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Attention Radios: Join the Media Marathon for Palestine

June 24/25/26/27: JOIN THE MEDIA MARATHON TO PROMOTE ‘FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE’ SINGLE

Stop the Wall calls on you join the global Media Marathon to promote the song ‘Freedom for Palestine’ by OneWorld: Our goals are to get the song into the UK charts and show that 1 million people have watched the music video.

Solidarity for Palestine worldwide is growing. International activists from 50 countries prepare to break the siege on Gaza with the Freedom Flotilla 2 …

Photography Exhibit: The World Social Forum 2011 in Dakar, Senegal

Opening Event
March 26, 2010 from 5 - 7 pm CDT
Main Street Cafe, St. Francis
event runs through May 1st

MF/PL Joins the WSF IC

About May First/People Link

May First/People Link is a membership organization based in the United States. It is one of the oldest progressive providers of Internet to non-profits in the world. Our membership consists of over 500 members, most of which are organizations, while others are individuals. By joining as a member and paying yearly dues, an organization receives free, unlimited website and email hosting. Our vision is to build a network that values an Open Internet by committing to the use of Free and Open Source Software and making principled decisions regarding policy and practices that affect online communication.

We believe that the Internet is humanity's way of facilitating the communication necessary to build movements to save the human race and the world. The converging crises in the major capitalist economies, the precarious state of the world environment, the political crisis in government in so many of the world's countries and the usurpation of government authority by international banks and committees have brought humanity to a point of urgency and increasing certainty that something must be done to save itself. When all else fails, human beings come together to communicate and figure out how to survive; that is our legacy as a species.

Our Work: Technology within the WSF

Humanity has been forging ahead in doing that with world-wide efforts like the World Social Forum and the Climate Control movement and, of course, the Internet. The Internet, a community of more than 1.9 billion people world-wide, is among humanity's principle responses; it's humanity's way of facilitating the communication necessary to make all this collaboration possible.

World Social Forum-Dakar and Indymedia-Africa

All photographs taken in this series of the World Social Forum are available to view here: http://malloryknodel.net/image/tid/586

All pictures are available in high-quality by emailing mallory@mayfirst.org.

You can download the IMC-related photographs in high quality as a compressed .zip file by clicking this link: http://malloryknodel.net/sites/default/files/imc-chosen.zip

Workshop on Media and Movements at the World Social Forum

Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA) will be actively present at the next World Social Forum to be held in Dakar from 6 to 11 February 2011.

Four workshops are planned on major issues such as emerging countries, migration, social media, community radios stations.

To this discussion PIWA wishes to associate resource persons and organizations involved in such issues , and hopes that you will participate and share with us your experiences and knowledge.

Workshop: Social movements; Social Media
February 8, 16h00 – 19h00

Road Trips in Palestine

  • The Taybeh Beer Festival in early October was a great day trip to a small Christian village near Ramallah.

The World Social Forum: Organizing in Palestine

The World Education Forum follows the model of the World Social Forum to provide the conditions necessary for a movement of movements. Within Palestine, the thematic topic of education is important in many ways, however the forum itself addresses all issues within the context of its occupation.

Water in the West Bank of Palestine

Sometimes there is no water on Tuesday. In Ramallah, like the rest of the West Bank occupied territory of Palestine, Israel gives us only one day of water per week on Wednesdays. During this one day, excess is stored in black tanks on the roofs of businesses and homes to conserve it for use throughout the rest of the week. Mostly, we're fine. But sometimes we don't have water to flush the toilet, shower, or clean. Like in every place, I am drinking the tap water in Palestine. I'm not in danger of getting sick, but the plastic black tanks give the water a strange taste.

Projects Section Released

I've just released a feature on my website that helps track individual projects by location. I implemented the OpenLayers module in Drupal to display a view of a defined content type that tracks location. The page is here: http://malloryknodel.net/projects

US ACTIVISTS HELP ORGANIZE GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

(26 April, 2010) Cochabamba, Bolivia - Movement activists in the United States continue to build alternatives to crisis through global collaborations such as at last week's Climate Change conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Alfredo Lopez of May First/People Link writes, "The converging crises in the major capitalist economies, the precarious state of the world environment, the political crisis in government in so many of the world's countries and the usurpation of government authority by international banks and committees have brought humanity to a point of urgency and the Internet, a commun

Dinner with El Presidente

CMPCC SUCCESS! DINNER WITH PRESIDENT EVO MORALES The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is a hero not only to his Indigenous brothers and sisters around the world, but to the progressive movement. Long before he was elected in 2005, he was a community activist, advocating for the rights of all citizens of Bolivia. He has many, well-known contributions to the movement, including organizing the NGO, Via Campesina, known as one of the most powerful peasant movements in the world. Morales himself came from the peasant class in Bolivia.

First Voices Indigenous Radio at the Conference on Climate Change

First Voices Indigenous Radio brings to the airwaves the experiences, perspectives and struggles of Indigenous people who have been almost totally excluded from both mainstream and progressive, alternative media. Our purpose is to help ensure the continuance and survival of Indigenous cultures and Nations by letting the People tell their own story, in their own words, and often in their own languages and ways of speaking. And with as little outside interference and interruption as possible.
April 22, 2010

Cochabamba, Bolivia in Pictures

More pictures can be found on my main website: http://malloryknodel.net/image/tid/6

Construyendo el Vivir Bien!

Live Well, not better. The opening keynote panel of the Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre Cambio Climatico y Derechos de la Madre Tierre (CMPCC) began with Raul Prada, Luis Arce Catacora, Carlos Villegas Quiroga, Marvin Molina casanova, and Alfonso Hinojosa all representatives of the Bolivian government in positions of policy, military, and public relations. The full program can be downloaded here, english: Program CMPCC English Spanish only: Interview with Mallory Knodel

Community Bridge Radio in Manhattan, Kansas with Christopher Renner

An Interview with Mallory Knodel on the US Social Forum 2010.

(partial) Transcript

Next we change gears somewhat and discuss the US Social Forum. The US Social Forum is a movement building process. IT is not a conference but is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis.

Can this Movement get more fans than Facebook?

As the final months approach in planning for the second United States Social Forum, deep debate broke out among its organizers. The topic of the debate addresses the political paradox of corporate social networking and its role in progressive organizing: Whether or not to link corporate, social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook on the USSF website's homepage. Organizing for the second US Social Forum is increasing in intensity as the forum, to be held at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in Detroit, June 22 - 26, 2010, approaches.

The Road to Detroit is the West Side Highway

Thursday, March 4, 2010 7:00pm - 9:30pm The Brecht Forum 451 West Street (Between Bank and Bethune) New York, NY Join Left Turn magazine, US Social Forum organizers from Detroit and Philadelphia, and New York City community-based organizations for information sharing and dialogue about the second USSF taking place in Detroit on June 22-26th, 2010. New York-based community organizers will share their experiences and learnings from USSF 2007 and what their organizations and movements are planning for 2010 in Detroit.

USSF + NYC =

Local activists and organizers are invited to participate in a five-part series to sustainably build towards the second United States Social Forum. In June 2010, national and international organizations will be gathering in Detroit, Michigan to network and campaign in the spirit of "Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary!" Grassroots groups are challenged to organize and strategize in their communities in the months leading up to Detroit in order to build lasting alliances in the larger struggle against globalization.

UPDATE: US Social Forum Launches Registration

USSF 2010 - Detroit - June 22 - 26
US Social Forum 2010 - Another World is Possible

US Social Forum Regi

Porto Alegre 2010: World Social Forum

World Social Forum 2010 starts with great event in the Greater Porto Alegre - Brazil

USSF Writer's Network

The USSF Writers Network is part of the Communications Working Group for the US Social Forum. We will work to help raise public awareness about the USSF and the issues it addresses among the many diverse groups that make up our country.

US Social Forum Needs Your Feedback!

Participate in Shaping the US Social Forum Workshop Tracks

consulta-screenshot The US Social Forum, MF/PL member, is preparing for June 2010 in Detroit by asking for feedback on its programming themes.

LA IMC 10th Anniversary

Los Angeles (November 14, 2009) - LA-IMC activists discuss technology issues unique to IMC organizing after one decade of success. Activists representing many progressive organizations and Independent Media Centers across the nation met to discuss and share experiences organizing around issues of technology.

A Social Forum Reader

Detroit

Babson, Steve with Ron Alpern, Dave Elsila, & John Revitte. 1986. Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town. Wayne State University. Boggs, Grace Lee. 1998. Living for Change: An Autobiography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Boggs, James. 1963. The American Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press. Davis, Mike. 1986. Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class. New York: The New Press. (online) Davis, Mike. 2003.

World Social Forum 2010: Coming to a City Near You

The second day of International Council meetings for the World Social Forum showed the breadth with which the social forum process has become a movement. Organizers from all over the world are meeting in Montreal, Quebec this week to discuss upcoming WSF events in 2010 and 2011. Twenty-four thematic and regional forums are scheduled for 2010.
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