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Venezuela’s Proposal to Launch a Fifth Socialist International
Venezuela Analysis
Chair: Clara Irrazabal
Vanessa Davies - United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Stanley Aronowitz -
Michael Albert - ZNet
Thomas Ponniah - World Social Forum
Lessons from Venezuela: Achievements and Failures
Venezuela Analysis
Chair: Gregory Wilpert
Daniel Hellinger - Webster University
Steve Ellner - Universidad del Oriente
Carlos Martinez - Author of Venezuela Speaks!
Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
Chair: Ana M. Lopez
Michael Reyes Benavides
Samuel Vega and Melissa Cintron - Youngest actors of the play and college student organizers.
Michele Morales
The Honduran Coup and Its Aftermath
NACLA Report on the Americas
Chair: Greg Grandin (tentative); backup: Chris London
Alexander Main - Center for Economic and Policy Research
Adrienne Pine - American University
Rodolfo Pastor - Embassy of Honduras
Solidarity in Latin America: Solidarity Economy and Bolivarian Socialism in Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela
Chair: Mark Rego-Monteiro
Mark Rego-Monteiro - Mark Rego-Monteiro: Park Slope Food Coop, member, co-owner; New York University candidate M.S. International Community Sustainable Development
Ike Nahem - Coordinator Cuba Solidarity NY, Teamsters Union Member
William Camacaro - Chairperson Bolivarian Circle NY
Indigenous Mobilization and Resistance in the Andean Nations
World War 4 Report
Chair: Bill Weinberg
Bill Weinberg - WBAI Radio, World War 4 Report
Gerardo Renique - CUNY
Mario Murillo - WBAI Radio, Hofstra University
Obama's Militarized Status Quo in Latin America
NACLA Report on the Americas (nacla.org)
Chair: Christy Thornton
Mark Weisbrot - Center for Economic and Policy Research (cepr.net)
Suzanna Reiss - University of Hawaii, Manoa
Joseph Nevins - Vassar College
Latin America: Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
Chair: Hobart Spalding
Carlos Vilas - Universidad Nacional Lanus
Margarita Lopez Maya - Universidad Central de Venezuela
Gerardo Renique - City College of the City University of New York
Emelio Betances - Gettysburg College
U.S. Interventionism in Latin America
Venezuela Analysis
Chair: Clara Irrazabal
Mark Weisbrot - Center for Economic and Policy Research
Venezuelan Official TBA - Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the USA
TBA - Colombia
Chair: Mark Rego-Monteiro
Mark Rego-Monteiro - Mark Rego-Monteiro: Park Slope Food Coop, member, co-owner; New York University candidate M.S. International Community Sustainable Development
Ike Nahem - Coordinator Cuba Solidarity NY, Teamsters Union Member
William Camacaro - Chairperson Bolivarian Circle NY
Terrorism against Cuba and the Case of the Cuban 5
Socialism and Democracy
Chair: Michael Smith
Peter Roman - Hostos Community College/CUNY Graduate Center/CUNY Editorial Board, "Socialism and Democracy".
Keith Bolender - Journalist and course lecturer on Cuba at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
Leonard Weinglass - Attorney for Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban prisoners
Jane Franklin - Contributing editor to CUBA Update, the journal of the Center for Cuban Studies
Rafael Anglada - Puerto Rican attorney
Michael Smith - Center for Constitutional Rights