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Friday, September 4
 

10:00am CDT

Organizing Social Workers for Abolition Summit
Friday September 4, 2026 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT
Dusable ABC
Join the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work for a pre-Socialism conference summit for social workers to come together toward organizing for abolition. Learn more and register here.

Sponsors
avatar for Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work
Friday September 4, 2026 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Abolition

2:30pm CDT

The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response
Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Dusable ABC
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.
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AS
TC

T Callahan

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 →
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Ashwin Shantha

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.
Sponsors
avatar for Science for the People
Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Climate Justice

4:30pm CDT

Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against?
Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Dusable ABC
Political education begins from reality: we need to first understand the world in order to change it. This workshop provides a basic grounding in principles of participatory education, the dynamic relationship between our ideas and material reality, and an understanding of Gramsci’s concept of hegemony before inviting participants to collectively map the interlocking repressive and carceral structures we confront every day.
Speakers
GM
CR
AS
Sponsors
avatar for B-REAL
avatar for Center for Political Education
avatar for W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Socialist and Marxist Theory
 
Saturday, September 5
 

10:00am CDT

Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics
Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable ABC
This workshop will introduce dialectical materialism, giving insight into the Marxist theory of change. Dialectics is a useful framework not simply for its explanatory power; this “theory is a weapon”, honed by revolutionaries seeking to transform oppressive systems over generations and across the world. After establishing a baseline of understanding, we’ll deploy dialectics to better grasp the nature of the developments in the struggle for Palestinian liberation, especially focusing on the period of struggle since October 2023.
Speakers
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Samer Araabi

Samer Araabi, Arab Resource & Organizing Center/ Center for Constitutional Rights
TM

Thomas Mariadason

Thomas Mariadason is the Executive Director of the Center for Political Education
CO

Chika Okoye

Chika Okoye is the Lead Educator for the Center for Political Education
Sponsors
avatar for B-REAL
avatar for Center for Political Education
avatar for W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable ABC
  Socialist and Marxist Theory

12:00pm CDT

Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
Incarcerated and detained people have always played a complex role in the movement to end caging and free them all. This session brings together abolitionist organizers focused on permanently closing facilities without replacing them to discuss the process of building cross-walls solidarity beyond campaigns. Speakers will discuss how closure impacts those inside facilities, as well as lessons learned from responding to retaliation, censorship, and a constantly adapting carceral state.
Speakers
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Kendra Drysdale

Kendra Drysdale, California Coalition for Women’s Prisoners (FCI Dublin Fight)
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Berty Hernandez

Berty Hernandez, California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (Shut Down Adelanto)
MM

Mon Mohapatra

Mon Mohapatra (Community Justice Exchange)
T
Sponsors
avatar for Community Justice Exchange
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
Capitalism has never been just an economic system, but has instead always relied on the use of violence, law, and the state in a process Marx described as "so-called primitive accumulation," which reaches its height in colonialism and slavery. This participatory workshop will provide an introduction to this concept and its ongoing relevance, and guide a collective mapping of its relevance for the present.
Speakers
GM
CR
AS
Sponsors
avatar for B-REAL
avatar for Center for Political Education
avatar for W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Socialist and Marxist Theory

5:00pm CDT

The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
Radical historian Howard Zinn changed the way Americans think about their history, but his life itself is a lesson in radical commitment. From the Great Depression to WWII to the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam war, he was part and parcel of the social movements that shaped our world. Join Dave Zirin, author of a new critically-praised book about Howard Zinn’s incredible life and author and actor Brian Jones (who played Marx in Zinn’s one man play ‘Marx in Soho’) for a conversation about the life of Howard Zinn and what his vision and work mean today.
Speakers
BJ

Brian Jones

Brian Jones is the author of Black History Is for Everyone
DZ
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Radical History
 
Sunday, September 6
 

10:00am CDT

En español: El levantamiento de Bolivia: causas, contradicciones y lecciones
Sunday September 6, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable ABC
Este panel en español analiza la explosiva revuelta de la clase trabajadora y los pueblos indígenas de Bolivia contra el choque neoliberal de Paz Pereira. Investigaremos la profundidad y las contradicciones del levantamiento en medio de la rivalidad interimperialista, y apuntamos lecciones para los socialistas en Estados Unidos y abogamos por una solidaridad que se centre en el poder popular boliviano —y no en agendas extranjeras ni en la cooptación por parte de las élites nacionales—.

Lena, Movimento Mulheres em Luta (MML)/ CSP Conlutas-Brasil, PSTU — Emilio, activista y militante socialista en Bolivia - Blanca Misse — La Voz de los Trabajadores

This panel traces Bolivia's explosive working-class and indigenous revolt against Paz Pereira's neoliberal shock. We dissect the uprising's depth and contradictions amid interimperialist rivalry, extract lessons for US socialists, and argue for solidarity that centers Bolivian popular power—not foreign agendas or co-optation by national elites.
Speakers
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Lena

Lena, Movimento Mulheres em Luta (MML)/ CSP Conlutas-Brasil, PSTU
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Emilio

Emilio is an activist and socialist militant in Bolivia
BM
Sunday September 6, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable ABC
  International Politics

12:00pm CDT

Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine
Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
Teach Palestine and the Xicanx Institute for Teaching & Organizing collaborated to provide teachers support in the face of state repression on teaching Palestine and build broader international solidarity. Our panel will share experiences from institutes that take place on the US-Mexico border, and support participants in bringing lessons to their communities.
Speakers
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Anita Fernández

Dr. Anita Fernández has been a high school teacher, a professor and teacher educator for over 20 years. Her teaching, scholarship, activism and organizing have been in the areas of racial justice, decolonizing pedagogies, Chicanx/Latinx movements and Ethnic Studies. After the 2012... Read More →
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Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch

Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank and executive Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance. He is the co-founder of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in Dheisheh. Zeiad is also a filmmaker, journalist and educator who has worked with... Read More →
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Samia Shoman

Samia Shoman, Ed.D,  is a Palestinian-American educator and administrator in the San Francisco Bay Area and the co-coordinator of the Middle East Children's Alliance Teach Palestine Project.  She has spent the past 26 years of her career in public education promoting racial and... Read More →
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Jenine Wehbeh

Jenine Wehbeh is an educator-organizer, circle-keeper, and former Middle School Social Studies teacher and union delegate, with extensive experience in Critical Ethnic Studies and K-12 education, and co-coordinator, Teach Palestine Project of the Middle East Children’s Alliance... Read More →
Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Education Justice

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care
Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
What does family abolition look like through a Black feminist lens? In this introductory workshop, we envision a world in which care is universally accessible and not reliant on the private family. We engage radical imagination to bring this post-capitalist vision to life with a creative exercise and group discussion.
Speakers
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Alanah Armstead

Alanah Armstead (she/her) is a research and writing fellow at Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center and a recent graduate from Yale University with a BA in the History of Science and Medicine and MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Outside of advocating for Black maternal health... Read More →
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Marin Hart

Marin Hart (they/them) is a writer, organizer, and research fellow at Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center. Currently residing in Portland, Oregon, Marin owes much of their reproductive justice education to the kick-ass advocates of the South. Marin got their bachelor's degree in Gender... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center
Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Abolition

5:00pm CDT

Imagine a Future Without Family Policing!
Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
The family policing (aka child welfare) system is designed to place marginalized families under intense state surveillance while it promotes a carceral logic that impedes social change. A growing movement calls for abolition: dismantling the system alongside the radical reimagining of a society that supports families and keeps children safe.
Speakers
DR
Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Abolition

8:00pm CDT

Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social
Sunday September 6, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Dusable ABC
Looking for likeminded community in you neighborhood? Curious about political organizations in your area? Come connect with fellow Chicagoans building local movements!
Sponsors
avatar for 33rd Ward Working Families
Sunday September 6, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Dusable ABC
  Meet-up
 
Monday, September 7
 

10:00am CDT

Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable ABC
Art is a part of movements, but how can it best serve the struggles it emerges from? This panel brings together three political artists who work in a diverse range of contexts to present and discuss what they think art can and should do for movements, and where radical imagination can help to build popular power.
Speakers
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William Estrada

William Estrada is an arts educator and multidisciplinary artist in Chicago. His art and teaching are a collaborative discourse, critically re-examining public and private spaces with people to engage in radical imagination. He is currently a faculty member at the UIC School of Art... Read More →
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Margaret Vail Palmquist

Margaret Vail Palmquist is a DSA member living in Queens, NY originally from St. Paul, MN. She credits the experience of identifying shared emotions through art as her first and deepest relationship with the collective. Though they’ve been ruminating on and expressing ideas through... Read More →
RP

Roger Peet

Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and has been making visual materials for left movements for the last thirty years. He organizes with the Portland chapter of DSA and served... Read More →
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable ABC
  Culture and Art
 

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