Reports from the Forum
Late this spring, North Star Fund issued travel grants that allowed groups to send representatives from New York City's vibrant social justice movement to the U.S. Social Forum held in Detroit. According to the Social Forum's website, "[The Social...
Tenants Take To The Streets For Rent-Law Reforms
The tenant movement raised the stakes in the fight for rent-law reforms in July 2010, when members of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, alongside other groups in the Real Rent Reform (R3) campaign, took part in a civil disobedience...
LatinoJustice Takes On Arizona
Though the federal government is charged with setting this country's immigration policies, states and localities across the country have begun creating their own immigration policies. Though they have done so under the guise of simply trying to aid the federal...
Reflecting the US Social Forum
Activists and artists, grassroots community organizations and unions, farmworkers, immigrants, senior citizens and youth, from the U.S. and around the world--altogether 20,000 people, gathered at the convention center in downtown Detroit, June 22-26 for the historic 2nd U.S. Social Forum. It...
From the Forum to the Streets
Detroit: On Friday June 25th, a couple of protests took place at the U.S. Social Forum. The larger of these protests, focused on the financial giant J.P. Morgan Chase, was organized by the Bail Out the People Movement. Several...
Taking Back Public Space
Just like they have been for the last 200 years, most street vendors in New York City are immigrant entrepreneurs. They do not ask for government funding or city subsidies. They pay taxes and put up with intense regulation. ...
A Pageantry of Protest
When I first arrived in Detroit on Friday the seventeenth of June 2010, I was amazed at the number of abandoned buildings. Everywhere I looked there were empty buildings and broken windows. The streets were desolate, a trickle of...
A Fair Chance for Families Separated by Prison
Co-authored by Sam Streed On June 15, incarcerated parents and their children received long sought-after and critical support in their efforts to maintain ties to each other and protect parental rights. On that day, after years of advocacy by...
On the Ground at the U.S. Social Forum
People's Production House will be reporting for the Community Blog from the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, June 22 - 25. This is their first dispatch. Detroit: Over eight hundred social justice groups from around the US, comprised of over...
Who Says You Can't Win Big in a Bad Economy?
They work for some of the deepest pockets in the global economy--Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan/Chase and other Wall Street firms. But when the stock market crashed, the commercial movers who do the heavy lifting on Wall Street got hit...
