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10:00am CDT

Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors

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

What will it take to meaningfully interrupt the U.S. military industrial complex? How can we engage in effective anti-war action against U.S. imperialism? Using the experience of organizing against Howmet Aerospace, a military subcontractor based in Pittsburgh, panelists will show how local movements can identify hundreds of of lesser-known subcontractors that participate in war profiteering and build effective movements to dismantle their power.

Speakers

Matt Fiorillo

Joseph Gumina

Julia Mente

Valerie Wallach

Sponsors

BDS Pittsburgh

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

Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

12:00pm CDT

The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire

Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Burnham ABC

In our age of carceral imperialism, the return of longer and more brutal punishments reveals the pretense of civilization slipping away. As mercy toward the marginalized is demonized by a steady diet of disinformation about crime and punishment, the worst-case scenarios are quickly becoming more and more possible unless we confront the merciless society head on.

Speakers

Lyle May

Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Burnham ABC

Abolition

1:30pm CDT

"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup

Saturday September 5, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT

Burnham ABC

Join aja monet, Delaney Vandergrift, and Derecka Purnell for a conversation and gathering about how and why our people resonate with type of socialism that sings from Stevie Wonder songs, lives in houses filled with multiple generations, and grows from the shared gardens that we tend. What are our commitments to each other, and how do we manifest them across space, time, and strategy?

Saturday September 5, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
Burnham ABC

Meet-up

3:00pm CDT

Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations

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

Burnham ABC

This session is an invitation for abolitionist organizers on the outside to take steps to ensure imprisoned people are part of the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex. Join formerly imprisoned educators and organizers Stevie Wilson and James Kilgore for a conversation on the importance and potential of genuine collaborations between people in prison and their comrades on the outside. This session will also feature reflections from two members of the 9971 abolitionist study group who are currently imprisoned at SCI Dallas in Pennsylvania.

Speakers

Nick Brown

Eddy Fletcher

James Kilgore

Mon Mohapatra

Mon Mohapatra (Community Justice Exchange)

Stevie Wilson

Sponsors

Community Justice Exchange

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

Abolition

5:00pm CDT

They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance

Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

Burnham ABC

Drawing on the history of psychiatric survivor movements, specific acts of resistance, and the long use of pathology narratives to discredit organizers across liberation movements, this session explores: how do we recognize psychiatric resistance when we've been trained not to see it? And what does solidarity look like once we do?

Speakers

Sarah Broas

Sarah Broas (they/them) is a white, queer, Disabled and Mad careworker. They are a writer, artist, advocate, and organizer focusing on Mad Liberation and psychiatric abolition. Their own experiences of psychiatric survivorship guide their approach, vision, and practice of community-based... Read More →

Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu

Stefanie Lyn Kaufman Mthimkhulu (they/she) is a Mad, Disabled, multidisciplinary care strategist/worker, educator, psychiatric survivor, and healing practitioner. They are a white, queer, non-binary person of Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, rooted in lineages of Disability... Read More →

Heena Sharma

Heena Sharma (they/she) is a nonbinary, disabled, mentally ill South Asian lesbian striving towards abolitionist futures that center survivors of violence. A lifelong New Yorker, Heena has worked on the margins of decolonial political education, radical accompaniment and solidarity... Read More →

Sponsors

Project LETS

Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Burnham ABC

Health Politics & Disability Justice

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