The biggest, most diverse, exciting grassroots progressive conference ever held in the United States is about to start tomorrow. and no, it's not the YearlyKos. It's the first ever US Social Forum, an outgrowth of the amazing World Social Forums previously held in Brazil, Venezuela and Kenya that focuses on building alternatives to the current globalization, neoliberal order.
https://www.ussf2007.org/
What disturbs me, as someone who has worked in this movement for years now, is how completely divided the progressive movement is, embodied in the fact that most so-called "progressive" netroots activists and Kossacks seem to have no clue that the US Social Forum is even going on, despite the 10,000 activists expected to show up tomorrow in Atlanta. It is always amusing to see the netroots claim to represent the progressive movement or the "Real grassroots" when it remains mostly an overwhelmingly white, secular, upper middle class phenomenon.
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