U.S. Social Forum & Allied Media Conference Info Session (Amherst)

Join Arise for Social Justice, OutNow, Food For Thought Books, To Tell You The Truth, the Center for Popular Economics, and other local activists and organizers for information sharing and dialogue about United States Social Forum II, taking place in Detroit on June 22-26th, 2010. There will also be information available about the Allied Media Conference taking place in Detroit June 18-20th, 2010.

The USSF Northeast Representative (Akudo Ejelonu) will give a presentation on what folks can expect at the forum. Local activists and organizers will share their experiences and learnings from USSF 2007 and what their organizations and movements are planning for 2010 in Detroit. We invite community members, activists, radicals, progressives, organizers, media-makers and artists to join us in this event both to learn more about the Allied Media Conference (AMC) and the USSF 2010 and begin a dialogue how these experiences can support local organizing efforts for radical media-making, equity, justice, peace and sustainability.

The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples' solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history. We must declare what we want our world to look like and we must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn from each other's experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.

Allied Media Conference (AMC) cultivates strategies for a more just and creative world. At the AMC, participants come together to share tools and tactics for transforming our communities through media-based organizing. The AMC focuses of using participatory media as a strategy for social justice organizing. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers, technologists and social justice organizers. We draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment. We are ready to create, connect and transform.

For more information call Javiera or tk at 413-253-5432 or email tanya@foodforthoughtbooks.com