| | 1 | The questions to answer: |
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| | 3 | A) What impact did the USSF process have on your organization or sector, or on organization's you affiliate |
| | 4 | with that develop and/or support social movement building? What relationships did you develop that support |
| | 5 | your work, sector or the building of our social movement? |
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| | 7 | B) What is your organization's political assessment of this current historical moment, and do you see a role |
| | 8 | for the Social Forum process as a vehicle for supporting stronger social movement building, including |
| | 9 | grassroots organizing? Please include your assessment of the primary issues our social movement faces |
| | 10 | externally and internally as well as the most vibrant social movements of this moment (i.e., fronts of struggle). |
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| | 12 | C) The 2007 and 2010 USSF brought many attendees, some for the first time and others to a more in-depth |
| | 13 | understanding of what a Social Forum is. As the global economic and ecological crisis deepens, do you see a |
| | 14 | specific role that the Social Forum process can play (1) within US social movement building; and (2) in |
| | 15 | relationship to the World Social Forums or other national or international social movement building processes? |
| | 16 | How do we then connect in meaningful ways to grassroots struggles inside and outside of the US? |
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| | 18 | D) As the nation approaches critical elections in 2012, how can the USSF separate itself from traditional |
| | 19 | bourgeois understandings of social change (i.e. demands for reform rather than transformation of the |
| | 20 | exploitative economic system)? How can the USSF process centralize working class struggles, including |
| | 21 | grassroots democracy, issues of survival, the needs of the many versus the needs of the few? Given all this, |
| | 22 | what should the Social Forum’s relationship be to the 2012 electoral process? |
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| | 24 | E) How has your understanding of the role of the National Planning Committee (NPC) changed over time? |
| | 25 | What alterations should it undergo as a national planning body for the USSF? What is your understanding of |
| | 26 | the NPC's relationship to the PMA (Peoples Movement Assembly) process? How can the NPC be a better |
| | 27 | vehicle to support social movement work? |
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| | 29 | F) Lastly, the big one...is it time to start a discussion about a 3rd USSF, which would include talks about what |
| | 30 | should be changed and why? What form might a 3rd USSF take (regional, national), and why? What criteria |
| | 31 | might we discuss and list to help guide any discussions about if, when, and where? |
