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RIFY & STRENGTHEN POLITICAL POSITIONSTRATEGIES
STRENGTHEN LOCAL, REGIONAL, & CROSS-REGIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Solidarity Economy PMA March 2010Migrant Justice - LGBTTS PMA Tucson, June 2010Defining Transformation for Social Change USSF IIEcho Justice: Building Movement through Building Meaning USSF IIEcological Justice PMA USSF IIEmerging Strategies to [Re]Claim the Commons USSF IIExcluded Workers Congress USSF IIForming a National Alliance on Racial Justice & Human RightsUSSF II
unders Assembly USSF IIHealth, Healing Justice, & Liberation PMA USSF IInter-Alliance Dialogue Convention USSF IIRebuilding the Anti-War / Peace Movement to End Wars& Occupation USSF IIStimulating Grassroots Activism on a Massive Scale USSF IISupporting Sex Workers Safety & Rights USSF IIUS Techie Congress USSF IIWorld Court on Poverty in the US: Disappeared in AmericaUSSF II
Youth Movement to Create a National Student Bill of Rightsor Education Justice USSF IILaw as a Weapon of War PMA Atlanta, May 2011
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45. Urban Congress USSF II
46. Working for Peace & JustiMichigan USSF II
47. SE Youth PMA SHROC BirminghDecember 2010
48. Pick up Your Peace II YouthNew Orleans, March 2011
49. Healthy LIfestyles Youth PAtlanta, April 2011
50. East Bay PMA June 201151. Atlanta Youth Education Ju
Atlanta, July 2011
52 Youth PMA San Antonio, Augus
MOBILIZE FOR NATIONALACTIONS & CONVERGENC(USSF, WSF, demonstrations,
82. Poor Peoples Movement As& Caravan Global Day of AcAtlanta, January 2009
83. National Planning CommitteAlbuquerque, January 2010
84. El Paso Border PMA February85. Houston PMA February 201086. Detroit 313 PMA March 2010
87. Mission PMA San Francisco, Ma88. Detroit PMA II May 201089. Phoenix National Day of Ac
SB 1070 PMA May 29 201090. South Sound PMA May 201091. Border / San Antonio PMA J92. Twin Cities PMA June 201093. Albuquerque NM PMA June 294. Atenco Prisoners / Otra Ca
Zapatista PMA USSF II95. Building a Movement to Co
Increased US Militarization96. Juvenile Justice PMA USSF II
97.Prioritizing Africa & AfricanAgenda Detroit to Dakar US
71. Gulf Coast Climate Justice PMAsNew Orleans & Biloxi, April & May 2010
72. PMA for Comprehensive ImmigrationReform Columbus OH, May 2010
73. Building Solidarity with Grassroots inHaiti USSF II
74. How to Claim the Right to Housing PMAUSSF II
75. Imagining & Building a Peoples BasedSolidarity Economy USSF II
76. Preparing the Youth in TodaysAgriculture: Without Us, Who Eats? USSF II
77. Detroit Rightsizing PMA November 201078. Assembly to End Poverty Chicago,
December 2010
79. Texas-wide Migrant Justice PMASan Antonio December 2010
80. Alternative to Detroit Works Project PMAApril 2011
81. Regional Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
PMAs Chicago, Montreal, West Coast 2011
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t we are aware of, held over the last three years. More than 50 assemblies happened at the USSF IIin Detroit, June 22-26 2010
rder Movement Assembly @ Border Social Forumdad Juarez, October 2006
Regional PMA of Trans-Identified Folks Spring 2010
hicago Student Congressional Summit PMA April 2010ncoln HS PMA June 2010dvancing a Gender Justice Vision & Action Plan USFF IIssembly of Anti-Zionist Jews USSF IIuilding Unity & Organization in the Black LiberationMovement USSF IIallin All Street Youth PMA USSF IIetroit Utilities PMA USSF IIducation for Emancipation & Transformation PMA USSF IInd to Corporate Rule, Legalize Democracy, Move tomend the Constitution USSF II
mmigrant Rights from Below Movement Assembly USSF IIndigenous PMA USSF IIternational Solidarity & Responsibility on ALBA PMA USSF II
ustice in Palestine PMA USSF IIlant Occupations & Organizing Strategies USSF IIoverty Summit USSF IIrganizing to Dismantle School to Prison Pipeline PMA USSF IIueer / Trans PMA USSF II
Rebuilding Solidarity with Puerto Ricos Anti-Colonial Struggle USSF IIupport of Democratic Trade Unionism in Mexico PMA USSF IIake Back the Land Movement: PMA to Free this Land & Life USSF IIar Sands PMA USSF IIhe Faith Community: From Internal Reflection to External Action USSF IIhe Way Forward: Strategy, Tactics, & Seeding BDS in the US USSF II
What the Health Happened? How do we get the healthcare we need? USSF IIMA to Confront Prisons USSF IIPalestinian Movement Assembly @ 2nd Popular Palestinian Congress Chicago, October 2010ormerly Incarcerated People PMA Montgomery, March 2011atin@ PMA Portland, July 2011
DESIGN PEOPLES PLANS OF ACTIONELOP CROSS-MOVEMENT PLATFORMS & FRAMEWORKS
31. National PMA @ USSF I Atlanta, June 200732. Border Movement Assembly South by SW
San Antonio, 2008
33. Juneteenth Membership Gathering PMA June 2009
34. Kentucky Social Forum & PMA July 200935. Pick up Your Peace Youth PMA New Orleans, March 201036. Selma, Alabama PMA March 201037. LGBTQ of Color PMA NYC May 201038. Greater DC PMA May 201039. Portland PMA May 201040. Local Organizing Collective 2 PMAs
Knoxville, May & June 2010
41. Asian Pacific Islanders in Detroit PMA USSF II42. Food Sovereignty PMA USSF II
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work to identify points of unity, plan shared actions, and emphasize strategic areas of
collaboration and resistance to racist and political repression.
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The United States is a prison empire,
founded on the legacy of slavery,
which uses racist mass incarceration,
widespread criminalization, torture,
and the targeting of political dissidents
to try to solve its fundamental
economic and social problems. It locks
up more people than any other
country on the planet.
The prison system is a central node
n an apparatus of state repression; it
destroys our communities and
weakens our resistance and
movements for justice.
Repression is a tool used to maintain
state power, and the prison
population represents the most
oppressed sectors of society: people of
color, the poor, First Nationscommunities, immigrant communities,
working class women, queer and
transgender people, and radical
organizers from many communities.
for Juvenile Justice in the week of December 6,
2010, against the prison industrial complex on International Human Rights Day on December 10, 2010,
and in solidarity with other movements and days of action against criminalization and connement.
to hold a national
strategy session, led by and for formerly incarcerated people, within two years.
ncluding by supporting the full repeal of the federal Adoption & Safe Families Act.
so that our language reects our objectives for full human
and civil rights for all people.
ncarceration and sustainable alternatives for communities that currently depend on prisons for their
sustenance.
and their internal culture to determine if there are any barriers to full employment or inclusion of
people with convictions.
that allow us to share victories,
strategies, lessons, and stories and ask allied movements to support this process.
for the full civil and human rights of currently and formerly incarcer
people.
the stigmas that inhibit currently and formerly incarcerated peop
and their loved ones from speaking out.
the leadership and leadership development of currently and forme
incarcerated people. for the immediate release of all political prisoners and prisoners o
the immediate end to the death penalty, life without parole, solit
connement, mandatory minimums, the incarceration of youth in adult facilities
behavior modication/communication management units, all forms of torture, t
war on drugs, and the criminalization of youth, immigrants, and gender
nonconforming people.
physical, mental, and emotional health and healing inside and out
of prisons.
all new jails, prisons, juvenile, or immigrant detention facilities and
supporting methods to immediately reduce the current prison population,
including sentencing and parole reform and eliminating prisons for pro
t. the institutions that prop up the prison, including the police, mili
ICE, governmental legislatures, and other forms of colonial rule.
community-based models of restorative and transformative justice in
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he role of the assembly is usually discussed in the opening of the assembly and can be revisited in the smroups. Prepare for this by researching the struggles that are relevant to the region and issues that will beiscussed at the assembly. Talk with local, regional, and national movement leaders for information and i
political positions and strategies. Create opportunitie
plans of action that lead to systemic social change.
1. How do local issues in my community connect
larger patterns across the country?
Montgomery to rates across other cities in the US.
2. How does this issues connect to other issues
experienced in my community?
accountability,
immigrant justice, and community-based economies.
3. How does the plan of action lead to long-termsolutions?
lead to a broader campaign to elevate youth to decision
Convergence plays a very important role in social
movements . At moments of convergence, groups have the
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There are different ways of being involved in the
Peoples Movement Assembly organizing process:
Be involved in the Peoples Move-
ment Assembly Working Group
Act as an anchor organization of
an Assembly
Organize an Assembly
Participate in an Assembly
WAYS TO BE INVOLVED
tephanie Guilloudoject South, Atlanta GA / [email protected] / 404.622.0602
uben Solisuthwest Workers Union, San Antonio TX / [email protected] / 210.299.2666
FOR MORE INFORMATION
he Peoples Movement Assembly Working Group is a collaborative team of
ovement leaders from across the US who are facilitating the development of th
sembly process. The working group provides documentation and support to
nchor organizations interested in holding Peoples Movement Assemblies.