As the climate crisis intensifies, capital is turning to geoengineering, technologies capable of directed perturbation of Earth systems. Here, we’ll explain what geoengineering is and why socialists should be opposed to its development. We will also discuss large-scale visions of ecosocialist transformation that challenge the urgency of intentional climate modification.
T Callahan is a freelance science writer based in Chicago and author of The Stranded Asset on Substack. An editor of the forthcoming third edition of the Ecological Economics textbook and passionate advocate for eco-socialism, T strives to reveal capital's root-level complicity and... Read More →
Ashwin Shantha (they/them) is a Ph.D. student at York University in Toronto, CA. They are a scholar of political economy, focused on exploitation and development in the Global South. Ashwin also maintains the Journal of International Solidarity Substack and podcast.
Myopic local site fights have failed to meet the moment. Meanwhile, broad sloganeering and positive visioning around climate justice have not galvanized workers (especially across the South) the way ecosocialists have hoped. This session will explore how the struggle against Corpus Christi's water crisis became an anti-imperialist and ecosocialist struggle.
Jenny Espino has been organizing across the Gulf South since the Bush era. She has spoken at conferences such as the Southwestern Marxism Conference, the Texas Socialism Conference, Haymarket’s Socialism conference, and on panels and conferences across Europe including Beyond Gas... Read More →
Jake Hernandez is a union steward and the co-chair of Corpus Christi DSA. He has been instrumental in the fight to defend Corpus Christi’s bay and estuaries while connecting local issues like the tax abatements, the drought contingency plan, and water rates to internationalist... Read More →
Chloe Torres is a proud lifelong resident of Corpus Christi, Texas and truly believes in the city’s potential to set an example for other Gulf Coast cities on how to fight back against environmental racism. They helped build successful campaigns to elect and reelect a socialist... Read More →
Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT TBA
We are all living through the most severe ecological crisis in human history, and it can feel overwhelming, disorienting, and hopeless. A vision of a just future seems even more out of reach as capitalism and war continue to dominate the world order. What are we to do? Can our problems be solved politically? Will green energy save us? How can we remain steadfast in the face of an economy dominated by Big Oil, Big Tech, and militarism? In this discussion, prominent climate activist Tori Tsui and journalist Joshua Frank will explore what's at stake and how and why the broader climate movement must think and organize to confront these persistent and daunting challenges.
Joshua Frank is co-editor of CounterPunch and co-host of CounterPunch Radio. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, and the forthcoming, Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who are Selling Off... Read More →
Tori Tsui is an environmental activist, author, and climate advisor originally from Hong Kong. She is a senior advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and a campaigner for the Stop Rosebank coalition. Her work has been featured in British Vogue, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan... Read More →
“Sewer socialists” transformed Milwaukee into a thriving working class city a century ago, and today Zohran Mamdani is raising expectations as a socialist mayor of New York City. How are socialists across American cities organizing collective action to fight the climate crisis, defend immigrants, and expand democracy for all?
Ashik Siddique is national co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, and has served on DSA's National Political Committee since 2021. He has organized with DSA’s campaign for Bernie in 2020, for campaigns against the climate crisis and for labor rights, with protests at the... Read More →
Cihan Tekay Liu is an organizer with NYC DSA, and lecturer at City College of New York. She served as NYC-DSA’s electoral working group’s recruitment co-chair in 2025, overseeing the recruitment of the slate that won the 2026 primaries.
Kelsea Bond is serving as a member of the Atlanta City Council for District 2 since 2026. They are the first Democratic Socialist of America to be elected to the Atlanta City Council.
Alex Brower is alderman of District 3 Common Council in Milwaukee, the first open socialist elected to sit in City Hall since 1960, is an advocate for public utilities, tenants rights, and public education, and is a member of Milwaukee DSA.
The capitalist State has long been propped up by its capacity to compensate for wanton ecological degradation at home and abroad. No historical period illustrates this better than the nineteenth century Peruvian guano trade, as Europe's extractive agricultural practices threatened soil ecology, fueling their imperialist grip on the southern hemisphere.
T Callahan is a freelance science writer based in Chicago and author of The Stranded Asset on Substack. An editor of the forthcoming third edition of the Ecological Economics textbook and passionate advocate for eco-socialism, T strives to reveal capital's root-level complicity and... Read More →
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT TBA
