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A New World From Below: An Anti-Authoritarian Convergence at the 2010 US Social Forum
Jun 4, 2010
If you're heading up to Detroit for the US Social Forum in a couple of weeks, you definitely want to check out the "New World From Below" track that's being put together both inside and outside the official Social Forum. A couple of us from Red Emma's are working pretty heavily on this, and doing a couple of workshops coming out of the work we've been doing (you can see the full schedule at http://anarchistussf.wordpress.com):
Your City from Below
Red Emma’s and the Baltimore Development Cooperative for The City From Below
Wednesday, June 23 * 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. * Cobo Hall: O2-42
Drawing on the “Represent Your City!” discussion held at the City from Below conference in Baltimore last year, this workshop will provide an open space for activists and organizations working in an urban context to share stories, strategies, and successful models with each other. This will be a participatory workshop—everyone who attends will be encouraged to speak about what’s going on in their city. Our goal is to get beyond the surface of projects and campaigns, and explore what’s common (and what’s not) in the less-visible, long-term, and infrastructural struggles over “the right to the city.” We’ll let the participants’ contributions shape the dialogue, but will also offer questions like: How are you working to implement a vision of real urban democracy? How have you built successful grassroots and citywide alliances “from below”? How has the ongoing economic crisis impacted organizing? Where have things gone wrong?
Weaving Urban Fabrics: Spaces and Strategies for Building Social Justice Networks in the City
Red Emma’s and the Baltimore Development Cooperative for The City From Below
Friday, June 25 * 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. * Westin Book Cadillac Hotel: WB1
This workshop draws on our experiences with organizing the City from Below conference in 2009 and the STEW grassroots fund-raising dinners that followed as well as the lessons we have learned in Baltimore working on associated projects like Red Emma’s, Participation Park, the Indypendent Reader, and 2640. It will explore the potentials and pitfalls of creating intentional, grassroots spaces with an eye toward helping build and sustain informal networks and networking between different social justice struggles taking place in the same metropolitan region.
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