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Saturday, July 5
 

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga
Saturday July 5, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
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Join us for a Vinyasa yoga session led by local yogi Angel. We’ll work to sync our breath and bodies to beginner’s poses with just enough challenge to get you out of your comfort zone. This 60-min flow is perfect for all levels. We will have mats available on a first come, first serve basis.

Morning yoga will take place outside on the grass, weather-permitting. (In case of rain, we’ll be in Regency Ballroom A.)
Saturday July 5, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
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  Activity

10:00am CDT

Stop Cop City: Lessons From the Movement
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the Weelaunee Forest outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Featuring a range of tactics, and in the face of enormous state repression, the SCC movement brought together forest defenders, environmental justice advocates, political prisoners, Indigenous activists, abolitionists, educators, legal scholars, and academics in a struggle for police abolition, environmental liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty. SCC organizers Kamau Franklin, Mariah Parker, and Micah Herskind will share insights from their newly published No Cop City, No Cop World, discussing the campaign's history, lessons learned, and challenges that lay ahead--with an eye towards how Stop Cop City can inform abolitionist organizing across the globe.
Speakers
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Kamau Franklin

Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builder, a Black, member-based collective of community residents and organizers. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years and is a former practicing attorney, beginning in New York City and now based in... Read More →
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Micah Herskind

Micah Herskind is an organizer, writer, and law student at Harvard Law School. He is a co-editor of No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement (Haymarket Books, 2025), and has written for outlets including New York Magazine, Scalawag, MSNBC, Teen Vogue, Inquest, and Race... Read More →
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Mariah Parker

Mariah Parker is an emcee and labor organizer born and raised in the South. Their cultural work and organizing have been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, SPIN, Al Jazeera, Scalawag and Hammer & Hope. They are a co-editor of No Cop City, No Cop World... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Abolition

10:00am CDT

Free the Presses
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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The internet, for all its underground potential, has become almost entirely privatized, bordered, unfree. Words, in order to be printed, must be committed to paper; paper, in order to be read, must be passed from hand to hand. These gestures toward solidity and solidarity, necessitated by the form, re-inscribe its content. This panel featuring The New York War Crimes, WAWOG, and Radar Media answers the question: What is the role of print media in revolutionary struggle?
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Tracy Rosenthal

Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union, a frequent contributor to the New Republic, and the author, with Leonardo Vilchis, of Abolish Rent (Haymarket, 2024). They are now on rent strike in New York City and also a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
Sponsors
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Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Culture and Art

10:00am CDT

Community as Rebellion: Building Networks of Resistance Inside and Outside the University
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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How can we create alternative ways to be, create, and live in the face of relentless assaults on immigrants, women, queer and trans people, workers, and all the oppressed? We need radical community-building to defend people from the attacks we face, both inside and outside the university. And we must build networks of resistance, globally, that can foster collective learning for liberation.
Speakers
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Lorgia García Peña

Lorgia García Peña is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. García Peña is a Professor of Latinx Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Education Justice

10:00am CDT

The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Far-right leaders and parties throughout the world are winning the support of large sectors of the working class and represent a deadly threat to democracy and social justice. How can we explain this upsurge in support? Join the Daniel Singer Foundation and winners of this year's Daniel Singer Prize contest on this topic for an important discussion.
Moderators
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Sarah Leonard

Sarah Leonard is the editor in chief of Lux.
Speakers
DB
MD
Sponsors
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Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

Making Sense of the Anti-Trans Turn
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Trump and the MAGAtized Republican Party have taken advantage of voters’ anxieties and created a sense of panic surrounding transgender issues. However, what remains less clear are the reasons why these appeals resonate with certain voters, what drives this particular political reaction, and how the Left can effectively respond.
Speakers
DB

Danielle Bullock

Danielle Bullock is a queer, Brooklyn-born artist, activist and public school educator. She is a union chapter leader and member of the MORE caucus of the UFT. She is also a member of the Tempest Collective.
EM

Eric Maroney

Eric Maroney (he/him) teaches at Gateway Community College where he is active with his faculty union. His work has appeared in Tempest Magazine, New Politics, Spectre Journal, and the English Journal. He is a member of the Tempest Collective.
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

10:00am CDT

Healthcare is a Human Right: Confronting Disparities From Chicago to Gaza
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Healthcare disparities exist around the world, some are a product of the profit driven healthcare industry, others are due to colonial occupation. Hear a panel of healthcare activists discuss the connections as well as how we can struggle to change it for the better.
Speakers
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Ezekiel Richardson

Ezekiel Richardson is an emergency physician and a founding member of White Coats 4 Black Lives and an organizer of the 2020 COVID community action plan.
HM

Hana Masud

Hana Masud aims to build collaborative partnerships with Mental health workers and marginalized communities in shared efforts to transform conditions of inequity towards wellness and justice in Palestine.
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Caesar Thompson

Caesar Thompson is a researcher at UIC and member of the Radical Public Health group, a mutual aid collective that addresses root causes of health inequity.
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Health Politics & Disability Justice

10:00am CDT

A War Where All Wars Fit
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Linda Quiquivix and Mohamed Abdou will lead a workshop discussion about the difference between the world of the above and the world of the below, or anti-colonial resistance vs. a path towards liberation for all, in Palestine, Abya Yala, and beyond. Participants will engage with questions from the facilitators about how organizers can build spiritual, ethical and political relationships across disparate communities and movements beyond identity reductionism, in light of false choices & new devastating threats in an era of perpetual crisis.
Speakers
AA
MA

Mohamed Abdou

Dr. Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa... Read More →
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Linda Quiquivix

Dr. Linda Quiquivix is a geographer, popular educator, writer, and translator of Maya-Mam roots raised by Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers and Jaguars. She organizes with Occupied Chumash and Tongva lands toward a world where many worlds fit. She is author and illustrator of Palestine... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Indigenous Liberation

10:00am CDT

After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Syrians have overthrown Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship, liberated cities, freed political prisoners, and opened space to struggle for an inclusive, democratic, and egalitarian country. But internal, regional, and imperial forces are angling to contain the revolution. So, the country stands between hope and possibility on the one hand, and, on the other, challenges and pitfalls.
Speakers
LA
RK
YM
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  International Politics

10:00am CDT

Flores Magón, Workers Centers and Direct Action
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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The ideas of Ricardo Flores Magon of direct action, workers councils and more inform one of the most active workers center in Chicagoland, tactics which have been used in struggles against Nestle, Hello Fresh, Hearthside and beyond
Speakers
CC

Cristobal Cavazos

Cristobal Cavazos, the son of migrant workers, was born in Chicagoland in  1979. The executive director of Casa Dupage Workers Center, Cristobal is active in the Chicagoland immigrant rights and labor movement. A revolutionary socialist, Cristobal is also an active journalist and... Read More →
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Gaby Hernandez Chico

Gaby Hernandez Chico, from Mexico City,  is the Co-Director of the Casa DuPage Workers Center. Gaby as leader of Casa Dupage is one of the leading women in the Chicagoland Labor Movement, and has a passionate for public speaking, popular education,  poetry and feminism.
Sponsors
CD
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Labor Movement

10:00am CDT

BDS: Building People Power for Palestinian Liberation
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Even as Israel extends its genocidal war, the struggle for Palestinian liberation continues with legendary sumud, resilience, and resistance. Their fight is all of our fight. To dismantle Israel’s regime of apartheid and settler-colonialism, to defeat Trumpism and the rising wave of fascism worldwide will require uniting our many struggles in broad-tent alliances along the lines of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions.
Speakers
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Omar Barghouti

Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights defender, co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY, and is pursuing... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Palestine, Intro

10:00am CDT

Hindu Supremacy and the Multiracial Far-Right
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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In this discussion, speakers from the Savera: United Against Supremacy Coalition and its core partners will discuss the rise of the multiracial far-right in the United States in the context of the new Trump era, with a special focus on the role that the Hindu supremacist movement has played in legitimizing and normalizing reactionary politics among communities of color and immigrant groups.
Speakers
PS

Pranay Somayajula

Pranay Somayajula is an Indian-American writer and organizer, based in Washington, DC. He currently serves as Organizing and Advocacy Director for Hindus for Human Rights. In his organizing and his writing, Pranay works to bring together diverse histories and struggles for justice... Read More →
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Safa Ahmed

Safa Ahmed is the Associate Director of Media & Communications for the Indian American Muslim Council, where she works to educate people on Hindu supremacist ideology, and amplify the voices and stories of Muslims in India.
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Dhruv M.

Dhruv M. is a current member and former staff researcher at India Civil Watch International. In his research role, he investigated the financial and ideological connections between Hindu right-wing organizations in India and their counterparts in the United States. He also mapped... Read More →
Sponsors
SU
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Racism and Anti-Racism

10:00am CDT

Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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A conversation between contributors to the upcoming anthology Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, which offers advice and accompaniment to organizers struggling with the conflicts, heartbreaks, and catastrophes that activists so often experience.
Speakers
EA

Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer in the movement for Palestinian liberation.  
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Kelly Hayes

Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator and photographer. She is the host of Truthout‘s podcast Movement Memos and co-author of the book Let This Radicalize You, with Mariame Kaba. Kelly also is also the creator of Organizing My Thoughts, a weekly newsletter... Read More →
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Tanuja Jagernauth

Tanuja Devi Jagernauth is an Indo-Caribbean abolitionist, writer, operations geek, and yoga educator who believes in the necessity of creation during times of destruction.
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Skill Sharing

10:00am CDT

Social Reproduction Theory and Practice
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) represents one of the liveliest sites of Marxist debate today. SRT’s theoretical approach highlights the need to view colonialism, race, gender, and other social relations as central to capital’s reproduction. Strategically, this means that struggles beyond the point of production must be recentred in our practice.
Speakers
SK

Sean K. Isaacs

Sean is a PhD candidate at York University, Toronto.
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Socialist and Marxist Theory, Intro

10:00am CDT

Socialist (Humanism) or Barbarism: On Political Education, Democratic Rights and Where We Go Next
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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In the wake of the state’s anti-left attacks on the university, public education, and access to knowledge in general, liberals have failed to uphold their own institutions through neoliberal decline and the new right’s aggressive encroachment. It’s time for socialists to step in like never before, reviving our tradition of defending and expanding education for democracy and collective human flourishing, and for the embrace of socialist humanism for the freedom and uplift of the entire working class.
Speakers
MB

Michaela Brangan

Michaela Brangan — NNJ DSA/steering, DSA National Political Education/Amherst College
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Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser — NYC-DSA/NYC-DSA Academy for Socialist Education
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Sarah Hurd

Sarah Hurd — Chicago DSA/Co-chair, DSA National Labor Commission
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Mie Inouye

Mie Inouye — Middle Hudson Valley DSA/Bard College
Sponsors
avatar for DSA
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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  Socialist Strategy

11:30am CDT

BIPOC Social
Saturday July 5, 2025 11:30am - 1:00pm CDT
"This is for the homies, strictly for the homies. This is for the homies... the real homies!" Bring your lunch and come kick it with Black, Indigenous and People of Color, who identify as socialists, communists, leftists, anarchists, abolitionists, feminists, liberationists, radicals and revolutionaries. We're going to have some light yet fun social activities, but most importantly, it's a welcoming space for socialists of color to just "be"! Co-hosted by the DSA Afrosocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus and Black Youth Project 100.

Sponsors
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avatar for Black Youth Project 100
Saturday July 5, 2025 11:30am - 1:00pm CDT
  Meet-up

1:00pm CDT

Survival and Resistance Behind Bars
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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This session will discuss the organizing and survival strategies that the panelists practiced to stay alive, maintain hope, and fight for freedom and liberation from behind bars and with co-strugglers on the outside.
Speakers
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Asha Ransby-Sporn

Asha Ransby-Sporn is a Chicago-based organizer, writer and columnist for In These Times. She was a co-founder of Black Youth Project 100 where she directed the group’s national organizing program at the height of the movement for Black lives and has since led on a diversity of winning... Read More →
JJ

James "Jimmy" Soto

James "Jimmy" Soto is a community organizer, artist, prisoner advocate, writer, and future JD candidate.  He was wrongfully convicted and was released after serving 42 years. He is a paralegal at Northwestern University Pritzker's School of Law in the Community Justice and Civil... Read More →
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Stanley Howard

Stanley Howard co-founded the Death Row 10 while he was on Illinois' Death Row and after surviving 38 years of incarceration, including 16 years on death row, is now a paralegal at Uptown People's Law Office. He also works with the Illinois Coalition for Liberation, Chicago Torture... Read More →
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Renaldo Hudson

Renaldo Hudson is an educator, artist, minister and community organizer who survived 37 years of incarceration including 13 years on death row, and he is the Director of Education at the Illinois Prison Project. He is currently making a documentary about the death penalty in Illi... Read More →
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Alice Kim

Alice Kim is an educator, cultural organizer and writer who was a leader in the movement to end the death penalty in Illinois. She directs the Beyond Prisons Initiative at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, teaches inside Illinois prisons... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

1:00pm CDT

Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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Where do cops come from and what is their true function in a global capitalist system? Are police at the core of the capitalist states that prop up systems of exploitation the world over? Join author brian bean and Chenjerai Kumanyika for a critical conversation weaving together the threads of the movement for police abolition and the social revolution against capitalism.

Check out bean's new book, Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, available at the conference from Haymarket Books.
Speakers
BB

brian bean

brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist activist, writer, and speaker originally from North Carolina and the author of Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition. He is one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. His work has been published in Jacobin, Socialist... Read More →
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Chenjerai Kumanyika

Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Abolition

1:00pm CDT

Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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Hubert Harrison, the “father of Harlem radicalism,” blazed a trail for Black organizers in the Socialist Party. His Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of Black people in history. And he defended free love. Because of his radicalism, however, Harrison’s visionary legacy has been erased from popular memory. Until now.
Speakers
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Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing... Read More →
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Brian Kwoba

Dr. Brian Kwoba is an associate professor of history and Director of the African and African American Studies Program at the University of Memphis. While completing his doctoral degree at the University of Oxford, he co-founded the Oxford Pan-Afrikan Forum (OXPAF) and the #RhodesMustFall... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Black Liberation

1:00pm CDT

Logoff and Meetup: The Fight for Third Spaces in a Turbulent World
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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In the midst of a climate shadowed by cruelty, alienation and uncertainty, community-based organizing spaces have never been more crucial. Join longtime organizers to examine the challenges and joys of constructing and maintaining third spaces, different models of sustainable spaces, and the utility of these spaces for fostering solidarity to strengthen our movements.


Speakers
MM
CO
AM
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Sponsors
avatar for Haymarket House
avatar for Highlander Center
avatar for Pilsen Community Books
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Culture and Art

1:00pm CDT

Fiscal Fascism: How to Make Sense of Chaotic Policy as Activists and Organizers
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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How can leftists circumvent Trump and Musk’s attempts to hijack critical government departments like the Treasury, IRS and SSA, via DOGE along with unprecedented slashes to social services and federal funding? Join a panel discussion with Notes on the Crises publisher Nathan Tankus and co-conspirators, along with the Debt Collective, to discuss how the radical left can fight fiscal fascism through political education and policy-oriented coalition building.
Speakers
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Noel Barrera

Noel Barrera is an MA graduate from NYU’s Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement (XE) Program, and an interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher based in Brooklyn. Recently they have been the art director of a political education project in cooperation with Nathan Tankus... Read More →
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Elizabeth Cooper

Elizabeth Cooper is a graduate student in economics at The New School for Social Research, and a longstanding organizer with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, and a wide range of socialist and anti-imperialist organizations. Recently she has been... Read More →
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Nathan Tankus

Nathan Tankus is the Publisher of Notes on the Crises and Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He has written for the Financial Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, Jacobin Magazine, Monthly Review & many other outlets. Nathan got his start in the Alternative Banking working... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Notes on the Crises
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Economics

1:00pm CDT

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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In just the last few years, scores of states have introduced or passed legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about structural racism and other forms of oppression, with countless books cut from curricula and teachers fired or threatened. In the face of these relentless attacks on antiracist education, join educator Jesse Hagopian for a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent call to action to defend education.
Speakers
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Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Rethinking Schools
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Education Justice, Intro

1:00pm CDT

Disaster Nationalism: Trump and the Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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While the spotlight often shines on charismatic new far-right leaders, like Donald Trump, Richard Seymour argues that the true peril lies elsewhere. These leaders are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood: a seething cauldron of societal despair, fear, isolation and sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies. Unless we understand these deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it.
Speakers
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Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Disaster Nationalism, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, and The Twittering Machine. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Salvage
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Fighting the Right

1:00pm CDT

Carceral Natalism: Technology and Surveillance in the Post-Dobbs Era
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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The fall of Roe ushered in both new abortion restrictions and novel methods for their enforcement. This session will chart the anti-abortion movement’s adoption of surveillance techniques that have long been used in the policing of racialized populations in the United States and abroad, from location tracking to biometric security. As the carceral state tightens its grip on our bodies and futures, the mantra “we keep us safe” takes on renewed urgency.
Speakers
EJ
ML
Sponsors
avatar for NYC for Abortion Rights
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

1:00pm CDT

Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) is an abolitionist network of care based in Palms, Los Angeles, CA. This interactive workshop is designed for those interested in building their own networks. We will offer insights and missteps from our work at PUMA. We will also explore libertory practices towards community care that centers unhoused and precariously housed persons.
Speakers
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Ndindi Kitonga

Ndindi Kitonga, Kenyan-American Educator and long-time community organizer who writes on Black anti-colonial movements; she co-founded Angeles Workshop School, a democratic secondary micro-school in Los Angeles.
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Housing Justice, Intro

1:00pm CDT

The Battle for Global Hegemony: Trump and the US China Rivalry
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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Donald Trump’s regime has abandoned Washington’s grand strategy of superintending global capitalism for an America First imperialism targeting China first and foremost. This panel will explore the nature of the rivalry, its impact on the Asia Pacific, why the international left should not side with either power, and how we can build international working class solidarity against rising militarism and threats of great power war.
Speakers
TC

Tobita Chow

Tobita Chow is the founding Director of Justice Is Global, a special project of People’s Action to build a just and sustainable global economy and defeat right-wing nationalism. He is an organizer, a political educator, and a leading progressive strategist and critic regarding the... Read More →
CP

Carmen Phanuelle Delgra

Carmen Phanuelle Delgra is a climate justice activist currently engaged as a campaigner for the Asia-Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (also known as Jubilee South), a regional network of organizations working for social and ecological justice.
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Ashley Smith

Ashley Smith works for Spectre Journal and is a member of the Tempest Collective. He has written in numerous publications including Socialist Worker (US), The International Socialist Review, Against the Current, Spectre, Truthout, Jacobin, New Politics, and Tempest. He is co-author... Read More →
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JM Wong

JM Wong is a Seattle-based community organizer with the Massage Parlor Organizing Project. They have been active in international solidarity work with Chinese and other Sinophone activists for years.
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

1:00pm CDT

A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." —Antonio Gramsci. We live in a time of monsters, and the unique perspective of Indigenous horror can teach us how to respond to them without becoming monsters ourselves.
Speakers
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Robyn Bourgeois

Robyn Bourgeois is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Women's and Gender studies at Brock University. She is a Cree woman and currently the Vice Provost of Indigenous Engagement at Brock University.  
PK

Patty Krawec

Patty Krawec is a public thinker and writer, the author of Becoming Kin and the upcoming Bad Indians Book Club which examines how Indigeous and subaltern writers can help us imagine better worlds.
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Kali Simmons

Kali Simmons is an Assistant Professor of English and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Conneticut. She is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and examines the representation of Indigenous people in contemporary horror.  
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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  Indigenous Liberation

1:00pm CDT

The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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Historically border enforcement has been a tool of repression and intimidation. While the current administration has shown a cruel escalation in its attacks on the immigrant community, this panel will trace back the roots of these attacks and will make the case to how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism under authoritarianism.
Speakers
AC
SG

Sergio González

Sergio M. González is a historian of U.S. immigration, labor, and religion. He teaches at Marquette University and is the author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press) and Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press). He is a co-founder and former organizer for the Dane Sanctuary Coalition and is currently completing an edited volume with Lloyd Barba entitled Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the US Sanctuary Movement (under contract with New York University... Read More →
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Silky Shah

Silky Shah has been working as an organizer on issues related to racial and migrant justice for over two decades. Originally from Texas, she began fighting the expansion of immigrant jails on the US-Mexico border in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2009, she joined the staff of Detention... Read More →
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John Washington

John Washington is a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. His first book, The... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Detention Watch Network
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Migrant Justice

1:00pm CDT

“Our Goal is to Dismantle the Whole Violent System”: Abolition Feminist Organizing in the 1970s
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
In this session, historian Emily Thuma will illuminate a world of feminist rebellion against a growing police and prison state in the 1970s. Drawing on the research for her book, All Our Trials, she’ll share how grassroots activists within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons forged a movement that understood incarceration as a purveyor of gender violence rather than its remedy. We’ll explore the key strategies, tactics, theories, and points of contention that defined this strand of 1970s feminism, with an eye toward lessons for today.
Speakers
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Emily Thuma

Emily Thuma is currently the Haley Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma, where she teaches in the programs in politics, law and policy, and sexuality studies. She is the author of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Radical History

1:00pm CDT

DIY Abortion
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
As abortion becomes increasingly restricted, what options will still be available? Join us to learn.
Speakers
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Kiah Abbey

Kiah has organized for a more just Montana for nearly two decades with a special focus towards deepening the innate skills and talents of those around her. Kiah holds a B.S. in Political Science with a focus in Political Theory from Montana State University. She lives in Tucson, AZ... Read More →
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Emily Likins Ehlers

Emily Likins-Ehlers (they/them) is a trauma informed, full-spectrum doula and educator. Emily serves South and West Chicagoland in-person and the whole world virtually. Emily supports about 100 families per month. Emily has worked at Blue Mountain Clinic and used to be the Missoula... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Skill Sharing, Intro

3:00pm CDT

One Million Experiments: Redefining and Creating Abolition Five Years After Uprising
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
On the five-year anniversary of uprising after the murder of George Floyd, how have we learned to redefine and create safety without police and prisons? Join the team behind One Million Experiments, a resource, podcast, film, and webseries, to discuss how communities build experiments grounded in transformation instead of punishment.
Moderators
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Lewis Raven Wallace

Lewis Raven Wallace is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, NC. He is the author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity (University of Chicago Press, 2019), and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast. His work centers around... Read More →
Speakers
EN

Eva Nagao

Eva Nagao is the Creative Director of Interrupting Criminalization and an organizer based outside of Seattle. Her work focuses on communications for grassroots organizations and resource development that supports community-based structures working to decrease reliance on policing... Read More →
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Damon Williams

Damon A. Williams is a movement builder, organizer, hip-hop performing artist, educator and media maker from the south side of Chicago. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production & Media, and the Co-Creator of AirGo, a weekly podcast in Chicago that reshapes culture for the more liberatory... Read More →
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Daniel Kisslinger

Daniel Kisslinger is an award-winning Chicago-based host and producer who creates dialogue-based media showcasing the stories, voices, and artworks of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Interrupting Criminalization
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Join scholars and organizers Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan for a damning account of mass incarceration that reveals how progressive forces in New York City appropriated the rhetoric of social movements and social justice to promise “downsized” and “humane" jails. The story at the heart of their book, Skyscraper Jails is at once a case study and a cautionary tale for what will be coming to cities and towns across the United States and beyond.
Speakers
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Zhandarka Kurti

Zhandarka Kurti is an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Loyola University Chicago. She is the co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform and the Future of America’s Punishment System and editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanit... Read More →
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Jarrod Shanahan

Jarrod Shanahan is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage, co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System, and City Time: On Being Sentence to Rikers Island and editor of Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Fanon at 100: Insights for Today's Anti-Colonial Struggles
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Frantz Fanon is renowned as one of the most important decolonial theorists of the twentieth century. As part of commemorating his 100th birthday, this panel will explore how his work speaks to today’s struggles against settler colonialism, racial domination, and efforts to create an alternative to capitalism-imperialism.
Speakers
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Ndindi Kitonga

Ndindi Kitonga, Kenyan-American Educator and long-time community organizer who writes on Black anti-colonial movements; she co-founded Angeles Workshop School, a democratic secondary micro-school in Los Angeles.
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Ricado Jacobs

Ricado Jacobs, South African scholar-activist; His work examines how global colonial-racial capitalism and class struggle from below shapes race, ethnicity, gender and class at the local and global level. he worked for more than 15 years in the area of land and agrarian reform, food... Read More →
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Peter Hudis

Peter Hudis, author 'Frantz Fanon, Philosopher of the Barricades' and 'Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism'; general editor of 'The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.'
Sponsors
avatar for International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Black Liberation

3:00pm CDT

What's at Stake: Organizing for Climate Armageddon
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
We are in the midst of a climate upheaval. The world is burning, and we must act. This panel will discuss what is at stake and how our side can respond to the crisis. The discussion will address Indigenous sovereignty, climate refugees, and public power and will explain why just ending fossil fuels alone is insufficient for a better world.
Speakers
AD

Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson is Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of several books on key topics in the environmental humanities, including People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, Extreme Cities... Read More →
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Joshua Frank

Joshua Frank is an award-winning California-based journalist and co-editor of the political magazine CounterPunch. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America.
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Silky Shah

Silky Shah has been working as an organizer on issues related to racial and migrant justice for over two decades. Originally from Texas, she began fighting the expansion of immigrant jails on the US-Mexico border in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2009, she joined the staff of Detention... Read More →
JY

Janene Yazzie

Janene Yazzie (She/Her), is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She has over 12 years of experience as a community organizer and human rights advocate deeply rooted in local community issues. Beginning from her community Tsé si’ áni, in Diné Bikéyah, she has worked on the... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for CounterPunch
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Climate Justice, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Love in a F*cked Up World: Community Care in the Face of Collapse
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
In a world unraveling under capitalism, climate catastrophe, and state violence, how do we build real care and solidarity? Dean Spade will discuss approaches to survival and resistance explored in his books Love in a F*cked Up World, Mutual Aid, and Normal Life—breaking through denial, confronting rising fascism, unlearning liberalism’s grip on our politics, rejecting the false promises of reform, and the urgent need to organize outside and against the state in order to cultivate community care in the face of collapse.
Speakers
BA

Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill agitator and independent researcher. She is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
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Dean Spade

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Death Panel
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

3:00pm CDT

Mapping Landlords and Their Technologies for Housing Justice and Rent Abolition
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
In this workshop, members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Landlord Tech Watch will share methods that they use to map corporate landlords in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well techniques for better understanding and organizing against surveillance technologies that landlords use to automate evictions and carcerality.
Speakers
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Benjamin Bartu

Benjamin Bartu lives in Oakland, California, on unceded Ohlone land. He is the disabled ecologies lab manager at UC Berkeley, and a member of the anti-eviction mapping project. His chapbook Myriad Reflector was published by Poetry.Onl press in 2023, and his writing has appeared or... Read More →
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Nathan Kim

Nathan Kim is a PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Information. As a member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, he's helped build the Evictorbook tool for landlord research and the Worst Evictors of San Francisco and Oakland website. He's also an organizer with... Read More →
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Erin McElroy

Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, where their work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, empire, fascism, and racial capitalism, alongside housing justice organizing and transnational solidarities... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
avatar for Landlord Tech Watch
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Housing Justice, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
What happens when an entire people are systematically dehumanized, their histories erased, and their identities weaponized against them? Anti-Kashmiri racism operates at the intersection of imperialism, settler-colonialisms, anti-Asian, anti-Muslim, and anti-Indigenous racism, portraying Kashmiris as perpetual threats and incapable of self-rule. This talk unpacks how such narratives legitimize genocidal settler-colonial violence, land dispossession, and cultural erasure, drawing parallels with global anti-Indigenous struggles. By critically examining the rhetoric and policies that sustain an ongoing genocide, we will explore ways to advocate for justice for a free Kashmiri future.
Speakers
BA

Binish Ahmed

Binish Ahmed (she/her) is an Asian Indigenous Kashmiri cis-woman, educator, artist, researcher, writer, an organizer. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, she now lives in Tkaronto, the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt treaty territory. Her work centers on decolonizing research methods, governance... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Kashmir Gulposh
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Indigenous Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Trump’s new policies have driven an increased militarism, nationalism, and patriotism across the world aimed at rallying workers in each country behind its own governments. Internationalism is the only perspective that can advance the interests of the working class. Hear revolutionary activists in France, Germany, and the U.S. discuss the importance of organization across borders in the revolutionary workers tradition.
Speakers
MC

Meg C

Meg C, a grassroots activist in the US, member of Speak Out Socialists.
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Franzi R

Franzi R, Social Worker, activist of the Revolutionär Sozialistische Organization (RSO).
DS

Damien S

Damien S, French railway worker, steward in the CGT union, national spokesperson of the Nouveau Parti Anitcapitaliste-Révolutionnaires (NPA-R) and candidate in the last European and legislative elections.
Sponsors
avatar for Speak Out Socialists
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  International Politics

3:00pm CDT

How Worker-to-Worker Unionism Can Transform America
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
At a bleak moment in US politics, the labor movement provides a rare source of hope. What are the main lessons of the bottom-up unionization surge that has swept the United States since 2021? And how can this grassroots labor momentum be continued under the new Trump administration?
Speakers
EB

Eric Blanc

Eric Blanc is a co-founder of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, the author of the monograph, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (UC Press, 2025), and professor of labor studies at Rutgers University.
JP
Sponsors
avatar for Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement

3:00pm CDT

Building Abolitionist Campaigns To End Migrant Detention: Case Study on Dignity Not Detention (Free them all!)
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Abolitionist organizing that builds the power of migrant communities is crucial now more than ever. Abolish ICE NY/NJ has been building a broad-based coalition utilizing cross-wall solidarity & legislative efforts to end immigrant detention in NY for the Dignity Not Detention campaign. Learn about DND & how to develop and strengthen your abolitionist anti-deportation campaigns.
Speakers
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Sophia Gurule

Sophia Elena Gurulé is a member of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA)-UAW Local 2325 as well as an organizer with Critical Resistance and UAW Labor for Palestine. She is also a Senior Staff Attorney and Senior Policy Counsel to the Immigration Practice at The Bronx Defenders... Read More →
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Viju Mathew

Viju is a member of Critical Resistance and has been fighting abolitionist campaigns in coalitions across California & New York for the past few years. Viju & Critical Resistance see the abolition of ICE as Part and Parcel of prison industrial complex abolition.
Sponsors
avatar for Critical Resistance
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Migrant Justice

3:00pm CDT

What Can Students Achieve? Analyzing the Possibilities and Limits of the Student Intifada
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Positioning universities as features of imperialism’s superstructure, we give an assessment of the Student Intifada’s strategy, tactics, and its impact on advancing the broader anti-Imperialist struggle. We’ll define the historic tasks of the Palestinian student movement and the Left as we continue the struggle for Palestinian freedom.
Speakers
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Sid

National Students for Justice in Palestine
A

Alex

National Students for Justice in Palestine
R

Rahaf

National Students for Justice in Palestine
N

Noor

National Students for Justice in Palestine
Sponsors
avatar for National Students for Justice in Palestine
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Palestine

3:00pm CDT

Harm in A Time of Collapse: Practicing Responses to Harm in Leftist Spaces
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Responding to harm, and supporting survivors, is an obligation for every organizer and space maker but often we fail to even address it. Anyone looking to build their knowledge and skills for responding to harm is welcome. We’ll practice safety planning, survivor support plans, and start to understand what harm can look like in change making spaces.
Speakers
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Em Gonzalez

Em is the Outreach Coordinator with the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice. Through their role, Em works to build partnerships statewide to bring public education and awareness on the Pretrial Fairness Act. Before joining the Illinous Network, Em had been working within Chicago... Read More →
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Elon Nnakwe-Sloan

Elon Nnakwe-Sloan (they/them) is a Black, queer, chronically ill artist and facilitator. Elon is interested in the opportunity artmaking presents for marginalized people to assert their capacity to create knowledge and affect their realities. Elon's facilitation practice is informed... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Skill Sharing, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Organizing, Religion, and Revolutionary Love
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Too many faith communities in the U.S. remain socially organized but politically unorganized and too many leftists overlook them as sites for base-building. How do leftists identify potential comrades, build bridges, and organize more people of faith into formation? Who are the religious revolutionaries throughout history whose legacies could easily or perhaps already unite us? “Revolutionary love,” argues political theorist Joy James, “originates from the desire for the greater good that entails radical risk-taking for justice.” How do we cultivate and nurture this love in solidarity? This Highlander popular education workshop aims to answer these questions.
Speakers
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Joy James

Joy James is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes... Read More →
AV

Adam Vander Tuig

Adam Vander Tuig was born and raised in rural Nebraska and currently works as the Faith-Based Educator and Researcher at the Highlander Center in New Market, TN. A recent graduate of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (PhD), he organizes with Christians for a Free... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Highlander Center
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

3:00pm CDT

Roundtable: Political Education in the Time of Monsters
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
While the fight for spaces within colleges and universities continues, this moment underlines the urgent need to build and expand counter-hegemonic political education on the left to confront and resist the right and put forward a creative new vision for the world being born. Join political educators from a number of organizations to discuss the role of political education in today’s social movements.
Speakers
AM
MF
LC
GM
TM
Sponsors
avatar for Center for Political Education
avatar for W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

5:00pm CDT

Emblems of Solidarity: Union Buttons and Labor History
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
Throughout the twentieth century, buttons have been an essential tool for organizing unions and campaigns. Learn more of this legacy through a guided tour by the curator of this exhibit containing historic pins and other items from the struggles of workers in the auto, food processing, and logistics industries.
Speakers
IS

Isaac Silver

Isaac Silver is an activist in Chicago, Illinois and independent curator of historic materials from the working class and socialist movements.
Sponsors
avatar for Buttons of the Left
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

5:00pm CDT

Chicago IPO / Neighborhood Organizations Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
If you are in a neighborhood Independent Political Organization (IPO) or curious about getting involved, join us for an informal hang and get to know each other across the many neighborhoods of Chicago!
Sponsors
avatar for 33rd Ward Working Families
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Covering Fascism While Surviving Fascism: A Media Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
Movement publications are uniquely targeted by MAGA, which has its sights on both media and nonprofit organizations. Meanwhile, many movement journalists are multiply impacted by rising fascism in their daily lives. In small groups and broader conversation, we will discuss the challenges of covering the brutality of this moment, and how we–in community, as media-makers–can collectively survive it, while resisting at every turn.
Speakers
DH

Da'Shaun Harrison

Da'Shaun Harrison is a trans theorist and Southern-born and bred abolitionist in Atlanta, Georgia. They are the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, which was awarded the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, among several... Read More →
CM

Cayden Mak

Cayden Mak is the publisher at Convergence Magazine and the host of Block & Build: Roadmaps for the Left. Prior to Convergence, Cayden spent nearly a decade in various roles at 18 Million Rising, including five years as executive director. His other work has included organizing with... Read More →
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Maya Schenwar

Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and board president of Truthout. She is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition and co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, among... Read More →
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Lara Witt

Lara Witt is an award-winning writer and editor-in-chief of Prism. She is the co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance and Media Against Apartheid & Displacement. Before coming to Prism, Lara was an editor at Wear Your Voice magazine and freelanced for a variety of publications... Read More →
Sponsors
MM
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
Join Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for a Socialism Conference social! Members, interested members, and all comrades are welcome.
Sponsors
avatar for DSA
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Let This Radicalize You Study Session
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
A radical study session on narratives of violence, the weaponization of “safety” and lessons for social movements. We will be revisiting chapter 6 of Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba’s 2023 book Let This Radicalize You in the context of our current moment, considering framings of violence amidst the ongoing genocide in Palestine, escalating border violence around the world and the fierce suppression of social movements in the US and beyond.

Reading of the chapter before the session is ideal BUT NOT REQUIRED!

OPTIONAL further reading!:
READ “Abolition as a Transnational, Anti-colonial Struggle” - Robyn Maynard, The Forge
WATCH Mohammed El-Kurd in conversation with Marc Lamont Hill (“Perfect Victims, Palestine and the Politics of Resistance,” from 15:26) and/or READ “Tropes and Drones” - Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims ch.5
READ “Concerning Violence” - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth ch.1

Let This Radicalize You and Perfect Victims are both available from haymarketbooks.org and the book room at Socialism 2025!
Sponsors
avatar for Books Against Borders
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Political Educators Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
This is a meet-up for organizations and individuals doing public political education to meet and connect with each other. 
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Rabble Rousers’ Git’ Down: Social with Incarcerated Abolitionists
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Have you been incarcerated, arrested, or otherwise subject to state repression? Join In The Belly for a social event with currently incarcerated organizers (on video visit) to make connections and discuss how we are all connected through prison abolitionist work.
Sponsors
avatar for In the Belly
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Tarot… for Socialists!
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
Who says socialists can’t be a little witchy? Whether you’re a seasoned tarot enthusiast or a total newbie, this tarot meet up will provide a friendly space for discussing all things tarot. Bring your own deck or use one of ours to do readings for your comrades and see what’s in the cards.
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Tenant Organizer Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Join tenant organizers from across the country for informal strategy discussion and to connect with other people organizing with their neighbors!
Sponsors
avatar for Autonomous Tenant Union Network
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Workers Voice Meet-Up: We need revolutionary mass action!
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Join members of Workers’ Voice to learn more about our organization and our perspective of taking mass action to fight for revolutionary, socialist, and internationalist politics.
Sponsors
avatar for Workers' Voice
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
  Meet-up

7:00pm CDT

The Trump-Musk Payments Crisis: The Wonky Constitutional Crisis the Left Should Care About
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Many on the left want to "burn the constitution," but it matters which corner you start from. Some unconstitutional actions could make our society more democratic, more just and could decentralize power. But the constitutional crisis that began almost as soon as Donald Trump was inaugurated as president for a second time has been focused on making our society less democratic, more unjust and has sought to centralize power in the hands of Trump and the coterie of executives backing him (especially Elon Musk). Nathan Tankus, President and publisher of Notes on the Crises, will guide attendees through what has been going on at the Bureau of Fiscal Service, something called the "Automatic Clearing House" (ACH) payments system and how the Trump administration is using its control of the payments system to rob people on social security, rob New York City government and generally cut off the forms of government spending that actually help people.
Speakers
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Nathan Tankus

Nathan Tankus is the Publisher of Notes on the Crises and Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He has written for the Financial Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, Jacobin Magazine, Monthly Review & many other outlets. Nathan got his start in the Alternative Banking working... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Economics, Intro

7:00pm CDT

The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth.  How should a broad movement for educational justice be framed and forged?
Speakers
BA

Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers is the author, most recently, of When Freedom is the Question...
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Wayne Au

Wayne Au is a Professor in the University of Washington Bothell School of Educational Studies and an editor for Rethinking Schools.
DB

Davarian Baldwin

Davarian Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, and the author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities.
JH

Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools... Read More →
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Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, professor, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, longtime Black Left feminist activist, and founding member of Scholars for Social Justice.
DS

David Stovall

David Stovall is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Education Justice

7:00pm CDT

Enemy Feminisms: Reckoning with TERFs, Policewomen, and Zionist Feminists
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Join Sophie Lewis for an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms—from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion, TERF, and Zionist feminists. By way of a reckoning with these counterproductive, violent feminisms, this session will make the case for the bold, liberatory, antifascist feminist politics we need instead.
Speakers
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Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer. Her books, Enemy Feminisms, Full Surrogacy Now, and Abolish the Family, have been translated into nine languages. Sophie grew up in France, half-British, half-German, but now lives in Philadelphia and teaches online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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What are the consequences of state legislators voting on the definition of sex, or a president demanding every agency in the federal government construe sex as fixed at conception? How might trans communities respond to being the target of a manufactured moral panic? What alternate visions of "sexual democracy" might transgender activism and theorizing propose in response?
Speakers
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Paisley Currah

Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Currah’s prize-winning 2022 book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, revealed the hidden logics that... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Why Is Sex a “Thing”? Making Relations against Settler-Colonialism
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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In this talk, Dr. Kim TallBear explains how the very ideas of sex and nature cut networked relations into manageable objects or “things” that help maintain colonial domination. She draws on the insights of critical Indigenous and sexuality studies to offer alternative ways of thinking and doing intimacy.
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Kim TallBear

Kim TallBear (she/her) is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, a Dakota nation in present-day South Dakota. She is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society in the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She earned a B.A... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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  Indigenous Liberation

7:00pm CDT

On Pan-Africanism: Past and Present
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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This talk surveys the history of Pan-Africanism with specific attention to key inflection moments such as the late nineteenth century and the era of decolonization to consider its on-going resonances. Through specific attention to the cultural politics of Pan-Africanism, it demonstrates why visions of global Black solidarity continue to be activated even as the political projects of African federation and other forms of political and economic integration have declined.
Speakers
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Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) and co-editor, with Jennifer Pitts, of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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  International Politics

7:00pm CDT

UNION: Film Screening and Discussion
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York. UNION is the award-winning, feature-length documentary that tells their story. Join us for a screening followed by a conversation facilitated by Eric Blanc. *Please note: this session will be two hours*
Speakers
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Eric Blanc

Eric Blanc is a co-founder of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, the author of the monograph, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (UC Press, 2025), and professor of labor studies at Rutgers University.
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Connor Spence

Connor Spence is the president of ALU-IBT Local 1, formerly Amazon Labor Union. He has been an Amazon worker since 2017 and started organizing at Amazon during the pandemic in 2020. He was a founding organizer of the successful union campaign at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment center... Read More →
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Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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  Labor Movement

7:00pm CDT

What's Next for the Palestine Solidarity Movement?
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Twenty-one months into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, the stakes of international solidarity are higher than they have ever been. Join representatives of the Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement for an urgent assessment of the state of Palestine solidarity and the strategies that will bring us closer to Palestinian liberation.
Speakers
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Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer in the movement for Palestinian liberation.  
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Sahar

National Students for Justice in Palestine
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Olivia Katbi

Olivia Katbi is the co chair of Portland DSA and a long time organizer with the BDS Movement.
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Palestine

7:00pm CDT

The State of the State
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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How should socialists and abolitionists relate to the state? Is the state an inherently capitalist construction that requires oppression? Is it possible for the state to be radically molded, contested, and transformed into something like what W. E. B. Du Bois envisioned as “abolition democracy?” Or is it necessary to think beyond the binary between state and non-state, and what does that look like in practice? In this roundtable, panelists will explore the different, sometimes contrasting theories and approaches to the state on the left, and discuss how we can organize collectively against capitalist exploitation and state violence in an era of emboldened fascism and right-wing reaction.
Speakers
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Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie (she/her) is an abolitionist Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades... Read More →
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Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing... Read More →
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David McNally

David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. McNally is the author of seven books and has won a number of awards, including the Paul Sweezy Award from the American Sociological... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist and Marxist Theory

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH
Saturday July 5, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
The longest-running late-night show in Chicago, THE INFINITE WRENCH is thirty original plays in sixty minutes. Each play offers something different—funny, profound, topical, irreverent, musical—and all are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers.
Artists
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Saturday July 5, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
  Culture and Art

9:00pm CDT

The Encampments: Film Screening
Saturday July 5, 2025 9:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
TBA
The Encampments is a groundbreaking documentary that chronicles the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment and the international wave of student activism it ignited. Executive Produced by Grammy Award-winning artist Macklemore, the film is directed by Kei Pritsker, a journalist and producer at BreakThrough News, and award-winning filmmaker Michael T. Workman (Meantime).
Saturday July 5, 2025 9:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
TBA
  Palestine
 
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