[Antiracism] Fw: [wmasocial] WM Social Forum

[Emily Kawano]

Please try to make it for part or all of this unique opportunity to learn from and interact with each other! Thirty plus organizations will be offering workshops and discussions over the two days. Please spread the word!

2 Days -  This Weekend - Saturday and Sunday

Program Schedule On the Webpage:
More info at http://www.westernmassafsc.org/wsf/wsf.html
or check out today's Gazette - Section B1

Western Massachusetts Social Forum

April 14-15

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  a.. To link local struggles and organizing with the larger global justice movement. To learn from and contribute to struggles around the world.
  b.. To build a more powerful and unified movement for social and economic justice and sustainability in Western Mass. 
  c.. To advance discussion, debate, understanding, common interests and strategies for change.

Other Information
  a.. You can register on site. 
  b.. BYO lunch on Saturday or pay $3.00 for a pizza party at the Newman Center.  Saturday's provided vegetarian dinner will be catered by Earth Foods. Refreshments for breaks provided. 
  c.. You can facilitate a discussion about the issue you are most concerned about in Sunday's open space. 
  d.. Over the course of the two days we will collect participants' visions for "another world is possible." Come prepared to offer your vision of that "other" and better world! 
  e.. The Forum is an official event of Step-It-Up 2007 in which over a 1000 events will be held across the country to raise awareness and generate actions to address global warming. Decrease CO2 Emissions by 80% by 2050! 
  f.. We'll hear reports from the latest World Social Forum in Kenya in January (66,000 participants) and the first U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, June 27-July 1. We'll begin plans for a delegation of Western Mass folks going to the U.S. Social Forum.

See you at the Forum!
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