All US Social Forum Workshops
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How a growing international movement is demanding decriminalization of sex work, prioritizing resources and protection, how anti-trafficking and law enforcement undermine women’s safety and rights. Violación, Tráfico, Prostitución: El Eje es el Consentimiento |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D2-09 | |
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What time is it on the clock of the world? Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein draw on more than 50 years of experience exploring questions activists face for {r}evolutionary change in the 21st Century. |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-19 | |
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Un taller dinamico y participativo en el cual descubriremos las tendencias migratorios de diferentes paises y las razones de emigrar, asi como la desigualdad economica de incrementa es estas comunidades. Economic Refugees: Immigration, Economic Inequality and its Roots. |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | TWW: Fourier | |
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Join us for a panel presentation and discussion on the role of graphic design and strategic communications work in supporting effective community organizing. Comunicación para la liberación. La comunicación visual en el movimiento para la justicia social |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W1-53 | |
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In this workshop, members of the Pittsburgh Organizing Group will examine the efficacy of militant street protest in Pittsburgh and beyond as well as recent calls to abandon such protest in favor of local community organizing efforts. |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Woodward Academy: 1473 | |
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Members of the Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan explore Cuba’s importance in the world, the US blockade of Cuba, and how we can defeat it. El mundo necesita a Cuba. ESTE es el momento de poner fin al bloqueo estadounidense |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-26 | |
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Join a conversation between Baldemar Velazques/FLOC, Nelson Johnson/ BCC Greensboro, Bob King/UAW, Kim Bobo/IWJ, and Charles Williams/AFSME La fe, los trabajadores y las alianzas comunitarias. Palabra y mundo |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Christ Church | |
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Native delegates from a recent delegation to Palestine will share the relationships between Indigenous struggle in the U.S/Turtle Island and in Palestine. This workshop uses multimedia to interactively explore history, oppression and resistance. We will also share how delegation partners have been using media/culture/art to do joint education and organizing with Palestinian youth refugees. Palestina es Isla Tortuga. Organización indígena para acabar con la ocupación |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Wayne County Community College: 342 | |
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Find out why natural gas is not a “green bridge” to clean energy, and get involved in exposing the environmental hazards of gas drilling. |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | UAW Building: PRES | |
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Offers unique framework for analysis/action, addressing systemically-related crises of energy, capitalism, & environment on a finite earth. Tormentas Convergenteslas crisis de energía y comida, clima y ambiente, capitalismo y guerra |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Manoogian: 289 | |
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Venezuelan speakers will explore the bicentennial historical context of the Bolivarian Revolution and International Initiatives of integrations such as, the Bolivarian Alliance of Our America; ALBA. Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América: ALBA |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Cohn: 222 | |
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discuss taoism, fascism, zapatismo / look at oppression and the struggles of those who have searched for non-oppressive ways to escape it |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Old Main: 1115 | |
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Trade unionists describe how solidarity, community support and creativity are a vital part of their response to the neo-liberal attack on public jobs and workers. Crisis y respuesta: la lucha por servicios de sector público y trabajos en los EEUU, México y Quebec |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-64 | |
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U.S. and international activists will work with participants to build proposals on how to make reparations for ecological debts incurred through centuries of exploitative development. Indemnizaciones para deudas climáticas: vincular lo local con lo global |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | TWW: 2 | |
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Members of TGIJP will share their strategies and experiences of creating shadow reports and testifying in from of the United Nations CERD in order to bring international attention to the violence against incarcerated trans people in the US prison system. Additionally, with the support of colleague collaborating sponsors, TGIJP will present an introduction to the Yogyakarta Principles: Principles on the Application of Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and the group will explore ways to use the Principles and UN advocacy to expand trans rights. |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-17 | |
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Val Moghadam and Nadine Naber, scholar-activists with roots in the Middle East, will discuss the need for transnational ties between women. |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-20 | |
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Our gov’t used the recession as an excuse to cut funding for global AIDS drugs, and people are being forced onto waiting lists. Help us push back against this unjustice. |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | Woodward Academy: 1472 | |
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Torture is against the law, but accepted as patriotic by many individuals in the US, due to media images that glamorize the use of torture. |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Student Center: 261 | |
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This workshop will feature firsthand personal histories by Jews who have come to understand the immense injustices committed by Israel upon the Palestinian people. Small group discussions developing skills will follow. Como llegamos al camino menos transitado: Peregrinaje judío hacia el activismo |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Old Main: 1119 | |
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This workshop highlights the non-violent struggles of indigenous peoples to halt megaprojects, dams, mining and petrochemical companies and ways internationals can be in solidarity with them to support their goals. Luchas continuas que enfrentan los pueblos indígenas en defensa de los recursos y el territorio |
Jun 24 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Student Center: Ballroom |