Socialism 2026

Kyle Seigel

6:00pm CDT

New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend Grant Park AB Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) Grant Park ABBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia Jackson Park CBeth Howard • Jerome Scott

12:00pm CDT

Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime Jackson Park BEmily Likins-Ehlers Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary Jackson Park DBreht O’Shea • Rev Left Radio

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 the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

5:00pm CDT

War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis Adler ABCJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World Jackson Park CTobita Chow • Ashley Smith They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance Burnham ABCSarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn Dusable ABCBrian Jones • Dave Zirin

10:00am CDT

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 From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI Field ABCAlex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute

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 Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine Dusable ABCAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice Jackson Park AJudith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors Hyde Park BRachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion Clark ABCReed Lindsey • Helen Yaffe • Justine Medina • Chicago Cuba Coalition Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today Jackson Park DAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis W190ACat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care Dusable ABCAlanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance Burnham ABCBraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

5:00pm CDT

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World Jackson Park BDaniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil

6:30pm CDT

Tarot for Socialists! Grant Park AB

7:00pm CDT

Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal

8:00pm CDT

Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up Jackson Park ADebt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective Tech Worker Meetup Reggies Chicago (2105 S State St)