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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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 136. | April 28, 2012 | #may1to Revolution 2012 | ||
| Getting ready for May Day 2012, Spread the word! Join Occupy Toronto and the 99% as we celebrate May Day - the International Workers' Day. Recorded April 25, downtown Toronto. | ||||
| 135. | April 22, 2012 | The "New Age" of Austerity | Albo, Greg et al | |
| Presentations by Greg Albo; Tamara Krawchenko, Chris Stoney; Sheila Block. Recorded 23 March 2012, Toronto, part of the "Global Economic Crisis and Canadian Austerity" conference at Ryerson University. | ||||
| 134. | April 21, 2012 | Occupy Toronto: Subway Mic Check | ||
| Getting ready for May Day 2012, Occupy Toronto takes to transit to spread the word! Join Occupy Toronto and the 99% as we celebrate May Day - the International Workers' Day. Recorded in Toronto, 17 April 2012. | ||||
| 133. | April 15, 2012 | Renewing Working Class Politics, Rebuilding Canadian Labour | ||
| Presentations by Mark P. Thomas and Steve Tufts; Herman Rosenfeld; Sam Gindin. Recorded 23 March 2012, Toronto, part of the "Global Economic Crisis and Canadian Austerity" conference at Ryerson University. | ||||
| 132. | April 1, 2012 | Global Economic Crisis and Canadian Austerity | Stanford, Jim; Carlo Fanelli and Bryan Evans | |
| It is now broadly recognized that the global economic crisis that struck in late 2007 is by far the most significant and wide-ranging since the Depression years of the 1930s. Given fears of an ongoing recession, particularly as a result of Europe's sovereign debt crisis and a record level U.S. budget deficit, the global recession that struck in 2007 is by no means over. "Canadian (Non)Exceptionalism: Crisis, Recovery, Austerity" presented by Jim Stanford. | ||||
| 131. | March 11, 2012 | Transit Forum 2012 | ||
| Which Way Forward for the Transit Movement in Toronto? Recorded 3 March 2012 in Toronto. | ||||
| 130. | March 4, 2012 | Haiti: Solidarity and Social Justice | ||
| Updates on the ongoing legal efforts to try Jean Claude Duvalier for human rights abuses against the Haitian people and the strong legal action against the United Nations on behalf of 5,000 victims of cholera for its role in the introduction of cholera into Haiti. | ||||
| 129. | February 5, 2012 | Debunking Anti-Union Myths | ||
| In this exciting new series, Dr. Stephanie Ross of York University decimates the right-wing media spin about organized labour in North America. While many pundits tell us that unions are a thing of the past, in reality, their presence is desperately needed in a majority non-union workforce. | ||||
| 128. | January 29, 2012 | Occupy Talks: What Gravy Train? | ||
| Austerity, Finance, and the Polarization of Wealth. Over the last several decades, inequality has been steadily increasing, with the 1% enjoying ever higher concentrations of wealth, while members of the 99% experience greater poverty. Presentations by: Jim Stanford, Nathan Okonta, Linda McQuaig and Sam Gindin. | ||||
| 127. | January 22, 2012 | Strategizing the Resistance: A Conversation with Manny Ness | ||
| Immanuel Ness is the author of several books on workers' organizing and resistance. He is a trade union organizer and labour activist and co-founded with Keith Brooks of the New York Unemployed Committee (1990-1993), which successfully organized jobless workers at New York State unemployment centers. He recently co-edited a collection called Ours to Master and to Own which details 22 cases of workers' councils, assemblies and occupations from the Paris Commune to the present. | ||||
| 126. | January 1, 2012 | Contracorriente - discussion with Michael Lebowitz | ||
| Michael Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Some of his recent books include Beyond Capital, Build it Now and Socialist Alternative. | ||||
| 125. | December 25, 2011 | Deutscher Prize Lecture 2011 | ||
| The 2010 Deutscher Memorial Prize was awarded to David Harvey for his book The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism. The lecture is entitled: "History versus Theory: a Commentary on Marx's Method of Capital." | ||||
| 124. | December 18, 2011 | Uniting Struggles: Critical Social Research In Critical Times | ||
| The thirty-fifth anniversary edition of Alternate Routes. Presentations by Randall Germain, Priscillia Lefebvre and Richard Fidler. Recorded in Ottawa, 2 December 2011. | ||||
| 123. | December 16, 2011 | Novotel Mic Check | ||
| Supporters of the Novotel Ottawa workers OCCUPIED the main restaurant and management had no choice but to shut down the restaurant and give the coffee for free. Supporters then gathered in the front of the hotel and marched and chanted "Solidarity Forever." | ||||
| 122. | December 11, 2011 | CUPE National: Move Your War Room To Toronto Now | ||
| In 1981, Ronald Reagan took on and smashed PATCO, the Air Traffic Controllers. The American labour movement expressed outrage but did nothing. This sealed the fate of American workers for over three decades. Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford, has declared war on city-workers. He intends to smash unions. This is our PATCO moment. | ||||
| 121. | December 8, 2011 | Toronto Emergency Public Warning | ||
| This is a message from the Emergency Public Warning System. This is not a test. Open class war will break out in Toronto in early 2012. Produced by Sindicalista TV for rabbletv. | ||||
| 120. | December 7, 2011 | #OccupyTTC | ||
| A group of people from OccupyToronto paid their fare and rode the subway cars of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). They engaged with riders using the people's mic - about the state of the TTC and the city's budgetary cutbacks. | ||||
| 119. | December 4, 2011 | The Left's Responses to the Crisis in Europe and North America | ||
| Leo Panitch, Stephanie Ross, Albert Scharenberg, Bill Fletcher | ||||
| 118. | November 20, 2011 | Understanding and Fighting Austerity | Gindin, Sam; Stefan Kipfer | |
| What are some of the forces that are driving the current crisis? How is it pushing forward the agenda of business and governments to get working people and our organizations to tighten our belts and accept their calls for austerity? What forms is resistance taking around the world - what are the strengths and limitations of that resistance and what can we learn from it? | ||||
| 117. | October 30, 2011 | Afghanistan: Ten Years of War and Resistance | ||
| Opening meeting of the Canadian Peace Alliance convention. Featuring: Judith Leblanc, Suraia Sahar and Derrick O'Keefe. Recorded in Toronto, 14 October 2011. | ||||
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