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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