Ruckus is working with the Zero-Waste Detroit Coalition and GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) to take it to the streets on the last day of the U.S. Social Forum and show the world that Detroit truly is Solution City!  We don’t need the world’s biggest Waste Incinerator burning our jobs and ruining our health – we need Clean Air, Good Jobs, and Justice!

Join the People of Detroit on Saturday, June 26 for a Rally, March & Mass Demonstration to End the World’s Biggest Waste Incinerator

Action begins at 9:00am at 5201 Woodward Ave, Saturday June 26.  See website for details.

Pulling off an action this big takes a LOT of work, so come help us prepare by building puppets, signs, banners, choreographing street theatre and dance, and more!  Preparations are underway already here in Detroit – come join us!

Friday, 6/18:

1:00-8:00pm  Action Art Build at YES Farm: 5149 Moran Ave

Saturday, 6/19:

10:30am-1:30pm Youth Workshop & Action Art Build: Keminy Recreation Center

1:00-8:00pm  Action Art Build at YES Farm: 5149 Moran Ave

Sunday, 6/20:

1:00-8:00pm  Action Art Build at YES Farm: 5149 Moran Ave

Monday, 6/21:

1:00-8:00pm  Action Art Build at YES Farm: 5149 Moran Ave

Tuesday, 6/22:

(Join the USSF Opening March 3-5pm!)

Wednesday, 6/23:

12:00-1:00pm  Sunflower Greenhouse/Action Art Build at Creativity Lab Action Convergence Center in the Cobo Hall Michigan Room

6:00-9:00pm  Nonviolent Direct Action Training for Saturday Action Volunteers: Cobo Hall W1-51

Thursday, 6/24:

(Join our No More Marches, No More Rallies workshop to explore how to stretch and push the boundaries of old tactics and innovate fun, creative action tactics!)

6:00-9:00pm  Nonviolent Direct Action Training for Saturday Action Volunteers: Cobo Hall W1-51

Friday, 6/25:

1:00-5:30pm  EcoJustice: Clean Air, Good Jobs & Justice Peoples’ Movement Assembly – Cobo Hall D3-28

5:30-10:00pm  Action Art Build & Final Action Prep! at the Creativity Lab Action Convergence Center in the Cobo Hall Michigan Room

Saturday, 6/26:

ACTION!
Meet at 5201 Woodward Ave by 9:00am!

WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE ACTION? Contact action@cleanairgoodjobsjustice.org

We need people to help distribute flyers, and sign up to be peacekeepers!  Join us!

Ruckus is working with Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC-Michigan) to support a local campaign to defend restaurant workers.  If you’re in Detroit, come participate in a fun and participatory action to support the workers!

We’re meeting TONIGHT 6/18 at 6pm at the ROC-MI office – 2727 2nd Ave Ste 148 – to help plan the action, then there will be REHEARSAL Wednesday 6/23 at 6pm in Cobo Hall.  Please attend to get more details about how to participate in the action!

See below for more info.

Stand Up For Restaurant Workers’ Rights

Restaurant workers and members of ROC-Michigan are organizing and have filed a federal lawsuit against a local restaurant claiming they are owed over $125,000 in stolen wages as well as violations for discrimination and illegal retaliation. Since January, the restaurant workers and their supporters have been holding weekly pickets outside the restaurant, which have received local and national press attention.

During the U.S. Social Forum, come stand with a multiracial group of immigrant and non-immigrant restaurant workers demanding just treatment on the job!

We’ll be taking action Thursday 6/24 to defend workers’ rights. In order to participate in this action, please come to rehearsal in the Creativity Lab Action Convergence Center in the Cobo Hall Michigan Room from 6-10pm Wednesday night, 6/23, then meet at Cobo Hall at 5:30pm on Thursday, 6/24.

Thursday, June 24th • 5:30 pm
Meet at the ‘Joe Louis’ Statue Inside Cobo Hall on the street level.