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Tom Stephens: Detroit, a Love Story

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Tom Stephens: Labor Day Event

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Labor Day Event

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MarkDilley at 02:19, 28 July 2009

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Tom Stephens at 02:18, 28 July 2009

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Wrote the piece starting off this page: [[Press-People Stories]]

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-Apologies for the fact that a family commitment kept me away from yesterday's DLOC meeting... I understand that there was some discussion of Labor Day, and I see there is a banner making project... I have made initial contact with trepresentatives of the Right to the City Alliance (mfranco@righttothecity.org and clipscombe@righttothecity.org) and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (domesticworkersunited@gmail.com), and I would like us to share our plans for labor day, and hope they can join us, as I believe they would be ideal representatives of USSF to labor (and vice-versa).  Of course the issue of resources and expenses for such a trip has come up, and hopefully we can work something out, I would be glad to contribute my share... Initially representatives of these groups would probably have to get themselves to Detroit, with our efforts to raise some funds to at least partially compensate them?  It is my understanding that with everything going on there is some possibility that this may be an especially big Labor Day march, and we now have about 3 weeks to bring together a ussf presence...
+Apologies for the fact that a family commitment kept me away from yesterday's [[DLOC]] meeting... I understand that there was some discussion of Labor Day, and I see there is a banner making project... I have made initial contact with trepresentatives of the Right to the City Alliance (mfranco@righttothecity.org and clipscombe@righttothecity.org) and the [[National Domestic Workers Alliance]] (domesticworkersunited@gmail.com), and I would like us to share our plans for labor day, and hope they can join us, as I believe they would be ideal representatives of USSF to labor (and vice-versa).  Of course the issue of resources and expenses for such a trip has come up, and hopefully we can work something out, I would be glad to contribute my share... Initially representatives of these groups would probably have to get themselves to Detroit, with our efforts to raise some funds to at least partially compensate them?  It is my understanding that with everything going on there is some possibility that this may be an especially big Labor Day march, and we now have about 3 weeks to bring together a ussf presence...
 Tom Stephens

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		+	Apologies for the fact that a family commitment kept me away from yesterday's DLOC meeting... I understand that there was some discussion of Labor Day, and I see there is a banner making project... I have made initial contact with trepresentatives of the Right to the City Alliance (mfranco@righttothecity.org and clipscombe@righttothecity.org) and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (domesticworkersunited@gmail.com), and I would like us to share our plans for labor day, and hope they can join us, as I believe they would be ideal representatives of USSF to labor (and vice-versa). Of course the issue of resources and expenses for such a trip has come up, and hopefully we can work something out, I would be glad to contribute my share... Initially representatives of these groups would probably have to get themselves to Detroit, with our efforts to raise some funds to at least partially compensate them? It is my understanding that with everything going on there is some possibility that this may be an especially big Labor Day march, and we now have about 3 weeks to bring together a ussf presence...
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		+	jail4banksters@yahoo.com--[[User:Tom Stephens\|Tom Stephens]] 23:52, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

	CHECK OUT THIS EXCERPT & URL FROM A VERY NICE ARTICLE ON ZNET (THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING):		CHECK OUT THIS EXCERPT & URL FROM A VERY NICE ARTICLE ON ZNET (THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING):

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 This coming June, June of 2010, just a little over eleven months away, is the next US Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan.  What we need to do is be prepared for this conference with the capacity to reach out to the organizations and people beforehand, so as to build this strategy [i.e., "BUILDING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONS LIKE COOPERATIVES TO STRENGTHEN THE OVERALL MOVEMENT AND PROVIDE LIBERATING INSTITUTIONS THAT CAN HELP PEOPLE TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN LIVES WITHIN THE PROCESS OF FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING SOCIETY AS A WHOLE"] into the larger movement.  This will help us get away from the limitations of the social forum model, which revolve around its reluctance to form any type of solid campaigns or decision-making structures and be just a space for workshops and the formation of informal relationships or networking, into a space where we can establish the different aspects needed to build this participatory infrastructure.
-What it will take is the establishment of principles to help all the cooperative development funds interact with another, something that exists to a certain extent already, to get the important Community Development Financial Institutions on the same page, which won't be that difficult either, and a concerted effort to get as many social movement organizations committed to the strategy.  This process concludes with the dissemination of massive amounts of literature about it at the forum itself, a few different workshops or panels about it and the different elements, and a resolution at what is called the People's Movement Assembly, which is as much of a participatory democratic decision-making body as the social forum has right now.  If we can pass a resolution at the assembly, while making sure to do these other elements, we can go away from the social forum with a solid movement behind building a new infrastructure for our movement as a whole, one that will surely be a powerful force for change in the new decade that can be a decade of the change we want to see.
+What it will take is the establishment of principles to help all the cooperative development funds interact with another, something that exists to a certain extent already, to get the important Community Development Financial Institutions on the same page, which won't be that difficult either, and a concerted effort to get as many social movement organizations committed to the strategy.  This process concludes with the dissemination of massive amounts of literature about it at the forum itself, a few different workshops or panels about it and the different elements, and a resolution at what is called the [[People's Movement Assembly]], which is as much of a participatory democratic decision-making body as the social forum has right now.  If we can pass a resolution at the assembly, while making sure to do these other elements, we can go away from the social forum with a solid movement behind building a new infrastructure for our movement as a whole, one that will surely be a powerful force for change in the new decade that can be a decade of the change we want to see.
-Towards a Participatory Recovery Plan
+: Towards a Participatory Recovery Plan
-July 20, 2009
+: July 20, 2009
-By Atlee McFellin
+: By Atlee McFellin
-http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21996
+: [http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21996 ZCommunications.org article]

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	CHECK OUT THIS EXCERPT & URL FROM A VERY NICE ARTICLE ON ZNET (THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING):		CHECK OUT THIS EXCERPT & URL FROM A VERY NICE ARTICLE ON ZNET (THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING):

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−	~~Wrote~~ the ~~piece starting off~~ this page: ~~[[Press~~-~~People Stories]]~~	+	CHECK OUT THIS EXCERPT & URL FROM A VERY NICE ARTICLE ON ZNET (THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING):
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		+	This coming June, June of 2010, just a little over eleven months away, is the next US Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan. What we need to do is be prepared for this conference with the capacity to reach out to the organizations and people beforehand, so as to build this strategy [i.e., "BUILDING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONS LIKE COOPERATIVES TO STRENGTHEN THE OVERALL MOVEMENT AND PROVIDE LIBERATING INSTITUTIONS THAT CAN HELP PEOPLE TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN LIVES WITHIN THE PROCESS OF FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING SOCIETY AS A WHOLE"] into the larger movement. This will help us get away from the limitations of the social forum model, which revolve around its reluctance to form any type of solid campaigns or decision-making structures and be just a space for workshops and the formation of informal relationships or networking, into a space where we can establish the different aspects needed to build this participatory infrastructure.
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		+	What it will take is the establishment of principles to help all the cooperative development funds interact with another, something that exists to a certain extent already, to get the important Community Development Financial Institutions on the same page, which won't be that difficult either, and a concerted effort to get as many social movement organizations committed to the strategy. This process concludes with the dissemination of massive amounts of literature about it at the forum itself, a few different workshops or panels about it and the different elements, and a resolution at what is called the People's Movement Assembly, which is as much of a participatory democratic decision-making body as the social forum has right now. If we can pass a resolution at the assembly, while making sure to do these other elements, we can go away from the social forum with a solid movement behind building a new infrastructure for our movement as a whole, one that will surely be a powerful force for change in the new decade that can be a decade of the change we want to see.
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		+	Towards a Participatory Recovery Plan
		+	July 20, 2009
		+	By Atlee McFellin
		+	http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21996