Black America and the
Empire in Crisis
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Submitted
by nelliehesterbailey on Tue, 04/01/2014 - 4:48pm
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Session 4 |
Sat 05:00pm - 06:50pm |
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Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
" The Black Agenda Report panel will analyze the
causes and consequences of the increasingly frequent United States interventions
abroad including in Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela, past interventions in Haiti
and Libya and continued military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The role
that black Americans have traditionally played and must play in the future to
oppose these actions will also be examined
More
Panel/Workshop Information
Reading
List:
Link
to Blackagendareport.com
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Nellie Hester Bailey |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Margaret Kimberley |
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Name: Glen Ford |
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Name: Bruce Dixon |
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Name: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo |
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Name: Anthony Monteiro |
Independent Political
Action in the Streets and in the Political Arena
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Submitted
by jmackler on Thu, 03/13/2014 - 7:29pm
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Session 4 |
Sat 05:00pm - 06:50pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
Independent
Political Action: From mass antiwar and social justice mobilizations,
BDS/Palestine & diverse forms of electoral action including Socialist and
Green Party campaigns. A discussion/debate format with past and present
candidates from Socialist Alternative party, Socialist Action party, the Green
Party as well as national and regional antiwar and social justice leaders
representing the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC); Connecticut United
for Peace; United for Peace with Justice/Eastern Massachusetts; Mobilization to
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal/California and Lynne Stewart
Organization/NY. The panel will explore building the social and political base
needed to effectively challenge the hegemony of the two-party
Democrat/Republican duopoly.
Sponsoring
Journal:
Socialist
Action newspaper
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Political
And Social Movements
U.S.
Politics
Political
Economy And The Current Crisis
More
Panel/Workshop Information
Reading
List:
UNACpeace.org
SocialistAction.org Green Party New York website Socialist Alternative website
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Christopher Hutch |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Ty Moore |
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Name: Marilyn Levin |
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Name: Howie Hawkins |
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Name: Lynne Stewart |
Program for a New
Black Freedom Movement
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Submitted
by Eljeer123 on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 8:50pm
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Session 3 |
Sat 03:20pm - 04:50pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
To examine the current crisis facing the black community. The
political legacy of the black freedom movement and how we recapture the
historical militancy of the black freedom movement for the struggle today.
Sponsoring
Journal:
Socialist
Alternative
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Economics
Race
Political
Economy And The Current Crisis
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Peter Ikeler |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Glen Ford |
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Name: Eljeer Hawkins |
The Mandela Legacy
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Submitted
by socialistaction on Thu, 04/03/2014 - 12:58pm
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Session 2 |
Sat 12:00pm - 01:50pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
Socialists
will analize Mandela's role in transforming South
Africa. Special attention will be paid to wealth inequality and present labor
struggles. The recent mineworker union's vow to break with the ANC and create a
labor party will also be discussed.
Sponsoring
Journal:
Socialist
Action
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Africa
More
Panel/Workshop Information
Reading
List:
Shock
Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Christine Marie |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Nellie Hester Bailey |
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Name: Margaret Kimberley |
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Name: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo |
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Name: Shaun Whittaker |
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Name: Marty Goodman |
The "New Cold
War"-What's Driving It and Will It Escalate?
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Submitted
by the_scott0730 on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 9:58pm
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Session 5 |
Sun 10:00am - 11:50am |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
The
media call it the "new Cold War." The Soviet bloc no longer exists.
But 25 years after it's
demise, the United States is in a dangerous confrontation with Russia over
Ukraine. The Cold War NATO alliance is expanding far from the North Atlantic
into East Europe and Africa. Across the globe the Pentagon is
"rebalancing" it's forces to the Pacific
while Washington says it will support Japan in a war with China. 50 years after
the Korean War, the US refuses to sign a peace treaty with North Korea and US
troops still occupy the South. Two years after NATO bombed Libya, a bloody war
rages in Syria with the US arming antigovernment forces. Cuba remains under US
sanctions and the CIA funds rightwing gangs in Venezuela. The US still arms
Israel against the Palestinians as drones stalk the skies over Yemen, Africa
and Central Asia. And the military-industrial complex still consumes more than
half the US budget. Are lines being drawn for a global confrontation? What is
it based on? Will it escalate? Can we stop it?
Sponsoring
Journal:
International
Action Center
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Latin
America
International
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Bill Doares |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Berta Joubert-Ceci |
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Name: Abayomi Azikiwe |
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Name: Dr. Ghias Moussa |
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Name: Jess Sundin |
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Name: Meejin Richard |
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Name: Seyeon Lee |
The Economics of
Imperialism in the 21st Century
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Submitted
by nosigui on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 11:20pm
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Session 7 |
Sun 03:40pm - 05:40pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
Eleven
years of war in Iraq, 13 years of war in Afghanistan. Bombing Libya and
kidnapping the president of Haiti. Drone strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and
Yemen. "Regime change" operations in Syria,
Venezuela and Ukraine. An endless flow of arms to
Israel. A"new Cold War" with Russia. The "strategic shift"
of US forces to East Asia and the Pacific. One hundred years after the start of
the "war to end all wars", US military and intelligence agencies are
waging overt and covert operations on every inhabited continent, Why does
Washington spend $1trillion on war while cities and communities suffer? What is
behind this seemingly insatiable war drive? Who benefits? What can be done
about it?
Sponsoring
Journal:
International
League of Peoples Struggle
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Gary Labao |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Bill Doares |
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Name: Bernadette Elorin |
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Name: Kazem Azin |
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Name: Abayomi Azikwe |
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Name: Berta Joubert-Ceci |
Left Electoral
Campaigns: Independent Politics, Social Movements, and Community Power
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Submitted
by ac_fields on Sat, 04/05/2014 - 5:28pm
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Session 6 |
Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm |
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
Candidates
and organizers from independent political efforts past and present will discuss
lessons from their campaigns, including the goals of running those campaigns
and how independent political efforts can contribute to social movement
organizing, building community power, and spreading awareness of and engagement
with left politics. Panelists will focus on recent efforts in Jackson,
Minneapolis, and Ohio, but also address the general political landscape.
Sponsoring
Journal:
Solidarity:
A Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Organization
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
U.S.
Politics
Political
And Social Movements
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Alex Fields |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Dan La Botz |
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Name: Ty Moore |
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Name: Kali Akuno |
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Name: Nellie Hester Bailey |
The story of drones
from the ground - Wounds of Waziristan screening and discussion
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Submitted
by paul.malachi on Sun, 04/27/2014 - 1:14pm
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Session 5 |
Sun 10:00am - 11:50am |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
The
panel will contextualize the drone wars in the overall political situation in
Pakistan and highlight the experience of living under and in the aftermath of
drone attacks in the Afghan-Pak border region in the voices of the survivors.
UMass Amherst economist Shahram Azhar
will discuss the imperialist-Islamic fundamentalist nexus as a product of the imperatives
of imperialist hegemony in the Pak-Afghan border region. His introductory
remarks will be followed by a screening of Wounds of Waziristan - Madiha Tahir's powerful short film on the drone war in
Pakistan in the voices of survivors. Although the drone wars
conducted by the CIA in Pakistan’s northern Tribal Areas—formally known as the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas or FATA— are hotly debated, the voices of
drone survivors and families of the dead are largely, conspicuously absent from
any discussion. Wounds of Waziristan uses these
stories to illuminate the lives of drone affectees
and tell their stories, beyond the numbers and the legal debates. It
illustrates the far-reaching effects of Obama’s drone wars, ones that
reverberate long after the initial drone attack. Wounds
injects the voices of those who have been either labeled de facto as
“combat militants,” or summarily dismissed as “collateral damage.” We simply
ask: Just what does it take to be considered human?
Sponsoring
Journal:
Alliance
for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
International
Indigenous
More
Panel/Workshop Information
Reading
List:
http://madihatahir.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPDtBrn8OxA
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/life-in-the-dronescape-an-interview-with-madiha-tahir
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Paul Malachi |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Shahram Azhar |
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Name: Zohra Ahmed |
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Name: Marilyn Levin |
US “Dirty” Wars,
Targeted Killings and Secret Operations Supercede
Military Occupations, but Are still Illegitimate
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Submitted
by rugoffs on Fri, 03/07/2014 - 12:42pm
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Session 5 |
Sun 10:00am - 11:50am |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
More
than twelve years into the “war on terror,” the CIA and Pentagon war planners
are increasing emphasis on special operations and targeting killing, with open
discussion of targeting US citizens. International law has gone by the wayside,
as have constitutional protections of citizens.
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
International
Middle
East
Southeast
Asia
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Debra Sweet |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Nick Mottern |
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Name: Ben Kuebrich |
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Name: Ed Kinane |
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Name: Medea Benjamin |
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Name: Paki Wieland |
"Minority
Report": Political Prosecutions in the War on Terror
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Submitted
by ncpcf.development on Wed, 04/02/2014 - 11:08am
Schedule Info
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session 5 |
Sun 10:00am - 11:50am |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
The
"War on Terror" has already left millions dead and continues abroad
and at home in the United States alongside decades-old systems of domestic oppression.
This panel will address the ongoing political arrests and
"preemptive" prosecutions of community leaders, activists, people of
color, immigrants, Muslims, and radicals in the historical context of centuries
of American and European Empire, and highlight the work of the families of
Muslim political prisoners to free their loved ones and all unjustly
imprisoned. Planned by the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms
(NCPCF), a coalition of 21 organizations (including CCR, CLEAR, DDF, DRUM, ICNA,
NLG, & UNAC) united against political prosecution, racial and religious
profiling, and unjust and torturous incarceration. Featuring Steve Downs, Esq.
(Executive Director of NCPCF), Sharmin Sadequee (sister of Shifa Sadequee and Director of the Prisoner & Family
Committee of NCPCF), Cyrus McGoldrick (Executive
Director of the Majlis ash-Shura
of Metropolitan New York), and other speakers. The session will allow time for
Q&A and open discussion and organizing.
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Prison-Industrial
Complex
U.S.
Politics
Political
And Social Movements
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Cyrus McGoldrick |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Steven Downs |
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Name: Sharmin Sadequee |
Capitalism's
"Lost Generation," How Young Marxist-Leninists will be the
Gravediggers of Capitalism
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Submitted
by the_scott0730 on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 9:44pm
Schedule Info
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session 3 |
Sat 03:20pm - 04:50pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
Young
people face a crisis in every way. Unemployment, mass incarceration, mountains
of student debt and low wages are the reality for most. In this period of
permanent capitalist crisis, as well as deepening imperialist war and
heightened oppression at home, panelists from the socialist youth organization
"Fight Imperialism, Stand Together" will be leading a discussion the
importance of young revolutionaries organizing, especially on the following
questions: How will we galvanize young people, especially those facing
heightened racism, police attacks, unemployment, student debt and other forms
of oppression and exploitation? How do we build a movement that unites young
people, workers, people of color, women, and LGBTQ
people for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism? Why and how do we
revitalize the revolutionary ideology of Marxism-Leninism? How do we build
unity in our movement?
Sponsoring
Journal:
Workers
World
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Marxism,
Anarchism and Theory
Political
And Social Movements
More
Panel/Workshop Information
Reading
List:
What
is Marxism All About? by FIST The Truth About
Communism by FIST Both available here:
http://fightimperialism.org/books-pamphlets-by-fist/
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Alex Renner |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Ramiro S Fúnez |
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Name: Taryn Fivek |
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Name: Caleb Maupin |
The Economics of
Imperialism in the 21st Century
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Submitted
by nosigui on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 11:20pm
Schedule Info
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session 7 |
Sun 03:40pm - 05:40pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
Eleven
years of war in Iraq, 13 years of war in Afghanistan. Bombing Libya and
kidnapping the president of Haiti. Drone strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and
Yemen. "Regime change" operations in Syria,
Venezuela and Ukraine. An endless flow of arms to
Israel. A"new Cold War" with Russia. The "strategic shift"
of US forces to East Asia and the Pacific. One hundred years after the start of
the "war to end all wars", US military and intelligence agencies are
waging overt and covert operations on every inhabited continent, Why does
Washington spend $1trillion on war while cities and communities suffer? What is
behind this seemingly insatiable war drive? Who benefits? What can be done
about it?
Sponsoring
Journal:
International
League of Peoples Struggle
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Gary Labao |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Bill Doares |
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Name: Bernadette Elorin |
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Name: Kazem Azin |
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Name: Abayomi Azikwe |
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Name: Berta Joubert-Ceci |
The story of drones
from the ground - Wounds of Waziristan screening and discussion
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Submitted
by paul.malachi on Sun, 04/27/2014 - 1:14pm
Schedule Info
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session 5 |
Sun 10:00am - 11:50am |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
The
panel will contextualize the drone wars in the overall political situation in
Pakistan and highlight the experience of living under and in the aftermath of
drone attacks in the Afghan-Pak border region in the voices of the survivors.
UMass Amherst economist Shahram Azhar
will discuss the imperialist-Islamic fundamentalist nexus as a product of the
imperatives of imperialist hegemony in the Pak-Afghan border region. His
introductory remarks will be followed by a screening of Wounds of Waziristan - Madiha Tahir's powerful short film on the drone war in
Pakistan in the voices of survivors. Although the drone wars
conducted by the CIA in Pakistan’s northern Tribal Areas—formally known as the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas or FATA— are hotly debated, the voices of
drone survivors and families of the dead are largely, conspicuously absent from
any discussion. Wounds of Waziristan uses these
stories to illuminate the lives of drone affectees
and tell their stories, beyond the numbers and the legal debates. It illustrates
the far-reaching effects of Obama’s drone wars, ones that reverberate long
after the initial drone attack. Wounds injects the
voices of those who have been either labeled de facto as “combat militants,” or
summarily dismissed as “collateral damage.” We simply ask: Just what does it
take to be considered human?
Sponsoring
Journal:
Alliance
for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
International
Indigenous
More
Panel/Workshop Information
Reading
List:
http://madihatahir.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPDtBrn8OxA
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/life-in-the-dronescape-an-interview-with-madiha-tahir
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Paul Malachi |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Shahram Azhar |
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Name: Zohra Ahmed |
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Name: Marilyn Levin |
People’s Struggles in
Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Solidarity
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Submitted
by achaudhry on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 8:57pm
Schedule Info
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session 6 |
Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
People’s
Struggles in Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Solidarity People’s movements
in the Third World have always been at the forefront of the fight against
neoliberal globalization. With the U.S.'s growing military presence in Asia,
the Middle East, and the Pacific region, it is important for Leftists in the US
to understand what the material conditions faced by people are on the ground in
Asia, and to identify sites of solidarity here in the United States. In this
panel we will hear from activists in the US who are rooted in Asian communities
here in New York City who will share their observations and experiences on what
is happening in Asia- primarily in Bangladesh, China, India, and the Phillipines, as well as with migrant workers.
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Race
Political
And Social Movements
International
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Wai Yee Poon |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Nayma Qayum |
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Name: Prachee Sinha |
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Name: Monami Maulik |
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Name: Bernadette Ellorin |
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Name: ManSee Kong |
Defeating the Fraternal
Order of Police
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Submitted
by johanna.fernandez on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 12:51pm
Schedule Info
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session 7 |
Sun 03:40pm - 05:40pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
This
workshop will launch the work of the Campaign to Bring Mumia
Home against the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the “world’s largest
organization of sworn law enforcement officers.” Our task is to expose the role
of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) in constructing the contemporary Police
State. The FOP's recent power play was the defeat in the Senate of Debo Adegbile's nomination to
lead the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. The FOP succeeded
by launching a relentless demonization of Mumia
Abu-Jamal in the media through the use of racially coded terms like “notorious
cop-killer,” “extremist,” and “thug,” with implications for all imprisoned
people. Our task is to launch a campaign that exposes how the FOP got a new
lease on life in the mid-1960s, as the storm troopers in the emerging backlash
against the gains of the civil rights movement. In 1964, the FOP supported the
Law and Order candidacy of Barry Goldwater and insinuated itself in the
political structure of the City of Philadelphia. In 1985 it was party to the
firebombing on Ossage Avenue of the MOVE house, which
killed 11 MOVE members and incinerated 60 homes in a black neighborhood. Today
the FOP is comparable in its lobbing power to the NRA, and it is responsible
for advancing neoliberalism, the criminalization of the poor and black and
brown youth, the demonization of immigrant communities, and the project of mass
incarceration – all of which have brought us the contemporary police state.
Sponsoring
Journal:
Socialism
and Democracy
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Prison-Industrial
Complex
Political
And Social Movements
Race
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Johanna Fernandez |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Linn Washington |
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Name: Monami Maulik |
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Name: Carlito Rovira |
People’s Struggles in
Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Solidarity
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Submitted
by achaudhry on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 8:57pm
Schedule Info
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session 6 |
Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
People’s
Struggles in Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Solidarity People’s movements in
the Third World have always been at the forefront of the fight against
neoliberal globalization. With the U.S.'s growing military presence in Asia,
the Middle East, and the Pacific region, it is important for Leftists in the US
to understand what the material conditions faced by people are on the ground in
Asia, and to identify sites of solidarity here in the United States. In this
panel we will hear from activists in the US who are rooted in Asian communities
here in New York City who will share their observations and experiences on what
is happening in Asia- primarily in Bangladesh, China, India, and the Phillipines, as well as with migrant workers.
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Race
Political
And Social Movements
International
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Wai Yee Poon |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
|
Name: Nayma Qayum |
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Name: Prachee Sinha |
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Name: Monami Maulik |
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Name: Bernadette Ellorin |
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Name: ManSee Kong |
Policing in the 21st
Century
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Submitted
by ljwood on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 3:43pm
Schedule Info
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session |
Room |
Time |
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Session 5 |
Sun 10:00am - 11:50am |
Panel
Proposal/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Year:
2014
Abstract:
This
panel will discuss recent and emerging policing strategies and tactics their
disparate impact on different communities, identify the dynamics that surround
their emergence, and discuss strategies and campaigns developed to push back
against them.
Panel/Workshop
Topics:
Prison-Industrial
Complex
Political
And Social Movements
International
More
Panel/Workshop Information
Panel/Workshop
Presentation Documents:
Policing in the
21st Century.doc
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
|
Name: Lesley Wood |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Brigitt Keller |
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Name: Fahd Ahmed |
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Name: Delores Jones-Brown |
Vast Surveillance of Whole Populations: The
NSA Revelations One Year Out
Session 2 on Saturday,
May 31st from 12:00 pm - 1:50 pm in Room
1.85
The US government collects billions of bytes of “metadata” on phone calls,
emails, bank traffic, text messaging, chats -- content, recipients, etc. –
storing everything for future use, if not needed immediately. Edward
Snowden and others in the field say the amount of data collected doubles
every two years. The ramifications of this data collection
and storage
process goes beyond issues of civil liberties and abstract rights.
It
leads to how the US ruling interests can control whole populations – in
this country and throughout the world – with the threat that whoever you
are, if you act, or even think about acting in a way that this or a future
government doesn't like, you could be targeted. How can this be countered?
How do we organize ourselves to engage in visible protest?
William Binney, NSA whistleblower
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissident, FireDogLake.org
Abi Hassen, National
Lawyers Guild
Ray McGovern, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Moderator: Debra Sweet, World Can’t Wait
Bringing CUNY into the US War Machine – Students and Faculty Rise Up
Session 3 on Saturday,
May 31st from 3:20 pm - 4:50 pm in Room
3.8
CUNY has restored ROTC on a number of campuses after it was driven out by
protest 40 years ago. General David Petraeus,
architect of the “surge” in
Iraq, one-time CENTCOM and CIA Director, is teaching at Macaulay Honors
College. The US military is shifting recruiting to diverse urban campuses
like CUNY, saying that in 15 years it needs officers who “reflect the
geographic and demographic diversity of the country.” What is the
challenge for those who want to stop unjust wars? How did students and
professors at Rutgers University, a NJ state institution, force the
withdrawal of Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker?
Syjil Ashraf, Rutgers student activist
Prof. Ian Hansen, York College/CUNY
Sharmin Hossain, CUNY student activist
Ray McGovern, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Prof. Glenn Petersen, Baruch College/CUNY
Ezra Sholom, Rutgers student activist
Moderator: Stephanie Rugoff, War Criminals Watch
Imperialist Wars & Global Ecological Degradation
Session 4 on Saturday,
May 31st from 5:00 pm - 6:50 pm in Room
1.65
With 1100+ bases, the US military is the single largest user of fossil
fuels in this century, while at the same time it fights wars and engages
in occupations both to ensure strategic access to those resources and deny
rivals control. In its military operations, it uses weapons of mass
destruction, such as Agent Orange (in Vietnam) and depleted uranium (in
the former Yugoslavia and in Iraq) which cause horrendous suffering
including cancer and birth defects and remain over time as potent
environmental toxins. The ecological effects of war,
such as the burning
of oil fields and the destruction of large urban constructions, spreads
poisonous fumes and dust, with devestating effects on
land, humans, flora
and fauna.
Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq & the US Global
Agenda
Dr. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani,
environmental toxicologist
Moderator: Debra Sweet, World Can’t Wait