Date:

June 22, 2009 -June 26, 2010 

Location:

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Full Description:

Another World Is Possible! Another U.S. is Necessary!

Detroit to Host 20,000 Activists

The USSF will take place June 22-26, 2010 at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit. Other workshops and community art and culture programs will take place across the city. The USSF will convene social movements from across the United States and globally. Organizers are reaching out to young people, people of color, unionists, laid off and unorganized workers, welfare recipients, veterans, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, freedom fighters, collectives, and many others.

Why a social forum?

"This is a large scale and unique opportunity to learn from each other's experiences, shed light on social injustices, and build on community efforts to create real change," says William Copeland, a USSF staff organizer and member of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC).

Key aims are to create an open space and a process for creating movement convergence and coordination, raise awareness of social justice issues, provide opportunities to share experiences, and discuss strategies that create social change and solutions to the problems facing people across our many struggles, sectors, regions, and diversity.

Why Detroit?

"Detroit is ground zero for the economic crisis facing millions of people, not only here in Michigan, but across the nation," says Maureen Taylor, a USSF staff organizer and Chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO). "We are really pleased to host this historic event and we're sure that what happens in Detroit will have a huge impact not only here but elsewhere."

How do we do it?

The U.S. Social Forum is organized by thousands of social movement and grassroots volunteers in all sectors and regions. The planning is underway and open to everyone who wants to see a movement for real change succeed. Working Groups are being formed and, using Internet tools like wikis, you can participate and share ideas, no matter where you are.

Additional Information:

http://www.ussf2010.org/

Areas of Focus:

Affirmative Action (Democratizing Education), Afghanistan, Books not Bombs (Democratizing Education), Civil Rights and Liberties (Local Democracy), Corporations (Local Democracy), Corporations and Democracy (Liberty Tree), Debt Forgiveness (Democratizing Education), Defense Reform, Democratic Culture (Liberty Tree), Democratizing Elections (Liberty Tree), Economic Democracy (Liberty Tree), Election Reform (No More Stolen Elections), Full Funding (Democratizing Education), Gender and Democracy (Liberty Tree), Global Democracy (Liberty Tree), Iraq, Local Democracy (Liberty Tree), Local Democracy Movement (Local Democracy), Community Media (Local Democracy), Media Democracy (Liberty Tree), Municipal Foreign Policy (Local Democracy), Neighborhoods (Local Democracy), Participatory Budgeting (Local Democracy), Progressive Regulation (Local Democracy), Corporatization (Democratizing Education), Race and Democracy (Liberty Tree), Right to Organize (Democratizing Education), Services and Revenue (Local Democracy), Stolen Elections (No More Stolen Elections), Sustainable Cities (Local Democracy), Tuition Abolition (Democratizing Education), Utilities and Wealth (Local Democracy), Vote Suppression (No More Stolen Elections), War Resistance

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