15,000 Attend Detroit Social Forum: High-Energy Gathering Fires Up A New Generation of Activists in U.S. Left and Social Movements.
When 15,000 vibrant and politically engaged people gather in one spot for five days and organize themselves into more than 1000 workshops, dozens of major (...)
Labor Notes had a presence at the U.S. Social Forum last week, the gathering in Detroit of 15,000 activists from every different social justice movement you can think of. There was a workshop for every cause and strategy, from stopping “fracking” to using puppetry to move your campaign.
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The second US Social Forum started today in the city of Detroit, Michigan. For the american social movements, this gathering holds a special importance as it is the first large scale meeting of the progressive social movements in the country since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008. (...)
This week, Solidarity members will join thousands of other activists and organizers at the second United States Social Forum in Detroit , June 22-26. The USSF will combine educational and organizing workshops, protest, People’s Movement Assemblies and cultural events, all focused on connecting (...)
2010 IS A year of one, two, many Social Forums around the world, including the second U.S. Social Forum. The first USSF, attended by more than 12,000, was held three years ago in Atlanta. It featured an opening march that wove through the city streets, stopping for rallies at important sites of (...)
Presentation given at a panel at the first United States Social Forum, Atlanta, June 2007. See from the same issue of ATC: The 1st United States Social Forum: A Festival of Radical Energy. IN 1968 THE worldwide explosion of struggle, from the battlefields of Vietnam to the streets and factories (...)
THE CULMINATION OF years of discussion and thousands of hours of planning, the 1st United States Social Forum brought together over 12,000 activists to sweltering Atlanta June 27-31 for a week of conferencing, networking and marching. With lead organizing initiated by nonprofits, especially (...)
THE CULMINATION OF years of discussion and thousands of hours of planning, the 1st United States Social Forum brought together over 12,000 activists to sweltering Atlanta June 27-31 for a week of conferencing, networking and marching. With lead organizing initiated by nonprofits, especially (...)
This is a ZNet Free Update. The bulk of it is an essay reviewing the recent United States Social Forum by Michael Albert.Before that, however, we have some critically important news to convey.
At the US Social Forum 2007, in the city that hosts CNN and Coke, in hotel venues where debutantes (...)
The first US Social Forum occurred this past week, meeting in Atlanta, Georgia from June 27th to July 1st. Approximately ten thousand people participated in hundreds of events addressing all kinds of issues, concerns, strategies, and visions. Immigration rights and Gulf Coast rebuilding were (...)
A breathtaking and unprecedented array of leaders and activists from grassroots movements across the US have been building for this year’s US Social Forum (USSF), June 27-July 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. Organizations and networks have strategized and planned for months—not just how to get there, but (...)
What happens when hundreds or even thousands of small and not-so-small organizations come together to meet, dialogue, and present their ideas over the course of a long weekend? The World Social Forum (WSF), an annual gathering of tens of thousands of people from over 100 countries, has provided (...)
In 2005 at the World Social Forum, the United States was called to pull together our own social forum, something local that will provide space to build relationships, learn from each other’s experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed insight and (...)
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