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<!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Book Announcement<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">The United States Social Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Perspectives of a Movement</span><span style="font-size:20.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Edited by the USSF Book Committee:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Marina Karides, Walda Katz-Fishman, Rose M. Brewer, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Jerome Scott, and Alice Lovelace<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:192.8pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">This is a remarkable and full account of the first US Social Forum, held in Atlanta, Georgia in the summer of 2007. More than 12,000 people attended from across the U.S. and the world, taking part in workshops, plenaries and other gatherings. The book is both a history of the event and a how-to manual for organizing for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:356pt; height:238pt'> <v:imagedata src="file://localhost/Users/marinakarides/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image001.jpg" o:title="DSC_0199"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><img width="356" height="238" src="file://localhost/Users/marinakarides/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025"></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Another World is Possible, Another US is Necessary!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Read the volume that captures the organizing process of the first US Social Forum, including strategies and reflections of the organizers, speakers, and participants that made the USSF a monumental event for grassroots organizing.</span><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Order directly from the publisher:<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT; color:#0032E6"><u style="text-underline:#0032E6"><a href="http://stores.lulu.com/changemaker">http://stores.lulu.com/changemaker</a></u></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Changemaker Publications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Softcover, 369 pages, $25<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">ISBN: 978-0-557-32373-9</span><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Marina Karides, Ph.D.</div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>Department of Sociology</div><div>2912 College Avenue</div><div>Florida Atlantic University</div><div>Davie, FL 33314</div><div>tel. 954-236-1053</div><div>fax. 954-236-1150</div><div><a href="mailto:mkarides@fau.edu">mkarides@fau.edu</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>