10-6-09 LOC meeting at MWRO Office

DLOC Meeting Notes

October 6, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.

Central United Methodist Church / 4th floor

Notes were taken after the meeting began. Please feel free to share additional notes or make corrections.

Committee Reports

Sustainability / Katherine

Trying to get 5,000 bikes

Getting money

Cleaning out King Solomon church

Get local vendors to use Detroit produce

To build a relationship btw local grower and stores/restaurants

Contact in East Lansing may donate 200 bikes

Recommend people from Trumbleplex to support the project

Possible upcoming meeting

Sustainability member approached the OutLuck committee to do the next potluck at King Solomon’s church, possible date : November 2, 2009 (10-2) or November 14, 2009

Trying to aid other groups in being in alignment with sustainability

What is the role of sustainability vs logistics?

The order of priority is that the sustainability committee continues their work after the USSF

Will and Lizzie did meet about the role of sustainability

To create the smallest environmental impact

While insuring the largest economic and continue after

OutLuck/Priscilla

Next potluck/fundraiser is Friday, October 16, 2009 at Affirmation in Ferndale

Theme LGBTQ Community

Designated menu…people are asked to bring dishes on the menu

Sustainability suggests that people bring their own dishes and eating utensils instead of using plastic wear.

One of the challenges is that some of the locations don’t have a full kitchen.

Suggested that people bring a bag to hold their plates/utensils if there is no kitchen

Provides tools and outreach for the community, but we encourage people to reach out to people that we already know.

Outreach committee should be a part of everybody’s job. Please let Nisa or Dessa know. There are outreach tools that are available to all and is accessible to everyone.

Outreach/Nisa

Trying to keep track of organizations to keep the list current, everyone should be doing outreach.

Please add information about upcoming event on the Outreach Calendar which is also available on the wiki Creating

Logistics/Kimberly

Norma Palin security of large events gave info about how to do large events

Change the name from security to community safety. Need to be ready within the next 3 months. There is a detailed report with all the criteria. Tom and Diane will talk to the NPC about any issues that we are not aware of to prepare for 2010.

Key people in each dept one on one to know what is going on

Medical, where the security is needed the most, etc…

Be prepared for the Homeland Security to filter in as well.

Bryce will give logistics the head of the Medical Emergency Technicians Union

Fort Wayne as a possibility as a youth encampment

Connect Redd with Dianne to view the youth encampment.

The opening march (which direction?) Starting from different locations (will go back and discuss it)

Logistics takes specific steps and motions to create the blue print/mechanics for the forum

Disability/Committee Rich Feldman

Disability committee is comprised of people with different

Want to be the Detroit Kick off for the ADA national Conference

Are working on the Dart puppet to represent the historical figure

October 28, 2009 we are representing the national conference call

Will have a disability potluck meeting by the end of November

ICT/Lou Novak

Working on the online application process

How will we manage the information that we acquire through registrations

Get the Grassroots media Conference involved in the NPC

The Quebec Social Forum to have a meeting with people who are involved in the planning for Detroit via the internet in real time over the internet. This is based on the Tigers game (logistics issue).

There will be an announcement on the DLOC listserv about the information.

Is having Wiki training in 2 weeks.

Do they have representation going to ATL? Have to verify

What happens before and after the Social Forum? Demonstrations, community events, reaching out to different communities and addressing their needs, the USSF supports the community,

How do we integrate immigration into the United States Social Forum? Who are the people for making the

How do reach the community who do not have access to the internet?

In ATL there are several places throughout the community that people can go to find out informahttp://wiki.ussf2010.org/skins/common/images/button_bold.pngtion about the USSF and how to get involved in the process.

Disabilities Committee by Rich Feldman

Have two co-chairs now Harold Spence and Gladys Love

Both are well known activist dealing with the community and senior rights

Some of them members are becoming activists for the first time

We have up to 11 members now

They will do outreach to seniors in different circles

The effect of the budget changes on retirees. They want to take on these issues.

They watched SICKO by Michael Moore.

We need to mount us some buses and then start there. They want education to go with their

October 21, 2009 at 11:00 am at Central Methodist Church

Recommended that retirees get involved.

Faith and Spirituality Committee/Rev. Williams

We have subcommittees

Programming

Action

Thursday there will be a meeting at Greater Mt Tabor

Working as a committee to create workshop proposals for the USSF

Working on a transportation method that the National Baptists Conference using the local church vans in the city of Detroit.

How do we track who comes to the Social Forum and what they want to be a part of it?

How do we plug them in to create a community garden etc/..//

There is some opportunity at registration to develop areas of interest or subject areas

Labor Committee/Rev. Charles Williams

Using the template of the Faith and Spirituality Committee

Subgroups

They have an outreach strategy (have reached out to local unions)

Recommended that there be a way to reach out to people who are not in a union or in the an organization.

Labor Heritage Foundation – focuses on labor oriented cultural expressions for this coming June is should be done at the Social Forum leading up to the days of the Social Forum.

Bill Meyers, Daryll Moch, Susan Newll, and Barbara Ingalls.

Programming and Culture Committee/Oya

The programming and culture committee and working group are now combined.

The programming working group is the primary lead for workshops, plenaries and program design

The subgroups of the programming working group include the consulta, program design,

The Culture Committee is the primary lead. The culture committee has subcommittees comprised of

Stage and equipment committee, concerts, visual arts committee, performance art s committee, dance committee, mural committee, children’s art committee, and more…

We are currently solidifying our strategic plan and completing the online submissions forms.

We are also working with other organizations to plan their conferences/conventions in conjunction with the USSF 2010 (Hip Hop Congress, Labor Arts, AMC, etc)

We are connecting with artists from all over the United States, South Africa, Brazil and other places.

We work with DLOC, logistics, labor, outluck, and other committees.

Oya Amakisi was chosen to rep the culture working group on the OC

Immigration Committee/Elena Herrada

The immigration committee met last week

We met three times

We sent people to the FLAC committee to meet with organizers

Are working with lawyers for ACLU for immigration rights

We hold talks and do recruitment.

We have to address how we invite people with a vulnerable citizenship status

Political

Fundraising is an issue

How we are going to bring people into workshops with various statuses.

100 year anniversary for the Mexican Revolution

The next meeting is being scheduled at the meeting

Friday evenings

Political

Residual

Organizational

Discussion

Suggestions for DLOC incorporating and recruiting new members while solidifying the base

Time for some serious political discussion about what this is going to look like There are people in the anchors on what they plan on it to look like there is a lot of political discussion going on with more folk

There is more need for an overview of what is going on/

There have been folks trying to figure out this thing, with more organizing than political discussion. We need to start out having a political discussion. What is happening local, statewide, national, and globally.

We have not had the ability to understand the stuff that went down in ATL. We are asking people to be creative and be the leaders that you are supposed to be. Let’s make this best U.S. Social Forum that we can see.

We are welcome to come to the Anchor Committee. There is an immigration committee that is starting up.

Opening March (Logistics)

One big march or three coming in

We have a group of people coming in from Mississippi, make sure people coming from out of town come up from Woodward Have people marching from different places to highlight what is happening in our communities. They eventually came out to one street. See the Poor People’s March Seniors want to join the march using wheelchairs.

Organizing organizations, gangs (brown berets, younglords, black panthers, etc.) and different groups throughout the United States (to

NPC Atlanta Meetings (DLOC)

We are leaving on the October 21, 2009 and will return to Detroit on the October 25th

We have secured the 2 vans

Retreat center for us to stay there

3 square meals with refreshments

Next Potluck (OutLuck Committee)

LGBT Rights Potluck

With speakers, discussion, and performances

Friday, October 16, 2009

@Affirmations / Lesbian Gay Community Center

290 West 9 Mile Road, Ferndale, MI

6:00 pm ~ 8:00 pm

Please bring a dish to share

Everyone in DLOC contact Gwen about what you are going to bring to the next Potluck Meeting

Information

Call 1.877.515.USSF for more information

Please visit the United States Social Forum website at http://ussf2010.org/and the WIKI for more information at about the Detroit Local Organizing Committee and the DLOC Committees at http://wiki.ussf2010.org/wiki/Detroit_Local_Organizing_Committee.

Next DLOC Meeting

October 20, 2009 at 5:50 p.m.

Central United Methodist Church / 4th floor

23 E Adams Ave (btw Elizabeth and Adams)

Detroit, MI

Notes taken by Oya Amakisi (please contact her if you have any questions or addendums).

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