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Toronto — 4 May 2013.
Taking place at New York's Barnard College, the Ecosocialist Conference drew some two hundred activists around the slogan “System Change not Climate Change.” It was endorsed by numerous progressive organizations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada, and featured speakers from a wide spectrum of organizations and perspectives. This day-long conference (April 20th) included workshops on “Race, Gender, and Environmental Justice”; “Agriculture and Food: Sustainable or Profitable?”; “Fossil Fuel Divestment,” and many other topics. The conference aimed to build a more collaborative left that could serve as the radical wing of the green movement and advance a program for “fighting global warming and its chief cause, capitalism.”
Moderated by Greg Albo. Presentations by:
Organized by the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly. For more information on these themes, visit climateandcapitalism.com.
Toronto — 24 April 2013.
Dan Freeman-Maloy talks about the deterioration of Canadian Jewish politics and implications for leftist strategy. The talk also outlines the broader politics of Western Zionism and identifies the relationship between the Palestine question and the rise of budgetary authorities within communal leadership structures. This talk is a follow-up from his earlier April article “70 Years After Warsaw.”
Dan Freeman-Maloy is an activist and writer, currently pursuing a PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter. A recent collection of his writing on Western imperial politics and Palestine (2012) is available in full online.
Ottawa — 27 April 2013.
The panelists discuss the history and scope of the austerity agenda, its effects on the environment, indigenous peoples and working people the world over. Who and what is driving this agenda and how do we conceive of a fight back strategy that might begin to challenge the current hegemony of corporate power.
A Solidarity Against Austerity (Ottawa) Discussion and Workshop.
| LS # | Date | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96. | March 20, 2011 | Global Crisis, Fiscal Restraint and Public-Private Partnerships | Loxley, John | |
| Dr. John Loxley is a professor in the Department of Economics, University of Manitoba. He specializes in International Money and Finance, International Development and Community Economic Development and has published extensively in these areas. Part of the Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture - recorded 10 March 2011. | ||||
| 95. | March 13, 2011 | Book Launch: Global Slump | McNally, David | |
| The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance. Recorded in Toronto, 20 January 2011. | ||||
| 94. | March 12, 2011 | Interrogating Apartheid: Campus as a Site of Resistance | Rebick, Judy; Abigail Bakan | |
| Presentations by Judy Rebick, Abigail Bakan; part of the Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto. Recorded 7 March, 2011. | ||||
| 93. | March 8, 2011 | Giant Steps: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle | Woodard, Komozi | |
| A talk by Komozi Woodard on the role of women in the struggle for Black liberation. Woodard is the Esther Raushenbush Chair at Sarah Lawrence College and co-editor of Want to Start a Revolution? | ||||
| 92. | February 27, 2011 | Developing a Political Fightback | ||
| The fightback against Mike Harris and Mel Lastman consisted of community mobilizations, large strikes and impressive Days of Action. How were they successful and how did they fail? Recorded in Toronto, 19 February 2011. | ||||
| 91. | February 20, 2011 | A Movement To Change the World | Stokely, Brenda | |
| Brenda Stokely is a human rights activist dedicated to ending all forms of national oppression, racism, sexism and exploitation of workers. She co-found and built several key organizations, including the 2004 Million Worker March Movement, NY Labor Against the War (co-convener), founding member of Troops Out Now, Coalition to Save Harlem and many more. | ||||
| 90. | February 18, 2011 | Revolution in the Arab World... | Achcar, Gilbert | |
| With Gilbert Achcar - Professor of Development Studies, University of London, author of The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder and The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. | ||||
| 89. | February 13, 2011 | Faith Nolan and the CUPE Freedom Singers | ||
| Faith Nolan and the CUPE Freedom Singers performed before the opening session of the GTWA labour forum - Sunday morning, January 30, 2011. | ||||
| 88. | February 6, 2011 | Assessing Current Struggles | ||
| The opening panel on Saturday includes key activists from different sections of the working class movement: representatives of non-union generally precarious workers, the public sector, the chronically unemployed and poor. They assess the state of their own struggles and address key issues in developing the class capacities and mobilization to collectively move on. | ||||
| 87. | February 2, 2011 | Hamilton Day of Action: Steelworkers United! | ||
| USW Local 1005 and its 900 members and 9,000 pensioners are waging a battle on behalf of ALL of us. Foreign-owned companies, like U.S. Steel, are attempting to steal our futures by attacking our pensions while the Harper government is attempting to hand public pensions over to private banks. Winning this battle for Hamilton Steelworkers is the first step in a national campaign to defend retirement security for everyone. | ||||
| 86. | January 29, 2011 | Launch of the 2011 Socialist Register: The Crisis This Time | Panitch, Leo; Sam Gindin, Bryan Evans and Greg Albo | |
| Introduced and moderated by Leo Panitch, co-editor of the Socialist Register, Sam Gindin, Bryan Evans and Greg Albo. Recorded in Toronto, January 20, 2011. | ||||
| 85. | January 23, 2011 | Key Union Struggles - Building the Fightback | Ferguson, Mark; Gary Howe; Marion Pollack | |
| As the economic crisis continues, governments and employers are bringing in austerity measures, lowering our living standards and working conditions. A number of unionized workplaces are particular targets, and have the potential to become key centres of resistance. This forum considers the strategies and political approaches needed to win and is a build-up for the January 29th/30th Workers' Assembly Labour Conference. | ||||
| 84. | January 2, 2011 | Emerging Powers: Allies or Rivals? | Kagarlitsky, Boris; Chaohua Wang | |
| Presentations by Boris Kagarlitsky and Chaohua Wang. Part of the "Global Crisis and Hegemonic Dilemmas" conference - recorded in Delhi, India - November 9, 2010. | ||||
| 83. | December 26, 2010 | 21st Century Socialism: the Strategy of the Left and the Latin American Experience | Lebowitz, Michael; Marta Harnecker | |
| Marta Harnecker and Michael Lebowitz were invited by the N. Poulantzas Institute and Transform Magazine to present lectures on "21st Century Socialism." | ||||
| 82. | December 22, 2010 | Organizing in an Era of Precarious Work | ||
| A forum to discuss the reality of part-time, precarious and undocumented work enforced through immigration and capitalism that now dominates our working lives. | ||||
| 81. | December 19, 2010 | Pursuing a Just World Order, Crisis for the Left | Panitch, Leo | |
| In this talk, Leo Panitch addresses a lack of ambition on the left which has been more debilitating than its lack of capacity in the current global economic crisis, and outlines the kinds of immediate demands for radical reforms as well as longer term socialist strategic orientation that is needed today. Part of the Delhi University Symposium on "Globalization, Justice and Democracy." Recorded November 11, 2010. | ||||
| 80. | December 12, 2010 | Public Sector Unionism, Austerity and the Left | Gindin, Sam | |
| A teach-in with leading Canadian labour analyst Sam Gindin explores the present crisis, its meaning and how we might get beyond it. Recorded November 29, 2010. | ||||
| 79. | December 9, 2010 | The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development | Lebowitz, Michael | |
| Prof. Michael Lebowitz discussing aspects of his book The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, at the Maritime Labour Center in Vancouver, British Columbia. | ||||
| 78. | November 30, 2010 | Rally to Stop the Closure of 120 Beds | OCHU/CUPE | |
| This rally was held in front of the Ministry of Health to oppose the cut of 120 beds (one-third of its total) at Providence Healthcare. Recorded in Toronto, November 26, 2010. | ||||
| 77. | November 28, 2010 | Launch: Alternate Routes | Fanelli, Carlo; Chris Hurl; Rebecca Shein; James Meades | |
| The following video showcased the panel discussion held at the launch of Alternate Routes' latest issue, "Saving Global Capitalism: Interrogating Austerity and Working Class Responses to Crises." Recorded in Ottawa, November 5, 2010. | ||||
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