Held on July 28th, 2007, at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.
Presenting organizations include: Mess Hall, Platypus, Free Geek, Chicagoland/Calumet Underground Railroad Efforts, Bronzeville Historical Society, Chicago Womenâs Health Center, The Odyssey Project, and more.
This event is part of the Stockyard Instituteâs Pedagogical Factory exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center, AREA Chicagoâs lecture series for the upcoming âHow We Learnâ issue of their magazine, and Neighborhood Writing Allianceâs programs for the education issue of Journal of Ordinary Thought. This public forum was made possible in part by the Illinois Humanities Council.
âHowever difficult the task of grasping and confronting global capital might be, it is crucially important that a global internationalism be recovered and reformulated. . . .
The Left should be very careful about constituting a form of politics that, from the standpoint of human emancipation, would be questionable, at the very best, however many people it may rouse.â
â Moishe Postone, âHistory and Helplessnessâ (2006)
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on issues of global capital, imperialism and war, possibilities for progressive political opposition, and the problems and tasks for the Left in the post-Cold War and post-9/11 world raised by the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Held on January 30th, 2007, in Chicago.
Panelists: Kevin Anderson (News and Letters), Chris Cutrone (Platypus), Nick Kreitman (new Students for a Democratic Society), Danny Postel (OpenDemocracy.net), and Adam Turl (International Socialist Organization).
Transcript in Platypus Review #25 (Click below):