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Socialism 2019

3:00pm CDT

“Seize the Plant, Save the Planet”: Organizing for a Green New Deal in the Rust Belt Burnham A/B/CNatasha Fernández-Silber • Sean Crawford Edward Said: Culture and Resistance Dusable B/CDavid Barsamian Sex Work and Sex Trade: Policing in the Carceral State Clark B/CDominique McKinney • Carol Leigh • Kelli Dorsey Can we Organize Amazon? Adler A/B/CJoe Allen Highlander: From Rosa Parks to Today's Struggles Field B/CAndré Canty • Elizabeth Wright • Erik Wallenberg

5:00pm CDT

Opening Plenary BallroomSocialism 2019 Sponsors

7:30pm CDT

Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination Burnham A/B/CRussell J. Rickford • Brian Jones Sometimes the Severed Head Rolls Left: A Political History of the Modern Horror Film Dusable B/CJohn McDonald Bolsonaro, the New Right, and Class Struggle in Brazil Field B/CValerio Arcary All-American Nativism: How to End the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Clark B/CDan Denvir Colonialism, Slavery, and the Origins Of Capitalism Adler A/B/CPranav Jani The Rise of Islamophobia from the War Abroad to the War at Home Grant Park BRozina Ali Independent Media in a Time of Crisis Grant Park C/DAmy Goodman

8:30am CDT

DSA Meet N Greet

9:30am CDT

Transfeminism and the Politics of Solidarity Clark B/CChris Legere Are you a Settler?: Settler-Colonialism, Capitalism and Marxism in North America Grant Park C/DBrian Ward Iran on the Brink Dusable B/CBehzad Tehrani • Saman Sepehri The Sleep of Reason: Misuses and Distortions of Biology Field B/CLydia Patton • Stuart Newman • Science for the People The American South and the Left Burnham A/B/CAlex Macmillan • Joel Sronce • Destiny Blackwell Using Elections to Build Class Power Adler A/B/CLillian Osborne • Jack McShane

11:30am CDT

Socialist Feminism: The Fight for Bodily Autonomy Burnham A/B/CTaylor Edwards Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today Field B/CEmma Wilde-Botta The Rise of the Far Right in the US and Europe Dusable B/CKathleen Belew • Alex de Jong Black, Red, Brown Solidarity in the Age of Trump Grant Park BLupita Romero The Life and Thought of Rosa Luxemburg Grant Park C/DHelen Scott • Paul Le Blanc • Dana Mills • Peter Hudis • Sandra Rein Socialism 101: Socialism from Below Adler A/B/CAnton Ford Housing Justice and Rent Control: An Organizer's Roundtable Clark B/CRyan Hall • Allen Axelrod • Brian Sullivan • Sarah Richmond

2:00pm CDT

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Clark B/CImani Perry Social Reproduction Theory and Gender Liberation Adler A/B/CCorrie Westing • Rachel Cohen Palestine and the Global Struggle for Justice Grant Park C/DAli Abunimah Revolution in Sudan and Algeria: The Arab Spring Then and Now Field B/CShireen Akram Boshar What is the Rank and File Strategy and Why Does it Matter? Dusable B/CBarry Eidlin Marxism and Human Nature Burnham A/B/CBill Keach Which Base? Marxist Centers' Perspective on Basebuilding Grant Park BAndrew Joung • Kate Doyle Griffiths • Marxist Center

4:00pm CDT

Ecosocialism Against the Market Dusable B/CKate Aronoff Birth Strike: Why Reproductive Freedom is Under Attack Clark B/CJenny Brown A Socialist View of the Arab Spring Grant Park C/DAnand Gopal Socialists and the Teacher Strike Wave Field B/CGillian Russom • Eric Blanc The Socialist Case for Open Borders Adler A/B/CJustin Akers Chacón Abolish the Police: Liberal vs. Revolutionary Perspectives Grant Park Bbrian bean What would happen if Bernie wins? Learning from history and looking forward Burnham A/B/CDavid Duhalde • Mike McCarthy

7:30pm CDT

Welcome to Red Chicago BallroomKevin Coval • Carlos Rosa • Jesse Sharkey • Rossana Rodriguez • Alyxandra Goodwin • Jeanette Taylor

9:00pm CDT

DSA Reception Ballroom Foyer

10:00pm CDT

DJ Set BallroomSasha No Disco

9:30am CDT

The Global Resistance to Extraction Grant Park C/DValerio Arcary • Jennifer Marley • Lee Wengraf • Science for the People The Disability Politics of Marta Russell Clark B/CKeith Rosenthal Trans Liberation, Biological Determinism, and Sports Field B/CIsabelle Bartter We Won't Go Back: The Fight to Defend Abortion Rights Burnham A/B/CElla Mahony • Anne Rumberger • Mandy Medley Palestine and the Left Adler A/B/CBill Mullen Problems of the U.S. Left: The Cases of Cuba and Nicaragua Grant Park ADan La Botz • Sam Farber The Experience of Podemos in Spain: Balance Sheet and Perspectives for Anticapitalists Grant Park BAlex Merlo Strike Support for Socialists Dusable B/CTim Marshall • Emma Gagliardi • Nick French

11:30am CDT

Never Again: Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League Field B/CDavid Renton System Change, Not Climate Change: Youth Climate Activists in conversation with Teen Vogue Adler A/B/CHaven Coleman • Sally Taylor • Lucy Diavolo Literature as a Tool for Abolition and Transformative Justice Clark B/CDarnell Moore • Dao Tran Walking While Trans: Profiling, Policing, and Prisons Dusable B/CCamille White-Avian The Original Red Scare: Revolutionary Socialism with The Red Nation Burnham A/B/CJennifer Marley • Hope Alvarado • The Red Nation Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture Grant Park BEd Morales Tiananmen Square 30 Years Later Grant Park ADennis Kosuth The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality Grant Park C/DJason Farbman • Bhaskar Sunkara

2:00pm CDT

Meet-Up: Abortion Defense Clark B/C Meet-Up: Educators and Education Workers Adler A/B/C Meet-Up: Palestine Solidarity Organizing Dusable B/C Meet-Up: Science for the People Burnham A/B/C Meet-Ups: Migrant Solidarity Organizing Field B/C

3:00pm CDT

Reparations for Our Time Grant Park C/DAislinn Pulley • Todd St Hill • Ashli Giles-Perkins #MeToo in our Movements Burnham A/B/CMaryam Abidi • Kate Doyle Griffiths • Ann Russo China and the US: Inter-Imperial Rivalry or Class Struggle and Solidarity? Grant Park AElaine Lu • Kevin Lin • Ashley Smith Elections, Mass Politics, and the Left Dusable B/CDavid Duhalde • Alex Merlo • Luis Rangel Square One: How to Unionize Your Workplace Field B/CBrace Belden • Caitlin PenzeyMoog Teachers Unions and Anti-Racist Struggle Clark B/CLois Weiner • Gillian Russom • Angela Crawford • Tia Kurtisnger-Edison STEM in the Service of Empire: Scientists' and Educators' Complicity in US Militarism Grant Park BMichael Gasser • Clifford Connor • Sepehr Vakil • Charles Xu • Science for the People We won! Now what? A Town Hall with Chicago's Socialist Alderpeople Adler A/B/CMiles Kampf-Lassin • Carlos Ramirez-Rosa • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez

5:30pm CDT

Racial Capitalism, Opioids and the Drug War in the Age of Trump Burnham A/B/CDonna Murch What Would Sports Look Like In A Socialist Society Dusable B/CDave Zirin Your Commander in Chief is Lying to You Field B/CRory Fanning • Spenser Rapone Genocide of the Rohingya: An Indigenous Peoples Struggle in Burma Grant Park BKhadija Y. Mehter Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump Adler A/B/CAsad Haider Marxism and the Capitalist State: Socialist Theory and Strategy Clark B/CCharlie Post Reclaiming the Future: Democracy and Socialism Grant Park C/DAstra Taylor • Shawn Gude

8:00pm CDT

Meet-Up: Anti-War Organizing Field B/C Meet-Up: Antifascist Organizing Dusable B/C Meet-Up: Climate Justice Organizing Clark B/C Meet-Up: Housing Justice Burnham A/B/C Meet-Up: People of Color Adler A/B/C

9:00am CDT

Building Organizational Accountability for Sexual Violence Adler A/B/CAnn Russo

10:30am CDT

The Rise of the Far Right in India Grant Park BRohit Prajapati Pipeline Resistance, Climate Change, and Decolonization Dusable B/CMysti Babineau • Jessica Garraway Capes, Abs, and Asses: Body Dysmorphia, Toxic Masculinity and Comics Grant Park AKrystal Kara Sexual Violence and the State Clark B/CRachel Caïdor • Deana Lewis • Camila Valle Roots of Social Crisis and Struggle in Latin America Adler A/B/CValerio Arcary • Evelyn Zepeda • Luis Rangel • Michelle Manjunattu Jewish Politics and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism Field B/CJonah ben Avraham • Benjamin Balthaser An Introduction to Marx's Capital Grant Park C/DDavid Harvey How We Win Medicare for All Burnham A/B/CMichael Lighty • Donna Cartwright

1:00pm CDT

Care and Repair: The Revolutionary, Democratic Power of a Global Green New Deal BallroomNaomi Klein • Astra Taylor