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The US Social Forum (USSF) 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 inspiration. It will help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world. The USSF sends a message to other people’s movements around the world that there is an active movement in the US opposing US Policies at home and abroad. |
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Written by Benjamin Dangl
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In the worn out meeting room of worker-run Cerámica de Cuyo, Manuel Rojas runs a rough hand over his face. The mechanic recalls forming the cooperative after the company boss fired the workers in 2000: "We didn’t have any choice. If we didn’t take over the factory we would all be in the streets. The need to work pushed us to action." |
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Written by Sameer Dossani
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Why should you plan to head to Atlanta in the middle of the summer? Not for the cool breezes, that's for sure. But if you go between June 27 and July 1, you'll find a few thousand reasons all gathered - along with you, I hope - at the first ever U.S. Social Forum. |
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Written by Robert Ovetz, PhD
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The roots of modern day terrorism first exploded on the political stage when the shadowy Russian group the People’s Will, inspired by la terreur of the French Revolution, assassinated Tsar Alexander II on March 1, 1881. |
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Written by Jeff Nall
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 Dave Weldon After years of protesting on the streets of Melbourne, Florida five members of the Brevard’s Patriots for Peace got the opportunity on April 27th to meet with congressman Dave Weldon (FL-15) for a forty-minute meeting on the war. Comprised of a graduate student, nurse, retired teacher and artist, grandmother, and writer, our delegation sat face-to-face with one of the Iraq war’s greatest proponents and grilled him. |
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Written by Ramor Ryan
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As the historic march flooded into the old colonial central plaza, there was a moment of great jubilation. From the side streets flowed legions of people from the feeder marchers, swelling the ranks of the main body. As the rivers of indigenous marchers merged, a tremendous roar filled the air as hundreds of smiling faces greeted each other like long lost brothers and sisters re-uniting—which of course in many respects, they were. |
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Written by Jean Pfaelzer
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Hovering over the proposed immigration bill is the cloud of ethnic cleansing. When we think of ethnic cleansing we think Darfur, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia. Maybe its time we started thinking Hazleton, Pennsylvania and Whitewater, Wisconsin, and Farmer’s Branch.
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Written by New Internationalist
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Desmond Desai, Chair of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) in South Africa, speaks about the influence of corporate power in his country. |
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Written by Jim Miles
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In Freedom Next Time, John Pilger explores five countries, exposing the contradictions between the actions viewed by the people of the land and the words of rationalization supplied by the politicians. Pilger’s writing is clear and accessible, presenting a picture of people struggling against the almost overwhelming power of the global corporate elite. |
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Written by Nafisa Hoodbhoy
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This is election year in Pakistan. Political parties are trying to keep the military out of politics. The country's civil society is pushing for free speech in a nation whose history has been shaped by military coups. |
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