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AK Press at Left Forum: March 19-21

Posted on March 17th, 2010 in AK Authors!, Happenings

Those of you attending the Left Forum this year in New York should, as always, stop by the AK Press table and say hi. You’ll also have a chance to check out several AK authors who are giving talks. Here’s the lowdown:

Left Forum 2010
THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD:
Rekindling the Radical Imagination

March 19-21
Pace University
One Pace Plaza
New York, NY 10038

Session 1: SATURDAY, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Post-Identity Politcs
W-615
Kevin Alexander Gray – Author of Waiting for Lightening to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics

Lessons from Latin American Social Movements for a US in Crisis
W612
Ben Dangl – Author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
Marina Sitrin – Editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina

Session 2: SATURDAY, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Reimagining Society: The Nature of the Task
Schimmel
Chris Spannos (Chair) – Editor of Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century
Michael Albert – Author of Moving Forward: Program for a Participatory Economy

Session 3: SATURDAY, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
W510
Cindy Milstein – Author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations

Envisioning Real Utopias
W612
Peter Staudenmaier – Co-author of Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience

Envisioning Self-Governance
E328
Cindy Milstein – Author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations

Academic Repression Book Talk
W602
Theory and Action
A panel of contributors to Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex
Anthony J. Nocella, II (Chair)
Liat Ben-Moshe and Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter
Victoria Fontan
Deric Shannon

Rethinking the National Question in the United States
W610
Fred Ho – Editor of Legacy to Liberation: Politics & Culture of Revolutionary Asian/Pacific America

Ten Years Later: Organizers Reflect on the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
W507
Chris Dixon (Chair) Contributor to The Battle of the Story of “The Battle of Seattle”

Horizontalism and Grassroots Democracy in the Americas
W503
Marina Sitrin – Editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina

SESSION 5: SUNDAY, 10:00 AM – 11:50 PM

Marxism and Anarchism: The Relevance of Radical Traditions Today
W605
Peter Staudenmaier – Co-author of Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience

SESSION 6: SUNDAY, 12:00 – 2:00 PM

Punk Rock: Cultural Space For Transformative Politics?
W621
Josh MacPhee – Co-editor of Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority

Envisioning a Post Sexist Society
W609
Chris Spannos (Chair) – Editor of Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century

SESSION 7: SUNDAY, 3:00 – 4:50 PM

Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change
Schimmel
Christian Parenti – Author of Taking Liberties: Policing, Prisons, and Surveillance in an Age of Crisis

Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
Student Union
Cindy Milstein – Author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations

The Left in a Post-Racial United States
E323
Fred Ho – Editor of Legacy to Liberation: Politics & Culture of Revolutionary Asian/Pacific America

Reimagining a New Economic System
W510
Michael Albert – Author of Moving Forward: Program for a Participatory Economy

5:30 PM Sunday CLOSING PLENARY

Rekindling the Radical Imagination
Closing Address: Noam Chomsky -Author of Chomsky on Anarchism, At War with Asia, Radical Priorities, Language and Politics, Imperial Grand Strategy, and The Imperial Presidency