Home > The Boston Social Forum, an announcement:
Welcome to the Boston Social Forum
On July 23-25, 2004 at the University of Massachusetts
at Boston-just before the Democratic National
Convention-a coalition of Boston area, progressive
community organizations, non-profits, and unions will be
hosting what promises to be an exciting event-the Boston
Social Forum (BSF).
A regional forum within the World Social Forum process,
the BSF has been called to help progressive activists to
begin to answer some very basic questions: What kind of
future do we want for Boston? For our region? For our
nation? For the world? What is our vision of a better
society?
Through a series of workshops, cultural events, plenary
sessions, and giant convocations of the entire forum, we
are encouraging progressive organizations of all kinds
to showcase their best analysis of the present, and
their best ideas for the future, across the breadth of
human knowledge-politics, economics, science and
technology, culture and faith-in the context of
corporate globalization.
The goals of the event are simple: encourage various
social movements to exchange information, network with
one another, form new alliances, and push our movements
forward a bit more towards the next stage of our
development.
We’d like to do our part to help progressives seize the
high ground of ideas in this society, and then, having
captured people’s imaginations, move forward to become a
more significant political force.
We invite all progressive activists, interested
community members, and delegates to the Democratic
National Convention, to come to the BSF and become part
of the global process to build a better, more human-
centered society.