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This is a sample of the workshop lineup for tomorrow at the US Social Forum in Detroit.....I'll try to get to as many as possible and post some goodies. But it's like Christmas in June !!!!



http://www.ussf2010.org/


How do we prevent burnout and stay hopeful so our work continues? Sharing our experiences and setbacks as activists participants will learn thoughtful listening techniques.
Putting Ourselves in the Movement: Facing Discouragement and Finding Real Hope in Midwest Activism
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: DO-02A


Participants share stories of oppression in service delivery (welfare, health, education) and develop alternative stories based on the right to dignity and control.
Protecting Against Human Rights Violations in the Human Services
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: O2-36


Panel will initiate discussion on state budget crisis and how popular fightbacks can rebuild public space.
Socialist Activists Rebuilding Public Space Through Fighting the State Budget Crisis
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: O2-39


This workshop shares the experiences of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement in building a People's Assembly in Jackson, Mississippi.
Building a Participatory Democracy: The Jackson, Mississippi People's Assembly and the Black Struggle for Self-Determination
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: W2-61


Participants will learn the opportunities university capital offers for strategic economic transformation and find out what student activists across the nation have been doing to make those opportunities become reality.
Using University Money for Economic Transformation
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am WSU Old Main: 1129


Will you join us in the middle of a whirlwind? In cooperation with other organizers and activists, we will present during this two-hour workshop, on the importance of research to movement building as we seek a return radical community organizing—toward making a revolution possible!
Join in the Whirlwind: A Cooperative Panel on Research and Movement Building
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: O2-42


Everyone needs to eat. Everyone needs water. How can we organize against the private corporations that are trying to control the things we need?
Monsanto, Nestle and Cargill... Oh My! Organizing Against the Corporate Control of Our Public Resources
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Wayne County Community College: 348


Learn about a replicable production that uses theater and visual art to showcase adult survivors of child sexual abuse sharing their stories and presenting their visions of community accountability.
Secret Survivors: Using Theater to Break Taboos Surrounding Child Sexual Abuse
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: W2-58


In an oppressive world, many of us experience intense, painful and extreme states. Unfortunately, the currently established system of dealing with these painful states sometimes makes these difficult times worse. We will explore questions such as how does the psychiatric system a-politicize suffering? How is the psychiatric system used as a means of social control? How do we challenge or attempt to hold this system accountable? And how do we find safer and more just means of coping with our extreme states?
Psychiatry as a Form of Social Control
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: Riverview Ballroom (W1-52)


This workshop will explore literature that allows us to analyze, understand and critique the world we live in and to imagine a world of the future.
Other Worlds Are Possible: Visionary Fiction, Organizing and Immaging the Future
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: O2-44


We will invoke sacred space and the wisdom of the elements through creative and interactive experiences--including art, simple chants, music, movement, and story.
Creativity, Contemplation & Activism
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: D3-22


How does an individual/under-funded organization make a difference in popular culture? What works? What is feasible? What resources are available to re-populate popular media with socially conscious work?
Culture Jam
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Woodward Academy: Gym


U.S. police agencies have powerful new tools to spy on and disrupt movements for change. Learn what they are doing, who they are targetting (yes, it is you) and how we can fight it.
Tools to fight the Surveillance State
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Woodward Academy: C-1


Could sex work be de-criminalized, transformed and a means through which women are actually empowered or does sex work only serve to further subjugate and exploit women?
Sex Work or Sex Slavery: The Empowerment Debate
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am WSU Student Center: VIP Room-Lower Level


Discuss, strategize and build a network dedicated to mobilizing for federal equality for LGBTQI people and ensuring solidarity with movements fighting for social justice overall.
From March to Movement: The Fight for LGBTQI Liberation
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am Cobo Hall: M3-31


Silicon Valley De-Bug uses community media to organize against policies that criminalize and brutalize young people. Youth United for Community Action links up youth leadership in its fight against racism, social inequality, "isms" to bring environmental injustice to east palo alto, ca.
Youth Organizing and Outreach: Debug and Yuca creating Social Justice in the South bay
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am WSU Old Main: 1134


Want to know what components to focus on to develop agents of reform? Want to develop your own blueprint for your work in your community? Urban School Awakening will be presenting a workshop focused on just this. This workshop focuses on how urban schools/communities need to focus on implementing curriculas/practices and pedagogy which develop and strengthen the higher-level thinking skills necessary for low-income students to become their own agents of social reform; schools will also collaborate with community organizations so as to train their students in social mobilization tactics.
Urban School Awakening
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am TWW: 1


Are there meaningful parallels between the Arab and African-American experiences? How can our groups collaborate in progressive movement building, both globally and locally, and what are the struggles we face in common? What are the points of contention within this coalition? Come with creative energy to formulate strategies for coalition-building with organizers who have been developing brown and black relationships.
Building Arab and Black Solidarity
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am TWW: 2


It is time for a just transition past the boom and bust coal economy of Central Appalachia - join us as we discuss a better path.
Appalachian Economy in Transition
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am WSU Student Center: South Lounge 2nd floor


This workshop will address the intersections of motherhood and incarceration and the areas of work being done around these issues throughout communities in Western Massachusetts
Prisons and the Fight for Reproductive Justice