Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

2:30pm CDT

Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT

With growing political turbulence making the future unpredictable, now more than ever it is crucial that we take responsibility for developing the skills and knowledge to protect our communities. This workshop is an active training in de-escalation skills for social movement activists, and all are encouraged to attend.

Speakers

brian bean

brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist activist, writer, and speaker originally from North Carolina and the author of Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition. He is one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. His work has been published in Jacobin, Socialist... Read More →

Sponsors

Haymarket Books

Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
TBA

Skill Sharing, Intro

1:30pm CDT

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades

Friday July 4, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT

TBA

Do you want to build connections with imprisoned comrades, but don’t know where to start? Spend your lunch hour learning the political importance of and best practices for letter writing to prisoners. Participants will have the opportunity write postcards during the session with guidance and support from formerly imprisoned people. Bring a friend, or two!

Friday July 4, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
TBA

Skill Sharing

3:00pm CDT

Collective Liberation through Sex Education: How Sex Education Should be at the Root of All Organizing Spaces

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

TBA

At the root of organizing is education, not just formal, but skill-sharing and radical understanding. Sex education must be foundational, covering pleasure, racial medical history, gender, advocacy, relationships, violence prevention, and harm reduction. This session will help organizers understand these roots and the necessity of intersectional thinking in our movements.

Speakers

Elhom Karbassi

Elhom Karbassi (she/her) is a first-generation Iranian-American from Savannah, GA. She grew up with an abstinence-only, Bible Belt sex education which led to shame, confusion, and harm when she started exploring her sexuality. This drove her to want to ensure other all folks have... Read More →

Thalía Chicojay

Sponsors

Sexpectations Chicago

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

Skill Sharing

5:00pm CDT

Against Abandonment: DIY Approaches to Clean Air Justice

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

TBA

Ohio Clean Air Coalition will demystify key aspects of improving indoor air quality in the interest of maintaining disability justice in our collective spaces. Participants will leave the workshop with hands-on experience building air purifiers as well as technical knowledge to make tangible the invisibility of air and virus transmission.

Speakers

Sarah Doherty

Sarah Doherty is a white fat crip dyke artist/educator/organizer. She's organized for liberation and justice in multiple interconnected movements with fat, disabled, queer, trans, immigrant, regional, and university communities coast to coast, in the south and midwest. She loves pickles... Read More →

Sharon Kim

Sharon Kim is an organizer from Columbus, OH.

Sean Rule-Hoffman

Sean Rule-Hoffman is an audio engineer and community organizer with Ohio Clean Air Coalition. He uses science-based approaches to find practical and effective solutions to improving indoor air quality and reducing airborne virus transmission in Columbus, Ohio.

Sam Wrigglesworth

Sam Wrigglesworth is a disabled visual artist, writer, and educator currently based in central Ohio. In their practice and organizing, they are concerned with maintenance, collective power + care, and the body. They founded the Ohio Clean Air Coalition in 2024 after living with long... Read More →

Sponsors

Ohio Clean Air Coalition

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

Skill Sharing

10:00am CDT

Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart

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

TBA

A conversation between contributors to the upcoming anthology Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, which offers advice and accompaniment to organizers struggling with the conflicts, heartbreaks, and catastrophes that activists so often experience.

Speakers

Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer in the movement for Palestinian liberation.

Kelly Hayes

Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator and photographer. She is the host of Truthout‘s podcast Movement Memos and co-author of the book Let This Radicalize You, with Mariame Kaba. Kelly also is also the creator of Organizing My Thoughts, a weekly newsletter... Read More →

Tanuja Jagernauth

Tanuja Devi Jagernauth is an Indo-Caribbean abolitionist, writer, operations geek, and yoga educator who believes in the necessity of creation during times of destruction.

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

Skill Sharing

1:00pm CDT

DIY Abortion

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

TBA

As abortion becomes increasingly restricted, what options will still be available? Join us to learn.

Speakers

Kiah Abbey

Kiah has organized for a more just Montana for nearly two decades with a special focus towards deepening the innate skills and talents of those around her. Kiah holds a B.S. in Political Science with a focus in Political Theory from Montana State University. She lives in Tucson, AZ... Read More →

Emily Likins Ehlers

Emily Likins-Ehlers (they/them) is a trauma informed, full-spectrum doula and educator. Emily serves South and West Chicagoland in-person and the whole world virtually. Emily supports about 100 families per month. Emily has worked at Blue Mountain Clinic and used to be the Missoula... Read More →

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

Skill Sharing, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Harm in A Time of Collapse: Practicing Responses to Harm in Leftist Spaces

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

TBA

Responding to harm, and supporting survivors, is an obligation for every organizer and space maker but often we fail to even address it. Anyone looking to build their knowledge and skills for responding to harm is welcome. We’ll practice safety planning, survivor support plans, and start to understand what harm can look like in change making spaces.

Speakers

Em Gonzalez

Em is the Outreach Coordinator with the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice. Through their role, Em works to build partnerships statewide to bring public education and awareness on the Pretrial Fairness Act. Before joining the Illinous Network, Em had been working within Chicago... Read More →

Elon Nnakwe-Sloan

Elon Nnakwe-Sloan (they/them) is a Black, queer, chronically ill artist and facilitator. Elon is interested in the opportunity artmaking presents for marginalized people to assert their capacity to create knowledge and affect their realities. Elon's facilitation practice is informed... Read More →

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

Skill Sharing, Intro

10:00am CDT

De-Arrest Training

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

TBA

As the struggle against emboldened fascism continues, we need to know how to protect each other from state repression and capture. Join us for an interactive training on de-arrest, where participants will teach each other strategy and tactics of de-arrest calisthenics.

Sponsors

In the Belly

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

Skill Sharing, Intro