Emily Janakiram and Megan Lessard speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by NYC for Abortion Rights: https://abortionrights.nyc.
The last decade has seen the rise of a “pro-life feminist” movement that has been instrumental in the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the passage of anti-trans legislation. Pro-life feminists position abortion as violence towards women which serves men and bosses, gesturing towards the real failures of liberal feminism to secure material gains for poor and working class women and advancing a "pro-family, pro-labor" agenda that casts abortion, feminism, and sexual liberty as neoliberal, capitalist innovations which exploit women and alienate them from their supposedly innate desire to raise children and maintain the domestic sphere. This discussion will unpack the terrain of this emergent movement and its effects within the anti-abortion movement as a whole, and describe how socialist feminism can and must counter it in a post-Dobbs world.
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Oct 24, 2022
Socialism and Disability Justice: Theory and Practice
Dana Cloud, Nina Lozano, and Keith Rosenthal speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
Presentations on Disability Justice and Socialism, Political Economy of Disability, Crip Time and Workers with Disabilities, and Protesting While Disabled.
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Oct 24, 2022
Confronting an Empire in Collapse: Cooperation Jackson and Building Eco-Socialism from Below
Kali Akuno speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022, moderated by Kade Doyle Griffiths. This session was sponsored by Cooperation Jackson.
https://cooperationjackson.org
Mississippi’s Cooperation Jackson has become a center for Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisis. In the context of the water crisis in Jackson, this session will delve into the new and ongoing strategies and methods being pursued by this movement for grassroots-centered Black community control and self-determination, inspiring partnership and emulation across the globe.
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Oct 25, 2022
Christians and the Socialist Struggle: Promises and Perils
Obery Hendricks, Josh Davis, and Aaron Anderson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
There is a rise of religious organizations joining the socialist struggle. This panel will explore what role religion should play in socialist politics; the rightwing’s hegemony in US Christianity and what socialists can learn from it; and the difference between “reactionary socialism” and a truly emancipatory Christian socialist politics.
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Oct 25, 2022
The Border Crossed Us: Labor, Migration, and Working-Class Internationalism
Justin Akers Chacón speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
The aggressive exploitation of labor on both sides of the US-Mexico border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North America, but this vicious model of capitalist transnationalization has also created its own grave-diggers. This session will explore why fighting for migrant justice and rebuilding the international union movement both require that we demand an open border.
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Oct 27, 2022
Unpacking the Anti-Trans Backlash
Eric Maroney speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
Right-wing pundits have declared open war on abortion rights, and queer and trans people. Although aimed at motivating conservative voters ahead of the midterms, this backlash is more than simple political calculus. The far-Right/alt-Right are animated by profound anti-feminism. Unpacking and understanding this anti-feminism is essential to a Left response.
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Oct 27, 2022
#FreeThemAll: Liberation for Criminalized Survivors
Deana Lewis, Chez Rumpf, and Santera Matthews speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Survived & Punished and Love & Protect.
https://survivedandpunished.org
https://loveprotect.org
In this session, Survived & Punished National, Love & Protect, and the Free Chrystul Kizer Defense Campaign will focus on defining the term “criminalized survivors,” building survivor defense campaigns, and supporting survivors at the intersections of intimate partner and state violence. We will discuss the barriers survivors face and the practical support that survivors need on their pathways to liberation.
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