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12:00pm CDT

How to Democratize Everything

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

If you’re a socialist, what do you know about democratic planning? Socialism isn't bigger state bureaucracies, endless meetings, or even turning out votes. Instead, it is empowering ordinary people to have a greater say over the institutions that affect us all. Join social theorist Michael A. McCarthy to explore how the working class can be empowered by introducing new forms of democracy into our most important investment decisions.

Speakers

Michael A. McCarthy

Michael A. McCarthy is the Director of Community Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell) and The Master's Tools (Verso). He is also an editor of Critical Sociology and a member of... Read More →

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA

Economics, Intro

3:00pm CDT

You Are Not a Loan: Debtors' Assembly

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

Join Debt Collective, the nation’s first union of debtors, in an empowering debtor’s assembly where participants will share their lived experiences with debt, releasing the shame that we are taught to feel when in debt and instead finding solidarity with one another against the system denying us the means to live. Everyone is welcome - whether or not you are debt-burdened since debt impacts entire communities, not just individuals. The session will culminate in a call to join our movement to abolish student, medical, and rent debt and to fight for an economy that works for the many instead of the few.

Speakers

Emily Birnbaum

Emily Birnbaum is a family nurse practitioner who spent the first five years of her practice in primary care. She is now back in school studying psychiatry as she has found her greatest passion in medicine to be in mental health. She is currently organizing with the Debt Collective... Read More →

Richelle Brooks

Dr. Richelle Brooks is a momma, an educator, organizer with Debt Collective and the founder of ReThink It – an organization dedicated to providing resources to mitigate the harm of systemic racism. She is an author and speaker, with a specialized interest in the ways Black Women... Read More →

Sponsors

Debt Collective

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA

Economics, Intro