1968/2008

March 16-17 in NYC

at Left Forum this year: 1968 - 40 years later

REIMAGINING 1968: THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT AND ITS LEGACIES

This panel critically analyzes the way in which Black Power radicalism impacted the local, national, and international events of 1968.

Donna Murch – Rutgers University
Herb Boyd – Journalist, New York, Amsterdam News
Peniel Joseph – Brandeis University

NO NEOLIBERALISM WITHOUT 1968? THE CONTRADICTORY LEGACY OF THE CULTURAL REBELLION
Is it possible that the cultural upheavals of the ’60s paved the way for neolliberal policies to be not only implemented but accepted widely?
Ingar Solty – York University, Toronto
Barbara Epstein – University of California, Santa Cruz
Thomas Seibert - Medico International
Leo Panitch – York University, Toronto

LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: THE LEGACY OF ‘68
Tariq Ali – Journalist
Max Elbaum – Journalist
Frank Deppe – Political Science, University of Marburg, Germany
(Rosa Luxemburg Foundation - Berlin)

MOVEMENT-BUILDING: FINDING COMMON GROUND
Drawing on organizing experience across race, ethnic, gender and generational lines, panelists will discuss what kind of movement we need to build, how we can bridge theory and practice, how to raise difficult issues, and how older activists can make themselves useful to the young.
Howie Machtinger – Heirs to a Fighting Tradition, “Intergenerational Politics: Legacies of the Sixties”
Susan Wilcox – Brotherhood/SisterSol, “Youth Development for Social Change”
Moderator: Suzanne Pharr – Southerners on New Ground (SONG), “Let the Circle Be Unbroken”

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