Name: Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below
Start: 2026-09-06T15:00:00-0500
End: 2026-09-06T16:30:00-0500

Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below

Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

W190A

Trump’s reelection has triggered historic openings for the left. Wins at the ballot box suggest an organic hunger for leftist political visions among masses of people as well as an enduring exhaustion with the mainstream liberal establishment. In this panel, Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika and Hasan Piker will survey the state of left power in 2026. How can we build on and harness mass disaffection into a principled socialist movement in the US?

Speakers

Hasan Piker

Wielding sharp political insight and a characteristically irreverent sense of humor, Hasan Piker is redefining what political commentary looks like in the digital age. A journalist and wildly-popular content creator on the streaming platform Twitch, Piker has become an authoritative... Read More →

Chenjerai Kumanyika

Chenjerai Kumanyika is a journalist, scholar, organizer, and professor at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the host and creator of Unruly Subjects, produced with Rowhome Productions. Through conversations with organizers, journalists, artists, and scholars, Unruly... Read More →

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