Pictures of the Youth Tent City - Woodward at Temple

**Lowell** · June-11-10, 09:38 PM

Ah to be young again! One of the many sidelights of the US Social Forum.

I swung by the encampment this evening as the sun lay low on Detroit. Enjoy.

Definitely the 'money' shot of my excursion. The glorious First Presbyterian Church bathed in the last rays of the sun. Unfortunately I only had my iPhone camera.

The ruins of the Eddystone and Palms Hotels form the back drop here.

Texting home. Letters are a thing of the past.

Backdrop is Addison Apartments.

This group was sitting in front of the Cass Cafe. They had bicycled in from upstate NY across Canada. What happened at the bridge? "It sucked". They had to hire a truck to carry their bikes over.

Sorry to disappoint those on the right. No American flags burning here. No hammers and sickles. Just Stars and stripes forever. This is America too.

**Lowell** · June-26-10, 12:00 AM

DetroitDad · June-26-10, 12:09 AM

Thank you Lowell, especially for the bridge story!

The Iphone takes much better pictures than my Motorola i776!

BUT, at $10.00 a month......

**RickBeall** · June-26-10, 01:38 AM

Leave it to Lowell to get us some pictures. Great shots!

Michigan · June-26-10, 08:22 AM

Ah to be young again! One of the many sidelights of the US Social Forum.

Really? That just does not look appealing to me at all. If I were to attend this USSF i would have needed a room at the BC at the very least. Sleeping in a damp, humid tent as a good time? No thanks.

Honestly, this shot just makes the whole idea seem nasty, look at that gross puddle!

**Danny** · June-26-10, 10:00 AM

I like the post-Hippie Era of those tent communes. Coming to Detroit for the USSF Social Rally is like going to San Francisco at Haight and Ashbury or to Woodstock.

**jcole** · June-26-10, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Danny

I like the post-Hippie Era of those tent communes. Coming to Detroit for the USSF Social Rally is like going to San Francisco at Haight and Ashbury or to Woodstock.

But without the good music

**cman710** · June-26-10, 11:44 AM

Lowell, thanks for the shots. It's an interesting encampment, given that the area is typically pretty desolate.

Retroit · June-26-10, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by Michigan

If I were to attend this USSF i would have needed a room at the BC at the very least.

What?...and support those evil, capitalistic, corporate hotel owners? Don't you know we're supposed to open our homes to these people who apparently believe that living in a tent embodies some type of social progress?

**maxx** · June-26-10, 02:10 PM

There's nothing wrong with tenting for a few days if you can't afford $100/ night. They probably spent their money on food in Detroit. I'm just glad nobody got hurt.

**Jimaz** · June-26-10, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by maxx

... I'm just glad nobody got hurt.

No, that would be the US Antisocial Forum.

**oldredfordette** · June-26-10, 03:49 PM

I took some people in. It didn't make sense to me to punish people for having a lower income than I. It's been so much fun.

**terryh** · June-26-10, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by oldredfordette

I took some people in. It didn't make sense to me to punish people for having a lower income than I. It's been so much fun.

Its refreshing to know that there are still Americans who open there homes to strangers and mild aquaintainces.

I possibly would have done the same thing if I got a good vibe from persons in need of shelter....

**Pam** · June-26-10, 05:30 PM

Honestly, this shot just makes the whole idea seem nasty, look at that gross puddle!

Commies ain't afraid of no mud puddle.

**Jimaz** · June-26-10, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Pam

Commies ain't afraid of no mud puddle.

LOL!

**DetroitScooter** · June-27-10, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by maxx

There's nothing wrong with tenting for a few days if you can't afford $100/ night. They probably spent their money on food in Detroit. I'm just glad nobody got hurt.

Yes, they did. I noticed bleary eyes and weary smiles in the Detroit Beer Company and in Gourmet Hot Dogs. I think that the downtown businesses would like the tent farms and extra 10k people downtown every week. Thanks to Social Forumers for that and also for adding a little life to downtown. Come back soon!

Michigan · June-27-10, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by oldredfordette

I took some people in. It didn't make sense to me to punish people for having a lower income than I. It's been so much fun.

Wait, by not taking in strangers and letting them live in my house I am punishing them? What sort of perverted logic comes to that conclusion? ORF you are quickly becoming the Billy Carter of the USSF.

ORF?

**oldredfordette** · June-27-10, 03:22 PM

Why in the world would you take my statement seriously, you silly person? You just want to be outraged.

Michigan · June-27-10, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by oldredfordette

You just want to be outraged.

No, I just wanted to make a Billy Carter reference and this presented itself!

Retroit · June-27-10, 03:53 PM

The US Social Forum [[USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a  conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the  economic and ecological crisis. http://www.ussf2010.org/about

So what were some of the "solutions" that the forum came up with? [[Besides sleeping in a tent because you didn't bring enough money for a hotel.