Tonight was a meeting of some of the same great minds that made Cinco de My Friend's House happen a couple months ago. Five (and then six over the phone for a bit) of us met up on Eddy Street to share delicious food and hear about this.
My social media expert friend told us stories of how she shared the Social Forum tour schedule via Twitter and showed us an iPhone video of her train ride cross country to Detroit. A second friend from work told us about another amazing female co-worker from the former Soviet Union who has overcome a lot and is a real role model. And yet another friend from work told us about one of her favorite workshops at the Forum where the presenters talked about something we all suffer from as individuals, "movement makers" and communities: historic amnesia. Some of my favorite quotes of the evening were:
-Let's build "beloved communities".
-"One thing I learned from my time at Burning Man was that we're all burning, you might as well BURN BRIGHT!"
-We have to remember what we're doing here because otherwise we get buried in the weeds.
There were more amazing quotes but, I couldn't write them all down. At any rate, it turned my week from a 5 up to at least a 9! What can't we do if we collaborate and talk to each other about how we want to be the change we see in the world.
Check out this taste of what sounded like an amazing Detroit!
This is just a sampling of what the two women who attended USSF were talking about when they shared their experiences:
USSF People's Movement Assemblies: Easy as ABC! from US Social Forum on Vimeo.
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