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May 30, 2017
THE CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY AT THE LEFT FORUM:
3 PANELS: GREECE, EUROPE, MEXICO
John Jay College
524 W 59th St , Manhattan, New York City
THE SYRIZA WAVE: SURGING AND CRASHING WITH THE GREEK LEFT
Session 2: SATURDAY June 3rd 12:00pm - 1:50pm
Room: 1.107
Co-sponsored by Campaign for Peace and Democracy, AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement, and New Politics.
Helena Sheehan
Author of The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left, Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History; and Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories, as well as magazine articles on politics, culture, and philosophy. Born in the U.S., Sheehan now lives in Ireland and has been a frequent visitor to Greece. She is Professor Emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies
Despina Lalaki
Adj. Assistant Professor, Sociology, Baruch College, CUNY;Member, AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement
Aaron Amaral
Labor lawyer and member of the International Socialist Organization and AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement. His review of Helena Sheehan's The Syriza Wave appeared in New Politics No. 62 (Winter 2017).
WHAT NEXT FOR THE EUROPEAN LEFT:
CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGE OF RIGHT WING "POPULISM"
Helena Sheehan
Author of The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left.
Catarina Principe
Member of Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal) and a contributing editor at Jacobin. She is co-editor of Europe in Revolt.
Jonah Birch
(because of a scheduling issue, Birch is replacing Kevin Anderson)
Jonah Birch is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at New York University and contributing editor at Jacobin. He has recently returned from France.
FIGHTING BACK
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE MEXICO-U.S. BORDER
Session 3: SATURDAY June 3rd 3:30pm - 5:15pm
Room: 1.107
Co-sponsored by PM Press and Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Cinthya Santos (Mexico-U.S.)
Photo-documentarian journalist and catalyst organizer in Brooklyn; works with indigenous communities presenting their plight visually. https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/far-from-mexico-but-close-to-their-hearts/)
Juan Carlos Ruiz (Mexico-U.S.)
Co-founder of the New Sanctuary Movement and of the New York New Sanctuary Coalition
Edur Velasco Arregui (Mexico)
Former Secretary-General and currently member of the Independent Union of Workers of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City; co-author of Continental Crucible:Big Business, Workers, and Unions in the Transformation of North America
Andres Barreda Marin (Mexico)
Coordinator, Mexican chapter of the Permanent Tribunal of the People
Cinthya Santos (Mexico-U.S.)
Photo-documentarian journalist and catalyst organizer in Brooklyn; works with indigenous communities presenting their plight visually. https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/far-from-mexico-but-close-to-their-hearts/)
Richard Roman (Canada)
Socialist Project (Canada), co-author of Continental Crucible