Socialism 2026

Ennissa Martin

Chicago

About me

they/them. anarcho-communist that works in the gaming industry at a unionized studio. chicago born and raised.

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Life After Death Row Clark ABCMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism Adler ABCHasan Piker • Ashik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA

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

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Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics Dusable ABCSamer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

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Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents ErieDiego Morales • PUÑO

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Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades Michigan/Huron

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Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance Jackson Park BAmos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Dio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books • Under the Tree Podcast Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series) Jackson Park CBeatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy Field ABCHeb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation

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Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them Jackson Park DAustin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance Burnham ABCSarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle Jackson Park AMichael A. McCarthy

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Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop Michigan/Huron

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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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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

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Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors Hyde Park BRachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives ErieKate Stewart Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace

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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 Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

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Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America W190BGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA 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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Tarot for Socialists! Grant Park AB

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Tech Worker Meetup Reggies Chicago (2105 S State St)

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The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

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Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible Dusable ABCWilliam Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition Grant Park ABStefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Nze Okoronta • Leah Harris • Liat Ben-Moshe • Death Panel

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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