Community Organizing And Movement Building
Globalisation - WTO Lauds Civil Society Impact
October 9, 2024 - Abimbola Akosile, AllAfrica Global Media
Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO) Mr. Pascal Lamy has commended the efforts of civil society groups on trade negotiations, environmental issues and agriculture, to ensure a successful globalisation process.
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LET’S GET ON WITH IT!
August 3, 2025 - Celeste Lacy Davis, Funding Exchange
With a theme of “Another World is Possible; Another US is Necessary,” the first ever US Social Forum ignited a prairie fire of optimism within the progressive left, the sheer size and diversity of which has not been witnessed in this country in decades. For veteran and virgin social justice advocates alike, the week-long convergence of activists, academics, simply curious locals, and impassioned global sojourners in the city of Atlanta this summer should have helped to shatter a longstanding, paralytic myth that the American left is dead.
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Edwards, Obama & Labor: Will the Populist Moment Become A Long-Term Movement?
July 31, 2025
In the last two weeks, something profound started happening out on the 2008 campaign trail - a momentum has started building like I haven't seen in my lifetime. Two out of the top three best-polling Democratic candidates are starting to engage in a battle for the populist mantle. How this battle plays out and how organized labor asserts itself in the next few months could very well set the stage for - or kill in its infancy - the rise of a broader populist movement in America.
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Social Forum shows how unorganized the revolution can be
July 16, 2025 - Walter C. Jones, Savannah Morning News
For five days, Georgia has been the epicenter of liberal activism during the first U.S. Social Forum, a convention of sorts for more than one hundred groups.
This wasn't like the national conventions the Republicans and Democrats hold every four years. People at the two major political conventions, for example, only have two choices of bathrooms while those at the Social Forum have three - male, female and neutral - courtesy of the Queer Visibility Committee of the organizing board.
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Another world is possible
July 2, 2025 - John Nichols, The Capital Times
The political discussion in the United States is, for the most part, disappointing -- not merely because it is too ideologically and intellectually narrow, but also because it is too backward in focus... At a certain point, you just want to say: "Get over it! At a point when only one in five Americans think the country is headed in the right direction, isn't it time we changed course?"
That's the message of the thousands of Americans who have gathered in Atlanta in recent days for the U.S. Social Forum.
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