Socialism 2026: Full Schedule

arrow_back View All Dates

10:00am CDT

Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times

Sunday September 6, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

ICE agents are using family separation tactics central to US state violence. In this interactive workshop on "family policing" participants will examine real-world manifestations and analyze emerging resistance strategies. Workshop will share the tools to build a paradigm shift from "mandated reporting"—which fuels state intrusion—to "mandated supporting.”

Speakers

jaboa lake

jaboa lake phd, is a sister, auntie, neighbor, former foster youth, organizer, and liberation researcher. jaboa’s work has centered liberation of oppressed people and solidarity across movements through using research as a tactic within grassroots strategies. jaboa’s work has... Read More →

Erica Meiners

A writer, an educator and an organizer, Erica R. Meiners lives in Chicago and works with others on a range of ongoing mobilizations for liberation.

Shannon Perez-Darby

Shannon Perez-Darby is a founding member of the Accountable Communities Consortium and a member of the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral core group. Shannon Perez-Darby centers queer and trans communities of color while working to address issues of domestic and sexual violence... Read More →

Sunday September 6, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Jackson Park C

Left Strategy

12:00pm CDT

Psychic Militancy

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Jackson Park C

This talk argues that in the face of accelerating fascism, we need to take seriously that our psyche is contested space, learn to track psychic intrusions that aim to settle and reconfigure our psychic province and interiority, and most importantly, learn to remain antagonistic to this violence through psychic militancy. Lara Sheehi discusses her new book to distill the mechanics of psychic militancy and how we might engage in refusals against these intrusions and their politically demobilizing work.

Speakers

Lara Sheehi

Lara Sheehi is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the host of the Psychic Militancy podcast. Lara’s work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles... Read More →

Sponsors

Pluto Press

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Jackson Park C