Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

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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.

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Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus

Black Youth Project 100

Saturday July 5, 2025 11:30am - 1:00pm CDT

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Chicago IPO / Neighborhood Organizations Meet-Up

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT

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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!

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33rd Ward Working Families

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Covering Fascism While Surviving Fascism: A Media Meet-Up

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT

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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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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Movement Media Alliance

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT

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Join Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for a Socialism Conference social! Members, interested members, and all comrades are welcome.

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DSA

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Let This Radicalize You Study Session

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT

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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!

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Books Against Borders

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
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5:00pm CDT

Political Educators Meet-Up

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT

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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
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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

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

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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
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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

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.

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Workers' Voice

Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT

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