Socialism Conference 2024 Livestreamed panels for Sunday Sept 1

10am-11:30am central (11am-12:30pm EDT): Unbuild Walls: Borders, Prisons, and Abolition with Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Amna Akbar - As calls to abolish ICE, prisons and policing, and borders gain urgency in the U.S. and abroad, so too does the need to understand how these systems necessitate and sustain each other. Silky Shah and Harsha Walia, in conversation with Amna A. Akbar, will unpack why global migrant justice efforts require a PIC abolition analysis, and how this relates to bordering, migration, and capitalism more broadly. Watch the livestream here: Haymarket Books - YouTube

10am-11:30am central (11am-12:30pm EDT): Blue Collar Empire: On the History of the ‘AFL-CIA’ and Possibilities for Labor Internationalism with Jeff Schuhrke and Aparna Gopalan - A conversation about the new book Blue Collar Empire—which recounts the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade in the late 20th century, shows how it took place in partnership with the US government’s Cold War-era quest to control labor struggles abroad, and explores what this history means for the possibility of international solidarity in the US labor movement today. Watch the livestream here: Blue Collar Empire: On the History of the 'AFL-CIA' and Possibilities for Labor Internationalism (youtube.com)

12pm-1:30pm central (1pm-2:30pm EDT): From the Ashes: Grief, Care, and Time in our Movements with Sarah Jaffe, Eman Abdelhadi, Kelly Hayes, and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Grief is everywhere these days, and yet speaking about it is often foreclosed even in our movement spaces. As we move forward in a time of intersecting crises, how do we create space for our very human needs—for rest, for care, for time to mourn—while we organize to rise to the immediate challenges of our time? Watch the livestream here: From the Ashes: Grief, Care, and Time in our Movements - YouTube

3pm-4:30pm central (4pm-5:30pm EDT): Lenin and the Politics of Rehearsal with Ruth Wilson Gilmore - 100 years after Lenin’s death, his exhortations to learn and think in the concrete remain urgent for our movements. What does it mean to approach our political practice not as an abstract set of rules, but as a collective rehearsal of coming worlds? And how can we perceive, expand, and connect contemporary world-experiments rehearsing abolitionist, communist, and anti-imperialist movement around the planet? Watch the livestream here: Lenin and the Politics of Rehearsal - YouTube

5pm-6:30pm central (6pm-7:30pm EDT): Dare to Win: Building on the Mass Protest Decade with Vincent Bevins. In the 20th century, US imperialism decimated socialist movements in the Third World, and at home McCarthyism cleansed the nation of radical aspirations. In the 2010s, as the unipolar moment approached its twilight, millennials unleashed a record-setting wave of global protests, with mixed results. Last decade, the left dared to struggle, at least. But after these setbacks, what would it mean to win? Watch the livestream here: Dare to Win: Building on the Mass Protest Decade - YouTube

8pm-9:30pm central (9pm-10:30pm EDT): SunDDay School: A Revolutionary Love with the Dream Defenders is a space for us to explore and experience the spiritual life of social movements. As we move through profound grief in our world, this program, “Dear Gaza: Letters of Revolutionary Love,” is organized around the adage that “revolution is the greatest act of love,” and love for the people, across our freedom fights, is what unites us most. Watch the livestream here: SunDDay School: A Revolutionary Love (youtube.com) and Instagram post: Dream Defenders | SunDDay School is a space for us to explore and experience the spiritual life of social movements. As we move through profound grief in… | Instagram

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