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Friends of Occupy Portland will be tabling at the Pacific NW Social Forum this weekend, FRI., Sept. 26th ~ SUN., Sept. 28th! Press release below!
The Pacific NW Social Forum (PNWSF)is not a conference, it is a convergence of people’s movements who’s primary work & struggles take place in No Cal, OR, WA, British Columbia, MT, ID, UT, Hawaii & Alaska to build solidarity and unified action toward social, economic and environmental justice in the Pacific NW.
We are a motion that is a part of the U.S. and World Social Forum processes. The USSF current 3-year plan calls for People’s Movement Assemblies in 2014; USSFIII in 2015 in multiple locations and a National People’s Movement Assembly in 2015. We will hold a People’s Movement Assembly (PMA) that will create & propose a Pacific NW People’s Agenda for Action–a document that will guide us.
- Friday, September 26th, 07:00 PM to 10:00 PM: Benefit Concert with Mic Crenshaw and Friends, benefit the Social Forum and the Burundi Computer Center supported by Global Fam. @ First Unitarian Church of Portland
- Saturday, September 27th 09:00 AM to 09:00 PM: People’s Movement Assemblies and Developing our Pacific NW Plan of Action Together @ First Unitarian Church of Portland
- Sunday, September 28th 12:00 PM ~ 02:00 PM: March for a Clean Willamette — Pacific NW Social Forum @ Pioneer Courthouse Sq.
We will learn about each others struggles and connect to each others campaigns with the goal of mutual support and building toward a powerful movement for social justice in the Pacific NW. We will reach across fronts of struggle to find where we have common goals and where we can build unity, capacity and effectiveness to end the violent systems of oppression all around us and build systems that will meet the needs of all people and sustain the ecosystems of our region and the planet.