Past Assemblies
2006-2008
Border Movement Assembly @ Border Social Forum Ciudad Juarez, October 2006
National PMA @ USSF I Atlanta, June 2007
Border Movement Assembly South by SW San Antonio, 2008
2009
Juneteenth Membership Gathering PMA, South Atlanta June 2009
Kentucky Social Forum & PMA July 2009
Poor Peoples Movement Assembly & Caravan Global Day of Action Atlanta, January 2009
2010
SE Regional PMA of Trans-Identified Folks Spring 2010
Chicago Student Congressional Summit PMA April 2010
Lincoln HS PMA June 2010
Palestinian Movement Assembly @ 2nd Popular Palestinian Congress Chicago, October 2010
Pick up Your Peace Youth PMA New Orleans, March 2010
Selma, Alabama PMA March 2010
LGBTQ of Color PMA NYC May 2010
Greater DC PMA May 2010
Portland PMA May 2010
Local Organizing Collective 2 PMAs Knoxville, May & June 2010
SE Youth PMA SHROC Birmingham, December 2010
Solidarity Economy PMA March 2010
Migrant Justice – LGBTTS PMA Tucson, June 2010
National Planning Committee PMA Albuquerque, January 2010
El Paso Border PMA February 2010
Houston PMA February 2010
Detroit 313 PMA March 2010
Mission PMA San Francisco, March 2010
Detroit PMA II May 2010
Phoenix National Day of Action on
SB 1070 PMA May 29 2010
South Sound PMA May 2010
Border / San Antonio PMA June 2010
Twin Cities PMA June 2010
Albuquerque NM PMA June 2010
Gulf Coast Climate Justice PMAs New Orleans & Biloxi, April & May 2010
PMA for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Columbus OH, May 2010
Detroit “Rightsizing” PMA November 2010
Assembly to End Poverty Chicago, December 2010
Texas-wide Migrant Justice PMA San Antonio December 2010
PMAs at the USSF II, Detroit 2010
Advancing a Gender Justice Vision & Action Plan USFF II
Assembly of Anti-Zionist Jews USSF II
Building Unity & Organization in the Black Liberation Movement USSF II
Callin All Street Youth PMA USSF II
Detroit Utilities PMA USSF II
Education for Emancipation & Transformation PMA USSF II
End to Corporate Rule, Legalize Democracy, Move to Amend the Constitution USSF II
Immigrant Rights from Below Movement Assembly USSF II
Indigenous PMA USSF II
International Solidarity & Responsibility on ALBA PMA USSF II
Justice in Palestine PMA USSF II
Plant Occupations & Organizing Strategies USSF II
Poverty Summit USSF II
Organizing to Dismantle School to Prison Pipeline PMA USSF II
Queer / Trans PMA USSF II
Rebuilding Solidarity with Puerto Rico’s Anti-Colonial Struggle USSF II
Support of Democratic Trade Unionism in Mexico PMA USSF II
Take Back the Land Movement: PMA to Free this Land & Life USSF II
Tar Sands PMA USSF II
The Faith Community: From Internal Reflection to External Action USSF II
The Way Forward: Strategy, Tactics, & Seeding BDS in the US USSF II
What the Health Happened? How do we get the healthcare we need? USSF II
PMA to Confront Prisons USSF II
Asian Pacific Islanders in Detroit PMA USSF II
Food Sovereignty PMA USSF II43. Northwest PMA USSF II
Up South / Down South Assembly USSF II
Urban Congress USSF II
Working for Peace & Justice in Michigan USSF II
Defining Transformation for Social Change USSF II
Echo Justice: Building Movement through Building Meaning USSF II
Ecological Justice PMA USSF II
Emerging Strategies to [Re]Claim the Commons USSF II
Excluded Workers Congress USSF II
Forming a National Alliance on Racial Justice & Human Rights USSF II
Funders’ Assembly USSF II
Health, Healing Justice, & Liberation PMA USSF II
Inter-Alliance Dialogue Convention USSF II
Rebuilding the Anti-War / Peace Movement to End Wars & Occupation USSF II
Stimulating Grassroots Activism on a Massive Scale USSF II
Supporting Sex Workers’ Safety & Rights USSF II
US Techie Congress USSF II
World Court on Poverty in the US: Disappeared in America USSF II
Youth Movement to Create a National Student Bill of Rights for Education Justice USSF II
Atenco Prisoners / Otra Campana / Zapatista PMA USSF II
Building a Movement to Combat Increased US Militarization USSF II
Juvenile Justice PMA USSF II
Prioritizing Africa & African Diaspora Agenda Detroit to Dakar USSF II
Building Solidarity with Grassroots in Haiti USSF II
How to Claim the Right to Housing PMA USSF II
Imagining & Building a People’s Based Solidarity Economy USSF II
Preparing the Youth in Today’s Agriculture: Without Us, Who Eats? USSF II
2011
Formerly Incarcerated People PMA Montgomery, March 2011
Latin@ PMA Portland, July 2011
Pick up Your Peace II Youth PMA New Orleans, March 2011
Healthy Lifestyles Youth PMA Atlanta, April 2011
East Bay PMA June 2011
Atlanta Youth Education Justice PMA Atlanta, July 2011
Youth PMA San Antonio, August 2011
Law as a Weapon of War PMA Atlanta, May 2011BILIZE
Alternative to Detroit Works Project PMA April 2011
Regional Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions PMAs Chicago, Montreal, West Coast 2011
FOR NATIONALS & CONVERGE
2012
Gulf Coast Climate Justice PMAs Biloxi MS 2012
Southern Movement Assembly, Lowndes County, September 2012
Community Assemblies, Harrisonburg VA, SONG, November 2012
Community Assembly, Clarkston GA, Women Watch Afrika, November 2012
Slidell LA PMA, Moving Forward Gulf Coast, November 2012
National Student Bill of Rights Assembly, Arkansas Women’s Project, November 2012
2013
Southern Movement Assembly II, Jacksonville FL, April 2013
Southern Movement Assembly II, Dothan AL, April 2013
Gulf Coast Ecological Justice PMA, Mobile AL, October 2013
US Human Rights Network, Atlanta, GA (December 2013)
SOA Watch, Ft. Benning, GA (November 2013)
Tear Down the Walls, Tucson, AZ (November 2013)
2014-2015
Immigrant Rights PMA in San Jose, CA, lead organization Human Agenda (November 30, 2014)
What the Bleep happened to Hip Hop? lead organizations Hip Hop Congress and Move to Amend, Denver (Oct 25-26)
“Austerity, Precarity and the Changing Landscape of Higher Education” PMA Co-organized by International Network of Scholar Activists and George Mason University Public Sociology Student Association (Friday October 17, 2014 4:00-8:00 PM) Arlington, VA (Washington DC area).
Gulf South Ecological Justice PMA in Gulfport, Mississippi (October 10-12, 2014)
Vision PMA in San Jose, CA, lead organization Human Agenda (October 5,2014)
Pacific Northwest Social Forum and PMAs, Portland, Oregon (September 27-29), lead organization Community to Community
- Treaty Rights (International Indian Treaty Council)
- Housing/Homelessness (Right 2 Dream Too & Western Regional Advocacy Project)
- Food Sovereignty (Community to Community)
- Democracy/Constitution (Move To Amend/Multi Media Center)
- Labor/Green Economy (15NowOregon)
- Media (Street Roots/KBOO)
- Transit Justice (OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon/Groundwork Portland)
- Hip Hop (Hip Hop Congress/Global Fam)
- From Palestine to the Americas: Colonization and Mass Incarceration (Migrant Collective/Colectiva de Migrantes, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights, Oregon Jericho)
Southern Movement Assembly IV , lead organization Project South (August 22-23, 2014)
USSF PMA at the Peoples Social Forum, Ottawa Canada (August 21-24, 2014)
“Envisioning a New Constitution”, Philly (August 9, 2014)
Environmental and Climate Justice People’s Movement Assembly, Jackson, MS at Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary (June 26, 2014)
Youth PMA at Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary (June 26, 2014)
National Gathering and PMA on Surveillance, Technology and Communities of Color, (May First, Center for Media Justice, and Free Press) at Allied Media Conference, Detroit Michigan (June 19-22, 2014)
Left Forum, New York City (June 2014)
Jackson Rising Conference, Jackson, MS (May 2014)
SOA Watch Thematic PMA, Washington DC, lead organization SOA Watch (April 2014)
Farmworker PMA, Bellingham, WA (March 22, 2014)
White Privilege Conference, Madison, WI (March 2014)
Global Climate Convergence, Chicago, IL (January 2014)
Pacific NorthWest Social Forum (PNWSF), Bellingham, WA (January 2014)
“Envisioning a New Constitution”, San Jose, CA, lead organization San Jose Peace & Justice Center (Jan 31)
Community to Community: Farm workers and food sovereignty (March 14); Climate Justice (June); Elections (October); Solidarity Economy (December)
Appalachia PMA, lead organization Direct Action Welfare Group (Spring 2015)
Upcoming Assemblies
King County PMA, lead organization Multimedia Center (July 2015)
Poverty Working Group PMAs/World Courts of Women Against Poverty, Midwest region and Southern region (follow-up from Western and Northeast region)
May First Brooklyn PMA on technology, lead organization May First/ People Link
Southern Movement Assembly V, August 2015
PMA Assemblies Associated with Philadelphia USSF 2015
Building a Poor People’s Movement To End Poverty
Gender Justice People’s Movement Assembly
Puerto Rico’s Uncertain Future
No Wars, No Warming – Justice at Home, Peace Abroad
Building a Radical Social Work Movement in the US
Advancing the Solidarity Economy Movement – Connecting Cities & Regions for Economic Justice
Strategizing Artistic Solidarity – A People’s Movement Assembly
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives
Reclaim the Commons – Save Our Land, Our Water, Our Seeds!
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice
The People vs. The Corporations: Whose Constitution Is It?
Fronts of Struggle: Public education – anti-privatization, attacks, and struggles, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice
Developing Tactical Partnerships for the Fight Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Fronts of Struggle: State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Culture – capitalist appropriation of culture, political culture, and movement culture, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice
Faith and Justice working together locally, regionally, and nationally
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Health, healing, and spirituality
Institutional Bias in Post A.D.A. (American with Disabilities Act) U.S.
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Genders, gender non-conformity, sexuality, patriarchy – resistance and struggles, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism
The 28th Amendment – and Beyond
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice
Build a Finance System for the Public
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism
Environmental and Water Impacts from Fracking and Waste
Fronts of Struggle: Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice, Health, healing, and spirituality
Tenants Rights – Housing Justice
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives
Schooling the Schools: Education For a New Generation
Fronts of Struggle: Public education – anti-privatization, attacks, and struggles, Youth and students – struggles for economic stability, health, housing; access to credible information and media tools; political study and awareness, movement planned and directed by all black lives, queer and trans black bodies and voices, the young; reconnection and appreciation of arts & culture
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice, Health, healing, and spirituality
Fronts of Struggle: Health, healing, and spirituality
Challenging Zionist Power and Influence on American Policies and Perceptions
Fronts of Struggle: State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism
Conscious Consumption, Conscious Living
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Public education – anti-privatization, attacks, and struggles, Culture – capitalist appropriation of culture, political culture, and movement culture
Undocumented Youth: Strategies and Tactics That’s Creating Change
Fronts of Struggle: Public education – anti-privatization, attacks, and struggles, Immigration struggles, decolonization, anti-imperialism, Youth and students – struggles for economic stability, health, housing; access to credible information and media tools; political study and awareness, movement planned and directed by all black lives, queer and trans black bodies and voices, the young; reconnection and appreciation of arts & culture
Undocumented Youth: Strategies and Tactics That’s Creating Change
Fronts of Struggle: Public education – anti-privatization, attacks, and struggles, Immigration struggles, decolonization, anti-imperialism, Youth and students – struggles for economic stability, health, housing; access to credible information and media tools; political study and awareness, movement planned and directed by all black lives, queer and trans black bodies and voices, the young; reconnection and appreciation of arts & culture
Fronts of Struggle: State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Immigration struggles, decolonization, anti-imperialism
Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium
Fronts of Struggle: Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice, Health, healing, and spirituality
Flood the System Regional Spokescouncil
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice
Living on the Edge in Silicon Valley
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives
Food Sovereignty: Our Food is not a Commodity
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Immigration struggles, decolonization, anti-imperialism, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice
Fronts of Struggle: State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Immigration struggles, decolonization, anti-imperialism, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism
From East L.A. to Palestine, solidarity is not a crime!
Fronts of Struggle: State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Immigration struggles, decolonization, anti-imperialism, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism
Another World Is Possible: What Must We Do?
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism, Youth and students – struggles for economic stability, health, housing; access to credible information and media tools; political study and awareness, movement planned and directed by all black lives, queer and trans black bodies and voices, the young; reconnection and appreciation of arts & culture
“Nothing About Us Without Us” Equity for Seniors & People with Disabilities
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Health, healing, and spirituality
From Palestine to the Americas: Colonization & Mass Incarceration
Fronts of Struggle: State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Immigration struggles, decolonization, anti-imperialism
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Earth and planet – sustainability, food sovereignty, and ecological justice, Health, healing, and spirituality
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives
Connecting Militarization at Home and Abroad
Fronts of Struggle: State violence and resistance, mass incarceration and abolition, Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, Immigration struggles, decolonization, anti-imperialism
The People vs. The Corporations: Whose Constitution Is It?
Fronts of Struggle: Cooperative economics – poverty, housing, and workers’ struggles, anti-capitalism, and economic alternatives, Political democracy struggles, participatory democracy, 21st century socialism, Culture – capitalist appropriation of culture, political culture, and movement culture
Another World Is Possible: What Will It Look Like?