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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: tompaine@hotmail.com<br>To: peaceworks@lists.riseup.net<br>Subject: Who's Speaking at Left Forum 2013 - Panels and Workshops<br>Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 06:03:11 +0000<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">[Left Forum is being "live streamed..." Details in a seperate email to follow. cheers James]<br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: leftforum@leftforum.org<br>Subject: Who's Speaking at Left Forum 2013 - Panels and Workshops<br>To: tompaine@hotmail.com<br>Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:01:12 -0400<br><br>
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">Having trouble viewing this mailing? View it </span><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/content/whos-speaking-left-forum-2013-panels-and-workshops-0" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">Please help spread the word about Left Forum 2013. <a href="http://www.leftforum.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=529&qid=210224" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank">Click here</a>.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff;font-size:x-large;">Here is a sampling of speakers, and the panels and workshops they are doing at this year's Left Forum. </span></h3>
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<span style="color:#ffffff;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Click</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">or</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">mouse</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">over</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">names</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">below</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">to</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">see</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">thier panels</span>. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Frances+Fox+Piven&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Occupy and the Future of the Left;;Imagine living in a socialist USA, Part l.; A Basic Income for All?" target="_blank">Frances Fox Piven</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Medea+Benjamin&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="US Imperialism in the Age of Obama" target="_blank">Medea Benjamin</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Richard+wolff&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Let Fury Have the Hour: Art Confronts Left Politics; Marxism and Postmodernism -- enemies or allies?; Workplace democracy and democratic ownership: Moving from theory to strategy" target="_blank">Richard Wolff</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=laura+flanders&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Obama's Second Term: Assessments and Criticisms" target="_blank">Laura Flanders</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=tiokasin&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Native/Indigenous Radio Media in Turtle Island (North America); Indigenize Our Paradigms: Restoring Sacred Sustainability" target="_blank">Tiosakin Ghosthorse</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=plume&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="ndigenize Our Paradigms: Restoring Sacred Sustainability" target="_blank">Debra White Plume</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=Harnessing+Humor+to+Turbo+Charge+Engagement&participant=Michael+Moore&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Harnessing Humor to Turbo Charge Engagement" target="_blank">Michael Moore</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Ras+Baraka&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Transformative Dimensions of Local and International Politics: Astride or Outside the Revolution" target="_blank">Ras Baraka</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Antonino+D%27Ambrosio&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Let Fury Have the Hour: Art Confronts Left Politics; Let Fury Have the Hour: FIlm Screening" target="_blank">Antonino D'Ambrosio</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Bertha+Lewis&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Foundations of Economic Justice: Low-wage Workers Forward!; Urban redevelopment. From NJ Nets and Atlantic Yards to FreshDirect's Plans to move to the Bronx. Can Gentrification and Corporate Development Benefit the Poor?" target="_blank">Bertha Lewis</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Ellen+David+Friedman&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="From Chinatown to China - Building Grassroots Solidarity through Organizing; Rank & File Unionism in a Time of Austerity: Heath Care Unions on the Front Line" target="_blank">Ellen David Friedman</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=John+Fugelsang&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Harnessing Humor to Turbo Charge Engagement" target="_blank">John Fugelsang</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Jeremy+Glick&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="500 Years of Machiavelli's The Prince: Organization, Desire, Communism; The Transformative Dimensions of Local and International Politics: Astride or Outside the Revolution" target="_blank">Jeremy Glick</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Josefa+Salmon&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="A Conversation with Alvaro Garcia Linera: A Film and Discussion" target="_blank">Josefa Salmon</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Doug+Henwood&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Shrinking Financial Capital: Why and How?; Beyond Bloomberg: The Future of New York; Catastrophism; The Crisis of Capitalism: Five Years Later" target="_blank">Doug Henwood</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Paul+Street&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Green-Red New Deal: Capitalism, Climate Catastrophe, and the Alternative; The Marginalized Left: Lessons from Past and Recent Histories; Black Politics at the Tail End of Obama - and Beyond" target="_blank">Paul Street</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=ratner&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Imagine living in a socialist USA, Part Il: Making The American Socialist Revolution" target="_blank">Michael Ratner</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Patrick+Bond&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The War on Africa; The New Imperialism in Africa; Climate justice: Challenges and prospects for an emerging movement; BRICS: Which side are they on?; Imperialism and Ecology" target="_blank">Patrick Bond</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Lamis+Deek&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Fundamental Issue: Palestinian Right of Return; Emerging Revolt in the Arab World: Egypt, Palestine and Beyond; Deadly Economies: Israel's Role in Worldwide Repression; How to solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict: 0, 1 or 2 State Solution" target="_blank">Lamis Deek</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Andrew+Ross&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="What Can Environmentalism Do?" target="_blank">Andrew Ross</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Joel+Kovel&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Ecosocialism: Coming to a Horizon Near You; Imagine living in a socialist USA, Part l." target="_blank">Joel Kovel</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Deepa+Kumar&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Empire, the national security state and racism during the Obama era; Hollywood and CIA. (Hollywood as Propaganda Ministry: Ideological confluence, security state influence, co-creation of enemies. Counterpropaganda.)" target="_blank">Deepa Kumar</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Dr.+Margaret+Flowers&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Ecological Crisis and the Catastrophe of Environmental Illness" target="_blank">Dr. Margaret Flowers</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Norman+Finkelstein&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="How to solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict: 0, 1 or 2 State Solution" target="_blank">Norman Finkelstein</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Gabriela+Rendon&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="CitySteading: Civic Agency and the The Right to the City" target="_blank">Gabriela Rendon</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Chip+Berlet&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Barriers to Transformation: Government Repression and White Supremacy" target="_blank">Chip Berlet</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Radhika+Desai&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Future of World Capitalism; BRICS: Which side are they on?; The Crisis of Capitalism: Five Years Later" target="_blank">Radhika Desai</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Wei+Xiaoping&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="MEGA(2) and the Revolution in The Philosophy of Marx; China, the Panda in the left's living room" target="_blank">Wei Xiaoping</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Monica+Perez+Nevarez&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Pathways towards a Sustainable World: Strategies for Occupying our Economy" target="_blank">Monica Perez Nevarez</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Bruno+Gull%c3%ac&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="500 Years of Machiavelli's The Prince: Organization, Desire, Communism; Crisis and the Left in Europe: The Cases of Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain" target="_blank">Bruno Gulĺ</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Patricia+Clough&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Ecstatic Corona" target="_blank">Patricia Clough</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Freddy+Bastone&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Contemporary Maoism and Radical Politics" target="_blank">Freddy Bastone</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Abby+Scher&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Unions and the Worker Coop Movement Building Power" target="_blank">Abby Scher</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Gabriel+Nadeau-Duboi&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Class struggle in contemporary Québec, contesting Austerity and Neoliberalism before and after the "Printemps érable"; Donning the red square with CLASSE: the organizational and political aspects of the 2012 Québec mass student movement and strike" target="_blank">Gabriel Nadeau-Duboi</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Eddie+Yuen&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Revolution of Everyday Life: Are Situationist Ideas Still Relevant?; Catastrophism" target="_blank">Eddie Yuen</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Kali+Akuno&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Jackson Plan: The Struggle for Self-Determination and Economic Democracy in Jackson, MS; Deadly Economies: Israel's Role in Worldwide Repression" target="_blank">Kali Akuno</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Herb+Boyd&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Detroit: An Ecological Disaster That Didn't Have to Happen; John Brown: Trumpet of Freedom (A Play)" target="_blank">Herb Boyd</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Bitta+Mostofi&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Economic, Ecological, and Social Crisis in Iran: The Impact of U.S. Sanctions" target="_blank">Bitta Mostofi</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Sutapa+Chattopadhyay&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Penal states, Border choreography, Bare bodies; Militant particularisms within and beyond corporate academy; Ecofeminist Ecosocialism in Action: Perspectives on Contemporary Movements for a Planet Beyond Capitalism" target="_blank">Sutapa Chattopadhyay</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=forlano&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Harnessing Humor to Turbo Charge Engagement" target="_blank">Julianna Forlano</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Tahir+Della&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Fighting Racism in a Post-Racial World" target="_blank">Tahir Della</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Arun+Gupta&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Barriers to Transformation: Government Repression and White Supremacy; Imagine living in a socialist USA, Part l.; Labor the Left, and AFL-CIO's 2013 big change of strategy" target="_blank">Arun Gupta</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Pam+Africa&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home & Free the Move 9; Targeted killings of Americans on American soil: the story of Lynne Stewart, political prisoners& all progressive struggles in America.; The Free Mumia Movement: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Anti-imperialism" target="_blank">Pam Africa</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Walter+Tsou%2c+MD%2c+MPH&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Political-Industrial Complex: How America's Corporate-Political Axis Destroys Democracy and Enriches the Few" target="_blank">Walter Tsou, MD, MPH</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Partho+Sarathi+Ray&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Political Ecologies of Developmental Terrorism: Neoliberalism and People's Resistance in India" target="_blank">Partho Sarathi Ray</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Sarah+Jaffe&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="What Would/Does a Feminist Labor Movement Look Like?" target="_blank">Sarah Jaffe</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Bahar+Behbahani&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Political Photography: Satires, Cartoons, Statements-Staged Photography and Digital Collages" target="_blank">Bahar Behbahani</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Glen+Ford&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Does the National Initiative to Hire Veterans First help facilitate equity or deny it to others?; Imperialism in Africa and Building a Mass Resistance; Black Politics at the Tail End of Obama - and Beyond" target="_blank">Glen Ford</a></em></strong></span></td>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Sutapa+Chattopadhya&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Penal states, Border choreography, Bare bodies; Militant particularisms within and beyond corporate academy; Ecofeminist Ecosocialism in Action: Perspectives on Contemporary Movements for a Planet Beyond Capitalism" target="_blank">Sutapa Chattopadhya</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Ben+Barber&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Obama's Second Term: Assessments and Criticisms" target="_blank">Ben Barber</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Nancy+Romer&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Food Justice, Labor Rights and the Environment; The Radical Potential of the Food Movement: Sustainability, Justice, and Health" target="_blank">Nancy Romer</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Peter+Bratsis&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Quest For Free Community: Communitarian Anarchism, Cooperative Commonwealth, or Something Other; 500 Years of Machiavelli's The Prince: Organization, Desire, Communism; Crisis and the Left in Europe: The Cases of Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain" target="_blank">Peter Bratsis</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Michael+Pelias&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Quest For Free Community: Communitarian Anarchism, Cooperative Commonwealth, or Something Other; 500 Years of Machiavelli's The Prince: Organization, Desire, Communism" target="_blank">Michael Pelias</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Nellie+Hester+Bailey&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Lil Mama's Tool Shed: Black and Brown Women Strategies/Tools for Liberation; Black Politics at the Tail End of Obama and Beyond" target="_blank">Nellie Hester Bailey</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Zohra+Ahmed&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Targeted Killing, Drone Warfare, Surveillance & Grassroots Resistance: the Obama Doctrine" target="_blank">Zohra Ahmed</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Brian+Tokar&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Eco-capitalism and the myths of the "green economy"; Climate justice: Challenges and prospects for an emerging movement; The revolutionary project of social ecology" target="_blank">Brian Tokar</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Natassa+Romanou&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Syriza Moment: Labor and Ecological Strategies for the Greek Left" target="_blank">Natassa Romanou</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Divine+Muragijimana&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The African Diaspora Re-Engaging with Africa" target="_blank">Divine Muragijimana</a></strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=betty+davis&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Lil Mama's Tool Shed: Black and Brown Women Strategies/Tools for Liberation" target="_blank"> Betty Davis</a></span></strong></td>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Michael+Premo&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Occupy Sandy: The Unofficial Response to an Unprecedented Disaster" target="_blank">Michael Premo</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Betsy+Reed&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Beyond Bloomberg: The Future of New York" target="_blank">Betsy Reed</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Richard+Smith&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Marxism and the Ecological Crisis: a World to Win; Is There an Ecologically Sustainable Alternative? Democracy, Planning and Markets in the Next System; China, Africa and Capitalist Destruction of the Planet" target="_blank">Richard Smith</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Costas+Panayotakis&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Future of World Capitalism; Environmental & Social Struggles in Greece (The Case of Skourgies- Halkidiki)" target="_blank">Costas Panayotakis</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Steve+Williams&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Fighting Racism in a Post-Racial World" target="_blank">Steve Williams</a></em></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Charles+Lenchner&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="From hierarchy to network: Can trade unions and NGOs make the transition to horizontalism?; Running Against 'the Man'; Utilizing Grassroots Organizing Tools to Change City Hall'" target="_blank">Charles Lenchner</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Cheri+Honkala&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Road to the Third United States Social Forum-Towards a Social Forum of a New Type; Green Shadow Cabinet: Another Government is Possible; 5 Years Longer, 5 Years Stronger: What Will it Take to Move from Resistance to Revolution?" target="_blank">Cheri Honkala</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Yolanda+Martin&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Global Punitiveness and Social Waste: the Plight of the Deportee" target="_blank">Yolanda Martin</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Walda+Katz-Fishman&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Building Cooperative Alliances and Struggling for Political Unity between Radical Scholars and Social Movements; The 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis; Building a Global Movement for Radical Transformation: An Orientation to the US and World Social Forum Process" target="_blank">Walda Katz-Fishman</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Rukia+lumumba&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Hip Hop: The Art of Resistance" target="_blank">Rukia Lumumba</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Anja+Rudiger&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Domino Effect: Growing the Healthcare Is a Human Right Movement, One State after Another" target="_blank">Anja Rudiger</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Helen+Redmond&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Drug War in Latin America: ¡Estamos Hasta la Madre! (We are fed up!)" target="_blank">Helen Redmond</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Dan+La+Botz&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Class Struggle in North America: A Discussion of Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America" target="_blank">Dan La Botz</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Sandy+Jimenez&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="World War 3 Illustrated 33 years of confrontational comix" target="_blank">Sandy Jimenez</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Bruno+Bosteels&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="A Conversation with Alvaro Garcia Linera: A Film and Discussion; The Renewal of Radical Thought and the Question of Communism" target="_blank">Bruno Bosteels</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Martha+Livingston&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Organizing for Health Care Justice in the Age of Austerity and the Affordable Care Act" target="_blank">Martha Livingston</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Betty+Wambui&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="Chinua Achebe - His Life, His Legacy" target="_blank">Betty Wambui</a></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.leftforum.org/panels/2013/schedule?title=&participant=Vivek+&sponsor=&session=All&room=All&field_paneltopics_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_affinity_value_many_to_one=All&field_panel_tracks_value_many_to_one=All" title="The Question of Strategy after Occupy; Grassroots Visions of Socialism: The Growing Vision of Alternatives to Capitalism Emerging from Contemporary Social Movements" target="_blank">Vivek Chibber</a> </em></strong></span></div>
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