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8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the grass!

10:00am CDT

No New Cages: Lessons from Organizers Resisting Carceral Infrastructure Clark ABCZhandarka Kurti • JR Martin • Mon Mohapatra • Hannah Riley • Stevie Wilson • Maha Hilal • Community Justice Exchange • No Detention Centers in Michigan BLM Under Trump: Where Do We Go from Here? Hyde Park BRobert Cuffy • Jessica Garraway • Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus • New Politics Zine Making for Social Justice Hyde Park ADanielle Bullock All You Fascists Bound To Lose: The Left’s Role During Repression Field ABCSteve Williams • Amit S • Hannah Sassaman • North Star Socialist Organization Gender and the Rising Right W190 BRae Garringer • Andrea J. Ritchie • Sophie Lewis • Sarah Leonard • TBD • Lux Deny, Defend, Depose: Health Struggle After Luigi W190 ABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Artie Vierkant • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel ⁠You Cannot Evict a Movement: Tenant Fights That Catalyze, Mobilize, and Win Adler ABCStephen Gurney • Amadi Ozier • Khadija Haynes • Trevor-Anastacio Ortega • Autonomous Tenant Union Network Bottom Up for Liberation: An Anti-Imperialist Strategy for our Movement Regency Ballroom ESal Ami • Rebecca John • Carl Redwood • Sara Roschdi • Bottom Up for Liberation Indigenous Grounded Solidarity, Then and Now Grant Park ABGlen Coulthard Putin’s Anti-War Political Prisoners in Russia Superior (3rd floor)Suzi Weissman • Ksenia Kagarlitskaya • Boris Kagarlitsky • Grusha Gilaeva • Simon Pirani Showdown in Germany: The Left Party and the Fight Against Fascism in 2025 Regency Ballroom CSpeaker from marx21 Germany • TBD The Use of Political Education in Union Campaigns Erie (3rd floor)Dylan Maraj • Alvin Gaine • Ira Pollock • Logistics Workers League Makdisi Street Live: The Palestine Conjuncture Dusable ABCKarim Makdisi • Saree Makdisi • Ussama Makdisi • Makdisi Street Build & Fight: A Strategy to Meet the Moment Burnham ABCKamau Franklin • Kali Akuno • David Cobb • Johanna Epke • Community Movement Builders • Build and Fight Building Durable Power: Lessons from Jewish Voice for Peace Regency Ballroom DShelby Handler • Michael Wolfe • CP • Jewish Voice for Peace

12:00pm CDT

Fighting Carceral Infrastructure to End Mass Incarceration Dusable ABCMicah Herskind • James "Jimmy" Soto • Avalon Betts-Gaston • Alicia Brown • Institute to End Mass Incarceration Climate Action to Transform Our World Regency Ballroom DKylie Cheung • Mikaela Loach Gulf to Gaza: No Sacrifice Zones Erie (3rd floor)Chloe Torres • Jenny Espino Make a Community Constellation: Quilting Workshop Hyde Park ALucian Walkowicz How to Democratize Everything Field ABCMichael A. McCarthy Blocking the Right, Building the Base: The Work of Left Unity in 2025 W190 ADavid Duhalde • Montague Simmons • Jayanni Webster • Bennett Carpenter • Cayden Mak • Convergence Magazine • Rising Majority • Liberation Road Rethinking Antifascism Grant Park ABAndrea J. Ritchie • Ari Bloomekatz • Shane Burley • Michael Staudenmaier • Kelly Hayes • Rick Perlstein • In These Times Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health Clark ABCMicha Frazer-Carroll • Pluto Socialism and the Long March of the Left in Mexico Superior (3rd floor)Arturo Ramos • Maria-Teresa Lechuga Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition Adler ABCJasson Perez • Lindsey Muniak • Jason Wozniak • Jeannine Woods • Debt Collective From the River to The World Burnham ABCMalak Afaneh • Helyeh Doutaghi • Taylor Fox • Rifqa Falaneh • The Palestine Center for Public Policy Literacy is the Foundation of a Revolution!: The Radical History of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign Regency Ballroom ESohini Das • Yaania Bell • Kayla Wiliams • Shaquille Williams Political Education 2: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation Regency Ballroom CB-REAL Academy • KC Defender • Center for Political Education • Claudia Jones School • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School The Left and the Family: A Roundtable Hyde Park BEman Abdelhadi • TBD • Olivia Katbi • Katie Gibson The Dig LIVE: Notes on The New Regime W190 BRobin D.G. Kelley • Gabriel Winant • Asli Ü. Bâli • Dan Denvir

1:30pm CDT

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades Hyde Park A

3:00pm CDT

Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles Regency Ballroom CNadine Naber • Maya Schenwar • Truthout “Texas is infamous for its taste for death:” Lethal Practices in the Lone Star State Michigan (3rd floor)Tony Ford • Howard Guidry • Tania Siddiqi • Obie Weathers • Texas People's Tribunal The Role of Black Media Under Fascism Hyde Park BDa'Shaun Harrison • Tea Troutman • Ko Bragg • Aurielle Marie • Scalawag Beyond Climate Despair: Rebuilding a Revolutionary Left in the Face of Catastrophe W190 BWen Stephenson • Batul Hassan • Anthony Rogers-Wright • Ray Acheson You Are Not a Loan: Debtors' Assembly Huron (3rd floor)Emily Birnbaum • Richelle Brooks • Debt Collective Labor and the Struggle for Higher Education Adler ABCJason Wozniak • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Gabriel Winant • Sherry Wolf Green Social Housing Regency Ballroom EMaria Gabrielle • Renette Bradley • Matthew Nursey • Sebastian FG • Nicole Murray • DSA An Injury To One Is An Injury To All: Intergenerational Reflections on International Solidarity Field ABCMon Mohapatra • Safear Ness • Bill Ayers • James Kilgore • Dawn Harrington • Community Justice Exchange Public Workers and the Public Good Burnham ABCLindsey Muniak • Kathryn Zamarrón • Margaret Palmquist • Loreen Targos • Colin Smalley • In These Times Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance Clark ABCYves Tong Nguyen • Chanelle Gallant • Elene Lam • Emi Koyama The Palestine Crisis in Liberal Institutions and the Trump Moment Regency Ballroom DAlex Kane • Mari Cohen • Jewish Currents Revolutionary Socialist Youth Organizing in the 1970s: The Red Tide and the Battle to Free Gary Tyler Superior (3rd floor)Gary Tyler • Arnita Dobbins • Kyle Hopkins • Michael Letwin Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor Dusable ABCSarah Leonard • Emily Callaci Collective Liberation through Sex Education: How Sex Education Should be at the Root of All Organizing Spaces Erie (3rd floor)Elhom Karbassi • Thalía Chicojay • Sexpectations Chicago Political Education 3: Abolition & Reconstruction Today Grant Park ABNneka Azuka • Talia Charidah • DJ Graves • Geo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL Academy • KC Defender • Center for Political Education • Claudia Jones School • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School “The Same Old Tools Don’t Work Here”: The Role of Rural Organizing in Defeating Authoritarianism W190 ARae Garringer • Beth Howard • Shawn Sebastian • Stephen Smith • Showing Up For Racial Justice • Rural Defenders Union

5:00pm CDT

Prison Made Us Militants: A Conversation with In The Belly Burnham ABCSafear Ness • R. Ya'iyr Carter • Pierre Pinson • In the Belly • Study & Struggle Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry Dusable ABCGeorge Abraham • Tariq Luthun • Lamise Noor Shawahin Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law Grant Park ABSophie Lewis • Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Melissa Gira Grant • Death Panel Reviving the Bandung Spirit: Why Anti-Imperialism Still Matters Erie (3rd floor)Pranay Somayajula State Violence and GI Resistance Superior (3rd floor)Arti Walker-Peddakotla • Aaron Hughes • About Face: Veterans Against the War Demon Mineral: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJoshua Frank • Janene Yazzie • Hadley Austin • Roger Peet • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People I Didn't Come Here to Lie: The Life and Legacy of Karen Lewis Hyde Park BJesse Sharkey • Elizabeth Todd-Breland Workers Deserve More: DSA's National Labor Program Michigan (3rd floor)TBD • Shay • Sarah Hurd • DSA Nos Defendemos: Community Deportation Defense from Workplaces to Neighborhoods Field ABCHector Rincon • Jorge Mujica • Jazmin Tlaxcala • Workers' Voice Anti-Colonial Political Education: Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC Hyde Park ASalon Kawakib speakers • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Salon Kawakib Against Abandonment: DIY Approaches to Clean Air Justice Huron (3rd floor)Sarah Doherty • Sharon Kim • Sean Rule-Hoffman • Sam Wrigglesworth • Ohio Clean Air Coalition Fighting Fragmentation: Building Cross-Sectoral Social Movements W190 BShuci Z. • Felix T. • Yasser Munif • Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation Hope at the Edge of the Abyss: The Case for Revolution W190 ATBD • Natalia Tylim • David McNally • Tempest Collective Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination Adler ABCChanda Prescod-Weinstein • Lucian Walkowicz

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation Outside on the grass!

8:00pm CDT

Fighting Fascism: Lessons from the Colonies Regency BallroomRobin D.G. Kelley

9:30pm CDT

Tempest Mixer Adler ABCTempest Collective