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Once again, Left
Forum is happening. This year at the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice at the City University of New York. A unique phenomenon in the U.S. and
the world, Left Forum convenes the largest annual conference of a broad
spectrum of left and progressive intellectuals, activists, academics,
organizations and the interested public.
Friday, May 30th -
Sunday, June 1st
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, at the City University
of New York
540 West 59 Street
(59th and 10th Ave), New York, NY 10019
This year's theme is Reform and/or Revolution, Imagining
a World with Transformative Justice.
Some “revolutionary panels with PM Press authors” are listed
below, with selected participants.
PANELS
SATURDAY, MAY 31ST
Session 1, Room 9.681 on Sat 10:00am - 11:50am Music, Social
Movements and Revolution
Mat Callahan, editor and composer for Songs of Freedom: The
James Connolly Songbook and music CD.
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Session 1, Room 1.129, Sat 10:00am - 11:50am Buddhism,
Radical Critique and Revolutionary Praxis
John P. Clark, co-editor of Anarchy, Geography, Modernity:
Selected Writings of Elisee Reclus
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Session 1, Room 1.76,
Sat 10:00am - 11:50am
Criminalizing Survival: Debt and Prison in the Age of
Austerity
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Session 1, Room 1.93 on Sat 10:00am - 11:50am
Revolutionary Animism
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Session 1, Room 1.90 on Sat 10:00am - 11:50am
Active Nonviolence as a Tool for Creative Social Change
Today
Matt Meyer, co-editor of We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting
Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America, editor of Let Freedom Ring: A
Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
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Session 2, Room 1.76 on Sat 12:00pm - 01:50pm Why Are Women
In Prison?: The Politics of Risk
Vikki Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles
Of Incarcerated Women, 2nd Edition, and co-editor of Don't Leave Your Friends
Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and
Communities
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Session 3, Room 3.76 on Sat 03:20pm - 04:50pm
Campaign for Oscar Lopez Rivera, contributors to Oscar Lopez
Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance.
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Session 3, Room 1.101 on Sat 03:20pm - 04:50pm
Angela Davis, Left Forum keynote speaker and lecturer on The
Meaning of Freedom, and Harry Belafonte at Occupy Wall Street, October 28 and
29, 2011: Film and Group Discussion:
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Session 3, Room 8.69 on Sat 03:20pm - 04:50pm
Radical Perspectives on Intellectual Property
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Session 3, Room 1.90
on Sat 03:20pm - 04:50pm
Hey Activists, Read This!: Why Progressives Should Read More
Fiction
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Session 4, Room 1.89
on Sat 05:00pm - 06:50pm
Revolution or Omnicide: Our Choice
with Stephanie McMillan, author and artist of The Knitting
Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad, Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement
to Save the Planet, and Mischief in the Forest: A Yarn Yarn:
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SUNDAY, JUNE 1ST
Mat Callahan, editor and composer for Songs of Freedom: The
James Connolly Songbook and CD, will be performing at the Pete Seeger
Commemoration Concert, a celebration of his life, music and politics, Sunday
evening at the Black Box Theater.
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Session 5, Room L2.82
on Sun 10:00am - 11:50am
Comics for Revolution
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Session 5, Room 1.101
on Sun 10:00am - 11:50am
No More Prisons, No More Jails: Update on Campaigns in
California and around the US
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Session 6, Room 1.81
on Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm
One Year after the Rana Plaza Collapse: Where Do We Go from
Here
Efadul Huq, Bangladesh Worker
Solidarity Network
Russ Davis, Jobs With Justice
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Session 6, Room 1.109
on Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm
The Global Minimum Wage Struggle
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Session 7, Room L.76 on Sun 03:40pm - 05:40pm
The Road to Change: The Struggle to Free All Political
Prisoners/Freedom Fighters/Revolutionists/Human Rights Defenders - Nothing Has
Changed
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Session 7, Room 1.103
on Sun 03:40pm - 05:40pm
Women, Trans, Aging Prisoners and FIPs
Donna Hill Fight for Lifers and
Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee
Victoria Law author of Resistance
Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Rev. Edward Pinkney Black
Autonomy Network (BANCO)
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Session 7, Room 3.78
on Sun 03:40pm - 05:40pm
Confronting Global Environmental Catastrophe: Anarchist
Analyses of Collapse
John Clark New Orleans Free
School Network
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See more information about Left
Forum HERE and check out other PM author, editor, and
tabling events HERE. (Or RaHN could forward the full PM email
message on request).
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