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This article can be found on the web at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060605/sherman

Target Ford

by SCOTT SHERMAN

[from the June 5, 2006 issue of The Nation]

On October 16, 2003, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a New York-based wire service that serves Jewish newspapers worldwide, launched a scorching four-part series on the Ford Foundation. Written by investigative reporter Edwin Black, the series, "Funding Hate," alleged that Ford had provided financial support to several Palestinian nongovernmental organizations accused of anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic behavior at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in late summer 2001. A Ford spokesman denied the thrust of Black's allegations: "We have seen no indication that our grantees in Durban or elsewhere engaged in anti-Semitic speech or activities."( Collapse )

Here's a compilation of articles about the United States Social Forum that I've been able to find so far. Hopefully more will come, because there was so much to refelct on, and I hope the discussion, the dialogue, keeps moving. We've got our work cut out for us, but I have more hope for the future than I did a month ago. By that I mean, the movment Heads Up seeks to help to build, that is, a multi racial revolutionary movment led by people of color and working class people, with strong leadership from other traditionally oppressed communities, such as queers and women...in Atlanta I saw that that movement is not only possible but that it *exists*. Which is thrillling.

--Rahula, for Heads Up


USSF articles


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070716/berger

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Photos of the opening march

http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/05/18433450.php



http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/sherman040707.html

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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38397

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http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38388

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http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38374

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No link for this one yet…

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And, here’s a couple blog entries I’ve found about the USSF:

http://www.mwsocialforum.org/node/1248

http://thirdwavefoundation.blogspot.com/

---please post links to other blogs or articles about the ussf so I can update this compilation!

edited to add:

this indybay page has links to several different articles, blogas, and radio shows:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/29/18431645.php

and here's a new article, which I ahven't read yet...hope it's good!
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/the-us-social-forum-creating-an-alternative-world/

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and, well, of course at the ussf website there's some stuff...here's a link to photos from the forum
http://movementphotos.org/main.php

and Max from the editorial collective of Left Turn recently posted this account:
http://ideasforaction.blogspot.com/

Max's account is long, but really good reading, I recomend it. (I couldn't post it here because this post is too long!!)

A report on a GI Resistance meeting at the USSF
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/327/1/

and here's a blog post from the Student/Farmworker Alliance
http://www.sfalliance.org/2007ussf.html

Around Globe, Walls Spring Up to Divide Neighbors
by Bernd Debusmann

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For Palestinians, memory matters, It provides a blueprint for their future
by George Bisharat
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Unity and Struggle Episode 2, and April/May Newsletter for the People's Hurricane Relief Fund
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Iraq War Is Lost, but the Killing Goes On
by Max Elbaum

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Why Israel is After Me
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(Parts of this article originally appeared in the March/April issue of
Colorlines Magazine, on newsstands now. Check out Colorlines online
at www.colorlines.org, and www.racewire.org)

New Orleans Community Spaces in Crisis
By Jordan Flaherty
March 7, 2007

Community centers have long been central to New Orleans organizing,
serving as a gathering location for people, culture and ideas. One
activist recently explained, "organizing here looks like neighborhood
get-togethers, potlucks, block parties, and conversations on a
neighbor's porch. Its about culture and community." But 18 months
after Katrina, many of New Orleans' community spaces, vital resources
in the reconstruction of the city, remain shuttered. Traditional
sources for support, such as foundations or charities, often miss this
aspect of New Orleans' community, and many of these spaces have
received little outside assistance.

In a city where many people are still in crisis, most federal support
still has not arrived, insurance companies have evaded responsibility,
and every repair seems to take longer than expected, a lot of these
spaces need help. Few of have received anything close to the funding,
resources, or staff they need for their work, and some are working
unsustainable hours while living in a still-devastated city. Because
New Orleans' education and health care systems have been dismantled,
many have either personal or family issues around health or school
that they must deal with.

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