Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

3:00pm CDT

Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

Travel bans, ICE abductions and deportations of green card holders are nothing new for migrants in the sex industry. But their lives and struggles also offer us a blueprint for resisting surveillance, criminalization and the “good immigrant” vs “bad immigrant” division. Instead they inspire us to transform fear and uncertainty into creativity, power, empathy and noncompliance.

Speakers

Yves Tong Nguyen

Yves Tong Nguyen (they/she/he) is a Vietnamese queer trans disabled abolitionist organizer and cultural worker who is currently organizing with Red Canary Song and Survived & Punished NY, and formerly organized with Free Them All 4 Public Health and other formations. They are personally... Read More →

Chanelle Gallant

Chanelle Gallant is a movement writer, organizer, strategist and consultant and co-author of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (Haymarket Books, 2024). She co-founded the Migrant Sex Workers Project, SURJ-Toronto and has provided training and advocacy... Read More →

Elene Lam

Elene Lam is an activist, artist, community organizer, educator, human rights defender and the coauthor of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. She has fought for sex worker, migrant, gender, labor and racial justice for over 20 years. She is the founder... Read More →

Emi Koyama

Emi Koyama is a multi-issue social justice activist and writer synthesizing feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, intersex, genderqueer, and crip politics, as these factors, while not a complete descriptor of who she is, all impacted her life. She is the Coordinatrix... Read More →

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

Migrant Justice

5:00pm CDT

Nos Defendemos: Community Deportation Defense from Workplaces to Neighborhoods

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

TBA

Worker, tenant, and immigrant organizers discuss the need to organize to defend immigrants in our workplaces and communities and lessons from the attacks in the first six months of the Trump regime.

Speakers

Hector Rincon

Hector Rincon has been active in the socialist movement for four decades. Since moving to the USA from his native South America more than 20 years ago, he has worked in factories in California and has been involved in organizing unions and the struggle for immigrant rights. Hector... Read More →

Jorge Mujica

Jorge Mújica was one of the main organizers of the 2006 immigrant rights marches and co-author of “Voces Migrantes, Movimiento 10 de Marzo”. Jorge immigrated from his native Mexico to the United States in 1987 and was elected to the Mexican Federal Congress in 2021, representing... Read More →

Jazmin Tlaxcala

Jazmin Tlaxcala is a member of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. A Mexican American daughter of immigrants has organized in school and her community for over a decade.

Sponsors

Workers' Voice

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA

Migrant Justice

1:00pm CDT

The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

TBA

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

Angélica Cházaro

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 →

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 →

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

Detention Watch Network

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA

Migrant Justice

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

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 →

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

Critical Resistance

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

Migrant Justice

10:00am CDT

Immigration Detention, Inc.

Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

TBA

While immigration detention is central to Trump's mass deportation plans, the U.S. detention system has been growing for decades. In addition to private prison operators, a whole range of companies and local governments are cashing in. As detention capacity increases, so do webs of economic dependence – and stakeholders who advocate for locking up migrants.

Speakers

Nancy Hiemstra

Nancy Hiemstra is a political geographer whose research focuses on US immigration enforcement policies. She is the author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention. She is Associate Professor... Read More →

Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Migrant Justice, Intro