The Left Forum 2012 - Confronting Global Capitalism

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Programs in this series

• Arun Gupta Spekaing at Left Forum 2012
  Arun Gupta, the journalist whose upcoming book will focus on the Occupy movement, and who has been involved in Indy Media, speaking at the closing plenary of the Left Forum 2012.
• Chris Hedges Speaking at the Left Forum 2012
  Chris Hedges, author, journalist, professor and cultural critic speaks at the closing plenary of the 2012 Left Forum.
• Elaine Bernard Speaking at the Left Forum
  Elaine Bernard, a life-long union member, activist, and director of the Harvard Labor and Worklife program at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Trade Union Program, speaks with humor and passion about the state of the labor movement.
• Hip Hop Politics and Protest
  M1 pf Dead Prez, UMI of Dead Prez, WILL VILL, Esteban Nembhard, Esteban Nembhard, Malisha Jimenez, Nyaka NiiLampti address the challenges and potential of hip-hop music and culture in influencing and shaping the worldview, politics, and culture of generations....past present and future.
• Horizontalism - Autonomism and a Different Concept of Power -Marina Sitrin
  Occupy Wall Street: What Began as a Moment Has Become a Movement - Marina Sitrin has been active in occupy movements worldwide. She is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina and author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina .
• Islamophobia, the NDAA, and the Attack on Civil Liberties with Lamis Deek
  Lamis Deek speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on the Islamophobic nature of the "War on Terror" ten years after September 11, 2001.
• Islamophobia, the NDAA, and the Attack on Civil Liberties with Steve Downs
  Steve Downs speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on the Islamophobic nature of the "War on Terror" ten years after September 11, 2001.
• Leave The Oil In The Soil-Leave the Coal in the Hole.
  Opening session of the Left Forum 2012. Intro remarks by Stanley Aronowitz and presentation by Nnimmo Bassey, Execuitive Director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria and Chair of Friends of the Earth International
• Left Forum 2012 ABORTION! Session
  ABORTION! An Urgent Part of Women's Liberation Differing Viewpoints on How to Win This Fight. Writers Eleanor Bader and Sunsara Taylor discuss the right wing's attack on women's right to birth control, the socially-created stigma towards abortion, and the general political backlash against women's autonomy.
• Left Forum 2012 Cuban 5 Session with Alejandro Nunez
  Cuban ambassador from the UN mission in New York, Alejandro Nuñez, speaking at the Cuba 5 Panel at the Left Forum 2012.
• Left Forum 2012 Cuban 5 Session with Jose Pertierra
  Michael Smith, author of "Who Killed Che: How the CIA Got Away with Murder," speaks at a panel on "US Terrorism Against Cuba: the 5 Cuban U.S. Held Political Prisoners and the Case of Posada Carriles" on Saturday, March 17, 2012.
• Left Forum 2012 Cuban 5 Session with Michael Smith
  Michael Smith, author of "Who Killed Che: How the CIA Got Away with Murder," speaks at a panel on "US Terrorism Against Cuba: the 5 Cuban U.S. Held Political Prisoners and the Case of Posada Carriles" on Saturday, March 17, 2012.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious about Class Dynamics with Bill Fletcher Jr.
  Bill Fletcher of BlackCommentator.com speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious about Class Dynamics with Bill Tabb
  Author William Tabb speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious about Class Dynamics with Dr. Mary Gatta
  Dr. Mary Gatta of Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious About Class with Michael Zweig
  SUNY Professor Michael Zweig speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Horizontalism vs Revolutionary State Power Session
  Raymond Lotta and John Clarke discuss whether or not Occupy and similar movements require vanguard leadership to unleash conscious activism amongst the masses.
• Left Forum 2012 Islamophobia, the NDAA, and the Attack on Civil Liberties with Deepa Kumar
  Deepa Kumar speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on the Islamophobic nature of the "War on Terror" ten years after September 11, 2001.
• Left Forum 2012 Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in China, Chinatown and Beyond with Sam Stein
  Sam Stein speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on discusses gentrification in Chinatown, New York, and beyond in the context of the housing crisis, which has disproportionately affected working communities of color.
• Left Forum 2012 US-Israel War Moves Against Iran – What’s Going On, Our Responsibility to Resist with Larry Everest
  Larry Everest speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on the U.S.-Israeli Coalition against Iran, and what dangers it poses for world peace.
• Left Forum 2012 US-Israel War Moves Against Iran – What’s Going On, Our Responsibility to Resist with Leila Zand
  Leila Zand speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on the U.S.-Israeli Coalition against Iran, and what dangers it poses for world peace.
• Left Forum 2012 US-Israel War Moves Against Iran – What’s Going On, Our Responsibility to Resist with Michael Klare
  Michael Klare speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on the U.S.-Israeli Coalition against Iran, and what dangers it poses for world peace.
• Left Forum 2012 Workers' Cooperatives: The International Context with Carl Davidson
  As the capitalist economy is in a state of rapid decline, the panel examines the historic and contemporary relevance of workers cooperatives as an alternative to capitalist and private ownership of property and enterprises. The panel explores the trajectory of worker control in the comparative national contexts and its challenge to capitalist domination.
• Left Forum 2012 Workers' Cooperatives: The International Context with Peter Ranis
  As the capitalist economy is in a state of rapid decline, the panel examines the historic and contemporary relevance of workers cooperatives as an alternative to capitalist and private ownership of property and enterprises. The panel explores the trajectory of worker control in the comparative national contexts and its challenge to capitalist domination.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Gregory Wilpert
  Gregory Wilpert, professor, author, and activist, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Michael Klare
  Michael Klare speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Neil Smith
  Neil Smith, CUNY Ph.D professor, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Phyllis Bennis
  Phyllis Bennis, writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Islamophobia, the NDAA, and the Attack on Civil Liberties wtih Dr. Shaik Ubaid
  Dr. Shaik Ubaid speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on the Islamophobic nature of the "War on Terror" ten years after September 11, 2001.
• Left Forum 2012: Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in China, Chinatown and Beyond with Ellen David Friedman
  Ellen David Friedman, a Visiting Scholar from the International Center for Joint Labor Research at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on race, the housing crisis, and gentrification in Chinatown, New York,and beyond.
• Left Forum 2012: Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in China, Chinatown and Beyond with Helena Wong
  Helena Wong, a community organizer focusing on Asian American communities, discusses gentrification in Chinatown, New York, and beyond in the context of the housing crisis, which has disproportionately affected working communities of color.
• Left Forum 2012: Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in China, Chinatown and Beyond with Pengfei Li
  Pengfei Li, a student and researcher at the the CUNY Graduate Center's Environmental Psychology Program, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on race, the housing crisis, and gentrification in Chinatown, New York,and beyond.
• Left Forum Closing Plenary 2012
  The closing plenary for the 2012 Left Forum in its entirety.
• Michael Moore at the Left Forum
  Michael Moore's speech at the Left Forum 2012.
• Occupy Malcom X - By Any Means Necessary
  Provocative panel from the Left Forum 2012 wrangles over Manning Marabel's 2010 biography "Malcom X a Life of Reinvention." Participants: Herb Boyd, Haki Madhubuti, Bill Fletcher Jr, and Amiri Baraka.
• Student Debt Serfdom
  If nothing changes, student debt will haunt today’s youth into old age. How did we get locked into debt, who’s profiting from the status quo, and how can we reclaim our futures?
• The Problem Is the System of Unequal Privlege and Control. Occupy the Narrative!
  William Tabb is the author of The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time.
• Wally Shawn: Why I am a Socialist
  Wally Shawn, who has acted on screen and lent his voice to many movies and TV shows, reads from his new book.
• We Are The Crisis of Capital
  John Holloway is a Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico