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Sunday
Evening Plenary:
Barbara Bowen, Kshama
Sawant, and Rob Robinson
Amy Goodman: moderator and
interlocutor
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Everyday Revolutions and Transformative
Organizing:
Dialogues, Strategies, Hope, and
Trust
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A dialogue in three parts - with audience
questions
with a welcome from Dolores
Canales
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Barbara Bowen is
a professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of The City
University of New York (CUNY). She taught for fifteen years before becoming
president of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY. A scholar of 17th-century
English literature and African-American studies, Bowen earned her Ph.D. at Yale
and has published numerous works in her field. Throughout her academic career,
she also worked in progressive political movements and as a labor organizer.
Bowen’s election as president of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) in 2000
was as part of a collective of faculty and staff with deep roots in progressive
politics. The PSC represents 25,000 faculty members and professional staff at
CUNY and the CUNY Research Foundation. A fierce opponent of accommodating to
economic austerity, Bowen has been an outspoken critic of Albany’s failed
strategy of disinvestment in CUNY and reliance on increased student tuition. She
is a principled and articulate labor leader, pressing city’s labor movement to
challenge Wall Street. |
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Kshama Sawant is
an activist who brings a passion for social justice to her work as a public
servant. As a member of the Seattle City Council, Kshama pledges to be a voice
for workers, youth, the oppressed and the voiceless. After earning her PhD,
Kshama moved to Seattle and began teaching at Seattle Central Community College,
Seattle University, and the University of Washington Tacoma. In 2012, Kshama ran
as a Socialist Alternative candidate for WA State Legislature and surprised
everyone by winning 29% of the vote. The momentum continued in her campaign for
Seattle City Council where she boldly ran on a platform of fighting for a
$15/hr. minimum wage, rent control and taxing the super-rich to fund mass
transit and education. In November she defeated a 16-year incumbent Democrat to
become the first socialist elected in a major US city in
decades.
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Rob
Robinson is a member of the Leadership Committee of the Take Back the
Land Movement and a staff volunteer at the National Economic and Social Rights
Initiative (NESRI). After losing his job in 2001 with a fortune 500 company, he
spent two years, homeless on the streets of Miami and ten months in a New York
City shelter. He eventually overcame homelessness and has been in the housing
movement based in New York City since 2007. In the fall of 2009, Rob was chosen
to be New York City chairperson for the first ever official mission of a UN
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. He has worked with
homeless populations in Budapest, Hungary and Berlin, Germany and is connected
with housing movements in South Africa and Brazil. He works with the European
Squatters Collective, International Alliance of Inhabitants, Landless People’s
Movement and the Movement of People Affected by Dams and is a member of the
Steering Committee of the USA Canada Alliance of Inhabitants. He is a member of
the Board of the Left Forum. |
| Amy Goodman is
the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily,
independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,200 public television
and radio stations worldwide. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of
the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist
to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel
Prize' for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots
political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices
that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is the first co-recipient
of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the great
muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman
and Democracy Now! "an inspiration." PULSE named her one of the 20 Top Global
Media Figures of 2009. |
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Dolores Canales
is a founding member and organizer with California Families Against Solitary
Confinement (CFASC) and on the Advisory Board of CURB (Californians United for a
Responsible Budget) and mother of John Martinez, who has spent the past 13
years in Solitary Confinement in Pelican Bay SHU prison. Since the July 2011
Hunger Strike Dolores and numerous other family members have been actively
involved in raising awareness to the issues of solitary confinement and mass
incarceration in California. Dolores herself is a formally incarcerated, very
productive member of society, and spends her free time advocating on behalf of
prisoners and their families. Dolores was awarded the Family Unity Award by
Legal Services of Prisoners with
Children.
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