Socialism 2025

Socialism 2025

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Erica Simpson

10:00am CDT

Reproductive Justice Strategy Session Clark ABC

2:30pm CDT

Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, and Abolition Clark ABCJosie Pickens • connease warren • upEND Movement Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism W190 BEve L. Ewing • Bill Ayers The Proletariat Has No Homeland: Property and the Surplus Class Dusable ABCBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Tracy Rosenthal • Marques Vestal • Death Panel Politics on the Job, Politics from the Job Hyde Park AJason Flynn • Sarah Mason • Dylan Davis • Long-Haul magazine We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training Grant Park ABbrian bean • Haymarket Books Political Education 1: Basics of Materialist Analysis Adler ABCB-REAL Academy • KC Defender • Center for Political Education • Claudia Jones School • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

4:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Organizing Under Authoritarianism Clark ABCAndrea J. Ritchie • Lewis Raven Wallace • Maria Thomas • Eva Nagao Art and Communism W190 BBoots Riley • Jesse Hagopian Defeating the End Times Triad: Christian Zionists, Christian Nationalists, and Technofascists Field ABCAdam Vander Tuig • Ash Bohrer • Ben Lorber • Crystal Silva-McCormick • Annie Wilkinson • Political Research Associates Abortion Bans as State Gender-Based Violence Hyde Park BKylie Cheung • Pluto United Struggles: Intersectional Resistance to Bodily Autonomy Restrictions Huron (3rd floor)TBD • Lyra McMillan • Lyra Spencer • DSA Lessons from ACT UP for Today's Solidarity Movements Grant Park ABSarah Schulman • Natalie Adler Becoming Working Class Revolutionaries: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers for Today’s Class War Dusable ABCJerome Scott • walda katz-fishman The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance W190 AEric Maroney • Jesse Sharkey • Donna Murch • Spectre Journal

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

7:30pm CDT

Labor and Community Organizing Against the MAGA Billionaire Agenda Regency BallroomStacy Davis Gates • Jorge Mujica • TBD

9:30pm CDT

Radical Game Night! Hyde Park A

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 Zine Making for Social Justice Hyde Park ADanielle Bullock Gender and the Rising Right W190 BRae Garringer • Andrea J. Ritchie • Sophie Lewis • Sarah Leonard • TBD • Lux 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 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 Build & Fight: A Strategy to Meet the Moment Burnham ABCKamau Franklin • Kali Akuno • David Cobb • Johanna Epke • Community Movement Builders • Build and Fight

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 How to Democratize Everything Field ABCMichael A. McCarthy Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health Clark ABCMicha Frazer-Carroll • Pluto 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

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 Beyond Climate Despair: Rebuilding a Revolutionary Left in the Face of Catastrophe W190 BWen Stephenson • Batul Hassan • Anthony Rogers-Wright • Ray Acheson 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 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 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 Anti-Colonial Political Education: Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC Hyde Park ASalon Kawakib speakers • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Salon Kawakib 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

9:30pm CDT

Tempest Mixer Adler ABCTempest Collective

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the grass!

10:00am CDT

Community as Rebellion: Building Networks of Resistance Inside and Outside the University Adler ABCLorgia García Peña The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities W190 ASarah Leonard • David Broder • Meagan Day • Daniel Singer Prize Making Sense of the Anti-Trans Turn Regency Ballroom CDanielle Bullock • Eric Maroney Healthcare is a Human Right: Confronting Disparities From Chicago to Gaza Superior (3rd floor)Ezekiel Richardson • Hana Masud • Caesar Thompson A War Where All Wars Fit Erie (3rd floor)Ashanti Alston • Mohamed Abdou • Linda Quiquivix Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart Grant Park ABEman Abdelhadi • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth

1:00pm CDT

Survival and Resistance Behind Bars Erie (3rd floor)Asha Ransby-Sporn • James "Jimmy" Soto • Stanley Howard • Renaldo Hudson • Alice Kim Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition Adler ABCbrian bean • Chenjerai Kumanyika Logoff and Meetup: The Fight for Third Spaces in a Turbulent World W190 BLibertie Valance • Mandy Medley • Casey O'Grady • Allyn Maxfield Steele • Firestorm Books • Pilsen Community Books • Highlander Center • Haymarket House Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education Dusable ABCJesse Hagopian • Rethinking Schools Disaster Nationalism: Trump and the Downfall of Liberal Civilization Clark ABCRichard Seymour • Salvage Carceral Natalism: Technology and Surveillance in the Post-Dobbs Era Regency Ballroom DEmily Janakiram • Megan Lessard • NYC for Abortion Rights “Sick, Twisted Freedom”: Inside-Out Lessons in Disability Justice Field ABCA’Keisha Lee • Harley Pomper • Raymond Youngblood • Jail Solidarity Network Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care Superior (3rd floor)Ndindi Kitonga The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis Grant Park ABSergio González • Silky Shah • John Washington • Angélica Cházaro • Detention Watch Network Lessons and Lineages From Abolition Feminist Movement Histories Regency Ballroom CMaya Schenwar • Erica Meiners • Deana Lewis • Emily Thuma DIY Abortion Michigan (3rd floor)Kiah Abbey • Emily Likins Ehlers

3:00pm CDT

One Million Experiments: Redefining and Creating Abolition Five Years After Uprising Burnham ABCLewis Raven Wallace • Eva Nagao • Damon Williams • Daniel Kisslinger • Interrupting Criminalization Love in a F*cked Up World: Community Care in the Face of Collapse Hyde Park ABBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Dean Spade • Death Panel Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective Regency Ballroom DMeg C • Franzi R • Damien S • Speak Out Socialists What Can Students Achieve? Analyzing the Possibilities and Limits of the Student Intifada Regency Ballroom ESid • Alex • Rahaf • Noor • National Students for Justice in Palestine Harm in A Time of Collapse: Practicing Responses to Harm in Leftist Spaces Erie (3rd floor)Em Gonzalez • Elon Nnakwe-Sloan Confronting Counterinsurgency: Rebel Chores, Religion, Revolutionary Love W190 BAdam Vander Tuig • Joy James • Highlander Center

5:00pm CDT

Emblems of Solidarity: Union Buttons and Labor History Grant Park ABIsaac Silver • Buttons of the Left Let This Radicalize You Study Session Burnham ABCBooks Against Borders Workers Voice Meet-Up: We need revolutionary mass action! Regency Ballroom EWorkers' Voice

7:00pm CDT

The Trump-Musk Payments Crisis: The Wonky Constitutional Crisis the Left Should Care About Field ABCNathan Tankus The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism Dusable ABCBill Ayers • Wayne Au • Davarian Baldwin • Jesse Hagopian • Barbara Ransby • David Stovall Enemy Feminisms: Reckoning with TERFs, Policewomen, and Zionist Feminists W190 ASophie Lewis Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics Adler ABCPaisley Currah UNION: Film Screening and Discussion Burnham ABCMelissa Lee-Litowitz • Eric Blanc • Connor Spence The State of the State Grant Park ABAndrea J. Ritchie • Robin D.G. Kelley • Geo Maher • David McNally

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Regency Ballroom AThe Neo-Futurists

10:00am CDT

Challenging Mass Surveillance in the Time of Trump Regency Ballroom BEd Vogel • Selinda Guerrero • Fatema Ahmad • Je Amaechi • Nat Palmer • Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure Let It Be a Tale: A Writing Space Field ABCNisha Atalie • Maria Isabelle Carlos Fascists Are Trying To Recruit You!: Antisemitism, Conspiracism, and the Anti-Woke Left Regency Ballroom CNaomi Bennet • Danny Katch NOT my Parental Rights Movement! Resisting the Criminalization of Care and the Evangelical Right Burnham ABCUjju Aggarwal • Erin Miles Cloud • Erica Meiners • Paula X. Rojas De-Arrest Training Regency Ballroom AIn the Belly Debate: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party Grant Park ABBennett Carpenter • Howie Hawkins • Lee Wengraf • Ashik Siddique • Solidarity • Tempest Collective • Groundwork DSA

12:00pm CDT

All Our Movements in this Together W190 ABSilky Shah • Eman Abdelhadi • Scout Bratt • Mariah Parker • Mikaela Loach