Socialism 2026: Full Schedule

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4:30pm CDT

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

Rural communities are often written off as politically unreachable, but organizers across the country are building power through relational networks, trusted institutions, and local leadership. This session explores practical strategies for rural organizing and introduces a toolkit designed to help organizers build trust, grow a base, and develop leaders in rural communities.

Speakers

Bo Belotti

Bo Belotti is a community organizer from Virginia and first year Masters of Public Policy student at Georgetown University. Bo has spent the last 10 years engaged in movement work, starting with their local school board while they were still in high school. They attended Virginia... Read More →

Jake Krug

Jake Krug is an organizer based in Staunton, VA. Jake began organizing as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America before co-founding the Shenandoah Socialist Collective and Shenandoah Mutual Aid. He is a member of the United Campus Workers of Virginia, CWA Local 2265, where... Read More →

Vida Rangel

Vida is a community organizer and public servant with a long history of working to improve the lives of those in her communities and improving the systems we all live under. As an autistic queer nonbinary transgender Latina woman, her commitment to community and to working families... Read More →

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

Left Strategy

4:30pm CDT

Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism

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

TBA

This summer, DSA released “Workers Deserve More,” our political program for a free, equal, and democratic society that prioritizes human flourishing and peace instead of exploitation, oppression, and war. We’ll discuss how we developed Workers Deserve More, its contents, the reactions so far, and its role in organizing for democratic socialism in our current moment, and for our future. program.dsausa.org

Speakers

Ashik Siddique

Ashik Siddique is national co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, and has served on DSA's National Political Committee since 2021. He has organized with DSA’s campaign for Bernie in 2020, for campaigns against the climate crisis and for labor rights, with protests at the... Read More →

Michaela Brangan

Michaela Brangan is an educator and researcher, chair of DSA’s National Political Education Committee, and a member of North New Jersey DSA. She cochairs DSA’s Workers Deserve More program committee.

Frances Gill

Frances Gill is cochair of DSA’s Workers Deserve More program committee, and a member of DSA’s National Political Committee from Los Angeles. She is a health care worker and rank-and-file member of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD).

Megan Romer

Megan Romer is a mom, a writer, a PTA volunteer and an erstwhile Sunday School teacher from rural Central New York. She's been organizing with DSA since 2018, is a former co-chair of Southwest Louisiana DSA, and served three terms on steering of the DSA national Mutual Aid Working... Read More →

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DSA

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

Left Strategy

4:30pm CDT

4:30pm CDT

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