Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Thanks to Jeff Zavala of ZGraphix for this visual report on part of the US Social Forum program held at the Texas State Employees Union on Thursday, August 19. You’ll see the slide show of the USSF shown by Anne Lewis of TSEU, and the video that Austin Tan Cerca de La Frontera took to Detroit for the workshop that they presented at the USSF in June. Jeff adds music from David Rovics. (You can also go to Anne Lewis’s website to see clips from her documentary on Anne Braden that she showed at the USSF.)
http://www.blip.tv/file/4031183
Domestic workers union at USSF (LaborNotes, Jim West)
Above: March against the world’s largest waste incinerator.
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
| June 22, 2010 | to | June 26, 2010 |
Most of you know about the U.S. Social Forum this year. Many people from
San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and other Texas cities are going. Some are presenting workshops. USSF’s website is http://www.ussf2010.org/ or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1828946493&v=app_2344061033#!/event.php?eid=111695722194402&index=1
U.S. Labor Against the War is sponsoring 2 workshops: “Building solidarity with working people and unions in Iraq and other U.S. war zones” (Thurs., 6/24, 1 – 3 pm) and “Talking to workers and unions about war, military spending and U.S. foreign policy” (Friday, 6/25, 10 am – 12 noon).
Here’s a small excerpt from the USSF’s statement of beliefs:
- “Believe that there is a strategic need to unite the struggles of oppressed communities and peoples within the United States (particularly Black, Latino, Asian/ Pacific-Islander and Indigenous communities) to the struggles of oppressed nations in the Third World.
- Believe the USSF should place the highest priority on groups that are actually doing grassroots organizing with working class people of color, who are training organizers, building long-term structures of resistance, and who can work well with other groups, seeing their participation in USSF as building the whole, not just their part of it. . . .”
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