Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

10:00am CDT

⁠You Cannot Evict a Movement: Tenant Fights That Catalyze, Mobilize, and Win

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

“Transitional demands” are a strategy for mobilizing neighbors beyond individual housing issues by inviting deeply rooted connections and a collectivized consciousness. Learn from organized tenants from several tenant unions about organizing models for engaging in tenant-centered crisis response for black and migrant tenants in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Speakers

Stephen Gurney

Stephen Gurney is a friend, sibling, partner, educator, tenant organizer and lover of the hot weather. He has been organizing with the BED-Tenant Union in Brooklyn since 2022, during which he has taken part in several building and neighborhood based organizing campaigns across Brooklyn... Read More →

Amadi Ozier

Amadi Ozier has been a tenant organizer since 2020. They currently work with Madison Tenant Power in Madison, WI, and have previously worked with the Crown Heights Tenant Union in Brooklyn, NY. They have worked on several successful, high-profile neighborhood-level crisis responses... Read More →

Khadija Haynes

Khadija Haynes is Trinidadian-born Afro-Caribbean woman poet and writer. As an organizer with the Communist Party USA & Young Communist League, Brooklyn Eviction Defense, Crown Heights Tenant’s Union, Sisters In The Struggle, and Flatbush Tenant’s Coalition, Khadija Haynes... Read More →

Trevor-Anastacio Ortega

Trevor-Anastacio Ortega has been a tenant organizer since 2021. Currently working with the Puget Sound Tenants Union as the Secretary of the Capitol Hill Local, they focus on building sustainable sites of the working class struggle through the organization of reproductive labor. Previously... Read More →

Sponsors

Autonomous Tenant Union Network

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Housing Justice, Intro

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

TBA

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

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
TBA

Housing Justice, Intro

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

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 →

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 →

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

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Landlord Tech Watch

Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA

Housing Justice, Intro