Socialism 2026

10:00am CDT

Organizing Social Workers for Abolition SummitNetwork to Advance Abolitionist Social Work

2:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY TBAViju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row TBAMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark

12:00pm CDT

Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure TBAKendra Drysdale • Berty Hernandez • Mon Mohapatra • TBD • Community Justice Exchange Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice TBAAmna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire TBALyle May

1:30pm CDT

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition TBARuth Wilson Gilmore Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations TBANick Brown • Eddy Fletcher • James Kilgore • Mon Mohapatra • Stevie Wilson • Community Justice Exchange

5:00pm CDT

Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them TBAAustin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways TBAMira Simonton-Chao • Carlos Ayala • Walls Turned Sideways

6:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition TBAZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care TBAAlanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center

5:00pm CDT

Are All Cops Bastards? TBAbrian bean • Anderson Bean Imagine a Future Without Family Policing! TBADorothy Roberts

10:00am CDT

The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up TBAML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty