Socialism 2026

Maddie

Just Vision

Communications Manager

Boston, MA

https://justvision.org/

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Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew Grant Park ABNoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora Jackson Park DRabbi Andrue Kahn • Dania Rajendra • Benjamin Balthaser • Maurice BP-Weeks Balthazar • JVP

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Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition W190Angela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa

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Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE Hyde Park AAdam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors Burnham ABCMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh

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State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era Jackson Park CElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson What Is the Muslim Left? Hyde Park BAshik Siddique • Maryam Adamu • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Acacia Magazine AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes Clark ABCShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

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Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades Michigan/Huron

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Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago SuperiorHadeil M. Abdelfattah, Ed.D • David Stovall, Ph.D • Nora Lester Murad • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero

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Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom During the Time of Genocide Hyde Park ALena E • Laith A • Palestinian Youth Movement • People's Embargo for Palestine Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge

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How to Close a Camp Study Session ErieBooks Against Borders

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Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE W190John Washington • Silky Shah • Chris Newman • Tania Wolf • Cat Salonek Schladt

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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 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

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Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement Hyde Park ADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History MichiganAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory HuronAshik Siddique • Iskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis W190ACat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom

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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

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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

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Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal

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Jewish Voice for Peace Meet-Up Jackson Park BJVP

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End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners Jackson Park BNawaf A • Jenan A • Palestinian Youth Movement • Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy Burnham ABCSherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine ErieBill Mullen • Andrew Bergman • Sophia Gurule • Michael Letwin • Labor for Palestine National Network The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception Jackson Park CEman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simón Rodríguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US)

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We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the Right W190Damon Williams • Tori Tsui • Beth Howard • Kelly Hayes • Jaz Brisack