Visions for New Societies, Revolutionaries Organizing Ourselves

Friday, June 25 - 1:00pm - 5:30pm | Cobo Hall: M2-30

Most of us are struggling by day for small victories to help our people organize and survive, and dreaming by night about a better world. This workshop is a space to gather with other non-sectarian revolutionaries to explore our visions in creative ways. Through play and discussion this session will provide a space to reflect on the challenges facing left organizers who are committed to bringing about revolutionary transformation. Let's think deeply through the following questions together: What is our revolutionary vision for a new society (as distinct from a reformist vision)? What is the role of revolutionary orgs/collectives/individuals/political communities to get us to that new society? How does being a revolutionary affect or inform our daily practice? We’ll have a gameshow featuring amazing organizers from around the country, play a spectrum game so participants can pitch in their thoughts, build virtual neighborhoods from cardboard and paint that weave together our visions of a new society, and have small and large group discussions.

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Revolutionary Work In Our Times seeks to deepen the strategic clarity of revolutionaries by creating spaces to sum up our political practice and to expand our analyses and visions through dialogue and mutual education. We create dialogue and collaboration between revolutionaries who are coming out of social movements and revolutionaries who are based in explicitly left organizations. We hope to create inspiration, build and broaden relationships among membership and periphery of participating collectives and lay groundwork for new, stronger, more unified revolutionary organizations.

At the US Social Forum 2010, we'll be facilitating a fabulous participatory workshop called "Revolutionary On the Daily: Visions for New Societies, Revolutionaries Organizing Ourselves", collaborating on the Liberation Exploration Station canopy with Left Turn, and we'll be partying with you and volunteering at the Leftist Lounge Party.

Rolling with Revolutionary Work In Our Times at the USSF this year:
League of Revolutionaries for a New America, Solidarity, Freedom Road Socialist Organization/ Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad, LA COiL Communities Organizing Liberation, New York Study Group, Left Turn, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Labor Community Strategy Center, and Bring the Ruckus