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Greek Election: Syriza Win and Austerity Crisis Part 2

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Channel: Joe Friendly · 2015 · News & Politics

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Continuation of panel discussion, responses of panel to each other's talks and then questions from the audience with panelists responding, about success of Syriza coalition party in recent Greek elections and their dealing with austerity crisis:  NANTINA VGONTZAS, NATASSA ROMANOU, IANNIS DELATOLAS, AARON AMARAL, ALAN AKRIVOS, with moderators THOMAS HARRISON and JOANNE LANDY.

Nantina Vgontzas is a Greek-American sociology PhD student at NYU focusing on political economy and social movements. She is a member of the UAW Graduate Student Organizing Committee and involved in the nationwide Academic Workers for a Democratic Union reform movement.  Natassa Romanou is a Research Professor at Columbia University in Climate Studies, a member of SYRIZA and the ecosocialist group System Change Not Climate Change. She is a founding member, SYRIZA-NY and AKNY. Romanou was in Greece for the elections.  Iannis Delatolas is an art photographer, a founding member of AKNY, and a supporter of Antarsya-MARS and of the International Socialist Tendency. He has been involved in the antifascist solidarity movement with Greece and in struggles for LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, anti-war, and other social justice causes.  Aaron Amaral is a member of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) and a founding member of AKNY. The ISO sister organization in Greece, Internationalist Workers Left (DEA) participated in the formation of the SYRIZA coalition and is part of the Left Platform within SYRIZA.  
Alan Akrivos is a founding member SYRIZA-NY, a member of Socialist Alternative/(CWI), and among the founders of AKNY. He has been active in the struggle to stop the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in NYC, and speaks frequently across the U.S. on issues of international politics, labor, and socialism. Thomas Harrison and Joanne Landy are Co-Directors, Campaign for Peace and Democracy, sponsor of the event, with Co-Sponsors:
NYU Radical Film and Lecture Series, AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement/Aristeri Kinisi Neas Yorkis, SYRIZA-NY, ANTARSYA-US, Jacobin, New Politics, Logos, International Socialist Organization (ISO)-NY, Socialist Alternative, Democratic Socialists of America-New York City.   Event at NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life             video by Joe Friendly

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