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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

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

Michaela Brangan

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

Steve Fraser

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

Sarah Hurd

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

Mie Inouye

Mie Inouye — Middle Hudson Valley DSA/Bard College

Sponsors

DSA

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Socialist Strategy

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

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 →

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

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

Socialism 2025

10:00am CDT

Michaela Brangan

Steve Fraser

Sarah Hurd

Mie Inouye

DSA

3:00pm CDT

Joy James

Adam Vander Tuig

Highlander Center

3:00pm CDT

Allyn Maxfield Steele

Melissa Ferrer Civil

Lo Cropper

Geo Maher

Thomas Mariadason

Center for Political Education

W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School