June 22, 2010

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USSF 2010: Another World is Possible | Another US is Necessary, Day 1

By Jose G. Moreno, RPMA Media Team

Day One: Is “Another World Possible” within the U.S. Empire?

(Detroit, Michigan) Today over 10,000 people marched through the streets of downtown Detroit protesting the imperialist, colonialist, and capitalist methodologies of the US Empire. The USSF 2010 is taking place at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza, just overlooking the Detroit River and Canada. All of this week people from around the US and the World will gather in the heart of the northern borderlands.

Why Detroit? Since the late 1960s, Detroit has been affected by the white fight. In the aftermath of the “New Detroit Plan of 1968,” people left the city and moved into the suburbs due to cultural fear and economical problems. This political development of the post-1960s left Detroit with vacant buildings, homes, and a high employment rate. In the last 20 years, the city of Detroit has become one of the worst economic places to live in the US Empire.

What happens to Detroit? This city was one of the largest automobile and industrial capital of the world! Today, Detroit is known as a war zone, there are more vacant homes and buildings than any other urban city in the US Empire. Now is there “Another World Possible” in the future of Detroit. I think the only way to organize “Another World” in Detroit and elsewhere is to taken on a counter-hegemonic, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonialist approach against the US Empire.

I hope this week USSF 2010 will provide problem-solving solutions to the social and political problems within and outside of the US Empire.

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USSF 2010: Otro Mundo Es Posible

By Francisco Romero, RPMA Media Team

(Detroit, MI) Activists, organizers, non-profit organizations, grassroots independent organizations, unions, students and workers poured into Detroit today to kick off the 2nd U.S. Social Forum (USSF). Today, to start off the five day long conference, several thousand took to the streets of Downtown Detroit, with an array of demands, slogans, and chants. From environmental struggles, to immigrant and migrant worker rights, to labor union and education battles, marchers descended upon the Cobo Conference Exhibition Center.

With over 1,000 workshops taking place at this year’s USSF, the conference will be the largest social-political networking and organizing platform, a mass forum, which includes respresentatives from every single state within the U.S, but also, has the participation of hundreds of international organizers from Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin-America.

In the midsts of the mass march and welcoming ceremony to this year’s USSF, the Detroit City Council voted today to condemn Arizona’s SB-1070, joining dozens of cities that have publicly denounced the anti-worker legislation of Arizona targeting undocumented workers. At this year’s USSF, there are various workshops dealing with global migration, immigrant/migrant and refugee rights, as well as community resistance to the blatantly oppressive measures being implemented against them. To name a few, for example, “Uncovering Truth on Police and ICE Collaboration”, and “Fight Back Against State, County and City Drivers License Checkpoints and Towing/Impound Schemes Against Unlicensed Immigrant Drivers”, “Immigration Reform: Truth and Myths=Change”.

Undoubtebly, this year’s USSF, in a climate of global financial crisis, of perpetual Imperialist wars of agression, of disatrous environmental catastrophes, and of continued militarization of the border and communities across the U.S., the forum, serves as a timely opportunity for communities in resistance to connect and coordinate short, medium and long range goals and plans of action to combat the increasingly suffocating state of the world.

Otro Mundo Es Posible

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