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From: MaryZerkel
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:54 AM
To: ChicagoSocialForum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ChicagoSocialForum] notes from 7/23

Notes from Chicago Social Forum Meeting 7/23

We discussed the charter principles of the World Social Forum (as summarized by Hari) and decided that we agreed with them. We then moved on to a discussion of how to proceed as a group and when to hold various events.

• We decided to hold the Chicago Social Forum event on January 31st and Feb. 1st of 2004. We will look into having a pre-event that would be a satellite link with the WSF in India.
• We talked about having meetings leading up to this event that will bring people together around certain subjects for dialogue. These meetings might be hosted by various groups at different locations around the city to help make contact with different communities. In these meetings we will follow a basic format of one hour of dialogue around a theme or question followed by a business meeting to organize the CSF -- people who come to the first part of the meeting are welcomed to stay and participate or they can leave if they want.
• Jerry and Mary are going to work on a brochure that describes the CSF and includes some of the WSF charter principles, that can be used for outreach.

September Event - Sept. 9th at RainbowPUSH? - Dialogue on the Local/Global? Connection (How do global forces affect your local community? How does your work connect to the work of other local communities around the world?) - /MeetingNotes09Sep03

Tasks:
Facilitation: Maristela, Kelsa and Mary will work on framing the dialogue and facilitating it
Convenor: Regina will look into a space at DePaul, if that doesn't work out Jerry will look into a union space
Outreach:
Jerry - Greens, Teamsters, Steelworkers
Marc - Greens, Rainbow/PUSH, Zonta Int'l, World Federalists, Black Voices for Peace
Mary - artists, Access Living, Queer to the Left
Lee- Labor, students
John - housing advocates
Hari - Open University of the Left
Ted - Not in Our Name
Regina - CSAs
Maristela - DePaul students

Next Meeting: August 6th, 1751 W. Devon at the Chicago Humanists 6:30 p.m. /MeetingNotes06Aug03

This meeting will be hosted by Ted at the Chicago Humanists space, where those who have already been involved in the Chicago Social Forum process will come together. In this meeting we will take at look at Open Space Technology and report back on our outreach calls, and hopefully take a look at a draft brochure.

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