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Thursday, July 3
 

9:30am CDT

Historic Bike Tour: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project
Thursday July 3, 2025 9:30am - 12:00pm CDT
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The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19) commemorates the worst incident of racial violence in the city’s history. The event has been long forgotten despite its impact on the subsequent shape and development of the city. Our 2-hour historic bike tour allows people to see, first-hand, some of the locations related to the events of 1919, the long shadow of residential segregation, as well as the incredible resilience of the local Black community.

Formally launched on the 100th anniversary of the riot, we aim to ignite conversations about past and present racism in Chicago and across the US. The path to achieving racial equity and justice first demands acknowledging the horrors of the past and the ways that structural inequities persist in communities of color.

Stolpersteine, an ongoing German project commemorating Holocaust victims, offers us a powerful model for how to use dispersed public art to remember past atrocities and provoke conversations about their legacy. Inspired by Stolpersteine, CRR19 proposes to create and install commemorative markers at each of the 38 locations where someone was killed in 1919.

You can make a donation to support the project here: https://chicagoraceriot.org/donate

Learn more and RSVP for the bike tour here. (RSVP REQUIRED. If you get an error, please open the form in a new tab or window).
Thursday July 3, 2025 9:30am - 12:00pm CDT
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  Racism and Anti-Racism

10:00am CDT

Reproductive Justice Strategy Session
Thursday July 3, 2025 10:00am - 1:00pm CDT
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The anti-abortion movement is stepping up their attacks on abortion access, providers and people seeking care are being criminalized, and patients are dying from pregnancy complications, unable to access emergency care.

How can repro justice activists meet the moment and harness the enormous support for abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, and healthcare access and build a sustainable movement that wins power? How do we organize those outraged by Trump's agenda and extremist laws taking away our bodily autonomy? How do we support those seeking abortion care when abortion funds and clinics face financial distress? How has the rise of telehealth care and self-managed abortion changed the priorities for activists? How do we effectively oppose an extremist movement seeking to ban abortion nationwide, enshrine "fetal personhood" laws that would give legal protections to embryos and criminalize pregnant people, and eliminate protections for queer and trans people?

If you are a reproductive justice activist, a healthcare provider or abortion fund worker, or interested in getting involved in the fight to expand abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights, please join for this facilitated discussion. RSVP at this link REQUIRED. (If you get an error, please open the form in a new tab or window.)
Thursday July 3, 2025 10:00am - 1:00pm CDT
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  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

2:30pm CDT

Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, and Abolition
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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Since chattel slavery, state violence has regulated reproduction, evolving into institutions like family policing, which disproportionately targets marginalized communities under the guise of child protection. Using a reproductive justice framework, this session examines how surveillance, punishment, and control in family policing perpetuate reproductive oppression, undermining autonomy and justice.
Speakers
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Josie Pickens

Josie Pickens (she/her) is a Houston-based organizer, educator, journalist, and cultural critic whose work explores race, gender, and sexuality. Her writing has appeared in *Ebony, Essence, Bitch, The Root, Cassius, Mic,* and more. With over 20 years of community organizing experience... Read More →
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connease warren

connease warren (she/her) is a veteran communications strategist and writer who has led bold, innovative campaigns centering racial justice and abolition. connease thinks daily about ways the written word advances and sustains abolitionist conversations, ideas, and actions. She believes... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for upEND Movement
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  Abolition

2:30pm CDT

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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The U.S. school system has played an instrumental role in creating and upholding racial hierarchies, preparing children to expect unequal treatment throughout their lives. Join Eve L. Ewing and Bill Ayers for a discussion of the historical origins of white supremacy and racial hierarchy in the DNA of American schooling.
Speakers
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Eve L. Ewing

Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, and a novel... Read More →
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Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers is the author, most recently, of When Freedom is the Question...
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  Education Justice

2:30pm CDT

Country Queers: A Conversation About Community Care and Memory Work in End Times
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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Join author Rae Garringer and editor Dao X. Tran for a conversation about lessons learned through the twelve-year journey of the Country Queers oral history project and podcast, culminating in the book Country Queers: A Love Letter (Haymarket, 2024). We’ll talk about community-based oral history work, queer and trans resilience and resistance in rural communities, and the lessons that rural Appalachian and southern country queers have to teach us all about taking care of one another across political difference, in the end times of fascism and climate catastrophe.
Speakers
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Rae Garringer

Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, audio producer, and goat farmer based in southeastern West Virginia where they were raised. They are the author and editor of Country Queers: A Love Letter (Haymarket 2024) and the editor of To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer... Read More →
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Dao X. Tran

DAO X. TRAN was born in Mỹ Tho—and made in the USA. She’s passionate about democratizing the stories being heard and finds curiosity about our world essential. She is the managing editor for and on the editorial board of Haymarket Books. When not wrangling manuscripts—or scouting... Read More →
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

2:30pm CDT

The Proletariat Has No Homeland: Property and the Surplus Class
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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Discussions of “surplus populations” often fixate on labor markets; those cast out of work, left idle, or deemed unproductive. This session explores how the state organizes surplus not just through production, but through property and confinement. From land enclosures to the prison-industrial complex, the management of “surplus” has always been a question of containment, racialized abandonment, and carceral exile. Drawing on histories of displacement, abolitionist thought, and housed and unhoused tenant organizing, the discussion will examine surplus not as a demographic misfortune, but as a structural necessity of capital, and as a flashpoint of resistance. What emerges is not a question of productivity but of place—who is allowed to belong, and who must be removed to keep property regimes intact.
Speakers
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill agitator and independent researcher. She is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
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Tracy Rosenthal

Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union, a frequent contributor to the New Republic, and the author, with Leonardo Vilchis, of Abolish Rent (Haymarket, 2024). They are now on rent strike in New York City and also a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
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Marques Vestal

Marques Vestal is an urban historian studying the social history of residential property in Black Los Angeles during the rebellious twentieth century. His work links property conflict—the everyday contracts, solicitations, complaints, lawsuits, and murders over property—to broader... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Death Panel
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  Housing Justice

2:30pm CDT

Politics on the Job, Politics from the Job
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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The workplace is not a bundle of ‘issues’ but an effective terrain upon which organizers can practice politics. At this session, contributors to Long-Haul, a new quarterly magazine of worker writing, will draw on the basics of organizing for collective action and recount how they traced a political line of march from the workplace toward interventions in Palestine solidarity, immigrant defense, and against the appeal of the far-right.
Speakers
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Jason Flynn

Jason Flynn, Amazon and UPS teamster rank-and-file.
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Sarah Mason

Sarah Mason, Long-Haul editorial collective member, and member-organizer of UAW4811 Palestine strike.
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Dylan Davis

Dylan Davis, Long-Haul editorial collective member.
Sponsors
avatar for Long-Haul magazine
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  Labor Movement

2:30pm CDT

Mask off Maersk
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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After almost 20 months of an ongoing U.S.-backed genocide, we have seen that the government will not enact an arms embargo, but with organization and coordination, the people will.
Our demands:
1) Stop transporting military cargo complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people
2) Terminate all contracts that support war and genocide
Speakers
RD
LK
Sponsors
avatar for Palestinian Youth Movement
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  Palestine

2:30pm CDT

Eugene Debs: From Rail Labor Organizer to Socialist Agitator – Lessons for Today
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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After the 1894 Pullman Strike was violently crushed by the federal militia, Debs advocated for socialism to his dying day. Imprisoned for opposing US involvement in WW I, he received almost a million votes for president in 1920. What can we learn from Debs’ evolution and legacy?
Speakers
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Mark Burrows

Mark Burrows: retired locomotive engineer, former Delegate for International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers - Transportation Division (SMART-TD) #1433; former Co-Chair of Railroad Workers United and current editor of their quarterly newsletter, The... Read More →
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Guy Miller

Guy Miller: retired switchman, former member of United Transportation Union (now SMART-TD); a socialist since 1967; He’s contributed articles for several outlets, including New Politics, the International Socialist Review and Against the Current.
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Sponsors
avatar for Railroad Workers United
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
TBA
  Radical History, Intro

2:30pm CDT

We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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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
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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
avatar for Haymarket Books
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  Skill Sharing, Intro

2:30pm CDT

Political Education 1: Basics of Materialist Analysis
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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Marxism isn't just about applying concepts to the world, it's about analyzing the world around us in a materialist way: looking at the way things are made, where and how people live, and who holds the power. This workshop will provide an introduction to materialist analysis before guiding participants in activities geared toward analyzing contemporary reality to ask what we're up against and how we can fight it.
Speakers
avatar for B-REAL Academy
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avatar for KC Defender
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avatar for Claudia Jones School
Sponsors
avatar for B-REAL Academy
avatar for KC Defender
avatar for Claudia Jones School
avatar for Center for Political Education
avatar for W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  Socialist and Marxist Theory, Intro

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
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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
avatar for Kairos Action
Thursday July 3, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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  US Politics

4:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Organizing Under Authoritarianism
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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A number of frameworks have been articulated across the Left for resisting rising authoritarianism, fascism, white Christian cisheteropatriarchal supremacy, and imperialism in the U.S. Recognizing that criminalization is instrumental to authoritarian regimes and Right-wing agendas, facilitators will workshop an approach to situating abolitionist organizing within these broader frameworks while simultaneously expanding them.
Speakers
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Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie (she/her) is an abolitionist Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades... Read More →
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Lewis Raven Wallace

Lewis Raven Wallace is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, NC. He is the author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity (University of Chicago Press, 2019), and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast. His work centers around... Read More →
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Eva Nagao

Eva Nagao is the Creative Director of Interrupting Criminalization and an organizer based outside of Seattle. Her work focuses on communications for grassroots organizations and resource development that supports community-based structures working to decrease reliance on policing... Read More →
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  Abolition

4:30pm CDT

Power Lines: Building a Climate-Labor Justice Movement
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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While corporate elites have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other, labor organizers are fighting against these divisions and organizing for green agendas aligned within material benefits to the working class. Hear from organizers and researchers building worker power alongside decarbonization at the scale and pace required.
Speakers
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Lauren Bianchi

Lauren Bianchi, Chicago Teachers Union, teacher and leader of climate justice caucus.
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Jeff Ordower

Jeff Ordower has been a community and labor organizer for the last 30 years all across the US. He has spent the last few years working at the intersection of climate and labor, both as a co-founder of the Green Workers Alliance and former North America Director for 350.org... Read More →
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Marcie Pedraza

Marcelina Pedraza has been a union electrician for 26 years and is currently a member of UAW Local 551 at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant. She is a lifelong Chicago resident and community organizer passionate about environmental and workers’ justice, and as Board President of the Southeast... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Climate and Community Institute
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  Climate Justice

4:30pm CDT

Art and Communism
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Speakers
BR
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  Culture and Art

4:30pm CDT

Defeating the End Times Triad: Christian Zionists, Christian Nationalists, and Technofascists
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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In our dystopian conjuncture Christian Zionism, Christian nationalism and End-Times technofascism work together to further genocidal aggression in Palestine alongside the entrenchment of authoritarian repression in the US and worldwide. We’ll work together to understand these movements at the intersections of theology and politics, and explore opportunities for Left strategy and faith and community organizing in the time of monsters.
Speakers
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Adam Vander Tuig

Adam Vander Tuig was born and raised in rural Nebraska and currently works as the Faith-Based Educator and Researcher at the Highlander Center in New Market, TN. A recent graduate of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (PhD), he organizes with Christians for a Free... Read More →
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Ash Bohrer

Ash Bohrer (they/them) is an academic and activist based in Chicago. They are a Board Member and Chapter Leader at Jewish Voice for Peace. Their first book, Marxism and Intersectionality, was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize, and their next book, Capitalism and Confinement is forthcoming... Read More →
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Ben Lorber

Ben Lorber is co-author of Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. He works as a senior researcher at Political Research Associates, where he provides movement analysis and strategic support on countering antisemitism and its weaponization, white Christian... Read More →
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Crystal Silva-McCormick

Crystal Silva-McCormick is a native of El Paso, Texas. She is an Assistant Professor at Austin Seminary and Director of Latinx Studies. Crystal has been a scholar with the Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She is an organizer... Read More →
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Annie Wilkinson

Annie Wilkinson, PhD (she/they) is a scholar-activist, feminist political anthropologist, and movement-based opposition researcher and strategist. She leads Political Research Associate's work on gender and authoritarianism as a senior research analyst, where she provides analysis... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Political Research Associates
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

4:30pm CDT

Abortion Bans as State Gender-Based Violence
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Three years since the Dobbs ruling, the horrors inflicted by abortion bans began immediately and haven’t stopped. Maternal and infant mortality have surged; gruesome stories of people experiencing pregnancy complications pushed to the brink of death are a near-daily occurrence; and abusers have greater power than ever over their victims. Too often, abortion is misunderstood as a policy debate in the abstract—in reality, the laws that govern our reproductive decision-making can be life-or-death, and are inextricable from a broader policy landscape of state gender-based violence.
Speakers
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Kylie Cheung

Kylie Cheung is the author of four books on gender and politics, including Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans with Pluto Press. Cheung’s most recent book on gender-based violence, Survivor Injustice, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. She is... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Pluto
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation, Intro

4:30pm CDT

United Struggles: Intersectional Resistance to Bodily Autonomy Restrictions
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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This panel connects the parallel attacks on reproductive and trans rights within a broader analysis of fascist control over marginalized bodies. Speakers examine effective coalition strategies that center the most vulnerable communities in our resistance movements.
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Lyra McMillan

Lyra McMillan is co-chair, and founder, of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America’s Bodily Autonomy Trans & Queer Liberation Campaign. Under her leadership, Alexandria City and Arlington County, Virginia have enacted sanctuary policies affirming and protecting the trans community’s... Read More →
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Lyra Spencer

Lyra Spencer (she/her) is a labor organizer working for SEIU local 73, is a union member of the Chicago News Guild, and is the current cochair of Chicago DSA’s trans rights project campaign.
Sponsors
avatar for DSA
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

4:30pm CDT

Ukraine Betrayed: Trump, Putin and the Struggle for Self-Determination
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Trump’s political alignment with Russia’s Vladimir Putin is reshaping international politics while posing a serious threat to the Ukrainian people’s resistance to colonial domination and occupation. This panel will discuss how we can generate further solidarity with Ukraine and other ongoing struggles for self-determination given this global turning point.
Speakers
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Bill Fletcher Jr.

Bill Fletcher Jr., bill is former president of TransAfrica Forum, Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, and co-author (with Peter Agard) of ‘The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the CIO'.
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Denys Bondar

Denys Bondar, a native of Ukraine, is a professor of physics at Tulane University and is a member of Ukrainian socialist group, Sotsialnyi Rukh.
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Elias Seidel

Elias Seidel is a translator, artist, and socialist with experience on both the US and Russian left. Most recently, he has translated for Posle, Feminist Anti-War Resistance, and The February Journal, and appeared on Rabkor and the online roundtable “Inside the Aggressor.”
Sponsors
avatar for Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S.
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

4:30pm CDT

Building an Internationalist Left Through Diaspora Mobilization: From South Asian North America
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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What role can and should the diaspora play in left organizing? How do diaspora groups stay accountable to the communities they find themselves in the US, and stay connected and build international solidarity with movements in the Global South? This panel will look at the role of diaspora from South Asia as a point of departure to explore the potential for local and internationalist mobilization from the left.
Speakers
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Aman Bardia

Aman Bardia is a graduate student of agrarian political economy. They are a founding member of SALAM, and have been involved in union movements for students and taxi workers.
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Maithreyi Rajeshkumar

Maithreyi Rajeshkumar is a SALAM or and works at the Center for Humanities at CUNY. They have worked and campaigned for over 15 years on gender equality, racial justice, incarceration and mental health.
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Raza Gillani

Raza Gillani is a Community Organizer with DRUM. He is a founding member of Progressive Students Collective and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, and he has worked as an investigative reporter for Lok Sujag in Pakistan.
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Mohiba Ahmed

Mohiba Ahmed is a Community Organizer with DRUM. She is a founding member of Progressive Students Collective and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Pakistan.
Sponsors
avatar for SALAM
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  International Politics

4:30pm CDT

Lessons from ACT UP for Today's Solidarity Movements
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Everyone is under attack, and lessons from previous movements can stimulate our imaginations and the creation of new strategies and tactics. The successes of ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) 1987-1993, are not a blueprint, but they can inform our thinking. Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard interviewed 188 surviving members of ACT UP, NY over 18 years and cohered their work into Jim's film UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP, and Sarah's book LET THE RECORD SHOW. Schulman will summarize the context, successes, and the tactics that worked and lead a conversation about how we can best understand this material in light of today's crisis.
Speakers
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Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, and AIDS historian. Her honors include a Fulbright in Judaic Studies and an Guggenheim in Playwriting.  The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity (Thesis/PenguinRandom) is her 21st book.  Sarah holds an endowed... Read More →
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Natalie Adler

Natalie Adler is an editor at Lux Magazine. Formerly, she was a lecturer at Columbia University where she was part of an organizing effort to unionize contingent faculty. Her first novel, Waiting on a Friend, is forthcoming from Hogarth in May 2026.
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  Radical History

4:30pm CDT

Becoming Working Class Revolutionaries: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers for Today’s Class War
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Theoretical study and class analysis are essential for understanding class struggle throughout the capitalist epoch, especially in this moment. We share lessons from the League’s 50+ year personal, political, collective journey of Marxist study and struggle for developing class consciousness and working class unity in today’s resistance against fascism.
Speakers
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Jerome Scott

Jerome Scott, a former labor organizer in the Detroit auto plants in the 1960s-70s and a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, was the founding director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. He is a board member of the General Baker... Read More →
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walda katz-fishman

walda katz-fishman, a scholar activist and professor of sociology at Howard University from 1970 to 2020, was a founding member of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. She is active in social justice organizations, including the League of Revolutionaries... Read More →
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  Socialist Strategy

4:30pm CDT

The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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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
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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.
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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
avatar for Spectre Journal
Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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  US Politics, Intro

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour
Thursday July 3, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm CDT
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First time at Socialism? Stop by the Welcome Happy Hour to connect with new comrades and get excited for the weekend. Join us on the hotel patio (or at the bar, weather-depending), across the skyway from registration and downstairs.

Conference attendees will get a discount on beer and wine by showing their conference badge at the ARC Bar!
Thursday July 3, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm CDT
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  Activity

7:30pm CDT

Labor and Community Organizing Against the MAGA Billionaire Agenda
Thursday July 3, 2025 7:30pm - 9:00pm CDT
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As workers we have the power to change the course of this country and the world. Unions and community organizations have the organizational muscle to shut down Trump’s attacks and smash the far right. Hear from labor leaders and community organizers on the front lines of the growing coalitions building the power to stop the MAGA billionaire agenda.
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Thursday July 3, 2025 7:30pm - 9:00pm CDT
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  Labor Movement

9:30pm CDT

Radical Game Night!
Thursday July 3, 2025 9:30pm - 11:00pm CDT
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Join comrades for board games after the opening plenary! Presented by the TESA Collective.
Thursday July 3, 2025 9:30pm - 11:00pm CDT
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  Activity

9:30pm CDT

Radical Trivia Night!
Thursday July 3, 2025 9:30pm - 11:00pm CDT
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Join comrades for an evening of radical trivia! Winning team will receive a prize!
Thursday July 3, 2025 9:30pm - 11:00pm CDT
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  Activity
 
Friday, July 4
 

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga
Friday July 4, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
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Join us for a Vinyasa yoga session led by local yogi Angel. We’ll work to sync our breath and bodies to beginner’s poses with just enough challenge to get you out of your comfort zone. This 60-min flow is perfect for all levels. We will have mats available on a first come, first serve basis.

Morning yoga will take place outside on the grass, weather-permitting. (In case of rain, we’ll be in Regency Ballroom A.)
Friday July 4, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
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  Activity

10:00am CDT

No New Cages: Lessons from Organizers Resisting Carceral Infrastructure
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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The new, authoritarian, administration has promised to expand prison infrastructure, requiring remobilizations of efforts against expansion, construction, entrenchment, and net-widening. Alongside the release of a new resource on undertaking fights against carceral infrastructure, a panel of organizers who have organized against prisons, jails, detention centers, and cop cities will offer reflections and strategic recommendations on what these fights will look like in coming years.
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Zhandarka Kurti

Zhandarka Kurti is an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Loyola University Chicago. She is the co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform and the Future of America’s Punishment System and editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanit... Read More →
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Mon Mohapatra

Mon Mohapatra (she/they) is a writer, organizer and artist originally from India, based on Canarsee Land (NYC) whose work involves building capacity for abolitionist organizing through political education, participatory research, and direct action. In particular, her work focuses... Read More →
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Hannah Riley

Hannah Riley is a writer and activist based in Atlanta.
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Stevie Wilson

Stevie Wilson (he/him) is a currently imprisoned Black queer abolitionist organizer and facilitator from Philadelphia. Wilson is the founder of the inside abolitionist study collective 9971 and is the founder of the abolitionist journal In the Belly. He is a columnist for the Abolitionist... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Abolition

10:00am CDT

BLM Under Trump: Where Do We Go from Here?
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
The second wave of the Black Lives Matter rebellion erupted in 2020 while Trump was president in reaction to George Floyd & Breanna Taylor’s murder by the police. Now that Trump is back in the White House where does the movement go from here?
Speakers
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Robert Cuffy

Robert Cuffy is a member of the DSA Afrosocialist Caucus, a founder of the Socialist Workers Alliance of Guyana, and on the editorial board of New Politics.
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Jessica Garraway

Jessica Garraway is an active member of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and a founding member of Black Cat Workers Collective.
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Black Liberation

10:00am CDT

Zine Making for Social Justice
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Zines have long been an affordable, DIY method of sharing information and building community within social justice movements. Join this hands-on workshop to learn about the history of zine making, explore zine types and topics, and make your own political zine for distribution.
Speakers
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Danielle Bullock

Danielle Bullock is a queer, Brooklyn-born artist, activist and public school educator. She is a union chapter leader and member of the MORE caucus of the UFT. She is also a member of the Tempest Collective.
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art, Intro

10:00am CDT

All You Fascists Bound To Lose: The Left’s Role During Repression
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
We are in a period of instability and suppression. The white Christian nationalist right, alongside their billionaire partners, have launched unprecedented assaults on hard-won rights and protections. Our duty is to undermine their neo-fascist agenda. This panel will explore how the Left in South Africa, India, and the U.S. resisted, and in some cases, overcame eras of right-wing repression.
Speakers
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Steve Williams

Steve Williams is the National Secretary of North Star Socialist Organization. Trained as a community organizer, he worked for more than 20 years doing multi-racial grassroots organizing at POWER to win working-class power, alongside issues of anti-displacement, welfare and immigrant... Read More →
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Amit S

Amit S is a long-time immigrant labor organizer and movement strategist. Amit S is a long-time immigrant labor organizer and movement strategist. He splits his time between India and the United States.
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Hannah Sassaman

Hannah Sassaman is a leader with over 20 years of experience organizing for community power and tech justice. She built and won seminal campaigns expanding community radio, cementing affordable internet access, and accountability from Fortune 50 telecom corporations. She currently... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

Gender and the Rising Right
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
The far-right in the US and abroad has placed gender at the center of fascist politics, obsessing over trans rights, abortion, and the birthrate and attacking the very presence of the word gender in federal administration and universities. How does the right build its power through a focus on gender, and what is the role of gender in a resurgent left?
Speakers
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Rae Garringer

Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, audio producer, and goat farmer based in southeastern West Virginia where they were raised. They are the author and editor of Country Queers: A Love Letter (Haymarket 2024) and the editor of To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer... Read More →
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Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie (she/her) is an abolitionist Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades... Read More →
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Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer. Her books, Enemy Feminisms, Full Surrogacy Now, and Abolish the Family, have been translated into nine languages. Sophie grew up in France, half-British, half-German, but now lives in Philadelphia and teaches online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn... Read More →
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Sarah Leonard

Sarah Leonard is the editor in chief of Lux.
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

10:00am CDT

Deny, Defend, Depose: Health Struggle After Luigi
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
With the new administration, the federal government has been actively attacking healthcare funding for the poor and intensified its targeting of trans and disabled people and the immiseration of healthcare workers. Join us for a discussion of what the fight for health communism may look like under this new regime, and what strategies and forms of politics may help us move forward. With Death Panel co-hosts and co-authors of Health Communism Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, joined by writer and organizer Vicky Osterweil.
Speakers
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill agitator and independent researcher. She is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
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Artie Vierkant

Artie Vierkant is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host, as well as the editor and producer, of the Death Panel podcast.
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Vicky Osterweil

Vicky is a writer, worker and editor based in so-called Philadelphia. She is a founding member of CAW, a worker-owned collective journal of autonomy, arts and culture, as well as the author of In Defense of Looting (2020), and The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

10:00am CDT

⁠You Cannot Evict a Movement: Tenant Fights That Catalyze, Mobilize, and Win
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
“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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Housing Justice, Intro

10:00am CDT

Bottom Up for Liberation: An Anti-Imperialist Strategy for our Movement
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
We are an emerging cadre formation of social movement leftists, growing out of the LeftRoots process. Too often internationalism is an obligatory footnote to local and electoral struggles--but for us, anti-imperialism is essential to our daily and long-term work to win ecofeminist socialism, from our communities to the world.
Speakers
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RJ
CR
SR
Sponsors
BU
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

10:00am CDT

Indigenous Grounded Solidarity, Then and Now
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
This lecture explores a materialist ethic of solidarity between the Dene of the Northwest Territories (Canada) and the people of Palestine via a political economy of oil and extractivism. It looks at the origins of the 1973 Oil Crisis and e!ects, examining Indigenous resistance to extractivism spanning from Palestine and the Middle East to the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
Speakers
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Glen Coulthard

Glen Coulthard is an associate professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies and in the Department of Political Science. Glen has written and published numerous articles and chapters in the areas of contemporary political theory, indigenous thought and politics, and radical social... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Indigenous Liberation

10:00am CDT

Putin’s Anti-War Political Prisoners in Russia
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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This panel examines Putin’s repression of critical voices, those who have publicly opposed his war of aggression against Ukraine. Boris Kagarlitsky, the well-known Marxist critic of Putin's regime, is currently serving a five year sentence in a penal colony for "justifying terrorism" – a charge stemming from a satirical comment about the Crimean bridge explosion. While Kagarlitsky’s case has drawn international attention, many other leftwing critics remain imprisoned in obscurity, often held in appalling conditions.
Moderators
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Suzi Weissman

Suzi Weissman:  Professor Emeritus of Politics, Saint Mary’s College of California, author of Victor Serge: a Political Biography; editorial board member of Against the Current and Critique, host of Beneath the Surface on KPFK Los Angeles, and the Jacobin Radio podcast; Board... Read More →
Speakers
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Ksenia Kagarlitskaya

Ksenia Kagarlitskaya, daughter of Boris Kagarlitsky, founder and organizer of the international festival in support of political prisoners "Freedom Zone". pruesha@gmail.com
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Boris Kagarlitsky

Boris Kagarlitsky, Prominent Russian leftist public intellectual; longtime critic of Kremlin policy; author of numerous translated works and host of popular YouTube channel; imprisoned under Brezhnev, Yeltsin and now Putin. Arrested in 2023 for a satirical social media post, he is... Read More →
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Grusha Gilaeva

Grusha Gilayeva, managing editor of Russian socialist antiwar website Posle, operating in exile. posle.media@gmail.com
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Simon Pirani

Simon Pirani  historian, activist, and energy researcher writing on Russia and Ukraine. Author of Change in Putin’s Russian and the forthcoming Final Speeches to the Court; blogs at peoplenature.org... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

Showdown in Germany: The Left Party and the Fight Against Fascism in 2025
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
In the March elections, the Left Party made a surprising comeback. At the same time, the far-right AfD is now leading in the polls - especially among workers and low-income voters. With the new Merz government pushing austerity and militarization, the urgent question is: how should the left in Germany respond to this political landscape?
Speakers
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

The Use of Political Education in Union Campaigns
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
While the urgent needs of organizing and fighting the boss naturally take top priority for union organizers and committees, political education of workers in struggle is a crucial but hard to prioritize investment that can turn committee leaders into committed trade union or even socialist activists for the long haul.
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Ira Pollock

Ira Pollock has been working at and organizing at Amazon warehouses in the NYC area for 6 years. Ira was a leader in Amazonians United and now the Logistics Workers League, an organization of logistics workers and allies dedicated to bringing a class struggle perspective and political... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement

10:00am CDT

Build & Fight: A Strategy to Meet the Moment
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
The Build and Fight strategy is being applied in Jackson, MS. It emphasizes creating autonomous, cooperative institutions (Build) while simultaneously engaging in organized resistance against oppressive systems (Fight). It promotes grassroots economic self-determination, dual power, and mass mobilization to challenge capitalism, white supremacy, and ecological destruction, fostering a just transition. We engage electoral politics on our terms, completely independent of the two corporate parties.
Speakers
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Kamau Franklin

Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builder, a Black, member-based collective of community residents and organizers. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years and is a former practicing attorney, beginning in New York City and now based in... Read More →
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DC
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Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

10:00am CDT

Building Durable Power: Lessons from Jewish Voice for Peace
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
What does it take to absorb and consolidate a membership base after periods of uprising & mass mobilization? Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organizers will share their reflections on nitty gritty topics like: creating effective leadership structures, building stronger strategic alignment across a national base, developing concrete organizing skills and capacities with grassroots member-leaders, navigating anti-organizational left tendencies, and practicing principled struggle in response to disagreement.
Speakers
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Shelby Handler

Shelby Handler is a writer and staff organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, based on Duwamish land in Seattle, WA.
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Michael Wolfe

Michael Wolfe is a chapter organizer for the Midwest and Mountain region on staff with Jewish Voice for Peace, based on Kaw, Jiwere, Nutachi, and Wahzhazhe land in Kansas City, Missouri.
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CP

CP is the Sr. Membership Organizer at Jewish Voice for Peace.
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

12:00pm CDT

Fighting Carceral Infrastructure to End Mass Incarceration
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
Participants will learn tactics and strategies from campaigns against carceral infrastructure, including jails, prisons, and police training facilities. Panelists will also discuss how their work ties into the broader movement to end mass incarceration and other struggles for justice.
Speakers
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Micah Herskind

Micah Herskind is an organizer, writer, and law student at Harvard Law School. He is a co-editor of No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement (Haymarket Books, 2025), and has written for outlets including New York Magazine, Scalawag, MSNBC, Teen Vogue, Inquest, and Race... Read More →
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James "Jimmy" Soto

James "Jimmy" Soto is a community organizer, artist, prisoner advocate, writer, and future JD candidate.  He was wrongfully convicted and was released after serving 42 years. He is a paralegal at Northwestern University Pritzker's School of Law in the Community Justice and Civil... Read More →
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Avalon Betts-Gaston

Avalon Betts-Gaston is a Chicago native, non-licensed attorney, ordained minister, and passionate advocate to dismantle and change current systems while building a system of care and accountability focused on humane justice and harm reduction, not just punishment.  She is the first... Read More →
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Alicia Brown

Alicia Brown is a community leader and currently co director of Final 5 Campaign. She is a restorative justice practitioner, circle keeper, and abolitionist. She enjoys writing and was recently published in the “Envisioning Justice Curricular Concepts Resource Guide, Incarcerated... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Institute to End Mass Incarceration
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

12:00pm CDT

Climate Action to Transform Our World
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
We live under an economic system which pursues profit above all else, and which heavily contributes to the climate crisis. Tackling it requires us to understand and confront the roots of poverty, racial inequality, and capitalist exploitation. Climate justice offers the real possibility of huge leaps towards racial and economic equality, connecting many issues into one movement for collective liberation.
Speakers
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Kylie Cheung

Kylie Cheung is the author of four books on gender and politics, including Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans with Pluto Press. Cheung’s most recent book on gender-based violence, Survivor Injustice, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. She is... Read More →
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Mikaela Loach

Mikaela Loach is a climate justice organizer, speaker, and the author of Climate Is Just the Start. She is the co-director of the AWETHU School of Organising and co-hosts the YIKES podcast.
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Climate Justice, Intro

12:00pm CDT

Gulf to Gaza: No Sacrifice Zones
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
BIPOC communities along the Gulf South have long been treated as sacrifice zones by corporations like Chevron and Valero who have also been instrumental in fueling genocide in Palestine. This panel will explore what it means to build solidarity in communities often overlooked and seldom seen as crucial sites of struggle.
Speakers
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Chloe Torres

Chloe Torres is a lifelong Corpus Christian who has been organizing around environmental justice in the region for nearly a decade. She is a member of Corpus Christi DSA and has spoken across the state of Texas and across Europe where she has played a vital role in strengthening a... Read More →
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Jenny Espino

Jenny Espino was born and raised in Corpus Christi and has been organizing in the Gulf South for nearly two decades. She is a member of Corpus Christi DSA and the Gulf South to Gaza Collective. She has spoken at conferences such as the Socialism Conference, the Southwestern Marxism... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Climate Justice

12:00pm CDT

How to Democratize Everything
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
If you’re a socialist, what do you know about democratic planning? Socialism isn't bigger state bureaucracies, endless meetings, or even turning out votes. Instead, it is empowering ordinary people to have a greater say over the institutions that affect us all. Join social theorist Michael A. McCarthy to explore how the working class can be empowered by introducing new forms of democracy into our most important investment decisions.
Speakers
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Michael A. McCarthy

Michael A. McCarthy is the Director of Community Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell) and The Master's Tools (Verso). He is also an editor of Critical Sociology and a member of... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Economics, Intro

12:00pm CDT

Blocking the Right, Building the Base: The Work of Left Unity in 2025
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
How can organizers take on bold, strategic work to strengthen left-led base building within a broad anti-fascist united front? Our panelists debate the “build” component of a shared “Block and Build” strategic orientation, drawing on their experience in different sectors of the socialist, social movement, and labor left.
Speakers
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David Duhalde

David Duhalde is a lifelong democratic socialist organizer who has held positions in both the Democratic Socialist of America and its sister nonprofit the DSA Fund at the staff and volunteer leadership levels. Duhalde has worked in both labor and electoral action and is a public advocate... Read More →
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Montague Simmons

Montague Simmons is a community organizer, movement builder and strategist. A native of St. Louis, Montague has worked to build movements locally and nationally that are rooted in building Black political power and self-determination, advancing the leadership of oppressed nationalities... Read More →
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Jayanni Webster

Jayanni Webster is a member and national leader of North Star Socialist Organization. As a southern-based organizer, she has 15+ years of experience in labor, housing, and community organizing. She is a committed social-movement leftist, Black feminist, and internationalist.
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Bennett Carpenter

Bennett Carpenter is a queer Southern trainer, movement strategist, and member of the National Executive Committee of Liberation Road. They've run campaigns to win participatory budgeting and community based alternatives to policing, elect movement candidates to local and state office... Read More →
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Cayden Mak

Cayden Mak is the publisher at Convergence Magazine and the host of Block & Build: Roadmaps for the Left. Prior to Convergence, Cayden spent nearly a decade in various roles at 18 Million Rising, including five years as executive director. His other work has included organizing with... Read More →
Sponsors
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avatar for Liberation Road
avatar for Rising Majority
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

12:00pm CDT

Rethinking Antifascism
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
A conversation with veteran anti-fascists about what it means to scale-up an anti-fascist movement when the forces we're fighting have taken the power of the state.
Speakers
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Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie (she/her) is an abolitionist Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades... Read More →
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Ari Bloomekatz

Ari Bloomekatz is Executive Editor at In These Times. He was previously the Managing Editor of Rethinking Schools and Tikkun magazines, and spent several years as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Follow him @bloomekatz... Read More →
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Shane Burley

Shane Burley is a journalist and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author, co-author, and editor of four books, including Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism (Melville House, 2024) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017). His work has been featured in NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jewish Currents, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, The Baffler, Yes! magazine and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. Follow him on Twitter @shane_burley1 and Instagram @shaneburley... Read More →
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Michael Staudenmaier

Michael Staudenmaier is a veteran of many anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, and anarchist projects over the past quarter century, including work with ARA Chicago in the 1990s and 2000s. He is the author of Truth & Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986... Read More →
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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 →
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Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein is the author of a four-book series on the rise of conservatism in America. The first, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in 2001. The second, third, and fourth made the New York Times bestseller... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

12:00pm CDT

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism, and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis, and treatment? This session will situate mental health as an urgent political concern that demands deeper understanding from the left.
Speakers
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Micha Frazer-Carroll

Micha Frazer-Carroll is the author of Mad World and a columnist at the Independent. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. Micha has also written for Vogue, HuffPost, Huck and Dazed. She was nominated for the Comment... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice, Intro

12:00pm CDT

Socialism and the Long March of the Left in Mexico
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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The historical Left present in Mexico 2025 is linked to a project of Socialism and participate of the promotion of the Fourth Transformation in Mexico, inside and outside the MORENA party, close to the Lopez Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum governments. Its trajectory dates back to 1968 and includes the organization LEFT UNITY.
Speakers
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Arturo Ramos

Arturo Ramos is a Mexican retired professor from UNAM and the Autonomous University of Chapingo, as well as a university unions leader and socialist activist since 1978.
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Maria-Teresa Lechuga

María-Teresa Lechuga is a Mexican professor at UNAM, a unionist and socialist activist since 2000.
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  International Politics

12:00pm CDT

Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
In this interactive session audience members will develop a robust analysis and critique of debt and discuss campaigns for debt abolition led by organized labor. Organizing for better wages and benefits is to organize against debt. To organize for debt abolition is to strengthen the power of the working class.
Speakers
JP
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Lindsey Muniak

Lindsey Muniak is an organizer with the Debt Collective, where she leads national efforts to abolish medical debt, interrupt patterns of financialization in healthcare, and bring those who have experienced the failures of our profit-driven healthcare system into the fight for its... Read More →
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Jason Wozniak

Jason Wozniak is associate professor and Coordinator of the Transformative Education and Social Change program at West Chester University. He is a researcher and organizer with Debt Collective, and Founder and Co-Director of The Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES... Read More →
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Jeannine Woods

Jeannine Woods has been an educator for over 20 years. She currently serves as a District Organizer and a Functional Vice President on the Executive Board of the Chicago Teachers Union. Jeannine is also a member of the Illinois State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board (SEPLB... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Debt Collective
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement

12:00pm CDT

From the River to The World
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
This panel explores Palestinian resistance as an exit from state-sanctioned repression, linking struggles in the ‘belly of the beast’ to global anti-imperialism. Speakers explore arms embargo efforts, labor organizing, criminalization under international law, and the evolving world order, foregrounding material conditions and lived experiences fueling resistance.
Speakers
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Malak Afaneh

Malak Afaneh is a civil rights attorney at the Aboushi Law Firm and the Director of the Palestine Center for Public Policy. Before joining the Palestine Center for Public Policy, Afaneh received her J.D. from UC Berkeley Law and has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Middle Eastern... Read More →
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Helyeh Doutaghi

Helyeh Doutaghi is scholar of international law and geopolitical economy. Her research explores the intersections of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), encompassing Marxian and postcolonial critiques of law, sanctions, and international political economy. Dr... Read More →
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Taylor Fox

Taylor Fox is an attorney, researcher, and longtime organizer with the movement for Palestinian liberation.  She currently works on providing movement defense through the Right to Reject Zionism Coalition and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network.
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Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Palestine

12:00pm CDT

Literacy is the Foundation of a Revolution!: The Radical History of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
This panel explores the radical history of Cuba’s 1961 Literacy Campaign as a socialist project aimed at mass education, national liberation, and anti-imperialism– ending illiteracy in just 124 days. We examine its grassroots mobilization, youth leadership, and its impact on global literacy movements and socialist thought.
Speakers
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Sohini Das

Sohini Das is a NYC-based community organizer, Bronx elementary art teacher, and PhD researcher committed to abolitionist education justice, anti-imperialism, and solidarity with the Cuban revolution.She organizes with Black, immigrant, and working-class NYC youth and families through... Read More →
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Yaania Bell

Born and raised in Harlem, NYC, Yaania Bell is an emerging documentarian and multimedia artist with a passion for community building and archiving. In high school, Yaania was a tutor and avid student organizer, co-founding the StudentsOfColorMatter coalition out of Fieldston circa... Read More →
KW

Kayla Wiliams

Kayla Williams is a Brooklyn-born organizer with roots in Jamaica,  dedicated to using her strategic and technical skills in the battle for justice, equity and liberation. As a core member of Rose from Concrete,  a Brooklyn based  mutual aid organization, Kayla serves as a partner... Read More →
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Shaquille Williams

Shaquille Williams is a researcher and educator from Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to social justice and equitable access to education and technology. Through Rose from the Concrete (RFC), he supports initiatives that drive sustainable development locally and globally.  Also a member... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Radical History

12:00pm CDT

Political Education 2: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
Capitalism has never been just an economic system, but has instead always relied on the use of violence, law, and the state in a process Marx described as "so-called primitive accumulation," which reaches its height in colonialism and slavery. This participatory workshop will provide an introduction to this concept and its ongoing relevance, and guide a collective mapping of its relevance for the present.
Speakers
avatar for B-REAL Academy
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avatar for KC Defender
DB
avatar for Claudia Jones School
Sponsors
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avatar for KC Defender
avatar for Claudia Jones School
avatar for Center for Political Education
avatar for W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist and Marxist Theory, Intro

12:00pm CDT

The Left and the Family: A Roundtable
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
How should the left relate to the family? Socialist analysis makes clear that the nuclear family form is an inherently repressive, racist, and hetereo-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism. But what does this mean for our organizing, especially when the family form remains a potent organizing structure for many everyday people, and when the Right constantly positions itself as a party of “family values”? Is a politics of family abolition in tension with a leftist family agenda focused on policies like universal preschool, child tax credits, and more? Join us for a roundtable on the left and the family
Speakers
EA

Eman Abdelhadi

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

Olivia Katbi

Olivia Katbi is the co chair of Portland DSA and a long time organizer with the BDS Movement.
KG
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

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
RD

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 →
GW

Gabriel Winant

Gabriel Winant is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, a member of the executive council of AAUP/AFT Local 6741, a member of the Dissent editorial board, and author of The Next Shift... Read More →
AU
DD
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  US Politics

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

Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Caregiving is an integral part of movements for liberation. In this moment of rising fascism, it's especially crucial to uplift this care work, including care for children. Supporting young people and each other in concrete, material ways, day to day and hour to hour, is an essential component of resistance. In this workshop, we will engage with these themes, informed by the anthology We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. We'll also offer an opportunity to be part of a circle in which we'll share stories of caregiving in a supportive space.
Speakers
NN
KW
MS

Maya Schenwar

Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and board president of Truthout. She is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition and co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, among... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

“Texas is infamous for its taste for death:” Lethal Practices in the Lone Star State
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Texas is the U.S.’s lead executioner. Its use of the death penalty has decreased, but the descriptive profile of those who are executed remains the same. This session will examine the racial lineage tied to Texas’s death penalty, and strategies to strengthen the death penalty abolition movement.
Speakers
TF
HG
TS
OW
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

The Role of Black Media Under Fascism
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
What is the role of Black media under fascism? This is one of the questions we would like to invite others to consider at this year's conference. We hope to delve into a discussion about what we see as our responsibility as an independent, Black-led publication and as part of movement media in this era of rising censorship. Moreover, we question what Scalawag can do to help push that agenda forward.
Speakers
DH

Da'Shaun Harrison

Da'Shaun Harrison is a trans theorist and Southern-born and bred abolitionist in Atlanta, Georgia. They are the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, which was awarded the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, among several... Read More →
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KB
AM
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Black Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Beyond Climate Despair: Rebuilding a Revolutionary Left in the Face of Catastrophe
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
For many, despair has become the only honest response to our converging climate and political catastrophes. Yet too much is at stake to settle for fatalism or any flimsy, cost-free hope. At this late date, nothing short of revolution in some form will salvage the possibility of a better world. How can our movements forge a new and durable revolutionary-left politics sustained by a radical resolve and solidarity?
Speakers
WS

Wen Stephenson

Wen Stephenson is a veteran journalist and climate-justice activist, a correspondent for The Nation, and author of Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe (Haymarket).
BH

Batul Hassan

Batul Hassan is the Labor Director at the Climate and Community Institute, where she works closely with member scholars and movement allies to develop policy and research that builds the case for transformative, racially-just climate action.
AR

Anthony Rogers-Wright

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright is an international climate/environmental liberation and racial justice advocate and practitioner, a writer, and policy expert who resides in the Midwest of the United States with his family and mischievous cats “Evil” Ernie and Malachai "the Mayhem... Read More →
RA

Ray Acheson

Ray Acheson is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and a member of global coalitions including the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and Stop Killer Robots. They are author of Abolishing... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Climate Justice

3:00pm CDT

You Are Not a Loan: Debtors' Assembly
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Join Debt Collective, the nation’s first union of debtors, in an empowering debtor’s assembly where participants will share their lived experiences with debt, releasing the shame that we are taught to feel when in debt and instead finding solidarity with one another against the system denying us the means to live. Everyone is welcome - whether or not you are debt-burdened since debt impacts entire communities, not just individuals. The session will culminate in a call to join our movement to abolish student, medical, and rent debt and to fight for an economy that works for the many instead of the few.
Speakers
EB

Emily Birnbaum

Emily Birnbaum is a family nurse practitioner who spent the first five years of her practice in primary care. She is now back in school studying psychiatry as she has found her greatest passion in medicine to be in mental health. She is currently organizing with the Debt Collective... Read More →
RB

Richelle Brooks

Dr. Richelle Brooks is a momma, an educator, organizer with Debt Collective and the founder of ReThink It – an organization dedicated to providing resources to mitigate the harm of systemic racism. She is an author and speaker, with a specialized interest in the ways Black Women... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Economics, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Labor and the Struggle for Higher Education
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Repression of student protests on campuses and existential defunding threats from the White House have combined to change the face of higher education and call into question its very future. Join us for a discussion of the current state of the movement to save and transform higher education through the power of labor and community activism.
Speakers
JW

Jason Wozniak

Jason Wozniak is associate professor and Coordinator of the Transformative Education and Social Change program at West Chester University. He is a researcher and organizer with Debt Collective, and Founder and Co-Director of The Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES... Read More →
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Chenjerai Kumanyika

Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series... Read More →
GW

Gabriel Winant

Gabriel Winant is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, a member of the executive council of AAUP/AFT Local 6741, a member of the Dissent editorial board, and author of The Next Shift... Read More →
SW
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Education Justice

3:00pm CDT

Green Social Housing
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Rent is through the roof! Join tenant and housing organizers to discuss how tenant power and publicly-owned municipal social housing can solve the cost-of-living crisis.
Speakers
RB

Renette Bradley

Renette Bradley is a tenant organizer with several grassroots organizations, and is part of Housing Justice for All. She has been a member of DSA since 2023, as a member of the NYC-DSA Housing Working Group, the Green Social Housing Organizing Committee, and working on the Good Cause... Read More →
MN

Matthew Nursey

Matthew Nursey is an Organizer & Policy Advocate with Housing Justice League, based in Atlanta GA, and is a co-chair of Atlanta DSA.
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Sebastian FG

Sebastian FG is a staff organizer for the North Carolina Tenant Union supporting the Triangle Tenant Union in Raleigh, NC and a member of the national DSA Housing Justice Commission steering committee. Originally from Colombia, he leads the HJC's weekly language exchange project to... Read More →
NM

Nicole Murray

Nicole Murray has been organizing for better transit and housing in New York City DSA since 2019. She currently sits on the organizing committee of their “House the Future” aka Green Social Housing campaign, and co-chairs the national Green New Deal Campaign Commission which supports... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Housing Justice

3:00pm CDT

An Injury To One Is An Injury To All: Intergenerational Reflections on International Solidarity
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
This workshop will offer an intergenerational conversation and reflection on international solidarity. Speakers ranging from 60s and 70s activists to present day freedom fighters will highlight what solidarity looked like in the days of the anti-Vietnam war movement and Black Power, why this solidarity declined after 1990, and consider how the current resurgence of support for Palestinian freedom and rebellions of migrants and incarcerated individuals can contribute to a global left front against fascism.
Moderators
MM

Mon Mohapatra

Mon Mohapatra (she/they) is a writer, organizer and artist originally from India, based on Canarsee Land (NYC) whose work involves building capacity for abolitionist organizing through political education, participatory research, and direct action. In particular, her work focuses... Read More →
Speakers
SN

Safear Ness

Safear Ness (they/them) is a formerly incarcerated abolitionist, released from Pennsylvania State Prison in 2023. Their lineage is traced through Indigenous peoples (Apache Chiricahua), Spanish colonizers, and white settlers. They still organize against the PIC with incarcerated comrades... Read More →
BA

Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers is the author, most recently, of When Freedom is the Question...
JK

James Kilgore

James Kilgore is a Building Community Power Fellow at Community Justice Exchange. He is an activist and writer based in Urbana IL. He is the author of seven books, including the award-winning Understanding Mass Incarceration. He lived in Southern Africa for 18 years where he worked... Read More →
DH

Dawn Harrington

Dawn Harrington, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls & International Network of Formerly Incarcerated Women.
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

3:00pm CDT

Public Workers and the Public Good
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
The Trump administration is carrying out a comprehensive assault on the public sector, with federal workers and their labor unions on the frontline. How do these attacks fit into much longer arcs of austerity, privatization, and the defanging of organized labor? This panel brings together public sector workers from several different areas who are organizing not only to fight the decimation of our existing public infrastructure, but to build and advance a vision of a civil society that actually works for the public good, with rank & file workers leading the way.
Moderators
LM

Lindsey Muniak

Lindsey Muniak is an organizer with the Debt Collective, where she leads national efforts to abolish medical debt, interrupt patterns of financialization in healthcare, and bring those who have experienced the failures of our profit-driven healthcare system into the fight for its... Read More →
Speakers
KZ
MP
LT
CS
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement

3:00pm CDT

Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
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
YT

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 →
CG

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 →
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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 →
EK

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

3:00pm CDT

The Palestine Crisis in Liberal Institutions and the Trump Moment
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Liberal institutions’ ability to respond to Trump's assault on civil society has been hampered by their own deep contradictions on Palestine. Jewish Currents reporters Alex Kane and Mari Cohen will discuss the political and cultural forces pushing these institutions to comply with a pro-Israel agenda and whether Trump’s moves have prompted any reflection.
Speakers
AK

Alex Kane

Alex Kane is the senior reporter at Jewish Currents.
MC

Mari Cohen

Mari Cohen is the associate editor at Jewish Currents.
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Palestine

3:00pm CDT

Revolutionary Socialist Youth Organizing in the 1970s: The Red Tide and the Battle to Free Gary Tyler
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
In 1976, high school students of the Red Tide newspaper campaigned to free Gary Tyler, a 16-year-old Black political prisoner on Louisiana's death row. In the process, they forged a multiracial, working-class youth organization of the International Socialists. Half a century later, Gary and several Red Tide veterans reflect on this history and its lessons for today.
Speakers
GT
AD
KH
ML
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Radical History

3:00pm CDT

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Join historian Emily Callaci for a timely exploration of an often overlooked movement for economic and social justice: the Wages for Housework movement demanded wages for domestic labor as a starting point for remaking the world as we know it. Drawing on the campaign's 1970s roots in the US, Italy, and Britain, Callaci will discuss the revolutionary potential of this radical movement and its lessons for today's feminist organizers.
Speakers
SL

Sarah Leonard

Sarah Leonard is the editor in chief of Lux.
EC

Emily Callaci

Emily Callaci is professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she teaches courses on African History, Decolonization, Reproductive Politics and Global Feminism. Her most recent book is Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise.
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Radical History

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
EK

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 →
TC
Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Skill Sharing

3:00pm CDT

Political Education 3: Abolition & Reconstruction Today
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
The brief period following the Civil War set the stage for where we find ourselves today. Instead of rebuilding American society as a multiracial democracy, the Reconstruction project was defeated by white terrorism, and instead of equality, we got Black Codes, convict leasing, Jim Crow, police, and prisons. This participatory workshop will collectively map the current legacies of Reconstruction's failure and reframe contemporary abolitionist struggles around the positive project of building a new world.
Speakers
NA
TC
DG
GM
CR
AS
Sponsors
avatar for B-REAL Academy
avatar for Center for Political Education
avatar for Claudia Jones School
avatar for KC Defender
avatar for W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist and Marxist Theory, Intro

3:00pm CDT

“The Same Old Tools Don’t Work Here”: The Role of Rural Organizing in Defeating Authoritarianism
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
What can the Left learn from rural organizers about strategy, innovation, and courage? What will it take for progressives to truly invest in working class rural organizing and see rural people as a critical part of winning the world we need? Join co-founders and members of the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts who are fighting a wide range of live authoritarian threats, for a conversation about the political landscape of rural America, the powerful antiauthoritarian organizing happening, and the opportunity we have to invest in growing it.
Speakers
RG

Rae Garringer

Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, audio producer, and goat farmer based in southeastern West Virginia where they were raised. They are the author and editor of Country Queers: A Love Letter (Haymarket 2024) and the editor of To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer... Read More →
BH

Beth Howard

Beth Howard, Appalachian Peoples Union Director at Showing Up for Racial Justice and Rural Defenders Union (RDU) co-founder
SS

Shawn Sebastian

Shawn Sebastian, Organizing Director at RuralOrganizing.org and RDU co-founder
SS

Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith, Organizer at West Virginia Can’t Wait and RDU co-founder.
Sponsors
RD
avatar for Showing Up For Racial Justice
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

5:00pm CDT

Prison Made Us Militants: A Conversation with In The Belly
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
How does the work of prison and police abolition fit within a broader socialist movement? How can the left meaningfully engage incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people? How can we build strong movements where imprisoned people are leaders and comrades in the struggle? Join In the Belly for a conversation about prison organizing with currently and formerly incarcerated organizers, who will discuss movement building behind bars, inside-out organizing, prison repression and censorship, and more.
Speakers
SN

Safear Ness

Safear Ness (they/them) is a formerly incarcerated abolitionist, released from Pennsylvania State Prison in 2023. Their lineage is traced through Indigenous peoples (Apache Chiricahua), Spanish colonizers, and white settlers. They still organize against the PIC with incarcerated comrades... Read More →
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R. Ya'iyr Carter

R. “Ya’iyr” Carter is a currently incarcerated poet and essayist, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex from a cell in Pennsylvania. He is an editor for In the Belly, a revolutionary abolitionist magazine by and for incarcerated people and their communities.
PP
Sponsors
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avatar for Study & Struggle
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

5:00pm CDT

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
Join the poets behind “Heaven Looks Like Us,” a new collection of Palestinian poetry to explore the love, grief, and defiance that bridge borders, languages, and generations of Palestinians. Poetry readings will be followed by a conversation on the stories behind the poems—from translations, to archival discoveries to the difficulties of bringing in Gazan work in this moment—and the connections across a global Palestinian community.
Speakers
GA
TL
LN
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

5:00pm CDT

Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
As the state intensifies its assault on gender, sexuality, and reproduction—criminalizing abortion, trans care, and pregnancy outcomes, dismantling government functions to fight "gender ideology," and defining "real women" under the guise of protection—how do we endure and resist? Under the shadow of a second Trump administration, the erosion of rights is not a glitch but a feature of a broader regime of privatization and control. Journalist Melissa Gira Grant, and authors Sophie Lewis and Beatrice Adler-Bolton discuss how today's attacks are part of a longer history of state repression, and how we can build resistance in an era of hyper-austerity and rising fascism.
Speakers
SL

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer. Her books, Enemy Feminisms, Full Surrogacy Now, and Abolish the Family, have been translated into nine languages. Sophie grew up in France, half-British, half-German, but now lives in Philadelphia and teaches online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn... Read More →
BA

Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill agitator and independent researcher. She is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
MG

Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of the books Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso, 2014) and the forthcoming A Woman Is Against the Law: Sex, Race, and the Limits of Justice in America (Little, Brown, 2026).
Sponsors
avatar for Death Panel
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

5:00pm CDT

Reviving the Bandung Spirit: Why Anti-Imperialism Still Matters
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
As U.S. empire decays and the world order becomes increasingly multipolar, internationalist solidarity is more important than ever before. In this talk, Pranay Somayajula will discuss the worldmaking legacy of the Third Worldist movement, and argue for the re-centering of genuine anti-imperialism as a core pillar of the Left's radical agenda.
Speakers
PS

Pranay Somayajula

Pranay Somayajula is an Indian-American writer and organizer, based in Washington, DC. He currently serves as Organizing and Advocacy Director for Hindus for Human Rights. In his organizing and his writing, Pranay works to bring together diverse histories and struggles for justice... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

5:00pm CDT

State Violence and GI Resistance
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
From within and outside the machine there is a long history of GIs rebelling against US militarism and facism. Through an abolitionist framework, this discussion highlights the legacy and revolutionary power of GI resistance against the backdrop of military mobilizations to violently suppress people’s movements.
Speakers
AW

Arti Walker-Peddakotla

Arti Walker-Peddakotla (she/they) is a William H. Hastie Fellow at University of Wisconsin Law, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow, and former Oak Park Village Trustee. As a local elected official, and cofounder of community organizing group Freedom to Thrive Oak Park, Arti organized abolitionist... Read More →
AH

Aaron Hughes

Aaron Hughes is an artist, curator, organizer, and anti-war veteran. He works collaboratively in diverse spaces and media to create meaning out of personal and collective trauma, deconstruct and transform systems of oppression, and seek liberation. Hughes works with a range of art... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for About Face: Veterans Against the War
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

5:00pm CDT

Demon Mineral: Film Screening and Discussion
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
Demon Mineral documents the Indigenous struggle for vital living space in the radioactive desert of the American Southwest. Join us for a screening of this important documentary, followed by a short discussion featuring filmmaker Hadley Austin and activists Janene Yazzie, Roger Peet, and Joshua Frank.
Moderators
JF

Joshua Frank

Joshua Frank is an award-winning California-based journalist and co-editor of the political magazine CounterPunch. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America.
Speakers
JY

Janene Yazzie

Janene Yazzie (She/Her), is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She has over 12 years of experience as a community organizer and human rights advocate deeply rooted in local community issues. Beginning from her community Tsé si’ áni, in Diné Bikéyah, she has worked on the... Read More →
HA

Hadley Austin

Hadley Austin is a filmmaker/director, producer, poet, photographer, and aerialist. She is, alongside Yoni Goldstein, one half of Formidable Entities.
RP

Roger Peet

Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, and helps to run the cooperative Flight 64 print studio in Portland. His work includes investigating the history and impact of the Shinkolobwe... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for CounterPunch
avatar for Science for the People
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Indigenous Liberation

5:00pm CDT

I Didn't Come Here to Lie: The Life and Legacy of Karen Lewis
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union to a historic strike, challenging the city’s powerful mayor and paving the way for an unprecedented wave of teacher strikes in the decade that followed. Join us for a discussion and celebration of Karen's legacy and monumental impact on the labor movement today.
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Elizabeth Todd-Breland

Elizabeth Todd-Breland is the author of the award-winning A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s and an associate professor of history and affiliated faculty member in Black Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is a scholar... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement, Intro

5:00pm CDT

Workers Deserve More: DSA's National Labor Program
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
In 2024, DSA members joined their coworkers on the picket line for major labor actions across the University of California, and at Amazon and Starbucks nationwide. Along with these campaigns, we are organizing worker networks and fighting back with federal workers in the midst of broadside attacks on the working class. Join us to learn more about these efforts!
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Shay

Shay (they/them) is a barista in Cleveland with Starbucks Workers United and a member of DSA's National Labor Commission. They were hired and joined their store's organizing committee in December 2021, and their store at University Circle unionized in July 2022. DSA's Solidarity is... Read More →
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Sarah Hurd

Sarah Hurd is a co-chair of three Democratic Socialists Of America’s National Labor Commission. She is a staff organizer for the Illinois Nurses Association where she has specialized in guiding healthcare workers through contract negations and member driven strikes.
Sponsors
avatar for DSA
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement

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
HR

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 →
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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 →
JT

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
avatar for Workers' Voice
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Migrant Justice

5:00pm CDT

Anti-Colonial Political Education: Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
Political or “militant” education was a central feature of the overall anti-colonial struggle in Guinea Bissau and Capo Verde, solidifying the roots of independence. This session will explore the extensive educational practices of Amilcar Cabral’s party, the PAIGC, which was designed to decolonize minds and raise national consciousness while rooted and supported by the realities and necessities of the community.
Speakers
SK
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EA

Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer in the movement for Palestinian liberation.  
Sponsors
avatar for Salon Kawakib
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Radical History, Intro

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
SD

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 →
SK

Sharon Kim

Sharon Kim is an organizer from Columbus, OH.
SR

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.
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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
avatar for Ohio Clean Air Coalition
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Skill Sharing

5:00pm CDT

Fighting Fragmentation: Building Cross-Sectoral Social Movements
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
Movement organizations often hesitate to engage beyond their immediate focus. This panel highlights organizers who expanded their efforts—a tenant union opposing a police training facility and a labor union joining the fight for a ceasefire in Gaza—demonstrating the power and necessity of a transversal approach to collective action.
Speakers
BM
YM
FT
Sponsors
avatar for Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

5:00pm CDT

Hope at the Edge of the Abyss: The Case for Revolution
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
Amid genocide, Trump’s authoritarian onslaught, climate catastrophe, and the threat of fascism—we are living at the edge of capitalism’s abyss. This meeting will make the case for why revolution is not only necessary, but also why mass struggles of working class and oppressed peoples make it possible. Our approach to the immediate and defensive struggles of today is inseparable from our insistence that ending this nightmare requires the revolutionary transformation of society.
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David McNally

David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. McNally is the author of seven books and has won a number of awards, including the Paul Sweezy Award from the American Sociological... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Tempest Collective
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

5:00pm CDT

Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
Failure of the left to engage with space as both a practical and imaginative realm has allowed the right to weaponize it for its own ends. Space underpins technologies affecting peoples’ daily lives, and space labor happens on Earth. Come learn why space matters for the left’s future… and present!
Speakers
CP

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical physicist, occasional astrophysicist, and theorist of Black science studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (2021), The Edge of Space-Time... Read More →
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Lucian Walkowicz

Lucian Walkowicz is an astronomer, movement artist, and educator based in Chicago. As co-Founder of the JustSpace Alliance, Walkowicz studies how outer space serves as the site where humanity crafts its futures, and works to make those futures more just (both in space, and on Earth... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy, Intro

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation
Friday July 4, 2025 6:30pm - 8:00pm CDT
TBA
Join Songs for Liberation, a Chicago-based protest music collective, for a song circle and moment of inspiration and renewal. Sing songs of liberation struggles, past and present, to support the people of Palestine, resist imperialism and express our commitment to the local and global movements for the liberation of all people. Stay after the music to meet us and discuss how this model can be replicated.

This song circle will take place outside on the grass, weather-permitting. (In case of rain, we’ll be in Adler ABC)
Friday July 4, 2025 6:30pm - 8:00pm CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

8:00pm CDT

Fighting Fascism: Lessons from the Colonies
Friday July 4, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm CDT
TBA
Aimé Césaire cut through the mythologies to show that fascism in Europe was no anomaly, it was the boomerang effect of brutal European colonialism abroad coming home. The fight against fascism cannot be successful without understanding the powerful struggles against colonialism from the 20th century to today.
Speakers
RD

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 →
Friday July 4, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right
 
Saturday, July 5
 

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga
Saturday July 5, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
TBA
Join us for a Vinyasa yoga session led by local yogi Angel. We’ll work to sync our breath and bodies to beginner’s poses with just enough challenge to get you out of your comfort zone. This 60-min flow is perfect for all levels. We will have mats available on a first come, first serve basis.

Morning yoga will take place outside on the grass, weather-permitting. (In case of rain, we’ll be in Regency Ballroom A.)
Saturday July 5, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
TBA
  Activity

10:00am CDT

Stop Cop City: Lessons From the Movement
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the Weelaunee Forest outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Featuring a range of tactics, and in the face of enormous state repression, the SCC movement brought together forest defenders, environmental justice advocates, political prisoners, Indigenous activists, abolitionists, educators, legal scholars, and academics in a struggle for police abolition, environmental liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty. SCC organizers Kamau Franklin, Mariah Parker, and Micah Herskind will share insights from their newly published No Cop City, No Cop World, discussing the campaign's history, lessons learned, and challenges that lay ahead--with an eye towards how Stop Cop City can inform abolitionist organizing across the globe.
Speakers
KF

Kamau Franklin

Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builder, a Black, member-based collective of community residents and organizers. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years and is a former practicing attorney, beginning in New York City and now based in... Read More →
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Micah Herskind

Micah Herskind is an organizer, writer, and law student at Harvard Law School. He is a co-editor of No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement (Haymarket Books, 2025), and has written for outlets including New York Magazine, Scalawag, MSNBC, Teen Vogue, Inquest, and Race... Read More →
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Mariah Parker

Mariah Parker is an emcee and labor organizer born and raised in the South. Their cultural work and organizing have been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, SPIN, Al Jazeera, Scalawag and Hammer & Hope. They are a co-editor of No Cop City, No Cop World... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Abolition

10:00am CDT

Free the Presses
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
The internet, for all its underground potential, has become almost entirely privatized, bordered, unfree. Words, in order to be printed, must be committed to paper; paper, in order to be read, must be passed from hand to hand. These gestures toward solidity and solidarity, necessitated by the form, re-inscribe its content. This panel featuring The New York War Crimes, WAWOG, and Radar Media answers the question: What is the role of print media in revolutionary struggle?
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Tracy Rosenthal

Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union, a frequent contributor to the New Republic, and the author, with Leonardo Vilchis, of Abolish Rent (Haymarket, 2024). They are now on rent strike in New York City and also a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
Sponsors
W
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

10:00am CDT

Community as Rebellion: Building Networks of Resistance Inside and Outside the University
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
How can we create alternative ways to be, create, and live in the face of relentless assaults on immigrants, women, queer and trans people, workers, and all the oppressed? We need radical community-building to defend people from the attacks we face, both inside and outside the university. And we must build networks of resistance, globally, that can foster collective learning for liberation.
Speakers
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Lorgia García Peña

Lorgia García Peña is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. García Peña is a Professor of Latinx Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Education Justice

10:00am CDT

The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Far-right leaders and parties throughout the world are winning the support of large sectors of the working class and represent a deadly threat to democracy and social justice. How can we explain this upsurge in support? Join the Daniel Singer Foundation and winners of this year's Daniel Singer Prize contest on this topic for an important discussion.
Moderators
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Sarah Leonard

Sarah Leonard is the editor in chief of Lux.
Speakers
DB
MD
Sponsors
avatar for Daniel Singer Prize
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

Making Sense of the Anti-Trans Turn
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Trump and the MAGAtized Republican Party have taken advantage of voters’ anxieties and created a sense of panic surrounding transgender issues. However, what remains less clear are the reasons why these appeals resonate with certain voters, what drives this particular political reaction, and how the Left can effectively respond.
Speakers
DB

Danielle Bullock

Danielle Bullock is a queer, Brooklyn-born artist, activist and public school educator. She is a union chapter leader and member of the MORE caucus of the UFT. She is also a member of the Tempest Collective.
EM

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.
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

10:00am CDT

Healthcare is a Human Right: Confronting Disparities From Chicago to Gaza
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Healthcare disparities exist around the world, some are a product of the profit driven healthcare industry, others are due to colonial occupation. Hear a panel of healthcare activists discuss the connections as well as how we can struggle to change it for the better.
Speakers
ER

Ezekiel Richardson

Ezekiel Richardson is an emergency physician and a founding member of White Coats 4 Black Lives and an organizer of the 2020 COVID community action plan.
HM

Hana Masud

Hana Masud aims to build collaborative partnerships with Mental health workers and marginalized communities in shared efforts to transform conditions of inequity towards wellness and justice in Palestine.
CT

Caesar Thompson

Caesar Thompson is a researcher at UIC and member of the Radical Public Health group, a mutual aid collective that addresses root causes of health inequity.
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

10:00am CDT

A War Where All Wars Fit
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Linda Quiquivix and Mohamed Abdou will lead a workshop discussion about the difference between the world of the above and the world of the below, or anti-colonial resistance vs. a path towards liberation for all, in Palestine, Abya Yala, and beyond. Participants will engage with questions from the facilitators about how organizers can build spiritual, ethical and political relationships across disparate communities and movements beyond identity reductionism, in light of false choices & new devastating threats in an era of perpetual crisis.
Speakers
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MA

Mohamed Abdou

Dr. Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa... Read More →
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Linda Quiquivix

Dr. Linda Quiquivix is a geographer, popular educator, writer, and translator of Maya-Mam roots raised by Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers and Jaguars. She organizes with Occupied Chumash and Tongva lands toward a world where many worlds fit. She is author and illustrator of Palestine... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Indigenous Liberation

10:00am CDT

After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Syrians have overthrown Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship, liberated cities, freed political prisoners, and opened space to struggle for an inclusive, democratic, and egalitarian country. But internal, regional, and imperial forces are angling to contain the revolution. So, the country stands between hope and possibility on the one hand, and, on the other, challenges and pitfalls.
Speakers
LA
RK
YM
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

Flores Magón, Workers Centers and Direct Action
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
The ideas of Ricardo Flores Magon of direct action, workers councils and more inform one of the most active workers center in Chicagoland, tactics which have been used in struggles against Nestle, Hello Fresh, Hearthside and beyond
Speakers
CC

Cristobal Cavazos

Cristobal Cavazos, the son of migrant workers, was born in Chicagoland in  1979. The executive director of Casa Dupage Workers Center, Cristobal is active in the Chicagoland immigrant rights and labor movement. A revolutionary socialist, Cristobal is also an active journalist and... Read More →
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Gaby Hernandez Chico

Gaby Hernandez Chico, from Mexico City,  is the Co-Director of the Casa DuPage Workers Center. Gaby as leader of Casa Dupage is one of the leading women in the Chicagoland Labor Movement, and has a passionate for public speaking, popular education,  poetry and feminism.
Sponsors
CD
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement

10:00am CDT

BDS: Building People Power for Palestinian Liberation
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Even as Israel extends its genocidal war, the struggle for Palestinian liberation continues with legendary sumud, resilience, and resistance. Their fight is all of our fight. To dismantle Israel’s regime of apartheid and settler-colonialism, to defeat Trumpism and the rising wave of fascism worldwide will require uniting our many struggles in broad-tent alliances along the lines of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions.
Speakers
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Omar Barghouti

Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights defender, co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY, and is pursuing... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Palestine, Intro

10:00am CDT

Hindu Supremacy and the Multiracial Far-Right
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
In this discussion, speakers from the Savera: United Against Supremacy Coalition and its core partners will discuss the rise of the multiracial far-right in the United States in the context of the new Trump era, with a special focus on the role that the Hindu supremacist movement has played in legitimizing and normalizing reactionary politics among communities of color and immigrant groups.
Speakers
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Pranay Somayajula

Pranay Somayajula is an Indian-American writer and organizer, based in Washington, DC. He currently serves as Organizing and Advocacy Director for Hindus for Human Rights. In his organizing and his writing, Pranay works to bring together diverse histories and struggles for justice... Read More →
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Safa Ahmed

Safa Ahmed is the Associate Director of Media & Communications for the Indian American Muslim Council, where she works to educate people on Hindu supremacist ideology, and amplify the voices and stories of Muslims in India.
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Dhruv M.

Dhruv M. is a current member and former staff researcher at India Civil Watch International. In his research role, he investigated the financial and ideological connections between Hindu right-wing organizations in India and their counterparts in the United States. He also mapped... Read More →
Sponsors
SU
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Racism and Anti-Racism

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
EA

Eman Abdelhadi

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

10:00am CDT

Social Reproduction Theory and Practice
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) represents one of the liveliest sites of Marxist debate today. SRT’s theoretical approach highlights the need to view colonialism, race, gender, and other social relations as central to capital’s reproduction. Strategically, this means that struggles beyond the point of production must be recentred in our practice.
Speakers
SK

Sean K. Isaacs

Sean is a PhD candidate at York University, Toronto.
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist and Marxist Theory, Intro

10:00am CDT

Socialist (Humanism) or Barbarism: On Political Education, Democratic Rights and Where We Go Next
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
In the wake of the state’s anti-left attacks on the university, public education, and access to knowledge in general, liberals have failed to uphold their own institutions through neoliberal decline and the new right’s aggressive encroachment. It’s time for socialists to step in like never before, reviving our tradition of defending and expanding education for democracy and collective human flourishing, and for the embrace of socialist humanism for the freedom and uplift of the entire working class.
Speakers
MB

Michaela Brangan

Michaela Brangan — NNJ DSA/steering, DSA National Political Education/Amherst College
SF

Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser — NYC-DSA/NYC-DSA Academy for Socialist Education
SH

Sarah Hurd

Sarah Hurd — Chicago DSA/Co-chair, DSA National Labor Commission
MI

Mie Inouye

Mie Inouye — Middle Hudson Valley DSA/Bard College
Sponsors
avatar for DSA
Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

1:00pm CDT

Survival and Resistance Behind Bars
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
This session will discuss the organizing and survival strategies that the panelists practiced to stay alive, maintain hope, and fight for freedom and liberation from behind bars and with co-strugglers on the outside.
Speakers
AR

Asha Ransby-Sporn

Asha Ransby-Sporn is a Chicago-based organizer, writer and columnist for In These Times. She was a co-founder of Black Youth Project 100 where she directed the group’s national organizing program at the height of the movement for Black lives and has since led on a diversity of winning... Read More →
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James "Jimmy" Soto

James "Jimmy" Soto is a community organizer, artist, prisoner advocate, writer, and future JD candidate.  He was wrongfully convicted and was released after serving 42 years. He is a paralegal at Northwestern University Pritzker's School of Law in the Community Justice and Civil... Read More →
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Stanley Howard

Stanley Howard co-founded the Death Row 10 while he was on Illinois' Death Row and after surviving 38 years of incarceration, including 16 years on death row, is now a paralegal at Uptown People's Law Office. He also works with the Illinois Coalition for Liberation, Chicago Torture... Read More →
RH

Renaldo Hudson

Renaldo Hudson is an educator, artist, minister and community organizer who survived 37 years of incarceration including 13 years on death row, and he is the Director of Education at the Illinois Prison Project. He is currently making a documentary about the death penalty in Illi... Read More →
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Alice Kim

Alice Kim is an educator, cultural organizer and writer who was a leader in the movement to end the death penalty in Illinois. She directs the Beyond Prisons Initiative at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, teaches inside Illinois prisons... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

1:00pm CDT

Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
Where do cops come from and what is their true function in a global capitalist system? Are police at the core of the capitalist states that prop up systems of exploitation the world over? Join author brian bean and Chenjerai Kumanyika for a critical conversation weaving together the threads of the movement for police abolition and the social revolution against capitalism.

Check out bean's new book, Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, available at the conference from Haymarket Books.
Speakers
BB

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 →
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Chenjerai Kumanyika

Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

1:00pm CDT

Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
Hubert Harrison, the “father of Harlem radicalism,” blazed a trail for Black organizers in the Socialist Party. His Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of Black people in history. And he defended free love. Because of his radicalism, however, Harrison’s visionary legacy has been erased from popular memory. Until now.
Speakers
RD

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 →
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Brian Kwoba

Dr. Brian Kwoba is an associate professor of history and Director of the African and African American Studies Program at the University of Memphis. While completing his doctoral degree at the University of Oxford, he co-founded the Oxford Pan-Afrikan Forum (OXPAF) and the #RhodesMustFall... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Black Liberation

1:00pm CDT

Logoff and Meetup: The Fight for Third Spaces in a Turbulent World
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
In the midst of a climate shadowed by cruelty, alienation and uncertainty, community-based organizing spaces have never been more crucial. Join longtime organizers to examine the challenges and joys of constructing and maintaining third spaces, different models of sustainable spaces, and the utility of these spaces for fostering solidarity to strengthen our movements.


Speakers
MM
CO
AM
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Sponsors
avatar for Haymarket House
avatar for Highlander Center
avatar for Pilsen Community Books
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

1:00pm CDT

Fiscal Fascism: How to Make Sense of Chaotic Policy as Activists and Organizers
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
How can leftists circumvent Trump and Musk’s attempts to hijack critical government departments like the Treasury, IRS and SSA, via DOGE along with unprecedented slashes to social services and federal funding? Join a panel discussion with Notes on the Crises publisher Nathan Tankus and co-conspirators, along with the Debt Collective, to discuss how the radical left can fight fiscal fascism through political education and policy-oriented coalition building.
Speakers
NB

Noel Barrera

Noel Barrera is an MA graduate from NYU’s Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement (XE) Program, and an interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher based in Brooklyn. Recently they have been the art director of a political education project in cooperation with Nathan Tankus... Read More →
EC

Elizabeth Cooper

Elizabeth Cooper is a graduate student in economics at The New School for Social Research, and a longstanding organizer with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, and a wide range of socialist and anti-imperialist organizations. Recently she has been... Read More →
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Nathan Tankus

Nathan Tankus is the Publisher of Notes on the Crises and Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He has written for the Financial Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, Jacobin Magazine, Monthly Review & many other outlets. Nathan got his start in the Alternative Banking working... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Notes on the Crises
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Economics

1:00pm CDT

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
In just the last few years, scores of states have introduced or passed legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about structural racism and other forms of oppression, with countless books cut from curricula and teachers fired or threatened. In the face of these relentless attacks on antiracist education, join educator Jesse Hagopian for a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent call to action to defend education.
Speakers
JH

Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Rethinking Schools
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Education Justice, Intro

1:00pm CDT

Disaster Nationalism: Trump and the Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
While the spotlight often shines on charismatic new far-right leaders, like Donald Trump, Richard Seymour argues that the true peril lies elsewhere. These leaders are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood: a seething cauldron of societal despair, fear, isolation and sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies. Unless we understand these deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it.
Speakers
RS

Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Disaster Nationalism, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, and The Twittering Machine. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Salvage
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

1:00pm CDT

Carceral Natalism: Technology and Surveillance in the Post-Dobbs Era
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
The fall of Roe ushered in both new abortion restrictions and novel methods for their enforcement. This session will chart the anti-abortion movement’s adoption of surveillance techniques that have long been used in the policing of racialized populations in the United States and abroad, from location tracking to biometric security. As the carceral state tightens its grip on our bodies and futures, the mantra “we keep us safe” takes on renewed urgency.
Speakers
EJ
ML
Sponsors
avatar for NYC for Abortion Rights
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

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
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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

1:00pm CDT

The Battle for Global Hegemony: Trump and the US China Rivalry
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
Donald Trump’s regime has abandoned Washington’s grand strategy of superintending global capitalism for an America First imperialism targeting China first and foremost. This panel will explore the nature of the rivalry, its impact on the Asia Pacific, why the international left should not side with either power, and how we can build international working class solidarity against rising militarism and threats of great power war.
Speakers
TC

Tobita Chow

Tobita Chow is the founding Director of Justice Is Global, a special project of People’s Action to build a just and sustainable global economy and defeat right-wing nationalism. He is an organizer, a political educator, and a leading progressive strategist and critic regarding the... Read More →
CP

Carmen Phanuelle Delgra

Carmen Phanuelle Delgra is a climate justice activist currently engaged as a campaigner for the Asia-Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (also known as Jubilee South), a regional network of organizations working for social and ecological justice.
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Ashley Smith

Ashley Smith works for Spectre Journal and is a member of the Tempest Collective. He has written in numerous publications including Socialist Worker (US), The International Socialist Review, Against the Current, Spectre, Truthout, Jacobin, New Politics, and Tempest. He is co-author... Read More →
JW

JM Wong

JM Wong is a Seattle-based community organizer with the Massage Parlor Organizing Project. They have been active in international solidarity work with Chinese and other Sinophone activists for years.
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

1:00pm CDT

A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." —Antonio Gramsci. We live in a time of monsters, and the unique perspective of Indigenous horror can teach us how to respond to them without becoming monsters ourselves.
Speakers
RB

Robyn Bourgeois

Robyn Bourgeois is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Women's and Gender studies at Brock University. She is a Cree woman and currently the Vice Provost of Indigenous Engagement at Brock University.  
PK

Patty Krawec

Patty Krawec is a public thinker and writer, the author of Becoming Kin and the upcoming Bad Indians Book Club which examines how Indigeous and subaltern writers can help us imagine better worlds.
KS

Kali Simmons

Kali Simmons is an Assistant Professor of English and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Conneticut. She is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and examines the representation of Indigenous people in contemporary horror.  
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Indigenous Liberation

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
AC
SG

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 →
SS

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 →
JW

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
avatar for Detention Watch Network
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Migrant Justice

1:00pm CDT

“Our Goal is to Dismantle the Whole Violent System”: Abolition Feminist Organizing in the 1970s
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
In this session, historian Emily Thuma will illuminate a world of feminist rebellion against a growing police and prison state in the 1970s. Drawing on the research for her book, All Our Trials, she’ll share how grassroots activists within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons forged a movement that understood incarceration as a purveyor of gender violence rather than its remedy. We’ll explore the key strategies, tactics, theories, and points of contention that defined this strand of 1970s feminism, with an eye toward lessons for today.
Speakers
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Emily Thuma

Emily Thuma is currently the Haley Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma, where she teaches in the programs in politics, law and policy, and sexuality studies. She is the author of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA
  Radical History

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
KA

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 →
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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

One Million Experiments: Redefining and Creating Abolition Five Years After Uprising
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
On the five-year anniversary of uprising after the murder of George Floyd, how have we learned to redefine and create safety without police and prisons? Join the team behind One Million Experiments, a resource, podcast, film, and webseries, to discuss how communities build experiments grounded in transformation instead of punishment.
Moderators
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Lewis Raven Wallace

Lewis Raven Wallace is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, NC. He is the author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity (University of Chicago Press, 2019), and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast. His work centers around... Read More →
Speakers
EN

Eva Nagao

Eva Nagao is the Creative Director of Interrupting Criminalization and an organizer based outside of Seattle. Her work focuses on communications for grassroots organizations and resource development that supports community-based structures working to decrease reliance on policing... Read More →
DW

Damon Williams

Damon A. Williams is a movement builder, organizer, hip-hop performing artist, educator and media maker from the south side of Chicago. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production & Media, and the Co-Creator of AirGo, a weekly podcast in Chicago that reshapes culture for the more liberatory... Read More →
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Daniel Kisslinger

Daniel Kisslinger is an award-winning Chicago-based host and producer who creates dialogue-based media showcasing the stories, voices, and artworks of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Interrupting Criminalization
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Join scholars and organizers Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan for a damning account of mass incarceration that reveals how progressive forces in New York City appropriated the rhetoric of social movements and social justice to promise “downsized” and “humane" jails. The story at the heart of their book, Skyscraper Jails is at once a case study and a cautionary tale for what will be coming to cities and towns across the United States and beyond.
Speakers
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Zhandarka Kurti

Zhandarka Kurti is an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Loyola University Chicago. She is the co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform and the Future of America’s Punishment System and editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanit... Read More →
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Jarrod Shanahan

Jarrod Shanahan is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage, co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System, and City Time: On Being Sentence to Rikers Island and editor of Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Fanon at 100: Insights for Today's Anti-Colonial Struggles
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Frantz Fanon is renowned as one of the most important decolonial theorists of the twentieth century. As part of commemorating his 100th birthday, this panel will explore how his work speaks to today’s struggles against settler colonialism, racial domination, and efforts to create an alternative to capitalism-imperialism.
Speakers
NK

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.
RJ

Ricado Jacobs

Ricado Jacobs, South African scholar-activist; His work examines how global colonial-racial capitalism and class struggle from below shapes race, ethnicity, gender and class at the local and global level. he worked for more than 15 years in the area of land and agrarian reform, food... Read More →
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Peter Hudis

Peter Hudis, author 'Frantz Fanon, Philosopher of the Barricades' and 'Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism'; general editor of 'The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.'
Sponsors
avatar for International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Black Liberation

3:00pm CDT

What's at Stake: Organizing for Climate Armageddon
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
We are in the midst of a climate upheaval. The world is burning, and we must act. This panel will discuss what is at stake and how our side can respond to the crisis. The discussion will address Indigenous sovereignty, climate refugees, and public power and will explain why just ending fossil fuels alone is insufficient for a better world.
Speakers
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Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson is Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of several books on key topics in the environmental humanities, including People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, Extreme Cities... Read More →
JF

Joshua Frank

Joshua Frank is an award-winning California-based journalist and co-editor of the political magazine CounterPunch. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America.
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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 →
JY

Janene Yazzie

Janene Yazzie (She/Her), is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She has over 12 years of experience as a community organizer and human rights advocate deeply rooted in local community issues. Beginning from her community Tsé si’ áni, in Diné Bikéyah, she has worked on the... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for CounterPunch
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Climate Justice, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Love in a F*cked Up World: Community Care in the Face of Collapse
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
In a world unraveling under capitalism, climate catastrophe, and state violence, how do we build real care and solidarity? Dean Spade will discuss approaches to survival and resistance explored in his books Love in a F*cked Up World, Mutual Aid, and Normal Life—breaking through denial, confronting rising fascism, unlearning liberalism’s grip on our politics, rejecting the false promises of reform, and the urgent need to organize outside and against the state in order to cultivate community care in the face of collapse.
Speakers
BA

Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill agitator and independent researcher. She is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
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Dean Spade

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Death Panel
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

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
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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 →
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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 →
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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
avatar for Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
avatar for Landlord Tech Watch
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Housing Justice, Intro

3:00pm CDT

Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
What happens when an entire people are systematically dehumanized, their histories erased, and their identities weaponized against them? Anti-Kashmiri racism operates at the intersection of imperialism, settler-colonialisms, anti-Asian, anti-Muslim, and anti-Indigenous racism, portraying Kashmiris as perpetual threats and incapable of self-rule. This talk unpacks how such narratives legitimize genocidal settler-colonial violence, land dispossession, and cultural erasure, drawing parallels with global anti-Indigenous struggles. By critically examining the rhetoric and policies that sustain an ongoing genocide, we will explore ways to advocate for justice for a free Kashmiri future.
Speakers
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Binish Ahmed

Binish Ahmed (she/her) is an Asian Indigenous Kashmiri cis-woman, educator, artist, researcher, writer, an organizer. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, she now lives in Tkaronto, the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt treaty territory. Her work centers on decolonizing research methods, governance... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Kashmir Gulposh
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Indigenous Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Trump’s new policies have driven an increased militarism, nationalism, and patriotism across the world aimed at rallying workers in each country behind its own governments. Internationalism is the only perspective that can advance the interests of the working class. Hear revolutionary activists in France, Germany, and the U.S. discuss the importance of organization across borders in the revolutionary workers tradition.
Speakers
MC

Meg C

Meg C, a grassroots activist in the US, member of Speak Out Socialists.
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Franzi R

Franzi R, Social Worker, activist of the Revolutionär Sozialistische Organization (RSO).
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Damien S

Damien S, French railway worker, steward in the CGT union, national spokesperson of the Nouveau Parti Anitcapitaliste-Révolutionnaires (NPA-R) and candidate in the last European and legislative elections.
Sponsors
avatar for Speak Out Socialists
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  International Politics

3:00pm CDT

How Worker-to-Worker Unionism Can Transform America
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
At a bleak moment in US politics, the labor movement provides a rare source of hope. What are the main lessons of the bottom-up unionization surge that has swept the United States since 2021? And how can this grassroots labor momentum be continued under the new Trump administration?
Speakers
EB

Eric Blanc

Eric Blanc is a co-founder of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, the author of the monograph, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (UC Press, 2025), and professor of labor studies at Rutgers University.
JP
Sponsors
avatar for Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement

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
SG

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 →
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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
avatar for Critical Resistance
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Migrant Justice

3:00pm CDT

What Can Students Achieve? Analyzing the Possibilities and Limits of the Student Intifada
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Positioning universities as features of imperialism’s superstructure, we give an assessment of the Student Intifada’s strategy, tactics, and its impact on advancing the broader anti-Imperialist struggle. We’ll define the historic tasks of the Palestinian student movement and the Left as we continue the struggle for Palestinian freedom.
Speakers
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Sid

National Students for Justice in Palestine
A

Alex

National Students for Justice in Palestine
R

Rahaf

National Students for Justice in Palestine
N

Noor

National Students for Justice in Palestine
Sponsors
avatar for National Students for Justice in Palestine
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Palestine

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
EG

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 →
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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

3:00pm CDT

Organizing, Religion, and Revolutionary Love
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Too many faith communities in the U.S. remain socially organized but politically unorganized and too many leftists overlook them as sites for base-building. How do leftists identify potential comrades, build bridges, and organize more people of faith into formation? Who are the religious revolutionaries throughout history whose legacies could easily or perhaps already unite us? “Revolutionary love,” argues political theorist Joy James, “originates from the desire for the greater good that entails radical risk-taking for justice.” How do we cultivate and nurture this love in solidarity? This Highlander popular education workshop aims to answer these questions.
Speakers
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Joy James

Joy James is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes... Read More →
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Adam Vander Tuig

Adam Vander Tuig was born and raised in rural Nebraska and currently works as the Faith-Based Educator and Researcher at the Highlander Center in New Market, TN. A recent graduate of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (PhD), he organizes with Christians for a Free... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Highlander Center
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

3:00pm CDT

Roundtable: Political Education in the Time of Monsters
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
While the fight for spaces within colleges and universities continues, this moment underlines the urgent need to build and expand counter-hegemonic political education on the left to confront and resist the right and put forward a creative new vision for the world being born. Join political educators from a number of organizations to discuss the role of political education in today’s social movements.
Speakers
AM
MF
LC
GM
TM
Sponsors
avatar for Center for Political Education
avatar for W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

5:00pm CDT

Emblems of Solidarity: Union Buttons and Labor History
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
Throughout the twentieth century, buttons have been an essential tool for organizing unions and campaigns. Learn more of this legacy through a guided tour by the curator of this exhibit containing historic pins and other items from the struggles of workers in the auto, food processing, and logistics industries.
Speakers
IS

Isaac Silver

Isaac Silver is an activist in Chicago, Illinois and independent curator of historic materials from the working class and socialist movements.
Sponsors
avatar for Buttons of the Left
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

5:00pm CDT

Chicago IPO / Neighborhood Organizations Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
If you are in a neighborhood Independent Political Organization (IPO) or curious about getting involved, join us for an informal hang and get to know each other across the many neighborhoods of Chicago!
Sponsors
avatar for 33rd Ward Working Families
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Covering Fascism While Surviving Fascism: A Media Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
Movement publications are uniquely targeted by MAGA, which has its sights on both media and nonprofit organizations. Meanwhile, many movement journalists are multiply impacted by rising fascism in their daily lives. In small groups and broader conversation, we will discuss the challenges of covering the brutality of this moment, and how we–in community, as media-makers–can collectively survive it, while resisting at every turn.
Speakers
DH

Da'Shaun Harrison

Da'Shaun Harrison is a trans theorist and Southern-born and bred abolitionist in Atlanta, Georgia. They are the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, which was awarded the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, among several... Read More →
CM

Cayden Mak

Cayden Mak is the publisher at Convergence Magazine and the host of Block & Build: Roadmaps for the Left. Prior to Convergence, Cayden spent nearly a decade in various roles at 18 Million Rising, including five years as executive director. His other work has included organizing with... Read More →
MS

Maya Schenwar

Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and board president of Truthout. She is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition and co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, among... Read More →
LW

Lara Witt

Lara Witt is an award-winning writer and editor-in-chief of Prism. She is the co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance and Media Against Apartheid & Displacement. Before coming to Prism, Lara was an editor at Wear Your Voice magazine and freelanced for a variety of publications... Read More →
Sponsors
MM
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
Join Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for a Socialism Conference social! Members, interested members, and all comrades are welcome.
Sponsors
avatar for DSA
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Let This Radicalize You Study Session
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
A radical study session on narratives of violence, the weaponization of “safety” and lessons for social movements. We will be revisiting chapter 6 of Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba’s 2023 book Let This Radicalize You in the context of our current moment, considering framings of violence amidst the ongoing genocide in Palestine, escalating border violence around the world and the fierce suppression of social movements in the US and beyond.

Reading of the chapter before the session is ideal BUT NOT REQUIRED!

OPTIONAL further reading!:
READ “Abolition as a Transnational, Anti-colonial Struggle” - Robyn Maynard, The Forge
WATCH Mohammed El-Kurd in conversation with Marc Lamont Hill (“Perfect Victims, Palestine and the Politics of Resistance,” from 15:26) and/or READ “Tropes and Drones” - Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims ch.5
READ “Concerning Violence” - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth ch.1

Let This Radicalize You and Perfect Victims are both available from haymarketbooks.org and the book room at Socialism 2025!
Sponsors
avatar for Books Against Borders
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Political Educators Meet-Up
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
This is a meet-up for organizations and individuals doing public political education to meet and connect with each other. 
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

5:00pm CDT

Tarot… for Socialists!
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
Who says socialists can’t be a little witchy? Whether you’re a seasoned tarot enthusiast or a total newbie, this tarot meet up will provide a friendly space for discussing all things tarot. Bring your own deck or use one of ours to do readings for your comrades and see what’s in the cards.
Saturday July 5, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA
  Meet-up

7:00pm CDT

The Trump-Musk Payments Crisis: The Wonky Constitutional Crisis the Left Should Care About
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Many on the left want to "burn the constitution," but it matters which corner you start from. Some unconstitutional actions could make our society more democratic, more just and could decentralize power. But the constitutional crisis that began almost as soon as Donald Trump was inaugurated as president for a second time has been focused on making our society less democratic, more unjust and has sought to centralize power in the hands of Trump and the coterie of executives backing him (especially Elon Musk). Nathan Tankus, President and publisher of Notes on the Crises, will guide attendees through what has been going on at the Bureau of Fiscal Service, something called the "Automatic Clearing House" (ACH) payments system and how the Trump administration is using its control of the payments system to rob people on social security, rob New York City government and generally cut off the forms of government spending that actually help people.
Speakers
NT

Nathan Tankus

Nathan Tankus is the Publisher of Notes on the Crises and Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He has written for the Financial Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, Jacobin Magazine, Monthly Review & many other outlets. Nathan got his start in the Alternative Banking working... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Economics, Intro

7:00pm CDT

The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth.  How should a broad movement for educational justice be framed and forged?
Speakers
BA

Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers is the author, most recently, of When Freedom is the Question...
WA

Wayne Au

Wayne Au is a Professor in the University of Washington Bothell School of Educational Studies and an editor for Rethinking Schools.
DB

Davarian Baldwin

Davarian Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, and the author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities.
JH

Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools... Read More →
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Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, professor, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, longtime Black Left feminist activist, and founding member of Scholars for Social Justice.
DS

David Stovall

David Stovall is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Education Justice

7:00pm CDT

Enemy Feminisms: Reckoning with TERFs, Policewomen, and Zionist Feminists
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Join Sophie Lewis for an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms—from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion, TERF, and Zionist feminists. By way of a reckoning with these counterproductive, violent feminisms, this session will make the case for the bold, liberatory, antifascist feminist politics we need instead.
Speakers
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Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer. Her books, Enemy Feminisms, Full Surrogacy Now, and Abolish the Family, have been translated into nine languages. Sophie grew up in France, half-British, half-German, but now lives in Philadelphia and teaches online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
What are the consequences of state legislators voting on the definition of sex, or a president demanding every agency in the federal government construe sex as fixed at conception? How might trans communities respond to being the target of a manufactured moral panic? What alternate visions of "sexual democracy" might transgender activism and theorizing propose in response?
Speakers
PC

Paisley Currah

Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Currah’s prize-winning 2022 book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, revealed the hidden logics that... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Why Is Sex a “Thing”? Making Relations against Settler-Colonialism
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
In this talk, Dr. Kim TallBear explains how the very ideas of sex and nature cut networked relations into manageable objects or “things” that help maintain colonial domination. She draws on the insights of critical Indigenous and sexuality studies to offer alternative ways of thinking and doing intimacy.
Speakers
KT

Kim TallBear

Kim TallBear (she/her) is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, a Dakota nation in present-day South Dakota. She is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society in the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She earned a B.A... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Indigenous Liberation

7:00pm CDT

On Pan-Africanism: Past and Present
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
This talk surveys the history of Pan-Africanism with specific attention to key inflection moments such as the late nineteenth century and the era of decolonization to consider its on-going resonances. Through specific attention to the cultural politics of Pan-Africanism, it demonstrates why visions of global Black solidarity continue to be activated even as the political projects of African federation and other forms of political and economic integration have declined.
Speakers
AG

Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) and co-editor, with Jennifer Pitts, of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  International Politics

7:00pm CDT

UNION: Film Screening and Discussion
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York. UNION is the award-winning, feature-length documentary that tells their story. Join us for a screening followed by a conversation facilitated by Eric Blanc. *Please note: this session will be two hours*
Speakers
EB

Eric Blanc

Eric Blanc is a co-founder of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, the author of the monograph, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (UC Press, 2025), and professor of labor studies at Rutgers University.
CS

Connor Spence

Connor Spence is the president of ALU-IBT Local 1, formerly Amazon Labor Union. He has been an Amazon worker since 2017 and started organizing at Amazon during the pandemic in 2020. He was a founding organizer of the successful union campaign at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment center... Read More →
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Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Labor Movement

7:00pm CDT

What's Next for the Palestine Solidarity Movement?
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
Twenty-one months into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, the stakes of international solidarity are higher than they have ever been. Join representatives of the Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement for an urgent assessment of the state of Palestine solidarity and the strategies that will bring us closer to Palestinian liberation.
Speakers
EA

Eman Abdelhadi

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

Sahar

National Students for Justice in Palestine
OK

Olivia Katbi

Olivia Katbi is the co chair of Portland DSA and a long time organizer with the BDS Movement.
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Palestine

7:00pm CDT

The State of the State
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
How should socialists and abolitionists relate to the state? Is the state an inherently capitalist construction that requires oppression? Is it possible for the state to be radically molded, contested, and transformed into something like what W. E. B. Du Bois envisioned as “abolition democracy?” Or is it necessary to think beyond the binary between state and non-state, and what does that look like in practice? In this roundtable, panelists will explore the different, sometimes contrasting theories and approaches to the state on the left, and discuss how we can organize collectively against capitalist exploitation and state violence in an era of emboldened fascism and right-wing reaction.
Speakers
AJ

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie (she/her) is an abolitionist Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades... Read More →
RD

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 →
GM
DM

David McNally

David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. McNally is the author of seven books and has won a number of awards, including the Paul Sweezy Award from the American Sociological... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
TBA
  Socialist and Marxist Theory

9:00pm CDT

The Encampments: Film Screening
Saturday July 5, 2025 9:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
TBA
The Encampments is a groundbreaking documentary that chronicles the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment and the international wave of student activism it ignited. Executive Produced by Grammy Award-winning artist Macklemore, the film is directed by Kei Pritsker, a journalist and producer at BreakThrough News, and award-winning filmmaker Michael T. Workman (Meantime).
Saturday July 5, 2025 9:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
TBA
  Palestine
 
Sunday, July 6
 

10:00am CDT

Challenging Mass Surveillance in the Time of Trump
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Police agencies at all levels are rapidly adopting new digital surveillance tools and using these systems to intensify oppression and repression. This panel will look at how these tools are transforming policing, patterns in where and how they are adopted, and ways that we can organize against the alignment of state and corporate power that is fueling this era of mass surveillance.
Moderators
EV

Ed Vogel

Lucy Parsons Labs
Speakers
SG

Selinda Guerrero

Millions for Prisoners.
FA

Fatema Ahmad

Muslim Justice League.
JA

Je Amaechi

Unite Oregon.
NP

Nat Palmer

BYP100.
Sponsors
avatar for Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Abolition

10:00am CDT

Let It Be a Tale: A Writing Space
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
This session is for everyone—whether you consider yourself a writer (of any genre) or not. Join us as we take a moment to sit with what we’ve learned over the conference weekend and find words for our rage, heartbreak, love, grief, curiosity, steadfastness, and all that we’re carrying with us in this struggle for a better world.
Moderators
NA
MI
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

10:00am CDT

Fake Work: What a Fake Job Dedicated to Solving a Fake Crisis Can Teach Us About Financialized Capitalism
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
At the end of the last century, predictions about the destructive potential of the Y2K bug were everywhere. As the clocks ticked closer to the prophesied end-times, Capitalism—then in the rapturous throes of a global tech bubble—did what it does best: created a whole cottage industry of consultants dedicated not to preventing the apocalypse, but to ensuring the steady flow of profits. Join Leigh Claire La Berge as she dissects her time as one of these management consultants, offering an inside look at the absurd cultural and political economic consequences of Capitalism's singular focus on the bottom line.
Speakers
LC

Leigh Claire La Berge

Leigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and author of Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art , Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary, and, most recently, Fake Work... Read More →
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Economics

10:00am CDT

Fascists Are Trying To Recruit You!: Antisemitism, Conspiracism, and the Anti-Woke Left
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
As Trump persecutes migrants, trans people, and other scapegoats, the left faces a choice: echo his anti-woke populism, or fight for collective liberation. This session will look at the dangers of antisemitic, conspiracist politics in movements across the political spectrum – and how we keep the focus on capitalism, not cabals.
Speakers
NB

Naomi Bennet

Naomi Bennet is an anti-fascist activist and political educator based in Chicago. Her work focuses on the structural life of antisemitism in the United States and combating the far right. Her writing can be found in Jewish Currents, Truthout, Tempest, New Politics, and elsewhere... Read More →
DK

Danny Katch

Danny Katch is an educator, writer, and organizer in New York City. He's the author of Socialism...Seriously and Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People, and has been a frequent contributor to Truthout, Jacobin, and The Indypendent.
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

NOT my Parental Rights Movement! Resisting the Criminalization of Care and the Evangelical Right
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Whether it is fighting child services, surviving childbirth, resisting police violence, challenging settler politics, or building community care networks, marginalized mamas and caregivers have been resisting criminalization for decades. How do our campaigns continue to uplift these fights against criminalization while expanding the framework for family protection beyond the nuclear paradigm? What are we seeing as potential threats from the conservative "Parental rights" movement and how are our campaigns and projects that overlap with "parental rights" strategizing within this discursive landscape to build both collective and public spaces and the kinship networks we need and want, while pushing back on narratives and mobilizations that are toxic?
Speakers
UA

Ujju Aggarwal

Ujju Aggarwal is an organizer and educator based in New York City. For over two decades her work has been rooted in building organizations and organizing for educational justice, immigrants’ rights, and abolition as well as projects at the intersection of arts and social justice... Read More →
EM

Erin Miles Cloud

Erin Miles Cloud is a civil rights attorney. She is the co-founder of Movement for Family Power, and a former family defense public defender. She is also the mother of two beautiful children.
EM

Erica Meiners

Erica R. Meiners is a writer, educator and organizer in Chicago, Illinois. Lucky to think and write with wonderful folks across several book projects including the forthcoming How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action (Haymarket 2025) they currently work with a number of... Read More →
PX

Paula X. Rojas

Paula X. Rojas is a Chilean-born community organizer, licensed midwife and social justice trainer grew up in Texas, and spent formative years as a youth back in Chile learning from grassroots revolutionary movements at the end of the military dictatorship. For the last 30 years, she... Read More →
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

Reproductive Justice Means Palestinian Liberation and Abolition
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Reproductive justice is deeply intertwined with the struggle for a free Palestine and for a world free of colonial violence. How can the power of the reproductive justice framework help us build an intersectional movement that encompasses police and prison abolition, Palestinian liberation and abortion access and bodily autonomy for all? Speakers explore the coalitions being built between feminists in Chicago and internationally, organizing for reproductive justice in its most expansive form.
Speakers
T
NH

Noor Hasan

Noor (she/her) is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Noor is a long time Chicagoan and community health researcher. Her last presentation at the Socialism Conference followed the 1936-1939 Revolution in Palestine through a feminist lens! To learn more about the Palestinian... Read More →
EB

Erica Bentley

Erica Bentley (she/they) is a co-director of Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition & Solidarity, where she works primarily with mothers of incarcerated police torture survivors. Her ideologies are deeply rooted in collective liberation and informed by ongoing study and relationship-building... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Chicago for Abortion Rights
MA
avatar for Palestinian Feminist Collective
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

10:00am CDT

“Sick, Twisted Freedom”: Inside-Out Lessons in Disability Justice
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
In prison and jail where people must put themselves at risk to have their basic needs met, how do we think about disability? We will challenge people to see how incarceration disables and how disabled people inside lead, build power, and care for one another—teaching outsiders to do the same.
Speakers
AL

A’Keisha Lee

A’Keisha Lee is proudly and originally from Lansing, IL. She started organizing in college at the University of Illinois, where she focused on improving enrollment rates for black students and funding for the Black and Afro Studies program. A’Keisha moved to Chicago after completing... Read More →
HP

Harley Pomper

Harley Pomper is a PhD student in Social Work at the University of Chicago. A co-founder of the Jail Solidarity Network, they organize across jail walls to report on carceral injustices and political repression. Their research centers on incarceration, care, disability, and dissent... Read More →
RY

Raymond Youngblood

Raymond “Suey” Youngblood is a leader, mentor, and interviewer. Suey experienced and analyzed the physical and spiritual violence of prison on himself and in caring for the people around him during 21 years and 5 months in prison and jail. Suey was wrongfully convicted. Today... Read More →
Sponsors
JS
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

10:00am CDT

Under Death Squads and a Dictator's Son: Organizing a Left Alternative in the Philippines
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
From the weaponization of Facebook to successive elections of authoritarian leaders; the Philippines has been a testing ground for the Far-Right. How have the left been able to fight back under such conditions? Hear insights and perspectives from a representative from the newly formed Partido Sosyalista of the Philippines.
Speakers
PD
Sponsors
avatar for Partido Sosyalista
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  International Politics

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
NH

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

10:00am CDT

From Turtle Island to Palestine: The Many Ways of Indigenous Resistance to Settler Colonialism
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
As the world witnesses a live-streamed genocide, we face burning questions of how to combat fascism, white supremacy, religious fundamentalism, and settler colonialism. Two activists, authors, and scholars from Turtle Island and Palestine will discuss the long history of Indigenous resistance including the strategies and tactics that build solidarity and the possibility for a better world.
Speakers
RB
Sponsors
avatar for Pilsen Community Books
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Palestine

10:00am CDT

What is Antiracism? And Why it means Anticapitalism
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Drawing lessons from a long tradition of anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and Marxist intellectuals and movements, Arun Kundnani will discuss how racism and capitalism are indivisible parts of one global system. And unless we can see the whole, we'll never know how to fight.
Speakers
AK

Arun Kundnani

Arun Kundnani is a writer interested in race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism. Born in London, Kundnani moved to New York in 2010 and now lives in Philadelphia. The Guardian has described him as “one of Britain’s best political writers.” Kundnani... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Verso
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Racism and Anti-Racism, 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
avatar for In the Belly
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Skill Sharing, Intro

10:00am CDT

Left-Internationalism from the Imperial Core: Then and Now
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
This lecture will retrace the theoretical and historical evolution of left-internationalism from the mid-19th century onward, paying particular attention to the problem of practicing international solidarity from within the imperial core. What is left internationalism? How has it evolved over time? And how should we practice it in the present?
Speakers
AN

Audrey Nicolaides

Audrey Nicolaides is a Chicago-based critical theorist committed to public-facing scholarship. She is Core Faculty and Chicago Coordinator at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University where she specialized in political... Read More →
Sponsors
B
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist and Marxist Theory, Intro

10:00am CDT

Debate: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Speakers
AS
T
BC

Bennett Carpenter

Bennett Carpenter is a queer Southern trainer, movement strategist, and member of the National Executive Committee of Liberation Road. They've run campaigns to win participatory budgeting and community based alternatives to policing, elect movement candidates to local and state office... Read More →
HH
Sponsors
avatar for Groundwork DSA
avatar for Solidarity
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy
 
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