[Peace] SOCIALIST FORUM MEETING SATURDAY

[Belden Fields]

Friends and Comrades,

The regular meeting of Socialist Forum will be this  Saturday,  
11/15,  from 3-5 in the Family Room of the Independent Media Center  
(enter on the Elm Street side).

We are asking all people who are interested  in helping to plan the  
event described below top come to this meeting--regardless of whether  
they are in Socialist Forum or are socialists.  We just need a group  
of progressive people who are interested in planning ahead for a  
local (could mean C/U, could mean county, could mean East Central  
Illinois) Social Forum.

In Solidarity,
Belden


		THE PEOPLE’S POTLUCK THANKSGIVING

                        SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 6-10 PM,
                 URBANA CIVIC CENTER,  108 WATER ST.


The idea behind the Peoples’s Potluck Thanksgiving, a food-sharing  
communal gathering to be thankful for all of the good, caring, and  
active people and organizations in our community, is to enjoy a meal  
together and to discuss the launching of a Central Illinois Social  
Forum.  This Forum, modeled on the international Social Forum, would  
be formed to harness the talents and resources of local organizations  
and individuals to improve the conditions of working people,  
unemployed people, poverty-stricken people, and those who are  
physically or mentally unable to care for themselves.

Given the sorry state of the economy and government economic policy  
over the past 8 years, which has been most concerned with the well- 
being of the very wealthy, and given the dismal state of Illinois’  
government and economy, organizations and individuals at the grass- 
roots are going to have to use their social consciences and talents  
to find local ways of supporting the most vulnerable people in our  
communities. Additionally, we will have to pressure government at all  
levels to support an economy “for and by the people,” rather than for  
and by the already extremely well-off. We cannot just rely on the new  
administration that will take over in Washington to turn things  
around.  There must be pressure from the bottom up.  We envision new  
local Social Forums as a stimulus for coordinated action and  
communication for a democratic, egalitarian political-economy.  
Movement and organizational activists are welcome to come and share  
their ideas and food with other socially conscious activists.
  
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