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Friday, September 4
 

2:30pm CDT

From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine
Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Jackson Park B
You're walking through the produce section and spot your favorite fruit! But how did it get to this grocery store? Whose labor, land, and future is tied up in the farming, packaging, and shipping of that fruit? In this workshop, participants will learn about how the struggles for food sovereignty are intertwined with struggles against imperialism and militarism. Join Chicago Dissenters and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) for an interactive session where participants will discuss, research, and leave with tools for how to divest from capitalist food systems.
Speakers
HA
AF
RS
Sponsors
avatar for Dissenters
Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

4:30pm CDT

What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense
Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Jackson Park B
When hundreds of Border Patrol agents came to Chicago to carry out warrantless arrests and racialized sweeps, Illinoisans mobilized to protect their neighbors and document abuses. But the response from Chicago and its suburban neighbors did not begin with the raids. It was built through decades of organizing, relationship building, and community infrastructure. As immigration enforcement continues to evolve, this panel explores what Chicago’s experience offers organizers confronting expanding state repression and building collective power in their own communities.
Speakers
JD

Juliet DeJesus Alejandre

Juliet De Jesus Alejandre is executive director of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association.
AG
T
RW
Sponsors
avatar for ICIRR
avatar for OCAD
Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Migrant Justice
 
Saturday, September 5
 

10:00am CDT

Lessons of the Russian Revolution
Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Jackson Park B
The 1917 Russian Revolution was one of the 20th century’s most important events. Its early successes inspired workers internationally, but within a decade the revolution had degenerated, and the early gains were replaced with labor camps, show trials, and bureaucratic dictatorship. What lessons does this history hold for socialists today?
Speakers
PG

Phil Gasper

Phil Gasper is co-editor of New Politics, editor of an annotated edition of The Communist Manifesto, and a member of the Tempest Collective.
SW

Suzi Weissman

Suzi Weissman is an editor of Against the Current and Critique. She is an award-winning journalist who hosts “Beneath the Surface” on Los Angeles’ KPFK radio, and the author of Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope.
Sponsors
avatar for Critique
avatar for New Politics
Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Jackson Park B
  Radical History

12:00pm CDT

Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
In a post-Dobbs era, are restrictions on birth control next? Probably. Learn about alternative contraception methods in a hands-on workshop with a doula + herbalist. **this is not medical advice, educational in nature **
Speakers
EL

Emily Likins-Ehlers

Emily Likins-Ehlers is a full spectrum doula and educator in Illinois. They have been working with contraceptive plants and Fertility Awareness for over a decade.
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
Art is too often seen as an extra when building social struggles. Sometimes its seen as an important part of mobilizing people. But too rarely art is treated as a way into organizing and building an alternative to our crisis-ridden world. These artist-activists will bring their rich insights from combined decades of experience to explore art's role in building a better world.
Speakers
AP

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is an American printer, book artist and papermaker best known for social and political commentary, particularly in printed posters. 














DC

Dio Cramer

Dio (they/them) is an artist, organizer, printmaker, and geographer currently living on occupied Dakota lands in so-called Minnesota. Their work is focused on placemaking, community building, and organizing through the arts, and facilitating collective and collaborative art-making... Read More →
RL

Ricardo Levins Morales

Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression.He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Pilsen Community Books
avatar for Under the Tree Podcast
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Culture and Art

5:00pm CDT

“As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
As W.E.B. DuBois said “As goes the South, so goes the nation.” Ruling class and authoritarian forces have always prioritized organizing the South as a way to hold power over the entire nation. If we are to defeat authoritarianism and win a socialist future, we must organize a multiracial working-class base in the South.
Speakers
BH

Beth Howard

Beth Howard is the Cultural Strategist for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), the largest national organization bringing white people into the fight for racial and economic justice. She grew up in a rural white working-class community in Eastern Kentucky and has organized in the... Read More →
JS

Jerome Scott

Jerome Scott was a labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-’70s, and a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. As a community organizer, popular educator and author in the South since the 1970s, he was a founding member and former director of Project... Read More →
WK

Walda Katz-Fishman

Walda Katz-Fishman is a scholar, activist, popular educator and author, and professor of sociology at Howard University. She was a founding member and former board chair of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. She is a contributing author and editor... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for SURJ
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Left Strategy
 
Sunday, September 6
 

10:00am CDT

The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence
Sunday September 6, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Jackson Park B
In this workshop we will map the network of US and Israeli companies and investors fueling the world’s first AI-powered genocide in Gaza, and delve into the revolving door of tech and capital between Silicon Valley and Israel’s “Silicon Wadi.” We’ll discuss the destructive impacts of the Deadly Tech Exchange for communities in the US, Palestine, and beyond, and offer action steps for fighting back through cross-movement campaigning.
Speakers
IM

Izzy Mustafa

Izzy Mustafa is the Co-Executive Director at Adalah Justice Project, a Palestinian-led organization focused on campaigns that challenge militarism, big tech, and systems of oppression while supporting labor organizing and building broad coalitions for justice and liberation.
ER

Edith Romero

Edith Romero is originally from Honduras; she grew up in a banana town in the north coast of Honduras and moved to New Orleans to begin her higher education. Edith holds a Master’s in Healthcare Management and has experience in community health, Latinx health, reproductive justice... Read More →
ES

Eric Sype

Eric Sype, US National Organizer, 7amleh. Eric fights for Palestinian human rights as 7amleh’s National Organizer in the U.S. He holds a Master of Development Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, where he researched the impacts of technological advancements on decolonizing... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Adalah Justice Project
Sunday September 6, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Jackson Park B
  Science and Tech

12:00pm CDT

Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint
Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
Help! I don’t know where to start! Don’t worry we got you! We will put you through three acting scenarios in small groups that will help build the basis of your organizing journey! Join Byp100 in building more rounded organizers and preparing for a world we want to live in.
Speakers
BM
Sponsors
avatar for Black Youth Project 100
Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Organizing

1:30pm CDT

BIPOC Social
Sunday September 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
Jackson Park B
"This is for the homies, strictly for the homies. This is for the homies... the real homies!" Come kick it with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, who identify as socialists, communists, leftists, anarchists, abolitionists, feminists, liberationists, radicals, and revolutionaries. We are curating a space for us and by us, where we can just “BE"! Music and vibes will be provided. You just need to bring yourself and the homies! Hosted by Black Youth Project 100.
Sponsors
avatar for Black Youth Project 100
Sunday September 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Meet-up

3:00pm CDT

Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building
Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
Rank-and-file movements in labor unions have shaped the terrain of labor struggle in recent years, with varying impact within union halls and on the shop floor. Some have served primarily as “reform” vehicles for a wing of the union bureaucracy, while others have anchored rank-and-file struggles on the shop floor with a reinvigorated class-struggle vision. UAW President Shawn Fain and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, now the leading voices of the left and right labor bureaucracy, respectively, represent the culmination of two prominent union reform movements in recent years. While their initial promises of increased militancy and new organizing were refreshing, their administrations have yielded mixed results and often reinforced existing old-guard forces within the labor bureaucracy and the U.S. two-party system. At a time of all-time low unionization rates and decreased strike activity, we need to evaluate how to build rank-and-file movements capable of confronting the state and capital on key questions of our moment, from fighting ICE and imperialist wars to organizing the South. We’ll discuss and debate strategies for socialists organizing to build class-struggle unions.
Moderators
TG

Toni Gilpin

Toni Gilpin is a labor historian, author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Bergman

Andrew Bergman

Co-Chair, Unite All Workers For Democracy (UAWD)
Andrew Bergman is an assembly worker at General Motors, member of UAW Local 22, and UAWD Co-Chair
NL

Nelson Lichtenstein

Nelson Lichtenstein is a historian of labor and capital, biographer of Walter Reuther, author of Why Labor Unions Matter (2026). 
avatar for Luigi Morris

Luigi Morris

Luigi Morris is an immigrant worker, a labor journalist, and a member of Left Voice. He is a former UPS warehouse worker and a former member of Teamsters Local 804 in NYC.
MT

Margie Thornton

Margie Thornton is a legal services worker in Colorado, steward in UAW Local 2320, UAWD Steering Committee member.
Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Labor Movement

5:00pm CDT

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World
Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
Join Vicky Osterweil on a quest to discover how Disney’s “imagineers” have made it impossible to reflect on the wonders of growing up without thinking of Disney's movies, amusement parks, and merchandising. Drawing on extensive interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters, union organizers, and Disney “adults” alike, Osterweil unearths reactionary political commitments and maleficent legal maneuvers so cartoonishly evil they would make one of Walt's own animated villains blush.
Speakers
DM

Daniella Mazzio

Daniella Mazzio is a Chicago-based, award-nominated culture writer, screenwriter, accessibility consultant, and performer, who has been featured in the Chicago Reader, Indiewire, Autostraddle, Slate, the Boston Globe, WBEZ Chicago, and more. In 2025, she launched a new film podcast... Read More →
VO

Vicky Osterweil

Vicky Osterweil is a Philadelphia-based writer, agitator, and worker and the author of The Extended Universe and In Defense of Looting. She is a member of the anarchist journal CAW and has written about the intersections of film, politics, and culture for publications such as The... Read More →
Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Culture and Art

8:00pm CDT

Jewish Voice for Peace Meet-Up
Sunday September 6, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Jackson Park B
Jewish Voice for Peace is the world's largest Jewish organization supporting Palestine. We're organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews. If you’re looking for a political home for Jews on the left in this perilous moment; if you’re wanting a Jewish community with justice at the center; if you're looking to turn your anger and grief into meaningful, strategic action: you belong with us. Come connect with other JVP members and leaders from across the country.
Sponsors
avatar for JVP
Sunday September 6, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Meet-up
 
Monday, September 7
 

10:00am CDT

End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Jackson Park B
Since October 2023, Israel has waged a genocide behind bars, systematizing and intensifying historic tactics of abuse and degradation against Palestinian prisoners, and turning prisons into death camp as part of Israels broader campaign to break the will of the Palestinian People. Palestinian Political Prisoners are the Compass of the National Struggle for Palestinian Liberation, the demand for their freedom must be amplified.
Speakers
NA
JA
Sponsors
avatar for Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
avatar for Palestinian Youth Movement
Monday September 7, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Jackson Park B
  Anti-colonial Politics
 

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