Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

2:30pm CDT

AI and the Techo-Fascist Power Grab for our Data, Lives, and Resources

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

Tech billionaires claim AI will save us—but decades of community experience tell another story. Governments and corporations use AI to extract our data and labor, and justify life-and-death decisions about our lives, especially Black, brown, and working class communities. Our taxes subsidize these harms, as the wealthiest corporations on the planet profit.

Speakers

Myaisha Hayes

Myaisha Hayes is the Senior Movement Building Director at MediaJustice. She previously spent two years as the organization’s National Organizer on Criminal Justice & Technology, where she oversaw the launch of the #NoDigitalPrisons and #ProtectBlackDissent campaigns. Myaisha also... Read More →

Irna Landrum

Irna Landrum, Senior Campaigner at Kairos, is Black Southern queerdo living in the Midwest, her entire career has been in pursuit of justice and liberation for Black and brown people. She has over 20 years of organizing experience in local communities like St. Paul's historic Rondo... Read More →

Alli Finn

Alli Finn is an organizer and movement researcher rooted in NYC, focused on extractive and carceral technologies including AI systems, state and corporate surveillance, and immigration policing. They currently serve as Director of Campaigns at Kairos Fellows, supporting campaigns... Read More →

Sponsors

Kairos Action

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

US Politics

4:30pm CDT

The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance

Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT

TBA

In order to build an effective resistance to Trump’s intensified attacks, we must combine the fight against oppression— including against the right's racist attacks, and its transphobia—with the struggle to build resistance to exploitation in the workplace. In this panel, we will discuss attacks by the right and the Trump administration, and strategies to fight back that effectively combine struggles against exploitation and oppression.

Speakers

Eric Maroney

Eric Maroney (he/him) teaches at Gateway Community College where he is active with his faculty union. His work has appeared in Tempest Magazine, New Politics, Spectre Journal, and the English Journal. He is a member of the Tempest Collective.

Jesse Sharkey

Donna Murch

Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, where she is chapter president of the New Brunswick chapter of Rutgers AAUP AFT. Her newest book, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives was published by Haymarket Books... Read More →

Sponsors

Spectre Journal

Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA

US Politics, Intro

12:00pm CDT

The Dig LIVE: Notes on The New Regime

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

TBA

An expansive analysis of the unfolding American political conjuncture. How should we analyze the reorganization of American politics under the fascist authoritarian regime of MAGA 2.0? How can the left move forward when years of struggle have left us far short of real organized power? How should we think of coalitions with liberals at a time when we are too weak to govern by ourselves but mainstream Democrats have endorsed colonial genocide? A live recording of The Dig podcast.

Speakers

Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing... Read More →

Socialism 2025

2:30pm CDT

Myaisha Hayes

Irna Landrum

Alli Finn

Kairos Action

4:30pm CDT

Eric Maroney

Jesse Sharkey

Donna Murch

Spectre Journal

12:00pm CDT

Robin D.G. Kelley

Gabriel Winant

Asli Ü. Bâli

Dan Denvir