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8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism W190AKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan No Such Thing As NIMBY: The Fight to Protect Our Water Hyde Park BJenny Espino • Jake Hernandez • Chloe Torres Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity W190BNatalie Bencivega • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Demetrius Noble Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE Hyde Park AAdam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation Gender and Accumulation Jackson Park DEric Maroney Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) Grant Park ABBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors Burnham ABCMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives ErieSimón Rodríguez • Anderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry Adler ABCClarissa Redwine • JS Tan Labor at the Margins Field ABCMaya Tatum • Katherine Passley • Kim Kelly Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE Jackson Park ALisset G • Kobi Guillory • Raul Islas • Kathryn Zamarron Lessons of the Russian Revolution Jackson Park BPhil Gasper • Suzi Weissman • Critique • New Politics Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics Dusable ABCSamer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia Jackson Park CBeth Howard • Jerome Scott

12:00pm CDT

Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure Dusable ABCKendra Drysdale • Berty Hernandez • Mon Mohapatra • TBD • Community Justice Exchange Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice W190AAmna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire Burnham ABCLyle May Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era Jackson Park CElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition Field ABCAdam • Alex • Fiona • Laith • National Students for Justice in Palestine Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime Jackson Park BEmily Likins-Ehlers Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism Jackson Park AChicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era Adler ABCRoxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance W190BAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest What Is the Muslim Left? Hyde Park BAshik Siddique • Maryam Adamu • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Acacia Magazine Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents ErieDiego Morales • PUÑO Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary Jackson Park DBreht O’Shea • Rev Left Radio Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present Hyde Park AAndrew Reginald Hairston • Charles Holm AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes Clark ABCShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

1:30pm CDT

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades Michigan/Huron "Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup Burnham ABC Labor for Palestine National Network Meet-Up Clark ABC Public Educators Meet-Up Hyde Park A Socialist Horizon Meet-up Jackson Park C

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations Burnham ABCNick Brown • Eddy Fletcher • James Kilgore • Mon Mohapatra • Stevie Wilson • Community Justice Exchange Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation Adler ABCDallas Goldtooth • Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance Jackson Park BAmos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Dio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books • Under the Tree Podcast Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago SuperiorHadeil M. Abdelfattah, Ed.D • David Stovall, Ph.D • Nora Lester Murad • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today Hyde Park BMary Coleman • Maheen • Qudsiyyah Shariyf • Em Gonzalez • Lawrence • Lux • Chicago For Abortion Rights Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series) Jackson Park CBeatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union Clark ABCDawn Tefft • Araya Barnes • Rumin • AK Alilonu • Atulya Dora-Laskey • EWOC All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy Field ABCHeb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments Grant Park ABBarbara Ransby • Sarah Haley Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism Jackson Park ANdindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Jackson Park DJohn Washington • Johannes Favi The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs ErieLily Luo How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero Propaganda Printmaking Michigan/HuronDanielle Bullock Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

5:00pm CDT

Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them Jackson Park DAustin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways Michigan/HuronMira Simonton-Chao • Carlos Ayala • Walls Turned Sideways Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom During the Time of Genocide Hyde Park ALena E • Laith A • Palestinian Youth Movement • People's Embargo for Palestine War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis Adler ABCJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World Jackson Park CTobita Chow • Ashley Smith They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance Burnham ABCSarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS “As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future Jackson Park BBeth Howard • Jerome Scott • Walda Katz-Fishman • SURJ Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment Hyde Park BLeena Odeh • Christian Snow • Morgan Wilson • Law 4 Black Lives The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn Dusable ABCBrian Jones • Dave Zirin The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago Field ABCJacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor SuperiorCandace Cohn • Jack Weinberg • Solidarity Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love Grant Park ABnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle Jackson Park AMichael A. McCarthy Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge

6:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop Michigan/Huron Songs for Liberation Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting) United Left Platform Meet-up Jackson Park C How to Close a Camp Study Session ErieBooks Against Borders

7:00pm CDT

Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee Meet Up Hyde Park A

8:00pm CDT

Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE W190John Washington • Silky Shah • Chris Newman • Tania Wolf • Cat Salonek Schladt