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Tanya Jisa
Friday
, September 4
10:00am
CDT
Organizing Social Workers for Abolition Summit
Dusable ABC
Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work
2:30pm
CDT
From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine
Jackson Park B
Heather Aubry • A. Funk • Rumsha S. • Dissenters
Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today
Jackson Park D
Rosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project
4:30pm
CDT
Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed
Jackson Park C
Douglas Paterson
Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against?
Dusable ABC
Geo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
7:30pm
CDT
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition
W190
Angela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa
Saturday
, September 5
10:00am
CDT
Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity
W190B
Natalie Bencivega • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Demetrius Noble
Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics
Dusable ABC
Samer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
12:00pm
CDT
Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice
W190A
Amna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed
Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides
Grant Park AB
Saul Williams
3:00pm
CDT
Land and Abolition
W190B
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance
Jackson Park B
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Dio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books • Under the Tree Podcast
Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism
Jackson Park A
Ndindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform
Propaganda Printmaking
Michigan/Huron
Danielle Bullock
5:00pm
CDT
Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love
Grant Park AB
nyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice
6:30pm
CDT
Songs for Liberation
Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)
Sunday
, September 6
10:00am
CDT
The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement
Grant Park AB
Sean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • TBD • May Day Strong
The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today
Jackson Park A
Brian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland • Hammer & Hope
12:00pm
CDT
Why Socialism Requires Abolition
Grant Park AB
Zohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson
Black History is for Everyone
Adler ABC
Brian Jones
Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives
Erie
Kate Stewart
Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis
W190A
Cat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom
1:30pm
CDT
On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop
Lake Shore Drive Boardroom
3:00pm
CDT
Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections
Michigan
Laura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists
Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below
W190A
Hasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects
5:00pm
CDT
Imagine a Future Without Family Policing!
Dusable ABC
Dorothy Roberts
Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment
Grant Park AB
Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects
7:00pm
CDT
Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion
W190A
Amy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal
Monday
, September 7
10:00am
CDT
The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up
Jackson Park D
ML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty
Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible
Dusable ABC
William Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet
RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy
Burnham ABC
Sherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag
12:00pm
CDT
We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the Right
W190
Damon Williams • Tori Tsui • Beth Howard • Kelly Hayes • Jaz Brisack
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