U.S. Social Forum Interviews

Audio interviews from the U.S Social Forum that took place in Detroit from June 22nd to June 26th, 2010.

Naeema Kelly and Paul Newman: Teenagers from Durham, NC that work with a non-profit called Spirit House that does work against the Prison-Industrial Complex.

Stoney Burke: Self-described 'free-speecher' who grew up in Michigan and now lives in Berkeley.

Eileen Stryker: Resident of Kalamazo, MI who works with the Hispanic American Council and came because she was interested in immigration and border issues.

Micahel: Detroit resident with the Moorish Science Temple of America.

Scott: Talking about changes in Detroit since he moved here as a chile in 1968 as well as his current invovlment in the Trumbellplex collective house and theatre. 

Rami: From Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM), a New York City-based civil and economic rights organization of low-wage South Asian workers, youth, and families.

Peter Werbe: Lifelong Detroiter and editor for anarchist magazine Fifth Estate talking during the march against about the Detroit incinerator during the U.S. Social Forum. Photos

Eric Ribelarsi: Member of FIRE (Fight Imperialism, Rethink and Educate), a communist colletive in Houston, TX.

Jasmine, Elizabeth, and Karla: From the Chicago Freedom School 

New World from Below Collaborative Book Party: Celebration of recent anarchist and radical publications on June 25th at the New World From Below anarchist convergence.

• Benjamin Holtzman, editor of SICK: A Collaborative Zine on
  Physical Illness (Microcosm Publishing, 2010)

• Cindy Milstein, author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations
  (AK Press,2010)

• Jeff Conant, author of The Poetics of Resistance:
  The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista
  Insurgency (AK Press, 2010)

• Jordan Flaherty, author of Floodlines: Community and
  Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6 (Haymarket, 2010)

• Josh MacPhee, editor of Paper Politics: Socially Engaged
  Printmaking Today (PM Press, 2009)

• Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, authors of Firebrands:
  Portraits from the Americas (Microcosm Publishing, 2010)

• Seth Tobocman, author and artist of Understanding the
  Crash (Soft Skull, 2010)

• Team Colors Collective, editors of and contributors to
  Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary
  Radical Currents in the United States (AK Press, 2010)

• Turbulence Collective, authors of What Would It Mean to
  Win? (PM Press, 2010)