What is this US Social Forum/Foro Social de los Estado Unidos thing all about?

What is this US Social Forum/Foro Social de los Estado Unidos thing all about?

Have you heard the buzz about the US Social Forum but have questions about what it's all about? Want to know how to register, how to get involved, what will be happening in Detroit June 22-26? For the month of March, the US Social Forum will be hosting informational call-in sessions every Tuesday (in English) and Thursday (Espanol). 

The one-hour phone sessions are a great opportunity for anyone to ask questions and hear about the goals and history of the Social Forum, details about what will be happening in Detroit this summer, logistics on how to get involved, and how to use the Forum as an opportunity for local and regional movement-building.

Registration is open. Workshop and Cultural submissions can be made until March 20th. For more information, check the website at www.ussf2010.org

The US Social Forum is bringing together grassroots groups to develop vision, collaborations, and strategies needed to construct a more peaceful and just world.  The Forum builds off the decade old process of the World Social Forum.  Bringing together the social justice work of low-income communities, people of color, young people, and LGBTQI communities, the forum is built by the grassroots for the grassroots to ensure that those affected by issues are at the center of movement responses and actions. It is a movement-building process that opens space for convergence, strategy exchange, and expanding our visions under the banner Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary. A New Detroit is Underway.
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Call Information:

Call: 712-432-0075
Password: 388105#

Thurs 3/04 6pm EST (span)
Tues 3/09 2pm EST (eng)
Thurs 3/11 6pm EST (span)
Tues 3/16 2pm EST (eng)
Thurs 3/18 6pm EST (span)

Ryan Van Lenning is a writer and organizer focusing on issues of social justice and sustainability. He is also passionate about food justice/urban ag, anti-militarism, and building alternative economies in resilient cities. His work appears in Ecolocalizer, Truthout, Huffington Post, Terrain: Northern California’s Environmental Magazine, and Matador Change. Prior to becoming caught in the web of Bay Area ink-slinging and activism, he taught in the Humanities Department at a community college in Ohio, where he created courses in Environmental Ethics and World Religions: Peace and Violence. He is both a hyper-localist and a globalist, a home-body and travel-addict, and a city explorer and nature aficionado, just a few of the many paradoxes with which he is afflicted. Contact him at ryan@oaklandlocal.com, follow him on twitter @vanlenning, and find more at his blogs Pull the Root, Travelin' Bones, and Rumi and the Cholo.