PMAs During the Forum

52 PMAs were held in Detroit during the 2010 United States Social Forum. For five days, PMAs hosted thousands of people, hundreds of communities and dozens of organizations as they converged to think critically, creatively and strategically about the commitments and actions needed for the other world we believe is possible.  

Below is only the schedule of PMAs held Wednesday through Friday from 1 to 5pm during the US Social Forum. See resolutions for more about each of the PMAs.

Wednesday, 1-5pm

Northwest PMA
D3-28
Contact: Chris Borte Convening Organizations: Rural Organizing Project Portland Jobs With Justice ORFTC
Capitalism in Crisis: Tearing Down Poverty, Building Economic Alternatives, and a Solidarity Economy
World Court on Poverty in the US: Disappeared Jennifer Cox in America
M3-32
Contact: Jennifer Cox Convening Organizations: Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign El Taller International Asian Women's Human Rights Council Kensington Welfare Rights Union National Welfare Rights Union Women in Transition Women's Economic Agenda Project
Capitalism in Crisis: Tearing Down Poverty, Building Economic Alternatives, and a Solidarity Economy
Tar Sands
W2-70
Contact: Rhonda Anderson Convening Organizations: Sierra Club Indigenous Environmental Network Rain Forest Action Network Forest Ethics Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program The Ruckus Society
Climate Justice: Sustainability, Resources and Land
Food Sovereignty
Food Justice Tent
Contact: Stephen Bartlett Convening Organizations: US Food Crisis Working Group National Family Farm Coalition Grassroots International World Hunger Year
Climate Justice: Sustainability, Resources and Land
Excluded Workers’ Congress
D2-15
Contact: Ai-Jen Poo Convening Organizations: National Domestic Worker Alliance National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) Jobs with Justice
Organizing a Labor Movement for the 21st Century: Crisis and Opportunities
Callin all Street Youth!
D3-18
Contact: Shira Hassan Convening Organizations: Young Women's Empowerment Project Different Avenues Streetwise & Safe Queer Injustice
Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing
Up South / Down South Assembly
W2-68
Contacts: William Copeland Emery Wright Convening Organizations: Project South HIT Historical Intergenerational Teachers Nsoroma Moving Forward Gulf Coast The Ordinary People’s Society
Displacement, Migration and Immigration
Queer Peoples Movement Assembly
W2-67
Contact: Caitlin Breedlove Suzanne Pharr Convening Organizations: FIERCE Queers for Economic Justice Affinity Community Services Southerners on New Ground Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
To the Left: Building a Movement for Social Justice
The War on Drugs: How the Criminal Justice System Became an Institution of Racial Oppression – and What We Must Do About It
O3-46
Contact: Margaret Dooley-Sammuli Convening Organizations: Drug Policy Alliance Better Way Foundation The Ordinary People Society National African American Drug Policy Coalition-Detroit
Endless War: Militarization, Criminalization, and Human Rights
Building a Movement to Combat Increased US Militarism
D3-19
Contact: Chuck Kaufman Convening Organizations: Alliance for Global Justice Latin America Solidarity Coalition Co-sponsors Alliance for Global Justice Global Exchange La Voz de los de Abajo National Network on Cuba Peace Action Montgomery Nicaragua Network US-Venezuela Bolivarian Exchange Network Latin American Solidarity Organization (Olympia) Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5 Historians Against the War Colombia Action Network Free Ricardo Palmera
Endless War: Militarization, Criminalization, and Human Rights
Working for Peace & Social Justice in Michigan
O3-45
Contact: Laura Russello Convening Organizations: Michigan Peaceworks Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice Michigan Peace Team Megiddo Peace Project
Detroit and the Rust Belt

Thursday, 1-5pm

Supporting Sex Workers Safety & Anti-Prison PMA

Endless War: Militarization, Criminalization, and Human Rights
International Solidarity & Responsibility (on ALBA)
D2-11
Contact: Adriana Jasso Convening Organizations: Latinos Unidos Labor Exchange School of the Americas Watch Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights SINALTRANAL MISION INTERNACIONAL Latin America Solidarity Coalition Alliance for Global Justice Campaign for Labor Rights Nicaragua Network Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) US-El Salvador Sister Cities National Immigrant Solidarity Network Haiti Action Network Marin Task Force on the Americas Chicago Nicaragua Solidarity Workers Coop Cuba Solidarity New York Unión del Barrio
Capitalism in Crisis: Tearing Down Poverty, Building Economic Alternatives, and a Solidarity Economy
International Solidarity & Responsibility (on ALBA)
D2-11
Contact: Adriana Jasso Convening Organizations: Latinos Unidos Labor Exchange School of the Americas Watch Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights SINALTRANAL MISION INTERNACIONAL Latin America Solidarity Coalition Alliance for Global Justice Campaign for Labor Rights Nicaragua Network Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) US-El Salvador Sister Cities National Immigrant Solidarity Network Haiti Action Network Marin Task Force on the Americas Chicago Nicaragua Solidarity Workers Coop Cuba Solidarity New York Unión del Barrio
Capitalism in Crisis: Tearing Down Poverty, Building Economic Alternatives, and a Solidarity Economy
Emerging Strategies to Re/claim the Commons
D3-17
Contact: Alexa Bradley Convening Organizations: On the Commons Campaign Against Violence (Milwaukee) Council of Canadians – global water justice program East Michigan Environmental Action Council Food for the People Focus on the Global South FLOW Las Ascequias Red Vida Vermont Law School – commons project
Capitalism in Crisis: Tearing Down Poverty, Building Economic Alternatives, and a Solidarity Economy
Preparing for the Youth in Today’s Agriculture Assembly: Without Us, Who Eats
D3-24
Contact: Tracy McCurty Convening Organizations: Rural Coalition Operation Spring Plant National Latino Farmers Ranchers Association
Climate Justice: Sustainability, Resources and Land
Indigenous Peoples Assembly
DO-03C
Contact: Jihan Gearon Convening Organizations: Indigenous Environmental Network Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) Fort Berthold Environmental Awareness Committee
Indigenous Sovereignty
Building Unity and Organization in the Black Liberation Movement
W2-68
Contact: Saladin Muhammad Convening Organizations: Black Left Unity Forum (NA) Black Workers for Justice Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Strategies for Building Power and Ensuring Community Needs
How to Claim the Right to Housing and the City: Take Over, Take Back, and Take It to the World
DO-5B
Contact: Mark Bricker-Jenkins Convening Organizations: International Alliance of Inhabitants Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign Take Back the Land
Strategies for Building Power and Ensuring Community Needs
U.S. Techie Congress
W2-58
Contact: Alfredo Lopez Convening Organizations: May First/People Link Agaric Openflows Progressive Technology Project
Media Justice, Communications & Culture
Rebuilding the Anti-War/Peace Movement to End Wars and Occupations: Redirect Tax Dollars to Meet Human Needs
D3-28
Contact: Michael Carano Convening Organizations: National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations Code Pink Progressive Democrats of America War Resisters League Peace and Freedom Party of California
Endless War: Militarization, Criminalization, and Human Rights
Immigrant Rights from Below
M3-31
Convening Organizations: Puente Movement Immigrant Youth Justice League Centro Obrero National Day Laborer Organizing Network National Network on Immigrant & Refugee Right
Displacement, Migration and Immigration
Prison Justice PMA
O3-45
Contacts: Dan Berger Gabriel Sayegh Convening Organizations: Resistance in Brooklyn MXGM TOPS Freedom Archives Jericho Movement RNC8 Defense Committee
Endless War: Militarization, Criminalization, and Human Rights
The Faith Community from Internal Reflection to External Action
D2-08
Contact: Brooke Harper Convening Organizations: Jubilee USA Interfaith Worker Justice Poverty Initiative Buddhist Peace Fellowship
To the Left: Building a Movement for Social Justice
Stimulating Grassroots Activism on Massive Scale: a Progressive Dialogue
W2-67
Contact: George Friday Convening Organizations: Independent Progressive Politics Network League of Revolutionaries for a New America Program on Corporations Law & Democracy Progressive Democrats of America The Green Party
Democracy and Governance
The Take Back the Land Movement: PMA to Free this Land and Life Urban Congress 2010
D3-19
Contact: Kali Akuno Convening Organizations: Land and Housing Action Group Take Back the Land (Miami) Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Survivors Village Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign Right To The City Miami Workers Center Causa Justa/Just Cause Oakland Power U
Strategies for Building Power and Ensuring Community Needs
Urban Congress 2010
W2-66
Contact: Carl Lipscombe Convening Organizations: Right To The City Miami Workers Center Causa Justa/Just Cause Oakland Power U
Strategies for Building Power and Ensuring Community Needs
Juvenile Justice
03-46
Contact: Malachi Garza Convening Organizations: The Community Justice Network for Youth The Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform and Alternatives (formally NYC Prison Moratorium Project) Spirit House Reflect & Strengthen People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER TX) the Center for Young Women’s Development Books Not Bars
Endless War: Militarization, Criminalization, and Human Rights
Re-building a Solidarity Movement with Puerto Rico’s Anti-Colonial Struggle
M3-32
Contact: Victor Rodriguez Convening Organizations: Movimento Nacional Independentista Hostosiano (MINH) Southwest Workers Union PRISM Universidad sin Fronteras
International Solidarity and Responsibility: Building a Unified Response to Global Crises
Prioritizing Africa & the African Diaspora Agenda from Detroit to Dakar (D2D)
W2-69
Contact: Nunu Kidane Convening Organizations: Priority Africa Network (PAN) Africa Action Institute for Policy Studies(IPS) Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
International Solidarity and Responsibility: Building a Unified Response to Global Crises
Building Solidarity with Haiti's Grassroots Social Movements
W2-65
Contact: Toussaint Losier Convening Organizations: Rising in Solidarity with Ayiti Malcolm X Grassroots Movement TransAfrica Forum Institute forJustice and Democracy in Haiti
International Solidarity and Responsibility: Building a Unified Response to Global Crises
Justice in Palestine
W1-52
Contact: Noura Erakat Convening Organizations: US Palestinian Community Network International Jewish Anti-zionist Network
International Solidarity and Responsibility: Building a Unified Response to Global Crises
Detroit Utilities
D2-14
Contact: Marian Kramer Fred Vitale Convening Organizations: Michigan Welfare Rights Organization Detroit Utilities Committee
Detroit and the Rust Belt
Education for Emancipation & Transformation
D2-15
Contact: Scott Nine Convening Organizations: Institute for Democratic Education in America
Strategies for Building Power and Ensuring Community Needs
How to Claim the Right to Housing and the City: Take Over, Take Back, and Take It to the World
DO-5B
Contact: Mark Bricker-Jenkins Convening Organizations: International Alliance of Inhabitants Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign Take Back the Land
Strategies for Building Power and Ensuring Community Needs
Plant Occupations + Other Strategies for Organizing + Defending Workers Rights
W2-70

Capitalism in Crisis: Tearing Down Poverty, Building Economic Alternatives, and a Solidarity Economy

Friday, 1-5pm

Define Transformation for Social Justice
9am, TENT
Contact: Ng'ethe Maina Convening Organizations: Generative Somatics Center for Transformative Change stone circles Rockwood Leadership Institute
Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing
End Corporate Rule: Amend Constitution
W2-68

Forming National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights
M3-32
Convening Organizations: National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights Jobs with Justice National Day of Laborers Organizing Network National Domestic Workers Alliance Publish Network Right to the City Alliance
To the Left: Building a Movement for Social Justice
Inter-Alliance Dialogue Convention - Grassroots Responses to the Economic Crisis and Critical Issues
03-45
Contact: Randy Jackson Convening Organizations: Inter-Alliance Dialogue Grassroots Day Laborers Organizing Network National Domestic Workers Alliance Pushback Network Right to the City Alliance
To the Left: Building a Movement for Social Justice
Youth Movement to Create a National Student Bill of Rights for Education Justice
D3-19
Convening Organizations: National Student Bill of Rights for All Youth Baltimore Algebra Project Chicago Youth Initiating Change Youth 4 Change Alliance Da Town Researchers
To the Left: Building a Movement for Social Justice
Advancing Gender Justice Vision & Action Plan
W2-66
Contact: Jacqueline Patterson Convening Organizations: Women of Color United Ella's Doughter's Just Associates Civil Liberties and Public Policy
To the Left: Building a Movement for Social Justice
Organize to Dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline
Wayne CCC
Contact: Manuel Criollo Convening Organizations: Labor Community Strategy Center Advancement Project-Washington D.C. Padres & Jovenes Unidos Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
Endless War: Militarization, Criminalization, and Human Rights
The Way Forward: Strategy, Tactics, & Seeding BDS in the US
03-46
Convening Organizations: Boycott Divestment and Sactions National Committee
International Solidarity and Responsibility: Building a Unified Response to Global Crises
Youth Assembly, 2-5pm
Youth Space

Echo Justice: Building Movement Through Building Meaning
D2-08
Contact: Karlos Shmieder Convening Organizations: Center for Media Justice Smart Meme The Praxis Project Progressive Communicators
Media Justice, Communications & Culture
PMA in Support of Democratic Trade Unionism in Mexico
02-44
Convening Organizations: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT) Jobs with Justice Grassroots Global Justice
Organizing a Labor Movement for the 21st Century: Crisis and Opportunities
Clean Air, Good Jobs, & Justice for All
D3-28 (Merged with Ecological Justice)

What the Health Happened
M3-31
Contact: Katie Robbins Convening Organizations: Healthcare-NOW American Patients United Retirees for Singer Payer Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Strategies for Building Power and Ensuring Community Needs
Ecological Justice
D3-28
Contact: Adrienne Brown Convening Organizations: Ruckus Society Movement Generation Southwest Workers Union EJCC GAIA Mothers on the Move Women of Color United Just Transition Alliance Alliance for Democracy Indigenous Environmental Network Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative Mountain Justice Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project
Climate Justice: Sustainability, Resources and Land
Imagining & Building a Peoples Based Solidarity Economy
D2-15
Contact: Elandria Williams Convening Organizations: Highlander Research and Education Center Solidarity Economy Network; Rural Coalition North American Students for Cooperation (NASCO)
Capitalism in Crisis: Tearing Down Poverty, Building Economic Alternatives, and a Solidarity Economy
The Grass-Roots in Haiti and the US: the struggles for the return of Aristide and Against Child Welfare Industry
W1-51
Contact: Margaret Prescod Convening Organizations: Global Women's Strike/Women of Color in the GWS Haiti Action Committee Every Mother is a Working Mother Network DHS:Give Us Back Our Children "Kri Fanm Ayisyen" (Haitian women's Cry-Out) Committee for the Development of Haiti Payday Men's Network
Strategies for Building Power and Ensuring Community Needs
Health, Healing, Justice & Liberation Assembly
W2-67
Contact: Cara Page Convening Organizations: Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective Detroit HHEJ Generation Five Cure This
Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing

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