Talk:Southeast Social Forum

The original statement in this Southeast Social Forum entry regarding the "organizers of the World Social Forum" not feeling that the US was "ready" for a Social Forum was a biased and ahistorical assertion, and needed editing. Certainly some members of the International Council of the WSF felt that way as of 2002, and some leadership of certain large US NGOs on the Council agreed, but this was by no means a consensus position within the highly decentralized WSF process. The organizers of the Boston Social Forum were among the forces internationally that contested this position. The success of the BSF provided ample "facts on the ground" to disprove the assertion that US left movements couldn't handle a national Social Forum. To give a history of the WSF process in the U.S. in such fashion without mentioning the BSF is, therefore, problematic to say the least. Were it not for the contentious statement, it would have not been necessary to add mention of the BSF in this SSF Wikipedia entry (although it's always good form to add links to other Social Forums with Wikipedia entries). But the only way to render the entry more historically accurate without affecting the structure of the original entry was to add the BSF mention. If the original authors wish to rework (or remove) the contentious statement, then it would likely be acceptable to remove the BSF mention in the SSF entry. User:Jpramas