Members from the Miami Workers Center represented us in Detroit last week, at the United States Social Forum (USSF). And our black and brown unity was set as an example for other social justice organizations across the country. 

On July 21st, an airplane took off from Miami half-full of enthusiastic freedom fighters from South Florida. They joined over 18,000 others in Detroit for 4 days, to participate in the United States Social Forum , a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the 
economic and ecological crisis.

Our state had a large delegation of close to 100 people, with special representations from the Florida Immigrant Coalition, Power-U, Sisterhood of Survivors, Human Service Coalition and Seed305, among others. And the Miami Workers Center was present with 19 people.

“This is the first time that I’ve been in something as big as this” says Reyna Gómez, a resident of Little Havana, and member of the Miami Workers Center. Some of our members and staff had never participated in a Social Forum before, and were very excited to be surrounded by so many others committed to creating a better world.

Others like Sandra Newton, were already experienced with the Social Forum process. “I was in Brasil in 2005, it was a world of experience. In this Social Forum I felt good. We started out in a 2 mile march and there were thousands and thousands of organizations. The march was a success!”, says Ms. Sandra, a resident from Liberty City, and a leader at MWC.
 

Our bags are packed, we're ready to go. We are headed to Detroit, on Monday, for the United States Social Forum. We can't wait to get there. Most importantly we can't wait to see you.

We will hosting a workshop about our efforts to build a multi-racial organization called Black Brown and Sunny: Lessons on building African American and Latino unity in South Florida. We are also participating in activities organized under the Right to the City track, including: Urban Congress, We Call These Projects Home - workshop, New Majority Organizing - workshop, and Enough is Enough - People's Movement Assembly.

Beyond participating in workshops, building new relationships, and strengthening our movement, we are on a very special mission. We are going to scour the Social Forum for the best talent of our time to fill open staff positions at the Miami Workers Center. We are looking for a Deputy Director and an Organizing Director. So even if you aren't at the Social Forum, we still want to see you (or at least the people you know) apply for these positions, and build our team in South Florida as we enter new and exciting times.

You can see job descriptions and application instructions here: http://bit.ly/nowhiringmwc

Stay up to date with us at the Social Forum, follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/MWC305

See you in Detroit!