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  • New York City. May 2016. Left Forum Conference: Rage, Rebellion, Revolution: Organizing our Power. Call for Panels

    from Leftforum Outreach on Dec 23, 2015 10:40 PM
    Dear friends of World Social Forum International Movement List,
    We send you solidarity greetings and the latest information for the next
    conference. It would be great if you could forward this information. In
    case you live not to far away, we also would be happy if some of you are
    interested in joining our volunteer team either to prepare the conference
    and/or onsite this year, see our volunteer opportunities here
    <http://www.leftforum.org/content/volunteer-and-internship-opportunities>.
    
    The 2016 Left Forum conference theme is:
    
    Rage, Rebellion, Revolution:
    Organizing our Power
    
    This year’s Left Forum from May 20th to 22nd, 2016 at John Jay College for
    Criminal Justice, The City University of New York City  will offer
    something fundamentally different from conventional politics and from this
    year’s presidential election mainstream media hype. The Left Forum will
    gather and build on the growing consciousness that basic social problems
    are sharpening in ways that traditional politicians, journalists, and
    academics rarely admit and do not even begin to solve. The Left Forum will
    again engage the forces and movements making basic progressive social
    change the big issue that will no longer be kept out of the public
    discussion.
    
    The left now generates an increasingly powerful and effective criticism of
    contemporary capitalism and the mushrooming social problems it worsens.
    Ever more people are becoming active: from Occupy Wall Street to Black
    Lives Matter and the Fight for $15; from escalating climate justice demands
    to the massive national support for Bernie not despite but because he wears
    the label socialist. Something profound is shaking.
    
    >From the streets and the offices, from campuses, factories, and stores,
    disgust with traditional society, politics, rules, and conventions is
    growing.  The left starts there to build a program for change. We can do
    better than capitalism and its catastrophic wars. We reject the corporate
    dominance that corrupts our politics while delivering endless cycles of
    depressions, unemployment, and austerities. Our fellow citizens share our
    horror at the grotesque inequalities of today’s corporate system: its
    discrimination's against and oppressions of vast populations and its
    destruction of our environment. There are far better alternatives. Join us
    to share, discuss, and debate those alternatives and how best to achieve
    them.
    
    In Solidarity,
    
    Marcus Graetsch
    Program Coordinator
    Left Forum
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    Panel Submission Deadline: *March 28th 2016. *We ask that you submit your
    panel, workshop, panel track proposals or panel ideas as soon as you can.
    
    For inquiries, contact panels@.... <panels@...>
    
    
    *Helpful links:- to see instruction*s on how to submit a panel: Click here
    <http://www.leftforum.org/panels/criteria>
    - to see panels from previous years: see past conference panels
    <http://www.leftforum.org/events/main>. - see our volunteer opportunities
    here
    <http://www.leftforum.org/content/volunteer-and-internship-opportunities>.
    
    *About Left Forum:*
    Left Forum, now in its 12th year, has grown from a gathering of hundreds to
    a convergence of 1,200 speaker and over 4,500 people attending. It is the
    largest annual gathering of the broad Left in North America, if not on the
    globe.
    
    This is a pluralistic, ecumenical event, and highlights dialogue over
    doctrine, diversity and common interests over competition and recruitment,
    and respect for differences in finding common bonds in social movement
    building. It is the largest annual gathering of its kind for diverse
    intellectual and activist currents in the progressive and left spectrum of
    politics, ideas, and culture. Recent speakers include Harry Belafonte,
    Angela Davis, Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera, Arundhati Roy,
    Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Immortal Technique, Kshama Sawant, Oliver Stone,
    Amy Goodman, Cornel West, Slavoj Zizek, and Grace Lee Boggs.
    
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