United States Social Forum

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The United States Social Forum is a gathering which took place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on June 27-July 1, 2007. Growing out of the World Social Forum process, the US Social Forum brought together activists, organizers, people of color, working people, poor people, and indigenous people from across the United States. The goal of the gathering was to build unity around common goals of social justice, to build ties between organizations present at the event, and to help build a broader social justice movement. Planning for the event was spearheaded by Project South, but dozens of other organizations from around the US were involved in the process.

Planning for the forum began in 2005. In June 2006, the Southeast Social Forum took place in Durham, North Carolina. One of the main priorities of the Southeast Social Forum was to plan for and build momentum for the US Social Forum.

On June 27 an opening march from the GA capitol building to the Atlanta Civic Center took place. Organizers estimated the crowd to be at 15,000.

Activist librarians from the Progressive Librarian Guild[1] and Radical Reference collected materials that were sent to the [ http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/labadie/ Labadie Collection] at the University of Michigan.