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  • Hands Off Venezuela: Building Solidarity at the 2006 World Social Forum
    21 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    1. It is incontestable that at the current stage, what Chavez and his supporters are doing in Venezuela amount to Social Democratic reform implementation, not a socialist revolution. Given the current global politics of imperialist neoliberalism imposed by the WTO, IMF, World Bank and the US treasury department (for these four have to be considered together), and the fact that since the collapse of the so called socialist countries of East Europe and the USSR and the capitalist (…)

  • World Social Forum: The Great Debate in a Land of Change
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Marquez
    CARACAS - Some 100,000 social activists from across the Americas and the world will soon be arriving in the Venezuelan capital, where they will condemn war and imperialism, and lend their support — although not unconditionally — to the changes introduced in this country by President Hugo Chavez.
    The sixth annual World Social Forum (WSF) is being held at several different sites this year, instead of one centralised forum as in the first five editions. In addition to (…)

  • WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: US Activists Study Bolivarian Revolution
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katherine Stapp
    NEW YORK, Jan 12 (IPS) - U.S. activists are heading to the Sixth World Social Forum (WSF) with a renewed sense of optimism and international solidarity, despite Washington’s animosity toward the hemisphere’s growing slate of leftist governments.
    Up to 100,000 visitors are expected in Caracas, Venezuela from Jan. 24-29, while parallel forums will take place in Bamako, Mali from Jan. 19-23, and Karachi, Pakistan in March.
    The WSF was founded in 2001 to counter the (…)

  • Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dissent! and Autonomedia
    Bob Geldof’s appointment as an advisor to the Conservative party has provoked a reassessment of the momentous week last summer when the G8 met in Gleneagles. This reassessment is aided by the timely publication of a new book full of first hand accounts by those more interested in shutting the G8 down than lobbying it.
    David Watts, one of the books editors, commented: "There seems to be a growing sense of disillusionment with the legacy of the Live8 concerts (…)

  • European Preparatory Assembly for the European Social forum in Athens 5- 9 April 2006 (Itsanbul 24-25 Sept. 2005)
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Manchester Social Forum
    Decisions on the programme
    Following the main debate and numerous discussions on the political and social situation, the Istanbul EPA came to an agreement on several points in order to put together the programme:
    Agreement on general objectives:
    1. Create an alternative to the European neo-liberal programme and anti-social policies.
    2. Raise the profile and awareness of these alternatives as well as concrete responses to them.
    3. Encourage the convergence (…)

  • National Gathering of people from Local Social Forum in Uk
    26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Another World Really is Possible!
    Hosted by Leicester Social Forum Saturday 5th November 12 - 6 pm at the Secular Hall, Humberstone Gate, in Leicester, there will be the National Gathering of people from Local Social Forum in UK
    Saturday The discussion in small groups will focus on the role of Local Social Forums answering to questions like
    What do Local Forums do now?
    Can we have national SF campaigns ?
    How we can co-ordinate and support each other nationally ?
    Expiriences of (…)

  • The next meeting of London Social Forum is now confirmed for Monday 5 September, 7.30pm
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We will be discussing our Visions for London event which is also now confirmed for Saturday 29 October 2005 at City Hall.
    Michael Edwardes and hopefully Doreen Massey will be reporting back from a Conference in Rome on similar urban themes the previous weekend.
    The venue will be the meeting room, 1A Hollybush Place off Bethnal Green Road, E2 9QX.
    The street is a cul-de-sac first on the right after passing under the railway bridge adjoining the crossroads with Cambridge Heath Road.
    It (…)

  • UK News - 3rd People’s Assembly: the Manchester Social Forum in action
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by maciacia
    Use solar electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen then burn the hydrogen as fuel. There is no pollution. Water is plentiful and so is sunlight. This fuel cell technology was demonstrated at the Campaigners’ Fair during the 3rd Manchester People’s Assembly on the 16th of April 2005. Mike Koefman of the Campaign for a Hydrogen Economy used a small tabletop machine to demonstrate the catalytic breakdown of water and explained how this technology could supply limitless (…)

  • Campaign to take Bush to justice for crimes against humanity
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    World Social Forum has Bush in its sights
    01/28/2005 11:49
    Campaign to take Bush to justice for crimes against humanity
    At the 5th World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a campaign was launched today, Thursday, to take George W. Bush to justice for crimes against humanity.
    Cebrapaz, the Brazilian organization, together with 35 other entities from around the world, launched a petition which it hopes will be signed by millions of people until September, when it will be presented to (…)

  • EUROPE: EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM FAILS TO MAP OUT STRATEGY FOR STRUGGLE
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joy
    An "Extraordinary" Assembly of the European Social Forum (ESF) took place in Paris, on 18-19 December 2004. Over 300 people from social movements, trade unions and political parties from at least 16 countries participated in the weekend. Whatever hopes might have been entertained for this meeting, in no sense was it extraordinary, either in its procedure or in its results. In fact, it went in exactly the same way as all the other ESF preparatory meetings - undemocratically - and (…)