2016 Left Forum Opening Plenary
Tariq Ali, author of The Extreme Centre, Medea Benjamin, author of Drone Warfare, and Chris Hedges, author of Wages of Rebellion, talked about capitalism and militarism. The panel was modera…
1,316 viewsTariq Ali, author of The Extreme Centre, Medea Benjamin, author of Drone Warfare, and Chris Hedges, author of Wages of Rebellion, talked about capitalism and militarism. The panel was modera…
1,316 viewsAmy Goodman, the host and executive producer of the Democracy Now! radio show, spoke at the closing plenary session of the annual Left Forum. She talked about politics, the 2016 presidential…
550 viewsA series of speakers talked about the goals, politics, and people of leftist movements in the U.S. “A National Left Politics?” was the closing plenary of the annual Left Forum two-day co…
561 viewsChris Hedges, Cornel West, and Richard Wolff talked about the importance of Thomas Paine and his most influential works: Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. This event wa…
3,263 viewsPanelists talked about computer hacking and information activism. The spoke about the history of Anonymous, hacking, information activism and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which the pane…
584 viewsAndrew Hsaio moderated a discussion of the first three books in the “Counterblasts” series from Verso Books. They are polemical takes on influential liberal writers Thomas Friedman, Bernard-…
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