Socialism 2023: Schedule

10:00am CDT

Chicago 1919 Radical History Bike Tour Hotel Front Entrance

3:00pm CDT

Abolishing the Death Penalty: Lessons from Illinois Burnham A/B/CRenaldo Hudson • Alice Kim • Damon Williams The Environmental Injustices of American Capitalism [INTRO] Grant Park A/BLinda Quiquivix • Daniel Faber • Leigh Brownhill • Capitalism Nature Socialism Building City-Wide Tenants Unions: Strategies from the Autonomous Tenants Union Network Clark A/B/CTracy Rosenthal • Michael Hollingsworth • Esteban Girón • Rose Lenehan • Joshua Taylor • Hayden • Autonomous Tenants Union Network Beyond Land Acknowledgement Field A/B/CLo Coffman • Fawn Pochel • Lakota Youth Development Kids as Comrades Adler A/B/CGuy Brown • Molly Culhane • DSA From Repression to Liberation: Organizing the South in the Era of the New Confederacy Grant Park CMelanie Barron • Aaron Jamal • Aerris Newton • Thomas Walker

5:00pm CDT

Teaching Toward Freedom from Behind the Bars Field A/B/CDamon Locks • Beth E. Richie • Raphel Jackson • Eliza Gonring • Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism Grant Park A/BPremilla Nadasen • Jessica Stites Resisting the Tradwife Turn Hyde Park BEmily Janakiram • Megan Lessard • NYC for Abortion Rights Health and Capital [INTRO] Hyde Park ABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Revolutionary Socialism Means Land Back Burnham A/B/CFawn Pochel • Kristen Godfrey • Annabelle Guptill The Fight for Municipal Socialism: Recovering a Usable Past Grant Park CShelton Stromquist Walter Rodney: A Revolutionary For Our Time Clark A/B/CRobert Cuffy • Leo Zeilig • Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus How Do We Imagine Socialism? [INTRO] Adler A/B/CDanny Katch

6:30pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour Hotel Patio/Bar

8:00pm CDT

Opening Plenary: Abolition. Feminism. Now. Regency BallroomAngela Y. Davis • Gina Dent • Erica R. Meiners • Beth E. Richie

9:30pm CDT

Radical Game Night! Grant Park D Radical Drag Show! Regency Ballroom C

9:30am CDT

Abolishing the War on Terror and Building Communities of Care Clark A/B/CMary Zerkel • Darakshan Raja • Muslims for Just Futures • Muslim Abolitionist Futures Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement Grant Park A/BBarbara Ransby • Asha Ransby-Sporn What and Who is the Ruling Class? [INTRO] Burnham A/B/CJosh On The Means of Reproduction: Abortion, Race and the 1% Hyde Park BBrooke Eliazar-Macke • Allison Guttu • Stephanie Kollgaard • National Women's Liberation Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism [INTRO] Dusable B/CAshley Smith • Lee Wengraf The Role of Revolutionary Councils in the Kurdish Struggle Hyde Park ASaadat Hashamiyan • Sozan Savehilaghi Organizing the Unorganized: A Growing Labor Movement in Traditionally Non-Union Sectors Adler A/B/CDawn Tefft • J. Hollis Harris • Hayley Neiling • Jared Coles • EWOC Lenin: Catastrophe and Revolution Field A/B/CPaul LeBlanc • Cliff Connolly • Promise Li • Pluto Our Communities, Our Solutions: An Organizer’s Toolkit for Developing Campaigns to Abolish Policing Grant Park C/DWoods Ervin • Molly Porzig • Critical Resistance

11:30am CDT

Putting Police Abolition into Practice: Organizing Notes from Across the US Grant Park C/DRachel Gilmer • Dylan Pyles • Avery Jones • Alex S. Vitale • Kaili Moss • Decarcerate Kansas City • Dream Defenders Fighting for Our Lives: Abortion and Trans Rights Under Attack Adler A/B/CMary Bowman • Anne Rumberger • Lux Magazine How Capitalism Kills: Social Murder and Covid-19 Clark A/B/CAbby Cartus • Nate Holdren • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Justice in Palestine: A Socialist Introduction [INTRO] Regency Ballroom CSumaya Awad • Jason Farbman • Mohammed El-Kurd • Jewish Voice for Peace • Adalah Justice Project Revolution in Crisis: Lessons and Challenges from the Sudanese Uprising Burnham A/B/CMuzan Alneel • Rabab Elnaiem • Nisrin Elamin Sex Work, Policing, and Border Abolition Grant Park A/BHarsha Walia • Chanelle Gallant • Elene Lam • Robyn Maynard • Butterfly • Red Canary Song John Brown and the Revolutionary Response to Slavery [INTRO] Dusable B/CDavid Whitehouse Divesting from Despair: Building a Liberatory Movement Media Ecosystem Hyde Park BDamon Williams • Bill Ayers • Daniel Kisslinger • Eva Nagao • Respair Media Confronting the Backlash: Socialists and the Anti-Racist Struggle for Liberation Regency Ballroom ENaomi Murakawa • Haley Pessin • Phil Gasper • Tempest Building a Utopian Socialist Vision Field A/B/CAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson • Highlander The Future of DSA Regency Ballroom DKristian Hernandez • Justin Charles • Philip Locker • JP Lyninger • Ashik Siddique • DSA Public Libraries and the Neoliberal Threat Hyde Park ATara Donnelly • Angela Jones • Cate Levinson • Niles Coalition

2:30pm CDT

Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradox and Praxis Field A/B/CVivianne Guevarra • Michelle Grier • Durrell Washington • Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work The Longer Road to a Green New Deal Regency Ballroom DElizabeth Oh • Johanna Bozuwa • Matt Haugen • Soleil Smith • Gustavo Gordillo • DSA The Political Economy of Debt and Debtor Organizing Grant Park A/BMaddy Clifford • Astra Taylor • Lindsey Muniak • René Christian Moya • Debt Collective Resisting Carceral Sanism Adler A/B/CBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Liat Ben-Moshe • Leah Harris • Death Panel De Venezuela a Los Ángeles: The Fight for Housing Justice Clark A/B/CElizabeth Blaney • Erica Jackson • Annie Powers • Los Angeles Tenants Union When Millions Move With Us: Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity Dusable B/CJason Farbman • Sandra Tamari • Sumaya Awad • Jewish Voice for Peace • Adalah Justice Project From Turtle Island to Palestine Hyde Park AMohamed Abdou • Patty Krawec Radicalizing the Labor Movement: Building a Democratic Rank-and-file Caucus in the UAW Burnham A/B/CNevena Pilipović-Wengler • Andrew Bergman • Judy Wraight • Dan Vincente Anti-Blackness, Haiti and the Migration Industrial Complex Regency Ballroom EGuerline Jozef Freedom To Learn: Black and Asian American Solidarity Against Attacks on Antiracist Education Grant Park C/DWayne Au • Jesse Hagopian • Rethinking Schools Understanding the IPO Movement in Chicago: New Models of Organizing Hyde Park BSandra Puebla • Simon Swartzman • 33rd Ward Working Families The Palo Alto System Regency Ballroom CMalcolm Harris • The New Inquiry

4:30pm CDT

Dis-Organizing Prison with Tactical Disruption Across the Walls Clark A/B/CJessica Phoenix Sylvia • Safear Ness • R. Ya’iyr Carter • Stevie Wilson • Study & Struggle The Abolitionist International Regency Ballroom Cbrian bean • Rampant Racial Capitalism and Black Working Class History of the Long 1980s and Beyond Grant Park C/DDonna Murch Abolition and the Nuclear Age Adler A/B/CRay Acheson • Josh Frank • Janene Yazzie • CounterPunch Debtors of the World, Unite! The Strength & Potential of Debtors’ Assemblies Hyde Park ADebt Collective Socialist Strategy and the Housing Crisis Field A/B/CKaty Slininger • Cea Weaver • Dan Denvir • DSA What It Takes to Win Against the War Machine Dusable B/CAlex Q • Noah Ranz-Lind • Ari Springer • Dissenters Union Democracy: The Power of a Democratic Labor Movement Grant Park A/BTerri Houldieson • Sean Orr • Alex N. Press • Quentin Washington • Jacobin The Everywhere Border: Fighting Digital Surveillance & Migration Control Burnham A/B/CMizue Aizeki • Santiago Narváez • Thomas Mariadason • Center for Political Education • Surveillance Resistance Lab Homosexuality and the Left in American History Regency Ballroom DAaron Lecklider How We Built Our Movement School Hyde Park BMikayla Biggers • Evelyn Majid • Red Pine India, Israel, and Global Authoritarianism Regency Ballroom EHafsa Kanjwal • Suchitra Vijayan • Azad Essa

7:30pm CDT

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care Grant Park C/DKelly Hayes • Mariame Kaba • Harsha Walia Sports in a Socialist Society Field A/B/CDave Zirin The Poetics of Social Movements Grant Park A/BRobin DG Kelley • aja monet Family Abolition Today: Care Beyond Capitalism Clark A/B/CEman Abdelhadi • Sophie Lewis • M. E. O'Brien • Pinko The Dig LIVE: Organizing and Socialist Strategy Burnham A/B/CAstra Taylor • Dan Denvir • Rachel Gilmer • Alex Han • The Dig Fascism: Past, Present, or Future Adler A/B/CIlya Budraitskis • Alberto Toscano • Verso

9:30pm CDT

Radical Trivia Night! Lobby ConcourseChicago for Abortion Rights

9:00am CDT

Yoga! Regency Ballroom A

10:30am CDT

A History of Reformist Reforms: The Ongoing Struggle for Pretrial Freedom Hyde Park ARachel Foran • Mon Mohaptara • Community Justice Exchange Free The Dream$: Disrupting Censorship in Youth Prisons Regency Ballroom DTBD • Nikia Watkins • Liberation Library We’re Not Praying Alone: Religion, Marxism, and The Struggle Over Third Spaces Regency Ballroom CMaryam Abidi • Jonah ben Avraham Why Capitalism Fails: Marxist Crisis Theory Clark A/B/CCharlie Post The Politics of Childhood Burnham A/B/CJules Gill-Peterson • Sophie Lewis • Rosie Warren • Salvage Neither Washington, Nor Beijing: International Solidarity Against Inter-Imperial Rivalry Field A/B/CKang Yang • Zhang Mazi • Bonnie Jin • Dennis Kosuth Between Fact and Fiction: AMLO’s Mexico and the Fourth Transformation Regency Ballroom EHéctor A. Rivera Rebuilding the House of Labor Dusable B/CTefa Galvis • Sarah Hurd • Alexandra Bruns-Smith • DSA What is Scientific Socialism? [INTRO] Hyde Park BAmelia Davenport • Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina • Joseph Perez • Cosmonaut Doing More With Less / Asymmetrical Struggle Grant Park A/BAstra Taylor • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope The Far Right, Border Abolition, and Anti-fascism in Crisis Adler A/B/CBrendan O'Connor #StopCopCity: The Fight for Narrative Power Grant Park C/DTea S. Troutman • Julian Rose • Miliaku Nwabueze • Da'Shaun Harrison • Micah Herskind • Scalawag

1:30pm CDT

Martin Sostre: Mentor, Model, Inspiration, and Revolutionary Prison Organizer Dusable B/CDenzel Burke • Tommy Hagan • Destine Phillips • The R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative Abolition, Ethnic Studies, and Solidarity in the Struggle Toward Education for Liberation Grant Park A/BMarc Lamont Hill • Bettina Love • Farima Pour-Khorshid • Abolitionist Teaching Network Decolonial Disability Politics and the Left Burnham A/B/CShira Hassan • Jules Gill-Peterson • Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Jasbir Puar Organizing Tenants: Lessons from the Field Hyde Park BRené Christian Moya • Zafiro Patino • Frances Amador • Cheryl Looney • Eric Kobesak • Solidarity Legitimacy, Accountability, and Belonging in the U.S. Settler State Adler A/B/CDina Gilio-Whitaker France 2023: The Hot Spring and Summer of Strikes and Protests Regency Ballroom CHélène Cavat • Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste Lessons from the Chicago Teachers Union: Looking Ahead at Our Next Challenge Hyde Park AJesse Sharkey Debating the Path to the Party: Revolutionaries and Reformist Organizations Grant Park C/DAaron Amaral • Jimena Vergara • Tempest • Left Voice Rebels for the System: Resisting NGOization of Our Movements Clark A/B/CRamsin Canon • Graham K • Robert Ovetz SunDDay School: The Spirit of Socialism Regency Ballroom BAshley “AG” Green • Damon Williams • aja monet • Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson • Derecka Purnell • Delaney Vandergrift • Dream Defenders

3:30pm CDT

Abolition Communism Grant Park A/BRobin DG Kelley Degrowth and Ecosocialist Revolution Grant Park C/DAditi Bansal • Güney Işıkara • Erica Jung • Science for the People A.I. and Creative Labor Adler A/B/CBen Davis The State, Austerity, and the Politics of Healthcare Burnham A/B/CPhilip Rocco • Gabriel Winant • Salonee Bhaman • Death Panel Resisting Russian Imperialism: Ukraine’s Struggle for Self-Determination Field A/B/CIlya Budraitskis • Denys Bondar • Hanna Perekhoda Battleground Higher Ed: Strikes and Labor Organizing at Universities Dusable B/CDonna Murch • Steven Lazarov • Adam Cooper Organize Your Workplace (Training) [INTRO] Regency Ballroom DJoe Cronin • EWOC Our Class Has No Borders: Detained Workers' Strikes and Solidarity Hyde Park AVeronica Avendano • Hector Rincon • Workers' Voice Economic Democracy: What a Socialism After Capitalism Could Look Like Clark A/B/CMike Beggs • Bhaskar Sunkara • Jacobin Organizing Across Difference Regency Ballroom EJustine Medina • Michael Hollingsworth • Connor Spence • DSA Fighting Fascism in Florida Hyde Park BErik Wallenberg • Ashley “AG” Green • Yordanos Molla • Chris Furino How Did Chicago Beat Back the Neoliberal Machine? Regency Ballroom CMiles Kampf-Lassin • Asha Ransby-Sporn • Jung Yoon • Jackson Potter • Anthony Quezada • In These Times

5:00pm CDT

Dis-Organizing Prison For Abolition Grant Park A/BStudy & Struggle Art and Politics Meet-Up Adler A/B/CBen Davis DSA Meet-Up Pizano's Pizza & PastaDSA Higher Ed Meet-Up Dusable B/C Meeting Comrades at the Intersection of Abolition and Education Burnham A/B/CNew York Collective of Radical Educators • Abolitionist Teaching Network Organizing in the South Meet-and-Greet Hyde Park A Tenant Organizers Meet-Up Hyde Park BSolidarity • Autonomous Tenants Union Network • KC Tenants • Los Angeles Tenants Union • City Life/Vida Urbana Whose Streets: Community Safety at Direct Action and Protest Clark A/B/CEric O'Hara • Mal Burns

6:00pm CDT

BIPOC Social Grant Park C/DAfrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus • Dream Defenders

7:30pm CDT

The Conspiracy Is Capitalism: Making Sense of the Paranoid Right — and the Tasks of the Left Regency BallroomNaomi Klein

9:30pm CDT

Screening: How to Blow Up a Pipeline Clark A/B/C

9:00am CDT

Solidarity Letter Writing: Supporting Incarcerated Comrades Criminalized During the 2020 Summer Uprisings Dusable AChicago Community Bond Fund

10:00am CDT

Still Not Free: The Fight for Liberation of Criminalized Survivors Adler A/B/CDeana Lewis • Santera Matthews • Briana Hanny • Maya Schenwar • Rachel Caïdor • Survived & Punished Popular Science Fiction and Left Political Imaginations Grant Park C/DAdam Kotsko • David K. Seitz • Steven W. Thrasher Writing Our Future: Co-Writing Session Clark A/B/CNisha Atalie (facilitator) • Maria Isabelle Carlos (facilitator) Building a United Front for Bodily Autonomy: DSA in the Struggle for Abortion and Trans Rights Dusable B/CMelinda Lavon • Sean Estelle • Sarah Callahan • JP Lyninger • DSA Blowback LIVE: 20 Years Since the Invasion of Iraq Grant Park A/BNoah Kulwin Global Crises and Global Revolts: Feminist Insurgencies and Anti-Racist Class Struggle Burnham A/B/CDavid McNally • Shireen Akram-Boshar • Spectre The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads Hyde Park AMark Burrows • Fritz Edler • Guy Miller • Railroad Workers United Fighting for Sanctuary: Migrant Justice Organizing in Chicago Hyde Park BVicko Alvarez • Rey Wences Building Socialist Organization & Strategy in the 21st Century Field A/B/CAerris Newton • N'Tanya Lee • Rose Brewer • Jayanni Webster • LeftRoots • Liberation Road

12:00pm CDT

Socialism 2023 Closing Plenary: The Coming Transformation Regency BallroomAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson • Robyn Maynard • Damon Williams • Derecka Purnell