Thread started by sexy at 06.24.08 - 9:48 am

Does anyone here plan on attending the Los Angeles Social Forum?
Either to just listen or to be a representative of the Los Angeles Bicycle Movement?

It is this weekend June 27 - June 29 start Friday at 6pm and concludes Sunday through 1:30pm

At the USC Campus


What is the The Social Forum (from the website)

The World Social Forum (Wiki) and its local and regional offspring are open meeting spaces where progressive social movements, networks, non-profits and other civil society organizations get together to pursue their thinking, debate ideas, formulate strategies and proposals, share experiences, and network for effective action. The forums bring together people who want to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and participatory world. They are characterized by plurality and diversity; they are nongovernmental and nonpartisan. A social forum is what you make it — a meeting place, a debating forum, an exchange of ideas and solutions, a theater stage, a celebration, a festival, a bazaar — it can be any or all of these.

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i would go but i have another social engagement to attend.



indigis
06.24.08 - 10:02 am

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I'd like to go, sexy. What workshops were you looking to attend? There are so many that it's difficult to choose.



kyber
06.24.08 - 10:48 am

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what are the workshops about? i went on the site but they don't give many details.



July
06.24.08 - 11:05 am

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^^ never mind.



July
06.24.08 - 11:06 am

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If you go to dirty stank ass nasty downtown during the daytime, make sure you can handle the heat. Drink mad water, and do try to avoid heat exhaustion. At least USC has some tree canopy you can hide under...



jericho1ne
06.24.08 - 12:16 pm

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This sounds so cool, but work on the weekends kills me all the time.



bone_yer_bike
06.24.08 - 1:18 pm

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Me and a friend of mine are attending.




EP Jesse
06.24.08 - 2:20 pm

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I think we'll be riding down from Echo Park or Union Station.



EP Jesse
06.25.08 - 1:17 pm

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I can't attend, but I wanted to bring this to people attention on this site that might be interested in attending and didn't know it was happening.

I do like the title of the first listed workshop. Have you read the manifesto?



sexy
06.25.08 - 1:59 pm

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I'll be coming and presenting along with seven others - "Converging Storms: The Crises of Energy and Food, Climate and Environment, Capitalism and War", 2:00-4:00 PM

For this event, a panel of activists from varying organizations will address a global capitalist system whose petroleum dependency is precipitating, and colliding with, the ecological realities of diminishing fossil fuels, global warming, food crises, resource depletion and contamination (land, water), species extinction, population pressures, and escalating resource wars over a finite earth.

http://lapostcarbon.org
http://www.studiesforglobaljustice.org/

I'll ride there from downtown station Saturday morning.



thinkpeace
06.25.08 - 2:31 pm

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Did anyone who is planning on attending RSVP?

Is it necessary?



kyber
06.27.08 - 12:59 pm

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