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World Social Forum Politics: Left or Post-Left?
Chair: Thomas Ponniah
Lauren Langman - Loyola University of Chicago
Walda Katz Fishman - Howard University
Jerome Scott - National Planning Committee of the U.S. Social Forum
The Art & Politics of Spectacle – Creating Ethical Spectacles,
Chair: Terry Marshall
Lenina Nadal
Stephen Duncombe
Kazembe Balungun
Reimagining A New Economic System
Chair: Meaghan Linick-Loughley
Gar Alperovitz
Michael Albert
Envisioning Real Utopias
Verso Books
Chair: No Chair as yet
Erick Olin Wright
David Ruccio
Peter Staudenmaier
Organizing against Budget Cuts and Austerity in New York City
Chair:
Megan Behrent - Teachers for a Just Contract, International Socialist Organization
David Hoskins - Students for Educational Rights, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
PSC-CUNY member, TBA
Take Back Our Union member, to be invited -
Social Movements and Everyday Life
Critical Sociology
Chair: Richard Dello Buono, Manhattan College
George Sanders - Oakland University
James Russell - Eastern Connecticut State University
Graham Cassano - Oakland University
Troy Rondinone (Discussant) - Southern Connecticut State University
Decline of the European Left and the rise of the Far Right
Chair: Mark Seddon
Tariq Ali
Leo Pannitch
Johnathan Freedland
What does it mean to be a revolutionary in our times?
Chair: Walda Katz-Fishman
Jerome Scott - League of Revolutionaries for a New America U.S. Social Forum National Planning Committee
Lenina Nadal - New York Study Group
Manju Rajendran - Left Turn
Johanna Brenner - Solidarity
Socialist Humanism, the Anti-Humanist Turn, and the Consequences for the Left
None
Chair: Barbara Epstein
John Sanbonmatsu - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Barbara Epstein - University of California, Santa Cruz
Kevin B. Anderson - University of California, Santa Barbara
The US Social Forum and US Social Movements: The Road from Atlanta to Detroit 2010
Chair: Walda Katz-Fishman
Jerome Scott - League of Revolutionaries for a New America & USSF National Planning Committee
Rose Brewer - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities & USSF Gender Justice Working Group
Harmony Goldberg - New York Study Group & Doctoral student, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century
Chair: Jeff Maskovsky
Peter Kwong - Hunter College
Peter and Jane Schneider - Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Jeff Maskovsky - Urban Studies, Queens College
Ida Susser -
Fernando Coronil - Anthropology Department, Graduate Center, CUNY
Horizontalism and Grassroots Democracy in the Americas
Chair: Joanna Maria Duarte Laudon
Oscar Dominguez - Movement for Justice in El Barrio
Marisa Franco - Right to the City Alliance
Hilary Klein -
Marina Sitrin -
Josh Lerner - The Participatory Budgeting Project, The New School for Social Research
Ten Years Later: Organizers Reflect on the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
Left Turn magazine
Chair: Chris Dixon
Rami Elamine (confirmed) - Left Turn magazine
Gabriel Sayegh (confirmed) - Drug Policy Alliance
Andréa Schmidt (confirmed) - Researcher/Journalist
Beka Economopoulos (confirmed) - forthcoming
Thinking System From the Grassroots: The Intersection of Theory and Practice in Grassroots Organizing
Chair: Billy Wharton - Socialist Party USA Co-Chair
David McReynolds - Long time peace activist
Speaker from 15th Street Manifesto Group -
Kate Goff - G20 Resistance Project, New York City Anti-War Coalition
Amilcar Navarro - Crown Heights Organizing Committee, Socialist Party USA, NYC Local
Political and Social Movements
Getting from Here to There: Making Radical Visions Reality
Chair: Camilo Viveiros
Mireya Loza
Reg Flowers
Michael Pelias
Lesley Wood
Radical spaces, radical city
Chair: denisse andrade, dara greenwald
red roots collective representative -
rebel diaz collective -
dara greenwald -
crystal house representative - malcolm x grassroots movement
oya amikisi - us social forum, cultural committee
New Developments in Solidarity Economy Organizing in the U.S.
Chair: Julie Matthaei
Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Board member, US Solidarity Economy Network
Lynn Benander - Dir. of Community Business Development for Co-op Power
Maliha Safri - Assistant Professor of Economics, Drew University; Associate Editor, RETHINKING MARXISM; Member of Center for Popular Economics
Djar Horn - Jersey Shore Neighborhood Cooperative; graduate student in Social Work at Monmouth University; former union organizer and union carpenter
Strategizing to Build Real Self-Governance
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman
Robert Parry - Publisher and editor of Consortiumnews.com, an investigative web zine operated by The Consortium for Independent Journalism, Inc.
Richard Grossman - Independent historian.
Joel Kovel - Editor-in-chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism
Experiments in Popular Democracy: Is it really possible to Democratize the Capitalist State?
Chair: Johanna Brenner
Hilary Wainwright - Research Director of the Transnational Institute New Politics programme and Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Participation Studies at the Department for Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Sujatha Fernandes - Sujatha Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Erik Olin Wright - Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin and Director of the Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change.
Lessons from Latin American Social Movements for a US in Crisis
Toward Freedom
Chair: Ben Dangl
Ben Dangl - Toward Freedom (TowardFreedom.com)
Marina Sitrin
Mario Murillo
The History of May Day and the 2010 New York May Day march
Chair: Larry Moskowitz, Left Labor Project
Ai Jen Poo - Ai Jen Poo, former Executive Director of Domestic Workers United
Chung-Wha Hong - Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition
Ed Ott - Ed Ott, former Executive Director of the New York City Central Labor Council
Bhairavi Desai - Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
Frances Liu - Frances Liu, Immigration Advocacy Field Coordinator, New York Immigration Coalition
Author meets critics: van der Walt and Schmidt's "Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism"
Chair:
Lucien van der Walt - University of the Witwatersrand
Mitch Miller - WSA-NYC
Wayne Price - NEFAC (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists)
New Radical Parties and Experiments in Party Building
International Socialist Review
Chair: Geoff Bailey
Sebastian Budgeon - Historical Materialism
NPA Member - NPA
Ahmed Shawki - International Socialist Review; Haymarket Books
We Must Be Good at Learning: Brecht Forum at 35
Chair: Kazembe Balagun
Max Uhlenbeck - Left Turn, Brecht Forum
Liz Mestres - Brecht Forum
Lisa Maya Knauer
Beyond Fair Trade and Micro-Finance: Gift and Solidarity Economies
http://www.otherworldsareposssible.org
Chair, Andy Lin
Radical Philosophy Review
Chair: Anatole Anton
Cheyney Ryan - University of Oregon, Oxford University
Anatole Anton - Political Science, San Francisco State
Harry van der Linden - Butler College
Michael Brown - Michigan State
A dialogue on Class (Change From “CLASS: A DIALOGUE”)
Sponsorer/orgVerso Books
Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York
Erik Olin Wright, Director and series editor of Versoʼs Real Utopias Project, Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Author of the forthcoming book, 'Envisioning Real Utopias' (Verso)
Chair: Chrystel Le Moing
Daniel Cirera - Secretary of the scientific council of the Gabriel Peri Foundation
Alain Guinot - Director of "La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière", the weekly newspaper of the Labour General Confédération (CGT)of France. Left Out: Building Social Movements in a Culture of Isolation (Working Title)
Rejuvenating the Left Critique of the War on Terror
Chair: Sander Hicks
Paul Zarembka - Economics Dept, State University of New York at Buffalo. journal: Research in Political Economy
David MacGregor -
Sander Hicks - Green Party of NY State
"The Coming Insurrection" :Manifestoes, Militancy and Mobilization
Sponsorer/journal/org , Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination
Chair -Michael Pelias
Jeremy Glick, Assistant Professor of English at Hunter college
Jeremy Glick, Assistant Professor of English at Hunter college
Panelist John Clark , John Clark is a philosopher and teaches Philosophy at Loyola University in New Orleans
Rahel Aima, Rahel Aima is a graduate student in Anthropology at Columbia University
Michael Pelias, Michael Pelias teaches Philosophy at Long Island University- Brooklyn
Chair - Frances Fox-Piven
Max Rameau - Take Back the Land
Frank Morales - Picture the Homeless
UC Berkeley student striker
Max Fraad Wolff