Socialism 2026

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Kara Rodriguez

Raise The Floor Alliance

Communications Director

Chicago

10:00am CDT

Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE Hyde Park AAdam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation

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 Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime Jackson Park BEmily Likins-Ehlers Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era Adler ABCRoxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD What Is the Muslim Left? Hyde Park BAshik Siddique • Maryam Adamu • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Acacia Magazine Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents ErieDiego Morales • PUÑO AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes Clark ABCShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

3:00pm CDT

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 Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today Hyde Park BMary Coleman • Maheen • Qudsiyyah Shariyf • Em Gonzalez • Lawrence • Lux • Chicago For Abortion Rights

5:00pm CDT

Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment Hyde Park BLeena Odeh • Christian Snow • Morgan Wilson • Law 4 Black Lives The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago Field ABCJacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez

8:00pm CDT

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

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

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 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 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 The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory HuronAshik Siddique • Iskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives ErieKate Stewart Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis W190ACat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom

1:30pm CDT

BIPOC Social Jackson Park BBlack Youth Project 100

3:00pm CDT

Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) W190BBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Silky Shah • A. Naomi Paik • Death Panel Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

5:00pm CDT

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World Jackson Park BDaniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there Burnham ABCJustin Akers Chacón • Lucia Flores • Victor Rodríguez • Dan Troccoli • Workers Voice

6:30pm CDT

Organizer Happy Hour Bronzeville WineryScalawag • The Forge

7:00pm CDT

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

8:00pm CDT

Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social Dusable ABC33rd Ward Working Families

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

10:00am CDT

Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible Dusable ABCWilliam Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists Jackson Park AAtena Danner • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth

12:00pm CDT

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