USSF participants that want to ensure their participation in the 2010 USSF respects and contributes to the local hosting effort can participate in a Work Project as part of their USSF experience. 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. The work projects will take place during the middle three days of the USSF, June 23-25, 2010 at various locations throughout the city.
Check out the various projects and sign up for a work brigade or work project
Individuals representing a cross-section of organizations, communities and struggles from the Midwest, South, & Southwest will travel to Detroit in advance of the social forum to work side by side with their counter-parts in Detroit on various work-projects that:
the ongoing efforts of Detroit Anchor Organizations and Detroit Local Organizing Committee as they prepare for the USSF and its impacts on Detroit
relationships between communities that have been engaging in the social forum process from youth, communications, logistics & other work areas to develop the USSF organizing process.
towards practical projects that will advance existing Detroit community-building movements beyond the Social Forum.
The Food Justice projects include community gardens, aquaponics and green space.
The USSF Mural project is an opportunity to engage local artists and engage in art education and community public art collaborations, and to increase public access to art. Mural making provided a support structure for Detroit’s young men and women to develop their artistic skills, empowering them to take an active role in beautifying their communities. Progressive Bookstore and Community film theatre: Detroit has very few bookstores and no community film theatre. This would be a collaboratively run progressive resource run by Women of Color Detroit, Inc.
We have a goal to include 10,000 people in the USSF that aren't able to be in Detroit! This is about solidarity with our organization members at home, folks in the international community, and anyone that would like to have a deeper participation and experience with those unable to attend.
Please complete this survey if you have an accepted workshop for the US Social Forum and intend to be apart of Detroit Expanded. We are expecting your response by June 15, 2010 at the latest, although in order to work with you on your connection, we will need much more time!
If you would like to donate equipment to the US Social Forum and the People's Media Center, please complete this form. We will do our best to contact you and assess your donation in a timely manner as well as schedule with you a time for equipment deliver or pick-up. Your donation is tax deductible and helps us put on this major event. Additionally, you can be sure that your donation will be given to a Detroit-based organization after this USSF event ends.
See more about our technology politics and projects here: http://ict.ussf2010.org.