solve the Climate Crisis
International Socialist Review
Chair: Heather Rogers - CUNY Grad Center
Fred Magdoff - Monthly Review
Chris Williams - International Socialist Review
The Urban Industrial Complex and Emergent Forms of Environmentalism
Chair: Judith Pajo - Department of Sociology/Anthropology & Institute for Environmental/Regional Studies, Pace University
Lubomir Smilenov - Student, Pace University
Adam Reichardt - Student, Pace University
Brittney James - Student, Pace University
Jeffrey Wolpert - Student, Pace University
Brandon Schlueter - Student, Pace University