Dirty Hippies & IVAW members to descend on Detroit
DHS (and Sniper) inform me that the chance of drum circles is elevated.
IVAW representing at the US Social Forum
by Adrienne | Sat, 06/05/2010 – 4:04pm
The US Social Forum is taking place in Detroit, MI from June 22-26, 2010 and IVAW will be there!
I know what you are thinking: where can I get a good Taco, and what in the holy hell is a “US Social Forum.” Well, I’ll tell you what it isn’t, a conference.
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a? conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the ?economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our? struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational,? diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and? changes history.
We must declare what we want our world to look like and we ?must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn ?from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems ?our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international ?brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Yeah. M’kay.
I would pay good money for this one:
Building the GI Resistance Movement
Participants will be engaged through testimony and a question and answer session with the panel following the presentations. Testifiers will include Camilo Mejia (the first combat veteran to publicly refuse re-deployment to Iraq), Travis Bishop and Victor Agosto (Iraq veterans who publicly refused deployment to Afghanistan), and Robin Long (the first soldier to ever be deported from Canada after seeking political asylum).
If it is just a space to come up with people’s solutions, why do you have Participants and Panelists? Ah, you’ve fallen into the old trap laid by the paternalist women hating haters of the Capitalist Pig establishment.
One wonders if Adrienne isn’t in charge of this due to some moistened bint throwing a Scimitar at her.
BTW- For all those who thought that the world was either Gay, Strait, Bi or Assexual, add a few more to the list:
Demographics of Presenters:
identify as women
identify as LGBTQQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex)
What exactly is “queer” if not the previous thing. So you can be “queer” which is clearly a noun and not a adjective in this case, without being those other things? And what is intersex?
Category: Politics
Their “Building a GI Movement” panel is a reunion of Branum clients.
How fitting that they would hold this in the socialist sewer formerly known as Detroit.
you bring sunshine to my day, TSO. xoxo
Priddy-please, make certain youse go past Eight Mile Road in Detroit… And stay real late!
Another bullshit gathering for dirty hippies to stroke the egos of IVAW members and tell them how courageous they all are. It’s events like this that keep them thinking they are somehow relevant.
I wonder what kind of stories the stateside desk jockies and AWOL coasties tell in order to get the same accolades from slovenly slack-jawed onlookers as the actual Iraq veterans in “Iraq Veterans” Against the War…
A “movement building process”?
To me, a “movement building process” sounds like it should involve 10 bowls of Bran Flakes, a box of prunes, and a tall glass of Metamucil.
“To me, a “movement building process” sounds like it should involve 10 bowls of Bran Flakes, a box of prunes, and a tall glass of Metamucil.”
To paraphrase George Carlin: The difference is, when you’re done building your movement, you’ll have something to show for it.
It would be so much better if James Branum was a panelist to talk about legal aspects of the “movement.” The guy would fit right in with the inevitable “social forum” coming to their usual consensus logic that the world will be better when the US military stops “forcing” people to volunteer and that those evil Jews living in “Palestine” need to leave so that the peace loving Palestinians can “reclaim” their land without having to murder women and children of said evil Jews and instead can live up to the Palestinian/Arab human rights record.
“If it is just a space to come up with people’s solutions, why do you have Participants and Panelists?”
So they know people’s solutions they’re supposed to come up with, duh…
Brownian Motion
I wonder if Mike Prysner will be there…he’s big on “social justice”. I made some video of him last Friday at an anti-Israel protest in LA. He was shoving his bullhorn into the faces of women and leading demonstrators in chants of, “Long Live The Intifada!”.
Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmX–H0nUUc
Please, stay in Detroit, the rest of us don’t need any more trash than what Detroit’s already given us.
A target-rich environment.
Too bad the “citizens” aren’t allowed to have guns. Good target practice.
I’m with you. If “queer” is a valid noun describing participants, what’s all the rest of that crap definition for?