Socialism 2026

Sara Osman

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Human rights attorney, documentary filmmaker.

2:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY Burnham ABCViju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine Jackson Park BHeather Aubry • A. Funk • Rumsha S. • Dissenters

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row Clark ABCMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense Jackson Park BJuliet DeJesus Alejandre • Antonio Gutierrez • TBD • Rey Wences • ICIRR • OCAD

6:00pm CDT

New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend Grant Park AB

7:30pm CDT

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition W190Angela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa

1:30pm CDT

"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup Burnham ABC

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation Adler ABCDallas Goldtooth • Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Jackson Park DJohn Washington • Johannes Favi

5:00pm CDT

Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them Jackson Park DAustin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab 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 Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love Grant Park ABnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice

6:30pm CDT

How to Close a Camp Study Session ErieBooks Against Borders

8:00pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror Clark ABCNegin Owliaei • Mansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today Jackson Park ABrian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland • Hammer & Hope

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Black History is for Everyone Adler ABCBrian Jones Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion Clark ABCReed Lindsey • Helen Yaffe • Justine Medina • Chicago Cuba Coalition 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

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 Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free Adler ABCAutumn Brown • Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain • Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg • JVP Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz Field ABCG.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P. Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

5:00pm CDT

Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression Jackson Park ATom Alter • Yarden Azoulay Katz • Diana Rueda • Treasure Thoreson • United Left Platform Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment Grant Park ABRuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

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

Cultural Worker Meet-Up Field ABC

10:00am CDT

The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up Jackson Park DML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life Hyde Park BSomali Organizers from MN