The Los Angeles Social Forum (LASF) will create a space for activists, social movements, networks, and other progressive forces in southern California to share their cultural and ideological diversity, experiences and strategies, and integrate their struggles from the local to the global.

Continuing the progressive traditions of the World Social Forums begun at Porto Alegre', Brazil in 2001, where construction was initiated of a counter-vision to the domination of neoliberal capital and the rule of empire and thus rooted in the values of peace, community, democracy, environmental and economic justice, the Los Angeles Social Forum will work to integrate struggles from local and international issues of globalization that have its roots in the corporate led global economic system which unravels human rights and human decency. Los Angeles is ground zero for many movement struggles concerning; a lack of health care, attacks against immigrants, citizens and their rights; dangerous working conditions and a living wage; contamination of poor communities by corporate decision; and violation of minority and indigenous sovereignty.  Peasants (farm workers), immigrants, youth, women, GLBT community and other oppressed peoples in Los Angeles would benefit from networking and coordinating common projects and strategies in common cause.