A "social justice movement" is a movement of people whose consensual need is to counteract extant injustice. Racial discrimination, economic exploitation, cultural exclusion or oppression are general categories of injustice; movements form against them in terms of opposition to segregated housing, a racialized prison industry, police brutality and profiling, the death penalty, masculinist violence against women and women's bodies, corporate despoliation of the environment, US economic and military intervention in post-colonial nations around the world, and war. Labor unions, despite their absorption into the establishment, come out of social justice movements that fought for humane work conditions and the right to organize. The many movements of our recent past in the US emerged from the most dire struggles against white supremacy and racial discrimination, and spread to include women's movements, student movements, campaigns to free political prisoners, and opposition to corporate globalization. Each movement contained a panoply of organizational forms, communities, and ideological groupings; the spectrum ran from traditional communities to issue oriented affinity groups and populist gatherings. What they all have in common is their existence, and their call for justice. An anti-war movement is an especially dire call for justice, since it calls for the end of the arbitrary mass murder that war is.
The US Social Forum is more than a conference, more than a networking bonanza, more than a reaction to war and repression. The USSF will provide space to build relationships, learn from each other's experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration. It will help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.
The USSF sends a message to other people’s movements around the world that there is an active movement in the US opposing US Policies at home and abroad.
We must declare what we want our world to look like and begin planning the path to get there. A global movement is rising. The USSF is our opportunity to demonstrate to the world Another World is Possible!
Visit the USSF website at www.ussf2007.org for details, including rideshare and housing boards, downloadable materials and to submit a session proposal.
Just sending this note to personally invite you to the next AEN meeting on October 16th...
Attorney Jeff Cleghorn will be speaking to members and guests about gay legal issues - including: family law (marriage, adoption, partnership dissolutions, etc.), employment discrimination law, hospital visitation rights, and estate planning...
We hope to see you there...
If you aren't a member, join online now and come free on the 16th! www. aen. org/join
Welcome to the NEW AEN! New logo. New location. New business opportunities!
Join us on July 17th and find out why AEN is a whole new organization!
Special guest speaker: Tracy Elliott, executive director of AID Atlanta. After his first year at the head of the Southeast's largest AIDS Service Organization, Tracy will be outlining what the organization is doing in the LGBT community and what the future looks like for the organization that saves and transforms lives in our community.
As always, AEN events are free for members - join today at www. aen. org/join
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Our mission is to provide a strong, credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems. But we don’t do that on our own – we work as a communications team for the entire progressive community.
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Hello! Just wanted to say hi and wish you a happy day! My hubbie and I head to Atlanta tomorrow, so we'll wave to you from wherever we are. :) Singing Sunday, and Songwriting appointments Monday and Tuesday- and of course, a trip to IKEA and Container Store on the way back home to Nashville on Wed! So jealous you guys have those stores and we don't. But it just makes Atlanta all that more exciting! :) Jeni
The first womyn's march in Los Angeles since 1994.
On Saturday, March 8th, womyn in L.A. are taking a stand together as one, to show our strength and support for one another as sisters, mothers, friends, partners, cousins, granddaughters...
Don't forget... AEN is this Thursday!!! We hope to see you there!!!
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Don't forget... AEN is this Thursday!!! We hope to see you there!!!
As always, all AEN events are free for members... for information or to join, visit www.aen.org/join
Indigenous Peoples Message to the U.S. antiwar movement
We call on the U.S. antiwar movement to acknowledge that the very establishment of the United States and it's expansion was built on the genocide against the First Nations/Indigenous Peoples of the continent, along with the enslavement of African peoples.
Iraq (and the over 130 countries that have a presence of U.S. military) is just a continuation of "Manifest Destiny" which cleared the continent for settler colonization. Thus it's not a "mistake" of U.S. policy, but is at the core of the very foundation of the U.S. from it's beginnings continuing thru to today.
Thus, we say that the antiwar mobilizations that are taking place in Spring 2008 on the 5th anniversary of the U.S. war(s) on the world.
1)have an indigenous person opening the events ackowledging the above history and it's continuation into the present day and how U.S. history is linked to today's war(s).
2)that there be an organized and visible collective presence of contingents focused on indigenous peoples concerns at the mobilizations along with that presence being also on the websites, press releases, media spokespeople, et. al of these groups/mobilizations.
3)that the indigenous names of cities/towns in the various indigenous languages be acknowledged by also being mentioned to remind people of the indigenous origins of this land (for example "Manatay" for what is now called Manhattan ) along with the peoples (for example: Lenape (& others)) and the original languages.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL! SENATE VOTE ON DREAM ACT AS EARLY AS WEDNESDAY!
***IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED*** YOU AND YOUR NETWORKS NEED TO FLOOD SENATE OFFICES WITH PHONE CALLS, FAXES AND EMAILS TOMORROW!!!!!
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2007 TELL SENATORS TO VOTE FOR S. 2205 THE DREAM ACT!!!
CALL THEM AGAIN THE NEXT DAY!!!!!
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2007 TELL SENATORS TO VOTE FOR S. 2205 THE DREAM ACT!!!
The DREAM Act will likely come up for a vote on the Senate floor this Wednesday.
IT IS IMPERATIVE FOR ALL DREAM ACT SUPPORTERS TO CALL YOUR SENATORS, send an e-mail message and fax them, do it all over again on Wednesday morning first thing.
SHUTDOWN THE SENATE SWITCHBOARD WITH YOUR CALLS! CALL 202-224-3121
DON'T LET THE ANTI-DREAM CALLERS BEAT US THIS TIME! Last week, Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) quietly re-introduced the DREAM Act as a new stand-alone bill, S. 2205. Most likely this Wednesday there will be a "cloture" vote on whether the DREAM Act can be debated and ultimately voted on. This will mark the first time that the DREAM Act has ever come to a clean vote on the Senate floor.
The provisions of S. 2205 are similar, though not identical, to S. 774, the version of the DREAM Act that was filed by the Senators Durbin, Hagel, and Lugar earlier this year. Like the earlier version, S. 2205 would provide a 6-year path to permanent residence and eventual citizenship for individuals brought to the U.S. more than 5 years ago as undocumented children if they graduate from high school and continue on to college or military service.
The cloture motion will require 60 votes to pass. If it fails, the DREAM Act will be pulled from the floor. If it passes, there will be more votes on the DREAM Act as well as on possible amendments. The outcome of these votes will determine the fate of the DREAM Act for this Congress.
THE FIRST STEP IS PASSAGE OF THE "CLOTURE" MOTION,
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