All US Social Forum Workshops

Featuring Toxic Soil Busters & Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective: success stories of youth media-makers & movement building retreats

Confluence: Eco-Justice Movement Building

A divers group of students who have had heir free speech taken away from them for being political.

Defending Free Speech for Political Groups on Campuses

Join Streetwise & Safe for a conversation about abuse and criminalization of LGBTQQ youth of color in the context of "quality of life" policing and policing of sex work

Show Some SAS!

Digging into our collective wisdom and experience about how to most effectively campaign against corporations that destroy the environment and the climate.

Taking Aim at Multinationals: Strategic Lessons from Anti-Corporate Campaigns on the Environment

Millions of American youth are engaging in behaviors that put them at risk for unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV.Young people of color are at greater risk of HIV and STI infection, even with identical risk behaviors; and young women of color are more than twice as likely to experience pregnancy as young white women. Further, prejudice, discrimination, and harassment are still serious concerns for young people of color and GLBTQ young people. By the end of this session, participants will be able to 1) identify the connection between health disparities and social justice, 2) identify key stakeholders in non-traditional partners needed to reduce sexual health disparities among youth of color, 3) identify potential strategies to address these issues.

Youth of Color – Understanding Disparities of Sexual Health Outcomes

In May of 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the WPA, the largest public works program in U.S. history. The WPA created 8.5 million jobs during the depression of the 1930s. 75 years later, do the lessons of the WPA offer a fightback strategy to counter the deepening poverty and unemployment facing the US working class? What can be done to spark a resurgence to push back against corporate lay-offs and plant closing, right-wing Tea Party racism and bigotry and government tax breaks and bail-outs of banks and big business? There are more than 30 million unemployed and underemployed people in the country today. Everyone from youth graduating from high school and college, veterans returning from imperialist wars, long-time workers unsure about their future, seniors forced back into the job market, immigrants facing job discrimination and police harassment -- all need jobs or income now! It's time to say no: to a jobless recovery -- to an economy based on permanent high unemployment and low wages — to trillions of $ for Wall St., and trillions of $ for war, but nothing but joblessness, foreclosures, evictions, layoffs, low wages, union-busting, hunger and homelessness for workers and the poor. We need a real WPA-type program that is big enough to ensure that those who need work get work — work that is socially useful, that pays union wages and benefits. This wide-ranging discussion will bring together the experience of youth organizers in Detroit, Baltimore and Raleigh, trade unionists from San Francisco, historians and Bail Out the People Movement organizers – all of whom are building grass-roots support for a massive federally-funded jobs program that eliminates profit-skimming by corporations by directly paying workers to build and repair infrastructure, rehabilitate schools, housing and hospitals, build and beautify parks, walking and bike trails, create public art and advance community participation in culture and sports and so much more needed work.

How to Create 30 Million Jobs Now:The Lessons of the WPA

IYEP is a collaborative project focused on working with Native youth as they struggle with issues ranging from historical trauma to diabetes.

Indigenous Youth Empowerment Program: A collaborative project to strengthen our urban Native youth

CALLING EVERYONE RESISTING CUTS TO HUMAN SERVICES! How do we use fights against cuts to build a movement to make another world possible?

They Say Cut Back... We say Fight Back: Responding to economic crisis through movement-building

Peer support is at the heart of The Icarus Project. Come and experience it with your peers at the USSF!

Our Radical Mental Health as Activists