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  1. Thank you for this excellent conference and the choice of the topics to be discussed as well as of the panelists.. Is there a way of having the panels online live. Not anybody can make it to New York in such a short notice. If money/cost is an obstacle, let’s have a fee for those who would like to participate from Canada and elsewhere.
    Wishing you all the best,
    Aida

  2. What an honour it is to have Chris Hedges at this important conference. Here is what he wrote in Death and the Liberal Class, Alfred Knopf Canada (2010) pages 205-206:
    “Acts of resistance are moral acts. They take place because people of conscience understand the moral, rather than the practical, imperative of rebellion. They should be carried out not because they are effective, but because they are right. Those who begin these acts are always few. They are dismissed by those in the liberal class, who hide their cowardice behind their cynicism. Resistance, however marginal, affirms the sanctity of individual life in a world awash in death. It is the supreme act of faith, the highest form of spirituality. Those who have carried out great acts of resistance in the past sacrificed their security and comfort, often spent time in jail, and in some cases were killed. They understood that to live in the fullest sense of the word, to exist as free and independent human beings, even under the darkest night of state repression means to defy injustice. Any act of resistance is its own justification. It cannot be measured by its utilitarian effect. And the acts of resistance that sustain us morally are those that disrupt systems of power but do not violate the sanctity of human life-even, finally, the lives of those who enslave us.”

  3. Aida:
    I agree with you that online live would also be excellent. Do you think that the CBC would send Raffi to cover this on such short notice? It’s an extremely important conference and it needs coverage in Canada. Look at the title of the closing panel: Where do we go from here?

    Will AW please let us know if either close by or on campus hotel arrangements have been made for this conference? It sounds as if it is in Manhattan. If you go on this site; http://armeniansandtheleft.com/ there are good campus directions once you get in New York, but I couldn’t find where to click for tickets. Do tickets have to be purchased in advance?
    Can we please have more info – particularly re hotel or on campus reservations?

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