We will be joining thousands of other activists in Detroit for
the U.S. Social Forum from Tuesday, June 22 through Saturday, June 26 -- a week
of workshops, education and networking. We are especially interested in meeting
up with other revolutionary activists and militant community organizations.
The IAC is committed to determined activism and resistance
to U.S. militarism, racism and corporate greed. We want to link international
solidarity to fighting oppression in the U.S.
We are holding a panel discussion with several other
militant anti-imperialist organizations. Come and meet us on Thursday, June 24
at 10 am at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel, WB1, minutes from Cobo
Hall.
Or meet IAC activists at the LeftBooks literature table in
Cobo Hall, a nightly coffee house, or look for our banners in the streets in
two major demonstrations.
Our workshop:
Thurs, June 24, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Westin Book Cadillac Hotel: WB1
Stopping War, Fighting for Our Jobs and Our
Lives - Panel discussion with:
IAC – International Action Center
MECAWI - Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice in
Detroit,
BAYAN - Philippine Coalition,
FIST – Fight Imperialism Stand Together youth organization,
SDS chapter in Minneapolis/St Paul,
May 1 Coalition for Immigrant and Worker Rights,
MAWO Movement Against War & Occupation in Vancouver, Canada
And a short video on linking the struggles.
The most severe economic crisis in three generations
has broken out in the midst of two major U.S. occupations in Iraq and
Afghanistan, threats on Pakistan, Iran and a new level of war against
immigrants in Arizona and throughout the country. Symbolic anti-war marches are
inadequate to challenging the U.S. war drive.
The panel will discuss:
1. How are expanding militarism, devastating cuts in
social services and attacks on immigrants connected?
2. How can the anti-war movement combine with the
struggle of workers, immigrants and communities to deal a material blow to the
pro-war ruling class?
3. Can Marxists and anarchists form a united front of
struggle that sacrifices neither combativeness nor a broad analysis of the
needs of the working class and all oppressed people?
4. How can immigrants demanding full legalization and
youth opposing cuts in education join in leading this movement?
Visit IAC activists at the LeftBooks.com
literature table at Cobo Hall staffed every day of the USSF from
10 am to 10 pm. ‘Books to change the world.’ Many revolutionary
titles, including all the books published by the IAC.
Also join us at a nightly Coffee/Cultural Open
House from 7:30 pm to 10 pm at 5920 Second Ave (near Wayne State
University) .
Along with the IAC Panel, here are a few suggestions of
other panels and events that some of us are already planning to
attend.
Tues, June 22:
3 to 5 pm - Woodward at Warren to Cobo Hall
Join us in the streets with signs, banners, chants and
drums for the Opening March
Weds, June 23 - Day 2: Connecting Detroit and the U.S.
10 am to noon – Cobo 02-33
Fighting for a Moritorium on Foreclosures,
Evictions and Utility Shut Offs
10 am to noon – Woodward Academy 1475
How to Create 30 Million Jobs –
Panel with Bail Out the People Movement
1 pm to 3 pm – Woodward Academy 1437
Youth and Students to FREE Mumia Abu-Jamal
– with International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and
youth group Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST)
1 pm to 5:30 pm – Cobo 02-44
Capitalism Is Killing Us… Fight for
Socialism - Panel in 2 parts with Workers World Party & FIST Fight
Imperialism Stand Together
4 pm to 6 pm – Virgil H Carr Cultural Arts Center
– Lower Gallery – 311 E. Grand River
ART Exhibit – “From My Altitude”
by Antonio Guerrero – one of the Cuban 5 unjustly held in U.S.
Prisons
Thurs, June 24 - Day 3: Connecting the U.S. and International
Work
10 am to noon – Westin Book Cadillac Hotel, WB1
– CLOSE to Cobo Hall
Stopping War, Fighting for Our Jobs &
Lives – Panel & Discussion with six resistance organizations
(see description at beginning of this email).
1 pm to 3 pm - Cobo Hall Room W2-62
People’s Resistance Against Empire: A Global
Forum on Mass Movements Fighting US Intervention & People’s Cultural
Work as Weapons of Resistance with BAYAN USA and IBON North
America
1 pm to 3 pm – Wayne Country Community College
– Room 348
Prevent Sanctions and War on Iran –
Panel and video on Economic and Political Realities inside Iran, and
mischaracterizations in the Western-U.S. media with American Iranian Friendship
Committee
Fri, June 25 - Day 4: Solutions, Alternatives and Visions
9:45 am MARCH on the BANKS – Gather
at Woodward & Grand Circus Park --
with Moratorium NOW! and Farm Labor Organizing Committee
1 pm to 3 pm – Cobo D3-18
The Fight for Education Rights: March 4 and
Beyond. A discussion with Students for a Democratic Society, FIST and
students from across the country who participated in the March 4th national day
of action.
3:30pm to 5:30pm -- WSU Student Center, Room 786
Palestine: Evolution of the Movement for
Liberation – Panel with Al Awda NY - Palestine Right to Return
Coalition, NYC Labor Against the War, International Jewish Anti-Zionist
Network
5:30 to 7:30 -- 5920 Second Ave (near Wayne State
University)
Come meet FIST – Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together youth group
Discussion and Free Dinner
Sat June 26 – Plans the next steps in the struggle
10 am to noon – Cobo 02-41
Meet Moritorium Now! and community
organizations in Detroit and around the country who are linking the struggles
and fighting for jobs, against foreclosures, evictions, war and
racism.
See you in Detroit!
Check out the videos of the IAC Meeting on the Gaza Freedom
Flotilla at: http://www.iacenter.org/palestine/flotilla061410/
