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Friday, September 2
 

3:00pm CDT

The Prison is Censorship
A conversation among criminalized people about censorship behind prison walls and how it impacts knowledge acquisition and production, organizing, community building, healing, and political imagination. This panel will discuss various forms and purposes of censorship in prison, highlighting its connections to recent attacks on Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ+ people. The panel will highlight the ways that people inside and outside can build connections and resist prison censorship.
Speakers
SN
SW
SH
KW
BA
JS

Sponsors
avatar for Study & Struggle

Friday September 2, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Building a Black Mass Movement for Socialism in the Age of White Nationalism
After over a decade of sustained uprisings around the value and dignity of Black lives, we sit at a critical juncture in the fight against white supremacy, fascism, and capitalism. Join Nyle Fort, Derecka Purnell, Akin Olla, and others for a conversation on building a national Black movement for socialism in the “United States.”
Speakers
AG
NF
AO

Sponsors
avatar for Dream Defenders

Friday September 2, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Black Liberation

3:00pm CDT

The Crisis in American Politics: Socialists and Liberal Democracy
The Democrats are incapable of governing. The Republicans seek to undermine elections around the country. The Supreme Court strips millions of rights and the Senate prevents progress. How should socialists spearhead the fight for democracy and worker power?
Speakers
SG
PH

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Friday September 2, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  US Politics

5:00pm CDT

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
The 2020 uprisings against police violence opened a new horizon for many people. In this session, Derecka Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition, and what the new systems that work to address the root causes of violence and harm in society could do.
Speakers
avatar for Derecka Purnell

Derecka Purnell

Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, researcher, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training in community based organizations through an abolitionist... Read More →
avatar for Thomas Mariadason

Thomas Mariadason

Thomas Mariadason joined Center for Political Education (CPE) in 2021 as its interim executive director. CPE is located in California’s Bay Area and has been a resource for political organizations on the left, progressive social movements, the working class and people of color for... Read More →

Friday September 2, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Abolition

5:00pm CDT

When Chicago Fought Environmental Racism and Won
Earlier this year community members is Chicago's Southeast Side successfully pressured the city of Chicago to deny the operating permit that would allow a dangerous metal shredder to relocate to their neighborhood. In this talk we will reflect on how that victory was made possible.
Speakers
avatar for Oscar Sanchez

Oscar Sanchez

Oscar Sanchez is a resident of Chicago’s Southeast Side. Oscar co-founded the Southeast Youth Alliance, Southeast Response Collective, a member of Chicago’s Democratic Socialist of America previously serving in the south side steering committee, member of United Working Families... Read More →
avatar for Carlos Enriquez

Carlos Enriquez

Carlos Enriquez is a socialist and organizer based in Chicago. He has been active in multiple local environmental justice campaigns, including the Stop General Campaign. He is also a member of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, and most recently served a term on the Executive... Read More →

Friday September 2, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Hyde Park A
  Environmental Justice

5:00pm CDT

Abortion is Won in the Streets: Strategies for the Reproductive Justice Movement Post-Roe
In our new reality of abortion bans in half of the country, what is the way forward for abortion activists and how do we channel the anger and energy of this immediate post-Roe moment into long-term strategies to expand abortion access and advance reproductive justice priorities?
Speakers
EJ

Emily Janakiram

NYC for Abortion Rights
MM

Mandy Medley

Chicago for Abortion Rights
DH

Derenda Hancock

Pinkhouse Defenders/We Engage

Sponsors
avatar for NYC for Abortion Rights

Friday September 2, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Field A/B/C
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

5:00pm CDT

Socialism and Disability Justice: Theory and Practice
Presentations on Disability Justice and Socialism, Political Economy of Disability, Crip Time and Workers with Disabilities, Protesting While Disabled
Speakers
DC
NL

Nina Lozano

Nina Lozano is an activist and a professor of communication studies at Loyola Marymount University and a scholar of Latinx movements and culture and the author of Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border (2019). A longtime activist, they identify as a queer disabled person. 
avatar for Keith Rosenthal

Keith Rosenthal

Keith Rosenthal is the editor of Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell (Haymarket Books, 2019, and is a graduate student at the City University of New York. Many of his writings can be found on the blog Joan of Mark.

Friday September 2, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Clark B/C
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

5:00pm CDT

When We Fight: The Teachers' Strike Wave in Retrospect (Film Screening & Discussion)
Join Daniel Denvir, Yael Bridge, and Jesse Sharkey for a screening of When We Fight, a short documentary about the 2019 L.A. teachers’ strike, and a conversation about the teachers’ strike wave and its legacy as well as the state of teacher organizing today, as teachers, parents, and students experience the sharp edge of interlocking social crises.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Denvir

Daniel Denvir

Daniel Denvir is host of The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. He is the author of All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It (2020).
avatar for Jesse Sharkey
YB

Friday September 2, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Labor Movement

5:00pm CDT

The Border Crossed Us: Labor, Migration, and Working-Class Internationalism
The aggressive exploitation of labor on both sides of the US-Mexico border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North America, but this vicious model of capitalist transnationalization has also created its own grave-diggers. This session will explore why fighting for migrant justice and rebuilding the international union movement both require that we demand an open border.
Speakers
avatar for Justin Akers Chacón

Justin Akers Chacón

Justin Akers Chacón is an educator, activist, and writer in the San Diego-Tijuana border region. His recent works include No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the US-Mexico Border (with Mike Davis, Haymarket Books, 2nd edition, 2018), Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas... Read More →

Friday September 2, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  Migrant Justice

5:00pm CDT

The Struggle for Housing for All
Rents and housing prices are skyrocketing. Cities continue to criminalize the unhoused. How can socialists organize for affordable and public housing?
Moderators
AH

Speakers
PW
TC
DT

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Friday September 2, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

9:00pm CDT

Live in Concert: Linqua Franqa & Ric Wilson
Athens, Georgia-based rapper, linguist, activist, parent, and politician Mariah Parker (they/them) aka Linqua Franqa

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Ric Wilson: Chicago's own disco/funk dynamo demands a dance party for the beautiful struggle.
Artists
LF
RW

Friday September 2, 2022 9:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Regency Ballroom C
  Music
 
Saturday, September 3
 

10:00am CDT

Building Debtor Power in the Age of Finance
As wealth continues to concentrate at the top, people are increasingly forced into debt to make ends meet. What could a debtors movement achieve in our financialized economy? This session will consider recent economic trends, examine different forms of household debt and their interrelation, and explore how indebtedness creates the conditions for new forms of political organization.
Speakers
RC

René Christian Moya

René Christian Moya is an organizer with the Debt Collective and the Los Angeles Tenants Union. He is the former campaign director for the Proposition 21 campaign — a ballot initiative in 2020 to strengthen rent control in California — and has worked extensively on tenant rights... Read More →
avatar for Lindsey Muniak

Lindsey Muniak

Lindsey Muniak is an organizer with the Debt Collective, where her work focuses on medical debt and the financialization of health care. She lives in Baltimore and co-chairs End Medical Debt Maryland, a statewide coalition of labor unions and community groups fighting predatory medical... Read More →
avatar for Ami Schneider

Ami Schneider

Ami Schneider is a student debt striker and member of the Debt Collective. She lives in the Chicago area and recently helped lead her workplace in their unionization drive. She is now a part of the contract negotiating committee. She also organizes with The Schaumburg Area Progre... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Debt Collective

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable B/C
  Economics

10:00am CDT

Disability, Madness, Liberation: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Prison abolition and massive decarceration are often portrayed as utopian ideals, but few have grappled with the fact that it has happened already. The history of the deinstitutionalization movement from psychiatric hospitals and residential institutions shows the limits of rights and legal discourses as well as hope for abolition of carcerality in our time. Join Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe for a discussion of the intersections of disability justice and prison abolition.
Speakers
avatar for Liat Ben-Moshe

Liat Ben-Moshe

Liat Ben-Moshe is an activist-scholar working at the intersection of incarceration, abolition and disability/madness; author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (University of Minnesota Press 2020) and co-editor of Disability Incarcerated (Palgrave... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Adler A/B/C
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

10:00am CDT

Crises, Wars, and Revolts at the Edge of a New Global Slump
The world economy is beset by multiple crises that have accentuated conflicts between great powers, especially between the US, Russia, and China, triggered struggles of oppressed nations, and detonated class and social movements within states. This panel will lay out perspectives for socialists on building class, social, and national struggles for liberation.
Speakers
avatar for David McNally

David McNally

David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. McNally is the author of seven books and has won a number of awards, including the Paul Sweezy Award from the American Sociological... Read More →
SA

Shireen Akram-Boshar

Shireen Akram-Boshar is a socialist activist currently based in Boston, a member of DSA's BDS Working Group, and a Spectre editorial board member.

Sponsors
avatar for Spectre

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

10:00am CDT

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Sudan
The Sudanese Revolution of 2019 is one of the highpoints of the past few years wave of global resistance. The uprising that ousted president Omar al-Bashir sparked a revolutionary process in Sudan that is still undergoing. After a tenuous power-sharing agreement with the military, an military coup that was reversed, and resignation of the civilian head of the transitional government the Sudanese people remain a highly organized combative revolutionary force from below. This talk will cover lessons of that struggle with speakers from Sudan and especially look at the lessons of the bottom-up organizing of the resistance committees and talk about the path ahead for the revolutionary movement.
Speakers
RE
SA

Sara Abbas

Sara Abbas is a researcher and political scientist active in Sudan solidarity work. She is interested in the intersection of social movements, gender, and regime change, especially in Sudan and has written and edited several pieces on Sudan’s December Revolution. She is currently... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Clark B/C
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

Social Resistance in Contemporary China
Although the space for explicitly leftist movements has become increasingly constrained in China in recent years, important developments have occurred. This panel will analyze linkages between three key areas of social oppression and resistance: labor, gender, and education.
Speakers
EF

Eli Friedman

Eli Friedman, Associate Professor, Cornell University
LY
EC

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Hyde Park A
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee: Reviving the American Labor Movement
Founded at the beginning of the pandemic to support workers fighting for COVID protections, EWOC has built a powerful network of workers and volunteers to turn workplace discontent into worker power.
Moderators
DT

Daphna Thier

Daphna Thier is the Labor Education Coordinator for Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC). She's also a longtime bartender based in Brooklyn. And the current chair of the DSA National Political Education Committee (NPEC). You can also find her written work at Jacobin.com... Read More →

Speakers
GW

Gabriel Winant

Gabe is a labor historian at the University of Chicago. His book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America came out last year. He’s a former member and organizer with UNITE HERE and currently a volunteer organizer with EWOC.
TH

Teagan Harris

Teagan is a former student at the University of Chicago’s Masters in the Humanities Program where she studied indigenous art and curatorial work. While studying there, she worked at a local tea shop. She and her coworkers organized their workplace with the help of EWOC– earning... Read More →
TB

Tristan Bock-Hughes

Tristan is an organizer with the Illinois Nurses Association and formerly one of two staff with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Through EWOC, other staff positions, and volunteer efforts he has worked with dozens of union locals and worker organizations throughout the... Read More →
OP

Olivia Prager

Olivia is a current Medical Case Manager working with adults living with HIV and AIDS at Howard Brown Health Center. She was one of the initial staff members brought into the organizing campaign for Howard Brown Health Workers United shortly after EWOC helped re-connect them with... Read More →
ER

Elce Redmond

Elce is a muckraker who has been both a community and union organizer for the past 36 years. For the last two years he has served as a volunteer organizer with EWOC that has built a distributed remote model to support workers organizing in their workplace. Elce is proud to be an organizer... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Field A/B/C
  Labor Movement

10:00am CDT

Behind the Rescue: Sex Work, Migration, and the "Anti-Trafficking Industry"
How have the state, law enforcement and NGOs formed and benefited from an anti-migrant, carceral “anti-human trafficking industry” that exploits and harms sex workers, people of colour and migrants? A passionate conversation between abolitionist migrant sex work organizers Elene Lam and Chanelle Gallant, co-authors of the forthcoming book, Behind the Rescue, along with Yves Tong Nguyen of Red Canary Song.
Speakers
EL

Elene Lam

Elene Lam (LLM, MSW) is an activist, community organizer, educator, and human rights defender. She is the founder of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network). She has involved in the the migrant, sex workers’, labour, gender and racial justice movement for over... Read More →
CG

Chanelle Gallant

Chanelle Gallant has over 20 years experience as an organizer, writer and strategist in movements for sex workers rights and racial justice. She is on the board of Showing Up for Racial Justice and her writing has appeared in dozens of publications, most recently Beyond Survival, Pleasure... Read More →
YT

Yves Tong Nguyen

Yves Tong Nguyen (they/she) is a queer and disabled Viet cultural worker and sex worker whose organizing home is with Survived & Punished NY and Red Canary Song. Yves is personally concerned with supporting survivors of all forms of violence through organizing and informal community... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Butterfly
avatar for Red Canary Song

Red Canary Song

Red Canary Song, a grassroots collective, based in Queens, NY/unceeded Lenape land, of Asian and migrant massage workers an sex workers centering basebuilding with migrant workers through a labor rights framework and mutual aid.

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Migrant Justice

10:00am CDT

Building the Party: An Inside-Outside Strategy for Organizing Beyond Elections
Socialists don’t just run for office to pass bills – we also need to build a movement. Electoral organizers and candidates will talk about how to turn supporters into members who keep fighting after Election Day.
Speakers
RC
AL

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Hyde Park B
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

1:00pm CDT

What Is a Culture War and Can It Be Won?
“Culture war” is everywhere today as a concept, on the right and left. This talk looks at the concept’s origin in the late ‘80s at the end of the Cold War, and its contemporary renaissance, as a way to clarify what role this framing of politics has in today’s debates.
Speakers
avatar for Ben Davis

Ben Davis

Ben Davis is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, which ARTnews named one of the best art books of the decade in 2019. He has been Artnet News's National Art Critic since 2016. His writings have also been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Baffler, Jacobin... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Field A/B/C
  Culture and Art

1:00pm CDT

The Case Against Nuclear Power
Nuclear energy is making a comeback and is now being heralded as a key ingredient to fixing our climate crisis. Yet, nuclear power is anything but "renewable" or "green". From the mining of uranium on Indigenous lands, to its grave radioactive risks, to nuclear technology's ties to atomic weapons, there is a myriad of reasons nuclear power must be opposed.
Speakers
JF

Joshua Frank

Joshua Frank is an award-winning California-based journalist and co-editor of the political magazine CounterPunch. He is a co-author of several books, most recently The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink (AK Press).

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Hyde Park A
  Environmental Justice

1:00pm CDT

Transgender Marxism
Building on the landmark book, Transgender Marxism, and its provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory, this session will explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in the workplace and the home, and the increased right-wing scaremongering against ‘gender ideology’.
Speakers
JJ

Jules Joanne Gleeson

Jules Joanne Gleeson is a writer, comedian and historian. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine, Invert Journal and VICE, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events.
KD
avatar for Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer living in Philadelphia and a teaching faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She has an affiliation (albeit an unpaid one) with the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sophie... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Pluto Books

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

1:00pm CDT

Revolutionary Organization Today - An International Perspective
Socialists from three continents discuss the ongoing necessity to build revolutionary organizations. Efforts from the last decades have faced sometimes terminal challenges, while a growing opening exists for Marxist politics, based in part on the impasse of recent broad party and reformist projects. What lessons should be drawn given that the need for revolutionary change internationally is making itself clearer by the day?
Speakers
AC
AB
T

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Clark B/C
  International Politics

1:00pm CDT

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
“Identity politics” continues to polarize public discourse, but the problem is not with identity politics itself. In this session, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò will discuss how this and other radical concepts can be stripped of their political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests.
Speakers
avatar for Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers, and... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Racism and Anti-Racism

1:00pm CDT

The ABCs of Marxism
This talk will explain key Marxist ideas about class, the state, economic crises, and revolution with the aim of showing how they remain relevant for socialists in the 21st century. The emphasis will be on Marxism as a method that requires creative application to the problems we face today.
Speakers
PG

Phil Gasper

Phil Gasper is the editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document (Haymarket, 2005), co-editor of New Politics, and a member of the Tempest Collective.

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Clark A
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

1:00pm CDT

Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Socialist Solutions to the Gun Crisis
Gun violence–from mass shootings to homicides to suicides–is on the rise, worsening an ongoing crisis and feuling a “law and order” backlash. This meeting will lay out how socialists can reject the failed “good guys vs bad guys” framework of both the NRA and police departments–and respond to the sometimes conflicting demands of public safety, decriminalization, non-violence, and self-defense.
Speakers
avatar for Danny Katch

Danny Katch

Danny Katch is an activist and humorist often accused of not knowing the difference. He is the author of Socialism... Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation and has contributed chapters to Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America and 101 Changemakers... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Dusable B/C
  US Politics

1:00pm CDT

How Do We Get a New Constitution?
The Left’s path to power is blocked by one of the oldest and least democratic founding documents in the world. Will it take a revolution to rewrite our Constitution? The recent Constituent Assembly in Chile may show a way forward.
Moderators
MI

Speakers
avatar for Aziz Rana

Aziz Rana

Aziz Rana is a professor of law at Cornell University, and his research focuses on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped American legal and political identity. He is the author of The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2014).
avatar for Amna Akbar

Amna Akbar

Amna Akbar is an Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University. Her research and teaching focus on social movements, critical theory, and policing, race, and inequality. Her scholarship explores the intersections of national security and criminal law, and the potential of social... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  US Politics

1:00pm CDT

Organizing the South
The US South has long been home to white supremacist terror and fear, but it has also produced sacred stories of love and Black resistance. Any strategy to change the politics of this country for the better cannot abandon or concede the South to the right. What does it mean to fight, to build community, and to center the most marginalized while resisting and overcoming the historic challenges of organizing in the South?
Speakers
avatar for Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a 33 year old, Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working class woman, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN. She has served as president of the Black Affairs... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
  US Politics

3:00pm CDT

#FreeThemAll: Liberation for Criminalized Survivors
In this session, Survived & Punished National, Love & Protect, and the Free Chrystul Kizer Defense Campaign will focus on defining the term “criminalized survivors,” building survivor defense campaigns, and supporting survivors at the intersections of intimate partner and state violence. We will discuss the barriers survivors face and the practical support that survivors need on their pathways to liberation.
Speakers
DL
CR
SM

Sponsors
avatar for Love & Protect
avatar for Survived & Punished

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Clark B/C
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Black Feminism and Black Liberation in 2022
Speakers
avatar for Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby

Dr. Barbara Ransby is a widely acclaimed historian of the Black Freedom Movement, award-winning author, and longtime activist. She is the John D. MacArthur Chair and Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Black Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Monsters Against Moralism: The Politics of Our Golden Age of Horror
Moralism has been the life blood of the horror genre for as long as there have been boogey-men in hockey masks stalking around murdering teenagers. And yet, on today's blood splattered celluloid, cheap morality tales have mostly been replaced by overt political/social anxieties. What do the rise of Family Horror, social thrillers, and anti-moralist monsters say about our cultural moment?
Speakers
JM

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Dusable B/C
  Culture and Art

3:00pm CDT

Socialists in Defense of Abortion Rights
Bodily autonomy has been severely restricted by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. How can socialists organize to protect abortion rights where they exist, provide and expand access where they don’t, and win a permanent nationwide right to free and legal abortion?
Speakers
AG
SW
MT

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Pandemic Politics and the Viral Underclass
Viruses like COVID-19, HIV, or monkeypox do not infect or kill in a vacuum. Join Dr. Steven Thrasher for a discussion of the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll through channels more determined by social structures than biology alone.
Speakers
avatar for Steven Thrasher

Steven Thrasher

STEVEN W. THRASHER, PHD holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world created to focus on LGBTQ research. He is also a faculty member of Northwestern’s Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

3:00pm CDT

Palestinian Liberation, Internationalism, and Abolition
The colonization of Palestine is ongoing, and Palestinians continue to struggle for their liberation. Mohammed El-Kurd will discuss historic and contemporary Palestinian resistance, and how the liberation of Palestinians is intimately tied to the liberation of all those fighting capitalism and state violence across the globe.
Speakers
avatar for Mohammed El-Kurd

Mohammed El-Kurd

Mohammed El-Kurd is an internationally-touring poet and writer from Jerusalem, Palestine. His work has been featured in The Guardian, This Week In Palestine, Al-Jazeera English, The Nation, and the forthcoming Vacuuming Away Fire anthology, among others. Mohammed graduated from the... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  International Politics

3:00pm CDT

Rank and File Power: Socialists and Labor Resurgence
Socialists have been involved in many union fights over the last few years. To organize the unorganized and re-build the labor movement, we need to transform our unions into vehicles for class struggle.
Moderators
avatar for Jesse Sharkey

Speakers
T
DT

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Hyde Park A
  Labor Movement

3:00pm CDT

Crisis of Scientific Credibility: Reclaiming Science for the Left
The distrust of science is rampant today across the political spectrum. This crisis of scientific credibility has historical precedence as a manifestation of the crisis of capitalism itself. The ruling class’s adherence to scientism only deepens the rift between the people and a liberatory science. Only a radical analysis of science rooted in social and political action can resolve this crisis and usher in a science for the people.
Speakers
GR
JF

Jack Fox

Jack Fox is an active member in SftP's anti-militarism working group.
CD

Sponsors
avatar for Science for the People

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Clark A
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

3:00pm CDT

Learning from Organizing, Putting Knowledge to Work: Linking Analysis and Struggle
How do activists learn from struggles, and how do we put our analysis to work in our fights? This panel will feature an open-ended discussion of the relationship between intellectual work and organizing work, drawing on both historical examples and the experiences of participants.
Speakers
GW

Gabriel Winant

Gabe is a labor historian at the University of Chicago. His book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America came out last year. He’s a former member and organizer with UNITE HERE and currently a volunteer organizer with EWOC.
avatar for Donna Murch

Donna Murch

Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, where she is chapter president of the New Brunswick chapter of Rutgers AAUP AFT. Her newest book, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives was published by Haymarket Books... Read More →
MI
avatar for Daniel Denvir

Daniel Denvir

Daniel Denvir is host of The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. He is the author of All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It (2020).

Sponsors
avatar for n+1

Saturday September 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Field A/B/C
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

5:00pm CDT

We Keep Each Other Safe: Community Safety De-escalation Training
In this quick 30-minute training you will learn about safe non violent interventions you can do when witnessing verbal harassment. The intervention model is survivor centered and aims to minimize harm and de-escalate. Participants will learn 4 steps of intervention. It is on us to look out for each other. As we build abolitionist communities, it is imperative that we create models of community safety.


#WeKeepEachotherSafe #ComeForOneFaceUsAll 
Speakers
avatar for Haleema Bharoocha-Jobe

Saturday September 3, 2022 5:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Clark B/C
  Meet-Up

5:00pm CDT

EWOC Training: Learn how to Organize your Workplace
Learn how to organize your workplace with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC).
Sponsors
E

Saturday September 3, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Field A/B/C
  Labor Movement

5:00pm CDT

Abortion Access Activism After Roe Meet-Up
Sponsors
CF
avatar for DSA
avatar for Lux
avatar for NYC for Abortion Rights
avatar for Solidarity
avatar for Tempest

Saturday September 3, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Meet-Up

5:00pm CDT

AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus (DSA) Meet and Greet
Come through and join comrades as we meet, build connections, and be in community with each other. Any self identifying Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color is welcome to attend. DSA membership isn’t required. So, join us as we’ll play games, have fun, and so much more!
Sponsors
avatar for AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color

Saturday September 3, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  Meet-Up

5:00pm CDT

Climate Justice Organizing Meet-Up
Saturday September 3, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Clark A
  Meet-Up

5:00pm CDT

Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up
Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Saturday September 3, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Meet-Up

5:00pm CDT

Palestine Solidarity Meet-Up
Saturday September 3, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Dusable B/C
  Meet-Up

6:30pm CDT

PIC Abolitionist Strategy Discussion
In the two years since the 2020 Uprisings, the international demands on the streets remarkably included demands to defund the police towards abolition. We hope to delve deeper in terms of what we've seen unfold since 2020. possibly cohering around some shared analysis or language in defining the problem and a general horizon where we are headed.

The format will include some opening level setting remarks that include shared assumptions and observations with the goal to make the conversation as generative as possible in the limited time we have.

This workshop is sponsored by National AfroSocialists and Socialist of Color Caucus and the National DSA Abolition Working Group.
Moderators
BJ

Speakers
EM
SG

Sponsors
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Saturday September 3, 2022 6:30pm - 8:00pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  Meet-Up

8:00pm CDT

Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
The politics of abolition don’t just reject police, prisons, border control, and the current punishment system. Abolition requires persistent organizing for what we need, organizing that's already present in the efforts people cobble together to achieve access to schools, health care and housing, art and meaningful work, and freedom from violence and want. Abolition requires that we change one thing: everything.
Speakers
avatar for Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical... Read More →

Saturday September 3, 2022 8:00pm - 9:30pm CDT
Regency Ballroom
  Abolition

10:00pm CDT

Party with Lux!
Lux is a new magazine producing essential journalism about the struggle for reproductive justice, alongside other vital work from today's leading socialist feminists. It's sex, with class.

Join Lux staff for a drink, and mix and mingle with authors, readers, and fellow conference goers.
Sponsors
avatar for Lux

Saturday September 3, 2022 10:00pm - Sunday September 4, 2022 12:00am CDT
Hotel Bar
 
Sunday, September 4
 

10:00am CDT

Everything for Everyone: Possible Communist Futures and Speculative Fiction
How do we imagine an emancipated society? Our visions of the future can enrich our day-to-day struggles. Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi will discuss revolutionary social reproduction in Eman’s coauthored novel Everything for Everyone. This new work of speculative fiction recounts a successful global insurrection that topples capitalist states, settler colonialism, and the nuclear family.
Speakers
EA

Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, artist and activist who writes and thinks at the intersection of identity, politics, sexuality and gender. She is co/author of the revolutionary communist novel, Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions... Read More →
avatar for Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer living in Philadelphia and a teaching faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She has an affiliation (albeit an unpaid one) with the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sophie... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Field A/B/C
  Culture and Art

10:00am CDT

The Longer Road to a Green New Deal
The climate crisis continues, but the prospects for transformative national legislation are grim. How do we reclaim public ownership and win clean public power at the state and city levels?
Speakers
SE
GG
SK

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Sunday September 4, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Hyde Park B
  Environmental Justice

10:00am CDT

Abortion Struggles Across the World
At this meeting we'll get an in depth look at the movements for abortion in Poland and Argentina, plus greetings from the Mexican movement. These struggles are ripe with lessons for a new generation of socialist feminists in the US coming to terms with why and how we have been losing so much ground, but more importantly, what inspiration we can draw to reverse that.
Speakers
LM

Lexi McMenamin

Lexi McMenamin (they/them) is the News & Politics Editor at Teen Vogue and a freelance writer focused on politics, identity, culture, and movements. They are the co-organizer of the Zenith Cooperative, a mentorship program for early-career journalists from marginalized backgrounds. They have reported for the BBC, VICE News, Sojourners, The Nation, The New Republic, Mic, and elsewhere... Read More →
NT

Natalia Tylim

Natalia is a revolutionary socialist, a New Yorker, a restaurant worker, and an abortion activist. She's a member of NYC-DSA, NYC for Abortion Rights, Restaurant Organizing Project, and Tempest Collective.
MJ

Martyna Jałoszyńska

Martyna Jałoszyńska is a Polish feminist and activist. Member of left-wing party Together and European Democracy Youth Network. Graduated from Polish Philology, Gender Studies and Promotion & Advertisement. Currently she's working with senior citizens, children and people with disabilities... Read More →
RR

Rayito Rocha

Rayito Rocha is a psychologist and activist from ciudad Juàrez, Chihuahua, Mèxico. She has worked with the relatives of femicide victims since 2006 with Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (NHDRC). She also led an artistic Project “Los Rostros del Feminicidio" painting murals with... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

10:00am CDT

Gaza is Palestine: Voices from Under the Blockade
Why is a focus on Gaza key to understanding Palestine? What do oft-ignored Palestinians in Gaza have to say about their experiences living under blockade, in the world’s largest open-air prison? This panel will feature contributors to the forthcoming book Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, who will situate Gaza historically and politically.
Speakers
SH
JA

Jehad Abusalim

Jehad Abusalim is the Education and Policy Coordinator at the Palestine Activism Program of AFSC in Chicago. Jehad is a PhD candidate at the History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies joint program at New York University. His research examines Arab intellectual writings on Zionism from... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Adler A/B/C
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

Abolitionist Internationalism: Borders, Migration, and Racial Capitalism
This session will situate struggles to dismantle detention, deportation and borders within the interconnected movements against everyday criminalization and control, arguing that the fight to abolish borders is integral to abolitionist practices of care, safety, worldmaking, and internationalist liberation.
Speakers
avatar for Harsha Walia

Harsha Walia

Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Border and Rule (2021) and Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and... Read More →
avatar for Robin DG Kelley

Robin DG Kelley

Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Migrant Justice

10:00am CDT

Racial Capitalism, Deaths of Despair and the Black Working Class in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This talk will focus on the fate of Black working class people in the 1970s through the present, as a way to challenge mainstream understanding of the successes of the civil rights movement. While greater mobility and access became possible for a segment of black workers (especially in the public sector), targeted criminalization, the overlapping wars on drugs and gangs, deindustrialization and the neoliberal turn had devastating effects for the Black majority.
Speakers
avatar for Donna Murch

Donna Murch

Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, where she is chapter president of the New Brunswick chapter of Rutgers AAUP AFT. Her newest book, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives was published by Haymarket Books... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Clark B/C
  Racism and Anti-Racism

10:00am CDT

Christians and the Socialist Struggle: Promises and Perils
There is a rise of religious organizations joining the socialist struggle. This panel will explore what role religion should play in socialist politics; the rightwing’s hegemony in US Christianity and what socialists can learn from it; and the difference between “reactionary socialism” and a truly emancipatory Christian socialist politics.
Speakers
AA

Aaron Anderson

Aaron Anderson is a co-founder of the Institute for Christian Socialism and managing editor of The Bias Magazine. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
OH

Obery Hendricks

Dr. Obery Hendricks is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar in America today. He has been a Wall Street investment executive, a theological seminary president, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative think tank... Read More →
JD

Josh Davis

Josh Davis is the Executive Director of the Institute for Christian Socialism (ICS). He is an Episcopalian theologian, ethicist, and educator.

Sunday September 4, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Hyde Park A
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

10:00am CDT

The Democratic Party and the Impasse of the Left
Crises of class inequality, race and gender oppression, and climate raise the question of how socialists should relate to a political system defined by two capitalist parties. Why does Marxism center mass struggle and class independence? What is the role of the Democratic Party in undermining or advancing the fight for a socialist future?
Speakers
HP

Haley Pessin

Haley (she/they) is a rank-and-file member of 1199 SEIU, a member of the Tempest Collective, and co-editor of the forthcoming book Voices of the Twenty-First Century for Seven Stories Press.
AS

Andy Sernatinger

Andy Sernatinger is a socialist and labor activist based in Madison, Wisconsin. He has written for In These Times, Jacobin, Labor Notes, and New Politics, and is a founding member of the Tempest Collective.

Sponsors
avatar for Tempest

Sunday September 4, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable B/C
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

1:00pm CDT

Playing Through Fire: Sports In A Time Of Reaction
Social movements tend to arise within the world of sports during periods of upsurge and upheaval. But what about times of authoritarianism, dictatorship, or even fascism? What is the social role of the athlete during periods of reaction? Can movements even grow within the sports world during difficult times?
Speakers
avatar for Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin is the sports editor for the Nation and the author of several books, most recently Brazil's Dance with the Devil. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN, and Democracy Now! He hosts WPFW's... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  Culture and Art

1:00pm CDT

A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
To dismantle the economy of the 1%, we have to understand it. Marxism offers a radical economic theory that explains both the basics of how capitalism works (and doesn't work), as well as current predicaments: from inflation, to the anarcho-capitalism of cryptocurrencies, to the coming recession.
Speakers
avatar for Hadas Thier

Hadas Thier

Hadas Thier is the author of A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics, and writes for a number of publications, including Jacobin, The Nation, and In These Times.

Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Field A/B/C
  Economics

1:00pm CDT

Rebuilding a New Reproductive Justice Movement: Taking on the Right
The Dobbs ruling is an important building block in the right’s efforts toward minority rule – repressing the rights of the many to protect the power of the few. This panel will delve into the intersections of abortion with policing, surveillance, medical service provision, and more, and analyse strategies for fighting for abortion access, revitalizing the left, and defeating the right.
Moderators
avatar for Flynn Murray

Flynn Murray

Flynn Murray is the publisher of Lux magazine, and is a labor and reproductive justice activist in New York.

Speakers
NT

Natalia Tylim

Natalia is a revolutionary socialist, a New Yorker, a restaurant worker, and an abortion activist. She's a member of NYC-DSA, NYC for Abortion Rights, Restaurant Organizing Project, and Tempest Collective.
AR
avatar for Cheryl Rivera

Cheryl Rivera

Cheryl Rivera is an editor, writer and organizer in Brooklyn. She's interested in building abolitionist communities, better cities, and games.
avatar for Sarah Leonard

Sarah Leonard

Sarah Leonard is the editor-in-chief of Lux magazine. She is also a contributing editor to Dissent and The Nation.

Sponsors
avatar for Lux

Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

1:00pm CDT

Turning the Tide Against Endless War: QTBIPOC Youth Anti-Militarist Organizing
How are youth organizing in solidarity with everyday people impacted by US wars and militarism? Rooted in shared principles of self-determination and solidarity with everyday people and liberation movements, Dissenters youth are organizing grassroots campaigns against war profiteers at home and building international solidarity with anti-militarist comrades abroad.
Speakers
AW
YM
NC

Sponsors
avatar for Dissenters

Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Dusable B/C
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

1:00pm CDT

Fight Like Hell: Labor's Past, Present, and Future
The radical, multiracial, and multi-gendered history of American labor offers a deep well of inspiration for today’s labor struggles in all their forms. Join author and journalist Kim Kelly for a discussion of the fighting American labor movement, the oft-forgotten and silenced working class heroes who got us here, and what it will take to bring down the boss.
Speakers
avatar for Kim Kelly

Kim Kelly

Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baffler, The Nation, the... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Pilsen Community Books

Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Labor Movement

1:00pm CDT

A Movement for Our Class: Socialists and Multiracial Organizing Today
The Left and the labor movement must overcome the divisions in the working class. Hear about the centrality of cross-racial unity and specific fights where workers came together to win.
Speakers
KR
MV
TG

Sponsors
avatar for DSA

Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
  Racism and Anti-Racism

1:00pm CDT

Antisemitism and Empire: Jewishness in US Race Politics and Foreign Policy
From Cold War constructions of Judeo-Christianity to the threat of cultural Marxism, US political culture has long obsessed over imagined political meanings of Jewishness. We'll discuss how Euro-Christian ideas about Jews have helped to constitute the American nation-state, consolidate the capialist ruling class at home and abroad, and fuel right-wing anti-systemic movements.
Moderators
LW

Lesley Williams

Lesley Williams is a member of the coordinating committee for Jewish Voice for Peace in Chicago, the advisory board and Speakers Bureau for Jews Against Anti-Muslim Racism, and a founding member of Tzedek Chicago, an anti-Zionist, pro social justice synagogue in Chicago. Lesley has twice visited the West Bank with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence for solidarity work and resistance with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists, and was on CJNV's Strategy and Values planning team. She has spoken... Read More →

Speakers
JB

Jonah ben Avraham

Jonah ben Avraham is a socialist activist and member of the Tempest Collective based in Columbus, Ohio. His work on Jewish politics, Zionism, and the fight against antisemitism can be found in Tempest, Truthout, Rampant, New Politics, and more.
BB

Benjamin Balthaser

Benjamin Balthaser is Associate Professor of Mutit-Ethnic U.S. Literature at Indiana University, South Bend, and is the author of Anti Imperialist Modernism and Dedication. His writing has appeared in Jacobin, Boston Review, Spectre and elsewhere.  His book project, Citizens of... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Hyde Park A
  Racism and Anti-Racism

1:00pm CDT

In Defense of Socialist Planning: Why Socialism Requires Planning
A major goal of socialists is to win the fight for democracy by extending democracy to the economy. Capitalism is a contradictory couple of the “free market” and the dictatorship of the workplace. The “free market” implies anarchy of production and production for profit but not human-welfare. The dictatorship of the workplace means the rigorous planning of the labor process and intense exploitation of labor. For Marxists, economic democracy means planning , the planning of the economy in a way to assure the welfare of human-beings and the health of the planet. So what is planning? How is it distinguished from market mechanisms of distribution? Can there be a “free market” in socialism? How does planning contribute to the goal of democracy? What will allow for planning i.e. the social and material conditions necessary to make planning feasible? This talk hosted by three members of Cosmonaut Magazine will hope to address these questions and more. The talk is divided into three parts: 1) Basics on Planning: Definition and Values 2)Market and Capitalism, Planning and Socialism 3) Social and Material Conditions on Planning: Technology and Social Organization
Speakers
DL

Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina

Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina is an applied mathematician and computer scientist working at the National Institute of Health (NIH). He is a member of general staff at Cosmonaut Magazine and helps run the Cosmonaut Science podcast. He has written for Cosmonaut Magazine, Weekly Worker, and... Read More →
CP
DP

Sponsors
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Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Clark A
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

1:00pm CDT

Backlash: Crime and the Return of Law-and-Order Politics
The US is witnessing a renewed anti-crime campaign, with Democratic elites at the forefront. This talk will analyze the repressive backlash since the Black Lives Matter uprising in summer 2020—and how liberals have tried to turn BLM into a victims’ rights movement.
Speakers
avatar for Naomi Murakawa

Naomi Murakawa

Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She studies the reproduction of racial inequality in 20th and 21st century American politics, with specialization in crime policy and the carceral state. She is the author of The First Civil... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Clark B/C
  US Politics

3:00pm CDT

Health Communism: Toward a New Political Economy of Health
Health is so inextricably linked to capital that achieving health justice will require deeper changes than just the implementation of policies like Medicare for All. Adler-Bolton and Vierkant will discuss their forthcoming book, Health Communism, and what the left can gain from a focus on the political economy of health. (This session will now be a virtual presentation.)
Speakers
AV

Artie Vierkant

Artie Vierkant is the co-host of the Death Panel podcast about the political economy of health and co-author of the forthcoming book Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso).
BA

Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is the co-host of the Death Panel podcast about the political economy of health and co-author of the forthcoming book Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso).

Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

3:00pm CDT

Ukraine, Self-Determination, and Imperialist War
Yuliya Yurchenko analyzes the current Russian war in Ukraine, situating the inter-imperial rivalry within the trajectories of global neoliberal restructuring and post-Soviet developments. This session will put forward a perspective on Ukraine and imperialism rooted in the politics of solidarity and self-determination.
Speakers
avatar for Yuliya Yurchenko

Yuliya Yurchenko

Yuliya Yurchenko is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the Department of Economics and International Business and a researcher at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute, University of Greenwich, UK. She is the author of Ukraine and the Empire... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Dusable B/C
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

3:00pm CDT

Solidarity with Brazil and Latin America's Pink Tide
Later this year, Workers’ Party leader Lula da Silva will compete against the far-right president of Brazil Jair Bolsanoro. Leftist figures have won in Peru, Honduras, and Chile. What can we learn from their success?
Speakers
JS
AP
KH

Sponsors
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Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
  International Politics

3:00pm CDT

Socialism at the Workplace
Workplaces have become sites of real explosive struggle during the pandemic, raising the stakes for all workers. Being a socialist at work means more than being the best builder of your union. Our horizon extends beyond the parameters of strengthening the union movement, our sights are on the full transformation of society, and based on a conviction that working class people have the capacity to win it all. How does this vision guide us as we fight the immediate horrors within our workplaces?
Speakers
avatar for Ronnie Almonte

Ronnie Almonte

Ronnie Almonte is a science teacher in New York City and a member of the Executive Board of his union, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT). He organizes with the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) caucus. You can read and subscribe to his newsletter at www.ronniealmon... Read More →
PK

Paul Kirk-Davidoff

Paul K-D is a member of UFCW Local 663 and the shop steward for his local. He's does a lot of writing on different local labor struggles in the Twin Cities.
avatar for Elizabeth Lalasz

Elizabeth Lalasz

Elizabeth Lalasz is a registered nurse and steward with National Nurses United. She's been interviewed during the pandemic about working conditions and how nurses have fought back in The New York Times, Buzzfeed News, Dissent, In These Times, Truthout and Midwest Socialist. She's... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Hyde Park A
  Labor Movement

3:00pm CDT

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education
Today there is legislation in some 42 states that seeks to require teachers to lie to students about structural racism, sexism, and heterosexism. This neo-McCarthyist attack on education has led to hundreds of book banns, the firing of teachers around the country for discussing antiracist themes, and even physical attacks on educators. This coordinated assault on honest accounts of U.S. history that grapple with white supremacy and oppression is about more than a Republican Party reelection strategy; it is about discrediting public education in a bid to privatize, halting the gains in consciousness that were advanced during the 2020 uprising, and ultimately an attempt at epistemicide--the killing, silencing, or annihilation of entire systems of knowledge. Yet a growing movement of educators, students, and parents are building the Teach Truth movement—rooted in the long tradition of the fight for Black education—against the “violence of organized forgetting.” (This session will now be a virtual presentation.)
Speakers
avatar for Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian is a member of the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee and teaches Ethnic Studies at Seattle’s Garfield High School.  Jesse is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, the co-editor of the book, Teaching for Black Lives, and the editor of the book... Read More →

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Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Clark B/C
  Racism and Anti-Racism

3:00pm CDT

Socialist Politics in Tenant Organizing
A dialogue among tenant organizers about connecting their grassroots project to building socialist consciousness/organization. Focus especially on strategies for overcoming shame/self-blame, developing members' capacities for engaging in difficult conversations around oppression, cohering community across differences in the political worldviews/cultural differences/languages that individuals bring into the organization, building confidence in the power of self-organization,
Speakers
GR
ZP
LM
MA
SD

Sponsors
avatar for Solidarity

Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Clark A
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

3:00pm CDT

Yes We Do Mean Smash the State: In Defense of Revolution
Contemporary capitalism exploits and degrades human beings around the world, relying on the violent power of states to create profits, guarantee the functioning of markets, and cheapen labor through violence. There is no way to build a liberated future for all of us without overthrowing capitalism, and that will mean confronting and dismantling the capitalist state, its prisons, policing, borders, and military. It’s time we talk about smashing the state.
Speakers
avatar for brian bean

brian bean

brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist activist, writer, and speaker originally from North Carolina. He is one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. His work has been published in Jacobin, Socialist Worker, Red Flag, International Viewpoint, Bel Ahmar (بالأحمر), Spring... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Rampant Magazine

Rampant Magazine

Rampant Magazine is firmly grounded in the need to strengthen and expand the self-reliance of social movements and worker organizing. We are unapologetically anti-racist, feminist, and revolutionary socialist.Our goals are multiple and overlapping. We aim to make the structures of... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

3:00pm CDT

Municipal Socialism in the U.S. Midwest
Socialist alderpersons will discuss municipal socialism in the U.S. Midwest – from socialists elected to local office in the early 20th century to their current work as members of the Chicago City Council combatting neoliberalism and fighting for social rights.
Speakers
avatar for Rossana Rodriguez

Rossana Rodriguez

Rossana Rodriguez Sánchez is a Queer Boricua mother, educator, theatre artist, organizer and the Alderwoman of Chicago’s 33rd Ward. She spent the last decade working with youth and families in Albany Park. Originally from Puerto Rico, Rossana attended her first demonstration at... Read More →
avatar for Carlos Rosa

Carlos Rosa

Queer, Latinx, and a lifelong Chicagoan, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is now in his second term as Alderman of Chicago’s 35th Ward. A deportation defense organizer prior to his election, Carlos has legislated by working alongside movements for social and economic justice. As Alderman, Carlos... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Field A/B/C
  US Politics

3:00pm CDT

The Dig LIVE: What Now? Perspectives on the Conjuncture
Join Daniel Denvir for a live Dig podcast interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, analyzing this hard-to-decipher present moment, how we got here, and where we might be going.
Speakers
avatar for Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers, and... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Denvir

Daniel Denvir

Daniel Denvir is host of The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. He is the author of All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It (2020).
avatar for Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical... Read More →
avatar for Robin DG Kelley

Robin DG Kelley

Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has... Read More →

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Sunday September 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  US Politics

4:30pm CDT

Chicago DSA Meet and Greet
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Sunday September 4, 2022 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Meet-Up

4:30pm CDT

Higher Ed Meet-Up
This meet-up will focus on higher ed, including all workers in the sector:  faculty (tenure track and contingent), student employees,  academic staff, service and clerical staff, health care, direct employees and contracted out, etc.) as a workplace and us as higher ed workers. Exchange information on our situations, struggles, advice needed and network building on the way to possibly starting a continuing network of socialisits working in higher ed and the unions therein (or on the way to organizing on some level). This will probably include some serious discussion of the new coalition, Higher Ed Labor United <higheredlabor.org>, which is the first serious attempt to build a true higher ed labor movement “wall to wall and coast ot coast” to supplement the existing efforts of the 11 national unions that represent various workers in higher ed now.

Convened by Joe Berry
Sunday September 4, 2022 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Dusable B/C
  Meet-Up

4:30pm CDT

Ukraine Solidarity Meet-Up
Sunday September 4, 2022 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Field A/B/C
  Meet-Up

4:30pm CDT

Centering Criminalized Survivors: Understanding Intersecting Patterns of Violence
This interactive workshop will focus on the ways intimate partner, state, and organizational violence map onto each other and create barriers to movement work. Participants will work through how race, class, and gender inequities arise in abolitionist work, and find ways to counter these structural barriers.
Speakers
DL
CR
MC

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Sunday September 4, 2022 4:30pm - 6:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Abolition

4:30pm CDT

Crafting Ourselves and Each Other - Abolitionist Crafting Circles
What does it mean to be with others: conversations on building accountable communities. And why doing what we say we're going to do, even if we make mistakes, makes the dreams of liberation we have more tangible and closer to reality. This is going to be an open crafting space so please feel free to bring a craft you are already working on or visit a craft station that will be set up in the room. Supplies will be limited so please come on time and be sure to bring an extra craft or your journal or a sketchbook and mark making tool with you!
Moderators
BJ

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Sunday September 4, 2022 4:30pm - 6:30pm CDT
Clark B/C
  Meet-Up

4:30pm CDT

Dig Listeners Happy Hour
Meet other Dig listeners on the patio!
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Sunday September 4, 2022 4:30pm - 6:30pm CDT
Hotel Patio
  Meet-Up

7:00pm CDT

Confronting an Empire in Collapse: Cooperation Jackson and the Effort to Build Eco-Socialism from Below
Mississippi’s Cooperation Jackson has become a center for Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisis. In the context of the water crisis in Jackson, this session will delve into the new and ongoing strategies and methods being pursued by this movement for grassroots-centered Black community control and self-determination, inspiring partnership and emulation across the globe. (This session will now be a virtual presentation.)
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T
avatar for Kali Akuno

Kali Akuno

Kali Akuno is a cofounder and codirector of Cooperation Jackson and an organizer fighting climate chaos, capitalist destruction, and far-right violence. He is the coeditor of Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present (PM Press, 2022). 

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Sunday September 4, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Clark B/C
  Black Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Eco-Socialist Futures: Strategies for building a Fighting Left Climate Movement
What are the most useful frameworks and priorities for left climate organizers in our current moment? What strategies can we borrow from history and from other social movements? How can utopian thinking expand our horizons in our fight for a more sustainable future?
Speakers
avatar for Kate Aronoff

Kate Aronoff

Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic, and a former fellow at the Type Media Center. Her work has appeared in The Intercept, The New York Times, The Nation, Dissent, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Aronoff is the co-editor of We Own the Future... Read More →
MT
DP

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Sunday September 4, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Field A/B/C
  Environmental Justice

7:00pm CDT

Abolish the Family: Feminism for Care and Liberation
When have "family values" limited the left? What did utopianists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries mean, exactly, when they said "abolish the family"? And which family, in a white-supremacist settler-colony, should we abolish? This session will explore how to decenter the private nuclear household as a source of care, and what that means for left politics and strategy.
Speakers
avatar for Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer living in Philadelphia and a teaching faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She has an affiliation (albeit an unpaid one) with the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sophie... Read More →
RW

Rosie Warren

Rosie Warren is the editor-in-chief of Salvage and the co-author of The Tragedy of the Worker (2021). She is a parent of the chapel of the National Union of Journalists at Verso Books, where she is also an editor. She lives in London.

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Salvage

Salvage is a bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters.

Sunday September 4, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Dusable B/C
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

7:00pm CDT

The Changing Face of US Empire
In an age of growing inter-imperial rivalry between the US, Russia, and China, what is the state of the US empire after two disastrous failed wars? This session will analyze the current state of US imperialism, describe the structural changes US war-making, and discuss how these changes have contributed to the recent defeats.
Speakers
avatar for Anand Gopal

Anand Gopal

Anand Gopal is a fellow with the International Security Program at New America. He was also a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow with the New America Fellows Program. He studies the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and is working on a book about the Syrian war. He is the author of No Good Men... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Hyde Park A
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

7:00pm CDT

Black and Indigenous Liberation: A Dialogue
Join the authors of Rehearsals for Living for an exchange of Black and Indigenous perspectives, the historical legacies of slavery and colonization, and to collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic moment of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing.
Speakers
avatar for Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne is the author of seven books, including her 2021 novel Noopiming: The Cure for White... Read More →
avatar for Robyn Maynard

Robyn Maynard

Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto, and the author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present. Her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Indigenous Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Class Struggle Unionism
Many questions confront those who want to build a fighting labor movement: How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How can we revive militancy and union power today? Joe Burns argues that union strategy must be rooted on the basic struggle between workers and owners over who controls the value worker's labor creates.
Speakers
JB

Joe Burns

Joe Burns is a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer with over 25 years experience negotiating labor agreements. He is currently the Director of Collective Bargaining for the Association of Flight Attendants, CWA. He graduated from the New York University School of Law. Prior... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Adler A/B/C
  Labor Movement

7:00pm CDT

Freedom Dreams and the Socialist Project
The history of socialism in the US is inextricably tied to the history of Black radicalism here and internationally. Join Robin D.G. Kelley for a discussion on recovering the dreams of the future worlds that Black radicals struggled to achieve, and how these relate to the socialist project in our moment.
Speakers
avatar for Robin DG Kelley

Robin DG Kelley

Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Racism and Anti-Racism

9:00pm CDT

Powerlands: Film Screening & Discussion
In Powerlands, Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a young Navajo filmmaker, investigates the displacement of Indigenous people and the devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. She travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. 
In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home. Inspired by these women, Ivey Camille brings home the lessons from these struggles to the Navajo Nation.
The screening will be followed by a conversation about the themes of the film with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, Nina Berglund, and Selest Manning.
Speakers
IC

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso is an award-winning queer Navajo filmmaker. She started making films at the age of 9, through the Native youth media project Outta Your Backpack Media. At the age of 13 she made the award-winning fiction film In the Footsteps of Yellow Woman, based on the... Read More →
NB

Nina Berglund

Nina Berglund is a 20-year-old indigenous youth leader, public speaker, and climate activist fighting on behalf of her people, the lands, and water. Born and raised in the Twin Cities, Nina has been organizing alongside other youth against Enbridge's Line 3 proposed pipeline, currently... Read More →
SM

Selest Manning

Selest Manning is a Queer Navajo Community Organizer and Indigenous Healer from the Southwest. Growing up within the Resistance of colonial resource extraction, they began organizing at a young age in their community of Black Mesa, AZ. Organizing with the Resisting Elders in Black... Read More →

Sunday September 4, 2022 9:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Theatre & Film

9:00pm CDT

The Measures Taken: A "Learning Play" by Bertolt Brecht
After mounting a successful revolution, four political agitators report back to their party leader and reveal that in the course of struggle they had to execute their young comrade. In order to explain themselves they stage a play. In The Measures Taken, Bertolt Brecht leads us to question the nature of violence, solidarity, and sacrifice, as we follow the four agitators' mission to spread propaganda, incite communist revolution, and overthrow the evils of a capitalist society. 

Written in 1930, The Measures Taken is a "learning play," a form of radical experimental theater devised as a means for non-actors to embody and reflect on communism, revolution, the ills of capitalism, and the impact of living in a class-based society. This production of The Measures Taken has sought to use Brecht’s learning play to facilitate discussions about a range of relevant questions for our movements, from the role of unions in revolutionary work to the complexity of vanguardism. 

During the Spring of 2022, this show was performed in public parks and activist spaces throughout New York City, including collaborations with Brooklyn Eviction Defense, Club A, the Gym and DSA North Brooklyn. The performance will be followed by a moderated discussion with the cast and audience.

Sunday September 4, 2022 9:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
Regency Ballroom
  Theatre & Film
 
Monday, September 5
 

10:00am CDT

Fighting Police Surveillance: Lessons from Chicago
The goal of the session is to share data and research regarding ShotSpotter and dissect some of the bigger-picture messaging around surveillance culture. We aim to highlight the way "reform" tools of state-sanctioned violence are used to incarcerate marginalized people. We also plan to update attendees with we've done so far, what lessons we've learned, and where we go on from here.
Speakers
JM

José Manuel

José Manuel organizes with UNETE Little Village to protect residents from gentrification and the increased police presence it brings with it.  Born and Raised in Chicago, Jose Manuel noticed the Little Village neighborhood began to change in the mid 2000s after returning home from... Read More →
AA

Adwoa Agyepong

Adwoa Agyepong is a Ghanaian-American abolitionist living in Chicago. She works for Forward Together, where she supports the Cultural Strategy program as a Network Organizer focused on radical political education. A former student-organizer, Adwoa’s goal is to support the work of... Read More →

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Monday September 5, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Field A/B/C
  Abolition

10:00am CDT

Media as a Liberatory Tool: Imagining our Abolitionist Futures
Journalism as it exists today is often an extension of the police state, but it doesn’t have to be. Join Scalawag Magazine as we collectively vision how we can transform media by putting abolitionist principles into practice.
Speakers
avatar for Alysia Nicole Harris, Ph.D.

Alysia Nicole Harris, Ph.D.

Alysia Nicole Harris, Ph.D. is a poet, linguist, arts writer and charismatic follower of Jesus. She serves as Scalawag's arts and soul editor and currently lives in Corsicana, Texas.
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Cierra Hinton

Cierra Hinton is a creative strategist that centers imagination, joy, and community in her work. She loves building with teams and individuals as they drive toward outcomes that matter in a way that is inclusive and authentic. Cierra is Scalawag’s Executive Director-Publisher.
avatar for Darryl Holliday

Darryl Holliday

Darryl Holliday is a journalist, participatory media advocate and media entrepreneur based in Chicago. He’s the co-founder, co-executive director, and Executive News Lab Director at City Bureau, a civic journalism lab based on Chicago’s South Side, where he manages the Documenters... Read More →

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Monday September 5, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Dusable B/C
  Culture and Art

10:00am CDT

Unpacking the Anti-Trans Backlash
Right-wing pundits have declared open war on abortion rights, and queer and trans people. Although aimed at motivating conservative voters ahead of the midterms, this backlash is more than simple political calculus. The far-Right/alt-Right are animated by profound anti-feminism. Unpacking and understanding this anti-feminism is essential to a Left response.
Speakers
EM

Eric Maroney

Eric Maroney (he/him) teaches English at Gateway Community College where he is active with the faculty union. His work has appeared in Tempest Magazine, New Politics, Common Dreams, Socialist Worker, and the English Journal. Eric identifies as a transgender man. He is a member of... Read More →

Monday September 5, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Clark B/C
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

10:00am CDT

Socialist Internationalism Comes from Below
This panel will diagnose the disturbing rise of an authoritarian tankie/campist orientation on the Left today—one that rationalizes, sugarcoats, and defends repressive and murderous regimes in the name of a convoluted “anti-imperialist” posture—and will explore an emerging alternative vision of solidarity—an internationalism from below/internationalism of the oppressed.
Speakers
avatar for Andrea Sempértegui

Andrea Sempértegui

Andrea Sempértegui is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, and a founding member of the anti-extractive collective Comunálisis based in Quito, Ecuador. Her work focuses on Indigenous politics, environmental and feminist movements, struggles over territory and natural... Read More →
avatar for Promise Li

Promise Li

Promise Li is an activist and writer from Hong Kong, based in Los Angeles. He engages in left-wing international solidarity work through Lausan Collective and Internationalism from Below, and tenant organizing in Los Angeles Chinatown as a part of Chinatown Community for Equitable... Read More →
avatar for Shiyam Galyon

Shiyam Galyon

Shiyam Galyon is a U.S.-born, grown, and based Syrian writer interested in antiwar communications from within empires like the United States. She is a member of Internationalism From Below.

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Monday September 5, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Burnham A/B/C
  Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

10:00am CDT

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Our current social and political crises are rooted in colonial systems hidden behind conventional readings of history. Krawec will discuss her upcoming book and how confronting and challenging these harmful readings with Indigenous perspectives can help us develop relationships of solidarity.
Speakers
PK

Monday September 5, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Grant Park A/B
  Indigenous Liberation

10:00am CDT

Sabotage and the Antiwar Movement in Russia
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exacerbated a stifling political atmosphere within Russia, leading to crackdowns, suppression, and the fleeing of dissidents. At the same time, many Russian leftists have drawn inspiration from the Belarusian opposition, leading to instances of sabotage and a broad “railway war” against the government. This session will take stock of the situation in Russia, the Russian opposition to Putin, and discuss prospects for the future.
Speakers
AA

Monday September 5, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Hyde Park A
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

40 Years of DSA: Founding and Future
The Democratic Socialists of America was founded in 1982, at a low tide in the U.S. socialist movement. Since 2016, it has become home to tens of thousands of new activists. Hear perspectives from longtime members on the merger that formed DSA and how the organization has changed since then.
Speakers
JA
DD
NM
ME

Max Elbaum

Max Elbaum was a member of Students for a Democratic Society and a leader of one of the main new communist movement organizations. His writings have appeared in the Nation, the US Guardian, CrossRoads, and the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Oakland.

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Monday September 5, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Hyde Park B
  Socialist Theory & Strategy

12:00pm CDT

A World to Win: The Fight for a Socialist Future
The struggle for socialism is happening on many fronts, but all of our struggles are linked by the larger project of dismantling capitalism and building a new socialist future where all of us are free. At the final plenary of Socialism 2022, speakers will provide some perspective on our current moment, tie together the major themes of the conference, and draw energy and inspiration for the fights ahead.
Speakers
avatar for Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a 33 year old, Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working class woman, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN. She has served as president of the Black Affairs... Read More →
avatar for David McNally

David McNally

David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. McNally is the author of seven books and has won a number of awards, including the Paul Sweezy Award from the American Sociological... Read More →
avatar for Donna Murch

Donna Murch

Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, where she is chapter president of the New Brunswick chapter of Rutgers AAUP AFT. Her newest book, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives was published by Haymarket Books... Read More →

Monday September 5, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Regency Ballroom
  Socialist Theory & Strategy
 
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