World Can’t Wait has a large presence at Left Forum in NYC March 16-18 this year. We have two War Criminals Watch Panels.
In addition, our Director, Debra Sweet, is on three more panels. War Criminals Watch advisors Ann Wright and David Swanson are on an other panels as well. World Can’t Wait advisor Sunsara Taylor is on several panels. And, World Can’t Wait steering committee member Dennis Loo is on two panels. We are listing all these below for your information and hope you will be able to attend a lot of them.
We will be displaying a Reaper drone replica and the shoes and boots of people who have died in Iraq & Afghanistan outside Pace University. We are asking for volunteers to help. Write to stephanie@worldcantwait.net.
Panels take place at Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, in downtown NYC. For more information and directions, contact leftforum.org.
Sponsored by War Criminals Watch:
Stopping the US Drone War: A Chilling Feature of the US War of Terror, Expanded by Obama Administration to Include Targeted Assassinations – Sunday, March 18th at 12:00 noon in Room W606.
Participants: Debra Sweet, Ed Kinane, Zohra Ahmed
What War? US Turns from War on Iraq to Permanent Occupation
Saturday, March 17, 12:00 pm, Room W602
Chair: Debra Sweet (Director of World Can’t Wait). Speakers: Michael Otterman (human rights consultant), Larry Everest (Revolution), David Swanson (blogs at davidswanson.org and warisacrime.org)
Panels we’re participating in:
An Army of Rape: Why Supporting the Troops is Wrong!
Saturday, March 17, 10:00 am, Room E324
Chair: Sunsara Taylor (Revolution, board member, World Can’t Wait). Speakers: Mathis Chiroux (anti-war veteran), Carl Dix (Revolutionary Communist Party)
Is Voting a Solution?
Saturday, March 17, 10:00 am, Room E320
Chair: Dennis Loo (author, Globalization and the Demolition of Society). Speakers: Dennis Loo, Debra Sweet (Director of World Can’t Wait), David Swanson (blogs at davidswanson.org and warisacrime.org), Andy Zee (Revolution Books, NYC, and Revolution)
Pornography & the Sex Industry: Reclaim, Regulate, Uproot, or Abolish?
Saturday, March 17, 12:00 pm, Room E324
Chair: Eesha Pandit (contributing writer at Feministing and the Crunk Feminist Collective). Speakers: Melissa Gira Grant (has written about sex trade for Alternet, the Guardian, Slate, Jezebel, $pread, and many others), Sunsara Taylor (Revolution)
ABORTION! An Urgent Part of Women’s Liberation—Differing Viewpoints on How to Win This Fight
Saturday, March 17, 3:00 pm, Room E324
Chair: Eleanor Bader (RH RealityCheck). Speakers: Cristina Page (author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America), Sunsara Taylor (Revolution)
No Justice Without Peace
Sunday, March 18, 10:00 am, Schimmel
Chair: Jeff Cohen. Speakers: David Swanson, Ann Wright, Medea Benjamin, Glen Ford
Which Way Forward? The War on Terror and the Demolition of Society
Sunday, March 18 at 10:00 am in Room W402.
Participants: Dr. Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona, World Can’t Wait; Jeremy Varon, Professor, The New School; Chaired by Andy Zee, Revolution Books
U.S.-Israel War Moves Against Iran—What’s Going On, Our Responsibility to Resist
Sunday, March 18, 10:00 am, Room LHN (Lecture Hall North)
Chair: Debra Sweet (Director of World Can’t Wait). Speakers: Larry Everest (Revolution), Michael Klare (The Nation, Hampshire College), Leila Zand (Fellowship of Reconciliation), Benjamin R. Barber (Dēmos)