2007 US Social Forum
The first US Social Forum took place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on June 27 - July 1, 2007. Planning for the forum began in 2005. In June 2006, the Southeast Social Forum took place in Durham, North Carolina. One of the main priorities of the Southeast Social Forum was to plan for and build momentum for the US Social Forum.
On June 27 an opening march from the Georgia Capitol building to the Atlanta Civic Center took place. Organizers estimated the crowd to be at 15,000. Organizers had hoped that 10,000 people would attend.
The goal of the first US Social Forum was to assist a movement that will end harmful US practices against all people by coordinating local US activists into a nation-wide movement.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance was formed as a result of the event, a group working toward a Domestic Workers' Bills of Rights in various states.
Activist librarians from the Progressive Librarians Guild and Radical Reference collected materials that were sent to the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.
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“It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man’s work but came by wide social labor, when a thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)