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10:00am CDT

Organizing Social Workers for Abolition Summit

Friday September 4, 2026 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT

Join the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work for a pre-Socialism conference summit for social workers to come together toward organizing for abolition. Learn more and register here.

Sponsors

Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work

Friday September 4, 2026 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT

Abolition

2:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY

Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT

TBA

We will be looking at the NY Dignity Not Detention (DND) campaign as a case study on abolitionist organizing that builds the power of migrant communities. We will discuss the hostile conditions of the moment and how we worked with communities & groups resisting ICE to achieve victory. Join us to learn about DND and develop and strengthen your abolitionist anti-deportation campaigns.

Speakers

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.

Sophia Gurule

Sophia Elena Gurulé (she/her/ella) is a member of Critical Resistance based in Brooklyn, New York with experience organizing at the intersection of prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, migrant justice, and organized labor. A long-time member of the Dignity Not Detention coalition, Sophia has... Read More →

Sponsors

Critical Resistance

Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
TBA

Abolition

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row

Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT

TBA

In the late 1990s, death row prisoners and their supporters hosted a series of live unscripted conversations between death row prisoners and audience members in forums around the country, reshaping the national debate on capital punishment and helping to force the overturning of capital punishment in IL, MD, and CA. Join two former death row prisoners who spearheaded the historic campaign and their “outside” allies for a conversation on their remarkable story and how their struggle for justice continues after death row.

Speakers

Socialism 2026

10:00am CDT

Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work

2:30pm CDT

Viju Mathew

Sophia Gurule

Critical Resistance

4:30pm CDT

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Kenny Collins

Stanley Howard

Mike Stark

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