Panel held on December 6th, 2009, at the University of Chicago.
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A bringing together three leading figures of the Pakistani labor movement to talk about workers rights, women’s rights, the struggle to organize in the shadow of the Taliban, and the impact of the ongoing war in Afghanistan on the workers of Pakistan. These topics will be explored in light of the increasingly pressing need to reconstitute an international Left.
Panelists:
Rubina Jamil
President, Working Women Organization; and Chair, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
Atiya Khan
Platypus Affiliated Society; and PhD candidate in History at the University of Chicago
Introduced and moderated by Spencer Leonard, Platypus Affiliated Society; Editor-in-Chief, The Platypus Review; and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Background reading:
The Failure of Pakistan: A Concise History of the Left
The Poverty of Pakistan’s Politics
A Discussion with Maziar Behrooz, Chris Cutrone, Kaveh Ehsani, and Danny Postel
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on the legacy and effects of the Islamic Revolution for the Left, both in Iran and internationally, addressing the still-vexing questions of the relationship of anti-imperialism, democracy, and religious fundamentalism for potential responses to this year's election crisis and protests. 
Rosa, behind bars.
Come watch a film about radical Second International intellectual Rosa Luxemburg.
It's a potluck, so bring food. Eat food. Talk about the movie, Rosa, the latest Platypus Review, the Sexual Liberation Event. Check out the Mess Hall space. Have a good time.
(This) Friday the 23rd, at the Mess hall from 7:30- 10:30.
The struggles for sexual liberation and women’s rights of the past century leave us with an ambiguous legacy.
How do the failures and successes of these movements inform the present? Recent events such as the passing of Proposition 8 in California and the ongoing repression of women in the Middle East make us wonder, are we more sexually liberated today than 20 or 50 years ago? What does the term “sexual liberation” even mean today? This panel discussion seeks to raise these questions and other new possible considerations for the discourse on sexuality within the Left.
The event will take the form of a moderated panel discussion, followed by an audience Q&A.
Speakers:
Judith Wittner, Professor, Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
Barbara DeGenevieve, Professor, Photography, SAIC
Dr. Yasmin Nair, Gender JUST
Greg Gabrellas, Platypus
Tuesday, October 20
7:00pm
Loyola University Sullivan Center (Galvin Auditorium)
6339 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=284976510213&ref=ss
Friday the 28th of August at 5-7pm in the SAIC Michigan Building, room # 501.
We will be reading and discussing: U.S. Labor in the crisis: resistance or retreat by Lee Sustar
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