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Socialism 2026

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8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

10:00am CDT

Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments Jackson Park DColleen McRoberts • Dr. Emerson Cram • V Fixmer-Oraiz • Rev. Sean McRoberts • Mandi Remington Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror Clark ABCNegin Owliaei • Mansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab En español: El levantamiento de Bolivia: causas, contradicciones y lecciones Dusable ABCLena • Emilio • Blanca Misse Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home ErieIlya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Robert Brenner • Yulia Yurchenko • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium SuperiorDavid Duhalde • Joe Todd • RLS The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement Grant Park ABSean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • TBD • May Day Strong Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times Jackson Park Cjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today Jackson Park ABrian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland • Hammer & Hope Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence Hyde Park AAdam Vander Tuig • Highlander From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI Field ABCAlex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence Jackson Park BIzzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement Hyde Park ADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine Black History is for Everyone Adler ABCBrian Jones Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine Dusable ABCAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History MichiganAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash W190BS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice Jackson Park AJudith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors Hyde Park BRachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion Clark ABCReed Lindsey • Helen Yaffe • Justine Medina • Chicago Cuba Coalition The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly Field ABCjames pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly Psychic Militancy Jackson Park CLara Sheehi • Pluto Press The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory HuronAshik Siddique • Iskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives ErieKate Stewart Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint Jackson Park BBYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100 The Present State of People’s History SuperiorIsaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today Jackson Park DAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis W190ACat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom

1:30pm CDT

On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop Lake Shore Drive Boardroom BIPOC Social Jackson Park BBlack Youth Project 100

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care Dusable ABCAlanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation Clark ABCJesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century Jackson Park AAber Kawas • Ashik Siddique • Cihan Tekay Liu • Kelsea Bond • Alex Brower • DSA Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilitators Hyde Park BMaya Marshall • Haymarket Books The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance Burnham ABCBraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) W190BBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Silky Shah • A. Naomi Paik • Death Panel Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence SuperiorViral Mistry Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections MichiganLaura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building Jackson Park BToni Gilpin • Andrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education ErieIsaac Silver • Buttons of the Left Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free Adler ABCAutumn Brown • Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain • Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg • JVP Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz Field ABCG.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P. Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

5:00pm CDT

Are All Cops Bastards? W190Abrian bean • Anderson Bean Imagine a Future Without Family Policing! Dusable ABCDorothy Roberts The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World Jackson Park BDaniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate Adler ABCVaishnavi Patel • Sareena Kamath Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America W190BGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities Clark ABCMoya Bailey • Rachel Kuo The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave Field ABCYajaira Cuapio • Ilan Desai-Gellar • Alex Schmaus • United Educators of San Francisco Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there Burnham ABCJustin Akers Chacón • Lucia Flores • Victor Rodríguez • Dan Troccoli • Workers Voice People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South Hyde Park ADenzel Caldwell • Black Nashville Assembly Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression Jackson Park ATom Alter • Yarden Azoulay Katz • Diana Rueda • Treasure Thoreson • United Left Platform Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment Grant Park ABRuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

6:30pm CDT

Tarot for Socialists! Grant Park AB Organizer Happy Hour Bronzeville WineryScalawag • The Forge Firebrands: the Organizing RPG | Actual Play Session! Superior

7:00pm CDT

Tempest Meet-Up Michigan Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up RSVP to receive location infoDSA

8:00pm CDT

Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social Dusable ABC33rd Ward Working Families Cultural Worker Meet-Up Field ABC Jewish Voice for Peace Meet-Up Jackson Park BJVP Library Workers Meetup Hyde Park A Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up Jackson Park ADebt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective South Asian Solidarity Meet-Up Hyde Park BSouth Asian Solidarity Network Tech Worker Meetup Reggies Chicago (2105 S State St) The South Meet Up Burnham ABCSouthern Workers Assembly

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD