The World Social Forum and its local and regional offspring are open meeting spaces where progressive social movements, networks, non-profits and other civil society organizations get together to pursue their thinking, debate ideas, formulate strategies and proposals, share experiences, and network for effective action. The forums bring together people who want to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and participatory world. They are characterized by plurality and diversity; they are nongovernmental and nonpartisan. A social forum is what you make it - a meeting place, a debating forum, an exchange of ideas and solutions, a theater stage, a celebration, a festival, a bazaar - it can be any or all of these.

LA/So Cal Social Forum planning retreat

Saturday, July 29, 2006, 10-4pm

MALDEF Building/American Friends Service Committee

1st Floor Conference Room

634 S Spring St

Los Angeles, CA 90014