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WSF 2001-2007: Debates

all4all, 30.04.2005 18:04

WSF 2001-2007: http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/wsf/

(Porto Alegre 2001-2005, Mumbai 2004, Bamako/Caracas/Karachi 2006, Nairobi 2007)

WSF 2007: http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/wsf/nairobi2007/

Feminist Dialogues: http://feministdialogue.isiswomen.org

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Global Action Day against WEF and war

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

US Social Forum: Another World or Another Mistake?

Notwithstanding the radical goals and objectives of the Forums... the media production is led by the same folks who always make media, who always have the channels of access and privelege.

Poverty, Race, Disability, Youth and Indigenous Scholars from POOR Magazine travel to the US Social Forum to realize a new world of media production..By Any Means Necessary

Feminism and the WSF

Women s Bodies, Gender Analysis, and Feminist Politics at the Forum Social Mundial FSM / WSF

JIWS: Journal of International Women s Studies
Vol. 8, No. 3, April 2007

A Light Within: The 2007 US Social Forum

January 26th, 2008: WSF Global Day of Action

WSF 2007: Reflections on a Foreign Continent

I had never been to Africa, and kept asking myself if it made sense to fly to Nairobi for the World Social Forum (WSF, in January 2007). Luckily I finally decided to go, and got two trips in one. The first was to the world of the WSF, which I already knew to some extent. The second was – thanks to new friends I met there – a brief encounter with the reality of Kenya.

The World Social Forum: Space or Movement?

working document for discussion

According to the World Social Forum's (WSF) Charter of Principles, 'The WSF is an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, [and the] free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action' by groups and individuals opposed to neo-liberalism and imperialism.

Eindruecke vom WSF 2007 in Nairobi

Mehr als 60000 TeilnehmerInnen registrierten sich beim Weltsozialforum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenia. Zum siebten Mal fand das WSF parallel zum Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos (WEF) statt. Harsche Kritik aufgrund von Ausgrenzung begleitete das WSF, sogar die Abschlußerklärung der Versammlung sozialer Bewegung ging auf zu hohe Preise für Teilnahmegebühren und Essen ein. Selbst das Trinkwasser wurde in Plastikflaschen zum vierfach erhöhten Preis verkauft.

impressions from the WSF in Nairobi 2007

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.

Networked Politics

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.

The Bamako Appeal: A Post-Modern Janus?

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.

The WSF And Grassroots Struggles

WSF towards Karachi and Nairobi

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.

WSF Bamako, Caracas and some critical texts

The Organisation a. Politics of Social Forums

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...

Michael Albert: WSF: Wie weiter?

(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.

Waterman: Communication, Culture and the WSF

Making the Road whilst Walking
Communication, Culture and the World Social Forum

Peter Waterman

Global Solidarity through Feminist Dialogues

Hilary Wainwright: WSF on Trial

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?

Eine andere Welt: Das Weltsozialforum

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.

WSF debate: The dream and its fabric

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

WSF and Feminist Voices

Are Other Worlds Possible?

Talking New Politics.
Are Other Worlds Possible? Cultures of Politics and the World Social Forum.

editors: Jai Sen and Mayuri Saini.

World Social Forum 2005 in Porto Alegre

caracol intergalactika porto alegre 2005

'caracol', like the towns of the zapatistas. 'intergalactika', because that's the breadth of resistance.

ESF 2004 and Autonomous Spaces reports

ESF: Making Another World Possible?

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

Autonomous Spaces During the ESF in London

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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