Gulf Coast Organizations: Self-Organized Events at the U.S. Social Forum
GULF COAST ORGANIZATIONS:
SELF-ORGANIZED EVENTS
AT THE U.S. SOCIAL FORUM
June 28 - July 1, 2007
Thursday June 28, 2007
Morning Workshops:
** Ashe Cultural Center & Crossroads:
‘Art for Life: A New Orleans Healing Music Ritual’
** People’s Hurricane Relief Fund:
‘They Left Us Here to Die:’ Hurricane Katrina & Ethnic Cleansing
in New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf Coast
Afternoon Workshops:
** People’s Hurricane Relief Fund:
‘We Are Our Own Liberators: Self-Determination in the Gulf Coast’
** Catalyst Project & People’s Hurricane Relief Fund:
‘You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Solidarity Organizing in the Movement to
Rebuild New Orleans’
** Environmental Justice Resource Center & Deep South Center for
Environmental Justice:
‘Toxic Wastes & Race at 20, 1987-2007: Grassroots Struggles to
Dismantle Environmental Racism’
** Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, Critical Resistance, People’s Hurricane Relief Fund, US Human Rights Network, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty:
‘Say What? A Dramatic Reading of US Government Lies to UN
Officials about Gulf Coast Reconstruction’
** Kids Rethinking New Orleans Schools:
‘Youth Changing Public Schools in New Orleans & Beyond’
** People’s Hurricane Relief Fund:
‘Stop the High Rent: Housing as a Human Right’
Gulf Coast Orgs/USSF p. 1
** People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond:
‘Undoing Racism/Community Organizing: An Anti-Racist Solution
for Building a Movement Toward Social Transformation & Equity’
Evening Plenary:
‘Gulf Coast Reconstruction in the Post-Katrina Era: Challenges,
Visions, and Strategies’
Friday, June 29, 2007
Morning Workshops:
** Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, Mossville Environmental Action Now, Gert Town Revival Initiative & Southwest Workers’ Union:
‘Stop Environmental Racism! A Protest Action at the U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency & Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry’
** Critical Resistance:
‘Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Reconstruction and Rebuilding of
a Police State’
Afternoon Workshops:
** Ashe Cultural Center:
‘Thirteen Lessons: A Theatrical Workshop on Adult Literacy’
** Latino Health Outreach Project, New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic, Common Ground Health Clinic, Santa Rosa Free Clinic, Berkeley Free Clinic, San Francisco Women’s Clinic:
‘Healthcare Justice: Moving from Critique to Action’
** Safe Streets, Strong Communities:
‘Building Bridges Among Gulf Coast Organizations’
** Advocates for Environmental Human rights, Gert Town Revival Initiative, Mossville Environmental Action Now:
‘Changing the Equation: US Environmental Protection= Environmental Racism’
** Latino Health Outreach Project:
‘Migration Along the Katrina Corridor: Immigrant Organizing and
Healthcare Across the Gulf South’
Gulf Coast Orgs/USSF p. 2
** New Orleans Palestine Solidarity & Middle East Children’s Alliance:
‘Forced Displacement and the Right to Return: Palestine, New
Orleans, and Urban America’
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Morning Workshops:
** Fourth World Movement:
‘Families in Extreme Poverty as Equal Partners in Poverty Eradication for Another Possible World’
** Left Turn:
‘Media as Movement Building’
** Moving Forward Gulf Coast, Empire State Coalition of Youth and
Family Services, NYC Association of Homeless, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Good Work, Enlace Communitario, CHAMP: Community
HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project, El Centro for Igualdad y Derechos:
‘Building Movement at the US Social Forum: Dialogue on
Organizing’
Afternoon Workshops:
** Left Turn & INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence:
‘The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit
Industrial Complex: Part I’
** The Ordinary People’s Society, Project South, and Fairness for Prisoners Families:
‘People’s Family Reunion: A Gathering of Formerly Incarcerated
People, Our Families & Friends’
** People’s Hurricane Relief Fund:
‘The Second Survivors’ Assembly’
** Left Turn & INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence:
‘The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit
Industrial Complex: Part II’
**Gulf Coast Resolution-Building Caucus Meeting
Sunday, July 1
** People’s Movement Assembly & Closing Ceremony
Gulf Coast Orgs/USSF p. 3