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	Participative democracy in Porto Alegre
		The PT took Porto Alegre in 1988, with Olivio Dutra (currently running for state governor) as mayor, and held it in 1992 with Tarso Genro and again in 1996 with Raul Pont, winning more votes for the mayor and more council seats on each occasion.
		We are in the district of Lomba do Pinheiro in Porto Alegre, capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, on the borders of Argentina and Uruguay and known locally as the gaucho state.
		The divisions in the hall are as deep as they are between supporters of the two Porto Alegre football teams, the blues (Gremio) and the reds (Internacional), though political and team allegiances do not coincide.
	mondediplo.com /1998/10/08brazil

	The Last Porto Alegre -- [15-02-05]
		Enthusiastic residents of Porto Alegre, Brazil, will tell you that their modest city of 1.5 million people in the country’s deep South is ‘the last bastion of socialism and rock’n’ roll’.
		But today Porto Alegre is best known around the globe, especially among those inclined to hold a critical opinion of capitalism, corporate power and US military aggression, as the original home of the World Social Forum.
		The famous local progressivism that brought the Forum to Porto Alegre was called into question when an anti-PT mayor, José Fogaça, won election last fall.
	www.newint.org /features/wsf2005/150205.htm

	Porto Alegre - News [Feb-Mar 2005]
		The new President of the Workers Party is Tarso Genro, formerly mayor of Porto Alegre.
		Porto Alegre was the birthplace of the World Social Forum, as an initiative of your party and Brazilian social movements.
		This was clearly the case in the meetings of the ASF council held in Porto Alegre during the WSF 2005.
	news.daylightonline.com /2005-03/Porto_Alegre.html

	oD Today
		(Tarso Genro, who was the PT mayor of Porto Alegre for two terms is now Brazil’s Minister of State)
		One more comment on the Porto Alegre Consensus Manifesto, the ‘12 recommendations… which, if they were applied, would permit citizens to at last seize control again of their future.’
		Not too long after Lula flies off to Davos tomorrow afternoon to build a bridge to the suits, Chavez jets in to Porto Alegre to express solidarity with the T shirts of the MST (Brazil's Movement of Landless Workers).
	opendemocracy.typepad.com /wsf/world_social_forum

	Participative democracy in Porto Alegre, by Bernard Cassen
		The PT took Porto Alegre in 1988, with Olivio Dutra (currently running for state governor) as mayor, and held it in 1992 with Tarso Genro and again in 1996 with Raul Pont, winning more votes for the mayor and more council seats on each occasion.
		We are in the district of Lomba do Pinheiro in Porto Alegre, capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, on the borders of Argentina and Uruguay and known locally as the gaucho state.
		The divisions in the hall are as deep as they are between supporters of the two Porto Alegre football teams, the blues (Gremio) and the reds (Internacional), though political and team allegiances do not coincide.
	mondediplo.com /1998/10/08brazil (1880 words)

	EL COLOMBIANO
		Al contrario, esta presión los dejó más seguros y confiados de que podrían salir de Porto Alegre con un buen resultado.
		El Gremio logró un justo triunfo ante el uruguayo Nacional por 1-0, en el partido de ida de los cuartos de final, llave 2, de la Copa Libertadores de América 2002, disputado este miércoles en el estadio Olímpico de Porto Alegre, capital del Estado brasileño de Rio Grande do Sul.
		En el segundo tiempo los dos equipos volvieron con la misma organización, pero con los locales buscando ejercer una mayor presión e intentos para desmantelar la eficiente marca de los rivales.
	www.elcolombiano.com /proyectos/libertadores2002/resultados/Llave2/Gremio_Nacional.htm (1880 words)

	Democratizing Urban Brazil
		As is noted in Table 4, over half of the legislators elected in Salvador, Belo Horizonte, and Porto Alegre received less than one percent of the city-wide vote in the 1996 elections.
		As is evidenced in Table 3, there are significant variations in electorate characteristics across the three cities, the most striking of which is the extent to which Porto Alegre adults are more likely to exhibit some degree of party attachment, especially identification with parties of the left.
		For the last two years, the mayor's office has gone so far as to set aside an extremely small portion of the budget, the mayor's contingency fund, as a pool of funds from which legislators are asked to draw from for their budget amendments.
	www.utexas.edu /academic/uip/research/docstuds/coll/seltzer.html (1880 words)

	Urban Development: Urban Age Magazine
		At the heart of his administration was the process dubbed "participatory budgeting," a program initiated in Porto Alegre by Genro's predecessor and colleague in the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores, (PT) Olívio Dutra, with whom he served as vice-mayor from 1989 to 1992.
		At the end of his term in 1997, Genro could boast a popularity rating of 75 percent and turned over a solvent township to his successor, Raul Pont, the third consecutive PT party mayor of Porto Alegre.
		Participatory budgeting is now in place in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brazil's third most important state, and in some 50 other Brazilian cities.
	www.worldbank.org /html/fpd/urban/urb_age/porto.htm (1598 words)

	La web de L'Alcalde
		The mayor of Barcelona, Joan Clos, in his capacity as the leader of the world association of cities, participated in the opening ceremony of the Forum of Local Authorities for Social Inclusion last 28 January in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.
		The Forum gathered together the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë; the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni; the mayor of Sao Paolo, Marta Suplicy; the mayor of Buenos Aires, Aníbal Ibarra, as well as local leaders and political personalities, such as the Portuguese Mario Soares.
		This is the case of the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo, a city of 10,000,000 inhabitants that wants to organise its territory in districts, which was inspired by the city of Barcelona.
	www.bcn.es /alcalde/english/galeria/foto_2002_03.htm (622 words)

	Workers' Party (Brazil) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After around 2 weeks, José Genoino also resigned as president of the party and was replaced by Tarso Genro, former mayor of Porto Alegre.
		In a recent move by the radical wing of the Party, sometimes called the rebels by the media, 112 members announced they are abandoning PT in the World Social Forum, in Porto Alegre, on January 30, 2005.
		The relative changes in the political orientation of his party (PT), the Government and Lula himself were well received by the majority of the population, but as a historically more radical party, PT has been suffering from internal struggles with members that followed the old standards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers'_Party_(Brazil) (863 words)

	Workers' Party (Brazil) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After around 2 weeks, José Genoino also resigned as president of the party and was replaced by Tarso Genro, former mayor of Porto Alegre.
		In a recent move by the radical wing of the Party, sometimes called the rebels by the media, 112 members announced they are abandoning PT in the World Social Forum, in Porto Alegre, on January 30, 2005.
		The relative changes in the political orientation of his party (PT), the Government and Lula himself were well received by the majority of the population, but as a historically more radical party, PT has been suffering from internal struggles with members that followed the old standards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers'_Party_(Brazil) (870 words)

	GATHERING IN BRAZIL FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE: A REPORT BACK FROM THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
		Of more contemporary significance, one could find amid the rich array of organizations gathered in Porto Alegre the revolutionary Movement of Landless Workers (the MST, representing one of the most significant struggles in Brazil's impoverished northeast) and the non-revolutionary Ford Foundation, which provided a lavish and well-attended reception at one of the city's best hotels.
		Overwhelming is the word many attendees have used to describe the experience of the third World Social Forum, held January 23-28 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
		The opening session of the World Social Forum brought the mayor of the city and a top aide to president of the country to welcome us with open arms and radical speeches.
	solidarity.igc.org /atc/103wsf.html (870 words)

	Demos - Better Local Government
		For this meeting between delegates and Municipality, a Council for Participatory Budgeting (COP) is established comprising two area delegates, two thematic delegates, a representative of the civil servants’ trade union, a representative of the Porto Alegre Federation of Neighbourhoods and two representatives of the city council.
		Porto Alegre is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state.
		Although clearly there are continuing budget and service obligations on a year to year basis, the COP has particular latitude to establish priorities for, and allocate, around 10 to 20% of municipal budgets which involve flexible expenditure or new flows of funds into the local authority, for example, for urban regeneration and economic development.
	www.demosproject.org /webpages/research_results2.php?id=4 (433 words)

	Lincoln Institute of Land Policy - Publications
		Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre is succeeding in the midst of considerable hostility from a conservative city council and constant assault from right-wing local newspapers and television programs, all of them challenging participation and extolling unregulated markets.
		Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre begins with the government's formal accounting for the previous year and its investment and expenditure plan for the current year.
		In electing four consecutive reform administrations, a majority of the population has managed to pressure a hostile city council to vote in favor of the mayor's budget proposals, keeping the progressive agenda intact.
	www.lincolninst.edu /pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=265 (2095 words)

	City Mayors: Brazil municipal elections
		Despite losing the party strongholds of Sao Paulo, the country’s cultural and economic hub, and Porto Alegre, a set of complex issues determined the outcome in what was always likely to be a difficult election for the PT two years into its unchartered territory of holding the country’s presidency.
		The incumbent Mayor Marta Suplicy, one of the most prominent municipal leaders in the world, was defending her record following her election in 2000.
		In particular, Rio de Janeiro’s incumbent Mayor Cesar Maia of the rightwing Liberal Front Party was re-elected with a strong vote following a virtual state of civil war in many of the city’s fevelas.
	www.citymayors.com /politics/brazil_04elections.html (2535 words)

	From the ballot box to the ledger sheet
		As Porto Alegre’s Mayor Pont puts it, participatory budgeting “requires political will.” But in his city it is also voluntary and open to members of all political parties.
		But the decision makers were not the mayor, not the City Council, not even a group of senior municipal officials.
		But even strong advocates of participatory budgeting admit to a frequent weakness: a lack of involvement by the middle class.
	www.iadb.org /idbamerica/archive/stories/2000/eng/JAN00E/e200e1.htm (1222 words)

	americas.org - Left Wins in Municipal Races
		The PT candidate won in the first round in Aracaju, capital of the northeastern state of Sergipe, while the party will take a lead into the second round in Porto Alegre, Belem and Goiania.
		The party’s main loss was in Rio de Janeiro, where Benedita da Silva did not make it into the second round; incumbent mayor Paulo Conde of the rightwing Liberal Front Party (PFL) will face former mayor Cesar Maia on October 29.
	www.americas.org /item_6331 (290 words)

	Canadian Dimension: Major electoral victory for PT
		In Rio Grande do Sul, the PT candidate for governor and current mayor of Porto Alegre (Tarso Genro) was defeated by the PMDB's Rigoto who was actively supported by all the local conservative forces.
		The most significant defeats for the PT were in Rio Grande do Sul, where it had the sitting governor, and the state of Rio de Janeiro where the PT candidate for governor (Benedita da Silva) was defeated in the first round although Lula got an incredibly high vote.
		The defeat of the PT in the Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial race reflects the whole policy of the PT national leadership, which forced the local PT to support the previous state government (Garotinho, PSB), totally losing its identity.
	www.canadiandimension.mb.ca /extra/d1105af.htm (290 words)

	GRAMADO 2004: 32o Festival de Cinema Brasileiro e Latino
		At the other end of the one-block covered street, the orchestra from Porto Alegre's Pablo Komlósis Conservatory is still warming up--on the far side of a bigger-than-life photograph of the "Splendid," Gramado's first movie theater, built in the 1930s and now long gone.
		Mayor Bertolucci's turn now at the other end of the covered street.
		A carefully composed speech, thanking all the people who are responsible for this event that is the highlight of winter in Gramado.
	home1.gte.net /vze3yzhv/id40.html (1561 words)

	Brazil News 24/7 - Nothing But Brazil - Brazzil Magazine - Fresh news daily - English-language Magazine on Brazilian Culture - Brazil - Brasil - Brésil
		The new President of the Workers Party is Tarso Genro, formerly mayor of Porto Alegre.
		The Workers Party was renowned for the dedication and high ethical standards of its activists, its strong base in the labor movement, and its internal democracy.
		Revelations of widespread corruption in the upper reaches of the Workers Party government in Brazil are a crushing betrayal of all who believed the Party's promises and posturing.
	www.brazzil.com /content/view/9342/76 (6194 words)

	Lively orator whose name stuck to schools and drugs - Obituaries - www.smh.com.au
		A year later, he became the mayor of the state capital, Porto Alegre.
		He was the surprise victor of the 1982 election for the Rio state governorship, in the first elections of Brazil's slow return to democracy.
		This prepared him for his election, in 1958, as governor of Rio Grande do Sul, during which time he established his reputation as an impulsive left-wing nationalist and fervent anti-American, expropriating the local electricity and telephone companies from US ownership without compensation.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/25/1088144973055.html (858 words)

	BRAZIL: Elections Strengthen Lula's PT, Cardoso's Party
		Porto Alegre was the birthplace and remains the host city of the World Social Forum, the global 'alternative' summit to the annual World Economic Forum of the political and economic movers and shakers in the resort town of Davos, Switzerland.
		Of the 27 parties that ran in the local elections, the majority are so-called ”midget parties” that doubled their votes in some cases and managed to capture several dozen mayoralties.
		There will be run-off votes for mayor in 15 state capitals, with the PT participating in nine and the PSDB in seven.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=25722 (874 words)

	Brazil's Ruling Party Loses Sao Paulo Race (washingtonpost.com)
		The Workers' Party won in 11 of the 23 cities where it fielded candidates, but it lost the Amazon city of Belem and the southern state capitals of Curitiba and Porto Alegre.
		Lula's party had been hoping to broaden its base across Brazil in dozens of other large cities holding runoff mayoral elections, making it easier for him to push through his legislative agenda and prepare his own reelection campaign for a second four-year term in 2006.
		With 99 percent of the vote counted, Serra, of the Social Democratic Party, won 55 percent of the vote, while Workers' Party Mayor Marta Suplicy won 45 percent.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A14408-2004Oct31.html (388 words)

	Brazil - Brazzil Magazine - Brazil's PT Short Journey from Model Party to As Shady As the Other Guy
		The new President of the Workers Party is Tarso Genro, formerly mayor of Porto Alegre.
		He could be called a socialist in the sense that the British Labor Party or the Scandanavian Socialist Party are socialist, but not in the sense of wanting a government directed economy.
		The Workers Party was renowned for the dedication and high ethical standards of its activists, its strong base in the labor movement, and its internal democracy.
	www.brazzil.com /content/view/9342/76 (6297 words)

	Brazil - BRAZZIL - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Left? Few Brazilians - Elections in Brazil - Brazilian Politics - November 2000
		The party is also in good shape to hang on to the important southern state capital of Porto Alegre, and a PT candidate is the second round odds-on favorite to win the crown jewel: São Paulo.
		So there was this dilemma facing the voters of Brazil's largest city, at a time when the city's need for municipal efficiency is absolutely dire: electing Marta Suplicy could bring on a repeat of what happened the last time São Paulo had a PT mayor (Luíza Erundina) from 1988 to 1992.
		Representative José Dirceu, the party's president, as well as House representatives, deputados federais José Genoíno and Aloísio Mercadante, the party's main leaders, were talking in unison in order to contain the enthusiasm of the troops and not let the success go to their heads.
	www.brazil-brasil.com /cvrnov00.htm (6415 words)

	BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - National elections for mayor and city council - POLITICS
		Porto Alegre's mayor, Tarso Genro, is a rising star in his party and is being identified by some as an alternative to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for the 1998 presidential elections.
		Celso Pitta, from the right wing PPB (Partido Progressista Brasileiro -- Brazilian Progressive Party), was close to taking the prize the first time around, obtaining 48 percent of the votes against 22 percent of the closest candidate, former mayor of São Paulo, Luíza Erundina de Sousa (PT).
		In Rio, PFL's (Partido da Frente Liberal -- Liberal Front Party) candidate, Luiz Carlos Conde, obtained 35 percent of the votes while the second place finisher, Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral from the PSDB (Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira -- Brazilian Social Democracy Party), received 21.5 percent.
	www.brazzil.com /p18nov96.htm (6415 words)

	CURSOS
		TAM Mercosur fue designada la Línea Aérea Oficial del Congreso por lo que se autoriza un descuento del 25% para todos los participantes extranjeros en las rutas que actualmente operan con esta empresa, que son Buenos Aires, Santiago, Iquique, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, San Pablo, Montevideo, Cuibá, Porto Alegre, Brasilia, Curitiba y Rio de Janeiro.
		Los agentes de TAM MERCOSUR en cada país ya han recibido la notificación correspondiente al descuento mencionado, por lo tanto para mayor información favor dirigirse a las Agencias de TAM.
		Para acceder al mencionado descuento se solicitará la presentación del certificado de inscripción al Congreso a todos los participantes en las oficinas de TAM MERCOSUR localizadas en cada país.
	www.sinprorp.org.br /Cursos/2000/cursos19.htm (945 words)

	Weapons, Chinese aid firing up election debate
		The seven-box weapons shipment had left Jan. 28 from Porto Alegre, Brazil, and gone to Peru and Costa Rica before arriving in El Salvador, Salvadoran officials say.
		He added that they were purchased by a private security firm, ``and were never bought by the Mejicanos mayor's office, nor supposed to go there.''
		Reyes said the guns were marked as going to the Mejicanos municipality ``because of a mistake in the labeling.''
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /elsalvador/debate.htm (945 words)

	Red Pepper archive
		Olivio Dutra, former petista (PT) mayor of Porto Alegre and, since November 1998, first petista governor, has approved the extension of participatory budgeting to the whole of Rio Grande do Sul.
		Participatory budgeting has three objectives: first to achieve citizens' direct participation in decision making about urban management and local development; secondly, to encourage greater political awareness and power of urban residents and their social organisations; and thirdly, to build a genuinely democratic culture.
		Participatory budgeting and decentralisation to sub-municipal districts are underway in some 80 cities of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina where progressive parties hold office.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /intarch/xcities.html (2189 words)

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