Socialism 2026

April Ruth Hoffmann

Prescott College

Director- MA, Social Justice & Community Organizing

Arizona, Online

https://prescott.edu/social-justice-and-community-organizing-ma

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About me

she/her, LGBTQA2S, brainy dreamer, college teacher, abolition evangelist, geography narratives, community organizing, homemade dishes for community meetings, stuffing envelopes in solidarity

9:00am CDT

Historic Bike Tour: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project

2:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY Burnham ABCViju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel ErieMaya Schenwar • Juliet DeJesus Alejandre • Tanuja Jagernauth • Katelyn Johnson • Rocío García • Truthout From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine Jackson Park BHeather Aubry • A. Funk • Rumsha S. • Dissenters

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row Clark ABCMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark

6:00pm CDT

New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend Grant Park AB Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

7:30pm CDT

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

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

10:00am CDT

Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity W190BNatalie Bencivega • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Demetrius Noble Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia Jackson Park CBeth Howard • Jerome Scott

12:00pm CDT

Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice W190AAmna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams

1:30pm CDT

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades Michigan/Huron

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments Grant Park ABBarbara Ransby • Sarah Haley

5:00pm CDT

Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways Michigan/HuronMira Simonton-Chao • Carlos Ayala • Walls Turned Sideways 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 “As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future Jackson Park BBeth Howard • Jerome Scott • Walda Katz-Fishman • SURJ The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago Field ABCJacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love Grant Park ABnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

10:00am CDT

Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times Jackson Park Cjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine Dusable ABCAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash W190BS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion Clark ABCReed Lindsey • Helen Yaffe • Justine Medina • Chicago Cuba Coalition Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today Jackson Park DAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization

1:30pm CDT

On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop Lake Shore Drive Boardroom

3:00pm CDT

Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilitators Hyde Park BMaya Marshall • Haymarket Books

5:00pm CDT

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 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

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

10:00am CDT

End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners Jackson Park BNawaf A • Jenan A • Palestinian Youth Movement • Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward? Adler ABCDavid Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life Hyde Park BSomali Organizers from MN