Chicago Social Forum -- another Chicago is possible

* This message contains updated information and a special pre-registration offer--see below *

Saturday, January 31
9 am to 6 pm
Jones High School
606 S. State
Chicago

Speakers include:

DR. CALVIN MORRIS, Community Renewal Society

NJOKI NJEHU and SOREN AMBROSE, 50 Years Is Enough/US Network for Global Economic Justice

DR.QUENTIN YOUNG, Physicians for a National Health Plan

JAMES THINDWA, Chicago Jobs with Justice

MARY ZERKEL, American Friends Services Committee

SASKIA SASSEN, University of Chicago

DAVE RANNEY, Hemispheric Social Alliance

AHMED SHAWKI, International Socialist Review

CARL DAVIDSON, Chicagoans Against War and Injustice

Another Chicago is possible--and you can help make it happen.

The Chicago Social Forum will bring together activists from different movements, organizations, campaigns and struggles for democratic
discussions, debates and building solidarity. A "movement of movements," we seek to create on ongoing center for activism that can educate,
organize and mobilize our diverse campaigns for social justice as well as involve individual people on a range of issues.

We take inspiration from the World Social Forum in Brazil, which attracted more than 10,000 people at its first meeting in 2001. Two years later,
some 100,000 attended, from across Latin America and around the world. The social forum movement has meanwhile become a genuine global movement, with tens of thousands attending the annual meetings of the European Social Forum in Italy and France. And tens of thousands more are expected at the next World Social Forum to be held in January 2004 in Mumbai (Bombay), India and an Americas Social Forum in Quito, Ecuador in July 2004.

Around the world, the movement stresses its common ground: a world free of militarism and war, for human and civil rights as well as economic and
social justice. Under the principle of self-organization, the forums provide the opportunity for workshops and meetings initiated by a wide range of groups.

The Chicago Social Forum is one of a number of regional and local social forums being organized around the world. In the U.S., organizing for
local social forums from New York City to the Pacific Northwest are underway as a step toward a proposed North American Social Forum in 2005.

Join us for the inaugural Chicago Social Forum and help us organize--because another Chicago is possible.

Saturday, January 31

9 am to 6 pm
Jones High School
606 S. State
Chicago

Registration: $10, $5 seniors/students. Free lunch for those who pre-register by e-mail.

For more information, to pre-register or endorse, call 312-427-2533,or email
info (at) chicagosocialforum.org

Check for updates and program at:
www.chicagosocialforum.org

Endorsers (List in formation)

ADAPT, American Friends Service Committee, Andersonville Neighbors for Peace, Beyond St. Leonard's, Campaign for Victims of Police Torture & Wrongful Convictions , Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Center for Economic Research and Social Change, Chiapas Peace House Project, Chicago
Africa Initiative, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, Chicago Independent Media Center, Chicago Media Action, CSA Learning Center,
Coalition to Protect Public Housing, Community of Uptown Residents for Affordability & Justice, The Coordination of Mexican Organizations in
the Midwest, Earth Charter Chicago, ECOVIDA, Eighth Day Center for Justice, EnlacesAmerica, Freestyle Collective, Genewise, Gingarte Capoeira,
Haymarket Books, Hyde Park Committee Against War and Racism, Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Illinois SOA Watch, Inside Out Art Studio, Insight Arts, The International Coalition of Mexicans Abroad, National Writers Union-Chicago, The New Chicago School, Open Book Peace Project, QUAD Productions, Queer to the Left, Rogers Park Community Action Network,
University of Hip Hop, University of Illinois-Chicago Campus Antiwar