Introductions
- Priscilla Dziubek
- Rachel Wells
- Shirley Chalmers
- Rocio Valerio
- Oyatunde Amakisi
- Bill Bryce
- Quintin Williams
- Andre Martin
- Dianne Feeley
- Bill Wylie-Kellerman
- Tom Stephens
- Marian Kramer
- Maureen Taylor
- Nancy Brigham
- William Copeland
- Ahmina Maxey
- Kiran Nigam
- Nisa Joorabchi
- Bruce Peterson
- Glenn Shelton
- Debbie Williams
- Sharon Sexton
- Joel McKinney
- Peter Solenberger
- Gwen Gaines
- Carol Bender
- Lotus Page
Anchor Updates
- May 9th strategic session went well
- 2 local staff organizers will be hired – William Copeland and Maureen Taylor
- Working with NPC to put together a complete staffing proposal
- Other positions to be staffed - Communications, Technology, Logistics
Committee / Working Group Updates
Religion
- Work at present is trying to broaden their circle
- Excited that the Hush House will be involved, including King Solomon Church
- Will draft up timeline of work committee must do at next mtg
- Next Religion Committee meeting will be Thurs, May 21st at 5pm
Comment: DLOC can also provide some leadership nationally. We would like for there to be an increased local presence on the National Working Groups.
Communications
- National Communications Working Group is not functioning yet. Will try to pull together a conference call together next week. Being chaired by Reg McGee.
- Local Communications Committee is functioning and welcomes all help
- No minutes from past meetings posted on wiki, but Reg will get around to doing that
- If you have contacts with the radio, print, TV please pull them into the Communications Committee
Comment: Mark this date on your calendars - June 22 – this is the one year out marker (1 year until forum). We will plan an event around this date!
Technology
- Technology should not be separate from the Communications Committee. They are closely linked.
- Have an upcoming meeting
- An idea was posed that a technology person should be in every Committee
- The communications needs of DLOC should be addressed and given to the Technology Committee
- This Committee is very committed to “open source” technology. Concern is that “open source” may be intimidating to some and this is a need the Tech. Comm. is aware of.
- The Tech. Comm. will discuss wiki trainings for DLOC
- Tech. Comm. responsibility will also be to facilitate conversations between the many parts of DLOC
- Determine solution to “How will the many Committees communicate with each other?”
- Ex) Establish protocol for e-mail communication, submitting meeting minutes, how do we want National to work with DLOC, etc.
Logistics
- Housing – hotels, dorms, solidarity, tents – youth encampment
- Will need to discuss what to do about the homeless groups and how to organize housing for them
- Food & Vendors
- Transportation
- How to get people from the airport, around the city, etc.
- What kind of vans should we use?
- Can we get people to donate bikes?
- Coordinate with people-mover, city buses to see if we can get discounts
- Coordinate with bus that travels to airport from Detroit
- Registration, Information, Lost & Found
- Hart Plaza
- 10 or 15 tents
- Will need to coordinate for over a thousand workshops
- Develop a map
- Volunteers for registration, information, security
- Waste management – Can link up with Sustainability Committee (which has yet to meet)
Logistics Next Steps: (by Sept. 1):
- Want to meet with youth to decide where the Youth Encampment will be
- Lining up hotel, motels, dorm space
- Talk to transit, airlines, Greyhound
- Mapping out the facilities/spaces we will be using
- Next meeting Mon, May 18 at 5:30pm night (Location TBA)
Comment: Support for the Logistics Comm., and all Committees, will be increasing now that DLOC is staffed
Comment: Discussion at the weekend Strategic Session that Children’s Social Forum will occur during the USSF
Outreach / Potlucks
- Need to pick the date for the next potluck
- Once we have the plan and the dates let everyone know
- Are in need of an Events Calendar Coordinator – Rachel Wells volunteered
- Will be responsible for keeping a Calendar of Organizational events
- Adele Nieves?
- Ideas for different DVDs, films, art that can be shown at outreach events
- Ex) DVD - Unnatural Causes
- Book titled Working Detroit by Steve Babson provides a good history on Detroit
- Nisa has also created an initial postcard – must be printed with a Union Bug
Comment: CALL TO ALL event - May 26 at 5pm
Cultural
- Have been doing outreach within the artist community
- Program and Cultural Working groups have been combined nationally
- If you are interested in developing a program, please talk with Will
- National Program Working Group will be having a call tomorrow
- Next Cultural Committee meeting will be Thurs, May 14 at 6pm at SalaThai on Lafeyette
International Working Group
- E-mailed people in the International Working Group to decide when to meet
- Contact Rocio Valerio (rocio@emeac.org) if interested in working on this Comm. or can refer people to this working group
- This is not just a Detroit movement, a US movement, but it is also an international movement
- This working group will establish the logistics for involvement of the international community in the USSF
- Solidarity fund for international participants to ensure they can participate in the USSF
Inactive Committees
- If you are interested in calling the first meeting for any of the inactive committees please step up
- Block Clubs
- Disability / Accessibility – Quintin Williams, Rachel Wells
- Senior Citizens – Have already met at least twice, Harold Spence, we just need a report back
- Sustainability – Will work closely with Logisitics
- Their purpose can include economic, environmental, organizational sustainability
- Ensure the organizations involved don’t burn out
- Vision
- Youth – Kiran Nigam will step up to schedule the first meeting
- We must also engage DPS students
Midwest Social Forum Report back
- Want to have conversation about regional outreach at the next DLOC meeting
- Oya and Tom Stephens went to Chicago the weekend of May 9 to meet with the Midwest Social Forum organizing/planning meeting
- As a result of their meeting Midwest Social Forum decided they would not have a 2010 forum
- Representation from Wisconsin, Chicago, Minnesota at the meeting
- Proposal being drafted for local social forums by this body
- Tom Stephens has a written report that he will send out through e-mail debriefing the Chicago meeting
- There were serious issues with diversity and language/communication
- We can really provide regional leadership to this body to be more diverse and inclusive of people of color in leadership positions
- Suggestion: Midwest Social Forum have a link on the wiki
- Suggestion: Outreach Committee really take this on
UPCOMING EVENTS
- May 16 – MI Policy Summit
- May 19 – NPC Call
- May 19 – Day of Action for Troy Davis
- May 21 – Justice for Robert Mitchell (8 Mile & Schoenherr/ 5pm)
- May 22 – MWRO Utilities Committee Meeting
- May 23 – Town Hall Meltdown Summit (Cobo)
- May 26 – Peoples Water Board (6pm)
- May 26 – CALL FOR ALL Committees face to face (5pm)
- June 1 – Diane Bukowski’s Sentencing Date
- June 8 – Utilities Committee Mtg. (5pm)
- June 9 – Rev. Pinckney Appeals Hearing (6am, Grand Rapids)
- June 14-17 – Peoples Summit
- June 18 – EMEAC Diesel Campaign Launch
- June 21 – National Baptist Alliance
- June 22 – One Year Kick-off of USSF
- July 16-19 – Allied Media Conference
- July 24-26 – Women of Color Film Festival
Notes about Events
- People's Summit - There needs to be a conversation around strategy for USSF outreach at the Summit
- Rev. Pinckney Appeals Hearing - By May 29 must have money for bus ride to Rev. Pinckney by this date to Quintin Williams of MWRO
- USSF will be a sponsor of AMC - Send representatives to it from USSF