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Friday, September 4
 

2:30pm CDT

Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel
Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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Organizers and storytellers from across Chicago’s movements speak to what our people will need to carry into the fights against fascism: deep relationships, courage to act amidst uncertainty, self-reflection and healing, and a long-arc strategy to move us past the short-term pain. This session is held to honor the legacy of our sister and comrade, Amisha Patel.
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Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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Saturday, September 5
 

10:00am CDT

Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE
Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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This panel will explore journalism and other writing about the solidarity networks and mutual aid efforts that emerged in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and other US cities in response to the Trump administration's ICE surge. Speakers include the 2026 Daniel Singer Prize winner Diane de Vignemont, whose winning essay is entitled "Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance," as well as Adam Goodman (Professor at University of Illinois Chicago and author of The Deportation Machine) and Memo Torres (journalist with L.A. TACO and host of the "Daily Memo").
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Adam Goodman

Adam Goodman, Professor at University of Illinois Chicago and author of The Deportation Machine
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Memo Torres

Memo Torres, journalist with L.A. TACO
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Diane de Vignemont

Diane de Vignemont, journalist and winner of this year's Daniel Singer Prize
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Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Sunday, September 6
 

12:00pm CDT

Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History
Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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In a moment where pro-Israel watchdogs are weaponizing antisemitism to attack organizers, students, educators, public schools, and the broader infrastructure of the left, this session will explore the historical roots of how antisemitism began to be weaponized against the left in the late 1960s through a participatory mixer.
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Adam Sanchez

Adam Sanchez is the managing editor of Rethinking Schools. He is also the editor of Teaching a People's History of Abolition and the Civil War and a forthcoming book about teaching Reconstruction. He is a co-editor of Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices.
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Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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5:00pm CDT

Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America
Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
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Against Trump, how can we keep building antiwar and migrant rights movements? As social forces grow in the US behind the May Day movement, No Kings protests, and Minnesota’s general strike against ICE, what will it take to keep building movements from the streets to transform our whole political landscape?
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Griffin Mahon

Griffin Mahon is a DC-based union organizer and a cochair of DSA's National Labor Commission.

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Eleanor Babaev

Eleanor Babaev is a member of DSA’s National Political Committee from NYC, and chair of the DSA’s Trump Admin Response Committee.
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Bol B

Bol is Political Action Coordinator of Twin Cities DSA. He has been a long time labor and electoral organizer in the Twin Cities area, and a DSA member since 2018.
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Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of Chicago, writes a column for In These Times Magazine and is co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, a sci-fi novel... Read More →
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Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
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Monday, September 7
 

10:00am CDT

RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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RePRESSion examines media censorship from South to South and how fascism, genocide, and incarceration intensify repression. This panel shares strategies for press organizing amid media consolidation, AI, and declining literacy—media and illiteracy. Panelists will center abolitionist publishing and amplify incarcerated writers’ perspectives on censorship from inside.
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Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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