Anonymous Comrade writes:

The New York City Social Forum

Date: Saturday, January, 11, 2003

Location: Hunter College, 68th Street & Lexington Ave.

People Before Profits: Another City Is Possible!

Feel like you're getting nowhere fighting alone? Time to come together! Join low-income individuals, students, activists, progressive academics, and
more for a day of strategizing and re-energizing!WHAT IS THE NYC SOCIAL FORUM?

The NYC Social Forum is an effort to bring diverse groups together to an
open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas,
formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for
effective action. The locally based social forum will act as a strategy
summit for interested individuals and grassroots organizations who wish to
discuss together the possibility of rebuilding our city and world through
direct democracy.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

9:00 AM Celebration of Social Movements

10:00 AM Opening Session: Panel Plenary

12:00 AM Lunch

1:00 PM Workshop Rotations

6:00 PM General Assembly of Social Forces

9:00 PM Cultural Evening

WORKSHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM (AND THEIR ORGANIZERS)

- Caught in the Crossfire: Colombian Trade Unionists Under Attack (Committee
for Social Justice in Colombia)



- Changing the System: Public Policy Capacity-Building for Direct Service
Organizations (Policy Development)



- Creating a Radical Paradigm in 21st Century (Reparations Mobilization
Coalition)



- Creative Direct Action (Reclaim the Streets and Greenpeace)



- Homeless Peoples Civil Rights (Picture the Homeless)



- Independent Media & Community Reporting (Independent Media Center)



- Living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C: More than Antiviral Drugs (FIAR)



- Know Your Rights in Protest (People's Law Collective)



- Neighborhood Assemblies: Argentina's Model of Revolution (Projects
Collective, Brooklyn)



- Organizing Against War & Youth Organizing (Not In Our Name & NY Youth
Bloc)



- Participatory Budgeting and the History of Social Movements (PSC Union)



- Perspectives on Radical Union Organizing (Worker's Solidarity)



- Report Back from the European Social Forum (No Blood For Oil Coalition)



- Technology & Social Change: What Works, What Doesn't (LINC Project, WLC)



- Working with Corporate Media (Direct Action Network)



- Youth Organizing & the Independent Media (Student Voices for Peace, WBAI)



... AND MORE!! TO SUBMIT A PANEL OR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL, SEE
http://www.nycsocialforum.org/propose.html or email info@nycsocialforum.org



IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN REGISTERING TO ATTEND, PLEASE:
CALL: 646-602-5606 or visit: http://www.nycsocialforum.org/registration.html



NYC SOCIAL FORUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CONSISTS OF MEMBERS OF:

Brecht Forum

Community Voices Heard

Harlem Tenants Council

Mint Leaf Productions

NYC AIDS Housing Network

Picture the Homeless

Projects Collective, Brooklyn

Reparations Mobilization Coalition

Social Justice Alliance, Stony Brook

Workfare Media Initiative

IF YOU WANT TO JOIN, ATTEND THE NEXT NYC SOCIAL FORUM MEETING!

NEXT NYCSF PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING:


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 6:30 PM

Hunter College West Building, Southeast corner of Lexington and 68th St.,
Room 1639, 16th floor. 6 Train to 68th. Everyone should take the escalators
to the 3rd floor then take the elevators to the 16th floor (that's the
easiest way to get there).



The New York City Social Forum
http://www.nycsocialforum.org

email: nycsocialforum

info. hotline: 646-602-5606