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Friday, September 4
 

2:30pm CDT

Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today
Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, one of the Socialist Party's most successful organizers, a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World and the most successful labor organizer of the early 20th century constantly turned to her socialist beliefs in constructing innovative organizing strategies and tactics. What lessons does she leave us for struggle today?
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Rosemary Feurer

Rosemary Feurer is Distinguished Professor of History at Northern Illinois University specializing in labor and social movements. A key organizer in the effort to successfully organize the faculty at her university, Feurer was a founding member of DSA and is the Director of the Mother... Read More →
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Joseph Rathke

Joe Rathke is a PhD student in labor history at the University of Chicago. He was a lead organizer in the successful effort to organize the 3000 member Graduate Students United-UE Local 1103, on the bargaining team for the groundbreaking first contract and is serving his second term... Read More →
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Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Jackson Park D

4:30pm CDT

Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora
Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Everyone is made in the image of the divine—even (maybe especial)y) when you don't believe in God, or aren't sure. To take this seriously, to explore ira imication for a revolutionary horizon - we are making Abolition Judaism, continuing the proud tradition finding spiritual sustenance for our solidarity in our religious practice. Come co-create it, and hear what we are learning about sifting through the ashes of the old.
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Rabbi Andrue Kahn

Rabbi Andy Kahn (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based rabbi and the executive director of the American Council for Judaism (ACJ). The ACJ was founded in 1942 to uphold Reform Judaism as a tradition dedicated to universal ethics and justice at a time when many Jewish institutions began centering... Read More →
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Dania Rajendra

Dania Rajendra (she/her), an organizer and a writer, has worked at the intersection of racial and economic justice for twenty-five years. She is now the interim managing director of the In Our Name Fund and works with the American Council on Judaism. Dania was the founding director of Athena and has worked in unions, worker centers, academia, social enterprise, philanthropy, think tanks, and the arts. Her career-long commitment is to thinking and working across boundaries, disciplin... Read More →
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Benjamin Balthaser

Benjamin Balthaser's (he/him) critical and creative work explores the connections among radical U.S. social movements, racial and class formation, internationalism, and culture. He is the author of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish... Read More →
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Maurice BP-Weeks Balthazar

Maurice BP-Weeks (he/him) is a distinguished corporate campaigner, organizer, and advocate for economic and racial justice. Co-founder and former Co-Executive Director of The Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), Maurice has collaborated with community organizations, labor... Read More →
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Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Jackson Park D
 
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