As I read through this year’s Left Forum program guide and try to strategically plot a course through all the staircases and hallways of Pace University to attend my preferred panels of interest, it is refreshing to see and hear so many progressive intellectuals gathered together in one place with the focus of helping not only Americans, but all people around the world that are currently locked in some form of capitalistic power struggle.
In a message to the attendees from Cornel West he states “Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels.”
Truer words were never spoken as every attendee or presenter that I ran in to (literally, while sprinting through the halls) was just as passionate about verbally sharing their opinions and solutions regarding current global issues, as they were with physically doing all of the thankless work in the streets to help spread awareness for their causes.
Sunday marks the final day for the 2011 Left Forum Conference, so if you haven’t had the opportunity yet to see what all the commotion is about, it is highly recommended that you click on this link http://www.leftforum.org/2011/full-schedule to see the list of more than 100 panel that are scheduled for day 3 and head down to Pace University to take part in the discussions.
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