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AFSC invites you to the first-ever…
Los Angeles Social Forum
 June 27-29, 2008
University of Southern California
Please join us for a weekend of building bridges between LA-based campaigns for social justice, environmental action, criminal reform, election fairness, gender equity, political power and cultural expression.
The Los Angeles Social Forum is a place where Southern California activists will meet and share power, plans, perspectives, and ideas while building a network for peace and social justice.
The Forum is being endorsed or sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and more than 50 other organizations that work in the Los Angeles area.
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Preliminary Schedule
Friday, June 27:
7 - 7:45 PM: Registration, Meet & Greet
7:45 PM: First People Welcome
8 PM: Opening Plenary & Cultural Performances - The opening plenary will feature local grassroots labor and community organizers/leaders.
8:45 PM: Drum Circle - An evening of group particpation.
Saturday, June 28:
9 AM: Registration
9:30 - 11:30 AM: Workshops Session 1
11:45 AM - 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 PM: Workshops Session 2
4 - 6 PM: Workshops Session 3
6 - 7:30 PM: Saturday Closing Words - Following this closing, members of the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice will provide tours of the area that will inform people about local residents’ concerns about the proposed development plan and other issues in the neighborhoods surrounding USC.
7:30 - 10:30 PM: Party with live music at the William Grants Still Arts Center
Sunday, June 29:
11 AM - 1 PM: Mini-Assemblies
1 - 2 PM: Closing Ceremony - Calls to action and reports from the mini-assemblies.
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Register
Background
The World Social Forum and its local and regional offspring are open meeting spaces where progressive social movements, networks, nonprofits and other civil society organizations get together to pursue their thinking, debate ideas, formulate strategies and proposals, share experiences, and network for effective action.
The forums bring together people who want to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and participatory world. They are characterized by plurality and diversity, and they are nongovernmental and nonpartisan.
A social forum is what you make it—a meeting place, a debating forum, an exchange of ideas and solutions, a theater stage, a celebration, a festival, a bazaar. It can be any or all of these.
About 20,000 people attended the first World Social Forum in January 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The event, which has been held each year since then, drew 150,000 in 2005.
The World Social Forum was created to counter the influence and purposes of the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of top business and government leaders to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
More Information
Phone: (213) 489-1900
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