Pacific Northwest Social Forum in Portland 10/26-10/28
ll of us at Move To Amend are excited to announce that registration
is now formally open for the Pacific Northwest Social Forum (PNWSF)
that will take place Sept 26-28 at the First Unitarian Church, 1034 SW
13th Ave. in Portland, Oregon.
The homepage is here: http://pnwsf.org
Registration is here: http://pnwsf.org/content/register-now
This movement building process is associated with the U.S. Social
Forum which convened over 10,000 social change agents in Atlanta, GA
in 2007 and almost 15,000 in Detroit, MI in 2010.
Many members, supporters and leaders of Move To Amend attended and
facilitated workshops at each of these, and Move To Amend even
facilitated a Peoples Movement Assembly in Detroit.
The experience was so positive and powerful that we have committed
organizational resources and staff time to helping to organize the
third U.S. Social Forum, which will take place in 2015. The PNWSF is
part of that movement.
The PNWSF is *not* a conference. It is a convergence of people's
movements whose primary work and struggles take place in CA, OR, WA,
British Columbia, MT, ID and UT. The purpose is to build solidarity
and unified action toward social, economic and environmental justice
across the entire Pacific Northwest.
At the PNWSF, Move To Amend will facilitate a People's Movement
Assembly (PMA) on "Democracy and the US Constitution." There will also
be PMAs on Indigenous People's concerns and issues, climate justice,
food sovereignty, housing, education and more.
All of these are designed to help us collectively create and propose a
Pacific NW People's Agenda for Action – a document that will guide us
in our work for peace, justice, democracy, liberty and ecology.
We will learn about each others struggles and connect to each other's
campaigns with the goal of mutual support, building toward a powerful
movement for social justice in the Pacific NW.
We will reach across fronts of struggle to find where we have common
goals and where we can build unity, capacity and effectiveness to end
the violent systems of oppression all around us and build systems that
will meet the needs of all people and sustain the ecosystems of our
region and the planet.
We are excited that we will be kicking off with a concert/performance
by Mic Crenshaw on Fri. Check out
http://pnwsf.org/content/mic-crenshaw-do-performance
Please forward this announcement to your own lists.
Onward to the world we deserve,
Laura Bonham, Daniel Lee, David Cobb, Egberto Willies, George Friday,
Jerome Scott, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Edgar Franks, Richard Monje
Move to Amend National Leadership Team
