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Socialism 2026

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9:00am CDT

Historic Bike Tour: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project

9:30am CDT

Marxism Education Series Grant Park ABMichael A. McCarthy • Amna Akbar • Eman Abdelhadi

10:00am CDT

Reproductive Justice Strategy Session Burnham ABCChicago For Abortion Rights Organizing Social Workers for Abolition Summit Dusable ABCNetwork to Advance Abolitionist Social Work

2:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY Burnham ABCViju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response Dusable ABCAdam Schneider • T Callahan • Ashwin Shantha • Science for the People Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power Jackson Park CSteff Reed Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel ErieMaya Schenwar • Juliet DeJesus Alejandre • Tanuja Jagernauth • Katelyn Johnson • Rocío García • Truthout From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature Adler ABCNancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan • Daniel Singer Foundation • New Politics From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine Jackson Park BHeather Aubry • A. Funk • Rumsha S. • Dissenters Inside Organizing 101 SuperiorJaz Brisack Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today Jackson Park DRosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training Clark ABCbrian bean • Haymarket Books

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

New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend Grant Park AB Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

7:30pm CDT

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition W190Angela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa

9:30pm CDT

Radical Game Night! Michigan/Huron Radical Trivia Night! Lobby ConcourseChicago For Abortion Rights