US Social Forum “Report Back to Connect Forward”

Another Boston is Possible, A Powerful Social Justice Movement is Necessary. 

Hear activists from tenant, youth, transportation, workplace, immigrant, and environmental justice struggles as they report back from the U.S. Social Forum and connect forward with the struggles going on in the streets of Boston. Refreshments will be served; Child care available; Wheelchair accessible; Spanish interpretation.

We all have been under assault by a system that cares more about bank profits than people’s lives. We also know that there have been exciting examples of growing mass movements in Boston in response to those attacks.

This event is supported by grassroots organizations such as City Life/Vida Urbana, the Hotel Workers Union (Local 26), the Healthcare Workers Union (1199/SEIU), the City School, and other groups, such as the ISO, that have been part of those movements and part of the ad hoc ROC/Summer Institute workshops in Boston.

The idea is to use the momentum from the struggles for social justice going on right now in our communities, plus the momentum from the US Social Forum in Detroit - to build a broad-based movement that is powerful enough to make demands on the city’s powerbrokers. A second ROC meeting is planned for Tuesday, August 10, and a one-day conference is planned for the fall – with more ways to stay connected after that. In addition, we are planning workshops to teach organizing skills.