US Social Forum Kicks Off

The first day of the US Social Forum saw the arrival in Detroit of thousands of people set on attending the forum. Some, like a percussion marching band from Greensboro, North Carolina, drove through the night. Others, like the People's Freedom Caravan of ...

Why Detroit?

Activists Converge on Motor City

The summer sun was hot as marchers made their way down Woodward back to Cobo Hall in Detroit for the opening ceremonies of the US Social Forum. But spirits were high and the collective energy of so many activists devoted to social justice gathering in one ...

“Don’t forget the Motor City….”

I arrived at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit today -- without a clue about what I was getting myself into. But it turned out to be a very amazing gig. Hundreds (if not thousands) of people were there, all trying to rack their brains for solutions regardin...

Stories And Strategies On Day Two Of The US Social Forum

By Billy Wharton 24 June, 2010 Countercurrrents.org Day two of the US Social Forum was dominated by workshops put on by every political formation imaginable. There were so many possibilities that meetings stretched out from Cobo Hall across the city to W...

Otro mundo es posible, otro Detroit se está construyendo

DETROIT-"Tengo un sueño". Si le preguntas a cualquiera dónde pronunció por primera vez esas palabras el Reverendo Martin Luther King Jr., te responderá probablemente que fue en la Marcha sobre Washington en agosto de 1963. Pero de hecho lo hizo dos mes...

Notícias del IV Foro Social Américas

AMERICA LATINA - IV Foro Social Américas – Paraguay. Información sobre el Foro que se realiza en agosto; palabras de Magy Balbuena del grupo facilitador paraguayo. BRASIL: - Radio Agencia Planalto informa sobre denuncias de irregularidades en Estudios...

Occupied Palestine: Good News And Bad

On June 22, the International Middle East Media Center reported that the UN Human Rights Council (that established the Goldstone Commission) approved "forming an international committee to probe the deadly Israeli" Flotilla attack, massacring and injuring ...