Resolutions

Below are resolutions generated before and during the forum. Every PMA gathering represents a unique process and collectively identified issue(s), set of commitments and an emergent desire for shared action(s). Thus a resolution both articulates and publicly affirms those commitments and actions that community will take together over time.

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Resolutions before the 2010 US Social Forum

UNIVERSAL RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS

Universal rights of migrants gives people FULL CITIZENSHIP rights where ever (country) they may find themselves at working or living.

Border Militarization (US-Mexico border)

Since 1980 the US-Mexico Border has become militarized with Army, National Guard, Homeland Security, IC, Border Patrol and local law enforcement agencies resulting in VIOLENCE and DEATH

Woman of JUAREZ Mx Justice!

More than 500 young working women were disappeared, brutally killed and their bodies dumped in the Chihuahua desert...justice has NOT been done to date! The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is part of the blame!

TAKE DOWN US-MEXICO BORDER WALL OF DEATH

The WALL OF DEATH between the US-Mexico border must come down because it has killed migrants, its a waste of taxpayer money and its a wall of SHAME

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ARIZONA NATIONAL OPPRESSION AND RACISM ...NO 1070 RACIST LAW!

Resolution against Free Trade and for ALBA

The free trade neo-liberal model is a failed state and in seeking alternatives for a new world possible the Bolivarian Alternative ALBA is based on solidarity economies and cooperative societies..

RESOLUTION FOR EQUAL EDUCATION AND RACIAL EQUITY

In order to have another world possible we demand an emancipatory educational system and curriculum with inclusiveness and equality for ALL

GREATER DC PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY

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For events to be bottled water free

Whereas U.S. per capita consumption of bottled water has increased dramatically over the past twenty years from 7.2 gallons per person in 1988 to approximately 28 gallons per person in 2009; Whereas manufacturing, transportation and consumption of bottled water used between 32 and 54 million barrels of oil in 2007, which is up to 2000 times the energy inputs required to deliver tap water; Whereas three out of every four empty plastic water bottles end up in our landfills rivers, lakes and ocean and added costs are associated with the disposal of this waste; Whereas a growing number of U.S. cities, counties, and universities have initiated bans or limitations of the use of public funds or...

Resolutions on Actions at the USSF

Knoxville Peoples Movement Assembly for Community-controlled Public Space

Because through privatization we have lost so many of the places where communities gather, and because public space is essential to a free and democratic society, we want to create, claim and reclaim collectively funded, multicultural, multiracial, community-controlled progressive public spaces, and we ask you to join us in creating democratic spaces accessible to everyone.

Support Stop the Columbia River Crossing Event

Education event about Columbia River Crossing and History of Mount Hood Freeway (near Portland, OR)

Supporting solidarity and moving beyond single issues

Climate Justice as a value

Immigration Reform Principles

Resolution for Democratic Economy

Anti-Ordinance Campaign and Community Organizing School

Valuing the Rights of the Earth & All Beings

Nourishing activist communities for the long term

Nourishing activist communities for the long term (principle only)

Real Immigration Reform

Housing is a Human Right

Singular Resolution for Action agreed upon by the People's Movement Assembly in Porland in support of Housing as a Human Right

Tucson/Phoenix LGBTQ Two-Spirit Migrant Justice People’s Movement Assembly June 15, 2010

Media Justice PMA: A Movement Agenda For Narrative Power

Through a process that included 1) a survey of communicators and media policy advocates, 2) a continued participatory research project with interviews of movement leaders and affected populations, 3) a series of digital dialogs and 4) a Peoples’ Movement Assembly at the US Social forum, we affirmed our goals and created the following "living" resolution. Please send any comments, additions and/or feedback to echo(at)centerformediajustice.org with "PMA" in subject line.

Global Alternative Forum of Peoples in Movement

The November “Global Alternative Forum of Peoples in Movement” is intended to directly challenge the GFMD´s promotion of such approaches and to repudiate its legitimacy and that of the Mexican state and government and equivalent sectors elsewhere in countries of origin, transit, and destination, who seek to suppress, supplant and co-opt the voices, demands, and struggles of “peoples in motion” and their families, communities, organizations, and allies throughout the world.

Protect Our Medical Whistleblowers

Persons who are medical whistleblowers are by definition Defenders of Human Rights because they are persons who have stepped forward to provide information about medical fraud against vulnerable populations, patient abuse and neglect, and human rights violations.

PROTECT OUR MEDICAL WHISTLEBLOWERS NOW!

• Demand that persons who defend human rights receive protection from intimidation, harassment and physical attacks.

• Implement a means to track all defenders of human rights cases (mandated reporter cases) to make sure that retaliation is not occurring, to gather basic statistical information and to determine outcomes.

• Promptly investigate all attempts to...

Stop Child Abuse - Support HR 911

It is a sad fact that the United States has not protected the human rights of children in private residential treatment and wilderness camps. These programs remain largely unregulated and terrible abuse happens while children are kept from communicating with their families and getting advocacy for even their most basic needs. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee needs to schedule a hearing on HR 911 the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2009.

Prevent Human Rights Abuses and Death - Support HR 911

Urge the President to Issue an Executive Order on Domestic Human Rights

The time for action is NOW.
President Obama should issue an Executive Order that holds the U.S. accountable for its human rights commitments.

Resolutions during the 2010 US Social Forum

Transformative and Anti Oppressive Human Service Practice

Commitment to the Commons

Demand the Release of the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, Patriots, Oscar López Rivera and Avelino González Claudio

Supporting Sex Workers' Safety and Rights: for the Decriminalization of Prostitution

Decriminalization makes it safer for sex workers

Anti-Prison People's Movement Assembly

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 in 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 Nations communities, immigrant communities, working class women,...

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Resolution Against Reality and Pervasiveness of Individual, Cultural and Institutional Racism in Puerto Rico

Progressive Techie Congress Principles

Principles defining the relationship between progressive technologists and our movement.

Building a Movement to End the War on Drugs: Our Vision and Commitments for Action

Resolution from the PMA–Working for Peace and Social Justice in Michigan

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Emerging Strategies to Re/Claim the Commons

We urge the participants in the USSF and the social movements from which they come, to support the work to see, name and claim our commons as vital to the future of our communities and our goals of equity, stewardship and survival.

Bill of Rights for All Youth (focus on Education)

We are working in solidarity to draft a National Student Bill of Rights for All Youth (NSBR) that will become a unifying document for youth nation-wide and a driving force for youth movement building!

Move to Amend the Constitution

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Gender Justice PMA Resolution

United Against Racism People’s Movement Assembly

II USSF RESOLUTION ON THE POLITICAL STATUS OF PUERTO RICO

Resolution Opposing U.S. Imperialist Wars and Militarism

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From Detroit to Cancun, from Civil Rights to Human Rights and, the Rights of Mother Earth!

Resolution from Detroit to Dakar

Resolution of the IAI Right to Housing PMA

Draft of four resolutions from progressive strategy dialogue PMA at USSF, 6/24/10

6th of the 13 moon imperatives to revert from male dominance to Matrilineal Authority

Food Sovereignty PMA Resolution

Over a half-century ago, Mahatma Gandhi led a multitude of Indians to the sea to make salt—in defiance of the British Empire’s monopoly on this resource critical to people’s diet. The action catalyzed the fragmented movement for Indian independence and was the beginning of the end for Britain’s rule over India. The act of “making salt” has since been repeated many times in many forms by people’s movements seeking liberation, justice and sovereignty: Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, and the Zapatistas are just a few of the most prominent examples. Our food movement— one that spans the globe—seeks food sovereignty from the monopolies that dominate our food systems with the complicity of our...

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Support One Nation, Working Together march Oct 2, 2010

Support the One Nation, Working Together march to be held in Washington, DC, October 2, 2010. Jobs, Education, Housing, Immigration Rights, Cut the Military Budget.

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National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights

DECLARATION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE 12 POLITICAL PRISONERS OF ATENCO

Resolución de Apoyo a La Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América y el Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos (ALBA-TCP)

PMA: What the Health Happened and How do we get the health care we Need?

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World Court on Poverty in the US: Disappeared in America Resolution of Action

Introduction The World Courts of Women exist to rewrite our histories, reclaim our memories, and find new visions for our times. The Courts of Women are public hearings that exist to share voices of survival and resistance from the margins. Those gathered at the World Court on Poverty in the US: Disappeared in America PMA, along with the host organizations, seek to break the silence on poverty as a violation of both women’s rights and human rights. We reject the myth that dire poverty only exists outside of the boundaries of the US and demand an end to the tremendous violence of poverty that impacts our children, our families, and our communities. The effects...

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RESOLUTION of the plenary assembly of the USA SOCIAL FORUM regarding the endorsement of the “Global Alternative Forum of Peoples in Movement”

Declaration of the Delegation of Haitian Social Movements to the US Social Forum on the current situation in Haiti for the consideration of the Committee for the Final declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements.

Queer and Trans Peoples' Resolution for the Safe Self-Determination of Our People

Queer and Trans Peoples’ Movement Assembly at the United States Social Forum Broaden LGBTQ Movement Agenda to Include Immigration, Racial and Economic Justice.

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USE OF NATIVE AMERICAN MASCOTS & LOGOS

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Declaration of Support to the Zapatista Communities in Mexico.

Resolution of the IAI Right to Housing PMA

The Way Forward: Strategy, Tactics and Seeding Boycott Divestment and Sanctions in the US

A International Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel until it complies with International law and the Universality of human rights.

Resolution of the Poverty Summit

School to Prison Pipeline Resolution: USSF, 2010

Support the call of Haiti’s grassroots for the return of President Aristide and the end of the UN occupation

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Poverty is Not Neglect and We are Not Powerless: Mothers reclaim our children back from the child welfare industry

Ecological Justice: Clean Air, Good Jobs, Justice for All!

Today, we call on our US Social Movements unite with clarity that the root causes of joblessness and the housing crisis in our cities; the toxic contamination of our air, water, soil and climate, and ecosystems; and the displacement and criminalization of our communities are the same. These root causes—capitalism, imperialism, and the systems of oppression that uphold them-- are the same root causes that put the earth’s ability to sustain human life in peril. We are forging a new movement of movements in which grassroots groups in frontline communities provide key leadership for a just resolve to our global crisis, working in concert with environmentalists, policy advocates,...

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Resolution in Support for Mexican Workers in the Fight for Labor Rights

Resolution from U.S. Social Forum People’s Movement Assembly: Support for Mexican Workers in the Fight for Labor Rights

Jobs & Labor Rights: The Peoples’ Movement Assembly “Plant Occupations and other Strategies for Organizing and Defending Workers’ Rights”

Jobs & Labor Rights Summary

The Peoples’ Movement Assembly “Plant Occupations and other Strategies for Organizing and Defending Workers’ Rights”
USSF 2010
Detroit

a.) The U.S. working class faces a crisis of employment and a crisis of labor rights.

b.) The real rate of unemployment is 20% or more (nearly 50% in our host city of Detroit). Unemployment is even worse for young workers, and many layoffs are permanent, with employers leaving the country or going out of business.

c.) The right to organize and bargain is denied outright to major categories of workers - agricultural workers, domestic workers, public employees in states that have...

National Student Bill of Rights for All Youth Movement

We are going to empower youth to become aware of their own power. By providing them with self-reflection and awareness. They already know the issues that face their community, so they are the best agents for their own local change and solutions. They just need to think of their realities and futures in a deeper sense to become such agents of change. Use their talents and resources to create change. We are not in any privilege to go into someone’s community and suggest solutions to their problems. We can however, provide tools that they can use to fix their problems. One thing would be an action youth tool kit for supportive, sustainable change. So that...

Another Education is Happening: Education for Emancipation and Transformation

Support the Refuge Protection Act of 2010

We are asking our US Senators to co-sponsor the Refugee Protection Act of 2010, bill number S. 3113.

Refugees come to the US to find peace and safety for their families because of our reputation as a champion of international human rights. The Refugee Protection Act of 2010 ensures that the United States will remain a refuge and place of healing for those in danger.

Join Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Carl Levin (D-MI), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), and Richard Durbin and Roland Burris (D-IL) as a co-sponsor of this bill.

Progressive Techie Congress Principles

Defining Transformation for Social Change

A social change movement rooted in transformation is critical to making new worlds possible

Because we believe movement work is at a vital and exciting transition point, one marked by larger and larger numbers of people who are interested in and hungry for transformative practice. We commit to support our selves, our communities, partners, allies, and opponents in the movement...

We commit to a Transformative Social Change: a philosophical, practical and strategic process to effect changes within ourselves, organizations, institutions, systems and society that are rooted in positively-oriented (progressive), sustainable (personally and environmentally sound), equitable (...

THE SUM: A Third Way For Fudamental Social Change

My name is Zevin Cruz and I was an attendee at both the 2007 and 2010 USSF. I was the Founder & Director of the first Neo-Progressive Think Tank called the San Diego Cultural Creatives (SDCC). We converged in Southern California on January 2002, just four months after 9-11 in search of creating a new path for Activism in the 21st century. After years of community dialogues, creative exchanges, strategic planning sessions, research and analysis we came up with a radical Master Plan that is beyond bold called THE SUM: A Third Way For Fundamental Social Change (see attachment). It consist of a cohesive vision, The Society of the Third Millennium (S3K), a coherent framework, The Grand...

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Ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Calling on the United States Congress to Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The Convention is the first human rights treaty of the 21st century; and the President of the United States signed the treaty on July 30, 2009 and it is now necessary to ratify the treaty to give it the force of law.

We as a advocates, support the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

We should as a nation actively show a commitment to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and recommit ourselves as a country to human rights, empowerment and independent living for all people with disabilities of the...

ALTERNATIVE TO DETROIT WORKS PROJECT PMA

Resolutions after the 2010 US Social Forum

Urge the US Senate to Draft Legislation to Stop Abuse in Teen Residential Programs

We are asking our elected representative to help provide leadership in drafting legislation in the US Senate similar to H.R. 911Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2009 so that we can make residential treatment facilities safer and better regulated.

We need legislation to finally end the culture of abuse and neglect that has forever altered the lives of thousands of teens. Parents need to be assured that when they place their child in a residential facility that their child will be safe while attending a program intended to help them deal with their challenges and problems. Please make these human rights abuses stop. We should have regulatory control over...

Bring Siddharta home - Protect Mental Health Human Rights

Reunite Siddharta Fisher with his mother and let him come home and recover in a way that empowers him. Give Siddharta Fisher a Voice and allow him to participate in planning for his own health care. Offer him mental health support that will consider the whole person, empower him to make choices for his life and find recovery and healing.

Stop the Washington State Mental Health policy of Short Term Efficacy Long Term Chronicity.

Ask Washington State Governor Gregoire that she should tell the head of Western State Hospital, Jess Jamison, to DENY the petition for an additional 180 days of detention!

Make Torture of US Citizen on US Soil

The USA has both signed and ratified the UN Convention Against Torture which prohibits the use of torture by governmental officials under color of law or color of official right.

Torture is prohibited by US Federal Law under Section 2340A of Title 18, United States Code. This statute prohibits torture committed by public officials under color of law against persons within the public official's custody or control. Torture is defined to include acts specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering. But this statute applies only to acts of torture committed outside the United States. Thus on US soil, torture by public officials on captive detainees is not...

Increase Funding to Improve the Education of Native Americans

Native Americans have historically been among the poorest and most excluded and disadvantaged sector of our society. A major factor contributing to their disadvantaged position is the lack of quality education. Quality education may be defined as education that is well resourced, culturally sensitive, respectful of heritage and considers both community and individual development. We are depriving our Native American children and adults of the basic human right to education. Education is recognized as both a human right in itself and also as an indispensable means of realizing other human rights and fundamental freedoms. Education permits people to lift themselves out of poverty and...

Save Persons with Mental Health Disabilities from Human Rights Abuses

We believe in protecting the human rights of persons with mental health disabilities.

Look at all state legislation and enforcement of mental health law within your state to be certain it is consistent with human rights standards, as is required by our USA obligations to International Human Rights Law.

Please support our advocacy for persons with a mental health disability to live independently and to achieve a quality of life consistent with human rights standards as required by our obligations to international human rights law.

Provide Unbiased Professional Torture Evaluations to US Citizens who are Torture Victims

All persons have the human right to freedom from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is absolute. This is such a fundamental human right that there are no exceptions or limitations. Nations are obligated not to inflict torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment on individuals. Nations are also required by International Law and Human Rights principles to take all necessary measures to protect its citizens from ill-treatment – whether carried out by state officials or private individuals or groups.

Yet in the United States there is no direct avenue by which a person who has been...

Enact Whistleblower Protection Now!

Passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act must be a priority for the lame duck session of Congress.

We are facing a looming crisis because we have not heeded the warnings from our federal whistleblowers. We need right now to enact strong enact strong legislation protecting federal whistleblowers. Protecting whistleblowers is a reform that has strong bilateral support across ideological lines.

If we wish to have effective government and control over governmental fraud, abuse and waste Congress must enact a whistleblower reform law.

There is no reason for inaction on noncontroversial, bipartisan whistleblower protection legislation. If you are serious...

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