2019 Program

Session A: Friday June 28th, 5:00pm - 7:00 pm
		Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Lenin: His Works' Pertinence Here and Now	Richard D. Wolff, Chris L Hedges, Laura Flanders, Tim Schermerhorn		Room: LLC 124
Panel	Election Integrity: Publicly Verified Elections and Informed Public Are Key to De-Corrupting Our Democracy!	Joel Simpson, John Brakey, Susan Pynchon, Chris Sautter, Lulu Friesdat		Room: LLC 122
Workshop	Coordinating Twitterstorms to Win on Social Media	Kedar Reddy, Faye Hayes, Theeba Soundararajan		Room: H206
Panel	The Shared Stories of Religion and Socialism	Daniel Joslyn, Girim Jung, Hasia Diner, Gary Dorrien, Sarah Lyons, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza	New York City Democratic Socialists of America, Religion and Socialism Caucus	Room: LLC 116
Panel	Lessons from the Warzone: A New Model for Engaging Campuses, Creating Dialogue, and Fighting Extremism	John Kirbow, Michael Walsh		Room: H305
Panel	Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism, and the New Anti-Semitism	Savannah Gordon, Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Ronny Nuñez, Kitty Pryde	Outlive Them NYC	Room: H307
Panel	Drinking the 'Trope'-icana: Weaponizing Anti-Semitism Against the Left	Sheldon Ranz, Rose Ossip, Noah Kulwin, April Aviva Baskin, Leen Dweik	Social Democrats USA	Room: H202
Panel	Confronting Race and Racism in Education	Erik Jacobson, Andy Beutel, Dianne Ramdeholl		Room: H203
Panel	Historians and the Current Crisis: Old/New Ideas for Organizing against Wealth and Power	Jerise Fogel, Michael Schwartz, Joshua Murray	Historians for Peace and Democracy	Room: H204
Panel	Going forward with the Media in the Left today: The Pacifica Case	James Dingeman, Grace Aaron, Michael D. D. White, Carolyn Birden		Room: H302
Panel	The Rise and Demise (Hopefully) of Toxic Masculinity	Lauren Langman, Harriet Fraad, James Parisot	Democracy at Work	Room: H303
Panel	The Housing Question	Thomas Wensing, Marty Rowland, Walter South		Room: H213
Panel	Combating US War and Regime Change Threats against Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.	Gilberto Javier Cabrera, Dan Kovalik, Bahman Azad	Chicago ALBA Solidarity, US Peace Council	Room: H214
Panel	Muslim Political Prisoners and the EGO Relief Act	Steve Downs, Tarik Shah, Mel Underbakke		Room: H215
Panel	NYC Libraries: A Public Realm And Democratic Commons Under Siege As A Panoply of Interests Align To Dismantle Them	Michael D. D. White	Citizens Defending Libraries, Committee To Save The New York Public Library, People Protecting Public Property, Committee To Structurally Support Democracy	Room: H216
Panel	Writing Dissent in Crime Fiction	S.A. Solomon, Pedro Serrano, Kenneth Wishnia	PM Press	Room: H313
Panel	The Politics of Pesticides: Some things too many Leftists don't think about and should	Cathryn Swan, Robin Falk Esser, Jonathan Latham, Jack Shalom, Mitchel Cohen, Joel Kupferman, Aton Edwards	The No Spray Coalition	Room: H314

Friday June 28th, Film Screenings 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
			Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Film Screening	Screening: "The Corporate Coup d'Etat"				Room: LLC 124
Film Screening	OffCenter: The Emergence of a Counterculture Linked to POC and Queer Folk Existing in Small-Town Texarkana		Aylin R Sözen	Independent filmmakers	Room: LLC 116

Session 1: Saturday June 29th, 10:00am - 12:00pm
		Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Black Liberation Strategies in the Empire of Exceptionalism	Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, Nellie Hester Bailey, Glen Ford, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Raymond Nat Turner, Bruce Dixon	Black Agenda Report	Room: LLC 124
Book Reading	How America Became Capitalist: Race, Class, Gender, and Empire	James Parisot, Leo Panitch	Pluto Press	Room: LLC 122
Workshop	Solving Climate Change: Tools for the Emotional Work	Maritza Arrastia, Cecilia Lim, Stephanie Low, Karim Lopez	May First/People Link, Sustaining All Life	Room: H206
Book Reading	Between Earth and Empire: International Movements for Social and Ecological Regeneration with John P. Clark and Matt Meyer	John P Clark, Matt Meyer	PM Press	Room: H210
Panel	Race, Class, Gender, and the University: Struggles Within and Beyond the Campus Walls	John W Maerhofer, Basuli Deb, Kanishka Chowdhury, Joseph G Ramsey	Socialism & Democracy	Room: LLC 116
Panel	Xinjiang Reconsidered: Chinese Terror Capitalism, Internal Colonialism, and Neoplatonism	Zenab Ahmed, Gerald Roche, Darren Byler		Room: H305
Workshop	The History of the NYC Tenant Movement--An Interactive Workshop	Susanna Blankley , Marika Dias, Alejandro Coriat, Robert Villagomez		Room: H307
Panel	Understanding Right Wing Internationalism	Andreas Günther, Susanne Götze, Esther Solano Gallego, Talia Lavin, Chip Berlet	Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office	Room: H202
Panel	Views on Women´s Rights and Resistance from Literature, Education, Poetry, and Activism	Lea Diaz, Linda Morales Caballero, Mónica Sarmiento Castillo, Marisa Russo		Room: H203
Panel	Towards Building a Poor People's Army: Organizing and Fighting for Our Lives!	Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture, Cheri Honkala, Rev. Keith Collins, Sandra Rivera-Colon, Tanya Curry, Nick Carmack, Alison Hawver McDowell		Room: H204
Panel	Pan Africanism: A Solution to the Neo-Liberal Disaster	Kurt Young, Herbert Brewer, John Tilghman, Godfrey Vincent		Room: H302
Panel	Disaster Capitalism, Colonialism and Climate Change: Puerto Rico in Crisis and Resistance	Natasha L Bannan, Eva Prados, Xiomara Caro, Yarimar Bonilla	LatinoJustice PRLDEF	Room: H303
Panel	The Left Project in Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Future	Carl I Cohen, Tamar Lavy, Elan Cohen , Peter Stastny, Xinlin L Chen	Radical Caucus of Members of the American Psychiatric Association	Room: H213
Panel	Activists United: Free Bedouins From Israeli Occupation Death Grip	Jacqueline T Basker, Frank Romano, Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Miljan Peter ILich, Farid Bitar		Room: H214
Panel	Continuing Solidarity with Cuba in the U.S.	Nora Gallardo-Hammond, John McAulifF, Ike Nahem, Susan Metz	IFCO/Pastors for Peace, 26th of July Movement US, Sociedad Cultural Jose Marti (SCJM) Havana, Cuba, Fund for Reconciliation and Development, International Playback Theatre Network	Room: H215
Panel	Resisting the Anti-Defamation League's Attacks Against Communities of Color—Nationally and Internationally	Phan Nguyen, Andom Ghebreghiorgis, Theo Rehm	Drop the ADL	Room: H216
Panel	Jazz and Self Determination: A Social History #4	Ras Moshe Burnett, Greg Tate, Ahmed Abdullah, Ted Daniel, William Parker, Basir Mchawi, Althea SullyCole, Jeremiah Hosea		Room: H313
Panel	Is There a Socialist Case for Reparations?	Robert Cuffy, Edna Bonhomme, Marc W Polite, Jawanza Williams, Jasmine Szympruch	NYC DSA Afrosocialist PoC Caucus	Room: H314
Panel	Beyond Utopias, Beyond Partial Fixes: Envisioning the Structure of Socialism	Paddy Quick, David Laibman, Julio Huato, Alexander Buzgalin , Barbara Foley	Science & Society	Room: H315
Panel	100 Years Ago: Revolution in Germany	Christoph Lichtenberg, Jason Wright, Katharine Corp	Bolshevik Tendency	Room: H316
Panel	A Necessary Conversation about -Isms: Institutional Racism, Colorism, Internalized Racism and Social Mobilization in America	Maria Santiago-Valentín, Maria J Andrade, Luisa Torres, M.A., M.B.A, Lamie R Jimmeh, Priscilla Garcés		Room: H201
Panel	What Is Fascism and How Do We Fight It.	Despina Lalaki, Iannis Delatolas , Matthew N Lyons, Hemani P Hughes		Room: H301
Book Reading	Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work with Jenny Brown and Laura Tanenbaum	Laura Tanenbaum, Jenny Brown	PM Press	Room: 4th Floor Humanities Lounge
Workshop	The Rising Movement for a People's Party	Carol Ehrle, Rod Brana, Mateo Sluder, Suzanne O'Keefe, Nick Brana	Movement for a People's Party	Room: H209
Panel	The Green New Deal	Kali Akuno, Max Ajl		Room: H2LG

Session 2: Saturday June 29th, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
		Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Dismantling the U.S. Empire’s Fake News: Lessons from the Book “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News--From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.”	Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, Dan Kovalik, Glen Ford	Black Agenda Report	Room: LLC 124
Panel	Panopticon and Piecework: A Lyft Driver's View of Gaming in the Gig Economy	Robert Capistrano, Sarah Mason, Barbara Garson, Suzi Weissman	Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation	Room: LLC 122
Panel	International Efforts to Save the Planet	Tim Schermerhorn, Omar Freilla, Aracely Jimenez-Hudis, Kali Akuno		Room: H206
Panel	Public Education’s Racist High School Admissions Practices and the Historic Parent/Community/Neighborhood-Led struggle for Control of Our Public Schools	Inez Barron, Shino Tanikawa, Bernard Gassaway, Stephen Brier, Alan Schulman		Room: H210
Film Screening	W.A.R Stories: Walter Anthony Rodney	Robert Cuffy, Clairmont Chung, Twinkle Paul	Socialist Workers Alliance of Guyana, Roots & Culture Films, Red Bloom Collective	Room: LLC 116
Panel	Gilets Jaunes: Repression and the Construction of Democracy	Anthony Rhighi, Badia Benjelloun		Room: H305
Panel	Claiming Back the City: Strategies and Examples from Montreal	Emanuel Guay, Samiha Hossain, Donald Cuccioletta, Giuliana Fumagalli		Room: H307
Panel	Russia-U.S.: From Establishment's Conflict to People's Dialogue (Reflection in a Red Eye)	David M Kotz, David Laibman, Ruslan Grinberg, Andrey I Kolganov, Alexander Buzgalin	Journal "Alternatives"	Room: H202
Panel	Sex. Sexy, Patriarchy and Feminism	Beatty Cohan, Naomi Snider, Pearls Daily		Room: H203
Workshop	Radical Lawyers and Advocates Convening: Supporting Grassroots Organizing and Movement Building	Rodrigo Santelices, Emmanuel Pardilla, Marika Dias		Room: H204
Panel	Black Workers' Key to Communist Revolution	Ellen Isaacs, Helena Ortiz, Adam Stevens, Rahsan Robinson		Room: H302
Panel	The Political Economy of a Long Depression	Iannis Delatolas , Joseph Choonara, Thomas Hummel	Socialist Workers Party (UK), Marx21 NYC	Room: H303
Panel	Book Launch: Celebrating the Life of Rod Bush and His Revolutionary Contribution to the Struggles for Black Nationalism, Human Rights, Freedom, Justice, Equal Rights, Dignity and Emancipation.	Rose M Brewer, Loretta Chin, Melanie Bush, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerome Scott, Charles "Cappy" Pinderhughes, Jr., Godfrey Vincent		Room: H213
Panel	Venezuela and Iran: The Left's Role in Curbing U.S. Imperialism	Jane Zara, Bahram Zandi, David W Schwartzman	Science & Society, Capitalism Nature Socialism, DC Metro Science for the People	Room: H214
Panel	Decolonization 2.0(19): The Rising Movement to Dismantle Francafrique	Patrice Nganang, Elvine B Andjembe Etogho, Jean M Moundzika, Christian D Koumtog, Kassahun Checole, Eben Egbe, Matt Meyer	AmbazoniaPrisoners Of Conscience Support Network (APoCsnet), Gabonese Council of Resistance(CGR NY)	Room: H215
Panel	A Season of People's Uprisings in Africa	Lisa Vives, Kassahun Checole	Global Info Network and Africa World Press/Red Sea Press	Room: H216
Workshop	Activist-Minded Writers' Workshop	Jimin Han, Maria Maldonado, Kate J Raphael, Marcia M Bradley		Room: H313
Panel	Pete Seeger at 100--Insights from Some Who Knew Him	Laurie Siegel, David Tarlo, David Bernz, Steve Siegelbaum		Room: H314
Panel	Conversations on Strategies for Total Transformation	Marisa Holmes, Lisa Fithian, Nicole Carty, Marina Sitrin		Room: H315
Panel	We All Need the NEED Act: Dennis Kucinich's Bill for a Total Change of our Money System	Jerry Kann, Barbara Simpson, Sue M Peters		Room: H316
Panel	War by Other Means: Understanding and Challenging U.S. Sanctions Policies	Hamideh Sedghi, Greg Wilpert, Reza Ghorashi, Suren Moodliar	Socialism and Democracy	Room: H201
Panel	For Workers Mobilization to Defend Immigrants and Crush the Fascist Threat	Wyatt McMinn, Alex Gould, Joseph Wagner, Carlos Morán, Ashley Jackson, Jan Norden	Internationalist Group, Class Struggle Workers - Portland	Room: H301
Book Reading	A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee with Victor Grossman	Victor Grossman, Andreas Günther	Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office	Room: 4th Floor Humanities Lounge
Panel	"Are We There Yet?" Dramatic Progress and Challenges in the Single Payer, Improved Medicare for All Movement Nationally and Locally	Oliver Fein, Jenny Brown, Leonard Rodberg, Ana Djordjevic, Martha Livingston, Winn Periyasamy	Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)-NY Metro chapter	Room: H2LG

Session 3: Saturday June 29th, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
		Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Combatting the Corporate Media Machine	Aaron Mate, Jordan Chariton, Katie Halper, Malaika Jabali		Room: LLC 124
Panel	The End of the "End of History": The Left Alternative to Conservative Liberalism. The Failure of Fukuyama’s Forecast	David Harvey, Michael Hudson, David M Kotz, Alexander Buzgalin	Center for Modern Marxist Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.	Room: LLC 122
Panel	Budget for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal	Brian D'Agostino, Gloria Mattera, Jonathan Rynn, Howie Hawkins, Pramilla Malick	Green Party of New York State	Room: H206
Panel	The World Turned Upside Down? Launching the 2019 Socialist Register	Doug Henwood, Nicole Aschoff, Greg Albo, Alan Cafruny, Leo Panitch, Sean K Starrs	Socialist Register	Room: H210
Film Screening	The 411 On Mumia Abu-Jamal & Our Freedom Fighters	Johanna Fernandez, Gwendolyn Y Debrow	Campaign to Brung Mumia Home & the MOVE organization	Room: LLC 116
Panel	Crouching Ancien Regime, Hidden Emerging New Order, the U.S. and China	David Ewing, Norman Markowitz, Gary Hicks		Room: H305
Panel	Solidarity with Cooperation Jackson	Kay Schermerhorn, S. Lupe Family, Vincent Villano, Jasmine Soltani, Tim Schermerhorn		Room: H307
Panel	The Yellow Vests Movement --“We Want to Live Not Just Survive”	Laura Muba, Kris Miclos, Branden Lewis, Kip Waldo		Room: H202
Panel	Marx and the Feminist Question	Heather Brown, Roger Salerno, Rose M Brewer, Lauren Langman	Critical Sociology	Room: H203
Panel	Seattle+20: From Free Trade to the Green New Deal	Hillary Lazar, Ben Manski, Victor Wallis, Suren Moodliar	Socialism and Democracy, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution	Room: H204
Panel	Looking Back, Building Forward: Putting Reparations in Perspective	Obden Mondesir, Jefta Nguherimo, Kazembe Balagun	Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office	Room: H302
Panel	Left Perspectives on the European Elections	Angelina Giannopoulou , Heinz Bierbaum , Marga Ferré , Andreas Günther	Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office	Room: H303
Panel	Learning to Love in a Neo Liberal Age	Irene Javors , Cassandra Langer, Michael Britton		Room: H213
Panel	Confronting Fascism in Brazil: The Left Stand Up and Fight Back!	Natália de Campos, Brian Mier, Eliara Santana, Myriam Marques, Panmela Castro	Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee - DDB NY, TV247	Room: H214
Panel	The Situation in Venezuela Today and the Fight Against U.S. Intervention	Bahman Azad, Sara Flounders, Kevin Zeese, Willam Camacaro, Joe Lombardo		Room: H215
Panel	Reparations to African People: A Socialist Demand	Penny Hess, Yejide Orunmila, Halley Murray	Uhuru Solidarity Movement, African People's Solicarity Committee, African National Women's Organization, African People's Socialist Party	Room: H216
Panel	Poetry Open Salon: Expressions and Challenges from a Radical Imagination	Zigi Lowenberg, Farid Bitar, Sam Friedman, Raymond Nat Turner, Gordon A Gilbert	Radical Poets Collective	Room: H313
Panel	Food Sovereignty in the Global North and Global South	Suzanne Adely, Nisrin Omer, Max Ajl		Room: H314
Panel	Fighting to Learn, Learning to Fight: Supporting Transformative Social Struggles as a Student and Young Scholar	Cassidy Thomas, Deanna Waldron, Jasmine Despain, Pratik Raghu		Room: H315
Panel	Beyond the Rank-and-File Strategy	Lynne Turner, Luke Elliott-Negri, Marc Kagan		Room: H201
Panel	Donald Trump and the New Grassroots Fascism	Dennis King, Chip Berlet, Sharona , Sheldon Ranz		Room: H301
Book Reading	Reading Capital Today: Booklaunch for "A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital"	Joseph Choonara	International Socialism journal (UK)	Room: 4th Floor Humanities Lounge
Panel	How a Basic Income Affects the Welfare Rights Movement, from the 1960's to Today	Reverend Annie Chambers, Diane Pagen, Ian Schlakman		Room: H209
Panel	Technology and Revolution: the U.S. Left's Program for Action	Idalin Bobe, Jerome Scott, Brandi Collins-Dexter, Ken Montenegro, Alfredo Lopez	May First/People Link	Room: H2LG

Plenary: Saturday June 29th, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
			Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Saturday Plenary - Stonewall and Beyond: Queer Liberation		CeCe McDonald, Kenyon Farrow, Laura Flanders, Jamila Hammami		Room: Auditorium St. Francis

Session 4: Sunday June 30th, 10:00am - 12:00pm
		Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Double Jeopardy: Crises in Economic Life and in Relationships in the U.S. Today.	Robert K Drinan, Richard D. Wolff, Kimberly Westcott, Harriet Fraad	Democracy at Work	Room: LLC 124
Panel	Cities and Climate Justice, Global and Local Strategies	Ana Baptista, Ashley Dawson, Melissa Miles, Tom Angotti		Room: H206
Panel	Teachers Strikes Up Against the Labor Bureaucracy: For Class Struggle Leadership	Tyler McMillen, Gordon Barnes, Marjorie Stamberg		Room: H210
Film Screening	My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics	Mary Filippo		Room: LLC 116
Panel	Perspectives of the Venezuelan Left Opposition	Eva Maria, Ariana Lucia, Alejandro Quryat, Simon Rodriguez Porras, Robert Cuffy	Socialist Workers Alliance of Guyana, Partido Socialismo y Libertad, Venezuela	Room: H305
Panel	Socialist Humanism: Its Legacy for the Present	Kevin B Anderson, Kieran Durkin, Marija Krtolica		Room: H307
Panel	End the War on Black and Indigenous Women and Girls	Lyn Spivey, Betty Davis, Gloria Ellis, Cyndi Ashley, Anilimars Martian, Sandra Rivers, Katie Stoqua, Colia L Clark		Room: H203
Panel	Urban Genome Project	Ibrahima Drame, James Cusick, Marty Rowland	Henry George School of Social Science (NYC)	Room: H204
Panel	Black Liberation and the Universal	LaRose T Parris, Robert D Jackson, A. Shahid Stover	The Brotherwise Dispatch	Room: H302
Panel	The New York Left: What Happened the Last Year and What’s Next?	Gloria Mattera, Michael Sussman, Pramilla Malick, Howie Hawkins, Michael O'Neil		Room: H303
Panel	From Rojava to U.S.: Lessons in Feminism, Radical Democracy and Social Ecology	Ganesh Trichur, Matt Whitley, Gurkani, Jez Watson, Anya Briy		Room: H213
Panel	The Situation in Ukraine	Phil Wilayto, Maria Zakharova, Pippa Bartolotti, Moss Robeson, Joe Lombardo, Jeff Mackler		Room: H214
Panel	Cuba Speaks for Itself: The Cuban Revolution and U.S.-Cuban Relations Today	Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodriguez, Gail Walker, Isaac Nahem, Estela Vazquez, Patricia Fry, Ike Nahem	New York-New Jersey Cuba Si Coalition	Room: H215
Panel	Leftism in Africa Today: Sierra Leone's African Socialist Movement	Chernoh Alpha M Bah, Jessica McDermott, Joshua McDermott	African Socialist Movement, Africanist Press	Room: H216
Panel	Experimental Fiction and the Representation of Political Crisis: Four Writers and Publishers Discuss Attempts to Speak the Unspeakable	Hilary Plum, Eugene Lim, Ian Dreiblatt, Peter Dimock		Room: H313
Panel	Art and Politics After Platforms	Joshua Citarella, Will Luckman, Mike Pepi		Room: H314
Workshop	Freedom Dreaming: A Call to Imagine	Raven Gomez, Anthony Wheeler, Kiana Carrington, Andrea Lausevic , Brittany Hamilton	CUNY Graduate Center	Room: H315
Panel	Beyond Sect or Movement: What Is a Political Center?	Jim Creegan, Spencer A Leonard, Grant Gallagher, Wen Xiao, Erin A Hagood	Platypus Affiliated Society	Room: H316
Workshop	Social Movement Forces, Electoral Politics & the Revolutionary Process: Consciousness, Vision & Strategy	Jerome Scott, Rose M Brewer, Walda Katz-Fishman	League of Revolutionaries for a New America, Movement School for Revolutionaries , General Baker Institute	Room: H301
Panel	Parties of Autonomy: Exploring the Party-Form Today	Bridget Fox, Padraig Korte, Malav Kanuga	Organization for a Free Society, Common Notions	Room: H209

Session 5: Sunday June 30th, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
		Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Three Marxist Takes On Climate Change	David Harvey, Michael Hudson, Bertell Ollman		Room: LLC 124
Panel	The National Educators Revolt and its Lessons	Jia Lee, Ryan Bruckenthal, Eric Blanc		Room: LLC 122
Workshop	Farmworker Justice and the Fight for Worker-Driven Social Responsibility in U.S. Agriculture	Lupe Gonzalo, Ximena Pedroza, Yaissy Solis	Coalition of Immokalee Workers	Room: H206
Panel	Student Debt Boycott: Organizing the Power of Economic Withdrawal	Jill Stein , Alan Collinge, Daniella Medina, David Oks , Henry Williams , Eli J Campbell		Room: H210
Panel	The Peace Congress	Margaret Flowers, Joe Lombardo, Diane Moxley, Kevin Zeese, Jan R Weinberg		Room: H305
Panel	Russia Gate and the New Cold War: Critical Perspectives	Peter Kuznick, Priya Reddy, Ron Ridenour, Jeremy Kuzmarov		Room: H202
Panel	Social Reproduction/Feminism for the 99%	Hester Eisenstein, Kate Griffiths, Jenny Brown, Lise Vogel		Room: H203
Panel	We Refuse to Be Left Behind: Disability-Led Disaster Activism	Valerie Novack, Shaylin Sluzalis, Germán Parodi, Stephanie Hydal	The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, ADAPT- Pennsylvania Chapter	Room: H204
Panel	Black Workers: Our Last Labor Revolution and Our Next	Alicia Love, Kali Akuno, Tim Schermerhorn		Room: H302
Panel	Should the Green Party Stand Down in 2020?	Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley, Howie Hawkins	Black Agenda Report, Green Party of New York State	Room: H303
Panel	Is Capitalism Driving Us Crazy? The Mental Health Crisis	Sheldon Ranz, Patty Friend, Michael Mottern, David Hacker	Social Democrats USA	Room: H213
Panel	Continuous Cold War: U.S. vs USSR / U.S. vs Russian Federation	Angelo D'Angelo, Prof. Grover Furr, Joe Lombardo, Martin J Sawma, Maria Zakharova	USFSP	Room: H214
Panel	Resistance, Rebellion, and the Rising Tide of Fascism in India.	Ryan Costello, Chance Charley, Mamatha Kodidela	Free Saibaba Coalition — US	Room: H215
Panel	Women & LGBTQ Struggles in the Caribbean	Ronelle King, Twinkle Paul, Tamanisha J John, Robert Cuffy	Socialist Workers Alliance of Guyana, Life in Leggings	Room: H216
Workshop	Theater of the Oppressed as a Fight Back Tool: Some Practical Skils for Activists - Part I	Marie-Claire A Picher, Janet Gerson	Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)	Room: H313
Workshop	Poetry of Refuge, Flight and Immigration	Jose Rosa, Farid Bitar, Zigi Lowenberg, Sam Friedman	Radical Poets Collective	Room: H314
Panel	Growing the Solidarity Economy: Theory and Practice	Micky Metts, Emilie Miyauchi, Sarah Jacqz, Julie Matthaei	U.S. Solidarity Economy Network	Room: H315
Panel	The New Deal and American Socialism	Wen Xiao, Jack Ross, Edward Remus, Gabe Gaster, Jason Wright, Erin A Hagood	Platypus Affiliated Society	Room: H316
Panel	Why Socialists Need to Fight for Proportional Representation and Ranked Choice Voting	David Cobb, Gloria Mattera, Michael O'Neil, Jonah Martell, Jamal Abed-Rabbo	Green Party of NY	Room: H201
Panel	Confronting the Resurgence of Authoritarianism, Right and “Left”	Andrew Kliman, Jason Stanley, Bill Weinberg, Anne Jaclard, Eric Andrian	Marxist-Humanist Initiative	Room: H301
Book Reading	Acid Communist Literature	Douglas Lain, Chris Thomas, Terry D Tapp	Mysterioso Novelty Co., Zero Books	Room: 4th Floor Humanities Lounge
Panel	Trotskyist Youth in the Fight for Socialist Revolution vs. "Sanders Socialism"	Alice McIntyre, Joseph Cox, Kaitlan Centeno	Internationalist Group, Revolutionary Internationalist Youth	Room: H209
Panel	Unanimous is Not Enough: Abolish the 13th Amendment - Free the Angola 2000	Belinda P Brown, Lloyd Kelly, Mimi Rosenberg, Betty Davis	New Abolitionist Movement and Black is Back Coalition, LOUISIANA UNITED INTERNATIONAL Inc.	Room: H2LG

Session 6: Sunday June 30th, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
		Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Anti-Capitalism in the 21st Century	Kimberly Westcott, Kate Griffiths, Richard D. Wolff, Malaika Jabali, Kali Akuno, Tim Schermerhorn		Room: LLC 124
Panel	Mueller and Me and Bianca Make Three	Marty Stolar, Michael Isikoff, Bianca Randy's Dog, Randy Credico		Room: LLC 122
Panel	How Will the Left Vote in the Presidential Election?	Christine Marie, Jeff Mackler, Daniel Vila, Jack Lieberman, Marty Goodman	Socialist Action	Room: H206
Panel	Will Sex Workers See the Light of Day? Prospects for Decriminalization	Cecilia Gentili, Nina Hartley, Julia Salazar, Kate Zen, Sheldon Ranz		Room: H210
Panel	Building Left Unity: Means and Missteps in the Age of the Intellectual Dark Web	Kevin Vazquez-Garcia, Dominick Bilello, Diamond Dumas, Rene Orellana, Rob Hollander	Intellectual Dark Web Discussion Group at John Jay College	Room: LLC 116
Panel	Vulgar Complexity: How Can Complexity Science, Computation, and Evolution Inform Left Political Strategy?	Isaac Overcast, Christopher Vitale, Abi Hassen		Room: H307
Panel	The Fight for Reproductive Justice and a Radical Feminist Movement	Jenny Brown, Kate Castle, Anne Rumberger	New York City for Abortion Rights, National Women's Liberation, International Women's Strike	Room: H203
Panel	Debt Relief. Economic Development and Human Rights: Reforming U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Trump Era	Daniela G Walls, Bernie Brown, Gregory Edwards, Webster G Tarpley	United Front Against Austerity, Tax Wall Street Party, Washington Grove Institute	Room: H204
Panel	Overcoming Barriers to Solidarity: Reflecting on Contradictions in Our Movement	A. Shahid Stover , Linda A Liu, David Keil , Ariane Fischer, Joseph G Ramsey	Socialism and Democracy	Room: H303
Book Reading	Occult Features of Anarchism - With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples	Erica M Lagalisse		Room: H213
Panel	How the Haitian and Venezuelan Revolutions Are Intimately Linked Today, as They Were in the Early 19th Century	Colia L Clark, Kim Ives, Ben Norton, Chris Silvera, Kevin Annette, Pierre LeRoy, Nathaniel Wood	Judicial Violence Symposium, Guadeloupe Haiti Tour Comm.	Room: H215
Panel	Neocolonialism and New Democratic Movements in West Africa	Chernoh Alpha M Bah, Jessica McDermott, Joshua McDermott	African Socialist Movement, Africanist Press	Room: H216
Workshop	Theater of the Oppressed as a Fight Back Tool: Some Practical Skils for Activists - Part II	Marie-Claire A Picher, Janet Gerson	Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)	Room: H313
Workshop	Courage to Speak	Diane Rubino, Craig Mills, Jesse Scinto		Room: H314
Panel	The Lincoln Brigade and the Spanish Civil War: Feel-Good Story of 20th Century Idealism? Or the Good Fight of Anti-Fascist Resistance and Proletarian Internationalism?	Prof. Grover Furr, John Kailin, Carol Giardina, Lise Vogel	Friends and Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade	Room: H315
Panel	Decline and Fall of the U.S. Empire	David W Schwartzman, Alexander Buzgalin , Bahram Zandi	Green Party of the United States	Room: H316
Panel	State and Local Strategies to Strengthen Workers’ Rights	Janice Fine, Mansoor Khan, Luis F Gomez, Sam Krinsky		Room: H201
Panel	How Do We Confront Trumpism Now, and Going Forward?: Marxist-Humanist Perspectives	Anne Jaclard, Andrew Kliman, Adam Plante, Brendan Cooney	Marxist-Humanist Initiative	Room: H301
Book Reading	Insurgent Supremacists: Understanding and Fighting The U.S. Far Right with Matthew N. Lyons	Matthew N Lyons	PM Press	Room: 4th Floor Humanities Lounge
Panel	Reparations and Its Discontents	Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture, Pascal Robert, Bruce Dixon	Black Agenda Report	Room: H209

Plenary: Sunday June 30th, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
			Speakers	Host/Sponsor(s)
Panel	Sunday Closing Plenary: What is Left to be Done?		Harriet Fraad, Aracely Jimenez-Hudis, David Harvey, Kali Akuno, Kazembe Balagun	Left Forum	Room: Auditorium St. Francis

Session A: Friday June 28th, 5:00pm - 7:00 pm

Richard D. Wolff, Chris L Hedges, Laura Flanders, Tim Schermerhorn

Joel Simpson, John Brakey, Susan Pynchon, Chris Sautter, Lulu Friesdat

Kedar Reddy, Faye Hayes, Theeba Soundararajan

Daniel Joslyn, Girim Jung, Hasia Diner, Gary Dorrien, Sarah Lyons, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

New York City Democratic Socialists of America, Religion and Socialism Caucus

John Kirbow, Michael Walsh

Savannah Gordon, Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Ronny Nuñez, Kitty Pryde

Outlive Them NYC

Sheldon Ranz, Rose Ossip, Noah Kulwin, April Aviva Baskin, Leen Dweik

Social Democrats USA

Erik Jacobson, Andy Beutel, Dianne Ramdeholl

Jerise Fogel, Michael Schwartz, Joshua Murray

Historians for Peace and Democracy

James Dingeman, Grace Aaron, Michael D. D. White, Carolyn Birden

Lauren Langman, Harriet Fraad, James Parisot

Democracy at Work

Thomas Wensing, Marty Rowland, Walter South

Gilberto Javier Cabrera, Dan Kovalik, Bahman Azad

Chicago ALBA Solidarity, US Peace Council

Steve Downs, Tarik Shah, Mel Underbakke

Citizens Defending Libraries, Committee To Save The New York Public Library, People Protecting Public Property, Committee To Structurally Support Democracy

S.A. Solomon, Pedro Serrano, Kenneth Wishnia

PM Press

Cathryn Swan, Robin Falk Esser, Jonathan Latham, Jack Shalom, Mitchel Cohen, Joel Kupferman, Aton Edwards

The No Spray Coalition

Friday June 28th, Film Screenings 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Independent filmmakers

Session 1: Saturday June 29th, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, Nellie Hester Bailey, Glen Ford, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Raymond Nat Turner, Bruce Dixon

Black Agenda Report

James Parisot, Leo Panitch

Pluto Press

Maritza Arrastia, Cecilia Lim, Stephanie Low, Karim Lopez

May First/People Link, Sustaining All Life

John P Clark, Matt Meyer

PM Press

John W Maerhofer, Basuli Deb, Kanishka Chowdhury, Joseph G Ramsey

Socialism & Democracy

Zenab Ahmed, Gerald Roche, Darren Byler

Susanna Blankley , Marika Dias, Alejandro Coriat, Robert Villagomez

Andreas Günther, Susanne Götze, Esther Solano Gallego, Talia Lavin, Chip Berlet

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--New York Office

Lea Diaz, Linda Morales Caballero, Mónica Sarmiento Castillo, Marisa Russo

Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture, Cheri Honkala, Rev. Keith Collins, Sandra Rivera-Colon, Tanya Curry, Nick Carmack, Alison Hawver McDowell

Kurt Young, Herbert Brewer, John Tilghman, Godfrey Vincent

Natasha L Bannan, Eva Prados, Xiomara Caro, Yarimar Bonilla

LatinoJustice PRLDEF

Carl I Cohen, Tamar Lavy, Elan Cohen , Peter Stastny, Xinlin L Chen

Radical Caucus of Members of the American Psychiatric Association

Jacqueline T Basker, Frank Romano, Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Miljan Peter ILich, Farid Bitar

Nora Gallardo-Hammond, John McAulifF, Ike Nahem, Susan Metz

IFCO/Pastors for Peace, 26th of July Movement US, Sociedad Cultural Jose Marti (SCJM) Havana, Cuba, Fund for Reconciliation and Development, International Playback Theatre Network

Phan Nguyen, Andom Ghebreghiorgis, Theo Rehm

Drop the ADL

Ras Moshe Burnett, Greg Tate, Ahmed Abdullah, Ted Daniel, William Parker, Basir Mchawi, Althea SullyCole, Jeremiah Hosea

Robert Cuffy, Edna Bonhomme, Marc W Polite, Jawanza Williams, Jasmine Szympruch

NYC DSA Afrosocialist PoC Caucus

Paddy Quick, David Laibman, Julio Huato, Alexander Buzgalin , Barbara Foley

Science & Society

Christoph Lichtenberg, Jason Wright, Katharine Corp

Bolshevik Tendency

Maria Santiago-Valentín, Maria J Andrade, Luisa Torres, M.A., M.B.A, Lamie R Jimmeh, Priscilla Garcés

Despina Lalaki, Iannis Delatolas , Matthew N Lyons, Hemani P Hughes

Laura Tanenbaum, Jenny Brown

PM Press

Carol Ehrle, Rod Brana, Mateo Sluder, Suzanne O'Keefe, Nick Brana

Movement for a People's Party

Kali Akuno, Max Ajl

Session 2: Saturday June 29th, 12:30pm - 2:30pm

Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, Dan Kovalik, Glen Ford

Black Agenda Report

Robert Capistrano, Sarah Mason, Barbara Garson, Suzi Weissman

Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation

Tim Schermerhorn, Omar Freilla, Aracely Jimenez-Hudis, Kali Akuno

Inez Barron, Shino Tanikawa, Bernard Gassaway, Stephen Brier, Alan Schulman