Why Detroit?<\/p>\n
To win nationally, we must win in places like Detroit. The Midwest site of \u2028the USSF marks a fierce resistance movement for social, racial, gender, and\u2028 economic justice. Detroit has the highest unemployment of any major city in the \u2028country\u201423.2% (March 2009)\u2014with nearly one in four Detroiters unable to find\u2028 work. Michigan has had the highest number of unemployed people in all 50 states\u2028 for nearly four years. Thousands of living wage jobs have been permanently lost\u2028 in the automotive industry and related sectors. Some think that it will take at \u2028least until 2025 for Michigan to recover from the economic collapse and social\u2028 dislocation.<\/p>\n
What is happening in Detroit and in Michigan is happening all\u2028 across the United States. Detroit is a harbinger for what we must do in our communities!\u2028 As grassroots activists and organizers, we work to address the indignities \u2028against working families and low-income people, and protect our human right to \u2028the basic necessities of life. In Detroit, we can make change happen!<\/p>\n
The US Social Forum provides this space\u2014drawing participants from\u2028 different regions, ethnicities, sectors and ages across the U.S. and its \u2028colonies. Community-based organizations, Indigenous nations, immigrants, \u2028independent workers organizations, unions, unemployed, youth, children, elders,\u2028 queers, differently-abled, international allies, academics, and advocacy organizations will be able to come together in Detroit for dialogues, \u2028reflection and to define future strategies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A partial list of workshops:<\/a><\/p>\n\n- How Communities are Building the Domestic Human Right to Housing Movement and Utilizing U.N. Interventions<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Ending all drug wars – stopping racist prison policy against the poor & working class people of color <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Organizing on a Shoestring: Getting the word out cheap<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Fighting for a Moratorium on Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The Militarization of America: At What Cost?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Feminist Economics: value of care<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- BuildTheWheel.org: Sharing Political Education Workshops, Trainings and Resources<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- For a Health System based on Equity and Solidarity: Building a Movement for the Human Right to Health in the U.S.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Re-localization and the Role of the Rustbelt: Young Farmers, Urban Farmers & Sustainable Redevelopment<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- \u201cAfrican American Social Cooperatives: Addressing Needs of Women, Youth, and Families for Economic Development and Health Services\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- From Oil to Clean Energy: The Transition from a war-based, carbon-based economy to one that meets human needs sustainably<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- U.S. Techie Congress<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- CEDESA, Women, and the Mexican Food Sovereignty Movement<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Another Peace Is Possible–Understanding How Militarism Harms Women and Working Together To Create A Women-Inclusive Peace<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Building support for a basic income guarantee<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- True Cost Economics: the real potential and problems<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Hip Hop Culture in the Third Space: Building Mind Power Collective<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Single payer Health Care Solution to the Health Care Crisis<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Songwriting for Social Change <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Megaprojects and the Militarization of Mexico<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Homeless Resistance<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Domestic Fair Trade Association: A Movement Based Approach to Fair Trade<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Cultural Space & Community Self-Determination: An East Oakland Story of Radical Change<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Responding to an Amnesiac Culture with Grassroots Social History<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- “AMARC and Community Radio around the World”<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Resist the Testing! Transform Public Education!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Promoting Youth Leadership and Governance in Social Justice Organizations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Who Says You Can’t Change the World: Just Economies and Societies on an Unjust Planet<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The Social Context of Schools: Building a more liberatory possibility<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Fighting to Defend Public Education in America: Kindergarten through University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Scholar Activism in the Global Justice Movement<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Rapid solarization can drive sustainable economic growth while preventing catastrophic climate change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The Truth Is Not Enough: How to create social change that sticks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Reimagining Society Project 1: Envision What We Want<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Reimagining Society Project 2: How Do We Get the Society We Want?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- ChainofChange.com: A Multimedia Youth Response to Violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Human Rights Campaigns to Build Power at the State Level: Healthcare and Workers’ Rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Global Cultural Activism through the Arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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