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Victoria Rodriguez, Joaquin Lujan and Sandra and Salvador Montes were part of a SWOP delegation that went to Juarez/El Paso on February 18th to participate in the planning meeting for the Foro Social Fronterizo (FSF), Border Social Forum, to be held May 1- 6, 2006.

SWOP is a sponsoring organization of the FSF.

The Organizing Committee of the FSF is inviting social-movement organizations in the US and Mexico to submit proposals for panels, workshops and events for May 3 - 5, 2006.

Dates: May 3 - 6, 2006
Location: Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico (across from El Paso, Texas)
The common meeting ground for the Border Social Forum will be Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua (across El Paso, TX) also the scene of a femicide where more than 500 young women have been brutally assassinated and their bodies dumped in the desert sands.

Proposed Program
May 1: International Day of Workers, simaltaneous protests. Organizing an action again the Wall in your City.
May 2: Border Tour and Travel Day to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico o to El Paso, Texas (and take a taxi to the International brige Punte Libre)
May 3: Social Forum
May 4: Social Forum
May 5: Social Forum
May 6: Action at the Border Wall of Death (Anapra & Sunland Park, NM) and closing events

The FSF website says the idea for a Border Social Forum...

...came out of an agreement between global south & global north social movement organizations and in particular from a discussion to develop a movement to ‘Tear Down the Wall of Death’ that Bush is pushing to complete and thus seal the US-Mexico border physically. Social movements from Mexico and the south will mobilize north to Cd. Juarez and groups from the US and Canada will go south to converge in Cd. Juarez. The goal of the Border Social Forum is to create a space for the ‘integration’ of the social movements from the border bi-national region and to connect social movements of the global north and global south.

Campaign:

Mobilizing and the campaign to ‘tear down the wall of death’ will kick-off or launch on March 21, 2006 to co-celebrate Don Benito Juarez, Indigenous president of Mexico whose slogan was “as in people and nations, peace is respect for the right of others."

La Idea:
La idea del Foro Social fronterizo sale del acuerdo tomado entre organizaciones de movimiento social del sur global y norte global en el Foro Soccial Mundial en caracas, Venezuela 2006. El acuerdo decidio tomar accion para derrumber el ‘MURO DE LA MUERTE’ entre EEUU-Mexico. Este muro de la muerte que Bush quiere fisicamente cerrar la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Mexico. La idea del Foro social Fronterizo es crear un espacio donde puede crear una ‘integracion’ entre el movimiento social de la frontera pero mas alla a la frontera con Mexico y Centro America y frontera norte con Canada.

Su presencia, apoyo y solidaridad es necesaria para derrumbar el
‘Muro de la Muerte’

For more Info/Para mas Info

World Social Forum
WSF
Foro Social Mundial
foro social fronterizo