Dear friends,
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@leftforum.org. <panels@leftforum.org>
*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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