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Monday, September 7
 

10:00am CDT

The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
This panel examines the throughline from slavery, lynching, and incarceration to the modern death penalty. Featuring organizers working across the South, it centers impacted leadership, abolitionist strategy, coalition building, and collective care. Participants will leave with historical framing and practical tools to build durable movements against state violence.
Speakers
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ML Smith

ML Smith is the Founder/Director of Missouri Justice Coalition, and an international abolitionist and organizer for the rights of incarcerated persons. 
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Tiara Cooper

Tiara Cooper is the Executive Director of “In Defense of Black Lives,” and an organizer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF).
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Furonda Brasfield

Furonda Brasfield is the Director of Leadership Development at the US Campaign to End the Death Penalty and Coordinator of the Leaders of Color in the Death Penalty. 
Sponsors
avatar for U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Abolition

10:00am CDT

End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Since October 2023, Israel has waged a genocide behind bars, systematizing and intensifying historic tactics of abuse and degradation against Palestinian prisoners, and turning prisons into death camp as part of Israels broader campaign to break the will of the Palestinian People. Palestinian Political Prisoners are the Compass of the National Struggle for Palestinian Liberation, the demand for their freedom must be amplified.
Speakers
NA
JA
Sponsors
avatar for Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
avatar for Palestinian Youth Movement
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Anti-colonial Politics

10:00am CDT

A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
The capitalist State has long been propped up by its capacity to compensate for wanton ecological degradation at home and abroad. No historical period illustrates this better than the nineteenth century Peruvian guano trade, as Europe's extractive agricultural practices threatened soil ecology, fueling their imperialist grip on the southern hemisphere.
Speakers
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T Callahan

T Callahan is a freelance science writer based in Chicago and author of The Stranded Asset on Substack. An editor of the forthcoming third edition of the Ecological Economics textbook and passionate advocate for eco-socialism, T strives to reveal capital's root-level complicity and... Read More →
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Climate Justice

10:00am CDT

Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Art is a part of movements, but how can it best serve the struggles it emerges from? This panel brings together three political artists who work in a diverse range of contexts to present and discuss what they think art can and should do for movements, and where radical imagination can help to build popular power.
Speakers
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William Estrada

William Estrada is an arts educator and multidisciplinary artist in Chicago. His art and teaching are a collaborative discourse, critically re-examining public and private spaces with people to engage in radical imagination. He is currently a faculty member at the UIC School of Art... Read More →
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Margaret Vail Palmquist

Margaret Vail Palmquist is a DSA member living in Queens, NY originally from St. Paul, MN. She credits the experience of identifying shared emotions through art as her first and deepest relationship with the collective. Though they’ve been ruminating on and expressing ideas through... Read More →
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Roger Peet

Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and has been making visual materials for left movements for the last thirty years. He organizes with the Portland chapter of DSA and served... Read More →
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

10:00am CDT

RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
RePRESSion examines media censorship from South to South and how fascism, genocide, and incarceration intensify repression. This panel shares strategies for press organizing amid media consolidation, AI, and declining literacy—media and illiteracy. Panelists will center abolitionist publishing and amplify incarcerated writers’ perspectives on censorship from inside.
Speakers
SJ
DL
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TT
Sponsors
avatar for Scalawag
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
What do psychiatry and madness have to do with abolition? Join us for a grounding in the fundamentals of psychiatric abolition, from its earliest manifestations to the current resurgence of interest in toppling psychiatry’s entanglement with carceral laws and policies that detain, control, and punish in the name of care
Speakers
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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 →
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Leah Harris

Leah Ida Harris (she/they) is a mad writer whose work appears in The Progressive, Disability Visibility Project, Truthout. Their first book, NONCOMPLIANT: A FAMILY HISTORY OF THE ASYLUM (forthcoming, Haymarket Books) details violent history—and grim resurgence—of the asylum in... Read More →
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Nze Okoronta

Nze Okoronta (they/them) believes the crisis is not our people or our communities, but the systems that respond to them. They are known for work surrounding non-carceral peer respites, warmlines and hotlines, harm reduction and drug user support, Mad Pride and Mad Liberation, mutual... Read More →
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Jess Stohlmann-Rainey

Jess Stohlmann is an author, educator, activist, and death and care worker. She has spent nearly 20 years working at the intersections of research and practice in crisis, suicidology, and peer support. Jess combines academic expertise, living experience, and practical experience in... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Death Panel
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

10:00am CDT

Building a Rank-and-File Working Class Antiwar Movement Today
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Drawing on lessons from the hidden history of US working class antiwar resistance in the Vietnam war and beyond to build a working class antiwar movement today.
Speakers
ML

Michael Letwin

A third-generation political activist, and a revolutionary socialist since the 1960s, Michael Letwin has participated in movements against the Vietnam War, apartheid South Africa, and U.S. imperialism in Iran, Central America, the Middle East, and around the world. In 1971, he was... Read More →
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Sponsors
avatar for Labor for Palestine National Network
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

10:00am CDT

The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Imperialist powers from the US to Russia and China oppress nations and national minorities. That reality has put question of the left and the right of oppressed nations to self-determination back on the table. How can the left practice solidarity without exception from Palestine to Ukraine, oppose all great powers, and build internationalism from below?
Speakers
EA

Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of Chicago, writes a column for In These Times Magazine and is co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, a sci-fi novel... Read More →
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Reza Rezaian

Reza Rezaian, member of United Iranian Left, and former member of Printers Union of Tehran
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Simon Rodriguez

Simon Rodriguez, Venezuelan socialist, member of Partido Socialismo y Libertad, and author of Por Qué Fracasó el Chavismo
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Tanya Vyhovksy

Tanya Vyhovksy, Vermont State Senator, member of DSA, and Ukrainian American
Sponsors
avatar for The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US)
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward?
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Wall Street has cities in a financial straight jacket. Yet with the recent elections of socialist mayors and council members, notably New York's Zohran Mamdani, financing new social programs will be essential. This panel explores both the ways in which private financing and the municipal bond market can restrict what is politically possible, and what an inventive new generation of municipal socialists can do to escape the straight jacket.
Speakers
DB

David Backer

David Backer is a professor at Seton Hall University who studies debt and education.
SK

Sylvia Kidder

Sylvia Kidder is an organizer with The People's Lobby who has worked in municipal finance for a decade.
MR

Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan is a member of Black Rose / Rosa Negra.
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Left Strategy

10:00am CDT

How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
How do communities become targets? This session traces Somali migration to Minnesota through the lens of Operation Metro Surge. It examines how race, religion, and immigration status shape who is marked as “risk,” and how these structures expand, revealing how Black refugees are policed as threats while inviting reflection on resistance and belonging.
Speakers
SO
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Migrant Justice

10:00am CDT

Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth discuss Understory, an emotional and spiritual support group for activists they co-facilitate. Hayes and Jagernauth will also share a toolkit to help others organize their own groups.
Speakers
AD

Atena Danner

Atena O. Danner is a cultural worker who imagines Black liberation, engaged in boundless curiosity. Her poems range from kitchen-table specificity to expansive relatability, covering topics including neurodiversity, human connection, and collective liberation. Atena is also an experienced... Read More →
KH

Kelly Hayes

Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator and photographer. She is the host of Truthout‘s podcast Movement Memos and the creator of Organizing My Thoughts, a weekly newsletter about politics and justice work. She is co-author of the book Let This Radicalize... Read More →
TJ

Tanuja Jagernauth

Tanuja Jagernauth is an organizer, circle keeper, writer, theater maker, and yoga educator. She is also a co-facilitator of Understory.
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Religion & Spirituality

10:00am CDT

Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
From Indigenous land defense to anti-slavery abolitionism to prison organizing and Stop Cop City, insurgent political spiritualities have been foundational to revolutionary struggles for another world. How do we train ourselves and our movements to discern and build upon the enduring unity of collective spiritual practice and political struggle?
Speakers
BH

Benji Hart

Benji Hart is an interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator.‍ Their words have appeared in numerous anthologies, including No Cop City, No Cop World (Haymarket Books, 2025), Constellations of Care (Pluto Press, 2024), And the Category Is… (Beacon Press, 2022), and the second... Read More →
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Joy James

Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of Resisting State Violence; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, Transcending the Talented Tenth and Seeking the Beloved Community. James has published numerous articles... Read More →
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Andrew Krinks

Andrew Krinks is a writer, educator, organizer, and movement builder working at the intersections of religion, racial capitalism, criminalization, abolition, and housing justice in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the... Read More →
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Belkis Terán

Rev. Belkis Teran is the mother of Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran, a queer, non-binary, Venezuelan forest defender who was killed by Georgia State Patrol in January 2023. She is an ordained minister and the founder of the Tortuguita Healing Center, an integral, environmentalist project... Read More →
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Religion & Spirituality

10:00am CDT

Don't Be Afraid, Start A Radical Book Club With Your Friends!
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
In this workshop, the speaker will discuss how developing community book clubs help individuals of diverse backgrounds and experiences to understand dense or otherwise intellectually inaccessible theory by tackling work in a collective manner. This will lead to a deepening understanding of one's own politic, and will help develop their niche in organizing and community praxis. The group can also act as a method of circular accountability.
Speakers
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Luna Ramos

Luna Ramos (they/she) is a queer Afro-Cuban educator and writer based in Los Angeles. Though they identify as an anarchist, they strongly advocate for the need of diverse politics, beliefs, and strategies to spur radical systemic change. Their work in Cuban solidarity taught them... Read More →
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Skill Sharing

10:00am CDT

Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
What comes next – what configurations of neoliberalism, fascism, feudalism, and socialism lie in store in the decades ahead? And what are the opportunities to change those trajectories? To answer these questions, this session convenes speakers, all drawing from the history of global capitalism, to reflect on our current moment and offer divergent perspectives on what lies ahead.
Speakers
JB

Jasper Bernes

Jasper Bernes lives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. A regular contributor to the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail, he is the author of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George... Read More →
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Nathan Kim

Nathan Kim is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. He’s interested in the political economy of tech production, and in particular Silicon Valley’s relationship to state violence after the Cold War.
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Erin McElroy

Erin McElroy is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, where they run the Anti-Eviction Lab and work on issues surrounding gentrification, technology, race, and empire. McElroy is also cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and is an editor with... Read More →
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Justine Zhang

Justine Zhang is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her current research examines language technologies and their political investments.
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist and Marxist Theory

12:00pm CDT

We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the Right
Monday September 7, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
There is nothing inevitable about how the next year or five years or ten years unfold. While billionaire oligarchs and their friends on the far right attempt to build a fortress around the future for themselves, glimmers of a brighter future have been fanned into flames by socialists, abolitionists, and working people all around the world. Join the closing plenary of Socialism 2026 for a reminder of what we are fighting for and our collective power to achieve it.
Speakers
KH

Kelly Hayes

Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator and photographer. She is the host of Truthout‘s podcast Movement Memos and the creator of Organizing My Thoughts, a weekly newsletter about politics and justice work. She is co-author of the book Let This Radicalize... Read More →
BH

Beth Howard

Beth Howard is the Cultural Strategist for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), the largest national organization bringing white people into the fight for racial and economic justice. She grew up in a rural white working-class community in Eastern Kentucky and has organized in the... Read More →
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Monday September 7, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
  Left Strategy
 

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