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Toronto, June 25, 2010.
From June 25th and 27th, 2010, the world's twenty richest countries (the G8 and G20) will send their ruling elite, along with heads of the IMF and World Bank, to meet in Huntsville and then in Toronto, to talk exploitation, wealth, and greed.
Toronto's communities are uniting to take back what is ours! Join us on the streets June 25, as we ensure the G20, the G8 and their deadly policies are exposed and challenged! Rally, march, party and pitch a tent city against Toronto and the G8/G20, racist, sexist, abeliest, homo/transphobic and capitalist policies.
| Date | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| June 19, 2010 | Starving Healthcare | Colin Leys; Natalie Mehra |
| A Forum on Health, Poverty and Privatization. | ||
| June 20, 2010 | Resisting the G20! | Greg Albo; John Clarke; Paul Gray; Kamilla Pietrzyk |
| An Anti-Capitalist Approach to Understanding and Resisting the G20 Agenda. | ||
| June, 2010 | Resist the G8/G20! | |
| This year the so-called leaders, finance ministers, and central bank governors of the 20 most powerful countries in the world will gather in Toronto, to meet, to strategize, to further their exploitative ideologies that benefit them and the corporations they serve. To further the actions and inactions that have trashed the planet and brought us to the brink of catastrophic climate change. | ||
| May 22, 2010 | The Malthus Myth | Ian Angus |
| Population, Poverty and Climate Change. | ||
| May 16, 2010 | Capitalism, Race and Colonialism | David Roediger |
| Recorded at the Historical Materialism Conference at York University, Toronto. | ||
| May 16, 2010 | In and Out of Crisis: Authors Meet Critics | Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, Leo Panitch |
| Recorded at the Historical Materialism Conference at York University, Toronto. | ||
| May 15, 2010 | Marx and the Global South | Vijay Prashad, Kevin Anderson, Ananya Mukherjee Reed |
| Recorded at the Historical Materialism Conference at York University, Toronto. | ||
| May 13, 2010 | Solidarity with Nepal's Revolutionary People | Katharine Rankin, Derek Rosin, Anil Bhattarai |
| Half a million in the Kathmandu streets, a general strike, calls for insurrection. Red flags flying everywhere. Can you smell the smoke in the breeze? | ||
| May 7, 2010 | Report-back from Cochabamba | Kimia Ghomeshi, Ben Powless, Danny Beaton, Robert Lovelace |
| World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. | ||
| May 1, 2010 | May Day 2010 - International Workers' Day | |
| Reunion of the Rank n File band; March for Status for All! | ||
| April 18, 2010 | Visioning Otherwise: Imagining a World Without Capitalism | Ian McKay, Rafeef Ziadah |
| This presentation and discussion address some of the lessons and limitations of historic and contemporary (Canadian and international) visions of a world without capitalism. The panel reflects on different perspectives and the diversity of our vision of a 'new politics' – from Canadian working class history to indigenous feminism. | ||
| April 15, 2010 | OCAP March on McGuinty Government | |
| OCAP March on McGuinty Government Over Cut to Special Diet. | ||
| April 13, 2010 | From Honduras to Haiti: the Unfolding Imperialist Strategy in the Americas | B.C. Holmes, Jose Martinez, Todd Gordon |
| A discussion of recent political developments in, and solidarity efforts for, Honduras and Haiti. Both countries have been at the forefront of Canadian and American imperialist intervention in the region. In Honduras, the violent repression of anti-coup activists continues with the support of American and Canadian imperialism, as those same imperial powers plan their free market reconstruction of Haiti. | ||
| April 7, 2010 | Sick of Hospital Cuts and Privatization | Ontario Health Coalition |
| Emergency Rooms Closed, Hospital Beds Cut, New User Fees, Local Birthing Closed, Mammography Closed, Physiotherapy Privatized, Surgeries Moved Out of Town, Operating Rooms Closed,Thousands of Nurses and Support Staff Laid Off, Whole Hospitals Closed Down.... | ||
| April 6, 2010 | Poverty and the Provincial Budget | John Clarke, Michael Hurley, Dr. Roland Wong |
| The Ontario 2010 budget, released on March 25th, confirms that the McGuinty government's “poverty reduction” efforts are all pretense. Poor and working people are being forced to pay for the economic crisis. New cuts to social assistance are the most devastating since Mike Harris slashed welfare rates in 1995. | ||
| January 18, 2010 | The Fight Against Precarious Work | Dennis Howlett, Denise Corbett, Dale Clarke |
| Moderated by Susan Spronk. | ||
| March 26, 2010 | Myths of Progressive Zionism | Katherine Nastovski; Dana Olwan |
| Labour, Race, Gender and Colonialism | ||
| March 10, 2010 | Operating in the Obama Moment Challenges for Progressives | Bill Fletcher Jr. |
| Bill Fletcher Jr. is a longtime labour and international activist and the former President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica Forum. He is the executive editor of The Black Commentator, and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. His latest book is Solidarity Divided | ||
| March 6, 2010 | Rally for Striking Steelworkers | |
| Rally for Steelworker Locals 6500 and 6200 on strike at Vale Inco in Sudbury, Port Colborne and Voisey's Bay. | ||
| February 26, 2010 | Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution - The 2nd Decade | Kiraz Janicke, Federico Fuentes |
| Profile of a People's Movement. | ||
| February 25, 2010 | Crash! OCAP Visits Liberal Party Fundraiser | |
| The misery and suffering that is being inflicted on those losing the Special Diet is enormous and OCAP is here to challenge it. | ||
| February 19, 2010 | Is Marx Back? | Leo Panitch interviewed by Ian Morrison. |
| The economic crisis, as many commentators and critics are quick to point out, has rekindled interest in – and anxieties over – Marxism. Although many on the Left hope this renewed curiosity marks the beginning of a radical turn, similar revivals of anti-capitalist politics in the 1930s, 1960s, and 1990s failed to achieve the revolutionary transformations they sought. | ||
| December 3, 2009 | Ecology Under Fire: Climate Change, Copenhagen and Prospects for Change | Simon Dalby, Matthew Paterson, Richard Girard |
| With this workshop we tried to answer the following questions: What is at stake in Copenhagen? Can Capitalism and Environmental Sustainability Coexist? How will climate change alter our socio-economic and political landscapes? What needs to be done to stave off a climate crisis clusterbomb? | ||
| February 5, 2010 | China, Japan and the U.S.: Together in Crisis? | Moderated by Leo Pantich |
| Presentations by: R. Taggart Murphy, Ho-fung Hung, Johanna Brenner, Sam Gindin. | ||
| February 2, 2010 | Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis | Justin Podur, Dan Freeman-Maloy |
| On January 12, Haiti was hit with an earthquake 7.0 on the Richter scale, leaving possibly 200,000 dead and 3 million affected. Much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, is now living in makeshift camps with their water, food, and health at risk. | ||
| January 21, 2010 | Morbid Symptoms, Health Under Capitalism | Chaired by Greg Albo |
| Launch of the 2010 Socialist Register, with contributing authors: Colin Leys, Pat Armstrong, Roddy Loepky and commentators: Dr Andy Coates, Natalie Mehra. | ||
| November 27, 2009 | Neoliberalism and the Current Crisis in Mexico | Andrés Barreda |
| Professor Andrés Barreda is the General Coordinator of the Centre for Social Analysis, Information and Popular Training (CASIFOP) in Mexico City. He holds full-time tenure at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) (National Autonomous University of Mexico), in the Faculty of Economics and Critical Geopolitics. He has participated in several research projects, in collaboration with social movements, indigenous and workers organizations, as well as several research centres within the UNAM, and with other academic institutions. He is also a board member of the Ottawa-based International ETC group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration). | ||
| November 7-8, 2009 | World Peace Forum 2009 | Greg Albo; Beverly Silver; Ingo Schmidt... |
| 1929-1939: From crash to catastrophe - A teach-in on what happened and its lessons for today. | ||
| December 8, 2009 | OCAP Metro Hall Occupation | |
| Members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and more than 150 people struggling to survive on Ontario Works and ODSP occupied the 12th floor of Toronto's Metro Hall. | ||
| October 29, 2009 | Critical Social Research Collaborative presents: The Roots of the Economic Crisis: Critical Perspectives | |
| This workshop explores alternative interpretations of the current economic crisis. The presentations are from organized labour, community activists and academics. The focus of this workshop is critical engagement, discussion and debate. Questions addressed include: How have various perspectives analyzed and understood the roots of the current economic crisis? Is there something fundamentally unsound about the current political-economic structure? Is the current crisis to be located within a set of recently established policies, or better understood over the long-term historical development of capitalism? How have the policy prescriptions and ideological rationales shifted over the years? And, more ambitiously, where do we go from here? | ||
| November 13, 2009 | Privatization of Public Services and Consequences for Labour | Christoph Hermann |
| Experiences from Europe. Facilitated by Bryan Evans | ||
| November 13, 2009 | Was the German Election a Turning Point? | Frederick Peters, Ingar Solty, Jan Fichter... |
| Five analysts look at the German election in 2009. | ||
| November 5, 2009 | Campaign for a Poverty Free Ontario | |
| Poverty Free Ontario rallies in Toronto with OCAP and CFS. Music by Faith Nolan. | ||
| October 30, 2009 | Capitalist Crisis and the Global Division of Labour | Ursula Huws |
| The director of Analytica Social and Economic Research and honorary Professor of International Labour Studies at London Metropolitan University, she is renowned for her pioneering research on the economic and social impacts of technological change, the telemediated relocation of employment and the changing international division of labour, especially in the global service sector. | ||
| October 30, 2007 | Venezuela: The Battle for Workers' Control | |
| Produced as part of Centro Internacional Miranda's Transformative Practice and Human Development, directed by Michael Lebowitz. | ||
| September 30, 2009 | ALBA: Dawn of Solidarity in Latin America | Manuel Morano, Jose Martinez, Paul Kellogg, Alissa Trotz, Juan Valencia |
| Panel on the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America. | ||
| October 2, 2009 | Organizing Working Class Communities | Sam Gindin, Steve Williams |
| Steve Williams is co-director of the California based group POWER: People Organized to win Employment Rights, which since the late 1990’s has been one of the most important Worker’s Action Centres in the U.S., and co-authour of the book Towards Land, Work and Power: Charting a Path of Resistance to U.S.-led Imperialism. | ||
| June 28, 2009 | World Slump: The Financial Crisis and Emerging Class Struggles in the Global South | Adam Hanieh, Patrick Bond |
| The political period that has opened up since the financial turbulence of 2007 began to grip the world market has led to both a crisis of neoliberalism and an attempt to reconstruct it. The overaccumulation of capital in key sectors in the U.S. and Europe, particularly in real estate markets, auto production and financial services, has led to an economic contraction that has spread across global capitalism. The 'global south' has experienced some of the worst impacts of neoliberalism and of the world slump. This discusson explores the impact of the financial crisis in the global south, particularly with respect to cases in Africa and the Middle East, and emerging class struggles. | ||
| June 5, 2009 | Economic Crisis and Food Sovereignty | Mustafa Koç, Jorge Soberon, Juan Valencia, John Riddell, Debbie Field |
| Around the world, hunger is growing, while millions of working farmers face ruin. Even in Canada, unsound and dangerous corporate practices menace our food supply. | ||
| May 3, 2009 | The Middle East from Bush/Sharon to Obama/Netanyahu: Results and Prospects | Gilbert Achcar |
| Professor Gilbert Achcar teaches Development Studies at the School of African and Oriental Studies at the University of London. His latest book is Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice (2009) (with Noam Chomsky), published by Paradigm. | ||
| May 2, 2009 | May Day 2009 - No One Is Illegal, Toronto, Turtle Island | |
| On April 2nd and 3rd, over 100 temporary and undocumented workers were attacked by armed border guards, dragged in to detention and are now being forcibly deported. | ||
| April 24, 2009 | SAPF: Imperialism and South Asia | Vivek Chibber, Syed Azeem, Amrit Wilson and Bedabrata Pain |
| In the context of India as a rising power with increasingly strong links to the U.S. economic and military empire, of Pakistan's increasing vulnerabilty to terrorist acts linked to the incursion of Taliban forces, the U.S. air strikes into Pakistan territory as well as its use of Pakistan as a supply base for the USA, ISAF and NATO mission in Afghanistan, we asked the following speakers to speak on "Imperialism and South Asia." | ||
| April 23, 2009 | SAPF: Special Session on Sri Lanka | Rohini Hensman, Ahilan Kadirgamar and Rajan Philips |
| The South Asian People's Unity Forum, Toronto, began with a special discussion on the current crisis in Sri Lanka, and what democratic and Left groups might expect or work for the near future. SAPF is interested to disseminate as many progressive analyses and reflections on Sri Lanka as possible, especially in Toronto. It invited Rohini Hensman, writer, based in Mumbai; Ahilan, spokesperson of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum; and Rajan Philips, writer and former journalist from Jaffna, to bring their deep knowledge and concern for the country to offer us different histories and alternative futures than available through the mainstream media. | ||
| March 10, 2009 | "Still a Marxist After All" | Leo V. Panitch |
| The 2009 Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture. | ||
| February 21, 2009 | The Financial Crisis: a Socialist Perspective | Roger Rashi, Sam Gindin |
| A strategy with short and medium term demands, geared to fostering the relation of forces necessary to move beyond capital. | ||
| February 18, 2009 | Birth of the New Anti-Capitalist Party in France | |
| A Report-Back From Participants. | ||
| February 4, 2009 | Violence Today: Actually Existing Barbarism | Leo Panitch, Tania Murray Li, Anna Zalik, Vivek Chibber, Bashir Abu-Manneh |
| Launching the 2009 Socialist Register. | ||
| January 30, 2009 | Crisis and the Global South | Adam Hanieh, Niraj Joshi, Paul Kellogg |
| The Crash of 2008, a crisis of U.S.-led neoliberalism, is wreaking havoc on the poor in the Global South. This panel examines the causes and effects of the crisis, and suggest ways of fighting back. | ||
| November 26, 2008 | Grasping the Financial Crisis | |
| With Sam Gindin, Leo Panitch, Eric Cazdyn, Kanishka Goonewardena: MP3 audio. (event organized by Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry) | ||
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