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We are thrilled to share the replay of Democracy at Work and The Left Forum's special live, in-person Global Capitalism event, held last Wednesday at Women Building Up (WBU). Professor Wolff gave a special "May Day" Global Capitalism Lecture on the impact of President Trump's economic policies and how they are ultimately an attack on working people We would like to thank Susan Shah, Kim Westcott and all the remarkable people at Women Building Up for hosting Democracy At Work and The Left Forum. Presented by Democracy at Work and the Left Forum   Presented by Democracy at Work and the Left Forum   Special messages to our audience:  Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on X (Twitter) and YouTube.   Our four Democracy at Work books, three by Richard Wolff (Understanding Marxism, Understanding Socialism, and The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Cannot Save Us from Pandemics or Itself) are for sale on Lulu.com.   Find direct purchase links on our website ( www.democracyatwork.info/books ), or find them directly on Lulu ( www.lulu.com/spotlight/democracyatwork )   Your support helps to produce and distribute these talks. Thank you.   Follow us on X (formally known as Twitter) at: @ProfRDWolff @DemocracyAtWrk

We are thrilled to share the replay of Democracy at Work and The Left Forum's special live, in-person Global Capitalism event, held this past Saturday at Women Building Up (WBU). Professor Wolff gave his thoughts and analysis on what the new Trump Presidency means and how we may react.    Special messages to our audience:  Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on X (Twitter) and YouTube.   Our four Democracy at Work books, three by Richard Wolff (Understanding Marxism, Understanding Socialism, and The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Cannot Save Us from Pandemics or Itself) are for sale on Lulu.com.   Find direct purchase links on our website ( www.democracyatwork.info/books ), or find them directly on Lulu ( www.lulu.com/spotlight/democracyatwork )   Your support helps to produce and distribute these talks. Thank you.   Follow us on X (formally known as Twitter) at: @ProfRDWolff @DemocracyAtWrk

A Marxist Critique of Capitalism for 2024 - Core Issues: Labor, Surplus, Exploitation - Inequality and Injustice - Instability: Cycles and Crises - Alternatives to Capitalism Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work and Left Forum Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work.   Special messages to our audience:  Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on X (Twitter) and YouTube.   Our four Democracy at Work books, three by Richard Wolff (Understanding Marxism, Understanding Socialism, and The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Cannot Save Us from Pandemics or Itself) are for sale on Lulu.com.   Find direct purchase links on our website ( www.democracyatwork.info/books ), or find them directly on Lulu ( www.lulu.com/spotlight/democracyatwork )   Your support helps to produce and distribute these talks. Thank you.   Co-Sponsored by The Left Forum Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more www.democracyatwork.info/donate Follow us on X (formally known as Twitter) at: @ProfRDWolff @DemocracyAtWrk

****************************************************************************** [EU S13 E46] Facing The Human Rights Crisis  ****************************************************************************** This week's episode of Economic Update features updates on an analysis of Philadelphia, PA's extreme income inequality, the number of workers on striker per year since 2017 in the U.S., the UAW organizing a strike at the VW plant in Tennessee plus other UAW unionization drives and the 400k public employees on strike in Quebec that are heading towards a general strike. In the second half of, Prof. Wolff interviews Rob Robinson, formerly homeless advocate/fighter for homeless housing rights, housing, official of Human Rights Network and Chairman of The Left Forum.   If you haven't already, please subscribe to our channel, follow us on social media and of course be sure to sign up on our website: www.democracyatwork.info And as always, we thank for your attention, support and solidarity. The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so. You can support our work by joining our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork Or you can go to our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/donate Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can't get anywhere else. We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and others we produce possible each week. We kindly ask you to also support the work we do by encouraging others to subscribe to our YouTube channel and website: www.democracyatwork.info 

In this episode Pamela and Laurie discuss the Trump indictment, DeSantis, and the conservative “resolution” to the crisis of neoliberalism through the Culture Wars. In our main segment, Platypus members from Vienna, Berlin, Melbourne and Chicago reflect on the Platypus panel, "A Century of Critical Theory: The Legacy of György Lukács,” (April 1st, 2023), the closing plenary of the 15th Platypus International Convention. The centenary marking the publication of his magnum opus, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (1923), offers the occasion to ask: What is the meaning of Lukács and HCC today? Over the last 100 years, various claims have been made of HCC. On the one hand, it is said to have inaugurated “Western Marxism” and set the foundation for the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. On the other, people have accused it of giving philosophical justifications for terroristic or opportunistic tendencies within Marxism–Leninism. We asked our panelists to consider the following: What is the relationship between political practice and theory that Lukács articulated in the revolutionary period of 1919–1925, based on his close reading of Lenin and Luxemburg? What in his critique of reification and defense of Marxist orthodoxy did the later Lukács disavow? What can we make of Lukács's legacy today? How have we received his investigation and elaboration of the problematic of Marxism? What are the essential issues raised for our time? "A Century of Critical Theory: The Legacy of György Lukács" Platypus 15th annual international Convention. Feat. Chris Cutrone, Andrew Feenberg, Mike Macnair Recording: https://youtu.be/K9Zfn2CZz_Y "The Politics of Critical Theory,” December 3rd, 2021, hosted by the New York City chapters of the Platypus Affiliated Society, feat. Jay Bernstein (New School); Jonathon Catlin (PhD student in history at Princeton University); Erin Hagood (Platypus Affiliated Society) https://www.youtube.com/live/pXgFDfJbgdM?feature=share “The Politics of Critical Theory,” April 3, 2021, Platypus Affiliated Society International Convention, with Chris Cutrone (Platypus Affiliated Society), Dennis Graemer (Association for the Design of History), Douglas Kellner (UCLA, author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism), and Doug Lain (Zer0 Books). https://platypus1917.org/2021/10/01/the-politics-of-critical-theory-2/ “The Politics Of Critical Theory,” University of Vienna, 3rd annual Platypus European Conference, feat. Chris Cutrone(Platypus Affiliated Society); Martin Suchanek (Workers Power, Berlin); Haziran Zeller (Berlin) https://archive.org/details/platypus_politicscriticaltheoryeuroconferencevienna021717_2/platypus_politicscriticaltheoryeuroconferencevienna021717_1.MP3 “The Politics of Critical Theory,” Third Annual Platypus International Convention with Chris Cutrone, Andrew Feenberg, Richard Westerman, and Nicholas Brown (Platypus Review 37, July 2011). Edited transcript: https://platypus1917.org/2011/07/09/the-politics-of-critical-theory/ “Lukács' Marxism” a panel discussion organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society, held on March 19, 2011, at Left Forum, Pace University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9164kAaFTPI&ab_channel=PlatypusAffiliatedSociety Marco Torres, “Politics as a Form of Knowledge: A Brief Introduction to Georg Lukács” Platypus Review #1 (November 2007) https://platypus1917.org/2007/11/01/politics-as-a-form-of-knowledge-a-brief-introduction-to-georg-lukacs/ SPS on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4ftkDeIALI2l8k2A49OVcs on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sps/id1305502112 on Soundcloud: @platypus-affiliated-society on IG: @shitplatypussays SPS is hosted by Andreas W. & Pamela N., with original tracks by Tamas Vilaghy, and editing assistance by Michael Woodson and Tamas Vilaghy. Our Sh-t Platypus Does team is Lisa M. and Rebekah P. To learn more about Platypus, go to platypus1917.org

If These Walls Could Talk with Wendy Stuart & Tym MossHosts: WENDY STUART & TYM MOSSSpecial guest: JOHN PIETAROWednesday, August 24th 2pm ESTLIVE from PANGEA Restaurant, NYCWatch LIVE on YouTube at Wendy Stuart TVJOHN PIETARO is a writer, poet, spoken word artist and musician from Brooklyn, NY. Pietaro's latest work is the poetry/fiction collection A Bleeding in Black Leather (MD: Uncollected Press, 2022). In 2020, his The Mercer Stands Burning: Night Poems was published by Atmosphere Press, and in 2019 poetry chapbook Smoke Rings was launched. Earlier, Pietaro penned contemporary proletarian fiction collection Night People & Other Tales of Working New York (2013) and contributed a chapter to Paul Buhle and Harvey Pekar's SDS: A Graphic History (NY: Hill & Wang 2007). He also wrote multiple entries for the upcoming edition of The Encyclopedia of the American Left (Verso) and is deep into first novel Of Seconds and Shadows. Columnist/critic of The NYC Jazz Record, Pietaro is a contributing arts reporter to PleaseKillMe, The Wire (UK), Z, Sensitive Skin, AllAboutJazz, The Nation, The Village Sun, Counter Punch, People's World, TruthOut and others, and his poetry or fiction has appeared in numerous international anthologies and journals. He was also among the honorees at the New York Press Association 2021 "Better Newspaper" awards ceremony for his obit of drummer Deep Pop in The Village Sun. Pietaro founded the annual BRECHT LIVES! Festival (NYC), hosts radio shows 'Beneath the Underground' (WFMU) and 'Jazz Just After Dark' (makerparkradio.nyc), and fronts post-punk jazz/poetry ensemble the Red Microphone, recording artists of the ESP-Disk label. The band's latest album, A Bleeding in Black Leather will drop August 2022. And I Became of the Dark was released in May 2021, and previously the Red Microphone collaborated with poet/activist Amina Baraka for Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone (ESP-Disk, 2017). Ms. Baraka also performed Pietaro's "Her Side of the Road" as a dramatic reading in 2018. A guest speaker at Left Forum and the Vision Festival, Pietaro has been featured at Boog City Festival, The International Human Rights Arts Festival, Great Weather for Media's Spoken Word Sundays, People's Music Network Festival, Workers United Film Festival, UpSurge JazzPoetry Festival and many other readings. He's been the subject of interviews by Word City Lit, Levure Litteraire , l'Unita, WBAI-FM, WDST-FM and others. Pietaro has collaborated with Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Amina Baraka, Karl Berger, Steve Dalachinsky, Nora Guthrie, Erika Dagnino, Ras Moshe, historian Paul Buhle, record producers Ivan Julian and Kramer, among many others. Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style, of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstories of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride. Wendy Stuart is an author, celebrity interviewer, model, filmmaker and hosts “Pandemic Cooking With Wendy,” a popular Youtube comedic cooking show born in the era of Covid-19, and TriVersity Talk, a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. Tym Moss is a popular NYC singer, actor, and radio/tv host who recently starred in the hit indie film “JUNK” to critical acclaim.

Professor Barry Lituchy speaks at the Left Forum in 2015 on the history of fascism in Ukraine up to the present day. Connect with PSMLS: https://linktr.ee/peoplesschool Sign up to join the PSMLS mailing list and get notified of new Zoom classes every Tuesday and Thursday: http://eepurl.com/h9YxPb

In this episode we discuss why Marxism in our current moment has a new lease on life?   Stephan Hammel's work is focused on developing a historical materialist framework for the study of music. His research encompasses the history of Marxist approaches to the subject—both “Western” and “Eastern” variants—as well as the role of music in the communist movement. In addition, he harbors an interest in musical modernism in Latin America, especially as it relates to Left politics. Both agitator and educator, he frequently gives talks on political education. He has delivered papers at Left Forum, Historical Materialism, the American Society for Aesthetics, and the American Musicological Society.   I.G. @TheGambian @CtayJ   Twitter: @MomodouTaal @Ctayj

Matt Sedillo takes on the Western canon, discussing how many of the literary giants, such as Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, disparaged Mexico/Mexicans. In his poems, Matt reclaims Chicanx/Latinx/Indigenous literary traditions and histories. Matt Sedillo has been described by critics as the "best political poet in America" as well as "the poet laureate of the struggle." Sedillo was the recipient of the 2017 Joe Hill Labor Poetry award, a panelist at the 2020 Texas book festival, and a participant in the 2011 San Francisco International Poetry Festival and the 2022 Elba Poetry Festival. Sedillo has appeared on CSPAN and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Axios, and the Associated Press among other publications. Sedillo has spoken at Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba, at numerous conferences and forums, such as the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, the National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies, the Left Forum, the US Social Forum, and at over a hundred universities and colleges, including the University of Cambridge, among many others. Matt Sedillo is the author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (FlowerSong Press, 2019) and City on the Second Floor (FlowerSong Press, 2022). Sedillo is the current literary director of The Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. https://www.mattsedillo.com/ https://www.lataco.com/best-american-political-poet-matt-sedillo/ https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/proletarian-poetry-returns-review-of-matt-sedillos-city-on-the-second-floor https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/i-like-you-am-made-of-stars-matt-sedillos-mowing-leaves-of-grass/

Harriet Fraad spoke at Left Forum about trends in family, gender, and relationship dynamics under capitalism. And Paul Sweezy gave a talk in the early 1990s about the historical trajectory of the socialist project and the viability of socialism as idea and practice. Capitalism Hits Home, with Harriet Fraad John Bellamy Foster, “The Commitment of an Intellectual: Paul M. Sweezy (1910-2004)” Monthly Review   The post Capitalist and Socialist Trajectories appeared first on KPFA.

Insights into race, history, capitalist dynamics, and U.S. exceptionalism were shared by Kimberly Westcott, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford, and Dan Kovalik at last year's Left Forum conference. Resources: Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror Skyhorse, 2019 Black Agenda Report   The post Race, Power, and U.S. Exceptionalism appeared first on KPFA.

The co-hosts interview Adam Plante, a young New York City education activist and Marxist-Humanist thinker, about his work on liberal democracy. With respect to the current moment, they discuss such topics as Plante’s view that the rise of Trump and other authoritarian strongmen is a threat specifically to socialist values; why the threat of Trumpism has been minimized; Plante’s contention that the actions of “leftists” who remain silent and or encourage Trump are literally suicidal; his thoughts on efforts by anti-neoliberal “leftists” to appeal to Trump’s base; and why Plante himself didn’t get swept up in soft-on-Trump “leftism.” Taking a more theoretical turn, the discussion then focuses on his argument that it is important that socialists both defend liberal democracy *and* fight to transcend it, and on his exploration of how Marx and Lenin theorized this issue. During the interview, Plante and the co-hosts refer to his presentations on liberal democracy at a 2019 conference sponsored by Historical Materialism and Jacobin (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/philosophy-organization/video-mhi-panel-at-jacobin-historical-materialism-conference-fighting-trumpism-and-left-accommodation.html) and last year’s Left Forum (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/philosophy-organization/video-mhi-panels-at-left-forum-conference-confronting-right-left-authoritarianism-confronting-trumpism.html). Also in this episode: The state of the Democratic Party’s primary campaigns after the elections in Iowa and New Hampshire. * ~ * ~ * ~ * Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes every two weeks. Radio Free Humanity is sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI), but the views expressed by the co-hosts and guests of Radio Free Humanity are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of MHI. We welcome and encourage listeners’ comments, posted on this episode’s page of the MHI website. Please visit MHI’s website for information on philosophy & organization, Marxist-Humanist archives, and its online publication, “With Sober Senses”:
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Anne Jaclard, MHI’s organizational secretary and a veteran of the left ever since the 1960s, joins Brendan and Andrew to discuss and offer follow-up reflections on “Both Times as Tragedy: the Resurgence of Stalinism among Today’s ‘Left’ Youth,” (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/philosophy-organization/video-mhi-panels-at-left-forum-conference-confronting-right-left-authoritarianism-confronting-trumpism.html) a talk she gave at last year’s Left Forum. They discuss her surprise upon discovering this retrograde trend; former “Tankie” youth who are now disillusioned with Stalinism and have reached out to MHI; why it is important for socialists to oppose the resurgence of Stalinism; and how to combat it. The discussion grapples with why many youth find Stalinism appealing, and it explores additional factors underlying the trend, including the prevalence of “post-truth” thinking and of reactionary Third-Worldist “anti-imperialism” that serves as an entry point into Stalinism. During the interview, Anne and the co-hosts make reference to: (1) a Stalinist-dominated forum hosted by a student group (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/alternatives-to-capital/video-boots-riley-andrew-kliman-and-rick-wolff-debate-morality-of-stalinism-and-western-capitalism.html) that she attended and at which Andrew spoke (along with pro-Stalinist panelists Boots Riley and Rick Wolff), and (2) an article by Solarpunk Anarchist, “Why this Anarchist has Stopped Using the Word Communism (an overlong explanation).” (https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2018/01/22/why-this-anarchist-has-stopped-using-the-word-communism/) This episode’s current-events segment is devoted to a discussion of MHI’s new editorial statement, “Stop Trump’s Self-interested Drive to War Against Iran—and Against the American People.” (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/mhieditorial/editorial-stop-trumps-self-interested-drive-to-war-against-iran-and-against-the-american-people.html) * ~ * ~ * ~ * Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes every two weeks. Radio Free Humanity is sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI), but the views expressed by the co-hosts and guests of Radio Free Humanity are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of MHI. We welcome and encourage listeners’ comments, posted on this episode’s page of the MHI website. Please visit MHI’s website for information on philosophy & organization, Marxist-Humanist archives, and its online publication, “With Sober Senses”: https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Follow on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent This panel took place on 6/28/19 at Left Forum 2019. Abstract: Speakers will address the present day US campaigns to overthrow the governments in these countries. They will focus on US disinformation campaigns against these countries, the present US anti-war movement in defense of Iran's, Venezuela's, and Cuba's sovereignty, and how the peoples in these countries are organizing to combat US threats. 0:00 Dan Kovalik (United Steel Workers) 20:37 Moderator William Camacaro (co-founder and coordinator of the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York; artist, radio host, and activist in New York City) 26:56 Bahman Azad (U.S. Peace Council) 43:44 Q&A (Questions have been omitted due to poor audio quality) Event Organizer: Stansfield Smith Daniel Kovalik is Senior Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW). He has worked for the USW since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. While with the USW, he has served as lead counsel on cutting-edge labor law litigation, including the landmark NLRB cases of Lamons Gasket and Specialty Health Care. He has also worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, recently described Mr. Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.” Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects. Dr. Bahman Azad is an Iranian-American peace and justice activist living in the United States. He has been active in the peace and justice movement since his arrival in the United States in 1973, first as a student activist against the Shah's regime in Iran and then as a member of the Executive Board of the U.S. Peace Council. He joined the Veterans for Peace in the early 1990s and has been serving as Chair of VFP’s Iran Working Group. He is currently the Organizational Secretary of the U.S. Peace Council, Coordinator of the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases and the Global Campaign Against US/NATO Military Bases, and the representative of the World Peace Council at the United Nations. He was the organizer of USPC’s Peace and Solidarity Delegation to Venezuela which traveled to Caracas in March 2019. Bahman has a Master's degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Sociology. He is a retired Professor and former Acting Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Please visit these Left Forum links: Website: http://www.leftforum.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theleftforum/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/leftforum YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLeftforum

Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast Ep. 2: Fighting White Nationalism In this episode of “Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast,” we draw lessons from Karl Marx’s political writings to better understand the political orientation needed today to best fight the scourge of white nationalism. Andrew Kliman discusses some of his writings on this topic. You can read more about this in Part 5 of Marxist-Humanist Initiative’s 2018 document “Resisting Trumpist Reaction (and Left Accommodation)”: https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/mhieditorial/resisting-trumpist-reaction-and-left-accommodation-marxist-humanist-initiatives-perspectives-for-2018.html We also discuss a presentation that Andrew gave at the Left Forum in NYC on June 30th of 2019. You can view the video of that presentation here: https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/philosophy-organization/video-mhi-panels-at-left-forum-conference-confronting-right-left-authoritarianism-confronting-trumpism.html The current-events segment of this episode is devoted to discussing the renewed push for Trump’s impeachment in the wake of the unearthing of the whistleblower’s complaint. * ~ * ~ * ~ * Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes every two weeks. Radio Free Humanity is sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI), but the views expressed by the co-hosts and guests of Radio Free Humanity are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of MHI. We welcome and encourage listeners’ comments, posted on this episode’s page of the MHI website. Please visit MHI’s website for information on philosophy & organization, Marxist-Humanist archives, and its online publication, “With Sober Senses”:
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Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent US vs. USSR, US vs. Russian Federation How the US tried to undermine the Soviet Union when it existed and how it is trying to undermine the Russian Federation today. The panelists will discuss and critique political and ideological falsehoods and fabrications in the continuing Cold War waged by the U.S. and NATO against Russia--both historical anti-communism and the more intense lies in the current antagonism in the US drive for global hegemony. Moderator: Martin J. Sawma Panelists: Grover Furr, Maria Zakharova, Angelo D'Angelo, Joe Lombardo Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent This Left Forum 2019 panel includes three people who recently visited Odessa to memorialize those killed in a right-wing massacre in 2014. It also includes a Ukrainian national. Panelists discuss the situation with the war in Donbass, the recent elections, the growth of Fascism and more. Moderator: Joe Lombardo 00:00:00 Moderator's intro 00:00:22 Maria Zakharova 00:05:15 Jeff Mackler 00:16:01 Joe Lombardo 00:27:56 Pippa Bartolotti 00:41:16 Moss Robeson 00:52:24 Phil Wilayto 01:04:18 Q&A Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Jim Zogby, pollster, founder and president of the Arab-American Institute and Bernie Sanders advisor talks about the way polls are reported and misreported on and why the press acts like pack of crows. Plus Malaika Jabali, Aaron Mate, Jordan Chariton and I talk about the corporate media at the Left Forum.

In Episode 36 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg reads the full text of his presentation at the Left Forum, on the panel "Confronting the Resurgence of Authoritarianism, Right and 'Left'," held by the Marxist-Humanist Initiative. Weinberg argues the intentionally provocative but nonetheless entirely accurate thesis that the consensus position of the contemporary "left" is now pro-fascist. Sounds illogical? That's because you haven't thought it through. Listen before you judge. Some choice words for Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Sy Hersh, Stephen Cohen, Jill Stein, Tulsi Gabbard, ANSWER, etc. Listen on SoundCloud, and support our podcast via Patreon. Production by Chris Rywalt We are asking listeners to donate just $1 per episode via Patreon. A total of $30 per episode would cover our costs for engineering and producing. We are currently up to $20. https://www.patreon.com/countervortex New episodes will be produced every two weeks. We need your support.

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Moderator: Nellie Hester Bailey Panelists: Raymond Nat Turner, Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford The Black Agenda Report team discusses "late stage" capitalism, the shrinking U.S. empire, and the dangers of a desperate ruling class on the wane. --- Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Never believe anything until you hear the official denial. Left Forum: http://www.leftforum.org/

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Panelists: Max Ajl, Kali Akuno The Green New Deal proposal has reframed social issues as ecological issues, and ecological issues as political issues. This panel explores the Green New Deal as a political battlefield, a space within which different ideas, proposals, and possibilities for managing the future come into play. We explore the role of agriculture, the global south, resource extraction, and paths to a sustainable and just future in light of the reshaping of the political battlefield through the Green New Deal proposals. Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. This is one of the most difficult shows we have ever done, coming in the wake of the death of Bruce Dixon, a co-founder of Black Agenda Report. We’ll have comments and commentary by his colleagues. A committee in Congress has been collecting powerful testimony on the need for Reparations for the descendants of enslaved persons in the United States.  And, Mumia Abu Jamal confronts the soul-chilling fact that he may be going blind.  Bruce Dixon, the managing editor of Black Agenda Report, was scheduled to speak at a number of panels at the Left Forum, the yearly conference of left-wing activists in New York City. However, Dixon succumbed to blood cancer only days before the event. The entire conference was in mourning for Dixon, the former Black Panther and lifelong activist who co-founded BAR in 2006, and was a key force in the Green Party. BAR executive editor Glen Ford remembered his comrade.  That was BAR executive editor Glen Ford. Margaret Kimberley is an editor and senior columnist of Black Agenda Report. She and Glen Ford co-founded the publication along with Bruce Dixon, 13 years ago. Kimberley paid her respects to Dixon. She also found some comic relief in the antics of New York City mayor Bill De Blasio, who is one of the 20-something Democratic candidates for president. At the debates in Miami, De Blasio seemed to be channeling the ghost of Che Guevera.  Danny Haiphong is a regular contributor to BAR, and co-author of a new book, titled, “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News, From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. Haiphong was part of the BAR panel at the Left Forum. He began with some words on the dearly departed Bruce Dixon. That was BAR contributor Danny Haiphong. BAR executive editor Glen Ford followed Haihong on the panel. He talked about why its necessary to have publications like Black Agenda Report.  Back in 1989, Congressman John Conyers first introduced his bill calling for a study of the question of reparations for the Black descendants of people enslaved in the United States. The HR 40 legislation languished with few co-sponsors for decades. But this year, reparations is an issue in the Democratic presidential race, and co-sponsors are popping up all over the place. Plus, HR 40 now has a companion bill in the U.S. Senate, which means it is finally a serious piece of legislation. Last week, the House committee holding hearings on reparations heard from Katrina Browne, who produced and directed the Emmy-nominated film, “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North.” Mumia Abut Jamal, the nations best known political prisoner, has been incarcerated by the state of Pennsylvania for the past 39 years in the death of a Philadelphia policeman. Abu Jamal has suffered a number of health crises due to atrocious medical treatment in prison, including a battle with Hepatitis C contracted in prison and left untreated for years. Now the prolific author and journalist is losing his sight. He files this report for Prison Radio. It’s titled, “Walking in the Dark.”  

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Moderator: Joe Lombardo Panelists: Sara Flounders, Kevin Zeese, William Camacaro, Bahman Azad Guest Appearances by: Daniella Rodriguez and Margaret Flowers From the Organizers: The panel is made up of members of the peace and solidarity delegation that recently returned from Venezuela. They speak on the Bolivarian Revolution, the US attempts to overturn it and the mobilization of the population to defend their process. The Q&A starts at 01:12:15. As is common when audience questions are not spoken into a microphone, the Q&A audio quality is less than ideal. https://www.unacpeace.org/ Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Crises in Economic Life and in Relationships in the U.S. Today Moderator: Robert K. Drinan Panelists: Richard D. Wolff, Harriet Fraad, Kimberly Westcott This panel will explore the crises that have transformed the daily lives of Americans both economically and personally. Existence is now precarious on every level. We will use New Marxian analyses to explore where the crises originated, how they function and how they can be a force in transforming America. Left Forum: http://www.leftforum.org/ Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Panelists: Eli J. Campbell, Daniella Medina, Jill Stein, David Oks With the objective of sparking public debate before the 2020 presidential election, this panel will consider a direct action solution to the student debt crisis: Activists from four generations will discuss and envision the strategy of an organized student debt boycott, using our collective burden as leverage against the American ruling class, and global capitalism itself. Every day that we continue to perform the status quo is time that cannot be recovered; the struggle for human survival past this century demands that we act now, and when all else has failed, we must consider revolutionary action. Throughout history, there have been countless movements of working class people demanding the cancellation of usurious, unpayable debts to the ruling class, often accompanied by general strikes that disrupt everyday life. A movement of American students, graduates, and teachers, engaging in civil disobedience and honoring the ancient tactic of an organized debt strike, could change the power dynamics in the fights for student debt cancellation and universal free higher education, at the national and state levels. A student debt boycott could also help unite the multitude of intersecting movements for social justice in an intergenerational coalition that is not dependent on electoral politics to build power. For this strategy to be fairly considered, the American public must be made aware of what has been hidden in plain sight: For many years, the largest student loan servicing companies (Navient, Nelnet/Great Lakes, PHEAA) have been legally gambling with federal student loan debt, despite being under contract with the Department of Education. Just in the decade since 2009, a trillion dollars worth of federal student debt has accumulated; in the same time, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose from roughly 390 to 410 ppm (parts per million), a trend that will define the remainder of our lives. All the while, this immoral and unregulated loan servicing industry has issued billions of dollars in Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities (SLABS) every year, which are sold to investors and traded in speculative financial markets. Generations of Americans are being stifled by permanent indebtedness and a declining standard of living, but a small number of corporations and their CEOs are making extraordinary profits capitalizing on the high interest rates paid by student borrowers. Obscured by fake economics and bipartisan political corruption, a student loan default crisis looms in the near future, which will inevitably cause the collapse of the SLABS market, decades before these assets will reach their final maturity. In the pursuit of infinite wealth regardless of the human cost, capitalism has burdened students with unpayable debt, but also provided them the means to crash the system and disrupt business as usual. This panel will consider the notion that accelerating the default crisis to put direct financial pressure on the student loan industry may be both justified and necessary in order to force Congress to solve this crisis, liberate 44 million Americans from debt and empower them to transform society, and provide for the future security of American students. Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Bruce A. Dixon was a giant among revolutionaries. His life will live on in the actions and hearts of thousands in the movement.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Lots of mostly Black school districts are returning to local control, after years of state takeovers, but a recent article shows that these public schools are still starved for money; We’ll hear from Howie Hawkins, who wants to run for president on the Green Party ticket; a Move member is finally freed from a Pennsylvania prison; and, a former Black Panther who’s spent 48 years in prison is hoping to be paroled, in September. Hundreds of left activists and scholars gathered in Brooklyn, New York, this past weekend, for the Left Forum, the biggest annual gathering of leftist activists and scholars in the nation. Black Agenda Report senior columnist Margaret Kimberley was on hand. We asked Kimberley to make sense of the never-ending warfare between the corporate media and president Trump. Trump threatened to attack Iran after that nation shot down a spy drone, but then called off the attack. The corporate media were not pleased, since they only praise Trump when he attacks other countries.  Jeff Bryant is a journalist who has been following the plight of urban school systems for many years. Bryant is senior correspondent for Our Schools, a project of the Independent Media Institute. His latest article is titled, “Why Many Urban School Districts are Being Set Up for Fiscal Failure.” He says that, as schools became more Black and Brown, State governments seized control from local school boards and put appointed consultants in charge. Now many of these school districts are returning to local control. But Bryant says the damage has already been done.  Howie Hawkins is running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination. Hawkins came up with a detailed plan for a massive Green New Deal, nearly a decade ago. The Green Party adopted the Green New Deal as its own. But now Democrats like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez have put forward their own Green New Deal, and put it before Congress. Hawkins says they’ve watered the Deal down, and made it ineffective. Eddie Africa, of the MOVE organization, has been released from the Pennsylvania prison system. Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, filed this report for Prison Radio.  Jalil Abdul Muntaqim is a former Black Panther who has been imprisoned for the past 48 years, in the killing of two police officers in 1971. Muntaqim’s co-defendant, Herman Bell, was released on parole last year, despite the loud opposition of the Governor, New York City’s mayor, and of course, the police unions. Jalil Muntaqim has had 10 parole hearing since he became eligible for release in 2002, but has been turned down each time. His next appearance before the parole board is in September. We spoke with a person that has stuck by Jalil Muntaqim every day of nearly half century of incarceration – his mother, 85-year old Billie Bottoms Brown, who lives outside Atlanta, Georgia.  

Bruce A. Dixon was a giant among revolutionaries. His life will live on in the actions and hearts of thousands in the movement.

In the age of Trump, Democrats parade as democracy's saviors yet serve same corporate overlords as the GOP, abandoning progressive left ideals & the people. Episode features interviews with Jill Stein, Chris Hedges, Glen Ford and Richard D. Wolff, and lyrical contribution from Rebel Diaz. Distributed in partnership with Left Forum. News Beat: Social Justice Never Sounded So Good News Beat is a Morey Creative Studios production: www.MoreyCreative.com News Beat is produced, engineered and hosted by Manny Faces: www.MannyFaces.com News Beat Executive Producer: Jed Morey Editor in Chief: Christopher TwarowskiManaging Editor: Rashed MianCover Art Design: Jeff Main Support the show.

On this episode of SPS, we discuss "What is the DSA and where is it going?," the Platypus panel at this year's Left Forum (June 2018), with Erin Hagood, Marco Torres joins us to talk about the Mexican elections, and we pay tribute to the one and only, Kanye West. Mentioned on this episode: (1) DSA panel from the Left Forum: "What is the DSA?" panel held (06/06) at Left Forum which features Jack Devine, DSA; Jim Creegan, Weekly Worker; and Erin Hagood, Platypus https://archive.org/details/WHATISTHEDSA (2) Platypus Review interview with the DSA candidate for California Lt. Governor, Gayle McLaughlin https://platypus1917.org/2018/02/03/keeping-movement-going-interview-gayle-mclaughlin/ (3) Dissent article on the Mexican Elections by Carlos Bravo Regidor and Patrick Iber https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/mexico-elections-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-amlo Hosted by Audrey C., Pam C., Laurie R.

I spoke at the Left Forum 2018 in New York City this past weekend and I got to listen as well. I go through some of my takeaways from the event. Give a listen as I share my thoughts.

It's the first annual BaffleGab Non-denominational Intersectional Winter Time Holiday Extravaganza!! The crew exchange gifts and relives old memories from the year including: 13:30 Lenny's visit to Left Forum 23:00 Bill Morgan unboxes his Trump box! 26:00 Bill Morgan auditions for HBO's Confederate 31:30 Bill Morgan's statue of Confederate solider Chester Hibbins is vandalized 38:00 Bill Morgan sings "Take A Knee (From My Cold Dead Ass)" 46:00 Ralph learns who the Juggalos are 52:30 The MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Doo-Wop Band 56:15 We go back to the Eminem's Trump freestyle and Bill Morgan gives Rapping a try ALL THAT PLUS Bill Morgan sings "White Christmas" ( 55:50 ) Wow, if that's not enough Bill Morgan for you- you still got 14 other episodes to listen to!

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WLRN’s Edition 16 podcast focuses on the money behind the medicalized transgender movement and the impact that the movement has on the lesbian community. We were inspired to these topics by the canceled Left Forum panel that was set to explore them in detail. Our interviewees were all involved in that panel, and WLRN is proud to give them a platform after Left Forum silenced them. Mary Lou Singleton is a lifelong women’s liberation activist. She practiced as a homebirth midwife for 20 years and now works as a family nurse practitioner. She has served on the boards of directors of the Midwives Alliance of North America, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, the Stop Patriarchy Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, and the Women’s Liberation Front. Jane Chotard is a former attorney whose specialty was regulatory healthcare, including Standards of Care and Informed Consent. She participated in the formation of California Lawyers for Human Rights, as well as the Women’s Committee at GLAAD in the 1990’s. Currently, she is the mother of two teenage boys and works in the area of Contemplative Care for those facing end-of-life issues. Taylor Fogarty is a Brooklyn-dwelling freelancer who writes about feminism, politics, and anything else she has an opinion on. She also tweets a lot: @theloudlesbian. You can check out her website at www.taylorfogarty.com WLRN staff member Nile Pierce wrote this edition’s commentary, exploring how and why the powerful men in the US-based pharmaceutical industry profit from the transgender movement. This edition’s music spots are Fleetwood Mac’s “Little Lies” and Ali Bee’s “Look How the Money Rolls In.” Photo credit goes to Alix Dobkin for our featured image of two lesbians in the 70s, Louise and Liza Cowan. As always, this month’s podcast was sound mixed by our resident audio magician in chief, Jenna Di Quarto.

The conference titled Resistance was held in New York City June 2nd through June 4th. It looked at questions of power, strategy and tactics as resistance to Donald Trump rises.The […] The post Resistance – Highlights from the Left Forum appeared first on KKFI.

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Fromer Green Party Candidate for Albany County Excutive Dan Plaat talks about the Left Forum and Student Debt

Enjoy our broadcast live from the Left Forum in New York City.

Enjoy or remote broadcast this weekend from the Left Forum in NYC.

Today we are featuring interviews we did with Black Agenda Report's Executive Editor Glen Ford and Editor & Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley.

We attended the Left Forum (http://www.leftforum.org) in New York a few weeks ago, and in this episode we talk about the trip, the presentations we attended, and our review of the forum. (

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Joural broadcast live from the Left Forum at John Jay College in New York City. Abayomi Azikiwe, the host and editor of the Pan-African News Wire, will be featured on a panel entitled "The War Comes Come" sponsored by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC).

Listen to the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This week we are broadcasting live from the Left Forum in New York City. This episode will feature a panel entitled "Empire in Crisis: Uniting the Struggles to Defeat Racist State Terror, Austerity, and Endless War. 

This week Maz & Juan hit the road and visit Left Forum where we interview author and journalist Chris Hedges about his new book Wages of Rebellion. We also ran into a crazy, racist, white woman who called BLM protesters thugs and told a Mexican-American to go back to Mexico, before she mistakenly meandered into a gathering of Marxists.

From his latest CD, "Class" we'll listen to and then discuss Professor Louie's "Working Class" a combination of poetry and rap in what I would describe as an early 60's style performed in a Greenwich Village coffee house.  Called "The Peoples' Rapper"  Louie is a spoken word genius who began his craft in Mississippi.  In 1965 Mississippi.  "Its the TRUTH." Contact Professor Louie at FREE BROOKLYN NOW.   718-768-8728   Give him a call.  He answers his own phone. He'll send you his CDs at almost (or less) than his cost.  Share his music.  Share his message.    Joining Professor  Louie and I are two founding members of People For A New Society.  PFANS advocates for the transformation from a capitalist economy to a cooperative society based upon Economic Democracy.  Its has devoted almost thirty years to the creation of a model for consideration and discussion, a "green-print" for an Economic Democracy.  PFANS has held workshops at the Occupation of Freedom Plaza, and The Social Forums in Washington, DC, The Democracy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin, Amherst College, and at NYC's The Left Forum.  PFANS has a Facebook page and a website:  www.PeopleForANewSociety.org

Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek interview journalist Max Blumenthal about his work covering Israel and the pushback he gets for be willing to report on Israeli military occupation. Blumenthal discusses the American left's reaction to his journalism and how Democrats like Rep. Alan Grayson are terrible on the issue of Palestine and Israel.  In a shorter discussion portion, Gosztola talks about the Left Forum in New York and groups like police reform groups that seem to have given up on struggling now that Bill Bratton is NYPD chief and Bill de Blasio is mayor

Listen to this special worldwide radio broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, airing directly from the Left Forum at John Jay College in New York City.

Take Back the Land organized a panel entitled "Social Movements and Left Transformative Organizing" at the Left Forum at Pace University in New York City in June, 2013. This podcast features highlights from the panel of organizers and activists discussing the challenges and successes they've had in securing the fundamental human right to housing through Take Back the Land. Panelists include Rob Robinson and Max Rameau from Take Back the Land and Willie J.R. Fleming and Toussaint Losier from the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. To learn more about the Take Back the Land movement, visit TBTL.org. To learn more about the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, visit Chicagoantieviction.org. To learn more about our work here at NESRI, visit NESRI.org. To learn more about the Left Forum, visit LeftForum.org. All music was provided by the Adam Ezra Group: http://adamezra.com. This podcast was created by Jason Fernandes, a NESRI Summer 2013 communications intern and student at the University of Pennsylvania.

What do Takism Square, Google Glass, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and NSA data gathering have in common? Find out in this interview with Noam Chomsky. This conversation was recorded backstage at the Left Forum in New York, June 8, 2013.

In June at Pace University in New York City, I participated in a number of panels, two of which are available as podcasts. The first panel was an exchange with my friend and colleague, Marxian economist Richard Wolff, regarding workplace democracy and democratic ownership. Download this segment Introduction – Maliha Safri 7:00 – Opening statements […]

As the 2013 Left Forum Conference draws near, we remember a speech given at last year's Left Forum (2012). Renowned professor, sociologist, and philosopher John Holloway inspired and transfixed us all. Attached is the audio from this incredible call-to-action speech, as well as a transcribed portion of his moving words. Audio By: Corey Reidy

Celebrated professors and authors Cornel West and Frances Fox talk about the future of the Occupy movement, and their opinions on a changing America during the 2012 Left Forum, at Pace University.

On the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Michael Moore spoke to the Left Forum about his thoughts on the future of the Occupy movements.

The March 27, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features Brandy Doyle, Policy Director for the Prometheus Radio Project speaking about the historic opportunity for new community radio stations in the wake of the signing into law of the Local Community Radio Act in January, 2011 and an FCC ruling issued on March 19, 2012 about implementation of the law. After that we heard Making Contact's Andrew Stelzer in excerpts from a panel discussion at the National Conference on Media Reform in Boston in April, 2011, and part of Michael Moore's speech at the Left Forum in New York on March 17, 2012. Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

This episode of Alert gives a taste of Left Forum, a unique phenomenon in the U.S. and the world, that convenes the largest annual conference of a broad spectrum of left and progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public. Over a thousand speakers participate in 300 panels. The conference is held each spring in New York City and takes place this year from March 16 – 18th at Pace University. This year’s theme is “Occupy the System: Confronting Global Capitalism”. We speak with three of the participants about their contributions –Joel Kovel. Barbara Epstein, George Katsiaficas.

    We are witnessing a pivotal time in history. People are unifying in ways never before seen – from the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia to Madison, Wisconsin – solidarity is evident. But solidarity is shifting both in our understanding and the mediums of which it is expressed. On this edition, we go to Left Forum, one of the largest annual gatherings of progressive thinkers. This year's theme, ‘Towards a Political Struggle,' explores solidarity amidst a vast political changing climate and new technology.   Featuring:  Laura Flanders, author, host, and founder of Grit TV, Paul Mason, Economics Editor for BBC's Newsnight and author of “Live Working, Die Fighting,” Cornel West, author of numerous books and Professor at the Center for African American Studies and Department of Religion at Princeton University. For More Information:   Left Forum  Cornel West  Laura Flanders  Paul Mason  Barbara Ehrenreich  World Social Forum 2011  Brecht Forum You Tube Videos of Related Talks: Paul Mason, Left Forum: 2011 Opening Plenary, Pace University, New York, NY, March 18, 2011 Cornel West, Left Forum: 2011 Opening Plenary, Pace University, New York, NY, March 18, 2011 Laura Flanders, Left Forum: 2011 Opening Plenary, Pace University, New York, NY, March 18, 2011 Articles and Books:   What's left of the American left? There's no denying its historic decline, but the left does not lack for issues. It needs only organisation by Richard Wolff The new solidarity Series, The Guardian     BBC NEWS –Idyl Scrawl , Paul Mason's Blog  Where Liberals Go To Feel Good,Truthdig, Chris Hedges  Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom, The Nation  Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About, Mother Jones Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, by Bill Fletcher Jr. & Fernando Gapasin, University of California Press, 2009 The post Making Contact – April 22, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

Solidarity has long been used as an organizing tool, but it is shifting radically amidst a new political landscape and new technologies. Left Forum’s ‘Towards a Politics of Solidarity’ conference explores this in depth and discusses its impact today.

Solidarity has long been used as an organizing tool, but it is shifting radically amidst a new political landscape and new technologies. Left Forum’s ‘Towards a Politics of Solidarity’ conference explores this in depth and discusses its impact today.

It's been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It's a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we'll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City.  Special thanks to Between the Lines at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.' moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor; Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director.   Producer: Andrew Stelzer Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Associate Director: Khanh Pham Station Relations:  Daphne Young Web Editor: Jeff GiaQuinto Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alton Byrd & Alfonso Hooker   For More Information: Between the Lines A weekly radio news magazine show http://btlonline.org/   The Black Commentator http://blackcommentator.com/ Mullica Hill, NJ   CUNY Graduate Center http://www.gc.cuny.edu/ New York, NY Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard University http://bit.ly/butM2t Cambridge, MA   Left Forum 2010 http://leftforum.org/ New York, NY  Rutgers School of Law–Newark http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/ Newark, NJ Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:  Audio recordings of panel discussions recorded at the Left Forum, March 20, 2010 in NY. http://www.btlonline.org/2010/leftforum032010.html  Music: Mass Appeal by Gangstarr Lovesick by Gangstarr   The post Making Contact – Working Beyond Unions [Labor Day Special Encore] appeared first on KPFA.

For decades, people have said the United States has treated Latin America as a project for exploit and economic expansion. Even do-gooders see the global south as deserving of unilateral help or charity.  But social change activists say the tables have turned.  On this edition, we'll hear from experts who say – especially in times of crisis – there's a lot to learn from social movements in Latin America. Featuring: Marina Sitrin, author and attorney; Ben Dangl, Burlington College in Vermont professor; Mario Murillo, author & Hofstra University professor; Oscar Estrada, Honduran filmmaker & 2010 NarcoNews School of Authentic Journalism participant.  Special thanks to Between the Lines at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut. For More Information: Between the Lines A weekly radio news magazine show http://btlonline.org/ Latin America Solidarity Coalition http://www.lasolidarity.org/ Latin America Solidarity Network http://www.latinlasnet.org/ Left Forum 2010 http://leftforum.org/ New York, NY NarcoNews http://www.narconews.com/   The post Making Contact – Lessons from Latin America appeared first on KPFA.

It's been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It's a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we'll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City.  Special thanks to Building Bridges at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.' moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor;Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director For More Information:   The Black Commentatorhttp://blackcommentator.com/Mullica Hill, NJ CUNY Graduate Centerhttp://www.gc.cuny.edu/New York, NY   The post Making Contact – Working Beyond Unions appeared first on KPFA.

British-Pakistani author, Tariq Ali, is one of the world's leading historians and speakers on South Asia, U.S. foreign policy and the so-called clash of civilizations. This past March, before an audience at the Left Forum in New York City, Alternative Radio's founder and host, David Barsamian, spoke with Mr. Ali. They talked about Pakistan's history, recent news events, and about what the future holds for the country. This is an excerpt of that conversation. Featuring: David Barsamian, Alternative Radio founder/host and author; Tariq Ali,renowned author and historian Executive Producer/Host: Tena RubioProducer: Andrew StelzerAssociate Producer: Puck LoIntern: Elena Botkin-LevyExecutive Director: Lisa Rudman The post Making Contact – May 26, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.

Adam Hochschild and Naomi Klein speak at the 2008 Left Forum conference about "cracks in the edifice;" lessons from abolitionist movements, and failings of the current administration. The post Making Contact – April 18, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.