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US Social Forum Writers Muse and Updates

June 9, 2010

The excitement is building as we get closer to the start of the USSF. Please step up your efforts to spread the word about all the amazing people doing incredible things to make it possible for people from around the country to be part of this convergence to rebuild our country and revive our world.


WE NEED YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER, WRITERS!

Are you coming to Detroit? Let us know by emailing us at writers@ussf2010.org Volunteer for the People's Media Center. http://wiki.ussf2010.org/images/5/58/PMC_intro.pdf We need assistance with supporting alternative and mainstream media coverage of the forum, conducting recorded interviews with participants for radio and web streaming, and producing and distributing a daily newspaper at the USSF, among other exciting and important tasks!


Thanks, Jackie Smith Co-Coordinator, USSF writers network


As always, let us know when your work is published so we can post it! See stories on the USSF at http://wiki.ussf2010.org/wiki/USSF_Planning_Wiki



STORY IDEAS


Anti-Incumbent Sentiment doesn’t mean Americans want politics of hate and exclusion Or

US Social Forum Mobilizes Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Against Hate and Intolerance


Mainstream media coverage of the mid-term primary elections has stressed how these elections signal voters’ dissatisfaction with incumbent officials in Washington. Coverage also points out how the Republican candidates who are challenging incumbents are mobilizing around political platforms of hate and social exclusion, such as anti-immigration and opposition to government programs designed to provide safety nets for the most vulnerable members of our society.


But what mainstream media is not telling us is that far more Americans are expressing their dissatisfaction with incumbents in more positive ways. Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life and from all parts of our country are coming to Detroit June 22-26 because they believe “another world is possible,” and to make this happen, “another United States is Necessary.” They’re inspired by the idea that another Detroit is already happening, and they’re hoping to get ideas for ways to bring solutions to the current economic and ecological crises home to their own communities …



BP Oil Gusher & Other Signs Another United States is Necessary Italic text

Most mainstream media coverage of the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico neglects to point out the basic cause of this mess, which is our society’s dependence upon oil and its corresponding lack of respect for Mother Earth. Activists and governments demanding greater respect for our planet (after all, we need it to survive!) and for more just solutions to global warming met in Cochabamba, Bolivia last April and issued a call for a United Nations resolution to recognize the rights of Mother Earth. http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peoples-agreement/


If our society had been organized around the principle that the Earth is a living system whose survival is crucial to our own, the offshore drilling our fossil-fuel lifestyles depend on would never have been an option. Indeed, as more of the public becomes aware of the enormous and potentially devastating risks of offshore drilling, there are rising demands for its regulation if not abolition.


Clearly we need new ideas about how to organize our societies so that we do not threaten the livelihoods of future generations or of non-human species. Tens of thousands of people from around the country and world will be coming to Detroit June 22-26 because they believe that there are some good ideas for making “another world possible.” They know that, to make this happen, “another United States is Necessary.”


Everyone who is feeling angry, frustrated, and helpless at the loss of life and livelihoods caused by the BP oil disaster should find a way to join those coming to Detroit to build the momentum needed to build a society that doesn’t cannibalize its mother.



If Another World is Possible, Human Rights in Arizona is Necessary Italic text

For a Migrant Rights Movement from Below: Help Arizona Get to the US Social Forum Donate to the Arizona Social Forum Travel Fund Please donate to support grassroots groups getting to the Forum. http://bit.ly/azussf