Soy Latinoamerica
Monday August 4th, 2014 with Alejandro Hernandez
Canada, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador and the Caribbean

What is the Peoples’ Social Forum? The Peoples’ Social Forum (PSF) is a critical public space aimed at fostering activist involvement of individuals and civil society organizations that want to transform Canada as it exists today. It is a space for social movements to meet and converge, for the free expression of alternative ideas and grassroots exchanges. It seeks to inspire practical involvement in social movements and develop networked action strategies aimed at fostering the convergence of struggles, toward building a broad strategic alliance against neo-liberal and neo-conservative policies in Canada. Social justice, Original Peoples rights, sustainable development, international solidarity and participatory democracy at the centre of its concerns.The PSF is an inclusive space that must be occupied by all people and activist organizations convinced that another Canada is not only possible, but above all, necessary. Objectives of the Peoples’ Social Forum As an inclusive space for activist grassroots debate, the PSF intends to: Foster constructive and mobilizing societal debate across the country; Recognize and honour the territories and the rights of the Original Peoples whose territories we reside on and where the PSF takes place. Act in solidarity with Original Peoples through rejecting the racist Doctrine of Discovery and the Terra Nullius. Prompt individual and collective grassroots participation; Share, promote and circulate alternative initiatives and projects; Stimulate the emergence of concrete actions and the convergence of struggles against neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism; Promote sustainable development across Canada in a spirit of solidarity, justice, equality and harmony. The PSF is part of the global movement of social forums that have emerged at different levels since the first World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in January 2001. The last World Social Forum was held in Tunis in March 2013 and the 2015 one will also be organized in the same city. http://www.peoplessocialforum.org/