Education And Culture

USSF – 2007 and After…
July 12, 2025 - Michael Albert, ZNet
At the US Social Forum 2007, in the city that hosts CNN and Coke, in hotel venues where debutantes ironically were on parade, the progressive community stood tall and steadfast, proud and capable. The forum’s over 900 sessions were truly diverse in those presenting and those attending. Indeed, I cannot remember - going all the way back to an also highly diverse Black Panther Party Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia in September 1970 - any other large leftist event in the U.S. as consistently multi-cultural as USSF 2007. More, I can remember very few that were as gender and sexuality balanced. And the USSF 2007 even had youth in abundance, a feature sorely lacking in recent activist conferences.  Go...

National Alliance of Domestic Workers Formed at Social Forum
July 16, 2025 - Marcy Rein, AFL-CIO News
First, a caution: You might read many articles describing wildly different events at the U.S. Social Forum. They could all be true. It was that big. Organizers estimate nearly 10,000 people passed through the June 27–July 1 event in Atlanta. Walking through the crowds, you could hear voices from the Deep South, gravelly New York accents, California slang and Appalachian twangs and Spanish—not to mention other languages my untaught ears couldn’t identify. Participants brought with them their experiences organizing within a wide range of human rights issues working within the many ground zeroes created by corporate globalization.  Go...

US Social Forum Reflections: Forum Forges Common Ground
July 2, 2025 - Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News
In all, the crowds were huge, the workshops passionate and inspiring, and participants made ideological, relational and personal gains, both large and small.  Go...

Feminists Participate in First-Ever US Social Forum
July 5, 2025 - Feminist Daily News Wire
Twelve thousand activists assembled in Atlanta from June 27 to July 1 under the banner "Another World is Possible; Another US Is Necessary" for the first-ever United States Social Forum. The Forum featured over 900 workshops, a film festival, and multiple plenary sessions organized around six core areas including women's rights. Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. magazine staff joined activists from over 100 women’s organizations at the Forum to help create a new feminist vision for the United States and the World.  Go...

Visioning a Better US at the United States Social Forum
July 16, 2025 - Mari Rice, PoliticalAffairs.net
The United States Social Forum was held in Atlanta, Georgia on June 27-July1, 2007. A diverse group of over ten thousand people came for the first ever Forum of it’s kind held in the United States. They came from all walks of life: young, old, poor and professional, Native, Latino, African American and European American. They came from other parts of the world including Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Activist, academics, trade unionist and community organizers came united in their belief that “Another world is possible,” the slogan for the United States Social Forum.  Go...

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