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The People’s Summit is being brought together by a diverse coalition of organizations with the intention of ensuring that the voices of the poor and dispossessed in our hemisphere are heard. Check out our latest press releases and other press updates to learn more about our goals and how our communities are anticipating and gearing up for this convening.

To understand more about the realities and conditions that our people are facing, download our factsheets for basic and essential information about poverty, houselessness, hunger, and other issues that our convening organizations have been addressing locally and nationally.

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🥳 Thanks everyone so much for coming out to our mixer! It was great to meet everyone and we cannot wait to see you all at the People’s Summit from June 8-10! If you haven’t yet register at the link in our bio. 🙌🏽Special thanks to the
The IX Summit of the Americas will take place from June 6-10 in Los Angeles, California. It is a meeting that preaches democracy among the countries of the continent, but in practice it excludes both the nations and their people. In this context, or
The People’s Summit for Democracy will be holding a press conference at the Los Angeles Trade Tech College on Tuesday, May 31st. The conference will be live-streamed on Instagram and Facebook from The People’s Summit & @chirla_org o
If the need for a People’s Summit wasn’t more clear, the Biden administration continues to deny the sovereignty of nations in our hemisphere. The decision to exclude Venezuela & Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas demonstrates
🌎The People’s Summit is excited to announce the "Solidarity Beyond Borders" panel on June 8th. Join @davidrkadler, @AbdulhadiRabab, @AngelicaCHIRLA, and Leonardo Luna in Los Angeles to discuss their work to build a People's Internat
Today we talked to some amazing UCLA students about The People’s Summit and learned about the issues they care about. We’re so excited to join everyone on June 8,9,10th in ☀️ Los Angeles for three days of art, music, panel discussions,
Contra-Tiempo will be joining the People's Summit to perform on June 10th! @contra_tiempo is a bold, multilingual Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company that creates communities where all people are awakened to a sense of themselves as art

Press Mentions

  • People's Dispatch

    People’s Summit to highlight inequality in face of Biden’s Summit of the Americas — A diverse coalition of US-based organizations is organizing an alternative to the OAS summit, shedding light on inequality and imperialism.

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  • Tercera Informacion

    La Cumbre de los Pueblos se celebrará en Los Ángeles en junio de 2022 — Siguiendo la tradición de cada Cumbre de las Américas desde la Cumbre de Mar del Plata de 2005, sindicalistas, activistas, organizaciones de base y personas progresistas de Los Ángeles y de las Américas están convocando a una Cumbre de los Pueblos los días 8, 9 y 10 de junio para contrarrestar la 9ª Cumbre de las Américas, que se celebrará en Los Ángeles, CA.

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