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The first World Assembly for the Amazon, held on 18 and 19 July, was a remarkable success. Because of the importance of the Amazon for the future of the planet (climate, biodiversity...) and the symbolic power of the struggles and alternatives defended by the inhabitants of this massive (...)
CONTINENTAL DAY FOR DEMOCRACY AND AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM
After a decade from the defeat of the FTAA - Free Trade Area of the Americas -, our continent faces a new neoliberal offensive.
This offensive is clear in the radicalization of the different forms of appropriation and plunder of the (...)
Latin America has been the success story of the world left in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This is true in two senses. The first and most widely-noticed way is that left or left-of-center parties have won a remarkable series of elections during the decade. And collectively, (...)
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 (...)
Below is a statement that you are being asked to sign. We believe it is urgent to get as many signatures on a call for a public inquiry. We believe it is possible to shift the terms to debate, and to shine a spotlight on the abusive police practices during the G8/G20. But we need your help to (...)
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.
We (...)
The massive police presence in Toronto over this week has been officially justified on the basis of protecting the leaders of the G8 and G20 countries meeting in Huntsville and Toronto. We were told that the creation of the fenced-in fortress, the massive mobilization of police (estimates (...)
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 . Along with many workshops and People’s Movement Assemblies that Solidarity members will be participating in, Solidarity and Against the Current are sponsoring (...)
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 (...)
LeBlanc talked to Ashley Smith about the issues behind the summit and the aims of the demonstrators.
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WHAT IS the G20, and what are they meeting about in Pittsburgh on September 24-25?
Paul LeBlanc – THE G20 consists of the top economic and political leaders (...)
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.
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IN 1968 THE worldwide explosion of struggle, from the battlefields of Vietnam to the (...)
Dear Friends, The Peoples Summit Enlazando Alternativas 3 is approaching (May 13th to 16th 2008, Lima, Peru). It will be a gathering sponsored by various social movements and non-governmental organizations in Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It will coincide with the Fifth (...)
For the third time since 2004, we will hold the Enlazando Alternativas 3 (EA3) encounter in May 2008 in Lima, Peru, sponsored by various social movements and non-governmental organizations in Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This gathering is a Summit of the Peoples of both (...)
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 (...)
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