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10:00am CDT

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

Marxist historians note that “primitive” or “original” accumulation preceded capitalism. This early concentration of wealth depended on the theft of common lands, colonization, slavery, and the displacement of Indigenous peoples. It also required the imposition of a modern gender order. This presentation traces the role of gender discipline in both original accumulation and later moments of intensified capitalist accumulation.

Speakers

Eric Maroney

Eric Maroney is a socialist writer and member of the Tempest Collective. His first book, tentatively titled The Anti-trans Turn, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books.

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

Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

12:00pm CDT

Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary

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

Jackson Park D

This panel will examine Che Guevara's concept of the "New Socialist Man" (person) and argue for the necessity of cultivating a revolutionary subjectivity through struggle. Using the lens of Buddhist meditation, it will explore how we can elevate consciousness through love, interdependence, and service to others in the world--creating a truly communist subjectivity in the process.

Speakers

Breht O’Shea

Breht is the host of Rev Left Radio, Co-Host of the Red Menace podcast, author of an upcoming book put out by the left wing publisher Iskra Books titled "A Letter to Young Revolutionaries", a founding member of Socialist Night School (a community based political education program... Read More →

Sponsors

Rev Left Radio

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

Radical History

3:00pm CDT

How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention

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

Jackson Park D

Masked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In spite of the decades-long growth of immigrant detention, communities have been fighting back against camps—and winning. Join award-winning journalist and translator John Washington and community advocate Johannes Favi as they discuss the community-led fights to shut down these camps.

Speakers

John Washington

John Washington is a journalist covering the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. He is the author of The Case for Open Borders and The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum... Read More →

Johannes Favi

Johannes Favi is a nationally recognized community leader, human rights advocate, and founder of Caged Dreams, a nonprofit organization advancing healing, leadership, and educational opportunity for immigrant communities. His work bridges lived experience, public policy, and community engagement... Read More →

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

Migrant Justice

5:00pm CDT

Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them

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

Jackson Park D

Panel discussion to contextualize the current anti-surveillance organizing landscape & build momentum towards utilizing local budget fights to take back resources currently going to policing/surveillance. Afterwards facilitators will lead a workshop so folks can connect across regions and build towards an anti-alpr or budget campaign.

Speakers

Austin Kral

Austin Kral (he/him) is an abolitionist organizer and geographer based in Atlanta. He is a member of Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure and the Atlanta Abolition Research Collective.

Tynetta Hill-Muhammad

Tynetta Hill-Muhammad (they/them) is an MPH candidate in the Community Health Sciences division at the School of Public Health and works on projects centered on policy and public health initiatives that aim to create meaningful impacts for Black, queer, and women communities, in particular... Read More →

Navjot Heer

Navjot Heer (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer of south asian-panjabi immigrant descent whose work spans architecture, urban planning, design, oral history, and more. they have supported local and national abolitionist campaigns, such as stop shotspotter in chicago... Read More →

Socialism 2026

10:00am CDT

Eric Maroney

12:00pm CDT

Breht O’Shea

Rev Left Radio

3:00pm CDT

John Washington

Johannes Favi

5:00pm CDT

Austin Kral

Tynetta Hill-Muhammad

Navjot Heer

nat palmer

Breanna Champion

Lucy Parsons Lab

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