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Friday
, September 4
Adler ABC
2:30pm •
From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature
4:30pm •
Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism
Bar/Patio
6:00pm •
Welcome Happy Hour
Burnham ABC
10:00am •
Reproductive Justice Strategy Session
2:30pm •
Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY
4:30pm •
Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics
Clark ABC
2:30pm •
We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training
4:30pm •
Life After Death Row
Dusable ABC
10:00am •
Organizing Social Workers for Abolition Summit
2:30pm •
The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response
4:30pm •
Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against?
Erie
2:30pm •
Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel
4:30pm •
How Veterans & Labor Are Fighting VA Union Busting And Privatization
Field ABC
4:30pm •
Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too
Grant Park AB
9:30am •
Marxism Education Series
4:30pm •
Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew
6:00pm •
New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend
Hyde Park A
4:30pm •
Transformative Rural Organizing
Hyde Park B
4:30pm •
People Over Mega-Events: Organizing for Housing, Workers, and Communities Beyond the World Cup
Jackson Park A
4:30pm •
Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies
Jackson Park B
2:30pm •
From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine
4:30pm •
What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense
Jackson Park C
2:30pm •
Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power
4:30pm •
Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed
Jackson Park D
2:30pm •
Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today
4:30pm •
Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora
Lobby Concourse
9:30pm •
Radical Trivia Night!
Michigan/Huron
9:30pm •
Radical Game Night!
Superior
2:30pm •
Inside Organizing 101
4:30pm •
Why Eugene Debs Matters
W190
7:30pm •
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition
Saturday
, September 5
Adler ABC
10:00am •
Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry
12:00pm •
Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era
3:00pm •
Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation
5:00pm •
War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis
Burnham ABC
10:00am •
Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors
12:00pm •
The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire
1:30pm •
"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup
3:00pm •
Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations
5:00pm •
They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance
Clark ABC
12:00pm •
AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes
1:30pm •
Labor for Palestine National Network Meet-Up
3:00pm •
Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union
5:00pm •
Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion
Dusable ABC
10:00am •
Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics
12:00pm •
Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure
3:00pm •
Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation
5:00pm •
The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
Erie
10:00am •
Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives
12:00pm •
Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents
3:00pm •
The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs
6:30pm •
How to Close a Camp Study Session
Field ABC
10:00am •
Labor at the Margins
12:00pm •
Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition
3:00pm •
All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy
5:00pm •
The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago
Grant Park AB
10:00am •
Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)
12:00pm •
Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides
3:00pm •
Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments
5:00pm •
Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love
Hyde Park A
10:00am •
Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE
12:00pm •
Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present
1:30pm •
Public Educators Meet-Up
5:00pm •
Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom During the Time of Genocide
7:00pm •
Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee Meet Up
Hyde Park B
10:00am •
No Such Thing As NIMBY: The Fight to Protect Our Water
12:00pm •
What Is the Muslim Left?
3:00pm •
Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today
5:00pm •
Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment
Jackson Park A
10:00am •
Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE
12:00pm •
Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism
3:00pm •
Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism
5:00pm •
The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle
Jackson Park B
10:00am •
Lessons of the Russian Revolution
12:00pm •
Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime
3:00pm •
Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance
5:00pm •
“As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future
Jackson Park C
10:00am •
Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia
12:00pm •
State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era
1:30pm •
Socialist Horizon Meet-up
3:00pm •
Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series)
5:00pm •
The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World
6:30pm •
United Left Platform Meet-up
Jackson Park D
10:00am •
Gender and Accumulation
12:00pm •
Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary
3:00pm •
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention
5:00pm •
Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them
Michigan/Huron
1:30pm •
Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades
3:00pm •
Propaganda Printmaking
5:00pm •
Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways
6:30pm •
Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop
Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)
8:30am •
Morning Yoga
6:30pm •
Songs for Liberation
Superior
3:00pm •
Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago
5:00pm •
When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor
W190
8:00pm •
Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE
W190A
10:00am •
The Black Path to Socialism
12:00pm •
Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice
3:00pm •
How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future
W190B
10:00am •
Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity
12:00pm •
Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance
3:00pm •
Land and Abolition
Sunday
, September 6
Adler ABC
12:00pm •
Black History is for Everyone
3:00pm •
Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free
5:00pm •
The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate
Bronzeville Winery
6:30pm •
Organizer Happy Hour
Burnham ABC
12:00pm •
Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing
3:00pm •
The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance
5:00pm •
Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there
8:00pm •
The South Meet Up
Clark ABC
10:00am •
Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror
12:00pm •
Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion
3:00pm •
Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation
5:00pm •
We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Dusable ABC
10:00am •
En español: El levantamiento de Bolivia: causas, contradicciones y lecciones
12:00pm •
Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine
3:00pm •
Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care
5:00pm •
Imagine a Future Without Family Policing!
8:00pm •
Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social
Erie
10:00am •
Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home
12:00pm •
Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives
3:00pm •
Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education
Field ABC
10:00am •
From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI
12:00pm •
The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly
3:00pm •
Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz
5:00pm •
The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave
8:00pm •
Cultural Worker Meet-Up
Grant Park AB
10:00am •
The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement
12:00pm •
Why Socialism Requires Abolition
3:00pm •
Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy
5:00pm •
Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment
6:30pm •
Tarot for Socialists!
Huron
12:00pm •
The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory
Hyde Park A
10:00am •
Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence
12:00pm •
Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement
5:00pm •
People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South
8:00pm •
Library Workers Meetup
Hyde Park B
12:00pm •
Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors
3:00pm •
Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilitators
8:00pm •
South Asian Solidarity Meet-Up
Jackson Park A
10:00am •
The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today
12:00pm •
Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice
3:00pm •
Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century
5:00pm •
Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression
8:00pm •
Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up
Jackson Park B
10:00am •
The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence
12:00pm •
Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint
1:30pm •
BIPOC Social
3:00pm •
Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building
5:00pm •
The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World
8:00pm •
Jewish Voice for Peace Meet-Up
Jackson Park C
10:00am •
Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times
12:00pm •
Psychic Militancy
Jackson Park CD
9:00pm •
The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH
Jackson Park D
10:00am •
Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments
12:00pm •
Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today
Lake Shore Drive Boardroom
1:30pm •
On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop
Michigan
12:00pm •
Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History
3:00pm •
Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections
7:00pm •
Tempest Meet-Up
Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)
8:30am •
Morning Yoga
Reggies Chicago (2105 S State St)
8:00pm •
Tech Worker Meetup
RSVP to receive location info
7:00pm •
Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up
Superior
10:00am •
The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium
12:00pm •
The Present State of People’s History
3:00pm •
Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence
6:30pm •
Firebrands: the Organizing RPG | Actual Play Session!
W190A
12:00pm •
Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis
3:00pm •
Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below
5:00pm •
Are All Cops Bastards?
7:00pm •
Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion
W190B
12:00pm •
Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash
3:00pm •
Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series)
5:00pm •
Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America
Monday
, September 7
Adler ABC
10:00am •
Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward?
Burnham ABC
10:00am •
RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy
Clark ABC
10:00am •
Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead
Dusable ABC
10:00am •
Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible
Erie
10:00am •
The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine
Field ABC
10:00am •
Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle
Grant Park AB
10:00am •
Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition
Hyde Park B
10:00am •
How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life
Jackson Park A
10:00am •
Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists
Jackson Park B
10:00am •
End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
Jackson Park C
10:00am •
The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception
Jackson Park D
10:00am •
The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up
Superior
10:00am •
A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift
W190
12:00pm •
We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the Right
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