Left Coast Forum
Focus on Race and Class at L.A.’s Left Coast Forum
Eric A. Gordon: This second year of this city’s Left Coast Forum (LCF) kept coming around to the themes of race and class—in plenary sessions, breakout panels, in the cultural offerings, and in the lively display area where left activists of all stripes hosted booths promoting their points of view and products.
Your Thoughts on the First Left Coast Forum
After asking what panel sessions people attended, we asked four key questions: What worked, what didn't work, what could we do better, and would you attend next year?
Quotations from the First Left Coast Forum
Tom Hall: What struck me most about the language being used was how familiar it was. The student presenters sounded a lot like a lot of the organizers I worked with, first on Civil Rights and then on anti-Vietnam War activities, back in the ‘60s.
#WeChoose: A Critical Conversation about Public Education
The electrifying #WeChoose campaign comes to Los Angeles! In today’s political climate, more than ever, it is urgent for local communities to control how education is administered in their neighborhoods. The #WeChoose campaign explodes the “illusion of school choice” to propel the national movement for community driven school improvement. Join us for a critical conversation with New York’s Zakiyah Ansari, Oakland’s Mike Hutchinson, and Los Angeles' Rudy Gonzalves. Moderated by Karen Wolfe.
Left Coast Forum: Ending Money Bail
Main objective is to create a growing number of individuals that support the elimination of money bail in California through the public education focused on the inefficiencies and predatory nature of the bail industry.
The Olympics and Homelessness: How The State of Exception Spurs Displacement and Tools for the Left to Fight Back
This will be a discussion about the overwhelming historical precedence for increase and deepening of homelessness and housing insecure populations during the Olympics over the past 100+ years.
Left Coast Forum: Why WOMEN's Voices Matter in Media
Statistics prove that when media is female made, when the stories are told and created by women, the percentages of enlightened female characters emerge, female characters are empowered, and the effect of watching these films has an effect around the world.
Left Coast Forum: Building a Peoples Democratic Workers Party
Workers, oppressed people and democratic forces must build political organization and a party that represents our interests against the dominant ruling class Democratic and Republican parties. Develop grassroots strategy and examine successful developments around the country.
The Political Economy of Obama/Trump
Richard Wolff: Given the conditions of global capitalism in the new century, a trickle down policy for the post-2008 US meant that “recovery” would be slow and bypass millions.
