KeyWiki has information on Left Forum conferences held in , , , , , and The event was themed "Cracks in the Edifice". Board of Directors, [2]. The African Crisis: Politics, Philosophy and Social Movements: A Roundtable: Contributing authors to the November special issue of Socialism and Democracy will exchange ideas about the current prospects for popular progressive and revolutionary movements in Africa.
Speaking Truth to Power: Africa's Independant Media and its Relationship to Democratic Struggles around the Continent: How does the traditional press and new media forms, including blogs, websites, and text messaging, contribute to democracy movements on the continent and among the diaspora?
This panel will focus on the debate around how to understand the political violence in Darfur since the start of the February rebellion. Harlem is Seized! Radicalizing Human Rights: Bringing Human Rights Home: In recent years, important sectors of the feminist movement and the left have adopted a strategy of using the language of international human rights to mobilize people for economic and social justice within the US; in what ways is this approach useful in winning reforms and building a movement and what are its possible limitations in terms of a radical strategy?
In a world where coverage of sports is increasingly pervasive, this panel examines the way that popular journalism address issues of race, gender and culture. An interactive dialogue of artists and activists on the criminalization of black youth and how art intersects with scholarship to fight these racist ideologies, the potentials available in revolutionary music to mobilize communities and students to resist the criminalization and mass incarceration of black people. Racial Justice and Public Education: Panelists will discuss the ways in which different communities are addressing the challenges they face fighting for decent and equitable education, how they have resisted and organized, and how their particular struggles speak to the larger political climate of the US.
Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the DeMobolisation of African Voters: New voters are trouble, so it is more efficient to work to suppress opposition voters, and blacks are the usual target of vote suppression, a tactic is used both by the Republican and the Democratic parties. Beyond Walls and Cages: Linking Immigrant Rights and Prison Abolition Movements: The criminalization of migration builds on the nearly three-decade long project of mass incarceration. How can we understand how walls and cages target different groups of people, yet with similar effects, and how can the prison abolition and immigrant justice movements learn from and support each other?
