-, 01.02.2007 19:48
More than 60000 participants were registered at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya. This was the seventh edition of the WSF in parallel to the World Economic Forum in Davos (WEF). There was harsh criticism about exclusion during the WSF, and the Final Call of the Assembly of Social Movements mentioned too high prices for participants' fees and food. Even drinking water was sold at a price that was four times higher than usual.
Transnational Institute, 16.01.2007 15:28
Networked Politics is the product of a collaborative research process for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks. It examines the role of social movements, progressive parties, political institutions and new ‘techno-political tools’ in achieving transformative change.
Peter Waterman, 05.07.2006 16:21
Abstract: The Bamako Appeal is an attempt to move the World Social Forum process from being some kind of agora for discussion of alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation, to providing an anti-capitalist leadership for the global justice and solidarity movement. Sponsored by prominent left activist intellectuals of the 'Thirdworldist' tradition, it has nonetheless adopted much of the language of the new movement. Because of its authors' apparent vanguardism, the BA has proven controversial within and around the leadership of the WSF. Such charters, declarations and manifestos are, however, common within the wider movement, occur within the WSF itself and should be welcomed. But the process by which the BA has appeared and been launched reproduces old movement practices that the new movement has been surpassing. The BA's chapter on labour suggests the possibility and necessity for a meaningfully global and open dialogue on the BA more generally. Whilst the BA is commonly seen as a deviation from or opposition to the WSF process, both of these instances reveal the simultaneous backward-looking and forward-looking nature of emancipatory movements.
source: NIGD, 30.04.2006 13:40
NIGD News and Notes Issue 04/06
Tord Björk, 22.03.2006 23:57
The purpose of this article is to look at the challenge mass protests against Danish Islamophic government and media and the shortcomings of the NGO campaign to eradicate poverty in 2005 pose to the future of WSF. Both to the mass protesting Pakistan and the NGO advanced Kenya political governmental and civil society development in Denmark is used to ask questions about the coming WSF events in Karachi 2006 and Nairobi 2007.
-, 01.02.2006 20:39
The 2006 edition of the World Social Forum was and will be polycentric: it will be held in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the cities of Bamako, Mali (January 19-23); Caracas, Venezuela (January 24-29); and Karachi, Pakistan (March 2006).
A European Social Forum (ESF) will take place in Athens in May 2006.
reports, pictures and critique:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/wsf/2006/
see also:
WSF Caracas: http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/eventos/24.html
WSF Bamako: http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/eventos/25.html
http://www.openspaceforum.net
source: ephemera, 12.07.2005 16:41
The new issue of 'ephemera: theory and politics in organization', which has
just been published at http://www.ephemeraweb.org, looks at the organisation and politics of social forums...
source: rls, Dietz Verlag, 10.06.2005 15:29
(Überarbeitete Fassung eines Aufsatzes vom Februar 2003, vgl. http://www.zmag.org.)
Das weltweite Phänomen »Sozialforum« blüht und gedeiht. Die einmal im Jahr stattfindende große WSF-Veranstaltung indes ist an interne Grenzen gestoßen und bedarf der Renovierung. Die weltweit stattfindenden verschiedenen Foren reichen von Veranstaltungen in kleinen und großen Städten über solche in Kreisen, Ländern oder Bundesstaaten, Staaten bis hin zu ganzen Regionen. Als Beispiele mögen Foren gelten im Rahmen der Städte Saint- Dénis in Frankreich, Ithaca im Staat New York in den USA, Berlin in Deutschland, Brisbane in Australien, das nationale Forum von Südafrika und das kontinentale Forum Asiens. Es gibt viele Beispiele auf jeder Ebene – in Italien allein sind es mehr als 100 Städte, die lokale Foren veranstalten. Alle diese Foren haben bei all ihrer Vielfalt und Unterschiedlichkeit zwei universelle Ziele: die Förderung respektvoller Kommunikation und Solidarität und die Entwicklung von Visionen, Strategien und gründlicher Lageanalyse.
source: choike.org, 09.06.2005 23:50
Making the Road whilst Walking
Communication, Culture and the World Social Forum
Peter Waterman
source: Women in Action, 08.06.2005 20:26
Building Global Solidarity through Feminist Dialogues
by Mari M. Santiago
source: rls, 29.05.2005 17:27
With 155, 000 participants from 135 different countries, the fifth World Social Forum held in a specially constructed site in Porto Alegre’s Marinho Park was bigger than ever, and with a wider geographic spread. Yet the future of the WSF was on trial. Was it becoming its caricature: a kind of political Woodstock, Hugo Chavez pulling the crowds instead of Mick Jagger?
Quelle: rls, Dietz Verlag, 29.05.2005 17:08
Ist es ein Zufall, dass das neue Jahrtausend auch mit einer neuen Bewegung für soziale Gerechtigkeit und Frieden begann? Und dass dies eine weltweit organisierte, also globale Bewegung ist? Seit Januar 2001 gibt es das Weltsozialforum. Und was es damit auf sich hat, wird in diesem Buch so ausführlich erläutert wie bisher noch nie im deutschsprachigen Raum.
source: planeta Porto Alegre, 29.05.2005 16:26
Intellectuals and activists in Brazil launch the second phase of the Post-neoliberal Agenda discussions - one of the plural debating spaces that originated in the WSF. The aim is the formulation of theories for a new society.
Antonio Martins
source: choike.org, 27.03.2005 14:47
The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1557.html
source: choike.org, 04.02.2005 17:34
Talking New Politics.
Are Other Worlds Possible? Cultures of Politics and the World Social Forum.
editors: Jai Sen and Mayuri Saini.
me, 03.02.2005 21:25
images and texts from the WSF:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/wsf/portoalegre2005/
19 individuals wrote a Manifesto for Another World
source: intergalactika, 13.12.2004 14:29
'caracol', like the towns of the zapatistas. 'intergalactika', because that's the breadth of resistance.
me, 23.10.2004 18:37
reports and pictures from London 2004:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/wsf/london2004/
Les Levidow, 09.10.2004 00:14
The European Social Forum has been inspired by the global slogan, 'Another world is possible', expressing the need to create alternatives from out of the resistance to neoliberalism. Since its inception in 2002, the ESF has provided an opportunity to debate methods and strategies for turning that slogan into reality. Nevertheless the organisational process itself has become a site of conflicting political philosophies about progressive social change.
http://www.esf2004.net
-, 06.08.2004 12:47
Call for Autonomous Spaces During the ESF in London, 14-17th October 2004.
We are a loose network of individuals, groups, organisations and grass
roots communities and who act, think and struggle for another world beyond
capitalism.
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