NYC Globalization and Resistance Conference

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 13 10:17:17 PST 2001


[features me too, along with all these other distinguished folks]

What: Globalization and Resistance Conference featuring Tariq Ali, Susan George, Dennis Brutus, Manning Marable, LA Kauffman, Rabab Abdulhadi, ACT UP, Critical Resistance, USAS, and many, many more

When: November 16-17, 2001 Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY - 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City Who: For more info and transportation from the DC Metro area, contact LeftTurn-DC at onebox.com / 202 777 2642 x7894

This unique conference will discuss the issues of corporate globalization and the emerging global justice movement in the context of the post-September 11 world. This will be a broad-based forum where you can lend your voice to the creation of a vision of a better world - a vision that is both possible and necessary! The program for this two-day conference is pasted below.

A broad array of themes will be incorporated into the education and discussion of the conference. The first day will concentrate on educating individuals on various threads of capitalist globalization and the war in Afghanistan. The second day will flow from the first and direct the energy toward a vision for the future with the theme, "The Shape of the Resistance."

The conference has brought together some of the most knowledgeable thinkers, writers and activists on globalization and the growing resistance to it. They include: Jeremy Brecher, co-author of "Globalization from Below"; Dennis Brutus, poet, teacher, and South African freedom fighter; Susan George, author of the Lugano Report and founding member of ATTAC (Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens); Manning Marable, author of many books on Black Liberation and co-founder of the Black Radical Congress; Francis Fox Piven, CUNY Political Science Professor, author, and welfare rights activist; and Tariq Ali, anti-imperialist activist and author of a collection of essays on Islamic subjects titled Mullahs and Heretics.

Tickets are selling quickly so contact us or send in your registration as soon as possible.

GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16

8:30 AM

Registration

9:30 - 11:15

Plenary: Neo-liberalism and the New World Order Speakers: Susan George (confirmed) Stanley Aronowitz (confirmed) Tariq Ali(confirmed)

11:15 - 1:00

Neoliberalism: Old imperialism or New Capitalism? Speakers: Doug Henwood; Silvia Federici

Free trade, the Welfare State and Wages Speakers: Bill Tabb, Francis Piven

IMF, World Bank & the WTO: Can They Ever Change? Speakers: Robert Naiman, Barbara Garson

Debt, Structual Adjustment and the Global South Speakers: Dennis Brutus, Forrest Hylton, Carmen Ferradas

Globalization, the State, and Imperialism Speakers: Michael Hardt, Peter Bratsis

Environment on the Edge: The Politics of Global Warming & GM Food Speakers: Jonathan King

Corporate Rule and the Erosion of Democracy

Speakers: Robert Weissman, Bill DiFazio

1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH

2:00 - 3:45

The Culture of Neoliberalism Speakers: David Harvey, Randy Martin

The Corporate University Speakers: Barbara Bowen, Clyde Barrow

The US, Islam, and Terrorism Speakers: Tariq Ali, Stuart Schaar, Ellen Willis

The War at Home: Surveillence, Civil Liberties, and Dissent Speakers: Cory Robbin, Norman Siegel (not confirmed)

Is Capitalism Sustainable? Speakers: Stanley Aronowitz, Manuel DeLanda

4:00 - 6:00

Plenary: Alternatives to Globalization & War Speakers: Manning Marable, Mike Davis, Rabab Abdulhadi

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17

9:30

Plenary: The shape of the resistance Speakers: Leslie A. Kauffman, Kim Moody, Michael Letwin

11:15 - 1:00


>From anti-capitalism to anti-war: Where do we go next?
Speakers: Marina Sitrin, People's Law Collective/Anti-War Activist); Leslie Woods, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; Laura Fantoni, Italian Anti-Capitalist Activist

Breaking Up the Two Party System Speakers: Howie Hawkins and Joel Kovel, Green Party

Grassroots Media Speakers: Arun Gupta, NYC-IMC/Former Editor of the Guardian Newsweekly; Ana Nogueira, NYC-IMC/Founding member of IMCs in Argentina and Brazil; Chris Strohm, DC-IMC/Reporter, DC Free Press newspaper

Patents that Kill: Intellectual Property and the AIDS Epidemic Speakers: Asia Russell ACT UP-Philadelphia; Mark Milano, ACT UP-New York

Direct Action Gets the Goods Speakers: David Graeber and Brooke Lehman, Direct Action Network

Fault Lines of Empire: Colombia, Vieques, and Palestine Speakers: Safa Al-Ahmed, DC SUSTAIN Campaign; Zeno Wood, Colombia Action Committee; Freddie Marrero

1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH

2:00 - 3:45

The Prison-Industrial Complex: Social Control and Profit- Critical Resistance

Speakers: Luis Lopesand and Pilar Maschi, Critical Resistance - East

Organizing the Unorganized Speaker: Jose Schiffino, UNITE Local 169 and Working Families Party

Rebuilding a Humane Economy: Targeting Citigroup Speaker: Beka Economopoulos, Rainforest Action Network

Organizing Against Police Brutality: From Cincinnati to PG County Speakers: Life Allah, Cincinnati Cop Watch; Karen Allen, sister of Caesar Allen, killed by PG County Police; Linda Shade, Justice Action Coalition

Globalization on the Shop Floor Speakers: Pam Galpern, Steward, CWA Local 1101; Kim Moody, Author, Workers in a Lean World and former Director of Labor Notes; Mike Ruscigno, IBT Local 802 and Steering Committee, Teamsters for a Democratic Union

Global Indymedia Film Screening - IMC New York

4:00 - 6:00

Final Rally: Directions: The future of the movement

Speakers: Jeremy Brecher, Alex Callincos, Dennis Brutus

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