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WASHINGTON -- March 27 -- WHAT: The 2005 Left Forum is this year's successor to the Socialist Scholars Conference, the largest annual gathering of the U.S. Left, with more than 60 panels and 300 speakers over three days. WHO: Confirmed speakers include: Ralph Nader, Tariq Ali, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joe Trippi, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Lynne Stewart, Manning Marable, Christian Parenti, Frances Fox Piven, Michael Albert, Robin D.G. Kelley, Michael Hardt, Ellen Willis, Gilbert Achcar, Stanley Aronowitz, Doug Henwood, David Harvey, Leo Panitch, Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Brooke Lehman, Frieder Otto Wolf, Eddie Yuen, Victor Paredes, and resisters and veterans of the war in Iraq. INTERVIEWS WITH PANELISTS AVAILABLE! WHEN: April 15-17, 2005 (Friday: 7-9pm, Saturday and Sunday: 10am-6pm)
Opening Plenary: Friday, April 15 at 7pm, featuring: Tariq Ali, New Left Review; Robin D. G. Kelley, NYU, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class; Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center, author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism; Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America; Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum WHERE: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), NYC PANEL HIGHLIGHTS:
- The Western Left & the Future of Iraq
- Civil Rights in the Post-Affirmative Action Era
- Iraq, Lebanon, & the Regional Reshuffle
- Hip Hop Politics Today
- The 2004 Elections: Progressive Responses
- Youth Organizing & Politics in the U.S.
- Neoliberal Rollback: Social Security
- Debtor Families, Debtor Nation
- Insurgencies and the Limits of U.S. Imperial Reach
- Ecology and the Left
- Neoliberalism and National Strategies in Latin America
- Dilemmas of the U.S. Peace Movement
- and much more.
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