Another U.S. is possible: Bay Area People's Movement Assembly

Ryan Van Lenning Fri, 12 Mar at 12:02am
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As part of the process leading up to the US Social Forum various regions hold People's Movement Assemblies as a space to coordinate and cross-pollinate ideas and prepare to go to Detroit in June. The Bay Area is hosting it's own as many local individuals and organizations will be attending.  The assembly is being held at the office of Poder in the Mission District on Saturday afternoon. If you aren't able to attend, but would like to learn more you can join one of the free phone information sessions next week (una en espanol, one in English). 

You and your organization are invited to participate in the Peoples Movement Assembly session taking place in San Francisco, California.  This session is a “kick off” of the process to get organized and to get to the US Social Forum II taking place June 22-26, 2010 in Detroit, Michigan.

Saturday, March 13, 2010
2pm - 5pm
Poder Office
474 Valencia St #120
San Francisco, CA

WHAT IS A PEOPLES MOVEMENT ASSEMBLY?

The PMA is a gathering of people (25, 250 or more!) who come together to identify community issues, discuss solutions, and commit to actions.

BEFORE the FORUM: Communities, movement sectors, and regions will gather, reflect, discuss, and articulate the big issues facing our world as well as explore strategic solutions and alternative practices. Communities make commitments at the Assemblies about how to get to the Forum, what to bring to the Forum, and what to bring back.

We need to have a count of the people that will attend the PMA-SF so please contact organizers and RSVP: grulla(at)swunion.org

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Usted y su organización están cordialmente invited@s a participar en la
Asamblea de los Movimientos Sociales que se llevara acabo en San Francisco, California el 13 de Marzo 2-5 PM. Esta es la oportunidad de organizarse para llegar a Detroit y participar en el Foro Social de
Estados Unidos II.

Necesitamos saber cuanta gente viene asi es que haga el favor de comunicar conmigo y dejarme saber si va participar y cuanta gente viene con su organización.

About Ryan Van Lenning
Ryan Van Lenning is a writer and organizer focusing on issues of social justice and sustainability. He is also passionate about food justice/urban ag, anti-militarism, and building alternative economies in resilient cities. His work appears in Ecolocalizer, Truthout, Huffington Post, Terrain: Northern California’s Environmental Magazine, and Matador Change. Prior to becoming caught in the web of Bay Area ink-slinging and activism, he taught in the Humanities Department at a community college in Ohio, where he created courses in Environmental Ethics and World Religions: Peace and Violence. He is both a hyper-localist and a globalist, a home-body and travel-addict, and a city explorer and nature aficionado, just a few of the many paradoxes with which he is afflicted. Contact him at ryan@oaklandlocal.com, follow him on twitter @vanlenning, and find more at his blogs Pull the Root, Travelin' Bones, and Rumi and the Cholo.