The Left Forum – the largest annual conference of a broad spectrum of left and progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public. in the United States – convenes each year in New York City. This year, the Left Forum is being organized this weekend, May 21-22, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave (Between 58th and 59th), in NYC.
Registration is available on site: http://www.leftforum.
This event includes programs on a wide range of issues, including a number of NLG members and activists. A guide to NLG related programming at the Left Forum is below (NOTE: if you’re an NLG member and don’t see your panel on this guide, please email international@nlg.org to add!) Topics of NLG member workshops include India, Venezuela, Palestine, labor organizing, migrant justice, Guantanamo, racism and repression, and mass defense. Details below!
Saturday, May 21
10:00 am – 11:50 am
Rise of Fascism and the Working Class Movement in India
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 1.85
Speakers:
Abhinav Sinha
Suzanne Adely
Rajendra Sahay
Saturday, May 21
10:00 am – 11:50 am
Fighting to Stay Alive: Mumia, Hep C and the Health Crisis Facing the Incarcerated
http://www.leftforum.org/
Speakers:
Johanna Fernandez
Five Maulimm-ak
Pam Africa
Robert Boyle
Saturday, May 21
12:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Katrina to Ayotzinapa: People’s Tribunals Condemn Crimes Against the People
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 1.89
Speakers:
Azadeh Shahshahani
Bernadette Ellorin
Bina Ahmad
Gill Boehringer
Facilitator: Joelle Eliza M. Lingat
Saturday, May 21
12:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Intifada in America: The History of the Palestine Left in the United States
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 2503
Speakers:
Suzanne Adely
Nerdeen Kiswani
Mohammed Nabulsi
Facilitator: Dan Cione
Saturday, May 21
12:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Close Guantánamo Now or Move Guantánamo North?
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 8.67
Speakers:
Seth Farber
Noor Mir
Omar Shakir
Facilitator: Debra Sweet
Saturday, May 21
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm
Resistance in Prisons for Immigrants
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 1.81
Speakers:
Fahd Ahmed
Abraham Paulos
Azadeh Shahshahani
Facilitator: My N. Le
Saturday, May 21
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm
Deep State: Cointelpro Post-9/11 — First They Came for the Muslims
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 1.127
Speakers:
Maury Salaakhan
Taalib-Din Shakir
Robert Boyle
Moderator: Zarinah Shakir
Saturday, May 21
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm
Silencing Dissent: False Accusations of Anti-Semitism Against Palestine Solidarity
http://www.leftforum.org/
Speakers:
Lamis Deek
Radhika Sainath
Mohammed Nabulsi
Moderator: David Letwin
Saturday, May 21
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm
What Has Happened to ‘Leftist Theology’ and What Has This Got to Do With Political Prisoners in the Day of the ‘trumpocalipse” and the Trump/clinton/obama Triumpherate?
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 1.129
Speakers:
Lynne Stewart
Jess Sundin
Anne Lamb
Pam Africa
Razakhan Shaheed
Tom Siracuse
Ramona Africa
Joel Meyers
Facilitator: Ralph Poynter
Saturday, May 21
5:20 pm – 7:10 pm
Labor for Palestine: From Low-wage workers to grad students, confronting Racism, Zionism & Injustice on the Picket Line.
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 1.124
Speakers:
Suzanne Adely (Co-convener, Labor for Palestine, Co-Chair, NLG International Committee)
Jaribu Hill (Founder, Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights
Amal Ahmad (GEO-UAW 2322, UMass-Amherst)
Ziad Dallal (Steward, GSOC-UAW 2110, NYU)
Sean Larsen, GSOC-UAW 2110 (NYU)
Saturday, May 21
5:20 pm – 7:10 pm
Defending Human Rights in Venezuela: Impunity, Justice and Social Movements
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 1.101
Speakers:
Francisco Torrealba (member of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Vice President of the Bolivarian Socialist Federation of Workers of America)
Two members, Comite de las Victimas de los Guarimbas
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan (NLG President)
Facilitator: Eva Golinger
Saturday May 21
5:15-7:00pm
China. The politics of peaceful rising in a world of collusion and contention
http://www.leftforum.org/content/china-politics-peaceful-rising-environment-collusion-and-contention
Rm. 1-85
Speakers:
Gary Hicks, Chair*
David Ewing*
Duncan McFarland
Norman Markowitz
Sunday, May 22
12:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Political Repression at the 2016 RNC/DNC and How We Can Use Collective Action to Fight Back!
http://www.leftforum.org/
Room 1.89
Speakers:
King Downing (NLG Mass Defense Director)
Lesley Wood
Kazembe Balagun
Facilitator: Kris Hermes
Sunday, May 22
12:00 pm – 1:50 pm
The Transatlantic Slippery Slope – Suppression of Freedom of Expression from Israel to the US
http://www.leftforum.org/
Speakers:
Rahul Saksena, Palestine Legal
Omar Shakir, CCR
Nadia Ben-Youssef, Adalah
