The Peoples' Social Forum: The first day

This week, thousands of people are converging upon Ottawa to talk about solutions to some of the problems facing our world and our country, to connect with each other and build new networks. The Peoples' Social Forum is about celebration, it's about problem solving, it's about connecting and about building the kind of Canada that we want to live in.

It's what rabble.ca does too. That's why we're here all this week. As a media sponsor, as media-makers. We're livestreaming, writing, taking part in forums and doing what we can to add our voices to the mix and to help others get their voices out to the wider world.

rabble radio will be doing a daily wrap-up of some of the highlights each day from Thursday, August 21 until Sunday, August 24.

Here are the highlights of Day 1, with host and exec producer of the rabble podcast network, Victoria Fenner: Welcome by Anna Collins, Indigenous Coordinator of the People's Social Forum; Naomi Klein, activist and author; The gathering moves to Parliament Hill; Celebrating independent media and activism with rabble — Meg Borthwick of rabble.ca introduces author, activist and journalist Linda McQuaig.