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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

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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.

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