Fantastic Speakers, Workshops, and Panels
Workshops and panels will feature organizers and trainers from the anti-racist, feminist, youth, queer rights, labor union, ecology, and anti-war movements, as well as noted activist scholars and voices from the democratic left.
We are still developing the full program, but the preliminary list of speakers includes:
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky was voted the leading living public intellectual in the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British magazine Prospect. In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted seventh in the list of "Heroes of our time." An open socialist, Chomsky is one of the most important intellectuals on the American left;
Barbara Ehrenreich, is the author of thirteen books, including The New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Harpers, and The Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine. Ehrenreich is an honorary chair of Democratic Socialists of America, YDS's parent organization;
Gayarti Chakravorty Spivak, Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at
Columbia
University.
A noted scholar on feminism, globalization, and post-colonialism, Spivak is the author of many books and major articles, including: Three Women?s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism; Can the Subaltern Speak?; Outside in the Teaching Machine;
Liza Featherstone, a journalist based in
New York City.
Her articles appear regularly in The Nation (where she is a contributing editor) and several other alternative and mainstream publications. She is the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement and the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers? Rights at Wal-Mart;
Christian Parenti, a journalist whose articles and groundbreaking reporting regularly appear in The Nation magazine and Doug Henwood?s radio show ?Behind the News.? He is the author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, The Soft Cage, and Lockdown
America.
Parenti has traveled extensively through
Afghanistan,
Iraq,
and
Latin America
covering recent political developments;
Joseph Schwartz, Chair, Department of Political Science,
Temple
University
and Chair, Steering Committee of the Democratic Socialists of
America.
Schwartz is the author of the upcoming book, The Future of Democratic Equality;
Corey D. B. Walker, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at
Brown
University,
author of the forthcoming book, Between Transcendence and History: Theology, Critical Theory, and the Politics of Liberation. He is a member of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Conference sessions will cover critical topics, such as:
*Mobilizing for immigrant rights
*Combating racism, sexism, and homophobia
*Ending the wars abroad and in our own communities
*Exposing the realities of the low wage economy
*Understanding democratic socialist theory and practice
*Building a vibrant democracy
*Engaging in anti-corporate campaigns and student-labor solidarity
*Linking struggles through multi-issue organizing
*Understand current religious social movements
*Challenging capitalism and corporate domination
*Learning the nuts and bolts of grassroots activism
*Building activist chapters and campaigns
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