The US Social Forum and its allies have organized and are participating in a number of sessions during this year's World Social Forum in Tunis.
- Here is the lineup of activities and links to blogs and other reports on their activities and observations. US Social Forum organizers will be working to share the stories of the delegation with readers and will be connecting the organizing work we do with that of our allies around the world. Another world is possible!
What is really happening in US social movements? Delegates from the US Social Forum will present on plans for USSF 2014 and the current state of US social movements (especially their obstacles and political analyses within the context of Obama’s second term, the economic crisis, and policies on activism), discuss their connections, and engage workshop attendees in discussion.
The Grassroots Global Justice Alliance has been a key player in the US Social Forums, and it brings a large delegation of activists from across the United States to the World Social Forums here is GGJ's schedule of activities at the WSF. This year GGJ has been organizing around the "Climate Justice Alignment," which emerged from work the group did at the Detroit USSF. GGJ delegates will be spending lots of time at the Climate Space, and you can check this website for updates: [1]
InterOccupy: Connect. Collaborate. Organize Presentation of InterOccupy to ask the question of whether building a global networking and communications commons is something social movements want, and if so, engage others to work with us on it from the ground up using open democratic consensus-based processes. We will also present our work in the movement which has involved developing processes for: 1. democratic, horizontal communication 2. building and managing a unique technical platform that encourages collaboration on issues across wide distances 3. creating a decentralized news distribution system, 4. national and global days of action, and 5. assisting with regional and national gatherings for Occupy. We have learned a lot from our experience that we would like to share at the forum. We would also like to meet others from across the world working on similar initiatives in order to build cross-continental lines of open and democratic communication. 1. Share our experience and work so that other movements can learn from what we have done. 2. Learn directly from other popular movement groups about their strategies for building communication and networking. 3. Connect with others from around the world so that we can start the process of developing a global communication platform that can be used to build worldwide solidarity issues that affect us all.
Towards a dialogue between emerging social movements and the global civil society
This Assembly will be a space for dialogue between different emerging social movements (grassroots movements in Maghreb/Mashreq, Indignados/15M, Occupy, YoSoy132, Y'en a Marre, VIA22, student movements, indigenous movements, etc.) and the rest of the global civil society, to build a process of convergence within and beyond the Social Forums Facebook event