Tsipras/SYRIZA Events this Thursday and Friday in NYC

[North Star]

Special Event: An evening with syriza on greece and the eurozone

Part of the 2012-2013 Seminar Series on Contemporary Issues in Law and Political Economics organized by the Workers' Rights Student Coalition

Time & Date: 6.00pm, Thursday January 24, 2013.

http://www.modernmoneyandpublicpurpose.com/special-event-syriza.html

Synopsis: An evening with top leadership of SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left), Greece's leading opposition party, to discuss the challenges facing Greece and the Eurozone and SYRIZA's vision for economic and financial reform. This event builds on the series' earlier seminar, Design Defects and Policy Failures: An Institutional Analysis of the Eurozone Crisis.

Location: Room 102, Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School. Cost: Free Registration: Pre-registration is closed. Please sign-up here to be placed on the waitlist and you will be notified if additional space becomes available. Those who are unable to attend are invited to watch on the livestream here. For press registration, please email Rohan Grey.  Participants: More information can be found here. Broadcasting: The seminar will be live-streamed here, and live-tweeted by @thepublicmoney under the hashtags #mmpp and #syriza.

Program

6.00pm-6.05pm - Welcome

Rohan Grey (Moderator), J.D. Candidate 2014 & Co-Organizer, Modern Money and Public Purpose Seminar Series

6.05pm-6.15pm - Introduction

Alexis Tsipras MP, Leader of the Opposition in Greek Parliament, Leader of SYRIZA and President of Synaspismós

6.15pm -7.30pm - redesign: structural solutions to the eurozone crisis

Panelists:

• Rena Dourou, Member of Greek Parliament (SYRIZA); Critic of the Opposition for the Foreign Relations and European Issues
• Yiannis Milios, Economic Advisor, SYRIZA, Member of the Political Secretariat of Synaspismos and Professor of Political Economy, National Technical University of Athens 
• Mathew Forstater, Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Security, University of Missouri - Kansas City
• Katharina Pistor, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Global Legal Transformation, Columbia Law School
• Thomas Ferguson, Director of Research Programs, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

7.30pm-7.35pm - Break

7:35pm-8.50pm - Next Steps: A progressive agenda for greece's economy

Panelists:

• George Stathakis, Member of Greek Parliament (SYRIZA), Critic of the Opposition for the Economy and Professor of Political Economy, University of Crete
• Yiannis Milios, Economic Advisor, SYRIZA, Member of the Political Secretariat of Synaspismos and Professor of Political Economy, National Technical University of Athens
• Rania Antonopolous, Senior Scholar and Director, Gender Equality and the Economy Program, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
  
• Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Helen Ginsburg, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Co-Founder, National Jobs for All Coalition.

8.50pm-9.10pm - discussion

Alexis Tsipras MP, Leader of the Opposition in Greek Parliament, Leader of SYRIZA and President of Synaspismós

9.10-9.15pm - Concluding Remarks

Jonathan Brice, J.D. Candidate 2014 & Co-Organizer, Modern Money and Public Purpose Seminar Series
FYI -- this event will be livestreamed/livetweeted as well.


The information for Friday's event with Tsipras is below:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alan A. <ala...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Subject: Tsipras (SYRIZA) Meeting this Friday in NYC
To:


Leader of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras will be speaking at a public meeting on 

Anti-Austerity Politics in Greece, Europe & Beyond 

Friday January 25th, 7-9PM 

at Proshanky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue (near 34th Street)

Flyer:

 
http://situations-collective.tumblr.com/image/40587744305

[Andrew Sernatinger]

Someone should consider filming the event.

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[Louis Proyect]

On 1/22/13 9:34 PM, Andrew Sernatinger wrote:
> Someone should consider filming the event.
>

It will be live-streamed.