Here could be a more unintended comedy festival this weekend (and apologies because the agenda is very long but amusingly titled):
Friday, September 4
9:00am
CDT
Historic Bike Tour: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project
9:30am
CDT
Marxism Education Series
Michael A. McCarthy • Amna Akbar • Eman Abdelhadi
10:00am
CDT
Reproductive Justice Strategy Session
Chicago For Abortion Rights
Organizing Social Workers for Abolition Summit
Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work
2:30pm
CDT
Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY
Viju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance
The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response
Adam Schneider • T Callahan • Ashwin Shantha • Science for the People
Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power
Steff Reed
Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel
Maya Schenwar • Juliet DeJesus Alejandre • Tanuja Jagernauth • Katelyn Johnson • Rocío García • Truthout
From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature
Nancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan • Daniel Singer Foundation • New Politics
From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine
Heather Aubry • A. Funk • Rumsha S. • Dissenters
Inside Organizing 101
Jaz Brisack
Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today
Rosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project
We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training
brian bean • Haymarket Books
4:30pm
CDT
Life After Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark
Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew
Noura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab
Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed
Douglas Paterson
Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics
Charlie Post
Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too
A.J. Bohrer • Sophie Lewis
How Veterans & Labor Are Fighting VA Union Busting And Privatization
Stuart Hall • Dan Blough • Grace Neudek • Lisa Dadabo • Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute
Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies
Kim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea
Transformative Rural Organizing
Bo Belotti • Vida Rangel
Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism
Hasan Piker • Ashik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA
What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense
Juliet DeJesus Alejandre • Antonio Gutierrez • TBD • Rey Wences • ICIRR • OCAD
People Over Mega-Events: Organizing for Housing, Workers, and Communities Beyond the World Cup
Kelsea Bond • Matthew Nursey • Mariah Parker • Michael Collins • Play Fair ATL
Why Eugene Debs Matters
Allison Duerk • Shawn Gude
Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora
Rabbi Andrue Kahn • Dania Rajendra • Benjamin Balthaser • Maurice BP-Weeks Balthazar • JVP
Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against?
Geo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
6:00pm
CDT
New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend
Welcome Happy Hour
7:30pm
CDT
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition
Angela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa
9:30pm
CDT
Radical Game Night!
Radical Trivia Night!
Chicago For Abortion Rights
Saturday, September 5
8:30am
CDT
Morning Yoga
10:00am
CDT
The Black Path to Socialism
Kali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan
No Such Thing As NIMBY: The Fight to Protect Our Water
Jenny Espino • Jake Hernandez • Chloe Torres
Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity
Natalie Bencivega • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Demetrius Noble
Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE
Adam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation
Gender and Accumulation
Eric Maroney
Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)
Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel
Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors
Matt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh
Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives
Simón Rodríguez • Anderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez
Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry
Clarissa Redwine • JS Tan
Labor at the Margins
Maya Tatum • Katherine Passley • Kim Kelly
Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE
Lisset G • Kobi Guillory • Raul Islas • Kathryn Zamarron
Lessons of the Russian Revolution
Phil Gasper • Suzi Weissman • Critique • New Politics
Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics
Samer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia
Beth Howard • Jerome Scott
12:00pm
CDT
Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure
Kendra Drysdale • Berty Hernandez • Mon Mohapatra • TBD • Community Justice Exchange
Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice
Amna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed
The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire
Lyle May
Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides
Saul Williams
State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era
Elizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson
Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition
Adam • Alex • Fiona • Laith • National Students for Justice in Palestine
Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime
Emily Likins-Ehlers
Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism
Chicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants
Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era
Roxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD
Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance
Aaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest
What Is the Muslim Left?
Ashik Siddique • Maryam Adamu • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Acacia Magazine
Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents
Diego Morales • PUÑO
Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary
Breht O’Shea • Rev Left Radio
Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present
Andrew Reginald Hairston • Charles Holm
AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes
Shiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel
1:30pm
CDT
Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades
"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup
Labor for Palestine National Network Meet-Up
Public Educators Meet-Up
Socialist Horizon Meet-up
3:00pm
CDT
Land and Abolition
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations
Nick Brown • Eddy Fletcher • James Kilgore • Mon Mohapatra • Stevie Wilson • Community Justice Exchange
Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation
Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Justin Morgan • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective
Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Dio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books • Under the Tree Podcast
Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago
Hadeil M. Abdelfattah, Ed.D • David Stovall, Ph.D • Nora Lester Murad • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today
Mary Coleman • Maheen • Qudsiyyah Shariyf • Em Gonzalez • Lawrence • Lux • Chicago For Abortion Rights
Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series)
Beatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel
Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union
Dawn Tefft • Araya Barnes • Rumin • AK Alilonu • Atulya Dora-Laskey • EWOC
All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy
Heb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments
Barbara Ransby • Sarah Haley
Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism
Ndindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention
John Washington • Johannes Favi
Bridging the Gap: Youth Organizing and Building Intergenerational Organizing Power
Essence-Jade Gatheright • Mari Lee • Chicago Freedom School
The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs
Lily Luo
How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero
Propaganda Printmaking
Danielle Bullock
Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation
Geo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
5:00pm
CDT
Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them
Austin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab
Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways
Mira Simonton-Chao • Carlos Ayala • Walls Turned Sideways
Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom During the Time of Genocide
Lena E • Laith A • Palestinian Youth Movement • People's Embargo for Palestine
War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis
Joshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People
The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World
Tobita Chow • Ashley Smith
They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance
Sarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS
“As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future
Beth Howard • Jerome Scott • Walda Katz-Fishman • SURJ
Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment
Leena Odeh • Christian Snow • Morgan Wilson • Law 4 Black Lives
The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
Brian Jones • Dave Zirin
The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago
Jacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez
When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor
Candace Cohn • Jack Weinberg • Solidarity
Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love
nyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice
The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle
Michael A. McCarthy
Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion
Jesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge
6:30pm
CDT
Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop
Songs for Liberation
United Left Platform Meet-up
How to Close a Camp Study Session
Books Against Borders
7:00pm
CDT
Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee Meet Up
8:00pm
CDT
Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE
John Washington • Silky Shah • Chris Newman • Tania Wolf • Cat Salonek Schladt
Sunday, September 6
8:30am
CDT
Morning Yoga
10:00am
CDT
Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments
Colleen McRoberts • Dr. Emerson Cram • V Fixmer-Oraiz • Rev. Sean McRoberts • Mandi Remington
Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror
Negin Owliaei • Mansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab
Bolivia’s Uprising: Causes, Contradictions & Lessons
Lena • Emilio • Blanca Misse
Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home
Ilya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Robert Brenner • Yulia Yurchenko • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign
The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium
David Duhalde • Joe Todd • RLS
The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement
Sean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • TBD • May Day Strong
Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times
jaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby
The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today
Brian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland • Hammer & Hope
Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence
Adam Vander Tuig • Highlander
From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI
Alex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute
The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence
Izzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project
12:00pm
CDT
Why Socialism Requires Abolition
Zohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson
Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement
Danya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine
Black History is for Everyone
Brian Jones
Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine
Anita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh
Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History
Adam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools
Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash
S. Lamble • Sophie Lewis
Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice
Judith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry
Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors
Rachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales
Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion
Reed Lindsey • Helen Yaffe • Justine Medina • Chicago Cuba Coalition
The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly
james pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly
Psychic Militancy
Lara Sheehi • Pluto Press
The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory
Ashik Siddique • Iskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas
Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives
Kate Stewart
Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint
BYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100
The Present State of People’s History
Isaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay
Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing
David Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace
Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today
Alex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis
Cat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom
1:30pm
CDT
On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop
BIPOC Social
Black Youth Project 100
3:00pm
CDT
Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care
Alanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center
Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation
Jesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir
Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century
Aber Kawas • Ashik Siddique • Cihan Tekay Liu • Kelsea Bond • Alex Brower • DSA
Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilitators
Maya Marshall • Haymarket Books
The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance
Braxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective
Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series)
Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Silky Shah • A. Naomi Paik • Death Panel
Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence
Viral Mistry
Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections
Laura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists
Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building
Toni Gilpin • Andrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton
Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy
Nathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas
Neighborhood Organizing 101
Amadi Ozier
Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education
Isaac Silver • Buttons of the Left
Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free
Autumn Brown • Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain • Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg • JVP
Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz
G.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P.
Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below
Hasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects
5:00pm
CDT
Are All Cops Bastards?
brian bean • Anderson Bean
Imagine a Future Without Family Policing!
Dorothy Roberts
The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World
Daniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil
The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate
Vaishnavi Patel • Sareena Kamath
Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America
Griffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA
We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Moya Bailey • Rachel Kuo
The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave
Yajaira Cuapio • Ilan Desai-Gellar • Alex Schmaus • United Educators of San Francisco
Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there
Justin Akers Chacón • Lucia Flores • Victor Rodríguez • Dan Troccoli • Workers Voice
People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South
Denzel Caldwell • Black Nashville Assembly
Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression
Tom Alter • Yarden Azoulay Katz • Diana Rueda • Treasure Thoreson • United Left Platform
Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment
Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects
6:30pm
CDT
Tarot for Socialists!
Organizer Happy Hour
Scalawag • The Forge
Firebrands: the Organizing RPG | Actual Play Session!
7:00pm
CDT
Tempest Meet-Up
Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion
Juan González • Amy Goodman • Tia Lessin
Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up
DSA
8:00pm
CDT
Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social
33rd Ward Working Families
Cultural Worker Meet-Up
Jewish Voice for Peace Meet-Up
JVP
Library Workers Meetup
Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up
Debt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective
South Asian Solidarity Meet-Up
South Asian Solidarity Network
Tech Worker Meetup
The South Meet Up
Southern Workers Assembly
9:00pm
CDT
The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH
Monday, September 7
10:00am
CDT
The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up
ML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty
End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
Nawaf A • Jenan A • Palestinian Youth Movement • Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift
T Callahan
Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible
William Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet
RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy
Sherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag
Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition
Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Nze Okoronta • Leah Harris • Liat Ben-Moshe • Death Panel
The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine
Bill Mullen • Andrew Bergman • Sophia Gurule • Michael Letwin • Labor for Palestine National Network
The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception
Eman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simón Rodríguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US)
Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward?
David Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan
How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life
Somali Organizers from MN
Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists
Atena Danner • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth
Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle
Benji Hart • Joy James • Andrew Krinks • Belkis Terán
Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead
Hagen Blix • Jasper Bernes • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy
12:00pm
CDT
We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the Right
Damon Williams • Tori Tsui • Beth Howard • Kelly Hayes • Jaz Brisack
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