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	World Social Forum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth WSF was held in Mumbai, India, from 16 January to 21 January 2004.
		One of the key speakers at the WSF 2004 was Joseph Stiglitz.
		The fifth World Social Forum for 2005 was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil between 26 January and 31 January.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Social_Forum (835 words)

	Welcome to World Social Forum -2004 India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		People’s movements across the world are working to demonstrate that the path to sustainable development and social and economic justice does not lie in neo-liberal globalisation but in alternative models for people-centred and self-reliant progress.
		Firmly committed to the belief that Another World Is Possible, the WSF is an open space for discussing alternatives to the dominant neo-liberal processes, for exchanging experiences and for strengthening alliances among mass organisations, people’s movements and civil society organisations.
		WSF 2003, with over 100,000 delegates, came to symbolise the strength of the anti-globalisation movement and became a rallying point for the worldwide protest against the war in Iraq.
	www.wsfindia.org /anotherworld.php (1098 words)

	World Social Forum III - Postcards from Porto Alegre, Brazil
		This is the third Porto Alegre World Social Forum that expresses the diverse demands of Civil Society for peace, justice and equality, held in opposition to the government-dominated Davos World Economic Forum that fixes the economic rules that impoverish the majority.
		The challenges are significant but as the Forum globalises, the organisers are calling for a broadening of the constituency: "We have to conquer other minds and hearts and show everyone that it is possible to build a better world," said Candido Grzybowsky, a member of the World Social Forum's international organising committee.
		Indeed the Asia Social Forum in Hyderabad in early January 2003 was emphatic in its rejection of the neo-liberal economic model.
	www.ukabc.org /wsf2003.htm (4587 words)

	World Social Forum
		The World Social Forum developed as a consequence of a growing international movement that advocates for greater participation of civil societies in international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
		The world has now reached such a state of interdependence which is called the "global village" where all the nations and the peoples of the world have become highly interdependent.
		A world civilization is forming upon the growing consciousness of humanity’s essential oneness, therefore to prepare students for the future, schools must attempt to educate students to live in a society which does not yet quite exist but is emerging.
	www.rcgg.ufrgs.br /wsf_ing.htm (4707 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Fifth International? by Greg Yardley
		While the organizers of the World Social Forum claim the event is a "open meeting place" for those interested in building "a planetary society centered on the human person," in reality, it's nothing but an organizing meeting for unreconstructed socialists, constantly attempting to turn world political forces against America.
		The World Social Forums are primarily publicity-generating venues for prominent leftists; the average participant plays mostly a passive role.
		As long as the World Social Forum remained in the hands of the lunatic, guerilla-loving left, it was all but irrelevant to America, which, barring a cataclysm, is not going to see the armed overthrow of the government any time soon.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8593 (2444 words)

	foei press release
		The World Economic Forum paved the way for the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - both of which have been severely criticized for contributing to global inequality through their damaging impacts on poor communities and the environment.
		World Social Forum organisers announced that 30,000 delegates from some 5,000 organizations from 121 countries are registered to participate in WSF panels, seminars and workshops, and on the January 27th march against the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
		Friends of the Earth participates in the World Social Forum because such'movement building' is vital to formulate alternatives to neo-liberal economic globalization policies and to review ways to minimize the negative impact of a corporate-led globalization process.
	www.foei.org /media/2003/0115.html (538 words)

	World Social Forum V / World Social Forum 2005
		European Social Forum in Athens and the next World Social Forum under a theme similar to that in WSF 5 "Autonomous thought, reappropriation and socialisation of knowledge and technologies".
		The record of governments implementing social and environmental agreements is poor and, rather, the last decade has witnessed an unprecedented growth in corporate control of economies, perhaps unsurpassed since the excesses of the colonial merchant era.
		Such a process is followed at the World Social Summit, held as a counterveiling process to the ' Davos World Economic Forum' meetings of OECD ministers and G8 summits.
	www.ukabc.org /wsf2005.htm (2120 words)

	DIY World - openDemocracy
		Fred Halliday’s verbal assault on activists at the World Social Forum rouses Peter Waterman to a passionate defence of the “global justice and solidarity movement”.
		The forthcoming World Social Forum in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India may be the largest civil society meeting on the planet.
		The World Social Forum in January 2003 represented a new stage in the unfolding project of the global justice and solidarity movement.
	www.opendemocracy.net /debates/debate-6-91.jsp (2476 words)

	World Social Forum 2005: Reports from the All Saints Church, Pasadena Delegation
		"as the world economic forum and the world social forum convene in davos and port alegre respectively, the mood is one of foreboding, a sense that deep forces we can barely discern are reshaping the world and that national and global institutions we have always counted on are inadequate.
		in a world torn by politically instigated religion based divisions, boff can identify a common enemy; for me the great enemy is the western cultural paradigm which is very aggressive, very destructive, and which has now been globalized, invading the values and visions of the world.
		Brazilian social movements are among the strongest and most organized in Latin America, challenging the social, racial and economic injustices of the neoliberal global system.
	www.icujp.org /wsf_05 (1876 words)

	Choike - News and reports from Mumbai
		Information on Social Forum Process, articles by TNI fellows, publications, speeches, papers and activities.
		The principal challenge facing the Social Forum project is whether it will be able to contribute to the creation of new organizational forms equipped with the general vision and capacity to simultaneously and systematically pursue the politics of the universal and the particular.
		WSF 2005 will be held in Porto Alegre
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/eventos/1.html (313 words)

	Choike - World Social Forum (WSF) 2005
		The timing of WSF is meant to signify civil society voices opposing the high level profit motivated deliberations at the expenses of poor countries and their citizens.
		The Forum represents a significant and distinctive experience in the Arab region, where civil society groups are slowly, but surely, opening up to the experiences of the social forums.
		The intention of the I World-wide Social Fórum of the Health is to construct an international agenda of action with the main objective to support the formularization and the construction of politics that guarantee the organization of national public systems of health and social security.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/2334.html (3826 words)

	World Social Forum: Anti-Globalization Movement Mulls How to Confront Bush
		The most common cause at the World Social Forum, however, was opposition to US President George W. Bush, whose portrait was depicted across the wooded venue in assorted states of defacement.
		The World Social Forum is designed as a counterweight to the World Economic Forum of business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland, which is due to open as the Bombay meet closes Wednesday.
		At the World Social Forum, activists ranging from pacifist South Korean students to Indian street vendors handed out leaflets, marched to drumbeats and staged impromptu theatre to press their causes.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0117-06.htm (852 words)

	World Social Forum Opens in Brazil Under Anti-War Banner
		The forum is an annual protest against the World Economic Forum held simultaneously in Davos, Switzerland.
		The World Social Forum opened at Catholic University to a flurry of anti-war banners, with activists waving two Iraqi flags and carrying a photo-montage that compared US President George W. Bush to Hitler with the caption "Down with the imperialist war on Iraq."
		Lula was to attend the opening day of the Porto Alegre forum and speak at the Davos economic forum, though he said he would take the same message of the need to fight hunger and social inequality to both gatherings.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0124-02.htm (870 words)

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		The WSF was the brainchild of members of the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (Association pour la Taxation des Transactions pour l'Aide aux Citoyens), a socialist-leaning group that extols protectionism and assails free trade while exalting anti-globalization extremists like Jose Bove, who attended the first forum.
		Calling on WSF protestors to combat these allegedly imperialist aims, Chomsky said, "The way to 'confront the empire' is to create a different world, one that is not based on violence and subjugation, hate and fear.
		Another longtime sponsor of the WSF is the Ford Foundation, which doled out $100,000 for the 2001 WSF and $500,000 for the 2003 forum.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6972 (2605 words)

	Genève 2000 - SEANCE PLENIERE World Social Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The World Social Forum will be a new international arena for organizing against neoliberal policies and for building economic alternatives that prioritize social justice.
		People in Third World countries, as well as the poor and excluded sectors of industrialized countries suffer the devastating effects of economic globalization and the dictatorship of international institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO and the governments that serve their interests.
		We are asking for a special commitment from organizations in the First World to help funding delegations from their partner organizations in Third World countries, in order to guarantee diversity within the World Social Forum.
	www.attac.org /geneve2000/textes/doc/fsmen.htm (1052 words)

	Palestinian struggle for freedom central at World Social Forum - The Palestine Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The World Social Forum opened in Mumbai, India on Friday with the Palestinian issue at its center.
		Developed as a response to the growing international movement against neo-liberal economic policies and capitalist led globalization being pursued in most countries of the world, the social forum is a grassroots answer to the annual World Economic Forum focussing instead on social issues affecting the world's poor and powerless.
		Speaking at the opening session of the forum on Friday, Dr Barghouthi immediately made an impact by proportionally evaluating the Palestinian and Indian Populations, and then comparing the number of Palestinian casualties of the last three years to the number that would have been inflicted upon the Indian population in a comparative situation.
	palestinemonitor.org /updates/palestinian_struggle_for_freedom_wsf.htm (449 words)

	World Social Forum
		The World Social Forum (WSF) is an annual meeting held by members of the alternative globalization movement to coordinate world campaigns, share and refine organizing strategies, and inform each other about movements from around the world and around many different issues.
		The first WSF was organized by the French Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC) and the Brazilian Worker's Party (PT).
		The second WSF, also held in Porto Alegre from January 31th to February 5th, 2002, had over 12,000 official delegates representing people from 123 countries, 60,000 attendees, 652 workshops, and 27 talks.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/world_social_forum.html (332 words)

	World Social Forum 2006 Bamako - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Thematic and methodological proposals of Bamako WSF 2006
		The forum of Bamako is one among the three polycentric events planned for January 2006; the two other events should take place simultaneously from January 24th to 29th respectively in Caracas (Venezuela) and Karachi (Pakistan).
		The forum of Bamako is of paramount importance to People in Africa who are victimized of the neo liberal system which is itself synonymous to violence, suffering,and poverty and exclusion to over one third of the global population.
	www.fsmmali.org /?lang=en (642 words)

	WSF wraps up with eye on world agenda - Sify.com
		Leaders of the World Social Forum have called for worldwide protests March 20 to mark the anniversary of the US invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
		He said the major achievement of the World Social Forum, the first to be held in Asia, was the participation of thousands of low-caste Hindus in the movement, which is spearheaded by educated Europeans and Latin Americans.
		Brazil hosted the first three World Social Forums from 2001 to 2003 at Porto Alegre to provide a civil society counterweight to the World Economic Forum in Davos, which began its annual discussion of the world Wednesday with US Vice President Dick Cheney on the guestlist.
	sify.com /news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13367032 (705 words)

	World Social Forum:
		Her most visible contribution, however, came not from a scheduled part of the forum but from an appearance in a televised "debate" with participants in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – the 30-year-old annual meeting of corporate chieftains and politicians which the World Social Forum was designed to counter.
		Of course at an event as big as the World Social Forum, there is so much going on that you are bound to miss 75% of it no matter what.
		And in the same facility was a related conference of legislators from around the world, but we never heard the results of it, nor did we have much opportunity to talk with the people attending it.
	www.50years.org /cms/ejn/story/133 (1204 words)

	WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Open Systems for Open Politics
		The 'world social territory', as the organisers call the venue, is therefore seeking to use open source technology, fair trade groups and renewable sources of energy.
		The WSF is also bringing together free software activists at a 'free knowledge laboratory' at the WSF youth camp.
		Cultura Viva groups have been moving to the World Social Forum in caravans, stopping in cities along the way to organise workshops and meet the local communities.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=27175 (755 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Q&A: World Social Forum 2005
		While the world's great and the good brave freezing temperatures and luxury hotels at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, a rival parallel summit is about to start in the significantly warmer climes of Brazil - the World Social Forum.
		Founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001, the World Social Forum sees itself as the antidote to the annual gathering of political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
		Instead of believing that big business can change the world for the better, it strongly opposes globalisation and wants both the corporations and the governments of the West to change their ways and do more for the people and nations of the developing world.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4204829.stm (567 words)

	People's Weekly World - ‘When Bush comes to shove – resist!’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Winding up the Forum’s five days of meetings, parades and performances, peace, labor, social justice, and environmental activists from throughout India and 130 other countries headed home pledging to build a more powerful united global movement against the Bush administration’s policies of militarism and aggression.
		WSF activists say the Forum, which has now become a recognized global people’s gathering point, is ready to expand from meeting place to mobilizer.
		At a panel titled “Neoliberalism and war and the significance of the World Social Forum,” WSF international council members agreed that, while the Forum should continue its open, pluralistic character, it’s also time to build a movement.
	www.pww.org /article/articleview/4700/1/200 (731 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| World Social Forum: Two views
		The World Social Forum ultimately became a carnival of the oppressed.
		A new world is both a hope and a dream and one that is possible.
		It was also the first time that the World Social Forum was not held in Brazil, enabling groups from across India to take part.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3417059.stm (820 words)

	United for Peace : World Social Forum Backs March 20 Day of Protest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		This gift of sorts to the world’s most powerful man from a broad spectrum of the world’s citizens is hardly shrouded in mystery.
		And after three days of high octane political debate and demonstrations, it appears that the World Social Forum (WSF) has evolved into a dress rehearsal of the anti-Bush and anti-war energy that is set to burst on the streets of the world’s towns and cities in eight weeks.
		A South African activist who took a lead role in the anti-war demonstrations in his country last year, has already set his sights on a larger outpouring of protests when the global citizenry mark the international day that people are increasingly choosing to protest against war and occupation.
	www.unitedforpeace.org /article.php?id=2243 (895 words)

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