Socialism 2026

Erica (he/him)

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Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew Grant Park ABNoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against? Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

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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

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"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup Burnham ABC

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Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation Adler ABCDallas Goldtooth • Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments Grant Park ABBarbara Ransby • Sarah Haley The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs ErieLily Luo How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero

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Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love Grant Park ABnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice

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

10:00am CDT

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 Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror Clark ABCNegin Owliaei • Mansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI Field ABCAlex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute 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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Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash W190BS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice Jackson Park AJudith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry Psychic Militancy Jackson Park CLara Sheehi • Pluto Press 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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BIPOC Social Jackson Park BBlack Youth Project 100

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Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas

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Imagine a Future Without Family Policing! Dusable ABCDorothy Roberts 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

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Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up Jackson Park ADebt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective

10:00am CDT

Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition Grant Park ABStefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Nze Okoronta • Leah Harris • Liat Ben-Moshe • Death Panel Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists Jackson Park AAtena Danner • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle Field ABCBenji Hart • Joy James • Andrew Krinks • Belkis Terán

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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