[Shadow_Group] nwsf will not be held in oct 2004]

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so the forum on community building is not happening, so what next? maybe
it's time for action instead of talk. those isolated in their western
culture need to step outside and find a way to cross boundaries. we need
to think about how well we communicate and learn how to support each other
in love.
and not that hippie love fest shit, the sincere love that is built on
understanding. some things get so boring when they are repeated over and
over. how about waking up to the obvious? how do we live together? how do
we talk to each other? how do we listen to each other?
i am not surprised that the forum isn't happening. i was only marginally
interested in it. and i think it sounds like a good thing that it isn't
happening, because it's not the starting point. fuck bruised egos! there's
serious work to be done!

jamie


> This is a huge deal to call off such an ambitious event 9 days before it
was going to happen. It would be cool to hear anarchist perspectives on
what it would take here in Seattle to come together as people from
diverse communities given long histories of racism, capitalism and
hatred of w/c people and people in poverty, patriarchy and so on.
>
> For my part, I think events like the big Social Forums are very
important and can be really useful to meet people, get inspired, share
ideas, recongize that our struggles are local and regional and global.
But I also think that smaller-scale efforts at talking and community
building across differences (I'm talking about across differences, but
within political or at least basic values similarities) is really
crucial too and that's where I am interested in putting my energy these
days.
>
> What do you all think? How do we deal with these legacies of exclusion
and domination and hate that continue to affect our organizing efforts
locally and regionally and internationally? I'm esp. interested to hear
about what folks are doing and what folks think we should be doing
locally.
>
> tamara
>
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 tashidelek at igc.org<mailto:tashidelek at igc.org> wrote:
>
>> Northwest Social Forum will not be held October 15-17, 2004.
>> The International Forum on Globalization pre-event, scheduled for
October 14
>> will not be held.
>> Statement of the Planning Committee of the Northwest Social Forum
October 6, 2004
>> With deep sadness, the Northwest Social Forum Planning Committee has
come to
>> the painful decision not to hold the Northwest Social Forum as it had been
>> planned from the 15th to the 17th of October. The Indigenous
Programming Committee withdrawal of September 23, followed by The Youth
Planning Committee's withdrawal of September 28, has been of great
concern to the NWSF
>> Planning Committee and to the many communities that have been
>> participating
>> at different times and in different capacities.
>> While our goal has been to use the Forum as a space and a process to bring
>> the networks and communities together, at this point we feel that the
process
>> is not serving that purpose. Our decision indicates our desire not to
increase the division or confusion and to return to our focus of
building
>> relationships and social movements that foster understanding and
cooperation
>> within our diversity.
>> The NWSF Planning Committee deeply apologizes for all the inconvenience
this
>> decision will cause. Before making this decision, we would have
preferred to
>> consult far more extensively with all the communities that have worked so
>> hard to put on the NWSF about their views about what is to be done.
However,
>> given that there are only nine days before the event was scheduled to
begin,
>> such extensive consultations did not seem feasible.
>> We the Planning Committee reaffirm our commitment to the principles set
out
>> by the participant organizations in the initial NWSF planning retreat
back in
>> April 04 and attach those principles. Once more we take responsibility for
>> misunderstandings, misstatements, transgressions, and inadequate
responsiveness to concerns raised by the Indigenous and Youth
>> Committees.
>> As we move forward with this decision, we the Planning Committee, reaffirm
>> our most sincere intent and commitment to dialogue and healing based on
learning, respect and mutuality. We especially encourage all those
communities that have been historically marginalized and exploited to
participate in this process.
>> We believe the NWSF should be seen as an event in the path we walk to
build
>> strong networks and movements in the Northwest region and beyond. We
remain
>> hopeful for our working together in the spirit and principles of the
Northwest Social Forum because "Another world is possible" and we all
together can build it.
>> Sincerely
>> NWSF Planning Committee
>> Lynne Dodson, Washington State Jobs with Justice
>> Cindy Domingo, Center for Social Justice
>> Rosalinda Guillen, Food Justice Alliance
>> Fran Korten, Positive Futures Network
>> Lucilene Lira, Friends of the Landless Workers
>> Marco Mejia, American Friends Service Committee, Portland
>> Dan Merkle, Center for Social Justice
>> Michael Ramos
>>
>




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