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People Before Profits: Another City Is Possible!
The New York City Social Forum Date: Saturday, January, 11, 2003 Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Subways: #1, #2, #3, #9, B, D, F, Q, N, R to 34th St; #6 to 33rd St
Feel like you're getting nowhere fighting alone? Time to come together!
Join low-income individuals, students, activists, progressive academics, and more for a day of strategizing and re-energizing!
WHAT IS THE NYC SOCIAL FORUM?
The NYC Social Forum is an effort to bring diverse groups together to an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action. The locally based social forum will act as a strategy summit for interested individuals and grassroots organizations who wish to discuss together the possibility of rebuilding our city and world through direct democracy.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:30 AM Registration / Celebration of Social Movements 10:00 AM Opening Plenary: Local Grassroots Organizers Panel 11:30 AM Break for Lunch 12:00 PM Multiple Workshop and Panel Sessions 6:00 PM General Assembly of Social Forces 9:00 PM Cultural Evening
OVER 30 WORKSHOPS AND PANELS TO CHOOSE FROM!
LIST OF WORKSHOPS AND PANELS (AND THEIR ORGANIZERS):
- Acting Up Against Medical Apartheid: A Workshop on ACT-UP and Grassroots Direct Action Responses to the AIDS Pandemic (ACT-UP/NY)
- An Alternatives Manhattan Project (The MANNA ARC: Peoples' Alternative Living Sanctuaries)
- Caught in the Crossfire: Colombian Trade Unionists Under Attack (Committee for Social Justice in Colombia)
- Changing the System: Public Policy Capacity-Building for Direct Service Organizations (Policy Development)
- Creating a Radical Paradigm for the 21st Century (Reparations Mobilization Coalition)
- Destructive Effects of Special Education and Foster Care on Black and Latino Children (Parents in Action)
- Focus on Cuba: Resistance to Neo-liberal Globalization (Cuba Solidarity New York and Harlem Tenants Council)
- From Rights to Reality: The Fight Against Medical Apartheid and for Global AIDS Treatment Access (From Rights to Reality: the Fight against Medical Apartheid and for Global AIDS Treatment Access)
- From Shelters to Ships To SRO'S: Organizing for the Right to Housing for Homeless New Yorkers Living with AIDS (NYC AIDS Housing Network)
- Healing from the Damage Caused by Racism (United to End Racism)
- Homeless Peoples Civil Rights (Picture the Homeless)
- Issues Facing Public Housing Residents (NYC Public Housing Resident Alliance)
- Living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C: More than Antiviral Drugs (FIAR)
- Neighborhood Assemblies: Argentina's Model of Revolution (Projects Collective, Brooklyn)
- Organizing Against War & Youth Organizing (Not In Our Name & NYC Youth Bloc)
- Organizing for Workplace Justice (NY Jobs with Justice)
- Participatory Budgeting in Brazil and New York (Professional Staff Congress (CUNY) and City Project)
- Recession, Layoffs and Budget Crisis: How Can NYC Labor Fight Back? (International Socialist Organization with speakers form TWU Local 100, CWA and PSC)
- Self Education for Social Change (CASTAWAY)
- Technology & Social Change: What Works, What Doesn't (LINC Project and Welfare Law Center)
- The Bloody Exchange of Blood for Oil in Nigeria (Center for Constitutional Rights and the Former Human Rights Director of American Committee on Africa)
- The Displacement-Free Zone (DFZ): A Grassroots Tenants Organizing Campaign (Fifth Avenue Committee and Pratt Area Community Council)
- The Other Consequences of Crime: The Criminal Justice System and Our Communities (The Bronx Defenders with Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem)
- The Question of CUNY (CUNY Student Think Tank)
- Using Human Rights Tools to Change Public Policy (Urban Justice Center's Human Rights Project and Amnesty International USA Women¹s Program)
- Using Popular Education as a Methodology for Linking Gender, Race, Economic Justice and Anti-War Organizing (Alternative Women in Development NY and Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice)
- Why Media Matters: Biased Media Marginalizes Grassroots Activism (NYC Independent Media Center)
- Working with the Corporate Media (No Blood For Oil)
- Workshop on Immigrant Detention (Stop the Disappearances Campaign)
- Youth Participation in Community Planning (Open Road)
... AND MORE!!
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN REGISTERING TO ATTEND, PLEASE: CALL: 646-602-5606 or visit: http://www.nycsocialforum.org/registration.html
NYC SOCIAL FORUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CONSISTS OF MEMBERS OF:
Brecht Forum Community Voices Heard Harlem Tenants Council Mint Leaf Productions NYC AIDS Housing Network Picture the Homeless Projects Collective, Brooklyn Reparations Mobilization Coalition Social Justice Alliance, Stony Brook Workfare Media Initiative
IF YOU WANT TO JOIN, ATTEND THE NEXT NYC SOCIAL FORUM MEETING!
NEXT NYCSF PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING:
DATE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29th, 6:30 PM
LOCATION: NYC AIDS Housing Network, 80A Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn b/t St. Marks & Bergen Sts. Take the W,M,N,R train to Pacific St. or the 4,5,2,3Q train to Atlantic Ave.
The New York City Social Forum http://www.nycsocialforum.org email: info at nycsocialforum.org info. hotline: 646-602-5606
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