On to Detroit!

On to Detroit! For those of you who've missed it, the US Social Forum is this June 22-26th in Detroit, MI. People in the Northwest are mobilizing in many ways to get there including:

• Organizing a Cascadia Freedom Caravan
• On June 6th there will be a Northwest to Detroit Face-to-Face meetup in Olympia with the potential of a NW PMA in Detroit. (see opposite page for agenda)
• It’s the eComedy, Stupid! - a benefit to help send Portland activists to the US Social Forum in Detroit this June.
• And setting up an email list of folx heading to Detroit whether by bus, plane, tra in, or automobile(or bike).

Proposed Agenda for NW Face-to-Face conversation prior to Detroit on June 6th in Olympia

Goals:

• Deepen the conversation for those heading to Detroit
• Full northwest collaboration is rare - the USSF and the PMAs give us an opportunity
• Discuss possibility of NW PMA in Detroit

Questions

• What are our shared experiences, struggles, and strategies as folx from the Northwest?
• Who is in the room? Who is not in the room?

Agenda 11:00-2:15

11:00 Intro - Organizers from Seattle, Olympia, Portland - 15 min

11:15 15 min each city - what's goin' on in your town, how can we work together - 45 min total

• Seattle (and Bellingham?)
• Olympia
• Portland (and Oregon?)
• Other cities?

12:00 Break into groups by sector or interest and get to know each other - 30min

• Economic Justice
• Environmental Justice
• Immigration Justice
• Queer Liberation
• Labor
• Student
• Etc, etc, etc.

12:30 Lunch - potluck - 1 hour

1:30 NW PMA Discussion - 30 min

2:00 Next steps - before and after the USSF -15 min