The first Los Angeles Social Forum focuses on immigration

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The Los Angeles Social Forum convened for the first time this weekend. Inspired by the World Social Forum, grassroots activists from around Southern California converged on the USC campus to discuss the gamut of progressive causes. With the recent nation-wide attention given to the issue of immigration, organizers placed a special focus on legal strategies to defend undocumented immigrants from detention and deportation. Dan Fritz files this report from KPFK.

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