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Socialism 2022

3:00pm CDT

The Prison is Censorship Burnham A/B/CSafear Ness • Stevie Wilson • Saleem Holbrook • Kim Wilson • Bryant Arroyo • Jessica Sylvia • Study & Struggle Building a Black Mass Movement for Socialism in the Age of White Nationalism Grant Park A/BAshley Green • Nyle Fort • Akin Olla • Dream Defenders The Crisis in American Politics: Socialists and Liberal Democracy Adler A/B/CSanjiv Gupta • Paul Heideman • DSA

5:00pm CDT

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom Grant Park A/BDerecka Purnell • Thomas Mariadason When Chicago Fought Environmental Racism and Won Hyde Park AOscar Sanchez • Carlos Enriquez Abortion is Won in the Streets: Strategies for the Reproductive Justice Movement Post-Roe Field A/B/CEmily Janakiram • Mandy Medley • Derenda Hancock • NYC for Abortion Rights Socialism and Disability Justice: Theory and Practice Clark B/CDana Cloud • Nina Lozano • Keith Rosenthal When We Fight: The Teachers' Strike Wave in Retrospect (Film Screening & Discussion) Burnham A/B/CDaniel Denvir • Jesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge The Border Crossed Us: Labor, Migration, and Working-Class Internationalism Adler A/B/CJustin Akers Chacón The Struggle for Housing for All Hyde Park BApryl Hill • Paul Williams • Taylor Channing • Daniel Tutt • DSA

9:00pm CDT

Live in Concert: Linqua Franqa & Ric Wilson Regency Ballroom CLinqua Franqa • Ric Wilson

10:00am CDT

Building Debtor Power in the Age of Finance Dusable B/CRené Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Ami Schneider • Debt Collective Disability, Madness, Liberation: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Adler A/B/CLiat Ben-Moshe Crises, Wars, and Revolts at the Edge of a New Global Slump Grant Park A/BDavid McNally • Shireen Akram-Boshar • Spectre Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Sudan Clark B/CRabab Elnaiem • Sara Abbas Social Resistance in Contemporary China Hyde Park AEli Friedman • Lu Yao • Eric Chen Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee: Reviving the American Labor Movement Field A/B/CDaphna Thier • Gabriel Winant • Teagan Harris • Tristan Bock-Hughes • Olivia Prager • Elce Redmond • DSA Behind the Rescue: Sex Work, Migration, and the "Anti-Trafficking Industry" Burnham A/B/CElene Lam • Chanelle Gallant • Yves Tong Nguyen • Butterfly • Red Canary Song Building the Party: An Inside-Outside Strategy for Organizing Beyond Elections Hyde Park BRyan Clancy • Aaina Lakha • DSA

1:00pm CDT

What Is a Culture War and Can It Be Won? Field A/B/CBen Davis The Case Against Nuclear Power Hyde Park AJoshua Frank Transgender Marxism Grant Park A/BJules Joanne Gleeson • Kade Doyle Griffiths • Sophie Lewis • Pluto Books Revolutionary Organization Today - An International Perspective Clark B/CAndreu Coll • Alejandro Bodart • TBD Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) Burnham A/B/COlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò The ABCs of Marxism Clark APhil Gasper Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Socialist Solutions to the Gun Crisis Dusable B/CDanny Katch How Do We Get a New Constitution? Adler A/B/CMie Inouye • Aziz Rana • Amna Akbar • DSA Organizing the South Hyde Park BAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson

3:00pm CDT

#FreeThemAll: Liberation for Criminalized Survivors Clark B/CDeana Lewis • Chez Rumpf • Santera Matthews • Love & Protect • Survived & Punished Black Feminism and Black Liberation in 2022 Grant Park A/BBarbara Ransby Monsters Against Moralism: The Politics of Our Golden Age of Horror Dusable B/CJohn McDonald Socialists in Defense of Abortion Rights Hyde Park BAileen Garza • Suz Warshell • Melanie Turner-Harper • DSA Pandemic Politics and the Viral Underclass Burnham A/B/CSteven Thrasher Palestinian Liberation, Internationalism, and Abolition Adler A/B/CMohammed El-Kurd Rank and File Power: Socialists and Labor Resurgence Hyde Park AJesse Sharkey • TBD • Dawn Tefft • DSA Crisis of Scientific Credibility: Reclaiming Science for the Left Clark AGail Robson • Jack Fox • Chris Dols • Science for the People Learning from Organizing, Putting Knowledge to Work: Linking Analysis and Struggle Field A/B/CGabriel Winant • Donna Murch • Mie Inouye • Daniel Denvir • n+1

5:00pm CDT

We Keep Each Other Safe: Community Safety De-escalation Training Clark B/CHaleema Bharoocha-Jobe EWOC Training: Learn how to Organize your Workplace Field A/B/CEWOC Abortion Access Activism After Roe Meet-Up Burnham A/B/CDSA • Lux • Solidarity • Tempest • Chicago for Abortion Rights • NYC for Abortion Rights AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus (DSA) Meet and Greet Adler A/B/CAfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Climate Justice Organizing Meet-Up Clark A Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up Grant Park A/BDSA Palestine Solidarity Meet-Up Dusable B/C

6:30pm CDT

PIC Abolitionist Strategy Discussion Adler A/B/CBettina Johnson • Erica Meiners • Sharlyn Grace • AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color

8:00pm CDT

Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition Regency BallroomRuth Wilson Gilmore

10:00pm CDT

Party with Lux! Hotel BarLux

10:00am CDT

Everything for Everyone: Possible Communist Futures and Speculative Fiction Field A/B/CEman Abdelhadi • Sophie Lewis The Longer Road to a Green New Deal Hyde Park BSean Estelle • Gustavo Gordillo • Stylianos Karolidis • DSA Abortion Struggles Across the World Burnham A/B/CLexi McMenamin • Natalia Tylim • Martyna Jałoszyńska • Rayito Rocha Gaza is Palestine: Voices from Under the Blockade Adler A/B/CShafeka Hashash • Jehad Abusalim Abolitionist Internationalism: Borders, Migration, and Racial Capitalism Grant Park A/BHarsha Walia • Robin DG Kelley Racial Capitalism, Deaths of Despair and the Black Working Class in the Post-Civil Rights Era Clark B/CDonna Murch Christians and the Socialist Struggle: Promises and Perils Hyde Park AAaron Anderson • Obery Hendricks • Josh Davis The Democratic Party and the Impasse of the Left Dusable B/CHaley Pessin • Andy Sernatinger • Tempest

1:00pm CDT

Playing Through Fire: Sports In A Time Of Reaction Adler A/B/CDave Zirin A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics Field A/B/CHadas Thier Rebuilding a New Reproductive Justice Movement: Taking on the Right Grant Park A/BFlynn Murray • Natalia Tylim • Anne Rumberger • Cheryl Rivera • Sarah Leonard • Lux Turning the Tide Against Endless War: QTBIPOC Youth Anti-Militarist Organizing Dusable B/CAree Worawongwasu • Yaira Matos • Ngakiya Camara • Dissenters Fight Like Hell: Labor's Past, Present, and Future Burnham A/B/CKim Kelly • Pilsen Community Books A Movement for Our Class: Socialists and Multiracial Organizing Today Hyde Park BKevin Richardson • Michelle Valentin Nieves • Tefa Galvis • DSA Antisemitism and Empire: Jewishness in US Race Politics and Foreign Policy Hyde Park ALesley Williams • Jonah ben Avraham • Benjamin Balthaser In Defense of Socialist Planning: Why Socialism Requires Planning Clark ADjamil Lakhdar-Hamina • Carlos Perez • Donald Parkinson • Cosmonaut Magazine Backlash: Crime and the Return of Law-and-Order Politics Clark B/CNaomi Murakawa

3:00pm CDT

Health Communism: Toward a New Political Economy of Health Burnham A/B/CArtie Vierkant • Beatrice Adler-Bolton Ukraine, Self-Determination, and Imperialist War Dusable B/CYuliya Yurchenko Solidarity with Brazil and Latin America's Pink Tide Hyde Park BJana Silverman • Andre Pagliarini • Kristian Hernandez • DSA Socialism at the Workplace Hyde Park ARonnie Almonte • Paul Kirk-Davidoff • Elizabeth Lalasz Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education Clark B/CJesse Hagopian • Rethinking Schools Socialist Politics in Tenant Organizing Clark AGabrielle Rene • Zafiro Patino • Lizette Montes • Mason Andrew Kilpatrick • Sabrina Davis • Solidarity Yes We Do Mean Smash the State: In Defense of Revolution Adler A/B/Cbrian bean • Rampant Magazine Municipal Socialism in the U.S. Midwest Field A/B/CRossana Rodriguez • Carlos Rosa The Dig LIVE: What Now? Perspectives on the Conjuncture Grant Park A/BOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò • Daniel Denvir • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Robin DG Kelley • The Dig

4:30pm CDT

Chicago DSA Meet and Greet Grant Park A/BDSA Higher Ed Meet-Up Dusable B/C Ukraine Solidarity Meet-Up Field A/B/C Centering Criminalized Survivors: Understanding Intersecting Patterns of Violence Burnham A/B/CDeana Lewis • Chez Rumpf • Monica Cosby • Love & Protect • Survived & Punished Crafting Ourselves and Each Other - Abolitionist Crafting Circles Clark B/CBettina Johnson • AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Dig Listeners Happy Hour Hotel PatioThe Dig

7:00pm CDT

Confronting an Empire in Collapse: Cooperation Jackson and the Effort to Build Eco-Socialism from Below Clark B/CTBD • Kali Akuno • Cooperation Jackson Eco-Socialist Futures: Strategies for building a Fighting Left Climate Movement Field A/B/CKate Aronoff • Matthew T. Huber • Drew Pendergrass • Verso Books Abolish the Family: Feminism for Care and Liberation Dusable B/CSophie Lewis • Rosie Warren • Salvage The Changing Face of US Empire Hyde Park AAnand Gopal Black and Indigenous Liberation: A Dialogue Burnham A/B/CLeanne Betasamosake Simpson • Robyn Maynard Class Struggle Unionism Adler A/B/CJoe Burns Freedom Dreams and the Socialist Project Grant Park A/BRobin DG Kelley

9:00pm CDT

Powerlands: Film Screening & Discussion Burnham A/B/CIvey Camille Manybeads Tso • Nina Berglund • Selest Manning The Measures Taken: A "Learning Play" by Bertolt Brecht Regency Ballroom

10:00am CDT

Fighting Police Surveillance: Lessons from Chicago Field A/B/CJosé Manuel • Adwoa Agyepong • AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Media as a Liberatory Tool: Imagining our Abolitionist Futures Dusable B/CAlysia Nicole Harris, Ph.D. • Cierra Hinton • Darryl Holliday • Scalawag Magazine Unpacking the Anti-Trans Backlash Clark B/CEric Maroney Socialist Internationalism Comes from Below Burnham A/B/CAndrea Sempértegui • Promise Li • Shiyam Galyon • Solidarity • Internationalism From Below Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future Grant Park A/BPatty Krawec Sabotage and the Antiwar Movement in Russia Hyde Park AAnia Aizman 40 Years of DSA: Founding and Future Hyde Park BJose Alejandro La Luz • David Duhalde • Natalie Midiri • Max Elbaum • DSA • DSA Fund

12:00pm CDT

A World to Win: The Fight for a Socialist Future Regency BallroomAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson • David McNally • Donna Murch