Why Israelis are prophesying the end of their state?
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- 15/06/2022The Communication Working Group of the International Council of the World Social Forum initiated the campaign to disseminate and mobilize the Virtual WSF edition, from 25 to 30 January 2021
Since the beginning of the year 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has tragically worsened the living conditions of the majority of the world’s population. Never really recovering from the subprime crisis in 2007-2008, the economic system is disintegrating as it continues to distance itself from the real economy.
Armenian protesters today stormed the country’s parliament and severely beat the speaker, after authorities agreed to a ceasefire deal over Nagorno-Karabakh and surrendered the territories to Azerbaijan.
Perseverance among those old and newly interested have now brought the WSF process to a decisive moment.
More than 30 Yemeni lawyers and human rights activists have formed a new coalition aimed at defending journalists persecuted for carrying out their work across Yemen.
Prominent American academic and intellectual Noam Chomsky has described US President Donald Trump as “the worst criminal in human history.” He made his claim in an article in the New Yorker this week.
This note has been written to prepare the discussion on the WSF at the CRID Council meeting on 6 November 2020. It updates the notes sent to the CRID instances on June 12, 2020 and July 16, 2020.
(draft prepared and revised by Vinod Raina; based on comments received till 26 Oct 2007)
"The next edition of the World Social Forum (Virtual) will be in the week of January 25, 2021." We will build it together .
This 2018 WSF Report speaks of the collective experience of building an event dedicated to resistance.
Tentative observations from the last day of the WSF International
Council meeting October 11th, 2020
Yesterday, a policeman in Chile threw a 16-year-old boy who was protesting off a bridge, after grabbing him, causing international social upheaval. From the bridge he fell into a shallow channel, remaining motionless on his back. He was hospitalized, and a day later the young man is improving.
The Internet is a fundamental reality of our times and nearly 60% of the people worldwide use it regularly for professional and personal purposes.
Now we enter into a new era for renewing WSF. The sometimes ambiguous language must be replaced with more time consciousness and clear messages. The twenty-year anniversary in the end of January 2021 is the most pressing deadline.
While some Arab countries were celebrating their normalisation deals with Israel and Google was removing Palestine from its maps, Club Deportivo Palestino in Chile was celebrating its centenary.
Amnesty International yesterday condemned an Algerian appeal court’s ruling against journalist Khaled Drareni who had been sentenced to two years in prison over his coverage of the Hirak protest movement.
September 19 : A Nationwide Day Of Protest in the US and dialogue on community control of police
A new Ecologist series explores grassroots stories of resilience and hope in a time of multiple crises.
“We hereby decide to build a new form of public coexistence, in diversity and in harmony with nature, to achieve the good way of living, the Sumak Kawsay…” This path breaking declaration formed a part of the new constitution adopted by Ecuador in 2008, a remarkable effort to counter the challenges of an unjust development model and a deep political crisis.
The World Social Forum’s “Thematic Forum on Mining and Extractivism” convenes from 12-15 November 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa, just after the Southern Africa People’s Tribunal on Transnational Corporations.
On the occasion of the Finnish Social Forum on Sunday 30th August at 1 pm UCT.
In a letter to Facebook CEO, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal also demanded that pending internal investigation and submission of report, the company should "consider a new team to lead Facebook India operations so as to not influence the probe".
Thanks to sustained international pressure, Palestinian human rights defender and BDS coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa was released after being held without charge by Israel for 19 days.
On this, the 74th Independence Day of India, we are deeply troubled at the state of ‘independence’ in the nation