2012 leftforum Panels

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Intimate Partner Abuse and Sexual Liberation in America: Beyond Violence and Public Shaming
David Rosen Chair,

"Is this the 'Final Crisis'? 'Yes', 'No', 'Maybe', and the Implications of Each"
Critique
Suzi Weissman Chair, Saint Mary's College of California and KPFK Radio

Creating A Sustainable Culture: Food, Farming, Energy and Our Future.
OWS Sustainability Working Group
Winnie Wong Chair, OWS Sustainability Working Group

Occupy Philosophy: Capital, Critique, Imagination
Radical Philosophy Association/Radical Philosophy Review
Chad Kautzer Chair, CU Denver; Occupy Denver; Radical Philosophy Assoc.

Reclaiming our Comrades: The Omaha Two
Tekla Ali Johnson Chair, Salem College

The Great Depression and the Great Recession: What Can Occupy Learn From the New Deal Response to Economic, Social and Environmental Crisis ?
Charles Bell Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition

The North America Occupy Movement in Global Perspective
Socialism and Democracy
George Katsiaficas Chair,

"ABORTION! An Urgent Part of Women's Liberation -- Differing Viewpoints on How to Win This Fight"
Eleanor Bader Chair, RH RealityCheck

"Occupy Ethics": The importance of Ethics, Morals and its interplay with our Economic, Financial, Social, Political and Media system
New York Society of Ethical Culture - NYSEC (www.nysec.org)
Ioannis Tziligakis Chair, GET, UMich,Henry George School,Earthrights,Sustainable Mundo

"Occupy Myself: Change Yourself to Change the World". An exploration of Process as the key to personal/political transformation within a process oriented Community Building workshop.
Rosa Naparstek Chair, James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership

"Occupying the Commons": A blueprint for Social Justice
GET - Georgist Economic Taskforce (get1897@gmail.com)
Ioannis Tziligakis Chair, GET, UMich,Henry George School,Earthrights,Sustainable Mundo

"Parliamentary Idiocy" vs. "Infantile Disorder": Marxism and Electoral Politics in the Year 2012
Science & Society
Russell Dale Chair, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

"Socialism in the United States: Is It Possible?"
Workers World newspaper
LeiLani Dowell Chair,

"Teaching Against the Prison Industrial Complex: Inside and Outside Prison Bars"
Zhandarka Kurti Chair,

"The Chain Must Break: Divestment from Israeli Occupation as Anti-Corporate Resistance"
Riham Barghouti Chair, Adalah-NY

#OccupyWallStreet and Rebuilding the Black Liberation Movement Roundtable
The Black Activist
Sam Anderson Chair, Black Left Unity Network

'Activistism' and the Dilemmas of Solidarity
Barbara Epstein Chair, University of California-Santa Cruz

2011, 1999, 1968 -- and 2012? The history of the Left and #Occupy
The Platypus Review
Pamela Nogales Chair, Platypus Affiliated Society

2012: Returning the Power to the People – Restoring, Claiming and Exercising the Right to Petition Government for Redress of Grievances How – What – When – Why – Who - and Follow Through!
Jason Woody Chair, Occupy Wall St, Constitution Working Group

A Front Row Seat to Occupy Wall Street: Pace University and the OWS movement
Emily Welty Chair, Pace University

A Green New Deal: Resolving the Jobs and Climate Crises
Green Party of New York State
Mark Dunlea Chair, Green Party of New York State

A movement or a climate? The Politics of the 99% (OWS, 15M-Spain, Chile)
Vicente Rubio Chair, SUNY Stony Brook, participant in 15M-Spain and OWS

A New Constitution that Serves People, not Profits: the Strategy behind the Move to Amend
Ben Manski Chair, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution

A Report-Back from Japan: Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power
Chris Williams Chair,

A Simple Test Panel
A Test Journal Value

A Walking Tour of Abolition, the Slave Power, and Global Capitalism in New York City: Lessons from the Movement to End Slavery for the Movement to End Poverty Today
John Wessel-McCoy Chair, Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary
John Wessel-McCoy Chair, Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary

Accountability in Post Earthquake Haiti: Reconstruction Failures and the UN's Cholera Problem
Mark Weisbrot Chair, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Activist and Protest Songwriting
Steve Siegelbaum Chair, Walkabout Clearwater

Advocacy Rising: What the Rise In Online and Offline Advocacy Means From the Perspective of Both Occupation Organizers and Nonprofits.
Salsa Labs
Eric Rubin Chair, Salsa Labs

Africa in the Solar Age - So Why Are We Still Pumping Oil? Africans Speak Out.
Global Information Network / SaharaReporters
Sowore Omoyele Chair, SaharaReporters

African Awakenings And The Implications Of The Capitalist Crisis
Pambazuka News
Bill Fletcher Jr. Chair, Institute for Policy Studies, Editorial member BlackCommentator.com

After The Crisis, Is A New New Deal Possible? Do We Want One?
Eric Pineault Chair,

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Alternatives to Capitalism: Ecological, Economic, Political
New Politics
Jenny Greeman Chair, New Perspectives

America's Pacific Century? China and US Relations
The Nation
Tina Gerhardt, Panel Organizer Chair,

America's Pacific Century? US and Korea Relations
PM Press
Tina Gerhardt, Panel Organizer Chair,

An Army of Rape: Why Supporting the Troops is Wrong!
Sunsara Taylor Chair, writer: Revolution newspaper, board member-World Can't Wait

Analysis, Vision, and Strategy for Participatory Socialism
Eliot Tarver Chair, Organization for a Free Society

Anarchism and National Liberation
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Chair,

Anarchism's Post-Capitalist Vision
Theory in Action
Deric Shannon Chair, Transformative Studies Institute/University of Connecticut

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