US Social Forum 2007

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USSF07: "Another U.S. Is Necessary"

IMC-US27 Jun 2007
The first ever United States Social Forum opened on Wednesday, June 27 with a march of thousands through downtown Atlanta protesting a proposal to privatize Atlanta's only public hospital. (Report & Photos from DC-IMC) Trade unionists, peace activists, community organizers, students, IMCistas, and others are converging on Atlanta this week to march, rally and develop strategies in their fight against the ultra-right. An Indymedia Caucus is scheduled for Saturday at 5pm, near the Pine Street stage in the park, or inside at the Indymedia table in case of rain.

Indymedia volunteers produced a special USSF 2007 print edition of Indymedia.US, with a roundup of recent local features from around the country and information about lots of indymedia projects, for distribution at the forum. Download it here.

More reports from: Indybay | Houston IMC | Worcester IMC | Rogue Valley IMC-KSKQ | AFL-CIO Blog | Democracy Now | Free Speech Radio News

Contribute to the newsmaking: Ida B. Wells Media Justice Center | USSF Call to Bloggers | Publish on IMC-US | USSF Media Server

Vida y obra de Julio Antonio Mella.

Jose Daniel Cañada Castillo04 Apr 2009
25 de Marzo de 1903, Nacimiento de Julio Antonio Mella...

Hoy se cumplen 106 años del nacimiento de Julio Antonio Mella, gladiador de excepcionales cualidades que lo inscribieron para siempre en el Olimpo de los grandes e imprescindibles de la patria....

Winter Soldier - Austin, TX, Sat, Feb 28th

Greg Foster27 Feb 2009
Winter Soldier comes to Austin, Sat, Feb 28 Iraq Veterans Against the war is made up of veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, which have been going on for 7 years (Afghanistan) and nearly 6 years (Iraq). We are calling for an end to the US involvement in those conflicts. Personal accounts will be given by veterans who have been to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Green Scare: Involvement suspected of Indiana

anonymous09 Feb 2009
Our lives and community continue to be threatened by the actions of a few who have chosen a path of betrayal and deception. These few have chosen to break the trust that has for so long held us together as friends and confidents. These individuals must be challenged and called upon to be honest and transparent about their situations and the circumstances for which give rise to this call for concern.

The Vatican City wishes you Happy Christmas!!

www.american-red-dream.blogspot.com23 Dec 2008
Merry Christmas The Vatican city knows how to give happines to the people!!!!
Merry Christmas!!

O Freedom Odetta, no te olvidamos

Carlos Ortiz de Zárate05 Dec 2008
El 2 de diciembre es una fecha muy significativa en los avances contra la exclusión: Día Internacional para la Abolición de la Esclavitud, en conmemoración del Convenio para la represión de la trata de personas y de la explotación de la prostitución ajena (resolución 317(IV), de 2 de diciembre de 1949. En 2008, la conmemoración de esta fecha coincide con la muerte de Odetta, la defensora de los derechos civiles afro- americanos, quien puso, su voz al clamor de generaciones de esclavos y marginados, en la Marcha a Washington organizada por Luther King, en 1963 y una de las artífices del amplio movimiento de los 60 . Asistimos,, asimismo, a la mediatización del proceso del proyecto político de Barack Obama. Me propongo expresar mi inquietud ante la indiferenciaacordada a los hechos por los medios de comunicación de Francia y de España y por las prefebcias temáticas de las portadas de los mismos en el periodo 2/5 de diciembre de 2005.

Carta de las Visitadoras a Obama

Carlos Ortiz de Zárate30 Nov 2008
Señor Obama; en esta carta nos proponemos felicitar a los estrategas de la comunicación del proceso de cimentación de su proyecto de gobierno para la próxima presidencia USA. Queremos trasmitir, asimismo, nuestra inquietud por algunos síntomas que nos evocan rituales sacrificales reiterados en la mediatización del poder, como es el caso de la encarnación del representante del poder en el Redentor del caos del planeta y en el “yo o el caos”.

IF I WERE PRESIDENT...

mike montagne — founder, PEOPLE For Mathemati14 Oct 2008
How I would arrest world wide monetary collapse in a day, and establish real economy in little longer.

Corruption in Missoula Montana racist

Donald Iarussi MFA25 Sep 2008
In the city of Missoula, Montana, a all white racist mostly Democrat City Council and Mayors office ignores landlord violations, discrimination, health and fire violations

Why religions are going through Brhmo-Phobia?

Dr Alan Sun06 Aug 2008
Brahman - Universe - Naresh Sonee
Brhmo-Phobia is the latest psychological fear developing among religions from Brhmoist-Brhmoism.

Estudiantes utilizan crueldad animal

angela exposito01 Aug 2008

Estudiantes venezolanos utilizan la crueldad animal con fines políticos
 http://animalenpoliticadeestado.blogspot.com/

VER VIDEO
 http://venezuelanoticia.com/archives/5668#comment-5285

Application of Islamic Shari'a in US Courts

Gabriel Sawma21 Jun 2008
In 2004 a crash of Blackwater Flight 61 occurred in the rugged mountains of central Afghanistan, killing three soldiers and three-man crew. The widows of the soldiers sued Presidential Airways, Blackwater’s sister company, which was under contract with the U.S. military to fly cargo and personnel around Afghanistan.

Lawyers for the company has asked a federal court to decide the case using provisions from the Islamic Shari’a, not the U.S. laws. They argue that the Shari’a “does not hold a company responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their work.”  http://www.newsobserver.com/917/story/1113022.html

Brazil: Repressed March of Marijuana.

contranet04 May 2008
The Brazilian Democracy demonstrates as it is imperfection and as the federal constitution it is not respected in the country. Prohibition of if revealing public in walks are characteristic of an authoritarian country. Legalize-Já! Thus it is the false Brazilian democracy: in first of May militant anarchic (Cob/Ait), the also lesser ones of ages, they had been tortured and threatened of death in a police station of São Paulo. In Rondônia a without-land slaughter (LCP) happened to few days, to put was not divulged na media and the government ignored the occurrence. Now, the march of marijuana was forbidden in almost all country, great them 13 city where it went to occur the march, only four will be able to carry through it, Porto Alegre, Recife, Florianópolis and Vitoria.

SOUTH DAKOTA UNIVERSITY HONORS DENNIS FRITZ

Barbara's Journey Toward Justice21 Apr 2008
Dennis Fritz, Author of Journey Toward Justice,arrived in Vermillion, South Dakota, to share his nightmare-out-of-hell story, of the unjust and wrongful conviction for 1st Degree Capitol Murder— that he had to suffer for 12 grueling years before justice finally prevailed.

Self-proclaimed 'Spiritual Master' Threatens

PRNewsChannel27 Mar 2008
SOTT.net announces that attorney Walter Hansell and trial counsel Stephen Kaus will lead its defense against an Oregon company that has filed suit for defamation, a "blunt force attack on Freedom of Speech."

The capitalista phase of devastation.

José Miguel García16 Feb 2008
Climate change as the result of the economic, social and political organization that rules the world: brutal capitalism that is not content with plundering man, it also predates the planet.

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Domestic Workers Take US Social Forum By Storm; Form National Alliance

NYC17 Jul 2007
During the US Social Forum, New York-based Domestic Workers United (DWU) and over ten other domestic worker organizations from California to Maryland founded a historic national network of domestic workers to link their struggles and more effectively agitate for change. As Celeste Escobar of DWU commented, "We need it more now than ever..."

Stemming from the history of slavery, domestic workers are excluded from most basic labor protections US workers enjoy. And that legacy continues as nearly the whole workforce is foreign-born women of color, who are forced to migrate to the United States in search of viable employment opportunities. Read More>>

Another world or another mistake?

tiny11 Jul 2007
From the POOR News Network: Poverty, Race, Disability, Youth and Indigenous Scholars from POOR Magazine travel to the US Social Forum to realize a new world of media production..By Any Means Necessary

"[N]otwithstanding the radical goals and objectives of the Forums... the media production is led by the same folks who always make media, who always have the channels of access and privilege."

Photo by Gary Spotted Wolf/PNN

Taking the midnight bus to Georgia: US Social Forum Diary

NYC10 Jul 2007
As we approached the bus stop over on the north side of Union Square, we knew all of our hard work over the past few months had been well worth it. Looking out over the 100 person, two-bus delegation, you couldn't help but be struck by the amazing cross section of people and organizations we were rolling with on our way down to the first ever US Social Forum (USSF) in Atlanta.

Change the World, Yes we Can; We're the People's Freedom Caravan

Houston05 Jul 2007
The People's Freedom Caravan was an initiative of grassroots leadership in communities in Southwest in South to attend the US Social Forum and promote a new vision of democracy. This is a vision based on human rights, a vision that bridges racial, geographic and cultural divides and moves beyond the status quo 'pay to play' politics. Inspired by the Freedom Riders who confronted racist violence in the South in the early 1960's, organizers, activists and allies boarded buses from Albuquerque to Selma on the way to Atlanta.

Volunteers with Houston Indymedia joined the caravan in Houston and rode through New Orleans [1, 2], Slidel, Biloxi, Selma and finaly Atlanta providing story coverage and photos along the way. [Read the compilation of their coverage and the caravan]

HIMC Coverage | El Mono Xoro (Nuevo Laredo - Spanish) | Southwest Workers Union Blog | Southwest Organizing Project Blog | Video Coverage from FreeJonathan.com

Photo from SWOPBlogger: People's Freedom Caravan in Slidel, LA

Voice from the North: "Humankind is on the Brink of Destruction"

Boston04 Jul 2007
An interview at the US Social Forum with Faith Gemmill, member of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands) Network, about the environment, climate change, and a warning to all about failing to take care of the earth.

"What's happening to us in the north is that we're being affected by climate change. We see our land being destroyed by the fossil, mining, military industry... We are actually literally dying and everyone is responsible for that. Because the energy that is being taken from our homelands, feeds the need here and so we are calling on all people, all human beings of conscience... Change how you live." Read More & Audio | RedOIL Webpage

Koreans Sign Anti-FTA Resolution at USSF

Hyun Lee04 Jul 2007
No FTA Banner As the U.S. and Korea Sign the Biggest Trade Agreement since NAFTA, Koreans at the First U.S. Social Forum Sign Anti-FTA Resolution.

Response to Medea Benjamin on why pies get thrown

DC03 Jul 2007
When someone who holds a position of perceived "power" in our movement attempts to address accusations against them, and does so without being entirely forthcoming, they only harm themselves, and it tends to give the impression — real or perceived — that they should perhaps be less than trusted in the rest of their answers… Medea Benjamin Pied At US Social Forum! Medea Benjamin: "To Those Who Threw a Pie in My Face" Video

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