Social Forums
The Social Forums Standing Committee coordinates GGJ's involvement with the Social Forum process.
Click here for everything you need to know about our upcoming membership assembly!GGJ REFLECTIONS ON 10 YEARS OF GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT-BUILDING
GGJ members and staff break down the challenges and milestones of the global justice movement since the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999.
Listen to stories from these GGJ leaders and organizers who have been on the frontlines of this work:
GGJ Supports the Honduran People's Resistance in Boycotting November 29 Elections
GGJ Supports the Honduran People's Resistance in Boycotting November 29 Elections
Support for the Boycott is support for Honduran Democracy
Since the illegal military coup of June 28, 2009 that put dictator Roberto Micheletti in power, the Honduran people have endured systematic state-sponsored attacks on their democratic rights to assembly, protest, privacy and safety.
It Will Take More than the G-20 to Move from Crisis to Sustainability
A New Economy is Possible
Building hemispheric unity from below and from the left in a moment of deep global economic crisis
by Jerome Scott & Walda Katz-Fishman
In the 21st century we’re fighting a global enemy; and, therefore, we are going to have to have a global movement.
Americas Social Forum 3 – a convergence of hemispheric struggles
Informe de la Unión de Trabajadores del Suroeste desde el Tercer Foro de las Americas
Lea el informe de la Unión de Trabajadores del Suroeste del Tercer Foro Social de las Americas en la Ciudad de Guatemala, octubre 7-12, 2008.
Delegation of Grassroots Leaders Arrives at Americas Social Forum
U.S. Foreign and Economic Policies Will Be Major Topics as Financial Crisis Infects Guatemala and Central American Region
Thirty-nine representatives of community-based and worker organizations that are part of the U.S.-based Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) arrived on October 6 in Guatemala City. Representing 20 organizations from 8 states, the delegation is here to participate in the 3rd continental Americas Social Forum (ASF). With the backdrop of the spiraling collapse of the U.S. and global financial system, the GGJ delegation plans to meet with other grassroots movements from throughout the Americas to discuss a range of topics including the economic crisis, the environment, militarism, women's rights and indigenous sovereignty.
