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Charlie vs Goliath Film Screening

Healthcare Advocacy in The Immigration Detention System: Medical Provider Network Training Modules Launch

Host: New York Lawyers for the Public Interest

Featured Speakers:

Chanelle Diaz - Matthew Anderson - Shruthi Rajashekara

Room: L.76 (Capacity:74), Time: Session A: Friday, June 1st: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Election Integrity 2.0: Suing The Vote Thieves to Restore Election Transparency

Featured Speakers:

Joel Simpson - Robert Fitrakis - W. Mondale Robinson - Yahné Ngo - John Brakey - Lulu Friesdat

Room: L2.84 (Capacity:120), Time: Session A: Friday, June 1st: 4:00 - 5:50pm

A New Political Direction

Host: Left Forum

Featured Speakers:

Harvey Epstein - Marisa A Day - Pablo Benson-Silva - Susanna Blankley - Rob Robinson

Room: L2.85 (Capacity:120), Time: Session A: Friday, June 1st: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Independent Power: Towards a Party for Working People

Host: The Movement for a People's Party

Featured Speakers:

Eljeer Hawkins - Gayle McLaughlin - Tim Canova - David Zuckerman - Nick Brana

Room: L2.84 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Book Reading: Orwell's Manifesto

Featured Speakers:

David Smith

Room: 1.113 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The Proletariat Is Still the Revolutionary Class: Revolutionaries and the Class Struggle

Host: Revolutionary Workers Group

Featured Speakers:

Marcus Lissey - Mike Corr - Hanna Couto

Room: 1.63 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Points of Resistance: Agitation and Activism in the Age of Trump

Featured Speakers:

Kanishka Chowdhury - Mela Heestand - John Maerhofer - Demetrius Noble - Joe Ramsey

Room: 1.67 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Crisis Management, Resilience and Points of Vulnerability in Late Capitalism: Theoretical and Applied Aspects in Studying Class Warfare

Featured Speakers:

Irwin Sperber - Peter Dolack - Ryan Schoenau - Scott Aquanno

Room: 1.69 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Physician Coalition-Building as a Strategy for Advocacy

Host: New York Doctors coalition

Featured Speakers:

Andrew Goldstein - Marc Manseau - Sabrina Martin - Nina Agrawal - Steve Auerbach

Room: 1.77 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health

Host: Monthly Review

Featured Speakers:

Howard Waitzkin - Steffie Woolhandler - Matthew Anderson - Amy Finnegan - Bradley Rydholm

Room: L2.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Making Real News in the Age of Trump

Host: The Real News Network

Featured Speakers:

Paul Jay - Gerald Horne - Gar Alperovitz - Ben Norton - Sharmini Peries - Gregory Wilpert - Aaron Maté - Dharna Noor

Room: L.63 (Capacity:250), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Water Is Not a Commodity

Featured Speakers:

Sylvia Orduno - Maureen Taylor - Catherine Flowers - Rob Robinson - Paul Schwartz

Room: L.76 (Capacity:74), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Russiagate: Muzzling the Black Left and the March to War

Host: Black Agenda Report

Featured Speakers:

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo - Nellie Hester Bailey - Ajamu Baraka - Bruce Dixon - Glen Ford - Danny Haiphong - Margaret Kimberley - Paul L Street - Raymond Nat Turner

Room: L2.85 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Trump, 'The Resistance,' and 2018 Midterms

Host: Solidarity

Featured Speakers:

Dan La Botz - Shelby Williams - Kate Griffiths - Charlie Post

Room: 1.125 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Austerity, Right Wing Electoral Victories, and the Way Forward for the Working Class

Host: Socialist Action

Featured Speakers:

Christine Marie - Kunal Chattopadhyay - Manos Skoufoglou - Michaela McKeown

Room: 1.63 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Challenging Authority -- Can Student Protests Catalyze Social and Political Change?

Featured Speakers:

William Stroud - Robert Lubetsky - Hebh Jamal - Jason Warwin

Room: 1.65 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

The Challenges of Peace Activism

Host: World Beyond War

Featured Speakers:

Roxana Robinson - Alice Slater - Joe Lombardo - Bob Keeler - Marc E Stein

Room: 1.67 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Russiagate and WikiLeaks

Featured Speakers:

Randy Credico - Ray McGovern - Max Blumenthal - Anya Parampil - Dennis Bernstein - Mark Crispin-Miller

Room: 1.69 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

CANCELED Panel: Running Left in Pence’s Red State

Featured Speakers:

Yatish Joshi - Dan Canon - Miguel Molina - Jorden Giger - Araquel Bloss

Room: 1.73 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

The Fight to Stay—Eviction Defense as a Right

Featured Speakers:

Susanna Blankley - Randy Dillard - Marika Dias - Estefania Trujillo

Room: 1.76 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Charity, Welfare, and the Carceral City

Featured Speakers:

Jarrod Shanahan - Jayne Mooney - Wilson Sherwin - Craig Hughes

Room: 1.77 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Honduras 2018: The Post-Fraud Perfection of U.S.-Approved Neoliberal Fascism

Featured Speakers:

Adrienne Pine - Alex Main - Rodolfo Pastor - Victoria Cervantes

Room: 1.108 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Mental Health in America: The Capitalist Crisis and Socialist Solutions

Host: Social Democrats USA

Featured Speakers:

Patty Friend - Timothy Tarkelly - Sheldon Ranz

Room: L2.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Loaded and Sighting: The Gun Debate and Social Movements

Featured Speakers:

Patrick Anderson - Roxanne T Dunbar-Ortiz - Johanna J Fernández

Room: L2.85 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Not on My Watch! A Reading

Featured Speakers:

Ron Singer

Room: 1.113 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Defending Dissent in the Age of Trump

Host: Defending Rights & Dissent

Featured Speakers:

Chip Gibbons - Rahul Saksena

Room: 1.125 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

ACORN and the Firestorm

Host: Black Institute

Featured Speakers:

Bertha Lewis - John Atlas - Reuben Atlas - Sam Pollard

Room: 1.127 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

DSA and Democrats: For Independent Electoral Politics

Host: The North Star

Featured Speakers:

Brandy C Baker - Jabari Brisport - Mark A Lause

Room: 1.65 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Building Unity and Power through an Independent Left Party

Host: Green Party of New York State

Featured Speakers:

Gloria Mattera - Bruce Dixon - Howie Hawkins

Room: 1.66 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

The Deep State: What It Is and How It Put Trump Into the White House

Host: Tax Wall Street Party

Featured Speakers:

Webster G Tarpley - Daniela G Walls - Roland Yanez - Gregory Edwards

Room: 1.67 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

What the Wave of Teachers’ Strikes Can Teach Labor About Winning in the Face of Austerity and Anti-Union Laws

Host: In These Times

Featured Speakers:

Lois Weiner - Shaun Richman - Kevin Prosen

Room: 1.71 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Building Alignment for the Resistance

Host: Organizing Upgrade

Featured Speakers:

Moumita Ahmed - Kim Diehl - Michael Kinnucan - Ethan Young

Room: 1.75 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Marxism and Education Today: • Teacher Revolts Shake Labor • On The Front Lines Defending Immigrants

Host: Class Struggle Education Workers

Featured Speakers:

Marjorie Stamberg - Mark Lance - Lucio Ramirez - Angie Pickens

Room: 1.77 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

"The Media is the Movement: Grassroots Collaborations in the Age of Corporate Consolidation:"

Host: WBAI Rising

Featured Speakers:

Gerald Horne - Dan Coughlin - Bernard White - Mario Murillo - Betty J Dopson - Mimi Rosenberg

Room: 1.90 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Fighting for Single-Payer Healthcare Justice: A Key Component of a Winning Strategy for the Left

Host: Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - NY Metro chapter

Featured Speakers:

Adam Gaffney - Walter Tsou - Roona Ray - Ursula Rozum

Room: L2.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

3:30PM - 5:30PM : Credico's Comedy Caucus

Featured Speakers:

Randy Credico - Julianna Forlano - Scott Blakeman - Rhonda Hansome - Howard Feller - Bruce Egar

Room: Black Box Theater (Capacity:90), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Lessons from the 2018 Teachers Revolt

Host: Jacobin magazine

Featured Speakers:

Ella Mahony - Eric Blanc - Emily Comer - Jane McAlevey

Room: L.76 (Capacity:74), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

The Left and American Politics: How to Build Independent Political Power.

Host: Solidarity

Featured Speakers:

Gayle McLaughlin - Gloria Mattera - Howie Hawkins - Traven Leyshon

Room: L2.84 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Book Reading and Discussion: Follow The Money: KPFA Flashpoints Radio Voices for Peace and Justice

Featured Speakers:

Riva Enteen - Ralph Poynter - Zach D Roberts - Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

Room: 1.113 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

The Power in Public Fora: Halleck v. New York and How the Struggle for PEG Access Control Will Shape Public Speech and Expression

Featured Speakers:

Papoleto Melendez - Matt Dewey - DeeDee Halleck - Kim M Clark

Room: 1.65 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

The Fight for Police Abolition in Action and Language

Host: Verso Books

Featured Speakers:

Yasmina Price - Alex Vitale - David Correia - Tyler Wall

Room: 1.66 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

First As Farce Then As Tragedy: It's Time to Fire the Apprentice

Host: Critical Sociology

Featured Speakers:

Lauren Langman - Roger Salerno - David N Smith

Room: 1.67 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

The Criminalization of Radical Resistance: A Panel With Former J20 Defendants and Supporters

Featured Speakers:

Sasha Hill - Duncan Ranslem - Sam Adler-Bell - Erin Lemkey

Room: 1.69 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Teaching Wildcat Strikes

Host: Zero Books

Featured Speakers:

Terry Tapp - Kim Jones - Jim McConanhey - Ivonne Rivera

Room: 1.71 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Scapegoats of the Empire: Thought Crimes and Manufactured Plots

Host: Coalition for Civil Freedoms

Featured Speakers:

Murtaza Hussain - Kathy Manley - Ashley Young

Room: 1.73 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Social Democracy in the 21st Century

Host: Social Democrats USA

Featured Speakers:

Patty Friend - David Hacker - Joe Ryan - Steven Schwartzberg

Room: 1.75 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Human Rights Don’t “Trickle Down” they Rise Up! Using Human Rights Frameworks to Unite Cities and Communities

Host: National Human Rights Cities Alliance | US Human Rights Network

Featured Speakers:

Jackie Smith - Cathy Albisa - Carl Redwood - Joshua Cooper

Room: 1.76 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Has “the Left” Accommodated Trump (and Putin)? A Debate

Host: Marxist-Humanist Initiative

Featured Speakers:

Bill Weinberg - Chris Cutrone - Brendan Cooney - Daphne Lawless - Anne Jaclard

Room: 1.77 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Fearless Cities: A Municipalist Take on Winning the City!

Host: Fearless Cities NYC

Featured Speakers:

Kali Akuno - Vicente Rubio-Pueyo - Pablo Benson-Silva

Room: 1.91 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Nurses, Doctors, Union Broads: Frontline Workers Organizing in The Healthcare Crisis

Host: Left Voice

Featured Speakers:

Shreya Mahajan - Sarah Dowd - Roona Ray - Kate D Griffith - Tre Kwon

Room: L2.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Actually Existing Capitalist Democracies Today: Socialist Register 2018 Rethinking Democracy Launch Panel

Host: Socialist Register

Featured Speakers:

Leo Panitch - Adam Hilton - Nicole Aschoff - Dennis Pilon - Pete Ramand

Room: L2.84 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Round Table Discussion on Instant Runoff Voting and Approval Voting

Host: Center for Election Science

Featured Speakers:

Felix Sargent - Jackrabbit Pollack - Aaron Hamlin

Room: 1.114 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The Sickening Society Redux:The "Neo-Liberal Personality" and What We're Doing About It!

Featured Speakers:

Irene Javors - Michael Britton - Abby Scher - Gregory Tewksbury

Room: 1.63 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

One Nation, Under ALEC: Confronting Exploitation through Activist Research

Featured Speakers:

Wendy Santamaria - Sudeep Dhanoa - Heather Steffen - John Maerhofer

Room: 1.65 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Socialism and The Green Party

Host: Green Party of New York State

Featured Speakers:

Peter LaVenia - Jabari Brisport - Jonathan Flanders

Room: 1.69 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Addressing Ideology in the Classroom (Pt. 1)

Featured Speakers:

Erik Jacobson - Andy Beutel - Greg Gallet

Room: 1.71 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The New Jewish Left

Host: Jewish Currents

Featured Speakers:

Lina Morales - Jacob M Pitman

Room: 1.75 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The Way Forward for Independent Left Electoral Politics

Host: Socialist Action

Featured Speakers:

Melissa Muldoon - Fred M Linck - Jabari Brisport - Milly Guzman-Young

Room: 1.76 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The Dual Nature of Science

Host: Science for the People

Featured Speakers:

Chris Dols - Conor Dempsey - Laura Penaranda - Taylor Lampe - Erik Wallenberg

Room: 1.77 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Corporate Media Lies and Implications for the Left

Featured Speakers:

David Slesinger - Kim Holleman - Richard Ochs - Wayne Coste

Room: 1.91 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Screening: "Antifa" & "The Battle for The Real"

Host: One People's Project

Featured Speakers:

Daryle L Jenkins - Ash J. - Sage - Rebecca Centeno - Marisa Holmes

Room: 1.92 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Indefensible: Criminal Prosecution of Migrants for Crossing the Border

Host: Justice Strategies

Featured Speakers:

Celilia Equihua - Judy Greene - Bob Libal

Room: L2.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The Case for a Great Transition: Preparing and Organizing Post-Capitalism

Host: Great Transition Collective

Featured Speakers:

Emanuel Guay - Alessandro Drago - Carl Plowright - Isobel Plowright - Anas Bouslikhane

Room: L.76 (Capacity:74), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Imagining an Authentic 21st Century U.S. Left

Featured Speakers:

Paul L Street - Chris L Hedges - Glen Ford - Bruce Dixon

Room: L2.84 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

What it Could Look Like if We Happen to Win

Host: Democracy at work

Featured Speakers:

Richard D. Wolff - Kali Akuno - Omar Freilla - Tim Schermerhorn - Rebecca Lurie

Room: L2.85 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

What in the World Is the Military Spraying? Chemtrails, Your Health, and the 6th Mass Extinction Period

Host: Chemtrails Fightback

Featured Speakers:

Daniel Villa - Russ Tanner - Jessica Coco

Room: 1.125 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Marx @ 200

Host: Platypus Affiliated Society

Featured Speakers:

Spencer Leonard - Terrell Carver - Christoph Lichtenberg

Room: 1.129 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Public Employee Unions Under Trump

Host: New Politics

Featured Speakers:

Jason Schulman - Lois Weiner - Julian Guerrero - Erik Forman - Chris Brooks

Room: 1.65 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

The Left and the Need to Avoid the Trap of Russophobia

Featured Speakers:

Peter Kuznick - John Marciano - Jeremy A Kuzmarov

Room: 1.69 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Addressing Ideology in the Classroom (Pt. 2)

Featured Speakers:

Erik Jacobson - Andy Beutel - Greg Gallet - Jason Craig - Kevin Pyle

Room: 1.71 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

The Rise of the Extreme Right

Host: Struggle Newspaper

Featured Speakers:

Eric Sorab - Abhinav Sinha - Ludovico Brigante - Maria Martins

Room: 1.73 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Empowering Immigrant Student Voices In and Out of the Classroom

Host: Columbia University Teachers College

Featured Speakers:

Kamil Ghoshal - Susanne Pratt - Rebecca Stanton - Manuel Kingsley - Joseph Tropeano - Alexander Krenisky - Nathan Floro - Team of high-school student presenters

Room: 1.75 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Coming Together: Finding Unity and Common Ground Among the Tribes and Classes in our Society

Featured Speakers:

Helena Dearnell - Jack Moscou - Stephen James

Room: 1.76 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Scaling Up: Maintaining Shared Values While Expanding Participation of Contingent Academic Workers

Featured Speakers:

Pamela J Stemberg - Meg Feeley - Dominic V Wetzel - Lynne Turner - Youngmin Seo

Room: 1.77 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Combatting U.S. War and Disinformation on Iran and Yemen

Host: Chicago ALBA Solidarity

Featured Speakers:

Dan Kovalik - Sara Flounders - Stansfield Smith - Ben Norton

Room: 1.101 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Democracy: Liberal, Radical, Socialist

Host: Socialist Register

Featured Speakers:

Greg Albo - Alex Demirovic - Nancy Holmstrom - Leo Panitch

Room: L2.84 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Campaign Finance: Another Layer

Featured Speakers:

Bill Kreml - Gary Frazier - B. Sydney Smith

Room: 1.114 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Can Marx’s Humanist Philosophy of Emancipation Assist the Resistance and Other Battles Against Trumpism? If So, How?

Host: Marxist-Humanist Initiative

Featured Speakers:

Anne Jaclard - Andrew Kliman - Ravi Bali - Michael Dola

Room: 1.129 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

How an Ordinary Person Runs for Public Office

Featured Speakers:

Marni Halasa - Louis Flores - Sander Hicks - Michael Friedman

Room: 1.65 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Youth Anxiety, Youth Activism

Featured Speakers:

Tia Sanders - Hannah Ravenell - Jade Wong - Katrina Taeza - Theeodore Puccio

Room: 1.67 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Revolutionary Regroupment vs. "Sanders Socialism"

Host: Internationalist Group and Class Struggle Education League

Featured Speakers:

Danny Keating - Abram Negrete - Mike Gath - Charlie Morán

Room: 1.69 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Organizing The Fight for Public Education

Host: Green Party of New York State

Featured Speakers:

Jia Lee - Lois Weiner - Howie Hawkins - Jamaal Bowman

Room: 1.71 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Human Rights Framework and UN Treaties for Education and Prisoners' Rights

Host: Malcolm X Center for Self Determination

Featured Speakers:

Efia Nwangaza - Deborah M Batchelor - Bernyce Devaugh

Room: 1.73 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Occupy All Streets! Building an Effective Citywide/Regional Movement

Host: Show Up America

Featured Speakers:

Sumumba Sobukwe - Sally Gellert - Aquila Coulibaly - Jan Weinberg - Susan Naomi

Room: 1.76 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Against the Imperial University

Host: Socialism and Democracy

Featured Speakers:

John Maerhofer - Basuli Deb - Joe Ramsey - Sarah Raymundo

Room: 1.77 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Domestic Violence: How Capitalism Fails Survivors

Host: Social Democrats, USA

Featured Speakers:

Patty Friend - Timothy Tarkelly - Sheldon Ranz

Room: 1.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

CREATIVITY FORUM

African Jazz

Featured Speakers:

Ras Moshe Burnett - Althea Sully Cole

Room: Black Box Theater (Capacity:90),

The Influence of the Arts, Culture, Health and Humanism in Social Transformation

Featured Speakers:

Lea Diaz - Monica Sarmiento Castillo - Marie-Lise Gazarian - Juan Mezzich - Linda Morales Caballero

Room: 1.93 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS....

Featured Speakers:

Raymond Nat Turner - Jeremiah Hosea - Jerome Jordan - Gabriella Callender - Swiss Chris

Room: Black Box Theater (Capacity:90), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Telling Radical Stories: Fiction as an Instrument of Resistance

Featured Speakers:

Aya DeLeon - Céline Keating - Jimin Han - Kate J Raphael

Room: 1.93 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Petition for Grand Jury Investigation Into the Crimes of 9/11

Featured Speakers:

Mick Harrison - Julio Gomez - Dave Meiswinkle

Room: 1.99 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Video Games, Technology, and Revolution

Host: Zero Books

Featured Speakers:

Douglas Lain - Alfie Bown - Shaun Scott - Comrade Communicator

Room: 1.100 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Building a Left Movement of Youth Through Comprehensive Hip-Hop Development Programs

Host: All Revolutionary Qs

Featured Speakers:

Louis Jefferson - Kareem Dennis - Rodrigo Venegas - Gonzalo Venegas - Wise Intelligent

Room: 1.91 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Regional Movement Congress on Technology - Part 1

Host: May First/People Link

Featured Speakers:

Cayden Mak - Alfredo Lopez - Jerome Scott

Room: 1.92 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Love & Labor: Film Screening

Featured Speakers:

Stephanie Andreou - Sarah Keeling - Gabriela Ceja - Fran Ilich

Room: 1.93 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

THE 2018 SUM STRATAGEM I (Integral Activism): A Grand Unified Theory & Strategy (GUTS) for Radical Evolutionary Transformation

Host: TIKKUN Magazine

Featured Speakers:

Zevin X. Cruz - Amoreena Aceves - Alfonso Tellaeche

Room: 1.99 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Fighting Trump and Fascism Through The Arts

Host: Georgetown University

Featured Speakers:

Henry Schwarz - Ed Ingebretson - Zoe Charleton - Tim Doud

Room: 1.100 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Black Media Matters: Trump, the De-Construction of the Administrative State, and the Rise of the Right

Host: Black Media Matters

Featured Speakers:

Bernard White - Fikisha Cumbo - Larry Hamm - Milton Allimadi - Camille Yarborough

Room: L2.85 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

How Do We Make Alternative Media Relevant in the 21st Century: The Dilemmas of the Pacifica Foundation

Featured Speakers:

Carolyn Birden - Grace Aaron - Berthold Reimers - F. Frank LeFever - Paul DiRienzo

Room: 1.90 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Regional Movement Congress on Technology - Part 2

Host: May First/People Link

Featured Speakers:

Cayden Mak - Alfredo Lopez - Jerome Scott

Room: 1.92 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Documentary: Velvet Revolution: Female Journalists Under Attack Worldwide, Sharing Their Stories

Featured Speakers:

Olivia Tumanjong - Sheila Katzman - Benedetta Arentieri - Raad Rahman

Room: 1.93 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

THE 2018 SUM STRATAGEM II (Integral Art): A Grand Unified Theory & Strategy (GUTS) for Radical Evolutionary Transformation

Host: Society of the Third Millennium (S3K)

Featured Speakers:

Amoreena Aceves - Alfonso Tellaeche - Zoren X Cross

Room: 1.99 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Three Lives in Revolutionary Literature

Host: New Masses Media

Featured Speakers:

John Pietaro - Hank Williams - Anamaria Flores

Room: 1.100 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Poetry and the Radical Imagination

Host: Radical Poets Collective

Featured Speakers:

Joanie HF Zosike - Sam Friedman - Raymond Nat Turner - Lynne Lopez-Salzedo - Zigi Lowenberg - Gordon Gilbert Jr.

Room: 1.101 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Experimental Literature and the Creation of Non-Monetized Communicative Spaces: Four Writers who Work in Publishing Discuss New Writing as a Resource for Political Resistance

Featured Speakers:

Hilary Plum - Ian Dreiblatt - Eugene Lim

Room: 1.93 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Is Another World REALLY Possible? The Future Historians Project

Host: Marxist Education Project

Featured Speakers:

Richard Greeman - Maati Monjib - Alexei Gusev - Anya Rebrii - Peter Hudis - Lola Girerd - Fred Murphy - Sam Friedman

Room: 1.99 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Marshaling for Demonstrations

Featured Speakers:

Jamie Bauer - BC Craig - Alexis Danzig

Room: 1.100 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

BLACK BOX THEATER PRESENTS....

Host: Hudson Valley Sally and the Music Now! Unit

Featured Speakers:

John Fisher - Ruben Gonzalez - Ras M Burnett - Althea Sully Cole - Terry Collition - David Tarlo - Laurie Siegel

Room: Black Box Theater (Capacity:90), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Book Reading: The "Write" Kind of Political Event

Featured Speakers:

Michael Friedman

Room: 1.113 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Aesthetics and Politics of Embodied Artistic Expression

Featured Speakers:

Marija Krtolica - Anabella Lenzu - Camille Cier

Room: 1.92 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Science Fiction Writers Resist: The Progressive Force Is With Us

Featured Speakers:

Marleen Barr

Room: 1.100 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Hip-Hop As Social Justice Journalism

Featured Speakers:

Manny Faces - Christopher Twarowski - Rashed Mian - Silent Knight

Room: L.76 (Capacity:74), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Stop Dropping In: Digital Privacy and the Road to Community Empowerment

Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Featured Speakers:

Nathan Sheard - Daly Barnett - Abi Hassen - Rory Mir - C Z

Room: 1.91 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

The Death of Principled, Non-Partisan Journalism

Host: Consortium for Independent Journalism, consortiumnews.com

Featured Speakers:

Joe Lauria - Margaret Kimberely - Mark Crispin-Miller - Don DeBar - Ray McGovern

Room: 1.99 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Jazz and Self Determination: A Social History

Host: Left Forum

Featured Speakers:

Ras M Burnett - Juma Sultan - Basir Mchawi - Joe McPhee - Warren Smith - Althea SullyCole

Room: 1.100 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

THEORY AND HISTORY FORUM

W.E.B DuBois: What His Life and Work Can Teach Us Today.

Host: Left Forum

Featured Speakers:

Richard D. Wolff - Chris L Hedges - C. Jama Adams - Kim Westcott

Room: L.63 (Capacity:250), Time: Session A: Friday, June 1st: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Remember the Revolution; Lessons from the U.S Civil Rights & Algerian Independence Movements

Host: LeftOut

Featured Speakers:

Sihem Mellah-Sliker - Kali Akuno - Aïcha-Hanna Agrane - Nino Brown

Room: 1.124 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Marx 200 Years Later: The Potential for the Analysis of the Problems of the 21st Century

Host: The Free Economic Society of Russia

Featured Speakers:

David Harvey - David M Kotz - David Laibman - Raju J Das - Alexander Buzgalin

Room: 1.129 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

An Inspiring Social Vision and Its Potential

Host: Zeitgeist NYC

Featured Speakers:

Mark Horowitz - Harry Cason - Richard Florentino

Room: 1.73 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

No Time for the Future: Concrete Utopias, the Neoliberal Crisis, and How to Act Now

Featured Speakers:

Cary Moon - Charles Mudede - Nicolas Veroli

Room: 1.124 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Marx at 200: Everything Old Is Young Again

Host: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office

Featured Speakers:

Albert Scharenberg - Anne-Kathrin Krug - Christoph Spehr - Sarah Leonard - Silvia Federici - Kazembe Balagun - Yasmina Price

Room: 1.129 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Hegelian-Marxism, Critical Theory and Marxist-Humanism: U.S. Origins and Development

Host: New Politics

Featured Speakers:

Ted McGlone - Sarah L Kleeb - Kevin O'Brien - Russell Rockwell

Room: 1.66 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Stop Calling It Liberal - Reclaiming the Classical Definitions of Left Liberalism

Featured Speakers:

Harry Stuckey - Helen Buyniski - Michael Rectenwald

Room: 1.124 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

50 Years after May 1968, The Return of History

Host: Gabriel Peri Foundation

Featured Speakers:

Daniel Cirera - Mark Kesselman - John G Mason - Charlotte Recoquillon

Room: 1.63 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Does the Working Class Exist?

Host: Institute for the Radical Imagination

Featured Speakers:

Stanley Aronowitz - Arun Gupta - Peter Bratsis

Room: 1.129 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Bottom-Up and Top-Down Thinking About the System and Change

Host: Bottom Up Radio Show

Featured Speakers:

Rob Kall - Roy Eidelson - Marta Steele - Chuck Pennacchio

Room: 1.63 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Seymour Melman's Legacy in The Age of Trump

Featured Speakers:

Jonathan Rynn - Frank Emspak - Jonathan Feldman - Frank Goldsmith

Room: 1.124 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Marx at 200: Global and Intercultural Perspectives

Featured Speakers:

Wei Xiaoping - Heather Brown - Emanuela Conversano - Kevin Anderson

Room: 1.129 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Marxism and Identity

Host: Struggle Newspaper

Featured Speakers:

Eric Sorab - Abhinav Sinha - Lucinda Han - Maria Martins

Room: 1.66 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Radical Love

Host: John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Featured Speakers:

Susannah Heschel - David K Kim - James Gilligan - Bandy Lee - James Vrettos

Room: 1.124 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

May '68 -- Unfinished Revolution or 50 Years of Boredom?

Host: Institute for the Radical Imagination

Featured Speakers:

Michael Pelias - Robert Latham - Chris Knight - Peter Bratsis

Room: 1.63 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

What Is The DSA?

Host: Platypus Affiliated Society

Featured Speakers:

Allison Hewitt Ward - Chris Cutrone - James Creegan - Jack Devine

Room: 1.66 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

this panel got CANCELLED: Rapunzel’s Ivory Tower: Critical Theory, Post-Structuralism, and the Demise of the Western Left

Featured Speakers:

Zachary Finder - Caleb Maupin - Priya Reddy

Room: L2.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Sunday Matinee: The Young Karl Marx - Movie

Host: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office

Featured Speakers:

Ethan Earle

Room: Black Box Theater (Capacity:90), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Listen Socialists: The Russian and Chinese Revolutions Have Something to Say to You

Host: The Institute for Critical Study of Society

Featured Speakers:

Rajendra Sahai - Amit Singh - Dipjyoti Das

Room: 1.124 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Powers of Generation and Regeneration: A Collective Presentation of the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture

Featured Speakers:

Michael Denning - Salonee Bhaman - Jorge Cuéllar - Peter Raccuglia - Damian Vergara Bracamontes

Room: 1.63 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

ECONOMY FORUM

Discredited: Neoliberalism and the Age of Finance

Host: Zone Books

Featured Speakers:

Ivan Ascher - Alyssa Battistoni - Robert Wosnitzer - Amy Traub

Room: L2.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session A: Friday, June 1st: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Cooperative Community Solar - Building a Movement for Sustainable Environmental and Economic Justice

Featured Speakers:

Maya Winfrey - Michael Lightsmith - Lynn Benander - Alphonse Knight - Rebecca Lurie

Room: L2.82 (Capacity:45), Time: Session A: Friday, June 1st: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Housing Strategies and Post-Capitalism

Featured Speakers:

Anitra Nelson - Miguel Á Martínez - David Schwartzman

Room: 1.114 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Heterodox Economics at John Jay College

Featured Speakers:

Ian Seda-Irizarry - Geert L Dhont - Sara Bernardo - Joseph Rebello

Room: 1.115 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

In Defense of Capitalism

Host: Henry George School of Social Science (NYC)

Featured Speakers:

Stephen Taft - Steven Sklar - Michael Bucher

Room: 1.123 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Rank-and-File Academic Organizing: Turning the Tide Against Austerity

Host: CUNY Struggle

Featured Speakers:

Jarrod Shanahan - Andy Battle - Sofya Aptekar - Camila Vergara - Sonam Singh

Room: 1.71 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Community Land Trusts - Theory and Practical Reality

Host: Trust for Affordable Housing

Featured Speakers:

Walter South - Thomas Wenfing - Ayisha Oglive

Room: 1.76 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Advancing Workers Control Against the Capitalist Offensive and Saving our Communities

Host: Democracy at work

Featured Speakers:

Tim Schermerhorn - Alicia Love - Keith Joseph - Kali Akuno - Kim Westcott

Room: L2.84 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

The NYC Transit Crisis and the Transport Workers Union

Host: League for the Revolutionary Party

Featured Speakers:

Walter Daum - John Ferretti - Seth Rosenberg

Room: 1.114 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Imperiled Economies 2018: An URPE Reader

Host: Union for Radical Political Economics

Featured Speakers:

Julio Huato - Paddy Quick - Julie A Matthaei

Room: 1.115 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Fighting for Fair Food! Building Consciousness and Commitment to Advance Worker-Driven Social Responsibility in 21st Century Supply Chains

Featured Speakers:

Gerardo Reyes Chavez - Patricia Cipollitti - Yaissy Solis

Room: 1.117 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

The Fashion Industry and Labor Infractions: Changing the Narrative Around Fashion Models

Host: Fashion Reverie Publications, LLC

Featured Speakers:

Georgie Badiel - Catherine Schuller - William S Gooch

Room: 1.119 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Georgist Roundtable - Countering the Primary Wrong

Host: Henry George School of Social Science (NYC)

Featured Speakers:

Anthony Persaud - Steven Sklar - Ron Rubin

Room: 1.123 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

The Revolutionary Necessity of Women's Liberation

Featured Speakers:

Andrea Narbot - Zachary G Najarian-Najafi - Ksenija Kordic - Jessica Coco - Steph Ka

Room: 1.127 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

A Silent Transformation: A Film About the Transformative Power of the Co-operative Enterprise Model

Host: Powerline Films

Featured Speakers:

Anton Smolski - Luke Mistruzzi - Simon Brothers

Room: 1.92 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Negative Economics -- its Pedigree and History

Host: Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, UMKC

Featured Speakers:

Michael Hudson - Michael Perelman - Paul Sliker

Room: L.76 (Capacity:74), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

The U.S. Family--Can it Be Saved--Should it Be Saved?: Marxist Feminist Questions

Host: Democracy at work

Featured Speakers:

Harriet Fraad - Richard D. Wolff - Juliana Forlano

Room: L2.84 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Global Inequality As Injustice: Economic Democracy to the Rescue

Host: Critical Sociology

Featured Speakers:

Marek Hrubec - Martin Brabec - Lauren Langman

Room: 1.114 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Surplus Value VS Surplus Enjoyment

Host: Zero Books

Featured Speakers:

Douglas Lain - Ashley Frawley - Vakhtang Gomelauri - Mia Vallet - Peter Dolack

Room: 1.115 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

The Workers' Economy as Global Strategy: What Is It? Where Is It Going? How to Nurture It?

Host: The Workers' Economy, North American, Central American & Caribbean Region

Featured Speakers:

Andres Ruggeri - Marcelo Vieta - Jesus Torres - Armando Robles - Micky Metts - Alexander Buzgalin - Stéphanie Guico - Sean Smith - Peter Ranis

Room: 1.117 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Trump and the American Labor Movement: Will We Survive?

Host: Solidarity

Featured Speakers:

Dan La Botz - Kate Griffiths - Eric Blanc - Charles Post - Ryan Bruckenthal - Tim Schermerhorn

Room: 1.119 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Occupy-GeoPoliticalEconomy: GREECE:EU:US:BRICS:MiddleEast:Africa: Cooperating Sovereign Nations -- or Unnecessary Globalized Conflict?

Host: Georgist Economic Taskforce

Featured Speakers:

Yannis Tziligakis - LuAnn Horstmann - Caleb Maupin - Alanna Hartzok - Mary (Polly) M Cleveland

Room: 1.121 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Poverty Puzzle - Transformative Power of an Insight

Host: Henry George School of Social Science (NYC)

Featured Speakers:

Steven Sklar - Steve Taft - Sue Peters

Room: 1.123 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

The Essential Feature of Capitalism Is Hidden from Public

Host: Fed Group of Upper West Side

Featured Speakers:

Jerry Kann - Ann Webre - Donal Butterfield - Phyllis Kreuttner

Room: 1.114 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

The Common Denominator: An Economic Program to Unite Women, Blacks, Latinos, Students, Labor and Antiwar Activists

Host: Tax Wall Street Party

Featured Speakers:

Webster G Tarpley - Roland Yanez - Daniela G Walls - Gregory Edwards

Room: 1.117 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Occupy Commons: RIC:Rental Income Capture: Workers--Consumers--Taxpayers Unite Against Viral RentSeeking

Host: Georgist Economic Taskforce

Featured Speakers:

Yannis Tziligakis - Frank Fabio - Marty Rowland - Alanna Hartzok - Marry (Polly) M Cleveland

Room: 1.121 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

A Public Money System

Host: Henry George School of Social Science (NYC)

Featured Speakers:

Allen Smith - Sue Peters - Michael Bucher - Roberto Chavira - Ibrahima Drame

Room: 1.123 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

The Marxist "Transformation Problem" in the 21st Century: Why Does It Matter?

Host: Science & Society

Featured Speakers:

Julio Huato - David Laibman - Fred Moseley

Room: 1.124 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Intolerance Economics: Ideology, Competing Visions and Institutional Retaliation

Host: Rise Up Filming, llc

Featured Speakers:

John Sarich - Jason Hecht - Dan King - John Summa - Michele Holder

Room: 1.127 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Money Matters! Why Monetary Theory and Policy Is a Critical Terrain for the Left

Host: The Democracy Collaborative

Featured Speakers:

Gar Alperovitz - Stephanie Kelton - Michael Hudson - Raúl Carrillo - Pavlina Tcherneva

Room: L2.85 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Karl Marx + Bureau of Economic Analysis, and Why You're Broke All the Time

Host: Coalition for Social Justice

Featured Speakers:

David Hungerford - Richard Strong - Milton Williams

Room: 1.115 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Towards an Organized Tech Industry—Part One

Host: Tech Workers Coalition

Featured Speakers:

Jason Prado - Danny Spitzberg - Wendy Liu - Mohini Dutta - Alex Press

Room: 1.119 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Community Wealth / Social Goods - Stopping Centuries of Land Value Theft

Host: Henry George School of Social Science (NYC)

Featured Speakers:

Marty Rowland - Joshua Vincent - Ibrahima Drame

Room: 1.123 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Unions and Communities Advance Workers' Control Against the Neoliberal Offensive

Featured Speakers:

Kali Akuno - Kim Westcott - Keith Joseph - Nick Befell - Alicia Love

Room: L2.85 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Marx, Value Theory, and the Alternative to Capitalism

Host: International Marxist-Humanist Organization

Featured Speakers:

Peter Hudis - Sam Salou - David Smith - Stephan Hammel

Room: 1.115 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Towards An Organized Tech Industry—Part Two

Host: Tech Workers Coalition

Featured Speakers:

Judy Tuan - Holly Wood - Wendy Liu - Will Luckman

Room: 1.119 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Occupy-Ethics: Curing the Metastasizing Human-Subhuman Cancer

Host: Georgist Economic Taskforce

Featured Speakers:

Frank Fabio - Yannis Tziligakis - LuAnn Horstmann - Alanna Hartzok - Caleb Maupin - Mary (Polly) M Cleveland

Room: 1.123 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

INTERNATIONAL FORUM

Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad

Host: Black Alliance for Peace (BAP)

Featured Speakers:

Abayomi Azikiwe - Ajamu Baraka - Bernadette Ellorin - Margaret Kimberley - Joe Lombardo - Efia Nwangaza

Room: L.76 (Capacity:74), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Toward A New Strategy for Justice in Palestine/Israel

Host: Jewish Voice for Peace, Westchester

Featured Speakers:

Steve Siegelbaum - Priscilla Read - Robert Herbst - Ellen Isaacs - Rani Al-Hindi

Room: 1.101 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The Far Right in Government: Hungary, Poland, and Turkey

Host: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office

Featured Speakers:

Pinar Çakıroğlu-Bournous - Bartosz Rydlinski - Kristóf Szombati - Ethan Earle

Room: 1.103 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

US Militarization

Featured Speakers:

Peter K Schutz - Madelyn Hoffman - Edward Aguilar - Sally Jones

Room: 1.105 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Mama Time: Struggle, Tactics, and Strategies to End the Historic War on African-Descendant Women & Girls in the U.S.A.

Featured Speakers:

Gloria Ellis - Colia L Clark - Cyndi Ashley - Lyn Spivey - Betty Davis

Room: 1.101 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Connecting the European and North American Left: Identifying Spheres of Cooperation

Host: Party of the European Left

Featured Speakers:

Paolo Ferrero - Ethan Earle - Ethan Young - Piera Muccigrosso

Room: 1.103 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Radical Prefiguration: From Chiapas to Rojava

Featured Speakers:

Marina Sitrin - Emre Şahin - Charlotte M Sáenz - Debbie Bookchin

Room: 1.105 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Puerto Rico Unions Fighting Austerity & Privatization; The Role of International Solidarity Medical Brigades

Host: New York State Nurses Association

Featured Speakers:

Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez - Angel Figueroa - Rafael Feliciano - Rhadames Rivera

Room: 1.107 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Resisting the Empire

Featured Speakers:

Bahram Zandi - Alexander Buzgalin - Anthony Gronowicz - Ahmad Gharanfoli - David Schwartzman

Room: 1.69 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

The Endless Scream in the Breaking News - Readings on Israel-Palestine

Featured Speakers:

Sam Friedman - Farid Bitar - Gordon Gilbert - Lynne Lopez-Salzedo

Room: 1.101 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

CovertAction: Persistent U.S. Attacks Against "Democracy and Freedom," Past and Present

Host: CovertAction Magazine

Featured Speakers:

William Blum - Louis Wolf - Immanuel Ness - Sarah Raymundo - Hester Eisenstein

Room: 1.103 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

A Conversation Between Rojava and the Zapatistas

Featured Speakers:

Emre Şahin - Charlotte M Sáenz - Marina Sitrin

Room: 1.105 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Puerto Rico - The Sun Still Rises

Featured Speakers:

Germai Medhanie - Ian J Seda-Irizarry - Julie A Matthaei

Room: 1.107 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Rebellion of The "Shithole Countries": Haiti, Africa, and The Caribbean Respond to Trump

Host: Haiti Liberte

Featured Speakers:

Nathaniel Wood - Kim Ives - Mamadou Niang - Ray Laforest - Milton Allimadi

Room: 1.108 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Strategies for Movement Building in Response to the Rohingya Genocide

Host: Burma Task Force

Featured Speakers:

Sahar AlSahlani - Shahana Hanif - Khadija Mehter - Aye Aye Dun - Adem Carroll - Beth Lilach

Room: 1.103 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

The Trump Regime’s Expanding Militarism: On-the-Ground and In-the-Air via Drones

Host: World Can't Wait

Featured Speakers:

Debra Sweet - Ed Kinane - Nick Mottern

Room: 1.105 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

The Tasks of the Left in Latin America After the Pink Tide

Host: Left Voice

Featured Speakers:

Paula Varela - Jimena Vergara - Tatiana Cozzarelli

Room: 1.107 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Cuba Speaks for Itself -- The Cuban Revolution and US-Cuban Relations Today

Host: Cuba Si Coalition

Featured Speakers:

Anayansi Rodriguez - Gail Walker - Frank Velgara

Room: 1.108 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Russia and the West: To Prevent a New Cold War (the Left View)

Host: Journal 'Alternatives'

Featured Speakers:

Samir Amin (via Skype) - David M Kotz - Ruslan Grinberg - Elizabeth Bowman - Alexander Buzgalin

Room: L2.82 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Rosa Luxemburg in China: Contemporary Chinese Marxist Cultural Philosophy

Featured Speakers:

Meng Zhang - Xiaohong Zhang - Xinwei Wu

Room: 1.101 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

When I See Them, I See Us: How Our Struggles Are Connected

Host: The Hampton Institute, a working-class think thank

Featured Speakers:

Susan Massad - Colia L Clark - Angeline Butler - Ruby N Sales

Room: 1.105 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Venezuela Resists the U.S. Empire

Host: Task Force on the Americas

Featured Speakers:

Dan Kovalik - Carlos Ron - Ajamu Baraka

Room: 1.107 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

What is left of the left - A view into the Social Democratic Party of Germany and European politics

Host: Federal State Agency for Civic Education of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania

Featured Speakers:

Martin Hackbarth - Christian Winter - Martin Redlich - Mona-Mór Ebel

Room: 1.108 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

US Threats and Fake News on North Korea

Host: Chicago ALBA Solidarity

Featured Speakers:

Deirdre Griswold - Stansfield Smith - Joe Jamison - Soobok Kim

Room: 1.109 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

From Community Wealth to 21st Century Public Ownership: Labour's Economic Platform and Democratic Socialism

Host: The Democracy Collaborative

Featured Speakers:

Hilary Wainwright - Ted Howard - J. Phillip Thompson

Room: 1.91 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

What Should an American Foreign Policy for the Left Look Like?

Featured Speakers:

Tanya Monforte - Lama Abu-Odeh - Milena Sterio

Room: 1.103 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Post Al-Aqsa Invasion & Trump’s Declaration re: Jerusalem - World Unity to Free the Holy Land

Host: Dr. Frank Romano, Peace & Freedom in the Holy Land

Featured Speakers:

Frank J Romano - Jacqueline Basker - Philip Giraldi - Peter Ilich

Room: 1.105 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Chile's Broad Front

Featured Speakers:

Pablo Pérez Wilson - Fabián Muñoz Silva - Diego Polanco

Room: 1.107 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Party of the European Left – A Success Story of Radical Left Alliances? An Analysis from US and European Perspectives

Host: Party of the European Left

Featured Speakers:

Waltraud Fritz Klackl - Leo Panitch - Haris Golemis - Andreas Günther

Room: 1.108 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Perspectives from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement

Host: Middle East Peace Forum

Featured Speakers:

David Hacker - Sheldon Ranz - Nada Elia

Room: 1.109 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Border Crossings: Challenging Assumed Authority in U.S.-Centric Immigration Scholarship Through Transdisciplinary Dialogue

Featured Speakers:

Katherine E Entigar - Vadricka Etienne - Chris Maggio - Anna Stetsenko - Friederike Windel

Room: 1.75 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Divest From the War Machine

Host: Code Pink

Featured Speakers:

Ariel Gold - Marc Stein - Adam Hockenberry

Room: 1.101 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Trump Against the World or Trumpism in the World? The International Effects of Trumpism at Home and Abroad

Featured Speakers:

Andreas Karras - George Andreopoulos - Maria-Victoria Perez-Rios - Peter Bratsis

Room: 1.103 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Envisioning our Return: 70 Years of Displacement Are Enough!

Host: Palestinian Youth Movement

Featured Speakers:

Nerdeen Kiswani - Lamis Deek - Samia Halaby - Jehad Abu Saleem

Room: 1.105 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

South Africa: The Class Struggle Deepens

Host: Socialist Action

Featured Speakers:

Christine Marie - Glen Ford - Patrick Bond - Marty Goodman

Room: 1.107 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

The Uprising in Ambazonia and its Role in the African Liberation Struggle

Host: Ambazonian Prisoners of Conscience Support Network

Featured Speakers:

Sphynx Eben - Nalowa Bih Nsoh - Patrice Nganang - Omoyele Sowore

Room: 1.108 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Gede Vizyon: a documentary by Haitian and Brazilian artists

Featured Speakers:

Jefferson W Kielwagen - Marcos Serafim

Room: 1.109 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

RACE FORUM

The Panthers Can't Save Us Now - Confronting the Prison State and the Limits of "Black Exceptionalism"

Host: Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation

Featured Speakers:

Cedric Johnson - Nancy Holmstrom - Jay Arena - Megan French-Marcelin

Room: L2.85 (Capacity:120), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Plug School-to-Prison Pipeline, North to South

Host: Southern Anti-Racism Network

Featured Speakers:

Matt Meyer - Ronsha Dickerson - Kempis Songster - Alice Ragland

Room: 1.85 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Resisting Gang Policing Locally and Internationally

Host: The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College

Featured Speakers:

Alex Vitale - Taylon M - A Posada - David Brotherton

Room: 1.87 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Contemporary Lessons in Black Labor-Community Organization

Host: Tuskegee University

Featured Speakers:

Roger Toussaint - Godfrey Vincent - John Tilghman

Room: 1.89 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

How Can We Resist Trump's Deportation Machine? A Coalition's Response from Essex County, New Jersey

Featured Speakers:

Jay Arena - Eric Lerner - Laura Muneton

Room: 1.75 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Ending Racist Drug Wars: A Social Justice Issue Still A Blind Spot for Some Left Causes and Coalitions

Host: Committe to End Racist Drug Wars

Featured Speakers:

Mike D Whitty - Joe White - Gail A Gross

Room: 1.85 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Combatting White Nationalism: Lessons From Marx

Host: Marxist-Humanist Initiative

Featured Speakers:

Andrew Kliman - Brendan Cooney - Ravi Bali - Chris Gilligan

Room: 1.89 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Ethnic Cleansing* by I.C.E.: What to Do Beyond Your Rights

Host: New Sanctuary Coalition

Featured Speakers:

Ravi Ragbir - Judith Sanchez - Aura Hernandez - Steve Sacco - Natacha Gaudard

Room: L.63 (Capacity:250), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

The Black and the Bern: The Rise of Insurgent Black Progressive Politics

Host: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office

Featured Speakers:

Kazembe Balagun - Councilman khalid - Maria Hadden - Yasmina Price

Room: 1.129 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

It Was Bad Before Trump: Islamophobia and Muslim Political Prosecutions

Host: Coalition for Civil Freedoms

Featured Speakers:

Miko Peled - Mel Underbakke - Leena Al-Arian

Room: 1.85 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Creating a Black Self-Determined Liberated Zone in the Heart of the Confederacy

Host: Cooperation Jackson

Featured Speakers:

Brandon King - Amalya Livingston - Kali Akuno

Room: 1.89 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Black Kids in Outer Space

Host: VELO Bloomfield

Featured Speakers:

Lark Lo - Dulcie Canton - Poet on Watch

Room: 1.125 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Pinkwashing Past & Present: Instrumentalizing "Queer Rights" to Undermine Antiracism

Featured Speakers:

Mohammad Hamad - Alissa Wise - Emmaia Gelman

Room: 1.85 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Decolonial Humanism: New Perspectives on Racism and Revolution

Host: International Marxist-Humanist Organization

Featured Speakers:

A. Shahid Stover - Marilyn Nissim-Sabat - Peter Hudis - Anna Stetsenko

Room: 1.87 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Wakanda Forever? The Legacy of Black Panther in Black America

Featured Speakers:

Jason J Woody - Negesti Cantave - Marlon Rice

Room: 1.89 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Afropessimism and The Black Radical Imagination

Host: The Brotherwise Dispatch

Featured Speakers:

R. D. Jackson - LaRose T Parris - Nicholas Powers - A. Shahid Stover

Room: 1.85 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The (Im)possibilities of Confronting Racial Politics in The College Classroom

Featured Speakers:

Pimentel Charise - Alyssa Crow - Octavio Pimentel

Room: 1.89 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

No Place for Police? Towards De-inscriptions of En/force/ments

Featured Speakers:

Aundre M Jones - Kathie Cheng - Kerry Keith

Room: 1.85 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

A Rank-And-File Response to Racism and Police Brutality

Host: Left Voice

Featured Speakers:

Julia Wallace - Donald Jean Marie - Jorge Maldonado

Room: 1.89 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Central Park Five - Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated

Host: Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated

Featured Speakers:

David Bliven - Sharonne Salaam - Yusef Salaam

Room: 1.85 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Community Control over Police

Host: Pan-African Community Action (PACA)

Featured Speakers:

Max Rameau - Rob Robinson - Deshonay Docier

Room: 1.89 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

GENDER AND SEXUALITY FORUM

Working Class Women and the Family: Depression, Anxiety, Sex, and Economics in America's Landscape

Host: Party of Communists USA

Featured Speakers:

Jessica Coco - Andrea Narbot - George Gruenthal

Room: 1.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Trump, Sex & The Culture Wars

Featured Speakers:

Ricci Joy Levy - John G Simmons - Farah Diaz-Tello

Room: 1.83 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Smashing Patriarchy while Nourishing the Earth: Global Ecofeminist Resistance and Transformation

Featured Speakers:

Pratik Raghu - Rosa Huitzitzilin - Claudia Urdanivia

Room: 1.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Empowered Women. Lost Men: Capitalist Crises & Gender Transformations in the U.S.

Host: Democracy at work

Featured Speakers:

Tess Fraad Wolff - Shane Knight - Harriet Fraad

Room: 1.83 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

2PM - 3PM: Are You Ready to Run?: Performance and Discussion/ Q & A with Nia & Ness

Featured Speakers:

Nia and Ness

Room: Black Box Theater (Capacity:90), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Stormy Weather: Toxic Masculinity and the Alt-Right as Pornographic Theatre

Host: Situations Journal

Featured Speakers:

Chris Knight - Peter Bratsis - Michael Pelias

Room: 1.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Re-Energize Diversity

Host: Devolution Productions

Featured Speakers:

Matthew Dempsey - Tim L - Wadsworth Hall

Room: 1.83 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Love and Revolution in Theory and Practice

Featured Speakers:

AK Thompson - Kazembe Balagun - Kelli Korducki

Room: 1.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Defeating Trumpism: A Gendered Perspective

Featured Speakers:

Matthew Johnson - Laura Finley - D'Nisa Joseph

Room: 1.83 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Social Reproduction Theory: Toward a Feminism of the 99%

Host: Socialism and Democracy

Featured Speakers:

Tithi Battacharya - Kate Griffiths - Sarah Raymundo - Lise Vogel

Room: 1.81 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Reflecting Her: Film on global reproductive rights, panel on US rights and access and resistance

Featured Speakers:

Olivia Tumanjong - Rebecca Myles - Marylou Greenberg - Elizabeth Estrada

Room: 1.83 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

From Me Too to Stormy Weather

Host: Critical Sociology

Featured Speakers:

Lauren Langman - Harriet Fraad - Liza Featherstone - Juliana Forlano

Room: 1.82 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Gender Theory, Women's Liberation, and the Left

Featured Speakers:

Tamara Wyndham - Kathie Sarachild - Kathy Scarbrough - Steve Bloom

Room: 1.83 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 7: Sunday, June 3rd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

ENVIRONMENT FORUM

Tools for Listening When We Disagree

Host: Sustaining All Life

Featured Speakers:

Maritza Arrastia - Karim Lopez - Kathy Martino

Room: 1.82 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 1: Saturday, June 2nd: 10:00 - 11:50am

The Environment: Communes and Animals

Host: New York University

Featured Speakers:

Troy Vettese - Kim Adams - John Linstrom - Arden Koehler - Vignesh Sridharan

Room: 1.82 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 2: Saturday, June 2nd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

Dangerous Development: Infrastructure, Sabotage, Climate Change

Host: New York University

Featured Speakers:

Troy Vettese - R H Lossin - Zack Culyer - Rosalind Donald

Room: 1.82 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 3: Saturday, June 2nd: 2:00 - 3:50pm

Meszaros on The Ground: Turning Ideas Into Material Force

Featured Speakers:

Chris Wood - Michael J Roberto - Bertell Ollman

Room: 1.82 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 4: Saturday, June 2nd: 4:00 - 5:50pm

Nuclear Bailouts - Decommissioning - Just Transition

Host: Shut Down Indian Point Now

Featured Speakers:

Catherine Skopic - Michel Lee, Esq. - Carl L Lundgren

Room: 1.82 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Radical Visions and Strategies for the Environmental Movement

Host: New Politics

Featured Speakers:

Nancy Romer - Kate Aronoff - Ashley Dawson - Richard Smith - Nancy Holmstrom

Room: L2.82 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 5: Sunday, June 3rd: 10:00 - 11:50am

Climate Change Consequences: Migration, Urbanism, Education

Host: Verso Books

Featured Speakers:

Ashley Dawson - McKenzie Wark - Thanu Yakupitiyage

Room: 1.82 (Capacity:40), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

The Green New Deal and Ecological Socialism

Host: Green Party of New York State

Featured Speakers:

Mark Dunlea - Jabari Brisport - Howie Hawkins

Room: L2.82 (Capacity:45), Time: Session 6: Sunday, June 3rd: 12:00 - 1:50pm

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