This year’s US Social Forum will draw participants from around the US to Philadelphia and San Jose for several days of movement building. Advance registration closes June 19.
Many of the topics for the June 25-28 Philadelphia forum and for the June 24-28 San Jose forum relate to WILPF-US campaigns. Workshops and People’s Movement Assemblies (longer sessions designed to draw on the contributions of all participants and conclude with agreed-upon next steps) will run simultaneously.
Advance registration is available online through June 19. Watch for Marge Van Cleef’s workshop on drones and Fran Foulkrod in a panel convened by World Beyond War in Philadelphia. Nancy Price has a workshop on the Human Right to Health and Safe Food and helped organize a PMA on Food Sovereignty: Reclaim the Commons – Save Our Land, Our Water, Our Seed
In San Jose, the local branch along with Santa Cruz members will table at sessions on food sovereignty, farmworkers, and health care. San Diego members are presenting a workshop on Peace and Anti-Militarization Tactics: Past, Present, and Future. Raging Grannies are practicing in hopes of singing for the plenary.
The Summer of Our Power Southern People’s Movement Assembly for a Just Transition in Jackson, MI, June 26-28, will focus on how to broaden and expand the southern movement for climate justice and a just transition to a new economy. A Forum in Houston, TX is being planned, and finally, activists from the United States and Mexico will convene in Tijuana on June 25. Themes for the Mexico events include migration, environment, land and water, work and salary, and mega projects.
