Socialist Scholars Conference 2002

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The 2002 Socialist Scholars Conference was held April 12-14 at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science Foundation Building, New York.

Contents 1 Personnel 2 Thanks To: 3 Recordings of Sessions 4 Cover design: 5 Panels 6 References

Personnel

Thanks To:

At The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art:

• George Campbell, Jr. President
• David Greenstein, Director of Cooper Union Adult Education and Public Programs
• Christine Sarkissian
• John Lynch
• Winston Wilkerson

At the Graduate Center, CUNY:

• Democratic Socialists of America
• Doctoral Student Council, and Ph.D. Program in Sociology.

At the national office of Democratic Socialists of America:

• Frank Llewellyn^[2]

Recordings of Sessions

Contact Radio Free Maine: www.radiofreemaine.com

Cover design:

• Daphne Carr;
• Anora Mahmudova Design and layout of program^[3]

Panels

1. After 9/11: New Politics for Social Movements and the Left

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair Bogdan Denitch of Transition to Democracy
• Elaine Bernard of the Harvard Trade Union Program
• Bernard Cassen of ATTAC, France
• Manning Marable of Black Radical Congress
• Dot Keet of Alternative Information and Development Center
• Tariq Ali of the New Left Review

2. Clash of Fundamentalisms

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Wadood Hamad of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Dictatorship in Iraq
• Edward Said of Columbia University
• Nawal El-Saadawi author, Woman at Point Zero
• Tariq Ali of the New Left Review

3. The World Economy in Crisis

• Sponsor: Monthly Review
• Chair: Harry Magdoff of the Monthly Review
• John Bellamy Foster of the Monthly Review
• Ilene Graebel
• Michael Yates of the Monthly Review

4. Reparations

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: *Joel Washington of the Brecht Forum
• Maulana Karenga, of California State University, Long Beach
• Charles Baron, on the New York City Council
• Kibibi Tyehimba of NCOBRA, Washington DC
• Muntu Matsimela of the Black Radical Congress
• Roger Green of the New York State Assembly
• Joel Washington of the Black Radical Congress

5. Daniel Singer 2001 Prize: Anti-Capitalism and the Terrain of Social Justice

• Sponsor: The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
• Chair: *Percy Brazil of The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
• Sam Gindin of York University; recipient of 2001 Daniel Singer Millennium Prize
• Bill Fletcher of the Transafrica Forum
• Immanuel Wallerstein of Yale University

6. Taking Power: Green Visions

• Sponsor:Westside Greens
• Chair: Julia Willibrand of Westside Greens
• Howie Hawkins of the New York State Green Party
• Joel Kovel of the New York State Green Party
• Barbara Garson, author of Money Makes the World Go Around

7. Culture and Commodification

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Randal Doane of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
• Stephen Eric Bronner of Rutgers University
• Philip Green of the New School University
• Marshall Berman of CUNY Graduate Center

8. Philanthropy and the Left

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: David Maurrasse of Columbia University
• Colin Greer of the New World Foundation TBA

9. Argentina in World Context

• Sponsor: NACLA, Union for Radical Political Economics, Dollars & Sense
• Chair: *Hobart A. Spalding of Socialism and Democracy
• Carlos Vilas of the Universidad Nacional de Lanus (Argentina)
• Stella Calloni of La Jornada (Mexico)
• Paul Cooney of the Brecht Forum

10. How Can the Marxist Theory of the State Help Us Understand the War Against Terrorism?

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: *John Manley of the Stanford University
• Bertell Ollman of New York University
• John Ehrenberg of Long Island University
• Savas Michael Matsas of the University of Athens

11. The Future of the Women's Movement: Class, Race, and Globalization

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Hester Eisenstein of the CUNY Graduate Center
• Mojubaolu Okome of Brooklyn College
• Johanna Brenner of Portland State University
• Eleni Varikas of the University of Paris VIII

12. Organizing Immigrant Labor

• Sponsor: Working USA
• Chair: Peter Kwong of Hunter College
• Saru Jayaraman of H.E.R.E., Workers Center
• Jerry Dominguez of the Mexican-American Workers Association
• Steve Jenkins of Make the Road by Walking
• Aijen Poo of the Domestic Workers United

13. Safety Orange - A Look at the Criminal Justice System from an Architectural Perspective - A Film by James Davis, (with discussion)

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• James Davis director - Safety Orange
• Juliana Fredman director - Safety Orange
• Christian Parenti author, Lockdown America
• Peter Linebaugh of the University of Toledo

14. Alternative Media: Challenges and Obstacles

• Sponsor: La Lutta
• Chair: *Antonino D'Ambrosio La Lutta
• Simba Russo of IndyMedia
• Jen Angel of the Clamor Magazine
• Dee Dee Halleck of Paper Tiger TV
• Alfredo Lopez of the People-Link
• Bala Konkoth of Harlem Technology Center
• Jason Kucsma of Clamor Magazine

15. 9/11: What Does It Mean for the Left?

• Sponsor: Social Text
• Chair: Randy Martin of New York University
• Neil Smith of CUNY Graduate Center
• Stefano Harney of CUNY Graduate Center
• Joseph Massad of the Columbia University
• Meena Alexander, a poet
• Rupal Oza of Women's Studies, Hunter College

16. Remembering Stan Weir

• Sponsor: New Politics
• Chair: Gabe Gabrielsky Green Party USA, New Jersey
• Kim Moody of Labor Notes
• Staughton Lynd of IMPACT
• Herman Benson of the Association for Union Democracy

17. Just War? - A Debate

• Sponsors: The Nation Institute, Dissent
• Chair: *Maxine Phillips of Dissent
• Ian Williams of The Nation
• Tariq Ali of the New Left Review
• Michael Walzer of Dissent
• Stephen R. Shalom of the William Paterson University, New Jersey

18. The War on Terrorism and U.S. Imperialism

• Sponsor: Monthly Review
• Chair: Harry Magdoff of the Monthly Review
• Rahul Mahajan of the Nowar Collective
• Susan Muaddi Darraj
• Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the Transafrica Forum

19. 9/11 - Ecology at Ground Zero: What the Government's Not Telling Us

• Sponsor: Capitalism, Nature and Socialism
• Chair: Joel Kovel of Capitalism, Nature and Socialism
• Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News
• Joel Kupferman of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project
• Marilena Christodoulou of the Stuyvesant High School Parent Association
• Paul Bartlett of The Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College

20. The New Imperialism

• Sponsor: Socialist Register
• Chair: Leo Panitch of the Socialist Register
• Peter Gowan of the University of North London
• Michael Hardt of Duke University
• Amory Starr of Colorado State University
• Atilio Boron of CLACSO, Buenos Aires
• Sam Gindin of the Canadian Auto Workers

21. Heidegger IV: Metaphysics, Oppression, and Nazism

• Sponsor: Workers' Democracy Conference Committee
• Chair: *Matthew Helme of the Workers' Democracy Conference Committee
• Johannes Fritsche of Pennsylvannia State University - University Park
• Alex Steinberg, a contributor to the World Socialist Web Site
• Karl H. Nudelman of the Workers' Democracy Conference Committee

22. Labor and Global Capital

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Michael Rix of theAssociated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
• Damone Richardson of Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
• Geoff Ellis of the Fire Brigades Union, U.K.
• Thea Lee of AFL and CIO

23. Debating the Modern Meaning of Socialism

• Sponsor: Logos
• Chair: Michael Thompson of Logos
• Stephen Eric Bronner of Rutgers University
• Joseph Buttigieg of the University of Notre Dame
• Nadia Urbinati of Columbia University, TBA

24. Problems of Race and Class Within the Labor Movement

• Sponsor: Brecht Forum
• Chair: Cleo Silvers of the Local 1199 and SEIU
• Jerry Dominguez of the Mexican-American Workers Association
• Brenda Stokely of AFSCME and the Local 215
• Christian Lemoine of the Global Sweatshop Coalition
• Kim Moody of Labor Notes

25. Strategies in Web-Based Art and Video: Resistance and the Everyday

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Trebor Scholz, artist, Brooklyn
• Liz Canner, artist, Boston
• Ashley Hunt, a video-maker, Brooklyn
• The Institute For Applied Auto, New York
• Jenny Perlin, artist, Brooklyn
• Picture Project Projects, New York
• Alex Rivera, artist, New York
• Martha Rosler, artist, Brooklyn
• The Speculative Archive for Historical Clarification Los Angeles
• Valerie Tevere, artist, Brooklyn
• Christine Wang, independent new media curator

26. ENRON - Unnatural Disaster

• Sponsor: Union for Radical Political Economics and The Nation, Dollars and Sense
• Chair: Elizabeth Santucci of the New School University
• Ellen Frank of Dollars and Sense, Emmanuel College
• Nomi Prins, a former investment banker
• Tyson Slocum of the Public Citizen
• Doug Henwood of The Nation and Left Business Observer

27. Democracy, Community Radio and the Struggle for WBAI

• Sponsor: Local Advisory Board, WBAI
• Chair:Kenneth Bauzon of the WBAI Membership Campaign
• Mimi Rosenberg of WBAI
• Miguel Maldonado of the WBAI Local Advisory Board
• Mario Murillo of WBAI
• Paul Surovell of the WBAI and the Leafletting Campaign
• Robert Knight of WBAI
• Bernard White of WBAI

28. Fighting Identities: Race and Ethno- Nationalism

• Sponsor: Socialist Register
• Chair: Leo Panitch of the Socialist Register
• Susan Woodward of the CUNY Graduate Center
• Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the Transafrica Forum
• Nancy Leys Stephan of Columbia University
• Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University

29. News as Empire - News as Brand

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: William Solomon Rutgers University
• Richard Maxwell of Queens College
• Toby Miller of New York University
• Laurie Ouellette of Rutgers University

30. Socialism in Theory: Visualizing Alternatives

• Sponsor: Science & Society
• Chair: David Laibman of the City University of New York (CUNY)
• Diane Flaherty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Pat Devine of the Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K.

31. Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Global Justice

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference]]
• Chair: Nancy Holmstrom of Rutgers University
• Paul Le Blanc of La Roche College
• Kevin Anderson of the Northern Illinois University
• Michael Lowy of Espaces Marx, Paris
• Eleni Varikas of the University of Paris VIII

32. The State of the Left in Europe

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: John G. Mason of the William Paterson University of New Jersey
• Michael Chrapa of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (PDS), Berlin
• Philippe Marliere of the University College London
• Claudia Haydt of Militarization Information Center, Germany
• Mark Seddon of The Tribune, Labour Party U.K.

33. Challenging the Color Line: Du Bois for the 21st Century

• Chair: Joel Washington of the National Writers Union
• Anthony Monteiro of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
• Maulana Karenga of California State University, Long Beach, Organization of Us
• Brenda Stokely of AFSCME and the Local 215
• Odessa Weatherford Jacobs St. Joseph's College

34. U.S. Military Production: Economics and Politics

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Mort Frank of the Committees of Correspondence
• Bill Hartung of the World Policy Institute
• Chris Turner, a security analyst
• Anita Dancs of the National Priorities Project

35. Globalization and Ideology

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Joseph Buttigieg of the University of Notre Dame
• Luciana Castellina of Il Manifesto, Italy
• Stephen Gill of York University
• Frank Deppe of University of Marburg
• Mario Candeias of the Das Argument

36. Health Care: What Does John Q. Want and How Can He Get It?

• Sponsor: Physicians for a National Health Program
• Chair: Martha Livingston of the College at Old Westbury
• Joanne Landy of Physicians for a National Health Program
• Lou Levitt of Rekindling Reform
• Aaron Beckerman of Rekindling Reform
• Len Rodberg of Queens College
• Nick Unger of the Universal Health Care Action Network
• Mark Hannay of the Universal Health Care Action Network

38. Using the Arts to Build the Labor Movement

• Sponsor: Group for the Study of Working Class Life
• Chair: Michael Zweig of Group for the Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
• Henry Foner of the LaborArts
• Keri Amanda Myers of the LaborArts
• Esther Cohen of the Bread and Roses, 1199/SEIU
• Evelyn Jones Rich of the LaborArts
• Jesse Eustis of the Bread and Roses, 1199/SEIU

39. Welfare Reform 2002

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: *Charles Price-Reavis of the Rastafari Centralization Organization
• Mimi Abramovitz of Hunter College School of Social Work
• Trude Goldberg of the National Jobs for All Coalition

40. Remembering Martin Glaberman

• Sponsor: Tamiment Library, Midnight Notes, Bewick Editions
• Staughton Lynd of IMPACT
• Ferruccio Gambino of the University of Padua
• Peter Linebaugh of the University of Toledo
• Scott McLemee editor, C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism
• Gene Glaberman, activist, New York City
• Seymour Faber of the University of Windsor

41. Roundtable: Directions for the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Erin Kaiser of the Young Democratic Socialists, and Democratic Socialists of America
• Bernard Cassen of ATTAC, France
• Amory Starr of the Colorado State University
• Gerald Horne of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Dennis Brutus of the University of Pittsburgh
• Barbara Garson author of: "Money Makes the World Go Around"
• Dot Keet of the Institute for African Alternatives

42. Cold War Redux? Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference

• Chair: Marilyn Young of the New York University
• Bill Hartung of the World Policy Institute
• Ellen Schrecker of Yeshiva University
• Gilbert Achcar of Espaces Marx
• Peter Gowan of the University of North London

43. The Imperialism of Human Rights?

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Keitha Fine of the Eastern European Cultural Endowment
• Luciana Castellina of Il Manifesto
• Susan Woodward of the CUNY Graduate Center
• Paul Chevigny of the New York University Law School

44. How the Left Boxed Itself In

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Martha Rodriguez, of the Center for Children and Technology
• Barbara Epstein of the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Adolph Reed, Jr. of the New School University
• Bogdan Denitch of the Transition to Democracy
• Carl Bloice of the Committees of Correspondence

45. Eco-Socialism

• Sponsor: Capitalism, Nature and Socialism
• Chair: Patty Lee Parmalee of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, New York
• Joel Kovel of Capitalism Nature Socialism, New York
• Michael Lowy of Espaces Marx, Paris

46. Ending the Occupation

• Sponsor: Women in Black
• Chair: *Melanie Kaye of Kantrowitz Queens College Worker Education Extension Center
• Naomi Braine of Women in Black, New York
• Nadia Hijab author of Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel
• David Enoch of the Courage to Refuse, Israel
• Annemarie Jacir, filmmaker

47. Alternate Visions of Sexuality and Agency: Feminist Struggles After 9/11

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair:Robin Isserles Borough of Manhattan CC
• Jocelyn Boryczka of Hunter College
• Jennifer Disney of Winthrop University
• Dorinda Tetens of the CUNY Graduate Center

48. Theorizing Class

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: *Patricia Clough of the CUNY Graduate Center
• Stanley Aronowitz of the CUNY Graduate Center
• Michael Zweig of the Group for the Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
• Johanna Brenner of Portland State University

49. Socialism With Chinese Characteristics or Capitalism With a Red Hat?

• Sponsor: China Study Group
• Chair: Dong Xulin of the China Study Group
• Robert Weil of the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Liu Shengyu, a historian of science
• Peter Kwong of Hunter College

51. Privatization and Public Space: The Internet

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Neil Smith of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY
• Sabine Nuss of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Rainer Rilling Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Antonino D'Ambrosio of La Lutta
• Chris Agee of the Center for Non-Profit Technology

52. The Struggle to Save Social Security

• Sponsor: Workers Democracy Conference Committee
• Chair: Matthew Helme of Workers' Democracy Conference Committee
• Catherine Hill of the National Academy of Social Insurance
• Martin J. Sawma, Executive Director of the Emergency Committee To Defend Constitutional Welfare Right
• Fred Gaboury of the National Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy

53. Can the Left Speak to the Unconverted?: Messaging in the Mainstream Media

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Ian Williams of The Nation
• Jo Dipple of The Mirror Group, U.K.
• Dallas Galvin, journalist and documentarian

53.5 White Collar Sweatshop

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Jill Andresky Fraser, a Finance editor of Inc. Magazine
• Tom Croft of the Heartland Labor Capital Network
• Steve Early of the Communication Workers of America

54. Latin American Popular Movements - Acts of Resistance or Alternative Power?

• Sponsor: Brecht Forum
• Chair: Gerardo Renique of the Brecht Forum, City College,
• Octavio Ianni of the University of Sao Paulo
• Pablo González Casanova of UNAM, Mexico

55. Civil Liberties After 9/11

• Sponsor: Center for Constitutional Rights and National Lawyers Guild
• Chair: Michael Steven Smith, William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice
• Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights
• Clark Kissinger of Refuse and Resist
• Leonard Weinglass of the National Lawyers Guild
• Abdeen Jabara of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

56. Assessing the Global Justice Movement

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Joseph Buttigieg of the International Gramsci Society
• Stephen Gill of York University
• Christine Kelly of the William Paterson University of New Jersey
• Jim Chapin of the United Press International

57. The Child Exploitation Industry

• Sponsor: Family Advocracy Coalition
• Chair: Joanne Sirotkin of the Human Rights Attorney
• Rolando Bini, director of Parents in Action
• Jessica Watson-Crosby, director of the National Association of Former Foster Children
• Folasade Campbell, director of Concerned Citizens for Family Preservation

58. Childhood Lead Poisoning: An Environmental Justice Issue

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: *Evelyn A. Mauss, consultant from the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Marian Feinberg of the South Bronx Clean Air Coalition
• Matthew Chachere of the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp.
• Andrew Goldberg of the New York Public Interest Research Group

59. DSA Reception

• Sponsor: Democratic Socialists of America

60. 9/11: Community Solidarity and Municipal Incoherence

• Sponsor: [[Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Peter Kwong of Hunter College
• Peter Marcuse of Columbia University
• Shirley S. Kwan of the Lower Manhattan Residents Relief Coalition
• Robert Fitch of Long Island University
• Mike Wallace of Gotham Center, CUNY
• Alyssa Katz of City Limits
• Omar Henriquez of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
• Masuda Sultan of Women for Afghan Women

61. Hard Questions for the Peace Movement

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Erin Kaiser of the Young Democratic Socialists, DSA
• Adolph Reed, Jr. of the New School University
• Barbara Garson, author of Money Makes the World Go Round
• Barbara Epstein of the University of California - Santa Cruz
• Max Elbaum of War Times Organizing Committee

62. Europe v. America: Will Europe Follow the U.S. Into Iraq?

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: John G. Mason of the William Paterson University, New Jersey
• Susan Woodward of the CUNY Graduate Center
• Tobias Pfluger of Wissenschaft und Frieden
• Tariq Ali of the New Left Review
• Gilbert Achcar of Espaces Marx
• Gerald Horne of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Jim Chapin of United Press International

63. Digital Diploma Mills

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Randal Doane of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
• Joan Greenbaum of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY
• Larry Hanley of the City College of New York, CUNY

64. State Terrorism and Terrorizing Dissent

• Sponsor: Radical Philosophy Association
• Chair: Betsy Bowman of the Radical Philosophy Association
• Les Levidow of the Campaign Against Criminalizing Communities
• Will Miller of the University of Vermont
• Mitchell Cohen of Brooklyn Greens

65. What Direction for the Labor Movement?

• Sponsor: Working USA
• Chair: Immanuel Ness of Brooklyn College
• Saru Jayaraman of H.E.R.E. Workers Center
• Steve Early of the Communication Workers of America
• Elaine Bernard of the Harvard Trade Union Program
• Stanley Aronowitz of CUNY Graduate Center

66. Clash of Fundamentalisms II

• Sponsor: Campaign Against Sanctions and Dictatorship in Iraq
• Chair: Wadood Hamad of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Dictatorship in Iraq
• Carl Bloice of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
• Sandra Halperin of the University of Sussex, U.K.
• Ruchama Marton of Physicians for Human Rights, Israel
• Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies

67. New Labour and the Unions

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Ian Williams of The Nation
• Mark Seddon of The Tribune
• Geoff Ellis of The Fire Brigades Union
• Michael Rix of ASLEF

68. Marx and Wittgenstein: The Odd Couple

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Bertell Ollman New York University
• Piero Pinzauti, Italian philosopher
• James Marsh of Fordham University
• Ann Pomoroy of Stockton College

69. Marxist-Feminist Thought Today: A Roundtable

• Sponsor: Science & Society
• Chair: Lise Vogel of Rider University
• Martha E. Gimenez of the University of Colorado, Boulder
• Barbara Foley of Rutgers University, Newark
• Renate Bridenthal of Brooklyn College, CUNY

70. Anti-Globalization and the African Crisis: The World Summit on Sustainable Development

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Dennis Brutus of the University of Pittsburgh
• Michael Prokosch of United for a Fair Economy
• Silvia Federici of The Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa
• Muntu Matsimela of Black Radical Congress
• Cheryl Mwaria of Hofstra University

71. Weaving Class Into the Social Fabric: Class Conflict from Afghanistan, Down Broadway, into the Family

• Sponsor: AESA - Rethinking Marxism
• Chair: Harriet Fraad, psychotherapist
• Maliha Safri of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Catherine Mulder of the Franklin and Marshall College

72. The Legacy of Eqbal Ahmad

• Sponsor: of South End Press
• Chair: Zia Mian of Princeton University
• Nadia Hijab, author of "Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel"
• Smitu Kothari Lokayan, India

73. The New Dunayevskaya Collection on Hegel and Marx: Editor Meets Critics

• Sponsor: News & Letters Committees
• Chair: Anne Jaclard of News & Letters Committees
• Kevin Anderson of the Northern Illinois University
• Paul Le Blanc of La Roche College
• Eli Messinger of the Brecht Forum

74. Roundtable on Modern Socialist Strategies

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Chair: Keitha Fine of the Eastern European Cultural Endowment
• Michael Chrapa of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Leo Panitch of the Socialist Register
• Dot Keet of the Institute for African Alternatives
• Frank Deppe University of Marburg
• Pablo Gonzalez of Casanova UNAM, Mexico
• Johanna Brenner of the Portland State University
• Mario Candeias of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

75. Security: Politics, Technology, Environment

• Sponsor: the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Jonathan Schell of The Nation Institute
• Nancy Holmstrom of Rutgers University
• Tobias Pfluger of Wissenschaft und Frieden
• Claudia Haydt of the Militarization Information Center, Germany

76. Southwest Asia and U.S. Policy

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Nadia Hijab, author of : "Citizens Apart: a Portrait of Palestinians in Israel"
• Lawrence Lifschultz of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies
• Olivier Roy of C.N.R.S., France
• Tariq Ali of the New Left Review

77. Teamsters and Turtles: Labor and the Anti-Globalization Movement

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Immanuel Ness of Working USA
• Elaine Bernard of the Harvard University Trade Union Program
• Christine Kelly of the William Paterson University of New Jersey
• Simon Greer of Jobs with Justice, New York
• Matt Schlobohm of Maine Center for Justice, Ecology and Democracy
• Ethan Miller of the Maine Center for Justice, Ecology and Democracy

78. Free Higher Education

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Renate Bridenthal Emerita, Brooklyn College, CUNY
• Stanley Aronowitz of CUNY Graduate Center
• Adolph Reed, Jr. of the New School University
• Mark Dudzic of P.A.C.E., Local 2-149

79. Report from Porto Alegre

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Jean-Pierre Page of the Observateur de la Mondialisation
• Tania Noctiummes of the Observateur de la Mondialisation
• Michael Lowy of Espaces Marx, Paris
• Raj Patel of Cornell University

80. Troubled Markets, Flawed Regulations

• Sponsor: AESA - Rethinking Marxism
• Chair: Richard D. Wolff of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• David Brennan of the Franklin and Marshall College
• Max Fraad Wolff of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Philip Kozel of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

81. Ten Years After the Fall: The Emergence/Resurgence of the Left?

• Sponsor: Critique
• Chair: Susan Weissman of Saint Mary's College of California
• Hillel Ticktin of Critique
• Savas Michael Matsas of the University of Athens

82. After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair:Jon Rynn of the CUNY Graduate Center
• Seymour Melman of Columbia University
• Robert Paaswell of the City College of New York, CUNY
• Jim Haughton of Fight Back

83. The Left and the United Nations

• Sponsor: [[Socialist Scholars Conference, Global Policy Forum]]
• James A. Paul of the Global Policy Forum
• Ian Williams of The Nation
• Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies
• Joanne Landy of New Politics

84. The Bottom of the Barrel: Workfare and Low-Wage Labor

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: William DiFazio CityWatch WBAI
• David Van Arsdale of Tompkins-Cortlandt Community College
• Elliott Skip Roseboro of WEP Workers Organizing Committee

85. War, Capitalist Crisis and the Struggle Against Globalization

• Sponsor: Radical Philosophy Association
• Chair: Bob Stone of Long Island University
• George Caffentzis of the University of Southern Maine
• Silvia Federici of Hofstra University
• Eddie Yuen of Brooklyn College, CUNY

86. Radical Subjectivity and Social Transformation

• Sponsor: Beyond Capital Study Group
• Irv Kurki, author of Domination, Addiction and Liberation
• Edith White of the South Shore AIDS Project
• Yasmin Dixon of SABA International Theatre

87. Final Plenary: Bush's America - What Future for Democracy?

• Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
• Chair: Bogdan Denitch, Honorary Chair of Democratic Socialists of America
• Mark Seddon of The Tribune, U.K.
• Christine Kelly of the William Paterson University of New Jersey
• Hector Figueroa of the Local 32B-J, and Service Employees International Union
• Barbara Epstein of the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Tom Palley of AFL-CIO

Panel 13 Safety Orange - A Look at the Criminal Justice System from an Architectual Perspective - A Film by James Davis

Safety Orange examines how the architecture of public schools has come to mirror that of the prison over the last thirty years. The film outlines how the burgeoning criminal justice system has spilled over from the prison into society generally, for some as irrational fear of crime and persecution and for others a very real experience of repression at the hands of the state. The film features interviews with *Ruth Wilson Gilmore, *Mike Davis, *Peter Linebaugh and Roz Braz.^[4]

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