{"article":{"id":170544,"heading":"Los Angeles Social Forum Planning Retreat","author":"Scott Byrd","created":"2006-07-26 15:13:13","modified":"2006-07-26 15:13:13","last_modified":"Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:13:13","article":"<p>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. <br><br> LA\/So Cal Social Forum planning retreat <br><br> Saturday, July 29, 2006, 10-4pm <br><br> MALDEF Building\/American Friends Service Committee <br>  <br> 1st Floor Conference Room <br>  <br> 634 S Spring St <br>  <br> Los Angeles, CA  90014 <\/p>\n","contact":"sbyrd@riseup.net","link":"www.lasocialforum.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Please join us Saturday, July 29 from 10-4 pm downtown LA for a LA Social Forum planning\r\nretreat. Local activists are planning a Social Forum in Los Angeles in the spring of 2007. This will be a city and regional affiliate of the World Social Forums. ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/07\/170544.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}