Beltway Area Indymedia

The United States Social forum opened on Wed, June 27 with a march of thousands through downtown Atlanta-protesting issues very familiar to DC activists such as a proposal to PRIVATIZE Atlanta's only public hospital.
I heard it said that Atlanta is following DC own the path of structural adjustment-about 7 years behind.

A wide variety of people were represented at the kickoff march-and the first two speakers before the arch left were two members-one an 85 year old elder- of the Cherokee Nation, on whose land Atlanta sits.