[Shadow_Group] Fw: [nwanarchy] nw social forum emergency community meeting

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Hi folks,

If you're interested in or concerned about what's going on with the 
Indigenous Planning Committee's withdrawal from the NW Social Forum and 
want to hear more and to talk about it with others, there's a community 
meeting happening this Thursday from 6-8 pm. Space is a concern, so you 
should rsvp to Yalonda at CCEJ by email, her request about how to do that 
is in the message below (but several email addressses are in the message, 
so I"m not sure which is best to use).

tamara

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From: CCEJ [mailto: ccej at earthlink.net<mailto:ccej at earthlink.net>]

Hello Everyone:

I spoke with Faiza and Rice and they have now decided that they can't attend
the meeting as they are busy coordinating a Youth Summitt.  Faiza expressed
that they would just like closure right now.  Therefore, anyone involved or
interested should attend.  Still waiting to hear from folks on this.  I'm
trying to make sure things are in the open so sorry about all the back and
forth emails.  This is an open forum for people involved with and concerned
about NWSF. I am not empowered to make decisions for the group. All feedback
is welcome.

Micheal Dickson, Aaron Dickson's brother said he would be willing to
facilitate/guide the process of the meeting.  A few folks said it would make
sense to have two facilitators. He is not offering your standard run of the
mill facilitation but a more meaningful experience.  He has some good
insight as to what should happen and proposed the agenda look like this:

1. What motivated the Youth and Indigenous Committees to walk out?

2. What are the NWSF planning groups plans at this point?

3. What are the concerns of those outside the NWSF planning process?

4. What reccommendations does the community have for the planning community
and the future of the NWSF?

ANY feed back you all have, please feel free to post it.  In Peace and
Solidarity,---Yalonda Sinde

Follow-Up Regading  Emergency Community Meeting, regarding the NW Social
Forum issue  Time and Date Confirmed:  October 7th, East Cherry YWCA is at
2820 East Cherry St. (in basement)  6:00-8:00PM.

RSVP's as of today:  Yalonda Sinde, Isela Gutierrez, Dan Merkle, Cindy
Domingo, Lucilene Lira,Gillian Burlingham, Sarah Luthens, Victoria Red
Starr, Bill Aal, Sheri Hernden, Ed Mast, Charles Jones, Jon Rarner, Bev
Sims, Micheal Woo, Frank Reynolds

The basement conference room of the YWCA holds a max of 50 people.  If you
would like to attend this meeting, please reply to this email and type RSVP,
your name and contact phone number so I can be sure to have enough
chairs/food.

The larger activist communtiy needs to decide how we are going to support 
those who have been marginalized by the NWSF process.  I am just 
volunteering to make this happen and am working hard to ensure that noone 
is left out who wants to be a part of this meeting.

I'm still looking for one more facilitator/guide for the meeting. Please
feel free to send names.

Your help in finding someone fast would be much appreciated--Yalonda Sinde,
206-932-0769 home phone.


In Peace and Solidarity,
Yalonda Sinde

Community Coalition for Environmental Justice
(Where we organize communities and win!)
2820 East Chery St.
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 720-0285
Fax (206) 720-5241
email: justice at ccej.org<mailto:justice at ccej.org>
web: www.ccej.org<http://www.ccej.org/>
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