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World social forum
The USSF : a important step toward the resistance against the crisis
The second US Social Forum started today in the city of Detroit, Michigan. For the american social movements, this gathering holds a special importance as it is the first large scale meeting of the progressive social movements in the country since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008… Continue reading
“People’s Freedom Caravans” building momentum en route to US Social Forum this summer in Detroit
“Caravanistas” launch blog to document their way to Detroit… Continue reading
Solidarity with the Greek people against financial markets
The financial markets have been targeting Greece for several months. In order to “reassure the markets” and “restore trust”, the European Union and the IMF have imposed a drastic austerity “cure” on the Greek people… Continue reading
Latin America and the Caribbean is a peaceful region – no foreign military bases!
For more than a decade, Latin America has experienced a process of changes. The struggle for sovereignty, rights and the well being of its peoples intensifies. Continue reading
Beyond the World Social Forum… the Fifth International
Igor Ojeda interviews Eric Toussaint (for the Brazilian weekly paper Brasil de Fato) February 2010 Continue reading
The WSF on the Move
At the end January 2010, there was an important evaluation of the ten years of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre (Brazil), including a debate on its future. Continue reading
World Social Forum, ten years on
Since the World Social Forum was launched in June 2000, at the Alternative Social Summit in Geneva, coinciding with the United Nations Assembly on Social Development, ten years have passed… Continue reading
Ten years of World Social Forum: Another world in the making
It should always be repeated: no one can have a final and total position on the World Social Forum… Continue reading
Japan. Tokyo Social Forum
How many participants found that the venue was a historical site where the first declaration of Independence of Korea contributing to March 1 Independence Movement was announced in 1919? Possibly, some, but exactly, the Korean YMCA in JAPAN situated in central Tokyo, also turned out to be a meaningful and significant place to alter-globalization movements in Japan… Continue reading
