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10:00am CDT

Attention Economics for Organizers: How Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention & How We’re Fighting Back

Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

While problems of disinformation and distraction are systemic, "common sense" solutions are often about individual choice. There are important roles for publications, media makers, and movements to play in the struggle for our collective attention. We’ll unpack the attention economy for organizers, and examine how movement media makers are balancing meeting their needs and protecting their peace.

Speakers

Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe is the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, and From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, all from Bold Type Books. Her next book, Heterosexuality... Read More →

Cayden Mak

Cayden Mak is the publisher at Convergence Magazine and the host of Block & Build: Roadmaps for the Left. Prior to Convergence, Cayden spent nearly a decade in various roles at 18 Million Rising, including five years as Executive Director and two as Chief Technology Officer, developing... Read More →

Delaney Vandergrift

Sponsors

Convergence Magazine

Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Organizing

3:00pm CDT

Bridging the Gap: Building Intergenerational Organizing Power

Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

This pop-ed skills share will explore ways to build strong intergenerational organizing by challenging adultism and reimagining what shared leadership can look like. Together, we'll explore the transition from youth to young adult organizing, unpack how adultist perspectives can be unintentionally reproduced, and discuss how we can build movements rooted in trust, collaboration, and shared power.

Speakers

Socialism 2026

10:00am CDT

Sarah Jaffe

Cayden Mak

Delaney Vandergrift

Convergence Magazine

3:00pm CDT

Essence-Jade Gatheright

Mari Lee

Chicago Freedom School

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