rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/china-and-the-left-a-socialist-forum?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-china-and-the-left-a-socialist-forum' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> The People's Forum https://actionnetwork.org/groups/the-peoples-forum-2 https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg CHINA AND THE LEFT: A Socialist Forum DATE AND TIME: September 18, 2021 @ 10:00 AM to 8:30 pm ET LOCATION: IN-PERSON: The People's Forum - 320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018. RSVP below. ZOOM: RSVP below for Zoom link LIVESTREAM: youtube.com/c/ThePeoplesForumNYC CO-SPONSORS: Monthly Review, The People's Forum, Codepink RSVP: Below. EVENT DESCRIPTION In partnership with The People's Forum, Qiao Collective is thrilled to host a one-day international convening of organizers, scholars, and journalists whose work grapples with questions of Chinese socialism, Western imperialism, Global South internationalism, and the renewed Cold War consensus taking hold in the West. Speakers and events will analyze current trends in U.S.-China relations, Chinese development, and international relations through a socialist, anti-imperialist lens. The conference will provide a space for those invested in challenging rise in the U.S.-led imperialist aggression on China to meet, strategize, and discuss. Co-sponsored by Monthly Review, the People's Forum, and Codepink. RSVP below! The conference will be a one day hybrid in-person and livestreamed online conference. Speakers and attendees will be able to attend either in-person or via Zoom. There will be panels throughout the day as well as a short film screening, screen printing art event, and evening social mixer. The past few years, we have seen an alarming ramping up of U.S.-led aggression on China—including the escalation of U.S. military presence in Asia and the Pacific, information warfare and media propaganda, McCarthyist persecution of overseas Chinese people, and economic and trade aggression against China. At the same time, many self-avowed leftist organizations and thinkers have abandoned an anti-imperialist analysis of China in favor of reinforcing imperialist narratives about China. As such, we believe it is crucial to provide a forum for people invested in Global South solidarity and anti-imperialism from across the globe to meet, strategize, and present an alternative analysis of China. We also believe that it is crucial not just for the fate of Chinese people but for all colonized peoples in the Global South and imperial core to unequivocally challenge U.S. imperialism. As such, we hope these panel conversations can help build connections and forward an analysis of the impacts of the New Cold War and to connect the dots between various sites of anti-imperialist struggle. We plan for the conference to be a comprehensive discussion of a myriad of topics including a focus from a Western perspective on the need to challenge imperialism on China as well as a focus on China's economic, environmental, and international relations policies and what that means for China and the global south. The one day conference will include discussion panels throughout the day, a keynote speaker, a short film screening, a screen-printing art event, and evening social mixer. SPEAKERS Qiao Collective Radhika Desai Manu Karuka Christine Hong Max Ajl Tings Chak Zhun Xu Madison Tang - Codepink Elias Khalil Jabbour Daniel Haiphong Sheila Xiao - Pivot to Peace Bikrum Gill Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Chris Matlhako EVENT ACTIVITIES Panel Discussions and Q&As Art Activity: Screen-Printing Film Screening Evening Social Mixer EVENT SCHEDULE Forthcoming. COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS If you are attending in person, we are requiring proof of vaccination at the door and masks worn during the event by all attendees unless drinking or eating. ABOUT QIAO COLLECTIVE Qiao Collective is a volunteer-run group of diaspora Chinese writers, artists, and researchers working to challenge escalating Western imperialism on China. We also aim to provide an English-language bridge into contemporary Chinese socialist and internationalist thought, history, and theory. You can read about Qiao Collective and read our writing at www.qiaocollective.com. CONTACT AND INQUIRIES: qiaocollective@gmail.com https://actionnetwork.org/events/china-and-the-left-a-socialist-forum