Chris Maisano

A panel event held on December 6, 2012, at New York University. Video Recording Panelists Ben Campbell (The North Star) Annie Day (Revolution) Chris Maisano (DSA, Jacobin) Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin) Moderated by Tana Forrester (Platypus Affiliated Society). Description This past US election season saw an array of positions on the Left concerning the outcome that might follow from either major party’s victory. Among them, there were some who openly supported the incumbent Barack Obama as the lesser of two evils, others who opposed him by casting a vote for another candidate, and still others who followed the abstentionist line by not voting at all. [Read More]

A panel event held on December 6, 2012, at New York University, organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Video Recording Panelists Ben Campbell (The North Star) Annie Day (Revolution) Chris Maisano (DSA, Jacobin) Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin) Moderated by Tana Forrester (Platypus Affiliated Society) Description This past US election season saw an array of positions on the Left concerning the outcome that might follow from either major party’s victory. [Read More]

A roundtable discussion with students and activists either directly involved with Occupy Wall St. or who are closely following the #Occupy movement. Video Recording Roundtable Participants Phil Arnone is a grad student in NYU’s Draper Interdisciplinary Program. He has been active in the anti-war and alter-globalization movements since high school; was an organizer with Students for a Democratic Society and a member of United Students Against Sweatshops while completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Mary Washington, where he was a student organizer for the campus living wage campaign which successfully won a living wage for all University workers in 2006. [Read More]