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BOARD MEMBERS Thank you for participating in Left Forum 2015. and lobby areas of the conference center, located The conference has steadily grown over the years. near the registration tables. Ashley Abbott It has been transformed by a myriad of political The Exhibition, which includes book publishers, Seth Adler perspectives and the influence of thousands of Stanley Aronowitz publications and movement organizers, is one of participants from six continents. We are proud of several meeting and networking spaces for the Stephon Boatwright this year’s gathering, humbled by the diversity of conference. With so much happening at once, we Maria Carnemolla voices included, and honored that you can join us. ask that you help us keep things running smoothly. Kristin Lawler The Left Forum Board of Directors would like to Please keep your conference bracelet visible. (If Rob Robinson express our deep appreciation to John Jay College you lose your bracelet, you will have to purchase Richard D. Wolff of Criminal Justice, particularly President Jeremy another one.) Additionally, we ask that you not Travis, Jeff Brown, Cheryl D’Antonio, the Depart- overcrowd rooms; anyone who cannot find a seat to ment of Economics, and all those instrumental in please select another panel to attend. Please note VOLUNTEERS, INTERNS, bringing this conference to fruition. We are pleased & ACTIVISTS that the plenary sessions and all stand-alone events to have our annual conference back at a CUNY operate on a first come, first serve basis. The caf- Meriam Ayachi institution — as it was also our roots. And we are eteria, located on the second floor above the book Yingchen Bai all the more pleased that we are at an institution fair, will be open on Saturday and Sunday from Kazembe Balagun that by definition “educates for justice.” We also 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Finally, we encourage you to Jorge Cabanillas want to express our abiding appreciation to the take the opportunity to share and discuss ideas with hundreds of volunteers who help before, during, Diego Chica each other taking advantage of the rare occasion and after the event to make this weekend possible. Caitlin Fitzgerald for such rich public debate. We organize the Left Julianna Forlano This program guide includes the full conference Forum to open an arena for dialogue on the most Priscilla Grim schedule, and will help you navigate the more than pressing matters of our world, with an ardent belief 400 panels, workshops, and events happening that this will help to change it. To this end, we once Preeti Gurung this weekend. Please look through it carefully. The again thank you for your participation, and look Naeem Holman accompanying map should get you there on time, forward to seeing you in the future. jackrabbit furiosa but feel free to ask a staff member or volunteer for Yue (Onny) Jin In Solidarity, assistance. We also heartily invite you to partici- The Board of Directors Michael Lightsmith pate in the Left Forum Exhibition, held in the atrium and Staff of Left Forum Holly Lu Xin Heng Lu LEFT FORUM STAFF & ORGANIZERS Jose Luis Martinez Carlos Miranda Conference Coordinator ��Seth Adler Maria Myotte Administrative and Operations Coordinator �� Ashley Abbott David Nelson Advertising �� Daryl King Akua Ofori Art and Social Media ��George Ygarza Sherry Onna AV and Technology �� Nancy Castro Chris Oyewole Database Coordinator ��Yujin Joung Mia Ragozino Editorial/Graphic Design ��Matt Binetti, Laurie Bogat, Christian Cisneros Cathalina Rivera Event/Operations ��Mike Ryan Genny Roman Exhibition ��Karli Schwab Vicente Rubio IT Coordinator/Web Developer �� Carlos Mejia Justin Santiago Media Liaison �� Peter Rugh Francesca Scaraggi Panel Outreach and Administration �� Evan Jones, Yasmina Madeira Yves Sorokobi Plenary and Logistics Coordinator ��Gabriel Farofaldane Lisa Thompson Program Coordinator/Panel Administration �� Marcus Grätsch Kevin Valentine Program Guide �� Steven Matthews Sage Velastegui Public Relations and Media �� Andanta Djafa, Theresa Eddins, Scott Mason Winnie Wong Registration �� Samantha Désiré, Serina Xue Video �� Alexandra Bourekas, Vincent Crincoli Volunteer Coordination ��Lily Bizuneh

1 NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!

CONFRONTING THE CRISES OF CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY The 2015 Left Forum will take place in a period of excitement and transpires while the surveillance state apparatus pours-over and tears challenge. In Greece and Spain the Left has either taken power or is into more and more of everyone’s public and private lives. on the verge of it. At home, police violence is now being contested by In the past decade we have experienced a series of climate-related a popular upsurge of protest and resistance. And facing a solid reac- catastrophes: extreme weather that, among other events, has tionary front, president Obama has finally shown signs that the admin- destroyed crops and precipitated unprecedented hurricanes that have istration, however hesitantly, is responding to deep mass disaffection. devastated many cities and towns throughout the globe. Meanwhile, From the recent Syriza victory in the Greek elections and movements the powers that be sanction the depletion of the earth’s non-renewable against austerity throughout Europe to the spread of horizontal- resources while basically ignoring warnings from environmentalists that democratic politics around the world, and from the nationwide activism the clock is ticking towards a planetary point of no return. Clearly, we arising out of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movements, to the need radical solutions that entail a major re-evaluation of capitalism’s growing momentum to end the Cuban embargo, recent events and left viability. politics in the current year are shaping up to be pivotal. More than ever, we need to assemble and mobilize the fast-growing The conditions of the rise of these transformative politics are daunt- ranks of those able and willing to face these problems. As the systems that supposedly were built to sustain society fail so many so badly, ing: the twin economic and ecological crises persist with predictable activists for democracy, sustainability, equality, and the abolition of social consequences: deepening inequalities of wealth and income, oppression and exploitation increasingly grasp their shared demand erosion of civil liberties, and dangerous scapegoating by those not for basic social justice. Yet these are times when the usual liberal dem- facing the systemic nature of our problems. The promises of the ocratic remedies have lost their relevance. Pressing questions loom for political and corporate elite for democratic rights and freedom ring justice seeking social forces: What is to be done today when a reform evermore hollow in the court of public opinion. They are like warped brings us one step forward, while leaving other important struggles nightmares of a reality in which most democracies are strangling worse off in the process? What type of movements will it take to the promise of “we the people” with democratic hierarchies that overcome such challenges? What type of institutions, systems and privilege capitalist ideologies in every public and private institution. societal conditions are possible when transformed conditions of justice Simultaneously, the global economic and political system is inflam- no longer take the forms of, “the aggrieved speaking to the grievance ing violent conflicts, while pushing populations of many countries into alleviators”? How do these issues raise the question of confronting and permanent wars of conquest. Within national borders, capitalism now ending the crises of capitalism and democracy? relies increasingly on military and police forces to intervene brutally Please come analyze, debate, build, ally, and strategize at to maintain the system by subordinating ever more groups. And this Left Forum, 2015. ADVISORY BOARD Gilbert Achcar Luciana Castellina Arun Gupta Randy Martin Colin Robinson Tariq Ali Angela Dillard Jack Hammond Liz Mestres Nan Rubin Robin Blackburn Stephen Duncombe David Harvey Susan O’Malley Stephen R. Shalom Barbara Bowen Hester Eisenstein Gerald Horne Leo Panitch Eleni Varikas Rose Brewer Barbara Epstein Boris Kagarlitsky Christian Parenti Victor Wallis Renate Bridenthal Deepa Fernandes Robin D. G. Kelley Thomas Ponniah Ross Weiner Michael Brie Héctor Figueroa Christine A. Kelly Barbara Ransby Joseph Wilson Stephen Brier Harriet Fraad Peter Kwong Michael Ratner Stephen Eric Bronner Josh Freeman Joanne Landy Jan Rehmann Paul Buhle Barbara Garson Jesse Lemisch Gerardo Rénique Joseph A. Buttigieg Marvin Gettleman Michael Löwy Rainer Rilling

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CONFERENCE HOURS WELCOME �� 1

FRIDAY 5:00pm – 9:15pm FLOOR PLANS �� 4 Doors open 2:00pm PANEL INDEX �� 7 SATURDAY 10:00am – 9:45pm Doors open 8:00am PANEL SCHEDULE ��18

SUNDAY 10:00am – 8:45pm SPEAKER INDEX ��80 Doors open 8:00am NOTES ��87

THANKS TO OUR COMRADES Frank Brockway Lawrence Feinberg Fred Harrison Arn Kawano Michael Perna Kate Bronfenbrenner Christine Fogler Dina Heisler Larry Lawrence Michael Ratner Carole Campana Eugene Fogler William Herbert Barbara Lawrence Ron Reosti Mary Ann Clawson Olive Freud Rebecca Hoffman John Liebau Abby Rockefeller Ted Cox Patricia Friedland Elliot Holar Robin Lloyd Carol Smith Charles Delman Alan Gardner Beth Holden Gail Mansouri Stephen Steinberg Meredith Dillon Harold Garrett- Jay Lawrence Holman Peter Marcuse Merry Tucker Alvin & Rochelle Goodyear Frank Hughes Irving Markovitz Steven Waldbaum Dorfman James Grainger Marc Kagan Susan Metz Victor Wallis Hester Eisenstein Lee Halprin Herschel Kaminsky Marion Nestle Charles Wright Ray H. Elling John Hammond James Katz Shaun O’Connell June Zaccone

EXHIBITION AND SOCIAL SPACE All weekend in the atrium and lobby areas. The Exhibition offers a dynamic social and networking space for conference attendees. Come see many organizations, publishers, and artists including: 911 Truth Outreach Freedom Road Socialist New Politics Socialist Action Ad Astra Comix Organization News and Letters Committee Speakout Now AK Press Green Party of NY Panelist #161 Stony Point Center Community Alternative Press Index Haymarket Books Platypus Affiliated Society of Living Traditions Autonomedia HINT Magazine PM Press Syracuse Cultural Workers Between the Lines Icarus Films Polity The Indypendent Burning Books In These Times Proletarian Alternative & The Marxist Education Project CCDS International Marxist- WW3 Illustrated Trotskyist Faction Communities of Correspondence Humanist Organization Radical Social Work Group Uhuru Solidarity Movement for Democracy and Socialism International Publishers Co. Red Wedge Magazine United for Peace and Justice Cornell Press Jacobin Magazine Redwood Justice Fund University of Chicago Press Deep Dish TV Joseph S. Murphy Institute Revolution Books NYC Verso Books Democratic Socialists of America at CUNY SPS Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung– VINE Sanctuary Dissent Magazine Justice Integrity Project NY Office War Resisters League Dollars and Sense Kasama Project Science and Society WBAI Gorilla Volunteers Donnelly/Colt Marxist-Humanist Initiative Situations: Project of the Workers World Fernwood Publishing Military Families Radical Imagination World Fellowship Food and Water Watch Speak Out Social Security Works Z Magazine Monthly Review Socialism and Democracy Zero Books

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION A 5:00–6:45PM SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM The Internet and the World's Struggle Meszaros and Strategies for the L.76 19 1.121 22 for Survival: The Next Five Years Emancipatory Transition Building the Black Lives Matter Movement: A Maple Autumn? The Struggle L2.84 19 1.123 22 Assessments and Perspectives Against Austerity in Quebec Against the Narrative: Independent Network Movements: L2.85 19 1.124 23 Media and The Left The Changing Tide of Politics Building a Global Solidarity Movement 1.76 19 Union Power: Boston School Bus 1.125 23 Drivers take on Goliath Sports, Resistance, and Black Lives Matter 1.77 19 The Millennium at 15: Protest, 1.127 23 OPENING PLENARY 7:00–9:15PM Power and the Socialist Vision Syriza, Podemos, Left Bloc, and the Left: The Levity of the Left, the Materiality GYM. 19 1.129 23 A European Revolutionary Politics? of Power: Bodies and Organization SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM For Love, Music, Shared Spaces and Economies: 1.61 23 The Confiscation of American Prosperity L2.84 20 De/Post-colonial Resistance Strategies Entertainment Superpower: Intelligentsia, Working Class and the “Spirit of L2.85 20 Media Technology and the American Empire Generalization” Through the lens of Organic 1.63 23 Intellectuals of the Working Class (OIWC) Climate Justice and Energy Democracy L.76 20 (Re)producing Capital: Theorizing Dc Metro Science For The People: the Relationships Between 1.65 23 How Can Science Be Used To Empower 1.100 20 Oppression and Exploitation Rather Than Undermine Communities? Women Who Walk On the Tongues of Lions 1.66 23 Does The United Front Against Austerity New Mad Pride Movement: "Schizophrenics" And The Tax Wall Street Party Have The 1.101 20 1.67 23 Demands Needed For Jobs And Justice? and "Bipolars" as the New Spiritual Vanguard? Healthcare Restructuring: Neoliberalism Multi-Racial Coalitions for Prison Divestment: 1.69 23 Confronting Mass Incarceration and Detentions 1.103 20 and the Assault on the Social Wage and Building Black and Brown Unity 5 Economic Lies 1.71 23 Conceptualizing Post-Capitalist Transition Achieving Justice for the 1.105 20 1.73 23 In The Age Of Imperialism And Terrorism Wrongfully Incarcerated Organizing in the Internet Era: Building an 1.107 20 Occupy Wall Street Black Lives Matter 1.75 24 All-purpose Democratic Platform on the Web #BlackLivesMatter: Now What Is To Be Done? 1.76 24 Slave Routes: A Global Vision 1.108 20 Black Internationalism, Multiculturalism Overturning the Culture of White Violence: and the Contemporary Crises in 1.77 24 A Call for White People to Stand in Solidarity 1.109 20 Capitalism: between the Black Radical with African Liberation and Reparations Tradition and the Local/Global Nexus Challenges Facing Latin America’s Radical Left 1.114 22 Organizing Grad Student, Contingent, Humanity & Haiti–Building the Haitian and Tenure-Track Faculty: A Fight 1.115 22 1.81 24 Bond: A Role in the Evolution of Humanity Against Corporatization for the Soul of Higher Education Building Revolutionary Autonomy: 1.117 22 Support the Colombian Peace A Discussion with Woodbine 1.82 24 Process, Free Simon Trinidad! From Syriza to Syracuse: How Can Elected 1.119 22 Radicals Fight Austerity from Above? Why We Focus on U.S. Imperialist Wars 1.83 24

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM SESSION 1 10:00–11:50AM Deep Into Drones, Drone Wars & Secret Ops: Armenian Freedom Struggle and the 100th 1.85 25 3304N 27 What's the "War on Terror" Coming To? Commeration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide The Syrian Revolution, Yarmouk, SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM 1.87 25 Rojava: Politics of Solidarity Words of Resistance: BLACK BOX War Normalized or War Abolished: 28 1.89 25 Spoken Word For A Movement THEATER Drones, Nukes, and the Choice Before Us Betrayed By Our Government: Animal Intelligence and Its Phil Donahue Hosts Discussion With 1.90 25 L.63 28 Implications for the Left Matthew Hoh, Ray Mcgovern, Kevin From Lima to Paris to Climate & Joyce Lucey And Cathy Smith 1.91 25 Justice: The Context for COP21 We Are Our Own Liberators! When We Free L2.84 28 Reclaiming New York's Energy Vision: Our Political Prisoners, We Free Ourselves. Utility Reform, Green Jobs and the 1.92 25 New Challenges, New Responses: L2.85 28 Struggle for Energy Democracy the 2015 U.S. Social Forum Organizing at the Margins against State Democracy at Work: Achieving Social 1.93 25 L.76 28 Violence: Challenges and Strategies for Success Change through Worker Coops China: Socialist Hegemony in a Country in a Critical Perspectives on Naomi Klein's 1.99 25 1.100 28 Multilateral but Capitalist Global Environment "This Changes Everything." Whose City? Our City! Fighting Another World Is Possible : Towards the L2.80 25 1.101 29 Gentrification in the U.S. & Europe World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal Nothing to Lose but Our Chains: Mass L2.81 25 Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win 1.103 29 Incarceration as Political Repression Congressman Vito Marcantonio (1934 The Fight Against Austerity in Europe to 1950): Champion for Civil Rights 1.105 29 and the United States: Revolutionary L2.82 26 (panel and dramatization) Socialist Politics in the Wake of the Syriza and Podemos Experiences. Commonizing Academia for Open Knowledge 1.107 29 This Side of the Darkness: the Global AIDS Grassroots Media in an 3.76 26 1.108 29 Crisis, the TPP and the Politics of Epidemics Increasingly Digital World Queering Animal Liberation, "We Are Not Ebola!" West African 3.78 26 Perspectives On The Many-Layered Animating Restorative Justice 1.109 29 Struggle For Democracy And Development Dangerous Scapegoating of Islam: In Sierra Leone, Liberia And Guinea Exacerbated by the Left's Silence About 3.79 26 Controlled Demolition on 9/11 Brazilian Dilemma and Afro-American Links: An Afro-Centred Mass Culture 1.113 30 A Black Liberation Manifesto for the Submitted to Structural Racism 21st Century: The Centrality of Youth, 3.80 26 Women & Revolutionary Praxis Is Post-Chavez Venezuela Still Leftist? 1.114 30 Yes Peace, Yes Justice, But Only In Film: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret 3.81 26 1.115 30 A Resourced Based Economy Land Conservancies in Late Capitalism: How Trusts Provide a Bird's-Eye 8.61 26 Radical Archive Practice 1.117 30 View into the Ruling Class Not Hillary, Not Jeb: Stopping the Permanent 1.119 31 The Western Buddhist Ethic and Dictatorship of Austerity and War 8.67 26 the Spirit of Late Capitalism Trotsky: A Revolutionary Life 1.121 31 A Look At Student Unionism's 8.69 27 Present And Potential

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM Transforming Community and Labor "Climate Justice: The U.S. Left & the 1.123 31 Organizing into Electoral Victory Problem of the State" Short Film Screening 1.90 34 and Discussion on the Current State The Future of OccupyWallSt.nyc 1.124 31 of Youth-led Climate Movements The U.S. Middle Class in Crisis: A Panel The Climate Mobilization: A Route in Honour of Randy Martin: Socialist 1.125 31 to Reclaiming Democracy and 1.91 34 Register 2015 Transforming Classes Preventing Ecological Collapse A Communist Road in the U.S.: 1.127 31 Campaign for 100% Green How Do We Start? 1.92 34 Energy in NYS by 2030 15 Now's Strategy for the Low- 1.129 31 The Anomie Of The Earth: Philosophy, Politics, Wage Worker Movement 1.93 34 And Autonomy In Europe And The Americas How Tribal Traditions To Capitalism 1.61 31 Sea Changes: China and the World Since 2008 1.99 34 To Hip Hop And Culture Met? Art Against Capitalism: Past Experience, Occupy the Commons: Resisting the Feudalistic 1.63 31 L2.80 34 Present Practices and Alternative Futures Kleptocratic Stranglehold on our Economy Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Commons, Alternative 1.65 31 L2.81 35 neoliberalism, austerity, war and terror Organizations, and Turkey A Trial By Fire: From Moynihan to New Phase of the Struggle in Greece L2.82 35 Today: Black Women Continue Fight 1.66 31 Marxist-Humanist Philosophy’s Role for Human Rights in 21st Century in Confronting Today’s Global Crises: 3.76 35 This Is Not Justice; There Ought Not Be Peace: Greece and Syriza; Bosnia and Syria; 1.67 32 Psychiatry, Capitalism, and State Power. Racism vs. Black Lives Matter Unfurling Hong Kong's Umbrella Faultlines of the Medical Industrial Complex 1.69 32 3.78 35 Movement: Intro & Documentary Theory vs Practice, or What is Praxis? 1.71 32 The 2001 Anthrax Attacks and 3.79 35 A Socialist Rethinking of Youth Gangs 1.73 32 the Challenge to the Left Imagining Crisis and Maximizing FILM: 'Still We Ride' 10 Years After… 1.75 32 3.80 35 Radical Brand Equity A Recent History of Critical Mass How Should We as Comrades Respond to the FILM: Control 3.81 35 1.76 33 Ferguson Rebellion and #BlackLivesMatter? Live From Academia!: Bringing the Insight of 8.61 35 Racism by Another Name: Mayoral the Ivory Tower to the Energy of the Masses Control of Urban Education, Privatization 1.77 33 Capital, Race and the Reshaping & the Grassroots Fightback! 8.69 35 of Adult Basic Education Palestine/Israel and the 2016 Election 1.81 33 The Challenges of Building a Revolutionary 8.72 35 Radical Democracy and Education: Possibilities Organization in the Working Class Today 1.82 33 and Challenges in One School and Beyond Philosophies, Strategies And Resources Palestine, Anti-racism, and Academic Freedom 1.83 33 For Building Local Peace Economies 3303N 35 And Leaving The War Economy The Great War in Marxist Perspective 1.85 33 Lefties Are In Their Right Minds! 3304N 35 The Syrian Tragedy: Failure of the Left and 1.87 33 the Need for a Movement of Solidarity U.S. Wars of Aggression & Islamic Jihad: What is the Bigger Danger and How Should 1.89 33 the Antiwar Movement Respond?

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:15PM SESSION 3 3:15–4:50PM Dialogue with Venezuelan Leadership Book Launch: An Alternative Labour History. L.63 36 1.124 39 Delcy Rodriguez, Jorge Rodriguez Worker Control and Workplace Democracy SESSION 3 3:15–4:50PM United Contract Attorneys Organize to 1.125 39 Confront Capitalism in Law Firms BLACK BOX Left Wing Comedy Show! 36 Build a Fight For Jobs For All to Confront the THEATER 1.127 39 Global Capitalist System in Crisis Head On Marx: The System is the Problem L.63 36 Low-Wage Worker Movements in 1.129 39 Ya Gotta Get A Gimmick: How to Stage South Korea, Germany, & the U.S. an Effective Media-Worthy Protest L2.84 36 Hey, Activists: Read This! Why & Get Attention for Your Cause 1.61 39 Progressives Should Read More Fiction Is It Time for a Major Independent L2.85 37 Party of the Left? Art Against Capitalism (II) 1.63 39 Women and the Red Scare: Justifiable Homicide pt1: 7 Victims' Families 1.65 39 Give Testimony on Police Terrorism L.76 37 [En]gendering [In]justice and Racism in the United States In the Wake of Capitalism: The What Is Occupy Up To? 1.100 37 Contamination of American Intimacy, 1.66 39 Sexuality & Personal Life. Corporate Dominance: Our Debt-Money System 1.101 37 Mental Health and Social Justice and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) 1.67 39 in Vulnerable Populations Radical Themes in Mass Culture 1.103 37 Successes and Challenges of Human Anarchism and Critical Theory 1.105 37 Rights Campaigns for Publicly 1.69 41 for Revolt and Revolution Financed Health Care in the U.S. Commonizing Collective Memory 1.107 37 As Governments Leave Humanity's Crises 1.71 41 Strengths, Weaknesses, Challenges Unaddressed, What Must Be Done? in Online Activism: How Can It 1.108 37 Mumia 911: Health Emergency for Advance a Progressive Agenda Incarcerated Journalist Mumia Abu- 1.73 41 Frantz Fanon: The Forgotten Prophet 1.109 38 Jamal; Briefing and Strategies Colombia's Peace Talks in Havana, "The Transgender Tipping Point is Crushing Us": 1.113 38 1.75 41 Cuba: An Update by the FARC-EP Trans Politics in the Era of Visibility Cuba And The United States Moving Black Lives Matter NYC 1.76 41 Towards Normalization: Realities 1.114 38 No Peace, No Justice: The Psycho- Of The New Relationship Socio Roots Of Racism, Social Injustice 1.77 41 Haiti: The People vs the Empire 1.115 38 And Ecological Degradation Leninism Today 1.117 38 The End of the World As We Know It? Education, and the Student 1.81 41 Our Candidate Won : 1.119 38 Response to the Crisis President-Elect TBA’s Victory Party Building a Narrative on 1.82 41 E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left 1.121 39 Displacement Nationwide From The Indignados Movement To Political Foreign Policy for All: Re-thinking U.S. 1.123 39 1.83 41 Organization: Political Changes In Spain Foreign Policy for the 21st Century Imperialist Economics and the New Cold War 1.85 41 The Rojava Revolution : From Arab 1.87 41 Spring to Democratic Autonomy

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 3 3:15–4:50PM SESSION 3 3:15–4:50PM Imperialism, Counter-Revolution, Intellectual Justice: Libraries, Privacy & Access 1.89 41 3.79 44 and Conflict in the Middle East in the Neoliberal Information Economy. Animal Rights? The Liberal Limits Film: My Brooklyn 3.80 44 1.90 43 to Human Emancipation Global Imagery of Terrorism and The Climate Crisis is a Democracy State Terror in Democratic, Historical, 3.81 44 Crisis: Why We Need a Democratic 1.91 43 and Cinematic Context Revolution in the U.S. and Beyond Reform or Abolition? The A People's Climate Strike: Transformative 8.61 44 1.92 43 Resist Rikers Movement Justice Through Collaborative Strike Action Utopia School Report Back 8.67 44 Building Our Future Through Games 1.93 43 and Planning Session Vietnam : A Brief Review of History and Laughing at malfeasance 8.69 44 Today's Situation at 85th Birthday of 1.99 43 Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today 8.72 44 Communist Party of Vietnam (1930-2015) Transformative Organizing in the City. From The Student Movement in NYC 3303N 44 L2.80 43 the Right to the City to Radical Democracy? SOS: State of the Struggle 3304N 44 Getting Serious About the Next System L2.81 43 SESSION 4 5:10 – 7:00PM The Fight Against Austerity in Ireland L2.82 43 Occupy Democracy: The Public L2.84 45 Imperialism, Counter-Revolution, Square and/or The Ballots! 1.89 43 and Conflict in the Middle East Economy Meets Psychology in the U.S. L2.85 45 Animal Rights? The Liberal Limits Justifiable Homicide pt2: A National 1.90 43 L.76 45 to Human Emancipation Coalition Combating Police Terrorism The Climate Crisis is a Democracy Beyond Privilege Checking: Class, 1.100 45 Crisis: Why We Need a Democratic 1.91 43 Oppression and Strategies for Solidarity Revolution in the U.S. and Beyond Patriarchy and Revolution 1.101 45 A People's Climate Strike: Transformative 1.92 43 Activism and Academia: When Justice Through Collaborative Strike Action 1.103 46 Scholars Study Social Movements Building Our Future Through Games 1.93 43 Is Nazism Raising Its Ugly 1.105 46 Vietnam : A Brief Review of History and Head in Ukraine Today? Today's Situation at 85th Birthday of 1.99 43 Communist Party of Vietnam (1930-2015) Digitizing Our Radical Past… Affordably 1.107 46 Transformative Organizing in the City. From Tensions in the American Dream: Dialogue L2.80 43 1.108 46 the Right to the City to Radical Democracy? with authors Melanie (and Rod) Bush Getting Serious About the Next System L2.81 43 The Unfinished Revolution: South Africa Today 1.109 46 The Fight Against Austerity in Ireland L2.82 43 Land Grabs, Forced Displacement And Political Violence: Cases From 1.113 46 Political Correctness And Its 3.76 43 Honduras, Venezuela And Colombia Devastating Effect On The Left The New Stage in Cuban/U.S. Relations: 1.114 47 Theater of the Oppressed for Self- What Has and Has Not Changed Organizing and Building Community: A 3.78 43 Panel Discussion and Workshop–Part 1 Transcending Material Scarcity 1.115 47

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 4 5:10 – 7:00PM SESSION 4 5:10 – 7:00PM Empire in Crisis: Uniting the Struggles For CORAL and an Anarchist International 1.82 49 to Defeat Racist State Terror, 1.117 47 "The Predator": A Play Reading and Austerity, and Endless War 1.83 49 Discussion about Killer Drones Reviewing Struggles in Seattle 1.119 47 The New World Order and Wafare in the 21st and the Next Steps 1.85 49 Century: Drones, space and cyber weapons Publishing the Complete Works of Rosa 1.121 47 From Syria and Turkey to Detroit, the Luxemburg–in English and Chinese Global Crisis and Women’s Struggle for 1.87 49 From The Greek Streets: 1.123 47 Humanity: A Marxist-Humanist View Grassroots Resistance to Austerity The Business of Backlash: The Attack Resist, Reclaim, Restructure: A Call for 1.124 47 on the Palestinian Movement and 1.89 49 Transition and Energy Democracy Other Movements for Social Justice Left Strategies For The Academic Integrating City, State and Federal to 1.125 47 1.90 49 Workers' Movement–- A Year Later Reduce Carbon: Obstacles and Successes Symposium: Rethinking the Industrial The Pledge to Mobilize: A Denial-Fighting 1.127 47 1.91 49 Revolution by Michael Andrew Žmolek Tool to Organize Against Climate Change Decolonizing Class Struggle: Building Workers 1.129 47 Energy Geopolitics in a Contested World 1.92 49 Movements that Challenge Imperialism Equality Through Transportation 1.93 50 Beauty Concept: Art and Evolution 1.61 47 and Infrastructure Myths of Non-Violence and Building 1.63 47 Inside-Out: A Journey Exploring Justice a True Culture of Resistance Via Nepali, Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, 1.99 50 The Extremist Regime Running Saudi U.S. Immigrant Communities – Here/ 1.65 48 Arabia and How to Expose It There & Animal Rights Naturally Erich Fromm’s Criticality and Creativity The End of the World As We Know It? in Pedagogy, and His Approach 1.66 48 Housing, Occupy, and Transnational L2.80 50 to Labor Unions in Crisis Resistance to Green Capitalism Icarus Project NYC: Mad Maps Strategic Role of the Commons for Movements? L2.81 50 1.67 48 and Forum Theater Greece vs. Germany: L2.82 50 The Political Economy of State The Battle for Europe's Future 1.69 48 Single Payer Plans What Happened to "The State and Revolution"? 3.76 50 Contemporary Topics on Maoism 1.71 48 The Question of Power in Russia, 1917-1921 Black Community Control Over the Police 1.73 48 Theater of the Oppressed for Self- Organizing and Building Community: A 3.78 50 Transformation In Action: Non-Traditional 1.75 48 Panel Discussion and Workshop–Part 2 Approaches to Prison Transformation! Teaching Economics As If Science 3.79 50 From Anthony Baez to Eric Garner: Mattered (In Honor of Ross Thomson) #Blacklivesmatter and the Struggle 1.76 48 Film: Rent Rebels–Resistance Against Police Brutality in New York City 3.80 51 Against The Sell-Out Of The City The Ferguson Streets to the High Courts: 1.77 49 Protest, Policing, and Resistance Film Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? 3.81 51 Public Schools vs. Charter Schools: Sins of Omission: Stories the Media Overlook 8.61 51 The Legacy of the NYC Community FPA-Foundation-Child Welfare 1.81 49 8.67 51 Control Struggle: The True Debate Must & Community Organizing Be Education vs. Mis-education

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 4 5:10 – 7:00PM SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM The Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline 8.69 51 Connecting the Dots: Big Capital, 1.124 55 Contingent Labor & Poverty Building Anti-Imperialist Front For 2016 8.72 51 Lines of Work: Telling Our Stories of From A Co-Opted Anti-War Movement 1.125 55 Work and Building Movement AfroCrowd Call To Action Workshop 3304N 51 Confronting the Social and Natural FEATURE EVENT 7:30–9:45PM Crises of 21st Century Capitalism: 1.127 55 Indicting and Transforming the Systems of Water, Oil, and Economic Inequality State And Capitalism: GYM. 51 Labor for Palestine: Growing U.S. From Ferguson To Baltimore And Beyond Trade Unionist Support for BDS, From 1.129 55 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM UAW 2865 to Block-the-Boat Labor and the Left in the U.S.: Socialist Where Do We Go From Here? L2.84 52 1.61 55 Register 2015 Transforming Classes Is Radical Art Relevant To The Left? Dreaming To Be Free: Ferguson, Palestine A World on The Verge of Collapse: A Guide L2.85 52 1.63 55 And The Fight For Migration Justice And Discussion On Taking The Power Back Liberation Politics in the Post Obama World L.76 52 And Deliver Us From All Our Saviors: Reflections on Coalition Building in 1.65 55 Organizing for New Directions in U.S./ the Sex Worker Rights Movement Cuba Relations: The Cuba Caravans 1.100 52 and Cuban Med School Experience Masculinity and Ideology 1.66 55 Crisis Of Capitalism: Eco-Feminist Paths Towards a 1.101 53 1.67 55 The Lightning Before The Storm World Beyond Capital Progressive Healthcare Unions With, Against and Beyond Left Governments? 1.103 53 1.69 55 Fighting for Patient Care After Militarism and Capitalism: 1.105 53 Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Program”: Panel in Honor of Seymour Melman 1.71 55 New Direction for Revolutionary Organization Radical Publishing and the Facebook 1.107 53 Left: Contradictions in Clickbait Quest for Identity: Negro, Colored, Black, Afro, African American: The Role of Religion 1.73 57 Beyond Crisis: Communicating 1.108 53 in Shaping Black Identity in America Persuasively For Social Change As the South Goes: Climate Justice and a 1.75 57 Caribbean Responses to the Cuban Revolution 1.113 53 Just Transition in the Black Belt South Human Rights In Venezuela And The Indictment of the American Co- Responsibility Between The 1.114 53 Criminal Justice System and the 1.76 57 State And Popular Power New Criminology of Hope Anti-Imperialism, A Debate 1.115 53 We Have Still Not Been Moved: Taking Quechua Realities: A Discussion on Subjectivity Aim at White Supremacy, the War 1.77 57 1.117 53 and Screening of Living Quechua Machine, and Police Brutality Dismantling the Intern Economy: Building Occupy Alternative Banking: 1.81 57 A Meeting And Open Discussion On 1.119 53 Student, Intern, and Worker Power The Financial System's Dysfunction A People's Congress 1.82 57 Thomas Paine And Henry George: Two More Than A Score: The New Uprising 1.121 53 1.83 57 Patriots, One Common Adversary Of Monopoly Against High-Stakes Testing Sustaining Organizations with Values 1.123 53

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM Systematic Violence Of The War On Terror Revolutionary Arts Performance with 1.85 57 BLACK BOX And Collective Actions Of Dissenters The Red Microphone and Mac McGill with 61 THEATER the Improvised Explosive Devices Iran And The New (Nuclear) Deal 1.87 57 Black Labor and the Fate of Capitalism L2.84 61 War, Imperialism & The People's 1.89 57 Struggle In The Middle East Today Progressive Satirical Activism L2.85 61 Nurses Healing The World: Climate Change 1.90 57 How To Teach Marxism? Glad You Asked L.76 61 And The Fight For Climate Justice Occupy + 4: Private Power vs. Public Rights: Why Do 1.100 61 1.91 57 Lessons for the Anti-Capitalist Left Fracking Corporations Have So Much Power? Extractivisms, North and South and in Between 1.101 61 The Climate Crisis, Nonviolent Direct 1.92 58 Commonizing Public Spaces against Action And The Necessity Defense 1.103 61 Neoliberal Urbanization Internal Relations And Practice 1.93 58 The Limits of Liberal Police Reforms 1.105 61 Confronting Corporate Rule In India 1.99 58 Resisting Technology Privatization and The Housing Trust And 1.107 61 L2.80 58 Surveillance: Roles for Scholar-Activists Affordability In Perpetuity No Working Class Media Voice; No Democracy 1.108 62 Left Alternatives To Neoliberalism In Youth in Revolt: The International France And The United States: Economic L2.81 58 1.109 62 Reforms And Political Strategies Role of Youth on the Left Greece-EU-USA & The BRICS: International Colombian Women’s Struggles: Solidarity & Cooperation As A Way To Fight L2.82 58 Overcoming Violence and Oppression 1.113 62 Feudalism, Colonialism, and Imperialism by Becoming Agents of Change Perspectives on Puerto Rico in a Changing Democratic Totalitarianism 3.76 58 1.114 62 Latin American and Caribbean Reality Dance For Social Justice 3.78 58 Oscar Lopez Rivera: Beauty and 1.115 62 Why Jaurès Matters 3.79 58 Strength in Resistance Film "The Missile Dick Chicks Take On America" 3.80 58 We Tortured Some Folks” But Don’t Take 1.117 62 It Too Seriously, Says U.S. Government Disaster Capitalism: A Screening And 3.81 58 What is to be Done: How to Build a Global Discussion Of Richard Ledes' "The Dark Side" 1.119 62 Anti-Capitalist Movement Today? Stop Militarizing Our Children: Organizing For Alternatives To ROTC 8.61 58 Marx on Ecology, Preliterate And Military Recruitment In Schools Societies and the Global South: New 1.121 62 Research from the MEGA Project Textual Communities 8.67 59 Film: Resistencia: The Fight We Can't Breathe: 1.123 63 8.69 59 for the Aguan Valley (The Connection Between Movements) Toward a Mass Left Party 1.124 63 Environmental Collapse and the Neoliberalism and the Importance Need for Resistance: Introduction 8.72 59 1.125 63 to Deep Green Resistance of the Radical Imagination Confronting the Retirement Crisis: The The Unnecessary Drugging of Children 3303N 59 1.127 63 Campaign to Expand Social Security Benefits The History of Authority; 3304N 59 Understanding Leadership

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM Worker Coops, Labor and Cities: How Appropriation of Climate Justice and New Thinking Is Building Economic 1.129 63 Intersectionality by Mainstream 1.92 67 Power from the Ground Up Environmentalists: Challenges, If I Can't Sing, I Don't Want to Opportunities, and Concerns 1.61 63 be Part of Your Revolution Victor Serge Today 1.93 67 Shutting Down Indian Point: The Movement 1.63 63 Academic Capitalism/Authoritarianism And Toward Ending the Nuclear Era The Status Of The Profession: Academic 1.99 67 'SELMA'… Action Lessons for Concrete Freedom And The Role Of Professors In Outcomes for the 'Black Lives Matter' Mainland China, Hong Kong And Macau 1.65 63 Movement and Progressive Empowerment– Organizing A Spatial Justice Movement L2.80 67 Insights of Black Women Activists In A Punitive Neoliberal City Trans Lives Matter 1.66 63 Cooperation Jackson and The Struggle for L2.81 67 Neoliberalism and Psychiatry. Economic Democracy in Jackson Mississippi 1.67 63 How Do We Respond? Report Back from Spain: A Social Movement L2.82 67 Health Needs Assessment and Delegation in the "Year of Change" 1.69 63 Planning in New York City Europe on the Move, Part 1: Syriza, Podemos–How the Left Addresses the 3.76 67 Anti-Neoliberalism vs. Anti-Capitalism 1.71 65 Issue of Power in Greece and in Spain Next Phase of the Black Freedom Struggle 1.73 65 Film Screening: Two Short Youth Made Films I Pledge Allegiance to the Struggle: Black on Social Justice and the Intersections of 3.78 68 1.75 65 & Brown Resistance Against Nationalism Race, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Confronting Injustice: Ferguson, Social War Zones to Peace Zones: 1.76 65 3.79 68 Control, and Mass Incarceration How to End Police Brutality The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home presents: FILM: 3½ Minutes: Jordan Davis, Race and Guns 3.80 68 Live From Death Row to #Blacklivesmatter: 1.77 65 FILM: The Hand That Feeds–Documentary The Anatomy of Revolutionary Leadership 3.81 68 Film with Filmmaker and Film Subject Q&A How Can Teachers Respond Politically to 1.81 65 The Anthropocene Debate 8.61 68 Neoliberalism's Unjust Education Policies? The Democratic Tea Party: Bringing the Transition Movement to NYC 8.67 68 1.82 65 Where Do We Go From Here? Occupy Ethics: Rehumanizing the Economy 8.69 68 The Most Significant Right in the BDS Call: 1.83 65 Spying and Infiltration of Activist Groups 8.72 68 Advocating Palestinian Refugee Return Film: The Anti-War Movement from 3303N 68 The Wars Come Home 1.85 65 Hollywood to Harlem 2003-2011 Critical Perspectives on Palestine: 1.87 65 Legal Solutions To JFK Assassination Research 3304N 68 Revitalizing a One State Solution SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM Evaluating the Consequences of the 1.89 67 BLACK BOX Post-9/11 Era, Redirecting Our Future Transcending Borders: Sounds of Solidarity 69 THEATER Globalization, Climate Change and the 1.90 67 Ferguson to New York: Faces Second Contradiction of Capitalism L2.84 69 and Voices of a Movement Shifting Money, Shifting Power: Fossil Fuel Divestment and Alternative Should the Left Support Bernie Sanders? L2.85 69 1.91 67 Energy Reinvestment as a Strategy The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies L.76 69 for Confronting Climate Change and the Promise of Direct Democracy

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM Seeking Truth in the Balkans (And In Africa) 1.101 69 Restorative Justice for All?: Race, Class, 1.66 73 Gender, Disability and Animal Liberation 21st Century Movement-Building Centers 1.103 69 Political Prisoners in the U.S.: 1.67 73 ISIS and Islamic Extremism: A “Failure” Crisis or Opportunity? of U.S. Policy? -or- Precisely What The 1.105 71 Envisioning a New Healthcare Delivery in New Hidden Hand of U.S. Power Wants? 1.69 73 York City: Health as a Model of Social Justice Computerized Vote Theft and the 1.107 71 Subversion of Democracy The Politics of Social Reproduction 1.71 73 Revolutionary Culture and Media: 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Malcolm X: 1.108 71 Our Movement as Ecosystem A Review of the National Question Behind 1.73 73 the Black Lives Matter Uprising The American Deep State: How 1.109 71 Ferguson: The F#$%&ing Conversation, Capitalism Has Subverted Democracy 1.75 73 Its Aftermath and Going Forward Reprimarization: Implications for the 1.113 71 Black Cooperatives & the Fight Environment and Development 1.76 73 for Economic Democracy The Cuban Revolution Today: 1.114 71 Cuba Speaks for Itself New BLACK Power: Moving Beyond Black 1.77 74 Hostility Between Haitian and Educating toward Revolution 1.81 74 1.115 71 Dominicans: Why? Building Multilingual Movements: Overcoming Econophobia: 1.82 74 1.117 71 experiences form the grassroots Renewing Popular Economics On The Left Fear of Who, Where?: Ethnographic The Pirate Party: 1.119 71 Research as Learning Tool in an 1.83 74 Navigating the Seas of Surveillance Urban Community College. Harvey vs. Marx: On Capitalist Crisis 1.121 71 War Culture and Resistance 1.85 74 and "Marxist Entertainment" Concerning Violence 1.87 74 Marxist Encounters with Anarchism 1.123 71 Fundamentalism in Iran and Israel: Anarchism, Socialist Humanism, 1.124 72 Compare and Contrast in the Context of 1.89 74 and Libertarian Marxism Turmoil in the Greater Middle East Reject the Student-Worker Binary! People's Climate Movement – 1.90 74 Undergraduate Student Labor 1.125 72 New York–Organizing for Next Steps Organizing on Campus Aesthetics of Climate Justice 1.91 74 Deepening Technological Changes in Massage the Movements: Disability the Workplace, Workers' Organizing, 1.127 72 1.92 77 and Marx's Mature Critical Theory and Intersectionality Creating and Managing Bail Funds: A Tangible Living Near a Deadly Neighbor: A 1.93 77 Coalition’s Struggle to Achieve Good Response to the Prison Industrial Complex 1.129 72 Jobs and a Clean Environment near An Indigenous Peoples' History 1.99 77 the New Jersey/ New York Port and the Struggle for Justice Poetry of Resistance: Imagining the Capturing Land Value Revenue 1.61 73 L2.80 77 Overthrow of Capitalist Oppression from Condo Criminals Racism, Capitalism and Black Liberation 1.63 73 Drawing Lines: Liberation and Co-Conspirators L2.81 77 Slacktivism to Activism: Combating Gender The Greek Crisis in Context: 1.65 73 L2.82 77 and Racial Inequality in a Violent World National and Regional Dimensions

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PANEL NAME ROOM PAGE SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM Europe on the Move (2): The Ascendancy of the Far and Nationalist Right in 3.76 77 Europe–How the Left Copes with It Creative Tools, Creating Change: Deconstructing Systems of Power, Privilege and 3.78 77 Oppression using Theatre of the Oppressed Assessing Potential for Combative Syndicalism in the U.S.: Adapting 3.79 77 Structures and Tactics of Quebec Student Movement for Organizing in the States Film: PAH Film 3.80 77 Youth Self Expression as Education: Making 3.81 77 Movies and Poetry in Jail and the Barrio Just Information for All. 8.67 78 Common Core and the End of History 8.69 78 ABCs of Squatting 8.72 78 Taking the U.S. to the World 3303N 78 Court on Human Rights A Conversation Amongst Youth on 3304N 78 Creating Interfaith Dialog in Schools CLOSING PLENARY 6:30–8:45PM A National Left Politics? M. Adams, Pamela Brown, Glen Ford, GYM. 78 Tom Hayden, Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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18 SESSION A: 5:00 – 6:45PM FRIDAY 5/29

SESSION A 5:00 – 6:45PM

The Internet and the World’s Struggle Against the Narrative: for Survival: The Next Five Years Independent Media and The Left L.76 L2.85 The Julianna Forlano Show / WBAI Alfredo Lopez, Chair �� May First/People Link Julianna Forlano, Chair �� WBAI / The Progressive Voices Radio Network Juan Gerardo Dominguez Carrasco �� May First/People Link – Mexico Paul Jay �� The Real News Network Ahmed Ogunlaja �� Open Access Nigeria Glen Ford ��Black Agenda Report Malkia Cyril �� Center for Media Justice Eddie Conway ��Former Black Panther, for forty years a Shahzad Ahmad ��Bytes for All - Pakistan political prisoner, now with The Real News Network Seeta Peña Gangadharan �� Open Technology Institute Joseph Torres �� Free Press Building a Global Solidarity Movement Jackie Smith ��International Network of Scholar Activists 1.76 Building the Black Lives Matter Movement: Mary Taylor, Chair ��Assistant Director, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics Assessments and Perspectives CUNY Graduate Center David Scheller L2.84 Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus ��Platform for People Affected Akua Ofori, Chair �� Millions March NYC, ISO by Mortgages (PAH) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Prachi Pantanker �� South Asian Solidarity Network Cid Nichols �� Millions March NYC Leocadia Diaz Romero �� University of Murcia Danette Chavis ��Founder, National Action Against Police Brutality Alicia Garza �� #BlackLivesMatter Sports, Resistance, and Black Lives Matter 1.77 Left Forum Dave Zirin, Chair �� The Nation Ariyana Smith ��Knox College, Allies for Sexual Assault Prevention Etan Thomas ��NBA, Pacifica Radio

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SYRIZA, PODEMOS, LEFT BLOC, AND THE LEFT: A EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS?

EDUARDO MAURA, VICENTE NAVARRO, LEO PANITCH, CATARINA PRINCIPE, & KONSTANTINOS TSOUKALAS

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19 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM SATURDAY 5/30

SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM

The Confiscation of American Prosperity Multi-Racial Coalitions for Prison Divestment: L2.84 Confronting Mass Incarceration and Detentions and Building Black and Brown Unity Julio Huato, Chair �� Science & Society, St. Francis College Michael Hudson ��University of Missouri (Kansas City) 1.103 Michael Perelman Daniel Carrillo, Chair �� Enlace Ian Trupin �� Responsible Endowments Coalition Entertainment Superpower: Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye ��Black Alliance for Just Immigration Media Technology and the American Empire Cindy Martinez �� Families For Freedom L2.85 Conceptualizing Post-Capitalist Transition Alexa O’Brien, Chair in the Age of Imperialism and Terrorism Chris Hedges Tim Shorrock 1.105 Institute for Peace and Progress Ahmed Ghappour Danish Khan, Chair �� University of Massachusetts–Amherst Ray Nowosielski Shahram Azhar ��University of Massachusetts–Amherst Ricardo Fuentes-Ramírez �� UMASS–Amherst Climate Justice and Energy Democracy L.76 Green Party of New York State Organizing in the Internet Era: Building an Howie Hawkins, Chair �� Green Party All-Purpose Democratic Platform on the Web Sean Sweeney ��Trade Unions for Energy Democracy 1.107 Jill Stein �� Green Party Candidate for President Kilian Walsh, Chair �� NYU Physics Mark Dunlea �� Green Education and Legal Fund Patrick Cooper ��NYU Physics Michael Skirpan � Human Centered Computing, University of Colorado Boulder DC Metro Science For The People: How Can Science Be Used To Empower Slave Routes: A Global Vision Rather Than Undermine Communities? 1.108 AfrobeatRadio, WBAI Radio, FOTC, UNESCO 1.100 dc metro science for the people: dcmetrosftp.org Sheila Walker, Chair �� Afrodiaspora, Inc. David Schwartzman, Chair �� dc metro science for the people Wuyi Jacobs John Tharakan ��dc metro science for the people Manbo Dòwòti Désir �� The Durban Declaration and Mai Abdul Rahman ��dc metro science for the people Programme of Action (DDPA) Jane Zara Tyrene Wright ��AfrobeatRadio, African Women for Africa, Inc. Does The United Front Against Austerity Overturning the Culture of White Violence: And The Tax Wall Street Party Have The A Call for White People to Stand in Solidarity Demands Needed For Jobs And Justice? with African Liberation and Reparations 1.101 1.109 Daniela Walls, Chair �� Chairperson of the Tax Wall Street Party Uhuru Solidarity, Chair �� Movement Perry Thomas Marrs III ��United Front Against Austerity Jesse Nevel ��Uhuru Solidarity Movement & Tax Wall Street Party, Austin Local Penny Hess �� African People’s Solidarity Committee Evan Papp ��United Front Against Austerity Founding Member, Maryland Local

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Network Movements: (Re)producing Capital: Theorizing the Relationships The Changing Tide of Politics Between Oppression and Exploitation 1.124 1.65 Luis Moreno-Caballud, Chair �� University of Pennsylvania Ariane Fischer, Chair �� Associate Professor, Intellectual Heritage, Pablo Benson ��Movement Net Lab & LIU Post Temple University Tamara Shapiro �� Movement Netlab Kanishka Chowdhury ��University of Saint Thomas St. Paul, MN Bernardo Gutiérrez Carolyn Elerding �� Ohio State University Gan Golan �� Movement Netlab Joseph Ramsey ��Univ. Mass. Boston Union Power: Women Who Walk On the Tongues of Lions Boston School Bus Drivers Take on Goliath 1.66 1.125 Workers World Newspaper Betty Davis, Chair �� New Abolitionist , Green Party, Tony Murphy, Chair �� Team Solidarity Free Lynne Stewart, Free Mumia Andre Francois �� Boston School Bus Drivers Union (USW 8751) Leola Maddock �� United African Movement and Freedom Party Steve Gillis �� Boston School Bus Drivers Union (USW 8751) Devonya Havis Walton �� Canisius College Kanene Holder ��Colin Powell Center For Policy Study The Millennium at 15: Muna Mire ��Youngist.org Protest, Power and the Socialist Vision New Mad Pride Movement: “Schizophrenics” and 1.127 The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation “Bipolars” as the New Spiritual Vanguard? Suzi Weissman, Chair �� Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 1.67 Hillel Ticktin ��Critique Journal Natassa Romanou ��Syriza-New York Seth Farber, Chair Christina Kaindl ��DIE LINKE, Head of Strategy Department Sascha Altman DuBrul �� Icarus Project NYC Lauren Tenney The Levity of the Left, the Materiality of Power: Bodies and Organization Healthcare Restructuring: 1.129 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Neoliberalism and the Assault on the Social Wage 1.69 Physicians for a National Health Program Stanley Aronowitz, Chair �� CUNY and Situations Konstantinos Tsoukalas ��Syriza and Member of the Greek Parliament Martha Livingston, Chair �� Physicians for a National Health Program Arto Artinian ��CUNY and Situations –NY Metro Chapter Leo Panitch Christos Giovanopoulos ��Solidarity for All Peter Bratsis Sean Petty �� NYSNA Martha Kuhl ��National Nurses United For Love, Music, Shared Spaces and Economies: Adam Gaffney ��Physicians for a National Health Program De/Post-Colonial Resistance Strategies Mark Dudzic ��Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care 1.61 5 Economic Lies Erica Kohl-Arenas, Chair �� New School for Public Engagement 1.71 No. Fabiola Berdiel ��New School for Public Engagement Rebecca Hollender ��New School for Public Engagement Marty Rowland, Chair �� Georgist Economic Task Force Jacquelin Kataneksza ��New School for Public Engagement Kim Baxter �� NYC Land & Money Study Group Sara Shroff ��New School for Public Engagement B. Allen Barndt �� Taos Institute/Tilburg University Intelligentsia, Working Class, and the “Spirit of Achieving Justice for the Wrongfully Incarcerated Generalization” Through the Lens of Organic 1.73 #MarchForJustice Intellectuals of the Working Class (OIWC) David Bliven, Chair �� International Socialist Organization 1.63 Sharonne Salaam ��#MarchForJustice Bronislaw Czarnocha, Chair �� Hostos CC, CUNY Yusef Salaam ��#MarchForJustice Jarekh Stelmark ��Hostos CC, CUNY Raymond Santana ��#MarchForJustice Dennis Speed ��Executive Intelligence Review Lynne Stewart

23 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM

Occupy Wall Street Black Lives Matter Organizing Grad Student, Contingent, 1.75 and Tenure-Track Faculty: A Fight Against Corporatization for the Soul of Higher Education Sumumba Sobukwe, Chair �� Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Alejandrina Murphy �� Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)/Stop Mass 1.81 Incarceration Kathryn Eskew, Chair �� Hilbert College Bill Johnsen �� Occupy Sandy (Walk For Justice and Democracy) Ruth Wangerin ��College of Staten Island Robert Hernandez �� Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) Joe Richard �� Rutgers AAUP-AFT Natasha Raheja �� Graduate Student Organizing Committee, NYU #BlackLivesMatter: Now What Is To Be Done? 1.76 Science & Society Support the Colombian Peace Adam Stevens, Chair Process, Free Simon Trinidad! Morgan Horowitz ��Lehman College, CUNY 1.82 Russell Dale ��Science & Society Jess Sundin, Chair �� Antiwar 23, FreeRicardoPalmera.org Stephanie Foard ��Park Slope Collegiate HS Mark Burton ��Lawyer for Simon Trinidad Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan ��President-elect National Lawyers Guild Black Internationalism, Multiculturalism and the Contemporary Crises in Capitalism: Between the Why We Focus on U.S. Imperialist Wars Black Radical Tradition and the Local/Global Nexus 1.83 1.77 Marilyn Levin, Chair �� UNAC Darryl Thomas, Chair �� Pennsylvania State University Sara Flounders �� International Action Center Youb Kim �� University of Northern Colorado Joe Lombardo ��UNAC Zulema Blair �� CUNY Medgar Evers Ahmed Banya ��Penn State Lindah Mhando ��Duke University

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24 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM

Deep Into Drones, Drone Wars & Secret Ops: Reclaiming New York’s Energy Vision: What’s the “War on Terror” Coming To? Utility Reform, Green Jobs and the 1.85 Struggle for Energy Democracy Debra Sweet, Chair �� World Can’t Wait 1.92 Marjorie Cohn ��Former pres., Nat. Lawyers Guild Eric Walker, Chair Ed Kinane �� Nonviolent civil resister Jessica Azulay �� Alliance for a Green Economy Elsa Rassbach ��Co-founder, German Drone Campaign Emmaia Gelman Amanda Bass James Wilcox The Syrian Revolution, Yarmouk, Rojava: Organizing at the Margins Against State Violence: Politics of Solidarity Challenges and Strategies for Success 1.87 Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution 1.93 Yusef Khalil, Chair �� International Socialist Organization; Darakshan Raja, Chair �� Washington Peace Center/ Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Muslim American Women’s Policy Forum Talal Alyan �� Palestinian Network of Civil Society in Syria (SHAML) Maha Hilal ��National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms Mariam Barghouti Dante Barry ��Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Emrah Yildiz �� Harvard University Ramah Kudaimi ��US Campaign to End The Israeli Occupation War Normalized or War Abolished: China: Socialist Hegemony in a Country in a Drones, Nukes, and the Choice Before Us Multilateral but Capitalist Global Environment 1.89 World Beyond War, Know Drones 1.99 David Swanson, Chair �� World Beyond War Director Gary Hicks, Chair �� Artworks for the people Berkeley CA Alice Slater �� World Beyond War Coordinating Committee Member Luo Xiaoping �� Visiting Scholar in Boston University, Nick Mottern ��knowdrones.com Assistant Professor in Zhejiang Ocean University Joe Scarry �� World Beyond War Coordinating Committee Member Norman Markowitz ��Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University Amanda Bass �� Law Student at NYU, organizer of protest of hiring of Harold Koh Whose City? Our City! Fighting Gentrification in the U.S. & Europe Animal Intelligence and Its Implications for the Left L2.80 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Rachel LaForest, Chair �� Right to the City Alliance, Executive Director 1.90 Dawn Phillips ��Causa Justa : Just Cause, Program Co-Director Joan Harrison, Chair Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus ��PAH, Plataforma de Afectados Karen Davis ��United Poultry Concerns por la Hipoteca, Barcelona Josephine Donovan �� University of Maine Florian Kasiske �� Recht auf Stadt/Right to the City, Germany Vasile Stanescu ��Mercer University Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: From Lima to Paris to Climate Justice: Mass Incarceration as Political Repression The Context for COP21 L2.81 Socialism and Democracy 1.91 AFGJ.org Johanna Fernández, Chair �� Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal James Jordan, Chair �� National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice Dequi Kioni-Sadiki ��Educator & Activist George Ygarza ��North Jersey Grassroots Action Laura Whitehorn ��Former political prisoner Pamela Brubaker ��Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University Nyle Fort ��Newark-based youth organizer and writer Joleen Kirschenman �� ThoughtWorks, Inc. Arielle Newton ��Founding Editor, Black Millennials

25 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM

The Fight Against Austerity in Europe and the A Black Liberation Manifesto for the 21st Century: United States: Revolutionary Socialist Politics in The Centrality of Youth, Women & Revolutionary Praxis the Wake of the Syriza and Podemos Experiences 3.80 The Black Activist (jblun.org) L2.82 Sam Anderson, Chair �� Black Left Unity Network Marty Goodman, Chair �� Socialist Action US Ashaki Binta ��Black Left Unity Network Manos Soufoglo ��Member of the Political Bureau of the Tony Menelik Vandermeer ��Black Left Unity Network Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece Rose Brewer ��Black Left Unity Network Stan Meunier ��France, New Anticapitalist Party Youth Organizer Ajamu Baraka ��Black Left Unity Network Christine Marie ��Socialist Action US Vonds Vonds ��The Boston Chapter of Black Lives Matter and Christina Palliou �� OKDE-Spartacus Safe Hub Boston plus others Sadie Barbosa ��We Are The Ones Coalition–Boston This Side of the Darkness: The Global AIDS Adebukola Ajao ��We Are The Ones Coalition–Boston Crisis, the TPP and the Politics of Epidemics 3.76 FILM: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret 3.81 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Mariel Selbovitz, Chair �� Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group ROAR! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights) Community Advisory Board Timothy Ray Brown Bill Koehnlein, Chair �� Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Roscoe M. Moore Jr. �� Assistant U.S. Surgeon General (Retired) Nancy Kogel ��ROAR! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights) Mark Wainberg ��McGill University AIDS Center Margaret Flowers ��Physicians for a National Health Program Land Conservancies in Late Capitalism: How Trusts Gary Blick �� World Health Clinicians Provide a Bird’s-Eye View into the Ruling Class David Miller ��Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group 8.61 Community Advisory Board Jeannie Wraight ��AIDS Treatment Activist Irwin Sperber, Chair �� Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz Sophia Apkarian ��teaching assistant, Sociology Dept., SUNY New Paltz Queering Animal Liberation, Alexander Groskinsky ��Employed in social agency Animating Restorative Justice David McCarthy ��Independent scholar 3.78 The Western Buddhist Ethic and Pattrice Jones, Chair the Spirit of Late Capitalism Christopher-Sebastian McJetters 8.67 Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Brandie Skorker Stuart Smithers, Chair Dangerous Scapegoating of Islam: Alex Caring-Lobel ��Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Exacerbated by the Left’s Silence About Eske Mollgaard ��University of Rhode Island Controlled Demolition on 9/11 3.79 911TruthOutreach.org Wayne Coste, Chair �� Truth Outreach, Inc. David Slesinger �� 9/11 Truth Activist Mauri Saalakhan �� The Peace and Justice Foundation

26 SESSION 1 10:00 – 11:50AM

A Look At Student Unionism’s Armenian Freedom Struggle and the 100th Present And Potential Commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide 8.69 Canon: Interdisciplinary Journal of the New School for Social Research 3304N The Platypus Review Beth K. Lamont, Chair �� Humanist Society Pam C. Nogales, Chair �� Platypus Review Anoush Ter Taulian ��Artsakh War Veteran Sean Kennedy �� UNY Adjunct Project Kevork Esayan Daniel Aldana Cohen ��GSOC-UAW organizer

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27 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM

THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 12:00–1:50PM BLACK BOX THEATER

WORDS OF RESISTANCE: SPOKEN WORD FOR A MOVEMENT

FEATURING: PEERS EDUCATING PEERS WORDS OF CHOICE CESCHI

MASTER OF CEREMONIES: JIM VRETTOS ORGANIZED BY: GEORGE YGARZA

SESSION 2 12:00PM – 1:50PM

Betrayed By Our Government: Phil Donahue New Challenges, New Responses: Hosts Discussion with Matthew Hoh, Ray McGovern, The 2015 U.S. Social Forum Kevin & Joyce Lucey, and Cathy Smith L2.85 L.63 Jerome Scott, Chair �� League of Revolutionaries for a New America Phil Donahue, Chair Walda Katz-Fishman ��Howard University Cathy Smith �� Military Families Speak Out Shamako Noble ��Hip Hop Congress, US Social Forum Kevin Lucey �� Military Families Speak Out German Parodi ��Disabled in Action Joyce Lucey �� Military Families Speak Out Deeq Abdi ��Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign Matthew Hoh Ray McGovern Democracy at Work: Achieving Social Change through Worker Coops We Are Our Own Liberators! When We Free L.76 Our Political Prisoners, We Free Ourselves. Maria Carnemolla �� Democracy at Work, Left Forum Board Member L2.84 Richard D. Wolff �� Democracy at Work Ralph Poynter, Chair �� New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org. Carmen Huertas Noble ��CUNY Law School and Lynne Stewart ��New Abolitionist Movement & Lynne Stewart Org. Community Economic Development Clinic (CEDC) Pam Africa �� Free Mumia & MOVE Org. Michael Peck ��Mondragon North American Delegate Ramona Africa ��MOVE Ted De Barbieri ��Brooklyn Law School Ana Lopez �� Humanities, Hostos Community College Jess Sundin ��Committee To Stop FBI Repression Critical Perspectives on Naomi Klein’s Sundiata Sadiq ��Committee To Free Mumia Abu Jamal Org.–NYC “This Changes Everything.” Bob Boyle ��NLG-NYC 1.100 Capitalism Nature Socialism Anne Lamb ��NYC Jericho Movement Jerry Koch �� NYC Anarchist Black Cross Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Chair �� Capitalism Nature Socialism Naomi Braine ��Brooklyn College – Assoc. Prof. Soc. Dept Joel Kovel �� Ecosocialist Horizons Jane Zara �� DC Metro Science for the People (dcmetroSFTP.org) David Schwartzman ��Ecosocialist Horizons, Metro DC Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Ecosocialism

28 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM

Another World Is Possible: Towards the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal An open space… 1.101 Raphael Canet, Chair �� WSF Montreal 2016, University of Ottawa … for organizing! Nathalie Guay ��CSN Alexander Warnet ��The United Humanity, WSF Montreal 2016 Looking for a place to retreat, relax, organize, or energize? Join us! Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win 1.103 Stony Point Center is an open space Peter LaVenia, Chair �� Green Party of New York State supported by an intentional residential Ursula Rozum �� Green Party of New York State Michael O’Neil �� Green Party of New York State community of Muslims, Jews, and Christians committed to peace and social Congressman Vito Marcantonio (1934 to 1950): Champion for Civil Rights (Panel and Dramatization) justice 1.105  Serving farm-to-table produce from our Gil Fagiani, Chair �� CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum gardens Gerald Meyer �� CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum  Accepting bookings for conferences Roberto Ragone �� CoFounder of Vito Marcantonio Forum and retreats Commonizing Academia for Open Knowledge  Just 45 minutes north of the George 1.107 Washington Bridge in Rockland Caghan Kizil, Chair �� RIT | Research Institute on Turkey County Simten Cosar ��Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) Emrah Goker �� Koc University Thank you, Left Forum, for all you do! Hakan Ergul ��Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University in Ankara Grassroots Media in an Increasingly Digital World 1.108 The Indypendent John Tarleton, Chair �� The Indypendent Todd Wolfson�� Rutgers University, Media Mobilizing Project MIlena Velis �� Media Mobilizing Project Mario Murillo ��WBAI-99.5 FM, Hofstra University “We Are Not Ebola!” West African Perspectives On The Many-Layered Struggle For Democracy and Development in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea 1.109 17 Cricketown Rd, Stony Point, NY 10980 Kewulay Kamara, Chair (845) 786-5674 ext. 110 • stonypointcenter.org Nvasekie Konneh Sahr Ngaujah Aliou E ��Espoir et combat de femme Zeinab Camara ��Women in Mining Guinea Aroun Deen ��Freelance journalist

29 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM

Brazilian Dilemma and Afro-American Links: An Afro-Centred Mass Culture Submitted to Structural Racism 1.113 estrategiaeanalise.com.br Bruno Lima Rocha, Chair �� ESPM and Unisinos–estrategiaeanalise.com.br Cristian Salaini ��espm.br and Iacorec Edson Cadette ��Afropress website–afropress.com proudly present Kawaun Adon Akhenaten VII �� Constelltion International Encuentros Daniel Marks ��Constellation Global International FOLK meets JAZZ Is Post-Chavez Venezuela Still Leftist? 1.114 Hudson Valley Sally and The John Cantrell Trio Gabriel Fumero, Chair Steve Ellner �� Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela Eva Golinger Dario Azzellini �� Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Yes Peace, Yes Justice, But Only In A Resourced-Based Economy 1.115 Zeitgeist NYC Harry Cason, Chair �� College of Staten Island, CUNY Julio Herrera ��Zeitgeist NYC Songs of Social Justice Johnny Hobbes �� Kinhin Media Guillermo Cardenas on percussion Arjang Jameh ��Zeitgeist NYC Radical Archive Practice 1.117 Radical Teacher Susan O’Malley, Chair �� Radical Teacher, CUNY Veronica Ordaz �� Interference Archive Andrea Vasquez �� American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, CUNY Chloe Smolarski �� American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, CUNY and special appearance by Bernardo Palombo Kate Donovan �� Tamimant Library, NYU June 13, 2015@7 pm at St. Michael’s Church Sanctuary Amsterdam Avenue between 99th and 100th Streets Suggested Donation: $20 The event is wheelchair accessible For more information and online tickets: www.tallerlatino.org 212-665-9460 www.saintmichaelschurch.org 212-222-2700

Encuentros is supported in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Offices of Council Member Mark Levine and The National Endowment for the Arts

30 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM

Not Hillary, Not Jeb: Stopping the Permanent 15 Now’s Strategy for the Dictatorship of Austerity and War Low‑Wage Worker Movement 1.119 The United Front Against Austerity 1.129 Socialist Alternative Daniela Walls, Chair �� Deputy Director Dan Kroop, Chair �� 15 Now Webster Tarpley ��United Front Against Austerity & Tax Wall Street Party Elan Axelbank �� 15 Now Northeastern Dylan Shelton �� Tax Wall Street Party North Carolina Local Marty Harrison �� 15 Now Philadelphia Trotsky: A Revolutionary Life How Tribal Traditions To Capitalism 1.121 International Socialist Review To Hip Hop and Culture Met Ashley Smith, Chair 1.61 Ankhlave Mind Media Paul LeBlanc �� La Roche College David Acala, Chair �� Facilitator Ahmed Shawki �� International Socialist Review Wadsworth Hall �� Speaker Pepijn Brandon ��Post Doctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh David Hall-Goldstein �� Co-Curator Transforming Community and Labor Art Against Capitalism: Past Experience, Organizing into Electoral Victory Present Practices and Alternative Futures 1.123 Dialogue & Initiative 1.63 Socialism and Democracy Pat Fry, Chair �� Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism Mat Callahan, Chair Andrea Miller ��Progressive Democrats of America Eli Smith Paul Krehbiel ��CCDS Los Angeles Ana Ratner Ethan Young ��Left Labor Project Rosie Mendez �� New York City Council Member Marxist-Feminist Perspectives On Neoliberalism, Austerity, War And Terror The Future of OccupyWallSt.nyc 1.65 Socialism and Democracy 1.124 OccupyWallSt.nyc International Socialist Review Priscilla Grim, Chair �� OccupyWallSt.nyc Hester Eisenstein, Chair �� Department of Sociology, Queens College Jack Abbott ��OccupyWallSt.nyc and the Graduate Center, CUNY Kelli Daley �� Coordinator, OccupyWallSt.nyc Tithi Battacharya ��Associate Professor, South Asian History, Purdue University Muna Mire �� Coordinator, OccupyWallSt.nyc Kate Doyle Griffiths-Dingani ��Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center The U.S. Middle Class in Crisis: A Panel Ida Susser �� Department of Anthropology, Hunter College in Honour of Randy Martin: Socialist and the Graduate Center, CUNY Register 2015 Transforming Classes 1.125 Socialist Register A Trial By Fire: From Moynihan to Today: Black Women Continue Fight Leo Panitch, Chair �� York University, Toronto for Human Rights in 21st Century John McCullough ��Department of Film, York University Jeff Goodwin ��Department of Sociology, NYU 1.66 Greg Albo �� Political Science, York University Betty Davis, Chair �� New Abolitionist , Green Party, Liza Featherstone �� Political Science, Brooklyn College Free Lynne Stewart, Free Mumia Kisha Foster �� United African Movement and Freedom Party A Communist Road in the U.S.: How Do We Start? An-a Wilson ��Tri-County Womens Clubs 1.127 Kasama Project Colia L Clark ��Grandmas for Mumia, Guadeloupe Haiti Tour Comm, Green Party Robina Rai, Chair �� Kasama Project Devonya Havis Walton �� Canisius College Nat Winn ��Kasama Project Kanene Holder ��Colin Powell Center For Policy Study Mike Ely ��Kasama Project Muna Mire ��Youngist.org

31 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM

This Is Not Justice; There Ought Not Be Peace: Theory vs. Practice, or What is Praxis? Psychiatry, Capitalism, and State Power 1.71 Zero Books 1.67 Talk with Tenney Media blogtalkradio.com/TalkWithTenney Douglas Lain, Chair �� Zero Books, author and podcaster Lauren Tenney, Chair �� Talk with Tenney Radio Michael Steinberg ��Zero Books Rachel Liebert Frank Smecker ��Zero Books Eva Dech Masha Tupitsyn ��Zero Books People with psychiatric histories Christopher Vitale ��Zero Books Faultlines of the Medical Industrial Complex A Socialist Rethinking of Youth Gangs 1.69 Social Medicine (socialmedicine.info) 1.73 Robb Burlage, Chair David Brotherton, Chair �� Prof of Sociology John Jay and Grad Center Matthew Anderson ��Social Medicine (socialmedicine.info); Louis Kontos �� Prof of Sociology, John Jay College Residency Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore Antonio Fernandez �� Former Latin Kings Leader and Street Activist John Ehrenreich Oliver Fein Imagining Crisis and Maximizing Carmelita Blake Radical Brand Equity Robert Padgug ��Brooklyn College, CUNY, Health & Nutrition Sciences 1.75 Mask Magazine L. Toni Lewis New York Year Zero, Chair �� POC McKenzie Wark MC Sole

32 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM

How Should We as Comrades Respond to the The Great War in Marxist Perspective Ferguson Rebellion and #BlackLivesMatter? 1.85 Science & Society 1.76 Barbara Foley, Chair �� Science & Society John Maerhofer, Chair �� CUNY Peter Gardner �� Temple University, Rome Joseph Ramsey ��Univ. Mass. Boston Allen Ruff Clayton Brown ��Boston Teacher Residency Program August Nimtz �� University of Minnesota A. Shahid Stover �� Editor-in-chief of Brotherwise Dispatch Margaret Stevens �� Essex County College Demetrius Noble �� UNC Greensboro The Syrian Tragedy: Failure of the Left and Racism by Another Name: the Need for a Movement of Solidarity Mayoral Control of Urban Education, 1.87 Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Privatization & the Grassroots Fightback! Yasser Munif, Chair �� Emerson College; 1.77 Getting Out From Under: A Human Rights Alternative to the Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Corporate Model of Public Education in NYC (written and Yusef Khalil ��International Socialist Organization; published by iCOPE) Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution Benita Lovett-Rivera, Chair �� iCOPE: Independent Commission On Public Joseph Daher �� Revolutionary Left Current (Syria) Education & The Mothers’ Agenda NY (a.k.a. The MANY)l U.S. Wars of Aggression & Islamic Jihad: Victor Gibson �� Keep the Vote, No Take Over! What is the Bigger Danger and How Should Sam Anderson �� iCOPE: Independent Commission On Public Education, the Antiwar Movement Respond? End Mayoral Control Campaign, CPE 1.89 Fatima Hafiz ��Transformative Education Associates Debra Sweet, Chair �� World Can’t Wait Palestine/Israel and the 2016 Election William Blum �� Anti-Empire Report Alan Goodman ��Revolution 1.81 Roed Jarrar ��American Friends Service Committee Julia Willebrand, Chair �� Green Party of NY David Swanson �� WorldBeyondWar.org Justine McCabe ��Green Party of the US Lenni Brenner �� Green Party of Connecticut Radical Democracy and Education: Possibilities and Challenges in One School and Beyond 1.82 Robert Lubetsky, Chair �� City College of New York, CUNY William Stroud �� Long Beach High School Jason Warwin ��Brotherhood/Sister Sol Palestine, Anti-Racism, and Academic Freedom 1.83 Haymarket Books Jason Farbman, Chair �� Haymarket Books Steven Salaita �� Independent Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ��International Socialist Organization Jasbir Puar

33 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM

“Climate Justice: The U.S. Left & the Problem of The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, the State” Short Film Screening and Discussion on and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas the Current State of Youth-led Climate Movements 1.93 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination 1.90 Responsible Endowments Coalition Bruno Gulli, Chair �� CUNY–Kingsborough Nina Mariella Macapinlac, Chair �� Responsible Endowments Coalition Federico Luisetti ��The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Yves Nibungco ��Anakbayan USA Sorin Radu Cucu �� LaGuardia Community College–CUNY Jess Grady-Benson ��Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network/ Responsible Endowments Coalition Sea Changes: China and the World Since 2008 Sean Estelle ��Energy Action Coalition 1.99 Jatnna Ramirez ��Global Kids Gary Hicks, Chair �� Artworks for the people Berkeley CA The Climate Mobilization: A Route to Reclaiming Wahd’i Halabi �� Center for Marxist Education, Cambridge MA Democracy and Preventing Ecological Collapse Duncan McFarland �� Center for Marxist Education, Cambridge MA David Ewing �� U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association 1.91 Ashik Siddique, Chair �� The Climate Mobilization Occupy the Commons: Resisting the Feudalistic Margaret Klein Salamon ��The Climate Mobilization Kleptocratic Stranglehold on our Economy Ezra Silk ��The Climate Mobilization L2.80 Campaign for 100% Green Energy in NYS by 2030 Yannis Tziligakis, Chair �� Georgist Economic Taskforce Mike Curtis ��Henry George School of Social Science, 1.92 The Arden Land Trust, Arden, DE Mark Dunlea, Chair �� Green Education and Legal Fund Fred Harrison ��Land Research Trust, Center for Incentive Taxation Betta Broad �� Renewable NY Gloria Mattera ��Green Party of NYS

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Our students learn Spanish of the Americas Since 1979, El Taller’s conversational SPANISH developing the most important aspect of the classes have been recognized by The Village Spanish language - the mastery of vowel Voice, The Daily News, The Columbia Spectator pronunciation and the significance of those and hundreds of satisfied students sounds to articulate the past, present and future

34 SESSION 2 12:00 – 1:50PM

Commons, Alternative Organizations, and Turkey Live From Academia!: Bringing the Insight of L2.81 the Ivory Tower to the Energy of the Masses Eylem Delikanli, Chair �� RIT | Research Institute on Turkey 8.61 Ozgur Narin �� Research Institute on Turkey Henry Schwarz, Chair �� Georgetown University, Professor of English Ali Yalçın Göymen ��YTU Department of Political Science Terrell Taylor ��University of Mary Washington, adjunct instructor and International Relations Mike Isaacson ��The New School for Social Research, New Phase of the Struggle in Greece Capital, Race and the Reshaping L2.82 Socialist Alternative of Adult Basic Education Alan Akrivos, Chair �� Socialist Alternative 8.69 Despina Lalaki �� Greek Left Solidarity Movement Erik Jacobson, Chair �� Montclair State University Andreas Karras ��Syriza NYC Adam Nathanson ��Virginia Commonwealth University Julie Quinton �� Make the Road New York Marxist-Humanist Philosophy’s Role in Confronting Today’s Global Crises: The Challenges of Building a Revolutionary Greece and Syriza; Bosnia and Syria; Organization in the Working Class Today Racism vs. Black Lives Matter 8.72 Speak Out Now 3.76 News & Letters Marcus Lissey, Chair �� Speak Out Now Susan Stellar, Chair �� Retired teacher Joan Berezin ��Speak Out Now Franklin Dmitryev ��News and Letters Committees Kip Waldo Fred Mecklenburg�� News and Letters Committees Kimberly Serrano ��Speak Out Now Mohammed Elnaiem ��Student, Bucknell University Jean Morand ��L’Etincelle and New Anti-Capitalist Party (France) PhD Student and associate editor Unfurling Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: Intro & Documentary Philosophies, Strategies And Resources For Building 3.78 Local Peace Economies And Leaving The War Economy Sean Starrs, Chair �� City University of Hong Kong 3303N Shannon Walsh �� City University of Hong Kong Jodie Evans, Chair ��co-founder and co-director of CODEPINK Vicky Do �� City University of Hong Kong Medea Benjamin ��co-founder of CODEPINK Susan Witt �� Executive Director of the The 2001 Anthrax Attacks and Schumacher Center for a New Economics the Challenge to the Left 3.79 911TruthOutreach.org Lefties Are In Their Right Minds! 3304N Cathleen McGuire, Chair �� Truth Outreach, Inc. Meryl Nass Beth K. Lamont, Chair ��Humanist Chaplain Barry Kissin Pamela Timmins Graeme MacQueen Richard Morgan Sara Flounders �� International Action Center FILM: ‘Still We Ride’ 10 Years After… Seyn Laproyen A Recent History of Critical Mass 3.80 dedicated-lane.com Stephen Arthur, Chair �� NYC FILM: Control 3.81 Chris Bravo, Chair Robert Pluma Devon Brandon

35 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

LUNCHTIME EVENT 2:00–3:15PM L.63 (LECTURE HALL)

DIALOGUE WITH VENEZUELAN LEADERSHIP

DELCY RODRIGUEZ, JORGE RODRIGUEZ

STEVE ELLNER: INTERLOCUTOR STANLEY ARONOWITZ: MODERATOR/INTERLOCUTOR

THE BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS: 3:15–5:00PM BLACK BOX THEATER

LEFT WING COMEDY SHOW!

FEATURING: RANDY CREDICO BARRY CRIMMINS JULIANNA FORLANO JOHN MARSHALL AND MORE!

SESSION 3 3:15PM – 4:50PM

Marx: The System is the Problem Ya Gotta Get A Gimmick: How to Stage L.63 an Effective Media-Worthy Protest & Get Attention for Your Cause Gail Dines �� Wheelock College in Boston Richard D. Wolff �� Democracy at Work L2.84 Chris Hedges Marni Halasa, Chair �� Revolution Is Sexy/ OWS Alternative Banking Group Elliot Crown �� Performance Artist/Puppeteer Michael B. Friedman ��Professor of Public Relations, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Harry Siegel �� New York Daily News Reporter Noah Fischer ��Occupy Museums and Global Ultra Luxury Faction/Gulf Labor Jim Costanzo ��Aaron Burr Society/ OWS Strike Debt/Occupy Museums

36 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

What Is Occupy Up To? 1.100 Cathy O’Neil, Chair Sumumba Sobukwe ��OccuEvolve (Occupy Wall Street), Black Lives Matter Neil Taylor ��Occupy the SEC Jan Weinberg ��Show Up! America Luke Herrine ��Debt Collective/Strike Debt Corporate Dominance: Our Debt-Money System and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) 1.101 Don Butterfield, Chair �� American Monetary Institute Susan Peters �� American Monetary Institute Paula Pace ��Local Futures Barbara Simpson �� Upper West Side Monetary Reform Group Radical Themes in Mass Culture 1.103 Doug Enaa Greene, Chair Alexander Billet Joseph Ramsey ��Univ. Mass. Boston Anarchism and Critical Theory for Revolt and Revolution Is It Time for a Major Independent 1.105 Party of the Left? Javier Sethness Castro, Chair L2.85 Green Party of New York State Gino-Arturo Yarish ��The Base Sky Cohen Howie Hawkins, Chair �� Green Party William Brown Bruce Dixon ��Black Agenda Report Jill Stein �� Green candidate for President Commonizing Collective Memory Brian Jones ��International Socialist Organization, 2014 Green candidate for NY Lt. Gov. 1.107 Calvin Priest ��Socialist Alternative Eylem Delikanli, Chair �� RIT | Research Institute on Turkey Ragip Zik ��Columbia Global Centers | Turkey Justifiable Homicide, Part 1: Sami Elvan 7 Victims’ Families Give Testimony on Police Terrorism and Racism in the United States Strengths, Weaknesses, Challenges L.76 Operation Ghetto Storm in Online Activism: How Can It Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, Chair Advance a Progressive Agenda Frank Graham ��Ramarley Graham Foundation 1.108 RootsAction.org and The Nation Ron Davis �� Jordan Davis Foundation David Swanson, Chair �� RootsAction.org campaign coordinator Kenneth Chamberlain �� Kenneth Chamberlain Foundation Sarah Arnold �� The Nation, Activism Michael Brown ��Michael Brown Foundation Campaign Manager/Community Coordinator Andrew Joseph �� Andrew Joseph Foundation David Segal ��Demand Progress Kenneth Johnson �� Kendrick Johnson Foundation

37 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

Frantz Fanon: The Forgotten Prophet 1.109 Critical Sociology David Fasenfest, Chair �� Critical Sociology, Dept. Sociology, Wayne State University Lauren Langman �� Dept Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago Peter Hudis ��Dept Philosophy, Oakton Community College print’s not dead. Arnold Farr ��Dept Philosophy, University of Kentucky Rose Brewer ��Dept Sociology, University of Minnesota it’s soaring.

Colombia’s Peace Talks in Havana, Cuba:

An Update by the FARC-EP 1.113 Toward Freedom o Juan Carlos Vallejo, Chair �� Director Humanitarian Law Peace and Democracy Member of the Secretariat Peace Commissioner FARC-EP �� Peace Commissioners at the Peace Talks in Havana, Cuba Alexandra Nariño Tanja Nijmeijer ��Internationalist guerrillas fighter

RADIX MEDIA Cuba And The United States Moving j j Towards Normalization : Realities Of The New Relationship RM 1.114 oprinting & publishing Keith Bolender, Chair �� University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Jane Franklin Bob Guild ��Marazul Charters Haiti: The People vs the Empire radix media is New York City’s only 100% worker-owned, union print shop. 1.115 Haiti Liberte We print flyers, posters, brochures, Ray LaForest, Chair �� Free Haiti Movement, Union Organizer booklets, envelopes, cards, paperback Kim Ives �� Haiti Liberte Tom Siracuse �� Green Party books, rally signs and so much more. Marty Goodman ��Miami Haiti Refuge Center Sandra Rivers ��New York Free Mumia Committee Our name comes from the Latin root of Muna Mire ��Youngist.org. radical the word . Leninism Today 1.117 International Socialist Organization A strong movement needs a strong print shop. Day in and day out, we’re here for Jen Roesch, Chair �� International Socialist Organization Paul D’Amato �� International Socialist Review you. Contact us today. And be sure to August Nimtz �� University of Minnesota mention this Left Forum ad for special Paul LeBlanc �� LaRoche College pricing on your next print job! Our Candidate Won: President-Elect TBA’s Victory Party 1.119 email: [email protected] Alan Bounville, Chair phone: 7 18 -7 8 1-5 9 4 7 Louis Flores Andy Podell web: radixmedia.org

38 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left Hey, Activists: Read This! 1.121 Monthly Review Why Progressives Should Read More Fiction Forrest Hylton, Chair �� Northwestern 1.61 PM Press Jesse Lemisch �� John Jay College/CUNY Kenneth Wishnia, Chair �� Professor of English, Cal Winslow �� UC Berkeley Suffolk County Community College Steven Wishnia �� Editor, Dissent News Wire From the Indignados Movement to Political Suzanne Solomon ��Author Organization: Political Changes in Spain Michael Cooper ��Author, M.D. 1.123 Nicholas Powers ��Assoc. Prof. of English, SUNY Old Wesbury Victor Casanova-Abos, Chair �� Marea Granate NY/Podemos USA Art Against Capitalism (II) Cristina Ramirez �� Marea Granate NY/Podemos USA Oriol Valles-Codina ��Marea Granate NY 1.63 Socialism and Democracy Jesus Martinez-Garcia ��Podemos USA Mat Callahan, Chair �� Socialism and Democracy Berta de Miguel �� Marea Granate NY/Podemos USA Demetrius Noble Marga Ferré �� Izquierda Unida Michael Fiorentino �� Somos and the International Socialist Organization Eroc Arroyo-Montano ��The Foundation (Movement) Book Launch: An Alternative Labour History. Worker Control and Workplace Democracy Women and the Red Scare: 1.124 Zed Books [En]gendering [In]justice Camilo Turi, Chair 1.65 Dario Azzellini ��Johannes Kepler Universität Blanche Wiesen Cook, Chair �� John Jay College, CUNY Godfrey Vincent ��Tuskegee University, Alabama Andrew Feffer �� Professor, Department of History, Union College Claudia Bernardi �� Postdoctoral Fellow in Barbara J. Falk ��Associate Professor, Dept. of Defence Studies Global History at Harvard University Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada Lisa E. Davis �� Independent Scholar United Contract Attorneys Organize to Emily Socolov ��Visiting Scholar, University of Texas Confront Capitalism in Law Firms Miriam Moskowitz 1.125 In the Wake of Capitalism: The Contamination Valeria Gheorghiu, Chair �� United Contract Attorneys of American Intimacy, Sexuality & Personal Life Alex Franco David Tykulsker �� NYC National Lawyers Guild Labor 1.66 and Employment Committee Harriet Fraad, Chair Roger Salerno �� Pace University Build a Fight For Jobs For All to Confront the Tess Fraad Wolff Global Capitalist System in Crisis Head On Shane Knight 1.127 Mental Health and Social Justice Jay Arena, Chair �� New Jersey Jobs For All in Vulnerable Populations Eric Lerner ��International Luxemburgist Network Alan Rebard �� Working People’s Newsletter 1.67 Trudy Goldberg ��National Jobs for All Coalition Shirin Ali, Chair �� Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Low-Wage Worker Movements in South Kabir Dandona �� August Aichhorn Center Korea, Germany, & the U.S. for Adolescent Residential Care 1.129 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Schuyler Henderson �� Bellevue Hospital, New York University Medical Center Albert Scharenberg, Chair �� Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Anupama Reddy ��Manhattan Psychiatric Center Sukjong Hong ��Freelance Writer and Korea Policy Institute Fellow Sarah Jaffe �� Journalist and Author of RLS-NYC study “Roll Back Low Wages” Oliver Nachtwey �� Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

39 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

THE NEW PRESS New Press books will be sold at the PM Press table THE NEW PRESS

The Age of Dignity Out of Sight Preparing for the Elder Boom The Long and Disturbing Story in a Changing America of Corporations Outsourcing AI-JEN POO Catastrophe “Positive and ERIK LOOMIS inclusive. . . . Offers a “The story told here is critical and complementary tragic and important.” perspective on this —BILL McKIBBEN important issue.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES

Don’t Trust Don’t Fear A Theory of the Drone Don’t Beg GRÉGOIRE CHAMAYOU The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30 “It’s essential reading for anyone who cares BEN STEWART about the rights of the “A stirring narrative of ordinary citizen.” protest and government —LOS ANGELES TIMES oppression.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Only One Thing Can Save Us Democracy in the Dark Why America Needs a New Kind The Seduction of Government Secrecy of Labor Movement FREDERICK A.O. SCHWARZ JR. THOMAS GEOGHEGAN “Timely and provocative.” “A galvanizing argument for —KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL, revitalizing American unions THE WASHINGTON POST and saving the middle class.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Under the Bus Social Security Works! How Working Women Are Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke Being Run Over and How Expanding It Will Help Us All CAROLINE FREDRICKSON NANCY J. ALTMAN and ERIC R. KINGSON “A damn fine book.” —ELLE “A passionate case for an increase in Social Security benefits.” —THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

www.thenewpress.com Publisher of Michelle Alexander’s bestselling The New Jim Crow

40 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

Successes and Challenges of Human The End of the World As We Know It? Rights Campaigns for Publicly Education and the Student Response to the Crisis Financed Health Care in the U.S. 1.81 Journal of Social Justice 1.69 Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Deric Shannon, Chair �� Oxford College of Emory University Scott Harris, Chair �� Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Marianne LeNabat ��IWW Anja Rudiger �� National Economic and Social Right Initiative (NESRI) Scott Nappalos �� Recomposition Karim Sariahmed �� Put People First PA Monica Kostas �� Recomposition Traven Leyshon ��Vermont Workers Center Building a Narrative on Displacement Nationwide As Governments Leave Humanity’s Crises 1.82 Unaddressed, What Must Be Done? Andrew Padilla, Chair 1.71 Diana Pérez Ramírez Alison Rose Levy, Chair �� Alternet and EcoWatch Lynn Roberts Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig �� The New Republic Lynn Parramore �� Alternet Foreign Policy for All: Re-Thinking U.S. Sarah Leonard �� The Nation Foreign Policy for the 21st Century 1.83 Massachusetts Peace Action Mumia 911: Health Emergency for Incarcerated Journalist Mumia Abu- Subrata Ghoshroy, Chair �� MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society Jamal; Briefing and Strategies Cole Harrison ��Massachusetts Peace Action 1.73 Hayat Imam �� Dorchester People for Peace Noelle Hanrahan, Chair �� Prison Radio Jennifer Black �� Prison Radio Imperialist Economics and the New Cold War Pam Africa ��MOVE 1.85 Ramona Africa ��MOVE Bernadette Ellorin, Chair ��Chair, Bayan USA Abayomi Azikiwe �� Pan-African News Wire, "The Transgender Tipping Point is Crushing Us": Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice Trans Politics in the Era of Visibility Bill Dores ��vice Chair, International League of People’s Struggle, 1.75 International Action Center Joshua Allen, Chair Jess Sundin ��Minnesota Antiwar Committee, Malcolm Shanks Committee to Stop FBI Repression Shaktii X Alok Vaid-Menon The Rojava Revolution: From Arab Spring to Democratic Autonomy Black Lives Matter NYC 1.87 1.76 No Police State Elliott Madison, Chair �� Combustion Books – Rojava Solidarity–NYC Carla Cubit, Chair �� Occupy Art Jerry Koch ��Rojava Solidarity–NYC Mia Anderson ��Peoples Power Assemblies Kitty Bryzinski ��Rojava Solidarity–NYC Deb Lee ��Peoples Power Assemblies Imperialism, Counter-Revolution, No Peace, No Justice: The Psycho-Socio Roots of and Conflict in the Middle East Racism, Social Injustice and Ecological Degradation 1.89 International Socialist Review 1.77 Ashley Smith, Chair �� Editorial Board of the International Socialist Review Leonard Burg, Chair �� Stop the Destruction of the World Michael Schwartz ��Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University Richard James ��New York City Department of Education Teacher Anand Gopal �� Author of No Good War: American, the Taliban, Susan Berkley ��International Society of Analytical Trilogy and the War through Afghan Eyes Suzanne Adely ��Al-Awda New York

41 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung P A R E N T A L 2015 Left Forum Panels A D V I S O R Y

Greece vs. Germany: E X P L I C I T S O C I A L I S M The Battle for Europe’s Future

Portrayed as a “David vs. Goliath” story in the media, the continued drama between Greece and Germany has swept across the world. How does this narrative impact international left solidarity and SYRIZA’s fight against the Troika? Black Cooperatives and the Fight for Economic Democracy Konstantinos Tsoukalas (Member of Parliament, SYRIZA) Natassa Romanou (SYRIZA New York) Christina Kaindl (Head of Strategy Dept., DIE LINKE) Black communities in the U.S. have long experiment- Dominic Heilig (DIE LINKE’s Forum Democratic Socialism) ed with different forms of mutual aid and cooperative enterprise. How can coops and other tools of CHAIR: Eduardo Maura (PODEMOS, Political Secretariat) economic democracy be used to build community strength in a country founded on slavery? This panel is co-hosted by The Nation Magazine. Jessica Gordon Nembhard (CUNY, John Jay College) Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson) Ed Whitfield (Fund 4 Democratic Communities)

CHAIR: Ethan Earle (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung— Whose City? Our City! New York Oﬃce) Fighting Gentriﬁcation in the United States and Europe

Displacement is currently one of the most insidious forms of accumulation through dispossession—as well as Low-Wage Worker Movements oppression of working class and Black and brown in South Korea, Germany, and the United States communities. How are diﬀerent activist groups educating the general population about this trend? Austerity is being used to curtail workers’ rights and Florian Kasiske (Recht auf Stadt, Germany) drive an ever increasing low-wage sector. What are the Santi Mas de Xaxas (PAH, Spain) national particularities involved in this process across Dawn Phillips (Causa Justa :: Just Cause, Bay Area) the advanced industrialized world and what are the similarities? CHAIR: Rachel LaForest (Right to the City Alliance, USA) Sarah Jaﬀe (Labor Journalist) Oliver Nachtwey (University of Darmstadt, Germany) Sukjong Hong (Korea Policy Institute)

Check out our table with free publications CHAIR: Albert Scharenberg (Rosa Luxemburg covering a wide range of left topics. Stiftung—New York Oﬃce)

www.rosalux-nyc.org ROSA LUXEMBURG Twitter: @rosaluxnyc Facebook: rosaluxnyc STIFTUNG NEW YORK OFFICE

42 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

Animal Rights? The Liberal Limits Transformative Organizing in the City: to Human Emancipation From the Right to the City to Radical Democracy? 1.90 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination L2.80 Ilgin Yorukoglu, Chair �� CUNY-BMCC David Scheller, Chair �� GCSC, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Bruno Gulli ��CUNY and Situations Brian McCarthy ��16Beaver Group, NYC Arun Gupta Robert Robinson �� Left Forum Board of Directors Babette Babich �� Fordham University Kendall Jackman �� Organizing Committee, Co-Founder Bronx Peter Bratsis ��CUNY and Situations Organizers, Right to the City Alliance, NYC Peter Marcuse �� GSAPP, Columbia University, NYC The Climate Crisis is a Democracy Crisis: Tashy Endres ��Kotti&CoTenants Collective, Berlin Ballot-Initiative Why We Need a Democratic Revolution on Rents 2016, Researcher at UdK Berlin in the U.S. and Beyond Getting Serious About the Next System 1.91 Liberty Tree Foundation L2.81 The Next System Project Adam Porton, Chair �� Liberty Tree Foundation Cheri Honkala ��Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Keane Bhatt, Chair �� The Democracy Collaborative Suren Moodliar ��Massachusetts Global Action Gar Alperovitz �� The Next System Project Emily Kawano ��Wellspring Cooperatives & A People’s Climate Strike: Transformative US Solidarity Economy Network Justice Through Collaborative Strike Action Ed Whitfield �� Fund for Democratic Communities Maya Schenwar ��Truthout 1.92 Cheri Honkala, Chair �� Poor People’s Economic The Fight Against Austerity in Ireland Human Rights Campaign/Global Climate Convergence L2.82 Socialist Alternative Deeq Abdi ��Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Tom Crean, Chair �� Socialist Alternative and the James Jordan ��Alliance for Global Justice/ Committee for a Workers’ International Global Climate Convergence Elma Relihan ��Committee for a Workers’ International Building Our Future Through Games Eleanor Rodgers ��Socialist Alternative 1.93 OccupyWallSt.nyc Political Correctness And Its Priscilla Grim, Chair �� OccupyWallSt.nyc Devastating Effect On The Left Chris Gotano �� Revolution: The Game 3.76 Voxnews Brian Van Slyke �� Toolbox for Education Bertell Ollman �� Creator: Class Struggle Harry Stuckey, Chair �� voxnews Webster Tarpley Vietnam: A Brief Review of History and Today’s Wayne Madsen ��The Wayne Madsen Report Situation at 85th Birthday of Communist Party of Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Vietnam (1930–2015) Community: A Panel Discussion and Workshop – Part 1 1.99 3.78 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Bahram Zandi, Chair �� Green Party Marie-Claire Picher, Chair �� Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Yunes Parsa Benab �� Iranian Left Alliance of Janet Gerson �� Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB); Washington Metropolitan Area International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) Farshid Moghimi �� Iranian Left Alliance of Reg Flowers ��Falconworks Artists Group Washington Metropolitan Area. Leonie Ettinger ��The Living Theatre

43 SESSION 3 3:15 – 5:00PM

Intellectual Justice: Libraries, Privacy & Access Laughing at Malfeasance in the Neoliberal Information Economy. 8.69 In magazines / Taconic Papers & STREETNEWS: My TV show 3.79 (since ’98) on MNN: What’s Ailing/Healing US America? A question we have a right/duty to ask/answer Kate Adler, Chair �� Metropolitan College of New York Haruko Yamauchi ��Hostos Community College (CUNY) Frank Craven, Chair �� MNN Studio Alison Macrina ��Library Freedom Project Rev. Carole Antun ��(Granny for HEMP) Course In Miracles Jaime Taylor ��Center for Jewish History Peace Arnold ��Honorary Seneca Elder FILM: My Brooklyn Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today 3.80 8.72 Kelly Anderson, Chair Peter Hudson ��UCLA Patrick Bond ��University of Kwa Zulu Natal / South Africa Global Imagery of Terrorism and State Terror in Jemima Pierre �� University of California, Los Angeles Democratic, Historical, and Cinematic Context Horace Campbell ��Syracuse University 3.81 The Student Movement in NYC Fabiola Salek, Chair �� York College–CUNY 3.303N Martin Miller ��Duke University Annabel Martin ��Dartmouth Percy Lujan, Chair ��RSCC Zohra Saad ��York College–CUNY Angie Hernandez ��RSCC and SJP Sean Kennedy ��RSCC Reform or Abolition? The Resist Rikers Movement Ateo Bracero ��RSCC 8.61 SOS: State of the Struggle Paul Funkhouser, Chair 3304N Dakem Roberts Gabriel Kilpatrick Samantha Desire, Chair ��Left Forum Natasha Carter Liz Mestres Sasha Alexander ��Director of Membership, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Utopia School Report Back and Planning Session Denise G. Romero ��Ayotzinapa Caravana43 NYC 8.67 Dylan Gauthier, Chair Stephen Polk Scott Rigby

44 SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM

SESSION 4 5:10 – 7:00PM

Justifiable Homicide, Part 2: Economy Meets Psychology in the U.S. A National Coalition Combating Police Terrorism L2.85 L.76 Harriet Fraad, Chair Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, Chair Richard D. Wolff �� Democracy at Work Frank Graham �� Ramarley Graham Foundation Roger Salerno �� Pace University Ron Davis ��Jordan Davis Foundation Kenneth Chamberlain ��Kenneth Chamberlain Foundation Beyond Privilege Checking: Kenneth Johnson ��Kendrick Johnson Foundation Class, Oppression and Strategies for Solidarity Michael Brown �� Michael Brown Foundation 1.100 International Socialist Organization and Socialist Worker Andrew Joseph ��Andrew Joseph Foundation Natalia Tylim, Chair �� International Socialist Organization Occupy Democracy: Sarah Jaffe ��In These Times, Dissent The Public Square and/or The Ballots! Sofia Arias ��Socialist Worker Jen Roesch ��International Socialist Organization L2.84 Jesse Alexander Myerson, Chair Patriarchy and Revolution Kshama Sawant ��Vote Sawant 1.101 OldandNewProject.net Charles Lenchner �� Ready For Warren & Organizing 2.0 Winnie Wong �� Ready For Warren & Occupy Wall St NYC Deborah Engel-DiMauro, Chair �� Old and New Project Theresa El-Amin ��Southern Anti-Racism Network Dequi Kioni-Sadiki �� Sekou Odinga Defense Committee Linda Thompson �� Green Party of Connecticut (Co-Chair) Jacqui Patterson �� NAACP

National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case

Greets the 2015 Left Forum

The 62nd Memorial of the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is on Thursday, June 18, 2015, at 7pm Soffiyah Elijah is our keynote speaker Screening of “Strange Fruit” Q&A with Robert Meeropol, younger son of the Rosenbergs UAW/National Writers Union 256 West 38th Street, 12th fl., NYC Free Admission. RSVP (212) 533-1015, [email protected]

45 SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM

Activism and Academia: When Scholars Study Social Movements 1.103 The Indypendent John Tarleton, Chair �� The Indypendent Michael Gould-Wartofsky �� NYU Todd Wolfson Khadijah Costley White �� Rutgers Univeristy, Occupy Philly Marina Sitrin Is Nazism Raising Its Ugly Head in Ukraine Today? 1.105 Bulletin of U.S. Friends of the Soviet People Angelo D’Angelo, Chair �� U.S. Friends of the Soviet People Caleb Maupin Andrey Lotoskyy Barry Lituchy ��Medgar Evers College, CUNY Martin Sawma Digitizing Our Radical Past… Affordably 1.107 Ken Wachsberger, Chair �� Reveal Digital Jeff Moyer �� Reveal Digital Thai Jones ��Columbia University Kathie Sarachild ��Redstockings Tensions In The American Dream: Dialogue with Authors Melanie (and Rod) Bush 1.108 Melanie Bush, Chair �� Adelphi University Manny Ness ��Brooklyn College Devin Thornburg ��Adelphi University Godfrey Vincent �� Tuskegee University The Unfinished Revolution: South Africa Today 1.109 Socialist Action books Christine Marie, Chair �� Socialist Action Patrick Bond �� Senior professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal Centre for Civil Society in Durban, South Africa Marsha Coleman-Adebayo ��Black Agenda Report Marty Goodman ��Socialist Action Land Grabs, Forced Displacement and Political Violence: Cases From Honduras, Venezuela And Colombia 1.113 Arturo J. Viscarra, Chair �� School of Americas Watch (SOAW) Lucy Pagoada-Quesada ��Honduras USA Resistencia Omar Sierra ��Consulate of Venezuela in Boston Ricardo Prado �� Marcha Patriótica of Colombia

46 SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM

The New Stage in Cuban/U.S. Relations: Resist, Reclaim, Restructure: What Has and Has Not Changed A Call for Transition and Energy Democracy 1.114 Science & Society 1.124 August Nimtz, Chair �� University of Minnesota Michael Ware, Chair �� System Change Not Climate Change Ike Nahem ��Coordinator of Cuba Solidarity New York Gloria Mattera ��System Change Not Climate Change, Catherine Murphy �� Filmmaker Green Party of NY State David Holmquist ��System Change Not Climate Change Transcending Material Scarcity Sean Sweeney ��Trade Unions for Energy Democracy 1.115 Synergetics Binary Economics Left Strategies for the Academic Harold Channer, Chair �� Manhattan Neighborhood Network/ Workers’ Movement – A Year Later Conversations With Channer Sidney Greenfield ��University of Wisconsin – Anthropology 1.125 Stuart Dambrot �� interdisciplinary synthesist, Anais Surkin, Chair �� GEO-UAW2322 futurist and science communicator Sean Kennedy ��CUNY Adjunct Project Anna Waltman �� GEO-UAW2322 Empire in Crisis: Uniting the Struggles to Defeat Lauren Schaeffer ��UAW 2865/UC–Academic Racist State Terror, Austerity, and Endless War Workers for a Democratic Union 1.117 Workers World Newspaper Natasha Raheja ��GSOC-UAW/NYU-AWDU Ramiro Funez, Chair �� FIST and FNRP (Honduran Resistance) Symposium: Rethinking the Industrial Abayomi Azikiwe Revolution by Michael Andrew Žmolek Teresa Gutierrez ��Workers World Party Sara Flounders �� International Action Center 1.127 Haymarket (/Brill) Historical Materialism Series Charles Post, Chair �� Borough of Manhattan Community College Reviewing Struggles in Seattle and the Next Steps Michael Andrew Zmolek �� University of Iowa 1.119 Socialist Alternative Pepijn Brandon �� History Department, University of Pittsburgh Calvin Priest, Chair �� Socialist Alternative Decolonizing Class Struggle: Building Workers Philip Locker ��Socialist Alternative Movements that Challenge Imperialism Jess Spear �� 15 Now 1.129 Publishing the Complete Works of Rosa Michelle Flores, Chair �� 99 Pickets Luxemburg – In English and Chinese Suzanne Adely ��Global Workers Solidarity Network 1.121 Verso Books Jack Mahoney ��Workers United/ International Union League for Brand Responsibility Peter Hudis, Chair �� Oakton Community College Amin Husain Deng Rene �� People’s Publishing House, Beijing, China Leonel Perez �� Coalition of Immokalee Workers Xiong Min ��Wuhan University Paul LeBlanc ��Department of History, La Roche College Beauty Concept: Art and Evolution He Peng �� Department of Philosophy, Wuhan Unviersity China 1.61 Sain-City Magazine From The Greek Streets: Dario Mohr, Chair �� AnkhLave Mind Media Grassroots Resistance to Austerity Pricilla Smikle 1.123 Matthew Carter ��Model/Actor/Life Coach David Acala ��D’evoluion Productions Athena Hassiotis, Chair �� Solidarity For All–Greece, Syriza NY Christos Giovanopoulos �� Solidarity For All–Greece Myths of Non-Violence and Building Sarah Leonard �� The Nation a True Culture of Resistance 1.63 Frank Coughlin, Chair Jennifer Bilek Hetal Sheth

47 SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM

The Extremist Regime Running Saudi Contemporary Topics on Maoism Arabia and How to Expose It 1.71 1.65 The Struggle Video News Ateo Bracero, Chair �� Maosoleum Blog Stanley Heller, Chair �� The Struggle, MECC Mel Lasalle �� Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee Ali Al-Ahmed ��Institute for Gulf Affairs Kilo Vasquez ��New Communist Party (Liaison Committee) Naseer Alomari Louie Henrikuez ��Students Without Borders Medea Benjamin �� Code Pink Black Community Control Over the Police Erich Fromm’s Criticality and Creativity 1.73 in Pedagogy, and His Approach Robert Robinson, Chair �� Left Forum Board of Directors to Labor Unions in Crisis M. Adams ��Freedom, Inc. and Young, Gifted, and Black Coalition 1.66 Max Rameau Joan Braune, Chair �� Mount Mary University Julien Terrell ��Brotherhood Sister Sol Robert Lake �� Georgia Southern University Nick Braune �� South Texas College, McAllen, TX. Transformation In Action: Non-Traditional Approaches to Prison Transformation! Icarus Project NYC: Mad Maps and Forum Theater 1.75 Traumatology: An International Journal 1.67 Lewis Webb, Chair ��American Friends Service Committee Sascha Altman DuBrul, Chair �� Icarus Project NYC Tina Maschi �� Be the Evidence International, Fordham University Rebecca Stabile �� Icarus Project NYC Lawrence White �� Hope Lives for Lifers Project Erin Lemkey �� The Icarus Project Jamila Codrington �� New York Association of Black Psychologists Jonah Bossewitch �� The Icarus Project Kimberly Westcott ��Community Service Society The Political Economy of State Single Payer Plans From Anthony Baez to Eric Garner: 1.69 #Blacklivesmatter and the Struggle Against Police Brutality in New York City Walter Tsou, Chair �� Health Care for All Pennsylvania Len Rodberg �� Queens College/CUNY 1.76 Anja Rudiger ��National Economic and Social Rights Initiative Jullian Guerrero, Chair �� Millions March NYC and Traven Leyshon ��Vermont Workers’ Center International Socialist Organization Steven Toff ��New York State Nurses Association Gina Sartori ��Millions March NYC and International Socialist Organization Umaara Elliott �� Millions March NYC

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The Ferguson Streets to the High Courts: From Syria and Turkey to Detroit, the Protest, Policing, and Resistance Global Crisis and Women’s Struggle for 1.77 Humanity: A Marxist-Humanist View Abi Hassen, Chair �� National Lawyers Guild 1.87 News & Letters Nicole Lee Franklin Dmitryev, Chair �� News and Letters Committees King Downing ��Human Rights-Racial Justice Center Terry Moon ��News and Letters Committees, FURIE, NOW Justin Hansford �� Saint Louis University School of Law Susan Stellar ��Retired teacher Kris Hermes ��Mass Defense Committee, NLG Fred Mecklenburg�� News and Letters Committees Public Schools vs. Charter Schools: The Legacy of The Business of Backlash: The Attack the NYC Community Control Struggle: The True on the Palestinian Movement and Other Debate Must Be Education vs. Mis-Education Movements for Social Justice 1.81 1.89 Ralph Poynter, Chair �� New Abolitionist Movement Lee Gargagliano, Chair �� International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network & Lynne Stewart Org. Lamis Deek �� USPCN, NLG Lynne Stewart ��New Abolitionist Movement Kali Akuno & Lynne Stewart Org. Phan Nguyen Anthony Gronowicz �� Green Party Radhika Sainath ��Palestine Solidarity Legal Support Pastor Sherri Jackson-Black ��New Abolitionist Movement & Brownsville Matters Integrating City, State and Federal to Betty Davis ��New Abolitionist Movement Reduce Carbon – Obstacles and Successes & Lynne Stewart Org. 1.90 Howie Hawkins �� Green Party Marilyn Zuniga �� Former Orange N.J. Public School Teacher Catherine Skopic, Chair �� PCM-NY, Strategy Co-Chair; IMAC Streering Committee; For CORAL and an Anarchist International WEACT; SDIPN, Education Committee; 1.82 Joel Kupferman, Esq. �� National Lawyers Guild; NY Environmental Law & Justice Project Javier Sethness Castro, Chair Samara Swanston ��Legislative Counsel to the New York City Council Quincy Saul �� Ecosocialist Horizons Environmental Committee John Clark Mark Dunlea �� Green Party; People’s Climate Movement-NY; 350.orgnyc Alexander Reid Ross ��Earth First! Newswire Bill Garrett ��Stop the Melt; H2O; People’s Climate Movement-New York Tanzeem Shaneela �� Unity & Struggle William Brown The Pledge to Mobilize: A Denial-Fighting Tool to Organize Against Climate Change “The Predator” A Play Reading and Discussion about Killer Drones 1.91 1.83 Margaret Klein Salamon, Chair �� The Climate Mobilization Ashik Siddique ��The Climate Mobilization Ed Kinane, Chair �� Upstate Drone Action Ezra Silk ��The Climate Mobilization Carol Baum ��Syracuse Peace Council and Upstate Drone Action Barbara Humphrey ��Syracuse Peace Council and Upstate Drone Action Energy Geopolitics in a Contested World Bonny Mahoney �� Upstate Drone Action 1.92 Simone Richmond �� Syracuse Peace Council Michael Klare, Chair �� Hampshire College The New World Order and Warfare in the 21st Daniel Volman �� Africa Research Project, Washington, D.C. Century: Drones, Space and Cyber Weapons Irene Gendzier �� Boston University Michael Schwartz �� Stony Brook University 1.85 Subrata Ghoshroy, Chair �� Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hugh Gusterson ��George Washington University William Hartung ��Center for International Policy

49 SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM

Equality Through Transportation and Infrastructure Greece vs. Germany: 1.93 KentuckyBikes The Battle for Europe’s Future Cherokee Schill, Chair �� KentuckyBikes L2.82 The Nation Magazine Richard Albores ��Government Attorney Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Thomas DeVito �� Transportation Alternatives Eduardo Maura, Chair �� PODEMOS, Political Secretariat Konstantinos Tsoukalas �� SYRIZA, Member of Parliament Inside-Out: A Journey Exploring Justice Via Christina Kaindl ��DIE LINKE, Head of Strategy Department Nepali, Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, U.S. Natassa Romanou ��SYRIZA New York Immigrant Communities – Here/There & Dominic Heilig ��DIE LINKE’s Forum of Democratic Socialism, Co-Chair Animal Rights Naturally What Happened to “The State and Revolution”? 1.99 The Question of Power in Russia, 1917–1921 Sherry Onna, Chair �� Dance Theater of Nepal Inc NY 3.76 Ang Gelden Sherpa �� United Sherpa Assn of USA Shailesh Shrestha ��Sampreshan White Himal television Rust Gilbert, Chair �� MEP Revolutions Study Group Pratip Dasgupta �� Ethical-Humanist Society of Queens Branden Rippey ��MEP Revolutions Study Group Bill Westerman �� New Jersey City University Jim Creegan ��MEP Revolutions Study Group Mike Ely ��Kasama Project The End of the World As We Know It? Valentine Eben Housing, Occupy, and Transnational Resistance to Green Capitalism Theater of the Oppressed for Self-Organizing and Building Community: A Panel Discussion and L2.80 Journal of Social Justice Workshop – Part 2 Deric Shannon, Chair �� Oxford College of Emory University 3.78 Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Davita Silfen Glasberg �� University of Connecticut Mark Bray ��Rutgers University Marie-Claire Picher, Chair �� Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) Yesenia Barragan ��Columbia University Janet Gerson �� Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB); International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) Reg Flowers ��Falconworks Artists Group Strategic Role of the Commons for Movements? Leonie Ettinger ��The Living Theatre L2.81 Teaching Economics As If Science Michelle Wenderlich, Chair �� Clark University Mattered (In Honor of Ross Thomson) Eric Rogers Amanda Huron 3.79 John Summa, Chair �� University of Vermont, Economics Dept. John Sarich ��Adjunct Associate Professor, The Cooper Union, NYC Marie Duggan ��Keene State College (New Hampshire) Bryan Snyder ��Bentley University Ed Nell �� Retired Professor, Economics Dept., Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research Jawied Nawabi ��CUNY Bronx Community College

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50 SESSION 4 5:10 – 6:50PM

FILM: “Rent Rebels” – The Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Resistance Against The Sell-Out Of The City 8.69 3.80 Rolando Bini, Chair �� Parents in Action for Leadership and Human Rights Brian McCarthy ��16Beaver Group, NYC Platina Poreshqi ��Parents in Action for Leadership and Human Rights Lucille Peña ��Parents Against the System of Forced Adoptions FILM: “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?” 3.81 Building Anti-Imperialist Front For 2016 From a Co-opted Anti-War Movement Donald Goldmacher, Chair Joel Kovel �� Editor-in-Chief, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 8.72 Lawrence Mitchell ��author of Stacked Deck: Joseph Calhoun, Chair �� journalist & filmmaker Colorado A Story of Selfishness in America Don DeBar �� activist & radio show host NYC Tom Kiely �� activist & radio show host NYC Sins of Omission: Stories the Media Overlook Webster Tarpley �� historian Washington D.C. 8.61 AfroCrowd Call To Action Workshop Jenna Orkin, Chair �� Collapsenet.com Robert F. 3304N AfrobeatRadio.Com, WBAI Radio, FOTC, Wikipedia Court Dorsey �� Project Unspeakable Alice Backer, Chair ��AfroCROWD, (afrocrowd.org) Nana-Ama Kyerematen ��afridiaspora.com FPA-Foundation-Child Welfare & Ololade Siyonbola ��Yoruba Cultural Institute (yorubaculturalinstitute.org) Community Organizing 8.67 Dorin Matthews, Chair �� Executive Director Sylvia Hooper �� Founder Kim Kennedy John Lance

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51 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM SUNDAY 5/31

SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM

Labor and the Left in the U.S.: Liberation Politics in the Post Obama World Socialist Register 2015 Transforming Classes L.76 L2.84 Socialist Register Nellie Bailey, Chair �� Black Agenda Report Leo Panitch, Chair �� Political Science, York University Bruce Dixon ��Black Agenda Report Charles Post �� Sociology, CUNY Margaret Kimberley ��Black Agenda Report Mark Dudzic �� Labor organizer Glen Ford ��Black Agenda Report Rishi Awatramani ��Virginia New Majority Student Power Network Marsha Coleman-Adebayo ��Black Agenda Report Jane McCalevey ��CUNY Graduate Centre Ajamu Baraka ��Black Agenda Report Raymond Nat Turner ��Black Agenda Report Dreaming to be Free: Ferguson, Palestine Jemima Pierrer ��Black Agenda Report and the Fight for Migration Justice Organizing for New Directions in U.S./ L2.85 hamptoninstitution.org Cuba Relations: The Cuba Caravans Eyad Alkurabi, Chair �� Hampton Institute and Cuban Med School Experience Cristina Jiménez �� United We Dream Network Rachel Gilmer �� The African American Policy Forum 1.100 Colia L Clark Jennifer Wager, Chair �� Essex County College Abbas Hamideh ��al-awda.org Gail Walker ��IFCO/Pastors for Peace Christopher Magno ��Gannon University Ana Maria Cardenas ��IFCO/Pastors for Peace Susan Massad ��Framingham State University Narciso Ortiz ��Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina

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52 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM

Crisis Of Capitalism: Human Rights In Venezuela And Co-Responsibility The Lightning Before The Storm Between The State And Popular Power 1.101 Critique – Journal of Socialist Theory 1.114 Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera Suzi Weissman, Chair �� Professor of Politics at St Mary’s College California Daviana Sebastian, Chair Hillel Ticktin ��Emeritus Professor of Marxist Studies, University of Glasgow Frederick Mills Michael Hudson ��Research Professor of Economics, Keane Bhatt University of Missouri, Kansas City Robin Garcia Kostis Karpozilos �� Research Fellow, Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan ��President-Elect, National Lawyers Guild Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton Anti-Imperialism, A Debate With, Against and Beyond Left Governments? 1.115 Workers World Newspaper 1.103 Colleen Davidson, Chair �� FIST–Fight Imperialism, Stand Together Camilo Azzellini Sitrin, Chair Daniel Pforte ��FIST–Fight Imperialism, Stand Together Marina Sitrin ��CUNY Graduate Center–Center for Place, Culture and Politics Ruben Mendez ��Socialist Alternative Dario Azzellini Susana Draper Quechua Realities: A Discussion on Subjectivity Vicente Rubio and Screening of Living Quechua After Militarism and Capitalism: 1.117 Panel in Honor of Seymour Melman George Ygarza, Chair �� North Jersey Grassroots Action Claudia Urdanivia ��Passaic Pedal.EA 1.105 Elva Ambía �� NY Quechua Intiative Frank Emspak, Chair �� Worker Independent News Christine Mladic �� NY Quechua Intiative Jon Rynn �� GreenNewDealPlan.com Alice Slater ��Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Occupy Alternative Banking: A Meeting and Open Patrick Deer �� NYU Discussion on the Financial System’s Dysfunction Brian D’Agostino ��International Psychohistorical Association 1.119 Tom Gogan ��U.S. Labor Against the War Tamir Rosenblum, Chair �� Occupy Alternative Banking Radical Publishing and the Facebook Left: Thessy Mehrain �� Occupy Alternative Banking Contradictions in Clickbait Natasha Blakely �� Occupy Alternative Banking 1.107 Zero Books Thomas Paine And Henry George – Two Patriots, Douglas Lain, Chair �� Zero Books, author and podcaster One Common Adversary Of Monopoly Aaron Leonard ��Zero Books 1.121 Thomas Paine Friends & Bulletin Michael Thomsen ��Zero Books Johan Kugelberg ��Zero Books Marty Rowland, Chair �� Henry George School of Social Science Victor Madeson ��Thomas Paine Friends & Bulletin Beyond Crisis: Thomas Ballou Georgeson Communicating Persuasively For Social Change Sustaining Organizations with Values 1.108 1.123 Diane Rubino, Chair �� NYU Craig Mills �� NYU Michael Skirpan, Chair �� Collaborative Laboratories Jesse Scinto ��Columbia University Patrick Cooper ��Collaborative Laboratories Kilian Walsh �� NYU Caribbean Responses to the Cuban Revolution Jacqueline Cameron ��CU–Boulder 1.113 Rhone Fraser, Chair �� Delaware County Community College Horace Campbell ��Syracuse University Jeffrey Perry Joan Gibbs

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54 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM

Connecting the Dots: A World on The Verge of Collapse: Big Capital, Contingent Labor & Poverty A Guide And Discussion On Taking The Power Back 1.124 1.63 David Van Arsdale, Chair �� State University of New York Faith Laugier, Chair �� The Path of Liberation 4Benefit of All William DiFazio ��St. John’s University The Order of the Highest & Supreme Righteous Duty & Obligation Clayton Rosati �� Bowling Green State University Caleb Maupin ��FIST–Fight Imperialism Stand Together IAC–International Action Center Lines of Work: Penny Arcade �� Yippie, UATWMF, Revolution Telling Our Stories of Work and Building Movement 1.125 Recomposition And Deliver Us From All Our Saviors: Reflections on Coalition Building in Scott Nappalos, Chair �� IWW, Recomposition the Sex-Worker Rights Movement Monica Kostas �� IWW, Recomposition Luz Sierra ��IWW 1.65 Abbey Volcano Lindsay Roth, Chair �� Project SAFE/ Sex Workers Outreach Project Kate D’Adamo Confronting the Social and Natural Savannah Sly Crises of 21st Century Capitalism: Janet Duran �� NJRUA Water, Oil, and Economic Inequality 1.127 Masculinity and Ideology 1.66 Situations Journal: Project of the Radical Imagination Fabian Balardini, Chair �� Borough of Manhattan Community College Kenneth Levin ��Borough of Manhattan Community College Dominic Wetzel, Chair �� CUNY and Situations Ross Tippit ��Borough of Manhattan Community College Katia Perea ��CUNY and New School Enrique Lanz Oca ��Borough of Manhattan Community College Jaime Ortega ��somatic education therapist and educator Mohammad Soleymani ��Borough of Manhattan Community College Wade Rosenthal ��Legal Aid Society, Special Litigation Unit Labor for Palestine: Eco-Feminist Paths Towards a Growing U.S. Trade Unionist Support for World Beyond Capital BDS, From UAW 2865 to Block-the-Boat 1.67 Capitalism Nature Socialism 1.129 Terisa E. Turner, Chair �� International Oil Working Group and CNS Suzanne Adely, Chair �� Labor for Palestine Leigh Brownhill ��Capitalism Nature Socialism Michael Letwin ��Labor for Palestine Ana Isla �� Brock University Clarence Thomas ��Labor for Palestine Terran Giacomini ��University of Toronto Lara Kiswani ��Arab Resource and Organizing Center Eric Pineault ��Universite du Quebec a Montreal Where Do We Go From Here? Progressive Healthcare Unions Is Radical Art Relevant To The Left? Fighting for Patient Care 1.61 1.69 Gary DiBenedetto, Chair �� Independent Artist Cal Winslow, Chair �� Fellow, Environmental History, UC Berkeley Eric Lyon �� School of Performing Arts Elizabeth White ��National Union of Healthcare Workers Music, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Virginia Tech Clem Papazian ��National Union of Healthcare Workers Daniel Quinn �� Founder, ArtsPRunlimited, Inc. Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez ��New York State Nurses Association Member, Society of Stage Directors Union, NYC. Dana Simon �� Massachusetts Nurses Association Emma Wilcox �� Gallery Aferro, Newark NJ Stephen McKenzie �� The Newark Print Shop Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Program”: Evonne Davis �� Gallery Aferro, Newark NJ New Direction for Revolutionary Organization 1.71 Marxist-Humanist Initiative Anne Jaclard, Chair �� Marxist-Humanist Initiative Bryan Philip ��Independent scholar Mike Dola ��Marxist-Humanist Initiative

55 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM

Tomorrow's On More Than Worth Ecosocialism We Cannot Battlefield Palestine a Score Fighting A Radical Escape Alternative U.S. Proxy Noam Chomsky The New For to Capitalist History Wars and and Ilan Pappé Uprising Rory Fanning Catastrophe Nations, Secret Ops Against High- Michael Löwy States, and in Africa Stakes Testing Revolutions Nick Turse Edited by Jesse Neil Davidson Hagopian

Israel’s most “[Fanning] recent assault on shows us the Capitalism is Gaza left imperial and killing the planet. “Gripping and thousands of harmful The preservation These essays meticulous, Palestinians “For anyone who objective of of a natural focus on the Nick Turse’s dead and cleared wonders what’s U.S. foreign environment themes of reporting on the way for powering the policy. He shows favorable to nation, state, and Africa sheds another Israeli virulent us the courage human life revolution. much-needed land grab. The opposition to to walk away requires a radical Ranging from light on need to stand in standardized from it, and he alternative. the extent to shadowy solidarity with testing, shows us a path In this new which missions the Palestinians has Common to a saner collection of nationalism can U.S. military never been Core standards society.” essays, long time be a component would rather greater. Ilan and so-called —Chicago revolutionary and of left-wing keep secret. His Pappé and Noam education reform, Tribune environmental politics to the investigations Chomsky, two Jesse Hagopian’s activist Michael difference of U.S. military leading voices new book, More Löwy offers a between missions in in the struggle Than a Score, vision of bourgeois and Africa in to liberate will be an ecosocialist socialist Tomorrow’s Palestine, illuminating transformation. revolutions, the Battlefield reveal discuss the read.” This vision book concludes a secret war road ahead for –Seattle Times combines an with a extended with grave Palestine understanding discussion of implications and how the of the destructive the different for Africans and international logic of the meanings Americans, alike.” community can capitalist system history has for —Glenn pressure Israel with an conservatives, Greenwald to end its human rights abuses appreciation radicals and against for ongoing Marxists. Palestinians. struggles, particularly in Latin America. Out now from Haymarket Books

56 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM

Quest for Identity: Negro, Colored, Black, More than a Score: The New Uprising Afro, African American: The Role of Religion Against High-Stakes Testing in Shaping Black Identity in America 1.83 Haymarket Books 1.73 Nisha Bosley, Chair �� Haymaket Books Tyrone Webb, Chair �� Hebrew Israelite Nation Times (HINT Magazine) Jia Lee ��Movement of Rank and File Educators Cohane Michael Ben Levi ��The Hebrew Family in Guyana, South America Janine Sopp ��Change the Stakes Lea Webb ��Webb Consulting Systematic Violence of the War on Terror As the South Goes: Climate Justice and a and Collective Actions of Dissenters Just Transition in the Black Belt South 1.85 1.75 Sharmin Sadequee, Chair ��National Coalition to Brandon King, Chair �� Cooperation Jackson Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) Kali Akuno ��Cooperation Jackson Inas Shnewer ��National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) Dara Cooper �� Friends of Cooperation Jackson NYC Tausif Khan �� No Separate Justice The Indictment of the American Criminal Justice Iran and the New (Nuclear) Deal System and the New Criminology of Hope 1.87 URPE 1.76 Reza Ghorashi, Chair �� Stockton University William Calathes, Chair �� New Jersey City University Hamid Zangeneh ��Widener University Jason Williams �� Farleigh Dickinson University Evan Siegel �� Independent Scholar Whitney Richards-Calathes ��City University Graduate Center Sean Wilson ��Texas Southern University War, Imperialism & the People’s Struggle in the Middle East Today We Have Still Not Been Moved: 1.89 Taking Aim at White Supremacy, the Bill Dores, Chair �� International Action Center War Machine, and Police Brutality Lamis Deek ��Al-Awda Ny, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition 1.77 PM Press, War Resisters League, & WESPAC The U.S. Palestinian Community Network, National Matt Meyer, Chair �� War Resisters Leage Kazem Azin ��Solidarity Iran Dequi Kioni-Sadiki �� Jericho Movement Manal Gabash ��Syrian American Forum Nada Khader ��WESPAC Abayomi Azikiwe �� Pan African News Wire Ali Issa ��War Resisters League Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice Joel Kovel ��Scholar, Activist Nurses Healing the World: Dismantling the Intern Economy: Climate Change and the Fight for Climate Justice Building Student, Intern, and Worker Power 1.90 1.81 Bonnie Castillo, Chair �� NNU/RNRN James Cersonsky, Chair �� Intern Worker Alliance Jane Sandoval ��RNRN/NNU Queen Arsem-O’Malley ��Intern Worker Alliance Angeli Medina ��RNRN/NNU Anwar Batte ��Intern Worker Alliance Private Power vs. Public Rights: Why Do A People’s Congress Fracking Corporations Have So Much Power? 1.82 1.91 Paki Wieland, Chair �� American Friends Service Committee Susan Peters, Chair �� American Monetary Institute Jeff Napolitano ��American Friends Service Committee B. Allen Barndt �� Taos Institute/Tilburg University Rose Bookbinder ��Pioneer Valley Worker Center Dee Aherne �� 350nyc

57 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM

The Climate Crisis, Nonviolent Direct Democratic Totalitarianism Action and the Necessity Defense 3.76 1.92 The Indypendent Jalen Matney, Chair John Tarleton, Chair �� The Indypendent, Flood Wall Street 10 Matthew Ballinger Krystle Holmes �� Flood Wall Street 10 Joshua Headley Marty Stolar ��National Lawyers Guild Michael Dineen �� We Are Seneca Lake Dance for Social Justice 3.78 Internal Relations and Practice Marsha Parrilla, Chair �� Danza Orgánica (danzaorganica.org) 1.93 Science & Society Mckersin Previlus ��Dancer company member at Danza Orgánica. Russell Dale, Chair �� Science & Society Joya Powell �� Colleague Bertell Ollman �� Science & Society, New York University Xinruo Zhang ��Shanghai Party Institute of CCP, Why Jaurès Matters Research Center for Marxism 3.79 Democratic Left (Democratic Socialists of America) Mehmet Tabak �� New York University Pluto Press Pennsylvania State University Press Confronting Corporate Rule in India Nichole Shippen, Chair �� LaGuardia Community College, CUNY 1.99 Sanhati Mitchell Abidor Deepankar Basu, Chair �� Sanhati Sheri Berman �� Barnard College Partho S Ray �� Sanhati Geoffrey Kurtz �� Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Debarshi Das �� Sanhati Siddhartha Mitra �� Sanhati FILM: “The Missile Dick Chicks Take on America” Sirisha Naidu �� Sanhati 3.80 The Housing Trust and Affordability in Perpetuity Randi Cecchine, Chair �� Independent Filmmaker L2.80 Disaster Capitalism: A Screening and Discussion Walter South, Chair �� Urban Policy at Milano–The New School of Richard Ledes’ “The Dark Side” Peter Marcuse 3.81 Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination Philip Van Buren �� Attorney Despina Lalaki, Chair Left Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Richard Ledes �� Independent Filmmaker France and the United States: Economic Michael Pelias ��LIU Brooklyn and Situations Reforms and Political Strategies Stop Militarizing Our Children: L2.81 Organizing for Alternatives to ROTC and Mark Kesselman, Chair �� Professor emeritus of political science Military Recruitment in Schools Columbia University 8.61 Robert Pollin ��Political Economy Research Institute–UMass-Amherst Daniel Cirera �� Fondation Gabriel Peri, Paris Seth Kershner, Chair �� American Friends Service Committee Mireille Bruyere �� Prof of Economy at the Scott Harding ��University of Connecticut School of Social Work University of Toulouse 2, France John Lawrence ��Professional Staff Congress (PSC) Antimilitarization Committee Greece–EU–USA & the BRICS: International Glenn Petersen ��Professional Staff Congress (PSC) Solidarity & Cooperation as a Way to Fight Antimilitarization Committee Feudalism, Colonialism and Imperialism Santiago Villafane ��Professional Staff Congress (PSC) Antimilitarization Committee L2.82 Georgist Economic Taskforce Yannis Tziligakis, Chair �� Georgist Economic Taskforce Nikos Alexiou ��Queens College, SYRIZA-NY Marshall Auerback ��Levy Institute

58 SESSION 5 10:00 – 11:50AM

Textual Communities The Unnecessary Drugging of Children 8.67 3303N Sponsored by: cchrint.org/tag/adhd/ Ian Dreiblatt, Chair Rolando Bini, Chair �� Citizens Commission on Human Rights Peter Dimock Sharon Garrett �� Citizens Commission on Human Rights Hilary Plum Platina Poreshqi ��Parents in Action We Can’t Breathe: The History of Authority; (The Connection Between Movements) Understanding Leadership 8.69 3304N Sumumba Sobukwe, Chair Glen Morton Ganaway, Chair Noz Martinez �� Voters Occupy Nomi Naeem Bill Johnsen Carmen Pena ��Life Conversations Alejandrina Murphy ��Stop Mass Incarceration Network Kevin O’Connor �� C-Realm Podcast Environmental Collapse and the Need for Resistance: Introduction to Deep Green Resistance 8.72 Frank Coughlin, Chair Hetal Sheth Francis Coughlin Jen Bilek

Protest is Not Enough Injustice and war begins with the indoctrination of our youth. Our children and youth are undergoing an assault upon their minds and futures through Department of Defense indoctrination programs in their schools, including JROTC, Starbase, DoD STEM, Young Marines and unregulated recruiter access to students. Corporations are also in this game to privatize schools and use them to spread their influence on society.

Activists aare needed to counter military recruiters in our schools and provide alternatives to a militarized, corporatized future. Please visit: http://savecivilianeducation.org to learn about actions you can take. This National Call is endorsed by groups and individuals including Veterans for Peace , Iraq Veterans Against the War, Civilian Soldier Alliance, David Swanson Stop Recruiting Kids Campaign, Tom Hayden, Noam Chomsky, and convened by: The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth - NNOMY.org

59 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM

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SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM

Black Labor and the Fate of Capitalism Extractivisms, North and South and in Between L2.84 The Indypendent 1.101 Review of Radical Political Economics Nicholas Powers, Chair �� The Indypendent Brian Tokar, Chair �� Institute for Social Ecology Bill Fletcher ��The Black Commentator Patrick Bond ��University of KwaZulu-Natal Matt Birkhold �� Sociology Department in Binghamton University Don Fitz �� Green Party of St. Louis Eric Pineault ��UQAM/sociology and IRIS Progressive Satirical Activism Marcela Olivera ��Red Vida L2.85 ACE Commonizing Public Spaces Against Randy Credico, Chair �� Political Satirist; Neoliberal Urbanization William Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice Stephen Brown ��Alliance for Community Elections 1.103 John McDonagh ��WBAI/Pacifica Emre Cetin Gurer, Chair �� Research Institute on Turkey Paul Krassner �� paulkrassner.com Esra Akcan ��Cornell University / Research Institute on Turkey Irwin Corey �� “World’s Foremost Authority” Mete Pamir Julianna Forlano �� WBAI Lionel Michael ��Lebron Lionel Media The Limits of Liberal Police Reforms Barry Crimmins �� Call Me Lucky (biodoc on Crimmins life) 1.105 How to Teach Marxism? Glad You Asked! Alex Vitale, Chair �� Brooklyn College Naomi Murakawa ��Princeton University L.76 Raven Rakia ��Journalist Liz Mestres, Chair �� Co-Founder, Former Director of José Martín New York Marxist Schhool / Brecht Forum Richard D. Wolff �� Prof. Emer. Economics, University of Amherst Resisting Technology Privatization and Surveillance: currently visiting Prof. at New School University, NYC Roles for Scholar-Activists Bertell Ollman ��Prof in the Dept. of Politics at New York University 1.107 August Nimtz �� University of Minnesota Jackie Smith, Chair �� International Network of Scholar Activists Occupy + 4: Lessons for the Anti-Capitalist Left Barry Cohen ��portside 1.100 Seda Gürses �� INoSA Peter Murray-Rust �� University of Cambridge Priscilla Grim, Chair Rebecca Kennison ��KJN Consultants Michael Gould-Wartofsky �� New York University Seeta Peña Gangadharan �� Open Technology Institute Mark Bray ��Rutgers University Mary Clinton �� Communications Workers of America District 1 Michelle Esi ��co-founder of the OWS People of Color Working Group

61 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM

No Working Class Media Voice; No Democracy Oscar Lopez Rivera: 1.108 Beauty and Strength in Resistance Frank Emspak, Chair 1.115 Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Howard Kling PM Press John Anderson Matt Meyer, Chair �� Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Campaign Sam Mayfield Alejandro Molina ��Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Campaign Ana Lopez ��NY Coord. to Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Youth in Revolt: Puerto Rican former political prisoner TBA The International Role of Youth on the Left 1.109 “We Tortured Some Folks” But Don’t Take It Too Seriously, Says U.S. Government Alexi Shalom, Chair �� Students for Justice in Palestine at Hunter College Arielle Newton ��Black Millenials 1.117 Irving Perez ��Raza Youth Collective Ray McGovern, Chair Angelica Lara �� Frente Estudiantil Ayotzinapa Debra Sweet �� World Can’t Wait Chrissi Fabro ��Anakbayan–NY Marjorie Cohn ��Former President, National Lawyers’ Guild Roy Eidelson �� Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Colombian Women’s Struggles: Overcoming Violence and Oppression What Is To Be Done: How To Build A Global by Becoming Agents of Change Anti-Capitalist Movement Today? 1.113 Movement for Peace in Colombia 1.119 Julio Bedoya, Chair �� Movement for Peace in Colombia Shahram Azhar, Chair �� UMASS-Amherst Sebastian Ramirez ��Princeton University Danish Khan �� UMASS–Amherst Melissa Cox ��Witness for Peace Ricardo Fuentes-Ramírez �� UMASS–Amherst Natalia Caruso �� Madre Marx on Ecology, Preliterate Societies Perspectives on Puerto Rico in a Changing and the Global South: New Research Latin American and Caribbean Reality from the MEGA Project 1.114 1.121 Antonio Nadal, Chair �� Friends of Puerto Rico at the UN Joel Kovel, Chair �� Ecosocialist Horizons Edward Morales ��Brooklyn College Kohei Saito �� Humboldt University Berlin Andres Matias Ortiz ��Mercy College Tairako Tomonaga ��Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Kevin Anderson �� University of California, Santa Barbara

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62 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM

FILM: Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley Shutting Down Indian Point: 1.123 The Movement Toward Ending the Nuclear Era Lucy Pagoada-Quesada, Chair ��Colectivo Honduras USA Resistencia=libre 1.63 Carl Lundgren, Chair �� Shut Down Indian Point Now! Toward a Mass Left Party Catherine Skopic ��People’s Climate Movement 1.124 The North Star Alfred Meyer ��Physicians for Social Responsibility Tim Judson ��Nuclear Information & Resource Service (NIRS) Loren Anderson, Chair �� Philly Socialists Louis Proyect ��North Star founder & editor “SELMA”: Action Lessons for Concrete Stephanie Altimari ��Philly Socialists Outcomes for the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Jim Brash ��North Star & Green Party Movement and Progressive Empowerment– Neoliberalism and the Importance Insights of Black Women Activists of the Radical Imagination 1.65 1.125 Red Wedge magazine Sandra Rivers, Chair Charles Mauldin �� Selma Jubilee Youth Project (SJYP); Alexander Billet, Chair �� Red Wedge magazine Dallas County Youth League (DCYL) Nikeeta Slade ��Red Wedge magazine Colia L Clark ��Guadeloupe Haiti Tour Committee; Green Party Adam Turl ��Red Wedge magazine Lupe Family Confronting the Retirement Crisis: The Campaign to Expand Social Security Benefits Trans Lives Matter 1.66 1.127 Sasha Alexander, Chair �� Director of Membership, James W. Russell, Chair �� Connecticut Committee for Equity in Retirement Sylvia Rivera Law Project Eric Kingson �� Social Security Works! Enki ��Sylvia Rivera Law Project Alex Lawson �� Social Security Works! Sheneeneh Smith ��Sylvia Rivera Law Project Xena ��Sylvia Rivera Law Project Worker Coops, Labor and Cities: How New Thinking Cherno Biko �� SRLP Director of Finance Is Building Economic Power from the Ground Up Juana Peralta �� SRLP Director of Outreach and Engagement 1.129 Union-Coops Council, US Federation of Worker Coops Rage Kidvai ��SRLP, Paul Rapoport Foundation Equal Justice Abby Scher, Chair �� Dollars and Sense Works Fellow, Immigrant Justice Project Esteban Kelly �� co-executive director, US Federation of Worker Coops Vanessa McEnery ��Sylvia Rivera Law Project Asar Amen �� Detroit UAW Laura Hanson Schlachter ��UW Madison Neoliberalism and Psychiatry: David Hammer �� ICA Group How Do We Respond? Saduf Syal �� Make the Road NY 1.67 Carl Cohen, Chair If I Can’t Sing, I Don’t Want To Be Kenneth Thompson ��University of Pittsburgh Part Of Your Revolution Bradley Lewis �� New York University Medical Center 1.61 Amjad Hindi Jocelyne Clarke, Chair �� Filmmaker Sascha Altman DuBrul �� Icarus Project NYC Molly Klopot ��Raging Grannies, Granny Peace Brigade Corinne Willinger �� NYC Raging Grannies, Granny Peace Brigade Health Needs Assessment and Mercy Van Vlack ��Raging Grannies, Granny Peace Brigade Planning in New York City Vicki Ryder ��Triangle (North Carolina) Raging Grannies 1.69 Leonard Rodberg, Chair �� Queens College, CUNY Anthony Feliciano ��Commission on the Public’s Health System Robert Padgug ��Brooklyn College, CUNY Leon Bell ��New York State Nurses Association Louis Cholden-Brown ��New York City Council

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64 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM

Anti-Neoliberalism vs. Anti-Capitalism How Can Teachers Respond Politically to 1.71 Marxist-Humanist Initiative Neoliberalism’s Unjust Education Policies? Anne Jaclard, Chair �� Marxist-Humanist Initiative 1.81 Andrew Kliman ��economist, professor emeritus, Pace University John Antush, Chair Douglas Lain �� Zero Books, author and podcaster Marilena Marchetti �� Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) Kostas Demetriou ��TPTG (Children of the Gallery), Greece International Socialist Organization Alex Papadopoulos ��TPTG (Children of the Gallery), Greece August Leppelmeier ��Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE), Democratic Socialists of America Next Phase of the Black Freedom Struggle Brian Jones ��International Socialist Organization; 1.73 Socialist Alternative and 15 Now CUNY Graduate Center Alexandra Alves Eljeer Hawkins, Chair �� Socialist Alternative Francesca Gomes ��Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) Toya Chester ��Socialist Alternative Socialist Alternative Teddy Shibabaw ��Socialist Alternative Marcus McArthur ��Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) Akinlabi Mackall ��Coalition for Public Education I Pledge Allegiance to the Struggle: Beth Dimino ��President, Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association Black & Brown Resistance Against Nationalism 1.75 The Democratic Tea Party: Joshua Allen, Chair Where Do We Go From Here? Alok Vaid-Menon 1.82 Nakaiyé Ndé Flotte Scott Noren, Chair José Ramón García-Madrid James Kemmerer ��Democratic Party Pat Lamanna ��Co-Chair, Social Justice Committee, Confronting Injustice: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie Ferguson, Social Control, and Mass Incarceration 1.76 The Most Significant Right in the BDS Call: Jason Williams, Chair �� Fairleigh Dickinson University Advocating Palestinian Refugee Return Hillary Potter ��University of Colorado, Boulder 1.83 Christine Bell �� Fordham University Pamela Brown, Chair Sean Wilson ��Texas Southern University Amin Husain �� Direct Action Front for Palestine Miah Register �� Fairleigh Dickinson University David Letwin �� Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Liza Chowdhury �� Fairleigh Dickinson University Lamis Deek ��Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home presents: The Wars Come Home Live From Death Row to #Blacklivesmatter: The Anatomy of Revolutionary Leadership 1.85 United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) 1.77 Joe Lombardo, Chair �� UNAC Abayomi Azikiwe �� Pan African News Wire Sophia Williams, Chair Margaret Kimberley ��Black Agenda Report Jeffrey Camp ��The Campaign To Bring Mumia Home Gabriel Bryant ��The Campaign To Bring Mumia Home Critical Perspectives on Palestine: Revitalizing a One State Solution 1.87 Students for Justice in Palestine Nerdeen Kiswani, Chair �� Students for Justice in Palestine at College of Staten Island Leena Widdi Kassem Nasser Alexi Shalom ��Hunter Students for Justice in Palestine

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66 SESSION 6 12:00 – 1:50PM

Evaluating the Consequences of the Post-9/11 Era, Academic Capitalism/Authoritarianism And Redirecting Our Future The Status Of The Profession: Academic 1.89 Freedom And The Role Of Professors In Mainland China, Hong Kong And Macau Les Jamieson, Chair �� hr14.org Frank Morales 1.99 Mark Crispin Miller �� New York University Zhidong Hao, Chair �� University of Macau Kwok-bun Chan �� Chan Institute of Social Studies Globalization, Climate Change, and the Zhengyang Guo �� University of Macau Second Contradiction of Capitalism 1.90 RRPE and CNS Organizing A Spatial Justice Movement In A Punitive Neoliberal City Paul Cooney, Chair �� URPE Steering Committee Member David Schwartzman ��Howard University L2.80 Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro Christopher Magno, Chair �� Gannon University Judah Schept �� Easter Kentucky University Shifting Money, Shifting Power: Fossil Fuel Doug Evans ��John Jay College of Criminal Justice Divestment and Alternative Energy Reinvestment as a Strategy for Confronting Climate Change Cooperation Jackson and The Struggle for 1.91 Economic Democracy in Jackson Mississippi Mimi Bluestone, Chair �� 350NYC L2.81 Sophie Lasloff �� NYU Divest Brandon King, Chair �� Cooperation Jackson Lisa DiCaprio ��350NYC Kali Akuno ��Cooperation Jackson Rosina Pohlmann Kazembe Balagun �� Friends of Cooperation Jackson NYC Appropriation of Climate Justice Report Back from Spain: A Social Movement and Intersectionality by Mainstream Delegation in the “Year of Change” Environmentalists: Challenges, L2.82 Opportunities, and Concerns Lucas Shapiro, Chair 1.92 Jess Powers ��WhyHunger Cecilia Pineda, Chair �� RADIKO Luis Moreno-Caballud ��University of Pennsylvania Myles Lennon �� Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Jesus Gonzalez Jacqueline Patterson �� NAACP Camila Apaza Mamani Europe on the Move, Part 1: Syriza, Podemos – How the Left Addresses Victor Serge Today the Issue of Power in Greece and in Spain 1.93 PM Press 3.76 Mitchell Abidor, Chair Walter Baier, Chair �� Coordinator of transform! europe Christopher Winks Stelios Foteinopoulos �� Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Syriza James Brook Marga Ferré ��Fondaciòn Investigaciones Marxistas, Izquierda Unida Roberto Morea ��shoptransform-italia, L’altra Europa con Tsipras.

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FILM: Two Short Youth Made Films on Bringing the Transition Movement to NYC Social Justice and the Intersections of 8.67 Race, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Pamela Boyce Simms, Chair �� Convener and Lead Trainer, 3.78 Scenarios USA: Using Film to Amplify Youth Voices on Social Justice Mid-AtlanticTransition Hub Bianca Laureano, Chair �� Scenarios USA Dan Miner ��Transition NYC Hub Emily Saltzman Christopher Powers ��The Redemption Center Ted Schulman War Zones to Peace Zones: How to End Police Brutality Occupy Ethics: Rehumanizing the Economy 3.79 8.69 Ronald Scott, Chair �� Peace Zones for Life Yannis Tziligakis, Chair �� Georgist Economic Taskforce Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality Frank Fabio ��Georgist Economic TaskForce, NYMAS Richard Feldman �� Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership Jerome Johnson ��Solar One Brooklyn, Georgist Economic Taskforce Matt Birkhold �� Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership Harold Channer �� MNN FILM: 3½ Minutes: Jordan Davis, Race and Guns Spying and Infiltration of Activist Groups 3.80 8.72 Ron Davis, Chair Heidi Boghosian, Chair �� former Director of the National Lawyer’s Guild Bill DiPaola ��Director of Time’s Up Environmental Group. FILM: “The Hand That Feeds” Documentary Abi Hassen �� Mass Defense Coordinator of the National Lawyers Guild Film with Filmmaker and Film Subject Q&A FILM: The Anti-War Movement from 3.81 Hollywood to Harlem 2003–2011 Robert Robinson, Chair ��Left Forum Board of Directors 3303N The Anthropocene Debate Joseph Calhoun, Chair, �� Empire, Colorado 8.61 Haymarket Books Legal Solutions to JFK Assassination Research John McDonald, Chair �� Haymarket Books 3304N Chris Williams ��System Change Not Climate Change Hadas Thier ��System Change Not Climate Change Jerry Policoff, Chair Andrew Kreig �� justice-integrity.org William E. Kelly Lawrence Schnapf

68 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM

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SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM

Ferguson to New York: The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies Faces and Voices of a Movement and the Promise of Direct Democracy L2.84 L.76 Verso Books Jim Vrettos, Chair �� John Jay College -- Sociology Department Review of Radical Political Economics Immortal Technique �� Viper Records Debbie Bookchin, Chair ��coeditor, The Next Revolution: Popular Danny Aguilar ��Union Theological Seminary Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy Reverend Osagyefo Sekou �� Sekou Fellowship of Reconcilliation Chaia Heller �� Institute for Social Ecology Leslie MacFadyen ��Ferguson Response Network Marina Sitrin ��author of They Can’t Represent Us! Tamika Mallory ��Executive Director, National Action Network Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy Carmen Perez ��Executive Director, The Gathering For Justice Nazan Üstündağ ��Associate Professor of Sociology Sahaah Jordan at Boğaziçi University, Instanbul Should the Left Support Bernie Sanders? Seeking Truth in the Balkans (And In Africa) L2.85 International Socialist Review 1.101 AfrobeatRadio.Com, FOTC., WBAI Jacobin Gnaka La Goke, Chair �� Revival of Panafricanism Forum Amy Muldoon, Chair �� International Socialist Review June Vutrano �� seekingtruthinthebalkans.com Bhaskar Sunkara ��Jacobin Bradley McCallum ��Portraits of Justice Gloria Mattera �� Green Party Jennifer Trahan ��NYU–SPS, Global Affairs. Ashley Smith �� International Socialist Review Erin K. Lovall �� Graduate of New York University’s Charles Lenchner �� People for Bernie, Center for Global Affairs and Duke University School of Law OWS Tech Ops, Ready for Warren 21st Century Movement-Building Centers 1.103 Mayday Space Liz Mestres, Chair �� Socialism and Democracy Journal Lucas Shapiro ��Mayday Space Weimin Tchen ��Encuentro 5

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ISIS and Islamic Extremism: A “Failure” The Cuban Revolution Today: of US Policy? or Precisely What The Cuba Speaks for Itself Hidden Hand of U.S. Power Wants? 1.114 July 26 Coalition, july26coalition.org 1.105 Voxnews Ike Nahem, Chair �� July 26 Coalition, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Harry Stuckey, Chair ��Voxnews Gail Walker ��IFCO/Pastors for Peace Webster Tarpley ��Tarpley.net Frank Velgara ��July 26 Coalition Wayne Madsen ��The Wayne Madsen Report Rodolfo Reyes �� Ambassador of Cuba to the United Nations Ray McGovern ��Former CIA Analyst Hostility Between Haitian and Dominicans – Why? Computerized Vote Theft and the 1.115 Subversion of Democracy Vita Devyatkin, Chair 1.107 Ricardo Deschamps Joel Simpson, Chair Simon Morell Jonathan Simon ��Election Defense Alliance Bob Fitrakis �� Co-Chair, Ohio Green Party, Overcoming Econophobia: Political Science Prof. Columbia State Community College, Columbus, OH Renewing Popular Economics On The Left Mark Crispin Miller 1.117 Ricochet.Media Allergra Dengler ��Citizens for Voting Integrity, New York State Victoria Collier ��National Election Integrity Coalition Derrick O’Keefe, Chair Michal Rozworski Revolutionary Culture and Media: Doug Henwood ��Left Business Observer Our Movement as Ecosystem The Pirate Party: 1.108 Revolutionary Student Media Project Navigating the Seas of Surveillance Liam Wright, Chair �� Revolutionary Student Media Project, Kasama Project 1.119 Brenden Larosa �� Revolutionary Student Media Project, Mass Action Reshma Mohan Halley Murray, Chair James O’Keefe �� Massachusetts Pirate Party The American Deep State: Steve Revilak �� Massachusetts Pirate Party How Capitalism Has Subverted Democracy Lindsay-Anne Brunner ��United States Pirate Party Kendra Moyer �� Massachusetts Pirate Party 1.109 Cheryl Curtiss, Chair �� Radio show host of “9/11 Wake-Up Call” Harvey vs. Marx: at wwuh.org University of Hartford On Capitalist Crisis and “Marxist Entertainment” Andrew Kreig �� justice-integrity.org 1.121 Marxist-Humanist Initiative Russ Baker �� whowhatwhy.org David MacGregor Mike Dola, Chair �� Marxist-Humanist Initiative Brendan Cooney ��kapitalism101 Reprimarization: Andrew Kliman ��economist, professor emeritus, Pace University Implications for the Environment and Development Douglas Lain �� Zero Books, author and podcaster 1.113 RRPE Marxist Encounters with Anarchism Paul Cooney, Chair �� URPE Steering Committee Member/UNGS 1.123 Science & Society Fabian Balardini �� BMCC John Pittman, Chair �� John Jay College, CUNY; Science & Society Orlando Justo �� BMCC Gerald Meyer ��Hostos Community College, CUNY; Science & Society Jackie DiSalvo ��Department of English - Baruch College, CUNY Linda Alcoff �� Hunter College, CUNY José Martín Mark Bray ��Black Rose Anarchist Federation

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Anarchism, Socialist Humanism, Deepening Technological Changes in and Libertarian Marxism the Workplace, Workers’ Organizing, 1.124 and Marx’s Mature Critical Theory Kevin Anderson, Chair �� University of California, Santa Barbara 1.127 New Politics Barbara Epstein �� University of California, Santa Cruz Jason Schulman, Chair �� New Politics Joan Braune �� Mount Mary University, Milwaukee Kevin O’Brien Bhairavi Desai �� New York Taxi Workers Alliance Reject the Student-Worker Binary! Undergraduate Russell Rockwell �� Independent Scholar Student Labor Organizing on Campus 1.125 Living Near a Deadly Neighbor: A Coalition’s Struggle to Achieve Good Jobs and a Clean Anais Surkin, Chair �� GEO-UAW2322 Environment Near the New Jersey/ New York Port Beth Huang �� Student Labor Action Project Jenna Grady ��UAW 2322 1.129 Jessica Linder ��Ohio University RA Union Drive Isella Ramirez, Chair �� Ironbound Community Corporation Jonah Walters ��Student & Labor Action Movement Ana Baptista ��The New School Avery Fürst ��UAW 2322 David Bensman

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Poetry of Resistance: Envisioning a New Healthcare Delivery in New Imagining the Overthrow of Capitalist Oppression York City: Health as a Model of Social Justice 1.61 National Writers Union 1.69 Steve Bloom, Chair �� Southern Anti-Racism Network Marcelo Venegas-Pizarro, Chair Raymond Nat Turner ��Black Agenda Report Diana Ramirez Grameen �� Vida Sana Martín Espada Manel Silva �� NYU Lutheran Family Health Center Lauren Schmidt ��Passaic County Community College Marcellus Walker �� HHC–East New York Diagnostic Lora Tucker ��National Writers Union and Treatment Center K. Jonathan Joseph �� CityMD Racism, Capitalism and Black Liberation 1.63 International Socialist Organization The Politics of Social Reproduction Lichi D’Amelio, Chair �� International Socialist Organization 1.71 Viewpoint Magazine Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ��Haymarket Books, Princeton University Gavin Mueller, Chair �� George Washington University Brian Jones ��International Socialist Organization Salar Mohandesi �� The University of Pennsylvania Mychal Denzel Smith �� The Nation Institute Evan Calder Williams ��Parsons School of Design Andrew Wilkes ��Democratic Socialists of America Fulvia Serra �� The University of Pennsylvania Zhivka Valiavicharska �� Pratt Institute Slacktivism to Activism: Combating Gender and Racial Inequality in a Violent World 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Malcolm X: 1.65 A Review of the National Question Behind the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Uprising Romina Perino, Chair �� Adelphi University Danielle Medina ��Adelphi University 1.73 Workers World Tyra Busigo ��Adelphi University Monica Moorehead, Chair �� International Working Women’s Day Monique Knight ��Adelphi University Coalition, Workers World Party Secretariat Larry Holmes �� Workers World Party First Secretary Restorative Justice for All?: Race, Class, Ramiro Funez �� FIST and FNRP (Honduran Resistance) Gender, Disability and Animal Liberation Colin Ashby �� People’s Power Assembly 1.66 Ferguson: The F#$%&ing Conversation, Lauren Gazzola, Chair �� National Lawyers Guild Its Aftermath and Going Forward Pattrice Jones ��VINE Sanctuary Christopher-Sebastian McJetters ��Vegan Publishers 1.75 Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan ��National Lawyers Guild A. J. Segneri, Chair �� Socialist Party USA Lawrence Carter-Long Brien Redmon P. Arianna Norris-Landry Political Prisoners in the U.S.: Ebonie Tyse Crisis or Opportunity? 1.67 Black Cooperatives & the Fight for Economic Democracy Basir Mchawi, Chair �� Family and Friends of Dr Mutulu Shakur, WBAI. John Jay 1.76 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Sid Wilson ��Family and Friends of Dr. Mutulu Shakur Ethan Earle, Chair �� Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office Suzanne Ross �� Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition Jessica Gordon Nembhard �� Professor and Author, Collective Courage: Esperanza Martell ��Human Rights A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought Brother Mogadishu Sekou ��Odinga Support Committee, Ed Whitfield ��Fund 4 Democratic Communities Jericho Movement Kali Akuno ��Cooperation Jackson

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New BLACK Power: Moving Beyond Black Concerning Violence 1.77 1.87 AfrobeatRadio, WBAI Radio, FOTC 21-Michel Alexendre Sacha Vington, Chair �� Maurice Carney, Chair �� Friends of the Congo (FOTC) HumanityEvolutionMovement.org Omowale Clay ��Dec 12th Movement Patrick Hilton �� Hilton and Associates Bruce Dixon ��Black Agenda Report (blackagendareport.com) Pojanee Fleury ��Brown Eyez Magazine Benjamin Bowser �� California State University East Bay Kimone Tecumseh Freeman �� We Act Radio (weactradio.com) Educating Toward Revolution 1.81 Fundamentalism in Iran and Israel: Compare and Contrast in the Context of Monique Scott, Chair �� Freebrook Academy Turmoil in the Greater Middle East Terry Marshall ��Intelligent Mischief Rosa Knoepfel ��Urban Art Beat 1.89 Bahram Zandi, Chair �� Dr. Zandi, Co-Chair, Building Multilingual Movements: International Committee US Green Party Experiences Form The Grassroots Farshid Moghimi �� Iranian Left Alliance of 1.82 Washington Metropolitan Area Yunes Parsa Benab �� Iranian Left Alliance of Raji Manjari Pokhrel, Chair �� Adhikaar Washington Metropolitan Area Patricia Gonzalez �� Caracol Interpreters Cooperative Telesh Lopez �� Caracol People’s Climate Movement – New York: Fear of Who, Where?: Ethnographic Research as Organizing for Next Steps Learning Tool in an Urban Community College 1.90 1.83 Catherine Skopic, Chair �� PCM-NY; IMAC; WEACT; SDIPN Jon Forster �� DC37 Yolanda C. Martin, Chair �� Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Lyna Hinkel ��350.org; 350.nyc Josean Melendez �� Vassar College Ray Figueroa ��Community Garden Coalition; Roydel Morris �� Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY People’s Climate Movement–New York Elyse Ortiz �� Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Zita Allen �� People’s Climate Movement–New York Bernadette Schaefer �� Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Garrett O’Connor �� People’s Climate Movement–New York War Culture and Resistance Aesthetics of Climate Justice 1.85 1.91 Patrick Deer, Chair �� Associate Professor at New York University Milena Popov, Chair �� John Jay College Ross Caputi �� Graduate Student at Fitchburg State University Karen Malpede �� Theater Three Collaborative, Inc., John Jay College Nicole Goodwin Nyasha Laing ��John Jay College Alexander Schlutz ��John Jay College George Bartenieff �� Theater Three Collaborative

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75 SESSION 7 3:40 – 5:40PM

FAKE RECOVERY, FAILING FIX-ITS — GOING NOWHERE FASTER

This book clarifies how the price system in general, and financial asset prices in particular, transform into fundamentally destabilizing forces under conditions of systemic fragility. It explains why the global system has in recent decades become dependent upon, and even adicted to, massive liquidity injections, and how fiscal policies have been counterproductive, exacerbating fragility and instability

“...Rasmus’s book [Epic Recesson] offers readers an illuminating and developed theoretical framework that adds to our understanding of specific contours of the current crisis, and its difference from earlier crisis experiences...” Review of earlier work, Capital & Class CLARITY PRESS, INC ISBN 978-0-9860769-4-7 $29.95 2015 406 pp. See http://www.claritypress.com/Rasmus.html Dr. Jack Rasmus is the author of Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression, 2010, Obama’s Economy, 2012, and An Alternative Program for Economic Recovery, 2012 (Pluto Press). He hosts Alternative Visions on the Progressive Radio network; is shadow Federal Reserve Bank chair of the ‘Green Shadow Cabinet’ and economic advisor to USA Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein. He writes bi-weekly for teleSUR TV, for Z magazine, Znet, among others. Rasmus currently teaches economics and politics at St. Marys College in California.

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Massage the Movements: The Greek Crisis in Context: Disability and Intersectionality National and Regional Dimensions 1.92 L2.82 Evan Yankey, Chair �� Self-Advocacy Association of New York State George Andreopoulos, Chair �� City University of New York Peter Cobb �� United Cerebral Palsy-NYC Andreas Karras ��John Jay College, CUNY Tony Phillips �� Self-Advocacy Association of New York State, Tina Mavrikos Adamou ��Hofstra University National Action Network Peter Bratsis ��Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY Bernard Carabello �� Self-Advocacy Association of New York State Diane McCourt ��Disability Rights Advocate Europe on the Move, Part 2: Susan Hoffman �� United Cerebral Palsy of NYC The Ascendancy of the Far and Nationalist Right in Europe – How the Left Copes with It Creating and Managing Bail Funds: A Tangible Response to the Prison Industrial Complex 3.76 Walter Baier, Chair �� transform! europe 1.93 Sarah Lukow ��Beyond Europe, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Norma Wassel, Chair �� Massachusetts Bail Fund Stelios Foteinopoulos �� Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Syriza Peter Goldberg �� Brooklyn Bail Fund Carl Williams �� American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts Creative Tools, Creating Change: Deconstructing Systems of Power, Privilege and An Indigenous Peoples’ History Oppression Using Theatre of the Oppressed and the Struggle for Justice 3.78 1.99 S. Leigh Thompson, Chair �� The Forum Project Mike Bento, Chair �� #BlackLivesMatter, Unite Against Fascism, Charles Shealy Marxist Education Project Clara Kiely ��The Forum Project Ibrahim Diallo ��Marxist Education Project Fantasia Painter �� alterNative Education Executive Director, Assessing Potential for Combative Syndicalism in Salt River Pima–Maricopa the U.S.: Adapting Structures and Tactics of Quebec Ghassan Fawzi ��Umm al Fahim, Israel; Abna al Balad; Student Movement for Organizing in the States Red Front; Columbia University; 1199 SEIU delegate 3.79 Capturing Land Value Revenue Ryan Thomson, Chair �� International Student Movement, from Condo Criminals Students for a Democratic Society L2.80 Rushdia Mehreen �� Student and community organizer, Previously ASSÉ committee member Marty Rowland, Chair �� Georgist Economic Task Force Aaron Dixon ��Author of My People Are Rising: Mike Curtis ��Henry George Institute Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain Joshua Vincent ��Center for the Study of Economics Sean Estelle ��National Divestment Campaigner, Energy Action Coalition Biola Jeje ��Ex-organizer with Brooklyn College Student Union Drawing Lines: Liberation and Co-Conspirators and New York Students Rising L2.81 Benjamin Gingras �� ASSÉ Committee member, IWW Montreal Bobby London, Chair �� On Resistance Esho Funi ��On Resistance FILM: PAH Film Edxie Betts ��On Resistance 3.80 Jessica Rey ��On Resistance Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus, Chair Youth Self Expression as Education: Making Movies and Poetry in Jail and the Barrio 3.81 Deep Dish TV Simin Farkhondeh, Chair �� Democracy Now DeeDee Halleck ��Deep Dish Television Jesus Papoleto Melendez �� 2 Leaf Press

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Just Information for All Taking the U.S. to the World Court on Human Rights 8.67 3303N Meghan Maurus, Chair �� Just Info Ejim Dike, Chair ��US Human Rights Network Nathan Sheard �� Just Info Jamil Dakwar ��American Civil Liberties Union Moira Meltzer-Cohen �� Just Info Fahed Ahemd �� DRUM–South Asian Organizing Center William Eric Waters �� Just Info Roberto Múkaro Borrero ��International Indian Treaty Council Rebecca Heinegg Marbre Stahly-Butts ��Center for Popular Democracy Sofia Campos ��United We Dream Common Core and the End of History 8.69 A Conversation Amongst Youth on Creating Interfaith Dialog in Schools Felica Hirata, Chair �� Baruch-CUNY Alan Singer ��Hofstra University 3304N Maram Mabrouk �� North Shore High School Divpreet Kaur, Chair �� Junior Sikh Coalition Harrison Rubenfeld �� Civic Leadership Academy, Queens, NY Sunpreet Singh �� Junior Sikh Coalition Laura Bauer ��Oceanside (NY) Middle School Amani Zeinab Mohamed ��Interfaith Center of NY Rob Schimenz ��Queens Vocational and Technical High School Torendra Kalicharan �� Junior Sikh Coalition Pablo Muriel ��Bronx Design and Construction HS Dawud Omar ��AAANY ABCs of Squatting 8.72 Frank Morales, Chair �� New York City housing activist and a radical Episcopalian priest Bill DiPaola Mette Pedersen ��International squatter

CLOSING PLENARY 6:30–8:45PM GYMNASIUM, 4TH FLOOR, HAAREN HALL

A NATIONAL LEFT POLITICS?

M. ADAMS, PAMELA BROWN, GLEN FORD, TOM HAYDEN, REVEREND OSAGYEFO SEKOU, AND KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR

HOSTS/MODERATORS/INTERLOCUTORS: STANLEY ARONOWITZ, ASHLEY FRANKLIN, AND IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE

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79 SPEAKER INDEX A–C

A Aronowitz, Stanley 23, 36, 78 Betts, Edxie 77 Bryant, Gabriel 65 Abbott, Jack 31 Arroyo-Montano, Eroc 39 Bhatt, Keane 43, 53 Bryzinski, Kitty 41 Abdi, Deeq 28, 43 Arsem-O’Malley, Queen 57 Biko, Cherno 63 Burg, Leonard 41 Abdul Rahman, Mai 20 Arthur, Stephen 35 Bilek, Jen 59 Burlage, Robb 32 Abidor, Mitchell 58, 67 Artinian, Arto 23 Bilek, Jennifer 47 Burton, Mark 24 Acala, David 31, 47 Ashby, Colin 73 Billet, Alexander 37, 63 Bush, Melanie 46 Adamou, Tina Mavrikos 77 Auerback, Marshall 58 Bini, Rolando 51, 59 Busigo, Tyra 73 Adams, M. 48, 78 Awatramani, Rishi 52 Binta, Ashaki 26 Butterfield, Don 37 Adely, Suzanne 41, 47, 55 Axelbank, Elan 31 Birkhold, Matt 61, 68 C Adler, Kate 44 Azhar, Shahram 20, 62 Black, Jennifer 41 Cadette, Edson 30 Africa, Pam 28, 41 Azikiwe, Abayomi 41, 47, 57, 65 Blair, Zulema 24 Calathes, William 57 Africa, Ramona 28, 41 Azin, Kazem 57 Blake, Carmelita 32 Calhoun, Joseph 51, 68 Aguilar, Danny 69 Azulay, Jessica 25 Blakely, Natasha 53 Callahan, Mat 31, 39, 69 Ahemd, Fahed 78 Azzellini, Dario 30, 39, 53 Blick, Gary 26 Camara, Zeinab 29 Aherne, Dee 57 B Bliven, David 23 Cameron, Jacqueline 53 Ahmad, Shahzad 19 Babich, Babette 43 Bloom, Steve 73 Campbell, Horace 44, 53 Ajao, Adebukola 26 Backer, Alice 51 Bluestone, Mimi 67 Camp, Jeffrey 65 Akcan, Esra 61 Baier, Walter 67, 77 Blum, William 33 Campos, Sofia 78 Akhenaten VII, Kawaun Adon 30 Bailey, Nellie 52 Boghosian, Heidi 68 Canet, Raphael 29 Akrivos, Alan 35 Baker, Russ 71 Bolender, Keith 38 Caputi, Ross 74 Akuno, Kali 49, 57, 67, 73 Balagun, Kazembe 67 Bond, Patrick 44, 46, 61 Carabello, Bernard 77 Al-Ahmed, Ali 48 Balardini, Fabian 55, 71 Bookbinder, Rose 57 Cardenas, Ana Maria 52 Albo, Greg 31 Ballinger, Matthew 58 Bookchin, Debbie 69 Caring-Lobel, Alex 26 Albores, Richard 50 Bannan, Natasha Lycia Ora 24, Borrero, Roberto Múkaro 78 Carnemolla, Maria 28 Alcoff, Linda 71 53, 73 Bosley, Nisha 57 Carney, Maurice 74 Alexander, Sasha 44, 63 Banya, Ahmed 24 Bossewitch, Jonah 48 Carrillo, Daniel 20 Alexiou, Nikos 58 Baptista, Ana 72 Bounville, Alan 38 Carter-Long, Lawrence 73 Ali, Shirin 39 Baraka, Ajamu 26, 52 Bowser, Benjamin 74 Carter, Matthew 47 Alkurabi, Eyad 52 Barbosa, Sadie 26 Boyle, Bob 28 Carter, Natasha 44 Allen, Joshua 41, 65 Barghouti, Mariam 25 Bracero, Ateo 44, 48 Caruso, Natalia 62 Allen, Zita 74 Barndt, B. Allen 23, 57 Braine, Naomi 28 Casanova-Abos, Victor 39 Alomari, Naseer 48 Barragan, Yesenia 50 Brandon, Devon 35 Cason, Harry 30 Alperovitz, Gar 43 Barry, Dante 25 Brandon, Pepijn 31, 47 Castillo, Bonnie 57 Altimari, Stephanie 63 Bartenieff, George 74 Brash, Jim 63 Castro, Javier Sethness 37, 49 Alves, Alexandra 65 Bass, Amanda 25 Bratsis, Peter 23, 43, 77 Cecchine, Randi 58 Alyan, Talal 25 Basu, Deepankar 58 Braune, Joan 48, 72 Cersonsky, James 57 Ambía, Elva 53 Battacharya, Tithi 31 Braune, Nick 48 Ceschi 28 Amen, Asar 63 Batte, Anwar 57 Bravo, Chris 35 Chamberlain, Kenneth 37, 45 Anderson, John 62 Bauer, Laura 78 Bray, Mark 50, 61, 71 Chan, Kwok-bun 67 Anderson, Kelly 44 Baum, Carol 49 Brenner, Lenni 33 Channer, Harold 47, 68 Anderson, Kevin 62, 72 Baxter, Kim 23 Brewer, Rose 26, 38 Chavis, Danette 19 Anderson, Loren 63 Bedoya, Julio 62 Broad, Betta 34 Chester, Toya 65 Anderson, Matthew 32 Bell, Christine 65 Brook, James 67 Cholden-Brown, Lewis 63 Anderson, Mia 41 Bell, Leon 63 Brotherton, David 32 Chowdhury, Kanishka 23 Anderson, Sam 26, 33 Benab, Yunes Parsa 43, 74 Brown, Clayton 33 Chowdhury, Liza 65 Andreopoulos, George 77 Benjamin, Medea 48 Brownhill, Leigh 55 Christoff, Stefan 22 Antun, Rev. Carole 44 Bensman, David 72 Brown, Michael 37, 45 Cirera, Daniel 58 Antush, John 65 Benson, Pablo 23 Brown, Pamela 65, 78 Clark, Colia L 31, 52, 63 Apkarian, Sophia 26 Bento, Mike 77 Brown, Stephen 61 Clarke, Jocelyne 63 Arcade, Penny 55 Berdiel, Fabiola 23 Brown, Timothy Ray 26 Clark, John 49 Arena, Jay 39 Berezin, Joan 35 Brown, William 37, 49 Clay, Omowale 74 Arias, Sofia 45 Berkley, Susan 41 Brubaker, Pamela 25 Clinton, Mary 61 Arnold, Peace 44 Berman, Sheri 58 Brunner, Lindsay-Anne 71 Cobb, Peter 77 Arnold, Sarah 37 Bernardi, Claudia 39 Bruyere, Mireille 58 Codrington, Jamila 48

80 C–G SPEAKER INDEX

Cohen, Barry 61 Deek, Lamis 49, 57, 65 Eidelson, Roy 62 Fleury, Pojanee 22, 74 Cohen, Carl 63 Deen, Aroun 29 Eisenstein, Hester 31 Flores, Louis 38 Cohen, Daniel Aldana 27 Deer, Patrick 53, 74 El-Amin, Theresa 45 Flores, Michelle 47 Cohen, Sky 37 Delikanli, Eylem 35, 37 Elerding, Carolyn 23 Flotte, Nakaiyé Ndé 65 Cohn, Marjorie 25, 62 Demetriou, Kostas 65 Elliott, Umaara 48 Flounders, Sara 24, 35, 47 Coleman-Adebayo, Marsha 46, 52 de Miguel, Berta 39 Ellner, Steve 22, 30, 36 Flowers, Margaret 26 Collier, Victoria 71 Dengler, Allergra 71 Ellorin, Bernadette 41 Flowers, Reg 43, 50 Conway, Eddie 19 Desai, Bhairavi 72 Elnaiem, Mohammed 35 Foard, Stephanie 24 Cooney, Brendan 71 Deschamps, Ricardo 71 Elvan, Sami 37 Foley, Barbara 33 Cooney, Paul 67, 71 Desire, Samantha 44 Ely, Mike 31, 50 Ford, Glen 19, 51, 52, 78 Cooper, Dara 57 DeVito, Thomas 50 Emspak, Frank 53, 62 Forlano, Julianna 19, 36, 61 Cooper, Michael 39 Devyatkin, Vita 71 Endres, Tashy 43 Forster, Jon 74 Cooper, Patrick 20, 53 de Xaxàs Faus, Santi Mas 77 Engel-DiMauro, Deborah 45 Fort, Nyle 25 Corey, Irwin 61 Diallo, Ibrahim 77 Engel-DiMauro, Salvatore 28 Foster, Kisha 31 Cosar, Simten 29 Diaz Romero, Leocadia 19 Enki 63 Foteinopoulos, Stelios 67, 77 Costanzo, Jim 36 DiBenedetto, Gary 55 Epstein, Barbara 72 Fraad, Harriet 39, 45 Coste, Wayne 26 DiCaprio, Lisa 67 Ergul, Hakan 29 Fraad Wolff, Tess 39 Coughlin, Francis 59 DiFazio, William 55 Esayan, Kevork 27 Franco, Alex 39 Coughlin, Frank 22, 47, 59 Dike, Ejim 78 Esi, Michelle 61 Francois, Andre 23 Cox, Melissa 62 Dimino, Beth 65 Eskew, Kathryn 24 Franklin, Ashley 78 Craven, Frank 44 Dimock, Peter 59 Espada, Martín 73 Franklin, Jane 38 Crean, Tom 43 Dineen, Michael 58 Estelle, Sean 34, 77 Fraser, Rhone 53 Credico, Randy 36, 61 Dines, Gail 36 Ettinger, Leonie 43, 50 Freeman, Kimone Tecumseh 74 Creegan, Jim 50 DiPaola, Bill 68, 78 Evans, Doug 67 F., Robert 51 Crimmins, Barry 36, 61 DiSalvo, Jackie 71 Evans, Jodie 35 Fry, Pat 31 Crown, Elliot 36 Dixon, Aaron 77 Ewing, David 34 Fuentes-Ramírez, Ricardo 20, 62 Cubit, Carla 41 Dixon, Bruce 37, 52, 74 F Fumero, Gabriel 30 Curtis, Mike 34, 77 Dmitryev, Franklin 35, 49 Fabio, Frank 68 Funez, Ramiro 47, 73 Curtiss, Cheryl 71 Dobson, Sandrine 22 Fabro, Chrissi 62 Funi, Esho 77 Cyril, Malkia 19 Dola, Mike 55, 71 Fagiani, Gil 29 Funkhouser, Paul 44 Czarnocha, Bronislaw 23 Dominguez Carrasco, Juan Gerardo Falk, Barbara J. 39 Fürst, Avery 72 19 D Farber, Seth 23 G Donahue, Phil 28 D’Adamo, Kate 55 Farbman, Jason 33 Gabash, Manal 57 Donovan, Josephine 25 D’Agostino, Brian 53 Farkhondeh, Simin 77 Gaffney, Adam 23 Donovan, Kate 30 Daher, Joseph 33 Farr, Arnold 38 Ganaway, Glen Morton 59 Doonan, David 22 Dakwar, Jamil 78 Farthing, Linda 22 Gangadharan, Seeta Peña 61 Dores, Bill 41, 57 Dale, Russell 24, 58 Fasenfest, David 38 García-Madrid, José Ramón 65 Dorsey, Court 51 Daley, Kelli 31 Fawzi, Ghassan 77 Garcia, Robin 53 Do, Vicky 35 D’Amato, Paul 38 Featherstone, Liza 31 Gardner, Peter 33 Downing, King 49 Dambrot, Stuart 47 Feffer, Andrew 39 Gargagliano, Lee 49 Dòwòti Désir, Manbo 20 D’Amelio, Lichi 73 Fein, Oliver 32 Garrett, Bill 49 Draper, Susana 53 Dandona, Kabir 39 Feldman, Richard 68 Garrett, Sharon 59 Dreiblatt, Ian 59 D’Angelo, Angelo 46 Feliciano, Anthony 63 Garza, Alicia 19, 51 DuBrul, Sascha Altman 23, 48, 63 Das, Debarshi 58 Fernandez, Antonio 32 Gauthier, Dylan 44 Dudzic, Mark 23, 52 Dasgupta, Pratip 50 Fernández, Johanna 25 Gazzola, Lauren 73 Duggan, Marie 50 Davidson, Colleen 53 Ferré, Marga 39, 67 Gelman, Emmaia 25 Dunlea, Mark 20, 34, 49 Davis, Betty 23, 31, 49 Figueroa, Ray 74 Gendzier, Irene 49 Duran, Janet 55 Davis, Evonne 55 Fiorentino, Michael 39 Georgeson, Thomas Ballou 53 Dyer, Glen 22 Davis, Karen 25 Fischer, Ariane 23 Gerson, Janet 43, 50 Davis, Lisa E. 39 E Fischer, Noah 36 Ghappour, Ahmed 20 Davis, Ron 37, 45, 68 E, Aliou 29 Fitrakis, Bob 71 Gheorghiu, Valeria 39 De Barbieri, Ted 28 Earle, Ethan 73 Fitz, Don 61 Ghorashi, Reza 57 DeBar, Don 51 Eben, Valentine 50 Flanders, Laura 19 Ghoshroy, Subrata 41, 49 Dech, Eva 32 Ehrenreich, John 32 Fletcher, Bill 61 Giacomini, Terran 55

81 SPEAKER INDEX G–K

Gibbs, Joan 53 Hall-Goldstein, David 31 Huang, Beth 72 Kasiske, Florian 25 Gibson, Victor 33 Hall, Wadsworth 31 Huato, Julio 20 Kataneksza, Jacquelin 23 Gilbert, Rust 50 Hamideh, Abbas 52 Hudis, Peter 38, 47 Katz-Fishman, Walda 28 Gilliam-Price, Makayla 51 Hammer, David 63 Hudson, Michael 20, 53 Kaur, Divpreet 78 Gillis, Steve 23 Hanrahan, Noelle 41 Hudson, Peter 44 Kawano, Emily 43 Gilmer, Rachel 52 Hansford, Justin 49 Huertas Noble, Carmen 28 Kelly, Esteban 63 Gingras, Benjamin 77 Hao, Zhidong 67 Humphrey, Barbara 49 Kelly, William E. 68 Giovanopoulos, Christos 23, 47 Harding, Scott 58 Huron, Amanda 50 Kemmerer, James 65 Glasberg, Davita Silfen 50 Harrison, Cole 41 Husain, Amin 47, 65 Kennedy, Kim 51 Gogan, Tom 53 Harrison, Fred 34 Hylton, Forrest 39 Kennedy, Sean 27, 44, 47 Goker, Emrah 29 Harrison, Joan 25 I Kennison, Rebecca 61 Golan, Gan 23 Harrison, Marty 31 Imam, Hayat 41 Kershner, Seth 58 Goldberg, Peter 77 Harris, Scott 41 Immortal Technique 69, 78 Kesselman, Mark 58 Goldberg, Trudy 39 Hartung, William 49 Inkarayku 69 Khader, Nada 57 Goldmacher, Donald 51 Hassen, Abi 49, 68 Isaacson, Mike 35 Khalil, Yusef 25, 33 Golinger, Eva 30 Hassiotis, Athena 47 Isla, Ana 55 Khan, Danish 20, 62 Gomes, Francesca 65 Havis Walton, Devonya 23, 31 Issa, Ali 57 Khan, Tausif 57 Gonzalez, Jesus 67 Hawkins, Eljeer 65 Ives, Kim 38 Kidvai, Rage 63 Gonzalez, Patricia 74 Hawkins, Howie 20, 37, 49 Kiely, Clara 77 Goodman, Alan 33 Hayden, Tom 78 J Kiely, Tom 51 Goodman, Marty 26, 38, 46 Headley, Joshua 58 Jackman, Kendall 43 Kilpatrick, Gabriel 44 Goodwin, Jeff 31 Hedges, Chris 20, 36 Jackson-Black, Pastor Sherri 49 Kimberley, Margaret 52, 65 Goodwin, Nicole 74 Hegazy, Omnia 69 Jaclard, Anne 55, 65 Kim, Youb 24 Gopal, Anand 41 Heilig, Dominic 50 Jacobson, Erik 35 Kinane, Ed 25, 49 Gordon, Jessica 73 Heinegg, Rebecca 78 Jacobs, Wuyi 20 King, Brandon 57, 67 Gotano, Chris 43 Heller, Chaia 69 Jaffe, Sarah 39, 45 Kingson, Eric 63 Gould-Wartofsky, Michael 46, 61 Heller, Stanley 48 Jameh, Arjang 30 Kioni-Sadiki, Dequi 25, 45, 57 Göymen, Ali Yalçın 35 Henderson, Schuyler 39 James, Richard 41 Kirschenman, Joleen 25 Grady-Benson, Jess 34 Henrikuez, Louie 48 Jamieson, Les 67 Kissin, Barry 35 Grady, Jenna 72 Henwood, Doug 71 Jarrar, Roed 33 Kiswani, Lara 55 Graham, Frank 37, 45 Hermes, Kris 49 Jay, Paul 19, 51 Kiswani, Nerdeen 65 Grameen, Diana Ramirez 73 Hernandez, Angie 44 Jean-Michel Savard 22 Kizil, Caghan 29 Greene, Doug Enaa 37 Hernandez, Robert 24 Jeje, Biola 77 Klare, Michael 49 Greenfield, Sidney 47 Herrera, Julio 30 Jiménez, Cristina 52 Klein Salamon, Margaret 34 Griffiths-Dingani, Kate Doyle 31 Herrine, Luke 37 Johnsen, Bill 24, 59 Kliman, Andrew 65, 71 Grim, Priscilla 31, 43, 61 Hess, Penny 20 Johnson, Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Kling, Howard 62 37, 45 Gronowicz, Anthony 49 Hicks, Gary 25, 34 Klopot, Molly 63 Johnson, Jerome 68 Groskinsky, Alexander 26 Hilal, Maha 25 Knight, Monique 73 Johnson, Kenneth 37, 45 Guay, Nathalie 29 Hilton, Patrick 22, 74 Knight, Shane 39 Jones, Brian 37, 65, 73 Guerrero, Jullian 48 Hindi, Amjad 63 Knoepfel, Rosa 74 Jones, Pattrice 26, 73 Guild, Bob 38 Hinkel, Lyna 74 Koch, Jerry 28, 41 Jones, Thai 46 Gulli, Bruno 34, 43 Hirata, Felica 78 Koehnlein, Bill 26 Jordan, James 25, 43 Guo, Zhengyang 67 Hobbes, Johnny 30 Kogel, Nancy 26 Jordan, Sahaah 69 Gupta, Arun 43 Hoffman, Susan 77 Kohl-Arenas, Erica 23 Joseph, Andrew 37, 45 Gurer, Emre Cetin 61 Hoh, Matthew 28 Konneh, Nvasekie 29 Joseph, K. Jonathan 73 Gürses, Seda 61 Holder, Kanene 23, 31 Kontos, Louis 32 Judson, Tim 63 Gusterson, Hugh 49 Hollender, Rebecca 23 Kostas, Monica 41, 55 Justo, Orlando 71 Gutiérrez, Bernardo 23 Holmes, Krystle 58 Kovel, Joel 28, 51, 57, 62 Gutierrez, Teresa 47 Holmes, Larry 73 K Krassner, Paul 61 H Holmquist, David 22, 47 Kaindl, Christina 23, 50 Krehbiel, Paul 31 Kalicharan, Torendra 78 Hafiz, Fatima 33 Hong, Sukjong 39 Kreig, Andrew 68, 71 Kamara, Kewulay 29 Halabi, Wahd’i 34 Honkala, Cheri 43 Kroop, Dan 31 Karpozilos, Kostis 53 Halasa, Marni 36 Hooper, Sylvia 51 Kudaimi, Ramah 25 Karras, Andreas 35, 77 Halleck, DeeDee 77 Horowitz, Morgan 24 Kugelberg, Johan 53

82 K–N SPEAKER INDEX

Kuhl, Martha 23 Lima Rocha, Bruno 30 Martinez-Garcia, Jesus 39 Miller, David 26 Kupferman, Joel 49 Linder, Jessica 72 Martinez, Noz 59 Miller, Mark Crispin 67, 71 Kurki, Irv 22 Lissey, Marcus 35 Martín, José 61, 71 Miller, Martin 44 Kurtz, Geoffrey 58 Lituchy, Barry 46 Martin, Yolanda C. 74 Mills, Craig 53 Kyerematen, Nana-Ama 51 Livingston, Martha 23 Maschi, Tina 48 Mills, Frederick 53 L Locker, Philip 47 Mas de Xaxàs Faus, Santi 19, 25 Miner, Dan 68 La Botz, Dan 22 Lombardo, Joe 24, 65 Massad, Susan 52 Min, Xiong 47 LaForest, Rachel 25 London, Bobby 77 Matney, Jalen 58 Mire, Muna 23, 31, 38 LaForest, Ray 38 Lopez, Alfredo 19 Mattera, Gloria 34, 47, 69 Mitchell, Lawrence 51 La Goke, Gnaka 69 Lopez, Ana 28, 62 Matthews, Dorin 51 Mitra, Siddhartha 58 Lain, Douglas 53, 65, 71 Lopez, Telesh 74 Mauldin, Charles 63 Mladic, Christine 53 Laing, Nyasha 74 Lotoskyy, Andrey 46 Maupin, Caleb 46, 55 Moghimi, Farshid 43, 74 Lake, Robert 48 Lovall, Erin K. 69 Maura, Eduardo 19, 50 Mohamed, Amani Zeinab 78 Lalaki, Despina 35, 58 Lovett-Rivera, Benita 33 Mauro, Salvatore Engel-Di 67 Mohandesi, Salar 73 Lamanna, Pat 65 Lubetsky, Robert 33 Maurus, Meghan 78 Mohan, Reshma 71 Lamb, Anne 28 Lucey, Joyce 28 Mayfield, Sam 62 Mohr, Dario 47 Lamont, Beth K. 27, 35 Lucey, Kevin 28 McArthur, Marcus 65 Molina, Alejandro 62 Lance, John 51 Luisetti, Federico 34 McCabe, Justine 33 Mollgaard, Eske 26 Langman, Lauren 38 Lujan, Percy 44 McCalevey, Jane 52 Moodliar, Suren 43 Lara, Angelica 62 Lukow, Sarah 77 McCallum, Bradley 69 Moon, Terry 49 Larosa, Brenden 71 Lundgren, Carl 63 McCarthy, Brian 43, 51 Moorehead, Monica 73 Lasalle, Mel 48 Lupe Family 63 McCarthy, David 26 Moore Jr., Roscoe M. 26 Lasloff, Sophie 67 Lyon, Eric 55 McCourt, Diane 77 Morales, Edward 62 Laugier, Faith 55 M McCullough, John 31 Morales, Frank 67, 78 Laureano, Bianca 68 Mabrouk, Maram 78 McDonagh, John 61 Morand, Jean 35 LaVenia, Peter 22, 29 Macapinlac, Nina Mariella 34 McDonald, John 68 Morea, Roberto 67 Lawler, Kristin 19, 51 MacFadyen, Leslie 69 McEnery, Vanessa 63 Morell, Simon 71 Lawrence, John 58 MacGregor, David 71 McFarland, Duncan 34 Moreno-Caballud, Luis 23, 67 Lawson, Alex 63 Mackall, Akinlabi 65 McGill, Mac 61 Morgan, Richard 35 Leahey, Sharleen 69 MacQueen, Graeme 35 McGovern, Ray 28, 62, 71 Morris, Roydel 74 LeBlanc, Paul 31, 38, 47 Macrina, Alison 44 McGuire, Cathleen 35 Moskowitz, Miriam 39 Ledes, Richard 58 Maddock, Leola 23 McHarris, Thenjiwe 51 Mottern, Nick 25 Lee, Deb 41 Madeson, Victor 53 Mchawi, Basir 73 Moyer, Jeff 46 Lee, Jia 57 Madison, Elliott 41 McJetters, Christopher-Sebastian Moyer, Kendra 71 26, 73 Lee, Nicole 49 Madsen, Wayne 43, 71 Mueller, Gavin 73 McKenzie, Stephen 55 Lemisch, Jesse 39 Maerhofer, John 33 Muldoon, Amy 69 Mecklenburg, Fred 35, 49 Lemkey, Erin 48 Magno, Christopher 52, 67 Munif, Yasser 33 Medina, Angeli 57 LeNabat, Marianne 41 Mahoney, Bonny 49 Murakawa, Naomi 61 Medina, Danielle 73 Lenchner, Charles 45, 69 Mahoney, Jack 47 Muriel, Pablo 78 Mehrain, Thessy 53 Lennon, Myles 67 Main, Alexander 22 Murillo, Mario 29 Mehreen, Rushdia 77 Leonard, Aaron 53 Mallory, Tamika 69 Murphy, Alejandrina 24, 59 Melendez, Jesus Papoleto 77 Leonard, Sarah 41, 47 Malpede, Karen 74 Murphy, Catherine 47 Melendez, Josean 74 Leppelmeier, August 65 Mamani, Camila Apaza 67 Murphy, Tony 23 Meltzer-Cohen, Moira 78 Lerner, Eric 39 Marchetti, Marilena 65 Murray, Halley 71 Mendez, Rosie 31 Letwin, David 65 Marcuse, Peter 43, 58 Murray-Rust, Peter 61 Mendez, Ruben 53 Letwin, Michael 55 Marie, Christine 26, 46 Myerson, Jesse Alexander 45 Mestres, Liz 44, 69 Levi, Cohane Michael Ben 57 Markowitz, Norman 25 N Meunier, Stan 26 Levin, Kenneth 55 Marks, Daniel 30 Nachtwey, Oliver 39 Meyer, Alfred 63 Levin, Marilyn 24 Marrs III, Perry Thomas 20 Nadal, Antonio 62 Meyer, Gerald 29, 71 Levy, Alison Rose 41 Marshall, John 36 Naeem, Nomi 59 Meyer, Matt 57, 62 Lewis, Bradley 63 Marshall, Terry 74 Nahem, Ike 47, 71 Mhando, Lindah 24 Lewis, L. Toni 32 Martell, Esperanza 73 Naidu, Sirisha 58 Michael, Lionel 61 Leyshon, Traven 41, 48 Martin, Annabel 44 Napolitano, Jeff 57 Miller, Andrea 31 Liebert, Rachel 32 Martinez, Cindy 20 Nappalos, Scott 41, 55

83 SPEAKER INDEX N–S

Nariño, Alexandra 38 Painter, Fantasia 77 Pomeroy, Anne 22 Roberts, Lynn 41 Narin, Ozgur 35 Palliou, Christina 26 Popov, Milena 74 Robinson, Robert 43, 48 Nasser, Kassem 65 Palombo, Bernardo 69 Poreshqi, Platina 51, 59 Rockwell, Russell 72 Nass, Meryl 35 Pamir, Mete 61 Porton, Adam 43 Rodberg, Len 48 Nathanson, Adam 35 Panitch, Leo 23, 31, 52 Post, Charles 47, 52 Rodberg, Leonard 63 Navarro, Vicente 19 Pantanker, Prachi 19 Potter, Hillary 65 Rodgers, Eleanor 43 Nawabi, Jawied 50 Papadopoulos, Alex 65 Powell, Joya 58 Rodriguez, Delcy 36 Ndugga-Kabuye, Benjamin 20 Papazian, Clem 55 Powers, Christopher 68 Rodriguez, Jorge 36 Nell, Ed 50 Papp, Evan 20 Powers, Jess 67 Roesch, Jen 38, 45 Ness, Manny 46 Parodi, German 28 Powers, Nicholas 39, 61 Rogers, Eric 50 Nevel, Jesse 20 Parramore, Lynn 41 Poynter, Ralph 28, 49 Romanou, Natassa 23, 50 Newton, Arielle 25, 62 Parrilla, Marsha 58 Prado, Ricardo 46 Romero, Denise G. 44 New York Year Zero 32 Patterson, Jacqueline 67 Previlus, Mckersin 58 Rosati, Clayton 55 Ngaujah, Sahr 29 Patterson, Jacqui 45 Priest, Calvin 37, 47 Rosenblum, Tamir 53 Nguyen, Phan 49 Peck, Michael 28 Principe, Catarina 19 Rosenthal, Wade 55 Nibungco, Yves 34 Pedersen, Mette 78 Proyect, Louis 63 Ross, Alexander Reid 49 Nichols, Cid 19 Peers Educating Peers 28 Puar, Jasbir 33 Ross, Suzanne 73 Nijmeijer, Tanja 38 Pelias, Michael 58 Q Roth, Lindsay 55 Nimtz, August 33, 38, 47, 61 Pena, Carmen 59 Quinn, Daniel 55 Rowland, Marty 23, 53, 77 Noble, Demetrius 33, 39 Peña Gangadharan, Seeta 19 Quinton, Julie 35 Rozum, Ursula 29 Noble, Shamako 28 Peña, Lucille 51 Rozworski, Michal 71 Nogales, Pam C. 27 Peng, He 47 R Rubenfeld, Harrison 78 Noren, Scott 65 People with Psychiatric Histories 32 Radu Cucu, Sorin 34 Rubino, Diane 53 Norris-Landry, P. Arianna 73 Peralta, Juana 63 Raekstad, Paul 22 Rubio, Vicente 53 Nowosielski, Ray 20 Perea, Katia 55 Ragone, Roberto 29 Rudiger, Anja 41, 48 Raheja, Natasha 24, 47 O Perelman, Michael 20 Ruff, Allen 33 Perez, Carmen 69 Rai, Robina 31 Russell, James W. 63 O’Brien, Alexa 20 Raja, Darakshan 25 O’Brien, Kevin 72 Perez, Irving 62 Ryder, Vicki 63 Perez, Leonel 47 Rakia, Raven 61 Rynn, Jon 53 Oca, Enrique Lanz 55 Rameau, Max 48 O’Connor, Garrett 74 Pérez Ramírez, Diana 41 S Perino, Romina 73 Ramirez, Cristina 39 O’Connor, Kevin 59 Ramirez, Isella 72 Saad, Zohra 44 Ofori, Akua 19 Perry, Jeffrey 53 Saalakhan, Mauri 26 Petersen, Glenn 58 Ramirez, Jatnna 34 Ogunlaja, Ahmed 19 Ramirez, Sebastian 62 Sadequee, Sharmin 57 O’Keefe, Derrick 71 Peters, Susan 37, 57 Sadiq, Sundiata 28 Petty, Sean 23 Ramsey, Joseph 23, 33, 37 O’Keefe, James 71 Rassbach, Elsa 25 Sainath, Radhika 49 Olivera, Marcela 61 Pforte, Daniel 53 Saito, Kohei 62 Philip, Bryan 55 Ratner, Ana 31 Ollman, Bertell 43, 58, 61 Ray, Partho S 58 Salaam, Sharonne 23 O’Malley, Susan 30 Phillips, Dawn 25 Salaam, Yusef 23 Phillips, Tony 77 Rebard, Alan 39 Omar, Dawud 78 Reddy, Anupama 39 Salaini, Cristian 30 O’Neil, Cathy 37 Picher, Marie-Claire 43, 50 Salaita, Steven 33 Pierre, Jemima 44 Redmon, Brien 73 O’Neil, Michael 22, 29 Register, Miah 65 Salamon, Margaret Klein 49 Onna, Sherry 50 Pierrer, Jemima 52 Salek, Fabiola 44 Pietaro, John 61 Relihan, Elma 43 Ordaz, Veronica 30 Rene, Deng 47 Salerno, Roger 39, 45 Orkin, Jenna 51 Pineault, Eric 55, 61 Saltzman, Emily 68 Pineda, Cecilia 67 Revilak, Steve 71 Ortega, Jaime 55 Reyes, Rodolfo 71 Sandoval, Jane 57 Ortiz, Andres Matias 62 Pittman, John 71 Santana, Raymond 23 Pluma, Robert 35 Rey, Jessica 77 Ortiz, Elyse 74 Richard, Joe 24 Sarachild, Kathie 46 Ortiz, Narciso 52 Plum, Hilary 59 Sariahmed, Karim 41 Podell, Andy 38 Richards-Calathes, Whitney 57 P Richmond, Simone 49 Sarich, John 50 Pohlmann, Rosina 67 Sartori, Gina 48 Pace, Paula 37 Pokhrel, Raji Manjari 74 Rigby, Scott 44 Padgug, Robert 32, 63 Rippey, Branden 50 Saul, Quincy 49 Policoff, Jerry 68 Sawant, Kshama 45, 51 Padilla, Andrew 41 Polk, Stephen 44 Rivers, Sandra 38, 63 Pagoada-Quesada, Lucy 46, 63 Roberts, Dakem 44 Sawma, Martin 46 Pollin, Robert 58 Scarry, Joe 25

84 S–W SPEAKER INDEX

Schaefer, Bernadette 74 Sierra, Omar 46 Stewart, Lynne 23, 28, 49 Tucker, Lora 73 Schaeffer, Lauren 47 Silk, Ezra 34, 49 Stoker Bruenig, Elizabeth 41 Tupitsyn, Masha 32 Scharenberg, Albert 39 Silva, Manel 73 Stolar, Marty 58 Turi, Camilo 39 Scheller, David 19, 43 Simms, Pamela Boyce 68 Stover, A. Shahid 33 Turl, Adam 63 Schenwar, Maya 43 Simon, Dana 55 Stroud, William 33 Turner, Raymond Nat 52, 73 Schept, Judah 67 Simon, Jonathan 71 Stuckey, Harry 43, 71 Turner, Terisa E. 55 Scher, Abby 63 Simpson, Barbara 37 Summa, John 50 Tykulsker, David 39 Schill, Cherokee 50 Simpson, Joel 71 Sundin, Jess 24, 28, 41 Tylim, Natalia 45 Schimenz, Rob 78 Singer, Alan 78 Sunkara, Bhaskar 69 Tyse, Ebonie 73 Schlachter, Laura Hanson 63 Singh, Sunpreet 78 Surkin, Anais 47, 72 Tziligakis, Yannis 34, 58, 68 Schlutz, Alexander 74 Siracuse, Tom 38 Susser, Ida 31 U Schmidt, Lauren 73 Sitrin, Camilo Azzellini 53 Swanson, David 25, 33, 37 Urdanivia, Claudia 53 Schnapf, Lawrence 68 Sitrin, Marina 46, 53, 69 Swanston, Samara 49 Üstündağ, Nazan 69 Schulman, Jason 72 Siyonbola, Ololade 51 Sweeney, Sean 20, 47 Schulman, Ted 68 Skirpan, Michael 20, 53 Sweet, Debra 25, 33, 62 V Schwartzman, David 20, 28, 67 Skopic, Catherine 49, 63, 74 Syal, Saduf 63 Vaid-Menon, Alok 41, 65 Valiavicharska, Zhivka 73 Schwartz, Michael 41, 49 Skorker, Brandie 26 T Schwarz, Henry 35 Slade, Nikeeta 63 Vallejo, Juan Carlos 38 Tabak, Mehmet 58 Valles-Codina, Oriol 39 Scinto, Jesse 53 Slater, Alice 25, 53 Tarleton, John 29, 46, 58 Scott, Jerome 28 Slesinger, David 26 Van Arsdale, David 55 Tarpley, Webster 31, 43, 51, 71 Van Buren, Philip 58 Scott, Monique 74 Sly, Savannah 55 Taylor, Jamie 44 Scott, Ronald 68 Smecker, Frank 32 Vandermeer, Tony Menelik 26 Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta 19, 33, Van Slyke, Brian 43 Sebastian, Daviana 53 Smikle, Pricilla 47 73, 78 Van Vlack, Mercy 63 Segal, David 37 Smith, Ariyana 19 Taylor, Mary 19 Vasquez, Andrea 30 Segneri, A. J. 73 Smith, Ashley 22, 31, 41, 69 Taylor, Neil 37 Vasquez, Kilo 48 Sekou, Brother Mogadishu 73 Smith, Cathy 28 Taylor, Terrell 35 Velgara, Frank 71 Sekou, Reverend Osagyefo 69, 78 Smith, Eli 31 Tchen, Weimin 69 Velis, MIlena 29 Selbovitz, Mariel 26 Smithers, Stuart 26 Tenney, Lauren 23, 32 Venegas-Pizarro, Marcelo 73 Serra, Fulvia 73 Smith, Jackie 19, 61 Terrell, Julien 48 Villafane, Santiago 58 Serrano, Kimberly 35 Smith, Mychal Denzel 73 Ter Taulian, Anoush 27 Vincent, Godfrey 39, 46 Shalom, Alexi 62, 65 Smith, Sheneeneh 63 Tharakan, John 20 Vincent, Joshua 77 Shaneela, Tanzeem 49 Smolarski, Chloe 30 The Red Microphone 61 Shanks, Malcolm 41 Snyder, Bryan 50 Vington, 21-Michel Alexendre Sacha Thier, Hadas 68 22, 74 Shannon, Deric 41, 50 Sobukwe, Sumumba 24, 37, 59 Thomas, Clarence 55 Viscarra, Arturo J. 46 Shapiro, Lucas 67, 69 Socolov, Emily 39 Thomas, Darryl 24 Vitale, Alex 61 Shapiro, Tamara 23 Sole, MC 32 Thomas, Etan 19 Vitale, Christopher 32 Shawki, Ahmed 31 Soleymani, Mohammad 55 Thompson, Kenneth 63 Volcano, Abbey 55 Shealy, Charles 77 Solomon, Suzanne 39 Thompson, Linda 45 Volman, Daniel 49 Sheard, Nathan 78 Sopp, Janine 57 Thompson, S. Leigh 77 Vonds, Vonds 26 Shelton, Dylan 31 Soufoglo, Manos 26 Thomsen, Michael 53 Vrettos, Jim 28, 69 Sheridan-Gonzalez, Judy 55 South, Walter 58 Thomson, Ryan 77 Vutrano, June 69 Sherpa, Ang Gelden 50 Spear, Jess 47 Thornburg, Devin 46 Sheth, Hetal 47, 59 Speed, Dennis 23 Ticktin, Hillel 23, 53 W Shibabaw, Teddy 65 Sperber, Irwin 26 Timmins, Pamela 35 Wachsberger, Ken 46 Shippen, Nichole 58 Stabile, Rebecca 48 Tippit, Ross 55 Wager, Jennifer 52 Shnewer, Inas 57 Stahly-Butts, Marbre 78 Toff, Steven 48 Wainberg, Mark 26 Shorrock, Tim 20 Stanescu, Vasile 25 Tokar, Brian 61 Wakefield, Stephanie 22 Shrestha, Shailesh 50 Starrs, Sean 35 Tomonaga, Tairako 62 Waldo, Kip 35 Shroff, Sara 23 Steinberg, Michael 32 Torres, Joseph 19 Walker, Eric 25 Siddique, Ashik 34, 49 Stein, Jill 20, 37 Trahan, Jennifer 69 Walker, Gail 52, 71 Siegelbaum, Steve 69 Stellar, Susan 35, 49 Trupin, Ian 20 Walker, Marcellus 73 Siegel, Evan 57 Stelmark, Jarekh 23 Tsoukalas, Konstantino 19 Walker, Sheila 20 Siegel, Harry 36 Stevens, Adam 24 Tsoukalas, Konstantinos 19, 23, 50 Walls, Daniela 20, 31 Sierra, Luz 55 Stevens, Margaret 33 Tsou, Walter 48 Walsh, Kilian 20, 53

85 SPEAKER INDEX W–Z

Walsh, Shannon 35 X Walters, Jonah 72 Xena 63 Waltman, Anna 47 Xiaoping, Luo 25 Wangerin, Ruth 24 X, Shaktii 41 Ware, Michael 47 Y Wark, McKenzie 32 Yamauchi, Haruko 44 Warnet, Alexander 29 Yankey, Evan 77 Warwin, Jason 33 Yarish, Gino-Arturo 37 Wassel, Norma 77 Ygarza, George 25, 28, 53, 61, 69 Waters, William Eric 78 Yildiz, Emrah 25 Webb, Lea 57 Yorukoglu, Ilgin 43 Webb, Lewis 48 Young, Ethan 31 Webb, Tyrone 57 Weinberg, Jan 37 Z Weissman, Suzi 23, 53 Zandi, Bahram 43, 74 Wenderlich, Michelle 50 Zangeneh, Hamid 57 Westcott, Kimberly 48 Zara, Jane 20, 28 Westerman, Bill 50 Zhang, Xinruo 58 Wetzel, Dominic 55 Zik, Ragip 37 White, Elizabeth 55 Zirin, Dave 19 Whitehorn, Laura 25 Zmolek, Michael Andrew 47 White, Khadijah Costley 46 Zuniga, Marilyn 49 White, Lawrence 48 Whitfield, Ed 43, 73 Widdi, Leena 65 Wieland, Paki 57 Wiesen, Blanche 39 Wilcox, Emma 55 Wilcox, James 25 Wilkes, Andrew 73 Willebrand, Julia 33 Williams, Carl 77 Williams, Chris 68 Williams, Evan Calder 73 Williams, Jason 57, 65 Williams, Sophia 65 Willinger, Corinne 63 Wilson, Ana 31 Wilson, Sean 57, 65 Wilson, Sid 73 Winks, Christopher 67 Winn, Nat 31 Winslow, Cal 39, 55 Wishnia, Kenneth 39 Wishnia, Steven 39 Witt, Susan 35 Wolff, Richard D. 28, 36, 45, 61 Wolfson, Todd 29, 46 Wong, Winnie 45 Words Of Choice 28 Wraight, Jeannie 26 Wright, Liam 71 Wright, Tyrene 20

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