Detroit Greens a local of the Green Party of Michigan

SPREAD THE WORD!

There are 19 more days and 2 hours till the Opening March of the 2nd US Social Forum. At 11:59pm tonight (June 3), registration rates will go up for both organizations and individuals, so.

REGISTER NOW!!! Visit http://ussf2010.org/register

Call, email, Twitter and Facebook your friends/family/networks, make sure they don't miss the biggest cross-movement convergence in US history!

BOOK IT UP!

Flights are still reasonable, there are seats on the bus and hotel rooms & solidarity housing is still available, though going unbelievably fast. http://www.ussf2010.org/housingneeds

HOT NEWS OF THE ORGANIZING PRESS:

Newly shored up events taking place at USSF:

- OPENING MARCH, June 22, 3pm - BE THERE. All the marches from direct actions will be feeding into the main march, leading to the Opening Ceremony. Swoon! We're going water bottle-less and health/healer teams & 20 drum bands will be with us will- get those banners painted!

- Excluded Workers Congress on Wednesday organized by National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and Jobs with Justice

- Detroit Highlighted Workshops on Tuesday from 10 am -12 pm as well as Saturday from 10 am- 12 pm in Cobo Hall

- One of many Direct Actions will be on Saturday morning on the biggest incinerator in the world, right in a Detroit community

- Detroit to Dakar: We will have organizers not only from the next World Social Forum in Senegal and Africa, but dozens of representatives of International Allies from Iraq, Colombia, Brazil, the Philippines, Honduras and Haiti to name a few.

- Immigrants Rights from Below PMA: From Arizona to Detroit, many immigrant and migrant rights groups are coming to the USSF to discuss, debate, and strategize how to fight back against SB 1070 and "Secure Communities" legislation.

- Students Declaration of Rights Students nationwide and teachers from the National Network of Teacher Activists will be meeting in Detroit to plan 2011 launch of Campaign on a National Bill of Rights for Students.

- Queer People's Movement Assembly- Southerners of New Ground, Audre Lorde Project, Queers for Economic Justice and others will be hosting 4-hour workshop on Wednesday June 23 to determine key factors for LGBTQQI folks can organize and struggles against.

- Dead Prez, Sonni Patterson, Welfare Poets, Read Next Poetry Squad, Rebel Diaz, Jessica Care Moore and hundreds of cultural performers of all types.

- Children's Social Forum: children 5 to 12 years old will be also be participating in activities and learnings that mirror the the USSF

- Delegates/Speakers: Ambassador Pablo Solon from the Pluri-National State of Bolivia, Harry Belafonte, John Trudell, Naomi Klein are confirmed delegates as well.

- Water Ceremony: Indigenous led ceremony on Wednesday morning at 8 am to honor the sacred power of water. If you participate, bring water from where you come from.

- Incredible Youth Space- To push and insure that the USSF is a intergenerational process friendly open to young people, there will be a series of youth led events during the forum.

- The Youth Speak Out Poetry Slam will take place Friday June 25 at the Eastern Market to highlight the voices of young people in building a stronger movement

- People's Media Center- a space to make media, teach and learn with other media makers.

- There will also be Detroit Expanded- where we will be live-streaming the USSF to thousands of people via the internet nationally and internationally.

- USSF Village- we have over 20 tents with programming and tabling happening all day, like the Health and Healing Tent

- Work Brigades- Registered participants of the US Social Forum will join Detroit community organizations in hands on projects that will build local organizations and help further their on-the-ground work in Detroit. Examples are food Justice projects like community gardens and community arts mural projects. Sign-up at: http://abc.ussf2010.org/brigades

- 10,000 personal Leftist Lounge Party Friday night! The Movement's finest DJs & 5 dance floors.(flyer below)

- Evening Plenaries-talking about the state of the movement, how we're challenging efforts to weaken and destroy democratic and public programs, and turn them over to private corporations and building an internationalist movement that has roots in local communities, connects beyond borders, has an integrated analysis and begins to not only vision, but build that other world.

- National Peoples Movement Assembly on Saturday from 12pm- 4:30 pm: culmination of all the hundreds of PMA's taking this past year and the 48 that will happen in 3 days at the USSF. This is where movement convergence happens and national plan of actions get announced and the analysis gets synthesized.

- Add your own:_____________________

HELP PROMOTE TO ALL THE DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE LOVERS & CHANGEMAKERS YOU KNOW!

All flyers, web banners & media are here: http://www.ussf2010.org/outreachmaterials

REGISTER TO SHOW COMMITMENT & LOVE

We are asking that everyone register (including staff, volunteers and media). We are all part of the community/movement and a sliding scale is what makes it possible for folks of all walks to participate. Registration is a small contribution to "Another Detroit is Happening" and reflective of the fact that this is a grassroots activism/artists/cultural gathering blown to huge proportions! It also lets us know how many party plates to put out...

With over 1060 self organized workshops, over 48 People's Movement Assemblies scheduled, and thousands of people coming by plane, train, bus, bike and foot ready to converge in Detroit from every sector of the movement for social justice, this is the place to be.

BRING YOUR BIKES, BOOKS, BYTES AND BOTTLES

We are asking all delegates to bring on the B's: donate a bike or computer to local organizations, help us in Detroit build a USSF library. Detroit has very few bookstores and no community film theatre. The progressive library and community film theatre would be a collaboratively run progressive resource run by Women of Color Detroit, Inc. Please bring your favorite progressive book that inspired you to make the world a better place. Our goal is to collect 10,000 progressive books. We are committing to not sell or donate bottled water, so bring your re-usable water bottle. These are just some of the examples of wonderful programming and happenings at the USSF, there are hundreds more.
Link: http://abc.ussf2010.org/node/68.

EARLY BIRD RATE ENDS JUNE 3, 11:59pm PST!!!

http://www.ussf2010.org/register

PROGRAMMING AT A GLANCE

For all info, programming & logistics details, visit:

http://www.ussf2010.org/

1,062 WORKSHOPS:
To see workshop schedule and start dreaming about the possibilities:

http://www.organize.ussf2010.org/workshops (panels, PMA's, speakers, plenaries).

NEARLY 500 CULTURAL & ARTS EVENTS, INCLUDING FILM FESTIVAL

Not to mention, just confirmed Oliver Stone will be premiering his new Venezuela film here.
http://organize.ussf2010.org/cultural-submissions

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE BIG PARTY!

5 dancefloors that can fit 10,000 people on them- let's celebrate being alive and struggling for justice, shall we?