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SUMMARY:Day 1\, Session 5—Solidarity Without Borders
DESCRIPTION:A panel with Kazembe Balagun\, Mark Bergfeld\, Harmony Goldberg and Marcus Grätsch — moderated by Marika Dias \nWar\, ecological crisis\, automation\, blurring of the rural and urban\, the global North and the global South\, along with development of precarity for all of global generalized proletariat lays material basis for internationalist solidarity. \nKazembe Balagun has been featured in Time Out New York\, The Guardian\, German Public Radio and The New York Times and contributed “We Be Reading Marx Where We From” to Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA. As a cultural activist he has sought to create intersections between Marxism\, queer theory\, feminism and Black liberation movements. He works as project manager at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung\, New York Office. \nMark Bergfeld is a writer and organizer. He has written for media outlets such as Al-Jazeera English\, The Nation\, New Statesman among others. He has been active in social movements in Europe and served on the Executive Council of the National Union of students in the UK. He currently is writing his PhD on the relationship between trade unions and immigrant workers at Queen Mary University of London. \nA founding member of SOUL: School of Unity & Liberation in Oakland\, Harmony Goldberg has run left political education programs for grassroots organizations in the Bay Area and New York City for more than a decade.  Recently completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center\, and she continues to support grassroots organizations and the broader left as a popular educator\, writer and facilitator. \nMarcus Grätsch is a political scientist and activist. He currently works as Program Coordinator for Left Forum in New York. He is member of the large post-autonomous group “Interventionist Left” in Germany (introduction to this group: https://vimeo.com/167657035) ” in Berlin\, he took part in the euromayday movement which fought against precarity and for the freedom of movement between 2004 and 2008 for more see here  http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Precarity_Movement . In 2009 he co-founded the “Meuterei” bar and social space operated as worker cooperative/collective in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In 2012 he took part in initiating the transnational “Blockupy” coalition which is a major actor of the European resistance against austerity. For more of this coalition see here: https://blockupy.org/en/
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SUMMARY:Resistance and Solidarity Across the US-Mexican Border
DESCRIPTION:Gerardo Renique will cover the history and political implications of the making of the US-Mexican international for contemporary struggles for labor\, immigrant and civil rights across the US-Mexican border. Significant consideration will be given to the tensions and contradictions generated by the uneven interdependence of capitalist development in the borderlands; the long history of solidarity\, struggle and resistance against racial and capitalist oppression waged by Native Americans\, Mexican Americans and the multinational working class in the region; and\, the potential of these developments for the political challenges posed by transnational capitalism and globalization in Mexico and the United States.\nGerardo Renique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research looks at the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America; race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. He co-directed with Tami Gold the video-documentary Frozen Happiness. Elections\, Repression and Hope in Oaxaca\, Mexico; and co-authored with G. Katsiaficas “A New Stage of Insurgencies: Latin American Popular Movements\, the Gwangju Uprising\, and the Occupy Movement” in Socialism and Democracy.
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LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History
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