Kentucky Jobs with Justice is Taking 100 Activists to the USSF in Detroit!

100 Activists from Kentucky to attend national gathering in Detroit, Michigan June 22 to 26

Kentucky Jobs with Justice will be joining more than 10 other social justice organizations on two charter buses to Detroit to take part in the US Social Forum.  Here is a snippet from the USSF Web site:

The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF   is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sector, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history.

The USSF provides spaces to learn from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.

The first US Social Forum was held in Atlanta in 2007 with KY JwJ taking over 40 delegates.  KY JwJ hosted the first Kentucky Social Forum in 2009 at Berea College, which drew over 400 participants.  These Forums were and are inspired by the World Social Forum,

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Berea & the KY Social Forum Help Shape Kentucky’s Future

Re-posted from Berea College.  By Monica Leslie.

Berea College and the Kentucky Social Forum (KSF) are making strides toward “growing the movement” that may help shape Kentucky’s future.

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The Kentucky Social Forum, held at Berea College the weekend of July 31 to August 2, is the first statewide social forum to be held in the United States. The purpose of the forum was to build strong relationships among those who work to serve the diverse needs of Kentuckians within the state. The forum, organized by Attica Scott, the Coordinator of Kentucky Jobs with Justice in Louisville, marked the first time in United States history a initiative of this nature has been made to collaboratively create a statewide agenda that will urge human rights to become a priority in future national and State legislation. The forum addressed a variety of issues that affect the Commonwealth, including health care costs and energy.

Because Kentucky is one of the poorest states in the nation, the organizers of the event felt that it was necessary to organize the KSF to create an opportunity for organizers around the state to

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