Category: 2006 Winter
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Building the US Social Forum is Building Movement
How Project South became the anchor organization for the USSF By Jerome Scott & Walda Katz-Fishman Jerome & Walda co-founded Project South with Rita Valenti and Gwen Patton in 1986 in response to the need for political education to be integrated into grassroots organizing campaigns. Movement building – the strategic question of our times Project…
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Building Power with our People, Across Communities and within Ourselves: Notes from the Southeast Social Forum
By Emery Wright “How many people here have been incarcerated or know someone who’s in jail right now?” The backroom in a local museum in Jackson was filled with a few dozen folks from Mississippi. All hands raised. “How many people currently don’t have a job or know someone that doesn’t have a job?” The…
