In 2006, the first USSF National Planning Committee was created following the 2005 World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Allegre, Brazil. Grassroots Global Justice--a people of color, grassroots alliance--was delegated by the WSF's International Council to help shepherd the U.S. Social Forum process. These grassroots leaders initiated a process to create the first USSF. The NPC selected Atlanta as the first USSF host city for 2007. In early 2009, the NPC selected Detroit as the second host city for 2010.
The NPC is made up of representatives from about 45 social movement organizations in the U.S. These volunteer members oversee the fiscal and political responsibilities of the USSF Wiki. To contact individual organizations, please visit the Organizations that are interested in becoming NPC members can apply by contacting Adrienne Maree Brown (adrienne@ussf2010.org) for an application.
This NPC list includes currently active members:
- AFL-CIO (International)
- AFSCME (National)
- AlternateROOTS (Regional)
- American Friends Services Committee (National)
- Amnesty International USA (International)
- Causa Justa/Just Cause (Regional)
- Center for Media Justice (National)
- Center for Social Justice (Seattle, WA)
- Center for Third World Organizing (National)
- Centro Obrero (Detroit, MI)--Anchor organization
- East Michigan Environmental Action Council (Detroit, MI)--Anchor organization
- Freedom Road Socialist Organization (National)
- Grassroots Global Justice (National)
- Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (Regional)
- Indigenous Environmental Network (International)
- Independent Progressive Politics Network (National)
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) (International)
- Jobs with Justice (National)
- Jubilee USA (National)
- Labor and Community Strategy Center (Los Angeles, CA)
- League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA) (National)
- Leftist Lounge (National)
- May First/People Link (National)
- Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (Detroit, MI)--Anchor organization
- National Day Laborers Organizing Network (National)
- People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (New Orleans, LA)
- People Organized to Win Employment Rights, POWER (San Francisco, CA)
- Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, PPEHRC (National)
- Project South (Regional)
- Right to the City (National)
- Ruckus Society (National)
- Sociologists Without Borders (National)
- Southeast Michigan Jobs with Justice (Detroit, MI)--Anchor Organization
- SouthWest Organizing Project (Albuquerque, NM)
- Southwest Workers Union (San Antonio, TX)
- The Praxis Project (National)
- United for Peace & Justice (UFPJ)
- U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) (National)
- U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (U.S. SEN) (National)
- U.S. Palestinian Community Network (U.S. PCN) (International)
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (International)
- Women of Color United (National)