Another World Is Possible: Join NOW at the 2007 U.S. Social Forum

Participants in the first U.S. Social Forum are heading to Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27 as the women's rights, peace, racial and economic justice movements come together to create an agenda of action for a better world. Part of an international process, started in Brazil in 2001, the U.S. Social Forum will provide opportunities for NOW activists to meet and work with activists in other social change organizations.

Panelists at the U.S. Social Forum will address six core areas:

1) Women's Rights and Queer Liberation
2) Gulf Coast Reconstruction
3) War and Militarism
4) Immigrant Rights
5) Energy Exploitation and Indigenous Sovereignty
6) Workers Rights

Issues that align with NOW's priority issues will be discussed through the more than 900 workshops, film festival, and the World Court of Women.

NOW Vice Presidents Latifa Lyles and Melody Drnach will be leading a panel, Building a 2008 Agenda for Gender and Economic Justice, and Field Director Jan Strout and Field Organizer Monely Soltani will be panelists on workshops including Feminism: Gender, Race and Class; Women Make Media, Not War; and Advancing U.S. Women's Rights Through Global Feminism.

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