(snip)
National Coordinating Committee for the US Social Forum; social justice leaders from across the US who work on issues including environmental justice, poverty, racial justice, immigration, and workers’ rights.
blah blah blah
The World Social Forum (WSF) model is spreading around the world and a wide range of grassroots organizations and networks have announced the location of the first U.S. Social Forum (USSF)
(snip)
blah, blah.....“For us immigrants, the growth of our new communities here have been met not only with repressive policies, racist backlash, abuse and exploitation in the workplace, and scapegoating for socio-economic problems suffered by working class communities, we now also have to face state policies that ask to further extract from our already burdened communities. For instance, Georgia SB 529 seeks to suck up immigrant’s hard-earned income by taxing our remittance wire transfers to our families back home. We are displaced by US economic policies, harassed and kept in a state of constant fear to ensure a cheap and disposable labor supply for US corporations. Immigrant communities in GA and around the country challenge all these, and we say “No Taxation Without Representation.” -Colin Rajah (National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Chair Program Working Group)
blah blah...“The political moment in the United States brings four important intersections: the war in Iraq, Indigenous Artic drilling, Katrina survivors and US-Mexico border & immigration issues. In fact, all four issues are under the Department of Defense and Homeland Security.” - Ruben Solis (Southwest Workers Union, Southwest Regional Representative)
Copyright 2000-2005 The Praxis Project. All rights reserved. web credits
Local Initiative Funding Partners – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Funded By: The Foundation Center
Deadline: June 30, 2005
Summary: Local Initiative Funding Partners, a partnership program between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and local grant makers, supports innovative, community-based projects designed to improve the health and healthcare for society's most vulnerable people.
To be eligible for this program, projects must offer collaborative, community-based services that are new and innovative. Significant program expansions — such as a major expansion into new regions or to new populations — may also be considered. LIFP matching grants may not be used for the operation of existing programs.
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School