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Friday, September 4
 

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10:00am CDT

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4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row Clark ABCMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew Grant Park ABNoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed Jackson Park CDouglas Paterson Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics Burnham ABCCharlie Post Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too Field ABCA.J. Bohrer • Sophie Lewis How Veterans & Labor Are Fighting VA Union Busting And Privatization ErieStuart Hall • Dan Blough • Grace Neudek • Lisa Dadabo • Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies Jackson Park AKim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea Transformative Rural Organizing Hyde Park ABo Belotti • Vida Rangel Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism Adler ABCHasan Piker • Ashik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense Jackson Park BJuliet DeJesus Alejandre • Antonio Gutierrez • TBD • Rey Wences • ICIRR • OCAD People Over Mega-Events: Organizing for Housing, Workers, and Communities Beyond the World Cup Hyde Park BKelsea Bond • Matthew Nursey • Mariah Parker • Michael Collins • Play Fair ATL Why Eugene Debs Matters SuperiorAllison Duerk • Shawn Gude Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora Jackson Park DRabbi Andrue Kahn • Dania Rajendra • Benjamin Balthaser • Maurice BP-Weeks Balthazar • JVP Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against? Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

6:00pm CDT

7:30pm CDT

9:30pm CDT

 
Saturday, September 5
 

8:30am CDT

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism W190AKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan No Such Thing As NIMBY: The Fight to Protect Our Water Hyde Park BJenny Espino • Jake Hernandez • Chloe Torres Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity W190BNatalie Bencivega • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Demetrius Noble Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE Hyde Park AAdam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation Gender and Accumulation Jackson Park DEric Maroney Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) Grant Park ABBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors Burnham ABCMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives ErieSimón Rodríguez • Anderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry Adler ABCClarissa Redwine • JS Tan Labor at the Margins Field ABCMaya Tatum • Katherine Passley • Kim Kelly Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE Jackson Park ALisset G • Kobi Guillory • Raul Islas • Kathryn Zamarron Lessons of the Russian Revolution Jackson Park BPhil Gasper • Suzi Weissman • Critique • New Politics Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics Dusable ABCSamer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia Jackson Park CBeth Howard • Jerome Scott

12:00pm CDT

Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure Dusable ABCKendra Drysdale • Berty Hernandez • Mon Mohapatra • TBD • Community Justice Exchange Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice W190AAmna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire Burnham ABCLyle May Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era Jackson Park CElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition Field ABCAdam • Alex • Fiona • Laith • National Students for Justice in Palestine Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime Jackson Park BEmily Likins-Ehlers Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism Jackson Park AChicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era Adler ABCRoxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance W190BAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest What Is the Muslim Left? Hyde Park BAshik Siddique • Maryam Adamu • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Acacia Magazine Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents ErieDiego Morales • PUÑO Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary Jackson Park DBreht O’Shea • Rev Left Radio Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present Hyde Park AAndrew Reginald Hairston • Charles Holm AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes Clark ABCShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

1:30pm CDT

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations Burnham ABCNick Brown • Eddy Fletcher • James Kilgore • Mon Mohapatra • Stevie Wilson • Community Justice Exchange Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation Adler ABCDallas Goldtooth • Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance Jackson Park BAmos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Dio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books • Under the Tree Podcast Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago SuperiorHadeil M. Abdelfattah, Ed.D • David Stovall, Ph.D • Nora Lester Murad • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today Hyde Park BMary Coleman • Maheen • Qudsiyyah Shariyf • Em Gonzalez • Lawrence • Lux • Chicago For Abortion Rights Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series) Jackson Park CBeatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union Clark ABCDawn Tefft • Araya Barnes • Rumin • AK Alilonu • Atulya Dora-Laskey • EWOC All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy Field ABCHeb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments Grant Park ABBarbara Ransby • Sarah Haley Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism Jackson Park ANdindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Jackson Park DJohn Washington • Johannes Favi The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs ErieLily Luo How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero Propaganda Printmaking Michigan/HuronDanielle Bullock Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

5:00pm CDT

Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them Jackson Park DAustin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways Michigan/HuronMira Simonton-Chao • Carlos Ayala • Walls Turned Sideways Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom During the Time of Genocide Hyde Park ALena E • Laith A • Palestinian Youth Movement • People's Embargo for Palestine War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis Adler ABCJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World Jackson Park CTobita Chow • Ashley Smith They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance Burnham ABCSarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS “As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future Jackson Park BBeth Howard • Jerome Scott • Walda Katz-Fishman • SURJ Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment Hyde Park BLeena Odeh • Christian Snow • Morgan Wilson • Law 4 Black Lives The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn Dusable ABCBrian Jones • Dave Zirin The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago Field ABCJacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor SuperiorCandace Cohn • Jack Weinberg • Solidarity Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love Grant Park ABnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle Jackson Park AMichael A. McCarthy Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge

6:30pm CDT

7:00pm CDT

8:00pm CDT

 
Sunday, September 6
 

8:30am CDT

10:00am CDT

Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments Jackson Park DColleen McRoberts • Dr. Emerson Cram • V Fixmer-Oraiz • Rev. Sean McRoberts • Mandi Remington Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror Clark ABCNegin Owliaei • Mansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab En español: El levantamiento de Bolivia: causas, contradicciones y lecciones Dusable ABCLena • Emilio • Blanca Misse Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home ErieIlya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Robert Brenner • Yulia Yurchenko • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium SuperiorDavid Duhalde • Joe Todd • RLS The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement Grant Park ABSean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • TBD • May Day Strong Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times Jackson Park Cjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today Jackson Park ABrian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland • Hammer & Hope Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence Hyde Park AAdam Vander Tuig • Highlander From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI Field ABCAlex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence Jackson Park BIzzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement Hyde Park ADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine Black History is for Everyone Adler ABCBrian Jones Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine Dusable ABCAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History MichiganAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash W190BS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice Jackson Park AJudith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors Hyde Park BRachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion Clark ABCReed Lindsey • Helen Yaffe • Justine Medina • Chicago Cuba Coalition The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly Field ABCjames pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly Psychic Militancy Jackson Park CLara Sheehi • Pluto Press The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory HuronAshik Siddique • Iskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives ErieKate Stewart Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint Jackson Park BBYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100 The Present State of People’s History SuperiorIsaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today Jackson Park DAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis W190ACat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom

1:30pm CDT

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care Dusable ABCAlanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation Clark ABCJesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century Jackson Park AAber Kawas • Ashik Siddique • Cihan Tekay Liu • Kelsea Bond • Alex Brower • DSA Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilitators Hyde Park BMaya Marshall • Haymarket Books The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance Burnham ABCBraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) W190BBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Silky Shah • A. Naomi Paik • Death Panel Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence SuperiorViral Mistry Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections MichiganLaura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building Jackson Park BToni Gilpin • Andrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education ErieIsaac Silver • Buttons of the Left Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free Adler ABCAutumn Brown • Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain • Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg • JVP Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz Field ABCG.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P. Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

5:00pm CDT

Are All Cops Bastards? W190Abrian bean • Anderson Bean Imagine a Future Without Family Policing! Dusable ABCDorothy Roberts The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World Jackson Park BDaniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate Adler ABCVaishnavi Patel • Sareena Kamath Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America W190BGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities Clark ABCMoya Bailey • Rachel Kuo The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave Field ABCYajaira Cuapio • Ilan Desai-Gellar • Alex Schmaus • United Educators of San Francisco Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there Burnham ABCJustin Akers Chacón • Lucia Flores • Victor Rodríguez • Dan Troccoli • Workers Voice People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South Hyde Park ADenzel Caldwell • Black Nashville Assembly Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression Jackson Park ATom Alter • Yarden Azoulay Katz • Diana Rueda • Treasure Thoreson • United Left Platform Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment Grant Park ABRuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

6:30pm CDT

7:00pm CDT

8:00pm CDT

9:00pm CDT

 
Monday, September 7
 

10:00am CDT

The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up Jackson Park DML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners Jackson Park BNawaf A • Jenan A • Palestinian Youth Movement • Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift SuperiorT Callahan Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible Dusable ABCWilliam Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy Burnham ABCSherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition Grant Park ABStefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Nze Okoronta • Leah Harris • Liat Ben-Moshe • Death Panel The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine ErieBill Mullen • Andrew Bergman • Sophia Gurule • Michael Letwin • Labor for Palestine National Network The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception Jackson Park CEman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simón Rodríguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US) Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward? Adler ABCDavid Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life Hyde Park BSomali Organizers from MN Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists Jackson Park AAtena Danner • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle Field ABCBenji Hart • Joy James • Andrew Krinks • Belkis Terán Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead Clark ABCHagen Blix • Jasper Bernes • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy

12:00pm CDT

 
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