-, 26.01.2008 17:10
On January 26, 2008, activists protested in Berne, Zurich (Jan. 25) and Davos against the World Economic Forum (WEF). At the same time, groups and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) organised actions on all five continents for another world as a decentralised World Social Forum (WSF) action day.
Proteste gegen WEF in Schweizer Staedten (Protests against WEF in Davos in Swiss cities) 2008: 
http://ch.indymedia.org/demix/2008/01/56050.shtml
source: SF, iprog.ru, 12.05.2005 18:17
Boris Kagarlitsky
Social Forum in Russia
http://www.iprog.ru/en/articles/?id=370
Quelle: gwr, 02.04.2005 17:27
Sisterhood is not something easy to find. Das diesjährige Europäische Sozialforum (ESF) aus feministischer Perspektive, Artikel von Sigrid Lehmann, in: Graswurzelrevolution Nr. 293, November 2004, Seite 2
http://www.graswurzel.net/293/esf.shtml
source: euromovements.info, 15.12.2004 14:11
Guide for social transformation in Europe: ESF and surroundings
source: fse-esf, 02.12.2004 16:17
Florence: http://www2.fse-esf.org/florence/scriba/
Paris: http://www2.fse-esf.org/
London: http://www.esf2004.org
source: FSE maling-list, 09.11.2004 12:55
article sur le FSE qui paraitra dans "POUR", le journal de la FSU
me, 23.10.2004 18:37
reports and pictures from London 2004:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/wsf/london2004/
source: fse-esf.org, 21.10.2004 16:21
ESF London 2004
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.
Massimo De Angelis, 27.05.2004 13:52
Review of World Social Forum: challenging empires - Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar and Peter Waterman (eds.) 2004. New Delhi: The Viveka Foundation. 402 pp. London distribution: Global Book Marketing.
source: Hannah, 26.04.2004 19:33
summary of decisions
source: NextGENDERation, 25.04.2004 13:24
Essay for Feminist Review
Refusing to be "the women's question"? Embodied practices of feminist intervention at the European Social Forum 2003
by the NextGENDERation network
, 25.04.2004 13:21
Weekly Worker 525 Thursday April 22 2004
Uniting our movements
Kishen Pattnayak, 18.03.2004 15:34
Kishen Pattnayak, of the National Association of People's Movements (NAPM)
of India, is one of the most prominent Gandhian activists and thinkers. The
following text was actually written as a critique of WSF, but the second
part, with its reflexion on the failure of the old left to fundamentally
criticise the ideal of economic growth, "prosperity", and on the disaster
awaiting industrial society, has a direct bearing on the defense of small
farming.
source: ZNet Commentary , 07.02.2004 00:00
Carnivals In The Era of "Globalisation"
February 07, 2004
By Radha D'Souza
"Could you please tell me the way out to the road?" I asked a young Indian girl who was clearly not a Mumbaikar (Bombayite in Marathi). She stood dazed amidst crowds of people at the NESCO grounds where the WSF held
its Forum between 16 to 21 January.
source: indy.uk referring to ESF process, 28.01.2004 00:00
some comments and links on non-hierarchical meeting/decision-making methods
one of many, 02.01.2004 00:00
At the European Social Forum in Paris, there was a workshop on Radical Theory, and subsequently, a mailing-list was created. The group intends to publish a "Radical Theory Journal" which will be neither academic, nor activist. It will try to create a tension laden and dynamic new form of theory informed by action that arises from, helps to understand and bring benefit to the altermondialiste movements.
source: The Commoner, 13.12.2003 00:28
The Promise of the European Social Forum
Summary
A European public space capable of setting limits to capital is such a burning necessity that its emergence can only be a question of time. The ESF could play a critical role in this process, and become the seed crystal for a redemocratisation of European society.
Whether it chooses to move towards becoming such a ‘constituent assembly’ or whether it remains as a ‘people’s university’ – an amiable environment in which to hear some very interesting and clever people speak – depends critically on how it is organized. An organization capable of facilitating the emergence of European post-national citizens’ networks, is an entirely new beast, as different from the NGOs which emerged over the last 50 years as it is from the political parties and trade unions of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Such an organization needs to maximise political exchange (across regions, sectors, movements and natural allies) within a context of participatory collective action. This article makes concrete proposals as to how time, space, and thematic content within the forum might be structured to achieve this.
A clear constitutional framework for the ESF is required, one which makes the organising committee transparent, accountable to the assembly and committed to an overarching value of political independence and neutrality. Striving to reach agreement or unity on political principles is unimportant at best and dangerously divisive at worst. Far more important in the forum realising its potential is the provision of excellent facilitation services, and the recycling and renewal within it of past and present experiments in participatory democracy.
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