[act-ma] 3/20 Starting at 1:00 (Eastern): War in Ukraine, Avi Chomsky Hosts a Conversation

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Join Avi Chomsky on Sunday at 1:00 to discuss the War in Ukraine.
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Hear Alisa's analysis of the current moment.
BEYOND PUTIN, BEYOND NATO - GRASPING THE WAR IN UKRAINE


*KETI CHUKHROV, ALISA LASOTNIK, OLENA LYUBCHENKO, JONATHAN MICHAEL FELDMAN,
AND SUZI WEISSMAN HOSTS -  AVIVA CHOMSKY · JOE RAMSEY*

*SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2022 1:00 P.M. (EASTERN) ZOOM
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Join us for a deep dive into the war in Ukraine. We’ll be joined by voices
from Ukraine & Russia – co-hosted by Prof. Aviva Chomsky. Our panel
includes Olena Lyubchenko (Ukrainian scholar-activist, LeftEast.org), Suzi
Weissman (Jacobin contributor), Jonathan Feldman (economist, U. Stockholm),
Alisa LaSotnik (Ukrainian living in Spain), and Keti Chukhrov (Higher
School of Economics, Moscow).
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Preceded by a dramatic and ultimately self-fulfilling escalation of wartime
rhetoric, a barely-concealed “soft-power” media war, and on-the-ground
deployments of lethal weapons and troops, the invasion of Ukraine
nonetheless caught much of the world off-guard and quite disoriented. At
the very moment when global cooperation is most urgently needed to combat
catastrophic climate change, power politics over Ukraine brings to light
the unreconstructed and undiminished Cold War orientation of the US
military-industrial apparatus. As startlingly, just as Europe was to begin
its own accounting and assignment of responsibility for its public health
failures and dreadful pandemic toll, the resurrection of Cold War binaries
and its heretofore unthinkable rearmament re-organized its political
landscape.

Nothing in these observations can excuse the brutal invasion nor can they
detract from the human tragedy as Ukrainians die in their homes and bury
their dead. While the singular responsibility for these casualties lies
with Russia’s rulers, it is also true that there is a collective
responsibility to understand the context and history in order that the
propensity for war may be successfully challenged.*
Guest Bios

*Keti Chukhrov *is an associate professor at the School of Philosophy &
Сultural Studies at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Her latest
book Practicing the Good. Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism
(University of Minnesota Press, 2020) deals with the impact of socialist
political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Her full-length
books include: To Be—To Perform. ‘Theatre’ in Philosophic Critique of Art
(European Un-ty, 2011), and Pound &£ (Logos, 1999), and a volume of
dramatic writing: Merely Humans (2010). Her research interests and
publications deal with 1. Philosophy of performativity, 2. Soviet Marxist
philosophy and communist epistemologies 3. Art as the Institute of Global
Contemporaneity.

*Jonathan M. Feldman *specializes in research related to political economy,
disarmament, green economics and studies related to democracy. He is an
associate professor of Economic History at Stockholm University. He is also
the convenor of GlobalTeachIn.com.

*Alisa LaSotnik *was born in Lviv, Ukraine, in a Russian-Ukrainian-Jewish
family and raised abroad. She made a mini-doc, Fayanka in Fragments, during
the Orange Revolution in 2005 about the meaning of freedom for the divided
country. Currently in Spain and part of a network of refugee support. Until
2016, Alisa was a coordinator of encuentro5 in Boston.

*Olena Lyubchenko* is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, York
University, Toronto. Her research interests include neoliberal
restructuring, dispossession, and financialization of social reproduction
as well as struggles around life-making. Olena’s dissertation draws on
social reproduction feminism and traces the transformation of the gender
contract and social citizenship model from the Soviet to the post-Soviet
era in Russia.

*Suzi Weissman *is a Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College of
California, is the author of Victor Serge: A Political Biography (Verso
2013), hosts the Jacobin Radio podcast and broadcasts the weekly “Beneath
the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles. She sits on the editorial boards of
Critique and Against the Current, and is co-producer of the forthcoming
Lindy Laub documentary on Trotsky, “The Most Dangerous Man in the World.”
Hosts

*Aviva Chomsky *is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American
Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her many books include
Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of
Migration (2021) and Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (2014).
Her next book, “Is Science Enough? Forty Critical Questions about Climate
Justice” is due out in 2022. She has also co-edited several anthologies
including Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor
Movement in Boston (2021), and has been active in Latin America solidarity
and immigrants’ rights movements for several decades

*Joseph G. Ramsey *is a scholar-activist and organizer, based in
Dorchester, Massachusetts. He teaches English and American Studies at the
University of Massachusetts Boston and is host and co-producer of the
podcast Shelter & Solidarity: A Deep Dive with Artists and Activists. Joe
has edited four book-length anthologies, including the *Works & Days *volume,
Scholactivism: Reflections on Transforming Praxis, and is presently at work
on a book-length study of the critical communism of Richard Wright. His
writings have appeared in Black Agenda Report, Portside, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Jacobin Magazine, Slate, Red Wedge,
Counterpunch, and Mediations, as well as Cultural Logic and Socialism and
Democracy, where he is an Editorial Board member.
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Time Zones

*US PACIFIC*: 10:00 A.M. – NOON (LOS ANGELES)
*US EASTERN*: 1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P,.M. (NEW YORK/BOSTON/TORONTO)
*CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME*: 6:00 – 8:00 P.M./ 18:00 – 20:00 (VALENCIA,
STOCKHOLM)
*MOSCOW STANDARD TIME*: 8:00 – 10:00 P.M./ 20:00 – 22:00



* This necessarily removes the conversation from the finger-pointing arenas
of media spectacle and the literal war rooms of big power politics. The
episode of Shelter and Solidarity starts with the immediate situation in
Ukraine by exploring the situation of Ukrainians turned into refugees. But
we also look more closely at that nation-state’s social structure and its
incorporation into larger systems of global power. Similarly, we engage
with Russian experiences and how it is that we may understand the current
moment and Putin’s return to military means. But neither the Ukrainian nor
Russian vortices may be understood without a global frame one that
incorporates not just Eastward expansion of the NATO, but also the
construction of “the European,” and rivalries with China. Coupled with
serial US defeats in the Middle East, and the congealing of an energy and
climate politics into a coercive renegotiation of the world order, the
Eastern European tinderbox may well determine whether humanity as a whole
may have a chance to survive its multiple existential crises.

If this conversation surfaces the aforementioned complexities, it will have
succeeded. However, other serious questions will also have to be engaged
even if, necessarily, they will be left without conclusion:  Where does the
Russian invasion leave the global peace movement and the Left within the
United States? How does the invasion figure into the tortuous relationship
between the Left and the US Democratic Party, the elites of which are
actively pursuing a militarized foreign policy all while depending on left
and progressive forces to forestall domestic rightwing ascendence in the
upcoming mid-term elections?
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