Day 3, Session 1: Slackers, Sabotage, and Syndicalism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe term "slacker” originated during WWI and disparaged those (primarily Irish) coded “lazy," “vagrant," and resistant to a proper Protestant work ethic; it also referred to those who would not fight on the side of the Americans (and of course, the British) during WWI.
Day 3, Session 2—Beyond Bernie: The Crisis of Labor & The Left in the United States
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWhat are the prospects and possibilities for independent working class politics in the wake of the Sanders campaign?
Day 3, Session 3: Prometheus in Ruins? Uses and Abuses of the Hero Who Stole Fire
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis talk will trace the history of Promethean ideology, beginning with the Godwin/Malthus debates of the 1790s, through its current revival within certain precincts of the left, particularly as it intersects with the ecological crisis and Anthropocene theory today.
Day 3, Session 4—Logistics, Capitalist Circulation, Chokepoints with Charmaine Chua
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYCan we understand the highway takeover, the port blockade, and the storefront die-in as connected instances of disruption, revealing an arena of struggle that capital’s turn to accumulation through logistical circulation has made available? What do they teach us about the possibilities of disrupting capital’s circuits as a whole? In short, why occupy chokepoints, and why now?
Day 3, Session 5—Devils & Dust: Resisting War in New York, the Pacific, & the Middle East
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYAs capital powers vie for access to ocean routes for trade and military surveillance, peoples of the numerous sectors of the Pacific and Indian Oceans are joining in resistance against the rush to warfare and continuation of war throughout the Middle East.