The 2010 United States Social Forum (USSF 2010) was a profound event – a time and place upon which social justice-seeking indi­vid­uals and groups from across the States converged to do many things in a matter of just five days. Organizers term it a movement-building process, and those who attended called the Forum “a collec­tive space that emitted a produc­tive sense of soli­darity, unity, progres­sive voice and vision that I’ve never expe­ri­enced [before].” At the USSF 2010 in Detroit, partic­i­pants and orga­nizers hosted myriad cultural and polit­ical events throughout the forum, and held an incred­ible 1,086 workshops.

This is all to say: this thing needed one heck of a program book.

The cover was created from the building blocks of USSF’s graphics suite, conveying both a seri­ous­ness about the work to be done, and a deep hope for what our collec­tive future can hold.

As part of the Forum’s commit­ment to ensuring acces­si­bility, program contents were printed in Spanish and English. This was carried into the tab orga­ni­za­tion of the publi­ca­tion, to facil­i­tate easy navi­ga­tion of all 120 pages for as many readers as possible.

The back cover includes a wink to all the Detroiters in atten­dance, whose pet name for their city is The D.