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10:00am CDT

Friday September 4, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm CDT

Join activists from around the country to discuss what’s next for the movement for abortion access and reproductive justice. Learn more and register here.

Sponsors

Chicago For Abortion Rights

Friday September 4, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm CDT
Burnham ABC

Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

2:30pm CDT

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

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

Burnham ABC

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
Burnham ABC

Abolition

4:30pm CDT

Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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

Burnham ABC

Why does capitalism produce lousy jobs, long hours, unemployment, racism, sexism, homo/transphobia, xenophobia and periodic economic crises that make things even worse? Marx's analysis of capitalism provides some key answers.

Speakers

Charlie Post

Charlie Post is a long-time revolutionary socialist and writer, and a member of the Tempest Collective.

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

Economics

Socialism 2026