The Left Forum in NYC

June 7, 2013

The Left Forum is the largest gathering of progressive thought on the East Coast. Over 1,000 participants and speakers on every possible topic, including single payer. Three of us from Health Care for All PA will be speaking on Saturday, June 8 if you are in NYC.

What: The Political-Industrial Complex: How America’s Corporate-Political Axis Destroys Democracy and Enriches the Few

Where: Left Forum | Department of Sociology | CUNY Graduate Center | 365 Fifth Avenue | New York, NY 10016

Session
Room
Time
Session 2
W622
Sat 12:00pm – 01:40pm
Panel Proposal Information
Panel Year:
2013
Panel Year:
2013
Abstract:
America’s combination of actor-enabler, ‘bully-wimp’ forces – Wall Street, Industrial, Media, and Political institutions and individuals – undermines and destroys progressive democratic, economic, social, educational, and environmental developments. Only by understanding the exploitative and coercive effects of this predatory-passive relationship, can community-minded Americans and non-Americans reverse the global degradation brought on by the ‘Political-Industrial Complex.’ This panel will identify, describe, and seek to solve America’s corporate-dominated, political-industrial marriage of career politicians, media moguls, global industrialists, and Wall Street hedge funders. One panelist will explore and analyze the merger of media-finance-political interests; the second will examine the intersection of corporate-finance-politics; the third will diagnose the medical-finance-political connection; the fourth will dissect the “two-party” politician-consultant-finance relationship. In each case, the panelists will propose solutions on how to break up and reverse the Political-Industrial Complex.
Chair:
Name: Chuck Pennacchio
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Speakers:
Name: Jerry Policoff
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Name: Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
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Name: Julian Palmer