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US Social Forum Call To Participate In World Social Forum In Montreal

June 9, 2016 Staff, www.fsm2016.org ,
By Staff of United States Social Forum - The United States Social Forum International Committee encourages movements and organizations from across the US to attend and participate in the 12th edition of the World Social Forum, which will be held this year from August 9 - 14 in Montreal, Canada. This is the first time in the WSF 15 year history that the Forum will be held in a country in the Global North. For 15 years since its founding in Brazil in 2001, the WSF has been the largest global gathering of social movements...

Pacific Northwest Social Forum This September

August 31, 2014 Shamako Noble, www.popularresistance.org , ,
Dozens of social, economic and climate justice organizers from across the Pacific Northwest have been meeting for the past 16 months to bring the Pacific Northwest Social Forum to Portland, Oregon, September, 26th-28th, 2014. The three-day event will feature music; a fundraiser/solidarity action for a computer center in Burundi, Africa; and assemblies and panels on topics including Indigenous Treaty Rights, Climate Justice, Housing and Homelessness and Democracy. The overall goal of the event is to create a Pacific Northwest People's Plan for Social, Economic and Climate Justice with strategy and actions for the next two years. The event will conclude with a direct action on Sunday that is also the kick-off to the implementation of the Pacific Northwest People's Plan for Justice.

VIDEO: Waging War on Poverty Is About Class Identity – an interview with Cheri Honkala

March 4, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org , , , ,
The co- founder and national coordinator of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and vice president of the Green Shadow Cabinet. Cheri is nationally and internationally respected for her anti-poverty work. Honoring the legacy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1967-68 Cheri inspires a new generation of leaders working to end poverty. In this exclusive interview, Dennis Trainor, Jr. and Cheri Honkala discuss the Earth Day to May Day Climate Convergence, the U.S. Social Forum, and what motivates a life of social justice organizing.